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Decision to Detox

Beauty? ...skin deep.  Ugly, however, is through and through. 

And, by ugly I mean the things in the human body which hinder health, not aesthetic beauty.  The human body at its most beautiful has nothing to do with the subjective eye of a beholder- or why we'd choose a person with one "eye" to judge in the first place.  That was a joke, people, lighten up. 

Let's talk about Ugly objectively for a moment... let us speak of toxins and how they are surrounding us... and how we imbibe, ingest, and inhale impurities without regard to their biological agenda once allowed in... and how, we, delude ourselves into believing that since something is not wrong RIGHT NOW that NOTHING is wrong at all.  Most Americans are too busy to think of tomorrow.  Want me to prove it?  Let me know if i can give you a call next Thursday.  If you took me seriuously and thought about where your planner was located and when the last time you updated it, and what Thursday looked like you've proved my point already... I've no need to call.

The Decision to Detox:

When I speak of detox I am not speaking of people who abuse alcohol and drugs, though they too will benefit from learning a bit of this information, if not all of it, and gaining interest into the actual cleansing of their bodies of impurities.  Due to the fact that stopping the ingestion of poisons is only the begininning of the detocification process- the true process requires a bit more commitment and time, but not much.

Before we start thinking of putting MORE things inside out systems in order to CLEAR our system of things which aren't supposed to be there lets look at the human body and what it offers us as its resident in the form of waste removal. See, its not your body's first crises and whether one chooses to believe it or not we have the collective cummulate experiences of the human body as a sentient and sub-sentient species; we have those traits which are immediately recognizable as being passed down in genetics- up right walking and such -and those which are less noticeable like the ability to have a temperature rid the body of toxins and human contagions which we encounter everywhere and aquire, collecting like pack-rats, in every form available to us.  It is the temperature which will save us from or help us stave off the attack of most any toxin or undesirable/unwanted content which finds itself sitting alongside recently oxegenated blood waiting to be mainlined to the rest of our body- "is this seat taken?"         

Let's stop that process.  First Induce fever (Read Articles on Hyperthermia by the same witty, lonvingly spiteful, grammar-bending writer on this blog.)  Okay, how hot is necessary?  If you are in the Sauna and you say, "wow, this is hot," and you are beginning to sweat. Great! If you are in the Sauna or Steam Shower (see Rainforrest listings) and you open your mouth to say the previous phrase as the heat drys your mouth of all saliva and you clench your chest and fall to the floor... NOT SO GREAT.  Moderation in all things, including hyperthermia; we wish to find the minimal therapeutic dose of anything which we use only that which we NEED to achieve the desired results.  140-180 degrees is the theraputic temperature range in which we wish to sweat; safe enough, cool enough, to not cause damage while healing tissues.  Expose yourself to this 3-4 times a week for approximately twenty minutes for each itteration.

As your body heats, outside to inside, toxins are released from the outside or dermal layers of the body- the most readily recognizable theraputic benefit and one which most are content with achieving.  However, the theraputic effect of the heat goes much deeper, absorbed thermally and used at the core to rejuvenate vital organs and liberate them of their toxins.  It is here where we are concerned most.  it is the nature of the snippant comment about beauty, smiting vanity, at the beginning of the post.  For without thinking on this level and at this depth if we consistently win over cells on the outside of our bodies but surrender our inner domain to toxicity it will do us no good to be "beautiful."  Slowly, as if done too fast, the body may actually become a victim of the toxins which are already present, being released, your body's vital organs will relinquish their toxic booty and the vacant space will be replaced with oxegenated blood and nutrients.  This will lead to a new verve in your waking life and a hastenening of serenity when you desire it for sleep.  Your body will essentially give itself a check up and do the necessary, long overdue, scheduled maintenance which will allow it to function as it wished you would have let it long ago.

Read about Contrast Hydrotherapy for a way to make this more effective and a way to boost your immune system through this time during which your blood will be a river teeming with toxins making hasty retreat from your body.

ATTENTION*** My Bath clients who have been diagnosed with, have a family history of, or think they may be at risk for hypertension (high blood pressure) or anyother cardio-pulmonary problem it is reccomended by My Bath as well as the medical communinity that you seek the counsel of medical professionals before continuing, or starting a treatment regimen using our products.  It is in your interest to have this possibility ruled out.  Good intentions do not salvage anything, including decisions and regimens undertaken in the interest of improving one's health.

You breahte, you bathe... you should be able to sleep.

70 million Americans with one important thing in common: we all breathe.

And hopefully, bathe.

           Are you one of the masses who has been diagnosed as being an insomniac?  I myself am.  In fact, I have been an insomniac for the better part of four years now.  I am lucky with this job, and am often told by the office personnel when I make visits that I look like I could use some rest.  “funny,” I say, “the same thought has been in my mind for YEARS.”

            Here’s the problem with insomnia.  It affects everything from our body’s ability to concentrate in waking hours, to depression, all the way to being able to maintain body weight.  So, it’s not a small nuisance.  It is a large problem. 

You have been given impromptu, yet, rehearsed lectures designed to allow the doctors to philosophically and linguistically egress from their responsibilities as “experts” with regards to any thing related to the human body, in “sleep hygiene.”  See, “the problem isn’t sleep” they say… it’s the television in the bedroom.  So, I wonder… why is it that someone else can watch television in the bedroom- given America’s love affair with television, how many of them there are in the nation and how often we watch them, I find it hard to believe something as simple as a television in the bedroom is the root of my insomnia.  I answered yes to the question, “do you have a television in the bedroom?”  I was not asked if I watched it- I don’t –or if it was plugged in- it isn’t.  I watch very little television.  I am not being closed minded.  If removing a television has worked for you.  Awesome!  Honestly if someone said… “rub these rocks together and you’ll sleep.”  I’d be a rock-rubbin’ Fool!  If it worked...

I think in matters uncertain the medical community is too quick to retreat (read also about Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) into offering cures which are essentially “buck passing” and they abandon reason and utility. 

And if you’re like me you have been on every single pharmaceutical known to man!  I have gotten to the point of familiarity with the pharmaceuticals that I often know more about the drugs than the actual doctors do; not because they’re ignorant, rather because it is my only problem and concern mostly… so I have the free time at night- when I’m laying in bed NOT watching my television – to decide to read about them.  Another thing I’m not supposed to do… read in bed.  Well, “it’s the dots on the ceiling or Hemmingway’s a farewell to arms… or the Physicians Desk Reference- which if I do not learn of something which will make me go to sleep… will PUT me to sleep hopefully.

What if the affirmative answers to two questions could give you sleep?

Well now three.

Do you take breathe?

Do you take showers?

Yes to both- or at least the first for a response, other wise, see a physician immediately… it may be one of the few times I give THAT advice. 

All kidding aside: Aromatherapy has been around so long that one could stack up all of the research on sleep hygiene, and all the pharmaceuticals which have been tested and it would not be tantamount to the volume of PROOF of the efficacy of Aromatherapy.  If, as I suggested, proof was how well something works and is used, than Aromatherapy has been “proven” beyond question to be effective to treat almost any ailment.

For insomniacs, unlike those with other ailments, it is easy; the essential oils of any herbs have been shown to be effective in relieving symptoms of insomnia as well as promoting “sleep hygiene” in the form of a ritual or something which is a precursor to sleep and becomes a routine every night; one of the biggest suggestions from physicians to those of us afflicted. 

Allow thousands of years of use... not months or weeks of "clinical" trials to lull you to sleep by searching the products which deliver this therapy in the manner best for you and your needs.     

Fibromyalgia: Translates to "lack of knowledge" in Doctor-speak: a flavorful familiarization with the ailment

Okay, do you have to be able to define an epidemic to call it an epidemic?

Quit scratching your head (unless you have lice) and read the article. 

Fibromyalgia is one of the most Over-incorrectly-Diagnosed problems facing many Americans today.  Fibromyalgia is like an orphan child who is adopted by parents who seem to care very little about getting the facts of the child’s parental history, which is fine by the child because unlike an adopted child, Fibromyalgia doesn’t care where it came from, who it belongs to, and it certainly does not want to FIT IN (be eliminated) with it’s surroundings. 

How many people (that we know of) suffer? 

If you honestly thought I wasn’t going to find a way to hurl some insane, weighty, extra-astronomical numbers, I'm not the blogger for you, or you've not read enough of my posts (as though one could.)

Here’s the dirt: a modest estimate of the number of people possibly -or not- afflicted by Fibromyalgia is right at about 3 million people; the “gung-ho, take no patients” estimate?  At or around 6 million. 

Let’s be honest up front.  When we’re talking in THE MILLIONS of people, one or two aren’t going to cause any great influx of funding from the Govt. or anyone else who simply reads of this disorder.  To the doctors in the medical community it is not easily diagnosed, nor have there been many breakthroughs on the Western medical front which can replicate favorable results.  However there is always Infra-red Sauna therapy… but, I’ll get to that in future articles I want to take a crack at “not-defining” this epidemic as well as those who have come to not define it before me… big shoes to fill and all.

Many people with Fibromyalgia feel helpless.  It’s the result of an unwritten prescription, which doctors give their patients who take the script to their own internal pharmacy, fill, and take as prescribed.  I’m of the cynic’s opinion that many times doctors have NO CLUE what they’re really dealing with.  That, “I need to go to my office real quick” because they always seem to leave something where it wasn’t supposed to be (you know, the forgetful people we trust with our lives) is really a trip to a room where there’s a Doctor’s stress hotline and they can vent and ask questions of other more experienced inexperienced Doctors who give the cure and diagnosis without ever seeing the patient.  A few moments later a calm doctor walks back in and gives the news. 

If you like being in a state of “not knowing;” Fibromyalgia is your disorder!

You can go for years like this with you, the doctor -scratching his head leaving the room each time, or the doctor on the “doctor hotline” without having any objective idea of what is wrong with you. You, with Fibromyalgia are like a really tough crossword puzzle, a pencil and boxes of erasers.  AND the doctors are going to “go at it” working on you; my bet being they run out of pencils before they ever run out of erasers.

Dig this: The symptoms present with such variance in duration, iteration and intensity of each of the individual- too numerous (and possibly vague) -to list symptoms… but, what the heck (GENERAL Fatigue or stiffness, widespread muscle pain, Irritable bowels Syndrome, Anxiety, Depression, Sleeping Disorders, “Exercise Intolerance?” irritability and mood swings, dry eyes alternating with watery eyes, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Dizziness, Tender Skin, Cold Sensitivity, Dysmenorrhea (Painful Menstruation) -that doctors are still disagreeing as to what qualifies as Fibromyalgia and what doesn’t. Which is understandable of a new syndrome of affliction, right?  Right… the only problem is, this has been a problem since the first case was described as Fibromyalgia in 1816- you understand, time is a luxury the Medical Community enjoys when non-descript chronic pain syndromes manifest among the masses.  Is it Fibromyalgia?  Is it Fibromyalgia’s evil oft-misdiagnosed twin Chronic Fatigue Syndrome… and as we’re wandering this direction, I believe the question is beckoned, “are they fraternal or identical twins?”  I’ve contacted the AMA; they’ve yet to comment on the genetic relation or non relation of the syndromes or non-syndromes. 

All sarcasm aside, all facetiousness in regards to the severity of this problem now out of my system, I want to start by making a bold statement for a non-doctor… “Fibromyalgia is REAL!”  Over 80 % of all people suffering from Fibromyalgia are women between the ages of 34 and 56.  Doesn’t make it a female problem, is just more data to hopefully allow a statistician to eventually narrow down what environmental and physiological causes are at the root of this ignored epidemic.   

Many things have proven beneficial in the treatment of Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: in this set of article entries we will explore these treatments.  One of the foremost being Infra-Red Therapy which has the ability to manipulate the Hypothalamus, the gland responsible for producing and regulating chemicals for sleeping, eating, moods and a whole cast of other characters cast as villains in the Fibromyalgia play. 

Act one:   

Einstein's Chee (Relevant?)

E=MC2 = Thousands of years of the concept of Qi (Chee)…without the equation.

Simple enough looking characters; while also a complex cross-applicative scientific formula; the basis of which may owe it’s origins to a much earlier similarly verve oriented scientific practice. 

                Now… thousands of years before this mind boggling theory was succinctly elucidated by the famed and seldom- in the history of the world -paralleled genius of Albert Einstein, the Chinese had long, long, long ago had an inkling there was in fact energy in everything, including the human body.  And, while not taking the time to give a specific name to this ubiquitous yet objectively non-descript energy, they were kind enough to take a few well aimed stabs (acupuncturists, forgive the pun) at guessing and charting the courses it takes as it travels through the body. 

            At this point in the article I may be accused of two things.  One) stretching a point; that’s fine, accuse away, but hop on and Hitch a ride to the conclusion and we’ll see if my premises snap back and slap me in the face.  And, two) speaking in a diminutive way of an Oriental folk wisdom remedy which has been well established over thousands of years and is just now being embraced by “advanced” Western Medical Practice.

            On the first point allow me to say this- moreover allow one of Einstein’s equations a chance to remind you, energy exists in all things.  Including human beings. 

The Chinese intuited it. 

            So did Einstein.

Einstein formulated, tested and devised an equation so that it could be detected, measured, quantified and communicated by a misleadingly simple yet profound cardinal equation of physics with limitless application.  This formula did for the field of physics what the microscope did for the field of microbiology; allowing the scientific world to sharpen the focus of their eyes while simultaneously expanding their visual-philosophical-scientific frame of reference, enabling them to think, if nothing else as they broke from their pre-relativity physics oriented mindsets…“What if__________?”  Please, honor the man’s memory, gain a sense of wonder about the world around, and inside you and…fill in the blank.

            On the second, about speaking diminutively about this thousands of thousands of years old curative, restorative, and harnessing energy technique, allow me to remind you of the meaning of the word “sublime;” while the modern age and culture believes human beings have reached the apex of intelligence and technology there is still that which defies explanation and eludes “reasonable assumptions” (whatever dangerous conjecture that oxymoron enables!) about physiology; I for one believe that something which has worked repetitively and reliably for thousands of years should be given a non-partial jury of its contemporary ideological peers, (if any may be found) in the deep pocketed lobby-laden court of American health interest groups, where evidently Lady justice is blind.  But is smitten with the inky taste of the good ole’ American greenback bought food and death inducing life style choices most of us make everyday, before being kicked to the curb because dollar driven concrete thinking won’t tolerate the idea of independent simultaneity of Eastern and Western medical practices BOTH being correct. 

Furthermore, to cast a western philosophical point of interest in the role of devil’s advocate; if in fact “true knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance…” we must commend an advanced culture which refused to name that which could not be described in language and became known as Qi (Chee.)  Further, allow us to remember we prove by failing to disprove; not by arguing for our point, no, rather by laying siege to the theories and thoughts on all flanks and in the act of relent we walk away from sound science.  I say again “Thousands of Years…  I will cease to ask your forgiveness as readers for my crassness toward certain subjects in medical science; it simple staggers my mind that there are alternative remedies and preventative therapies with more historically documented evidence of their efficacy than that on any ten modern drugs you could name on the market COMBINED.

            What will follow is a series of articles calling the East to meet the West on level ground with the mutual interest of the effective application of Hydro-science, currently being explored and pioneered by the My Bath Steam Shower Company in multiple forms of Hydrotherapy such as Acupressure, Steam Inhalation and Reflexology.