4 Daily Practices to Include If You Struggle with the Common Cold in the Cooler Months
To my beautiful souls living in the Southern Hemisphere, cooler months are certainly upon us.
Do you struggle with the common cold during the cooler months?
You know, switching up your diet and lifestyle can play a huge part in how you feel. With nourishing food and lifestyle tweaks, you can really help to avoid developing the common cold.
Ready to make some changes that may also help reduce your chances of getting the cold?
Here are four amazing practices to include often if you're tackling the common cold too often:
1. Stay in tune with your life
Why this is important:
Paying attention to your diet, movement, your emotional state, and to your rest and relaxation, will help you to prevent developing colds and be a great cure once you have developed them.
Try This:
To really benefit from staying in tune with your life, regularly check in with how you are feeling physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually throughout your day. If you are feeling great, wonderful! If you are not, ask yourself what you need right now to support you feeling good. It's that easy!
2. Cleanse with lots of fluids
Why It Rocks:
Keeping your organs of elimination (lungs, kidneys, skin, colon) open and functioning well, will support the release of toxins from your body and reduce your chances of toxin overload and subsequent development of a cold. Remember a cold presents the body with a mass clearing out and opportunity for a reset if it is indeed needed! You can easily stimulate your cleansing processes by drinking lots of water, juices, herbal teas, soups and broths daily.
Try This:
During Autumn, bolster your fluid intake with one meal per day being a soup or broth.
3. Check in with your unexpressed feelings
Why You Want To Do This:
Not expressing your feelings blocks the flow of your energy and can weaken your physical resilience. A lowered resilience allows cold viruses to move into cells and multiply, creating that flu-like feeling.
Try This:
Tune into your feelings at any given time of the day. Instead of keeping them to yourself (in your head), try expressing them even if it means expressing them to yourself in the mirror. This is a physical act of voicing your feelings and having them be in a place other than your head, potentially creating a feeling of clarity, lightness, and more space.
4. Reduce your intake of mucus producing foods
Why You Dont Want Too Much Of These:
A slowing down of the food travelling in the intestines, may result if your diet is high in unnatural, processed foods or foods that readily create mucus in the body such as dairy products, sweets and starchy foods such as bread, pasta and noodles.
When this elimination pathway is slowed, there is more chance of putrefaction taking place, which contributes to increasing toxicity within your body.
Try This:
Focus on including 1-2 cleansing fruits and vegetables per main meal and snacks. Make sure they are seasonal and if possible sourced from farmers markets and organic.
Reducing the development and managing the common cold means looking at the big picture, and your diet and lifestyle is a huge part of that picture.
By staying in tune with your life, cleanse daily with lots of fluids, check in regularly with any unexpressed feelings, and reduce your intake of processed and mucus producing foods, you're not just eating better; you're living better and you will feel so much better!
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