the center of our life is home

For each of us, our energy extends outward from our home center, and creates our networks, communities, regions and the conditions of our planet home. Humanity is now entering the cosmic phase and returning to the stars. We can do this consciously, building from our center in a functional and systems way that sees the whole and all of its connection. 

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It's a way to look at your health and life as a functional part of the whole system, inter-related, which includes the location (geography) and inter-related networks you live in. In this view, each of us as individuals are intimately tied to the whole, made up of cultures and regions. Here, all of the cultures, much like each individual but on a social scale, are 'flavors' that when all put together make up the whole. Cultures, like each of us individually, have their strengths and blind spots, things they can learn and things they have to teach others.

 

We can then look at the roots of disease, illness and unbalance as being functions of the system. We can now change conditions in the 'soil' and 'terrain' in order to affect the health and balance of the whole system. We can work in partnership with our life and energy, along with that of our community to find food and lifestyle practices that work specifically for us as individuals, within our background and for our health goals. I find that loving our food and life is what opens us up to live our biggest most creative self possible. Seeing ourselves as interconnected in the system provides empathy and respect for every part of the system. 

 

We strive for increased and optimal energy, emotional and mental balance and resilience, all factors that promote health and well being of the whole system and its individual, unique functioning components. We can work to remove toxins in any area of life, along with adding food and practices that increase health and movement and feed the biome. As health increases, the health of our community and the entire planet benefits. Rather than a narrow 'diet', I favor tried and true blue zone and whole, natural food and lifestyle. 

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This approach can be guided with counselors and professionals or self-directed, differing from the mainstream allopathic medicine focus on diagnoses, treatment and cure of usually acute (sudden) conditions. A functional approach is a lifestyle that considers food and all of your life choices as medicine that can promote your quality of life, health and wellbeing and extend your life. ​​

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Can we do this if we have Doctors that we are used to turning to when we get sick? Absolutely. A functional approach to life will fit in with your own perspective and community. Rather than fixing what went wrong, it has the goal of feeding the roots and soil to increase wellness so that we don't promote chronic illness that often turns into those acute disease states. Addressing our chronic and root cause conditions can often reverse our disease states.

 

Most diseases modern healthcare addresses are CHRONIC. There is no cure for chronic illness. There is only PREVENTION. 

 

My career in science, education, geography and environmental science is what led me to equate culture and geography with health, in other words I found that food and living is cultural. There is a growing sickness of western populations, spreading across the planet and especially growing chronic diseases such as cancer in children. 

 

If we recognize and include the importance of culture to our health, and pay attention to food and living our kids of tomorrow can make better choices. They can be more aware of the connection of the planet to their health and live higher quality, healthier, longer lives. They can choose food and life that improves the health of themselves, their communities and planet, knowing they are one and the same, one system. 

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