The best nutrition is provided from natural organic sources including plants and animal tissue. When a vitamin or mineral supplement is made directly from a real food, then like in nature, the form is easily absorbed by the human body. On the other hand, when a man-made chemical resembling the original vitamin or mineral is offered in the supplement it may or may not be utilized by the body.

I plan in future blog posts to provide a series focused on each major nutrient vital to the human body, and in it I will list the recommended forms of each vitamin or mineral that are most readily absorbed by the body. In the meantime, just remember that you are what you eat, and that when you buy quality organic foods and natural food-based nutritional supplements your health will be your reward. I see this as up-front prevention and highly endorse it over landing in the hospital!

And, it is my opinion that you don’t always get the most absorbable nutrients from vitamins or minerals purchased from your corner drug chain or big box store brands. Check the form of all of your supplements to ensure that you are getting your money’s worth in whole food ingredients rather than chemicals. Your body will be glad you did!

When I asked if she was taking her supplements her daughter remarked that yes, she had all of her medicines. That was not my question. There is a huge difference between vitamins and minerals, and medicines, and when taking the latter one should continue taking nutritional supplements.

There is a misconstrued belief by some that medicines or pharmaceuticals take the place of vitamin and mineral supplements. This is untrue. They are different, and when taking medicines one should continue to take vitamins and minerals. Where medications can have negative side effects and often should not be taken together, nutritional supplements can be taken safely with each other and with medications. And, with the modern diet of today, they are needed to support the health of our bodies.

A famous naturopathic physician has said that the diet of today is high in energy and lacking in health. This says that we are eating many foods that produce high caloric energy values, yet our bodies continue to suffer from degenerative diseases and conditions including arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, auto-immune deficiencies, among others. For this specific reason my relative and so many others find themselves in the hospital struggling to stay alive while doctors try to manipulate and rebalance the body chemistry. If given the right substances up front this need not happen, but the combination of medicines plus nutrition-poor diet can often cause a mortal struggle.

I admit that I do not know many things about medical treatments, however I do know that medications do NOT take the place of nutrients, and you won’t get balanced absorbable nutrition in hospital food. Nutritional supplementation is imperative, safe, and something that must be remembered!

Blog Friends – this year of 2011 has just flown past, and we are on the cusp of jumping into a wonderful new year that holds all kinds of promise for us all!

I have created a special N-hanced EFT TAPshop recording for you to cleanse any old “stuff” from the old year so that you can enter your new year with a clean slate! This includes advanced Emotional Freedom Technique tapping with energy therapy support that is sure to amp up your vibration!

You may use this tapping sequence over and over because each day is a new beginning of a new year.

Download or listen to the recording by going to the following link:

http://ariela.audioacrobat.com/download/HappyNewYear.mp3

I hope you enjoy this and that it helps you to create the New Year of your greatest desires!

My intention in 2012 is (1) to share many more energy therapy tapping sequences, more EFT instruction, support more coaches, therapists, and doctors in their energy psychology skills, and (2) to learn more in my own naturopathic studies so that I can share information about nutrition, pH balance, homeopathy, and so much more to help you to stay healthy, happy, and in balance with your world!

Happy New Year! 

In my naturopathic medicine studies I am learning more and more about the multiple roles that the skin plays.  It is one of the main organs that supports the release of toxins, with the state of toxicity being the main physical cause of dis-ease. It is important for you to keep the skin’s pores unblocked so that it can function easily in its innate ability to drain toxins, dead cells, and other chemicals from your body. I have noticed that whenever I use body lotions or creams I tend to notice a physical odor as well as occasional small red bumps on my skin as this important organ attempts to let go of normal acids and other wastes but finds the pores blocked by a lotion or cream.

The skin also serves to support the metabolism of squalene when in sunlight, as it synthesizes the solar energy to produce vitamin D rather than cholesterol.  Well-known cell biologist Dr. Bruce Lipton makes the analogy of the human body to the single cell body, where the outer skin of the cell keeps the outside environment out and the inside environment inside of the cell, while allowing communication in both directions. This metaphor makes sense, and it is up to us to keep this outer layer protected and healthy.

The skin communicates volumes  about your health and physical balance if you know how to read the messages it sends. I use these examples just as models that you might keep in mind as you notice any changes in your own skin texture.

1. When I was an adolescent I was stricken with horrible acne. It took years of investigation before I realized that I had an allergy to corn products, and to this day if I eat a meal cooked with corn oil I will have an acne break-out before I have even finished eating the affecting substance. This is the way that my body releases this food allergen as it also shows me that I have ingested something that it considers to be poison.
2. A friend suffered terrible hives all over his body for over six months following a colonoscopy procedure where his intestines had been scratched. When the toxins being removed through his intestinal track began to leach into his healthy system, the skin was not only the way that toxins were released, but it was also an indicator that he needed to take some conscious proactive steps to heal his condition. He limited his diet and introduced healing minerals in order to regain his health.
3. Recently I was with my 90-year old father for the first time in awhile and I was horrified to see that he had developed thick scales all over his body. He is on a combination of prescribed drugs, and it seems that his body is addressing these as though they are toxins in his system and trying to remove them. He has developed grey crusty layers on his hands, feet, arms, legs, back that are hard and sometimes break off causing him to bleed. They constantly itch and cause him discomfort.  Since he continues to overload his system with his daily meds the skin is currently unable to naturally dispel these poisons so they end up as layer upon layer of crusty scales. I wonder what the ramifications will be as his skin loses its ability to let go of both natural and self-induced toxins.

With society’s focus on beauty oftentimes over health, there are so many lotions, blemish cover-ups, body scents, make-up products, tanning creams, etc. that block the skin’s ability to do its job. If you focus first on de-toxifying your body and supporting your organs to let go of dead cells and other body toxins and residue, you will find that beauty will project from inside and you won’t need to lather on the layers anyway.

The most beautiful person I have ever met was a woman who was very conscious of her body and chose to give herself a daily enema to quickly clear out bodily toxins so that they were not held in the large intestine any longer than from the time they were formed. Her skin was spotless – no blemishes, moles, marks of any kind. She was a picture of health and beauty, and looked much younger than her chronological age. I am not endorsing daily enemas, but I would like to stress the importance of consciously supporting your body to detoxify itself easily and naturally using all of its innate abilities. And, supporting this biggest organ – your skin, is a good place to start!

For awhile I have occasionally noticed pain in my foot. Specifically it has felt like I broke or at least stressed a metatarsal bone, however the pain doesn’t show up all of the time, so I suggest that it is either chemical or emotional.

When I checked my acupuncture chart I realized that the gall bladder meridian ends right along that metatarsal bone and there are two major acupuncture points exactly where I have felt the pain.

Knowing that the gall bladder is associated with resentment and anger, I first scanned my life and what was going on. I tapped on the end-of-eye point associated with the GB, although just general issues came up.

As is often the case with EFT or N-hanced EFT tapping, the engagement with the subconscious through meridian tapping often unblocks us to attract more information to solve our issue. In my awareness of the gall bladder involvement I have done the following:

1. Tapped the end-of-eye point whenever I feel the pain,
2. Analyzed what I have eaten over a several-hour or one day period when feeling the pain,
3. Analyzed any resentment or anger that I have been feeling (90% of the time these are the emotions associated with the GB),
4. Looked beyond anger & resentment at the other emotions that might show up 10% of the time,
5. At one point I looked at a Touch for Health chart for more information on treating the GB and saw an indicator for Vitamin A, which synchronistically, I had just purchased for another issue,
6. I have become aware of when anger & resentment show up and I am self-administering the NET Wood homeopathic remedy to support clearing the GB issue,
7. I remember to forgive myself for my anger & resentment whenever it shows up.

This is just an example of how I feel my tapping and awareness of meridian-based modalities helps me in my own life. I highly recommend it!    … and, the pain has almost totally disappeared!

That is the very point where the individual gives up his or her personal power and begins to do everything that another individual says to do. The person begins to live life through that other person’s filter of beliefs, training, experience. Our society tells individuals to give up personal power to believe health professionals, and not every one of these knows what is best for each individual. It is time to change this.

I believe it is imperative that we each take more responsibility for our health and wellness.

I believe that the Power that made the body can HEAL the body!

And, I have seen too many cases where people have re-claimed their personal power and their health. So, I strongly advocate that

• you start to live more consciously,
• ingest only what is healthy, happy, holy into your body, mind, spirit,
• get out and move, have fun, experience life, and
• trust that there are tools available to you now to support your body to heal itself!

I invite you to wake up and learn how you can change and re-create your life experience… for the better!

When she presented to me I felt the dark blanket of fear around her. She had been sending out a sense of neediness to everyone that she approached with an offer, and obviously that was a turn-off. She already was starting to feel shame about missing the deadline and was declaring that she might just quit trying if she didn’t make her goal this time. She was feeling emotions of anger, frustration, disappointment, grief, shame, embarrassment, and asked for help.

I had worked with this person once before and we had cleared some deeper issues. Now some related issues about not wanting to impose on others, guilt about not better providing for others, and feeling responsible for carrying others came up. She realized that many of those who she had approached would have pulled her down by their dependence on her – an old pattern. She started to understand that she could change her energetics and her attitude about recruiting, hiring, and building her team, and she would then be more able to attract the “right” people to her.

In this session we utilized EFT, kinesiology, laser clearing, and Ask & Receive to clear the heaviness and fear, and then input the ease in which this person could have fun attracting the “right” new associates who would be self-starters and excited about the prospect. We also cleared her fear, guilt, shame, and embarrassment about possibly not meeting her goal. And, in the process we in-put the attitude that if she did fail she could model an empowered “failure” to her team as she picked up the pieces to quickly meet her quota in less time the next round. In either a win or lose scenario she felt that she could support her team to learn and still feel good herself.

So, the retreat ended, she spent a day driving back to her town, and late last week I received the news that she DID make her quota! WOW! Six new associates signed up in three days. I DO believe in miracles… and this wonderful energy therapy work can help to bring these about… from the inside – out!

Go girl! Yeeehaaa!!

I asked her a set of questions and then led her in a couple of tapping sequences… all in a half hour.

First, I asked for all of her symptoms. I also had her fill in an on-line wellness check which tells me which of her meridians are under stress. See: http://wellnesscheckonline.com .

Next I asked when the fever & fatigue had started. I also asked about medications she might be taking.

Then I asked her what was going on in her life around the time she started feeling ill.

Two months before she had started to feel bad. This was right after her son, daughter-in-law, and new grandbaby had left to live in Europe. She reported that she developed a case of acid reflux and had gone to a doctor for tests and treatment. He put her on a medication for the acid reflux. Then she started to experience fever and fatigue. The fever got as high as 104 one day and she returned to the doctor who placed her on antibiotics.

My wellness analysis showed that she was having issues with the liver and gall bladder meridians and that all of her intestinal track was out of balance and stressed.

So, we discussed all of this briefly and it seemed to me that the underlying cause of everything else was her grief, anger, resentment, and guilt about having her son and family return to Europe. She was heart-broken and had not discussed this with others, feeling that she was supposed to be strong and not show emotions.

We tapped on her feelings about her family members moving so far away and how she would miss them and that new grandbaby.

In that short session we tapped on several aspects of her emotional pain and gave her tips on how to tap for herself. She was also advised to discuss with her physician the emotional aspects and to potentially get off of the acid reflux medications as well as the antibiotics. The latter probably killed the helpful bacteria in her intestinal track and the former might be the cause of the fever.

In my opinion her body needs to re-balance itself – without the influence of drugs. And, she must continue to clear the emotions she has been blocking since her son left.

I recommended that she continue to work on clearing the stuck emotions and that she consult her physician to discuss adjusting or getting off of the medications. The root causes of her symptoms seemed to me as emotion-based, so this is what we went after to clear, and this is the protocol that I follow with others also.

My definition would be that Ho’oponopono is a Hawaiian energy or data clearing modality that helps to clear your “creator perception” in order for you to see pure potentiality. You may use your own words and relate to your own perception as you watch the short video here. Also, for more about Pure Potentiality please access my complimentary e-book by going to: http://MyEFTCoach.com .

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