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Living in a technological world we are besieged by information but lack context. Data overwhelms content and connectedness. We see more people in one week then a medieval villager saw in a lifetime. We commute in a day farther than an 11th century European traveled in a lifetime. We move more, read more, acquire more, and live longer than any other generation. Yet we are too often ‘sick’ why? Perhaps because our wisdom traditions have become obscured. The globalization of media has led often to alienation of the individual. How best to function in this bewildering epoch, made more complex by a consumer driven culture? I see and treat on a daily basis, many patients driven to despair by loss of community, rupture of family, isolation and confusion of choice. We as providers hear “I am stressed, I can’t cope, I am depressed. I feel unwell” The patient relinquishes their health to poor choices and looks to us to help them. We all have had experience with the patient who refuses to participate in their health. They ignore the gradient of illness, then bring it to us with the white coats to ‘fix’. As a physician and naturopath, I believe that we have lost our balance. We have lost our way and all too often deny the authentic, simple core of vibrational beingness. Gradually we are awakening, understanding of the reoccurring patterns of nature and seeing that elegance of design within ourselves. The paradigm of conquer nature, that mechanistic wheel within a wheel stand alone isolation, no longer holds, we are waking up to perceive the profound fabric of interconnectivity throughout all of life. The butterfly affect. The air disturbance by the wings of a single butterfly is enough to change the weather patterns throughout the world. This observation led to the new science of Chaos theory and upgraded weather forecasting! With our expanded view of patterns and relationships we go from conception to unfolding fulfillment. The simple one celled organism serves as our teacher. The holistic perfection and integrity of the micro models higher purpose, coherence and consciousness. The basic principle here is to reflect and appreciate the magnificence of the very small, a modeling that is the foundations of our everyday world. We can take from the miniscule to illustrate this. Chemistry is This! Biology is This! The human mind is skilled at chemical manipulations. (Think of all your petrochemical products in daily life.) We have been given our senses to resolve these phases of matter. We bring in the elements to our body in the act of eating. We eat with our mouths, our eyes, our skin and our consciousness. Through food we renew the basic elements that we are made of. With vibrant living food we thrive. Food is choice and poor choice=impaired health. This is the root cause of disease. Our body lacks essential building blocks and our psyches deficient in answers, options and how to live and thrive in the modern world. Much press has been written about us being a nation of fast fed, obese, stressed, latent diabetics (or full blown) with mood and blood pressure problems. We even have the phrase Metabolic Syndrome! What this says is that over time poor food choice and deficiencies set the stage for illness. This diminishment of the life force weakens the individual. Next month we will discuss the initial steps for healing. I also invite questions and answers to this forum. Please send questions to my email address. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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- Dr. Pariksith Singh (21)