Natural Living in the US

I just got my flower and veggie gardens started, I am trying to find a natural way to keep common garden pests off my plants.

www.hayhouse.com This Leading Edge DVD program is by Esther and Jerry Hicks, who present the teachings of the Non-Physical consciousness Abraham. In workshops held between 2006 and 2008, Abraham responded numerous times to questions about losing weight. This video presentation was compiled from ten of those workshops, and constitutes one of the most effective guides to natural weight loss ever created. Rather than recommending diet and exercise, Abraham teaches you how to modify your thoughts to take advantage of the awesome leverage provided by the Law of Attraction.

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Your Amazing Healing System

Despite great advances in medical research the Western World is beset with health problems associated with poor lifestyles of too much stress, too little exercise and poor diets. Our solution is to seek medical assistance from doctors, who tend to see the problem in isolation and provide quick-fix help in the form of pharmaceutical drugs, often with side effects that cause more problems.

The first step in achieving a return to good health, is recognising that we all should take responsibility for our own health, and decide that illnesses generally is nature’s way of telling us that something is amiss and needs to be corrected. When disease occurs, if we assist our body’s natural healing system to function, there is no reason why any condition cannot be cured.

Natural health is the normal state of our bodies and illness is unnatural. Our healing system is designed to keep the body in balance. The body knows how to heal itself as any cut or scrape will show as the natural healing system gets into action. Over time the body repairs itself and with new skin in place there is little evidence of any injury. Not only will our bodies repair skin injuries but will also heal any condition within the body, given the right circumstances. There are many examples of various diseases being completely cured when the body’s all-powerful healing system is triggered and given the right tools.

These tools include nutrition, exercise, stress management and the right mental approach and belief that nothing cannot be cured. As long as we have breath, any condition can be healed. Research in this new field of natural health is uncovering many instances of miraculous healings.

There are many doctors who are now leading the research into the body’s natural healing system, among them Dr Dean Ornish and Art Brownstein M.D. A pioneer in the field in New Zealand in the 1930′s was Dr. Ulric Williams, who stated that when he forgot 95% of what he learned in medical school he was able to help patients with chronic medical conditions.

Dr Williams approach was to find what was the prime cause of the patient’s condition and then get them to stop what they were doing and allow the natural healing system to repair the body. All of the above doctors recognise that the body works together with the soul and the spirit to bring about natural healing.

To help correct any disease we need to understand how our body functions and what we need to do to assist the natural healing system in action. Dr Art Brownstein’s book Extraordinary Healing: The Amazing Power of Your Body’s Secret Healing System is an excellent manual that gives an overview on the subject while Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease: The Only System Scientifically Proven to Reverse Heart Disease Without Drugs or Surgery relates to the biggest killer in the land. Both books give valuable information on how the body heals itself without the use of drugs or surgery and both come highly recommended. When the right conditions of exercise, diet and spirituality are applied it is amazing to see how the body heals itself.

www.thenaturalguide.com Host Jennifer Kamstock explains what types of supplements to buy for regular use that will improve health. Written and produced by Larry Cook, author of The Beginner’s Guide to Natural Living. Distributed by Tubemogul.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is a condition that many people suffer from when their colon is irritable or spastic. IBS symptoms include constipation, diarrhea, stomach pain, gas or cramping. Several names for these common disorders have appeared over the years. These include nervous indigestion, functional dyspepsia, irritable colon, spastic colon, colitis, functional bowel disease, and mucous colitis.

Three main factors are significant in the pathogenesis of IBS. (1) Colonic motor activity is abnormally high in patients with colonic pain, particularly after meals or emotional stress. (2) Psychological stress — Many with IBS exhibit symptoms of colonic imbalance at times of stress. It’s commonly associated with a nervous disorder and anxiety. (3) Diet — IBS has been linked to food allergies. Therefore, a food sensitivity test may be helpful. Foods which are reported to provoke IBS symptoms include wheat, dairy, caffeinated anything, citrus fruits, and alcohol.

After your doctor has made a definitive diagnosis, then the two of you can work together to find a treatment that will work for you. Your doctor will help you to find a treatment method that will help decrease your symptoms so that you can live your life as normally as possible. Follow your doctor’s recommendations so that you can find the right treatment for you. After you and your doctor have worked out your treatment options, you can start to make some changes in your life. IBS does not have to run your life. You can live a full and productive life if you learn how to cope with your IBS symptoms.

One step that will most likely be recommended is that you keep track of the foods that you eat so that you can find the triggers of your IBS symptoms. Good sleep habits are very important in dealing with any health condition, including IBS. Several studies show that IBS sufferers who get fewer than eight hours of sleep each night experience more IBS symptoms than sufferers who get more than eight hours of sleep per night. This natural treatment for IBS is free to you. You only have to get yourself on a regular sleep schedule so that you can give your body the sleep that it needs.

Yoga is a wonderful way to decrease your stress levels and a wonderful natural treatment for IBS. If you have done yoga before, you most likely know what benefits it can give to your body and mind. Yoga focuses on the mind and body connection, which is very helpful to IBS sufferers. Some yoga positions can even improve your digestion, which will help your IBS symptoms. Yoga can even be done in the privacy of your own home.

Hypnosis is one of the options that you may want to consider to help control your IBS. Hypnosis helps in reducing your stress levels, which in turn can help decrease your IBS symptoms. Being more relaxed and less stressed by learning how to be more positive about your life can help to decrease the severity and the frequency of your IBS bouts. A hypnotist will not be needed as often after you learn self-hypnotherapy. Self-hypnotherapy is, in essence, a deep state of meditation. If you will make the effort to make this a part of your day and life, you will find that your stress levels will decrease and you will have better health, including fewer IBS symptoms.

All these methods are in the category of naturopathy. However, they are all alternative medicine therapies mainly to prevent diseases from occurring. Generally speaking, effective treatment results can be obtained using these methods to many chronic diseases; however, to other acute or some serious diseases, plant medicine should be followed. It can manifest the effectiveness of disease treatment better with the coordination of plant medicine. Natural medicines for IBS are based on advancements made in medicinal plants as they apply to virology, immunology, and dermatology.

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If you’re looking for a natural treatment alternative and a boost to your practice, homeopathy may be the answer. At least, so says Dr. Gill Gilly. The 83-year-old naturopath says he studied homeopathy in Europe after his “retirement” as a minister because he’d seen a little of what the natural healing method could accomplish.
“I’d seen great, fantastic results, and I wanted to know more about it,” shares Dr. Gilly.
Gilly, who was born in a small town in Oklahoma, says their only town doctor was a homeopath who also did manipulations–thus introducing Dr. Gilly to natural medicine and chiropractic at an early age. That and other encounters throughout his life eventually led him to a new career in homeopathy. Because of his exposure to both homeopathy and chiropractic, he quickly saw how the two could fit together.
“The average patient today is always looking for the magic pill. They’re used to taking medicine,” explains Gilly. “The people who actually try chiropractic realize the adjustments and the treatments maintain their health, but they like to feel they’re doing something, too.”
Gilly says many chiropractors are aware of homeopathy’s effectiveness, but don’t realize how it can benefit their practice. That’s why he sometimes comes out of retirement to conduct seminars that show DCs exactly what homeopathy can do for them.
“A lot of doctors have heard of homeopathy, they realize what it can do, but I try to give not just the background, but a really strong, working knowledge,” says Dr. Gilly. One example, he says, is his workshop at the International Chiropractic Appreciation Mega Event (ICAME) in Las Vegas in January. “My workshop will help doctors understand how and why it works with them.”
Another reason Gilly says homeopathy is such a good fit for chiropractors is that it isn’t time-consuming or difficult…or dangerous.
“The average doctor today, whether a medical doctor, chiropractor, naturopath or dentist, concentrates on a specialty,” he says. “That’s why homeopathy is so good, because it can do no harm. It’s never going to have a side-effect.”
Dr. Gilly also says that, while chiropractic care can be effective for many conditions, homeopathy can bridge the gaps, such as joint pain from arthritis.
“People who have discomfort can get relief from the discomfort. Homeopathy can help a patient respond quicker to your adjustments. And, of course, that builds your reputation as a healer.”
And, Gilly says, boosting your reputation as a healer can boost your practice to almost unheard-of levels.
“With homeopathy, you can support the treatment you’re giving, and you can do it harmlessly and effectively. In fact, it usually surpasses the expected results of both the patient and the doctor. The doctor that uses homeopathy sees his practice go right through the roof,” he says.
“When someone who has been to ten other doctors comes to your practice and starts getting results, they can’t wait to tell all their friends and relatives. Within a very short time, it builds.”

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