Why Stewardship and Why now?

The current healthcare system, based on “sick care,” has created plenty of familiar challenges you have likely faced as a patient.  This system is being created by people. That means the system can change. 

Many people are seeking a shift:                    

          From

Disease management

Treatment that can harm

Domination based engagement

The shift you are seeking is the shift to Stewardship. 

One fresh outlook (your worldview)

+ a framework of practices

=  achieving what you are seeking.

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Recognize how healthcare beliefs and preferences always reflect broader cultural beliefs

It may seem silly, or totally unrelated, to travel back through time and into the future for insights about broad cultural attributes and beliefs. 

To understand the present and future potential, understand the past. To become an Alchemist of your well-being, requires an understanding of the role of culture in the healthcare system has it as been designed up until now, and understand the broader cultural transformation that is in process and transforming the healthcare system in front of our eyes.

The dominance of Red Reductionist Zone medical sciences up until now is a cultural artifact from the European scientific revolution touting reductionism.  That reductionist based preference will not, is not, surviving as culture evolves into the Planetary Era.

Enjoy the time travel on this page. Reflect on the cultural shifts you're observing and how those may be influencing your choices for Vibrant Living.

The "sick care" system is based on you being sick

Think about that a minute.  For the parts of this system to function - insurance, pharmaceuticals, medical device makers, MDs focused disease management - you must be found to have a disease.  

Have you ever tried to find out how to improve, or elevate, or expand your overall well-being in this system?  It's tough.  There's not a disease-based diagnosis code for that.  Which means no way to tap into  the payment system.

Besides the fact that the medicinary tools (primarily pharma and surgery) don't inherently create well-being, this system is designed to parse available revenue (which is all insurance actually does - parse out who gets how much money) ONLY when you have a diagnosed disease - a diagnosis code.

Pharmaceutical companies are constantly creating new diseases.  In the sick care system new diseases create new profit sources.  Numerous things that have a "disease" label in the sick care system serve as a guide to discover your root cause imbalances in TCM, Ayurveda, Naturopathy and Homeopathy. Symptoms provide wisdom in Green Stewardship Zone medical sciences.

Do you know any gardeners who wait until their plants are visibly failing to tend to them?  

This is the essence of the current system. It's time for a change.  Well-being Stewardship guides this transformation.

Change is in the air . . .

the "sick care" system is out of sync with this point in time

If you are a sensitive person, you can probably feel this. There's a sense of change in the air. The cultural shifts are more far reaching than well-being and healthcare.  Understanding the broader shifts sets the foundation to recognize why Well-being Stewardship fits for the time we are in now.

It's not just you. 

The entire culture is yearning ditch sick care and experience a health-system that cultivates vibrant living.

The timing is perfect for Well-being Stewardship.

Understanding the previous culture eras equips you to step into the role of the Alchemist, embracing fresh paths, practices and frameworks for vibrant living now.

Dive into history to create your future.

A short review of human cultural changes

Cultural shifts happen very gradually.  These shifts are so gradual that often those living in a midst of a shift won't notice it. It's only in hindsight that these shifts become very apparent. We now have enough information to be able to recognize we're entering a new cultural phase.*

The beginning: Tribal Era -

the Paleolithic time period

• Farming was the primary occupation, nature was revered and what we now call sustainable practices were the norm.

• Culture was community based.

• Medicine came from nature - understanding the energy essence and attributes of plants and minerals, and was used to treat the individual, enhancing well-being in harmony with nature.

• From ancient beginnings of herbalism (the basis of Naturopathy) Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda all created to cultivate vibrant well-being, gradually evolved .

The familiar: Empire Era -

the rise of cities and states

• Occupations shift to agrarian and industrial work, and nature begins to be seen as something to control or attack.

• Writing is created, allowing hundreds of years of observational evidence to be codified as Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda texts early in the Empire Era, about 5,000 years ago.

• Treating the disease, Pathogenesis, (disease focused sick care) became the medical norm as the Renaissance emerged.

• Medicine evolved to become chemistry (pharmaceuticals) designed to control or attack, stripping out the life essence of plants and minerals. This shift reflected the nature of hierarchy and control in other aspects of society

The emerging: Planetary Era -

the shift happening now

• The core value of the Planetary Era is a focus on healing for all. Attributes of this new era include sustainability, true choice, harmony, systems thinking and problem solving and collaboration.

• Salutogenesis, meaning the creation of health, is beginning to blossom. You can see the beginning of this shift as people seek what is available now, frequently by exploring "CAM" or "alternative therapies."

• There is hope that the Planetary Era transformation results in Paneugenesis, creating good or well for all - all people and the planet.