This next Saturday, October 24, at 7 pm MST an opportunity for free healing is available for all. By saying yes to receive you are included in the session. 

Distance healing by Michael Mohoric is effective to connect with and support the bodies natural ability to heal itself. 

​If you are interested to know more information about Mr Mohoric or find out more about the powerful practice of qigong or want to sign up for the newsletter check out his site at http://www.qigongenergyhealing.com.

During the qigong distance healing hour, sit or lay quietly and do a meditation. I often do a guided meditation or a Meditation for the 7 Chakras.  

Relax, observe and listen to the response your body is having with your intention to connect with this healing moment.

If you fall asleep during the session, that is ok. Getting your conscious self out of the way by sleeping allows your body to be more efficient with the job of healing that it is designed for. 

Your body has a natural ability to heal, restore, and renew. It is who we are. It happens every day and night.

An example of a healing moment is when you are falling asleep and your leg jumps. Your body just released the muscle tension, restoring the natural flow of health to that leg. If you are a more sensitive type of person you might have felt the twitching in the muscle before the jump.

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I have had a bit of interest lately with clients asking questions of acupressure and meridian line tracing. Certain meridian lines are very supportive of chronic health conditions.

Working your own meridian lines and acupressure points can be a do it yourself project. Depending on your condition it is helpful to massage the lines daily and several times a day. 

The three acupressure point tapping routine to calm nervous system while boosting energy and many more can be found in Donna Eden's three books; 
1. Energy Medicine for Women: Aligning Your Body's Energies to Boost Your Health and Vitality 
2. Energy Medicine: Balancing Your Body's Energies for Optimal Health, Joy, and Vitality 
3. The Little Book of Energy Medicine: The Essential Guide to Balancing Your Body's Energies. 

Tap the three acupressure points for ten seconds each.

1. Thymus in the centre of your breast bone
2.  K27 are twin points one inch below collar bone corners 
3. Spleen acupressure points four inches below armpit along side
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Repeat this routine until you feel calm. 
​Repeat the routine every two hours to maintain energy flow.

I have actually used this technique very successfully to calm a potential panic attack.  

Working these three points four times during the day will help boost your immune system, boost energy, increase meridian flow, awaken alertness and reduce stress levels.

You can follow along with the following video to tap out the three acupressure points to calm your nervous system and boost the health and energy of your body.

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I was a wheezy asthmatic with air borne allergies. I would be outside gardening slowly and I would hear from the house, "You need to stop what you are doing and go in, I can hear you wheezing from here." So frustrating to have lungs that are letting me down.

​And then what can be described as a breath of fresh air happened. I found a natural solution that works for me to heal my lungs.   

Not so long ago, possibly the winter of 2009, we had a very mild winter with many warm chinook winds. The following spring was dirty and windy with the worst dust storms that continued into the summer and then continued into fall. I would walk a single short small town block and have an asthmatic attack.

​I wore a scarf across my nose and mouth any time I was outside in the spring and summer and fall to protect me from a potential onset of asthma from all the dust just hanging in the air. 

 May of 2011 a news article I just happened to watch revealed the healing benefits of salt therapy.  
​https://www.ctvnews.ca/asthma-sufferers-hope-salt-rooms-can-offer-relief-1.638899  

Benefits of salt therapy will help: Increase immune system function, asthma, allergies, chronic bronchitis, cystic fibrosis, acute respiratory diseases, sinusitis, emphysema, COPD, smoker's cough, colds & flu, snoring, stuffy nose (nasal congestion), ottis media and the lists go on to include whole body health.

I knew I could start salt therapy right away by creating a salt pipe with the chamber unit of an inhaler. I pulled out the cartridge and filled a gauze bag with chunky himalayan pink salt and inserted that into the chamber. Instant salt pipe.

On the first few deep breaths I felt the wonderful healing of the salt starting on my lungs.

The salt pipe was working well. The next step was finding a nebulizer. 

Searching the internet I found the Halosense Inc. Ultrasonic Salinizer.

Today my nebulizer is working next to my bed, misting salt air gently every night, all night. I also have a salt nebulizer at work in the clinic room helping keep my lungs healthy. 

Chris Wark has published his book. Chris Beat Cancer: A Comprehensive Plan For Healing Naturally. 

Available for free on youtube at different times of the year is what I call a must watch event of the personal first hand experience story and detailed information on how Chris Wark beat Stage III colon cancer in 2003. 

You will need to sign up to watch all ten episodes of The Square One: Healing Cancer Coaching Program. Below is a copy of the email I received when I signed up for access to watch the series the next time it is live.

For more information and support for all your questions visit Chris at www.chrisbeatcancer.com

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I like my earthing mat. When I have overworked my arm, I wrap the mat around the arm and feel the inflammation move and my muscles relax and the meridian pathways flow freely. I sleep with my mat tucked in the pillow case so that it is touching my neck, head and shoulders or sometimes I have it just across my back or the area of the body that needs direct reconnection to the earth.

Have a look and listen to the great collection of information on the site Earthing Canada.ca  

Studies show sleeping with the earthing mat improves sleep, reduces pain and stress.

I have been using the earthing mat on the massage table since 2014. If you are on my table you may feel it just under the linens. Regular clients that I had worked on before earthing mat have reported to me how the effects of the massage last longer now that they have time with the mat. I have noticed how much easier it is to work on someone that is being grounded. I can feel the nervous system calming with each breath. 

Two places to shop for the earthing mat here in Canada is earthing.ca in Calgary, Alberta and goearthing.com from Toronto, Ontario.

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April 4, 2014 Grounding mat update: Written by Anita 
It has been almost 2 weeks since I started sleeping on the mat. I noticed right away the inflammation had decreased especially in the lower back. The pain level and pain surface area has decreased from all across the lower back to 2 small localized points. The pain level has decreased to a pinch like feeling that is much easier to endure. I had a massage after 6 days and it was as if I had a new body, Kim was able to treat the issue easier without having to go through the inflammation. 
I can't wait for our next session.

I have now received two laser treatments for a wound that has four stitches in the left thumb.

​The accident occurred with a very sharp knife at home while slicing up bread for crumb stuffing  when I took my eye off the project for a second and then two hours later I had four stitches.

​What I noticed during the session is that of the three cold laser beams hitting the body, the laser that I see pulsing a red beam is the place I can feel pulsing inside the thumb. During the three minute session each of the three beams takes a turn at pulsing at the body.
 
After the session there is a definite feeling of blood flow in the digit and pulsing inside the digit as the circulation has increased.  I went on to ice the thumb to support the physiological process of healing. Science has shown that the use of a laser in wound healing results in better regeneration and faster restoration of structural and functional integrity.
 
There are many videos and documents supporting the benefits of laser for many types of chronic bodily pain issues and for the type of healing that I needed. I have included some videos at the end of this blog. 
 
We are very fortunate to have cold laser available to us here in Drumheller. If you think you would like to try this give Melanie a call at the clinic. 

I was asked if this has been a problem for practising my craft? I call it a nine finger massage right now. It is a bit challenging in that I have to remember not to grab the linens or move the bolsters with the left hand. The work load is temporarily unbalanced.  A good bandage and a finger cot makes the work all very manageable. This won't last long. Next week I get the stitches out and then this is all a just a new scar to work on. 

I won't have to worry about the finger not getting enough massage to reduce the scar and increase the blood flow. I will be using the thumb to massage patients so at the same time the thumb will also get a massage from the work. If this was going to be a scar on a wrist or a scar on some other part of my body I would have to stop and make an effort several times a day to create the stretch and movement so that the scar does not get disorganized and not allow full range of movement. I have advised and worked on many scars on patients with great success. As soon as the stitches come out I will start the work on my thumb.

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3336911/

Years ago I lived at the mercy of the planet. When the atmosphere changes to bring in a high pressure or shifted to a low pressure and the big winds that last for day(s) pushed in I was pushed and it hurt. I didn't know I could make it better with my conscious breath. After many years of practising breathing in grounding I do not feel the complications of the wind and the atmospheric pressures. 

You can get that deeper connection that creates a bendable deeply rooted tree instead of a boulder that gets worn down and broken with the drips of moisture that creeps into the crevices and freezes and expands and cracks the body. You will need to practice several times a day, eight to ten would be good. Practise everyday so that the breathing technique is apart of your person. And yes you can get the same results if you are actually touching the earth or if you are several stories up from the earth.

Step One. Getting connected. Sit with your bare feet flat to the floor. Rub your feet on the floor and feel that connection to the earth. Visualize and feel the open connection lifting up to the heavens as you rub the top of the head with your finger tips.

Step Two. Breathing while sitting. Chest open and hands resting comfortably with palms facing up on your lap, backs of hands touching the leg. Back straight and relaxed. Breathe a large slow and deep even breath in the nose to fill the throat, the lungs, the abdomen and beyond to the whole body. Breathe out the nose and feel the breath pushing out the bottom of the feet to support the root connection to the earth and the connection out the top of the head to the heavens.
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The breath should be large enough to fill your throat. If you were a cat you would be purring. Feel the breath relax the whole body. If your jaw is not relaxed stretch it out by opening and closing it wide and feel the calm. If you need to stretch out an arm or a leg or roll the shoulders. Focus with each breath to invite the peaceful feeling into every  part of your body. Feel the breath create the space around you to be peaceful and calm. Feel that space you are breathing into grow bigger creating peace and calm for the people in your space.

This healing calming breath creates a boundary of change to the atmosphere of where you are and will effect the people around you for the better. And most importantly not allow you to be assaulted by the wind and the atmospheric pressure changes.

If you are interested in taking the Healing From The Core course program that gave me freedom from the wind, it does come to Canada twice a year. Or give me a call and we can go over this technique together.
healingfromthecore.com/workshops/healing-from-the-core/grounding-and-healthy-boundaries/

​Music with a slow repeating in and out breath-feel can be helpful. Try breathing with this calming music from Yellow Brick Cinema https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LXhPbmoHmU

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It's the season. The leaves are falling from the trees. The children are in school. Viruses, bacteria and germs of all sorts are busily spreading in the air and by touching common surfaces like shopping carts and doorknobs.

Last fall I created a wonderful massage oil blend of twelve essential oils. This wonderful blend of twelve oils will help boost the immune system to fight the germs we encounter daily.

I have heard a great story. Twelve for Health was massaged into the feet every night by my client that works in an environment that has a high rate of infectious diseases running around. She used it on both her feet and her husband's feet every night and by the end of the season she could say she did not get sick and his athletes foot was gone. 

Five other preventative tips I follow to stay healthy this season beyond the usual list of eat right, exercise, drink water, get enough rest, wash your hands often, don't touch your face and cover a cough.

1. Massage feet ever night with Twelve for Health.

2. Drink tea with lemongrass morning and night. I usually have one cup at noon as well. You can drink more and should if you are trying to fight a germ that has invaded your body.

3. Take vitamins with extra vitamin C, D, omegas, and Magnesium.

4. Clean ears with hydrogen peroxide every month and when sinus pressure changes.

5. Sleep with a humidifier that is working and filled and running. The salt air nebulizer that I use kills the air born germs that I have breathed in. 
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I have seen this on my massage table and in my clinic room many times. A client walks in, might be someone I have never met before or someone I have worked with many times, and they have that look that says I am up against the edge and need help. That look that says hyper vigilant and maybe not sleeping. And that statement slash question is said that sounds like, "Massage will help right?"

Every time something takes us by surprise or we work ourselves up with worries and stressors that we won't let go of, just keeping it in the front of all thoughts, the body responds (sympathetic  nervous system response) with the production of adrenalin to keep us going. 

Adrenalin is great for that need to take flight and save yourself or in acts of true heroics like lifting a car off a trapped person. Adrenalin is also eventually very exhausting and weakening to the body when it is continuously in production.

STEP ONE. Calming the mad production of adrenalin. Right now place both your hands on  your back with palms covering the twelfth ribs (the last ribs of the back). Or if you have a partner sitting next to you have that person lovingly place their hands on your last ribs (Bonus if they have big hands. Have the hands extend into the lower back, but make sure the ribs are covered). 

STEP TWO. Keep hands on your back and take a slow deep breath. Nothing fancy, just use the nose for the slow in breath and the slow out breath. The breath needs to be large. If you were a kitten you would be purring. The throat is full with air as it moves slowly. A breath that fills past the lungs into the abdomen. Take a pause between the in breath and the out breath. 

When you take an easy slow breath your body is given the signal that you are ok, everything is calm. Your body changes (parasympathetic nervous system response) to match your breath.

STEP THREE. Continue to hold the  twelfth ribs and breathe slow and calm. If you can manage this for fifteen or twenty minutes or longer your body will have been given the time it needs to get vital functions back on line to what we think of as normal and balanced calm.  

You will notice after doing this exercise a need to urinate. By calming the adrenal glands that sit atop the kidneys you will have set in motion a calming effect to many bodily functions releasing the tension that held them captive. The tension from the adrenals being continuosly active put a pull on internal ligaments, tendons and muscle structures that create muscle ache in the hips, up the back, shoulders and neck (the reason you came for a massage; emotional hyper vigilant muscle tension) 

An alternative to hands on the twelfth ribs; use a heated wheat bag or heating pad. Hands are best when available. There is nothing that can compare to the loving caring touch of one person to another, or from your loving self to yourself.

Do this exercise every night for a month. Notice the difference. Do this anytime of the day you need the calm to come in. Doing this in the evening before sleep will help you sleep.

A massage for this kind of tension is not usually deep. Your emotions are on the surface of the skin. Relaxation will be more effective to calm and balance the body. Supporting what you need in this moment. Remember you are in charge of this massage. Where ever you go, what ever table you get on, you say what you need. This massage moment belongs to you.  If you like and are accustomed to deep massage work, but now you are stressed, you don't want that first deep stroke to make you curl up at the end of the table in a fetal position. Say you are stressed and need to relax.
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