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Opening the Heart After Death
Five days after the death of Malana I wrote that time would tell as to how her life and death has impacted my life. This Sunday will mark 40 days from her death and her influence is starting to shine.
I felt my heart open in new ways to the people around me. Something that was so painful and personal became an inspiration. A new project was born. Love has always been a focus of mine. I have always lived through my heart. Through the years, many people asked me to explain unconditional love. I watched people shut down their heart because of personal pain and the fear of being hurt again.
Through all my pain and grieving, I was surprised to find that I began to love even more openly. The healing that came from loving more was incredible and very unexpected. All the years of working with emotional release with my clients in clinic began to flow into a book form. I finally understood how to take a great tragedy and turn it into a blessing. I found the road from grief to love.
The new book is titled, How To Love. This book will be the new survival guide to healing through love. For sneak peeks into my book and release dates click here.
My Walk with Death and Grieving
When my youngest son was born with cancer 8 years ago, we were successful in strengthening his body naturally. After his body was strong, I reflected back and felt that if he had died, I would have understood there was a greater plan. I felt I could have taken his death in stride. I understand there is a greater plan in life; a plan that is much greater than we can ever begin to understand.
Facing an unexpected pregnancy at the age of 36, it took me awhile to come to terms with this change in my life. I held out so much hope for this pregnancy and this new family that was being created. I had never felt energy or a spirit like this little girl I was carrying. She seemed to be teaching me so much more than I was teaching her. The pregnancy was an emotional rollercoaster, but I always felt soothed by her. I felt like it was her and I against the world. We had a very special bond.
The Wednesday morning of my 41st week, her dad and I were able to share an especially beautiful moment. He wasn’t in a hurry to rush off to work and I didn’t have a doctor’s appointment until late morning. We just enjoyed the baby, telling her how much we couldn’t wait to meet her. On the way to my doctor’s appointment, I felt her twirl and roll. I talked to her and told her how much I loved her. She then passed from this earthly plan into the spirit realms. No fetal heart tones were detected at my appointment. I went into labor and delivered her naturally 8 hours later. When I was in the pushing stage, I didn’t think I could do it; I didn’t think I could face the fact that my beautiful baby had died. After she was born, I felt such deep sorrow; something I had never felt to that degree before.
Her dad and I stayed with her and held her for 4 hours. In this time, we watched her body break down. It was incredibly hard. And saying goodbye to this perfect, tiny, beautiful angel one final time before she was sent to the morgue was the hardest of all.
I have been on a rollercoaster of emotions. It has been 5 days since she passed. I can now say that I wouldn’t have taken the death of any of my children in stride. I know there is a larger picture. I know her creation and death serves a purpose far greater than I can understand. My spirituality keeps me from worrying about her or about the unknown after death. However, my human side grieves the physical loss. I miss her energy. It’s like there is a big part of me missing. She helped me through so many hard times. She left me in a place, surround by people brought into my life because of her, where I am not alone. She enriched my life in incredible ways in the 10 months that I carried her. In honoring her reasons for coming here, I know I have to pick up my life and see what the next phase unveils. I will slowly see in time where the imprint of her life has impacted the future. For now I concentrate on moving forward a little each day.
Mayan 2012: The End, a Beginning, or Something Else?
Many people wonder what the Mayan December 2012 date will bring. Some people believe this will be the end of the world because they believe this is where the Mayan calendar ends. Some people believe there will be a great ascension and spiritual enlightenment that occurs, and yet others believe the date is total hocus pocus.
There have been many misinterpretations and mistranslations of the Mayan calendar. The Mayan calendar does not end on December 21, 2012. What does end is a long 5,200 year cycle. Each 5,200 year cycle is broken up into smaller 400 year patterns and yet smaller cycles within those 400 years. A new 5,200 year cycle begins on December 21, 2012. The next 400 years, within the 5,200 cycle, is the one that offers the most hope to human kind. This next coming cycle is when the Job Ajaw or the 5th Sun occurs.
Job Ajaw begins a time of peace, harmony, and understanding. In the past, both male and female energies have found a rise in power over the other and have been dominant at different times. The Job Ajaw brings a harmony and equality to male and female energies. Both male and females will experience equality with the other gender. The thought that Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus will no longer apply. Each gender will be able to communicate and understand the other. We will be more similar than different in thought and spirit. But to reach this period of peace, harmony, and understanding there needs to be a breakdown and purification of the illusion; of the old ways.
September 22, 2010 marks the end of the time known as The Purification. The Purification was defined with plagues, resistant health issues, natural disasters, and the downfall of corruption on a large level. The time frame from September 23, 2010 to December 20, 2012 is known as The Definition. The Definition is where we, as humans, need to put our focus. There is an urgency to change before this time comes to pass. This will be the time that a great amount of the population will die off if we cannot change how we act and think. I rarely tell people what they need with so much certainty. I believe we all walk individual paths, but we are in a time where individuality needs to be replaced with a focus on the whole. We all need to take responsibility for our thoughts, actions, and for all life on this planet. We need to love and nurture each other, no matter how different we are. We need to recognize that the planet we live on is a living, spiritual being. We need to seek truth, love, and unity no matter how much that collides with everything we have known to be true because of the illusion we live in. If we remain selfish, uncaring, polarized, and self absorbed there will not be a great number of us that will live to experience the Job Ajaw.
The people that do not move fully and unreserved towards enlightenment, unity, and peace will be part of the old illusion that gets wiped away to make room for the new. People can no longer walk with one foot in the spiritual realm and one foot in the world of illusion and lies; a time of decision has come and people need to take responsibility for their choice.
Time and energy overlap. The Job Ajaw is starting to be felt now as we are also feeling the destruction of The Purification and The Definition. Just as December 21, 2012 will usher in a new era, we will still feel the effects of The Definition as the energies overlap. The energy of The Definition will become less as the unity, harmony, understanding, and peace begin to strengthen and become more prominent. December 21, 2012 marks the point where the scales tip to the side of spiritual grace and a new way of thinking and acting.
The 2012 time marks both and ending and a beginning, not only with the Mayan calendar, but also with humanity and all life on this planet. It’s time to take a hard look at yourself. What choice are you going to make?
My Spiritual Pilgrimage to El Santuario de Chimayó
I often feel the need for spiritual pilgrimages. When I feel like I am becoming too imbalanced from day to day life and problems, there is a part of me that seeks a restorer. I have been blessed with the ability to disappear and go seek what it is that I need, no matter where that may be. I have traveled to other countries to seek spiritual balancing.
A spiritual pilgrimage is my own quest for truth, rebalancing, reviving, and personal evolution. This is a time where I can nurture my spirituality. I am not surrounded by many people who share the same spiritual views as I do and there is nothing more important to me than my spirituality. The people most intimately in my life have completely different beliefs. I am not mainstream. My views are not dependant on a religion or on religious teachings, but appears to parallel many religious and spiritual beliefs without prior instruction. My views come from what was and continues to be placed in my heart. My views are simple: love, peace, unity and the fact that we are all connected. Each one of our thoughts and actions affects the whole. This is similar to the butterfly effect. The flutter of butterfly wings; such a seemingly innocent act, yet do we know if that is not the catalyst that causes the tidal wave across the world?
One of my recent spiritual pilgrimages took me to New Mexico, where I found el Santuario de Chimayó. There is something very special about the town of Chimayó. The town name is derived from Tsi-Mayoh, the Tewa Indian name for one of four sacred hills that soar above the valley and mark the cardinal directions. This town, nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, is located in the fertile valley of the Holy Cross River. Chimayó is home to two famous churches that are the source of constant healing pilgrimages. My focus was the Santuario de Chimayó, also known as the Lourdes of America. This is a little church famous for spontaneous healings. Stepping onto the land where the church resides, the energy is apparent. This is an attractive spot for people in the physical and spirit. Being inside the church, there is a feeling of reverence. Statues and pictures of Jesus on the cross are abundant. In 1814, a man named El Potrero discovered a crucifix buried near the place where people freely gathered the magical healing dirt. Every time the crucifix was removed, it was mysteriously returned to the same spot originally found. The church was then constructed on that site. No matter where your belief is about Jesus and the cross, there is an energy that calls for reverence surrounding these images.
Walking through the rooms, discarded crutches from people that experienced spontaneous healing line the walls. The holy dirt in the far back room is where many healings take place. While it is said that the red dirt in this room never runs out, it is common knowledge from the locals that the dirt is brought in from the mountain and blessed to replenish the room. This does not appear to detract from the power of belief in people experiencing healings. While I am not sure that I experienced any apparent healing, and not all people do, I do feel stronger in who I am, maybe that is a healing all on it’s own.
I will end this with a saying displayed on a wall of the church,
“If you are a stranger, if you are weary from the struggles in life, whether you have a handicap, whether you have a broken heart, follow the long mountain road, find a home in Chimayó.”
Why Do People on a Spiritual Path Go Through More Dark Nights of the Soul Than Anyone Else?
People erroneously believe that once they decide to walk the spiritual path, they will be greeted with rainbow and roses. They believe they will no longer be lonely, will achieve bliss, happiness, and an easy life. Little do these spiritual warriors know that this path is actually an uphill battle.
The spiritual journey is a very individual journey. Not only does this path take courage, but a great deal of inner strength and tenacity. You find that the further you are on the spiritual road, the less people you see on your path. Gurus and teachers eventually fade to the background. There is a point that you realize you are alone. This loneliness is a choice you have made. When you are in the matrix, living the illusion, you are alone but by default, not by choice. You feel that the people surrounding you should be there for you. Once you make the choice to take the spiritual road, you make the choice knowing you are taking a personal journey alone. While you are alone, there is a point on your path that you realize everything exists inside of you and you impact the whole in a beautiful way.
The dark nights of the soul come from the challenge to everything you have been taught or think should be true. We fight to hold on to the illusion, even though we know we want something real. Once we can see the true reality instead of what we want to see, there is a period of adjustment we must go through. Our thoughts and beliefs are not only held in our brain but in every cell and organ in our body. Several belief systems are often tied to one thought or illusion. The breakdown of these illusions can be traumatizing to the body and to our emotional state. We experience a grieving and a loss for the comfort of our illusions. We step into the unknown.
I have often felt like I am walking and suddenly I enter a fog. I know the terrain is mountainous, and I stand at what I fear is the edge of a great drop off. I’m not sure if there is a drop off, but I feel scared. If I take a step with the thought that there is solid ground and I fall, I will die. If I never take the step, I’ll be stuck in the same spot forever or worse, go back and relive my history.
Not all is unpleasant on a spiritual path. New ideas, wisdom, and beauty open to us. We see things we never thought were possible. We meet people, if only fleetingly, that are incredibly special and pure. Because we grew up in the illusion and still walk in physical form, the illusion and people living in the illusion will always be there to try to pull us back in. You will experience setbacks, questioning, and general bumps in the road. Because we have seen the beauty and glory on our spiritual path, the illusionary matrix becomes more difficult to live in. As we open ourselves to the beauty of the divine, we often find we are much more sensitive in the physical. All of the sudden we can feel the pain and suffering in the souls of other people, even if they do not realize the suffering themselves. We often feel like we are an open wound.
People walking the spiritual path are prone to depression, feeling lost, and feeling weak. We carry a large burden by being strong enough and brave enough to walk the spiritual path. On the other side of the dark night of the soul is always an incredible gift, an amazing journey, and an enlightening breakthrough. You will always find the next level after a dark night of the soul. Think of this transition as a doorway to greater kingdoms. No one can help us out of these moments but us. We have to pull our own selves up and walk through the next door. It is important to know that you may not always see the full fruits of your labor in this physical life, but you will come to understand the ripple effect your spiritual path has created once you leave the earthly plane.
The spiritual path is worth the physical sacrifice.
How Baking Soda Can Reverse Gray Hair and End Erectile Dysfunction.
In TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) we see an emphasis on the kidneys as holding the essence for life. Out of everyone I have worked with over the years, 98% of people have some stress to their kidneys. This also includes children. Stress, toxins, thoughts, water intake, food choices, quality of food, exercise, pH, sexual activities, etc. all contribute to stress in the kidneys.
In Asia, they are typically not fond of drinking a lot of fluid because it harms the kidneys. Yet, here in the USA, we are instructed to drink half your weight in water to flush out the toxic lifestyle we have from living in America. But not drinking enough pure water and being dehydrated also puts a strain on the kidneys.
American boys and teens are different than in traditional Asian culture. Sex and bodily fluids is a badge of honor here, yet it begins to deplete life force and life essence very early on. This depletion continues through adulthood until men lose their active sex drive or develop Erectile Dysfunction (ED). The erection of the penis during sexual excitation is mediated by the Nitric oxide (NO) that is released from nerve endings close to the blood vessels of the penis. NO also regulates adrenal function and endocrine function.
We generally see a correlation between ED and imbalanced hormone levels, which is traced back to endocrine and adrenal function. In teens, testosterone can be too high. In middle age men, testosterone tends to be too low. Kids are now maturing faster and much more is accepted and available now to kids so they have a mature life style at way to young of physical or emotional age.
Kidney stress is often shown in the quality and color of hair. Hair is one of the parts of the body that the body will sacrifice first. If the body is off, the hair will stop receiving nutrition and energy, thus the graying and thinning that occurs.
Kidneys also have an impact on bone marrow. So much so that now they are doing kidney and bone marrow transplants at the same time. I think we can look at Nitric Oxide (NO) as the key player. Release of NO around the glomeruli of the kidneys increases blood flow through them thus increases the rate of filtration and urine formation. The overall production of NO is decreased in kidney stress.
The brain’s glial cells produces Sodium Nitrite, in presence of organic acid, it breaks down to Nitric Oxide for use. Nitric Oxide is used by the bone’s marrow cells, which in turn creates stem cells or at least allows stem cells to further develop. The problem occurs whenever people eat acid forming food, have toxicity, physical stress, emotional or mental stress, or heavy metal poisoning causing the condition known as acidosis or low pH. Whenever this happens, the Sodium Nitrite breaks down into Nitric Oxide before the Sodium Nitrite reaches the bone marrow and stem cell production begins to slow down.
When people are low on stem cells, we see the hair thin and begin to lose color or turn gray.
Something to help? Here are my recommendations:
Stop all mineral supplements for 3 days. Check your pH. Restore the bicarbonate reserves in your intestines, organs, and tissues. The remedy for regeneration of marrow cells is:
Squeeze one whole lime (about 8 teaspoon), plus 1/2 teaspoon of aluminum free baking soda in 1/2 glass of water, taken twice a day. To get some improvement it would generally take about 3 weeks for the body to have sufficient amount of bicarbonates and alkalinity for nitric oxide. This total process usually takes a total of 6 months to completely saturate your tissues.
Increase the voltage of your cells. An ionic foot bath, infrared sauna, walking on the sand on a beach, touching the Earth with your feet, etc are all ways to increase cellular voltage.
Silver and Gold Colloidals will also help.
Go Raw- a 70%+ raw diet works well.
He Shou Wou is a good TCM supplement to also add in.
Simplify your life and remove any negativity or stress including thoughts, people and situations.
The Mid-Life Crisis Scam
The mid-life crisis syndrome has been an interest to me for as long as I can remember. I would like to examine the core of a mid-life crisis. A mid-life crisis is a theory founded by Elliott Jaques in 1965. A mid-life crisis can affect people between the ages of 40-60 but can also occur earlier or later in life. A mid-life crisis is a period of self doubt, self evaluation, and transitions. This period can be brought on by a major life changing event, death of a loved one, stress, or depression. A mid-life crisis motivates people to want to make significant changes in their life, whether that be career, marriage, spirituality or love. While Jaques, Carl Jung, and Erik Erickson are not directly linked, their views do parallel each other. They all believe that there is a point, usually in the middle years, where people go through self reflection and reassessment.
Many people realize that they can no longer live the status quo they call their daily lives. People are often stuck in a daily routine that inhibits the spiritual nature of self. Look at your life, is it a routine? Do you get up around the same time every morning, tend to children, eat breakfast, drive in traffic, go to work for 8-12 hours to basically do the same thing day after day, drive home in traffic, eat dinner, communicate with family, and go to bed, only to have the same day repeated again and again. The 1993 movie, Groundhog Day, was an over dramatization of the everyday life of many people.
We all have a gypsy spirit in us. Our ancestors were travelers and nomads. Our spirit is naturally free but we are trapped in a physical body that puts paying bills and living a mundane life above all. Our first step towards domestication came when we settled into villages. Our next step came when mortgages and building community roots became the focus. Greed and the ever quest for financial freedom became the nail in the coffin for many people. We are living in a society that promotes lack, yet we yearn for more. This yearning drives us to work long meaningless hours, while the unconscious collective thought patterns of lack keep us unknowingly in the prison state of mundane routine. In this prison state, we trap our spirit. Something happens in our life that causes us enough discomfort that we begin to hear the small voice of our spirit. Our spirit is telling us that we are not living the life we should be living. Our spirit tells us there is more and we are more.
Unfortunately, people often misunderstand this message and go on to seek fast cars, plastic surgery, or another person to have a chaotic romance with. While there is nothing wrong with buying a new car, correcting things in you that you do not like, or entering into a new relationship, these must be done in combination with the spirit. Will these things help you to achieve what and who you are supposed to become? Will these things help transform you or will they just be things to distract you and eventually make you feel just as empty?
A midlife crisis can be the catalyst to move you closer towards whom you really are and your divine purpose for being here. Or a mid-life crisis can lead you into more chaos and loneliness, eventually leading to what I call the Dark Night of the Soul. Often, an uncomfortable or painful situation appears in our lives in order for us to awaken and see that we need a change. It is important that we make these changes with responsibility, love, and focusing on the greater good as we pursue our spiritual needs.
Instead of looking at a mid-life crisis as a negative time, see the beauty and gift in being able to hear the voice of your spirit that you have long ignored. A mid-life crisis does not have to signify an ending. Let this time signify a transformation and a doorway that opens to unlimited possibilities of happiness and truth in spirit.
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Why There is a Social Stigma Attached to Obesity
This is probably going to be one of my most controversial posts yet. Obesity or being overweight is a touchy subject for many. America’s waistlines are growing. A size 8 today is comparable to a size 12 when I was in High School. I look at high school girls and they are not as thin as they used to be. Sure, some girls are rail thin, but more often than not, girls now have “normal” bodies. I’ve written in depth in the past how our foods and diet are now sugar laden and the denaturing of our food lends to increased hormones that mimic estrogen. Estrogen is what gives women soft curves. An estrogen mimicker will pad fat in all the wrong places as insulin increases. Increased toxins in our food, water, and air also add fat to the body. Our body is an amazing system. Toxins are fat soluble and your body will wrap toxins in fat and put them in places where they cannot harm important organ function. Cellulite is actually toxins trapped under the skin. Stress is a big contributor to a growing waist line. Cortisol is released into the body when under stress. The adrenals control the endocrine system and the thyroid. When your adrenal system is overworked, the thyroid shuts down and the body gains fat. This is just addressing the external factors that lead to weight gain, but why is it that not everyone is overweight, even when they breathe the same air, eat the same foods and experience the same amount of stress? I believe this all points to the internal factor, which is the focus of this blog post.
Few people understand the role of emotions or self worth in health. How we feel about the world and how we feel about ourselves affect our health and our appearance. Everyone is looking for the next great diet book, diet pills, or fat loss surgery but no one addresses the core of the issue. Just like in diseases, the people that overcome and triumph over a disease have a complete change of perspective on life and their self. If they believe they are not good enough and not deserving, their reality will match that and give them a seemingly non-deserving disease. So many times we rarely know what is going on inside someone. Some people will put up a brave front and you will never know what they are truly feeling inside. Obesity and being overweight is the same thing. This same principal holds true for overweight people. People who lose weight and can successfully keep it off instead of yo-yo dieting have underwent a complete change of perspective of self and life.
I can speak from experience with this subject. I went from a model, gaining popularity in a popular national magazine, to being overweight and hiding for the majority of my adulthood. I can tell you how different society treats you when you are thin and beautiful and when you are overweight. While I was not obese, I was very overweight. Having children just gave me an excuse to put weight on and keep it on. Beautiful people do get certain privileges in life. It doesn’t seem fair, but it is how our society works. Fair has nothing to do with reality. Reality is that beauty is an automatic green light to many things. I’m not saying people that were not born with natural, perfect beauty cannot get ahead, people are gifted in many different ways. I am saying that beauty does open several doors, while being overweight slams those doors. I’ve had many years to analyze this as both an observer and participant. Pursing psychology in college as an adult let me delve deeper into understanding the core emotions that rule certain situations and actions.
Anyone that knows me knows how passionate I am about food; specifically pure, raw foods. I love food. Hippocrates said, “Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.” This is a principal I stand behind. Live food equals life. Denatured, processed, energetically dead food equals death. There is not any argument that food can make or break our health, but there is a deeper issue. Why do people choose bad foods over good foods and how does this affect each individual person?
Food is comfort to many people. Food is the best friend or significant other that will never leave you or judge you. Food is readily available at all hours of the day or night. Many people equate food with good feelings and celebrations. Birthdays usually center around you and eating, whether it is dinner and cake or just cake. Celebrations usually occur in a restaurant. We reward good behavior with a treat or something sweet. If you look at the sugar on the back of any package, you will quickly see how many times you are unknowingly treating yourself. It is no wonder food is our comfort. What feels better than to have a tummy full of your favorite dish?
When does food go from being a comfort to being something someone uses as protection? Many times we can look at someone’s childhood to determine why food is being used as protection. How safe did you feel during your childhood? Did you often feel like you didn’t fit in? That you didn’t fit in to your family? Did you feel that either your mother or father did not like you? Did you feel like you fit in at school? Did you feel undervalued and that no one really understood or cared about you?
People are often surprised to find out that I never felt like I fit in growing up. I was athletic, received good grades, had popular friends and boyfriends. I was a cheerleader, prom queen and later a successful model. Yet I had this dark place in me that always said I didn’t fit in and I wasn’t good enough. I was very hard on myself for perceived failures and took it very personal if someone didn’t like me.
I know I used food in order to feel safe. I knew that if I was fat, I would no longer stand out in a crowd and men would not hit on me. I figured people would listen to what I had to say instead of staring at my breasts or wanting to just sleep with me or not liking me because I was pretty. I figured I could finally be human in people’s eyes and I would have a voice. I was wrong.
Food matters and what we put into our bodies matter. Food is just result. We make food choices because of our mental, emotional and spiritual state. Being overweight or beautiful is more a function of our mental, emotional and spiritual states then eating. People that choose to eat healthy foods care about themselves and this self love shows. I think it is why obese people are such a turn off to society; obese people harbor a great deal of self rejection, and it is very apparent. There is nothing worse than a lack of respect. If someone cannot respect themselves, then why should other people? This is the silent message broadcasted out to every person in the quantum consciousness. No one wants to hear that because truth is very hard sometimes. It’s hard to care about yourself. It’s hard to see value in yourself when you have spent so much time thinking that you are not worth it. It’s hard to value yourself if people around you have not valued you. I’ve lived both lives and there is a difference in how you feel about you and how others treat you. There is not one overweight person that wants to hear that people do not like them because how they feel about themselves is apparent.
I would really get offended when I would hear a thin person, especially a male, judge someone overweight. I would often hear crude, demeaning remarks along with the term lazy. I wasn’t lazy, or was I? Was I in denial? You bet. I didn’t want to go to a gym to work out every day, eat small portions of healthy food, read labels to understand what I was putting in my body, or drink a gallon of water because I needed my friend, my food, as protection against the cruel world. There is a great responsibility in admitting that you are overweight because of you; because of your past that you are holding onto. I hear (and had them myself) a million excuses as to why someone is overweight. All of my reasons were valid; my metabolism was slow, my thyroid was not working, my hormones were out of wack, and I had sick kids that left me stressed and tired. I didn’t have time to worry about me. But I was still shirking responsibility. One day, I looked at myself in truth and I had to face the fact, I was lazy and I didn’t respect myself and it showed. I put my self-denial and lack of respect on display for the world to see. I might as well have been carrying around a marquis sign that said LOW SELF ESTEEME.
My knowledge on the subject of being overweight may be unpopular to some, but it is true. It is often why people who lose weight quickly through bariatric surgery, look worse and feel worse. They now have loose, hanging skin in which to focus their hatred of themselves on. Gravity is not kind and neither is self abuse.
I now help people to overcome their dietary sabotage, just like I overcame mine.
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10 Ways to Naturally Stop the H1N1 (Swine) Flu
Here are the steps you can take to stop the flu dead in it’s tracks before it has a chance to take hold of your body. If you do wait and find you are in the midst of full blown sickness, these tips will still work, but will take longer.
10 Ways to Stop the Swine Flu (or any flu)
1. Cranberry and Elderberry
2. Take Apple Cider Vinegar and Baking Soda. I use and recommend Bragg’s Apple Cider Vinegar and Bob’s Red Mill Aluminum Free Baking Soda. Arm and Hammer has aluminum in it. You can find Bragg’s Apple Cider Vinegar and Bob’s Red Mill Aluminum Free Baking Soda at most health food stores. This alkalinizing drink will help to keep your internal environment in a state that viruses, bacteria, and microbes cannot live in.
Mix 2 Tablespoons Bragg’s Apple Cider Vinegar and
½ teaspoon Bob’s Red Mill Aluminum Free Baking Soda
in 6 oz of Pure Spring water.
Mix and drink right away.
Repeat 2-3 times per day.
3. Spicy Hot lemonade will help sore throats and thin mucous congestion
6 oz of pure spring water
Squeeze 1 lemon for the juice
Add enough raw honey to cut some of the sour
Add 1/8- 1/4 teaspoon Dried Cayenne Powder
Sip. Kids love this too.
3b. For a sore throat, you can also gargle with ¼ teaspoon of Dried Cayenne Powder and water.
4. Chew Honey Comb. You can find Honey Comb in honey at many health food stores. Take a teaspoon of the wax and chew like gum for 20-30 minutes. This also helps with headaches and honey will also thin mucous.
5. I’ve always felt so many supplements fell short, but there is a company, Premier Research Labs, that is sold through Doctor’s offices that has the purist and most effective formulas I have ever seen. They are an excipient free company. Excipient free means what you see on the label is what you get; there are not any added chemicals or fillers. They do not have any hidden ingredients or flow agents that the FDA does not require a company to put on the label. Call 1-800-325-7734 and order directly from the lab.
You will have to take higher than average dosages when you are not feeling well. 4 or 5 capsules of each.
You will want the Quantum Turmeric. I found out that most Turmeric sitting on the store shelves is rancid and has lost much of it’s power.
And you will want the Nucleotide Complex. I think this should be a part of everyone’s medicine cabinet. The supplements are priced reasonably and work like magic. They are also safe for kids too.
Take these 2-3 times per day.
6. Baths are one of the best remedies.
For a good detox bath:
Add 1 cup Epsom Salts and
1 cup of Baking Soda.
Add in a half of container of dried ginger.
Soak in a hot bath for 40 minutes.
Get out and lightly mist 3% Hydrogen Peroxide on your skin.
Wrap yourself in a warm robe and get under multiple blankets to continue sweating.
7. In cases of High fever and severe coughing at night, especially in children, before bed:
Take 2 whole garlic cloves and smash them.
Lay gauze on the bottom of the feet and place the garlic on top of that.
Wrap the garlic with self adhesive bandage or tape.
Put on socks. Remove in the morning. You may see a red area on the bottom of the feet where the garlic was. This is just an example of the power of garlic, and this will fade in a few days.
8. Do not overeat. Overeating stresses your system. A liquid diet is great when you are not feeling well. Make sure you get some garlic in those liquids!
9. If your body requires sleep, get good sleep. Do not turn on the tv for a few nights and get some sleep.
10. Drink plenty of Pure Spring Water to flush the viruses, bacteria, and microbes out of your body.
Getting sick is your body’s way of telling you to slow down and look at something. Use this time to look at areas of your life that are not working very well or where you are the most stressed. Find simple solutions where you can improve your situations and be happier.
You will be feeling normal very quickly if you adopt these 10 steps. These are proven to work in my clinic and also in my own home. Print out this list and keep it on your refrigerator and keep a copy on your computer for future reference.
This article is not intended to replace medical care or advice. This article is my opinion and is intended to be used as information only. This is not intended to imply a natural cure of Swine Flu. If you have any questions concerning your health or the health of someone you are caring for, seek the advice of your health care provider.
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