This may be the most controversial blog post I have ever created, but it also may be the most important.  Before you set one more resolution, or buy one more meal replacement, or start researching one more diet, I invite you to consider that the only way to find the health we truly want is to quit doing everything the health world is relentlessly telling us to do.  

Most people that I know are starting to recognize that the pharmacological approach to health isn’t working.  The pharmaceutical industry takes something from the outside to try to alter our insides. Pills, pills, and more pills. The result is we keep needing more and more pills.  That pattern is fairly obvious at this point.

But here is what most people DON’T seem to recognize.  We have become so used to this “pill” approach to illness that we haven’t even noticed that the so-called health industry is using the exact same approach. Why? 1) Because it has been programmed so deeply in us that we believe that  “buying something” or “taking something” is the way to fix a problem, and 2) because it is so good at generating huge amounts of money for the corporate bottom line that everything in our society is designed to promote that way of thinking.

If you look at the numbers, the health industry has become almost as big a business as prescription medicine.  In 2017 Americans spent 168 billion (not million…BILLION) on health products and diets.  Have you noticed how it seems like everyone around you is selling a health product?  That is why!  The health industry is exactly that, an industry.  It is big business.

We really want to feel better about this stuff because it can claim to be more natural than traditional medicine, but the problem is that the mind-set isn’t ANY different.  Take this pill, this shake, this powder, do this diet, and you will lose weight, you will have more energy, you will be healthier.  The same approach as medication.

But have you heard the famous Einstein quote that we can’t solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created it?  We have created this whole modern health crisis from an obsession with packaged convenience and instant fixes.  We cannot solve it the same way by going in a lab and creating more human-designed quick fix products or human-engineered diets.

If we want our health back, we have to get back to living in a way that honors how the human body works and listening to what our bodies are trying to teach us.  We need to recognize that our epidemic of illness is simply our bodies trying to send us a very important message about the true source of health.

Sadly, that isn’t what’s happening, because true healing puts both the medical and the health industry out of business!  The business world is smart, and this is a game.  Think about it.  They need you as an ongoing consumer.  If they convince you that you need to spend $200/month on their product to feel good and be healthy, in just 5 years that’s $12,000 of your money into their pocket.  And their end goal is to have you feel that your health is so dependent on taking their product that you are bound as a customer for life.  Then that is tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of your money in their pocket.  Can you see how this fosters the exact same mentality and profit-driving dependence in the health industry as it does in the pharmaceutical industry?

And what about all these diets?  We have watched them come and go from low-fat, to Atkins to Paleo to Keto.  Everyone jumps on the bandwagon because they see people having short-term results, and they are desperate for those same things…weight loss, increased energy, less pain.

The problems is, if we watch long enough to see the story play out, they ALWAYS turn out to have long term downsides in our health.  Just like with medication, you can’t use something (even food) to try to drastically change the function of one system in the human body, without putting an increased burden on another system in the body.  But it takes about 10 years of people following blindly like sheep desperate for relief before the evidence starts to surface.  In the meantime, thousands of people have turned themselves into human guinea pigs in the latest social experiment that always has a painful price to pay down the road.

The reason all this marketing works is that we are desperate.  Desperate to feel better.  Desperate to lose weight.  Desperate to not be anxious, depressed, or exhausted.  Believe me, I understand that desperation!  I have had my life on the line with my health more than once.  Desperation can be a good thing if it drives us to find new, better solutions.  But it can be our enemy if it drives us to grab the closest, easiest, or most popular solution in a bottle, bag or book.

With that kind of desperation, the health industry has been able to get us to jump from one hamster wheel of medication to another hamster wheel of health products and diets, and not even notice we are still just running in circles, circles that keep them in business.  Remember we CAN NOT permanently solve our health problems by using the same approach that created them!  That is just plain, logical truth.

So then let’s be radical and recognize that the real solution is the exact opposite.  Try this truth on for size: it shouldn’t be that hard, or that complicated, or require a factory or fad diet of any kind to be healthy.

So let’s just jump off the hamster wheel of products and diets altogether and just heal.  Really heal.  Permanently heal.

How will you know if what you are doing is really healing you?  Your body will be INDEPENDENTLY functioning according to its divine design all on its own.  Healed means we don’t need products or extreme diets to feel good.  Unfortunately, no product or extreme diet can ever give you that because it is designed to hold your health hostage in its grip.

I have had the personal experience of healing and reversing diseases, and by that I mean not even having that diagnosis on a doctors chart anymore.  And I have done that without any medications, prescribed diets or shakes or other healing products.  I have done that with fibromyalgia, with  endometriosis, anxiety, and even a colon tumor.  And here is the key that I have learned, of how real healing works.

Healing is a process of realigning your body with truth.  When what we choose to do, what we choose to eat, what we think, how we feel is in harmony with truth, the body resonates with health.  And the magic power of that is that our illnesses, our weight issues, and our pain is our body trying to help us!  When your body is sick, or tired, or overweight, or mentally struggling, your body is sending you a message.  A very carefully crafted, specific for you, message of something it needs you to change or learn.  And if you listen, it will teach you what that is AND what to do about it.  And it won’t require a second mortgage or an MLM.  When we don’t feel good, it really is a precious gift because it is like breadcrumbs leading us on the most important treasure hunt of life!  Believe it or not, being sick is actually your body’s way of helping you heal on all levels.  Sometimes our physical symptoms are revealing how we are out of balance physically.  But sometimes they are showing us where we are out of balance emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.  When we are in pain, or sick, or anxious, or exhausted, our bodies are trying to get our attention to teach us how to change to become the wonderful, powerful, happy, generous, divine person we were created to become.

That true healing process may not be fast (remember our quick-fix mentality is what got us into this mess), but it is amazingly powerful and effective!  You will be forever transformed.

Now I recognize that many out there don’t want to hear this or won’t be able to wrap their heads around it yet.  If so, they have probably quit reading by now.  If you are still reading, congratulations!! That means you are reading to finally get off the hamster wheel this year and instead discover a whole new level of healing.  If you would like to begin engaging in this process of being a true partner with your own body, I invite you to join me. 

I have 3 free classes in January to help you make the mental shift to this new place of healing.  Each one is designed to help you start seeing and understanding those breadcrumb clues YOUR body is giving you of how to find health.  Every one of you is different.  But the process of discovery is the same.  And because it is a particular passion and personal experience of mine, we will also talk specifically about our kids and the message their illnesses, allergies, behavior and mental health problems are trying to give us, and what to do about it so that they can truly heal, once and for all.

These 3 classes will change your perspective on health forever.  And they are completely free.  You can sign up at www.simplydivinehealing.com.  And if you want ongoing, weekly instruction and support this year to take you step-by-step through the entire process, Simply Divine Healing has 6 months of classes to do exactly that.

My personal goal is to completely change the paradigm of our health conversations and our health goals.  I want us talking to each other about our process of personal discovery and deep healing, not products, diets, and New Year’s cleanses.  That is how we will know that we have finally risen above the pill mentality and are on our way to real health as a society.

When I had my colon tumor the most important decision I made was that I wanted to heal.  To me that meant I wanted to come out of the experience a better and healthier person than I went into it.  That one decision shaped every other decision I made and totally changed the experience from a negative one to a positive one.  Everything I chose to do was something that strengthened my body, mind, and spirit. I avoided anything that weakened me in any way.  I had to be patient and focused as it took a year for that healing process to take place, but I came out of it better than I was before: physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.  I have been a different, and better, person ever since because I learned of how to tap into my own, innate healing power.  That is the experience I want for you in this new year.  Real healing is about becoming better…a better you.  Join me. 

And as a huge bonus, when January 2019 rolls around, we’ll have no need for HEALTH to be an INDUSTRY…at all.