March 14th, 2011 — 4:45am
While scientists have made tremendous strides in the past several decades developing new and more effective medical treatments for a variety of conditions, there are still some areas of health that fall outside of the control of traditional medicine. This includes menopause, the symptoms of which can be difficult to treat.
However, a new study has shown that nontraditional therapies, such as acupuncture, may be more effective, highlighting the human potential to heal.
For the study, which was published in the journal Acupuncture Medicine, researchers administered either acupuncture treatment or standard therapies to 53 postmenopausal women, then track their symptoms.
The researchers found that women who received acupuncture therapy experienced fewer hot flashes and mood swings. These benefits emerged without any measureable change in hormone levels.
The findings confirm Ilchi Lee's thoughts on health. While Western medicine is good at alleviating symptoms of condition, it rarely addresses health problems in a holistic manner. When traditional treatments fail to yield results, it may be time to consider alternatives like acupuncture.
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February 24th, 2011 — 5:37am
While there will always be a place for traditional Western medicine in treating major injuries and illnesses, other types of holistic approaches to wellness can unlock the human potential for healing and help individuals avoid the need for care in the future.
Judy Griffin, a certified holistic health coach based out of Rockville Center, New York, recently wrote in the Rockville Center Patch that holistic methods to not seek to usurp the position of standard care. Rather, the two approaches take very different paths toward healing.
"Conventional medicine tends to compartmentalize disease whereas holistic medicine asserts that it is all connected, and advocates for an innovative approach using a variety of healing modalities to uniquely meet the needs of each individual patient," she wrote.
Griffin added that rather than seeking to treat specific symptoms, holistic medicine tries to attack the underlying causes of illness, thereby completely resolving the condition.
These views echo those of Ilchi Lee, the author and philosopher who believes that spiritual healing should methods should take an all-encompassing approach to illness.
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May 22nd, 2009 — 10:32pm
Published by Ilchi Lee Lee the brain Educator
Now the cerebral limbic system has heard that we are all one and that all life is interrelated. However, such information has made an impression upon the cerebral limbic system because the information was cold and dry, not accompanied by any experiential evidence such as happiness or love that would allow it to be permanently absorbed into the brain. When the cerebral limbic system truly “knows” that all is One and that True Love exists within us, we will find the absolute peace and happiness that we are looking for. To accomplish this, we need the power of the brain stem. Within our brain stem lies not only True Love but also true creativity of life. This is the place where we can find the Creator Within. We now know that the Creator Within has a specific address within our bodies.
Let us take a trip inside our brain stem. When your conscious awareness penetrates through the outer layers of the brain into the innermost one, you will feel a rapture such as you have never felt before. You will express that rapture through tears and smiles. You will feel the everlasting wellspring of life within you. Brain Respiration is designed to act as a travel guide to your own divinity within.
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December 10th, 2008 — 11:47pm
Breath-work is a simple discipline that allows us to train ourselves to breathe in a certain way, essentially to keep our breathing naturally deep. As a basic principle, respiration should be deep, light, and natural. Breathing that is natural, and yet deep and light, is healthy. It may seem that breathing both deeply and lightly is contradictor}’. Prof Ilchi Lee associate deepness with heaviness, and connect lightness with shallowness. This principle of deepness and lightness might seem at odds with itself. How is such breathing possible?
Deep breathing occurs naturally if we breathe with our awareness focused on our lower abdomen.
As you do your breath-work, focus your mind’s attention on this area of your body. Feel your lower abdomen rising when you breathe in and falling when you breathe out. Do this slowly and concentrate on your breathing. If this method seems difficult, place one hand on your lower abdomen and the other on your chest. As you breathe, feel the hand on your lower abdomen moving while the hand on your chest stays still.
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November 5th, 2008 — 9:45am
With Brain Mastery, you can break free from the unrealized goals of your past. You become a new person with new perspectives and a new ability to harness the creative and reasoning powers of your brain. Free from past fears, prejudices and preconceptions, you can create a new future and do after seventy the things that you wanted to do at thirty-five. Have you read about those men and women in their seventies and beyond who are climbing the Himalayas, winning literary awards, and starting world-changing charities? There’s nothing in them that is not in you. You cannot go back and rewrite chapter one, but you can start now to make a fantastic finale.
Brain Mastering makes maturity what it should be: a prime time of life when you are free of the constraints of work and children and are free to pursue a rich, rewarding existence. So many older adults miss out on this time because they cling to old grudges or let their minds become frail and halting, but that is a fate to which no one need be consigned. Science is showing us that our minds, emotions, and attitudes affect how long and how well we live as much as, or more than, what we eat or how much we exercise. A positive, hopeful, curious mind is a resource for exploring all the wonders that later life has to offer: Want to travel? Go back to school and get your master’s degree? Start a company? Volunteer? Learn to meditate? Do it. When you are master of your brain, you are master of your life.
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November 2nd, 2008 — 4:54am
This story is universal. By opening their minds and seeking beyond themselves, wanderers come to a wider wisdom, a larger view not only of the world but of themselves. They learn to give and to be enlarged by the act of giving. Others may scoff and misunderstand their intentions, but in the end, they are transformed.
This is the essence of your journey. As someone who has lived five, six, seven decades or more, you have probably found that you were expected to adhere to a set of predetermined ideas. But all the while, you have wondered if there was a way you could escape the limitations of your thought habits and become a larger person with greater vision. There is.
A Spiritual Quest
BEST is a spiritual quest—a quest to become a person of greater enlightenment as you make the transition into the mature years of your life. You have plenty of goals: to heal from the traumas of the past, to find peace, to develop a healthier body, and even to discover a new purpose for your life. Brain Mastering is discovering the life you want to live and developing a mental discipline that allows you to turn your brain into a tool to create that life. It is a continual process of improving your brain to become a better human being.
Essayist Sidney Smith said, “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” Many of us struggle with regrets about the things we have not done in our lives. These regrets become more acute and painful as we age, like a disease that eats away at the peace and serenity of many older people, turning what should be a time of exploration, vitality, and joy into a shadowy country of unfulfilled promises and resentment.
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September 19th, 2008 — 9:37am
If you want to be happy, stop waiting for others to make you happy.
Just decide to be happy. If your life seems too dreary, smile anyway.
This may seem like Pollyanna, pie-in-the-sky nonsense at first, but it is very much rooted in the physiological reality of your brain.
Also, smiling is contagious. Very few people can resist urge to smile back when you smile at them.
As wonderful as a smile is, laughter is even better.
The old saying “Laughter is the best medicine” is literally true.
Laughter boosts the immune system and reduces the stress response, and thus is excellent for brain health.
Furthermore, good attitude and lots of positive social interaction seem to reduce the risk of dementia and other aging-related brain disorder.
A happy brain, it seems, is a healthy brain.
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