As we start enjoying the Spring season, a common activity is “spring cleaning”. This usually involves getting rid of the old, giving the house and garden a make-over to help us enter the season with color and joy. But we have two “houses” that need to be cleaned; our home that we live in as well as our bodies. While we accumulate things in our homes, our bodies accumulate toxins from some of the foods we eat as well as our cleaners, lotions, and other things we are exposed to.
I mentioned in my last article how nature provides us one of the perfect ways to cleanse our bodies with all the wonderful leafy greens and light fruits that are available in spring. These foods naturally help cleanse our bodies of the toxins (when eating organic) leaving us with increased energy and that Spring glow! So what other foods can impact this?
Another way to spring clean your body is by giving it a break from rich and complicated foods, artificial ingredients, and added sugar. Paring down the foods you eat and eliminating some for a period of time can have great benefits like improved immune function, better digestion, increased energy, clearer focus, and breaking some food addictions like sugar. An impaired immune system and some foods, like dairy for example, can even add to our seasonal allergies, giving us more reason to “spring clean” our body by taking a look at what we are eating, our reactions to them, and what positive changes we can make.
Spring cleaning involves food choices, our environment, and next week we’ll discuss how to make more natural choices in household cleaners that can also help clean our internal house (our body)! What step will you take this week towards cleansing?
Note: If you’d like to learn more, you can join me for a free teleclass on Thursday, April 3rd at 7:00PM to learn more. I’ll also be offering a special bonus for the Spring Reboot starting in a few weeks, to participants of the call. So if you’ve been on the fence about doing the Reboot, you won’t want to miss it! The information alone will help you make wiser choices about keeping you and your family as toxin free as possible.
