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publisher’sletter Larry e have arrived. The end of summer and the beginning

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of autumn is here. But October is also known as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual international health campaign to increase awareness of the disease and to raise funds for research.

While most people are aware of breast cancer, many fail to take the necessary preventive steps to catch the disease at its earliest stages and/or inform others to follow suit. In this issue and in our calendar sections you’ll find in-depth educational articles, resources and events that can provide the necessary information to keep you and your loved ones on track. As the second most common kind of cancer, about 1 in 8 women in the U.S. will get breast cancer, hence the importance of early detection through self-examination, mammograms, etc. But why is October chosen to highlight this disease? In October 1983, eight hundred people took part in the first ever RACE FOR THE CURE in Dallas, Texas. Today, millions take part of the same name annual race, in different parts of the country for the same purpose, to raise awareness and funds. Even Pink Days are now a part of this unbelievable effort to stamp out this disease. People are encouraged to raise funds and awareness by holding Pink Parties in workplaces, churches, clubs and other organizations. The power of pink shows solidarity among those supporting the cause.

But Cancer is not exclusive to women, it touches the lives of men, children, even our four legged friends. And too many organizations, although well-intentioned, are fixated on early detection rather than blaming environmental factors that cause cancer. Don’t misunderstand, early detections is key to winning the battle, but the study of other factors, being stress, poor diets, or environmental should no longer be ignored.

All of us are touched one way or the other by this disease. My favorite author Maya Angelou once said, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” And that holds true for my colleague, mentor and friend Larry Levine, president of Natural Awakenings Publishing Corporation. We lost Larry last month to 3 types of stage IV cancer, a deep heartfelt loss for all of us. Angelou also said, “try to be a rainbow in someone’s life,” and Larry was just that in mine.

He was a rainbow of kindness, understanding and encouragement. He never had an unkind word to say about anything or anyone. As a colleague, he had no expectations, but always encouraged me to be the best that I could be and nothing more. As a friend he often reminded me of the light I am onto the world and how through love, forgiveness and faith I can reach my furthest dreams. In his eyes, we are all unstoppable beings of love. And in his memory I am inspired to live my life WITH PURPOSE as he did. I’m going to miss him very much but I know he wouldn’t want me to be sad or cry, but instead flourish for the purpose of why all of us got together through this magazine; to educate and change the world into a better place for EVERYONE! Have a wonderful journey home my friend, thank you for loving me and for allowing me to see myself and the love I hold within.

To all those that have lost love ones and those still fighting, I share this….Love and Forgiveness with a little dash of faith is the key to the journey ahead.

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contents Natural Awakenings is your guide to a healthier, more balanced life. In each issue readers find cutting-edge information on natural health, nutrition, fitness, personal growth, green living, creative expression and the products and services that support a healthy lifestyle.

22 CHANGE MAKERS

Inspired to Act

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by Linda Sechrist

25 CHIROPRACTIC TO THE RESCUE

It Helps IBD, ADHD, PMS and Other Conditions

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26 WALKING MEDITATION The Calming and Centering Effects of Labyrinths

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by Gina McGalliard

28 BORN TO EAT WILD Why Ancestral Diets Boost Health

by Judith Fertig

30 EDWARD HUMES ON THE HIGH COST OF TRANSPORTATION

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Small Consumer Choices Have Big Impacts

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34 SORE THROAT SOOTHERS

Natural Remedies Help Kids Heal

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38 TREE-MENDOUS LOVE

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39 CAT-ASTROPHE

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44 BODHI ZENZ

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48 NUTRITION FOR FELINES

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50 DIVORCE THERAPIST

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t is said that the greatest gift is one that is given anonymously. Millions of people who volunteer to participate in clinical trials each year give this unique gift.

These courageous individuals are rightly considered by some to be Medical Heroes. Their profound gift of participation helps advance our collective health. Volunteers help researchers explore promising new medical treatments targeting the cause of illness, relieving the symptoms of disease and improving the human condition. Every medicine you take, including over-the-counter and prescription drugs and medical devices, would not be available without these Medical Heroes and the clinical trials in which they participated.

Every person’s decision to participate is different. For someone with a serious illness like cancer, participation may provide access to a new potentially life-saving treatment. Someone with a chronic illness like Parkinson’s disease might participate to offer hope for future patients fighting against the disease. Some choose to participate as healthy volunteers to help research professionals identify new and safe medicines to begin testing among patients. Anyone can volunteer to participate. And, with more than 80,000 clinical research studies conducted annually, there are many opportunities to participate and contribute to the process.

Be in the Present with with Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz and Louise Hay

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es Halloween is here! Get an early start this year at Keiser University’s Scare Fair. Gather your family and friends to visit the Keiser University Miami campus Dust off your old costumes or wear a new one to this fun-filled community event hosted by Keiser University’s faculty, staff and students! Enjoy activities for the kids such as a Haunted House, Movie, Interactive Labs, Trick or Treat, food and so much more! Refreshments will be served as the staff highlights career paths in areas such as Health Care, Business, Legal Studies, Psychology, and Information Technology.

Keiser University takes pride in offering a quality education and hands-on approach to learning. Their goal is to improve each community one person at a time by providing education and helping students become productive members of the communities.

n their follow up to All Is Well Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz and Louise Hay are back with Heal Your Mind: Your Prescription for Wholeness through Medicine, Affirmations, and Intuition. This new book, out on shelves on October 11, addresses mental and emotional problems by changing the way we think, and helps readers find their own pathway to a healthier and more fully present mind. If you’ve ever grappled with how to stay happy, calm and focused, how to keep your wits about you, deal with mood instability or memory problems, this book offers you answers you can depend on. It will help you understand and come to terms with addictive behavior, panic attacks and even past traumas.

“Heal Your Mind continues the threepronged healing approach that Dr. Mona Lisa and Louise Hay pioneered together, extending it to conditions, processes, and disorders of the mind including memory, learning disability, addiction, anxiety, and depression” explains publicist Lindsay McGinty. “In-depth case studies from the All Is Well Clinic delve into interventions with real patients, where Dr. Mona Lisa uses intuition to pinpoint issues and she and Louise discuss the medical solutions and affirmations that can help restore well-being.” Heal Your Mind puts all sorts of tools at your disposal to help you choose be in the present while creating a better path towards your future.

Louise Lynn Hay is an American motivational author and the founder of Hay House (hayhouse.com), she has authored several New Thought self-help books, including the 1984 book, You Can Heal Your Life.

Mona Lisa Schulz (Dr. Mona Lisa), is an international expert in medical intuition and Mind-Body Medicine who holds an M.D., Board Certification in Psychiatry, and Ph.D. in Brain Science from Boston University’s School of Medicine.

on Wednesday, October 26th from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Location: 2101 NW 117th Ave. For more information, visit KUopenhouse.com or call 888-8448404. See ad, page 8.

For more information visit www.HayHouse. com, www.HayHouseRadio.com, www.HealYourLife.com

On Thursday, October 20, the Center for Information & Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP) will hold an educational event called AWARE for All. To learn more about what it means to participate in clinical research, register for the free event at www.awareforall.org or contact CISCRP by visiting www.ciscrp.org or calling 877-MED-HERO (633-4376) for more information.

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iami Spa is one of the most popular times of the year in our city. This August annual event provides superb discounts at numerous deluxe spas around town. But for those that missed it, don’t fret, the spa at COMO Metropolitan Miami Beach is continuing to offer its exclusive menu of hand-picked treatments developed at a reduced rate for Miami Spa Month through October 31st.

For the entire month of October, COMO Metropolitan Miami Beach invites enthusiasts and aficionados of holistic health to experience a continuation of its award-winning wellness and spa. COMO Shambhala Urban Escape will offer the spa’s most popular and diverse Asian-based therapies to choose from – all at exclusively reduced rates, through October 31st. Choose from facials, aromatic or deep tissue massage to detoxifying treatments and personalized skin care consultation with one of their expert esthetician and more. COMO Shambhala follows a healthy living philosophy that takes its inspiration from mythological roots in ancient Buddhists texts. “Shambhala” refers to the center of peace and harmony in Sanskrit.

COMO Metropolitan Miami Beach is a contemporary art deco hotel located at 2445 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach.

Reservations at COMO Shambhala Urban Escape Spa can be made by calling 305-695-3600 or emailing met.mia@comoshambhala.com. For more information on COMO Shambhala, visit www.comoshambhala.com. For further information on the hotel, visit www.comohotels.com/metropolitanmiamibeach.

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oday’s rising healthcare costs and a growing desire to create and maintain a healthier lifestyle has given the way to CompleteHealthThroughNutrition. com. A brainchild of author, personal Health Coach and speaker Gus Deligiannidis, CompleteHealthThroughNutrition.com visitors benefit from his over 25 years of research into the effects of a healthy diet and light exercise on overall wellness.

“The first warning that something was wrong with my health came in 1987,” said Deligiannidis. “I couldn’t stand on my feet. My doctor told me that I had elevated blood pressure. I was young and had always been in very good health, but my doctor prescribed high blood pressure medication. At times, I felt worse than I did prior to taking the medication. It was then that I decided to experiment with different foods in order to correct my condition through healthy eating, rather than medications.” As a consequence from all his research, Deligiannidis lost 50 pounds, reduced his cholesterol and blood pressure to normal levels, and lowered his anxiety level. The premise of each Complete Health Through Nutrition Wellness Program is that dramatic lifestyle changes are seldom the key to long-term success. But adopting gradual new healthy habits, individuals remain motivated and encouraged by their results.

“A major principle of my Wellness Programs is an ongoing Food Diary, so that participants can monitor changes in the way they feel as the result of the foods they consume,” Deligiannidis explains. “Special emphasis is placed upon the importance of attitude in relation to overall mind and body health.”

For more information, visit the CompleteHealthThroughNutrition.com.

Miami Holistic Chamber of Commerce

Welcomes New President

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ith a vision of healthy people on a healthy planet, the Holistic Chamber of Commerce (HCC) is weaving together an international movement promoting holistic, natural and sustainable products, services and solutions. To that end, the HCC is pleased to announce that Chad Welch has been selected as the new Greater Miami HCC president.

“Miami is the perfect place for the Holistic Chamber of Commerce.

We have a large population here and a community that really values those products and services. It’s time for us to come together and show the standard of integrity and professionalism we bring to the work we do. We are in the service business, yet we are still hidden.”

As the new president of the HCC, Chad looks forward to bringing a clear vision of his own to the growing Miami holistic community. Welch brings over 15 years of experience working in health and wellness, fitness, business development, and coaching to the Chamber, and currently owns a boutique lifestyle and life coaching practice called Chad Welch Lifestyle in Miami Beach.

The HCC is an international organization which serves as a bridge bringing consumers together with holistic and eco-friendly options. Now with almost 2,000 Professional Members throughout North America, consumers have easier access to high quality health, lifestyle and business products, services and solutions. For more information visit, www.HolisticChamberOfCommerce. com/Miami, Miami@HolisticChamberOfCommerce.com and www.chadwelchlifestyle.com.

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newsbriefs Holistic Chamber of Commerce Participates in Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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ctober is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, with a focus on bringing awareness to the disease, educational support, early detection, and joining together to raise funding and to participate in community events to support research, treatment, and prevention of the disease.

In honor of this important month, the Greater Miami Holistic Chamber of Commerce will host “The Women’s Panel for Breast Cancer Awareness Month” on October 26, 2016. The panel will feature experts and advocates in women’s health and with specialty in this disease. Breast cancer is a group of cancer cells (malignant tumor) that starts in the breast cells. All people regardless of whether they are male or female have some breast cells and tissue from birth that have the potential to become cancerous. While many people are aware of this disease, many of them are not clear on the steps they can take to start on a plan of early detection, and to encourage friends and loved ones to do the same. Breast cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in women, and 1 in 8 women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime.

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Happy Hour with Wynwood Coloring Book

njoy a very special happy hour while coloring your favorite adult Wynwood Coloring Book Started by local entrepreneur and write Diego Orlandini, The Wynwood Coloring Book is a wire-o-bound, 64-page book, printed on high-quality woodfree paper perfect for coloring.

Orlandini created it as a way to take his mind off work. But it quickly grew into something else.

Together with the help of friends wanting to color the murals and the street art they saw every day in their favorite neighborhood they commissioned the artwork of 43 renowned street artist to create a relaxing and highly entertaining tool. Their mission is to give everyone the opportunity to engage their creative mind while following the steps of favorite street artists, reimagining the colors of Wynwood’s famous walls.

During this free event, you will discover your inner artist, relax after a long day of work, get a few cocktails, hang out with your friends, and make new ones at The Sagamore Hotel. Sample pages, color pencils, and markers will be provided but feel free to bring your own.

his coming November get ready for the 11th Annual Women’s International Film & Arts Festival (WIFF).

More than 30 Women filmmakers from around the world will be screened at this leading international cultural event featuring films, visual and performance arts produced by and about women.

WIFF has attracted Academy Award winner Halle Berry; 2007 Academy Award Nominee Adriana Barraza; Emmy, Grammy and Golden Globe Award-winning actress, the late Ms. Ruby Dee; The Breakfast Club’s Alley Sheedy; actress/producer Vivica A. Fox, and many others. WIFF includes an annual film festival event, year-round single film presentations with talkbacks, and a media literacy and filmmaking program for at-risk girls. Meet and learn from the experts.

“We’re really excited to have reached our 11th year of supporting and empowering women artists around the world.

WIFF continues to be a leading voice for women in flm, tv and entertainment and serves as a vehicle to galvanize women across the globe,” said Yvonne McCormack-Lyons, Founder and President.

Register now for the “Breaking Down Barriers” Conference which will include Workshops, Panels and Masterclasses on producing, acting, directing, creating content for digital media, and more. A 15% early bird (limited number of passes) discount is available now.

The Sagamore Hotel is an art-centric, oceanfront, luxury hotel and cultural centerpiece in the heart of South Beach, 1671 Collins Avenue. The event will take place Wednesday, September 28th, from 6PM to 8PM. Purchase a copy of The Wynwood Coloring Book ($25) now and save $5 plus receive your first drink for free. $5-$7 Happy Hour Menu available for attendees. RSVP Required. For more information visit wynwoodcoloringbook.com or call the Sagamore at 305-535-8088.

WIFF will take place November 3 though the 6th in Trendy Wynwood and downtown areas of Miami. For information contact the Women’s International Film Festival at (305) 653-9700 or visit: womensfilmfest.com.

The event will take place at the Center For Social Change located at 2103 Coral Way, 2nd floor, Miami, FL from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. For more information visit HolisticChamberOfCommerce.com/Miami or contact chapter president Chad Welch at 305-851-1911, chad@chadwelchlifestyle.com.

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eep it in the Heart Holistic Center invites you to celebrate its Grand opening on October 14, 2016 at 7:30 PM! The Center, located in Miami Lakes, is a place of growth, healing and learning. Or, it can be your next location to host your class, conference or special event. Meet with owner and Spiritual Divorce Therapist Master Healer, Joyce Haddad and enter to win a unique one-on-one session.

“Are you ready to shift your consciousness, ignite your potential and start living the life you deserve?

We invite you to visit our Center and begin your life-changing journey of personal discovery and spiritual expansion through all that we offer” explains Haddad. “Our services focus on different healing modalities encompassing mind-body-soulemotions, promoting a holistic approach that re-establishes harmony between all aspects of your life.”

Services provided by certified specialists, acupuncturists, doctors, nutritionists, yoga instructors, and specialized healers include their signature One-on-One Spiritual Therapy, healing the aura and chakras, ThetaHealing®, Spiritual Divorces and Alternative Medicine. Additionally they offer private and group classes, workshops, and certifications in various modalities.

Their Apothecary offers a unique collection of handmade products including Joyce’s brand of therapeutic-grade essential oils, and natural soaps, Peruse the the fine jewelry from local designers, crystals, esoteric items and more.

airchild Tropical Garden presents Wings of the Tropics, an exhibit where you can enjoy hundreds of spectacular butterflies year-round. Representing about forty different species such as heliconids, morphos and owl butterflies from Central America and South America, visitors can enjoy a living rainbow of wonder.

This exhibit truly is a one-of-a-kind experience, enhanced further by a stunning display of tropical plants and orchids. The exhibits meandering paths create a wonderful educational opportunity for you and your family to enjoy the different species. The Wings of the Tropics Exhibit is located inside The Clinton Family Conservatory part of the Garden’s state-of-the-art DiMare Science Village, covering more than 25,000 square feet and featuring five buildings including Hsiao Laboratories (Imaging Lab, Baddour DNA Lab, Micropropagation Lab, Vollmer Metamorphosis Lab), The Glasshouse Café, the Tropical Plant Conservatory and Rare Plant House, the Whitman Fruit Pavilion and The Edible Garden. Upon your arrival, be sure to head toward the Vollmer Metamorphosis Lab where you can watch the process of nurturing and managing incoming butterfly chrysalis. There are also butterfly releases twice daily, where kids of all ages will have a chance to experience these winged wonders up close.

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new Café has opened in Miami. But not just any café, Splurge Juice Bar and Café, provides fresh, quality, plant-based foods, smoothies and juices “that will only contribute to helping you become the best possible you, YOU can be,” explain owners Priscilla and Maria.

In 2011 a friend of Priscilla (daughter) was told of a serious count of cancerous cells near her ovaries. Upon hearing the news she was inspired to research the diagnosis further and the reasons why cancer cell forms. Her discovery of contributors like bad eating habits which included too much processed and animal products, and an overall disconnection to body, mind and soul, led her to an epiphany. And with a huge leap of faith she turned to juicing, embraced the power of fruits and vegetables, raw food and her own spiritual connection. After just 3 short months she reduced the count of cancer cells and experienced an overall feeling of wellbeing. Mimicking her friends efforts in support, Priscilla experienced similar results.

Inspired and motivated and eager to share her experience, Priscilla shared “I will walk beside you through this journey for this journey of mine has brought me the light to shine on to you!” Maria (her mom), was a non believer, but having fought her own battles with Lymphoma and seeing the positive impact implementing healthier eating habits did for her daughter, changed the course of her life.

Together Mother and Daughter are excited and honored to provide the community with tasty healthy food at Splurge Juice Bar and Café, located at 18505 N.W. 75th Place, #119. (Right behind iHop on N.W. 186th Street). For more information call 786.857.6969 or visit www.splurgejuicebar.com. natural awakenings

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iami Foatation is the largest and the oldest continuously running floatation service in South Florida.

With locations in Palm Beach and Aventura they offer a range of floatation experiences in different tank models for experienced floaters and somebody just starting their floatation journey. At their Aventura location you can have a luxurious experience in conjunction with Forbes Four Star Turnberry Isle Miami Resort and Spa. The upscale spa just underwent several months of extensive renovation and offers latest European equipment and ultimate relaxation environment. Miami floatation offers newest tank models in separate men and women rooms.

On October 6th in conjunction with Russian American Chamber of South Florida there will be a major celebration for Spa grand re-opening, entire Community is welcome to attend.

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new study from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine reports that preventable medical errors are killing far more people than previously thought.

The research estimates that a quartermillion Americans die every year as a result of medical errors, constituting the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. This is a substantial increase from the 98,000 deaths from medical errors reported in a 1999 study from the Institute of Medicine, now the National Academy of Medicine.

Lead researcher and Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Dr. Martin Makary clarifies that medical errors include mistakes by doctors, along with systemic problems related to communication breakdowns when patients are passed between departments. “It boils down to people dying from the care that they receive, rather than the disease for which they are seeking care,” he observes.

One of the problems highlighted is a lack of public reporting. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not require hospitalerror reporting in deaths, which makes it difficult to accumulate related statistics. “The CDC should update reporting requirements for vital statistics so that physicians report whether there was any error that led to a preventable death,” says Makary. “We all know how common it is and how infrequently it’s openly discussed.”

Dr. Frederick van Pelt, with the healthcare consultancy Chartis Group, says that severe injuries resulting from medical errors are also often overlooked.

“Some estimates would put this number at 40 times the death rate.” He indicates that this gets buried in the milieu of expected suffering and pain that care providers are daily exposed to following any surgical procedure.

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esearch from Austria’s University of Graz has found that high-dose vitamin D3 significantly alters the gut’s microbiome for the better. The researchers tested 16 healthy people for eight weeks, giving them a dose of 980 international units (IU) per kilogram (2.2 pounds) of body weight. At this rate, a 150-pound person would take more than 66,000 IU per day.

The scientists took samples from the stomach, small intestines, colon and stool before and after the testing period. They also tested for bacteria species using gene sequencing and measured T-cell counts. Afterward, the subjects showed reductions in disease-producing bacteria and increased diversity among their gut probiotics.

The research also discovered that the high-dose vitamin D3 supplementation increased immunity in the gut. “Vitamin D3 modulates the gut microbiome of the upper gastrointestinal tract, which might explain its positive influence on gastrointestinal diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease or bacterial infections,” the researchers explain.

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cientists from the University of Colorado have determined that individuals older than 65 that run three times a week will likely burn oxygen at the same rate as a 20-year-old runner. Despite being more than four decades older, these runners spend a similar amount of metabolic energy as their younger counterparts.

Published in the American College of Sports Medicine journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the study tested 15 older and 15 younger runners. Each ran a minimum of three times a week for at least 30 minutes each time during the prior six months.

The subjects were tested on a specialized treadmill that measured the force applied to the running belt. Each person ran for five minutes during each test at different speeds between 4.5 and 6.5 miles per hour.

Regardless of running mechanics and technique, the older runners utilized their metabolic energy at a similar rate as the young runners at all speeds.

“Our prior research suggests that the muscles themselves are becoming less efficient. I think of it as your body is like a car. Your body has its own fuel efficiency, and what we’ve seen is that the fuel efficiency in muscles is reduced in older adults that are sedentary or only walk occasionally,” says lead researcher and Professor of Kinesiology Justus Ortega.

Diabetics Improve Using Sesame and Rice Bran Oils

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esearch published in the American Journal of Medicine found that treating people with a blend of cold-pressed sesame oil and rice bran oil significantly normalizes blood glucose levels. Testing involved 400 men and women for eight weeks, including 300 that had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, by replacing cooking oils in their diet with a blend of sesame and rice bran oil.

The researchers, from Japan’s Fukuoka University and India’s Council of Medical Research, divided the patients into four groups. For two months, 100 healthy people and 100 Type 2 diabetes patients replaced their cooking oils with the sesame/rice bran blend, another 100 Type 2 diabetes patients were treated with five milligrams per day of the diabetes drug glibenclamide (glynase in the U.S.) and the remaining 100 Type 2 diabetes patients were treated with a combination of the same dosage of glibenclamide, along with consuming the sesame/ rice bran oil blend over the two-month period.

After four weeks and eight weeks, the researchers found the diabetes patients that consumed the oil blend had significant reductions in fasting and post-meal blood glucose levels. They also had lower levels of glycated hemoglobin, triglycerides, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (“bad” cholesterol) and improved high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (“good” cholesterol). Those treated with the diabetes drug without consuming the oil blend showed none of the same improvements.

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esearch published in Psychological Science, the journal of the Association for Psychological Science, has found that positive moods can be transferred from one person to another via human sweat. The scientists from Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, tested 12 young men and 36 young women. The men were given clean shirts and absorbent pads were attached to their armpits while they watched video clips that induced several emotional states—fear, happiness or neutral. The researchers then stored the absorbent pads for each emotion into sealed jars.

The 36 women were then tested with each of the absorbent pads randomly, with five-minute breaks in-between. They placed their chins on a special rest that held the absorbent pad underneath. The research was double-blind, so neither the researchers nor subjects knew which pads they were exposed to. During each exposure, the women’s facial expressions were recorded. The researchers determined that the women had facial expressions reflecting the emotion induced by the videos the men watched, based on the activity of the women’s facial muscles.

Senior researcher Gün Semin, of Utrecht University, says, “Our study shows that being exposed to sweat produced under happiness induces a simulacrum of happiness in receivers and induces a contagion of the emotional state. This suggests that somebody that’s happy will infuse others in their vicinity with happiness.

In a way, happiness sweat is somewhat like smiling—it’s infectious.”

Join the Safer Halloween Movement Halloween can be safe, economical and eco-friendly fun. Crusader costumes remain popular this year, but with a tutu twist. Avoid long skirts or capes that can trip up children and instead recycle a princess tulle skirt from a thrift shop into a shorter frock.

T-shirt tops with a superhero logo plus a painted cardboard headpiece transforms kids into do-gooders. Homemade natural face paints are another alternative (see Tinyurl.com/Trick-TreatTips).

Treats should also be eco-friendly.

Equal Exchange offers fair trade, organic and kosher low-fat chocolates from crops grown by small farmers in the Dominican Republic and Peru, shipped in a quantity big enough to split the cost with friends (Shop.EqualExchange.coop/chocolate.html). Nutfree, homemade trail mix, wrapped in eco-friendly tissue paper or a square of cloth tied shut, provides a welcome change from sweets.

In 2014, the Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) organization launched the Teal Pumpkin Project. Place a downloadable sign in a window to announce that non-food, Earth-friendly treats are offered at the house for kids with allergies or food sensitivities (Tinyurl.com/TealHalloweenPumpkins).

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esearchers from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center tested 209 women between 45 and 60 years old with a history of hot flashes and/ or night sweats. After up to 20 treatments over six months, the women receiving acupuncture reported a 37 percent reduction in hot flashes, while the control group saw a 6 percent increase. The symptom relief among the women treated with acupuncture persisted for a year.

The researchers also found that the acupuncture group experienced an improvement in several menopausal quality of life measurements. Nancy Avis, Ph.D., a professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest University and lead author of the study, says, “There are a number of nonhormonal options for treating hot flashes and night sweats that are available to women. None seem to work for everyone, but our study showed that acupuncture from a licensed acupuncturist can help some women without any side effects. It also showed that the maximum benefit occurred after about eight treatments.”

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A new report from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the UK, has issued the first comprehensive assessment of plant life, the inaugural State of the World’s Plants, and found that one in five plants may be at risk of extinction due to invasive species, disease and changing landscapes.

Researchers also have determined that just 30,000 plant species have a documented use out of hundreds of thousands of known species. These are only the vascular plants that have specialized tissue for sucking up water through their systems.

Over the years, different people and agencies have identified the same plant at both different times and locations, so they may have accumulated multiple names. The Kew researchers determined that each plant in the International Plant Names Index had, on average, 2.7 different species names. By cutting out the duplicates from more than a million different names, the Kew report was able to pare down the known species to 391,000.

In the Arctic, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a doomsday bank buried in the side of a mountain, contains more than 800,000 samples representing 5,100 different crops and their relatives.

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Ari Jónsson, a 32-year-old student at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, has invented an all-natural water bottle that holds its shape when full and decomposes when empty. He debuted his creation at the DesignMarch 2016 festival in Reykjavík, Iceland. The only two materials needed to create the bottle are agar, a gelatinous substance that comes from red algae, and water.

“I just followed the path in what I was researching, trying to find new ways to use materials,” says Jónsson, who combined the two ingredients, heated the mixture, poured it into a mold, and then quickly cooled it. The H2O binds and thickens the agar when cooled, retaining the shape of the water bottle mold, explains Jónsson. When the finished bottle is empty, “It will rot like other foods.”

The bottles can sustainably decompose in soil, although Jónsson has yet to determine exactly how long that process will take. A plastic water bottle takes more than 1,000 years to biodegrade, and in the U.S., more than 2 million tons of the containers are languishing in landfills.

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Older incandescent light bulbs have been phased out in many countries because they waste huge amounts of energy as heat, but scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have reported in Nature Nanotechnology that they are finding a way to recycle the waste energy and focus it back onto the filament, where it’s re-emitted as visible light. Their innovative structure is made from thin, stacked layers of a type of light-controlling crystal that allows visible wavelengths to pass through while reflecting infrared back to the filament as if striking a mirror.

Traditional bulbs are banned in the European Union and Canada, and their manufacture and importation are being phased out in the U.S. They’ve been replaced by more expensive compact fluorescent (CFL) and light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs, which are significantly more efficient. In theory, the crystal structures could boost the efficiency of incandescent bulbs to 40 percent, making them three times more efficient than the best available LED and CFL bulbs.

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EPA Helps Schools Cut Bus Emissions The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is helping finance the replacement or retrofitting of older school buses in public and private school fleets to reduce diesel emissions and improve air quality. Owners can install catalysts and ventilation systems to reduce emissions by up to 25 percent or replace older buses with newer ones that meet the latest highway emission standards. The EPA will pay up to $25,000 each, depending on the size.

“Our kids spend a lot of time on the school bus, and buses spend a lot of time in our neighborhoods and schoolyards. They are a national symbol of safety,” says Janet McCabe, acting assistant administrator for the EPA Office of Air and Radiation. “Significantly improving school bus fleets across the country with retrofits, replacements and idle reduction practices is imperative in meeting the agency’s goal of reducing children’s exposure to air toxins.”

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October is Non-GMO Month

The Non GMO Project is sponsoring National Non-GMO Month in October. Observed since 2010, the program seeks to increase education and awareness about the growing presence of unlabeled genetically modified (GM/GMO) food products and ingredients.

People and organizations across North America are discovering the risks GMOs pose to our health, families and environment. Non-GMO Month provides a powerful opportunity to coordinate voices and actions around the country as brands, retailers and individuals stand up for the right to know what’s in our food and to choose to avoid GMOs. Protecting consumer choice and a non-GMO food supply requires a multifaceted approach with online and boots-on-the-ground teamwork.

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Monsanto, the U.S.-based, multinational producer of agricultural products infamous for its controversial Roundup herbicide, will be “sued” for crimes against humanity in the independent International Criminal Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, on World Food Day, October 16.

Plaintiffs include the Organic Consumers Association, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, Navdanya, Regeneration International, and Millions Against Monsanto, along with dozens of global food, farming and environmental justice groups.

The court, developed in 2011, will use the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights to assess damages for Monsanto’s acts against humans and the environment.

The court will also attempt to reform international criminal law to include crimes against the environment, or ecocide, as a prosecutable criminal offense. It has determined that prosecuting ecocide as a criminal offense is the only way to guarantee the rights of humans to a healthy environment and the right of nature to be protected.

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mendment 1 on Florida’s November ballot is deceptive and antisolar. Backed by monopoly utilities seeking to stifle solar power and keep Floridians captive power consumers, it is bankrolled by Florida’s big power companies and groups supporting fossil fuels. “Rights of Electricity Consumers Regarding Solar Energy Choice may sound great for solar in Florida, but take heed. Amendment 1 will do the opposite of promoting solar,” says Susan Glickman, Florida director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.

Why voters should say no to Amendment 1: The language of the amendment sounds appealing, but won’t grant Floridians any new rights. Floridians already have the right to own or lease solar equipment on their property to generate electricity for their own use.

It will change the Florida Constitution to include a presumption that non-solar customers somehow “subsidize” solar customers. No empirical evidence supports this. Power companies should not have constitutional protections to punish Florida residents with charges if they install solar.

It will be used by power companies to attack Florida’s net metering rule, which currently allows customers to receive credit for generating solar power, as well as sending their excess energy back to the grid. This policy is key to making the economics of solar work. Power companies object because it allows Floridians to generate their own power and pay less on their electric bills.

“Take note that Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara Pariente called Amendment 1 a wolf in sheep’s clothing, masquerading as a pro-solar energy initiative,” notes Glickman.

What voters will see on the November ballot: Rights of Electricity Consumers Regarding Solar Energy Choice This amendment establishes a right under Florida’s constitution for consumers to own or lease solar equipment installed on their property to generate electricity for their own use. State and local governments shall retain their abilities to protect consumer rights and public health, safety and welfare, and to ensure that consumers who do not choose to install solar are not required to subsidize the costs of backup power and electric grid access to those who do.

“Vote no to this utility-backed solar petition and stop big monopoly utilities from choking off rooftop solar and keeping a stranglehold on customers by preventing them from generating their own power,” advises Glickman.

For more information, visit ConsumersForSmartSolar.org or FLSolarChoice.org.

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Legalization of Medical Cannabis lorida’s November ballot gives voters the opportunity to join 25 other states in the decision to support the legalizing of medical cannabis for individuals with specific, debilitating diseases or comparable conditions as determined by a licensed physician. According to the Florida state constitution, in order to pass the Florida Medical Marijuana Legalization Amendment 2, a supermajority vote of 60 percent of individuals voting on the question is required.

The legal language of Amendment 2 was written to explicitly to allow medical cannabis to be provided as a treatment for cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma, HIV, AIDS, post-traumatic stress disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Crohn’s disease and multiple sclerosis.

Amendment 2 would also allow licensed physicians to certify patients for medical marijuana use after diagnosing them with some “other debilitating medical conditions of the same kind or class as or comparable to those enumerated”.

The Florida government enacted the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014, which became effective in January 2015. The program allowed for access to non-smoked, low-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) marijuana for qualified patients.

Scientific study of the genus Cannabis, or marijuana, plant belonging to the hemp family, led to the discovery of naturally occurring chemicals known as cannabinoids.

While there are more than 100 cannabinoids in the plant, research has been directed at only two: THC and cannabidiol (CBD). THC, found in the resin secreted by the glands of the plant, produces most of the plant’s psychological effects by attaching to and activating specific receptors in the brain. CBD is the non-psychoactive constituent that blocks the euphoric state associated with THC, according to the National Center for Biotechnology information.

Dr. Michael Uphues, a board certified family physician and certified medical cannabis expert, presents seminars on cannabinoid medicine that include information such as education about the major types of cannabis and their extensive clinical uses and applications , and also on the political propaganda campaign that has led to misinformation regarding its use as an effective and viable medicine.

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counter in U.S. pharmacies,” says Uphues. “In today’s important research into determining the pharmacology of THC, numerous biological studies show what traditional Chinese doctors and ayurvedic physicians may have understood—humans are born with cannabinoid receptor sites in the brain. Receptors are binding sites for chemicals in the brain that instruct brain cells to start, stop or otherwise regulate various brain and body functions. The chemicals which trigger receptors are known as neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitter chemicals enable brain cells (neurons) to communicate with each other by their release into the gap (synapse) between the neurons. These discoveries and their relevance to the understanding of the pharmacology of THC in the brain provide the basis for challenging the legitimacy of marijuana’s Schedule I status on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s controlled substance list.

“The term marijuana is derogatory. The plant should be referred to by its scientific biological name, Cannabis, and should be respected for its healing properties,” advises Uphues.

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Named one of Toyota’s 2016 Mothers of Invention, Ahmad uses the company’s $50,000 grant to boost Copia’s services throughout the U.S. Recently, German and Austrian government officials expressed interest in expanding the service to help feed Syrian refugees in their countries.

Friends Margot McNeeley and Janet Boscarino, in Memphis, Tennessee, looked around for local problems they could fix and took action starting in 2008.

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urs is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts, or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good,” says Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., a world-renowned author and Jungian psychoanalyst specializing in post-trauma counsel.

Thousands of people each day choose to see a world radiating with hope and light, despite ever-present conflict and strife. Their talents and gifts, alliances and collaborations are inspiring a new story that ripples outward into our communities and beyond.

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Meeting Basic Needs Komal Ahmad was unaware that her single act of kindness in simply offering to share her lunch with a homeless veteran in 2011 while she was attending the University of California, Komal Ahmad Berkeley, would lead to a multiplying mission to feed America’s hungry. His heartfelt expression of gratitude for his first meal in three days sparked an epiphany: Her school was regularly throwing away thousands of pounds of food while neighbors were going hungry.

Today, Ahmad is the founder and CEO of Copia, an app that matches nonprofits serving in-need veterans, children, women and others with companies that have leftover gourmet food. Following the 2016 Super Bowl, she used Copia’s technology to organize food pickups throughout the San Francisco Bay area. What she

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didn’t want food to go to waste and created the Project Green Fork certification program after learning that 95 percent of restaurant waste can be diverted Janet Boscarino from landfills. Her nonprofit helps restaurants to conserve water and energy, develop recycling and composting systems and switch to biodegradable containers and environmentally friendly cleaning operations.

Boscarino’s experience in business development and sales, combined with her disdain for litter, led her to found the nonprofit Clean Memphis, which began in 2008 with volunteer crews picking up litter. In recent years, the initiative’s community-wide strategy has expanded to involve local governments, businesses, neighborhoods, faith-based organizations and 20 local “sustainable schools”.

In 2017, Project Green Fork will become a part of Clean Memphis.

Throughout two decades of educational activism, John G. Heim’s passion John G. Heim for clean water

as a human right has not waned. The founder and leader of The SWFL Clean Water Movement, headquartered in Fort Myers Beach, Florida, persisted even when many business owners considered him a nuisance, driving off tourists.

As infestations of blue-green algae blooms have reached emergency levels, Heim’s ongoing grassroots campaign to increase awareness of water quality issues that’s backed by social media recently brought him to Washington, D.C., to make his case before Congress.

The nonprofit’s 18,000 members have succeeded in bringing national attention to the thick muck now plaguing both Florida coasts. They’re working to alter nutrient-laden discharges from Lake Okeechobee that send agricultural toxins and rain overflow down the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers and out into vital estuaries.

Scott Bunn’s Seneca Treehouse Project, launched in 2010, grew from his building background in a family of entreScott Bunn preneurs to encompass design/build services and education in eco-housing and ethical living. Bunn’s original Seneca, South Carolina, homestead and acreage includes apprentice learning programs teaching practical skills in cultivating permaculture, growing food, building structures, working with tools and living in an intentional community.

“For the next six years, our goal is to annually train 50 people that will train 50 more people. Continuing this exponential growth pattern means the potential for 312 million more people living more compatibly and lightly upon the Earth. We’ve already established collaborations with six other cities around the U.S. that can potentially duplicate our efforts,” says Bunn.

Providing Healthcare Options Martie Whittiken, of Plano, Texas, a board-certified clinical nutritionist and host of the Healthy by Nature nationally syndicated radio show, uses her talents to advocate for health freedom

We are a community of possibilities, not a community of problems. Community exists for the sake of belonging, and takes its identity from the gifts, generosity and accountability of its citizens. We currently have all the resources required to create an alternative future. ~Peter Block, Community: The Structure of Belonging in America. Educating listeners for 19 years, she served as president of the National Nutritional Foods Association during crucial phases of the 1992 to 1994 fight to successfully Martie Whittiken pass the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act to preserve consumer choices.

The author of The Probiotic Cure also helped found the Texas Health Freedom Coalition to protect citizens’ rights to choose alternative medical treatment in her state. Whittiken says, “My work is a labor of love. I have no interest in becoming famous or well known unless it contributes to getting the job done.”

On a 2006 medical mission to Haiti, Gigi Pomerantz, a licensed nurse practitioner at the Aurora Sinai Medical Center, in Milwaukee, disGigi Pomerantz covered the impact of a lack of clean water and sanitation as her four-person team treated 1,400 patients for worms, stomach problems, diarrhea and poor appetite. Two years later, she founded Youthaiti, where she serves as executive director.

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The nonprofit helps rural Haitians build composting toilets and develop organic gardens using recycled waste as fertilizer. It also provides community hygiene education and reforestation.

Everything is aimed at breaking Haiti’s widespread cycle of contamination and disease, and safely convert human waste into agricultural fertilizer that’s increasing crop productivity and the availability of healthy food.

Psychotherapist Jacqui Bishop and Integrative Nutritionist Lisa Feiner, co-founders of Sharp Again Naturally, in White Plains, New York, believe that Jacqui Bishop dementia is reversible, and no case should be considered hopeless until all causative factors have been tested and ruled out. Their resolve for eliminating causes of disease rather than managLisa Feiner ing symptoms is based on University of California, Los Angeles, research studies and sources quoted in a Health Advocates Worldwide documentary.

Project Yoga Richmond, established in 2010, makes yoga accessible to everyone in the city’s metro region.

Thirty yoga teachers lead pay-whatyou-can studio classes that help fund 22 outreach programs for underserved communities. Healing programs are designed for needs related to autism, recovery, seniors, special students and youths in the court system. “We also provide continuing instructor education, visiting teachers, workshops and other special events that deepen yoga practice in our community,” says cofounder Dana Walters, who serves as the board of directors vice president.

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As an Emmy Award-winning trumpeter, composer, educator and co-founder, conductor and artistic director of the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic (CJP), Orbert Davis is dedicated to multigenre projects. His collaborative research in 2012 while in Cuba on a people-to-people exchange accompanied by fellow musicians and River North Dance Chicago’s Artistic Director Frank Chaves (now retired) proved to be a multifaceted boon.

It generated the philharmonic’s Havana Blue live performance in 2013 and ignited a weeklong cultural exchange with Cuba’s Universidad

Ciudad de las Artes (ISA) during his return trip for the Havana International Jazz Festival in 2014. President Orbert Davis Barak Obama’s announcement of the normalization of Cuban/U.S. diplomatic relations opened up the possibility for a continuing CJP/ISA relationship, as well as their 2015 landmark partnered event when 37 ISA students traveled to Chicago to perform Scenes from Life: Cuba at Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre. Davis promises more such events to come.

All of these individuals represent a small percentage of the game-changers actively moving to create an alternative future. Estés observes, “What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts; adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group that will not give up during the first, second or hundredth gale.”

Linda Sechrist is a senior staff writer for Natural Awakenings. Connect at ItsAllAboutWe.com.

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Chiropractic to the Rescue It Helps IBD, ADHD, PMS and Other Conditions

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hiropractic care corrects spinal alignment abnormalities as a means of treating a wide range of health problems. Addressing skeletal and muscular disorders and relieving pain are just the beginning. Research studies reported in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics and the journal of healing science Explore have found chiropractic beneficial in treating connective tissue abnormalities, infant lactose intolerance and even autism.

More than $13 billion is spent annually on chiropractic health services, making it the largest alternative health practice in the U.S. Science supports its usefulness in addressing a wide range of conditions.

Bell’s Palsy. Recovery varies among patients as chiropractors create patientcentric treatment programs designed to improve facial motion and hearing, relieve pain and address other nerverelated issues (Archives of Internal Medicine; Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics).

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). A Canadian survey of chiroprac-

tors has reported success in using spinal manipulation to relieve IBD, colitis and other bowel disorders (Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology).

Cancer. The Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine publishes numerous studies of therapies supporting cancer patients suffering the side effects of conventional treatment. The American Journal of Clinical Oncology reports that chiropractic care rates as one of the leading alternative medical treatments for pain management, among other related benefits. Chiropractic offers economical and effective strategies that may help quality of life, as discussed in Seminars in Oncology Nursing.

High Blood Pressure. While many relevant studies can’t yet generalize results, the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics documents success by chiropractors treating hypertension without the downside of medical drugs that can include the risk of stroke (University of Alabama at Birmingham).

Chronic Sinusitis. Patients with nasal and sinus passages that don’t

drain properly due to physical or nerverelated causes may find relief through chiropractic care. A study cited in the same journal showed that patients experienced relief of all related symptoms after a single adjustment.

Arthritis. A study published in a journal from the the University of Virginia School of Medicine Center for the Study of Complementary and Alternative Therapies notes that arthritis patients obtaining chiropractic care enjoyed better health and quality of life than those that did not.

Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS).

In clinical studies, combining manual spinal adjustment with soft tissue therapy has been found to relieve PMS discomfort. In one study, two groups of women were tested, switching off in receiving chiropractic adjustments or a placebo alternative. Each time, the group receiving chiropractic adjustments reported the greatest improvements (Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics).

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). A study published in Explore suggests that chiropractic care combined with other holistic elements such as appropriate nutrition may provide a more gentle, yet effective approach than conventional psychotropic drugs. It employed chiropractic treatment for boys 9 to 13 years old diagnosed with ADHD. Spinal manipulation with nutritional supplementation was reported to improve hyperactivity, inattentiveness, impulsiveness and behavioral, social and emotional difficulties.

Headaches. Based on recent studies, spinal manipulation has proven effective against migraines and headaches originating from the neck. Manual therapy of the spine, along with neck exercises, promotes improvement in patients with neck-related headaches. Side effects are rare and minor (Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics).

Dr. Edward Group is CEO and cofounder of the Global Healing Center, in Houston, TX (GlobalHealingCenter. com). He is a doctor of chiropractic trained in naturopathy, herbals and clinical nutrition; author of The Green Body Cleanse; and a diplomate of the American Board of Functional Medicine.

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WALKING MEDITATION The Calming and Centering Effects of Labyrinths

by Gina McGalliard

While many of us like to meditate, some can’t sit still. Walking a labyrinth provides an enticing alternative.

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n archetypal labyrinth gently leads us in a circular path inward toward a center and then back out again. Found in ancient cultures from African, Celtic and Greek to Native American, they became especially popular fixtures in Medieval European churches; one of the most renowned is in France’s Chartres Cathedral.

Depictions of labyrinths have been included in paintings, pottery, tapestries and in Hopi baskets as a sacred symbol of Mother Earth. Several American tribes saw the pattern as a medicine wheel. Celts may have regarded it as a never-ending knot or circle. While some of the oldest known labyrinths decorate cave walls in Spain, today they grace diverse locations ranging from spas and wellness centers to parks, gardens, university campuses and even prisons.

“Labyrinths can be outdoors or indoors. Permanent labyrinths may be made of stones, rocks, bricks or inlaid stones. Temporary labyrinths can be

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painted on grass or made with all sorts of things for a particular purpose or appropriate to a specific cause,” explains Diane Rudebock, Ed.D., resource vice president and research chair of the Labyrinth Society, in Trumansburg, New York.

“Walking a labyrinth is useful for those that sometimes have a hard time being outwardly still and drawing themselves inward. You must move your body, and because you’re focused on the path while you’re walking it, it’s easier to drop wholly into the journey and let go of all else,” says Anne Bull, of Veriditas, a Petaluma, California, nonprofit that supports new labyrinth designs to suit the spiritual needs of hospitals, schools and retreat centers. The group also sponsors a worldwide directory at LabyrinthLocator.com.

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“Walking a labyrinth is useful for those that sometimes have a hard time being outwardly still and drawing themselves inward.

You must move your body, and because you’re focused on the path while you’re walking it, it’s easier to drop wholly into the journey and let go of all else,” center. Upon arriving in the stillness of that point, the participant opens heart and mind to receive whatever message or wisdom is intended for them. The return path is the integration phase, to make a fresh insight our own.

Participants should approach their walk in different ways: One may have a specific question or intention in mind; another may be open to whatever occurs during their meditation; yet another may repeat a meditative mantra.

One might even choose to bypass the path entirely in order to sit contemplatively at its center. Unlike a maze, it’s impossible to lose our way with the circular path serving as a simple and reliable guide.

Although scientific research on labyrinth meditation has been limited to participant questionnaires, future studies may incorporate the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to measure brain activity and record what individuals experience. Labyrinths located in settings like hospitals and prisons lend themselves

to such research, says Rudebock. As a Veriditas-certified labyrinth facilitator, she conducts workshops and observes, “Walks are unique to each individual and may not produce uniform or replicable results.”

At its core, the experience is about listening to our truest self, away from the cacophony of modern life.

“I believe that the world needs places where our souls can be quiet,” remarks Jean Richardson, director of the Kirkridge Retreat and Study Center, in Bangor, Pennsylvania, which includes a seven-circuit labyrinth. “Retreat centers and labyrinths are places where we can listen to our inner heart, feel our inner calling and tap into our own divine nature. I think deep listening is not always valued in a world where we are rewarded for being busy and keeping our schedules full.”

Nearby Opportunities

Today, labyrinths—indoor, outdoor, natural, urban, secular and religious—are found in or near many communities. Following the lead of California’s Golden Door Spa, in Escondido, which pioneered the use of a labyrinth in a spa setting, many spas now incorporate them in their wellness or mindfulness programs.

Labyrinthine invitations to a mindfulness practice are open to everyone. “A labyrinth can bridge all beliefs, faiths, religions and walks of life,” says Bull. “You can walk a labyrinth no matter what you believe.

Benefits come in walking it with an open mind and open heart.”

Gina McGalliard is a freelance writer in San Diego, CA. Connect at GinaMcGalliard.com.

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n The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan surmised that we’d be healthier if we ate the way our great-grandparents did. It would mean sticking to regularly scheduled meals instead of impulsive snacking, having a meat or protein item comprise only a quarter of our plate, adding fresh vegetables and eliminating junk food.

We must look further back than our immediate ancestors, counters Jo Robinson, a food journalist who surveyed more than 6,000 scientific research studies before writing her bestselling Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health. She has also co-authored several other books, including The Omega Diet: The Lifesaving Nutritional Program Based on the Diet of the Island of Crete.

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“Many believe we have dumbed down the nutrition in our food over the past 100 years,” says Robinson, who lives and gardens on Vashon Island, Washington. “Research shows we have been breeding out proteins and minerals and most importantly, antioxidants, for much longer.”

She points out that the hunter-gatherer diet encompassed many wild foods that tasted more bitter, astringent, sour and earthy than the sweet blandness in today’s fruits and vegetables. Wild foods offered a wider variety of phytonutrients, but came at a cost—the time required to hunt and gather enough food for a day, let alone a season.

“Then, 12,000 years ago, we had a better idea—gardening,” says Robinson. “We evolved to 20 varieties in a garden versus 150 in wild plants.” First, farmers chose sweet, starchy, mild-tasting, oil-rich foods such as figs, dates and olives. “We’re hard-wired to choose high-calorie foods because they’re directly connected to the pleasure centers of the brain,” she adds.

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After that, the trend to grow sweeter-tasting, less nutritious plants snowballed. Robinson cites research that found adding one Golden Delicious apple to the daily diet of a small group of overweight men led to higher levels of undesirable low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and triglycerides due to its high-fructose content and low levels of antioxidants (International Journal of Preventive Medicine).

Wilder Options Even organic farming methods, in which the soil is naturally enriched, can’t return all those lost nutrients to our food.

Rather than advocate that we return to eating wild foods, Robinson suggests finding wild equivalents. Even those that follow a paleo diet—presumably eaten by early humans and consisting chiefly of meat, fish, vegetables and fruit, excluding dairy, grain products and commercially processed items—could use further refinements in the produce they choose. She recommends specific varieties of fruits and vegetables and explains the benefits of “wild” foods such as meat, eggs and dairy from livestock and poultry fed on grass on her website, EatWild.com.

We can make smarter choices, seeking wilder-type varieties of foods at the grocery store, farmers’ market and garden seed companies. In general, they are more vividly colored, especially from red to purple, and less sweet.

Brightly colored fruits and vegetables indicate a botanical sunscreen the plant produces to protect itself from ultraviolet light and other external threats, notes Robinson; it’s an indication of a higher antioxidant activity.

“Find as many purple foods as possible because they have anthocyanins, known to fight cancer and inflammation,” suggests Robinson. “The original carrot from Afghanistan is purple.

It’s only been orange for the past 400 years when it was bred to salute the royal House of Orange, in the Netherlands.”

According to Robinson, we can also prepare our foods in ways that maximize their phytonutrient content. Eat fresh-picked asparagus and broccoli immediately or their natural sugars and antioxidants disappear. Let chopped or pressed garlic sit for 10 minutes before using so its pungent allicin—the healthy compound that benefits our health—will increase. Tear fresh lettuce the day before eating and keep it fresh in a plastic bag with poked holes, to allow the stillliving lettuce to rally its healthy compounds as if its battered leaves were repelling an insect attack.

This emerging science of polyphenols, the technical term for phytonutrients in our food, will be explosive, predicts this pioneering research-based author. “There’s a new study just about every month,” she finds. It can all lead toward breeding and growing more nutritious foods that are more readily accessible to everyone.

Judith Fertig writes cookbooks and foodie fiction from Overland Park, KS (JudithFertig.com).

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Edward Humes on the High Cost of Transportation Small Consumer Choices Have Big Impacts

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dward Humes investigates the origins and impacts of the expensive and complex process that brings us everyday products and items in his new book Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation. His latest work, which also covers our love affair with cars, is popularizing the eco-conscious term, “transportation footprint”.

Aligned with this, he recommends a move to driverless cars to save lives and fuel.

In an earlier book, Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Southern California journalist examined the causes and effects of waste. Solutions are showcased by how institutions and families are consciously reducing their wasteful ways.

What are some everyday impacts of the “door-to-door machine” you write about?

Transportation is embedded in our lives, both in our personal things and our travel. It can take 30,000 miles to get our morning coffee to the kitchen, with another 165,000 miles attached to all the components of the coffee pot, water, energy and packaging—a worldwide mix involving trains, planes, boats and trucks. Unprecedented amounts of transportation are embedded in everything we do and touch, with many hidden costs to our environment, economy and traffic.

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convenient, but it’s also a traffic jam generator. Each click births a new truck trip. What used to be a single truckload of goods delivered efficiently to a store or mall now demands hundreds of single-item deliveries to far-flung homes.

Which transportation footprint surprised you the most in researching Door to Door?

The smartphone is a paradox, in that it has reduced our transportation footprint in some ways because of all the separate devices it has replaced, from navigation in cars to calculators to cameras.

Phones also empower a transportationfree option for online banking and bill paying, eliminating all sorts of trips in the physical world.

On the flip side, making and assembling smartphone components requires a lot of back-and-forth transport between many countries because no one can make the whole “widget”.

With its many raw materials, rare earth minerals and manufactured components, we’re talking about an overall transportation footprint for one phone that’s equivalent to a round trip to the moon; a phone that users will trade in for a newer model in just a few years.

What’s a particularly negative impact of the huge distances involved in today’s movement of goods?

Cargo container ships create immense amounts of pollution. About 6,000 container ships worldwide ship 90 percent

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of consumer goods. Natural Resources Defense Council data show that the smog and particulate emissions from just 160 of these vessels equal that of all of the cars in the world. If the cargo fleet were a country, its carbon emissions would exceed Germany’s, the world’s fourth-largest economy, according to the European Commission. Cargo ship carbon emissions are projected to rise to about 18 percent of the global total in the next 25 years if our appetite for goods continues to grow at current rates.

What are the consequences of the U.S. ranking 16th worldwide in infrastructure quality?

Americans are under the illusion that we pay high taxes to build and maintain roads, bridges and rails. However, as a portion of our gross domestic product, we invest about one-fifth of what China does and the poor results are apparent. We have a $3.6 trillion backlog in needed modernization. This drags down the economy and increases harmful emissions through shipping delays and rush-hour jams, as well as raising road safety concerns.

How can we each lessen our “transportation footprint”?

We have power as individuals, families and communities to make a difference.

Americans walk less than almost any other people on Earth. A Los Angeles study showed that half of its residents’ daily trips are less than three miles, with many under one mile, which is crazy. Using alternative transportation for just 10 percent of those trips would have major positive impacts. Far fewer children walk or bike to school than in the recent past, even as we face a youth obesity crisis. We can also adjust when and how we drive; half the cars on the road during rush hour are not job-related. Driving at other times would ease traffic for everyone and reduce traffic jams, emissions and crashes.

All of this is something we could easily change—and that many other countries have changed—with substantial health, economic and traffic benefits.

Randy Kambic is a freelance editor and writer in Estero, FL, and a regular contributor to Natural Awakenings.

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FLOATING The Most Relaxing Place on Earth

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issolve Float Spa owner Michael Heiter’s first float came after a 12hour day in the operating room. After seven years in the military, he went to work in pharmaceuticals and biotech, often spending long days on his feet in hospitals. “I’d heard of floating through a comedian, Joe Rogan, who’s

a huge proponent of floating,” Heiter says. “He talks about it all the time on his podcast. So more than two years ago after a 12-hour day in the OR, I decided to go try it. Halfway through, I started giggling; I just got this huge endorphin dump. I was like, ‘What is this magic that’s happening here?’ It was the most relaxed I’d ever been in my entire life.”

Heiter was hooked on floating, a practice gaining popularity across the country. Floaters enter a tank or pod of water packed with pharmaceuticalgrade Epsom salts. The increased salinity level means it’s impossible to sink, and the water is heated to match the floater’s body temperature.

“For most people the external temperature of the skin is between 93 and 94 degrees,” Heiter says. “So once you’re in there and you close the lid, your body, the solution and the air is all the same temperature. If you turn the lights out, you lose track of where your body is, which is the point. You feel like you’re floating in outer space.

It’s essentially a vehicle of meditation.”

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“I’ve been an entrepreneur on the side for like a decade,” he says. “We have a small farm, and for a while I’d wanted to open another business, something that could help people and was good for the community, but couldn’t figure out what that thing was. It was like an epiphany. I told my wife, ‘I figured it out; this is what we’re going to do.’”

The first thing Heiter needed was the perfect location, and he found it in a former Masonic lodge in Camp Hill. “I wanted a standalone building, because you want it to be quiet,” he says. I looked for over six months and I finally found it. It’s built like a fortress; there’s not a single window in the whole place and the walls are 18 inches of brick, mortar and concrete.”

Now in its third month of operation, Heiter says Dissolve Float Spa has been embraced by the community. “I think Camp Hill in particular is a fantastic area for something like this,” he says. “There’s a lot of consciousness in alternative well-being. In 2016, people are so plugged in 24/7 they need the escape that floating provides.”

Heiter set out to help people and says the stories he hears from his clients are the most rewarding aspect of his hard work. “On day two we had a woman in tears,” he says. “She has arthritis and said it was the first time she was pain-free in 15 years. Another woman came in who had major back surgery and has had chronic pain ever since. After her float, she sent me an email saying, ‘I am still pain-free three days later.’ It just validates my original vision and why I wanted to do this.”

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“There’s no need to panic,” says Dr. Tieraona Low Dog, in Pecos, New Mexico, an integrative physician and chief medical officer of Weil Lifestyle. “It’s pretty easy to figure out if it’s strep throat, which requires antibiotics, or something you can treat at home.”

Only 10 to 20 percent of sore throats in children are caused by Streptococcus bacteria which, if not properly treated, can lead to heart damage. The first question to ask is, “What are the symptoms?” If these include sudden onset of a severe and worsening sore throat without any complaints of scratchiness; a fever of 101 degrees Fahrenheit or more; headache or stomach pain; and the lack of a stuffy nose, cough or sign of a cold—a trip to the pediatrician is essential and a course of antibiotics is necessary, says Low Dog.

The vast majority of youngsters’ sore throats, which may accompany a common cold, are caused by viruses and will heal on their own in about a week. Many natural remedies will help children feel better and relieve the pain; some cost so little they are nearly free.

Salt water gargle: “A glass of warm water with half a teaspoon of sea salt swirled into it is an old-school remedy that works well for kids at least 5 years old,” says Erika Krumbeck, a naturopathic doctor and licensed primary care physician practicing pediatrics in Missoula, Montana. She notes that a salt water gargle can also moderate the symptoms of strep until the child can see a doctor.

The Mayo Clinic Book of Home Remedies confirms that the salt water draws excess fluid from inflamed throat tissues.

It also loosens mucus and removes other irritants, including bacteria, allergens and fungi. Just make sure children don’t swallow the salt water, counsels Krumbeck.

Warm compresses: A warm water compress using a wet hand towel applied for 10 or 15 minutes every hour loosens mucus and is soothing. “It’s amazing how effective these familiar practices are,” says Krumbeck. “Grandma knew what she was doing.”

Lemon juice and honey: “Honey is sweet, so kids love it,” says certified nutritionist Kimberly Snyder, of New York and Los Angeles. This traditional recipe works because the honey has antibacterial properties and the lemon juice is packed with immune-boosting antioxidants.

Snyder cautions that babies younger than 12 months old should never be given honey because their immune systems cannot handle the bacterial spores sometimes present in the sweet treat.

Elderberry: The tiny purple berries of the Sambucus nigra L. plant shortens the duration of colds and flu often suffered by air travelers, according to research that includes a large Australian study. Elderberry syrup appeals to kids because it tastes delicious. Low Dog recommends keeping a bottle on hand at all times because it’s hard to know when a child will complain of a scratchy throat. “This yummy syrup is good for all ages. It’s so safe. I love it,” says Low Dog, adding, “Plus, you can always use it on whole-grain pancakes.”

Sage and Echinacea: Drinking sage tea and gargling with echinacea are old-time remedies for sore throats that now have scientific backing, says Snyder. Go for a twofer and add a little echinacea to the tea, she suggests.

A Swiss study showed that an echinacea/sage spray soothed sore throat symptoms just as well as a chlorhexidine/lidocaine spray, which can have side effects that include more swelling and even allergic reactions; the suggested spray should not be used with children under 12.

Pairing up a dose of safe and gentle, time-tested sore throat recipes with a big hug will go far toward relieving most little ones’ suffering.

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hether it’s a sideline or full time, flourishing small businesses stimulate the economy. The U.S. Small Business Association found that between 2009 and 2013, companies with fewer than 500 employees accounted for 60 percent of net new jobs. Technology allows new commercial ventures to be launched from home, yielding huge savings in startup costs. Owners have found ways to fulfill needs by leveraging their past job experiences and personal interests.

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When the economy faltered in 2008, Dave Marciniak, owner and lead designer at Revolutionary Gardens, in Culpeper, Virginia, offered eco-friendly services. “I focus on a few key points and design to make the outdoors a place where people want to be,” he says.

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local farmers,” he explains. Basil, parsley, dill, lettuce and other herbs and greens are available for all five boroughs; potted plants arrive fresh weekly via subscription.

In addition to cleaning homes, Debbie Sardone, owner of Speed Cleaning, in Lewisville, Texas, saw an opportunity to manufacture her own green cleaning products. They’re part of a full-line online catalog.

Ryan Riley and his wife, Ashley Spitz, of Los Angeles, own and operate Biz Bagz, dog waste bags made in America from bio-based resins and recycled plastics. He notes the genesis of their idea: “Landfills are anaerobic, so biodegradable bags don’t get the oxygen required to break down.

Compostable bags are available, but few places provide composting services. We offer a cleaner alternative.”

Another pet-inspired idea was spawned when Kevin Li, of Manhattan, New York, left his puppy home alone for the first time. He invented an app-operated remote control ball with a camera called PlayDate (Tinyurl.com/ RemoteBallApp).

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People- and planet-friendly personal care products address other ongoing customer needs. Nitya Gulati, founder of Sugarloom Cosmetics, in Ashburn, Virginia, specializes in Americanmade, vegan, cruelty- and toxin-free nail polish. She advises, “Look for ‘five-free’ on the label, which means no formaldehyde, dibutyl phthalate, toluene and allergens camphor and formaldehyde resin. Watch out for guanine, made from fish scales, found in glittery polishes. Oleic acid, a thickener, is animal fat. Vibrant reds may contain carmine, made from boiled, crushed beetles.” She warns that products tested by a third party can obscure animal testing during product development.

Amelia Swaggert and Elizabeth Ripps, co-founders of California Scrub Company, in Los Angeles, upcycle coffee grounds into a natural facial scrub.

They’ve eliminated plastic at every step of production from sourcing to packaging.

They’re also helping to keep the world’s oceans from becoming plastic soup by supporting the Beat the Microbead campaign. (BeatTheMicrobead.org/en).

Maintaining a professional look while living green can be a challenge.

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The vegan cork tote is made in Boxford, Massachusetts. Shavings from the bark of the cork oak tree grown in Portugal are transformed into ultrathin sheets to produce cork fabric; the certified organic cotton lining is produced in Korea and China in certified Global Organic Textile Standard and fair trade facilities.

Out and About Mya Zeronis saw a need for healthy food and stepped out of her comfort zone to fulfill it through her extra VEGANza Pgh restaurant and its catering arm, Lean Chef en Route, recognized by Sustainable Pittsburgh.

“We source locally, compost produce scraps, serve meat- and dairy-free menu options, practice food waste management with root-to-stem preparation and maintain energy conservation,” she says. Customers are encouraged to bike

to the restaurant; there’s even a bicycle air pump and flat tire repair kit on the premises if emergencies arise.

Shared bikes are a welcome addition at colleges for budget-minded and time-strapped students. Rented by the hour or day, they’re a convenient, healthy and non-polluting way to get around campus. New York University at Buffalo students can remotely locate, rent and unlock GPS-enabled bikes.

At Williams College, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, the Purple Bike Coalition provides free use of bikes and a staffed repair station; a cargo bike helps transport larger objects.

Entrepreneurs are creative by nature; seeing a need and asking, “What if?” Eco-friendly, green-minded entrepreneurs take ideas a step farther, working to ensure the health of consumers and the planet. They succeed as they serve and inspire us all.

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rom learning to communicate to physically caring for each other, the secret lives of trees are wildly deep and complex.

“They can count, learn and remember; nurse sick neighbors; warn each other of danger by sending electrical signals across a fungal network known as the ‘wood wide web’; and keep the ancient stumps of long-felled companions alive for centuries by feeding them a sugar solution through their roots,” reveals Peter Wohlleben, a German forest ranger and author of The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate— Discoveries from a Secret World, released in September.

Upon seeing two soaring beeches in the forest, Wohlleben observes, “These trees are friends. See how the thick branches point away from each other? That’s so they don’t block their buddy’s light. Sometimes, pairs are so interconnected at the roots that when one tree dies, the other one dies, too.”

Wohlleben is rekindling a re-imagination of trees even as many people consider their role is only to supply us with oxygen and wood. Using a mix of scientific research and his own observations from studying forestry and working in the forest since 1987, the man who speaks for the trees does so in decidedly anthropomorphic terms.

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“Scientific language removes all the emotion, and people don’t understand it anymore. I use a human language. When I say, ‘Trees suckle their children,’ everyone knows immediately what I mean,” he says.

After years of working for the state forestry administration in RhinelandPalatinate, and then as a forester managing 3,000 acres of woods near Cologne, he began to understand that contemporary practices were not serving the trees or those that depend on them very well. Artificially spacing out trees ensures that trees get more sunlight and grow faster, but naturalists report that trees exist less like individuals and more as communal beings. By working together in networks and sharing resources, they increase their resistance to potentially damaging influences.

After researching alternative approaches, Wohlleben began implementing some revolutionary concepts.

He replaced heavy machinery with horses, stopped using insecticides and let the woods become wilder. The pilot German forest plot went from losing money to posting a profit in two years.

As Dr. Seuss’ tree-loving Lorax says, “I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”

Melissa Breyer, of Brooklyn, NY, is the editor of Treehugger.com, from which this article was adapted.

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lmost 60 percent of America’s pet cats are overweight, according to a survey by the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention. Feline obesity can lead to joint pain, hinder self-grooming and make it harder to use the litter box, all resulting in fat cats being left at shelters by frustrated owners.

Chubby kitties also are more prone to osteoarthritis, Type 2 diabetes mellitus, respiratory problems and non-allergic skin conditions. “Potential health problems make overweight cats harder to adopt,” says Deanna Schmidt, with the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in Pittsburgh.

“On Fat Cat Tuesdays, we waive the adoption fee for cats 14 pounds and over. We counsel adoptive families and follow up so that ongoing healthy eating and exercise continues to melt away the pounds.”

Experts advise that a house cat should maintain the sleek, fluid motion of a jungle cat. Viewed from above, healthy cats have a distinct waistline, an inward curve between the rib cage and hips. Pick it up and step on the scale. The pet’s weight should comprise between six to 10 pounds of the total.

“The first time I saw healthy cats, I thought they looked small because I’d become used to seeing fat cats,” recalls Traci Pichette, founder of Pumeli tea and gift boxes, in St. Petersburg, Florida.

She’s not alone in her assessment.

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While free-feeding dry food is easier for owners and allows a cat to snack at will, some take advantage and overeat, often from boredom. To help the transition from always-available dry food to mealtime wet food, use kibble as a special treat.

Food puzzles, widely available online or in pet supply stores, will keep Kitty busy during the day. Homemade feeding puzzles work, too; put a small amount of kibble in a cardboard tube or small box, tape the end shut and randomly cut small holes in the sides.

Kitty will have to roll the tube or fit a paw inside to retrieve a treat.

“Free-feeding dry food is comparable to a constant supply of Fritos on our desk,” says Jackson Galaxy, author of Cat Daddy. “As far as the myth that dry food cleans teeth, I ask, do you floss with Melba toast? Dry food leaves plaque. A grain-free, wet food adds needed mois-

ture and fat to their diet. A cat’s teeth are designed to rip and tear, not crunch.”

“Changing my cat’s food to an all-wet diet slimmed her down to a healthy weight. I hated the smell, but it made sense to me that dry food was just carbs,” says Pichette. “At first, she whined at not having food all the time, but got used to it, and now she can eat treats in moderation. The cool thing is we’re all enjoying her increased energy and playfulness.”

Cats are obligate carnivores, which means their natural diet comprises 90 percent meat and 10 percent vegetable matter. A roaming cat’s native routine is to search for food, hunt, catch and eat, groom and nap. Because each catch is small, they eat frequently.

“There’s still an ancestor cat inside domesticated felines, a ‘raw’ cat that wants to hunt for its food,” explains Galaxy. “We need to play into that thinking and feed at intervals; ideally, every five hours or so, or at least in the morning, after work and about an hourand-a-half before bedtime.”

While the family’s morning and evening schedules mean just a quick scoop of food in the bowl, the third meal should be an interactive one. “A battery-operated toy or waving a laser light around is not play,” says Galaxy.

“Interactive play is not texting with one hand and wiggling the fishing pole toy with the other. You have to get up and move to let the cat search for the toy, watch and wait, then pounce. It engages the animal mentally and physically and brings the raw cat to the surface. When you reach the point of diminishing returns, the pet is tired and it’s time for a meal.” His foundation improves lives of shelter animals, teaching staff to clicker train, entertain and exercise their cats to make them more adoptable.

After an active day, the cat will be ready for bed, syncing its rhythm with the rest of the household. “A full play session satisfies natural instincts and prevents the cat from hunting your ankles as you sleep,” advises Galaxy.

“It’s not a luxury to have a variety of toys; it’s a necessity for having a quality relationship with a healthy cat.”

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businesshighlight modern psychology, enumerates three basic types of tension responsible for all of the problems of modern life: muscular, emotional and mental. Yoga nidra is a systematic, guided meditation method of inducing complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation, in which long-held limiting life patterns can be resolved through experiencing a profound change of mind.

Living with less tension is the single greatest contributor to personal, family and community well-being. People going through divorce might use yoga nidra techniques three times a day to short-circuit the mental and emotional whirlwind consuming them, while others might employ it once a day to cleanse their minds of stress. The fullest benefits are realized when we’re so familiar with what a deep state of physical, mental and emotional ease feels like that we’re able to return to it without needing to revisit the learned techniques.

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handrakant Hiester, a senior teacher and seminar leader at the Amrit Yoga Institute, in Salt Springs, Florida, develops and presents student and training programs worldwide. For the last 10 years, he has specialized in the Integrated Amrit Method (I AM), including Amrit yoga, yoga nidra and stress-reduction. As a student and practitioner of yoga and meditation with pioneering yogi Amrit Desai for 40 years, Hiester has learned to nurture and encourage positive changes in his and others behavior, understanding and practice in order to more fully realize the original purpose of yoga.

What are the benefits of having a regular yoga practice?

It’s important to understand the purpose behind any regular practice. Yoga practice in America popularly encompasses releasing physical tensions, developing muscular strength, increasing balance and flexibility, reducing stress and mental anxiety, and promoting mental clarity and relaxation.

The original purpose of yoga is described as “evenness of mind” cultivated through developing “skill in action.” The I AM method is a series of techniques designed to reveal an inner attunement to the innate intelligence of the universal vital life force, or prana. This attunement can transform everyday life into a meditation in motion.

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Remaining consciously alert has revealed the universal presence as a constant touchstone in all states and experiences, which enables me to better manage life’s ever-changing thoughts, feelings and perceptions.

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Medical thermography is non-invasive infrared imaging. It uses a special camera to measure the temperature of the body or area to identify thermal emissions that suggest potential risk markers. In other words it looks for hot spots that can help identify problem areas. It is used, ideally, as an early cancer detection device in conjunction with mammograms and other recommended tests. Explain to your doctor that Thermography is not a replacement for traditional tests, but more of an additional certified clinical tool to use. This is how it works: once you’ve been tested, e-mail your report to your doctor, and then ask for a consult appointment to review the results.

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The Mind-Body Syndrome

by Kelly Martinsen

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verybody is under pressure from themselves or from life circumstances, and everybody has some degree of rage in their unconscious.”—Dr. John Sarno, author of Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection.

In 1991, Dr. John Sarno—the luminary behind the discovery of tension myositis syndrome and how best to treat it—wrote his revolutionary, best-selling book, Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection. This was the first time the general public was introduced to and informed about this condition in which a person’s subconscious mind has a physiologic impact on various pain pathways.

In his book, Sarno, a former professor of clinical rehabilitation medicine at New York University School of Medicine and former attending physician at The Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine at New York University Medical Centers, details accounts of various patients that came to him seeking relief from back pain, often after having exhausted both Eastern and Western treatment options. His diagnosis for many of them was tension myositis syndrome, also referred to as tension myoneural syndrome, and most recently by Sarno as mind-body syndrome, or MBS. The “tension” refers to the emotional tension that exists and is the catalyst for the pain and tightness in the muscles. The “myositis” or “myoneural” refers to muscles and nerves that are involved. The “syndrome” refers to the fact that symptoms from MBS/TMS can be varied and variable.

Since 1991, the medical pioneer has written two more books on the subject; and while at 93 years of age he is now retired, other clinicians have continued on his path, writing books, creating programs and hosting websites—including MindBodyMedicine.com and UnLearnYourPain.com—in support of those with MBS/TMS. But why? Why would our unconscious mind cause pain 42

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in our body? Sarno and his colleagues (and now an entire MBS/TMS community) believe that the unconscious does this so as to create a focus on the body and to move the conscious mind away from unconscious feelings that may be too difficult for a person to face. The MBS/TMS community refers to these feelings as “unconscious rage”—often thought to be a result of childhood trauma or about the unfairness of life; there is even what Sarno refers to as “a good guy rage,” concerning one’s own pressure to be good all the time—to be perfect.

When it comes to MBS/TMS, the most important part of this syndrome to realize is that this all happens unconsciously. This creation of pain is completely on a subconscious level. The patient is not consciously aware of or in control of the pain. The reason that the subconscious mind is facilitating a pain response, according to Sarno, is because the subconscious mind believes physical pain is less painful than allowing the conscious mind to think certain thoughts and feel certain emotions, or even to consciously admit to having these thoughts and emotions.

In filmmaker Michael Galinsky’s yet-to-be released documentary, All the Rage, folks like Larry David, John Stossel, Howard Stern, Jonathan Ames and Sen. Tom Harkin all found relief utilizing Sarno’s methods after exhausting other modalities. “Let’s be clear, this is not ‘all in your head’—not in any way, shape or form; this pain is real!” says Eileen Newman, who is also featured in the documentary. “No, it isn’t in your head; although, it is created by what is in your head.”

Yet, rage can be misconstrued. Newman herself agrees: “Rage? I thought I have nothing to be ‘rageful’ about. I have a great life, had a wonderful childhood, have beautiful kids, have a job I am thankful for and time to volunteer, have two parents who are still alive into their ‘80s—why would I be rageful?” Yet, when Newman began Sarno’s program and started journaling her feelings daily, she was shocked to see the resentment she had. She began to recognize both her

conscious resentment and her buried rage. The resentment was the “conscious” feeling—but that was really just the tip of the iceberg. When she tapped her subconscious, she admitted she resented her own personal choice to be perfect. She also resented her children who seemed to take advantage of her.

“I thought what kind of monster is rageful because her baby won’t stop crying or her elderly parents need a visit. My rage was shameful, and to be honest, I could see why I didn’t want to face that!”

In the 25 years since Sarno published his first book, doctors are discovering that there are multiple conditions that are the result of the mind-body connection. In Sarno’s most recent book, The Divided Mind, and in Dr. Howard Schubiner’s book, Unlearn Your Pain, the ailments that have been re-diagnosed as MBS/TMS run the gamut from fibromyalgia to irritable bowel syndrome to gastroesophageal reflux disease to interstitial cystitis and more.

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Dr. Andrea Leonard-Segal, of the George Washington University Center for Integrative Medicine, and one of Sarno’s colleagues, explains that when a physician takes an in-depth history, performs a physical examination, and rules out other diseases with appropriate tests, then a diagnosis of MBS/TMS can be made. “We don’t know exactly how the feeling of subconscious rage communicates chemically with the body to then cause pain, diarrhea, a skin rash, or other physical responses, but we do know that it does. An example of conscious emotions having a physiologic effect is the red cheeks and warm feeling we have when we get embarrassed. We don’t yet know how the feeling of embarrassment stimulates the blood vessels to turn our cheeks red, but we know that it does.”

Leonard-Segal explains that a careful medical review is necessary for everyone with chronic symptoms to rule out a serious medical condition. If a person is suffering from chronic symptoms that doctors have been unable to diagnose or treat successfully, it is possible

he or she is suffering from MBS/TMS. “But it is important,” she says, “that you are diagnosed by a physician. Once patients receive the diagnosis, many will get better soon simply with an education about the condition and coaching to help them overcome their fear of their physical symptoms. When this is not the case, it is advisable to seek care from a psychologist.”

Leonard-Segal says that journaling may also be helpful as well as reading all of Sarno’s books. “Some patients respond better after reading one book and some after another,” she explains. “Dr. Sarno’s works are the basis of everything that anyone else has written. He really is a genius and a very courageous physician because his work was swimming upstream against doubt and closed mindedness in the medical community.

It is only in recent years that there is more of an openness occurring in the medical community, but there is a long way to go.”

Kelly Martinsen is the publisher of Natural Awakenings Long Island. Connect with her at Publisher@AwakeLI.com.

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Discover the Power of Play Whole-Child Development Requires Less Structure

By Sheri Hatfield

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hen asked if their kids play, many parents would most likely respond that they play all the time, whether it is video games, sports or an instrument.

And, while all of those types of play are important, none are as important as the power of unstructured play in the lives and development of children. It is through play—specifically unstructured play—that children process the world around them and truly learn.

The American Academy of Pediatrics stated in a recent report that children between the ages of two and 12 spend an average of seven hours a day engaged with a screen, whether it is a television, computer, phone, tablet, video game or other electronic devices. A mere one hour per week is spent in active, free play. The report states that children and teens should not be engaged with entertainment media for more than two hours a day. And the content they should be exposed to should be of high quality. The association also emphasizes the importance of spending time on outdoor play, reading, hobbies and free play.

Unstructured or free play is defined as a category of play that is open-ended and has no specific learning objective. It is when the only objective is enjoyment and self-directed by the child. This type of play has many incredible benefits for children.

Play makes children smarter. It is during play when a child’s mind subconsciously processes all of the information received throughout structured learning or organized activities, and becomes cemented into knowledge.

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“Play increases brain development and growth, establishes new neural connections and, in a sense, makes the player more intelligent. It improves the ability to perceive other’s emotional state and to adapt to ever-changing circumstances,” states Jeffery Goldstein, PhD, in “Play in Children’s Development, Health and Well-being,” an article published for the Toy Industries of Europe.

As adults, we often find that we need to clear our minds and take a walk to better focus on our tasks. It is the same with children. In fact, schools in Finland and other European and Asian schools take mandatory play breaks for up to 15 minutes after 45 minutes of classroom learning. This recess is typically outdoors; it has been shown to both help children transition from one subject to the next and settle down to focus for the next period of learning time. Think of how difficult it is to sit in a conference room for a two-hour meeting, let alone at a desk for a full eight hours. Now imagine doing that as a child.

Play helps build critical life skills. Another important aspect of play is that children learn and practice invaluable emotional, social and language skills.

It is the time children when can develop empathy, compassion and conflict resolution, especially if they are allowed to negotiate their own differences. When children are allowed to make up their own game, they set the rules. When one child does not follow the rules established by the group, the children can, and will, police those rules. Even though it may be accompanied by “that’s not fair” cries at times, this is when children can learn to speak up for their own needs and desires, work together to find what’s fair and eventually solve their own problems. The children are learning about self control, exerting their own feelings and building their own sense of right and wrong while following rules set by their peers.

Of course, adults may need to step in from time to time to ensure the safety of all involved. All are critical life skills for healthy, productive adults.

Play builds creativity and problem solving. Children use their natural curiosity and creativity to master the world around them, solve problems and develop their imaginations when they play. As Albert Einstein said, “Play is the highest form of research.”

Let’s pretend a group of children discovers some sticks and branches and decides to build a fort. Left to their own devices, they will work together to position the sticks in a way that allows them to create a structure. Typically, one child will emerge as the idea person and enlist the help of others to help achieve their objective of building the fort.

“If we put these two branches this way, we can lean all the other sticks against them,” another child—who may have natural spatial aptitude—may say as he assumes the engineer role. Others will emerge as the workers, taking direction and getting the work done. Throughout the process, roles may switch and another person might emerge as an innovator and problem solver. They have learned teamwork, problem solving and communication, along with following and giving directions all through play.

dren to focus. It allows them to be happy in their own way, on their own terms and feel joy and accomplishment. These benefits are increasingly important in today’s world, in which children report feeling stressed at younger ages and technology replaces human interactions.

With the benefits of free play so widely documented, he Alliance for Play, a nonprofit organization promotwhy is there such a dramatic decrease in play for our chiling play, has created a primer for play that lists what dren? Many factors influence this. First, with the increased parents and adults can do to help children play: amount of two-income households, parents need to keep their children occupied while they accomplish many of the • Reduce or eliminate screen time. tasks around the house. It is Give children a chance to flex their own imaginative simple decision of occupying muscles. They may be bored at first. Be prepared the children with a movie, with simple playthings and suggestions for maketelevision show or video believe play to inspire their inner creativity. game while parents clean, do • Curtail time spent in adult-organized activities. laundry or simply get some Children need time for self-initiated play. down time for themselves.

Overscheduled lives leave little time for play.

Second, in schools play • Choose simple toys. time or recess has been A good toy is 10 percent toy and 90 percent child. decreased to ensure enough The child’s imagination is the engine of healthy play. time to teach the required Simple toys and natural materials—such as wood, materials. Additionally, there boxes, balls, dolls, sand and clay—invite children to is a safety concern about create their own scenes, knock them down and start letting children out to play at home or at school. The risk of over. injury to one’s own child or another and potentially being • Encourage outdoor adventures. sued comes along with letting children play in situations like Reserve time every day for outdoor play where climbing trees or rough-housing. Letting children out to play children can run, climb, find secret hiding places in the backyard while a parent does laundry is a chance that and dream up dramas. Natural materials—sticks, might be taken; on the other hand, someone could perceive mud, water, rocks—are the raw materials of play. that the children are unsafe and unsupervised and call the • Bring back the art of real work. authorities. It has become dicey to allow our children to play Believe it or not, adult activity—cooking, raking, in the ways we played as children. cleaning or washing the car—actually inspires Thankfully, many resources allow parents and caregivers children to play. Children like to help for short the opportunity to let the kids play. Connecticut abounds with periods and then engage in their own play. children’s museums that provide ample activities for children to exercise their minds and bodies. The benefits of children’s museums go beyond the children and their well-being. They Play helps kids define themselves. By trying out different provide the opportunity for parents to connect with one roles during play—such as teacher, police officer, veterinarian another too. While children are engaging in age-appropriate or inventor—children discover what interests them, leading play with other children, parents can form new social conthem to discover life-long passions. It allows them to discover nections, sharing the joys and challenges of parenting. In their fears and conquer them. an ever-increasing socially disconnected world, children’s When a child pretends he or she is an explorer, they get museums become a social center benefitting the entire family, down on their hands and knees to look at bugs and grass to and creating strong communities through shared experiences, discover that worms are both yucky and incredibly interestempathy and connection. ing. When they walk on the curb they may be pretending Parks and playgrounds provide the opportunity for they are a tightrope walker, all the while conquering balance parents and children to spend time outdoors engaging in and feeling brave. By climbing trees, they learn critical thinkconversation, play and nature. The added benefit is that many ing and problem solving skills. Doing any of these things in are free. Scheduling a play date lets the children run, jump, the company of other children teaches them control of emolaugh, tumble and connect while allowing parents time to sit, tion, empathy for other children and the ability to help each relax, read a book, sneak in some adult time and reconnect other. with each other. Play can benefit the whole family.

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Play is whole-child development. Physical play enables children to build muscle-strength and coordination. Emotional and pretend play helps them to express feelings and emotions.

Play has been shown to dramatically reduce stress and assists in helping offset attention deficits and allowing chil-

To truly empower your child, help them discover the power of play.

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Nutrition for Felines

by Dr. Michele L. Paul

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ood is medicine. It provides us with the nutrition needed to fight infection, heal from injuries, prevent disease and kill off cancer cells. Food is fuel. It provides us with the energy needed for all bodily function, brain activity and movement. Food is the building blocks to replace old, worn out and injured cells. Why then are we facing an epidemic of disease, cancer, an inability to fight off infection and a lack of energy?

The food we provide our bodies is lacking the nutrients and contains artificial colors and flavors. The same can be said for the food we provide our feline friends. Why does a cat’s food need to be five different colors? Gone are the days when we cooked using fresh, simple ingredients and our cats hunted fresh, nutritionally complete critters outside.

Where can we find nutritionally complete, toxin-free diets for our cat?

The world health organization estimates that 40 percent of cancer in humans is caused by diet. Humans are eating huge quantities of nutritionally deficient food.

What nutrients are we getting from a burger, soda and fries?

Remember when children brown bagged lunches to school and it included a piece of fruit or carrot sticks? The feline diet is now mirroring the human diet in that we are feeding huge amounts of poor quality, nutritionally deficient food to our cats. Diet is contributing to their increasing cancer rate, as well.

We are feeding a high carbohydrate diet to a species that is an obligate carnivore. That is to say a cat’s body is set up to eat a meat-based diet. The gastrointestinal tract is shorter than an omnivore or herbivore. The cat doesn’t have the chemical pathways to efficiently deal with a 48

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carbohydrate diet and requires no carbohydrates at all in the diet. We can’t feed a cat a vegetarian diet and expect it be healthy. The meats we are feeding our cats are often of low quality from animals that were also fed a poor nutrition diet.

We are what we eat, and we are what our food eats.

In a majority of dry cat foods, a significant component of the diet is grain such as corn, corn gluten, brewer’s rice and soy. Corn and soy are both high is omega 6 fatty acids, which are pro-inflammatory. A little inflammation is needed to fight infections, but too much leads to inflammatory diseases like asthma, allergies and arthritis. Chronic inflammation increases the risk of getting cancer.

Grain-free, dry food still contains carbohydrates— potatoes, tapioca and green peas. Carbohydrates are needed to bind the food into a kibble. Carbohydrates break down into sugar in the gastrointestinal tract. Cancer cells use sugar as a fuel source; however, cancer cells do not use protein and fats for fuel. Therefore, if we decrease the carbohydrates in the cat’s diet, we decrease the risk of cancer.

What Should We Be Feeding Our Cats?

Hunting is the most natural diet for a cat. Cats have been hunting and eating prey for thousands of years. Their body is designed to digest and absorb the nutrients from prey, which contains the correct amount of nutrients in the correct ratio for the cat. The prey does not contain any artificial colors or preservatives, and did not grow up eating genetically modified organisms, growth hormones or antibiotics.

The best diet for pet cats should contain a high percentage of high quality meat. Organic grass fed/pasture raised beef and poultry or meats that are not intensely farmed, such as venison, rabbit and duck, are high quality meats.

Grass fed meats are higher in anti-inflammatory omega 3 fatty acids, lower in pro-inflammatory omega 6’s and higher in vitamins and minerals.

The best fish to feed cats is wild caught Alaskan salmon or sardines, which contain a lot of omega 3 fatty acids, no antibiotics and are low in ocean toxins. Most fish in cat food comes from the heads, tails, fins and entrails. The increased mineral content from the fins and bones increase the risk of cats getting bladder stones.

Do not feed cats food that contains non-organic dairy— milk or cheese. Dairy in cat food does not come from organic grass fed cows. Cat food should contain some fruits and vegetables to help add vitamins and fiber. If a cat is having gastrointestinal issues like constipation, add natural fiber by adding baby food, pumpkin or sweet potatoes to canned food.

Changing Diets Cats are one of the most difficult species for changing diets.

Cats are the only species that will starve to death with food sitting in front of them. If a cat doesn’t eat for a few days, it can lead to a liver condition called hepatic lipidosis, or fatty liver disease. When a cat stops eating it breaks down body fat that goes to the liver to be processed. If a lot of fat goes to the liver, it gets deposited in the liver cells and causes damage.

This leads to nausea, which keeps the cat from eating. If there

is enough damage to the liver, the cat will die. If the cat doesn’t eat for more than two days, give in and feed the cat what it wants.

New foods must be changed slowly.

If a cat already eats wet food and does not readily accept a new brand or flavor, start by mixing in a tablespoon of new food and gradually switch over. Unused open cans of food can be stored in the refrigerator. Add hot water or microwave the refrigerated food a few seconds in order to get the cat to eat it, as cats do not like cold food.

If the cat doesn’t eat wet food and does not readily try it, start by mixing a teaspoon or two into the dry food. If the cat won’t eat the dry with the wet in it, start by smearing a small amount on the cat’s lips or paw to get it accustomed to the taste. Be patient, as it can take up to several weeks to make the switch to a new food.

Raw and Wild Diets Some prefer to use raw cat food as a more natural diet than processed cat foods, but there are two big concerns with a raw diet. First, the diet must be nutritionally complete. It must consist of meat muscle, organs and bones in the correct ratio with the appropriate vitamins and minerals. It’s extremely difficult for people to make a balanced diet just by going to the grocery store or meat market. There are pet food companies that make nutritionally

complete raw diets that are either shipped frozen and then thawed or freeze dried and then reconstituted.

I recommend this over making your own food, but be sure to do the research on the company.

The other concern with raw diets is bacteria and parasites in the food.

Pet food companies occasionally need to recall foods and treats due to bacterial contaminants. This is even more of a concern with raw diets.

Raw frozen food must be kept frozen until just prior to feeding and either thawed in a refrigerator (not on a counter) or have hot water added.

The food must be consumed within a half hour of being set out at room temperature.

A healthy, organic diet is more costly compared to standard cat food, but the health benefits far outweigh the cost of a better quality food. The cost of veterinary bills for chronic disease and having to treat a sick cat make the increased cost of organic food worth it in the long run.

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Learn more about this meditation path. An introduction to Siddha Yoga Meditation start at 7:00pm. The evening includes Siddha Yoga teachings, chanting with live musicians and meditation. A light vegetarian dinner is available after satsang.

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that kept me from my highest potential.

I had lots of goals and dreams that I sacrificed to please my father and helped him build his dreams in the family business. I realized that in time I had set aside all my passions on my father’s advice. Although I was steering farther from the things I enjoyed, it’s here that I discovered my love of business and entrepreneurship.

I was on that journey for over 15 years. But even though I accomplished all that, I didn’t feel like I was living my life’s purpose. All of a sudden life took a drastic turn for me. In 2004 my father became very ill eventually being diagnosed with mantel cell lymphoma stage 4. He also developed leukemia, it knocked me off my feet. As I searched for alternative healing sources for him, I discovered a wealth of knowledge and new healing techniques that would not only help him, but myself and others. His disease was not only physical, it was emotional.

I used my knowledge and worked with my father, to help him find his peace, by fully analyzing his life experiences, traumas and beliefs, which affected and fed his illness.

This new awareness resonated with me and gave me a new purpose in Life. I went back to school and recharged my life.

I studied psychology, religion, mysticism, philosophy, medical herbalism, behavioral studies, ThetaHealing, and Spiritual science. Since my youth, I had also developed strong intuitive and clairvoyant abilities and now saw these could work hand-in-hand with everything I was learning. Over time I combined these skills and learned techniques that not only would help me heal my stories, but would help many indi-

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piritual Divorce Therapist Master Healer, Joyce Haddad is celebrating the Grand Opening of Keep it in the Heart Center, her newest venture for personal growth, healing, and learning. Surrounded by water, and local wildlife in the town of Miami Lakes, Haddad will introduce her clients to “a life-changing journey of personal discovery and spiritual expansion” through all that she offers. Natural Awakenings sat down with Haddad at her center to ask a few questions about her goals.

NA. Before we get to know your center why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started?

JH. I was born in Venezuela and raised in Miami, Florida since I was 5 years old. My background is an interesting mix of Middle Eastern and Italian. This eclectic blend of cultures inspired me early on to discover where I came from, to learn about my traditions that had been passed from generation to generation, and understand the value of the woman within my culture, and realize how to break free from all limitations 50

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viduals transform their lives.

The last 13 years, I’ve dedicated myself in helping others overcome emotional problems, enhance their psychological state of being, and motivate them in achieving their goals and dreams. My father’s illness ignited me to begin my healing journey and career transition. As my father and I healed each other my world became authentic and filled with Truth.

I realized that by Divorcing my past, and the energy that was holding me back, I was able to re create my Life, my way, the way I deserved to live.

NA. You have opened a beautiful center in Miami Lakes where in addition to an array of classes, workshops, and treatments, you provide transformational products like your own brand of Health grade therapeutic essential oils, organic energetic vegan soaps, and energy baths.

What else will Keep it in the Heart Holistic Center provide?

Astrology certifications and workshops, FengShui workshops, meditations, Coffee and Tea reading courses and parties, and many more life changing services and support, we also open our sacred space to top international and local healers, conference speakers, thought leaders, and teachers who want to expand their modalities and certifications in MIAMI. Our center becomes a second home to many, unifying oneness, growth, healing, and a place to learn. Our shop provides a complementary support while you heal. Just as we brush our teeth, wash your hair, it is imperative to cleanse our energy body from micro-organisms, viruses, harmful free radicals and negative energies that we pick up throughout the day, cleansing our auric field, chakras, and heal our emotions from these contaminants. We are contaminated not only by our environment but also by toxic people and nega-

JH. We will also provide our signature services in One-onOne Spiritual Therapy, ThetaHealing®, Spiritual Divorces, Acupuncture, Vitamin infusions, Reiki, Angel Readings, workshops, certification courses, private and group classes, Biopulsar-Reflexograph, crystals, jewelry, diffusors, Alternative medicine, ministerial and officiant services, Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Women circles, music therapy, drum circles,

BRINGING THE SACRED TO EVERYDAY The Sacred Space Miami is an epicenter for personal growth and transformation, offering wellness events and workshops for beginners and advanced students alike. A sanctuary cultivating conscious living where “love is everything,” The Sacred Space is also home to four-star plant-based restaurant Plant Food + Wine and Matthew Kenney Culinary.

This Fall, look forward to a full schedule of wonderful events including: The Modern Life Mindfulness Festival, Cushion Crawl Launch, HeartSpeak Workshop, YogaArt, an incredible line-up of renowned spiritual teachers and more!

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tive spirits. Using special energy organic soaps, crystals, and baths, that will help improve and maintain your functionality in order to find balance and cultivate successful outcomes in your daily life.

NA. Speak to our readers about Spiritual Energetic Divorces and Spiritual Energetic Marriages?

JH. We are interconnected with everything that we have encountered consciously or unconsciously throughout time and space. As a result we have created connections and blocks for ourselves in many levels in our energy and body feeling broken or as if a missing piece is gone.

If we take the example of a union of two souls who have been married on paper or bound energetically, where either one or the other, or both, later realize that their journey together has come to an end, this union will continue to be connected beyond the paper agreement; this union has created energetic cords. These cords connecting them will still exist in their present moment. I see clients that have been divorced or separated for 10 years and continue to think about the other person through anger or even through love. As we disconnect these connections through a Divine energetic process, we cut, transform and make whole those connections and fragments that were linked through the energy exchange or where their vital force was given away, ultimately returning that energy and power back.

NA. Is this only for Marriages or couples?

JH. Spiritual Energetic Divorces applies to any tangible attachments whether it be a home, leaving your country, loss of

loved ones and career, pets, parents, children, money, obsessions, material objects, just about anything.

NA. If I get divorced from my parents or children will I lose them?

JH. You are actually cleaning and liberating the debris between you and them constellating the relationships not creating loss or separation. You will never lose the positive experiences, memories, and great feelings. You will release anything that no longer serves either one of you.

NA. Can someone reunite after a spiritual Divorce?

JH. Absolutely. That is why I have created Spiritual Marriages. This is for people that want to renew and unite again, learning love in a divine truthful way. Spiritual Marriages work on a cellular level by teaching the soul and the cells a new form of a healthy love, a new way to accept, allow and be loved. Honoring one another in a conscious respectful way by letting go of what was and recreating what is and will be. After the Spiritual Marriage session, we provide spiritual ministry services as an option to the couple to renew their vows or to marry according to their beliefs.

NA. Speak to the readers about ThetaHealing®?

Theta Healing is a modality that allows you to manifest anything in your life, have financial, spiritual and personal freedom, knowing that there is hope and you can transform your beliefs and feelings. ThetaHealing® works through a theta brain wave, and the area of the subconscious mind and brain that house all our memories and beliefs. It is a meditative technique conducted while the client and practitioner are in a theta brainwave state - an altered consciousness where brainwaves are slowed to a relaxed mode where we then can access the beliefs stored in the subconscious mind. When we transform our beliefs on a deep level our life and emotions change, shifting our point of attraction, actions, and experiences. As a Theta Healing instructor I also offer monthly Basic & Advanced certification courses for those who simply want to heal or want to add an additional modality to their current practice. See ads, pages 53 and 60.

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Nine Practices to Create a Joyful Mind

by Kathryn Templeton

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n yoga philosophy, we speak about consciousness. We refer to yogic texts that offer practices to help us raise our awareness and become more present.

So why isn’t everyone feeling the bliss on the awareness-raising, higher-consciousness train of joy?

Our minds need to buy into the whole operation. The yoga and Ayurvedic texts tell us that our nature is sattva, or clarity and balance; our mind is essentially joy. This can be a challenging concept. After all, it may not feel like your mind’s nature is joy.

The biological model tells us that our brain’s number one job is to keep the organism (that’s you) alive. Often the behaviors we engage in to survive feel less than joyful.

Sometimes the desire for happiness and the need to stay alive feel at odds. This is where we begin to sacrifice our need for joy and focus more of our precious energy and attention on staying alive.

These two agendas do not have to be separated. Through our yoga practices, we can develop support for our survival, building adaptability and resilience while establishing an awareness of our essential joy. In Ayurvedic practices, the daily routine (dinacharya) offers us a way to start each day with the same self-supporting practices: rising with gratitude, tongue scraping, drinking warm water with lemon, belly breathing practices, and body oiling before bathing. This daily routine provides an anchor of support, helping us to develop adaptability and resilience by decreasing decision fatigue as we know what to expect. This provides a solid foundation on which to build every morning, allowing us to approach each day with less stress and more joy!

Creating a morning routine will go far to support steadiness and ease without the decision fatigue that results from the “wake-up chaos” many of us call “morning time.”

Try including a few of these easy-to-implement suggestions into a morning routine that will work for your life.

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Nine Simple Practices to Create Healthful Mind Patterns 1. Get up at dawn.

2. Establish a daily cleansing and nurturing routine (dinacharya).

3. Allow yourself the time needed to evacuate wastes fully every morning. Rushing hinders the process.

4. Eat nourishing meals, cooked with nourishing oils, three

times a day.

5. Practice deep relaxation or meditation, or walk quietly in nature.

6. Go to bed at the same time almost every night (preferably between 10 and 11 p.m.).

7. Move your body enough to break a light sweat every day.

8. Offer gratitude to something greater than yourself—for your life and for the people and things that are most important to you.

9. Become aware of your heart’s desire and your innate passion, and explore those impulses.

As we build mental impressions (samskaras) around these daily actions, we bring more prana (life force), tejas (discrimination), and ojas (deep vitality) to our lives. We start to create new neural grooves or patterns in our brains which will feed our minds in moving slowly and steadily toward clarity and balance—and, ultimately, toward joy.

Kathryn Templeton, AP, MA, RDT/MT, E-RYT 500, is a NAMA Certified Ayurvedic practitioner and faculty member at the Himalayan Institute in Honesdale, PA. She will be conducting the Himalayan Institute Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist (HIAYS) training program at Weston Yoga, beginning November 10.

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calendarofevents To submit an event listing email: event date, name, brief description, location, cost and contact to advertising3@namiami.com. For additional listings visit www.namiami.com.

OCTOBER 1 - 9 Oktoberfest - A 10 day Beer-Food-and Music Festival to celebrate the tradition of Oktoberfest. 11ammidnight, daily. Live entertaiment by bands from Austria and Germany. Beer bars and wine gardens.

Traditional Bavarian food. Yodel contest, Bratwursteating contest and raffles. FREE admission. Located at the Plaza in front of Fritz & Franz Bierhaus at 60 Merrick Way, Coral Gables. 305-774-1883

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 Free healing session with Cristovao Brilho –– 5:00pm – Instituto Cristovao Brilho – 2811 Coral Way – 33145 - call 786-295-8665 must arrive by 5:00pm

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4 Free healing session with Cristovao Brilho –– 7:00pm – Instituto Cristovao Brilho – 2811 Coral Way – 33145 - call 786-295-8665 must arrive by 7:00pm

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 The Art of Awakening: A Shamanic Meditative Journey into Ancient Mysticism: 7:30 – 9:30pm - Drawing from various ancient traditions of mysticism, Omar Ahmadzai (Mystic, Shaman) brings us through a guided meditation bringing you into a timeless journey in spirit through vibration and sacred breath. Through the creation of these vibrations, our ancient memory is awakened, our connection to our cosmic ancestry is understood, and karma is shaken and then removed, providing the space for new beginnings. The Sacred Space Miami, 105 NE 24th St, Miami.

OCTOBER 8 & 22 Free yoga classes for Parkinson’s disease or other neuro-motor degenerative diseases - 4:00-5:30 pm - designed to increase balance, strength, and well-being. Participants may bring one caregiver.

Space is limited; preregistration required at Aum Home Shala, 3104 Florida Ave., Coconut Grove, FL 33133. 1-305-441-9441

OCTOBER 8 - 31 Little Farm Pumpkin Patch - Visit Little Farm in Homestead for a gorgeous pumpkin patch, pony rides, a petting farm, scarecrow kits and harvest decorations. Mon-Fri: 3-7pm & Sat-Sun: 10am7pm. The Little Farm, 13401 SW 224 Street. 305258-3186.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9 ASCENDED MASTER TURYAN - hourly sessions: 10am to 2pm and 4pm to 7pm -Instituto Cristovao Brilho – 2811 Coral Way – 33145 - Reserve your seat now call 786-295-8665

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10 Understanding Lab Tests for Leukemia/Lymphoma - 6 - 8 pm. Join us to learn why and when specific tests are performed, and how the doctors use the information in cancer care management. Patients/

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markyourcalendar SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16 Susan G. Komen Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Race for the Cure® 7:30-11:00 AM. Ready to make a lifesaving difference in the fight against breast cancer? Sign up today to participate in the Race for the Cure® at Bayfront Park, 301 Biscayne Blvd., Miami. Pre-event fee: $35-$40. Race Day: $40-$45. To register or for information: www.komenmiaftl.org.

Survivors and loved ones are welcome! Free and open to the general public. Call 305-668-5900.

Cancer Support Community, 8609 South Dixie Highway, Miami.

OCTOBER 11 & 25 Tibetan Institute and Library members will continue to study “From here to Enlightenment” by His Holiness the 14th Dalailama., from 6:30 - 7:45 p.m., at South Miami Library, 6000 Sunset Drive, South Miami, FL 33143, contact 305-667-6121 or 305-271-2772. Free and open to Public. Free parking at South Miami City Hall parking lot.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12 Greater Miami Holistic Chamber of Commerce Networking mixer - for members and guests.

6:30 - 8:30pm. For more information, contact Chad Welch at 305-851-1911 Practical stress management for the 21st Century 7 techniques from East and West: 6pm Miami Floatation, 19999 Country Club DriveNorth Miami Beach, FL 33160, Free. 305-322-7017

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15 Modern Life Mindfulness Festival - Join the first-ever Mindfulness Festival and become a part of the growing mindful community in Miami!

Learn powerful mindfulness techniques from world-renowned mindfulness experts that help you live a more balanced and happier life. Look forward to over 20+ workshops, guided teachings and activities with a like-minded community. .The Sacred Space Miami, 105 NE 24th St, Miami.

Yogic Lifestyle Beyond the Mat? with Hindy Meredith, 4:00-7:00 pm. Learn how the 8 limbs of yoga make up the yogic lifestyle and also learn meditation techniques, breathing exercises and concentration tools for daily use. Price $30. Just OM Yoga Studio, 7227 SW 57th Ct, South Miami.

(305) 665-4982 Kiss your fears goodbye! Join the woman’s transformational group and unleash your powerful woman. Continues for 4-6 weeks, 1-2:30 $15 per session. Bay Harbor Islands. Free parking. Call 305-331-6891 to enroll

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 Usui Reiki Training and Certification Level I (Shoden) with Fernando Arias, 11:30 am -6:00

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markyourcalendar THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 AWARE for All – Clinical Research Education Event Thursday, October 20, 4-7 pm.

Learn about participating in clinical research, hear from prominent local physician speakers and patients, get free health screenings, and enjoy free food and giveaways. Hyatt Regency Miami, 400 S.E. Second Avenue. Register: www.awareforall.org, 877-633-4376.

AWARE for All – Clinical Research Education Event – Thursday, October 20, 4-7 pm.

Hyatt Regency Miami, 400 S.E. Second Avenue. Register: www.awareforall.org, 877-633-4376.

pm. Training for self-treatments and treatment for others. Price $180. Just OM Yoga Studio, 7227 SW 57th Ct, South Miami. (305) 665-4982

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 Miami Senior Expo - 10:30 am – 2:30 pm - 80+ exhibitors with senior products and services 2000 active seniors, caregivers, retirees, FREE health screenings, Door prizes, giveaways and raffles, Live entertainment FREE Einstein bagels and coffee. Free admission, Free self-parking, & free wi-fi 450 NW 37th Avenue Miami, FL 33125.

Miami Biz Expo - 6:00 – 9:00pm - Over 100 companies participating in a biz to biz trade show, 1000 attendees from the business community, Speed Networking sessions, Tremendous opportunity for client/ contact growth, Free admission with business card & light appetizers. Free self-parking, & free wi-fi, 450 NW 37th Avenue Miami, FL 33125.

Forever Fitness with Cancer - 6 - 8 pm. Cancer survivors must find a ways to welcome physical activity into their lives. Dr. Padilla will discuss the benefit of exercise, and explain the role of physical therapy in recovery from cancer. Free and open to the general public. Call 305-668-5900. Cancer Support Community, 8609 South Dixie Highway, Miami.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20 AWARE for All – Clinical Research Education Event Thursday, October 20, 4-7 pm. Learn about participating in clinical research, hear from prominent local physician speakers and patients, get free health screenings, and enjoy free food and giveaways. Hyatt Regency Miami, 400 S.E. Second Avenue. Register: 877-633-4376.

Chi Gong, breathing, self-hypnosis, nutrition, acupressure, exercises and management techniques - 10 am - Miami Floatation, 19999 Country Club Drive North Miami Beach, FL 33160, Free. 305-322-7017 A Journey of Intent. Yoga Retreat with Marit in Teotihuacan, Mexico. Oct 20-Oct 24. A transformative journey of inner discovery. $850 includes accommodations, ground transportation, fees to sites and activities. Bodhi Zenz Yoga & Wellness 7520 SW 57TH Ave Suite K South Miami. 305-740-7800

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 Creating Your Heart’s Desire - How Law Of Attraction Helps You Create a Life You LOVE! $45, with Holistic Life Coach, Kevin O’Brien. 1:30 -

4:30. Kevin O’Brien Wellness 7520 SW 57th Ave. Suite K, South Miami. Call 305-788-0777.

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OCTOBER 21 - 22

Global Shaktipat Intensive – Siddha Yoga presents the Global Shktipat Intensive entitled The Dawning of Beatitude – 8:30am – 5:30pm. Call 305-4462020 for more information. 3119 Coral Way, 33145.

Underwater Pumpkin Carving - Divers become underwater artists as they turn pumpkins into Halloween masterpieces beneath the sea in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Prizes awarded the most creative jack-o-lantern. Contact -305-451-3595

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OCTOBER 9 & 23

The Women’s Panel for Breast Cancer Awareness Month 6:30 - 8:30pm. Greater Miami Holistic Chamber of Commerce hosts a panel of breast and women’s health experts. $5 for members, $15 for non-members in advance. For more information, contact Chad Welch at 305-851-1911

Goombay Festival - Marking the beginning of Fantasy Fest, this exuberant street party showcases island arts and crafts, music and food in the heart of Key West’s historic Bahama Village neighborhood.

Purchase African arts and crafts, sample foods and delicacies from a variety of cultures and countries, and enjoy live musical entertainment ranging from gospel to reggae. (305) 296-1817

Visit the Family-Friendly Sheriff’s Animal Farm Open between 1 - 3 p.m., the Sheriff’s Animal Farm invites you to bring the family and visit the animals at the farm, including horses, a cow, pigs, goats, bunnies, alligators, tropical birds, a Kinkajou, Sloths, a Lemur, Kramer the Emu, a family of Patagonian Cavys, tortoises and turtles, snakes and many more.

It is free of charge (donations are welcome). The farm is located just off of College Road, on Stock Island, at the Sheriff’s Office Headquarters complex. every second and fourth Sundays of the month. Farmer Jeanne Selander 305-293-7300

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29 Basic Mantras: For Your Yogic Lifestyle with Hindy Meredith, 4:00-7:00 pm. Learn what is, when, where and how to chant 4 of the most powerful Mantras– how to use a Mala, and how to determine which Mantras are right for you. Price $30. Just OM Yoga Studio, 7227 SW 57th Ct, South Miami. (305) 665-4982

OCTOBER 29 & 30

OCTOBER 21 - 30 Key West Fantasy Fest - This outrageous 10-day costuming and masking celebration features flamboyant costume competitions including one for pets, promenades, street fairs and a grand parade that stars marching groups, island bands and lavish floats. More than 40 masquerade contests, themed parties, parades and other spectacles are to challenge the creativity of mask and costume designers.

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2 EXCITING EXPOS, SAME DAY, SAME PLACE MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016 MIAMI SENIOR EXPO - 10:30am – 2:30pm

Introduction to Ayurveda: Explore how yoga’s ancient “sister science” can help you create more balance in your life, as you unpack your unique constitution. Preregistration required. Aum Home Shala, 3104 Florida Ave., Coconut Grove, FL 33133.

1-305-441-9441.

80+ exhibitors with senior products & services. 2000 active seniors, caregivers, retirees.FREE health screenings, door prizes, giveaways and raffles. Live entertainment. FREE Einstein Bros. bagels & coffee

Zoo Boo!- 11am-4pm. Included with zoo admission, families and kids ages 12 and under are invited to trick-or-treat in costumes, participate in costume contests, watch special performances, make Halloween crafts, see our wild animals get their Halloween goodies, and more! Music and games with fun prizes will be provided by Radio Disney AM 990 and The Coast 97.3 FM. Zoo Miami, 12400 SW 152 Street. 305-328-8811.

Over 100 companies participating in a biz to biz trade show. 1000 attendees from the business community. Speed Networking sessions. Free light appetizers

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30

MIAMI BIZ EXPO - 6:00– 9:00pm

Free wi-fi - Free self-parking - Free admission with business card For info. On exhibiting or attending for both expos see www.multi-expo.com OR CALL At STAGE 305 @ Magic City Casino • 450 NW 37th Avenue, Miami, FL 33125

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Howl-o-ween- 12 – 5pm. Your pooch is invited to Fairchild for a day of four-legged fun. There will be fun, dog-related activities and even a costume contest. Sponsored by The Pet Chamber of Commerce. Pinecrest Gardens $5 (Children under 2 years, free). Pinecrest Gardens, 11000 S. Red Rd. Miami, FL 33156 305-669-6990

floridakeys OCTOBER 7 - 9 Third Annual Downtown Key Largo Songfest The weekend music festival is to include three live venues of more than a dozen entertainers playing simultaneously over two nights; transportation between venues is to be available. From 6-10 p.m., performers are to liven the stage at Pilot House, Bayside Grill and Key Largo Fisheries Backyard Cafe. Headliners include Nashville hit songwriters, Jon Nite, Jimmy Robbins and Greg Barnhill; Mark Stephen Jones; Billy Livesay and more. Contact: Robert DiGiorgio 305-619-0172

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Self-Defense for Women classes- Free. Also Wed. 7:15 – 8:30 pm at Bayfront park in downtown Miami. 305-358-7550

sunday Shiva’s Circle of Fire: Yoga and Meditation in Motion. 3:00pm - 5:00pm. 1760 NE 144th St, North Miami, FL 33181. Call to schedule. 305.710.0516.

Donation only.

Women Only – Free Chi gong for cancer survivors and voice lessons for healing and empowerment. 2:30 - 4:30, N & S Miami locations. Call 305-948-6878 Dharma Meetings – 2pm. Tibetan Buddhist Dharma Center 3239 West Trade Ave. Unit 10, Coconut Grove. FREE. 305-775-7541.

Jazzercise® - $5. 10am. South Miami Community Center 5800 SW 66 St. Call Cathie 305-666-5457.

Miami Center for Spiritual Living- 10:30am- Free.

Non-denominational. 2490 Coral Way, Miami, 786206-6355.

Sunday Services at SOUL Church – 11am at the SOUL Service at the Elks Lodge, 6304 SW 78th St in South Miami. Free pot-luck lunch. 305-221-6516.

monday Mindfulness for Stress Alleviation - $20/session - 6 to 7:20 pm - 260 Palermo Ave, # 12 Coral Gables 33155. Changes guaranteed after 4 sessions.

Course in Miracles - 8pm. Free. 7855 SW Coral Way. Contact Mercedes 786-200-8410 or Nimia 305-261-3190.

Connected Warriors Free Yoga for Veterans, Service Members and Families. 5:30-6:15 pm - Sampoorna Yoga Miami, 10107 Sunset Drive, Miami, FL 33173 Power of Meditation – 9 - 9:45pm – 2nd & 4th Monday. Conference Call – 312-757-3121 code: 698805965. Free.

Massage Relief for Combat Veterans - 50% off therapeutic massages for our combat service personnel. Call 305-351-0819. Shala Spa 1119 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach.

Military Mondays at Hirooka’s - 50% off Kitesurfing or Paddleboarding for all Military and Public Service Personnel - Hirooka Surf & Sport, 2377 Collins Avenue Miami Beach, FL. 954-444-3942 Bereavement & Grief Support- 7pm, during school year. Children’s Bereavement Center, 7600 S. Red Rd, Suite 307. To register: 305-668-4902.

Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)- Bilingual Support group. 305-666-1778.

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tuesday Stretch and Relaxation Class 1-2PM SoBe Kick 1860 West Ave. 2nd Floor. South Beach 33139. $10.

First class is free. 917-446-2965 Support group for Anxiety and Depression -7:30 to 9:00 pm $30 fee, Zenith Miami Counseling and Coaching Center 1392 SW 22nd Terr, Miami FL 33145 (2nd floor) Dr. M. Cheour at 786-230-6591.

Yoga and Meditation Class – 7 – 7:45. Free. West Dade Regional Library, 9445 Coral Way. RSVP Lawrence 305-926-3578.

Are you a VET living with PTS? If so, call Banyan Holistic Healthcare Center for help, Miami Lakes or Pinecrest location. Call now to schedule, (305) 663-5696.

Healing With Dance - South Miami Hospital for physical limitations from illness/surgery. No dance experience necessary. 9:30-10:30am. $5. 786-662-8106.

Jazzercise® - $5. M&W 6:30pm. South Miami Community Center 5800 SW 66 St. Ongoing classes available all week. Call Cathie 305-666-5457.

Meditation for overall well-being- 7:30- 9pm. 8150 SW 92 St, Miami. 786-556-7318. Donation.

Healing Meditation – 6pm – American Apothecary, $5, 12232 SW 132 CT. Miami, FL 33186, 305-598-2822

thursday SW Community Farmers’ Market- in Tropical Park, 7900 Bird Rd. Every Saturday, 9:00am3:00pm. 305- 663- 0917. EBT/SNAP welcome.

Calming listening program Free to Veterans with PTS and anxiety related issues - For more information please call 786.453.7722 Stretch and Relaxation Class 1-2PM SoBe Kick 1860 West Ave. 2nd Floor. South Beach 33139. $10.

First class is free. 917-446-2965

Laughter Yoga Sessions - $5.00 each - 9:30-10:15 AM, North Shore Youth Center 501 72nd Street, Miami Beach 33141, 305-861-3616.

Connected Warriors Free Yoga for Veterans, Service Members and Families. Chair Yoga – 1011am - Sampoorna Yoga Miami, 10107 Sunset Drive, Miami, FL 33173

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Introduction to Bach Flowers - 3rd Thursdays - 10 am-11:30 am - Free - 3390 Mary Street Suite 116, Coconut Grove- Please RSVP 305-607-8627

Guided Meditation - All levels welcome- 7 pmDonations-3390 Mary Street Suite 116, Coconut Grove- Please RSVP 305-607-8627

Nutrition Solutions for IBS, Fibromyalgia, Arthritis & Migraines - $15, 7-8PM, Coral Gables, Alison Grewal, RD: 786-546-6800.

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