Don't Poison the Temple

Nearly seven years ago, when I was pregnant with my first child, I was blessed to meet a young man named Ben.  Ben was in his early twenties at the time, about eight years younger than I.  Ben quickly became a member of our family because he was unbelievably kind, loving, generous and always always supportive.  Ben was very interested in my pregnancy and impending out-of-hospital birth center birth, likely because he was raised by his parents in a very holistic manner.

One day, I told Ben that our midwife had recently asked whether we were planning to vaccinate our baby.  To that point, I didn't know that non or selective vaccination was even an option.  Ben then told me, very matter of factly, that he had never been vaccinated.  I was stunned.  I had never known anyone who hadn't been vaccinated.  In response to my questioning, I found out that he was incredibly healthy and had never been seriously ill, and that yes, he'd traveled out of the country and was absolutely fine.  He then said something to me which changed my life: "Katherine, why would you take a perfectly healthy, perfect baby and inject it with disease?"


I am sharing this story with you because I want you to ask yourself the same thing.  You have been blessed by the Universe/God/whatever your higher power - with a perfectly-designed little human person.  Your babe has fingers and toes and a heart and a mind and every cell, system and function he's going to need in this lifetime.  He was given an amazing and powerful immune system, whose divine purpose is to protect him from harm from disease.

How could we humans ever improve upon that?

Yet, we have been sold a bill of goods by our government, by pharmaceutical manufacturers, by decades of parents before us, that our God-given bodies are not enough.  They tell us that we need to inject our children with vaccines countless times in order for our child's bodies to work correctly, and for our child to be safe from harm.  We have believed them.  We have believed them even as we watch them make our sweet little babies cry as doctors stick them with needles, unloading allegedly "helpful" substances into their miniature bodies. 

We must stop believing in doctors and government and in the advice of other (equally lost) parents.  We must reject any decision that we make out of FEAR... fear, it is true, is the reason that most parents disregard their intuition about vaccinations.  We must trust, instead, the wisdom of the Universe to create strong and perfect bodies. 

How? Start today praising and affirming the health of your body, and the health of the bodies of your children.  Spend time every single day being grateful for the perfect functioning of every organ in your body.  Thank you heart for beating so strongly.  Thank you lungs for breathing so deeply.  Thank you legs for carrying me around today.  Thank you immune system for keeping me healthy.

Stop thinking about sickness all the time.  Turn your thoughts away when your brain thinks "she's going to catch a cold."  Stay firm when your brain says, "If I don't give my child this shot, she could catch XYZ disease and be really really sick."  Tell your brain back: "My child has a perfect immune system... Every cell and every organ works perfectly in his body.  Universe knew what it was doing when he made this child, perfect in every way.  My child is safe from harm."  Spiritual scholars across the ages have known the truth that what we think about and concentrate on expands and grows.  If we spend our parenting days worrying about and believing in sickness, we'll see sickness.  If we give thanks and constant appreciation for our health, we'll see health.

Ben is the healthiest person I know.  He eats healthily.  He exercises.  I cannot remember him ever getting sick.  He knows - because he was taught this as a child - to trust in the divinity of his body.  Give your child the gift that Ben's parents gave him.  Treat your child's body as a temple... revere it, praise it, for God's sake don't inject it with chemicals... and then teach your child to do the same.

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