Protecting and Healing the Body is an Art

When we care about self and others, we are inspired by the love of the spirit and motivated through soul memory to create with new ideas, new concepts, new perspectives, and new levels of conscious awareness. It is time we expand our creative abilities to help ourselves in disease prevention and treatment.

It is evident within our world that physicians and nurses are not always comfortable with the outcome of therapy. It is also evident by the expanding liabilities that patients and families are not comfortable with medical care.

Physicians are facing a world of people that are not happy with the medical care they are receiving. But from the perspective of the medical world they are doing all that they were taught to do. The medical world has become a "victim" of the cyclic energy of instant gratification. The more science focuses upon scientific gratification, the more the public focuses upon self-gratification.

This phenomena of the "quick fix" creates an energy that is captured between the judicial and medical system. Feeding upon this system is the supporting energy of self-gratification for the pharmaceutical business, all the supporting businesses of the medical world, the insurance companies, and the government.

There are more and more instances occurring where medical judgment is based upon the beliefs and self-gratification needs of the physician and patient, and not upon correcting the balance within the body. The beliefs of the patient are many times manipulative and unethical in the world of science. In turn, science can be manipulative and unethical in the world of mankind.

The reasons for opposite focuses are multiple and they are always influenced by all sectors of society that support and expand the phenomena of self-gratification and dissatisfaction. Instant gratification is publicized by all avenues of the media, the family, the schools, and the business world.

Blaming is a disease of negative energy. Creating change is a challenge of positive energy. Death can never be avoided in all instances because the spirit uses death as its method of change. But it is our responsibility to create an atmosphere of healing and loving support regardless of the choice of the spirit. Change will occur more rapidly when multitudes of people understand the need for change and are willing to support change.

Medicine is an art. Protecting and healing the body is an art. Science has made many advances that can be integrated with the art that is within the soul and spirit of us. Now we need to open our minds to new perspectives, new ideas, new inspirations, and integrate them with the intellect that has expanded within us.

Integrating art and science will give us the opportunity to provide for ourselves the love and support that we all may need at some point in our lives. This challenging endeavor will benefit from the loving energy of each and every person who understands the importance of self.

The Purpose of the IMS Online School

The Language of Silence

The language of silence is the energy consciousness of the form and feeling of words. Within the stillness is expansiveness, knowledge, all the words, all the feelings that have been, and will be in the language of the Universe. This consciousness is there eternally for us to utilize. It is the ego of man that keeps man exclusively focused within the physical world of words.

Sharing understandings will not BE if there is truly no understanding within. The activities of man make it necessary to listen to the voice within. In our world this is known as intuition.

Intuition is the expression of spirit guidance. Intuition is connecting physical understanding to the spirit consciousness. Intuition is an automatic response within the inner self of man. It is not a thought process that one evaluates and assesses in making a decision. It is a discernment, a knowing that defies scientific proof within you your reality. The inability to prove something on your level of awareness does not mean that it does not exist. It does man that you have connected with an energy flow of the Universe that is a memory for you.

It is the ego that becomes threatened by soul memory and spirit guidance. Intuition is a spirit influence - a guidance from the inner spirit of the self. Intuition is a silent language from the spirit world. The man who relies on his ego will not rely on his intuition. It would not be logical to accept help from such an unidentifiable source. The ego of man is a person of "status," who demands status in return. Status is a perception. Living from the ego force will permit man to climb to the top of his physical reality by using his fellow man as his stepping stones. This process of growth at another's soul expense is growth only on a physical level. We do not grow spiritually by putting another soul at a disadvantage. Manipulation is an ego function.

This lesson will be a lesson that another has agreed to share in, and the lessons they are learning in this instance will normally be diametrically opposite. One lesson will be focused within the spirit plane and one lesson will exist only on the physical plane. Neither will be right or wrong but will be what is needed for each soul in that creation. Adversity is an ego function with all of the emotional drama of anger, hate, and fear that is a drama of the physical. Only man commits to adversity. It is within the activities of adversity that man learns to listen to his spirit. Adversity is indeed a physical challenge that is a role of the physical realm. Man was created in the image of God. The image of God is the image of love. When we create with love, we understand the power of the creation of love.

(for more on this subject, read pp. 203-205, Bridges of Consciousness)

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Why Do We Have a Sick and Befuddled Society?

We are designed as human beings to live from the guidance of our Sensory Energy. Our sensory energy is an integrated design that is found within our physical energy and which is motivated through our Spirit Consciousness. Our Spirit Sensory Energy is a Dual Design in the same manner as our human design. We were given our Spirit Sensory Energy to help us understand ourselves as male and female human beings. It was imperative that we learn to understand ourselves, everyone around us, Earth, nature, and the challenges of our physical lives if it was our intention to grow, change, and evolve as a human species. As human beings, we are still struggling to understand ourselves in relationship to each other, Earth, and the Universal System. It is our Sensory Energy that explains all of our human life to us. Once we begin to understand the essence of our human life, we begin to understand ourselves, which is really the secret of life.

Now we have a sick and befuddled society that is struggling to understand itself and how to live a healthy and productive life. Despite our challenges, we continue to be ignorant of what is making us sick to death. It truly is not a deep and mysterious challenge that we face. As we learn to know thyself, we begin to understand that we are one with the Universe, Earth, and Nature. We are energy and we are matter. We have made a scientific effort to destroy the validity of these three supporting features of our physical life, which has presented us with our present-day challenges through Nature, Earth, and the Universe. We are always challenged to see ourselves as the culprits in destroying our own health and happiness.

First IMS Online Course!

Invest in yourself first! How well do you truly Know Yourself?
Understand your relationships as you never have before! Strengthen your drive to integrate your spirit, mind, and body in all aspects of your life with loving, real-world guidance. You will be challenged in this course to gain a greater appreciation of all your relationships as experiences of self-discovery. Discovering ourself is our path of learning, and learning is the way our soul evolves.

Course begins Sept. 14! Enrollment is limited for this pilot course, so sign up today - Visit my IMS Online School for course information.

Next Seminar - How & Why We Have Spirit Sensory Energy

For thousands of years, humans have lived and learned, seeking to Know Themselves and their purpose on Earth. How many of us continue to ask ourselves who we are as human beings, why we live and die as we do, what is freedom, what is love, what does it mean to be healthy and happy? These are indeed eternal questions. They are not eternal mysteries, except to the mind that does not continue to gain knowledge and use that knowledge to become an Ethical Energy being living in physical form, as a human being. Do we become "better people" each day? What does it mean to become a "better person"? How do we know? Are our minds truly open to knowing ourselves as energy beings?

We have a tendency to see ourselves as simply physical beings that live only one physical life and then we die. We need to realize that we are growing and streamlining ourselves as energy beings as we learn and change in each and every one of our physical lives. If we do not learn, we do not change! If we do not understand the importance of our internal growth and change, our thinking mind and emotional self will continue to be strictly focused in the physical reality that we accept as who we are. Our physical lives are at all times a learning experience for our Dual Soul and Spirit Consciousness, but when we begin to see every aspect of our human experiences as an energy learning experience for the "internal energy design of us," we take our learning out of the physical concepts and shift it to the energy concept of who we are as evolving human beings.

We are much more unique as cellular beings than we have accepted and learned about. We are Spirit Consciousness Energy that lives eternally, whether we are living in physical matter or we are living in total Spirit Consciousness Energy. At this point in our evolution we cannot consciously learn without the support of our physical matter and our consciousness intention. We use our physical senses as part of our Spirit Consciousness Energy to stimulate our thinking mind and its consciousness levels, to allow ourselves to grow and change through our energy stimulation. We automatically respond to the physical reality of life at the precise level of Consciousness Energy that we are living. This is why we must always focus on growth and change as the energy of our physical lives. Without growth and change within our physical reality, we will not grow and change enough to create a higher level of consciousness in our next life.

We all know people that we immediately understand do not meet our operational level of energy, and we know that we must adjust our own internal energy fields if we want to be capable of communicating with that person on their individual level of energy. Once we are living at higher levels of energy, we understand how to use our physical energy without losing any of our Internal Spiritual Energy, therefore we can communicate with anyone by using our "sliding scale" of energy fields. Athletes refer to their capabilities as their "physical energy" without realizing that physical energy is not an "original" energy fields. Our physical energy is a by-product of our thinking mind and physical body, and both of these energies have built-in energy sources. As humans we are not "original" energy fields, but we are created energy fields that are very methodically returning into new physical life and intentionally moving through different energy fields to help us grow and change internally.

Socrates spoke of this sliding scale when he discussed with others through his questions and answers, asking that others "take me with you" so that I might follow your thought and then reply. This art of dialogue is the opposite of war, and leads to wisdom as minds listen and respond. Today we seem uncomfortably content with simple answers which do not lead us to wisdom. Simplicity leads to wisdom when minds are open to Knowing themselves, and exploring the energies which make up our design, the history of us as interactive, interdependent energy beings.

Join us, enjoy the art of dialogue, give your mind the gift of guidance of spirit love and its infinite senses! Next seminar - August 30! How and Why We Have Spirit Sensory Energy. (The picture above is the Pittsboro Community House, new home of our current Spiritual Philosophy events. Imagine yourself there, see if you don't smile!)

Providing Balance in Life

Man has difficulty opening to the mind to the Universal Consciousness, because man has a fear of looking within. Looking within must begin with the ego being subjected to an intense and concentrated review. When man begins to review the ego actions of life, the ego responds with resistance. You will think such things as: 'I wasn't responsible for that.' 'It just happened.' 'I don't need to feel guilty.' 'I was only trying to help.'

Go beyond this chatter of the ego and look for the lesson. Looking within is not an exercise to destroy the ego. It is an exercise of providing balance in life. The ego is only a small part of the life of man on Earth. When the ego takes over control of man's life, dramas are created to defend the take-over.

Search for moments in your life when you can be with silence. Silence has an expansiveness and openness that is innate within itself. Silence does not fence you in as sound fences you in. When you can become comfortable with silence you will find the higher self that is you, reaching further and further into the spiritual world. You will begin a silent communication of energy which you will be able to identify by the peaceful feelings that will wash over you. At this moment the ego may create fear. Do not respond.

This silence does not remove your consciousness, it expands your consciousness. You will be aware of your physical world, but you will be developing an awareness of things within that physical world that you did not see before. You will feel a freedom, a wideness to your world. In time your thoughts will begin to come from a higher level, and you will suddenly be astounded by how profound you can be.

As you allow yourself to travel further and further into the stillness, the silence of life, you will begin to develop an awareness of light within this expansiveness. The light will increase into an understanding, a knowledge of self and your intimate relationship to the Universe. This will be the beginning of your transformation from a physical being into a balanced being. You will give nothing up. You will be adding to.

The entire world of man has been focused upon the physical self from the beginning of time. In your world today this fascination with the physical body controls much of your economy; even your medical and food industries. Man will become aware of the soul and spirit of self more rapidly, when he makes the choice to focus on the soul and spirit. (Bridges of Consciousness, 91-92)

Simple

Once we understand our mind, the rest is simple!

"The man who has no fear has an open mind. He is willing to go with the flow of life. He is willing to be exposed to new ideas, new thoughts, and new concepts. The man who understands love knows that he is in control and that he has conscious choice in his world. He has no fear of change because he understands the enfinity of his spirit self. He accepts that he is eternal and cannot be harmed.

A man who has no fear looks at himself, not in judgement, but in relationship to his exposure and his lessons. He views himself as he views other people, with unconditional love. If he makes what the world might identify as a 'mistake,' he sees it as a lesson because he created the opportunity to learn from the opposite of what he wanted. He has now created the opportunity to change and to grow within himself. Always, he continues to love himself and his neighbor because his perception of his world is new, with motivating and creative challenges."

Bridges of Consciousness, 46. (my second book)

Reviewing Self

At least once a day we need to look within ourselves and do a thorough review of who we are, how we are functioning, what our focus is, and what we want to create in our lives. I have been doing this little self-test for most of my adult life and I never cease to be amazed at how good it makes me feel to know who I am, where I am going, how I want to get there, and how much time it is going to take for me to meet my goals. We should do frequent reviews to make certain that we are following the path that works for us and that is going to make us feel good about what we do. One thing that I have learned is that we cannot always depend upon the amount of money that we make as the token of our success. I find it more encouraging to look at the lives that I touch and help along my journey, than to look at the bottom line in terms of money return. This is not necessarily a smart way to do business, but it is a way to help people who are not in the highest income bracket of life. There is also a great deal of satisfaction in seeing a face light up because their pain has left their body.

The joy of my life is my nervous system. When I say this most people look at me as though I have just declared my death warrant, but it is more like a life warrant than anything else could ever be. When I was a child I had rheumatic fever very badly, which didn’t even begin to subside until several months after I had a tonsillectomy (at 16). When I was a child there was no penicillin or any other drug to treat Strep Throat, which was considered to be the primary cause of rheumatic fever at the time. The theory must have been correct because the entire concept of rheumatic fever is only a memory today in civilized countries rather than a childhood epidemic. Having my tonsils out literally changed my life and allowed me to run, walk, play, and work without intense pain. Learning to live without the severe pain always being present in my joints and in my body was a revelation to me.

I had always wanted to be a nurse. When I was two years old I told my parents that when I grew up I was going to be a nurse. They were stunned because they could not understand where or how I learned the word nurse. In addition, they looked at their sick child that was always on the verge of death and wondered where and how I could ever be well enough to pursue being a “nurse,” while I was deathly sick with rheumatic fever. It was confusing to them to have me speak about something that was foreign to my experience and age at the time, especially in the relationship that I verbalized in how to relate it to an adult life and the concept of health. That was my beginning declaration into the concept of making nursing my chosen career. I never faltered in my intention, and happily I fulfilled my own challenge in May 1951. It was not always easy, but in relationship to the pain that I had experienced in my early life, I was now living essentially a “pain-free” life.

Later I learned how controversial pain can be. My level of pain was simply my level of pain which I learned to tolerate and to grow within. Later in my life, when I became essentially pain-free, I could not believe the divine difference between agony and pleasure. How can anyone equate that difference without living it?

My Life: Conquering Pain

I was born knowing what pain is. I lived with pain from infancy, 1930, until 1992. When anyone lives in pain as long as I have lived in pain, you develop an intimacy with the pain that allows you to ignore the pain for more exciting moments in your life. I was born on October 13, 1930 and from infancy until 1992 I lived with a dramatic level of pain. Pain expanded my motivation of life. I found myself doing many things that I might not have tackled otherwise, simply to force my body into a higher level of activity. I announced to my parents when I was two years old that I was going to be a nurse. Neither one of my parents could understand how I knew the word nurse, let alone created the motivation to stress myself even further. My primary pain was the result of rheumatic fever which was common in America when I was a child. I never spent a day or a night without overwhelming pain that literally wracked my body. My parents took me to every Doctor in town, hoping that one of them would have an answer, but in the 1930s there was no answer for rheumatic fever.

When I was six years old (1936) a new doctor moved into our hometown and I was taken to see him. I will never forget this big, rough-as-a-cobb man with his red hair, because he made me bend my legs and arms, he made me touch my toes, and twist my spine. The pain was incredible, but even at my youthful age I knew that the pain made me feel better over time. He was relentless in his instructions. He had my parents order oranges by the bushel, which were then shipped to our home from Florida by Rural Route Delivery. He instructed me on being conscious of my pain, where it traveled, and how I felt afterwards. He taught me a method of compression to deal with my acute and unbearable pain. He began to treat me with cod liver oil to supplement my diet of fresh oranges and fresh farm foods, and he made me walk, run, and jump as though I had no pain. In time, I began to feel better and I became capable of walking the four miles to our country school.

This doctor looked very large to me at six years old, and later I realized that he looked large because he was large, probably well over 6 feet tall with red hair and a no-nonsense attitude that made me active even when my pain was intense and I wanted to cry. His name was Dr. Logan and he had been an Army Doctor prior to moving to Salem, Illinois. He taught me more about the nervous system and the pain that could be generated by the nervous system than any other physician in my young life. He taught me about muscles, nerves, bones, and flesh in his gruff and no-nonsense manner. He would pick up my inflamed and swollen legs and arms and he would make me bend my joints and use my muscles. I would cry, but he never gave up and he never showed even one ounce of pity for me. He made me live with the pain and activate my body with the same intensity that I am sure he would have used with a healthy child.

It was Dr. Logan that gave me my first lesson in the nervous system and what the nervous system meant to us as human beings. He taught me to “think health” and to look beyond pain. He would tell me about the growth of my body and how it affected the intense pain that I was living. I lived with chronic pain because I was living with a streptococcus infection that had no cure at that time in the history of medicine. When I was sixteen, I reached the golden age where they allowed me to take “drip Ether” for a tonsillectomy to remove my streptococcal-infected tonsils. This was a gigantic step forward in restoring my health, which was dangerous but accepted as I had a goal of getting into Nursing School when I graduated from high school.

During the fifteen plus years that I was a patient of Dr. Logan’s, I learned about our physical body, its bones, ligaments, muscles, nerves, blood vessels and the pain that a streptococcal infection could cause in my body. From the age of 16 to 18, my focus was on healing my physical body so that I would be accepted into nursing school. Those painful years of my life taught me much more than I could ever have learned if I were healthy. Most importantly I learned that healing is possible, and when we can will ourselves out of pain, we certainly have a more positive choice of healing ourselves and being capable of living a healthy life. At the age of eighteen I applied to St. Vincent de Paul in Indianapolis, Indiana to attend their Nursing Program and I was healed and I was accepted.

Dr. Logan probably taught me more about my body and its capabilities during my youth than any Doctor had before or has since. It was an invaluable lesson that lives with me today. He taught me most of all how to cope with and to deal with intense pain by recognizing what was happening in my body at any given time. He taught me to be consciously aware of my brain, my lungs, my heart, all of my nervous system, my blood system, my kidneys, my boney structure, plus every other organ in my brain and body. From that initial focus of learning about the multiple organs and systems in our body, I was hooked. I wanted to know more, much more, and therefore I did. When I graduated from Nursing School, I followed my heart and went into Tuberculosis research. After this nursing stint I took time off to have six beautiful children. When I returned to work in my late 30's and early 40's I spent many years learning the intricacies of Nursing and Hospital Administration, before I began my second career in research. This time the research was focused on the HLA and DNA as it was being discovered through organ transplant.

In 1984 I quit working in transplant and decided that I would work with clients on my own. Since I was a small child and very sick, I had become intensely aware of the energy that lives in each of us as human beings. When I worked as a nurse I was always in touch with the energy as it left a person’s body, and I liked the sense it gave me. This was a very intense energy feeling that I had also experienced when I went with my parents to visit the “dead.” During my years in hospital nursing, I had always been fully aware of the energy leaving a person’s body. Since I was very conscious of the energy within the human body, I taught myself to work with this energy field to better understand death and dying, as well as the overall energy field that seemed to always leave the body of the dead.

As I worked with this energy I found that the energy would listen intensely to me and would many times follow my suggestions to the letter. This prompted me to begin working closely with the energy itself through interactive communication. I was very pleased with the results that I discovered, which prompted me to see if I could heal different diseases in the body by using the person’s own internal energy. The more that I worked with the internal energy, the more successful I became in making the changes that I could see needed to be made. In time I began to address very serious diseases such as cancer with a great deal of success. The secret to healing diseases is to be capable of seeing the energy and dramatically changing the energy, which changes the physical situation. I soon discovered that I could not heal a person that did not want to be healed, nor could I work with energy that did not want to be worked with from an outside force.

Since my first forages into “energy work” I have learned how to interact with many forms of energy. In most cases any energy that is open to being healed can be healed. Some people do not want to be healed because their future plans are already made and set in place. Conquering pain is a major focus for many people, which can change the entire focus of their disease outcome.

I Love Rocks

I love rocks. I have always loved rocks. I remember my mother wondering why I was always picking up rocks and carrying them with me when I was a small child. My sister and I used to wander the farm and beyond, roaming the woods until we came upon one of our favorite places, a beautiful river where we swam. The water was deep in this spot, with a sandy bottom loose with pebbles. It was one of our favorite places to enjoy the beauty and peace of nature. As much as I love flowers, I have a special affinity with rocks. The minerals within us are part of our chemical relationship to Earth as our home, and rocks are a wonderful image of layers of minerals that have grown into different forms over millenia, just as we have evolved as consciousness into our human form. The Earth supports us in our physical strength, as we eat from nature, drink pure water, breathe fresh air, and enjoy the beauty of nature in all forms.

We are one with nature in the identical way that we are one with the Universe and Earth. When we destroy the natural hierarchy of nature we destroy the natural hierarchy of our body and mind. Learning to honor our body, mind and spirit must be our first step forard in correcting disease. When we intellectually accept our soul memory and spirit influence, we will change our behavior towards our physical balance and toward the physical balance of nature.

Know Thyself

We humans are very much creatures of habit, so the concept of change is foreign to our thought patterns.

Our physical body and our thinking mind continue to grow and change until death. We see ourselves living this pattern of growth and change from birth until death and still we deny evolution?

Spiritual Philosophy is the only subject that tells us who we are, why we are here, and what our goals are in being human. You can enhance your life, your function, and your occupation by learning about yourself. As the ancient philosopher Socrates clearly said, "Know Thyself," which makes it easier to see why we look at the world differently when we understand ourselves and our relationship to the world, other people, Nature, Earth, and the Universe. Spiritual Philosophy teaches us about the Unity that we live and helps us release our belief in separation. To change into the first level of Consciousness, we must have this knowledge. Many people today are not yet living in a level of Conscious Awareness. This helps us to see why we must learn Spiritual Philosophy before we can grow beyond an external level of Conscious Awareness.

The more that I experience what is happening in our world with our thinking, behaviors, and diseases, the more clearly I understand the need for every person alive to understand their Spiritual/Physical Being, as one integrative chemical design. We do have the internal power to understand ourselves and change our lives into peaceful, healthy lives. We have lived our beliefs in separation long enough and we have fought many wars to maintain our beliefs in separation, which allows us to clearly see the need for wholeness and change. The bottom line is that no one else can change for us. We must be open and willing to learn how to change within ourselves.

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Hungry? Next Spiritual Conversations Night

Friday, June 19 at Kathy Oddenino's
7:30-9:30pm

Being is the miracle of life.
The unconscious force
of forward motion
Consciousness expanded
As we open to the wisdom
of understanding self.

Think creatively with love! We are energy first, matter second. What is energy? We are electromagnetic energy as electricity and magnetism that exists in three different force fields of physical energy, soul energy, and spirit energy. Energy by its very nature must move and change, and therefore as human energy we must move and change or decay will result. Energy never dies but it can change form.

Enjoy ongoing conversations about what it means to live an Ethical life....Bring your opening mind, questions, a friend, the beverage of your choice and JOIN US! RSVP, kathy@kathyoddenino.com or call 919-545-9937

Being True to Ourself

We must search to understand our experiences and be open to changing our beliefs. Our enlightened soul memory will force the issue of new concepts over and over again within our thoughts and our experiences. It is our resistance and denial of personal growth and change from these new concepts that brings on depression as our ego vibrations pull us back into our belief systems.

Denying and resisting change is like being stuck in a dark room with no windows and doors for our intellect and ego. The more we resist and deny changing our beliefs, the deeper our soul depression becomes, until it takes over our life and we begin to live from the depths of despair. The moment you feel depressed begin searching for new ideas, use your imagination, read a thinking person's book, and, most of all, go out in nature to enjoy the light, air, and water. Eat an orange and say, "I AM Love."

Once we begin to accept ourself with love we begin to acknowledge our talents and virtues. As we become consciously aware of our ethical values, we will find ourself using them in place of our negative judgements. Speaking our truth gives us a sense of freedom and courage. Loving ourself brings wisdom, unity, faith, and trust into our daily life experience. The more we actively use our ethical values in our daily life the more intensely aware we are of the courage and strength that we have found in being true to ourself.

Spiritual Conversations - May 29! 7:30-9:30pm

The more we can have spiritual conversations, the more we can see our relationship to Earth, and really begin to use Nature and Earth to support ourselves in a different way. I can look at the trees, drink a glass of water, and enhance my energy dramatically. Do people understand how walking through the grass can add strength? We just see ourselves in such a restricted way that we increase our disease activity, our depression. We do all kinds of things that we don't need to do. It's very sad, because once we can see the beauty of who we are, and understand that we can live for a very long time if we just understand our relationship to nature we will change the world!

Join us! Call us at 919-545-9937 or 919-357-5484 for directions and to let us know you're coming.

Find the Energy Level that is Perfect for You

Learn to observe with discernment. Be aware without judgment. Learning not to judge is an Earth lesson that takes man one step closer to his goal of perfection. Awareness gives you the freedom of individual choice without judgement.

Your society has become an “accepting” society, yet it does not want to accept the responsibility for personal health or personal disease. All of man must accept the responsibility for self. There is no other way for man to live. Each of us is responsible for what we are and for what we eat. Allowing others to be responsible for our health, such as fast-food chains, food processors, the medical community and drug companies, is flirting with total degeneration of the physical self. We create our own reality. The responsibility for individual health belongs to the individual. The choice is ours.

Blindly following the path of advertisements, fads, belief systems or any teacher, without evaluating how it feels to you on an energy level is seeking problems. You are seeking your own individual balance of cellular energy. You must first know yourself and the needs of your physical self to find the energy level that is perfect for you. It is indeed a personal search. In a world of leaders, many have become followers.

The commercial mentality, “All food is good food,” has been taught in medical schools, nutrition programs and to the general public. Look at your health problems and you can observe that the concept, the belief, is not valid. Read the research of your world for yourself. Choose your own belief. Raise your awareness level. Challenge yourself to learn all there is to learn about health and your body. Read with discernment because the challenge is in finding what truly works.

In a world of leaders too many of you have made the conscious choice to follow others in the world of nutrition, despite the creativeness that you exercise in other areas of your existence.

There is joy and satisfaction in learning about your physical response to eating. There is joy and satisfaction in preparing and sharing good food with friends and family. There is complete cellular joy and happiness in feeling true vitality within. When you eat something, how do you feel?

(Joy of Health, pp. 143-144)

Happy Mother's Day!

Thank you for the flowers!