Strategy of body first, environment second worked for me

[Guest guest]

I just wanted to support Bessie's post from yesterday when she

indicated that it's more effective to focus most of our effort in this

bug-battle on our bodies. A year ago, at Thanksgiving time, I decided

my strategy would be to devote most of my effort to supporting my

health and skin care, and to keep cleaning my environment on the back

burner. The reason I did this was because I was exhausting myself

trying to get the environment under control. Intensive cleaning is

like chasing your tail, it doesn't seem to go anywhere.

If I had a choice between exercising or cleaning, I would exercise.

If I had a choice between cooking health-promoting, nourishing and

healing foods, or cleaning, I would choose to prepare the healing

foods. During this time I also had 3 months of weekly acupuncture

treatments, and I regularly took herbs.

This is not to say that I ignored the environmental problem, but it

was not my priority. I would vacuum every few days instead of every

day. I seldom used my home computer because the bugs would become

active when I was on the computer. About 5 months after I adopted

this strategy, my environmental problem was more or less solved. I

felt better, calmed down, and tackled the environment in a methodical

way (steam cleaning, dehumidifying, cedarciding). Unless you live in

a stainless steel chamber, there is no way you can ever get all the

bugs out of your living space. We have to co-exist with them.

Try to get a grip on your physical and emotional health, and then deal

with the environment.

myrtle