We are chemical beings and chemicals regulate everything
about our lives (an overly simplistic
statement that does work for this article). Our bodies are capable of producing every
chemical need to be happy, healthy, creative, motivated and more. If these statements are true and they are,
why aren’t we all of those things? Why
are so many of us unhappy, anxious, depressed, unhealthy, unmotivated and stuck
in our current life situation. One
simple answer is, that we are addicted to the chemicals (neurotransmitters,
neuropeptides, hormones) needed to produce negative, unhappy lives. We are emotionally conditioned to look
outside ourselves for fulfillment, happiness, satisfaction, love, etc. We are exposed to a constant diet of
emotion/feeling causing news (?), entertainment (?) and advertising, designed
to keep us addicted to our familiar non-empowering states of being. If you are tired of where you are in life, or
with your life, you will need to turn off your network broadcast TV. Just that simple/difficult(?) act will
improve the quality of your internally produced chemicals
.
If you have ever wondered why change is so difficult and
slow all you need do is look at the behavior, belief, emotional response
patterns of your life. Most have been
there for a long time, causing us to do, think and respond the same ways we
learned from past environmental events and people. We tend to respond the same ways over and
over, even though those patterns don’t produce the results we actually want or
need. Most of us know of being
dis-empowered with stress, fear, anxiety, judgment, envy, anger, etc. Each of these emotions/beliefs/thoughts
produce chemicals that cause us to respond in consistent predictable ways. We are familiar with our specific chemicals
or sets of chemicals because they start us on the addictive loop of feeling the
way we think and thinking the way we feel.
Each of these chemical producing thoughts can make you sick, cause dis-empowering
beliefs/behaviors and keep you as a dependable consumer of what “they” are
selling, both in products and rhetoric.
You can learn to change, to control your thoughts and
beliefs (chemicals), but the change will require focused practice. Learn to change the way you feel, think and
respond, to start developing real self- empowerment and creativity.
I will leave the chemicals from within because volumes have
been written and will be written on the subject. I encourage you to find out much more. Now, on to our environmental chemicals and there
are so many that we live in a virtual chemical soup from drinking water, hot
tubs, insecticides, medications, herbicides, industrial pollution, etc. Each one of these chemicals effect us and our
world.
A few years ago, I saw a haunting picture of a soldier from
the Gulf War holding his little girl, who was born without arms. I realize the strength that can be developed in
individuals and the wonderful loving relationships that can be a part of
profound challenges. I was touched by
the picture and was reminded of a paper I presented to my fellow directors of
the head injury clinic I was working with.
One of our clients was being prescribed a specific medication and my job
was to inform everyone working in the clinic how dangerous it is/was. Most had not heard of it and those who knew
of it thought that the latest stuff was different (it isn’t). It is the same medication that caused more
than 10,000 profound birth defects in the late 1950s to 1961. Do a little research, millions $$$ are being
made by the producers/sellers of this medication, the spin doctors are working their magic,
however the pictures and stories of the victims of the stuff (chemical) are
there, yelling at you to pay attention. This
medication is available in our environment now and I wonder if that Golf War
soldier was exposed to a set of chemicals that responded in his body like that
terrible chemical/medication.
In 2011, one large retailer in Northwest Montana sold more
than 2,000 containers of the most popular brand of herbicide and within 100
miles there are at least 20 other retailers that sell the same specific
herbicide brand . There are also three
other brands of herbicides being sold in this same market area. I don’t have sales data for the other
herbicides or the other retailers, but I do have some logic. In this one small market area of Northwest
Montana, tons/thousands (millions?) of gallons of just herbicides were sold in
2011. Where does all of this stuff go
and what of the accumulative consequences of a ten year time span of use/abuse? Does anyone remember Agent Orange?
In 2006 National Geographic featured an article “The
Pollution Within”, by David Ewing Duncan.
Mr. Duncan was tested for 320 chemicals that he could have gotten from
just living his life, food, drink, air, basically his environment. David tested positive for PCBs, PBDEs,
Pesticides, Dioxins, Phathalates, PFAs, metals and of the chemicals found in
his body, five were found in high enough concentration to pose substantial
health concerns. Neurological, Thyroid,
Liver, Reproductive, Kidney are among the specific parts of his body that were
affected by “his” chemicals. I wonder
what our levels are and how do these chemicals mix with or change the chemicals
we product in our bodies?
The FDA is in place to protect us from chemical poisons, or
is it? The FDA approves or dis-approves
of every food, drug, chemical in our environment. The FDA, with the blessings of the government
makes the rules. One example of (one of
many) where the FDA just isn’t acting in our best interest is Fluoride. The U.S. is one of the very few countries
where Fluoride is added to drinking water and other products. Not only are we nearly alone in our use of
Fluoride, nearly 50 studies conducted over many years have all found that
Fluoride is a toxic substance, hazardous to health. Fluoride is one of the basic ingredients in
our chemical soup, because we drink it, cook with it and mix other chemicals
with it.
This article just scuffs the surface of what chemicals can
do for us and to us.
Chemicals can
positively and negatively affect our lives.
We can have control over both our internal and environmental chemicals
so educate yourself, what do you want your life and your environment to be
like?
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