Modus operandi

Paternalistic vs collaborative.

Health-attention discipline is to be a life long, tireless endeavour. Having health is not the same as keeping it. Healing health is not the same as working to stay healthy. 

Being passive is not a helpful approach, unless it is as a temporary stage, where one is pirouetting in discerning concentration, determining what is actually happening and when to take a next step in the course of actions being taken. 

Some people seem to think all medicine is the same. But that is not true, as you will likely know. All methods are not the same and it is not a matter of indifference.

Again it is not only about the approach and the right medicine at the right time. Equally important is the approach taken by you, as the one who wants to get rid of the limiting symptoms experienced. 

Laziness, indifference or helplessness are not helpful. When at all possible, hence not when one is in a coma, there has to be a degree of conscious dynamism and aspiration to transform things; heal health aspiration — in short. 

One does not take or do something to just please another, thinking: “it is just water and useless, but it keeps her happy taking it.”

The modern, paternalistic medicine paradigm is what many people seem to expect or they pretend to act but actually wait for the right cue from it, so they can follow or do what it sets out for them. It has its place, but on the whole, it is far more helpful to meet on a mutual base, of aspiration and dedication, with a goal, and to take a cooperative approach, a route of mutual assisting — in working towards the goal set.

In natural medicine, some things can be done without the active will asserted by the individual, but most can only be done or accomplished by an interactive, collaborative process. Here it is not a matter of submission, but of clarity giving and sharing and making the required sacrifices. Without it there is no real path towards lasting improvement and healing. 

It is no use demanding medicines and treatments from others, and expecting others to make the required sacrifices. 

Whose health is it about? Exactly… Health and caring for it, is an individual right and responsibility, firstly. Moreover, when beneficial, this can be shared, but it should not be — and generally cannot safely be — relinquished as right and responsibility. In most cases it is not desirable or helpful to hand it over to another. In the extreme, it is a giving away of autonomy, utterly unsafe and irresponsible to do, in a world that is largely driven by the one pointed aim of generating more business. 

Sacrifice, in one case, of habits, foods, drinks, routines and conventions that are detrimental, a sustainment to symptoms and/or an obstacle to health improvements and transformations. In another case, of time, energy, identification, knowledge, wisdom. Sacrifice is not for everyone the same, but it is the common meeting ground for patient and practitioner, when health perfection is sought to be approached and disease intervention is sought to be defied. 

When there is no conscious sacrifices brought by the patient, due to following the passive way. Not infrequently, at a later date, by a different way, nature comes to lay claim on an unconscious sacrifice. 

Aspiration to heal ones health may sound like an abstraction. But sacrifice is the living reality of this aspiration. It is a gradual reinstatement of health-attention discipline, adjusting values and choices thereby. 

Sacrifices made in seeking health, by healing it, naturally and abidingly, is expressing love of health. If it is not obvious and I assume to some it is not... Why would anyone love health?

Because without health, the journey of life, in all its small and big ways, inevitably grinds to a painful halt. When all ability departs, to go forward, upward or inward.