DETOX AND WHY WE NEED IT...

How to support your liver and kidneys?


So how do you know that your liver and kidneys functions need help?
Our liver and kidneys warn us when things go wrong…

Typical liver warning signs include:

• Waking up between 2 and 3 a.m. for no reason
• Moodiness
• Tiredness
• Lightheadedness
• High cholesterol
• Weak resistance to illness
• Dry, itchy skin
• Red, itchy eyes
• Bitter taste in the mouth
• Excessive thirst
• Indigestion
• Constipation, piles
• Nausea
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Inexplicable pain in the right side of the body

         - pain in the head
         - pain in the shoulder
         - pain in the elbow
         - pain in the hip
         - pain in the knee
         - pain in the big toe


The kidneys do give us warning signs of distress so we can take corrective action and they include:

• High blood pressure
• Sore joints and muscles
• Pain on the top of the head, behind the neck and along the spine
• Swollen eyes after sleep
• Swollen face, hands, legs and ankles
• Too little or slow urine flow
• Smelly, dark discolored urine, continuous urination
• Pain inside of the left leg
• Pain behind the knees
• Eczema, fungus on soles of the feet
• Burning, sweating, aching soles of feet
• Sore heels
• Athlete’s foot

Swiss Naturopath Alfred Vogel called liver the regulator of the body. Each and every chemical process in the blood starts with enzymes that emanate mostly from the liver. The liver not only cleans the blood, it also produces cholesterol, gall, hormones, enzymes and red blood cells. It also stores iron and glucose for future needs. Vitamins A, B ,D, E and K are stored in the liver; the liver transforms saturated fats into unsaturated fats as and when the body requires energy. It also breaks down hemoglobin and re-uses it in the body. Excess amino-acids are broken down and discarded as urea which is then excreted by the kidneys. You can see why your liver deserves attention and support!

The Kidneys work continuously with the liver to purify the blood of waste products and material that can be toxic. The kidneys also have to ensure that there is not too much water in the blood otherwise the volume of blood becomes too high for the small arteries and high blood pressure may result. In order to control the amount of water, the kidneys use a wonderful method of substituting salt, potassium and magnesium with each other inside the cells of the kidneys and in the blood. They have to calculate this very accurately to ensure that the perfect amount of these minerals is in the body and won’t be detrimental to the circulation.

The trained eye can look at the colour of urine and tell how well the kidneys are working - and how healthy the liver and the gallbladder are. Just think: urine consist of what was in your blood! The kidneys regulate the water and PH-balance (acid-alkaline levels) in the blood and this has a direct influence on the chemical landscape of the whole body. Few people know that the kidneys are responsible for new red blood cells produced in the bone marrow. The kidneys can also help to protect protein in the urine, thereby ensuring that we do no lose muscle mass.

Another important job for kidneys is to expel acid from the blood, which helps to regulate its acid/alkaline balance. Most people know these days that a constant acid state is not a friend to your body and can be detrimental to your general health. You have to drink water therefore to help the kidneys - enough to produce clean urine at least once a day. Most people do well with two to three litres of water per day. If one considers everything that the kidneys do for the body, you can understand how our health could be in dander if things started getting out of balance and the kidneys weaken or become sick.

BACK TO HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT! I am sure most of us have heard this before. It is a statement that is often used in health and food articles or programs. Many people are ignoring the nutritional value of the food that they eat and they just carry on eating junk food and ready made dishes that are easily found  in every supermarket. But even supermarkets have better choices for your daily meals, than these industrially ready made dishes with full of salt, sugar, fat or additives. Most of the supermarkets have sections of organic food, from fruit and vegetables to meat and milk products. Organic food is actually food the most of the people used to eat just 50 years ago... Seasonal vegetables and fruits that had grown in the real fields without any artificial fertilizers or toxic pest control products... Meat and milk came from the farms where animals were feeding themselves by walking outside on the fields. Fish came from sea and lakes without being farmed in a closed pools where the fish get fed by automatic feeders and their food contains antibiotic just in case that the fishes might catch a sickness. I know a person who is allergic to antibiotics and she can't eat farmed salmon because of the antibiotic that is stores in the salmon flesh.
There is an other eating habit problem that many people have today... That is over eating, many people just eat too much, what they really need for the daily requirement and when that food has no nutritional value, the person feels tired and have lots of digestive problems and which on the long term can cause diabetes, high blood presser, heart problems etc.
So many families don't have a shared meal anymore and in many families nobody really knows how to cook... Have we just become lazy, ignorant or what is it? Today there are so many sources that we can get information about good healthy food... Cooking a meal with your children can be a quality moment and they will learn from a early age how important is to cook your own meals.

I try to eat the healthiest possible way, but I am not a fanatic about the strict eating rules. I have suffered from Candida during many years when I was in my 20's and due to that had a terrible rush in my hands. If I don't control what I am eating the Candida comes back quite easily, so with my healthy eating habits I have manage to keep the Candida away. I enjoy good quality coffee and wines. I love my morning coffee and I just try to not have more than 3 cups of coffee per day... In the Mediterranean diet or way of eating, people have a glass of wine with their meal. Especially red wine can have some health benefits if you only drink a glass or two per day... The food that you eat should have nutritional value for your body but it also need to give you a moment of pleasure, a shared moment with family and friends and don't feel bad if you want to enjoy some wine with your meals... A moment of pleasure will be benefit for you and it will keep the stress levels down...
Your food choices will affect your body in good way or bad way...Most people who have a healthy lifestyle are less stressed and hardly ever catch a cold or flu, their immune system works much better and they have more energy.
Healthy food and lifestyle is not boring. Healthy food will teach you about new flavours and it will bring more colour to your plate. Most of the ready made dishes contains artificial colours and flavours...So many people especially children don't know about a real taste of food.
 Ones you shift your mind for a healthier lifestyle and start to eat food, that will be good for you and will give you the needed vitamins and minerals your desire for the junk food falls away. You begin to feel better so you begin to eat for life. Why so many of us only take this decision after they have fallen sick? So many diseases could be avoided by eating healthier from your childhood and young adulthood. Exercise is the second key to the good health. A regular exercise will keep your body fit and help you to maintain your cholesterol levels, it will also help you to cope with stress and by exercising you will keep your heart healthy and your digestive system and circulation working better.
We all have periods in life when we tent to eat and drink more, those periods can be short term like festive seasons, bit longer like holidays and then so many of us fall into bad eating and drinking habits when we are stressed or we have relationship or work problems in our life.
If you feel that you really need a change in your eating habits to get a better and healthier lifestyle you might want to start with a detox program that will help you to cleanse your body. It is not a diet or a fastening program, it is a detox cleansing program that takes 28-days, during those days you can eat different vegetables, fruits, nuts, some fish, non dairy products...By this program you will loose some weight but which is the most important thing is that you will cleanse your whole body system and you will gain energy, feel great, look good and get back to a healthier lifestyle.

SOUL COACHING

What Is Soul Coaching?

Do you know who you are and why you are here? Do you know what your mission in life is?
Are you aware of the daily guidance from your soul? No matter how great your outward success is, if you don’t know the answer to these questions, you might feel that there is something missing in your life.
The 28-Day Soul Coaching Program is a powerful program that anyone can do. It is a process that takes you to your spiritual source and helps you find meaning and sacredness in your everyday life.
It allows you to take an honest look at yourself and life, face fear, release old negative patterns, get motivated, and step boldly and joyfully into your future.

Once you have committed yourself to the program, life seems to unfold in a remarkable, almost magical, way. Declare that you are ready to discover your authentic self, and are willing to dedicate one month of your life to doing it, and loving forces of the universe will coalesce to propel you in the direction of your destiny. Synchronistic events and seeming “coincidences” begin to expand exponentially in your life.
I’m not quite sure why it happens, but once you commit to this program, it’s as if the universe has heard that declaration and amazing events seem to emerge within your life, all aimed at a deep soul cleansing and clearing. The events of your life are not an accident. If you are attracted to the Soul Coaching program, it is the right time for your soul detoxification.
The aim of Soul Coaching is to align your inner spiritual life with your outer life. It helps you to clear away mental and emotional clutter so you can hear the messages from within. It also helps you to discover your purpose so you can design a life that supports that purpose.

Regular life coaching usually focuses on the attainment of a goal or a dream. This differs from therapy, in which the intention is usually focused on emotional healing. Soul Coaching is different from these modalities, as its primary aim is to clear away inner debris in order to connect you with the wisdom of your soul.
The understanding of who you are can never be told by another. It is only when you reach into the wellspring of your being that the truth of the soul springs forth.

The 28-Day Soul Coaching® Program Copyright © 2009 5 by Denise Linn

FOUR SEASONS OF LIFE

A human life is like the four seasons of the year. From our birth, we start our first spring…Even we are very small, we have everything that a human body needs to carry on with this new life. We have a body, soul and mind… a newborn soul can be well traveled already but the new body and mind needs a lot of growing to attain a full adult size. A small body and mind needs lot of help to deal with life challenges. Our soul has been given us as a gift and it will guide us during our entire life, if only we knowledge it. Our soul is trying to tell us the truth about ourselves, but are we ready to listen to what it wants to say us… That is why we are not always happy about ourselves and who we have become as an adult.

From our childhood, our life moves from spring to summer and as most of us we want to stay in summer until to the end of our lives…Long warm days, carefree lifestyle, healthy, happy etc…

But most of us ends in autumn sooner or later some even very early in their adulthood and gets stuck in autumn in long period of time feeling unhealthy, having bad relationship patterns, building up stress at work and the life has really become more a challenge than something that we really enjoy everyday…

The winter does not always mean that we are at the end of our life cycle. Everybody can attain winter if they have not been taking care of their body, mind and soul. To be in good health a human being needs to be in balance with his/hers body, mind and soul, when one of these three will be in unbalanced this will affect the other parts and we get sick or depressed etc… All this is affecting who we really are and we do not enjoy life fully. Many people take health for granted and at the age of 40 they still might feel good even they don’t do sport, their eating habits are not the best including cigarettes, excess alcohol, and stress, all this is taking toll on their life. Many people accept too easily the warning signs of their body, mind and soul trying to tell them that all is not well in their system, but most of the people do not listen to themselves, because they do not know how…

This can have devastating consequences on us. Who would’t like to live full speed at 60 and be ache and pain free. Then having a wonderful old age, even your body ages and gets tired but that is normal process of aging.

You can help yourself by looking after yourself better when you are younger and stay in summer all your life and enjoy those beautiful days of it. However, frankly most of us are in a turning point that we feel more the autumn swinging our mind and getting us tired and even depressed at early age.

In this world, some of us have hit the jackpot of life to be born in a rich democratic country with health care system and freedom and still we often suffer the most unbalanced body, mind and soul… We might even look good, have enough money, a nice career but lacking the essence of life… Which is that we are not completely connected to our own soul. We do not really know ourselves, we are telling to ourselves and others that we are fine and everything is ok but at the same time a little voice inside tries to tell you that “ hey you are telling nonsense, you are not what you say you are, and you are lying to yourself.”

Once you start to care about your own well being it will help you to take better care of the people around you…When you learn how to love yourself, it will be easy to love people around you.

You can choose a new spring in your life even you thought that you will be stuck for the rest of your life in autumn or in a long winter with not much sun shine.
Your Second Spring program will help you to attain your well being. The balance of body, mind and soul.

All this you can do in 28-days program and I guarantee you will never be feeling the same way anymore. You will gain self confidence and courage, it will help you to attain your goals in life much easier and be a dreamer and make your dreams reality. You will get out of fear. You will be fear-less…