Draw on your body’s own resources for natural healing.
- Instead of giving magical cures, we must change our diets, our habits of exercise, our ways of handling stress, and our breathing.
Changing behavior – You must be clear about what satisfaction that behavior is giving you as well as what it is costing you, then make a conscious decision to move.
- Motivation derives from the Latin form of the verb “to move.”
Health is wholeness and balance
- It is an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.
Healing is the rule rather than the exception with regards to common ailments.
- headaches, allergies, sinus conditions, digestive disorders, back pain, anxiety
Most illnesses are self-limited.
- They come to an end because the healing system is able to handle most problems and restore the balance of health.
- just as a cut finger heals
The best treatment is the least (that activates spontaneous healing).
- the least invasive, least drastic, least expensive
Re-source: Recondition
condition again
Feel better, get more energy, but most important, reduce your risks of premature illness and death by enhancing the performance of your body’s healing system.
Learn techniques that will help you maintain equanimity through trying circumstances, such as breath control, mediation, and cultivation of calmness and acceptance of change
- Practices and skills that will enable you to prepare body, mind, and spirit for any eventual health crises you may face.
- Start it now and reap the benefits for the rest of your life.
Human beings are bodies, minds, and spirits. Health necessarily involves all of those components, and any program intended to improve health must address all of them.
- Conventional medicine pays almost exclusive attention to our physical bodies, giving lip service to our minds but not really taking them seriously, and totally ignoring our spirits.
See the whole picture of health, understanding the importance of working on all fronts: the physical, the mental, and the spiritual.
- “Psychiatry” comes from the Greek roots meaning “soul doctoring.”
craving and resource from “8 Weeks to Optimum Health” by Andrew Weil, M.D.