⚖️ Edition 35: Restore Balance
Enjoy this week's tips, resources, and strategies all about restoring balance and taking a step back from the noise.
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❤️ Stephanie 🧠✨🤸♂️🌱
The Freedom to Live 5 things Friday
Every Friday, 5 things of value from the integrative health sciences.
The best of the best functional medicine, educational resources, research, quotes, books, tips, advice etc. all from the key pillars of the integrative health system.
1. Nutrition: 3 Balanced Meals/Day
3 Balanced whole food meals/day is what minimizes cravings, restores deficiencies, and maintains satiation, energy, and balance within the body and mind.
Sticking with 3 balanced meals is the perfect structure to the day regulating circadian rhythms for children and adults, especially during summer months.
For our younger house guest this week, the strategy was to add in more vegetables to familiar foods. We ended up adding cauliflower, spinach, and even sweet potatoes to our morning BF smoothies and they were loved by all!
2. Wellness vs. Weight Loss: Reject DIET and adopt the LIFESTYLE
3. Remove/Limit Activities that Drain Energy
4. Mindset: The Law of Balance
The entire philosophy of functional medicine is based on balance. When a person's biochemistry, physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual body is out of balance, this is when dis-ease of the body occurs.
THE LAW OF BALANCE
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Finding The Middle Way
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If gravity is the glue
that holds the universe together,
balance is the key
that unlocks its secrets.
Balance applies
to our body, mind, and emotions,
to all levels of our being.
It reminds us that anything we do,
we can overdo or underdo,
and that if the pendulum
of our lives or habits
swings too far to one side,
it will inevitably swing to the other.
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By Dan Millman from The Laws of Spirit, A Tale of Transformation
5. Perspective: Take a step back from the noise.
Author of Dirty Genes, and one of my favourite Integrative Health Naturopathic Doctors, Dr. Ben Lynch, who isn't afraid to take a step back from the noice and voice a bigger and more positive perspective; Check out some of his videos here 👉 @drbenlynch
Enjoy your week!
❤️ Stephanie ⚖️