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Chapter 10
The Sure Road
To Recovery
In order to fully
appreciate this chapter, we urge you to first read the
preceding two chapters.
Having considered
the
nature of disease, and having discovered that, generally speaking, our acute
ailments are the beneficial efforts of Nature to cleanse the system of
life-threatening impurities, and having seen how dangerous it is to impede these
cleansing efforts of Nature, we now need to consider what we can do to help
rather than hinder Nature when she brings on one of these acute `ailments.'
Obviously, our first
responsibility is to examine our lifestyle and diet and to make the necessary
changes. This is a must simply because we will never get well for as long as we
continue to do whatever it is that is making us ill.
Then, secondly, if
you suspect for one moment that your illness is anything other than an acute
ailment, you need to seek appropriate professional help - with special emphasis
on the word `appropriate.'
If you are convinced,
however, that your discomfort is caused by an acute eliminative effort of
Nature, then you might want to consider the following. This material is not
intended to be prescriptive, but is supplied for your information only and
should be discussed with your naturopath or your health-conscious,
nutrition-oriented physician.
As far as health
recovery is concerned, Dr. Jensen tells us that . . .
`Toxaemia [impurities
in the blood/system] and enervation [lack of bodily energy] are the two
stumbling blocks to overcome in dealing with the elimination of disease from the
body.' (You Can Master Disease, p. 157, emphasis my own)
In other words, when
we are ill, there are two objectives that demand our undivided attention . . .
(1) maximizing our energy
levels, and . . .
(2) minimizing the level
of impurities in the system.
Professor Arnold
Ehret, author of The Mucousless Diet System (p.53), gives the exact same advice.
He actually summarizes this advice in the form of an equation. I have taken the
liberty of adapting his terminology better to suit the needs of this book.
Physical Health = Bodily
Energy minus Bodily Impurities
For long years I have
been convinced that the world has great need of a health message that even the
most simple and the most poverty-stricken of folk can understand and benefit
from - and this one certainly seems to be simple enough - `go for energy and rid
the body of impurities.'
But just what steps
can we take to (1) increase our bodily energy levels and (2) to decrease the level of
impurities in the system?
Ellen White puts it
all in a nutshell when she tells us that, . . .
`In case of sickness,
(1) the cause should be
ascertained.
(2) Unhealthful conditions
should be changed, [and] wrong habits corrected.
(3) Then nature is to be
assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right
conditions in the system.'
Ministry of Healing, p.127, emphasis
supplied
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`As to human
health, we need to come back, back to the simple basic facts; back to
working with our bodies, rather than against them; and back to cooperating
with our bodies' defenses, rather than frustrating and harassing them.'
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In short, we might
summarize the above prescription as follows:
(1) Investigate the
lifestyle and diet,
(2) Change the lifestyle
and diet wherever necessary,
(3) Help nature to free
the system from conditions that have come about as a result of faulty
lifestyle and dietary habits.
Notice that lifestyle
and diet are central to the entire prescription. Yet how many hundreds of
thousands of prescriptions are issued in our world each day without the matter
of lifestyle and diet even being
mentioned? No wonder modern medicine is not
winning in the `war' against disease.
The fact that they
are making war on `disease' lies at the very heart of their failure - and they
will continue to lose this battle until they realize that the foe that they are
fighting with is really a friend that they should be cooperating with.
Figure 11.
illustrates how the Nature's Way programme assists Nature `in her effort to
expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system.' While it
does look simple, the results are certainly profound.
Please believe me
when I tell you that my colleagues and I have seen a great many people totally
transformed by this programme. We have seen pimply-faced, chubby little girls
become beautiful in just a matter of weeks; we have seen overweight women with
triple chins slim down to a normal figure in a surprisingly short space of time
- and this without starving; we have seen men having to have the waist of their
pants taken in by many centimeters as a result of following this programme; we
have seen sad people become happy; we have seen suicidal and/or depressed people
stabilize; and, as mentioned earlier, we have literally seen hundreds of people
recover from a wide variety of illnesses.
And what was it that
brought about such radical improvement?
(1) They substituted the good
for the bad in their lifestyle and diet. This improved their energy levels and reduced the level of impurities in the system, and . . .
(2) They
stopped suppressing Nature's efforts to make them well.
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To Overcome Disease
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(1) We Need to Increase Bodily
Energy |
(2) We Need to Decrease The
Level of 'Impurities' From or Via The.... |
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Kidneys |
Bowels |
Lungs |
Skin |
Mind |
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N |
Nutrition |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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A |
Air |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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T |
Trust in God |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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U |
Uplift Others |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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R |
Rest |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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E |
Exercise |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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S |
Sunshine |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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W |
Water |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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A |
Abstemiousness |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Y |
Your Attitude |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Figure 11: Nature's
Way of Increasing Bodily Energy
and Reducing Bodily Impurities |
With reference to
figure 11., you will notice how the various elements of the Nature's Way
programme increase the body's energy reserves and how, either directly or
indirectly, they encourage the elimination of impurities from the system via the
eliminative organs - these being the kidneys, the bowels, the lungs, and the
skin - assisted of course by the blood, liver and lymph system.
You will also notice
that the programme focuses on the `cleansing' of the mind. It must be understood
that destructive emotions have a direct impact upon our health. When our minds
are laboring under stressful emotions and negative attitudes such as guilt,
distrust, selfishness, sadness, anxiety, discontent, grief, remorse, anger,
fear, hatred, envy and/or jealousy, our entire system is being burdened,
weakened and poisoned - firstly because these emotions drain our energy
reserves, and secondly because most of the above-mentioned emotions or attitudes
cause the adrenal glands to secrete adrenalin into the bloodstream - and
adrenalin, if not utilized by the body in a fight or flight situation, actually
adds to the accumulation of toxic impurities in the system.
It should be
recognized that not every facet of the Nature's Way programme has a direct
bearing on the organs of elimination, yet every facet of the programme will help
to increase the body's energy reserves. As such, every facet will have an
indirect impact on overall cleansing via the organs of elimination.
In the light of the
foregoing, the reader is urged to consider the more pertinent
lifestyle and dietary recommendations that pertain
to the Nature's Way programme. Do not try and make all of these substitutions
overnight, but do keep making changes - for with every change you will soon be
rewarded with better feelings, a clearer mind, and an ever heightening sense of
wellness and well-being. Spoil and protect your body and give it only the best,
and your body will spoil and protect you and, in return, it will give you only
the very best.
The reader is also urged to
consider some of the techniques and treatments that
are commonly used to neutralize toxins and to stimulate the elimination of
impurities from the system. This list is supplied with the strong recommendation
that you discuss these procedures together with your naturopath or your
health-conscious physician.
Proceed To Chapter 11: Always remember that when you first adopt a more healthy way of life, you must expect
what is known as a "healing crisis" - please study
the next chapter very carefully.
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