Understanding the Healing Crisis
August 17, 2010 by Craig Jacobs
Filed under Body, energy healing, • Headline
The body has an inherent desire for perfect health. We have the ability to earn our way back to that state, no matter how “normal” or bad our health is now. But in the meantime, the body must go through an elimination process to achieve good health.
The elimination process is often referred to as the “healing crisis.” Once the healing crisis starts, reactions may be mild or severe. Expect ups and downs as it takes awhile to get good health back.
In a healing crisis, every body system works together to eliminate waste products and set the stage for regeneration. Old tissues are replaced with new. A disease occurs when the body cannot make it through its natural healing crises for one reason or another. The body is “locked” into a destructive and shut down place, physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.
Symptoms of the healing crisis may at first be identical to the disease it is meant to heal. But there is an important difference: elimination. A cleansing, purifying process is underway and stored wastes are in a free-flowing state. The body, mind, and spirit are no longer “locked.” Sometimes pain and symptoms during the healing crisis are more intense than that of the chronic disease, but it is temporary and necessary.
The crisis will usually bring about past conditions and personal issues. People often forget the diseases, issues, or injuries they have had in the past, but are usually reminded during the crisis so that they can heal their unfinished business. This arises in whatever order the body is capable of handling at that time.
Physical reactions could include skin eruptions, nausea, headache, sleepiness, unusual fatigue, constipation, diarrhea, head or chest cold, ear infections, boils, sweating, cold sweats, or any other way the body uses to loosen and eliminate toxins. An initial healing crisis usually lasts around three days but if the energy of the patient is low, it may last a week or more.
Your body needs juices, and especially water to help carry off the toxins. This is a time for rest. Be kind to yourself — mentally, emotionally, and of course physically.
One crisis is not always enough for a complete cure. The person in a chronic “locked” disease state will often have to go through cycles of healing crises, with each one improving the condition some. It has taken time to develop a chronically diseased state, and time is required to let go of the “locked” energy, piece by piece. It’s like peeling the layers off an onion.
Often the crisis will come after one feels their very best and most energized, setting the stage for the elimination. The whole body gets into action. Most people feel an energy boost at the beginning until the toxins start dumping into the blood stream for elimination. Go as slowly as your body needs so your elimination is gradual and comfortable.
With a more serious condition, there may be many small crises to go through before the system can become healthily balanced. Everything must be considered and given its proper place in the build-up to a healing crisis. One should expect it and work with the body, not resentfully against it.
I felt the ‘healing crisis’ is very important for everyone to know and understand, so there was no point in me researching andwriting this topic when I know it has been well written already. This article is originally written by Ginger Chalford, Ph.D
Always remember…it is important to detoxify your on a regular basis while eating an 80% Alkaline and 20% acidic diet. One of the easiest and best ways to detoxify the body is with a Ionic detox foot bath.
The Teacher Appears When You’re Ready to Learn
August 17, 2010 by Jenn Royster
Filed under energy healing, personal development, • Feature
I recently had a client in the office that had been struggling with life’s transitions. Her heart was discouraged and she had spent many months, even years attempting to release the pain. My heart was filled with joy when I received an email and pictures from her with the following experience.
This story is one of inspiration and Divine support when you are truly present in your journey. All we need to do is allow and put the effort into our growth.
(The following story is true and the name has been changed to respect privacy.)
Susan had been struggling with life’s transitions in her personal life to the point of frustration and discouragement. She decided to come in for a Spiritual and Energy Healing Session the day before her birthday. She had been several times before. Each time, feeling better but not quite where she wanted to be.
Susan had a strong urge to go to the beach on the morning of her birthday and watch the sunrise. In spite of living near the beach most of her life, this would be her first sunrise.
She was well on her way to the beach when she realized she didn’t have her sunglasses. Everyone knows that sunglasses are necessary on a bright sunny day at the beach!
Susan looked for them in their customary place, since they were not there, she assumed they must be in the car, and left for the beach.
She pondered in self refection for a moment and thought, “ Because I had decided there were only two options, I didn’t take a quick glance around to see if they were at the house. If I had, I would have seen that they were 6 inches from where I was putting on my shoes.”
When she got in her car, she didn’t look for them until halfway into the drive. Realizing they weren’t there, she knew she wasn’t going back for them. She immediately thought of her straw hat and knew that would be a sufficient substitute.
Then she started thinking about the idea of options, and how she had limited her options to one of two possibilities. She was not open to the idea of more options! As a result, she missed out on having her sunglasses with her.
She started to think about this concept in relation to her life as a whole and how she often decreed what the possibilities are with a person, situation, etc. and determine that if isn’t A, then it must be B, without allowing for the notion of C through infinity for possibilities.
Then she realized how her thought process was limiting her in a very simple, straightforward, practical way. Susan saw that this is something she wanted to change. Then she said, out loud, “Thank you for the lesson and I appreciate it very much.” Then she thought to herself, “I really wish I had my sunglasses!”
A beautiful sunrise was waiting when she arrived at the beach. She sat down in her beach chair for a while, then dove into the ocean and swam with the dolphins. It was wonderful! While she was swimming, She saw a woman walking her dog. Other than that, there was no one else on the beach.
She left the water and walked over to her chair and as she got closer, she stopped dead in her tracks. Laying in the sand, a few inches from her chair, was a pair of sunglasses!
She stood there for a while just staring at them, and then walked away from them. She wrapped herself in a towel, and stood at the water’s edge.
Susan thought to herself, “They look very similar to my own glasses which are a bit unusual in style. My lens don’t go all the way to the sides of the frame, there is a small gap between them, and I have never seen another pair like mine, but these have the same gap, the similar frame shape & color. I find that really interesting and have no explanation for it.”
Although her heart knew that she was just given a gift of encouragement to continue to think in the way she did regarding options, and the lesson learned, it also taught her to trust, and have faith in the energy of the universe.
Her mind started searching for another answer. She saw the lady with the dog coming back and thought maybe she had dropped them. But, she didn’t. They were for her.
Tangible and irrefutable in their existence & sudden appearance. Just what my rational brain can’t explain away. It was a good day!
Susan expressed to me that she feels different now, and believes it is a result of the energy and spiritual session work, and the enormous surge in trust that the experience on the beach gave to her.
Susan’s story is simple, yet powerful, and the personal growth for this young woman was tremendous. Divine universal love can reach us in the most unique ways, if we are willing, the teacher will appear, even if it is a pair of sunglasses.
Get Your Fats Right!
August 3, 2010 by Cheryl Millett
Filed under Beauty, Body, • Headline
Read this article to learn more than the average bears…roaring good information and something to sink your teeth into.
Life is what you make it and much of the time we are learning and experiencing new things which can shape our thoughts and diet.
One key area of nutrition is “FATS.” I like to ask my audiences what one word comes to mind when I say “FATS.” What one word comes to mind for you?
Most will say words, like obesity, trans fats, saturated fats and so on. These words refer to “FATS” as something negative, something to stay away from. After all, being over-weight and obesity is a BIG problem these days.
There are two sides to the FAT coin. There are healthy fats and unhealthy fats…with a flip of how it is processed.
Where to start? From the raw material to the types of fats, from the processing to the cooking temperature, fats will come out unhealthy or healthy for you. It is quality of the fat just before it enters your mouth that matters most. Wait for the kicker at the end of this article.
Raw Material
Healthy fats include fats from whole foods like nuts, seeds, olives, grass fed meat and poultry, wild fish, and avocado, then include a most powerful saturated fat coconut oil, and the poly-unsaturated or essential fatty acids (omega 3 and omega 6) from seal blubber. A majority of the fat from fish is located just beneath the skin…is this the part you eat? Do you eat it raw?
Unhealthy fats include processed and oxidized fats such as vegetable oils (i.e. corn, canola, soybean oil, safflower, sunflower oil, etc.), grain fed animals, farmed fish (use to feed them pellets with wheat in it from my days of working at George Weston), cooked fats, trans fats and more.
Fresh is Better
This does differ from food to food! For any whole foods, the shelf life is usually longer. Why? The stability has not been removed from the food. Using the on-the-counter approach – take for example the whole apple versus one cut up or a fat example, flaxseeds versus flaxseed oil. Either way the whole food would last longer. The seal oil from the blubber which if kept whole can maintain freshness when sitting on the counter. Wouldn’t be doing this with fish oil liquid! Besides the DHA in fish is a different molecule versus the DHA from seal oil. Weston A. Price talks highly about the seal oil and other healthy fats (see reference links.) The website also talks to the processing changing the quality of the fats.
Processing is NOT All Created Equal
If your taste buds are in good working order (and let’s just say you like the taste of coconut), you would notice the difference between raw and refined products. For example, I purchased a very good organic cold pressed coconut oil which tasted great (you see I eat coconut oil by the teaspoon) and the colour was a beautiful white. My mother bought an organic coconut oil which was refined (labeled for cooking – didn’t see this before I tasted it!). It looked beige, and tasted awful. Yuck!
Most fish oils, cod liver oils and seal oils are refined, bleached and deodorized, using high heat and chemicals in the process. I know of only one seal oil company that doesn’t do this standard processing. I recommend it to all my clients, and friends and family(www.AuumOmegas.com).
Purchase organic oils because toxins are stored in the fat. Sure they say they remove the heavy metals but that isn’t the only toxins present. There are toxic residues from the processing.
There are cold pressed oils such as olive oil, and flaxseed oil. Please understand there is still heat generated by the friction when making these oils. The high volume production can cause more friction which leads to oxidation of the product. In this case, I can write “go small or go home.”
The Type
Healthy saturated fats are very helpful in many ways. Here is one reason: Trans fats inhibit the body’s use of omega-3 fatty acids and the production of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, while saturated fats enhance the body’s use of omega-3 fatty acids and the production of the long-chain versions. (Ref: Weston A. Price)
Cooking Dangers
One last thing you must learn! The label reads what it contains at point of purchase not what happens if you put it in the oven at 350 degrees. Most processed foods do not contain trans fats but vegetable oils like canola or soybean oil. When you heat these oils past 320 degrees you actually create your own trans fats.
How do you like that? I recently read a book called “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human.” This book brought to my attention that we cook at much higher temperatures today than how they did it hundreds of thousands of years before us. In those days, they didn’t use vegetable oils, they used animal saturated fats. Ah ha!
Dangers of the wrong fat such as vegetable oils, high heated fats, and trans fats: Cancer, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Immune Function, Fertility and Reproduction, Lactation, Development and Growth, Osteoporosis, Learning Disabilities, Obesity.
Oh my! What are you thinking? Share your thoughts with me…make your comment below or share this article with others. We need to take control of our health, of our grocery shopping choices.
Good news! A little saturated fat such as butter and coconut oil won’t hurt you but help you. Consume some mono-unsaturated fats, such as olive oil and avocado adds variety. Most of all have a good source of polyunsaturated fats or essential fats (Omega 6 and Omega 3 in a balanced ratio). Click here to go to articles on omegas.
FATS is not a 4 letter word!
Make it a healthy day!
Cheryl
References
http://www.westonaprice.org/know-your-fats.html
http://wwww.westonaprice.org/images/pdfs/Trifold-TransFats2009.pdf
Have you ever seen or heard about Cancer of the Heart?
August 3, 2010 by Craig Jacobs
Filed under Beauty, Body, • Feature
Have you ever seen or heard about Cancer of the Heart???
I am sure you never did and you never will. It has to do with PH levels in your body and oxygen. There is a cure for CANCER and let me explain. In his book “Acid & Alkaline”, Herman Aihara states that:
“If the condition of our extra cellular fluids, especially the blood, becomes acidic, our physical condition will manifest tiredness, proneness to catching colds. When these fluids become more acidic, our condition then manifest pain and suffering such as headaches, chest pains, stomach aches etc. According to Keiichi Morishita in his book “The hidden Truth about Cancer”, if the blood develops a more acidic condition, then our body inevitably deposits these excess acidic substances in some area of the body such so that the blood will not be able to maintain an alkaline conditions which causes these areas such as the cells to become more acidic and lower in oxygen.
As these tendencies continues, such areas increase in acidity and some cells die; then these dead cells themselves turn into acid. However some other cells may adapt in that environment. In other words, instead of dying-as normal cells do in an acid environment –some cells survive by becoming abnormal cells. These abnormal cells are called malignant cells. Malignant cells do not correspond with brain function nor with our own DNA memory code. Therefore, malignant cells grow indefinitely and without order: this is cancer.” One of the least understood concepts of nutrition is understanding what acid and alkaline balance is. The cells of our body depend on a balance acid-alkaline pH. If the body fluids are abnormal, digestive enzymes are rendered inactive, food does not digest properly, and an allergic reaction can result. Food bound microorganism such as yeast, bacteria, parasites, molds, viruses etc, are liberated in the body, which puts stress on the immune system.
The body is largely made up of water, a medium where is biologically useful in allowing nutrients, oxygen and bio-chemical to be transported from place to place. This water based medium can have acid or alkaline properties that are measured by a graduated scale called pH (for potential hydrogen), where 1.0 to 6.9 is considered acidic, 7.0 to 14.0 is considered alkaline. The lower the pH number, the greater the acidity, the higher the pH number, the greater the alkalinity.
We want the fluids in our bodies to have a neutral of 7.0-7.2 pH level. Under the 5.3 the body cannot assimilate minerals and vitamins, it must be above 6.4 for maximum utilization and weight loss.
Why should we be concerned about pH levels?
Since most of our body is water based (60%-70%), the pH has a profound affect on all body chemistry, health and disease. All regulatory mechanisms including breathing, circulation, digestion, hormonal production serves the purpose of balancing pH, by removing caustic metabolized acid residues from body tissues without damaging living cells. If the pH deviates too far to the acid side or too far to the alkaline side, cells become poisoned by their own toxic waste and die. Just as acid rain can destroy a forest and alkaline waste can pollute a lake, an imbalanced pH corrodes body tissue, slowly eating into the 120,000 km’s of veins and arteries like corrosives eating into marble. If left unchecked, an imbalanced pH will interrupt cellular activities and functions from the beating of the heart to the neural firing of the brain.
Our bodies contain many toxins, chemical, parasites, fungus, bacteria and yeast that, if not cleansed from our bodies, can develop into major illnesses.
WHY DO PEOPLE DEVELOP CANCER?
According to a famous doctor Dr Enderlein, “total healing of chronic illness only takes place when and if the blood is restored to a normal slightly alkaline pH.
What does pH mean? pH is the abbreviation for Potential Hydrogen or the measurement of hydrogen ions concentrated in any solution. The higher the pH reading, the more alkaline and oxygen rich the fluid is. The lower the reading, the more acidic and oxygen deprived the fluid is.
To be considered healthy, human blood must maintain a narrow pH range of 7.365. Any variations means symptoms and disease. If blood ph drops below 6.8 or increase above 7.8 cells stop functioning and that person dies. pH blood is very difficult to test, however some home test kits are available to test urine and saliva pH. Optimum urine and saliva is between 7.0 to 7.4. Test your pH each morning before drinking or eating.
If you have health problems this means you are ACIDIC. When the body goes into acidosis, the kidneys start producing ammonia, which may cause the pH to test alkaline. This condition if frequently found in elderly people and is the cause to unpleasant odor in senior homes.
In 1964, only 1 out of 214 contracted cancer. Today it is 1 in 3 females and 1 in 2 males. The determining factor between health and disease is pH. It is not uncommon for the average Canadian to test between 4 and 5 pH.
Research has shown us that unless the body’s pH level is slightly alkaline, the body cannot heal itself. So no matter what type of modality you use to improve your health problem, the modality won’t be effective until the pH comes up. Drugs and medication has the effect of lowering the pH, that is the reason why there are side effects.
When body pH drops below 6.4, enzymes are deactivated, digestion does not work properly, vitamins and minerals and food supplements cannot effectively assimilate. Acid decreases energy production in the cell, the ability to repair damaged cells to ability to detoxify heavy metals and make the body more susceptible to fatigue and illness. Your pH affects everything.
Research has proven that disease cannot survive in an alkaline state and that bacteria, viruses, yeast, fungus, Candida, mold and cancer cells thrive in an acidic environment low oxygen low energy. An acid pH can result from an acid forming diet, emotional stress, toxic overload. The body will try to compensate for acid by using alkaline mineral like sodium from the stomach and calcium from the bones. This is the cause of osteoporosis and a number of other disease like acid reflux and leaky gut syndrome. If there are not enough minerals in the diet to compensate, a build up of acids in the cells will occur, resulting in symptoms like arthritis, pain, fibromyalgia, lupus, cancer, gout, fatigue, obsesity, MS etc.
THERE IS ALWAYS TWO FACTORS THAT ARE PRESENT WITH CANCER
1. Acidic pH
2. Lack of oxygen
Can we manipulate those two factors that need to be Present to develop cancer?
We can reverse cancer. We need to learn how to manipulate the pH and the oxygen.
Cancer is not compatible in a healthy pH environment full of oxygen. Cancer of the heart does not exist. This is because, blood flowing from the lungs into the heart, are at the highest pH and oxygen levels within the entire body. As the blood travels through the lungs, acidic toxins are thrown out of the system leaving it rich with oxygen and a high blood pH.
In the absence of oxygen, glucose undergoes fermentation to lactic acid. This causes the pH of the cell to drop even lower. Urine and saliva of cancer patients almost always runs between 4.0 to 5.5. When cancer goes into metastases the pH drops even lower. We simply cannot survive in acid based bodies and that is why we always suggest Body Detoxification. We have all the tools we need to render our bodies alkaline and maintain health.
What Causes Me to be Acidic?
The reason acidosis is more common in our society is mostly due to the typical North American diet, which is far too high in acid-producing animal products like meat, eggs and dairy, and far too low in alkaline producing foods like fresh vegetables. Additionally, we eat acid producing processed foods like white flour and sugar and drink acid producing beverages like coffee and soft drinks. We use too many drugs, which are acid-forming; and we use artificial chemical sweetners like NutraSweet, Equal, or aspartame, which are extremely acid-forming. One of the best things we can do to correct an overly acid body is to clean up our diet to start including majority of alkaline foods, detoxing regularily, drinking healthy alkaline water and regular exercise. For your own free alkaline/acidic food chart click here.
Be Your Own Cheerleader
August 3, 2010 by Mike Robbins
Filed under Body, • Feature
I recently saw a wonderful video on YouTube that has been making its way around the internet of a little girl passionately affirming herself and her life in the bathroom mirror (“My whole house is great, I like my hair, I can do anything, I like my family,” etc.) If you haven’t had a chance to see it, check it out – it’s adorable, funny, and a beautiful example of appreciation in action.
I showed it to my four year old daughter Samantha (who is close to the same age as the girl in the video). Samantha loved it and asked me if she could do the same thing herself. She ran into the bathroom, got up on the counter, and began to do her own affirmations in the mirror. It was beautiful, hilarious, and quite heartwarming to see her cheering about herself and her life in such a positive and passionate way.
Not only was Samantha excited about doing this, there was no shame, guilt, or embarrassment on her part as she did it. Her baby sister, Rosie (who is almost two now), is a big fan of laughing, smiling, and kissing herself in the full length mirror we have in our bedroom. So cute! I’m amazed and inspired by how many little ones seem to have an innate sense of appreciation for themselves, as if it’s hardwired into them at birth.
Sadly, this high regard many of us have for ourselves and our lives as babies, toddlers, and even little kids, is often “trained” out of us as we learn the ways of the “real” world. Directly and indirectly we hear and see things that lead us to believe that we are not good enough, need to be fixed, and are fundamentally flawed. We also learn early on that it’s not cool, socially acceptable, or even appropriate to act, think, or speak about ourselves in ways that may be perceived as overly positive or downright arrogant.
Even for those of us, like me and most of you reading this article, who understand the importance of self appreciation and self love, the act of expressing and experiencing love for ourselves can be tricky. Once we get over the negative stigma or our fear of being judged (which is often an ongoing process), we then have to deal with our own obsession with criticizing ourselves, as well as the fact that we may not actually know how to love and appreciate ourselves in an authentic way.
However, when we truly love ourselves, most of what we worry about and even much of what we strive for in life becomes meaningless. We may still have some worries, and we’ll definitely continue to have goals, dreams and desires. However, from a place of true self appreciation and self love, the fear behind our worries and the motivation for our goals dramatically changes from something we have to avoid or produce in order to be accepted and valued to something we’re genuinely concerned about or really want to accomplish.
In other words, when we wait for other people, the accomplishment of specific goals, or the manifestation of ideal circumstances to create the excitement, joy, and inspiration for our lives – we give away our personal power and live in an insatiable way. Cheering for ourselves with passion, and with a true sense of love and appreciation is not arrogant, it’s actually required if we’re going to live a life of fulfillment, gratitude, and meaning.
Arrogance is based on fear and insecurity. Whenever I catch myself doing or saying anything arrogant (which I do on a pretty regular basis), it’s because I’m feeling insecure, wanting someone to like me or be impressed with me, or trying to compensate for some perceived “lack” within or about myself. There’s nothing “evil” about us being arrogant, it’s just not all that much fun for us or others – and living our life from a place of arrogance can cause a great deal of pain, suffering, and hurt for ourselves and those around us.
Authentic self appreciation is about loving, valuing, and honoring ourselves, our gifts, and all of who we are – both light and dark. The words, thoughts, and feelings may seem similar to arrogance, however, they’re not. Energetically, self appreciation comes from a very different place within us than arrogance does. The more we practice loving and appreciating ourselves, the easier it is for us to tell the difference.
Here is a list of some things you can do to practice loving, appreciating, and cheering for yourself in an authentic and powerful way:
- Speak about yourself positively
- When someone compliments you – breathe, let it in, and say “thank you” (don’t discount it)
- Say affirmations to yourself in the mirror, and use your first name (i.e. “I love you, Mike”)
- Write down things you appreciate about yourself in your journal on a regular basis
- Send yourself an email or card of appreciation – from you, to you
- Buy yourself flowers or some token of appreciation that makes you feel good
- Ask for the acknowledgment you’d like
- Make requests of others (remember that you don’t have to do it all yourself)
- Take time for yourself and by yourself
- Celebrate your successes (big and small) and pat yourself on the back regularly
Many of the things on this list fall into the category of “simple but not easy” for most of us. And, there are clearly many more things each of us can do and practice as we enhance our capacity for self love and appreciation. The key is our intention, not what we do specifically.
If we start to think of ourselves as our most important ally, friend, and, ultimately, cheerleader, we can alter our own internal relationship and begin to count on ourselves in new, inspiring, and important ways.
Being our own cheerleader is not about bragging, boasting, or being better than anyone else – it’s about honoring, appreciating, and loving ourselves in a real way. On this journey of life we are with ourselves in every moment – the more capacity we have to love ourselves, the more ability we have in turn to love others and share our gifts with the world.
