5 Levels of Healing

The miracle of the inner movement called “healing”

According to Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, Ph.D., “Healing is the greatest of all joys.” True healing requires simultaneous work on all five levels – Level one, the physical body; Level two, electromagnetic body; Level three, the mental body; Level four, the dream body; and Level five, the spirit body.

Dr. Klinghardt’s vertical healing system gives us an understanding of holistic medicine. .. “a road map that makes it easier to navigate the sometimes chaotic landscape of healing techniques.”

Romp in the Mud

Ease up on Antibacterial soap and get down and dirty

Peaceful Playgrounds reports research from Northwestern University suggesting that children be allowed to get dirty playing outdoors, exposing them to common, everyday bacteria and microbes needed to build their defensive inflammatory systems. Handling everyday germs is part of our evolutionary protection system.

Hooray for sandboxes and playgrounds!

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America on Drugs

Is our health care system costing us our health?

Craig Stellpflug’s article, Misguided Trust – America on Drugs, presents a bleak picture of health care in America. Emphasis on drugs, rather than on healthy lifestyle is costly. America’s health care costs will soar to $4.1 trillion annually. We spend more for health care than any other country, yet we are only 34th in the world for infant mortality and 42nd for life expectancy.

Craig presents other startling statistics, then ends his article, encouraging us to eat quality food, exercise daily and find positive ways to focus on positive things and creative hobbies. Check out Craig on his Healing Pathways website.

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Healthy Fat Mass in Girls

May have a positive long-term impact on bone health

Newswise.com reports latest research from The Endocrine Society that,
“Fat mass in girls during puberty may have a long-term impact on bone health as they grow into adulthood... Excessive reduction in fat mass could have adverse effects on the developing skeleton particularly in girls, leading to an increased risk of osteoporosis in later life.”

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Stronger, Faster, Smarter (Video)

Physical exercise boosts brainpower for students and the elderly

Mary Carmichael’s article in Newsweek cites research showing how aerobic exercise increases Nerve Growth Factors, such as BDNF, Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor, called Miracle Gro for the brain by Dr. John Ratey in his book, SPARK, The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain.

Understand why we need Daily Physical Education in our schools, and why all people throughout life, especially the elderly need daily exercise to maintain their mental sharpness.

Kudos to scientists William Greenough, Charles Hillman, Arthur Kramer, and physical educators performing a short Genetic Expression -- BDNF movement routine, all from Illinois, involved with moving this science forward!