{"id":1035,"date":"2014-11-26T08:05:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T03:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2014-11-26T08:06:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T03:06:23","slug":"1035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/archives\/1035","title":{"rendered":"Are You In Danger?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I invited you to watch the &#8220;Origins&#8221; film.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed it, it&#8217;s still be available as a free<br \/>\nscreening, here:<\/p>\n<p>  &#8211;> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceofbeingwell.net\/originsfilm\">http:\/\/www.scienceofbeingwell.net\/originsfilm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photography is beautiful. It makes me want to go to<br \/>\nthose wild places.<br \/>\nThe medical education is valuable. I&#8217;d like all my<br \/>\npatients to have this background information about the<br \/>\nbody.<br \/>\nThe conclusion is uplifting.<br \/>\nThe film is well put together.<br \/>\nThe speakers are passionate about their perspectives.<br \/>\nI watched it twice, and enjoyed it even more the second<br \/>\ntime.<\/p>\n<p>But, its premise is that the world is a toxic place<br \/>\nthat your body has not evolved to handle, so you need<br \/>\nprotection.<\/p>\n<p>   <strong>Is this true?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For years, my medical specialty was toxicity. I spent a<br \/>\nlot of time soap boxing about the dangers of toxic<br \/>\nchemicals and other toxic things in the environment,<br \/>\njust as the speakers in the film do.<\/p>\n<p>And, I discovered that talking about, focusing on, and<br \/>\nworrying about all those dangers all the time had the<br \/>\nopposite of the desired result. Instead of protecting<br \/>\nme, it made me sick. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid that at least in some cases, I also<br \/>\nnegatively influenced the very patients I was trying to<br \/>\nhelp, by directing their attention to all these<br \/>\ndangers.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n   Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve come to understand since then.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If a person is aware of a danger and feels incapable of<br \/>\navoiding harm, then the result is fear, stress,<br \/>\noverwhelm, and worsened health.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three examples. <\/p>\n<p>   1. Sam is addicted to smoking. He knows it presents<br \/>\n   a clear health risk due to the toxic fumes he is<br \/>\n   inhaling, but he feels incapable of quitting.<\/p>\n<p>   2. Mary is chemically sensitive. She feels over-<br \/>\n   whelmed by the dangers of the toxic substances in<br \/>\n   her water, air, and food, including fumes emitted by<br \/>\n   carpeting, her friends&#8217; perfume, and laundry<br \/>\n   detergent residue on their clothing. <\/p>\n<p>   She is fearful of electromagnetic fields and<br \/>\n   radiation, from cell phone towers, power lines. She<br \/>\n   is barely able to function because of her<br \/>\n   sensitivities, and her belief that the world is not<br \/>\n   safe and there&#8217;s nothing she can do about it.<\/p>\n<p>   3. Iris believes what she&#8217;s read about vegetables<br \/>\n   being really good for her. But she hates vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>   To her, healthy food has no flavor. It&#8217;s too much<br \/>\n   trouble to prepare. <\/p>\n<p>   She thinks organic food is too expensive. She&#8217;s not<br \/>\n   about to go to all the trouble of juicing or making<br \/>\n   smoothies. So, every day she believes she is harming<br \/>\n   herself by what she eats because it&#8217;s too expensive<br \/>\n   and unpleasant to eat what she thinks she should eat<br \/>\n   instead.<\/p>\n<p>For these people, awareness of danger only adds to<br \/>\ntheir stress and worsens their health.<\/p>\n<p>However, if a person is aware of a danger and feels<br \/>\nfully capable of avoiding harm by doing some things<br \/>\nthat are easy for him or her, then the result is<br \/>\nempowerment, confidence, and good health.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three examples. <\/p>\n<p>   1. I&#8217;m aware of the risk of contracting the ebola<br \/>\n   virus if I come into direct contact with an infected<br \/>\n   person. I feel fine about it, because it&#8217;s extremely<br \/>\n   unlikely that I&#8217;ll come into contact with an<br \/>\n   infected person. All I have to do is avoid<br \/>\n   circumstances I&#8217;m already easily avoiding.<\/p>\n<p>   2. I&#8217;m aware of the danger of pesticides, solvents,<br \/>\n   and other toxic chemicals. I know I&#8217;ve been exposed<br \/>\n   to many things in the course of my life, and that<br \/>\n   future exposure is inevitable. <\/p>\n<p>   I also live in an area with very low toxicity, do a<br \/>\n   pretty good job limiting my exposure during home<br \/>\n   improvement projects, and eat mostly organic food. <\/p>\n<p>   I take lots of nutritional supplements specific for<br \/>\n   helping my body process and eliminate toxic<br \/>\n   substances in my body from past and current<br \/>\n   exposure.<\/p>\n<p>   3. I&#8217;m aware of the presence of toxic substances and<br \/>\n   microbes in my body and the environment around me.<br \/>\n   I&#8217;m also aware that their ability to harm me is<br \/>\n   completely dependent upon my vibration, which is<br \/>\n   dependent upon what I am doing with my attention&#8211;<br \/>\n   what sights, sounds, sensations, events, thoughts<br \/>\n   I&#8217;m paying attention to and what stories I&#8217;m<br \/>\n   believing about them.<\/p>\n<p>   Because I&#8217;m the one who decides what I do with my<br \/>\n   attention and what I believe, it&#8217;s within my power<br \/>\n   to determine my own health.<\/p>\n<p>In these examples, awareness of my power to create my<br \/>\nown experience results in confidence and empowerment. <\/p>\n<p>This third example is the perspective you&#8217;d have if you<br \/>\nunderstand the law of attraction, which is the basis of<br \/>\nThe Science of Being Well. That&#8217;s because you&#8217;d<br \/>\nunderstand that human evolution is not limited to<br \/>\nphysical changes in our DNA.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d understand that the presence of toxic<br \/>\nsubstances&#8211;even if they are in your own body&#8211;does not<br \/>\nnecessarily mean that you will be harmed by them.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d understand that you are not what you eat, that<br \/>\nthe health of your body is primarily determined by your<br \/>\nmind, and that your best path is to turn your attention<br \/>\nto happiness. <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d let your delight, not anyone&#8217;s fearful beliefs in<br \/>\nscarcity or danger, be your guide about what to eat and<br \/>\nnot eat, when and how to exercise, how to engineer your<br \/>\nlife for exposure to nature, beauty, and peace.<\/p>\n<p>What about you? What were your thoughts about the film?<br \/>\nWhat do you believe about your susceptibility to the<br \/>\n&#8220;dangers&#8221; of the modern world?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I invited you to watch the &#8220;Origins&#8221; film. If you missed it, it&#8217;s still be available as a free screening, here: &#8211;> http:\/\/www.scienceofbeingwell.net\/originsfilm The photography is beautiful. It makes me want to go to those wild places. The medical education is valuable. I&#8217;d like all my patients to have this background information about&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/archives\/1035\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are You In Danger?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-healing","category-law-of-attraction","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/happyhealthsystem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}