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7 Principles to Completely Transform Your Health
7 Principles to Completely Transform Your Health
Let’s discuss simple healthy tips for healing in general. How can we bring about a situation of healing, regardless of the dis-ease we are faced with? Whether you have a skin condition, kidney problems, a liver issue, migraine headaches, or a dysfunction in any one of your body’s systems, I believe that if we truly find a lifestyle and principles that create healing within the body, essentially everything can be healed.
The 7 Principles of Health - The Foundation For Healing
The seven principles of health are the foundation for everything myself and my father, Don Tolman, teach. This foundation is the key. I realise there are specific components in nature that can affect specific conditions profoundly, and that’s great! I like to share this kind of information.
However, if you’re missing the foundation in general, these super specific whole food treatments are not going to matter anyway. We need to come back to the foundation of what’s going to create general healing in our lives. That foundation is built by following the 7 Principles of Health – air, water, sunshine, exercise, whole foods, relationships and passion. I would probably like to throw in an eighth one too which is Rest. By this I mean relaxation, massages, hot baths, sleeping. If you get the first seven principles right, rest is something that naturally comes as you feel satisfied.
1. Air
There are two things to consider here, your breathing and the quality of the air you are breathing.
Overall many people are not breathing efficiently. We are meant to breathe into our stomachs, just look at babies, that is how they breathe. Most adults only breathe into their chest and very shallowly, which can lead to low-oxygen, low-energy and falling asleep situations. Poor breathing also leads to acidity. The best way to alkalise the body is to breathe. That’s why exercise is so great as your increased breathing helps eliminate acid and brings in oxygen and other beautiful qualities that create energy that breakdown waste.
To increase the air quality around you make sure you have plants in your home, your office, any space you spend time in! Plants literally suck the toxins out the air. There are scientific studies that have proven this and show that they produce fresh and clean air. Another great way is to open doors and windows as much as you can to allow the air to blow through and create a flow in the house.
2. Water
How much water should I drink? The research I follow suggests drinking one litre of water for every 22 kilograms a body weight, but in fact I drink more than that. I have a glass jar that holds 1 litre that I carry around and refill constantly. Occasionally I put in a pinch of Himalayan salt for the 86 minerals in contains, to help regulate hydration and get rid of any infection.
So drink plenty of good, clean water, have a little salt in it and stay hydrated.
3. Sunshine
Believe it or not, the sun is good for you! It is important in helping your body synthesize vitamin D from cholesterol, detox through sweat and aids many nutritional processes as well. Vitamin D actually prevents cancer and sunshine helps the entire body function the way that it should. Every cell in your body requires light which is information to this cell for its life cycle – when it should live, when it should die, when it should grow and reproduce. Sunlight activates the pituitary and pineal glands which set our internal clock so that we can sleep at night. A lack of sunlight can be a cause of insomnia and why some people need medication is to go to bed at night. Crazy really!
I recommend 20-30 minutes of sun a day. If you already have a tan, you can go even longer. Every summer you should really build as much of a tan as you can to carry you through the winter months. The key is to be smart about it. Expose yourself to as much sun as you can, within reason.
If you have fair skin or red hair, take it easy. You might want to try my guasha technique to clean the skin and put on some natural SPF protection and SLOWLY build up a tan. Take an umbrella if you are going to the beach or somewhere sunny so you can get into the shade when you need to. Other precautions are to look at the sun index where you are to see what time the day is safest to be in the sun. I highly recommend not using petroleum-based perfume based commercial sunscreens (which are known to be carcinogenic) on your skin. Instead use natural sun protection like coconut oil, which has an SPF of 5-7.
4. Exercise
The American Cancer Society’s website shares that your chances of getting cancer drop DRASTICALLY when you improve your diet and you simply move your body. Bare minimum 30 to 45 minutes walking every single day (though it’s okay to take one day off a week!) but five or six days a week is your foundation. If you want to run or bike or swim or strength train or anything else that’s fantastic, but do that on top of your walk. If you are really exercising hard maybe reduce the walk to 20-30 minutes.
The process of walking activates the digestive system to move properly. Not walking or moving enough is a big reason why a lot of people have digestive issues. The cross lateral motion of walking also balances the brain. If you’re angry, frustrated, depressed, or you have anxiety, try walking. All these issues will be solved if you walk for about 45 minutes to an hour every day. Being out in the sun and fresh air not caring about anything but the here and now. Walking is the greatest therapy! Just by walking everything else will start to sort itself out.
5. Whole Foods
Eat whole foods from nature. By that I mean eat a whole apple, not a whole pizza 😉 Be wary of packaged food. If it has numbers on the ingredients panel – don’t buy it! If you can’t understand the words on the ingredients panel or don’t know what the hell it is – don’t buy it! Popping open a pill and taking a plastic capsule is not the path to true health! Spend your money on good organic beautiful whole foods instead.
According to the American Cancer Society the more healthy fresh fruits and vegetables you eat the less cancer, diabetes and heart disease you are likely to have. Dr T Colin Campbell and Dr Esslestyn are the greatest proponents for heart disease and cancer research and have conducted the largest studies ever done in human nutrition. What do they recommend? A whole food diet. Fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and grains and you’ve got the job done!
Simply eat food you can recognise as whole foods. The process of nutrition starts with you seeing something and thinking “Wow! That looks attractive to eat”. You’re feeding your mental body just by looking at the food and thinking about where it comes from. Then smelling the food starts to activate salivation and certain enzymes come in to break down that food – just from the smell alone!!! How awesome is that! Wonder who created this system 😉 Putting the food into our mouth and enjoying it is another part of the process of nutrition that feeds your emotional body. So take your time eating and feed your mental and emotional bodies as well as the physical.
6. Relationships
Are you in a relationship or a relation-shit?? If you’re in a relation-shit it’s probably because you haven’t evolved to the point recognising that other people are a mirror for yourself. All the greatest relationship gurus are saying it and I see in my life.
Some people I meet I’m like, “Wow you’re awesome I just wanna hang out with you and be around you, you’re really cool”. Then there are others I’m like, “I don’t like you, you irritate me, you make me feel angry” or “there’s something about you I just don’t like”.
Well what if that ‘something’ that I’m feeling about that person is actually something inside me that needs to be worked out? You will tend to find if you keep pushing these people out of your life, similar situations keep popping up again in different forms until you get it!!
When I see somebody that irritates me I know now, that’s my teacher. That’s the person I need to bring closer and try to have an understanding of what’s actually going on and allow myself to work through the issue that’s inside of ME. When I make the effort to go through this process I find that the people who previously annoyed me end up becoming even better friends than all the other people who were easy to be around. What an amazing thing!
Relationships are a reflection of what’s going on within us. So if you are having issues and pointing your finger, look at the three pointing back at you and say, “Ah what’s really going on is inside me”, maybe I need to go for a long walk and sort this out, breathe deeply and really think about it before freaking out.
7. Passion
Do more of what you actually LOVE. Find out what you are passionate about and do it. I have multiple passions. I love downhill mountain biking, motorbiking, scuba diving, cliff jumping and when I do those things it invigorates me. I will show up differently in this world affecting people more positively.
Passion is ‘passing ions’ throughout the body. When I do what I love, when I speak, when I teach, when I share what I’ve learned I have this energy that builds within me, that builds my own intelligence and creates health within my body.
If you’re working a job and you absolutely hate it and you don’t have time do anything else – change it. Just quit the frickin’ job! I don’t care what you believe about your whole life crashing down around you. It’ll figure itself out. Because if you’re happy, your kids are gonna be happy, your partner’s gonna be happy, everyone’s going to be happy and then you’re happy. If you’re not happy, you’re just pissing everyone else off too. So figure it out!
So there you have it – air, water, sunshine, exercise, whole foods, relationships, passion and then comes … rest.
Rest
Give yourself a break to unwind, de-stress and recuperate. If you’re stressed out, take a piping hot bath with some epsom salts and a few drops of lavender essential oil and sit there for 20-30 minutes before bed. You’ll be relaxed, rejuvenated and you’ll wake up with more energy vitality the next day. Hot baths are your best friend 🙂
Start with this first foundational level, then let’s climb the pyramid together to the all-seeing eye of consciousness and enlightenment! We’re all gonna be happier and healthier the end. Once you’ve started on your foundation of health if you want information on specific cleanses, specific whole foods and things that target your health condition, I suggest reaching out to one of my Tolman Health Coaches for a consult. They have all done training with me and would be happy to help!
Love ya and have a nice day!
Thanks for reading!
