Today the medical system is suffering a severe breakdown; so many Americans are distrustful of todays "medicine-men": never before in history have so many people been left to fend for themselves in the health area.         

It's a sign of the times that today even the "average Joe" has become his or her own self-styled wellness "expert". Yet many health seekers are ignorant of the foremost fact of any helping profession; that,
No matter how much one knows,

One cannot be ones' own physician.

     
Do- It- Yourself Doctoring

Doctors, psychologists, and health workers learn to refer their own families to other practitioners, for it is impossible to be appropriately objective when the subject is too close. This is particularly crucial in areas that are very personal, such as what one ingests, or admonitions concerning one's physical activity, work, rest, etc. Who wouldn't want to manipulate things so as to "have our cake & eat it too". But to do this in the health area is more like "buy now" & "pay later"!

    "Do -It -Yourself" health, by the "piecemeal" method, has everyone patching together various bits of information thus adding to the confusion.
The unfortunate fact is that too little information can be worse than none at all. Many seeming failures of healthy living come down to this simple reality: wellness principles misapplied cannot result in health. All too often, the health seeker ends up surrendering to misguided or profit seeking charlatans, or, the very medical authorities he/she was seeking to avoid.

"I can do it Myself!" : To the Health Seeker--


Wellness/Beam Suggestions:

• Read the above article over again & consider carefully:
  
• How much is my health worth to me?
  
• What does it mean to me in my life?
  (More self- test links to come)
  
  
  Alternative Health Seekers:
  
• A good health course is worth gold !
  
  It will fill gaps in your knowledge that you didn't even know existed! And,
  Start you off on the right foot for a lifetime of learning and Sparkling Wellness---
  what is it worth to you?
  
• Consider having a "checkup" with an alternative health practitioner-- recommended by some yearly---
  Even a simple " lifestyle" check up-- an "intake" format with questions for you to answer will often reveal harmful practices that were never addressed or have developed over time..
  
  
  We are all Human & it can happen to the best of us,
  that we rationalize what we want to do & do it anyway if no one's watching !
  
  
• Find someone you respect and trust, who knows more than you do & has hopefully acquired that knowledge from formal training or some kind of organized source, so that there are no big "holes' in their understanding. Get all your lifestyle practices out in the open...
  
  and Listen, and Learn, learn , learn!