Health

Pike’s Peak: Promises, Promises

Here are a few photos from my hike up the Barr Trail to Barr Camp, which is 6.5 miles and 3,800 vertical feet, or a little better than half the way to Pike’s Peak summit. I just got back to the motor home about an hour ago. I’d had the night’s reservation for Barr Camp [...]

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Thoughts on aging

by Chris Palmer

I associate aging with deterioration, disease, and suffering. Loss of mental and physical agility is inevitable. The indignities of old age harass the elderly relentlessly. Moreover, old age is accompanied by a growing physical repulsiveness. Our physical features and bodies become repellent in various ways, exacerbated by frailty, despair, and pain. Chronic, debilitating illnesses force [...]

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Some Bugs I’ve Met Along The Way

by John W Strobel III

Or How To Make Friends With Methicillan Resistant Staphylococcus Auerus (MRSA) I bounced from one side of the hard ambulance gurney to the other as the sleek red and white van raced for Palmdale Regional Medical Center, siren and horn blasting traffic out of the way. I looked back and there behind us was the [...]

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Kangaroo Cuddle

by Valli Keller

What can kangaroos teach us about neonatal care? David and Kate Ogg found out when their baby, Jamie, was born barely clinging to life at 26 weeks and was declared dead shortly after birth. Well, Jamie is very much alive, thanks to some very good instincts on Kate’s part. It’s called the Kangaroo Cuddle and [...]

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Poison Control

by John W Strobel III

It had to be the year 1943. In those days, a fellow had to be twelve years old to be a Boy Scout. So when I turned twelve, I joined Ventura County Boy Scout Troop 102. In 1943 I was a “Tenderfoot”, the lowest classification in the organization, but I had just joined so that’s [...]

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The skin gun – just days from hurt to healed

by National Geographic

In the video below from National Geographic, stem cells taken from the burn victim’s own body are placed in solution and sprayed onto the burned area. Serious burns are completely healed in just days! Please share this story!

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Claim the Power, Not the Guilt

by Emily L Butler

I’d like to take a moment to offer some sympathy and relief to anyone who has ever been made to feel guilty about their health problems due to a certain New Age “this is your fault” mentality. Eek! My question is: do we really have to take the “blame” for our problems in order to [...]

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Just a Spoonful of Sugar: The Placebo Effect

by Christine Ranck

Mary Poppins, Nanny Extraordinaire, quickly had her young charges believing that cleaning their room could be magical and fun. In essence, she gave them the placebo effect! Any “sugar” treatment that we believe to be real medicine is called a placebo. Throughout human history, lots and lots of people have been cured of serious illnesses [...]

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eLegs give victims of spinal cord injury independence

by Brooke Leigh Sheldon

18 years ago Amanda Boxtel partially severed her spinal cord in a skiing accident, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Since then she has lived her iife confined to a wheelchair, until today. Amanda is about to stand up. More amazingly Amanda is about to walk, for the first time since her accident. She [...]

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An Introduction to Qigong

by Elizabeth Wescott

Quite naturally, people often ask me to describe what it is I do when doing healing work, or to describe Qigong healing. Unless I know the person well, or have a grasp of their paradigm of reality I am hard pressed to describe this incredible art. If I had a better understanding of Quantum Physics [...]

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