Health and healing code

Health and healing code (Extract of my workshop On the International Women's day in Haringey 2009.

Alchemy of Health

Health has become an impossible idea. People are risking health and wealth to attain some mythical ideal of the norm. Sickness today is seen not only a breakdown of normal health but a personal failure. It has become a personal responsibility rather than a social concern. Actual prevention would require changing the basic institutions of our society: producers, manufactures, doctors and law makers etc. However here are some common sense tips:

1) Overloading with good food and vitamins are as unhealthy as malnutrition from trash foods.
2) Detox your body by eating less and different foods, detox your environment by using natural cleaners vinegar, soda and herbs. Detox your skin by dry brushing, sauna and message, Detox your kitchen by avoiding aluminum and nonstick; replace them by glass, woods or earthenware and steel. Detox your teeth by using Mercury free dentist treatment. (PO Box 42606. London SW5 OXA)
3) Reduce hypertension by changing the competitive nature of your work places. Avoid pushing personal limits to feel powerful instead nurture reverence and humility.
4) Develop mind, body, soul and spirit. Laugh a lot, moan less, create something with your hands and be kind. The neglected part of us can actually become toxic.
5) We make ourselves ill by wearing the masks and roles we have assumed for others.
6) We wrestle with a tyrannical perfectionism to tasks before we do things that give us pleasure.
7) Our health is being contaminated by the doom and gloom of the financial market. Remember ‘this too shall pass’
8) We have forgotten how to live well and gracefully within our means and limitations. Make the best you have. Self acceptance heals.
9) In small illnesses we need to realize that there is no way out but through it. Avoid rushing to medical chest.
10) Do not ignore the mental and emotional symptoms when consulting a doctor.
11) Combine nutrition, detoxification, medicine, exercise, prayers and play.
12) Increase you strength and not only aerobic fitness. Weight lifting builds strength
13) Reprogram your mind by positive attitude and beliefs. Negativity poisons.
14) Good diet is important but the following supplements are helpful: Spirulina, Selenium, Vitamins A, B, C, E, and CQ10. Check with your doctors. Use natural supplements by adding nuts, seeds, flowers, herbs and grains. Use your cultural intelligence.
15) Have hot drink after meals especially herbal teas. This helps digestion
16) Make use of parks, lakes, museums, natural reserves and countryside. Most of them are free, loaded with life enhancing elements Be grateful that your body has brilliant healing processes programmed in it.

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Hi again
Todays topic is Local remedies from personal use.
Try these.

Improve breakfast cereals by adding on the following roasted nuts and seeds. You can sprinke the ground mix on yogurt, smoothies and soups. One table spoon is enough for the day. Notice the change in your mood and appetite and stamina.
Sesamee
Sunfloweer
Punpkin seeds
Ground almonds.
Linsseds.

We are inundated with information about healthy eating, what to eat, how many portions to eat, how many calories to eat and what foods to avoid. There are tons of diets and fitness programs. Then there are people who are protesting that eating food is such an instinctive activity which has been coomercialised. However more and more restaurants are opening and people are queing up even in this credit crunch time. High street coofeeshops are becoming reading rooms but you cannot find a coffeeshop after 6pm except the pubs. It used to be fun to invite people at your home or going to a friend's house to join in the preparation of fresh cooked meals and sharing it. In short, everybody wants to eat and socialise but cooking itself is a dying art.
It is no longer passed from generation to generation, from friends and family and from educational institutions. People say with pride that I cannot cook, I cannot sew, I cannot grow. Somehow it is the job of a fuddy, duddy, housewife to slog around an oven when the inspired ones should be weight lifting or listening to an ipod. It is astounding that something like food which sustains us, which is the fire of our whole being is a second rate priority. TV companies are churning program after program on food and TV chefs are becoming multimillion business. The DFES has followed the trends. Cooking buses have been introduced to land in the car parking for year 10 to practice Food and Technology lessons. What is wrong with us? Why are we not equipping ourselves with life skills? Why are we teaching people to read labels on the food packages instead of using their hands? Somehow using computers are a better skill than preparing something to sustain yourself.

Of course people are very busy working long hours , commuting, childcaring, shopping and lugging readymade meals and filling landscapes with plastic. Introduce me to someone who moans about lack of time and I will prove that it is not lack of time, it is the lack of skill that stops them to enjoy the pleasures of nuturing food.

Food and Mood is here to hold your hand to show you just that. Join me with your friends and family to cut through your denial and bring this art to its rightful place.

I will be publishing my list of forthcoming events soon.