If we buy sugar free, we get sweeteners, if we buy colorful food, we get coloring, if we don’t want to cook food, we get pre fab with taste enhancers, if we don’t want the water to separate from the fats in lotions and milk, we get homogenizers. If we buy food and cosmetics with harmful substances we indirectly ask the producers give us potentially harmful substances. These have probably been tested on animals so that we can shop in blissful ignorance. EU finally banned animal testing for cosmetics, but most of it is done in the US or in China, like these common brands:
There are several sites that offer information about which products to don’t test on animals and how help to stop it. Here are two sites I use. Also you can download apps for your mobile to have it handy in the shopping aisle (like the Good Guide).
http://www.choice.com.au/reviews-and-tests/food-and-health/beauty-and-personal-care/cosmetics/animal-testing-labelling/page/what-to-look-for.aspx
http://www.crueltyfreeinternational.org/en/the-solution/animal-testing-for-cosmetics-in-europe-finally-set-to-end
In the US where 20 million animal tests are done every year. I guess test labs are excluded from the animal well fare laws? Not many know where the labs are and much less what they do (I spare you the pictures). Someone that is kind to their dogs and horses but eats meat and uses lipstick that has been tested on animals, is looking away. Ignorance is bliss? Not for the animals! We simply get what we buy. That’s what Conscious Consumerism is about! When companies are allowed to only have earnings as objective, our money is responsible for what they produce and the impact it creates on the planet and us. When we stop this we truly detox!
Controlling authorities like FDA are not doing enough, partly because these authorities get most of their money from the companies they control. The public opinion is clearly against it but we still buy the products, why? (See the picture with red dots that show how many in the population that are against animal testing for cosmetics). Probably because consumers have not taken the time to figure out the alternatives. That’s why so many organizations popped up helping us to be Conscious Consumers. This is a great site from Australia.
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Tomorrow you’ll get a recipe for a cleansing routine and a ‘lotion’: Shake it, don’t fake it!
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Since 20+ years we have successfully been consultants in the natural health sector to support individuals and we are in particular working with entrepreneurs and professionals. Our mission is to defend natural health, the only one that really works so far. We mainly but not entirely use Eastern philosophy such as Ayurveda, TCM, Yoga, Thai chi, Falun Gong, and only honest modern science.
Everyone can heal naturally, it's what bodies and (free) minds want. Our O• Method is based on physics, chemistry and biology with emphasis on the first one as the rest often follow naturally. We divide our work in three parts: Body-Mind-Soul. To allow them all to detox and let go we work with energy (Prana, Xi, Vitality, Spirit, Pneuma or whatever you call the life force, it's the same force mentioned in ancient texts) to heal on all levels, i.e. from chronic disease, toxicity, depression and traumas using our own method, reaching 96% success rate which is unheard of by others in our sector. Would you know of anyone with that result, let us know.
Considering that we invented and dumped >120.000 (petro)chemically derived substances since 1945, of which many are very toxic, getting healthy will most likely include a good old body detox sooner or later.
My love for Ayurveda started in 1993 with Deepak Chopra and after a few turns in life I quit my job as a Nordic Brand Manager and BI strategist at the largest Nordic telecom operator and re-schooled in natural medicine. Besides Dr. Chopra I have studied Dr. Lad, Dr. Siva (Pune, India) and other prominent teachers in their field, but the real difference comes with a practiced. I added nutrition, Orthomolecular Medicine with Dr. Nielsen (USA/Spain) and herbalism.
Today we teach those whom want to continue our work and we love to dig down in etymology and the original (mainly Avestan, Pali and Sanskrit) scripts to understand the words fully and I fall in love with the concepts over and over again for every sutra. This love affair that created a few books (Amazon), presentations, essayes and many events and consultations, is still giving us Yang-Yin balance and inspiration. I guess with that we are recognizing the value of Dao De Ching 💚🌿💜
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