Natural Health-Simplified

CHAPTER 1

GETTING STARTED- ELIMINATING CONFUSION OF WHAT THE NATURAL HEALTH LIFESTYLE IS ABOUT

First of all, Natural health is a way of life.  It’s something that you emulate from the inside out.  It’s a way of life that becomes a blessing not a burden. Anything worth while in the beginning may be hard, but after modifications have been made, you wish you had done it sooner.  Immediately you begin to feel alive again.  You have more energy. Depression lifts and brain fogginess disappears.  Natural health is a journey of self awareness.  You become your body’s friend again, not its enemy.  You feel at peace mentally, emotionally, physically, and most important, spiritually.  Natural health requires total body and mind adherence. For something new to truly work, it takes time and patience with yourself.  So pace yourself and enjoy. Learn to listen to your body.  Take one day at a time!

WHAT NATURAL HEALTH IS NOT!

It’s not about making 180 degree changes overnight.  It’s too costly financially, mentally, and physically.  Your body gently needs changes.  If anyone tells you to make changes overnight, run the other way.  That’s one of the reasons why fad diets only last a short time.  In order for a new habit to work it has to be done a little at a time.  Natural health is not a fad diet or a quick fix, it’s for life!  Living the lifestyle doesn’t mean living like a hermit somewhere.  You can’t hide from pollution anywhere. What Natural Health does is teach you how to live healthfully anywhere  you may be. This is not a new theory on health or a new or passing fad. Natural health has been around for centuries.  Ayurvedic medicine is the world’s oldest recorded healing system. It has been used for some 5,000 years. It has influenced other cultural medicines as well. The Chinese, Greeks, and Romans has originated their roots from Ayurvedic medicine. Our conventional medicine has only been around for 2-400 years at the most. What we call “Alternative medicine” here is standard practice in other countries. Natural health is here to stay. Millions each year are being spent on books, vitamins, and herbal remedies. Consumers are literally sick and tired of not getting better from the constant prescriptions and medications that are being written. We have new infections and viruses mutating constantly from the over prescribed antibiotics.  It’s time to take a look at what has been in front of us all along: natural remedies.  Natural health is not about feeling helpless and falling victim to a diagnosed illness or disease, it’s about taking responsibility for ourselves and what we put in our mouth. Natural health is not a quick cure all, but a gradual reversal of what imperfection has given us, as well as what we’ve done to ourselves.