WHAT IS HEALTHY LIVING?
Although
one may be tempted to think that healthy living is an
inconvenient set of rules, that one lives because one must,
it is far more beautiful and rewarding. It is an evolving
lifestyle led by inspiration, love of beauty and obedience
to Natural Laws. The motivation to adhere to natural
principles comes from a desire to be and live with grace,
in harmony with our environment and within ourselves. The
rewards are plentiful, and as our habits and attitudes
become pure, life affirming and self-nurturing and as we
experience natural law working positively within our lives,
it becomes easier and more attractive to choose the path of
grace and goodness.
Just as before we automatically turned to comfortable and
familiar patterns that brought pain and imbalance into our
lives, the law of attraction and repulsion can now work to
our advantage as we attract and are drawn to self-nurturing
and loving life patterns that bring a sense of meaning,
beauty and wellness to our daily lives.
In order to learn to care for our bodies and the world that
we live in, we must first accept the belief that correct
laws of living do exist, and that transgression of these
laws results in dis-ease and imbalance in our bodies and in
our lives. Thus illness is seen as a messenger from nature
reminding us that we must live our lives in harmony with
its laws. Illness can be a beautiful opportunity to spin
straw into gold, to learn what is required to find harmony
and to apply the principles of nature to bring beauty and
grace back into our lives.
To do this we must accept responsibility for our present
condition on all levels, physical, emotional, mental and
spiritual, and fully embracing the law of action and
reaction choose to alter our life habits and patterns to
create the wellness that we are seeking. In Ayervedic
tradition this law is described as 'the soil, not the
seed'. Rather than considering the body to be at the mercy
of illness and disease, they see that disease can only
reside where a home has been prepared for it. Rather than
choosing treatments to 'kill the invaders', as seen in
modern culture with drug therapies, pesticides etc., a
naturopath or herbalist teaches a lifestyle that seeks
harmony with the body's own power to heal and find balance.
Once balance is clearly and consciously strived for,
'dis-ease' on all levels will leave of its own accord.
So to achieve Healthy Living requires that we follow the path of Transformation one step at a time, that we purify and enlighten our lives with love and obedience to natural law and embrace a clear vision of the beauty that each one of us is and can be.
