“Minding” Physical Pain

Jan 05, 07 “Minding” Physical Pain

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One of the benefits of traveling — especially on long flights — is that I get to catch up on my reading. On a recent flight from Washington, DC to San Francisco, California I read Dr. John Sarno’s book, The Mindbody Prescription. If you’re experiencing any physical pain, I highly recommend that you read this...

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Sugar-Coated Patience Pill

Dec 20, 06 Sugar-Coated Patience Pill

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There’s a pill for all kinds of things. How about a pill for patience? There’s definitely a market out there for it. It could outsell Lipitor, Plavix, Nexium, Zocor and all of those planetary sounding names. We need to be patient until they come up with such a pill. Patience is something that most of us find...

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Rolling the Dice with Multiple Medications

Dec 13, 06 Rolling the Dice with Multiple Medications

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According to Dr. Andrew Duxbury, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, “There’s never been a controlled study on a human being involving more than three drugs circulating in the body at the same time. So no one knows, scientifically, exactly what’s going on in your body when you take seven, 10, or a dozen at...

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Have You Been Diagnosed with RGA?

Dec 12, 06 Have You Been Diagnosed with RGA?

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In our culture we are hooked on labels. In addition to simple political labels like liberal/conservative and left/right, we have many different addictions, afflictions, compulsions, conditions, dis-abilities, dis-eases, dis-orders, fixations, obsessions and syndromes. All of these are labels focused on things that are “wrong,...

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What is Love?

Oct 18, 06 What is Love?

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I’ve been thinking about love. It’s the topic of thousands of songs. Love is something that everyone wants. We have at least 1001 ideas of what love is. Everyone has different beliefs and experiences about love. What is love to you? How do you know when you’re in a state of love? How do you “get” love? How...

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Negative Impact of Prenatal Stress

Jun 23, 06 Negative Impact of Prenatal Stress

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What many people don’t understand about stress overload is that it isn’t just the mental and emotional toll it takes on a person, it’s the chemical and biological impact stress has on our bodies. Chronic stress causes physical damage incrementally over time. It creeps up on you. One of the areas where there has...

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