Breathing, Nutrition, and Sleep

I was reminded, yesterday, that there is more to being radiantly healthy than simply believing you are. There are elements to creating health that go beyond the practice of creating through thought. Most of us live in a toxic, polluted environment. I understand one out of three of us suffer from sleep deprivation. Our food supply has been modified, processed and putrefied. The meat packing industry is appalling with its practices and the cattle and poultry industries have forever been injecting our supply with antibiotics, growth hormones, and feeding the animals tainted foods. I won't even go into how veal gets to be veal or how chickens are housed. If you want more information about it read, Diet For A New America. The rate of heart disease, cancer, obesity, mental disorders, learning disabilities, and mental disorders are rising at unimaginable rates.

One in six Americans is on a prescription drug. Chemicals compounds to adjust a mood, or to help you focus or to make you sleep or to do just about whatever you can imagine, has consequences on a cellular level that may be compromising other organs and systems. They are advertised as the answer to your problem, however, the problem could be caused by something you're eating or not eating.

Sleep disorders may not be as prevalent if we didn't have 24 hours of television programming. We lost our rhythm of being human because of electricity. It's light when it should be dark. Our minds are full of chatter from radio, television, video games and newspapers. Caffeine in soft drinks and the daily coffee consumption will interfere with your system more than you may realize.

Lack of sufficient oxygen intake will make you tired, moody, depressed and fat.

So, besides your daily sessions of belief management...that is....creating in your mind the vision of perfect health, and feeling, and creating that experience, it would be wise to assist your body in returning to the basics. Do you want to feel the best you've ever felt?

Eat organic vegetables whenever possible. Support local farmers who don't use genetically engineered seeds or chemical fertilizers and pesticides. It's good for your body and good for the planet. Learn to cook. Eating at home or home cook food is far superior to most restaurants. At least you can be assured nobody is coughing or spitting on your food.

Clean water is essential for your body to function properly. Eight glasses a day is a good beginning.

Breath deeply. Open up your lungs to full capacity and stretch yourself. If you live in a large city like Los Angeles, get an air purifier. Oxygenate yourself!

And sleep, sleep, sleep. Uninterrupted sleep for a minimum of 8 hours every day can make the biggest difference to your moods and thought processes.

I will be adding links to sites that disclose practices in our food industry you may not be aware of.

Americans seem to have a certain blind trust in our government to protect us, after all, we have federal agencies set up to do just that. Kind of like the federal agency that was doing such a heck of a job after Katrina. Labeling laws don't have to tell you if food has been genetically engineered. So, don't think for one second, that the FDA is checking your food for fecal matter, bugs, pesticides, poisons. They'll tell you a certain amount isn't bad....but who's checking?

So, avoid caffeine, soft drinks, (diet and otherwise) and processed foods. Breath deeply, eat organic and see a new America re birthing itself.