Health Group
Contact:
Kym Murden, 01273 400799, kymmurden@herbs.fsnet.co.uk
Next meeting:
11th October 8pm, Barcombe, contact Kym for details
HEALTH GROUP - STATEMENT
INTRODUCTION - Challenges to Health
All human beings, from time to time, experience a challenge to their health or the health of their loved ones. This may range from minor infection or injury to major critical illness. For some recovery may be possible without the support of other human beings. For the majority there is reliance on others for their caring, knowledge or expertise. We currently have at our disposal a wide range of support structures to help us maintain or attain health. These can range from the simple lifestyle choices, through gentle systems of medicine working on natural principles and on to the vast array of advanced high tech medicine and surgery.
POST PEAK OIL - Support and Structure
In a post-peak oil world there will be a disproportionate effect on the way we can choose to access health support. It will be the high tech end of medicine which will be affected most, while low tech approaches to health will often be able to work just as well as before. While it is not envisaged that there will be a complete loss of all the possible achievements that modern approaches can offer, it is felt right that there is a shift towards developing a population of individuals empowered to attain and maintain their health with simple natural means, with the back up high tech medicine when needed and available. This would not only mean an appropriate adaptation to a change in resources, it would also mean that such resources can be applied where most needed.
AIMS - Intention
To this end we suggest an energy descent plan that:
· Actively promotes the empowerment of all individuals in attaining optimum health and vitality.
· Maximises an individual's opportunity to know how to achieve this.
· Creates simple and straightforward access to expertise in natural medicine when needed.
· That coordinates the best of what is available and needed from high tech medicine
STRATEGY - Practical Steps
The steps involved in achieving this will include:
· Outlining a framework of a mythical ideal of optimum health and vitality.
· Looking at what elements go together to create this.
· Seeing what factors may challenge health & how best to tackle them.
· Becoming aware of all relevant systems of health and their scope.
· Being honest about what it means to be practicing to a high standard
· Creating an overview of what conventional high tech medicine & surgery really has to offer.
· Creating systems of effective education.
· Coordination of all resources.
Overall there should be a quest toward optimum health and vitality for all individuals in TT Lewes and, while recognising that all individuals have the right to choose their own approach to health, making sure that nothing stands in the way of an individual's quest for such optimum health and vitality.
Get involved: contact hello [at] TransitionTownLewes.org.uk
