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Posted on 11.20.05 by Christina Jones @ 9:07 pm
Homeostasis is a state of equilibrium that is the aim for all living things. When a living thing is sick, the healing part of it bursts in to action, in an attempt to return things to normal. We have created drugs to help us achieve this quickly, but at what price? With almost every drug that helps you, it has a side effect that is harmful, even if we don’t recognize this effect immediately. Take the problem of antibiotic resistance for one thing. Even if there were no other harmful side effects of antibiotics, we have disrupted the genetics of bacteria, making them stronger and more difficult for our bodies to handle themselves. We did not see this effect when we were taking the antibiotics, but boy do we see it now. Filed under: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health and Part 1 The Capacity To Change Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.20.05 by Christina Jones @ 8:41 pm
Dr. Weil stresses in the introduction of this book, that he works with “the whole picture of health,” rather with just one area. He is interested in improving our health from through our minds, our bodies and our spirits. These three things really do make up the whole person. Take a minute to think about how you feel when each one of those things is out of whack individually. When seperating them, you can really see how very important each of them are to your wellbeing. Dr. Weil takes issue with the way western medicine seems to treat one problem at a time, instead of an overall wellness problem. Each function in our bodies rely on another function to perform, which does seem to make it nearly impossible to treat just one thing and repair it. Filed under: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health and Part 1 The Capacity To Change Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.18.05 by Christina Jones @ 8:09 am
I know I mentioned this somewhere else on the site recently, but I thought I would address it here, as it is something that Dr. Weil mentions– Is your doctor open to therapies other than conventional medicine? Personally, ours is not. I was admittedly a bit disappointed by this fact when I addressed it with her at my last appointment with her, last week. She was very quick to brush off any ideas other than those available by prescription, and was quick to advise me to be very careful. Not to say that it wasn’t good advice (to be careful), but it was a bit disappointing, especially when comparing her to my last doctor (in Tennessee) that is very interested in it. My mother is still going to our doctor in Tennessee, and she has relatively recently advised my mother to take things such as garlic and cinnamon, and to supplement with other vitamins, and has even taken her off of some of the medication that she had been taking prior to this (cholesterol drugs, ect). After all, most of our drugs have been derived from naturally occurring chemicals, haven’t they? Filed under: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health and Part 1 The Capacity To Change Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.18.05 by Christina Jones @ 7:46 am
You all might be interested in a very detailed comment that was left on the MRSA Resources Blog, from a woman who has used probiotics and some other natural supplements to cure her 3 yr old son of MRSA. The more I read about Probiotics, the more interesting they are to me. I would love to hear from some people who are using them, and especially what specific brand they are using. There are a plethora of them available, and I would sure like to be able to seperate the “seed from the chaff.” Filed under: Beyond Books Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.15.05 by Christina Jones @ 1:58 pm
Dr. Weil’s group has been kind enough to offer our group trial memberships to his online Optimum Health group. I really don’t know the specifics of the trial, but I cannot find where one is offered anywhere else, so this might be an opportunity that you might like to explore (I know I am interested!). Anyway, I will be sending them the email addresses of our interested members on Monday morning (the start of studying week 1), so hurry and get registered if you would like to be a part of this! Filed under: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health Comments: 3 Comments |
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Posted on 11.15.05 by Christina Jones @ 1:44 pm
In the first chapter, Dr. Weil talks about motivation: “If you are motivated to seek better health, all that you need to achieve it is practical information (p.7).” I know that our battle with MRSA has given me that motivation, along with the realization that I am no longer 20 and immortal. Dr. Weil goes on to talk about how with the proper motivation that even something as strong as an addition to drugs can be beaten. I have been following a thread about 12-stepping in another group I belong to in the last couple of days, and between this book and that group, I have thought a lot about addiction lately. I have several addictions myself that I need to address–I am no doubt addicted to food, chocolate and (yes, I am admitting it as much as I hate to) smoking, and could probably come up with a few others if I really tried. I was very happy to read that Dr. Weil has seen success with people quitting smoking, and that he addresses the issue of how difficult it is to part company with an addiction that has become something of a security blanket in your life. Filed under: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health and Part 1 The Capacity To Change Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.15.05 by Denise @ 8:03 am
Each and every one of us is a miracle. We have each been created with the tremendous ability to heal. Healing can come in many forms. This morning, I am thinking about the healing capacities of my own body and how I normally take it for granted. When I have a cut or a bruise or a headache, I just expect to get better. When I go through a difficult time in my life, I do expect it to pass. And every single day of my life, good, bad, or somewhere in the middle, spirituality is a major part of who I believe myself to be. In the hard times, I ask for strength and guidance. In the good times, I give thanks and ask for guidance. In the middle, I give thanks and ask for strength and guidance. Miracles are all around us. Sometimes they’re in a rainbow or a sunny day. Sometimes they’re in the kind words of a friend. Filed under: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health and Part 1 The Capacity To Change Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.14.05 by Denise @ 7:23 pm
“To optimize the function of the healing system, you must do everything in your power to improve physical health, mental/emotional health, and spiritual health.” Dr. Andrew Weil, Eight Weeks to Optimum Health. Filed under: 8 Weeks To Optimum Health and Part 1 The Capacity To Change Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.14.05 by Christina Jones @ 1:33 pm
Just a few notes on how this group is (hopefully) going to work. As you get registered, we will enable you to create posts. Give us a bit of time to get this done, and then please introduce yourself, if only for the “breaking of the posting ice!” You can always comment on other posts before we have your posting account ready. Denise and I will be posting general thoughts and information, and you are free to post your thoughts either as new posts, or as comments on any other posts. We hope you all will participate–we can learn so much more with everyone’s input! We will start Week 1 on Monday (November 21st) and move through the book week by week, then finish with a week of conclusions. Then (again, hopefully!) move on to the next book we are going to study. If you need help figuring anything out about how to post on the group, please see the documentation here. You can always email christina@mrsaresources.com as well. Filed under: Getting Started Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.06.05 by Christina Jones @ 7:49 pm
Please introduce yourselves, either in the comments section of this post, or feel free to create your own post (a good idea for a practice run!). I will start: I am Christina Jones, from College Station, TX, and am 37, with 3 children aged 20 (by marriage), 11 and 7. Although I (so far) have not had to deal with MRSA in my own body, I have been a caregiver to my husband who came very close to his death battling the bug. I have joined this group in the hopes that I will learn much more about being healthy, and enabling my body (and by association, my family’s bodies) to make use of its God given abilities to heal and protect itself. I have always been one to minimize the importance of the “healthy stuff” with the attitude that “if everyone else is doing it, it must be fine” –take organic vegetables as an example of this (a small example, there are MANY!). I have never seen the need for this in the past, but I am starting to see it now. Might be an aging thing, along with the horrible MRSA scare. That’s enough for now, I imagine you will be hearing more about me than you ever cared to know before this is over with, and I might as well leave a bit to be learned. Ha! Filed under: Introduce Yourself Comments: 3 Comments |
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