May 2007
Take steps to Better Health
Spring Cleaning
Household cleaners often
are toxic to the body.
To make cleaning more friendly:
Micro fiber cleaning
cloths these reusable
cloths are a cleaning miracle. The split fibers trap dirt and dust,
wash like a
charm and can be used for years. They originated in Sweden and were
over $20
each, I now get mine at the dollar store! I use a variety of colours,
each for
different chores. I especially appreciate them for cleaning windows and
the
car. Use with a bit of vinegar or dish detergent in the water as
appropriate.
The combination eliminates most household cleaners and the toxins you
are
exposed to through skin contact and breath.
Ecosave laundry discs.
These three discs in
your wash machine interact to make the water very soft, reducing the
quantity
of laundry soap required. Less work for the water treatment plants and
saves
the user money. Our discs at the office are over ten years old, with
three to
five loads a day these discs paid for themselves in saved detergent the
first
month! One or two tablespoons of liquid detergent which easily rinses
out of
clothing is all that is required – no fabric softener required either.
Your
skin will love you for it.
Oxiclean in the laundry –
oxygen dissolves organic
matter – blood, grass stains etc. It eliminates the need for bleach in
most
circumstances. Great to use on the underwear, towels and bedding load.
Spring Cleaning YOU!!
We have created a new
brochure which outlines a
cleansing program that can be individualized. It is easy to do; it
requires no
fasting and gives short term and long term results. The average cell
lasts 120
days and long term cleansing would last the length of the life span of
the
cell. Drinking a couple of cups of tea and taking a few capsules for
that time
frame is easy to achieve and the long term benefits can be remarkable.
How did you do with your
new year resolution?
Evidence points to another way of achieving success – choose one goal
every 13
weeks, by the end of the year you have 4 new habits. One goal at a time
is
manageable. What would you like to make a new habit of doing? Remember
make it
one specific target. Allow yourself some leeway. Example instead of
saying I
want to eliminate junk food from my diet, which may be a very hard
habit to
change, make it reasonable – I will only have fast food (junk food etc)
two
times per week. Of course we all can make our own substitution in this
line. If
you chronically arrive late at work or events make the commitment to
arrive on
time 4 out of 5 times. Floss your teeth weeknights, give yourself the
weekend
off. You will be surprised, I think, to find this new habit starts to
spread to
all days of the week! Walking half an hour daily is another great
habit. Once
people walk a few times per week the body starts to develop new energy
cells
making it even easier to walk more often or another block!
Some of our not so good
habits have feelings
attached to them; a session to dissolve the source of these feelings
and to
create new pathways can have profound effects. Taking a flower remedy
may also
be helpful.
Clearing Your Stuff
When cleaning or sorting
“stuff” that I don’t
know what to do with, my first two criteria are time and space. Is it
worth my
time to process this again and is it worth my space to keep it until I
might
need it again? Some people have so much stuff that when they need to
use
something, it is impossible to find! Clearing the clutter from your
space is a
very good exercise to help clear the clutter from your mind.
Start in one area and work
your way into the
rest of your space! An example is a desk. File, sort and discard
everything
that you can. Remove all else from the surface of the desk, then work
through
each piece of paper that you have removed. Touch each piece of paper
once,
maximum twice if you are sorting onto piles to be filed. Have your
recyle bag
and shredder close within reach as well as file folders and labels. The
more
you sort your things the easier it is to keep going. Keep the discarded
and
reusable things that you are passing on going out, don’t just store
them in
another place.
Or start with one drawer,
shelf, box or
cupboard. Have boxes or bags marked for donating and garbage. Make a
reasonable
commitment to do one more per day or week.
Soon you will be enjoying the fruits of your labour: organization and SPACE!
Diane Wiebe is an herbalist
and natural health practitioner at Okanagan Natural Care Center in
Kelowna. www.naturalcare.bc.ca
