Cleansing is what you can do to help your body detoxify more thoroughly.
Covered in an earlier post, detoxification is the body’s natural process of eliminating and neutralizing toxic materials from cells, organs and the bloodstream. The body processes toxins through the kidneys, liver, urine, feces, breath and sweat.
Cleaning your Body from the Inside Out
It’s an odd concept, isn’t it? Well, not really, if you think about how much of our insides we clean on a daily basis:
The short answer: Detox is an abbreviated form for detoxification, a natural and continuous process your body uses to purify itself of harmful substances.
For those with a little more time: This about.com article, “What You Need to Know About a Detox Diet,” does a great job summarizing the research I’ve done so far in this area.
Long-winded, but interesting, answer:
The coolest thing about being alive on Earth is that we truly exist as part of something bigger – for this discussion, I mean biologically-speaking. All living organisms are co-dependent on their environment for basic survival (for air, water, energy, etc.).
Can you imagine being in absolute chaos…grocery shopping on a Saturday, horns honking and people shouting in a traffic backup, being jostled by angry and impatient commuters on a crowed bus…and yet have none of it affect you as you bask in your own little paradise in your mind?
Meditation is literally regarded as a health tool by countless people across the globe, including health professionals. It’s thought of as an exercise used to strengthen the mind towards peace and quiet. Any moms out there? 
Correct posture practice increases your body awareness, internal body functioning, confidence, breathing, and alertness, just to name a few. It actually reduces stress, fatigue, and general aches and pains in overstressed joints and overused muscles caused by improper posture, like chronic neck, shoulder and back pain.
Perfect posture also helps prevent unnecessary injury from complex movements (like weight training) to simple movements (like picking up a sock off the floor) because, “good posture involves training the body to stand, walk, sit and lie in positions where there the least strain is placed on supporting muscles and ligaments.” Read the rest of this entry »
The Canadian Health Network, part of the Public Health Agency of Canada, uses the World Health Organization’s (WHO) widely used and generally accepted definition of health:
“a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
But check this out, the Canadian Health Network goes on to clarify what this definition really means, that health is:
Multidimensional : it is related to physical, mental and social well-being.
Multi-determined : it is affected by many factors, including:
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Dynamic : it shifts freely and frequently.
Subjective : each person’s experiences of health can differ widely, even when the “dimensions” appear to be similar.
This definition has been criticized for its lack of boundaries - I guess it’d be difficult to know where to start treatment when there so many possibilities (controllable and uncontrollable).
However, the old definition of health was real loosey-goosey with: “an absence of illness”. This makes total sense when you consider the current state of healthcare – the healthcare system was set up way-back when this definition was accepted.
What do you think would happen if
Canadians are extremely fortunate. Yes, in many ways but specifically, our healthcare has been rated as one of the best in the world (we were 30 out of 191 back in 2000).
More often than not, however, you’ll hear someone complain about their experiences with our healthcare system. Recently, I’ve been experiencing some unusual symptoms that I’ve mentioned several times to a specialist whom I’ve been seeing regularly for about three years (for a separate problem in the same region). I had to ask for her to take tests and when they came back negative, it seemed to be enough for her to drop the subject all together.
A year later, several more tests, another doctor and my insistence, we finally found something that could be causing my extra symptoms.
The key here was my insistence. Also equally funny is her answer to my inquiry if there was anything I can do to heal my body. She said nope, it’s normal and will go away on its own…despite that the symptoms are problematic and interfering with the quality of my life.
