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Health & Healing

as being ‘normal’ but that very warning and notice to everyone that
name, dis-ease or a lack of ease, something is amiss in the spiritual, But I began observing the
immediately tells you that it is not social, mental, physical environment world around me and I took
normal. It is not ‘par for the course’. around and within the people. Not note that many of the people
It is evidence of abnormality that just the one person affected, but the
has encroached on the well-being of people as a whole. Sickness, in many who had shared experiences
humanity and is to be fought with indigenous cultures, always pointed such as vaccines, toxic food,
as great a diligence as one would first to a spiritual issue and then drinking, poor diet, poor
fight off an enemy that has broken to a physical one and it was always sleeping habits did not end
into one’s home. That’s because addressed as such – unlike in today’s
dis-ease is an enemy and a thief. It world. up looking the same.
takes one’s money, strength, time
and physical appearance without any This means that increasing cases of
apology. But most people will toler- cancer, increasing cases of autism, to generation. They created a reality
ate it and even accept its presence in increasing cases of irritable bow- that was not needful.
their lives. And yet, there are enough el syndrome, increasing cases of This manufactured reality is what
examples of people around them myopia, hypermetropia, astigma- the world has been conditioned to
who are not suffering like they are, tism, increasing cases of baldness, accept. That dis-ease is ‘normal,
which means that there is an oddity. increasing cases of infertility among ordinary and commonplace’. Yet,
men and women are all signs to the it’s not and we must ask questions
I started to think about this about community that there is an issue if we’re going to get to the bottom
12 years ago. Before that I was of that has caused an imbalance or of things. “How come my grand-
the mindset I described above and a displacement and it needs to be child reacted to this food, which our
spent a lot of time with people who addressed. Not by building more family has been eating since I can
were the same. But, I began ob- hospitals or training more special- remember?” “How is it that these
serving the world around me and I ists – but by understanding its root children raised in the same home
took note that many of the people cause and fixing that. The people have completely different health
who had shared experiences such who have chosen to ‘own’ the situ- profiles?” “Why are more women
as vaccines, toxic food, drinking, ations their bodies are facing have from around the same 10–20-year
poor diet, poor sleeping habits did missed a crucial step in resolving a vaccination period struggling with
not end up looking the same. “Oh, wider issue in the society that they endometriosis or PCOS in their 20s,
they’re just stronger.” Ok, fine, but were being used as an indicator or 30s and even 40s?” “Why are men
why? My husband noted that a huge warning for. Movies and books put who grew up in the 1950s in Afrika
number of people in Kenya both out all these ‘noble’ ways to die of dealing with issues of prostate
young and older people wear glasses sickness, surrounded by ‘loving’ cancer later on in life? Even those
to help correct their vision and he friends and family and courageously who were from completely different
asked me why. I had no answer. All accepting the situation – but that communities.” “Why were there
along I had just thought, “That’s was just more spiritual, mental and increases in eczema, asthma, food
just the way it is.” I remember even emotional energy that was being allergies and acne in Afrika in chil-
telling him, it must be because of put out there to cause the world dren from the late 1960s onwards?”
the “too much reading that Kenyans to turn and embrace the obvious “Why are children getting obese?”
do” (that’s the type of ‘humble brag’ dysfunction that was around and “Is there a link we are missing in all
people use around dis-ease). Quite within them – instead of facing it of these health issues” “What can
foolish, I think. But he pointed out like an enemy and finding out what we do to stop these things?”
there were people of an older gener- the real cause of the issue is. Instead We must become observers of the
ation in the same country who had of dealing with the evil head-on, world around us by choice and as a
no such issues and that in Nigeria, we created a multi-billion-dollar matter of urgency and as a delib-
it was not a thing. So, that added to market that is ravaging our people erate act. Look at your world and
my contemplation on good health and destroying the future. By taking consult those who would know, such
vs. dis-ease. It is lately that I start- the evil energy that the movies and as wise elders who have observed
ed to understand that the dis-ease books disseminated, people in the changing trends over the years.
which affects a smaller percentage world re-transmitted it and caused
of people is meant to serve as it to gain strength from generation What’s going on in the world is not

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