An Evening With Don Tolman
It’s been exactly a year since I first met Don Tolman, and last week I had went along to listen to him speak once again to a full house at Fortune Event’s Evening with Don Tolman. Every time I leave the room after one of these events, I am completely inspired, encouraged and reminded of some of the reasons why I have chosen this path for myself.
I looked back to a year ago when I first heard Don speak and I thought I would repost my thoughts on this incredible man and his presentation. So here it is….
Reposted from 29th September 2009….
Last Tuesday we had the pleasure along with around 600 others, of listening to Don Tolman "the Whole-food Medicine Man". I was so truly motivated and inspired by his words and explanations of the "health care system" and that our bodies are self healing mechanisms. If given the opportunity our bodies can heal all symptoms of illness and discomfort.... naturally... without drugs. I couldn't resist purchasing the "Farmacist Desk Reference" and am having trouble putting it down. Don Tolman I rank right up there with Paul Chek as one of the most insightful and thought provoking presentations I have ever enjoyed.
Don has enormous experience in helping people heal from a variety of "terminal illnesses" without the use of pharmaceutical medication and has made an enormous impact on so many lives around the world. Don teaches us to care for and educate ourselves and eradicates the fear that is perpetuated around the "mystery of disease". Don provides simple solutions and reasons for degenerative illness backed up with mountains and mountains of scientific research and physical evidence that we truly are a product of the environmental conditions we place ourselves in, dis-ease does not just happen and through simple healthy lifestyle steps, there is no need to fear!
Don reminds us all that food has always been and will always be our medicine and that everything we need to build healthy bones, muscles, organs, whole systems is right in front of us - in nature. To eat food in its most natural healthy state, obeys the laws of nature and if we want to live dis-ease free and enjoy a healthy life, it is highly essential to base our diets on real foods - WHOLE FOODS! How simple is that!
So much time, money and energy has been spent on providing us with the obvious information - wholefoods restore and provide health. There are so many "latest discoveries" into the healing benefits of a particular fruit or vegetable, but it is simply stating what we already know and have known for centuries. (see blog posts on some of the whole food signatures). No magic pill, potion or powder is going to cure your illness, pain or injury without some other ill-effect on your body, termed "side-effects". We simply need to get back to nature and be thankful for the food that we have been provided from the earth. Don convinces his audiences that there is nothing like the real thing. You can take a supplement or a pill because some marketing told you that "we don't get enough veg in our diet" or "you need x amount of this and that vitamin" but what makes our body sing is really the whole carrot or a handful of spinach leaves, receive the benefits from a food not a bottle. I know I have been eating this way for a few years now and never felt healthier and more energetic in my life.
More often than not, the nutritional benefits are not absorbed from synthetic vitamins on the shelves and there is no record historically, of cultures mixing up protein shakes or wolfing down a "low carb energy bar" for wellbeing. All the nutrients we need occur in nature, there is no need to refine, process, heat treat and add chemicals to a food to make it a "health food". This always astounds me how one can believe the marketing that we need to buy food in a package for it to be more nutritionally beneficial than picking it out of the ground and munching on it!
Don's message highly resonates with me as we highly encourage the importance of eating a variety of fresh whole foods and by this we mean fresh, organic produce and a variety of nuts, whole-grains (not as in bread but the whole grain), oils and other healthy items that will benefit your vitality. Wholefoods grown using organic farming methods of course, which are, sustainable, kind to the environment and don't harm your internal environment.
We don't sell processed products because we believe there is nothing like the real thing. You can read more about our whole food philosophy here. We would like to inspire change within the organic community, and show that we can spend less money on food and live more healthily. Processed foods especially organic, cost more than unprocessed and provide us with less nutrition. They’ll more than likely take more nutrition from the body trying to process and digest than they actually put in.
In closing, I would like to share the seven principles of wellbeing that Don Tolman uses to inspire all to lead a happy, fulfilling dis-ease free, fear free life. This is a simple, really cheap method of self-care! Don tells us that we are designed to be in a state of wellbeing. Our cells will do what they're supposed to do when we embrace the laws of nature and principles of life.
1. Air - breathing - fresh, moving air! Life is all about movement! Open a window.
2. Water - drinking plenty of fresh water each day, with enough good quality sea or crystal salt.
3. Sunshine - essential for vitamin D! get outside every day and enjoy!
4. Walking - great for stress, anxiety. When something's on your mind, go for a walk, get outside, movement!
5. Eat Whole-foods - as close to nature as they occur, fresh, organic, chemical free.
6. Happy, positive relationships - interact with healthy, positive like-minded people.
7. Passion - have a passion and a purpose. Enjoy what you're doing and how you're living each day. Enjoy a life filled with brilliance, energy, joy freedom to dream and the vitality of passion to fulfil those dreams.
Click here to read more about Don Tolman's self-education and self-care philosophies and if you'd like to hear him speak, there's loads on youtube too.
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