Illness is the body talking to you. Most of us are not really into the idea of having that conversation with our bodies. It seems too intimate. And if we haven't been talking with our bodies on a normal basis, we are probably afraid that once we open up that conversation with "HEY, LOWER BACK, SO WHY ARE YOU ALL ACHEY LATELY??" it'll be all "BECAUSE YOU SHOULDN'T BE LIFTING YOUR THREE OLD THAT WAY, AND BY THE WAY, I DONT LIKE MILK, OR SUGAR OR FUN OR TV AND YOU SHOULD GO TO THE GYM AND QUIT BEING SUCH A COUCH POTATO AND GIMME THE KEYS, I WANT TO BORROW THE CAR."
And it might be all "I GOT CANCER!" "I GOT SOMETHING INCURABLE!" "YOU'RE FUCKED!"
Medicine is our reaction to that conversation. We can be all pain-killer "SHUT UP ALREADY!" Or we can take the conversation further, figure out what the body needs, and try to find a compromise.
All these little home remedies are really a small way you can open up that conversation. Because having the conversation itself is important. This doesn't mean that you can't go to the doctor, can't take ibuprofen, any of that. And definitely, there is a time where the doctor is THE place to go.
Conversing with the body is the way we talk to our essential selves, which is not nearly as esoteric as it sounds. It's the self that doesn't care what other people want from us, it only cares about what it needs to express its essential nature, it's YOU-NESS. Put this way, I think you can see why having the conversation itself is important.
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