If you like the sound of this, read on…….
I embarked on a search, nearly 35 years ago, for ways to get better long-lasting, pain-relieving results from treatment after witnessing first hand in my own family the inability of our western medicine to heal pain. By definition, if western medicine wasn’t successful enough, I had to look beyond our own medicinal doctrine. This took me on a journey which opened my eyes to knowledge which I could see had real benefits to those in constant pain or suffering with illnesses which could be largely avoided.
Inevitably my communications on alternative ways to treat conditions was met with a mixture of disbelief or derision, quite understandable, as it did not fit with the belief systems of that time. The latter was very much based on the individual being a passive player in their own health with the responsibility left to the medical expert with an adequate supply of pills and the occasional bit of surgery.
Not deterred, I wrote my first book, ‘The 4 Keys To Health’, in which I presented an approach where the individual was enjoying being actively engaged, for life, in following a regular drumbeat of healthy habits. This I summarised as a Wellness approach. Unfortunately, ‘Wellness’ was at that time still a term commonly filed in the quackery bin and my books gathered dust, mostly unread.
The message contained, however, was as valid then as it is today. The benefits which could be derived by following a Wellness approach are still just as relevant today, if not more so. With the NHS on its knees, there has never been a more momentous need for a good immune system, particularly should another pandemic arrive.
The good news is that Wellness is now a term firmly embedded in our culture, evidenced in the explosion of wellness clinics and the ever-increasing number of TV programs now introducing the very same topics I learnt about and enthused over 10 to 30 years ago.
Perhaps though, if I may suggest, the benefits are even larger now, as our nation’s health and that of our children, is not going in the right direction. Yes, life expectancy is increasing, but healthy life expectancy is not keeping pace, so the expectation is that a larger proportion of our lives will be lived in ill health, a slow painful experience due to lack of healthy habits and a dangerously lazy need to pursue comfort.
Who, in their right mind, would want this? Well nobody of course, but here comes the Achilles heel.
Not deterred, I wrote my first book, ‘The 4 Keys To Health’, in which I presented an approach where the individual was enjoying being actively engaged, for life, in following a regular drumbeat of healthy habits. This I summarised as a Wellness approach. Unfortunately, ‘Wellness’ was at that time still a term commonly filed in the quackery bin and my books gathered dust, mostly unread.
The message contained, however, was as valid then as it is today. The benefits which could be derived by following a Wellness approach are still just as relevant today, if not more so. With the NHS on its knees, there has never been a more momentous need for a good immune system, particularly should another pandemic arrive.
The good news is that Wellness is now a term firmly embedded in our culture, evidenced in the explosion of wellness clinics and the ever-increasing number of TV programs now introducing the very same topics I learnt about and enthused over 10 to 30 years ago.
Perhaps though, if I may suggest, the benefits are even larger now, as our nation’s health and that of our children, is not going in the right direction. Yes, life expectancy is increasing, but healthy life expectancy is not keeping pace, so the expectation is that a larger proportion of our lives will be lived in ill health, a slow painful experience due to lack of healthy habits and a dangerously lazy need to pursue comfort.
Who, in their right mind, would want this? Well nobody of course, but here comes the Achilles heel.
