Happy New Year!!! Holistic Health to You & Your Family!!!
You’re at the mall, strolling along, minding your own business, excited to be meeting your offspring for lunch on his lunchbreak from work. Just as you round the corner in the hallway to the food court, an old nemesis jumps out of the shadows in front of you and starts verbally beating you for eating meat and therefore causing global warming!
HappyNewYear!!! Is this the year you and your family will live more healthfully? Are you planning on optimal health and well-being for yourself and your family? Of course you are. No parent worth their salt will plan for less. Is natural and organic (vs. artificial and processed) your plan, your approach to life? You know, the offspring are watching…
All of the money in the world is useless if we don’t have our health or if our child cannot be cured of a disease. Prevention is key. I know most of us are busy and, possibly, flat broke busted financially to boot! Have you noticed we’re constantly bombarded with buy buy buy fast food, junk food and all manner of unavoidable exotic food temptation? It’s exhausting! (but OH how I love it.)
Prevention (healthy living), though, is cheaper than doctor visits and hospital stays. Poor eating habits and too much reliance on Big Pharma are proven to cost us WAY more than the healthy alternatives! The best things in life really ARE free. Wouldn’t you like to start the new year with the basic best that life has to offer?
“It’s no secret that fried food is bad for you. But you may not know that it causes mitochondrial dysfunction and artery damage for up to 24 hours after eating it. Your brain cells, which have 15 thousand mitochondria (compared to hundreds to a few thousand in other cells) have less energy when they do not function optimally. When they are sluggish, you feel sluggish, and get the dreaded brain fog.
This is what mitochondria look like.”
~ http://www.factslides.com/s-Health
Parents, in particular, need heed because our offspring are watching what we ‘do’ more than what we ‘say’. We parents need to explore more the various ways we can rescue ourselves from bad eating habits. The ‘exploring’ can be fun!
Nearly every chronic and devastating disease known to mankind has it’s root in what we’ve eaten or ingested in some way. What are you putting on your skin? That’s another way of ‘ingesting’!
Is there a cure-all? There is. Let me gradually ease into the solution…
The mind, body, spirit connection rules our lives. The sooner we ‘get with’ that connection, the happier and healthier we’ll be! To what degree do you engage this connection and teach it to your offspring?
There are countless stories of people coming out of many different kinds of hardships in the health, relationships and financially once they got serious about what really matters (their and their child’s health) and made wiser choices in their nutrition and medicinal care. I recall quite distinctly the experience of one of my clients, a family. (I work with parents… which benefits the whole family.)
The parents were ‘matter of fact’ people, not the religious sort. They are professionals, looked to be in generally good shape physically, at the time… until you looked into their eyes, their faces…
Their skin had a greyish pallor to it. Their eyes were tired. Their energy was weak. (No, they are not smokers.)
It wasn’t only that they were tired, exhausted and at the end of their wits with the whole ‘parenting’ deal, as the Mom described it, but they (and their children, ages 3 and 7) also had chronic illnesses that contributed quite a lot to the family discord and chaos.
The kids were cranky and sick. The parents were stressed and exhausted. The family was on the brink of collapse from the consumption of too much of the bad stuff (junk food 3 or more nights a week because of the parents’ busy schedules, sodas (which they all loved) and very little exercise (only enough in the park to amuse the kids).
The parents regarded the ‘mind, body, spirit connection’ as something that was woowoo and not to be taken seriously. The Mom said, “we don’t have time for that crap.” The Dad said, “if you can even regard it as crap.”
SO!
The root of the problem was this disconnect in understanding what really constitutes basic human happiness and well-being.
“Wellness is not a ‘medical fix’ but a way of living – a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever.” ~ Greg Anderson
Health, the thing itself, is the result of respect for and the engagement in the activities and processes that lead to and maintain our optimal physical performance and happiness. To poopoo the ‘mind, body, spirit connection’ is to invite sickness and disease and leave a hole for the ego mind to do its mischief! It’s to wonder why things aren’t working.
What is this ‘mind, body, spirit connection’? (Going forward in this writing I’ll refer to it as the MBSC.) Well, we readily identify with our bodies, so I think that part seems clear. We seem to readily identify with our minds. Our Spirit, though, that’s a bit of a mystery to many and connecting to or with it seems like a remote possibility, IF it is real at all!!!
A healthy body and healthy mind help promote our recognition of the connection to our spirit. After all, we are earthbound (at the moment). The spirit, in turn, supports/promotes a healthy mind and body through communion with our divine essence, our Creator! It’s sort of a symbiotic relationship (not sure of the word for ‘three’ being in a mutually advantageous relationship. Do you know it?).
Let me ask you this: do you believe in miracles? If your answer is “no” (as was the answer from my parent clients discussed here), how do you suppose we all got here? If we are an accident, as many insist is the case, then how do you explain the intricate workings of our bodies and minds, let alone the earth and universe?
Our spirit hold our cells together; collectively, they hold the earth together; they hold the cosmos together. What would happen if you were to directly address your spirit, the thing that holds everything together? What a prospect!
What would happen if you were to deliberately attempt to ‘connect’ to it? That sounds a little redundant… attempting to connect with that which literally connects every cell in your body? Where do you suppose the ‘disconnect’ is?
The ‘disconnect’ is our minds distracting us from this magnificent Spirit part of ourselves. When we quiet our mind in meditation and listen to this silent part of ourselves we begin to heal in places that we didn’t even know was sick! Our health begins to turn around, improve. Insurmountable financial problems begin to be dwarfed by our recognition of ‘true wealth’ and eventually disappear in shame. (This is the cure-all.)
If you do believe in miracles, do you place a limitation on them? Many of us do. Until we can get ‘unlimited’ with them, embracing and engaging the MBSC in ever deepening consistency will help move the agenda we want along.
My clients are much happier now. The color has returned to their cheeks. They understand and engage what is truly important. They view their children as amusing to them now rather than endless frustration and worry. The whole family’s in on the MBSC. They are teaching the children well.
If you (or your family) are having health challenges, choose to engage the MBSC. Look carefully into your nutritional, physical and medicinal habits. Increase the speed of your recovery by doing daily meditation.
Mysterious illnesses are not mysterious. Many times they are simply an answer to neglect. Is it challenging for you to even consider all of the healthy options and changes that are necessary for your family to adopt? Relax. Take baby steps. Adopt a new healthy habit every month or few months. Start with daily meditation.
You were born to be a HERO to your child. There’s a saying, “God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called.” I believe this is true. Not all people are called to be parents AND many parents don’t pick up the mantle of being responsible parents, HEROES for their children, and our world suffers because of it.
THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS!!! I call now for parents who treasure all that is holy and sacred to take up arms against parenting by default, living in fear and anxiety and just generally feeling crappy. Of the ones called, an HEROIC task is laid before them… Bring up the next generation of HEROES.
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BE the light that shines for your offspring on the path to Infinite Joy. Give it to yourself first. Have your True Will. This doesn’t stop just because your child is now an adult.
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