By Sarah A
LoBisco, ND
It’s that
time of the month.
I’m talking
about the next release of my Holistic Health Top Reads!
This month
was power packed with empowering health information. I’ve completed my list of
highlights on my homepage. The topics include Health, Nutrigenomics, and Drug
Updates.
I’ve made it
easy to skim through the headliners and get the gist, but you can also find the
source information for the whole picture.
Below is the
summary of topics and a highlight on Tapping Away Pain:
HEALTH
TOPIC HIGHLIGHTS:
- The 3rd Leading Cause of Preventable Death
- Individualizing Medicine
- The Market for Insurance Exchange Programs
- Treating People verses Numbers
- How Air Pollution Links to Cancer
-
The Genetic Markers of Cancer, How Valid is Acupuncture?
- How Sleep Affects the Brain, Can
Healthy Fat Exist? -
More Choose Wisely Recommendations
-
Repeat DEXA May Not Prevent Fractures
NUTRIGENOMICS
TOPICS:
Brain Health Supplements, Lifestyle, and Healthy Living Updates
DRUG
UPDATES TOPICS:
Updates on
the Safety of Antibiotics, Antidepressants, and Statins
Tapping Bonus: Releasing Pain in the Back
It seems
that conventional treatment for pain is failing to help many sufferers. According to the APPEAL (Advancing the Provision of Pain
Education And Learning) study done in Europe, doctors are not being trained
effectively to manage pain. Instead, they are relying on potent and addictive
pain medications which block pain signals. The problem is these pills can also cause dependency with negative side
effects. While the recommendations have been to form a comprehensive framework
for pain management and more training for physicians in Europe, little is being
done conventionally in the United States.
The good
news is that many studies are showing the benefits of holistic techniques for
relief of pain. These include chiropractic, massage, and acupuncture. My homepage blog this week highlighted resources for the validity of acupuncture,
which is now recognized to be beneficial conventionally for pain management.
There is another technique that I’ve found beneficial in my practice for addressing discomfort. It is also based on acupuncture meridians. The bonus is that
you can do it yourself at home. It is called the emotional freedom technique,
or EFT.
EFT has been
shown to calm the flight-and-fight response. By calming down the brain, the body stops producing inflammatory
stress hormones that rob nutrients and prevent healing. EFT gives the
body the ability to release feel good neurotransmitters for pain relief
and repair. The effect can have a profound effect when used in an integrative wellness program.
Tapping can also help one find emotional balance, insight, forgiveness, and
release.
Below is
Nick Ortner’s blog on releasing pain with EFT and a link to the video.
But could she release her pain? Could
she use EFT Tapping for it? Is it possible to release the pain,
frustration and anger?
Maggie was brave enough to join me on
stage a few weeks ago when I was speaking in Washington, D.C. at a Hay House
event. With just a few minutes of Tapping, she was able to release her physical
pain in a way she hadn’t done since that day.
Read more about tapping here and watch the video
Sources:
Ortner, N. Video: Watch Maggie Tap Away Her Pain in
Minutes. thetappingsolution.com. October 7, 2013.
Medical News
Today. Future doctors unprepared to manage pain – one of the most common
problems they will encounter in clinical practice, expert group warns. Medicalnewstoday.com.October
14, 2013.
