Detox Your Life

Toxins stress your body, mind and spirit.

Reducing and eliminating toxins of all kinds is an important part of getting and staying well.

Toxins come in many forms. Basically toxins from pesticides, herbicides, chemicals, drugs, medicines and metabolic processes compromise the health of your body, although they can also negatively affect your mind as well.

Toxic thoughts, beliefs and behaviors negatively affect your mental, emotional and spiritual health as surely as poisons affect your body. They create unhappiness and stress.

When you detox your life on all levels, you create better physical and mental health and energy for pursuing what is important to you.

Detoxify Your Home and Environment

Toxins in the air, soil, water and your foods can make you ill or more susceptible to disease.

All the cells in your body will function better when you reduce your toxic exposure as much as possible. The result will be less likelihood of disease and better overall health.

Eco-friendly living is easy and helps everyone to have a healthy environment.

To reduce toxic exposure through your skin and lungs:

• Take care to air out your home often, or use an air filter. Indoor pollution is several times worse than outdoor pollution, especially in new homes and homes that are well insulated and air tight.
• Make a commitment to using non toxic cleaning products in your home and on your body whenever possible.
• Use organic, natural products on your body or do without. Your skin readily absorbs the all to common toxins in many personal products such as shampoos and make up.

Detoxify Your Body

People detox from a variety of substances including alcohol, drugs, heavy metal and chemicals. Some practice body or organ detoxes regularly in an attempt to improve health or lose weight.

• The body has natural body detoxification channels that store or eliminate toxins. In addition to periodic cleansing, take steps daily to limit toxins in your environment and foods. Support your body nutritionally aids natural body detoxing.
• An added bonus of reducing toxins might be weight loss. New research shows that toxins called xenoestrogens, found in soft plastics and many other products are obesogens that cause weight gain while making it more difficult to lose weight. Reducing obesogens is good for your health and your weight.
• Healthy colon cleanses and cleanses for specific organs are used to help your system remove toxins and function more effectively.

Spiritual and Mental Detox

Mental and emotional toxicity are caused in many ways. Your reactions to problems with relationships, jobs, finances, busyness, illness, negative thinking patterns, and other challenges can cause a chronic cascade stress-induced chemical reactions in your body.

Toxic thoughts and resulting actions take a toll on your emotional, mental and spiritual well-being. If your overall thoughts and actions are not encouraging you to live a healthier, happier life, they are probably toxic or at best neutral.

• Take control of your mental, emotional and spiritual health. Assume full responsibility for your thoughts, beliefs and responses and reactions. This is the first step in shifting them.

  Reduce and eliminate toxic emotions and thoughts that create stress and make you feel bad about yourself and others.

• Forgiveness is a vital part of spiritual and mental detox. Forgiving yourself and others unloads a lot poison from your mind. It is healing to your whole self.
• Cultivate inner peace and self-love. When you are at peace with yourself and the world, and self care is a priority, you have more internal reserves and you are much less likely to react in a way that creates a toxic situation for yourself and others.

The payoff is a healthier, happier life.

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