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| PRECEPTS OF HEALING 1-10 |
What is Health? What is Sickness?
should discuss or have a look at what is healing and what is not healing, or better yet, when are we sick and when are we not sick? When I was in school over 20 years ago we were taught and it is still taught today that what we want is homeostasis. The word “homeo” means ‘same’. The body has thousands of mechanisms to maintain a state of homeostasis or a state of sameness. All physicians are taught that this is good, and it is. However, one of the universal laws we have states that everything is always in a state of change. The only thing that you can count on always being the same is that things are always changing.
side. At one certain point it is exactly in the middle. You could draw a line in the middle and if you could snap a picture using very fast film you could actually see the pendulum in the exact middle. But it doesn’ t spend much time there, does it? So the pendulum is always moving and the chemistry in our bodies is always changing.
changes even a few tenths of a degree, you’re dead, but you don’t sit around worrying about this, or do you? Most of us don’t because we take it for granted and because it’s all controlled automatically by the body. If you eat something acidic, the body corrects for this. Now keep in mind, this number is also constantly changing very slightly, just like the pendulum. It isn’t always 7.42 but the body keeps it very close to this number.
thought by many to mean homeostasis. In other words, there is nothing going on in the body. You don’ t even know you have a body. No symptoms, no aches, no twinges, nothing. What about the pendulum? Isn’t everything supposed to be changing? Change means life and stasis means death. The concept of stasis goes against the laws of Nature, the laws of physics, and doesn’t really exist anyway. A healthy body acts like a pendulum, always changing. The body needs to be flexible. I don’t mean flexible as in physical agility. If you eat or do something that pushes your pendulum too far to the right, the body brings it back to the left. If you eat something that is too acidic, then before you even get sick, the body automatically brings you back to the middle again. When your body loses its flexibility, you are dying, literally. This idea is important. Do you see that when your body loses its ability to be flexible, you are dying, not just getting older, but dying? We all get older, but we don’t need to be in a state of dying. The body is designed to last at least 110 years. This is a fact. If you know someone who died at the age of 90, they died too soon. They lost their flexibility. It has been many years that someone died in this country of old age. People die today by choice.
through hoops to bring the pendulum back towards the middle. More importantly, we consciously and continuously ignore the body’s language that we are out of balance. We don’t listen to the body when it is telling us we have lost our flexibility. I’ll expand on this concept later. Here is another example of flexibility. One system that absolutely must remain flexible is the immune system. Let us suppose that we have two babies that are exposed to a flu virus one Sunday morning at church. On Monday, baby number One starts sneezing and gets a runny nose and by that evening has a temperature of 104 degrees. Baby number Two feels good on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, then starts getting a runny nose and sneezing. On Thursday, baby number Two gets a low grade temperature of 100 degrees. Which baby is more flexible and healthier? When a virus enters the body, the faster the body takes action, the healthier it is. The runny nose, sneezing, and high fever are mechanisms to neutralize the invading virus. The sooner these symptoms appear the better. An Interesting Metaphor
the human body like a robot....a collection of chemicals, cells, and organs that can be altered and changed by brute force using drugs and surgery. They diagnose using tools (very few tools at that) that can only see disease once it's right on top of you. And the tools in their repertoire? Pretty much only two....imaging devices and lab tests. These are designed to find problems when they are raging away, much like the fire you see above. If you were in this house and you called your typical, run-of-the-mill practitioner out there, he'd say, "well, touch the glass on your window, if it doesn't feel hot, take two aspirins and call me in the morning".
burn. In case you're wondering about the leaky pipe analogy, it's basically this: Most leaks start out small and will drip maybe once every hour. We all know what's going to happen eventually, but even knowing that, we put it off and put it off. Finally, (and usually on a Sunday morning) we are running around like a crazy person trying to get a hold of a plumber and offering him triple pay to come and help our poor, flooded, kitchen.
He'd use binoculars and as soon as he saw a small plume of smoke rising up past the top of the trees, he'd send out someone to put out the fire immediately. Your typical "mainstream medical" fire fighter would see the smoke, but wouldn't do anything about it until you could actually feel the heat coming off the glass in your home. I know this may sound harsh, but remember, our whole medical system including all medical schools are built around surgery and pharmacology. The diagnostic equipment is designed solely to find problems at "late stage" AND they only "see" at the symptom level. (please refer to the page on TOXICITY). Further, the so-called treatment approach is again directed towards symptom alleviation. Their over-all working definition of what health is this: "The definition of health is the absence of symptoms". Natural healing methods allow the body to heal itself. They assist the body, they don't take over for the body. A pharmaceutical by all definitions is a poison. When you swallow a drug, the body literally "sees" it as a poison, as something that must be detoxified out of the body. A drug MAKES the body do something. A drug can MAKE your heart beat faster or slower, MAKE your breathing speed up or slow down, MAKE you have constipation or diarrhea. The drug works ON the body, not WITH the body.
dictionary. I also believe it has a nice "universal" sound to it. And the precepts do indeed cover universal healing concepts. Of all the lectures I've given, I believe the this topic was the most important.
be the basis of a book I was writing called, "How To Be Your Own Doctor and End Up With A Healthy Patient". I loved this talk, but I think everyone was expecting a talk covering what techniques, pills and potions could be selected to remedy such things as colds, flu, hemorrhoids, cancer, warts, heartburn, etc. Needless to say, I did not cover any "tricks of the trade" for alleviating some of life's more annoying symptoms. And there's that word.....symptoms. When you treat a symptom, have you done healing?
understanding of how the body works....how it's put together. One must also understand the energetics of the human body. Below are all the laws and concepts that must be understood before anyone can even come close to figuring out what to do about their health. Below are.....The Precepts of Healing.
has four components that need to be balanced: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Each of these levels intercommunicate with one another. In other words, it's not possible to have an issue that doesn't contain all 4 of these levels. Sometimes I'll make the comment that the only exception to the rule might be trauma. For example, someone might ask me, "what if someone leaves their home one day and misses the last step and sprains their ankle. Isn't this on the physical level only? It may appear to be a purely physical problem, but is it? I could ask, how long has that person lived in that house? If they've lived there for 10 years, they most certainly knew that step was there, and yet they tripped on it. There was most definitely other levels that were out of alignment. Symptoms are only a message from the universe that we are out of alignment. That's why treating the symptom is ridiculous. Do you remember Play Doe? Imagine we take 4 colors and roll them into a ball...not hard enough for the colors to mix, but hard enough so that all 4 colors are visible, yet inseparable. That represents the 4 levels of healing. We talk about a disease having a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual component because it's easier to discuss levels individually. However, for complete, deep healing, all the 4 levels must be treated. Every single disease has all four components.
place. When people get sick, they don't understand that their problem really started YEARS before they felt the symptom. One reason is because most people can no longer "tune in" to their bodies anymore. But another reason is that when a glitch occurs the body has the amazing ability to do some re-routing. This fail-safe or self-correcting mechanism is a good thing, except, if this continues...eventually, the body runs out of ideas and there is a collapse. It's always difficult to explain to a patient that even though it would seem that treating their symptom will be easy because they've only had it for 3 weeks, it may take months to find and correct the root cause of the problem because they've had it for 15 years and it's been coming on very slowly. Precept Number Three involves how important it is to treat "in sequence". Many times a patient will have several problems that are inter-connected and each problem gave rise to the next, etc., etc. The physician must find the sequence, or what is sometimes referred to as a causal chain to bring about a healing. Think about a ball of yarn. If you can find the end, you can simply hold onto the end, then flick the ball of yarn across the room and it easily and automatically unravels. That is how healing and detoxification can occur in the body....IF....the proper sequence is followed. Many years ago I had a young lady come in my office with fatigue. She told me she had contracted mononucleosis one year ago. I put her on a protocol that should have helped her. Unfortunately, she had no improvement. I then treated some other issues, then re-administered the mononucleosis protocol. She had a horrendous healing reaction that kept her out of work for a week. The exact protocol that did this she'd had a month earlier and it did nothing. Why did it work the second time? Because I treated "out of sequence" This also ties in with Herring's Laws. These laws apparently have validity. I've seen them play out in my practice hundreds of times. Precept Number Four deals with how toxins are deposited in layers. As we remove toxins from the body there will be other, older toxins surface. Also, the patients first group of symptoms will disappear, but new symptoms then occur. When I say to the patient, "Are these symptoms really new:", they then think for a moment then inform me that they do remember having these symptoms years ago. It's like peeling an onion. The holistic practitioner simply helps the patient peel back the layers. Precept Number Five simply reminds us that no matter where we have an ache or pain, the CAUSE of the ache or pain is always somewhere else. I had a tremendous example of this several years ago. I had a young waitress come in with elbow pain. She was having trouble carrying the food tray at the restaurant. She was concerned she'd lose her job. I did everything I knew for that elbow. I left no stone unturned, yet, she had absolutely no improvement.....none. I was about ready to give up, when she mentioned she'd had a little discomfort in her abdomen, and she pointed to her cecum (lower right abdominal area). I then knew the problem. I had her get a colonic (high colon irrigation administered by a registered nurse that worked for me at the time) plus, I started her on a homeopathic medicine specifically for the cecum. The VERY NEXT DAY she told me she was 90% better. I later found out that the right side of the colon can reflex pain to the elbow. That was my first lesson on precept number five...that when the patient points to their boo boo, the problem is ALMOST NEVER where they say it is. Below I will show you a Causal Chain for the Sinus/Tonsil/Teeth, the Gallbladder. Every organ, of course, has a causal chain that must be memorized and some are even more complex than these. These charts are in Modern Techniques of Acupuncture, Volume 3 a scientific guide to bio- eloectronic regulatory techniques and complex homeopathy, by Julian Kenyon, M.D., M.B., Ch.B. Thorsons Publishers LImited 1985.
affect the stomach, ureters, and kidneys, and vice versa. It can also directly affect the health of the eyes, the brain and the ears. It can affect and be effected by the liver, pancreas, spleen, and heart. And by affecting the ureters, the low back and prostate or ovaries can malfunction. (in other words, your gallbladder can give you low back pain.) Also, your intestines can be affected by a bad gallbladder. And by affecting the liver, the heart, intestines, pancreas and stomach can be affected. And this is just the chart for one organ, the gallbladder. If you had low back pain would you have your gallbladder checked or see a chiropractor? If your eye sight changed a little would you have your gallbladder checked, or see an optometrist? If your heart acted up you'd see a cardiologist, but if all the tests came back normal, would your doctor check the gallbladder? So the moral of the story is that everything can affect everything else. You can also get the idea from reviewing the acupuncture page. This is simply a repeat again of having to look for the cause behind the cause behind the cause in order to bring about true healing. Precept Number Six deals with progressive and regressive vicariation. You can review this precept under the page entitled TOXICITY under the heading A More In Depth Look At The Stages of Disease. By clicking on "Link", you can see the chart. Precept Number Seven reminds us that disease is on a continuum. (review Definitions of Health on the TOXICITY page). The only possible exception is trauma and injury. One minute you're fine, the next, you're in trouble, or "sick". Other than trauma, EVERYTHING comes on gradually. And we're finding that it probably started in the womb, or in childhood. By the time you reach an age of between 45 and 50 years old, there are several HUNDRED imbalances in the body that are in place on all levels.....intracellularly, cellularly, in the organs, bones, muscles, teeth, blood, lymph, and ground substance (mesenchyme). On the topic of cancer, I heard one doctor say that the very way we talk about cancer is one of the biggest problems. Millions of people have died of cancer because they thought of the word cancer as a noun. What if cancer was a verb? Instead of telling someone you have cancer, what if you said that you were "cancering"? If you say you HAVE cancer, then it's a done deal! But if you are GETTING cancer, then you can do things to reverse it. Further, it suggests that even if you don't actually HAVE cancer, you could be doing things that will "give " you cancer, so in essence, you are "cancering" and you might be motivated to stop doing what you are doing. This doesn't always work, of course. Ever tell someone to stop smoking? Precept Number Eight reminds us that all disease starts out on the "energetic" level, then precedes to the physical level. I would always use a breast lump to demonstrate this concept. I would ask my patient, what if you had a breast lump that was the size of a quarter and it was found to be cancer, would you agree that that would be accurate? The patient would say yes. I would then say, "what if the lump was very tiny, too small to feel, but could be seen with an M.R.I., is it still breast cancer?" They would say yes. Then I'd say, "what if no instrument or machine could "see" the lump, but it was still there, would that be cancer?" The patient would always say, well, yes, of course. And I'd then finally ask, "what if only the "ENERGY" of cancer is there...in other words, the cancer is on it's way (remember the verb cancering), and eventually there will be an observable lump there, but, because of the fact that quantum physics tells us that thought or energy precedes matter, we just can't SEE the tumor yet, isn't cancer still there....really? And surprisingly, most patients would say, "yes, that is still breast cancer, even though some machine can't actually see a visible tumor yet." I always thought it was interesting that almost everyone understood this. So why is this important? What would make more sense for a woman that has breast cancer, to treat it when the tumor is the size of a garden pea, or, is still in the "cancer energy" stage and no tumor is present, even though it's coming? Do you realize that cancer at the energy level can be cured in 24 hours and sometimes even faster? Are you getting the concept here? The sooner you find something, the sooner and easier you can make a coarse change in your life and correct it. It might involve a dietary change or a lifestyle change that reduces stress (a yoga class or the implementation of meditation, for example). Cancer could be avoided in some cases by simply changing careers, or getting married, or getting divorced. I had a patient once that hated her marriage and her husband and she would constantly say she felt trapped and couldn't find a way out. She found one: she died of pancreatic cancer in 30 days. Precept Number Nine says that in order to heal, we must first remove the toxic substances from our bodies. And these toxic substances can only LEAVE the body through 4 avenues or pathways: the colon, the kidney/bladder, the lungs and the skin. If these pathways are blocked for any reason we will become ill. Proper breathing (which very few people do) is important for eliminating toxins from the lungs. Herbal bath soaks and skin brushing keeps the skin working to eliminate certain toxins from the body. If the large intestine isn't functioning properly, we become constipated. Most people are constipated, but they don't think so because they are using the wrong definition of constipation. Let's suppose we eat a breakfast that has RED food dye in it, then follow up with a GREEN lunch and a BLUE supper. Since it is supposed to take 24 hours for food to pass from the body, that evening you should have RED bowel movement and the very next morning upon rising, you should have a GREEN and BLUE bowel movement before (of immediate after) your breakfast. The idea is that you are starting a new day with a clean digestive tract. Constipation deals with "Bowel Transit Time". In other words, how long is the food actually in you. The colon absorbs things....that's it's job. If you have fecal matter in the colon for 2 or 3 days (or longer with some people), you have auto-intoxication. The average person's colon is like a "sausage factory"......as food moves into the colon, stool moves out of the colon. Some goes in.....some comes out. This is quite simply treating the colon as a storage depot.... like a septic tank. That concept is fine if we're talking about an actual septic tank, but the colon is a living organ that was not created to act as a septic tank. It is more of a sewage pipe of sorts. It removes water and some minerals and that's it. This is why almost everyone is constipated in this country. In some parts of the world, when people eat a diet of all vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, their stool weighs up to 2 lbs. The average American's bowel movement weighs a half a pound or less. In other words, it's dehydrated and concentrated. It has spent too long in the colon. And I should mention, the parts of the world where people have 3 bowel movements daily that weigh 1 to 2 pounds, these people have no colon cancer or hemorrhoids. Their stool has very little odor. I know for a fact that some people almost have to re-wallpaper after having a bowel movement at home in their bathroom. And lastly, we need to mention the kidneys. If the kidneys are not working up to par, toxins will build up in the blood stream and our bodies. Drinking adequate amounts of water is important. And many people who drink lots of water don't really "absorb" the water...it just goes through them. They are still dehydrated even though they may drink 8 bottles of water daily. I should also mention that many people believe if they drink tea, coffee and juices this all counts towards their water consumption for that day: it does not!. The body metabolizes all these things as foods. Water means water. Precept Number Ten is the story of antibiotics. This is a very interesting topic and mostly mis- understood. Most people will tell you that antibiotics have saved millions of lives. That, of course, is a fact. They also were invaluable in the early days on the battle field. However....and this is a big 'however'.....it doesn't mean there weren't effective alternatives instead of using the antibiotic. And it most certainly doesn't mean we should be overusing antibiotics. And lastly, it doesn't even mean that the philosophy that we need to kill something to fix something is even valid. Let's expand on these topics. First of all, lets think about this. If you throw a piece of watermelon onto the sidewalk in the summer, in a few minutes a fly is going to land on it. You may get 2 or 3 more flies and that would be it. If you throw a whole watermelon onto the sidewalk....you'll have many, many flies, as well as ants, etc. The more food, the more bugs. Makes sense doesn't it? Now, if you want to get rid of the flies, do you need to start spraying pesticides all over the place? No, simply remove the food. If you want to get rid of the in- laws that are staying at your house, try not feeding them and see what happens! What if you were the Orkin Man and a lady called you to her house to get rid of a cockroach infestation. Would you be affective at spraying for cockroaches, if, when you went into her kitchen you saw piles of garbage in every corner? Of course not! You'd tell the lady you could certainly spray for cockroaches...AND...they will all disappear...for a while. But they'd be back! So would spraying alone "cure" the problem? No. And constant spraying would be really harmful because cockroaches can very quickly become "immune" to the poisons we use. We would then have to develop and use stronger sprays. (more dangerous to us not to mention much more expensive). Now let's think about a small child with an ear infection. The pain is caused by inflammation, congestion, and swelling and fever. But wait a minute, aren't these just symptoms? And you know what happens when you treat only at the symptom level instead of the cause. Here is the chain of events. The child had to first have a weakness of some kind in the middle ear. Toxins tend to settle in the weakest link or area in the body. If the middle ear was weakened for various reasons, then toxins (bug food) will settle there. Bacteria are living organisms. We get them because we INVITE them in by showing them a food source. It's like throwing watermelon onto the sidewalk for the flies. Bacteria serve a purpose for us....they eat toxins. By removing the toxins in the middle ear, the bugs (like the flies) will leave....it's just that simple. When the food is gone, the bugs leave, then the body no longer needs to react, and so the inflammation and congestion leaves, the pain leaves, and we have a happy child once again. But what's the harm in using the antibiotic? Because, first of all, it's based on a non-divine, non- spiritual concept that for one to get well, one must kill something first (in this case the bacteria). You'll need to think on that one, I know. Secondly, the bacteria (the infection) will return if you don't remove the food (remember the cockroaches?) And in THIS case, the bugs that return are many times STRONGER, MEANER and TOUGHER to get rid of the next time. You see, bacteria can mutate very quickly. They can become Super Bugs by makes a few chemical changes. This problem is huge! In fact, I was just told a few months ago that within the industry, antibiotics are just about extinct. The pharmaceuticals that will be out very soon will NOT be traditional antibiotics. Why? Because by the time the drug is tested, manufactured and taken to market, the bacteria has mutated and is now resistant to that new antibiotic. And the money involved is huge. I've been told it's between one and two billion dollars. Antibiotics served a purpose, no question, but they are now a dead end street. Just like everything else in our so-called modern, traditional medical system....every treatment seems to create a new problem later. And if this is true (and it is), then was it really a good solution? Not really. And even if it saved lives in the moment, that doesn't mean it was the BEST solution. It's just another example of running around putting out fires. By the time the first fire is put out, another one has started. And it's all due to not looking at the "big picture". It's all due to putting money first and healing second. It's all due to treating only symptoms and not the CAUSE. The following links are very informative. Link One Link Two |
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