A few years ago, Dr. Stephen Sinatra made considerable waves with his book, Earthing. The premise, supported by a lot of scientific and clinical research, proved that because the human body is electrical, it can build up certain electrical charges that become unhealthy--and in some cases, life threatening. The incredibly simply solution? Grounding. This means to provide a direct electrical contact to the earth. There are myriad ways to do this: go barefoot on the grass or bare ground, hug a tree (literally), swim in a river, pond or ocean, or maintain a ground connection by using Dr. Sinatra's "earthing mats" and "earthing cover" for your bed.
Dr. Sinatra lists many benefits to earthing:
- Defuses the cause of inflammation and improves or eliminates the symptoms of many inflammation-related disorders, reduces or eliminates chronic pain.
- Improves sleep in most cases.
- Increases energy.
- Lowers stress and promotes calmness in the body by cooling down the nervous system and stress hormones.
- Normalizes the body's biological rhythms.
- Thins blood and improves blood pressure and flow.
- Relieves muscle tension and headaches.
- Lessens hormonal and menstrual symptoms.
- Dramatically speeds healing and helps prevent bedsores.
- Reduces or eliminates jet lag.
- Protects the body against protentially health-disturbing environmental electromagnetic fields (EMF).
- Accelerates recovery from intense athletic activity.
QUANTUM HEALTH TIP: Use the E-4 Formula to reconnect the body's upper and lower energy centers while you are earthing. It will enhance the effect. Earthing is good for any injury, as it is the disruption of the energy flow through the meridians that triggers the body's healing responses. By re-establishing this energy flow, healing is greatly enhanced. Use the E-3 Energy Cream along with your earthing routine for rapid healing.
What is your body trying to tell you?
Mind-body pioneer, Louise Hay, was one of the first to publish a book about what certain symptoms in the physical body mean. In other words, what is the body communicating with particular symptoms. This turns accepted medical understanding on its head, yet opens an entirely new possibility that the body is more than a meat machine. It is a conscious and very aware part of ourselves that is usually ignored or attacked, and at the very least distrusted. Hay believes that symptoms are the body's way of getting our attention to open communication lines to healing.
This theory has also been championed in Dr. Ryke Hamer's German New Medicine, and by Christian Fleche in his book, The Biogenealogy Sourcebook: Healing the Body by Resolving Traumas of the Past. There are several other researchers and titles available on this fascinating subject.
Dr. Hamer discovered, through close examination of x-rays taken of his patients with emotional and physical traumas, that there were visible standing shock waves that remained in the brain after the traumas. These standing waves connected to corresponding symptoms in the body depending on the type of trauma and, hence, its location in the brain. By reliving the moment of trauma, the wave would dissipate along with the symptoms.
For a quick and handy reference to this intriguing field, here is an annotated directory of symptoms and their meanings as researched by Louise Hay.
QUANTUM HEALTH TIP: Our line of Meditation Elixirs greatly help to facilitate meditative states helpful in enhancing body awareness and communication. Also, our Trinity gemstone elixirs help to support body healings for specific conditions and symptoms--use the handy search tool to look up your own issues.
Gratitude: New frontiers for research...
As the study of happiness and emotional well-being gains popularity in psychological and scientific study (it has long been popular in the fields of religion and philosophy), there is increasing research on the nature of gratitude, its causes, and its potential consequences for health and mental-emotional well-being.
Researchers like Martin Seligman, Robert Emmons, and Michael McCullough are turning their attention to the study of gratitude and its relationship to health and mental well-being. Here are some of their findings:
- People who keep gratitude journals on a weekly basis have been found to exercise more regularly, have fewer physical symptoms, feel better about their lives as a whole, and feel more optimistic about their upcoming week as compared to those who keep journals recording the stressors or neutral events of their lives.
- Daily discussion of gratitude results in higher reported levels of alertness, enthusiasm, determination, attentiveness, energy, and sleep duration and quality. Grateful people also report lower levels of depression and stress, although they do not deny or ignore the negative aspects of life.
- People who think about, talk about, or write about gratitude daily are more likely to report having helped someone with a personal problem or offered emotional support to another person.
- Those with a disposition towards gratitude are found to place less importance on material goods, are less likely to judge their own or others success in terms of possessions accumulated, are less envious of wealthy people, and are more likely to share their possessions with others.
- Emerging research suggests that daily gratitude practices may have some preventative benefits in warding of coronary artery disease.
QUANTUM HEALTH TIP: It's so much easier to be grateful in a positive energy space. A great tool to use to neutralize negativity around you is our Clean Sweep spray. It instantly and effectively blows away negative thoughts, emotions, and even EMF (electro-magnetic fields). Spray it into your own space, the space of your children, workplace, anywhere there are negativities. Watch what happens! It's a great way to help maintain a grateful, positive and healthful outlook on everything!
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Giving Up Utopia
Ah, Utopia... that magical and seemingly impossible paradise where everything is perfect and we all live happily ever after. Not to seem like a curmudgeon or anything, but, please. Get a grip.
The problem with Utopia is that it begins with a judgement, and ends with a conclusion. The judgement that my current circumstances are bad or untenable and if some magical thing would just happen, my life would be perfect. Well, perfection is a judgement in and of itself, too. Perfect in what way? Once perfection is attained, then what? That's the conclusion--the big conclusion that stops everything from becoming something else, something much greater.
We are infinitely powerful beings. We have the ability to create whatever life we want to create, and the way to do that is requesting of the universe (our creation) an awareness of our greater potentials, and of what else is possible. As infinite beings, we have a need to play big, make waves, make a big sound. What's the biggest game we can play, the biggest sound we can make? We don't know, so that's when we ask the question: What else is possible here? How does it get better, bigger, grander? The awarenesses revealed from those questions is what the universe is already set to deliver you. All you need do is follow the yellow brick road.
As kids we were all educated with the underlying premise that solid things acting upon solid things is the only way a solid thing changes. This, in fact, is still the prevailing worldview held by the majority. However, with the advent of quantum physics--that snarly and deeply subversive science that claims NOTHING is solid, has, well, created a whole new level of cognitive dissonance. That is, if you're tuned in.
The challenge with this mode of thinking and knowing is that it is pretty much the opposite of what we try to do, so we're much less willing or even able to accept that a question can create so much change. It's a reality gap--a quantum thinking gap. You mean we are actually creating every single moment that is happening to us? Yep. Even if you buy that--even a little bit--it is a bitch to wrap your head around it. In fact, the more you buy into the self-as-creator paradigm the more cognitively dissonant things become because you realize that because nothing is actually solid anymore (which was an illusion in the first place), a mere passing thought or intention can completely change your life. Of course, this was always true before, but then we attributed big life changes to "fate", "karma", "coincidence" or "synchronicity" without realizing that all those "escape terms" are actually code for You-Create-Everything.
Dr. Yury Kronn, the inventor and developer of our subtle energy formulas has completed research on the new EMF (Electro-Magnetic Field) Transformers. They are soft plastic strips with a strong adhesive so they can be attached to any source of EMF, such as your smart phone, home wi-fi router, your laptop, PC, HDTV--even your microwave and other source points for EMF in the home and office. They comes in two sizes and either clear or black.
