Eat a Penguin: Health, Healing & Curing
Eat a Penguin: Health, Healing & Curing
What’s the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish … You know what you should do? Combine them– eat a penguin!
~~Dave Attell
My doctor recently told me that jogging could add years to my life. I think he was right. I feel ten years older already.
~~Milton Berle
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you…
~~Carl Jung
Heal… (verb) from the Old English “wholeness, being whole, sound or well”… “uninjured, of good omen” …. “holy, sacred”
Cure…(noun) c.1300, a remedy. From Latin “care, concern, trouble,” …”to be concerned.” Cured…In reference to fish, pork, etc., first recorded 1743. Meaning “medical care” is late 14c.
The word heal is a verb…active, moving, fluid, full of life. Cure is a noun— a person, place or thing, but more importantly—the passive recipient of the actions or movement of another. It is also a reference to drying meat, salting the flavor and life out of it for the sake of saving it. Such is the difference between healing and curing. If necessity is the mother of all invention, then the need for a cure is probably the mother of all healing. Curing is about restoring physical function to the body, but healing inevitably becomes about restoring a relationship, often to the non-physical self, to those whom we want to love well, or to the Divine. Curing is a journey we choose while seeking to be relieved of trouble or a concern. But healing often becomes a journey that chooses us, and as such it becomes fluid, a movement toward health and wholeness, a good omen, holy and sacred. Cures are about surviving, healing is about