Sunday, December 7, 2008

Purifying Your Body With A Colon Detox

Colon detoxification or detox is a very important procedure of removing toxic substances and mucus that have built up in the colon. It assists the body in recovering its natural balance and the functional ratio of bad and good bacteria, which is needed for proper production of necessary enzymes and absorption of nutrients. Proper colon detox can greatly help keep problems such as food intolerance, cellulites and obesity at bay while improving one's complexion, increasing energy and enhancing the immune system.

The colon plays an important role in the body's overall function as it flushes harmful wastes produced by the body. It is the body's sewerage system responsible for keeping the body clean and orderly. Common sense would tell that an improperly kept sewerage system could cause great problems with any home, building, or city. The same is true with the body; an improperly kept colon could cause great problems such as diseases.

A colon with toxic buildup can cause many problems such as malnutrition, food intolerance, and overall ill health. The colon serves a vital function of the body in removing harmful wastes. When the colon does not work well due to imbalanced diet, drugs, stress, chemicals, parasites, plus other harmful substances, it produces mucus to protect itself. This mucus can then combine with the existing sludge of digested food causing buildups in the bowel's walls, making the lumen narrower and therefore hindering the proper absorption of important nutrients.

The gluey layer of mucus and sludge build up causes feces to harden resulting into a venue which is productive for the overproduction of harmful bacteria and organisms. The usual bowel movement and even extreme elimination due to diarrhea does not eliminate this problem. Stools may pass through the colon but dirty residue may still be left along the walls. In such cases of build up, it is important to detoxify the colon so that these harmful substances can be eradicated from the body, preventing further problems to happen.

Aside from cleaning one's inside, a colon detox provides many other advantages that make the procedure worth taking. It helps in the reduction of food intolerance. It may also help reduced cellulite and weight problems. Due to the elimination of bodily wastes, the cleansing effect also reflects in the improvement of the skin's appearance. The reduced presence of harmful bacteria also enhances one's immune system. The main purpose of colon detox, however, is still the elimination of toxins and harmful bacteria in the excretory system.

Colon detox is performed in three major ways: through a diet, through manual cleansing of the colon or by using medication. In general, people are advised to eat plenty of foods that are rich in fiber so that the body can easily eliminate wastes during its regular process. Such is why people are encouraged to lots of vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, and seeds for light regular detoxification. Among the highly recommended fruits and vegetables for proper elimination are apples, oranges, grapefruit, carrots, and broccoli among many other fibrous plant-based foods which are known to sweep sludge from the colon to be transported out of the body.

With manual colon cleansing, water, or some other sterile fluid is injected into the colon through a tube inserted into the rectum. The fluid flushes out accumulated wastes out of the body through gentle pressure, making it a more drastic, but immediate method of detoxifying the colon. This procedure is very helpful for people with constipation, when taken occasional. Frequent manual colon detox is said to be harmful because it can weaken the ability of the colon to eliminate naturally, causing a dependency.

The colon can also be detoxified using medication, particularly laxatives. People having trouble eliminating, or those who just want to be able to excrete toxins from their colon, may be prescribed with drugs that cause the immediate excretion of wastes in the colon. There are several medications used for this purpose, some are medical-grade while others are homeopathic remedies using herbs.

Colon detox can prove to be a beneficial procedure for most people as today's lifestyle could hinder the proper elimination of bodily wastes. With colon detox, people can be sure to maintain the balance and well being of their body.

Lee Dobbins writes for http://www.colon-articles.com where you can learn more about your colon, constipation, colon health and colon cleansing and colon hydrotherapy.

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Muscle-Testing and Applied Kinesiology: Uses and Tips on How to Use it

Muscle testing is an empowering energy technique that most anyone can use to better their health. Muscle testing functions as a subconscious lie-detector test and is used by challenging any muscle of the body. Over the years I have answered numerous questions about muscle testing, how it is used, how to make it more accurate, how people misuse it, and what things to pay attention to. This is the culmination of all those questions. Before using muscle testing, meditate or pray to become a clear channel and leave your ego out of the answers. Intention is everything in the world of healing.

You obtain better answers from your muscle testing by asking better questions. For example: Do I have permission to ask this question? Is this something I should let go of or participate in? Can I share this information? Am I asking the right question? Is there anything else I should be asking? And, will this be reasonable and in alignment with my morals and values?

Always ask yes or no questionsbe clear and present when asking. Ask only one question at a time.

In Healing Work I use muscle testing for: Doing body scans for disrupted energy, testing for vanishing twins, to determine which disease is most plausible from a list of rule outs, for doing chiropractic adjustments on animals or figuring out where to place spot magnets, to determine the best treatments or healers to use, for emotional clearing work, to ask which flower essences, herbs, supplement, crystal and foods to combine for relaxation, immune building, serenity, and health. Muscle testing can also be used to test amounts.

Using Muscle Testing for Allergy testing: Its useful for asking what side effects or benefits are being caused by a particular drug and in testing which flower, bulbs, grasses, shrubs, trees, molds and mildews or pollens you are allergic to.

Some fun and different ways to use muscle testing: Use it to test who is visiting from the other side, for backtracking the core cause of death, to choose which clothes to wear for best health or to look the best in an interview, and to pick the perfect gift or card for someone you love.

For Organizing Things: If goals and accomplishing tasks are important to you, muscle testing can be most helpful in prioritizing tasks and in determining how much time to spend on each item.

For Pet Health: Muscle testing can be used to communication with your animals. Ask your pet which foods they like and which will help their health, which name they would like to be called, or if they would like a companion. In my veterinary practice I use muscle testing to determine what the best antibiotic is to send home and for determining which foods to use in creating a personalized raw food diet.

I use muscle testing for nutrition and dieting by testing which emotions trigger the cravings for certain foods, to test which ingredients a person is allergic to and for asking the amounts of raw fruits and vegetables that would be best for the body.

For Spiritual Issues, muscle testing is used to: test the number of past lives or the number of lifetimes you have spent with someone, to track past lives, to ask whether someone is in your soul-pod, in tracking down spiritual lessons to focus on with a person and for tapping into the Akashic records.

In Helping with Environmental Issues, it can be used for: finding and clearing energy vortexes in a house, dowsing to find water, minerals, and the best places to build.

For learning purposes, muscle testing can be used to test the percent truth of a book or chapter, to test the truthfulness of a newspaper article, theory, or paper. I often use muscle testing to determine which books to purchase, or which topics to study next.

In Plant Healing muscle testing can be used to communicate with your yard, your garden and individual plants. Yes, plants talk too. I use it to figure out where to plant individual plants and to ask where the plant wants to be and if it is happy where its at, when to water, or what a plant needs to be healthier (more sun, water, soil, micronutrients, fertilizer, drafts, etc.)

Dr. Denice Moffat is a practicing naturopath, medical intuitive, and veterinarian working on the family unit (which includes humans and animals) through her phone consultation practice established in 1995. She has a content-rich website at http://www.NaturalHealthTechniques.com and free monthly newsletter. For many other healing techniques you can do at home, see Dr. Moffat's techniques page at: http://www.naturalhealthtechniques.com/HealingTechniques/healing_techniques1.htm

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