Sunday, October 14, 2012

Is health important?

Misconceptions and Vital Truths

All of us hope we will never get sick - or, if we do, we have a strong desire to get better quickly.

Do you consider yourself to be a healthy person?  Not many people can answer this question with an unqualified "yes".  Not many, I expect, because not being sick is not equivalent to being healthy.  In Eastern medicine, there is a term "dormant illness."  This term represents a condition in which a person is not yet sick and yet not completely healthy.  In other words, it is a condition in which a person is but one step away from getting sick.

Even people who consider themselves healthy are often troubled by such problems as chronic constipation or diarrhea, insomnia, and stiff neck and shoulders.  These symptoms are SOS signals that your body is sending out. And if you make light of them by saying "this is normal for me" or "I am usually like this", you run the risk of having the condition progress into a serious illness.

Take care of your health now before it's too late and too costly.