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Which Breathing Technique Tests Best?
Posted by: | CommentsIn an earlier post, I talked about a way of breathing recommended by HeartMath, in which you breathe with awareness and appreciation into your heart area. This helps your body get into “coherence,” where everything is in balance as measured by Heart Rate Variability.
HeartMath recommends a paced breathing, e.g. 5 breaths in, 5 breaths out, in an even rhythm.
Other people recommend breathing out slightly longer than breathing in, claiming it does something in the brain to turn off the stress response. For instance, I just heard a teleseminar for Highly Sensitive People in which Julie Bjelland shared a breathing technique that uses the 4-2-7 rhythm: breathe in for a count of 4, hold for 2 seconds, exhale for a count of 7.
Dr. Andrew Weil advocates the 4-7-8 rhythm as best, which is what I’ve been using most.
Other people suggest a 7-11 or 5-8 breathing pattern–no holding of the breath.
I thought it would be fun to test all these techniques with my EmWave, a portable device for measuring Heart Rate Variability, the test used to measure the coherence of the autonomic nervous system.
Which technique got me into the “green zone” (coherence) quickest (like the “appreciation graph above), which sustained it best? Read on! Read More→
Breathing “By Heart” for Stress Relief
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I am using it to test various healing and healing prayer methods, and what it’s revealing is quite interesting. I recommend it for helping you to find ways to get out of stress mode.
The Best Healing Music: Wholetones
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I started using Wholetones some time ago because so many clients raved about it, but only more recently have I begun to use them when doing my Healing Codes.
What was I waiting for?!
What I’ve found is that Wholetones causes shifts in my issue much quicker than before—often, a significant shift happens daily! I am totally hooked on Wholetones and recommend them.
So what are Wholetones?
Wholetones: The Healing Frequency Music Project was created by Michael Tyrell, an accomplished author, speaker, and well-known musician. He began developing it after he met a piano player in Israel who gave him what appeared to be a simple manuscript. Inside that manuscript was the music that would change Michael’s life forever. As he began working with it, he discovered seven hidden musical frequencies that had the power to heal the mind, body, and spirit.
This is what makes Wholetones unlike anything else of its kind. Since its release in November, 2014, thousands of people are feeling better than they have in years and they’ve flooded Michael with letters to say Wholetones is the reason.
These 7 unique “Musical Tones” are found to: Read More→
Overcome the Main Pitfall of Gluten-Free
Posted by: | CommentsI have been gluten-free for a number of years, and I’m sure it’s been a good thing.
However, when listening to Dr. Alan Christianson’s talk on the Healing Power of Food Summit, I learned that there is on potential pitfall of going wheat or gluten-free.
Wheat contains a lot of what’s called “resistant starch,” which is the kind of food that feeds the good gut bacteria and leads to healthy digestion—and overall health. Scientists now know that our health is largely dependent on how diverse and healthy our gut microbiome is.
Cutting out wheat cuts out a main source of important resistant starch. But never fear! Dr. Christianson gave specific things to do to make up for the the lack.
1. Eat a variety of root vegetables. Root vegetables excel at providing resistant starch. “Buy all the root vegetables you can find in a grocery store, and eat at least one kind/day,” Dr. Christianson advised. Here is my recipe for roasted root veggies.
2. Eat at least one item from a “prebiotic foods” list every day. You can Google “list of prebiotic foods” and come up with a bunch, but here are some for starters that are readily available:
- asparagas
- onions and leeks
- flax seeds, hemp seeds
- garlic
- apples
- bananas
- cocoa (yes!)
- sweet potatoes
- cabbage
- berries
3. Stewed apples. When you cook apples a little, you release the pectin, which is a great prebiotic food apparently. Chop up about 4 apples, spoon-sized pieces, put them in a pot with a little water, and simmer for 5 minutes or so, until the skins get shiny. Add a little cinnamon, maybe some raisins, and you’ve got a great addition to breakfast! (I eat this along with an egg and my smoothie that has berries, flax seeds among other things, so I’ve got a great start to my day.)
The ONE THING That Will Make or Break Your Health
Posted by: | CommentsI had no idea I was doing something on a daily (well, nightly) basis that was so damaging to my health: Not getting enough sleep.
I thought, like many people, that because I always woke up before the alarm went off, I was getting enough sleep. Usually it was 6-6.5 hours.
After even one night of less than 5 hours of sleep, natural killer cells (which kill cancer cells that appear in your body every day) drop by 70%. Just one night!
And routinely sleeping less than 6 or 7 hours a night increases your risk of cancer by 50%. And, “based on epidemiological data, any adult sleeping and average of 6.75 hours a night would be predicted to live only into their early sixties….” (p. 262). In an interview on NPR with Terry Gross, Walker said, “We also know that every disease that is killing us in developed nations has causal and significant links to a lack of sleep. And a lack of sleep defined as six hours of sleep or less.”
Yikes!
Walker cites many amazing studies, on everything from the sleep habits of various species, to what happened when high schools moved their start time an hour later (70% fewer car accidents, 212 points more on the SAT tests!). He calls himself “the sleep diplomat” and is out to help people understand the importance of sleep for our health and even societal well-being.
Take car crashes, for instance. Driving when drowsy is actually more dangerous than driving drunk!
He also points out that sleeping pills, alcohol and other drugs merely sedate you, they don’t help you get naturalistic sleep. Your “sleep” will not restore you as it’s meant to.
Though Walker takes a decidedly evolutionary approach, what he says about the function of sleep made me marvel at how God created us, and gave us this amazing, FREE source of nightly rejuvenation.
If only we will take it seriously….
Few books have actually changed my behavior. This one has.
What tipped me over the edge was learning that you can’t judge whether you’re sleep-deprived. You get acclimated to impaired performance, lower alertness, and reduced energy levels.
The bottom line is: If you’re not getting around 8 hours of sleep per night, you’re sleep deprived and are undermining your long-term health.
I am determined to get to bed earlier so that I can get my 8 hours of sleep that human beings apparently always need. Nothing can substitute.
As I address this issue in myself, I’m seeing just how many “heart issues” are involved. If you struggle with insomnia, I encourage you to read this book, work on whatever “heart issues” are preventing you from getting enough sleep. Follow the suggestions below, and get more help if you need it.
This one thing–getting enough sleep–may
literally save your life.
Here are some suggestions from the book on how to get more and better sleep:
- Establish a regular bedtime and sake-up time, even on weekends.
- Go to bed only when sleepy and avoid sleeping on the couch early/mid-evenings.
- Never lie awake in bed for a significant time period; rather, get out of bed and do something quiet and relaxing until the urge to sleep returns.
- Avoid daytime napping if you are having difficulty sleeping at night.
- Reduce anxiety-provoking thoughts and worries by learning to mentally decelerate before bed (here’s where Healing Codes come in!).
- Remove visible clockfaces from view in the bedroom, preventing clock-watching anxiety at night. Also all screens, and don’t look at any screens at least an hour before bed.
There is an appendix with twelve other suggestions. Highly recommend the book!
And if you need help in finding and addressing the “heart issues” that may be undermining your ability to get a good night’s sleep every night, feel free to contact me for some Healing Codes coaching.
Boosting Oxytocin–The Love and Joy Hormone
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Did you know that there’s a place in your brain that literally lights up when you’re with someone who is glad to see you, glad to be with you?
And that when these “joy centers” or “relational circuits” light up, a certain hormone–oxytocin–releases into your body and does all kinds of wonderful things to you, including promoting healing?
When your Relational Circuits are ON, you can live in love, joy, and peace, even if your circumstances are not so ideal.
When they are Off, you are in fear and stress mode. Then another hormone–cortisol–takes over, and that does bad things to your body over time.
So how do you know whether your Relational Circuits (RCs) are on or off?
Here’s how you feel when they’re OFF:
- You just want to make a problem, person or feeling go away.
- You don’t want to listen to what others feel or say.
- Your mind is “locked onto” something upsetting.
- You don’t want to be connected to ___ (someone you usually like).
- You just want to get away, or fight, or freeze.
- You more aggressively interrogate, judge and try to fix others.
If you answered yes to any of these, your Relational Circuits are OFF.
And having your RCs off “is like trying to see with your eyes closed or driving your car at night with the headlights off!” No fun–even dangerous.
So how do you turn them back on, so that you see the person as more important than the problem, and can operate from love, respect, humility, and peace?
There are things you can do with your body to actually help you “wake up” your RCs. Read More→
How to Deal with Heavy Metal Toxins
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I have to admit, I’m a bit “summited out.”
Maybe you are, too.
But the “Heavy Metals Summit” that started on Monday, I’ve just have had to make time for. (Or else buy.)
Here’s why. My husband is in the process of having 6 or 7 mercury amalgam fillings removed by a biological dentist. She is being very, very careful.
After other summits I’ve attended and research I’ve done, I am sure my husband’s symptoms are due to heavy metal toxicity, at least from the mercury, if not other things as well.
I learned from Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt from another summit that the trifecta of heavy metals, mold, and Wi-Fi signals all exacerbate each other.
The Wi-Fi makes the mold in the air more toxic. Simultaneously, if you’ve got any mercury amalgam fillings in your mouth, the Wi-Fi also releases mercury vapor much more quickly, and it goes straight to the brain. Wi-Fi also does something with some enzymes in the body that normally would enable the body to detoxify from heavy metals and mold.
There is a video called “smoking tooth” on YouTube that shows how mercury vapor from a slight abrasion of an amalgam filling can release vapors into the mouth–and the brain.
I asked two dentists and two doctors about this, whether it was valid, and they had no response for me. One just shrugged and changed the subject.
When I was a child, we used to play with the mercury from a broken thermometer. Do I have mercury in my system from that? No doubt.
Even if you’ve never out of ignorance played with mercury, or had any “silver” fillings, it’s hard to escape these toxins, unfortunately. They are in our air, water, cosmetics, food.
What we can do is empower our bodies to deal with them.
This summit will give many ideas how to do that.
Know that doing Healing Codes to get rid of the stress of unconscious negative memories is important. In fact, Nikki Gratrix will be a featured speaker, and she talks about how unhealed emotional issues block the body’s ability to heal.
I am also using the Halo Detox vial quite often. I believe it is helping both my husband and me, though I have to admit, I did have some “healing responses” from it. Evidence that it’s working, though! (For more information about
I encourage you to register for this summit, and want you to know that if you should choose to buy it, the half-price sale ends Feb. 5. There will be a replay over the weekend, I believe.
(So if you’re not into the Superbowl, you can learn how to improve your health!)
Foods that Heal Your Gut
Here’s something very practical I learned from the Summit.
First, if you have a healthy gut, that goes a long way to protecting you and helping you detox. We are largely made up of microbes, called the microbiome, and these are epigenetical agents that can switch bad genes off and good genes on.
Some foods feed the good gut bacteria; these are called prebiotic foods. I learned from the Heavy Metals Summit (think it was one of the ones from Day 1, possibly Tom O’Bryan’s), that root vegetables are prebiotic foods. He suggested 1-2 servings of root vegetables. I have a medley of root veggies roasting in the oven even as I type! (If you want the recipe, go here.)
Fermented foods such as kimchi (just tried it–love it!), sauerkraut and other fermented foods actually add the good gut bacteria. He suggested getting as many different kinds of fermented foods as you can, and rotate every day, taking a forkful at least a day. (I usually have some at lunch.)
That talk was a godsend to me, because I had gone to the natural foods store to find probiotics, and left without buying anything, overwhelmed a bit by the choices and the prices. I’d much rather take O’Bryan’s suggestions and get the good stuff from my foods. I already feel a difference!
Do Healing Codes Stimulate the Vagus Nerve–and Stem Cells?
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I am super excited about the new docuseries, The Healing Miracle, about stem cells and how they can help our own bodies heal themselves.
I’ve written often about my belief that the body can heal itself. Here is yet another possible way it can do that.
Since I haven’t seen this series yet myself–it’s brand new–I can’t say what it’s about yet.
But I will be watching and taking notes, because I’ve long believed that the body can heal itself, if only we can find ways to help it do that.
And I’ve wondered if somehow, The Healing Codes stimulate stem cells, and that’s why so many different maladies heal when people do Healing Codes regularly.
I’ve pondered the possible relationship between stem cells and the vagus nerve, so I did some research on that. More on that below, but first, let’s look at the vagus nerve connection. Read More→
Live Within YOUR Biorhythm
Posted by: | CommentsDo you know when the best time is for you to sleep, eat, do your Healing Codes?
Last week I took a quiz to find out what my “chronotype” is. Perhaps you saw the link on my Facebook page and have already taken it.
If not, I encourage you to take the “power of when quiz” and learn when is the best time for you to sleep, etc.
If you get Dr. Breus’s book, The Power of When, you will know when to do just about everything according to your chronotype.
This book actually set me free from guilt. Read More→
THE Key to Health
Posted by: | CommentsRecently I watched the experts from the Parasite Summit, and oh my–I just had to mention this to you.
Because many of my clients come to me to find healing from symptoms for which doctors don’t have answers, I want to mention that several of the experts talked about two things.
#1: Parasites are much more prevalent than many people–including doctors–think, and are often at root of “mystery diseases.” This includes autoimmune, digestive, brain issues, chronic fatigue, diabetes, hypoglycemia, and many others. If you have had trouble getting an accurate diagnosis, consider that parasites may be at the source.
#2: The key to health is to get the body into a state of homeostasis.
The world of health is going through a major paradigm shift. For instance, the outdated version of gut health and even oral health is, “Get rid of the bacteria. Bacteria are always harmful.”
Well, now we know that even so-called “bad bacteria” actually are not toxic unless they are not in the right balance with the rest of the microbiome of the mouth or the
gut.
Which gets me back to what I’m so passionate about: equipping the body to heal itself.
The goal of every system in the body is homeostasis.
Even doing healthy things, such as “oil pulling” or using certain essential oils, can strip the microbiome in the mouth of bacteria that are necessary.
But if there’s an overgrowth, we think that we need to wipe out that bacteria completely, when what we have to do is restore the correct balance so that the body can get rid of what shouldn’t be there.
And that’s why I’m so enthusiastic about the HALO Light System. One of the main functions of the HALO therapy is to foster a healthy microbiome in the body.
The HALO loads the body with anything it would need to get rid of what doesn’t serve it (and yes, there is a vial that equips the body to get rid of parasites).
In fact, after listening to several of these talks, I’ve decided to use the Anti-Parasite vial regularly.
And how does this relate to The Healing Codes?
Well, as you rid yourself of the stress caused by the unhealed memories, negative emotions, and lies in the heart, you free up that much more of the body’s resources to fight infections and heal diseases.
In fact, many of the presenters at the Parasite Summit mentioned the importance of dealing with emotional and spiritual factors. And Chris Wark devoted two sessions of his Cancer Coaching Program to the importance of dealing with the emotional and spiritual issues so that you can heal.
(Chris’s program is still airing free, by the way–replay weekend. A client recently told me how much she feels it’s helped her.)
So it’s always a two-pronged approach: you get rid of the toxins as best you can (including the emotional and spiritual toxins), and you equip the body with as many resources as you can that promote healing: nutrition, sleep, clean water, and plant-based medicinals such as herbs, essential oils, or the HALO. (Which delivers 100% of a vast array of botanicals through photon light therapy.)
Speaking of the HALO Light System, if you would like to know more about my personal results from using it since early April 2017, my HALO experiments, or the interview I did with Robert Quintanilla from HALO, please sign up here.
