Sunflower Organics and Wellness – Ayurveda and Natural Wellness A Journey to Better Health
- Early to sleep, early to rise. Our body mechanism works with the day and night. We should wake up before sunrise that is around 6am and sleep around 10-1030pm. It is hard with modern living and working lifestyle to achieve this and thus it is a question of setting your own priority in life. Younger generations would only sleep at 2am when the rest of the world is already asleep and this would put them into turning their biological clock out of tune and how long do you think they would be able to sustain without any sickness when they age?
- Drink a cup of warm water upon waking up as our body would be dehydrated without water throughout the night. We should be drinking at least 8 glasses of filtered boiled water over a regular interval throughout the day. Cold drinks should not be drunk while eating hot food. It can be drunk on its own without any intake of food. A cup of cold fresh homemade juice would be a better choice than a glass of cold carbonated fizzy drink.
- Food should be cooked fresh daily and eaten on the same day. Eat more vegetables and fruits.
- Avoid the used of instant sauces and creamers for your cooking. Use more spices or home blend sauces prepared and used it in your cooking and there would be less chance of having MSG, preservatives, colouring, addictives, dyes in your cooking. You would be very sure of the exact known ingredient that is used in your cooking.
- Don’t use the 3W’s in your cooking – White Salt, White Sugar and White Flour. You can substitute it with Coarse Sea Salt (unrefined) or Black Himalayan Salt, Raw Sugar or Jaggery (Indian cane sugar), Unbleached Unrefined Flour (example atta( buckwheat) flour, rye, spelt or wholemeal flour).
- Rinse and soak your greens thoroughly and last soak it with a spoon of vinegar or black salt for at least 20-30minutes before draining its water ready for cooking. We are trying to reduce the level of pesticide in the greens.
- Reduce the use of plastic and use more glass containers to store your food.
- Buy food fresh from farmers market, farms that you know sells good quality meat or vegetables (less hormone and antibiotic injected onto animals and less pesticides and chemical sprays on their vegetables and fruits).
- You can encourage your own family to save by recycling from home for example: by using less plastic carrier bags and to use recycle bags for our shopping. Make our own compose from skin of fruits and stems of vegetables that we throw into the dustbin anyway. Sweep all the garden leaves and throw them into the compost bin to generate free fertiliser for your garden.
- You can use old clothing to wrap your fruits instead of plastic and newspaper before they are ripe to prevent them from being eaten/ bitten by insects.
- Donate old story books and magazines to recycle collection centres.
- Important awareness that most of us tend to overlook is that we tend to over buy things that we don’t really need, mostly from impulse buying. If we try to keep reminding ourselves to reduce or recycle, we should have more space within our living space to enjoy the living environment better. Simplicity living is highly encouraged.
- Our body is designed to heal itself. So don’t be conditioned by this theology in advertisements –“for fast pain relief buy….”, “ to prevent oesteoporosis….”, to relief stomach upset buy….”. Have your own assessment of your health condition before you get into succumbing into taking drugs. Listen to your body and be confident that your body needs time to heal.
