Self-Responsibility.  Hundres of millins of people remain unaware that they have a degree of accountability for their own well-being.  We live in a society that encourages us to know more about  the structure and function of an automobile than we know about the workings of the human body.  People persist in looking "out there" for the answers, formulas, and fortunes, only to discover that they have truer answers within themselves.

 

From our earliest years, we have been taught that somebody else knows what is best for us.  As a society, we have given up personal power in many ways.  We have entrusted our medical professionals with the responsibility for our health, giving them the power to determine what our minds and bodies need.  Initially, the general attitude of Tell me what to do and I'll do it or You do it for me seems easier than taking  responsibility for ourselves.

 

Taking responsibility   for choices that may result if unwanted health outcomes does not not mean taking the blame for illness.  With blame, people berate them selves for not learning a lesson, burden themselves with guilt and create more stress.  With responsibility, people accept that they had apart in engineering their life situation and that theychange it as well.  This process allows them to open themselves up to the valuable lessons that their behaviors can teach them.