Health is best defined as the natural function of body and mind. It is the organism in operation as it was designed. For us humans, health is usually the state we are in when we are unaware of our body.
Like it or not, believe it or not, living organisms must obey the laws of nature for health to exist. We and our pets can no more defy the reality that we are subject to natural law, than a stone in a landslide can decide to stay put or travel uphill.
This is nothing new to any part of nature--other than humans. We, with our free will, too often attempt to repudiate the truths of nature. The result is always, even if forestalled, calamitous. Our modernity, with all of its trimmings to give us comfort and security, its artifact foods marketed as superior to the real thing, experts who claim to know better than nature, and mindless ruination of the environment, is the undoing of health.
Although we can peer into the machinery that comprises the body, we yet know so little. But this does not stop intelligentsia from proclaiming that life is nothing more than an assemblage of chemicals, a mere physical thing with parts and pieces like a lawnmower. We are told that these living machines have come to be spontaneously over eons of time and that they can, with impunity, be manipulated with surgery, chemicals, and gene splicing.
But none of this is true. Not only do we not know the full extent of what comprises any organism, even an amoeba, we have never seen life appear out of inorganic material. Nor can we, with all of our scientific know-how, cause life to form. All we know how to do is take living things apart, crudely put them back together and trust that the body will mend them (surgery). We can only learn from nature; we create nothing other than imbalance, which is what disease is.
So health is not complex. It is just difficult for us humans because it requires humility, the admission of ignorance, respect, and even awe at the miracle of life and nature. To the extent that we can bow to the imponderable complexities of our world and seek to accord our actions with them, the gift of health will come to us.
We hope you and yours enjoy a full and healthy life and that this series will help you achieve that.
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Thought for the day: The mind, once expanded to the dimension of a new idea, never returns to its original size.
Word of the day: truth - noun: that understanding exactly reflecting reality. Although truth is elusive, it does not change. It is always there beckoning our search. Its discovery is thwarted by beliefs, doctrines, prejudices, and desires, things that often masquerade as truth. Truth's only access is an open mind, fearless discovery, and obedience to reason and facts.
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