illness

The Joy of Cancer

There were several signs that prepared me for the news that came a few months later. Discovering a large quantity of turkey tail mushrooms clustered on the maple log that February was the most telling. The medicinal use of mushrooms and plants is one of my passions. I was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in May 2008. The cancer was labeled aggressive, though a mammogram nine months earlier showed no abnormalities. I was urged by both the surgeon and the oncologist to follow their … [Read more...]

Category: Health Tags: healing, illness

Singing the Body Electric

By Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Leave a Comment

I cannot figure out who I am as a body these days. I look in the mirror, right into the scars, trying to read them like the dreams I have at night of driving around lost for hours, or not being able to make a call on a pay phone. There is always an emergency in those dreams. Right before the sleep that might take me back to such dreams, I touch my chest - feel the lines and the numbness too, try to measure with my fingers where feeling begins. I get up in the morning and always put my glasses … [Read more...]

Category: Health Tags: body, illness

Alternative and Allopathic Medicine: Peaceful Partnership

By Kanta Bosniak Leave a Comment

Our Featured Topic: Envisioning the Future of Health Care

I believe that the future of medicine in our culture will be a peaceful partnership between Alternative and Allopathic Medicine. And, for me, the future began two years ago, when I let go of my lifelong distrust of doctors and let one help me save my life. On April 28, 2007, I felt something in my lower abdomen. I lay on my back and looked down at my naked body. There was a swelling on my left side. I knew I was going to have to take action - and quickly. Two days later, I was diagnosed with … [Read more...]

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Neuroplasticity & Meditation: Cures for Mental & Physical Illness

By Colleen McGinnis Leave a Comment

Persian Kriya Yoga meditation master, Kambiz Naficy will be visiting Minnesota for the second time this June, conducting Level I and Level II Joy of Life meditation retreats. Kambiz is founder of Joy of Life, an international wellness and meditation organization with branches in the U.S., India, Sri Lanka and Iran. Kambiz integrates the wisdom of ancient Kriya Yoga teachings with modern holistic sciences, such as quantum physics and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Through Kriya yoga practices, … [Read more...]

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Understand and Release Addictions

By Caroline Sutherland Leave a Comment

An excerpt from The Body Knows...How to Stay Young: Healthy Aging Secrets from a Medical Intuitive If you're sick, chances are you're addicted to certain foods, behaviors and thoughts. Anything that has power over you and that you have difficulty letting go of is an addiction. For example, dwelling on the past can be just as damaging as being hooked on coffee, alcohol or chocolate, because it holds you back in life. In fact, noted physician and author Deepak Chopra claims that all illness … [Read more...]

Category: Health Tags: addiction, aging, happiness, illness, intuition, medicine, thoughts

What’s so bad about getting high?

By Sarah McRae Leave a Comment

In current health care the growing use and interest in alternative methods of dealing with disease is still beset with one major stumbling block: the approach to illness, including addiction, after you are sick. Today, we wish to substitute natural and non-toxic methods for toxic, side-effect laden methods. This is indeed a noble cause and a step up from where we have been in medicine for the last 100 years. However, nearly all ancient methods of healing stressed prevention as the nobler … [Read more...]

Category: Health Tags: addiction, bliss, consciousness, illness, natural

The Cancer Answer?

By Phil Bolsta Leave a Comment

In the dark days of December 2002, Bruce Hendry viewed his terminal cancer diagnosis as anything but a gift. Today, six years later and cancer free, he considers it a blessing. Indeed, Hendry's brush with mortality not only brought more joy to his life, it may prove to be a lifesaver for countless other terminally ill patients. Hendry learned he had cancer a week before Christmas. A few days later, tests confirmed the worst-case scenario - it was stage-four mantle cell lymphoma. Then, on … [Read more...]

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