The Health Plus Letter
August 16, 2007, Vol. 5, No. 15
By Larry Trivieri, Jr. – founder & publisher
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Table Of Contents
New This Issue
Quote of the Day
Fast Fact
Understanding Emotions From The Wisdom Level by Dr. Valerie V. Hunt
Antioxidants Bad? No, Says Dr. Garry Gordon
Self-Care Tips for Dealing With Gallstones and Gallbladder Disease
Recommendations
Medical Freedom
New This Issue
Welcome to another issue of The Health Plus Letter. This week, I’m sharing what I believe is a very important article by Dr. Valerie Hunt about the deeper meaning and significance of our emotions, which my own experience has proven are a key to good health and a creative, fulfilling life once we learn how to master them and use them to our advantage. Also in this issue, you can read Dr. Garry Gordon’s impassioned debunking of the recent study that branded antioxidants worthless. And you’ll also find self-care tips for effectively dealing with gallstones and gallbladder disease.
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
“Before you build a better mouse trap, if helps to know if there are any mice out there.”
— Yogi Berra (in honor of the passing of Yogi’s dear friend and true class act, Hall of Famer Phil Rizzuto)
Fast Fact
The adult human body has approximately 60,000 miles of blood vessels.
Understanding Emotions From The Wisdom Level by Dr. Valerie V. Hunt
Each of you reading my thoughts about emotions will filter these through what you “know’ about them. In a sense, you are your own expert. You have experienced emotions in utero, throughout this life, and in other lifehoods. Your beliefs about emotions were formulated from these experiences, and strengthened by what you gained from experts.
Do you know that there is more printed material about the psychology of emotions than about any other subject ever written? Yet your experiences and the written words overwhelmingly focus upon one level of emotions: on the material, rational level of “I, my and me,” the physical and personal selves. Even Freud’s formulation of the super- and subconscious saw emotions as connected to every day operation in the world, not to the soul.
Despite what we accept, as the world’s consciousness expands, we seek deeper levels of understanding about everything and especially emotional happenings. We intuitively know that the human “soul”, the highest level of human existence, is somehow deeply involved. But remember that the soul is not a higher self. It is the highest self.
For 40 years I have been a counselor assisting people to advance in spiritual knowing. This is how I learned that the soul level is the source of all emotional strengths and weaknesses in human life.
My Beliefs About Emotions
Emotion is the metronome of life. It is organized energy that is patterned to keep us alive and make our lives richer and more satisfying. Emotion is energy directed to action, to behave. Simultaneously emotion is a feeling state, which may accompany action or precede it. The direction of action and feelings comes from the emotional programming of our patterns laid down by experiences of living in this and other lifehoods. In other words, we “softwire” programs ourselves. We spiritual counselors learned that all profound emotions, even those triggered by here and now body-ego-self threats, have their source in the deep programming of soul experiences.
The Function Of Emotions
To remove life threats
The most difficult emotions come from physical life threats. These may be so intense that we fear our conscious “will” cannot control them. All behavior and feelings, sometimes even simple reflexes, are emotionally charged and directed. The quantity of energy dictates the available strength of action and feelings. Emotional patterns were established throughout lifehoods in order to handle in the best way possible personally strong emotional energies, and are programmed on various levels. Where and how this emotional energy is manifested ultimately comes from the Master Program to protect and embellish the soul.
With imagined or potential threats to life, electromagnetic energy is directed to eliminate that threat with God ordained feelings of anger. Whenever we are in a situation where we feel emotionally or physically threatened, our response is anger, giving us energy to solve the problem or run away from it. If a situation is so overwhelmingly threatening, our response may be acute fear, which does not activate energy but freezes it. Sometimes inconspicuousness protects us.
When the above solutions are unavailable or can’t be constructively used, the anger may turn against people or ourselves, with bodily disturbances. With no solution, the active anger may be drained off in depression or, if it remains, we may choose a psychotic altered state escape. To solve feelings of despair we inevitably seek the ultimate help: God’s help. Our requests are dependent pleading or angry demanding. If we feel we are not getting any help from the divine source we turn away from spiritual thoughts and remain angry with God. This level of emotional processing is totally oblivious to most people. However we must be able to experience this ultimate anger in order to receive the divine guidance. Then there is blessing, understanding and peace.
We generally interpret aggressive emotion as bad and unpleasant because if intense it can be irrational and unacceptable to the consciousness. Whenever emotional energy is activated there are feeling states not always directly related. Often the feelings stem from how we try to cope with the raw destructive energy–how we have learned to handle these. Ideally the feeling states should be directly geared to the direction and power of the energy action. All of the above anger reactions are similar whether the threat is body-self destruction or soul annihilation, but the difference is in the intensity of the emotion. Soul destruction is exponentially stronger and less controllable.
To embellish life
Emotions directed toward enjoyment are equally important and far more pleasant.
1 To feel the sensual pleasure of the body and that we are loved and protected.
2 To experience awe at the glorious wonders of nature as these unfold in living things.
3 To behold the beauty of sunrise and sunset, the rainbow, the sparkle of mist and the twinkle of stars.
4 To accept praise bestowed upon us because of accomplishment.
5 To experience the profoundness of great art, music and the written and spoken word.
All of these pleasures come from emotional energy and feelings stimulated by the senses on a self, ego and personal level. However if the emotional energy is strong enough it can move our consciousness to the divine, highest self, to the soul level where we recognize the profound greatness of our soul, where we are in direct contact with the divine, the source of our experience. At this soul level these emotions are profound, overwhelming and beyond explanation.
Why Understand Both Levels Of Emotions?
If we are on the path to expand our consciousness and gain wisdom and peace, our only barriers are our emotional energy patterns. If our goal is to have command over emotional energies to improve our life and health, to find our profound capabilities and happiness, we must choose experiences that help us understand the emotional energy patterns, the drives, inhibitions and the elegance at the soul level.
Our goal must be emotional maturity where energies are free to be felt, to be understood, and directed by our higher “will” with a full range of consciousness. Emotional energies must be available, dynamic and enjoyed.
Emotional change is a process like meditation where we grow in understanding of our patterns, where they came from, their limitations and how they served us, even if not well. But it is more than intellectual understanding; it requires a strong emotional commitment, a dedication and a willingness to give up the old patterns, so we are in command of our emotions rather than they being in command of us. Such change is difficult. Intellectual decisions do not eliminate the unacceptable emotional patterns so firmly grooved into our recorded subconscious plan. These records must be emotionally re-confronted over and over again. With time these can change. Some impatience is good; too much blocks the process.
How Do I Go About It?
We all want a technique to shorten and clarify our path to enlightenment. First we must rearrange our lives to provide time, quiet, and learn to meditate. Meditation techniques from Zen, Tao, religious and shamanic philosophies based upon belief systems are effective for some people to live a more spiritually peaceful life. These techniques are weak in assisting us to successfully redirect deep emotional patterns so we can operate with strength and wisdom in all levels of our human lives. So often we get caught up in the process of meditation, believing it is enlightenment rather than the path that we have chosen. Too easily we accept some meditative philosophies that outline these stages of enlightenment as expansion and elevation. They easily allow us to get lost in powerful experiences so grand to remember but that have little impact upon the wisdom of our living.
Regardless of what techniques you follow you must confront and change your emotional patterning. I think it is comforting but incorrect to believe that if you hit conscious peaks all limitation will fall away. You can substitute or transcend temporarily but that does not bring spiritual and material wisdom.
I hope you can learn that you are your best teacher, because you and you alone know the source and all the correct answers to your emotional patterning. Quietly ask your higher self for directions. Put a damper on your brain figuring out the answer. Listen to your mind divulge the answers. These answers can intuitively hit a bingo, jackpot. If they don’t, contemplate the information and put it on the shelf. If it is correct, it will return. If not, you should and will forget it. Remember that the mind is extremely creative in coping with emotions. Don’t get led down a “primrose path”. Such an approach will redirect the goals of your meditation.
My work Mind Mastery Meditations (see the Unabashed Plug below - LT) has helped many people use meditation to realign emotional energies toward wisdom.
Copyright © Valerie V. Hunt. All rights reserved.
Unabashed Plug
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Antioxidants Bad? No, Says Dr. Garry Gordon
Last week, news media across the world trumpeted claims that a major study had determined that antioxidant nutrients were basically worthless when it comes to improving health and protecting against heart disease. (For an example of how the story was reported, see: www.abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/story?id=3474385&page=1.)
What follows is my friend Dr. Garry Gordon’s impassioned rebuttal of these findings. Note that the points he raises about the study being flawed and designed to fail is true of many of the studies currently being bandied about as so-called proof that nutritional supplements don’t work, etc. Here’s Garry:
As the co-founder of ACAM, a professional organization of physicians and surgeons who have chosen to focus on Alternative approaches to Cardiovascular disease. I can state unequivocally that this latest study claiming little benefit from taking Antioxidant supplements was fatally flawed from the beginning. Any study that has the audacity to waste time and money studying 8000 people using a program that incorporates Beta Carotene is guilty of failing to do their homework. It has been shown in previous studies that Beta Carotene actually seemed to increase the incidence if Lung Cancer. No one today relies on a single carotenoid since it is obvious that doing so will have potential adverse effects by making other carotenoids relatively more deficient. It was a product first made to color oleomargarine so that it would LOOKlike butter.
This study was designed for failure from the beginning. Anyone actually trying to HELP Americans prevent heart disease knows that our [ACAM] members have treated over 10 million patients over the past 30+ years so successfully that in spite of all the doubt and attacks by mainstream cardiologists, NIH finally managed to start a $29+ million dollar study called the TACT trial to learn more about WHY so many doctors and patients are so impressed by the results of chelation therapy. My colleagues and I all know exactly which safe oral nutritional supplement programs DRAMATICALLY help prevent heart disease. Clearly the principals involved in this study did NOT want to find a positive result or they would have consulted with our group in the design of this EXPENSIVE and clearly worthless study. We would all have told them, and published literature would have supported the fact, that their study was fatally flawed from the beginning.
All they have done with this worthless study is muddy the water and confuse those who are trying to take personal responsibility for their health by taking dietary supplements which have been DOCUMENTED in HUNDREDS of studies to provide MEANINGFUL benefits to MILLIONS of consumers.
Shame on these researchers for failing to do their DUE DILIGENCE before wasting the time and money that this study has entailed, when for virtually the same cost, they could have studied REALISTIC cardiovascular support formulations that clearly would have worked. I have developed one such formulation known as Beyond Chelation Improved. That formula has permitted me to SAFELY cancel all bypass and stenting on my patients for over 20 years now, with DRAMATIC protection against heart disease. In fact, by lowering blood viscosity and decreasing clotting tendencies we have virtually eliminated all risks of fatal heart attacks with a scientifically developed nutritional support program that properly motivated researchers could have easily studied instead of the nonsensical program that these researchers set out to study where their reported failure was a foregone conclusion.
[Note: Dr. Gordon’s Beyond Chelation formula, as well as many other formulas that he has designed are available through my website – www.1healthyworld.com.]
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Self-Care Tips for Dealing With Gallstones and Gallbladder Disease
Gallstones and other gallbadder disorders affect the gallbladder, a small sac-like organ located beneath the liver that stores bile made in the liver. The liver sends the bile to the gallbladder through a small tube called the cystic duct. During digestion, the gallbladder contracts and delivers bile to the intestines to help break down fats contained in the food. The most common problem associated with the gallbladder is gallstones, round-shaped stones composed of cholesterol, bile, pigments, and lecithin.
Problems associated with gallstones include acute cholecystitis, an irritation and infection in the gallbladder that is caused by a gallstone becoming trapped. Symptoms of acute cholecystitis are the abdomen becoming extremely painful, even to the touch, and fever. Recurrent attacks of this are called chronic cholecystitis, which manifests the same symptoms.
The gallbladder rarely gets inflamed without the presence of stones. Gallbladder cancer is another possible disorder, but it is extremely rare, occurring in only three cases per 100,000 people each year. Gallbladder cancer usually causes jaundice (yellowing of skin) and pain in the upper-right abdominal area, but it too is sometimes present with no symptoms at all.
What To Consider
Only about 20 percent of people who have gallstones experience symptoms; the rest are unaware that they have any problem. A common symptom of gallstones is pain in the right side of the abdomen and/or pain in or near the right shoulder or shoulder blade. Pain may also occur in the center of the upper abdomen, over the breastbone. In all cases, pain, wherever it manifests, is usually constant and progresses slowly. It rises to a plateau and then gradually decreases, usually within several hours after a meal and especially after meals containing large amounts of fat. Other symptoms can include nausea, a sense of fullness, belching, heartburn, flatulence, and vomiting.
Women get gallstones four times as frequently as men, especially women over 40 years old who are fair-skinned, and overweight. Twenty percent of adults over 65 years of age get gallstones that create problems and pain. Over half a million surgeries are performed each year to remove gallbladders due to gallbladder disorders, the most common being gallstones.
Constipation, food allergies (especially to milk products and eggs), digestive disorders (especially caused by a deficiency of hydrochloric acid), intestinal diseases, an excessively low-fiber diet, dental disturbances, parasites, rapid weight loss, and stress can all cause or contribute to gall stones and other gallbladder disorders. For lasting relief of symptoms, all of these factors must be addressed if they are present.
In order to make an accurate diagnosis of gallbladder disorders, ultrasound may be required. If surgery is required, typically laser surgery is used, which does not need to cut into the abdomen, and allows healing to occur much more quickly. However, most gallbladder surgeries can be easily avoided through nutritional and natural intervention, with emphasis on identification, avoidance, and treatment of food allergies.
Self-Care Tips
Diet: Identify and avoid all foods to which you are allergic or sensitive, especially eggs, milk, and dairy products. Also reduce your overall fat intake, keeping it below 20 percent of the total foods you eat, and eliminate all processed and hydrogenated fats. But do not cut eliminate fat completely, as this can actually increase your chances of developing gallstones. Monounsaturated fats (olive oil, coconut oil) are the best fats to include in your diet.
Be sure to eat less, as well, since overeating places stress on the gallbladder. At the same time, don’t skip meals, and especially make sure to eat breakfast. Also increase your intake of dietary fiber to improve bowel movements, and avoid refined carbohydrates, which can cause gallstone formation. Overall, eat less animal foods and move toward a vegetarian-oriented diet. In addition, if you are overweight, lose the weight, but slowly and sensibly.
Good foods to include in your diet are black cherries, pears, beets (raw and cooked), fresh beet tops steamed with spinach leaves, kale, and plain organic yogurt, as well as more raw foods in general.
Gallbladder Flush: Flushing the gallbladder of stones is a common practice of holistic physicians and is quite easy to do. For your first gallbladder flush, continue to eat a whole foods diet with almost no animal products and no processed foods. Drink plenty of raw, fresh apple juice or eat organic apples as much as possible, between meals, for six days. On the afternoon of the seventh day, have 1/2 cup of extra virgin olive oil mixed with 1/3 cup of fresh lemon juice. Drink all at once and skip your evening meal. Go to bed early (no later than 10 pm), and sleep with your right knee tucked up to your side. In the morning, you should eliminate the gallstones, which will appear greenish yellow.
Six months to a year after your first gallbladder flush, you can repeat the process.
Nutritional Supplementation: The following supplements can help relieve gallbladder symptoms: digestive enzymes with each meal, vitamin B complex, vitamin C, choline, inositol, lipotrophic factors, alfalfa tablets, acidophilus, lecithin, and the amino acid, L-taurine. Peppermint oil sipped in water throughout the meal can also be helpful.
Herbs: Combine the tinctures of wild yam, fringetree bark, milk thistle, and balmony in equal parts and take one teaspoon of this mixture three times a day. An infusion of chamomile or lemon balm can also be taken regularly throughout the day.
Hydrotherapy: Apply a hot pack to your abdomen and low back for 10-15 minutes several times daily, followed by a short period of cold application.
Juice Therapy: The following juice combinations can help improve gallbladder health: carrot, beet, cucumber, radish, and fresh dandelion roots, with a clove of garlic, or grape, pear, grapefruit, and lemon
Topical Treatment: Castor oil packs placed over the gallbladder can speed relief of symptoms.
(The above information is adapted from Alternative Medicine: The Definitive Guide, co-written and edited by Larry Trivieri, Jr.)
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Recommendations
Website Links
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19048185 - This links to an article about a news story that first ran in early June of this year, that until today I did not know about – to whit: conventional breast cancer treatments do not work for most women. This is something my colleagues and I have known for decades, but it’s interesting to see the mainstream media reporting it, especially since it is coming from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Well worth a read.
http://pcp.cancer.gov - Here you will find a very important report just released by The President’s Cancer Panel that attacks the federal government’s subsidies of harmful, disease-causing foods (including their use in our public schools). Is the tide finally starting to turn towards sensible, health enhancing government policies? I sure hope so!
Medical Freedom
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 Freedom – http://www.ForHealthF/r/e/edom.org
International Advocates for Health Freedom (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.
That’s all for this week.
Health and Blessings!
Larry Trivieri, Jr. (larry@1healthyworld.com)
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