Principal One: Nature’s Prime Directive
"Positive benefits arise from actions consistent with nature's design. Negative consequences follow with nature is tampered with."
Nature has a golden rule that I call the "Prime Directive" - the macro-context rule and instruction from nature's mind to yours. I suggest that you print out this page and put it on your refrigerator or some place where you will see it again and again. It's congruent with inner Knowing and directs outward action.
Almost every weight-loss diet ever created violates the Prime Directive because radical calorie reduction causes damage to the metabolism, constituting "tampering with nature." The secret to lifelong proper body weight is to align the eating programs to the individual's biochemistry, making it consistent with nature. Diets generally try to align the individual to a particular method of eating - the very opposite of this Prime Directive. The Prime Directive is the "bedrock philosophy" of the Total Relief Method program. The key idea is the consistency with nature's design.
In order to more clearly understand what nature's design actually is, consider the wave pattern in nature. The wave pattern underlies everything in nature. It is the foundation of all things. The thinking that constantly engages your brain, for example, can be observed as brain "waves" and can be measured in the laboratory. When people think to themselves that they want to get in shape either through dieting or exercise or both, they generally thing that they will get in shape and then maintain it. Here is where I use a simple rule that especially applies - if it does not occur in nature, it is probably an untruth.
What Is The Divine Design?
The Divine Design is the pattern or blueprint that nature follows regarding the physical nature, properties and characteristics of all living and non-living matter. The Divine Design is a micro-macro cosmic, synergistic, interdependent, life=promoting, indivisible whole that defies definition and language, yet provides the basis of all we know. It is the masterpiece mosaic of time-tested ideas.
“…For this I know that the Earth does not belong to us, but we belong to it…” – Chief Seattle, circa 1855
Chief Seattle was speaking of the natural order of things and the proper boundaries of thought and action that are consistent with the principles of Nature. He was expressing the wisdom of his people, who had communed with Nature for five thousand years. The strength of such wisdom is evidenced by having stood the test of time.
The Native peoples had no “real” science, no laboratories and no computers, yet these simple and observable truths were the backbone of their society; they trusted it completely. It was passed down from generation to generation and reinforced through experiencing and living it. Native peoples were integrated into their environment and, as a result, they could read the metaphors and patterns of nature and could thereby form an elegant and sophisticated set of rules by which they could gide their societies and promote real health.
This knowledge was as intricate as the web of life it described. Their knowledge of the nature of living things was refined then and still serves mankind today. The issues of health and well-being and harmony with the environment are pressing down on us all.
But there are those who, for a price, will sell us out. They work hard to tantalize us with shortcuts to health in the form of gimmicks, diets, pills, machines, powders, etc. These gimmicks may seem innocuous, but they are, in fact, eroding the very foundations of health. And for what? Money, of course.
Not a Pretty Picture
Most of us are seeking to be healthier; more vibrant and balanced. Few are truly succeeding. Yes, we diet and exercise. We also consume $10 billion in supplements and diet aids per year. In the end, we are fatter, more prone to disease and more out of balance than at any other time in history.
More than two million deaths occur each year from strokes, high blood pressure and heart disease. That’s more than 3,000 deaths per day! It should be noted that nearly all of these deaths are preventable with moderate exercise, minimal dietary adjustments, and stress reduction.
Apparently, we have become desensitized from the published statistics on heart disease. If we were to re-compute the deaths from heart disease, stroke and high blood pressure into deaths from jumbo jet airline crashes, each carrying 300 people, it would look like this:
Four thousand jumbo jet crashes annually, each carrying 300 passengers = $1,200,000 deaths. If there were 3,300 deaths per day from airline crashes in the United States, the public would be so incensed that we would shut down commercial airline traffic worldwide! We would not allow this insanity to continue.
Most deaths from airline crashes – like those from heart disease – are preventable.
Additionally, and less dramatically, almost all people over thirty years of age are on a downhill slide regarding their health and fitness. Pain, stiffness, lethargy, weakness and poor physical performance are some of the problems we have “learned to live with.” We believe these symptoms are “part of the aging process” when they are actually the result of lifestyle habits that take us farther away from natural principles. Clearly, we have lost our way.
The Information Problem
We live in a morass of information overload and conflicting agendas from business and health organizations. Profit is their agenda. Do you really think big business cares about your health?
Also, the media and the fashion industry add to the difficulty of sifting and screening data to tell us what we need to know. It is indeed difficult to create a sensible health commitment, and even harder to follow through with it for the rest of your life.
This is precisely where The Divine Design comes into focus. The Divine Design is like a Wellness Bible that provides a point of reference. It creates the distinctions and mythology that allows the imagination to live, play and work. People typically learn about morality from their parents, the Bible, the Torah, Ayurveda, intuition, or personal growth seminars. Where you get your information is at least as important as the information itself. People are tired of gaining information but not feeling or looking better.
I found out a long time ago that nutrition and exercise science are not in themselves enough to guide us through our lives with our health issues. Whatever state of progress science may be in, it can never be relied on in quite the same way as relying on the wisdom of nature. That’s because science simply has it’s limitations, a fact that is often hard for people – especially the scientist in us all – to accept.
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