The Real Sense of Natural Medicine

"Medicine can never be perfected as long as its sole objective is the maintenance of physical existence. We must realize the total relationship of the human being with plants, soil, water, heat and air, as well as Earth and Heaven. Until such time, humanity will continue to fear sickness and death." (Masahilo M. Nakazono)

It was over 30 years ago that Nakazono Sensei wrote these words in a little, self-published booklet entitled "The Real Sense of Natural Medicine." Sensei was on a mission to awaken humankind to a spiritual ecology that recognizes that life has its beginning and finality in an integrated holism wherein peace, harmony and health manifest as we stop seeing ourselves, individually, as separate from each other and cease seeing humanity as separate from our environment and no longer view our environment as separate from the universe.

As he pointed out, "The scientific world... can only recognize individual existence. Of course, with imagination we can believe that a tree must be made from a certain number of cooperating cells and that maybe these cells are coming from the same source as our own life, then build a microscope to try and compare our imagination to reality. This is the extent of the joining together that... the physical senses can have with our spiritual search. I say that the scientific world can only recognize individual existence because science can not catch from where an atom or a particle is coming nor see to where it is disappearing and (can not see) these two directions are cooperating."

This than is the purpose and principle of what we term Natural Life Therapy.

Natural Life Therapy is not a system of medicine; it is a philosophy of healing that seeks to embody the unity of the individual-in-its-environment and assist this unification through application of proven techniques that guide the human body in reintegrating its personal life force with the life energy of the environment. As Sensei would point out, Oriental Medicine that does not grasp this unification principle is not natural medicine and modern surgical/pharmacological medicine that does strive for unification is natural medicine. Clearly, the word natural has a deeper and broader meaning than is defined by the dictionary.

Acupuncture, the use of specialized needles to influence the meridian flow of life energy in the body, is one of the highly refined techniques utilized in assisting the body to function in harmony with its environment. Natural Life Therapy utilizes a variety of clinically proven procedures discovered and developed over the centuries to strengthen and align the universal life energy that flows within and without us.

WE WILL CONTINUE THIS DISCUSSION THURSDAY, MARCH 12 FROM 6 p.m. TO 7:30 p.m AT NATURAL LIFE THERAPY CLINIC – PUBLIC WELCOME.

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