Alternative Healing

Many of us spend the majority of our days indoors, trapped in our own heads, addicted to our screens and online connections, and feeling more and more disconnected to our own bodies - and the planet - than ever before. Intuitively, we know that even a five-minute walk outdoors can calm us and awaken our senses. In The Earth Prescription, holistic physician Laura Koniver, MD, offers the ideal antidote to the toxicity of a life isolated from nature-grounding, or directly touching the earth to heal your body and rejuvenate your sense of total well-being.

Millions of people around the world are healing illnesses with cannabis. Nonetheless, many physicians remain reluctant to discuss cannabis medicine with their patients. And with so much conflicting misinformation from unreliable sources, finding out if cannabis could be an effective treatment for you or a loved one can feel nearly impossible.

Why does a baby’s cry instantaneously flood a mother's body with a myriad of stress hormones? How can a song on the radio stir up powerful emotions, from joy to anger, regret to desire? Why does sound itself evoke such primal and deeply felt emotions? A vibration that travels through air, water, and solids, sound is produced by all matter, and is a fundamental part of every species' survival. But there is a hidden power within sound that has only just begun to be investigated. It is time to transform your world through listening.

Before discovering native healing methods, Herb Nabigon could not imagine a life without alcohol. His powerful autobiography, The Hollow Tree, tells the story of his struggle to overcome addiction with the help of the spiritual teachings and brotherly love of his elders. Nabigon had spent much of his life wrestling with self-destructive impulses, feelings of inferiority and resentment, and alcohol abuse when Eddie Bellerose, an Elder, introduced him to the ancient Cree teachings.

Born blind and declared incurably blind after a series of childhood operations left him with only a slight ability to discern light and shadow, Meir Schneider remained convinced that his handicap was not permanent. As a teenager, he began work with two teachers who gave him exercises and techniques to reverse his blindness. Within four years, he had gained a remarkable degree of vision and begun to develop a system of therapeutic exercise combining movement, breathing, and mental imagery.

Lyme disease infects a minimum of 300,000 people per year in the United States and millions more throughout the rest of the world. Symptoms run from mild lethargy to severe arthritis to heart disease to incapacitating mental dysfunction. Although tests have improved over the past decade, they are still not completely reliable, and antibiotics are only partially effective. Up to 35 percent of those infected will not respond to antibiotic treatment or will relapse.

Do you practice mindfulness but agonize over your lack of inner growth? Discover a powerful path toward self-attunement and beyond.Does your health suffer from your scattered thoughts? Are you struggling to achieve deep awareness in your day-to-day? Do you wish you had the experience to become a spiritual healer? Reiki Master Karen Gray has helped countless individuals manifest decisive prosperity with her workshops across the nation. And now she’s here with a practical resource to strengthen your conscious wisdom, so you can lead a more harmonious life.

Mindfulness is the practice of focusing and bringing one’s attention to the present moment whilst calming and accepting the emotions and feelings we might be going through. In doing so, we are better able to analyze our thoughts and body sensations. Guided Breathwork Meditation is the combination of mindfulness meditation and breathwork practice to elevate the proven benefits of both ancient practices.

Catherine Ponder shares the spiritual laws of healing and deals with the causes of emotional and physical problems. She shows one how to turn on the corrective thoughts in order to change the whole pattern of your life for the better. It is explained that everybody can use these ancient healing laws and there's nothing mysterious about them. In fact, healing constantly takes place in our lives in simple ways that seem miraculous. We all have the healing power if we only realize it. This is a book that substantially expands one's consciousness and should be on every healer's bookshelf.

Vianna presents an exciting new conceptual framework for understanding how and why creation works on the physical and spiritual levels, and how this relates to us on all levels of our being. Taking us into dimensions that she believes to be the beginnings of life itself, she shows us how to perceive these cosmic forces in all their majesty and use their particular energies for healing and spiritual development. This is the first time in the history of humanity that the planes of existence have been opened up simultaneously so that they can be understood and utilized as never before.

This book is a thorough and practical instructional guide on the art of playing crystal singing bowls for sound and vibrational healing. Filled with inspiring stories and guidance from Ashana’s 20 plus years of playing, teaching, and healing through crystalline sound, there are jewels of wisdom here for sound healers at every level of experience.

At this very moment, you are surrounded by sound. Pause for a minute and try to listen to it all: the chatter of a passing conversation, the gentle whoosh of air vents, noise from a nearby street, someone turning the pages of a book, birds chirping in the trees.We rarely pay attention to everything we hear, but every noise in our environment has the ability to change our mood, decrease our productivity, even affect our health. While sound can heal, both emotionally and physically, it can also hurt us.

The human body evolved to live well and fight off disease on a supply of only a dozen or so essential nutrients. Unfortunately, modern meat-laden, high-sugar diets provide catastrophically inadequate levels of those nutrients. Scientific research consistently indicates nationwide vitamin and mineral deficiencies in our country, and we spend over a trillion dollars each year on disease care.

After the loss of a loved one, once the services are over and the relatives and friends have gone home, we are left to enter a strange new land, where someone who has given meaning to our life is gone. Drawing on her own experience as well as that of others, author Martha Whitmore Hickman presents a year's worth of meditations for people dealing with this profound loss, offering solace and illuminating a way forward. From January 1 to December 31, each day's meditation considers a meaningful quotation or passage on grief or suffering....

More than three decades ago, Dr. Herbert Benson of Harvard Medical School proposed a theory in his multimillion-copy best seller The Relaxation Response, which stated that by calming the mind, one could calm the body and alleviate stress, pain, and illness.

For thousands of years, it’s been long known in Japanese medicine that energy can stagnate in the body where there has been physical injury or emotional pain. And with time, these energy blocks can cause physical or mental illness or imbalance ranging from chronic pain to mental health problems like depression and anxiety. What this suggests is that some of the problems you may be having may have everything to do with these energy blocks and the only way you can fix such problems is through working on unblocking the blockages - nothing else can help you!

Natural healing for pets has emerged into the mainstream - veterinarians across the nation are now providing acupuncture, chiropractic, and other alternative methods. With Energy Healing for Animals, acclaimed animal communicator Joan Ranquet offers an essential guide for anyone seeking to enhance their pet's health, longevity, and quality of life - and deepen their bond with a beloved companion.

Ancient medical science told us our minds and bodies are one. So did philosophers of old. Now modern science and new research are helping us to understand these connections. In Healing and the Mind, Bill Moyers talks with physicians, scientists, therapists, and patients - people who are taking a new look at the meaning of sickness and health.

“The medicine of Grace is sound,” says gina Breedlove. “Sound is an immediate point of entry to the mind, body, and spirit, and has been sourced as a healing modality since humans appeared on the earth.” With The Vibration of Grace, this extraordinary teacher and healer shares a sweeping, glorious guide to help you invoke the power of sound as a vehicle of love and liberation—for yourself and your loved ones, and in service to our world. Breedlove has spent decades exploring the many ways sound and vibration can enable us to grow, heal, and connect.

Using nature has countless incredible benefits, and you’re just a few simple steps from experiencing it all yourself!