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The Programme The Life Change Programme of the Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida, which includes a diet of raw living foods, forms the basis of the programme that Martin chose for himself and which also includes physical exercises, meditations, creative visualisation and various other protocols and therapies. ABOUT THE HIPPOCRATES HEALTH INSTITUTE "Four decades ago, Ann Wigmore, visionary and humanitarian, planted a concept based on the wisdom of the founder of modern medicine, Hippocrates: "Let food be your medicine". To achieve this, the Institute is committed to fostering a pure, enzyme-rich vegetarian lifestyle, complemented with positive thinking as a path to optimum health; a deep respect and appreciation for the natural order of life and an awareness of our inter-connectedness with every living being on our planet." |
"It is a Mind, Body and Spirit process, designed to heal the whole person, not just the cancer........."
" The cure or part should not be attempted without the treatment of the whole. No attempt should aim to cure the body without the soul. If the head and body are to be healed, then you must begin by curing the mind - that is the first thing. Let no one persuade you to cure the head until they have first given you their soul to be cured, for this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body - that the physicians first seperate the soul from the body " - Plato
The Allopathic approach to cancer is generally to declare war on the tumor and destroy it mainly through surgery, chemotherapy or radiation and in many cases, combinations of all three. In the case of Prostate Cancer, Hormone Therapy is also applied. These treatments are often successful but at the same time they destroy the body's immune system and as we know, the side effects can be devastating. "When left to it's own devices, the body will heal itself," says Martin. " The Immune system is an army of cells which fight and destroy anything that attacks the body. Ultimately, it's the one thing that will cure you! The trouble is, that with our poor western diet, high stress and sidentary lifestyle our immune system does not function to its maximum potential because it does not get the correct nutrition and is poisoned by the toxins that we ingest both internally and externally from the environment, the food that we eat and by hormonal disruption caused by emotional imbalance and stress. To enable the body to heal and for the immune system to function at it's best, we must therefore treat the person as a whole and not just focus on the cancer." The protocols that Martin chose to follow therefore focus on the Mind, Body and Spirit and he deals with each of them separately in the book but explains how they are all interlinked and interdependent. "There is no magic bullet cure for cancer" he continues, "and so I chose to look at every aspect and extracted the elements that I believed were right for me and created my own tailor-made program. Just as we are all unique and individual as human beings, so too is every cancer and what is right for me is not necessarily right for someone else. I knew that I had to listen to my body and my own intuition." Martin goes on to explain, "The body is a complicated energy system that gets sick when the energy becomes out of balance and so to restore the balance, we have to be correct physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. While diet and exercise are key to restoring health, equally and just as important, if not more so, are the emotional and spiritual aspects and that is what I have tried to get across in the book." Martin sums it up in one sentence. "The happiest people in the world are also the healthiest".
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