Every Breath You Take

注意你的每次呼吸 （2）

IN THIS ARTICLE: Dr Andrew WI is a health guru for millions through his Internet site, Ask Dr Weil. But his central message revolves around a simple physical fact, and one of the most important is that we must breathe the best possible way we can.

本文简介：安德鲁·韦尔博士通过其互联网站----“询问韦尔博士”----成为上百万人尊敬的健康权威。但是他的核心思想围绕着一个简单的物理事实，而最重要的问题之一是，我们必须以尽可能好的方式呼吸。

[6] "Learning how to breathe and working consciously with breath is a simple, safe, effective and inexpensive way to promote good health of mind and body."

[7] The man with a medical degree from Harvard, a magnificent trademark beard and the sort of eyes that twinkle into crescent slivers when he smiles, (which is often) does not hesitate to suggest that you bead for the nearest hospital if you have been in an accident, need a hip replacement or have a severe infection.

[8] But he has long championed alternative views on health. He emphasises the need for "integrative" medicine, which takes the best from any number of healing methods--if they have been shown to work.

[9] Weil began his travels around the world at 17, examining the medicines of other cultures. The experience enforced his passionate interest in botanical drugs and fostered in him a great respect for the inherent power of the mind-body connection and its potential importance in medicine.

[10] He entered Harvard with no intention of practising in the traditional allopathic way, but with "a strong intuition that a medical degree would be useful".

[11] For 26 years he has spoken about his basic philosophy--that the body has its own elaborate healing system that repairs wounds, renews bones and corrects mistakes in the blueprint that could otherwise result in cancer or other diseases.

[12] And he has criticised the doctors who ignore it and focus entirely on "the disease model" instead. "But ideological argument means nothing," he says.

韦尔一直在周游世界促销他写的书《健康与痊愈》以及《自然痊愈》。新的一册9月即可在此买到。在《健康与痊愈》中，他详述呼吸的重要性说，那是“最性命攸关和不可思议的机能”。

“呼吸作为仅有的能完全自主或不自主的机能是独特的。因而它是一座桥，处于自觉和不自觉之间，如同处于脑子和身体之间。 “正常的呼吸滋养中枢神经系统，为其他的躯体节律建立一种和谐的模式，并调节心境和情绪。

“学习如何呼吸并自觉地与呼吸配合动作，是可以促进身心健康的简单、安全、有效而且廉价的方法。”

这是一位从哈佛取得医学学位的人，堂皇的胡子是其特征，微笑时常眼神闪烁，眼睛眯得状如月牙。如果你遭遇了事故、需要置换髋部或得了严重的感染病，他会毫不迟疑地建议你快去最近的医院。

但是，他在健康问题上长期以来都坚持选择的观点。他强调需要“整合”医药，即从各种各样的治疗方法中择取其优点——只要它们已显示可发挥作用。 韦尔17岁就开始环球旅行，考察其他文化的医药。他的游历加强了他对植物性药物的强烈兴趣，并使他越来越注意身心关联的固有力量及其在医学上潜在的重要意义。

他进入哈佛并不是想从事传统的对抗疗法，而只是带有“一种强烈的直觉——一医学学位将会有用。”

26年来他已经讲过的基本思想是：人体自身有精巧的痊愈系统，可以修补创伤、更新骨骼和改正可导致癌症或其他疾病的型极错误。

他批评那些忽视人体自身痊愈系统而代之以完全着眼于“疾病模型”的医生们。他说：“思想方法上的争辩毫无意义。” 他说，目前美国的医疗系统正处于严重困难之中。“技术实在是过于昂贵，医疗经济体系无法运作。医院正走向破产。医学院正不得不合并。”同时，代用医药的消费市场正日趋繁荣，并演变成一个重要的经济力量。韦尔已经注意到越来越多的医生正倾听他的意见。他说：“我在这个领域有很长的一段时间了，因而我有些可信度。”