How to Turn your House into a Healthy Home
By Alison Wilson BBEC, CERSA, BBNA
You may not have thought of it in these terms, but your home is a vital part of your holistic health plan.
Your home affects you physically, mentally, emotionally, and even spiritually:
Your home plays an integral part in your health. It is where you go to at the end of each day to rest and relax – and that enables your body to repair and regenerate. Hopefully, it also provides you with enough peace and calm to remember who you really are, rather than just the personality you’ve learnt to become.
The bedroom is the most important room in the house.
It’s during sleep that we lay down the cornerstones of our immune system. Disrupted sleep often means disrupted immune function. We can get away with this for a night or two. But if it becomes a regular pattern, chronic sleep disruption can lead to immune system dysfunction – which has the potential to leave you open to a host of health complaints. (As if insomnia and fatigue weren’t already enough.)
There are some man-made energies which disrupt the sense of energetic calm in our homes. There are a couple of priorities to look at here. Extremely Low Frequency Radiation (ELF’s – which we know as electricity). And High Frequency Radiation – which includes radio frequency radiation (as used in radio and tv transmissions) and microwave radiation (which is used in wireless and mobile phone transmissions).
ELF’s & Electromagnetic Radiation:
The electricity in our homes produces electromagnetic radiation. These electromagnetic fields have the potential to change our biology, and disrupt our health. Short term exposure to ELF’s is linked to insomnia, tiredness, headaches and anxiety (amongst others). Chronic exposure has the potential to lead to immune system disorders, Chronic Fatigue, Electro-Sensitivity, Multi-Chemical Sensitivity, depression, cancer and leukaemia (particularly childhood leukaemia.) It’s also heavily implicated in fertility issues and miscarriage.
Electric Junction/Meter Box:
Top of the list to consider is the main household junction/meter box. Do you know where yours is ? The priority in any home is to make sure that you’re not sleeping anywhere near this. Preferably not in the same room, but certainly not in a bed that backs up against it.
Electrical Appliances
What is your bed near? Does it back onto a tv, fridge, computer, water heater….? Do you have any transformers near your bedside table? These are found in phone rechargers, digital clock radios, low-halogen bedside lights. Do you use a sleeping blanket? All these are examples of common appliances that can give off very large ELF’s – even when turned off – and disrupt both your sleep and your health.
What to do about ELF’s?
The advice is always prudent avoidance: Move those appliances that can be moved well away from you, and move yourself away from those that can’t.
High Frequency & Microwave Radiation:
Mobile phone technology runs on microwave radiation. Most people are aware to some degree of the health concerns from external sources of radiation, such as the antennas and towers. However, it’s actually the appliances that we’ve unwittingly placed inside our own homes that pose the most common threat to our health.
‘Wireless Appliances’:
‘Wireless’ computers and appliances run on microwave radiation. In order for you to be able to pick up a signal in any room, your home first has to be filled with an invisible cloud of microwave radiation – ‘electrosmog’.
Cordless & Mobile Phones:
The same applies to digital cordless phones (DECT). For the handset to pick up a signal as you walk around, the base station sprays electrosmog throughout your home, so wherever you roam, the handset remains in contact.
Again – most people have heard of the health concerns surrounding mobile phones. But very few are aware that cordless phones also emit radiation – but are often far more powerful.
Microwave Radiation Health Concerns:
Research tells us that the areas of the body primarily affected are the brain, heart, immune system. There are many studies linking it with short term memory loss, brain fog, Alzheimers and brain cancer. It’s relevant to the increase in ADHD as it’s known to produce hyperactivity and inability to control behaviour. As it also disrupts our endocrine system, it can result in lowered immunity, depression, mood swings, even weight gain and accelerated ageing. It is also known to directly distort and damage our very DNA.
All this is particularly important for children, who are especially vulnerable.
What to do about Microwave Radiation?
The recommendation is always to favour cables in place of cordless. For anything to work on a cordless or wireless basis – your home needs to be bathed in microwave radiation. And as that’s on 24/7, you’re always living in it. Connect your computer to the internet via cable, and move back to a corded phone.
What to do?
Do all you can to:
• Remove sources of radiation out of your home – particularly away from your bed and sleeping area.
• Nurture and build up your immune system – so that it’s able to protect you
• Build up your energy system – so that that it’s strong enough to deflect the things you come into contact with.
• Focus your thoughts firmly on creating health, rather than on the fear of disease.
As our world becomes increasingly batPotential
Please remember that all the health affects listed here are potentials. They don’t have to be activated. As we’re learning, we have a much greater part to play in our own health than was previously believed. The effects vary widely from individual to individual – dependent upon your genetic makeup, your health background, your level of sensitivity, and even your conditioning and belief patternshed in these forms of radiation, we all need to become aware of what’s happening and how it affects us – so that we can take the appropriate action to safeguard our health.
For more information on the above – and other related subjects – please look at Alison’s website: www.alisonwilson.com.au.
Alison Wilson is an author, trainer and speaker on the subject of Healthy Homes – educating people in how simple changes in their homes can safeguard their health
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