Awaken the Healer Within has to be, by far, the best book on energy healing that I have ever read.  Yet his book is not merely about energy healing.

The book digs to the core of the human condition–to the fact that

“All emotional trauma of the past is held in the cells of the body as a form of energy. The trauma is the creation of the diseased body. It starts with our mental perceptions and then moves into our emotional response to these perceptions, and then into our physical body.”

This is the basis of all pain and dis-ease in the body. Mark’s teachings show you how to sense this energy and how to redirect the energy for healing. This method can be used to heal yourself, others, and even your pet… whether they are in the same room or hundreds of miles away. It doesn’t matter.

Reading this book will also make you take a long, hard look at yourself to anlayze how you became who you are today through recurring conditioned reactions relating back to one or two casual moments in your life.  You have the power to alter these reactions and change your life for the better. You can become aware of and attune with the divinity within you.  Awaken the Healer Within will show you how.

Awaken the Healer Within is full of reader-friendly meditations and exercises that anybody can utilize to learn how to heal themselves and others.  There is one in particular, an exercise to relieve a headache, that was so simple that it worked for me on the first try! Another one of the exercises, “The Grounding Exercise”, I now use on a daily basis.  It is quick and simple, and really works! Included are meditations and exercises for Spiritual Focus, The Divine Self, Grounding, Conscious Awareness, Energy Stablizing, and more. All of the exercises and meditations used in the book are conveniently listed in the “Quick Reference Section” in the back of the book for easy access during the learning process.

I have already read the book twice, finding helpful information on the second read that I somehow missed the first time around.  Why not get a copy and take a look for yourself? I’ll bet you be glad you did. I am!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mark Earlix is a nationally known teacher, healer-intuitive, author and ordained priest. Using his gift of healing he has helped or taught thousands of people over the past 40 years how to transform their lives.

During this time he has continued to study and was initiated into two Gnostic schools. He says his gift of healing is available to all and he teaches or uses his unique techniques in experiential workshops, his writing. and individual appointments.

Mark has appeared on numerous TV and radio stations across the country and has been on the Board of Directors for the Mind, Body, and Spirit Foundation. He has presented nationally at such organizations as Whole Life Expo, Association for Research and Enlightenment, Mind Body Spirit Conference, Unity Churches, The Himalayan Institute, Whole Health Expos, R.C.P. Relapse Prevention Center, B’nai B’rith, Infinity Foundation, Borders Books, and Barnes and Noble.

Mark currently resides in Nashville, TN. He teaches his healing techniques thru his Apprenticeship Program. Mark continues to see clients in the Nashville area at the Center of Symmetry and also works with people in phone sessions.

Mark has published Awaken the Healer Within (a guide to self-awareness and spiritual healing empowerment) and Take My Life (Uncommon Guidance for Everyday Life). His first book, Creator, The Revelation of Healing Yourself and Others is no longer in print. Mark also has two meditations CD’s produced in alliance with Nightingale Conant and three spiritual exercise CD’s. He is finishing his third book Intuition that should be published in 2012.

VISIT MARK EARLIX’S WEBSITE

ABOUT THE BOOK

HEALING IS A GIFT AVAILABLE TO ALL

Put The Power of Healing To Work In Your Life And Change The Way You Feel And Live. In This Book You Will:

• Learn about the mind of disease
• Discover how healing can be broken down into simple laws of application
• Learn to apply healing for physical and emotional well being of yourself and others

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: PREPARATION

CHAPTER 2: THE BEGININING

CHAPTER 3: IT’S ALL WITHIN SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT

CHAPTER 4: SPIRITUAL PHILOSOPHY

Part I: Everything is Energy
Part II: Synchronicity The Law of Cause and Effect
Part III: Understanding Self Seeing and Believing
Part IV: Free Choice or Mass Mind Which Do You Listen To?
Part V: Hearing Self Speak

CHAPTER 5: MEDITATION AND DIRECTED MEDITATION

Part I: Meditation
Part II: The Breath During Meditation
Part III: Body Position During Meditation
Part IV: Music or Silence
Part V: The Experience of Meditation
Part VI: A Focusing Exercise
Part VII: Directed Meditations
Part VIII: Meditating for Answers
Part IX: After Your Meditation
Part X: The Retrospective Exercise
Part XI: Frequently Asked Questions About Meditation

CHAPTER 6: INTUITION, AWARENESS AND KNOWING

Part I: Developing Conscious Awareness
Part II: Awereness is Your Tool
Part III: Conscious Prayer
Part IV: Everything Happens for Our Purpose

CHAPTER 7: UNDERSTANDING HEALING

Part I: Introduction to Healing
Part II: The Law and The Truth in Action
Part III: Genetic Code, An Important Concept
Part IV: How Emotional, Psysiological Patterns Become Established in Us
Part V: Realize Your Place in Healing
Part VI: Using Your Many Senses With The Energetics of Light

CHAPTER 8: GETTING READY TO HEAL

Part I: The Focus in Healing
Part II: How To Focus Your Thinking for Healing
Part III: What Are The Mophic Fields and Auras? What Do They “Look” Like?
Part IV: Disease Body and How It Looks
Part V: Using Scanning for Healing
Part VI: Scanning and Time Lines
Part VII: Healing Happens as You Scan
Part VIII: Frequently Asked Questions About Scanning and Healing

CHAPTER 9: TRUST & LOVE

Part I: Fear No More
Part II: Down Time is Given to Us

QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO CREATOR MEDITATIONS
QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO CREATOR EXERCISES

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Thank goodness we have educated doctors to treat us when we have cancer, cataract, and health problems that we can’t take care of alone!

Doctors are good at blood tests, surgery, and prescription medicines.

They aren’t so good at telling you how to avoid getting cancer or cataracts in the first place. And they often don’t take the time to help you improve your arthritis and allergies at home.

You’re wasting your time and money when you go to see your doctor when you don’t need to. You’re wasting your money and your time when your doctor isn’t able to figure out why your head or your back or your stomach hurts all the time.

When you don’t want to be prescribed another pill and you don’t need surgery, count on this book to tell you what your doctor won’t–like how to prevent hearing loss or get a better night’s sleep.

You’ll find out how you may be able to cut your breast cancer risk by changing the way you wear your bra. You’ll discover vitamins to help calm your stress and anxiety and home remedies to get rid of hay-fever sniffles.

You’ll find spicy, natural sinus relievers and tips to get rid of fatigue. You’ll discover how to supercharge your memory, how to cure a headache, and how to treat an ankle sprain or a painful elbow.

And that’s just the beginning….  (-From the Introduction)

The title of this book, “Inner Cleansing Cures”, is a bit deceiving. This book is not merely about cleansing, but covers how to self-heal multitude of different ailments. If the condition is something that should be treated medically by a professional, the book explains this and often several options from which to choose along with tips to help the treatment go smoothly and aid in quick recovery. If the condition is something that cannot be treated or reversed, you will find tips to help make the situation more comfortable.

I really like this book and keep a copy in my personal library, and have also used it for several of the articles written for this website. The information explained in this book agrees with everything I learned about natural health through my studies at Clayton College, and brings forth the information in easy to access and easy to use format. I keep this book for precisely that reason… the alphabetical index of ailments makes it the information so efficiently accessible that this book is one of the first I reach for whenever I have a question about a specific condition. The information is also very user friendly, so that any person wanting to self-treat at home could easily do so.  The book also contains many small changes that can be easily made to cause dramatic improvements to one’s health–things that are often overlooked by medical professionals.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acne
Altitude Sickness
Alzheimer’s Disease
Angina
Ankle Sprain
Arthritis
Asthma
Athlete’s Foot
Back Pain
Bad Breath
Bladder Infection
Blisters and Calluses
Blood Clots
Blood Pressure
Body Odor
Breast Cancer
Bunions
Bursitis
Caffeine Dependence
Cancer of the Esophagus
Canker Sores and Fever Blisters
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Wrist Pain
Cataracts
Chapped Lips
Cholesterol
Chronic Pain
Colds
Colon Cancer
Constipation
Coughing
Cuts, Burns and Scrapes
Dandruff
Depression
Diabetes
Diaper Rash
Diarrhea
Diverticulitis
Dizziness
Drowning
Dry Eyes
Dry Mouth
Dry, Irritated Skin
Earaches and Earwax
Enlarged Prostate
Falling Accidents
Fatigue
Fever
Food Allergies
Food Poisoning
Forgetfulness and Poor Concentration
Frostbite
Gas
Hair Loss
Hangover
Hay Fever
Headaches
Hearing Loss
Heart Disease
Heartburn
Heat Exhaustion and Heatstroke
Heel Spurs
Hemorrhoids
Hiccups
Hypoglylcemia
Immune System Breakdown
Impotence
Incontinence
Infertility
Ingrown Nails, Fungus Nails, Brittle Nails
Insomnia
Irregular Heartbeat
Knee Pain
Lactose Intolerance
Leg Cramps and Leg Pain
Lice
Loss of Sexual Desire
Lung Cancer
Menopause Symptoms
Migraines
Morning Sickness
Neck Pain
Nosebleeds
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Ovarian and Cervical Cancers
Panic Attacks
Poison Ivy and Poison Oak
Potbelly
Premenstrual Syndrome
Prostate Cancer
Psoriasis
Raynaud’s Syndrome
Shingles
Shinsplints
Shoulder Pain
Sinusitis
Skin Cancer
Smell and Taste Loss
Snakebites
Snoring
Sore Throat
Stomach Cancer
Stomach Upsets
Stress
Stroke
Stuttering
TMJ
Tooth Decay and Knocked-Out Teeth
Ulcers
Vision Loss
Weight Problems
Yeast Infections

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Jude’s Herbal Home Remedies

Discover how cayenne pepper promotes hair growth, why cranberry juice is a good treatment for asthma attacks, how to make a potent juice to flush out fat, how to make your own deodorants and perfumes, what herbs will get fleas off your pet, how to keep cut flowers fresh longer… the remedies go on and on!

Grab this book and a cup of chamomile tea, and discover from a Master Herbalist more than 800 remedies that will help you build a balanced relationship with nature and your inner self.

(From the Back Cover)

Grandmother’s Wisdom Returns

The stress and strain of daily life leaves us all vulnerable to “dis-ease” in any of its many manifestations.  So we run to the pharmacy counter for a quick fix of antacids, antihistamines, laxatives. We reach for the coffee pot to give us energy, for a glass of wine to calm us down. Much of what we consider “healing” only stresses our bodies further in the long run, while adding a strain on our pocketbooks.

Why complicate life more when there are hundreds of simple solutions–natural, time-tested solutions that cost a mere fraction of over-the-counter remedies? What worked for great-grandpa can work for you today. got a stomachache? Try brown sugar or a raw carrot.  A stuffy nose? Try garlic, apple cider vinegar, or pack your feet in ice cubes. Relax with a cup of lettuce tea, relieve menstrual cramps with red raspberry juice, ease sore muscles with buttermilk, banish dandruff with parsley. These home remedies may sound crazy but they work!

Jude’s Herbal Home Remedies gives you more than you could ever imagine.  Along with remedies to make you feel better, you’ll find recipes for quick maple syrup, chickweed pancakes, corn coffee from the Iroquois, and much more.  You’ll find easy home-care hints that include a natural ant repellent that won’t harm pets and an amazing way to clean wallpaper with white bread. There are even intriguing activities for children.  Snowed in? Make homemade finger-paints and keep them occupied for hours.

There is beauty and majesty in natural simplicity, and there are more than 800 ways to simplify your life. Many of the ingredients required already await in your own kitchen cabinet! Others can be found in your supermarket, local health food store, or thorugh mail order companies listed in the back of the book.

This is one book that won’t collect dust on the shelf.  In fact, there’s probably a remedy in here that you’ll want to try right now!

(From Inside Cover)

This Book Can Show You How To:

• Create an herbal love bath
• Get rid of your cold quickly
• Give your skin an herbal rejeuvenation
• Calm your nerves & get rid of headaches
• Make your own flavored coffees
• Treat insect bites and stings
• Bring your blood pressure down naturally
• Make a tonic for your pet
• Use natural insect repellents
• Make your own furniture polish
• Treat arthritis naturally
• And much, much more!

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

General Principles of Herbs
Beauty Preparations
Hair Care
Skin Care
Colds and Chest Compounds
Tonics and Digestion
Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat Complaints
Headaches and Sedatives
Diuretics and Bowel Complaints
Blood Disorders, Wounds, and Arthritis
Preparations of Salves, Tinctures, Syrups and Capsules
Pet Care and Garden Tips
Household and Family Tips
Harvesting the Herbs and Preparing Your Own Herbal Medicine Chest
Common and Scientific Names of Herbs
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

This book was required reading for my “Home Remedies and Simples” course at Clayton College. It is wonderful reference, and I keep a copy in my personal library. The book is a very easy read and totally amazed me with the number of home remedies it contained.  Many times were were several different remedies to try for the same ailment!  I also really liked the fact that many of the remedies could be made with items I already had in my pantry.  I must admit, I was a bit skeptical about the “Lettuce Tea” being a natural sedative, but it actually did work!  The book can be listed as by Jude C. Williams or Jude C. Todd, both are the same author.

The following is a list of some of the articles for which I used this book as a reference:

Heal That Throat With Homemade Herbal Lozenges!

How to Dry and Store Herbs – It’s Quick, Easy, and Inexpensive!

Make it Fresh! How to Make Dandelion Tea and Cook Dandelion Greens

Self-Healing With Common Household Items

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JUDE’S HERBAL HOME REMEDIES: NATURAL HEALTH, BEAUTY & HOME-CARE SECRETS by Jude C. Williams, Master Herbalist. First Edition. Fifth Printing, 1995. ISBN# 087542869X. Paperback, 297 pages. List Price: $12.95 US, $18.50 CAN.

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• Gather, dry, store and blend 25 common herbs
• Make and use teas, tinctures, oils, salves, syrups and lozenges
• Build your own herbal medicine cabinet

Joyce A. Wardwell has studied herbal medicine and wild edibles for over 20 years.  She is the editor and publisher of Herbal Voices, a member of the American Herbalists Guild, and Northeast Herb Association, and director of 7th Direction, a non-profit, sustainable lifestyle organization.  She lives in Michigan.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: THE HEART OF HERBALISM: KNOWING THE HERBS

Chapter 1: Getting to Know the Plants
Chapter 2: Selecting Quality Ingredients and Equipment
Chapter 3: Making a Simple Cup of Tea

PART II: THE BODY OF HERBALISM: PREPARING THE HERBS

Chapter 4: Potent Potables: Making Herbal Tinctures
Chapter 5: Practical Pampering: Making Herb Oils and Salves
Chapter 6: Homespun Alchemy: Making Medicinal Wines and Vinegars
Chapter 7: Bittersweets: Making Syrups and Lozenges

PART III: THE MIND OF HERBALISM: USING THE HERBS

Chapter 8: Stocking the Medicine Chest
Chapter 9: Making Herbal Blends
Chapter 10: Symptoms and Remedies: An A-Z Guide

This book was required reading for my “Home Remedies and Simples” course at Clayton College.  It is wonderful reference, and I keep a copy in my personal library.  The book is a very easy read and will quickly have you making your own tinctures, teas, tonics, syrups… and even herbal vinegars and wines!

I used this book as reference for these articles:

Herbal Blends: Why to Take & How to Make

Homemade Herbal Syrup in Six Easy Steps

Heal That Throat With Homemade Herbal Lozenges!

Make Your Own Tinctures in Eight Easy Steps!

How to Dry and Store Herbs – It’s Quick, Easy, and Inexpensive!

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THE HERBAL HOME REMEDY BOOK: SIMPLE RECIPES FOR TINCTURES, TEAS, SALVES, TONICS AND SYRUPS by Joyce A. Wardwell . Paperback: 176 pages. Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC; 1 edition (January 3, 1998).Language: English. ISBN-10: 1580170161. ISBN-13: 978-1580170161.Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches. List Price $14.95 US.

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From time immemorial man has relied on plants to treat sicknesses and sooth aches and pains. The same herbs, trees, and shrubs employed by ancient peoples have continued to be valued through the ages–by Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, by apothecaries an physicians in the Middle Ages and later, by the settlers who came to North America, by the Indians who met them here, and even by our own grandparents. Many of these plants are still used today; nearly half of all medicines currently prescribed are derived from members of the plant kingdom.

Over the ages, many magical and mystical powers were ascribed to such plants. Occasionally these beliefs were mere superstitions; more commonly they were based on keen observation. For although people knew that certain plants had indisputable healing powers, they could not explain how the plants’ medicinal powers worked, and so attributed them to supernatural forces. Today we understand many of the underlying chemical and physical principles that account for the medicinal properties of plants. Yet plants still do possess a magical quality–their beauty and the astonishing variety of their forms. This book is your guide to the wonderful world of magical, medicinal plants. -The Editors

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PLANTS IN MYTH AND MAGIC

ABC’S OF PLANTS

• Finding Plants in the Wild
• Making Your Own Herbarium
• The Anatomy of Plants
• Nature’s Chemical Industry
• About Plant Names

PLANTS, PEOPLE AND MEDICINE

GALLERY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS

POISONOUS PLANTS

GROWING AND USING HERBS

• Growing Herbs
• Cooking With Herbs
• Herb Crafts
• Herbs for Beauty
• Herbs for Health

I love this book–it is a wonderful resource for plant identification and use!  I keep a copy in my personal library.  The “Gallery of Medicinal Plants” contains color photographs and paintings of over 200 American herbs.  The paintings point out the different plant details (stem, root, leaf, etc.) to help you identify the plant in the wild.  There is also a full color photo of each plant in its natural habitat and a description of where it is found, how it grows, and what type of environment it grows in.  The book also tells how the plant was used by the ancients–along with its magic and myths, as well as how it is being used or studied medicinally today.

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MAGIC AND MEDICINE OF PLANTS by The Editors of Reader’s Digest. Hardcover: 464 pages. Publisher: Reader’s Digest; 4th Printing April 1990 edition (1990). ISBN-10: 0895772213. ISBN-13: 978-0895772213. Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches.

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OUTDOOR SURVIVAL is your guide to:

• All-Terrain gear for single- and multi-day excursions
• Finding shelter, water and food in the wild
• Navigating with maps, compass and the night skies
• Communication and rescue
• First aid and handling medical emergencies

About the Author:

Garth Hattingh has been involved in outdoor and adventure activities for over 30 years.  His experience ranges from rock climbing and hiking to mountain rescue and outdoor survival training.  He has completed advanced leadership courses in the UK and has run survival courses in mountainous areas.  Garth has climbed extensively in Europe, and in North and South America.  Trips undertaken through truly wild and remote areas on the African continent include excursions to Sourth Africa, Botswana, Nambihia, and Mozambique.  Other books written by Garth include Rock & Wall Climbing in the Essential Guide series, and the Climber’s Handbook, both published by Stackpole Books.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

THE ART OF SURVIVAL: The essentials for survival–learn to avoid disasters through physical preparedness, the honing of outdoor skills, careful planning and seeking the advice of the experts.

GET THE GEAR: A guide to tailoring personal and group kit for single and multi-day excrusions as well as all types of terrain, how to select useful tools, and putting together a survival kit.

MAKING A MOVE: How to decide whether to move or stay put.  Learn ways of crossing difficult terrain–carrying loads and traversing major obstacles.  Navigate with maps, compass, and stars.

COMMUNICATIONS AND RESCUE: Guidelines for signaling postential rescuers–from whistles, mirrors and fire to modern electronic devices.  Marking your territory for rescuers, tips for facilitating helicopter and sea rescues.

SURVIVAL PRIORITIES: Improvisation is essential: identify clothing potential, where to find shelter, water and food. Advice on trapping and snaring, building protective structures, purifying water, and preparing food.

FIRST AID: Outlined here are the ABC principles, CPR, patient stabilization, treatment for hot- and cold- related conditions, and dealing with bites and stings.  Also, recommendations for a first-aid kit.

SURVIVAL DISASTERS: Ways of coping with unavoidable natural disasters–sinking craft, raging waters, avalanches, fire and lightning, hurricanes and tornadoes.  Make good use of an action checklist.

This book is a wonderful reference and I keep a copy in my personal library.  I really like it because it contains full-color photographs and step-by-step techniques. It covers all of the necessary basics: foraging for survival food and water, knot tying, shelter, communications, finding your way without a compass, basic first aid, and much more. Also in the back of the book is a handy communications reference chart showing Morse code, Ground-to-air code, body signals, and the international whistle/light signal.

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OUTDOOR SURVIVAL: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO EQUIPMENT AND TECHNIQUES by Garth Hattingh. Paperback: 96 pages. Publisher: Stackpole Books; 1 edition (February 1, 2003). Language: English. ISBN-10: 0811726932. ISBN-13: 978-0811726931. Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 7.6 x 0.3 inches. List price $16.95 US.

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This book was created, written, and checked by home gardening experts and includes:

• Growing Guide: Complete Growing Instructions For 155 Herbs
• Garden Design: Tips and Techniques for Designing Herb Gardens
• How to Use Herbs: Projects Using Herbs for Cooking, Health, and Fragrance

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Living With Herbs

• Plant Types
• Plant Parts
• Common Herbs and Their Uses

Growing and Preserving

• Preparing Soil
• Getting Started
• Care
• Pruning
• Propagation
• Growing Herbs Indoors
• Harvesting and Preserving Herbs

Desiging With Herbs

• Formal Gardens
• Informal Gardens
• Theme Gardens
• Container Gardening
• Ornamental Herbs

Using Herbs in the Kitchen

Using Herbs for Health and Beauty

Making Herbal Remedies

• Choosing Herbs for common Ailments
• Facial Care
• Body Care

Using Herbs For Fragrance

• Using Fragrant Herbs

Choosing Herbs

• Herb Selection Guide

I really like this book, and keep a copy in my personal library.  There are many sharp, full color photos and examples on almost every page, and color photos for each herb which really helps with herb identification.  The photos of the garden plans are beautiful, providing inspiration for planting at home.  The book also contains some very cool herbal cooking recipes, such as Italian Herb Blend, Thai Herb Blend, Herb Blend for Soup, and also recipes for Herb Vinegars, Herb Cheeses, Herb Mustards, Herb Jellies, Herb Cordials, and Herb Teas and Drinks.  The medicinal herb section is a great start for the budding herbalist.

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ORTHO’S ALL ABOUT HERBS by Maggie Oster. Paperback: 96 pages.Publisher: Ortho; 1st edition (January 15, 1999). Language: English. ISBN-10: 089721420X. ISBN-13: 978-0897214209. Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.4 inches.

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In its first edition nearly 20 years ago, Dr. Linda Pages’s book, Healthy Healing, was the only one of its kind. Now updated and expanded, Healthy Healing is still the easiest to use bestselling natural health reference book on the market.

Customize your own personal healing program using natural therapies for more than 300 ailments through diet, while herb supplements, and exercise.

• NEW! Product rating system revealing which products the test group found to be the most beneficial, fastest-acting, and most highly recommended.
• Over 80 NEW pages of the latest research including emerging ailments such as SARS, Syndrome X, and Stress-Related Weight Gain.
• NEW! Specific guidelines for using herbal therapy before and after surgery to ensure maximum healing.
• NEW! Information on Genetically Engineered Foods, and Drug-Herb-Nutrient Interactions.

This book will help you LOOK BETTER, FEEL BETTER AND LIVE LONGER, NATURALLY!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Your Health Care Options Today
-The Pros and Cons of Orthodox and Alternative Medicine
-The Dramatic Rise of Iatrogenic (Doctor-Caused) Disease
-Alternative Healing Systems Today & How to Use Them

Holistic Recovery from Surgery or Illness
-Normalizing after Chemotherapy and Radiation
-Best Healing Results for Minimal Scarring after Cosmetic Surgery
-Herb Interactions with Drugs Used During Surgery

Herbal Healing
-Your Herbal Medicine Choices for Today

Foods for Your Healing Diet
-Food and Diet Choices to Help Your Healing Process
-The Case for Eating Organically Grown Foods
-About Genetically Engineered Foods

A Special Guide to Detoxification and Body Cleansing
-Understanding Detoxification
-Bodywork Techniques for Detoxification

Lifestyle Healing Programs for People with Special Needs
-Having a Healthy Baby and a Healthy Pregnancy
-Alternative Health and Healing Choices for Children
-Anti-Aging: Optimum Health in the Golden Years
-Optimizing Exercise, Sports Performance, and Fitness
-Alternative Medicines and Healing Treatments for Pets

Ailments and Health Conditions: Almost 400 Ailments, Health Conditions, and Healing Programs Considered
-Almost 400 Ailments, Health Conditions, and Healing Programs Considered

Look It Up! in the Alternative Health Care Arsenal
-All You Need to Know About the Help You Need to Get
-Resource Listing
-Bibliography
-Expanded Index and Cross-Referencing

This book was required reading for one of my classes at Clayton College, and I keep a copy in my personal library.  It is full of useful information that is often difficult to find elsewhere.  The section on detox and body cleansing was especially helpful–the book goes into great detail concerning the different systems of the body, explaining symptoms of toxicity and how to detoxify each system.  The book also contains a huge index (spanning almost half of the entire book) that lists over 400 common ailments, their symptoms, possible causes,and what to do to eliminate the problem via diet and lifestyle support therapy & herbal, superfood, and supplement therapy. I often use this index to help myself, family and friends heal naturally.

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HEALTHY HEALING: A GUIDE TO SELF-HEALING FOR EVERYONE by Linda Page, Ph.D. Healthy Healing Inc.; 12th edition (June 2004).10.6 x 8.3 x 1.5 inches.  Paperback; 664 pages. ISBN# 188433492X. List Price $32.95.

The copy for sale in the LuminEarth.com Product Shop is a used paperback in good condition. The cover is moderately worn with some light creasing. The binding is tight and the text is clean with no underlining or hilighting of text. The pages are crisp and clean, no bent pages.

(This book is also available on Amazon.com. Click here to view this book on Amazon.com)

When using as a detox tea, I make a gallon of dandelion leaf tea, refrigerate, and sip on it throughout the day, sweetening it a bit with liquid stevia.

Precautions:

Dandelion tea may irritate the stomach lining in some individuals. It increases the amount of bile produced. People that have gallstones or gallbladder ailments should not drink dandelion tea. Occasionally, individuals who are allergic to plants in the daisy family may experience skin irritation when handling leaves or extract.

Individuals who are diabetic should carefully monitor their blood sugar  levels when drinking dandelion tea. The tea also counteracts the effects of antacids and drugs that reduce acid production in the stomach.

-Kathleen Roberts, LoveToKnow Herbs

For  more information on this wondeful herb please visit: Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) ~ LuminEarth’s Guide to Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants

Anyhow, Thought you might like to know how I use up all of the dandelion greens in my yard.  I really like this method, because you use everything!

Here’s what I do:

• Get a large kettle, one that holds at least one gallon of water
• Gather enough dandelion greens to fill the kettle at least half full (click here to earn about how to identify and gather dandelion greens)
• Clean and rinse the dandelion leaves, returning them to the kettle
• Fill kettle with one gallon of water
• Bring to a rapid boil
• Boil for 10 minutes

At this point, you have dandelion tea!  (Technically, this is a “decoction” because you have boiled the leaves in the water.  A “tea” is made by bringing the water to a boil, turning off the heat source, and steeping the leaves.)

• Remove the dandelion leaves from the “tea”
• Save the tea, this can be consumed hot or cold.  (I like to place mine in a gallon jug and drink it as iced tea.)
• Sweeten to taste with honey, stevia, or your sweetener of choice.

Here’s how I prepare my dandelion greens:

• Get a large skillet
• Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• Add one chopped onion (plus any other yummy veggies you want!)
• Sautee onion until tender
• Add dandelion greens
• Sautee until greens are well heated
• Add freshly ground sea salt and pepper
• Add a couple dashes of Bragg’s Liquid Aminos
• Serve on top of brown rice

A few other ways to use the boiled greens:

• prepare as you would canned spinach
• add to a stir-fry after the other veggies have been cooked
• layer into lasagnae
• season the boiled greens with Bragg’s Liquid Aminos, sea salt, and fresh ground pepper, then top with a bit of shredded cheddar or parmesan cheese (another one of my favorites!!)

YUMMY!!

Click Here to Learn More About the Dandelion Plant

Click Here to Visit Our FREE Online Guide to Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants

Click Here to Visit Our FREE Online Herbal Materia Medica

References:

• Dandelion Loose Leaf Tea. (n.d.) LoveToKnow Herbs. Extracted October 10, 2011 from http://herbs.lovetoknow.com/Dandelion_Loose_Leaf_Tea

The Books We Use:

• A Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants: Eastern and central North America (Peterson Field Guide)
• Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers: When and Where to Find Them by William Hutson
• Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places by “Wildman” Steve Brill
• Jude’s Herbal Home Remedies: Natural Health, Beauty & Home Care Secrets by Jude C. Williams, M.H.
• Ortho’s All About Herbs by Maggie Oster
• Rosemary Gladstar’s Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health by Rosemary Gladstar
• Secrets of the Chinese Herbalists by Richard Lucas
• Sunset Herbs: An Illustrated Guide by The Editors of Sunset Magazine
• The Forager’s Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting and Preparing Edible Wild Plants by Samuel Thayer
• The Herbal Drugstore by Linda B. White, M.D.
• The Natural Physicians’s Healing Therapies: Proven Remedies Medical Doctors Don’t Know by Mark Stengler, ND
• The Scientific Validation of Herbal Medicine by Daniel B. Mowrey, Ph.D.
• The Way of Herbs by Michael Tierra, L.Ac., O.M.D.
• Wildflowers of the Land Between the Lakes Region, Kentucky and Tennessee

When I clicked on the link, I directed to a page that asked me to sign up for a newsletter to receive the the free downloads.

I did so, and within minutes the “Natural Tranquility” download was in my inbox, along with a welcome letter and instructions.

I downloaded it and gave it a try.  I was amazed at how it worked!! The download showed up on my iPod as being 26:16 in length.  I only remember the first few lines, then the last few coming back out of ”the trance-like state”.  The next day I felt pleasantly more relaxed than usual!  I’m going to keep working with this, and keep you updated as I go along.

According to my introductory email, I am supposed to receive the other two Natural Hypnosis albums following on each week.

I think I’m really going to like this!  I am also going to see if I can get “the inside scoop” on just how hypnosis works, how to find a good hypnotist, and the rundown on the different methods of hypnosis from some certified hypnotists in the area.  Check back soon,  I’ll keep you posted!!

Here’s the offer I recieved, in case you want to try the free downloads for yourself:

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To your success,

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The Unexplainable Store

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