Celebrating Earth Day: Environment and Your Health

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Good Morning!

 

Celebrating Earth Day: Environment and Your Health

 

Much awareness has been brought to environmental issues this year in

particular. Wether it has to do with the fact that it is an election

year or that people are really sitting up and taking notice... it is

hard to know. What is important that the issues are being brought to

the forefront where they can be addressed.

 

With all the excitement about " going green " , big corporations are

finally jumping on the band wagon. Al Gore's movie 'An Inconvenient

Truth' has made the masses more aware of global warming and that has

been another milestone in the fight for a greener planet.

 

The excessive abuse of our environment plays an intergral part in how

we live our lives and ultimately a major factor in determining our

own health and healing. Environmental issues such as worldwide

pollution, the garbage disposal and landfills, and the toxic waste

seeping into the ground and our water supply, have become staggering

statistics.

 

Along with polluting our air and warming our climate, the

exploration, extraction, and use of fossil fuels can cause incredible

damage to water and land resources. Oil spills destroy plant and

animal life, and leave waterways and their surrounding shores

uninhabitable for long periods of time. In addition, strip mining for

coal deposits devastates landscapes by reducing mountaintops and

filling-in valleys and streams.

 

 

Polluting The Temple

 

The temple, our physical body, is the only thing we have to carry the

soul. When our physical bodies are not in proper working order,

everything around us ultimately suffers. Our good health is all we

have that stands between us and the aging process. The more our air,

food and water are taxed and altered, our body has to work harder to

cleanse itself. The longer we keep our physical body in optimum

health, the longer we have our temple to keep our soul on this plane.

Detoxification is the best way to keep the body at its most ultimate

working level.

 

Symptoms such as frequent or reoccurring colds, feeling heavy,

sluggish or tired, poor skin, acne or other related skin problems,

allergies, a thick, coated tongue, bad breath, headache, and feelings

of gas and being bloated after meals may indicate problems in the

body's functionality and it's ability to process, digest and excrete

properly. These vague symptoms that are often overlooked tend to be

the results of a congested and sluggish body system.

 

Exposure or toxicity to food additives, solvents, pesticides,

herbicides and other toxic chemicals can cause a number of

psychological and neurological symptoms. Toxins produced by bacteria

in the gut can be absorbed, causing significant disruption of body

functions. Toxins that the body are unable to eliminate build up in

the tissues, typically in our fat stores.

 

Man-made electromagnetic fields bombard us constantly on a daily

basis. Computers, microwaves, X Ray machines, TV, cell phones and

antennas are just a few of the low and high frequency electromagnetic

fields the continue to assult us as our population grows and the need

to advance technology at the speed of light increases.

 

For a list of organization and ways you can help yourself and others,

please visit:

 

http://www.peacefulmind.com/environment.htm

 

 

Andrew Pacholyk, MS, L.Ac

Peacefulmind.com

Therapies for healing

mind, body, spirit