Francis is a Wellness Innovator with over 20 years experience in the fields of community development and health. As CEO of OasisLiving.com.au, his primary aim is to make Illness, disease and medicine irrelevant to your life. He achieves this through a combination of humour (after all, laughter is the best medicine) and an in-depth knowledge of the causes of illness and disease.
Francis firmly believes that if you "struggle to manage your health", you simply empower illness, so he creatively teaches you to turn away from illness to a life of pleasure, happiness and joy.
Francis has a developed a high level of skill in breaking down complicated health issues into simple, doable steps. His experience in training has taught him the art of communicating with and inspiring an audience. His approach teaches people to remove their vision from what they do not want in their lives and focus it on the desired results and assists them to achieve those results.
After studying in the areas of business marketing, Community development, nutritional medicine and nursing, Francis settled into public health as a preferred area specialising in Community nutrition and nutritional epidemiology. A confirmed bookworm he loves nothing better than trawling through the latest biomedical and health research to bring you an up-to-date and informative course in having a wonderful life.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
What is Wellness?
Many people misunderstand wellness as a new version of avoiding getting sick, but it is much more than that. Wellness is a way of seeing ourselves that bypasses a medical view.
Wellness can most easily be understood as feeling good at the three levels of body, mind and spirit. It requires that we assume control of our lives and choose personal responsibility for our own physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Wellness requires awareness of, and responsibility for our primary or sponsoring thoughts.
Thus the primary education competency for wellness is the identification of the primary or sponsoring (see below) thought in any situation and its consequent outcome.
Our aim is to make medicine largely irrelevant in your life. This is because medicine/health focuses largely on the avoidance of illness rather than the maintenance of feeling well.This is achieved by focusing on a positive knowledge based perspective of how your mind, body and spirit work when they are operating at their best.
A good way to explain this is to see your health like a bank account. You can have a credit account or an investment account. With the credit account you spend now, and try to pay off the debt and interest later. With the investment account you save now, earn interest and if any bills come in you pay them out of your positive balance. The investment way you end up with a very healthy account balance because you are less likely to become ill. The positive balance can be seen as wellness/wealth/health and the negative balance is illness/disease/sickness.The focus becomes on teaching people how to have a positive health balance in all areas that affect their wellness. Information and education on being well become the basis for living. And small regular deposits or investments in your health manage your future.
[1] A sponsoring or primary thought is that thought which underlies our thinking. It is often subconscious or unconscious and it is our feeling about that thought that manifests our reality. As it is subconscious it often precedes our understanding, but is usually based around our ego and is most often negative. Dieting is a good example of our primary thoughts. We think that a diet is a good or positive idea. But is we dig down a little into the thought stream that underlies the decisions to diet we often find that the source thought was in fact a negative judgement about our appearance or weight. If that is the case then our diet will end up being one of the 98% + of diets that end up in weight gain as our endocrine system strives to maintain our perception that we need to loose weight. And we only need to loose weight if we are over weight.
Wellness can most easily be understood as feeling good at the three levels of body, mind and spirit. It requires that we assume control of our lives and choose personal responsibility for our own physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Wellness requires awareness of, and responsibility for our primary or sponsoring thoughts.
Thus the primary education competency for wellness is the identification of the primary or sponsoring (see below) thought in any situation and its consequent outcome.
Our aim is to make medicine largely irrelevant in your life. This is because medicine/health focuses largely on the avoidance of illness rather than the maintenance of feeling well.This is achieved by focusing on a positive knowledge based perspective of how your mind, body and spirit work when they are operating at their best.
A good way to explain this is to see your health like a bank account. You can have a credit account or an investment account. With the credit account you spend now, and try to pay off the debt and interest later. With the investment account you save now, earn interest and if any bills come in you pay them out of your positive balance. The investment way you end up with a very healthy account balance because you are less likely to become ill. The positive balance can be seen as wellness/wealth/health and the negative balance is illness/disease/sickness.The focus becomes on teaching people how to have a positive health balance in all areas that affect their wellness. Information and education on being well become the basis for living. And small regular deposits or investments in your health manage your future.
[1] A sponsoring or primary thought is that thought which underlies our thinking. It is often subconscious or unconscious and it is our feeling about that thought that manifests our reality. As it is subconscious it often precedes our understanding, but is usually based around our ego and is most often negative. Dieting is a good example of our primary thoughts. We think that a diet is a good or positive idea. But is we dig down a little into the thought stream that underlies the decisions to diet we often find that the source thought was in fact a negative judgement about our appearance or weight. If that is the case then our diet will end up being one of the 98% + of diets that end up in weight gain as our endocrine system strives to maintain our perception that we need to loose weight. And we only need to loose weight if we are over weight.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Eating for wellness
As a nutritionist many people ask what my focus is on. Meaning do I lean towards low carbohydrate, low fat, high protein, ETC.I would have to say that my major focus has been to understand the adaptation, evolution and development of the human body in all of its rich variations in all of the environments around the world. My interest is to explore the nature of optimal/maximal health and to integrate that into an understanding of nature of human dietary requirements.I do not support any particular brand of diet. In fact I would suggest that the vast majority of recommended diets are simply modified versions of “how to take money from gullible people.” Even with the best of intentions very few people actually advise you how to live within your bodies optimal design parameters. For example while grains have become a large part of our diets they played almost no part in the development of our metabolisms. And since our genes/metabolisms show only a 0.02% variation over the last 500,000 years, and grains have only been a part of our diets for around 4,000 years, I definitely recommend minimal or no grain in our diets. Now I know that that will be unpopular, large corporations have been brainwashing us for generations. With the development of agriculture we have developed extensive knowledge of producing grain easily and cheaply. We can easily store and move grain. There are many personal, social and economic reasons to use grains. Personally I love cheese on toast. However none of this means that it is a good idea for use to rely on it as a regular part of our diet.The same holds true for dairy products and a number of other things that are becoming larger, proportionally, parts of our diet. Another example is salt. It played very little part in our diet except as a very necessary micronutrient. Refined sugars are the same.So in answer to people’s questions, while I do sometimes address specific dietary issues, for the most part my focus is on teaching people how their body/mind works and how to run and fuel it optimally.
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