Seven Steps To Health and Happiness

SEVEN STEPS TO HEALTH AND HAPPINESS

Thousands of people each day visit their physicians for advice on how to have good health. They don’t say it in these words, but they imply: “Just get me well Doc, and don’t talk to me about the way I live.”  What people like that are asking is how to feel better and live longer while they go on killing themselves.

It just doesn’t make sense to expect your doctor to be able to change the body’s built-in law of life to accommodate suicidal habits of life.

Health doesn’t happen by chance. The Creator’s desire is for us to “be healthy.” (3 John 2) A long happy life results from planned living, designed in harmony with principles, which not only prevent illness but also provide right conditions for recovery from disease.

 How can we build up and maintain good health? Here are seven laws, or natural remedies to follow if we really want to find health and happiness.

  1. PURE AIR: Deep breathing of pure, fresh air is essential for good health. There are fewer bacteria where the air is not contaminated by fumes and poisonous chemicals. Proper ventilation of the home is a “must.” (If you live in a city of pollution use an Air Filter)
  2. .SUNLIGHT: No single factor is so important in sustaining life upon the earth as sunlight. It activates the chlorophyll in plants to produce food. It kills most disease germs. Sunlight may fade the draperies and the carpets in the home, but its life-giving properties bring a healthy glow to cheeks. (Minimum of 15 minutes a day. Too cold to go outside sit in front of window or door in sun’s rays!)
  3. REST: The human heart may work for a hundred years but it spends half of its long lifetime at rest. It is true that its rest lasts only a fraction of a second, but it is really relaxed during that time. The spine too needs rest, to enable the discs between each vertebrae to regain their elasticity. Rest is nature’s best remedy for the tired mind and body.  Time for recreation and rest is essential to relieve the push and drive of work tensions and family responsibilities. Otherwise through stress and overwork, we will be overtaken by disease and be forced to rest. (Beside nightly rest we need to remember that God rested on the seventh day of the week and we should follow his example)
  4. EXERCISE & LAUGHTER: Get out and exercise the long muscles. Get those creaky joints working again. There is life and health in regular exercise in the fresh air. The mind is much more efficient when the body is kept in tone by using it wisely and well. Remember, too, that good wholesome exercise and laughter are usually the best cure for worry!
  5. WATER: Drink plenty of water. It is essential to every cell in the body. It is nature’s solvent, the one perfect medium for cleansing both inside and out. Externally water can be used in many ways to relieve pain and check disease. Hot and cold water treatments when properly given are effective means for combating colds and also for helping the body to recover from debilitating illnesses, muscle injuries and nervous diseases. (Today all water needs purifying/filtering. Don’t expect bottled water to be pure as it is necessary to add sterilizing agents in order to store and sell it!) 
  6. PROPER DIET: Food should be healthful, simple, well prepared and eaten at regular intervals, without hurrying. Overeating, especially of fats, sweets and rich foods not only leads to overweight but also to a number of degenerative diseases. Balance your body's minerals giving it the ability to absorb all the nutrients in your foods.  Also A Minimum of 5 servings each, of fruits and vegetables and 3 servings of grain.

 “Our bodies are built up from the food we eat. There is a constant breaking down of the tissues of the body; every movement of every single organ involves waste and this waste is repaired from our food.”

 “Those foods should be chosen that best supply the elements needed for building up the body. In this choice appetite is not a safe guide. Through wrong habits of eating, the appetite has become perverted. Often it demands food that impairs health and causes weakness instead of strength. We cannot safely be guided by the customs of society. The disease and suffering that everywhere prevail are largely due to popular errors in regard to diet.”

 “In order to know what are the best foods, we must study God’s original plan for man’s diet… Grains, fruits, nuts and  vegetables constitute the diet chosen for us by our Creator.” – Ministry of Healing, pages 295, 296.  

  1. TRUST IN DIVINE POWER: Health is more than just being physically well.  Health and happiness is dependant on the harmonious development of the physical, mental, social and spiritual phases of mankind’s nature. 

Trust in divine power is the keystone to living a healthy and happy life. Doctors and nurses may do their best to help nature, but the patient must keep his faith in God if he is to be completely restored. Remember that in spite of every handicap we have a Father in heaven who is waiting to help and to heal. The psalmist speaks of Him as the One “who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy disease.” Psalm 103:3 If we are living in harmony with His will, we may confidently turn to Him for healing. This is the key to prayer and divine healing. God will always hear the prayer of faith.

 APPETITE THE SUPREME TEST

When, in the beginning God created Adam & Eve, He made them perfect in physique and in health. Disease was unknown, sickness unheard of. God provided for the welfare of the human race and instructed him regarding his habits of diet and labor.

 As long as man followed God’s instructions he/she never knew sickness, pain or death. Then Adam and Eve put those instructions aside and ignored God by eating the forbidden fruit. Their disobedience brought disease and eventually death to mankind the world over. (Genesis 2:15-17.)

Human nature has not changed much through the centuries, except that there is perhaps an even greater disregard for the laws of nature. Today we too often choose our food, not because it is good for us, but because we like the taste of it. 

We forget that we belong to God. We are His because He as our Creator gave us life. We are His because Jesus bought us back with His own precious blood. So God has a dual claim upon our minds, souls and bodies.

 "Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ.... What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." - 1 Corinthians 6:15, 19,20.

 Through the weaknesses of the body Satan may tempt our souls and destroy us. 

A radiant life of health and happiness Bible rule is;  "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." - 1 Corinthians 10:31.

If you choose to not believe that what you eat is important, just remember that this earth lost it's Heavenly Protection when Adam & Eve chose to eat that which they were told not to eat!

If you failed to get the above Steps of Health in time to prevent an illness already in progress Click To contact us for a free health treatment consultation/program by the master Naturopath and herbalist Wayne Garland!

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