CLOTHING:

CLOTHING IS ESSENTIAL for protection from too much sunlight (ultraviolet radiation), too much humidity (rain and snow), too much cold (temperate and arctic regions), too much need-desire (sexual preoccupation). For the health conscious and hypersensitive person, one's choice of clothing is important. Every fabric used in clothing and every color emit their own frequency of radiation - vibrations. Many of the fabrics available in the 90's have been mass produced for the past 40 years and are treated with chemicals. These also have their own vibratory essence.

TOXINS ALSO RADIATE VIBRATIONS and each fabric has an ability to attract or encourage their presence. Combinations of these fabrics, colors, chemicals, toxins, color and odor radiations are particularly noticeable to the Reptilian brain. These vibrations either depress/relax one's body and immune system, or, they stimulate one's body and immune system. Seldom is there no influence at all.

FABRICS ARE NOT ALL THE SAME in their potential to influence health. Fabrics may be divided into those which are from natural sources (wool, cotton, silk, skin-hide-fur, feather/down, paper) and synthetic (nylon, rayon, polyester, acetate, polyurethane, synthetic rubber, and others). A person can become hypersensitive to any one or a combination of these fabrics.

CLOTHING-RELATED HYPERSENSITIVITY reactions expressed will be of an identical set for each fabric. Like all forms of hypersensitivity, a reaction to one type of fabric makes its easy to acquire hypersensitivity to another fabric of the same classification. That is, the human brain is quite capable of sensing similarities. Any apparent singular reaction may be complicated by the expression of other sensitivities at the same time.

REACTIONS CAN BE CUMULATIVE both quantitatively and qualitatively. For instance, what may have begun as a sensitivity to polyester --- may be broadened or intensified. The presence of dust, fungi or mould spores, dander, perfume/scent, bacteria, perspiration, urine, pollen ... may intensify, confuse, mask, or expand the form and frequency of the reactions being experienced. This combination of symptoms may not be simply expressed as the addition of coughing to a rash. The result may be expressed as a more intense and totally different reaction: heart palpitations ... that is, a racing heartbeat. Selection, purity, cleanliness of clothing fabric --- are each important for health.

OLDER CLOTHING CAN BE HEALTHIER.
If you find that putting on a certain shirt, blouse, skirt, sweater, suit, coat or hat makes you feel relaxed, happy, depressed, anxious, confident, sexy, or reflective --- make a note of it. Make a listing of your clothes noting the color, fabric composition, dry cleaned or laundered, bleach or fabric softener used, age, and degree of fit.

AS A TEST, each day, when you can relax for a moment, dress in something from your list. It is best if you have had a bath or shower first. Do not add talc, cologne or creme to your skin. Be sure that you are in a warm room and have privacy. Dress only in the object you are testing. Note how you feel with the item on you. Try to concentrate totally on the object and how you feel. Note your feeling on your list. If you cannot determine how you feel, repeat you self-test another day after you have experimented with several other wardrobe items.

EVERYONE HAS A PERSONAL OPTIMUM STYLE OF CLOTHING.
Even a perfectly healthy person will feel most settled in a certain style of color, fabric and texture preference as well as fit (too tight, too slack, comfortable). When you have completed your testing, review your list and notice if you experienced any strong emotions to any consistent fabric, color or other factor or group of factors.

STRONG EMOTIONS can include:
love, hate, anger, frustration, anxiety, confusion, jealousy, grief.
If you do not have much variety in your clothing, note which colors and fabrics are missing. A balanced person will have either spontaneously or consciously chosen to eliminate as many potentially health compromising factors as possible. For a positive conscious decision, you have to have knowledge. You need to consciously know what your mind is already deciding for you.

COLORS OFTEN STRIKE OUR AWARENESS FIRST.
They can suggest our Basic Personality and may be a mirror of the findings of Color Psychology:

The Seven Keys to Color Healing
by Roland Hunt, A.M.I.C.A. ..,
The C.W. Daniel Company Ltd., London, 1971

and/or

The Luscher Color Test
Dr. Max Luscher, 1969, Random House;
translated to English by Ian Scott, 1971.

OUR BASIC PERSONALITY strengths and weaknesses can result in color likes and dislikes. The self-directed balanced person seeks to establish a harmony of awareness by the self-discipline of integrating a variety of colors into both wardrobe and surroundings. Persons with strong color likes and dislikes are often demonstrating the influence of Energy Blocks.

ENERGY BLOCKS ARE LEARNED REACTIONS in response to experiences which our mind considers to have been traumatic. They create behavioral compulsions (unbalance) which facilitate the development of disease. A simple awareness of this and a self-disciplined (although uncomfortable until the energy block is released) introduction of other colors may either be intolerable (demonstrating the degree to which your energy blocks are controlling you) or uncomfortable yet health benefiting.

COLOR CAN BRIGHTEN OR DULL one's attitudes and expectations ... so an appropriate choice of color for the occasion, yourself and the others who may be present can contribute to the style and outcome of the interactions entered into. Variety is always an indicator of balance and health and the ability of the individual to respond to her/his environment rather than just react to it.

NATURAL FABRICS OFTEN REQUIRE careful cleaning and maintenance if they are to remain healthful, comfortable, attractive and durable.

THE CLOTHING ENVIRONMENT can be as important as the fabric of the clothes itself. Dampened fabrics encourage mould and fungi spores to grow and multiply. Human body oils deposited on the fabrics, turn rancid with age and encourage bacterial growth as well as fabric decomposition. Bacteria growing normally or malignantly on the human sponsor can be transferred to clothing where trapped moisture and heat encourage their multiplication. Healthwise, a clean body in contaminated clothing is no more healthy than filthy skin. Natural fabrics can be warm, soft, attractive and durable --- but they demand care and appreciation to remain healthful ... and that takes time.

SYNTHETIC FABRICS CAN PROVIDE MANY BENEFITS in our time-pressed production-oriented competitive and appearance obsessive society. They are permanent press, easy wash, easy dry, inexpensive, often attractive or practical, and durable. They are a symbol of our scientifically sponsored complex chemical- and technology-based lifestyle. They require little cleaning time or attention or consideration. No moths or pests to worry about ... they won't come near these. No need to put toxic insecticides or fungicides in your drawers or clothes closets. Everything is so simple and easy. The downside, never mentioned in the posh advertisements or on the packages --- is that they are inherently toxic! Yes.

REMEMBER THAT OLD SWEATER or the loose blouse you love to wear even though you have plenty of newer ones? And how you like to change into something casual, old, or a natural fabric when you get home from the office. North American single and live-in men seem to be getting an image of going around the house in their underwear! Why? One reason is that most synthetic fabric clothing constantly emits a toxic gas: formaldehyde. Tight-fitting and new clothing emit toxic gases straight into your largest organ --- your skin. The older or more loose the garment, the more formaldehyde can be gassed away, or, is carried off in the extra air space.

TAKE OUT THE FORMALDEHYDE and you no longer have permanent press, or fabric "body", or instant attractiveness. Formaldehyde in noticeable concentrations often provides symptoms of headache, nausea, distraction, blurring, anxiety, and even muscle aches and pains. And consider that the tighter your clothing, the more directly this gas is being fed into the pores in your skin.

JUST HOW MUCH IS THERE ?
Take a permanent press shirt or other garment and put it in your oven on a clean central grate or rack with all parts spread out evenly and at least 2 inches from any element. Then turn on the oven to a temperature of 250 to 300 degrees F. Wait 20 minutes. Now, turn off the heat, open the oven door, and smell. You will likely feel much better if you quickly open the windows and air out your residence. Yet this is exactly how you can make those toxic clothes healthier. Of course, now you are going to have to iron those clothes.

What is the health conscious person to do ?
Here are a few possibilities.

FIRST, moderate the temperature of your environment so that your body temperature is more stable. Use cotton underwear. In addition to having fewer toxic chemicals than synthetics to irritate your skin, it will be more absorbent. When you are too hot, it will absorb your perspiration and allow it to do its most efficient job, cooling ... rather than being wasted by dripping away or/and soiling your more expensive outer clothing, or, evaporating quickly and unevenly and giving you a chill --- which equals negative stress. When you are too cold, it will help keep you from getting another chill and more negative stress. Negative stress invites illness.

SECOND, use passive solar heating and cooling, an air exchanger, a humidifier, a dehumidifier, an air circulation fan, tinted glass and solar shutters.

THIRD, rotate your clothing use and ensure that your closets have air circulation.

FOURTH, don't hang dirty, soiled or sweaty clothing with clean clothing. Fungus spores and bacteria can ride the airwaves and transfer to everything in the closet!

FIFTH, concentrate on using more cotton, silk and down clothing ... with the appropriate precautions.

SIXTH, avoid snug fitting clothing --- you have enough air pollution to deal with.

SEVENTH, if you get itchy feet, genitals, breasts, or wrists ... wash your clothes to remove bacteria build-up.

EIGHTH, try using an unscented (fewer chemicals added) soap, non-commercial softener (less chemicals) and cool or warm wash water and rinse.