An Investing Approach to Health

An Investing Approach To Health
Use Multiple Asset Classes
October 8, 2006

Ric Edelman's Book, The Truth About Money, shows that successful investors choose a mixture of classes of investments. His analysis is cogent. The same argument applies amazingly well to healing. Similar to the stock market, the body's reactions are – in the short term – complex and unpredictable. Similar to the stock market, the body's long-term health is much more predictable. You can choose to be comfortable today. However, choosing the best herb, operation, doctor, medicine, drug... (you name it) for today is not the same as choosing to achieve long-term health. This is especially likely if you are looking at only one aspect of the body's health when you make your choice.

Mr. Edelman considers mutual funds in his book. He shows that a fund's performance last month tells you absolutely nothing about the fund's probable performance over the next 20 years. Likewise, choosing a drug, based on one test, one problem, and one drug-company's recommendation probably does nothing to help you achieve good health. Mr. Edelman's message is simple. He recommends we invest in reliable, profitable CLASSES of investments, rather than specific stocks. Even better, INVEST IN SEVERAL CLASSES. Times change and classes change their profitability with the times.

The analogy with health is perfect. Do you need exercise today? Great! Do it! However, you don't always need it. I am learning to invest in 15 classes of health-giving activities.

1) Walk. Walking is not sport. It is a natural invigorating exercise. Walking is therapy. This is true, to some extent, even if walking is painful.

2) Choose a sport. Define a goal within it, and work to achieve the goal. I choose to become a competitive tennis player. This has forced many changes in my body. For example, I can no longer afford the cancer in my brain, so it is gone.

3) Ensure your goals are appropriate. For example, choosing to be competitive at high-level tennis makes no sense if your bones and joints are fragile. You will injure yourself. Instead, you might choose a sport that is easier on joints, such as bicycling or swimming. Alternatively, you might choose to strengthen your bones and joints using your own methods. During this time you can play tennis at a safer level. Tennis has much to offer even at a safer level.

4) Watch for opportunities to have fun. Allocate time for them. Demand that all your recreational activities be fun. In my life, if I find myself habitually doing something that is no longer fun, there is always someone else saying that I should enjoy the activity. If you don't enjoy the activity, eliminate it. If other people want you to do it, that is their problem, not yours. Perhaps you would have enjoyed it if they had helped make it fun for you.

5) Use partnership. A partner is especially helpful when you are intuitive. Ask your partner to corroborate your intuitive conclusions. Provide the same service to him/her.

6) Consider yourself, the spirit (soul), a partner with your body. Partners listen and talk to each other. Listen to your body. Above all, treat your body with respect. Speaking as though you control your body is not a respectful way to treat a partner. If you speak as though you can control your body, expect it to ignore your needs; expect to have health issues that you cannot solve.

7) Take care of your bones. Eat food that feeds them properly, and ensure that your digestion completes the job. Osteoporosis is almost always due to poor nutrition. Misaligned bones hurt, and often the problem is easily solved. Get help from a good chiropractor or use the NST technique to realign them yourself. The body is designed to heal bones and joints. The problem should not recur. Unless you have had some recent accident, continuing misalignments are always due to parasite colonies. Remove the parasite colony.

8) Take care of your skin. Your skin is your home. It is the largest organ in your body, and it plays an enormous role in keeping you strong. Deeply wrinkled, tough skin is a guarantee of health problems.

9) Use some method, such as EFT, to use the power of your acupuncture meridians to help.

10) Use a powerful set of symbols when you need external help with a health problem. Humans have always made symbols. Make your own. I create mine with a computer program called Inkscape. You can download it free on the Internet. Symbols provide services in several asset classes:

A diagnosis: where are the opportunities to help?
B The drawings include complex symmetries. The symmetries are the language you and the body will use when creating the agreement about what help is requested.
C Colors can be used when viewing the symbols. Colors define the mood associated with the agreement, thus defining the territory where the agreement is stored.
D Strong symbols connect you to multiple, strong energy sources.
E Avoid corrupt symbols. In case of doubt, spend a little time with it. Are you calmed? Are you stronger? Are you better off? Or are you making excuses? If you are making excuses, eliminate the symbol.

11) Healing progresses in stages. Give it time, but demand progress. Do not be patient. Focus on your item of highest priority. Give its solution the required time while testing for progress as you work on it. Once that solution is achieved it is time to move on. This is not patience, it is active partnership. Patient people wait until they die. Active people work effectively toward long-term goals.

12) Accept the willing offers of love from your world, from people, from house plants, from trees, from the household machinery you depend on. Give thanks for these gifts. You will get more of them, and the givers will be grateful. Like you, they also wish to be useful.

13) Use music

14) Identify your addictions and stop them. An addiction is an activity which takes control of your consciousness and leaves no room for quiet and creative thought. It is useful to ask, after you spend your time doing something, if you are better off as a result. If your answer sounds like an excuse, it is time to either remove that activity or redefine its value. I usually discover I am better off without it.

15) Do you react to health problems with fear? Don't waste your time. Fear makes no sense in this context. Why be frightened? At worst, you will die. That is it. You were brought here to be a blessing. A threat to your health is a threat to your ability to bless others with your active, happy, inspiring presence. Your world needs you healthy. It is time to get busy, to get intuitive, and to find the right things to do. Then do them. Each of them is an experiment. If it succeeds, that is good. If it fails, however, you will learn a lot more than you will if it succeeds. You learn fastest by making mistakes. Keep experimenting. You will know when you succeed.