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The Principles of Natural Healing
In the United States we have come to believe in:
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the quick fix;
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the model of the body as a machine that can be fixed just as if it were
a car;
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the goal of healing to be only the elimination of symptoms;
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the idea that there is "one cause one disease."
Natural healing seeks to create health by eliminating the imbalance
(or disease) that produced the symptoms of illness in the first place.
This process begins with the premise that the body is designed to heal
itself, given the appropriate support. Determining what is appropriate
nutritional support requires active participation on your part to become
aware of what your own "Inner Healer" is telling you. If you are ready
to make that commitment to yourself, this is what you need to know.
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Healing is a long process it took time to get you where you are now,
it will take time to reverse. To rebuild a body to the cellular level takes
awhile, and this process is different from person to person.
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The body is a living, multidimensional organism, not a machine. The dynamics,
manifestations, and mechanisms of the physical body are based on its blueprint
or energy pattern, and not solely on its chemical and physiological reactions.
Emotions and mental attitudes have a great deal to do with the state of
a body. Sometimes a disease process can be part of a spiritual, transformative
process, in which case a physical treatment method may be only partially
successful.
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Healing is a process and may not always be comfortable. (See side
two "About the Healing Process.")
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Donald O. Rudin, MD,* has described disease as we know it in the United
States today as one disease with different manifestations! He calls
it the Modernization Disease Syndrome. He includes in this syndrome
heart disease, cancer, AIDS, diabetes, arthritis, colitis, mental disorders,
etc.,, etc. He sees that underlying this syndrome are imbalances in the
regulatory mechanisms in the body resulting from "changes in lifestyle
factors involving exercise, stress, smoking, drugs, pollutants and especially
a multiplicity of interacting dietary modifications which have not heretofore
been evaluated for their collective effect.. He speaks of how both cancer
and heart disease researchers see a dietary and life style component to
each of these diseases "without mentioning each other's findings, as
though cancer and heart disease were unrelated illnesses instead of just
different genetic manifestations of the same nutrition and lifestyle problem.
i.e. The Modernization Disease Syndrome.
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Dr. Rudin is a graduate of Harvard Medical School. Iong time
Director of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Pennsylvania Psychiatric
Institute, and the author of me Omega3 Phenomenon.
About the Healing Process
Don't be alarmed if you feel worse after you start a wellness program
than you did before. This is a good sign. This means that your body
has built up enough strength inside to expell accumulated wastes. Although
you may not feel well at that time, it is actually part of the healing
process. It is important to understand what is happening during this process,
what it means, and what you can do to assist this process.
Sometimes in the course of regaining vibrant health and optimum wellness
using natural healing therapies, people go through a healing process. When
stress and toxic wastes circulate inside your body, they damage your cells
and tissues and weaken your body. This is recognized by medical science
as a major cause of disease. Thus it is good for your health to get rid
of these wastes.
The healing process is often accompanied by minor symptoms of cleansing
such as aching, flulike symptoms, headaches, runny nose, sore throat,
diarrhea, constipation or other gastrointestinal symptoms, excess urination,
irritableness, feeling tired, skin eruptions, gas, sweating, tearing, crying,
bad breath, sleeping more, coughing, or emotions surfacing and releasing.
Essentially these are all the different ways the body is working to overcome
the condition and become well again. Please do not stop taking the supplements
you may want to cut back at little if this process seems too overwhelming.
in cases where you have a chronic condition that your body has adapted
to, you may have no symptoms until the new supplement is taken. You
had no symptoms before because the chronic condition had weakened your
body to the point where it did not have the ability to produce symptoms.
Now your body is working to overcome this condition and become well again.
You can assist the healing process by drinking lots of pure water, using
a high quality powdered fiber supplement and getting plenty of rest.
After a few hours, or a few days, the cleansing process will end. You
will then experience a state of greater health. |
