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Natural Wellness News
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Vol. 1, No. 65 * * * January 2012
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2012 The Year of Expanding Consciousness!
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Message from Bernadette Wulf
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Greetings!
Happy New Year to all!
This is the year with the big question mark over it. The year when
ancient calendars come to an end. The year on which so many prophecies
have been focused. They even made a silly disaster movie (which I
haven't seen) called 2012, that was supposed to scare the heck out of
everyone. In some ways it does seem like we are on the brink of major
change, or even disaster, but I also see many signs of hope and I am
sure this year will not turn out like the movie.
Personally, I think 2012 is going to be a wonderful year. I choose to
call it The Year of Expanding Consciousness. Would you like to make
that your reality? Just choose it. How can I allow my consciousness to
expand even more?
I find that life is getting more and more exciting and fun as I expand
my awareness to bigger realities and broader possibilities. I don't
know what the future will hold, but I know it will be more fascinating
and inspiring than ever. That is just the way life works - for me
anyway.
How we experience 2012 is a matter of choice for each one of us. How do
we experience each moment? Each day? We can resist what is and find a
million reasons to be miserable, or we can embrace the adventure and
expand into new perceptions. I look forward to choosing more of life
and making lots of new discoveries this year.
This month we start out with an article on Reiki, which is a type of
energy healing. I love energy healing. It is very gratifying to feel
the energy move through my hands and then witness results that are
sometimes amazing. Other times energy work simply feels relaxing, but
isn't stress one of our biggest health hazards? Even simple relaxation
is a much appreciated result when we are under stress. It is great to
see that the medical/scientific world is beginning to accept and use
energy modalities to augment physical treatments, as you will see in
the Reiki article.
We also have a couple of articles dealing with obesity and weight
control, which is a very challenging issue for many people and for our
society as a whole. Strangely enough, one way to lose fat is to eat
more fat, as long as it is in the form of coconut oil. I'm not a fan of
high fat diets, but we do need some fats and the best fats seem to be
the omega fatty acids as found in flax, chia, marine phytoplankton,
fish oil, and some eggs) and medium chain fatty acids as found in
coconut oil.
Finally, we have an article on the benefits of selenium for the
prevention of pancreatic cancer. Selenium is an important mineral that
can be lacking in the vegetarian diet unless you include Brazil nuts,
but why not include them. They are delicious!
To Your Health!
Bernadette Wulf
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Reiki Studies Show Amazing Results
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I've been doing Reiki for so long that I sometimes forget how amazing
it is. Reiki is always my first line of defense whenever stress starts
wearing me down. One of the best things about it is that you can do it
on yourself, so you don't have to make an appointment or pay someone to
do it on you. You just place your hands wherever you feel pain or
stress and ask the Reiki to run. Simple! Of course, you do need to have
at least the first level attunement to activate your Reiki. Then it is
yours for life, anytime you want to use it on yourself or others.
Another really cool thing about Reiki is that it can be sent from a
distance. To send it, you need the second level attunement, but anyone
can receive it, no matter how far away they are. I often send Reiki to
people who ask for it.
I know this may sound very strange to scientifically oriented people,
but science has come up with several studies supporting the positive
effects of Reiki. Donna Eden's latest newsletter highlights one of the
more unusual studies showing that Reiki can even influence a random
number generator. I guess that shouldn't be too surprising, since Reiki
has such a relaxing effect that it would have to change our brain
waves.
From Donna Eden's Energy e-Letter - "Not surprisingly, given the
documented medical benefits of Reiki, the new study demonstrated that
Reiki improved immune functioning in a severely ill 54-year-old man
suffering with Hepatitis C, hypertension, and other conditions. More
surprising, however, is that the Reiki treatment corresponded with
changes in a random number generator. Random number generators have
been used to study the influence of human consciousness on the physical
world. The numerical patterns the machine generates shift in subtle
ways that can be detected by statistical analysis when a crowd of
people are going through an emotional event all at the same moment."
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Read More About Reiki
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Slim Down - Obese Adults at Risk for Falls
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Among all the other risk factors for obesity, falling is rarely
mentioned. However a recent study from Syracuse University in New York
shows that obese adults are more likely to suffer a fall than those of
normal weight.
Quoted from examiner.com - "According to researchers in general obese
people could be more vulnerable to taking a fall than those who are
thinner. However, their extra padding and denser bones may provide some
protection from injury.
"If a fall should occur in overweight or obese people which results in
a serious injury such as a fracture it could take a much longer time to
recover and need longer bed rest which could cause further
complications in itself.'
"Professor Himes states 'It's just harder for obese people to recover
from injury,' Himes said. 'They're going to be in poorer physical shape
to begin with. This is just another reason that obesity needs to be
considered an important public health problem.'”
The problem for most people, even though they read reports like this
and believe they SHOULD lose weight, is that they don't know how. Most
overweight people have tried diets and exercise, only to find
themselves returning to the same weight or even gaining weight.
Unfortunately, fad diets usually don't work for long, and you can only
exercise so much before you drop. These are not long term solutions.
In order to get down to your ideal weight and stay there, you need to:
* change your relationship with your body
* heal the underlying emotional issues
* learn the fundamentals of good nutrition
* get regular moderate exercise like walking
* make sure your hormones are in proper balance
If you want some help, give me a call. I cover all those steps in my Body Awareness Coaching package.
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Read More About Dangers of Obesity
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Coconut Oil for Weight Control
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While I'm on the subject of weight control. There is a lot of evidence
showing that coconut oil is a great aid to keeping your weight under
control. In this article Dr. Mercola starts out by admitting that he
keeps a gallon of coconut oil in his kitchen. I'm sorry, but that just
seems disgusting. A gallon is a LOT of coconut oil to eat! I don't like
to cook with oil, so it would take me a very long time to consume that
much!
However I often use coconut oil as a skin moisturizer. Try it sometime.
Your skin will love it, and your body can absorb it right through the
skin, so you don't have to eat it. I also discovered that it is a great
foot deodorant. No more smelly shoes!
Here's what Dr. Mercola has to say about it. From Mercola.com - "MCFAs
[medium chain fatty acids] in coconut oil are more health promoting,
because:
* MCFAs are smaller. They permeate cell membranes easily, and do not
require lipoproteins or special enzymes to be utilized effectively by
your body.
* MCFAs are easily digested, thus putting less strain on your digestive
system. This is especially important for those of you with digestive or
metabolic concerns.
* MCFAs are sent directly to your liver, where they are immediately converted into energy rather than being stored as fat.
"MCFAs in coconut oil can actually help stimulate your body's metabolism, leading to weight loss.
"There are numerous studies showing that MCFAs [from coconut oil]
promote weight loss, including one study that showed rats fed LCFAs
[from Vegetable oils] stored body fat, while rats fed MCFAs reduced
body fat and improved insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance. Yet
another study found that overweight men who ate a diet rich in MCFAs
lost more fat tissue compared to those eating a high-LCFA diet,
presumably due to increased energy expenditure and fat oxidation from
the MCGA intake."
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Read t More about Coconut Oil and Weight Control
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Protect Your Pancreas with Selenium
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Take a cue from Q, my blue and gold macaw, and eat Brazil nuts whenever
you get a chance. It is amazing how he can crack them with his beak!
They are really hard nuts.
Brazil nuts are one of the best sources of selenium, and a recent study
shows that selenium is one of the best nutrients to protect your
pancreas from cancer. Just a couple of Brazil nuts per day will give
you all the selenium you need, and they are delicious.
From VahlChiropractic.com - "The study had 518 subjects and revealed
that those subjects with the highest levels of selenium were between
33-95% less likely to develop pancreatic cancer. Furthermore, these
results remained unchanged after researchers accounted for other known
risk factors like smoking, diabetes, and being overweight."
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Read More About Selenium and Pancreatic Health
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My New Website
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In looking over my past year, I see that 2011 was a year of big changes
for me. Most of the changes were shifts of awareness that have me
feeling more free, more hopeful, and more excited about the
possibilities unfolding before me. One big change I notice is that I
filed 1,729 unread health newsletters in an email folder instead of
reading them. I used to read every one of them, but I no longer feel
that is necessary.
It is not that I have lost interest in health and wellness. In fact, I
am more interested than ever. The difference is that I have realized
that scientific studies, nutritional data, and all that sort of
intellectual knowledge is far less important than trusting our own body
awareness. That is why I started doing Body Awareness Coaching.
We are all born with an inner wisdom that will tell us everything we
need to know about our health and wellness. Every creature on the
planet is born with it. Bees know how to collect nectar and make honey.
Bears know how to find the honeycombs. Nobody has to tell them. I'm
finding that sort of wisdom more and more compelling and intriguing,
and you will probably see signs of that in future newsletters. The only
problem is that it is hard to write about, since it is not a function
of the rational part of the brain. I will do my best!
Another change is that I have been working on creating a new website in
an effort to clarify and simplify what I do. I was beginning to feel
like one of those jugglers who spins a bunch of plates on sticks,
trying to keep them all spinning at once. Whenever someone asked me,
"What do you do?" a whole jumble of things would pop into my mind and I
wouldn't know where to begin. I realized that I needed to clarify what
I do in order to make myself more available to those who are looking
for what I have to offer.
So I decided to map it all out in one website. It is a great exercise
that you might want to try yourself. It doesn't have to be a website. A
piece of paper will do. Just write down all your major interests and
activities and organize them into some sort of statement that says,
"This is who I am and this is what I do."
I found that there is indeed a unifying factor in my many spinning
plates and it is getting more clear as I go along. It is all about
energy and expanding consciousness. I'm still working on it and it is
pretty challenging. You can check out my progress at WulfWorks.com. Any
feedback or suggestions you have to offer would be appreciated.
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Visit My New Website - WulfWorks.com!
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To read past issues of HealItAll.com Newsletter go to
http://healitall.com/newsletterarchives.html
Bernadette Wulf is a Naturopath, EFT therapist, Health and Nutrition
Coach, and Reiki Master with a world-wide practice via phone and
Internet.
Visit http://healitall.com for more information.
For Health & Wellness Coaching contact Bernadette Wulf at wulfartist@yahoo.com
707-824-0675
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