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drinking plenty of water, receiving regular sunshine, fresh air, moving your body, cultivating nurturing relationships and asks, are you waking up with happy feet and do you love the work you do?

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e really are incredible beings and I’m delighted to have this edition devoted to the topic of ‘whole-istic living’ and that includes all aspects of our lives and addresses our mind, body and spirit. I’m sure you will find a variety of perspectives and see what resonates with you…

This month we feature the work of Don Tolman. I remember attending one of Don’s talks about eight years ago and was chuffed that quite a few family members could come along and share the inspirational experience. Don is not only an internationally renowned whole food expert, he is a man on a global mission to empower people to be educated in the areas of ‘self care’. It’s not just about the whole foods, he also talks about

Don has assisted people all over the world from a wide variety of backgrounds and I remember being in tears at his ‘Bootcamp 4 Brains’ when he showed a video of a lady who had a serious accident which led to her having spinal cord surgery which then resulted in her becoming a T 12 complete paraplegic.

With assistance from Don and the wholefood regime suggested, she was able to walk again and live a fully functioning life. Wow! Many thanks to Andrew Dudek for his story on Don Tolman on pages 1415 and look out for the series of articles about Don’s work each month for the rest of the year. Enjoy!

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Contents

6 34 FOOD FOR THE SOUL 6 The power of a smoothie

by Maria Faalafi 7 Dairy-free potato salad

by The Organic Sisters 8 What is P.I.Y. shopping?

10 Creating kindness with our bodies

by Luisa Toaldo 12 Food, nutrition and kids

by Suzi Le Fanue COVER STORY Don Tolman: 14-15 The Indiana Jones of whole foods WHOLE-ISTIC LIVING 16 Whole-istic healing by Jean Sheehan 17 Creating a 50/50 partnership with your body 18 Have you had a gut-full? by Khoji Lee 19 What if you knew what was right for you! by Toni Reilly 20 Be conscious. Eat healthy!

by Justin Shute 22-23 Do you need more balance in your diet? by Emily Banks 24 “Gob-smacked!” by Shauna Teaken 26-27 12 powerhouse principles

by Michelle Lightworker

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by Megan Johnston

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The vibration of you and money

by Jules O’Neill

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Look deeper to uncover your natural inborn vitality by Dr David Hendrey

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Shungite: Origins of the healing stone

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by Vanessa Finnigan 36

Yoga and Kahuna – pathways to enlightenment by Gaylyn Aitken

Top 7 benefits of colon cleansing

by Joel Grace Community health spreading across the coast by Dom Liv Kamal

RELATIONSHIPS, PARENTING AND KIDS Bianca’s ‘whole’ approach 40

by Jean Sheehan Holistic chiropractic for kids 41

by Dr Jeff Mathews Oxygen therapy magic for the whole 42 family by Kristen Wieder ECO, ORGANIC, BEAUTY AND STYLE Would you like wellness now and for 43 future generations? by Therese Kerr The Bhumi story 44 45 Profile of an essential oil: Rose

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The power of a smoothie WORDS MARIA FAALAFI, creator Green Bees Organics

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ears ago the thought of drinking a green smoothie would send shivers up my spine, especially something that had raw kale in it! Then when I was around 24, just as my life seemed perfect having found my soulmate, after purchasing my own home, studying at university and working in a well-paid job, I fell ill.

It started with my body rejecting many kinds of foods, then I started to rapidly lose weight. I went from 49kg to 42kg in just a couple of weeks, then I started to get the most terrible migraines imaginable where I would just collapse from the pain. I would also get dizzy spells, blurry vision, panic attacks, insomnia and severe anxiety on a daily basis.

Not knowing what was wrong with me, I started to develop phobias of everything including my own couch, because it was where I used to lay every time I got sick. Then depression kicked in where I just could not get out of bed and feelings of hopelessness and emptiness would take over any

other emotion. That was the time I said enough is enough and I decided to take my health into my own hands.

After seeing a naturopath and holistic doctor I was told that apart from having many food intolerances, I also had hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) – symptoms included anxiety, blurry vision, dizzy spells, depression.

So I embarked on a body healing diet and kicked gluten, dairy and sugar out of my system! But I also realised that I had to put all the nutrients that I lost when I was sick back into my body to help my body heal itself, the way it should. When I started researching what ingredients I needed to heal my symptoms… it came to me… make a smoothie of course! And that was when my obsession to find the perfect smoothie started. The quest began to find the smoothie with all the nutrients I needed but also one that tasted great and gave me sustained energy. So here it is, the smoothie that helped me heal… I hope you enjoy drinking it as much as I do every day! greenbeesorganics.com.au

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What is P.I.Y. shopping?

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As the country becomes increasingly health conscious in its eating habits, and catches onto trends such as quinoa, chia seeds, bee pollen and gluten-free products, the question that many consumers are asking is, “how can we afford them?”

“The reason that some health foods are found with such a high price tag in supermarkets is often because the customer pays a premium for the packaging,” says Paul Medeiros, the founder of ‘The Source’, a grocery store with a difference. “As a shopper I was frustrated by the fact that my healthy eating choices seemed to be having a negative effect on my income, and also the environment. At the end of the week I was left with a bin-full of plastic bags and containers. I wished I could just go into a shop and fill up my own container, with the exact amount that I needed.”

The Source is a ‘package-it-yourself’

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Our range now includes household items and personal hygiene products such as shampoo and conditioner as well.

“What we offer is not only more environmentally-friendly, but means that customers can buy exactly as much or as little as they need, rather than being restricted by the number of servings that a supermarket thinks they should purchase,” explains Paul. “It seems like a new idea to some customers, but it’s really an old concept that we want to bring back into fashion. If you think about how our grandmothers used to shop, they would buy only as much as they needed, wrapped in paper or glass jars. We are also very proud of the fact

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FOOD FOR THE SOUL

Creating kindness with our bodies WORDS LUISA TOALDO

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ll too often we can become caught up in the stress and fast pace of everyday life and leave our bodies behind. What if you could choose different? What could kindness with your body look like?

Kindness with your body doesn’t always have to be black and white.

Perhaps one day it is the low-fat green smoothie your body requires. Perhaps another day it could be to drink a little more water. What if you could let go of your expectations of what being kind to your body looks like and actually ask it what it requires?

I always assumed kindness to my body was expensive beauty treatments, days lounging around sipping cocktails and relaxing. This of course is a brilliant choice if that is what my body requires for that day, in that moment.

Sometimes too though my body loves to move and sweat. A fast-paced boxing

session with sweat pouring off me can feel so nurturing for me and my body when it is what we require.

Creating choice can also be a kindness to your body. Asking it what it requires is the first step to a communion and kindness that is harmonious to your body. So how do you know if what you feel is required is true for you? It may be a whisper of a smile across your body, those moments when something just feels lovely and light, that is the truth for you and your body.

I have come to know very acutely too, when I have ignored my knowing and my body. Upset tummy, a feeling of discomfort and general ‘just not quite right’ make an appearance. But again this is a chance to express kindness with your body. Thank it for giving you another barometer for which you can tune in and get to know what does and doesn’t work for it. Have you ever had

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FOOD FOR THE SOUL

Food, nutrition and kids!

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hese days it seems so many more children are suffering with autism spectrum disorders, ADD or ADHD, temper tantrums and general moodiness. Personally I would rather not label them, the truth of the matter is children’s behaviour is changing, and you have to wonder why?

There are many theories based around it, let’s look at two of the many primary areas that I would focus on addressing.

HAVE YOU HEARD OF PYROLURIA? It is a metabolic condition where the person does not optimally absorb or utilise key nutrients that are needed for the production of neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine. This happens when the body produces molecules called pyrroles. These pyrroles act like magnets to many vitamins and minerals.

Children with pyroluria may present with agitation, anxiety, bed wetting, clenching jaw, lack of focus, frequent tantrums, overwhelmed easily,

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My husband was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADD as a child, we have had him tested as an adult and no surprise he had a high pyrrole reading.

As an adult he has responded amazingly well using the pyrrole treatment of nutritional supplementation of vitamin B6 and zinc, I only wish it was tested when he was younger. This is an area of my work that I am incredibly interested in because so many of my patients have pyroluria. A simple urine sample is all that is needed to test pyrrole levels.

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DON TOLMAN: The Indiana Jones of Whole Foods WORDS ANDREW DUDEK PHOTO ANDREW THURTELL

PLEASE, REMEMBER THESE TWO ANCIENT LAWS: FIRST, PLEASURE IS OUR GREATEST, HIGHEST GOOD! SECOND, THE ONLY EVIL THAT EXISTS… IS VIOLENCE AGAINST INNOCENCE.

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t’s another buzzing, packed house at the Brisbane Mercure Hotel. Don Tolman will spend three unrelenting hours delivering and sharing information; again, it will be of stunning magnitude and breathtaking proportions. Inevitably, every person in the room will be uniquely elevated, inspired and touched by whatever communications “speak” directly to them. Yes, Cowboy Don is back – and just his presence in the huge function room is enough to ignite and emit currents of electricity upon an otherwise typically ordinary, sunny Brisbane Sunday winter’s morning…

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The man speaks with eloquence, humour, passion and empathy. To say that his grasp of knowledge, wisdom and scholastic prowess is encyclopaedic would be a grand understatement.

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These are only a few of the thousands of Tantalising Tolman Truths – simple, safe, effective protocols – facts and knowledge deliberately kept away from our day-to-day sight and beyond our reach. By powers that are literally hell bent on committing violence… against all innocence.

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ANDREW: You are an outspoken advocate against the political push towards “mandating” vaccines via legislation, both in the USA and now in Australia. In Queensland today, the various vaccine manufacturers’ own published ingredients in flu vaccines currently being administered contain Octoxinol 9 and Octoxinol 10 – known spermicides and sterilising agents. What possible reasons are there for such ingredients to be injected into a person’s bloodstream?

(Don looks at the manufacturers’ ingredients list, and ruefully shakes his head.)

DON: The vaccine industry is probably one of the darkest, most ridiculous industries that has ever been forced upon the people. These ingredients… are meant to create sterility in the male and the female. So, if you want to have a baby, they’ll want you to spend 20 or 30,000 thousand dollars for IVF, because that’s another industry that’s on the rise, and they’re doing everything they can to promote it.

They don’t want people to get pregnant without having to pay them… so that’s ultimately, I kid you not… the very basis of this.

The word vaccin-ium was used in classical Latin – it was a type of berry.

To vaccinate used to mean, literally, to eat berries, because when we look into this, the berries that come forth in the spring… are Nature’s Vaccines!

So whenever the berries are on, go get

them. Eat as many of them as you can, and you will have absolutely no worries.

Some people typically just don’t understand their own bodies. If you have a house (a body) you better open the “flu”, to let all the gasses and poisons out! Your body “flus” or vents, 24 hours a day. What’s interesting is that, if your body isn’t venting enough, through lack of water, walking, fresh air, sunshine, or not enough plant-based foods… then that’s actually called “influenza”, which means… “not venting”!

The flu is not some horrible, mysterious disease… it’s your body cleaning house, and protecting you. Just keep drinking liquids… and puking!

ANDREW: Allergies are seemingly on the rise. “Elimination and Allergy Diets” actually encourage us to ingest MSG, colours, preservatives, benzoates, nitrates, sulphites, sweeteners… even pink musk sticks!

What’s the “answer” to allergies?

DON: They just love the idea of “fighting” a disease; everything is a “war” and so we suck in and fall for it.

When it comes to allergies (say pollen, or mites)… you just need to make your own salt water nasal spray! Get a little bit of peppermint, eucalyptus and tea tree, put a lot of salt water with it, and suck it in through the nasal passages, and if you’re able to, swallow a little as well. The body’s immune system will strengthen… and you will get over the allergies.

ANDREW: What about food allergies?

DON: The number one cause of food allergies is taking too many antibiotics at an early age. The way to overcome the allergies is through small, teeny tiny dosages. Put the food, or the seed, or the nut, whatever, on your lips. You lick your lips… and eventually spit it out. Do this for seven days, eventually swishing it around, then spitting it out. A week later, you actually swallow the particle and follow up with a glass of water.

ANDREW: What about household chemicals?

DON: With things like formaldehyde in our carpets, bedding etc, you get… an onion, slice it in half, and put it in each room! Through an electromagnetic force, that onion will attract all of the particles in the air, even dust mites. Keep it going for about seven days, thinly slicing the

onion layers off regularly and throwing them in the rubbish!

ANDREW: What, generally, leads to physical sickness and/or disease in your opinion?

DON: All sickness is due to one, or both, of the following: toxicity, or deficiency. This applies equally to say, toxicity in our relationships. Or a deficiency in things that nurture our hearts and souls… like actually pausing to smell the roses, and feeling the radiance of the sun on our bodies.

Fasting, for example, is one of the most powerful ways to exorcise our “demons”, whether by way of a water fast, juice fast, or a “mono fast” (consuming only one type of fruit or vegetable for an extended period). Our stools, breath, urine, skin, mood, body odour and state of wellbeing will tell us with great accuracy whether we need to fast. This includes addictions!

Can you fast from Facebook for a week?

If not, you’re addicted to it!

ANDREW: Please share with us some more of your thoughts about the Peaceful Revolution.

DON: I’ve seen more of it happening in the last six or seven years than I ever have in my entire life. A lot of these (former) doctors, oncologists, and researchers are quitting their careers, and/or doing documentaries, and getting “the message” out there. Two documentaries that come to mind are “Bought” and “The Truth about Cancer”.

ANDREW: Your “Base Camps for Health” are an intensive affair; a desire to help people form deep relationships with what you describe as the “truest of truths” and a quest to share knowledge and wisdom with much of humanity in the coming Peaceful Revolution.

DON: Thank you so much. I’m so grateful and appreciative of the work that magazines like Holistic Bliss undertake to be a part of this shift in consciousness.

As this type of information is shared, people go “wow,” and they wake up a little bit more. Whether it’s only 3 or 4 people meeting once a week, sharing information and articles, or forming “Holistic Clubs” where everyone is open to discussion… it’s all a part of this beautiful journey towards personal and planetary healing and restoration.

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Whole-istic

Healing

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raditionally the word Medicine meant ‘to make whole and complete’. Plato, a mathematician and writer of the philosophy stated ‘to heal is to make whole, the entire mind/ body/spirit. To cure is to eliminate or relieve immediate distress.’ When I was nursing I found the medical system wanted to cure but forgot to assist the process of making a patient whole.

A heartfelt memory for me whilst nursing was Mr Banks (name changed).

He was a diabetic patient whom repeatedly was admitted for diabetic leg ulcers and weight reduction. Mr Banks had been with us for many months as we assisted him with wound care. He seemed to be happy and enjoyed his food. He knew the medical routines and each of the medical staff history as he took the time to get to know them. He practised whole-istic care.

This particular evening I did not finish my shift until 11pm. All the patients were mostly asleep. Mr Banks was due to go home the next morning. He had lost 22kg and his leg ulcer was nearly healed. As I did my rounds with my torch

to check on patients, I noted Mr Banks agitated. I found him digging at his wound with a fork and making it bleed.

I switched on his light and sat on his bed to talk to him about what was happening and dressed his fresh wound.

It was time for the whole-istic approach with no judgment from me.

That is when Mr Banks shared he was more happy in hospital as he got fed, had company and was given love and support in the form of attention to his wound. My heart connected to his and I could feel his pain and isolation. He shared that he would make a wound to get back in to hospital so he could be cared for.

Mr Banks gifted all of us whole-istic care and yet as the medical system we had not done that for him. So that night I sent notes to relevant staff to organise support for Mr Banks at home.

I reassured Mr Banks that he will have a different situation when going home.

The other important factor for me was to ensure Mr Banks knew I did not judge him for his act.

Let’s now go back to the word

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Creating a

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o often we set out to do what we can to have a greater sense of peace, possibility, joy and ease in our lives, but in the process we are either trying to drag our bodies in the direction we decided they need to go, which means we decide what is good for them, or try to dominate or override our bodies, or we are judging our body and the ‘issues’ we think we have with it, making ourselves the victim of our body and believing we are less capable of creating the changes we desire as a result.

Either way, these situations illustrate how we make ourselves either greater or lesser than our bodies, rather than equal with it. You are not your body, but you have a body. Have you considered that your body has its own consciousness and capacities, and a

desire to contribute to you and your life beyond your wildest dreams – if you let it?

What would you have to be or do differently to have an equal 50/50 partnership with your body?

What if you started to ask your body what it knows about what it desires and requires? What does it desire to contribute to you that you have been ignoring? What would it like to eat, drink, where would it like to go, what does it want to look like, how would it like to move and who does it want to play with? What if you would be willing to start playing more and to discover different ways to nurture your body the way it would like to be nurtured?

When you are willing to nurture your body, and to receive from your body, your capacity for joyful living

increases dynamically. What if you began every day by asking, body, what could I contribute to you today? What do you desire to contribute to me? What could we create together that would be joyful, fun and invite more money?

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Have you had a WORDS KHOJI LEE

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e as humans spend our entire life making decisions on what to eat every day.

An activity most of us think we consciously make and control, right?

But perhaps the gut and its multitude of bacteria, what we eat and feed these bacteria is more important than we think.

In her new book, ‘Gut: the Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ’, German microbiologist Giulia Enders, gives us a fascinating insight into our last taboo, our gut and poo.

In her book, the way the gut works is explained and the influence it has on our wellbeing and health. The gut-brain connection is the new field of research in modern medicine and in the last ten years, hundreds of academic articles have been published. Two-thirds of our immune system and 95 per cent of the serotonin we produce is made in the cells of the gut. Who hasn’t felt irritable when we haven’t eaten for a while,

Gut-full?

there’s no doubt our gut can affect our mood.

The type of foods we eat, the amount of antibiotics we take and how we eliminate can all affect our digestive system. Enders suggests that we start with eating prebiotic foods; whole foods with plenty of fibre and resistant starches.

But for these prebiotic foods to support and feed the good bacteria we need to have the good bacteria already present in the gut. This is where the probiotic bacteria come in.

Many cultures worldwide have some form of probiotic, German sauerkraut, Korean kimchi, Indian lassi all contain the good bacteria beneficial for your gut. Adding these types of foods to your diet daily will populate the gut with these good bacteria. These good guys then populate the intestines and force out bad bacteria. The roles these good and bad bacteria can have on mood and wellness is just being understood.

So we got the energy and nutritional goodies from the probiotic and prebiotic food and the gut has digested it. Great, now the icky bit no one talks about!

Faeces are made up mainly of water but one third of the solid part is dead bacteria. This dead gut flora is mixed up with indigestible vegetable fibre and toxins the body needs to get rid of; food colorants, waste medicines or cholesterol.

Stuff we don’t want in us!

Enders recommends squatting with a footstool to eliminate our waste, explaining the way the puborectalis muscle relaxes in this posture and the health benefits of eliminating this way.

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What if you knew what was WORDS TONI REILLY

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any of us spend too much precious time beating ourselves up. We ask ourselves, “What is the right thing to do?” We worry about whether we are eating the right foods, saying the right thing to our children, loving a partner the right way, doing the right thing for work.

If living up to doing the right thing is not enough pressure, there are our idiosyncrasies and physical differences to worry about. Being late, being introvert, being extrovert, too loud, too shy, too large, too small. If you ask me, it is simply all too exhausting!

In our modern world, we are barraged with experts who know what is best for us, they know what is best to eat, the best medicine, the best way to think, the best schools, and that of course cancels out some things we thought were good. People innately desire to be accepted and to be noticed and this is what drives them to listen.

Right for You! The many influences do not stop in the media, in fact they begin the moment we are born. We are molded by the influence of others starting with our parents or guardians and they were influenced by theirs before us.

The challenge of life is to decide for yourself what is right for you. While you have influence over your family you can decide that for them, but when they challenge us with their way of what is right for them, ideally we can accept their choices and the way that they are. By getting to know your own innate traits and natural personality you can stop trying to live up to anyone else’s expectations which will be based around how they are and have been molded.

Ego never seems to get a thumbs up, but we need it to guide us through our life. Our ego inspires common sense and, it is imperative to incorporate with intuition to understand our physicality. Whole-istic is a combination

of Mind (ego), Body (physical) and Spirit (senses) and together they assist us to navigate life incorporating our emotions.

Life is filled with incredible pleasures, our senses are tantalised by taste when consuming food or drink, touch when we are intimate, healing or nurturing with another person, we have scent to enjoy, sounds of nature and creative composition of music. There is so much for us to enjoy if we allow ourselves.

Moderation is the key to every part of our existence. You get to arrive at the levels that are best for you, yourself.

Enjoy life.

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Be conscious.

Eat Healthy!

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f health and healthy living is such an obvious thing to do, then why don’t we do it?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, we are told, yet we gravitate towards the nearest McDonald’s to grab a Big Mac, fries and a Coke, and then wonder why we get sick and end up at the doctors. Has this world gone mad, or have we just become disconnected from how to think and act for ourselves.

It is essential, in this day and age, to seek whole foods, rich in nutrients, for our sustenance and wellbeing.

It is a choice, yet we have no choice if we want to live a rich and fulfilling life.

We all get to choose what we put in our mouths, but more often than not we find that the choices we make are both damaging and disempowering because we have lost the art of conscious decision making.

We have become reactionary beings

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In this world of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, we are seduced into a game of automatic response rapid fire thinking.

We listen to the impulsive voice in us that speaks first and speaks loudest, commanding us to say and do impulsive things that we hope will get attention and approval. This is the voice that seeks the external to meet its needs; the new car, the fancy clothes, and all the bling that gives the appearance of success and happiness. But this can also be the voice that seeks the fast food and craves the sugar hit at 3 o’clock in the afternoon.

If we want to take control of how we eat and start making empowering choices, we need to listen to the quiet voice, hidden in the background of our mind. Consciousness.

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Our body and mind are meant to be working with our higher consciousness, but in this 15 minutes of fame world, we have become disconnected from it.

How successful we are at making empowering food choices is largely dependent on what voice we pay attention to. If we can separate from the busy, impulsive, reactionary mind and reconnect with our consciousness, the awareness of what to eat will be re-established and our ability to choose nourishing foods will become easier.

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WHOLE-ISTIC LIVING it can assist weight loss by reducing the appetite. Slowing down the digestive passage can also reduce a spike in blood sugar levels after eating, having a beneficial effect on insulin sensitivity. To add to the list of benefits, soluble fibre “mops up” low density lipoproteins, also known as LDL or bad blood cholesterol, as it binds to this “bad” cholesterol and assists its removal from the blood.

Soluble fibre can be found in: apples, oranges, strawberries, blueberries, psyllium, cucumbers and celery.

DO YOU NEED MORE BALANCE IN YOUR DIET? WORDS EMILY BANKS, ND

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There are two forms of fibre obtainable from the diet; insoluble and soluble fibre. These fibres have differing effects, though are both beneficial to health.

Insoluble fibre is (you guessed it!) unable to dissolve in water and passes through the digestive tract relatively undigested. It is this type of fibre which is responsible for building the bulk of the stool, therefore assisting healthy bowel function, as well as increasing the transit time of food and waste through the gastrointestinal tract. Insoluble fibre acts as a prebiotic that feeds probiotics which make up the healthy microflora of good bacteria in the intestinal tract.

Maintaining a healthy microflora is essential for optimal digestion, immune function, and maintaining healthy bowels and colon.

Soluble fibre is essentially fibre that is able to dissolve in water. This kind of fibre attracts water during digestion, forming a mucilaginous gel which slows digestion. As soluble fibre takes longer to digest, making you feel fuller for longer,

Many people think that insoluble fibre will block them up and cause constipation, but it is actually the other way around! Insoluble fibre prevents constipation; just remember to keep up your water intake.

o be getting the most balanced nutrition from our foods, we not only need to focus on our macronutrient content (fat, protein and carbs) but also the actual nutrition of the food. This article focuses on the importance of three simple things that are commonly misunderstood in our diets; dietary fibre, protein, and balanced potassium/sodium intake.

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Insoluble fibre can be found in: onions, tomatoes, cabbage, celery, silverbeet, spinach, beet greens, and bok choy. Adults need approximately 35 grams of fibre per day.

PROTEIN Protein is an essential nutrient required by the body for energy, muscle maintenance, growth, repair, and structural support. The word protein, in a nutritional aspect, tells us that this nutrient contains long chain amino acids. There are nine essential amino acids, meaning they are unable to be synthesized within the body and must be obtained from the diet.

These include: phenylalanine, valine, threonine, tryptophan, methionine, leucine, isoleucine, lysine and histidine.

These amino acids must be present in a certain amount to make up a “complete protein�. Animal meat, eggs and specialist protein powders are a complete protein. Quinoa, buckwheat, hemp seed, chia seeds, soy, and mycoprotein (called Quorn) are all complete vegetarian proteins. Vegetarians can also use protein combining methods to ensure they are getting adequate protein.

One of the most common things I see in my practice is inadequate protein intake in teenagers and those going through periods of convalescence. Each 1kg of weight requires approximately 0.8grams of protein daily. You can figure

out your ideal base protein requirement by multiplying your ideal weight by 0.8g (eg 80kg x 0.8 = 64g protein required daily). Note: These ideal measurements will change with weight loss programs and age.

POTASSIUM AND SODIUM Potassium is an alkalizing mineral which plays a role in cardiovascular function, blood pressure regulation and maintenance of a healthy pH within the body, amongst many other things.

Sodium is an acidic mineral, important for adrenal function and hormone synthesis, as well as cardiovascular function. To promote detoxification through alkalization, support healthy cardiovascular and kidney function, and overall health, these

THOSE WHO THINK THEY HAVE NO TIME FOR HEALTHY EATING WILL SOONER OR LATER HAVE TO FIND TIME FOR ILLNESS.

minerals must be present in a ratio of 5:1 in favour of potassium. An imbalance in this potassium/sodium ratio can promote many health complications such as hypertension (high blood pressure), cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, kidney stones and stomach ulcers.

Many people fear salt and avoid its consumption. This is not a healthy decision, as salt is still very much required by the body! Processed foods are rich in salt, as it acts as a preservative. One of the best ways to correct your sodium/potassium balance is to reduce and avoid processed, packaged foods and increase your green leafy vegetable consumption. Swap your table salt for Himalayan or Celtic Sea Salt, which contain trace elements and a small amount of potassium.

Potassium and sodium can be found in a ratio of 5:1 in apples, asparagus, beef, blueberries, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, grapefruit, onion, orange, papaya, spinach, strawberries and tomatoes, to name a few.

I believe the most important thing about food, and yourself, is understanding the magic within.

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“Gob-smacked!”

WORDS SHAUNA TEAKEN

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Hanging on by the skin of your teeth’, ‘bite the bullet’, ‘sick to the back teeth’ – the mouth, teeth, gums and jaws hold intense energy for us all!

Words of love, judgement, hate and encouragement all flow from the mouth.

I’ve had an avalanche of questions and interest about Happy Mouth Generative Energetic Dentistry and it’s clearly not just about having perfect sparkly whites!

What does the mouth represent?

The mouth has to do with eating and survival – if you can’t chew your food and ingest it, survival is very much an issue; communication, expressing yourself; pleasure – the hedonism of enjoying every mouthful of food and drink; sex – the mouth as an erogenous zone; status – perfect, ultra-white teeth are the standard measure of beauty and success, whether the mouth is healthy or not.

A happy, healthy mouth is also a key to longevity and is about so much more than appearances!

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The whole mouth, or periodontal cavity, can be a rich ground for limitations, fears, judgements, and self esteem issues. Add to this all the lifetimes we may have endured accidents, gum disease, rotting teeth, and tooth extraction without anaesthesia. For many people the smell of the dentist’s office and the sound of the drill is enough to induce anxiety and stress!

So what is the Happy Mouth System and what does it cover?

Dr Tom Kolso has been a practising dentist in the US for over twenty years.

He became aware that while modern dentistry has come a long way in the last 100 or so years, it is still very much about amputating parts of gum, tooth or bone and filling the gap with a foreign substance. He thought more must be possible, and over the last 17 years, he has developed a system of activating the body’s own capacities to restore and balance itself, combined with the tools of Access Consciousness® including the

verbal processes and clearings.

The system is not a replacement for seeing a dentist – and we still need to brush and floss! I personally have been using the system in conjunction with ‘orthodox’ dental care for the past six months and I am thrilled with how my mouth, teeth and gum health has improved.

The system includes touching points on the head which activate different processes relating to gums, teeth, the TMJ joint, bone restoration and then there are verbal clearings to dissipate past trauma, conditioning and judgements.

At present the system is available only as online trainings in the form of a telecall series (starting this August). The calls are information packed and you can email in your questions. So what would it take to activate your body’s natural healthy teeth and gum systems?

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12 POWERHOUSE PRINCIPLES WORDS MICHELLE LIGHTWORKER

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or those of you who know me or have read my latest book “The Everyday Lightworker Bible”, you will know I am extremely passionate about 12 powerhouse principles. In combination they serve to enlighten our mind, lighten our emotional load, release excess weight from the body and transform our lives.

I am hoping to create a magazine with the support of Holistic Bliss to focus on articles relating to these principles and how they work in our everyday lives.

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Let me briefly explain the benefit of these 12 principles. As you read them, sense into whether you squirm or feel uplifted. Each principle holds a powerful vibration. Both are important to your journey of transformation.

1. HONESTY – without it, we live a lie. With it, we can begin to live the truth of why we are here.

2. OPEN-MINDEDNESS – without it, we live in fierce judgment and narrow-mindedness. With it, we are open and accepting of all the resources we need to contribute towards our enlightenment and the growing consciousness of a better world.

3. WILLINGNESS – without it, we are resistant.

With a bit of a sprinkle of willingness we can move mountains. We invite Spirit into the very nature and fabric around our every decision.

4. FORGIVENESS – without it, we stay stuck in toxic

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recycled garbage, our hearts clamoring to be let out of their prison. With it, we are free to move on, let go of the past and to love with an open heart.

5. UNITY – without it we feel alone, separate, abandoned and narcissistic.

With it, we allow ourselves to connect with the infiniteness inside everyone and together we can co-create with harmony.

6. DISCIPLINE – without it, we are easily distracted and led astray. With it, we are able to listen to our guidance and follow the next step we are guided to do – even if that is all we know to be true.

7. FAITH – without it, we don’t trust and we are cynical. With it, we are able to take big leaps knowing that we are always safe 100% of the time in the truest sense of the word. Spirit always has our back, even when we feel we have been let down, with faith we are able to see all experiences are in our highest good.

8. RESPONSIBILITY – without it, we blame and obsess about what others have done to others or us. With it, we can stop playing the victim card, pick ourselves up and start to create the life we really want to live, free from oppression and start to role model the change we want to see.

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Find your Flow with Kinesiology WORDS MEGAN JOHNSTON

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y soul purpose in life is “To create balance and live an extraordinary life by expressing myself fully and inspiring others to ‘journey within’ to find their freedom.”

I am a woman of the universe, explorer of the world and seeker of freedom within. At heart I am a lover of the simple things in life, the ocean, travel, books, adventures, yoga, good food and personal transformation.

Life is all about balance and living holistically.

My life has always known intensities, from the highs of transforming thousands of lives by sharing my healing gifts and travelling the world, to the lows of chronic pain, heartbreak and rock bottoms. When kinesiology came into my life I felt disconnected and unfulfilled, I was always seeking outside of myself for the happiness I desired.

I have spent 16 years studying, developing and implementing the principles of psychology and self empowerment before I found

kinesiology. I have a natural ability of understanding the mind, I have been aware of my intuition from a young age, but to understand energy centres and the power of my emotions was LIFE CHANGING. Through kinesiology, I learnt how to explore my struggles, my pain and my fears through FEELING them. I spent years suppressing my emotions, hiding behind my anxieties and lack of selfconfidence. But it was when I started to take responsibility for my health and learnt to FEEL and ride the wave of my emotions that my life began to move forward. It taught me how to tap into my innate healing system to transform my life. It helped me open my heart and clear my mind.

What if your emotions, your pain, your struggles in life were messages from your soul to change direction, to look within, to seek the truth? What if you could learn the lesson to dissolve the energy, the pain? What if your darkness was within you to teach you something profound?

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part of our body has an emotional context. Your body is your handbook to guide you to the answers you are seeking. Just for example, shoulders, are about support and holding on to too much stress and worry, feeling insecure, overwhelmed, sad, rejected and discouraged. The left side of our body is the feminine essence and relates to receiving and the past, while our right side is the masculine essence, giving, and future. Kinesiology is about balancing energetic states within your body, and is achieved through using muscle testing as a bio-feedback tool to alleviate stress within your mind, body and soul energies.

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WHOLE-ISTIC LIVING

The

Vibration of You and Money

WORDS JULES O’NEILL

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s energy, money is represented in the 2nd chakra. The colour of this chakra is orange. We all know in order to make orange we need red and yellow. Energetically your money is made up of your energy vibration from your 1st chakra – RED – and your 3rd chakra – YELLOW. WHAT VIBRATION DOES YOUR 1ST CHAKRA REPRESENT – RED? Grounding yourself in your message or beliefs, your home, your nutrition, your hygiene, the quality of water you drink, the quality of sleep you give yourself, how often you exercise your beautiful body, the patterns and programs that are in your family roots that you are not owning, opening up about and freeing yourself from and how you connect to your physical world.

WHAT VIBRATION DOES YOUR 3RD CHAKRA REPRESENT – YELLOW? How you trust in yourself, your

discipline and organisation, the vitality you let yourself feel by doing the things you love often, your self esteem, your ability to take risks when you believe in something, your energy and caring for how you feel as a priority, your confidence, your will, your accountability, how you make choices for yourself, your ego, how you handle challenges, your personal power and self image.

WHAT AM I SAYING? I am saying that your chakras represent the vibration you are sending out to the universe. What you give out you get back! If you want to make a difference to your money, and all the things in your 2nd chakra, your focus needs to be in chakras 1 and 3. Again, red and yellow make orange!

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2. Look at the things listed in the 1st chakra and pick one thing out that intuitively stands out for you to focus on that will make a positive difference in your vibration.

3. Repeat step 2 for your 3rd chakra.

4. Creatively focus on these things over the next week by aiming to change your actions with them.

5. Put a note in your phone in one week’s time and ask yourself this question, “What difference have I seen in my money over the past week?”

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Look deeper to uncover your

Natural Inborn Vitality

WORDS DR DAVID HENDREY

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e are all born with a natural intelligence that helps us navigate through life. This inborn or innate intelligence receives information from both the outside world and our own inside world, processes this information and makes sense of it.

It then sends messages to all our organs, muscles and tissues to take action and respond to what is happening.

“Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies. Our own innerintelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside” – Deepak Chopra MD. This intelligence talks to us every second of our life in a quiet whisper; always ready to be heard. There are many techniques that quieten the white noise of our busy lives to allow the innate whispers to be heard. Meditation, prayer, tai chi, yoga are just a few. Take time every day to be silent and listen to

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The body is truly amazing in how it works and performs. We all have been gifted one of the wonders of the universe, the human body and experience. Treat it well and it will last a lifetime giving you spectacular performance.

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Shungite:Origins of the healing stone WORDS RICHARD GILES

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he previous article in July’s edition about shungite covered the Russian health research work on the stone. The first congress on shungite in 2006 sharing scientific work on its properties was held in the town of Petrozavodsk, Karelia, near to where much of the shungite deposits come from.

The origins of shungite probably go back to up to two billion years ago. According to Russian geologists, sediments of unicellular organisms mixed with mud and silt formed sediment layers that accumulated in the Karelian region in an environment of brackish water saturated with minerals and salts. Compression forced these layers to sink and subterranean volcanic activity added heat and this transformed organic materials into other forms responsible for the creation of the molecular structure of fullerenes (soccer ball like structures). What is most fascinating for me is that shungite’s early formation is much, much older than coal and oil.

The main deposits are found in

only one place on earth – in Karelia near Lake Onega (N.west Russia) and amount to about 9,000 square kilometres of deposits. Most of it was found near the surface in the past, but today it’s found about 200 metres below the surface. It was given the name shungite by a Russian geologist, Alexander Inostranzeff in about the mid1880s.

I looked at its health effects and the bio-energetic properties last month, those that enable shungite to protect the body from electromagnetic fields (EMF and EMR). One of the fascinating effects involves shungite tiles added to the walls of a room and the room used for dealing with stress, cardiovascular problems and trauma.

Several health care establishments in Russia, and now in France as well, have developed rooms that are tiled with shungite. Health rooms in hospitals, in military establishments and in prisons have been established in Russia to treat stress, hypertension and heart problems.

In 2006 a shungite room in the

Voennomeditsinsky Health Academy tested patients on a treatment programme. They had conditions ranging from hypertension, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and coronary heart disease. Results indicated that some 80% of the patients showed various levels of improvement in their conditions. Up to 40% showed significant decreases in all problematic health conditions.

Several Russian health establishments such as spas, have shungite rooms and so does the Military Academy of Medicine in St Petersburg.

Those rooms have been used for a variety of health conditions including the treatment of diabetes and respiratory tract problems as well as those mentioned above.

With its water purification properties, its role in protection from EMF and its role in dealing with a number of health issues, shungite can be truly called a wonder healing stone.

RICHARD is a Feng Shui practitioner and astrologer. E: ricgiles@powerup.com.au

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Diary of a

Seeker A DAY WITH MARIANNE WILLIAMSON WORDS VANESSA FINNIGAN | PHOTO MATTHEW ROLSTON

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he had us at hello!

Actually I felt I was being ‘worked on’ before I arrived for the one-day experience on the 28th June in Brisbane, as I didn’t sleep well the night before (which is unusual for me) and didn’t eat much breakfast in the morning (also a rare thing).

However, when my partner and I arrived at the Brisbane Convention

Centre and found our seats, I felt a serene energy permeating the room which remained there for the whole day.

I was curious about what would unfold and just so damn grateful to be there!

The energy created in the room, allowed a lot of things to surface and a large number of people in the audience felt safe to share, ask questions and transform. Marianne referred many times to ‘A Course in Miracles’ and quoted a variety of spiritual teachers.

She read the energy of every situation and connected with everyone in the room in an honouring way, so it was quite extraordinary to watch her speed of response and the care and wisdom behind it. She looked ageless.

Marianne’s view is simple, there are only two emotions: fear and love, and the type of love that has no opposite, is all that is real, and is who we all really are. When we are connected to love, God, Source whatever you like to call it, life becomes a flow and an ease… miracles occur! She said, “Enlightenment is not a learning – it’s unlearning the thoughts of fear this realty has taught us.”

So it’s been a few days since the event, and I’ve noticed any ‘petty’ thoughts that enter my head seem to fade away more quickly. My partner and I have reflected on different parts of Marianne’s talk quite frequently, which is so amazing to share together… there was a lot covered in one day, but we were not left overwhelmed or tired, it was more like being nourished on all levels.

All I am left with right now is, please Universe keep showing me the truth of who I am, in every moment… and then it’s my job to choose it!

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’

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We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” From Marianne Williamson’s “A Return to Love” also previously quoted in a speech by Nelson Mandela.

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Yoga and Kahuna –

Pathways to Enlightenment

WORDS GAYLYN AITKEN

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ong before I met the Kahuna, Abraham Kawai’i, and began my traineeship with him, I’d been involved in the Yoga community through the practise of asana. I loved the physical creativity I got from learning to perform new gestures with my body. It was the first time in my life I felt I had something that belonged only to me that I had complete control of. I was empowered and became adept, but off the mat my life was out of control and heading for a crash.

I met the Kahuna in the late 1990s and found the connection I’d missed in my Yoga training that enabled me to expand the ownership of my body/life off my mat, out of the classroom and into my everyday life.

However, I believe that without one, I wouldn’t have the other… two decades ago my Yoga teacher recommended I learn massage which

eventually led me to the Kahuna.

For a few years after I started training with the Kahuna, I stopped practising asana, wanting to delve deeply with open heart and mind into the universe of the ancient Kahuna until one day I decided to begin a regular home asana practise again.

My Kahuna teacher had shown me through example the sanctity of my life by inspiring a consciousness of my body as a sacred vessel, the home of my eternal spirit and because of this I found my relationship with asana had changed, became slower and deeper.

What surprised and delighted me most was this expansive awareness of myself in motion stayed with me, off the mat, out of the classroom and into my regular life routines.

The knowledge and wisdom Yoga offers us can be paralleled with the ancient wisdom and knowledge of the

Kahuna. Both recognise the divinity residing within us and seek to bring the physical into harmony with the spiritual. Both recognise the body as the container of our spirit and through the expansion of our physical range of motion, in their own unique and complimentary ways, can change our life to one that is lived to the full instead of one that is endured.

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WORDS JOEL GRACE, Owner, Sunshine Colonics Health & Wellness Centre

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our body can benefit in many ways from colon hydrotherapy, let’s look at the top 7 advantages of cleansing your body from the inside out.

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Community Health WORDS DOM LIV KAMAL

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s we all expand our consciousness through education and attending the many events offered to us through the internet, reading and attending wonderful festivals and days of wellness, we are learning that health is really our own responsibility and we have so many choices. How do we truly know what will help us be optimally healthy?

How can we filter through this vast array of information and decide what will work for us as individuals and what may be just an idea that may cost us money and take us backwards in our wellness?

The best way that I have found is to look at the community we live in and see who is around and to listen to what they have to say. This can happen in many ways. We can go to a private practitioner and chat with them, we can do an online search and see who is out there who specialises in what we are looking for, and we can attend some really well specialised events and

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meet people face to face, and then decide if we want to take that further and develop some kind of therapy and healing experience with them.

The Eumundi Markets have been offering “The All Well and Good Day” for the last eight years. This year the markets have extended that event to a whole month of showcasing what is on offer locally in health care and giving the public free yoga classes, free healthy cooking demonstrations and free talks.

Yes, this September you can attend the markets on any Saturday and meet some really well reputed people in the health care arena who are here to share their wisdom and knowledge with you.

Each day there will be three free yoga classes in “The Yoga Hall”. Come along and experience different styles of yoga and see if any take your fancy.

Then on “The Good Health Stage” we have three speakers each Saturday who will educate you on food as medicine, healthy positive mind strategies and how to get a better wellness profile.

“The Market Kitchen” will have some fabulous cooking demonstrations on raw food, how to use spices, the health benefits of chocolate and Ayurvedic cooking, just to mention a slice of what is on offer.

The markets also present the Wellness Trail every Saturday in September where you can come along and meet the regular stall holders who offer health and wellness products and services. Everything from massage, healthy base cooking ingredients, great food choices, herbal medicines, natural cosmetics and innovative and alternative health choices await you weekly in the markets. Once you visit the trail, you will know that you can come here every week of the year and have this support and help from local people who really know their area of health care.

Bring the whole family for a great day out and enjoy the offerings for the month of September. eumundimarkets.com.au

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Step out of your routine and notice what is truly occurring around you. It is time for you to awaken your potential and power as you answer the call to walk your true spiritual path. This Centre is here for you. To support and help you grow in a nurturing environment with authentic professional practitioners who want to guide you towards being joyously awake and aware‌ and ready for anything!

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RELATIONSHIPS, PARENTING AND KIDS

Bianca’s

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id you know there is nothing actually wrong with you and that you were born perfect and will die perfect?

You are whole and complete on all levels including when you have disease.

We forget that we are excited and eager as a soul to enter this earth world and experience duality, pain, love and so much more. This concept is something the new generation of children have an innate understanding of and was brought through my awareness when I nursed Bianca.

When I was nursing, I was blessed to have been a part of Bianca’s life for a few hours. You see she was born with no brain but was alive and breathing.

Her parents were shocked and in grief.

The medical staff were also feeling that way too. There was a part of the medical system that wanted to know more about Bianca and do investigatory tests to learn more.

For me it was about Bianca and her parents experiencing an whole-istic approach to this situation. I sat with the

parents and held Bianca as they were a little frightened of hurting her. The sheer delight and gift Bianca gifted me and the connection of pure absolute love was extraordinary. I could feel Bianca and this divine sense of perfection and divinity. She knew she was whole and complete as intended and created. She was strong and I could feel her purpose.

Bianca was a divine rainbow child.

Her parents were rattled as you can imagine. It was important that they connected with her and ‘listened’ to her. I said “talk to Bianca and share what your thoughts are, what your fears are, tell how much you have waited for her, and anything else you want to tell her.”

There were tears of joy and sadness from both parents and yet Bianca seemed to be at absolute peace with the whole approach and circumstance. She was teaching an whole-listic approach to the parents, the family and medical staff which is normal for a rainbow child.

The heartfelt connection was a sense of acceptance in this process and the family were looking at the situation as perfect.

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Bianca was and is whole and was teaching that everything is whole.

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Holistic Chiropractic WORDS DR JEFF MATHEWS, Chiropractor

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s parents, our wish for our children is that they will be happy and healthy. Our desire is that they will grow optimally through all stages of natural development (please refer to Holistic Bliss, March 2014 article) and will progress into adulthood and independence in the best possible way.

‘Holistic’ means that all the structural and functional elements of optimal body health come together and magically produce more vitality and health than was thought possible if we just considered the body parts. This orchestration of the symphony of healthy function and vitality is coordinated by our amazing brain and nerve system.

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Holistic Chiropractic considers the whole child. We must be aware of the physical, chemical and emotional aspects of healthy body function.

Also, these three aspects are the major sources of stresses on our spine and health.

Spinal strain (subluxation) may cause wider effects on the whole person. For example, the stomach pains which are common in childhood may be associated with spinal subluxation.

Irritated nerve reflex patterns (somatovisceral) contribute to abnormal function and pain in the spine or digestive system. Other symptoms may also be experienced such as indigestion, stomach pain, reflux and chest pain.

Direct soothing pressure on the effected organ and reflex areas can ease discomfort and tensions. Holistic natural care often also includes dietary changes, emotional support and home care advice.

Chiropractic adjustments relieve stress on the spine and nerve system.

This removal of interference on nerves allows the brain and organs to communicate optimally, thus restoring normal function and health naturally.

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Oxygen Therapy Magic

for the whole family

WORDS KRISTEN WIEDER

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has been estimated that we receive 90 percent of our nutrients from oxygen.

In fact, oxygen is nature’s oxidiser; it cleans the blood and helps keep our pH optimal.

Microbes like virus, bacteria, fungi, mould, and parasites cannot exist in an oxygen rich environment. The oxygen we take in daily, is Nature’s design for cleaning our blood and keeping pathogens at bay. Many of us aren’t getting the amounts we need. Some studies have shown that we use about 12 percent of our lung capacity on average. For many, the figures would be less, due to everyday stress, toxins and shallow breathing.

Hyperbaric Oxygen takes place in a specialised chamber which inflates and creates a pressurised environment. This pressure increases our lung capacity, allowing oxygen into the many areas that may have been deficient. It is estimated that the brain takes in 20% of all the oxygen we ingest. I have found my memory and focus have improved

t is comforting to know there is a modality where we can heal, and all we need to do is breathe in the benefits.

I first heard about oxygen therapy from athletes who had recovered from injury and inflammation in record time. I became interested when I heard a story from a graduate student in my home town who hit her head in a car accident. She went to the hospital where doctors found no sign of concussion. Four weeks later, she forgot how to tie her shoes. Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy helped her brain recover from traumatic injury.

This interested me greatly because it is non-invasive and pain free, so children can easily benefit as well. I am passionate about protecting our children and it is comforting to know there is a modality where we can all breathe in the benefits.

Oxygen has been a method of healing and recovery for decades. Every cell in the body requires oxygen and it

with regular sessions. In fact, our family has experienced such profound healing that we have opened up a centre in Buderim. We offer hyperbaric oxygen in a state-of-the-art chamber, art therapy for all ages, as well as active EMF protection and probiotics. We live by nutrition and prevention, and we are grateful to share what we have found most helpful on our journey.

Oxygen is revered as a top choice for healthy lifestyles. Physicians and scientists are finding more benefits from regular visits to oxygen chambers, ranging from relief of inflammation, healing from wounds and injuries, overall immune support, a boost for prevention and wellness, improved memory and focus, as well as stress relief for the body, mind and spirit.

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Would you like wellness now and for

WORDS THERESE KERR

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Future Generations?

esearch is showing that the level of endocrine disorders is at an all time high.

In fact, male semen quality has reduced 40% to what it was years ago, genital malformation in baby boys has increased by 400% according to the World Health Organization report of 2012 and we are on the tip of the iceberg in relation to the level of these disorders in society.

Is it just my kids I should be concerned about?

Everyone should be concerned about this. With the high level of infertility and the alarming rate of chronic illness our children are experiencing (for example one in 66 American school-aged children have autism; research is showing the actual figure to be 1 in 38), some researchers are saying that we are the only species actively contributing to our own extinction and that if we continue on the trajectory we are on, it may well be the next of the generation after that who

will be the last to have children.

On average there are around 200+ chemicals in breast milk globally and babies’ umbilical cords around the world also have on average of 200+ chemicals. Is it any wonder our chronic disease rates are so high not only in adults but in children – it never used to be that way!

Preconception care is paramount to having healthy children and this preconception care needs to start by avoiding the mostly untested chemicals from a young age, not simply just during pregnancy.

During pregnancy we pass our fatsoluble chemicals onto our children.

Babies unfortunately are being born pre-polluted because their mums are polluted. The greatest way to prevent this is to remove toxic chemicals from our lives, especially from our children, as their little bodies are not equipped to detoxify (their detoxification ability is not that of an adult until around seven years of age) and their endocrine

systems are not developed. Sadly, to make matters even worse, we are giving birth to pre-polluted children and then without understanding the impact whatsoever, we are lathering them with additional chemicals when their little bodies are ill-equipped to handle the exposure.

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The Bhumi Story

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hrough her travels and work on international public health projects overseas, Vinita was fortunate to gain enormous insight and see first hand the disastrous health and environmental impacts of traditional cotton growing with farmer suicides, pesticide poisoning, birth defects, harmful dyes and toxic water ways.

In a recent report by the WWF, 100 million cotton farmers produce approximately 20 million tonnes of nonorganic, genetically modified cotton each year with China, United States, India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and West Africa accounting for over 75% of global production for the retail market.

The UN and WHO estimate that up to 77 million non-organic cotton workers suffer poisoning from pesticides each year; non-organic cotton is responsible for the release of $US2 billion of chemical pesticides each year more than any other single crop worldwide; and regular cotton accounts for 25% of global insecticide releases.

Along the supply chain of regular cotton production and manufacturing, tens of thousands of acutely toxic chemicals are used, including chemical

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Yet what is staggering is this is allowed and it ends up in our soils, in our waterways, in our clothes, in our towels, in our sheets, in our skin and in our bodies.

After years in the field meeting with amazing NGOs, grassroots organisations and a growing movement of organic farmers, it was time for positive change.

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Overall, this results in having the lowest environmental impact, a deep sense of social justice with fair trade practices and also the purest and softest cotton, that is resilient and gentle on the skin.

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Profile of an essential oil: WORDS KIM MORRISON, Renowned Aromatherapist

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ose is well renowned for its beauty, grace and exquisite aroma. It was one of the first flowers from which an essential oil was ever distilled way back in the tenth century.

It is a flower that has been highly revered and used throughout history.

Perhaps Cleopatra is one of the best examples. The story goes… to lure Mark Antony she had her ship rubbed down in rose wax, the sails dipped in rosewater and hundreds of exquisite rose petals strewn across the bedroom! There is no mistaking its romantic and aphrodisiac virtues.

Known as the ‘Queen of Flowers’, when distilled, it is also thought of as the Queen amongst essential oils. Over time it has been used to treat many disorders of the female reproductive system and whilst many essential oils have an affinity for a particular part of the body, it is not surprising that rose has a particular preference and affinity with the uterus. It is cleansing, purifying and regulating. It is also alluring, enchanting, indulging and nurturing.

In a spritzer, rose is a gentle but potent antidepressant. It is excellent to use in

Rose times of grief, stress and for emotional wounds. In a massage blend it is an excellent antispasmodic oil and in skincare it is especially valuable for dry, sensitive or ageing skin. It has a tonic and astringent effect on capillaries and on the circulation in general.

To fill a 10ml bottle of rose oil, a tonne of rose petals is required. Rose carries an expensive price tag due to this high quantity and the very high costs involved in its extraction; but then only very little is needed to treat a mental, emotional or physical condition. It is the ultimate self-love oil.

Considered a popular base note, the perfume industry uses more than the world’s annual production of rose oil, so where does the rest come from? It is difficult to detect adulterated rose oil, even with gas chromospectography so perhaps the best guide is a trustworthy supplier and your own nose. Just one drop rubbed onto the perfume points is enough to send any nose into a romantic frenzy! twenty8.com

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NATURAL ANIMAL CARE

Natural relief for canine mange WORDS JULIE MASSONI

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n the 20 years that I have been working as an Animal Naturopath, I have helped many dogs return to optimum health simply by using natural methods. Mange is one skin problem that responds really well to natural treatment, without the need for strong drugs or chemicals.

Mange can turn a once happy and healthy dog into a dog that looks and feels miserable. It is caused by mange mites that burrow under the skin causing skin irritation, discomfort or itching, infection and hair loss. Mange occurs most commonly in animals with a suppressed immune function.

There are different types of mites that cause mange in dogs – the most common being sarcoptic (sarcoptes scabei) and demodectic (demoxex canis).

Chronic mange can be very debilitating to an animal and symptoms may include depression, lethargy, severe itching, anaemia, hair loss and thickening of the skin.

Sarcoptic mange (also known as scabies), is caused from mites that burrow under the skin. Itching can be intense, causing inflammation and

infections to develop. Sarcoptic mange is contagious and the dog is best kept isolated from other dogs until successfully treated. If you have more than one dog that is constantly itchy, then it may be due to sarcoptic mange. All dogs’ bedding should also be washed thoroughly. Sarcoptic mange can cause a skin rash on people also, but the mites cannot live on humans for more than a few weeks.

Demodectic mange is caused from a mite that lives in the hair follicles and can cause great discomfort and irritation to the host. It is more common in young or elderly animals and particularly those that have been recently vaccinated. It appears as a bald patch or thinning of the hair usually on the head around eyes, lips and mouth or neck area and can occur on the legs, paws and trunk in severe cases. It can often clear up without treatment by the time the animal reaches one to two years of age.

There are two forms of demodectic mange – squamous and pustular. In the squamous form, the hair falls out in patches leaving dry lesions that may become inflamed and swollen. The

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Demodectic mange is an immune deficiency disease and may or may not cause itching. A skin scraping will confirm if your dog has the condition.

Demodectic mange can be localised with only one area affected, usually around the eyes, lips or mouth with hair thinning in these areas. It may however become generalised and spread over the body in multiple areas causing hair loss with crusty sores.

In my experience, it is essential to treat a dog with mange both internally and externally. A natural, raw food diet is the best defence for building a healthy immune system with added supplements to support healing including vitamin C, antioxidants and vitamin B complex.

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I also use a lemon rinse for external treatment. The recipe is a simple one and is as follows: Chop up around six or more lemon skins and one whole lemon. Fill a large saucepan with about five litres of water

and bring to the boil. Simmer just until the peel is mushy. Remove from heat, cover and allow to cool before straining into a sealable jar for storing in the fridge. Apply the solution liberally to affected areas (avoiding face and eyes) and leave to dry on the skin. Use once daily for at least 10 days.

I have found that alternating the lemon rinse with external herbal solutions gives the best results. (The lemon rinse should not be used on cats.)

Mange can be very debilitating for some dogs and many of the conventional treatments used are quite harsh, so it is worth looking at a more natural approach that supports your dog’s immune system rather than weakening it.

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DO YOU SUFFER WITH IBS? Cramping, gas, reflux, irregular bowel movements and constant bloating?

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These foods can activate the “hypersensitive” part of your immune system.

This response does not always become evident straight after you eat the food. This makes it very hard to identify what the reactant food is.

Reactant foods can damage the gut lining and this can cause irritation and lowered nutrient absorption.

Microbial imbalance Bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites could all potentially be causing your symptoms. You have trillions of bacteria in your gut and they can easily become imbalanced.

A condition known as small intestinal dysbiosis (or SIBO) is characterised by excess bloating usually caused by an imbalance in bacteria. There are bacteria that help with the breakdown of carbohydrates, some fibres and other protein. When there is not enough of the “good guys” in there you will experience increased gas, reflux and bloating because the other bacteria will ferment your food and produce gas. Fatigue, foggy mind, irritation and poor motivation can be secondary symptoms of SIBO. There are tests that can determine the level of SIBO. If the food is not being broken down properly in the small intestines the large intestines have too much work placed on them and hence Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) may develop.

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