Re: Alternative Healing Modalities

[Guest guest]

Over the years with dealing with my spinal scoliosis, degeneartive spine

disease, osteoarthritis since first diagnosed at age 30 (37 years ago), I've

sought out alternative healing methods to help heal myself & stay up & walking &

have optimum mobility & doing physical things I've always done since childhood.

After discovering I had hypothyroidism, hypoglycemia & candida albicans, I

addressed those issues the same way or with other natural methods I learned.

These techniques or healing sessions (exclusing diet & food preparation) often

took up to 8 hours a day to do on myself.

But I did them every day or at least most of them or as many as I could manage

to make time for. This meant spending a lot of time alone with myself just doing

self-healing of one form or another. At least 8 hours a day.

That is, until recently when I've quit doing all or most of them altogether for

one reason or another. Mostly due to having too much pain doing some of them

such as Hatha Yoga or other more strenuous exercises & /or becoming too

despondent & lacking hope for the future to bother with them anymore. This is

where it stands now...my not doing much or any of those healing methods on

myself anymore.

But I do know that while I was doing them almost every day regularly, they kept

me off the operating table, away from chiropractors, out of a wheel chair, off

countless amounts of Rx drugs & in general good health otherwise. Since stopping

them my immune system's gone way more haywire & I've been more & more depressed

& despondent with more aches & pains & less motivation to continue living.

Here's a list of all the things I did for self-healing & balance everyday or

most days of the week up until the last few years, in case anyone's at all

interested:

* Mostly raw foods (fruits & veggies) & vegetable juices diet with nutritional

supplements.

* Hatha Yoga an hour twice a day, morning & evening.

* Walking, roller skating, bicyling, swimming & other aerobics, at least one of

these daily.

* Rebirth breathing an hour or more per day.

* Yoga breathing l/2 hour or more per day.

* Chanting, 45 minutes per day.

* Meditation 45 minutes to an hour per day.

* Hot bathtub soaks in epsom salts, sea salt, lavendar oil & /or self-prepared

herbal juices, eucalyptus oil, etc. 20 minutes daily with sesame oil applied to

skin beforehand & massage oil applied after the bath.

* Sun bathing up to l/2 hour or more per day.

* Skin brushing 10-15 minutes per day.

* Full body massage every Saturday for several hours with my hands.

* Full body massage other days for an hour or more with an electric massager.

* Feldenkrais movements

* Tao movements such as Chi Qong w/hands-on healing.

* Inversion on a back swing up to l/2 hour per day (hanging upside down by the

heels) with sit ups or other exercises included.

* Reiki healings done by others.

* Chiropractic or osteopathic adjustments when necessary.

* Auric healings done by others.

* Group healings with others including chanting, meditation & hands-on or aura

healings.

* Psychologic counseling done by others.

There's more but these were the basic things I've done to keep myself healthy &

as happy as possible over the years since age 30. They worked well when I worked

them.

Now I've lost nearly all desire to do most of them & have no more group

involvement or support since none exist where I now live. Tho I still do a few

of them on occasion but only sporadically & not enough to effect ongoing

balanced healing.

Caroline

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[Guest guest]

Over the years with dealing with my spinal scoliosis, degeneartive spine

disease, osteoarthritis since first diagnosed at age 30 (37 years ago), I've

sought out alternative healing methods to help heal myself & stay up & walking &

have optimum mobility & doing physical things I've always done since childhood.

After discovering I had hypothyroidism, hypoglycemia & candida albicans, I

addressed those issues the same way or with other natural methods I learned.

These techniques or healing sessions (exclusing diet & food preparation) often

took up to 8 hours a day to do on myself.

But I did them every day or at least most of them or as many as I could manage

to make time for. This meant spending a lot of time alone with myself just doing

self-healing of one form or another. At least 8 hours a day.

That is, until recently when I've quit doing all or most of them altogether for

one reason or another. Mostly due to having too much pain doing some of them

such as Hatha Yoga or other more strenuous exercises & /or becoming too

despondent & lacking hope for the future to bother with them anymore. This is

where it stands now...my not doing much or any of those healing methods on

myself anymore.

But I do know that while I was doing them almost every day regularly, they kept

me off the operating table, away from chiropractors, out of a wheel chair, off

countless amounts of Rx drugs & in general good health otherwise. Since stopping

them my immune system's gone way more haywire & I've been more & more depressed

& despondent with more aches & pains & less motivation to continue living.

Here's a list of all the things I did for self-healing & balance everyday or

most days of the week up until the last few years, in case anyone's at all

interested:

* Mostly raw foods (fruits & veggies) & vegetable juices diet with nutritional

supplements.

* Hatha Yoga an hour twice a day, morning & evening.

* Walking, roller skating, bicyling, swimming & other aerobics, at least one of

these daily.

* Rebirth breathing an hour or more per day.

* Yoga breathing l/2 hour or more per day.

* Chanting, 45 minutes per day.

* Meditation 45 minutes to an hour per day.

* Hot bathtub soaks in epsom salts, sea salt, lavendar oil & /or self-prepared

herbal juices, eucalyptus oil, etc. 20 minutes daily with sesame oil applied to

skin beforehand & massage oil applied after the bath.

* Sun bathing up to l/2 hour or more per day.

* Skin brushing 10-15 minutes per day.

* Full body massage every Saturday for several hours with my hands.

* Full body massage other days for an hour or more with an electric massager.

* Feldenkrais movements

* Tao movements such as Chi Qong w/hands-on healing.

* Inversion on a back swing up to l/2 hour per day (hanging upside down by the

heels) with sit ups or other exercises included.

* Reiki healings done by others.

* Chiropractic or osteopathic adjustments when necessary.

* Auric healings done by others.

* Group healings with others including chanting, meditation & hands-on or aura

healings.

* Psychologic counseling done by others.

There's more but these were the basic things I've done to keep myself healthy &

as happy as possible over the years since age 30. They worked well when I worked

them.

Now I've lost nearly all desire to do most of them & have no more group

involvement or support since none exist where I now live. Tho I still do a few

of them on occasion but only sporadically & not enough to effect ongoing

balanced healing.

Caroline

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[Guest guest]

Caroline, I am sorry to say nothing in your list will heal a sick thyroid.

All your lack of will to live and lack of will to heal yourself can be from

hypothyroidism, in fact it is a classic symptom we all share to one degree

or another. I am PAST that and back wanting to live and worrying about

losing weight and worrying about quitting smoking and sugar (yup I too have

those vices), but I remember four short years ago, when I didn;t care if I

lived another day. If not for my pets, I probably would have been suicidal,

but worry over them and the fact several are young healthy animals kept me

from going there. The ONLY thing I have changed was first my thyroid meds.

Then a year after that, I changed my whole life & circumstance. I moved

across the country & back looking for happiness. Didn;t find it in my

travels, but I have found it this year. It will soon be a year since I

opened my own grooming shop. I will be 50 next month and have been grooming

for years but due to health and no WILL to do things for myself I never had

the confidence to open a shop till now. With Armour, you will soon be

feeling more like returning to your other things that kept you healthier for

so long. Without it, you will gain so much more pain and possibly become a

suicide statistic like my own Mother did. She was only 35 when she gave in

to the lack of will to live and I have spent my life trying to even up the

odds for other thyroid sufferers so it doesn;t happen to them. Keep trying.

Did you do the phone calls you were going to today to get your latest labs?

Go to myrxforless and order the generic desiccated thyroid? I take the

generic and it has worked just fine for me.

*Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV

Fat cat? Diabetes? Listowner for overweight or hypothyroid cats

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypokitties/

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[Guest guest]

Caroline, I am sorry to say nothing in your list will heal a sick thyroid.

All your lack of will to live and lack of will to heal yourself can be from

hypothyroidism, in fact it is a classic symptom we all share to one degree

or another. I am PAST that and back wanting to live and worrying about

losing weight and worrying about quitting smoking and sugar (yup I too have

those vices), but I remember four short years ago, when I didn;t care if I

lived another day. If not for my pets, I probably would have been suicidal,

but worry over them and the fact several are young healthy animals kept me

from going there. The ONLY thing I have changed was first my thyroid meds.

Then a year after that, I changed my whole life & circumstance. I moved

across the country & back looking for happiness. Didn;t find it in my

travels, but I have found it this year. It will soon be a year since I

opened my own grooming shop. I will be 50 next month and have been grooming

for years but due to health and no WILL to do things for myself I never had

the confidence to open a shop till now. With Armour, you will soon be

feeling more like returning to your other things that kept you healthier for

so long. Without it, you will gain so much more pain and possibly become a

suicide statistic like my own Mother did. She was only 35 when she gave in

to the lack of will to live and I have spent my life trying to even up the

odds for other thyroid sufferers so it doesn;t happen to them. Keep trying.

Did you do the phone calls you were going to today to get your latest labs?

Go to myrxforless and order the generic desiccated thyroid? I take the

generic and it has worked just fine for me.

*Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV

Fat cat? Diabetes? Listowner for overweight or hypothyroid cats

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hypokitties/

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[Guest guest]

Yes, I guessed as much from reading this groups emails so far & Dr. Mercola's

newsletter. I definitely need a good thyroid supplement. But I must say the

healing modalities I've done in the past have kept me up & going for my spinal

problems anyway. Also the inversions on the backswing do stimulate the glands &

drain the toxins & poisons from them as well. So it does help that way. But

still the natural thyroid is needed but I never knew that until now. So

thankfully now I know about it & maybe it'll eventually help get me back into

doing the other healing things I used to do again to help with my spinal

problems if nothing else.

I somehow don't think my lack of will to live or lack of motivation is ALL from

the dysfunctional thyroid. It's because of lonliness, isolation & the great

losses & tragedies I've also suffered through & am still experiencing, which

could have contributed greatly to the thyroid dysfunction in the first place. So

that still needs to be corrected with or without a balanced thyroid

supplementation. How that can be done is beyond me at this point in time as

there seems no way possible. But if I can feel better with natural thyroid

intake, then maybe somehow, someway that will become balanced & corrected too.

Have to wait & see. It worked for you, maybe it will for me too.

Thanx for the reminder I have to call again today for the lab reports & also

order the thyroid supplements from the link you suggested. Brain fog

here...forgot to do that this morning. Or the other one Sandy recommended. Are

they they same link? Not sure.

Caroline

Re: Alternative Healing Modalities

Caroline, I am sorry to say nothing in your list will heal a sick thyroid.

All your lack of will to live and lack of will to heal yourself can be from

hypothyroidism, in fact it is a classic symptom we all share to one degree

or another. I am PAST that and back wanting to live and worrying about

losing weight and worrying about quitting smoking and sugar (yup I too have

those vices), but I remember four short years ago, when I didn;t care if I

lived another day. If not for my pets, I probably would have been suicidal,

but worry over them and the fact several are young healthy animals kept me

from going there. The ONLY thing I have changed was first my thyroid meds.

Then a year after that, I changed my whole life & circumstance. I moved

across the country & back looking for happiness. Didn;t find it in my

travels, but I have found it this year. It will soon be a year since I

opened my own grooming shop. I will be 50 next month and have been grooming

for years but due to health and no WILL to do things for myself I never had

the confidence to open a shop till now. With Armour, you will soon be

feeling more like returning to your other things that kept you healthier for

so long. Without it, you will gain so much more pain and possibly become a

suicide statistic like my own Mother did. She was only 35 when she gave in

to the lack of will to live and I have spent my life trying to even up the

odds for other thyroid sufferers so it doesn;t happen to them. Keep trying.

Did you do the phone calls you were going to today to get your latest labs?

Go to myrxforless and order the generic desiccated thyroid? I take the

generic and it has worked just fine for me.

*Artistic Grooming * Hurricane, WV