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Publisher’s Corner The greatest gift you can offer is a healthy, whole you Every person’s life tells a story, and every person has his or her story about life. One of my stories has been the choice between soul and ego. After years of believing that you picked one or the other, I’ve concluded they are both integral parts of human life.

Just as the brain, lungs and heart have separate functions in a body, so too do the soul and ego. As such, these two facets have distinct priorities and which one we give our allegiance to creates a different life focus. For example, egos search for goals, definitives, comfort, winning, accomplishments, and end results. While souls seek authenticity, creativity, expression, depth, experiences, growth, journeys, and expansion.

Because of their potential contrasts, sometimes our souls and egos divide, causing a splintering that is similar to a business meeting where all in attendance have separate agendas. Human life is full of paradox, as exemplified in breathing, the very thing that keeps us alive. For we can not breathe in without breathing out and vice versa.

There is nothing better about in or out, they are equal in their opposites. Embracing this, and its implications, may be a giant step to wholeness.

I recently had a portrait photo session with a talented photographer who had taken one of my “Calling Council” workshops (6 weeks of modern shamanic journeys). I note the latter, because she wanted the portrait to show that side of me—the teacher, my ancient self, and dare I say my soul. I brought with me a selection of feathers and skulls that touch and open my heart. As of now, I have seen only two of the photos, both amazing—one especially unique (see below). In this one image I can visibly see the presence and strength that I had otherwise only felt. At the same time, it also shows me that a photo is simply an image of a moment in time. Our lives are a string of ongoing moments—some powerful, some weak and many more in between. While a photo says more than a thousand words, it is still only a morsel of the person or situation. We all have endless depths below what can be seen on the surface. It is our responsibility to swim in those depths and learn what makes up ‘us’ regardless of whether it touches the outside world or is understood by anyone else.

It is wise to remember that all others have the same expanse below what we see or understand about them, as well.

I took an online class on branding to boost my writing, public speaking and workshops. This would not normally be my cup of tea, yet I respect the teacher and decided to go for it based on that. Creating a brand had previously felt artificial.

However, this class, in addition to the photo session, made me realize we are always projecting an image. To do so mindfully is actually more authentic than simply letting chance create it. While it is also true that the image is just a fraction of who I am as a whole, I’d like it to be a representation of the place where my inner and outer worlds intersect. Being clear about our presentation to the world does not equal control over how other’s see us, nor is that of any significance to our soul. Egos want to be seen in a specific way, happy, successful, beautiful. While souls want to experience the happiness, success and beauty. Being true to ourselves, sincerely, compassionately, creatively, is doing our part. The rest is out of our hands. In the end, we only have our own heart to answer to.

A place both my soul and personality simultaneously ignite is listening to music— especially live. Sometimes it’s popular musicians with big names, more often it’s people who just love music. They don’t neccesarily make a living from it or gather

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fans, but to these people not making music is a kind of death. I was recently at a show with a variety of performers each with a different sound. The one similarity among them was that they exposed their souls with their music. It’s been said, “Perhaps the best mark of personal heroism is not astounding courage or accomplishments, but authentic self-expression...” While, these locals weaved soul in to each note and lyric, some big musicians miss depth in their performances simply because performing regularly alleviates the vulnerability that often exposes souls.

What is your story; meaning what are your beliefs, assumptions, expectations, desires, memories, wants, relationships, friends, childhood experiences, and how does it all fit together? What we tell ourselves and repeat aloud to others becomes our reality, becomes the glasses through which we see the world, defines our decisions, and becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Can you examine the stories you tell the world and yourself, discerning where there is truth and conversly falsity? Can you open to what your life is and the endless possibilities of what it could be? Like many valuable exercises, this will be ongoing. In part because we miss things the first, or even 100th, time around. But also because we change constantly. I’d like to mention one caveat that I am quite familiar with, which is the desire to bypass the parts we don’t like within the picture. There is a cultural ideal of seeing only the positive or looking at things from a spiritual paradigm. While that can be admirable, this method often overlooks angles that are dictating fundamental life experiences including our emotional needs. In a world of pain, this positive or spiritual bypass is a constant temptation. Yet, it can be a detour on the path to genuine happiness and wholeness. In our efforts to leapfrog to something better, we can avoid a crucial part. The writer Parker Palmer puts it “I deny my inner darkness, giving it more power over me, or I project it onto other people, creating ‘enemies’ where none exist.” While there is no need to dwell on these facets, recognizing their existence opens us to releasing them. Palmer also says “Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.” As I see it in this moment, happiness and wholeness are not about being all smiles and laughter. Instead, they are a deeprooted sense of well-being that sustains through feelings of sadness, hurt, anger, joy, and circumstances that overwhelm.

I’ve asked a lot of questions and here are a few more; what lights up both your soul and your ego? What unifies your emotions and your intellect? What nourishes your body and spirit?

The answers may be the foundation of your story, your chance for joy and a life of wholeness and fulfillment.

Contents articles 10 What is Anxiety?

by Donna Bird 13 Holidy Relationship Survival Guide

by Angela Kaufman 16 Change Your Attention, Change Your Life

by Jennice Vihauer

18 Gratefulness

by Wendy Ball 20 The Aura: Your Body’s Bodyguard

by Marion Bergan Irwin 24 What is Intuition

by Allison Petroski 26 10 Reasons to Go Nuts for Nutmeg

by Dr. Sarah LoBisco 29 Healing With Meaning & Purpose

by Ann Carey Tobin, MD

features 6 Our Community 17 Book To Read 30 Ask The Practitioner 32 34 36

by Jerome Pindell, Gregg St. Clair, and Lynn Allison Your Astrological Forecast

by Arlene DeAngelus Calendar Directory

Healing Springs Mission:

From my soul, photo by Sarah Pezdek

With knowledge comes choice. Our mission at The Healing Springs Journal is to address the whole person by providing articles and stories that allow the reader to make empowered lifestyle decisions in relation to the wellness of their mind, body, spirit, and environment.

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Left to Right – Caitlyn Perrault, Jacob Meehan and Caden Meehan are collecting hats and mittens for families in need.

Three local kids are working to collect hats and mittens now through December 7, 2014. This is the third time ten year old Caitlyn Perrault has helped coordinate such a drive and the first time it has been held it in New York. This year, with assis-

tance from her stepbrothers, Jacob Meehan (12 years old) and Caden Meehan (9 years old), they are collecting new hats and mittens in an effort to keep local Saratoga County children warm.

Sizes for hats and mittens range from toddlers to teenagers. They are also accepting new hats, scarves and gloves for adults.

Donations will be given to the Franklin Community Center, located in downtown Saratoga Springs. The Center provides basic necessities and services to over 6,000 individuals annually and has been helping the community for over 30 years. Hats and mittens will also be given to the Stillwater Food Pantry.

Drop boxes are located at the following locations now through December 7: Healthy Living Market and Café at the Wilton Mall, the YMCA in Wilton (20 Old Gick Road) and the YMCA in Saratoga Springs (290 West Avenue).

Organizations or business interested in hosting their own drive or having a drop box are asked to contact Trish Perrault at marketing68@aol.com.

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The Second Annual Albany Peace Project scheduled To Begin January 2015 Do you ever watch the news and feel discouraged?

Do you often feel stressed and trapped with life’s challenges?

If so, you may want to participate in the The Albany Peace Project that not only empowers people to cope more effectively with their own personal stressors, but may also simultaneously positively impact Albany, NY. The Albany Peace Project is a 10 year research study designed to determine if an organized group of trained meditators creating a "coherent state" in their bodies and then focusing peaceful intention outwardly can measurably reduce local violence. The hypothesis is that focused peaceful intention has real world impact, and dozens of prior research studies suggest it as well. The Albany Peace Project team is gathering evidence to determine if this approach can positively impact our local community.

Each day in January 2015, meditations will be emailed to over 1000 participants that will lead them into a state of peaceful coherence, and Karin Reinhold, professor of Mathematics at SUNY Albany, will review the violent crime data of the Albany Police Department to determine if the positive intentions made a measurable impact.

This year The Albany Peace Project is collaborating with the Institute of HeartMath, an internationally recognized nonprofit research and education organization dedicated to helping people reduce stress, self-regulate emotions and build energy and resilience to live more healthy, happy lives. The Albany Peace Project will offer daily meditations that include the Institute of HeartMath’s evidence based technique, the Heart Lock-In® which reliably leads participants’ nervous systems into a state known as “coherence”.

Personal coherence,refers to the synchronization of the physical, mental and emotional systems. It can be measured by heartrhythm patterns: The more balanced and smooth they are, the more in sync, or coherent, we are. Stress levels recede, energy levels increase a state of optimal clarity, perception and performance emerges.

The founder of the Albany Peace Project is Bethany Gonyea, a biofeedback specialist who has observed the power of focused intention inside the body for over twenty years through her biofeedback practice. Biofeedback therapy involves training patients to control physiological processes such as muscle tension, blood pressure, or heart rate. These processes usually occur involuntarily, however, patients who receive training can learn how to manipulate them at will to treat chronic pain, urinary incontinence, high blood pressure, tension headache, and migraine headache.

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ers. “Once people experience the healing power of their own harnessed intention, a growing confidence pervades their entire lives, and they eventually take on greater challenges. The Albany Peace Project is basing it’s protocol on a growing body of evidence that suggests these same intentional skills that cause positive change inside the body may have an impact outside of the body as well. Simply put…What we observe, we disturb.”

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What Is ANXIETY, and How Can You Tame It?

by Donna Bird, LCSW tress vs Anxiety – Stress develops when forces from the world affect us in negative ways. Like life changes, negative and positive events and daily challenges. Many of us can deal with those things without experiencing long-term negative effects. People with Anxiety Disorders, like General Anxiety Disorder (GAD), experience constant physical and emotional affects on a regular daily basis. They worry about every day problems like: their job; money; family; health; household chores; their car; appointments; daily details, etc. They live in perpetual fear. GAD affects about 6.8 million Americans. It also affects twice as many women as men. Some possible physical symptoms of Anxiety are: headaches; heart palpitations; colon spasms, diarrhea/constipation; dry mouth; shallow breathing; frequent urination; sexual problems; aches and pains; trembling of the body (inside or outside); feeling “on edge”, impatient or irritable; poor concentration; forgetfulness; sleep problems; hyper vigilance, etc. People with anxiety want to be “in charge” of their environments to reduce the fear they experience.

Anxiety feels like a constant turbulent river running inside.

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• heredity • brain chemistry • personality • life experiences

Heredity and anxiety disorders: Research shows that anxiety disorders run in families. If you think about your relatives, some may have behaviors that are annoying and unexplained, until you become aware that the causes of their overreactions may be due to the fact that they live in fear. Many people who are: perfectionist types; abuse drugs/alcohol; seem controlling or angry; worry excessively; are shy or aggressive; restrict life; fear rejection; don’t feel safe; etc. may suffer from anxiety.

Brain chemistry and anxiety disorders:

Because symptoms of anxiety disorders are often relieved by medications that alter levels of chemicals in the brain, scientists believe that brain chemistry appears to play a role in the onset of When I work with people with anxiety, I help them to understand anxiety disorders. I believe that some types of anxiety can be anxiety is not their fault, and that it is caused by 4 factors: managed by using life-style change and symptom coping skills.

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performances and sees them excelling; ignores the positive qualities you have.

Personality and anxiety disorders:

The Victim (promotes depression) sometimes feels helpless or hopeless; tells you that you’re not progressing; believes there is something defective about you; perceives insurmountable obstacles to your success; believes nothing will ever change.

Researchers believe that personality may play a role in the development of an anxiety disorder, noting that people who have low self-esteem and poor coping skills may be more prone. If a person has an “easy going” temperament instead of an intense one, they will be able to deal with life in a calmer, more manageable way.

Life experiences and anxiety disorders:

The Perfectionist: (promotes chronic stress & burnout) nags you to “do better” because your effort is not enough; hounds you to work harder, faster, longer, to be more productive; wants you to be the best; intolerant of mistakes/setbacks; pushes you into exhaustion and burnout over time.

Anxiety seldom disappears completely. Learning how to manage Researchers believe that the relationship between anxiety disor- it can help you to feel empowered and “in charge” again. ders and long-term exposure to abuse (physical, emotional, sex- How To Tame The Anxiety: • Take multiple B vitamins ual); violence; rape; or poverty as a child or adult may affect an • Do yoga and/or bodywork person’s susceptibility to anxiety. Contributing factors could also • Recite positive self-statements throughout the day be, if you had a childhood where your parent abused alcohol; • Learn meditation and/or self-hypnosis were neglectful of you; abandoned you; or your parents had a • Focus on your good qualities and accomplishments relationship filled with conflict; etc.

• Exercise regularly by doing something you enjoy • Eliminate as much “simple sugar” and starches from your diet as you can • Expect to feel uncomfortable from stressful situations • Talk with friends or someone you can trust about your The Worrier (what if, what if) anticipates the worst scenario; worries/problems overestimates the chances of something bad or embarrassing • Recognize and accept your limits (remember we are all happening; creates grandiose images of failure or catastrophe. unique and different) The Critic: (promotes low self esteem) constantly judges and • When you choose specific tasks and goals, make sure evaluates your behavior; points out flaws and limitations about you; jumps on any mistake you make; compares you with others your expectations are reasonable #77 December, 2014—January, 2015 I Healing Springs 11

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• Become aware of how/when your body and mind are reacting to stressors, so you can manage them • Practice Diaphragm Breathing Breaks, 3 times a day, and when you’re feeling anxious • Eliminate or reduce stimulates such as caffeine from your diet (i.e. coffee, tea, chocolate, colas) • Set your own priorities and ask your boss to set priorities for you at work, if necessary • When studying for an exam, or working on a large project, work in short blocks of time and take frequent short breaks • Allow yourself 2 hours to “unwind” before you actually lie down to sleep (guided imagery and/or nature sound CDs, with headphones help promote sleep) .

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If you’ve previously tried the above suggestions and are still having problems, you may benefit from going to a Licensed Holistic Therapist for alternative help. I use a combination of breathing methods, energy medicine techniques, self-hypnosis, guided imagery CDs and the most up-to-date Power Therapies. Sometimes people with anxiety have experienced trauma and need additional/alternative treatment. Talk therapy mostly addresses only the right side of the brain, so healing can be a lengthy process, and sometimes doesn’t integrate the trauma. Whereas, therapies such as Hypnosis, interacts with the subconscious mind, and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) address both hemispheres of the brain, so healing trauma is usually much quicker.

Sometimes it’s difficult to find the time for daily self-care to ease anxiety. However, you are responsible for your well-being and you deserve to be healthy. Because you have anxiety, you may have to devote more time and effort into Taming your anxiety than you thought, similar to a person with diabetes who has to take time daily to plan meals, take blood sugar readings, etc. to maintain their health.

Anxiety maintenance is similar. Set your intention to make time for yourself each day. Try actually writing your breathing breaks, selfhypnosis, exercise times and nightly wind-down time into your daily planner/palm pilot, to make sure you don’t schedule over your time.

You are just as important as those other appointments. Remember people with anxiety have a way of burning themselves up and out because they “drive” themselves into burnout at an early age, unconsciously. You deserve more than that. Be kind to yourself. Find time for the self-care and your anxiety will decrease.

Donna Bird, LCSW, CCH is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in Mind-Body Counseling and Coaching. She is nationally certified in Hypnosis, E.M.D.R., Interactive Imagery, Hypnobirthing, TFT and Wave Work. She has studied meditation since 1984. In 1990 she began teaching stress reduction and meditation in the government sector. Donna also produces Self-Help CDs that are available in her offices and on her website: www.donnabird.com. She has a private practice in Saratoga Springs, NY. You can contact her through her website, or at (518) 584-0698.

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by Angela Kaufman hether your religious affiliations range from devout to nonconventional, or even nonexistent, chances are there will be some cause for gathering and celebration between November and January. In spite of positive intentions to the contrary, most of us have a fair number of holiday gathering hang ups that threaten to turn the season of gratitude and good cheer into the season of rumination over uncomfortable holiday dinner discussions that often begin with statements such as “You know your sister got another promotion….when are YOU going to get a promotion?” or the much dreaded “oh, you will be coming to Thanksgiving Dinner ALONE again this year?” Here are a few strategies to prepare you to keep you jolly and optimistic during the dark- and sometimes difficult- holiday festivities.

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soap-opera scene in your mind, playing out in Technicolor, bringing to life your worst-case-scenario fears of what relatives might say because you are “still single” or “single again” or “still at that job” or “still have that kid who is having problems”…..relax, breathe, and remind yourself that this matinee is only playing on your mind’s movie projector because you loaded the reel yourself.

Imagine yourself changing the reel to change the film to change the scene. Practice actively taking charge of the scenes in your mind on a regular basis. Whether in the start of the day or when anxiety is rising, make it an intentional active practice of switching the channel (or website etc.) to display a new scene. Let this new scene be a vivid representation of a harmonious gathering in which you are glowing, peaceful, confident, regardless of what others may say or do around you. We often fall into playing negative scenes and visualizing worst case scenarios, but we can actively change the scene by changing the image in our minds.

Rather than imagining attending the depressing holiday parties without a date by your side, picture yourself smiling, radiant and having a blast with friends all evening, perhaps even meeting and dancing with a new handsome stranger before the night is over….

Choose Peace for one day If opposing forces in WWI could set aside their machine guns, step out of the trenches, shake hands and play soccer for a day in honor of the holiday spirit, why does it seem that for so many of us relationships we’ve avoided all year round have to culminate in a battle ground around the holiday dinner table?

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Connect With the Reason For the Season Develop a personal anchor that keeps you connected to the spiritual or cultural importance of the celebration so that petty arguments and nuisances will be less likely to take hold. Whether the reason for the season is a Divine birth, welcoming of winter, or acknowledgement of survival through oppression, there is more to the months ahead than a constant reason to shop, drink, eat and be stressed…er, merry. Remember the significance of the season and make that your focus regardless of others’ foibles or faults. You may find it helpful to carry a personal token that grounds you in the purpose of the festivities and reminds you of what you intend to celebrate.

Dealing with Criticism in Disguise

Invalidating or demeaning statements made by others and candy coated to sound like questions or concerns are another source of dinner table discomfort for many women. Questions about relationship status, or career that sound more like criticism than genuine inquiry can push buttons and dredge up self doubts. To cope with this, try to hear the emotion behind the question rather than taking the question, or critique, at face value. For example, when mom asks “are you still working that job with lousy benefits, because you know your sister just got a promotion at her company…” ask yourself if perhaps what mom is really conveying is genuine fear or concern about your financial stability or well being.

By responding to the emotion more rather than battling over the question, you can assuage mom’s concern by addressing the positives about your job, thanking her for her concern, and outlining the steps you have taken to grow your career via your own path.

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grudge like it was an interest bearing asset (sun in Cancer) although I strive to pick my battles, when feeling emotionally charged, or morally self righteous, this can be a real challenge for me. I strive to set the agenda for peace and tolerance even if it means (gasp) others won’t know that they are wrong and I am right (at least according to me!) Even in the best of cases family gatherings can bring up old tensions and hostilities, old conflicts.

To help promote peace amidst a collection of loved ones who may at times trigger old emotional reaction switches, practice these tips. Look for your love alliance at family gatherings. If a few cousins or in-laws get under your skin, focus on connecting with cherished family members not often seen throughout the year. If a houseful of children whose behavior makes your blood boil threatens to dampen the holiday mood, focus on your connection to family elders. Listen to their stories and bond with the agenda of having the peaceful gathering they deserve, regardless of annoying distractions that may appear. On the other hand, if drama tends to emerge amongst adults at the dinner table, old family politics and power struggles, get immersed in the innocence and enthusiasm of younger members of your family. Focus on the loving alliances in your family. The key is to ally with love, not in shared resentment creating triangles.

Find Your Family Complaining about family tensions may seem a luxury to some who for various reasons do not have a family with whom to celebrate this season. If you are an enlightened woman on her own this year, your holiday stressors take a different form. Isolation and depression can be detrimental to even the most savvy and independent modern women. Combine seasonal darkness with a constant onslaught of old memories as another year ends, and throw in a heaping spoonful of cultural pressure to be happily in love, maternal, and smiling, and many are left with a recipe for despair.

Remember that stereotypes defining “family” are just that.

Whether tv and media validate it or not, we all have family in the form of our closest alliances. Although holiday marketing does not target or even acknowledge some forms of family, being on your own does not mean you have to be alone. My immediate family consists of my partner and our 6 furry children who lack opposable thumbs, nevertheless we have a family filled with love, and often amusement. If you are living alone and long to feel connected and celebrate with others, find your family. Perhaps it is your community group, your animals, your neighbors, your friends, coworkers, the people who love you unconditionally regardless of lack of shared DNA. Experience as a counselor in mental health and substance abuse recovery taught me to appreciate this. One of the happiest sights I have ever seen was the yearly holiday party held by a mental health treatment agency I worked for, serving people with severe, persistent and chronic mental illness who would have lived in institutions 10 years ago.

The sight of 20 people gathered together bonded only by their shared participation in this treatment program, many of whom had no biological families around, most of whom seldom left the house throughout the year for any other reason, was amazing.

These individuals would connect with each other on this occasion and for many this was the most socializing they would do for the year, but they looked forward to it. An administrator in the program once asked a client at this event how they would spend their holiday, to which the client replied “this is it.” If these otherwise disconnected and disadvantaged individuals could find family even for one day out of the year in the company of their peers, any of us can find family amongst our network. Avoid loneliness by nurturing your connections where they exist rather than focusing on the connections that no longer exist.

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by Jennice Vilhauer, PhD ost people think that the causes of emotional pain are the things that have hurt us in life, and that in order to heal and experience real happiness we must resolve those old wounds. The reality, however, is somewhat different. We can only feel emotions, including the painful ones, in the present moment.

What we feel in the present moment is determined by what we give our attention to. Nothing can hurt you unless you give your attention to it. Most people can make themselves cry in just a few minutes by simply pulling up a vivid memory of something that was at the time painful. So why would we give our attention to things that cause us pain? Most people are simply unaware that they are doing it and/or that there is any choice in the matter.

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However, shifting your attention, once you are aware you can do it, is something you can have complete control over. You can choose what you want to pay attention to in life, and as a result you can choose how you want to feel. Does that sound too easy?

Here is a tool that will make it even easier. There are only two types of things in life that you can pay attention to that cause you to experience emotion: things you want and things you don’t want. Every single thing that you can think of that causes any type of significant emotion can be sorted into one of those two categories. Breakups, job loss, betrayal, death of a loved one — all things you don’t want; pets, best friends, birthday parties, getting a raise — all things you do want.

You will always know when you are giving your attention to things that you don’t want in life, because your emotions will tell you. Giving attention to things you don’t want generates negative emotions, while giving attention to things you do want gen-

erates positive ones. When you realize that you are experiencing a negative emotion, recognize in that moment that you are giving your attention to something unwanted and consciously choose to shift your attention to something you want instead.

You will start to feel better almost immediately. This isn’t merely avoidance; it is a proactive coping strategy that can give you greater control over your life. One way to do this that we know works very well is to practice gratitude: things that you are thankful for are all wanted things in your life.

One of the most self-sabotaging things that people can give their attention to is an unwanted future. Nothing in the future has actually happened, yet many people spend a good deal of their time experiencing negative emotions like anxiety, fear, and self-doubt because they are giving their attention to things that they don’t want to occur. Doing this not only robs them of their presentmoment happiness but prevents them from thinking about the positive experiences they could instead be creating in their future.

Our attention is the gateway to what we experience in life.

Learning to notice what you are paying attention to, and how to redirect your attention to things you want, can change not only your current experience but the life you create for yourself going forward.

Based on the book Think Forward to Thrive. Copyright © 2014

by Jennice Vilhauer, PhD. Reprinted with permission from New World Library. www.NewWorldLibrary.com Psychologist Jennice Vilhauer, PhD, is the director of the Adult Outpatient Psychotherapy Program at Emory University and has more than twelve years of experience with clients. She lives in Atlanta, GA and her website is FutureDirectedTherapy.com.

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In wildlife conservation work, rewilding refers to habitat restoration and the creation of corridors between preserved lands to allow declining populations to rebound. Marc Bekoff, one of the world’s most engaging animal experts and activists, here applies rewilding to human attitudes. He argues that unless we rewild ourselves, becoming profoundly reconnected to nature and fundamentally shifting our consciousness, our conservation efforts will have but limited impact.

Bekoff says, “As I consider a more global and holistic perspective, I go beyond my specific areas of expertise in ethology and compassionate conservation to consider biology, psychology, sociology, philosophy, and anthropology. All of these, in fact, inform studies of animal behavior, animal minds, and conservation biology, but they are not always acknowledged. I also speak as an activist arguing for social change. Ultimately, what we need is not more information about animals, but a social movement and revolution in how we interact with animals and nature.”

In the new book he discusses: • The Eight Ps of Rewilding as a social movement (being proactive, positive, persistent, patient, peaceful, practical, powerful, and passionate) • Incorporating Rewilding in one’s day-to-day • How to become reenchanted with nature — even if you live in Manhattan • How facing world problems can make our lives more meaningful and satisfying • How to stop ourselves from feeling overwhelmed when facing global crisis Bekoff shows that as we transition to acting from the inside out, our efforts become powerfully proactive, moving beyond simply reacting to current crises. Ultimately, REWILDING OUR HEARTS invites readers to become reenchanted with the world and, by dissolving false boundaries, to truly connect with both nature and themselves.

Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has worked alongside leading writers and activists including Jane Goodall, Peter Singer, and PETA cofounder Ingrid Newkirk. He lives in Boulder, CO.

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by Wendy Ball hen I was in Peru this summer I spent the best part of two weeks scrambling up mountain trails after the sturdy and nimble footed Quero shamans who were part of our company, participating daily in ceremony which was an integral part of their lifestyle. They live in intimate connection with nature: with the mountains, with the sky, with the earth. They use their breath to move the energy of prayer into stones, flowers, leaves - anything that can be held in their hand and worked into prayer bundles that hold their gratefulness. The energy that arises from these "despacho" ceremonies is palpable and ecstatic. I began to understand how these people perceived the mountains, the clouds, the earth, as having consciousness and to experience a sense of intimate relationship with nature, of being held. To experience this in the boundless beauty of Peruvian mountain landscapes triggered deep gratefulness as a natural response of my soul. How could one resist feeling grateful, for the miracle of human embodied life. A natural response, yes, but a response that was nurtured daily by practice.

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Every time I open and close sacred space I both call in and say thank you: to the directions, to the great archetypal energies that surround, support, and inform us, to the planet, Gaia, the great earth mother, to the sky, moon, stars, spirit, that overlight and guide us. “Calling in” acknowledges the potential of being in relationship. I am not alone. Gratefulness is my hearts response: Thank you thank you thank you.

Altars are another way of coming into relationship with something or someone in a special way, to honor, to say thank you. Humans have been making altars since the dawn of time. They have been collecting bits and pieces of things, or images, or amulets, or messages, and placing them with intention in a designated place in order to honor, to appease, to channel communication. Children do this instinctively. They collect things that feel special to them and make little piles of them or put them in places that feel special to them. Many of us grew up in homes that had a photo corner of important relatives. My mother has an ancestor wall, a wall that served as a photo gallery of relatives both dead and alive, including a beloved pet. Now I smile and say thank you when I pass that wall.

As a Canadian I was inspired to experience the dedication and enthusiasm with which Americans celebrate their Thanksgiving holiday. It was explained to me that in this "melting pot" cultural environment it is the one holiday everyone can celebrate together. This holiday is a unifier. We have the infrastructure for prac-

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“In difficult times whether they be individual, personal, or collective, a practice of gratefulness is healing in that it fosters the experience of positive connection to people and things” ticing gratefulness in our culture. You might be inspired to excavate the practice of saying grace before a meal. Many still do this. It is a great time, supported by the energy of a tradition familiar to most of us, to sat thank you - thank you for all of it, thank you for the opportunity, one more time, to sing the song of life.

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Eden Energy Medicine defines the functions of the aura: • “The aura protects you from the physical, emotional, and psychic energies of your environment by screening harmful energies (it acts as a space suit or lightening rod).

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My third year of clinical training involved working with clients while a mentor watched via Skype. In one particular session I was working with someone who struggled with speaking up for himself and felt that people didn’t pay attention to him. Almost feeling invisible in certain respects. In the past I had considered working with his aura, but had always deferred to the meridians to address physical symptoms. During this session, my mentor saw that his aura was “thin and weak” and suggested doing Figure 8’s to strengthen it. Figure 8?s are a fundamental pattern which our energetic bodies are based upon. One of the ways of maintaining the health of the aura is to trace Figure 8?s large and small all over the body. I spent 45 minutes weaving Figure 8?s in every way imaginable. I have to confess, at the time, I thought it was a bit over the top. However, as he later reported, when he returned home his family noticed a distinctly stronger presence, and had a bit of an adjustment to accommodate his new energy. Part of my self-care assignment for him was to continue doing Figure 8?s in the aura on a daily basis. Roughly six months after this session, he reported that all the problematic life issues he had been experiencing had magically resolved themselves. I was stunned; lesson learned!

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www.saratogaintegrativepractitioners.com guard, it will filter out energies that are detrimental, and bring supportive, nourishing energy to us. An aura that is “thin and weak” will allow aggressive events to penetrate our lives, while a strong aura will naturally align us with circumstances and events that support our well-being and highest potential. In my client’s case, we see the aura’s intelligence at work resolving unsatisfying life circumstances. After intensive efforts to rebuild the integrity of his aura, it began to work its silent magic to bring about the energetic changes needed to have him be more present and assertive in his life. This on its own would contribute to significant relational changes, but his aura was still on the job not only filtering out aggressive energy in all areas of his life, but also pulling in unforeseen circumstances that significantly improved the quality of his life and harmony experienced in his relationships.

What I learned from this is just how powerful and intelligent the aura is in helping to create happy, fulfilling lives and relationships. If we extend this function just a bit further, isn’t it possible the aura functions as part of our spiritual anatomy, as we see depicted in the artistry of our saints? With some work we too have the potential to have a radiant halo! After all, isn’t that our highest calling?

Much of the information for this article is based on the book “Energy Medicine” by Donna Eden & David Feinstein, Ph.D. (Tarcher/Penguin Putnam, 2008) and information at www.LearnEnergyMedicine.com.

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What is intuition?

How can I tap into it?

by Allison Petroski everal years ago, after training in an energy modality called ThetaHealing, I was taught how to scan a person’s body and give a reading of the chakras and energy. After several months of using this method, my readings opened up, and I found that through my natural love of writing, I was able to receive intuitive messages about a person when I wrote them out. When I do the automatic writing, all I need is someone’s name, and I connect with Higher Self consciousness, and detailed information comes through on the person I am reading, providing guidance and clarity on all of life’s mysteries- big or small. This column is a sample the higher perspectives that are available to us all. If you would like the opportunity to recieve a reading, write in with questions about your personal experiences and we will print it.

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Thank you for this interaction today. We are grateful for the opportunity to communicate with you all. It is important for you to know, that although you may believe that you are the one asking questions, and receiving information, or that you are the one

benefiting from the perspective of Higher Self Consciousness, in truth, We from Higher Self Consciousness are learning and expanding with you, through these interactions. For every time there is a shift in consciousness, no matter how small or individual the shift, it sets a wake across the totality of Universal Consciousness. Every opportunity to tap into a higher awareness is a moment of expansion. For Us, and for you- because there is no real separation between the two. So, thank you, for your willingness to be part of the expanding consciousness. We say this for you to acknowledge and own your personal role in spiritual awakening- you are not just the receivers of higher awareness, you are the activators of it. This is a partnership, a co-creation.

The non-physical realm and the physical realm are working together for this spiritual awakening- do not discredit yourselves and think that you are less powerful, less insightful, “less” in any way. The only separation between you and Us, Us being Higher Self Consciousness, is that you believe yourself to be less than you are. You are an aspect of Source Energy, God, The Universe- the title makes no difference. We in the non-physical know what We are, so there is no separation. That knowing is available to you as well.

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Intuition is this knowing. It is the allowing of your natural connection to Source. Yes, it can be developed in ways that allow some to perform unique talents of multi-dimensional/ extra-sensory communications- but that is a more advanced variation of an innate ability. intuition. Everyone has intuition- and uses it on a daily basis. It is such a natural part of your life, that you have forgotten the magic and mystery of it. You may have played it down with words such as “coincidence,” or resorted to beliefs that rationalize certain events. Human kind has minimized intuition because it has not been captured or confined by scientific data or measurements.

Intuition is the way that you and Source communicate with one another; there is no way to measure that, because it is limitless, infinite- and purely unique from one person to the next.

If you wish to reconnect with your intuition, to communicate with Source, begin to bring back the moments of awe and wonder in your life. Start looking at your life with the wonderment of Source- when you look at a flower, take a moment to BE with it. Explore it with all of your senses. Feel it inside of you, see it’s beauty with the eyes of a child; hear itopen all of yourself up to the experience- be fully present with the flower. This is a powerful meditation practice, as well as a way to realign with the fascination and curiosity that is your natural state. If you wish to be a channel for Source, you must put

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yourself in the frequency of Source. When you focus your attention on the ramblings of the ego/ personality, then your experience will reflect those uncertainties. If you wish to communicate and be guided by Source, through intuition, then you must begin to know yourself as that. This is a practice, learned as layers are pulled back and more space revealed- so be gentle with yourself.

You are your most direct route to the divine, so honor how you show up. Feel what you must feel, accept it with love and compassion. There have been lifetimes of separation and self-depreciating beliefs that must be cleared and replaced. Every realization, every clearing, opens up space for you to refocus your alignment with Source, to replace the fear with love and compassion. Intuition guides all of this. It is so much an active part of you already that you don’t even acknowledge it’s presence. To hear it more clearly, We invite you to direct your focus to your connection with Source- with the light and love that you are, which is your natural state.

Thank you for communicating with Us today. We are grateful for your openness. Many blessings.

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Reasons To Go Nuts for Nutmeg

by Sarah Lobisco h…the sweet smells of the holiday season! What is your favorite sweet-smelling spice? Many of my clients have cinnamon, ginger, or that amazing golden hero, turmeric at the top of their lists. These are all beneficial and perfect for spicing up holiday treats! They all possess potent compounds that can support the immune system and may decrease inflammation. This month, I got the opportunity to try my newest sidekick essential oil.

I started diffusing it and smelling it daily. It had me at “Yummo!”

So, the nerd that I am, I started my journey into research articles with PubMed and Dr. Google (Scholar). I now have some validation for my fondness of this essential oil and I am eager to learn more as natural medicine gets its rightful place in research studies.

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Here are the 10 reasons why you should consider adding nutmeg to “spice up” your life (you can access the full abstracts on my website):

1. It Is Promising for Brain Support Several studies have demonstrated that nutmeg may have an ability to modulate the enzyme acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme which is thought to be involved with memory. The first abstract demonstrated the most activity with an extract of nutmeg on this enzyme verses the second comparison study. This may be due to the first study’s methods of isolation and analysis of various compounds in nutmeg.

2. For Healthy Mood Support…Of Mood & Mice In an old mice study which studied constituents in nutmeg, myristicin had an effect of increasing the concentration of the brain happy amino acid, 5-hydorxyytrupatamine (a precursor to serotonin). Furthermore, other components appeared to cause nervous system stimulation.

Nutmeg and its active component, myristicin, show evidence of central monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibition by their ability to lower the convulsive dose of intravenous tryptamine in mice and to increase rat brain 5-hydroxytryptamine concentrations. They also show some ability to antagonize reserpine-induced ptosis of the eyelids. Myristicin is chemically unique as a nitrogen-free MAO inhibitor. Although its potency in this respect is not comparable to some of the more potent inhibitors such as tranylHealing Springs I #77 December, 2014—January, 2015

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cypromine and iproniazid, it seems quite adequate when compared to its low toxicity. Other volatile components of nutmeg such as borneol, geraniol and safrole, do not show tryptamine potentiation, although some appear to cause C.N.S. stimulation in high doses. Further study is recommended for more direct evidence of nutmeg and myristicin as enzyme inhibitors and for their utility as anti-depressant drugs.

3. It May Help Mitochondria Revive!

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Our mitochondria are known as “cellular powerhouses” for energy production in our bodies. This abstract aimed to study the molecular mechanisms underlying the activity of a component in nutmeg, myristicin. It demonstrated that this component could modulate gene expression in human leukemia cells. The gene expression profile revealed an overall down- regulation of DNA damage response genes after exposure to myristicin.

Myristicin, an allylbenzene, is a major active component of various spices, such as nutmeg and cinnamon, plants from the Umbelliferae family or in some essential oils, such as oils of clove or marjoram. Human exposure to myristicin is low but widespread due to consumption of these spices and essential oils, added to food (e.g. cola drinks) or in traditional medicine. Occasionally high dose exposure occurs, leading to various clinical symptoms, however the molecular mechanisms underlying them are unknown. Our previous studies revealed that myristicin is not genotoxic and yet presented apoptotic activity. Therefore, in this work we assessed the apoptotic mechanisms induced by myristicin in human leukaemia cells. In order to gain further insight on the potential of myristicin to modulate gene expression we also analysed alterations in expression of 84 genes associated with the DNA damage response pathway. The results obtained show that myristicin can induce apoptosis as characterised by alterations in the mitochondrial membrane potential, cytochrome c release, caspase-3 activation, PARP-cleavage and DNA fragmentation. The gene expression profile revealed an overall down regulation of DNA damage response genes after exposure to myristicin, with significant under-expression of genes associated with nucleotide excision repair (ERCC1), double strand break repair (RAD50, RAD51) and DNA damage signalling (ATM) and stress response (GADD45A, GADD45G). On the whole, we demonstrate that myristicin can alter mitochondrial membrane function, induce apoptosis and modulate gene expression in human leukaemia K562 cells. This study provides further detail on the molecular mechanisms underlying the biological activity of myristicin.

4. It’s All About the Phenols, Baby

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Oh, poor nutmeg! It has been way under looked for its ability to scavenge free radicals which are associated with cellular damage.

In a menthol extract, nutmeg had a lot of antioxidant power.

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5. For Supporting Healthy Teeth In petri dishes, nutmeg inhibited nasty cavity-forming bacteria.

The occurrence of dental caries is mainly associated with oral pathogens, especially cariogenic Streptococcus mutans.

Preliminary antibacterial screening revealed that the extract of Myristica fragrans, widely cultivated for the spice and flavor of foods, possessed strong inhibitory activity against S. mutans.

6. Liver Support In a study with our rodent friends, myristicin suppressed inflammatory markers and showed evidence that it may protect liver cells from damage caused by lipopolyscarrarides (LPS) plus dgalactosamine. (Yuck, I dislike the damaging microbial LPS plus sugar toxin test, but it must be done!)

To evaluate the hepatoprotective activity of spices, 21 different spices were fed to rats with liver damage caused by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) plus d-galactosamine (D-GalN). As assessed by plasma aminotranferase activities, nutmeg showed the most potent hepatoprotective activity. Bioassay-guided isolation of the active compound from nutmeg was carried out in mice by a single oral administration of the respective fractions. Myristicin, one of the major essential oils of nutmeg, was found to possess extraordinarily potent hepatoprotective activity. Myristicin markedly suppressed LPS/D-GalN-induced enhancement of serum TNF-? concentrations and hepatic DNA fragmentation in mice. These findings suggest that the hepatoprotective activity of myristicin might be, at least in part, due to the inhibition of TNF? release from macrophages. However, further studies are needed to elucidate the hepatoprotective mechanism(s) of myristicin.

7. For That Frisky Feeling Speaking of mice, it seems nutmeg made these critters a little frisky when combined with clove. This was according to researchers who were assigned this interesting research topic and noted the mice’s behavior. Background: Spices are considered as sexual invigorators in the Unani System of Medicine. In order to explore the sexual function improving effect of Myristica fragrans Houtt. (nutmeg) and Syzygium aromaticum (L) Merr. & Perry. (clove) an experimental study was conducted in normal male mice.

8. It may help with Poop According to an old case study in the British Medical Journal, nutmeg helped a patient who was having diarrhea (the British say “diarrhoea”) related to various medical issues. This was from an old case report in 1975! In a patient with medullary carcinoma of the thyroid with pulmonary metastases who presented with diarrhoea and steatorrhoea large amounts of prostaglandin-like material were present in peripheral blood, and some was extracted from the tumour. The diarrhoea which persisted after thyroidectomy responded to treatment with nutmeg.

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9. It May Help Your Paw Inflammation and Sticky Blood Action One study showed that nutmeg has action on enzymes involved in inflammatory pathways using mice subjects. It helped with their little paw-induced inflammation.

The chloroform extract of nutmeg has been evaluated for antiinflammatory, analgesic and antithrombotic activities in rodents.

The extract inhibited the carrageenan-induced rat paw oedema, produced a reduction in writhings induced by acetic acid in mice and offered protection against thrombosis induced by ADP/adrenaline mixture in mice.

10. It’s Darn Safe As Directed So, some people have heard of “nutmeg toxicity”. I searched for this and found only one fatal case that was ASSOCIATED with nutmeg overdose which was in 2001. MAJOR CAVEAT to this finding-the fatality was associated with a combination of nutmeg and flunitrazepam, a benzodiazepine. So was it the myristicin in nutmeg or the drug? The study reports it was likely due to a combination.

However, keep in mind that the British Medical Journal reported the following in 2012: “Receiving hypnotic prescriptions was associated with greater than threefold increased hazards of death even when prescribed <18 pills/year. This association held in separate analyses for several commonly used hypnotics and for newer shorter-acting drugs. Control of selective prescription of hypnotics for patients in poor health did not explain the observed excess mortality.”

So, what do you think? Are you going to add some variety to your spice and oil cabinet now?

Sources: To see full abstracts visit: http://dr-lobisco.com/the-10reasons-why-youd-be-nutty-crazy-to-ignore-nutmeg/ Sarah LoBisco, ND is a graduate of the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine (UBCNM). She is licensed in Vermont as a Naturopathic Doctor and holds a BA in psychology. Dr. LoBisco is a professional speaker on integrative medical topics, has several journal publications, and is a candidate for post-doctoral certification in Functional Medicine. Dr. LoBisco currently has a private integrative medical consulting practice located in Ballston Spa, New York where she incorporates her training in holistic medical practices with conventional medicine. Her book, BreakFree Medicine: A Systematic & Integrative Guide to Balancing the Body, will be released in the early fall. Dr. LoBisco can be reached at 518-339-4788, YLEO Independent Distributor 516126, nd@dr-lobisco.com, www.dr-lobisco.com, www.saratoga.com/living-well, http://dr-lobisco.marketingscents.com/ 2015

Healing with Meaning & Purpose

by Ann Carey Tobin, MD ecently I have taken advantage of some long commutes to listen to a book on tape, one loaned to me by a friend “only” four months ago. Not only am I relieved that she may get this book back within the year, but I have gained a useful addition to my bibliotherapy library. Lissa Rankin, M.D. is yet another physician who experienced spectacular burn out, and eventually healed herself by attending to her inner healer. For her this necessitated leaving medicine, liquidating all assets, and moving to the country with her husband and young daughter.

Surrounded by natural beauty she cared for herself, her family, and passionately pursued her painting hobby. Two years later she felt called to return to her profession, and found that her healing continued when she took her place in the supportive environment of an Integrative medicine practice. Dr. Rankin also began to blog, where she found her “tribe” of the like-minded, and grew into the conviction that the mind is the key to optimizing health and wellness. Inspired, and now driven, she delved into the scientific research to shed light on the mind-body relationship, and validate her theory. The result is her book, ‘Mind Over Medicine, Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself.’

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Dr. Rankin discusses the science behind the power of thoughts and emotions, and details how stress, in its many forms, affect real changes in our body. And, of course, she provides advice on how to harness the mind to benefit our mind, body and spirit. Her research and insight resonates with me as an individual, and as a physician. I have known for a long time that fear frequently keeps my patients from embracing the life changes required to open a space for deep and lasting healing. Dr. Rankin suggests engaging in a dialogue with your body and asking it “what do you need to heal?” A honest discussion may provide simple and

common sense feedback: eat whole foods, exercise, get more rest, manage stress, nurture relationships; but, the conversation is probably not complete without also addressing the role of meaning and purpose in your life.

Finding meaning and purpose in one’s life is a keystone to thriving as a human being. It is tempting to define this in the terms of roles–assigned, acquired, or simply fallen into: parent, professional, artist, etc. And, while those roles often define and serve us in some measure, fulfillment of your meaning and purpose– a process that holds the promise of healing, may involve an element of risk and change–scary change. It means a commitment to engaging in contemplative, honest conversations with your authentic self; via meditation, prayer, quiet time, journaling, or other copacetic avenues. And, for many of us, it is an evolutionary process, taking place over time and in phases. As I tell my patients: baby steps are just fine. We can not overestimate, though, the healing power of this inner journey, and of making the difficult decisions to ultimately follow our soul’s purpose. As Mary Oliver invites us to ponder: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” This is an invitation to take the journey inwards, to optimize your health and wellness, and to age gracefully. Be well.

Ann Carey Tobin, M.D., FAAFP, is a board certified family physician. Her integrative medicine consultation practice, Partners in Healing, is located in Delmar. She can be reached at 518.506.6303, by e-mail at atobin.pih@gmail.com, or visit www.partnersinhealing.info

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It is important to make responsible choices and to reflect deeply on what resonates with you. Pursue health options that appreciate the innate power and wisdom of your body, mind and spirit, ones that acknowledge the divine design of the human being. If you follow your truth and support your health by choosing alternatives that have this orientation, the return may well exceed the resources used. You may stay stronger and healthier and avoid extensive medical costs in the future.

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I have been under a doctor's care for a condition that is covered by my health insurance, even though I would prefer to have used alternative methods, but the cost is always a factor. What are your opinions about one versus the other, or even combining the two?

Homeopathy; Jerome Pindell Alternatives do not mean that one needs to take one method over another, or that one is better than another, although I often find my soap box sturdily supports that latter notion. When you have need of western medicine, you should certainly avail yourself of their skills and make good use of the insurance coverage.

The problem arises when the western approach falls short of the ability to provide supportive energies to your healing, or in some cases, involves more negative consequences than the apparent relief that is offered in the short term. Alternatives can often fill a gap where traditional therapeutics may only offer palliative or suppressive measures, which, when viewed over the long term, do more damage than good.

The real value can only be measured in the quality of the health that you desire. If health is to be viewed only in economic terms, then you are outside the realm of my ability to offer you an explanation of why alternative therapies are cost effective in the long term. If you measure health by the long term quality of your living life fully, then you can use traditional western approaches when they are appropriate and alternative ones when they fit your long term desires, or combine the two when that feels appropriate.

Jerome M Pindell uses Homeopathy, Hypnosis, Jin Shin Jyutsu and spiritual counseling to assist his clients. He is a poet whose first book: Training Tracks, poems by implosion, is available through Amazon. He has offices in Clifton Park, Niskayuna, and NYC. He can be reached @ 518-374-5492 or his web site jp@jeromepindell.com

Homeopathy; Claudia Ascione We are living in a time where there are many rich options for optimizing health through the thoughtful inclusion of complements to allopathic medical approaches. Although not always covered by insurance, these options with a focus on prevention and immune support are prudent additions for wellness. The traditional Western medical approaches can and should be thought30 Healing Springs I #77 December, 2014—January,

Allopathic and alternative methods are based on different belief paradigms. Traditional allopathic approaches have a materialistic orientation with an emphasis on the physical body.

Alternative or complementary approaches such as homeopathy and energy treatments such as Jin Shin Jyutsu appreciate the existence of the emotional, spiritual, and subtle, non-physical aspects as well as the physical.

Claudia Ascione, MA. MS. CH. is a practitioner in the healing arts of homeopathy , spiritual counsel, hypnosis, regression and Jin Shin Jyutsu. She uses a deeply intuitive and spiritual approach to bring awareness and clarity to healing concerns.

She offers private sessions in Niskayuna, Manhattan and Ardsley, NY. For more information or to schedule a session, please call (518) 372-7023.

Acupuncture; Gregg St Clair When I started practicing acupuncture in 1998, it was not covered by any insurance and no one expected it to be. That didn’t prevent me from having a full booming practice where everyone paid out of their own pocket for care. The typical patients I see have tried everything from drugs to surgery with western medicine and were not getting the results they wished so were actively seeking out alternatives for relief. Many have heard of acupuncture’s success with pain and were desperate for help so usually money wasn’t an issue.

Today, I must admit everything has changed. Every patient that calls now wants to know if acupuncture is covered, and many aren’t willing to pay for it if not. I think the problems with the economy in 2005 and 2008, uncertainty over the new national health care plans, plus huge gas price increases and inflation have created fear in the marketplace so people have checked their spending. Of course money is an issue, but my experience is we pay for what we value and most people that are motivated always find a way to come in.

The question is; what do you value? Unfortunately when money is an issue, people often put their health care last. The house, car and entertainment come first, but from my perspective, you can’t afford not to put your health first. If you would prefer using alternative methods, you have to find a way to make it work. I once had a woman come to me and flat out said, “I can’t afford to pay you but I know I need to be here. I can paint, or babysit or mow your lawn in payment.” This is exactly the type of patient prac2015

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titioners love to work with because they are motivated to do the work and not looking to merely be fixed.

I have never turned any one away because of money and always found a way to work it out. If money is an issue, talk to your health care provider and you might be surprised. Perhaps you could get a discount or establish a payment plan. The good news is more insurance companies are starting to reimburse for acupuncture. I am a provider for Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield and they have fantastic benefits. I’m also a provider for CDPHP but they cover almost nothing (though supposedly that will change in the future).

Call your insurance company and find out, the more demand they see the more it will change in the future. The majority of my patients though, pay out of pocket, and I’ve been seeing them for years usually one time a month for prevention, maintenance and overall well being.

Don’t hesitate to combine the traditional and alternative therapies.

Most of my patients are also using western medicine for their health, though many are looking for ways to make natural therapies their first line of defense. If you are not getting your needs met with your current health care and suffering physically or mentally, you owe it to yourself and your loved ones to seek help. And that’s why we’re here.

Gregg St.Clair, L.Ac., www.stclairfamilyacupuncture.com, 518-383-1230.

Wild Geese You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

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JANUARY: The New Year brings an interest in one’s philosophy on life, universal laws and abstract teachings. You may decide to complete a course of study. After the Full Moon on the 4th, you are able to catch-up on paperwork, calls and all communications. After Mercury turns retrograde on the 21st, you may undertake new studies to further your career or the equivalent.

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GEMINI ASCENDANT

Astrological December ‘14 & January ‘15

Using Standard Time locate your Rising Sign or Ascendant.

If your birth time is Daylight Savings Time, subtract one hour.

Your actual Rising Sign or Ascendant may differ depending on certain time of birth and dates; however, not to confuse the nonastrologer use the sign indicated for your Forecast. This placement is similar to the transiting planet’s location in your Natal Chart, except for exact degrees, and will correctly indicate your Forecast.

For example, if you are a Gemini born at 6:38 P.M., your Ascendant is Capricorn.

IT SHOULD BE NOTED: In December, Jupiter turns retrograde on the 8th at 22:32 Leo and Uranus goes direct on the 21st at 12:34 Aries. The Full Moon occurs on the 6th at 14:18 Gemini. In January, Mercury turns retrograde on the 21st at 17:01 Aquarius while Jupiter remains retrograde for the month.

The Full Moon occurs on the 4th at 14:31 Cancer.

ARIES ASCENDANT DECEMBER: Prophetic dreams, life’s philosophy and mental pursuits are explored for this month. You may begin a new study or interest. Following the Full Moon on the 5th, you become interested in attending a workshop or formal class. Jupiter turns retrograde on the 8th making your relationships with loved ones and children more playful, creative and somewhat relaxing.

JANUARY: The New Year focuses on career goals, or equivalent, social status and recognition. You work to perfect your skills for future advancement. The Full Moon on the 4th rules your home life and personal affairs and allows you to resolve existing problems. Mercury goes retrograde on the 21st and asks that you examine your goals to see how well they have served you.

TAURUS ASCENDANT

CANCER ASCENDANT DECEMBER: Health awareness, solving problems and work habits are favored for this month. You seek efficiency in both your health and work skills. After the Full Moon on the 5th, you are able to correct any past mistakes and begin to move forward.

After Jupiter goes retrograde on the 8th, you can improve your financial status by using care in your everyday spending.

JANUARY: The New Year favors legal contracts, social involvements and partnerships, both business and personal. This is a good time for sharing with others. The Full Moon on the 4th makes you more sentimental especially toward your family and home area. After Mercury goes retrograde on the 21st, understand and use care when signing contracts or legal agreements.

LEO ASCENDANT DECEMBER: Creative expression, joys of life and speculative ventures are explored for this month. You enjoy your loved ones and children. Following the Full Moon on the 5th, friends ask for your help with their humanitarian groups or community events.

Jupiter turns retrograde on the 8th and makes you redirect your energies into new possibilities and future projects.

JANUARY: The New Year focuses on serving others, work areas and a healthy diet. You seek ways to increase and perfect your work skills for possible advancement. After the Full Moon on the 4th, you seek both spiritual and psychic attunement through quiet times. Mercury goes retrograde on the 21st and you may look for mental encounters in close one-to-one relationships.

VIRGO ASCENDANT

DECEMBER: Family ties, home environment and sense of security are important for this month. You enjoy family events and gatherings. The Full Moon on the 5th rules your career, or the equivalent, and you are apt to receive recognition for a job well-done. After Jupiter goes retrograde on the 8th, it can be a time of personal healing and rejuvenation on an inner level.

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DECEMBER: Shared assets, mysticism and spiritual appreciation are the focus for this month. You are able to settle an old commitment. After the Full Moon on the 5th, you watch unnecessary spending as you tie up financial loose ends and begin budgeting. After Jupiter goes retrograde on the 8th, family relationships improve bringing you a sense of contentment.

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DECEMBER: Compromising, person-to-person issues and forming partnerships are important for this month. You learn about yourself from others. The Full Moon on the 5th brings you a time to examine your habits, your appearance and approach to life. Jupiter turns retrograde on the 8th and makes you more tolerant in your relationships with neighbors and friends.

JANUARY: The New Year highlights changing values, selfregeneration and shared assets. You become interested in the mystical and abstract teachings. Following the Full Moon on the 4th, there may be subtle changes in your finances and spending habits. Mercury turns retrograde on the 21st making you want to gain knowledge either through taking new studies or classes.

endeavors, loved ones and children. You are in the mood to enjoy a good time and have fun. Following the Full Moon on the 4th, you examine your goals and directions and will make desired changes. Mercury turns retrograde on the 21st and you search for ways to acquire new work techniques and skills.

LIBRA ASCENDANT DECEMBER: Educational opportunities, one’s siblings and all communication are highlighted for this month. You will take part in neighborhood projects. After the Full Moon on the 5th, any legal matters usually go well. You have an interest in mental pursuits. Following Jupiter going retrograde on the 8th, you miss the feeling of belonging to a group or cause.

JANUARY: The New Year focuses on one’s personal life, family ties and home environment. You enjoy taking part in and planning family gatherings and events. The Full Moon on the 4th can bring subtle changes in your career direction or the equivalent. After Mercury goes retrograde on the 21st, avoid being insensitive to others, especially your loved ones and children.

SCORPIO ASCENDANT DECEMBER: Building up resources, financial situations and sense of values are examined for this month. You review your spending and saving habits. Following the Full Moon on the 5th, your interest turns toward the mystical as you question the unknown. Jupiter turns retrograde on the 8th and you review your career goals, or the equivalent, and can make any changes.

JANUARY: The New Year involves one in neighborhood projects, community events and educational opportunities. Workshops and formal classes are inviting. After the Full Moon on the 4th, you take a renewed interest in intellectual and spiritual studies.

Mercury turns retrograde on the 21st and you examine your home and personal life to determine if it is meeting your needs.

SAGITTARIUS ASCENDANT DECEMBER: One’s appearance, personal potential and inspiring others are favored for this month. This can be the time for a new hairdo or hair color. The Full Moon on the 5th rules your relationships, both business and personal. Communicating becomes easier. After Jupiter goes retrograde on the 8th, you question your perspective on life and begin to expand your horizons..

JANUARY: The New Year highlights financial security, personal possessions and material rewards. You analyze your finances as well as how your spend and save. Following the Full Moon on the 4th, you are able to pay off old debts and/or commitments. After Mercury goes retrograde on the 21st it is almost impossible to relax. This is a good time for intellectual studies.

4th creates a better understanding of yourself and your relationships. Following Mercury going retrograde on the 21st, you examine your financial security and your personal assets.

AQUARIUS ASCENDANT DECEMBER: Career earnings, humanitarian contributions and sharing with friends are the highlights for this month. You rethink your long-term goals. After the Full Moon on the 5th, you enjoy taking part in creative projects with your loved ones and children. After Jupiter turns retrograde on the 8th, you expand your social involvements in order to meet new people.

JANUARY: The New Year focuses on spiritual rebirth, selfhealing and regeneration. You have an interest in religious retreats, hidden talents and your inner child. After the Full Moon on the 4th, you look forward to improving your health through exercise and diet. After Mercury goes retrograde on the 21st, your mind is active and you can express yourself to others.

PISCES ASCENDANT DECEMBER: Top priorities, one’s social status, career, or the equivalent, are favored for this month. This can be the time of recognition for a project well-done. The Full Moon on the 5th gives you the ability to resolve existing family matters to everyone’s agreement. Jupiter goes retrograde on the 8th and you look for ways to improve your work skills as well as your health care.

JANUARY: The New Year brings sharing with friends, joining new groups and setting goals, This is the time to assess your achievements and make any desired changes. Following the Full Moon on the 4th, creative talents and hobbies are a source of your enjoyment. Mercury turns retrograde on the 21st allowing you to acknowledge your faults and virtues without self-criticism.

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ONGOING Tune In To Wellness Today TV Show, with LisaMarie Tersigni. Meet local wellness providers and learn the benefits of natural wellness modalities, services and products available. View 24/7 at SACC.TV Mondays and Wednesdays Gentle Kripalu Yoga Classes - 4:005:30 PM First class free! Join Nini Gridley for a compassionate blend of warm-ups, sequenced asanas, shavasana, pranayama, and meditation designed to pacify the “Vata” energy through a well rounded yoga practice that is relaxing yet energizing for all levels of practitioners.

Beginners are welcome. It’s gentle for every body. www.yogamandali.com

DECEMBER Tuesday, December 9 "Practical Intuition" with Angela Kaufman 6:30- 8:30. Awaken Your Connection to Spirit, Enhance Your Relationships & Change Your Life. Learn more, visit:namasteyogasaratoga.com and sign-up Saurday, Deember 13 EDEN ENERGY MEDICINE 101 Learn Energy Balancing with Marion Bergan Irwin, L. Ac., EEM-CLP(Eden Energy Medicine Clinical Practitioner) Cost $125 per full day class EM 101 CLASSES: Dec 13, Jan 24 Information and Registration: Marion: 518-229-8188 I berganacupuncture@yahoo.com, www.fiverhythm.com Location TBA (Albany) Saurday, Deember 14 EDEN ENERGY MEDICINE 102, Learn Energy Balancing with Marion Bergan Irwin, L. Ac., EEM-CLP(Eden Energy Medicine Clinical Practitioner) Cost $125 per full day class EM 102 CLASSES: Dec 14, Jan 25 Information

and Registration: Marion: 518-229-8188 I berganacupuncture@yahoo.com, www.fiverhythm.com Location TBA (Albany) Sunday, December 21 New Moon today at 8:36 PM EST Winter Solstice Blessings at the BEST time for fresh starts and new beginnings! Make your MoonWish! Call Nini Gridley for details on this month’s very special New Moon Meditation - 518 573-0571.

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In this workshop we will open up to our wild self through the rhythm of the drum and modern shamanic journeys to facilitate a new and ancient way of being in the world, We will discuss the importance of and ways to partner with the earth who, as our elder, has much wisdom and healing to share. Namaste Yoga, Saratoga Springs. Contact Katrina for registration; katrina@healingspringsjournal.com, 518.332.6581 • $40 EDEN ENERGY MEDICINE 101 Learn Energy Balancing with Marion Bergan Irwin, L. Ac., EEM-CLP(Eden Energy Medicine Clinical Practitioner) Cost $125 per full day class Information and Registration: Marion: 518-229-8188 I berganacupuncture@yahoo.com, www.fiverhythm.com Location TBA (Albany) Sunday, January 25 EDEN ENERGY MEDICINE 102, Learn Energy Balancing with Marion Bergan Irwin, L. Ac., EEM-CLP(Eden Energy Medicine Clinical Practitioner) Cost $125 per full day class Information and Registration: Marion: 518-229-8188 I berganacupuncture@yahoo.com, www.fiverhythm.com Location TBA (Albany)

13 CLAN MOTHERS WORKSHOP – beginning in January “for a deeper understanding of our path as a Woman Elder” For more information, contact Sharon Hurley, WOLF HOLLOW, 518-6967243, shadowolf49@hotmail.com Tuesdays starting Jan 6 -27 Ayurveda 101, Achieve optimum Health through body type awareness, sign-up for Ayurveda 101 4 week workshop. 7:00Tuesday Feb 3rd -24th 8:00pm, Learn more, visit:namasteyo- 4 week Beginners Yoga Series, Learn gasaratoga.com and sign-up proper alignment and form, this class starts Tuesday, January 20 with the basics, fundamental warmEnd the Struggle, End the Suffering, and ups,stretches and postures. Learn more, Find Inner Peace (and why we haven’t visit:namasteyogasaratoga.com and sign-up found it already)—a program about learning how to emerge beyond daily suffering and struggle, and to experience life as continuous peace and beyond circumstances.

With spiritual teacher Oded Ben-Ami. 6:30 Tuesday, March 10 pm, Saratoga Springs Public Library, Free.

Be Your Own Shaman and Call Sponsored by Saratoga Integrative Council, In this workshop you will call Medicine Education Network, or SIMEN. council with your mind, your body, your 518-210-1557. spirit and your guides—opening up comNew Moon today at 8:14 AM EST It is munication inside yourself to create alignthe BEST time for fresh starts and new ment.

Tuesday Nights 6:30-8 6 weeks, beginnings! Make your MoonWish! starting March 10 Namaste Yoga; Contact Nini Gridley for details on the Saratoga Springs $125 for all 6 weeks New Moon Meditation - 518 573-0571.

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MARCH

DIRECTORY GLOSSARY and

ACUPRESSURE Cathy Saladis LMT, Clifton Park and Albany, www.headtotoe123.com, 518-229-0741 ACUPUNCTURE Michael Wayne, Saratoga Springs & Clifton Park, 518-210-1557 The Acupuncture Studio, Glens Falls, 518-615-0505 Cheryl Wong, ND, LAc, Saratoga Springs, cheryl@cherylwongnd.com, www.cherylwongnd.com, 518-288-7083 Ageless Acupuncture, Bridgette Kinder, Saratoga Springs, 518-538-6568, www.agelessinsaratoga.com Acupuncture Nirvana, Glens Falls, 518-409-6993 or kat@acunirvana.com or www.acunirvana.com ANIMAL CARE Jill Stewart, Equine Sports Massage Therapist and Canine Massage Therapist, Certified Aromatherapist 518-339-4348, Jillstwrt@yahoo.com www.Privatelabel-aromatherapy.com Susan Hamlin, The Saratoga Animal Whisperer Animal Communication, 518-245-8010, www.animal-whisper.com Kristina Dallas, DVM. Ancient Arts Veterinary Acupuncture.

Saratoga Springs, NY. 727-2940. Holistic care for pets. House calls.

Andrea Gray, Healing Touch for Animals® Practitioner, Lake George, 518.798.6193, wellnesshta@gmail.com, FB: Wellness Through Heart Centered Healing Touch

able 518-339-4348, Jillstwrt@yahoo.com, www.privatelabel-aromatherapy.com Andrée Fucci, Clinical and Holistic Aromatherapist, classes, consultations, Raindrop Therapy, Reiki, Young Living aromatherapy products, 518.587.7680, essence2essence@yahoo.com ART THERAPY Ann Simpson-McDowell, licensed creative art therapist, Clifton Park, 518-9825376, www.havenofhopecounseling.com ASTROLOGY Arlene DeAngelus, ADeAngelus@aol.com, www.yourstarsite.com

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BACH FLOWER REMEDIES Nini Gridley, MS Ed, BFRP, Consultations by appointment, in person or over the phone. 518-573-0571 or fullspectrumhealing@gmail.com, www.ninigridley.com, CAREER COUNSELING Penny Loretto, 518-798-6057, career@careerchoic.com, www.careerchoic.com CENTERS Still Point Interfaith Retreat Center, www.stillpointretreatcenter.com, 518-587-4967 Kawing Crow Awareness Center, 518-893-2620, www.kawingcrow.com New Thought New York, classes and workshops, 518-384-0942, www.newthoughtnewyork.org

AROMATHERAPY Jill Stewart, Cert. aromatherapist, full CHELATION THERAPY line of human and animal aromatherapy Dr Andrew Garner, Glens Falls, products, single essential oils and custom 5187989401, www.drandrewgarner.com, blends Gift baskets and party favors avail- agarner@roadrunner.com 36 Healing Springs I #77 December, 2014—January, 2015

CHIROPRACTORS Delmar Chiropractic, Delmar, 518-439-7644 Dr. Lynn Allison, Saratoga Springs, 518-268-9542, knotdr@juno.com COACHES Donna Bird LCSW, CCH, Coaching and Counseling: Stuck? Coaching with counseling helps open up blockages to success, so you can reach your highest potential.

Blending traditional and complimentary modalities can help you to become successful at whatever you strive for.www.donnabird.com 518-584-0698.

Cate LaBarre, Personal and group coaching by phone and teleconference.

Workshops in Saratoga Region. http://TheFordInstitute.com/CateLaBarre 518-882-9880, http://CateLaBarreCoach.com catelabarre@gmail.com Barbra Gilman, Energetic Coaching, Learn to change anything in your life that's not working, like deleting files from your computer…. with ease! Saratoga, Capital Region and Telephone BarbraGilman.com, AccessConsciousness.com, Barbra@BarbraGilman.com, 929-777-0873 COUNSELING Avis Burnett, Clifton Park, 518-371-0579 Breakthrough Counseling Center, Saratoga, 518-683-2202, www.breakthroughcounselinginc.com CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY Margery Chessare, LMT, BCST, Sessions and classes in the Saratoga area, 518-893-0421, ChessareMargery@gmail.com Linda Thompson, 518-885-3707, www.holistichealingartssaratoga.com Dr. Lynn Allison, Saratoga Springs, 518-268-9542, knotdr@juno.com Sue Coughtry, LMT, www.suecoughtryLMT.com, Delmar, 518-689-2244, www.stramcenter.com Wendy Wood Ordway, OTR,CST The Body’s Rhythm-at the Garden. Saratoga Springs 518-588-4466, wendyordway@gmail.com Cathy Saladis LMT, Albany & Clifton Park, 518-229-0741, www.headtotoe123.com

DENTISTS Dr. Richard Aulicino, Lake George 518-668-9888, www.lookingoodnewsmile.com

HOLISTIC PRIMARY CARE Jessica Davis, MD. Stillwater, NY. drjess@jessicadavismd.com, (518) 6646116. www.jessicadavismd.com,

ENERGY Jack Treiber, 518-225-4692 Energy4HH@Yahoo.com, www.saratogaintegrativepractitioners.com/treiber.php www. energyforhealthandhealing.com, energyforhealthandhealing.com

HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE Larry Malerba, DO, DHt, Guilderland, NY. 518-357-4210

Nina Lockwood, Healing Touch and Integrative Energy Medicine, 518-7915120, nina.lockwood@gmail.com.

Helene Brecker, Malta, 518-331-4859, heron@spa.net Terry Fluri, LMT & Elizabeth Marsh, LMT, Reiki, Chakra Balancing at A Peaceful Place (518) 371-2225 Shari Parslow, Shamanic Services & Intuitive Massage, 518-879-9365, shariluminous@gmail.com, l uminiousenergymedicine.net Christina Elizabeth Manning, Usui Holy Fire Reiki Master, 518-496-0221, CEManning2005@yahoo.com, www.ChristinaElizabethManning. com, Albany, Troy, Clifton Park, Saratoga Barbra Gilman, BarbraGilman.com, AccessConsciousness.com, Barbra@BarbraGilman.com, 929-7770873, Saratoga/Capital Region EQUINE ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY Adirondack Equine Assisted Psychotherapy, LCSW, Fort Edward, NY, www.AdirondackEAP.com, info@AdirondackEAP.com

Jerome Pindell, Clifton Park, 518-3745492, www.jeromepindell.com

www.suecoughtryLMT.com, Delmar, 518-689-2244, www.stramcenter.com.

MASSAGE THERAPY Linda Thompson, 518-885-3707, www.holistichealingartssaratoga.com Healing Path Massage, Schenectady, 518-374-8654, www.healingpathmassage.com

Claudia Ascione, MA, MS, CH, Niskayuna, Manhattan and Ardsley, NY. 518 372-7023.

Sue Coughtry, LMT, Delmar, www.suecoughtryLMT.com, 518-689-2244, www.stramcenter.com

HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS Private Label Aromatherapy: Laundry Soap, Dish Soap, All Purpose Cleaner, Household Cleaner, Essential Oil Deodorizing Sprays, Essential Oil Blends for Laundry and Dryer, Hand Soaps and more. Custom products also available. Jill Stewart 518-339-4348 Jillstwrt@yahoo.com, www.PrivateLabel-Aromatherapy.com

A Peaceful Place, Clifton Park, 518-371-2225, www.peacefulplace.com

HYPNOTISM Donna Bird LCSW, CCH, Specializing in the mind-body approach to wellness with hypnosis. Eliminate eating issues, addictions, stress, panic, depression, overeating and more. Produces and sells hypnosis CDs & MP3s at www.donnabird.com Saratoga office 518-584-0698.

George Guarino CH, offices in Delmar and Clifton Park, 518-256-6549 www.HypnosisWorksWell.com, george@HypnosisWorksWell.com Barbra Stevens, 518-755-5053 INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE North Country Holistic Care Center, Glens Falls, 518-745-5889

FENG SHUI Brenda Cary Jenks, Hudson Falls 518-321-5940, www.fengshuibcj.com HEALING TOUCH Nina Lockwood, Certified Healing Touch Practitioner/Instructor, 518-7915120, nina.lockwood@gmail.com

Ann Carey Tobin MD, Delmar, 518-506-6303, atobin.pih@gmail.com, www.partnersinhealing.info

HEALTH AND WELLNESS PRODUCTS Evan Lawrence, Shaklee Independent Distributor. Healthy weight, nutrition, beauty, and home. Cambridge, (518) 6775662, healthyevan@verizon.net, http://healthyevan.myshaklee.com.

Healing Path Massage, Schenectady, 518-374-8654, www.healingpathmassage.com

LIGHT THERAPY Dr. Lynn Allison, Saratoga Springs, 518-268-9542, knotdr@juno.com

Sheila Cote, 518-369-1094, www.sheilacote.com, sheilacote@hotmail.com MATRIX ENERGETICS Rowena Fay, Still Point Interfaith Retreat Center, www.stillpointretreatcenter.com, 518-587-4967 stillpt423@aol.com MUSIC THERAPY Dennis Dominick, 518-361-5343, Djd1948@roadrunner.com MYOFASCIAL RELEASE Virginia Touhey at A Peaceful Place, (518) 371-2225 NATURAL FOOD STORES Four Seasons Natural Foods Store & Cafe, Saratoga, 518-584-4670, wwwFourSeasonsNaturalFoods.com Pure-N-Simple, GlensFalls, 518-798-4047 SenibiliTeas, Glens Falls, 518-824-1290 NATUROPATHY Sarah A. LoBisco, ND, Ballston Spa, 518-339-4788, nd@dr-lobisco.com, www.dr-lobisco.com Joanne Halloran, ND, Saratoga Healing Arts, 518-369-7080, www.doctorjoanne.com Cheryl Wong, ND, LAc, Saratoga Springs, cheryl@cherylwongnd.com, www.cherylwongnd.com, 518-288-7083

NUTRITION The Natural Improvement Center, LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE Queensbury, 518-745-7473 MASSAGE Sue Coughtry, LMT, Nutrition con’t on pg. 38 #77 December, 2014—January, 2015 I Healing Springs 37

Nutrition con’t from pg. 37 Kathryn Kos Primal Bliss Nutrition; www.primalblissnutrition.com or e-mail primalblissnutrition@gmail.com.

ORGANIZATIONS Saratoga Integrative Practitioners Network (SIPN), www.saratogaintegrativepractitioners.com PHARMACY Fallon Pharmacy, Latham, Saratoga, 518-220-2005, www.fallonpharmacy.com PHYSICAL THERAPY Integrative Physical Therapy, 518-373-0735, www.inspiredtherapy.com

Sue Coughtry, LMT, www.suecoughtryLMT.com, Delmar, 518-689-2244, wwwstramcenter.com Christina Elizabeth Manning, Usui Holy Fire Reiki Master, 518-496-0221, CEManning2005@yahoo.com, www.ChristinaElizabethManning. com, Albany, Troy, Clifton Park, Saratoga Maud Maynard, Greenwich, 518-7911000, maudmaynard@gmail.com, maudmaynardreiki.wordpress.com RETAIL Living Recovery, 12 Step gifts, Latham, 518-785-5258 Magic Moon, Saratoga, 518-583-2488

PSYCHIC INTUITIVE CONSULTANT Diana Friedell Phone or in Oneonta Office, 607.433.2089

ROLF STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Nick Pavoldi, 518.389.2200, BodyworkProfessionals@gmail.com

PSYCHOTHERAPY Donna Bird LCSW, CCH, Certified in EMDR, Hypnosis and Wave Work.

Specializing in managing anxiety, depression, addictions, eating issues and trauma.

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SPAS Roosevelt Baths & Spa, Saratoga Springs, RooseveltBathsAndSpa.com, 877-313-2709

Wendy Ball LMHC, certified in EMDR and Hakomi therapies, specialize in trauma related disorders, couples counseling and life transition coaching. Albany office. 518813-8524. www.wendyballcounseling.com RAINDROP THERAPY Sheila Cote, 518-369-1094, www.sheilacote.com, sheilacote@hotmail.com REIKI Linda Thompson, 518-885-3707, www.holistichealingartssaratoga.com Joyce Willson RN, RMT, The Art of Reiki, Troy, 518-271-7802, www.theartofreiki.com Joan M Frederick Classes/Treatments 518-829-7400, ProvidenceReiki.com

SPACE FOR RENT Beekman Artists aamejo@gmail.com, www.beekmanstreetarts.com

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TREE SERVICE Foothills Tree Service, Practicing sustainable tree managment, 518-893-2620, www.kawingcrow.com VIBROACOUSTIC THERAPY Dennis Dominick, 518-361-5343, Djd194@roadrunner.com WELLNESS CENTERS A Peaceful Place, Clifton Park, 518-371-2225, www.peacefulplace.com Healing Path Massage, Schenectady, 518374-8654, www.healingpathmassage.com WOMEN’S STUDIES 13 CLAN MOTHERS WORKSHOP, beginning in January “for a deeper understanding of our path as a Woman Elder” For more information, contact Sharon Hurley, WOLF HOLLOW, 518-6967243, shadowolf49@hotmail.com YOGA Yoga Mandali, Saratoga, 518-316-1308, www.yogasaratoga.com True North Yoga, Schroon Lake, 518-810-7871, www.TrueNorthYogaOnline.com

SPIRITUAL SCHOOL School of the Golden Rosycross, a gnostic spiritual school for our time.

Lectorium Rosicrucianum Conference Center, 21 Bushnell Avenue, Chatham, 518.392-2799, www.lectoriumrosicrucianum.org, chatham@goldenrosycross.org

The Lemon Tree Yoga & Healing Arts Studio, Glens Falls, 518-301-3291, www.lemontreeyoga.com

TAI CHI The Tai Chi Center, Saratoga Springs, 518-583-9315, www.the-taichi-center.com

Namaste Yoga, Saratoga Springs, namasteyogasaratoga.com or 518-222-7470

The Lemon Tree Yoga and Healing Arts Studio, Glens Falls, www.lemontreeyoga.com, lemontreeyoga@yahoo.com, 518-301-3291, 301-3293 Asian Arts Tai Chi Center, Albany, 518-489-1458, info@AsianArtsGrp.com, www.AsianArtsGrp.com

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