Health for Happiness or Sickness for Profit?

"Many Native American cultures understand illness not as the result of some biochemical, physiological, or psychological malady, but as a sign of disorder in society or the world, which is then reflected in the illness of an individual. Diagnosis thus consists of discerning the status of the community or the world.
Healing requires repairing or restructuring these environmental concerns."

This is still a fundamental truth, but now the dial is cranked up to eleven.
The illness we see in each other and experience within ourselves is not only a personal issue but cannot be separated from the disorder of the society, economically, ethically and most important, spiritually. The individual is the pointer, the barometer, of the well being of the society.

When we consider the new statistics that at least 70% of American citizens are on medication and disease is the BIGGEST profit business in the world we can clearly see that the problem is as bad as it can be.

In Native American cultures, at this crisis point, the wise elders, presumably women and men, would step forward to address the problems of the community and the shaman would tackle the individual.
We have doctors and politicians, both enslaved by corporations.

And thus it is down to us all to heal ourselves and each other, to be both shaman and elder, to grow ourselves spiritually and to, at some point, brush aside the greedy and selfish and cruel and step forward into a golden age of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being, where the base line for humanity is not disease for profit but health for happiness.

Diving in Deeper

Keep raising the bar by diving in deeper.
I know what settling for less means. I did it most of my life.Sometimes you don't even know you are doing it. It is so easy to delude oneself and settle for less.

And yet when change comes simply from force it ultimately fails to achieve anything that nourishes or has goodness.
So constantly pushing at one's life creates stress, and surrendering in some kind of resignation creates depression and apathy.

We, like all organic forms of life, are designed for growth and expansion. But the difference with us, the thing that separates us from other forms is that we have choice. Other life forms are hard wired to follow Nature's path of growth and decay.
But we get to decide and therein lies our dilemma.
We can decide we want to grow, or we can decide not to. We can dig our heels in and say no.We can even resist.
And what makes this decision? Is it our conscious or unconscious beliefs?

We like to think it's our conscious beliefs and we are fully in control, but the truth is somewhat murky.
The majority of our decisions are dictated by unconscious beliefs inherited during our childhood. We are, in fact, programmed, and until we shift our focus and awareness, we are at the mercy of these unconscious voices.
Most people's lives, even successful people, are running on auto pilot.
And for some, thankfully, the auto pilot, at some point in their life, goes down and crashes...This can be called illness, relationship breakdown, crisis of confidence, mid life crisis, redundancy, anything.

It is the opportunity to investigate and go deeper within oneself.

By going deeper within we get to ask ourselves more fundamental questions about who we are and what we are doing.
There are riches inside us that can and will change the way we do EVERYTHING! Yet no-one ever points us there. We develop fear and trepidation about our emotions and our secret thoughts so we never explore them. But we are born explorers, and to mature nobly we need to explore the inner terrain.
That's what I do, and what I am good at.