Episode 31: What is health??

What is health? Is it merely the absence of disease? Or can getting “sick” and having “symptoms” also be a sign of health - an indication of an appropriate response to an insult or toxin of some kind, whether emotional, environmental, climatic, energetic, relational, dietary, airborne, electromagnetic, thought-based, beliefs, etc?
In this episode, I share my musings and reflections on how I see health - and how we can flow with the manifestations that arise in order to continue supporting our vitality and fullest expression, rather than trying to suppress the vital and restorative healing processes. The body already knows how to heal - we just need to minimise the obstacles that we place upon that path, whether individually or collectively.
I share perspectives on health from sages, philosophers and doctors through the ages, and discuss some cases studies that illustrate that “dis-ease” has actually been a healing process, and that interrupting this process would have arrested the inconvenient symptoms at the cost of healing, pushing the imbalance deeper into the body-mind-soul. I also touch very briefly on the lenses of terrain theory, pleomorphism, German New Medicine, and homotoxicology, and how these overlap with Chinese Medicine.
NOTE: health is such a huge topic that I could spend literally years talking about it! This is just a very tiny sampler. The case study examples I share are here are centred around healthy responses to physical triggers - a whole episode could also be dedicated to case studies with emotional triggers - and are by no means exhaustive.
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"Health is harmony, dis-ease is discord"
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
“Our mode of life itself, the way we live, is emerging as today’s principal cause of illness”
Dr Joel Elkes, Director of Behavioural Medicine, Harvard 
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society"
Jiddu Krishnamurti
"Commercials for depression in the 90s named the cause as low levels of serotonin*. With no mention of toxic marriages. unhealthy workplace, financial security, loss of a loved one, or childhood trauma. Depression is a response. A natural response to unnatural environments or painful events"
Dr. Nicole LePera, @the.holistic.psychologist
*now throughly debunked
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"One who lives in accordance with nature
does not go against the way of things.
He moves in harmony with the present moment,
always knowing the truth of just what to do."
Lao Tzu, Dao De Ching, Chapter 8
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