Wednesday 24 August 2011

Sustainable Health

 So what of health?  How can we be sustainably healthy?  Your child lies listlessly, wracked with high fever and it's nearly midnight.  Chances are that you feel totally helpless.  You long for the night to pass, hoping that your child will cope and you desperately ring for a doctor's appointment at the earliest opportunity the next morning.

For this very reason,  I would encourage every woman (or man) to study a form of healing modality.  At any time in life, there is a high probability that we will feel unwell or even have to deal with disease.
Ha!  That's one of my favourite words - "disease" - it's likely to fill anyone with dread.  But when we break down the etimology of the word, then we begin to understand the origin - "disease" becomes "dis- ease" within the body.  Something is out of balance.  So we don't have to become anatomical professors but rather have a rudimentary understanding of the processes and body systems.  Just like everything in life that causes fear - lack of knowledge.  Knowledge empowers us.  We become the captain of our ship and don't have to always rely on someone else to come up with solutions to our problems.

The window of my little healing room
Back in 2000, I began my journey of studying reflexology.  Suddenly I felt empowered.  No longer a victim.  I could even apply it to myself!  Unlike massage - it is very hard to massage your own back when you are in pain or discomfort.  But with reflexology, simply swing your foot up onto your lap and work away the problem............

Our little family started to rely less and less on trips to the doctor, and more and more, on healing sessions on my little massage table.  This deceptively simple technique had me gob-smacked at the efficacy and powerful turn-around process of healing. And better yet, I could help others too, outside of my family circle.  Funny thing how I started this journey....  I could not fall pregnant and after being told by the leading fertility specialist in my city, that I was a prime candidate for the fertility programme and that I would never (emphatically) be able to conceive naturally, I decided to explore my options.  I started weekly reflexology sessions with a wonderful German therapist - 6 months later, I had conceived naturally!  Never say "never"!  This created a desire to one day study the modality myself and the opportunity came some years later.  I joined the ranks of my family members who had all studied reflexology whilst I was raising my young children - my mother, 4 sisters, a niece, a nephew and an aunt!!  All reflexologists!  You can imagine every reunion would involve reciprocal sessions, comparing notes, stories, pressure advice and love.

 Did you know?  Your feet carry you the equivalent of two and a half times around the equator, during an average life-time??  That a quarter of the bones in your body are in your feet?  That the skin on your feet are more receptive to aroma-therapeutic oils than anywhere else on the body?  Studies have shown that when garlic oil was rubbed on the soles of the feet, it could be measured on the breath 10 minutes later???  Amazing!  The feet tell the story of what is going on in the body!  They show imbalances and dis-ease in the body.  Simple firm kneading and massaging action "press" the healing action buttons to activate balance and a state of health within the body.  Like a Warrant of Fitness for your whole being!

The idea is simple - take care of your feet and you take care of the body.
Oh, and did I mention that it induces such a deep state of relaxation, that you're likely to fall asleep during a session, while you body readjusts itself to balancing out the energy?  Mmmmn.  My kinda healing!  Powerfully simple and simply powerful!
Sole Energy
Of course, doors open and always lead to the next doorway.  Both my husband and I attended a weekend workshop on Shiatsu - a great Japanese pressure-style massage to correct stress in the body.  We also both attended a weekend workshop on Reiki.  Upon finding out about EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) which is a form of emotional acupuncture achieved through a series of tapping on the meridian points, I decided against the need to complete further reiki levels as this was such a truly powerful healing tool.  It works to break the emotional attachment we have to pain, physical discomfort or an emotional event or attachment.  Truly liberating.  I effectively EFTed my son's severe dislike of public speaking, my daughter's bouts of severe stomach constriction and pain, my husband's physical discomforts, my emotional attachments and other issues for other people.  

I have a simple brain and one of my mottos is KISS - Keep it Simple Sweetheart!  EFT and Reflexology are simple techniques, easily learned and applied, to great effect!  And of course, my journey has also placed a wonderful teacher in my path - Don Tolman,(www.dontolmaninternational.com/about-don-tolman.html), a crazy Cowboy of Ancient Knowledge and Wisdom.  His teaching includes the Doctrine of Signatures of Wholefoods.  Eating foods from nature, especially ones which mimmic visually, the organ or body part that it most enhances and heals.  As Hippocrates stated "Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food."

Manhood enhancing foods - courgette and figs 
We know that putting the right "food" into our car will increase it's efficiency.  We should know a little more about putting the right food into our bodies.  What enhances performance and what disadvantages it and creates a state of "dis-ease".   
Last summer's bountiful harvest - health enhancing foods!

You've all seen the email that was circulated about the signatures of wholefoods, the walnut = brain food (looks like a mini brain and science has proven it enhances the brain's ability to manufacture neuro-transmitters), figs= testes (cut in half, looks like the anatomy of a testicle, like a little sperm bank), avocado = uterus food (cut in half, resembles the female uterus and cervix - with the seed resembling the positioning of a baby - duh! apparently avos take 9 months from blossom to fruit - think nature is trying to drop some heavy clues?).  I could go on and on but you probably already have seen it all and read about it.
Certainly changes the way I view my food each time I stand in the kitchen, with knife poised to cut into some wonderful home-grown produce - as I give a thought to what system or organ I will be enhancing with ingestion.  My medicine is my food.  A sustainable approach to health!

Tomatoes, heart food!  Gotta love em'!

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