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Dissolve Fatigue,Stress & Depression: with Pranic
Healing!
Miracles
are possible & become everyday events if we have the
tools to access the secret laws of nature.
Pranic Healing is the art & science of accessing this
knowledge & applying this knowledge to healing & maintenance
of good health.
Quantum physics acknowledge the existence of the energy
body (or aura) & the important role it plays in sustaining
health & well being.
All disease first manifests in the energy body & if
held there will eventually adversely affect the body,
mind or emotions.
By treating the energy body, Pranic Healing treats the
cause of the dis-ease, bringing relief of symptoms,
repair of the physical, emotional or mental body & a
healthy balance back into your life.
Pranic Healing dissolves fatigue, stress, depression,
negative emotions & thoughts, mental cloudiness, poverty
consciousness, emotional instability, diseases in the
body, mind & emotions, relationships & finances
Testimonials from my work this year include:
I
am feeling grounded, thinking clearer & going great
guns !! (HR Executive) I am able to stay calm & focus
my energy in a loving way (Student)
I presented with depression - I am feeling more grounded,
balanced & positive. I now feel motivated again. (5
sessions) (Airline Booking Agent)
I was physically run down & mentally exhausted - More
optimistic & energized. A better sense of perspective
& clearer about the steps I need to take in my life.
Relaxed & peaceful. (4 sessions) (Engineer)
I had mood swings, anxiety & depression- I have more
clarity in my mind & emotions & body. I feel calmer
& lighter. I am able to breath better & deeper. Overall
I am able to cope better than before. (6 sessions) (Student)
I had a headache- the headache cleared immediately &
stayed away. (1 session) Artist
I was shy & anxious- I can speak without being afraid.
I can hold a relaxed conversation & feel more confident.
(3 sessions) Medical Technician
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The
Pranic Healing Centre
Fara Curlewis
I
have 20 years experience in health, healing, building
wellness & spirituality.
I am a Nurse, Midwife, Parenting Educator and Counsellor
& 10 years ago I began my training & work as a Pranic
Healer.
I have completed the Basic, Advanced, Pranic Psychotherapy,
Psychic Self-Defence, Crystal Pranic Healing & Arhatic
Yoga (level 2-3). I have been personally taught by Grand
Master Choa Kok Sui - the modern day founder of Pranic
Healing. Master Choa Kok Sui researched and experimented
for 20 years to develop this inner science of healing
& he has written many books (available at Nurture Studio).
A depth of knowledge & a wealth of experience - Pranic
Healing, Reiki, Counselling, Narrative Therapy, Massage
Therapist, Nurse, Midwife, Health Educator.
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10 Reasons Not to Diet :with Life After Diets !
The Truth About Diets
Ten Reasons Why Our Diets Fail Us
Diets
Don't Work
Sure weight can be lost, but it always comes back. In
an address to The American College of Physicians, Dr
Alvan Feinstein said "The five year cure rate for obesity
is virtually zero". Most diet studies put the failure
rate at 96 to 98 per cent. The few who do manage to
keep the pounds off are people like Lynn Redgrave and
Richard Simmons, who make a career out of weight control.
But most of us aren't paid millions to stay svelte,
and we eventually give up or blow the diet.
Muscle Loss
All diets, even high protein diets, reduce muscle tissue.
The first week of a high-protein diet, loss is half
water, one-quarter fat, and one-quarter lean tissue.
We can grow new bone cells or blood cells, but once
we lose a muscle cell it is gone forever.
Of course, rapid two-kilo loss doesn't mean losing a
kilo of dead muscle. Protein is simply withdrawn from
the cell. But some cells do die. This means that when
the two kilos is regained, there is a higher fat-to-lean
ratio. The more often you diet, the fatter and weaker
you become, even if you are exercising.
Beauty
We may give lip service to health, but the real reason
most of us diet is to look better. But after several
years of losing and gaining weight our skin loses its
elasticity and large weight losses may leave stretch
marks.
Many diets fail to satisfy the body's need for protein,
which can result in loss of scalp hair after five to
ten weeks. So if your favourite diet consists mainly
of protein-low salads, you can look forward to shrunken
muscles, fatigue, wrinkles, a bad mood and a bald head.
If this is what your doctor finds for you, find a new
doctor. Dieting is dangerous and doesn't work, but the
news isn't all bad. Being thin is just a fashion, and
like all fashions, this one has just about run its course.
Bingeing
Usually when we've eaten enough the hypothalamus notes
the higher blood sugar and signals the brain to stop
eating. But when we are below our set point, the signal
isn't sent. This is why we binge. Our stomachs may be
full, but out brains respond to a cellular hunger and
the impulse to continue eating remains.
This tendency to lose control and gorge is one of the
most serious drawbacks to dieting. A letter to the British
medical journal, Lancet, tells of the death of a twenty-three
year old model who found it necessary to diet in order
to keep her job.
Eventually her hunger got so out of control and in a
single meal she ate "liver, kidneys, steak, eggs, cheese,
bread, mushrooms, carrots, a whole cauliflower, ten
peaches, four pears, two apples, four bananas, two pounds
of plums, two pounds of grapes and two glasses of milk".
It was a well-balanced assortment, containing all the
vitamins and calories her starved body needed, but it
was too much, too fast. She gained 19 pounds and then
died.
Binges aren't usually fatal, but they often cause gastrointestinal
cramping and diarrhoea. Bingeing is common because dieting
is common. Dr Katherine Halmi of Cornell University
found that 68.1 per cent of women students have experienced
an eating binge, and 20 per cent consider themselves
binge eaters.
Purging
Some dieters compensate for gorging by taking laxatives
or diuretics. Many resort to self-induced vomiting.
Dr James M Ferguson, clinical director of the eating
disorder programme at the Alvarado Parkway Institute
in San Diego, warns that fatalities due to bingeing
and purging are increasing. The most famous case is
that of Karen Carpenter, who used to sing "We've Only
Just Begun".
Risks of self-induced vomiting include potassium depletion
(which can be fatal); urinary infection and kidney failure;
swollen salivary glands; dental cavities (from stomach
acid put in contact with teeth when vomiting), muscle
cramps, epileptic seizures; cessation of menstruation
and infertility.
Purging is dangerous. Laxative purges won't give you
cavities, but other risks are there, along with irritable
bowel syndrome.
The Beverley Hills Diet is designed to produce diarrhoea,
and it requires salt restriction, which is very dangerous.
Too little salt combined with water loss caused by diarrhoea
can result in hypovolemic shock - lowered volume of
blood.
This can cause fever, muscle weakness, rapid, thready
pulse and a feeling of impending doom. Blood pressure
may drop to a fatal level.
Hunger
The hypothalamus can't be fooled. We can stuff ourselves
with grapefruit until our stomachs are painfully distended,
but we still feel hungry. This is because when we start
burning fat stores, we produce some "ashes". One of
them is free fatty acids (FFA).
When the hypothalamus detects FFA in the blood stream,
it assumes we're starving and directs the brain to eat.
Those maddening fantasies of cheeseburgers and chocolate
layer cake come into being, and this is why the newest
medical gadget, a plastic balloon inflated in the stomach,
won't work.
The only way to stop the signal is to stop burning fat,
which means eating something "forbidden". Sooner or
later 98 per cent of us yield to the impulse to eat.
Don't believe any diet scam that promises weight loss
without hunger. You can't.
The Heart and Other Organs
Most of us diet for a week or two, lose a couple of
kilos and go off the diet. A few months later we try
again. Several times a year we lose muscle and gain
fat. Since the heart is muscle, is too loses cells and
can be seriously damaged by losing the "same" few pounds
over and over again.
Both the heart and the brain are threatened by a build-up
of cholesterol among dieters. Each time weight is regained,
cholesterol is deposited, but losing weight doesn't
remove it. Therefore, each rebound from a diet increases
harmful cholesterol deposits, the risk of a heart attack
and the risk of a stroke.
Studies show that rats which have been repeatedly starved
and then permitted to eat at will, develop cardiac disease,
arteriosclerosis and a shortened life expectancy. The
problem is continual dieting, not fat. But the doctor
says that being overweight is bad for your heart, so
which is worse, being overweight or dieting? The answer
depends on your sex.
Although more women than men are obese, women are protected
from heart disease by oestrogen. Most of the studies
linking obesity with heart disease were done on men,
and even those are questionable.
A recent seven-country study by Dr Ancel Keys of the
University of Minnesota found no significant relationship
between weight and coronary disease.
For women, constant dieting seems to be worse than being
overweight. Unbalanced diets tend to upset the electrolyte
balance.
Electrolytes are ions of potassium, sodium, chloride
bicarbonate etc.
Sometimes a dieter loses enough electrolytes to cause
degeneration of the kidneys, urinary infection, and
even fatal kidney failure.
Since the brain can't burn fat, the liver must take
on the burden of making glucose out of fatty acids for
the nervous system.
One of the by-products of burning fat is ketone bodies,
they are made by the liver when there isn't enough fuel
coming into the body.
If your diet is unbalanced in favour of protein, you
will produce excess ketones. The kidneys then have the
added work of cleansing them from the blood.
Fertility
Fat and femaleness go hand in hand, because fat starts
to accumulate in girls at puberty in time with a genetically
set clock. Oestrogen is stored in fat, and some scientists
believe there is a minimum amount of fat necessary for
the onset of menstruation.
Dr Rose E Frisch of Harvard suggests that the amount
of fat on an average 18 year old is just enough to see
her through nine months of pregnancy and three months
of breastfeeding. Since humans have always been faced
with periods of famine, it is biologically sensible
to require enough fat storage to ensure successful reproduction.
Personality
When the brain detects high levels of FFA in the blood,
it signals to the body to conserve energy. The longer
and more severely we diet, the stronger the signals.
This impulse to conserve energy results in mental as
well as physical depression.
Large weight losses seem to change the chemistry of
the brain by reducing the catecholamine neurotransmitters.
The catecholamines are chemicals which bridge the gap
between nerve cells and they are involved in control
of voluntary movement, emotional arousal, learning and
memory. Concentration becomes difficult during a diet
as the hypothalamus continues to send signals producing
food fantasies. It is a cruel and ironic twist of fate
that the more moderate the diet, the worse the distraction
seems to be.
If the hypothalamus believes there is no food in the
environment, there is no point wasting energy seeking
it. But you don't need studies to know that dieting
makes us frustrated and irritable.
Dieters tire quickly, may have insomnia and lose enthusiasm
for physical activity, even sex.
The Set Point
Diets don't work because our bodies are geared to maintain
a certain weight. The control mechanism is in the hypothalamus,
a small structure deep within the brain. It monitors
the blood flow constantly, working like a thermostat.
When the blood sugar level drops, the hypothalamus signals
the brain to find food and eat it. The amount of fat
isn't determined by what we eat. What we eat is determined
by the setpoint for which our bodies are programmed.
A recent study by Dr Labert J Stunkard of the University
of Pennsylvania found that the weight of adopted children
correlates with their biological, not adoptive parents,
indicating that weight has more to do with genes than
with learned habit. But just because the setpoint is
genetic, doesn't mean it can't be changed. Smoking lowers
it by a few points, while dieting raises it.
One of the best researchers in the field, Susan Woolley,
of the University of Cincinnati, says that a loss of
three kilos virtually assured a regain of three and
half. So the person who has dieted many times may weigh
far more than he or she would have if they had never
dieted.
Dieting doesn't work; it may be wiser to concentrate
on self-acceptance. It won't be easier but it will be
healthier.
Written by: Ruth Priest Broadsheet Magazine
New Zealand December
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2 Weeks till Patch Adams Arrives in Brisbane: Limited
Tickets Available!
Discover
True Happiness with Dr Patch Adams: October 17 Mercure
Hotel Brisbane.
The
global Happiness movement goes a step further in Australia
in mid October with the most heartwarming social justice
entrepreneur we know leading the new positive change
charge. According to Dr Patch Adams, clown, humanitarian
and the world's most loved MD, happiness is a choice
that you make, and a practice. We can build meaningful
lives that bring us joy. And it can be a simple and
fun process, really.
Like the new science of Positive Psychology teaches
us, happiness is not something we have to earn, deserve
or that is external to us. It is the result of cultivating
positive thinking, emotions, virtues and strengths that
can buffer us against life's misfortunes and build lasting
levels of contentment and gratification. We take the
focus and energy off what is wrong with us or our situations,
and apply it toward what is right.
Although Patch has brought his signature strengths of
laughter, humour and playfulness and hope-dispensing
to some of the world's worst war zones, natural disaster
areas and to 10,000 deathbeds, his own personal "aha!"
moment came through the darkness of personal depression
he suffered as an eighteen year old. Overwhelmed with
the violence and injustice in the world, Patch had several
stints in a mental hospital prior to beginning his medical
studies. However, in his last hospitalisation, the young
Patch realised that one choice was to avoid or ignore
the injustices, or to serve humanity. Another more complicated
decision he made at the time was "to be a scientist
studying joy, and to also to be it".
Not finding supportive academic research on how to live
a life of joy, Patch decided he had to find his own
solutions. Before he went to medical school, for social
research purposes, he would ride up and down elevators
in tall buildings for up to five hours a day. The study
was for Patch to learn how to fall in love with people,
and how to love life in each experience. He is 41 years
into his own personal study, and has never had another
bad day. Patch's cognitive intention of "I will never
having another bad day" means that he has found the
secret of how to love life, and the practice of that
love, with joy being the consequence.
But why at this time of our social evolution do we need
this message so badly? It is ironic that Australia is
a debt-free Commonwealth, but what do we now owe to
ourselves, each other and our workplaces? Are we really
happy?
Depression currently causes over six million working
days to be lost each year according to Beyond Blue,
a national, independent, not-for-profit organisation
working to address issues associated with depression,
anxiety and related substance misuse disorders in Australia.
It has been estimated that 6.4 million Australian adults
- almost half the adult population - accessed the Internet
during 2005. Reportedly, more Internet users search
the Web for information on depression than any other
health condition. Some 200 million scripts for anti-depressant
medication are written in Australia yearly.
As Patch puts it, if we do not "work to compose our
joy" we lay ourselves open to depression and anxiety,
boredom and indifference. It is time we individually
decided to take a stand, to take control of our own
happiness and learn the techniques that can lastingly
us make us mentally healthy. Patch is surely a great
example of walking the talk!
Hunter "Patch" Adams has been a physician for nearly
30 years now, but he has been a clown for almost 40.
He is a social activist, and Founder and Director of
the Gesundheit Institute, a holistic medical community
that has provided free medical care to thousands of
patients since it began in 1971. Thousands have seen
the movie "Patch Adams" starring Robin Williams. This
is your chance to get up close and personal with one
of the greatest altruists and social justice entrepreneurs
of our time and learn what it takes to live a personally
and professionally happier life.
Patch Adams is being brought to Brisbane and Sydney
for keynote seminars by Susan Welch, well known Laughter
Therapist and an Authentic Happiness Coach in the new
Positive Psychology. Susan has been a pioneer of the
Happiness movement in this country for the past 4 years,
working with over 20,000 people in health, mental health,
aged care, hospitals, schools, disability, corporate
and government arenas. The evolution of this grass roots
social justice movement has seen her work this year
transform from the Laughter Clubs of Queensland into
the Empowerment Institute, a national boutique bureau
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products and events for personal and professional development.
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Obesity Increases Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer:
Free Seminars in October!
Five Brisbane Healthy Inspirations women's only weight
loss and exercise centres are encouraging the local
community to support Breast Cancer Month during October.
The local centres will be raising funds through pink
ribbon merchandise and raising awareness with free breast
cancer seminars, delivered by the Queensland Cancer
Fund.
Times and locations for the free seminars about breast
cancer and healthy lifestyle habits are:
Kenmore
Monday 9 October 9.00am - 10.00am & 5.30pm - 6.30pm
1st Floor, Kenmore Village, Corner Moggill & Brookfield
Roads Ph: 3878 5222
Mitchelton
Saturday 14 October 10.30am - 11.30am 12 Blackwood St,
Mitchelton Ph: 3355 1149
Sunnybank
Hills Saturday 14 October 10.00am - 12.00noon 70 Pinelands
Rd - next to the BP garage Ph: 3345 5533
Mt
Gravatt Friday 20 October 6.30pm - 7.30pm Homemaker
Centre, 1230 Logan Road Ph: 3420 4233
Indooroopilly
Thursday 26 October 10.30am - 11.30am Centro, 34 Coonan
St - above Blockbuster Video Ph: 3378 4709
There
is growing evidence that excess body weight and lack
of regular physical activity increase the risk of postmenopausal
breast cancer, said Healthy Inspirations' Nikki Frey.
Moderate exercise daily and some vigorous exercise may
lower the risk of breast cancer by 20% to 40%. It is
estimated that 11% of postmenopausal breast cancer is
due to physical inactivity, says the International Agency
for Research on Cancer.
2 out of 3 females aged 45 to 64 are overweight or obese,
according to the National Nutrition Survey.
One in 11 Australian women will be diagnosed with breast
cancer by the age of 75, and more than 2,500 women die
as a result each year.
Healthy Inspirations is offering Pink Ribbon merchandise
throughout October for Pink Ribbon Day on Monday 23
October to help raise funds for the Queensland Cancer
Fund to conduct breast cancer research and provide essential
support services for women with breast cancer and their
families.
The local Healthy Inspirations centre is also offering
women over 35 a free body composition analysis during
Breast Cancer Month. The analysis includes a number
of measurements that give an in-depth look at things
like body fat percentage and fat mass. For more information
phone your local centre on 1300 LOSE WEIGHT (1300 567
393) or visit www.healthyinspirations.com.au
For media information contact: Chelsea McLean on 0413
792 908 or Healthy Inspirations on 1300 LOSE WEIGHT
(1300 567 393)
The Queensland Cancer Fund encourages women to be familiar
with the normal look and feel of their breasts and see
a doctor if they notice any unusual breast changes.
All women aged 40 and over have free access to the BreastScreen
Australia program for mammographic screening. Women
aged 50 to 69 are encouraged to have a free mammogram
every two years.
For breast cancer information, visit www.qldcancer.com.au
or www.pinkribbonday.com.au
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