“Those who do not find some time every day for health must sacrifice a lot of time one day for illness.”

Father Sebastian Kneipp.

AN INVESTMENT IN HEALTH IS AN INVESMENT IN LIFE

W.H. Auden the famous writer and poet once said ‘Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say’.

At the age of 27 years and nine months the body begins to degenerate and degeneration means aging. On a physical level this means a rotting and rusting of our bodies. The rot is an underlying biological mechanism of its inability to rid itself of wastes. This process is inherent in all earthly species and the rust is an oxidative process.

But what of the mental aspects of aging? Limiting decisions within our lives precede the majority of diseases or accidents. So how could these processes which cause our own problems be changed?

We all suffer from a process called ‘Arrested mental development’. This is our inability to deal with change and new decisions and choices. We are influenced by the media, education, peers, peer groups and money. Our decisions in life are quite frequently erroneous and never more so than when it comes to making decisions about our health and how we should eat and correct our thinking. A positive change in arrested mental development only comes about with great effort. Complacency and old patterns usually continue to rule our lives.

Arrested thinking prevents us from having a healthy life. We cannot change our attitude towards our own ability to heal what needs to be healed and can be healed. All of life’s traumas and happenings are reflected in our colon. Experiences which are viewed by us as traumas feed the vicious cycle rust and rot processes. When a trauma occurs, be it ever so small, our colon responds in a way that blocks the correct functioning of our waste system. The effect of this creates within us the sluggish inability to think straight, associated by lethargy, constipation, heartburn, acid reflux, headaches, extreme tiredness and so we enter a vicious circle. A circle which is difficult to break unless we are able to change both our thinking and nutrition.

How can we prepare ourselves for the study of Excellence for Health?

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