(NaturalNews) This article continues with part seven of our 15-day "Heal Yourself" series. It begins with the idea of observing the poor health of the mainstream crowd: Do you want to be as diseased as they are? If so, simply do what they do!
Let's face it: The "mainstream consumer" isn't very healthy. People who follow mainstream health information from the mainstream media are the most diseased people of all. They eat processed junk foods, they take lots of dangerous pharmaceuticals, they routinely get vaccinated and they completely fail to protect their health with
nutritional supplements, superfoods or fresh living
foods.
These are the people supporting the pharmaceutical
industry, the cancer industry, the diabetes industry and the heart
disease industry. Through their suffering and death, they keep the medical system alive and profitable. And if you want to be
healthy, these are precisely the people you need to
reject in order to be safe and healthy yourself.
Don't follow the crowd off the edge of the cliff
The mainstream crowd, you see, isn't very well informed when it comes to
health. Crowd psychology tells us that people tend to follow whatever the crowd is doing for no reason other than the fact the crowd is doing it. The human mind figures, "Well, if the crowd is doing that, there must be a good reason for it," and so people just go along with practically anything as long the crowd supports it.
This is how people end up
drinking sugary sodas, eating at fast
food restaurants, drinking pasteurized milk and living on processed
junk foods. This is how they end up
eating microwaveable popcorn, or drinking diet
sodas or consuming "processed cheese food."
This is what causes people to get vaccines that they don't need or take dangerous prescription medications that might harm them (or kill them).
Crowds as a whole aren't very intelligent -- even when individual members of the crowd might be highly intelligent on their own! And if you follow the mainstream consumer crowd without
thinking for yourself, you can only expect the same outcome the crowd is experiencing: Degenerative disease, pharmaceutical dependency and medical bankruptcy.
That's why achieving lasting health means
distancing yourself from the mainstream crowd and in many cases doing the opposite of what they do.
You'll be healthier by doing the opposite of the mainstream
When the mainstream crowd rushes to get vaccinated against a hyped-up, non-emergency "pandemic", just do the opposite and
don't get vaccinated.
When the mainstream crowd rushes to get free chicken at KFC because Oprah announced it on her show, do the opposite and go drink a smoothie or something.
When the mainstream crowd rushes to be subjected to
mammography radiation (which actually promotes breast
cancer), do the opposite and get a far safer
thermograph (or just take a healthy dose of anti-cancer vitamin D and stop living your
life in fear of cancer).
When the mainstream crowd pops pills for depression, cholesterol and high
blood pressure, do the opposite and take nutritional
supplements that nourish the body instead of poisoning it.
Basically, watch what the mainstream consumers do and make a conscious effort to do the opposite (in most cases, anyway).
Don't leap from one mindless crowd to another
While you're doing all this, be careful not to leap from one mindless crowd to another. In rejecting the mainstream crowd, in other words, don't fall blindly into following another crowd, even if it's a "healthy" crowd.
In my view, you should never follow any crowd just because it's a crowd. That includes the raw food crowd, the yoga crowd, the vegetarian crowd, etc. Instead,
think for yourself about what makes sense to you. And then, if your conclusions match their conclusions, it's okay to join that group (or hang out with that crowd) as long as you continue to invoke a reality check from time to time. Make sure that what the crowd is doing always makes good sense to you and you won't be blindsided by crowd stupidity.
Crowds usually aren't very smart. But YOU are! You have the ability to think for yourself, to change your mind at any time, to improve your decisions, to upgrade or downgrade your lifestyle, etc. Exercise these gifts where appropriate, and don't be afraid to try out new eating habits, new
exercise schedules and new approaches to self care. Find out what works best for you, regardless of whether a "crowd" exists that practices the same thing.
Don't be a mindless health nut, in other words. Be mindfully
health conscious and go with what works best for you rather than what's popular or cool.
Check in with yourself from time to time
Most of all, if you ever find yourself going along with the mainstream crowd -- like waiting in line at a crowded
vaccine clinic -- it might be a good idea to pinch yourself and engage in a little lucid thinking by asking questions like, "Should I really be here? Does this really make sense? Is there a safer, more
natural alternative that I could explore instead?"
Think about this the next time you're about to get your breast pancaked at the mammography clinic. "Does irradiating my breasts really make good sense?" Of course it doesn't. People only do it because they are going along with the mainstream crowd. And the crowd is clueless about breast health, ionizing
radiation, vitamin D or cancer prevention.
So be smart. Be an individual. And be brave enough to
reject the crowd and do something different that's probably a whole lot safer and healthier.
Getting sunlight on your skin to generate vitamin D is rejecting the crowd. And yet it's the very best way to prevent cancer
for FREE!Previous articles in this 15-day "Heal Yourself" series
Part One - Remove barriers to healing
http://www.naturalnews.com/028053_self_healing_quality_of_life.htmlPart Two - Unleash your inner
healing potential
http://www.naturalnews.com/028060_self_healing_immune_system.htmlPart Three - You are what you absorb
http://www.naturalnews.com/028067_self_healing_digestion.htmlPart Four - Transform your health by making new blood
http://www.naturalnews.com/028075_blood_health_transformation.htmlPart Five - Experience the healing potential of living plant juices
http://www.naturalnews.com/028100_self_healing_fresh_juice.htmlPart Six - Accelerate your healing with a 24-hour fast
http://www.naturalnews.com/028117_self_healing_fasting.html
About the author: Mike Adams is an award-winning journalist and holistic nutritionist with a passion for teaching people how to improve their health He has authored and published thousands of articles, interviews, consumers guides, and books on topics like health and the environment, impacting the lives of millions of readers around the world who are experiencing phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles. Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who receives no money or promotional fees whatsoever to write about other companies' products. In mid 2010, Adams produced NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video sharing website offering user-generated videos on nutrition, green living, fitness and more. He's also the CEO of a highly successful email newsletter software company that develops software used to send permission email campaigns to subscribers. Adams is currently the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and pursues hobbies such as martial arts, Capoeira, nature macrophotography and organic gardening. He's also author of numerous health books published by Truth Publishing and is the creator of several consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns, including the Spam. Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. He also created the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the ending of corporate control over medicines, genes and seeds. Known on the 'net as 'the Health Ranger,' Adams shares his ethics, mission statements and personal health statistics at www.HealthRanger.org
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