Decreasing Cell Phone Radiation Exposure

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  • Keep phone calls short (less than 10 minutes)
  • Text instead of calling
  • Use a speakerphone when talking on the phone when you can
  • Carry your phone in a purse or backpack rather than in your pocket
  • Don’t use your phone when the signal is weak or when in a fast-moving car, bus, or train (the phone needs to work harder and emits more radiation)
  • Keep the phone away from your body when streaming, downloading, or sending large files (or better yet, download the video and then watch it in airplane mode)
  • Keep your phone at least 1-2 feet away from you when you sleep

Source:  Optimal Terrain Consulting

Naturopathic Medicine

 

An aspect of de-cluttering that often gets overlooked

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We often think of de-cluttering as focusing on the material objects in our lives, but a part of de-cluttering that can have a bigger impact on your health is, removing people in your life that bring in negative energy.  Of course, it is easier to say than do if that involves family, so you will have to work on setting boundaries with the people in your life that you can’t remove, to allow for healthier relationships.

Naturopathic Medicine

Different styles of meditation

  • Breathing meditation: Focus on controlling inhales and exhales.  Longer exhales are calming, and longer inhales are energizing
  • Bubble meditation: Take a deep breath in, and with a steady exhale, blow as many bubbles as you can letting the exhale release any tension you are holding onto
  • Focused meditation: Concentrate on any of your 5 senses such as counting beads, listening to a gong, staring at a candle flame.  If your mind wanders, simply bring it back to your practice to refocus   meditation
  • Gazing meditation: Staring at a fixed object such as a stone, tree, lit candle, or something that holds personal meaning, starting with a short length of time to gradually increasing
  • Guided visualization: Listening to a pre-recording which will guide you through the meditation on relaxing your mind and body or focusing on positive experiences
  • Heart rhythm meditation: Focuses on the physical and emotional heart with conscious breathing to coordinate breath with the heartbeat
  • Lotus meditation: Visualize your heart as a lotus flower for a place of unconditional love
  • Mantra meditation: Focus on a word, phrase, or sound by repeating aloud to help clear your mind
  • Mindfulness meditation: Focus on your breathing and pay attention to the thoughts that pass through your mind without judging or becoming involved in them- just observe and take note of any pattern
  • Standing meditation: Instead of sitting, stand in a relaxed posture with feet forward and shoulder width apart.  Mentally scan through your body to release tension
  • Moving meditation: Meditate while you wash dishes, take a shower, or walk.  Slow down your daily activities to half-speed to be mindful and focus on your thoughts
  • Dance meditation: Surrender to the rhythms of dance to help release tension and stir your own creativity
  • Hand meditation: Notice the air touching your palms, fingers, and thumbs as you gently lift your hands into the air, imagining the energy field between your hands
  • Qigong: Combining breathing techniques with low-impact exercise
  • Tai Chi: Slow-motion movements to align the energy in the body and mind
  • Walking meditation: Walk slowly with awareness to your posture and breathing deeply
Source: Circle+Bloom