Celebrating Earth Week: Reduce, Reuse, Re-love

Much awareness has been brought to environmental issues this year in particular. What is important, is that the issues are being brought to the forefront where they can be addressed.

With all the excitement about going green, big corporations are finally jumping on the band wagon. Recent news media has made the masses more aware of global warming and that has been another milestone in the fight for a greener planet.

The excessive abuse of our environment plays an integral part in how we live our lives and ultimately a major factor in determining our own health and healing. Environmental issues such as worldwide pollution, the garbage disposal and landfills, and the toxic waste seeping into the ground and our water supply, have become staggering statistics.

Along with polluting our air and warming our climate, the exploration, extraction, and use of fossil fuels can cause incredible damage to water and land resources. Oil spills destroy plant and animal life, and leave waterways and their surrounding shores uninhabitable for long periods of time. In addition, strip mining for coal deposits devastates landscapes by reducing mountaintops and filling-in valleys and streams.

We start with ourselves. Of course our “habits” must be regulated by recycling, re-using and controlling our own personal carbon footprint. Another area that is just as valuable is our own health!  The temple, our physical body, is the only thing we have to carry the soul. When our physical bodies are not in proper working order, everything around us ultimately suffers. Our good health is all we have that stands between us and the aging process. The more our air, food and water are taxed and altered, our body has to work harder to cleanse itself. The longer we keep our physical body in optimum health, the longer we have our temple to keep our soul on this plane. Detoxification is the best way to keep the body at its most ultimate working level.

Symptoms such as frequent or reoccurring colds, feeling heavy, sluggish or tired, poor skin, acne or other related skin problems, allergies, a thick, coated tongue, bad breath, headache, and feelings of gas and being bloated after meals may indicate problems in the body’s functionality and it’s ability to process, digest and excrete properly. These vague symptoms that are often overlooked tend to be the results of a congested and sluggish body system.

Exposure or toxicity to food additives, solvents, pesticides, herbicides and other toxic chemicals can cause a number of psychological and neurological symptoms. Toxins produced by bacteria in the gut can be absorbed, causing significant disruption of body functions. Toxins that the body are unable to eliminate build up in the tissues, typically in our fat stores.

Man-made electromagnetic fields bombard us constantly on a daily basis. Computers, microwaves, X Ray machines, TV, cell phones and antennas are just a few of the low and high frequency electromagnetic fields the continue to assault us as our population grows and the need to advance technology at the speed of light increases.

Your internal environment is just as important as your outside environment. Would you like to improve your health? Better your life? Be who you are suppose to be? We sometimes stray from these very simple facts that can make our lives the most fulfilled. Consider these ideas: