So many drugs are prescribed today without the proper testing period to look into the side effects, internally as well as externally (with regards to the environmental effects as well). How many cases do you see where the drug is recalled after only a few years, once the effects are starting to show themselves, yet after 6 months of testing it was determined to be safe for consumption? I get a bit nervous when you see the list of side-effects in such small print, long enough to wrap around a city block, with words that most would not even be able to pronounce, let alone decipher.
We are such a drug-based society, looking for the quick fix, the one pill that can solve life’s unease. Starting each day with coffee and sugar (in the form of a quick, easy, cinnamon roll for breakfast), and then out the door. Adrenaline has now kicked in (we are running late) and the traffic is not in our favor. A few hours of work and then off to lunch… a quick sandwich (meat, cheese, white bread, lettuce (if you can call it that), potato chips and a soda (still working on the sugar diet). Back to work, exhausted now, jump start it with more caffeine (missing the societies of siesta), ah, but we do have that 10 minute nicotine break coming up soon, finish the day off with ‘happy hour’ to calm our internal state of affairs. A late-night dinner (had to unwind at the bar a little longer than usual), toss down a bunch of antacids and aspirin (feeling the effects of the alcohol a little too much), get a few hours of sleep and start it all over again. Sound familiar?
I feel that you can even list computers, television, advertising and media as drugs. With our dependence on such a quick pace of life, being such adrenaline junkies, it makes perfect sense that our poor kidneys are in such a state. We are so far removed from nature now, what has happened to our perception to our natural body rhythms? It is such a concern now that they are even terming the condition ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’ for children (shouldn’t be age specific if you ask me). If I was asked one drug to prescribe for most conditions that you see currently I would have to say ‘rest’. It doesn’t cost a lot, there are no side-effects, and the addiction is only temporary (until your natural rhythms are re-established). I feel that adopting a lifestyle, which embraced more vacation time, more breaks throughout the day, and a slower pace of life would make us far less dependent on drugs, prescription and those everyday vices we don’t always consider to be ‘drugs’.
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Here! Here! on the rest. Rest, meditation, Qigong, eating right, letting go of stress and taking time to BREATHE!
Excellent description of small decisions we can make on a daily basis that affect our well being. "Drugs" just don't have to refer to the pharmaceutical companies products, but also caffeine, alcohol, salt, nicotine, the list goes on... People are addicts more than they realize to food substances that can have just as negative an effect on our body as the pills.
'Food is medicine'Too many of us have forgotten this, lets help them be reminded....
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