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Have Courage To Live Differently

April 1st, 2010 | Author: Dr. Pete | Share |

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Life is com­pli­cated.

True, but does it have to be?  How much of life’s com­plex­ity do we cre­ate for our­selves?  A lot.

How com­pli­cated have we made health in our coun­try?

We want to know every­thing.  What does the lat­est research show about this nutri­ent or that nutri­ent?  But wait — it con­flicts with the old research.  We can’t decide which is right.  We need more stud­ies.  Please, you sci­en­tists, give us more facts.  If only we knew more, then we could be healthy.

And we want treat­ment.  We demand more and bet­ter treat­ment.  We want the lat­est and usu­ally the most expen­sive tech­nol­ogy.  More of every­thing — more scans, more pro­ce­dure, and more pills.  Give me the new pills.  I don’t want the old med­i­cines. Is newer bet­ter?  Who knows?  But we know we want it!

Wake up!

Your health doesn’t come from a pill bot­tle or tech­nol­ogy, and you don’t need to know the lat­est research.  More care and more com­plex­ity are not the answers. Don’t be fooled; a sig­nif­i­cant amount of all med­ical care in Amer­ica is unnec­es­sary or harm­ful — some say as much as a third.

In fact, the more advanced med­ical care may actu­ally be more harm­ful.  Have you seen the news reports about the dan­ger of radi­a­tion from CT scans?

Keep it sim­ple.

Break free of the medical-industrial com­plex that is try­ing to sell you on more pills and treat­ments.  Being healthy shouldn’t be an intel­lec­tual or tech­no­log­i­cal chal­lenge

Have the courage to live dif­fer­ently.  Eat less calo­ries, more fruits and veg­eta­bles, and less junk foods.  Turn off the TV.  Find an exer­cise that you enjoy.  Get out­side when you can.  Sleep more.  Drink less alco­hol.

Make more friends, and make time to spend with your friends.  Med­i­tate.  Work towards emo­tional bal­ance, and grow spir­i­tu­ally.

It’s not easy to break free of an entire cul­ture, but peo­ple are doing it.  Why not you?  Find some sup­port and get started.

Keep at it, and health and well-being will come.

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  • Anony­mous

    Great piece, Pete, high­light­ing our ten­dency to over-identify with the mind and society’s gen­eral bent toward com­pul­sive think­ing. It is excited to see the hunger for awak­en­ing in so many peo­ple.
    John Michael De Marco
    http://​www​.john​michaelde​marco​.com

  • Peter Weiss

    Thanks John. Peo­ple are wak­ing up. Pete

  • Anony­mous

    “It’s not easy to break free of an entire cul­ture, but peo­ple are doing it.” 
    I love that quote, and my fam­ily is try­ing (healthy eat­ing, etc).

    This kind of think­ing is one rea­son I chose to give birth at home: for a healthy woman/pregnancy, some of the more com­mon med­ical inter­ven­tions (con­tin­u­ous mon­i­tor­ing, not “allow­ing” her to walk or eat dur­ing labor, expect­ing her cervix to dilate fol­low­ing a cer­tain “aver­age” pat­tern) actu­ally can intro­duce more risk. My mid­wife does carry emer­gency equip­ment (pitocin, oxy­gen tank, IV flu­ids), which I think is wise and sen­si­ble, but she calls them the “things I have with me but almost never need to use”.

  • Anony­mous

    Thanks! And con­grat­u­la­tions on tak­ing respon­si­bil­ity for your own health and health­care. Pete

  • Anony­mous

    Thanks! And con­grat­u­la­tions on tak­ing respon­si­bil­ity for your own health and health­care. Pete

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