In this next series of posts, I’m going to discuss the elements of the first of the eight steps designed by nature to lead you to wholeness: Presence.
Presence, also known as internal awareness, is the first key part of
In your consideration of the eight parts of total health, you’ll come across material to which you had not given much thought. Most people only rarely observe, embrace or understand the inner territories of health. These, the areas of self-knowledge,
What is total? Total is all-inclusive. Total is global. Total involves all aspects. Here, total means ‘fully present in the eight parts of your being and your contexts’. Total includes all aspects of nature and human nature that affect feeling
Health is based on principles, which describe with precision the nature of things. Your acceptance of them makes your life easier because you’re not fighting what is. When you fight what is, you become a victim of self-created departure from
What is health? Health is your natural state. Health is your foundation. Health is vitality. Health is wholeness. Health is inner calmness. Health is a life lived from your infinitely calm foundation. The World Health Organization defines health as
Most people believe that it’s impossible in practice to attain a life lit up and in harmony, with all basic needs of all fulfilled. The truth is that all three are already part of your nature. You can attain
The 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health concluded that 15 out of every 21 deaths (more than two-thirds) in the U.S. involve nutrition. Conditions with malnutrition as at least part of their cause (and the percentage of
Most healers agree that degeneration can have only two causes: malnutrition and/or internal pollution (poisoning, toxicity). Malnutrition results mainly from deficiencies, but may also be due to imbalances (or, rarely, excesses) of nutrients, poor digestion, and poor absorption.
Internal pollution
Degenerative diseases that involve fats prematurely kill over two-thirds of the people currently living in affluent, industrialized nations. Sixty-eight percent of people die from just three conditions that involve fatty degeneration: cardiovascular disease (43.8%), cancer (22.4%), and diabetes (1.8%).
From the broadest possible perspective, a universal energy created nature by processes that are still largely unknown to us. How this energy uses simple substances to form the complex organizations we call plants, animals, and humans is the realm