Christian Livermore - Times Hearald Record
When Barbara Sarah was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, she followed the treatment that traditional medicine called for. She underwent a lumpectomy to remove the tumor, then further surgery to remove 17 lymph nodes. When her surgeon told her the next step was chemotherapy and radiation, she reflected on all the pain she had endured, and the nausea, fatigue and other side effects she could look forward to with the chemo, and said, "That's enough."
With the support of a doctor at New York Medical College who was studying the immune systems of women with cancer, Sarah started researching ways to make herself well. She got acupuncture treatments, took Chinese herbs and injections of mistletoe, changed to a low-salt diet, started to exercise regularly and reduce stress — anything she thought would make her healthier.
Seventeen years later, the cancer has not returned. She can't say for sure if it was the holistic and lifestyle changes that made the difference, but she knows she feels better.Two years after her diagnosis, Sarah heard that Benedictine Hospital in Kingston was looking to hire an oncology social worker. She applied and got the job. She created an oncology support program drawn from Japanese therapy, a natural way of wellness based on Buddhist thinking.
Her ideas put her in the vanguard of an effort to give the Hudson Valley a more holistic approach to treatment, something beyond the "slash and burn" protocol of surgery and radiation that forms the basis of Western medicine.
"There's this idea that we all carry a toxic load and that we can maintain a certain level of toxins in our body, and that something switches off our ability to resist disease," Sarah said, "and it's different for everybody."
Dr. Douglas Heller, an attending physician at Benedictine and Kingston hospitals, was intrigued by the questions of patients who said they were trying less traditional treatments such as acupuncture. He began exploring other ways of treating patients, or at least of treating some of the symptoms of illnesses and the side effects of such treatments as chemotherapy. He now works with his patients to find legitimate alternative treatments.
"Western medicine is fantastic at treating illnesses, but we don't always do such a good job at prevention. Eastern medicine and Chinese medicine take a different view," he said....
So when our life is in question can we afford to accept us what dogma tells us? Could this alternative approach be a cure?
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Affirmations and Mantras
Positive affirmations and Mantras are powerful tools for healing, good health and wealth.
Mantras, are powerful sequences of words of the highest vibrational quality. The word Mantra comes from two Sanskrit words ‘mana’ which means mind and ‘trai’ which means ‘protect’ . Sanskrit is the ancient sacred language of India, believed to be the oldest language of the world dating back to the 2nd millennium BC. These words handed down through the generations is the foundation of all puja’s, prayers and those seeking simple release from the vagaries of the mind or the deeper desire for enlightenment.When used over a period of time the energy vibrations of the mantras has a dissolving quality which begins to overtake by diffusing the heavier vibration and thereby raises the practitioner’s vibration at which point the practitioner experiences a distinct change in their state. The experiential quality is one of calmness, peace, energizing and when practiced in accordance and under correct guidance; enlightenment.
Affirmation, means to ‘affirm’ or ‘assert’ as true. It is a confirmation of anything already established. This makes it quite interesting in that it can be any set of words. Positive words which are strengthening in structure will, when affirmed over a period of time begin to have a positive effect on the practitioner and Negative Words over time will begin to have a negative effect with consequent negative behavior leading to negative outcomes.No word is meaningless or meaning free. Every word carries a weight and by it very nature comes with a consequent , emotion and vibration. Words that incite emotions of anger, jealousy, hatred and so forth tend to manifest in low vibration and consequent ill health. Words that generate feelings of love and harmony have the potential to heal. It behooves us to use words with care.
Peace, Harmony and Prosperity is OURS
Mantras, are powerful sequences of words of the highest vibrational quality. The word Mantra comes from two Sanskrit words ‘mana’ which means mind and ‘trai’ which means ‘protect’ . Sanskrit is the ancient sacred language of India, believed to be the oldest language of the world dating back to the 2nd millennium BC. These words handed down through the generations is the foundation of all puja’s, prayers and those seeking simple release from the vagaries of the mind or the deeper desire for enlightenment.When used over a period of time the energy vibrations of the mantras has a dissolving quality which begins to overtake by diffusing the heavier vibration and thereby raises the practitioner’s vibration at which point the practitioner experiences a distinct change in their state. The experiential quality is one of calmness, peace, energizing and when practiced in accordance and under correct guidance; enlightenment.
Affirmation, means to ‘affirm’ or ‘assert’ as true. It is a confirmation of anything already established. This makes it quite interesting in that it can be any set of words. Positive words which are strengthening in structure will, when affirmed over a period of time begin to have a positive effect on the practitioner and Negative Words over time will begin to have a negative effect with consequent negative behavior leading to negative outcomes.No word is meaningless or meaning free. Every word carries a weight and by it very nature comes with a consequent , emotion and vibration. Words that incite emotions of anger, jealousy, hatred and so forth tend to manifest in low vibration and consequent ill health. Words that generate feelings of love and harmony have the potential to heal. It behooves us to use words with care.
Peace, Harmony and Prosperity is OURS
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Mexican Salamander May Yield Clues For Amputees
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Scientists are genetically modifying a bizarre looking Mexican salamander, which according to ancient mythology is a transformed Aztec god, in the hope its ability to regenerate body parts will one day help human amputees.
Also known as "water monsters," the half-foot-long (15-cm-long) axolotl is nearly extinct in its only remaining habitat: the polluted vestiges of Aztec canals that snake though southern Mexico City, packed with colorful boats carrying tourists and mariachi musicians.
But the slimy animal crowned with frilly gills like a headdress, beady eyes and a goofy smile, is thriving in labs where it reproduces easily. It is a darling of researchers since it can regrow injured limbs, jaws, skin, organs and parts of its brain and spinal chord.
Some other animals have the capacity to regenerate, but only salamanders can regrow so many different parts over and over again throughout their lives.
The U.S. Department of Defense has given a $6.25 million research grant to scientists studying the little creature with the aim of eventually helping the more than 1,000 soldiers who have come back from Iraq and Afghanistan with missing extremities.
In a lab in Mexico City, where biology students map the shrinking habitat of the animal, an axolotl whose leg was recently bitten off by a tank mate was already budding a tiny replica, complete with little toes.
"Humans do repair tissue but they don't repair it perfectly whereas the axolotl under certain injury conditions can go into kind of a mode where they repeat the process of the embryo," said Elly Tanaka from the Center for Regenerative Therapies in Dresden, Germany.
Tanaka has succeeded in genetically engineering axolotls using a mutant type found in the wild with no skin pigment and inserting a green-glowing gene from a jellyfish into the salamander cells to help see the process of regeneration in action.
"The skin is clear so you can see the fluorescent protein inside the live animal," Tanaka said in a phone interview. The goal is to compare and contrast with the human healing process.
After amputation in salamanders, unlike in humans, blood vessels contract quickly and limit bleeding, skin cells work fast to cover the wound site and form what is called a "blastema," a collection of stemlike cells that will eventually become the new body part.
Working alongside scientists mapping the complex genome of the axolotl, which is 10 times larger than a human genome, Tanaka and her colleagues hope to discover what allows the salamander to regrow a limb instead of a scarred stump.
Humans already have the ability to regrow missing fingertips if they are cut off above the joint. If the wound is cleaned and dressed properly, a finger can regain its shape, fingerprint and feeling on its own.
"Now, as we watch a salamander grow back an arm, we are no longer quite as mystified by how it happens. Soon humans might be able to harness this truly awesome ability ourselves," experts Ken Muneoka, Manjong Han and David Gardiner wrote in a recent article. They speculated it may be only be a decade or two until human parts can be regenerated, salamander-like.
ALMOST EXTINCT
More axolotls live in captivity than in the wild as their populations in the most isolated corners of the canals in the Xochimilco neighborhood of Mexico City has likely shrunk to as few as 400, putting them at risk of extinction.
Mexico's capital, one of the world's largest cities, was built by the Aztecs on an island in the middle of a lake now drained by centuries of Spanish colonization and urban sprawl.
The Aztecs, who ate the axolotls and used them in medicine, believed they were actually incarnations of the lightning death god Xolotl who went through metamorphosis to escape being sacrificed.
The rare axolotls are threatened by chemical run off from greenhouses on the banks of the city canals, waste water from surrounding neighborhoods and non-native fish species that compete with the salamander for food.
Luis Zambrano at Mexico's Autonomous University said if the axolotls disappear in the wild it could have implications for the future genetic diversity of the research population.
"There is a version of the (Aztec) myth, that says when the axolotls disappear, so will humanity," Zambrano said.
Also known as "water monsters," the half-foot-long (15-cm-long) axolotl is nearly extinct in its only remaining habitat: the polluted vestiges of Aztec canals that snake though southern Mexico City, packed with colorful boats carrying tourists and mariachi musicians.
But the slimy animal crowned with frilly gills like a headdress, beady eyes and a goofy smile, is thriving in labs where it reproduces easily. It is a darling of researchers since it can regrow injured limbs, jaws, skin, organs and parts of its brain and spinal chord.
Some other animals have the capacity to regenerate, but only salamanders can regrow so many different parts over and over again throughout their lives.
The U.S. Department of Defense has given a $6.25 million research grant to scientists studying the little creature with the aim of eventually helping the more than 1,000 soldiers who have come back from Iraq and Afghanistan with missing extremities.
In a lab in Mexico City, where biology students map the shrinking habitat of the animal, an axolotl whose leg was recently bitten off by a tank mate was already budding a tiny replica, complete with little toes.
"Humans do repair tissue but they don't repair it perfectly whereas the axolotl under certain injury conditions can go into kind of a mode where they repeat the process of the embryo," said Elly Tanaka from the Center for Regenerative Therapies in Dresden, Germany.
Tanaka has succeeded in genetically engineering axolotls using a mutant type found in the wild with no skin pigment and inserting a green-glowing gene from a jellyfish into the salamander cells to help see the process of regeneration in action.
"The skin is clear so you can see the fluorescent protein inside the live animal," Tanaka said in a phone interview. The goal is to compare and contrast with the human healing process.
After amputation in salamanders, unlike in humans, blood vessels contract quickly and limit bleeding, skin cells work fast to cover the wound site and form what is called a "blastema," a collection of stemlike cells that will eventually become the new body part.
Working alongside scientists mapping the complex genome of the axolotl, which is 10 times larger than a human genome, Tanaka and her colleagues hope to discover what allows the salamander to regrow a limb instead of a scarred stump.
Humans already have the ability to regrow missing fingertips if they are cut off above the joint. If the wound is cleaned and dressed properly, a finger can regain its shape, fingerprint and feeling on its own.
"Now, as we watch a salamander grow back an arm, we are no longer quite as mystified by how it happens. Soon humans might be able to harness this truly awesome ability ourselves," experts Ken Muneoka, Manjong Han and David Gardiner wrote in a recent article. They speculated it may be only be a decade or two until human parts can be regenerated, salamander-like.
ALMOST EXTINCT
More axolotls live in captivity than in the wild as their populations in the most isolated corners of the canals in the Xochimilco neighborhood of Mexico City has likely shrunk to as few as 400, putting them at risk of extinction.
Mexico's capital, one of the world's largest cities, was built by the Aztecs on an island in the middle of a lake now drained by centuries of Spanish colonization and urban sprawl.
The Aztecs, who ate the axolotls and used them in medicine, believed they were actually incarnations of the lightning death god Xolotl who went through metamorphosis to escape being sacrificed.
The rare axolotls are threatened by chemical run off from greenhouses on the banks of the city canals, waste water from surrounding neighborhoods and non-native fish species that compete with the salamander for food.
Luis Zambrano at Mexico's Autonomous University said if the axolotls disappear in the wild it could have implications for the future genetic diversity of the research population.
"There is a version of the (Aztec) myth, that says when the axolotls disappear, so will humanity," Zambrano said.
Mica Rosenberg - Reuters
Thursday, May 28, 2009
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009
The Healing Power of Water
Bethoven ----------------------------------Heavy Metal
As a young girl, I remember that at every puja [prayer meeting] a small prayer would be recited over a glass of water and sprinkled over the surrounding area as far as it would go and every time we were ill, we were given water to drink that had been prayed over. I would get irritated and thought it was a whole lot of nonsense. If only I had known than what I know now, I would have made my mum very happy :-).
Dr Masaru Emoto, a japanese resercher and scientist discovered that water is a living substance and as such its molecular structure changes according to the environment. Dr Emoto has documented these molecular changes by way of high speed photography of its crystalline formations. Polluted , stagnant and toxic water when photographed show a definite 'distorted and randomly unstructed crystals shapes. Experiments were than undertaken by praying over some samples, putting I love you on other samples etc. and photographs taken after showed a distinct change occured whereby the crystals became more coherent, balanced and well formed. Mr Emoto was featured in the movie What the bleep Do We Know, he is highely sought out by organisations and governments of various countries and the likes of UNESCO, United Nations etc to conducts seminars.
Lake Fujiwara - Before----------------------- Lake Fujiwara - After prayer
These pictures are from Dr Masaru Emoto's books
In Ho'oponopono, to clean out past negative memories they use solarised water which is left in the sun for a couple of hours in a blue glass vessel. In the Indian Culture, to cleanse past karmic debts and past memories we meditate by focussing and visualising a blue light on our throat chakra. Very interesting don't you think.
Our body is made up of over 70% water. How can we use this ancient and scientific information to help ourselves. Link it all up and it comes back to 'Love yourself and be kind to yourself.
Make up written cards with 'I Love You' and 'Thank You' put these in front of bottles of solarised water and use for everything.
In the meantime, I am adding a section to my 'Recommended Books' section on the website 'Heart into Future' which will be dedicated to everything I find on practical healing methods.
Peace, Harmony and Success is Ours
More About Ho'oponopono
For those who want to know more about Ho'oponopono, please click here, you will find the book 'zero limits'. Please forgive me, I am sorry, I love you, thank you.
Peace, Harmony and Succes is Ours
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