1. Painkillers
Vicodin, Demerol, Oxycontin, or Percodan are used to treat moderate or severe pain. They’re all highly addictive and come with side effects that vary widely from stomach problems, dizziness, depression, pain and spasms, to even death. Marijuana is a proven pain reliever that takes the edge off even the most severe pain.  It is not physically addictive, has very few side effects by comparison, and has never caused a single death in 5000 years of recorded use.

2. Tranquilizers
Valium, Xanax, and Ambien are examples of popular anti-anxiety drugs. All Americans will likely know someone close to them who are dependent on these drugs to cope with daily life. The side effects are similar to anti-depressants and painkillers; stomach and liver problems, depression or suicidal thoughts, dizziness and confusion, etc. Marijuana is an excellent substitute for these temporary anxiety relievers, again with far fewer negative effects.

3. Alcohol
Alcohol is the most commonly used and accepted substance for self-regulated stress relief.  It’s used by countless Americans to take the edge off a long work day, and also by many soldiers seeking to relieve Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  Alcohol is highly addictive and causes many long-term problems like high blood pressure and liver failure.  Marijuana has proven to be far safer and more effective in reducing stress, especially among PTSD sufferers. 

4. Anti-depressants
Prozac, Zoloft, Elavil, or Paxil are popular anti-depressants that a huge portion of the population are now dependent on. Side effects like nausea and sexual dysfunction are common, while suicidal tendencies are also increased tremendously, which seems to negate their very purpose. These selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) reduce the body’s ability to produce natural serotonin and can be difficult for people to find a healthy balance once they rid the drug from their system.  Marijuana, although a temporary anti-depressant, is far less dangerous and may result in instant happiness bordering on silliness.

5. Aspirin and Tylenol
These commonly-used over-the-counter drugs for minor aches and pains cause stomach problems like ulcers, liver damage, and even death. That’s right, Tylenol causes about 450 deaths a year and Aspirin causes a whopping 13,000 deaths per year from sudden bleeding.  Many natural alternatives can be used for the symptoms that these drugs ease, and marijuana is just one of the safer options — with none of the damaging side effects.

As you can see, marijuana, which can be easily grown in nearly every climate, is a huge threat to these billion-dollar-a-year drugs.  And this list represents a tiny fraction of the harmful pharmaceuticals that can be replaced by cannabis.  To claim that cannabis is more dangerous than any of these popular legal substances is blatantly false, thus there’s no reason for its prohibition other than the threat of competition to Big Pharma.

The first barrier is the person’s own brand of logic and rationalization. When we say “logic”, we simply refer to a person’s way of thinking.

Some people are more open to ideas (because that’s how they think) while some are more resistant to new ideas. When a person is too logical and questions each and every bit of information that comes his way, it will be difficult to implant new suggestions or ideas to the subconscious because the waking consciousness rejects everything outright.

The second barrier is the person’s emotions. Emotional responses to hypnosis are also important. If the subject feels that he is being humiliated, for example, he will not be open to ideas coming from the hypnotherapist. This is why it’s so important to help a person relax prior to the hypnosis, because this also helps quiet the person’s emotions.

The third and final barrier is composed of the person’s ethical values and norms. Simply put, if the person or subject firmly believes that hypnosis is something that goes against his religion or dominant belief system, then there is a big possibility that he will also reject the process and hypnotic suggestions outright.

Now one way of defeating these existing barriers is to create positive, hypnotic suggestions that do not contradict any of these barriers. Harmonization is the key that unlocks the human subconscious so that self-hypnosis can be carried out successfully.

            There is a lot of contradictory evidence out there on the subject of health. Some “experts” say eat this; others say eat that. An understanding of how the human body functions goes a long way in staying healthy.

            Our body must obtain energy from somewhere in order to function. Some understand this as calories. That is simply a unit of energy. Your body will obtain energy either from sugar sources, or it will metabolize fat reserves. For most people, burning off the fat is more critical.

            Our corporately engineered food supply is loaded with chemicals and sweeteners. Those chemicals make the food look good, smell good, taste good, and maybe even feel good! The problem is that those same chemicals can make you addicted to food, as well as contributing to obesity.

            One of the primary food sweeteners is High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). It is very cheap to produce and extremely sweet. Unfortunately, more research is showing HFCS as a leading cause of diabetes!

            Turning to a natural, whole food diet, having a proper exercise regimen, and living as stress free as possible, will go a long ways in allowing you to lead a healthy, happy life!

Every person or object has an aura. An aura is a field of subtle, luminous radiation surrounding a person or object. The aura is considered to be a personal energy shield. The aura is a three dimensional energy that surrounds the body in all directions.

Some researchers dismiss the thought of aura as ridiculous, and just superstition, while others have engaged in serious study of the phenomenon have tried to find out how it functions. Researches have given some curious results by confirming what clairvoyants and healers had known for hundred years: auras are made of thin layers of energy that vibrates and changes.

In mid 1930s, two researches from Yale, developed the theory that all living beings are surrounded by an electric field. That they could demonstrate by using a voltmeter.

Auras and Colors

An aura does not have a specific color. A person may have an aura which is blue, while another has one which is yellow or green. Aura has the greatest density closest to the body and becomes finer and finer as it stretches out. Sick or healthy people have different auras. A healthy person has a strong and powerful aura. A sick person has a much weaker aura. You can easily see auras, yours or others by training to do that. A good source is Jane Struthers book: “The Aura Guide- Your way to strength and vitality”.

Different aura colors mean and show different things. Below follows the meaning of some of the aura colours.

Red Aura

Red is a very lively color to find in a person’s aura. This indicates that the person is full of initiative and dynamic. People who have a red aura are natural born leaders and do not like to follow on others footsteps. They are active and passionate about many things. If the red color is not clear or mat in nuance that shows anger or unwillingness.

Orange Aura

Orange is a wonderful warm and invigorating color, and the person whose aura is orange is very positive and confident. This person goes merrily through life, knowing that everything will go well. A very sharp nuance though means the person is overbearing or selfish. While is the nuance is muddy an unclear it means the person unruly or irritable.

Green Aura

A clear green aura means the person is affectionate and considerate and wants to be in harmony with others. People with a green aura need to be in connection with nature to feel healthy. These people feel connected to animals and have the ability to understand them. A sharp green aura means the person is stubborn and is very resistant to change. While a dark, gloomy green means the person is jealous or greedy.

Yellow Aura

When the yellow is clear that means that person thinks things thoroughly. These people are sociable and fun to be with, and they enjoy to be surrounded by others, They don’t feel well if left alone for a long period of time. If the yellow nuance is too strong that indicates the person is very stubborn and thinks they are always right. While if it is muddy it shows the person isn’t always telling the truth.  

Pink Aura

If the color of the aura is predominantly pink, that means the person is affectionate and helpful. These people like a lot children and animals because of their innocence and vulnerability. These people are very peaceful and don’t like to be enter in conflict with others. If the pink nuance is very sharp it means the person is being sentimental and is being carried away by the feelings.

Source:  The Aura Guide- Your way to strength and vitality by Jane Struthers

I have already given you many explanations in my articles. Here are in a few words my most important lessons:

- You have inherited a wild conscience which is totally absurd. This is your primitive conscience, which didn’t evolve like your human side. Your wild side occupies the biggest part of your brain. It is your animal side, which keeps trying to destroy the human side of your conscience through craziness in order to control your behavior.

- The unconscious mind that produces your dreams speaks to your human side through images and scenes, protecting you from the attacks of the anti-conscience which is your immoral and violent wild side.

- All dream images have a symbolic meaning, which follows the dream logic, and not the logic of your human conscience. This means that you must absolutely study the dream language in order to understand the meaning of the dream images that appear in your dreams. These images are dream symbols that give you very important messages.

- Carl Jung managed to discover the hidden meaning of dreams, as I could prove with my work. I continued his research while using his method of dream interpretation. I discovered the anti-conscience, the wild side of the human conscience, that Jung could not see because he stopped his research at a certain point. The anti-conscience provokes all existent mental illnesses within the human side of our conscience.

- I also discovered that the unconscious mind has a divine origin, and it is much wiser than what Jung concluded with the knowledge he had. The unconscious mind can cure any mental illness or physical disease by curing our psyche. The unconscious psychotherapy is based on the elimination of the anti-conscience by transforming it into a positive component of our human side.

The anti-conscience belongs to you; it is your primitive personality. You cannot read its thoughts because you cannot penetrate into its mind. However, it can penetrate into the human side of your conscience and interfere with your thoughts.

The anti-conscience is absurd and violent. It takes advantage of your despair to offer absurd solutions to your problems.

Never try to solve a problem by accepting what is bad and immoral, because this is how the anti-conscience will manage to destroy the human side of your conscience. The anti-conscience’s solutions appear camouflaged as if they were logical ones. However, as you follow them you are dominated by craziness, ending up in terror.

You have to study dream interpretation according to the scientific method and learn the dream language, so that you may be able to save your mental health from the anti-conscience’s attacks. You’ll acquire perfect mental health forever if you study and apply the dream wisdom you will be receiving.

This is how you will also find physical health, peace, wisdom, love and happiness in life, because everything depends on your attitude.

The wild beast that exists inside you must not transform you into a monster. Of course not! You must transform the beast into a wise, sensitive and humble human being.

Christina Sponias continued Carl Jung’s research into the human psyche, discovering the cure for all mental illnesses, and simplifying the scientific method of dream interpretation that teaches you how to exactly translate the meaning of your dreams, so that you can find health, wisdom and happiness.

Learn more at:

http://www.scientificdreaminterpretation.com

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Spiritual healing is, by definition, the use of non-physical means to treat illness or affliction. Sometimes referred to as “faith healing,” spiritual healing is a type of treatment generally considered to be classified as “alternative medicine” or non-traditional medicine. Yet the roots of spiritual healing go back for centuries, and some form of this treatment has been shown to exist is almost every culture known to history.

At its core, spiritual healing involves channeling a type of energy from one person, the “healer,” to another. Practitioners claim that this energy can help to heal or alleviate physical, mental or spiritual ailments. The healer is generally thought to be a medium for the healing powers that are coming from a higher power, or spirit.

Other forms of spiritual healing include prayer or meditation healing, in which there is not a channeler, or healer, but the energy comes directly to the person asking for the healing.

What makes spiritual healing so unique from modern medicine is that spiritual healing addresses not only issues of the body, but of the mind and spirit as well, treating all three of these human phenomena as one cohesive unit. In fact, spiritual healing is based on the premise that no one can be truly healthy unless their mind, body and psyche are indeed operating in one sympathetic unit. It is not enough to alleviate physical symptoms of illness or injury; to be completely healed one must also address the mental and spiritual symptoms as well. And, conversely, spiritual healers also believe that many physical problems are actually manifestations of illness or disorders within the mind or the spirit. Curing one without addressing the other will be futile and counter-productive, according to these healers.

Many people claim that spiritual healing is a “New Age” phenomenon, but in reality that is not so. Most organized religions invoke some aspect of spiritual healing, through prayer, meditation or special intentions, and praying for the sick is a widely recognized and respected tradition.

There are myriad methods for carrying out spiritual healing. Some use a laying-on of hands to transfer healing energy; others anoint the sick with special oils; for others, special crystals seem to be the conduit through which healing occurs. There are as many methods as there are religious and spiritual interpretations, all with the ultimate goal of bringing healing and wellness in mind, spirit and body.

Spiritual healing takes many forms, including a self-healing regime that has been used in many religions for centuries. And it is becoming increasingly popular outside of organized religion, too. In addition to prayer, many people are turning to meditation, journaling, and other forms of introspection to connect with a higher spiritual power. This connection, they say, enables them to absorb the healing power, become aware of things they can do to help improve their own condition, and ultimately take charge of their own well-being.

In addition to traditional religious healing, there are several other recognized types of healing including Reiki (a type of massage), cranio-sacral therapy, healing touch, and a range of other healing programs. The topic is a popular one for scientific study, and more and more doctors and scientists are beginning to validate that spiritual healing in many of its forms can be an effective tool in creating a healthy and whole human being.

There are some folks who appear to be quite serious in recommending that after you eat your Thanksgiving dinner, that you put the rest on your face.  It appears that pumpkin facials and potato foot soaks are on the menu.

Full disclosure, this is not my first time in the pantry.  I had heard of some thrifty individuals putting their morning oatmeal on their faces.  Certain variants of the formula include yogurt or honey.

But wait, there’s more.  We have yet to exhaust our repetoire of revolting concoctions we are ready, willing an able to smear all over your mug.  According the London Daily Mail Online, some people are smearing placenta on their faces.  Well, that would temporary give you a more youthful look–wouldn’t it

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?  Apparently the people who do this claim that they can cure everything from cankles to sports injuries.  Almost makes those New Moon Twilight crazies look sane doesn’t it?

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We use to have this notion that “alternative medicine” is just a quack. But recently, the practice of alternative/natural medicine is moving to a higher level. In the United States for instance,medical schools like Yale, Harvard, Georgetown, and other prestigious universities have included alternative/natural medicine courses in their curriculum. In the Philippines, there is a dedicated law called the Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act which established natural healing as a legal system of medicine.

Some say that alternative medicine has gone overboard because of its peculiar methods. But with all the positive feedback and documented healing from terminal patients using traditional medicine, I don’t mind if we all jump on the bandwagon. An odd practice that I got interested was the “natural pancreatic enzyme therapy”. This natural therapy had cured more than 33,000 patients who suffered from different forms of cancer. This was developed by Dr. William Donald Kelley who survived cancer because of this therapy of eating raw pork pancreas and raw beef liver. It seems disgusting, but this method really works. In 1980, Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital, a renowned cancer hospital in the US, sent an emissary in the name of Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez to investigate this therapy. He specified in his report that 100% of pancreatic cancer patients were cured if the therapy’s protocol was strictly followed. On the other hand, there was a 97% cure rate for all other types of cancer who took Dr. Kelley’s recipe.

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The therapy involved taking two (2) tablespoons of raw pork pancreas and three (3) tablespoons of raw beef liver. The raw pork pancreas should be taken seven (7) times a day while the raw beef liver should be taken with your lunch.

Aside from cancer, raw pork pancreas can also cure other diseases like diabetes, hypertension, different types of infections, heart ailments, and so on.

With all these positive findings, we can truly say that alternative medicine found a place in our modern world.

You might be interested in the following articles:

• Raw Foods: An Alternative Medicine
• Sweet Potato: A Poweful Anti-Aging Crop
• Cancer and Childhood Obesity
• Urine: A New Source of Fertilizer

Once in my lifetime I would like to hear the truth told about anything the government does or supports. The very closest is our military being second to none, the best equipped, the best prepared. I do believe that is true, but it depends upon which person is in command when it is said. Clinton almost disarmed us, Bush did not go quite far enough and Oh! Mama, Obama does not respect our military at all, so look out soldiers, don’t throw those shovels away yet.

With that said and now the super colossal disaster poised to universalize our health program. I hurt for those who are without health care insurance, the worker that is, who cannot afford half his wages to buy a none performing package. Check this out. I totaled a truck from which I walked away–bruised left hand, a bad bruised right hand pinkie knuckle with split skin requiring three stitches, a scrap mark on my forehead. Mind you I walked away from a truck that was totaled and I should have been dead. People at the scene encouraged me to go to the hospital just to be safe. One thousand dollars for an ambulance to carry me seven miles. Twelve hours on an emergency bed waiting for a doctor to finish up another gruesome emergency so I could get the finger stitched up. He ordered X-Rays for my neck without seeing me, for the hand and this only cost my insurance $4500.00 less the $500.00 deductible I had to pay. And your president wants us all to have that type of care.

Greed

I know greed when I see it and I know that for $5500.00 dollars I could have at least gotten a hot juicy hamburger and felt a lot better. Or let me sleep in that nice bed you had me sitting on for twelve hours. Or come on, one thousand dollars for a ride, just there in case, the real world is not at your door steps. Doctors notoriously over charge due to insurance. By the way, on an itemized statement the three stitches cost five hundred and not that pretty at that. An aspirin I could not afford, thank goodness I did not need one and I was afraid to ask for a bottle of water, oop! There went a kidney. The president wants to redistribute wealth, he could take lessons from the doctors. If they receive federal funds, a certain percentage of their services must be to those who cannot afford to pay, so they over charge the insured so that cost, for the poor, is also covered. That is they take extra money from me through my insurance so some poor and none working government slave can have free medical service.

First sign of greed is when a few doctors form an incorporated clinic or hospital. The important feature is their attention goes from patient to bottom line(profit). Say! Fellow doctors, we will be short this month if we don’t amputate an arm, leg or a foot, or a good needless knee operation will cover it. Can we slough some of those poor people down the street to that bleeding heart facility so we have time for those who pay. Then internally, they receive samples from the pharmaceutical firms but charge the patient full price (meaning the hospital’s full price) or they insist upon a Cat Scan so they get at least a $400.00 rebate from the maker. But the worst form of greed is practicing medicine without knowing what the heck health is all about. We should do as the Chinese do, pay them to keep us healthy, and when we are sick it is free. Follow the money, if it makes money, do not touch it, and friends ‘cures’ do not make money.

Isn’t it amazing that in the eighty years plus while the pharmaceutical companies got bigger and richer not one cure of any disease has ever been found or developed. More about the drug companies later. Billions of dollars are spent each year on research which by definition is conducted to fine the cure for multiple diseases. Obviously, the American Heart Association, the Association for Diabetes, the American MSM Association and the hundreds more. It is not important whether I got the names right or not, what is important is for you to realize these organization house the most talented, and the most expensive technicians money can buy. And money has bought them, time and again. Not one laboratory, not one single or group has ever found a cure for any disease.

What we hear in their sob story is we are close, please help us find the cure for this dreadful disease. It is as if with just a bit more money, we can make a miracle happen, your boy or your girl will not have to suffer this disease, so please help. So like puppets, we reach in our pockets for we have bought their malarkey once again, they are so close. Gosh! I hate to burst your bubble but in 1914 Popular Science ran an article that Selenium, a simple mineral, would cure type two diabetes. Now the alternative medicine people add Chromium Picolinate and Vernadium minerals to the mix and it either cures or arrest diabetes. In 1928, Dr. Otto Warburger proved he could cause and cure cancer, later he received the Nobel Prize for his work. Did I see cure used with two of the most dreaded diseases? Type I diabetes has no cure, only type II.

Did you know that not one cure has been found by the laboratories who beg for your money to continue their operation. Did you know there is no money in cures, the money is in the sickness and the continued treatment of those sicknesses. Did you know that a few rabbles have found cures of certain devastating diseases and they are quickly shut up. It is almost a death wish to find a cure for any disease, to much money to be lost. Take a small laboratory, say forty employees. Each making say $100,000 per year, then there are the support staff, the facility cost and perks. A small firm costing about $6,000,000 dollars to do research for the cure of x-disease. They find a cure for x-disease. If they do not replace the x-disease with another one there are 40 researchers out on the street looking for another $100,000 job. Who wants them, no one, for the money is in the research and treatment, not in the cure.

Greed Champion

You may be under the assumption that the FDA is managed and ran by the Federal Government of the United States. Friend that is just what they want you to think. You also probably think they control the pharmaceutical companies and are there to protect the public from false claims concerning drugs and their application. For a rude awakening, did you know the FDA requires each drug that is applying to be licensed to be thoroughly tested in competent labs. Sounds great on the surface, does it not? To save dollars and staff, they often allow the pharmaceutical company to do the test and submit a report of the results. Did I mentioned how many drugs are recalled after the public screams about the side effects, some times even death. Now you know the why, the why of the license, not the why of the greed. By the way, before I complete leave the FDA behind, not even Congress controls the FDA. Nor does the pharmaceuticals, they are a self sustaining entity subject to ‘NO ONE’.

Hey, the pharmaceuticals provide us with all these wonderful drugs that make us feel better. Sure they do, and quite frankly I have been happy to use their products for many aches and pain until I discovered alternative medicine. Now they want to keep quiet those who do practice alternative medicine, it works without the side effects. No drug, that I am aware of out of the many, does not cause side effects. When the side effect occurs, a new disease is found, and a new drug and with that new drug billions of dollars are raked in by the greedy paws of those in the drug business. Do you realize that the pharmaceutical companies have no obligation to find cures for diseases. Their one and only obligation is to make money for their stockholders, just like the doctor owned clinics, hospitals, the research labs and all drug maker. You cannot make money with cures, but you can amass a fortune in making drugs that mask the symptoms and make us feel better.

Fight National Health Care

Every related program to health the federal government has put into action has cost the taxpayers ten times what they estimated it would cost. The primary reason is the greed of the unpoliced administrators of the programs at the grass root level. Doctors billing for services or drugs not administered and similar tactics. We need to fight the national health care package for one major reason. We the taxpayers already support the majority of those who do not have medical care, and that does not work. We need a program that puts these people to work so they purchase the health care they need. Even if it is made up jobs like beautifying our national parks with paths, small bridges and paths with signs identifying trees passed. Maybe we have them work part time for groceries in operations similar to Will Allen’s Growing Power in Milwaukee, Wi. The idea of giving a helping hand to help someone rise above his current low status makes more sense than a handout that leaves them behind but makes me feel good. I don’t need to feel good when I help someone, what I need to see is they feel good about themselves, by receiving my help up. They would know it is just a make up job, but as they gain skills and self esteem, they too will reach down to help someone up, one step at a time.

Folks, you ought to be tired by now of neighbors who are poor due to lack of incentive and or opportunity. They are not proud of their situation, not normally anyway, and given a choice of starve or work, I believe they would do the right thing. Then who distributes the wealth, they would by paying taxes, buying what they need, and maybe become what God intended them to be what they were created to be. Did you know not one poor person has ever made himself all he could be poor, it takes money, it takes training, it take self effort, it takes hope, it take courage, and it takes a dream to rise above poverty. The national health care program is just another stone weighting a person down into the drudgery of a modern form of slavery. It is not for me, it is not for anyone I know, are will one day know. Those I meet in life, I want the best for, not another weight to carry. Speak up and let us beat this new burden, kill national health care.