Health Is Our Truth

by Kathy Oddenino
(Pittsboro, North Carolina, USA)

When I was a child I never heard the word cancer. There must have been some, but I knew of none in the farm community in which I lived.

We grew our own "organic" foods, nut and fruit trees, berry bushes, we had chickens, pigs, cows, and horses, and we breathed fresh air as we worked and played. As I look back I see how ideal it was.

I never thought about it as a child because I was very happy and excited as I was growing up on our familiar land, reading voraciously, and being loved by my large and extended family. My goal was to be a Nurse, so I knew where I was going, how, and why I wanted to go there.

Living in a house of love, truth and equality was very exciting to me, because these were our ground rules in our interaction and behavior. I recognized that the love within our family was creating a happy and balanced life for us.

Because I had severe rheumatic fever as a very young child and into my sixteenth year, I learned that the more I exercised the less pain I had, so I pushed myself to keep stride with my older sister as we worked.

I remember being told that I should not force myself to do chores because of my "sick" heart, but I could not sit in a chair unless I could literally not move my body. The more I worked, the better I felt, except for "flare-ups," which created their own crises and made me sit longer.

I learned to read early, which helped me to pass the time when my pain was severe. I refused to focus on pain, so activity and reading became my way of coping with pain.

My father brought me a new box of library books every Friday, and if I was physically inactive, I was intellectually active as I devoured every book. When I was about eleven, I read Gone with the Windthree times before I would give it up.

Reading made me a fast reader and my love of reading still serves me. Today I can write about as fast as I could read then, which has been an absolute gift, though I admit I have slowed down a bit. I knew when I was two years old that I intended to be a nurse, so my reading style did not include fairy tales or romances.

In my early teens I began to think about nursing schools. Every nursing school seemed to be run by a religious organization. I was not religious and could never imagine myself as being religious because I had already fallen in love with philosophy.

Religion did not bother me, but I was curious when I became conscious of the intense hold that religion had on people’s minds. I began to see how it all worked when I realized that nursing schools provided much of the hospital labor and that religion has always wanted to “care for the sick and disabled.”

As I became entrenched in learning to be a nurse I began to see why these relationships had evolved. I still find wisdom in them. I treasure the education that I had at the hands of the Daughters of Charity, because it was intellectual, organized, and supportive which all student nurses need to feel as they experience this dramatic life change.

After I graduated, I moved to Washington, D.C. and then to Arlington, VA. and commuted. I was always interested in research. I thought that if we intend to find new drugs, new ways to do old things, and to help heal the sick, we needed to think outside of the box.

How can we do “it” better and allow everyone to live a healthy life? I continue to look at disease with a focus on prevention. We are energy beings first and matter second. I can heal most energy diseases simply because I understand energy, and other diseases because of my knowledge and relationship with our nervous system and the way that disease works in our body.

We have not been taught how to use our energy, how to stay healthy, or how to expand our energy into healing energy. We make our energy “sick” first. We do not have to be sick once we understand that we are both energy and matter as a living human being.

After DC General Hospital, I went to work for Wallace Yater, M.D. who I dearly loved and who unknowingly helped me to see the absolute truth of energy in healing. I watched him heal people by his presence.

Many people did not understand how others revered his energy. We must learn how to live in harmony with our energy and the energy of Nature to keep ourselves well as energy beings.

Years ago when we were living more fully in Nature, we didn’t know much about ourselves and many people did not maintain their health and happiness in the same way that we must today, because they were ignorant of the energy relationship between themselves and their surrounding energy, and the air, foods, and water that give us our energy.

As our supporting energies reached out to develop interactive energy, we learned and we have grown. Once we understand that we are energy beings, we will understand that our energy diseases can be healed. Cancer is an energy disease.

The secret to our energy and matter is learning to live in harmony and balance. Once we grasp that we are energy and matter, we begin to realize that our energy and our matter are controlled by our mind.

As our cities build up and we are constantly exposed to pollution, it becomes ever more important that we learn the truth of love and health. We are responsible for our health and happiness. No one else walks in our shoes.

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