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Breathe Easy: Reversing the Asthma Epidemic
Asthma (a chronic respiratory disorder that is potentially
life threatening) has reached epidemic proportions worldwide with preschool-aged
children showing the greatest increase. Although conclusive evidence
is lacking, multiple factors are suspected as causes of the asthma epidemic,
including environmental toxicity and lifestyle factors (such as diet).
This article contains some suggestions reversing this disturbing trend.
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Get
Moving: Motivation is the First Step
Virtually everyone agrees that (1) exercise
is good for you and (2) that the real challenge is getting people to do
it. Like most things in life, motivation is the key. Staying informed
about the latest health research on exercise and including exercise as
a daily component of an ideal-based life can increase your motivation to
get with the program. Remember, life is movement. To stop moving
is to die. If you find yourself feeling a bit sluggish, get moving! |
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Healing Vibration: The Restorative Power of Music Therapy
From ancient times music has been applied
as a healing modality. Modern music therapy has made great strides
as a profession dedicated to making positive changes in the psychological,
physical, cognitive, or social functioning of individuals with health or
educational problems. At a physiological level, music can heal by
entrainment of sound vibrations to the vibrational patterns in the body.
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Harp Music for Surgical Patients
Edgar Cayce recommended harp music as a healing
modality to reduce anxiety and pain. A recent study is supportive
of Cayce’s assertion. Reporting in Alternative Therapies (Sept/Oct,
2002), researchers described the positive results of a study designed to
evaluate the therapeutic effectiveness of live harp music for seventeen
patients in the Vascular and Thoracic Unit of the Orlando Regional Medical
Center. Rating scales were used to measure patient anxiety and pain.
The patients were also “hard-wired” to bedside monitors that recorded physiological
measures (heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, and oxygen saturation).
Subjects in the study experienced decreased
pain and anxiety and slight reductions in physiologic variables.
The design of this preliminary study did not allow researchers to determine
if the results were due to harp music, the presence of the harpist and
data collector, or both. The researchers noted that future research
is needed using a control group and comparison of live versus recorded
music with a wider variety of diagnoses and procedures.
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Surgery Article
"I just have to share with you one of the
most amazing “coincidences.” I’ve been having low-dose chemotherapy for
ovarian cancer and my oncologist brought up the subject of surgery.
He thought my chances would be greatly enhanced if I agreed to have surgery.
I was very reluctant to do that, even though I know it is standard practice
for ovarian cancer. I prayed about it and even did an I Ching reading on
it, and finally decided to have it. Within the same few days, I received
your True Health newsletter! I just could not believe it—I have been receiving
the newsletter ever since it started, and this is the first time you have
done an article on surgery!! Isn’t that just astounding?
"I wanted to thank you for the article—I
found it very comforting and validating, and the timing is just incredible.
Thank you so much! I ran right out and bought the book you recommended
by Huddleston, and I’m also going to order the tape they recommend. And
I plan to give my surgeons a copy of the affirmations. I just had
to share this wonderful synchronicity with you." D.K. E-mail
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Additional Resources
Each newsletter is linked to additional resources.
Here are some links for this issue.
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Asthma Overview - This commentary
contains basic facts about asthma and the Cayce perspective with treatment
recommendations.
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Daily Dozen - Here are
twelve exercises that will help keep you healthy and fit.
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Finding Your Note -
Here are some tips from Edgar Cayce on finding the musical tone to
which you resonate.
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