It’s Time To Take Responsibility For Your Choices
GUEST POST BY REBECCA DETTMAN.
Everywhere I look, it seems people are drugging themselves up to the eyeballs. Whether it’s a cough lolly, anti-smoking tablet, new vaccination or serious medication, it appears our society has reached the point where we simply don’t think twice before ingesting something into our bodies – asking absolutely no questions first.
I’m a little bit perplexed as to how we got this way. We love to pay out, judge and question every single thing the celebrities and royals do in magazines; we are instantly sceptical of everything politicians say and do; and we make life hell for our sporting umpires. So why do we blindly allow ourselves to be spoon-fed by other things in life, such as advertising, media reports, drug companies and mind-numbing entertainment, simply assuming they’re all ‘right’ and properly monitored to maintain some kind of standards? Who is the watchdog watching the watchdogs?
By the time a child is 18 years old, they’ve already been bombarded with 20,000 hours of medical advertising, imagery and TV shows. And yet, this material only belongs to one side of a story. Are people thus able to make an informed choice about their health armed with this influx of (not always accurate, yet aggressive) information? Are they aware of the existing alternatives? Is the small team of 30 men in suits running your national nightly television network, or your local newspaper, making the best choices about what you should be watching and listening to every day? Are they informed about the truth behind every story? (Or are they tired, burned out and stuck in out-dated routines resulting from their own archaic belief systems?)
The basic tenet of spiritual enlightenment is that you seek the truth – not an ‘objective’ truth, because there isn’t one, but whichever truths in the universe resonate strongly with you. People are usually quite resistant to being told what to believe when it comes to ‘my church is better than your church’, or ‘my god is better than your god’ – they like to pick their own faith and feel really ‘right’ about it.
So, thought for the day: If you choose your own spiritual thoughts and belief systems, why, then, do you behave like a sheep when it comes to ingesting things into your body (because some person you’ve never met before in a white coat tells you to) or filling the rest of your brain with junk (because it happens to be on Channel 10 at 7:30pm)? Be intelligent, informed and educated in as many choices that you make as possible, and be strong and joyous in discovering your own individuality.
How do you make decisions about what is best for you and your wellbeing? How do you feel about the way information is provided to us in the mainstream media?
Positive affirmation for the day: I am informed and take responsibility for my choices.
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Choosing the natural healing path that resonated with me – which was against my conventional doctor’s wishes – was a defining moment in my life. Despite being taught that doctors know best, every fiber in my body and soul said a loud and clear no to their advice – so I listened. It was scary, empowering, and the start of a new beautiful relationship with my mind, body and spirit.
This is such a powerful message for true wellness, which more people need to know – thank you, Rebecca x
Great article! Very true. And I am definitely not considered the norm. People think I’m a bit of a freak really but hey, I’m not the one that is always sick and feeling like crap from ingesting conventional food and conventional medicine. I believe in taking what someone tells you and then doing your own research and it’s up to you to make the choices.
Great article, Rebecca!
I was sooo addicted to cooked, refined + preserved foods + drinks, physically, mentally + emotionally, that ‘escaping’ from the world of manufactured + scientifically designed, addictive substances + excitotoxins deliberately laced into all of our modern foods was like climbing Mt Everest in a g-string.
I made it but most won’t…
I eat only raw fruits + vegetables now (with the occasional nut + seed) and feel as though I’m one of the very fortunate few who has managed to escape from the Matrix.
I like your message, Rebecca.
Well done.
A great article. It upsets me that so many people take on the advice of their GP, without investigating further. There are people close to me who take a pill for this and a pill for that. Instead of trying to adjust their diet to lower their sugar or cholesterol levels, they take a pill. It’s easier I suppose, but they don’t consider the negative effects that these pills may have on their body. I have tried to explain this to them, but my advice falls on deaf ears. It’s very frustrating, especially when it’s people you love. xxoo
Thanks for your great post Rebecca. I guess that most of us are brought up to trust our doctors so why question them, they are supposed to be the expert right? But until we open our eyes and are ready to receive the other side of the story and realise that we actually do have choices, most of the world will carry on thinking/behaving this way. But that is where we come in (as Health Coaches etc)…we are here to educate and enlighten people so that they know that there are always other alternatives and much healthier ones at that.
I was shocked to watch the news the other night where a few doctors were under the spotlight because they were found to be perscribing certain types of drugs to their patients just because the medical reps that were selling the drug to the doctor promised to reward the doctor smartly if they sold lots of their drug!
I am going to make myself. Unpopular by stating that I am tired of my health choices being regarded as sheeplike and uninformed. I have a serious auto immune disorder called hyper eosinophillic disorder. Haven’t heard of it, no surprise to me give its rarity.
Whilst I would prefer not to take corticosteroids AND immunosuppressents daily itis either that or stop breathing. Sime choice really, die from pneumonia aged 40 or take big pharmas tablets developed by men in white coats and live.
Since being diagnosed much has changed in my life. Before you askyes I have tried naturopathy, acupuncture, gluten free you name it. Nada, no change, the only thing that works is the pretty purple pills the hospital subsidizes
I carefully research EVERY medication prescribed and consider the pros and cons before I take it. If you can provide a complementary alternative medicine that works I would gladly swap it for pharmacy shelf of pills I currently take.
Please stop and think and don’t be so quick to judge other’s “choices”. Some of us are just living with the hand we have been dealt with. PS there is no cure to HES, ain’t life grand!
Hey Naomi,
I feel for you!
You are having a very rough time! 
I’m totally ‘for’ modern medicine, pharmaceuticals, surgery + other procedures when a ‘natural’ protocol is not appropriate.
If I got shot,blown up, burned, run over by a car or had certain rare illnesses (perhaps like yours) I would want the best ‘modern’ medicine available.
In general, we’re all ‘bitching’ about the medical/pharmaceutical cartel which automatically prescribes all manner of synthetic + dangerous drugs + treatments for numerous chronic diseases (ie the most common diseases of modern mankind) cancer, heart disease, diabetes, rheumatism, arthritis, obesity, acne, constipation, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, allergies, asthma, Gallstones, Kidney stones, back pain, Crohn’s and on + on + on which are healed in the vast majority of cases by switching one’s diet to raw, fresh Fruits + Vegetable Juices (Gerson Therapy) and eating raw, wholefood fruits + vegetables (and Water Fasting…. but let’s not go there …! 
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Your diagnosis is very rare, but I have read literally hundreds/perhaps thousands of testimonials and I know that many, many auto-immune diseases are completely cured by people switching their diets to fresh fruit + vegetable juices and raw whole fruits + vegetables.
Many people the world over have been told they will need to live the rest of their lives taking pharmaceutical drugs or sent home to die because the Doctors told them there was no cure.
Many of the one’s who did their ‘own’ research + switched their diet to raw, whole fruits + vegetables and their juices are alive, healthy and healed today.
Take Jess, for example.
If Jess had accepted her Doctor’s advice either she or her arm would not be here today.
At the end of the day you will only select the treatment that you feel comfortable with + that you believe in.
I’m not saying there is a cure, but you may want to do a little of your own research into auto-immune diseases healed with raw fruits + vegetables + their juices.
Check out The Gerson Therapy and ask Jess for some advice.
Check out Dr McDougall, Dr T Colin Campbell, Dr Barnard, Dr Lorraine Day, Dr Ruth Heidrich, Dr Thomas Lodi, Don Bennett, Doug Graham (there are many others too…)
I am very sorry to hear about your rare immune disorder….. but keep a little chink of your mind open to the possibility that there is still an alternative way to heal yourself, do a little more research along the aforementioned lines + have a little chat with Jess…
I wish you all the best, Naomi…