When I stopped taking the advice of the medical establishment and my parents, who told me that I would die if I did not take antibiotics and that I could never be genuinely well, and switched to a variety of natural healing modalities, my life transformed radically. These modalities included listening to my physical feelings and emotions, changing my diet, understanding my breathing process, and bodywork to release muscle tension.
by Anita McKone
If you are interested in finding out the truth about the Covid19
scare, you can look for information in many areas. Understanding the corporate
(profit-driven) and petrochemical-based history of the medical establishment
helps. Being aware of the lack of scientific empirical and laboratory evidence
for microbes, and microscopic particles such as viruses, causing disease helps.
Being aware of other proven or highly probable causes of respiratory disease
helps. It also helps to understand the emotionally discomforting truth that
terrified people who claim to be both authorities and sane will knowingly or
unknowingly lie to you in order to try to get you (and their own terror) under
control.
In my case, whenever I am confused or unsure about the details of
information I receive from the variety of sources I investigate, I am ‘lucky’
to have a fallback position that is unequivocally clear and trustworthy. This
knowledge is based on my own experience of suffering acute and chronic
respiratory disease, and the outcomes I experienced while spending the first 25
years of my life following the advice of the medical establishment, and the
second 25 years of my life totally rejecting ‘assistance’ from the medical
establishment and following a variety of natural healing/health maintenance
modalities instead. Without having to understand or argue the merits of any
particular detail of the science of corporate medicine or natural biological
health and healing, I have seen their results.
In brief: I suffered for the first 25 years of my life from chronic
respiratory disease, including being hospitalised twice with pneumonia. My
chronic bronchitis was first diagnosed as caused by bacterial infection and
later diagnosed as caused by a virus. When I stopped taking the advice of the
medical establishment and my parents, who told me that I would die if I did not
take antibiotics and that I could never be genuinely well, and switched to a
variety of natural healing modalities, my life transformed radically. These
modalities included listening to my physical feelings and emotions, changing my
diet, understanding my breathing process, and bodywork to release muscle
tension.
26 years later, at the age of 51, I use no pharmaceutical drugs or
vaccines and experience the health and fitness that was denied me as a child
and young person. I have not had bronchitis for 5 years, and have had only two
mild colds in the past 3 years (despite the reported increase in the numbers of
people suffering ‘seasonal influenza’ and the increasing severity of their
symptoms). Other health problems I had when I was younger, including heart
dysfunction related to bronchitis, have also been resolved. My experience has
taught me that fear of my illness was the most important element keeping me
sick, and that the medical establishment had no capacity to accurately diagnose
the causes of my illness, nor treat it effectively.
I cannot say what precise factors have led to the development of
acute respiratory disease in each individual who is currently suffering or
dying from it. However, my experience leads me to believe that it is likely to
be a combination of factors, including fear and emotional suppression from
living in unsafe social circumstances, toxicity from airborne pollutants and
poisonous substances that have been ingested or injected into the body, and
lack of complex nutritional elements that allow the body to function optimally
and recover from emotional stress and toxic damage.
I therefore make the following suggestions for you to consider if
you are experiencing symptoms of respiratory disease in the current social
climate of crisis, panic and control.
If you have a choice:
1) Do not get tested for Covid19 – being categorised as having
Covid19 will increase both your fear and the fear of others and may limit your
options for taking safe and sensible action to support your healing.
2) Do not allow yourself to be hospitalised – you will be isolated
from anyone who personally cares about you, in the presence of scared (if
well-meaning) hospital staff, and removed from the possibility of any treatment
other than toxic drugs and invasive procedures, which will add to your level of
stress and fear, and decrease the likelihood of your survival.
3) Understand that your state of health
is not dependant on whether or not you are ‘infected with a virus’. Even if
pathogenic viruses existed (and there are a number of critiques showing the
logical faults and lack of proper scientific process in virology theory and
experiments respectively: see, for example, What
Really Makes You Ill? Why everything you thought you knew about disease is
wrong. But you can read more
in ‘Dismantling the Virus Theory – The
“measles virus” as an example’
and watch the video interview ‘The Real Science of Germs: Do Viruses
Cause Disease?’ ), my experience shows
that it is other elements that determine health. You are therefore not
responsible for the health of anyone else – you are not a dangerous plague
carrier who should feel guilty for harming others if you do not accept the
label ‘infected with Covid19’.
4) Consider the four basic principles of health and healing at the
end of this article.
A case history of my acute and chronic
respiratory disease and healing
I was born in 1969 in New South Wales,
Australia, and grew up in Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. I was
injected with a number of vaccines containing toxic substances as a baby, which
may have been a contributing factor in my developing pneumonia at the age of 18
months. I was hospitalised at this time, and again at the age of three years. I
was treated with antibiotics in hospital and put in an oxygen tent to help me
breathe. I was told by my mother that when I was in the oxygen tent when I was
a baby, she climbed in with me against the wishes of the nurses. Far from
reassuring me, this would have increased my level of fear, as my mother is an
extremely anxious and explosively violent person, and she was only holding me
to try to relieve herself of her
anxiety, not because she was in a state to calmly relieve mine. My fear of
being killed by my mother when she violently exploded and the fear generated by
her general state of anxiety (caused by her own extremely violent and
emotionally deprived upbringing) was a major factor in the disturbances to my
breathing and lung function throughout my younger years.
My memory of the hospital when I was three is traumatic – I
remember feeling extremely isolated. Visiting hours were limited and strictly
upheld, which meant that my father, who I did find reassuring, could not spend
significant time with me. Also (bizarre but true) my teddy bear was stolen by
another family with a sick child and as any parent knows, familiar soft toys do
provide significant reassurance to children, even if artificially so. I
survived both hospitalisations, and was told that I would have died without the
antibiotics. The doctors and my parents believed that there was no other way of
helping me through these crises – it was ‘hospital and drugs’ or ‘nothing’.
As a result of the pneumonia, one small area in my left lung was
permanently damaged (at least, it has not healed up to this point) although I
did not discover the damage until I was 26 when a naturopath/homeopath asked me
if there was any difference in how my left and right lungs felt. This was the
first time anyone had asked me to focus on my lungs in detail in order to learn
something about them, and I discovered that my left lung was permanently
painful, particularly when I coughed for any reason, while my right lung was
not.
As a result of the natural healing I have undertaken since, this
pain has reduced to one patch about 2 centimetres in diameter. I have heard the
medical establishment’s opinion in recent years that lungs don’t have nerves
and therefore it is not possible to feel pain in them. This directly
contradicts my actual experience of being able to feel a variety of feelings
(e.g. tickling caused by breathing something in accidentally, pressure in my
right lung when I cough, pain in my left lung when I cough, and the tightening
of my airways when asthmatic). When ‘medical science’ contradicts my experience
of reality, obviously I question the validity of the theory, not my experience.
I suffered an extreme asthma attack when I was four, when I
couldn’t breathe at all for a short amount of time, but after this I had
frequent non-acute asthmatic reactions only, mainly when I tried to exercise or
when I had bronchitis, which I suffered 3 or 4 times per year up until I was
19. At that time, I left home and the incidence dropped to twice a year. My
bouts of bronchitis would last for about 14 days each time and I would not go
to school/university for about 10 days because I felt too sick in my body to do
so. Among other symptoms, my throat and lungs would become ‘cold’, tense and
aggravated, causing me to swallow repeatedly for about 24 hours (with virtually
no sleep), before developing an extremely painful, hacking cough and coughing
up heaps of green phlegm. The bronchitis was less extreme than my original
pneumonia, but ongoingly debilitating, as if my body had worked out a way of
managing my symptoms that didn’t risk killing me but instead put me into a
‘holding pattern’ that was endlessly repeated.
I breathed in a powdered drug when I was ill with bronchitis as a
child, and then switched at some point to using Ventolin, until the age of 14
when I accidentally overdosed myself, suffering extreme fear and visual
distortion brought on by the drug’s artificial stimulation of adrenalin. I was
very angry that I had never been warned of the danger and I refused to use
Ventolin after this time.
I also took Brondicon, a cough syrup full of alcohol and sugar. I
was given antibiotics every time I was sick and I have a lot of memories of
waiting in doctors’ surgeries reading children’s books while waiting for my 10
minute appointment (which generally ran along the lines of ‘I’ve got bronchitis
again’... ‘Right, here’s a prescription for antibiotics’.) When I was sick I
also went to a physiotherapist who would thump my back and encourage me to
cough, even when the phlegm was not in a sufficiently fluid state to be coughed
up. The theory behind this treatment was that I was clearing my lungs of
‘harmful bacteria’. I later discovered that this deliberate coughing increased
the damage and irritability in my left lung and made it more susceptible to
aggravation and illness.
Influenced by my parents’ and the doctors’ fears and their
incapacity to listen to how I felt and what I needed, I never expected to be
well and being sick became a key part of my identity. I lived in dread of my
next bout of illness. Since I had never experienced being well, my general
state of ill health was utterly normal to me, and I had no idea just how sick I
was. I later discovered that my entire oxygenation system, including my heart,
was not functioning properly. I therefore found any aerobic exercise both
painful and extremely uncomfortable in my body due to the effort of exerting
myself without adequate oxygen reaching my cells. Climbing a steep hill, for
example, was very difficult for me.
My posture was off kilter because of constant muscle tension caused
by the pain in my lung, and this tension and imbalance eventually led to me
suffering cartilage, tendon and ligament injuries. Additional illnesses I
suffered that were undetected by doctors were low blood sugar (diet related),
chronic constipation (caused by diet and by stress) and extreme cramping and
blood loss during menstruation (caused by lack of magnesium).
One factor that I believe was important in remaining sick with
respiratory disease was the toxic nature of the cleaning fluids used in my
childhood home, particularly furniture polish that was sprayed every week as
part of the housecleaning routine.
Most important though, was the constant emotional and physical
tension I experienced as a result of living with my anxious and violent mother.
Her emotional state and behaviour continually triggered me into fear and anger,
but I was not allowed to consciously feel or express these things. These
feelings became wrapped up, in complex and contradictory ways, with my
experience of being physically ill.
The most obvious connection between my emotional state and the
state of my lungs is that when I feel afraid that I am going to be attacked,
unreasonably controlled or prevented from telling the truth about how I feel
and what I need, I have an immediate, strong asthmatic reaction.
The last time I took antibiotics for bronchitis was when I was
about 22 and living in Melbourne. The next time I had bronchitis I visited a
different doctor than usual and I was told that my symptoms were caused by a
virus (‘influenza’) not a bacterial infection, so antibiotics were not
appropriate. I imagine this doctor was moving with the tendency to claim that
all sorts of previously ‘non-viral’ diseases were now caused by viruses, as the
medical establishment began its push towards inventing and selling greater and
greater numbers of vaccines. (Vaccines are, obviously, more profitable for
corporations than antibiotics because they are recommended for or forced upon
everyone as a preventative measure, rather than being used by only those who
are showing symptoms of disease.)
I was annoyed that I couldn’t have my ‘reassuring’ antibiotics, and
that I was being told that the same symptoms I had been experiencing my whole
life were some other disease (‘flu’, not ‘bronchitis’). I don’t know if I was
told I should have a flu vaccine, or whether they were available in the early
1990s, but I certainly had no faith in the ‘new’ diagnosis. I had never been
treated as if my bronchitis was infectious, as influenza is supposed to be, and
I have no memory of my mother, father, sister or (later) boyfriend being ill
with respiratory symptoms at the same time as I was when I lived with them.
Ironically, however, this shift in medical establishment diagnostic
fashion led to a good outcome for me:
the fear that I had had all my life that I would ‘die’ without
antibiotics was proven untrue. Without antibiotics, my bronchitis followed
exactly the same pattern that it always had – no better, no worse. Although I
didn’t think about it then, this proved that however many bacteria may have
been in my lungs, breaking down the dead substances, they were not attacking my
lungs and ‘causing’ my disease.
Having had my fill of doctor’s surgeries, I never again bothered to
visit one when I was sick with respiratory disease.
So, I had stopped poisoning my system unnecessarily with
antibiotics, and I was living at a physical distance from my mother, but at
this stage I was not actively healing emotionally or physically from all the
damage that had been done and I was still very unfit, got bronchitis twice a
year and suffered occasionally from candida, as I had done since my late teens.
That changed when I got together with my husband, Robert, when I
was 25. As part of his research, he was aware of critiques of the medical
establishment, had changed his diet to improve some of his own health problems,
and was using a number of natural health approaches. He also, most importantly,
listened to me without fear when I expressed how I felt emotionally and
physically, and supported me to follow my own feelings. In other words, he
allowed me to exist, without interference and without trying to control me,
because fundamentally he trusted me to be guided by my own internal
communications towards a more whole state of being. He told me, in effect, that
I existed, that I mattered and that he trusted me to be sensible, intelligent
and capable of learning from my own experiences, including failures and
successes.
I was quite stunned to find that Robert was not afraid of my
illness. It seemed illogical to me at first simply because a fearful reaction
to illness was the only thing I had ever known. The first time I was sick after
we were together, he held me for four hours while I could barely breathe
because my lungs were so badly clogged and asthmatic. This was a more extreme
event than usual, similar to my original pneumonia, but it was a ‘healing
crisis’ that marked the beginning of the change in my symptom patterns which
has led to my current healthy state. Being held with love and reassured that I
wasn’t going to die, I could allow my body to do what it wanted to rebalance
itself. Robert’s trust in me allowed me to trust myself, and that trust made
all the difference.
Over the next 26 years, my emotional and physical health improved
dramatically as I allowed myself to become consciously aware of and physically
feel all of my emotions (mostly fear, sadness and anger) related to my mother
and other conflicts in my life, as well as feeling the physical pain and
asthmatic reactions associated with the damage in my left lung. I stopped
trying to make these emotional and physical reactions ‘go away’ and instead
experienced them without fear until they went away of their own accord.
I also changed my diet to one of
organic, vegetarian wholefood, with no salt, sugar, white flour, caffeine or
alcohol. I stopped cooking food in oil or microwaving it. I had never been a
recreational drug user, since smoking was impossible with my damaged lung, and
my Ventolin experience put me off trying to artificially stimulate my mind and
emotions with chemicals. The diet I chose was based on principles explained by
Paavo Airola in his book Hypoglycemia:
A Better Approach.
I also take care not to use or inhale toxic substances wherever possible,
including deodorants and perfumes, as well as cleaning fluids, paint fumes,
incense, ‘passive’ cigarette smoke and wood smoke. (For those wishing to avoid
lung cancer, I have noticed that my damaged lung reacts far more painfully and
asthmatically to fragrances – perfume, deodorant, aftershave and incense – than
to cigarette smoke.)
I have investigated and found useful many natural healing
modalities, which have assisted with my emotional healing, my nutrition and my
muscle tension.
These include:
‘Feelings First’ emotional feeling and
integration, developed over 14 years by me and my husband Robert J. Burrowes.
See ‘Fearless Psychology and Fearful Psychology: Principles and
Practice’ and Feelings First.
Gerson Therapy, which involves drinking
fresh vegetable juices (for vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and enzymes) and
doing coffee enemas (to assist with liver detoxification), among other
elements. I have undertaken a scaled-down version of the intensive therapy on a
number of occasions and I still drink two juices per day whenever possible and
do regular coffee enemas, which are also good for body awareness and
‘meditative’ time. See Healing the Gerson
Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases.
Buteyko breathing method, which explained to me the importance of
nose breathing to protect the damaged part of my lung and to maintain the
correct balance of CO2 and oxygen in my blood stream to allow effective
oxygenation of my cells. It also explained the natural functions of asthmatic
reaction in counteracting fear-based hyperventilation and in limiting exposure
to toxic substances.
Naturopathy, for a variety of nutritional elements that I have not
been able to account for sufficiently in my consumption of fresh food/juices
(owing to my living circumstances and the generally decreasing mineral content
of even organically grown food). Supplements I take include iron, magnesium and
CoQ10 and I am careful to take varieties that my body easily absorbs. Taking
CoQ10 fixed my heart dysfunction, iron helps with my energy levels, and
magnesium fixed my menstruation cramps and over-bleeding.
Osteopathy, for regular muscle release and manipulations to adjust
my spine and limbs.
Rolfing (also known as Structural Integration) to work on the
loosening of muscle fascia to allow my muscles to relax and return to balanced
positions in my body’s overall structure.
Feldenkrais method (also known as Functional Integration or
Awareness Through Movement) to reintegrate the nervous elements of physical
movements that have become uncoordinated as a result of injury and fear.
Myotherapy, including dry needling, to release extreme tension in
certain muscles and tendons that had not responded to other forms of bodywork.
Deep Recovery massage balls, with the ‘track’ necessary to hold
balls in place so that I can regularly do my own muscle/fascia release on any
area of my body without having to continually pay for Myotherapy or Rolfing
sessions.
Yoga for assistance in stretching, strengthening and coordinating
muscles and realigning my spine.
Non-manipulative Chiropractic method for an understanding of subtle
whole body communication.
Gym work, to strengthen and reintegrate muscle action around knee
and shoulder injuries arising from distorted posture.
I have found all the natural health modalities I have tried to be
genuinely complementary (in a way that the medical establishment’s regime is
definitely not). That is, there is always something to be learned and
integrated from every natural modality into a more complete understanding of
the way I function and dysfunction. Obviously, not all practitioners are
equally capable, and it is important to find practitioners whose work you
trust.
While I recognise that people who are seriously impoverished will
have limits on their access to good natural health care, I have done all of the
above on an extremely limited budget, having lived below the Australian taxable
limit since 1997. I have had no assistance from government Medicare (which does
not cover natural healing modalities) or private health insurance.
You may notice that none of the
modalities I have mentioned lend themselves to corporate profit. In particular,
eating fresh organically grown food works against three corporate industries
that are linked by their dependence on the parent industry of artificial
chemistry, which developed out of the petrochemical industry. Industrial
agriculture relies on artificial fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides; the
processed food industry employs chemists to come up with endless varieties of
false smells and tastes to cover the fact that processed food that has a long
shelf life is tasteless and nutritionless; and the pharmaceutical industry uses
artificial chemistry to create toxic drugs, following the age old superstition
that by poisoning the body we can control and ‘fix’ it. Many of the products
from these industries are easy for corporations to patent, monopolise and sell
as long as they can convince people they ‘need’ them. So when the medical
establishment screams that natural solutions are not proven to work, are a
waste of money, and may be dangerous, one might consider that the threat the
establishment is feeling is to its bank balance, rather than to anyone’s actual
biological health.
The result of 26 years of taking responsibility for my own health
(with the crucial support of people who love me) is that, at the age of 51, I
am fit and healthy in a way I never was as a child and teenager or in my early
twenties. My oxygenation and posture have dramatically improved and, although I
still have some weaknesses in my joints, I am able to work vigorously for some
hours at a time in a garden on a steep hillside. I am able to continue working
when hungry, showing that my blood sugar levels are significantly improved. I
have not had candida since my late 20’s. And, despite the one patch of lung
damage which has not yet been resolved (which I protect in the ways mentioned
above), I have not had bronchitis in the last 5 years, and indeed have only
suffered two colds with mild respiratory and bodily symptoms that lasted 3 days
each in the last three years.
Hence, even if I believed that a
pathogenic virus labelled Covid19 was genuinely attacking people, I would not
be concerned for my own health or theirs on its account. If the four principles
of health and healing below are abided by, a physical individual is naturally
strong and functional at any age, and does not need the artificial intervention
of toxic medicines and vaccines to ‘survive’. The medical establishment’s
approach is to ignore and deny all the things that a person needs, biologically
and emotionally, and then try to suppress the symptoms of disease that result
from this denial. At best, a toxic medicine will shock the body into behaving
differently in the short term, while adding to the overall burden of toxicity
and ill health of all the body’s systems over time. At worst, your body will
not survive the toxic attack and you will be severely incapacitated or killed (as hundreds of
thousands of people are by ‘proper’ use of pharmaceuticals each year: see, for
example, ‘100,000 deaths per year in the U.S. caused by prescription drugs’ or
‘Table Of Iatrogenic Deaths In The
United States’. For an extremely
relevant and well researched exposé of the corrupt and toxic nature of the
corporate medical industry, read AIDS
Inc. by investigative
reporter Jon Rappoport.)
If you are currently dependent on pharmaceuticals (for physical or
psychological illnesses) you can consult an experienced natural health
practitioner to work out how to safely come off the drugs and replace them with
the nutrition and other naturally supportive healthcare you really need.
Of course, if at any time the natural healthcare that I need is
denied me by forces beyond my control, it is likely that I will suffer further
respiratory disease, because of the damage still existing in my lung. However,
I will not blame any virus for my illness – the fault will lie with the fear of
those humans who cannot see what is needed for genuine health and safety, and
whose behaviour is therefore biologically self-destructive.
Four Principles of Health and Healing
Principle 1: Listen to yourself (how you feel emotionally and physically).
Remember that you are a complex biological individual in a process of healing
and existing, not a simple predictable robot, the same as all the other robots,
whose behaviour can (or should) be controlled by a drug.
Principle 2: Give yourself what you need nutritionally to function properly.
Keep working on it until you have found a range of things that work for you.
Whatever you experiment with and choose (vegan, vegetarian, meat inclusive,
supplement inclusive) trust organic/biodynamic, fresh, unrefined foods as the
basis for your nutritional health.
Principle 3: Don’t poison yourself (with processed and adulterated ‘food
products’ made in factories; with recreational or pharmaceutical drugs and
vaccines; with cleaning and personal care products containing toxins; also,
limit your exposure to electromagnetic radiation where possible, particularly
if you are highly sensitive).
Principle 4: Investigate other healing modalities that encourage you to be aware
of how you function physically, and as a whole, integrated organism. (Try
anything that sounds reasonable to you, but be honest about whether or not you
are experiencing the gains you hoped, and keep experimenting if necessary.)
Finally, although I am aware that as a physical entity I can never
be invulnerable, I take responsibility for my own ultimate existence by
trusting in myself, despite all attempts to make me afraid that I am
undeserving or incapable of full, unified existence, or that existence is not
my genuine, true state of being.
Biodata:
Anita McKone researches truth and delusion, fearlessness and fear, sanity and
insanity, self-awareness and self-destruction, and nonviolence and violence as
these exist at the human and universal levels. Her articles can be read on her website.
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