Are
you the healthiest person you know? If you are a life coach, presumably
you need to be and know enough to be able to explain health in a broad
way. People like me come to people like you for direction. If you or a
client has to cope with aches and pains, allergies and restrictions, if we
feel bitter, angry, resentful, if we cannot get out of bed in the morning,
how on earth is it possible to go beyond ourselves and wake up our
potential?
These
symptoms are indications of imbalance and will lead to more serious
situations later in life, yet we can redress the balance, it is not magic
or quantum physics, although that obviously plays a part!
Whilst the nature of health
is complex and individual, there are fundamentals, which are
straightforward and apply to us all. Ideally we would live in a lush world
of plenty, clean pure water, richly oxygenated air, food full of life
giving energy to feed every cell in our body and toxins few enough to be
neutralised, excreted or rendered harmless by our micronutrient intake.
Every toxin within has
to be dealt with by the micronutrients from our diets and it uses vital
energy, both of which add further to our depletion. Toxins include yeasts,
moulds, fungi, bacteria, viruses and parasites that are living and as such
steal foods and deposit gunk in our systems. Dark rings round the eyes,
headaches, tiredness, allergies are the result.
In this modern world where
we are overloaded with toxins and starved of micronutrients the imbalance
is tangible. However, thanks to the findings of biochemistry and
microbiology, it is a situation we can reverse.
Avoidance of toxins is the first priority. Throw
out all your bathroom products and cosmetics unless they are free from
toxins, the most notorious being sodium lauryl/laureth sulphate, propylene
glycol, alcohol, fluoride, aluminium, talc, lanolin, mineral oil and
petroleum (anything from the petrochemical industry), anything leading to
DEA and TEA contamination, perfumes, even the most expensive seem to
contain toluene and benzaldehyde, to name a few. The list is vast and as
Prof Samuel Epstein* states “no matter the dilution, there is not such
thing as a safe carcinogen”. Check out your own products.
Unless your household
cleaners are 100% biodegradable, they will contain ingredients known to
government as “hazardous waste”. Do not forget that everything we use goes
down the drain into our water system – we drink it and it contaminates (as
is evident from fishes to polar bears whose very genders are mutating).
Other ways you could improve your health may include
installing a reverse osmosis filter system in your kitchen. Chlorine
and fluoride are potential carcinogens. Water supplies in this country,
contrary to those of Europe, are increasingly being fluoridated. Hormonal
residues from the Pill and HRT are not filtered out by water companies.
Our bodies are 70%+ water and the message is to drink 1-2 litres a day of
water to rehydrate and flush out toxins (coffee, tea, fizzy drinks,
alcohol do not count and even act as diuretics). Reverse osmosis removes
all impurities from heavy metals to bacteria and parasites. Freshly
Squeezed Water is available on a rental basis, which equates well with
buying bottled water, which has its own problems, not least
xeno-oestrogens in the plastic bottles! It is easy to install and can move
home with you.
If you use a mobile phone consider using a magnet to
absorb the waves. Apparently if you surround an egg with mobile
phones, presumably switched on, the egg would cook quickly!
Buy
organic where you can. Chemicals deplete the soil, deplete vitamins
and have contributed to the frightening loss of minerals from the soil
(over 70% in the last 50 years alone), yet minerals are the raw materials
of life, every function within the body as well as the uptake of vitamins,
enzymes, amino acids etc depend on minerals. Chemicals, early harvesting,
long storage, transport, light and heat, refining and food processing also
contribute to the vitamin destruction, and an orange loses 5% vitamin C
daily. Heat and cooking also destroys enzymes.
It
is essential to supplement our foods with a full range of macro and trace
minerals (ensure the heavy metals such as aluminium, cadmium, lead,
mercury etc are removed). For good absorption they must be colloidal,
ionic and plant based. If your digestion is effective, if you are not
carrying too many toxins and parasites, you should absorb an incredible
80-90% of these. You also need a very effective, broad based antioxidant
with vitamins A, C and E but also other ingredients which are known to be
far more powerful to deal with free radical damage, known to contribute to
degenerative disease including cancer, heart, diabetes, arthritis.
Essential Fatty Acids are particularly important
in the Omega 3 chain notably from oily fish. Even if you are vegetarian,
consider taking this as vegetable sources are not quite the same, but make
sure any toxins such as mercury have been removed! Of course be wary of
farmed oily fish unless they are organic.
Oxygen is vital to cell
regeneration. In the 1800s the atmosphere contained 38% oxygen and 1%
carbone dioxide. Today it is 19% oxygen and 25% carbon dioxide. You can
add oxygen drops to your water, which release a single atom of nascent
(negatively charged) oxygen, which also cleanse the water and help
scavenge free radicals (which are positively charged atoms). Cancer and
other illnesses thrive in anaerobic conditions.
Undertaking the above will
help our very fine pH balance or acid: alkaline measure. We are far too
acidic. Toxins cause the acids. Eat as much organic raw, green vegetable
as you can, these are detoxing and help alkalinity.
Companies with safe products
are coming to the market. For details contact
j.singleton@virgin.net
*Prof Samuel Epstein,
Chairman of the Cancer Coalition (
www.preventcancer.com)
©2004 – Jane Singleton
