A Dummy’s Journey To Tangible Health, Blog 2: A Health Novel
The Struggle Continues Some More…
…Ignorance isn't bliss many times!
BY VICTOR J. | MAY, 2024 | A DUMMY’S JOURNEY TO PERPETUAL HEALTH
Hey everyone, good to see you back. I’m pumped to have you join me as we push forward on our quest for strong health and vitality.
This shows that:
– You truly desire to be healthy.
– The health of your family and yourself is vital.
– You want to gain knowledge on true holistic health and imbibe it in your life.
In the follow-up to the first blog, let’s delve deeper to grasp how I became fully immersed in this source of vitality. Thanks to its aid, I survived a life-threatening situation.
Adventure awaits! Let's go explore and have some fun! #LetsGo #AdventureTime #ExploringHealth
My tryst with health:
Ever since I can remember, health advertisements (those seductresses) have always struck me as strategically placed to entice people into buying products that promise to enhance their looks, bodies, attitudes, and social standing. These ads often boast about their supposedly phenomenal products and miraculous effects.
Hallelujah!
Some of these advertisements turn out well, while others do not, but achieving one’s goal is hardly guaranteed.
I have been seduced by their glitz numerous times, only to be left out to dry from the very moment I started on the journey as some other school of thought debunked the efficacy of the health fad I had decided to follow.
I searched high and low for comprehensive and appropriate guidance to understand health but to no avail. Despite investing significant funds, I found myself at a standstill. I’m confident that some of you can relate to my experience, as you may have encountered similar challenges.
Holistic Health Journey: Embracing Clarity and Conquering Confusion #HealthEmpowerment #HolisticLiving
My childhood days of the quest:
When I was younger, I might have achieved good health if I had listened to my parents’ wish for me to become a doctor. However, I wonder if pursuing that path would have truly benefitted me. I still have doubts.I vividly remember my childhood years when I used to battle frequent bouts of sickness. It seemed like every month, I would come down with an illness that would leave me bedridden for days. These episodes of sickness meant that I had to excuse myself from attending school, a place that I was not very enthusiastic about visiting in the first place. Despite the discomfort and challenges of being unwell, the only silver lining was getting a break from the rigors of school life.
It had become a routine for the doctor to visit me at my residence, puncture me with injections, and fill my stomach with medicines. I felt quite violated at the end and dreaded the sight of the good man, even if I so much as passed him on the street.
I didn’t want to set my eyes on one of his ilk all my life. The very presence of our family doctor, even in thought, would make my poor punctured behind squirm and throb in fear, and I found it difficult sometimes to keep the much-secured contents, till that time, of my stomach down. Therefore, my parents harassing me to become a doctor never literally went down well with me.
I never treaded or rather ventured near the path to becoming a medical professional, though I mean no disrespect to the medical profession in any manner of speaking. The sacrifices they make to tend to the sick, at risk of their own health, are truly commendable, especially the behemoth work they rendered during the pandemic. But it still wasn’t and isn’t my cup of tea. Period!
But despite everything, I still detest needles, and my aversion towards them persists to this day.
Overcoming Needle Phobia: My Ongoing Health Journey #NoMoreInjections #HealthFreedom
My adult days of the quest:
As I reflect on my past, I recall that despite my initial aversion to visiting the family doctor, circumstances led to frequent appointments during my childhood. However, with time, I experienced a notable improvement in my health, and the frequency of these visits decreased from almost twice a month to just once every three months.
Ironically, as I neared my thirties, I was employed at a senior level in the health education industry. I was exposed to a lot of health information found in alternative health practices, but I still didn’t take alternative methods seriously.
I still adhered to modern medicine for the maladies that I suffered at the time. I was gaining weight due to my desk job, and to take care of that, I decided to work on my diet and exercise regime.
But I adhered to only dietary changes and exercising and attained some level of health though not holistic health, as I still suffered from niggles, stress, unhappiness, etc.
I had my bouts of good, healthy days in between, like the interval break in a movie. But once again, as I neared middle age, my visits to the doctor started to swing back to the old statistics, making my moods perpetually foul. The day-to-day struggles, too, weren’t helping at all.
Determined to Optimize Health: Embracing Holistic Wellness #HealthJourney #OptimalWellness
All through my breathing days, I found myself confused and standing on the other side of the road to health as the world and maybe my life passed me by. With a better sense but still mystified, I decided to equip myself with an understanding of what really being healthy meant and get the necessary information to stay in the pink and out of the clinic’s red sign.
Yes, I wanted to turn from the ordinary Clarke Kent to Superman, invincible and powerful with no kryptonite or microbe, on God’s Good Earth that could pierce my health shield. I had decided to tread the forbidden path and get the ‘Enlightenment’ that awaited me on the other side. And ‘enlighten’ I did become…
Embrace clarity and conquer confusion to become superhuman healthwise! #HolisticHealthJourney
Many people either never try to look into understanding their health, or if they do, it is very limited and sometimes under the tutelage of highly motivated, misleading half-truths, self-effacing, and often at cross-purpose schools of thought.
It’s a quagmire of confusion and monotonous information, at least for me, taught in the medical books as per my low intellect and opinion. It is written in a manner that would instantly put any insomniac to sleep.
No wonder that as a start, when I decided to read a few medical books to research health, I was a frequent and thankful visitor to snooze-land more often than before as the first two pages put me into deep slumber.
Medical books: Making me drowsy since forever! #NotAnotherPage #SleepyMedicine
I needed to get information on health that was palatable to my ordinary intellect, so I next took up reading articles in magazines, the internet, etc. There, too, though, I felt great to start with, but in the end, I was still not able to gain a clear perspective on complete holistic health.
Though they all agreed on a few common points, they were at loggerheads on others with each other on some others. Likewise, the sea of internet-based information made it very confusing and frustrating as well as impossible to sieve and analyze into a proper routine.
Maybe it was because I am of regular intellect, and it was difficult for me to comprehend (because I was looking at health holistically and not in bits and parts), or it could be because it spoke more about a particular malady rather than the whole being.
There wasn’t one source that I could unearth that gave a starting point and an endpoint and simplified the mystery of holistic and enduring good health. Therefore, though still with no proper direction but refusing to give up, I decided to visit and interview medical practitioners in various fields of medicine.
In the next part of this book blog, we will explore my adventure a little more during my visits to the various medical practitioners before I arrived at the source of true health and open it for you.
See you all in the next blog…
