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Are You A Picture of Health?

Tuesday, October 16th, 2012

You are a picture of health if you are healthy from head to toe. This actually means being free from any illness, and being mentally, spiritually, and physically happy. Taking good care of your physical health does not only mean taking medications and having enough rest when sick, it also means taking care of your body to avoid any sickness. More so, it also means changing your overall attitude when you have to get better after being sick. All in all, you need to eat right, have proper exercise, take vitamin supplements, work for a job you truly enjoy, and avoid stress.

The Importance of Holistic Care
When you are sick, the tendency for you, and your general doctor as well, is to treat the symptoms through the traditional manner of taking a pill to make your body feel better. However, the human body has a distinct manner of saying that there is something wrong and things are being pushed over the limits not just in the physical aspects. You can have a headache because of emotional stress, and when you take a painkiller, the pain stops. But the main cause of that headache is still there, so, the headache will most likely recur.

These days, healthcare professionals are very aware that there is actually a rigid relationship between lifestyle and health. Thus, patients are more and more assessed in a holistic manner. Meaning, patients are not only asked for their respective symptoms but also for their lifestyles, family backgrounds, and work situations. It is therefore not only about medications for the symptoms anymore, but also about the overall health and taking care of it long-term.

Holistic Medicine
Defined in various ways, holistic medicine generally focuses on how your emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental elements are interconnected in order to maintain good health. Whenever one of these is not functioning properly, it affects your whole system. Holistic approaches concentrate on your whole person and not only on the part of your body that is unwell. Although holistic medicine to some individuals is seen as just an alternative or a supplementary means of medication, many health professionals have been promoting healthy lifestyle modifications like healthy eating, exercising, not smoking, not drinking alcohol, and controlling stress as vital in having good health all the time.
Holistic methods are in fact becoming more routine in mainstream care.

In this regard, holistic medicine is being practiced with preventive care and standard treatment. The usual approach is focused on treating (from different angles) not just your ailment but your whole self so as to achieve a higher wellness level. For instance, medical doctors may treat cancer through diet and behavior changes, plus joining of support groups and counseling. There might also be suggestions of herbal supplements as well as complementary therapies like meditation, yoga, hypnosis, psychotherapy, among others. A combination of such various methods can help you and many others to be in control of your respective medical situations and gain complete wellness in all aspects of your body and system, not just physically.

Now, are you a picture of health?

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Music Therapy

Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

What Is Music Therapy?
It is literally a manner of therapy that uses music. Music therapy typically involves listening to music or making music, and is applied in various situations such as in helping stroke patients in their rehabilitation and in assisting traumatized kids express themselves.

Where is Music Therapy Applied?
Such therapy is applied on people across all ages, with conditions that include behavioral problems, developmental disabilities, stroke, substance abuse, medical problems, pain, sensory impairments, physical handicap, stress, communication disorders, among others. Each session is specifically modified to fit to the every patient’s need.

What Happens During Sessions?
When listening to music is involved, the licensed music therapist usually allows the patients to keep quiet while the music is playing, and subsequently talk with them regarding their feelings while the music was ongoing. Meanwhile, in a session that concerns composing, the patients write lyrics or songs or make music videos under the guidance of the music therapist. Furthermore, if improvising is the focus, the patients create extemporaneous music, singing songs or playing musical instrument to whatever come up at the moment. Lastly, in re-creating music, the patients play or sing pre-composed music, bringing up innate skills in imitating musical phrases and producing instrumental or vocal sounds.

A music therapist may also engage the patients in lengthy oral discussions, mostly talking about the music, plus their
reactions and thoughts or images to it. Aside from discussions, patients may also be instructed to draw, paint, dance, recite as a poem, and act out what his/her thoughts were about the music earlier. For kids, there may also be play activities or games that are done while music is being played. Sessions can also be one-on-one as the need arises.

Who Is An Ideal Music Therapist?
An ideal music therapist is a typical musician who has a heartfelt desire to utilize the innate talent, skill, and fondness for music to help other people, knowing that music is a powerful means in encouraging sharing of feelings. Frequently there is also an interest in medicine or psychology. On the other hand, a successful music therapist has satisfactory emotional, psychological, mental and physical health on top of maturity, care, energy, and motivation to guide therapeutic sessions.

In general, music therapists are expected to know how to sing and play musical instruments. They must also know about, and be able to perform, classical music and also rock, jazz, country music, etc. Also, it has been said that the most excellent music therapists have used the therapy on themselves and got healed.

Do Patients Need to be Music Lovers?
Patients do not necessarily have to be music lovers, although it will help a patient a lot if he/she loves music. And, whether to have music therapy or not is the discretion of the patients’ respective physicians or therapists, and their parents or family members. The entire therapeutic procedure that each patient undergoes has no correct and wrong ways, in the music therapist’s eyes. In the end, music lovers or not, every patient can benefit a lot from music therapy.

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Pocket of gold can be good for your health

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

The Health Benefits of Gold
Microscopic particles of gold mixed with a fluid substance such as distilled water is referred to as colloidal gold. The mixture is also called nanogold, and looks like a yellow or red colored liquid. Swallowing colloidal gold and using it externally provide many health benefits and can be used as a treatment for drug, caffeine, and nicotine addiction.

Gold treatmentWhat Are the Health Benefits of Gold?
If you have arthritis, colloidal gold can make the joint swelling and pain subside, even if your condition causes stiffness and makes you immobile. Taken regularly, the gold mixture will eventually make your pain go away and your joints move normally. Meanwhile, colloidal gold also has a calming effect on your tensed nerves, and as soon as you begin taking the gold mixture, you can already feel a soothing sensation within yourself. This wonderful feeling gives so much relief from stress.

Gold can also be:

  • A stimulant for your body’s cells. Colloidal gold enhances the sending of electrical signals in your brain’s nerve cells and heightens mental alertness. When ingested as a supplement for a month, you will have better concentration and a sharper memory.
  • For anxiety symptoms and depression. With colloidal gold in any of these situations, you will feel relaxed and in a calmer mood state until the time you will be free from the symptoms when the gold mixture is taken on a regular basis.
    For life-threatening conditions. In the event that you encounter an ailment that threatens your life, gold can help since it energizes the cells inside your body. For specific cancer types, colloidal gold can help in the treatment by controlling the growth of the cancer cells.
  • An aid for digestion. If you have the tendency to gain weight due to a malfunctioning digestive system, you can try taking colloidal gold which can improve your digestion process and therefore make you lose the gained weight.
    An ointment for different disorders of the skin. If you have wounds, fungal infections, skin rashes, eczema, etc., you can apply gold topically. Such ointment can also regenerate your skin cells, restoring its natural elastic functions while improving your skin condition.
  • Implants for eye disorders. When your facial nerves which control your eyelids’ movements cannot make your eyes shut correctly, tiny gold pieces can be implanted. These pieces are created to match your eyelid curves, and to be heavy enough to close your eyes but not very heavy to prevent each eye from opening .


Is Gold Intake Safe?
Gold ingestion is normally safe because colloidal gold is actually non-toxic and does not produce adverse side effects. But despite the health benefits of gold, too much gold intake can lead to poisoning. Thus, it is vital to get prior approval from a medical doctor, and you will need regular visits and follow-ups so that your medical progress can be checked.

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