What does ‘TRUE HEALTH’ mean to the OCP team?
True Health & Our Conscious Path
When we reference true health on OCP, we have a shared understanding of what this means for us. We each have our own health journeys, which led us to look outside of the mainstream Western medical system for answers. We also found out that not all ‘alternative’ paths to healing led us somewhere helpful.
The Western Medical System
The mainstream Western medical system is structured to make us dependent on external health ‘experts’ who diagnose and treat our ailments. They treat the body as separate from the other, non-physical aspects of our being. They also treat dis-ease in isolation, locally, rather than looking at health holistically.
This approach fosters a disconnection from our bodies and their innate intelligence, as well as a disconnection from our own intuition or inner knowing. The latter give us instant access to Divine guidance that can help us trace and identify deeper root causes of our illness beyond the physical symptoms.
Discernment & Health Sovereignty
Treating health from a purely physical perspective, and dis-ease as a collection of symptoms to be treated with a chemical fix, takes the power of discernment and health sovereignty out of our hands. We have placed it squarely in the hands of a system that depends on us staying sick for it to succeed!
Sticking Plasters
Pharmaceuticals have their place in extreme circumstances but in most cases taking medication is only a sticking-plaster solution to mask symptoms that may be trying to communicate a deeper truth to us about our health needs.
Similarly, herbal medicine can also be used to mask symptoms, rather than as an aid to help us manage those symptoms on the greater journey to establish the greater health issues that lie beneath.
The OCP Team acknowledge that the true picture of health is multi-layered and includes all the non-physical aspects of our being; the mental, emotional and spiritual.
We understand that often a physical illness or disease has its roots in trauma and unresolved emotional wounding. Dis-ease may also be linked with self-limiting beliefs and habitual patterns of thinking that need to be identified, challenged, released and/or re-written.
We also recognise that while making dietary and lifestyle changes can have a very supportive impact on health, these are only a part of a much bigger picture.
Listen to YOUR body
We are passionate about encouraging our community to become more and more accustomed to really listening to our bodies and interpreting what the symptoms are trying to communicate about our overall health.
We champion health sovereignty and self-referencing wherever possible, seeking to establish root causes rather than just patching up the uncomfortable symptoms.
Western Model & Alternative Therapies
The Western medical model offers half-truths and incomplete solutions, and there is a considerable amount of both deliberate and naïve misinformation available on matters of health. This clearly makes the task of finding helpful answers to questions around true health a real challenge at this time.
As mentioned before, there are also dangers within the ‘alternative’ or complementary healthcare systems, which we will do our best to expose and discourage. One example of this is the very popular work of the Medical Medium, who promotes excessive consumption of coriander/cilantro to support the chelation of heavy metals from the body. The half-life of coriander is not known, and many consider its use in chelation to be a great danger as it may distribute mercury elsewhere in the body, potentially exacerbating sickness.
Just because something is ‘natural’ does not automatically qualify it as safe. We will do our best to monitor content like this since often we don’t know better until we do!
In the same way, we make an important distinction between ancient, traditional and safe energetic health practices, rooted in time-tested shamanic traditions, and ungrounded ‘new age’ practices which mimic the traditional but only offer a spiritual bypass at best; rather than honour the depth of the the ancient wisdom our ancestors used for healing long before allopathic medicine became our go-to for health answers.
Health Information on OCP
Our commitment is to carefully monitor the health information shared within OCP to ensure there is nothing we know to be misleading in both our community and soon-to-be-created resources library. We also believe that the true spirit of science is to continually question and explore, and to be prepared to evolve our perspectives when presented with good new evidence and information.
We may find that what we consider to be ‘true’ today changes tomorrow. This is as it should be. We are all ever-growing in our levels of conscious awareness and need to keep an open mind, along with a willingness to be challenged wherever appropriate.
We actively encourage our community to share personal health stories and any methods or tools that have supported their healing, so we can all learn and heal together. We ask that members remain respectful of any differences of approach or opinion, in acknowledgment that there is no ‘one size fits all’ solution to health challenges.
It is our wish that members feel safe to respectfully challenge any information they see which feels dangerous. We ask that when sharing any personal experiences our community make every effort to speak from their own perspectives, rather than in dogmatic terms that imply their way is the only way for all.
Above all, it is our heartfelt intent that as a community we continue to evolve together, supporting each other to learn, grow and heal by sharing our knowledge and experiences, in a spirit of discovery and with respect and compassion always. We realise that you may not align with our ethos and ask that if you strongly disagree with the sentiments shared in this article, you do not join us. If our ethos does resonate, however, we welcome you into our community with open arms and look forward to learning from and with you.