An exercise in thinking

I am going to ask you, the reader, several questions.  I will not answer them in this post.  What I want you to do is answer them for yourself and ponder the answers that you come up with. Think about the answers and why it is you think 'you' answered them in the way that you did.  It should be an interesting exercise in mental processing.

 The purpose in asking these questions is to enforce the idea that if we truly use our brains the truth in our lives becomes obvious.  Dogma has replaced thinking in far too many instances today.  Dogma is merely a statement that someone repeats often enough and loud enough and with such perceived conviction that the weak minded soul believes them without question.  I believe it is called brain washing.  Only brain washing doesn't work very well on a person who is in the habit of thinking for themselves and questions 'why', what and where did that idea come from?  It is called critical thinking and is something we as a society have forgotten to how to do, especially with regard to health care. 

 An example of the questions I will ask:  "What causes pain?"  It is an open ended question with thousands of possible answers depending on what the individual 'ideas' of pain might be.  Is it emotional pain or physical pain or economic pain..ect. What constitutes pain may vary with the emotional state of the individual at the time.  A person with a neutral emotional state may define pain as 'hitting my thumb with a hammer'.  A person who is angry at someone may define pain as 'that bleeping so-in-so who just totaled my car.'  A person who is going through a bitter divorce may define pain as 'my bleeping, bleeping wife' etc.  So the definition of the last word in that sentence may differ depending on your emotional state at the time it is asked. 

 There will be no wrong answers to the questions as they are meant to stimulate 'your' thought process and to give you and idea of how critical your thinking is. Of course as this is a wellness blog...wellness or your definition of wellness is the overall topic, naturally. 

 1. What is health?
 2. How is health created?
 3. What is sickness?
 4. What causes sickness?
 5. What is wellness?
 6. What causes wellness?
 7. What is happiness?
 8. What causes happiness?
 9. What is hate?
10. What causes hate?
11. Are Vaccines safe?
12. What makes a vaccine 'safe' or not safe?
 Please respond to this blog with your answers.