Rabbit from Brambley Hedge Rabbit Rescue visits TESLI.
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Yesterday on the front porch.
This morning outside for my morning Tai Chi. Lovely sharing time with the bunny.
Kept warm with a fire. It is getting chilly here in Phoenix when the sun is not up.
I have had a number of interactions recently that have prompted me to view the differences in how I approach health and how other people approach health. I am curious about what motivates us to choose our way of caring for our health. Consider these four interactions that occurred yesterday.
It wasn’t until the final conversation that I got how different I am. First, given the symptoms my client mentioned I would not even thought about going to urgent care. I would have started treating the symptoms at home. Further, if I did find out my appendix was swollen, I would not have automatically opted for an appendectomy. I would have looked for the cause of that and treated the physical aspects with herbal medicines and the non-physical with intuitive insight and energy. I don’t rule out mainstream medicine, but it usually is not the best choice for me.
I was also surprised about the friend with the severe post-op pain. I wondered, “Why didn’t he call?” Energy work is quite effective at relieving pain and, if that doesn’t do it, ThetaHealing or acupuncture are also good options. Of course, I probably would have tried other alternatives before the surgery he chose as well.
All this got me thinking about the bunnies and the choices the bunny rescue makes in regards to the health care of their animals.
I have been thinking about adopting a rabbit. However, the contract is too restrictive. The line, “You should take your rabbit to the veterinarian for a yearly check-up” clearly makes me a “bad” pet owner if I do not take my pet to a veterinarian. It also suggests that there is only one good way to care for pets.
I am reminded of a time when Chispa, my chihuahua mix, was attacked by a larger dog in a trail head parking lot. The other dog had taken her by surprise when he jumped out of the window of his car to get what 
might have looked like a squirrel to him. Upon inspection she was free of open wounds and I thought she would recover from the fright. However, she began to limp soon afterwards. I thought she might have bruised her hind quarters and it would resolve. A few days later, she was still holding her rear leg up when she walked. A thorough inspection of the leg led me to conclude that there was no injury. She felt no pain when I palpated it and she had full, pain-free range of motion. I suspected some sort of pinched nerve.
I never thought to take her to the veterinarian. When it did not resolve within the week, I called a friend of a friend who is a pet whisperer. At first Glen Philips could not find the problem. All he “saw” was an old injury on the other leg that she had when I let her move in with me. When I told him I thought the issue was located nearer the spine he was able to “see” the pinched nerve.
What happened next blew me away. Now, keep in mind, Glen is at home and we are talking on the phone. Glen tells me he is moving the nerve from where it is being pinched. In the next moment, Chispa gets up on her back legs and puts her front paws on my lap. This is the first time she has put weight on the leg in a week. Amazing! Where do I send the check?!
Why would I take her to the vet? I do not think mainstream medicine is necessarily the highest form of care. I also know that the results we get with whatever form of medicine we chose are not based on the medicine. Medicine has no self-existent power. The results are based on our own beliefs, subconscious programs and what we are thinking. Hence, I would not say my way is best. I just know it is best for me. I also know that each person knows within themselves what is best for them.
So, I’ll bite my tongue and allow people to choose surgery or pain or pharmaceuticals. I will continue to choose magic and natural products. Sure, I am crazy. It is nice having the freedom to be so.
I recently talked about false flag operations and how people ignore obvious discrepancies in the media’s reporting. It is not uncommon for humans to shut down their awareness in the face of uncomfortable and/or unpleasant realities. We simply cannot see what doesn’t fit into our world view or what we think is unbearable or undesirable. This is also apparent in our lifestyle choices. Many people ignore or deny the awareness they have about their food choices, for instance. Hence two thirds of the US is overweight and one third is obese.
One of the speakers at the Global Women’s Summit emphasized this point. This neuroscientist/chiropractor pointed out that no one every came into his office saying, “I want to optimize my nervous system. I want to make sure it is working at its best.” Everyone that came into his office was motivated by pain. They all wanted to alleviate pain. 
I am a little different. I am all about choosing today in a way that will create the highest amount of possibility. People find themselves with high blood pressure or a heart attack in middle age and act as if it is not something that could have been prevented. Instead of having an awareness of how they created it, they often attribute it to “old age”. Other people in the same circumstances use the sudden decline in “imagined” health as an opportunity to choose differently.
At the Summit, I ran into the woman, Sandy, I hired to promote my upcoming Women’s Health Workshop at the conference. I mentioned to her that I had no sign-ups yet. As the price was ridiculously low, she agreed with me that raising the price might help. Still, at the end of the day not one woman had signed up for the class despite it being the last day at the low price. Sandy looked at my flyer and said it seemed soft. She suggested I get “outrageous”, along the veins of “DO THIS OR DIE”.
She was right. Many of the speakers that day had talked about breast cancer as being a wake up call. Frightening people into acting was a sure fire way to get sign-ups. It is easy to ignore the dangers of pharmaceuticals because they have the blessing of the government. Here I was teaching a class on using alternative medicines to alleviate female complaints. I was hoping for people to choose something that was for their health, but I was not providing them with any motivation. With no pain they had no reason to choose something different.
If I wanted to fill that class I would need to remind them of the possible pain they would fall into in the future based on their choices today. Unfortunately, that is just not my style. I am trying to support people in being active, not reactive. Still, I am curious, what am I judging to be so wrong about provoking people into taking a particular action that I am unwilling to employ that method to help them create more health in their life. Hmmmm…. while I do judge being “sensational” as somewhat wrong, I also notice that do not feel that choosing to be healthy is such a rightness that I would want to use “skillful means” to recruit people. I do not attribute inherent value to what I am teaching or to “creating more health in their life”. Interesting. What are your thoughts?