Recovery

In order to fully appreciate this chapter, we urge you to first read the preceding chapter.

Having considered the nature of disease, and having discovered that, generally speaking, our acute ailments are the beneficial efforts of Nature to cleanse the system of life-threatening impurities, and having seen how dangerous it is to impede these cleansing efforts of Nature, we now need to consider what we can do to help rather than hinder Nature when she brings on one of these acute `ailments.'

Obviously, our first responsibility is to examine our lifestyle and diet and to make the necessary changes. This is a must simply because we will never get well for as long as we continue to do whatever it is that is making us ill.

Then, secondly, if you suspect for one moment that your illness is anything other than an acute ailment, you need to seek appropriate professional help - with special emphasis on the word `appropriate.'

If you are convinced, however, that your discomfort is caused by an acute eliminative effort of Nature, then you might want to consider the following. This material is not intended to be prescriptive, but is supplied for your information only and should be discussed with your naturopath or your health-conscious, nutrition-oriented physician.

`Toxaemia [impurities in the blood/system] and enervation [lack of bodily energy] are the two stumbling blocks to overcome in dealing with the elimination of disease from the body.' (You Can Master Disease, p. 157, emphasis my own)

In other words, when we are ill, there are two objectives that demand our undivided attention . . .

Professor Arnold Ehret, author of The Mucousless Diet System (p.53), gives the exact same advice. He actually summarizes this advice in the form of an equation. I have taken the liberty of adapting his terminology better to suit the needs of this book.

For long years I have been convinced that the world has great need of a health message that even the most simple and the most poverty-stricken of folk can understand and benefit from - and this one certainly seems to be simple enough - `go for energy and rid the body of impurities.'

But just what steps can we take to increase our bodily energy levels and to decrease the level of impurities in the system?

(3) Then nature is to be assisted in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system.' (Ministry of Healing, p. 127, emphasis supplied)

`As to human health, we need to come back, back to the simple basic facts; back to working with our bodies, rather than against them; and back to cooperating with our bodies' defenses, rather than frustrating and harassing them.' (Dr. Albert Zehr, Healthy Steps, p.3)

(3) Help nature to free the system from conditions that have come about as a result of faulty lifestyle and dietary habits.

Notice that lifestyle and diet are central to the entire prescription. Yet how many hundreds of thousands of prescriptions are issued in our world each day without the matter of lifestyle and diet even being
mentioned? No wonder modern medicine is not winning in the `war' against disease.

The fact that they are making war on `disease' lies at the very heart of their failure - and they will continue to lose this battle until they realize that the foe that they are fighting with is really a friend that they should be cooperating with.

Figure 11. illustrates how the Nature's Way programme assists Nature `in her effort to expel impurities and to re-establish right conditions in the system.' While it does look simple, the results are certainly profound.

Please believe me when I tell you that my colleagues and I have seen a great many people totally transformed by this programme. We have seen pimply-faced, chubby little girls become beautiful in just a matter of weeks; we have seen overweight women with triple chins slim down to a normal figure in a surprisingly short space of time - and this without starving; we have seen men having to have the waist of their pants taken in by many centimeters as a result of following this programme; we have seen sad people become happy; we have seen suicidal and/or depressed people stabilize; and, as mentioned earlier, we have literally seen hundreds of people recover from a wide variety of illnesses.

(1) They substituted the good for the bad in their lifestyle and diet. This improved their energy levels and reduced the level of impurities in the system, and . . .

To Overcome Disease		(1) We Need to Increase Bodily Energy	(2) We Need to Decrease The Level of 'Impurities' From or Via The....
To Overcome Disease		(1) We Need to Increase Bodily Energy	Kidneys	Bowels	Lungs	Skin	Mind
N	Nutrition	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
A	Air	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
T	Trust in God	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
U	Uplift Others	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
R	Rest	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
E	Exercise	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
S	Sunshine	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

W	Water	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
A	Abstemiousness	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Y	Your Attitude	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Figure 11: Nature's Way of Increasing Bodily Energy and Reducing Bodily Impurities

With reference to figure 11., you will notice how the various elements of the Nature's Way programme increase the body's energy reserves and how, either directly or indirectly, they encourage the elimination of impurities from the system via the eliminative organs - these being the kidneys, the bowels, the lungs, and the skin - assisted of course by the blood, liver and lymph system.

You will also notice that the programme focuses on the `cleansing' of the mind. It must be understood that destructive emotions have a direct impact upon our health. When our minds are laboring under stressful emotions and negative attitudes such as guilt, distrust, selfishness, sadness, anxiety, discontent, grief, remorse, anger, fear, hatred, envy and/or jealousy, our entire system is being burdened, weakened and poisoned - firstly because these emotions drain our energy reserves, and secondly because most of the above-mentioned emotions or attitudes cause the adrenal glands to secrete adrenalin into the bloodstream - and adrenalin, if not utilized by the body in a fight or flight situation, actually adds to the accumulation of toxic impurities in the system.

It should be recognized that not every facet of the Nature's Way programme has a direct bearing on the organs of elimination, yet every facet of the programme will help to increase the body's energy reserves. As such, every facet will have an indirect impact on overall cleansing via the organs of elimination.

In the light of the foregoing, the reader is urged to consider the more pertinent lifestyle and dietary recommendations that pertain to the Nature's Way programme. Do not try and make all of these substitutions overnight, but do keep making changes - for with every change you will soon be rewarded with better feelings, a clearer mind, and an ever heightening sense of wellness and well-being. Spoil and protect your body and give it only the best, and your body will spoil and protect you and, in return, it will give you only the very best.

The reader is also urged to consider some of the techniques and treatments that are commonly used to neutralize toxins and to stimulate the elimination of impurities from the system. This list is supplied with the strong recommendation that you discuss these procedures together with your naturopath or your health-conscious physician.

Always remember, however, that when you first adopt a more healthy way of life, you must expect what is known as a "healing crisis" - please study the next chapter very carefully.'