A Pill Won't Solve All Your Problems

The missing link to health in western medicine

Regardless of what we are told and trained to believe by the dominant medical industry - a pill will not solve all of your problems.

It will help relieve the symptoms if the right medicine is used, but there are usually intense side effects. And although the symptoms are gone for now, as soon as you stop taking the medicine the symptoms return. This is not true healing, this is a band-aid.

Real medicine creates true healing. When the medicine is stopped, the issue is gone because it helped to heal the issue. If medicine isn’t healing the root cause of the problem, what is it even doing?

As cringe as it is - it’s making people rich… As long as you take this pill, you won’t have this issue. It is a golden chain.

It is also providing temporary relief so we can keep going about our lives without changing anything. It doesn’t matter if you're in an abusive relationship, a shitty job that is killing your soul, have no social life and eat toxic food. Just keep taking that pill.

I heard a story from ancient China that a doctor was only paid as long as his patients were healthy. As soon as they lost their health or got sick, then the doctor wasn’t paid anymore. Imagine if our medical system worked in this way. Wow! It would be revolutionary and I am sure that we would not have the amount of chronic disease we have today.

Ayurveda, (a 5000+ year old Vedic science in India) focuses on healing the root cause of the health issue. It observes the person’s metabolism and what has gone out of balance on the quantum level. By restoring balance, the system begins to flow normally and in a healthy pattern again. If there is a blockage obstructing the flow, the blockage is removed. If there is a growth, the growth is dissolved, if there is excessive flow, the flow is reduced. If there is too much heat, the heat is reduced etc. It sounds simple and it is, as it should be.

Healing shouldn’t be complicated, it usually is what makes the most sense.

This brings me to what the Western medicinal system completely ignores - diet and lifestyle.

Changing what you eat and how you live will create massive changes in your body, but it’s not easy. Changing a habit is hard, we have to go against the neural connections in our brain and form new pathways. We also have to take our power back from wherever we gave it away - the doctor, our negative beliefs, our boss, the cigarettes, the booze, our ex etc.

Healing is an inside job.

It can be easier to take a pill to get rid of a problem. Which is why it’s so popular. However, I would argue it’s not easier - you now have to pay for that pill till you die and maintain the lifestyle that is killing you. You have to continue to live with the side effects and you still have the disease. This isn’t easier. It’s long-term suffering for a short-term reprieve. Similar to social media dopamine addiction, similar to junk food - sound familiar?

There is no quick fix. Our society is addicted to convince and speed. We have tricked ourselves into thinking we are getting something out of something easy but you can’t trick your system. Your body knows what vital, fresh, healthy food is. Your heart knows the difference between a real authentic connection and a chat from a robot. Your brain knows the difference between an artificial fragrance and an essential oil.

Our bodies are not designed to eat processed/chemical-heavy food. Our bodies are not designed to sit 8 hours a day with no movement. Our bodies are not designed to be in isolation, with no touch or love. The body can’t be tricked.

In actuality, changing what you eat, how you eat and how you live is easier, and the rewards are great. If you eat according to your specific body’s needs and live according to what your soul needs to thrive - you will not only heal your issue, you will be happier and more vibrant. I guarantee you.

It takes effort to heal. I won’t dismiss that.

No one can heal for you, you have to heal yourself.

You have to choose healing, over the patterns that created the dis-ease.

We have to choose healing and health over disease. We have to empower and ignite the healer within ourselves to shift and change our lives. We have to take our authority over our lives back (from whoever we gave it to).

When we eat better, sleep better, and move more, we create better lives. We move out of disempowerment, and giving our power to a white coat or to a pill and know within our being that we can heal by changing how we live.

Contrary to what we are ‘not’ told: what we eat matters, when we eat matters, our appetite matters, our mental state matters, our living situation matters, our job matters etc. We live in an ecosystem and how we are treated within that system affects us. Within us are more micro ecosystems like our gut.

Choosing life nourishing ways of being, nourishes all of us.

When all parts of us thrive, we thrive.

When each one of us is thriving, our society thrives.

The biggest resistance I encounter in consultations is changing diet and lifestyle. People have been conditioned to believe that they can take this pill, this medicine and the problem will be solved. However, true healing takes change, you have to shift the lifestyle, diet, and mentality that created the problem in the first place.

Dis-ease happens because we moved out of alignment with some aspect of ourselves.

Healing happens when we come back into harmony with nature/what is natural.

The Western diet and lifestyle are contrary to the health of our bodies. If it wasn’t we wouldn’t have the mass epidemic of modern lifestyle diseases we are suffering from as a collective today.

To shift the diet and the lifestyle is how we create true healing.

The medicines, the herbs can work with our systems and empower them to be stronger. If we only take the herbs and treat them like a pill, but do not change how we live, we are stuck in the same mentality as the allopathic medicinal system. Herbs are great helpers, but for them to help us, we need to work in partnership- in relationship and we do that by doing our part. By changing what we need to change to have health again. We stop doing what is ‘causing’ the imbalance and we take the herbs/medicine to help support us and nudge our body back to balance again.

** Don’t get me wrong - western medicine is incredible and capable of so much. We need hospitals, we need emergency care and sometimes when there is no other option left we need a pill to stay alive. I am not against Western medicine. I think that alternative methods of care can go very well with allopathic medicine. However, the Western perspective of seeing the human body as a machine discounts the importance of the human spirit and creates an authoritative conditioning that takes the power away from the individual. When this power is taken away, then diet and lifestyle also fall away because that is what the individual can do.

Doctors have less than 20 hours of nutrition classes in medical school, this is not adequate.

Prevention is key and more energy needs to be dedicated to it so that the epidemic of chronic disease can be stopped and it must be stopped for the health and wellness of the generations to come.

Western medicine and natural medicine each have a wing on the bird. We need both to fly. One to provide emergency care and the other to provide preventative care and instructions on how to care for the body.

Balance and harmony = Health

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Much love and many blessings to you,

Thalita

** Please do not stop taking your allopathic medicine without supervision from your Health Practitioner or Physician. This article intention to highlight the benefits of diet and lifestyle. Medication can be a very important part of healthcare and is needed depending on the circumstance. Shifts in diet and lifestyle can help create positive shifts in your health but please consult with a person trained on the matter to know what is best for you.

Cited: https://med.stanford.edu/school/leadership/dean/precision-health-in-the-news/why-medica-schools-need-focus-nutrition.html