- What are we doing wrong?
The answer to this question lies within our personal perception and daily relationship with the body. We forget that the body is the best friend we have ever had! It is the best friend any of us will ever have! It carries us around this planet faithfully year after year doing a fabulous job with often precious little assistance or co-operation from us. In fact… we interfere with body, we mess with it! We often don’t give it enough sleep, nutrition, water, relaxation or exercise and we stress the systems of the body by over working it and not providing what it needs when it needs it. Instead, we provide it with a vast array of ‘stuff’ that the body does not need, finds toxic and/or has no good use for. The research shows many of us care for our pets better than we care for our own bodies.
We seem to have forgotten (along the way) that the body is intelligent! Not just a little intelligent or even very intelligent, but ‘Super Intelligent’. The body can heal itself! Sounds simple doesn’t it, something we might take for granted. But can you imagine if your motor car could do that…..? It can’t though can it! It does not have the intelligence to heal itself. It does not know what to do. And even if we gave it the intelligence, it still would not have the means to heal itself! Your body does! It knows exactly what to do… always! The point I make is…‘your body does not need you to do…its thinking…for it’. The body thinks for itself!
Within the body there are numerous biological systems that come together perfectly to carry out what one might refer to as ‘the work of the body’. Some of these systems are more obvious to us than others, like those that assimilate the body. They make cells, blood, skin, hair etc.; they heal the cut on your leg without you having to think about it! Then there are other systems (less obvious perhaps) that make the chemicals the body uses, like our enzymes, endorphins and hormones etc, and numerous other systems (less obvious again) that for example, enable the body to regulate the timing of the firing of your nerves and create the neurological pathways through the brain enabling you to think rationally, recognise things and remember things. The body is a ‘Super Intelligent’ self maintaining resource. It may well be that the body is in fact more intelligent than the mind, but that is another story in itself.
All of the biological systems of the body and the work they carry out have only one single purpose, only one reason for being…‘to look after us from the inside out’… they have no other purpose! It is these systems and the work they carry out that directly determine our health and state of well-being. They directly determine our energy levels, the rate of aging of the body and even the mood we are in! It is ‘the work of the body’ which determines our physical and psychological experience of daily life!
So if the body is so smart and looks after us so well, why do we feel unwell, lethargic, stressed, overweight, and depressed etc, etc? Because in our hectic modern lifestyles we find it difficult to provide the body with what it needs to carry out ‘the work of the body’.
Yet the body’s needs are quite simple.
The body only needs nutrition, oxygen, water, some rest, some exercise and a little sunshine. Fortunately providing what the body needs is in large part fairly easy, oxygen, water, rest, exercise and sunshine are all easily obtained and provided if we simply choose to provide them! However nutrition, which once came to us via our daily diet, is now quite a different matter altogether. Our difficulties come from no longer being able to obtain ‘adequate nutrition’ from regular foods.
The ‘fresh live foods’ we presently rely upon for our daily nutritional requirements are now substantially depleted in mineral and nutritional content. Some foods, (including red meats and numerous fruit, vegetable and grain crops), now contain up to 60% less mineral content than they did 50 years ago. This reality and the difficulties we experience as a result of it are further compounded by the fact that the ‘fresh’< apple (and many other items) we might confidently purchase in the supermarket has been refrigerated for up to 3 years. Its value as a source of vitamins for use by the body is often minimal and in many cases zero. >> So what does this mean?
