In contrast to most health systems which are limited in scope and which one-sidedly stress certain health-promoting factors—diet, exercise, yoga, baths, etc., (all important and vital factors, of course) —the Waerland system is a complete health system which takes all the factors related to man’s physical and emotional health into consideration. It is a health system based on an idea of “wholeness,” which embraces all health factors, both of the mind and the body.
Waerland himself has expressed his philosophy in a nutshell in the following sentence:
We do not deal with disease—only with mistakes in our way of living; eliminate the mistakes and the diseases will disappear of their own accord.
Waerland’s advice to the members of the healing professions was not to cure a disease, but to cure a sick body. And the sick body can be cured not by seeking to get rid of the symptoms by means of drugs, but by correcting man’s faulty living habits and restoring his original biological rhythm of working and living. Thus the Waerland health system incorporates the following health-promoting factors:
Natural, health-giving foods.
Plenty of fresh air day and night, and sufficient exposure to sun.
Sufficient physical work and exercise.
A clean body through baths and dry brushing.
Efficient bowel elimination through a lacto-vegetarian diet and plenty of raw vegetables and fruits.
Positive mental attitude based on belief in man’s divinely designed calling as a human being.
Those who are in good health will be able to prevent ill health and disease by following this total health program. To those who are suffering ill health, the application of these health-restoring factors will bring them back into harmony with their natural environment, “eliminate the mistakes in their way of living” and restore and build their health.
“Man’s health is his birthright,” says Are Waerland. Man brought disease upon himself by disobeying the God-given laws of nature. Eliminate the mistakes in your way of living and attune yourself with the laws of health and all diseases will disappear.
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