Natural Health is about... Loving Your Body Avoiding Chemicals Self Healing Clean Thinking
It is an oddity of modern times that we are encouraged to trust others to know our bodies better than we do ourselves. Medical professionals have training we do not, but only you know how it feels to inhabit your body. Only you can can hear the knowing that tells you what you need to heal and be well.
You know how you feel. You are the ONLY one who knows how you feel. We are all the same in that way. The idea that we need another to tell us if that’s OK is just a bit weird, don’t you think?
Humanity has been around for tens of thousands of generations and in that time our ancestors developed all manner of ways to sustain health, heal illness and extend life.
Sustainable health has most always been about nutritious food (that is whole and does not contain artificial chemicals), a balanced diet (a little bit of a few different things) and supporting the body’s miraculous capacity to heal itself with practices such as exercise, plenty of water and a goodly dose of sunshine.
There is no doubt that modern medicine is miraculous in the ways it can heal and fix broken bodies. It is however not so great on preventative natural medicine, perhaps because self-sustaining health is not so great for big pharma and the medical industry profits.
Our approach at Low Footprint Living is to value and use traditional approaches to natural health, only upgraded with modern knowledge around balance and nutrition, and to use modern medical interventions and drugs when and if needed.
“The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.”
-Thomas Edison
Whole Foods and Herbal Medicines
Browse 150 vegan food products
Organic Vegan Cosmetics
Heaps of vegan products here too
Food is always medicine
“We have some very suggestive evidence that the use of pesticides and herbicides affects our mental function and brain physiology, including increasing the incidence of Parkinson’s disease up to seven times in those most heavily exposed to them. This is not exactly a surprise when we realize that pesticides are designed to be neurotoxic to the pests.”
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Common sense is perhaps not so common after all, but at any moment we can reclaim our authority to look for ourselves at what we are doing or not doing that is supporting or hurting our health. Places to look might be…
- Any food laden with chemicals in your fridge?
- Do you eat much fresh and whole-foods?
- Drink a couple of litres of water a day?
- Exercise is good … even a little walk.
- How’s your attitude? Positivity means a lot.
- How’s your posture and breathing?
If you answered maybe to even one, you’re in good shape. Remember that it’s not about zero footprint. It’s about small steps, and over time passing distant milestones of sustainable living. Always it begins and continues with the next step.
