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Oct
15
Laughter as Powerful Medicine for Healing
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Physical Healing, Spiritual Healing
Dr. Lee Berk, a preventive care specialist and psychoneuroimmunologist, of Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, paired with Stanley Tan, MD, PhD an endocrinologist and diabetes specialist at Oak Crest Health Research Institute, Loma Linda, CA. These doctors and their colleagues examined the effect of “mirthful laughter†on individuals with diabetes. 
Diabetes is a metabolic illness characterized by the risk of blindness, heart attack, and other blood vessel, neurological, immune-system complications. These researchers used mirthful laughter, as a preventive adjunct therapy in diabetes care. They found that mirthful laughter raised good cholesterol and lowered inflammation.
The Study
Twenty high-risk diabetic patients with hypertension and hyperlipidemia were divided into two groups — Group C was the control group; while Group L was the laughter group. Both groups were started on standard medications for diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. Groups were followed for 12 months. Both Groups received standard therapies. In addition, Group L viewed self-selected humor for 30 Read more
Sep
12
Laughter: Healing Power of Laughter
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Physical Healing, Spiritual Healing
Almost thirty-three years has passed since the time that Norman Cousins popularized his findings on the healing which can be effected by laughter. Since that time , solid research has been performed that 
demonstrates just how laughter triggers healthy physical changes in the body.
Dr. Lee S. Berk is a psychoneuroimmunology researcher and preventive care specialist at Loma Linda University’s Schools of Allied Health (SAHP) and Medicine and the director of the molecular research lab at SAHP, Loma Linda, CA. He has conducted research with Dr. Stanley Tan since the 1980s. Together, they have studied the human body’s response to a positive-stress reaction, which they termed “mirthful laughter”.
Dr. Berk, Dr. Tan and their colleagues experimented with repetitious “mirthful laughter,” which they call Laughercise©. The studies of conducted by these researchers have shown that repetitious “mirthful laughtermcauses the body to respond in a way similar to moderate physical exercise. Laughercise© Read more
Aug
8
Laughter for Healing
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Physical Healing, Spiritual Healing
The late Norman Cousins — in his book, “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient : Reflections on Healing (1979)” — describes his experiences with the healing effects of laughter. Cousins’s results were 
derived from his personal, informal experimentation. Since the time that Cousins popularized his findings, solid research has been performed that demonstrates just how laughter triggers healthy physical changes in the body.
Dr. Lee S. Berk is a psychoneuroimmunology researcher and preventive care specialist at Loma Linda University’s Schools of Allied Health (SAHP) and Medicine, and director of the molecular research lab at SAHP, Loma Linda, CA. He has performed research with Dr. Stanley Tan since the 1980s. Together, they have studied the human body’s response to a positive-stress reaction, which they termed “mirthful laughter”.
In their research, Dr. Berk and Dr. Tan found that laughter aids in optimizing many of the functions of various body systems. Berk and his colleagues were the first to determine that laughter helps Read more
Jul
22
Grief: The Healing Process of Grief
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Spiritual Healing
With so much news pouring out about the tragic, shocking events that occurred at the Aurora, CO, 
movie theater in the night of July 2012, I would like to dedicate this post to those around the world who are dealing with the devastating effects of Grief. Grief is an emotion that is distressed, filled with pain and loss and bereavement.
You do not have to be directly injured by an event to feel Grief. Grief can affect us even when we are not directly impacted by the actual event. Unresolved Grief can be activated by hearing of distressing events that have occurred to others. When such Grief arises, it can have all of the intensity and pain as did the originating event. At the same time, it can give us the opportunity to gain further closure and resolution on the originating event that is being grieved. It can allow us to release that which — up until that time — may have remained unresolved.
Grief may be triggered by the death of a loved one or the end of a serious relationship. It can be a response to learning that you have an acute, chronic illness — an illness that might significantly impact your quality of life.
Each person experiences Grief in a way that is unique to him/her. At the same time, there are specific stages experienced — in some form, at some time — by those who are dealing with Grief. In their ideal manifestation, these stages lead up to the ultimate experience of acceptance.
One way to describe the Grief cycle is that made popular by expert psychiatrist and researcher Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in her book On Death and Dying (1969). Dr. Kübler-Ross described a cycle of five stages. These reactions might Read more
Jun
20
Today I want to share with you some of the healing Beauty of Nature with which the Universe Abounds!
I ask you to take a few moments to just en-joy the following …
Better yet …
Allow yourself to breathe deeply and slowly …
and Relax. Allow that experience of relaxing to go all the way into the very center and core of your being. That’s right … allow the Healing Energies of Nature to surround you … and fill you up!
Now, imagine yourself here:
* Do you notice the quiet? Allow it to heal you.
* Do you feel the impending dawn? Allow it to heal you.
* Can you imagine the waves lapping the shore? Allow them to heal you.
* Does the darkness tell you its secrets?
Listen …
You can hear it … when you listen right now …Â Allow the energy of Nature to heal you!
Allow yourself to breathe … even more deeply and slowly …
and Relax even more. Allow that experience of relaxing to go all the way into the very center and core of your being. That’s right … allow the Healing Energies of Nature to surround you … and fill you up!
Now, imagine yourself here:
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May
24
Sexuality: Healthy Sexuality & Diabetes
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing, Physical Healing
Apr
10
Current research in Brain Science has brought about innovative thinking about the interaction of the brain and the mind. Old neuroscience ideas about how the brain works and how the brain-mind complex interacts has been absolutely blasted out of the water!
It used to be believed that the brain was rigid. It used to be believed that the brain had certain key developmental-times for learning … and, after those developmentally prime times were completed, learning was not going to occur.
With massive neuroscience research having been amassed over the past 10+ years, these beliefs have been overturned. It has now been proven irrefutably that the brain is flexible. It has now been proven without a doubt that the brain is capable of continued learning … throughout the span of one’s lifetime! It has now been shown — visibly, through advanced neuroscience imaging techniques — that the brain changes structure and function as we learn!
This is amazing!
It paves the way for the concepts of neuroplasticity and neurogenesis. It provides hope for the creation of alternative pathways for healing and for body-function.
It establishes — and demonstrates — neuroscience innovations: Â a NEW relationship between the mind and the brain!
It used to be Read more
Mar
20
Neuroplastic changes in the human brain have now been proven. Discoveries in Brain Science prove that your brain changes — learning can occur — at any age. Additional new applications of this Brain Science Research into neuroplasticity continue to 
be announced almost monthly.
One of these applications includes lends confidence to the fact that the brain can improve as we age. In the past 30 years, neuroscientists have publicized the findings that the brain is designed to actually improve throughout the duration of our lives.
How can you encourage such improvement?
In his book, “Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age“, authors Michael Gelb and Kathy Howell set out to answer this question. From interviews with gerontologists, neuroscientists and physicians, Howell and Gelb sought to find out theoretical approaches and empirical evidence. They studied the habits of Read more
Mar
18
Self-Confidence: Your 3 KEYS to Self-Confidence
Filed Under Emotional Healing, Life Coaching, Mental Healing
Self-Confidence. Have you ever envied someone who seemed to be super positive about himself or herself? Have you wished that you, too, might learn the keys to this magic way of being?
Surprisingly, self-confidence does not come from some inner gift. Self-confidence is the direct result of positive things that you DO and 
affirmative words that your SAY!
Then — from the new research findings that I have been reporting to you from the brain science studies of neuroplasticity, you already know the following: When you repeat these newly-conditioned (newly-learned) actions, the new LEARNING — the new neural networks — are strengthened in your brain. Through repeatedly engaging in these new learned responses, your brain has become structurally changed to reflect the new learning!
So, what are some ways that you can LEARN the behaviors and words of self-confidence? The following are 3 keys to Self-Confidence that you can implement right away:
- Smile and Look People in the Eye. When you smile and make eye contact, it shows Read more
Mar
8
Neuroplasticity is the quality of the brain to change function and structure when learning occurs. In other words, our mental 
experience(s) are able to drive fundamental changes in the very structure of the brain. This is an amazing discovery of The Mind and The Brain!
It has far-reaching implications. One of its most astounding implications is that — rather than the brain being fixed, incapable of learning after certain critical periods in our development, the brain is flexible, capable of learning throughout the span of our lives.
When learning occurs, it creates a specific neural network in the brain. This brain network can be seen via functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). fMRI takes pictures of the brain. These fMRI images depict the new neural network that exists after learning has occurred. By repetition of the learning, the neural network will become stronger and stronger.
Likewise, old, dysfunctional neural networks can be weakened. This weakening occurs when we no longer repeat the old learning. When we no longer repeat the old learning, the neural network associated with that specific learning becomes less vital and, over time, begins to disintegrate.
Current research discoveries in Brain Science have also lead to advances in new Read more