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The winds of spring blow quickly and storms may arrive with little notice. They can be blissfully cool on a hot afternoon or brutally snap trees or buildings as they spin across the plains. One thing is certain, spring offers change to us and through us. However, the big question for each of us is: […]

Have you ever dined at a restaurant and felt welcomed and nurtured? The food tasted heavenly, the ambiance, exquisite. How about the other experience—the fast food joint that shuffles you along like a piece of machinery on a conveyor belt. What differed? Which establishment had “heart?” Which was run by people “on the clock?” All […]

We struggle with it every day, remembering Aunt Ella’s birthday, when to pick up the kids from soccer practice, or even why you walked into the kitchen (what did I come in here for?). We’ve all been there, time and time again, struggling with memory. Often stress, anxiety, and preoccupation with powerful issues or problems […]

The longest night, the Winter Solstice, is behind us. The air is frosty cold; every creature that lives outdoors is hungry and needs to eat. They instinctively know it’s time to fuel up and the environment stimulates their metabolisms. We humans need to figure out a way to burn what we stored over the holidays! […]

Victoria Boutenko and her family were plagued with numerous health problems. In poor health his whole life, her husband Igor had progressive hyperthyroidism and chronic rheumatoid arthritis. Mainstream medicine had no answers for Igor. Victoria weighed 280 pounds and was constantly tired and depressed. Her daughter had asthma and allergies and her son had juvenile […]

Nearly 1 million men and women in the United States suffer from eating disorders, according to The National Institute of Mental Health. The two most common types of eating disorders are anorexia and bulimia. Anorexia is characterized by drastic weight loss to the point of extreme underweight. Victims will harvest a great fear of gaining […]

Ten million Americans over the age of 50 suffer from osteoporosis. In addition, 34 million are at a serious risk for developing this debilitating bone disease. The severe loss of bone mass and breakdown of the architecture of the bone, osteoporosis thins the bones to a point where a mere cough can cause a fracture. […]

By MaDonna J. Kettler, BA, MHt, LBLt Long, long ago during the time of Atlantis, people used sleep and dream chambers to practice altered states of consciousness. Not so long ago, the Egyptians regularly practiced similar techniques. Mankind has consistently experimented with different ways to induce trance states in order to achieve altered states of […]