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Healing through Happiness |
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By Steven E. Hodes, M.D.
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If sadness can be the source of enlightened healing, then surely happiness can.
In his book Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert, a popular professor
of psychology at Harvard, describes a plethora of ways and means by
which the average person creates their own sense of reality from
amongst the fragments of their life.
This form of “spinning”
considers a series of circumstances that might appear to an outsider as
extremely negative and demoralizing. Yet the affected individual might
just choose to regard these events as temporary road blocks that may
very well serve to inspire them to 1) re-empower their skills, 2)
direct them along a somewhat different path, or 3) totally alter their
life’s journey. Any one of these options can leave the individual full
of energy and hope for the future. A similar set of circumstances,
however, could totally depress and demoralize a different individual.
Tailoring our reaction to life’s events is a theme of neurolinguistic
programming (NLP) practitioners. Although I am far from an expert on
their positions and methods, I do know that they also emphasize
changing the language by which we characterize events in our lives.
Words and phrases are powerful signals to our conscious, as well as
unconscious, minds. Seeing ourselves as failures, victims or losers in
life’s game merely reinforces and exacerbates the negative energy,
which can only cripple us further. It is unproductive, to say the least.
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By Scott E. Miners
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My sister and I sought every opportunity in our childhood to find a springy bed and jump up and down upon it. I recently learned that this simple activity, happy as it was, stimulated and exercised every cell in the body. Not only that, it strengthens the cardiovascular system and it pumps the lymph system in ways no other exercises ever do. It does even more. Let's take a look further at this remarkable, simple and joyful exercise.
Trampolinist Albert Carter wrote The Miracles of Rebound Exercise and
therein coined the term reboundology in 1979. Carter had designed a
sturdy rebounder for police departments in Hong Kong, and his design
became a standard for quality rebounders today.
One day, my wife purchased a new, professional quality rebounder
modeled on Carter's design. She jumps on it several times a day, enjoys
it, and has been doing so for several years now. At first I wondered
about spending that sum of money for what seemed a toy, but right away
she started taking on a very healthy glow, and felt better, and so I
read a little about rebounding in the book she had.
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Strong Bones or Osteoporosis, Part I: Beware of Too Much Calcium |
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By Earl Staelin
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Americans have been taught that they need lots of calcium, especially post-menopausal women who frequently develop osteoporosis with the risk of spontaneous fractures. Older men also lose calcium in their bones, more gradually at first, although they tend to catch up with women when in their seventies.
Adequate calcium absorption and levels of calcium in blood and tissues
are of course essential for all children and adults for bones and
teeth, and for women who are breast feeding or pregnant. In the U.S. 10
million men and women have osteoporosis, a disease of seriously
weakened bones. One out of two women and one in eight men breaks a bone
due to osteoporosis. After a hip fracture one in five dies within a
year.
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Nutrients Help Alleviate Mental Symptoms |
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By William Walsh, Ph.D.
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Each of us has innate biochemical factors that influence mental health, immune function, allergic tendencies and more. Scientists tell us that the number of different genetic combinations possible in a child from the same two parents exceeds forty-two million. It's interesting to note that we do not possess a combination of characteristics from our parents, but instead have a diverse collection of characteristics from many ancestors on both sides of the family. |
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Weight, Diabetes and Nutrition |
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By Thomas Smith
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Despite widespread popular belief, more deeply ingrained in our American culture than baseball and apple pie, there is no connection between overweight and character. Being fat is not a sign of weak willpower or self-indulgence. Neither is it a sign of superior willpower to be lean. Nor is there any connection between undesired weight gain and genetic inheritance. It is true that overweight conditions tend to prevail along family lines, but as we shall see, this has very little to do with heredity. While it may be comforting to ascribe our overweight to something so beyond our control, this does little to promote lean body mass. |
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