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The wearing of masks is serving our health<\/h2>\nTo wear a mask or not to wear a mask seems to be the question. Really? With supposedly increasing numbers of infections and an announced second lockdown this question contributes to an increasing polarisation. I keep hearing and watching that people are falling out with each other due to the mask wearing question. On the train, in the supermarket, at work, among friends and of course in social media. It is incredible how dealing with the mask makes us show our true faces!<\/p>\n
The wearing of masks is serving our health<\/h2>\nI could list an enormous number of links here effortlessly that are based in science and convincingly convey how much sense it makes to wear a mask to protect you from a virus. These must be the sources to which the people refer who launched the German advertising campaign AHA \u2013 acronyms for the meanings of Distancing, Hygiene maintenance and Daily masking.<\/p>\n
However I refuse to consider a mask a general prop for my daily life. It is bad enough that it has to be that way for people living in smog cities. It should be called a breath protection mask. That would be more precise. But to program us to consider it as normal as your glasses or your keys \u2013 in my opinion that\u2019s downright presumptuous!<\/p>\n
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And just as well I could list an enormous number of links that are based in science and convincingly convey that wearing a mask makes no sense at all if you want to protect yourself from a virus. As a matter of fact it actually contributes more to the destruction of our personal and collective health. So far it has not been proven that wearing a mask saved anybody\u00b4s life, though it has been claimed of course.<\/p>\n
However, sadly there are first cases where wearing a mask caused serious damage to a person\u00b4s health and even life. Those will surely attributed to the category of the \u201cvictims of the pandemic\u201d \u2013 even though differently than you are inclined to think. This group is growing, in contrast to the group of people who are truly infected. But I\u00b4m going off track.<\/p>\n
Whether an individual is wearing a mask or not clearly has nothing to do with \u201cgood common sense\u201d that is so eagerly desired on so many frontiers. It also has nothing to do with the many scientific studies and media reports that both groups like referring to.<\/p>\n
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In my view the crucial element is a great need for safety. However I\u00b4ve been suspecting for a while that striving for security is actually only fear wearing a mask. And curiously that is the same in both groups: they fear for their own health. There is a second layer. Not only to protect yourself but also your loved ones and finally society at large. And we all love being good people and like to be on the \u201cright side of the moral fence.\u201d<\/p>\n
And finally there is the fear of punishment by the controllers. If you don\u00b4t wear a mask where it is mandatory you might not only have to pay a fee but get beaten. This is no longer about health, but about power and suppression \u2013 and an increasing yearning for safety and peace. This is like the middleages! I know a few people who are dreaming of escaping to countries where they can be free. But the choice on earth is rather limited right now. So there is evena craving\u00a0 for other planets. But I\u00b4m going off track again.<\/span><\/p>\n The current debate about viruses, infections and masks appears similar to me. In the end it is a question of your personal conviction. What scientists, media and authorities you believe is a matter of personal choice. That each of these sources can hardly ever be neutral is part of human nature and the way our reality functions. We influence on whatever we place our attention. We see what we believe. Not the other way round. That is quantum physics. Or like my friend and mentor Michael Roads likes to say: \u201cWhere you focus, energy flows, connects and creates.\u201d<\/p>\n What is at work here is the power of my own thoughts plus feelings: when I\u00b4m afraid that wearing a mask will make me sick \u2013 then the focus is getting sick. When I\u00b4m afraid that not wearing a mask will make me sick \u2013 then the focus is also getting sick. In both cases the incentive remains fear. That makes everybody of the other conviction a potential opponent because he seems to be threatening my health. We only have to place our focus on health. A belief system like: \u201cI remain healthy no matter what happens or others are telling me.\u201d would be in much more service to all. Then trust would become the incentive! And THAT is the common denominator on which we should focus here. It is not about who is right. It is about authenticity and trust in your own judgement. We can assume that every one of us wants to do the best according to his knowledge and conscience and does so \u2013 from his point of view. So we should trust in the fact that each one of us has chosen the path he deems right for him. Even though others might see it differently. However disputing it is not productive. Furthermore the constant conflict puts a serious stress on our health. Each one of us is required to explore whether he is driven by fear or guided by trust.<\/p>\n But we can reside and meet beyond this. We can go beyond the mask question and focus together on things we agree on. In this case the maintenance of our health.<\/p>\n Let\u00b4s focus immediately on things that will really make us healthy and how to maintain and strengthen our health!<\/strong><\/p>\n It is much healthier for all of us not to constantly busy ourselves with the threats but with what makes us strong in body and spirit.<\/p>\n Let us create a healthy world together that\u00b4s worth living in! Let\u00b4s unite our creative powers to create better conditions for health! May they be so fantastic that wearing a mask is no longer an issue.\u00a0 Because everybody is brimming with so much health, it becomes a pure joy to become infected with the joy of life, vitality and a healthy self-worth by others.<\/p>\n Let\u00b4s strengthen our immune system to the max! By eating food with lots of vitamins, getting enough fresh air in healthy nature, enough exercise and doing things we enjoy: laughing, singing, dancing, hugging, loving\u2026<\/p>\n Let\u00b4s take good care of us when we are sick and only go back to work or school when we\u00b4re fit enough for it again. And may our employers, teachers and us too have honest compassion when we\u00b4re absent because of our illness. Grudge is also unhealthy, mutual support however strengthens it!<\/p>\n Let\u00b4s make sure our food and our air is no longer so infused with toxins, but actually health enhancing. Let\u00b4s teach our children to enjoy their own body and maintenance of their health and that life is worth living. Then they don\u00b4t have to constantly distract themselves with electronic devices from the threatening reality\u2026<\/p>\n We can only hold our grounds against the controllers as a united solidary collective! So let\u00b4s unite in trust and health rather than getting divided in fear and sickness!<\/p>\n Mask yes or now? Opinions differ on this question and the conflict makes us ill – united we\u00b4d all be healthier!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[571,582,619,256,568],"class_list":["post-7358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soul-selfies","tag-fear","tag-zukunft-en","tag-maske-en","tag-michael-roads-en","tag-pandemic"],"yoast_head":"\nIt reminds me of religious persecution<\/h2>\n
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To be honest, it actually reminds me of all the many battles among humanity when we mistreated or even bloodthirstily persecuted each other because of the \u201cwrong belief\u201d. Like the strife between Catholics and Protestants, Christians and Jews, Jews and Muslims, and between all of them and the \u2018heathens\u2019. The enmity was and is not only expressed with swords but with fundamental discrimination. And of course always rooted in the more or less conscious conviction to worship the \u201cbetter God\u201d\u2026<\/p>\nOur focus is the key<\/h2>\n
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A healthy spirit in a healthy body (Mens sana in corpore sana)!<\/h2>\nResilient immune system<\/h2>\n
Appropriate hygiene<\/h2>\n
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Let\u00b4s wash our hands regularly. However not in such a way that we destroy the protecting microbes on our skin with the disinfectant. But in such a way that we won\u00b4t stress the systems of others with microbes that might be stress for them. And finally let\u00b4s start perceiving microbes as our friends and agents of our immune system \u2013 not as enemies. This is also a fuelled misunderstanding. However recently the BBC broadcasted a fascinating documentary according to which the oceans contain more than 200.000 populations of different viruses \u2013 and not a single fish is wearing a mask! But I am going off track again!<\/p>\nSelf-responsibility in case of illness<\/h2>\n
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Healthy environment and food<\/h2>\nLet\u00b4s choose more trust instead of fear<\/h2>\n
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Let\u00b4s make generally sure that we no longer have to fear our reality, our future and our fellow humans. Let\u00b4s make sure that the fear of something no longer controls our decisions but rather the trust in our common goal. And let\u00b4s choose understanding, patience and compassion for us and for others to finally reach this goal together! Fortunately many have already begun to walk this path!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"