Lissa Rankin, M.D. is an integrative medicine physician, author, speaker, artist, and founder of the online health and wellness community OwningPink.com. Discouraged by our broken health-care system, Dr. Rankin set out to discover why some patients experience miraculous cures from seemingly incurable illnesses, while others remain sick even when they receive the best medical care.
Fueled by a passion to determine what really makes people healthy and what really predisposes them to illness, she dug into the medical literature to study how doctors might better care for patients. Her research led her to discover that patients have self-healing powers beyond our wildest imaginings, and science proves it.
She is now leading a "Pink Medicine Revolution" to help patients heal themselves, while encouraging the health-care industry to embrace and facilitate, rather than resist, such miracles.Dr. Rankin shows how thoughts, feelings, and beliefs can alter the body's physiology. She lays out the scientific data proving that loneliness, pessimism, depression, fear, and anxiety damage the body, while intimate relationships, gratitude, meditation, sex, and authentic self-expression flip on the body's self-healing processes.
Read about it in the book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself, where she introduces a radical new wellness model to help you uncover where things might be out of whack in your life-spiritually, creatively, environmentally, nutritionally, and in your professional and personal relationships. You can then create a customized treatment plan aimed at bolstering these health-promoting pieces of your life. You'll learn how to listen to your body's "whispers" before they turn to life-threatening "screams" that can be prevented with proper self-care. You'll learn how to trust your inner guidance when making decisions about your health and your life.
Inner balance delivers the outer experience. Here is a short list of books on eastern methods of self-balance.
- Workbook for Spiritual Development of All People, by Hua-Ching Ni, teacher of Natural Spiritual Truth. He is a model of spiritual achievement through self-cultivation. This book introduces meditation, postures, practices and a method of self-integration.
- Awaken Healing Energy Through the Tao, by Mantak Chia. This comprehensive text includes: opening the energy channels, proper wiring of the etheric body, acupuncture and microcosmic orbit, Taoist yoga and kundalini, and how to prevent side effects. This book aids in the development of a powerful energetic flow for physical, psychological and spiritual health and balance.
- The Power of Natural Healing, by Hua-Ching Ni. This book offers a clear presentation of Taoist teachings and simple practices that people of all ages can use to nurture themselves and the health and happiness of those around them.
- Chinese System of Food Cures, by Henry C. Lu. This book reveals a fascinating proven way of using the healing properties of foods by understanding their flavors, energies, actions and movements.
- The Inner Structure of Tai Chi, by Mantak Chia and Juan Li. Taoist adepts developed tai chi as both a martial art and a way to cultivate the physical body, energy body, and spirit body. Like all Taoist exercises, its main purpose is to form a connection to the basic energy that is the foundation of all life: chi. This book explores the deep, internal work necessary for the effective practice of tai chi.
This list reflects one path to greater human expression. It is for you to determine what practices resonate with your beliefs and desires. It is for you to motivate yourself, expand your awareness and emanate your joy!
Masterworks Healing just completed a fitness and health series offering information for those who are proactive, responsible and preventive! You are powerful when you take responsibility for who you are spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally and so on. Fortunately, teachers are available to everyone through The Internet!
This time, Jennifer McLean brings us five experts who discuss functionality and easy ways to improve it (for men and women). Here is a brief description of the hour-long sessions:
- Sara Gottfried (natural hormones) - nutritional and lifestyle changes affect hormone balance; prayer and forgiveness lower cortisol; take proven herbal remedies; take bio-identical hormones is short-term low doses; take probiotics; stress management by changing your perception; awareness in each moment is the key to balance. (Visit Sara's blog)
- Caroline Sutherland (medical intuitive) - diet of mind and diet of body work together for a strong vital body so you can attract what you want; belief is the key; digestive enzymes; hormone balancing; daily exercise
- Ana Forrest (yoga) - learn how to ask better questions of your body; change breathing for vitality, attention and peace; get active; connect breathing then feeling, and live in truth; yoga work: tiger breath, relaxing the neck, and shoulder shrugs.
- Anat Baniel (physical movement) - map the area of the body to the brain: be aware of what you are doing and what you want; movement with attention; use your imagination, talk to your brain; slow down with exercise and movement so patterns get grooved in; give small changes in movement so brain detects small changes
- Marilyn Mercado (lymphatic system) - twice as much lymph as blood in the body; stress is the number one aggravator to lymph flow; lymph likes thoracic breathing; salt bath with baking soda; use a rebounder so that feet always touch it (before sleep) or use a large ball to bounce gently (before sleep); use a body brush on dry skin (before shower) brushing toward the heart in slow rhythmic motions a few minutes each day; wear tights when you fly to prevent swelling of your legs; the body responds to GENTLE, KIND treatment; lymph system meditation provided.
This was a gold mine of information for easy changes to make in daily routine, exercises, thought process, and nutrition. And, there is no charge for listening and making notes for self-improvement. The overall theme is to know thyself. Pay attention to body signals. Find ways to de-stress. Take time for you. No one knows better than you what you need to live joyfully. There are many paths to a joyful life, so take the time to find yours.
In closing, quality of life is measured by your level of joy in each activity. Always seek YOUR path of greatest joy.
"Genuine feelings of love and appreciation for your body convey a positive message containing essential life-sustaining signals that result in excellent health.
The decision to accept ultimate responsibility for creating your life experience will empower you toward attaining a state of mental clarity and physical vitality.
In order to live well and thrive during these times of transformational change, it is to your advantage to embrace a belief in vital health, and to accept responsibility for the ability to create it.
Unresolved emotional traumas are the real core issues of disease.
Every illness actually serves as a positive message from one part of the self to another concerning your emotional responses to life.
A conscious commitment to live a better life must be made by you in order to induce the necessary changes required to create the ideal conditions of health and well-being over the apparent reality.
Either by clear intent or by way of beliefs, you will eventually manifest whatever it is that you command.
Collectively and individually your cells know how to keep your body functioning, and if there is a problem, your body lets you know.
When you affirm your desire for a safe and healthy existence, your senses open to subtle new attunements that stem from a reorganization of cellular codes of consciousness.
Reality is fluid; time and space are flexible to change, conforming to the perceptions of the beholder.
The belief that "there is not enough time" will lead to a stress-packed life, and heart failure can occur if the command about time is the predominant or strongest message sent to the body. The heart is the body's time keeper; every beat marks a rhythm that is entrained with the cosmos, in tune with the Womb of the Mother, the Galactic Center."
These statements are interspersed in chapter 5 of the Path of Empowerment by Barbara Marciniak. This book will maximize your quality of life with guidance and explanation that is easy to understand and implement. The content resonates with your inner knowing. Each of us is a soup of beingness (consciousness); all the parts function as one. Furthermore, we exist in a larger soup of beingness that includes all others. Each of us is responsible for the vibrations we place in the field. In taking responsibility for personal health we guide the trillions of cells to what we want. You make your choice - every moment of every day - with every thought, word and deed!
