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Health and Wellness		     




  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

Jehovah Rapha


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 biblical 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 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 function.

Physical and Mental Wellness

  • Rest and Sabbath: Observing at least one day of rest being crucial for physical, mental, and spiritual health.
    Enter fully [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 livelyhood or upon concerns of this world.
  • Activity and Exercise: The Scriptures encourage physical activity [Proverbs 13:4; 21:5]; assigning exercise with a minimum relative value. [I Timothy 4:8]
  • Emotional Health: Cultivating a cheerful heart is deemed "good medicine" [Proverbs 17:22]; managing emotions like envy being helpful with avoiding poor reactions to stress.
  • Freedom from pharma: mind-altering substances & conditions: Abstaining from substances that harm the body and 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: Spending time in prayer and trusting God reduces stress and enhances 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. Instead, making each your labors subject to the will of God in Christ; Him as your purpose over all things.



 

Unholy Harms

  • re: Medical practice reaching for treatment rather than cure [release].
 Western medicine holds out no fear of YHVH.
    TO ILLUSTRATE: 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 outcome, 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 of disease/condition 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] 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.


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


Love and Fondness within the Love of Christ

The etymology behind prostitution [πορνεια] more broadly extends to include acts that are vain or vile; thereto exposing oneself in "just do it" or "simon says" performance of fruitless actions, with or without incentive of reward.

The etymology behind adultery [μοιχος] more broadly extends to rising-away by desire to be alongside someone other.



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 welfaring, 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.


Guarding Against Western Eroticism

Western cultural practice of sexuality has become reliant upon social elements today not-unlike cultural practices that helped to sustain headhunting among a few primitive tribes of yesterday. A social-science ethic of conquest has evolved, almost as-if spiritual, where young men are led with anticipation to awaken and feed an eroticism redefined as within human need. American women, also within cultural expectations to craft or manage desire as a sporting means to conquest or pillage. The shift reaching into nearly all sectors; pulpit to pew. Worldwide, STI's continue to kill 2.5 millon people annually. From the USA, STD's among young people: ~$6B [2000].

Impacts of the shift overrun statistical information, as the cultural trend diverts & disrupts human reproduction as a would-be contributor to overall health.

men and boys

Get wisdom & understanding before you consider wedding with one or more women. The peace of YHVH to guard your hearts and minds.





Compassion and Interoception5

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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.

Sleepy Animals

All multi-complex animals find time to sleep. But what is it?
In human beings, sleep intervals redirect "repair & process" to heightened and specialized mode. That is to say, sleep is a time of recovery and preparation for the approaching day ["day" as an activity interval]. Sleep presents as a determined period marked by reduction of sensory processing that is either interrupted or lapses.

 Recovery Processes Sensitive To Sleep Cycles

  1. rest interval kinetics & autonomics
     reduced heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, body temperature, muscle spasticity and specific voluntary muscle responses.
  2. memory & cognition resequencing
  3. immuno-function peak (cytokine release, etc.)
  4. tissue repair
     ...including microscopic tears
  5. foreign/excess proteins clearance
  6. regulation & recalibration of "hunger hormones"
     e.g, leptin, ghrelin...
  7. homeostatic adjustment within sleep cycles
     e.g., cortisol, melatonin, growth hormone

Sleep amendments (i.e., naps, siesta) and sleep interuptions 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 protsist), 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.
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 just a few kills to dismember derranged 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 successfuly 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.

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      FOOTNOTES:
1 Public Health Impact of Serious Harms From Diagnostic Error in U.S. [2023]
2 wiki: Symptomatic Treatment
3 wiki: Forms of Alternative Medicine
4 Institute for Functional Medicine
5 interoception: awareness of internal sensations; i.e., health, conscience, emotions.
6 Scheidel, Walter (25 August 2009). "A peculiar institution? Greco–Roman monogamy in global context". The History of the Family. 14 (3): 280–291.

"One thing that always blows my mind is how clueless we are about what's happening inside our own bodies. The moment we get sick, [we have the thought that] we gotta pay somebody else to tell us what's going on in there."
---Eyael Mekonnen, Norcross, USA-GA