THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, September 30, 2010
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NATURAL NURTURE: LEARN FROM BABES
mealtime and with end- less snacks, we become sluggish. Instead of seeing that
by Elizabeh Terp Contributing Writer
Perhaps our fascination
with the wonder of new- born babes, that draws us to gaze expectantly when we see them, has to do with the basics of health every newborn is equipped to teach us. We can learn a lot about
how to breathe by watch- ing a sleeping baby. The baby breathes fully and effortlessly demonstrating full expansion of the dia- phragm muscle as its bel- ly rises to inhale and then contracts to exhale. We find it relaxing to watch and notice that our own breathing relaxes and our lungs fill a little more eas- ily. As soon as the baby
wakes, its whole body wakes, arms and legs moving, stretching, ex- ercising, and the baby gradually figures out how to roll over and continue to expand its ability and need to exercise. The baby knows when
its hungry, eats until sa- tiated and wants no more until the next meal. These three abilities are innate in all of us and, so long as we pay attention to them, we have a good shot at being able to enjoy robust health. It is when we forget to
breathe fully that we don’t take in enough oxygen to keep our bodies tuned up. When we spend too much time sitting or standing without giving our limbs their full range of motion, our joints begin to tighten up. When we overeat at
these three abilities are fully activated, our cul- ture has encouraged us to turn to pills to resolve our problems. We have plenty of fodder from the media’s extensive ads and suggestions that we have all sorts of problems and whatever pill is advertized will solve everything. Con- versations often begin and end with some malady, as though we’ve forgotten how to greet each other with anything else. It’s not to our credit
that we’ve become the most medicated country in the world. Pills have their place but not as the gigantic potluck extrava-
ganza being offered to us. Perhaps it’s time to wake up and enjoy the three ba- sics we were all born with. Time to watch those little ones, the ones who are fully qualified to lead us.
Elizabeth Terp draws
on her experiences as a School Nurse-Teacher, Psy- chiatric Nurse Practitioner, Yoga Instructor and Home Health Nurse. She wel- comes your comments at PO Box 547, Campton, NH 03223, e-mail: elizabeth-
terp@yahoo.com, or her Keeping Each Other Well Blog: http://elizabethterp.
wordpress.com. Her book, Forget That Diet And Eat What You Need: The Tao of Eating, is available locally and on line.
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