How To Restore Natural Health

Article by Stephen Lau

Copyright (c) 2009 Stephen Lau

Ill health is the accumulation of all the wrong things you have done to your health over the years. For someone who is very ill, it may seem difficult, almost impossible, to restore natural health and get well again.

To restore natural health, you need a vision of good health and wholeness. Repair and recovery from ill health starts at the fundamental body-mind level, instead of just focusing on the disease area itself. Modern medicine’s disease symptomatic treatment usually comes with a hefty price: undesirable and long-lasting side effects. Such treatment is desirable only in emergencies or life-threatening situations. To restore natural health, the preferred treatment is natural healing, with long-term side benefits to rejuvenate both the body and the mind.

Understandably, ill health may make you forget to take care of your body, and thus allowing your body’s functions to further deteriorate. Ill health is no more than imbalances accumulated over years of abuse and neglect. Therefore, the first step to restore natural health is to stop health-destructive habits, thereby placing your body in its original natural state of balance. To restore natural health, you need this first step because once you realize how little it takes to feel well again, you will not want to be sick again. According to Lao Tzu, an ancient Chinese philosopher, “a journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step”; so, take your first step, and one step at a time, to restore natural health.

Natural health is more than just an absence of illness: it is how you attune yourself to Nature’s natural laws of balance, expressed by your body’s inner healing intelligence, which allows your body to repair and heal itself. You may start from any level of imbalance, but as long as you proceed on the road of balance, you will eventually arrive at the level of balance of body, mind, and behavior. Attaining that overall harmony, your body’s inner healing intelligence is capable of correcting any physiological imbalance, which is the cause of illness.

Therefore, to restore natural health, stop creating imbalances to your body and mind. For example, do not readily reach out for any over-the-counter drug or even prescription medication to treat your illness. Remember, disease symptomatic treatment does little to eliminate the cause of ill health; at best, it can only delay disease progression. Also, stop ingesting toxins into your body, such as through smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, or eating processed foods.

To restore natural health, focus on your digestive health, which plays a pivotal role in recovery and rejuvenation. Change your eating habits: eating only when you are hungry, and eating the right foods. Good digestive health is natural health.

To sustain repair and recovery, it is important to detoxify your body regularly through fasting, herbs, such as dandelion, licorice, and milk thistle, and vegetables, such as beets and broccoli. Toxins from the environment and the consumption of contemporary foods are a source of imbalance, and they need to be eliminated.

Finally, to restore natural health, you need to consider health in your daily routine to reinforce discipline in your diet and lifestyle, as well as to prevent any relapse. Your daily patterns will contribute to the physiological rhythms that are harmonious with the rhythms of Nature, such as regular exercise, going to bed and getting up early.

Health is the greatest asset of your life. Do not squander it recklessly. Natural health can be restored through natural means of balance and harmony.

About the Author

For more information on the wisdom of healthy living, go to Stephen Lau’s website:The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Stephen Lau is a writer and researcher with books and websites on health, Chinese healing, eating disorders, golf, and money matters. Visit his most recent website: Are You Healthy?

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The very word cancer strikes fear in people around the world. Utter fear, depression, hopelessness and a feeling of intense negativity can grip the unfortunate person who has been diagnosed with a form of cancer. It has been talked about that a positive state of mind and optimistic outlook can help patients. However it can be incredibly difficult to sustain these positive mind states when facing such frightening possibilities and coping with the trauma and stress of treatment. Understandably the patient can be consumed with negative thinking which can actually make the side effects of treatment worse plus debilitate the immune system.

 

There is help now in the form of Creative Visualization and Relaxation (CVR) in the form of therapy sessions and also ‘brain entertainment’. CVR does not replace medical treatment but used in tandem it can maximise the healing effects of the treatment.

Mentally and physically CVR functions on many levels eradicating harmful stress-induced hormones. In a mental way, CVR creates deep relaxation which then causes the body to release a bunch of natural neuro-chemicals that can quicken the healing process. The immune system is strengthened and the body is given a big boost in the patient’s fight against cancer.

Physically, CVR helps the cells fight against the cancer. It also helps the patient alleviate some of the stress and anxiety and therefore instil more of a positive attitude and outlook. It can enable the patient to take more control of their recovery reducing the feeling of helplessness when diagnosed and through treatment.

Brain Entertainment can also be used in conjunction with CVR sessions. It enhances the benefits of CVR. It uses sound and light machines with glasses and earphones. There are four common brainwaves; beta, alpha, theta and delta. They are always active in the brain but in different patterns according to what state you are in; relaxed, stressed, busy, asleep or emotional for examples. The dominant brainwave pattern rules your state of awareness at any given time. When finely tuned light and sound frequencies are synchronised to the left and right sides of the brain they produce full-spectrum brainwave activity for a deep state of relaxation.

By putting the cancer patient’s brain into a deep meditative state, brain entertainment tools enable the patient to relax and in turn, allow the body to let its natural healing processes kick in and help with recovery. The light and sound glasses are advanced medical technologies but are very simple to use. Patients can plug them into an MP3 player and twenty minutes of the brain entertainment is the equivalent to four hours of sleep.

Brain entertainment and CVR promote and inspire the positive thought patterns and states of mind that the patient sorely needs to cope with treatment and reduce negative emotions. It helps create the best environment for the healing process. Just twenty minutes to an hour a day of listening to brainwave entertainment MP3s is highly affective and cancer patients can reap the rewards.

Creative Visualization and Relaxation proves that you have the power within to promote self healing. It aids the patient to search within and grasp their inner courage and strength to cope with diagnosis and treatment of cancer. With the more positive outlook and feeling of relaxation it helps the patient accept the love and support from their friends and family.

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Natural health supplements – which nutritional remedies work? Which don’t supplement your health? This Wonder Herb article shares the shocking truth. Natural Health Supplements and the Foods That Are Killing UsThe fact that you’re considering natural health supplements means you want to improve your health naturally. You probably know that cancer rates are higher than ever. That people are getting obscure diseases that didn’t even exist 50 years ago. That conventional medicine isn’t working.Why is this happening?Sure, it’s because the ever-increasing number of chemicals that we put on our skins and breathe in everyday but it also has a lot to do with our diets. More importantly, 50 years ago, even though we lacked education in nutrition, the health foods we did eat were rich in nutrients. We ate real apples that weren’t chemically altered – that were freshly picked – not the 6 month old, genetically modified ones we get in supermarkets today. Then there’s the fact that today, people are busier than ever, so more and more families are turning to pre-packaged, frozen meals as their main source of nutrition, than ever before. Frozen pizzas, pasta, white breads, over-processed cereals, biscuits, coke, energy drinks, confectionary, pies, processed meats, tinned foods – many laced with chemicals, artificial colours and flavours and preservatives. Most families eat these regularly as part of their daily diets. The reality is they offer very few natural health benefits. The benefit of convenience is slowly killing us. We’re walking around overweight yet undernourished. We get more colds and flus than ever. There are more allergies in our schools than ever. And cancer rates are skyrocketing despite all the advancements in medicine.Today, health foods and natural health supplements are vital just so we can feed our bodies with the nutrition we need to live healthy lives – the nutrition that food gave us many years ago.The solution?Lay off the packaged, pre-processed foods and turn to fresh fruits, vegetables and unprocessed grains. And – supplement your diet with high potency natural health supplements. The right brands and the right type of health supplement and health foods, at the right potency are very powerful ways of boosting your health naturally – and in many cases, without the need to rely on conventional medicine.Which Nutritional and Vitamin Supplements Work Best For Your Health? Often, some of the most potent, natural (not synthesized) health remedies aren’t readily available commercially in supermarkets. Instead, they are available online so health food companies can provide you with the highest quality and highest dosage of active, natural ingredients without the high cost of being sold in-store.Ganoderma is one of them. For years, Chinese medical practitioners and herbalists have been hailing Ganoderma as the King of Herbs. The Ganoderma fungus is well known in Asia as being a master protector of the immune system. It has been known to do amazing things for cholesterol, blood pressure, inflammation, energy levels and dozens upon dozens of other health conditions.The revolutionary thing about Ganoderma is that it is a health food that is rich, not only in anti-oxidants, but it is also packed with organic Germanium, Adenosine, amino acids, Polysaccharides, Ganoderic acids, vitamins, proteins, enzymes and minerals. Uniquely, it is also classified as an adaptogen. In other words, it actually penetrates and cleans toxic cells.It’s little wonder then that natural health practitioners and Chinese herbalists rave about medicinal mushrooms. And with Ganoderma Lucidum being the richest in nutrients of all the medicinal mushrooms, it makes sense to add Ganoderma to your health arsenal.For more information on Ganoderma and other natural, high potency natural health supplements, just check out the Wonderherb online health store where you can research and buy some of the world’s greatest “wonder herbs” online.It’s little wonder then that natural health practitioners and Chinese herbalists rave about medicinal mushrooms. And with Ganoderma Lucidum being the richest in nutrients of all the medicinal mushrooms, it makes sense to add Ganoderma to your health arsenal.For more information on Ganoderma and other natural, high potency natural health supplements, just check out the Wonderherb online health store where you can research and buy some of the world’s greatest “wonder herbs” online.It’s little wonder then that natural health practitioners and Chinese herbalists rave about medicinal mushrooms. And with Ganoderma Lucidum being the richest in nutrients of all the medicinal mushrooms, it makes sense to add Ganoderma to your health arsenal.For more information on Ganoderma and other natural, high potency natural health supplements, just check out the Wonderherb online health store where you can research and buy some of the world’s greatest “wonder herbs” online.It’s little wonder then that natural health practitioners and Chinese herbalists rave about medicinal mushrooms. And with Ganoderma Lucidum being the richest in nutrients of all the medicinal mushrooms, it makes sense to add Ganoderma to your health arsenal.For more information on Ganoderma and other natural, high potency natural health supplements, just check out the Wonderherb online health store where you can research and buy some of the world’s greatest “wonder herbs” online.It’s little wonder then that natural health practitioners and Chinese herbalists rave about medicinal mushrooms. And with Ganoderma Lucidum being the richest in nutrients of all the medicinal mushrooms, it makes sense to add Ganoderma to your health arsenal.For more information on Ganoderma and other natural, high potency natural health supplements, just check out the Wonderherb online health store where you can research and buy some of the world’s greatest “wonder herbs” online.

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