Alcohol & Spirituality
There is convincing evidence alleging that drinking alcohol increases the risk of cancer of the mouth, pharynx, larynx and esophagus. Alcohol is not only harmful to your body but also it is bad for your mind and spirit. There are very few benefits to drinking alcohol, if any at all. Sure it’s safe to have a glass of wine with dinner, but drinking regularly is something that should be kept in check. The ramifications for habitual drinking are usually painful and rather unpleasant. There has never been a drunk who has reached enlightenment and maintained perfect health.
The risk of upper respiratory tract cancer is greatly increased if drinkers also smoke. Alcohol also increases the risk of liver cancer and most likely increases the risk for colon, rectal and breast cancer. When you consume alcohol, the sensitive tissues of your upper-respiratory tract are directly exposed to alcohol, causing damage to healthy cells and possibly initiating cancer. Cancer of the liver is probably preceded by alcoholic liver cirrhosis which develops after years of habitual drinking.
Drinking alcohol dulls your mind-body connection by affecting your brain’s sensory input. When the mind-body connection is dulled, it is impossible to receive healing energy or divine guidance. Alcohol can have a negative effect on your meditation practice even days after, but the important thing to keep in mind is that alcohol depletes your body of its vital resources, making it susceptible to sickness and disease. Even levels of dehydration that do not cause you to feel thirsty can have a negative impact on your ability to concentrate and focus. Additionally you will lose vitamins and minerals. Releasing stress is one of the main functions of meditation. Anything that you do which incurs more stress on your body and mind is, no doubt, going to counter the positive effects of meditation. It is comparable to driving a car while applying the brake pedal and the gas pedal together….You’re not going very far.
Be mindful your drinking and always be aware of the many risks you impose on yourself and others if you do. Be responsible, always, in all ways.
Clean your body, clean your mind, clean your soul.
as published on Cancer Shmancer Movement for the Medication to Medication Movement run by Break The Norms
About the author: Jessica Saraswati
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If you want to gain more weight and or toinxs in your body!ToxicityAlcohols often have an odor described as biting’ that hangs’ in the nasal passages. Ethanol in the form of alcoholic beverages has been consumed by humans since pre-historic times, for a variety of hygienic, dietary, medicinal, religious, and recreational reasons. While infrequent consumption of ethanol in small quantities may be harmless or even beneficial, larger doses result in a state known as drunkenness or intoxication (which may lead to a hangover the next day) and, depending on the dose and regularity of use, can cause acute respiratory failure or death and with chronic use has medical repercussions. Alcohol has also been known to be a catalyst for reckless behaviors that may have undesirable results, such as accidents, fighting, and unprotected sex. The LD50 of ethanol in rats 11,300 mg/kg.[2] This ratio would correspond to an 80kg (176.4lb) man drinking 65 shots of 80 proof alcohol, although the LD50 does not necissarily translate directly to humans.Other alcohols are substantially more poisonous than ethanol, partly because they take much longer to be metabolized, and often their metabolism produces even more toxic substances. Methanol, or wood alcohol, for instance, is oxidized by alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes in the liver to the poisonous formaldehyde, which can cause blindness or death.An effective treatment to prevent formaldehyde toxicity after methanol ingestion is to administer ethanol. Alcohol dehydrogenase has a higher affinity for ethanol, thus preventing methanol from binding and acting as a substrate. Any remaining methanol will then have time to be excreted through the kidneys. Remaining formaldehyde will be converted to formic acid and excreted.
