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Simple Holistic Pet Care—Part 2 of 6
In Part 1, I discussed the importance of making sure your pet has a healthy diet.Minimize VaccinesAt my clinic, we recommend an annual blood antibody test called a titer test to determine if and when your pet might need vaccinations.• If the titer is low, your pet might need a vaccine.• If the titer is normal, no vaccine is needed.Rabies vaccination is a different case....
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Calm Mind, Loving Heart
"Enlightenment cannot be attained, nor forced. It can only happen … It can appear only when it is given a vacant space to appear in." — Nisargadatta Have you noticed that your capacity to feel and express love is inversely related to the level of tension in your mind and body? When we are problem solving and working on survival issues, the higher order emotions, such as love and compassi...
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The Sunscreen Myth
Approximately 85% of North Americans are vitamin D deficient. As a direct result of that statistic, about two million of you will die from cancer each year. Regardless of what supplements you take, the single best source of vitamin D is sun exposure. Your body has a built-in mechanism that increases blood levels of vitamin D if you are not getting enough sun exposure and decreases the blood levels...
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Living a Healthier Life
Hi everyone. I just finished my first live broadcast and I am psyched! Your emails of congrats and well wishes mean so much to me—I feel like Sally Field when she accepted her Academy Award a number of years ago and said to the audience, “You like me, you really like me!” I think the show went very well. I had 48 minutes and did it in 47 minutes and 50 seconds. Not bad, eh! During this first sh...
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You Are Invited!
You are cordially invited to the opening night of my new Global Talk Radio show, called Living a Healthier Life. In this live broadcast, I'll be discussing how the body works so you can make the right decisions about your own health care. Listen in on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 10:00 p.m. EST / 7:00 p.m. PT Just click on the Global Talk Radio link. Then click on Schedule near the top left. ...
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Nature's Abundance
Yesterday I was walking through the enchanted forest. I was astounded. I'd been away for three weeks and when I left, the forest was dull, brown,and begging for color (at least from my perspective). What I saw were spring flowers called trilliums everywhere, along with leaves that seemed to be sprouting as I stood there. Then it hit me: We as human beings often forget that the abundance we se...
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Are You Dancing?
While out shopping this weekend, I was in a store where they have all these earthy, creative signs, jewellery, and meditative CDs. On one of the framed plaques was the quote from William Purkey that read: “Dance like no one is watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like no one is listening, and live like it's heaven on earth." It made me smile. A short while later I was pro...
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Are You In the Flow? Or Stopping It?
Last night I was at a concert, and in the middle of the concert they let go big yellow balloons with the logo of the event. It was a ball (literally) volleying these balloons amongst tens of thousands of people, just watching the balls fly around and touch everyone, letting the energy take each ball to the next player. Fun!! Such an amazing flow. Then some people got the idea to keep the balls. As...
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Ear Infection Home Remedy Protocol
When my son was two years old he developed an ear infection for the first time in his right ear. At the time, he had a milk allergy so we were trying our best not to feed him any dairy. However, a week before he developed the ear infection I had given him some goat yogurt to try and shake up his diet. His pediatrician told me that because it was a viral infection (and not bacterial in...
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Walking in Beauty
As I walk, as I walk The universe is walking with me In beauty it walks before me In beauty it walks behind me In beauty it walks below me In beauty it walks above me Beauty is on every side As I walk, I walk with beauty. — Traditional Navajo Prayer How do you see the world? Is it full of ugliness or is it full of beauty? A stunningly beautiful sunset was pointed out to a troubled young man some y...
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Simple Holistic Pet Care—Part 1 of 6
In my practice, I integrate conventional therapies (when appropriate) with complementary therapies. These alternative treatments may include acupuncture, magnetic therapy, homeopathy, homotoxicology, nutritional therapy, and Chinese or Western herbal therapy. Our approach is to minimize conventional medications and say "NO" to drugs when appropriate.While each pet is different, t...
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Who Needs You?
My brand new baby girl has been having some digestion problems that may be bordering on infant colic. Terrible to watch someone so small, especially your own child, go through that. Late this afternoon I gave my wife a break and tried to settle the baby. I was finally able to get her to fall asleep on my chest all wrapped up in blankets while I was reclined back on the bed. When she finally fell a...
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Healthy Food Connection
I have always had this love/hate relationship with my bathroom scale. When the numbers reflect a weight loss, I praise its name. But when it does the opposite, I complain to my husband that the scale is off and we need to purchase a new one. I think he finally caught on when I purchased two new scales in less than a year. I thought about a gastric bypass but I am not heavy enough. I could do what ...
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Don't Have a Plan B
Oh, how often we allow ourselves to get faked out into settling for less than we want. Less than we deserve. I spoke with a client earlier today who is going through a challenge. We all go through them. During the conversation about this challenge, it was brought up that what had been defined as the client’s goal would now likely have to change as a result of the situation. I could feel myself alm...
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Recipes with Rosehips
Roses are beautiful flowers. Not only can you enjoy the loveliness and fragrance—and even the taste if you add the petals to your salad—but after the flowering, you can reap the benefits of what remains: the rosehips. The rosehips from any rose can be used. They were and are an important food for all Native tribes. Harvest the fruits after the first frost when they become fully red-colored, but n...
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An Ode to Twitter Ft. Ellen Degeneres
Three years ago, in the Social Media zone, A website was born and was fairly unknown. Three guys from Silicon Valley––Jack, Evan and Biz–– Launched Twitter, a real-time information network, that is. From scribbles written on Jack’s yellow pad, The microblogging site has become quite a fad.The secret to Twitter is how people us...
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Welcome to the Twitterverse
Im a mix between a Type A and Type B personality. I work way too hard and Im a perfectionist, but I do believe in making time for family and friends. And if youre like me, the latter point can be hard because of our hectic schedules, family responsibilities and work commitments.Enter the real-time, information network (or so they like to refer to it): Twitter.I was first introduced to...
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Spiritual Resistance
Times of growth are beset with difficulties ... But these difficulties arise from the profusion of all that is struggling to attain form. Everything is in motion: Therefore, if one perseveres there is a prospect of great success. — Ching Resistance is a term used in psychotherapy to indicate actions by the patient that block progress in therapy. The patient often is not conscious of the resistance...
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Mind Tuning
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are." — Marcus Aurelius The human mind is a tuned instrument. A piano tuner uses tuning forks to strike precise tones and calibrate the keys of the piano to those tones. A guitar player might use a pitch pipe to tune the guitar. If the string vibrates at the correct frequ...
Read more...Not Just About Manipulation
In my clinic, I use other healing modalities in conjunction with spinal and extraspinal manipulation.Examples of healing modalities to look for from your chiropractor are: Low level laser therapy Nutrition therapy Color therapy Sound therapy Brain balance techniques Utrasound Ice Heat Soft tissue work Postural correction exercis...
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Judge Yourself Much?
Self-judgment? Yes, we all do it. We judge ourselves at some point or another. Judgments you pass on yourself later in life are usually reflections of judgments made on you by another earlier in life. Either way, they did not originate from truth, but from another who felt diminished and judged at some point in their life, too. Self-judgment always comes from buying another person's version o...
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Spring, Roses, and Rosehips
Spring has definitely come to Texas. Our wildflowers are blooming along the our roads, thanks to Lady Bird Johnson’s efforts to beautify our landscapes. My hubbie’s pink fragrant rugosa rose (Rosa rugosa) is also blooming, which takes me to today’s topic: rosehips. Rosehips are the fruit (seed pod) of the rose. We don’t see them very much any more because most folks prune their roses after they bl...
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ABCs of Pet Health Care
Anesthesia can be safe for all pets—both young and old—IF the correct anesthesia is chosen for the pet’s needs.Believe in your gut feelings. You know your pet best. If you think there is something wrong and your doctor won’t listen to you, get another opinion.Communication is extremely important. If you and your veterinarian can’t communicate effectively, your pet’s health is in jeopa...
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The Necessity of Forgiving
"To forgive is to set yourself free, to acknowledge that it does no good to hate." — Ruby Bridges Hall Some people resist forgiving others because they think it is unreasonable to do such a favor to one who has wronged them. They may be missing the truth that forgiving is necessary for healing, and it is the forgiving person who benefits most. When someone has done us wrong, we feel hu...
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When Things Don't Come in "You" Time
The energy is moving so fast, isn't it? That feeling of urgency inside of you, calling you toward your purpose. Well actually, to be accurate, that feeling of urgency inside you is actually a feeling that your aliveness is coming back. Sometimes we get that confused with needing to be somewhere right away. Everything always happens in Universally guided, totally cosmic, perfect timing—not yo...
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Why Do We Need Earth Day?
One day we will realize that the environment merely reflects the degree to which we have forgotten who we are. Until that day, the Earth's symptoms give us an excuse to do something nice for something other than ourselves. When we give, we remember who we are. If we knew how magnificent we are and we treated ourselves with the care and compassion that Creation does, there would be no need fo...
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Get Through or Get From the Day
Fascinating really just how many choices we are subjected to each day. What to eat for breakfast? What information to take in? What conversations to have? What music or radio station to listen to? How quickly to jump from the brake to the gas when the light turns green? Consider the choices we make each day as the colors on the canvas of our lives. Do we want big bold brush strokes that make an im...
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Does L-Arginine Cause Heart Attacks?
Dear Dr. Rona: I recently read your excellent article in which you recommend L-arginine as a supplement for testosterone. However, the bottle of 500 mg capsules prohibits use if a patient has had a heart attack. I had one in 1988 and have since had a bypass. Would you still recommend L-arginine? M L-Arginine is a precursor of nitric oxide, a substance that improves circulation by dilating the art...
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Training Journal—Chapter 5
Saturday, April 18, 2009 Weight: 156.0 pounds It's show time. Two months to go until the FAME Pro Masters World Championships in Montreal, Canada. I'm in my Game Day contest prep mode. I'm ready to lock and load and take dead aim at the prize. With eight weeks to go, I'm about eight pounds from my stage weight. I will spend the next two months lifting hard, increasing my cardio...
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Reconciliation
When we have forgiven wrongs done to us or acknowledged wrongs we have done, there is still more work to do. We must find a way to heal the separation. How to Achieve True Reconciliation The 12-Step tradition of Alcoholics Anonymous and Emotions Anonymous devotes two steps specifically to this process. The two steps to healing the separation are: 8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and b...
Read more...Eleuthero: Adaptogen Supreme
Eleuthero, which used to be called Siberian ginseng, is a wonderful herb that helps us adapt to stress—hence it is called an adaptogen in herbalese. It also is a tonic, meaning that it helps restore and invigorate our bodies through the synergistic interactions of all its components with our body. There have been many scientific studies that demonstrate daily use has resulted in an increased abil...
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Anxiety in Pets
One of the more common behavior problems for which I am consulted involves anxiety-related issues in dogs and cats. The problems range from simply being anxious when going to the doctor’s office or grooming shop, to thunderstorm phobias, all the way to severe separation anxiety. While behavior modification is very important in dealing with any type of anxiety and phobia (and should not be replaced...
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Why Do Americans Eat So Poorly?
Why do Americans eat so poorly? This question is not so difficult to answer—and yet food manufacturers, universities and pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars in research and develop to determine the cause. I think many of us could easily offer our accurate thoughts on the subject. Below are just a few of my own; feel free to add your own.
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Sitting Like a Buoy
"Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water. Yet for attacking the solid and strong, nothing is better; It has no equal. The weak can overcome the strong; The supple can overcome the stiff. Under heaven everyone knows this, Yet no one puts it into practice." — Tao Te Ching 78 Let’s practice a meditation that will help us maintain our suppleness and balance.
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The Importance of Maintaining Good Posture
One of the most common reasons I see people in my office for health problems is faulty posture.Having poor posture will almost guarantee that you’ll have chiropractic structural problems. Luckily postural faults need not plague you—if you get proper chiropractic spinal and extremity adjustments and are put on a postural rehabilitation program.What Constitutes Good Posture?If you ...
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Be Inspired—Not Impressed
One woman was on the verge of hysterics because she was quite sure she was able to see part of his hand waving from her vantage point about 60 yards away before he was swallowed up inside the Parliament buildings in Ottawa. The visit of the 44th President of the United States—Barak Obama—to Canada marked his first official state visit to another country. The visit mixed the challenges of our share...
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Retroactive Miracles
You know how sometimes stuff is happening to you and you can't see how it would work out well? And then two months down the road when you actually take a look at your present moment, you see that it was the best thing that ever happened to you? I call that a retroactive miracle. The key is to assume that whatever happens is perfect while it's happening—instead of waiting for two months b...
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Inner Climate Control
"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." — Mark Twain Most of us let our moods be affected by the weather. When it is sunny out, we feel brighter. When it is cloudy and rainy, we may feel blue. There are physiological reasons for this. Our nervous system responds to light. Some people with Seasonal Affective Disorder are particularly sensitive to light or a...
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Adaptogens for Stress
An adaptogen is an herb that helps our bodies adapt (hence the name) to all kinds of stresses in our lives, both physical and emotional. These herbs are used long-term. Adaptogens can gently help our bodies recover and rebuild after a single physical event, like surgery or an accident. They can also help with more long-term conditions, like chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
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Stop Fixing and Start Creating
So often we put attention on what we are missing, how we are not there yet with our body, our income, our career. That is such a waste. If you spend most of your energy on trying to fix what you don't want in your life, you've just taken that energy away from creating what it is you do want in your life.
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