Expanding possibilities

If we are to expand possibilities for all, the health of our earth and all the people on it is part of that. Personally, I do not think that nutritional supplements will help. They make nutrition :-

• complicated (only available with those with access to all the info and the time and other resources to understand it)
• expensive (in a study giving fish oil to school children, that one supplement, presumably bought in bulk, cost 80p per day, while school lunch cost 60p)
• a chore we do on our own rather than a meal we enjoy with others.

Health for us or wealth for them?

There is nothing alternative about nutritional supplements. They depend on our accepting the advice of people we believe (often with scant evidence) know what we need. Many of these people profit from our buying the nutritional supplements they recommend. Others are well meaning but that does not make them right.

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." John Muir

Supplements are sometimes seen as an essential part of wholistic health and natural healing but can separating nutritional elements from the food which makes them usable to us be considered wholistic or natural?  Some supplements feel good because they give us an immediate, short term burst of energy, but we may be unaware of longer term effects such as making the body’s delicate ph balance more acidic or introducing unhelpful moulds into our digestive tracts. There is also an environmental cost - packaging, processing, air miles traveled, geletine capsules…

Additionally, they are part of a huge industry, partly owned by the big pharmaceutical companies.

Fear and scarcity

A large part of the budget of supplement makers is spent on marketing and one of their marketing ploys is based on scarcity - we are asked to believe that it is no longer possible to grow food that meets all our nutritional needs. Scarcities are created to control us and make us buy things.

Although food may not be as good as it could be, there are still ways to eat (like sprouting our own seeds) that are a lot more reliably nutritious than taking pills. Where the soil is depleted, let’s address the problem rather than buy into and support beliefs that make it harder for all future generations to be healthy without numerous supplements - what a legacy we are helping to create!

A simple, plentiful alternative - nutrition growing on trees!

At this time of year, the earth’s energy starts to rise upwards again after the decent of winter (the Celts celebrated this in the festival of Imbolc). We tend to either take the seasons for granted or worry that they are part of what we have lost. Either way, we see ourselves as helpless and separate from the problem (which is, almost certainly, part of the problem).

To some extent, our environment is reflecting back our own state and I certainly recommend doing all we can to clear everything in us that is not supporting life and wholeness. I also suggest we  :-

• hold the vision of a healthy earth & simple, affordable and enjoyable nutrition and a healthy population
• follow where we are led to clean up the earth and help her revitalise herself
• tune into our own bodies and see what they want and need
• stop supporting scarcity ideas
• challenge ideas that we need supplements to be 100% healthy
• decrease our dependencies on supplements and anything that requires a lot of processing or air miles, or is dependent on big business

Morphic field

This doesn’t mean we can’t take supplements. We need more freedom, not more rules and, since a morphic field has been established, some supplements can be useful. Rather than taking them today, tomorrow and forever - one taken with reverence and the intention to be healthy without dependence on supplements may be all we need.

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