You’re living in a world of wonder. You and your family are in supreme health. The best in healthy medical alternatives and organic foods are available and in abundant supply. You quiver in appreciation of your constant good fortune…

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” ―

Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Jesse marveled at the huge boil that had developed on his nine-year-old daughter’s shoulder. It seemed to appear overnight though his daughter said it had been developing for days but wasn’t painful until now, which is why she was finally showing it to him. It was an odd thing to behold on such a sweet young person. Have you ever been surprised at what some of the health concerns or complications that your offspring develop or bring home?

He washed it as his mother had instructed over the phone and applied warm compresses to bring it to a head. This ‘wonder’ was complicated with the fact that his sweet young daughter was just diagnosed as having Type 2 Diabetes. As his Parent Mentor, I pointed out that this situation was just another blaring opportunity to utilize the healing properties of the relationship between meditation, healthy eating, exercise and plant medicine (reference my prior blogs – links link to ‘exercise’ & plant medicine).

“Today half the kids have some form of chronic disease. Half the kids! … 20% of the kids are on some kind of medication… GMOs, junk food, white flour, white sugar, and in some cases, vaccinations, Ritalin, etc… these aren’t good for your brain.” ~

Dr. Gabriel Cousens

Dr. Gabriel Cousens spoke at length with me about the benefits of the vegan diet and meditation at the FROM PARENTING PAIN TO PARENTING PEACE World Summit. Here’s a clip…

Jesse had just gotten clear on the idea that his daughter had diabetes. It took a while to sink in because he was well aware of how dangerous diabetes is due to his own issues with it. It’s possible complications of long-term disability or loss of life were not lost on him! It took a while to sink in because he already had more than his share of worry and simply resisted the idea. Do you ever ‘get used to’ the idea that your child has a chronic dangerous illness?

The introduction of this boil or any other illness added another layer of stress and worry. He said, “Skin breaks can lead to infections that can lead to abscesses that can lead to blood infections and on and on… I feel personally responsible for her having these problems because I feel I’ve passed this on to her!” I countered, “Let’s focus on solutions. The problems are only as big as we make them.”

“There are far too many possible influences, including diet, for us to consider than what you may or may not have passed on genetically. Let’s see if we can get back to ground zero (meaning zero or minimal consumption of toxins). Let’s work our way back to optimal health. Doing it for yourself is doing it for your offspring as well.” Can we agree that we parents heavily influence what food stuffs come into the house and are served as meals and snacks?

“What the parents are eating influences what happens tremendously. The parent, the spiritual warrior, has to be willing to push themselves to do the most healthy things for themselves. It takes spiritual courage to be fully alive.” ~

Dr. Gabriel Cousens

Our bodies are made of the stuff of the earth: oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, etc. It stands to reason that if we have the cleanest interaction possible at the basic cellular level, a lot of error can be avoided! Let’s get back to that healthy person underneath all of that sickness.

When we respect and act on the fact that stress of some kind is at the heart of all disease, we give ourselves a headstart in achieving the solutions. ‘Dis ease’ is to be countered with ‘ease’. ‘Ease’ is the key objective of meditaton.

“Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.” ~

Deepak Chopra

Can you see how a three-pronged strategy that addresses the body, mind AND spirit could work to bring a more complete solution? Addressing the body through nutrition, exercise and alternative medicine is a basic sound move. Addressing the mind and spirit through meditation is a core, all-encompassing move. Being willing and actually pushing yourself to do the most healthy things for yourself and your offspring is the difference between success and failure on many different levels!!! What do YOU choose?

Jesse chose the three-pronged strategy. He and his daughter are currently well past worry and ‘dis ease’. Financial worries and relationship with women worries compounded the stress he felt in his life, in general. Now, that ‘worry’ stress is all gone.

He says, “It took me a while to get into the meditation thing but the more I did it, the more relaxed I got in general. Solutions to problems appeared almost as fast as the worrisome thought about problem itself. Maggie (his daughter) and I both have our weight and blood glucose under complete control. She meditates too.” He goes on to say, “The essential oils recipe you had us use has helped tremendously with keeping our numbers in the healthy range. Our doctors are very impressed.”

Getting back to the healthy person beneath our illnesses is THE most important thing we can do for ourselves and our offspring. Are there situations where you think someone is ‘born ill’? Of course, we have instances where babies are born ill and, even in this situation, there is the healthy baby inside that must be revealed… freed of the illness.

Doctors, conventional and wholistic, ideally focus on getting us back to that pure, clean and strong healthy cellular structure, that healthy person inside. The truth is “modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.” ~

Deepak Chopra Developing our trust in our connection to healing properties of nature and it’s symbiotic relationship with our minds and spirit will take us a lot further along in time and in a much happier state.

The ’placebo effect’ is the glaring evidence of this truth! According to The U.S. Department of Health, 30 to 75% of cures happen with sugar pills because the patient ‘believes’ they have been given a drug. How is the healing happening without the ‘medicine’? I say, close to 100% can be cured if they/we tap into that inner resource that is All That Is!!! This ‘tapping’ is done most effectively with meditation.

My prescription for health and happiness as preventative medicine, should you choose to engage it, is: meditation > nutrition > exercise > fulfilling work/creativity > community/giving.

Start your day with a minimum of 20 minutes of meditation and stay with your quiet mind most of the time throughout your day. This is challenging but well worth it. If you’re new to meditation start with 5 minutes of quiet mind and work your way up to (and past) 20 minutes. It may take you 20 minutes just to get to your quiet mind!!! If that’s the case, then still hang out there for 5 minutes or as long as you can.

Make a point of having the highest and best nutrition (consume mostly grains, nuts, fruits, vegetables and oily fish) and, if necessary, wholistic medicine and remedies for your body.

Exercise to a sweat daily. This could be 10 – 30 minutes minimum, depending on what you do. Do something you enjoy… make a point of enjoying something…

Engage in work that you love and/or creative projects that fulfill you. Many of us feel locked into dead-end jobs or unpleasant work environments. It’s critical to save energy for projects that light you up! Things that make you feel alive!!! Press into Life!!! That is why we ‘re here!

Give 100% attention to the humans (rather than cell phones, TVs, etc.) in your space as a priority whether at home or community. Seek community. Enjoy the ‘collective energy’ of your ‘brothers and sisters’. This energy is critical for emotional well-being and health. Being in community also gives us more of a built-in opportunity to ‘give’.

The CDC says that about one in three adults has high blood pressure, and it kills 1,000 people per day. ‘Giving’ lowers blood pressure on par with taking medications and is obviously a far healthier way to get the job done! Here is an article by Dale Nirvani Pfeifer that discusses this phenomenon more in depth, https://upliftconnect.com/secret-to-better-health/.

Teach the children. Let me help you: http://bit.ly/sybschool

I urge all of us to ‘know’ that we’re living in a world of wonder. You and your family are in supreme health. The best in healthy medical alternatives and organic foods ARE available and in abundant supply and when you ‘know’ that, you quiver in appreciation of your constant good fortune and…

By all means, believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast.