Loading ...Just a typical morning. Luckily it is not my typical morning!
You wake up and stretch your arms and feel “not so rested”. You get up off your mattress that is filled with flame retardants and chemicals that off gas while you’re sleeping, causing you to breathe them in all night. You put your contacts in that are made from plastic. You use a “no rub” contact solution that has chemicals in it that are known to cause eye problems. You use Listerine to wash out your mouth, which has the potential to cause mouth cancer. You pour tap water into your coffee machine that has cancer causing ingredients, drugs, hormones and other toxins in it, and you use coffee grains that have no doubt been sprayed with chemicals before being packaged. You then take a shower, breathing in the toxic water vapor filled with chlorine and fluoride, right next to your polluted shower curtain made from 50+ chemicals that off gas while you breathe them all in. All of this while being completely ignorant of the fact that chemicals smell funny for a reason, so you should probably not have that shower curtain. Better to leave it put though because it does the job, right?
You wash your body with products that contain more chemicals than real ingredients, and that are loaded with toxic perfumes. You then dry off with your towel made from cotton that has been sprayed with chemicals in the field and dyed with chemicals. You then dress in clothes made from the same type of cotton and various plastic by-products “polyester anyone?”. You then make yourself some cereal which has been so heavily processed that it has to be “fortified” with vitamins and minerals to make it worth anything in terms of nutrition. You walk through your house, in which almost every source of material within it contains chemicals that off gas or are absorbed when you touch them. You make some toast and spread that lovely “potentially rancid” vegetable spread on that piece of wonderbread that has no nutrition “but is fortified!”, and you wonder how life could be so grand. You brush your teeth with sugary tasting chemical paste, and those teeth of yours have amalgam fillings that get scratched when you brush them causing mercury vapor to spew from them for hours on end. You end up breathing in this vapor all day and eventually become mercury poisoned one day without knowing it. You drive to work in your toxic sprayed “new car scent” car with your vent open to the outside, and little do you know that you are pulling toxins as you drive into your lungs from all of the car exhaust in front of you while also breathing in chemicals form inside the car itself. You get to work, and the same types of things start to happen all over again. This happens all day, every day.
I hope this gets you thinking about how toxic your lifestyle can be, and this is only a small part of your day with things left out. What is wrong with this picture? What is wrong is that it is not far from the truth for most people. Simply put… we live in a toxic world, and without the knowledge of such toxins around us then there is no way to change this. Knowledge is power and I believe that now more than I ever have in my life. It is a growing passion in my life, to know what is not taught, to find what was once lost and to find what is otherwise being stripped from the books. It all starts with the choice to better ourselves and to get to be in control of our life, and to know what is really going on in the world.