Greetings,
Well here we are in March of a new year and it's just whizzing by already - and not just for me. One of the things I love about living in the UK is the seasons. I enjoyed the time of dark, snuggling in front of the fire. And this year (I don't know whether or not it's my advancing years), but it seems to have passed by so quickly. I also love this time of longer lighter days. And the crisp, cold but sunny weather is gorgeous, making early morning walks such a pleasure.
I completed my Life Coach Foundation course last month and for the next part, the diploma, I will be looking for volunteers. So, anyone looking for a bit of coaching and willing to be a guinea pig please give me a ring. Coaching does not need to be done face to face it can take place via the telephone.
I wish you all a wonderful spring and good health.
[I have no idea now where the following originated. It was entitled something like, Anything Useful I Ever Learned I Learned At Nursery School.]
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - look.
Author unknown
Cell Talk
Practitioners of Upledger CranioSacral Therapy have been dialoguing with patients around emotional trauma for many years. It's a technique taught fairly early on in the training - in module 3. When you think about it, dialoguing with patients is not much different than talking to organs. Another technique for releasing dis-ease in the body. Over the last couple of years Dr Upledger (Dr U) has taken that a step further, to talking to cells.
`Necessity is the Mother of Invention'. Talking to cells came about when Dr U first saw a 16 year old girl (K) who had been treated by her GP, an infectious-disease specialist and rheumatologist without result. On examining her Dr U felt she had a virus. He worked hard to clear what he calls "stuck" places. He calls them "stuck" because, for him, the energy can't get through. The areas were inflamed, and swollen, and there was a certain amount of what he calls "fluidic stasis." It took him an hour and a half, but he finally got all of those places opened up. And his young patient told him she felt pretty good.
K had an appointment with the Mayo Clinic and they confirmed that she had a cytomegalovirus. Over the next few sessions, Dr U worked through the blocks again. Then he began to feel that the viruses create stasis so immune cells can't get in to get rid of them. They also hide inside normal cells, and they're hard to pick out. A virus in a normal cell will put out 10 or 12 abnormal markers on the cell surface. A normal cell has about 10,000 protein markers on its surface, so you've got to be pretty alert to pick out 10 abnormal markers amid 10,000 normal markers in an immune cell.
During an early treatment it struck Dr U that if he could talk to organs, why couldn't he talk to immune cells? He put his hand or her thymus (a gland in the upper chest and lower throat that's responsible for directing and producing immune cells) and said, "Thymus, will you talk with me?"
Dr U asked K to let the voice of her thymus come through her voice not to censor it or change it or feel obligated to answer. “Just go with whatever comes.” To cut a long story short … he work through her body with Thymus dealing with the pockets of virus that were found.
Dr U asked K to look through her body every morning and see if she could find places that might be virus pockets. And then, to politely ask thymus to send macrophages to wherever she found those pockets. [Macrophages are the largest and most aggressive of the immune cells. When they detect anything suspicious they attempt to ingest, digest and then excrete the recyclable bits i.e. amino acids.]
K performed did this self-treatment twice a week for several months and was soon doing well. That's what got Dr U started on what he now calls "Cell Talk."
He has developed a practitioner course called Immune Response and CST teaching this technique and has written a book called Cell Talk : Talking to your cell(f).
This is the course I will be taking in Florida in April. If you would like to know more about the immune system in future newsletters please let me know.
Aqua Detox is an electromagnetic detoxification process carried out on the feet. This is a convenient and efficient therapy to clean and purify your body.
Relax with your feet immersed in a foot bath with for 30 minutes. The colour of the water changes during the treatment.
Aqua Detox aims to improve:
liver and kidney function circulation
general metabolism
arthritis
headaches
menstrual pain
mercury & heavy metal detoxification
skin problems
generally to balance the whole body, enhance well being
can be used as part of a detox diet plan
Well-being is enhanced from the first treatment.
Caesarean Section
“I was surprised during my early work to see the strong positive correlation between the presence of significant CranioSacral system dysfunctions and delivery by Caesarean section. It was quite puzzling, until I remembered occasions during C-sections when I saw amniotic fluid spout up into the air a few inches as the incision was made into the uterus. This suggests the sudden reduction of pressure inside the uterus where the child has been living for the past nine months. Foetal physiology could be severely challenged by this sudden change in pressure. It seems comparable to a scuba diver surfacing too rapidly and suffering the `bends'.
From a CranioSacral point of view, this sudden reduction in external pressure might result in a rapid expansion of the foetal head. [This is where it gets a bit heavy going I know, but stick with it, medical words are explained.] This, in turn, could easily result in intracranial membranous strain [strain within the membranes of the brain and spinal cord]; micro tears in the meningeal [around the brain - meningitis comes from this word] membranes; and tiny capillary bleeds. As these extravasated [to force the flow of blood or lymph out into the surrounding tissue] red blood cells degrade, they undergo biochemical changes in which they become bile salts, which are irritants to brain tissue and membranes. This tissue irritation results in fibrous change in the form of gliosis [an excess of astroglia (a star-shaped cell of the nervous system which provides nutrients, support and insulation for neurons) in damaged areas of central nervous system] in the brain loss of compliance in membranes; and small but significant intermembranous adhesions. These conditions may cause Craniosacral system dysfunctions that could require extensive therapy.”
It is always worth having a CranioSacral therapist check baby as soon as possible after birth. Because I feel this is important I treat mum and babe, up to 6 weeks, together in an hour's appointment for £15.
Yoga - Pranayama Dale Spence ND, DO, BWY Dip
Prana is a Sanskrit word for `energy'. It is the vital etheric force, or life force. It is the energy essence present in all of creation. It is closely related to the air we breathe but distinct from it. Yama means `to control' or `to restrain'. So pranayama can be described as the practice of controlled inhalation and exhalation with retention.
The typical western yoga class is generally primarily physical asanas, with possibly some pranayama and relaxation. However, pranayama is also a practice in its own right. There are a number of schools of yoga in which pranayama is treated more fully. Swami Gitananda's teaching is one of these. He looks more closely at pranayama. Not just the commonly done practices, but the precursors to those practices. For example, you will never gain the full benefit of a practice like nadi shodana while you remain unaware of the musculature of the breathing apparatus. Swami Gitananda speaks of two primary building blocks - The Mahat Yoga Pranayama (full breath) and the Sukha Purvakha Pranayama (“ratio” breath). If these are not practiced initially, the more “advanced” practices are built on a weak and incomplete foundation.
The Mahat Yoga Pranayama is the first breathing pillar. It brings awareness into the physicality of the lungs and apparatus of breathing. It highlights the three sections of the lungs, ie lower lung or abdominal section (adham), middle lung or intercostals (madhyam) and upper lungs (adhyam).
The Sukha Purvakha Pranayama is the second main pillar of pranayama preparation. In this practice you leave off the physicality of what parts of the body are driving the breath, and where the breath is going. You start to deal with the act of breathing. Feel an in breath, feel an out breath, feel a breath hold. The word sukha means sweet or symmetrical or the same length. The word purvakha means `the parts between', ie the holds between the in breath and the out breath.
Having spent time on the two foundation pillars, when you do start on the “more advanced” pranayama practices, the whole practice of breathing is at a very different level to that before you started.
Personally I have found the practice of pranayama to be one of the most significant and far-reaching practices I have encountered for a long time. This is not to say that pranayama is superior to asana, or should be done more. Rather that there is a wealth of benefit and experience in pranayama that is easily overlooked. It is good to study it specifically, then it can be more wholly incorporated into a full balanced practice.
I am going to be doing Saturday morning pranayama workshops, starting 20th March 2004. My intention is to explore pranayama more fully in a way which is not possible in a normal class context. These workshops will be 3 hours and aimed at people with some experience of yoga (ie not complete beginners). For more details please get in touch or see the web site.
Flower Essences : (Essences of the month)
Wild Cyclamen : For inner resourcefulness, self sufficiency, self guidance, for finding our own inner support, nurture, strength and counsel.
Indications: for times when we don't have outside support or help from others for children who don't have sufficient support and nurture in their lives.
White Clover : For transcending fear and allowing miracles to happen; for changing our perception to one of unlimited possibility and joy.
Indications: panic, shock, deeply held fear, terror, trauma, for whenever we identify with fear based thought forms, perceptions and beliefs.
What Doctors Don't Tell You : THE DRUGS DON'T WORK: And for once it's not us saying it, it's Glaxo.
In an extraordinary admission, a senior executive with UK drug giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has 'confessed' that the vast majority of prescription drugs don't work.
Dr Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GSK, has told a conference that over 90 per cent of all drugs work for only between 30 per cent and 50 per cent of patients.
At the very bottom of the efficacy table are the cancer drugs, which work on only 25 per cent of patients. These are closely followed by Alzheimer's drugs that work on just 30 per cent of people. Drugs for rheumatoid arthritis, migraine, incontinence, hepatitis C, and diabetes work on only half the patients, at best. The most effective drugs are the analgesics, which work for to 80 per cent of those who take them.
This frank admission is also a very shocking one, and for several reasons. The pharmaceutical industry is about the most profitable in the world, and its profits are generated by drugs that everyone has implicitly believed would work (everyone apart from regular E-news readers, that is). Worse, in this scramble for profits, around 105,000 Americans and 40,000 Britons die every year from an adverse reaction to a drug, and many thousands more are permanently harmed from one.
Almost as astonishing has been the reaction from some of Roses's industry colleagues. "What he is saying will surprise the public but not his colleagues," said one industry scientist. Surprised may be a slight under-statement for the reaction of families who have lost a member to a drug-and one that the manufacturer probably knew would not work.
So it's no surprise to the drug companies. Is it a surprise, perhaps, to the drug regulators? Did they know that they were part of a scam? Or the government, maybe, that buys £7.2bn of drugs each year for the National Health Service? Are they also aware that at least two-thirds of that enormous expenditure is an utter waste?
How about the doctors? They are writing millions of prescriptions a year. Did they notice that their patients just weren't getting any better?
Some commentators have described Roses's admission as a Ratner-like gaffe. Roses knew full well what he was doing, and he almost certainly had his statement cleared by the very top executives at Glaxo. Roses has been described as a highly intelligent man, and he's certainly too smart to commit corporate suicide.
Roses is staking a major claim for his own division, into which Glaxo has poured billions of dollars of research money. Our guess is that Glaxo has taken the lead in the market, and will soon be launching a new approach to therapy, based on the patient's genetic make-up.
In this new treatment model, patients will first be tested to discover the effectiveness of a drug, and if they are among the 20% for whom the drug will work.
By allowing Roses to blow the whistle, Glaxo is playing a very high-risk game. Genetic profiling may be achievable, but it will cut drugs production by up to 80 per cent, so eating into profits.
It may also not be a workable option, especially for an already overstretched health service.
What then? We are just left with the information that most drugs don't work. Which is pretty much where we at WDDTY came in.
* Further reading on this subject: WDDTY book Secrets of the Drugs Industry which can be ordered from their web site.
WDDTY e.news Service - 11 December 2003
Still Point Inducer (or as I call them “bumps”)
This is a simple device, that looks like two mountains or bumps, is used to induce a state of deep relaxation. Many of my client's have found it valuable in reducing headaches and muscle pain and helping insomnia (my personal favourite). (I also use it myself between CST treatments when I feel the need.) Other benefits are enhancement of immune system efficiency and encouragement of the body's natural health.
“Cerebrospinal fluid bathes and flushes every cell of the brain. It carries in nutrients, washes away waste products, and helps control pH levels. Since CST and the proper daily use of the Still Point Inducer enhances the flow of cerebrospinal fluid, it becomes an effective health enhancer for your brain and spinal cord.”
- Dr John Upledger, Developer of CST
Cost: £15 plus p+p
Directions for use enclosed with product.
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF SPIRITUAL HEALERS
Camberley
Healing Centre
in Frimley Village Hall
Frimley Green
Every Wednesday Evening 7pm - 9pm
Discover the feeling of being more relaxed
Give it a try. What have you got to lose?
Call 01276 65779 for more information
not affiliated to any religious organisation
Free of charge
(Donations accepted to cover hall costs)
Please come along. We would love to see you.
Registered charity 211133