Natural Paths to Health and Healing
Nourishment
Eliminating highly processed, nutrient poor foods from our diets and fueling our bodies with the most wholesome, nutrient dense food, herbs and supplements possible, provides our bodies with the essential nutrients they need maintain good health. Good nourishment is vital for not only for staying healthy, but is also an especially important component for healing when we are ill.
Detoxification
Internal cleansing is a powerful and very effective tool that can help to accelerate any journey from illness to wellness. And in order to detoxify ourselves more effectively and completely, it’s also very important that we discontinue the use of any cleaning and personal products containing toxic ingredients and remove them from our personal spaces and homes.
Hydration
Keeping the body well hydrated by drinking plenty of pure, clean, uncontaminated water is a fundamental key to good health and healing.
Rest, Sleep and Relaxation
The body requires sufficient down time to effectively repair and rejuvenate itself, so adequate rest and sleep are essential for healing and wellness. And since the human body was never designed to cope with the kind of chronic stress many of us in the modern world today endure on a daily basis, allowing ourselves ample opportunity to relax can be extremely beneficial. Relaxation diffuses the effects of undue stress and helps to alleviate the damaging impact chronic stress can have upon our health.
Movement
Moving our bodies through space has myriad health benefits. Not only does physical activity help to strengthen our hearts, muscles, connective tissue and bones, it also stimulates vascular and lymphatic circulation, while increasing the level of life-giving oxygen that is delivered to every cell of our bodies.
Sunshine
The light shining from our sun is essentially the source for all life on this planet. Therefore vital, life-giving energy streams from this star! We were never meant to live our lives spending day after day inside buildings, perpetually shielded from this powerful source of energy. Exposing ourselves to moderate amounts of sunshine and allowing this natural light to penetrate our bare skin is not only a vitalizing overall tonic, but it also triggers our bodies to naturally produce vitamin D, an essential nutrient for healing and wellness. This is especially important these days, as many people who live in northern latitudes are suffering from vitamin D deficiency.
Loving Relationships
Community, open communication, companionship, friendship, warmth, love and affection shared between friends, family and loved ones can have a powerful and positive impact upon our health. Even connectivity with animals, plants and other living things in Nature may provide therapeutic benefits to our well being.
Bodywork
Hands-on healing modalities such as massage therapy, acupuncture, reflexology, cranial sacral, chiropractic, lymphatic drainage, polarity and other therapies can be very beneficial in the dissolution of blockages and the restoration of free flow through the body’s physical and energetic currents and meridians.
Eclectic Natural Paths
Further highly effective approaches to wellness have been discovered and pioneered, including ozone and oxygen therapies, far infrared lamps and saunas, ultraviolet blood irradiation, zappers, Lakhovsky coils, Rife technology and urine therapy. All are powerful healing tools that may be well worth exploring on any journey from illness to wellness.