Our physical and mental health

The state of our health is manifested according to the beliefs we have and the choices we make. Understanding this may be hard to swallow but it’s empowering to know that by assuming responsibility for our health issues instead of handing that responsibility to the health professionals that help take care of us, we can change it.

This doesn’t mean we have the right to harshly judge ourselves or others. We should always remain empathetic and respect the choices we all make.

The human body and the human mind are designed by nature to be exceptionally strong and resilient and can take much more than we all believe is possible. Sadly, due to the beliefs we have and the choices we do make, many of us give both an incredible battering.

Nature though is not judgmental and remains a constant nurturer. When our infected beliefs cause us to have injuries or create dis-ease in our bodies, our natural system will always come out fighting. We may become hot with fever, experience aches, pain, lose our appetite, cough, sneeze or become fatigued. These symptoms and many others are nature’s way of attempting to heal us and letting us know that there are some beliefs or perceptions we need to change.

When we have an injury or a health problem, it’s for a reason and questioning why we need to be physically hurt or unhealthy instead of believing we are victims, can often lead us to answers that can immediately arrest any problems we have.

Medical science has continually advanced but there is still so much about the human body and mind that is unknown and can’t be explained.

It’s difficult to understand, for example, why a child that has fallen from a height of more than a metre onto a concrete floor is unharmed, while another, who has fallen onto a thick, soft carpet from an extremely low piece of furniture, has suffered fatal injuries.

Or how a woman, whose body was riddled with cancer, survived for many years while another who had little, didn’t, or how a 94-year-old man who had smoked heavily for 80 years was still able to live independently.

We may judge ourselves when we are ill as being a victim but then much later see the reason we needed it at the time. We may judge others as being victims and be shocked when someone with cancer claims it’s the best thing that ever happened to them because it made them see how valuable their life was. Being nonjudgmental of ourselves and others does not mean the absence of empathy and assistance. We all need help and kindness during our difficult times.

While it’s important to take good care of ourselves physically, our spiritual health is essential. We can eat healthy foods, live in a healthy environment, exercise and avoid negativity but if the human spirit is unhealthy then it will be futile. A healthy spirit is one that is free of misconceptions, illusions, false perceptions and closely aligned with nature.

Any unresolved long-term resentment we have that is eating away at us emotionally, will eat away at us physically in the form of diseases like cancer.

If we harden our hearts in favour of notoriety and excessive profit, we will restrict the life that runs endlessly through our veins and may have heart problems.

Falsely believing we don’t have the right to exist in the world will make it difficult to breathe and may manifest into respiratory health problems. When we believe we aren’t supported in life, we will find it difficult to support ourselves physically, which may cause us to have back problems.

Fearfully believing we need to build a wall of protection around us from others or our external world, may manifest into excessive weight problems.

Genetically handed down health issues can often manifest due to handed down faulty belief systems and children’s health problems are often manifested due to the beliefs of their parents, carers or their environments.

Louise L. Hay, the inspirational American author of ‘You can heal your body’, discovered the emotional health and body connection herself in the 1970s and used the knowledge to cure her diagnosed terminal cervical cancer, which she said had come from the long-term resentment she had held onto from her childhood experience of abuse and rape.

Dr. John Harrison, an Australian medical professional and author of “Love your disease, it’s keeping you healthy’, claimed that during his travels around the world, he learned that the connection between cause and cure goes well beyond the mechanical explanations of modern medicine. To find the cause and cure of disease, the patient’s entire state of being must be embraced. Our personality, fears, aspirations, and past trauma all play a role in our current suffering. Identifying the real factors underlying our disease enables us to make use of them to resolve the disease and nature is then free to heal us.

Among people with mental health problems are the deceived and the deceivers with one often dependent on the other. It’s something that usually covers a spectrum with one at each end and believe it or not, most of us are somewhere on the same spectrum.

It’s a never-ending cycle of the avoidance of discomfort or pain and hanging onto false perceptions and false beliefs that are often handed down through generations.

A person who has spent their life avoiding the truth and suppressing their feelings may reach a point where they become disconnected from nature and are no longer able to emotionally feel anything. This also affects their capacity to love, their physical senses and their ability to have any empathy, conscience or personality structure. They have very little activity in the emotional part of their brain and instead of behaving spontaneously, they generally rely on cues from others and rigid routines.

Such a person will generally develop a more advanced level of cognitive or intellectual intelligence to compensate but emotional intelligence is essential to social survival, which makes this type of person emotionally and socially dependent on others. They are generally people who use their advanced cognitive intelligence to control the people they target to depend on through incredibly deceptive and emotionally abusive means. They become charming, deceitful, irresponsible and controlling and live using other people’s emotions, identities, talents and personalities. When this type of person loses control of someone they depend on, they can become desperately needy and potentially dangerous. While they may need to be avoided to protect our wellbeing and for safety reasons, they should still be respected and never judged as no one knows what caused them to choose to disconnect from their emotional life.

Towards the other end of the spectrum, are the people they have targeted or people they have depended on. These are people who often have an abundance of what an emotionally and socially dependent person needs and openly display it. They may have strong maternal or paternal instincts, be overly empathetic and may falsely believe they need to take care of others to be valued or loved or they may falsely believe they are responsible for the needs of others.

The enormous amount of deception they take on board to do this is something many are unaware of. Painful and unpleasant emotions become extreme as nature tries desperately to correct the beliefs absorbed from the deception. The brain becomes overly active in an attempt to make sense of many things that are designed by the dependent person or other deceptive influences to not make sense, which is part of the control. Many of these people will suffer from extreme depression, anxiety and confusion and to escape the emotional pain and their overly active mind, will often turn to drugs, addiction or suicide. Others will escape into a world of psychosis on the other end of the spectrum where their ability to differentiate between what is real and what isn’t becomes seriously impaired.

These are people who generally seek professional help and are often diagnosed as being mentally ill. This at times can perpetuate the issue by providing emotionally and socially dependent people with an opportunity to use it to gain more control, citing these people have a problem while they don’t.

Mental illness is generally seen as abnormal thoughts, emotions and behaviour in a normal situation but in reality may be normal thoughts, emotions and behaviour due to an abnormal experience or situation. A person’s extreme anxiety may be a valid fear that is just unknown or their extreme depression may be due to what they perceive to be valid losses.

Choosing deceit, disguise and lies lay at the heart of all mental health problems and our extreme emotions are nature’s way of letting us know that what we perceive or believe just isn’t true.

Many of us live in a state of being continuously judgmental. We judge people that are ill or have injuries as being unfortunate victims, we judge people with addictions as being selfish, people that are mentally ill as crazy misfits and people that are disabled as a societal burden but it’s not possible to judge the choices other people need to make or how they feel. It’s only nature that can.