Self-Care: It Goes Beyond Massages and Pedicures
When you think about self-care, do you have visions of massages or pedicures and facials? Total self-care also includes eliminating self-criticism, not overscheduling, releasing the need to be...
View ArticleFrom Bladder Weakness to Bladder Wellness
A misbehaving bladder is a very common problem. Some people go to the loo unnecessarily often, or leak when laughing or stretching. If you are in the habit of going to the bathroom on the first...
View ArticleYou Can Do It! Healing Yourself with Powerful Affirmations
Affirmations are statements of intention that can be used for anything: to attract wealth, for life changes, to find a perfect partner, for self healing -- from curing diabetes to losing weight to...
View ArticleSelf-Massage: Techniques for Calming Digestive Distress
The sensation of touch is one of the most profound and healing experiences humans share. Through touch, we can reconnect our mind and body, allowing relaxation and the unwinding of stress and tension....
View ArticleWhy Fighting Symptoms Doesn't Work
When you go on the offensive and try to fight your symptoms, it only makes them stronger. Try this: whatever you do, do not think of an elephant. What happens? The harder you try not to think of it,...
View ArticleThe Democratization Of Medical Science
Vinod Khosla has stirred up some controversy in the healthcare community over the last several years by suggesting that computers might be able to provide better care than doctors. “...the science of...
View ArticleMary’s Story: Painting to Release the Past & Heal
For the first time, I was experiencing my pain in a strange, new way. I stood in front of my canvas and was in control for the first time. I painted my emotions. The painting captured and contained a...
View ArticleHealing Yourself by Creating Art: The Muse That Heals
When art is expressed from the deepest levels of our being, profound healing occurs. Just as you may not consider yourself an artist, you may not think of yourself as a healer, either. You may have...
View ArticleWhat Does Being Healthy & Happy Mean to You?
I often asked my patients three important questions before surgery: Why do you wish to live longer? Do you wish to be happier? and What does being happy mean to you? These queries gave me an...
View ArticleMaking Acupuncture, Yoga, and Massage Affordable For All
Fewer high school students smoked cigarettes in 2013 than in previous years, while more adults are delaying health care because they can't afford it. These are among the insights of the Centers for...
View ArticleA Cold Splash: Water Therapy for Depression & Chronic Fatigue
by Peter Bongiorno, ND, LAc. One group of researchers in Virginia suggests that hydrotherapy may be useful to treat cancer and chronic fatigue as well as depression. Cold exposure therapies may...
View ArticleEssential for Good Health: Including Our Mental–Spiritual Needs
“Being whole” is an experience or a state of being in which we are in touch with our deepest inner being. It is a lifelong process with many paths and one of these paths touches on the body and its...
View ArticleQuality of Life for Cancer Patients: Does Massage Therapy Help?
At the end of the day, less pain, anxiety, and nausea, better sleep and more energy add to quality of life. That is what people with cancer seek. Researchers measure this variable usually with a...
View ArticleEnergy Medicine: An Emerging Paradigm
The prevailing industrial age view of the human body as a machine whose parts occasionally break down, requiring repair only to that part without regard to the whole human being and the sources of the...
View ArticleThe Healing Power of the Placebo Effect: Is It Real?
Placebos have been found, at times, to work nearly as effectively as materialistic treatments. One series of studies covering more than one thousand patients showed that 35 percent reported...
View ArticleReprogramming and Healing from MS with Aboriginal Techniques
Rose summed up the heart of the day’s lesson: “The bad news is the body remembers and will hold something as true, even when the conscious mind does not. The good news is that you can create new...
View ArticleHow To Clear, Heal, Energize, and Protect Your Energy Frequency
A very powerful exercise to help you clear any accumulation of psychic stress and energetic pollution contained within your aura. This will help you to quickly regain balance and harmony in your...
View ArticleCleansing Your Home and Environment with Incense
While incense can be used to cleanse a place or fumigate a person, the range in effect varies from very mild to exceptionally strong. They can be very potent aids to maintaining spiritual purity and...
View ArticleEnhancing Your Aura for Long-Term Benefits
A strong, centered aura can bring many magical experiences into your life. By following these simple ten steps to good auric health, you can significantly improve your chances of attracting what you...
View ArticleWhy Hypnosis Is Less Far Fetched And Far More Important
A new TV show would have us believe a powerful hypnotist can make us do whatever he says while we are powerless to resist or even realise. Channel Nine’s new game show You’re Back in the Room debuted...
View ArticleDo Female Doctors Show More Empathy Than Male Doctors?
Our latest research found that female doctors are better at empathy than male doctors, and this probably makes them better doctors.
View ArticleAcupuncture Could Ease Trouble Swallowing As Well As Pain During Surgery
New research suggests that acupuncture may help patients suffering from certain esophageal disorders that make swallowing difficult.
View ArticleHow Kindness Can Make A Difference In Cancer Care
Cancer may not be life-ending, but it usually is life-changing. A cancer diagnosis instantaneously turns life upside down for patients and families.
View ArticleShould We Have Two Sleeps Rather Than One?
Around a third of the population have trouble sleeping, including difficulties maintaining sleep throughout the night. While night time awakenings are distressing for most sufferers, there is some...
View ArticleThis Brain Blackout Starts A Migraine
Researchers have identified the electrical activity specific to the start of migraines and demonstrated a way to stop it in animal experiments.
View ArticleDoes Acupuncture Work By Re-Mapping The Brain?
Acupuncture is a form of traditional medical therapy that originated in China several thousand years ago. Perhaps, they stumbled on an effective medical approach.
View ArticleCan Technology Change Behavior And Help People Better Manage Chronic Diseases?
It was March 2014 when I received a phone call as I was working in my office. The person on the other end introduced herself as Dr. Linda Houston-Feenstra, chief cardiac nurse of Loma Linda University...
View ArticleWhy The Promise Of Personalized Medicine Is Not For Everyone
Could your medical treatment one day be tailored to your DNA? That’s the promise of “personalized medicine”. This concept is based on the idea that small genetic differences between one person and...
View ArticleDental Tourism: Things To Consider Before Going That Extra Mile For Your Smile
Australians spend up to A$300 million each year on health-care costs abroad. As part of this phenomenon, each year around 15,000 Australians are traveling overseas for cosmetic surgery tourism,...
View ArticleHow The Sounds Of Nature Can Help Us Understand Environmental Change
Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind, unseen, or a bird in a distant forest. Everything vibrates, and sound passes through and around us all the time. Sound is a critical environmental...
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