Wednesday, March 17, 2010

New Moon Wishes Using a Plant

When it comes to bringing positivity into my life, I feel that there are a thousand different tools to use.

I must admit, there are some practices that my cognitive mind wants to push to the way side if I think about it too much. The proposed results just seem too far fetched. But, in the long run, if it doesn’t hurt anyone, then why not try it…sometimes you never know where assistance will come from.

A great friend, Sabrina, who is a lovely bundle of fun energy, a healing acupuncturist, and all around great lady spreading good energy passed on a fun way to bring light into cloudy situations…New Moon Wishes. There are two different ways to do these “requests to the Universe”, using a plant or a candle. Today I am passing on the method of New Moon Plant Wishes.

I can honestly say that doing the following has helped in my own life. Whether it was reality or placebo, it really doesn’t matter to me. What does matter is that I saw fruition to important steps forward on my path of happiness…and that is what it’s all about.

New Moon Wishes

Using Healthy Plant Energy:

What you will need:

• Healthy plant within your personal space (bedroom or a place you spend time)

• A list of wishes – either 12 simple, general wishes or 3 very detailed wishes **

• Red envelope (if available)

• Red pen

• Blank piece of paper

** Detailed wishes must included dates, amounts, characteristics, color etc. Example: If you are requesting money, you must specify the amount and the date in which you want it. If your request is a romantic relationship, you must specify the characteristics of the desired relationship and by when. The more detail, the more power it has to manifest.

After you have an idea of what your wishes are, you will say them aloud to the universe 3 times with intention. Then write them on a blank piece of paper (in red ink). Fold up the paper and put into a red envelope. Place the red envelope under a very healthy plant until the next new moon.

Depending on your belief system, you may want to add certain rituals that you know, for example calling in spirit guides, arc angels or positive energies to listen to your requests, asking for their assistance. In addition, it is always good to thank all involved, including yourself, and to write ‘and so it is’ on the bottom of the page.

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Monday, March 15, 2010

Treating insomnia displeasure anxiety with acupuncture

A epigrammatic and snappy good sentence into the world of acupuncture in the analysis of insomnia.

Acupuncture footwear is comprised basically of slippers, and shoes that have undercover soles that project upward.

Acupuncture is based against the idea that dash flows through the human body along 12 lines or meridians.

Acupuncture is agreed to be effective against pain, it is not surprising that various sportspeople enjoy experimented with acupuncture when fighting injury.

Acupuncture is a very effective way to failure some diseases, since it has been used for several centuries, even more by far-east ancient cultures.

In Reference to

Planning your career in alternative medicine, Dianne J. Boulerice Lyons, 1997

Alternative Medicine, Kathiann M. Kowalski, 1998

Mosby’s complementary and alternative medicine, Lynda W. Freeman, G. Frank Lawlis, 2001

Alternative Medicine, Consumer Guide, 1997

Alternative medicine, Elizabeth Brown, 1997

Alternative medicine, Burton Goldberg, Larry Trivieri, John W. Anderson, 2002

Alternative medicine?, Roberta Bivins, 2007

Approved Links

Alternative Medicine Foundation

Yoga as exercise or alternative medicine

The Alternative Medicine

Treating insomnia displeasure anxiety with acupuncture is filed under Alternative medicine.

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Mass Delusion in San Francisco

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//  Mass Delusion in San  Francisco This week I attended the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Illnesses (CROI). There were over 5000 scientists from around the world at CROI, all sharing the mass delusion that HIV causes AIDS. These poor suckers have obviously not been persuaded by Peter Duesberg and his cronies that all retroviruses are harmless. It was apparent that these people are conspiring to keep the status quo. They obviously have everything to lose by telling the truth. There was not one single session on Loch Ness Monsters, UFOs, CIA conspiracies, Aneuploidy, or leaky guts.  And they call themselves scientists! Want to see for yourself? All of the major sessions are available for webcast. Also check out POZ Magazine’s coverage and Thebody.com’s coverage. A most interesting time was spent having lunch with one of Peter Duesberg’s old graduate teaching assistants. I kid you not. Old stories from this former student confirm the Duesberg chapter of Denying AIDS. Here is the Big Story from CROI…. Researchers: Antiretroviral Drugs May Prevent HIV Infection (San Francisco) 2/19/2010, 8:11 p.m. EST David Brown The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO-The antiretroviral drugs that revolutionized the care of people with AIDS are on the threshold of a new life-as tools to prevent infection in individuals and brake the epidemic in populations as a whole. Studies are under way testing whether periodic use of the drugs, either as pills or as vaginal or rectal gels, can prevent transmission of HIV in high-risk sexual encounters. At the same time, it’s becoming clear that the incidence of HIV infection declines over time in places where most infected people know their status and are on treatment, and thus are less likely to pass the virus to others. Related Posts

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Friday, March 12, 2010

Point of the Day

K 7 This point is the 7th along the kidney meridian which runs from just under the ball of the foot goes to the inside of the ankles up the inside of the legs up the abdomen and chest ending just below the collar bone at K 27K 7 Returning Current

Chinese Name:  Fu Liu – meaning Returning Current

Special Features: Jing river point and the Metal Point- tonification point.

Location: on the inside of the lower leg three fingers above the ankle bone in the depression just in front of the achilles tendon.

Actions: Nourishes the Kidney, Regulates water distribution, balances sweating, helps relieve urinary problems, re-inspires the spirit brings order to inner turbulence.

Indications: Oedema,  painful urination,  night sweats, excess or no sweating, dry tongue, pain in the lower back, diarrhoea and constipation, not being able to stop and relax, fear and paranoia.

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Friday, March 5, 2010

Spinal Decompression Offers a 70% Chance of Resuming a Normal Lifestyle!

Back pain, Sciatica, leg pain, herniated disc, bulging disc, spinal stenosis? Spinal Decompression could be the answer you’re looking for.  Spinal Decompression is one of our specialties here at Lansing Chiropractic Clinic & Wellness Medical, S.C.

If you or your family members have been struggling with these debilitating conditions with little or no relief, then ask yourself the following questions.

  • Are you currently dependant on medications on a daily basis?
  • Are you limited in daily activities?
  • Have you had repeated injections or epidurals with little or no relief?
  • Are you considering surgery and are uncomfortable with that choice?
  • Have all the options been presented to you?
  • Have you already tried chiropractic or physical therapy?
  • Have you been out or work due to pain?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then non-surgical spinal decompression therapy is certainly a viable treatment option and could very well be what you’re looking for.

Please read this fantastic information from the American Spinal Decompression Association and let us know what you think!

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Monday, March 1, 2010

York Study Maps The Effects of Acupuncture on The Brain

Important new research about the effects of acupuncture on the brain may provide an understanding of the complex mechanisms of acupuncture and could lead to a wider acceptability of the treatment.

The study, by researchers at the University of York and the Hull York Medical School published in Brain Research, indicates that acupuncture has a significant effect on specific neural structures. When a patient receives acupuncture treatment, a sensation called deqi can be obtained; scientific analysis shows that this deactivates areas within the brain that are associated with the processing of pain.

Dr Hugh MacPherson, of the Complementary Medicine Research Group in the University’s Department of Health Sciences, says: “These results provide objective scientific evidence that acupuncture has specific effects within the brain which hopefully will lead to a better understanding of how acupuncture works.”

Neuroscientist Dr Aziz Asghar, of the York Neuroimaging Centre and the Hull York Medical School, adds: “The results are fascinating. Whether such brain deactivations constitute a mechanism which underlies or contributes to the therapeutic effect of acupuncture is an intriguing possibility which requires further research.”

Last summer, following research conducted in York, acupuncture was recommended for the first time by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) as a treatment option for NHS patients with lower back pain. NICE guidelines now state that GPs should ‘consider offering a course of acupuncture comprising a maximum of 10 sessions over a period of up to 12 weeks’ for patients with this common condition.

Current clinical trials at the University of York are investigating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of acupuncture for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and for depression. Recent studies in the US have also shown that acupuncture can be an effective treatment for migraines and osteoarthritis of the knee.

The York team believe that the new research could help to clear the way for acupuncture to be more broadly accepted as a treatment option on the NHS for a number of medical conditions.

York Study Maps The Effects of Acupuncture on The Brain

The Paper:  ‘Acupuncture needling sensation: The neural correlates of deqi using fMRI’

Aziz UR Asghara, b, Gary Greena, Mark F. Lythgoec, George Lewithd and Hugh MacPhersone, 

a York Neuroimaging Centre, University of York, Y10 5DG, UK

b Hull York Medical School and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, HU6 7RX, UK

c RCS Unit of Biophysics, UCL Institute of Child Health, University College London, WC1N 3JH, UK

d Complementary Medicine Research Unit, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK

e Department of Health Sciences, University of York, YO10 5DD, UK

(available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2009.12.019)

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Friday, February 26, 2010

"So Easy A Caveman Can Do It?"

By, Bhimbetka on flickr.com

The theme of the week seems to be cholesterol; good fats and bad fats; eating a healthy diet and living a healthy life-style.  But what does that mean?  It could mean a number of things to different people.  According to the American Heart Association we should decrease the amount of Saturated Fats in our diet, eat whole grains and maintain a low-fat regimen.  Then, there’s the other perspective… decrease grains all together, increase your fat intake (good fats – no trans, hydrogenated etc.) and maintain a moderate protein intake complete with wild-caught fish, grass-fed beef and wild-game. 

So which is the “right” one… well, I’ll let you choose for yourself, but hopefully I will get you thinking and give you a little information to do the right thing. 

It’s simple, if you didn’t have the daily conveniences of grocery stores, pre-packaged meals, microwaves & refrigerators, what would you eat?  Yes, our world would look a whole lot different than it does today.  Just think how much you rely on the grocery store to supply you with what you assume to be humanely harvested, healthy food choices… yes, ignorance is bliss… but is it?  I’m guessing that if we didn’t have somebody packaging our food up in pretty boxes, claiming “natural”, “heart healthy”, & “fresh”, half of us would starve and the other half would go, well crazy!  If we didn’t have these pretty boxes and shopping carts, we would have to supply for ourselves… just like the hunter, gatherer’s that are our ancestors.  Farming, hunting and seed, fruit and nut gathering were a daily routine to sustain a healthy diet.  There were no trans-fats, hydrogenated oils, highly processed, or super sugary foods in our diets… so whatever happened to these real, whole foods?  Well, it seems to me, we got sugar happy and lazy and with it; we got heart disease and obesity!

I just went to a little seminar with Nora Gedgaudas, author of Primal Body – Primal Mind (Empower Your Total Health the Way Evolution Intended & Didn’t).  She gave a nice presentation on good fats and bad fats in the diet and what nature intended for us and what it didn’t.  She made a good analogy with the following experiment:  “Put a block of butter outside in the yard, next to a tub of margarine and see which gets eaten first”.  She then went on to say how a client of hers went ahead and tried this, and you know what happened, the butter was gone in under an hour and the margarine, remained untouched for somewhere near a month!  Interesting isn’t it, that even scavenging animals that pick at the trash won’t even touch something so overly processed and preserved, yet we lather it on our food everyday by the bucket-load.  Another good point she made was that the rise of Heart Disease almost exactly correlates to the addition and increase of vegetable oils into the diet.  These along with all the hydrogenation, processing and sugar-coating could just be the deadly killers we’ve been trying to ignore all along. 

Anyway, the big point being here, is that our bodies rely on good fats from the diet.  Cholesterol is a necessary part of our bodies and is essential in neurological processes and all basic cellular function.  The cells in our body are essentially made up of fats, that’s what keeps them together.  In addition a high amount of blood cholesterol, should only be used as an indicator that there is something else going on in the body.  Western drugs are good at removing the cholesterol, but what does that mean?  Basically, in doing so, you take away the fire-fighters and let the fire run rampant… but the fire in this case is silent and will subsequently keep burning until it hits the pilot light and the whole place blows up.  Enter Chinese herbs, Acupuncture, Qi-Gong or some form of Meditation, diet and lifestyle!  All together, these modalities can work wonders and support the natural fats in the body, lower blood pressure, decrease inflammation, decrease body weight and therefore; body mass index. 

So, just to add the convenience of this topic, I went on the computer this evening to order myself some more Krill Oil from Dr. Mercola.com and the first article on his home page read:  Saturated Fat is NOT the Cause of Heart Disease, coincidence?  I think not! 

I could keep going on and on about the benefits of good fats in the body and why they should be a major part of our diet, but you have to remember that everything in moderation is a key component as well as the way in which foods are harvested and processed (hopefully not).   Make sure you read the labels, eat as many whole foods as you can; meaning vegetables, fruits and healthy proteins.  No matter what diet you decide to eat, make sure you always buy “wild” salmon & ”grass-fed” beef.  Try to eat local and organic, sustainable foods; farmer’s markets are a great source and alternate to store-packaged goods.  For more information on the “Primal Living”, check out Nora’s website and her awesome book:

  • Primal Body – Primal Mind
  • Also, check out the Primal Radio Station, there is a sound bite about me!  Nora just interviewed Michael Skogg; owner of Elite Kettlebell Gym in Tigard, OR; Spinach Gym in downtown Portland, OR & is the face of Weider Powerbells & X-Factor Home Gym

Since I mentioned it, this brings me to a good point!  I am currently also a trainer/coach at Elite Kettle-Bell Gym in Tigard OR, as well as Spinach in Portland, OR and it has been one of the best things I could have brought into my life.  As you may know I used to be a competitive Freestyle skier back in the day, and love athletic ventures of all kinds.  Kettlebells have definitely made it to the top of my list as far as awesome workouts that get great results without a lot of time and if you are in the Portland/Tigard, OR area, I highly recommend you check it out!  It’s great for all people of ALL athletic abilities, it’s fun and there is always a great group of people with smiling faces around!  The new gym in downtown is amazing, they just opened it up and classes are running Monday through Saturday pretty much all day.  You can check out the schedule on Elite Kettlebell Gym’s website (the link is above) for more information.   Plus it is a great addition to ”Primal Living” and any kind of exercise regimen in that case!

Another good source of information on “eating primal” as well as “living primal” is Mark Sisson’s Webpage and Blog:

  • Mark’s Daily Apple - He’s got easy to access information on diet, nutrition exercise and all sorts of primal living details!  Check it out!

Well, that’s enough out of me, I hope you read, listen and link to these sites! 

Happy living and be well,

Erin

Sources:  

Gedgaudas, N. (2009). Primal body-primal mind: empower your total health the way evolution intended (…and didn. Portland OR: Primal Body – Primal Mind Publishing.

Mercola, . (2010, February 25). Saturated fat is not the cause of heart disease. Retrieved from http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/02/25/saturated-fat-is-not-the-cause-of-heart-disease.aspx

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