The Health Plus Letter
June 27, 2006, Vol. 4, No. 10
By Larry Trivieri, Jr. – founder & publisher,
http://www.1healthyworld.com
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Table Of Contents
New This Issue
Quote of the Day
Fast Fact
Medical F/r/e/edom
The 36 Breaths
Self-Care Remedies for Dealing With Insect Bites and Stings Recommendations
New This Issue
Welcome to another issue of The Health Plus Letter, one week late due to my getting caught up in the NBA Finals and the Miami Heat winning the championship. As a long-time fan of coach Pat Riley, I couldn’t be happier, and I’m also thrilled for Shaq, Dwyane Wade, and the rest of the Heat team for their inspiring comeback after being down 0-2.
OK, then. This issue, I’m sharing my experiences with a simple yet powerful breathing technique known as The 36 Breaths. It is part of a self-care healing system that I recently became aware of known as Jin Shin Jyutsu. I will have more to share with you about Jin Shin Jyutsu after I experiment with more of its techniques, yet can already say I’m excited about it. (You can find out more about it by visiting http://jsjinc.net.)
With summer officially arrived, I’m also sharing self-care tips that you can use to deal with insect bites and stings. You’ll also find links to three informative articles in my Recommendations section below, as well as reviews of three books I recently read with great enjoyment.
As always, please continue to send me your comments and suggestions. And please spread the word about The Health Plus Letter by passing it along to your friends and inviting them to subscribe.
Quote Of The Day
Learning is remembering.
-- Plato
Fast Fact
Ionizing radiation emitted by medical X-rays is a contributing cause of between 75 to 90 percent of all cases of breast cancer in the United States, over 50 percent of all other types of cancer, and 60 percent of all cases of heart disease.
Source: Research conducted by John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Molecular and Cell Biology, UC-Berkeley, and author of The Biological Effects of Radiation on Human Health.
Medical F/r/e/edom
Please contact and support the following organizations dedicated to protecting our health freedoms.
Citizens for Health - http://www.citizens.org
Alliance for Natural Health – http://www.alliance-natural-health.org (The leading organization fighting to preserve health f/r/e/edom in England and the EU.)
Institute for Health F/r/e/edom – http://www.ForHealthF/r/e/edom.org
International Advocates for Health F/r/e/edom (IAHF) – http://www.iahf.com
And to learn how corrupt and extensive Big Pharma’s monopoly is, visit http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/research/index.html the website for the Campaign Against Fraudulent Medical Research. In particular, read their in-depth report The Pharmaceutical Drug Racket that you will find th/e/re.
Unabashed Plug
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The 36 Breaths
Breathing, I am convinced, more than any other physical activity we engage in, has the most influence over our overall state of health (both physically and psychologically). It’s common knowledge that death can occur in as little as three minutes or less if we are unable to breathe because of how essential oxygen is for human life. But the breath supplies far more than oxygen to our bodies. In addition to carrying the nutrients we obtain from food and supplements to every cell in our bodies, according to various healing traditions, the breath is also the carrier of vital life force energy that is variously known as Qi (“chee”), prana, and pneuma.
By learning how to breathe deeply and easily on a regular basis throughout each day, we can significantly improve our overall energy levels, alleviate stress and tension, and positive influence our moods and mental function. Most of us do not breathe properly, however. Instead of breathing deeply and fully in a relaxed manner, expanding our diaphragms with each inhalation, typically we take shallow breaths into our chests, restricting our intake of oxygen and vital life force energy. Moreover, we typically are not even conscious of the way we breathe, and therefore do not notice the times when we are holding our breath, usually during times of stress, anxiety, fear, or concentration, and always to the detriment of our health.
Learning how to breathe properly is in actually really an adventure of unlearning the various unhealthy breathing habits we’ve adopted over the course of our lives. One of the key steps in this process is to regularly take time during each day to focus on our breathing, noticing if it’s deep and relaxed or shallow and, literally, unfulfilling. Whenever you catch yourself holding your breath or breathing shallowly, take a few moments to consciously breathe fully and deeply, letting the air expand primarily your belly, not your chest. By doing this on a regular basis (at least for a few minutes once every hour), you will to eventually notice a variety of positive shifts occurring in your overall health.
Since I first discovered the importance of proper breathing over a decade ago, I have kept a lookout for new and effective breathing techniques to try. Recently, I discovered a technique called The 36 Breaths, which is a fundamental part of a natural healing method called Jin Shin Jyutsu (which means “The Art of the Creator through the person of compassion”). Jin Shin Jyutsu is considered to be an ancient technique from Japan that was rediscovered by the Japanese sage-healer Jiro Murai, who used it to cure himself of a life-threatening illness brought on by his excessive lifestyle during his youth. He later taught Jin Shin Jyutsu to Mary Burmeister, who is responsible for introducing it to the United States, as well as many other countries around the world.
The premise of Jin Shin Jyutsu is one that I very much agree with—namely that each of us has all that we need within ourselves to achieve and maintain optimal health, as well as to successfully meet all of our other life goals and challenges. People who learn Jin Shin Jyutsu initially are taught about the importance of proper breathing. One of the exercises they are taught, The 36 Breaths, is elegantly simple. It is performed by exhaling and then inhaling in a relaxed manner. Each cycle of exhalation/inhalation counts as one breath. Therefore, all that is necessary to perform this exercise is to count each exhalation until you have done so for 36 times. (If you lo/se track, you can simply start over again.)
By making it a habit to perform this exercise at least once a day, I’ve found that I am quickly able to release whatever tensions I’ve built up in my body (especially after hours spent writing), as well as easily shifting into feelings of peace and joy. I’m also becoming even more aware of the flow of energy throughout my body and experiencing how this deceptively simple exercise frees up any energy blockages I may have. Moreover, The 36 Breaths is fun. Try it for yourself and see what happens as a result.
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Self-Care Tips for Dealing With Insect Bites and Stings
Bites or stings from insects can cause allergic reactions or pain. Symptoms of insect bites and stings include swelling, redness, pain, dizziness, loss of breath, and anxiety. Though insect bites and stings are not serious for most people, for hypersensitive people they can potentially cause a fatal allergic reaction. People with known hypersensitivities should carry a kit containing antihistamine and epinephrine when in areas likely to hold risk.
Practical Hints: If you have a known allergy to insect bites and stings, take preventive measures when outdoors, such as wearing pants, long-sleeve shirts, footwear, and gloves and avoiding cosmetics, perfumes, and hairsprays, all of which can attract insects.
Caution: If you experience symptoms such as flushing, generalized hives, swelling around the neck or tongue, difficulty breathing, faintness, or loss of consciousness or diarrhea after you are bitten or stung by an insect, immediately consult your physician or go to the emergency room.
Self-Care Measures
Nutritional Supplementation: If you are bitten or stung, take vitamin C as soon as possible, along with vitamin B5. Vitamin E applied topically can also help to relieve itching and pain.
Aromatherapy: The essential oils of basil, cinnamon, garlic, lavender, lemon, onion, sage, savory, and thyme are all useful due to their antitoxic and anti-venomous properties. Lavender is also effective for treating itching from stings. All of these essential oils can also help to ward off insects before they bite or sting.
Flower Essences: Rescue Remedy CreamÒ applied topically can soothe itching and speed healing.
Herbs: Apply the fresh juice aloe vera or plantain to the sting to soothe pain and stimulate healing.
Homeopathy: Take Aconite, Lachesis, Apis mel., Hypericum, or Urtica Urens immediately after you are bitten or stung.
Hydrotherapy: A cold compress or ice pack applied as needed can help to reduce pain and swelling.
Topical Treatment: Apply ice and vinegar or vinegar and lemon juice or a paste made of bicarbonate of soda as soon as possible to neutralize the venom. Crush a charcoal tablet on a cotton ball, place over sting, and cover with bandage to reduce pain and swelling. Mud applied to the site of the bite or sting will help draw out toxins as it dries.
(The above information is adapted from Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide, 2nd edition, edited and co-authored by Larry Trivieri, Jr.)
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Recommendations
Books:
The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. Imagine being shunted off to one school for troubled youths after another, thinking you are a problem child with attention deficit disorder, only to discover that you are actually a child of the Greek god Poseidon, whose life is in danger because Zeus thinks you’ve aided your father by stealing Zeus’s lightning bolt. That’s the fate of Percy Jackson in this very entertaining fantasy novel for teens. It’s not quite up there with Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl books, but I enjoyed it very much, all the same.
The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy. It’s no secret that the history of wars and other conflicts in the West and Middle East has in large part been due to entrenched beliefs held by adherents of the three major religions born in the Middle East. This book, which builds on the authors’ findings and research published in their two earlier books, The Jesus Mysteries and Jesus and the Goddess, examines the root causes of the long-standing “us-versus-them” mentality that is at the heart of such conflicts even today. In the process, it also makes clear how very little of what is accepted as “gospel truth” by Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike is actually true. As with their other books, the authors back up their argument with plenty of historical documentation.
An Unlikely Prophet by Alvin Schwartz. The author of this book spent the 1940s and 1950s writing the adventures of many of the world’s most popular superheroes, including Superman, before he abruptly walked away from his craft in protest over an editorial edict about Superman that he disagreed with. With no training to do anything else, he nonetheless achieved successful careers in advertising, screenwriting and documentary films. This book is his “metaphysical memoir” that recounts what happened to him in the mid 1990s (when he was in his 80s; he’s still alive and writing today at the age of 90) when a seven foot Tibetan man rode a bicycle to his home in the country, letting him know that he was a tulpa named Thongden who, instead of being born, had been created by thought as a result of meditation practices engaged in by a Western explorer of Tibet prior to the Chinese invasion. What most struck me while I read this book—which I highly recommend—was a nightlong series of dreams I had wherein I was being shown how all manifest (physical) life is in actuality part and parcel of an unmanifest Whole. Two days later, I was reading a very similar account of what I dreamt in this book, which, if read with an open mind, will forever expand your worldview of what is possible.
Websites:
The following links will take you to articles that I found very interesting, and which I think you will be interested in too.
http://www.truthdig.com/interview/item/20060411_michael_pollan_interview - At this site you will find a fascinating interview with Michael Pollen, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, about all that is wrong with America’s food and agricultural industries, as well as the steps you can take to eat healthily. I learned a lot from reading this.
http://blog.healthliesexposed.com/?postid=6 - At this site you will find an interview with Shane Ellison, M.Sc., a former pharmaceutical chemist and author of Health Myths Exposed. In the interview, Ellison provides a number of examples of how Big Pharma and the FDA collude with each other to the detriment of our health and the betterment of Big Pharma’s coffers.
http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/06/06/int06022.html- This link will take you to an eye-opening interview with Greg Palast, one of the world’s best investigative journalists (so good, in fact, that even though he’s American, he can’t get a job with any major media outfit in the States, but is widely read in Europe as a writer for the BBC, The Guardian, and the London Observer). In the interview, Palast reveals the real reasons behind the Iraqi invasion, the real story behind rising oil prices, the documented theft of both the 2000 and 2004 elections and what’s in place to steal the elections of 2006 and 2008. None of what he says is conjecture or conspiratorial thinking. Unlike so many in America’s mainstream media, Palast gets the proof via documents, taped interviews, etc., before he writes his stories. Grim tidings indeed, yet essential reading for anyone who cares about the fate of our nation.
That’s all for this week.
Health and Blessings!
Larry Trivieri, Jr. (larry@1healthyworld.com)
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