Over the years this idea has only been strengthened in me through various means.
Was just seeing Dr. Gabor Mate's YouTube video where he shares the root causes of chronic illness as the compulsive idea of responsibilities, roles, and duties over the needs of the self.
This just stroke a cord within. I clearly and strongly feel this discordance in myself.
He also says 'the suppression of healthy anger is a major risk factor of illness'. According to him this suppresses the immune system, which makes some sense. He connects this with autoimmune diseases and cancers. It seems how we deal with anger has a crucial effect on our health.
He says that the problem of present medical system is that we separate two aspects that are actually inseperable in life - separating the mind from the body and separating the individual from the environment.
He says something very significant for all of us as parents. He says "Parental stresses programme the physiology of the child". Stressed parents have more probability of having children with autoimmune diseases. This brings me to 'stress'. A topic I have long been trying to explore. Stress in modern day world and how we deal with it. Stress is inevitable in the environment we live in. The human society as a whole is stressed to an extent that we consider it a normal response to anything and everything. This is because of our perverted goals in life. We are moving in the opposite direction of our natural selves who thrive in community, not in meaningless competition or consumerism. Ill write more about stress in another post.
With evidence based medicine we seem to have moved far away from our understanding of our body's self healing capacity. We have completely lost faith in our physiological mechanisms of recuperation and recovery. Stuff that animals are still strong in, probably because that's their only means of getting better, unless they are taken to a vet. Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing too much, but it might require a lot of introspection and understanding to differentiate between such situations with those in which absence of intervention would amount to medical negligence.
Just as we have lost our faith in our power to self-healing, so also we have lost the ability to understand our roles in self-creation of our diseases that we suffer from. Its easiest to focus externally in search of disease causing factors. In most cases we succeed, but we fail to understand that these external factors are mostly triggers. So our externally focussed interventions are usually short-lived or require continuation on the long term.
Was just seeing Dr. Gabor Mate's YouTube video where he shares the root causes of chronic illness as the compulsive idea of responsibilities, roles, and duties over the needs of the self.
This just stroke a cord within. I clearly and strongly feel this discordance in myself.
He also says 'the suppression of healthy anger is a major risk factor of illness'. According to him this suppresses the immune system, which makes some sense. He connects this with autoimmune diseases and cancers. It seems how we deal with anger has a crucial effect on our health.
He says that the problem of present medical system is that we separate two aspects that are actually inseperable in life - separating the mind from the body and separating the individual from the environment.
He says something very significant for all of us as parents. He says "Parental stresses programme the physiology of the child". Stressed parents have more probability of having children with autoimmune diseases. This brings me to 'stress'. A topic I have long been trying to explore. Stress in modern day world and how we deal with it. Stress is inevitable in the environment we live in. The human society as a whole is stressed to an extent that we consider it a normal response to anything and everything. This is because of our perverted goals in life. We are moving in the opposite direction of our natural selves who thrive in community, not in meaningless competition or consumerism. Ill write more about stress in another post.
With evidence based medicine we seem to have moved far away from our understanding of our body's self healing capacity. We have completely lost faith in our physiological mechanisms of recuperation and recovery. Stuff that animals are still strong in, probably because that's their only means of getting better, unless they are taken to a vet. Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing too much, but it might require a lot of introspection and understanding to differentiate between such situations with those in which absence of intervention would amount to medical negligence.
Just as we have lost our faith in our power to self-healing, so also we have lost the ability to understand our roles in self-creation of our diseases that we suffer from. Its easiest to focus externally in search of disease causing factors. In most cases we succeed, but we fail to understand that these external factors are mostly triggers. So our externally focussed interventions are usually short-lived or require continuation on the long term.
