Sciatica & Natural Health & Wellbeing

Building and maintaining your health, wellbeing and vitality is a skill and it requires knowledge and action.  Like any practice in life, the results you get and health you have, depend on how well you learn and apply skills. 

Your back is a large, complex and sensitive organ and it's condition is often a good indicator for your oveerall health.

Most people who are healthy and vital have trained themselves to focus on wellness.  Typically, they have learned to listen to their bodies.  Sooner or later they get to a point where they instinctively understand what their bodies need and how hard they can push themselves.

Get Out Of Your Body’s Way

Fundamentally your body is an immensely powerful, self regulating, wellness system.  It will stay well and heal itself most of the time, if you give it a reasonable chance.  However, we often take our bodies for granted and end up treating them far worse than we would our cars, fridges or lawnmowers!

We often abuse our bodies for long periods with the wrong foods, too much food, smoking, stress, alcohol, drugs and no exercise.  Almost everybody knows at least a few practices for wellness, but we often ignore them.  Instead, we run our bodies down, ignore the signals, or if we do notice the symptoms of our neglect, we don’t do anything about them.

We may spend years and years living a damaging lifestyle.  We may even have a lifestyle that we think is good, but we eat predominantly processed foods, or food rich in sugar or heavy in fat.  We don’t think much about this apart from noticing “we can’t do what we used to”. 

The result of this behaviour is that we encounter a steady decline in our physical capabilities and quality of life.  Then when we get sick or suffer mechanical failures in our bodies we say that we are ‘surprised’ or that is ‘unlucky’. 

Of course, it’s neither a surprise nor bad luck, it’s just the inevitable outcome of neglecting our health. Generally, the people who let this happen are less likely to be aware of wellness practices, proper nutrition and the mind-body relationship, or perhaps just ‘too busy doing life’ to notice. 

“Your job is to stay healthy so that you have the absolute minimum of sickness that needs to be cured.”

 So then the next likely step is that we go to the doctor to get treated and probably address our ‘sickness’ with drugs, rather than address the root causes in our lifestyle.  These drugs can mask or lead us to ignore the real causes of our ill-health, plus the side effects of the drugs can generate further problems.

So What Can You Do?

Educate yourself about your own health and wellbeing. When you visit your health practitioner, ask exactly what the benefits and risks are of varying treatments.  Don’t take it for granted that the newest high tech treatment, or drug is necessarily the best for you.  Investigate what low impact treatments are available.   

"Take personal responsibility for your own health, because the effort and cost needed to keep yourself well is a fraction of the effort and cost to get better once you are sick."