In our society today, there is an explosion of iPhones, Blackberries, WiFi, WiMax, video game consoles, smart meters, appliances and electronics, that have fundamentally changed our electrical environment. Electropollution is the modern day Sha Qi (negative energy). It can’t be seen, you can’t taste it, you can’t touch it; but the air all around us is increasingly filled with electromagnetic radiation (EMR) that is penetrating our bodies and clouds up the electrical communication in our bodies.

The RF exposure from cell phones creates a risk for cancer. RFs have been shown to damage cellular DNA, which may lead to cancerous mutations. Even low-level RF exposure causes the body to create heat stress proteins, a temporarily protective measure that is harmful if this stress response is chronic. The incidence of partoid gland tumors and brain cancer is strongly correlated with the use of cell phones. The World Health Organization classifies cell phone radiation as a class B carcinogen (Dr. Mercola shares helpful overview of the growing research here).

Here are some suggestions to decrease EMR and EMF exposure:

Keep your phone away from your body. Don’t put your cell phone to your ear to speak, because every inch counts when the radioactive waves are near your brain. Always speak on speakerphone or with earbuds. When you aren’t speaking on it, keep it as far away from your body as possible. If you must wear your phone in your pocket, use a radiation shield.

Turn your cell off (or put it on airplane mode) at night. Keep your phone out of the bedroom while you sleep, and preferably switch it to airplane mode. A cell phone should NEVER be used as an alarm clock, because our brain is most susceptible to the damaging RF radiation when you are sleeping. Instead, use a battery-powered alarm clock, which emits almost no EMFs.

Turn off the WiFi at night. When we sleep, the body switches to full parasympathetic mode. This is the “housekeeping” nervous system mode and it means our defenses are completely down. As a result, we are most vulnerable to the DNA-altering effects of EMFs so it is important to turn your WiFi router off while you sleep. Even if you live in an apartment, the WiFi waves from your apartment neighbors will still reach you, but every yard of distance from the router counts. If you can, the best option is switching to wired internet through the whole house. My family isn’t making the switch to wired internet, but we religiously turn off our router before bed.

Golden Phoenix Feng Shui offers EMF surveys for the home and business, and works with environmental electricians to remediate living environments of EMF problems in the home or workplace.