Through an impassioned multitude of local heros (elders, parents, teachers, executives, health care providers and children) who, in keeping with the most positive aspects of the mythos of the American pioneer spirit, create a new era in health care, medicine and community culture with the goals of:

• Renewing Self Reliance as a basis for people's lives
• Radically reducing preventable illness
• Limiting the part of the national debt caused by medical costs

To accomplish these critical and lofty goals by releasing people's natural energy and enthusiasm through personal empowerment in multiple areas of the average citizens life, and particularly in the areas of self esteem, healing and small scale food production:

• Encourage self esteem in all citizens
  - inspire the grass roots, local leaders in every community and age group to empower their family and co-workers with knowledge and skills to transform their situation by exercising their right to heal and empower themselves, their families and their communities.
• Foster a self-care revolution
  - make the self-applied health enhancement methods (SAHEM) from all traditions and the methods from "The Healer Within" available to everyone through a nationwide (worldwide) network of impassioned instructors.
• Create a positive role for local, lay health advocates
  - expand the basic model of massage, home care and first aid to include action on simple medical problems and the promotion of healthful behaviors in people with non-acute and chronic disorders. People are protected by the constitution in their freedom to massage each other, suggest helpful remedies and recommend chicken soup.
• Stimulate a return to home (local) food and herbal resources
  - gardening and herbal healing are both ancient human traditions. Nutrition and healing that derive from gardening and herb gathering were historically free resources to the human species. Gardening and simple herbal remedies can be taught and practiced in school, at church, even at work. Community gardens can be designed and implemented in open areas and education on the value of local herbs can come from local experts.

It is important to note that a model for each of these areas exists in the health, self care and gardening traditions of most ancient cultures, and is particularly evident even today in China.

The Mission
To mobilize millions of people to sustain their health and save billions of medical dollars through aggressive application of self care, using the self applied health enhancement methods (SAHEM), implemented through a largely volunteer network: a multitude of Health Patriots.

The Current Status of the Project
The "Free Health Care" (FHC) project is helping a rapidly growing number of people to care for themselves and eliminate the need for costly medical intervention. Throughout the U.S. many communities, hospitals and businesses have experienced the "Healer Within" program. Many practice other forms of self-healing and health enhancement including Qigong (chi kung), Tai Chi (Taiji), Yoga, Pranayama and more recent forms like Feldenkrais method and Alexander technique.

A number of successful pilot programs have been completed. America's citizens have become very enthusiastic about these programs and often desire to become leaders of community practice sessions. We have enthusiastic testimonials that those who are regular users of the practices have eliminated many medical expenses. Many grassroots local practice groups have begun to spring up throughout the U.S.

How it works
Groups of people meet to learn and practice simple self applied health enhancement methods (SAHEM) which include:

• Gentle movements
• Self applied massage
• Breathing exercises
• Deep relaxation practices

The benefits of the SAHEM include:

• easy to learn, easy to perform,
• triggers physiological mechanisms which accelerate natural self-healing and self-regulative responses which reduce need for medications and medical procedures,
• can be done by anyone; old/young, very sick/very well - there are no barriers,
• and have no cost; Free Health Care.

The Proposal

1. Share the good news that genuine health care is self-actualized by each individual citizen, and that international research into the biology and physiology of healing and longevity has confirmed that powerful healing resources are produced naturally within the human body - that authentic health care is FREE and may be easily self-applied.
2. Accelerate the number of American citizens doing the self-applied health enhancement methods (SAHEM) to 20 to 60 million through a network of volunteer facilitators. Over 100 million Chinese people do the self-healing methods, called Qigong, daily and there are numerous large research and teaching institutions in China's largest cities that specialize in Qigong and self- care.

Rationale
A massive out pouring of research over the last decade has clearly demonstrated that positive self-regulation of health sustaining mechanisms in the human system can be controlled, stimulated and enhanced by the individual. Through intentfully self-applied practices individual citizens or consumers can autonomously sustain and perpetuate their health. The implications of this information for our critically ailing "acute care medical delivery system" are profound in social, political and economic terms. There is an inherent mandate: mobilize a nationwide health status enhancement program.

Scenario
Inspire and train 100 key facilitator/trainers (Phase 1) throughout ten national regions. The training is very brief and based in simple, logical methods. The profound power of the Free Health Care project is simplicity, grass roots networking and sharing. The facilitator/trainers teach in their regions, each can train up to train 100 facilitators (Phase 2) who each train 100 local facilitators (Phase 3) who then convene and facilitate daily or weekly practice sessions with 10 to 30 people (Phase 4).

Time Line

• Phase I: Train Key Trainers - 10 - 20 key, inspired national facilitator/trainers
• Phase II: Train regional Facilitator/Trainers - each of the 10 - 20 train 50 - 100 facilitators, per 10 national regions = 10,000
• Phase III: Train Local Facilitator/Instructors - each of the 10,000 mobilize 100 local practice leaders = 1,000,000
• Phase IV: Local Practice Sessions - each of the 1,000,000 local facilitators builds a local practice group of 20 - 40 people = 20,000,000 - 40,000,000 people - a self care and self reliance multitude.

This will transform our people's lives in a positive manner that will have an influence on all aspects of our culture.

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	Find a Practice Session
	Become a facilitator or one of the Key Trainers--get info by email from HealerWithin@healthy.net