Home Medical Supply: A Necessity

Written by Lala C. Ballatan


For a family, one ofrepparttar foundations to have a loving and peaceful home is when family members stay healthy and live well. Staying healthy is equivalent to being free of terrible ailments and havingrepparttar 113716 right medications and other medical supplies in case sickness do come. If you’re a head ofrepparttar 113717 family, you know that this is important and is foremost in your priorities. So, in order to be always prepared of whatever illness that may afflict any member of your family, we strongly advice for you to have home medical supply.

So what should be included in your home medical supply? Of course, it should have everything you and your family needs to stay healthy and live well. Do we sound too general? It’s because, specifically, we can’t give you a list of what’s to be included in your home medical supply. Since not everyone in your family may needrepparttar 113718 same resources.

For example, your grandmother might need incontinent medical supply items, while these kinds of medical supplies might not be available in your supply chest.

Given these conditions, it is very important to work within your needs once you are stocking up your home medical supply. Exactly what home medical supplies you need may vary from year to year. You’ll knowrepparttar 113719 right medical supply depending on what injury or ailments that each ofrepparttar 113720 members in your family are afflicted with. Dependency on medical supplies may also decrease once your injury or illness heals. The most important thing is that, once you need a specific medical supply, you’ll have access to it at any given time.

Why Most People Don't Really Want to Heal (Part 2)

Written by Kevin B. Burk


TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR ILLNESSES

The first step to healing is to accept that we created our illnesses inrepparttar first place. This can be a difficult concept to swallow. So many of us are invested inrepparttar 113715 prevailing Western scientific medical view of reality that we can't quite understand how we created our illnesses.

Most illnesses are caused by viruses or bacteria. If we catch a cold, or getrepparttar 113716 flu, how is that our responsibility? Someone sneezed on us in an elevator, and now we're laid up in bed for a week. We're so helpless againstrepparttar 113717 various flu strains that there's even an annual cold and flu season every year. Every ad for cough medication, every news report on flu vaccinations only serves to reinforcerepparttar 113718 belief that we're helpless victims of forces beyond our control. The only way to avoid getting sick is to avoid human contact for six months ofrepparttar 113719 year.

But what aboutrepparttar 113720 people who don't bother with flu shots, and don't avoid human contact and yet they also don't get sick? Are they just lucky? They're being exposed torepparttar 113721 same bacteria and viruses that we are. How is that that they stay healthy? Could it be that their thoughts support perfect health and a strong and functioning immune system, while ours somehow invite illness?

What about hereditary or genetic disorders? How can we be responsible for these? Or is it just possible that our belief in heredity is what creates hereditary diseases? If we believe that because heart disease "runs" in our family that we are "at risk" for a heart attack, how does that belief become our reality?

Of course, inrepparttar 113722 case of heart disease, there are so many other contributing factors, such as diet and exercise that have as much, or more to do withrepparttar 113723 health of our hearts than heredity does. It may just be possible that what we inherit is not a genetic predisposition to heart disease, butrepparttar 113724 nutritional and lifestyle habits that actually result in heart disease. We inherit behaviors from our families as well. We're responsible for our choices, and we're responsible for any dis-ease that results from our choices.

I have a friend who "inherited" a degenerative neurological disorder that affects her feet and makes it difficult for her to walk. Every doctor she saw told her that she would be in a wheelchair byrepparttar 113725 time she was 40, and there was nothing she could do about it. She knew how her relatives had lived out their lives with this disease, and decided that this was not an acceptable life for her. She refused to acceptrepparttar 113726 diagnosis, and began to explore alternative therapies. She made radical changes to her diet and lifestyle, and very quickly noticed a radical improvement in this chronic, progressive, degenerative condition. According torepparttar 113727 best medical experts, she shouldn't be able to walk today. However, because she took responsibility for her illness and changedrepparttar 113728 thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that created her illness, she has been able to reverse it.

Many conditions result from negative thinking and limiting beliefs. Unexpressed anger, regret, grief, and other painful emotions can manifest as chronic, painful, and sometimes terminal illness. In order to heal these conditions, we must identifyrepparttar 113729 negative thought or belief that is atrepparttar 113730 core. The challenge, however, is to identify and releaserepparttar 113731 negative thought without triggeringrepparttar 113732 ego. All too often, we punish ourselves for having negative thoughts inrepparttar 113733 first place--we beat ourselves up for beating ourselves up. This only reinforcesrepparttar 113734 negative thought and destructive patterns.

We must accept that every belief we hold, no matter how negative or limiting, serves us in some way. This goes for our illnesses and dis-eases as well. Before we can heal, we must become aware of what benefits we get from our illnesses.

DISCOVERING AND ACCEPTING THAT OUR ILLNESS SERVES US

Every choice we make, we make because it meets a need. We created our illness because it gives us something that we believe that we want. What isrepparttar 113735 payoff we get for being ill? What are we getting out of this situation?

No matter how painful or debilitatingrepparttar 113736 illness, there is always a benefit. Objectively, we may have made a rather unskillful bargain, of course. We may feel that we're paying much too high a price forrepparttar 113737 benefits we receive. But until we identifyrepparttar 113738 benefit-until we become aware of what it is that we get out of being ill, we can never truly heal.

Healing requires that we identify what it is that we get out of being ill, and then become aware of our beliefs surrounding this need. We must be willing to give up these benefits, or recognize that we can meet these needs in less debilitating ways.

When it comes to minor illnesses such asrepparttar 113739 cold or flu, often we get sick because we haven't been listening to our bodies. We've been working too hard, and under too much stress. We haven't been taking care of our physical, emotional, or spiritual needs. The only way that we will take any time for ourselves is if we're too weak to get out of bed, so that's what we create.

I have a friend who has a rather intense family history, with enough drama and intrigue to fill a prime-time soap opera. A number of years ago, she experienced a rather significant identity crisis. An inheritance set her up financially so that she could do whatever she wanted to do with her life. The fact that she could do whatever she wanted with her life meant that she had to actually choose what she wanted to do with her life, and this created a great deal of stress. She began to have anxiety attacks, and soon developed acute agoraphobia, finding it very difficult to leave her house. She's struggled with this condition for many years. The payoff of this condition is that she has an iron-clad excuse not to face her fears and do something with her life. All of her time and attention is focused on her condition and her anxiety.

We may find it difficult to accept responsibility for having created our illnesses because we created our illnesses to avoid having to take responsibility inrepparttar 113740 first place. Illnesses and injuries are often cries for attention and validation. When we're ill, injured or otherwise in pain, we're entitled--and even expected to think only of ourselves. We are excused from our responsibilities to others. We don't have to go anywhere we don't want to go, we don't have to do anything we don't want to do. And we can expect other people to do things for us and we're under no obligation to returnrepparttar 113741 favor. We can cancel plans atrepparttar 113742 last minute, or even simply not show up, because we were in too much pain to fulfill our social obligations--and we don't even have to call to apologize.

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