Patch Adams on Wellness and Health
This is a great talk by Patch Adams. He says in medical school he never had a lecture on wellness or health education. He got information on diseases. He said health was never mentioned connected to family. He wasn’t warned that most families were not healthy. he wasn’t informed that communities could be unhealthy, most are, he says. He never heard about health of societies around the globe.
He is indeed ahead of his time. He is a teacher and one that walks the talk.
You can write to Patch Adams and he will write back. He told me he gets around 2000 contacts per month, he hand writes back to each person. He is in service to humanity. I really love that I had the privilege to go to Russia with him and clown in the Russian orphanages. He taught me the meaning of love.
We are in a time where there is an agenda to detach humanity from love, compassion and the feminine and replace this with science, technology, engineering and maths believing this is the panacea to economic growth where people are viewed as prosumers rather than human beings with destinies. Some believe that mega cities are better as you can crowd more prosumers together rather than create space, rather than decentralise to enable community to build. Instead technology is being used to focus people away from each other, from family, from friends and community towards consumption and their data being sold and used by other parties by virtue of accessing a site. Data is not being gathered to free humanity it is gathered to maximise profit, that is the nature of what greed inspires rather than what love desires. This disconnection is the real reason why people are depressed, anxious and isolated. This is how people look upon each other believing they are unkind and detached. It is the environment where bullying can be expanded as empathy declines and people feel no-one cares. My life and work as a peace educator and clown awakened me to the beauty of humanity that is natural and inherent in our values, virtues and feeling for each other. I feel gratitude for the life path I have travelled as I am finding myself. I am realising that life is for me not against me, that people are a joy rather than a problem. I see the potential and know it can be realised. All are equal, all are one, all are love.
What does life mean to you?