Brenda Skidmore's Health Tips

With the recent election of a new president, health care reform has come to the forefront yet again. In the minds of many Americans this issue has been talked down many times before, and has been conveniently put on a back burner to simmer and stew a little bit longer. Now it seems as if the pot is starting to thicken and bubble over, and it is causing quite a stink!

All this pushing, pushing over the matter is starting to appear rather rude elementary school like behavior to me. We all seem to want the same things here, but we all have so many different opinions on how that should be done. But, it also seems to me like as long as the driving force behind the new health care reform is being pushed on everyone out of a sense of fear, doubt, and with no confidence in the current system, why are we wanting to throw more money at a way of treating health that is clearly not working very well? I really don't get it, do you? Nothing new or novel is really being talked about here. If most people were doing great under the current cut, drug, and burn way of health care treatment we wouldn't even be having this debate.

I'm also seeing two different resolutions of this issue being offered, both sides of the coin have different motivations in proving their 'righteousness' on the subject. Natural health care advocates are going after the conventional 'status quo' health care system, and they are literally fighting each other tooth and nail for dominance. Maybe both ways are needed until more people can begin to feel better about the approach that would work best for them. Not for their best friend, spouse or favorite celebrity, you as an individual. What would inspire you to do better?

What is plain as the nose on my face, is that if the current system is all so healing and life sustaining, why are so many people not feeling wonderful about all of that? Why are so many experiencing unhealthy relationships to money, food, family, sex and their overall physical well being? No matter how well a healthy lifestyle works for many, there will always be some that will be depending on something outside of themselves to keep them feeling safe and secure. That is a human trait, we are all susceptible to the influence of our external world to a certain degree.

It does not matter what challenges you find yourself up against really. Health care is as simple as tapping into your positive energy flow. When you manage to find that feeling, milk it for all it's worth.

Keeping that feeling going is going to require your intentional participation, however. You are always going to have to be monitoring your thoughts as carefully as you possibly can, by crowding out most of the thoughts that just drag your energy level down. Not only that, but you are also going to have to guard against the thoughts of others! Think about the way you would like your life to be before you speak about it. If you feel the least little bit of resistance in your interactions with others (bad feelings) back off. Pushing your point (no matter how right you are) gets no one anywhere.

Americans have long prided themselves on the fact that they have managed to accomplish the raising of massive amounts of 'cheap' food to feed not only their fellow countrymen, but millions of other people around the world. This was an impressive feat and was, in part, due to the micro-management of corporations that convinced the farming profession that chemical pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides and antibiotics would help increase their yields and add more money to their coffers. It did increase the farmers yields and expenses, but did not do much for increasing their profits. Corporate executives pushed their ideas and beliefs off on the farmer, along with many others, that man-made interventions were a superior way to natural farming in getting the desired results that many were seeking. Many people were influenced by the positive energy surrounding what seemed like brilliant ideas at the time, and a lot of people seemed to be quite happy about this new way of doing things, at least for a while. After all, the old way of producing food, although efficient in many ways, was also inefficient in several other ways. A better way was wanted, and it was given.

Many are beginning to see the down-side of cheap food, however, and from living in this contrast a new way of doing business is now being formed. As time marches on, more and more people seem to be wanting the availability of cleaner more sustainably produced food. There are many small scale farmers who are riding this new rocket of desire. They are finding it becoming increasingly easier, than in the past, to market cleaner meat, dairy, and produce.

One of these days, not too long from now, those who run large corporations are going to have to wake up and accept a tough lesson. Just like the lessons many of us have had to learn, at one point in our lives, it's either go with the flow of what most people are wanting and willing to focus their attention on, or lose out. And by golly, I don't think they are going to want to be left behind. They will pay attention to a loss of profits being funneled to those smaller scale guys who have a better idea. Wouldn't it be nice if corporate agriculture could ride this wave and begin producing larger amounts of cleaner, more nutritious food just as cheaply as before so many people became concerned about this?

Isn't it funny how the old way of doing things usually makes a come back when the newer ways have unproven themselves? What is the convincing factor is weighing out the long-term pros and the cons to several different methods. That takes time and comes with experience.

I believe this will happen, and we all just need to lighten up with each other until that becomes a reality. Besides, there are many ways that lead to a healthier existence. It all starts with each of us, and how we choose to let in what might make us feel better. How do you know what might work, or not work, for you until you try it?

If we think that we must turn over our relationship with our self, and give it to someone else in exchange for our well being, there will never be any type of health care reform that will save you from what you have already had the power to do for yourself all along. That makes a lot of people feel somewhat awkward and uncomfortable, because we simply don't understand that our bodies respond according to how we are feeling.

We have never been taught this message. But, how boring would life be if we knew everything there is to know?