Radiant Health

Letter from Deepak Chopra

2008-02-23T15:01:00.000-08:00

We are the only creatures on the planet who can change our biology through our thoughts, feelings, and intentions. Our cells are constantly eavesdropping on our thoughts and being changed by them. When we fall in love, positive thoughts and emotions course through our body and strengthen our immune system. On the other hand, the dark thoughts and feelings of depression can leave us vulnerable to illness.

Over the past three decades, hundreds of studies have shown that nothing holds more power over the body than the beliefs of the mind. This is the quantum worldview, which teaches that we are all part of an infinite field of intelligence - the source of our thoughts, mind, body, and everything else in the cosmos. This paradigm, which is gaining increasing acceptance in the world of modern Western medicine, is based on the following tenassumptions:

1. The physical world, including our body, is a reflection of our perceptions, thoughts, and feelings. There is no objective reality "out there" that is independent of the observer. Instead, we create our bodies as we create our experience of the world.

2. Although the physical body seems to be solid matter, it actually is composed of energy and information. Quantum physics tells us that every atom is 99.9999 percent empty space, and the subatomic particles moving at lightning speed through this space are bundles of vibrating energy. These vibrations aren't random or chaotic, but are carrying information along specific patterns.

3. The mind and body are inseparable. There is one single creative intelligence that can express itself as our thoughts - as well as the molecules of our cells, tissues, and organs.

4. Our consciousness creates the biochemistry of the body. Our beliefs, thoughts, and emotions direct the chemical reactions that take place inevery single cell.

5. MindPerception is a learned phenomenon. The way we experience the world and our body is learned behavior. By changing our perceptions, we can change our experience of our body and world.

6. In every moment, impulses of intelligence are creating our body. By changing the patterns of these impulses, we can change ourselves.

7. Although to the ego-mind, we seem separate and independent, we are allpart of a universal intelligence that governs the cosmos.

8. Time is not absolute. What we call linear time is simply a reflection of how we perceive change. In fact, time is eternal and changeless. If we can begin to perceive the changeless, time as we know it will cease to exist and we will experience immortality.

9. Our essential nature is pure being. Although we are used to seeing ourselves as personality, ego, and body, our true Self is eternal and unbounded.

10. Since our essence is immortal and changeless, we do not have to become victims of aging, sickness, and death. These are caused by gaps in our self-knowledge and the centuries-old delusion that our bodies are material. As Ayurveda teaches, any disorder can be prevented if we can maintain balance in the body, mind, and spirit. These may seem like vast assumptions, but they are rooted in the findings of modern quantum physics. I want to encourage you to see that you are much more than your limited body, ego, and personality. At the deepest level, your body is ageless and your mind is timeless. Once you identify with this reality, you have unlimited freedom to create greater health, joy, and whatever else you wish to bring into the world.

Love,Deepak

Your Immune System

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Your immune system is a complicated network of cells and bio-chemicals that act as a defense system for your body. Its job is to seek-and-destroy all foreign invaders. If your immune system is weakened, it won’t be able to fend off the destructive effects of invasive organisms or poisons. If your immune system is overworking, it can result in autoimmune disorders, such as allergies, Lupus, arthritis, Crohn’s disease and Multiple Sclerosis. Autoimmune illnesses result when the immune system reacts to normal components of the body as if they were foreign substances and produces antibodies against them.
Standard medical treatments keep the immune system suppressed, incresing the risk of cancer and infectious disease. Keeping our immune system in prime working order has never been so important.
Yogurt is a super immune-enhancing food. Water protects us from viruses. It helps the good immune factors found in salivia, tears and secretions of our nose to flush out invaders out of our body. Allowing
Ourselves to become dehydrated creates an opportunity for the cold and flu virus to get inside our cells and cause illness. When we feel thirsty we are already dehydrated.

Until recently our immune system was not well understood. Since the introduction of HIV, immunology has advanced dramatically. We now realize how intricately all the body systems are connected. Even our nervous system is hardwired into our immune system, making us aware of the importance of our thoughts and feelings. loneliness is now recognized as the number one predictor of disease due to its immune suppressing action. Laughter and feelings of satisfaction increase and enhance the actions of our immune cells, making our internal army more effective.
Our gut is also surrounded by powerful immune factors that ward off invaders such as fungi,bacteria and parasites that enter the body via our food. The increase of parasites may be due to poor immune fuction. Lymphatic therapy can help reverse this.

A strong immune system is high in natural killer cells {NK}, which are your body’s most effective ammunition in fighting illness because they attack and destroy diseased cells. These cells must be “activated” in order to be effective and this is achieved through a complex communication network within the body. If this communication network is defective, however, there will be a reduction in NK cell activity. Our gut is also surrounded by powerful immune factors that ward off invaders such as fungi, bacteria, and parasites that enter our body via our food. The increase of parasite infection may be due to poor immune fuction. Our immune system doesn’t have nerve endings to tell us its being compromised.

How do you know if your immune system is dysfuntional? Are you experiencing allergies,fatigue,
Candida, painful joints Herpes, inflammatory conditions, parasites Psoriasis or Eczema? If so your body
Is crying for help. Many things are chipping away daily on our vitality. Are you suffering from the PITTS?

P---Poor nutrition
I---Infection
T---Trauma
T---Toxins
S---Stress

Since we live in a world where we are bombarded with stressors, it would be prudent to support your
Immune system even if you do not have any signs and symptoms of dysfuction.

Testimonials

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"Ann creates an environment for healing and deep inner relaxation. Through her counseling and lymphatic therapy she has facilitated my body's ability to heal during a two-year healing crisis due to mercury toxicity. Her sessions helped my lymphatic system in releasing this toxicity from my body, thus improving my general health and well being."
-- Phoenix Djukic, writer and educator

"Ann is an extremely centered and grounded person who brings incredible relaxation and healing energy into her sessions. I have found myself renewed and revitalized after each session as I move forward into my own healing."-- Julie Newendorf, educational kinesiology teacher

Who Can Benefit From Lymphatic Therapy?

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Every person—sick or well—can benefit from lymphatic therapy, either as treatment for an existing condition or as a preventative measure to maintain a state of glowing health.

Following is a sampling of some conditions lymphatic therapy can assist in healing:

Lymphedema

Pain, especially in soft tissue

Breast conditions—PMS, cysts, inflammation

Intestinal syndromes

Edema associated with bruising

Pre- and post-surgery conditions

Fibromyalsia

Arthritis-Bursitis

By cleaning and unblocking your lymphatic system, your general health improves, your immune system is strengthened and enhanced, and your overall energy is increased.

What is Lymphatic Therapy?

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When you come for a lymphatic cleansing, you receive the attention of a highly skilled, friendly lymphatic therapist who is sensitive to your need to feel better and achieve a greater level of well-being.

As your therapist, I use an instrument that caresses your body with a steady stream of photon particles. This stimulates the cleansing of waste materials from your tissue cells. Once the blockages are broken up, I provide a light-touch, one-directional stretching movement that moves the waste material along, causing it to be carried away through the proper lymphatic channels to the organs responsible for the elimination of body waste. This provides you with immediate relief from swollen conditions related to lymphatic blockages.

The treatment is:

Safe
Non-invasive
Detoxifying
Gentle
Healing

What is the Lymphatic System?

2008-02-23T14:28:00.000-08:00

The lymphatic system is part of your immune system. It is considered the second circulatory system of your body, the first being the blood, its vessels, and the heart. The lymphatic system consists of a capillary network that contains the most brilliant detoxification stations ever designed--the lymph nodes.

For the body to be healthy, nutrients and other vital elements must flow to your cells from the bloodstream. This flow of vital fuel from the bloodstream to the cells is made possible by the successful clear functioning of the lymph system.

As part of the immune system, the lymphatic system affects every function of your body. Many physical problems can be traced to a blockage of this important system. When the body becomes overloaded with toxins, pollutants, viruses, bacteria and other waste materials, they accumulate in the lymph nodes causing the nodes to swell and become painful. When your lymphatic system is blocked, this creates a condition of stagnation, which promotes disease.

Blockage can be caused by repressed communication, criticism, stress, hormonal imbalance, improper diet, injury, infection or lack of exercise.