Most of us are fortunate enough to be born with the gift of health. At birth, we can be compared to a big, bright light bulb, radiating light and health from the inside out. We are created and designed to burn brightly for at least one hundred years. No, not sixty or seventy or eighty years, but one hundred years, and with mobility, comfort, purpose, and good health, so the old age experts tell us. The amazing intelligence that created us also has the ability to re-create us by renewing all the cells and tissues in our bodies every year and maintain the well-coordinated function of our body parts. Because of the way you neglect and even abuse your body, over time and years your light gradually grows dimmer and dimmer, until your body may be functioning at only forty percent. The process has been so gradual that you don't even notice that you are in fact losing your health. Sure you have a few aches and pains, moans and groins, but doesn't everyone? Sure you seem to be tired all of the time, even after eight hours of sleep" ?isn't that what coffee is for? Sure your cholesterol and blood pressure are too high. So what? Can't they be fixed with a prescription? Sure you can no longer walk around the block without breathing hard, but you just shrug that off too. In fact, you ignore all the pesky warning signals that your body may not be functioning very well at all on the inside. It's just easier that way. And then one day you are sitting in a doctor's office. You had some tests done and the doctor called you back in to talk to you about the results of the tests. As you wait for the doctor, you feel your heart pounding in your chest. Your stomach is flip-flopping. Your palms are sweating, and you feel flushed all over. You try to calm yourself, but positive self-talk makes no difference. The doctor walks in the door and with just one look, you know what he is going to say. He doesn't even have to say the word. But he does anyway. "You have cancer,"? he says. And that word, cancer, cancer, cancer echoes around in your brain. Can you just imagine how you would feel? Or perhaps it has already happened to you or someone you love. In just the flash of an instant with just one word, your whole world turns upside down and everything changes" ?forever. Through the fog in your mind, you manage to gather a few thoughts. How could this be possible, you say to yourself? Perhaps that there has been a mistake. After all, you tell the doctor, you have no pain. The doctor says that there is no mistake, and the pain will come sooner or later. You think that perhaps there is some cure. After all, you sometimes hear about amazing cures. But the doctor shakes his head again and says there is no cure. And then you think that maybe someone will come up with a cure. After all, this is the wealthiest, most powerful country in the whole world. Surely, with all those smart, highly trained researchers and doctors and all those dollars that are spent on finding cures, there may be some hope that just one cure will be found in time to help you. The doctor again shakes his head. The best way to avoid this very sad and life-rattling trauma is to work every day on keeping your light bulb, your health, burning as brightly as possible. Don't wait until a doctor tells you that you have some incurable and scary disease. The time to act is now, before your light bulb goes out" ?forever. |
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