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Open heart surgery is one of the more serious types of surgery you can undergo. And yet, with today’s surgical technology and well-trained doctors, survival rates are amazingly high. Most open heart surgery patients enjoy a full recovery and, as a result of the surgery, longer lives.

Heart surgery involves the surgeons making one or more relatively large incisions in the chest so that they can gain access to the heart cavity. The relatively high level of invasiveness of this type of surgery translates to longer recovery times than for most other types of surgery.

The recovery time after open heart surgery can be 6-8 weeks or longer. During this time, some patients find that they have trouble sleeping. This is due to a combination of the effects of anesthesia, pain or discomfort in the area of the incisions, the post-surgery changes to daily routine, and new types of stress.

If you are having trouble sleeping after open heart surgery, here are 5 tips that can help:

1. Avoid napping during the day: When possible, try to avoid napping. Instead, go to be at the same time each night and get a full night’s sleep.

2. Take your doctor-prescribed medication about 30 minutes before going to bed: Your body likes routines. Take your medication at the same time each night, just before bed. Continue reading ‘Sleeping After Open Heart Surgery – 5 Tips’ »

Springtime can mean hay fever for many people. This means the watery eyes, sneezing, coughing, runny nose, itchy eyes, and so much more. How can you treat all of these symptoms in an easy to use format and still keep this as an alternative type of therapy so you don’t have to take conventional medicine every few hours or have the drowsy side effects? Crystals healing! But how can you tackle all of the different symptoms? Easy, we don’t! It is a matter of bypassing the “symptoms” and hitting the nail on the head by tackling the core issue, which is the hay fever reaction within the physical body.

There are different crystal healings for all of the above mentioned symptoms and then some, but if we want to really get to the core of healing the hay fever issues it is not about what symptom you are showing at any given time but working on the underlying cause which are the hay fever issues in general.

Now healing in general should be done this way, but many new healers, and even some of the advanced ones, start by working on the symptoms being shown. This can cure the symptoms, but then new ones start arising and the root cause is still there. Therefore, crystal healing is no different, as it is just about working with a vibrational level match for the ailment at hand. Continue reading ‘Crystal Healing For Hay Fever Issues’ »

Ayurveda, meaning the “science of life and longevity” in Sanskrit, is believed to be about 5,000 years old, predating all other medical systems. The two classic Ayurveda text books are more than 2,000 years old. Charaka Samhita, named for the person who was the ayurvedic counterpart of Hippocrates, outlines the principles of health maintenance and treatment of disease, and Sushruta Samhita describes elaborate surgical procedures, including reconstructive plastic surgery, gallbladder removal, and other operations that most people consider modern.

Ayurvedic medicine spread with the Hindu culture to Indonesia, Tibet, and eventually to the West, where some of its principles were picked up by the ancient Greek physicians. As Buddhism developed, this healing system was carried to China and other Asian countries. Continue reading ‘The Origins of the Ayurveda Treatments’ »

The Seven Rays are spiritual essence energies that are associated with actions of consciousness. It is generally believed that the rays come from the sun and are radiated to all the planes of reality. Theosophy teaches that the seven rays come from the sun as well, but go further to teach that they are in part relayed through the consciousness of Sanat Kumara (cosmic being) to the spiritual hierarchy of Earth (Ascended Masters) and then to humanity. This relaying refines the energy of the rays, making them more accessible to humanity.

Focusing on the intent (praying) to work with the spiritual hierarchy to help get better connected to the rays in such away that serves your and our collective greatest good will initiate their help. As the health and performance of your mind and spirit increases with or without their assistance, your abilities to become aware and control the energy of the rays will improve. Your ability to connect to the spiritual hierarchy and other spiritual energies will also improve. Things you can do to empower your development are static and dynamic forms of meditation.

Static examples are affirmations and visualizations to focus your attention on specific things, such as enlightenment, awareness, health and performance. Remember that what you give your attention to sets energy in motion, empowering it in your space and projects it from you. If you have the intent of connecting to the spiritual hierarchy to empower your connection to the rays and/or to facilitate your mind and spiritual development, only energies in harmony with these intents will be empowered. Continue reading ‘The Seven Rays’ »

Energy healing is an umbrella phrase modalities that have the practitioner channel healing or empowering energies to a healie. An popular example is reiki. This is done by focusing your intention on channeling healing or empowering energies for another person, because your intentions set these energies in motion. With these energies flowing they naturally find their way to where they are needed and if the practitioner is clairvoyant they can focus these energies more specifically, which enhances the treatment greatly. Usually their a hand position routine that they teach.

These energies are closely related to your emotions and thoughts. You’ve probably experienced awareness of them when walking into a room or building where certain emotions or thoughts were/are dominant. You may have even felt them from specific people. This awareness is called clairvoyance or extra sensory perception. Everyone has to some degree. When it is developed you can start to get more information from these feelings, such as where on a person’s body these energies are most concentrated.

These energies are often concentrated in and around the head, but they also concentrate in and around organs and joints they resonant with. This is a complicated concept that I will not try to explain in this article, but will comment that it is wildly accepted in many physical therapies and energy healing modalities.

The evidence of this comes from the spontaneous release of pockets of unhealthy energy during the treatment. Energy healing modalities are very good at facilitating these releases and making them more comfortable, because they work directly with the energies that these pockets are made of. For example, if your liver is holding anger energy from many years of anger, an energy healing practitioner can become aware of this or intuitively work with your liver by holding an abundance of healing energy to help dissolve the pocket and remove it entirely. Continue reading ‘Emotional Release and Energy Healing’ »

Dear friend,

Yeah I know, this title is a little bit extreme but how else am I supposed to get you to read something that’s good for you? Did you like eating all you veggies as a kid? Probably not. And with that said — keep reading.

Tibetan medicine (similar to Ayurvedic medicine) is based on the three bodily fluids. Wind, bile and phlegm. Now even though these three elements are part of the physical body they’re also symbols that relate to psychological and even spiritual dimensions. Whenever one of these fluids is “out of whack” and not in balance with the other juices, disorders can and probably will rise. This means that the chances of illnesses occurring are much, much higher. “So what’s the meaning behind these three bodily fluids?”

Tibetan medicine like Ayurvedic medicine looks at the fluids as three different types of energies used together in perfect harmony.

* Wind symbolizes the element of movement inside the body
* Bile symbolizes the different kinds of warmth in the body
* Phlegm symbolizes everything of a fluid nature in the body Continue reading ‘Insider Secrets of Tibetan and Ayurvedic Medicine’ »