Twelve Ways to Turbo-boost your Immune System (other than vitamins!)

by Aum Ear (Dan Shaw)

1. Sleep. Don't push yourself to 100%. Your body needs energy reserves, like water pooling before a waterfall. Take naps. Any technique that works for you to concentrate your mind on a single subject without distractions, such as meditation on a sight, such as a candle flame or mandala, or a sound such as a mantra or a chime, will provide many of the benefits of sleep.

2. Joy and Laughter. Enjoy life today, don't postpone joy.

3. Charge your electrical body. Take colloidal minerals. Walk barefoot on the Earth, swim in natural bodies of water. Take epsom salt baths. Get negative ions in nature and with an ion generator. ("The Body Electric.")

4. Water. Drink enough. Drink a glass of water first thing after waking up in the morning. (Read "Your Body's Many Cries for Water.")

5. Exercise. Engage in aerobic exercises that raise your circulation and oxygenation. The best time of day would be shortly after waking.

6. Breathing. Practice one (or more) of the many styles of conscious ("yogic") breathing. concentrating on the breath will do wonders. Remind yourself throughout the day to take deep breaths. Depression leads to depressed breathing, and conversely, good breathing relieves depression. ("Science of Breath.")

7. Music. Make sounds with your voice and musical instruments. Expose your whole body, not just the ears to the vibrations of acoustic music. Listen to popular music you enjoy, and also the full range of frequencies found in music such as by Aeoliah, Marci, Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, Todd Barton's DNA music, binaural beats, throat singing and other indigenous musical traditions, Gregorian chanting, Abbess Hildegard of Bingen, and other sacred music, non-western scales and microtones, and 440-Hertz tuning.

8. Sunlight. Expose your whole body, not just the eyes, the the warmth and light of sunlight. Full-spectrum lighting and infrared lamps can help.

9. Social relations. Spend time with the people you love. Express your feelings. Say the things that you know need to be said, including apologies, and speaking truth to power.

10. Nourishment. Eat the most alive foods attainable; sprouted seeds, fresh local fruits and veggies (in season!), as close to the source as possible, miso, herbal teas. Avoids foods that aren't fueling your body. Begin with small steps by eliminating one unhealthy (sugary!) food and replacing with one more healthful.

11. Savor life's gifts. Eat delicious foods, view nature, art, and beautiful sights, smell lovely aromas, touch and be touched, think comforting thoughts, learn something, feel gratitude.

12. Create things of beauty.

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