#33: To Prevent Suffering

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Sovereign Michael Valentine

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Special Report #33

Part of the

“I see you to succeeding"

series.


To Prevent Suffering

If you have really examined why it is you do what you do, you'll get down to the brass-tacks of your deepest values and motivations. This process helps you get more of what you want from your life.

For me, having grown up in a family where it seemed like everyone was always sick, "catching every bug that came along", going from one illness to another  and basically unconsciously moving through life as a consumer of medical treatment which demands more treatments for the side effects of the previous medical treatments, one of my life purposes and one of my motivation and values lies in attempting to prevent unnecessary suffering.

I first began obsessing about health when my aunt was misdiagnosed and didn't know she had advanced cancer until it had spread throughout  her body. As a four or five year old I concluded her suffering "just wasn't right". Her death left my younger cousin without his mom. The stories of what she went through in the process made me mad and moved me to action.

As time went on, it seemed like we were always visiting a different relative in the hospital. I couldn't "get it". Yet, it seemed like everyone else considered it a "normal" part of life...which today I dispute more than ever.

For me, I had a lot of health problems from the get go. Those of you who know me, know what I went through. Essentially, the stuff that was considered "food" (what I refer to as SADCRAP nowadays), is lacking in enough nutrition to maintain good health and actually deteriorates health cumulatively as time goes on. The more you eat of it, the sicker you get. But it was considered "normal" and a "reward" in my family.

Long story short, by the time I was six or so years old, I was sick and tired of being sick and tired... Yet everyone else around me seemed to accept illness as normal an average. 

I thought there had to be a different way of living. To me, being sick is unnecessary suffering. 

So, much of my family continued on that road of consuming SADCRAP, getting every bug that came along, acquiring more and more "hereditary" dis-eases, getting the medical treatment and then the treatments for the side effects of the treatments (nowadays I refer to this as the "Black Forest" of medical nutrition). 

For me, I started experimenting with nutrition when I was 12 years old. Of course this was contrary to my peers, before the Internet and with very limited reading materials. I first sampled Shaklee about age four, but in my family spending money on SADCRAP was considered more valuable than supplements. It took me another 20 years to find some more.

Most of my family continued on the road of de-generative dis-ease, and either died off from malnutrition and complications of medical treatment or are still around constantly sick and suffering.

For me, it was unbearable losing family and friends. I saw that there was a need for quality information and training but not everyone values good health and longevity... It truly is a niche market. To the people who value self-preservation it seems obvious and non-negotiable, but to many taking care to prevent illness from ever beginning, self care and nutritional-hygiene seems like an inconvenience and too much trouble. Many people simply figure they're going to die anyway, so what's the point?

Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation out there and it can take more time to hit on a good combination than taking the prescription and simply "checking out".

I personally don't understand people who settle for catching every bug that comes along and allowing hereditary conditions to run their course unchecked. But, I guess if you grow up in a family where it's considered normal then why would you consider other possibilities? Why would you question it? I did, but I don't know why, other than I didn't like not feeling good. I wanted to run and play.

I honestly believe that the unhealthier people get the easier it becomes to "settle". 

For me personally, fatigue, digestive problems and breathing problems were not acceptable. 

So, a lot of people ask how I knew to do what I do and how come I could do it so long through lean times and abundant times. The answer? My main motivation is to reduce suffering for those who are wanting to feel better. 

I do think it takes guidance to sort through the hype, marketing B.S. and hoards of advertising pseudo-science. If you can't discern the difference between real and fake information you aren't likely to get the results you want. There is a demand  that exceeds the supply of credible "experts". 

If you're ok being sick & tired that you're business. 

If you want to feel better and better as time goes on, that's my business. 

As for family and friends who were my initial motivation for learning how to reduce and prevent suffering and reverse de-generative dis-ease(s)? ... Most continued down that path and of the ones who are alive, still suffer today with chronic, "un-diagnosable" mystery health problems hoping to get "health help" from conventional "medical treatment".. Treatment assumes you have to already be sick to gain benefit from the treatments? Huh? (Black Forest of medical nutrition).

I personally know many family physicians and they say about 90% of the problems patients seek help for are related to "lifestyle" choices. e.g. lack of nutrition and exercise. Crazy, right?

But you know what? In surveys about patient responses most patients don't want to hear that what they are consuming and their activity level is the root of their suffering. Many people invest their time going from doctor to doctor seeking the magic pill that doesn't exist... you know, the one where you eat all that SADCRAP  you want but don't have any consequences? You know, stop at McDonalds & Baskin Robbins on the way home from the doctor?

Regardless of where you are in your own process, I guarantee you can feel better. If you have progressed beyond full recovery, you can certainly have more energy, healthier digestion, easier breathing and an overall sense of feeling better... You don't have to suffer THAT much! 

That's why I do what I do!

Ask for help.

Do it now, do it consistently.

"I see you succeeding!"