Deep personal transformation through Reiki extends far beyond healing individual human beings. The greatest sources of healing come from both within ourselves and from the world around us. We have a responsibility not only to our personal health and transformation, but to the health and evolution of our planet. This article embraces Nature for Healing as well as Healing for Nature.
Can Naturopathy cure diabetes? Can it cure cancer? High blood pressure? We frequently hear these questions from participants in our holistic Reiki health courses. The phrasing of these questions reveals the embedded ideological power of allopathic Western medicine. That is, many people wait for illness and then go to a doctor to seek a cure. This approach is insane! Yet, the vast majority of people waits for illness rather than actively implement empowering and preventative health care practices.
Further, this ideology motivates the purchasing of health insurance as if some large corporation could actually "insure" your good health. The main thing that an insurance company aims to insure is that they make outstanding profits year after year. Does having insurance make you feel more secure? Is it possible that people neglect their physical health based on the illusion that health insurance protects them? Is purchasing insurance actually an investment in the prophecy that you are going to get sick? Does dependence on insurance for a sense of security actually undermine your personal empowerment? The practice of Naturopathy circumvents most of these concerns by creating a powerful synergy between you and nature.
Vaccines are another form of so-called insurance against disease. While history shows that some vaccines have heralded amazing health benefits, this does not imply that all vaccines are necessary or safe; quite the contrary. Manufacturers of vaccines are most assuredly seeking record breaking profits in the years to come. Do they have a vested interest in the pandemic spread of disease because that means incredible demand for their drugs? If you have any doubts of the profit motive, research the marketing projections for the next decade of corporations that produce vaccines. Look at the agenda of the World Vaccine Congress where industry leaders discuss how to benefit from the spread of disease. They go so far as referring to "blockbuster vaccines" in their marketing lingo. You'll see they are perched like vultures predicting the next pandemic. This is how the "health-care" industry functions. Naturopathy takes a radically different approach to immunity.
By placing your faith in government and its regulations, insurance companies and their claims adjusters or vaccine manufacturers and their profit motive, are you abandoning and betraying your personal responsibility for optimizing your own state of health? The only authentic insurance that you can establish for your health is a program dedicated to nourishment, strong immunity and pro-active practices in every dimension of health. True immunity implies strength and cleanliness of your entire being, not just some trendy chemicals brewed with mercury and jabbed into your butt to ostensibly protect you. Vaccines may assuage your fears and lull you into a false sense of security. They may disempower you from truly managing your own health care program. More seriously, some vaccines are implicated in the cause of disease rather than the prevention of disease. Naturopathy, like Reiki, aims to empower you to strengthen and heal yourself naturally.
Naturopathy may not be able to cure every disease, but proponents explain that most assuredly it can prevent virtually every disease. Prevention is the main point of Naturopathy. As our Naturopath friend Dr. Nisal in Pune, India teaches, Naturopathy is not just a cure, it's a way of life. Naturopathy does not offer a standard remedy for every person. Rather, it offers a program designed to meet the unique needs of each person at every stage of life. Nature is not standardized any more than people are standardized. Healing with Naturopathy, as with Reiki, needs to be individualized according to person, place and condition of health.
The most insightful concept that I've learned from Naturopathy concerns the great misconception of disease in modern society. What is the misconception? Allopathic Western medical practice generally considers colds, runny noses, flues, coughs, menopause and diarrhea as diseases. In fact, these are the body's natural way of cleansing. Sneezing, coughing, sweating and bleeding are all perfectly ordinary measures of detoxification that the body manages by itself. In most cases, these processes operate just fine without external intervention. Belief that these conditions are "diseases" justifies chemical intervention to suppress a cough, stop a runny nose or diarrhea. This belief deceives virtually everybody that I know. While certainly there are cases when pharmaceuticals can be very helpful, in many cases, they interfere with the body's natural system of cleansing. The trick is to be well enough informed and wise enough to know when to let nature do its duty and when to trust a chemical to assist your healing.
When pharmaceutical toxins collect in the body, they contribute to extremely dangerous conditions including liver and kidney failure. Did you know that? Just look at the fine print on the labels or research on the internet and you'll see a dandy list of life threatening conditions that are promulgated by the ingestion of legally prescribed pharmaceuticals. Nature, on the other hand, poses no dangerous side effects.
In addition to your ordinary system of detoxification, our Naturopath friend Dr. Jacob from Kerala in southern India recommends "extra-ordinary" measures of detoxification. These procedures include using a neti pot to rinse the nose and sinuses, eye wash, lemon juice gargle, water enema, fruit fasting and juice fasting. All of these procedures detoxify the body more intensely than the ordinary day to day cleansing programs of the body. It's somewhat ironic that as I explain more "advanced" techniques of healing and personal transformation, the suggestions become increasingly basic; namely, food, water, inner hygiene and breathing. This is a rather radical approach that penetrates to the very roots of human existence in its most elemental forms. This approach might even seem diametrically opposed to "advances" in modern medicine that include super chemical brews and high-tech laser surgeries.
Dr. Jacob explains that all diseases are caused by the accumulation of morbid and toxic matter in the body. He explains that the root cause of disease is not bacteria as claimed by Western allopathic doctors; rather, bacteria grow after the accumulation of toxic matter that creates a favorable environment for their reproduction. In this perspective, acute diseases represent the body's efforts to cleanse itself and remove the toxins. Therefore, the body should be supported in this natural process and encouraged through extra-ordinary cleansing techniques rather than using drugs to suppress the symptoms. The human body, like all animals, has internal mechanisms for self-healing which are best stimulated by natural means. Food, correctly used, is medicine. Similarly, fasting is a powerful therapy that cleanses the body and lightens the heart at the same time.
Read more about naturopathy and fasting in the next article.
This article has been adapted from my book, "Personal Transformation through Reiki." It is available at: http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Transformation-through-Reiki-Radzienda/dp/616321420X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1361883358&sr=8-2&keywords=personal+transformation+through+reiki
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Tom
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