Hospitals Relax Pain Away In Shock Trauma Patients
Healthwatch reporter Kellye Lynn reports doctors at Shock Trauma
are turning to Reiki therapy to help traumatic injury patients
better manage their pain. A patient's room at Shock Trauma is
transformed into a relaxing retreat. "Due to that energy flow,
your brain is able to produce those pain suppressing chemicals
that give you that decrease in pain, calmness, sense of well
being by being able to tap into that," said Dr. David Tarantino.
Light activated cancer drug hope
Writing in ChemMedChem, Newcastle University researchers say
they have found ways to make antibodies only respond when light
is shone. The treatment stimulates the body's own immune system
Scientists say they may be able to make cancer-fighting drugs
target tumours far more effectively by using ultra-violet light
to activate them.
Heal Thyself
The power of mind over biology is a mystery that science has
just begun to understand, but healers from the the Eastern world
did not wait for science to break the mind-body code. Elaborate
systems of curing and preventing disease have been developed by
trial and error, and applied by faith in an invisible energy
called “qi.”
Holistic Healers
Seth Cowan was getting a little tired of ending up in the
emergency room. His primary care provider treated his acute
flare-ups of back pain with muscle relaxants, which helped for a
while, but he would find himself back in the ER just a few
months later. “It just seemed like there had to be something
else,” Cowan says.
New FDA regulations could take away your "favorite things".
Your access to vitamins, supplements, herbs, and even energy
medicine modalities is now directly threatened, and you have
until April 30 to make your voice heard.
Alternative Medicine: Bitter sweet, bitter truth
- "SUGAR is an important fuel. It converts to energy.
However, sugar is also very toxic. It causes cells all over
the body to shrink and crinkle due a process called osmosis."
Thinking can alter the way body fights disease, new research
shows: "...doctors and psychologists are now bringing the mind
and the body back together amid new evidence that the mind can
improve the healing process in ways that traditional medicine
can't. "Patients are recognizing the (mind-body) connection, and
they want more control over their own health care and their own
well-being. Health care providers are recognizing it too and are
more open to it."
[Oriental
Medicine] Manic Depression: "...From
the perspective of oriental medicine, depression is caused by a
stagnation of energy and ¡°tamum,¡± useless body fluid,
including phlegm, and a deficiency of heart and spleen energy."
Give your body (and mind) a
spring cleaning
New NCCAM
Publication: An Introduction to
Reiki By The National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine
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Psychologist Uses Feng Shui in a Most Unusual Way in the
Executive Suite
Think Feng Shui is just about the furniture? Depth
psychologist's research proves Feng Shui improves executives'
performance.
Feng shui your office space
So, does feng shui really work? Well, my view is it can’t hurt;
besides, after decorating in accordance with feng shui
guidelines, I really like my office space. And, in the end,
that’s all that matters. We spend a great deal of our lives at
work, so we might as well make it enjoyable.
Enriched Environment Restores Access to "Lost" Memories
Found that the enriched animals (The first set of mice lived in
an enriched environment ("an exercise treadmill, colorful toys
with various shapes and textures that were changed daily, and
other mice"), while the second set made do with a standard
cage), showed marked recovery of the long-term memory when
compared to mice that did not live in a stimuli-rich
environment.
This recovery of long-term memory was really the
most remarkable finding,” said Tsai. “It suggests that memories
are not really erased in such disorders as Alzheimer's, but that
they are rendered inaccessible and can be recovered.”
10 ways to save money -- and the environment
Get a little greener with smart ways to fight global warming and
fatten your wallet.
Removing Stress From Your Life:
The Art Of Practicing Feng Shui: "For over three centuries,
the Chinese people have found in Feng Shui the source for of
internal and external balance and harmony. We all are searching
for a little harmony in our life."
Feng Shui Your Home: "WHY SHOULD I FENG SHUI? "WHAT
surrounds you - the shapes, colours, textures, layout, images -
these all affect you, how you see yourself, how you act, even
what you attract into your life," says Peter Auchinachie, a
consultant with the Scottish Feng Shui Centre. Practitioners
often say "your home is a metaphor of your life", the theory
being that a healthier environment means a healthier you."
feng shui SOLUTION:
Placement of toilets
"When a toilet lies behind or besides the altar or the place of
worship in the house it can cause extreme bad luck and health
problems for the residents."
Feng shui available for motorheads
Sound and Music News and Research:
Sound healing and
music are known to boost the immune system, regulate
respiration, lower blood pressure, alleviate pain, reduce stress,
and promote endurance.
Sound Could Rewire Dyslexic Children's Brains
Audio therapy could help dyslexic children read by rewiring
their brains. Neurologists at the Children's Hospital Boston
used an MRI to watch the brains of dyslexic kids as they
listened to sound. When the sounds changed slowly, the children
demonstrated the same neural activation as kids without
dyslexia.
Researchers find where
musical memories are stored
in the brain3/05
Music and the Brain
Scientific American: Music and the Brain [ NEUROSCIENCE ]
What is the secret of music's strange power? Seeking an answer, scientists are piecing together a picture of what happens in the brains of listeners and musicians.
Ancient Indians made 'rock music'
Archaeologists have rediscovered a
huge rock art site in southern India where ancient people used
boulders to make
musical sounds in rituals.
Music 'makes the brain learn better'
The hours spent mastering the
violin or piano are worthwhile - music lessons boost children's
memories.
Color News and Research:
NEWCASTLE, England, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- British researchers
have confirmed women really do prefer pink -- or at least a
redder shade of blue -- than men. "Although we expected to find
sex differences, we were surprised at how robust they were,
given the simplicity of our test," study leader Anya Hurlbert of
Newcastle University said in a statement. "Females have a
preference for the red end of the red-green axis, and this
shifts their color preference slightly away from blue towards
red, which tends to make pinks and lilacs the most preferred
colors in comparison with others."
Color Code
Personality Test
The Color Code Personality Test is the most accurate of all
personality tests in existence. Millions of people have already
taken this FREE personality test to change the way they see
themselves. The Color Code is the first of the personality tests
created by Taylor Hartman, PhD.
Color Change: What can we do to help enhance our environment
and therefore enhance ourselves and our performance at school?
Surround ourselves with color! Studies show that certain colors
evoke certain emotions.
Color
Theory: Professor Petronio Bendito's seven Color Aesthetics
students thought they saw in color before his class. Now they
are realizing they might as well have been wearing sunglasses
their whole lives.
Color-coded Personalities : A review of eight colors
'"...your preferred hue can reveal a lot about what makes you
tick. And the same holds true for the people you date-you'd
probably have a different impression of a date if he or she
said, "My favorite color is yellow," versus "My favorite color
is black." That's because color speaks a powerful, silent
language."
Color Trends 2007: Comforting, Exciting Hues for the Home
"From spicy color combinations to hues that warm the soul, 2007
color trends contain palettes that work independently as a
"statement color" or as a subtle backdrop where home
furnishings and accessories take center stage."
Is black new color of Christmas?
Brits lead way with trendy tannenbaum
Michael E. Young, Dallas Morning News, Dec. 16, 2006
"Now look what the Brits have done. Last year,
when the
trendiest Americans were hanging their trees upside down, style-
setters in Great Britain dumped dreams of a white Christmas and
embraced the dark side - black trees with black trunks and
black branches, like Scotch pines scorched in a wildfire." ...
read more
The Effects of Color on Personality and Relationships
by Shakti Ghimire
"When dealing with interpersonal relationships,
people’s
personalities are a large part of how people get along. When you
meet a new person, you may say that you “hit it off” or that you
“clicked”; this is due to how each other’s personalities
coincide
with one another’s. People’s personalities are impacted by their
surroundings. This article will discuss how color affects
people’s
moods and personalities." ...read
more
Color Healing
Reds have a sporting advantage
Wearing red can give competitors in sporting contests the winning edge,
British scientists have claimed.
Using
color as a medicine
Color Preferences Reveal Your Personality Take
the test
Scent, Smell and Aromatherapy News and Research:
Hot on the scent of a trend: Breath-giving news for babies.
When premature newborns have trouble breathing, they're
typically treated with stimulants (caffeine and doxapram), but
that doesn't always help. In those cases, researchers in France
recently found, a pleasant odor in the incubator may make all
concerned breathe easier.
Artist’s paintings actually smell like their subjects
In the front room of her tranquil Buford home are several pieces
resting on an easel, each emitting a soft scent and filling the
room with fresh fragrances. These works are the end result of
Weiser’s latest invention: Smelly Art.
She has pictures of lemons that smell like
lemons, and strawberries that smell like strawberries. She has
painted mugs of coffee that smell like the morning brew,
bouquets of florals that smell like roses and pictures of fruit
baskets that smell like pears. With her specialty oils, Weiser
can create up to 102 different scents, and nearly endless
combinations of images, she said.
Report Has Scent of Nutmeg
The world's largest spice company came up with the offbeat idea
to scent its annual report with an aroma from one of the many
exotic spices it sells around the world. Over the years,
investors have easily found their McCormick annual report by
following the smell of spices such as cinnamon, clove and
Chinese five spice. The 2006 annual report is now being mailed
to investors, and they will find that the appetizing financial
results from the past year will be complemented by the scent of
nutmeg.
Internet to Carry Scent in 2015
By Kim Tae-gyu
Staff Reporter
"The Internet will do more than just connect people to the World
Wide Web in a decade _ it will deliver fragrances in a fraction
of a second by using broadband pipelines."
Good vibrations
Katherine Kizilos
November 27, 2006
" In his book The Secret of Scent, biophysicist Luca
Turin says smell is mysterious, not because we believe
it to be unreliable, but because we don't understand how
it works. He explains that each scent is based on a
molecule, and that each molecule smells different. The
problem, he says, is that "we don't know how our nose
reads them". |
 
The Secret of Scent:
Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell
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Stated simply, Turin's theory proposes that the nose
recognises a molecule by detecting its rate of
vibration. The conventional view is that the shape of a
molecule determines its smell...
Turin says the shape theory is plain wrong: a molecule's
vibration, not its shape, is what the nose recognises.
It does this by means of a minute biological
spectroscope that is able to identify atoms by measuring
the rate at which molecules vibrate." |
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Packaging technology that allows consumers to customize the flavors or SCENTS of
anything from beer to floor cleaner.
The technology, created by a Boston-area firm called Ipifini, involves flavor-
or scent-filled blisters that are added to bottles or cans. When the blister is
pressed, the contents are released into the liquid, altering its smell or
flavor. By Lisa Biank Fasig, Cincinnati Business Courier, Oct 22, 2006
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
A Secret
Sense in the Human Nose:
Sniffing Out Social and Sexual Signals
The Mystery of
Smell:
The Vivid World of Odors
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MIT Researchers Invent Clutter Detector
The scientists have published a paper this month in the Journal
of Vision that explains their work. The impetus for the work was
that "we lack a clear understanding of what clutter is, what
features, attributes and factors are relevant, why it presents a
problem and how to identify it," says Ruth Rosenholtz, principal
research scientist at MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive
Sciences (BCS).
The Church of
Stop Shopping & Rev. Billy
I thought I've seen and read it all - you decide if this is
something and someone you want to back...
Home Experts Teach About Obtaining a 'Vacation House Feeling'
Every Day: In a home free of clutter, a "vacation house
feeling" will prevail. There will be less tension, you will be
treated better by guests, and you will be able to find things
more easily, said Don Aslett and Sandra S. Phillips in their
presentation "Home Success with Less Distress: Declutter Your
Surroundings the Simple Way" on Monday during Education Week.
Hoarding Can Endanger Lives
A new study has revealed that hoarders have a brain disorder
resulting in an all-consuming compulsion to collect that often
cuts them off from society and damages their relationships.
Take Control of Your Email
Unsubscribe from Clutter: If you're like me, you piled up a
bunch of subscriptions to email newsletters in those halcyon
days before your inbox exploded. ...
Seniors Get a Move On
Families, experts ease the strain of downsizing
Many seniors have a difficult time emotionally when they
downsize from the family home to a retirement community or
apartment. Yet deciding which items to take with them – and how
to get rid of everything else – can be an even bigger stressor.
Overcome by clutter? Take back your garage
My dream is to have an amazing garage
Clutter-free and loving it: Being a serious student of
organization, the thought does flit through my mind, though
fleetingly, that too many magazines, even on one's favorite
subject, is not a good thing, either. They can after all, lead
to ... clutter.
Oversize mudrooms tame clutter at the door "Her
architect responded by offering an increasingly common solution:
an extension that, when the renovation is completed this summer,
will accommodate cubbies, a built-in storage bench and charging
stations and will provide a proper transition between the garage
and the rest of the house. "
Clutter and dirt all easy problems to solve before showing a
house
Don't clean if you don't have to: "This time of year
we all go out and buy plastic storage bins and say we're going
to get organized. Aren't those bins just permission to keep all
your junk?
If you just buy containers, you're making a
mistake. Don't just stuff your clutter into storage bins. First,
address the clutter, and when you've arrived at the stuff you
want to keep, it goes in storage bins."
Create
space in your place by banning
clutter
Children are animals ...
BY KAY HARVEY
Pioneer Press"Not only are the animals popular
children's costume choices, but they also symbolize four
distinct ways individual children approach their world,
says Lanna Nakone in her new book, "Every Child Has a
Thinking Style" (2005, the Penguin Group, $14.95
paperback).
A child in the lion category has a "prioritizer"
thinking style and wants to be leader of the pack. A
child symbolized by a dog is a "harmonizer," a social
animal who puts relationships first. The horse
represents an "innovator," as seen in an independent,
creative child galloping outside the fence. And the
penguin is a "maintainer." In its neat black-and-white
tuxedo, this animal depicts a traditional thinker who
stays close to the flock."
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Every Child Has a Thinking Style:
A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child's Natural Gifts
and Preferences-- to Help Them Learn, Thrive, and Achieve
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