Part 3 Nourishing Mindbody and Spirit

By Susan Ni Rahilly

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.

Just to refresh on Parts 2 and 3 of this series: we know now that Skin-elimination and Hydration are two techniques which are vital to any healthy skin-care plan and are important in the care and good health of our skin-body, restoring balance to our Mindbody. They go hand in hand, one assists the other.

To understand healthy skin, we need some body awareness. It is vital to keep your skin healthy and clean and clear, by washing, cleansing, exfoliation and nourishing in order that it can do its job successfully and constantly rid you of waste so that toxins do not build up.

Incredibly important to us as human beings though, is the holism in our holistic wellbeing routines: we’re making our Mindbodies a more comfortable place for our Spirits to dwell. The nourishing we give ourselves in deep self-care is as much nourishing of our Spiritual bodies, our Souls, as it is care of the physical Mindbody.

Nourishing and nurturing follow elimination and hydration. But sometimes, where our body and our self-care are concerned, more is not always more.

Less is often more. For example, with skin-elimination using Dry Skin Brushing: 10 minutes a day is not ‘better’ than five minutes every other day, your body just gets used to it and the method stops working as well. This is where homeostasis comes in.

Homeostasis

Your body’s hormone levels and how they are released is controlled by feedback loops, called homeostatic mechanisms, between your glands (this is the principle on which Bio-feedback therapy works.)

So to explain homeostasis, the pituitary which is your master gland situated right in the centre of your head, releases thyroid-stimulating hormone which stimulates the thyroid gland, which is situated in your neck, to produce thyroxine – which speeds up the rate of metabolism. When your thyroid levels are high enough, so there is enough of this hormone circulating in your body, then this in turn tells the pituitary gland to stop producing thyroid-stimulating hormone, which slows down the rate of metabolism. Homeostasis tries to keep your body in balance, or to keep it in the same state, by regulating your metabolism which is the rate at which your body uses energy. And this is why thyroid problems cause weight problems. And this is also why if you keep feeding your body less and less, your body will go into starvation mode, and slow your metabolism down so it uses less of the energy which is in less supply.

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