Before moving on to the next element, I wanted to write a bit more about the path I’m on here.
The principles behind the processes
When I said, “Surely it must be simpler than that,” I mean that I’m on the lookout for the principles which underlie the many different processes, for the very foundations of life and health. Because if we can understand the fundamental principles, we’re better able to work and play with the processes by which those principles are enacted.
I find it frustrating in the extreme that so many of the “healing modalities” used in complementary and alternative Medicine – aka holistic medicine, integrative medicine, ONE medicine, and whatever term comes next in the procession – have so very many Moving Parts. The number of acupuncture points, for example, or the number of homeopathic remedies and medicinal herbs, not to mention their component phytochemicals. Even the number of healing modalities or philosophies is astounding. The same complexity is true in conventional medical science as well. Molecular biology is where it’s at, and the cast of characters is mindboggling.
Surely it must be simpler than that? Yes. It is.
Life (and therefore health) just cannot be that complicated. Not at its core. Otherwise it would have expired long since, having ground to a halt at a single tricky step and collapsed under the enormous weight of its own complexity.
Life is characterised by diversity, yes. It is also incredibly intricate as we follow it down from planetary systems to planets to species to populations to individuals to organs to cells to subcellular organelles to molecules to atoms to subatomic particles to ... An infinite number and variety of moving parts! And yet, at its core life is a very simple process, and one that is inherently self-regulating and self-perpetuating.
There’s very little we need do in order to Sustain Life. By the same token, there’s very little we can do to sustain life when life itself has decided otherwise, and very little point in trying.
In other words, we have less control than we like to think. The good news, though, is that we need control life less than we seem to think. That is very good news, because it frees us to actually get on with living our lives and enjoying them, worrying less about managing our lives and the lives of those we love. That's all for now. More soon,
-Dr. Chris King-
Nature's Apprentice
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