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We're all unique even though our basic needs are the same.

Quality of Health Depends on Magnesium

4/7/2025

 
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Image by Emre Gen via Pixabay
I am loathe to sound the alarm unless I need to make a point that gets through as it did not get through to me: Magnesium supplementation is a must for most people! My usual "don't listen to a word I say" does not apply. All adults need to address the magnesium deficiency problem we have by learning about magnesium and doing our own homework, because there is no reliable blood test to inform us. Within, is everything you need to get started.

Magnesium is an essential element required in over 300 reactions necessary for metabolic health. Scientific, anecdotal, and user evidence overwhelmingly supports the fact that likely ⅔ of Western population is deficient - for good but sad reasons - in this 4th most common mineral after calcium, sodium, and potassium.

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Fibromyalgia is Not a Disease

7/10/2023

 
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Image by Lily Cantabile via Pixabay
Fibromyalgia (FM) is not a disease for which, once they find a cure, a pill can be popped and now everything is okay. FM doesn’t have a single cause. (Or does it?) It is not a bug or a virus or a parasite. Fibromyalgia is not, despite its name, about muscle pain. Fibromyalgia is not incurable. Fibromyalgia is not in your or anyone else’s head.
Update: An underlying cause or aggravation of fibromyalgia may be magnesium deficiency.

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Your Childhood and Your Health Today

7/4/2023

 
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The relationship environment created by authority and parental figures in our formative years - as well as our choice of response - often determines our health and wellbeing throughout our lives. There is a simple test called the ACEs questionnaire that helps to quickly identify your Adverse Childhood Experience score. The ACEs website takes time to load, so please be patient. Those who score high may have suffered trauma that make them more likely to have chronic health problems that tend to worsen with aging. It is important to note that a given incidence on the questionnaire, like divorce, is not necessarily a trauma, but how divorce is handled within a family, often is. Still, divorce is worth tracking simply because few divorces are handled well when children are involved.

The goal here is not to blame but to address and learn to prevent. 
We can prevent future health problems of the chronic sort by becoming better parents, teachers, supervisors, etc. To become better people, we must become better at relating to others, especially those in our charge.

Relating Styles

​Pathological relating is:
  • Irresponsible
  • Disrespectful
  • Aggressive, passive, or passive-aggressive
  • Too confining or too free.
Healthy relating is:
  • Responsible
  • Respectful
  • Assertive
  • Bounded in the "just right" zone.
Particularly when it comes to children, but also as an adult, the will and ability of each person determines how health problems manifest over time:
  • Resolute people may internalize and end up with chronic personal health problems;
  • People that give up may externalize and end up being part of chronic societal health problems.
We can choose to relate in ways that contribute to trauma or help offset trauma. It is our choice. Let us choose the healthier way.

Healing from Trauma

Our past traumas show up in our present. We cannot change the past, but we can change how we respond in the present. There are probably many ways of accomplishing this. Most people will likely find themselves in need of professional help, but it can be done, individually, as well. A good place to start may be with trauma recovery specialist, Michele Rosenthal. I don't know her, but found her serendipitously. As I found my own way to healing the past, I can tell that Michele Rosenthal is on the right path. By right, I mean she is taking an approach that more closely resembles what I know to be needed for true healing to take place.

We can heal from the past and we can change the future by changing the present: How we choose to relate to every person, place, or thing, matters.

Trauma creates change you don't choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.
Michele Rosenthal

Originally posted 4/25/2023

Help for Anxiety and Panic Attacks

6/29/2023

 
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Art by unknown
The causes of anxiety conditions are many, unique to each individual, and often a combination of physical, environmental, and emotional factors pinging off each other. There is an underlying, foundational cause, but it's not an easy solution. So, when in the throes of anxiety and you need emergency relief, there is a suitable, temporary solution.​

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Sensitive People and Heart Disease

2/13/2022

 
Drawing of a stitched up, bandaged heart
Illustration by Victoria Borodinova via Pixabay
​Twenty years ago, one of my teachers, a gifted empath, said to me, "Your heart has been broken so many times that it cannot survive another." I accepted her statement as the truth I knew it was, without realizing it could turn into, or be, a medical problem. 

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Going Within Isn't A Metaphor

3/22/2020

 
Going within isn't a metaphor
When we let stress and fear take over
Our mind is projecting into the future
Our heart muscle tightens
​Learn how to change your own heart

There is a mini brain in the heart ...

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Dehydration and Illness

2/22/2020

 
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A leading cause and aggravator of chronic health problems is dehydration.

“Low humidity causes static electricity, dry skin and hair, increased susceptibility to colds and respiratory illness, and can allow viruses and germs to thrive. Wood floors, furniture and millwork will split and crack, paint will chip, and electronics can be damaged because of low humidity levels.”

Consuming enough water through diet is the typical solution for staying hydrated. Yet, many people are drinking plenty of water and their bodies are still dehydrated. I palpate bodies for a living. Dehydrated bodies are suffering bodies.

There is a second, primary source of hydration: The air we breathe. Proper humidity levels can make all the difference. Going from the chart I borrowed from Health Canada, the comfort zone is 30-55% humidity.

Do you know what your humidity levels are? Do you know what's stealing the water out of the air you breathe?

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Emotions and Our Health

4/25/2019

 
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It doesn't take long for astute bodywork clinicians to observe that the attitude and outlook of their client often determines the success of therapy results. Trust is key, and then courage with open-mindedness soon follow for those those who tend to benefit the most, health-wise. This is why Paula encourages every client to openly collaborate with her from first visit to last.
​For those interested in understanding how our emotions, most often a reflection of our attitude, can directly affect our health, dive deep into Molecules of Emotion.

Five Steps Toward Autism Acceptance

2/4/2019

 
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Nick Walker, PhD., was the first person I knew of to speak about Autism without defining it as a pathology. His approach uses logic, rationality, and courage to speak the truth about something that seems to scare a lot of people into being irrational. There is a better way forward for all neurodiversity challenges.

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Help Me - I Feel Crazy Emotions for No Reason!

2/4/2019

 
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Most people are able to "feel another's pain" if they are witness to, read about, or hear about a loved one getting hit hard, say, by a baseball. Science is revealing that there are mirror neurons in the brain that allow this to happen. Yet, highly sensitive people (HSPs) have a different neurology from the average and therefore feel a lot more without even needing a known physical stimulus. These HSPs will often feel emotions or even have dreams that are not theirs. 

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The word 'massage' denotes Ms Mae's innovative connective tissue therapies led by expert palpation for noticeable before and after results, and derived from  professional training in: Swedish medical massage, Neuromuscular (NMT), Trigger Point, Massage Cupping, Reflexology, Acupressure, Shiatsu, and Smooth Gua Sha. She also employs vibrational therapies from dense to subtle like: Tok Sen (hammer massage) and BioSyntonie.​
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