You, only better
The natural human condition is one of vibrance, vitality and void of
neuroses. It is possible to feel human without the crutch of pharmaceuticals,
so-called multi-vitamins and everything else sold to you in the guise of
making you feel better.
You need to change from the inside and there are many simple, cheap and
lasting changes you can make.
The first step to you, only better is getting off the pills and multivitamins and
starting to eat real food produced by regenerative farmers.
Second, get to know your farmer.
Third, cook that real food at home.
Fourth, spend time with animals.
Fifth, understand the power of being positive, complimentary and caring.
Sixth, ditch the television.
I would like to elaborate on each of the points above.
Real food. What you buy in the supermarkets and in takeaway restaurants is
not food. You are being overdosed with sugar and the harmful chemicals
used so liberally in conventional agriculture. In my last column I referred to
a friend of mine whose recovery from being declared medically unfit to
work due to MS to full health has been inspirational to watch. He removed
his mercury fillings and started eating real food. The best book you can buy
on the subject of food and health is “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by
Weston A Price”
Get to know your farmer. None of the readers of this magazine are
breatharians and so each one of you chooses your farmer at least three times
daily. Farmers are either regenerative or destructive. They either build soil or
destroy it. Their food either nourishes or harms you. An additional benefit to
knowing your farmer is that you remove the middle man who does immense
harm to farmers (the subject of another column).
Cooking at home. Michael Pollan’s latest book, Cooked, is a wondrous
read. The most important take away from the book is the numerous benefits
of cooking a meal at home and enjoying it with your family. Nutritional
benefits, social benefits, environmental benefits etc.
Before leaping onto the organic train start by buying and cooking real food.
Then when you have understood that organic food is honestly priced (a
discussion for another column) you will start enjoying it. After that move
onto BioDynamic food (beyond organic and the subject of another column).
Spending time with animals. Unlike humans, my experience of animals is
that they are fully present. They don’t fret about tomorrow or yesterday. I
am blessed enough to have lots of cattle on the farm. The cows are the most
placid and being amongst them is completely calming. If you cannot be
amongst cows then get your own chickens (they cannot lay and roost in the
same place and they need to be moved regularly to avoid a factory farming
like build up of manure) and if this not feasible then get a dog.
Power of being positive. This is best illustrated by an experiment I
encourage you to do at home. We did it recently. Take two plates. In each
put cotton wool and whatever seed you can find, ideally some grain. Then
wet the cotton wool and for a period of two weeks focus love and all things
positive on one plate and then hate and all things negative on the second
plate. The plates can be in the same room but at either end. Observe what
happens. For more on this subject look up the work of Masaru Imoto
Television. The reason TV is the great lobotomiser of our time is simple.
Television is tell-a-vision, in other words someone else is telling you their
vision which is why you sit there glued to your screen unable to continue
developing your own. It kills your imagination. Albert Einstein was explicit
about this when he said “Imagination is more important than knowledge”.