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III John 1:2
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou may prosper and be in health [synchronal to address needful things], even as your soul to prosper [able to address essential things].
soul and body
Proverbs 16:24
Pleasant words are as honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health [curative] to the bones [body].
soul and body
Matthew 9:12
Jesus overhearing, said to them, "They that be whole/well [having strength intact] need not a physician [assistant to heal], as do those who are sick [concomitant, yet unable]."
impediment or reluctance
Psalm 42:11; 43:5
Why are you cast down, O my soul? Why are you disquieted within me? You hope in God: for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health [salvation/deliverance] of my countenance, and my God.
hope in health
Psalm 67:1-2
God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause His face to shine upon us; Selah. That Your way may be known upon earth, Your saving health [salvation/deliverance] among all nations.
reach of health
Proverbs 12:18b; 13:17b
...the tongue of the wise is health [curative].
...a faithful Ambassador [turner] is health [curative].
turning to health
Key Nutritional Designs
- food within moderation: Avoid overcooking, overeating; embracing practice of consuming only as to supply need. [Proverbs 25:6,16,27].
- plant-based norms: Early historical-era diet focuses on fruits, grains and plants [Genesis 1:29].
- variety in crushed or rolled grains; sprouted grains [Ezekiel 4:9].
- moderated avoidance of formerly "unclean" foods and food sources known to be associated with elevated levels of toxin or common allergens.
- avoiding overt fat or blood intake: Leviticus 7:23-27 directs away from eating the fat of livestock; avoiding these helps the human body to better manage cholesterol, hormonal and attuned immune-functions.
Physical and Mental Wellness
- Rest and Sabbath: Observing at least one day of rest (from market toil & traffic) as crucial for physical, mental, and spiritual health.
Enter [NARROW GATEWAY] [7 days & nights a week; Hebrews 4:8-11] into the Sabbath rest given in Christ, by faith ceasing to build upon your own estate, your preferred livelihood; not captured by concerns of this world.
- Activity and Exercise: The Scriptures encourage physical activity [Proverbs 13:4; 21:5]; assigning body-exercise a minimum relative value. [I Timothy 4:8]
- Emotional Health: Cultivating a cheerful heart is deemed as good medicine [Proverbs 17:22]; redirecting self-advancing emotions (like envy) as a further aide in avoiding poor reactions to stress.
- Freedom from pharma: mind-altering substances & conditions: Abstaining from things that apprehend the body or cloud the mind.
Lifestyle and Spiritual Health
- Hygiene: Guidelines regarding washing and sanitation for not contracting or spreading common diseases [Leviticus 15].
- Gratitude and Faith: Integrating prayer and faith-trust with all of life. Confidence in Yahweh also reduces untidy stress responses while enhancing perception; interoception, foreknowledge, and general well-being.
- Realizing the purpose of Yahweh over all you say & do. my God will supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
---Philippians 4:19
Self-proviso often contributes to recurring confusion, chronic conditions or impaired function. Draft every labor as subject to the will of God in Christ; Him being your purpose to extend over all things.
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Unholy Harms
- re: Medical practice reaching for treatment rather than cure [release].
Western medicine holds out no fear of YHVH. Among the nations, the USA records death or serious disability resulting from "medical mistakes"1 brought upon nearly one million people annually. Such a high level of (preventable) negative outcomes, injury and exposure to harms, has gradually become acceptable to many Americans in their submission beneath the shadow of systemic risk.
Standard today among western medicine, allopathy [treatment with remedies intended to produce effects opposite or different to the disease/condition itself] presenting as short-sighted under the guidance of symptomatology (to include symptomatic treatment2).
TO NOTE:- Most illness and many conditions resolve with or without prescribed allopathic treatment(s).
- Less than 25% of recognized diseases now have [US FDA] approved treatments.
- Luke 8:43-48 | ~40% of Americans experience what the world has determined to be a chronic, incurrable disease; half of this number suffering multiple conditions.
- Placebo & nocebo effects are known to be resident in human beings.
Further, weakness driven by the unholiness of western medicine has helped to expand a disability culture and social normalization of infirmity, alongside pharma [drug], marketplace and service dependencies.
Yet, a yearning of souls persists for wholeness in health.
Alternative Medicine3 refers to therapy linked to a mode, philosophy and/or spirituality; seeking balance by adding counter elements (as also with allopathic medicine).
Functional Medicine4 represents an attempt to identify root causes of chronic illness, though implicitly absent the wisdom, revelation and fear of YHVH.
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Prayer for my deliverance from food addiction and using food for comfort. I am especially vulnerable at night, and I have insomnia related to eating at night.
---Cindy, New Orleans, USA-LA
Today in the world, multiplying conditions presenting often lead to allopathic false dilemmas:
---from Rick VonderBrink, M.D.
Oh we are aware [of the effects of poly pharmacy]. But if you have a patient with hypertension, type 2 diabetes, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, stented coronary arteries... what else are we supposed to do?
Love and Fondness within the Love of Christ
To know in-essence the Love of Christ which transcends knowledge that you may be being filled, as concomitant in the fullness of God.
As our Maker's precepts inform us: presenting yourself or another as a puppet; interest in so-called mannequin virtue or πορν/"porn" [seeing others perform to our gratification], makes ill the soul.
HEALTH TO enjoy seeing yourself & others being all YHVH loves for them to be and do. Expose yourself and others to Him.
HEALTH TO loving one another, rather than kindling or preferring a desire to lay hold of someone.
Fastings and Arisings
Concomitant Wedding and Family
- Consideration as when approaching progenesis; wedding, extending family...
moving forward... essentials to your well-faring, avoidance of curses (i.e, disruptive infirmity, mortality...):
- integral repudiation of autonomy, contempts, egalitarian frameworks, dissolution & divorce, πορνειαν [objectifications], impatience, entitlement, misopedia.
- Foundation for Health:
- Avoiding legacy in ancient Rome's civic traditions of producing children for the expanding function of the State, and legacy patterns of monogamy as one wife at a time. Augustine of Hippo refers to this as "Roman custom"6.
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Guarding Against Western Eroticism
From best-seller to young reader; pulpit to pew, a parallel "Christian" assumption of "biblical" safe-zone sensuality pursuant via marriage, or as a non-sexual option within "vacation" or recreation. Additionally, an older-still ethic of conquest --- almost as-if mystical in its founding. Young men being led with anticipation to contract a mate who will furnish & feed sensual desires as God-given. American women often being drawn into cultural expectation to craft or manage desire as a sporting means to relational & reproductive conquest (that so easily becomes pillage).
Sensuality at course yields spiritual, social & health outcomes similar to those associated with immoderation, insobriety, hyper-sensory stimulation (as with porn or adrenal-rush dependency): increasing self-focus, hormonal imbalance(s), expanding need for micro-injury healing, repetitive mindset, fatigue, brain fog, detachment or disinterest of purpose, increased disengagement, disaffection, frustration, etc.
men and boys
Do not be deceived. [ref: Numbers 25]
Get wisdom & understanding before you consider adding & joining to wed for child-bearing. Complete the week to wed. [Genesis 29:27-28] The peace of YHVH to guard your hearts and minds.
Compassion and Interoception5 |
To some wavering, be compassionate making a difference with remedy.
Jude 1:22 ---
The compassion of Christ within heightening our awareness, observing that the mercies of Christ sustain vibrant awareness in compassion and interoception.
Increasing the heights of risk within western medicine today, has been a feel better aim becoming sin. Feeling better is to be of good report. The making of "feel better" as an objective or cause has guided now-billions of people away from genuine cure and their would-be wholeness of health. Thereby, our sin upon ourselves.
Imagine for a moment... Acts 28:27 as if it were to conclude with, "...and understand with their heart, and return, and I would make them feel better."
Dumping Our Feelings
Not exclusive to the narco culture... the pattern of escaping, denying, ignoring, replacing what we're feeling has the effect of breaking further development in our ability to adapt, supplement, revise... interferes with maturation on biological and cognitive pathways. Consequentially, a progressive loss of understanding regarding ourselves and the world (environment) surrounding. Longer-term effects from canceling or off-boarding feelings includes competence reductions; impaired social & biological functions; practical atheism/autotheism... The kidult syndrome also being associated with sensory & emotive dumping.
Sleepy Animals
All multi-complex animals find time to sleep. But what is it?
In human beings, sleep intervals redirect "repair & process" to a heightened and specialized mode. That is to say, sleep is a time of recovery and preparation for the approaching day ["day" here as an activity interval]. Sleep presents as a determined period marked by reduction of sensory processing.
Recovery Processes Sensitive To Sleep Cycles
- rest interval kinetics & autonomics
reduced heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, body temperature, muscle spasticity and specific voluntary muscle responses.
- memory & cognition resequencing
- immune-function peak (cytokine release, etc.)
- tissue repair
...including microscopic tears
- foreign/excess proteins clearance
- regulation & recalibration of "hunger hormones"
e.g, leptin, ghrelin...
- homeostatic adjustment within sleep cycles
e.g., cortisol, melatonin, growth hormone
Sleep amendments (i.e., naps, siesta) and sleep interruptions tend to impact sleep cycles.
The "rise early" lark pattern reflects more efficient sleep cycles, while being a "night owl" suggests a reflexive mechanism at work to promote deeper sleep cycles.
The Nature of Cancer
We compare cancer to infection. Not as an infectious pathogen (i.e, fungi, viruses, archaea/bacteria or other protist), but as an offshoot of some part of your own body's tissue that has suffered a small change not concomitant with the design or operational biology of the whole organism supporting you.
The following illustration is being offered:
immu-command: You appear to be having problems; also your credential flags seem to be out of order. The army of immuno-response will eliminate you!
cancer: What? Not so fast!
narrator: At this point, the battle is most often won quickly with relatively few kills to dismember the deranged or malfunctioning cells. Additionally, apoptosis via an auto-destruct mechanism present in tissue cells may be triggered by progression of the malfunction itself. But if not...
immu-command: You're still here?
cancer: That was your best shot? Listen, I, or we, have an import function in this body, and now we are many. You should stand-down.
narrator: another turning point, where a cancer may successfully defend by delaying apoptosis and/or produce false "white flag" signaling to evade lymphatic responses: If in good health, more forces will be acquired through immu-command, more thoroughly testing against any false peace. Where conditions of health or homeostasis are weak, the response by command may be repelled or simply dip into insufficiency, thereby increasing the opportunity for cancer to further persist, even expand.
Tissue Damage and Carcinoma
Powerful healing processes may be inhibited within the human body where the soul is not well-standing; where the heart finds no place for compassion or reserve; where ambition or reason are controlling; where elements of nutrition have been seriously compromised; where physical or pathogenic conditions draw too heavily upon internal resources.
All flesh suffers damage, and for this our Creator has furnished integral repair & replace mechanisms sublime, yet formidable. Injury may be of size visible; may be hidden to us by size or internal location. Most mature cells are pre-programed to repair administrative fault [i.e., genetic breakage]; to discontinue their own life process where repair has failed and the cell's function is no longer nominal as by His design. A Third level built-in: cytotoxic T-type lymphocytes [CTL cells] able to locate malignant or failing cells, and terminate them. All these things work together to prevail against the development of wastings (including cancers). Joy by surprise... Indications of how these marvels are working may be observed on our skin. A skin mole gradually falling away; or skin discolorations that shrink or clear.
Resetting Your Defense and Repair
Possibly the most delicate and precision task within the human body: the policing and vetting of native membrane-bound cells; +200 distinct types of human cells that must function proximally and in harmony with the whole of you. Exquisite, yet the immunological lattice defending within can become impaired or even misdirected. Both cycles and homeostasis being restorative, while also vulnerable. Mystery within irony. The example from H2O2: produced, destroyed and put to good use by the human body; a dichotomous relationship. Possibly, you have before used a solution of 3% Hydrogen Peroxide7 ? Its ability to extinguish local cells & pathogens (thus forming a temporary barrier); its destructive effect upon carcinoma alongside an ability to signal leukocytes to help focus clearance & repairs, while elsewhere holding the potential to do damage to cellular mitochondria or DNAs. H2O2 exposure at the ideal place & time ultimately works to cleanse for restoration. At places or amounts not needed, H2O2the potential of damage undesired. Beyond this example, the significance of overcoming evil [worthlessness] with good [ideal] application. [Romans 12:21; Ecclesiastes 3]
Paul of Tarsus also writing, I am belaboring my body, leading it as my slave... [I Corinthians 9:27] This action reflects the ideal relationship between our life and our body of flesh. With few exceptions, bio-sourced functions lent to us respond to good usage by further clearing & strengthening various internal systems -- even through the experience of pregnancy, specific efficiencies markedly improve. As with the athlete's experience, seldom does strengthening present significant secondary issues. As morning to evening, labor and rest, Sabbath; a circadian rhythm. [Genesis 1]
High Cost of Fear
Secrets of Depression
Within the human masterpiece are design functions capable in prevention of cascade failure; resets or restarts toward ideal operation. Each of us is bristling with sensors pointing outward: sight, sound, touch & thermal, smell & tongue-taste... even a hint of quantum level perception (i.e., the sense that someone may be watching you).
A familiar experience now commonly known as depression may linger as the essential activation of an internal 'safety valve' to buffer an individual's prolonged high anxiety, preemptive actions, recurring patterns of thought unresolving, self-corrective intentions, or... Social isolation, self-focus, individualistic lifestyle patterns, unabated neglect of self-survey checking; utter absence of hope, of purpose or of vector --- may rise to trigger this depressant function, so allowing the mind to rest. Although this pathway may seem unpleasant and disruptive, it remains essential by design.
Ounce of prevention: the whole you is designed to function beyond/outside a self interest paradigm. May your path be cleared of depressive off-ramps, as you engage the concerns of others intelligently, persistently. The true lover, being so seldom lost beneath depressed feelings.
Plagues
Genesis 12:11-20; Exodus 9-12; Numbers 11:31-34; Numbers 8:19,16:30-50; Numbers 25:1-15 [Phinehas vs. Zimri & Cozbi]; I Samuel 5-6; II Samuel 24; I Kings 8:22-39; I Chronicles 21;
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