To make a shift from being sick (or having illness-producing thoughts) to become healthy requires adoption positive beliefs. Healing requires mental toughness and an outright refusal to remain trapped in negative thought patterns that undermine us. Our thoughts do indeed create our reality, or our experience of reality. From many years of working with people who are right on the edge of giving up, we have concluded that the primary element of healing is self responsibility. When we proceed with positive intention, we reconstitute our resources from within, tapping that deep well of healing wisdom to forge a brighter future.
Since healing begins with our beliefs, here are eight life-affirming beliefs that have become a cornerstone of the Hippocrates Program based on decades of trial and error experimentation in the field of nutrition.
Belief 1: We are solar cells. The sun provides the wide spectrum of nutrients necessary for our health. Directly or indirectly, the sun provides us with vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, oxygen, chlorophyll, photochemical, enzymes, and hormones, thus giving us the elements for good health.
Belief 2: The three most critical foods to achieve good health are sprouts, sea vegetables, and freshwater algae. They contain the highest solar energy in the most easily digestible form available. All of the necessary building blocks for health are in these foods, in the appropriate balance.
Belief 3: A diet high in raw chlorophyll delivers a continuous energy transfusion into our bloodstream, strengthening out immune system and enhancing the ability of our red blood cells to carry oxygen. The chlorophyll of a plant and the hemoglobin of a red blood cell are virtually identical in structure, making this transfusion possible.
Belief 4: In the contemporary science of nutrition, the most overlooked and underrated elements have been photochemical, oxygen, enzymes, trace minerals, and hormones. Nutrition scientists are awakening to the importance of these factors, which are a mainstay of the Life-force Program.
Belief 5: A primary cause of death by degenerative disease is excess protein in the modern diet. Many forms of cancer as well as heart disease, diabetes, and liver and kidney dysfunction have been linked to the overconsumption of protein. Mother’s milk supports a rapidly growing baby with no more than 3 percent protein.
Belief 6: Excess fat reduces the blood’s ability to carry oxygen to the cells. Too often people forget that oils are a liquid form of fat.
Belief 7: Much of what is available in natural foods stores is not actually health promoting. This includes many of the supplements and herbal mixtures that have been touted for their healing qualities but which contain synthetic chemicals. The Hippocrates Health Institute can recommend the nutritional value of only about 10 percent of what is sold in conventional natural food stores.
Belief 8: Cooking kills any life force left in food. The immune system responds immediately when this lifeless food is consumed by quickly and sharply raising the white blood cell count, just as if a poison or an infection had entered your system.
You may feel some initial resistance to accepting these eight beliefs, which are the core dietary principles at the Hippocrates Health Institute. Once you embrace these beliefs, and once you understand the logic behind them and you begin to experience their effectiveness first-hand, you will have taken a big step in reorienting your mind to assist you in achieving your wellness goals.