Cory Quirino's Inside Out

Get moving or else...

You have heard this saying too often: “If you don’t use it, you’ll lose it.”

This goes for every single aspect of who you are and what you are. In short, if you do not want to move or make a move in your life you will stagnate.

Getting stuck

Bad habits die hard, many claim. But this is only because there is a lack of motivation in one’s life.
So, if your lifestyle contributes to your ever worsening health and well-being, wouldn’t the thought of illness be motivation enough?

Get moving or else

One of the integral support groups of our immune system is the lymph network. The human body has 400-700 lymph nodes, of which 70 percent are deep in the abdominal area. The rest are found in the neck.

Lymph nodes, ranging in size from a pin head to an olive, act like filters, purifying and screening fluids that run through our entire body, ridding them of bacteria, viruses and other impurities before they are reabsorbed by the body and returned to the blood stream.

The lymph system does not have any means to travel through the body. The only way to get it going is by moving the body, through muscular contractions beneath the skin. Therefore, the message is clear: “Get moving or get sick.”

Take the case of edema, or swelling of parts of the body. When this occurs, it is because there is too much water drawn by proteins into the system.

This only means that your lymph system is slow and needs to be drained.

Flush it out

Enter lymphatic drainage therapy. In 1936, Dr. Emil Vodder, who introduced manual lymph drainage through the use of physical manipulation, pressure, body contact and skin stretching, staged “Paris, a Health and Beauty Exhibition.”

He demonstrated the benefits of his approach in improving a person’s health. The idea was to empty the lymph capillaries so that new and fresh fluid could replace what was stale and old.

The benefits of lymphatic drainage through massage therapy include: detoxification of the body; pain and swelling reduction; relief of allergy, sinus/respiratory problems and migraine; prevention of breast and prostate ailments; glowing/radiant skin; reduction of wrinkles and cellulite; and improvement of uneven skin.

Simple remedies

Things you can do in a relaxed manner that will not impose on your regular regimen:

1. Jump out of bed. Or at least get up with energy and enthusiasm.
2. If you can do something yourself, do not ask somebody else to do it for you (examples: getting a cup of coffee/glass of water, picking up litter on the floor, carrying your own attaché case/papers).
3. Take the stairs, not the elevator. You heart will benefit from it, too.
4. Include weight-bearing exercises to your gym program.
5. Dance, run, jump, walk briskly.
6. Drink 10-12 glasses of clear, clean water.

Detox at home

Where deep-tissue and Swedish massages cannot go, lymphatic massage can penetrate. With well-trained therapists, you can enjoy the goodness of massage with the medicinal touch of lymphatic therapy, says Dr. Eric Tan, director of Beyond Medi-Spa at Delos Santos Medical (tel. 7230041 loc. 294) and Orange Home Spa (7237714).

Bright mornings

To make your morning look perfect, try this easy routine. If you wake up in the morning with puffy eyes, gently stroke your eye bags with your two fingers, index and middle. Massage across your eye bags from the nose area to the sides of your face. Watch the puffiness go away.

Today’s affirmation

“I drive out the bad to allow the good in.”

Love and light!

Celebrate Life with Cory Quirino at 2 p.m., Sept. 16, at SM South Mall. Admission is free.

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posted by Misteryo Philippines Network (MPN) @ 12:33 AM