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ARTICLESA Team That is Dedicated to Promoting Holistic Principles Bring together kindred spirits with a vision of encouraging people to participate actively in their own health and wellness, and you have the HAAO – Healing Arts Association of the Okanagan. Yes, we are a network of practitioners that use our love and light and our healing abilities to help people while promoting our business. We are also a mixture of non-professional individuals that come home to nurture their own mind, body and spirit through our friendship and education. Our mandate brings us together at such events as the Kelowna and Vernon Health Shows where we extend our message that there are caring, healing individuals to help you on your journey to healing, health and vitality, and we share how we can help. We are an inclusive association, and we honour each other and value each other’s experience and vision, even if perhaps it is polished differently than our own, as long as it is to the better good. What do we do as a group? We meet monthly at meetings where we have a chance to reacquaint ourselves, perhaps enjoy a meal, and partake of an exchange of information and broaden our horizon from the sharing of ideas and experience, and enjoy the opportunity to listen to a guest speaker that embraces our vision. We are active in the community by promoting events such as our Healing Circle where individuals may come for an evening and experience various holistic mini-sessions for an admission fee of $10. Date is Wednesday, May 06 from 7 to 9 p.m. Health and Metaphysical books will also be available at the used book sale. RSVP haao@shaw.ca We sponsor bringing in illuminated guest speakers such as Dr. Ward Joiner from California – a world renowned holistic practitioner who will present on “Medical Thermal Imaging – Early Detection of Subtle Chemical and Nervous System Hormonal Imbalance” on March 28 at the Kelowna Library – tickets $20. Call Laura at (250)860-0335. This Medical Marvel of the Century is a consideration for people faced with other options that involve radiation. We hope this will be a reoccurring event. Our membership is $55 per year. We always welcome first time guests for free at our regular meetings so they can get to know us (often at Perkins Restaurant and Bakery in the boardroom), and the standard drop in fee for non members is $5 which we donate to charity. Our AGM - Annual General Meeting is on a Saturday evening on June 06, where we will invite family and friends to have a pot-luck dinner at the Activity Centre at the Beach on Hobson Road in Kelowna. For fun, we will have a demonstration from the Tai Chi Chuan Club of Kelowna, and have an opportunity to participate as well if desired. This is a windup until we meet again on September 16. We sponsor community events such as the Civic Award Winners Musical Evening on Friday, May 08. We offer our members a “HAAO Karma Discount Card,” for products and services at reduced prices that are provided by other members. This keeps the exchange of energy open while encouraging each other to experience a modality that they may not have otherwise considered. We invite new members to join us and also we are developing a support of our vision in the form of donations of the $55 membership from individuals that promote our goals although they may not be always available for the monthly meetings. We have members in Kamloops and Nelson and Penticton and Vernon, as we are the Healing Arts Association of the Okanagan. We produce a regular newsletter that members can submit articles in free of charge. And anyone may purchase an ad for a very reasonable price. Let us know if you wish to have a copy. We distributed 400 copies last month.
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Parasites and Endometriosis For nine years I suffered excruciating pain once a month for 4 or 5 days. The location of the pain was about 4 different spots in my lower abdomen, and felt like a hot knife was being turned in there. It was necessary for me to take prescription pain killers to endure the pain, although it still curtailed my lifestyle and enjoyment of activities. It was all I could do for those days to get up and go through the motions of work and home life. It took eight years before I received a diagnosis of endometriosis, after having had other exploratory procedures that were inconclusive (invasive procedures). The medical solution was to have a laparoscopy and laser surgery, but this did not seem to help the pain and at first it seemed even more intense. Finally, I went to a specialist and demanded a hysterectomy, hoping that removing the uterus would end the problem. Fortunately, he was a very good Doctor and helped me understand that this would not be helpful, unless a full hysterectomy was done, which included removing the ovaries along with the uterus. I was not willing to do that, however, there was still no solution other than pain management. It is probably important at this point to understand what endometriosis is. Tissue from the endometrium migrates to other sites in the lower body, and once a month at the onset of menses becomes inflamed and very painful. The tissue is literally bleeding or shedding, just as the uterus does. The inflamed sites were on my colon, in my abdomen, on my bladder (causing uncomfortable urination), and urethra. In all my searching, no one seemed able to explain to me how that tissue gets to those sites in the first place. Help and an answer came to me in two forms and about the same time. Through the application of Quantum Biofeedback as I became a Technician, it was determined that parasites were a major concern for my health. And about that time, I was studying a book by the author Hulda Regehr Clark, called “The Cure For All Diseases.” This is a book about how you can use frequencies and other holistic products and habits to heal your body. Her book indicated that parasites (flukes in particular) are indicated in endometriosis. This finally answered the question about how the tissue could travel to different parts of the body – from parasites. Parasites can work through tissue and organs and relocate in the body. They do not always remain in the colon. With the right combination and herbal cleansing, the problem is easily cleared up, and regular maintenance is necessary. Dr. Clark’s research indicates that parasites are a cause of a lot of health problems; fortunately, they can be fairly easy to clear up. After a few months, I was absolutely pain free and continue to be so after 3 years. In my practice, I sometimes see how parasites are affecting a body’s health in many different ways. I encourage everyone to do some research and evaluate their health and if it is appropriate to see a holistic health professional that can help them. Marie-Jeanne Fenton – Quantum Biofeedback Specialist
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Who Is In The Driver’s Seat? Now more than ever, we are inundated with the media constantly bombarding us with doom and gloom. Never before have we had such access to news on a global level. Unfortunately it is rare when any news around the world is uplifting, happy or inspiring. If it isn’t the downturn in the economy then it is about the latest virus or terrorist attack. It is challenging for each and every one of us to step out of the ‘fear bubble’ and be more of an observer. Yet this is exactly what we need to do so that we aren’t contributing to the negativity any further and instead make a positive difference by doing things to counteract it. Each of us needs to be especially diligent in our thoughts and the words we speak. I have noticed now more than ever, people are getting into the habit of saying fearful things. Many of you have likely seen The Secret or read books on creating abundance and manifesting; books by Esther and Gerry Hicks being some of my favorites. Whether you have or not, the bottom line is we can create that which we fear and our thoughts and spoken words are extremely powerful. From the beginning of time, we as humans have had to face duality and have chosen the path of struggle to learn our life’s lessons. Our soul is all about LOVE and our ego is all about FEAR. Our ego is doing its best to help us to survive and it comes from reaction based on cellular memories of what has transpired in our past. It is afraid of the unknown and change and the words Faith and Trust are not in its vocabulary. It truly doesn’t know any better. Unfortunately, we too often give the fearful ego control of our lives and allow it to be in the Driver’s Seat. What I would love is for all of us to start putting it in the passenger seat, or the back seat and yes occasionally in the trunk! Our words affect all those around us including our partners and children. Not only are those around us affected, but also on a larger scale our thoughts don’t disappear. The energy and frequency they hold go into our atmosphere and contribute to the fear consciousness that affects us all. What feeds and fuels our fearful ego is our unresolved emotional issues, not only from this lifetime but what we have brought in with us to heal and release from many previous lifetimes. Many of us have themes of being unworthy, inadequate, unsafe, not deserving and the list goes on. While we still carry these deep core issues, we automatically go into fear and reaction when they are triggered. If you are not living moment to moment with clear guidance and peace of mind then you have unresolved karmic emotional issues. Part of my specialty is I can often tap into what gifts and abilities people have. So often over the years, I have watched while the fearful ego will do everything in its power to not acknowledge them, accept them and then express them. If we aren’t living our purpose then we have ‘Divine Discontent’ until we start to express who we truly are. We are at the ‘End Times’ and we can buy into the doom and gloom or we can get excited that finally a new consciousness has arrived to balance the negative ways we have been living for years. It is not the end of the world as has been prophesized, but the world as we have known it has shifted and will continue to. The new consciousness will not tolerate a society of greed, environmental toxicity, and incorrect use of power and will be all about co-operation, sharing, community, and working together for the highest good of all. Many of the new children have come in to herald the changes and wake us up. Other than being mindful of your fearful thoughts and words, each one of us can spend more time in nature, meditate, start setting firmer boundaries in our lives and begin to truly acknowledge what magnificent beings we are. Start believing in your dreams even when the world around you seems to be crumbling. Balance your life in all areas and most importantly lighten up and have FUN!! Just know that each one of us signed up to be here in these times and we are here to make a difference. Hang in there and know that there is so much help in the physical and spiritual world. Just remember to reach out ask for assistance from your Guides and Angels and know that you are much loved and honored. Pamela Shelly is a Transformational Teacher of over 10 years and offers an Advanced Tools for Self-Mastery workshop and a Business Course for Wholistic Practitioners. Her passion is to assist you in discovering your unique gifts and abilities, move through your blocks and fulfill your Divine Life Purpose. |
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JOINTS by Wayne Still The human body is a marvelous assemblage of levers and a tensioning system to move and balance what is essentially an unstable moveable tower. The levers are bones, the tensioning system, muscles. Working within a connective tissue matrix which comes in various forms to hold the whole works together, they make up the musculo-skeletal structure of the body. In order for the body to move and maintain balance there have to be places in the structure where controlled bends can occur as the muscular tensioning system acts on the bony levers. A deliberate bendy bit in a structure is referred to as an articulation. In the body the articulations are further identified as the various joints; elbow, shoulder, hip and so on. Joints come in various configurations depending on their use in the body. The ball and socket of the hip and shoulder are probably the best known, but there are various other forms too numerous to list in this column. What all joints share is the binding system which keeps the components of the joint in place while allowing them to move. The binding system is mainly composed of ligaments which attach bone to bone. Ligaments are highly specialized connective tissues. The tissue is very tough and strong yet flexible enough to accommodate the normal range of motion of the joint. What ligaments are not is elastic. When a ligament is stretched beyond its normal range of motion it will tear; this is known as a sprain. Such injuries are very painful and slow to heal because the tissue is highly enervated but has little blood flow to it so nutrients for healing are not abundant.
Joints need to move so they are inherently the weak links in the bodys structure. Movement outside of their normal range of motion or misuse are obvious causes of malfunction. But joints only move when they are acted upon by their associated muscle systems. Muscles are mostly made up of another kind of specialized connective tissue called fascia. Fascia responds to stresses of all kinds by shortening. Chronic shortening of this tissue will result in the tissue adhering to itself and creating permanent adhesions. The shortening and adhesions affect the manner in which the muscle acts on the joint and can pull the articulation out of alignment.
The effectiveness of Structural Integration work lies in its ability to find and release adhesions in the fascial system thereby restoring the tissue to its normal length. Intervention by Structural Integration work early in an episode of joint pain can restore balance to the associated tissues. This will bring relief to the affected area in the short term and ensure its effective long term functioning.
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Feng Shui LOVES Spring -Jollean Mc Farlen micat csl Yes it's that wonderful time of the year when flowers start to bloom and we feel like we need to do something – hmmmmmmm guess what? ‘It's spring cleaning time' . Feng Shui means air and water - so what happens if you don't breathe or drink – I leave it up to YOU?
So first clean all your windows and allow the sunshine in to bring joyful spirits in ( eyes of the soul ). Study your plants do they need to be repotted, are dried leaves hanging around, maybe even dead plants – guess what – this means you haven't taken care of your inner child and soul; plants are breathing oxygen. Make sure your water fountain is cleaned and working, if you don't have one I suggest you get one as flowing water means flowing money in to ones surrounding. If money energy isn't what you want, no problem don't brother, for some reason I love the flow of money, being able to do what I want for my body, family, friends and home is a blessings, so I have two water fountains I check regularly. I give plants away if they aren't doing well to someone who wants them, or I plant them.
A friend of mine is having a clothes swap party. We all bring clothes we don't wear or need any more and see if someone else wants them, we model them if two people want the same article and judge who it suits the best) whatever is left goes to the women's shelter. We bring snacks, BYOB, laugh and enjoy the evening. Sounds like fun! Spring is a great time to shop for storage containers to hide items to present a clean organized space, (sale at London Drugs on storage containers and dollar stores are fun for shopping). Take time to write your goals. Treat yourself to flowers as they bring joyful colours into our environments, they create wonderful CHI energy into our life and represents wealth. So invite clear colours for health and vital energy in pillows, ornaments or freshly painted walls, treat yourself to new bedding in soft spring shades, blues or greens if you have an active lifestyle as they are more relaxing and healing. Enjoy and be grateful for all you have & share. - Blessings, Jollean Jollean is a Feng shui and Colour master/therapist. She is a winning decorator, visionary, and author of six books, CD'S, Quan Yin Inspiration cards. She is a director on Arts Council and HAAO member. Catch her programs at Parkinson rec centre in Kelowna. Check her web for all her latest programs & articles www.jadorecolour.com ph 250 448 5339
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From The Desk of Donna Roth www.donnaroth.com 250 764 2852 Success Stories September 2008 One lady was diagnosed with Glaucoma and she was very concerned about the building up of pressure to her eyes so when she was in town she came to visit Donna Roth. Her program consisted of a diet change with no sugar, no wheat , no yeast and with the following herbals: One lady complained about her fingers that were always cold to the point of being numb. She would have to put them in hot water to relieve the cold. She started on a program of 6 BP-C as a blood purifier, and 3 AD-C three times a day to enhance circulation to the extremities. Within just a couple of days she noticed a huge difference. Garry used to get up 2 to 3 times a night to go to the bathroom. He started taking Men's Formula 6 a day along with 2 scoops of Flax Hull Lignans . In a short time the night time bathroom trips ceased. One 82 year old man suffered from lack of energy , heart palpitations and he couldn't breathe well, He took 2 Iron with Vit C , 2 Hawthorn, and 2 IF-C for the inflammation in his knees. Within 3 weeks his haemoglobin went up from 7.5 to 10.5. His energy increased and the heart palpitations subsided. One young university student with low energy was feeling anxious all the time, she was not sleeping and she was not able to digest her foods. She was very worried and she made a decision to go off the sugars and the carbos and to take: One pregnant Mom was told that she was carrying a baby that would be born with Down's Syndrome and that the chances of the baby making it to birth was slim. She came to see Donna Roth for some herbal advise . LaDean Griffin in one of her books notably stated that if she could give every pregnant Mom Kelp there would not be any Mongolism or Down's Syndrome in this world. Consequently this mom was quite taken back by this information and agreed to follow a program of : One gentleman came to the advise of Donna Roth because he was suffering from lack of energy, insomnia, migraine headaches usually 3 a week , acid indigestion and a low immune system. He agreed to go on an herbal program :
Paw Paw: 4 per day. Many thanks to all who so willingly contributed their success stories so that others can be helped to a happier healthier life. Donna Roth is presently looking for business associates who are independent ,hard working , creative, honest , who have a heartfelt passion in helping others achieve a high standard of health and who want to receive a perpetual residual income. Please identify yourself if such a business appeals to you . kdroth@shaw.ca 250 764 2852 www.donnaroth.com
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Energy and Nutrition Through Quality by Design At its heart the natural supplement industry should be about health – your health. However in the minds of many the question arises “ Is the supplement industry really concerned about my health or is it all about the sales ?” As the supplement industry becomes more mainstream the market is flooded with individuals and companies wanting to capitalize on the next “big thing.” Consequently volumes of high tech advertisements today flood the market thereby leading the common mind to confusion and making it difficult to determine which products are the best. Your health is too important to be left to chance and there are few things to consider before purchasing supplements for the purpose of health enhancement. For example the coined term “ORAC which stands for Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity has within the last few years appeared as an important consideration when buying an antioxidant supplement. Many products on the market are sold because they claim a high ORAC value. The first question that needs to be asked when when it comes to the ORAC testing of a product, “Was this product tested by a well respected independent third party lab ?” Here are the ORAC values of three different antioxidant beverages that were recently tested by an independent lab, Brunswick Labs . Brand B 23,323 ORAC value, Brand X – 24,480 and Brand Z – 51, 939 ORAC value. As you can see the product of choice is of course Brand Z. However further studies show that ORAC testing is not nearly enough to deem an antioxidant product as valuable. HORAC values must also be considered. HORAC stands for Hydroxyl Radical Averting Capacity. A great antioxidant product must have both an ORAC and a HORAC value. Are all herbs with the same name of the same species? There is, for example a less expensive Valerian root that comes form India but it lacks the essential valerenic acid . Many of the herbs have 5 or 6 different species. A reputable herbal company will always use a “finger printing” method for determining the correct species. Remember the Chernobyl disaster that spewed out massive amounts of radiation into the atmosphere just a few years ago. Many plants were affected by this disaster and were deemed not fit for human consumption. Many companies miss the radiation testing for their products before putting them on the market. There is a serious misnomer out there that supplements have no research behind them. Not so! Dr. Mclaughlin spent over 20 years researching Paw Paw and its benefits for cancer. He published his results in the American Medical Journal. He also published a paper in the Journal of Agricultural Food Chemicals detailing the methods of determining various types of antioxidants present in Bilberry. Dr. Pedersen spent many years in his scientific studies through his aqua sol nanotechnology to determine the powerful antibiotic properties of his Silver Shield product for over 600 types of bacterial, viral, fungal infections including shingles, tetanus, malaria ,herpes, pneumonia, MRSA. To a reputable natural supplement industry quality is not just a “buzz” word but a standard by which it operates. And at its heart the industry must about health- your health ! Lynda Hammons, Vice President of Quality Control , Nature Sunshine will enlighten us all on how to recognize professional quality, service and integrity when she appears at the Ramada Inn in Kelowna on Tuesday, November 18 , 2008 at 6:30 pm. To register contact Donna Roth 250 764 2852 kdroth@shaw.ca
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Cancer, The Answer is Outside the Box There are times we are required to think outside the box. In ancient times it was strongly believed that the world was flat and that to believe otherwise was foolish. However the young courageous Christopher Columbus totally disregarded such a belief system and “in 1492 he sailed the ocean blue”, reached Americas and proved the world to be round. Let’s apply this analogy to cancer. Each year and for many years now, millions of dollars are donated to the medical establishment to fund cancer research and each year we are told that no cure for cancer has been found. Why, after so many years of dedicated research can scientists not find a cure for cancer? What if the answer to cancer exists outside the box of traditional orthodox methods? Let’s be bold and courageous and explore cancer outside the box. We know that the most common early warning signs of cancer are unexplained persistent bleeding, injuries that do not heal and sudden changes in moles or other growths. These observations point to the plausible conclusion that an injury is involved in cancer. The findings that cancer starts from an injury is documented in Ron Gdansky’s well researched book, Cancer,Cause,Cure, and Cover-up. Now this injury, this break in the membrane of say the lungs, colon, breast, prostate, lymphatic system, and so on may be due to nutritional deficiencies, chemical toxins, viral growths, physical injuries ( Dr. Zeigler), emotional injuries ( Dr. Hamer) or parasites. The natural body’s response to any injury is to repair the injury. Therefore the brain sets up an electrical energy response, a“current of injury” (term used by Ron Gdansky), and sends it along the autonomic nervous system to the injured site to initiate the stem cells into the action of cell replication. In a healthy body stem cells multiply to repair the injury and stop multiplying when the injury is repaired. Out –of –control replication occurs when the new cells fail to connect with the old cells to repair the injury. Why are these replicated new cells rejected? Two reasons come to mind. Firstly, in order for healthy cell replication to occur it is imperative that the cells be provided with the essential building blocks. Such building blocks familiar to all of us include amino acids from proteins, minerals, vitamins, essential fatty acids, enzymes and oxygen. Agricultural practices have depleted our soils so significantly that many of these essentials are missing in our foods. Consequently healthy cell replication cannot take place. Secondly, if a weakened lymphatic system is unable to cleanse the injured area of toxins and is unable to return the trapped blood plasma proteins back into the blood stream then inflammation occurs thereby hindering the process of oxidation. Once the oxygen levels drop to below 35%( Dr. Otto Warburg) and there is an adequate availability of glucose then fungal DNA integrates into the stem cell line during the process of cell replication thereby giving birth to part human, part fungal cells which of course are rejected by the original injured membrane cells. Consequently the injury is not repaired. The “current of injury” continues with mutated cell replication and the result is cancer. Understanding this concept it is easy to see a simple solution to a complex medical problem. First of all it is important to stop feeding the cancer cells with sugar. In 1931 Otto Warburg received a Nobel Prize when he proved that lack of oxygen and fermentation of sugar causes cancer. Second, it is obvious that the body requires essential building blocks particularly minerals, enzymes, and essential fatty acids for healthy cell replication. Because of our toxic agricultural practices it is necessary to supplement the diet with quality-controlled nutrients from a reputable source to ensure purity. It is important to note that stem cell enhancement takes place when there is enough Silver in the blood stream (Dr. R.O. Becker) . Silver Shield with 10 years of research by Dr. Pedersen is the answer here. The other step to the cancer solution is to cleanse the microbial infestation. This can easily be accomplished by using Protease Enzymes and the herb known as Paw Paw, which claims 22 years of research from Purdue University, by Dr. McLaughlin et al. The American National Cancer Institute funded this research and today it is being used quite successfully in some cancer clinics in the US. Paw Paw and its knowledge is now available in Canada and there have been courageous Christopher Columbuses who have looked for the answer to cancer outside the box and today are cancer free. Practical Solution to the Cancer Injury Manual by Donna Roth BA, BEd, www.donnaroth.com
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Do You Have a Plan for Your life? In 1970, Duke University surveyed 1600 students, with the following results: Of the 1600, only 350 indicated they had a 5-year plan in place for their life. Only 117 of these had their plan written down. Of these, only 60 carried their plan with them regularly. In 1990, Duke did a follow-up study of those students still available, with the following results: The 60 students with the written plan that they carried with them regularly earned more money than the other 1540 combined. The divorce rate among the 60 was 1 in 10 vs 1 in 3 for the others. There were 400% fewer heart attacks among the group of 60 then the others. 75% of the 60 reported that they were happy with their career vs 27% of the others. The psychologist who shared this information made this comment: No plan = no life. Donna Roth says: No Plan = No health Do you have a written plan for your health?
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Gary’s Intestinal Cancer Success Story Gary had been cancer free since 2004 after following the Paw Paw program. Yet one day in October of 2007 he ended up with excruciating writhing pain and with great difficulty he drove himself to the hospital. Upon examination the doctor decided that an emergency surgery would be necessary. During the surgery the doctor discovered a cancerous tumour blocking the intestinal tract. He removed the tumour successfully . However Gary was told that there were definite cancerous areas in the small intestine and that chemotherapy would be an essential treatment. Without hesitation Gary refused the conventional medical treatments and he was told that he had just signed his own death sentence. Gary chose ,instead, to follow the Paw Paw program the second time round as he had done the first time. If the Paw Paw program worked the first time to clear up throat and lung cancer then surely it would work to clear up intestinal cancer. When Gary came to see Donna Roth for some herbal advise Donna was curious to find out what had triggered the growth of cancer. What she discovered came as a shock. Three weeks previous to the cancer diagnosis Gary had gone to have some dental work done. He was advised to take antibiotics which he did for the prescribed 10 days. Within 3 weeks cancer had developed in the small intestine. It was at this point that Donna discovered that antibiotics is a contributing factor to cancer in that it causes of dysbiosis ,a condition that results after the intestines are robbed of friendly bacteria and fungal infections can readily take over. Gary chose to follow the Paw Paw program using the following: Paw Paw about 12 a day
Within 4 months a Cat Scan showed that there was no more cancer in the intestinal tract. As of August 2008 Garry is cancer free.
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The Gift of Letting Go ~
By Virginia Preston, BA Psych, RYT – 500 Hr. The theme for this year’s Eating Disorders Awareness Week in February was ‘Celebrating Our Natural Sizes’. With the warm weather and the seasonal unveiling of the body just around the corner, it seems timely to re-consider this topic. You may find yourself reading this and asking with frustration, ‘How can I accept something that I wish was another way?!’ Won’t accepting myself as I am only lead to more of what I don’t want? Isn’t the path to self-control and ‘change’ found in resistance to how I am, and a certain amount of self-punishment? Isn’t that the necessary ‘motivation’ for change? The answers are: No, No and No (!) Sadly, our argument with reality (as we perceive it) only fuels the fire of suffering and resentment toward ourselves and our bodies. It leads nowhere. If ‘resisting’ ourselves was adequate to solve our problems, we’d all have been problem-free a long time ago. Counter-intuitive though it may seem, the end of self-denial and the path of all healing is found in the acceptance of things the way they are right now. Acceptance doesn’t mean no room for development or change, but it does mean giving up the tactic of waiting until ‘I’m good enough/thin enough’ or some other future moment, to experience peace. It means becoming aware of the mind’s strategy of delaying peace until…Until when? Until what? So, whether it’s our weight and body image we struggle with, or some other life concern, the path to freedom lies in opening the mind to things as they actually are, not as we think they ‘should’ be. Our minds perceive reality via multitudes of filters, most of them conditioned by societal standards of some kind. Until we relax our hold on these concepts of who we are and how we should be/look, we are only living a half-life…often feeling anxious and dissatisfied without knowing why. We mis-attribute the source of our suffering to all kinds of causes; our bodies, our jobs, our partners, our kids, our finances, etc. without truly investigating whether these things are actually to blame. When we begin to explore and heal the mind, we are no longer dominated by our (mis)perceptions. Issues that seemed insurmountable find resolution easily and naturally. So, by allowing things to be as they are we begin to see more clearly what action, if any, is required in a situation. The relevant questions become, ‘Could I allow my body to be exactly as it is right now?’ ‘Could I allow myself to be as I am, just for this moment?’ ‘Could I let of wanting my life to be different?’ Try it. I guarantee that this approach will yield much more of what you really want! * Virginia Preston, BA Psych, RYT – 500 Hr. is a Kelowna-based yoga teacher and intuitive. She honors and celebrates the journey of women from inner conflict to peace, and passionately supports those who wish to give themselves this gift. |
History of Paw Paw by Donna Roth In 1972 President Nixon declared a war on cancer and it was in 1973 that Dr. Jerry McLaughlin Ph. D. professor at Purdue University received his first grant to work on cancer. His purpose was to look at plants for anticancer compounds. Along with two other professors at Purdue University, Dr. McLaughlin did extensive studies on more than 3500 species of plants and out of those 3500 species, the North American Paw Paw tree, Asimina Triloba , proved to be the best. Over 50 compounds were isolated from the Paw Paw tree and that group of compounds are called annonaceous aceteogenins. From 1973 until 2002 Dr. Mc Laughlin and his team worked tirelessly to see through his big Paw Paw project. The Paw Paw tree grows in the eastern United States. Its fruit is called Indiana Banana. Paw Paw has been in the health field since 1898 when the pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly sold an extract of Paw Paw as an emetic. It is the twigs of the Paw Paw tree that contain the most potent active acetogenins which are powerful anti-tumor compounds. According to Dr. McLaughlin, it is crucial to collect the twigs in May as May is the month of the year when the Paw Paw twigs are most potent. Other months of the year proved the twigs to lack potency. It was also discovered that from one tree to the next the biological potency and the biological activity can vary by a 1000 times. In order for the acetogenins in the Paw Paw to be of any value to cancer, a standardization procedure is essential. Dr. McLaughlin isolated at least 400 acetogenins during his scientific research. Acetogenins are long chain fatty acids, about 35 – 37 carbon atoms long and they have some very very powerful effects on cancer, says Dr. Duarte. Dr. McLaughlin’s team worked on over 50 of these isolated acetogenins on spectrographs and found that some of them will attack specific cancers, but he felt the entire array of natural acetogenins should be used together synergistically. Consequently, the capsulated Paw Paw is in its natural state in the form of a standardized extract. The Abbott study at the Wayne State University showed that compared to adriamyacin, a common chemotherapeutic agent some of these acetogenins in Paw Paw are almost a million times more powerful than adriamyacin in killing mice leukemia and lung cancer. The Upjohn animal study in 1993 which cost $66,000 proved Paw Paw to be 300 times more potent than Taxol, a type of anti-cancer agent. This study was done on mice that have no thymus gland and no T-cells. To quote Dr. McLaughlin’s study: “The T-cells recognize foreign material and help to reject cancer, so these mice cannot reject a tumor, and they cannot reject a tumor that’s a human tumor that you’d plant under their skin. So you can plant a human tumor under their skin and the tumor will grow and eventually in about 60 days it will overtake the mouse and kill him. But these results are for 10 day studies, and if you look at the bottom you’ll see cisplatin which is a very nasty alkylating agent, a type of anticancer agent, you can see – that is actually a drug of choice for human ovarian cancer – this is Gilda Radner cancer – so we took this type of cancer, planted it under the skin of these mice and in 10 days we had a 78% tumor growth inhibition vs controls with cisplatin. And those mice lost about 5% of their body weight, so cisplatin is not a very pleasant thing – the mice were obviously sick, they weren’t eating right. But if we look at the compound right above cisplatin, the compound called bulatolucin, that compound from Paw Paw causes 75% tumor growth inhibition, almost like 78% caused by cistplatin and less weight loss than the control gave us….. These are very impressive results in animal studies. This work was done on 1993, so it’s 10 years ago that we did this and I’ve been struggling trying to get people to recognize this ever since. This was published in the Life Sciences journal in 1993.” Since 1993, Dr. McLaughlin tried to turn all his impressive researched studies on Paw Paw and cancer back to the National Cancer Institute but to no avail. He therefore, turned all of the Purdue University scientific studies and patents of extraction to Nature’s Sunshine. “We wrote a patent last fall for the preparation and testing and clinical results for the extract, which combines all of these compounds. So all of this has been protected so no one else can offer this product.” According to Dr. McLaughlin, there are other companies who put his name on their website and they quote his results with a product called Graviola, also known as Brazilian Paw Paw. But this plant has the single ring compounds instead of double ring compounds. “They’re much much less potent than the Paw Paw compounds are and besides, there’s no standardization of that product.” Says Dr. McLaughlin. |
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ANATOMY One of my great fears when I decided to reinvent myself from an organic orchardist to a bodyworker was that I would not be able to learn and understand the anatomy of the human body. The mystery of what lay beneath the skin was something that had sometimes intrigued me but it seemed far too complicated and was described in a language which seemed to be mostly incomprehensible. When I began my training at the Guild for Structural Integration (www.rolfguild.org) I was immediately up to here in anatomy books and skeletons. Fortunately the teacher was a cheerful, upbeat ex-emergency room nurse who loved anatomy and knew her subject backwards. She made the subject come alive in a way that was interesting and non-intimidating. After a couple of days I realized that I was learning a new language and culture, something I had a fair bit of experience in doing from a former life on the road. Amazingly enough at the end of two weeks I had a working knowledge of the bodys bony and soft tissue structure as it pertains to Structural Integration work. That knowledge has served me well in the intervening years as I have practiced SI work and learned to differentiate the various structures my hands encounter. The next challenge to learning anatomy came when I started to learn Visceral Manipulation with Jeffery Burch (www.jefferyburch.com). Now we were delving into the mysteries of the abdominal cavity with its resident organs, their functions and relationships to one another. Since the organs are all suspended in one way or another from the spine, rib cage and pelvic bowl, imbalances in their suspensory ligaments and membranes can have a negative impact on the integrity of the skeletal system. We learned to palpate the organs and to treat abnormalities we found but there was always a layer of skin in the way so we couldn’t see what we were touching. This of course in a living body is as it should be. Enter the fourth DVD in Gil Hedleys Integral Anatomy Series (www.gilhedley.com) of dissections of human bodies. This DVD deals with the contents of the abdominal cavity known as viscera in a visual way which removed the mystery of the relationships among the organs. When I could actually see the folds of the membranes along with the ligamentous attachments it became clear to me how these relationships could torque the body in such a way that unless adhesions in the viscera were released no amount of work on the musculo-skeletal structure would restore it to its proper balance. Besides the structural component of the viscera the video describes some of the function of the system. Of particular interest was the form and suspensory system of the small intestine. Its loops take on a fissured appearance very reminiscent of the appearance of the brain. This is not such a coincidence as the enteric nervous system or brain of the belly is found in its suspensory system known as the mesentery. In this system of membranes which supplies the small intestine with arterial blood and through the venous system extracts nutrients are found more neurons than in the spinal cord. Next time you have a “gut” feeling about something, pay attention. The intelligence which controls your life support system is talking to you!! |
Chi is the vital energy that moves around our surroundings; clutter causes illness, anxiety, mistakes, and lack of clarity, unbalanced relationships, and blockage for money and clients. How you live affects your work for everyone in the household no matter where they work, study, or play even if it's miles away. 
Most of all get rid of clutter, (clutter are items you haven't used in six months or items that don't suit your lifestyle ) remember this is 2009 = 11 a master year so we need to let go of the old to welcome the new energies in - this includes family and pets. Make sure all doorways, steps and halls are clear and easy to move around in, ( relates to easy movement in life ). East i s our most dangerous direction for 2009 until Feb 1 st 2010 so keep area especially tidy, hang wind chimes - hallow ones, perfect area for water feature, Buddha, salt lamp with I-Ching coins under ( 12 for heavenly luck )swimming fish are also great for movement.