Marianne Gutierrez: Health Practitioner: God and Health

God and Health · 7 July 2005

There is one factor I have not mentioned that I know will really help. Jesus Christ.

This is not some twee answer. It is factual and based on my experiences and of-course many others’.

Scientists eventually arrive at their conclusions by trial and error. There is no trial and error with God. Only documented facts and the experiences of Christians. Time and time again, when I ask God, He tells me what to do and time and time again, His advice always proves to be right.

Who made the world? The scientists? No, so how on earth can we trust them to tell us what is wrong with us? Even the scientists admit that a superior force made the world.

Trial and error is why we have some answers to some health problems but I am not too keen on the error bit!

I think Hipocrates was right when he said: Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food. I think one should go back to avoiding all the foods one had to before and then see how one feels. If one has had candidiasis and irritable bowl I personally don’t think this is easily healed without continued avoidance of certain foods and stimulants. I believe that no ‘expert’ really knows about food sensitivities and that what is ignored is the individual make-up where some foods can be poison to one and not to another because of their make-up. One has to ‘forget’ all the advice one has been given and work off one’s own instincts which is where God comes in for me.

I do think that the side effect of ME – unable to sleep is due to bad practices. I have learnt to sleep again using mundane TV, chamomile tea and a book that made me drowsy and (I am sorry to bang on about this, well I’m not really) the Omega Oils help here as they support healthy hormone function.

Back to God, the one aspect I have not mentioned in detail that has not only helped me enormously but funnily enough my computer problems!

I am a christian and prayer has really helped me. God has helped me think rationally about my body and what is wrong with it, and opened my computer when it daily refuses!! (giving microsoft time to send me a technical help window as the problem is due to the various programmes not being compatable, if I had listened to the professional advice from the computer makers, I would have inserted my start-up disk and wiped all the original work taking the computer back to its factory settings) The reason I laborously talk about the computer, is because no-one knows what ME is and we are being experimented on by the ‘professionals’ as sometimes their treatments work. Maybe we MEers just need to wait.

Wait. I had a vivid image in my mind when I was wanting to be well so desperately. Wait, wait wait. It was as though I was behind a cloud (the image was actually a huge string of balloons because of a film I had recently seen but a cloud sounds better and the advice is the same) and I wanted to get out from behind it and get back out into the world. I was told to stay there behind the cloud, wait, wait, wait, don’t appear yet, don’t move, allow the cloud to leave you and in time it will. Wait.

I was told to just be ill and stop trying to find an answer – this was my daughter, and so I did what I thought would help and listened to my body. I am sure that if I allowed some professional to advise me I would find all sorts wrong with my body in great detail. My GP has been kept informed of how I am and what I am taking or doing. I am sure I have aldosterone and other problems judging by what I have read. I know I sometimes have a period of weeing all the time and feeling sick and faint, apart from all the other symptoms of ME. I don’t want to know the details as I believe that too much detail is of little help. Citricidal helps with the sick feeling and avoiding all foods that I am sensitive to.
Sun on my skin also helps enormously which is why many ME people I know, go and sit in the sun somewhere in the world when they can. Sun on the skin helps make Vit D in the skin so that calcium can be absorbed but taking Vit D as a supplement made no difference to me.
I have wondered about Samento but asked God about it first and I decided that it was an expensive option to experiment with. (however these supplements in ill bodies take a lot of time to work, maybe after a few years of samento taking one will feel better? Mucho dinero though!)

Through the advice of God and my daughter, I have learnt to sleep again by sleeping whenever I wanted day or night in the first two years or so. By reading what I wanted. By watching mundane TV all day, I really fall asleep then!! This is over a period of two years. Instead of fighting my illness, I accepted it and now feel better for it.

NO-ONE, no-one knows the answers to our health. How can they? Did they make the world? So how do ‘they’ know what will help and what won’t? Trial and error over the years has proved treatment advice. It is the error bit that worries me here!!! Even the medical profession admit that those with a faith get better far quicker with better results than those with no faith.

God has been the one that has helped me so much. Sleep, rest and do nothing was His first bit of advice. That helped so much, once I stopped feeling guilty about not working. Guilt is a big factor for me too, which God is dealing with. Guilt with not working, pride too played its part, pride that I couldn’t work that I had to give up a job I loved and was earning so well out of it too. Pride because I had to rely on my new husband’s income when I had supported myself and my children for so many years.

I really believe that we should give in and just be ill and just rest. Rest during the day. Switch off the computer. Rest whenever we can. Lying on your back with your legs bent and your head on a pillow is very, very relaxing for the whole body as it allows the spine to totally relax and be at its best length and position allowing the nerve impulses to freely leave the spine at their various sites to get to the whole body. Speak to God, ask Him.

We all know we are going to die. And we all know we were born. But why? Why were we born? Where did our thinking, innovative thoughts come from? Where do we go when we die? No-where? So what is the point of life?

It is worth finding out about God isn’t it? A good book to read is the Bible and a secondary good book to read is a book called The Heavenly Man, he has a website. But read Matthew in the New Testament first. Link to the online Bible

In all the items and books and workshops I have attended one aspect has been abundantly clear and that in nature the natural products work where the trace elements are left in place with the active elements that are known to have an effect. Trace elements defy analysis (at the moment until technology advances) but the biggest ‘trace’ element that is always ignored is the creator Himself.

At the time of writing this I am listening to the reports about London and the Underground. I was alerted to this by my husband who was on a tube-train and he phoned to put my mind at rest. However he left the train and now there has been an explosion on a bus and I can’t get hold of him. I pray that he is OK and I pray to God that everyone in London is safe and held in His care. There is evil in the world – that is the nature of humans – but we can at least trust in God and know that He has our best interests at heart even though it may not seem like it at times. I put my trust in You Lord that my husband is safe. Praise you Lord.

5 hours later, my son who had come to be with me, got hold of my husband. He was fine. Thank you Lord.

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