"Healthy Living In Community," written by Cornelia Featherstone describes the importance of having a healthy lifestyle which has a direct affect on the health of our Earth. When we take responsibility of our health and apply it to our daily lives, we are modeling positive behaviors that can empower others to change something about themselves to be more healthy. By connecting with our spirit through meditation, exercising, eating healthy, doing work that is fulfilling, having leisure time, taking care of children and elders we have the ability to change our system, our mode of functioning, to becoming more aware of the importance of sustainability in our communities.
After Reviewing the movie trailer for "Sicko," I am surprised to know that prisoners of Guantanamo Bay receive FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE, and they have state of the art medical equipment serving these people! It seems that our government is more involved in participating in wars than taking care of the health needs of American's. Clearly, people in government use communication as a tool to decieve people by using ambiguous language to make money from people who are suffering from illnesses.
I cannot believe that British people ONLY have to pay $10 for perscription drugs! I suffered from sever acne for several years as a young adult and had to pay $500 a month for the medication (nothing else was working and that I had to take it for 14 months)! It is clear that the health care industry within the U.S. does not foster sustainable health, rather, the health industry consumes so much money from us that we are forced to work (forced to be involved in the capitalistic culture) so we can pay for our health. Clearly, working all the time does not foster a healthy lifestyle because we miss out on all the activities that Featherstone describes as being essential to our entire well-being.
The World Healing Institute describes three systems that need to be connected in order to heal the world and they are: being aware of environmental issues, healing and connecting children and their caregivers, and having complimentary, cutting-edge healing modalities.
The organization "Five Mountains Hawai'i" is located in North Hawai'i and is "working to build a healthy community." From viewing their website, the have many programs within the organization that incorporate healthy eating habits, exercise, drug-awareness, and leisure activities. I would suggest that they could incorporate workshops that are culturally relevant that would allow North Hawai'i residents to become more spiritually aware (i.e. through hula, meditation, etc). Also, they could include a program that encourages teens and adults to interact and communicate with the elderly. Not only would they be helping the elderly complete tasks, but the communication and story telling that would take place would serve as a way of connecting the past with the future (ideas of sustainability that they encountered growing up on an island that has changed drastically within the last 50 years).
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