by Elizabeth Carpenter, MS, L.Ac.

When is the last time you felt truly vital? Vital as in you weren’t pushing through exhaustion, you didn’t have pain, you didn’t need caffeine or stimulants, your sleep was easy and refreshing, your stomach and digestion were perfect, your face was dark circle free and your skin lively, your mind was calm, your memory excellent, your focus sharp. How long has it been?

Today there is a new epidemic of diseases. Many have names—IBS, ADHD, infertility Weight Loss Resistance…the list goes on and on. Any many do not--we just put up with a collection of vague symptoms, take a variety of medicines to get through, and consider it “normal.”
And if you go with the straight dictionary definition, it is: “ conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular.”

But fifty or sixty years ago this was not normal. A hundred years ago most of our 21st Century Illnesses did not exist, or occurred only in our aged.

But today, we have assault on multiple fronts, largely engineered by our own progress. Most of us are experiencing overwhelm on a daily basis.

From the point of view of evolution, the adaptation mechanism we’re hard-wired with is meant to get us out of the occasional jam we get ourselves into—predators, food shortage, turf wars. The powerful chemistry triggered for our survival is was not engineered to represent a sustained state.

But today, most of us live in constant overwhelm:

• Information Overload
• Extreme Work Hours & Responsibility
• Insufficient Support Network
• 24/7 Communication Expectation
• Multiple alerts to respond to—numerous email accounts, more than one phone, texts….
• Toxins & Chemical Onslaught in our personal care products, cleaners, packaging, furnishings…
• Chemicals in our food & water
• Drugs in our food & water
• Hormones in our food & water
• Genetically Modified Food our bodies don’t know how to recognize
• Radiation from computers, cell phones and other personal devices
• Electromagnetic stress from communication lines, towers and grids

The clean-up and detoxification system our cells and systems have evolved, was never mean to handle the 10,500 of chemicals (many untested for human exposure, and most not tested for compatibility with one another or simultaneous exposures) found in personal care products.

The average woman begins her day with a skincare and cosmetic routine featuring more than 125 toxins, many of which are carcinogens. (Check the safety of your products here)

Such as:

• Lead
• DEA (listed as a human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer)
• Propylene Glycol (used in antifreeze and hydraulic fluids as a solvent and associated with kidney damage, liver abnormalities, damaged cell membranes and more)
• Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (a mutagen capable of changing the information in genetic material of your cells)
• Heavy Metals
• Parabens
• Phthalates (in plastics, known hormone disruptors)
• Dozens more

We’re adding, adding, adding toxins into our lives. And we need avoid those we can and detox them out, regularly.

As they accumulate, they enter deeper and deeper. Down to the cellular level where they destroy our cell membranes, handicap our cellular energy production, hoard waste materials, leading to disruption of our hormones, inflammatory patterns of all degenerative diseases,  and preventing our natural healing mechanisms from fully functioning.

What we’ve designed to advance us is not just a hallmark of our progress and ascendance, it is partly why we are sick:

What generations before us faced in their later lives, if ever, we see in our 30’s, our 20’s and even in our children. Illnesses and health issues that barely existed 100 years ago are our “new normal.”

• Weight Loss Resistance
• Infertility
• Hormone Imbalance
• Thyroid
• Autoimmune
• ADHD
• Autism Spectrum
• Chronic Pain
• IBS & Chronic Digestive Issues
• Asthma, Sinusitis & Allergies
• Sleep & Energy Disturbances
• Anxiety & Depression
• Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
• Mystery Illnesses

We can rise to the new millennium challenges. We can harness the wellness wiring within to create a new norm of physical health, mental agility, emotional stability and spiritual groundedness.

Oriens is a latin root, meaning “toward the rising sun.” It speaks of a new day, transformation. The Oriens Approach is a step-by-step proven method to create real change in your life. We invite you to raise your bar on personal wellbeing and power.

Don’t just survive…thrive!

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