Counterstrain for Sore MusclesThere is a technique that is gentle, easy to perform and effective for sore muscles. This short summary is borrowed from traditional osteopathy, but can be used by anyone. Run your fingers along the length of your sore muscle. For example, if the back and side of your neck is sore, run your fingers from behind your ear down to the top of your shoulder. This step is so that you can know and picture in your mind which muscle you will be shortening. Try to locate and memorize the exact location of the most sore spot along the sore muscle. Now, trying not to use that muscle at all, with both hands, place yourself in such a position that the sore muscle is as short as possible (the opposite of stretching that muscle). For example, if the right side of your neck is sore, you will position your head to the right. You may need to lie down or use furniture as a prop to be able to keep this muscle completely relaxed. You can shorten the muscle by basically curling yourself around it. Still not using the sore muscle, use your hands or prop to maintain yourself in the same position to keep the sore muscle shortened. Make slight adjustments (forward, back, left, right, etc.) until the point that was sore now feels the best possible. Now hold that position for 90 seconds, again not using or tensing the sore muscle, just placing yourself in position with your hands. At the end of 90 seconds use only your hands to gently reposition yourself to normal. Now press the sore point again. If it is 70% improved or better, you have done good Counterstrain. It may take a whole day to really feel improved. The way Counterstrain works is that it relaxes the muscle sufficiently to allow a spasm or tightness in the muscle to loosen by itself. If you get some relief but not enough, try it again in a slightly modified position. You have only 90 seconds to lose. nwnwnwnwnwnwnwnwnwnwnw The quest for inexpensive organic produceDid you know that organic food in the Phoenix area may be had for about $1.00 per pound? For several years now, Tamara Berenberg of Ahwatukee Produce has been providing straight-off-the-farm, fresh in-season and year-round variety organic produce to her customers. Each week's basket contains about 20 different kinds of fruits and vegetables. Tamara can be reached at organics@amerion.com |
Food Solutions for Medical ProblemsWhen it comes to medical problems most people tend to think of hospitals, doctor's offices, prescriptions for drugs. However, naturopathic physicians have found that the most effective tools of healing are the food that you eat. If it is true that "you are what you eat," and that your body's cells entirely turn over every few months, then what you will be and how you will feel a few months from now has everything to do with what you eat and what you don't eat between now and that time. Indeed, naturopathic physicians find that it takes people even less than that amount of time to start feeling wonderful. From babies to senior citizens, people who start eating better feel way better beginning on the first or second day, with dramatic improvements still over the first few weeks, and maintained wellbeing after that. Cravings for unhealthy food can be eliminated, and your ND can help you with that. There are people who live in states that don't license naturopathic physicians who fly great distances so that they can see a naturopathic physician who helped them in the past, or to bring in their loved ones for naturopathic treatment. Many Americans believe that illness or pain is so strong that it must be slammed down with a strong drug. It would amaze most people to know that naturopathic physicians get far more complete and permanent results with their patients by convincing them to improve what they eat, and by creating together with the patient an eating plan that the patient is willing to try. The night-and-day difference of good food versus bad food is really not so amazing when you consider that the molecules of whole healthy food are so much more similar to the molecules of our own bodies than are drugs. This is why they heal us like nothing else can. nwnwnwnwnwnwnwnwnwnwnw Did you ever wish for a physician who learned in medical school:
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GUEST OPINIONCommon Sense and Decency Rule 1: Don't Poison Anyone
by M. P. Robertson
It seems to be apparent to everyone that instantly lethal poisons should not be used under any circumstances, should not be in the food chain, or contained in medical treatments or be left lying around. To me it seems reasonable to also urge that small amounts of poison, i.e. those that allow continued life, but at diminished quality, should likewise be avoided. Why, then, are pesticides, volatile organic compounds, formaldehyde, solvents, flame retardants, brain-damaging metals and toxic vaccines then freely available to anyone, and because of their ubiquity, forced on almost everyone, especially small children? (Children playing on almost any surface stay close to the first five substances, and are coerced to have the last two.) Then we wonder why they're so much sicker than we were at that age. A popular brain fart goes something like, "I am not allowed to consider conspiracy theories, because although we admire critical thinking, it is forbidden when considering events that smell conspiratorial in nature, since conspiracies cannot possibly exist." Another variation of this is, "Only terrorists are clever enough to conspire." At the risk of saying something unpopular, I really shouldn't and mustn't say what I'm going to say, but heck, I'll say it anyway: Living a long life at diminished quality of health makes one a very long and reliable consumer of pharmaceutical products, and in fact, the average American gets one prescription filled every month and lives to their seventies. In other words, if you hang around for decades, in a condition of mildly to moderately sick, you are probably going to consume an enormous amount of pharmaceuticals in order to alleviate your symptoms. Now you could think of this as a conspiracy, or you could think of this as really effective marketing. If I were simply warding off the evil pertussis spirits. They are the initiation rite to the drug-dependent society and thereby fuel the largest industry in the world. You don't have to call it a conspiracy, if you don't like that word, just clever marketing.
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