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E-mail This StoryAlan E. Smith seems so normal and sane even when he talks about ear candling or rolfing as easily as most people talk about shopping.
His new book “Unbreak Your Health” is a sort of shopping guide to what he refers to as CAM, complementary alternative medicine.
The Plano author had a digestive problem so severe that he went to the Mayo Clinic in search of a cure or at least relief.
When a doctor told him he would just have to learn to live with his problem his reaction was politically incorrect. He decided the doctor was wrong and went in search of something that could help him.
The book that sent him on the path toward CAM is “Biology of Belief” by Bruce Lipton. The point of Lipton’s book is that what a person believes has an effect on that person’s health.
With that in mind Smith began paying more attention to methods of treatment the doctors knew little about. “A lot of medicine doesn’t have all the answers. Just because doctors say there’s nothing they can do doesn’t mean nothing can be done,” Smith said. “You can change your physical being by what you think and believe.”
His book is an overview of alternative methods of treatment, describing each one and including a website for more information.
He advocates people taking responsibility for their health, but does not oppose conventional medicine. Nor does he tell people to stop seeing their doctor or using conventional treatments.
He said everyone must go on their own journey and make their own decisions.
His book would be a good starting place to begin that journey. The start of the journey isn’t going to be looking up a condition in the index and reading the pages devoted to that problem. He hasn’t organized the book that way. He recommends the reader read the whole book rather than just bits and pieces.
Although the book is interesting to read that way. Pick up the book and find out just what resonant frequency therapy or ion hydrotherapy are.
Smith wrote the book to help other people. His search found something that helped him when the Mayo Clinic did not.
He said one key is to find the source of the problem. That can involve tapping into the unconscious mind. “The subconscious mind processes four billion pieces of information per second. The conscious mind handles only 2000 pieces of information per second,” Smith said. “In the subconscious everything is today.”
According to Smith, things that happened decades ago can still be bubbling away in the subconscious causing problems in the conscious mind. The journey that he advocates everyone begin would involve finding the particular therapy or treatment that helps a specific problem.
His primary message is hope. “There is nothing worse than feeling bad and being told you don’t have any options, but to just keep feeling bad,” he said. “There’s always hope. Why give up hope and die? What fun is that?”
Alan Smith will be signing copies of “Unbreak Your Health The Complete Guide to Complementary and Alternative Therapies” at Barnes and Noble at Stonebriar Centre from 2 to 4 p.m. on Nov. 17.
