Warning. This can be a mind bender.
Most people don’t really get holistic health. Many people trying to cure acne with natural methods think they do. But as you discover there’s nothing holistic (or natural) about flushing your liver, cleansing your colon or any other natural health fantasies (treatments).
They are all based on the same idea as Western medicine is.
Because, whether we like it or not, human body is a holistic system and you have to treat it as such if you want to permanently get rid of your acne.
I just learned a good example to illustrate this.
Think of a flower.
Where does this thing we have agreed to call flower end? Or what does it include? Most people would say it includes roots, stem and leaves. Because that’s what we’ve all agreed. Probably because that’s what comes out when you pull it out of the soil.
So we’ve defined flower as its physical limits. But that’s entirely arbitrary definition. We do it with most ‘things’. The sun for example. We’ve defined the sun by the extent of its visible flames. But it would be equally ‘correct’ to define it by the extent of its heat or its light. Keep this in mind as we get back to our flower example.
Flower interacts with the soil and the microorganisms that live there. They all depend on ‘each other’ for existence (dead plant matter turns into soil). So it’s really like a flower-soil-micro organism system. But the flower also interacts with air and sunlight. So you should add those into the system also.
What about bees? Flower and bees depend on each other. So it should really be a flower-soil-micro organism-air-sun light-bees system.
I hope you see that we could go on forever with this.
Nature is really one big system, and each part of the system affect and depend on each other for existence. And that system is always in perfect balance. For example let’s say something brings down the number of bees. Soon the number of flowers goes down also and the system reaches a new balance.
For some reason we’ve just agreed to chop that system into different parts based on their physical limits. Then we agreed that those parts are separate. But then we noticed that those different parts interact and even depend on each other. That’s why we came up with symbiosis to compensate for the limits of this physical-based definition.
But wouldn’t it have been just as logical to define it all as one system?
We’ve gone even further. We’ve taken a snapshot of the system in equilibrium (balance state) and defined that this is how the system should be. If the system moves from this one balanced state we say something is wrong. Then we compare it against our idea of how it should be (our snapshot) and look for differences. When we find one, we say this is the problem. Then we try to frantically fix that part that doesn’t match our snapshot.
It would have been just as logical (in fact even more so) to say that the system moved into a new balance state. Something affected the system and it reached a new balance.
Now think of your body and you’ll notice that we’ve done the same thing with it.
We’ve defined it as a collection of different organs based on their physical limits. Well actually, all the organs are physically connected to one other with blood and lymph ducts. To get over this ‘problem’ we chopped the ducts off and pretended that they don’t count.
As you can see we’ve made quite a few leaps of faith with our idea of the human body.
Then we took a snapshot of the body and defined it as healthy. Different deviations from our snapshot are different diseases, and must be ‘fixed’. And we fix things by manipulating the ‘parts’ that don’t match our snapshot of health.
Here’s where we get really confused.
Based on our genes we are all little bit different. We have different strengths and weaknesses. So the same conditions or inputs cause different balance states (diseases) in different people.
Acne victims in their drive to exactly define what’s causing their problem fall for this trap. Look around at acne forums. They are full of threads where someone claims on having zeroed on the real cause of acne. Of course as soon as the thread goes live someone bunks the theory by saying that doesn’t cause acne for me, therefore it can’t be the cause of acne. If they ever discover perpetual motion, it’s going to be based on this debate.
No wonder many acne victims are confused.
My friend, acne and all diseases, as we understand them, are illusions. They are different balance states the system called your body is in. And the state of your body depends on the inputs or conditions it faces (such as diet, lifestyle, mental state and the environment).
So save yourself a big bundle of headaches by trying to figure out what caused your acne, because nothing did. And more importantly stop trying to fix what you think caused your acne.
Fix the conditions and your body moves to a state where acne doesn’t exist. And it won’t go there until you do your part.
This is the reason why following Clear for Life works so well for most people. Clear for Life takes you out of that fixing mentality and shows the easiest way to give your body the ideal conditions for getting rid of acne.
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