Your Body is a Machine That Can be easily Fixed

I like to think of the human body as a perfect, beautiful machine that, if fed the proper nutrients and given routine exercise and system cleanses, will provide the user with excellent service for many happy, healthy years.

When a body is in a state of “health,” the mind is reflective of that. You usually have cheerful thoughts, and things don’t get you down. You can see the light at the end of the tunnel. You have the ability to understand another person’s point of view without feeling overwhelmed. You are not ruled by depression, anxiety or a compulsion. You wake up in the morning with purpose; the TV no longer calls to you, “come, watch Me.” You have things to do and people to see!

When people become out of balance either from nutritional deficiency or a build-up of toxins in their human machines, they can start to have physical, mental and emotional problems. In the beginning the problems are very subtle; achiness, fatigue, heartburn, muscle cramps, soreness, PMS, mood swings, inability to think clearly, anxiety, depression.

The list of ailments is so long and varied it could take the whole article to write them. Let’s just say that a machine in less than perfect running order is a reflection of improper nutrition, improper exercise and improper system cleansing.

One or all of the above may apply. You may exercise like a mad person but fail to get proper nutrition and cleansing. You may do cleansing and not get proper nutrition. Just think of maintenance on your car: if you don’t take care of one thing it will come back to haunt you. You are a human machine.

I had a client the other day who felt that things were so bad that he was just giving up! He is 56 years old in the prime of his life. My heart broke. There is one thing that you can absolutely take as FACT. Your body is programmed to LIVE. Just try and kill it -- the animal in you will take over. Most of us will fight to the death to save ourselves. You want to live! Thank goodness. I know, I know, sometimes I say things that are shocking.

The very fact that the body is programmed to live is the greatest gift we healers have been given. Your body can tell us what it needs to make it better. GIVING UP is not a state of health, it is quite the opposite; that client’s body was screaming for help. Nutritional deficiency can and will skew a person’s thinking. Heavy metals and chemicals are notorious for causing depression, anxiety and compulsive behaviors, and let’s not forget our little friend, the parasite. Parasite poo is incredibly toxic to our minds.

The GOOD NEWS is that we can get these things out of the body. Your body doesn’t want them in there any more than you do, it just needs help.
Despite the fact that there are many heavy metal cleanses on the market, doing one on your own can cause more harm than good.

Prevent the Flue/Cold Bug From Biting You

We all know the story. Someone at work passed around a nasty virus, your children brought something home with them from school, or maybe it came after doing some traveling. However it happens, we all get sick. Here are a few tips to beat those cold bugs.

Wash Your Hands: Keeping our hands clean can help in so many ways. Viruses and bacteria can live anywhere and trust me, they do! We pick things up off the ground, we flush the toilet, we handle money, we pet our animals; our hands are our tools for everyday living. By keeping our hands clean, we can reduce the chance that those pesky bugs get into things like our food or, worse yet, our bodies.

Hint: When washing your hands, it's the friction that actually kills the germs more so than the soap. Rub your hands vigorously for twenty (20) seconds, or sing "Happy Birthday" to yourself twice over. Just remember, these aren't American Idol auditions!
On that same note, keeping your hands away from your face can also help reduce the chance of infection. We collect most of our little germy friends through our eyes, nose and mouth. Touching our face is the key way we catch colds and pass them on to other people. Also, grab a Kleenex or hanky when you feel a sneeze or cough coming on instead of using your hands to muffle it.

Drink Plenty of Fluids & Eat the Good Stuff: Water flushes the poisons and toxins out of your body. Keeping your body hydrated allows things to flow a little easier. The natural chemicals in plants give the vitamins in food a supercharged boost. So put away the vitamin pill, and eat dark green, red and yellow vegetables and fruits. Orange juice, apple juice, and tomato juice are great sources of vitamin C. Vitamin C helps to strengthen the immune system as well as to reduce the appearance of aging and stress. Chicken noodle soup (along with being totally yummy) is a great source of useable calcium that our body can absorb. The boiling of the chicken bones releases the free calcium, which helps tell the white blood cells (good guys)to eat the bacteria (bad guys).

Learn to RELAX: No, relaxing doesn't mean doing nothing. Do some big deep belly breaths, close your eyes, and think of something that makes you happy. Try doing some yoga or meditation. Whatever you do to relax (that doesn't involve a margarita or the tv), take time for yourself everyday and do it. This lets your body and all of its systems get back to the business of keeping you healthy. When we get stressed, our body's nutritional storage gets depleted (it needs to use the good guys like vitamins and minerals to help keep us un-sick as long as it can!). The more stressed you are, the more your body becomes susceptible to all those viruses and bacteria.

Exercise and Sweat: Aerobic exercise (walking, jogging, and playing with the kids) speeds up the heart to pump more blood, makes you breathe faster to help bring oxygen from your lungs to your blood, and makes you sweat once your body heats up. Sweating in our Infrared Sauna or Oxygen Sauna heats up the core body temperature and is one of the body's best ways of detoxifying; our porous skin covers our entire body, allowing us to get rid of more of those bad guys.

Get Outside and Be in the Sun: The healing and life-giving energy of the sun boosts our immune system. We absorb that energy through our skin and the pupils of our eyes. That’s why we often see dogs and cats lying in the sun during the winter or cold days not only to warm themselves but also to boost their immunity. Being cooped up indoors all the time just sends your germs (and everyone else's!) back around.

Lemon and Ginger: Lemons become ripe in the fall and winter and are a big help with our immune system. Squeeze a whole lemon in a warm (not hot, don’t want to kill its immune properties) glass of water and drink it up. Ginger also boosts immunity. Make a tea out of ginger: Grate fresh ginger and steep it in hot water. Once it’s cooled, add some fresh lemon and a little honey and yum -- you have yourself an immune cocktail that will protect you all winter long.
Keep these tricks up your sleeve, and hopefully say "Sayonara!" to those seasonal colds and flu!