Healthy Choices

Healthy Choices

Lately I have been thinking more so in terms of making healthy choices. To me this means, not only what I am choosing to put in my body, how I exercise or how I care for
my outer shell. It also means what I am thinking, where I go, and who I am spending time with. The whole shebang.

I have been paying closer attention to my feelings and the types of connections I am making with the people I am meeting. Sunday Paul and I were on our way out for a bite to eat with Keli and ran into Lara on the street, which led us to people watching at BC’s on the beach. It was like a mini movie interacting with everyone and watching what was happening. We met some really great people and listened to Dennis Wolfe’s band.

As part of my healthy choices I have been listening to the how to improve your luck cd. www.efflearn.com daily and I am finding it very useful for focus on what I am attracting, and cultivating feeling lucky daily.

I know that exercise is a missing ingredient for me so yesterday I tried to track down Master Lee yesterday to inquire about doing tai chi classes with him, but he was on a trip to Costa Maya. I was doing some falun and I found it difficult to stay motivated without being in a class. If Master Lee does not pan out I will have to make a better defined schedule for doing falun and stick to it.

In taking care of my outer shell (and inside), I recently got some medicinal grade coconut oil for my skin and I just love it. This stuff is so good you can use it topically and internally for skin, deodorant, hair, intestines, and thyroid to name a few. I am using it to help clear my rosacea as well as taking a few spoonfuls a day. Peter said it will take 3 months of use daily 3 x a day. In addition to using the oil, I have been giving focus to what results I am looking for as well.

The coconut oil feeds and tends to the right body bacteria that are our
natural partners in maintaining body and skin health. Probiotics, for the skin re-establishing proper skin ecology becoming natural working with our many tiny symbiotic partners. The coconut oil also supplies vital nutrients for the skin cells such as Vitamin E. (from my medicine man who makes the oil)

Coconut oil is probably one of the main reasons people in tropical climates can spend so much time in the sun and not suffer from skin cancer. Coconut oil has wonderful antioxidant properties that protect the skin from free radical damage. Also, when coconut oil is consumed and used topically on our skin, it helps our bodies absorb other nutrients more effectively as well, such as Vitamin E, another powerful antioxidant nutrient that protects the skin. (from internet)

It should be noted that when reports like this are made in our discussion group, invariably some will try using Virgin Coconut Oil exclusively as a sunscreen and go out and get burned! Some have even reported that sometimes the coconut oil works wonderfully as a sunscreen, while at other times they seem to get burned. It seems that the oils you put into your body are just as important as what you onto your body in regards to sun protection. We have found that if one eats foods loaded with polyunsaturated oils, generally they will burn more in the sun. It is theorized that when one eats foods cooked in polyunsaturated vegetable oils, often with trans fatty acids, that one is putting oxidized lipids into their skin tissue that are causing free radical damage, and more susceptible to burning in the sun. So if you just got done eating some french fries from a fast food restaurant, you may be more susceptible to sun burn! (from internet)

Best of all what could be better than smelling like coconut cream pie ha ha.