Questions and Answers

Question: “What is the root of good health?”

Answer:

Digestion is primary to good health in ALL of us. No exceptions. Our cells must be able to consume nutrition, digest it, and excrete waste. When any of these become out of balance the result is a downward spiral of poor health and disease process.

I often say, “What we can’t digest, digests us.” Our bodies expend energy to digest food, then get energy back from the food.

If we consume foods that require more energy to digest than we get back, we get “old age degeneration.” These are also called ‘Deficit Foods”.

If we cannot get at the food faster than the microbes which live inside all of us, then THEY digest the food.

Becoming accustomed to eating whole, fresh foods means that you will eventually want less and less of the things we love to indulge in, like chocolate, pastries, and lattes. And when you do indulge, you’ll be pleasantly surprised that these longed-for goodies no longer seem to pack the same punch.

Yes, you MAY be asked to give up coffee and sugar, but it’s not that hard when you get to eat moderate amounts of cultured cream, cultured butter, raw honey and the most wonderful fresh vegetables, fruits, and quality proteins.

Please go to this link for the most scientific and well-investigated information about this -
(http://westonaprice.org/take-a-guided-tour/beginners.html)
Or read Protein Power by Michael Eades 
At some point, you may need to cleanse your system of built up toxins.  Our bodies have filtering and transforming functions, and they must be “tuned-up,” just like your car, right?
This is actually the not-so-secret secret of health.
 
Take in, enjoy, let it go.  And take in the most efficient fuel, not poor quality stuff that leaves alot of residue and takes more energy to digest than it gives back to the body, right?
 

Question: “Do we ever arrive at perfect health?”

Answer: No. ‘Perfect’ health is an illusion. As much as the concept of ‘perfect’ is based on context and personal desire.

But, seeing more subtlety, feeling more sensitivity, and riding a current of what many call, “The Natural State” becomes more obvious.

Having more energy and enthusiasm are also side-effects. But pursued for their own end usually results in suffering eventually.  Embodiment is about living what we know to be true, no matter what the cost.

Living from this uncontrived natural state offers the resources of the entire universe (The One, The Unborn) as opposed to our own contrived notions about what is good or bad for us or others.

Living from this place feels as if one is riding a raft down a river. We can control where on the river the boat (being) goes, but at the mercy of where the river is going. It can be very uncomfortable as conditioning from the past resists not being in control anymore.

This is a very subtle and confusing process, but it is also our birthright. Our health, clarity, enthusiasm, drives, compulsions, and sense of connection all improve with letting go of resistance and “letting the river carry us.”

Surrender. What does it feel like? Can we get out of our heads and concepts and really feel? What does it mean to really be here, in this moment?

Question: “What does Health Alchemy mean?”

Answer: Health alchemy is the process that always goes on in life, without our human ideas about “what should be.”  But we, as co-creators of our own lives, can change, alter, add, or let go of anything we like.

The beauty of trying a food, herb, or experience, then seeing the effects is my passion.

Alchemy is a process of forces, elements, and phenomena changing to something else.  In dis-ease, these forces and elements are at odds with others, put very simply.

In health, they are all present and aligned.  In the modern world, most of us are not  getting enough of the right proportions of minerals and nutrients.
 
Think of me as a guide on your path down your own river. 

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