The Causes of Alcohol Dependence (Addiction-It May Not Be What You Think!) By Dr. Mark Light of Chico Integrative Health A wide range of issues are related to alcohol dependence: binge drinking, disturbing changes in personality, drunken driving, liver failure, disease, and death. Some believe that drinking problems are the result of a character flaw… Read more »
A Pathway to an Addiction-Free Society By Elena Tonetti What does addiction have to do with birth? In one of the previous issues in this magazine, in my article “Limbic Imprint,” I’ve described the mechanism of the correlation between the way we were born and the quality of our emotional lives as adults. Limbic imprint… Read more »
By Dr. Patrick Giammarise, DC It’s no secret that as our ages change, our bodies also change. Some of these changes we can see on the outside as we age, such as changes to our hairlines, waistlines, and facial lines. Other changes occur on the inside that we can’t see, but we sure notice a… Read more »
By Jim “Redtail” Collins A woman in one of my workshops recently declared that the so-called “secret” law of attraction, particularly the notion that affirming your desires will cause them to manifest, is complete “rubbish.” “It hasn’t worked for me,” she complained. “I have been visualizing and repeating affirmations every day for months and nothing… Read more »
Adrian Baume, L.Ac., MSTCM What Is the Extracellular Matrix and What Is It Made of? Many of the initial discoveries and research into the extracellular matrix (we’ll abbreviate it as ECM) came from Alfred Pischinger and were published in his book, The Extracellular Matrix and Ground Regulation: Basis for a Holistic Biological Medicine. The extracellular… Read more »
Five Interactive Emotions By Michael Turk Several years ago my office manager slumped into work with red-rimmed eyes on a gray, rainy day and announced, “I just came from the vet. Snoopy’s been hit by a car and he’s critical.” She sobbed, “I can’t work, but I hate to leave you in the lurch. I’m… Read more »
Relieving Headaches and TMJ with Craniosacral Therapy By Anasuya Basil Twenty years ago I was standing at a busy intersection in San Francisco. The light turned green, I saw the “walk” icon, and I stepped off the curb. “Watch out!” someone yelled, just before the impact. My vision darkened and then slowly refocused on the… Read more »
NAET: A Different Way of Viewing Disease By Mark Light, MD NAET (Nambrudripad’s allergy elimination technique) was discovered by Dr. Devi S. Nambudripad in 1983. NAET is a noninvasive, drug-free, natural treatment for allergies of all types and intensities using a combination of techniques, including: energy balancing, acupuncture/acupressure, allopathy, chiropractic, nutritional, and kinesiology. The definition… Read more »
By Savannah Hanson, MA, MFT Every day we are given numerous opportunities to choose love or fear. For the most part, the general media hope you will choose fear. We are inundated with images of violence and chaos, not making it easy for us to trust that all is well and unfolding according to… Read more »
By Adrian Baume, L.Ac, MSTCM Our bodies normally have an immune system that’s strong enough to fight off all manner of bacterial and viral pathogens. Louis Pasteur called this the “terrain” of the body, and when functioning in its natural, optimal state, it is sufficient to either keep us in good health or… Read more »
