Metal Taste In Canned Foods!---A Red Flag?---

Canned foods have been in the US markets over many years.  Go to any grocery store and there are shelves and shelves of canned food.  An entire population lives on  canned foods.

Yet, when we stop and think and just use common sense, why do we still have canned foods in the 21st century?

Cans contain heavy metals.  Many are simply thrown away and become trash.  Some are recycled but many are not.  In my opinion, we have enough metal to recycle than the need to mine more ore and thus extract more of Nature's resources.

Aside from this, just think about the food that is sitting in can for weeks and months on end!  According to Ayurveda Medicine----food that sits becomes tamasic which means inert, dull, and lack of vitality and loses its vital energy.  According to Ayurveda, food just not only carries physical nutrients and so on, but each food has an energy that is transferred to the body and mind and this in turn affects our health.

Just compare fresh food and frozen food/vegetables to the way canned vegetables look and taste.  Our common sense knows the difference.

And yet, because of economy, many with shoe string budgets have to depend on these kinds of food, unfortunately. And remember millions of children that are eating canned foods for their school lunches that are cooked for them on a daily basis in schools across the country, as well at home.

And the biggest thing is----that metallic taste that one tastes really is disturbing, at least to me.

Open a can of Spagettios@, or soup or vegetables.  They have a terrible metallic taste!  And in naturopathic medical theories, these trace metals that leak into the food, accumulate in our body along with many other environmental toxins that may produce many unexplained syndromes in those who are genetically vulnerable or susceptible for many other reasons.

There is much controversy in this area and it will be debated for a long time.  However, just through one's intuition and common sense---does it not raise red flags?

Doctors Sometimes Are Still Too Negative, In My Opinion and are Sometimes Operating in Negative Environments

In  my opinion, I feel my profession still operates in the negative.  It may seem benevolent and positive on the surface of Medicine in the Western World, but is it really?

Every day I am bombarded with articles, reminders, conversations and dialogues about patient complaints about cost of co-pays, deductibles and so on.  I am reminded about long hours, exhaustion and burn out. There are constant complaints about managed care and the pharmaceutical industry as well as many other related issues.  I hear of many practices closing, physicians changing careers, physicians being stuck, physicians getting ill----and needing therapy, support and medications themselves.  Some physicians are dying of heart attacks in their 50's---and some are aging prematurely.

Long hours, less dollars after so much time energy and sacrifice over the years.  Is this the energy of the 21st century in health and healing?  Is the focus that a new paradigm in Medicine is supposed to be about?  Technology and rigid mental focus over the heart?

Not only are physicians and other health care workers feeling the impact of many negative forces, they also I feel sometimes still project this negative energy to clients and patients and the  medical environment----including myself at times.

This takes many forms.  In my experience, physicians are relating less openly with colleagues, staff, and patients.  Everything is cut to the chase, very brief dialogue, rushed and stressed encounters, quick focus on test results lab numbers, emphasis on medical procedures,  decisions about care and in an out quick rounds with the pressures of seeing high volumes of people for so little reimbursement---and thus difficulties maintaining stable practices for some.

I wonder about the internal world of the physician.  Are we really happy?  Did we start out idealistic only to find that we have reached a glass ceiling and that we are caught in a web of financial and other logistics that are hard to break free from to really feel like we are doing our mission that we had set out to do in this field.  Are we on a hamster wheel that has no stopping or relief?----

I see colleagues for support and treatment and there are many internal woes including depression, anxiety, fear, anger resentment bitterness and many negative emotions at how this highly professional group of people are being reduced to worker bees by large corporations who know nothing really about the subtleties of medicine, and in my opinion, sometimes pretend to care when they really do not. Behind closed doors it is really about numbers and dollars.

And then you take all of this and in conversations with patients and clients ---so much negative support is consciously or unconsciously given:----Still I hear many say;  "she will never walk, he will never be normal, they will never do this and that......"---This negativity is a powerful force that can affect patients and clients and subsequent generations. And, doctors are sometimes too tired and exasperated to provide empathic, longer support time ----due to high volumes and demands that even staff cannot sometimes manage.

Please understand, I am not saying every physician is a miserable wretch, they are all negative and they hate their profession.  Not at all.  There are extraordinarily stellar physicians who are making fantastic contributions to their communities and to the world.  And there are many that carry the gift of being able to hold positive energy for themselves and others and do many interesting things inside and outside of Medicine.

What I am saying in my opinion, physicians and all health care providers and staff have an opportunity if they are open to find ways to at least create or find some kind of sacred atmosphere for themselves to bring back the energy of the "Divine Feminine"---this means to remember the softer side of healing---love, purity, wholeness, re-generation, positive thinking, rejuvenation, healing, any form of relaxation and Spirituality.  Many areas that include artwork, expressive and creative therapy and activities, help to get back to feeling and experiencing one's real and authentic emotions.  

A review, study, and understanding of ancient Medicine principles that are currently mostly lost in today's Modern world would greatly help I feel....Ancient medicine is based in principles of enlightenment----ancient health focused on prevention through spirituality as a means to heal-----Ancient medicine is well-versed in the energy and the Spirituality behind the body and mind, something not really taught in conventional Medical schools in any real depth.

Group support and therapy within clinics --that involve group yoga, prayer of any kind, meditation, journal writing and sharing, creating a sacred space for all involved will truly go a long way to create this kind of positive energy within a clinic and truly shift the day into something that everyone can look forward to rather than dread.

And in doing so, a light in the heart can be lit---and if it is already lit --the heart can burn brighter so that some of these ideas and experiences can be introduced into one's busy practices.  By awakening inside, the positive energy and Higher Self can be channeled into one's work and career in a new and profound way that fosters the sacred in clinical medicine.

 

Western Medical Students Need Significant Exposure to Eastern Medicine Dr. Rama

In my opinion, it is time for Western Medicine to be exposed to Eastern Medical theory and practices. There is a vast wealth of knowledge within Chinese and East Indian Ayurveda Medicine and I feel medical students should have required hours in these subjects.

Western Medical schools, I feel are still strongly patriarchal, fear based, controlling, and extremely mental in their approach.  While it is important to be very meticulous and thorough in Medicine, sometimes seconds count in saving lives and so on, I feel that the softer side of Medicine is largely buried and under emphasized.

Students are rigorously and quickly run through many medical subjects, over short periods of time regurgitating memorized facts, figures, data and so on and then have to perform from what they learn on many psychologically  demanding clinical rotations and rounds.  They then graduate and enter a difficult and sometimes vicious world of hospitals, clinics and many dead end jobs that result in running a hamster wheel of high volume of patients through a series of tests, diagnoses, medications and treatments in very short periods of time without dealing with the spiritual, emotional, and mental needs of patients in any real or practical manner.

What is missing in Western Medicine is the return of the Divine Feminine..a slower, deeper, more understanding approach that deals with nurturing, emotions, empathy, many forms of subtle and overt healing practices of body and mind and helping understanding the underlying energy balance inside the body that is producing a set of symptoms.

Western medicine is completely brainwashed into quick fixes, fueled by insurance companies and financial burdens that constantly influence quality of care at the minimum of what can be gotten away with.

I am not arguing at all that  Western Medicine is vastly important of course to treat, diagnose, and manage and so on for all ailments--there is no doubt.  But, I feel Western Medical students and residents get lost and caught in figures, facts and procedures  and do not dive deeper into the realm of the actual life force, the treatment of various energies of the body, the understanding of the subtle nature of the bodies and the interesting treatments to help with ailments from a different approach that the East offers.

And I feel that medical students and residents should practice any form of deeper spirituality along with medicine---and practice holistic methods for themselves as they apply them to the patient population at large as well.  This is all part of what I call  "enlightened medicine....." and is part of "doctor heal thyself......"

Most if not all of the history of Medicine in schools and residencies is quoted from ancient Rome and Greece, when in fact many ideas were borrowed from the East.  There is a vast body of literature from the East on Medicine that is largely still untapped and ignored by Western Medical schools.

In fact, many of the Eastern Masters were enlightened beings, the caduceus was borrowed from the East to represent the Kundalini energy:  the powerful hidden coiled energy inside each person that when awakened affords natural meditation, expanded states of consciousness as well as spontaneous energy healing of disease states----all mostly not understood nor practiced in the heart of Western Medicine.

Eastern Medicine deals with energy and function of the body, and actual consciousness that pervades the body.  It has many protocols and practices in preventive care and also to alleviate and balance various energies that manifest as symptoms rather than just finding a symptom and masking it with knee jerk medicines that many students and residents automatically prescribe.  It has many, many herbal protocols that are only recently being understood by the West----powerful knowledge that was obtained from deep meditation and intuition on the nature of plants and herbs and their potent effect on the human body, mind and Spirit.

The new model in the 21 st century must thus in my opinion form a harmonious marriage between East and West and I feel that a portion of medical school and residency should teach mandatory subjects in Eastern Medicine as well.