A Letter to Jane on Health and Healing

Ready, Jane? Let's get down to practical things you can DO to care for your body and get ready for God's healing touch.

Well, yes, there are some common sense, practical things you can do. Just take heed not to make a religion out of them. (From personal experience I know that is a danger).

It doesn't hurt to read and study up on the human body and how God made it to function. Understanding how the various systems like blood and glandular secretions and the digestive system work can go a long way to seeing plainly how to solve certain problems.

For instance, if you haven't been feeling well, you probably have not been eating properly, so your digestive system gets either too sensitive or too sluggish. This can build up little pockets of toxins in the body that grow like cobwebs, then gradually become pebbles and little rocks of putrid, unnatural 'substance' and can eventually become tumors and (gasp) cancer too!

As those pebbles and lumps sit on or press on nerves nearby, they can cause some limb or area of the body to have a continual nagging pain. It may not be anywhere near where that toxic substance is brooding and hatching trouble, but if it puts pressure on a nerve connected to that other area, it is the cause of your sinus pressure, or arthritis, or stomach ache, or headache, or whatever.

Solution? Cleanse the digestive system. A fast, where you drink only water or juices and ignore solid food for a few days will do wonders. Sometimes an enema helps, but that's not wise as a habit. A good cleanse for a couple of days has helped me clear up nagging sinus headaches behind one eye, knots in the neck, an achy thigh, and so on.

Spend time praying and asking for cleansing spiritually of all parts of the body and your life. Invite Christ - by the Holy Spirit to come abide in your body and life, and take authority over it.

Think through how to get good exercise for a body that is not used, has flabby muscles, tires out easlily and can't get much work done for the Lord. Even to just sing praise songs to God all day, you need strength.

You can't get it in a botle or from a pill. Strength comes from exercise. USING your body! If you are not doing work all day that exerts energy, then you have to work in plans for exerice. I know this is not an appealing thought if you're used to sitting or lying around all day. But if you want good health and wnat to maintain the health God gives you, you will have to get up and do things that stretch and use your muscles .

Walking, which is easiest, is also considered the best help. Let me tell how I learned this personally.

While I was looking after Mom I was always flying about the house, up and down stairs, and burning so much energy that I had no trouble staying slim. After she died, I found that I could do most of the housework and meals in very short periods of time, and I got a new computer, went online, and threw myself wholeheartedly into my goal of publishing my novel. I didn't notice it right away because it crept up on me, but I began to gain weight, get flabby, and soon found it hard to be on my feet for anything at all for more than an hour. I was turning into an old woman!

I was diagnosed with osteoporsis and advised to take some walks in the sunshine to strengthen my bones, or they would get brittle and begin to break. However, I didn't see how I had time for such nonsense. I had far more important and more fascinating things to do at my computer!

Well, to make a long saga shorter, it was the Lord who convinced me that I needed to do a bit of exercise every night to help tone up my flabby tummy, and my weak leg muscles. Then - in the fall of 2005 - when I had trouble staying awake in my room for prayer, the Lord prompted me to go out for a walk around a few blocks and pray as I walked.

What a difference! I discovered that moving forward even with a plodding walk help me to concentrate on my little prayer list. When I got back I felt winded, but refreshed. Also that I had prayed far more effectlvely than if I'd continued to doze in my chair in my room. In a few weeks I was so addicted to the prayer walks, that I bought special boots, and dug out mom's old down-filled parka coat so that I could walk as long as the weather would allow through the winter.

In December I had pneumonia and pleurisy, so I gave up the walks for a few weeks, but I missed them terribly. When I began again after Christmas, I found that I had to take shorter walks at first, and sort of break my body in all over again to the discipline of the longer walks. As my lungs and my legs got more used it, it became a real joy again. I'm thrilled to find that I feel stronger and more alert all the rest of the day, and have far less sinus headaches than I used to. I now am a firm advocate of taking walks regularly every day.

The hardest part is persuading ourselves that we want to, and that we want to badly enough to make time in our daily schedule to do it. Ten minutes is probably long enough at the beginning, and then it will gradually increase, because you want to go a bit further, and well, now half an hour is almost necessary for me!

Jane, I would not be surprised if a number of your symptoms come from reactions to the drugs you are taking. It is not a good idea to start and stop them too suddenly, but if you followed the above suggestions first, and pray for healing of each one by name, I think some of the symptoms would disappear.

To deal with the ones left, I would cleanse the bowels with a fast, taking only juice and water fast for a couple of days, and when the hidden constipation is cleared up, another bunch of symptoms will vanish. Many of my own sinus or occular headaches have evaporated when I was able to have a thorough bowel movement. I had no stomach pains to indicate that I was constipated, but I began to see the corelation and realized that Jethro Kloss, who lived in the 1800s and wrote "Back to Eden," was right. A LOT of problems go away when the bowels are emptied of toxic buildup.

There are herbal ointments that can clear up the skin problems like psoriasis. I've made one from the calendula flowers and leaves that grew up wild in our garden, and it works well on skin. But people who have skin problems are really low on B Vitamins. I've found that taking two tables of Vitamin B100 a day solves a lot of skin problems, nervous itch and so forth.

The herb fennel, when dried and sprinkled on food helps to clear up acid reflux. But just avoiding to eat a lot of meat, and trying not to eat fruits and vegetables at the SAME meal, takes care of a lot of that too. Or, giving up milk and milk products, as the acid may be because your digestive tract is lactose intolerant. I keep lactose capsules on hand when I can afford them, to take just before I eat some ice cream. Otherwise my stomach feels foamy with gas!

Try avoiding spicy foods, although some of them are good for medicine too. Ginger in hot water for a tea, is good for upsest stomach, and cinnamon together with some honey in a mug of hot water will clear up various problems too.

Do give up soft drinks, but most particularly the diet kind. They have asperatame in them, which is really a kind of formadahyde. Do you remember disecting frogs in high school? Well, those body parts are pickled in formadahyde to keep dead things from stinking and getting gross. Funeral directors use it to preserve a human body for the coffin too.

Well, that aspartame/formadahyde seeks out brain cells like a suicide bomber! It pickles your brain cells one by one! People who drink that stuff are just waiting for death to lay them down; they are slowly dying already.

I don't drink soft drinks of any kind if I can help it. Period. But since I learned this about aspertame I try to remember to warn others too.

Here's some links with lots more information;
http://www.newfoundationspubl.org/from48.htm
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/
http://www.sweetpoison.com/

But now, dear Jane, I think I've given you far more than you imagined I could drop on you. Please take your time to digest it, and pray about whether to believe it or put it aside. I leave that up to you. I'm not out to make you agree with me. :) I just wanted to return the respect you showed in sharing your personal information, but giving you as thorough an answer as I know how.

Praying for your health, Jane!

Blessings & Thanks,
Ruth

P.S. This topic is NOT exhausted, but we can talk further another time.

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