Stay Strong, Stay Healthy, Stay Sound

With the stress of the coronavirus & its impact on businesses and communities, it’s important that we do what we can to avoid infection and spread of germs. Taking appropriate self-care is essential to maintaining your health & the health of your community. If you regularly use vibrational medicine tools, you may be a step ahead of the game, as being conscious of our body, mind, and spirit, can help boost your mental & physical balance. Here are some friendly reminders and conscious living tips to help you stay strong, stay healthy, & stay sound! 

1. Keep Your Hands & Surfaces Clean

The CDC recommends that you wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after you’ve been to a public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing or sneezing. When this is not possible, using a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol can be effective. Be sure to cover all surfaces of your hands when using sanitizer. Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands. Keeping hand sanitizer in your car, purse, and office, can help remind you to disinfect those hands if you are having a hard time keeping them away from your face. In store, we carry C & G Naturals purifying hand sanitizer gel with tea tree oil. 

Make sure to disinfect all high-touch surfaces every day, like door knobs, countertops, and sink handles. (A de-cluttered and clean environment can also help our mind and body feel more relaxed.)

2. Eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables.

There are many things (from vitamins to spices to herbs) that have been used for strengthening the body’s natural immune system balance. Ultimately, a well-balanced diet that includes fresh fruits and vegetables is the best way to create the optimal environment for your body to maintain its health. 

Foods rich in flavinoids (like blueberries, apples, pears, and green tea) are a good idea, as recent studies have shown that flavinoids play an essential role in the respiratory tract’s immune defense system. Other studies can help prevent the common cold in otherwise healthy individuals. Vitamin C and E, and rich in antioxidants, of course, also help strengthen immune function. But getting your vitamins and minerals from their source, fresh fruits and vegetables, is preferable whenever possible.

3. Keep Your Gut Healthy

Another reason for eating more fresh food (and less processed food) is to prevent an unbalanced environment for your gut. This is important for a number of reasons, First of all, an unhealthy gut can lead to toxic overload and inflammation, which will make the body have to work harder. What’s more, the gut is the only organ with its own nervous system, besides the brain. This means that neurotransmitters, like serotonin and melatonin, also reside in your gut.  (In fact, 90% of the body’s serotonin is actually produced in the gut.) So, the diversity of the microbiome in your gut plays a significant role in the levels of these neurochemicals in your system, which affects your mood and your sleep patterns.

Alcohol and NSAID over-the-counter prescriptions can strip the gut of its natural microbiome. Probiotics, tempeh, high-fiber foods, and leafy greens can help keep your gut healthy. 

4. Get Enough Sleep & Deep Rest

It’s important to get enough sleep and deep rest. Studies have shown that sleep deprivation, along with impairing judgment (decision-making and impulse control), also increases pain sensitivity and the likelihood of developing cardiovascular issues. Loss of sleep can also result in other complications, including loss of attentiveness, focus, and concentration, mood swings (with increased susceptibility to negative thinking), and even weight gain. 

When we are in a delta state of deep sleep, our muscles are supplied extra oxygen. Restorative hormones (like the growth hormone) are released, and tissue growth and repair can occur. When we don’t get enough sleep, our body starts getting behind in its process of restoration and repair, causing our body to overstress. Nighttime rituals can help prime our body to get better sleep. 

5. Exercise Regularly

Exercising regularly can also help us get better quality sleep, and can also strengthen our immune system. In fact, one study from the American Journal of Medicine stated that women who walked for a half-hour every day for a year had half the number of colds as compared to those who did not exercise. 

Exercise slows down stress hormones, which can help calm the mind and body. And ultimately, de-stressing is an integral way to support mindbody wellness.

6. Reduce Your Stress.

Your body is already an amazingly intelligent, self-healing organism. To maintain our health, we simply need to help it function at its best. External and internal stresses can keep our body and mind from operating at prime capacity, and are significant risk factors to illness. By reducing your stress and giving yourself plenty of options to recover from a day’s events, you can help your body function as it was designed.

What we expose our senses to affects how we feel and react to our environment. Here are some vibrational medicine practices to keep in mind: 

Aromatherapy and detoxifying himalayan salt lamps can help invigorate your senses and relax your body.

Yoga also can be detoxifying, while improving muscle and joint health, lowering blood pressure, and helping to regulate the adrenal glands (which control our hormones), among other benefits. 

Meditation can help calm anxious feelings, lower blood pressure, and allow the body deep rest. 

Hypnosis can help us get out of our unhelpful thought patterns, which reduces our stress responses. 

Getting a massage is another way to detoxify the body, decrease stress in body and mind, stimulate better circulation, and improve sleep quality.

Sound healing, another wellness therapy (that we also include in our spa treatments) is another effective way to trigger the body’s relaxation response and ease one into a deeper state of meditation or deep rest. 

Even if you are in a place where staying at home is recommended, you can create an environment of relaxation, calm, & restoration in your own personal space. Play your favorite relaxing music or nature sounds to set the mood, turn the lights down with a selenite or salt lamp, take a detoxifying epsom or himalayan salt bath with your favorite essential oils, enjoy a nourishing green smoothie or hot cup of herbal tea, catch up on your favorite books, meditate with your crystal singing bowl, or relieve sore muscles with self-massage.

Listen to Your Mind, Body, & Spirit

Overall, germs and your lifestyle habits affect your body’s response to illness. Being conscious of how your body, mind, and spirit are functioning and reacting throughout the day can guide you to better work with your body and not against it. So, take time to turn off the TV and put down your cell phone. Give your body good rest, stay calm, and try different ways to enhance your sleep, stress-management practice, diet, and exercise, to develop a more intuitive relationship with your body and mind, and discover what works best for you! 

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