The Outside Help
The Final Tier
So now we arrive at the final tier in the hierarchy of health: exogenous interventions (help from outside ourselves). These interventions, although the least important in terms of evolutionary sustainability, can be crucial at times. When through ignorance, indolence, destiny, or fate, we find ourselves “not healthy,” getting the help we need from outside ourselves may be the best way to keep us alive until we are able to work on the higher tiers of health.
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Help is Always There
Help is Always There
A Full Spectrum
Exogenous interventions encompass the full spectrum of the traditional healthcare system, including ICU care, emergency rooms, surgical procedures, medications for a wide range of diseases, psychiatry, and everything you might find in a CVS. They also extend to non-traditional modalities like chiropractic care, acupuncture, therapeutic massage, herbal remedies, and supplements, along with more unconventional but sometimes beneficial treatments such as infrared therapy, hyperbaric oxygen, ozone, IV cocktails, and rife technologies, among others.
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Its All Natural
Its All Natural
Always There When Needed
The beauty of a belief, and for some of us an actual knowing, that the universe is perfect helps us understand that at any time, any of the above might be the ideal intervention. When you are having a severe asthma attack, you get oxygen and nebulizers, not eucalyptus and steam. When you are having a heart attack, you can pray to Jesus, but it might be better if you pray to the ER nurse who gets you in fast and the cardiac cath folks who place that life-sustaining stent.
I cycle back to this often, but I will repeat it because it is the most critical aspect of the entire hierarchy of health: your body KNOWS what it needs. Your unique spirit knows what you need to do at any moment. Regardless of where you find yourself in the hierarchy of health, the most important thing is to pay attention to what Spirit, through the body, is telling you. Stay or go? Take this, don’t take this? You inherently know what will bring you to the next level of well-being.
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Have Faith
Have Faith
In ALL of Creation
By the time you are sick enough to need exogenous interventions, it is essential that you take advantage of what they provide. Far too often, I have seen individuals committed to sustainable health avoid exogenous interventions, thinking they will do more harm than good. WRONG! Six weeks of natural treatment for pneumonia will leave your lungs scarred and ragged for life. One week of antibiotics may not be the best for your intestinal biome; however, that can easily be replenished. Lung tissue – not so much.
The mind will try to convince you that you do not need these interventions, that you can heal yourself. You need to understand: it is too late already. Please take the appropriate action so that you can keep yourself alive long enough to evolve to the level where you can make the more difficult, higher-level changes necessary to help your body heal itself.
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True Discernment
True Discernment
The Wisdom of the Creator
Many of you might protest lumping all exogenous treatments into one level of the hierarchy. The most refined acupuncturist and the ICU specialist, the chiropractor and the neurosurgeon. I appreciate that within this very large group, there are more subtle degrees. Some, such as the more non-traditional treatments, definitely lean towards supporting individuals moving towards higher levels of the hierarchy; others, as much of allopathic medicine, do not even acknowledge the hierarchy exists. That being said, in the eyes of THE ONE TRUE GOD, all is perfect. Depending on what is needed, open heart surgery and psychic surgery may both be perfect at any time.
When you have arrived at a state of disease where an exogenous intervention is required, do your best to connect to that part of you that KNOWS what is best – not the mind, which can only think what is best – to decide how to proceed.
During these times of pain and suffering, it can be challenging to get clear information. At these times, it is good and right to seek help from others: psychics, medical intuitives, and other individuals who have the talent and skill to help you understand what your body and spirit are trying to communicate.
When choosing to get this level of help, please consider that if the same individual who gives you advice will themselves benefit from that advice, beware. Asking a healer which treatment to take and them being the ones to provide those same treatments may be a bit of a red flag. Often, this is not even a conscious bias, but bias it is.
I cannot move on from exogenous interventions without some cautionary words.
When one makes a living off selling supplements, the objective evaluation of a patient as to what supplements might be needed may be colored. Beware.
Just because it seems to make sense does not mean it works. Anecdotal evidence is just that. With eight billion different genetic variations of human beings, there are bound to be a few who might be healed by the most absurd and illogical of interventions.
When the only tool they have is a hammer, all problems look like nails. You have abdominal pain: a surgeon will say take out your gall bladder, an acupuncturist will call it an imbalance of yin and yang and treat with needles and herbs, a chiropractor will tell you your vertebrae are out and three adjustments per week for the rest of your life should do the trick, faith healers will see the devil, and Rolfers a structural imbalance.
Do not get attached to any one form of exogenous healing. All techniques do not heal all things. Put your beliefs aside and pay attention to what else the universe is offering. If your back is sore and you have always gone to the chiropractor to have it fixed, but it is not getting better, do NOT keep going to the chiropractor. Pay attention to your three good friends who have been recommending an acupuncturist.
As Albert Einstein expressed it: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
You are unique.
I cannot emphasize this enough. Always keep this in mind as you move through your journey towards optimum health and well-being.