Resilience

Resilience: the ability of a substance to return to its usual shape after being bent, stretched, or pressed

A lot is being made of vaccinations in the covid crisis, hailing them as a solution to the problem of increasing numbers of zoonotic diseases (disease that transfers across animal species). If you haven’t had a jab then you are at greater risk of serious illness or death. It’s raised so much fear which has driven widespread compliance, along with social pressures applied to those who have not been jabbed.

In the natural world there is no vaccination programme for any disease. In the old natural world there was much less disease in the first place. So how does nature deal with disease?

Disease is made of two parts, dis- and -ease. Ease is the state of equilibrium and dis- is the lack of that state. Nature deals with threats by restoring balance, so when humans exploit nature by, for instance, cutting down rain forest for grazing animals, then nature steps in and creates extreme, different weather patterns to restore the balance.

What nature is doing to our weather is only bad for humans, not for nature. It is exactly what is needed to protect itself, to regenerate itself, to ensure that life goes on, just maybe not human life.

All pretty gloomy? Well it depends on your perspective.

The covid crisis is a part of the climate crisis, is a part of the environmental crisis. They are all one thing. Nature restoring balance.

So back to resilience. Rather than focusing on a vaccine to restore balance why not focus on our individual and collective resilience? On a positive note we can do a lot to give ourselves a much better chance of survival than relying on medical patches like covid vaccines, which are only dealing with the symptoms and not the cause. What the doctors and scientists don’t tell us that we can give ourselves a boost by following a healthy regime which will give a much better chance of surviving not just covid but any new disease which threatens us.

For instance:

• Eat an organic, largely plant based diet.
  • This changes our gut biome from one calling for unhealthy foods to one which demands healthy foods. Our bodily system, as well as our mental health, improves as a result.
• Get plenty of exercise.
  • Exercise gets the metabolism going and builds strength and stamina which is needed in times of stress.
• Drink plenty of water, replacing excesses of coffee, tea and alcohol.
  • Water purifies the body by flushing out toxins as opposed to drinking coffee which is a toxin.
• Spend time in nature.
  • Especially amongst trees which give off compounds which protect us from disease. The air in woodlands is palpably better than even in open fields. Nature calms the mind and blows away the cobwebs.
• Meditate.
  • Meditation can control the monkey mind that is always chattering away to us about the threats in our lives. Without these thoughts we feel calmer and can focus on what is important.

If the government would only make public broadcasts about resilience rather than fearful broadcasts about threats and fear mongering then we would be a lot better shape and save more lives than any vaccine would do. The early days of covid were all about people who had “underlying health issues”, so why was the approach to just isolate, rather than isolate and strengthen the population so that when exposed to covid we would have a better chance of survival, and feel generally better anyway. Going forward we can probably expect new diseases to come into our live, not to mention extreme weather events, so we should always focus our health efforts on resilience as a way of being prepared and giving ourselves the best chance of a long and healthy/enjoyable life.