Healthy Attitudes Toward Health Care Reform

Today, the fear of becoming ill is overwhelming many of us. We are constantly barraged by media reports about losing our health benefits, growing older, and facing pernicious illnesses. Fortunately, for those working on achieving enlightenment, we don't find this type of information frightening. Nor do we believe what we eat, think, and the manner in which we care for ourselves are determined by the actions of others.

Whenever we find ourselves in the bowels of despair, dripping with lack, limitation and struggle, we don't need anyone to tell us it's time to change our lives. Yet, even with this knowledge, we find it's difficult for many of us to summon the resolve to do anything about our problems.

Nevertheless, when we listen to any types of negativism, we place ourselves into a cesspool of fear, worry,lack, limitation and struggle. From this level of awareness, we find it difficult to believe we have the power to eat properly and control our emotional issues of rage, anger, hatred, and so forth. Yet it is from this level of awareness that we are able to perceive the value of having empowerment (enlightenment) as our life's goal.


The goal of empowerment requires us to eat healthy foods and nurture our minds with positive thoughts and deeds. We must do this daily, not whenever we become fearful of something happening to us. We cannot eat ravenous supplies of dead meat, processed animal byproducts, nor engage in stuffing ourselves with french fries, potato salad, potato chips, enriched bread, and so forth.


Healthy (empowered) eating does not guarantee we'll have prefect health; however, it does reduce our risks of having to make an emergency trip to the hospital or doctor. And we do this not to live for a hundred years, but to live quality, energetic lives regardless to our longevity.


To have healthy attitudes, it is important for us to ensure we do all we can to maintain our health, we must also engage in silent meditations or prayers each day. If it's convenient, we should attempt to meditate for 5-10 minutes after each meal. You can usually do this in your office, the park, or another suitable place. The idea is to allow our bodies to process the food with minimal restrictions.

Regardless to how much we talk and worry about our health, we still must take control over what we eat and think. This means we must not only eat and think, but we must exercise our bodies and minds to help us digest what we are putting into them.

So a daily exercise program is invaluable for people of all ages. This means doing something -- a slow or brisk walk around the block three times a day, a jog around the park, calisthenics at the local gymnasium or in your home -- are some things we all can do.



At the end of each day, we should commit ourselves to some quiet time for the body and mind to rest. We turn off the televisions, cellular phones, and remove all external distractions. We should make an effort to do this without causing too much discomfort to our family. By doing this, we provide ourselves with the maximum protection from diseases, viruses, and stress-induced illness caused by anger, fear, worry, and so forth.


For many of us, the sheer volume of worry and stress in our daily activities is enough to make us vulnerable to all sorts of health issues. And when we add to this behavior, too much sodium, saturated fats, and fried foods, we not only are acting irresponsible, but we are also acting hypocritical.

Moreover, we enhance our deleterious behavior by drinking too much alcohol, soft drinks, beer, bottled sweet tea and lemonade, coffee, unhealthy drinking water, and so forth.

All of this type of behavior contributes to our abusing our leased bodies. We cannot commit to achieving enlightenment, while ignoring what we eat, think, and do. If we believe we can, then we are prime candidates to become patients in the new health care reform program.