Manataka American Indian Council™
How to Heal Yourself in 15 Days
By Mike Adams, Health Ranger, Natural News
Part VII - Get Off The Cliff
Let's face it: The "mainstream
consumer" isn't very healthy. People who follow mainstream health information
from the mainstream media are the most diseased people of all. They eat
processed junk foods, they take lots of dangerous pharmaceuticals, they
routinely get vaccinated and they completely fail to protect their health with
nutritional supplements, superfoods or fresh living foods.
These are the people supporting the pharmaceutical industry, the cancer
industry, the diabetes industry and the heart disease industry. Through their
suffering and death, they keep the medical system alive and profitable. And if
you want to be healthy, these are precisely the people you need to reject
in order to be safe and healthy yourself.
Don't follow the crowd off the edge of the
cliff
The mainstream crowd, you see,
isn't very well informed when it comes to health. Crowd psychology tells us that
people tend to follow whatever the crowd is doing for no reason other than the
fact the crowd is doing it. The human mind figures, "Well, if the crowd is doing
that, there must be a good reason for it," and so people just go along with
practically anything as long the crowd supports it.
This is how people end up drinking sugary sodas, eating at fast food
restaurants, drinking pasteurized milk and living on processed junk foods. This
is how they end up eating microwaveable popcorn, or drinking diet sodas or
consuming "processed cheese food."
This is what causes people to get vaccines that they don't need or take
dangerous prescription medications that might harm them (or kill them).
Crowds as a whole aren't very intelligent -- even when individual members of
the crowd might be highly intelligent on their own! And if you follow the
mainstream consumer crowd without thinking for yourself, you can only expect the
same outcome the crowd is experiencing: Degenerative disease, pharmaceutical
dependency and medical bankruptcy.
That's why achieving lasting health means distancing yourself from the
mainstream crowd and in many cases doing the opposite of what they do.
When the mainstream crowd rushes to
get vaccinated against a hyped-up, non-emergency "pandemic", just do the
opposite and don't get vaccinated.
When the mainstream crowd rushes to get free chicken at KFC because Oprah
announced it on her show, do the opposite and go drink a smoothie or something.
When the mainstream crowd rushes to be subjected to mammography radiation (which
actually promotes breast cancer), do the opposite and get a far safer
thermograph (or just take a healthy dose of anti-cancer vitamin D and stop
living your life in fear of cancer).
When the mainstream crowd pops pills for depression, cholesterol and high blood
pressure, do the opposite and take nutritional supplements that nourish the body
instead of poisoning it.
Basically, watch what the mainstream consumers do and make a conscious effort to
do the opposite (in most cases, anyway).
While you're doing all this, be
careful not to leap from one mindless crowd to another. In rejecting the
mainstream crowd, in other words, don't fall blindly into following another
crowd, even if it's a "healthy" crowd.
In my view, you should never follow any crowd just because it's a crowd. That
includes the raw food crowd, the yoga crowd, the vegetarian crowd, etc. Instead,
think for yourself about what makes sense to you. And then, if your
conclusions match their conclusions, it's okay to join that group (or hang out
with that crowd) as long as you continue to invoke a reality check from time to
time. Make sure that what the crowd is doing always makes good sense to you and
you won't be blindsided by crowd stupidity.
Crowds usually aren't very smart. But YOU are! You have the ability to think for
yourself, to change your mind at any time, to improve your decisions, to upgrade
or downgrade your lifestyle, etc. Exercise these gifts where appropriate, and
don't be afraid to try out new eating habits, new exercise schedules and new
approaches to self care. Find out what works best for you, regardless of whether
a "crowd" exists that practices the same thing.
Don't be a mindless health nut, in other words. Be mindfully health conscious
and go with what works best for you rather than what's popular or cool.
Most of all, if you ever find
yourself going along with the mainstream crowd -- like waiting in line at a
crowded vaccine clinic -- it might be a good idea to pinch yourself and engage
in a little lucid thinking by asking questions like, "Should I really be here?
Does this really make sense? Is there a safer, more natural alternative that I
could explore instead?"
Think about this the next time you're about to get your breast pancaked at the
mammography clinic. "Does irradiating my breasts really make good sense?" Of
course it doesn't. People only do it because they are going along with the
mainstream crowd. And the crowd is clueless about breast health, ionizing
radiation, vitamin D or cancer prevention.
So be smart. Be an individual. And be brave enough to reject the crowd
and do something different that's probably a whole lot safer and healthier.
Getting sunlight on your skin to generate vitamin D is rejecting the crowd. And
yet it's the very best way to prevent cancer for FREE!
Part VIII - Stop Making Disease
It also seems too simple: In order
to achieve lasting health, simply stop making disease. But the concept is
foreign to most people: Making disease? Why would I be making disease?
Mainstream consumers, you see, have been trained by the medical industry to
believe that disease strikes spontaneously, without any real cause. One day you
have nothing wrong with you, and then suddenly the next day you're diagnosed
with a breast cancer tumor. Shazam! It happens just like being struck by
lightning... (and it's not your fault, you're told -- there's nothing you could
have done about it...)
That's what they want you to believe, anyway. But the truth is very different:
All the most common degenerative diseases -- cancer, diabetes, heart disease,
Alzheimer's, etc. -- take many years to grow and expand. A cancer tumor
can take 10 years (or even more) before it grows to the size that will show up
on a mammogram. That means the tumor has been "under construction" for a decade!
During that time, the patient has been "making cancer" on a daily basis.
By the way, I've borrowed this concept from Dr. Thomas Lodi, a brilliant cancer
doctor who has a presentation called "Stop Making Cancer." You can check out his
clinic in Arizona at
http://www.anoasisofhealing.com or watch his speech for yourself on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKH_...
Dr. Lodi's concept of "stop making cancer" is so powerful and simple that I
borrowed it for this article (with credit, of course) and expanded it to all
degenerative diseases. If you want to be healthy, stop making disease!
In reading this, the first question
you might ask is, "How do I stop making disease?"
To answer that question, though, you need to understand how disease is created
in the first place. All disease begins with an imbalance in the mind or
the body (it can originate in either place and then spread to the other).
Disease can be set off by a nutritional deficiency (not enough vitamin D,
for example), or a dietary excess (too much homogenized milk). It can be
caused by an emotional state such as anger or stress that then spreads to the
tissues and begins to create dis-ease in the physical body.
Most disease that's being "manufactured" in the bodies of people today is
created through controllable factors: What people eat, what chemicals they
expose themselves too, how much exercise they get (or not), their state of mind,
what supplements they take (or don't) and so on.
There's a recipe for creating each disease. If you want to manufacture type-2
diabetes, for example, the recipe is very simple:
How to manufacture diabetes:
• Drink lots of liquid sugars and high-fructose corn syrup.
• Consume a huge number of empty calories (junk food).
• Avoid all exercise. Live a sedentary lifestyle.
• Live indoors. Avoid sunshine and the natural world.
• Maintain nutritional deficiencies in vitamin D, selenium, zinc and plant-based
nutrients.
If you do this for long enough, you will begin manufacturing diabetes.
And before long, you'll be officially diagnosed with it by a doctor who will say
something like, "You're diabetic." (Which isn't really true. You are not defined
by a disease. You're just expressing a certain physiology that's been named a
disease.)
If you want to make cancer, there's a different recipe:
How to make cancer:
• Expose yourself to radiation (mammograms, CT scans, X-rays, etc.).
• Eat cancer-causing foods like bacon, processed meats and foods with chemical
preservatives.
• Avoid all anti-cancer nutrients like super-foods, medicinal mushrooms,
Spirulina, etc.
• Avoid sunlight. Remains deficient in vitamin D.
• Use lots of toxic personal care products made with cancer-causing chemicals.
• Live a high-stress lifestyle.
Do these things for long enough and you'll get cancer.
Similarly, there's a recipe for every major degenerative disease, including
kidney stones (drink lots of soda), brain cancer (drink diet soda), obesity (eat
more MSG), liver disease (take more pharmaceuticals) and so on.
So if you want to make disease, it's a very simple matter to do so. Shockingly,
most people are following these disease-making recipes right now!
They're living the "Make More Disease" lifestyle! Every time they wolf down some
bacon, or eat processed junk foods, or use conventional personal care products,
they are creating disease in their bodies!
Disease doesn't appear immediately, of course. It takes many years for the daily
poisoning of the body to be diagnosed as disease. But make no mistake about the
origins of that disease: The body manufactured the disease over many
years!
So when doctors tell patients "There's nothing you could have done to prevent
this" they are actually lying to their patients. Of course there's something you
can do! You can stop making disease before it gets out of control.
Conventional doctors usually don't like to acknowledge this because it would
give patients the idea that they have control over their own health. Most
conventional doctors would rather believe the Big Lie that says doctors
control your health, or that disease strikes randomly, without cause. And
therefore you have no control over your own health and are dependent on western
medicine to take responsibility for your health.
It's a belief system specifically designed to entrap you in a system of medical
dependency (enslavement). Fortunately, you can free yourself from medical
enslavement...
Each day, depending on what you
eat, drink, do or put on your body, you are either moving towards disease
or away from disease. The way to stop making disease, then, is to halt
any actions that move you toward disease and, instead, pursue actions they move
you away from disease (and toward improved health).
Once you fill your body with living, healing juices, sunlight and regular
exercise, you will shut off all kinds of chemical "disease-making" processes in
your physiology. And you'll activate healing processes that move you
towards lifelong health. This is how you start making health instead of
disease.
The longer you pursue a healthful lifestyle based on super-foods, nutritional
supplements, healthy eating and the avoidance of pharmaceuticals, vaccines,
mainstream personal care products and other poisons, the faster your healing
will accelerate! Beyond the mere halting of manufacturing disease, once your
body achieves a certain level of vitality, it will begin to automatically
reverse disease. Cancer tumors in your body, in other words, will literally
vanish over time. Heart disease can be cured. Diabetes may disappear. Cognitive
function will be restored. These are just a few of the many benefits you may
experience when self-healing is in full swing.
You see, there is a recipe for
disease, but there's also a recipe for outstanding health. Which recipe will you
choose?
Most people inadvertently choose a recipe for disease (it's the recipe everyone
else is pursuing, so it's easy to go along with). And because they follow that
recipe, they get the results of that recipe. That's why disease should not be
surprising to anyone who knows these recipes. If you follow the recipe, you
will get the results (good or bad).
So it's up to you to decide which recipe you wish to follow. You can
choose from all the various recipes for disease -- which include enormous
quantities of junk foods, pharmaceuticals, personal care products and a barrage
of vaccines -- or you can choose to pursue the recipe for good health. That
recipe is based on sound nutrition, fresh fruits and vegetables, time spent
outdoors in nature, real sunlight on your skin, targeted nutritional
supplements, regular exercise and the elimination of synthetic chemicals from
your body. It's a simple, commonsense recipe that anyone can choose to follow at
any time.
The minute you start pursuing the recipe for health, you will begin to
see results. And the longer you pursue this recipe, the more your positive
results will accelerate.
Remember this the next time your
doctor or some other health professional gives you advice. After receiving their
advice, ask yourself, "Is this a recipe for HEALTH, or for DISEASE?"
If the advice includes a lot of radiation, chemotherapy, pharmaceuticals,
surgery or injections of some kind, it's probably not describing a recipe for
health. Be wary of any advice that does not resonate with the simple principles
of commonsense health... as in, don't irradiate yourself. Don't poison yourself
(chemo). Don't cut your body (surgery). Don't use chemicals to control your
physiology (pharmaceuticals). Use these only as a last resort when all other
options have been exhausted.
Certainly, if you suffer some sort of accident like a broken leg, then it's
perfectly okay to submit to the necessary surgery, anesthesia or other elements
of acute medical care. I'm not against western medicine's usefulness in
emergency care situations. But when it comes to long term habits of health, be
aware that pharmaceuticals, mammograms, chemotherapy, vaccines and most
surgeries are really just components of the recipe for disease. So if you
choose to follow that route, don't be surprised at the outcome.
By the way, following the recipe for health may take more self discipline and
maturity than following the recipe for disease, but it's far more rewarding.
For one thing, you get to live longer. Better yet, you get to live happier
and healthier during all those years. And isn't that essentially why we're
all interested in the health in the first place?
There is a recipe for perfect health. It's a recipe that's available to
you right now, and it's the same recipe that will stop your body from
manufacturing disease. Follow that recipe for good health and you will
experience far more enjoyment in your life, no matter how long you live.
Part IX - Nature Deficiency
Do you suffer from a "nature
deficiency?" If you'd like most people in modern society, you spend most of your
24 hours of the day indoors. You work under artificial fluorescent
lights, you eat and sleep inside a house or apartment, you commute in the
artificial environment of a car, bus or train. You rarely get outside and even
when you do, it's not real nature -- it's some artificial "planned" park with
concrete sidewalks and maintained lawns.
I suspect you may have a nature deficiency. I know because I've been there.
Probably much like you, I spent a lot of time outdoors as a child, but in my
adult years, I found myself spending more and more hours indoors. It
didn't take long to realize that breathing re-circulated indoor air and having
little or no time in nature wasn't a good recipe for lifelong health.
Today, I'm a nature advocate. Time in nature is healing all by itself,
and children are especially vulnerable to the negative effects of a nature
deficiency. But few people in the field of conventional medicine embrace the
idea that nature itself a healer, so the message of spending time in
nature to improve your health doesn't get much attention.
However, I believe that not spending enough time in nature promotes depression,
obesity and even cancer. In fact, I believe that nature is so important to
lasting health that I took up permanent residency in a country where I have
spring-like weather year-round, just so that I can be outside in nature every
single day of the year!
That's not possible to do in most places, but wherever you are, more time in
nature can help you heal. Here's how:
• Sunlight
Sunlight supports all life on our planet. Without sunlight, we would simply have
no life on Earth. Your body is designed to be exposed to sensible levels of
sunlight, and that's why experiencing a reasonable amount of sunlight directly
on your skin makes good sense for your health.
As you well know, sunlight also causes your skin to generate vitamin D --
perhaps the most miraculous nutrient yet discovered in the modern world. Vitamin
D prevents cancer, heart disease and diabetes. It boosts bone density and immune
function, and it prevents infectious disease far better than vaccines could ever
hope to.
To get more vitamin D, simply spend more time in nature!
• Natural sounds
The natural sounds of nature are, in and of themselves, healing therapy.
Simply surrounding yourself with the sounds of real nature causes a
scientifically-provable reduction in stress levels and blood pressure.
The most powerful healing sounds in nature seem to be those from water:
Waterfalls, water running down a creek or stream, rain and thunderstorms, etc.
You can mimic these sounds with "sound conditioning" devices that broadcast
sound loops of natural sounds. They're very effective machines, but still
nothing equals the healing potential of real sounds experienced directly in the
real world.
• Colors
The colors of nature are, scientifically speaking, different wavelengths of
light striking your retina and being interpreted as colors by your
brain.
These different wavelengths are, in essence, a form of energy medicine.
Light is energy, and what your body needs to be healthy is exposure to a diverse
assortment of those energy wavelengths. That's why looking at all the various
colors of flowers, plants and animals is, by itself, a healing experience. It
also stimulates the brain to become more active and more intelligent.
Spending more time in nature allows your brain to explore a more diverse natural
reality, causing it to function at a higher cognitive level. Dull people, in
contrast, tend to spend a lot of time indoors where the scenery never changes.
• Movement
Being in nature makes physical movement almost mandatory. When you're in nature,
you're often walking, running, biking or swimming. And yet because the scenery
is so beautiful, it doesn't feel like exercise! It simply feels like fun!
The health benefits of all this movement are tremendous: A boost in circulation,
increased bone density and muscle strength, increased flexibility, lymph fluid
circulation and much more. And yet being in nature allows you to experience all
these benefits without it feeling like hard work.
• Air
There's something qualitatively different about fresh air versus
indoor air. Indoor air is contaminated with chemicals that have been
off-gassed from all the synthetic materials used in the construction of homes
and buildings: Carpets, furniture, paints, glues, dyes and so on. Plus, you
often get mold spores from indoor air ducts.
The air in a living pine tree forest (or any forest) is refreshingly different!
Some people attribute it to the "negative ions" in the air, but there's much
more to it than that. There's something almost magical about fresh air in a
natural environment -- it's "sweet" and energizing! The more time you can spend
in nature, the more fresh air you can take into your lungs and enjoy as a
healing experience.
It's an innate thing to desire "fresh air." Every person on the planet
intuitively knows that fresh air is better than indoor air. Ever wonder why this
knowledge is so deeply imbedded in the human brain?
• Microbes
Western medicine believes that sterility is safety. They want people to
live in a sterile environment, where all the microbes in your environment (or on
your food) are killed by antimicrobial soaps and pharmaceutical drugs.
But certain microbes are very important for your health! Exposure to
microbes in the real world is hugely important for the healthy balance and
functioning of your immune system, and the best place to have exposure to these
microbes is out in nature!
When I was a kid growing up, I played in the dirt. I swam in the pond. I camped
out on the grass. Today, many parents would be horrified to allow their children
to even touch dirt or swim in the "non-sanitized" water of a natural stream.
This obsession with sterility is deeply misguided. Seek out nature and don't be
afraid to experience the real world even if it means getting your hands
dirty.
• Bio energy
Beyond the light, the sounds, the air and all the other healing elements of
nature, there's also something less tangible: The bio energy of living
systems. In some way that scientists still don't understand, lush living
ecosystems "recharge" the human body and mind. Spending time in nature
rejuvenates your system, and when city life leaves you feeling depleted,
nature can bring your energy back.
Part of the magic of the bio-energy in nature depends on coming into physical
contact with nature. Walk barefoot. Hug a tree. Touch a flower. Lie down on
the grass. Touch nature as your body intended and you'll create a closed circuit
with the planet itself. Some people say that being electrically "grounded" with
the earth (through barefoot walking) makes an important difference in reducing
the electric "noise" that interferes with your health. There's merit to this
thinking. Your ancient ancestors didn't walk around in Nike shoes. They
walked barefoot, and they were healthier for it!
Most modern children live their
lives indoors, banging away on gaming consoles and social networking websites.
Few children are offered opportunities to spend any real time outdoors, in
nature. The idea of "going to camp" during the summer seems to have been lost on
the current generation of children, most of whom spend their summers in
air-conditioned environments that are highly detrimental to their health.
One of the greatest gifts you can offer any child is time in nature. And
the earlier you start teaching children about the joys of nature, the more
success you'll have in sharing outdoor experiences with them. Plus, introducing
your children (or grandchildren) to more time in nature means that you get
more time in nature, too.
One way to encourage time in nature, by the way, is to get rid of the TV.
Television is the enemy of the natural world, and the more time children (or
adults) spend in front of the TV, the less time they tend to spend in nature.
Once children spend enough time in front of the TV, they won't even want to
venture into nature at all. Their whole "world" becomes the virtual world
broadcast into their brains from the television set.
For teenage boys, time in nature has largely been replaced with time spent
playing computer games and console games. While there's nothing wrong with a
little time spent gaming, when this act becomes the dominant focus of a child's
life, it is hugely destructive. What these children need is more time in the
real world and a lot less time in virtual worlds.
Seriously: I've often thought that somebody should launch a "nature camp"
business that would offer rehab services for teenage boys who are addicted to
gaming. It would be a hugely successful business given how widespread modern
gaming addiction has become.
In any case, whether you have kids or not, spending more time in nature will
vastly improve your health! So make it a point to get outside, soak up some
sunshine, breathe in the fresh air and get all the nature you can! You'll
be healthier, happier, more fit and even more intelligent for doing so!
How to Heal Yourself in 15 Days - Part 1 to 3
Part I - Unleash healing potential
Part II - Blood
Part III - Absorbing Your Food and Vitamins
How to Heal Yourself in 15 Days - Part 4 to 6
Part IV - What's In Your Blood
Part V - Cleansing Digestive Tract
Part VI - Fasting - not eating for 24 hours
How to Heal Yourself in 15 Days - Part 7 to 9
Part VII - Get Off The Cliff
Part VIII - Stop Making Disease
Part IX - Nature Deficiency
How to Heal Yourself in 15 Days - Part 10 to 12
Part X - Cleaning Up Skin Exposures
Part XI - Heal Yourself in 15 Days by eating MORE (not less)
Part XII - Express Gratitude
How to Heal Yourself in 15 Days - Part 13 - 15
Part XIII - Social Healing
Part XIV - Self-Healing Exercise
Part XV - Listening to your body's informative symptoms
About the author: Mike Adams is a consumer health advocate with a passion for teaching people how to improve their health He is a prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and consumer guides, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes.