Evolution of Wellness Part 5

Times have significantly changed and so has the wealth of the average American.  80% of people living under the poverty line in the U.S. have a car. Healthcare, hygiene, nutrition, physical activity and wellness however have not followed.  Our basics of needs have been met.  We are able to have an endless amount of luxury yet, we continue to eat like peasants.  The average American spends a lesser percentage of their income on food than nearly every industrialized country in the world.  For most of us, if we can, we spend as little as possible on food.  We have to save our money to get the things we really need to be “happy” such as a cell phone, big screen TV, super efficient computer, Ipod, luxury automobile or better yet booze, cigarettes and drugs.  

Our society, in preservation of its own capitalism, provides poor quality, cheap nutrition options on every corner via convenience stores, gas stations and fast food restaurants.  We wouldn’t need as much of the medical services used today if we would simply learn and understand what we need to do for ourselves to be happy and healthy and why we need to be proactive to do so.   True health care scales at the level of the people. 

Mankind has become addicted to instant gratification and the availability of abundance while seeking to provide more and more concentrated forms.  As with all addictions, the first step is to realize that the addiction is the problem.  As with all addictions, the avoidance of healthy behaviors and the acceptance of unhealthy behaviors in everyday practice are ultimately leading to failure of the human body and the collapse of societal responsibilities.  

As we proceed into the future, there will be a turning point.  We will, at some time in the future, reach a critical mass in which people will have too many problems and societal breakdowns for those in power to allow it to continue.  Over the past 100 years society has flourished, advances in technology have been made and mankind has reaped the benefits.  In the same period, we have however been ignoring the truth that all of this has led us to experience increasing declining health.  

Attempts have been made to find every shortcut possible in order to live an immoral and unhealthy life while still remaining intact as a society.  Soon we will enter an age when people will see the transparency in the errors of our ways during the period in which our morals were forgotten and our health ignored.  Soon people will gravitate away from this past era that is currently being promoted.  Soon we will gravitate again towards the improvement of mankind. 

Wellness is the ultimate luxury.  Wellness is the pursuit of self actualization and can only be achieved once all basic needs are met.  Mankind will resume its pursuit of self-actualization, its pursuit of wellness.  Some day in the future mankind may look back at the last 100 years and refuse to accept the fact they are descendants of a society that acted so irresponsibly.  Much like the people in our society in the present who view the days without personal hygiene (like toothbrushes and daily showers), the people of the future will view the behaviors of mankind today like we are cretins.  20^th century Americans will become the new Neanderthal.  They will say you are acting like an American, generation negligent and greedy.  The only generation in history that couldn’t keep man evolving towards its natural progression.  The generation, which in its own arrogance, greed, poor self discipline and complacency, stifled the progress towards societal wellness and self-actualization.  

As I said before times are changing.  The Revolution has begun!  We are ushering in a new generation of wellness that will effect change on our society.  I am very excited!  I hope you are too.  I also hope you are enjoying reading this.  Thanks for the support!