Throughout history, all approaches to the physical well-being of members of the human race have fallen into two general categories that reflect what we are going to call the ADIO (health restoration) and the OIBU (disease treatment) philosophies of life and health, which are health restoring and disease treating.

ADIO (Above-down-inside-out)

This acronym represents the health-restoration approach. It acknowledges that health is the result of a power or principle greater than or “above” our finite, educated mind. It also understands that they physical manifestation of this principle in the human organism, the electrical energy of the nerve system, flows over the nerves from the brain “above”-“down” the spinal cord and “outward” to all parts of the body.

OIBU (Outside-in-below-up)

This acronym represents the contrasting or disease-treatment approach. It attempts to control the body and its function or malfunction from the outside. Those that practice this approach believe that an educated mind is better equipped to run the body that the principle that created it. While they may not admit this, their actions bespeak an outside-in viewpoint. Let's look at how these approaches contrast. We will look at OIBU first, since it is the most common approach.

Disease Treatment (OIBU)

In the disease-treatment approach, the symptoms or effects of the disease are treated while the body either gets well from the condition or does not, depending upon the body's inherent ability. The practice of medicine is the most well-known discipline directing its efforts in the disease-treatment approach. Much of its practice has been confined to the alleviation of symptoms until the healing process takes place. Pain-killing drugs are probably the most widely used treatment in this aspect of medical practice. The medical field has come around to treating the cause of a disease, or the most evident cause (which is the last to appear) rather than just confining efforts towards alleviating symptoms. For example, the most evident cause of gall bladder pain is a malfunctioning gall bladder. Rather than medicate to relieve the pain, the offending organ, unarguable a cause of the pain, is removed. One can live without a gall bladder, although not as well as with one. As the technology improves, the cost of disease-treatment is growing far faster than the average American's income so that it becomes largely unaffordable.

Health Restoration (ADIO)

Presently, the accepted world view is that disease is an entity, something to be covered up, negated, destroyed or cut out. That is essentially the medical objective. Health is viewed as an absence of disease, rather than disease being seen as the absence of health. When the disease is removed or eliminated, a void is left which they call “health”.

Until we view health as the entity which can be created, enhanced, increased, decreased, destroyed or lost, and realize that disease is merely an absence of health, that symptoms are manifestations of that absence, we will never experience our full potential in life.

• Heat is the entity – Absence of heat is cold
• Sound is the entity – Absence of sound is silence
• Light is the entity – Absence of light is darkness
• Health is the entity – Absence of health is disease
• Life is the entity – Absence of life is death.

Information was taken from the book by Dr. Joe Strauss, “Enhance Your Life Experience”. If you would like to read more from this book you can borrow it from my office library or it can be purchased at: www.f-a-c-e.com