To medicate or not to medicate. That is what has been on my mind the last 24 hours. Being in the Alternative Healing Field for over 6 years now this has been a common subject in my thoughts.
Raw foods has brought me to a new level of awareness on this. If my body is telling me something is wrong then it is most important to listen to what it is saying first and foremost. When it comes to my body I can feel what it is telling me and then use my inner voice as to what action to take. I realized how much I was and society is taught to take medicine first, then feel better and then go about your life. Without ever really looking at the route cause of what is going on. We are not taught to trust our bodies wisdom and that we all hold the knowledge within ourselves. I was taught to give that power away & to trust the people in the white coats. The doctors and lab tech.'s that are testing these medicine's out on animals. So we are putting something in our bodies that is artificially created and then cruelly tested on a another being. To top it off they didn't test it on humans[we can sue] because they were not sure if it was safe. This all seems absurd to me now. Please don't get me wrong, I am soooooooooooooo grateful to these people, animals, and medicine's. They all have their place in the world and I am just bumping along trying to find my place in the world with all that is available. Letting go of old ways that do not feel serving for me & the kids anymore.
My whole life I never heard anyone address the route cause of the symptom. Never had I have someone say to me, look at what you are eating and educate me. It always came with judgment and a lack of sharing the knowledge with me[if they had it]. Look at the toxins and that is what your body is trying to say. I have been taught to work with energy and have been doing that for a long time but never down to the food. What I am putting in my body was hardly ever addressed. Especially growing up. Energy before form, the power of thoughts and all of this is so important and VERY Accurate. But our bodies react to what we eat and drink, strongly! So why don't we start there? Do the energy work and if absolutely necessary a doctor and/or medicine. My life is now about living a life that is naturally about prevention. The power lies within me not outside of me.
With my kids I am trying to get to a place of comfort. I am doing my best but the old conditioning is harder to let go[for me] when it comes to my kids. I was taught that if they have a fever give them Motrin or Tylenol, let them run around and allow them to run down their bodies even more. My instinct is to let the fever run it's course with no medicine. But then I get scared of harming my Angels. I have come to a place of slowly seeing what happens. Now I only give them medicine for fevers when it gets VERY high and if it is high right before bed. Simply because I can not watch them if I am sleeping. My ego fights with my inner voice and I find it hard to decipher what is"best" for them. I feel some fear because it is not my body and I can't always tell what is going on within them. I do not take medicine. I let whatever is going on to run it's course. But I am deeply in tune with my body and if I was to truly get scared I would get my butt to a doctor. But how do I know what to do with the kids? So the voice of the ego and social conditioning is what is being released at this time. I am seeking a place of knowledge, intuition and wisdom.
As with myself, I know that the kids bodies are telling us something as well. But they were brought up on dairy and cooked foods. I have gone Organic[when available] with the dairy and I am bringing in more and more Raw Foods. This is still a process and the older kids 12 & 7 are not going as easily as the 3 and 5 year old. I am grateful for the medicine for helping me with my kids but I would like to get to a place where we are in charge of our health and will no longer have to have this as a concern. I would also like to say that it is not often that my kids need to have any medicine at all but this is what is coming up.
Does anyone know any good books on this subject? I am seeking a place within that has wisdom, intuition and also having the knowledge to back it up.=-)
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ReplyDeleteMy whole life I never heard anyone address the route cause of the symptom. Never had I have someone say to me, look at what you are eating and educate me. It always came with judgment and a lack of sharing the knowledge with me[if they had it]. Look at the toxins and that is what your body is trying to say. I have been taught to work with energy and have been doing that for a long time but never down to the food.
ReplyDeleteWow, I can echo those sentiments verbatim. In my case, the focus was always placed on the weight – which, actually, is yet another symptom. One thing I've learned for sure is that Weight = Waste (in the form of a toxic overloaded system!).
I also really resonated with I am seeking a place of knowledge, intuition and wisdom. I believe only then, will we truly cease giving our power away to those in the white coats.
In The China Study, Dr. Campbell makes some undisputed connections between certain foods and the many auto-immune disorders that plaque our culture. Very interesting read.
Hey, congratulations on being named one of the Top 50 Raw Food & Lifestyle Blogs!
Anonymous~ Thank you for the link and also for your kind support.Thanks for stopping by Sweetie Raw Food Goodness and sharing yours.
ReplyDeleteTo the Goddess Earth Mother=-)
First I would just like to say how much I enjoy your comments and that I am grateful for your support and for you sharing your story.
I agree that the weight was addressed as this "bad" thing but nobody ever lovingly gave knowledge! I had an aHa moment when I first heard that weight is toxins as well. It also explains why detoxing will happen as long as you are carrying weight on the all Raw path. It made the process more understandable for me thus making it more comfortable.
Thanks for letting me know about the China Study. I just got the book in the mail but I am reading a couple others first. Maybe now I will bump it up in the line. I will see what my intuition says=-)
LOVE ALWAYS