Natural, Normal and Necessary

One of the books I read as part of my correspondence course (Health and Wellness, by Dr. M. Ted Morter) made the very helpful distinction between three words and what they should mean with regard to our health and wellness.

Natural, in this context refers to the state of a healthy body, without any conditions, or ailments, functioning the way it was meant to- healthy!

The next distinction is normal. What is "normal" these days is not necessarily natural, in any sense of the word. Examples of this would be the idea that urine is supposed to be yellow (it should be almost clear-unless you're taking b vitamins, or something else that changes its color); or being on blood pressure medication at age 35 (or younger). These are things that have become accepted as "normal" because they happen so often, not because they are natural occurrences.

The word "necessary" in this context refers to what the body can and will do to keep you alive. A good example of this would be developing osteoporosis...or having a weakening in the teeth. We don't want to think of this as a natural occurrence, and an Allopathic (Western medicine) view of the body would see this as a malfunction. But if we know that there is an innate wisdom in the body, we know that a problem is occurring because the body will do everything in its power to stay alive, and its priorities are in order. Number one is : keep the blood clean. If there are toxins, or acids in our bodies (and therefore blood) because of our environment, our food consumption or our emotions, our body will buffer it and eliminate it. If it doesn't have enough organic sodium (not table salt!) to buffer, the second best thing to buffer the toxins is calcium. Guess where we keep our calcium? That's right, teeth and bones. So on the surface of the situation, we see a problem with our teeth and bones weakening, but the body sees it as doing job number one: keeping the blood clean.

This is true for so much of what we call disease. If we never trace a symptom or symptoms back to its origin, and instead call that group of symptoms some disease name, how can we expect the body to properly heal?