This probably comes under the heading of too much information, but for some who suffer, this article may be a god-send. The things I do for science. For decades I periodically and suddenly would experience an intense, sharp pulling pain from belly button to pubis; usually, but not always when urinating. It was like a [Read more…]
Do certain painful memories or experiences constantly live in the background? Do important plans, projects or goals somehow just not happen? About 10% of your mental horsepower is logical thinking and planning. The other 90% is your subconscious. It contains all the invisible programming that that tells you how to see the world and your [Read more…]
Make medicine all about healing rather than maximizing profit. Remove the artificial divide between the drugs and surgery type of medicine and “alternative” medicine. Allow physicians and patients access to what safely works. For example, my work as an Integrative Therapist is so powerful, I offer a warranty program. Imagine if everyone one with anxiety, [Read more…]
A few years ago, I was exposed to Picture Tapping Techniques during ongoing continuing education in my field. I was profoundly impressed by this marriage of EFT Tapping and Art Therapy and continued on to enrol in all available training and advanced courses. PTT doesn’t replace EFT. It’s just one more resource in my tool [Read more…]
Empathy. The common assumption is the more we have, the better a person we are. As with so many things in life, an “element of truth” is a very different thing than ‘the whole truth”. Being an Integrative Therapist I too often get to see the painful results of this unexamined belief. There’s a common [Read more…]
We’ve heard about all the studies showing how important vit D is, with vit D from the sun being the most beneficial form. What few know is that getting enough vit D from the sun is not a given; even with lots of exposure. Why? Watch your shadow. Vitamin D is only produced in the [Read more…]
The Center For Disease Controls (CDC) states that ninety percent of all disease has its roots in stress. This technique and the posts to follow offer simple tools anyone can do to help calm the sympathetic or “fight, flight or freeze” nervous system. Having this part of the central nervous activated full on, can be [Read more…]
When stressed, blood flow begins to be diverted from the logical, planning, prefrontal cortex part of the brain. It’s sent instead to survival mode areas. Now we feel further loss of ability to deal with life at that moment and stress ramps up even higher. This is excellent when in real danger of physical attack [Read more…]
Researchers recently discovered a simple cooking method to turn white rice into a health food; at least for beneficial gut bacteria or probiotics. There’s been huge interest and a flood of studies on the effects of the gut biome on human health over the past decade. The gut biome is all the trillions of bacteria, [Read more…]
Note: See the helpful hint at the end of this article. Self-sabotage. The art of subconsciously preventing ourselves from reaching the dreams and goals we think we desire. This takes many forms coming from a variety of root causes. One of the most insidious and frustrating is what Dr. Lewis Engel Ph.D and Tom Ferguson [Read more…]