C'mon get happy...

Be happy now – five things to do today

1. Connect
Delight in putting your time and energy into friends loved ones, and connect with those around you. Take your neighbour some flowers out of your garden, invite your friends for round for a cuppa, or join a local group who shares your interests.

2. Be Active
There’s nothing better to shake off a bad mood than getting physical. When you feel really pent up and about to explode, go and pound the pavement, clean vigorously, sprint like there’s no tomorrow or dance like you don’t give a damn. Relax as your shoulders stop hugging your ears, your mind focuses on something else and your breathing slows to calm your whole body. Soon you’ll be wondering what all the fuss was about, feeling serene and have a smile on your face.

3. Take notice
Have you stopped to appreciate the changing of the seasons? Have you noticed how crunchy the leaves are when you walk on them? It sounds simple, even childish, but do you remember how much fun it used to be, walking to school, stomping on the leaves and jumping in the puddles, rather than hurrying along, eyes to the ground, oblivious to nature and all it’s beauty.

4. Keep learning
Curiosity didn’t kill the cat, and you can teach an old dog new tricks, especially beneficial as older people show better health outcomes when they keep learning. It’s not just about formal learning, you don’t have to do any exams or write any essays if you don’t want to. Try learning a new recipe, the names of the stars and constellations, or how to make your own clothes.

5. Give
Our compassion, generosity and altruism contribute to our level of happiness. In his TED talk, The Happy Planet Index, Nic Marks cites studies where two groups of people were given $100 at the start of the day. One group was told to spend it on themselves, and the other group was told to spend it on others. Guess who gained a much better sense of wellbeing and was happiest at the end of the day? The people who spent it on others of course!

6. Be thankful *
Instead of focusing on what you haven’t got, be thankful for what you have got. Everyone reading this has a computer (or at least access to one), so I can therefore safely assume you have a roof over your head, a bed to sleep in, food in your belly and a license for your telly…
* No. 6 is a Bessie Bonus

We now stock the full range of Healing Herbs Bach Flower Remedies.

As far as I’m aware, we’re the only people in Belper to stock the full range, and we’re happy to post them to you if necessary. When you’re feeling a little low, angry or tearful, remember there’s a flower remedy to help lift you.

Is Cancer a fungus?

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Could this be true? Could cancer be fungus? Can the cure be as simple as sodium bicarbonate? From the research I’ve been doing this year to write these articles for you and the reading I do at home, this does ring true for me.

Further research suggests that up to 97% of cancer patients have an overgrowth of the fungus candida albicans, and cancer patient’s blood is 1,000 times more acidic than that of healthy people. Cancer (and any other disease) thrives in acidic conditions, and cannot survive in an alkaline environment. Sodium bicarbonate, when dissolved in water, is an alkaline solution.

Conventional doctrine dictates that candida is present because patient’s immune systems are low (it’s opportunistic). Dr Simoncini turns this theory upside down by theorising that it’s the candida that is the cause of tumours and the reason for their spread.

According to Dr Simoncini’s website [www.curenaturalicancro.com], his remission rate is up to 90%, using sodium bicarbonate to flush the tumours to radically alter their pH from acidic to alkaline. It’s performed using a catheter, so don’t try it at home! Within seven days there is no sign of the tumour, with patients also given a diet to follow. It’s no surprise to learn that the diet they’re given to follow is an anti-candida diet, which has many crossovers with an alkaline diet.

When you look at the stats for 5-year cancer survival rates in adults in the US treated with cytotoxic chemotherapy, it’s just above 2% for all cancers. 2%! I’m flabbergasted by this fact, and horrified as currently, this is the best conventional medicine can do. Many chemotherapy drugs work on cells that are actively reproducing, with no distinction between whether the reproducing cell is healthy or cancerous, so therefore destroys both. I guess the clue is in the title: ‘cytotoxic’, which means toxic to living cells.

If I had cancer, I know which treatment I’d use, and I’m not alone either. On Dr Simoncini’s website, he claims up to 75% of doctors would refuse chemotherapy if they had cancer due to it’s ineffectiveness and devastating side effects.

So if cancer is a fungus, what can be done to prevent it’s overgrowth? And how do you know if you’ve got it?
Common symptoms of candida/fungal overgrowth include lethargy, sugar & carbohydrate cravings, thrush/vaginitis, weight gain, food intolerances, migraines and depression. I know from personal experience how the sugar cravings can take over, how you feel powerless to do anything because you just feel so low and how hard it is to get rid of the condition completely. I’ve had all the symptoms listed above, and still I find it hard to stay on top of it and remain healthy. It’s also not a pleasant process to go through to get rid of it, as the ‘die-off’ can seem worse than the original symptoms, but once you’ve gone through it and come out the other side, you’ll have never felt better.

Staying off sugar and refined carbs (white flour, bread, rice etc) helps as the fungus feeds on sugar. Keeping to an alkaline diet is one of the best ways to improve your health overall, as stated earlier, cancer, fungus and other disease can’t survive in an alkaline environment. Detoxing the gut to kill off the fungus and boosting your intestinal flora with good bacteria (probiotic tablets, not the yoghurts as they’ve got sugar in) will ultimately replace the candida and leave you feeling energised, healthy and vibrant again.

Blood acidity imbalance linked to weight gain, premature aging and cancer

How your acid/alkaline balance affects your health
Your blood pH has a very narrow range of around 7.35 to 7.45 and going outside of this range causes illness. Should it go below 6.8 or above 7.8, cells stop functioning and start to die, leading to fatality. It's serious stuff. Your body naturally buffers the pH balance by breathing out carbon dioxide, releasing alkaline bile, retaining sodium in the kidneys and removing calcium from the bones. This used to be sufficient until our modern lifestyle kicked in.

What causes acid imbalance?
The modern lifestyle has a lot to answer for, with stress being a primary factor, along with processed food, environmental pollution, candida and parasite (unfriendly bacteria) infections, tap water and many medications leading to acid build up.

So why is acid imbalance harmful?
When your body is more acid than alkaline, it’s not able to absorb nutrients and minerals as easily from your food, your cells produce less energy and aren’t able to repair themselves as well, your body’s ability to detox heavy metals is decreased, you’re more susceptible to fatigue & illness, and tumours can thrive in an acidic environment.

Acidosis:

• Corrodes arteries, veins and heart tissues
• Accelerates premature aging
• Disrupts fat metabolism
• Studies suggest that acidity levels in terminal cancer patients is 1,000 times more than in healthy people.
• Slows oxygen delivery to cells
• Leads to weight gain and diabetes

According to Dr Robert Young, Author of pH Miracle for Weight Loss, “Weight loss is not about fat grams, cholesterol, carbs or calories, it’s about acid.” When you look at the foods that are acidic, one of the worst offenders is sugar, in all it’s forms. This ties in with the sugar (fructose) theory of being the number one cause of obesity, which I wrote about in March (See What could possibly be worse for your health than smoking?). Your body stores acids in fat tissue to protect the liver and kidneys from acid damage, so by balancing your body’s pH level, you’ll naturally lose weight.

Acidic blood is thicker, with less oxygen and nutrients being transported to the cells. When the cell becomes deprived of oxygen, it either dies or becomes malignant. Cancer cells then thrive in this environment, as they get their energy through fermentation, a process that doesn’t require oxygen. Professor Felicia Kliment, in her book ‘The Acid Alkaline Balance Diet’, says ‘Clearly, the prevention of cancer should begin with removing from the body acidic wastes that turn normal cells into cancerous ones. If an individual is being treated for cancer, the removal of acidic wastes generated by toxic chemotherapy could prevent a recurrence.’

So what can we do to help ourselves?
Can you guess what I’m going to say?!! Avoid sugar and processed foods, eat lots of fruit & veg, don’t smoke or drink alcohol, manage your stress and drink plenty of alkaline water. You’ve heard most of that before, but until recently I wasn’t aware of the benefits of alkaline, ionised water. Clearly if we’re trying to tip the balance towards the alkaline side of the scale, one of the easiest things to do is make sure the water we drink is as health giving as possible. Did you know that most water filters make your tap water more acidic? I certainly didn’t, and tested it for myself just to make sure. I found that straight tap water was around pH 7.5, Brita filtered water around pH 6.5 and with my new alkaline water filter, it’s around pH 8.5. I know what I’ll be sticking with from now on!

I also regularly do a parasite cleanse, by using a herbal tincture or essential oil capsules. I support my body through this process by taking lots of vitamin C, friendly bacteria and digestive enzymes, as sometimes the “die-off” from the parasites can be an unpleasant experience.

When you look into the effects of acidosis in the body, it appears to be at the source of a whole host of degenerative diseases, and ties together much of the thinking around weight loss and wellbeing in general. I’ve always said it’s a full time job being healthy, and every time I write an article, I add to the list of things to do to keep me balanced. But like a very wise person once said, “If you haven’t got your health, then you haven’t got anything.”

Wishing you peace and good health,

Bess

We now stock Anti-Oxidant Alkaline Water Filter Jugs

One of the simplest and easiest things you can do to optimise your health and bring balance to your acid/alkaline levels is to drink alkaline water. The jugs filter and ionise your tap water turning it into mineral rich, health promoting alkaline water with anti-oxidant properties. The jugs come with two filters (which will last you 3 - 4 months) and are available in the clinic for £47.75. All the water we drink in the clinic is now anti-oxidant, alkaline water, so next time you're in, ask for a sample!

The Art of Surrender

The art of surrender

I’ve been trying to write this article for weeks. I try to write every article for weeks. According to my (self-imposed) deadline, it should have been proof read and sent to you two weeks ago. I’ve never made my article writing deadline yet.

Alright, so it’s a self imposed deadline, and being self-employed I can do what I want, when I want (almost) but I just know that if I really tried my hardest to write this, what comes out won’t be any good. I’ll send it out and when I read it once it’s arrived in my inbox (so I know it’s arrived in yours), I won’t like what I’ve written. I’ll have gotten on my high horse and gone completely off topic. The tone won’t be right, I’ll have missed vitally important information or it’s just plain boring/unreadable.

So what do I do? I bow down to the universal wisdom, my hormones, my tiredness levels and surrender. I give up basically. I can’t do something when I can’t do something. There’s just no point trying.

So how did this article get written? When I surrendered, I trusted that there would be a time at some point this month that I would have the inspiration and energy to write it. And here it is, you’re reading the proof, it worked.

It's the same when I get a cold, or am tired, or just feeling a bit below par. I’ll go and have a lie down, or a walk, or do the minimum I can to get through the afternoon until I can go for a walk or get into bed extra early. If I’m lacking in energy that day, I don’t see the point in wasting any more of my resources trying so hard to do something that really, in the grand scheme of things, isn’t that important and can wait (just a bit longer). 15 minutes to half an hour spent recuperating means that I can function far better afterwards than I did before. If I were Prime Minister (Leader of the Universal Peace Party), my wining policy would be to make every work-place in the UK have a Rest & Relaxation Room.

Anyway, I digress. The art of surrender involves:

1. Listening to your body when it tells you it’s time to stop
2. Trusting that you will feel better for taking time out to have a power nap, listen to a relaxing piece of music or go for a refreshing walk in the park
3. Taking action and actually doing whatever it is your body is crying out for
4. Knowing that the time will come for the job to be done and when that time comes, the job will be done with joy, ease and grace.
5. Enjoying the moment and the beauty of life – seek and ye shall find…

Wishing you peace and good health,

Bess

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About Sharper Life
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