You can’t do much if you’re dead. Or anything well if you’re half dead. This foundational truth is something only often rememered when your health is compromised. As mine has been for the past few years.
I’m not terminally ill…I don’t think. And I’m doing ok. But ok is a relative statement, when you consider the slippery slop traveled before dialing 911 is nessecary. Elevated Blood pressure, and a BMI in the mid 20′s, is really not “ok.”
What Does Health Have To Do With Truth?
Truth… generally speaking…Is the ability to pursue or know what is real. It’s realization hinges on our interest, motivation, and ability to raise our awareness on what is happening around us, and inside of us.
The ability to unconsciously consume food without a clear idea as to their origin or contents, are simply an example of mankind’s existential emergency. It is our ability, whether in whole, or in part, to live asleep.
- Asleep to asking the questions…
- Asleep to what we are putting into our bodies…
- Asleep to where many of our opinions come from…
Asleep doesn’t mean we are dead to reality…But it does signify a state of awareness that is compromised. We toss and turn…with moments that hint of a noise…or movement…of more than the dreams and REM of today.
I’ve been asleep in so many areas…and continue to awaken in others…So I have no rocks to throw – other than my story…continued journey….and its weight in inspiration.
Truth can come via revelation, but often it requires the sacrifice of choosing to wrangle with who we are, and what is happenening around us.
Exploring Truth is a choice.
But we alone can captain this journey. Not our parents, pastors, or favorite guru. Nor can we leverage the beliefs, or resolve of another.
Our health is no different. For it is quite literally our mouths that our hands feed. Leaving our health to ignorance…results in the consequences of our aches, pains, and sickness, that we alone will bare.
Corporately…our health care emergency reveals that Americans have in many ways relegated much of this control to the golden arch eating mentality, our pharmisict, and doctor. Albeit traditional medicine has it’s place, we have been overcome by the myth of the expert. This has left many of us impotent and unaware of the power we have today.
But where do we come in? It is our bodies. Can we risk our health to a system that is waking baking with special interest?
Naw playa…
The time for the individual to become his own expert is now. We live in a day and age where the availability of information is at an all time high. A curse and a blessing for sure.
With the right set of crap sifters you and I can heal much of the damage we have already done and are doing to our bodies….
It begins with a choice.
I’ll share in detail some of the changes I’ve made in the next post.
Written by Veron Graham
Topics: Blog