As a child, I was raised in a house where doctors were as gods. Our doctor would come to our house and we would line up for our shots. As I grew up, especially as a risk-taker, my relationship with doctors grew, and so did my awareness that the status we gave doctors was not always deserved. While many worked miracles, and cared, for others, it was more of a business than a "calling". My mother-in-law was the person who taught me many of the "old ways", since in her family history, there were doctors on horseback and midwives. She nurtured in me a greater awareness of self-sufficiency in healthcare just as her elders had taught her.

Later in life, I experienced a serious health crisis, and again, was fortunate to meet someone who had an immense metaphysical research library. The library was filled with over 25 thousand books and he had a health section that was huge. I watched little television and instead read and implemented the knowledge I gleaned from those books. I considered it a turning point in my life...to stand in front of hundreds of books which held a repository of information on healing one's self and others was, for me, a wake up call and a blessing. With my friend's guidance, it was easy, when I came to the fork in my healing path, to turn to the wholistic way.

This many years later, I am still interested in learning, and with my nose to the ground, so-to-speak, I found the Curezone and recognized as Fledgling so aptly put it, this was a place where people who were also sharing and seeking the information I was, met.

Curezone is just a destination on the net for me but one which I appreciate as a community where I can bring back my other research and share, much in the way I was taught. I live in a house where healers live. This is one of two houses and this year most everyone is gone to the other house but when the house is full, the main topic is alternative healing methods and people come here to learn. I am surrounded here by books on healing, and since my focus is on the herbal aspects of health, often I found myself teaching those who came who had everything but health and were starving for information and hope. The Curezone, is likewise, a light for many online to come and find hope and ways to heal when the relationship with doctors fail, or a lack of assets to support that relationship are not adequate.

Yes, there can be anxiety, yes, there can appear to be a great absorption in spending time here, but it is time well spent, and once you become saturated, and the information you learn aids you in your healing, your anxiety lessens. Body health and maintenance is a life long quest however, and so it is important that there are people who come and are willing to bond and become a core community of teachers and repositories of information which then ripples out into their own community to inspire and give hope to others.

Make no mistake, when one is sick and then regains health, others notice and want to know how we did it. I am amazed at how, in my day to day life, I share with one person and they share with another and it grows and it is making a huge difference in people's lives. I live out in the country, where I cannot even see my closest neighbors house. My closest neighbors are teachers and circumstances found the wife taking some advice from me to use Olive leaf instead of a third round of Antibiotics for a sinus infection. She has been well for the first year in her adult life, based on my additional advice to liver flush, and make simple changes in her life to help her body detox and rebuild. She in turn has taught others to do simple body maintenance, liver flush, drinking more water, sharing the dangers of aspartame. Those she has taught are teaching others. People are showing up at my door, so-and-so says you can teach me how to do this...one weekend we had a Liver Flushing marathon since we have three toilets in the house.

I continue to come back to Curezone because I recognize that there are veterans who have gone before me and I can learn much from retracing the steps of others in the archives, and in exploring the many forums to discover things like Oil-pulling, the benefits of salt, the *different* ways to clean and support the bowels, kidneys, liver. MH's admonitions sent me on a quest to discover the joys of sitz-bathing. This fall I will do my first focused OJ fast. I cannot thank all the regulars enough for their inspiration and motivation and sharing of what they have learned and experienced. I also like that there are people from all over the globe who meet here. In my po-dunk town in Texas where I live, its not easy to find people of like mind and we live far from each other so can only meet up infrequently. I can find my friends at the Curezone every day and in my personal quest to home school myself in alternative medicine and health management, I am thrilled to come to school everyday. Believe me, I get plenty of recess and knowing the importance of sun and air, I enjoy the blessings of living in the country on a daily basis.

I have to be honest in saying my initial motives were self-serving, but now, I have begun to share with friends and family and realize that I am someone who has the luxury of time and that others are depending on me to share what I am learning. After a recent visit to my daughter, (who lives in Missouri), she is now body-brushing, oil-pulling, using Blackstrap Molasses, and a host of other good behaviors which she has shared with her boyfriend who is also beginning to be more aware that there are other ways to help keep stress at bay and health on the rise. I told them, "I wish I knew what I know now when I was your age...".

There is never a good time to stop learning and so as long as there are those here willing to share, they will find a willing ear/eye in me...ggg.

Many blessings to all the regulars who bring with them their research and willingness to share and be the light of hope and health. More than anything, thank you to Dusan who is the Wizard behind the way to keep us all together.



be happy, be well,
Zoe

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The Master Cleanse Express
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