Contribute to Health
“Humanity
is dis-eased, and needs a healthy immune system if it's to heal. Each
of us can be an immune cell in the body of humanity.”
Marianne
Williamson (Twitter)
Caroline
Myss wrote this week in the Huffington Post that we have an “epidemic
of anger” in the world right now. Everywhere we look, angry people
are fanning the flames of rage. If you bring this to the level of the
human body, it would be like having chronic, systemic, inflammatory
disease. Chronic inflammation in the body is linked to cancer, heart
disease, Alzheimer's disease, rheumatoid arthritis and many other
“silent killers.” Chronic inflammation happens when the immune
system is overwhelmed and cannot self-correct.
The
only way to have a healthy body is to take care of it, and that means
getting enough sleep, eating right, getting regular (but not
excessive) exercise, and lowering one's stress level. Constant rage
and belligerence compromises the human immune system. And long-term,
the lowered immune response allows opportunistic diseases to cause
sickness and even death.
This
is true for our world, too. Every action we take contributes to
health or promotes disease. According to Marianne Williamson, “The
world cannot be 'fixed' now—it has to be healed. And healing is not
an event, it's a process.” Lowering the rhetoric to something
approaching civil would go a long way toward reducing the level of
anger that is threatening our very lives. When we talk to one another
respectfully and without rancor, we will begin the healing process.
Each of us matters—we are “immune cells in the body of humanity.”
Affirmation:
“Today, I will be respectful to myself, and to everyone I meet.”
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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