Balancing the Physical Body
Educate yourself series Pt8
The Physical Body
The visible, tangible aspect of The Multidimensional Self
Recognising the new evidence in science and acknowledging the energy nature of all things lead us to define the human being in a different way. Looking from this new perspective the human being has four major aspect that we need to consider in terms of health and well being.
Physical Body
Emotional Body (heart or soul)
Mental Body (mind)
Spiritual Body (spirit)
The next 4 short posts will focus on each of these aspects and discuss how to achieve balance and harmony in all. However please keep in mind that everything is connected and these four bodies are interdependent and interacting with each other all the time. Still there are some guidelines that point us into the direction of how to achieve perfect health and balance.
Restoring The Physical body
How to achieve Perfect Health?
This aspect of you is the most obvious and can be perceived with your 5 senses. To have a healthy body is crucial to live a balanced life. If your body is sick or in pain, your quality of Life will be significantly lower that means that you cannot enjoy your Life to the fullest. In the following there are some guiding principles to consider to achieve and maintain perfect health.
The 7 keys to a healthy body
Achieving Perfect Health
1. OXYGEN - The breath of Life
Proper oxygenation of the human body is outmost important. The human body requires a very precise and specific balance of oxygen in the blood. When blood oxygen level drops below 80 percent, organ functions are already compromised.
You can go without food or even water for days, but without oxygen, your body will die in just a few minutes.
We can all agree that proper breathing is important. Therefore Oxygen is the primary catalyst for energy and physical health.
Did you know?
Dr. Otto Warburg, 1931 Nobel prize winner, discovered a close connection between oxygen and cancer. His studies showed that the primary cause of cancer is directly related to oxygen-deprived cells.
How to restore oxygenation of the body?
Breathe fresh air!
Go outside, go out to nature and breathe fresh air. Open your windows and let fresh air into your house, car, life.
Breathe deeply!
Cultivate breathing practices!
There are many form of breathing practices, such as Qi Gong, shamanic breathing, holotrop breathing, Pranayama, Kundalini yoga, diving or simply playing the didgeridoo just to name a few. To incorporate a short, few minutes breathing practice into your everyday life will help you to slow down and deepen your breath therefore allowing more oxygen into your body.
Just after a few days practice you will feel a rise in your energy level and at the same time you will be more calm and relaxed.
2. WATER - Hydration for balance
"Dehydration is one of the most overlooked and basic causes of disease." (Dr Sircus)
More than half of the human body is water.
We can live for a few months without food but will last only about 10 days without water. Next to air (oxygen) is the most important nutrient of our body.
Most of the adult population is dehydrated.
Dehydration can cause fatigue, pain, speeds up aging, makes your body acidic thus more prone to any disease and increases your chance for cancer by 50%.
Therefore drinking plenty of clean water is outmost important.
Did you know?
The first sign of dehydration is the darkening of the urine. The color of urine in a dehydrated person will be dark yellow to orange. The more hydrated we are the lighter the color of our urine.
When you are thirsty that is your body's emergency signal to drink-hydrate, don't wait that long!
How much pure water do you drink a day?
How to restore hydration of the body?
Drink plenty of clean water throughout your day.
Keep a Water Bottle
Keep a water bottle with you at all times, this will help you to drink more water and make it a daily habit.
Make it crazy
You can flavour your water with mint, slices of cucumber or lemon, ginger root, chia seeds and berries. You can even put natural crystals in your bottle. Be creative and enjoy drinking your water!
Good to know
Drink clean, untreated, filtered water and avoid fluoride. Best option is natural spring water.
3. EXERCISE - Moving the Body
Regular exercise greatly supports the body in the assimilation of nutrients and the elimination of toxins.
Furthermore it helps to switch of the mind, relax and feel good about yourself. It contributes to better sleep, more energy, healthier body and weight and better mood even to increased libido.
How to introduce exercise into your everyday Life?
Do something that you love!
Find something that you love doing, do it daily, enjoy. You don't have to go to the gym to get some exercise, you can take up horse-riding, sky-diving, scuba, yoga, paddleboarding, hiking, thai-chi just to mention a few ways of some more exotic workouts.
Do It on a regular bases!
Make a joyful workout valued part of your life. Doing something f
or yourself will increase your energy, confidence and general outlook on your life. This also will support you deeply reconnect with your body, listen to your body and appreciate your physical self. You will feel more grounded and empowered in your healthy, strong and flexible new body.
Did you know?
Two minutes of rebounding (mini-trampoline) can flush the entire lymph and triple the production of white blood cells - this makes it a super effective immunity booster.
4. REST - Reduce stress
Most people experience high levels of stress on a daily bases.
According to doctors and scientists the majority of the diseases are stress realted. When you are constantly stressed, you are unable to relax and recharge and that compromises your immune system. In the long run we have to eliminate the source of stress from our lives to return to complete balance.
How to start reducing stress in your life right now?
However there are lots of things you can start doing today to reduce stress in your life.
Laughter is the best medicine, smile!
Take up a hobby, do something for yourself!
Ask for support - reach out!
Eat some raw chocolates!
Did you know?
According to a survey the major cause of stress is money.
When you kiss your body releases powerful chemicals that reduce stress hormones.
5. DETOXIFY - Regular cleansing of the Body
With our modern but unhealthy lifestyle most of us are in contact with a lot of toxic and harmful material on a daily bases.
The most common sources of toxic pollutants come from:
Processed, modified food and water
Beauty products and cleaning products full of chemicals
Electromagnetic radiation
Air pollution
Unless you live on an organic farm in the middle of nowhere completely sustainable it is pretty sure that you have accumulated toxins in your body.
How to start detoxing your body now?
Fasting
Most ancient healing practices and religious practices too emphasied the benefits of fasting and cleansing the body on a regular bases.
Keeping your body clean with regular fasting and cleansing practices will boost your immune system, your health and prevent most of the diseases. There are many ways of letting go of the toxins such as special diets, fasting, colon cleansing, detox bath, saunas and the list goes on.
And most of all you will feel great, vibrant and alive, full of energy again!
Did you know?
The value of body cleansing through colon has been practiced for more than three thousand years. As early as 1500 B.C., the 'Ebers Papyrus', an ancient Egyptian medical document, described the many benefits of colon cleansing.
6. PROPER DIET - Pure nutrition for the Body
Food. Another basic element of our lives. We cannot go around it, we have to eat. Food is our main source of nutrients.
Most of western, processed, modified diet is so toxic that our food causes us to be sick in many cases (see: the diabetes, obesity, heart disease) instead of supporting and nurishing us to stay healthy.
It is proven that most diseases are preventable and reversable with changing to a proper, healthy, fresh and organic diet.
How to start eating better now?
And the good news is, you can start to make a change now! Here are some good tips that can help you get started right now,
Eat real food, clean food, mostly plants.
Do youe eating at a dining table.
Avoid refined and processed foods full of sugar.
Introduce juicing into your daily life.
Discover powerful superfoods to energize your body.
There is plenty of information available for free for those who are looking, on diet, nutrition and their connection to our physical health. You need to try new things and experiment to know what suits you best. We all have to eat and we all have to choose what is going inside us all the time. Let's make the best choices possible, let's enjoy delicious fresh food and a radiant healthy body.
Did you know?
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food"
- Hippocrates in 460 BC
7. PLAY - Creative expression, ispiration
When we are being creative, playing, having fun, engaging in a hobby our brain releases so called 'happy' hormones such as serotonin and dopamine that makes us feel good and also boosts our immune system.
A creative Life for Health
Several studies have shown that a Creative Life is associated with
A more meaningful Life
Less stress and anxiety
Better ability to cope with challanges
Being more present in the moment
Enjoying life to the fullest
We can clearly see that creativity is good for our health our mood and you can freely choose what you feel creative about.
Take up a creative hobby today!
Taking up a hobby, immersing yourself in art will bring you a deeper sense of connectedness and it also brings you together with like-minded people.
Did you know?
Creative Art Therapy is widely used in healing to help to express thoughts and feelings that are difficult to put into words. For this reason art therapy is a vital part of the healing process in some cases and especially highly effective with children.
These 7 main areas that we just discussed are vital and equally important to maintain and experience perfect physical health.
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