Dr. Ron Ehrlich, or ‘Dr. Ron’ as he is affectionately known, is one of Australia’s leading holistic health advocates, educators, a podcaster and an author, with over 40 years of clinical experience.

Take control and build resilience

There has never been a more important time for us to build physical, mental and emotional resilience.

 If we only get once chance at life, then surely fulfilling our potential should be set as our highest goal.

Therefore, I would argue that good health should be our number one priority.

Take control of your health and be the best you can be. Be well.

Mindset

Your mind can either be your best friend or your worst enemy. Establishing your PQ (positive intelligence quotient), identifying your mental saboteurs.... The Judge and its nine accomplice saboteurs.... while building on what is strong, focusing on your character strengths is key to a mindset that delivers less stress, more engagement, and positive relationships.... mental fitness is key to controlling your mindset.

Challenges

We are all faced with many daily challenges, including career, family, friends, finance, spiritual and personal development, BUT underpinning them all is your HEALTH. Your physical and mental health affects how you show up to these challenges and determines whether you thrive or survive. Our modern world is stressful, and stress impacts every aspect of our lives. Understanding what that means, how it affects us and having a structure to identify and minimise as many of those stresses is central to our UnstressHEALTH approach..... mental fitness is key to taking control of what you can control.

Recovery

Understanding how stress impacts physical and mental health is an important first step – control what you can control. With knowledge comes the power to minimise and control stress while building a mindset to deal with daily challenges. Your physical and mental health is key to recovery. Identifying and minimising stressors while focusing on the five pillars of health is not just a great model for overcoming a diagnosis of a disease...(NOTE: 1 in 2 Australians have a diagnosable disease; 1 in 3 have two or more)....but also a great way to recover every day.....mental fitness supports you in making those choices.

The 5 Stressors Sabotaging Your Wellbeing.

..and 2 Silent Epidemics 

Almost everyone agrees that they are affected by ‘stress’, but in our modern world what do we mean by stress ? How do those stresses affect our health? We have an epidemic of preventable chronic degenerative diseases, so that would seem like questions worth answering if we are serious about health..

In order to solve a problem, we need to understand what that problem is. And stress is clearly a problem.

 I have defined ‘stress’ as anything that has the two common components of all diseases, both physical and mental:

• compromises immune function
• promotes chronic inflammation

In order to identify and minimise those stressors  it has been helpful, over 40 years of clinical practice to view stress as a combination of:

•  emotional,
• environmental,
• nutritional,
• postural and
• dental stress.

NOTE:  I’ve included dental stress which often surprises people but there are two hidden epidemics going on right underneath people’s noses and most people are totally unaware:

• oral disease - tooth decay and gum disease
• narrow jaws and crowded teeth - resulting in a narrow upper airway.

“Dental stress will be of interest to anyone with a mouth, who is interested in their health but have never fully connected the two”.

 There are many surprising connections that include digestion, breathing, sleeping, posture, autoimmune conditions, cardiovascular disease, infertility, erectile dysfunction, cancer, chronic tension headaches and neck aches, chronic inflammation, tooth decay, toxicity....and more.

The common denominator in all chronic diseases is chronic inflammation, and the mouth is the most common site in the body.

But all five stresses have the potential to compromise our health in our modern world.

Unlocking Mental Fitness: 

Transforming Self-Sabotage into Self-Mastery

Mental Fitness training focuses on a Positive Intelligence Quotient (PQ), identifying saboteurs, exercising sage-like power we all have and building those neural pathways to thrive, not just survive.

PQ measures the proportion of time one's mind acts as a friend versus a saboteur. Higher PQ is linked to various positive outcomes, including better performance, enhanced well-being, and stronger relationships. The program emphasises the importance of mindset, recovery, and facing challenges effectively.

The training involves three key steps: identifying and weakening saboteurs, strengthening one's sage (inner wisdom), and building mental fitness through regular exercises. It highlights that a significant saboteur is "The Judge" (of oneself, others and circumstances), which everyone experiences, along with nine other unique accomplice saboteurs.

The program offers a six-week online training showing significant improvements in participants' use of mental and emotional energy, teamwork, stress management, happiness, self-confidence, and relationships.

Participants also receive tools to assess their PQ and identify their saboteurs, promoting a focus on strengths rather than weaknesses. The ultimate goal is to help individuals move from self-sabotage to self-mastery by developing habits that reinforce positive mental fitness.

The Crisis of Chronic Disease: Why Our 'Health' System is Failing Us

Our current health care system is excellent for crisis care but is predominantly built on a sickness model, which means that it is more a chronic disease management system rather than a true healthcare system. We are constantly reminded that our current “health system” is unsustainable financially and that the human cost is also enormous. While a chronic disease management system is an excellent economic model generating billions of dollars it is clearly not a good health model. The chemical and food industry feeds it, and then the pharmaceutical and medical industry manages it.

I believe we need to individually and collectively, take control of our own health and wellbeing. If we are waiting for the change to come from governments, regulatory bodies or professional organisations we will be disappointed because they are slow to adopt new information and often lack common sense and humanity. Reputation and ego often stand in the way of change. I believe that the change has to come from the ground up and I want to empower you to take control of your own health, build physical, mental and emotional resilience and be the best you can be.

Breaking Free from Band-Aid Medicine: A Holistic Path to Wellness

The Western approach to medicine is very linear and reductionist in it’s thinking. For example, present with a symptom and the western medical model will try to find a pharmaceutical to manage the symptom ie. depression = anti-depressant; chronic inflammation = anti-inflammatory; reflux and heartburn = antacid or proton put inhibitor.

The reductionist model also compartmentalizes the human body into specialties. Each specialty is dealing with its own individual part and often ignoring the whole.

There are common themes which run through all diseases; chronic inflammation, high insulin levels, leaky gut. How this is expressed depends on your genetic predisposition. Taking a ‘holistic’ approach involves looking to identify and minimize the stresses in our modern world that have the potential to compromise and challenge our immune system, our gut health, and our mental health. The focusing on the 5 pillars of health; sleep, breathe, nourish, movement and thought, in order to build physical, mental and emotional resilience.

Our bodies and our planet are intimately connected. The two are inseparable. What’s good for one is invariably good for the other, and future generations.

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