23/02/2025
Start small, pick one behaviour to incorporate into your daily routine for big responses from the body.
The best Medicine is the one you don't have to take
This is one of the most popular axioms I heard when beginning my journey into holistic medicine. It reflects a deep truth about how you should focus your mindset towards health and wellness.
The single most important aspect of medicine is prevention.
This is true for both Eastern and Western Medicine. However, Traditional Chinese Medicine has a particular emphasis on preventing disease which is showcased in this old legend.
According to the traditional story, in Ancient China, doctors were paid while their patients were healthy. Pretty much like a monthly subscription to the doctor's services.
Then, once the patient fell ill, they would stop paying the doctor because he couldn't work to provide for his family and pay the doctor's fee.
This led to an emphasis on prevention which is seen in most Traditional Chinese Medicine.
There is a load of knowledge ranging from Acupressure routines to herbal formulas to exercise routines focused on making you healthier, more resilient, and resistant to the environmental hazards you will encounter.
This should be the aim of everyone, to develop a lifestyle that makes you healthier and offsets disease as much as possible.
However, our minds struggle to incorporate this kind of thinking into our lives. Mostly because of the conditioned notion of health and medicine as something you take to get rid of an issue and then return to the behaviors that caused the disease in the first place.
But here's a thought experiment: Instead of seeing such tools from TCM as additions that we frame as something foreign, see them as investments and trade-offs. You are switching one unhealthy behavior for a healthy one.
Design a life that is focused on longevity, long-term autonomy, on health.
It doesn't have to be a huge change, just pick one behavior you would like to implement and do it. After a while, add another one and keep going.
Whether it is drinking warm water, having a morning acupressure routine for specific days or conditions, or adding herbs to your meals to promote digestion and health, just get started.
You won't regret it.
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