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 ADDICTIONS Addiction can serve us well once we recognize that substance abuse is a way to obscure honest, peaceful, self-discovery. Using, of any addictive substance, gives us the temporary illusion of control, excitement and perfection. In recovery we discover, often to our great relief, that we're not perfect, that we need intimacy, and that integrity is more appealing than denial. STOP SMOKING "At the age of 28, I quit with my will power and my sister's help. She was in control of the cigarettes keeping the cigarettes hidden perhops in her pocket and allowing me to have what we had agreed on. I was weaning myself down. First, one cigarette per hour, then every 2 hours. Then three a day, then one, then nothing. ..." CREATE YOUR OWN MIRACLE Want to create your own miracle? To help get you started on the path of creating your own miracle, here are eight simple steps... WHY DO A JUICE FAST OR WATER FAST? As clean as our diet can be and as conscious as we can be about our environment, we all breathe the same pollutants carried by the wind far away from their source, rivers move toxic material from mountains to oceans. It is good practice to allow time for internal clean up. ABOUT DIETS Food has become a convenience rather than being a physical and spiritual practice. Whatever you choose to eat, feel reverence and gratefulness that this plant or this animal is giving its life for you. Guilt, gluttony and anger do not make good company for dinner. Remember that you are more than what you eat. You are what you digest. RAW FOOD Heat kills food and destroys the life force in plants and animals. This life force is intact in raw food so this energy is transferred to our body. Anyone presenting with fatigue, depression, chronic fatigue or virus infection such as hep C will see a change in their energy level with raw foods. ARE YOU OVERWEIGHT OR OBESE? Let's say you are obese, according to your BMI. What should be your next step? First, realize that your over-eating problem is 1. partly emotional/mental, 2. partly due to physical cravings, especially cravings for wrong & stimulating foods, and 3. partly due to a sedentary lifestyle, and lack of exercise. STRESS AND THE BRAIN - BREAKING THE HEADACHE & MIGRAINE CYCLE Medical practitioners are good at treating the diseases that result from stress. However, stress and stress responsiveness is usually ignored in medical practice. At the very best, the prescription for dealing with stress or reducing stress is limited to off handed advice such as "take a vacation" or "you must learn to take it easy". That is no prescription! So many medical disorders, if not caused by stress are certainly aggravated by our response to stress. OVERCOMING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS "Naturopathic physicians view multiple sclerosis (MS) as they do other disease processes, that is, from a wholistic perspective. The illness is seen as a combination of physical, mental/emotional and in some cases, spiritual aspects." WHY ARE ENZYMES SO IMPORTANT? Most people do not realize the central importance that enzymes play in maintaining healthy immune function. Nor the vital role that enzyme therapy can play in reducing or alleviating the painful and debilitating symptoms of chronic immune disorders. SLEEP, MEDIATION & RELAXATION: OSHO ACTIVE MEDITATIONS Remember, concentration is not meditation. Because concentration is a discipline of the mind and meditation is putting the mind aside. In English there is no right word, so you have to understand that we are using "meditation" for dhyana. Dhyana means a state of being where there is no thought, no object, no dream, no desire, nothing. just emptiness. In that emptiness you come to know your self. You discover the truth. You discover your subjectivity. It is perfect silence. ... MEDITATION Close your eyes and feel the whole universe filled with sound. Feel as if every sound is moving toward you and you are the center. This feeling that you are the center will give you a very deep peace. The whole universe becomes the circumference and you are the center, and everything is moving toward you, falling toward you. The center is without sound, that is why you can hear sounds - a sound cannot hear another sound. The center is absolute silence. That is why you can hear sounds entering you, coming to you, penetrating you, encircling you. ... SLEEP AND REST Falling Asleep: The Kelly Method •Lie either on your back or on either side, whichever you find more conducive to easy breathing. Make sure your room is dark, and well-ventilated. Use a pillow that is just high enough to keep your head straight, or perhaps tilted slightly back. Be sure not to have the head lean forward -- when it tilts slightly back, the throat and eye muscles are relaxed, and breathing is freer. ... TOXIN REMOVAL VIA EXERCISE & SAUNA Exercise provides many benefits such as toning muscles, burning off calories, raising endorphin levels. Another one of the benefits of exercise is to elevate the body's internal temperature and to expand clogged up capillary vessels in order to suck out old wastes or fat that you have stored for later use. Sitting in a hot FIR sauna also elevates body temperature, and thereby increases waste and toxin removal. FRAGRANCES Fragrances can induce or worsen respiratory problems, and have other negative effects. A majority of known fragrance chemicals are respiratory irritants, which cause inflammation. To deliberately expose the public to fragrance chemicals with the intent to alter their mood and manipulate their behavior, without their informed consent, in unethical.. TOXIC MOUTH Recommended Daily Dental Care: Avoid toothpaste containing methyl lauryl sulfate, fluorine or baking soda. Fluorine may affect the thyroid in the same way as chlorine does by displacing the iodine atom in the formation of thyroxine, the thyroid hormone. Baking soda, the common name for sodium bicarbonate is a sodium compound which is prohibited during the Gerson Therapy . ... ARTICLES ON ADDICTIONS: Food Addiction, Food Allergy and Overweight - are food allergies making you fat? Passion not Addiction - how to break addictive habits 4 out of 10 Americans are addicted Millions of Americans in Denial About Their Own Drug Abuse Nutrient Replacement in Alcoholism Stop Smoking! Start Breathing! Steps To Quit Smoking at Home How I Stopped Smoking by Dr. Baylac OTHER ARTICLES: Create your own miracle - eight simple steps
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