If you suffer from this miserable allergy, start taking your homeopathic “Hill Country Cedar Fever remedy” now. If you don’t already have one in your home medicine cabinet, contact me so I can order it for you.

If you aren’t sure if what you experience is “Cedar Fever”, here are the symptoms:

• itchy nose
• dizzy
• sleepy
• runny nose
  
• itchy inside your mouth and hard palate
• itchy eyes
• runny eyes
• sneezing
• feel like you are hot as if a mild fever
• difficulty sleeping
• headache
• head feels “full” with pressure and congestion
• cough

You don’t have to experience every one of the symptoms on the list to have Cedar Fever. If you’ve lived in Austin less than 3 years, you may have never experienced it. It sometimes takes that long for allergic reactions to the pollen in the air to show up. Some people never have reactions, others do. The cleaner your diet and healthier you are, the less allergies you’ll have.

You can develop a tolerance over time and stop reacting so strongly to Cedar (Juniper, actually). However, some patients literally leave town during the Christmas Holiday time to get out of the pollen in the air because it makes them so miserable.

With the first sunny day, probably next week, the juniper trees will start “popping” and pollen will be in the air. Be prepared for it, start your homeopathic Hill Country Cedar Fever Remedy now, and add in Aller-DMG during the day and Whole System Histozyme at night time for relief. Contact me to stock up! 512-693-7052

This predisposition is called “epigenetics”, and Michael J. Fox described it well. The well-documented celebrity with early-onset Parkinsons’ disease described why he displayed the symptoms of the disease when others in his family had the gene marker but didn’t express any symptoms. He said “The gene was the gun pointing at my head; my lifestyle pulled the trigger”.

I’m helping people every day change their triggers by cleansing inside the cell walls, improving cell permeability, and removing toxins. These people have changed their lives forever. Call today and change yours!

The following is the article about the recent study:

Alter your genes by eating more fruits, veggies

This Almost Perfect Food Gobbles Up Your Body’s Toxins

Chlorella, a single-celled fresh-water algae, is one of the most heavily researched algae in the world. It’s often referred to as a near-perfect food as research through the years have identified an astounding range of health benefits. While being well known for its ability to detoxify your body by binding to toxins and carrying them out of your system, that’s certainly not all it’s good for.

Chlorella’s Impressive Range of Health Benefits

As you will see, chlorella seems to fit the description of a “wonder nutrient” that serves far more than just one function. Here’s a sampling of some of the health benefits associated with this green algae:

Chlorella can also be of benefit to vegetarians and vegans looking for proteins and B vitamins from a non-animal source. About 60 percent of it is protein, and because it contains all the essential amino acids your body needs, it’s considered to be a “complete protein.”

Chlorella is also rich in:

• GABA
• Folate
• Vitamin B12
• Iron

Six Health Conditions Chlorella May Help Prevent or Treat

As mentioned earlier, chlorella has and still is being researched for a number of health conditions. Here’s a list of six common health problems and diseases where chlorella may be of particular benefit:

• Insulin resistance—Earlier this year, researchers discovered that chlorella has the ability to improve fructose-induced insulin sensitivity. As I’ve discussed on numerous occasions, excessive sugar consumption is the number one cause of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. In this animal study, after being fed fructose-rich chow for four weeks, the rats were then given chlorella three times a day for five days, which brought their elevated glucose-insulin values back to normal.The authors concluded that: “Oral administration of chlorella has the ability to improve insulin sensitivity, which may be used as an adjuvant therapy for patients with insulin resistance.”
• Detoxification. Is particularly helpful when used in conjunction with an infrared sauna and taken two hours before you go in the sauna. This way the chlorella will be in your intestine and read to bind to the toxins that are released when you are in the sauna. It will bind irreversibly to the toxins and be safely excreted when you have your bowel movement.
• Diabetes—Additional evidence supporting the theory that chlorella can improve insulin sensitivity can be found in an earlier study. Here, the algae was found to improve insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake in the liver in type 1 diabetic rats. The authors suggest chlorella’s hypoglycemic effects may be due to improved glucose uptake in the liver and the soleus muscles. Another mechanism may be related to decreased levels of nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA), since insulin sensitivity is usually blunted by elevated NEFA in type 1 diabetes.
• Hypertension—The results from a placebo-controlled, double-blind study published two years ago suggest that chlorella can significantly decrease high-normal blood pressure and borderline hypertension. The authors proposed that it may be a beneficial dietary supplement for preventing hypertension, with no apparent adverse side effects.
• Anemia, proteinuria and edema in pregnant women—Pregnancy-induced hypertension and anemia are common, and potentially dangerous. One of the primary causes for these conditions is the woman’s nutritional status. A study published last year found that chlorella may help improve both of these conditions in pregnant women, likely due to its high folate, B12 and iron content.Subjects took six grams of chlorella per day, starting somewhere between the 12th to the 18th week of gestation, until delivery. The chlorella group had significantly lower rates of anemia compared to the control group. They also had fewer incidences of proteinuria and edema; two symptoms associated with pregnancy-induced hypertension. Here too, the authors concluded that: “Chlorella supplement may be useful as a resource of natural folate, vitamin B-12 and iron for pregnant women.”
• Fibromyalgia—Although the individual results were varied, it may be worth considering chlorella if you suffer with fibromyalgia. A study published in 2000 tested the effectiveness of two commercially available chlorella-based products on patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and the overall results showed a 22 percent decrease in pain intensity. However, while seven patients reported improvement in their fibromyalgia symptoms, six reported no effect at all, and five claimed their symptoms had worsened during the trial… So keep that in mind if you decide to try it. While it may help some, it might not work at all for others.
• Liver cancer—A study published in 2009 discovered that chlorella triggers cell death (apoptosis) in rat liver cancer cells, which suggests it may be useful in the prevention of liver cancer. The authors concluded that: “Our study shows that chlorella has definite chemopreventive effect by inducing apoptosis via decreasing the expression of Bcl-2 and increasing the expression of caspase 8 in hepatocarcinogenesis-induced rats.”

Chlorella—A Potent Detox Agent

Heavy metal toxicity, just like chemical toxicity, has become one of the most pressing health hazards of our day, and this is where chlorella may be profoundly useful. Its ability to bind to heavy metal toxins, allowing them to be safely excreted from your body, has been well established. It’s particularly crucial for systemic mercury elimination, because the majority of mercury is rid through your stool. Once the mercury burden is lowered from your intestines, mercury from other body tissues will more readily migrate into your intestines where chlorella will work to remove it.

Be aware that side effects may occur. As your body starts to detox, you may initially experience some slight nausea, and/or mild diarrhea. If these symptoms are too bothersome, you may want to lower your dose initially, and slowly increase the dose. As your body is cleansed of toxins, these side effects should disappear.

The Crucial Detail that Determines Chlorella’s Effectiveness

The key to chlorella’s detoxing abilities lies within its membrane, but the fibrous cell wall of chlorella is actually indigestible to humans. This is why most chlorella products use the term “broken cell wall,” to describe the fact that the chlorella has been rendered digestible.

If a product does not specifically tell you that the cell wall has been broken, you are likely flushing your money down the toilet as the chlorella will simply pass right through you without doing you any good.

How to Verify the Quality of a Chlorella Product

While there are a number of proprietary methods to break the cell wall, the key comparison you need to pay attention to is the nutritional profile of the end product. In addition to making sure it’s “broken cell wall” chlorella, this is the other factor that will help you evaluate the quality of any given product. Keep in mind that, according to the legal requirements, a natural product may contain plus or minus 20 percent of the stated level of any nutritional component.

Those of you that have known me for some time know that quality products is a primary concern. I only work with companies that use Good Manufacturing Practices, and then take that several steps further.
All of the professional companies that I use:

test every batch of raw ingredients for purity, potency, heavy metals and other toxins NOT just random samples

Have extremely clean manufacturing environments (some of which I have visited).

Continue research for modern health conditions and create new products as solutions

Provide exemplary technical support for the pracitioners (me) to help resolve tough cases

Recent changes to the Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) guidelines and the labeling requirements now make it much easier for you to investigate and verify company claims, because companies are now required to list their contact information on every label. They must also maintain a paper trail showing where the material came from and any testing that has been done.

Key questions to ask when calling a company directly include:

• How often do you test batches for nutritional consistency?
• Ask for a specification sheet (‘spec sheet’), or the Certificate of Analysis, known as the ‘C of A’. These are documents that itemize every single test that the final product gets tested for.
• How and where is the chlorella grown? Variations in climate and season can cause nutritional variations, but if the chlorella is grown in artificial ponds the producer has greater control over consistency. You’ll also want to make sure the chlorella is grown in unpolluted areas, since chlorella binds to heavy metals.
• Does the producer test for heavy metal contamination? A high quality producer will perform regular heavy metal analysis’, for which there should also be a verifiable paper trail. And organic producers must adhere to even more stringent rules in order to become certified organic, which is another sign of a clean, high quality product.

I’ve been teaching Wednesday night classes for for several weeks here at my clinic. The topics sound dry: oxidation, methylation, insulin resistance, leptin resistance, and hormonal imbalance. The Truth is that it is everything BUT dry–the classes are fun, as the reality of the healthcare industry in our country really sinks in to those in attendance.

As a chiropractor, nutritionist and acupuncturist, I’ve always resisted the chemical route and preferred natural healing as much as possible. What I know now is that unhealthy substances insidiously crept in since birth, despite my efforts to avoid it.

I’ve been looking at my own recent weight gain in a new way, and discovering my own internal conversations that I didn’t realize were so strongly engrained in my subconscious. While I intellectually knew that I was doing some “emotional stress eating” patterns, and at the same time hit menopause, I was also surprised that I put on 40 pounds. I wasn’t eating THAT badly! And according to saliva and blood tests and how I felt, my female hormones were in balance.

My conversation goes something like this:

• As a doctor, I know how to eat right. Why can’t I just do that?
• I just didn’t have the right modelling as a child, my entire extended family is obese on both sides.
• I’ll never be thin like other women.
• I just can’t control my eating habits.
• I’ll never be able to do this for a lifetime and keep the weight off, so why bother?
• I feel ok, so why should I lose weight?
• I eat too much, I’m embarrassed about it.
• How can I have respect as a Doctor if I’m overweight?
• and on and on–you get the idea–lots of “fault” statements, with me holding the short end of the stick

Had practitioners known then what I know now, I could have changed the course of my current health/weight issues back in my twenties.There are now markers that show up early in lab tests that can be read correctly by a well-trained doctor to indicate early signs of cellular inflammation.

Cellular inflammation, otherwise known as oxidation, sets the stage for estrogen dominance, insulin resistance, leptin resistance, weight gain despite your efforts, and other chronic mitochondrial conditions.

If I had the bloodwork back then, I would have seen my

• Thyroid Hormone (TSH) already over 1.0 – indicating a slowly-creeping problem with my thyroid.
• Estradiol numbers would have been in the normal range, but had anyone known to test Progesterone, it would shown an imbalanced ratio
• Vitamin D levels were probably on the low end of normal, despite my hours and hours of being in the sun every weekend
• Insulin would have been normal, but had it been tested over a period of time, would have slowly increased with each year
• Leptin hormone numbers would have been high end of normal, or possibly too high already

All of these lab numbers would have been determined to be “within normal limits”, which is medical terminology that indicates that there is nothing wrong. The doctor at that time would have told me there’s nothing to worry about other than “eat right and exercise more” and take off a few pounds. You can’t blame him/her, s/he didn’t have the right education and training either.

But all of those numbers are signs of a rising increase in inflammation INSIDE the cell, making the membrane of the cell harder to penetrate. Molecules of nutrition and healthy hormones in my body could no longer pass effortlessly through the cell wall, and thus couldn’t be used by the body. Cell DNA, not having everything it needed for optimum health, then modified itself, and made a new cell not quite as good as the original.

While my genetics play a role in my health and body weight, they only were stimulated to express themselves by the American lifestyle and available foods. Think about what that might mean for you, and stay tuned to upcoming posts for the chapter in the story: How I got to where I am now, trying to take off the extra weight that caught me by surprise.

What you are learning at my evening classes about oxidation and cellular resistance should help you understand why food quality is so important to weight loss. Food additives, pesticides, genetic modifications and growth hormones all create inflammation in the individual cells, making the cell membrane sticky and thick and hard for nutrition to pass through.

Remember to join us on Wednesday evenings at 6:00 for fun, learning, and lifestyle changes for losing weight and gaining health!

A study has found that the best way to lose weight is to concentrate on the quality of food that we eat and not on the amount .

What you eat is said to have a greater impact on weight gain than other lifestyle factors such as exercise, a TV couch-potato existence or the amount of sleep you get each night.

Experts at Harvard School of Public Health in America revealed that small lifestyle changes can make all the difference to staying in shape rather than becoming overweight or obese.

But they said focusing on calories alone would not keep you slim.Instead, the best way to stay a healthy weight is eat nutritious and filling foods of good quality, especially when it comes to carbohydrates.

“An average adult gains about 1lb per year. Because the weight gain is so gradual and occurs over many years, it has been difficult for scientists and for individuals themselves to understand the specific factors that may be responsible,” the Daily Express quoted study co-author Dr Dariush Mozaffaria as saying.

“Small dietary and other lifestyle changes can together make a big difference – for bad or good. This makes it easy to gain weight unintentionally, but also demonstrates the tremendous opportunity for prevention.

A handful of the right lifestyle changes will go a long way,” Mozaffaria said.

The findings have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

What was happening? At the time, the researchers didn’t have solutions. We all knew cellular levels of inflammation were rising, cell membranes were getting tougher (not a good thing), and everyone was in a high state of oxidative stress, but what to do about it?

Oxidation and the NO/ONOO Cycle:

The root cause of most diseases

The best way to describe this is to think of the diseases that MD’s refer to as the ones with “no known cause, no known cure”. Syndromes such as

• Stubborn Weight Gain
• Fibromyalgia
• Chronic Fatigue
• Many hormonal problems
• Perimenopause
• Hypothyroidism
• Lupus
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• High Blood Pressure

–are a collection of symptoms rather than a disease from a pathogen like bacteria or a virus. New studies show that all are ultimately the result of Cellular Inflammation that is chronically out of control.

Fortunately, several pioneering research scientists took note of the problem, and began working on a solution. The culmination of that is some new products that I am VERY excited about. I believe that I finally have access to solutions that resolve the toughest health issues.

June 15, Wednesday evening at 6:00, I am talking extensively about this topic at my clinic on Bee Caves Road in Austin. You’ll learn:

• What is the NO/ONOO (Nitric Oxide/Peroxynitrite) Cycle and what does it mean to you and your children?

• Why the NO/ONOO cycle causes disease

• What causes the NO/ONOO cycle in your body?

• What can you do to fix it and correct your health?

• How can you easily and affordably test for oxidation levels in your body to measure your progress?

  
  

Everyone who attends will have the opportunity to personally test your own levels of oxidation!

And then stick around after the technical part of the lecture, as we discuss resistant Weight Loss and begin the journey to Gaining Health through the 5 S’s:

Simple, Small, Slow, Sane, and Shameless steps to losing weight

Read more about the summer classes here.

What I’ve always known to be Truth is that the human body can’t be reduced to microcosmic portions of nutrients such as a singular Vitamin D test or that sections of organs in isolation from the rest of the body are never the culprit alone – like high blood pressure, and that people that treat the body without looking at the bigger picture are missing the point and occasionally causing harm.

Those of you who have been my patients for years know that I don’t often jump on the bandwagon quickly of the latest “cure-all” herb or supplement to hit the market. I’ve learned to look at the natural health market in the same way as I do the drug market; with an open mind and experienced skepticism.

Imagine my delight when this article appeared in Newsweek’s online site today, detailing the fallacies of the drug education and usage in the US. Most importantly, the author spent years working at the National Institute of Health, and discovered the following while he was there:

“Positive” drug trials, which find that a treatment is effective, and “negative” trials, in which a drug fails, take the same amount of time to conduct. “But negative trials took an extra two to four years to be published,” he noticed. “Negative results sit in a file drawer, or the trial keeps going in hopes the results turn positive.” With billions of dollars on the line, companies are loath to declare a new drug ineffective. As a result of the lag in publishing negative studies, patients receive a treatment that is actually ineffective.

This astonishing statement is borne out in so many studies that I can recall off the top of my head (just think how many more there are, given that the top of my head doesn’t usually remember much):  remember when eating shrimp and eggs was bad for us because they contained cholesterol? No, wait, it isn’t from shrimp and eggs, it’s from fat. No, not really, it’s from trans fat and sugar. Well, maybe it is, but cholesterol generates most of our hormones, so isn’t it probably related to the synthetic hormones in our foods replacing our natural hormones, which then backs up the system so that cholesterol can no longer be converted into the hormones that it should be? What else can it do but wander around in the blood?

The article in its entirety is located here: http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/23/why-almost-everything-you-hear-about-medicine-is-wrong.html#

Just in case that link gets lost or taken down, I’ve reprinted the article below. Please take five minutes to read it! It will change your entire perspective about pharmaceutical research and the allopathic (traditional medicine) approach to health and healing (or harming).

Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong

If you follow the news about health research, you risk whiplash. First garlic lowers bad cholesterol, then—after more study—it doesn’t. Hormone replacement reduces the risk of heart disease in postmenopausal women, until a huge study finds that it doesn’t (and that it raises the risk of breast cancer to boot). Eating a big breakfast cuts your total daily calories, or not—as a study released last week finds. Yet even if biomedical research can be a fickle guide, we rely on it.

But what if wrong answers aren’t the exception but the rule? More and more scholars who scrutinize health research are now making that claim. It isn’t just an individual study here and there that’s flawed, they charge. Instead, the very framework of medical investigation may be off-kilter, leading time and again to findings that are at best unproved and at worst dangerously wrong. The result is a system that leads patients and physicians astray—spurring often costly regimens that won’t help and may even harm you.

It’s a disturbing view, with huge implications for doctors, policymakers, and health-conscious consumers. And one of its foremost advocates, Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis, has just ascended to a new, prominent platform after years of crusading against the baseless health and medical claims. As the new chief of Stanford University’s Prevention Research Center, Ioannidis is cementing his role as one of medicine’s top mythbusters. “People are being hurt and even dying” because of false medical claims, he says: not quackery, but errors in medical research.

This is Ioannidis’s moment. As medical costs hamper the economy and impede deficit-reduction efforts, policymakers and businesses are desperate to cut them without sacrificing sick people. One no-brainer solution is to use and pay for only treatments that work. But if Ioannidis is right, most biomedical studies are wrong.

In just the last two months, two pillars of preventive medicine fell. A major study concluded there’s no good evidence that statins (drugs like Lipitor and Crestor) help people with no history of heart disease. The study, by the Cochrane Collaboration, a global consortium of biomedical experts, was based on an evaluation of 14 individual trials with 34,272 patients. Cost of statins: more than $20 billion per year, of which half may be unnecessary. (Pfizer, which makes Lipitor, responds in part that “managing cardiovascular disease risk factors is complicated”). In November a panel of the Institute of Medicine concluded that having a blood test for vitamin D is pointless: almost everyone has enough D for bone health (20 nanograms per milliliter) without taking supplements or calcium pills. Cost of vitamin D: $425 million per year.

Ioannidis, 45, didn’t set out to slay medical myths. A child prodigy (he was calculating decimals at age 3 and wrote a book of poetry at 8), he graduated first in his class from the University of Athens Medical School, did a residency at Harvard, oversaw AIDS clinical trials at the National Institutes of Health in the mid-1990s, and chaired the department of epidemiology at Greece’s University of Ioannina School of Medicine. But at NIH Ioannidis had an epiphany. “Positive” drug trials, which find that a treatment is effective, and “negative” trials, in which a drug fails, take the same amount of time to conduct. “But negative trials took an extra two to four years to be published,” he noticed. “Negative results sit in a file drawer, or the trial keeps going in hopes the results turn positive.” With billions of dollars on the line, companies are loath to declare a new drug ineffective. As a result of the lag in publishing negative studies, patients receive a treatment that is actually ineffective. That made Ioannidis wonder, how many biomedical studies are wrong?

His answer, in a 2005 paper: “the majority.” From clinical trials of new drugs to cutting-edge genetics, biomedical research is riddled with incorrect findings, he argued. Ioannidis deployed an abstruse mathematical argument to prove this, which some critics have questioned. “I do agree that many claims are far more tenuous than is generally appreciated, but to ‘prove’ that most are false, in all areas of medicine, one needs a different statistical model and more empirical evidence than Ioannidis uses,” says biostatistician Steven Goodman of Johns Hopkins, who worries that the most-research-is-wrong claim “could promote an unhealthy skepticism about medical research, which is being used to fuel anti-science fervor.”

Even a cursory glance at medical journals shows that once heralded studies keep falling by the wayside. Two 1993 studies concluded that vitamin E prevents cardiovascular disease; that claim was overturned by more rigorous experiments, in 1996 and 2000. A 1996 study concluding that estrogen therapy reduces older women’s risk of Alzheimer’s was overturned in 2004. Numerous studies concluding that popular antidepressants work by altering brain chemistry have now been contradicted (the drugs help with mild and moderate depression, when they work at all, through a placebo effect), as has research claiming that early cancer detection (through, say, PSA tests) invariably saves lives. The list goes on.

Despite the explosive nature of his charges, Ioannidis has collaborated with some 1,500 other scientists, and Stanford, epitome of the establishment, hired him in August to run the preventive-medicine center. “The core of medicine is getting evidence that guides decision making for patients and doctors,” says Ralph Horwitz, chairman of the department of medicine at Stanford. “John has been the foremost innovative thinker about biomedical evidence, so he was a natural for us.”

Ioannidis’s first targets were shoddy statistics used in early genome studies. Scientists would test one or a few genes at a time for links to virtually every disease they could think of. That just about ensured they would get “hits” by chance alone. When he began marching through the genetics literature, it was like Sherman laying waste to Georgia: most of these candidate genes could not be verified. The claim that variants of the vitamin D–receptor gene explain three quarters of the risk of osteoporosis? Wrong, he and colleagues proved in 2006: the variants have no effect on osteoporosis. That scores of genes identified by the National Human Genome Research Institute can be used to predict cardiovascular disease? No (2009). That six gene variants raise the risk of Parkinson’s disease? No (2010). Yet claims that gene X raises the risk of disease Y contaminate the scientific literature, affecting personal health decisions and sustaining the personal genome-testing industry.

Statistical flukes also plague epidemiology, in which researchers look for links between health and the environment, including how people behave and what they eat. A study might ask whether coffee raises the risk of joint pain, or headaches, or gallbladder disease, or hundreds of other ills. “When you do thousands of tests, statistics says you’ll have some false winners,” says Ioannidis. Drug companies make a mint on such dicey statistics. By testing an approved drug for other uses, they get hits by chance, “and doctors use that as the basis to prescribe the drug for this new use. I think that’s wrong.” Even when a claim is disproved, it hangs around like a deadbeat renter you can’t evict. Years after the claim that vitamin E prevents heart disease had been overturned, half the scientific papers mentioning it cast it as true, Ioannidis found in 2007.

The situation isn’t hopeless. Geneticists have mostly mended their ways, tightening statistical criteria, but other fields still need to clean house, Ioannidis says. Surgical practices, for instance, have not been tested to nearly the extent that medications have. “I wouldn’t be surprised if a large proportion of surgical practice is based on thin air, and [claims for effectiveness] would evaporate if we studied them closely,” Ioannidis says. That would also save billions of dollars. George Lundberg, former editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association, estimates that strictly applying criteria like Ioannidis pushes would save $700 billion to $1 trillion a year in U.S. health-care spending.

Of course, not all conventional health wisdom is wrong. Smoking kills, being morbidly obese or severely underweight makes you more likely to die before your time, processed meat raises the risk of some cancers, and controlling blood pressure reduces the risk of stroke. The upshot for consumers: medical wisdom that has stood the test of time—and large, randomized, controlled trials—is more likely to be right than the latest news flash about a single food or drug.

You already make choices daily.

You choose your foods,

You choose your clothes,

You choose whether or not to get out of bed…and much more.

Are you aware that you also CHOOSE your life’s path? (Even if you feel like your life is out of control.)

Are you aware that you have made a choice to have whatever symptoms you currently experience? Don’t stop reading yet! This maddening statement is explained below.

Your “Come From”

Your inner conversations – those thoughts that you say to yourself subconsciously all day long – are the belief systems that make up your “come from”. Your “come from” is the paradigm from which your thoughts spring forth. It is the basic belief system that underlies all of your actions and reactions. It’s the mental conversation you have around every thought you think and every word you speak, whether you are aware of it or not.

Every action we take and every thought we think has a “come from,” an initial viewpoint of life, through which everything we think and do has to filter. It’s the point where your thoughts begin. In the Lotus  flower analogy, it’s the mud and muck that nourish the flower.

A common debilitating “come-from” goes something like this: “My health is out of my control.” or   “If I can just feel better, then I can have my life back.” Whatever inner belief is yours, then every thought you think will be colored by that belief. It will continue to give rise to more thoughts at that same level and vibration. This is the embodiment of the saying, “Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.”

Our daily choices always have an inner “come from” that guides the chooser. Changing our “come from” isn’t always possible; our “come from” is often the primary lesson we came here to use for our spiritual growth, to fuel us, and to carry with us throughout a lifetime.

What can change is your response to the belief system, and the actions we take and choices we make from it. Instead of using your belief system as a way to hold yourself back, your actions can alternatively show that you are using it as rocket fuel, as a way to make your life better.

Consider these options on a daily basis:

Choice no.1:

Choose to stop battling your symptoms.

That statement brings up a lot of turmoil inside, doesn’t it? Do you immediately think that I “wouldn’t say that if I were in your shoes?:

Do you feel mad at me right now for not understanding how difficult your situation is? Are you considering not reading the rest of this post because I’m “full of it”?

The very idea of a battle is that there ultimately should be a winner and a loser. You experience out-of-balance symptoms because of your inner “come from”, and that part of your psyche will never lose a battle. It’s a war that can never have a winner.

So what else can you do?

Choice no. 2:

Choose to embrace your symptoms with gratitude.

Easier said than done, yes? It is a given, though, that you will continue to have severe symptoms as long as you fight the experience. Your current discomfort is your rocket fuel; you are having a unique life experience exactly BECAUSE you have symptoms, not in spite of it. Your body is now expressing things to you that you’ve never felt before. Listen to it. Learn from it. Use the information to grow. You wouldn’t be who you are now without these signs.

Has the pain forced you to slow down a little or a lot? Life is much different at a slower pace. You have more opportunities to feel your feelings. Perhaps your pain is your body’s expression of resistance to feeling some of those feelings?

Releasing unrealistic expectations will immediately give you more energy. But you have to truly release them. If at first you don’t succeed, try it again. And again. Until you feel the lightness that results from mixing up the right ingredients.

Choice no. 3:

Choose a different viewpoint.

You are “experiencing the symptoms” of insert-disease-name-here, you don’t “have” that disease, whatever it is.

You are not this disease.

If you feel depressed, have you ever felt like you must get out of your depression? Do you walk around saying “I am depressed” to friends? If so, Stop it! “I AM” statements are very powerful to the mind; they feed that inner “come from” in a positive or negative manner. The truth – the reality – is that perhaps you experienced a few moments of depression sometime during the day. Because of those few moments, you convince yourself that you are depressed.

As long as you are struggling to get out of your depression, you will stay depressed. The feelings of depression were given to you from Spirit as an experience to have in  your soul’s journey; the longer you resist the experience, the longer it will be available to you every moment. That which we resist, persists.

Once you embrace depression, once you actually feel the depression without judgment, then you move through it quickly to the other side, gracefully and with ease. You are not depressed – you are experiencing feelings of depression. So experience them – don’t fight them.

The same with your pain – embrace it. Stop fighting it. It was given to you as a way to learn about yourself in a deep way. Experience the results of slowing down and feel grateful for the experiences you have that you wouldn’t have had otherwise. Are you being forced to ask for help? Are you learning to identify yourself as Soul, rather than from your “doing-ness”?

The severity of your levels of symptoms reflect the level of your lesson. If you are so strong-willed in your determination to keep your life the way it was, the greater your symptoms will be to get your attention.

Choice no 4:

Take responsibility for the choices you’ve made thus far and choose to see it from another viewpoint.

Your symptoms didn’t just happen to you because Spirit/God  has decided to pick on you (though it can certainly feel that way, right?). On a deeper level, your belief system about controlling others in your world, about working hard to achieve perfection, about flexible viewpoints, and about letting go and surrendering your life to something bigger than yourself is where the responsibility lies. Look at the choices you made, and still make, daily. Where do they spring from?

You might already be examining your personal belief system, and still not feeling any results. Consider that you currently may have more faith in the inherent belief patterns keeping you from healing than you do in the belief that you can heal. This again is part of the process, one of the stages along the healing path. If you see it as a timeline, in the beginning stages, you didn’t even know about belief systems. The timeline itself is infinite, but it has stages of growth along the way, one of which is having slightly more belief in the old thought process than a new one.

As you continue to grow, that balance shifts, and the old beliefs beginning to lose power and give way to the new belief system. It doesn’t happen overnight, and don’t think you are a failure when it doesn’t. These lives of ours take time to explore.

Choice no 5:

Choose to “let go and let God”.

In whatever form this means to you, let go. Whether your term is Spirit/God/Yahweh/Jesus/Allah/Jehovah/Universe/Higher Power/Goddess/Great Spirit/Higher Self/whatever, hand over your problems and thoughts daily. Hourly, daily, minute by minute. We humans have the tendency to hand over a problem to a Higher Power, then take it back. Again and again. So remember to keep handing it over, again and again. In this way, we surrender to the Higher Will rather than our own Personal Will.

Changes happen in our life because we ALLOW them, not because we MAKE them. Surrendering our lives to something greater than the small human minds that we possess is the greatest level of healing that can occur.

Tonight, make a choice that when you wake up tomorrow morning, you’ll be aware of your internal choices. That’s all. Just start to be aware.

And y’all, remember. You’ll have to remake these choices every day for a while. You ARE human, after all, and we have to reprogram old habits. So no beating yourself up if you have to choose something again and again and again. Just keeping making that choice, with awareness. And I’m right there with you – I have to make the same choices every day. A little knowledge helps, but it’s the doing of it that makes the difference.

Many blessings,

Dr. Robin Mayfield

Myth 1: I didn’t choose this.

Myth 2. When I am healed, I won’t have these symptoms.

Myth 3. I will reach a place where I am healed and then can stop working on my health.

Pain is always sandwiched by Pleasure, and Pleasure is always sandwiched by Pain.

As your physical body accommodates your soul’s growth, your body will express itself in the form of often uncomfortable symptoms.

No matter what your health used to be, your current state of health is the continual expression of your life’s journey in consciousness.

Remind yourself that you are a Spiritual Being experiencing a Physical Life, not the other way around.