Alternative Medicine 8:
Taking Responsibility for Our Own Health

So to recap: 1) trust and empower yourself as the one who ultimately must make the decisions concerning your own health; 2) seek out the best possible health care advisors/practitioners not only with a high level of skill and training, but with the ability to explain thoroughly your choices for you to make the best decision; 3) take your time when possible, or as much as you need, so you donât feel like you are being "railroaded" into a decision that you must make now (like into buying that used car! --and this applies to family members as well as practitioners advising you ); 4) make use of any resources available to you (library, internet, friends, family, coworkers who may have experienced a similar situation): 5) remember regardless of who you hire or fire (choose to employ) as your health care practitioner/consultant/advisor, be they in alternative medicine or western medicine, keep your common sense about you and don't give up your power to them as "the all knowing expert"; 6) remember in being a smart shopper that cost is not necessarily the "bottom line" as quality is always a factor, because ultimately we cannot put a price on our health; 7) and lastly, weigh your decision by asking how much will this benefit me or possibly hurt me on each of these levels: physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually?

David Malin, DD, PT resides in Telluride, Colorado and has been practicing various forms of Alternative Medicine since 1977. He is the creator of Body Math™ which is a Multidimensional Approach To Healing for the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies; and developed ESR-Inner Opening Technique™, a profound procedure for catalyzing multidimensional change (ESR stands for Endo-nasal Sphenoid Release--an internal manipulation of the sphenoid bone in the center of the head). He currently spends most of his time consulting and teaching around the world.