Should you get a flu shot? When I hear this question, I think of beer. Sometime ago Budweiser conducted a marketing campaign where they asked the question, “Why ask why?” Their rhetorical question has no clear-cut answer and neither does the medical query, “Should I get a flu shot?”
The answer to the flu shot question does not depend upon your perceived course of action but rather upon your personal self-assessment of choice. Ask yourself, “Am I getting a flu shot to be well or simply to keep myself from becoming sick?”
What are you communicating to yourself when you say yes to a flu vaccine, and what is the underlying driving force behind that decision? The answer is “Fear.” The media continually frighten the public with impending horrors of the flu season.
With regard to the use of the flu vaccine, we could discuss media as well as traditional medical misinformation. We could mention the negative side effects, risks, over-rated hype concerning actual protection, presence of formaldehyde (a known carcinogen), presence of MSG (a neurotoxin), presence of mercury (thimerosal), and increased chances of developing Alzheimer’s, brain injury, or auto-immune diseases. But let us avoid the tendency to focus on the fear factor.
The real question is, “Do we really need to poison our bodies to be healthy?” If poison were needed to be healthy we may as well undergo ionizing radiation to prevent ourselves from getting cancer.
What are our concerns about not getting vaccinated this season? The answer-- we might get sick. Most of us are worried about getting sick. Our anxieties are the source for our current traditional medical system’s focus on treating dis-ease rather than preventing it. Our health insurance should be called sick insurance. In order to receive pay back, we must become sick.
Look at the language of the medical establishment: A blood test is considered negative when the results are good and positive when the results are bad. Medical jargon spins the message. We must become wary of that spin and not let the confusing semantics overpower our ability to stay in touch with our innate wisdom
Is the health care system broken? Whether broken or intact, the system should not be the focus for determining our continual state of health. As a community of health seekers, we need to experience a paradigm shift toward individual responsibility that bears the burden for getting and staying well.
Most people are afraid of getting sick because they do not trust their body to heal itself. Any sort of upset brings a knee jerk reflex and immediate action to control the body with an aspirin, cold remedy, sleeping pill, laxative, or some other palliative. In the case of the flu vaccination, anxiety-ridden health seekers are trying to control what has yet to come or may never happen.
If you are fearful of coming down with the flu this season, then you should take pro-active measures rather than opting for passively allowing the disease establishment to inject a manmade toxin into your veins. If you don’t want to get sick, then you must put forth effort required to build health.
The first step in the personal project of building health is to let go of fear. The next step is to consider what it takes to be healthy. But the ultimate step is to discover how to increase your wellness to levels of vitality never before experienced. The truth is that all of us should be focused on a scenario that goes beyond the concept of prevention. Prevention is not a viable step toward vitality because it still operates in the arena of fear.
When you take the responsibility for your health upon yourself, you move beyond the arena of fear, you avoid becoming a pawn in the healthcare system game and thus end the cycle of health crisis after health crisis. Your goal as a responsible health-seeker is to stretch yourself, to pursue excellence, to reach up for those superior levels of dynamic energy and vigorous health.
So, should you get the flu shot? The ambiguous answer resides deep inside the mind and heart of each individual. A better, non-rhetorical, question is, “Should you seek pro-active alternative methods for staying healthy?” The answer here is a resounding YES!
Yes, pursue the path of ultimate health! The first step is to clear your nervous system of interference by undergoing treatments in Network Spinal Analysis Chiropractic. The next step is to balance your metabolic chemistry. These sets of procedures will foster and nourish your immune system so that your physical body and your mental spirit can experience renewed health and glorious power.
Call our office for an appointment today and let the flu season begin!
