We generally refer to matters of insurance over which we have no direct control or means of prevention other than due care.
In regard to health insurance however, prevention is the only real insurance against disease of any kind. Only by building our health can we ensure that we do not suffer pain and illness in future. There is no other way.
Our disciplinary approach to good health applies to the choices we make in our diet, exercise, breathing habits, rest and sleep patterns. In addition we must include our emotional habits and control, as well as our mental habits of thought and attitude with the last being as important as our physical habits.
Both emotional and mental influences determine our actions that have final word in regard to insuring our physical well being. A degree of thought motivates the most basic of our actions and habits. Our emotions are equally as powerful and can assist or cripple our intellectual efforts.
It is well known that a happy person is less likely to suffer serious health problems, as great grief or loneliness can create serious disease.
Therefore, controlling negative thoughts, dissolving our fears, and all the negative tendencies of our nature as they appear is our responsibility before they cause manifestation as disease symptoms in our psyche. No so-called health insurance plan will save us from the consequences of neglect of the natural health rules.
The good news is that we have the capacity to change. It is proven that diseases of the body, even extreme ones such as cancer, can be relieved or cured by alterations not only in the diet and lifestyle but by the individual’s improved mental attitudes. This fact acknowledges that we possess a degree of self empowerment. But we ourselves have to make the changes.
When seeking professional medical help to relieve suffering of any kind, we must remember the limitations. No professional can offer a magical ability to cure us in matters that are caused by and can be remedied by changes in our own habits and behaviour, thought and feeling. There is no chemical drug or medicine that can change our emotions and turn our greed or avarice into contentment, or transform our hatred into love. There is no outside agent that can dissolve our personal fears or alter the circumstances that create our stress or give us the secret recipe for our own inner happiness.
If we wish to follow a system of prevention we must believe that we are powerful in our potential capability to alter our habits and our character and so command our lives that we can have confidence in the eventual positive outcome.
Building good physical health and a sound mind is our only true insurance against disease.
Sally Janssen’s wonderful book Mental Fitness: A Simple Self-help Guide, offers simple and timely solutions.
