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MS Patient Improvement: Correction TMJ Dysfunction and Body Asymmetries

The correction of TMJ (Temporo-Mandibular Joint) Dysfunction and other body asymmetries appears to hold the key in bringing about a revolutionary care in MS patients.

Mr  Amir BDS MSc (U of London) LDS RCS (England) Dental Surgeon first treated an MS patient successfully in early 2001, documented in the following article Case Study: Dental Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis by Mary Maguire published in Positive Health PH Online Issue 90 July 2003:

www.positivehealth.com/article/case-studies/case-study-dental-treatment-for-multiple-sclerosis

Mary is still extremely well with no signs of MS disabilities as she first experienced. More recently, following a publication of an article by Bella Freud in the Evening Standard about Mr Amir’s success with MS patients he was approached by a number of new MS patients to treat. Remarkably, all of them are showing signs of an amazing  recovery. Details can be seen at www.themsforum.org  where you can also easy to understand a graphical representation of patient recovery. More success stories are constantly being posted.

The premise of Mr Amir’s treatment is that the body functions best when it is optimally symmetrical. Asymmetries are present mainly in the way the teeth and jaws are misaligned. Further complications stem from the asymmetry of the Atlas Vertebrae which impacts on the neck and lower back spine, ultimately causing hip asymmetry. The hip asymmetry can also be present, independent of other asymmetries. Correcting these asymmetries brings about a proper function of all the nerves that emanate from the spine relieving the patients of many symptoms previously attributed to ‘Sclerotic lesions in the brain’.

Further Information

To contact Mr Amir please email amir2647@msn.com  giving a very brief detail of your illness. He will than send you an extensive online questionnaire to complete before your appointment. You can also phone 020 8780 3433 for an appointment. www.themsforum.org

Sally Stubbs Hypno/Psychotherapist - Rapha Hypnosis Therapy

Sally Stubbs LNCP FACH DACH has been in private practice for over 30 years and during this period has treated many thousands of people with psychological and emotional problems. She admits to becoming disillusioned and somewhat dismayed about the way part of her profession has dissolved into an assortment of ‘fast food’ would be ‘quick fix’ so-called therapies. She feels that EFT, CBT and NLP etc disciplines have their place, but do not always provide a permanent sound therapeutic resolution to what could be a long term problem, for those who are suffering emotionally and psychologically.

Driven by this dissatisfaction with what Sally currently sees being presented as therapeutic techniques, and with her passion, proven experience and on-going education in her chosen field, Sally has developed the Rapha Therapy System to enable those who suffer these kind of problems, to empower themselves using proven curative therapy to permanently resolve and cure their problem states.

Sally Stubbs has been privileged to study with some of the greatest minds of her profession, amongst others Dr Ernest Rossi who was Dr Milton Erickson’s amanuensis [a person employed to write or type what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another], Dr S Gilligan and David Grove. This, along with knowledge continually gleaned through her daily one-to-one practice and continued study of the depth and breadth of the subject has enabled Sally to incorporate great wisdoms and years of proven practice in hypnotherapy into Rapha Hypnosis. She has used this wonderful knowledge to develop her audio therapy treatments available on CD or as MP3 downloads.

What is Different about the Rapha System?

Traditional techniques employ strategies such as relaxation, pattern interruption, behavioural changes, visualization and distraction during which, the belief is, the unconscious mind will respond to such strategies as direct suggestion, and so on.

It will not. Certainly not permanently!

You can fool your conscious but you cannot fool your unconscious.

Rapha Hypnosis Audio Treatments elegantly puts you (your conscious self) in touch with your unconscious self to teach you how to revise your automatic (unconscious) way of reacting. Why? Because it is a fact that more than 90% of our daily life is driven by our unconscious thoughts, beliefs and reactions, which we have learnt throughout the course of our life. (REF: Erickson, Jung, Einstein, Professor Lipton, and many others).

Because they are by definition unconscious, we (the conscious we), need to be taught special strategies to communicate with and resolve, then revise these learnt, sometimes less than useful, behaviours and replace them with sound conduct appropriate to our life now.

Further Information

For more information please visit: www.sally-stubbs.com     www.rapha-hypnosis.com

CNELM Course: Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Techniques for Weight Management

The Centre for Nutrition Education & Lifestyle Management (CNELM) combines the study of nutrition with life coaching models, enabling practitioners to facilitate positive change in themselves and others.  The following 5-day advanced NLP course is available in January 2013.

Why Weight Practitioner

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Techniques for Weight Management

9-13 January 2013, Wokingham, UK

Who Should Attend?

This course applies to all health professionals involved in weight management. Delegates must have completed an NLP Practitioner programme, or the CNELM module in Therapeutic Coaching, or equivalent.

Course Overview

• This course is focused on the important role the mind plays in contributing to weight issues and energy balance;
• It offers current mental technologies that provide rapid and sustainable change in an ethical, ecological and compassionate manner;
• The course will enable you to help clients to achieve their desired goals and to help solve their problems concerning weight and related issues;
• It will be a highly active and interactive experience, with time to reflect on how the learning will can be applied;
• You will learn a variety of effective processes to encourage clients to realise the choices open to them, and you will also develop greater choice in how you work with clients;
• The course builds on your existing NLP knowledge, and also offers something new, which will expand your confidence and ability to help others.

Tutors

Chris Rasey BA NLP Practitioner NLP Master Practitioner, Certified Trainer of NLP;  author of NLP Metaphorically. Chris is a trainer, coach and developer with 30 years’ experience.  In the last decade he has developed particular expertise in the area of NLP and trains Practitioners, Master Practitioners and NLP Trainers.  He is currently responsible for the Communication Skills and Therapeutic Coaching modules on the CNELM Degree in Nutritional Therapy. 

Helen Lynam NLP Practitioner and Master Coach Practitioner. Helen is a nutritional therapy graduate of CNELM who brings her direct experience of working with weight and related issues to the programme.  She is a Master Practitioner of NLP and is actively building her expertise in helping clients to make change with the combination of nutrition and NLP technologies.

Course and Booking Information

Dates: 9-13 January 2013 OR 2-6 August 2013

Lecture Times: 10.30-18.00

Cost: £550 inc. VAT

Venue: CNELM, 2 Edward Court,  Wellington Road,  Wokingham, RG40 2AN.

Please contact CNELM on Tel: +44(0)118 979 8686;  info@cnelm.co.uk   www.cnelm.co.uk

From The Really Healthy Company: BioBran for a Strong & Healthy Immune System

BioBran, Developed in Japan by Daiwa Pharmaceutical in 1992, is manufactured using a patented process to break down (pre-digest) rice bran using enzymes from Shitake mushrooms. The resulting compound contains a unique blend of glyconutrients such as arabinoxylan, as well as other short chain polysaccharides and hemicellulose compounds. This unique molecular fingerprint makes it significantly more effective than other immune system supplements, giving the body its best opportunity to optimize its own natural healing mechanisms.

According to M. Ghoneum Professor of immunology at Drew University USA and a researcher with over 30 years experience, BioBran® MGN-3 is the most promising immune complex he has examined.

How does BioBran MGN-3 help us maintain a strong immune system?

Our immune system is comprised of an army of white blood cells - NK cells, T and B cells - which travel around inside us destroying the millions of intruding microbes that penetrate our bodies every day, as well as the thousands of newly infected or abnormal body cells that develop. BioBran MGN-3 gives our white blood cells the glyco-nutritional support to carry out their vital role energetically and efficiently, helping to optimize immune function.

Biobran is distributed in the UK by The Really Healthy Company,  a London-based health company specializing in the introduction leading-edge and research-based natural nutritional supplements into the UK and Europe, choosing products that they believe can make a real difference to customers' lives, products manufactured to the highest standards and which contain specialist natural and nutritional ingredients.

Further Information

Please contact The Really Healthy Company via www.healthy.co.uk

VIVA MAYR wins TATLER Spa Award 2013

The VIVA MAYR Centre for Modern Mayr Medicine at Lake Wörthersee in Austria has been awarded Best Spa for “Best Hard-Hitting Results” at the 2013 TATLER Spa Awards, being selected from the world’s most prestigious spas.

The Resort was one of seven other spas that were presented with the magazine’s coveted prize. It was described as “an unbeatable, unmissable education - and one where all the rules make sense.” Furthermore “people come with severe medical complaints: allergies so bad they have to cook in gloves, arthritis so crippling even the duvet is painful. And, thanks to the strict Mayr detox and serious medical treatments many of them find miraculous relief.”

VIVA MAYR’s Director Serhan Güven commented “We were more than delighted to welcome Daisy Finer at VIVA this summer despite her busy schedule. It is an honour and we are very proud to be recognized by TATLER as one of the world’s best medical resorts and would like to thank the whole VIVA team for their passion and dedication to our clients’ life-changing experience and wellbeing!”

Further Information

For further information, please visit www.viva-mayr.com  or contact Carolyn Kohl at REIKO PR on Tel: +44 (0)1273 945118; carolyn@reiko.org.uk

Depression - How Tomatis Listening Therapy can Help

At this time of year when the days are shorter and the days of longer light are fading away, many people start to feel the symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder, better know by its acronym, SAD.

Actually light is at the heart of the matter. Light has a much higher frequency than darkness. Tomatis Listening Therapy could be loosely described as a quest for more light. The way someone perceives sound gives an indication of the light and dark frequency of their sound perception from low to high. The therapy commences with assessing the client’s aural perception, then essentially what follows is a recalibration of how they perceive sound by activating the muscles of the middle ear.

The tuning peg of the ear enabling a slack passive muscle to be invigorated back to an active state.  When somebody feels flat and lacking in energy, it is because their life experience has taught them from early childhood that the lower band of frequencies is a safer place to inhabit and then this band is habitually used as a gauge to read (listen to) our world. But it is the middle and higher frequencies though that energize us, charge the brain with cortical energy, spread light into the darker places  so we can heal. As one client put it,  “Tomatis gives us  the Jacob’s ladder to joy and peace”.

Tomatis explained “treatment with the electronic ear gives you the euphoria of listening and above all it restores the ear to its full deep functioning - a functioning completely forgotten even by most doctors. I have the good fortune to furnish the brain with enormous energy and when the brain is lights up it is intelligent. It will look at  problems , put them back into proportion and the result will be healing.” 

This year in March in an article in the Daily Mail, Brenda Fricker talked about  her life long struggle with depression and how Tomatis Listening Therapy had freed her from it. Ella uses the original unaltered analogue sound system devised by Prof Tomatis himself

Further Information

Please contact Ella Williams on Tel: 020 7359 5268;  listeningcentrelondon@gmail.com    www.tuneyourears.com   

Do you have a Food Intolerance?

Nutrition and Vitality - Director and Founder Victoria Tyler BSc Hons (MBANT) - is a Nutrition Consultancy in Harley Street London that specializes in food intolerances, IBS and weight loss. 

These are five key signs of a food intolerance:

1. Bloating and weight gain
   Do you suffer from bloating and water retention? This can be a sign of a food intolerance.
2. Bad skin
   A second symptom of a food intolerance can be skin problems, such as pimples, acne or blemishes on the skin. Some children can get red rashes on their cheeks because they are intolerant to milk;
3. Headaches and Migraines
   Some people with an intolerance to certain foods can get headaches and even migraines;
4. Fatigue
   If you feel very tired after eating food, you may be suffering from a food intolerance;
5. Eczema
   Some people who are intolerant to cow’s milk may have eczema.  They sometimes also have excess mucus in their throat or itchy ears.

What can you Do about It?

To understand whether you have a food intolerance you can conduct a simple non-invasive pin-prick test. If you do have a food intolerance you will need to take out the offending foods.

Further Information

Please contact Victoria at Nutrition and Vitality on Tel: 0845 129 7996 – Appointments; Mob: 07881517034 - Information; victoria@nutritionandvitality.co.uk     www.nutritionandvitality.co.uk

Health Leads Launch a New Website -  Rayonex UK Ltd

Health Leads UK Ltd has formed a sister company Rayonex UK Ltd. The new company - to be known as Rayonex UK - has been established in order to give undivided attention to the needs of bioresonance practitioners and their clients. It will operate from the same premises as Health Leads and customers will deal with knowledgeable staff dedicated to providing the best possible service. The changeover will be seemless with the the same telephone and email contacts. The only change in how you deal with Health Leads is through the new website.

The new site www.rayonex.co.uk  is a web shop dedicated to providing all Rayonex bioresonance devices, accessories, user training and technical literature. On the Home page are reminders of the next training course dates. The Course Prospectus is available to download, together with a host of information about bioresonance and related subjects, helpful articles and tips - all designed to help you successfully apply the amazing science of bioresonance. Follow the link below to take your first look: www.rayonex.co.uk

Further Information

Rayonex UK Ltd, Horeb Business Park, Horeb, Llandysul, Ceredigion, SA44 4JG. Tel: 01559 364711  Fax 01559 364043   www.rayonex.co.uk

Sherrie Palm: Pelvic Organ Prolapse Affects >3 Million USA Women; Millions  Worldwide

Sherrie Palm’s campaign to establish recognition of pelvic organ prolapse began with the release of her award winning book Pelvic Organ Prolapse The Silent Epidemic.  Palm went on to found APOPS, Association for Pelvic Organ Prolapse Support, which provides education,  guidance, and support for women with POP.  Palm’s newly released second edition evolves the dialogue beyond POP basics and Palm’s personal experience with POP to address concerns women have about transvaginal mesh complications, impact to intimacy, and pelvic health maintenance. 

Pelvic organ prolapse has been on medical record for over 4000 years, yet millions of women suffer in silence because there is little dialogue or awareness about the health condition. Women suffering with signs of POP are typically unfamiliar with this common, cryptic, women’s health condition because symptoms of pelvic organ prolapse are embarrassing and are seldom discussed.

 “Pelvic organ prolapse is seldom life threatening but it is always life altering. POP is a global women's health pandemic; millions of women in both developing and developed countries suffer in silence from the physical, emotional, social, sexual, and financial ramifications of POP. Recognition of pelvic organ prolapse can only occur when we share what we know with others. It is my hope that as we continue to network, guide, and nurture women with POP, this condition will soon become common knowledge."   Sherrie Palm, APOPS Founder/CEO                                                                

Common symptoms of POP:

• Urinary incontinence;
• Vaginal/rectal pressure, vaginal tissue bulge;
• Chronic constipation;
• Pain with intimacy;
• Rectal/vaginal/back/pelvic pain.

Further Information

Sherrie Palm, APOPS Founder/CEO is an author and speaker on the topic of pelvic organ prolapse; her book and speaking info can be found at www.sherriepalm.com . Additional information about pelvic organ prolapse can be found on the APOPS website at www.pelvicorganprolapsesupport.org

The Book of Oriental Medicine: A Complete Self-Treatment Guide

by Clive Witham

Published by Findhorn Press. 2012. £14.99. ISBN: 978-1-84409-604-6.

Take Charge of your Health with Oriental Healing Techniques

Addressing the issues of how and why illness occurs, this informative guide provides fresh Eastern perspectives on wellbeing and health. With easy-to-understand explanations, clear illustrations, and straightforward treatment alternatives, previously unexplained signs and symptoms can be researched, understood and dealt with. Tried-and-true techniques developed over hundreds of years - diet, acupressure, massage, exercise, scraping, and tapping - are offered for common maladies from colds and high blood pressure to backache and depression. Even with limited medical knowledge you can learn to assess your own conditions and become proactive in lifestyle changes, thus taking charge of your own healing process.

Of Interest

Practitioners of Oriental medicine believe that when there is balance in the human body between Yin and Yang the person will exhibit good health; however, when Yin and Yang are imbalanced, ill health occurs. Whilst this may appear to be complex it is actually incredibly simple - balance in the human body. This is why a combination of diet, acupressure, massage, tapping and exercise are effective. Oriental Medicine determines your level of health through the examination of the normal and abnormal organ system functions in your body, and by treating the cause of the problem rather than the symptoms, brings the body back to the point of balance and wellbeing.

About the Author

Clive Witham Lic.Ac MBAcc is a licensed acupuncturist and runs an acupuncture clinic in a Spanish enclave in North Africa where he promotes Oriental ideas of healing and self-treatment. He has trained in the UK, China, Thailand and Japan, and is also a Member of the British Acupuncture Council.

Further Information

Available from Amazon

www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Of-Oriental-Medicine-Self-Treatment/dp/1844096041

www.amazon.com/The-Book-Oriental-Medicine-Self-Treatment/dp/1844096041

Camexpo Celebrates Successful 10th Anniversary Show!

London’s Earls Court was transformed into a vibrant showcase of the very best in complementary and natural healthcare products and services last month, as camexpo celebrated its tenth anniversary edition on 20-21 October with 5,492 total attendees.

Meghan Mari and Rachel Fairweather, Directors and Co-Founders of the Jing Institute of Advanced Massage Training accepted the CAM Outstanding Achievement Award from Diversified UK’s Managing Director Carsten Holm.

Show highlights included the announcement of the winners of camexpo’s three prestigious annual awards, including the Best New CAM Product Award 2012, which was voted for by visitors to the show’s New Products Showcase on Saturday 20 October.  The winner was MyChelle Dermaceuticals by Eterno Naturals.

Another camexpo winner was CNHC registered nutritional therapist Catherine Jeans, co-owner (with Jackie Heffer-Cooke) of The Orange Grove Clinic in Norwich, which won the CAM Clinic of the Year Award 2012.  The Award, which is now in its third year, was judged on the treatments offered, marketing, client testimonials, unique selling points and all round client experience.  The judging panel commented:  “The winning clinic not only offers a wide choice of therapies, it also offers a range of specialist fertility, pregnancy and post natal treatments, classes and courses; as well as catering for the health and wellbeing of its city.”

The recipients of camexpo’s fourth annual, industry-voted CAM Outstanding Achievement Award were also a popular choice - particularly as they were accepting the honour for an unprecedented second year running.  The winners Meghan Mari and Rachel Fairweather, Directors and Co-Founders of the Jing Institute of Advanced Massage Training, enjoyed a standing ovation as they accepted the award from Diversified UK’s managing director Carsten Holm.

Further Information

CAMEXPO will return to Earls Court, London, in 5-6 October 2013.  For further information and to stay up-to-date with all the latest news and 2013 exhibitor information, please visit www.camexpo.co.uk