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  • Natural Alternative for Bowel Strictures and Obstructions

    When I came across this novel therapy for non-surgical healing of intestinal strictures, bowel adhesions and bowel obstructions I could hardly believe what I was reading. After doing this podcast with one of the technique’s inventors, Larry Wurn, I am even more excited!

    As you’ll discover when you listen, this technique may also work for anal stenosis and possibly for malrotation and volvulus. I didn’t ask about it in the podcast, but I suspect it may also work for dysphagia (difficulty swallowing, tight, spasming or obstructed esophagus).

    In addition to listening to the podcast, you can also download an informative and inspirational chapter from Larry & Belinda Wurn, founders of Clear Passage Physical Therapy about their revolutionary, hands-on technique for loosening the tough collagen cross-fibers that make up strictures, scar tissue, adhesions, etc. – providing a fantastic alternative to surgery:

    “Adhesions form in all people as they heal from infection, surgery or injury. Modern medicine offers little relief, because surgery creates more adhesions. When physical therapist Belinda Wurn experienced terrible adhesion pain a year after cancer surgery, her doctors said that corrective surgery would only create more adhesions. Unable to cope with the pain and unwilling to undergo surgery, she and her husband (co-author Larry Wurn) worked with respected physicians and scientists to develop a non-surgical treatment that has cured many complex medical conditions, including cases of female infertility.”

    I hope to try out this therapy for myself sometime this year, so will write about it when I do. But in the meantime, be SURE and download this chapter from their book (it is amazing and so worth reading!) and listen to my podcast with Larry Wurn (press the play button).

    If you can’t afford this type of therapy, or you want something you can try yourself at home first, then check out our tried and tested methods for home treatment (to relieve pain and clear blockages) and also be sure and have a look at my experimental therapy for naturally dissolving strictures.

    For a visual demonstration of exactly how strictures, adhesions and scar tissue in the abdomen form and how to loosen them manually, see my video with Mary Cox, Physical Therapist from Clear Passage:

    25 min
  • Natural Alternative for Bowel Strictures and Obstructions
    When I came across this novel therapy for non-surgical healing of intestinal strictures, bowel adhesions and bowel obstructions I could hardly believe what I was reading. After doing this podcast with one of the technique’s inventors, Larry Wurn, I am even more excited!
    As you’ll discover when you listen, this technique may also work for anal stenosis and possibly for malrotation and volvulus. I didn’t ask about it in the podcast, but I suspect it may also work for dysphagia (difficulty swallowing, tight, spasming or obstructed esophagus).
    In addition to listening to the podcast, you can also download an informative and inspirational chapter from Larry & Belinda Wurn, founders of Clear Passage Physical Therapy about their revolutionary, hands-on technique for loosening the tough collagen cross-fibers that make up strictures, scar tissue, adhesions, etc. – providing a fantastic alternative to surgery:
    “Adhesions form in all people as they heal from infection, surgery or injury. Modern medicine offers little relief, because surgery creates more adhesions. When physical therapist Belinda Wurn experienced terrible adhesion pain a year after cancer surgery, her doctors said that corrective surgery would only create more adhesions. Unable to cope with the pain and unwilling to undergo surgery, she and her husband (co-author Larry Wurn) worked with respected physicians and scientists to develop a non-surgical treatment that has cured many complex medical conditions, including cases of female infertility.”
    I hope to try out this therapy for myself sometime this year, so will write about it when I do. But in the meantime, be SURE and download this chapter from their book (it is amazing and so worth reading!) and listen to my podcast with Larry Wurn (press the play button).
    If you can’t afford this type of therapy, or you want something you can try yourself at home first, then check out our tried and tested methods for home treatment (to relieve pain and clear blockages) and also be sure and have a look at my experimental therapy for naturally dissolving strictures.
    For a visual demonstration of exactly how strictures, adhesions and scar tissue in the abdomen form and how to loosen them manually, see my video with Mary Cox, Physical Therapist from Clear Passage:
    25 min
  • All About Colon Hydrotherapy

    Did you know you can get Hepatitis C, HIV or even a mycobacterium infection (MAP) from a colonic?

    Just like a colonoscopy, if the therapist does not use a disposable tip and tube, you risk disease transmission.

    Join me in this podcast with the renowned Bianca James from the Sydney Colon Health Clinic  (she’s the one who helped Dr. Thomas J. Borody develop his fecal infusion protocol) as we discuss topics such as:

     

    –  what someone in any country needs to look for in a practitioner and how to find a qualified practitioner.

    – WHAT colon hydrotherapy is – perhaps you’re a newbie and know nothing about it and maybe even feel nervous about it.

    – size of tube, how many insertions, how long does it take, how do I feel afterwards, etc.

    – who should have it done and Bianca’s thoughts regarding frequency, etc.

    – Bianca’s opinion on raw foodists who recommend a colonic every day for a month and then once per month thereafter.

    Just click the play button below…

    My Personal Opinion on Colonics

    Note: I have to mention, that my personal opinion on colonic hydrotherapy is that it is not required or beneficial for normal, ongoing functioning. From my research and experience, I have to conclude that a good balance of healthy microorganisms in the bowel should not be messed with.

    There are certain instances where a colonic, or series of colonics can be beneficial: When you’ve been constipated for longer than 8 months, or in disease states (as Bianca discusses), colonics can be necessary for a period of time. But once the flora is balanced and healthy, I feel there are better tools to ensure digestive health and that colon hydrotherapy is too disruptive and should not be utilized on an ongoing basis.

    If you need to have regular, repeated, ongoing colon hydrotherapy or enemas in order to feel “clean” or to get your bowel functioning regularly, then you are treating the symptom, not the cause. Many ‘health gurus’ recommend daily enemas as the basis for health. However, this is a very good way to destroy the healthy bacterial flora in your bowel, damage the muscle tone of your intestinal walls and interfere long-term with peristalsis. Just use your common sense: Is there any healthy tribe of humans (no degenerative disease, tooth decay rate of less than 1%) that have been giving themselves daily enemas or colonics?

    You also need to examine the language used by those who recommend daily or weekly colonics or enemas – they will talk a lot about feeling clean and pure. This is not so much a physical phenomena as a spiritual/emotional one. Humans are teeming with bacteria. In most parts of the world we co-exist happily with parasites, viruses and fungus. Nature is not “clean”. The basis for the natural world and the natural life is mother earth – and healthy earth is filled with worms, insects, microorganisms, etc. So if you need to feel “clean” I would encourage you to look at your emotional/spiritual life – what lies have you accepted about being “dirty”? What traumas do you need to heal? Where do you need to forgive yourself? What guilt are you carrying?

    The secret to strong, ongoing bowel health is a healthy diet (that naturally nourishes, detoxifies and builds vitality), probiotics, exercise, and lots of joy and fun in your life.

    35 min
  • Guided Healing Meditation
    Each of us has a super-effective healing tool ready to go whenever we wish – it is our body’s own healing mechanism.
    You can activate this powerful healing tool by imagining or visualizing your desired healing in a Theta brainwave state.
    There’s a fascinating book called The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge MD and in it, he describes exactly why and how when you visualize or imagine something deeply, the brain (and subsequently the body) cannot tell the difference between reality and the imagined event.
    To give you one example, on page 201, Doidge tells a story about Pascual-Luone, who taught a sequence of piano notes to two groups who had never studied piano before. One group just sat in front of the electric piano keyboard and “imagined” playing the sequence and also imagined hearing the notes being played. The other group actually physically practiced the music on the piano keyboard.
    “Both groups had their brains mapped before the experiment, each day during it, and afterward. Then both groups were asked to play the sequence, and a computer measured the accuracy of their performances.
    Pascual-Leone found that both groups learned to play the sequence, and both showed similar brain map changes. Remarkably, mental practice alone produced the same physical changes in the motor system as actually playing the piece.”
    So, in this way, when we imagine or visualize a healing action or sequence – especially when we are in Theta brainwave state, the brain will action it without question or hesitation. Personally, I feel that when the “imagining” is done in deep meditative state (when the brainwaves are in Theta frequency), this will potentiate the effects/results.
    The more we visualize a particular occurrence or sequence, the brain builds neural pathways, or maps, to support that sequence – like grooves being worn deeper and deeper. This continues until it gets to the point where a habit is formed, or you will automatically do that thing without thinking.
    We have a number of different guided healings available in our Shoppe, but I also wanted to give all of my readers a chance to experience this healing modality.
    In this healing meditation, I lead you through breathing and visualization techniques to bring you into deep relaxation and Theta brainwave state.
    Once you are deeply relaxed, you can then visualize or imagine whatever needs healing in your body – whether it’s pain relief, or increasing circulation, or wound healing, or combating infection, or stimulating peristalsis, etc.
    If you’re not sure how to imagine your healing, see Healing Visualizations on page 364 of Listen To Your Gut, or, listen to one of the other specific/targeted healing meditations to get some ideas.
    You can also use this meditation to implement the Dialoguing With Your Body technique on page 350 of Listen To Your Gut.
    When I stop talking and the music begins, that’s when you begin your visualizations. I also have another version of this meditation with silence, instead of music, if you prefer that. You might want to try both and see which one works best for you.
    Simply download to your iPod or mp3 player, or, you can burn it onto a CD.
    Do this healing meditation every night before you go to sleep, or perhaps during your quiet time in the daytime. Do it often, until the neural pathways have been reinforced to the point where you see the change in your physical body.
    An added bonus will be the deep physical relaxation your whole body will receive by relaxing into deep meditative state every day.
    Enjoy!
    p.s. Do not play this meditation whilst driving, or doing anything other than lying down.
    Meditation: (c) 2010 Jini Patel Thompson. All Rights Reserved.
    Original music: Cloud Wings (c) 2004 Steve Martin, All Rights Reserved.
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    39 min
  • Work As A Spiritual Path

    A January 2010 survey reported on CBS News found that only 45% of Americans liked their job. This means that 55% are not satisfied with, or dislike their job! This is a very high figure – why do so many people stay in jobs they hate?

    Freelance journalist Cosmo Dookelo has an answer for this:

    “In today’s regimented office environments, in any building type, security is paramount. In return for half a paycheck every other Friday, they are loyal to jobs they hate, and they come home to pour themselves into projects like model railroading, hang gliding, etc. at hobbies they love, all the time having to quell the voice in their heads that they OUGHT to be doing what they LOVE. They OUGHT To be experiencing God’s Favour. They OUGHT to do it whether they are paid or not.

    But instead they work to fulfill some other person’s goals, or to prop up another person’s ego all the while despising themselves for doing so. This makes the minutes tick by like HOURS. They had a vision when they were 10 years old that they would be an ATTRACTION and would do something IMPORTANT… and instead, because they seek the total security with (of) their resources, they repel people. They repel increase… they repel the good life and their lives become pleas for more poverty and want. You don’t solve this problem by chasing money.

    Americans hate their jobs because they hate themselves. They hate themselves because they are too cowardly to strike out and go hungry for a week, a month, finding the work that Needs Them, and that They Need. They are trapped in communities of negativity who simply tolerate them. Because of this, any new idea brewing might be stillborn it in someone’s mind.

    It rots there.”

    But can your business or your job be part of your spiritual journey? Can it actually be a healing process? Find out as I interview Mark Silver – a Sufi Master and Business Consultant.

    Also find out what it takes to transition from a job to self-employed.

    Find out what helps you deal with fear and anxiety over financial security. Just click the PLAY button on the podcast below…

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    Jini Patel Thompson’s books on natural healing for digestive diseases have sold in over 40 different countries. Her health articles have been published in journals and magazines in the U.S., Australia and U.K. www.ListenToYourGut.com

    20 min
  • Work As A Spiritual Path
    A January 2010 survey reported on CBS News found that only 45% of Americans liked their job. This means that 55% are not satisfied with, or dislike their job! This is a very high figure – why do so many people stay in jobs they hate?
    Freelance journalist Cosmo Dookelo has an answer for this:
    “In today’s regimented office environments, in any building type, security is paramount. In return for half a paycheck every other Friday, they are loyal to jobs they hate, and they come home to pour themselves into projects like model railroading, hang gliding, etc. at hobbies they love, all the time having to quell the voice in their heads that they OUGHT to be doing what they LOVE. They OUGHT To be experiencing God’s Favour. They OUGHT to do it whether they are paid or not.
    But instead they work to fulfill some other person’s goals, or to prop up another person’s ego all the while despising themselves for doing so. This makes the minutes tick by like HOURS. They had a vision when they were 10 years old that they would be an ATTRACTION and would do something IMPORTANT… and instead, because they seek the total security with (of) their resources, they repel people. They repel increase… they repel the good life and their lives become pleas for more poverty and want. You don’t solve this problem by chasing money.
    Americans hate their jobs because they hate themselves. They hate themselves because they are too cowardly to strike out and go hungry for a week, a month, finding the work that Needs Them, and that They Need. They are trapped in communities of negativity who simply tolerate them. Because of this, any new idea brewing might be stillborn it in someone’s mind.
    It rots there.”
    But can your business or your job be part of your spiritual journey? Can it actually be a healing process? Find out as I interview Mark Silver – a Sufi Master and Business Consultant.
    Also find out what it takes to transition from a job to self-employed.
    Find out what helps you deal with fear and anxiety over financial security. Just click the PLAY button on the podcast below…
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    Jini Patel Thompson’s books on natural healing for digestive diseases have sold in over 40 different countries. Her health articles have been published in journals and magazines in the U.S., Australia and U.K. www.ListenToYourGut.com
    20 min
  • Two Different Types of Constipation
    Before looking at treatments for constipation, it is important to first identify which kind of constipation you have. Through the course of my research, consultations with clients, feedback from readers, and my own struggle with constipation, I have come to identify two different types of constipation. Since I have not come across any labels for these in the medical literature (or perhaps I just didn’t read widely enough), I have made up my own labels to distinguish between these two different types of constipation. I call them peristaltic constipation and stenosis constipation. Of course, while most people seem to suffer from one or the other, there are people who suffer from a combination of the two.
    1. Peristaltic Constipation
    This type of constipation can consist of many different symptoms or factors, but the defining elements are as follows:
    * You just don’t often (or rarely, never) feel the urge to have a bowel movement. You can have stool building up in your colon for days, but no urge or urgency to poo.
    * If you’ve been constipated for a long time, this build up of stool may not even be uncomfortable anymore.
    * When you do have a bowel movement, your stool is large and fairly wide. Even if it is in hard balls, the diameter is larger than half an inch.
    Colonic massage can really help get your bowels moving and assist your body’s peristaltic mechanism.
    2. Stenosis Constipation
    I came up with the name for this one based on the medical label of anal stenosis (narrowing, tightness or stricture of the anal canal). Stenosis constipation means that you experience one or more of the scenarios below:
    * You often feel the urge to defecate. In some cases, the urge can be frequent or continual. You may even feel the stool pushing against your anus, but when you try to poo, it is very difficult to pass stool and sometimes, or often, nothing comes out. When you do manage to poo, your stool can be any width, length or consistency.
    * If you’ve had this type of constipation for a long time, then your urge to defecate may have greatly lessened, if not disappeared (remember the bowel is easily trained). However, passing stool is still extremely difficult and your anus/rectum can spasm and be very tight or narrow.
    * When you manage to pass stool, the stool can be very thin, sometimes only the width of a flattened pencil. You strain and push mightily and it may feel like you’re passing a huge stool, but when you look in the toilet there’s only a very narrow or small amount of stool. Stools can be soft, hard, balls, or cylinders, but rarely larger than 1/4 inch – 1/3 inch in diameter and the maximum diameter is not usually more than1/2 inch.
    Listen to my podcast for even more insights and a simple remedy:
     
    *Note: You can listen live, or download to your MP3 player
    13 min
  • Natural Remedies for High Blood Pressure

    Before you take any medication for high blood pressure, you have to listen to this podcast! We will also explain how blood pressure works and therefore how the parameters for “high” and “low” blood pressure are determined.

    And if you are currently on medication, Dr. Silvio Najt (board certified cardiologist, with a specialization in emergency medicine) gives you easily-implemented advice for how to stop taking it and lower your blood pressure naturally.

    * Please keep in mind that English is Dr. Najt’s second language – although he did live and practice medicine for several years in the U.S.

    Just click the play button below to get all the details…

    Or, if you have an iPod or mp3 player, you can subscribe to my podcast show on iTunes. Then you will automatically get new episodes downloaded straight to your iPod.

    32 min
  • All About Elemental Diets

    This is a great podcast with me (Jini Patel Thompson) and my assistant, Nicole Paull, called All About Elemental Diets. This is from our LTYG Wellness Circle, but we decided to make it available to everyone since we get these questions all the time.

    We discuss the most common questions, difficulties, tips and tricks for people wanting to go on an elemental diet.

    What are the viable alternatives to an elemental diet? For people who don’t have the money, or the time, or the willpower to do an exclusively elemental diet. We even tell you who should not go on an elemental diet!

    Nicole and I have been answering questions on the forum and doing private consults with people on The IBD Remission Diet for years (in addition to having both personally been on the Diet) – so we pull from a huge pool of experience with hundreds of different people.

    This is definitely information and insight you won’t find anywhere else – by the end you’ll likely know more about bowel rest diets than your GI! Just click below to download both the mp3 audio recording of the podcast and the written transcript.

    Right-click here to DOWNLOAD THE AUDIO MP3 RECORDING

    Right-click here to DOWNLOAD THE WRITTEN TRANSCRIPT

    Or, see my other blog post for a quick overview of how an elemental diet is used in place of steroids to induce remission in Crohn’s, colitis, or diverticulitis.

    Soar higher,

    Jini

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  • The Best Alternative Treatments For Cancer

    If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with cancer, where do you start? What are the alternative therapies with the highest success rates?

    In this podcast, Jim Ehmke – who has trained directly with Dr. William Donald Kelley and is fluent in Dr. Simoncini’s protocols, among many others – gives us the benefit of his 30+ years of using alternative treatment protocols with cancer clients.

    Learn the multi-pronged approach necessary when treating any form of cancer and if you don’t have cancer, then begin using these tools now as a preventative.

    Just click the play button below to get all the details…

    53 min

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