Health Modalities

I’m a bit of a health nut, and it was a choice and decision I put in place quite young, despite other issues I was dealing with at the time. Fact is, if you are healthy, you are more alert; you are more functioning than when you’re not. If you are controlling pain, getting enough sleep and getting great nutrition you are less tired, more physical, and everything in your life works better so that you are more productive. When you are more productive, you can potentially earn more money, and you are going to feel a greater sense of accomplishment in your life.  Here a few of my habits as I want you to have a mindset about stopping the band-aides and getting to the source, get yourself cleaned out, get your day to day lifestyle cleaner for a more vibrant you!

Therapeutics

Therapeutics is the branch of medicine that is concerned with the treatment of disease. Health challenges can affect our mentality, our lifestyle and how we prioritize life decisions but a mistake we often make is while we may be dealing with a health challenge, we neglect the whole of the body, mind, and spirit; this is where a holistic approach to healing is important. Many of these holistic practices impact your overall wellbeing coupled with helping you deal with the health issue.

For example, yoga is beneficial on many levels. It increases strength and flexibility; it improves sleeping habits and it also helps to master your internal sense of wellbeing. It leads to reflection and understanding that guides our life choices.

I do  my best to use natural alternatives whenever possible as well.  Like supplements or Essential Oils.  EO have molecules small enough to pass the Blood/Brain barrier so act fast than pharmaceuticals and can aid greatly in managing pain, depression and anxiety.

Another example is Ionic footbaths. I’m a big proponent of this device for a couple of reasons. First, it’s what I call a manual modality instead of a supplement or medication. Secondly, it’s affordable to the average person.  You can purchase one for USD $600 or CDN $800 or find a treatment room for approx. $40 per session.

An Ionic footbath session combines water, sea salt, oxygen and hydrogen. This combination of basic elements has a cleansing effect on your entire body by creating a Negative Ionic energy field that enters your body through the 2000+ pores of your feet. The ionic energy enters your Lymphatic System to gently release toxic elements that have accumulated in it. When your body cannot drain these toxins, your immune system will be weakened to the point you become susceptible to constant illness because T-cell production has been impaired or even compromised.

Your immune system requires T-Cells to work properly. The Lymphatic system is where they are produced. The more toxins in your Lymph System, the fewer T-Cells can be produced. It’s that simple!

I always describe it as being similar to putting a dryer sheet in with your laundry to get rid of static cling – same thing in your body, it’s helping to “unstick” all the toxins from your cells. Detoxing is great for mental clarity, for sore joints, to lose weight, for asthma, arthritis, fibromyalgia, candida, parasites etcetera. And long term so much cheaper and safer than drugs for pain and inflammation taken every day. 

Healthy Eating

You’re probably not 16 years of age and in the prime of your health where you can literally eat twinkles and still function. You can’t keep up that style of feeding and still expect to be healthy and active at 50. There are, indeed, very rare exceptions to this but not many. Don’t risk being one of the one in a hundred thousand people who smoked and drank all their lives and lived to be 99. Genetically, they had something the rest of us probably don’t have. Get this fact straight; you cannot function to the best of your ability without (premium) fuel in your car. By premium, I mean it’s not just okay to eat, you must eat healthily.  This means food, NOT products. If you don’t know the difference, it’s time to put that learning section into effect.

You see people have debilitating accidents and they come back to compete in the Olympics or create brilliant things, all of these happen because their body is functioning to the best of its ability and with clarity. Their cells are clean, and they aren’t inviting disease; they aren’t sluggish nor weighed down by sodium, bad fat, poor meats and genetically modified food.

Yes, you need to eat more vegetables and fruits, and less processed food and you need to accept this fact of life and find things you like.  I never coach people to eat things they actually don’t like, not when nature offers so many options. I had a good friend who was a marathon runner; he would call unpackaged food, live food.  Products are not food, and you need to say goodbye to them. Observe how we have turned the production of eggs, chicken, pork, and beef into a manufacturing facility, I won’t even go near how we treat our animals –we treat nature as a commodity, and that’s morally wrong. You eat those animals and they don’t give your body what it needs because they haven’t been raised out in the sunshine, eating natural grass and bugs, and all the things that made them good to eat about 100 years ago.

If you are a poor eater, there is a good chance that inflammation runs rampant in your body and that makes your joint sore, gives you headaches and creates mental fuzziness –that mental fatigue at about 2PM every day that causes you to look for a caffeine hit which antagonizes your Adrenals and creates more acidity which causes degeneration of joints and cartilages. Eating is a serious high functioning habit.

Now, some people want to start healthy feeding but don’t know where to begin. Start with something simple. Change your water. At this point, I believe you find that comical but take a breather and remain open-minded. I have spent 25 to 30 years preaching the message about eating well, taking supplements, anti-oxidants, etcetera. I have spent hundreds of dollars per month to stay healthy, but by simply changing the water I drink, I’m now getting so many of the same results. Ionized Alkaline water detoxes your body, unglues the buildup in your bowels making your elimination system regular, gets your body back into a healthy pH level and delivers molecular hydrogen directly to your cells for better hydration and health.

If you start with better water, everything you do after is more. Get yourself hydrated and clean out your cells. Start with that. Be aware of how you are feeling because I can tell you that when you start feeling better, you start looking at things in your cupboard in a very different light. It starts with “I’m not going to eat that today, I’m going to eat this”. Then you stop buying those products altogether and then these new choices become normal and voila, you have a new High Functioning Habit.

Integrative Healthcare

Integrative healthcare is the combination of conventional Western medicine and holistic practices, also known as complementary therapies and healing practices. Massage, Biofeedback, herbal medicine (find a good ND), Yoga, Meditation, Acupuncture, Reiki, Homeopathy, Floating, Chiropractic and Kinesiology are all examples of these holistic practices. I included this form of healthcare as important to being high functioning because it is a wide approach to healing that focuses on the patient’s whole being –the body, mind, and spirit.

Integrative healthcare reduces depression symptoms, enhances access to quality care, and somewhat lowers overall healthcare costs. Anyone can benefit from this integrated approach to healthcare. However, there are certain things concerning this approach that you need to be informed about:

• Make sure all your providers are aware of the full scope of your health care practices because there are times when some holistic procedures may interact with prescription drugs. For example, vitamins ingested in high dose that work to block free radicals may interfere with radiation treatment. Another example is acupuncture which may interfere with homeopathy.
• Be sure to do your research on the kind of options you choose to explore. You must be aware of the side effects if there are any, the cost and how long you have to be committed to it because you don’t want to start out on something you can’t complete.
• It is important to inquire about the safety of any procedure you are offered. It won’t hurt to find out what scientific evidence and clinical experience have to say about the safety of the procedure.
• Be selfish about choosing your care provider. It is important you choose someone with whom you are comfortable and can converse.
• Lastly, remember that better health over the long term is much more inexpensive than a lifetime of medical intervention.