IT’S NOT A MIRACLE CURE...BUT IT’S CLOSE
Today marks the fifth day I have been under the weather. I won’t get too descriptive, however, I do have to stop a moment to examine that saying—“under the weather.” If you listeners to my podcast. Skip. Down a few paragraphs.
What in the world does under the weather mean? Why “under” and why the “weather?” I mean if I were feeling. Really well would I be in the middle of a phone call and say “yep I’m really getting stuff done Joe. It’s probably because. I’m a little “above the weather.” What if.you are just feeling average are you “in” the weather or around the weather? Is there a particular. Type of weather we’re dealing with that has to do with health? I’m thinking there must be since right now I have a “head cold.” If I get a little better this afternoon will I only have a head cool? I have this pain in my knee so perhaps I’m experiencing a knee fog that may have resulted from a hip tornado? One thing’s for certain this entry. Is not the product of “lake-effect” intelligence.
I suppose when I stop to think a minute and recall a little medical history, I shouldn’t really be shocked. About this strange language revolving around health and body parts. Somehow we have made some great advances in medicine despite calling a sharp pain in your. Shoulder a Joe Zebra. What? You’ve never heard of a Joe Zebra and yet you know what a Charlie Horse is? Come now.....
Anyway... I’m coming around to peace and joy pretty soon, however it’s an uphill climb when it comes to “modern” medicine. Maybe. A look at medical history. Will lift my spirits?
DLet’s see... speaking of seeing....while there are still too few females in medicine’s upper. Crust we can hold out hope. After all there. Have only been prominent female doctors since about 2600 B.C. So that’s a new concept. Speaking of seeing and new concepts Cataract surgery was being taught starting in about 650 BC just saying. Before the age of antibiotics and the miracle cure known as aspirin we had several monarchs (kings not butterflies) making attempts at the miracle drub of the day. While many know that raw honey is good for a lot things, several kings used “cures for a lot of things all lumped together to make a miracle potion of sorts. In fact, “Theriac” combined the cure for several illnesses and poisons (almost 65) and stayed on the shelves well into the 1700s.
Thes Ypres of potions were perhaps by the grandest treatment of all...the one that we used for centuries and yet. There is only. One word for it... It SUCKED!” Yes...I’m talking about LEACHES.
These little creatures preceded actuaries and insurance salesmen, and even big. Pharma in bleeding the public when it came to health care. Blood “letting” techniques were used for all types of treatments and on people of all social strata. I didn’t. Come across. It, however, I imagine there is some sort of dquantity and attachment location manuals for this treatment somewhere. If you had a nasty infection on your. Left elbow there was the 7 leach two hours drain whereas if you had inflamed hemroids that. Had to be something different. The only problem is that this technique probably didn’t work all that often and had some significant drawbacks. One “patient/victim” of blood letting was. The father of our country George Washington. It is believed he literally had the life sucked out of him.
...And with that phrase.. I roll around to peace and joy.
If we will have blood sucking bugs attached to us, drink potions, have magnets and electrodes of all types attached to. Us in all types of places etc., then what more evidence do we need that we wish to live forever? The thought that keeps running through my spirit is “it’s not how long you live, it’s how well you live”, oritdoesn’t matter so much how many. Days you have in your life as it matters how much life you have in your days.” Sure you want to be a person with a fairly healthy body and yet how much of seeking peace and joy really has to do with feeding and healing your spirit and your “soul.” I wonder if. People could. See your soul, would I take better care of it.... and now I write this thing called the peace and joy blog where I suspect people at least get a peak at my soul....so what do I learn from the world of body medicine that I can transfer to the world of “soul medicine?” I think three things.
One—my ideas about peace and joy will have to change over time. After all, I wonder if I’m still at the leach stage in some ways that I view present. Challenges?
Two. Just like so many people in the past, how often do I listen to the “snake oil salesmen” of self help rather than doing the regular kmentally healthy activities to develop immunity and resilience??
Three. What will I. Do to help keep my environment healthy for me and for others? It’s hard to stay healthy in a toxic. Environment regardless as of what you do for your own body and soul. Now those are three things I think about and the third one prompts my next entry “FWhat a peace and joy environment looks like and five ways to grow one.”
So that’s for tomorrow which means this is enough for today—don’t forget that leach on the back of your left leg...
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