Regain & Maintain Your Health
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The Way of Prevention
Financial health suffers from a lack of reserves; so too does body & mental health. Build and protect your Chi/Energy and spend it wisely.
As a culture, and as individuals, we need to change our way of thinking about health: change our perspective from ‘crisis’ mode to ‘prevention mode.’ This means noticing and understanding symptoms, and dealing with them, before they become a health ‘problem.’ Because when a discomfort morphs into a crisis, it’s much harder to bring the body back into balance and heal whatever damage has been done.
Knowing what foods are health generators, appreciating the joys and benefits that come from sleep and rest, and understanding how to exercise properly are allaspects of a preventive mindset.
Be Your Personal Health Care Provider
I need to take responsibility for my own health and well-being, and not make it someone else’s job. Then I’m in a much better position to get the health care I need - when I need it. For example: if I’m having trouble with headaches, I need to learn what causes my headaches, and more important, I need to explore what I can do to keep from getting a headache in the first place. It can be done. But not if I ignore the symptoms that lead up to a migraine.
The ‘Stay Healthy’ Mantra
Pay attention. Catch it early. Don’t wait until it gets worse.
The Preventive Path
So what’s the ‘best’ preventitve path to follow? Oriental Medicine has a history of being very good at preventing serious illness because it’s aimed at early stages. Ancient Chinese doctors understood that if you’re going to be exposed to a germ that causes a cold, it’s much better to deal with the germ when you have a sniffle to keep it from becoming pneumonia. Or, if a house has termites, it’s much healthier to catch them in the second week, rather than the second year, before they’ve done all kinds of damage.
Is Oriental Medicine the ‘only’ way of preventive health? Probably not, but as a practitioner and consumer of Oriental Medicine I know how beneficial it is in helping to strengthen and maintain a person’s energy so the body, mind, and spirit can deal with the stresses they’re subjected to.
Regardless of which path towards preventive health you choose, by following it you’ll be happier and healthier - and spend less money getting there.