Healing - How our health returns

By Michael Herz

What influence do we have on our health?

This book arose out of my own incurable illness, while an alternative practitioner brought me back to life so casually. That made me wonder and so began this path of healing, because we are all more ill than healthy.

Real health has little to do with what we understand by health. Somehow the earlier knowledge of healing has been lost, so that we can hardly help ourselves. Yet this valuable knowledge is still there, albeit scattered in books, films and on the internet.

This forgotten knowledge actually enables us to heal ourselves and thus build up our health, which (finally) allows us to live a healthy and timeless life again until the last day.

Everything in this book is set up in such a way that we can apply the therapies without deep knowledge and thus get our health back year after year and stay healthy with it - forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: tredition
• Release date: Jun 28, 2021
• ISBN: 9783347147515

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Healing

How our health returns

PROLOGUE

There is good and extensive literature available today that covers pretty much every health issue, but my friend Alex encouraged me to write this book, a book that describes all the little, inconspicuous things that improve our health, whose value we misjudge in our extremely fast-paced life, and thereby despise. Yet, these very things, often overlooked and seemingly inconsequential, can have long-lasting effects and are vital for our physical and mental recovery.

The aim of the book is to offer a knowledge base that we can apply in (almost) all situations in order to make life a bit easier, while keeping a little of our independence from all the experts around us.

The goal here is to get healthy because we are all more or less sick. Of course, we have almost infinite explanations about why we are not, but we will still see that health – as we generally understand it – has hardly anything to do with health in an absolute sense.

Health is our greatest asset; unfortunately, we only notice this when it is dwindling and we simply can no longer do what we used to. Then we run to the doctor and hope to be healthy the next day – it is the same with me.

The development of this book began from my own incurable illness many years ago. Official medicine could not help me, so I had to deal with the grim reality of an early death. An alternative practitioner who came out of nowhere saved me, as if by a miracle, and made me fit for work again 4 days later.

We hear about such miracles again and again and now I have learned enough to realise that not only do miracles have to happen, but that sound knowledge can also be helpful, because our health experts simply know far too little.

Knowledge from different fields flows together in this book. This includes, of course, information from the field of official medicine, which keeps us alive in emergencies. Building on this, we deal extensively with naturopathy and its great possibilities, which will give us back our health for the rest of our lives.

We also want to bring spiritual healing into the mix because it represents the strongest force, again and again, casting a spotlight on miracle healings that we do not really want to believe – thereby the spirit rules over the body. And so, we will still see that our health can only fully develop when our consciousness leaves the ego level once and for all and ascends into the world of spirit.

Our appearance is also a reflection of our state of health. If I am healthy, then I look good. Most of the time we are unhealthy, but we think we are and wonder why we are looking so old.

And now enjoy reading this book.

June 2021, Michael Herz

How our health returns

STOCKTAKING HEALTH

HEALTH IS DECLINING

We constantly read and hear it in the media that our health has been improving for decades and we are therefore living longer and getting older and older.

More and more clever diagnostics discover more and more potential to regain health, but also the tireless work to finally defeat cancer, give us the hope to finally become healthy all over again, until the moment that we have our own cancer and the cycle of chemo, radiation and operations begins.

When a cold makes me bedridden and I have to go to the doctor in the morning because I need a sick note, then I see the reality of medical miracles. It hurts me deeply when I see all the catastrophic clinical pictures in the waiting room and I can be sure that these people will come out just as they went in. ‘Again he has pumped me full of cortisone, I can't stand it any longer,’ said a patient in the waiting room recently. A year before, another tearstained patient said: ‘I don't care if I don’t have an appointment, I'm staying here until I’m seen.’

When I walk through the cemeteries and look at the ‘average’ life expectancy, I just don't see this promised longevity. Dying appears to start at about 45 years of age, hits a peak at about 70 years, only to flatten out again decisively after that. Pension funds nowadays expect an average of 90 years, but in the cemeteries, the average is under 70. It almost looks as if we are paying too much for 20 years. How can that be?

Health has a low priority in our society; there are so many young ill people who are unlikely to recover if there is no fundamental change in the current healing strategy for people. Although many things are so obvious, taking appropriate action and providing relief to those who suffer seems to be a constant problem for our health industry. It’s not just the much-needed healing we are having to wait for, but also the responsibility for this healing is still being passed on to our genes, to our parents, even our grandparents. Not to mention all the many incurable illnesses that exist, from which, by definition, we cannot hope to be rescued.

On closer inspection, healing seems to me to be almost a matter of luck, according to the motto: ‘Unfortunately, I have bad luck, because my mother and grandmother died of intestinal cancer, so I’ll probably also die of it. At least I have a tendency, called a disposition in medicine, to fall ill with this disease and, consequently, to die of it.’

Do we not feel powerless and perhaps a little angry that God has put us into this world in such a vulnerable state?

Who actually has the right to classify a disease as incurable? What are these institutions that are allowed to say things just like that, in order to print it anywhere on paper, so that we humans accept it as a God-given truth and lie down to die?

Again and again, the lack of knowledge in all areas of the health system is striking. Physical discomfort is often diagnosed incorrectly while actual emergency situations are either dismissed as ‘all fine’ or are not recognised at all, which is always the case when we run from Pontius to Pilate and no one can find anything wrong with us, so that at some point we already believe ourselves to be confused.

After realising that many people were healthier and more powerful than me, I was convinced that there must be rules, that my sad state could not be God-given. So, I started to read books on this subject and tried to build my health up with simple therapies. Although these therapies all had a degree of logic to them, it took me a while before I made my breakthrough. Then, from one day to another, I felt a little fresher somehow and even the hair on my head appeared to grow thicker.

In the meantime, my interest in the subject and my wish to have an official healing permit has meant I am now an alternative practitioner. The most loyal and resilient person that I test is myself, as I am always willing to try some absurd therapies in the view of normal mortals.

Until today, my health successes have not ended. I recognise this outwardly in many small details and in my increased strength and endurance during sports.

My somewhat delayed mental activity has increased again, and my younger appearance has given me joy.

Being close to success now, I deal almost exclusively with the regeneration of the body. I consider it to be an area that fills surprisingly little space in the literature, but it promises unbelievable success for all of us personally, because regeneration actually means that we get a little fitter every year and, at some point, we will even begin to look slightly younger.

HOW DO WE RECOGNISE OLD AGE?

We say he or she has grown old, but if we had to describe the small, individual changes in words, we would have to briefly consider what actually motivates us to use the word ‘old’. We would probably soon get the idea ourselves that ageing is actually only a process of the body decaying and so it has less to do with the ageing that exists in our imagination. Weird, isn’t it?

What is still the attraction of old age, to know that we are all degenerating, simply falling apart?

Several people know this, many people assume it and find ageing anything but funny, but unfortunately, they are still too far away conceptually to ask the all-important question of why. So why do we degenerate?

Ageing means that the functions of the body are visibly reduced. Only rarely do these functions disappear completely. Close up we can see it: missing hair, white hair, incorrect posture, a collapsed body, a hunchback, missing teeth, receding gums, too big ears, noses, hands and feet, pale skin, age spots on the hands, arms, face and décolleté. The buttocks become flat and lowered, women's breasts too, and bloated bellies complete the picture of the figure's derailments. Wrinkles all over the body, the white in the eyes has gone, an ‘old’ murmuring voice, a hearing aid, apathy, shortness of breath during light exertion, narrow-mindedness, and missing facial expressions. But above all, I recognise that the joy of life is missing in people. Actually, glasses are also part of it – they should also be a sign of age, but even small children wear glasses. How can we explain that?

Where exactly is the wisdom of age that we can discover here? Hence, we should really avoid ageing, wherever possible. Our body should always be the most important thing to us in our stay here on Earth. No job or any other life pursuit should be allowed to cause us (excessive) degeneration. Youthfulness is the joy of life, everything else is a compromise that costs us our health and later, our life.

Ageing is only a collective term for bodily decay, the excessive degeneration of our body. The word ageing only came into our lives because we no longer believe in our immortality. We no longer believe that we are infinitely more than just repair-intensive robots.

So, it was said in the time of the ‘Golden Age’, before the decisive ‘fall of mankind’ many thousands of years ago, that none of the people suffered from the infirmity of old age, that the day passed quietly and happily, that people lived equally with each other, and then when the time came for them to go, they simply passed over, in a gentle and soft sleep, to the other side.

WOMEN LIVE SEVEN YEARS LONGER

Often, we hear that women live, on average, 7 years longer than men and that this is a privilege of women. And this seems to be the case; women are often the ones who are left in a relationship, even when their male partners are a little older.

I think no one has the official answer as to why this is. Alternative practitioners seem to know more and name menstruation as being the main reason for this phenomenon, because the ejection of 20 to 50 millilitres of blood after a monthly cycle would correspond to a small bloodletting, which allows the body to get rid of all the bad substances and old burdens of about 40 years of its life on Earth.

This downright ingenious idea of menstruation was taken over in the Middle Ages and practised as bloodletting on the rich, as they also struggled with heart and circulation diseases hundreds of years ago. Today, it is out of fashion, only alternative practitioners offer it partially.

But there are other reasons for a longer life too; because the general way of life is also decisive. Unfortunately, many people misjudge this and so we do not use our potential. Only a few decades ago, men tended to live in a rather excessive way, usually at the expense of their health. To take time off from your working life, as it is easy to do today, was seen as a sign of weakness. Furthermore, they rightly feared they wouldn’t be taken back into the workforce after a break and would drift off into long-term unemployment.

Since then, the world has changed rapidly and now the behaviour of men and women has become similar. It almost seems that the classic housewife is only found in rural areas. Career men are rare to find due to a lack of alternatives, so the professional life has been devalued and become a mere source of income, and thus fallen behind our private life. Private life is now becoming more important, which is probably a new experience for men.

In contrast, women today are more exposed to a more stressful life as they balance their work and family, so women’s health has become tense and men’s relaxed, so it is likely that, on average, we will see no significant difference in the life expectancies of men and women over the next few years, unless we approach health completely differently.

WHAT CAN WE DO?

We are now doing a lot for our health. We are working on our nutrition, avoiding stress, going to yoga and we have even started doing some sports again. And when all this becomes too much for us, we tell ourselves that we are not young anymore and tend to give up again because we think it all has little impact anyway.

The issue of health is fuzzy, no matter how we approach the subject. The health freak dies before us, the chain smoker after us. Somehow, we are going around in circles, not understanding the rules. There is much discussion and writing on health – it’s a growing, billion-dollar market, a bastion of the economy. Diseases are exploding, especially cancer, as a lingering warning to us, but there is no turnaround in sight. Why not?

There is much confused reporting about healing, so it took me a while to separate the wheat from the chaff and take the right steps at the right time. Mostly, success arises from our own suffering, in cases where illness almost wiped us off the planet – and it was the same with me. Strangely enough, whenever we are forced to think, to decide on whether to live or die, we develop the right ideas to free ourselves from our decline.

If there is one thing I have learnt in my life, it is there is nothing more important than having a healthy body, and only that makes life fun. Surprisingly, at that point, we don't care about ageing, because we act the same way we did when we were young – we just live our lives full of energy, full of curiosity.

In reality, we are usually far away from a healthy body. We do not even have a concrete idea of what healthy means at all. Are we healthy when the doctor says we are healthy? Or are we simply healthy when we feel healthy? By redefining not-sick as healthy at some point in time, we have clean forgotten what the original meaning of health was.

Thereby it is quite simple: we are healthy when we look 30 but we are actually 60 – and feel the same way. End of story. Health means nothing else other than: to have the power of youth and to still look as fresh. The reason we are so far from this today is simply that we have aged ourselves by mistake. The decline of we humans is therefore not a law of nature, it is purely homemade, made by ourselves.

Restoring this state of youth is anything but easy. Nevertheless, there is an unexpected number of 100-year-olds who already have a good idea of how the game works, as was once shown in a documentary on television. New knowledge and a renewed motivation to maintain health seem to be building and strengthening this trend. Moreover, ageing cannot even be proven scientifically.

Indeed, there are a number of approaches to what our mortality might ultimately be attached to, but these ideas have only short half-lives; so, after a few years, no one wants to hear them. So, it remains as it always has – no serious scientist can define ageing and it seems that our potential for good health is much higher than we generally think.

After achieving remarkable success with my modest activities, I would like to share the good news. I am certainly not interested in eternal life, but ‘only’ in a healthy life until the last day – a life without diseases, a life of health.

The German book, ‘! Stopp Die Umkehrung des Alterungsprozesses’ (STOP! Reversal of the ageing process) by Andreas Campobasso, which I got to read 10 years ago, left me speechless. He already had the knowledge that I was still searching for – man does not age, they die from their diseases. It is a popular scientific book and highly recommended, see the bibliography. For many years, I’d had my doubts about whether I would be able to gain from that. Today, almost by accident, I have found a very similar way for myself and, hopefully, for many others.

PARAGONS OF HEALTH – YOUNG PEOPLE

Purely by chance, I have noticed while travelling by train and seeing many students, mostly aged 18-30, how much loss I have driven into my body over the last few decades. So I recognise obvious points every time, like how much brighter, cleaner, smoother and firmer their skin is. Also, the hands with the mostly perfect smooth fingernails, which lie in flawless nail beds make me look wistfully. With the teeth, it is even more obvious; they are all white, flat and well-formed, standing neatly nicely side by side, embedded in light pink gums, which lie softly on the teeth, leaving no gaps. Their body weight is also remarkable, which is, on average, one-third lower than it is for the 50+ generation. Their hair is shiny, full, without any gaps or grey strands, and is worn in a manner that already pains me to see. Also, they don’t know how short-lived their happiness will be and pay far too little attention to their body. It is so unbelievable and meanwhile embarrassing to me how the condition is 30 years later.

That's exactly where I have to go, I keep thinking of this sight and try and extrapolate the progress of the last few years. Although I’ve achieved a lot for myself, I still realise that I am far from reaching my goal.

But in the meantime, I have understood that we don't have to look as sad as we do, and that encourages me to keep searching and working on my health year after year, so that maybe it will come true once again:

Look 30 when you’re actually 60.

ILLNESSES ARE OUR GREAT SORROW

WHAT IS ACTUALLY A DISEASE?

In Wikipedia we find the following explanation:

‘A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not due to any immediate external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that are associated with specific symptoms and signs. A disease may be caused by external factors such as pathogens or by internal dysfunctions. For example, internal dysfunctions of the immune system can produce a variety of different diseases, including various forms of immunodeficiency, hypersensitivity, allergies and autoimmune disorders.

In humans, disease is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes pain, dysfunction, distress, social problems, or death to the person afflicted, or similar problems for those in contact with the person. In this broader sense, it sometimes includes injuries, disabilities, disorders, syndromes, infections, isolated symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts and for other purposes these may be considered distinguishable categories. Diseases can affect people not only physically, but also mentally, as contracting and living with a disease can alter the affected person's perspective on life…’

So, what exactly is the definition of illness again?

In my opinion, a disease is a medical emergency that should never occur in our lifetime. In this way, a cold is an emergency because the question remains: How could this happen at all?

In principle, the human body is built in such a way that it should never, ever get sick; so it should always stay healthy. Nevertheless, it gets sick, and it gets sick all the time. The good Lord certainly did not want it that way.

When I look at the 60+ generation, 99 per cent of the people are sick – one in a hundred, at the most, is not sick. People don't get old, they get sick, really sick.

Why the many sick people don't recognise it as unnatural and simply accept their illnesses as ageing instead of searching for alternatives astonishes me. The functional limitations of those who are 60+ are already more than obvious. Is the belief in ageing and sickness so powerful that we just accept all the suffering without complaint? Since I turned 18 and became able to make my own decisions, I’ve been trying to get my ‘restrictions’ healed. At that time, I didn’t realise that I couldn’t succeed with the medical care at hand, but nevertheless, I never gave up.

When health shows even the slightest sign of deterioration, there is already a need for action. In every situation where the body cannot perform, we should investigate. Every degenerative change, whether wrinkles or impaired movement, is a serious issue. Every inflamed appendix is an emergency, because how could it get that far? How, indeed?

It is very likely that the intestinal area is damaged and must be treated until the whole body ‘flows’ properly again – this would also help the appendix to recover afterwards. It is not enough to cut it out and discharge the patient as if they were cured. The patient is in no way cured by this action, because he has just lost his appendix and who knows if he will ever be able to recover properly.

Just for reference: From a medical point of view, an inflamed appendix is appendicitis, an inflammation of the appendix vermiform at the end of the caecum, which actually contains a large part of our so important immune system.

Every cold poses a question about the immune system. How did the immune system become so weak that we ended up catching a cold? Could it be because the appendix is missing? A cold is actually a health catastrophe rather than a non-issue, because when the immune system is weakened, and this is the case in 99 per cent of all people, our health is already severely affected, so that we are exposed to the vortex of degeneration.

Every illness is a sign that our body is under massive attack. In old age, one disease follows another – here we can literally see our body collapsing, but most people put it down to ageing, the genes or heredity, and with that (explanation) everything seems to be okay again? Surely, we ourselves should at least draw a line between what we let pass as merely ageing and what substantially undermines our health, shouldn't we?

Even alternative practitioners will often miss this sensitive understanding, because they have got on too friendly terms with ageing.

If we want to get healthy, we need to change our perspective. Every wrinkle is one wrinkle too many. Every cold drags us down into degeneration. Hair loss is a serious disease and cancer is a failure of society as a social community.

The preservation of health should really become a philosophy that we integrate into our way of life. I use my free time to take care of my body and build it up year after year. My reward is I have my strength back and I am in good shape. Age hasn't gnawed at me for some time, a certain neutrality pervades my body today. The diseases have gone, but there is still a lot to do, there's always a lot to do, because as long as I don't look 30 yet, I still have potential and I still do not look like 30 yet.

Illness is the derailment of our health. Disease, in principle, is always a catastrophe, so it can hardly be our goal to only deal with illnesses when something breaks out again. We have to put all our energy into the healing of our body and do that repeatedly, every day – which means every day we should put our health first. In this way, we’ll journey from sick to non-sick to complete health, until we look 30 again.

We won’t need to be aware of all the ins and outs of particular diseases because we won’t get sick any longer. We will now be building up the knowledge that we need to regain and maintain health as well; we will be learning what health actually means and feels like by ourselves as we become steadily healthier.

WHY DO WE DEGENERATE?

Measured over a 24-hour day, we have a degenerative phase and a regenerative phase. In the degenerative phase we are active in life and overspend our mind and body. This costs energy which our body has to supply. Then, when we sleep at night, we have our regenerative phase, in which our body repairs itself again, creating millions of new cells and disposing of the old ones. This phase of regeneration continues through the whole night and then long into the morning - if we give the body a chance. But because, in advertising, breakfast is declared