For Better or For Worse
Because the living organism is self- regulating and endowed with an instinct of self-preservation, when left to its own devices it will always strive towards relative perfection.
Symptoms necessarily arise in compensatory response to any hostile influence, providing of course, the causal factor does not overwhelm us first. It is this natural defense mechanism that restores health to the body by reestablishing dynamic equilibrium. The inhalation of smoke warrants the robust exhalation of noxious fumes - hence, we cough. The cough, however, is not the problem; it is the solution and is spontaneously generated by the intelligent organism, not the inert smoke. Understanding the adaptive nature of the human body is the key to understanding the impact of our choices and actions on its structure and function. Any unrelenting influence, good or bad, imposed upon the body will illicit a symmetrical response - one that is positively adaptive, expressing health or one that is maladaptive and symptomatic, expressing some degree of suffering. In both cases the body's reaction is right, however, in the latter instance, the conditions are wrong.
The goal, of course, is to provide the body with a set of salubrious conditions, facilitating its rise to optimum health. Nonetheless, it will respond to whatever we subject it to - wittingly or unwittingly - for better or for worse. The body's ability to shape itself to the environment is a lifesaving attribute, albeit a double-edged sword. Under harmonious conditions it will spontaneously move in the direction of health, while under hostile conditions it will produce offsetting evidence of a struggle as it endeavors to maintain physiological poise. This process, although essential to life, distorts normal anatomy and physiology. Unfortunately, the discomfort of this aberration oftentimes leads us, understandably, but hastily to symptom suppression via drugs and or surgery. This, of course, is not the same as patiently awaiting symptom reversal via the elimination of causes. Suppressing a cough no more rids the body of the offending agent than surgically removing a tumor rids the body of the underlying process that produced it. Even when aggressive intervention is required, that alone is not enough. We must still provide the body with those conditions and circumstances most conducive to health and healing.
Fresh air, clean water, adequate sunlight, comfortable temperature, exercise, rest and sleep, foods of our biological adaptation, security of life and it's means, a good social network and emotional poise together represent the best environment to immerse ourselves within. These are the essentials of life. The degree to which they are present or absent is the degree to which we will thrive or suffer. Each requisite element is unique and therefore categorically irreplaceable. When fresh air is in need, nothing else will do. When sleep is required, there is no substitute. To supplant these fundamentals with unnecessary and overly aggressive modalities is both absurd and tragic. First, identify and remove the cause of disease; then, establish conditions of health. Allow the organism to spontaneously revert back to normal. Resist the temptation to manipulate the body. Instead, control the environment that supports the body. As best as possible, permit all that promotes life and forbid all that prevents it.
In the final analysis, our thoughts, actions, habits and character determine our destiny. Although disease seems to suddenly manifest, it is usually in the making for a protracted period of time. We wrongly identify this adaptive biological process as the problem, when in earnest it is the self-defending organism's innate remedial solution to inexorable hostility. The opposite holds true. When we expose the body, as a way of life, to harmonious conditions, it either maintains a high level of health, or instinctively sets out to achieve it. Our choices should not be arbitrary; they should be consistent with life. A mongrel way of living culminates unpredictably. Every action we take provokes a balanced reaction from the body. No one is excused from the consequences of their actions. We reap what we sow, knowingly or unknowingly, in sickness and in health, for better or for worse.
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As a natural health consultant for over 25 years Mark Houllif has been teaching the scientific principles of health promotion. The goal is to guide the individual back to health using natural and nutritonal methods. By removing the causes of disease and establishing conditions of health we allow the body to most powerfully manifest its natural healing tendencies.
