What is health? What is illness? What is healing?
If you can recognize illness or disease as a balancing factor, a part of your wholeness that has been denied, then you will be able to find healing through expanding your awareness and seeking alternative concepts other than those that attempt to eradicate the illness through conventional treatment, leaving the body drained and fragmented.
It is when you get to this place of understanding that your entire personal philosophy undergoes a transformation that changes your attitude about illness and disease and automatically activates your basic healing system
within.
Illness or disease is [read more...]
True health comes from the inside out: Everything you are looking for you have right now.
Everything you need to truly be well has already been provided to you. If you want health, educate yourself, but be careful to not concentrate too heavily on disease. Believe in your body, and be aware that health assistance provided from the outside should facilitate who you are and what you have. Many interventions attempt to modulate disease by over-riding your innate intelligence instead of facilitating what is already “right” inside you. Although disease modulation is at times necessary — in fact it may be critical [read more...]
Breathe, Feel, Soften, Strengthen.
If your injury or illness is long standing, if you feel frustrated or agitated that you are just not improving as quickly as you want to be, or if your pain is nagging, annoying, and “always there,” consider the following 4 words: breathe, feel, soften, strengthen.
You can use these words whenever you are following your therapeutic exercise or yoga program. They will help give you greater gains.
Breathe: Close your eyes and become aware of your breath — notice your inhale and exhale. Notice how your breath feels, how it moves. The trick here is not to [read more...]
This astounding video recounts neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor’s experience of having a stroke. Not only is she able to contextualize the experience from a medical perspective, but she discovers that bliss may be a simple matter of “stepping to the right.” I also highly recommend her book, where she candidly offers her experience of recovery. A definite must for anyone with loved ones who have had a stroke. Also, In the process of recovery, she discovers that she has the power to reprogram her habitual patterns in order to make better choices. And isn’t that what [read more...]
Have you ever heard a crackle in your knees as you stood up from a squat? Do your shoulders creak during lateral raises? Or maybe you’ve heard a “pop” deep inside your hip socket when you ease into Warrior II pose.
These cracking, creaking, popping sounds coming from your joints can be disconcerting, even embarrassing, but medical experts say most of them are harmless.
Normal movement causes some cracking and creaking in even the healthiest joints and cartilage. Some noises, though, are the result of cartilage damage from injury, loss of muscle tissue or conditions such as osteoarthritis.
Understanding what causes joint sounds [read more...]
