This Month's Question

My condition is the result of a medical procedure. Will the Healing Combinations still work for me?

The combinations will most likely help, not completely heal your condition. For example, if you are suffering from Hypothyroidism as a result of Radio Active Iodine (RAI) treatments, the Healing Combinations for Hypothyroidism will help you feel better and your body may start to heal your thyroid. It will take longer than it would had you not had the RAI treaments.

In addition, you also want to look at the issue that lead to you having your medical procedure. If you don't resolve those issues, they will manifest themselves elsewhere. Remember, you want to get to the root of your issue and resolve it.  

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It is the season of love or so the greeting card companies would have us believe.  For many of us, Valentines day is just another day when something is expected of us.  The article below, Love the One You're With, provides a fresh perspective on Valentines day.

February is also the month for focusing on your health; Heart, Weight and Mental health.  So, while you're loving the one your with, take a moment to love yourself too.

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Enjoy! And remember, if you have any questions, comments or concerns, please contact me.  We are here for you.

Take care,

Jackie

Love the One You're With

Do you want to lose weight?  These days, who doesn't?  This article is about the natural ways that you can lose weight.  The ancient methods of good old-fashioned healthy eating and exercise still work.  The spring is here, and it is the perfect time to make some lifestyle changes and shed some extra pounds.

No matter what the reason, successful weight loss and healthy weight management depend on sensible expectations. If you have reasonable expectations, chances are you'll be more likely to meet them and have a better chance of keeping the weight off.   Losing weight gradually can actually improve your health.

Drinking water is crucial to weight loss.  Most of your body weight is fluid anyway, and the initial pounds that you lose will consist of fluid.  Drinking water will help you to flush your system and stay well hydrated.  By consuming a healthy amount of water daily, you will cause your body to retain less water.  You will also feel more energized, because water aids the fluids in your body that circulate and bring nutrients to your cells.

Didn't your parents tell you to eat your vegetables?  It is true that they are good for you.  In fact, if you are trying to lose weight, vegetables can help.  Vegetables contain water, vitamins, fiber, and protein.  They can provide energy, and the fiber can help reduce your appetite.  Depending on how they are prepared, they are also much lower in calories than other foods.  Be sure to eat vegetables everyday.  (The same things are true for fresh fruit!)

Go for a walk as often as possible.  Why not make it a daily thing?  You can also take dancing lessons or practice a sport.  In other words: exercise.  The more you move your body, the more calories you will burn.  The more calories you burn, the more weight you will lose.  Make excuses to burn calories.  Rollerblade, go biking, go boating, or go to a park and throw a ball around.  Whatever you do, don't sit around all day.  The weather is nice, so go out and enjoy it.  Not only will it boost your mood, it will make you healthier, stronger, and lighter. 

One of the biggest keys to losing weight naturally is to the image you have of yourself.  As you gain weight, the image that you hold of yourself changes too.  To successfully lose weight, you must imagine yourself as the weight you want to be, not the weight you are.  Stand in front of the mirror, and imagine yourself looking and feeling like the ideal you.

Your self-talk also has to support your ideal weight.  Tell yourself that you weigh your ideal weight, or that you are wearing your desired dress size.  For some, this is an unbelievable task.  If that’s the case, then as you stand looking at yourself in the mirror, tell yourself that you are getting thinner or that you are getting closer to wearing the size you want.  After all, you’ve been eating sensibly and exercising a little, right? 

Bach Flower Focus: Gorse

 
The classic Gorse scenario involves people who suffer chronic diseases. They will have gone to many practitioners for treatment - always without success - and continue to go only for the sake of still-hopeful friends and family members. The Gorse individual has given up.

In Bach Flower Essence literature Gorse is described in relationship to chronic physical conditions. It also helps those whose chronic imbalance is mental, emotional, or spiritual. Gorse is for any imbalance about which someone has given up hope. This state thus assumes the dimensions of a vicious cycle, for feelings of hopelessness perpetuate and deepen the chronic imbalance.

Upon first glance, the Gorse individual appears to be a victim, helpless in the grips of a chronic condition, despite his/her valiant efforts to find help. If we look for deeply we can see how this condition meets the victim's needs.

One of these needs is for love and attention. When dear ones search for yet another doctor or cure, they are being nurturing and demonstrating their care and concern.

Also, any chronic condition provides useful protections. It would be cruel, for example, to criticize someone who's chronically depressed. The Gorse parent who is in poor health can't be expected to go on an overnight camping trip with her daughter's Girl Scout Trip.

On a deeper level the physical or other conditions of Gorse people protect them from challenges and growth, from taking risks, from possibly failing, from being afraid of the unknown.

Out of Nature's great wisdom, the gorse flower, like the mustard flower (for depression of unknown origins) is a radiant yellow hue. To see it growing on a hillside in England or Ireland is cause for cheerfulness.

Its results when taken internally are similar. The individual who takes Gorse usually ceases to look exclusively outward for help and becomes in touch with his own internal resources. He develops a new faith in the future, and often subtle healing methods, such as Reiki, have a positive effect on his well-being. Physical conditions may often be alleviated. If they are not they assume less importance.

When the chronic condition is other than physical the change may be even more dramatic. The quality of strength and hope can lead people to move forward in their lives with great courage and determination.

In the Next Issue:

• Spring Cleaning
• Stress Relief
• Bach Flower Focus: Gentian