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Kislev is a month filled with the light of Chanuka and miraculous rescue for the Jewish people. But Jews around the world are still weeping for the recent, tragic loss of life in India. I've struggled to work towards something worthwhile as my response to the horror. Here is an initial effort:
Not everyone survives a medical crisis. It is our moral human duty to behave compassionately with people facing the foreseeable ends of their lives. The American "Make a Wish" foundation is famous for helping younger people to fulfill lifelong dreams. Today's post publicizes the Israeli version, which lets terminally ill children make a wish in Arabic or Hebrew. Read all about it when you click on"Mishelet Lev."
It's MY Crisis! addresses terminal illness and resources for coping with it, as well as strategies for overcoming medical problems. Buy a copy of the book when you CLICK HERE.
May our lives be filled with life-sustaining blessings, abounding joy and enduring peace.
Yojeved Golani Coping with a Medical Crisis? Make the Changes You Need in Your Life
I've posted information on this issue before. The medical world has alerted us once again that teenagers, adults in training, need every ounce of compassion we owe to them. WHY? Because it is compassionate, decent, and necessary for humanity's wellbeing. Click on
If you'd like to consult with a competent mental health therapist, read the RESOURCES section of my book for relevant contact information worldwide.
CLICK HERE to buy your copy of It's My Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge TODAY! Read about how to find mental health professionals.
Ease a teen's heart and soul. Learn about the calming techniques described in my book, too. Use them.
To everyone's peace of mind,
Yojeved Golani Coping with a Medical Crisis? Make the Changes You Need in Your Life
Sunlight and ocean water, not eating dairy or wheat products for a while, and drinking more water can be very helpful for psoriasis. Now there's another psoriasis soother on the market.
The medical world abounds with advances in health care based simply on nature. Psoriasis sufferers will appreciate this news about a treatment with no known adverse effects - and it's more affordable than some harsher alternatives:
Indigo Extract Effective Treatment for Psoriasis
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Taiwanese investigators report that an ointment made from an extract of Indigo naturalis is effective in treatment-resistant plaque psoriasis -- and the treatment appears to be safe.
Indigo naturalis is a plant that is the source of a dark blue dye. The extract has been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of psoriasis, the researchers explain in the Archives of Dermatology.
Forty-two patients with recalcitrant plaque psoriasis applied indigo naturalis ointment or vehicle (sham ointment) topically to two symmetrical psoriatic plaque lesions on each side of the body for 12 weeks...
When you want to learn how to cope with the stress of psoriasis or any other medical challenge, read my book. It's filled with coping strategies, laugh out loud humor and a terrific Resources section! BUY YOUR COPY TODAY!
To your good health,
Yocheved Golani Coping with a Medical Crisis? Make the Changes You Need in Your Life
Only days ago I bemoaned the FDA's insistence that some levels of Melamine are "safe" for your bottle-fed baby. I lost count of how many Chinese infants recently died of the stuff. Do you care to remember? Me neither.
Just before that post mentioned above, I had praised organic foods full of vitamins, minerals, nutrition and LIFE. I often do.
You know how much I advocate for sound nutrition.
Bear with me as I sound an alarm as in ALARM. Read:
Folks, I suggest that you modify your lives in some way so that you can invest in organic foods and the time it takes to prepare them. Food shops are not the safest places for you or for the lives of your loved ones.
I wrote my book to explain how I survived a life-threatening though benign brain tumor. That HOW included a drastic change in sleeping, speaking, thinking and eating habits. My medical team includes brain surgeons, orthopedic specialists, neuroophthalmologists (eye doctors specializing in brain issues), general practitioners, physical plus occupational and speech therapists and a dentist, all of whom are SHOCKED at my unexpected recovery and ever-improving health. Each one of these medical specialists eventually recognized that my recently adopted nature-oriented lifestyle coincided with my vastly improving health. Now they admit that my natural living methods gave me back the life I'd been losing.
Want to fill this with happiness instead of grief?
My book and blog provide information about how to nourish yourselves properly. Neither my book or blog are exhaustive information sources but they're good starting points for learning about life-giving nutrition that's safer than the stuff on some store shelves.
I suggest you read my blog and my book. Yes, it's A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge.
Now you can make it into a book that PREVENTS horrifically painful tears.
In today's post I am fulfilling a promise to a dear friend. Here we go:
A significant part of my technique in coping with adversity is the nurturing of my sense of self. It is the key to anyone's ability to cope.
"I am."
Those are words I use to grasp the solution to any problem I face.
I am all the insights, experiences, victories and failures gained and experienced in my brief existence. Individually, they represent isolated segments of my reality. As a whole, they comprise my mindset, my worldview. This is true of you, too.
In my Self-Help Coaching practice, I emphasize that everyone needs (as in NEEDS) a conscious, accurate awareness of their core self. And everyone needs to groom their sense of self, to make it ever-better. Bumbling along with the rest of society, or with one's group of friends and acquaintances, perhaps with your relatives, is heart- and mind-numbing. The decision to NOT engage in critical thinking skills cannot advance growth in a human soul!
Conforming in order to be part of a group is fine and normal, to a degree. We call that "Cooperation." But to be in lock-step mimicry of what everyone around you is doing is to destroy your sense of "I." Nobody can keep up with the latest styles, be they food, fashion, physique or anything else. That is, they can't unless they seek to enslave themselves to fleeting whims.
Now, what if you are experiencing a health issue (medical or mental/emotional)?
Stuff most people don't understand?
As we face hardships that others do not experience, we learn life lessons about coping mechanisms that work. We learn about strategies that do not benefit us. We make future choices based on that.
Thinking and functioning on that level of awareness leads to spiritual and intellectual growth: the growing sense of "Hey, I can do this, that, the other. And I sure don't need to take the options that hurt me in the past." It allows us to behave with courage, generosity and compassion.
Such thinking makes you immune to superficial standards of "worth" based on appearances, wealth, fleeting standards of popular entertainment and value; the mental junk that wears you down. External tastes come and go. It is the integrity of the personality that stands the test of time.
Integrity enables you to help people in your personal world: friends, family, business associates. YOURSELF.
Jealousy, anger, frustration, confusion; they fall to the wayside. With enough practice of your ennobling personality traits, you begin to forget to think in a jealous, angry, frustrated or confused manner. You become permanently stable. You are not beholden to others for a sense of self-worth.
Your permanent sense of I-dentity leaves you peaceful, friendly, and adapative to challenges as they arise. It is a blessing. And the blessing grows with your personal practice of those uplifting characteristics. It lets you appreciate the One Above, too. That sense of appreciation becomes part of an empowering cycle.
Want more help to grasp the principles described above?
Ah, one more thought: When I do Self-Help Coaching, I ask my clients lots of questions. Those questions provoke introspection. That leads to insights and solutions: the answers my clients seek. I do this because I KNOW: your answers lie within you. I'm willing to help you to find them.
You Need to Believe in Yourself. After a Fall, You CAN Get up Again. Watch:
Folks, I cannot tell from here in Israel (especially in the wee hours of my local morning) how well the breaking news about dangerous baby formula is spreading in other parts of the world. So I'm providing a Public Service Announcement for you:
Melamine is one of the most effective cancer-causing chemicals on the planet.
My approach to cancer is this: prevent or HEAL cancer cells. "Killing" them is demonstrably damaging to the person on such "therapy."
I very much disagree with the FDA's advice to merely continue feeding this Melamine poison to your precious, defenseless child.
What on earth could you do to save his/her life when it turns out that the FDA made the same "We advise taking Thalidomide to prevent miscarriage" mistake? THAT error led to terribly disfiguring birth defects. Or the medical world's horrific error in advising parents to remove tonsils and adenoids to prevent sore throats? THAT blunder led to cases of Lupus Erythematosus, Cervical and other cancers!!!!
(The medical world has since realized that tonsils and adenoids are part of the human body's defense system)
Please! Thoroughly check the labels of your child's formula packaging (if it includes numbers of suspect formula, DUMP IT), and do consider other safety measures.
I know that not every woman can breast-feed. Do what you can to eliminate danger from your baby's diet.
URGENT UPDATE: One full day after I posted the above, this NEW INFORMATION became available.
To your good health and your baby's,
Yojeved Golani Coping with a Medical Crisis? Make the Changes You Need in Your Life
Restless Leg Syndrome is the expensive name for that problem you might have with kicking the other person in your bed or simply kicking off the covers when you don't even realize what's happening.
The good news is that RLS is NOT a reason for a divorce. It's a treatable problem. But if you take allergy medications, your spouse might wonder WHAT is going on in your head! Allergy meds might make you kick more often and harder as you sleep!
Doctors at Johns Hopkins University say that the connection between allergy medications and RLS "is that histamine receptors - proteins found on the surface of some cells that are triggered by histamine in the brain - work to modulate nerve responses. When activated, histamine receptors stimulate alertness or wakefulness."
So far, the solution is to minimize the allergens around you. Get rid of what causes your allergic symptoms. Then you can reduce your medication.
Guess what those JHU docs figured out about reducing arthritis pain?
GRAPE POWDER ALLEVIATES JOINT INFLAMMATION
The simple explanation: grapes have something that causes "antihyperalgesic effects... [in] joint inflammation." It's called flavonoids. They seem to have strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.
Yep, simple grape powder or grapes alone seem to be better at reducing pain than the nonsteroidal drug Meloxicam.
A combination of grape powder and painkiller meloxicam seems to lower pain even more and to reduce the knee swelling associated with inflammation.
"I think there are two important messages here," says Jasenka Borzan, Ph.D., a research associate in anesthesiology at Hopkins. "That consuming flavonoids through natural products like grapes can be beneficial to health in general and also specifically for reducing inflammatory pain; and that consuming natural products like grapes may also be beneficial in reducing the amount of medication necessary to reduce inflammation."
CURRY SPICE AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE?
Once again, those western-medicine oriented JHU professionals learned that another natural solution to a human problem exists in the kitchen cupboard: Curcumin, also called the curry spice turmeric, has strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. That prevents oxidative damage damage caused by oxygen and inflammation implicated in the nerve cell death associated with Parkinson's disease. JHU researchers have shown in a laboratory model of Parkinson's disease that curcumin protects cells from dying.
"These results suggest that curcumin is a potential candidate for inhibiting the oxidative damage that leads to Parkinson's disease," says Wanli Smith, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Hopkins. "This common curry spice could be a weapon to protect the brain."
OK, readers, my insistence on the healing and protective effects of an organic foods diet is being validated by medical professionals. Read my book. Learn how I adjusted my cake and candy-craving, burger wolfing appetite and greatly improved my health when you BUY YOUR COPYof It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To today!
It sure is A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge.
To your good health,
Yojeved Golani Coping with a Medical Crisis? Make the Changes You Need in Your Life
