I was inspired to start writing about health today. Kathy Jodrey did a post on Alternative Treatments for Cancer. She did a good job and it reminded me of what a great need there is for good information.

 

I have held off on writing too much about health issues because I don't want to be known simply as the "natural health guru" because there are so many other things that are just as important to me…or actually more so.

 

My family and other relationships are at the very top of my list as well as learning how to grow in maturity, hope, faith and love in every area of life…including my business life. I am passionate about sharing these things and I greatly desire to share my experiences in life as they are quite unique relative to most of the world…especially most of the western world.

 

We have a unique family in this world and a large part of that is because we truly do everything out of our home. We home-birth, home-school, have home-businesses, do healthcare out of our home, minister to our friends and neighbors out of our home and a whole host of other things as well.

 

My hope is to share many of these things…because we do a great deal of things very well and it shows in our children especially.

 

But today…as I shared from the beginning, I want to talk for a moment about some basics regarding home health care and then say a word or two about Cancer in particular in honor of Kathy's post.

 

As many of you know…we have seven children. Out of seven children we have had seven home-births. Out of a cumulative 59 years of our children's lives they have never seen a doctor for any health issues.

 

When we were a bit more naive with our first born we did take him once at eight days old to get just a couple of the vaccinations. We quickly decided that we only did that out of fear and decided there was really no good reason to ever make that mistake again.

 

Other than that one visit…our seven children have never visited a doctor's office, a hospital or anything of the sort. Plus…a doctor, nurse or anything like that has never visited them (other than friends just visiting for the sake of visiting).

 

They have never had a medication of any kind enter their bodies (no not even an aspirin or anything like that). They have been raised on predominantly healthy foods, herbs and other natural substances.

 

For some of you none of this is a big deal…but for others you are thinking one of two things: 1) Wow…how in the world did you do it? or 2) That is great for you but you haven't had the same things happen as we have. You wouldn't have been able to do that with our circumstances.

 

I am not here to say that the way we do things is the only way available and no we have not experienced the same things you have in your family. But…we have had our own experiences and they have been enough.

 

There are some basic reasons why we have been able to pull this off…and I anticipate being able to give our kids the insight, knowledge and beginning in life to be able to live their entire lives in this fashion.

 

At the core of my belief system concerning health is that the western model misses the mark as it relates to the causes and effects of illness in the body. The western model uses the work of Louis Pasteur as its model.  In essence…Pasteur believed, and it was corroborated by his research, that organisms caused most diseases.

 

This was a brilliant deduction based upon the scientific research that he undertook. Unfortunately, as with most science, the theory usually is able to be "proven true" while only using a very narrow set of criteria and not fully expanding the study into areas where the theory may be proven false.

 

For instance…although it may be true that organisms play a role in the "dis-ease" states of the body…is that all we need to know? Pasteur and all of western medicine from that point on believes this to be the case.

 

We are raised with the notion that a virus causes a cold…or that certain bacteria will make you sick and so forth. It appears to be true…but is it really?

 

There was another scientist who was a contemporary of Pasteur. His name was Dr. Claude Bernard. He developed the theory of Biological Terrain. He believed that the start of most if not all illnesses began as a result of imbalances within the cells and tissues of the body.

 

Another gentleman by the name of Antoine Bechamp was working on yet another theory during this same time period. Without going into too much detail I will summarize his theory.

 

Bechamp believed (in essence) that there were always tiny organisms present within all things…living or dead…and that they could take on different forms depending upon the environment in which they "lived." This theory was never able to be proved fully so it was lost along with Bernard's work along the way to the vast majority of people.

 

This was true until along came a mechanical engineer by the name of Royal Rife. His work is very controversial but in essence he created a microscope made out of prisms that enabled him to see living microorganisms in such a way that did not disrupt their natural rhythms of life.

 

He was able to overcome the many limiting factors of today's microscopes…the distortion of images with a normal microscope when trying to create a view that is too magnified (there are various reasons for this that have not been overcome other than with Rife's technology) and the need to kill the organisms to see through an electron microscope.

 

Rife discovered that different organisms illuminated themselves at different wavelengths of light and he learned how to manipulate the light used in his microscope to actually be able to see these microorganisms move and live.

 

He also  discovered that when you change the environment…the microorganism also changed. This confirmed the theories of both Dr. Claude Bernard and also Antoine Bechamp as well. It also confirmed the work of Louis Pasteur in that these changed microorganisms could wreak havoc on the body.

 

So…although Rife's life and work were destroyed because of the intense opposition to his views, his work has been researched and still lives on in small concentrated areas of science. In fact…his original microscope (only five were ever in existence) is now able to be duplicated again because some select scientists discovered how it worked.

 

Rife's work is very important to the understanding of health and how to care for yourself and your family. Dr. Bernard Jensen and Mark Anderson sum this up nicely in their book Empty Harvest, "The germ theory is still believed to be the central cause of disease because around it exists a colossal supportive infrastructure of commercial interests that built multi-billion-dollar industries based upon this theory. To the scientific satisfaction of many in the health field, it has long been disproven as the primary cause of disease. Germs are, rather, an effect of disease."

 

It is this understanding that enables us, as a family, to be able to care for ourselves without the outside intervention of people who have a wrong view of how the body works and how to care for it.

 

I do not agree with the concept that you poison the pathogen to kill it to get your health back, No…poison to a pathogen is also poison to a body…and this concept does not give the body a chance to get better it only averts an emergency for a short time.

 

It also sidesteps the body's natural immune response. It truly is a remarkable system that God created. It is played out at so many levels in nature. The cycle goes something like this:

 

When the body is in balance it is healthy. When we allow toxicity through the food we eat, the air we breathe, the energy fields we are around and a whole host of other things, the body begins to be out of balance. This is a result of the Internal environment or "terrain" changing. When the environment changes, the pathogens change shapes. When this happens, it triggers the immune response which then causes the body to begin a cleansing action to try to bring balance back to the system.

 

If a pathogen brings about an immune response so that the body starts to deal with some critical imbalances within itself…then what happens when you kill the pathogen? So…if you kill the pathogen with poison…not only is the poison further contributing to the toxicity in the body…but the body's immune system stops working and the reason for the whole process has suddenly been lost to the innate wisdom of the body.

 

In other words…the poisons stop the body from its own natural processes of healing. People feel relief after the poisons because the immune response is stopped in its tracks. The body not only becomes more toxic as a result of the poison, but the latent toxicity stays in the body as well.

 

Imagine if this process was repeated over and over again…where would you end up? You guessed it…in a severely "dis-eased" state such as cancer.

 

Now I promised I would say a few words about cancer and it is going to be a very few because one of the critical things to understand about cancer has already been covered here. However, there is one major thing I would like to share in regards to a diagnosis of cancer.

 

I believe words to be extremely powerful. They carry an intense amount of energy at so many levels. One of these levels is strictly physical in nature. That is…words carry with them a particular vibrational rate. The word cancer has a particular vibrational resonance that truly affects everything around it.

 

Now this is not so bad in and of itself…but when you combine this with a specific spiritual element that I am going to discuss right now…this vibrational resonance can become deadly.

 

In the spiritual realm there are "blessings" and "curses." These "blessings" and "curses" are powerful. Some people argue that their power resides in strictly the response of the individual through the power of belief. While others feel that the power of these things goes even deeper than that.

 

The point however is that when a person that we have placed in authority over us (someone such as a doctor—a mistake to begin with) speaks to us their words carry power. Whether that power lies only in the sphere of the beliefs of the hearer or they carry true spiritual power separate from anything else, the power is still real.

 

When you attach this power with the energetic resonance of the words themselves they tend to become imprinted  in certain tissues of our bodies. This process would take far too long to explain but suffice it to say that when a so-called "curse" is spoken to someone…it creates a situation that is very difficult to overcome.

 

You already have the physical terrain imbalances that caused the problem initially and then you add to that the accepting of a curse into the tissues and soul of the already weak and struggling individual.

 

Now I have seen the power of these curses overcome with pure and simple prayer and positive attitudes so it is not a lost cause when it happens. However, it certainly is helpful to be aware of these things when you are trying to come up with ways to battle cancer and improve your chances of destroying that enemy within yourself.

 

Anyhow…I realize that this post is long and I congratulate you for making it this far. It might be too technical as well even though I very much tried to keep it simple. I hope you understand what I am talking about and how these things are so incredibly important to our ability to keep our children healthy without the invasive intervention of western medicine.

 

You may have picked up as well…although it was not stated, it certainly is implied…that we do not use herbs and other natural remedies according to the western model either as is the case with probably 90% of the people out there.

 

We use natural remedies to change the internal environment (terrain), not to try and kill something. We aid and assist the body in its efforts to heal itself. This is what God created it to do.

 

As with all things in this life…that is all we are ever attempting to do…partner with God's work that is already in motion. I will talk more about that as well at a later time.

 

Anyhow…I hope you found this helpful…please retweet this post, share it on facebook, digg or whatever you desire. And…I would very much appreciate any comments, questions or even criticisms to what I have written.

 

Blessing everyone!