Essential Natural Hygiene Home Study Course: Lesson ENH01
Essential Natural Hygiene Home Study Course: Lesson ENH01
Essential Natural Hygiene Home Study Course: Lesson ENH01
NATURAL HYGIENE
HOME STUDY
COURSE
Part 1
The Foundations of Life
Lesson ENH01
Natural Hygiene –
The Way of All Life
Copyright © 2000 – Transformation Institute
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LESSON ENH01
Natural Hygiene – The
Way Of All Life
THEME:
Natural Hygiene as a
True Philosophy of Life
COROLLARY
THEME:
Health is Normal
and Natural
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PURPOSE
This first lesson presents Natural Hygiene, the health system
based soundly on the principles and practices that are in accord
with our biological heritage.
The message of this lesson is essentially this: Optimum health
will exist if our living practices are correct. From optimal health
flow goodness and virtues, harmony and happiness. Good health is
a necessary condition for the enjoyment of life.
The key to a healthy life is balance. Once the simple needs of
health are determined, then one moves into applying those needs
in an ever more balanced fashion. This is the art of life; the mas-
tery of life.
As a setting for our studies, this lesson establishes some of the
basic principles of health and sets the philosophical tone.
OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this lesson is to introduce you to the philosophy,
principles and practices of Natural Hygiene and to this course.
The primary concept of Natural Hygiene is that health is normal
and natural. And, further, that perfect health results from observ-
ing in practice the causes of health. This implies that disease is ab-
normal, unnatural and, therefore, unnecessary.
Upon completion of this lesson you should know:
1. Why health is normal and natural;
2. Why the science of healthful living is to be found in the study of
nature rather than in laboratory research, but that there too, the
basis for healthful living are frequently confirmed;
3. The fundamental essentials that build and maintain health;
4. The basic causes of disease and suffering;
5. That all healing is self-healing;
6. How Natural Hygiene holds individual prerogatives in esteem;
7. That the words “cure” and “medicine” convey meanings that
simply do not exist in nature;
8. The boundless possibilities for human happiness and progress if
we again observe the mandate and dictates of our pristine legacy.
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DEFINITIONS
Definitions of uncommon words and new ideas introduced ap-
pear below in alphabetical order. Also listed are common words
that are used with a broader or different meaning.
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KEY CONCEPTS
Natural Hygiene is a way of living that is in accord with out natu-
ral heritage. The term conveys the art and science of living health-
fully.
Natural Hygiene, the science of life, embodies those principles
which guide us to correct living practices.
Our biological adaptations, i.e., the make-up (structure and func-
tion) of our bodies, determine our needs and how we should meet
them.
Health is normal and natural. Disease is abnormal, unnatural and
unnecessary.
Health is the result of healthful living and that only. Nothing else
has the capacity or power to produce health.
Using treatments, drugs, herbs, or anything else abnormal and
unnatural to the body can interfere with healthful body functions
but, under no circumstances can these agencies heal the body. Be-
cause these devitalizing agencies depress and suppress symptoms
(evidences) of body healing efforts— because the body discontin-
ues vital activities to contend with these agencies, which makes
the symptoms disappear, the anti-vital effects of drugs and treat-
ments are mistaken for healing effects.
Changes from our natural needs in our external environment do
not alter our internal makeup and needs.
The inherent mechanisms of life all tend to maintain high level
health and function. All concerted actions within the body are or-
ganic functions directed by the master control mechanism, the
brain. Toxins inside the body are harmful. However, body actions
(such as fever) that enable the body to eject or eliminate the tox-
ins are not harmful.
Natural Hygiene is about enhancing physical, emotional and
mental well-being through education. It provides us with a sim-
ple, straightforward system for regaining and maintaining superb
human health and beauty. Hygiene is personally empowering and
liberating. It teaches independence and rational action. It banishes
fear and ignorance regarding human health and how to keep it.
Ultimately it is about freedom.
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IMPORTANT FACTS
In presenting the concept that health is normal and natural, Life
Scientists emphatically refute the idea that disease is inevitable in
our lives. We contend that disease will not occur unless there is
sufficient cause.
Health maintenance is an unceasing process in every organism.
When the organism is overwhelmed by toxic substances beyond
its ability to eliminate them in normal course, the body institutes
emergency action to effect expulsion of the toxic burden. This cri-
sis is called sickness or disease. Toxic materials accumulate in the
body from two sources: 1) from unexpelled body wastes that are
endogenously generated as a normal part of our metabolism, and
2) from exogenous materials ingested and partially or wholly re-
tained due to inability to cope with the eliminative load.
Disease is instituted by the body itself as an emergency measure
to purify and repair itself.
Modalities (artificial treatments or therapies that involve drugs,
herbs, manipulations, or other infringements upon the vital do-
main) do not healthfully assist the body. On the contrary, they in-
terfere with vital body purification and reparative functions and
normal body functions as well.
Such interference poses additional problems for the body to cope
with, thereby further lowering the overall body vitality. Body vital-
ity may be lowered so much by the greater danger presented by
the drugs or modalities that the original disease effort, which is
actually an effort to purify the body, is discontinued in favor of de-
voting available energies to the more virulent enemy, the drugs
within. That is why medical physicians are called allopaths. Al-
lopath literally means opposite disease. In theory they strive to
displace the original disease by creating a heteropathic or opposite
disease. Actually all physicians succeed in doing is to create addi-
tional disease. The original problem remains while the body must
redirect its energies partly or wholly to removing the more danger-
ous drugs, herbs, or so-called medicines. Thus symptoms of the
original disease may disappear because the necessary energy and
vitality to further conduct the disease is now lacking.
Yet the body is in graver danger than before it was treated from
both the uneliminated toxic accumulations and the added toxicity
of drugs or other substances administered.
The best way to help the body in disease is to “intelligently do
nothing” and simultaneously establish conditions of health—con-
ditions that enable the body to devote all its vitality to the healing
crisis. A thoroughgoing rest under tranquil circumstances consti-
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that will guide us to realize the happiness and the destiny that
should be ours.
Natural Hygiene is, therefore, a way of life that rightfully con-
cerns itself with every facet of human life and human well-being.
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• Therefore, Natural Hygiene regards the body and mind as the in-
violable sanctuary of an individual's being. Natural Hygiene
holds that everyone has an inalienable right to have a pure and
uncontaminated body, to be free of abnormal compulsions and
restraints, and to be free to meet his/her needs as a responsible
member of society.
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Self-Government In
All Organisms
Simple observation of the devel-
opment of complex organisms from
the union of sperm and ovum is in-
dicative that the powers of life reside
within. Without anything from the
outside other than needed raw materials, the organism has the in-
ner direction to fashion itself from a fertilized ovum into a mature
adult.
This implies an inherent character that embraces the following
capabilities:
• Organisms are self-programmed.
• Organisms are self-directing or self-governing.
• Organisms are self-sufficient when their material requisites are
available.
• Organisms are self-constructing in accord with their genetic
blueprint.
• Organisms are self-defensive and preservative, defending them-
selves against all internal and external threats.
• Organisms are self-repairing or self-healing and possess solely
and exclusively the faculties and powers to accomplish ultimate
restoration in event of damage or derangement.
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have any, or with the problems of your clients, can be derived and
reinforced by referring to these self-evident truths.
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Natural Hygiene as a
Broad-Based Science of Life
By no means is Natural Hygiene confined to dietary principles as
you might gather from association with many of today's Hygienists.
Few involve themselves with the expansive aspects of Natural Hy-
giene as a philosophy embracing every facet of human well-being.
Dietary concerns are but one area of Natural Hygiene's domin-
ion. It also includes mental and emo-
tional well-being, as well as social and Dietary concerns are but
economic well-being. It includes envi-
ronmental factors or ecology and is co-
one area of Natural Hy-
extensive with all factors that touch giene’s dominion. Involve
upon human welfare. Nutrition is but
one part of the all-encompassing phi-
yourself with the expan-
losophy of Natural Hygiene. sive aspects of Natural Hy-
giene as a philosophy em-
Self-Healing or Self-Repair
Self-healing is the only healing. bracing every facet of hu-
Throughout nature we see animals man well-being.
with cuts, bruises, broken bones, and
other injuries undergo healing. Obviously this healing is effected by
internal faculties and powers, for in nature, animals seek out a qui-
et secluded spot and rest. They undergo almost no activity. They
partake of no food. Instinctively an injured animal will abstain
from anything that detracts from the full devotion of the body's en-
ergies to the reparative/restorative process. Humans can and should
do likewise, for this is the way to maximize healing quality and
minimize healing time.
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Individual
Sovereignty
Natural Hygiene
holds that everyone is a
sovereign entity unto
himself or herself.
Everyone should be
entirely free - fettered in
no way within the con-
text of enlightened self-
interest. Everyone
should be free to do
whatever they choose to
do, so long as their ac-
tions do not impinge on
the equal rights of oth-
ers. Forceful aggression
of one person upon an-
other cannot be tolerat-
ed, except in the case of
self defense. Along with
our inherent birthright
of freedom comes the
requirement of self-re-
sponsibility for our ac-
tions.
Simple wound healing process Every man and
woman must be regard-
ed as capable of carrying on life's affairs for himself or herself. It is
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sponding increase in their predators, that is, birds and other ani-
mals that feed upon insects. When the insect population is practi-
cally wiped out the predators decline in numbers. These are the
only kinds of checks and balances that exist in nature. Nothing can
exceed its possibilities.
What you call calamities cannot be in any sense referred to as
natural. A plague or any sickness or disease is not natural. It hap-
pens because an organism has lived contrary to the laws or princi-
ples that apply to its life. When we contravene the laws of our exis-
tence, we will incur disease. Diseases or plagues are in no sense
checks and balances. If humans live think and act in pathogenic
ways they'll develop diseases and die, even while living amidst rela-
tive paradise.
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QUESTION: Are you telling us we'd get along better without doc-
tors and healers? Does not nature furnish natural remedies for our
problems?
INSTRUCTOR: I just furnished an example of the physiological
modus operandi of the body under the influence of toxic materials.
Yes, we would be better off without physicians, miscalled doc-
tors, and so-called healers. We DO need Teachers to help people
see their errors concerning health. We need Teachers to get our
brothers and sisters on the right track so they can lead healthy and
happy lives.
Nature never developed humans or other animals so that reme-
dies are needed in the first place, and it never created remedies in
the second place. These interpretations errant humans have as-
cribed to disease and healing phenomena are based on illusory ap-
pearances. The only remedy for any ailment is the capacity of the
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body to right itself once the assault upon it has been discontinued.
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WORKSHEET--Lesson ENH01
Fill In The Blank Section
Fill in the blank or blanks with the appropriate word or words.
1) All affections of the body must be ___________________.
2) The Natural Hygiene health system is based on the principles
and practices that are in accord with our _______________
__________________.
3) Dr. Isaac Jennings discovered that his patients fared better under
___________________ ____________________ .
4) Our biological adaptations resulted from how our bodies devel-
oped in a ________________ state of nature. They determine our
needs and how we should meet them.
5) The key to exalted well-being is biologically correct
_________________ practices.
6) Sickness and disease are eliminative _______________________.
7) A ___________________ is a thoroughgoing rest.
8) The best way to help the body in disease is to intelligently
_____________ _____________ and simultaneously establish the
__________________ of health.
9) Therapies very often have ____________ effects and are some-
times even fatal.
10) ______________________ is caused by improper life practices,
especially dietary indiscretions.
11) Natural Hygiene is to humans as _____________________ are to
other animals.
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a) self-governing.
b) self-repairing.
c) self-constructing.
d) self-defensive.
e) all of the above.
2) Who was the most notable Hygienist of the 20th century?
a) Hereward Carrington.
b) Isaac Jennings.
c) Herbert Shelton.
d) Sylvester Graham.
3) Illness results from:
a) invasion by bacteria and viruses.
b) not getting frequent check-ups.
c) reduced vital energy and consequent toxicosis.
d) lack of vitamin and mineral supplements.
e) all of the above.
4) Natural Hygiene is:
a) a philosophy of life.
b) a way of life.
c) an intellectual endeavor.
d) a scientific way of living.
e) all of the above.
5) Drugs, treatments and herbs:
a) can help in overcoming diseases.
b) create additional disease.
c) establish the conditions of health.
d) are necessary to overcome infections.
e) all of the above.
6) Why do medications sometimes stop or suppress disease symp-
toms?
a) Because they cure the condition.
b) Because the body diverts its energies to expelling the med-
ication instead.
c) Because they restore body normalcy.
d) Because they kill or render harmless the microorganisms
responsible for the symptoms.
e) all of the above.
7) Our eating practices should be determined by:
a) our physiological adaptations.
b) our social conditions.
c) the foods in our environment.
d) our body type.
e) our taste preferences.
f) all of the above.
8) Health is:
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Multiple Choice
1) e.
2) c. Only Drs. Carrington and Shelton are from the 20th century,
and the work of Dr. Shelton far outweighs in quantity, insight and
depth the fine works of Hereward Carrington.
3) c. Bacteria do not cause diseases, but are brought onto the scene
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body.
(2) Endogenous sources--Due to insufficient vital energy because of
inadequate generation or extraordinary expenditure, body wastes
are not eliminated. The uneliminated wastes of body metabolism
are toxic.
2) As a health professional you'll learn to guide your clients to two
fundamental steps in restoring health:
(1) causes of body toxicity must be discontinued, and
(2) the conditions of health must be established.
3) There are 19 essential factors of life listed in the Program for
perfect health. Foremost among them are pure air, pure water,
foods to which we're biologically adapted, sunshine, comfortable
temperature, rest, sleep, exercise or activity, emotional equilibrium,
security of life and its means, belonging to a circle, group, family or
other consortium of humans, expression of the reproductive facul-
ties, direction and motivation, creative useful work, etc.
4) Any alien substance introduced into the body interferes with
body functions, thus destroying or pathologically modifying them.
5) (1) fruits, (2) vegetables and (3) nuts and seeds.
6) By discontinuing its causes and supplying conditions favorable to
healing. Fasting is the most efficacious condition under which the
body can speedily restore itself to normal operating condition.
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