New Age Self Care

Written by Ed Howes


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Rainwater is good for plants, laundry and household cleaning. Everyone should collect and store rainwater, which can also be used as an emergency drinking supply after proper filtering. Silver filters are more costly but kill living pathogens and only add small amounts of desirable silver torepparttar water. Homemade colloidal silver, much cheaper thanrepparttar 115642 commercial product, can be added to filtered rain water and left standing to provide safe water from rainwater. There are now excellent camp/survival filter systems at reasonable cost for rain, pond or stream water, even filtered gray water. This should be one ofrepparttar 115643 first items in a home or mobile survival kit.

Ionizers do a good job of cleaning inside air and contribute to a sense of well being in humans and animals. They are reasonably priced and require little maintenance. Certain plant varieties also cleanse indoor air and add daytime oxygen. If you are building a tightly sealed house or sealing an older one for energy conservation or protection from chemical and biological contaminates, a houseful of plants is a good idea. Many plants can provide food as well as oxygen. Oxygen rich environments also appear to provide beneficial health effects. I believe New Age housing should be live-in greenhouses. I also believe a year's supply of nuts, grains and seeds should be stored under vacuum inrepparttar 115644 home, for emergency food.

I was recently contemplatingrepparttar 115645 news that childhood obesity and overweight is an increasing health problem in America. Then in a little TV magazine piece, I heard a scientist say that overweight is a biological protection against famine. Fat people can more easily survive a year with scarce food and thin people die. Could America's weight problem be a soon needed survival tool and famine prediction? Still, I would prefer to haverepparttar 115646 food on hand than on body.

M.D.s and other "health" professionals are leaving establishment medicine for wholistic health practices. They are making amazing discoveries about natural health andrepparttar 115647 lack thereof. Many reportrepparttar 115648 very latest health discoveries in monthly newsletters that you can subscribe to for about $40 per year. Many have also written books that can be had for free in public libraries. Investing in health news is much better than investing in fraudulent health insurance. People will catch on as private and public insurance programs fail, due to ineffective treatments at unreasonable prices.

Once we learn to protect our own health and that of those for whom we are responsible, we will only need professional help for trauma, and not always in that situation. There are, for instance, natural substances we can keep in our medicine cabinets that stop internal hemorrhaging.

The great thing about self care is that we can learn it from professionals and we can learn it from each other. Just organizingrepparttar 115649 information alone will provide profitable work for many in this New Age.

Ed Howes

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You Don't Know Jack!

Written by Donald Schnell


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What was it like to work out with Jack La Lanne?

If he were here with you today, he'd probably say….

“Hey? Why are you sitting down? If you've been sitting for more than 30 minutes, you've got to stand up!”

“Reach up. Reach forrepparttar ceiling. Stand tall. Repeat this three more times. Try to reach a little higher with each attempt.”

“What else can I do?”

“Start with one minute of exercise.”

“Just one minute?”

“Yes! The important thing, more thanrepparttar 115641 minutes is to createrepparttar 115642 habit of exercise. It is better to startrepparttar 115643 habit and stay with it every day then to start and quit.”

We used to tell Jack all of our excuses as to why we would miss a day. He was a professional excuse killer.

“Jack, I wanted to exercise today, but I didn't have time.”

“You don't have one minute?” he would say.

Stand up. Stand behind your chair. Hold onto it with your hands. Now rise up and down on your toes forrepparttar 115644 next 60 seconds. Slow downrepparttar 115645 repetitions if you need to.

Every day add another minute of exercise. Walk in place. Try pushups.

Let me review. Every 30 minutes stand up for a minute. Reach forrepparttar 115646 ceiling.

Rise up and down on your toes. Add a minute of exercise to your life everyday until you are performing 30 minutes.

In one week you will be doing 7 minutes of exercise. You will surprise yourself at how much exercise this is. More importantly, you will be creatingrepparttar 115647 exercise habit in your life.

No more excuses. Now isrepparttar 115648 time to exercise your mind and body and to keep youthful.

Yours for success and health,

Donald Schnell



Dr. Donald Schnell co- founded with Marilyn Diamond of Fit For Life, the Spiritual Java Diet Coaching Program, that is transforming thousands. The New Spiritual Diet, Incredible Value, One on One coaching Amazing Results. http://www.SpiritualJava.com or email: Donald@SpiritualJava.com Donald Schnell is the author of The Initiation. Free Motivational Newsletter, The Buzz http://www.spiritualjava.com




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