What is Health?
Is health just the absence of
dis-ease?
How do you feel in your own body right now? Relaxed, breathing deeply, not hungry, not
too tired, no aches or pains, no discomfort, no complaints?
Do you rarely take any drugs;
have all your hair and all of your original teeth?
If so, do you believe that you
are healthy? Why or why not?
You may have discovered the keys
to staying healthy, but are not giving yourself enough credit. If not, it is simply due to a complex
function of many factors, some inherited, some lifestyle, some emotional, some
learned in childhood and babyhood, some from past lives, and some from the
external influences that are beyond your control, such as air quality, stress
at work, electro-magnetic radiation, and many more. In many situations, it is due to a lack of
internal communications between endocrines, organs and various body parts. This can be due to blockages in the nervous
system, the meridian system, the chakras, the aura, the wei
chi protective energy, scars, and a host of other internal concerns.
All of these can now be addressed with the BodyTalk System: yes, even including modifying your RNA/DNA
to change inherited tendencies.
In future essays, we will go deeply
into the many factors that you can control.
For now, let’s just list a few of the common ones you know about but may
not have the time or money to deal with on a daily basis.
Nutrition---Food
organically grown on fertile soil, preferably locally, harvested when ripe, not
overcooked, not too greasy, not stuffing till you are overfilled is the
ideal. Chew it thoroughly, to give your
stomach and digestive system less work to do.
Digestion starts with the enzymes in your saliva. Mix them well with the food, and drink
lightly while chewing. You may need to
supplement with vitamins or herbs to make up for the preservatives and other
stuff your body does NOT want that you are feeding it.
We can help you find that
balance.
Water---Water
quality is getting to be a big concern to many people. We have had a few that showed an overdose of
chlorine in the bloodstream, and some who can’t tolerate fluorides. Bottled or spring water is a good choice…or
purchase a reverse osmosis system for your kitchen drinking water. At the very least, if you are using city
water, add a carbon filter to your drinking tap.
One glass of water shuts down
Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of water a day could
significantly ease back and joint pain for up to 80% of sufferers.
A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with
basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen.
Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%,
plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%, and one is 50% less likely
to develop bladder cancer.
Are you drinking the amount of water you should every day? (The above statistics came in from a
client’s email. I’m not sure of the
source of the information.---Bill)
Beverages---Most
bottled and canned drinks contain large amounts of sugar or worse, artificial
sweeteners. The preservatives that are
in many are not good for you. Please
read the labels. Pure fruit juice, tea
(but watch for too much caffeine), occasional coffee, soda pop on rare
occasions, and so on will serve you well.
Most people can handle occasional alcoholic beverages well, but too many
drinks in one week will do liver and brain damage. We can help with BodyTalk if you have a
tendency toward addiction.
Exercise---Most
of us sit too long every day, including those of us reading and writing at a
computer. See the essay section of this
website for a good overview of this topic.
Fresh air---Do
you sleep with the bedroom window open?
Do you get outdoors at least for a few minutes every day? And for a long time on nice days? Most of us are oxygen starved. Combine exercise and outdoor air as often as
is reasonable.
Sleep Habits---Eight
hours is only an average! Some
need more, some less. At times of
emergency, you can probably go on very little, but you must make up as much loss
as you can as soon as is reasonable.
Sleeping difficulties are usually due to the sub-conscious mind working
overtime on emotional issues, but they can have many other causes. Most are fixable with BodyTalk.
Attitudes---You’ve
probably heard a lot about a positive attitude, thinking optimistically, and
putting into your speech that which you want to become or to visualize in your
future. This is helpful, but many other
factors come into play here. There are
loads of good books and short courses on this topic. People who come for treatments with a
positive attitude tend to respond faster to treatments.
Body Acceptance---this
comes up over and over again, largely due to the advertising and peer pressure
of our society. The ads constantly tell
us that we can’t be happy (or have the best romance, or the best job, or the
acceptance we seek from others) unless we use the products being hawked,
reshape our body to look like a model, have our wrinkles removed, and so
on. This includes personal care products,
makeup, exercise equipment, clothing, and any item which somehow implies that
your self esteem is slipping because you are always using the wrong
products. The next ad tells you that the
last one was wrong; you really need THIS product to be happy. Therefore, most people think that they are too
fat, or too thin, or the wrong shape, or the wrong hair style, own the wrong
clothes, or whatever they wish was different about them. You need to accept yourself and your body as
it is, first. Then work on modifying
it the way you would prefer. Stop
listening to the public pressure to change the way someone else would make you
over. Do it your way, but do it
lovingly, not hatefully. If you don’t
love you, who else will?
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