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When I first started out to put together ideas about a workshop that would enable parents to gain skills in preventative care and self-help techniques to care for their infants and children, I was faced with the task of first making parents understand that no matter what we do to help our children through the experience of a common childhood ailment or more serious diseases, it is the child itself that has to do the healing. We have to change our beliefs in regard to what 'disease' is. We have to gain an understanding that once we change our 'attitude' towards 'disease', we are a step closer to discovering that only the body can 'heal'.

To make 'whole' means 'restoring' a 'pre-existing condition' to the 'normal' condition. My definition of 'pre-existing condition' refers to the state of health before steps for 'improvement' are taken; my definition of 'normal condition' is the state of being that we would ordinarily describe as 'happiness and well-being'.

We have to come to understand that happiness and well-being cannot be infused, prescribed, or administered. However, we can set out to improve our 'condition' by finding methods and preventive health measures that will lend themselves to be incorporated into our every day activities. Such measures can be certain exercises that will invigorate the body. Using such exercises every day as part of our daily routine will show results.

Filling our bodies with life and energy is a built-in mechanism that we are all born with. Very often however, soon after that event, we start to pay too much attention to 'detail' and become more unaware of the 'whole'. Our survival instincts and mechanisms become reinforced with the misleading belief that our ego is our strength. The world around us 'creates' a reality for us (as children) to conform with. And to be able to do just that, we (as children) have to invest enormous amounts of energy that otherwise would have been more useful. Our bodies could have made practical use of that wasted energy in assisting us to retain and / or regain a state of equilibrium; a mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical balance can be achieved and maintained.This of course has been known for many thousands of years, and thankfully we are recovering some of this knowledge nowadays.

An imbalance in the body is caused when some of its energy pathways are blocked. This often causes cellular, organic, and systemic stagnation. This is the state or 'condition' we refer to as 'disease' - an imbalance of the body's energy system. Viruses and bacteria do not cause disease, but they sometimes feed off the systemic stagnation that the energy blockage creates. 'Disease caused by a virus' can only affect a body that is imbalanced. If a body is free of the imbalance and systemic stagnation (that is food for that particular kind of virus) then the virus cannot take hold in it.

I often hear of children being given one antibiotic after another for i.e. respiratory infection or ear infections. The Mother remarks that "whenever the child stops taking the medication, it gets sick". It does not seem to occur to her that the cause has not yet been dealt with. The bacteria that are feeding off the disease - (the imbalance and systemic stagnation) are killed by the prescribed medication. However, as soon as the antibiotic is no longer acting upon the system, more bacteria stream in to feed. We have to really understand that the concept of western medical standard models for treating disease look somewhat incomplete, at least until the concept of 'cause and effect' as I have previously described is really understood.

Everything in the world is made up of energy. Energy vibrating at different frequency levels. It makes a lot of sense that if our bodies (us) are made up of energy, then we can prevent 'disease', and 'heal' with the application of energetic principles.

Over the past eleven years I have had the opportunity to study and learn about 'energetic principles' in health care. After I completed a Diploma in Therapeutic Massage and set out to treat patients, I soon discovered that my foremost interest lied in

1. preventing dis-ease and dis-comfort from occurring, and if manifested -
2. to educate the patient about the cause of his/her discomfort, and
3. give some simple instructions with regard to self help in order to alleviate the problem.

The summary of this course is to enable you - the parent, to help yourself better with the enduring task of 'helping' your children along the paths of their life's experience. You can be inspired to take the responsibility of investing a little of your precious time into changing your 'attitudes' towards health and illness and take some steps towards investing some 'energy' into your and your children's 'health, happiness, and well-being'.