Sustainable Health Care

Sustainability:Sustenance, aina (land), ability; to be able to be fully sustained by the land beneath our feet.

The talks around food sustainability have been a hot health topic for some time now, but what about diving deeper and asking the question: Is our healthcare system sustainable ?

Living on a small island amplifies the imbalance of the world as everything becomes magnified. Being a bodyworker for the past 20 years has allowed me an intimate view of the relationship between our mind, bodies, spirit and environment. From my observations, we are in a world of trouble and we must find a way back to balance.

Health, true health is not overly complicated. Humans require pure water, clean whole foods, sunlight, a connection to nature, rest, home, community and purpose. The earth provides all the resources we need but we are living so far out of balance with her that it’s no wonder we are plagued by diseases.

We believe ourselves to be more connected to the world through small screens and technological devices, yet we are more divided and sick than ever before? Think about it. They have enslaved our minds through feeding us enough information to stay confused and have reduced us into product consumption mode, which profits the few not the many; men such as “Mark of the Metaverse.” It begs the question, has the world gone fucking mad!?!

The more divided and sick we become the more profit they make. It’s a never ending cycle of creating more fake realities, more drugs, more vaccines, more tests, more intervention, more science, more side effects, more complications, more disease and so on and on it goes.

When we will wake up and consider the fact that our health is our real wealth? Mask up, shut up, line up, shoot up and don't dare question the science bought and paid for by the very people making the rules and dictating the narrative.

Pharmaceuticals will always and forever be a band aid to the symptoms of disease. A Virtual world will never compare to the real one, unless you are a robot. The path to health involves dealing with the root cause of disease, not simply making the pain and discomfort go away with a pill!

I am done with that world and health care system and I am here for the creation of the new one! Who’s with me?

We must stop pretending that the water we drink and the food we eat has no effect on our health. In reality, you truly are what you eat. If your eating organic clean food then chances are you’ll be in better health than someone eating a diet of processed chemically laden food. This is genetically modified disease in a package of convenience also creating more trash decomposing into micro plastics that now also pollute our blood. Have you ever wondered why there are so many cancers in the world?

How do we truly heal? What would a sustainable health care system look like ?

How do we reclaim our health from the jaws of corporate, capitalistic, pharmaceutical, and government control?

We must consider the whole person... mind, body, spirit as the trifecta of health. We must support our systems in a more humane and empathic way. It’s time we approach our health from a whole different angle and perspective. Change begins in our own kitchens, yards, and communities . We must bridge the divide within ourselves; our minds, bodies, spirits, each other, and our earth. It's all interconnected, our health directly correlates to the health of our environment.

Clean water is a cornerstone of health. Where does your drinking water come from? Out of the tap? Do you filter it? Do you buy it bottled? In plastic? In glass? Where are its headwaters? How is it treated?

The human body is made up of approximately 60% water as it comprises a high percentage of most body parts; brain/heart73%, lungs 83%, skin 64%,muscles and kidneys 79%, bones 31%.

We can examine our health through the lens and metaphor of a river and its watershed. A healthy river is clear flowing water, rich soil and lush foliage, falling rushing waters over boulders, smooth stone pebbles and sandy shores. All rivers lead to the ocean, the shared waters of all the earth and her continents. An unhealthy river is blocked flow, congested waters, debris and trash caught in swirling whirlpools of sludge and slime. Toxic waters pouring forth into that vast ocean, polluting as it goes. The health of the water determines the health of everything else.Water is clearly one of the most important elements in sustaining all life on earth. It’s the same for our bodies.

As a Lomilomi practitioner living on the island of Kaua’i, I feel an intimate connection to the waters of the land and her people. Wai or water is life! It’s time to establish a relationship with your water source. Do a little research on where your tap water comes from. If you have water near you, a stream, river, lake, pond, ocean etc….How do you relate with it? Do you spend time there? Are there organizations around who’s purpose is the cleaning and protecting those waters? Get involved, donate, do whatever it takes. How many places left on earth have clean pure healthy water? Water the most precious of resources and it is time we fight like hell for this precious elements protection. All life on earth depends on it!

Having the privilege of tapping into thousands of human watersheds, the miracle of the human body never ceases to amaze me. Medicine and health awaits us in ways beyond our wildest imaginings, if we learn to trust our own inner wisdom and take our power back from this outdated barbaric system that we currently exist in. Herbs, prayer, light, color, sound, movement, nature, touch, love, this is where the true medicine exists.

When we tend to ourselves we free up our ability to tend to each other and our earth. When we tend the earth we are inadvertently tending to ourselves. A beautifully profound cycle and practice.

If we want a healthy body, community and world we must start caring for the basic needs of all creatures and rebuilding our relationship with how we meet those needs in balance with our earth mother and our collective waters. Grow organic gardens, support your local farmers, eat local and humanely raised meats, get outside and breathe fresh air, find the joy of movement in your body. If the environment around you is not conducive to these activities then its imperative to come together with your immediate community and work together to clean it up. Only from a place of wholeness and health may we pour our rivers forth into the ocean of collective well being.

We must step up, take responsibility for the stewardship of our bodies and the land where we reside. Be the change, for all life on earth depends on it.

Sustainable health care is preventive and maintenance focused. Imagine if the insurance premiums you paid monthly afforded you massage, acupuncture, nutrition counseling, an exercise program, yoga, art therapy, dance, etc...What if we took the best of preventative care and made it the main focus of the new system? I would wager we would begin to embody true health while saving the world and human kind from our seemingly imminent demise.