We all know what the typical day to day stresses consist of now a days. Work schedule's, kids schedule's, bills and unfortunately more and more self induced stress over the unneeded. Here are 4 of the main daily stresses that are actually the focal points to most of our dysfunction. These are the stresses that we could control the most and unfortunately usually do nothing about
Environmental:
We have all heard the saying that we are the company that we keep. Well that is just as true as saying we are only as healthy as our environment. So what we need to think about are the environments that we live in daily like our homes, places of work and social circles in which we chose, are these as healthy as they need to be. It should start with our home environment first. Is this a clean place for good thoughts and wellness or is this a mess of stuff that keeps us frustrated and feeling clustered. Like Fung Shui teaches we have to find balance and harmony where we live so we can be at our highest level of being. So let us recognize the environments in which we live and make sure they are the true sanctuaries needed for our temples. Next is where we spend probably most of our time is work. Is our work environment conducive to us being healthier more manageable people or is it a place of aggravation and self indulgence rather than productivity and prosperity. We don't always have the ability to change our livelihoods but we can certainly make them better environments for us to conduct day to day business. Finally is our Social Circles or Clicks as we know them. These tend to be the most disruptive if we allow them, which most of us do. It is not easy to cut off certain people that have been lifelong friends or acquaintances, but we have all been faced with certain people that will drain you if you let them. Not only are we doing ourselves a favor by keeping better company but we will also be doing a favor to those who cannot choose better for themselves. Sometimes it is truly good to be selfish for good reasons not foolish reasons.
Physical:
In this day you can literally find a gym open 24 hours on almost every street corner but obesity and disease is ever growing. So I ask you are you as physically active as you need to be daily or does most of your stress actually come from the lack of exercise. Our bodies need a certain amount of daily exercise for good mental and physical wellness. Do we wake up and stretch and greet the day with good physical activities such as yoga, running or working out or do we just roll out of bed and wind up on the coach. This is a slump that most of us fall into and don't know how to break the cycle. Now onto our places of work. Are we physically active at work or does the day consist of punching numbers or staring at wall post's and chatting with neighbors on farmville. No matter if we have a desk job or are literally pumping steel as an iron worker we all need some physical activity outside of work. Next is everyone's favorite " Happy Hour". Instead of unwinding after work with a different scene we usually wind up at the nearest watering hole. We need to change up the normal day to day interactions and redirect our frustrations at the gym not our peers. Sometimes these cause the most stress in our lives and we don't even realize it.
Nutritional:
This is probably the most important and the one stress that we really do have 100% control over. We have more food choices than ever at our disposal and this is the main reason why most of us choose comfort over nutrition. So how do you choose your foods in your environments daily. Do you go for those easy to digest and highly nutritious foods organic smoothies, juices, fruits, whole grain breads, cereals or the ever so popular grease with a side of grease. This is how the body finds its daily nutrients needed by the brain to compute the days events for the body to react accordingly. No wonder why most of us feel like hitting the snooze button every morning or just literally going back to bed by noon. We need to start the day with the most empowering food so that we can feel more functional in our environments while being physically active. Eating 4-5 smaller but more nutritious meals daily allows your body to balance blood sugar more effectively and to keep the brain sharp and focused while feeling less stressed. While we are at work we need to choose better lunches to keep the energy going rather than having that mid day lunch coma that most people experience. Our dinners too need to be more than just pizza delivery and kraft boxed foods. We need to take time to sit down with our families and enjoy true real food. This will bring not only good health and wellness to your family but it will also bring more happiness and less stress.
Emotional:
Almost always this becomes the by product of the first 3 choices we choose good or bad. More and more we are seeing a culture of people blinded like Amish horses with no peripheral vision from all of the drugs being prescribed to them. We are not fixing the true reasons why these depression and anxiety problems are becoming the downfall to our society. If we do not take responsibility for our own actions and start to choose better for ourselves and others we will continue this downward spiral of self loathing. If we only make small steps towards making our environment, physical activity, nutrition better we will see a big improvement on our emotional state of mind. We do hold the keys to our own success in life. It is up to us to find it and learn how to use it!
We need to remember that we cannot control all the factors of our lives. Inevitably we will all have to make decisions or deal with consequences we don't like. By taking the time to be more aware of our environments while being more physically active in them and making better nutritional choices we will be much more emotionally sound with less self induced stress. These are the best reasons for us to be selfish and make the best decisions possible. Remember, wise selfish not foolish selfish!
Happy & Healthy Destressing,
The Organic Guru
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Is A Leaky Gut The Reason For Auto-Immune & Chronic Fatigue?
More and more we are seeing TV ad's for stomach drugs and products to soothe indigestion. What if simple heartburn and bloating weren't the only things effecting your health. There is a condition which doctors are starting to learn more about each day called "Leaky Gut Syndrome". This is a condition in which the digestive system, through years of either abusive eating or mega doses of anti-biotic, certain medications and stress full living, results in this dis-ease. The digestive system becomes inflamed and irritated more often because of acidic foods, antibiotics and foods that are lacking essential enzymes. The more this occurs, the body slowly produces small tears along the inside of the stomach and parts of the digestive system. These tears are created from the inflammation of the digestive tissue and allow undigested food nutrients into the blood stream. The blood toxins that these nutrients become are the actual conditions themselves. The body is not designed to digest food nutrients such as proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals directly in the bloodstream. This is the job of the stomach along with friendly bacteria and essential enzymes working together. When the body deals with these blood toxins with each malnutritious meal we start to feel the tell tale signs of the disease Fribromyalgia.
Most people that are struggling with this dis-ease feel the symptoms after eating meals, which makes sense the stomach is where it starts. When these toxins enter the blood stream they cause the body's natural defense system to kick in and try to correct the foreign matter invading it's space. This is where the chronic fatigue and auto immune play a big role in diagnosing this dis-ease that many women and men have been dealing with for decades. The chronic fatigue is the bodies way of saying that there is a major problem with the fuel tank, but unfortunately we become used to the symptoms and just deal with it or use medications to band-aid the actual problem. Then the auto-immune is the next in order for it is the auto immune function the body has to correct all foreign problems. The more we allow this to go on we just simply wear out our immune systems. With both of these major symptoms that most people if you asked them would tell you they experience often or if not daily are the true precursor's of most diseases today.
Now that we start to understand the cause's of Fibromyalgia and it's ability to truly disable the body, we see that the dis-ease is a by product of poor digestion and the lack of nutritious foods rich in enzymes, healthy soil organism's, and our natural friendly bacteria. If we simply treat the body to more nutritious and easier to digest foods we can reverse most, if not all, of the damage to the fuel tank. What we are not taught is that meats take any where from 4-7 days to completely leave the human digestive system. Plants such as grains, nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetables take about 24 hours to completely leave. Not hard to see what is better fuel for the system. I am not saying that you should not eat meat or that the body is not designed for it since I truly believe that we are Omnivores. What I am saying is that we need to tip the scales so that the good greatly out ways the bad. This is where the true health of the human comes to play. We are truly designed to eat a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and also enjoy the occasional animal product and balance the health of the system. Unfortunately we take everything to the extreme now a days and we live to eat instead of eating to live. By really looking at our daily nutritional needs we can truly sustain more energy with less fuel as long as we are eating more nutritious high energy food. In return, the body will heal itself by not having to digest as often allowing the nutrients to be be absorbed properly by the tissues and cells they where intended for. Using essential enzymes supplements with each meal will be a great way to insure proper digestion and healing. Also after the use of anti-biotics we have to replace what they where designed to destroy which is all bacteria. Destroying the good bacteria which was first put there from birth and from the colostrum that our mothers gave us through breast feeding is one of the true reason we have such weakened immune systems. By using pro-biotics we can replace certain strains of these friendly bacteria that help not only digest foods better but also protect us from infections and dis-ease.
We truly are what we eat. If we do not take time to eat healthier, organic, non refined and easier to digest food, we will continue to make more dis-eases in the future. Some easy suggestions I can offer you to help this transition is to drink plenty of fresh water daily to help keep all cells hydrated for absorption. Juice fresh organic fruits and vegetables daily to help give optimum absorption of nutrients to the body with less effort needed by the stomach without having to digest heavy solids. Eating fresh raw foods during the day is also a must to help cleanse the intestines and blood stream with the fibers and antioxidants. By eating healthier foods we will slowly rebuild the digestive tissue that was once damaged. We will experience a new vibrancy and energy that we once remembered. The immune system will not be weakened and the cold or flu that will not go away will be a thing of the past.
Just remember that this is not always going to be easy to achieve, but every day that you apply some of this to your diet you will see a big difference to your health. We must be the change that want to see.
Happy Health & Wellness
The Organic Guru
Most people that are struggling with this dis-ease feel the symptoms after eating meals, which makes sense the stomach is where it starts. When these toxins enter the blood stream they cause the body's natural defense system to kick in and try to correct the foreign matter invading it's space. This is where the chronic fatigue and auto immune play a big role in diagnosing this dis-ease that many women and men have been dealing with for decades. The chronic fatigue is the bodies way of saying that there is a major problem with the fuel tank, but unfortunately we become used to the symptoms and just deal with it or use medications to band-aid the actual problem. Then the auto-immune is the next in order for it is the auto immune function the body has to correct all foreign problems. The more we allow this to go on we just simply wear out our immune systems. With both of these major symptoms that most people if you asked them would tell you they experience often or if not daily are the true precursor's of most diseases today.
Now that we start to understand the cause's of Fibromyalgia and it's ability to truly disable the body, we see that the dis-ease is a by product of poor digestion and the lack of nutritious foods rich in enzymes, healthy soil organism's, and our natural friendly bacteria. If we simply treat the body to more nutritious and easier to digest foods we can reverse most, if not all, of the damage to the fuel tank. What we are not taught is that meats take any where from 4-7 days to completely leave the human digestive system. Plants such as grains, nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetables take about 24 hours to completely leave. Not hard to see what is better fuel for the system. I am not saying that you should not eat meat or that the body is not designed for it since I truly believe that we are Omnivores. What I am saying is that we need to tip the scales so that the good greatly out ways the bad. This is where the true health of the human comes to play. We are truly designed to eat a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and also enjoy the occasional animal product and balance the health of the system. Unfortunately we take everything to the extreme now a days and we live to eat instead of eating to live. By really looking at our daily nutritional needs we can truly sustain more energy with less fuel as long as we are eating more nutritious high energy food. In return, the body will heal itself by not having to digest as often allowing the nutrients to be be absorbed properly by the tissues and cells they where intended for. Using essential enzymes supplements with each meal will be a great way to insure proper digestion and healing. Also after the use of anti-biotics we have to replace what they where designed to destroy which is all bacteria. Destroying the good bacteria which was first put there from birth and from the colostrum that our mothers gave us through breast feeding is one of the true reason we have such weakened immune systems. By using pro-biotics we can replace certain strains of these friendly bacteria that help not only digest foods better but also protect us from infections and dis-ease.
We truly are what we eat. If we do not take time to eat healthier, organic, non refined and easier to digest food, we will continue to make more dis-eases in the future. Some easy suggestions I can offer you to help this transition is to drink plenty of fresh water daily to help keep all cells hydrated for absorption. Juice fresh organic fruits and vegetables daily to help give optimum absorption of nutrients to the body with less effort needed by the stomach without having to digest heavy solids. Eating fresh raw foods during the day is also a must to help cleanse the intestines and blood stream with the fibers and antioxidants. By eating healthier foods we will slowly rebuild the digestive tissue that was once damaged. We will experience a new vibrancy and energy that we once remembered. The immune system will not be weakened and the cold or flu that will not go away will be a thing of the past.
Just remember that this is not always going to be easy to achieve, but every day that you apply some of this to your diet you will see a big difference to your health. We must be the change that want to see.
Happy Health & Wellness
The Organic Guru
Friday, January 28, 2011
Do we control more than we think?
We live in such a great country with a lot of freedoms that most countries would only dream of. The fact that we have a chance to vote and choose for ourselves is by far the best right that we own. So why do we allow the government and the companies that are appointed by it to destroy the very fabric of which this country was founded. If we take a step back and look closely, the power really does lay within our hands as Americans. Our fore mothers and fathers had more of a voice because of the way they viewed this beautiful country that they fought so hard to build. The sad thing is that through industry and chemical development we lost our true rights to choose since we allowed them to slowly take over. As they noticed through the use of synthetics and genetically modified organisms many companies realized that they could yield more and up their profits without the concern what this might do to the consumers. And as consumers we have been blinded by technology. As the decades rolled by we have chosen to throw nutritional and health caution to the wind and let these companies slowly control how we live. But we have suffered great dis-ease because of these choices.
The time is now for us to step up and take the power back. Remember this is not just our right but this is written in the Declaration Of Independence and is our constitutional right:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it!
I believe that this is truly the greatest and most beautiful country in the world and it is sad that we are letting it be destroyed by the minority that have only their own hidden agendas in mind. We are the majority compared to who we allow to be in office and represent us. Remember that from the president to all of his peers they work for us. This is our country and if we do not think that they are doing the best job possible we must remove them and make things better for the future. This will not be easy, and we will have to choose between them choosing for us or us standing up for ourselves and choosing what we know is right. We will have to sacrifice a lot of what we have grown to depend on. But we will truly be better for it and we slowly take the reins back from this out of control train wreck of a country.
We must realize that the money does not hold the real value that they tell us it does. It is actually the way we spend it that holds the true value in our times. So let us stand up and spend our money wisely and vote not only the government and all of it's cronies that have this destructive agenda out, but let us rebuild by respecting the true value of a dollar and vote the best people and companies in that have only the best interest in mind not just for us but the entire world. The time is now and the right is ours - Let us take the power back!
Peace & Prosperity To All,
The Organic Guru
The time is now for us to step up and take the power back. Remember this is not just our right but this is written in the Declaration Of Independence and is our constitutional right:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it!
I believe that this is truly the greatest and most beautiful country in the world and it is sad that we are letting it be destroyed by the minority that have only their own hidden agendas in mind. We are the majority compared to who we allow to be in office and represent us. Remember that from the president to all of his peers they work for us. This is our country and if we do not think that they are doing the best job possible we must remove them and make things better for the future. This will not be easy, and we will have to choose between them choosing for us or us standing up for ourselves and choosing what we know is right. We will have to sacrifice a lot of what we have grown to depend on. But we will truly be better for it and we slowly take the reins back from this out of control train wreck of a country.
We must realize that the money does not hold the real value that they tell us it does. It is actually the way we spend it that holds the true value in our times. So let us stand up and spend our money wisely and vote not only the government and all of it's cronies that have this destructive agenda out, but let us rebuild by respecting the true value of a dollar and vote the best people and companies in that have only the best interest in mind not just for us but the entire world. The time is now and the right is ours - Let us take the power back!
Peace & Prosperity To All,
The Organic Guru
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