Most people have compromised immune systems due to an over consumption of sugar, caffeine and alcohol, not getting enough exercise or sleep, and too much stressful thinking. All of these factors are within our personal control. Since it is our social responsibility to limit the spread of contagious diseases, it is our social responsibility to do whatever is within our power and capacity to strengthen our immune systems.

A childcare cooperative is a group of parents who take turns watching each other's children. Instead of paying for babysitters, nannys, preschools, and after school programs, parents in a childcare cooperative provide free childcare for each other.

What we call health care could be more accurately be called sickness care. When we care for our health, and when factors out of our control don't compromise our health, we don't need the services associated with the health care industry.

In Middleway Method, our practice is to do things for ourselves and for others that create that feeling of sanctuary, a sigh of relief when we can settle down and rest. The feeling of sanctuary can be just one moment long, one breath, and in that one breath, our bodies can drop out of the stress state and into a rest state.

Good nutrition doesn't have to be complicated. You don't have to believe in the latest fad. You can eat well based entirely upon your own common sense and the feelings of your body. If you add a little bit of nutritional science and traditional human wisdom to the picture, then you've got it made.

What if the motivation to feel great in your body and your mind is not for your own sake, but so that you can more skillfully help others soften the distractions of pain, sickness, and self-absorption?