Our life, our health, our finances, our planet – they’re all our responsibility!

It seems to me these days that we are not willing to take responsibility for ourselves or our actions, blaming anyone and anything else for everything.

We are happy to feed our kids diet coke and other soft drinks, white bread, and whatever the latest junk is that’s being advertised aimed at kids. We feed them Nutrigrain for breakfast because the ads say it’s “Ironman Food” and because it’s ‘easy’, and of course it tastes good even tho we know it’s full of sugar and common sense would tell us that it’s garbage. Then we complain when our children are sick all the time, that they're unmanageable, they have ADD or ADHD or they're diagnosed with diabetes or something even worse.

I’ve met farmers who don’t believe that their families need good supplements for good health and yet they spend thousands on supplements for their livestock and testing to make certain that their cows or horses have enough magnesium and other minerals, because without they know they'll get a return on their investment.

We say we’re too busy to exercise, or cook a decent meal even tho we’ve got two or three hours to sit in front of the TV (electronic income reducer) watching mind numbing garbage.

We say we don’t have the money to eat a healthy diet or buy fresh fruit and veges for our kids, or to buy safe environmentally and human friendly products that will make us and our families healthier, but we have money for booze, gambling and cigarettes, fake fingernails, plastic surgery, hairdressers, car payments, new clothes, botox, spray on tans etc etc. Something that I have realised over the years is that no matter what our income, whatever we make a priority, we can afford – that’s a fact – whether we want to admit it or not, and do you know what? Without our health we have nothing – that is also a fact. Prevention is better and easier than cure – that is a fact. However, most of us ignore our health, until it becomes an issue and even then make excuses, leave the responsibility in the hands of a doctor and then blame them when it doesn’t work.

Something I’ve learned over the years is that it is easier to do what I need to to be healthy than it is to have bad health (even tho I don’t feel like it sometimes or I definitely have my times when I’m not so disciplined). Bad health sucks! It stops me from living my life.

What I’ve also realised over the past couple of years is that it’s also easier to go through all the stuff that I’m currently going through, to get to my land of paradise than it is to live as I (and my family) have always lived – just above the poverty line – worrying about paying bills and never having enough money. That’s why I’m determined to keep going on my current path, even tho it might not look from the outside that I'm getting anywhere fast right now.

This might sound harsh, and most of us don’t want to hear it , but when it comes to your health, if you don’t take responsibility for it, YOU are the one that will suffer, and suffer you will. Your family will have the misery of watching your ultimate demise, but it will be you going through it. Through the pain, the misery, the suffering, the indignity, the loss of life and loss of time with your loved ones.

With regard to the other areas of our lives, we will also suffer the consequences of our lack of action and responsibility – however, our family, neighborhood and our environment also will suffer. If we continue on our current path of using products that contain toxic chemicals, we are not only damaging ourselves and our children, but also our environment. If we continue on our current path of using pharmaceutical drugs by the ton, we are poisoning not only ourselves, but our environment and the other inhabitants of our planet.

We currently have birds, fish, and other species changing sex and being born unable to reproduce because of the chemicals being pumped into our waterways from not only industry, but from our homes. Our shampoo, toothpaste and other products we use every day go down the drain and into our environment whether we think about it or not.

Then there are the drugs that it seems almost everyone takes these days by the bucket load. The artificial hormones in the Contraceptive Pill are being urinated into toilets all over the world and ending up in our waterways along with mind altering drugs such as anti depressants and anti psychotics.

Each of us needs to start thinking about these things and taking responsibility one person, one family, one household at a time or our children and our grandchildren are going to be the ones that suffer as the recipients of the mess we are leaving behind. If we clean up our homes, clean up our diets and clean up our lives we won’t need the huge amounts of pharmaceutical drugs that are currently being used by almost everyone and we will be able to live lives with not only length but also with quality – and that also is a fact!

Author's Bio: 

Sue Woledge is the creator of www.toxinfreefuture.com and has a keen interest in natural health, self development and lifestyle creation.