My Way of Maintaining Good Health
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My Way of Maintaining Good Health
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For the last chapter, I would like to write about the way I keep healthy. This year I will be sixty-eight years old. I am hale and physically put younger men to shame. I still hike mountain trails quite a bit, but because I have stronger legs than the younger people around me, I am continually having to slow down for them. They ask me if I am fatigued but to be honest, because I am not tired at all I am really in a quandary on how to answer them. Every night I go to bed at two thirty or three o’clock and rise at seven o’clock or seven thirty, so I get about four to four and a half hours of sleep a night. As for work, the members of my staff know very well that my labor is the equivalent of ten persons and the younger ones struggle to keep up. That is just the way it is and they have to put up with it.Aspects of my daily schedule that I have described are also a part of my way of maintaining good health, and since it is probably contrary to what most people do these days, I would like to describe it as reference for others.
The rules for good health currently prescribed by the medical profession warn not to overdo, to get enough sleep, get plenty of nourishment, masticate food thoroughly, and not to overwork the brains, among other such measures, but my way of keeping healthy is to do nearly the opposite.
First of all, I try to push myself. This is because human beings can improve their health to the extent that they try to strain themselves. But, because I overexert myself, it can be uncomfortable or physically painful so I do adjust myself accordingly. The amount of sleep required varies by age, but for me, four or five hours is just right. What I eat is an interesting topic because I am concerned that what I eat is overly nourishing. Many members of the church donate foodstuffs to my household, actually too much, but I try to partake as much as possible, even if in small amounts, of the love and sincerity offered by members, so you could say that I am a gourmet. I try to regulate my diet by apportioning what I eat throughout the day as follows. During the morning after breakfast, I eat sweet potatoes, and before going to bed at night, I make it a rule to eat boiled rice soaked in tea. Neither have I failed to eat one bowlful of Japanese red bean soup a day.
Another aspect to eating is that foods have a yin, negative attribute, and yang, a positive attribute, and neither attribute should be overemphasized. Yin is represented by vegetables and yang by meat and fish. I try to moderate my diet so it leans to neither extreme. Everyday I try to eat about seventy percent yin and thirty percent yang at breakfast; at lunch I try to eat about one half of each; and at dinner, seventy percent yang and thirty percent yin. There is also a yin and yang to the Japanese style of pickled foodstuffs. Yin comprises the pickled vegetables and yang, the root plants like the white-colored Japanese radish daikon. I try to keep the percentage of pickled foods I eat to about half of each attribute.
Among other practices I follow is not to emphasize mastication. I swallow my food after I have chewed it only by half. This is because overly chewing food will eventually weaken the stomach’s functions. Another practice is not to rest or take naps after eating but immediately rise from the table and get on with activities. This is a way to improve the constitution of the stomach. I had success in healing my own stomach condition this way. Nor do I ever set limits on how much to eat. The principle of my nutritional method is to eat as much of what I want when I want. In the course of my daily life, however, I am not able to be so self-indulgent, but I do try to eat as reasonably and as appropriately as possible.
Here I would like to introduce another habit you may find unexpected. It is good try to try to use your head and brains as much as possible. Actively using your head is one way to maintain good health, and those who do so live longer. But the head should be not used to worry. The head and brains should be used for interesting, pleasant matters. Herein lies another point where the value of faith can be shown. If something occurs that could cause worry, you can leave the matter in God’s hands so your worries are greatly decreased. In other words, you have God take over the burden of worrying. This may seem truly impudent, but it is this kind of impudence that pleases God.
For a long time now, I have made it a point to get out of the house at least once a day. I never miss a day, whether it is raining or the wind is blowing. At these times, I also make it a point to walk as much as possible. I understand that this is the secret of those who get healthier as they age. As far as alcohol is concerned, I do not drink more than three small cups of rice wine, or one glass of beer, and I smoke the average* amount of cigarettes a day.
The above illustrates my way of keeping healthy. Germs, of course, do not concern me in the least, so members of the general public may think I am unhygienic, but this is, in truth, the appropriate way to think of hygiene. If people were to follow my way of health, they too would become healthier. I do recommend that you follow these methods without anxiety and guarantee that you will not become like some pasty-faced egghead.
Does Contemporary Medicine Heal Disease?
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Does Contemporary Medicine Heal Disease?
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The title may appear to exceed exaggeration and border on insanity, but most readers should find no room for objection if they read the argument to the very end. Society is pleased that recent advances in medical science have led to an apparent lengthening of the human life span, but these phenomena are only temporary, and it is obvious that the time will come when these advances lead to reverse effects. Make no mistake this will happen. Here is why.As a preliminary step, let me offer firm proof of what I say. The evidence is in the many testimonials that are carried in World Messianity’s newspaper Kyûsei (Salvation) and in its journal Chijôtengoku (Heaven on Earth). At present, several hundreds of these reports are received every month. It would not be going too far to say that almost all of these testimonials, for the past several decades, are the accounts of people whose serious illnesses were not cured by medical treatment or by any other healing therapy. A careful perusal of each account will show that not only did medical treatment have no effect, rather sometimes it even led to unintended ill effects. Pitiful is the only word to describe the long periods of suffering that come from the poor results of medical treatment, accompanied by large wastes of money. The reports carried in the church periodicals reflect not only appreciation and joy of having been totally cured by Johrei but also an enthusiastic expression of sharing their happiness with others suffering from the same conditions. I really want to know what medical doctors have to say when they read these accounts.
Those involved in medical science do not realize that there is a close relationship between the fact that their therapies do not heal and the phenomenon that the life span seems to have been lengthened to a certain extent. Here is an interpretation based on the principles of divine healing.
Medical science does not understand that illness, sickness, disease, “conditions,” etc., are all names that have been attached to the suffering that accompanies the process of the elimination of toxins from each and every human body. I have continued to advocate this for many years, but medical science interprets the physical suffering, the pain, that accompanies the elimination of toxins, to be bad, something that must be alleviated. The only method medical science possesses for alleviating that pain are medicines, drugs, pharmaceuticals. The essence of all these are toxic, and with their application, the power of the human body to purify its toxins is weakened and pain is alleviated. With only the pain alleviated, medical science is under the illusion that the disease has been healed.
The mission of medical science that is perceived to be suppressing the toxins that seek elimination and alleviating pain, which is only a temporary measure, is quite mistaken. Medical treatment is only a technique for alleviating pain and is in reality not a method for healing disease. If this article is carefully read, it should be clear that as I suggest in my title medical science does not heal disease. The principles of divine healing indicate that the progress of medical science is the advance of the technique of alleviating pain, in other words, the advance of methods for postponing the elimination of toxins. The true cause of complications, relapses, and chronic conditions actually stems from the postponement of toxin elimination. So, in contrast to medical science, the true method of healing and the positive way to form healthy individuals encourages the elimination of toxins and the cleansing of the body internally. Contagious diseases naturally do not infect a completely healthy person, special disinfecting procedures are unnecessary, and contemporary peoples’ fear of germs disappears. Because the toxins that are in the human body are primarily medicinal toxins, in brief, the method that tries to cure actually results in creating disease.
People nowadays automatically look to medical treatment for help when they come down with sickness or a condition, but, because medical treatment, as I just described above, is a continuous repetition of methods to alleviate pain through medicinal toxins and other means, it only results in postponing purification therefore creating individuals who are only half healthy. I will explain what awaits these half healthy human beings, but first it is necessary to emphasize an important point.
The function that eliminates toxins is generated within the body as I explained, and it occurs because that physical body is healthy enough to sustain the purification process. The healthier the person, the more vigorous are the metabolic processes of that person, and therefore, what we call purification is more apt to occur. This is most clearly observable in the phenomenon that because infectious diseases are the most vigorous forms of purification, these diseases are more prevalent in younger people. Young people experience tuberculosis to a greater degree for the same reason. But these explanations diametrically contrast to the theories of medical science which hold that contracting infectious diseases and tuberculosis indicate a low rate of resistance in the body. If that were so, the older one gets, resistance should weaken and the elderly should be afflicted to a greater extent with these two conditions. Another consequence of medical treatment is that recovery from tuberculosis takes longer because the forced suppression of the purifying function prolongs the condition.
When we consider the principles of true health, we see it is only logical that as contemporary medical science has advanced so has decreased the number of individuals possessing true health, which means that there are more and more half healthy individuals. A half healthy individual is, for example, a young person with the constitution of the elderly. The purificatory energy of a half healthy person is weaker, so the opportunity for getting sick decreases. Even if purification should occur, the suppression of purification with medical treatment alleviates the condition temporarily. Another logical outcome of medicine’s mistaken theories that cannot be overlooked is the decrease in the staying power of physical laborers these days. Physical laborers in technologically advanced nations have come to dislike work because they fatigue more easily and thus seek to have the hours they work reduced. Also, another point largely unremarked upon, is that even the ability of farmers to maintain long hours in the fields has lessened, and this is also due to the decrease in their physical vitality. As our culture advances so naturally does concern for the happiness of workers, and although respect for labor is championed as a reason for this concern, it is not difficult to overlook the basic problem of health that lurks beneath the surface of this situation.
Vaccination, which has come to be vigorously promoted in recent times, also deserves mention. Above I stated that a person catches an infectious disease because that person’s purificatory energy is strong, so the energy to purify conversely weakens with vaccination. People are deluded into thinking that they have lessened the chances of coming down with or getting disease. A person of true health, however, has no poisons in the system and will not contract disease, but at this time it is fair to say that there is no one with true health. Because members of the general public are half healthy individuals carrying toxins around in their bodies, purification is prone to be generated, that is, people will get sick, but then their conditions are temporarily alleviated with medicines. When people get sick and use medical treatments, these therapies force a stop to the purifying process which results in friction with the opposing purificatory energy.
As this friction increases, physical vitality weakens correspondingly, which can lead to death. One example is the case of inflammation of the lungs. Inflammation of the lungs is ordinarily a very vigorous purification, but if asked for a diagnosis, doctors recommend such-and-such medicine saying that it will cure the condition right away, and that if not used, one may die. The medicine they use on their patient must be a very strong one to be able to overcome the vigorous purificatory process. These principles apply all the more to infants. The reason there are so many infant deaths is because infancy is the period of the most vigorous purifying energy. The medicines used to suppress infant diseases, even if judged to be suitable for the age group, act very powerfully, and the activity of friction produced between the purification process and the effect of the medicine may cause death.
The reader should have gotten a general idea of the issues involved in healing from the explanation of the specific examples I have given. As long as the number of half healthy people increases, the opportunity for getting sick gradually decreases and even when sickness does occur, the purifying energy is weaker. In this weakened state, the severe friction between the two opposing forces does not occur, so people believe they have avoided death, and this is the true reason that the life span appears to have been prolonged in recent years. But these half healthy people will not lead truly long lives. In their later years, the toxins that have built up over the years in their systems will hasten senility, hardening of the arteries, stroke, and constriction of the kidneys will occur. That the lengthening of the average life span in recent years has not changed the absolute longest length of the life span bears out my point. Statistics show that the average longest life spans still hover at a little over eighty years. Thus we can see that what we have experienced is not a lengthening of the life span due to an increase of true health.
The true worth of the divine healing therapy is that instead of suppressing purification, purification and the elimination of as much toxin as possible in case of an outbreak of disease is encouraged. Many cases of the purification process are described in the testimonials published in our periodicals. These testimonials show sufficient proof that through divine healing therapy individuals with true health can maintain a life span of over ninety years.
Infant Health
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Infant Health
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The state of infant health in Japan in recent times has been very poor, and because the infant mortality rate is said to be thirty-five times that of the United States, it is a truly astonishing situation and a grave problem that must be addressed as soon as possible. The cause must be discovered, but medical science looks for the reasons in the wrong places. The anticipated success is not achieved no matter how much effort is made.Here I will explain my discovery of the cause for the poor health of infants. In my experience when I treated diseases in children, from infancy to about the age of five or six, patients from urban environments had an astonishingly weakened condition that differed noticeably from children raised in the countryside. Medical science explains that city air is poor, children have no place to play, and that transportation systems and noise all create a poor environment that aggravates the young nervous system. Children from rural areas are supposedly blessed with favorable surroundings, and these factors do indeed play a role, but the greatest reason for the poor health of infants is an aspect which people do not appreciate at all. Let me demonstrate the way I explained the point to mothers at the time I directly treated their sick infants and weak children. I started by asking them, “Is your child a Japanese, or is it a European?” Then, continuing, “Japanese children have ancestors who grew up and lived eating Japanese style food, but the Japanese children of today have suddenly started to eat Western food and are now being raised according to European standards. This is the reason they are weak,” I cautioned the mothers. What is most ridiculous, though, is that mothers do not give their children Japanese sweets. There appear to be some mothers who particularly dislike the traditional Japanese confection bean jam. When I asked them why they do not give their children bean jam, they answered that their doctors told them that bean jam should not be given to children because it can cause children’s dysentery (ekiri). I replied that this is most unreasonable, that red beans are very good for elimination when boiled and eaten. What could be wrong with refining them, making them into a liquid, and adding sugar? I further explained that doctors study Western medical books and translate them literally into Japanese, and because bean jam does not exist in the West, it is not mentioned. Therefore doctors say such things. Readers will nod in acknowledgement when they realize that the foods doctors say best for invalids are those which are readily available in the West, such as cow’s milk, oat meal, butter, apples, and potatoes.
As the Japanese child grows into adulthood, Western style foods can gradually be mixed into the diet, but I hereby declare on the basis of my many experiences that keeping Japanese children to a diet of Japanese style food between infancy and the age of five or six years is the most healthy.
Another statement that I can make from my experience is that injections too often given to children will result in arrested development, educational disabilities, presenting unstable, emaciation, wobbly necks, weakened constitutions, and anemia. Youngsters with these symptoms, if not given medicines for two or three years, will return to the healthy condition of any ordinary child.
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