Dry Skin Brushing~ Crazy Cheap, Effective, Fast Detox

I'm working my way thru my WILD AND GLORIOUS FORTYISH Makeover!

Basically, I challenged myself, 40 days before my Fortieth Birthday. I wanted to hunker down, put all the tricks, tweeks, and simple solutions that I have discovered over my years of walking into God's wonderful, natural health and jump start my new decade.
A fresh start, a fresh me, for a fresh era

. But even cooler still, I'm dumping out my simple toolbox, and letting you play along side of me.

Today is trick number 2~ Dry Skin Brushing.

If I'm neeked, then I'm dry skin brushing.
It is so simple and all you need is a natural fiber skin brush.
But if you don't have that, even a towel will work

. When perfectly disciplined, I brush when I get up, just before bed, and before my detox bath.

Remember, your skin is your not only your biggest organ, but your biggest elimination organ.
It is known to be responsible for 10 to 15% of total body elimination, and is sometimes referred to as the third kidney.

So, if we want to eliminate crud from our bod, we best not forget to love on our skin.
Dry Skin Brushing removes dead skin cells, so your body can remove waste.
It also stimulates new skin to regenerate.
It also enhances blood circulation, the lymphatic system, and toxin elimination.

And after you are use to it, it really does feel wonderful. It is a quick picker-upper, when you are starting to drag your feet.
Kind of like your own personal and private "on switch".
Many, many times, I'll take 3-5 minutes just to brush, and afterward I feel completely invigorated.

I had often wondered if it was just my crazy me imagining it brush away my worries , the power of suggestion and all, but after I read this wonderful article on chronic fatigue I have no doubt.

I LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! And you should DO IT! DO IT! DO IT TOO!

This is the most thorough step-by-step to dry skin brushing I know of.
You are welcome to follow it to the tee, if you like, when I do, I can tell a difference, but, life being life, more times than not, I'm on the run.

I've found a quicker brush to be just as glorious.
I've even began to notice that, making myself take the time for this ancient remedy, is possibly more powerful, when I feel I have even less time.

Strange perhaps, but there is untapped healing and freedom in the choice.
There is power when you choose to stop the whirlwind, saying "I may not have the 5 minutes but I CHOOSE to find the two"

It is a wee way of reminding yourself that yes; I am valuable, and I choose to invest in me.

Dry Skin Brushing is one of my most favorite treats, and definitely the one that gets the craziest looks from people I share with.

Is the age-old practice of Dry Skin Brushing too simple and primitive for our complex generation? Maybe.
But absolutely effective, invigorating and addictive in all the best ways.

Raw Foods First Step to Total Vibrant Change

I’ve started my 40-2-40 countdown, and wow, can time fly by when you are already feeling you don’t have enough hours in the day.
It’s almost as if the big cosmic clock winds itself into overdrive or the treadmill of life jump up a m/hr and the incline goes to the straight-up. (or any other cheezy word picture )

You know what I mean, Jelly Bean?
As soon as you set your heart on a goal, and all the forces in hell will try to undermine your victory.
Since leaping off this bridge, I have had an anniversary dinner, birthday dinners, out-of-the-blue, let-me-totally-spontaneously-bless-you dinners, crazy fatigue, sleepless nights, bouts of depression, discouragement and every undermining tactic in the book, throw under my feet.

Forces of hell don’t worry me much, however it’s those reoccurring nasty, ugly things that rise up inside me, my own stinking-thinking, and bad habits, that will do more damage than anything.
We will blog about those closet skeletons, soon, as I dust them all off.

But as I promised, my agenda for my Wild and Glorious Fortyish Make-Over.

Step by step, thought by thought, all my little secrets and tweeks that I have found along my road to grow my health.

These are the areas that I re-evaluate, first, when I want to take my health out of a rutt, and on to a higher place.

Things that I know bring success, and bring it quickly.
But (sigh..) things that are first to get pushed to the side and neglected in my health/freedom journey.

1. Raw Foods~
Just Google the benefits of raw foods, and the hits go crazy.
It is a principle that is finally coming into its own.
No longer just for hippies, tree-huggers, and extremists.
A diet high in raw fruits and veggies, is unequaled to increase health, detox the body and heal disease.
Experts and advocates of a raw food diet, challenge us to a diet of no less that 75% raw fruits and vegetables to see the change.

What I know is that it works for me.
I don’t know if there is a regime, “diet”, theory (call it what you will) that has ever been more successful in my life.
It has been a weapon to kill compulsions and food addictions I never thought would die.
I am free from eating disorders that haunted me for decades.
I feel better. My emotions don’t rule my life. I sleep better. I think clearer. That bloat is gone. My bowels do amazing things. My skin clears up. My cellulite disssolves. I never struggle with colds, flues, and allergies.

I’m a die-hard believer. Period

For anyone wanting to see fast changes, I absolutely challenge you to a raw food cleanse: all fruits and veggies, all raw, all the time.
You’ll never believe me till you try it for yourself.

Step number one, to catapult myself into my 40-2-40 challenge:
I aggressively become aware of my raw food ratio, and try to keep it at 100%.

As, I said, you can Google the subject till the free-range, organic cows come home, but here are some quick sites.
Hang tight, in a day or two, I’ll get some real powerful flabby- butt kicking resources into your hands that you won’t want to miss.

rawfoodhowto.com
raw living
howtodothings.com

Wild and Glorious Fortyish Makeover

The countdown has begun!!

Last week I tipped you all off on an inevitable destiny that is racing at me with lightening speed.
Soon, I will be arriving at that special number, 40 years young.

Ah, yes, although, I am already enduring the onslaught of “middle-age’ stabs, I am quick to reassure every one that I am actually entering the second third of my full and abundant life.

Things can only get better from here..

This has been time for a wee bit of introspection, and one thing that has been bubbling to the surface of my conscious memory is a promise I made to myself when I turned 35…

“when I’m 40, I’m going to be SOLID” I determined.

Yup, Buffy the Body building babe, I was going to be.

Well, ok, maybe not so enormous, but I was determined to not jiggle anywhere except by my choosing and I wanted my tank tops to showcase somewhat jaw dropping, nicely chiseled, sexy mom arms.

Anyways, 5 years after my great decree, here I am, and I’m not sure where my abs are... They seem to have gone missing over the past winter.

Last week, I decided I was going to enter grown-up-hood with a running start.
After all this is a time that I will never have again.
A once in a lifetime shot to prune off some loose ends that I had been toying with.

I am meeting 40 years young, clean, lean and hopefully not as mean.

I have determined to enter this decade striving towards excellence, in all I do and all I stand for.

The little compromises that I have been dusting under the rug really need to go.

If you have spent any time with Your Natural Food Coach on FACEBOOK you know by now that I am the EVENT QUEEN!
I love any reason for a party, and Counting down to Forty is a huge MOTIVATION!!

So, because I know that we all love those makeover shows… (and this is more fun, well… cause its me)… starting 40 days before my 40th I have embarked on my (drum roll…)

Wild and Glorious Fortyish Makeover!!!

Over the next 40 (now 35) days, I am going to pull all the tricks out of my Natural Food Coach hat, and give myself a total tweeking.

I have to find my abs, lose some jiggles, clean up my skin and my attitude with The Almighty, and find a little more pep.

But even better than listening to me rant, I’m going to share some of my little secrets with you, and let you build your own arsenal of really clever, really user-friendly, strategies to love on yourself when you feel old and your abs are missing.

So just to make this clear, I may indeed be one of the laziest person around.
I don’t do self denial and self abuse well.
So don't expect an hour in the gym everyday.
(Probably why I never transformed into Buffy)

But I have learned on my journey that there are wonderful, delicious ways to tune into a new level of health and being.

So lets go there over the next few days!
Lets chase after a new level in our walk with God, new level of health, new place of looking at ourselves.

Ready?? Times a tickin...