However, once he entered his third year, the year all medical students receive their initial personal experience of treating real sick people, he soon realized that conventional medicine obtained very poor results: it was great at removing pathology (malfunctioning physical tissues which were presumed to be the cause of all illnesses), but was abysmally poor at relieving the actual suffering (the discomforting symptoms) which were what gave ill people the sense they were sick. This perception was quite disturbing to Warren, because he knew he would receive no contentment treating ill people and not restoring them to full health; and experiencing contentment was a primary requirement of his life's work. So he sought an approach to health care which provided authentic cures for all illnesses.
Before long he discovered homeopathy and was certain he found a solution to his dilemma. He then finished medical school, underwent sufficient postgraduate training to be licensed to practice medicine (New York State and New Jersey), and commenced a private practice in October, 1980. Over the next five years he became aware of several aspects of optimal health he'd never previously considered: that everyone can experience life as continually optimal; that all limitations experienced by humans are illness (and not just the diseases treated by conventional medicine); that all limitations stem from the ill person not being optimal in some area of her life; and that homeopathic remedies -if correctly prescribed- can show any ill person how to proceed toward, and eventually achieve, health (wellbeing, contentment).
Dr. Metzler starts the book by defining contentment. Then he describes the five major realms of reality (the five different aspects of life that humans experience) -mineral, plant, animal, thinking, spiritual-; and reveals that contentment is only present when a person is maximizing her potential in all five realms. Next he describes how those realms came into existence; and the benefits all humans glean from exploring each realm. After that he presents what is optimal consciousness (optimal comprehension of life), and how each person has an inner part which continually pushes that person to avoid exploring life's realities and increased consciousness, and instead pursue earthly pleasures.
He continues by revealing how to live life in an optimal manner: you optimize each activity you do, and you develop a standard approach to each activity. Then he proposes that each person's life consists of stages -the same major stages for everyone-; and that each stage provides the opportunity to develop a particular life skill (develop proficiency in a particular aspect of life). And he provides a succinct description of each stage which is encountered from birth through to your thirties.
Then he discusses God: who God really is; and that everyone pursues a god, even atheists. Next comes a look at health and illness: what is authentic health, what actually is illness, and how any sick person can move from illness to health. In the final chapter authentic creativity is explored; which Warren defines as becoming aware and proficient in some aspect of daily life. Warren tells how healthy people are always creative, and how being creative is synonymous with having full health.
It is not a long book, only 71 pages. But it provides a comprehensive view of the human being, the optimal life that God offers to all humans (is obtained by each person who is sincere in his pursuit), and the reasons why humans fail to achieve their full potentials (fail to develop to where they experience continuous contentment).
