Self-care and Self-Responsibility

With the increasingly expansive studies by Quantum Physics, we can already say that nothing is standing still. Stagnation and immobility are illusions.

The first important point is the awareness of the responsibility of each person in their process of living well, with health and quality of life. Going against the idea that health is the physician's responsibility, integrative medicine brings the view that the first choice is to take care of yourself and then think about taking care of the other. Especially when it comes to health professionals, including therapists, self-care should be a priority, since only someone healthy and emotionally balanced is able to help someone who is out of balance (KLEIN, 2020). The first step to be healthy is to take the "reins" of one's own life in one's hands, meaning that each person is responsible for themselves and needs to learn to know their own body, feel what is necessary to stay healthy, implying in not "outsourcing". ” health: it is not the doctor, therapist or medication that makes the individual healthy, but their own choices. That is why it is necessary to study, inform, seek knowledge (KLEIN, 2020).

Questioning “what it means to be healthy”, Klein (2020) brings the message of a 101-year-old shaman, who teaches the following to his people: i) internal listening – listening to our body, paying attention to the signs that the cells give, informing about what happens inside –; ii) everything is connected, there is no chance, or “it happened out of nowhere”, since everything that happens interferes with the surroundings and vice versa; iii) everything is in transformation; and iv) the Earth is not ours, we belong to the Earth.

In addition, Romo (2021) states that humanity needs to get out of the context of food contamination in which it finds itself so that it can take care of using its life. Someone who has a sick and intoxicated organism does not have enough reasoning capacity to understand that life is more than just surviving, perhaps caring about others and the environment.

Llompart (2020) also emphasizes that taking care of one's health is thinking about future generations, since the current state of health of each individual is transmitted to their descendants by DNA, including chemical, sugar, gluten, and even addictions. emotional and psychic. Thus, the basis of this medicine is detoxification and food quality.

For the purpose of illustration, Llompart (2020) mentions a North American study on the accumulation of lead in the body, from polluted air: lead causes neuropsychiatric conditions such as aggression that results in violence, murders, suicides, etc., so that when there is detoxification of lead from the blood, the person's aggressiveness is drastically reduced.