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How Chronic Pain Changes Behavior

2011-11-03T09:53:00.001-07:00

From a blog post by Dr. Julie Chen, Integrative Medical Doctor

"Based on a study published in Plos One on Oct. 12, 2011 by researchers in Rome, Italy, it seems that people suffering from pain exhibited a greater self-centered perspective aimed at maximizing self-gain. What's interesting about this study is that it suggests that physiological states may play a significant role in higher order interpersonal behavior and social interactions.

Within this study, their results showed that the "feeling of pain makes an individual less inclined to behave according to social norms that regulate most social and economic interactions."

This study is consistent with the findings of a previous study from the Iowa Gambling Task looking at chronic back pain patients, and there was an association of greater intensity of pain being associated with higher rate of egocentric bias and reduction of the capacity to react emphatically toward others.

However interesting these findings are, it is not to suggest that all pain-sufferers tend to be egocentric or self-centered. The important point that this study and the Iowa Gambling Task study showed is that there is an association between physiological bodily states and our social and economic higher order behavioral states."

Do you see that from this that chronic pain changes one's behavior? And that removing interference to the central nervous system that controls the subconscious which controls the body's functions leads to healing?

Each time you receive a B.E.S.T. (Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique) adjustment we are clearing your central nervous system of interference that creates chronic pain. And then you receive instruction on how to take care of yourself in between visits. Restoring you to the perfection with which you were made is possible with your commitment and the technology we possess body/mind/spirit.

You are in charge of your healing, not someone else. If you are ready to change what is not working you can heal. But you must be ready to do something new. Opening for healing can be scary but the alternative is staying stuck in the stuff you have now. There is some lag time between your decision to heal and change and the change actually showing up physically. Sometimes it's a breath away, sometimes it takes a concerted effort by individuals you allow into your life to help keep you on the healing track. Either way it's worth the effort to live without pain and enjoying life.

Osteoporosis and Alternative Healing

2011-09-02T11:32:00.000-07:00

Osteoporosis and Alternative Healing

Here’s how this works. When the body’s normal metabolism is to make acid, becomes overloaded with acid, through diet or stress, it will leach calcium out of the bones to counteract the acid causing osteoporosis.

Overloading of acid through the diet comes from protein, made of amino acids, and fat, made from fatty acids, either by eating too much or not having it broken down properly in the body. Acid is a negatively charged ion and minerals are positively charged. So in order to not excrete acid, which would be painful, the body has to buffer the acid with something alkaline. Minerals are alkaline and the largest amount of mineral in the body is calcium. So if the body needs it and can’t get it anywhere else it is leached from the bone, hence osteoporosis.

Eggs and bacon or donuts and coffee for breakfast, hamburger and fries for lunch and maybe the same thing for dinner is a very protein and fat heavy diet.This is the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.). And it is sad! Vegetables and especially green veggies are the best for counteracting the S.A.D. diet.

Also add in stress, which increases acidity in the body.
Think of this: if each child were given, in health class in grade school, lessons on how to handle stress, through breathing and visualization, what a world this would be! Teaching children how to effectively handle stress gives them power to create the health they want. It’s starting to happen but it’s not widespread.

Here’s a great practice you can try for stress relief!

You can use 4 count breathing at any time to handle any stress! It’s easy.

Count to 4 using “1 one thousand, 2 one thousand, 3 one thousand, 4 one thousand” while you breathe in,
then hold in for 4 counts,
exhale for 4 counts and
hold the breath out for 4 counts.

This is simple but can regulate your fight or flight response, which increases acid easily and naturally in 16 seconds!

You can also eat at least 75% veggies and fruit and 25% protein and fat at mealtime as well. This will assure that you are getting many alkaline foods. And eat alot of green veggies. Remember the greener you are the better!

These simple steps will help you create a life without chronic pain and suffering. You can stay off osteoporosis drugs that give many additional effects besides what they are marketed for AND you can have the health you want in body, mind and spirit!

2011-08-16T05:02:00.000-07:00

Alternative Care for Chronic Pain

How thoughts can heal chronic pain.

Have you suffered from chronic pain for years thinking nothing can be done?

You might think this because you were told, “Nothing can be done.” by a doctor.
But it’s not true!
In fact there is never a time that nothing can be done.
You have the power to heal at all times.
What you don’t have is the knowledge to use this power.

The power of healing does not require extensive training or degrees or even belief! How can that be true? Think of your television. If you had to believe that it would turn on for it to work or you had to describe how it worked for you to enjoy it would you be able to? What you have to do is push a button. You don’t even have to believe that the button will turn on the tv for it to do so.

Your body/mind/memory/spirit is really the same as that TV. You can use it or ignore it.

Here are simple steps that you can use to create healing right now.

Think of a time in your life when you felt the most unconditional love, at-one-ness, or peace
While thinking of that take inventory of every texture, color, sensation, whether you are with others or alone, indoors or outdoors, night/day. See in your mind’s eye exactly what that idea or memory looks like, feels like, smells like, tastes like.
Now notice how your body feels in that moment when you are thinking of this time in your life or of what you are imagining. Do you feel warm? Peaceful? Happy? Relaxed?

THIS IS HEALING!

When you put your attention on something that creates good feeling in you, you are doing healing. When you put your attention on whatever is bothering you it will intensify.
Make sure to check your feelings and notice if it is a good feeling or negative feeling.

The body’s physiology will change with every emotion.

Create good feelings and use your healing power whenever you like.
Some call this “alternative” but really what’s the alternative?

A Holistic Perspective of Arthritis

2011-08-16T04:43:00.000-07:00

What causes arthritis? A holistic perspective.
The word arthritis is the combination of arthro- meaning joint and –itis meaning inflammation, hence inflammation of the joint.

So what is the cause of inflammation? Think of it as too much heat.
The inflammatory process can begin in any number of ways. Too much protein in the diet that goes undigested can cause the body to overwork and create a histamine reaction, what most people think of as allergic reaction. The body may not have the enzymes to break down protein and therefore it becomes an antagonist to the body’s normal processes.
In Eastern healing paradigms too much heat means there is also somewhere in the body that has not enough heat. The body is always striving for balance. If there is too much energy in one place there will be not enough energy elsewhere.

But let’s look at the CAUSE.
So far I’ve mentioned only physical symptoms and reactions. We are more than physical. We are spiritual beings. We experience energy in many forms, electrical, magnetic, chemical, emotional and spiritual. Try this on and see if it has any meaning for you:

Everything happens in spirit first and then manifests physically.

When we look at our physical afflictions from that perspective we must address what is happening spiritually in our lives to create the health and vitality we seek. Our thinking creates what we experience in our life.
If you are criticized or criticize others think of how that feels in the body. Constraints on our actions and thinking will help us avoid the criticism. So we are not feeling free and able to move without thinking of the criticism. Imagine this happening over a long period time. The constant criticism we have in our daily thoughts, when we look in the mirror, when we see any media with “conventionally” beautiful women or men. In fact we can be bombarded by criticism from ourselves and others. Now we want to move but over the last 40-50 years we have learned to criticize subconsciously so even though we don’t actively think the thoughts the pattern is established and the reaction is unconscious. We criticize.

The Joints move our bodies. Joints help us be free in the world and to move in it easily and effortlessly. But if the subconscious criticism continues the constraints can become physical. Pain and stiffness result.

We must be in forgiveness to ourselves for allowing those subconscious patterns to affect us negatively in order to be free of the subconscious criticism, fear of being unloved and resentment toward ourselves and others who did not protect us from this.

So I urge you, in your affliction, to repeat this affirmation.

“I am love. I now choose to love and approve of myself. I see others with love.” Repeat it with “I”, “You”, “Lots of people” and “your name”. This helps it to go into the subconscious. Without argument from your “educated” mind - the one the criticizes.
Release your attachment to your old thoughts.
Let go of preconceived notions.
Allow yourself a new way of thinking about yourself and others.
Feel the lightness that comes from freedom from criticism.

How to get out of the way

2011-04-05T07:40:00.000-07:00

One of the most powerful prayers I have ever prayed has come as a result of complete surrender to a difficult situation that I could not change. I was so distraught by my bonus-daughter's(we use this term instead of step because of it's positivity) behavior and lifestyle that I could no longer participate in her life.
First, she didn't really want me in it because of the shame that she was carrying and second, I was so tired of trying and hoping and being let down that I could no longer carry on in the same way I had.

Many people in relationships where one person is self destructive, keep hoping that things will change but they must realize it is not within their power to change another. How many times have we heard this? You can't change others, you can only change yourself, but keep going into the breach thinking, "this time will be different. This time it will make a difference." But it doesn't. Then it becomes enabling and the shame pit gets deeper and deeper.

So here I was at the end of my rope worn out emotionally and feeling sad. I found myself sitting in a bookstore cafe in Fairfield, Iowa. I had taken a lunch break from working with patients and found myself sitting in the self-help section of the shop. And to my right was a book title that caught my eye, "The Dynamic Laws of Prayer" by Catherine Ponder. Ms. Ponder is a prolific writer and minister of the Unity Church. I already had several of her books and didn't know this one even existed! I opened the book and found the Prayer of Release.

This prayer will save you all kinds of time, trouble and heartache. She writes in the chapter The Prayer of Cleansing about this Prayer of Release, "You must cleanse yourself of possessively clinging to other people in your life, telling them what to do in the name of "love," if you want your own prayers to be answered."

That really hit home! It described exactly what I had been doing with my bonus-daughter. And here is the prayer that helped me finally let go:

I fully and freely release you. I loose you and let you go.
I let go and let God have his way in your life.

That's it. Short, sweet and to the point. USE THIS PRAYER. If you have something or someone in your life that is not responding in a healthy way YOU need to let go. This doesn't mean you don't want them to get well but it releases YOU and your "need" to make them change. Everyone has their own path to walk, we cannot walk it for someone else. When you release others to their own path it is surprising what can now take place.

Oh and my bonus-daughter is now happy, healthy and fully engaged in a wonderful life!

2011-03-21T13:17:00.000-07:00

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What's pH got to do with Anxiety and Depression?

2011-03-09T13:09:00.000-08:00

For years I have been introducing people to the concept of pH regulation in the body. pH is the potential for hydrogen. But what it means in health is how acid or alkaline our body is at any given time. I have been checking saliva pH during exams for years in order to show people how their emotions play a pivotal role in our body's regulation.

The body creates acid in normal metabolism. It also creates acid with negative thinking, stress and exercise. But this negative thinking can really cause many problems with acid and the body gets overwhelmed and then moves calcium from the bones into fluids to counteract the acid and relieve the body of high acid. Too bad it starts the process of osteoporosis!

Now a study from the University of Iowa, shows it! This study shows that pH effects the emotions and how the brain functions. The article published by Scientific American describes how this is demonstrated. It also re-enforces that exercise plays a key role in helping anxiety-attack and depression sufferers neutralize the acid build up in the brain actually causing anxiety attack.

There is help for anxiety. A combination of Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique and Emotional Freedom Technique were used to neutralize subconscious emotional memory override and to stop the continuation of the physiology of fear.

Here's what a practice member says, "I have had better feelings and haven't had any anxiety attacks and back pain no longer exists."

This person had an attack on the adjusting table during a visit one day and we were able to get it under control and dissipate it painlessly and without drugs. The side effect was relief and empowerment to heal oneself.

Now that's a side effect that anyone would love to have!

And then a miracle happened...

2011-03-07T12:59:00.000-08:00

Robert was the most happy-go-lucky guy I know. When I saw him on Saturday after many years of being away, he was not the same man I once knew. And then a miracle happened...

Let me assure you, it is an honor to be in the presence of healing.
Thank you Robert for sharing yourself with others!

Share this Video with others and see why Belize Friends School needs you!

2011-02-03T14:22:00.000-08:00

Belize Friends School on Prezi

The Belize Friends School

2010-11-08T12:23:00.000-08:00

I'm BACK! And it was an amazing trip. I want to thank all of you who supported this mission with money, prayer and support of all kinds. The Belize Friends School, run by Sam & Becky Barber and Candi Young, received a check for over $600 US!
The kids at the school were so much fun to meet and to work with. You'll see them in the videos that are posted on Quantum Healing Chiropractic's Facebook page. I'll try to get some posted here too.

The damage from the hurricane was mostly water and mud on the school's ground floor. Many posters and text books were lost and some were drying out upstairs. You will be amazed at how the school works with 25 children, some illiterate, to get them ready to go into "college". This is the British system so the children test in 8th grade in order to be accepted into high schools called colleges, around the city.

Belize City is pretty depressed on the south side. There are gangs and violent crime. And as my seatmate on the plane to Miami told me "If someone owed me money down there, I'd let them keep it!" Meaning he wouldn't venture to the area where the school is. But this is where the need is greatest so this is where the school is.

There is also an empty building just behind the school. Dale Graves, also visiting, from Indiana, was able to meet with the owner and find out if he was willing to sell and for what price. The next step is an appraisal of the building. With it renovated it would be perfect for the school! And as I looked at this shell of a building I imagine it with classrooms and guest teachers that I had recruited, the yard filled with smiling faces on morning break and lots of laughing.
With God all things are possible, even a great Friends School in the heart of Belize City!

BELIZE IT OR NOT

2010-10-25T04:46:00.000-07:00

I'm getting pretty excited because I'm leaving today for Belize!
The Barbers are reporting 25 students and 4 are girls! This is
pretty big news. They haven't had that many students enrolled at the
school before. It's going to be a wonderful adventure.
When I get back I'll be doing a program at our church, West Branch Friends, so I'll keep you posted in case you want to attend.

If you wanted to contribute to this mission and the school you still can! Just go to my Outreach page and click on DONATE!
All of your prayers and good wishes are much appreciated.

Oh, and Hurricane Richard, you don't scare me!

Withold Judgement on Yourself, You're not done yet.

2010-10-25T04:41:00.000-07:00

Libi, Betsy & Ed 1992

Lately I've posted a couple of photos of my bonus daughters. They are two of the smartest, funniest, most beautiful women I know! They 've overcome so much in their young lives and have given me so much! I have been able to witness their blossoming from being afraid to be themselves because of the consequences that might have, into the sensitive, nurturing, ambitious, passionate, gorgeous flowers they are now.
The photos are from pre-teen years when we all feel awkward and geeky. They remind me that everyone, no matter how they feel about themselves, is a powerful transmitter for change and that we can choose what and who we will become.
Thanks bonus daughters for the privilege of participating in your lives.
I love you!

Short version Open Jam & Potluck for Belize Mission

2010-10-06T09:49:00.000-07:00

How to Experience Perfection

2010-09-20T12:06:00.000-07:00

What is the feeling of perfection? Is it a noun or a verb? Perfecting something is to practice it over and over.

There was a story I saw about a man who made the most sublime noodles in China. He bent and strained his body in the perfecting of the noodles. He was de-formed by the process. Or reformed or informed but certainly not escaping being shaped by the thing he chose to do most.

What do you choose to do most? What is forming you? What are you bending to and allowing into your attention? Does it buoy you in times of stress? Does it bring out more peace, joy, love?

If we look at perfection as a thing we can never attain then why would anyone bother? Our perfection is already here. It's in the way our bodies knit together from just two other cells. It's in the way our innate intelligence knows that this part will be an eyelash cell and this part will be a little toe cell. This is the perfection with which we are made. We don't have to learn how to do it because the part of us that is connected to all of creation is our subconscious and it is running all the time. We can communicate with it through feelings and visualization or daydreams.

When you spend just five minutes thinking about a place you'd like to be or a place that you felt comfortable, loved and fulfilled, you are creating that experience cellularly as well.

Try this: close your eyes and think of a time when you experienced the most love and acceptance you can remember ever having. Give yourself some time to expand on this thought. It can be a real time or imaginary. Take inventory of your five senses in this time. What does it smell like there? What is the temperature? Are you inside or outside? Are there others with you? What sounds and colors are around you? Take your time and really experience in your thoughts and feelings of this time of love and acceptance.

Now let yourself come back to this reading. You may feel more peaceful, relaxed and warm. You are getting in touch with the perfect part of you that helps to create what you are thinking.

We are in the process of perfecting ourselves and enjoying that can be perfection!

Jam for Belize!

2010-09-20T09:32:00.000-07:00

You're invited to jam, groove and enjoy good food!
All to raise funds for the Belize Friends School Healing Mission, to heal teens and staff at the school in Belize City.

We hope you'll attend and give to this worthy cause.
Dr. Tanya & "Uncle"Ed English

Sunday Oct. 3rd 4-7pm
The Hoover House
Downey & Main in West Branch, IA

Renee talks about OCD

2010-07-08T08:08:00.000-07:00

Sometimes we encounter problems/symptoms that seem like they come out of nowhere. They don't. They come from past traumas and interference that has not been addressed. And those challenges can teach us about ourselves.

Do you have a challenge that you don't understand? Come in and find the cause.

No Disease in Perfection!

2010-06-23T16:26:00.000-07:00

When one gets to the point that they are ready to really know what is going on with their health and peace of mind that's when the real healing begins! B.E.S.Technique is not a cure it leads one to the perfection with which they were made. And you know there is no disease in perfection.

pH, Anxiety and Depression

2010-05-29T06:19:00.000-07:00

Now a study from the University of Iowa, shows it! The article published by Scientific American describes how this is demonstrated. It also re-enforces that exercise plays a key role in helping anxiety-attack and depression sufferers neutralize the acid build up in the brain causing anxiety.

There is help for anxiety! There is treatment! And it's easy, painless and really works!

Here's what a practice member says, "I have had better feelings and haven't had any anxiety attacks and back pain no longer exists."

This person had an attack on the table during a visit one day and we were able to get it under control and dissipate it painlessly and without drugs. The side effect was RELIEF!!

Fear or Love? Read What Renee has to say!

2010-05-27T08:11:00.000-07:00

Stepping Fearlessly

"Do you want to walk in fear, or do you want to walk in love? " asks my dear friend, Dr. Tanya English. I'm not sure if she is the one who coined the phrase or not, regardless, I often hear the words in her voice inside my head. It's a question I pose to myself in the midst of worry or confusion. It helps me to see the intention behind my thinking patterns--to know if I am making choices based on fear or based on Trust, openness, and desire. The latter, of course, being the kinds of choices I wish to now make.

Fear is restrictive. It causes tension in the muscles and in the mind. Fear-based thinking doesn't allow for change or new ideas. And for many of us who are habituated into fear-based thinking, it's often what comes up first.

I was recently invited to take a trip this summer to West Virginia for a music festival, and although I was immediately excited about the prospect, some anxieties quickly crept up. In my 12+ years of mothering, I have yet to take even a weekend vacation without my kids--let alone a camping trip up in the mountains for an entire week. I used to be afraid to leave my children for any length of time because I worried that something would happen to them. And I wanted to make sure I was always near enough--just in case.

One thing my divorce and the subsequent taking turns at child-rearing has taught me over the last year is how to let go of worry and simply Trust that my children will be all right outside of my watchful eye. And they are all right. They are better than all right. They survive without me hovering. They survive, and even thrive, in the hands of others. And their absence often makes me appreciate their presence that much more. So, when I think of leaving them at their dad's for a week while I take a summer road trip, I breathe easy. My perception shifts: they--and I--walk in Love.

When I first read about this music festival that takes place in the mountains in West Virginia, my other knee-jerk, fear-based thoughts were "how am I going to get up there?" and "what if I freak out and can't go any further." My last ride into the mountains years ago had me stuffing my head under a sweatshirt, hiding tears from my then 4-year-old daughter. I began to wonder if I was going to be reliving that scenario. And camping? The closest I had ever come to sleeping in a tent was hanging out in my friend's backyard in 7th grade until my parents came to get me at midnight. So "how will I shit in a port-o-potty?" and "who is going to tell the mosquitoes to leave me alone for 4 days?" suddenly seemed like really logical questions to have.

But I stopped myself and posed a different question. That one about walking in fear or walking in love. I thought about all the amazing adventures I could have on this trip, like seeing parts of the country I've never been to and the prospects of jamming with some incredible musicians. I thought about how luxurious the scenery would be at nightfall and the tranquility that would wash over me as I doze off to sleep under a starlit sky. I thought about all the notebook paper I would fill, being able to catch the wind of inspiration at any given time.

I also thought about the company I would be keeping along the way, and realized that a part of me was fearing my own fears. Having been ridiculed and unaccepted by others in the past for having anxieties, I realized I was worried about my fears being intolerable to my travelling companion. But that, too, is fearful thinking. Instead, I needed to simply allow myself to feel the fear and then still choose to walk in love. Only from there can I accept my Self wholly and step into another grand adventure. It is one step at a time, this shift from fear to love, and when I step into life with an open heart, what I find is that I am met with the same openness and acceptance as I emit.

Author of "Chicken Soup" talks about B.E.S.Technique

2010-05-21T19:12:00.000-07:00

Listen to Jack talk about my instructors in B.E.S.T!

Jack Canfield co-author of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" talks about how Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique has changed his life. Dr. M.T. Morter, Jr., the founder and developer of B.E.S.T. technique, and his children, Dr. Ted, Dr. Sue, along with Dr. Blake Brown are, like me, passionate about helping people break through to their own power for healing.

We are all healers and neutralizing interference to that power creates an internal environment that allows healing to be present. And...it's for EVERYONE!

Trusting the Inner Self

2010-04-13T11:30:00.001-07:00

Trust-reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.

Trust is a wonderful thing. In fact it's what most people base their relationships on whether it's trusting that one is getting what they pay for or that one can trust their own parents.

Trust is also a letting go of fear. FEAR = False Expectations Appearing Real; a letting go of the past and a letting go of worry about the future. There are many that have had that trust broken through no fault of their own. But they still have to learn to trust again. Stepping out in faith that it will be ok to trust another is a big deal.

Survivors of childhood abuse have to overcome low self esteem, unhealthy self image, and all the coping strategies that have kept them alive and, hopefully, moving forward. When they do make this leap of faith all the universe is behind that step helping it happen.As adults we must be able to trust the process of healing. We must be able to trust that our intention to heal will not lead us into more dis-ease or worse yet denial of the real problem. We must be able to let go of our fears that are based on "real" experiences but are not the same as what is happening now.

Trust your highest self to lead you into the most benevolent situation when you call upon it. Even if you have never been able to trust before when you call upon the part of you that IS trustworthy, it will not let you down.

No Way, No How.

Are you smarter than a 6th grader?

2010-02-22T15:18:00.001-08:00

Have you ever heard someone say this about their own health, "I'm not really qualified to make that decision."? Maybe in a self deprecating way that laughs off their feeling of inadequacy when addressing their own health and healing?

Most people have about a 6th grade idea of how the body works. Some, many, have less facts than that. But people can understand how it works. It's like having an owner's manual and not leaving out the facts. Here are several facts most people have not thought about before:

1. People are not the same as machines. Humans have animation (animātiō a bestowing of life) They are alive.

2. People have feelings. Thoughts with emotions become feelings. The human nervous system, the part of ourselves that we feel everything with is so dense that if every other part of was taken away a person would still be identifiable. We are walking, talking and experiencing every facet of life and feeling it too!

3. Treating people like machines is detrimental to their health. Constantly and consistently going after the symptom is not the same as going after the cause. One can buy sponges if the roof leaks but where is the common sense in that?

4. The cause is always in spirit first. We begin as spirit, as two cells that merge together to create one cell and we are evolving continually, and that means that the way we interpret everything that happens to us is through our feelings, whether or not we can vocalize them or whether they become buried in the mundaness of daily life. So Spirit, Memory, Mind and Body is the correct flow, above-down, inside-out is how healing and disease both occur.

5. Spirit is where one finds it. When making choices in our lives it can really help to ask oneself how does this choice feel? And taking a moment to breathe and be present is the way one listens to Spirit. It is as easy as breathing. And breathing is the most important function the body has. And Humans get to have control over it! Unlike kidney function. Well, actually its very much like kidney function except the conscious mind isn't really in charge of most bodily functions. For example a mother doesn't decide when to make the baby's liver. It just happens.

6. Subconscious mind is the interface between body and Spirit. This part of the mind is accessed by feelings and pictures (visualizations). And this is where it is so easy to get into healing. Because thoughts create chemistry and chemistry influences every function of the body, e v e r y f u n c t i o n.

With the power of this understanding come responsibility. Knowing this we now have the power to make our choices. We can choose what we want to experience. Making a decision to not allow this understanding and remain stuck in our limiting beliefs is also a decision. Most of us know someone that doesn't want to be confused with facts. They will hold on to their limiting belief even if it kills them, literally.

This proverb showed up yesterday: Cynics look high and low for wisdom-and never find it; the open minded find it right on their doorstep!

This is from the book of Proverbs in the old testament. Yup, the Bible has encouragement to be open minded. Did that throw anyone off? Did you have a limiting belief challenged there? Good for you! That's the power of allowing. Allowing creates a space for healing to happen. And guess who are the greatest healers - children. They have no limiting beliefs. They are ready for whatever to happen and to believe!

So are you smarter than a 6th grader?

Fears Banished!

2010-02-04T13:32:00.000-08:00

In this video Judy, a grandmother raising her 9 year old grandson, shares her amazing healing from fear of heights, low back pain and allergies. There's no limit to what can heal!

An Invitation for You!

2010-01-27T14:23:00.000-08:00

Come to Om Gifts for the informational talk:

"How Your Thoughts Create Your Physiology"

You'll Laugh

You'll Cry

You'll Salivate!

Learn how your thoughts are creating your life right now!
This is about power in your life, not about blame.

Learn three ways to jumpstart healing in your life.

Help create healing for others too!

OM GIFTS

115 S. Linn St. (near Washington St. )

Iowa City, IA

Thursday, February 25th

6pm -7:30pm

Please visit

www.omgiftsic.com

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Can you help people heal? YES!

2010-01-17T13:03:00.001-08:00

Dear Friends,

For over 20 years I have been working to bring healing to more and more people. Through massage and then chiropractic including Activator Methods Technique, Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique, chakra balancing, affirmations and Emotional Freedom Technique. I now have a great opportunity to go further.

I have been approved by my Friends meeting ,West Branch Friends Church, to go to Belize on a healing mission to the Friends Boys School from April 13-20. I will be teaching health care classes and delivering health care to the family that runs the school, the students and their families.

Belize is a very small country that has just celebrated their 28th year of independence located between Guatemala and the Caribbean Sea. It is just south of the Yucatan peninsula. The country is mostly primitive and very beautiful. It is scattered with Mayan ruins. Belize has a variety of wildlife both from the jungle and the sea. It boasts the second largest coral reef in the world.

In Belize the children in 8th grade take a test and if they don't pass they don't get to go on to high school. The Friends Boys School was founded to help the boys that are in the most need to get them ready for the test.

The couple that is now running the school is from Iowa and have 4 children ranging in age from 7 years to 16 years old.

Two assistants are accompanying me. Sophia Aley, a practice member whose story you may have read in an earlier blog and Betsy English, my bonus daughter, who has grown up receiving chiropractic care. We are so excited to bring B.E.S.T. to Belize!

So I am asking for your help to create this mission. We need to raise $3450. This includes our airfare, transportation while in Belize, food and lodging. We plan to work with the school from April 13th -20th with a couple of days at the end for seeing the Mayan ruins and the coral reef.

You can make a tax deductible donation to West Branch Friends Church with Belize trip in the memo line of your check and send it to:

Dr. Tanya English

Quantum Healing Chiropractic

410 N. 4th St.

West Branch, IA 52358

For more information about the work I do you can log onto QHC

These words of Jesus have been the foundation for my practice:

John 14:12-14 from The Message

"The person who trusts me will not only do what I'm doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father am giving you the same work to do that I've been doing. You can count on it. From now on, whatever you request along the lines of who I am and what I am doing, I'll do it. That's how the Father will be seen for who he is in the Son. I mean it. Whatever you request in this way, I'll do it."

Happy New Year!

2009-12-30T16:55:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year 2010!

Blue Moon, A Full Moon Lunar Eclipse

The moon helps create the ebb and flow of the tides and our circadian rhythms. Let us be thankful that all is well and that the earth continues to spin in perfect balance.

What are you looking to expand, let go of, release and allow in the year to come?

Exclaim it. Affirm it. Feel the feeling of having it already. Imagine you are totally there.
If you but believe and have faith, which personally, I find miraculous, you can move mountains.

And we spin around the sun for another year! Like the top that never stops whirring. Ask me to see the water gyroscope next time you stop in. It's cool.

Thank you, Gracias, Merci, Danke, Parakalo, and
Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Christmas Miracle

2009-12-27T17:13:00.000-08:00

It used to take Sophia two or more hours to fall asleep and then she rarely slept more than two to three hours consecutively. When she answered the question how long has it been since you felt really well, she wrote, "This question makes me cry...". Sophia wrote in the margins of the intake form: "What does relief feel like??!"

She tried to use drugs or "spirit killers", as she called them, prescription and over the counter to no avail for years. Sophia had extreme constant tension in her upper back and right shoulder and chronic low back pain.

But Sophia had one other challenge that she told me about that was really curious. She had no sight in her left eye and there was no physiological reason for it. None. Her eye had no reason not to see. When she was three years old her parents noticed that her left eye was "lazy". In an effort to correct this they had patched her good eye for one year which did nothing to help.Sophia slowly lost her left eye vision over the next year. She had no depth perception and could not see anything in 3D or Magic Eye posters. You need to have two eyes for those experiences.

For years her neck worked to guard her left side and was like armor that was impenetrable. Massage did little to help her and she had constant neck pain and spasms.

As we started working it was clear to me that her problems all stemmed from subconscious emotional memory override. The fact that there were no lesions or physical traumas causing the blindness was a big clue. So we used Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique (B.E.S.T.), Emotional Freedom Technique (E.F.T.) and other techniques to neutralize any interference in her subconscious that was recreating the physiology of blindness in the left eye and other symptoms.

During the second visit she told me that she had had some double vision since the last visit and that it was very disorienting. I was ecstatic because this meant her vision was returning!

Part of what needed to happen was that she needed to forgive herself for not being able, at three years of age, to tell the adults what she knew was true - that it was not her body that was failing her but her mind that was shutting off her vision. The innate intelligence that she connected with as a child was not recognized by the adults in her life. Forgiveness for herself and the adults was a crucial part of her healing.

At another visit I intuited that in fact her vision was going to return the same way it had gone away. Sophia would begin seeing shadows and double vision and also probably some headaches. These headaches were not a bad sign but rather an indicator that the brain was rewiring how she was going to see fully again! Sophia came in today having enjoyed a 3D movie last night! She saw everything and perfectly!

She has flexibility in her neck and she is happier than ever. Her relationships are meaningful again and she is filled with love and forgiveness. Her pain is non-existent and she sleeps sometimes 12 hours at a whack! (she's catching up!).

This is no joke. It's real. Sophia wanted me to use her real name because she wants to help others heal too.How do you get healing like this in your life? Be open. Be brave (which means being afraid and doing it anyway). Allow it to come from wherever and leave your ego behind. Receive.

In practice for over 20 years, Dr. English uses massage, holistic chiropractic care and nutrition to help people realize the power they have within and create a world where healing is always possible. http://www.blest4today.com

How are You Showing the Love?

2009-12-18T12:20:00.000-08:00

How are you showing the Love to yourself, your family and your world? Are you being nice to yourself? Or are you filled with negative self talk about how you should or shouldn't do this or that? Would you say those things to your best friend or to an acquaintance you'd like to know better? If the answer is no consider redirecting your self-talk to reflect your love for yourself first.
The golden rule, Love others as you love yourself, means you are going to have practice loving yourself.

I have a quote from the Red Green show on my Facebook page right now: "If you`re looking for the perfect low-cost Christmas present for your relatives, try giving them each a little slack. With any luck, they`ll re-gift it." Try this with yourself too. Cut yourself a little slack and try accepting yourself as the miracle of divine love that you are.
You are loved and you matter!

About Grudges...

2009-11-19T10:14:00.000-08:00

One of the first things I give a new practice member is the Forgiveness Exercise.

Forgiveness can clear so much rubbish from your life. Forgiveness does not mean that you are condoning the incident that happened. It means that you are breaking free of the negativity that keeps you bound energetically/spiritually to the person who caused you the harm, even if it was you! You can achieve forgiveness doing this exercise. You can begin healing doing forgiveness.

A grudge holds you in a negative thought and keeps hammering away at you whenever it comes up. So you can be having a great old time and someone brings up something that reminds you of the incident then you have to remember how mad, hurt, upset you were and here it comes all over again. Who needs it!?

Try this: next time something reminds you of the incident you can say to yourself

"That is in the past. I am living in the now. I forgive myself, the others involved and I wish them well. I am thankful for the lessons I've learned because of that and so it is!"

Top Ten Reasons to Get Cleared with B.E.S.T.!

2009-11-02T09:49:00.001-08:00

10. How do you know that's as good as you can feel?

9. You are annoyed by just about everything.

8. You have obvious symptoms that your body is trying to be in healing mode but not quite getting there.

7. You just heard some bad news and felt a little power drain.

6. You started a new exercise routine.

5. If you're a baby you were just born, just held your head up for the first time, just rolled over for the first time, just crawled for the first time, just walked for the first time (all of these milestones create your the curves in your spine !)

4. You are "handling" stress.

3. Thoughts from your past keep popping up.

2. You are ready to make a change in your life to access more of your personal power.

And the #1 reason to get cleared with B.E.S.T. is....

1. You want to experience full blown life force everyday of your life!

Now I say cleared with B.E.S.T. however this also means adjusted and we use many techniques that can get the job done. We want to go through the open doors not keep banging on the closed doors and make the body/mind/spirit try to do something it's not ready for.

Peace and Relief

2009-10-26T19:55:00.001-07:00

My friend Brendan is in The Gambia river valley in The Congo in West Africa. He is there with the Peace Corps for the next couple of years. It's great reading his blog. http://www.alittlehungry.blogspot.com/

He's on the move with a couple of friends to a city in Mali that has a very happening music scene. Take a moment and read what it's like to go into service for peace.

We hear so much, some would argue not enough, about war and violence that we can forget that most people are just living their lives the way it is right now. The past is so long for indigenous people that it has a whole different meaning to contemporaries who identify themselves by their grandparents from the "old country".

War has been such a present danger to Africa and for so long. War has been everywhere for eons, it seems. So when do we consider peace? Peacefulness, peace of mind, peace of heart. Even saying the word is like a whispered prayer of relief.

In Esther and Jerry Hicks book "Ask and It Is Given" the concept of relief is highlighted over and over again. When I hear myself grinding something over and over in my mind I can bring myself out of it by taking an action step as I affirm "The Universe loves and approves of me. It is safe to know and grow." I can move myself into relief from fear. It may be take a little more time and thought until I don't feel a charge of anger, fear, upset and can address the thing that is, in fact, instructing me to turn to the Light.

This is the most healing remedy to the weariness of war. If there is to be peace, let it begin with me. Let it begin from within. And let it be a noble thing to travel to far away places and wage peace.

Learning a little bit

2009-10-14T08:53:00.000-07:00

For the past week or so I've been writing classes for online delivery. Because so many are using the internet for learning I wanted to make the Health Care Class more accessible. What used to happen was a class for all new members to come to with family and friends after business hours.

We spent about 1-1.5 hours learning about the Six Essentials for Life; what we eat, drink, how we exercise and rest, what and how we breathe and what we think. And how to make good choices in each area that would help our healing and get us to the goals we were setting. This entailed coming to the office after work.

Have you had to carve time out of your schedule lately? It's getting to the point with most of us that we really have schedule "down time". Time when nothing is scheduled. I was just talking with my dear friend Vicky about this. With blended families and children in different age groups and spouses with lots of outside activities, having some time to do whatever one feels like at the moment is really important. "Downtime" is just as valuable as any "productive" time.

So I've created little classes broken into 2-10 minute segments, you can learn any time you want in manageable chunks. There are handouts with every class that you can download and print out as well. I hope you enjoy the classes. You will get valuable information that you can use right away.

And as in the past with the Health Care Class, those that take the class get to their goals faster and easier.

Discovering Talents

2009-10-03T07:21:00.000-07:00

Ed and I recently received a note from one of Sam's teachers exclaiming his brilliant writing on a memoir about fear. He really captured the feeling well. It was a big surprise because this was his struggle for the last two years.
Writing was the most frustrating thing he could possibly have to do in school. His handwriting was almost illegible. He didn't follow punctuation rules and the most debilitating part was he could get hardly a word on paper during class.
We became concerned that he would not be able to express himself in written form when needed. He went for testing and came up with no real definitive problems but a little bit of this and that.

So you can imagine that when Ed called to tell me the news that he had an email from a teacher, oh brother, what now, was my reaction. When he read the email aloud to me I was blown away. My son had become a great writer! His story of fear had tension and changing of perspective. It was "writerly". So a transformation had taken place. Sam's is in ownership of his talent.

What talents do you have yet to discover? How about talents as a community? Did you hear about the families that adopted Liberian orphans? The whole community let their hearts open to orphans of war and are now being blessed over and over for their willingness to allow others in. It started out as one woman listening to a boys choir and it changed a whole community in two countries!

When we allow ourselves to grow into our passions we can discover amazing talents we never knew we had. Here's to discovery!!

How is Life like Pie?

2009-09-14T12:44:00.000-07:00

PIE PARTY!!
Life is like pie. You can have whatever you want in it. What do you want?

On October 24th we'll have a party that kicks off at 2:00 pm with the
"Awakening the Healer Within" class.
This class has been getting rave reviews for 4 years. People start healing right then and there! I hope you will bring your friends and loved ones who are in need of healing. It's easy and fun!

Then at 4:00 pie! Bring a pie to share.
Savory or sweet, fruit or meat, oh me, oh my, I LOVE PIE!

If life is like a pie and you had a kitchen stocked with everything you could possibly want, what would you put in your PIE (life)? Put your attention on what you really want and share with us what your PIE would contain. It could be a poem, song, list or story board.

We are given what we want but only to the extent that we are clear about it.
So what do you clearly want in your PIE?

Time to get in gear already!

2009-07-20T08:58:00.000-07:00

So it's taken me over a year to get going on this. You know how you decide you want to do something and the Inertia takes over? It happens to me too. So here goes...

Several limits for what I write here:
It must be True - insofar as it will not hurt others
It must have a Brevity - so that I cannot rant for hours
Personal - that it is my truth and others can have their own

My day is beginning by a long meditation to clear my meeting house. The time I spent thinking about this building, filling it with pure water and light and clearing it of all unwanted energy, lifelessness, negative feelings and upset has made a difference in my day and I trust in the day of this wonderful meeting house.

The energy one expends in daily thought helps to create the day and my goal is to create a day of healing for myself and others everyday. Some days it's not so easy. Resistance is real and it can be really hard to make that final leap to "doing". Do you sometimes feel like your feet are stuck in the slimy mud of indecision or low self esteem? Like the harder you try to pull your foot out the lower the other one sinks so that even trying becomes futile?

Even the word "trying" sounds strident and stuck. But "being" and "allowing" become the most relaxing words that we can use to create our experience.

I believe that life is supposed to be effortless and easy. That will push some buttons, I'm sure. I used to have a boyfriend that thought that life was about suffering. It was hard for him to have life and relationships be easy because his belief created his suffering as well. But that's what he learned from his parents. His unconscious reaction to things was what he had learned from 0-6 years old. What he mimicked from his parents.

No one is at fault it's just the way it is. As I have learned to overcome my unconscious thought (this is a daily lesson) life becomes much easier. The task to stay conscious becomes less a task and more of a joy! Imagine it as a joy to remain conscious!

I often tell practice members that it's like playing the piano. At first you have trouble telling your fingers which keys to hit when and it sounds very unlike the way the composer intended but as you practice a little bit, I practiced 20 minutes at a time as a child, it became easier. By the end of my piano phase I could play a Scott Joplin rag, in time and pretty fast! Easy! Fun!

So I'm practicing a little every day healing, clearing and being conscious. You can too.
Hugs,
Tanya