Natural Awakenings Phoenix February 2015 Issue

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HAPPILY EVER AFTER Creating a Strong Relationship that Lasts

Healing the Heart

Helpful Aids for Emerging from Grief

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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.

16 HAPPILY COUPLED

Creating Loving Relationships that Thrive

by Judith Fertig

24 HYPERTENSION CAN BE CONTROLLED

by Dr. Jack M. Wolfson

26 ECO FENG SHUI

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Tips to Bring More Positive Energy into Your Home

by Sarah Tarver-Wahlquist

28 GENTLING GRIEF

Remedies to Heal the Heart

by Kathleen Barnes

29 LEASED SOLAR PANELS MAY 26 AFFECT HOME SALES

by Kathy Maguire

30 FITNESS FINDS

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Locate the Best Workout Space for You

by Debra Melani

32 EASE ADHD

NATURALLY

Nine Ways to Help Restore Calm and Focus

by Jenna Blumenfeld

36 WHAT’S IN

YOUR WAY?

Obstacles Point the Path to Wholeness and Healing

by Deborah Shouse

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ur editorial theme this month is Enlightened Relationships, just in time for February 14th!

One of the most overlooked aspects when we think of relationships is the relationship we have with ourselves. We expect our family, friends and loved ones to be caring and treat us with dignity and respect, but all too often, we don’t gift ourselves the same uplifting treatment and allow a lot of negative thought patterns to dominate our daily lives. When was the last time you did something positive for your mind, body and spirit? If you’re looking for inspiration, simply turn the pages of this magazine.

Last month, I started working with a personal trainer. I had resisted this for many years, naively thinking it was too expensive and took too much time. After seeing some very phenomenal results from my significant other, who began working with a trainer six months ago, I took the plunge. And boy, am I ever glad I did. The regular weekly schedule forces you to exercise and the sessions have pushed my own limits, enabling me to achieve significant breakthroughs that I’ve never been able to accomplish before.

Now I wonder why I didn’t work with a personal trainer years earlier! I’ll pass along this advice in the hope that you will reach out and try that “something new” you’ve been itching to do, but like me, have been too stuck in a limited way of thinking. What are you waiting for? I guarantee you are worth the effort!

CORRECTION In our December article “Zirconia is the New ‘Crown’ Jewel of Dentistry,” by Dr. David G. Lewis, about the use of zirconia in dental crowns, we erroneously made reference to dental implants in the endnote, which were not addressed in the story. We regret the error.

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newsbriefs Southwest College Holds Naturopathic Discovery Day

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or those thinking about a career in naturopathic medicine or wanting to learn more about naturopathic medicine and its benefits, Discovery Day, an open house with free activities designed to educate the community about naturopathic medicine and provide insight for prospective students, will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., March 14, at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, in Tempe.

Tour the brand-new building and enjoy guest speakers, yoga classes, chair massages, acupuncture, cooking demonstrations, herbal tea and protein drink tastings, book signings and raffle prizes during the all-day open house and vendor fair.

Naturopathic doctors look beyond symptoms and explore nutritional, emotional, environmental, hereditary and infectious factors that often are the cause of or contribute to a patient’s condition. At the event, students can learn about everything from prerequisites and financial aid to the innovative curriculum and career opportunities.

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ichael J. Breus, Ph.D., is the author of The Sleep Doctor’s Diet Plan: Lose Weight Through Better Sleep, and new patients receive a free copy of this groundbreaking book discussing the science and relationship between quality sleep and metabolism.

Breus, a clinical psychologist, diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine and fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, is the owner of The Sleep Doctor’s Insomnia Clinic for Adults and Children, in Scottsdale. He also sits on the clinical advisory board of The Dr. Oz Show, where he appears regularly.

Breus is a renowned leader in the evolving field of sleep disorders. His mission is to raise awareness of medically diagnosed sleep disorders and the importance of quality sleep by developing innovative education and communication programs.

Location: 10165 N. 92nd St., Ste. 101, Scottsdale. To Admission is free and a complimentary breakfast and schedule an appointment, call 480-999-5900. For more lunch will be served. Location: 2164 E. Broadway Rd. For information, visit DrBreus.com. See ad on page 17. more information and to register, visit scnm.edu/DiscovSoul Healing Miracles™ Courses with eryDay. See ad on back cover.

Afterlife Explored at Master Ximena Gavino Unity Church of Mesa

Tao Channel and Disciple of Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha New Living Divine by the Mesa-Phoenix chapRelationship Workshop Organized ter of the International Association

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by Unity Church of Mesa. world-renowned healer and New York

Greyson has claimed to offer scienTimes bestselling author. In the book, Sha tific evidence of the afterlife. He says, gives the keys to living divine relationships with divine, “Near-death experience is the common term for when an with spiritual teachers and masters and with our soul. Gaindividual undergoes physical death, but after resuscitation ©2014 Heaven’s Library vino will give the workshop from 10 a.m.Master to 5 Ximena p.m., Gavino Febru- has memories ofGuang retaining consciousness and awareness of The Source Ling Calligraphywhen they’re dead.”

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A professor Soul and Healing Evening of psychiatry at the University of Virginia, Wednesday, February 4 Greyson • 6:30–9:30has pm,co-authored Free! ishing divine relationships such as how to open our spiritual the book, Irreducible Mind: New Vision Center, 18010 N. Tatum Blvd., #4, Phoenix 85032 channels and communicate soul-to-soul with divine; how Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century and co-edited to arrange our home and structure our day to nourish our ThetoHandbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Introduction Tao: The Way of All Life divine relationships; how to fully open to our life purpose; Investigation.

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Location: New Vision Center, 18010 N. Tatum Blvd., Phoetransformative Soul Language and nix. All workshop participants receive a copy of Living Directcall Soul Communication Divine Relationships as a gift. For more information, Admission is by donation. Location: 4949 E. Southern Saturday, February 7 • 2–6 pm, $25 Debra Manning at 480-338-1012 or visit LovePeace Ave., Mesa.

For more New Vision Center, 18010 N. Tatum Blvd., #2, Phoenix 85032information, call 480-892-2700 or HarmonyPhoenix.com. See ad on page 34. visit UnityOfMesa.org. See ad on page 31.

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Centers Yoga Arts, in Sedona, known nationwide for transformative 30-day teacher training, is now offering a 200-hour, eightweekend format teacher training series from February 27 to June 14.

This unique experience can be used to deepen a personal practice and spiritual journey while studying the curriculum required to register as a teacher with Yoga Alliance.

Students learn how to build and maintain health with yogic cleanses, developing a daily home practice while gaining skill in sharing hatha yoga, which includes ayurveda, the sister science of yoga. Anatomy courses taught by Jeff Masters, LMT, develop a better understanding of the body and how yoga asana can be used therapeutically for healing.

Ruth Hartung, the course leader, wants those with limited schedules to be able to experience classical yoga teachings and integrate aspects of yogic lifestyle for better health and inner peace. Hartung and the faculty at 7 Centers Yoga Arts, founded in 1998, have conducted more than 60 trainings with a diverse group of students of all ages.

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The Basics of Healing with Alex Hermosillo

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lex Hermosillo, the internationally known healer, author, spiritual teacher and founder of the Mastery of Energy Healing Center, in Phoenix, will share his extraordinary journey through a near-death experience from 1 to 3 p.m., February 21, at the New Vision Center.

He will explain the spiritual principles given to him about healing, the energies that create emotional distress and physical illness and how to release them. His lecture, The Basics of Healing, also encompasses a guided meditation and group healing.

Hermosillo will offer teaching and healing techniques in a Mastery of Energy Healing Training (MEH) class—Level 1, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., March 29. This training stems from Hermosillo’s gifts, experiences of healing, research and dedication. MEH is a gentle, non-invasive technique that anyone can learn in a one-day class to assist themselves and others, in person or at a distance. Hermosillo will give a demonstration of his technique as students practice working on themselves and then on others. MEH assists an individual in releasing non-nurturing physical, mental and emotional energies, allowing the body to heal the cause.

This includes stress, fears, grief, depression, phobias, heartbreak, toxicity, trauma, physical pain and symptoms from illness. Through MEH, Hermosillo teaches others how

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to release their emotional, mental or physical pain. They feel energized, clear and positive, and aches and pains are relieved or resolved in many cases.

Hermosillo’s gift of healing was awakened when a woman handed her 6-month-old dying baby girl to him and she was spontaneously healed. The following year, he had a near-death experience in an emergency hospital room where a second gift was given to him. He learned there is no such thing as death—only a new beginning. Hermosillo returned from this extraordinary experience with his healing abilities and intuitive senses greatly amplified.

Drawing upon his experiences with more than 7,000 healing sessions and the energy and wisdom given to him in Heaven, Hermosillo will explain how, at the moment a child is born, their body and mind begin to store a complete record of information about them called “cell memory”. Every experience of joy, gratitude and contentment is retained within them, as are the energies and memories of heartbreak, grief, judgment and fear. Through a simple, fast and effective process, Hermosillo will guide attendees in releasing the energies that create emotional distress and physical illness, allowing for greater clarity, peace of mind and relief from symptoms of illness.

Hermosillo is here to remind everyone that they are born with the ability to utilize their body’s energy and light to nurture and heal themselves and assist others in healing.

Participants at these events will experience an increase in energy and vitality; nurture and balance their emotions; strengthen their immune system; and raise their consciousness to experience a happy, healthy and fulfilling life.

Tickets for the Feb. 21 lecture are $10 in advance/$20 at the door. Location: 18010 N. Tatum Blvd., Phoenix. For more information or to schedule a private healing session, call 480-345-9972 or visit MasteryOfEnergyHealing.com.

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A Healthy Approach to Intestinal Maintenance

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Paisley Hearts Michael Wertz Michael Wertz says he has always found the act of melding the art of illustration and commerce exciting. “I love to direct that passion into crafting an emotive experience that words cannot,” explains the Oakland, California, illustrator. “For me, it means I’ve created an image that distills a moment of clarity.”

Wertz’s bold, energetic visions leap from his imagination through the pencil he always uses to begin an illustration and finish as digital collage, monoprints or screen prints. He has been creating images for publishers, designers, advertising agencies and musicians since 1995, when he graduated from the California College of the Arts, in Oakland.

The artist’s colorful imagery, commissioned by dozens of national clients, has been featured in Communication Arts and American Illustration and recognized by the Society of Illustrators. Today, Wertz runs a printmaking shop called Inky Oxnard, in West Oakland, and lives nearby as a “… friend to the four-pawed and a lover of all things brightly colored, including love.”

mall intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is a condition in which too many and the wrong kinds of bacteria inhabit the small intestine, or small bowel, usually due to another condition that interferes with normal intestinal activity.

Bacteria are allowed to stay overlong and multiply or even spread backward from the colon into the small intestine. The results may include constipation, bloating, abdominal pain, fatigue and even anemia, because iron and vitamin B12 are absorbed there.

Allopathic medicine usually kills off the overgrowth with antibiotics that tend to stay in the intestinal tract. The small intestine is then reseeded with healthy probiotics to establish the proper balance of gut bacteria essential to the absorption of nutrients and the production of some natural vitamins.

Steven Frank, founder of Nature’s Rite, advises that as a more natural alternative, some naturopathic practitioners are using an enhanced aqueous silver colloid to kill off the overgrowth before reseeding. According to the Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine, after using either technique, it helps to ingest herbs such as plantain, licorice, marshmallow and slippery elm bark, as well as aloe, to heal the damage.

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Happily Coupled Creating Loving Relationships that Thrive

by Judith Fertig

“To be fully seen by somebody… and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

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t the conclusion of her bestselling memoir, Eat Pray Love, author Elizabeth Gilbert had fallen in love with Jose Nunes (called Felipe in the book), a Brazilian living in Indonesia. The divorced Gilbert, reluctant to have her heart broken again, had vowed never to remarry… yet ultimately changed her mind when U.S. immigration law presented her with multiple choices: marry so they could live together in this country, stay single and live as ex-pat partners or say goodbye to Nunes.

Gilbert chose a marital partnership that suits the shared life they want: honest and, after years of travel, settled in one place. She says, “For the first time in my life, living in a small town with a lovely husband in an old

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house with a big garden and several pets, I feel absolutely rooted in a way I have never experienced before and never would have imagined even desiring. But it is what we want—at least for now—and we’re relishing that stability.” Gilbert records the process of going from two global wanderers falling in love to a married couple sharing domestic chores in her followup memoir, Committed: A Love Story.

Love Science

The spark that ignites such a partnership is love, which is “primarily about connection,” says Barbara Fredrickson, Ph.D., a positivity expert and author of Love 2.0: How Our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do, and Become. “It’s vital to our health

and happiness, affecting our brains and bodies at the cellular level.

“We were born to love,” emphasizes Fredrickson, who also serves as a psychology professor and director of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“The evidence comes from research that shows how our brain and nervous system are designed to enhance our chances of experiencing it.”

When we share positive emotions with another person, experience a synchrony between their biochemistry and behaviors and ours, plus exhibit mutual care, love can bloom, whether we stay happily single or decide to pursue a committed relationship. She calls this triple-action sequence “positivity resonance”. Love, she observes, is less a smooth, solid path than momentary experiences of connection.

Making Love Last

The more areas of connection we have with our partners, the more opportunities we have to positively resonate every day, adds Frederickson.

Thomas G. Plante, Ph.D., a psychology professor at California’s Santa Clara University and adjunct clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, agrees. “Longterm relationships, like marriages, are partnerships in living,” according to Plante. “The vast majority of the time couples are together they’re not having hot sex, but are sharing a practical day-to-day life together.”

Shared activities aren’t always exciting or glamorous. Raising children, working, managing a home, cooking and cleaning, shopping, being with friends and family and the rest of regular daily living is where the rubber meets the road in relationship satisfaction, observes Plante. “If couples aren’t compatible in these areas, then the connection and attraction will inevitably atrophy, tensions emerge and too often, relationships fracture and fall apart.”

Compatibility means different things to different people, and requirements can change as individuals in

a romantic partnership change over time. Compatibility also means agreement that the relationship is worth the effort to nurture and sustain it.

Partnering Life’s Dance

Five couples in different stages of loving partnerships share how they make their special relationships work. The key to them all is shared values.

Doing everything together. For newlyweds Drs. Josh and Chelsea Axe, of Nashville, Tennessee, a mutual commitment to vigorous wellness and physical fitness keeps them together.

Says Josh, “The healthy lifestyle I have chosen to live is so important that I need someone who is able to not just agree, but also partner with me.”

Married in 2012, the two chiropractic physicians went on to co-found the BurstFIT interval training program and meld their professional, as well as personal, lives.

Chelsea notes, “There is truth to the phrase, ‘Couples that sweat together, stay together.’ When working out together, you share a specific energy you create while pushing yourself to your mental and physical limits. You have your partner right there doing it alongside you, knowing they’re supporting you; so when you each break through a mental or physical barrier in your workout, you step over together into a strength and confidence that

“Seventy-five to 80 percent of all chemistry evaporates within six to eight months unless the relationship is significantly undergirded by deeper and more durable compatibility.” ~Neil Clark Warren carries over into your marriage. Being a part of each other’s goals and the struggles to reach them unifies us.”

Remarks Josh, “I feel like we can both be successful individually, but when we’re a team, the outcome is synergistic.”

Chelsea adds, “It’s never a mind-

set of ‘me.’ It’s always ‘us.’”

Balancing work and play. Barbara and Bob Unell, of Leawood, Kansas, dated as teenagers, went their separate ways in college and then found each other again in their early 20s.

“We went on a blind date in 1968 and both belted out songs on the car radio,” recalls Barbara. “I thought he had a great sense of humor and was fun to be with. All these years later, it feels like we’re still dating. We’re crazy about each other.”

Both Barbara and Bob describe themselves as enthusiastic, playful, entrepreneurial, altruistic and geared toward creative projects, whether undertaken together or separately.

“We’re both, ‘Let’s try this,’ sort of people,” says Barbara with a laugh.

When the Unells had twins, now grown, they realized there was no national publication addressing how to parent multiples, so they launched Twins magazine in 1984. Bob founded and managed an advertising agency while Barbara wrote bestselling parenting books, but the whole family traveled together on her speaking engagements. In response to becoming a breast cancer survivor, Barbara founded the nonprofit Back in the Swing in 2000 to support survivorship care at cancer centers. When they needed additional staff, Bob joined the team in 2009. One of the biggest things that

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Barbara has learned from Bob is, “You can make work fun.”

“Although we come from different backgrounds, Bob and I know the power of mutual respect, trust and kindness,” reflects Barbara. “Part of our connection is that we have shared history and never take each other for granted.”

Making long-distance work.

Lisa Ekus, who runs the full-service culinary talent agency The Lisa Ekus Group, in Hatfield, Massachusetts, had been married twice and already raised her two children when she met Atlanta Chef Virginia Willis. They got to know each other through culinary events and to their surprise, fell in love. Over the past six years they’ve evolved a relationship that works for them—keeping a deep personal connection, but maintaining separate residences.

Cookbook author Willis gardens, develops recipes and writes for her Food Network blog, “Down Home Comfort,” at Ekus’ New England compound in the summers; Ekus travels to the South during cold months. They also meet up as often as they can at conferences, food and wine festivals and other events during the rest of the year.

“We are both smart, professional women who love what we do, have strong ethics and a high level of self-expectation in how we work,” says Ekus.

“We are also best friends and work together professionally. The respect we have for each other and our work is instrumental in our relationship.”

“We often joke about the North/ South, fast/slow cultural difference,” Ekus notes. “I’m more spontaneous; Virginia is more thoughtful in her responses. I tend to move fast and focus on checking off items, while Virginia is more about the journey and being in the moment. It often makes us each take stock and consider what we’re doing and saying.”

They make the geographic separation work despite its inherent long-distance complications via consistent communication, saying good morning and good night every day by phone and texting often. They hold regular agent/author meetings to make professional plans and personal

calendar meetings at least weekly, recognizing and respecting what is important to each of them.

help financially. Susan depends on her late husband’s insurance and pension benefits, which she would lose if she remarries. “Jake Bridging the is so laid back and age gap. Karen and easy to be with, I can Dick Eagle, from St. relax,” says Susan.

Louis, Missouri, are Michael, on the other 16 years apart in age, hand, always seemed but are close in the ~ Meher Baba to fill a room. Jake ways that count. Both helps Susan with are strong-minded chores around the property and she is and still vie to get their own way even always there cheering him on from the after 30 years of marriage. “We argue front row when he performs at local over the stupidest things, and then venues. resolve our disagreements and realize

“Marriages based on a mutual desire to serve and inspire grow continually in richness and beauty, and are a benediction to all who know of them.”

how good we have it,” says Karen.

What first attracted them to each other—and keeps them together—is a love of playful fun and good times with friends. Karen remarks, “I knew Dick was ‘the one’ when he jumped flat-footed over a wingback chair at a friend’s house. That showed me that he was young at heart.”

Making ends meet. Eleven years ago, when family therapist Susan Franklin lost her husband, Michael, a university college professor, she felt bereft and overwhelmed. The pair had owned a country property near Cleveland, Ohio, where they boarded horses. Susan realized, “I couldn’t keep up with everything on my own,” and Jake Marshall, a musician friend of Michael’s, offered to help. Over time, Susan and Jake became close, and they now live together.

Although Jake is a great supporter in many ways, he’s not in a position to

Cultivating Care

Working out as a couple, sharing a creative project or making a gourmet meal together can do more than keep partners feeling connected. Shared activities also keep the positive experiences ongoing and resonating.

“That special bond and the commitments people often build around it are the products of love, the results of the many smaller moments in which love infuses you,” maintains Fredrickson. Such moments not only accumulate, but can also be stored in memory and banked to feed a relationship during the tougher times.

“Love is something we should recultivate every day,” she says. A loving partnership is always a work in progress.

Judith Fertig is a freelance writer from Overland Park, KS.

Conscious Compatibility

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eil Clark Warren, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and cofounder of the eHarmony relationship website, believes there are at least 29 personality dimensions— such as anger management skills, intelligence, feelings about children, energy and ambition—that comprise who we are and play a role in maintaining a relationship.

Key personality dimensions include interests and activities, guiding principles and philosophies, expressions of emotional experience, tendencies toward togetherness and separateness, goals and familial and other relationships.

Warren suggests categorizing desired qualities in a mate into three lists: non-negotiables, qualities that are top priority and deal breakers; semi-negotiables that are important, yet flexible secondary priorities; and negotiables that are subject to trade-offs for more important qualities.

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The Secret Life of Vegetables

by Dr. Noah Lebowitz

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omatoes, potatoes, eggplant, paprika, goji berries, peppers, tomatillos and tobacco all are part of the Solanaceae (nightshade) family, which consists of more than 2,000 plants. They all contain a dangerous neurotoxin called alphasolanine, and most nightshades were looked upon as poisonous, except in South America, until the 1800s.

Solanine content is higher in the leaves and stems, which is why it can be deadly to consume tomato or potato leaves. Also, unripe potatoes and tomatoes contain much higher levels than ripe ones. In a school near London, England, 78 schoolboys fell sick with diarrhea, vomiting, central nervous system depression and hallucinations in 1979 from eating boiled green potatoes during school lunch. While most people don’t have such severe symptoms from eating a ripe potato, chronic exposure to nightshades can wreak havoc on one’s body.

While solanine is found in only

very small amounts in most nightshades, the consumption of only 50 to 200 milligrams (mg) can cause death.

Solanine is an acetlycholinesterase inhibitor which alters the nervous system.

Many of the issues with solanine arise because it cannot be broken down by the body and is excreted very slowly. In the book Nightshade Free, Pain Free,

by Michael Fowler, the author states the average person consumes 13 mg of solanine per day, with a half-life (the time it takes to excrete the first 50 percent) of one to two months.

Dr. Norman Childers has been studying nightshades for more than 50

years. In one of his studies, 94 percent of participants reported substantial or complete relief from following a strict nightshade-free diet. Childers espouses that calcium is removed from the bones and also mitochondria when we overeat nightshades. This leaching of calcium from the bones can predispose us to osteoporosis. In many patients with osteoporosis, vitamin D and calcium supplements won’t help until they go nightshade-free.

The calcium removed from the bones has to go somewhere and can be deposited in the arteries, contributing to atherosclerosis. Calcium deposition can also occur in joints of the body, causing irritation, inflammation and osteoarthritis.

In addition to solanine, nightshades also contain lectins, which can cause and/or exacerbate leaky gut.

Solanine and other chemicals in nightshades can alter neuronal transmission to muscles, causing muscle spasms due to the inhibition of acetylcholinesterase, leading to many common aches and pains. Solanine also has an affinity for the thyroid gland, leading to hypothyroidism.

Other food sensitivities can play a large role in inflammation and illness, including gluten, dairy, caffeine, eggs and corn, among others. Dysbiosis (too many “bad” microbes in the gut), bacteria, parasites and fungus can all increase inflammation and alter biochemistry, as well as heavy metal and chemical toxicity.

In clinical practice, doctors have seen rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, rashes, irritable bowel syndrome and many other conditions relieved by removing nightshades from the diet.

While nightshades aren’t necessarily good for anyone, neither are they evil.

Many people have no symptoms; but those with symptoms should check with a health professional.

Dr. Noah Lebowitz is certified by the International College of Applied Kinesiology as a professional applied kinesiologist. For more information, phone 480-991-5555.

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Mindfulness for Healthy Relationships

by Steve Price

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umans are by nature, social beings, and all of us on the planet are inextricably linked.

When we are mindful of this fact, we can begin to minimize suffering and maximize happiness for ourselves and everyone around us. There are two components to cultivating mindful relationships, and both are important.

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First, carve out alone-time each day to meditate. Before relating to others, we must first relate to ourselves.

We can start by observing our breath, noting where it’s most easily felt: perhaps in the nostrils, chest or belly. If the mind wanders, gently bring it back to breathing. As thoughts and feelings arise, the key is to simply observe

them without judgment or analysis.

For example, fear, anger or resentment may cause muscular tension and disturbed breathing. This awareness alone provides an opportunity to choose other thoughts.

We can also be mindful of how positive or loving thoughts make us feel. Muscles relax and breathing becomes easier. It may seem as though a weight has been lifted off our chest and we can sense our heart opening.

This is what compassion feels like, and the more we practice it, the better we feel. In turn, we can use compassion to maintain our daily meditation practice. If sitting is painful, lie down or walk. Start with five minutes a day and gradually work up to 30. If a class or a group meditation would help, go for it. Consistency is critical, so do whatever it takes to keep the practice easy, interesting and enjoyable.

The second part of relating mindfully is to apply what we learn in meditation to our daily interactions with others. Remain aware of thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations. For example, if someone cuts us off on

the freeway, we may notice a rush of stomach acid, tension in our jaw and a harsh thought or two. We can take a moment to fully feel the discomfort in our bodies, and then make a conscious choice to replace the judgment, “Jerk!” with the observation, “Speeding.” We can exhale deeply and feel how good it feels to release our neck and shoulders. In relating mindfully to others, here are three things with which to experiment: 1. Listen. Oftentimes in conversation we’re in the past, thinking about what was said, or in the future, thinking about what we’re going to say next.

Be fully present and do nothing else but listen to what the person is saying now, without interrupting verbally or mentally. Watch their body language and tune into their tone of voice.

Listen to them as if to a song heard for the first time.

2. Feel. While in someone’s presence, maintain attention to reactions or sensations in our own body. Is the stomach tense or relaxed? What’s going on with the breath? Overall, do we feel pleasant, unpleasant or neutral?

Simply notice, without analyzing.

3. Forgive. The ancient philosopher Philo said, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.” Sometimes kindness comes easily, but what about when someone really pushes our buttons? As we feel our chest starting to contract, we can choose to do the opposite: relax, take a deep breath and open our heart. In doing so, we’re reminded that it’s more important to be kind than to be right.

The more we can quiet our minds, the more our hearts can open.

As we commit or recommit to a practice of mindfulness, we can find ourselves falling in love with life.

Steve Price directs and teaches at A Mindfulness Life Center, in Scottsdale.

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Hypertension Can Be Controlled

by Dr. Jack M. Wolfson

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ypertension: the silent killer.” This scary phrase and the imagery of stroke victims has been engrained in the brains of medical students for years. Better get the blood pressure down with pharmaceuticals ASAP. But the science is far from the truth. The reality is that drugs can lower blood pressure, but do not lower the risk of heart attacks, stroke and dying in the majority of patients.

In fact, new recommendations from the European Society of Cardiology advise against pharmaceuticals unless blood pressure is above 150/90. Hypertension is a sign of an underlying problem that usually concerns two things: poor nutrition and chemicals. With that in mind, let’s take a look at 10 ways to lower blood pressure naturally.

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Go for a hike Hundreds of studies find exercise lowers blood pressure. Go for a hike, bike, run or swim. But don’t forget to build muscle. The combination of cardio and weights for 20 minutes each is a recipe for health. Do not overdo endurance exercise, because it may actually be pro-inflammatory.

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Relax Multiple studies show deep breathing and meditation help to control blood pressure. Try this for five minutes two times per day. Slow breathing and meditative practices such as yoga and tai chi decrease blood pressure. Stress, anger, depression and anxiety all increase the risk of hypertension, so do what is needed to improve mental health.

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Eat potassium- and magnesium-rich foods Both of these minerals lower blood pressure by causing the arteries of the body to relax. A good potassium food is

the avocado, because potatoes and bananas are too high in sugar and starchy carbs.

Get magnesium from green leafy vegetables, nuts, seeds and seafood.

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Be salt smart Certain groups of people (the elderly and AfricanAmericans) are more likely than others to have blood pressure that’s salt sensitive. Sea salt is definitely a better option than bleached white salt, but it can still lead to high blood pressure. Season food with herbs and spices that are packed with antioxidants and phytonutrients.

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Soak up the sun Sunshine produces vitamin D, and the more vitamin D we have, the better our blood pressure is controlled, so 10 to 15 minutes daily is recommended. In winter months, we may need a vitamin D supplement and eat foods (eggs, liver, seafood) which are high in vitamin D.

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Ditch the alcohol Binge drinking and heavy alcohol consumption increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes. Many people have been able to get their blood pressure under control by abstaining from this liver toxin.

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Take a supplement In-depth blood testing should always precede any vitamin regimen to determine which nutrients we may be missing. Low magnesium and potassium, low omega-3s and elevated heavy metals are prevalent in patients with hypertension. Probiotics, the life-giving bacteria which colonize our gut, help lower blood pressure when given in supplemental form. Food allergies may also lead to hypertension.

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Switch to decaf coffee or quit Caffeine can raise blood pressure whether it is found in coffee, tea, soda or energy drinks. It may constrict the blood vessels, leading to hypertension. If blood pressure is high, kick the caffeine habit. If we must drink coffee, make it organic and decaf.

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Load up on omega-3s People that eat the most amount of omega-3s have been proven to have the best blood pressure control. Omega-3s are an integral part of healthy cell membrane that cells use to communicate and occur in plant sources such as chia and walnut, but we need to get the DHA and EPA forms found only in the sea. Eat wild fish such as salmon, sardines and anchovies. This is the only time a hypertensive person should be using added salt. According to the data, omega-3 from fish oil supplements also consistently lowers blood pressure.

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Work (a bit) less When we are sick, we need to rest, not work. Too much work leads to high blood pressure. One study found that working more than 40 hours per week raises the risk of hypertension by 15 percent. As we work longer, meal quality and sleep will also suffer. We all want to get ahead, and working more hours may put us there, but all that extra work may put us out of commission permanently.

Jack M. Wolfson, DO, FACC, is the owner of Wolfson Integrative Cardiology, 10585 N. Tatum Blvd., Ste. D-135, in Paradise Valley.

Contact him at 480-535-6844 or WolfsonIntegrativeCardiology.com. See ad on page 9.

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determine ways to help chi flow and settle in appropriate places to support all aspects of life. Recommended alterations typically start with furniture placement, color choices and key accessorizing. Sample bagua maps are available online for referencing.

While a complete feng shui treatment may require major revamping, we can also take some low-cost steps to immediately create more harmony while eliminating toxins that are unhealthy and disrupt the energy flow.

Bring in Green

Eco Feng Shui Tips to Bring More Positive Energy into Your Home

by Sarah Tarver-Wahlquist

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hen we’re hungry for change, we may feel the impulse to spruce up our living spaces. Rooms that feel cluttered, drab and unappealing drag on our energy. Applying the basic inspired tenets of the ancient Chinese art and science of feng shui can transform and re-energize any space, improving the way we feel.

Translated as “wind and water,” feng shui—which has been creating healthy and harmonious environ-

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ments since its origins 3,000 years ago—can activate our rethinking the arrangement, uses and tone of each room while bringing beneficial green changes home.

Feng Shui Basics When considering how to apply feng shui principles, it helps to have a trained practitioner make a map, or bagua, analyzing how energy, or chi, moves through a building. They will

“Bringing natural elements into a space will aid the circulation of chi, help achieve a balance and yield an indoor environment of peace and calm,” says feng shui practitioner Maureen Calamia, owner of Luminous Spaces, in St. James, New York.

Feng shui categorizes the natural elements as water, metal, fire, earth and wood, reflected in items like stones, plants and water features, as well as art and wall decorations and paint colors. Filling a home with living plants is favored by many feng shui experts.

“Surround yourself with green plants, including cuttings from the yard,” advises Debra Duneier, a feng shui master practitioner, certified eco-designer and author of EcoChi: Designing the Human Experience, in New York City. “They bring energy and life force into your home, while also filtering the air you breathe.” If adding plants isn’t feasible, she recommends picking up some fresh flowers each week. Remember to change

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the water every day and dispose of the flowers at the first sign of wilting (dying flowers bring negative energy).

Banish Toxic Materials “Healthy indoor air quality is an essential aspect of good feng shui,” attests Alisa Rose Seidlitz, an eco feng shui consultant/designer, certified green building and interiors professional and owner of Ambiance Eco, in Berkeley, California. “Materials used inside our homes, such as cleaning products and furnishings, can either contribute significantly to poor air quality or support positive feng shui.”

Indoor air quality is significantly impacted by furnishings and décor.

When seeking out the cleanest, greenest options, pay special attention to:

Cleaning products. Safely discard toxic cleaning chemicals by taking them to hazardous waste pickup sites.

Many household jobs can be done with vinegar and baking soda.

Paint. Revisions in wall, trim and furniture colors quickly freshen

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ere’s a quick primer on the colors associated with each of the five natural elements and ways to bring them into a home. Seek a balance of all five in each room, appropriate to its use. green, brown blue, black earth tones, soft yellows/oranges white, gray red, purple, bright yellows/oranges

living plants, wood, flowers water features, running fountains, glass brick, tile, ceramics rocks, stones sunlight

a room and bring new “Feng shui and natural materials like energy, especially when natural rubber mattresses is the original and hemp or organic cotthey align with Earth’s natural elements. Avoid eco-science.” ton shower curtains and window coverings. conventional paint, which contains dangerous volatile ~ Will LeStrange organic compounds (VOC) Follow Your Joy that off-gas into the air. Look for Feng shui is multifaceted, but at its widely available zero-VOC brands. center is a search for balance and Other options include displaying art harmony. When making changes or colorful wall hangings. at home, it’s good to know we can Flooring. Many toxins lurk in follow our instincts and add things conventional carpeting and adhesives that bring us joy. Feng shui experts used to lay wood or tile floors. Look provide guidance in choosing colors for natural wool rugs, reclaimed wood and elements, but each of us is ultiand zero-VOC floor adhesives. Premately the best judge of what feels serve resources and alter the energy best for our own space. in a space by repurposing reclaimed

“I often ask my clients: What kind materials for rehab projects. For good of message are you sending yourself?” feng shui, smudging with dried sage says Duneier. “You can use your space cleanses any negative energy leftover to send yourself a message of a beautifrom previous owners. ful, abundant and healthy life.”

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these in a water bottle or tea several times a day helps you regain a feeling of balance,” Erwin says.

She also likes drinking bloodcleansing noni juice to help wash adrenaline out of the body, and taking salt baths enhanced with lavender essential oil to literally “wash away the darkness.”

Gentling

GRIEF Remedies to

Emotional Aids

Heal the Heart

by Kathleen Barnes

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rief can arrive suddenly with the death of a loved one, serious illness, loss of a job, parental dementia or decaying relationship. In any case, it takes a toll.

“Grief encompasses all of our thoughts and feelings. Mourning is when we put them into action by talking, crying, perhaps doing rituals,” explains Tracy Riley, a licensed clinical social worker and grief counselor in Jacksonville, Florida.

“Grief isn’t something that’s over when you wake up one day,” Riley counsels. “It’s ridiculous when an employer gives you three days off and then expects everything to be fine.” She notes that time helps heal all wounds, but even a decade after losing a loved one, the pain can remain and life is never the same, although most of us learn to live with loss and move forward.

“Some things can’t be fixed,” concludes Megan Devine, a psychotherapist in Portland, Oregon, and author of the audio book, When Everything is Not Okay, who blogs at RefugeInGrief.com. After witnessing the drowning death of her fiancé, she says, “I didn’t need to hear platitudes that everything would be OK. I needed something solid to hold onto when my whole world exploded.”

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tional shock is an extreme stressor that causes the adrenal glands to release a flood of adrenaline. Tina Erwin, La Mesa, California author of The Lightworker’s Guide to Healing Grief, explains, “If you get a shock when someone close to you dies, your adrenal glands are blown out almost instantly and you are overwhelmed with adrenaline, much like we often see in people with post-traumatic stress disorder. You need to rebalance your body chemistry.”

Intense grief can sometimes show up as chest pain, a classic sign of heart attack, due to a temporary disruption of the heart’s normal pumping action from a surge in stress hormones, according to the National Institutes of Health. Yet Imperial College London scientists now have found that a recognizable “broken heart syndrome” may temporarily protect the heart from being overwhelmed with adrenaline.

“Healing the physical side of grief ultimately helps healing on an emotional level, too,” says Erwin. To assist herself following the death of her 6-year-old niece from a sudden infection, she uses several Bach flower remedies for trauma—Rescue Remedy, to rebalance the flood of adrenaline; Star of Bethlehem, for shock and loss; and Mimulus, for fear and anxiety.

“Combining a few drops of each of

Riley views art and music therapy, plus journaling (a “personal roadmap” that helps chart her progress), as powerful healing tools. She’s also seen firsthand how animals can play a key role through the mourning process. Her miniature schnauzer intuitively approaches her clients that are anxious and grieving and gives them permission to pet him. “It puts people at ease,” she says. “Then they can talk more freely about their pain.” Numerous studies, starting in the 1980s, show that stroking a furry pet lowers blood pressure.

Charting a Personal Course

For the bereaved (literally defined as “torn apart”), the symptoms of grief are meant to slow us down, advises Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D., director of the Center for Loss and Life Transition, in Fort Collins, Colorado, and author of numerous related books, including Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart.

Society expects bereaved people to “carry on, keep their chins up, be glad they had him/her as long as they did or else be grateful that our loved one’s pain is over”—all platitudes that are more hurtful than helpful, says Wolfelt. Mourning takes time, but it also requires a social context, he explains. “It’s the shared response to loss. If you isolate yourself, you are grieving, not mourning. You can’t do this on your own. It’s bigger than you.”

For those that feel stuck or unable to move forward, experienced grief counselors may be able to help.

Kathleen Barnes is the author of numerous health books, including Ten Best Ways to Manage Stress. Connect at KathleenBarnes.com.

Leased Solar Panels May Affect Home Sales

by Kathy Maguire

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nstalling solar panels on a home to generate electricity can cost $20,000 or more, and many homeowners have turned to leasing programs to avoid those upfront costs.

In fact, 95 percent of solar panels in Arizona are leased. But most leases are for 20 years, and that may present problems for owners that want to sell their home before the lease is completed. Also, most homeowners with leased solar panels are saving only a minimal amount of money each month. Some people with a 20-year solar panel lease are only going to save $15 a month.

A buyer of a house with leased solar panels is taking on a monthly payment for the remainder of the lease, which may be a deterrent to some buyers that have to qualify

through the solar panel company.

There have been situations where the buyers did not qualify for the lease, and the sellers ended up buying out the lease term in order to close escrow.

It’s also important to know that leased solar panels are treated as personal property and are given no value when the home is appraised, similar to a leased water softening system.

Also, some buyers that don’t understand solar leases are fearful and may steer away from homes with a leased system.

Today, it’s difficult to determine whether a particular house with leased solar panels is worth less or more because there isn’t a long history of sales involving such houses, but that is changing. Soon, appraisers will have more data because the number of houses with solar panels has increased tenfold in just the past seven years, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association, and much of that growth is due to the popularity of leased panels.

For those thinking of selling a home with leased solar panels, the best choice is to hire a real estate agent that will market the home to green buyers interested not only in cost efficiency, but also in their impact on the environment.

Kathy Maguire is a residential real estate agent with DPR Realty, LLC. She is EcoBroker certified and holds the National Association of Realtor’s GREEN designation, as well as GRI and ABR designations. For more information, visit KathyMaguire. com. See ad on page 12.

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guidance. DeSimone notes that other reputable facilities will likewise have accredited trainers, often at a low cost.

Larger facilities also may offer more options for a newbie to try out before settling on what they like, she says.

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FITNESS FINDS Locate the Best Workout Space for You

by Debra Melani

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ix years ago, Sherry Salmons, of Oak Ridge, Illinois, was perplexed by her “glowing, smiling, energetic” neighbor that worked full time while raising three young children, yet never seemed drained. Finally, she asked: “What’s your secret?” The answer was a life-changing visit by Salmons to a nearby holistic fitness studio.

Lucking into good recommendations can whittle down the multitude of choices available at 32,000 U.S. health clubs and studios, according to the International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association. With the dual trends of niche studios and low-cost fitness centers fueling a diverse burst in workout options, club-seekers should apply their sleuthing skills before deciding on something that can prove so pivotal to their health.

Clue #1: Location and hours. If a facility isn’t near home or work, people won’t go, says Jim White, an American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) health fitness specialist, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. “Our time is so valu30

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able that going to the gym can’t be a hassle.” Check online and list nearby facilities and hours, scratching off any that aren’t open at convenient times.

Clue #2: Know what you need. Some people have absolute necessities for fitness success. “For instance, avid swimmers need a pool,” says Grace DeSimone, an ACSM personal trainer in New York City. “That’s going to reduce their choices considerably.”

Other non-negotiable provisions might be a yoga studio, indoor track or child care.

Clue #3: Gym rat or newbie? A fitness facility that costs pennies a day might seem like an obvious choice, but not if our fitness level and knowledge are near zero. “A lot of people don’t know what to do in a gym,” observes White, who owns personal training studios in Virginia. “We’re especially for those who want their hands held or want to see results fast.” Niche studios focused on modalities from kick boxing to dance therapy can offer added

Clue #4: Take a test drive. Make use of trial periods and guest passes.

“Get a feel for the culture,” says Chris Freytag, spokesperson for the American Council on Exercise and a personal trainer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. “People are more likely to stay motivated in an environment that inspires them and with people that motivate them,” Freytag says.

During on-site visits, do we feel at home among kindred spirits our own age? Is the facility clean and secure?

Clue #5: Look at the equipment. If the gym doesn’t have the equipment we want to use, whether it’s Pilates or TRX equipment, free weights or Kettlebells, then move on. A gym worth joining will have plenty of up-to-date equipment that follows the latest fitness trends and works properly, says White.

Clue #6: Investigate the staff. Checking out the staff is key for those seeking specialized guidance, such as yoga, martial arts or personal training. Look for trainers and instructors available to help that are certified by a reputable program accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies.

Investigating key employees’ backgrounds, including acupuncturists and massage therapists, is crucial.

Clue #7: Sign with caution. Avoid signing long-term, complicated contracts, which are rare these days, DeSimone counsels. “Don’t be overwhelmed by a high-pressured sales pitch; just stand your ground, because those people are at your service.” White recommends making sure the price includes expected services; feel free to negotiate, especially with initial fees. Understand all policies, especially cancellation clauses, and use a credit card, which is easier to correct if problems arise, adds DeSimone.

Although Salmons was lucky, with her neighbor’s recommendation leading her to her perfect studio, people should investigate to find their ideal fit. “It starts when you walk in the door,” Salmons says about her attraction to The Balance Fitness Studio.

“The space is open, exposed and it’s got this very clean, feng shui energy.”

Not a traditional, iron-pumping, music-blasting gym fan, Salmons prefers Pilates, but participates in all of the studio’s offerings, including massage, acupuncture and nutrition classes. While finding the right club has boosted her fitness level, she notes that the real magic has come in the form of revitalized energy. “It’s changed me in all aspects of my life.

When I leave, I feel mentally focused, emotionally balanced and refreshed.

It’s kind of transformational.”

Freelance journalist Debra Melani writes about health care and fitness from Lyons, CO. Connect at Debra Melani.com or DMelani@msn.com.

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ne of the latest trends for health-seekers is joining more than one club. Mixing it up can be a good way to go, says Jim White, owner of Jim White Fitness & Nutrition Studios, in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia. “A lot of people are leaving the big-box gyms for more of an a la carte menu,” White says. “I have a client that strength trains with me in the mornings and then goes to spinning, barre and yoga studios in the afternoons.”

Up to 90 percent of small studio members belong to more than one club, according to the 2014 International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association’s annual industry trend report. That can both lessen monotony and provide a well-rounded fitness routine, White says. natural awakenings

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EASE ADHD NATURALLY

Nine Ways to Help Restore Calm and Focus

by Jenna Blumenfeld

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lthough experts aren’t certain why it occurs, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects 3 to 5 percent of school-age children, causing symptoms such as inattentiveness, frenetic activity, anxiety and forgetfulness. Kids with ADHD typically respond to drug prescriptions designed to provide calm and focus, but some carry unpleasant side effects like appetite changes and muscle spasms. Experts suggest considering these natural options to complement an afflicted child’s integrative treatment plan.

Nutritionist Sara Vance, owner, Rebalance Life, San Diego, California.

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Up omega-3s. The University of Maryland Medical Center reports that recent studies show kids with behavior problems have low blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids, a nutrient vital for brain health. Children’s daily diets should contain omega-3-rich foods, such as chia, hemp, nuts and fatty fish. For children 12 and older, supplement with fish oil containing 1,200 milligrams (mg) of (DHA) docosahexaenoic acid and (EPA) eicosapentaenoic acid combined.

Try magnesium. Low levels of magnesium, also known as the calming mineral, are associated with restless legs, anxiety and irritability—all of which can exacerbate ADHD. For kids ages 4 to 8,

start with 130 mg of magnesium in the morning. If the child has trouble sleeping, another dose before bed may help.

Reduce the dose if loose stools occur.

Boost B vitamins. Vitamins B6 and B12 are important building blocks for brain neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine. Deficiency can impair nerve cell communication, hindering memory, focus and attention. Encourage a child to eat B-packed organic foods like eggs, poultry, bell peppers, yams and spinach, and sprinkle B-vitamin-rich nutritional yeast on dishes like noodles and soup.

Naturopathic Doctor Laurie Brodsky, e-consultant, DrLaurieND.com, New York City.

Give up gluten. Gluten is a complex, gooey conglomeration of many proteins that sticks to the digestive tract, often stimulating behavioral issues.

When gluten inflames a child’s digestive system, brain inflammation likely occurs, as well. Look for gluten-free pasta, bread, crackers and cookies made from rice, quinoa, flaxseed and non-GMO (genetically modified) corn.

Avoid processed foods. High-fructose corn syrup and artificial colors such as Yellow 5, Blue 1 and Red 40 are linked to increased hyperactivity in children.

Choose whole, real foods like whole grains and organic meats, vegetables and fruits. Use maple syrup rather than white sugar to sweeten foods—it’s fullflavored, so a little goes a long way.

Behavior Specialist Margit Crane, educator, GiftedWithADD.com, Seattle, Washington.

Lead by example. Parents have more power to handle their child’s ADHD than they think. Model the desired behaviors—if children are not allowed to eat in the living room, the rule should apply to the whole family. Maintaining consistent rules is vital.

Set boundaries. Many parents and teachers believe that boundaries for ADHD-laden kids, that are often sensitive by nature, may be harsh or

limiting. But these children actually thrive with boundaries. Rather than offer kids unlimited choices, give them two or three options. This helps a child feel safe. Regard a troubled child as scared, rather than angry—this will enable parents and caregivers to speak to them with compassion.

Work with teachers. Some children with ADHD may have trouble fitting into traditional schools. When speaking with teachers, use collaborative words such as “partnership” to obtain healthy cooperation. Teachers have an entire class to attend to, not just this child; address them with respect and understanding, and everyone will ultimately benefit.

Jenna Blumenfeld is the senior food editor at New Hope Natural Media, in Boulder, Colorado.

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Pair fats with food. Healthy brain function requires a proper ratio of anti-inflammatory omega-3 fats to the more common inflammatory omega-6 fats (found in canola, soybean and corn oils). Encourage balance by eating omega-3 foods at mealtime, when the gallbladder releases bile into the digestive system, allowing better omega-3 absorption.

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Get Help for ADD Naturally

by Jef Gazley

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ttention deficit disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) is a complex neurological disorder that, according to Daniel G. Amen, author of Healing ADD, is a genetic condition, and at the present time there is no cure.

It is equally represented by children, adults, males and females, and we do not grow out of it.

Due to the possible side effects from prescribed stimulants, the need for natural solutions is paramount. An ADD protocol which consists of effective techniques for general neurotransmitter balance through diet and supplements and consistency in parenting is recommended.

Bacopa monniere (Indian pennywort), gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and L-tyrosine are three supplements that help with brain balancing. Biofeedback and neurofeedback can help train the person with ADD how to focus better and relax. Yoga, hypnosis and meditation are also helpful. Tai chi and karate assist with discipline, calming and the increase of blood flow to the brain. It is also imperative to avoid simple carbohydrates in the diet.

However, the ADD protocol improves symptoms by only 30 percent. The key to treatment is activating the prefrontal cortex of the brain. At this time, there are only two treatments that have been shown by single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) brain imaging to accomplish this. The first uses stimulants such as Ritalin and Adderall. The second is a homeopathic blend called ADD-care. The addition of one of these agents has been purported to take care of the other 70 percent of treatment.

Jef Gazley, MS, LMFT, has practiced psychotherapy for more than 40 years and is the owner-operator of AskTheInternetTherapist.com, Hypnosiscdsandmp3s. com and EnergyPsychologyTherapy.com.

He is licensed by the state of Arizona in general counseling, marriage/family and substance abuse counseling and is a certified hypnotherapist. For more information, call 1-866-998-0560 or visit add-care.com. See ad on page 33.

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When Chocolate is Not Chocolate

degrees in a double boiler, adding one cup of sweetener (with no water), and one tablespoon of dry vanilla (no water) ground by mortar and pestle.

Two cups of raw cacao powder are stirred in. The raw chocolate is then allowed to cool until hardened. It is then heated and cooled, or tempered, several times. It can then be poured into molds, cooled, extracted and enjoyed.

Chocolate is a superfood in its raw form, but is sadly a junk food in its common form, because it is full of bad fats and sugar and essentially devoid of nutrients. In its raw form, it is tastier, more nutritious, and produces many positive and splendid effects.

Raw chocolate, when made at home, is not prohibitively expensive and time-consuming and is quite fun. After eating it, it is hard to go back to the commercial variety, though.

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eople presume that when a label says chocolate, that the contents contain the plant substance, chocolate. However, the only requirement as a labeled product is that it has a flavor reminiscent of chocolate.

Sometimes the tempting bar we see on the shelf has a percentage on the label with a picture of chocolate before it has been boiled several times and combined with caustic chemicals to make it come out of molds easily.

Many cheaper varieties have a food-like substance known as chocolate liquor as a flavoring agent. It is derived from the repeated roasting, grinding, fermenting and boiling of cacao beans, with the addition of fats, oils, caustic alkali and unsavory sweeteners. This is known as the Dutch process, or alkali processing.

Usually, this substance is present in small quantities, sometimes with artificial chocolate flavoring to enhance it.

The phytochemicals (plant substances) that are valuable in chocolate include anandimides, serotonin uptake inhibitors and antioxidants.

Anandimides make you feel blissful. Serotonin uptake inhibitors make you feel happy. Antioxidants prevent disease and autoimmune diseases.

All are present in chocolate in great quantities before the repeated application of high heat and caustic alkaline substances, which are then removed.

The heat damages 90 percent of these valuable beneficial nutrients, by conservative estimate.

The solution to this dilemma leaves us with one of two choices.

The simplest solution is to purchase “raw� chocolate, which is made at temperatures nearing 108 degrees and no more. If these varieties don’t suit our palate, we can make it ourself.

A popular local free class is given in Tempe monthly on this topic. The secret recipe consists of three cups of raw cacao butter, heated to 108

For more information, contact Dr. Harlan Sparer, a DNFT chiropractor practicing in Tempe. He can be reached at 480-245-7894 or DrHarlan@TempeNonForce.com. To learn about the chocolate class, visit TempeNonForce. com or YouTube.com/user/drharlan11.

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What’s in Your Way? Obstacles Point the Path to Wholeness and Healing

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ince childhood, Mary O’Malley always thought that something bad was about to happen and experienced a continuous dread that gnawed her insides. Over the years, she tried to eat, drink and medicate away the anxious feelings plaguing her, and sought help from group therapy, hypnotherapy and psychiatrists.

Then in 1972, in her late 20s, O’Malley attended a yoga workshop that helped advance her quest to let go of struggles and embrace life. Later, when she met Stephen Levine, whose teaching is influenced by Buddhism, he conveyed, “There’s nothing in you that needs to be fixed,” and invited her to view her own issues with curiosity and compassion.

The transformational insights learned along her journey shared in her book, What’s In the Way Is the Way, include simple tools for those that need to move beyond struggles to live in the present with more peace, ease and joy.

Train as a Tightness Detective

Ask this internal question when feeling stressed: “In what aspect of life am I holding on for dear life?” Is your breath short, are your shoulders tight; do you feel a fist in your solar plexus or an elephant sitting on your chest? These are indications that you’re aligned with some struggle. By softening and breathing into the tight places, you can open into life and better align with ease and grace.

Strengthen the Curiosity Muscle

Whenever O’Malley experienced inner gnawing, she tuned into her body and inquired about the dread: “How big is it and how deep does it go? Does it have a flavor?” The

more she questioned, the more curiosity and attention she brought to the emotion and the freer she felt.

Turn Curiosity into Compassion

O’Malley learned to more accurately self-report her feelings. Instead of, “I am afraid,” she learned to assess; “Dread is here.” Then she cultivated compassion, treating the dread as her friend signaling the need for a solution.

She acknowledged and listened to the stricken and paralyzed parts of herself, knowing they were separating her from joy because they needed to be heard and understood.

Step Outside Struggle to Embrace Humility

O’Malley believes that struggle is humanity’s core compulsion. We develop a story about the difficulty of life and heroically fight against myriad injustices. Yet making a U-turn in perspective to see them as challenges is tailor-made to help us recognize and achieve separation from our individual struggles in favor of a better way of experiencing life.

“The dictionary misses the full meaning when it defines humility as ‘lowliness, meekness, submissiveness,’” O’Malley believes. “True humility is a state of great availability, and from this kind of openness we can reconnect with the joy of being fully alive.” She now discovers gifts embedded in every single challenge.

Deborah Shouse blogs at DeborahShouseWrites.wordpress.com.

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Complementary Cancer Therapy

by Dr. Paul Stallone

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eing diagnosed with cancer is undeniably hard, and so are the endless decisions and choices for treatment. These choices should be well thought out and researched, and we have the right to carefully consider every step and move forward with confidence and trust. One of the first priorities should be getting a second opinion with a naturopathic physician (NMD) experienced in treating patients with cancer. Having an NMD involved with cancer treatment from the beginning may help avoid making decisions that could possibly impede the fight against cancer. An NMD will concentrate on our biggest ally: our immune system, but the best thing a naturopath can do is present all the options, which may include alternative

and conventional treatments.

What many NMDs have known for a while, and some conventional medicine is now acknowledging, is that natural therapies can complement and enhance the effectiveness of standard cancer treatments. For instance, carefully selected alternative treatments can positively affect the way a tumor cell receives chemotherapy, increasing the likelihood that the cell will die from the treatment. Another advantage in pairing conventional and alternative treatments is that natural therapies may decrease the chance of tumor cells becoming resistant to chemotherapy drugs.

Relying solely on conventional treatments can result in side effects so extreme and severe that dosages have to be decreased or discontinued alto-

gether. Natural therapies may significantly reduce or eliminate these side effects, allowing the patient to receive doses at full strength and increasing the overall effectiveness of the original treatment plan. Natural therapies may also complement conventional treatments such as surgery and radiation that could leave the body with a risk of infection or other complications.

Alternative therapies have been shown to speed healing after surgery or repair cells damaged by radiation.

After we have completed cancer treatment, our body will need postcare. This is when alternative and natural therapies thrive, removing the toxins and effects of other medication used to poison cancer cells. Unfortunately, many conventional cancer treatments are known to cause cancer later in life.

Detoxifying our body of this material will be the start of helping restore our health and more importantly, help prevent cancer recurrence. After cancer, patient care should focus on preventing cancer, and an NMD will be ideal for guiding us through this process.

Treating cancer isn’t as simple as ABC. One person’s cancer isn’t the same as someone else’s because they are not the same as anyone else. Our own treatment can be what we want and believe in, and it should be based on our decisions. Meeting with an NMD educated in oncology doesn’t commit us to one form or another of cancer treatment, just as meeting with an oncologist doesn’t obligate us to chemotherapy or other conventional treatments. An NMD may provide us with the best options that are customized to help us win our fight against cancer in the healthiest way possible.

Paul Stallone, NMD, founded the Arizona Integrative Medical Center, located at 8144 E. Cactus Rd., Ste. 820, in Scottsdale. He combines natural/alternative/conventional treatments to best fit and benefit each individual patient’s needs. For more information, call 480-214-3922 or visit DrStallone.com. See ad on inside front cover.

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I found it — The Secret to Anti-Aging!

My cholesterol dropped by 73 points in 1 month, my husband’s morning blood sugar level dropped from 200 to 113 in 3 months, and we are feeling and looking so much YOUNGER! A few months ago, my husband’s blood sugars were out of control after years of controlling it with diet. And his skin had taken on a yellowish-grey pallor… which showed me that his liver and kidneys were also in serious trouble. I was scared!

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And Charles, with several medical conditions, had 10 blood markers drop significantly! My doctor said he knew of nothing that could work like that across so many body systems! “Not drugs...but real foods,” I said.

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With only the dense nutrient rice heart left — this is then milled down to the size of a micron! That’s it—that is all that’s in this amazing raw natural product.

When I shared this with my friend, Bonnie, her body used the new cellular energy to reduce her blood pressure and smooth the wrinkles from her face. Nicole’s intense pain from an accident is gone and she is off her debilitating medications. Jeff is no longer experiencing acid reflux or gout. Dee Dee’s night blindness is gone and so are her allergies. Charles morning blood sugars have dropped from 200 to 113. I am looking so much younger that someone asked me if I had a ‘procedure’ done! Even my granddaughter’s dog has gotten rid of his digestive issues because of this product. So … would you like to see what this amazing food will do for you?

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Strengthen the Immune System with Herbs

by Kathleen Gould

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n the colder winter months, using herbs to help strengthen our immune system is a simple way to help prevent getting common illnesses such as flu, colds and respiratory imbalances. Although this will not guarantee not getting sick, it cannot hurt, and in most cases will help.

We are not just physical beings, but first and foremost spiritual, emotional beings, as well, and staying healthy means decreasing stress and thinking loving positive thoughts as often as possible. Meditation and prayer are wonderful ways to bring us to a loving space in our hearts and minds. Just five to 10 minutes a day in meditation can make a big difference in our overall health.

For most of us, the immune system works without any problem, but with the addition of stress, anxiety, poor nutrition and lack of exercise or sleep, it could use a bit of help, especially during the winter months. As we look for herbs to boost our immune

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Soups are an easy and delicious way to infuse all the healing properties of these medicinal herbs right into our food. system, we must also look for ways to prepare these herbs that fit into our busy schedules, because most of us do not have time to make complicated preparations. One of the easiest things we can do is to incorporate herbs right into our foods. Three great herbs to get to know are astragalus root, garlic and reishi mushrooms (all medicinal mushrooms are great food additions).

Astragalus is called an adaptogen, meaning it helps protect the body against physical, mental or emotional stress. In addition, it helps increase overall energy, can help build resistance to disease and reduce the

incidence of colds and flu.

Garlic is a highly nutritive and inexpensive food that enhances the immune system to help strengthen the body against allergens and pollutants.

It is a wonderful antibiotic, antifungal and antiseptic that is effective against both viruses and bacteria.

Reishi is a powerful mushroom that works to enhance the function of the immune system. Also an adaptogen, reishi helps rid the body of bad bacteria, viruses and pathogens to help fight off infection. It is a powerful immune stimulant, antihistamine and antioxidant and works to stimulate Tcell activity. It is used to treat chronic respiratory infections, ulcers, hypertension, high cholesterol, allergies and a host of other imbalances.

Soups are an easy and delicious way to infuse all the healing properties of these medicinal herbs right into our food. Put a small piece of reishi mushroom, two tablespoons of astragalus root and a couple pieces of garlic in a muslin bag. Add other healing roots like burdock, dandelion and eleuthero, if available (about one rounded teaspoon each), to the muslin bag. Put the bag of herbs right into the soup as it cooks, and then remove the bag before serving.

It is possible to do the same thing with any dish that cooks for a longer period of time, such as rice and beans. The reishi mushroom is somewhat bitter and can overwhelm a recipe, so do not use too much. A small piece about one inch in diameter is more than sufficient.

Every day, more and more of us are coming back to the knowledge that herbs are powerful allies for both prevention and healing. Open up to the Earth and all her healing medicines. She is waiting for you and she will answer—all we need to do is ask.

Kathleen Gould is a registered herbalist with SW Herb Shop & Gathering Place, 148 N. Center St., in Mesa.

Contact her at 480-6949931 or SWHerb.com.

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Peoria Farmers’ Market at Park West 9744 W. Northern Ave., Peoria Saturdays: 9am-2pm Phoenix Public Market 721 N. Central Ave., Phoenix Wednesdays: 5pm-8pm & Saturdays: 8am-1pm Roadrunner Park Farmers’ Market 3502 E. Cactus Rd., Phoenix Saturdays: 8am-1pm Shalom Montessori at McCormick Ranch 7300 N. Via Paseo Del Sur, Scottsdale Wednesday afternoons Sun City Farmers’ Market 16829 N. 99th Ave., Sun City Thursdays: 8am-1pm Tatum Ranch Farmers’ Market 28230 N. Tatum Blvd., Cave Creek Sundays: 9am-1pm Tempe Community Market 620 N. Mill Ave., Tempe Sundays; 8am-1pm

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Discover Your Gifts and Graces – 6-7:30pm.

Presentation on self-discovery and healing. Free.

Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, 1100 E Apache Blvd, Tempe. Swiha.edu.

NaturalAz.com Click “Calendar” SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Introduction to Herbal Healing – 1-2:30pm.

Begin your journey to better health by learning how herbs play an important role in our health and wellness. Everyone attending receives a gift.

Free. SW Herb Shop, 148 N Center St, Mesa.

480-694-9931. SWHerb.com.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 Green Drinks – 5:30-7:30pm. Monthly networking event for The Green Chamber. Free to members, $10 non. Visit website for location.

TheGreenChamber.org.

Mindfulness Meditation For Beginners – 6:308pm. $30. Complete Holistic Wellness, 4701 S Lakeshore Dr, Ste 3, Tempe. RSVP: 405-4101507.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Beginners Meditation – 6:30-7:30pm. Become more peaceful, calm and focused through meditation. Learn to meditate or deepen an existing practice. Various meditation techniques will be shared with and experienced by the group. $15.

B~Well Center of Scottsdale, 4300 N Miller Rd, Ste 214, Scottsdale. Lida Korolyshyn: 602384-1745. info@b-wellcenterofscottsdale.com.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Gong Meditation – 7pm. Experience deep relaxation and meditation, with Gretchen Bickert. $10-20 donation. Unity of Mesa, 2700 E Southern Ave, Mesa. UnityofMesa.org.

Soul Healing Miracles Evening – 6:30-9:30pm.

Experience Soul Healing Miracles with Master Ximena Gavino, Divine Channel of Dr. and Master Sha. Learn powerful techniques to self-heal and receive powerful blessings for health, finances, relationships, etc. Free. New Vision Center, Phoenix. Debra: 480-338-1012. LovePeaceHarmonyPhoenix.com.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Introduction to Tao: The Way of All Life – 6:30-9:30pm. Learn how living in harmony with Tao brings ease and fulfillment to life with Tao Channel, Master Ximena Gavino. Receive Dr. and Master Sha’s bestseller Tao I: The Way of All Life.

New Vision Center, Phoenix. Debra: 480-3381012. LovePeaceHarmonyPhoenix.com.

Yoga Therapeutics Foundations – 8am-5pm, Feb 5-8. Gain confidence, knowledge and insight in creating safe and empowering yoga practices for all bodies during this 40-hour yoga therapy training. Leslie Kazadi will identify common injuries and obstacles that can hinder an asana practice and will introduce smart alternatives, modifications and adjustments that promote immense healing.

Down Dogs for Paws – 8:30-9:25am. With Tami Link. All proceeds benefit Medical Animals in Need. $5 min donation. Kinesphere Center for Movement Education, 711 E Missouri Ave, Ste 180, Phoenix. 602-532-3111 or KinesphereStudio.com.

Spiritual Channels Practicum – 2-6pm. Join Divine Channel, Master Ximena Gavino, to practice and develop your soul communication abilities to receive guidance directly from God, saints, ascended masters and spirit guides for any aspect of life. $25. New Vision Center, Phoenix. Debra: 480-338-1012. LovePeaceHarmonyPhoenix.com.

Usui Reiki I Class – 9am-5pm, Feb 7-8. Introduction and initiation into the first Usui Reiki degree.

Learn the story of Usui Reiki. Receive four attunements with guided meditations. Learn different hand positions for self-healing and healing others.

Reiki Harmony Center, 10309 N Scottsdale Rd, Ste 203, Scottsdale. Register: ReikiHarmonyCenter.com or contact info@reikiharmonycenter.com or 480-399-2611.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Living Divine Relationships – 10am-5pm. Divine Channel, Master Ximena teaches how to bring an abundance of love and harmony into all your relationships, especially with divine and source.

Receive Living Divine Relationships as a gift. $50.

New Vision Center, Phoenix. Debra: 480-3381012. LovePeaceHarmonyPhoenix.com.

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Tea & Tango – 2-4pm. Tremendous research has shown that dancing or Tango Therapy boosts the immune system and can offer benefits from those suffering with diabetes, osteoporosis, heart disease, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and more. With Linda Bennett. $10. Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, 1100 E Apache Blvd, Tempe. 489-994-9244.

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 CranialSacral Balancing Therapy – 9am-6pm, Feb 10-12. Powerful complementary healing modality supports healing from the inside. Take the therapeutic benefits experienced in class home to family, friends and your practice. With Barbara Jenkins. Healing Arts Connection, 1717 W Northern Ave, Ste 115, Phoenix. RSVP: 623-215-7988.

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Happy, Healthy Hands – 6:30-8pm. Learn the movements and stretches to maintain, or re-gain a fuller range of motion and flexibility in your hands, elbows, shoulders and neck. $40. Early bird discount. Kinesphere Center for Movement Education, 711 E Missouri Ave, Ste 180, Phoenix.

602-532-3111 or KinesphereStudio.com.

Homeopathic Treatment for Emotional Wellness – 6:30-8:30pm. Learn how psychosomatic energetics can work for you and/or your child/ children to eliminate emotional undercurrents and hidden conflicts showing up. With Dr. Martha Reed. Insights for Life, 20325 N 51st Ave, Ste 112, Glendale. 623-249-5888. martha@insightsfor-life.com. Insights-for-Life.com.

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the emotional component to your health and healing and why we stay stuck in unhealthy patterns. See a demonstration of the transformational technique The Emotional Release Process. Free.

New Vision Center, 18010 N Tatum Blvd, Rm #4, Phoenix. Jennifer: 480-295-0401. jen@jenniferlynnboyce.com. JenniferLynnBoyce.com.

Lunch and Learn – Noon-1:30pm. Educational program sponsored by the Green Chamber. $20, incl lunch. Macayo’s, 4001 N Central Ave, Phoenix. TheGreenChamber.org.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12 Enhancing and Healing Relationships: The Energetic Approach – 7-9pm. A video workshop/ meditation by Pranic Healing Master Stephen Co to learn about the anatomy of a relationship on the spiritual, emotional, etheric and physical levels.

Learn how to appreciate positive qualities in your partner or loved ones; and how to disintegrate subconscious negative thoughts and emotions that might be sabotaging your relationships. Donation.

Arizona Pranic Healing, Paradise Valley Mall, Community Rm 204, 4568 E Cactus Rd, Phoenix.

480-818-3156. azPranicHealing@gmail.com.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 Energy Share - White Light Reiki Share – 6:4510pm. Meet new people, practice your Reiki and energy skills, and receive Reiki and energy healing combining the power of color. With Dr. Martha Reed. Insights for Life, 20325 N 51st Ave, Ste 112, Glendale. 623-249-5888. martha@insightsfor-life.com. Insights-for-Life.com.

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Essential Dance: Heart – 6:30-8:30pm. Expand your heart and consciousness and connect to the Earth through belly dance movements and essential oils. You will be anointed as you learn about these unique specially selected essences.

Then call in the Goddess and dance from your heart. $30. Thunderbird and 90th St, Scottsdale.

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IANDS: Intl Assoc for Near Death Studies – 7pm. Presentation by the foremost researcher of near-death experiences, professor Bruce Greyson, M.D., co-author of The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences and Irreducible Mind. Donation.

Unity of Mesa, 2700 E Southern Ave, Mesa.

UnityofMesa.org.

“I Love Myself Special” DNA Cell(f) Imagery & Communication – Feb 13-16. Achieving your life goals is totally possible. Make sure your beliefs are serving you. Ancient wisdom meets quantum science techniques to help you live the life you choose. Healing Arts Connection, 1717 W Northern Ave, Ste 115, Phoenix. RSVP: 623-215-7988.

How2Heal.com.

Jim Fowler Concert – 7-9:30pm. Jim Fowler singer/songwriter from San Jose joins us for an evening of sharing life stories in song. The Lotus Band will open the evening of musical fun. $12 advance, $15 door. Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center, 952 E Baseline, #102, Mesa.

480-593-8798 or Interfaith-Community.org.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 How To Work With Angels – 1pm. Recapturing the spirit of joy. Childcare available. Summit Lighthouse of Phoenix, 4105 N 20 St, Ste 115, Phoenix. 480-442-5020. SummitLighthouse.org.

Valentine Brunch with the Princesses – 10:30am-12:30pm. Come to our pancake brunch.

There will be crafts, pictures with the princesses and much fun. Proceeds will provide items for the princesses to share with hospitalized children.

The Princess Project is sponsored by the Interfaith CommUNITY. $10. Interfaith CommUNITY

Spiritual Center, 952 E Baseline Rd, Mesa. Rev. Julianne: 480-593-8798 or Interfaith-Community.org.

Valentine’s Day Ecstatic Dance – 7-10pm. Join Alexis and Dashmesh for an event of free expression and therapeutic movement. $17 advance, $20 door. ANAHATA Sound and Energy Healing, 10565 N 114th St, Ste 110, Scottsdale. Ronee Kipnes: 480-699-9600. info@ana-ha-ta.com.

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SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Double Symphonic Gong Meditation –78:30pm. Breathe, do a little light kundalini yoga and meditation, then lay out as your body and mind are gently lulled into a safe, relaxed state through the vibrations of two separate symphonic gongs.

With Celebrate Us Now - Ardas Kaur and Sadhana Kaur. $17 advance, $20 door. ANAHATA Sound and Energy Healing, 10565 N 114th St, Ste 110, Scottsdale. Ronee Kipnes: 480-699-9600. info@ ana-ha-ta.com. Ana-Ha-Ta.com.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19 The Amazing Power of Essential Oils – 7-8:30pm. Learn how essential oils can have a profound effect on your health and wellbeing at this free class. Plaza Del Rio Community Center, 94th Dr and Thunderbird, Peoria. Ellen Griswold: 623-680-1350. msherbary@gmail.com. MustardSeedHerbary.com.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20 Drumming Circle – 7pm. Experience harmony, euphoria and rhythm of drumming. Drums/skills not required. $10 suggested donation. Unity of Mesa, 2700 E Southern Ave, Mesa. UnityofMesa.org.

Intuitive Insights – 7-8:30pm. Gallery style readings, meditations, hypnosis, ceremonies and more. With Dr. Martha Reed. $20. Insights for Life, 20325 N 51st Ave, Ste 112, Glendale.

623-249-5888. martha@insights-for-life.com.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 The Amazing Benefits of Essential Oils – 2-3:30pm. Learn how essential oils can have a profound effect on your health and wellbeing at this free class. Goodyear Library, Goodyear.

Tonya Hofgard, 623-680-1350. MustardSeedHerbary.com.

Chakra Balancing and Healing – 10am-6pm, Feb 21-22. Balancing Your Seven Magnificent Chakras “Mag 7” Chakra extravaganza. Experience the power of balancing and healing through your major chakras. Healing Arts Connection, 1717 W Northern Ave, Ste 115, Phoenix. RSVP: 623-215-7988. How2Heal.com.

savethedate The Basics of Healing Lecture & Group Healing Meditation

Alex Hermosillo, international healer, author and teacher, will share the spiritual principles given to him in heaven through a near-death experience about the different ways in which our bodies and consciousness store information, and how we all have the ability to release the energies of heartaches, heartbreaks, stress, worries, fears, negative thoughts, un-serving emotions and physical illness to experience a happy, healthy and loving life.

FEBRUARY 21 • 1-3pm New Vision Center 18010 N Tatum Blvd, Phoenix 480-345-9972 support@masteryofenergyhealing.com MasteryOfEnergyHealing.com

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Divine Healing Hands Training: Develop Your Soul Healer Power – 9:30am-8:30pm, Feb 21-22.

Become a Divine Healing Hands Soul Healer.

Serve by applying soul power from the source to help others. Led by Certified Divine Healing Hands Guides in Phoenix. $625. 480-338-1012 or 602-741-7913. LovePeaceHarmonyPhoenix.com.

Herbal Certification Course – 9am-1:30pm.

Start of five-week course that delves into the healing world of medicinal plants. A certificate will be awarded upon completion of the course.

SW Herb Shop, 148 N Center St, Mesa. 480-6949931. SWHerb.com.

Spirit Night – 4-8pm. Lightworkers offer a wide range of services including Reiki, facials, mediums, drumming, tarot, angel messages and more.

Services range from $20 to $30. Interfaith CommUNITY, 952 E Baseline, #102, Mesa. Heather: heatherposey70@gmail.com.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Community Get Together – 2-4pm. Join us for meditation, music and more. Free. A Mindfulness Life Center, 10309 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale.

480-207-6016. AMindfulnessLifeCenter.com.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Emotional Health Weekend Training – Feb 2728. Learn the four steps to the Emotional Release Process, muscle testing, emotion points, chakras, role playing, guided visualization and more. Learn how to facilitate someone in their healing and receive the process for own healing. Led by Pam Robinson. $199. Jennifer Boyce: 480-295-0401. jen@jenniferlynnboyce.com. ihaofutah.com.

Restorative Exercise Weekend – Feb 27-29. Reenergize your love of movement with Restorative Exercise Master Teachers Breena Maggio and Tim Harris. Learn a safe and compelling way to move your body efficiently and begin your natural movement journey. Kinesphere Center for Movement Education, 711 E Missouri Ave, Ste 180, Phoenix.

602-532-3111 or KinesphereStudio.com.

Weekend Yoga Teacher Training – Feb 27-Jun 14. Start of a 200-hour, eight-weekend format teacher training series. Deepen your personal practice and spiritual journey while learning how to build and maintain health with yogic cleanses, developing a daily home practice and gaining skill in sharing hatha yoga, which includes ayurveda, the sister science of yoga. 7 Centers Yoga Arts,

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Divine Healing Hands Training: Develop Your Soul Healer Power – 9:30am-8:30pm, Feb 28Mar 1. Become a Divine Healing Hands Soul Healer. Serve by applying soul power from the source to help others. Led by Certified Divine Healing Hands Guides in Phoenix. $625. 480-338-1012 or 602-741-7913. LovePeaceHarmonyPhoenix.com.

Reiki I – 10am-6pm. With Marsha Craven, 5th generation Usui Reiki Master Teacher. Bring Reiki as a healing practice into your life and your enhanced healing powers will always be with you. Healing Arts Connection, 1717 W Northern Ave, Ste 115, Phoenix. RSVP: 623-215-7988.

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Flavor Run Phoenix – 7:30-8:30am. A family fun, un-timed 5K walk/run that includes a new fun twist on the popular color runs by engaging all of your senses; taste, smell, touch, hearing, and sight. $35$50. Estrella Mountain Ranch Community, 17665 W Elliot Rd, Goodyear. Christine: 760-525-6501.

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2115 Mountain Rd, Sedona. Mally Paquette: 928203-4400. Yoga@7centers.com. 7centers.com.

Unity Drumming and Healing Circle – 6:308:30pm. Event sponsored by Interfaith CommUNITY. Observers and drummers welcome.

Interfaith CommUNITY Spiritual Center, 952 E Baseline, #102, Mesa. Rev. Julia 480-593-8798 or Interfaith-Community.org.

Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants – Spend the day with Peter Bigfoot learning the uses of local wild plants while collecting and creating an herb study book of your own. $78. Lost Dutchman State Park. Reevis Mountain School. ReevisMountian.org.

savethedate MARCH 3 Green Drinks – 5:30-7:30pm. Monthly networking event for The Green Chamber. Free to members, $10 non. Visit website for location.

TheGreenChamber.org.

MARCH 5 Mahamudra ~ The Nature of Clear Light Mind – Mar 5-8. Mahamudra is the union of the most subtle mind that experiences great bliss and realizes ultimate truth – the way things actually exist.

Learn how to prepare our mind for Mahamudra meditation, remove obstacles to successful practice and experience progressively subtler states of mind. Aravaipa Canyon Ranch, AZ. 602-2435220. MeditationInArizona.org.

MARCH 6 Discover Your Gifts and Graces – 6-7:30pm.

Presentation on self-discovery and healing. Free.

Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, 1100 E Apache Blvd, Tempe. Swiha.edu.

Self-Empowered Wisdom – Mar 6-8. Transformative weekend retreat with Dr. Joe Dispenza, Gregg Braden and other speakers who will inspire you as you explore your own life’s journey. $150250. Sedona Creative Life Center, Sedona. 928282-2450. StellarProductionsLive.com.

MARCH 7 MCKS Pranic Healing Level I Workshop—Mar 7-8. In this intensive, experiential workshop, learn the technology to do no-touch energy healings on others, self-healing and distance healings.

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Reiki II – 10am-6pm. With Marsha Craven, 5th generation Usui Reiki Master Teacher. Bring Reiki as a healing practice into your life and your enhanced healing powers will always be with you. Healing Arts Connection, 1717 W Northern Ave, Ste 115, Phoenix. RSVP: 623-215-7988.

How2Heal.com.

Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants – Spend the day with Peter Bigfoot learning the uses of local wild plants while collecting and creating an herb study book of your own. $78. Lost Dutchman State Park. Reevis Mountain School. ReevisMountian.org.

MARCH 29 Mastery of Energy Healing Training – 10am-5pm.

Level 1 class teaches how to use your body’s energy and light to nurture and heal yourself and others.

480-345-9972. MasteryOfEnergyHealing.com.

APRIL 3 Wilderness Survival – Apr 3-5. Learn primitive fire making, wilderness healing, cordage making and much more. Homegrown organic meals provided. $238. Reevis Mountain School.

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MAY 1 Off-Grid Homestead Living – May 1-3. Learn about solar power, water systems and how Reevis lives off-grid while being involved in processing of poultry and a practical farm project. Homegrown organic meals provided. $178. Reevis Mountain School. ReevisMountian.org.

MARCH 11 Lunch and Learn – Noon-1:30pm. Educational program sponsored by the Green Chamber. $20, incl lunch. Macayo’s, 4001 N Central Ave, Phoenix. TheGreenChamber.org.

MARCH 16 Full Moon Meditation – 7-8:30pm. Incorporates light yoga, Kundalini Yoga Meditation as well as deep relaxation and healing with the sound of the gong. With Sevak Singh. $17 advance, $20 door.

ANAHATA Sound and Energy Healing, 10565 N 114th St, Ste 110, Scottsdale. Ronee Kipnes: 480699-9600. info@ana-ha-ta.com. Ana-Ha-Ta.com.

savethedate Naturopathic Discovery Day For those thinking about a career in naturopathic medicine or wanting to learn more about naturopathic medicine and its benefits, attend this open house featuring free activities designed to educate the community about naturopathic medicine and provide insight for prospective students. Tour the brand-new building and enjoy guest speakers, yoga classes, chair massages, acupuncture, cooking demonstrations, herbal tea and protein drink tastings, book signings and raffle prizes during the all-day open house and vendor fair.

March 14 • 9am-3:30pm Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine & Health Sciences 2140 E. Broadway Road, Tempe 888-882-7266 SCNM.edu/discoveryday

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Watercolor Art Classes – 9:45am-12:30pm. All levels, beginner to advanced. Learn fluid color technique, drawing and composition. Small class of 8 students. No talent required, just a desire to create. With Allura Westly. Paradise Valley area.

602-469-0524. allurawatercolor@cox.net.

Buddhist Meditation – 6:30-8pm. Offered by Clear Light Buddhist Center and based on the book Transform Your Life. $10 suggested donation. $5 for students and unemployed. Unity of Mesa Annex Bldg, 2740 E Southern Ave, Mesa.

UnityofMesa.org.

wednesdays Celiac Support Group – 7-9pm. Monthly meeting of the Greater Phoenix Chapter occurs the first Wed of the month. Free. Paradise Valley Retirement Community (Community Room), 11645 N 25th Pl, Phoenix. PhoenixCeliac.org.

A Course in Miracles – 1pm. An interactive time of learning and sharing, appropriate for all levels.

With Rev. Julianne Lewis. Interfaith CommUNITY, 952 E Baseline, #102, Mesa. 480-593-8798.

Interfaith-Community.org.

Reiki Share – A brief overview of the basics of Reiki, followed by 20-minute mini Reiki sessions. For Reiki practitioners only. $5. Reiki Harmony Center, 10309 N Scottsdale Rd, Ste 203, Scottsdale. Register: ReikiHarmonyCenter. com or contact mike@reikiharmonycenter.com or 480-399-2611.

Watercolor Art Classes – 9:45am-12:30pm. All levels, beginner to advanced. Learn fluid color technique, drawing and composition. Small class of 8 students. No talent required, just a desire to create. With Allura Westly. Paradise Valley area.

602-469-0524. allurawatercolor@cox.net.

Vedic Chant 4-Part Series – 7-9pm. The vibrations produced by vedic chant have the potential to alter our physiological state, and thereby improve physical and mental health. With Cheryl Oliver. $50 for four-part series or $17 drop in. ANAHATA Sound and Energy Healing, 10565 N 114th St, Ste 110, Scottsdale. Ronee Kipnes: 480-699-9600. info@ana-ha-ta.com. Ana-Ha-Ta.com.

Channeling, Healing and Meditation – 6-8pm.

Evening of consciousness healing, meditation and intuitive guidance with Michael Morelli, graduate of Barbara Brennan’s School of Healing teacher training program. Each week is open to newcomers. Donation. Unity of Mesa Annex Bldg, 2740 E Southern Ave, Mesa. UnityofMesa.org.

Sunday Services – 9 and 10:45am. A positive path for spiritual living, with transformational lessons and music. Experience the power of an open-minded spiritual community. Unity of Mesa, 2700 E Southern Ave, Mesa. UnityofMesa.org.

Women’s Writing Group – 7-8:30 pm. A gathering of writing enthusiasts designed to get the creative juices flowing. Donation. Unity of Mesa Annex Bldg, 2740 E Southern Ave, Mesa.

UnityofMesa.org.

fridays A Course in Miracles – 7-9 pm. Open to newcomers. Donation. Unity of Mesa Annex Bldg, Donation. Unity of Mesa, 2740 E Southern Ave, Mesa. UnityofMesa.org.

sundays Celebration Service – 10:30am. February theme is “The Way Is In The Heart.” All with peaceful beliefs are welcome to this inclusive, loving, thriv-

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Therapeutic relief that rebalances and realigns muscles damaged by trauma, repetitive movement stress, structural compensation, contact sports, surgery and sitting for long periods. Free 30-minute consultations.

REAL ESTATE ALI AL-ASADY

My desire is to educate, empower and inspire people on their personal healing journey. I believe that healing IS possible – on ALL levels! See ad on page 7.

REALTOR®, EcoBroker HomeSmart 13 Valley Locations 623-332-4116 PhoenixGreenHomeConcepts.com Your green home resource, Ali has 10+ years’ experience as a professional Realtor and is a proven leader in the sustainable real estate market. See ad on page 26.

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REALTOR®, GRI, ABR, GREEN, EcoBroker Certified DPR Realty, LLC 8341 E. Gelding Drive Scottsdale, AZ 85260 602-418-4565 KathyMaguire.com Specializing in residential real estate in Phoenix, Paradise Va l l e y, S c o t t s d a l e a n d surrounding areas, Kathy understands the energy and environmental issues that affect real estate transactions. See ad on page 12.

REIKI REIKI HARMONY CENTER

10309 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 203 Scottsdale, AZ 85253 480-399-2611 ReikiHarmonyCenter.com Info@reikiharmonycenter.com Reiki is a natural and safe healing method effective in helping any issue on a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual level. RHC provides Reiki sessions, classes, Reiki Space Cleanse and Reiki Shares. We also offer many different workshops and classes. We do sell books, crystals, oracle cards, essential oils and salt lamps.

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SKIN CARE ADVANCED SKIN TECHNOLOGY

Linda Leibl, B.S. Master Aesthetician Since 1985 New Location: Canyon Falls Spa/Salon (Raintree & 101) 480-254-0302 • LindaL@MyArbonne.com MyBeautifulSkin.com Guaranteed improvement/clinical proven results: painless skin tightening-face & arms, skin facials-acne-brown spots-large pores-scarring, stretch mark reduction & tummy tightening, “plumping-up” collagen oxygen infusion, and age-reversing Swiss product lines for skin-hair-body. Learn “insidersecrets” from the “expert”! Discover Your “WOW” Results Today! Call me now!

SPIRITUAL CENTER CLEAR LIGHT BUDDHIST CENTER

New Kadampa Tradition 614 E. Townley Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85020 602-243-5220 clearlightbc@gmail.com MeditationInArizona.org Open to all, whatever level of interest. We offer introductory and in-depth courses on meditation & Buddhism, chanted prayers, retreats and meditation for children. Classes take place at our Phoenix Center as well as other locations in the valley.

LORINA QUIGLEY

MOD.I.FY 4164 N. Marshall Way Scottsdale, AZ 85251 480-318-7555 ModifyAz.com • AloraOrganic.com Our eco-friendly salon/ spa services, wholesome cafe and yoga studio cultivate a healthy environment in which to grow and thrive. See ad on page 24.

PURESALON

8711 E. Pinnacle Peak Rd #205 Scottsdale 480-339-6688 PureSalonAz.com Voted best natural salon in the Valley 2011, 2012 and 2013 by Natural Awakenings readers.

Organic | vegan | gluten free. Clean air ecofriendly salon environment only using the finest non-toxic hair color. See ad on page 18.

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INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SPIRITUAL CENTER

“Celebrating a Positive Path to Spiritual Living” 952 E. Baseline Road #102 Mesa, AZ 85204 Rev. Julianne Lewis 480-593-8798 Info@Interfaith-Community.org Interfaith-Community.org Looking for a spiritual pathway?

Interfaith CommUNITY provides services to enrich and empower your life journey. Try Spirit Night 3rd Saturday each month and Sunday 10:30 AM Celebration Service!

UNITY OF MESA

2700 E. Southern Avenue Mesa, AZ 85204 480-892-2700 UnityOfMesa.org A progressive Christian community that draws on universal teachings from various traditions.

Weddings, memorials, christenings for the “spiritual but not religious.”

9am & 10:45am Sunday services, classes and workshops. See ad on page 31.

STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION RIHAB YAQUB

Certified Advanced Rolfer™ Rolf Movement® Practitioner 480-735-8875 RolfingResources.com Appointments in Cattletrack Studios, Scottsdale Manual therapy and movement education to evoke lasting change.

When was the last time you felt vibrantly healthy and could move with grace and ease? Rolfing® Structural Integration can feel wonderful.

WEIGHT LOSS INSIGHTS FOR LIFE

Martha Reed, PhD 20325 N. 51st Avenue, Suite 112 Glendale, AZ 85308 623-249-5888 Insights-For-Life.com “Easily Lose ½-1 pound a day” with my whole person approach.

Combining Homeopathics, Hypnotherapy, Far Infrared Heat Therapy, Life Coaching and Vibefit Therapy. No Needles and Homeopathic Safe. See ad on page 20.

WELLNESS CENTERS ABSOLUTE HEALTH Dr. Sara Penton, D.C. 8360 E. Raintree Drive, Suite 135 Scottsdale, AZ 85260 480-991-9945 AbsoluteHealthAz.com Our focus is treating the whole person based on each individual’s needs, using acupuncture, allergy relief, chiropractic, massage, naturopathic, biofeedback and neurofeedback. See ad on page 37.

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