January 2022

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“The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.” ~Hippocrates

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IN THIS ISSUE:
1) THESE 5 UNIQUE , ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES ACTUALLY WORK IN REAL LIFE

2) HOW TO LIVE A HEALTHY AND ILLUMINATED LIFE THROUGH BOTANICAL MEDICINE AND ITS SPIRITUAL PRACTICES (AN OVERVIEW OF A GROUNDBRAKING, YEAR-LONG IMMERSIVE HERBALISM CERTIFICATION PROGRAM)

3) THIS ONE SUPPLEMENT REDUCES YOUR SEVERE FLUE RISK BY 90%, STUDY SAYS

4) UPCOMING NO COST ONLINE EVENTS: YOUR TOOLS FOR BETTER HEALTH AND BETTER LIFE

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I am wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year! Make 2022 the best year of your life!

1) THESE 5 UNIQUE , ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES ACTUALLY WORK IN REAL LIFE

The word 'therapy ' usually leaves us imagining a patient sitting on a couch in front of a doctor. But from listening to music to playing chess and art, there are numerous unique therapeutic practices that work without visiting doctors. So, instead of choosing the traditional counselor's office, try something new this time. Here are some of the best therapies that actually work for you.

#5 Art therapy allows you to let out issues affecting you

Art therapy involves drawing, painting, sculpting, clay art, and doodling, to name a few. It allows people to let out their conflicts and issues affecting their emotions and behavior through art. People suffering from anxiety , eating disorders, substance abuse, or those who have gone through traumatic experiences could benefit from art therapy . Moreover, you need not be an expert artist to attend the sessions.

#4 Aromatherapy improves physical and emotional health

Humans have been using aromatherapy for thousands of years. Aromatherapy is a complementary and alternative medicinal practice, which uses natural oils extracted from plants to promote psychological and physical well-being. It is also known as essential oil therapy that improves emotional and mental health, including the body, mind, and spirit. Unlike other therapies, aromatherapy works through skin absorption and the sense of smell.

#3 Chess therapy can help children with attention-deficit disorders

Chess therapy can help people organize their thoughts more clearly. While this doesn't work for everyone, psychologists have found this therapeutic practice helps children with attention-deficit disorders. But research shows that playing chess can reduce stress and anxiety and balance the mind. So, if you don't have a hobby, you can start playing chess for stress relief and make connections with your friends stronger.

#2 Reiki promotes natural self-healing

Reiki is a Japanese therapeutic technique related to energy healing. This therapy reduces stress and anxiety, gives relaxation, and promotes healing. It's a palm healing or hands-on healing process where a practitioner places hands over your body to facilitate the therapy. It fosters tissue and bone healing following injury or surgery and promotes natural self-healing. Reiki also helps heal emotional wounds and physical pain.

Learn more about Reiki

#1 Music therapy helps in reducing anxiety

Music therapy has become a popular clinical method for improving an individual's psychological, physical, and social well-being. It is beneficial for those with dementia, depression, and speech disability, too. Researchers are turning to music as a possible treatment for stroke and brain injuries as well. Singing, playing an instrument, or listening to music can lessen feelings of isolation reduce anxiety.
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2) HOW TO LIVE A HEALTHY AND ILLUMINATED LIFE THROUGH BOTANICAL MEDICINE AND ITS SPIRITUAL PRACTICES (AN OVERVIEW OF A GROUNDBRAKING, YEAR-LONG IMMERSIVE HERBALISM CERTIFICATION PROGRAM)

In the midst of the environmental, economic, social, and global health climate we’re living in, has there ever been a more important time to nourish and protect your body, and cultivate your vitality and life force?

Whether you’re new to the world of herbal medicine, or you already have a foundational understanding of how to select, create, and use plant medicines to support optimal wellbeing for your mind, body, and spirit, I’m excited to let you know about a first-of-its-kind Shift Network year-long immersive plant medicine certification program taught by David Crow, one of the world’s foremost herbal medicine teachers and practitioners.

The Illuminated Herbalism Certification Program will weave together practical applications of medicines from the Ayurvedic, Chinese, and Western medical systems with the cosmological wisdom and meditative processes of the spiritual lineages that produced them.

In this health-enhancing program, you’ll receive a vast amount of practical information about herbs as medicine — the different types of herbs and their chemical constituents, how to prepare them, and how to use them to treat the major systems in your body…… as well as the contemplative practices they support.

For now, I’m cordially inviting you to attend a unique one-hour event on Saturday, January 8 — at no cost — in which David will introduce you to the most important elements of this groundbreaking training, sharing with you what you can expect and how your participation may transform you and those around you in ways that might now be beyond the reach of your imagination.

You can register here for How to Live a Healthy & Illuminated Life Through Botanical Medicine & Its Spiritual Practices: An Overview of a Groundbreaking, Year-Long Immersive Herbalism Certification Program.

In this 60-minute free online event, you’ll discover:

A guided practice to experience how the 4 levels of Prana Vata — body sensations, nerve current, the flow of nature within, and your body’s surrender to it — provide a way to contact the intelligence of nature operating within your body 

How to experience rejuvenation, longevity, and illumination through the inner and outer alchemy of medicinal plants

How to use plant medicine and meditation to improve your health and wellbeing, increase your self-knowledge, and achieve spiritual illumination

The inseparability of spirituality and nature through the direct experience of body-based awareness

An extraordinary opportunity to participate in a first-of-its-kind Shift Network year-long intensive plant medicine certification program with David

Be prepared to walk away from this inspiring knowledge-filled hour with active curiosity about how you can apply Illuminated Herbalism to your life, and how plants nourish, care for, and protect your physical body… keep your mind clear and healthy… and empower you to reach your spiritual goals.

This groundbreaking certification program will be unlike any other herbal medicine certification offered… anywhere. You’ll learn to use plant medicines and meditation to improve your health and wellbeing, increase your self-knowledge, and give you inner peace…
… as you develop an understanding of your true nature… the source of your life force… your biological unity with all life, including plant life… and your deeper cosmological identity.

You can RSVP for free here

In How to Live a Healthy & Illuminated Life Through Botanical Medicine & Its Spiritual Practices: An Overview of a Groundbreaking, Year-Long Immersive Herbalism Certification Program…… you’ll learn about an unprecedented opportunity to join a comprehensive holistic certification training with one of today’s leading botanical medicine experts to take your self-care and spiritual evolution to the next level. 

We hope you’re able to catch the event as scheduled. But if you register and miss it, you’ll receive a downloadable recording as soon as it’s available. RSVP for free here

3) THIS ONE SUPPLEMENT REDUCES YOUR SEVERE FLUE RISK BY 90%, STUDY SAYS
By Zachary Mack

AN ANALYSIS FINDS TAKING THE MINERAL CAN ALSO HELP YOU RECOVER FASTER IF YOU'RE ALREADY SICK.

After more than a year and a half of living under a global pandemic, the idea of catching the flu almost feels like a distant memory. But even as life slowly begins to return to normal, the truth is that becoming infected with influenza can still be a harrowing experience. While each year changes in severity, the 2018 to 2019 flu season saw an estimated 29 million illnesses, 13 million flu-related medical visits, 380,000 flu-related hospitalizations, and 28,000 flu deaths, according to the data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

As always, doctors are urging the public to get their flu shots to help shore up their immunity—especially amid concerns the flu virus could come roaring back after flu cases were tamped down by COVID-19 preventions last winter. But according to new research, there's one supplement that can help cut your risk of developing severe flu symptoms. Read on to see what you should be taking to give your body another line of defense.

Taking a zinc supplement can reduce your risk of severe flu or cold symptoms by almost 90 percent.

The latest insight comes from a meta-analysis published this month in the journal BMJ Open. In total, researchers reviewed 28 clinical trials that included 5,446 adults at risk for or infected by a viral respiratory tract infection such as the common cold or the flu. While none of the studies specifically focused on the use of zinc to prevent or shorten the length of illness, the data within included information on zinc dosage, duration of the illness, recovery time, and the severity of symptoms from the virus, Eating Well reports.

Results of the analysis found that taking zinc in the form of lozenges or nasal sprays had a noticeable effect on patients. Overall, there was a 28 percent lower risk of developing mild symptoms cold or flu symptoms, and an 87 percent lower risk of developing moderately severe symptoms while taking zinc supplements.

Zinc supplements also appear to help cold and flu symptoms go away more quickly.

Besides being able to stave off the virus potentially, the researchers also found zinc supplements could still hold a benefit for those who were already sick. Results showed that those using a zinc nasal spray or a liquid formula taken under the tongue saw their symptoms dissipate two days earlier on average than patients given a placebo.

Researchers concluded that zinc supplements could be a "viable 'natural' alternative" flu treatment.

Ultimately, the researchers conclude their findings supported the use of zinc as a way to avoid or take care of a cold or a bout with the flu. "The marginal benefits, strain specificity, drug resistance, and potential risks of other over-the-counter and prescription medications makes zinc a viable 'natural' alternative for the self-management of non-specific [respiratory tract infections]," the study authors wrote in a statement. They also added: "[Zinc] also provides clinicians with a management option for patients who are desperate for faster recovery times and might be seeking an unnecessary antibiotic prescription."

One of the study's authors also pointed out that the meta-analysis provided a critical perspective missing from many other focused studies on the use of zinc supplements in battling the flu or the common cold. "The two large trials from China found very low dose zinc nasal spray reduced the risk of clinical illness. The two smaller trials in the U.S. that evaluated the preventive effects of oral zinc excluded people who were zinc deficient," Jennifer Hunter, PhD, one of the study authors and an integrative medicine doctor Jennifer Hunter from Western Sydney University in Australia, told Medical News Today. "It is commonly thought that zinc's role in preventing and treating infections is only for people who are zinc deficient; our findings really challenge this notion."

Researchers still pointed out that it's still not clear what's the best way to take zinc.

"Clinicians and consumers need to be aware that considerable uncertainty remains regarding the clinical efficacy of different zinc formulations, doses, and administration routes," Hunter said. "At the moment there just isn't enough research to say whether a zinc nasal spray, versus a nasal gel, versus a lozenge, versus oral zinc is any better or worse than the others. Most of the trials used zinc gluconate or zinc acetate formulations, but that doesn't mean that other zinc compounds are less effective."

About the Author: Zachary Mackis a freelance writer specializing in beer, wine, food, spirits, and travel. He is based in Manhattan.

Visit the Natural Health Store to find zinc supplements.

4) UPCOMING NO COST ONLINE EVENTS: YOUR TOOLS FOR BETTER HEALTH AND BETTER LIFE

I am excited to invite you to check out the following online events:

You can sign up even when the event is over or you are not able to attend. You will get access to the recording.

Ancestral Healing Summit: January 18-21, 2022 :  Enjoy more than 30 of today’s leading ancestral healing experts and inspiring teachers. By learning to communicate with your ancestors through powerful practices, such as ancestral astrology, genealogical past life regression, or ancestral tarot, you can send ripples of healing, restorative energy to your entire family tree while learning more about the underlying emotional or spiritual root causes manifesting as your own physical or mental symptoms.

How to Live a Healthy & Illuminated Life Through Botanical Medicine & Its Spiritual Practices: An Overview of a Groundbreaking, Year-Long Immersive Herbalism Certification Program

Experience Deep Clearing EFT to Transmute Limiting Emotions & Align With Your True Presence

3 Keys to Unlock Your Powers of Mediumship: An Evidence-Based Path to Communicate With Your Spirit Guides & Loved Ones Beyond the Veil.  According to medium and author Suzanne Giesemann, the founder and teacher of The Awakened Way, anyone can learn to connect with the spirit world, because we all have the same “equipment” — a soul.

Discover Your Vagus Nerve as an Energetic Healing Pathway to Optimal Wellbeing: Experience a Simple, Potent Energy Medicine Exercise to Relieve Stress & Restore Your Mind, Body & Spirit: According to Melanie Smith, Doctor of Oriental Medicine and Energy Medicine Advanced Practitioner, you can rewrite the imprinted patterns that trauma and stress leave on your nervous system — as you reclaim your health and take back your personal power…

Conscious Breathwork to Break Through Resistance & Awaken Your Authentic, Luminous Self: On Saturday, December 4, world-renowned breathwork trainer Anthony Abbagnano will help you discover how conscious breathwork can help you get to the roots of stuck patterns — buried deep in your subconscious — and not only release their obstructive energies, but allow exciting new perspectives and possibilities to surface… as your deepest wisdom is revealed, integrated, and lived.

Demystifying the Herbal Formulas of Chinese, Ayurvedic & Western Plant Medicine for Enhanced Healing, Immunity & Resilience :October 30, David Crow, one of the world’s leading experts in botanical medicine and grassroots healthcare, will explore highly effective plant medicine formulas and how they serve different functions when they are consumed.  

3 Keys to Unlock Your Powers of Mediumship: An Evidence-Based Path to Communicate With Your Spirit Guides & Loved Ones Beyond the Veil. Suzanne will offer captivating insights and guide you in a process to help you open to your own innate gift

Supercharge Your Chakra Practice: How to Heal Your Energy Centers & Unleash the Full Power of Your Life Force.

For more information and to check out other upcoming courses and events go here. New programs are added frequently.

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PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE!

Thank you for reading.

Livia
www.natural-health-and-healing.com

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