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Do you believe vibrant health is possible until you take your last breath, or does that seem more like a fairytale fantasy?
For many years I have been on a mission to find what vibrant health truly is. As I observed that some people seemed to be experiencing it, I knew I wanted to experience ... Views: 1445
Recently, I've had quite a few clients coming to see me with food related issues, which got me thinking about my own (continuing) journey with food.
Looking back on my childhood, it is now completely clear to me how (unintentionally of course) my family conditioning set up strong connections ... Views: 1046
Welcome to you and your guts!
My friend, Susan Hamblen, and I were talking the other day, planning for our upcoming Belly Wisdom workshop.
Both of us are “inspired” by how often we hear people, clenching their bellies, say, “If only I could get rid of this!” or ... Views: 1253
I find that I am often talking about grounding, and the importance of being grounded - and talk and write comparatively little about the importance of a connection with the heavens, the divine, God - whatever term you use, or whatever resonates with you.
I think one of the main reasons I talk ... Views: 1064
Over the last couple of months, I have become increasingly interested in a healing modality called "Access Consciousness." It's a system of healing that is designed to bring us out of judgement, and into awareness and consciousness. It includes both hands on body work, and verbal enquiry ... Views: 1171
Medieval medicine
Europe’s medicine of these dark ages was somewhere between spiritual guidance and pagan believes. If you were to see a doctor because you’re sick, you could expect that the doctor will say something like – “it’s destiny”. Or, on the other hand, you may be paying your debts ... Views: 7977
There’s a lot of talk about pH, and some of it sounds so confusing, even contradictory, that it’s hard to know what’s true and what to do for what reasons. I’m going to try to shed a little light on the subject.
First, what is pH? “pH” literally ... Views: 1148
What if you could recapture your vitality and health with one simple method? Wouldn’t you want to know how? Wouldn’t it be great to have a Healthy You and the freedom and power to make that happen?
If you are like me, you’re always looking for ways to feel better. Maybe you are already ... Views: 1012
We Are All Healers
By Martin Brofman
We define healing as “returning to the experience of balance (harmony) and wellness.” One who heals another is helping the other return to the experience of wellness. Those healing themselves, or involved in self-healing, are returning themselves to the ... Views: 1535
Many people struggle to identifynarcissistic personality disorder when it seems this person has such great qualities. At the initial stage of connecting to an individual with narcissistic personality disorder it seemed that this individual could not be a better person.
He or she was loving, ... Views: 1724
The subconscious mind has a lot of power that can influence the way that you think and do things. This is because everything that your subconscious takes in as negative is reflected in your real life as equally negative, talk about pain, frustrations, stress, bad relations and so forth. The best ... Views: 1429
Last month I went to the Sheffield ME group to lead a sound healing workshop. Sound healing was a key element in my own recovery journey, and I love sharing this with other people.
How does sound healing work? Everything in the universe is vibrating - the chair you're sitting on, you, the ... Views: 906
I’ve been thinking about close of the year 2012. I usually think of the close of the year as a time for reflection and gratitude.
But what came to me in this morning’s meditation was the topic of forgiveness. I thought to myself – I’m not holding any grudges. I can’t think of anyone I’m ... Views: 1263
Where I grew up, pollution was so heavy, the sky glowed orange and the smell of burning chemicals lingered in the air. I was born in 1963 on the Texas Gulf Coast near a conglomeration of oil refineries.
I remember my aunt exclaiming with great surprise when she bought a ... Views: 1497
Farmers know that certain crops need certain nutrients in order to grow successfully. Winter is the time when cover crops are planted. Different cover crops and fertilizers provide different nutrients for the soil. Often combinations of crops and fertilizers are used to affix a ... Views: 1105
I had a client a few years back who called herself a Parkinsonian. She had lived with Parkinson’s disease for 20 years. She was in her 70’s at the time, and her body was quite frail.
She held a strong identity as a Parkinsonian and spoke fondly of her fellow Parkinsonians in her weekly ... Views: 1150
If I had to give just one teaching about what I’ve learned in all of my studies, it would be this: To truly heal and optimally care for our bodies, we must see ourselves as one with all that is. We cannot see ourselves as separate from anything around us or within us.
We must ... Views: 1163
Individuals with narcissistic personality disorder have intense self-hatred and shame as a result of unresolved emotional wounds generally obtained in childhood. Anarcissistic personality internalised the abusive messages and projections of his or her surroundings and parental ... Views: 2858
I know no one likes being told their dis-eases are "psychological," and I'm not here to tell you that everything is in your head. I realize there's more to it than that.
However, your digestive system has a mind of its own, and it is wired to be heavily influenced by its mind. I'm not ... Views: 1774
There was a time in my life when I was going through an extremely rough patch. I was stressed beyond measures and truth be told, I do consider that phase to be the worst time of my life although one that taught me a lot.
During this time, a close friend of mine with whom I had lost touch, ... Views: 1572
It all began a long time ago.
I’ve had a healing group for many years and we would gather at “the resort” (R’s place)
on the September long weekend. On that long weekend the boys would go North to pick Matsutaki (mushrooms) and one year I was at the resort thinking it would be nice for my ... Views: 1191
St. Theresa of Lisieux wrote in “Story of a Soul”: “What matters in life, is not great deeds, but great love.” Her spiritual path was doing the ordinary with extraordinary love. “I know of one means only by which to attain to perfection: LOVE. Let us love, since our heart is made for nothing ... Views: 1236
Giving care to others can be stressful, professional caregivers have to strike the balance between good self care and professional care giving to others. Helping professionals need to ensure that they are robust and emotionally well in order to be able to care for others.
This can be ... Views: 3700
Love is in the air! It is just few weeks and it is already valentines. Special days for couples, for those who are single a day to look for the one or Mr. Right. Valentine is an event where all places are in bloom and in red. Valentine’s Day is usually colored with red that signifies passion and ... Views: 1652
Lymphedema is not a condition that is treatable, however, compression devices helps diminish the side effects of Lymphedema. The condition happens when the lymph framework within the body is harmed or blocked due improper circulation of lymphatic fluids. The blockage of the fluids in the tissues ... Views: 941
As odd as it may seem, the temperature of light is not fixed; in fact, it is possible to freeze light. The usefulness of this discovery did not go unnoticed in the scientific and manufacturing communities. As stated in the article “Physicists freeze light, propose optical CPUs”, the ability to ... Views: 1216
“When you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you,” Nietzsche.
Nietzsche’s aphorism has a profound truth that is now being investigated by the scientific community. It also has important ramifications for those doing any type of chi development.
From a scientific viewpoint, the ... Views: 1643
Ever have the feeling that disease was controlling your life? Perhaps it's not even a chronic illness. Do you harbor anger? Resentment? Frustration?
Maybe it's just me and I'm talking to myself, but I've let all of these rule my life at some point. Therefore, in this article, I thought we'd ... Views: 2606
After obtaining important data such as height, weight, gender, which type of equipment is available to you, and what types of exercises or workouts you're accustomed to performing, Ideal Fitness Routines tailors a precise regimen directly to your size, shape, and needs - All the data in a ... Views: 750
I have been offering Chronic Fatigue Discovery sessions for the last six months or so, and can see very clearly how people are benefiting from them. So I thought I would write a little bit more about the benefits to you of a discovery session. So, first things first: why have I chosen the title ... Views: 803
Yet again, it is my clients who have prompted me with what to write about this week. Just today, I have had 2 conversations with clients about mindfulness. One person was going out this evening to a talk on mindfulness, and another was talking about her mindfulness meditation practice, and how ... Views: 804
This week I am again inspired by my clients as to what to write about. I was scheduling a session with one of my clients who completed my two month Chronic Fatigue Syndrome programme a couple of months ago - and in one of his emails to me he told me how grateful he was to me that he can really ... Views: 744
Yet again, I am inspired to write about something that happened in a healing session with one of my clients last week. It very nicely illustrates how energy healing works, and how energy is experienced and perceived by different people.
In the case taking part of the session, Marianne (name ... Views: 899
This week I thought I would write about something dear to my heart, and core to the way I work with people recovering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - inner child healing.
Inner child healing is one of the key modalities of the Integrated Healing work I do, as well as being fundamental to the ... Views: 813
I will be meeting up with three old school friends in a few weeks time - and I have been having some "flashbacks" to the past - one of which I thought it would be useful to write about.
I can have a habit of wasting time and procrastinating - and not always doing things in the most efficient ... Views: 715
Hello again! Last time, I wrote about what I consider one of the most powerful healing modalities: inner child healing. I described how we can form (unhelpful) patterns as a child which continue into adulthood. Energy healing gives us the chance to release the energy behind those patterns. This ... Views: 759
It's often the case that my dance teachers say things like "the body loves to move" or "make your body happy - move in the way it wants to move." And, for me now that resonates as truth. I know from my experience with energy healing and recovery from illness that emotions are held in the energy ... Views: 803
I thought this week I would write about the power of cleansing, and my own experience of a juice cleanse from a few years ago, when I was in the midst of recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
I wasn't at all looking forward to my week long herbs and juice cleanse -hoping for good results ... Views: 792
Everything about respiratory infections
An infection in the respiratory tract refers to infectious diseases related to the respiratory tract. It is generally of two type’s namely upper respiratory infections and lower respiratory infection. A respiratory tract infection includes any infection ... Views: 1126
Vision improvement is one of the longest-standing topics in the world of natural health care. Clear vision is such an important concern to people that experts from both sides of the fence (medical experts & natural health practitioners) have worked hard to identify the specific steps that a ... Views: 631
In the world of healers there are some of which that have no experience or understanding with dealing with your kind of issues. These healers may be able to work on certain things about you that they understand but have no experience or understanding with your particular problem.
I think we ... Views: 5213
Health is wealth. It is very old and wise saying. When you are healthy, you can enjoy everything; food, parties, shopping, hangs out with friends and more. But when sickness comes, you feel dull and down. You don't like one of your favorite foods. You hate getting ready for parties. Your whole ... Views: 967
Growing up naturally intuitive and sensitive, I was very unaware of how much I received, and it got me in trouble! Besides, I got the programming that being feminine meant receiving whatever came my way, and stuffing my feelings if it didn`t feel good.
So receiving did not feel safe, and then ... Views: 743
what is theta healing and why is it important?
Theta Healing can be most easily described as an attainable miracle for your life.
Theta Healing is a healing technique designed to promote empowering change on all levels: mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally. Theta Healing is best ... Views: 1040
We all have situations in our life that bring us some level of stress, of bad news, perhaps an abrupt life-change of some kind, or even a health challenge like my first cancer diagnosis in 2007.
But it is how we handle those situations, those moments, that matter in the end. It is how we ... Views: 775
An individual with narcissistic personality disorder does not view people through the lens of humanity. A narcissistic personality can only view others as he or she sees himself, which is empty, barren and devoid of the human components of empathy, conscience or love.
Everyone to an ... Views: 3299
It's often the case that my dance teachers say things like "the body loves to move" or "make your body happy - move in the way it wants to move." And, for me now that resonates as truth. I know from my experience with energy healing and recovery from illness that emotions are held in the energy ... Views: 813
I thought this week I would write about the power of cleansing, and my own experience of a juice cleanse from a few years ago, when I was in the midst of recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
I wasn't at all looking forward to my week long herbs and juice cleanse -hoping for good results ... Views: 868
I was reading a book when I was in Spain by my favourite (at the moment!) author - William Boyd. It's set just before and during the First World War, and at the beginning of the story, the hero is in Vienna, where he is having psychotherapy from a pupil of Freud's. And seeing how this unfolded ... Views: 1052