We have ‘left it to the professionals’ for far too long.
And who are these professionals, anyway?
Other than ordinary human beings with access to the very same information we have access to. As a parent, you have the right to choose whatever you wish when it comes to the welfare of your family, but at the very least, let those decisions be informed ones and extremely well researched on your part, before you make them.
Don’t leave these decisions in the hands of over-saturated, under paid, sleep deprived doctors who are going to treat you much like they treat their job itself, as a means to an end. I’m sure there are some amazing doctors out there, but in my experience, the only ones who have actually ‘treated’ me verse ‘medicate’ me have been those who have dared to challenge the very foundation their career was built upon– medicine– and have gone a more holistic route in the treatment of their patients.
So, why don’t we take control, take initiative, do our own research,
why don’t we rebel?
I’m not suggesting in a hostile, combative, guns drawn type of way. I mean in an informed, peaceful, authentic, defenseless way— through the sharing of knowledge and truth, through the exposure of lies and manipulation, through the withdrawal of our passive involvement and participation in government policies and laws that do not serve us as individuals or as human beings anymore but as mere statistics, numbers on paper.
I mean in a ‘shut off our televisions, put away our cell phones and take a few moments to connect with those around us’ way. I mean in a ‘let’s have a conversation on things that matter’ way. Let’s start by becoming informed consumers, citizens, parents, teachers.
I’m urging you to think and to encourage others to do so, as well.
To stop tip toeing around the false sense of security that many of us take refuge in, hesitant to share our truth in fear of questioning exhausted beliefs that have been held for far too long.
Tell it anyway.
Speak it, spread it, live it.
What is holding us back from exercising our right to say no to ‘mandated’ health regimes that deceive and coerce their patients into blind adherence with scare tactics and abuse of authorative power.
Despite being led to believe we don’t, we do have a choice. And when we make that choice, we affirm that we too are capable, as parents and as people, of knowing what is best for our children and for ourselves.
What is stopping us from putting down the fast food, the soda, the donuts, the cigarettes, the prescription pills and choosing to honor our body’s right to be healthy. Its right to be free of unnecessary pain and suffering. Its right to be provided with food that nourishes and heals. Asserting that we are the ones in control of our bodies and our minds and that we will choose the alternative that serves us best, when given one.
What is stopping us from living a life that is in accordance with the truth we keep in our hearts? What keeps us from listening and trusting our own inner voice, the one telling us that something isn’t’ right, the one nudging us to wake up, to change, to be better, to be different, to be the example.
Why don’t we begin in our homes, with our children, by raising thinkers, revolutionaries, game changers. By teaching them (dare I say) to question the ‘professionals’, their teachers, their doctors, their leaders. As parents it is our job to inform them and ourselves on the subjects that are not found in textbooks.
Encourage them to live from the heart and not from a place of fear like so many of us have been taught. Teach them to speak up in their homes, in their classrooms, in their communities in a respectful, honest way– a way that breaks silence and sparks necessary dialogue on the subjects that matter, on words that are not being said, on problems that are not being addressed, on things that hurt, on things that heal, on broken systems of justice that are in desperate need of change.
Why don’t we rebel? Give it a thought.
Consider, if only for this moment, what you have been told in contrast to what you have actually seen and experienced for yourself.
More importantly, ask yourself— why do we obey?
Are we on auto pilot, who is really in control of our lives? Who is calling the shots? Have we been dumb downed by the organizations that value profit over people? Have we been disheartened, dis-empowered by a system with the intentions to convince us that we are incapable of making our own decisions and that we are incompetent in ensuring the welfare of our own lives and the lives our children.
Are we afraid to speak up, to stand apart from the majority, to shake things up a little, to step outside our comfort zone?
There is a whole world out there beyond what the media and clever marketing leads us to believe and when you enter it–at first you may feel a little scared and maybe even a little angry at being deceived for so long but every single aspect of your life will begin to change, for the better.
Healing will happen. True healing. The kind that nourishes the body and mind, the kind that recognizes the body as the whole, living, breathing entity that it is– which is not seperate from the world around it. Our perception shifts when we begin to look at our entire world as a whole, ourselves and our loved ones as whole beings verse symptoms or problems to fix.
This is the meaning of holistic health.
Nature can heal us. Sunshine can heal us. Rain can heal us. Raw food can heal us. Meditation can heal us. Fresh air can heal us. Water can heal us. Breastfeeding our children can heal us. Exercise can heal us. Yoga can heal us. Plants can heal us. Touch can heal us. Breathing, deeply, can heal us. The energy of love can heal us.
Modern day medicine can not.
It’s all in our hands– to empower, to educate, to move towards a new paradigm of health.
Let us begin.
-Paulee McCormack
Honoring the Light 