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Has springtime reached your part of the world yet? If you live in a London, like I do, you may have been enjoying the gradual coming of spring since February. For most people knowing that spring is just around the corner is the only thing that gets them through the winter. When the days start to get longer, the temperature picks up, and the flowers start to blossom everything feels that little bit easier. Sun shining through your window instead of the pitch black darkness makes getting up in the morning not just bearable but enjoyable. For me, spring is my favourite time of year. The promise of summer just around the corner and everyone’s mood improves with thoughts of strolls in the park, picnics, working out in the fresh air, pub gardens and just generally being outside amongst nature. And luckily, for many of us right now this magnificent season of purification is now in full swing.
Sun shining through your window instead of the pitch black of darkness makes getting up in the morning not just bearable but enjoyable. For me, spring is my favourite time of year. The promise that summer will soon be here means everyone’s mood improves. Thoughts turn to fun times such as strolls in the park, picnics, working out in the fresh air, pub gardens and being outside amongst nature. And luckily, for many of us this magnificent season of purification is now in full swing.
What most people don’t know about springtime is that it’s an important time for our bodies as well as nature. Our bodies have an internal clock that responds to the seasons just as nature does. Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn (Fall, for my American friends,) all bring about different internal functions and detoxification within the body. If you look at nature, you will notice that although the days get longer and the sun comes out more frequently, the spring also brings rains (April showers) and winds to clear the land and make room for new growth. What is happening in nature is symbolic of what is happening in your own body during this time of year. Nature is guiding us, showing us that you too are cleansing now. The
If you look at nature, you will notice that although the days get longer and the sun comes out more frequently, the spring also brings rains (April showers) and winds to clear the land and make room for new growth. What is happening in nature is symbolic of what is happening in your own body during this time of year. Nature is guiding us, showing us that you too are cleansing now. The current spring cleansing can help you release toxins that have accumulated from everyday life since your last spring cleansing a whole year ago.
HOW TOXINS ACCUMULATE
Toxins are extremely prevalent in the world today. Especially if you live in a built-up city. With over 80, 000 industrial toxins in the air your daily exposure to these poisons is vast. It’s the accumulation of these toxins that can cause serious problems to your health.
You get a build up inside your body due to outside sources like chemical and metal exposure, from processed and refined foods, conventional foods laden with chemicals, but also from toxins created inside your body. For example, poorly digested foods, stress, negative emotions (anxiety, anger) and viral and fungal (or yeast) infections all create serious inner toxins that prevent you from being healthy. Not much attention is given to these endogenous or inner toxins, but I consider them to be perhaps even more serious than many endogenous (outside) toxins.
To quote The Byrds, “To everything …there is a season…” Thankfully your body knows this too. It was created in such a way that it naturally knows how to cleanse, store nutrients and rest and recharge itself during different seasons of the year.
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IF YOU WANT TO GET RID OF TOXINS IN YOUR BODY, NATURE SAYS NOW IS THE TIME TO DO IT
While you are detoxifying daily on a smaller scale, and you are able to open your detoxification pathways by cleansing at different times of the year, nature supports deeper cleansings during spring and summer, when the weather is warm. During this time it’s important to look for signs of cleansing and learn how your body tells you – via its own unique signals – that it is ready to cleanse more than usual. You’ll want to help out when this time comes.
YOU CAN’T HAVE A SUCCESSFUL DETOX WITHOUT A HEALTHY LIVER
Spring is liver/gall bladder season, and as you know, your liver is your main organ of detoxification. But did you know that the liver works hard to process the food you eat, the cosmetics you put on your skin, the air you breathe and even those angry emotions you sometimes feel?
The liver is your battery of life. It is, in my opinion, the second most important organ in the body second only to the heart. So we need to be careful to protect and nurture it as much as we can.
Most people will not know that anger injures your liver, and when your liver begins cleansing in the spring, angry feelings may pop up. If you tune into the source of this “cleansing” anger you most likely will find there is no real reason for your grumpiness, and that you just feel mad for no particular reason. Unless it is truly justified anger, this unwarranted anger is just another clue that your liver is trying to heal itself. *This is a piece of information that you may want to share with your spouse, partner, friends and family.
The liver is quite an amazing organ and one that we will probably never really fully appreciate.
THINGS YOU CAN DO TO SUPPORT YOUR LIVER
- Get adequate rest
- Choose physical exercise that is right for your body and blood type
- Consume plenty of fermented foods and probiotic liquids in order to build your internal health
- Add liver supporting foods and liquids to your diet
- Practice colon therapy with colonics or home enemas
- Consume more raw foods which are more cooling this season
- Practice gratitude for your liver’s ability to help you cleanse and heal
FERMENTED FOODS ARE KEY
Your liver gets taxed even more when other organs like your large and small intestines do not eliminate efficiently and are full of toxic materials. If you want your liver to do its job efficiently, keep these organs clean too. If you are following Revive’s diet advice, you know by now, that the friendly bacteria found in fermented foods, liquids and probiotics play a key role in keeping your intestines clean.
In Chinese medicine, the liver rules the skin, the joints and the eyes. If you are experiencing skin rashes, eczema, acne, stiff or achy joints or sporadic changes in your vision – like floating black spots in front of your eyes, these are major signs that your liver is cleansing.
After doing a lot of research into the mind and body connection I like to stop at times, put my hand on my liver and tell it “thank you.” I know it’s working hard for me. Practising a true sense of gratitude for its ability to cleanse poisons out of my body is not a new idea. In Ancient Chinese medicine, there is a healing technique where you imagine your liver “smiling.”
Become very grateful for this internal cleansing because we do not live long if we lose this precious gift.
A BALANCED DETOX IS ABOUT MORE THAN JUST THE FOOD YOU CONSUME
At Revive, we are committed to providing you with tools to make your natural daily and seasonal detox run more smoothly. I hope that you will choose gentle and continual methods of detoxing that will allow you to really feel the lasting results of cleansing. If you do, the benefits are many! You will not only age more gracefully and slow down the ravages of “father time,” you will also experience heightened energy, clear mental focus, glowing skin, better digestion and an overall boost in immunity.
For now, be sure to create energy within your body with more of a raw and fermented foods diet. Get plenty of rest, especially stop when you are feeling tired so that your body can gather energy to push out more of those toxins. I would also recommend definitely starting colonics or home enemas if you are not doing them already.
As for exercising, yes, do it. However, choose the exercises you love and that are right for your body and blood type. As has been documented blood type O’s feel more alive with active forms of exercise. A’s and AB’s are happiest with walking and calmer exercises. B’s are somewhere in the middle and like a little of both. However during this period really listen to your body and exercise in accordance with what it’s saying to you. Maybe instead of the strenuous gym workouts you perform, your body might tell you a brisk walk would be best.
All exercise helps eliminate toxins but check out rebounding on a mini trampoline. It is a must for everyone of all ages. It is great for toning every organ in your body, but, very importantly, for cleansing your lymph system.
Your goal this spring is to help your organs of elimination quickly release more toxins than at any other time of the year when it’s already in a “release-toxin mode.”
Even if you are feeling especially weak, or you are pregnant or breastfeeding, you, too, will be naturally cleansing right now.
No one escapes Spring Cleansing. So, I hope that you will embrace it with gratitude this spring and help your body rid itself of those damaging toxins.
Health & Happiness
Ryan
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