A decision can be helpful in one situation and not in another. Providers need concrete ways to evaluate context with authentic and practical tools that hold up under real world conditions.
A series on tools, resources, and support for health and wellness providers to practically rebuild or refine how they serve.
Contents
Humanity, Authenticity, Individualization — A foundational human value is the inherent worth of every individual, and thus, the goal of service is to support the individual.
Acknowledging Real-World Context — The purveyors of establishment doctrine were taught to exist in an artificial construction that isn’t reality. We don’t live in a petri dish or the confines of approved academia. Health isn’t defined or achieved by decree or degree.
Revealing Assumptions, Asking Consistent Questions — Every source of information relies on (typically hidden) assumptions and (an often unstated) scope. A straight-forward way to determine real-world context is to ask a consistent set of questions of a very broad scope of sources. In the process, limitations, weaknesses, and biases of various sources become more visible.
Preparing Practically & Thoroughly — We don’t need systems and algorithms that serve organizations and authorities. We don’t need limits on our sourcing. We don’t need out-of-context factoids. And we don’t need unexamined assumptions and authoritative opinions passed off as fact, doctrine, or gospel. Here’s what we actually need.
How Providers Serve — A series on tools, resources, and support for health and wellness providers to practically rebuild or refine how they serve.
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Humanity, Authenticity, Individualization
A foundational human value is the inherent worth of every individual, and thus, the goal of service is to support the individual. Even when conducting a workshop or teaching a class to 10 or 100 people, still the goal is to provide support in a way that enables each person to make choices that are best suited to their situation.
Humans are not machines. They’re not algorithms. They’re not an “average”.
Whether you’re helping others to relieve anxiety or chronic pain, heal trauma or cancer, or improve bone health or brain health, you want to support them in choosing optimum strategies and practices that will be effective for their unique situation.
Personally, I’m a fan of structure and technology that enhance our ability to express, serve, and actualize. But I reject structure that is more in service of automation than humanity, more artificial than organic, more life-degrading than life-enhancing. I do not support systemization that benefits the system itself rather than the humans it purports to serve. If you agree, I urge you to opt out of systems that are more in service to systems than humans.
I support every way that people come up with for more effective, respectful and joyous ways of living, ways that are based on the real and true needs and desires of the people who make up our families, communities and world. I was born in ‘66 and life was certainly different in the 70s, 80s and 90s. One of the differences about this time in the 2020’s is that if we do not specifically choose humane ways of living, learning and serving, then extreme pressures will cause us to diminish human life in deference to artificial systems.
Our ability to make wise decisions about all things — including how to optimize and individualize — grows with time, with listening, and with experience, of course. But there are other practical and accessible ways, too: things everyone can do right now, in their own time, to be more effective in the real world.
Acknowledging Real-World Context
Recognizing Artificial Constructions
One of the many weaknesses of establishment medicine is an improperly artificial context. Take, for example:
A pain “specialist” who is trained in prescribing drugs but not in resolving chronic inflammation or regulating the nervous system, or
A doctor who is uneducated in the need to reduce toxic load, resolve nutrient deficiencies, and support the immune system.
It’s as if purveyors of establishment doctrine live in a cardboard box. They think everything worth knowing is within those flimsy borders, but the artificial construction they were taught to exist in isn’t reality.
Embracing the Real World
We don’t live in a petri dish or the confines of approved academia.
We live in a big world that is awe-inspiring. It gives us everything we need: living waters, bioactive light, foods that not only bring sensory pleasure but that nourish and heal, and surroundings of beauty and wonder.
And we live in a world where the air, water, and food have been relentlessly poisoned with toxins that are unquestionably devastating to our planet, our children, and our health.
Extensive research over many decades makes it crystal clear: pesticides, plastics, fluoride, heavy metals, and synthetic food additives cause chronic disease and unquestionably contribute to the verifiable failure of “conventional” medicine.
Health isn’t defined or achieved by decree or degree.
The human body isn’t actually like anatomy pictures that show a body made up of separate parts. They’re not separate and they’re not like machine parts. Rather, our body is “a cohesive matrix of connectivity that is literally uninterrupted.” All our “parts” are patterns of energy in perpetual motion — called vibration — that have coalesced into complex cellular and physiological wonders. The body is nothing like a machine. It is “not a mechanistic system of pulleys and levers.”
Health and disease aren’t the result of a “genetic blueprint”. They’re the result of epigenetic factors that we can change.
Health isn’t achieved from diagnosis or from drugs. It’s achieved by promoting cellular and physiological health. While drugs don’t heal, healing has been achieved using the support of nearly 20 medical systems and 200 various techniques and therapies.
Disease isn’t healed by suppressing symptoms. It’s healed by resolving the root cause.
Committing to Making an Actual Difference in the Real World
In the real world, in order to optimize decisions, it behooves us to leave outdated thinking behind. Our priorities can be to:
Create a mind-map to mentally place new information in context, enabling us to absorb more information and apply it more creatively and effectively.
Verify and rely on real-world evidence, testimony, and experience.
Utilize valuable findings from many sources. Do not automatically trust mainstream research or interpretation; rather, read the findings directly and/or seek independent researchers who have done so. When relying on technical and obscure sources, translate them into more accessible teachings for others.
Get better at communicating effectively and empowering others, since real-world health and wellness require factual, contextualized knowledge, self-responsibility, and commitment.
Seek sources that help us to know what we don’t know, thereby becoming aware of when lack of knowledge is limiting us, and how to overcome it.
Revealing Assumptions, Asking Consistent Questions
Behind every source of information is an agenda. It can be to connect, share, or empower. Or it can be convince, sway, manipulate, or control.
Those who seek to manipulate may include up to 90% truth and twist a small amount to meet their objectives. This tactic has been highly effective in the past and can be the most difficult hurdle for truth-seekers to identify and get past. But once you see it, it’s not that hard. You learn to immediately identify assumptions and scope. When those have been manipulated, whatever follows is irrelevant and not an accurate reflection of real-world truth. In cases where assumptions and scope are understood and acceptable, the task is to 1) view the actual researcher comments, not those of the headline-writers and propagandists and/or 2) view the raw data.
Revealing Assumptions
Every source of information relies on (typically hidden) assumptions and (an often unstated) scope.
Typical information on how to teach a yoga pose assumes the student is healthy and fit, without providing options for a student who is not. The unstated scope of the teaching may be limited to the physical expression of the movement, and not the energetic, emotional, and physiological aspects.
The safety profile of a pharmaceutical assumes that neither the side effects (however extreme, devastating, or murderous) nor the potential reactions are as important as the intended use (even when it fails to meet that purpose and does the opposite) without providing information on safer, evidence-based alternatives. The unstated scope of the documentation may be limited to the results of one fraudulent study and the suppression of research that doesn’t support the desired conclusion.
The prescription for a drug assumes that no other toxins are being ingested, without providing accessible and accurate information on the harms of combining drugs. The unstated scope of the prescription is a corrupted education that did not teach the provider the actual, verifiable harms from pharmaceuticals or how to identify and resolve the root causes of disease.
Asking Consistent Questions
A straight-forward way to determine real-world context is to ask a consistent set of questions of a very broad scope of sources. In the process, limitations, weaknesses, and biases of sources become visible.
If you’re considering the uses for a yoga pose, ask not only about the physical benefits, but also the emotional, energetic, and physiological effects as well as therapeutic uses, cautions & contraindications, and variations.
If you’re investigating a disease, ask a consistent set of specific questions to ensure you thoroughly understand the diagnostic technique and the criteria used to make the diagnosis. This is necessary because with more than 90,000 possible diagnoses, diagnosis is often just a name for a constellation of symptoms, an exercise with limited benefit and many potential misuses.
Seek root causes and evidence-based therapeutic options from the broadest scope of sources possible.
When evaluating therapies, seek to understand the underlying assumptions, purpose, uses, and adaptations.
Preparing Practically & Thoroughly
To research, prepare, and plan in a way that is practical and effective, it behooves us to acknowledge artificial constructions and choose to instead make conscious, real-world decisions.
We don’t need systems and algorithms that serve organizations and authorities. We need tools that serve real people.
We don’t need limits on our sourcing. We need access to sourcing that is exponentially expandable.
We don’t need out-of-context factoids. We need, practical, adaptable knowledge.
We don’t need unexamined assumptions and authoritative opinions passed off as fact, doctrine, or gospel. We need evidence-based findings put into context.
We require tools that are reliable in helping us overcome the challenges inherent in information overload, disorganization, misinformation, hidden agendas, and lack of context, practicality, and adaptability. When you’re preparing to consult, serve, teach, or coach, you need effective tools that enable you to:
Identify the broadest range of sourcing possible. — There’s almost never a reason to have only one or a few sources. We’ve identified dozens and sometimes hundreds of sources for each of more than 500 subjects. It’s not that every source deserves equal weight, only that a clearer picture and the most reliable sourcing are revealed from a larger curation.
Get what you need when you need it and make particularly effective and unique sources easier to access. — Tools ought to help you jump right to what you need in the moment without distraction or a need to plow through unnecessary factors for the situation at hand. But sometimes what appears to be direct access (using AI, for example) is just skewed, out of context information. The most profound teachings are often found in books you don’t have on hand and on Internet locations that don’t make the top search results or typical AI algorithms. Sometimes you don’t know that a teaching exists, and if you can’t ask the right question, you won’t be getting the right answer. And yet, AI always appears to be helping you. Sometimes it is, indeed, quite helpful. But if you test it with subjects you know well, you can see for yourself just how manipulated or wrong it can be while making the uninitiated think they’ve gotten the “right” answer. In other words, without conscious intention, effort, and verification from multiple sources, you’ll not actually get access to the contextualized knowledge that will optimize your real-world decisions.
Define foundational facts and terminology. — Just like the most complex findings, foundational ones can be presented in multiple ways, some of which can be imprecise, impenetrable, or inaccurate. Different understandings have different implications; therefore, we need to clearly define terms and offer verification of every fact. When new information arises, we evolve our understanding of the subject or the conditions, but this is much easier and more fun when we’ve created strong and clear foundations.
Identify assumptions, be consistent, and contextualize. — Acknowledge that every source of information relies on (typically hidden) assumptions and (an often unstated) scope. Seek to reveal these. Ask the same set of questions for every subject within a category. Be capable of articulating a comprehensive, real-world scope for the subject at hand, and have a clear understanding of how other subjects are related. Continue to increase knowledge of context and the practicalities of individualizing.
I’ve personally lived by these priorities for many decades and have professionally put them into practice to support other providers since 2012. The next posts will provide free samples of what this means in practice, using the vitally important subject of chronic inflammation as an example.
How Providers Serve
A series on tools, resources, and support for health and wellness providers to practically rebuild or refine how they serve.
Providers Face a Changed Wellness Landscape — We’re in the midst of a metaphorical storm. Shall we pause for a moment to assess and consider how we’re moving forward, individually and together?
Symptoms, Conditions, Root Causes — Use these teachings to help clients and students frame their situation by differentiating symptoms and diagnoses, underlying conditions, and root causes.
Evidence-Based Decision-Making — Help clients move from the illusion of making evidence-based decisions to actually doing so.
Using Context to Individualize Wellness Strategies (you’re here) — A decision can be helpful in one situation and not in another. Providers need concrete ways to evaluate context with authentic and practical tools that hold up under real world conditions.
Foundational Considerations, Universal Truths — A springboard for client discussions or workshops on health and wellness: universal truths. These significant and practical teachings create a strong foundation from which to build.
Incontrovertible Facts about Germs & Immunity — You know this, but many clients need to see the evidence for themselves. AMA research published in 1919 proves without a doubt that germs don’t cause disease. How immunity works and why we must dismantle false beliefs to inspire people to identify the real causes of illness.
Chronic Inflammation — Teach about chronic inflammation. It’s rampant and causes an extravagant number of symptoms & chronic diseases. Get comprehensive summaries of 100% evidence-based root causes & reversal therapies.
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Thanks for writing this, it clarifies a lot. It's almost funny how we need to remind peple to consider context, like it's not the default setting for human interaction. How can we make this a universal algorithm?