Wellness versus health

Health is a word that has become much maligned through its association with organisations and individuals who, in all fairness, have forgotten what it means to be healthy – if they ever knew. For instance, here in Australia, the Department of Health could easily (and more truthfully) be called the Department of Sickness because that is what they deal with – sick people and sicknesses – many of which are caused by the very treatments they have endorsed.

What ever happened to wellness –the goal that we should all have in mind for our children and ourselves? When were the goalposts moved so far that now, rather than seeking wellness, most people feel lucky to just be able to get out of bed in the morning? And for more and more of us, even that simple step has become a bit of a challenge.

Well, let me tell you right here and right now that this attitude is simply not good enough!

Not only that, but you and I and everyone else reading this article have got to start thinking of ourselves not just as healthcare consumers, but as wellness warriors. Fighting for true wellness in the face of opposition from a western medical community that has truly gone mad.

A medical community that seems to believe that we are all exactly the same and that what will help one person will always help another. And they continue to espouse this view despite a growing mountain of evidence to the contrary.

A medical community that thinks it has the right to tell us what we must and must not do in regards to our own and our family’s health.

How crazy is that? Think about it for a minute. Someone who has never met you, who doesn’t know anything about you, who (let’s be real) doesn’t really care very much about you, but who is in a position of power because of the way in which our society is structured today, has decided that there is only one way to keep you healthy and it’s their way or the highway.

To quote my 14-year-old daughter – I don’t think so!

Wellness warriors

So what do we do? Those with power are trying to rule our lives and our health. They are trying to make sure we have no choice – not when it comes to our food (lack of labelling of GMO ingredients and nanotechnology), our wellness (forced chemotherapy for children, lack of vaccination choice if they have their way) and our world (discussions are ongoing about introducing nuclear power into Australia – a truly frightening step backwards!).

And even many of the organisations that are supposed to be supporting and promoting natural health and wellness seem to be hiding their heads in the sand and hoping nobody comes up from behind to cut them off at the knees.

Well, I say it’s time to stop running; time to stop hiding. It’s time and past time to start fighting. Will you join me, fellow warrior?

Affirmative Action

If you feel that being a wellness warrior is important, then please stay in touch with this blog because February and March of 2010 will be make-or-break time for personal choice with legislation pending in both Federal Parliament and in SA as well that will be attempting to take away parent's rights when it comes to these issues. We will all have a lot of work to do and would appreciate your help and participation.