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This article explains how magnets work to aid healing in the body.
Many people are seeking alternative health care due to the high cost of paying for medical bills and knowing that one prescription drug will lead to another one, mainly because of side effects.
I recently went to the hospital ... Views: 1793
When someone comes out of the closet, they take a stand, and they take a risk. For centuries, gay and lesbian people hid their identities in order to survive. Then a few people said “no more.” Decided to risk public censure, job loss, jail, so that things could change. And things have changed. ... Views: 1004
My name is Susan Farber and I am a licensed Marriage Family Therapist in private practice. I specialize in helping clients manage, reduce, and eliminate chronic pain using a mind/body approach to treatment. I look at how denied emotions, tension, and stress contribute to the development and ... Views: 1047
Millions of people suffer from chronic back pain and there are many reasons for back pain.
Sometimes your back pain is caused by something that you have done. Other times, it’s caused by something you haven't done. Okay, I’ll be totally honest here:
There are a LOT of reasons for chronic ... Views: 1376
I am up and walking around on a beautiful, chilly, early spring day, with bulbs poking their green noses out of the dirt (and a few, their bright flowers.) I am headache free for the first time in 5 days and enjoying a lovely family visit. I really don’t feel in the least like complaining. But I ... Views: 879
If you suffer from chronic pain, you are not alone. Millions of Americans seek treatment for chronic pain, pain that continues for more than six months. Chronic pain is no longer viewed as a symptom, but as an illness in itself. Things we take for granted, such as eating, sleeping, dressing, ... Views: 3655
Helping people in ongoing pain and stress is a challenge for a number of reasons. One important obstacle is that usually they have learned to disconnect from their body experience to reduce the feeling of pain. The problem with this strategy is that it also cuts them off from the resources and ... Views: 1534
“What if this is as good as it gets?” In the movie of that name, Jack Nicholson plays Melvin, an insulting, anti-social author with obsessive compulsive disorder. Melvin falls for Carol, played by Helen Hunt, the only waitress who will put up with him, at his favorite restaurant. Carol is ... Views: 1081
The whole body is interconnected. Neck and sacrum are related. If one is in pain, the other one is too, and vice versa. If one gets better, the other one gets better too. So, we can work on one to help another. This, of course, helps the whole body. Then we are happy! So let's see how we get ... Views: 1539
Last November I developed an inexplicable pain in my leg. On the infrequent occasions when pain visits my body it usually lodges in my lower back, rearranging my discs and strumming the sciatic nerve. My daily Reiki self-treatments have considerably diminished the frequency of these incidents , ... Views: 888
WHEE is an amazing new method for releasing pains of all sorts. Users report dramatic improvements with tension headaches, migraines, frozen shoulders, backaches, irritable bowel syndrome, surgery, injuries, arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome and cancer.
Example 1: I was out hiking with a ... Views: 1724
Have you ever noticed that your mind is chattering constantly? Have you ever been able to stop this chatter? Almost everyone answers, "Yes" to the first question and "No" to the second one.
I call this part of ourselves the busy body. It is like a restless, frisky kitten, pouncing on anything ... Views: 1658
1. Assume as an article of absolute faith: There is no possible way to get out of this hole.
2. Blame yourself for getting stuck in this hole and look for the most exquisitely critical things you can say to yourself about your stupidity for ending up where you are.
3. Say "No!" immediately ... Views: 2983
There are many names we give to caregivers and careseekers. These labels often reflect deeply-held, often unconscious attitudes around health an illness. They also may determine the nature of care that is given and received. Varieties of names are reviewed in Part 1 or this article, including ... Views: 1105
Caregivers and careseekers
We have many terms for those who offer treatments and those who seek them. Each has its own tradition and shapes the relationships of the caregivers and careseekers in subtle but pervasive ways.
The first term I suggest for consideration is respant, asking you to ... Views: 873
What is the opposite of a vicious circle? Think about it! Isn't it odd that we have no common term for this in the English language? German, Swedish and French have such terms, but we don't.
I deal with this issue daily, as I help people release negative, self-defeating patterns of behaviors ... Views: 902
Many of us suffer on a daily basis from chronic or acute back pain, and it can become a depressing condition. The pain affects our lives on a daily basis, not just through physical experience of the sensation, but through its debilitating effect on our ability to enjoy and take part in life as ... Views: 913
Low back pain caused by tight anterior inner hip muscles.
This article is written at a level which requires some knowledge of anatomical attachments, ie: origins and insertions of muscles, as well as names of muscles.
Should you wish to know more I invite you to look online for an anatomy ... Views: 3507
Every week, I have a patient who comes in with excruciating lower back pain. At least one patient per week. They usually come in as a last resort, having found me on their insurance plan website. They have tried many drugs, painkillers and anti-inflammatories, and now their doctor has only one ... Views: 1237
A little boy named John (not his real name) who was 4 years old was staying with my sister for a while. He loved to play any kind of ball, and one day he sprained his hand while he was playing catch. It was a pretty severe sprain, and it was painful for him to open the hand, especially after he ... Views: 1448
The Doctor-Healer Network - North America (DHN-NA), scattered geographically across the US and Canada, meets for monthly two-hour telephone conference calls. In the DHN-UK, participants are a mix of doctors who are healers and doctors who work together with healers. In the DHN-NA all ... Views: 1335
Networking is often seen to be an activity that promotes the sharing of ideas, activities and sales of products and services. Looking at the concept of networking as energy, networking is an energy exchange. It may be conducted with altruistic or business motives. The altruistic or business ... Views: 1066
The Council for Healing (CfH)
The CfH is a non-profit North American organization including representatives from diverse healing modalities. The Council is a hub for sharing healing experiences, training and wisdom that crosses the boundaries of professional training. Too often, caregivers are ... Views: 1341
Fibromyalgia (FM) is an illness syndrome that includes aches and pains all over the body; muscle tenderness; severe fatigue most of the time; mental unclarity and difficulty focusing (often called ‘brain fog’); depression; insomnia; digestive disorders (vague pains, diarrhea); and multiple ... Views: 1002
I have touched on psychic and spiritual awarenesses that can extend our perceptions well beyond the stage of our life, into the domains of the invisible choreographers and of the Producer. We are told by psychics, healers, meditators and mystics that the pursuit of this awareness is the most ... Views: 1387
Healing can quickly open therapist and client to intuitive awarenesses of underlying psychological problems that may be buried in the unconscious, often brought into consciousness by the unconscious mind through physical and emotional symptoms. Healing facilitates releases of buried emotional ... Views: 1735
The Names that can be given
Are not the Absolute Names.
The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth;
The Nameless is the Mother of All Things.
---Lao Tsu
I find myself in a peculiar position where everything I am going to tell you is inhererntly wrong. Words and linear language are ... Views: 1359
A patient complains of pain all over the body. Pain is in the upper part of the body and it is in the lower part of the body. The pain is accompanied by disturbances of sleep, sometimes restless legs, and occasionally sleep apnea. The patient gets depressed because of all of the pain and the ... Views: 1612
Fibromyalgia (FM) is an illness syndrome that includes aches and pains all over the body; severe fatigue; mental unclarity and difficulty focusing (often called ‘brain fog’); depression; insomnia; digestive disorders (vague pains, diarrhea); and multiple allergies to foods and other items. ... Views: 1115
There are several kinds of support you need to live with Migraine disease; one is what I'll call structural support (like toolkits, systems, schedules, routines, diaries), another is people support. I'm going to talk about people support today.
It's lonely dealing with a disease that eats away ... Views: 921
This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Pain Management. Pain management is the medical discipline concerned with the relief of pain. It can include both pharmacological and non-pharmacological solutions to relieving pain. Daniel J. Benor, MD is the Official Guide to Pain ... Views: 986
Pain management (also called pain medicine) is the medical discipline concerned with the relief of pain.
Types of pain
Acute pain, such pain resulting from trauma, often has a reversible cause and may require only transient measures and correction of the underlying problem. In contrast, chronic ... Views: 1212
What are we getting better for? What are we here for? I realize these are big questions and challenging even for minds that aren't screaming with pain, let alone those that cope with frequent Migraines. They are central questions to creating and sustaining the will and optimism to keep ... Views: 880
*** When parents separate or divorce, children are usually stressed. Even when parents separate amicably, children end up having to adjust to living part-time in each of two households. Single parents often note that children have problems with their attitudes, emotions and behaviors in the day ... Views: 1252
Kathy Stevens, who has been training my dogs for the past three years, is a battle-scarred veteran of the war against chronic pain. Kathy injured her back when she fell from a ladder in 1996. As a result of her injury, she lost the feeling in her legs for four weeks. When sensation did return, ... Views: 1023
Human Physiology versus Modern Living
Human bodies have not changed much in the past 10,000 years; however, during the last 150 years, we have greatly changed our lifestyles. Our bodies deal with new chemicals, sleep habits, physical tasks, indoor lighting, noise, and other unnatural ... Views: 3062
The ideal body has a framework of curves and arches that, with the joints, support and balance the body’s weight. When spinal curves or foot arches flatten or are exaggerated, our center of gravity is shifted. The result? Pain!
The more self-imposed problems often come from poor ergonomics ... Views: 1184
Bowen is a multidimensional healing system that alleviates human pain and suffering. It was discovered and developed by the late Tom Bowen of Geelong, Australia. It is a natural health care solution that safely and gently awakens and revives the self-healing mechanisms of the body by applying ... Views: 1024
Stop the Suffering, Manage The Pain.
Seven million Americans deal with this painful condition. 90% of those people are women. Your whole body aches, you're up all night tossing and turning, you are fatigued and depressed. You find it difficult to concentrate sometimes, with that "foggy" ... Views: 2434
The body may participate in memories in several ways.
If your back (or other body part) is injured or tense at the time of a traumatic experience, the emotional memory of that experience may become imprinted in that part of your body. This seems to happen more often when you don't allow ... Views: 2082
One of the first things you learn when you started dealing with your migraines is to identify and avoid triggers. I learned this shortly after a murderous 5 day migraine I had in Arizona – I was at higher altitudes than I was used to, and there were forest fires all week, exposing me to lots ... Views: 1044
There are fears around the planet about the financial crises now threatening every country in the world. The hasty governmental responses of throwing paper money at the problems that were created by irresponsible investments of banks is not going to solve these problems. Printing more money ... Views: 1097
Pain usually creates un-wanted emotions like fear, resistance, upset, frustration, distraction, pity and stress due to the limitations we may experience to name just a few. Because pain forces us to put our attention on it, it can create even more pain and frustration.
You may have heard the ... Views: 1178
The words we use shape our perceptions and our interactions with the world. Through words we are taught to label the countless stimuli that enter our sensory portals. Our parents, schools, and society at large shape our concepts of who we are, how we experience others, and how we express ... Views: 1906
WHEE is an amazing method for releasing pains of all sorts. Users report dramatic improvements with tension headaches, migraines, frozen shoulders, backaches, irritable bowel syndrome, surgery, injuries, arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome and cancer.
Example 1: I was out hiking with a friend, ... Views: 3489
When we are in pain, we are emotionally fragile for many reasons. The first reason is that most of our energy is going to fix the pain and there’s often not enough left for dealing with life. Also, when we are in pain our belief in our own invincibility is threatened. On top of this, we ... Views: 1089
This article explains how somatic exercises make back pain vanish and why they are probably the fastest, most lasting way to end most back pain. They work not by suppressing symptoms, but by clearing up their underlying cause and the cause underlying that, so that no further damage occurs to ... Views: 2586
Popular beliefs about aging confuse the effects of genes with those of stress and injury. As a result, people associate pains and stiffness directly with aging, and so believe them to be inevitable.
“The thousand natural shocks flesh is heir to” leave their mark in memory. Memory ... Views: 1488
Yesterday your grandparents suffered from back pain. Today, you suffer from fibromyalgia. Did you ever stop to think you might have inherited your pain? Science has now explained why some of us are susceptible to developing painful conditions while others are not. This is a fascinating look into ... Views: 1267
How can you have chronic pain and fatigue and NOT be depressed? All people - healthy or not - struggle every day with the stress of raising a family, their jobs, financial troubles, family illness and yes, death & taxes. You’ve got to get the kids to school on time, pay the bills, go to ... Views: 1893