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Good Health is Easy to Achieve - If You Free Your Mind and Think for Yourself
When you think of health, what do you think of? Do you see a doctor in white coat prescribing drugs? Or do you think of a doctor/practitioner of alternative medicine, who might perform acupuncture on you or prescribe herbs and/or nutrition? Most people think of the former, and when they are sick they think nothing of going to the doctor to get taken care of. Interestingly, in the United States, the system of modern medicine is only a little more than 100 years old, and before the system was put it place, doctors were either natural healers or allopaths - those who prescribed drugs and surgeries. About 100 years ago, the American Medical Association started flexing its muscle and medicine became a business. The allopathic doctors pushed out the competition, labeling the natural healers as quacks, and became the only show in town.
Here's an article that gives the historical basis of modern medicine Modern medicine has a lot of benefits, and is at its best with emergency, life-saving measures. But it is at its worst with chronic ailments and with helping people become healthier. Because modern medicine is disease-oriented and not wellness oriented, it has no concept of what a model of health is, besides the usual definition of "absence of disease." And because of its inability to understand what true health is, in the U.S. we have a country of sick people, along with a medical system that is broken and offers no easy solutions - unless the model becomes one that stresses wellness. Becoming healthy is truly a case of freeing your mind, thinking for yourself and empowering yourself. To become healthy you have to take your health in your own hands, which makes sense, since who knows your body better than you? But most people don't do that. We succumb to the authority figure, that they know best. But the medical model is flawed. If you read the article
Health, Inc.: How Modern Medicine Became a Monopoly
you now understand that modern medicine has a sordid past. Only recently has alternative medicine regained its popularity - and that's because people are becoming more frustrated with the standard approach of drugs, more drugs and even more drugs, with some surgery thrown in for good measure.
Here's an article that tells about the dark side of drugs
Subscribe to the Free Monthly Freeing Your Mind Ezine and Learn How to Become Healthy! It's Not Hard and We'll Teach You How! More people are breaking free of the modern medical model by freeing their minds and choosing the safer approaches of alternative medicine. These approaches boost the immune system and can lead to a better sense of wellness. The biggest impediment to getting healthier is our mind and the way we think. If we are willing to free our mind and break free of the dogma that the authority figures of modern medicine can get us healthier, we are halfway there. The next step from there is learning how to become healthier. The truth is that good health is not that hard to achieve, if you are willing to make the commitment to it. And it's well worth the price, because when you feel healthy in your body and mind, it is such an amazing feeling. Remember, you are your own best doctor. All it takes is to free the mind. Let's look at the tools that can assist you in getting healthier and achieving wellness.
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