Health Meaning and Purpose

1. There many changes happening every day in the scientific world that are changing the way we think about our own health. New connections are constantly being discovered between science, consciousness, and spirituality. Lately, there seems to be a lot of emphasis on how so many parts of ourselves are due to genetics. It is important to realize that our genes do not determine our destiny. We can do things to change what we have inherited. We are all connected in this world, even things once thought to be so isolated. An example of this is that new studies are showing that animals and humans can interact over long distances. There really is a global consciousness. My favorite part of this lesson was that spiritual health begins with understanding the natural laws, and obeying those laws. We need to find our true purpose and then begin to use that knowledge to serve others. 

2. Within all of us there is a force, which is the body's constant drive to heal itself, just as nature has a constant drive to heal itself. It is our Inner Light, however effected by our thoughts, emotions, our relationships, environment and our beliefs. We all have an "Informational Matrix" that maintains the harmonious integrity of our body, mind, subtle system, and spirit. When this is corrupted by negative thoughts of emotions, by toxins or other interferences, we can see illness develop. We age because these information systems become corrupted over time.

Health is the natural order of things. The maintenance of health and well-being comes from re-establishing balance and harmony not just in ourselves, but also in our relationships with others, society, and the environment. We are experiencing an extraordinary rate of change in every area of our lives. Our health and wellness are the result of an interplay of neurobiology of culture and of choice, of subtle systems and of spirit. It is interesting to know that environmental factors are responsible for 1/4 to 1/3 of the global burden of disease. An example of this is overexposure to light. Constant exposure to light, particularly artificial light, can produce aberrant signals that disrupt our natural rhythms (mood disorders, and insulin resistance).



BIOFIELD: Our inner light

Hindus refer to it as Prana
Chinese refer to it as Chi
Japenese refer to it as Ki

A biofield is the organizing informational matrix

After Newton had published his laws of mechanics, optics, and gravity, he spent many years looking for the source of life in alchemic experiments. His search was not irrational, given the knowledge of the day. Still, Newton and others who followed the same trail never managed to uncover a signal for a special substance of spirit or life.

Fritz Albert Popp discovered biophotons

BIOPHOTONS: cells and whole bodies emit coherent light
Scientists believe that biophotons may be involved in various cell functions, such as mitosis, or even that they may be produced and detected by the DNA in the cell nucleus.

This light may be the organizing principle in cells

As Latter Day Saints we understand the light of Christ, could this light be that?

We may at our central core all have a holographic structure = our spirit.

Our memory is not just a video of our life events; it is dynamic and malleable and is constantly being edited…

Therefore, we can change our stories and with that remove some of the restrictions that they have imposed upon us.

No surprise, then, that alternative practitioners find many eager listeners when they announce that they go beyond materialism and mechanism, and treat the really important part of the human system - the vital substance of life itself. People's religious sensibilities and images of self-worth are greatly mollified when they are told that they are far more than an assemblage of atoms - that they possess a living field that is linked to both God and cosmos. Furthermore, the desperately ill will quite naturally seek out hope wherever they can find it. So a ready market exists for therapists who claim they can succeed where medical science fails.