Health is metabolic efficiency. Sickness is metabolic inefficiency. Nobody is totally healthy or totally sick. Each of us is a unique combination of health and sickness. And each of us has a unique combination of abilities and disabilities, both emotional and physical.

As we grow up, we learn that we are loved for our abilities but hated for our disabilities. This happens at home, at play, at school, and at work. Sometimes, this even happens with our doctors, especially if our disabilities mystify them or remind them of their own disabilities.

So, we try to hide our disabilities from people and from ourselves. This charade undermines our relationships and our self-esteem. We learn to fear society and hate ourselves.

Self-hatred is the most debilitating sickness. It interferes with our ability to seek and accept help. And everybody needs help. How do we free ourselves from self-hatred?

First, we reclaim our disabilities, whether society accepts them or not. This means that we learn to accept ourselves. Then, we cope with our disabilities. This means that we learn to take care of ourselves.

By:   Dr. Robert Avery, Professional Advisory Board Member

In January, the Wellness Community sponsored an important event for all cancer patients and survivors. Nutrition, bodywork and mind/body therapies are modalities that reach far beyond cancer and chemotherapy because they are necessary for your health. Cancer and chemotherapy can be very damaging to your physical and psychologic health, but there are ways to feel better. One thing I’ve learned is that the human body is truly amazing. Yes, we all get sick at some time or another, but if you give the body all the nutrients it craves, it will heal itself. There are a few processes that make us sick, bad genes, inflammation, oxidation, and a poor iimmune system.

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If you have health, you probably will be happy; and if you have health and happiness, you will have all the wealth you need even if not all you want.

Health Is The Most Natural Thing In The World

It is natural to be healthy because we are a part of Nature—we are Nature. Nature is trying hard to keep us well, because she needs us in her business. Nature needs man so he will be useful to other men. The rewards of life are for service. And the penalties of life are for selfishness. Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves. We preserve our sanity only as we forget self in service. To center on one's self, and forget our relationship to society is to summon misery, and misery means disease. Unhappiness is an irritant. It affects the heart-beats or circulation first; then the digestion, and the person is ripe for two hundred and nineteen Nothing you can take out of a bottle or that you can rub on, will remove the cause of misery. " Medicine is only palliative," says Dr. Weir Mitchell, "for back of disease lies the cause, and this cause no drug can reach. " "I've got a cold in my head," said the man to the wise doctor. And the doctor replied, "Doubtless, for that is the only place where the microbe abides. " People who dread disease and fear disease have disease. The recipe for good health is this: Forget it. What we call diseases are merely symptoms of mental conditions. Our bodies are automatic, and thinking about your digestion does not aid you. Rather it hinders, since the process of thinking, especially anxious thinking, robs the stomach of its blood, and transfers it to the head. If you are worried enough, digestion will stop absolutely. The moral is obvious: Don't Worry. " This horse is all right, unless he gets scared, " said a horseback rider to me, the other day.

And I answered, "So am I!"

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Life is a quest for love. In order to receive love, we must be dependent. In order to give love, we must be independent. The conflict between dependence and independence affects every facet of our lives.

Life and love begin with our parents. As helpless babies, we depend on their care. With the right kind of care, we learn to love them and ourselves. With the right kind of parenting, we learn dependence and independence.

Of course, there is no perfect parenting. So we all have trouble with dependence and independence. Sometimes we are dependent when we should be independent, and vice versa.

Healthcare is reminiscent of childhood. The doctor is our parent, and we are helpless babies. We feel secure in his office, and long for his concern, reassurance, and medicine. We are awed by his jargon, worship his intellect, and feel totally dependent.

Of course, healthcare is not childhood. The doctor is not our parent, and we are not helpless babies - no matter how much we wish this were true.

Sometimes, the doctor’s words, procedures, and medicine do not solve our health problems.

Often, our health problems are the result of dehydration, malnutrition, and addiction. These problems are self-inflicted and require changes in our attitude and lifestyle. It takes independence and courage to make these changes. The goal of organicMD.org is to assist you in this process.

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