Help for Common Complaints
More than 100 techniques and endless permutations of adjustments and thrusts can be used to help bring the body back into alignment and health.
Filed under: Healing Ways, October 2012 | Tagged: adjustments, alignment, chiropractic, chiropractor, health | Leave a Comment »
Studies Show Improved Well-being
Regular practitioners experienced higher levels of well-being, improved cognitive functioning and less inflammation.
Filed under: April 2012, Healing Ways | Tagged: cancer, cognitive functioning, health, inflammation, medicine, mental-health, Qi Gong, Qigong, research, science, well-being | Leave a Comment »
Make Prevention a Daily Habit
For some women, the thought of breast cancer elicits fears related to body image, surgery and mortality. It has likely affected every woman in this country, either through the trauma of personal experience or through another’s trials.
According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), some 207,000 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed in U.S. women this year. Despite this staggering number, there is good news.
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Instrument of Healing
We all feel drawn by enticing creative projects we’d like to try. Now we know why…
Mounting scientific evidence makes it clear that personal creative expression, once perceived as a luxury, sideline or hobby in our busy lives, is in fact a keystone of our most healthy and worthwhile activities. In infinitely varied and pleasurable forms, creative practices can move us beyond artful living to also serve as a vehicle for healing.
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Ayurveda means the “Science of Life,” a holistic view of keeping
our bodies in balance by combining applied principles of yoga, meditation and diet.
It’s no secret that individuals who adopt unconscious ways to escape from stress and conflict can often become victims of their own self-destructive habits and behavioral patterns. “Conflict creates stress and addictions, like [to] alcohol, food, work, sex and drugs,” says Yogi Amrit Desai, founder of Kripalu Yoga. “Addictions are antidotes that provide a temporary escape from the stress-producing, conflict-creating reactions you have about what you are doing, where you are going and who you are with. Addiction, which is only an effect, occurs when you continue to use inappropriate external resources to reduce stress and restore a sense of balance, while failing to resolve the cause of the stress hidden in the unconscious.”
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Because trees are larger and older than we can ever hope to be; because they 
provide shade, food, medicines, furniture, wood for musical instruments, fuel, paper, shelter, recreation and space to commune with nature; and because they stretch from Earth to heaven, trees have been revered since before recorded time. Even with today’s technology, we still rely daily upon all of their products and we need trees to help counteract global warming and protect the planet.
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The ancient healing practice of massage therapy is playing an important role today in the emerging golden age of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Surprisingly, it remains comparatively underrepresented in U.S. medical school curricula while Massage Today reports that “Insurance reimbursement for massage therapy is at an all-time high.”
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