Part 2: Nourishing with Hydration

By Susan Ni Rahilly

November is Healthy Skin Awareness Month, read this three part series on ways to help you have beautiful, healthy skin.

Read Part 1: Skin Care – A Natural Way to Glowing Health Part 1 Elimination

Deep and regular, nurturing and nourishing self-care of the skin-body is one of the most powerful ways to increase your sense and feeling of wellbeing and vitality.  Caring for your skin is caring for the largest elimination organ of your body.

Before we get on to an understanding of body nurturing and its importance in nourishing the Mindbody and Spirit in the third part of this series, here’s a reminder in Part 2 about the importance of skin-care for the wellbeing of your Mindbody.

Nature loves balance. Your body always strives to be in balance, no matter what you do to it. If you work with it using some pretty simple natural techniques for care of your skin-body, you can improve skin health, help boost your circulation, rid your body of waste products and imbalance-forming toxins; and you might be surprised what you find out about your own body in the process.

Many of the needs of your skin-body are satisfied freely or at least very cheaply: your body’s needs for water, cleansing, movement and breath – all of which promote vitality and a glowing, healthy skin. Hydration

Our bodies are 62% water, (or up to 70% according to some health writers). Maintaining this balance is crucial to the optimum working of our bodies – after only 24 hours without it, our bodies would start to get into trouble, our systems could not cope.

Blood, sweat and tears (and urine) are water-based. Most of what makes up our bodies is water soluble. All the poisons and waste products of our bodies are got rid of (excreted) in solutions. And water is what is needed to extract the nutrition from many of our foods.

We, our bodies, work a bit like a toilet cistern. You need to put water in to be able to flush it out.

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