I’m blessed to have good well water at my home and in my community. And, when I visit any large metropolis and find myself drinking regular tap water at a restaurant or the home of a friend or relative, I notice some major changes in my body. My body starts to smell different. I often suffer from severe joint pain as well as gastro-intestinal issues. My teeth and gums sometime ache. And, I often succumb to a cold, where I am usually very healthy and not prone to do this when in my own community. I also notice that I’m always thirsty and I hate the taste of the tap water. I usually land somewhere and immediately buy several gallons of good spring/ reverse osmosis water to drink during my visit. This seems to take care of the issue

I’d like to guide you to several informative articles that will share more information on this topic.

Learn about specific cases of cancer associated with fluoride by going here.

Learn a simple and natural  fluoride de-tox process by going here.

Conscious living includes knowing what is health-supporting and what has the ability to harm you, and then making your own choices.

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• “Why do some people fight their weight while others easily stay slim?”
• “Why do some military members sent into war zones return with PTSD/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, while others don’t?”
• “Why do some people age gently while others seem ravaged by time and gravity?”
• “Why do certain seemingly healthy people end up dying of cancer, heart attack, or some other disease or condition?”

I’d like to address here the common denominators that tie all of these critical questions into one body of information – 1- good nutrition and 2- emotional energy management!

You have probably heard the phrase: “You are what you eat”, so it seems logical that as more GMO/genetically modified (and often side-effect un-tested) foodstuffs are introduced, longer shelf-life additives are placed into processed foods, and non-digestible oils are utilized in cooking, that our bodies would suffer in one way or another. I recommend using organic, natural foods that can be found on the outside perimeters of the supermarket, and staying away from processed and refined foods.

Even though science has found ways to replicate the chemical structure of certain nutritional elements, the body may not actually recognize them because this form is not found naturally, nor are the chemicals introduced in balance with other nutrients that the body requires for proper digestion and absorption. The diet we eat and the nutritional supplements that we choose must be based on natural foods, and the purer the better.

Our physical in-take is vitally important to all of the issues listed above. With good nutrition and diet we are a step ahead of any stressor, including age, gravity, stress, and war. And, if we utilize good diet and nutrition then our bodies will:

• respond better to maintain the “right” weight,
• age more gracefully,
• provide clear thinking in stressful situations, and
• stay healthy without succumbing to the killer degenerative diseases of our day: heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, auto-immune disorders, among others.

The physical body is the part of our WHOLE self that is mostly considered when we focus on health, well-being, and aging. As an energy therapist coach, I focus first on the energetic or emotional elements that shape the physical. When these are addressed and managed, then the physical body can heal. Let us look at some examples.

Studies now point to why some war veterans suffer from PTSD while others don’t. Approximately one third suffer because early in life these individuals suffered or took on some emotional trauma and held that in their subconscious biofield. The war experience is hypothesized to have amped up the original and added more trauma to an already sensitized person. PTSD takes on many forms and has been proven to be cleared using energy psychology approaches.

In cases of weight struggles, beyond food allergies or sensitivities that might cause high or low weigh problems, emotions and subconscious blocks are often the culprits causing the suffering of so many over- or under-weight people. If you have ever felt like a “victim” to your body, then there may be an emotional issue keeping you blocked from weighing your ideal weight. This, too, is an area where you can learn to utilize simple-to-use energy therapy tools to clear subconscious resistance so that you can attain the body of your desires.

And, what about the people who truly believe that by age 40, 50, 60, or beyond, they have reached “old age” and need to start acting and looking like that. How many people do you know who are traumatized by these “landmark” birthdays, and then face a “mid-life” or “later-life” crisis with dramatic lifestyle changes? If the inner beliefs about becoming old could be erased, then one would live on with the excitement, enthusiasm, and health of a person much younger than their age. The GOOD news is that inner beliefs CAN be changed or modified so that you re-create your reality to that of your highest desires… you just need to WANT to do that.

In this short article I cannot provide individual solutions and techniques, so I invite you to a free tele-workshop entitled Eternal Wellness and Aging Beautifully. Learn more and register at: http://is.gd/EFTBonus to learn ways to support your own health and beauty.

The author, Kelly Dorfman,  is very well-versed in nutrition and the text offers many case studies with which a desperate parent or physician will relate. She offers  content-rich, easy-to-read, clear descriptions of symptoms, clues, and subsequent treatment solutions for hard-to-diagnose conditions, to gently guide the most novice “health detective – doctor mom/dad” and augment the knowledge of seasoned professionals.

The book stresses bio-individuality or the uniqueness of each body. Most of the cases listed reflect the harrowing tales of parents who have consulted three to six medical experts before seeking advice from the author. This is a tale of our times, and its up-to-date information, conditions, incorrect mainstream diagnoses, and mostly happy endings to case stories makes it not only a good read, but an important tool for all parents of human children.

This book provides simple yet scientifically supported nutritional solutions that address, mitigate, and often erase both the symptoms and causes of health problems such as food allergies, reflux, picky eating, attention issues, moodiness, behavioral difficulties, constipation, lack of energy, sleeplessness, and learning disabilities in children. The information is based on the power of good foods, vitamins, and minerals to create better health, growth, and development in children. And, as each condition is explained, there are multiple possible causes that are examined using clues that are clearly explained so that the most harried parent or stumped professional can become a good symptom detective.

I highly recommend this book and have enjoyed reading it. It should become a strong tool in every parent and child-treating professional’s medicine cabinet.

What’s Eating Your Child? The Hidden Connections Between Food and Childhood Ailments: Anxiety, Recurrent Ear Infections, Stomachaches, Picky Eating, Rashes, ADHD, and More. And What Every Parent Can Do About It. – Kelly Dorfman, MS, LND; 2011; Workman Publishing Co., NY, NY.  ISBN #978-0-7611-6119-6

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!!