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Natural Hygiene - Understanding nature’s way
How are you feeling? Are you tired? Are you overweight? Do you have trouble sleeping? Does your stomach hurt? Do you have difficulties digesting certain or all foods? Do you have problems with remembering? Do you have high blood pressure? If you answered yes to any of these questions, (and these are just a few) then Natural Hygiene might be the answer for you. This is no diagnose, treat or prescribe, but you find the "key" to better health through "correction of your nutrition" like it is described in Natural Hygiene. I know from experience that simple changes in lifestyle can change your attitude and your health.
Find out what Natural Hygiene holds for you. By adapting Natural Hygiene into your lifestyle you will learn how to look better, feel better and function better. You will learn how to eat and live properly according to our natural biological needs. You will learn how to develop your self-confidence. You will learn how to combine foods properly. You will learn how to exercise, and the benefits of sunshine, good air, clean water and many others. You will learn the importance of rest, sleep and emotional balance. You accept your bodies need for water, and live foods. You will learn how to overcome addictions: alcohol, smoking, drugs, etc. The list of benefits of natural living, thinking and eating is never ending! So discover for yourself how wonderful Natural Hygiene is. What is Natural Hygiene? Hygiene is the Science of Health. Natural Hygiene is the system which helps people live in harmony with the physiological needs of the human body, thereby maximizing health. By supplying the body with the basic requirements of nature: natural unadulterated food, unpolluted air, pure water, exercise, rest, sleep, mental and emotional poise, wholesome environment, and productive activity, - health is assured, and the self-healing powers resident within the body are given full reign.
Principles of Natural Hygiene
1. GOOD AIR 2. PURE WATER 3. COMFORTABLE BODY TEMPERATURE (36-37°C) 4. INTERNAL CLEANLINESS Free of poisons & pollutants.
5. SLEEP - RELAXATION regenerates nerve energy. 6. PROPER FOOD
7. EXERCISE – SEARCH HOW YOU CAN DO SOME PHYSICALLY TRAINING DAILY.
8. SUNSHINE - an essential of life. Sunshine is necessary for bone formation. 9. PLAY & RECREATION 10. MENTAL POISE - maintain equilibrium & do not become emotionally upset. 11. CREATIVE WORK 12. SELF MASTERY - you will lose self esteem if you lose self mastery. 13. LOVE, APPRECIATION, ESTEEM - both give & receive these. 14. APPRECIATION OF BEAUTY 15. NEED TO BE INSPIRED & MOTIVATED - must have purpose in life.
Definitions “Natural Hygiene is a philosophy and a set of principles and practices based on science, that leads to an extraordinary level of personal health and happiness. ... Natural Hygiene is for people who are looking for the good life, and not just a pretty good life, a very good life. It offers you the opportunity to live the healthiest, happiest life possible.” (Health Science)
“Hygiene is not an empirical system, nor is it experimental. It is a logical system derived from fundamental biological premises. Nevertheless, it is confirmed and supported by empiricism and experimentalism.” (Alec Burton D.O. D.C. 1995)
“The wise doctor realizes that he or she may need to take an active role and the patient a more passive role in the early stages of health restoration, but does everything possible to put the power of self care into the patients hands as soon as possible ... ... Above all is conservation of energy and identification of ways in which energy that needs to be directed towards healing is being lost.” (Dr. Paul Goldberg, 99)
“Although the Hygienic philosophy that "health is the result of healthful living", was considered radical in its day, the world is awakening to it now. In the 1990's we seem to be on the verge of another health revolution. .. The fundamental problem we face is not that medical costs are skyrocketing. The problem is that most medical care is not health care at all; it is disease care.” (R. Cridland, M.D., 1994)
“The underlying basis of Natural Hygiene is that the body is self-cleansing, self-healing and self-maintaining. Natural Hygiene is based on the idea that all the healing power of the universe is within the human body; that nature is always correct and can not be improved upon. We experience problems of health (i.e. excess weight, pain, stress) only when we break the natural laws of life.” (H. Diamond, 1985)
“It is interesting that the field of Natural Hygiene has existed in this country and been utilized by thousands of people for over a century and a half, and yet very few people have even heard of it. During my seminars I always ask the audience, how many have heard of Natural Hygiene. Less than 1 % ever raise their hands.” (Diamond: Fit for Life 1985)
“NATURAL HYGIENE holds that health is the normal state of all living organisms and that health is maintained through natural, self-initiating, self-healing process. NATURAL HYGIENE maintains that health is the personal responsibility of each individual, and that vibrant health is achieved only by the conscientious application of healthful living practices in all areas of one’s life”. (Victoria Bidwell 1991)
“Why does hygiene also mean "cleanliness"? In the 19th century, this was the situation: - Cleanliness was utterly disregarded. Physicians not only frowned upon, but opposed bathing. Surgeons performed operations without washing their hands, and operating rooms of hospitals were veritable pig sties. Physicians would go from the post mortem room directly to the delivery room and assist in the birth of a child without washing their hands. Child-bed fever was a very common disease and the death rate from it was very high. - Since patients were also being dosed heroically, having their veins and arteries emptied of blood, denied water to drink and fresh air to breathe, it is no wonder that otherwise simple diseases were regarded as very malignant and the death rate high. - Out of the contradictions, confusions, chaos and delusions called the science of medicine, grew a need for new thoughts. In America the crusade for health reform was launched in 1830 by Sylvester Graham through lectures and writings. Actual health care based on "physiology" or "hygiene" had started already in 1822 with Isaac Jennings. - Colleges in "Hygienic care" opened, the first one in 1852 in New York: the Hygeio-Therapeutic College. Many hygienic practitioners were created during the century, thousands of lectures given, lots of books and magazines spread. People learned to bathe, to eat more fruit and vegetables, to ventilate their homes, to get exercise and sunshine. Hygiene became so popular, that traditional medicine finally had to adopt parts of Hygiene, after having fiercely opposed it until the beginning of the 20th century. This new "hygiene" was incorporated with the drug-usage of Medicine (remember that "Hygiene" was opposed to drugs), and the word hygiene got the meaning it has today. - When Herbert Shelton and others in the 20th century revived the knowledge of "Hygiene" and modernized it, the word "Natural" was added. Shelton's How-to-Live magazine was started in 1928, his Hygienic Review in 1939, and the American Natural Hygiene Society was founded in 1948. (partly from The Greatest Health Discovery) Illness does not develop without cause; there are laws which regulate human life as well as any other system or constitution, and the man who violates any of the laws of his being, ought to know, when he suffers mental and physical distress, that this is a consequence of the transgression.” (Herbert Shelton 1968) .
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