Monday 8 December 2014

Why engage in energy therapies?

If we look at the big picture, we see that we live in a precarious time!  In Canada, we have this tsunami of seniors turning 65 each year.  Our population is aging and we are living longer (but not necessarily better).  Our health care system is teetering on disaster due to underfunding.  Our health care workers are facing increased stress and more difficult working conditions.  Chronic diseases are on the rise.  We are seeing a dramatic increase in type 2 diabetes and cancer diagnoses are exploding.  Does this suggest that there is a safety net there for us?
I think not!!  Quite honestly, it is not the governments responsibility to keep you healthy.  It is a personal responsibility to be healthy.  This entails conscious decisions concerning our diet, exercise, sleep, stress management, and engaging in activities which will promote the natural healing of our bodies.
One of the ways we can help to promote balance and healing is the modality of reflexology.  It has been around for 4 thousand years.  Reflexology is similar to acupressure and acupuncture.  It is concerned with allowing the energy to flow freely through out the body thus allowing the healing to be done from within.  We were not created to be in "Dis ease".  We were created to be well and the body has the ability to heal naturally. 
We have not been made aware of reflexology or other natural healing therapies because our modis operendi in treating people in North America has been by way of prescriptions (which incidentally has only been around for a couple of hundred years, if that).  Instead of running to the pharmacy for some over the counter medication which will only mask the underlying issue, consider a preventative approach to health by making better choices in food products, exercise, stress management, sleep, water intake, and engagement in natural therapies to promote balance and healing.  Yes, change is scary and difficult for many!  Consider the alternative.  Studies suggest that failure to embrace this change will result in the last ten years of your life being lived in pain and disease.  I for one, appreciate my health and wish to keep it!!