Health, politics and consciousness

If you want to understand why it is that becoming conscious requires knowledge and information as well as "personal growth" before it translates into physical and mental health, the following may interest you:

http://health-and-wellbeing.blogspot.com/2007/02/on-early-detection-of-breast-cancer.html

Fundamentally, becoming conscious entails learning to trust yourself rather than "the experts" in government, science or medicine. What we read in the newspapers and watch on TV is mere noise, dressed up as scientific fact. We need to learn to turn down the volume of this racket so we can hear our own inner voice, our own inner wisdom, our own inner physician. This is a lifetime task for all of us.