Amen, Maria. It is so clear to me that longstanding frustration, conflict, confusion and (increasingly) conspiracy theory infecting the health space was a major factor in the outcome of this last election.
Thanks for taking time to collect and share your thoughts on this. You and I have both been observing, writing, educating, and advocating in this space for a long time, and I think we've come to see it in much the same way.
Disturbingly, I now see many of the folks I've long respected — in functional medicine, women's health, environmental health, even regenerative agriculture — making strange bedfellows with politicians I would never have predicted they'd consider dating. But here we are, in the midst of what a lot of folks see as "healing crisis" and I can only hope that some good will be done along with the foreseeable damage.
Like you, I would so love to see our country get healthier in body and mind, and that is clearly going to take some disruption of the decaying, corrupt systems and unhealthy norms that led us to our current sad state. I can only hope we do not throw the public-health baby out with all that dirty bathwater.
I agree with both of you. However, Pilar, I would add one thing: I would love to see our country get healthier in body, mind, and *spirit*, whatever that might mean to each of us individually. All three are intricately and inextricably interwoven.
There's no such thing as public health. It's individual health, period. My health doesn't depend on your health anymore than your health depends on mine.
Although the most important role of government organizations is to track data, results, and breakthroughs to share with the public so we can all learn, in my humble opinion.
Follow the Ethical Skeptic on X. The government own data doesn't lie, but the billionaire's mouthpieces on TV most certainly do. The issue is that there's all kinds of ways to skew, distort, and pervert the data to tell the story that obscures the causes of the symptoms.
While your personal health may not directly and immediately affect my personal health, collectively speaking, our individual health (or lack thereof) definitely
affects the health of others.
I've written a whole book about this and also cover it in my recent Substack posts, if you're interested in understanding my thinking here. At the most intimate level, though, you might consider how if a spouse or other family member becomes chronically ill, gets in an accident, or suffers some other significant health issue, it often affects everyone else in the family. One person not thriving can negatively impact everyone else's stress, sleep, eating and movement patterns, substance use, etc.
And it is definitely true that living in a culture where the majority of people are not physically or mentally healthy makes it significantly harder (in terms of norms and daily default patterns) for other people to get and stay healthy for the long haul.
Well it is still possible to be a healthy person in an unhealthy culture, there is no question that being a healthy person in the context of a healthy culture is vastly easier.
I don't ever let others lack of health impact mine. I'm right-handed. In public I use my right hand. If I need to touch my face, I use the back of my left hand. I don't use toxins to clean my hands or my body as doing so kills off the first line of defense against pathogens. I make every person I meet smile and laugh, I make them feel good inside. This exercises the vagus nerve which is dedicated to every organ. One's emotional state is the key barometer of health and the one thing you control. I don't ever let anyone's opinion of me or others make me feel bad about me, them or others. I don't drink alcohol, don't eat processed food or junk of any kind as I know it will turn me into a good host for pathogens. I've used Prescription for Nutritional Healing for almost 40 to Dx health issues. Before I found that book I had to learn how to walk, talk, and read again after western medicine's overuse of petrochemicals left me deaf and for dead in a hospital. I used the Index to Dx myself, heal myself and maintain health for almost 40 years. I have been to the Doctors 20 times in the past 20 years. Each time was for my son's annual health checkup. We are the worst patients, the very best parents with the healthiest young man ever. The secret: I gave him all of the love I never had. I've been given up for dead 5 times, 3 of them were in hospitals, 1 was a murder attempt by my brother, and 1 was in a violent storm in which I navigated a Hobie Cat to safety. All were seemingly impossible to others, but not to me. I just stay engaged to whatever challenges and face them head on. Fun times!
Maria--I couldn't agree more about the universe kicking the US in the ass, but also that the "tech overlords" found a way of gaming the electoral system. I have no doubt about that last. But all of the analyses of what Dems did wrong to "lose" and lose handily (on the electoral college side, at least) is so painful. You're rightly advocating for education, including self-education, in a climate that has relegated knowledge to something "elitist" and therefore bad. Since science is a realm of knowledge, vaccines are bad and climate change is a hoax, etc. Organics are viewed as a ploy, something expensive that only the rich can afford and are probably hooey. So where to start as we pick up the pieces post this horrific election? I'm at a loss.
First, look for your truth and speak it. Believe in your power to help build a better world. Ask "the universe" or your higher self for guidance. Then, pay attention and follow the trail of magic to see where it leads. And don't take things personally. Everyone is on their own journey and we all end up in the same place. We are all allies, even though we don't realize it.
I love this quote from Toni Morrison when thinking about the current state of affairs, "In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear.”
Hmmm. There is a local farm that grows organic and the food is so much better than store bought organic. He sells eggs that are a deep yellow and taste better than organic store bought. (I recently changed from vegan to vegetarian)
The point being, at Giant's Natural Promise organic products, like spaghetti and such, there on the label, it says: "No unallowed pesticides or unallowed GMO's." Not sure how much that interferes with the quality of the food, but I am sure it is significantly more than the local organic farmer.
Everyone needs to do their own thing, and accept people who are different than themselves. Don't like things they do, then talk about things you have in common. This builds a strong, loving and forgiving community. I know I say this kind of thing often, perhaps not enough.
The how and why of emotions was discovered almost 40 years ago and published in 1995: The Biology of Belief by Dr. Bruce Lipton. He discovered the field of epigenetics. The bumper sticker "If I had known grandchildren would be so much fun I would've had them first" describes epigenetics: you are your grandparents. Bruce describes how that came to be, and expands on the incredible power of belief. He demonstrates that the placebo effect is actually controlled by subconscious beliefs. The 'epi' means we have control over our body and lives. When we believe something it biologically manifests in our bodies. Chapter 4 covers Quantum Physics, and Chapter 5 will blow you away.
I created a rational statement of how beliefs work before I researched anything else. "Beliefs agnostically self-reinforce instantaneously, creating feelings, thoughts, and actions in that order, which themselves create more self-reinforcing feelings, thoughts, and actions."
This statement describes both quantum physics and the biology of belief. Whatever you believe is true, becomes true for you regardless of the thing believed. To heal yourself of anything requires that you articulate what you believe, and why you believe it. It takes a ton of work and only you can do you.
Miracles are quantum physics in action, a realignment of epigenetics.
Amen, Maria. It is so clear to me that longstanding frustration, conflict, confusion and (increasingly) conspiracy theory infecting the health space was a major factor in the outcome of this last election.
Thanks for taking time to collect and share your thoughts on this. You and I have both been observing, writing, educating, and advocating in this space for a long time, and I think we've come to see it in much the same way.
Disturbingly, I now see many of the folks I've long respected — in functional medicine, women's health, environmental health, even regenerative agriculture — making strange bedfellows with politicians I would never have predicted they'd consider dating. But here we are, in the midst of what a lot of folks see as "healing crisis" and I can only hope that some good will be done along with the foreseeable damage.
Like you, I would so love to see our country get healthier in body and mind, and that is clearly going to take some disruption of the decaying, corrupt systems and unhealthy norms that led us to our current sad state. I can only hope we do not throw the public-health baby out with all that dirty bathwater.
I agree with both of you. However, Pilar, I would add one thing: I would love to see our country get healthier in body, mind, and *spirit*, whatever that might mean to each of us individually. All three are intricately and inextricably interwoven.
Agreed. To me, emotional, social, and spiritual health are not separate from the body-mind, but rather intrinsic to it.
There's no such thing as public health. It's individual health, period. My health doesn't depend on your health anymore than your health depends on mine.
Although the most important role of government organizations is to track data, results, and breakthroughs to share with the public so we can all learn, in my humble opinion.
Follow the Ethical Skeptic on X. The government own data doesn't lie, but the billionaire's mouthpieces on TV most certainly do. The issue is that there's all kinds of ways to skew, distort, and pervert the data to tell the story that obscures the causes of the symptoms.
While your personal health may not directly and immediately affect my personal health, collectively speaking, our individual health (or lack thereof) definitely
affects the health of others.
I've written a whole book about this and also cover it in my recent Substack posts, if you're interested in understanding my thinking here. At the most intimate level, though, you might consider how if a spouse or other family member becomes chronically ill, gets in an accident, or suffers some other significant health issue, it often affects everyone else in the family. One person not thriving can negatively impact everyone else's stress, sleep, eating and movement patterns, substance use, etc.
And it is definitely true that living in a culture where the majority of people are not physically or mentally healthy makes it significantly harder (in terms of norms and daily default patterns) for other people to get and stay healthy for the long haul.
Well it is still possible to be a healthy person in an unhealthy culture, there is no question that being a healthy person in the context of a healthy culture is vastly easier.
I don't ever let others lack of health impact mine. I'm right-handed. In public I use my right hand. If I need to touch my face, I use the back of my left hand. I don't use toxins to clean my hands or my body as doing so kills off the first line of defense against pathogens. I make every person I meet smile and laugh, I make them feel good inside. This exercises the vagus nerve which is dedicated to every organ. One's emotional state is the key barometer of health and the one thing you control. I don't ever let anyone's opinion of me or others make me feel bad about me, them or others. I don't drink alcohol, don't eat processed food or junk of any kind as I know it will turn me into a good host for pathogens. I've used Prescription for Nutritional Healing for almost 40 to Dx health issues. Before I found that book I had to learn how to walk, talk, and read again after western medicine's overuse of petrochemicals left me deaf and for dead in a hospital. I used the Index to Dx myself, heal myself and maintain health for almost 40 years. I have been to the Doctors 20 times in the past 20 years. Each time was for my son's annual health checkup. We are the worst patients, the very best parents with the healthiest young man ever. The secret: I gave him all of the love I never had. I've been given up for dead 5 times, 3 of them were in hospitals, 1 was a murder attempt by my brother, and 1 was in a violent storm in which I navigated a Hobie Cat to safety. All were seemingly impossible to others, but not to me. I just stay engaged to whatever challenges and face them head on. Fun times!
The fact you gave your son all the love you never had tells me you have cracked the secret code to life! Congratulations and thank you!
Thank you Maria! That's so sweet of you and gives me an extra boost!
Agreed!
Maria--I couldn't agree more about the universe kicking the US in the ass, but also that the "tech overlords" found a way of gaming the electoral system. I have no doubt about that last. But all of the analyses of what Dems did wrong to "lose" and lose handily (on the electoral college side, at least) is so painful. You're rightly advocating for education, including self-education, in a climate that has relegated knowledge to something "elitist" and therefore bad. Since science is a realm of knowledge, vaccines are bad and climate change is a hoax, etc. Organics are viewed as a ploy, something expensive that only the rich can afford and are probably hooey. So where to start as we pick up the pieces post this horrific election? I'm at a loss.
First, look for your truth and speak it. Believe in your power to help build a better world. Ask "the universe" or your higher self for guidance. Then, pay attention and follow the trail of magic to see where it leads. And don't take things personally. Everyone is on their own journey and we all end up in the same place. We are all allies, even though we don't realize it.
Absolutely!
Ask; pay attention (to what you receive in response); and then act!
Together, we can make a difference.
Well said.
I love this quote from Toni Morrison when thinking about the current state of affairs, "In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear.”
Important words for us to live by in these times.
Exactly!
last paragraph... nuggets of gold ❤️, especially "do not obey in advance." ✊🏼
Hmmm. There is a local farm that grows organic and the food is so much better than store bought organic. He sells eggs that are a deep yellow and taste better than organic store bought. (I recently changed from vegan to vegetarian)
The point being, at Giant's Natural Promise organic products, like spaghetti and such, there on the label, it says: "No unallowed pesticides or unallowed GMO's." Not sure how much that interferes with the quality of the food, but I am sure it is significantly more than the local organic farmer.
Everyone needs to do their own thing, and accept people who are different than themselves. Don't like things they do, then talk about things you have in common. This builds a strong, loving and forgiving community. I know I say this kind of thing often, perhaps not enough.
Peace
Love the words you share. ❤️🙏❤️
The how and why of emotions was discovered almost 40 years ago and published in 1995: The Biology of Belief by Dr. Bruce Lipton. He discovered the field of epigenetics. The bumper sticker "If I had known grandchildren would be so much fun I would've had them first" describes epigenetics: you are your grandparents. Bruce describes how that came to be, and expands on the incredible power of belief. He demonstrates that the placebo effect is actually controlled by subconscious beliefs. The 'epi' means we have control over our body and lives. When we believe something it biologically manifests in our bodies. Chapter 4 covers Quantum Physics, and Chapter 5 will blow you away.
I created a rational statement of how beliefs work before I researched anything else. "Beliefs agnostically self-reinforce instantaneously, creating feelings, thoughts, and actions in that order, which themselves create more self-reinforcing feelings, thoughts, and actions."
This statement describes both quantum physics and the biology of belief. Whatever you believe is true, becomes true for you regardless of the thing believed. To heal yourself of anything requires that you articulate what you believe, and why you believe it. It takes a ton of work and only you can do you.
Miracles are quantum physics in action, a realignment of epigenetics.