Cleansing is a popular term that unfortunately has little to no meaning these days because of its over usage. But in its truest sense, cleansing is a natural and important process your body goes through on a daily basis to rid itself of everything it no longer needs and that isn’t supporting your health and healing.
Engaging in a yearly or seasonal cleanse is a great way to heal, rejuvenate, and get your eating and lifestyle practices on track. But daily cleansing is so much more important. You can use these simple practices each day to help you naturally cleanse and increase your energy and vitality while helping you to heal and prevent long-term health problems.
5 Practices For An Everyday Cleanse
1. Drink A Lot Of Water, Especially In The Morning
Drinking water in the morning is one of the best and easiest ways to stay healthy! Even though you might feel you’re drinking enough water every day, you’re very likely not getting enough.
Your body uses water to cleanse and flush toxins. When you don’t get enough water, the daily cleansing slows and the toxins begin to build up in your tissues.
Drinking water in the first hour after getting up in the morning helps your body flush toxins from the day before and increase your energy levels throughout the day.
2. Take Time To Breathe Deeply
We release 80% of the toxins in our body through our breath. But the problem is that we don’t always breathe deeply enough.
Especially when you’re stressed during the day, your breathing becomes shallower and you might even forget to breathe steadily. This keeps the toxins trapped inside your body.
Take 5 minutes each day to do some deep breathing; this is a great way to naturally cleanse, release stress, and stay calm.
3. When You Eat Is As Important As What You Eat
Your body has a natural digestive rhythm that makes you a little hungry 1–2 hours after getting up; really hungry in the middle of your day, when you expend maximum energy; and moderately hungry a few hours before going to bed. Following this natural cycle helps your digestive system to work optimally, assimilating nutrients and naturally expelling the toxins.
When you start eating in a disorderly way, the digestion of different meals begin to overlap; this causes the body’s digestive system to not function well. You get less nutrients and more toxins stay in your body.
4. Clean Up Your Products
One of the biggest sources of harmful toxins that we bring into our body is through our personal care and cleaning products we use at home. Ever taken a look at the list of ingredients in these products? You will find a lengthy list of chemicals, many of which have a harmful effect on your health.
Think of just how many products you use each and every day and how many chemicals get into your body! Making a switch to cleaner, greener, and organic products is one of the best ways to help your body naturally cleanse.
5. Destress
Stress has a toxic effect on your health. So although living without stress is impossible in our busy lives, we can reduce its impact on our health with some daily stress management practices. These include yoga and meditation, which can helps decrease stress and, in turn, its harmful toxic effects.
These daily practices are great ways to keep your health at its very best throughout the year. Yearly and seasonal cleansing are great ways to go more in-depth, to get your eating and lifestyle practices back on track, to cleanse, to revitalize, and to heal any health issues.
