Nature's seven healers
by kam

There are seven major factors to managing the health of the body & these have been known & practiced for thousands of years. If you move away from these the body labors & disease may set in. (of all the many doctors I used to go to, not one of them mentioned these ever?!) Average age of death of US doctor is 56yrs. The people who live the longest live furthest from medical help.

The seven factors are:

1    Pure fresh air

2    Pure fresh food

3    Pure fresh water

4    Moderate exercise

5    Moderate sunshine

6    Adequate sleep & rest or meditation

7    Clear mind/open heart

1    Pure fresh air-The Elixir of Life

"Fresh air will prove far more beneficial to sick persons than medicine, and is far more essential to them than their food..... thousands have died for want of pure water and pure water."                                     Ellen G. White, counsels on health.

"Air is food. Oxygen is one of the chief elements of air, & oxygen is one of the chief elements in the formation of blood. Air, therefore, is just as important as any of the best foods, yet very few people are as particular about the air they breathe as they are about their solid food. One would never think of eating food some other person had chewed. yet often we find supposedly intelligent hygienic people breathing enclosed, foul air over & over again, continually poisoning the blood stream & injuring the lungs" 
                                                        Dr. Welsh, Seven essentials of Health.
2    Pure fresh water

75%-85% of your whole body consists of the 'magic' elements hydrogen & oxygen found in water. "All the vital processes of the body take place in a watery solution. Digestion, circulation, assimilation & elimination could not take place without the presence of water."                                          Dr. Welsh, Seven essentials of Health. 

All the vital processes of the body take place in a watery solution. Digestion, circulation, assimilation, & elimination could not take place without the presence of water. All the tissues - all the vital fluids & all secretions of the body contain a large percentage of water. It therefore becomes self-evident that any program of living conducive to health, must take into account the body's constant need for water.

                                                     Dr. Welsh, Seven essentials of Health.
3    Pure fresh food

Dr. Alex Carrel, Nobel prize winner in 1912, proved that the length of life depends largely on eliminating waste & adding optimal nutrition. The longest lived people in the world, (beyond 100 years), eat a very broad omnivorous diet with little meat & much organic fresh fruit, vegetables, grains & nuts. 

4    Moderate exercise

Some of the best longevity exercises are walking, swimming, yoga, martial arts, pranayama & making love. Use it or lose it. 

"15 reasons to exercise. Exercise: 1. Speeds up circulation, 2. Improves the strength & efficient function of all the internal organs & glands. 3. Insures proper elimination of the waste from the body, 4. Removes lactic acid & other fatigue poisons, 5. Builds new, stronger & healthier cells, 6. Activity is life; stagnation death. Exercise, bringing healthful activity to every organ, gland & cell of the body, keeps the entire body & mind radiantly alive, 7. Exercise builds coordination, balance & control of muscles. It improves speed, judgment of time, space & distance. It makes the body more responsive to the will, 8. Exercise is a good insurance against disease & sickness. it builds a fund of resistance, of healthy blood-both white & red corpuscles-which can attack & overcome many disease germs with which the body comes in contact. 9. Exercise increases confidence, 10. Exercise helps maintain a tranquil mind, 11. Able to better throw off the effects of any immoderate behavior, 12. Exercise overcomes a great many pains, aches, indispositions; even diseases which are the result of overeating. the reports of those who have overcome gangrene, arthritis, stiff joints & limbs through exercise are numerous, 13. Exercise prevents a great many life-shortening & painful diseases & injuries, 14. Increases metabolism burning excess food intake, 15. Exercise strengthens the internal muscles which hold all the organs in place, making it possible for the organs to perform their essential duties better."

                                                              Bob Hoffman, Olympic coach

5    Moderate sunshine (approx. 20mins summer, 40 mins winter per day)

"Sunshine is nature's stimulant, tonic & healer. Its use in conjunction with nature's other gifts will revolutionize our present artificial methods of healing. There is nothing in the entire realm of therapeutics, that will promote the healing of wounds, sores ulcerations & fractured bones, more than sunlight."
                                                          Dr. Welsh, Seven essentials of Health

"A summary of the systemic effects of sunlight are:

The UV Portion:

Improves EKG, blood pressure, resting heart rate, cardiac output, erythropoiesis, blood cholesterol, glycogen stores in liver, metabolism, blood sugar, resistance to skin infections, energy, endurance & muscular strength, body's resistance to infections, skin & muscle tone, oxygen-carrying capacity of blood, adrenalin in tissues & tolerance to stress, increase sex hormones, tanning & vitamin D production. 

The visible portion:

Controls melanin production, penetrates deep into tissues & lowers cAMP, certain believed psychological effects-red-activitates, green-neutralizes, blue-calms.

The infrared portion:

Vasodilation, spasms, pain, blood pressure, perspiration, circulation, heart rate, respiration, cellular respiration, alkalinity, lymph flow."

              John Demartini from The illusional basis for man's health & disease

6    Adequate sleep & rest or meditation

"The greatest work that we do is not at the desk in the office, but when we are wandering in the woods or sitting quietly relaxed. At such times there flash into our minds those ideas that direct & mould our lives. For growth & health a sufficient amount of leisure & rest is essential."

                                                    Dr. Welsh, Seven essentials of Health
7    Clear mind/open heart

This is the most important factor of all the seven. Here is a rough summary only. You will need to clear of all the negative actions, emotions & thoughts to realise your peak health. Of all emotions anger, hatred & resentment are the most damaging to the body systems. Each person is reflecting your body/mind nature back to you. Blame & judgment come back on you. Emotions are what you experience when you lie about the underlying 'hidden' reality. Disease is nature's way to soften your attitude. Love is always the highest priority, movement from this loving condition seems to create disease.

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