7 Areas of Your Health You Can Affect to Reduce Your Allergies
Which of these 7 aspects of health is the main cause of your allergies? Identifying can show you where to start to take a huge load off your body, reducing allergy symptoms and leaving extra energy to build immune health or for you to use in daily life.
1. Enough Sleep AND Enough Rest
When we sleep restfully, during the nighttime hours, our bodies cleanse the bloodstream, build immune system, clear unnecessary emotional energy from the day, regulate hormones, and restore energy and blood that are necessary for healthy interaction with our environment. It is amazing what the proper amount of restful sleep can do for health in general. It is also important that the sleep be during the nighttime hours, ideally somewhere in 9 pm - 8 am. If you are not getting 8 hours of sleep at night, this is absolutely the number one thing to do before expecting any treatment or medication to be the solution. For skin rash and eczema, this is even more important.
2. Exposure to Chemicals, Fragrance, Irritants
The amount of chemical fragrance used in most laundry detergents is outrageous. It will stay in clothes and bedsheets and aggravate throughout the day and night. Be sure to use a biodegradable or hypoallergenic fragrance free detergent. Also in skin creams, home deodorizers may be causing mild headaches, allergies, and hormone imbalances without us even knowing it. Second and third hand smoke is toxic and will definitely cause allergies and other immune and mood problems.
3. Food/Digestion/Blood Sugar
Ideally the food we eat is fresh, seasonal, and organic. Minimize processed food, preservatives, food dyes, hydrogenated fats, sugar, and old food. Regular meals without grazing, sitting relaxing while eating strengthens ability to assimilate nutrition and turn food into energy rather than mucous or inflammation. Be sure to include the 5 flavors regularly in the diet and keep them balanced -- sweet, salty, spicy, bitter, sour. Sometimes low blood sugar will also induce an allergy attack, even for a person who does not have any blood sugar imbalance diagnosis.
4. Hormones/Blood Deficiency
Whether they are out of balance or in a natural transition such as during puberty or late 40's-50's for men and women, hormones can be the cause of allergies. There are many people who have never had allergies in their lives, and all of a sudden they get allergies. If you have low blood or Iron, PMS, irregular periods, thyroid imbalance, or are in menopause, consider addressing hormones and blood to get to the root of your allergy symptoms.
5. Stress/Overload
Allergies are affected by the body's pressure systems. It is that simple. The vascular system is maxed out and overloads, and the congested energy or mucous is bulging and bursting out. Try 10 minutes of quiet time or of the Microcosmic Orbit breathing meditation. Five minutes of belly breathing and then a few minutes of rest. The bigger picture of "overload" is often happening in our lives in general -- when we have too much on our plates or too much pressure in our personal, professional, or emotional lives.
6. Emotion
Our bodies have waterways much like a city has waterways. In our bodies, these waterways are the lymphatic system, vascular system, large and small intestines, kidneys, bladder, and sinuses. When our waterways overflow, some of us get allergy symptoms. These waterways can be flooded with debris such as inflammatory hormones, undigested foods, chemical irritants, pollution, allergens, or they can flood from unresolved emotion. Notice if there may be emotional energy that wants to be resolved or expressed. Notice how long it has been since you last cried. Crying releases and resolves emotional energy in a natural and healthy way.
7. Spiritual
This may or may not require help from a healer. In adults self love and self acceptance, patterns of insufficiency, highly critical or self critical or self deprecating thoughts and beliefs. If you relate to these patterns, addressing them will very likely reduce or eliminate allergies. In children, the family can help by creating order in the home. Rhythms with meals and bedtime, presence practices of both parents if they are both in the home.
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