It’s ok to eavesdrop.

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The one useful tool I have found very helpful in managing my health is eavesdropping. Eavesdropping, I’ve found, is an art with some of us being really good at it. I am not talking about listening in on other people’s conversation, of course, that would be rude, but our own conversations we are having with ourselves, our thoughts and bodies to be exact. I am talking about the kickbacks we get, in our bodies, from the reactions to foods we eat and the traumas we experience. Do you love the food you eat, but more importantly, does it love you back? I came across a podcast recently, talking about our brain on the food we eat, and once again it was mentioned, we do not always have a healthy and supportive relationship with or from our food. Some of us are, unknowingly, in abusive relationships with the food we eat. We love them but they do not love us back which then becomes a problem for our bodies.

You’ve heard me mention before that I have supported countless individuals through their detox programs and I have seen the way their life and health would change, just by changing the foods they ate. We are constantly being bombarded with information about the food we consume so I am not about to say anything new or announce any profound breakthroughs but it is important enough to be said again. If we want to make any real or lasting changes to our bodies, we must change the way we eat and we need to learn to “listen” to what our bodies are trying to alert us to.

Food is not just a source of energy, as we’ve been taught, but it provides our body with the information to carry out the thousands of processes necessary for life. Without this information, more commonly known as nutrients, our systems can fail or experience serious injury over time. Unfortunately the quality of the information is not the same across all the food we consume. Take for instance processed foods, the cheaper the food the poorer quality the information it carries, while whole foods have better quality nutrients they are not as nutrient dense as they were 40-50 years ago. But what has changed and why is our food supply in such a sad state?

It has become more difficult to be intune with our bodies as the messages have become quite skewed. Our growing use of pesticides has brought us more problems than help, especially across populations in developed and developing countries. They wreak havoc on female hormones, causing infertility issues, disrupting thyroid function, the central nervous system, increased food allergies, and so much more. No wonder we find it increasingly difficult to eavesdrop on the ongoing internal conversation, so we can decipher any changes that may be happening and this is why I have always supported detox programs. When we give our bodies and opportunity to clear away stored toxins, we can feel better internally, find ourselves thinking more clearly and making better food choices going forward.

The argument for organic food is becoming stronger, except I believe we are to stop thinking of it as special and view it as existential. Where ever possible I think we should grow our own vegetables and eat grass-fed bred animals but they are expensive options, on purpose I might add. As I have mentioned before in my other blog posts, the food industry does not care about our welfare, if that were so we would not be able to by cheap, food-like substances that do our bodies harm. Our governments ignore or do very little to reduce the use of chemicals in our food and it isn’t only our food supply but our personal care and household cleaning products. Everything we use today disrupts that communication.

What is the solution? Reduce our consumption of processed foods and food-like substances, eat whole foods, eat grass-fed meats even if you can only afford to have it once or twice a week, eat wild-caught fish which contains higher levels of Omega 3’s. As for personal use products, the internet is loaded with recipes for body creams, scrubs, and skincare items. Mix your cleaning products and add essential oils that uplift and forget the manufactured fragrances that are often toxic. I believe we can do this. It will take some effort but it can be done and it will not only benefit us personally but we will be extending the lives of our families. If you would like to experience my 21-Day Body Reboot Detox Plan you can contact me here. Or if you would like to learn more about essential oils as a natural alternative in your health and home you can book an appointment for a free class here. It is time we started listening to the messages our bodies may be trying to communicate to us.

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