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Our health care paradigm needs to transform and expand. This means that in addition to focusing on immediate treatment and reimbursement for procedures and medicines that give so-called cures and alleviation of symptoms, our system needs an overhaul that will allow ancient principles of health, healing, medicine and spirituality to also be valued and of course be reimbursed.
Today's Western health care is dominated by powerful financial forces through insurance companies that delegate and decide what is "medically necessary" so that payment and reimbursement can occur for the health care provider, the hospital, lab, clinic and of course what the patient ends up paying or not. It is a vastly complicated system that is not uniform, that bends the rules and often is blurry as to who really keeps the dollars behind the scenes while supposedly coverage occurs for medical problems. Often patients are left with multiple choices within one health care plan that are often confusing and have "fine print" and many details that are really hard to keep up with. Often the amount the patient owes is misleading because they are already paying costly monthly premiums or it is deducted from a paycheck. However, if a serious illness occurs the co-pay can be so costly that the person or family are financially devastated anyway despite paying into the insurance premium over many months to years.
Health care payments are dominated by immediate results from treatments, procedures and medical literature that supposedly sometimes backs up the treatment. Technical and surgical procedures are reimbursed more often because it fits the old "fix it" model for a fee. Medical interventions are paid for in similar ways when it fits conventional research and models that show some form of tangible result.
There is no question that Western medicine has excelled in the field of surgery, diagnostics, infectious disease, emergency procedures, and various medications and other technologies designed to find out where and what the problem is and then to suppress and arrest symptoms and issues that arise with the disease.
However, this is only one aspect of health care.
There are other vast aspects of health care that the current model does not fully address. Dealing with the alleviation of chronic problems that have no one cure, the valuing of emotional and spiritual healing, and the issues surrounding nutrition, supplementation, detoxification and principles of natural cure is not part of general reimbursement nor conventional education and practice.
The subject of complementary and alternative medicine is quite vast.
In a nutshell, 21st century healthcare needs to broadly accommodate many methods that include herbal medicine, energy healing medicine, manual body therapies (that include Yoga -type and other similar postures and practices) detoxification, and many types of psychotherapy that can bridge the issues of mind, body, the emotions and the Spirit.
The problem is cost, the time it takes to treat, lack of models designed to help with such issues, and lack of real financial investment to make such treatments a practical reality. Some programs are starting but they are fledglings trying to take to their wings.
The main thing I feel is that we must start moving away solely from dependence on insurance. Corporations with vision, innovation, insight, and enlightenment need to pool their sources together to study and realize the vast wisdom that Naturopathic Medicine, Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine hold. Energy healing Medicine and many modalities are also vital along with many other areas.
Just like corporations are pooling their resources to help feed the world, resources of dollars need to be gathered to help alleviate the chronicity of many diseases such as diabetes, obesity, depression, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, hypertension, many forms of heart disease and so on. This has to take the form of research, creation of facilities, marketing and so many other factors needed to bring a greater message across in the health care field.
Yes, alternative and complimentary methods are coming more and more to the forefront. However, there are few large comprehensive centers that deal with these areas. Many individual practitioners are providing services often with challenging financial reimbursement issues. And, many services are offered piecemeal: acupuncture in one clinic, herbology in another and so on. We need services under one roof or a network of comprehensive services that make sense where practitioners are communicating with each other and with conventional practitioners that understand complementary principles and are accessible to patients and providers..
Many patients also buy thousands of dollars of supplements each month and yet do not want to pay the regular fees needed to physicians and others to monitor and to help deal with issues that arise.
At the helm of these endeavors, physicians and healers who have the background and knowledge must come forward with their knowledge base in a broader way than ever before to help unlock and reveal the mysteries of ancient health and healing. Such methods go to the root of the problem within the body and mind, something that Western Medicine does not have as much insight about. New models are needed ---where people learn, receive treatment in an ongoing way, and practice methods on their ownto have any real effect. To my knowledge there is no established comprehensive, accredited hospital just yet that is completely based in Naturopathic, Ayurvedic, and Chinese Medicine principles in America so far, for example as they have in India and China and the Far East.
In essence, we need to bring to the forefront that enlightenment is one of the basic tenets of health care and that the practice through Yoga type methods is key for real health and healing to take place on a more permanent level.
Patients must learn that insurance is not to be totally depended upon. Savings accounts, health memberships and other ideas have to begin to offset the cost of what insurance companies will not pay. We need to value the time, energy, focus, loving attention and so on---all the intangibles that also comprise the feeling of healthy well being in addition to just paying for procedures and medical interventions that only suppress symptoms.
And so, the evolution in health care may not necessarily only lie in creating more drugs, treatments, diagnostics and so on --although these are important, but retrospectively studying and applying ancient principles that bring about alleviation of chronic disease at its root through the power of many forces including nurturance, love, compassionate understanding, enhancing patient well being, and teaching the principles of enlightenment that can foster remembrance and experience of what real health and healing is.
Dr. Rama
Dallas Texas
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Thursday, December 30, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Waste Not Want Not?--Dr. Rama
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I cringe every time I throw away a bottle, aluminum can, paper and so on. At least I try to save the cans and drop them off at depots that are around. Yet, there is no mandatory or Universal Plan in my area... Recycling is hit and miss in the areas where I live and work.
Can we imagine what it would be like if globally we recycled most or all of these items? So much would be self-sustained; we would not need to harvest and damage the environment further.
This idea is nothing new. I just wanted to share my feelings that I hope the world is waking up in the direction of green behaviors, motives, and so on. We are and we are not. We hear so much about these concepts and yet are the percents going up with companies opening, finances being available and real jobs being created that will change the world? I am starting to do more and more research to see.
I feel that such endeavors begin from within. I feel that not a lot will change on the outside until we change from the inside. Mass consciousness, ie humanity has to increase its inner "merit" and inner awakening. This means that we identify more and more with our Higher Self qualities and less and less with our lower Self. We have the choice to become more Self-less, thoughtful and understanding that we are all vitally linked. What effects one person affects the whole world.....The more people that do this, the more who move toward enlightenment-- the greater the global effect will be.
So next time wake up when watching TV for example. Although there is some positive--most local news still leads with fires, accidents, trauma of all sorts---and crime. These are important--but think how much time we give our consciousness to such happenings. See how hypnotic such negativity can be.
We are becoming immune to the violence on the big screen and in children's games. High-tech toys are replacing vital toys that teach kids interpersonal skills, imagination, and so many other things that are important to nurture Self and Self-esteem.
Wake up to what advertising tries to do. It plays on our emotions, fear and insecurities so that we buy products. All of this is hard wired from childhood. We get so used to this that we don't stop and think sometimes.
The same is with health and healing--where we are exposed to so much including artificial ways of thinking, eating and living---more in other blogs.
This is why "doomsday" prophecies are not necessarily true. Psychics and even avatars can only predict probability. It all depends on mass consciousness and mass humanities' choices that lead to darker or light outcomes for the future. The group consciousness fueled by the mind and life force is what makes changes in the future.
So if mass humanity is not waking up, then the future remains sleepy---slumbering in its usual chaos and confusion, or perhaps worse we slip into a coma where there is no revival..
If we do wake up and reach a critical mass of people then those pinpoints of enlightened Souls dramatically increase the probability of extraordinary spiritual and material progress for this planet.
It is this increase in the inner light and love that I feel will make permanent change and will effect the leaders of the world. Our good intentions, prayers, healing, sharing, and service work are all additive to this mass effect.
Often we all forget how powerful we really are. We do not understand that when we transform, release, let go and make higher and brighter choices into enlightened thinking and behaviors---that our light reaches others in concentric waves and automatically uplifts and shifts their consciousness. We do not see the immediate effect sometimes and so we get discouraged or we are unaware. Yet it is my feeling through experience that we do affect others in many seen and unseen ways.
I feel uplifting enlightenment is contagious, you see.
Many spiritual teachers and groups are working globally to bring about such change---let us hope that their inspiration among many things will change and shift this planet's consciousness into the highest and best probability.
Dr. Rama
Dallas Texas
http://www.drramamdheartinspirations.blogspot.com/
Web: http://www.drrama.com/
I cringe every time I throw away a bottle, aluminum can, paper and so on. At least I try to save the cans and drop them off at depots that are around. Yet, there is no mandatory or Universal Plan in my area... Recycling is hit and miss in the areas where I live and work.
Can we imagine what it would be like if globally we recycled most or all of these items? So much would be self-sustained; we would not need to harvest and damage the environment further.
This idea is nothing new. I just wanted to share my feelings that I hope the world is waking up in the direction of green behaviors, motives, and so on. We are and we are not. We hear so much about these concepts and yet are the percents going up with companies opening, finances being available and real jobs being created that will change the world? I am starting to do more and more research to see.
I feel that such endeavors begin from within. I feel that not a lot will change on the outside until we change from the inside. Mass consciousness, ie humanity has to increase its inner "merit" and inner awakening. This means that we identify more and more with our Higher Self qualities and less and less with our lower Self. We have the choice to become more Self-less, thoughtful and understanding that we are all vitally linked. What effects one person affects the whole world.....The more people that do this, the more who move toward enlightenment-- the greater the global effect will be.
So next time wake up when watching TV for example. Although there is some positive--most local news still leads with fires, accidents, trauma of all sorts---and crime. These are important--but think how much time we give our consciousness to such happenings. See how hypnotic such negativity can be.
We are becoming immune to the violence on the big screen and in children's games. High-tech toys are replacing vital toys that teach kids interpersonal skills, imagination, and so many other things that are important to nurture Self and Self-esteem.
Wake up to what advertising tries to do. It plays on our emotions, fear and insecurities so that we buy products. All of this is hard wired from childhood. We get so used to this that we don't stop and think sometimes.
The same is with health and healing--where we are exposed to so much including artificial ways of thinking, eating and living---more in other blogs.
This is why "doomsday" prophecies are not necessarily true. Psychics and even avatars can only predict probability. It all depends on mass consciousness and mass humanities' choices that lead to darker or light outcomes for the future. The group consciousness fueled by the mind and life force is what makes changes in the future.
So if mass humanity is not waking up, then the future remains sleepy---slumbering in its usual chaos and confusion, or perhaps worse we slip into a coma where there is no revival..
If we do wake up and reach a critical mass of people then those pinpoints of enlightened Souls dramatically increase the probability of extraordinary spiritual and material progress for this planet.
It is this increase in the inner light and love that I feel will make permanent change and will effect the leaders of the world. Our good intentions, prayers, healing, sharing, and service work are all additive to this mass effect.
Often we all forget how powerful we really are. We do not understand that when we transform, release, let go and make higher and brighter choices into enlightened thinking and behaviors---that our light reaches others in concentric waves and automatically uplifts and shifts their consciousness. We do not see the immediate effect sometimes and so we get discouraged or we are unaware. Yet it is my feeling through experience that we do affect others in many seen and unseen ways.
I feel uplifting enlightenment is contagious, you see.
Many spiritual teachers and groups are working globally to bring about such change---let us hope that their inspiration among many things will change and shift this planet's consciousness into the highest and best probability.
Dr. Rama
Dallas Texas
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