Actual "Health Equity" Can Be Yours
"Health equity" is defined by the CDC (U.S. Center for Disease
Control) as "the state (as in "condition", "situation",
"circumstance"---not a POLITICAL state, province or country) in which
everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level
of health". It is closely associated with social justice movements
---- good health being considered a fundamental human right.
What a noble and beautiful concept to have such enormous
potential for becoming complicated! But, of course, it never promised
to be easy, did it?
TRULY-better health does not come from more or "better"
medicine, REAL HEALTH ---the fullness of the biological processes that
constitute life--- is MUCH MORE than "prompt, temporary relief" of the
most widespread dis--ease symptoms (just as true peace is rightly
defined as much more than merely absence of open conflict).
Some years ago, The World Health Organization was quoted as
saying [apparently referring to things we have done AND things we have
neglected]: "We have inflicted wounds on ourselves, in the belief that
science, doctors and hospitals would find a cure, instead of preventing
the very causes of illness in the first place. Of course we cannot do
without the medical care facilities that actually save life, but let us
be clear that they do not add to our health ---they stop us dying. ..."
[POSTPONE dying, actually ---ed.]
Affordable Health Care ---- All Natural?
Are you looking for REAL health care?
Or only sickness care?
If we're more concerned
with the unpleasant EFFECTS of an ailment
than with its causes,
it is not Health Care
--- it is Sickness Care.
If we care enough to do something about it
only when we're sick
it is not Health Care
--- it is Sickness Care.
Think about it from this standpoint ---
Do you prefer to have control of your own life or to let someone
or someTHING else control it for you? Until we pause, "step back" and take a
good hard look at the "mindset" of our "modern" so-called civilization, we
cannot fathom just how much of our personal life WE HAVE ALREADY ALLOWED to
be taken "out of our control" --- most of it, psychologically --- not
actually, physically. For now, at least, it is neither illegal, immoral, nor
unethical in any other way to take control of one's own life. But in
"Western Society" there appears to be a sort of unwritten, unspoken
"gentlemen's agreement" that each person must be an "expert" in his or her
chosen "field" and almost totally helpless in any other field of knowledge or
endeavor in order to be "a success", "important", have self-worth, and be
"useful to society" or "a productive member of society". It remains unclear
exactly WHAT we're expected to actually "produce" --- except, perhaps,
"fodder" for the ego of those who HAVE "succeeded" in dominating others with
their narrow, often questionable "expertise" --- and who, themselves, in
turn, are dominated in other areas of THEIR life by this SAME mindset of
selective, willingly uninformed helplessness.
An ancient wise King (reputedly the wisest of ancient times)
once remarked that "man has dominated man to his harm". (Not a
gender-bias comment; simply referring to the human race as a whole)
Such domination does not have to be by PHYSICAL force. The King
also added, in one of his widely known (at the time) proverbs, that
the person "who thinks things out is hated" [as in: disregarded,
despised, ridiculed]. And, truly, in today's pleasure-oriented,
anti-think culture, the IDEA of "thinking for oneself" IS popular,
but serious reasoning actually is not. For the most part, we have
allowed the culture to convince us that we're "too stupid" to
understand "important matters of life" and need "experts" to do that
thinking for us. Of course, truly good advice can be priceless. The
wise King acknowledged that "there is accomplishment through many
advisers." But there needs to be a balance. In today's society,
whether intentionally or unintentionally, we have almost completely
relinquished control of our personal life --- including our health
and well being.
Granted, real thinking requires some time and mental energy that we
may PREFER to spend on something we IMAGINE we'd enjoy more. But
taking control of our life doesn't HAVE to be an "anxiety trip". It
CAN be a beautiful, fascinating, exhilarating journey; just as life
itself is a journey. We don't have to figure everything out today,
and we can't "see all the scenery" in five minutes. But would we
take a scenic cruise with our eyes closed or holed up below deck
playing video games --- and pay someone else to "see the scenery for
us"? Of course, if you truly VALUE momentary pleasures more than
you VALUE having control of your life, it may not be the thing for
you; but don't we ENJOY thinking about things that interest us? And
what could be more "interesting" than a feeling of well being at
least most of the time ---not just momentarily when we have some
kind of pleasure to take our mind off reality or a medicine to
deaden our sensibilities and forcibly modify our body's responses
to it's normal needs for internal cellular renewal?
What Price Health?
and
What IS Health, Really?
--- the Low-Tech Concept ---
(part of the Truth about Natural Healing)
Let's face it--- We cannot BUY health anymore than we can buy
"smarts". They're not COMMODITIES to BE bought and sold. They're
QUALITIES to be CULTIVATED. And no one else --- no matter how
"professional", persuasive, or psychologically intimidating --- can
do that for you --- or even "sell" you a GENUINE shortcut. (There
are many proposed, but none that actually "deliver".) When we can
fully accept this basic "fact of life" (not just intellectually, but
deeply, emotionally) and determine to actually do something about it
(in a calm, rational, informed manner) we will have taken a giant
step toward taking possession and control of one of the most
potentially rewarding aspects of our life.
The English words "health" and "whole" share a common root word
that implies unbroken unity; not diminished in any way. To "heal",
therefore, is to RESTORE that "unity" of undiminished health ---- the
"wholeness" or fullness of the biological processes that constitute
life.
It is similar to the repair and restoration of your home after
serious damage; which COULD be from a storm or other disaster,
but, in the case of our bodies, is more often like the gradual
deterioration of a house or other building --- from (for example)
water damage that goes unnoticed for years until much of the
structure has rotted away or the foundation has settled unevenly
and the building is literally "pulling apart at the seams". When
suddenly one day we become aware of the damage and start realizing
its extent, is our first thought to install new carpet, wallpaper or
siding to cover it up? Of course not. We want the STRUCTURE to be
sound --- not collapse with us in it!
While for typical storm-damage, much of the underlying roof structure will
most likely need replacing/rebuilding, in normal home MAINTENANCE only
the roof COVERING (the waterproofing such as shingles) will need replacing.
If that has been done regularly, WHEN and HOW it NEEDS to be done, the roof
STRUCTURE will still be sound, not water-damaged, decayed/rotted, or othewise
falling apart.
Is a sick/damaged human body any different? Only in some ways. We can't do
it's repair/rebuilding (healing) FOR IT --- not even with surgery. That's
basically a "patch" --- for true healing, the living organism must do its OWN
repairing/rebuilding on the cellular, bio-molecular level. And no drug can
"force" it to accomplish that real healing. Besides, it already has the
correct agenda pre-programmed in it's DNA. Of course, EITHER medical
intervention at a crucial moment COULD "save a life" ---or, more accurately,
postpone death a bit longer. (Usually, by the time we reach that "crucial
moment" --- unless it's the result of a sudden, catastrophic accident --- our
body has already been on a STEEP decline toward death for SOME TIME.)
But, whether it's the "family home" or your very, very
personal biological "home" (your body) you don't want the damage
just covered up, do you? You want it cleaned up ---- and
repaired/replaced/rebuilt. Those functions require "building
materials" ---like lumber, roofing, siding, bricks, etc. in the
case of a house--- as well as "cleaning supplies/tools/equipment".
Medicine and Medical procedures provide the biological equivalent
of NEITHER. Essentially, in the long-range scheme of things, it functions
more like a blue poly tarp. Indeed, the most astute and caring medical
professionals in "Western civilization" are indicating that, essentially,
most of our illnesses ARE being treated roughly equivalent to fastening a
temporary waterproof covering [such as plastic sheeting or the ubiquitous
blue poly tarp] over a damaged roof and thinking no more about it as long as
the rain doesn't drip inside the living areas of the house. ---Of course,
their warnings are being largely ignored, covered up, and even hidden
(archived away from public view) because it is not what the majority really
want to hear --- so it is "not good for business".
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