On The Cutting Edge Of Health

Alnaturals Links Are Broken

alnatural — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:52:18 +0000

But please do watch these very informative Health Videos and share with the ones you love. This is the stuff that no one else is going to tell you. Not even your doctor….

Don’t Vote Laugh Heart medicine

alnatural — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:55:34 +0000

Don’t vote..I don’t…laughing is good for the heart Take Your Medicine Today

The Heart

alnatural — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:01:53 +0000

Revolutionary research shows that the brain in the mind is only one aspect of our thinking mechanism. And that the heart is much more than a device that pumps blood.

The heart. For centuries poets and philosophers have sensed that the heart is the very center of our lives. Throughout the ages, the heart has been referred to as a source not only of virtue but also of intelligence. Even today we use phrases like, ”I know in my heart it’s true,” indicating that we know the heart is more than merely a pump. Even our gestures indicate the importance of the heart. When people point to themselves they generally point to the area of the heart.

Looking at the heart biologically, it’s an amazing phenomenon. It can beat on its own without any connection to the brain, and beats 100,00 times a day and approximately 40 million times a year. It starts to form in the fetus before there is a brain. Scientists still don’t know exactly what triggers this self-initiated heartbeat.

The Intelligent Heart

Currently some of the most revolutionary research on the heart is coming out of the Institute of HeartMath (IHM) in Boulder Creek, California. In The HeartMath Solution (HarperSanFrancisco 1999), Institute of HeartMath founder Doc Childre and co-author Howard Martin take a provocative, in-depth look at the heart and it’s alliance with the mind, body and spirit. They depict fascinating information on how every beat of our heart carries intricate messages that affect our emotions, our physical health, and the quality of life we experience.

In recent years, neuroscientist Dr. J. A. Armour made the exciting discovery that the heart has its own intrinsic brain and nervous system. This has helped to explain what physiologists at the Fels Research Institute found in the 1970s — that the brain (in the head) was dutifully obeying messages being sent from ”the brain in the heart.” Doc Childre and colleagues at the Institute of HeartMath take these discoveries even further. HeartMath researchers have established the heart’s capacity to ”think for itself.” Their aim was to determine how the heart formulates logic and influences behavior (for references, see HeartMath Bibliography.)

HeartMath researchers believe that the heart communicates with the brain and the rest of the body through four biological communication systems. Through these systems, the heart has a significant influence on the function of our brains and all our bodily systems. IHM’s extensive research led to a number of published studies in medical journals such as The American Journal of Cardiology, Stress Medicine and Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science.

The Emotions and the Heart

IHM studies found a critical link between the heart and emotions. The studies explain how the heart responds to emotional and mental reactions. As we experience emotional reactions like anger, frustration, anxiety, and insecurity, heart rhythms become incoherent or more jagged, interfering with the communication between the heart and brain. Thus, negative emotions create a chain reaction in the body — blood vessels constrict, blood pressure rises, and the immune system is weakened. This kind of a consistent imbalance can put a strain on the heart and other organs, and eventually lead to serious health problems.

When we experience heart-felt emotions like love, caring, appreciation, and compassion the heart produces coherent or smooth rhythms that enhance communication between the heart and brain. Positive heart qualities produce harmonious rhythms that are considered to be indicators of cardiovascular efficiency and nervous system balance. They’ve also been shown to produce beneficial effects that include enhanced immunity and hormonal balance.

The ability of the brain-in-the-head to process information and make clear decisions is affected by how we react emotionally to any given situation. According to Childre and Martin, as we learn to become more heart- intelligent and increase our emotional balance and heart/brain coherence, we may well be surprised by new and enhanced levels of mental clarity, productivity, physical energy, overall attitude, and quality of life.

Solutions at Work

Based on these findings Doc and his colleagues have developed The HeartMath Solution, a systematic approach to maintaining coherence and emotional balance and developing the heart’s intelligence. This may sound as though it would be complicated, but the Institute of HeartMath has successfully created a very user-friendly approach that considers today’s challenges and time restrictions.

”We recognize that one of the biggest stressors in people’s lives today is the lack of time,” Howard comments. ”We knew the Solutions would have to be so simple you could learn them during your commute to work, listening to a tape in the car. The Solutions would have to be easy to remember, and not interfere with people’s lifestyles or schedules. I really feel we’ve done this.”

Numerous HeartMath case studies have illustrated the effectiveness of heart intelligence at work. One study with Motorola showed that tension, anxiety, nervousness, and physical stress symptoms significantly decreased. In this study, 25% of the participants began with high blood pressure. But after only six months of using HeartMath techniques their blood pressure had normalized, and no conventional medical interventions were used (see Motorola Study).

Another study, at Hewlett-Packard, said HeartMath techniques made an amazing difference to team morale. Before the program, 46% said they often felt exhausted. After the training, this figure fell to 9%. Organizations like Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Royal Dutch Shell (UK), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, and Cathay Pacific Airways (Hong Kong) are repeat clients, as well as many state and federal government agencies throughout North America. HeartMath Solutions are presented to more than 20,000 people a year (see Corporate Studies).

Based on HeartMath’s breakthrough discoveries, we now know that the heart is the control tower of our body and connects us deeper with our life experience. The HeartMath Solutions reveal the vital importance of the heart’s influence on our health, and offer user-friendly techniques for restoring balance in our lives during these rapidly changing times. — from the HeartMath Institute

Heart Centering Exercise

The HeartMath Solution describes in detail many exercises you can use to relieve stress and painful emotions. Here’s a sample exercise adapted from the book. We’ve chosen it because if has value in boosting your immune system!

1. Arrange not to be disturbed. Take a comfortable position, close your eyes, and relax.

2. Start breathing in and out very slowly. As you do this, feel, imagine, or visualize that your breath is going directly through your heart. Do this for about 15 seconds.

3. Think of someone whom it’s very easy for you to love and cherish — a friend? a child? Whomever you choose, make sure it’s someone for whom you feel great love and appreciation. And start to focus on the love you have for them. Think of times when you looked at them. Picture them with love. Remember the sound of their voice, and your own voice speaking to them. Think of times when you held or were held. Think of touching them. Think of being touched by them. Keep thinking of all of the exchanges of love and appreciation with this person. Do this for as long as fifteen minutes, but at least for five minutes.

4. If outside thoughts come into your mind, gently let them go and draw your attention back to breathing through your heart. Then go back to your love for this person.

5. If outside emotions intrude, or you feel blocked in feeling the love, picture the heart softening. Tell yourself it’s not important that everything go perfectly this time, it’s okay just to be doing this. Breathe through your heart, and see, feel, or imagine your heart becoming soft. Ask yourself, ”What would it be like to be soft and yielding and totally relaxed.” It’s okay if it doesn’t all happen perfectly today. You are just doing something good for yourself. It’s okay.

6. Now, go outside yourself, and see or imagine yourself sitting there, in your relaxed position, doing this exercise. And take this love that you have felt for the other person, and send it to yourself.

7. Now send the love to others. First, send it to other people you find it easy to love. If you feel ready, you can try sending the love to others, even people it’s difficult for you to love. If you can’t feel the love, say to yourself, ”I want to be able to feel this love and send it to this person, and meanwhile I am willing that they will receive it from God and my higher self and the universe.” Just be willing that they receive love.

8. When you are ready, feel, picture, or imagine yourself completely wrapped up in a blanket of love, and open your eyes. Write down your experiences, intuitions, thoughts, or feelings of inner peace. Tell yourself that you are going to remember to act upon these feelings in your life.

Poison In The Products We Use And Eat

alnatural — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:21:36 +0000

Poison in the products we use and eat? No! Aspartame..what is aspartame..poison. What products contain aspartame…here is just part of the list. I don’t think the FDA really likes us very much. In Gwen Olsen’s Video two posts down, she explains that we are basically cash cows, human commodities…man that hurts. Hey those guys need to be fired! Who hired them anyway? Now,onto learning what’s good for you and what’s not. How to live a better , longer, healthier, stronger, prosperous life. Welcome to On The Cutting Edge Of Health.

Alternative Medicine

alnatural — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:35:58 +0000

Alternative Medicine, could be the answer to your health problems.

Whose Not In The Business Of Curing People?

alnatural — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:09:05 +0000

This is a must watch! Are the drug companys in the business of curing people? Do you really have a disease? Why would the drug companys offer you a cure when they make so much money managing your so-called disease. Self educate yourself now

Baking Soda.. It’s Health Uses Amoung Others

alnatural — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:57:47 +0000

Another inexpensive remedy? Baking Soda helps relieve itching due to bacterial infections or added to a bath or made into a paste. It can be used to relieve the itching caused by chicken pox, sun burns and poisen ivy . Baking Soda is marketed as a whitener because of its abrasive properties in some toothpaste brands. It can also be used as a topical treatment for acne, when mixed with water into a paste. A paste from baking soda can be very effective when used in cleaning and scrubbing for brushes and combs to prevent residues, to clean juice, wine, and coffee stains.
Baking soda was used as the primary cleaning agent in the restoration of the Statue of Liberty. It is used as an antacid to treat acid indigestion and heartburn. It can be used in a mixture with sugar (50/50) as a household solution for killing cockroaches. Mixed with water and drunk, it can relieve cystitis. It is effective in extinguishing grease fires which may occur when deep frying. Freshly cut fruit can be soaked in sodium bicarbonate solution for a short while to prevent yellowing. It’s used when preparing tomato sauce to neutralize the tomato’s acidity. Baking soda can be used as a low-cost alternative to raise pH in swimming pools. What can baking soda not do? I use a mixture of baking soda and lemon juice to whiten my teeth, a couple of downward strokes (only), that’s all, because it IS abrasive.

Borax…What’s it good for?

alnatural — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:22:06 +0000

Borax, what’s it good for? Borax is good for alot of different cleaning uses, but, the stuff is hard to find. Well at least in Alabama. The other thing…it’s inexpensive. Borax occurs naturally in evaporate deposits produced by the repeated evaporation of seasonal lakes. It’s actually used in some countries as a food additive, with the E-number…E285. It’s use being similar to salt, it appears in French and Iranian caviar. Also used as a fire retardant and as an insecticide to kill ants and fleas. There are other uses for this product besides making home made laundry detergent, which I have found to be a powerful cleanser. I was ecstatic after using a number of highly priced carpet cleaning products, that did not work, but absolutely claim to. Yes, right there on the box it tells you all the uses of Borax. So I get down on my hands and knees with a little sponge and a pail containing water and the miracle Borax powder, to my amazement, with not much muscle, these stains were GONE.

A Woman Must Speak

alnatural — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:22:48 +0000

Ya gotta check out this video!

Go Green With Homemade Laundry Detergent

alnatural — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:42:23 +0000

I finally decided to Go Green with homemade laundry detergent. Easy to make recipe, inexpensive, good for your health, good for the earth and in the long run saves you alot of money. The best, part i think, is being able to choose from the different essential oil scents. The possibilities are endless…different scents for different cloths, a different scent for your boyfriends jeans… maybe a woodsy scent

HOME MADE LAUNDRY DETERGENT

1/3 BAR FELS NAPTHA OR 1 BAR IVORY SOAP

1/2 CUP WASHING SODA

1/2 CUP BORAX POWDER

SMALL BUCKET 2 GAL. SIZE

BAKING SODA OPPTIONAL

SIMPLY GRATE SOAP INTO A SAUCEPAN . ADD 6 CUPS WATER , HEAT UNTIL SOAP IS MELTED. ADD WASHING SODA & BORAX. STIR UNTIL DISSOLVED. REMOVE FROM HEAT. POUR 4 CUPS HOT WATER & SOAP INTO BUCKET & STIR. LET SIT FOR 24 HOURS. THIS IS THE GEL DETERGENT.

USE 1/2 CUP PER LOAD

NOW FOR THE POWERED LAUNDRY DETERGENT…

1 CUP GRATED FELS NAPTHA SOAP

1/2 CUP WASHING SODA

1/2 CUP BORAX

LIGHTLOAD 1 TBL SP- HEAVY OR SOILED 2 TBL SP

please note…washing soda is harmful if swallowed! keep away from children and pets! Arm and Hammer Baking Soda and washing Soda are two different things! Look for 20 mule team when looking for borax and they say zote soap works best! zote contains glycerin. Personally i would add the essential oil scent to the rinse cycle and not to the whole batch of detergent, although …you can.