Recently I walked into my local chain drugstore and was suddenly jarred by the realization of the convenient set up, playing itself out before my eyes. As I entered, I’m greeted by all the interesting merchandise, calm music, well-lit displays and lights. I proceed through to the smells of recently tested perfumes, lines of cosmetics, lotions and every conceivable thing that could be applied to the largest porous organ of our body……our skin.

Next in the series of strategically placed items was the generous amounts of alcoholic beverages, just waiting to be guzzled and effectively numbing us to our environment, decisions and emotions. My liver quivered and I quickly diverted my attention. Sadly, our state of reality gets worse as I pass all the boxed/bagged processed snacks and foods patiently waiting to be bought, for the shelf-life and expiration dates are longer than my outside seasonal pillows, facing the daily elements. My excursion now brings me through the addictive corridors of high fructose syrup and every imaginable sweet seduction so tempting to our tastebuds………UGH!!!! Oh wait…. I just passed the perfect combinations of sweet & salty, conveniently packaged and propped up for my consumption. What could possibly come next?????

Let’s not forget some over-priced toys, gifts, “stuff” for the next TWO holidays (clearance items from the last) to clutter my home. Perhaps some toxic, cough inducing cleaners that promise to eliminate 99% of viruses while stealing the last few dollars in my bank account before I need to go buy “actual” whole foods for myself and my family. This is the epitome of mindless consumerism as it eats away at our senses and our vitality as a nation.

As I made my way back the main aisle, I could not help but be dreadfully confronted by the reality of our current state of health. This journey through the store led me passed the over-the-counter medications needed to treat all the symptoms and inflammation in our bodies after we have indulged in the convenience and lifestyle choices that have wreaked havoc on our bodily system. I ventured down the “Yellow Brick Road” TO the last stop of the whole scenario……THE RX Pharmacy.

Let’s just consider for a moment the conditions accumulated by a regular consumption of everything I just passed in this “convenience” store. The whole scene leads us down a road to disease and managing our sick-care, not wellness. We are led to our demise! I know this sounds harsh but at this point……we NEED serious, open conversations about the state of affairs we find ourselves in. Being quiet about it, would be a travesty. To ignore the evidence and not say anything would be shamefully unloving to fellow human beings who share this world with me. What are we doing?

Inflammation, stress and obesity is causing dis-ease in our bodies. We are made to consume whole foods, full of nutrients, not man-made fake food, manufactured to cause addiction and over-consumption. But we have been lulled into this notion of another kind and succumbed to the allure of it. We’ve forgotten the anciently organic human ways of eating, moving, resting, connecting, sun-absorbing, breathing and feel the dirt kind of living. If we started seeing ourselves as living organic beings in need of nutrients, sunlight, fresh air, water and movement, we would treat ourselves better. Yes……you are kind of like a plant but even better!!! Our bodies are wonderfully made to thrive, grow and heal themselves. We are beautiful!

We absorb everything around us and “into” us. Every lotion, perfume, cosmetic and so forth you apply to your skin absorbs into those countless amazing pores. The food you eat is digested and absorbed into your bloodstream, where it is transported to the organs, tissues and cells. Proper nutrition activates necessary hormones, and other chemicals, releasing them into your body for important functions. Those cells are building blocks for everything necessary to build YOU! But the lack there-of can deprive us or worse yet the unnecessary chemicals, preservatives or additives can harm us. We play a HUGE part in the story of our lives as we make decisions every day. We make a choice.

So, whether it is what we allow on us or in us……it becomes a part of our state of being. All of it eventually adds up. There’s a cause and effect. We need to stop the mindless ways of living and understand that they lead to the root causes of health issues. Our bodies literally yell out in dis-ease to warn us, to plead with us to find and eradicate its cause. We either perpetually manage our sickness, or we initiate health and wellness. We get to choose…. it’s our decision to make.

My heart breaks for society…I’m overtaken at moments by the sheer calculated efforts to steal, kill and destroy at the expense of lives! What is the purpose? What are the long-term advantages and for whom? It’s definitely not advantageous for the common good of all. How long can we endure this insane way of existing while pretending nothing is wrong?

When we follow the yellow brick road and look behind the green curtain, we will find a system set up that is a money-making machine. It is a revolving door of convenience to sickness. Large corporations only interested in the bottom line and an annual growth (AKA…. $$$) bulging at the seams. But the bulging seams on our side of the deal is not so pleasant. These same large corporations provide funding to anything and everything perpetuating the revolving door. They pay for preferable “outcomes” in studies, fund medical institutions and then send lobbyists to make “the deals” with an even larger system (US government) full of greed and pocket-lining propagators. This is ongoing, under our noses and we didn’t even realize it. They are lying in bed together, seducing and stroking each other for satisfying results. But now, we are beginning to connect the dots, and the perpetrators are scurrying to hold up their long-held cash cow and will stoop to anything to save it! Things are beginning to make sense……..this is why we are getting sicker as a nation despite our astronomical healthcare expenditures. Convenience came with a cost!

The mad men behind the scenes frantically pull the strings and every scheme is orchestrated to satiate their blind greed with no regard for the people innocently walking down the road of life, trusting in a system set up against them. But we are about to witness a drastic change that will turn a system upside down and shake out the pockets of greedy decision makers with no compassion for the people paying the price with their health.

Hold onto to your horses…. because the yellow brick road is about to expose the string-pullers behind the money-green curtain and it’s not going to be very convenient for them.

On a more positive side, I’m going to devote my next few blogs to identifying ways we can take our health into our own hands and purposefully make our way back to a healthier version of ourselves.

Let’s get back to the good common sense of wellness 🙂