Basic principles about the reality of health and how it can be maintained in a self-empowerment framework is already available in the part "Self-Empowerment in Sickness and in Health" on this website. However, it remains very important to gather ideas and practical solutions to the problems we face in terms of illness and the recovery from it. Self-Empowerment embraces the idea of not being dependent upon an outside force. How can we become less reliant upon the medical profession, the experts on health and disease?
How can we take personal responsibility for our own health? Is it responsible to do so? How difficult is it to evaluate your own state of health? What do I need to do and what can I do to maintain health, more importantly to return to it? What part does fear play in disease and how much of it is justified?