Intro to Holistic Healing

Posted on 05/23/2015 by Nancy Ayanna Wyatt — Leave a reply

What the Heck IS “Holistic Healing?”

To answer that, I’m providing a 4-hour seminar

Intro to Holistic Healing

Let’s talk about my Intro to Holistic Healing! For registration details, go to Fairfax Metaphysics and Spirituality Group or register NOW directly with our lovely hostess Reverend Marti Giese – Marti@blossomforth.us or by calling her at (703) 369-2606.

This intensive Intro to Holistic Healing seminar describes several different kinds of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) techniques in a broad overview. Topics include everything from specific nutrition and exercise regimens to acupuncture, Reiki, essential oils, chi machine (aerobic exerciser), drinkable clay, herbs, and more. Participants will receive extensive notes and an opportunity to suggest which of the subjects they would like to explore further in classes specifically designed for those topics.

Sorry for the short notice about Intro to Holistic Healing; but I just got permission to put it onto this Meetup site, so I want to share the info with you, in case you live near Prince William Parkway in Manassas, which houses the beautiful venue where I’ll be teaching. Cost $40*, payable at the door.

*Because of extensive preparation and printing costs, refunds are not available for this class.

I hope to see you there and/or at future classes, which I’ll be presenting this year!

Let’s Get Well, Stay Well, and Live Well!

Eliminating Inflammation – What Can You Do?

Posted on 04/06/2015 by Nancy Ayanna Wyatt — Leave a reply

Eliminating Inflammation Is Vital To Good Health and Anti-Aging

Gaze Into My Ruby Red Eyes!

Q: “Why does the body have inflammation?”

A. Eliminating inflammation is important, because inflammation indicates that a body is trying to counteract things like illness, injury, dementia, allergies, stings, and stress.

It not only is a healing mechanism, but also is a valuable message to the body’s “owner” that something is wrong and needs attention.

We should LOVE our inflammation first (for telling us the body needs help) — and then get rid of it!

Why is Eliminating Inflammation Important?

Inflammation Is An Underlying Condition In Many Dis-eases

There Are Several Natural Methods of Eliminating Inflammation

Here’s a Quick and Delicious Drink which is very helpful, because it is made with ginger. There also is a version with green tea in the mix. You can make this as a hot drink or as a cold beverage. All you need is to add water; but I add it to juices, as well.

It’s called Goli kili ginger drink, and is available through Amazon.com, among other locations.

Over Time, We’ll Discuss Alternatives for Eliminating Inflammation

First Up: Dr. Andrew Weil’s Suggestions

Dr. Andrew Weil

Note: I love Dr. Andrew Weil, who currently is Director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Wikipedia has all the details; but, briefly, Dr. Weil is world-famous for establishing the field of integrative medicine, which aims to combine alternative and conventional medicine. He is a physician, and a research biologist, who truly understands the effects of plants on the body.

Here is a quote from his blog/web site, where you can get lots of information on a regular basis:

Optimal health does not come from a “miracle” drug or a fad diet, but is instead the result of making prudent daily decisions about how to eat, exercise, handle stress and connect with others.

One solution to inflammation is to eat and drink properly, using beneficial, anti-inflammatory foods. Click on this picture of his Anti-Inflammatory Food Pyramid, where you can get the information by looking at the graphic. He also has created a specific diet for you to follow.

“What Does An Anti-Inflammatory Diet Do? The anti-inflammatory diet is a blueprint for a lifetime of optimum nutrition. Simple changes in how you eat can help counteract chronic inflammation, a root cause of many serious diseases, including:

Heart disease

Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases

Age-related disorders, including many cancers

Autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.”

OK, you can go to Dr. Weil’s website to learn more about this and a million other subjects. Meanwhile, let’s refer to how inflammation affects/causes aging.

Inflammation and Aging Processes

Here’s a new word for you: Senescence (/sɪˈnɛsəns/) (from Latin: senescere, meaning “to grow old”, from senex) or biological aging (also spelled biological ageing). (Thanks, Wikipedia.) I advise you to read this article only if you have sophisticated vocabulary and a serious interest in the subject. The bottom line is that some theories of aging relate directly to the levels of inflammation and free radical damage present in the body.

Since there are so many anti-inflammatory foods, herbs, and options, and since we all want to preserve health and youthful bodies, I am going to refer you to another blog about food combinations and to future posts on this My Get Well Guru website, for some quick solutions, such as the use of ginger, aloe vera, and other items, rather than writing a whole thesis on this blog. In the meantime, let’s reduce our…

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Here’s to your good health!

Let’s Get Well, Stay Well, and Live Well!

Classes – Wellness

Posted on 02/21/2014 by Nancy Ayanna Wyatt — Leave a reply

Classes – Wellness – Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM)

Holistic Healing / Natural Remedies

All You Need To Know … As An Introduction

As Above, So Below

As a certified practitioner of several Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) and wellness modalities, I teach Introductory classes, which explain the concepts involved. So, if you have ever heard the term “holistic healing,” “Complementary and Alternative Medicine,” or “CAM,” and you wondered what the heck that means, these wellness classes provide the answers for natural ways of healing yourself – meaning non-synthetic, non-pharmaceutical, and non-surgical ways of increasing your health.

The critical thing is to penetrate the cause, not just the symptoms, of whatever the dis-ease expression is. That involves the mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of a person, as relates to his or her physical manifestations of balance and imbalance: thus, the expression, “As Above, So Below,” but without specific religious connotations. I have worked successfully with people of many faiths and with some who had no religious philosophies. I also have worked successfully with many animals, and it is pretty safe to say that they had no religious beliefs of any recognizable kind. The treatments still worked.

Because there is a lot of experiential evidence (about the efficacy of things, like acupuncture) that was not obtained via traditional Western scientific study methods, I disagree with some of Wikipedia’s conclusions. Still, see what it offers for the (partial) definition of some of these terms, as follows:

Alternative medicine is any practice that is put forward as having the healing effects of medicine, but is not founded on evidence gathered using the scientific method.^[1] It consists of a wide range of health care practices, products and therapies.^[2] Examples include new and traditional medicine practices such as homeopathy, naturopathy, chiropractic, energy medicine, various forms of acupuncture, Traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, and Christian faith healing. The treatments are those that are not part of the conventional, science-based healthcare system,^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] and are not backed by scientific evidence. Complementary medicine is alternative medicine used together with conventional medical treatment in a belief, not proven by using scientific methods, that it “complements” the treatment.^{[n 1]}^[1]^[8]^[9] CAM is the abbreviation for Complementary and alternative medicine.^[10]^[11] Integrative medicine (or integrative health) is the combination of the practices and methods of alternative medicine with conventional medicine.^[12]

Even the National Institutes of Health recognizes some of the CAM modalities. One source for learning more about Evidence Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine is the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a division of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health. Articles are available from PubMed and PubMed Central.^[5]Click here for more info.

Classes – Wellness

INTRODUCTION TO COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

Did you know that ROSES have enormous healing powers? Imagine what else you will learn!

This particular class is a four hour seminar (with breaks and snacks); but it can be an all-day seminar, too. See list of topics below. The cost is determined by number of participants, commute time and distance, etc.

In this class on wellness, we shall discuss topics, such as:

Why Anything Works = Energy!

Who and What Can Be Healed

Categories of Holistic Approaches – ingestants, physical manipulation, energy work

Some Principles, Ethics and Theory

Thoughts Are Things – how we create wellness and dis-ease through thought patterns

Sources of Messages – Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, etc.

Causes of Dis-Ease

Body as Messenger – where it hurts is a clue for healing

Correspondences – Chakras / Colors / Notes on Scale

Cleansing and Protection – cleansing not only the body, but the aura

What Happens During Healing sessions and afterward.

The only complaint I’ve ever gotten about this class (and about my other metaphysics and meditation classes) is that the students wanted the class to be longer!

They even said this when the class was four hours long! So, you can see we had fun and learned a lot. The highest compliment I got recently was that not a single person even looked at his/her cell phone during the entire class! YEA! Contact me. You’ll love it, too!

How To Book Me For Classes – Wellness

I do hope you and your friends will schedule a class with me. Get in touch, using the contact form below, by email (getwellstaywelll at Outlook.com), or by leaving a voice mail message at (540) 636-4311 to arrange it.

Some classes can be customized to your needs. I plan to offer wellness classes as webinars + videos on CAM topics and more in the future. Follow me to find out when and stay tuned!

Let’s Get Well, Stay Well and Live Well!

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Alzheimer’s Disease

Posted on 02/20/2014 by Nancy Ayanna Wyatt — Leave a reply

Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Forms of Dementia

Normal Brain Is it really Alzheimer’s Disease or a different issue?

What does your brain look like?

What can you do to maintain good brain health?

The Alzheimer’s Association

There are many resources and options available now as our scientists learn more and more daily. I believe in advocacy on a number of social issues, of which this is one. I learn a lot from the Alzheimer’s Association and so can you at: (http://www.alz.org/.

That is a link to their website where you can take a tour of the brain!

You don’t have to have Alzheimer’s to find this fascinating as it shows you how the brain works in a way that you can see and understand it. http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_4719.asp. To learn more about the disease, itself, you can visit this part of their website: http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_what_is_alzheimers.asp..

For Wikipedia’s definition of Alzheimer’s Disease, see this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alzheimer%27s_disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD), also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease, is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death. It was first described by German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer in 1906 and was named after him.^[1] Most often, AD is diagnosed in people over 65 years of age,^[2] although the less-prevalent early-onset Alzheimer’s can occur much earlier. In 2006, there were 26.6 million sufferers worldwide. Alzheimer’s is predicted to affect 1 in 85 people globally by 2050.^[3]

Here is another link, from the National Institutes of Health and National Institute on Aging: http://www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/topics/alzheimers-basics.

What I hope to accomplish with blogs about Alzheimer’s Disease is to teach people about the disease, as well as how to cope with it or to provide care to others who experience it.

Let’s Get Well, Stay Well and Live Well!