The work of Linus
Pauling is quite enlightening. Clear back in the 60's, Dr. Paining
talkedd about "orthomolecular
Psychiatry." (J. Science 1968;160:265.) He maintained that most, if
not all psychiatric disorders, were due to significant deficiencies in
key nutrients. He was able, as many practitioners familiar with his work
also do today, to help many people with psychiatric conditions, by adjusting
their diets, and supplementing these key nutrients. A study following
up on China's famine in 1959 found the rate of Schizophrenia doubled in
exposed children, by the time they became adults. (JAMA 2005;294:557.)
Of course, depression is not as bad as Schizophrenia, but, they both share
an "orthomolecular" lack of nutrients.
The brain-gut connection is quite important in depression. I have never
seen a depressed person with a 100% normal intestinal function. Most of
these people are told by misinformed practitioners that their depression
is causing the intestinal problems. Well, that is true in all diseases,
but there is also a reverse flow, where toxins, and poor intestinal function
may influence brain function. Hormonal function is also very important
in depression. Thyroid deficiencies, adrenal
strain, and even hyperinsulinemia have
been linked to depression. By now you know these conditions lead to inflammation/oxidation,
toxicity and energy problems. They all lead to depression as well. Marine
phytoplankton are renowed to helps correct all these problems. It can
reduce depression symptoms, and the risk of developing mental problems.
June
20, 2008 - Veterans Groups and Congress Calling for an Immediate
Stop to Government Tests on Vets Using Suicide-Linked Drug
At least three more members of Congress are calling for an immediate
suspension of government tests on veterans involving an anti-smoking drug
that has been linked to suicide. "Nearly
40 suicides and more than 400 incidents of suicidal behavior have been
linked to Chantix, yet the VA has chosen to continue the study and administer
Chantix to veterans with PTSD," said Congressman Bob Filner (D-CA). more
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Depression
and Stress with Marine Phytoplankton
Dr. Jerry Tennant, MD - "The marine phytoplankton
are
Nature's gift to assist us on our journey to optimal health and wellness
through balanced nutrition.. While transient sub-optimal nutrition may
be forgiven, a constant diet lacking in micronutrients will adversely affect
every function, structure, and detoxification functions of the human cell.
Good nutrition will enhance the structure and function of all organs in
our bodies. Our brains, muscles, hearts, arteries, joints, bones, skin,
hair, hormones, immune system, vision, digestion, kidneys, liver will carry
out their jobs much better. Metabolically, our lipids, and sugars can be
optimized, thus providing more overall energy, minimize weight problems,
and improve sleep. These nutrients improve mental
function, and memory. They reduce depression, harmful effects of stress,
and mood swings."
"I added Marine Phytoplankton to my
existing nutritional regimen in February, during a very stressful time
in my life of multiple challenges and changes. I immediately noticed that
my stress level declined rapidly. Although this was a subtle, more emotional
experience, it was significant because it made a difference to my ability
to be calm and relaxed, handling difficulties with greater ease. I have
continued to take Marine Phytoplankton daily and am experiencing three
other major health improvements including blood sugar normalization, energy
stabilization and relief from the hormone related imbalance called PMS.
Marine Phytoplankton is now part of my daily nutrition. It makes sense
because when we look at whales, they live to be very old, healthy and active
and they live on Marine Phytoplankton. It seems that the nutrients that
come from the sea are really important for our optimal health."
R. G.
Due to the stresses of owning and operating large-scale businesses,
my adrenal gland has run at full throttle since I was 18 years old. This
has led to bouts of depression as I depleted myself mentally a great
deal. I've noticed my general moods have elevated, with an overall sense
of calm within about 1 week after taking Marine Phytoplankton. My bouts
of depression are almost non-existent. I can think with greater clarity,
later into my days, and am much more patient with my wife and children
after a long day at work. I actually look forward to taking them to their
evening sports events, and still have energy to burn late into the night
(if I so choose). My sleep is VERY restful. I ran out of Marine Phytoplankton
for about 1 week. My joints started to ache again and my old negative mental
patterns started creeping back in. So, I'm back taking Marine Phytoplankton
and grateful to have found this great product." Dere
"I was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder or
manic depression. I have been taking Marine
Phytoplantkon every day for 2 months now and I have to say I feel great
on it. I have a much for positive attitude toward life and seem far more
able to look to the future. Personally I feel that, coming from the base
of the food chain, Marine Phytoplankton supports and nourishes our most
basic instincts and provides much needed neurological support. My mood
swings seem much more stable now, and depressive episodes seem much easier
to shrug off. My thinking is much clearer, as are my levels of concentration.
Marine Phytoplankton has definitely improved the quality of my life, and
long may it continue! In my experience it is 'food for the soul'.
"My mother has OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorder).
This disorder makes your mind think that if you do an action, or have a
thought, one more time you will feel better. We think Mum has had this
disorder since her teenage years. It has never been treated. When I was
a child doctors prescribed Valium for her. My childhood was different from
others.
She spent her life trying to cover her disorder. Then nearly 10 yrs
ago at 67 she fell over and broke her arm. It was too much; she completely
lost herself in her disorder. Her days are a series of events that are
one string of obsessions. Food must be eaten at exactly the same time each
day and the food is exactly the same every day. 8am - Weetbix. 11am - pita
bread with cheese. 2pm - a banana (this must be eaten facing the front
door leaning against the sink). 7pm - cornflakes (the bowl is tapped and
both arms are looked at before each spoonful is taken). She washes the
dishes and sink, but only the sink, there could be spider webs past the
line onto the bench but it cannot be wiped. She must go back to bed after
each activity, take all her clothes off and lay on her right side (during
the day) and the left (at night) this is in the fetal position. All water
is drunk in the bedroom. Her walk is slow and invalid like. Every 2 weeks
she showers and we take her to the doctor for a Serepax prescription. She
wears the same clothes every day. These clothes are never to be washed.
She was in hospital about 8 years ago for 6 months, and then the hospital
asked her to leave. She would not cooperate with the doctors at all. They
said she was the most stubborn patient they had ever encountered. The other
issue that has been happening over the past 10 yrs is she has been reducing
the amount she eats, just by a cornflake at a time. She started with a
meal at dinnertime of chicken, potato and broccoli. This disappeared about
5 yrs ago. The pita bread as it stood 5 weeks ago had one slither of cheese.
So as you can imagine she was not looking all that good. I went for
a visit after I got back from America and she looked dreadful. Her skin
was grayish, her cheeks were sunken, she was a skeleton and quite miserable.
I spoke to her about the fact that the blue nurses were concerned about
her health and that it was possible she would be taken away on a ITO (involuntary
treatment order). She said she couldn't do anything about it. She was unable
to swallow anything other than what she eats now. She said the symptoms
she was feeling were understandable due to the lack of nutrition. I suggested
we put a buzzer on her so that when she fell down from weakness she could
buzz me. Then I asked if she would please try my new product Marine
Phytoplankton, the kids and I were feeling very good on it and some
amazing story's had been told at the conference and it just might help.
"OK but no buzzer Shelley".
That was 5 weeks ago. She started taking a dose in the morning and one
at night. It became another obsession. After 2 weeks her skin started to
take on a normal tone, the sunken cheeks seemed less. She smiled and had
become chatty. After 3 weeks she walked up 2 blocks to the car from her
doctors
surgery. She has taken on the organizing of the mowing. And last night
she rang to order her food - Bread/eggs/yogurt and chocolate. It knocked
my socks off. She said she has been eating a lot more than usual and that
thoughts of food had started about 3 nights ago when she could not stop
thinking about different sorts of food she could eat. Starting she said
with egg sandwiches and chocolate.
I took her up a box of chocolate straight away. Evelyn (my daughter)
handed her the box and said "Happy Mother's day". Mum reached out her hand
and stroked Evelyn's cheek, smiled and said thank you. That was the first
time my mother has ever touched her 6yr old granddaughter. It bought tears
to my eyes. Evelyn later touched her cheek on the same spot and said "Grandma
looked younger today" Marine Phytoplankton feeds your body at a cellular
level, which allows your body to heal itself." S. L.
Dr. Jerry Tennant, M.D.
says
that marine phytoplankton contains almost everything
one needs to sustain life and to restore health by providing the raw materials
to make new cells that function normally. Marine phytoplankton has been
called "the most nutritionally dense foods on the planet". Containing a
wide range of trace elements, amino acids, vitamins, minerals, chlorophyll,
enzymes and cellular materials, marine phytoplankton promotes and maintains
optimum health by boosting and supporting all systems within the body.
Its antioxidants and unique polysaccharides can halt the genetic mutations
that can lead to cancer. Both high levels of saccharides and adaptogens
increase energy and stamina by improving our ability to consume and use
oxygen. Adaptogens also improve cardiovascular health by strengthening
the heart and circulation.
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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Depression by Michael
B. Schachter, M.D.
Michael B. Schachter, M.D. - "As I sit down to write this
book, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved another
antidepressant. The name of the drug doesn't matter; it joins the ranks
of about one dozen others already on the market. Presently, more than two
dozen additional antidepressants are under development, according to the
trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. And as
you sit today and read this book, another antidepressant has been, is being,
or soon will be released to the market, to be followed by others currently
in research-and-development or trial phases. While the good intentions
of those who work so diligently to find remedies for the millions of people
who suffer with depression may be commendable, I remain largely unimpressed.
Why? Because regardless of the number of antidepressants introduced to
the market or when they appear, the bottom line is that psychotropic drugs
are not the complete answer to the critical and growing problem of depression
in this country. In fact, I believe that in some ways they contribute to
it."
The term, 'you are what you eat' has been around for decades, but this
book brings a new meaning to that phrase. Not only does the author describe
and outline the characteristics that define the various types of depression,
but explains in layman's terms how to conquer, without medication, this
debilitating illness by eating the proper foods in the correct proportions.
Nutritional deficiencies are described in detail, along with a variety
of symptoms that require specific supplements.
Overcoming
Acute Anxiety And Panic Attacks Naturally
The
Nervous System: Healing with Medicinal Plants and Diet
Vaccines,
Depression and Neurodegeneration After Age 50
By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D
A great number of studies have shown that when you vaccinate an animal,
the body's inflammatory cytokines not only increase dramatically, but so
do the brain's inflammatory chemicals. The brain has its own immune system
that is intimately connected to the body's immune system. The main immune
cell in the brain is called a microglia. Normally, these brain cells are
lying throughout the brain in a resting state (called ramified). What researchers
knew was that during this period of activation, people generally feel bad
and that what they experience closely resembles depression -- a condition
called "sickness behavior". Most of us have experience this when suffering
from a viral illness -- such things as restlessness, irritability, a need
to get away from people, trouble sleeping, fatigue and difficulty thinking.
Studies have shown that there are two phases to this "sickness behavior";
one in which we have the flu-like symptoms and a later onset of depression-like
symptoms that can last awhile. They have also shown that all of these symptoms
are due to high levels of inflammatory cytokines in the brain, which come
from activated microglia. A number of studies have also shown that after
age 50, people have exaggerated and prolonged "sickness behavior", much
more so than younger people. This is one of the reasons why many elderly
hang onto flu symptoms for months after exposure. more
Vaccinations - Deception and Tragedy
At the present time there are growing public and professional concerns
about the safety of currently mandated childhood vaccine programs, as reflected
in by a series of annual Congressional hearings in Washington DC that have
taken place since 1999, sponsored by the U.S. House Government Reform Committee
under the chairmanship of Congressman Dan Burton. At an annual conference
of the American College for the Advancement of Medicine during April 2001,
with several hundred physicians in attendance, when one of the speakers
asked how many in attendance had concerns about the safety of current childhood
vaccines, a large majority raised their hands. “During the first six months
of 2005, I was under a spell of depression to the point of suicide. I was
chronically fatigued, sleeping 12 to 16 hours a day, drinking heavily,
eating unhealthy foods, and smoking tobacco. After months of this self
destructive cycle, I awoke one morning and decided that I was either going
to severely hurt myself or make a decision to live. I chose the latter.
Julian Whitaker, M.D. - "As much as 70 percent
of all visits to family doctors or general practitioners are related to
chronic
stress. High blood pressure, stomach problems, headaches, anxiety
and depression — all these and many more medical conditions are caused
or exacerbated by chronic stress. Stress can be associated with both good
and bad circumstances — getting married, having a baby, going through a
divorce, losing a loved one, selling a home, or retiring — but none of
these situations is inherently stressful. It's your response to a situation
that defines it as stressful. While a little stress can be useful in keeping
us on our toes, problems arise when stress becomes chronic. Eventually,
chronic stress takes its toll on body and mind, impairing physical and
mental health."
Regardless Of What You Have Been Led To Believe Acute
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HIERARCHY OF HEALTH
By William J. Hennen, Ph.D
Human health is dynamic because we are constantly being subjected to
stress. As demonstrated in the following Hierarchy of Health, the
condition of an individual can fluctuate between health and disease. The
micronutritional status of an individual determines whether his or her
health is improving or declining. Micronutrients are minor food components
such as vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, etc. that are more frequently
being found to provide significant health benefits. A healthy body
holds reserves of valuable micronutrients and functions in a state referred
to as homeostatis. When a healthy person or animal is challenged
by stress, it is able to undergo an adaptation and maintain homeostasis
by drawing on first, its reserves of micronutrients and second, the strength
of the immune system.
Stress may present itself in many forms such as emotional, physical,
toxic or infectious challenges. When the body doesn’t have a sufficient
reserve of micronutrients, adaptation to stress cannot occur and it will
then move toward a state of disadaptation with subsequent metabolic changes.
If left unresolved, these metabolic changes can result in a compromised
immune status or pre-disease state, which leaves the body vulnerable to
latent genetic, chronic or virulent disease.
Although drugs may affect disease, they can only return the body to
a pre-disease state. Micronutrients are required
to reverse this process back through each state and completely return you
to health. When we consider the challenges of today’s lifestyles
and diets, it is increasingly evident that supplementation is, in fact,
needed to improve and maintain overall health. (McCausland
CW, Oganova E, Hierarchy of Health, Introduction to General Micronutrientology,
1998; 2:92-110)
Drugs are designed to take us from a diseased state to a prediseased
state, not all the way to health. Drugs don’t make the individual
strong enough to resist the next exposure. Nutrition on the other
hand, spans the entire spectrum and can take us from disease to health.
A drug either enhances the immune system as with antibiotics or it suppresses
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Traumatized
Societies and Psychological Care: Expanding the Concept of Preventive Medicine
by Vamik D. Volkan, M.D.
Stress From Violence, Disaster Can Linger For Years
People who survive natural disasters or severe violence are at high
risk for suffering years of post-traumatic stress disorder. In 1988, thousands
of Armenians were devastated by a severe earthquake; in that same year,
political violence erupted against ethnic Armenians in neighboring Azerbaijan.
Both countries formed after the break-up of the Soviet Union. In a study
of 78 Armenians who experienced either of these traumas, researchers found
that both groups had similar, long-term symptoms of post-traumatic stress.
First
widely recognized in veterans of the Vietnam War, post-traumatic stress
disorder is now recognized to be a problem in the larger population. Anyone
who survives intensely traumatic circumstances may show its signs and symptoms
-- including withdrawal from others, flashbacks, and feelings of helplessness.
The researchers looked at post-traumatic stress in three groups of adults
whom they had first studied 3 years earlier. In one group, subjects had
experienced minor earthquake damage, but were exposed to "graphic depictions"
of destruction in other parts of the country. In another group, people
had their lives directly threatened by the earthquake and had witnessed
the death and destruction it caused. Subjects in the third group had experienced
persecution in Azerbaijan, suffering threats to their own lives and witnessing
the torture or murder of family or friends.
The investigators found that people in the two most seriously traumatized
groups had the same level of post-traumatic stress symptoms. Moreover,
time did nothing to abate symptoms in either group. On the other hand,
depression in these groups had faded. The group that had experienced mild
earthquake damage saw their post-traumatic stress symptoms ease.The persistence
of post-traumatic stress in the other two groups, the authors write, mirrors
findings from studies of World War II prisoners-of-war and Cambodian refugees.
Armenians in this study were surrounded by "pervasive trauma reminders"
such as destroyed buildings, "shoddy" homes, and media reports of violence
in Azerbaijan. In addition, the post-traumatic stress had spurred other
emotionally draining problems, such as difficulties at work and in marriage."
American
Journal of Psychiatry June 2000;157:911-916
CrazyBusy:
Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in
a World Gone ADD Edward M. Hallowell
M.D.
Dr. Hallowell explains how to turn "the rush, the gush, the worry, and
the blather (which also includes clutter)" into allies, so that one can
have the things one wants with the speed, volume and emotional energy of
the crazy-busy lifestyle. The roadmap Hallowell offers is helpful; that
is, if one can manage to pick this book out of the never-ending stream
of stimuli and find the time to read it.
HOW DO THE ADRENAL GLANDS "HANDLE" STRESS?
The adrenal glands function in the body to help handle stress. They
act as our body's "shock-absorbers." When the body encounters stress or
has low blood sugar, the adrenal glands release the hormone adrenaline
into the blood. This hormone immediately increases blood pressure, stimulates
the heart, and relaxes the muscles in the lungs. Adrenaline is ideally
supposed to be released in situations where "fight or flight" decisions
are being made. In modern society, however, high stress levels cause adrenaline
to constantly circulate in the body. This can contribute to nervousness,
anxiousness, and insomnia.
Exercise, dance, walking, and high-energy work help diminish the levels
of adrenaline in the blood. Increased levels of these hormones and their
metabolites, and other stress-related chemicals left circulating in the
blood awaiting removal, can leave a person feeling anxious, irritable,
tense, and nervous. 4.
The multiple stresses of modern day life combined with the standard
American diet, along with the consumption or use of sugar, caffeine, alcohol,
tobacco, and prescription or recreational drugs can over stimulate and
place stress on the adrenal glands. When the intensity and frequency of
stress overcomes the level at which a person can cope with such stressors,
something is bound to break down. At this point, people become more vulnerable
and susceptible to colds, flu, and infections. People exhibit adrenal gland
stress or exhaustion in a variety of ways, some of which can even seem
conflicting. Some people exhibit anxiety, nervousness, hyperactivity, or
insomnia, while others experience only fatigue or low energy. Some unfortunate
individuals experience both. Other signs include overreacting to noises
or sudden stimuli, or a craving for salt. 5. One of the most obvious signs
of adrenal fatigue is when a person wakes up tired even after a good night's
sleep. Because adrenal fatigue and exhaustion have a negative effect on
the immune system, these are often the individuals who catch every cold
and flu that goes around or are sick during every flu season.
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FDA
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Adults and Children
The Food and Drug Administration today issued a Public Health Advisory
that provides further cautions to physicians, their patients, and families
and caregivers of patients about the need to closely monitor both adults
and children with depression, especially at the beginning of treatment,
or when the doses are changed with either an increase or decrease in the
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WHAT ARE ADAPTOGENIC
HERBS?
Adaptogens help the body remain vital and healthy by affecting the brain,
muscles, liver, kidneys, and nerves, energizing them and allowing them
to function properly even in stressful environments or conditions. Adaptogens
work by bringing the body into balance regardless of whether a person is
nervous and anxious or fatigued and has low levels of energy. Adaptogens
have the special ability to bring either or both conditions to a balanced
middle ground. 6. They act as a relaxant without causing drowsiness. They
impart grounded energy to someone who is fatigued-not nervous "caffeine-type"
energy, and help ground people who are nervous and high-strung.
Tthe Rainforest provides many herbs that can help you cope with stress
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Unlike other herbs that are used for specific symptoms, tonic herbs are
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systems, weaknesses or the body as a whole. They are generally gentle herbs
that are used to stimulate and increase the function of organs that are
not operating at their highest level and to prevent a decline in the function
of organs. Tonic herbs are most effective when used in moderate quantities,
daily, over long periods of time. Stress is associated with a myriad
of undesirable health effects, and tonic herbs help the body to
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Magnesium: A Natural
Tranquilizer
Called the "anti-stress mineral," it aids in relaxing nerves, relieving
tension, assisting digestion, activating enzymes important for protein
and carbohydrate metabolism, and modulating the electrical potential across
all cell membranes.
Magnesium has a calming effect on the nervous system. With this, it
is frequently used to promote good sleep. But more importantly, it can
be used to calm irritated and over-excited nerves. This is especially useful
with epileptic seizures, convulsions in pregnant women and the 'shakes'
in alcoholism. Magnesium levels are generally low in alcoholics, contributing
or causing many of their health problems. If magnesium levels are low,
the nerves lose control over muscle activity, respiration and mental processes.
Nervous fatigue, tics and twitches, tremors, irritability, hypersensitivity,
muscle spasms, restlessness, anxiety, confusion, disorientation and irregular
heartbeat all respond to increased magnesium levels. A common phenomenon
of magnesium deficiency is a sharp muscle reaction to an unexpected loud
noise. 'Memory pills' have been marketed that consist mainly of magnesium.
Without sufficient magnesium the nerve cells can not give or receive
messages and become excitable and highly reactive. This causes the person
to become highly sensitive and highly nervous. Noises will seem excessively
loud and person will jump at sudden sounds like a door slamming and will
generally be nervous and on edge. Lights can appear to be too bright. Magnesium
deficiency can cause insomnia
(inability to sleep). Waking up with muscle spasms, cramps, tension and
feeling uncomfortable. These will disappear on drinking magnesium. Muscle
tics of the face are caused by a magnesium deficiency. They disappear on
drinking magnesium.
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Ayurvedic
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Emotional
Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Are You Feeling Emotionally Stressed ?
by Joseph Mercola
MD
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a therapeutic approach to discharging
excess emotional distress and liberating one's natural growth process.
It has its roots in ancient Chinese medicine and the modern science of
Applied Kinesiology.
EFT is the most effective therapy that I know of to rapidly and efficiently
resolve the physical consequences of severe emotional trauma.
All, not some, but ALL negative emotions are due to disruptions in
one's bioenergy system.
EFT was put together by Gary Craig and is a derivative of Thought Field
Therapy that was developed by Roger Callahan. TFT was my first introduction
into energy medicine which I learned in 1998.
However, EFT is much more streamlined and seems to achieve fabulous
results by balancing one's energy meridians while saying positive affirmations
about the addiction in question.
EFT is psychological acupuncture without the needles. It works by inputting
kinetic energy (tapping) onto specific acupuncture meridians on the head
and chest while actually activating the brain circuits that are involved
in the energy disruption by thinking about the problem.
Combining the above with a positive affirmation seems sufficient to
disrupt the field that is created from the emotion and its consequence
on one's physiology.
EFT centers around the profound effects of the body's subtle energies
using the theory that "the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption
in the body's energy system." Accordingly, EFT is an emotional form
of acupuncture except that we don't use needles. Instead, we tap
with the fingertips to stimulate certain meridian energy points while the
client is "tuned in" to the problem.
The subtle energies that circulate throughout the body have been largely
ignored (until recently) by western scientists. As a result, our
use of them for emotional and spiritual healing has been sparse at best.
With EFT, however, we consider these subtle energies to be the front running
cause of emotional upsets. As a result, we generate results that
are FAR beyond those of conventional methods. Even a cursory review
of the case histories on this web site will reveal that.
Further, EFT often provides relief for a very wide range of physical
symptoms. This, too, is abundantly clear in our case histories, which
provide unmistakable evidence of the link between our physical ailments
and our emotional issues.
EFT is a Doorway to the new Healing High-Rise. It is where a growing
number of newcomers to this exciting field get their start. We now
have thousands of practitioners using EFT throughout the world.
Compared to other techniques, EFT is usually quite gentle and substantial
relief is often achieved with little or no pain. This is not true
for everyone, however. Some people's issue are so intense that the
mere mention of them causes emotional or physical pain. Although
truly serious instances of this (sometimes called abreactions) is most
likely to occur in seriously emotionally damaged people (best estimate
is less than 1% of the population), newcomers to EFT are advised to exercise
common sense in this regard and not go where they aren't qualified.
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This technique is so amazing it is to good to be true. It has been
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"The Best Book On Emotional Freedom Techniques"!
Learn and understand EFT with this practical and information packed
manual that includes the A-Z of EFT applications and how to use this wonderful
technique with a wide variety of problems.
Joseph Bennette, MRET,
DCH, PhD - "I found Silvia's book, Adventures in EFT, a delight
to read, simple and easy to follow, and logically presented. I recommend
her book to all my associates and peers. The processes she illustrates
in her book are powerful, yet easy to master. She even offers help in integrating
the EFT protocols into other therapies and situations. Seasoned professional
therapists will find Silvia's work helpful and refreshing. Non-professionals
and novices to the healing field will find her work useful and powerful
for self-healing. It is definitely a win-win for anyone interested in healing
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THE HUMAN WHOLE
- An Outline of the 'Higher' Psychology
by Robert C. Priddy (formerly lectured in philosophy
and social science at the University of Oslo)
This excellent book online book aims to give an understanding of human
psychology in clear terms avoiding unnecessary terminology. It is person-centered
rather than 'technically' oriented and provides an embracing frame of reference
to aid in integrating personal understanding of oneself and of others.
Basic assumptions of modern Western psychology are re-interpreted critically
and brought into a holistic and universal perspective, one partly developed
in Vedanta. While 'lower' psychologies deal mostly with bodily conditioning,
egoistic desires, psychic illnesses and are mainly past-oriented, 'higher'
psychology focuses more on psychic health, consciousness, human possibilities
and challenges of personal and spiritual development.
Yogi
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For thousands of years in India, yogis have worn Rudraksha Beads to
experience the deep tranquility and concentration which are vital for meditation
and control of mind and body. Under the power of Rudraksha's positive
influence, vast amounts of Vedic literature were studied and memorized
in ancient India by disciples of spiritual knowledge. In China, Rudraksha
is used to enhance the flow of Chi life energy in the body and balance
Yin and Yang. The Zen Buddhist sect in Japan uses Rudraksha beads
to induce deeper states of meditation.
In recent years, the general populace in India has taken to wearing
Rudraksha beads to combat the effects of stress: hypertension, depression,
and high blood pressure. Without the harmful side-effects and addictive
nature of tranquilizers, anti-depressants, and beta blockers, men and women
experience heightened energy levels, stamina, and peace of mind within
a few hours of placing Rudraksha beads in direct contact of their chest
region. In the long term, Rudraksha beads reverse the effects of
stress, alleviate depression, eliminate anxiety and other mood disorders,
improve concentration, enhance relaxation, and exhibit anti-aging properties.
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"Life Without Panic Attacks" is a wonderful, heartfelt aid, guide and
inspiration, full of integrity and good common sense, gentle, supportive,
but most of all, practical and workable - a true light at the end of the
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Bach
Flower Remedies: Aid in Emotional Balancing
The Bach Flower Remedies are 38 plant and flower based remedies, each
one specially devised to treat a different feeling. They help you to manage
the emotional demands of everyday life, the kind of feelings that affect
everyday life in the 90s. The Bach Flower Remedies work by stimulating
the body’s own capacity to heal itself, by balancing negative feelings,
helping you to take control, feel good about yourself, and get more out
of life. The Bach Flower Remedies are unique, simple to use, suitable for
the entire family.
There are literally tens of millions of American men, women and children
that suffer from some level of emotional disturbance. Although day-to-day
stress can be considered a precipitating factor, there are multiple studies
in the medical literature indicating that proper nutrition is critical
to maintaining emotional health. For example, in one study in female college
students given 50 mg of thiamine daily (vitamin B1) versus placebo, after
two months the students who took thiamine more than doubled their scores
on clear-headedness and mood compared to the placebo group who showed no
change. Studies have shown that low levels of vitamin C can lead to fatigue
and irritability. Nowhere is the efficacy of diet and herbalism more evident
than in problems related to thenervous system. Stress, anxiety,
tension
and depression are intimately connected with most illness. more.
Bach Flower Remedies --- Bach
Flower Remedies for Pets
The
Bach Flower Remedies : Including Heal Thyself, the Twelve Healers, the
Bach Remedies Repertory Dr. Edward Bach (1886 – 1936)
A British origin Doctor - discovered flower therapy between 1930-1936,
which is called Bach flower therapy later on. He was a renowned physician
and bacteriologist. While practicing as an allopathic doctor he realized
the meaning of old dictum that "There are no diseases, only sick people".
When he was treating the factory laborers prone to various diseases, he
observed that the workers were working under some unknown fear - the fear
that they would be jobless. Thus when the mind is under constant pressure
of fear, terror, uncertainty, despondency and despair, it is obvious that
the harmony between mind and body gets imbalanced. The vital force of life
gets disturbed resulting into illness. This also makes the immunity of
body frail and the physical body gets easily susceptible to the diseases
or conditions. Therefore the patient is more important than the diseases.
His mental make up is vital in determining the correct line of treatment
and every ailment is the result or expression of mental disturbances due
to accumulated various mind obstructions originating either itself from
mind or surrounding environment
Bach
Flower Remedies for Pets: Emotional Stability Animals respond just
as well to Bach Flower remedies as people, and seem to have similar emotional
imbalances that can be corrected with the appropriate remedy. We know that
mental and emotional upsets in humans can have deep and lasting physical
effects, far beyond what used to be referred to as "psychosomatic illness."
Animals too, have an active mental and emotional life. and can manifest
behavioral and physical problems that have their roots in emotional trauma.
Homeopathic
Guide to Stress by Miranda Castro
From nervousness and anxiety to the effects of caffeine, allergies,
and long hours in the workplace, we’re bombarded with emotional and physical
stress every day. Homeopathic Guide to Stress presents inexpensive, easy-to-use
ways to self-treat its symptoms and to handle its causes.
Written in a clear and engaging style, It offers an introduction to
homeopathy, with a focus on stress. For more than four dozen specific emotional
states or physical causes of stress, Miranda Castro sug gests several homeopathic
treatments, with clear instructions on how to choose the most appropriate
solution. These remedies help you cope with current or recent stressors,
and also can be taken as preventive measures.
A comprehensive section describes each remedy in detail and each entry
gives a clear picture of who should use It, how, and why. Castro also provides
several case studies and practical advice on avoiding and dealing with
stress. Homeopathic Guide to Stress Is an easy-to-understand guide to safely
and effectively treating the effects of stress at any time of life, from
infancy to old age.
Getting
Thru to Your Emotions With Eft : Tap into Your Hidden Potential With the
Emotional Freedom Techniques by Phillip Mountrose
Also available
in video from amazon.com
Book Description Many people consider the Emotional Freedom Techniques
(EFT) a modern miracle. These easy-to-do processes are revolutionizing
the field of psychology. By simply tapping on acupuncture points on the
body, you can use these techniques to clear stuck emotions and self-defeating
patterns, producing profound breakthroughs. Its usually fast and amazingly
effective. Also, learn about other dynamic healing tools that enhance EFT.
In this easy-to-read book, learn how EFT and the dynamic Getting Thru Techniques
can help you to:
* Eliminate fears, including creative and career blocks.
* Heal pain and physical challenges.
* Stop addictive cravings and unwanted habits.
* Change limiting beliefs to empowering resources.
* Resolve relationship issues and much more
This essential self-help resource can help you to create more joy, love,
and freedom in your life. You will refer to it again and again.
From the Publisher: "This is the medicine of the future." --Rudolph
Ballentine, M.D., author of Radical Healing
By opening this book, you have entered the doorway to the new healing
high rise. This doorway leads to new discoveries that are creating miraculous
changes in peoples lives that only a few years ago were deemed impossible.
This book provides a powerful array of techniques that just about anyone
can use to overcome obstacles to experiencing genuine emotional freedom.
Jean C Hofve, DVM : "I had heard of EFT
before, but was really introduced to it through the Mountroses' book. This
is a simple, powerful technique for getting through old emotional blockages
to attain true healing on all levels from physical to emotional. It works
quickly and easily to relieve minor complaints like headaches, but can
be applied to much deeper and more rooted emotional traumas from childhood
to today, in order to release and clear them and allow you to grow past
them.
This book's explanations and diagrams are very clear and easy to follow.
You can stop at just the first exercise, and get great benefits, but in
this book, the Mountroses also go on to explain several deeper-working
techniques for those who want to pursue deep healing.
For example, early one morning I woke up with a terrible headache, so
severe I could not even get out of bed to get an aspirin. I did one round
of EFT, and the pain simply vanished, and I went right back to sleep. I
have also used this technique to relieve carsickness in my dog, and a painful
intermittent health problem in my cat. This book has already helped me
get over some big personal hurdles, though I feel that I have only begun
to tap into its wealth of information.
These techniques are totally safe, very effective, and absolutely ought
to be taught to every child for use throughout life to help deal with bumps,
bruises, illnesses, and all those little annoyances and even major problems
that come up.
Getting this book to help you "get thru" will be the best investment
you ever made." Jean C Hofve, DVM
HOW
TO RECOGNIZE THE SYMPTOMS OF STRESS AND REDUCE THE PHYSICAL AFTER-EFFECTS
by Linda Page, N.D. Ph.D.
Help Yourself and Your Family Counter The After-Effects Of Stress, Shock
and Trauma
Most Americans say they're under more stress than ever before. What
is the stress-disease connection?
The shock of the September 11th tragedy, including the ongoing day
by day after-shocks and media-overload, the new fears that the vulnerability
of our freedom has revealed, the repeating of the experience in our minds
--- all add even more layers of stress that affects our health and the
health of our children. (Take the test below to check and see if you, too,
are experiencing the symptoms of stress.)
Keep in mind that the stress-disease connection is today's norm ---
the result of every day stressors like air pollutants, toxic reactions
to metals or chemical halogens like chlorine and fluoride, chronic low-grade,
but debilitating infections, parasite invasions, allergies and sensitivities
to today's foods and of course, strong emotional reactions. In fact, chronic
stress is at epidemic levels in America. Many people are under high stress
most of the time.
Before the terrorist attacks, over 20 million Americans suffered from
health complications linked to chronic stress and more than half of all
patients visiting their doctor complain of stress-related fatigue. This
number is expected to grow as Americans mourn and grieve for immense new
losses since the terroroist attacks, and become more uncertain than ever
about the future. Learn
more: Dr. Linda Page presents and effective stress reduction program with
a special section for children.
SUGAR AND MENTAL HEALTH
In the Dark Ages, troubled souls were rarely locked up for going off
their rocker. Such confinement began in the Age of Enlightenment, after
sugar made the transition from apothecary's prescription to candymaker's
confection. "The great confinement of the insane", as one historian calls
it,10 began in the late 17th century, after sugar consumption in Britain
had zoomed in 200 years from a pinch or two in a barrel of beer, here and
there, to more than two million pounds per year. By that time, physicians
in London had begun to observe and record terminal physical signs and symptoms
of the "sugar blues".
Meanwhile, when sugar eaters did not manifest obvious terminal physical
symptoms and the physicians were professionally bewildered, patients were
no longer pronounced bewitched, but mad, insane, emotionally disturbed.
Laziness, fatigue, debauchery, parental displeasure-any one problem was
sufficient cause for people under twenty-five to be locked up in the first
Parisian mental hospitals. All it took to be incarcerated was a complaint
from parents, relatives or the omnipotent parish priest. Wet nurses with
their babies, pregnant youngsters, retarded or defective children, senior
citizens, paralytics, epileptics, prostitutes or raving lunatics-anyone
wanted off the streets and out of sight was put away. The mental hospital
succeeded witch-hunting and heresy-hounding as a more enlightened and humane
method of social control. The physician and priest handled the dirty work
of street sweeping in return for royal favours.
Initially, when the General Hospital was established in Paris by royal
decree, one per cent of the city's population was locked up. From that
time until the 20 century, as the consumption of sugar went up and up-especially
in the cities-so did the number of people who were put away in the General
Hospital. Three hundred years later, the "emotionally disturbed" can be
turned into walking automatons, their brains controlled with psychoactive
drugs.
Today, pioneers of orthomolecular psychiatry, such as Dr Abram Hoffer,
Dr Allan Cott, Dr A. Cherkin as well as Dr Linus Pauling, have confirmed
that mental illness is a myth and that emotional disturbance can be merely
the first symptom of the obvious inability of the human system to handle
the stress of sugar dependency.
In Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Dr Pauling writes: "The functioning of
the brain and nervous tissue is more sensitively dependent on the rate
of chemical reactions than the functioning of other organs and tissues.
I believe that mental disease is for the most part caused by abnormal reaction
rates, as determined by genetic constitution and diet, and by abnormal
molecular concentrations of essential substances... Selection of food (and
drugs) in a world that is undergoing rapid scientific and technological
change may often be far from the best."
Sugar Free Products Alert!
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"I have observed severe intellectual deterioration associated with the
use of aspartame products (NutraSweet/Equal/Spoonful/Canderal/Benevia,
etc.) It was usually manifest as great difficulty in reading and
writing, obvious problems with memory and grossly impaired orientation
to time, place and person." H. J. Roberts,
M.D.
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"Aspartame has a profound effect on mood and cognition....depressed mood,
anxiety, dizziness, panic attacks, nausea, irritability, impairment of
memory and concentration." Ralph Walton, M.D.
(Learn about the Legal class action against aspartame. )
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In addition to throwing off the body's homeostasis, excess sugar may
result in a number of other significant consequences. Sugars increase our
body's production of adrenaline by four times, which puts the body into
a state of 'fight or flight' stress, without anything to fight or flee
from , except the consumption of sugar. This stress reaction increases
the production of both cholesterol and cortisone. Cortisone inhibits immune
function
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