| Recently, one of my home school science lessons | | | | frightening. We've been suspended in this disbelief long |
| with our daughter was based on how animals adapt to | | | | enough! We're convinced that if we have the slightest |
| their environment for survival purposes. | | | | symptom (body signal), that we must need drugs to |
| The lesson described how animals will change a | | | | suppress it. Feeling less-than-perfect apparently |
| variety of things about themselves in order to "adapt | | | | requires medication. |
| to" or change in response to what's happening around | | | | What is that?? How does that create health? What |
| them. Some examples were: shedding, hibernation, | | | | kind of a message does that send to children? |
| changing color, and so on. | | | | I don't like symptoms any better than the next guy, but |
| My daughter and I discussed how perfect 'nature' is | | | | I usually understand why they're there. Our body will |
| and how truly amazing the innate intelligence of both | | | | display symptoms (body signals) in response to a |
| animals and humans is. We agreed that God's pretty | | | | Wellness equation out of balance: when the amount of |
| cool! | | | | toxicity and deficiency our environment is exposed to |
| Up until this point, I had decided that I wouldn't | | | | becomes excessive and surpasses or overrides the |
| somehow turn this science lesson about animals into | | | | effects of purity and sufficiency in our environment. |
| another "mom health lesson"! It would have been SO | | | | Haven't met a drug yet that can increase purity and |
| easy.... | | | | sufficiency or decrease toxicity and deficiency!! Kinda' |
| You see, in our family, we don't say the word "sick" | | | | have to handle that one on your own! |
| very often. In fact, it's rare. The kids know that if they | | | | Back to the home schooling lesson... |
| have a runny nose, or a cough, or they have a little | | | | As I said, I had decided to pass on this profound |
| upset tummy, it's their body "adapting" to the | | | | connection between animal adaptation and human |
| environment. | | | | immune system adaptation. I kept the soap box safely |
| We've said this since the kids were born. The only | | | | tucked away! |
| reason we 'had' to teach them to refer to being 'sick' | | | | We had successfully finished the lesson and were |
| was so that people outside our home and wellness | | | | discussing the details to insure my daughter had fully |
| practice would understand what on earth they were | | | | comprehended things. Then she was quiet for a few |
| talking about!! | | | | moments. I thought she had gone into a brain haze! |
| The whole "I'm sick" thing is just a simple sticking point | | | | Instead, she turned to me and said, "I totally get why |
| with their daddy and me. It actually had nothing to do | | | | you and daddy always say, 'you're not SICK... you're |
| with our kids - it's a mindset, and a paradigm shift, | | | | adapting!'... It's just like with the animals. Only what |
| we've been teaching in our practice for years. | | | | WE'RE adapting to is the crappy environment we |
| For example, if you experience a runny nose, a cough, | | | | create... like crappy foods and not getting enough sleep |
| and feel wiped out, the common terminology is that | | | | and not exercising and watching too much crappy |
| you have a "cold" and that you're "sick". | | | | television and having a bad attitude... right?" |
| But ARE you? | | | | By George, I think she's got it!! (I don't think I ever |
| Are you really "sick" or is your body just responding | | | | explained it using the word "crappy", though!) |
| perfectly to its environment? Is your body simply | | | | She continued, "We're really not sick at all when our |
| "adapting" to what it's being exposed to? Quite often, if | | | | bodies have a cold or the sniffles... or even a flu virus. |
| you choose to think about it, that "cold" didn't just pop | | | | Our body is doing exactly what it should do to respond |
| up out of nowhere. Usually, it follows a period of | | | | to that lousy environment that we created! That's |
| stress, deficiency of sleep and relaxation, improper | | | | what a normal, healthy body does." |
| care of the immune system, poor nutrition, a change in | | | | Exactly! |
| seasons, exposure to a toxic environment, and so on. | | | | I tried to soften the edges for her a bit by reminding |
| Sure, it may have something to do with 'everyone' | | | | her that we don't consciously choose to feel lousy! It's |
| around you having a cold... BUT, that certainly doesn't | | | | not actually our "fault". Yes, it's often a result of toxic |
| mean you'll develop it. Nope, not at all. | | | | and deficient choices we make in the way we move, |
| It results from excess toxicity and deficiency and a | | | | eat and think... but it's also our larger environment that |
| lack of purity and sufficiency. Just like every other | | | | we don't have much direct control over. Also, very |
| disease and condition of lifestyle. | | | | few people have ever been told that their choices will |
| If your choices and external environment have resulted | | | | directly or indirectly determine their health. Most people |
| in a toxic and deficient internal environment, you're | | | | will never hear that from their parents, their family doc |
| much more likely to develop every little (and big) thing | | | | or from mainstream media. Sad. It robs them of the |
| going around. | | | | opportunity to proactively create their own health. |
| Although you certainly don't enjoy how you feel as | | | | The way we teach it here, "sick" happens when your |
| your body is adapting to its environment, it IS a perfect | | | | body starts to lose the battle. When the response to |
| physiological adaptation. Whatever the cumulative | | | | the environment becomes overwhelming to the body, |
| effect of our internal and external environments is, our | | | | or the body isn't able to meet the demands. |
| body will respond accordingly. | | | | Really, "sick" doesn't happen very often at all, when |
| So, is our body actually "sick", which implies some | | | | you look at it that way. Even when it does, the solution |
| malfunction?? Or is it demonstrating perfect health by | | | | doesn't lie in adding more toxicity and deficiency and |
| responding appropriately to the environment? | | | | ignoring purity and sufficiency. We don't get "sick" |
| The point is, the vast majority of the time, our bodies | | | | because of a shortage of drugs and medication in our |
| are displaying a perfectly healthy physiological | | | | bloodstream!! We don't get healthy because of adding |
| adaptation to the environment. | | | | them. |
| So, what's our beef with that? It's the prevailing | | | | Health comes from within. |
| mindset... it's the paradigm that is so sad, and | | | | |