Dis-Ease can NOT live in the presence of a highly oxygenated body

Otto Warburg won a Nobel Prize for this discovery in 1931.  WHY haven’t we heard much about this?  That’s a whole other post!  GEEZ~~~~  We know that every cell is an electrical generator, so the energy produced by the cell must be the key to the life process…sound reasonable? So many doctors claim that our DIETS have nothing to do with our illness.  PLUUUUZZEEEEE!  What about the balance of nature?  Just look around at the growth of anything or the deterioration of it.  What you feed it, water it has MUCH to do with the growth of living things.  Last time I checked…humans were  LIVING THINGS!

Once a orthopedic surgeon told my teenage son after a horrible car accident that crushed his pelvis, broken a couple bones, ripped his liver, caused a huge blood loss— that if he ate at McDonalds three times a day and ate only junk food in between that he would heal exactly the same as if he took vitamins and ate “healthy”. I’m not sure he would have really known what  eating healthy meant!  I highly disagreed with him verbally and that was BEFORE my formal training.  How “dumbed down” can you be?  Anywho….lets move on before my blood pressure boils.

If you choose to eat the Standard American Diet…WHERE do you expect to get your nutrients from?   How will you maintain fluid balance?  Our bodies require fluid balance for optimal health.

HOW do you keep your body oxygenated?   First, eat what Mother Nature intended you to eat…WHOLE foods.  Not processed junk. The refined foods don’t completely metabolize and they force the oxygen OUT of your body leaving you unbalanced and a breeding grown for illness.  Dehydration forces oxygen out of your cells.  Put back in enzymes…..herbs…spices…pure water…EXERCISE….not rocket science here.  Eat from nature.  It’s easier than you think.  Get out of your own way!

No matter WHAT you name your dis-ease, it can NOT live in a healthy body! YOU hold the key to great health right in your OWN hands.  The only thing you need to do is DECIDE to change.  Health is on your horizon if you make the right choice.  NO MATTER what you are dealing with.

Ask yourself….Am I or have I been an enabling parent?

Excerpt from a great book called “Setting Boundaries with your Adult Children by Allison Bottke – a must read if you answer YES to the following questions.

Below are a few questions that might help you determine the difference between helping and enabling an adult child.  Interesting to note that these questions are not unlike those often asked in Al-Anon meetings when defining the behaviors of an alcoholic or drug addict with whom someone lives.

1.  Have you repeatedly loaned your adult child money, which has seldom, if ever, been repaid?
2. Have you paid for education and/or job training in more than one field?
3. Have you paid bills he was supposed to have paid for him/her self?
4. Have you accepted part of the blame for his addictions or behavior?
5. Have you avoided talking about negative issues because you feared his response?
6. Have you bailed him out of jail or paid for his legal fees?
7. Have you given him “one more chance” and then another and another?
8. Have you ever returned home at lunchtime (or called) and found him still in bed asleep?
9. Have you wondered how he gets money to buy cigarettes, video games, new clothes and such but cant afford to pay his own bills?
10. Have you ever “called in sick” for your child, lying about his symptoms to his boss?
11. Have you threatened to throw him out but didn’t?
12. Have you finished a job or project that he failed to complete himself because it was easier than arguing with him?
13. Have you begun to feel that you’ve reached the end of your rope?
14. Have you begun to hate both your child and yourself for the state in which you live?
15. Have you begun to worry that the financial burden in more than you can bear?
16. Have you begin to feel that your marriage is in jeopardy because of your adult child?
17. Have you noticed that others are uncomfortable around you when this issue arises?
18. Have you noticed an increase in profanity, violence, and/or other unacceptable behavior from your adult child?
19. Have you noticed that things are missing from your home, including money, valuable, and other personal property?
20. Have you noticed growing resentment in other family members because of your adult child?

• If you answered YES to several of these questions, chances are that at some point in time, you have enabled your adult child to avoid their responsilbilites and to escape the consequences of his/her actions.  Rather than helping him grow into a productice and responsible adult, you have made it easier for him to become even more dependent and irresponsible.  If you answered yes to most or all of these questions, you have not only been an enabler but you have probably become a major contributor to the problem.  It’s time to STOP.  For more info…read the book, Setting Boundaries with your Adult Children by Allison Bottke. I highly recommend it.

HYDROTHERAPY – Hot and Cold Treatments

We’ve talked about the benefit of hot and cold packs in the presence of sinus issues or infection.   Europe is famous for their hydrotherapy clinics because they WORK! I believe they call it, Take the Waters. 

HOT water sedates and relaxes you….your muscles relax and loosen.  All your blood comes to the surface. 

COLD water -exact opposite!  Stimulates you, wakes you UP!  Contracts muscles and drives all your blood from surface to deeper in your organs. 

Massage or  body work…effects the breathing, circulation and temperature of the body.  It moves blood, lymphatic fluid and stimulates the nerves and causes healing. Hydrotherapy is another powerful healing technique.

By stimulating back and forth from hot to cold….we bring the blood to the surface and drive it back to the core of your body and then draw it back again. Quicker results than a massage or exercise.

Can be a powerful healer!

S-T-R-E-T-C-H

Yummm…..does a body good!  One of the first things you see when you walk in our bedroom is a huge 24″ plastic ball.  Can’t hide it.  When gkids come over…they love it.  I have to protect it from getting busted because I love it so much!  NOTHING stretches your body out like lying and rolling around on this inexpensive but cool, large ball.  They come in all colors so you can make it match your bedroom if you want. It will open up your chest and stretch your spine, keep you limber….gotta get one.  Check Walmart…between $15-20 bucks!  NEXT thing is our inversion table.  It feels awesome to give your body a break from gravity……it gets more blood to your brain.  I love to lay there completely inverted…feel like a new person when I get up.  In fact…gonna run downstairs and enjoy it right now.  Aaaahhhhh…..

BOUNDARIES….and flexibility???

BOUNDARIES:  Personal boundaries define you as an individual. Statements of what you will or won’t do, what you like and don’t like….how close someone can get to you.  Have you defined your boundaries?  There’s always a place for boundaries but flexibility is priceless.  When defining your personal boundaries…some things need to be set in stone and some things we must allow for flexibility.   Comments?  Suggestions?

What is Natural, Healthy Living and WHO is it for?

The hardest part is that it is ONLY for those who are willing to make healthy and positive lifestyle changes. Sounds very simple but I’m amazed at how many people are NOT willing even when they know it can make huge differences.  We are all creatures of habit, I get it.  Trying to re-learn or change things is not always easy.  Natural Healing is simply helping your body become stronger and healthier so it can heal your body quicker and more easily.  After it, the body was created and designed for healing and repair.    Most often it’s as easy as stopping what we are currently doing as far as our eating and activity levels and doing what allows our body to operate under “prime” conditions.  EX: switching man made foods to only whole foods.  Taking the stairs vs the elevator; parking further away and not circling the parking lot for ten minutes for a closer spot.  Learning to forgive others and let go of the anger we surround ourselves with.  Learning to enjoy the little things in life and appreciate things. Our bodies were designed to MOVE and somehow we don’t do much of that anymore. We were designed for alot of movement…not even the typical gym workout but walking, stretching up, bending down….many of us avoid these things at all cost these days.  Too much TV…too much drama and not enough LIVING.  I see people 35 and 40 years old AVOIDING the stairs?  WHAT?  Climb them…walk them….but take the stairs whenever you can. I’m grateful to have three floors in my house that I have to climb daily and lug groceries up…because it keeps me realizing the benefit of movement.  When I see someone climb them that are not used to it…it’s a reminder that the little daily things we do….make the great difference!  Look around at your home…your life…your work space….how can you add movement into your world?  Can you walk at lunch?  Can you stand up on break and do 20 squats?  Can you stand up and move your arms side to side?  WHAT can or WHAT will you do?  You can continue sitting all day every day and when you get up…..hear the bones orchestra scream back at you or you can change it.  Right now.

Sometimes our bodies get too tired, too worn down and too filled up with junk….physical, emotional and spiritual.  We have to turn that around.  Step by step….baby steps…then bigger steps…then a few LEAPS and you will see the changes beginning to take place.