02.01 – Being Motivated

Before we go any further, let’s take a short look at motivation…

Being a highly motivated student, seeking true, accurate and common sense health information, you have likely worked your way through a number of other concepts, approaches, and schools of thought about health care, nutrition, and disease care. Perhaps you have spent time, money, and effort seeking health through conventional medicine and medical science-approved diet and lifestyle. Maybe you have investigated and tried several alternative medicine approaches. Maybe you have been through quite a few different diets, each one of them based on very different and often conflicting theories.

None have satisfied. Now you are here. I believe you will soon come to realize that you are finally in the right place.

What is health? What is disease? What is nutrition? Where are the real, solid and time-honored answers?

But first, more importantly, you should ask yourself, “How should I approach these vitally important subjects? What is the basic starting perspective I should have? What point of view should I begin with? Which frame of reference will most likely lead me to correct answers? What foundational principle of health truly works… and stands the test of time?”

If the first few steps of your journey are heading in the wrong direction, and you have no compass, where will you end up?

The reason I am asking you these questions is to highlight the haphazard manner in which nearly everyone addresses the matters of health, disease and nutrition.

For most people, the effort to seek health care answers is motivated by pain and suffering, due to disease. Other people seek answers in order to improve their general health, sharpen and improve their mind, or just to look and feel better. Athletes often look toward these subjects to improve their game by optimizing their physiology and improving their recovery after intense exertion.

While all of these motivations are good and necessary, rarely if ever are seekers inquiring about the overarching philosophy that informs and guides natural health care principles. Most people just want quick answers, quick fixes, and don’t really care about any overarching philosophy or perspective.

Those that do seek out a uniting, coherent philosophy most often find themselves settling on the coercive, materialistic scientific approach… usually because all other theories and health care practices seem weird, esoteric, or contain obvious conflicts. Being honest with themselves, those who buy into the standard medical belief system also feel that while materialistic medical science has its several merits, particularly emergency care and diagnostics, there really is no philosophy of health to be found in it.

Medical science studies and puts all its emphasis on diseases and treatments, giving little if any thought to health and its true causes. The bottom line is that health is not profitable to the medical industry. Placing your own health care in the hands of a system that is built to profit from your sickness is not wise.

During your study of Natural Hygiene, I suggest you keep an open mind, set aside your beliefs about what you think you know, and frequently stop and think (philosophize) about the issues presented. Give your mind, body, and soul time to ‘allow in’ what is being presented to you. This will eventually lead to a deeper understanding. The truth will always surface like oil on water. You will find that your instincts and common sense wisdom will be re-activated as you study this course. The apparent medical complexity and endless marketing hype that surrounds nutrition, lifestyle, disease, treatments, and recovery will melt away. I challenge you to break yourself free from the programming society has hammered into you since you were a child. Once free, you will see and feel how simple and joyful life really is.