As a teenager, Ian had his own health challenges, energy levels up and down, chronic digestion and sinus issues.
He always felt a little bit behind.
Academically he was performing really well but something wasn’t quite right.
He had a deep sense, a sort of intuition, that there was a problem to be solved and he knew that somehow he could figure it out myself.
That’s where it all began.
These little clues came along over many years and the outcome was that he built a career around improving his own health and helping other people improve their health, and also studying the health of the planet around us and the environment.
For many years, he thought those things were different.
The years he spent working for environmental organizations and charities, working with businesses, he saw them and he knew they were related but he saw them as very different careers.
But the more time went on, the more he came to realize that there was no separation.
“We can’t really distinguish between the health of the fields that our food grows in, or the health of the air around us and the waterways and our personal health and well-being. And I don’t just mean in a kind of altruistic way of thinking about our grandchildren or great-grandchildren, which is also important. I mean, in the health of you and I and our energy levels today right here and now.”
Ian’s story has had lots of twists and turns, ups and downs like many people, but over time he came to realize he was on a spiritual journey.
“For some people, being able to enjoy their favorite music, that’s a type of spiritual experience.
But if you’re not well when you’re feeling out of balance, sick, or poorly, then you can’t enjoy things like just listening to music as well as you can on a day you’re feeling on top of the world.”
This realization was in large part the spark that became the idea that became the book, Restoring Balance.
“Life is full of beginnings and ends but this book is a milestone for me, to consolidate the approaches to health that I’ve picked up and the philosophy around the health of the environment and ourselves over 20 years.”
Your body is constantly responding to the signals in your environment.
Unfortunately in the 21st century’s environment, the things that are giving us those signals have changed massively, particularly over the last few decades.
Our body is being bombarded with lots of different signals.
It can cope with lots of stress.
Some short, sharp doses of stress are good for us but prolonged stress, notably of the type EMFs create, is not good for us.
And if our environment is massively out of balance compared to what our body is used to, then that’s going to be a great challenge for us.
