Sunshine, Natural Immunity & Real Food

What a funny day. I had a little intuitive inkling this morning that the topic for today’s mothers group meeting was going to be a discussion about “Immunisation” (read about what the difference is between the terms vaccination and immunisation).

I was right, and what made it funny (ironic) was the one person who doesn’t want to hear about it (me) was the only person who attended the group today - none of the other mums in the group showed up.

Thankfully over the years since I first started researching the pros & cons of vaccination when my daughter Isabella got sick in March 2002 (I am definitely on the anti-vaccine side), I have become much more tempered in my reactions and interactions with others who promote vaccinations. So the discussion today with the council vaccination nurse was interesting and thankfully she didn’t try to convert me to her way of thinking and I didn’t try to convert her to mine.

This was a good learning opportunity for me today. When I first started researching the adverse effects of vaccinations, I know I alienated a lot of people with my forceful stance on vaccination and I gained an intense distaste for doctors and the orthodox medical system in general. Over the years I have continued doing research into this area alongside my studies in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). I think the training I did in NLP and human behaviour helped me enormously to learn when and where it was appropriate for me to share my information. I also realised that a persons’ beliefs about a particular area will determine what information they will and wont listen to. When I was first told about the link between vaccinations and seizures (after Isabella had her first seizure) it didn’t take much to convince me about the dangers of vaccines - I already had a preference for alternate healthcare & and a distaste for doctors. This new information just cemented that in for me and confirmed my belief about the orthodox medical system and it’s inadequacies. On the other hand, members of my husbands family and members of the first mothers group I belonged to, had different beliefs to me and they didn’t believe and didn’t want to hear what I had to say about the dangers of vaccination.

There was a time when I thought everyone needed to hear this information, but I soon realised that not everyone wanted to listen & me shoving it down their throats just didn’t work. Everyone is on their own path and will experience whatever it is they need to experience. If they are meant to find information then it will come to them. So now the pendulum has swung to both extremes - me being overly evangelical to me not speaking to people at all, almost the to the point of hiding away - it has now come to a gentle rest in the middle. That’s not to say I’m sitting on the fence about this - I definitely have a strong, informed opinion about this area of vaccination - it’s just now I am more attuned to who wants to hear the information and who doesn’t and I share it appropriately.

My belief is that the other mothers in this new group I belong to weren’t in a place to hear this information today and as such, for some reason or another, didn’t come to the group today. Interesting.

Helena