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ОглавлениеILLNESSES ARE OUR GREAT SORROW
WHAT IS ACTUALLY A DISEASE?
In Wikipedia we find the following explanation:
‘A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not due to any immediate external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that are associated with specific symptoms and signs. A disease may be caused by external factors such as pathogens or by internal dysfunctions. For example, internal dysfunctions of the immune system can produce a variety of different diseases, including various forms of immunodeficiency, hypersensitivity, allergies and autoimmune disorders.
In humans, disease is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes pain, dysfunction, distress, social problems, or death to the person afflicted, or similar problems for those in contact with the person. In this broader sense, it sometimes includes injuries, disabilities, disorders, syndromes, infections, isolated symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts and for other purposes these may be considered distinguishable categories. Diseases can affect people not only physically, but also mentally, as contracting and living with a disease can alter the affected person's perspective on life…’
So, what exactly is the definition of illness again?
In my opinion, a disease is a medical emergency that should never occur in our lifetime. In this way, a cold is an emergency because the question remains: How could this happen at all?
In principle, the human body is built in such a way that it should never, ever get sick; so it should always stay healthy. Nevertheless, it gets sick, and it gets sick all the time. The good Lord certainly did not want it that way.
When I look at the 60+ generation, 99 per cent of the people are sick – one in a hundred, at the most, is not sick. People don't get old, they get sick, really sick.
Why the many sick people don't recognise it as unnatural and simply accept their illnesses as ageing instead of searching for alternatives astonishes me. The functional limitations of those who are 60+ are already more than obvious. Is the belief in ageing and sickness so powerful that we just accept all the suffering without complaint? Since I turned 18 and became able to make my own decisions, I’ve been trying to get my ‘restrictions’ healed. At that time, I didn’t realise that I couldn’t succeed with the medical care at hand, but nevertheless, I never gave up.
When health shows even the slightest sign of deterioration, there is already a need for action. In every situation where the body cannot perform, we should investigate. Every degenerative change, whether wrinkles or impaired movement, is a serious issue. Every inflamed appendix is an emergency, because how could it get that far? How, indeed?
It is very likely that the intestinal area is damaged and must be treated until the whole body ‘flows’ properly again – this would also help the appendix to recover afterwards. It is not enough to cut it out and discharge the patient as if they were cured. The patient is in no way cured by this action, because he has just lost his appendix and who knows if he will ever be able to recover properly.
Just for reference: From a medical point of view, an inflamed appendix is appendicitis, an inflammation of the appendix vermiform at the end of the caecum, which actually contains a large part of our so important immune system.
Every cold poses a question about the immune system. How did the immune system become so weak that we ended up catching a cold? Could it be because the appendix is missing? A cold is actually a health catastrophe rather than a non-issue, because when the immune system is weakened, and this is the case in 99 per cent of all people, our health is already severely affected, so that we are exposed to the vortex of degeneration.
Every illness is a sign that our body is under massive attack. In old age, one disease follows another – here we can literally see our body collapsing, but most people put it down to ageing, the genes or heredity, and with that (explanation) everything seems to be okay again? Surely, we ourselves should at least draw a line between what we let pass as merely ageing and what substantially undermines our health, shouldn't we?
Even alternative practitioners will often miss this sensitive understanding, because they have got on too friendly terms with ageing.
If we want to get healthy, we need to change our perspective. Every wrinkle is one wrinkle too many. Every cold drags us down into degeneration. Hair loss is a serious disease and cancer is a failure of society as a social community.
The preservation of health should really become a philosophy that we integrate into our way of life. I use my free time to take care of my body and build it up year after year. My reward is I have my strength back and I am in good shape. Age hasn't gnawed at me for some time, a certain neutrality pervades my body today. The diseases have gone, but there is still a lot to do, there's always a lot to do, because as long as I don't look 30 yet, I still have potential and I still do not look like 30 yet.
Illness is the derailment of our health. Disease, in principle, is always a catastrophe, so it can hardly be our goal to only deal with illnesses when something breaks out again. We have to put all our energy into the healing of our body and do that repeatedly, every day – which means every day we should put our health first. In this way, we’ll journey from sick to non-sick to complete health, until we look 30 again.
We won’t need to be aware of all the ins and outs of particular diseases because we won’t get sick any longer. We will now be building up the knowledge that we need to regain and maintain health as well; we will be learning what health actually means and feels like by ourselves as we become steadily healthier.
WHY DO WE DEGENERATE?
Measured over a 24-hour day, we have a degenerative phase and a regenerative phase. In the degenerative phase we are active in life and overspend our mind and body. This costs energy which our body has to supply. Then, when we sleep at night, we have our regenerative phase, in which our body repairs itself again, creating millions of new cells and disposing of the old ones. This phase of regeneration continues through the whole night and then long into the morning - if we give the body a chance. But because, in advertising, breakfast is declared the most important meal, we squander this important potential.
Our body also degenerates when we take action in reality and want to build something for ourselves. Identification with reality is our energy problem and that is essentially what causes degeneration. Being everywhere, having friends, being popular, being important for others means that we continually give more than 100 per cent. Everything is more important than ourselves and that leads us to burn out and we grow old, according to the laws of reality. Ultimately, we give more than our body is able to give.
In the case of nutrition, apart from the extra-large helpings of food, it’s the variety of different ingredients within a single meal that is difficult to get along with. They react to each other in combination, as if we were only eating spaghetti with tomato sauce. This variety of combinations leads to unpleasant fermentation, which manifests in flatulence and farts or even diarrhoea in the intestines, which then floods the body with toxins. All the food intolerances, rashes, hay fever, neurodermatitis, arthritis and also appendicitis are exactly caused by such inflammatory processes in the intestine.
Sport, too, is taken far too seriously by many amateur athletes. When pushed to operate in the anaerobic range above 130 pulses/min, the cells can no longer be fully supplied with oxygen. This drives us into degeneration, which ultimately makes us old and sick.
In this anaerobic mode, we produce acids which then over acidify the body tissue and sometimes, after 50, heart attacks and cancer may make an appearance. Sport is, therefore, not always healthy; it can turn very quickly into the opposite. Even athletes do not live significantly longer, because the advantages of an active life are outweighed by the constant overload on their body which then leads to over-acidification.
Many people who do sport do not have the physical prerequisites to perform at the level they consider to be appropriate, but still do it and, in the medium term, have the degenerative problem of acidification.
So, before we dive into sports and put stress on our knees and muscles, it would be wise to first build up our body for a few months, according to the recipes presented here. If, however, we can't hold ourselves back, we should at least start very slowly, always listen to ourselves and move according to the rhythm of our body, never letting our pulse rate go over 130 in endurance performance – wearing a heart rate monitor at the beginning to check. Then the body can regenerate itself through sport. However, sport alone is not enough to fully regain our health, as we can see it also with sportive seniors.
By the way, a heart rate monitor is only advantageous at the beginning, to give us an idea of what our pulse is doing. In the end, it is only there to prevent overload. At some point, even without a pulse watch, we can feel where our pulse is. From that point on, it becomes more of a hindrance and then it’s time to put it down and work with our heartbeat in mind. This will actually increase our performance even further because we are then in harmony with our body. Our behaviour will tend to vary a little when running, but we should always remain in tune with our body so that, in the end, we can expect a good result.
The relationship between degeneration and regeneration is what defines our health. If the power of regeneration is less than the power of degeneration, then the body will slowly but surely degenerate in this way. But if it is the other way around, we will get a little fitter every year and at some point, ageing just seems to reverse.
I reached this conclusion purely by chance because I had tried every other possible way of getting my ailing health back on track. This went on for many years without any visible success until the day came, 8 years ago, when I felt increased energy from one day to another. At that time, I had no idea that this leap forward would be permanent, but today I can see how my health is continuing to improve bit by bit so that I can do a little extra every year. My body has relaxed and lost its old-age stiffness. My sports performance, too, is markedly stronger, with no special training, along with some rather inconspicuous characteristics, like my reduced respiratory and pulse rate, which have not been this low since my youth. My skin has become tighter and my belly flatter. Today, I am even beginning to like my reflection in the mirror, sometimes even without clothes. In short, I began to suspect that the continuous regeneration as a strategy for regaining health could be well worthwhile.
Of course, we cannot regenerate so easily overnight. To regenerate more than we degenerate, we first have to balance a few things, but naturopathy is ideally suited to help with this.
The first goal we should strive for at the very beginning is to reduce excessive degeneration from year to year until the moment we notice, to our surprise, that both our physical and mental health are on the up. Then we have done it and we’ve broken through; we’ve reached the neutral zone and are no longer harming ourselves so obviously. From that point on, the train of recovery starts.
When we are practising our health program daily, we will sometimes experience days when we think our health is going backwards. So-called retoxification, which is actually health deterioration, occurs when the body takes the dirt and poison from its depots and transports it via the blood to our kidneys in order to finally excrete it with the urine. Such days make us insecure and we could lose our nerve, but as there is nothing better and because we only can win this game through persistence, we should persist and commit to working on this regeneration for the rest of our lives.
Although, from this magical point of time, we will start to experience year-on-year health improvements, nevertheless we will never be entirely satisfied, because our successes only show us what we’ve lost over the last decades and now we want to have it back again – as soon as possible.
Regeneration thus becomes a philosophy of life that becomes more and more refined each year. It is tailored to us individually because we only do what seems right to us at that moment.
Before this period of obvious regeneration, all the deviating values in my blood work went back to normal, which, in the end, was a clear sign of body regeneration. Yet, this success didn’t result in any increased strength or better mental clarity. It was only when I definitely felt this renewed physical and mental power did I declare it to be recognisable regeneration. Nevertheless, these parameters, which mostly come from blood work, guide us in the right direction and show us that we are on track. We should persistently look to improve them, even if nothing else is happening yet.
The mind, too, can develop enormously during regeneration, even if this seems uninteresting to us from our current point of view, as we cannot yet imagine what increased brainpower looks like. What I have gained is a better and more detailed memory, which is quite remarkable because I never had this before. An increased wealth of ideas and a regained joie de vivre has given me new drive in my life and, above all, sense.
In general, we can access information and also use it more effectively. We can even master new skills faster; languages or handicrafts, for example. More remarkably, we might, for the first time, see the bigger picture and recognise completely new opportunities in our lives.
Nevertheless, it will take some effort to bring us into the regeneration mode. Bad things must leave the body and good things must go in. That's the whole secret. In the beginning, it’s more important to remove the bad things than increase our intake of the good things. Every day we collect about 0.6 grams of bad and lose the same amount of good – essentially minerals and clean body water. Over the course of an average lifespan, we lose about 15 kilograms (for a person of 75 kilograms) of these essential minerals and water. But we don’t just lose this mass of goodness, we exchange it for the bad: toxins, metals, metabolic products, mucus, inorganic materials, hence osteoporosis, hence decreasing water content in our old age. These are the substances that make us look bad, especially when we’re old. In particular, we lose vast amounts of calcium, which is mainly stored in bones, muscles, tissue, as well as teeth to neutralise the acids produced in our body caused by refined sugar, nicotine, alcohol, caffeine and animal products, such as meat, cheese and milk. These substances also come from the almost infinite psychological stress people face and the faulty metabolism of the gastrointestinal system.
By the way, milk is a calcium robber rather than a supplier of calcium, as is often claimed, and so contributes to osteoporosis, especially in women. Osteoporosis often results in artificial hip joints; the bones are hollowed out over decades until stability is finally lost and they break.
With old age, the process of decay increases disproportionately due to the dwindling resources of our body. It becomes an ever-faster spinning cycle, which makes us look really pale, especially towards the end of our lives. Yesterday we were fit as a fiddle, and tomorrow, perhaps, we’re in an old people's home.
WHY DOES A VOICE SOUND OLD?
We all know this phenomenon and it is probably one of the surest, most guaranteed signs of old age. A young voice in an old body would definitely seem suspicious to us. It would almost be like breaking the laws of the universe.
In principle, the sound is produced by the vibration of the two vocal cords. Air is pressed out of the lungs which passes through the vocal cords, forming the corresponding sounds with our mouth and palate movements. When we shout, we pump a lot of air through these vocal cords. When we whisper, then very little air is pushed through. If these vocal cords are inflamed for example, then people have a very rough voice. When we have a cold they sometimes fail completely. After a rough voice comes calm. The sound of the voice always has to do with the condition of the vocal cords. All the tissue around has unexpectedly little influence on the voice, which was the case with Bonnie Tyler, who, after a vocal cord operation, acquired a very deep, rough voice.
The typical old sound is therefore nothing more than altered vocal cords that produce this sound. And this sound only changes when the vocal cords change, that means when they are somehow damaged, coated, inflamed or when they recede (atrophy) and lose with that their elasticity.
The fact that the vocal cords suffer in old age is mainly due to the fact that we regard the mouth area as a pure supply channel. Food comes in from here and then travels down the oesophagus into the stomach. There is never any talk of anything wanting to go back here. And that's how it is, because something also wants to come out of us, but we have long forgotten it, because spitting is no longer presentable and we have already learned to suppress the reflex in childhood. ‘Don't do that’ was drilled into us the first time by our caring parents.
In our body, metabolic processes do not only take place in the stomach and intestines, they take place everywhere, because there are cells which are hungry and have to go to the toilet again afterwards. The released metabolic products slip into the body tissue everywhere and the lymphatic streams then try to transport these products to the veins from the bloodstream so that they can be centrally discharged via the kidneys out of our body.
But the tissue still uses other ways to get rid of something. This includes the skin, especially under the armpits and the groin of the trunk, where these metabolic products are secreted to a greater extent, which then become moist and reveal themselves to our senses in the form of a slightly aromatic smell.
In principle, all openings and surfaces that we find on our bodies are intended to be used in both directions. An excretory organ is not necessarily only an excretory organ. A supply channel is therefore not necessarily only designed for supply. Every day the lungs transport dust upwards, which then ends up as booger in the nose, but also a lot of dirt and mucus is transported along with it, which also wants to leave our body. However, because we had to give up spitting, we have blocked this possibility and no longer feel this urge as strongly as we should in order to relieve ourselves. The dirt then accumulates in the throat area, here especially in the larynx, and causes, for example, over decades of suppression, throat cancer. Likewise, the important thyroid gland cannot cope with dirt and becomes ill. We only have to watch how often soccer players spit snot out in a game to slowly understand how much dirt we hold back in our body.
With old age the neck gets very wrinkled with almost any number of folds. Any ideas why? A strong accumulation of this dirt and toxins with an increased disposal through the skin, activated by the sunlight makes it happen. The sun pushes the dirt onto the skin, but we don’t dispose of it sufficiently enough and we only think that age has struck again – thereby it's only an unfortunate misinterpretation. Causes are very often misinterpreted which finally ends in a wrong belief construct, and then we simply overlook good, alternative options.
It is not only smoking which can cause cancer of the throat, but also our own waste, which rots down and puts the cells in this hopeless situation. Lacking oxygen, they have to switch to a million-year-old program of fermentation, because that does not need oxygen. The doctor then calls it cancer and we get in a panic.
CONSTRUCTION SITE OLD AGE
When I look at the 60+ generation, I usually see a large construction site in front of me. The damage to their bodies is so massive and obvious that it hurts me again and again. Flabby upper bodies with missing butt muscles and much too thin legs, shock me. Also, the skin with its wrinkles, spots and inflammations, tell me that the tissue underneath looks even worse. With their eyes behind glasses, which have possibly been worn for decades, and hearing aids in one ear or the other, the problems of age become abundantly clear.
When they are sitting down or standing up from a chair or even a sofa, we see the clear limitations of the musculoskeletal system. The gait is crooked and stiff and moving is often burdensome and painful. Riding a bicycle becomes more and more difficult, the entry has to be deep, and you know that this too will soon no longer be possible.
In terms of organs, the gastrointestinal tract is the first complaint, which can be seen in those typically bloated bellies. These are not affluent bellies, as they are often referred to in jest. This is a real emergency and their lives are at stake. Likewise, the kidneys and cardiovascular system aren’t working as they should. The doctors, who they now visit more often, can do little for them and so they resign themselves to making the best of their lives and looking for a nice retirement home.
There are so many possibilities for giving the body its life and spirit back, but nothing happens. The healing experts have no ideas but also, we – the obvious victims – have no desire at all to break this cycle of ill-health. Why on earth not?
Maybe it's because I am constantly asking ‘why’ – something I do when something goes against the grain – and it often does. Maybe that's how change came about for me, by thinking it over, again and again, and observing more closely, day after day, until I was able to achieve unexpected success for myself.
DISEASES IN THE METAPHYSICAL WORLD
We are always talking about sickness and health and have our very own ideas about them. The world has generated a billion-dollar market out of it, which actually has zero effect. Thereby the topic could be explained in a few pages and the suffering would be over forever.
Diseases are not normal for humans. There is no scientifically based reason why a person should get sick at all. Man is virtual, an illusion, a software program where only our mind is real in it. We have created this universe with our thoughts and yet we get sick in our own written program? How embarrassing is that? I'm sure that wasn't our plan.
The world we call reality consists only of electromagnetic waves. Different frequency patterns and their energy around us form this world before our eyes and we think, because of our lack of knowledge, that this is real. Nothing is real. When we dream, we are also in a different world every time. Where does this dream world suddenly appear from?
What we call reality, i.e. we assume to be ‘real’, is only as real as the world in a video game with 3D glasses – in short, it is unreal. Reality exists only in our heads. Everything consists of software which we constantly write with our thoughts. We are doing this all the time, over and over.
Diseases therefore, only arise from interference with different frequency patterns and their inherent energies. If these become too strong for us, we lose out and our appearance falls apart, which medicine has documented in thousands of different diseases. That’s all.
If we really want to surpass ourselves, then we should do our own research because what is offered to us in schools and universities is full of mistakes and information gaps.
We are creators of this world, so we should never become part of our own program. It's like we’ve created a game character in a video game and at some point, we believe we are the game character – no, we only operate the game character through this non-real reality.
Reality does not determine us, we determine reality and, consequently, our health, and we do this with our thoughts. Thus, spiritual healers use their thoughts to focus their inner energy towards a goal and dissolve diseases in record time. We, too, can heal ourselves with our mind. No special talent or other prerequisite is needed for this; it is only necessary to know how to do it, but unfortunately, we all know far too little.
So, diseases are really only the interference of frequencies and this raises the decisive question: Where do these interferences come from?
In our world, there are many disturbances because the harmony that is necessary for a healthy and happy life was broken at some point. Active frequency transmissions from all the transmission masts in the world are responsible. So, microwave technology is a catastrophe for our existence. From microwaves for food to wireless communication, our body is under enormous stress. It has grown into a plague that generates cancer on an enormous scale, but we still don't want to understand.
Likewise, many interfering frequencies are generated by people’s negative thinking. Negativity transforms this world, bit by bit, into a social wasteland, so people feel defensive and isolated, which results in further disease. Where does all this hate and madness, which drives people so crazy, come from?
Also, aluminium with its vibrations (in the metaphysical world, everything consists of vibrations) is now everywhere: in the air, in food, in medicines, in crockery, and in almost infinite food packaging, destroying our minds and, therefore, our bodies, slowly but steadily. But we still do not recognise the danger of aluminium.
Likewise, plastic, in which the whole Earth is now slowly being wrapped, will keep taking lives on a grand scale. It is the next big plague, and it will hit us very hard.
THE COSTS ARE EXPLODING
Health insurance companies try to keep their premiums as low as possible in the interest of the insured, but nevertheless, the turnover of the gigantic health industry still reaches new records every year. For a 60-year-old, private health insurance generally costs between 500 GBP and 800 GBP per month, which corresponds to 6,000 GBP or 9,600 GBP per year.
I have dedicated myself to this topic and have considered whether it could be cheaper. And lo and behold, it could be much cheaper. That’s because most of the costs are caused by our excessive degeneration, which again and again causes various diseases in our bodies.
‘A healthy tooth doesn't get sick.’ This advertisement, probably from the 80s, came back into my mind and motivated me to work constantly on my body.
Today, after about 15 years of personal initiative, my body is (finally) in a state of health where I hardly ever need a doctor for the whole year, but this does not mean that I am already healthy.
In order to maintain this proper level, at the very least, I get blood work done and/or an ultrasound examination of selected organs approximately every two years in order to get an overview of the progress I’ve made and to reveal any remaining weaknesses.
With each tiny measurement, I can see that my health has improved visibly over the years; I have even been able to break free from the annual cold. I used to wonder how some people managed this, but now I know – it’s the immune system that has to do the work, but this is in a desolate state for most of us.
Later, we will not only register every health improvement with a new strength, but also that reassuring feeling of not having to get anxious about every bacterium right away.
Currently, my preventative health costs me about 500 GBP per year. However, I have my own construction site which has caused me huge problems since my youth, and that is my teeth. They have suffered numerous caries that nobody has done anything about. Today, they are usually crowned but nevertheless, I’ve managed to save them partially and the rate of decay has decreased over the last few years. Today, my tooth density is actually increasing, albeit only minimally, so that, on average, I will have a dentist’s bill of 500 GBP per year maximum, because every 25 years the crowns will need to be changed and some other repair work could be done. All in all, I project that my health expenses are around 1,000 GBP per year and should remain so for the rest of my life.
Beyond that, I allow myself a maximum of 250 GBP per year physiotherapy for my back, which has been aching since my youth. The orthopaedist could never help me – it was a nightmare until I discovered physiotherapists and they are so brilliant nowadays that I can confidently wave goodbye to the medical option.
I do not anticipate any further complications in my life. I don’t expect the much-dreaded cancer anyway and even if I did – with a probability of almost zero – I would certainly not agree to chemotherapy, as I wouldn’t let my elaborately restored body turn into a wreck in the first session. Instead, I would want to drive the cancer out of my body with the help of the therapies in this book.
With just these little considerations and calculations we can easily reduce health care costs by a factor of 5 and, at the same time, we can add something beneficial to our healing and, ultimately, to our all-important quality of life.
And while we’re on the subject of costs, there’s also the glasses that we are going to need at some point in old age. Over the years, I have slipped into having to wear glasses from time to time too. Because I, typically, refused to wear them since I was 13, my eyesight has remained relatively stable. Even today, I do not wear glasses 99 per cent of the time. The evaluation of the eyes is done by me; the optician only takes measurements of visual acuity. The cost of the two pairs of glasses, which I only wear for reading and a little driving, can be left off the annual balance sheet. The cheapest model, without tinting, anti-reflection coating and bells and whistles, is entirely sufficient for me and easily lasts 10 years.
Hopefully, I will have a long wait for hearing aids, which many people need in old age. And when I should come into this dependency there are a variety of small, simple amplifiers on the Internet nowadays which are excellent. So, they can also be ignored in terms of cost – we do not always need to have an expensive, several thousand-pound hearing aid from a specialist shop, which is of no better quality anyway.
The conclusion is that, with a little knowledge, we can and should control our own health ourselves. The resulting costs are so low that, in principle, having no health insurance is reasonable. And the best thing is, our health will be so much better and remain so, probably for the rest of our lives, which should be extended a little.
