Health and Dis-Ease

When it comes to my pet, I am extremely proactive about his health, keeping him well and vital and doing the best I am able to help him maintain the natural balance that he, and I think all animals, have innately within them.

When it comes to myself, I am extremely unlikely to behave in such a preventative and health-seeking manner. I am much more likely to overwork myself, wait until the last moment before acting for the benefit of my health. I am much more likely to wait until dis-ease is present – pain, discomfort, illness manifested in ways I can no longer ignore before I acknowledge the fact and take steps to heal.

I’m going to take a guess – an easy one – that you are probably very similarly minded when it comes to your own health, or rather your own disease.

Why is this? Why do I find it easier to think of health as a daily and utmost objective for my pet, but not myself? Have you ever thought about why it is the case for yourself?

I think the reasons are vast and complex and beyond my ken to write about in a social media article – so I will focus on what my first thought about it is – a lack of responsibility towards ourselves and our well-being. This lack is understandable.

To be disciplined and responsible towards the true health of ourselves is to go outside the boundaries of what our peer group expects. It is a fringe movement, an outlier’s subversive behaviour that throws a spanner in the works of how modern life is supposed to be lived. The huge industries that support our economy are based upon an existence of lack – thereby encouraging consumption of goods and services in order to ‘buy back’ that which we feel we are in need of. 

If you or I act as if we have no lack, as if we are already whole, and capable and healed, then we are at odds to the mainstream mindset of our way of life.

We live in a society of humans who believe in, are actively trained in the ways of, totally addicted to, competency – the job of being good at things. We prove we are good at things by doing things, building vast megalithic industries of ‘health and wellbeing’ which are actually just technologies to treat illness. We sneer at anything outside of this medical technology as being ‘woo woo’, coach ourselves to be mistrustful of it, and demand that for health and cures to be real or possible we must be able to ‘see’ it with the existing technology we have and no other.

But I’m not so sure that our universe is so single-minded. I see how my pet thrives on the basis of simple, instinctive behaviours that should I apply to my own existence would see me thriving in a similar manner. Things like, resting when I am tired (no matter how much ‘work’ I convince myself I ‘must’ do before I am ‘allowed’ to rest). Things like eating a good balance of food and in quantities that my body demands, should I be careful to listen to it. Things like breathing well, and sitting under a warming sun. Things like enjoying the companionship of others and noticing how being social improves my mood. Simple things.

Responsibility and discipline to these matters – they are not ‘fashionable’ or ‘easy’ words, they imply a level of work and effort that perhaps most of would like to avoid or short-cut. But they are the first step towards health and away from the dis-ease that may be inflicting your day-to-day existence.

What do you think – why not let me know below in the comments

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