In Part One, (September 10, 2019), we presented healthful breakfast and snack ideas. In this Part Two you will find main meal, dessert, and light meal suggestions. Always keep in mind that it is necessary to plan ahead each day, when you will actually start to prepare a meal. Waiting until you are starving, ready to devour the kitchen counter, is a prescription for: “It’s too late now,” and resorting to an unhealthy option. Remember also that a well-stocked kitchen, with a variety of ingredients from all food groups (whole foods, that is, not the processed stuff), and shopping once … Continue Reading →

Can quantum physics help explain why ancient healing methods work? How do light waves and wave-particle duality explain Reiki, Quigong and the placebo effect?

The article link below explains the development of quantum physics, and the links between these theories and ancient healing modalities.

Learn how you fit into the equation!

Article Link: Traditional Healing Meets Modern Science by Teresa Tsalaky

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If you have resolved to improve your eating habits, you may be at a loss as to what constitutes well-balanced healthful meals. In this two-part series we will present easy-to-digest information how to construct menus for quick, nutritious, inexpensive, filling, and delicious meals at home!

Healthy eating is not possible without planning when you will actually begin to prepare a meal, just as you schedule a hair appointment or a meeting. After a few weeks of doing so, it’ll feel completely natural – as in “why haven’t I done this before?”

Some cookbooks and food magazines will tell you that … Continue Reading →

How many of the acupressure points to relieve headaches do you know?

In the video below learn several of these acupressure points for relieving headaches. Some also help with mental stress, uptightness, frustration, irritability, neck stiffness, and fibromyalgia.

Be alert to the benefits when energy is flowing through your body.

Video Link: Headache & Pain Acupressure Points with Michael Reed Gach, PhD

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1. Basic Heart-Centered Breathing
One of my goals in writing Freedom from Anxiety is to help readers develop confidence allowing the heart to guide their decisions and actions, i.e., that they feel secure knowing their connection with intuition is a wise one. This series of exercises helps people to center in their hearts, facilitating improved communication between the heart and the mind. This is one way we can cultivate a “wise heart and a loving mind.”

The simplest form of heart-centered breathing is a variation of basic awareness of breath. It is very helpful for agitation. Begin with basic breath … Continue Reading →

The gluten free diet has become very popular for many people.  For people who must follow a gluten free regime for life because of a medical condition, gluten avoidance goes beyond merely choosing foods known to be gluten free. One needs to be extra vigilant about avoiding all sources of gluten.

The article link below provides you with a list of hidden gluten sources which can cross contaminate safe and otherwise gluten free foods.

Most diseases are the result of how we handle stress and treat other people. Unfortunately, the current failing health care system in the USA just treats the symptoms of created imbalances.

In the video link below learn why, if we address stress, anxiety, and relationships, 80-90{c37feec9338c827ad950f3b0a101c2ad48bf3fbfd6958af2f5b6de3a9bfd49bf} of our illnesses would disappear.

Video Link: Health Care Issues in USA with Emmett Miller, MD

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Are you the caregiver feeling frustrated, overwhelmed or over-extended by the person or situation you are responsible for? Is your own wellness on the line here? OR Are you the person requiring the medical assistance or medical nurturing?The article link below provides you questions to ask yourself and your caregiver to really evaluation your present situation. Just because a situation seems helpless now does not mean it needs to stay that way.

We all have the ability to make changes and choices that are good and healthy for us. The time to start discovering that is now. You can do … Continue Reading →

People need to, as much as possible, stay away from soybean oil and canola and cottonseed oils.  Cottonseed is particularly harmful because cotton is a plant that is not considered to be a food. However, cottonseed is used frequently in many processed and prepackaged foods, because the oil is considered a food, and because it is cheap to grow and maintain. Since it is not a food crop, growers spray all kinds of pesticides and herbicides on it that are illegal for food crops.  It has even more toxins in it than typical soy and canola oils so I … Continue Reading →

Eating pears can promote digestive health.

In the video link below learn not only the digestive benefits of pears, but other benefits such as vitamins and copper.

Video Link: Pears with Karen Roth, MS, CNC

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