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SEPT/OCT 2012<br />

©Sean Kapera<br />

Deep Truth, Igniting the<br />

Memory of Our Origin,<br />

History, Destiny and Fate<br />

reveals new discoveries that<br />

change the way we think<br />

about everything; from our<br />

personal relationships to<br />

civilization itself. When the<br />

facts become clear, our choices<br />

become obvious.<br />

If you have curiosity about<br />

what’s happening on our<br />

planet right now, along<br />

with what we’ve learned<br />

about ancient civilizations to<br />

date, read Deep Truth! (and<br />

attend the Wisdom of the<br />

Origins Conference featuring<br />

Gregg Braden, Barbara Marx<br />

Hubbard, Marianne Williamson<br />

and more: pg. 27 and also see<br />

Classes, pg 2.)<br />

Brilliant and insightful…I see<br />

Gregg Braden as one of our<br />

great visionaries.<br />

–Dr. Wayne Dyer,<br />

author of The Power<br />

of Intention<br />

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of<br />

scientist, visionary and scholar<br />

with the ability to speak to<br />

our minds, while touching the<br />

wisdom of our hearts.<br />

–Dr. Deepak Chopra,<br />

author of How To Know God<br />

2 Classes and Workshops<br />

3 News and Events<br />

6 From the Publisher<br />

8 Exercise for a Youthful You<br />

by Michelle Morath<br />

9 Lingering Pain?<br />

by Victoria L. Magown,<br />

10 The Bottom Line<br />

by Sandi Ganshaw, RDH, BS<br />

10 How to Create a Joyful Life<br />

by Lara LaVonne Jordan, RScP<br />

11 Understanding the Environmental<br />

Influences of Neurotoxins on Your<br />

Brain: Heavy Metals<br />

by Pamela Costello, MD, PhD<br />

12 A Weekend of Healing with Sherry<br />

(Shahpar) Mosavar Rahmani<br />

13 October...Think Green for Money NOT<br />

Just Pink for Breast Cancer<br />

by Dr. Carla Garcia, DOM<br />

14 Spin Doctor<br />

by Dr. Stephen P. Weiss, MD<br />

16 A Body You’ll Love<br />

by Dr. Mark L. Schwartz, Chiropractor<br />

17 #1 Solution for Pain & Inflammation<br />

by Sunil Pai, MD & Maureen Sutton, LMT<br />

#5221<br />

18 The Hormone & Anti-Aging Center<br />

Now Open!<br />

by Tom White, RPh, Phc & Frank Latino,<br />

RPh, MS, PhC<br />

20 The Wave of the Future – Brain Balancing<br />

by Louise Swartswalter, ND, CBS, CNHP, CALT<br />

21 From Self-Centered to Universal<br />

Consciousness<br />

by Wendy Foxworth<br />

22 European Commission Report<br />

Recommends Phasing Out Dental<br />

Amalgam<br />

by Dr. Mercola<br />

24 TRULY ALIVE FEATURE SECTION<br />

An interview with Gregg Braden & an<br />

overview of his newest book, Deep Truth<br />

by Karen Larré, Carla Garcia & Mary Anne<br />

Weaver<br />

27 Exploring the Essence of Time at the<br />

Wisdom from the Origins Conference<br />

by Glenn Aparicio Parry, PhD<br />

28 The Heart is a Radiator, Not a<br />

Discriminator<br />

by Ellen Tadd<br />

29 Your Last Diet<br />

by Dr. Jan Jay, DOM<br />

30 Energy Ways: Restoring the Light Body<br />

with Denise Furgason & Ellen Selover<br />

30 My Body Spoke...I Listened<br />

by Jennifer McKay Vaitkus<br />

31 Relief from Your Pain<br />

by Gwen Pullen, CWK, MBA & Dr. Gail Drane,<br />

DOM<br />

32 HCG Diet, Accidents and Natural Face<br />

Lifts<br />

by Dr. Carla Garcia, DOM<br />

33 S.T.A.R., Now State of Being<br />

by Nina Brown<br />

34 The Energy of Prayer<br />

by Rev. Kylie Renner<br />

35 It’s All About the Water!!!<br />

by Bill Haggard, All About Health<br />

36 Manifest What You Want...Now!<br />

by Janet L. Hall, ND, CKP, CMI, CHt, CBT<br />

37 Dear Melissa – Melissa Frei Answers Your<br />

Questions<br />

38 Socially Active, Peaceful at Heart<br />

by Rev. Martha Quintana<br />

38 A Sincere “Thank You!”<br />

by Rhonda Owen<br />

39 Fusion Salon is Enviro-Friendly<br />

by Deborah Remington<br />

39 Change Your Brain: Eliminate Stress &<br />

Anxiety<br />

by Regina Coffman<br />

40 Get Support for the Healing Process<br />

by Kerry Leigh<br />

40 Bowenwork® Changes Lives!<br />

offered by Hans Levy, PT, LMT #5870<br />

41 Celebrate December 21, 2012 in<br />

Ceremony at Chaco Canyon<br />

by Phaeryn Sheehan<br />

42 The More You Know About Our Meat the<br />

Better<br />

from Whole Foods Market resources<br />

43 Home Ownership Now – Easier Than You<br />

Think!<br />

by Nancy Bowers, Realtor®<br />

44 Astrological Forecast for Sept/Oct<br />

by John Clinton<br />

46 Resource Directory<br />

48 Advertising Rates<br />

Additional articles online: www.trulyalive.net<br />

<strong>Truly</strong> <strong>Alive</strong> | September/October 2012 1


EVENTS AT:<br />

Rio Grande Center for Spiritual Living<br />

Events Center: 901 Rio Grande Blvd.<br />

Suite E-130 • Albuquerque<br />

505-224-9405 • www.rgcsl.org<br />

Foundations of the Science of Mind<br />

Thursdays for 10 weeks; starts Sept 20<br />

6-9pm • Early Bird: $225 + books<br />

$250 + after Sept 20 date<br />

Join Rev. Martha<br />

for this lifechanging<br />

course<br />

that utilizes<br />

Science of Mind’s<br />

ten core concepts. Explore the practical<br />

application of metaphysical principles and<br />

change your life! In addition to Dr. Ernest<br />

Holmes, this course features writings from<br />

ministers like Dr. Bill Hornaday, Terry Cole<br />

Whitaker, and Dr. Kathy Hearn. Textbooks<br />

required: Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes, It<br />

Is About You, Kathy Juline.<br />

Mind Body Connection<br />

Mondays for 8 weeks; starts Sept 17<br />

6-9pm • Early Bird: $200 + book<br />

$225 + after Sept 17 date<br />

Increase your understanding of the mind/<br />

body connection, and a gain deeper<br />

understanding of physical healing. Clear,<br />

step by step process that deals with<br />

the emotional issues surrounding the<br />

body, gives emphasis to effective prayer,<br />

unlearning old concepts of duality and<br />

disease, and even practical considerations<br />

such as locating health professionals who<br />

support your belief system. Instructor:<br />

Barbara Kraft, RScP. Textbook required:<br />

Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes.<br />

Ignite Your Life with Bible Wisdom<br />

Thursdays for 10 weeks; starts Sept 20<br />

6-9pm • Early Bird: $225 + books<br />

$250 + after Sept 20 date<br />

Students become familiar with the power<br />

of Jesus’ parable stories as inspiration for<br />

transforming the soul. Bring the ancient<br />

parables to life; relate them to the challenges<br />

of today’s world. Discussions, role-playing,<br />

problem-solving exercises, and creative<br />

arts expressions. Instructors: Lovater Jones,<br />

RScP & Bill McKibben, RScP Textbooks<br />

required: Learn to Live, Ervin Seale; Holy<br />

Bible, George Lamsa.<br />

Relief from Grief<br />

Tuesdays for 8 weeks; starting<br />

Sept 18, 7:30-9pm • $150<br />

Grief is a process; a journey of understanding,<br />

accepting and a healing of all the feelings<br />

experienced. Working with the right tools<br />

and spiritual practices, you can understand<br />

Rio Grande Center cont’d<br />

the process and find success. Learn about<br />

the seven stages of grief and the process of<br />

working through each stage. Gain the tools<br />

to navigate through your grief. Facilitator:<br />

Kathy Mathiason, RScP.<br />

Reiki I Classes • $150<br />

Usui System 14-hr class<br />

Sept 6-9, Oct 25-28, Nov 1-4<br />

Thurs & Fri: 6-8 pm<br />

Sat & Sun: 1-6 pm<br />

Taught by Reiki Master Elizabeth Valsala,<br />

Furumoto lineage, practicing Reiki for 24 years,<br />

teaching for 21 years.<br />

505-323-1993 • www.ReikiABQ.com<br />

Wisdom of the Origins Conference<br />

Mayan Calendar & Other Prophecies<br />

Future of Humanity – September 13-17<br />

Thurs. through Sun. • Fees/Options:<br />

www.seedgraduateinstitute.org<br />

Are you ready<br />

for the changes<br />

of 2012 and<br />

beyond? This<br />

conference<br />

brings together Indigenous elders, social<br />

visionaries, ecologists, philosophers,<br />

healers, and experts on the Mayan calendar<br />

including Barbara Marx Hubbard, Marianne<br />

Williamson, Gregg Braden, James O’Dea<br />

and more than 30 others. Join us in this<br />

unprecedented opportunity to learn from<br />

the elders and participate in group dialogue,<br />

storytelling, and ceremonies that promote<br />

balance, harmony, and healing…and prepare!<br />

Held at: Marriott Pyramid North<br />

5151 San Francisco Rd. NE, ABQ 87109<br />

Registration Info: www.seedinstituteabq.org<br />

Sept. 21-23, 2012<br />

Health Spirituality<br />

WORKSHOP WEEKEND<br />

All 3 days/events, BEST VALUE • $44<br />

With ticket purchase by 9/15/12<br />

Meet the Workshop Speakers & <strong>Truly</strong><br />

<strong>Alive</strong> Advertisers, 9/21, 7-9pm • $10*<br />

5 Workshops, 9/22, 8:45am-5:30pm • $26*<br />

5 Workshops, 9/23, 8:45am-5:30pm • $26*<br />

1 Workshop (any one Sat or Sun) • $8<br />

Meet, greet and get your questions answered<br />

from the workshop presenters and <strong>Truly</strong> <strong>Alive</strong><br />

advertisers at the Friday Mixer. Appetizers and<br />

light refreshments included Friday evening.<br />

Attend all 3 days of events or choose the<br />

portion that speaks to your heart. Join us for<br />

this informative, life-changing event! Tickets:<br />

www.trulyalive.net (*+ tax – added at checkout)<br />

or call Karen: 505-828-3430<br />

PSYCH-K Basic Workshop<br />

September 28-29, 9am-5pm<br />

$375 advance fee<br />

The best technique<br />

available to “change<br />

your thinking – change<br />

your life,” PSYCH-K<br />

shows you how to overcome your limiting subconscious<br />

beliefs. The process teaches you how<br />

to access subconscious beliefs and change them<br />

effectively to resolve negative habits, phobias<br />

and behaviors. Learn to transform limiting unconscious<br />

programs into life supporting and<br />

success promoting ones in as little as 10 minutes.<br />

Limited space.<br />

High Desert Center for Spiritual Living<br />

5621 Paradise Blvd NW, 87114<br />

Ted Dale: 505-263-5402; tededale@gmail.com<br />

October 13-14 9:30-5:30pm both days<br />

Hanna Kroeger’s Methods & Practice –<br />

Level 1 • $285 + required book Help One<br />

Another – $55 value • Book is free if paid<br />

in full by Sept. 15<br />

Learn the seven physical<br />

causes of Ill health,<br />

Kinesiology/dowsing,<br />

simple trauma release techniques such as<br />

the tailbone set, whiplash set, brain stem set,<br />

herbs/homeopathic remedies that get results.<br />

Hurry, this class fills up quickly!<br />

505-797-0540 • www.abqnaturalhealthcenter.com<br />

Golden Dolphin S.T.A.R. Clinic<br />

Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa<br />

Santa Ana Pueblo (near ABQ, NM)<br />

Oct 19-21, 3pm Friday, 5pm Sunday*<br />

Early Registration by Sept 7, $278 + tx<br />

After Sept 7, $330 + tx<br />

(Room/Meals Add’l)<br />

Ascension 2012: “Ancient<br />

and New Codes Revealed”<br />

transformational retreat. Join<br />

the Golden Dolphin S.T.A.R.<br />

Clinic team to usher in the<br />

golden age of divine love<br />

and manifest the new earth.<br />

Work with the quantum field. Call in beings<br />

of light and higher consciousness. Raise your<br />

frequency. Know thyself as divine. *Participants<br />

are encouraged to stay overnight n the beautiful<br />

Hyatt Tamaya in order to hold space for the event<br />

throughout the weekend. Ask about discounted<br />

group room rates. Attendance is limited. $100<br />

deposit reserves your spot; balance of $230<br />

due on 9/19/12.<br />

Contact: Nina Brown, Anchor for the<br />

S.T.A.R Clinic<br />

Registration/info: www.goldendolphins.com<br />

Info@goldendolphins.com or 505-559-4441<br />

Additional events added in between issues! Check the website often: www.trulyalive.net<br />

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Holographic Sound Healing<br />

Certification Training<br />

Nov 9, 7-9:30pm, Nov 10, 10-6:30pm,<br />

Nov.11, 10-4:30pm<br />

$330 Early Bird, $385 after Oct. 30<br />

Learn applications and proven<br />

techniques in Holographic Sound<br />

Healing, harnessing the multidimensional<br />

power of sound.<br />

Heighten your ability to connect to<br />

Spirit in its multidimensional aspects through the<br />

Merkaba Light Body Activation, the chosen Light<br />

Body Vehicle of the Masters. Perfect for personal<br />

use or as a powerful addition to your healing practice.<br />

Listen to interview with Dr. Hubbert about<br />

the workshop at http://tinyurl.com/hsound.<br />

Details: www.HolographicSound.com<br />

Registration: Paul@HolographicSound.com<br />

Info: 512-891-7887 • Held at: Santa Fe Soul<br />

2905 Rodeo Park Dr. • East Bldg #3 • Santa Fe<br />

Energy Ways: Restoring the Light Body<br />

November 10, 9:30-4:30pm<br />

Call Wanda Barrows (# below) for pricing<br />

Get acquainted with your<br />

body’s energy systems;<br />

amazing latticework of<br />

patterns, vibrations, colors<br />

that shape the way you feel, think, live.<br />

Understand these energies; develop a conscious<br />

relationship with them and live your life<br />

fully. Workshop Presenters, former ARE staff<br />

members, 20+ years: Ellen Selover and Denise<br />

Furgason.<br />

Edgar Cayce Foundation<br />

Held at: Unity Spiritual Center<br />

9800 Candelaria NE, ABQ 87112<br />

To Register: 1-888-273-0020<br />

Local Info: Wanda Barrows: 505-890-0878<br />

Spiritual Warriorship Of Hear t Intensive<br />

All Day Saturdays, Once/Month<br />

through 2012 (Sats and Sundays during<br />

Equinox and Solstice)<br />

Enrollment now open for all who<br />

are willing to embrace Spiritual<br />

Invitations that break open and<br />

heal the heart. Attendance can be<br />

at our Headquarters or via Video<br />

Stream HQ: 223 14th St SW, ABQ,<br />

NM 87102<br />

Ira Cooper: 505-247-0495,<br />

iracooper01@gmail.com<br />

Sponsored by Ascended Masters Foundation<br />

www.ascendedmastersfoundation.org<br />

News & Events<br />

Events<br />

Lemurian Choir, Pineal Toning inspired<br />

by Dr. Todd Ovokaitys<br />

Activate DNA & pineal gland for<br />

anti-aging/awakening. Last toned<br />

26,000 years ago in Lemuria.<br />

Practice toning sessions prior to<br />

12-21-12. SanRa Alworth: 505-239-2445,<br />

Maitreya Meditation Center,<br />

www.starlightspiritualhealing.com<br />

EVENTS AT:<br />

819 Vassar Drive NE<br />

Albuquerque, NM 87106<br />

Self-Hypnosis Class<br />

Sept 13 & Oct 11, 6-7pm • FREE<br />

David B Fisher, Clinical Hypnotherapist<br />

provides an overview of Hypnosis and a<br />

discussion/demonstration of Self-Hypnosis<br />

Techniques. Class will include Q & A. Space<br />

is limited.<br />

www.davidbfisherhypnotherapy.com.<br />

Please RSVP: 505-463-7392.<br />

Sound Healing Meditation<br />

October 14, 6-7:30pm • $10 Donation<br />

Trudy Charlton, Sound Alchemist will lead<br />

meditation using selected crystal bowls,<br />

matching color frequencies and other<br />

sound tools. Non-experienced meditators<br />

welcomed. Each meditation is different and<br />

no two people have the same experience.<br />

Trudy Charlton: 505-565-0620<br />

Events at Vassar cont’d<br />

Carol Joyce Channelings<br />

Oct 7 & Nov 4, 6:30-8pm • $20 Donation<br />

Do you seek a message from a loved one<br />

or want to hear a message that will help<br />

you during these challenging times? Carol<br />

brings with her, her heart, spirit and 40 years<br />

experience. Carol’s messages offer advice for<br />

our highest good. Info: 505-884-4533<br />

EVENTS AT:<br />

ABQ Natural Health Center<br />

Louise Swartswalter, ND, CBS, CNHP, CALT<br />

5341 Wyoming Blvd. NE, Ste. B<br />

ABQ 87109 • 505-797-0540<br />

www.abqnaturalhealthcenter.com<br />

Brain Boosters Group<br />

Sept 19, Oct 17, Nov 14, Dec 12<br />

6:30-8pm • Free informational meeting<br />

Learn proven techniques to balance the brain<br />

and optimize memory. Understand brain<br />

waves and how they are related to learning,<br />

memory and performance. Additional<br />

topics include: ADD/ADHD, Autism and<br />

learning, nutrition, supplements, brain food,<br />

organizational tips, life style changes & more.<br />

Health and Spirituality Workshop<br />

Experience the Power of Brain-Soul<br />

Balancing • September 22, 10:30am<br />

Our brain stores pictures of positive and<br />

negative events. When the negative events are<br />

cleared your soul’s path can truly shine! Pow-<br />

ABQ Natural Health Center cont’d<br />

erful combination of biofeedback, emotional<br />

clearing & neurotransmitter balancing—<br />

UNIQUE! Join us & feel the difference.<br />

EVENTS OFFERED BY:<br />

The Ascended Masters Foundation<br />

1325 Park Ave. SW, Suite 110<br />

Albuquerque, NM 87102<br />

505-401-2527<br />

www.ascdendedmastersfoundation.org<br />

Medicine Wheel Ceremony<br />

Nambé Lake, outside of Santa Fe<br />

September 30, 9am-3pm • $20<br />

Join us restore our relationship to our Earth<br />

Mother.<br />

Info/RSVP, Marshall Estner: 505-850-2132<br />

Medicine Wheel Ceremony<br />

Petroglyph National Park, ABQ<br />

Ocober 27, 9am-3pm • $20<br />

Join us celebrate our new relationship with<br />

our Earth Mother.<br />

Info/RSVP, Marshall Estner: 505-850-2132<br />

St. Germain Channeling<br />

October 19, 7:30pm<br />

Love Offering Appreciated<br />

Join Phaeryn Sheehan channeling the<br />

presence of St. Germain—preparing us to<br />

embrace the New Times on Earth.<br />

At: Crystal Dove Bookstore<br />

525 Central NE, ABQ 87102<br />

Contact Phaeryn: 505-401-2527<br />

Additional events added in between issues! Check the website often: www.trulyalive.net<br />

<strong>Truly</strong> <strong>Alive</strong> | September/October 2012 3


News & Events<br />

EVENTS AT:<br />

High Desert Center for Spiritual Living<br />

5621 Paradise Blvd NW, 87114<br />

505-922-1200 • www.hdcsl.org<br />

Healing Service<br />

Sept 10 & Nov 12, 7-8pm • Free<br />

In the high vibration of unconditional<br />

Love, there will be meditation, chant, and<br />

experienced healers doing spiritual healing<br />

for you as an individual. Healing the energy<br />

field, hands on (optional) healing touch, and<br />

affirmative prayer will be offered. All are<br />

welcome. 505-922-1200<br />

Eating For Energy Workshop<br />

September 15, 9-11am • Love Offering<br />

Feeling sluggish, hungry, cranky? How would<br />

you like to increase your energy so you can<br />

do the things you love? Learn some simple<br />

things that can make the difference you’re<br />

seeking. 505-922-1200<br />

Deeper Meaning of the Lord’s Prayer<br />

October 4, 7-9pm • Love Offering<br />

Greg Toews, certified Pranic Healer &<br />

instructor, is a student of Grandmaster<br />

Chua Kook Sui’s teachings presents. He has<br />

facilitated more than 60,000 healing sessions<br />

& has achieved miraculous results in the<br />

healings of physical & emotional conditions.<br />

Info, Rita Herther: 505-298-4823<br />

Weigh Less, Live More Workshop<br />

October 6, 9-11am • Love Offering<br />

Do you believe you have to cut back on<br />

calories, deprive yourself of foods that taste<br />

delicious, or exercise into oblivion in order to<br />

get to a weight that works for you? Not so!<br />

Join us and find out why. 505-922-1200<br />

Events AT:<br />

Mama’s Minerals • 505-266-8443<br />

1100 San Mateo Blvd NE @ Lomas • ABQ<br />

www.MamasMinerals.com<br />

Metaphysical Crystal Basics 101<br />

Call for complete Schedule • $20<br />

Learn how crystals can help heal aspects of<br />

the body & empower your life. Great class for<br />

beginners, covering subjects such as subtle<br />

energy, charging stones, elixirs, & crystal<br />

meditations. Presented by Marcia Stevenson.<br />

Mama’s Alternative Health Fair<br />

October 6, 10am-3pm • FREE<br />

October soars with the coolest Alternative<br />

Health Fair in Albuquerque! Come to Mama’s<br />

Minerals to experience New Mexico’s Finest<br />

Healers in an outdoor event. Participate in a<br />

Mayan opening ceremony at 10am. – Booths<br />

cost $20. Please call Valerie Gallegos: 505-<br />

604-3258.<br />

EVENTS AT:<br />

White Horse • Info: 505-255-5217<br />

3420 Lomas Blvd. NE, 87106<br />

www.AbqWhiteHorse.com<br />

The Art of Palmistry<br />

September 6, 6:30-8pm • $15<br />

Learn how to look at the shape and<br />

configuration of your hands to see the unique<br />

characteristics of your personality. Learn<br />

about shapes, mounts, and the four major<br />

lines on the palm: head, heart, life, and fate.<br />

Sound Healing Concert with Paradiso<br />

and Rasamayi<br />

September 11, 7pm • $20 in advance<br />

A Channeled Sound Experience — a transformative<br />

spiritual event, with multidimensional<br />

journeys & extraordinary experiences.<br />

Experience “King,” the world’s largest quartz<br />

crystal didgeridoo, & other utterly unique<br />

sacred instruments. Purchase tickets:<br />

www.AbqWhiteHorse.com/SoundHealingConcert<br />

Divine Group Healing with Epi Gallegos<br />

Sept 26 & Oct 24, 6:15pm • $10<br />

We begin the 45 minute healing session with a<br />

guided meditation followed by Epi channeling<br />

wonderful healing energy meant to open the<br />

Heart and Third Eye Chakras as well as heal<br />

deep wounds from this lifetime and past.<br />

Labyrinths: A Drawing Meditation<br />

October 11, 6:30-8pm • $15<br />

Whether tracing the path with feet or finger,<br />

the labyrinth is a powerful meditation tool,<br />

helping quiet the mind and allowing for<br />

personal reflection. Connect with the inward<br />

and outward dance of creation; a rhythmic<br />

journey to you core Being…drawing classic<br />

labyrinth designs.<br />

Full Chalice Friday<br />

2nd Fridays of the month<br />

October 12, 6:30-9:30pm (no Sept FCF)<br />

A fun night to celebrate your Body and Spirit<br />

with intuitive readings, massage, energy healings,<br />

henna, & food! Special store discounts<br />

only available during this event. Entry into<br />

the event is free with a $10 fee for 15 minutes<br />

per practitioner.<br />

The Luminous Rainbow with<br />

Prissy Hamilton<br />

October 18, 6:30-8:30pm • $20<br />

Practical Keys to the Source of Wisdom,<br />

Creativity, & Balance. Gain a full spectrum of<br />

understanding on how to cope in turbulent<br />

times. Learn ancient tools & easy practical<br />

method. Acquire insights and knowledge for<br />

less stress and balanced reality. Please RSVP:<br />

505-429-9070 or 505-255-5217.<br />

Psychic Readings and Energy Healing<br />

Wed – Sat • $1.50 + tax/min.<br />

White Horse hosts an amazing selection of<br />

White Horse cont’d<br />

Psychics, Channels & Healers available for<br />

personal sessions. Check our website for full<br />

information about our practitioners and their<br />

schedules. www.AbqWhiteHorse.com<br />

Grand Opening of Albuquerque’s Premier<br />

Health and Metaphysical Boutique<br />

Emil and Susan Faithe offering holistic health<br />

services, psychic readings and medical intuitive<br />

readings daily + energy healing, high grade vitamins<br />

and supplements, unique metaphysical<br />

gifts and supplies. Your one-stop life shop. Walkin’s<br />

welcome! Tues – Fri 10-5, Sat 10-1.<br />

1111 Alameda Blvd NW Suite E 87114<br />

Sedona Health & Nutrition: 505-299-1771<br />

www.sedonahealthandnutrition.com<br />

A Common Practice of Reiki<br />

Sept 10, Oct 29, Nov 5, 6-8pm • $5<br />

Reiki practitioners of any level, any lineage, are<br />

invited to give & receive team treatments, following<br />

a “common practice” (practitioners use designated<br />

hand positions & follow predetermined<br />

guidelines). RSVP required: call the day before—<br />

leave your name & phone number.<br />

NE Heights Residence<br />

Elizabeth Valsala: 505-323-1993<br />

www.ReikiABQ.com<br />

Clarifying Meditative Work – A Fresh Look<br />

Sept 15 & Oct 13, 2-5 pm • $2 Donation<br />

A workshop for people from any meditation<br />

tradition or no tradition at all. Explore directly<br />

what meditative work is and how it sheds light<br />

on the concerns of our lives, from a simple<br />

meditative listening that includes others/self.<br />

Seven day retreat in December.<br />

http://www.cuttsreviews.com/meditation<br />

Contact: Jay Cutts, New Mexico Center for<br />

Meditative Inquiry & Retreat: 505-281-0684<br />

Held at: Wat Center, 145 Madison NE<br />

(Corner of Madison/Copper, ABQ)<br />

Pranic Healing Introduction<br />

September 21, 7–9pm<br />

Free (Church Love offerings accepted)<br />

An Energetic Approach to Overcoming Life’s<br />

Obstacles facilitated by Greg Toews, certified<br />

Pranic Healer and Instructor.<br />

First Unitarian Church<br />

3701 Carlisle Blvd NE, 87110<br />

Contact Rita Herther: 505-298-4823<br />

Ideal Protein Q & A<br />

September 22, 10am • $3<br />

Learn about the Ideal Protein Weight<br />

Management Program; ask questions and find<br />

out if it’s right for you. Limited space. Please<br />

RSVP. (NE Heights Directions provided when<br />

you call to RSVP.)<br />

Desert Mountain Wellness Ctr. • 505-323-8100<br />

Increase/Develop Psychic & Intuitive<br />

Abilities Class<br />

September 29, 11am-12:30pm • $15<br />

Additional events added in between issues! Check the website often: www.trulyalive.net<br />

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Intuitive Abilities Class cont’d<br />

Learn techniques to do at home to develop or<br />

increase your psychic abilities and how to open<br />

your chakras energetically, especially the 3rd<br />

eye. Crystals, essential oils and natural healing<br />

energy will also be used to open this chakra. Literature,<br />

light snacks and water included.<br />

RSVP, Charlene Lewis: 505-933-2938<br />

Time To Heal, 2601 Wyoming NE, #119<br />

(bet. Menaul & Candelaria, Sandia Prof. Bldg.)<br />

Weight Release with Hypnosis &<br />

ThetaHealing®<br />

Monday, Oct 29, 10:30am-12:30pm • $15<br />

Tired of the lose-gain-lose gain routine?<br />

Learn to find and replace subconscious beliefs<br />

that hold weight. Demonstration and guided<br />

imagery provided by Janet Wahl, PhD, CHt.<br />

www.mindbalance.us<br />

North Domingo Baca Multigenerational<br />

Center • 7521 Carmel NE<br />

To Register: 505-764 6475<br />

www.cabq.gov/seniors/centers/north-domin-<br />

go-baca-multigenerational-<br />

New Dimensions Psychic Faire<br />

Nov 10 & 11, Sat, 10am–5pm; Sun,<br />

11am–5pm • Weekend Admission: $10<br />

“Transformation for Our Times.” A weekend<br />

of healing & transformation with the region’s<br />

finest psychics & healers. Free workshops, music,<br />

vendor specials. Visit www.AbqPsychicFaire.com<br />

for $2 off admission & to plan your weekend at<br />

the Faire.<br />

Held at: Harwood Art Center<br />

1114 7th St. NW, ABQ 87102<br />

505-349-5796; www.AbqPsychicFaire.com<br />

Ongoing Events<br />

EVENTS AT:<br />

Dr. Judy Channels • 505-873-0606<br />

Dr. Judy Channels the Golden Ascension<br />

Mondays, 6-7pm<br />

$10 (Includes Free Channeled Responses)<br />

The more light we channel, the better we heal<br />

our energy body. This heals our physical,<br />

mental & spiritual bodies. How do we carry<br />

more light? By receiving the high frequencies<br />

channeled thru the Golden Ascension. Reduce<br />

stress, carry love. 616 Isleta SW, ABQ<br />

Pranic Healings – Non-touch energy<br />

system • 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm<br />

Donations to church appreciated<br />

Dr. Judy & other practitioners apply healing<br />

techniques on the bio-electromagnetic field<br />

as it contains the blueprint of the physical<br />

body. See Master Stephen Co heal live on<br />

NBC news: www.pranichealing.com. Helps<br />

ADHD kids, trauma, pain through proper<br />

cleansing of dirty energy.<br />

Dr. Judy Channels cont’d<br />

Unitarian Church • 3701 Carlisle NE, ABQ<br />

EVENTS AT:<br />

High Desert Center for Spiritual Living<br />

5621 Paradise Blvd NW, 87114<br />

505-922-1200 • www.hdcsl.org<br />

Spiritual Mind Treatment –<br />

Healing Prayer<br />

Sundays 11:30am-Noon • Free<br />

HDCSL practitioners are available after<br />

services for healing prayer sessions for any<br />

attendees to the services. Any practitioner<br />

wearing a stole is available for prayer work.<br />

Call 922-1200.<br />

PSYCH-K Balances<br />

Sundays 11:15-11:30am • Free<br />

PSYCH-K facilitators provide free PSYCH-K<br />

balances after Sunday services at the church.<br />

Get rid of the limiting beliefs stuck in your<br />

subconscious and generate life-supporting<br />

behaviors. Call 922-1200.<br />

PiYo Dynamic Yoga (YOGA)<br />

Mondays 6:30pm, Wednesdays, 6pm<br />

$5 per class/$30 month<br />

Yoga mat, comfortable clothes, water + a<br />

Positive Attitude. Sweat your way to sculpted<br />

abdominals, increased core strength and<br />

greater stability with strength building,<br />

rhythmic movement. Founded in Pilates &<br />

yoga. Modifications so all can participate,<br />

plus progressions challenge more advanced.<br />

Instructor: DeAnna Dimmitt: 505-730-8576.<br />

Pilates Style Mat Classes<br />

Tues & Thurs evenings, 6-7pm (ongoing)<br />

$5/each (Ask about monthly rate)<br />

Combines challenging, Pilates-type movement<br />

and resistance training with a meditative<br />

atmosphere for body and spirit. Designed<br />

to improve strength, flexibility, balance, and<br />

coordination. Most are adaptable to a wide<br />

range of fitness levels. Bring yoga mat/wear<br />

comfortable clothing. Free trial class. Call<br />

Elizabeth 505-710-2259.<br />

Chakra Ceremony<br />

October 14 • 1-3pm<br />

Love Offering<br />

This workshop will teach you more about<br />

the body’s chakra system. Astrologer Johnny<br />

Barnett will conduct the ceremony on each<br />

of the seven chakras, aimed at painting a<br />

dynamic, simple and profound picture of<br />

the human experience. Call 505-922-1200.<br />

Learn more about the classes at:<br />

http://chakraology.org/chakra/classes.htm.<br />

Spiritual Integration Discussion Group<br />

3rd Weds of the month, 7-8:30pm<br />

Love offering<br />

High Desert Center cont’d<br />

Learn how to integrate spirituality into<br />

everyday life. Book used by the group, Wayne<br />

Dyer’s There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every<br />

Problem, is available in the church bookstore.<br />

Instructor: Lara LaVonne Jordan, M.Ed.,<br />

RsCP: 505-898-3100.<br />

EVENTS AT:<br />

Kadampa Meditation Center NM<br />

8701 Comanche NE, ABQ • 505-292-5293<br />

www.meditationinnewmexico.org<br />

Prayers for World Peace<br />

Sundays, 10am-11:30am (ongoing)<br />

Donation<br />

Each week, we receive practical advice from<br />

Buddha’s teachings to nourish our compassion<br />

and wisdom in order to improve ourselves, our<br />

relationships and our world. The teachings are<br />

accessible for everyone and the environment<br />

is very conducive for beginners.<br />

Just Breathe<br />

Wednesdays, 12-1pm • $5/class<br />

Take a break from your busy day & enjoy a<br />

quick & easy guided meditation that can immediately<br />

provide a peaceful state of mind, which<br />

you can take with you the rest of your day!<br />

Meditation and Modern Buddhism<br />

Thur (through Oct 4) 7-8:30pm • $10/class<br />

Modern Buddhism is a special presentation of<br />

Buddha’s teachings on compassion & wisdom<br />

that communicates their essence in a way that<br />

is easy to understand & put into practice.<br />

EVENTS AT:<br />

Sanjevani Integrative<br />

Health & Lifestyle Center<br />

7920 Wyoming Blvd NE, Suite B, ABQ<br />

505-821-6300 • www.sanjevani.net<br />

Hatha Yoga – Asana, Pranayama, Meditation<br />

Tues/Thurs, 6-7:30pm<br />

Sat, 10:30am-12pm • $15 drop-in<br />

(discount class cards available)<br />

Maureen Sutton, RYT leads you through<br />

classical Hatha Yoga techniques for greater<br />

flexibility & balance in your life. Establish<br />

your own yoga practice for greater health.<br />

Improve your fitness, sleep better, feel better.<br />

Private classes available. Need a little extra<br />

TLC? Ask about Chair Yoga, Yoga Nidra and<br />

Primordial Sound Meditation classes.<br />

Skin Clinic<br />

Fridays & Saturdays, 1-4pm • $15<br />

Advanced Skin Care Consultant &<br />

Esthetician, Cecilia Montoya will be<br />

providing skin analysis & giving away free<br />

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Additional events added in between issues! Check the website often: www.trulyalive.net<br />

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News & Events<br />

Sanjevani cont’d<br />

samples of Epicuren skin care products.<br />

Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity<br />

to sample this beautiful, all natural skin care<br />

line. NEW! Youngblood Mineral Cosmetics.<br />

By appt., please call to RSVP: 505-821-6300.<br />

Connecting with Your Angels<br />

Group Channeling<br />

1st Monday of each month • $10<br />

Join Betsy Morgan as she connects with<br />

loving spiritual energies and brings through<br />

an amazing channeled message. All questions<br />

welcomed! Classes in Beginning, Intermediate<br />

and Professional channeling are offered every<br />

month. Private readings are available by appt.<br />

Convenient NE Heights Location<br />

RSVP for directions: 505-275-4746<br />

Pranic Healing Clinic<br />

1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm • Free<br />

Experience no-touch clearing of congested<br />

energies, and energizing and balancing of the<br />

energy body.<br />

First Unitarian Church<br />

3701 Carlisle Blvd NE, 87110<br />

Contact Rita Herther: 505-298-4823<br />

Edgar Cayce ARE Study Groups<br />

Wednesdays 7-9pm, ABQ • FREE<br />

Contact Wanda Barrows: 505-890-0878<br />

Tuesdays, 3-5pm, East Mountains • FREE<br />

Contact Dayle Goldsmith at 505-281-3999<br />

www.edgarcayceabq.org<br />

from the publisher<br />

Film Series At Rio Grande Event Center<br />

From Jesus to Christ & Everyday Mystics<br />

6 Wed starting Sept 19, 6:30-8:30pm<br />

$10 per film<br />

In From Jesus to Christ, bible stories come<br />

to life. Everyday Mystics explores healings of<br />

Jesus being applied with John of God (spiritual<br />

medium, trance surgeon, healer in Brazil)<br />

and Eric Pearl, (patients report instantaneous<br />

recoveries from cancers, AIDS, cerebral palsy).<br />

Facilitators: Anne/Louie Martinez.<br />

Twin Hearts Meditations<br />

2nd & 4th Thurs, 5:30-6:30pm • Free<br />

Twin Hearts Meditation is a meditation guided<br />

by Master Choa Kok Sui. We will bless the earth<br />

from our heart and crown, bringing down<br />

divine energy, then Master Choa will use this<br />

divine energy to cleanse our chakras.<br />

At: North Domingo Baca Multi-gen. Ctr<br />

7521 Carmel NE, ABQ 87109<br />

Info, Gwen Pullen: 505-507-0467<br />

www.albuquerquekinesiology.com<br />

Electro-Light Acupuncture Pain Therapy<br />

2nd Sat of each month, 10am-5pm • Free<br />

Dr. Gail Drane, DOM will be offering free pain<br />

treatments using microcurrent therapy. This<br />

non-invasive, treatment without needles can<br />

reduce your pain quickly, whether chronic or<br />

caused by trauma. No appointment necessary<br />

just the desire to feel better.<br />

Held at: Moses Kountry Health Foods<br />

7115 4th Street NW, 87107<br />

Info, Dr. Drane: 505-331-0168<br />

Healing Lifestyles since 1990<br />

www.trulyalive.net<br />

PUBLISHER/OWNER<br />

Karen Larré<br />

505.828.3430<br />

info@trulyalive.net<br />

ART DIRECTOR/GRAPHIC DESIGNER<br />

Diana Massengale<br />

505.299.0274<br />

diana@imagedesignllc.com<br />

PRINTING<br />

Starline Printing<br />

VanGuard Printing<br />

As 2012 continues to unfold, more and more information is<br />

coming to light (from many different sources), talking about our<br />

current point in history and what we can do to shift humanity into<br />

a more sustainable, compassionate way of life (hopefully while we<br />

still can). In the feature this issue, Gregg Braden (p. 24) offers an<br />

enormous amount of information (with solid, scientific basis) for<br />

us to disseminate and help us choose “who we want to be” as a<br />

human culture going forward.<br />

If you have been thinking about attending<br />

the <strong>Truly</strong> <strong>Alive</strong> Workshop Weekend, 9/21-9/23,<br />

2012, now’s the time to purchase your tickets:<br />

www.trulyalive.net. Click on “Events” then “TA<br />

Sponsored Events.” Space is limited and ticket<br />

purchased by 9/15 include the 9/21 Mixer free.<br />

How often can you enjoy so many events (mixer + 10 workshops) for just $44? ($54<br />

after 9/15). Check out the workshop topics on page 7. At the mixer, the workshop<br />

presenters will be in attendance as well as <strong>Truly</strong> <strong>Alive</strong> advertisers. Appetizers and light<br />

refreshments will be served. You may attend the mixer by itself ($10) or one of the<br />

workshop days (Saturday or Sunday for $26), or choose your favorite workshop for just<br />

$8. The whole event is sure to be fun as well highly educational.<br />

Tell your friends!<br />

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Limited space. tickets on sale now: www.trulyalive.net, (click on Events, then TA Sponsored Events)<br />

WORKSHOP LOCATION:<br />

Event Center • 901 Rio Grande, Suite E-130<br />

(behind St. Clair Winery)<br />

Health Spirituality<br />

Sept. 21-23, 2012<br />

WORKSHOP WEEKEND<br />

Both Days / 10 Workshops only $44!<br />

BEST<br />

VALUE!<br />

Attend the Mixer FREE with pre-purchase<br />

of tickets for the weekend<br />

($44 by Sept. 15 • $54 after 9/15 or at the door)<br />

Meet the Workshop Speakers &<br />

<strong>Truly</strong> <strong>Alive</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> Advertisers: $10<br />

Friday Mixer: Sept. 21, 7-9pm<br />

(Appetizers & Light Refreshments Included)<br />

Enhance your life!<br />

Saturday / 5 Workshops: $26<br />

Sunday / 5 Workshops: $26<br />

Any 1 Workshop: $8<br />

Friday Mixer: $10<br />

(alone or add to any workshop choice)<br />

To attend weekend visit: www.trulyalive.net<br />

Workshop Presenters Saturday 9/22/12:<br />

9-10:15am: Being Prosperous in this Economy<br />

Wendy Foxworth, MML, Director of the Center for Conscious Living<br />

10:30-11:45am: Experience the Power of Brain-Soul<br />

Balancing<br />

Louise Swartswalter, ND, CBS, CNHP, CALT<br />

1-2:15pm: Powerful Healing & Pain Relief Using Natural<br />

Inflammatories<br />

Dr. Sunil Pai, MD, Integrative Medicine Physician<br />

2:30-4pm: Take Years Off Your Face! Feel Better,<br />

Look Younger!<br />

Carla Garcia, D.O.M, Thermographer<br />

4:15-5:30pm: Healthy Chakras, Healthy You!<br />

Charlene Lewis, CHt, CWK, CQTP<br />

SPONSORED BY:<br />

Workshop Presenters Sunday 9/23/12:<br />

9-10:15am: Balance Your Brain, Love Your Life!<br />

Regina Coffman, Brainwave Optimization Affiliate<br />

10:30-11:45am: Breathing, Meditation, Life Principles<br />

and Healing<br />

Sumeet Dhillon, Dahn Yoga Manager/Trainer<br />

1-2:15pm: Manifest Everything You Want...Now!<br />

Janet Hall, ND, CMI, CHt, CKP<br />

2:30-4pm: Cleanse/Detox for Your Health<br />

Kukana Yarnevich, Holistic Health Educator<br />

4:15-5:30pm – What’s in Your Blood?<br />

Gwen Pullen, Blood Analysis Technician, Divine Transformations<br />

Lunch Breaks: 11:45-12:45 each day<br />

Speakers are subject to change without prior notice.<br />

MAGAZINE<br />

www.trulyalive.net or call Karen 505-828-3430


Exercise for a<br />

Youthful You<br />

By Michelle Morath, NM Fit<br />

A Holistic Foundation for<br />

a Fuller Life!<br />

• Personal Training<br />

• Group Fitness<br />

• Nutrition<br />

• Massage<br />

Talk to Michelle!<br />

505.550.8322<br />

www.NewMexicoFIT.com<br />

6001 San Mateo Blvd NE<br />

Albuquerque, NM 87109<br />

Everyone understands that we all age.<br />

However, the individual effects of aging<br />

vary widely. One person may become<br />

non-ambulatory and hard of hearing while<br />

another may be on several prescription medications and<br />

develop memory problems. Exercise and proper nutrition<br />

can have a positive impact and delay or powerfully offset<br />

many effects of aging.<br />

If you are a typical inactive adult, it’s likely that your aerobic<br />

capacity ‘ain’t what it used to be!’ You may be challenged to do<br />

some of the things you did when you were younger. If you<br />

have lost the ability to move and do things with your body<br />

the way you used to, you can regain a good portion – perhaps<br />

all of it (even if you think it’s not possible due to your age).<br />

The key is engaging in physical activities that increase your<br />

heart rate. You could start by walking 10 minutes, 2-3x per<br />

week, and build from there. In no time, you’ll be walking two<br />

miles every day (within thirty to forty minutes which is ideal<br />

for improving your aerobic capacity)! TIP: To reap the same<br />

benefits of walking thirty minutes continuously, you can split<br />

it up and walk at least 10 minutes, 3 times during the day.<br />

Another effect of aging is lack of flexibility. The more<br />

flexible populations tend to be younger, more physically active,<br />

and female. Have you lost flexibility over time? Get more<br />

physically active and incorporate flexibility exercises into<br />

your exercise routines and you’ll go far in retaining youthful<br />

flexibility (not to mention your body will look younger and be<br />

healthier, too).<br />

Muscle strength and muscle mass loss begins to decline (in<br />

most Americans) as early as age forty. Resistance training can<br />

reverse these losses. With a regular physical exercise regimen<br />

of strength training (just 2x/week), you’ll see increased<br />

muscle strength and mass plus improved immune function<br />

and increased self-confidence before you know it!<br />

With age, people also tend to gain weight and experience<br />

an increase in body fat. Women tend to gain more body fat and<br />

lose more muscle and bone mass during and post menopause.<br />

Weight gain and body composition can be improved with<br />

proper nutrition and regular physical activity (creating a more<br />

youthful you!).<br />

Some of the most important exercise goals for older adults<br />

and the elderly are those to increase range of motion, increase<br />

strength and improve balance. Obtaining these goals can help<br />

to reduce the effects of aging, prevent falls, improve quality of<br />

life and increase self-efficacy.<br />

To find out how you can reverse the effects of aging, look and<br />

feel your youngest self, contact New Mexico Fit at 505-550-8322<br />

or mmorath@newmexicofit.com. www.newmexicofit.com<br />

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Lingering<br />

Pain?<br />

By Victoria L Magown<br />

GOT PAIN? LINGERING PAIN?<br />

Call MyoRehab at 505-872-3100 and schedule an appointment. You can find us at www.myorehab.net<br />

and we are conveniently located at 4263 Montgomery NE, #200, ABQ, NM 87109.<br />

During the last two articles, we have been discussing<br />

the importance of addressing your pain after falling<br />

off a ladder or from a bicycle; or a car accident—<br />

even if it is only a little fender bender. We have treated people<br />

who experienced digestive problems, as well as jaw and teeth<br />

pain long after the collision and did not realize the cause was<br />

the car accident.<br />

George was referred to MyoRehab one and a half years<br />

after his truck was hit in an intersection and rolled one and a<br />

half times, leaving him hanging upside down by his seatbelt.<br />

His previous treatment had included physical therapy,<br />

chiropractic, massage therapy, acupuncture, Trigger Point<br />

Injections, pain medication and antidepressants.<br />

After going to his doctor and telling her he was still in<br />

severe pain all the time and felt suicidal, she referred him to<br />

MyoRehab as a last resort. At the time, he had severe back,<br />

hip, shoulder and neck pain. It took about six treatments<br />

before he realized the pain had decreased to a more tolerable<br />

level.<br />

During a treatment, George refused to let me touch his<br />

abdominal muscles. “Nobody touches my stomach.” “Why?”<br />

I asked. “It is too painful and I can no longer eat chili or<br />

any hot spices.” “Well, no wonder, after the severe impact<br />

of hanging upside from the seatbelt.” He asked, “You mean<br />

muscles can cause stomach pain and indigestion?” “Oh yes,<br />

and, contribute to your ongoing low back pain as well.”<br />

The Rectus Abdominis muscle can refer pain through<br />

to the mid and low back, as well as cause stomach pain and<br />

indigestion. It is important to treat this muscle whenever a<br />

person has had a car accident since the seatbelt impact can<br />

cause acid reflex, indigestion and hiatal hernia pain. After<br />

one treatment of the abdominal muscles and fascia, George<br />

was able to eat his beloved hot, spicy foods again.<br />

But he still had head and neck pain. As I began treating<br />

the jaw and face muscles, the pain referred to his teeth. He<br />

explained to me that he had fractured two teeth in the last<br />

ten months and had to have them extracted. Even though<br />

George had no jaw pain, mechanically, the mandible (jaw)<br />

was in a dysfunctional position, misaligned, and his “bite<br />

was off ”. This can contribute to head and neck pain and as in<br />

his case, fractured teeth, also.<br />

During a whiplash, the mandible (jaw) is free to whip<br />

independently of the head and neck. It is not uncommon<br />

for people to experience teeth and jaw issues long after a car<br />

accident.<br />

Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJD) is more<br />

prevalent in woman than men. Want to know why? Here’s<br />

a little unknown secret about jaw pain and TMJD. The day<br />

after a car accident, the man gets up, showers and SHAVES,<br />

thus doing face and jaw stretches every day. The only two<br />

men I have treated for TMJD had full beards and did not<br />

shave.<br />

Since George was experiencing depression with his<br />

ongoing pain, he did not shave every day after the first<br />

couple of months and therefore developed a mandible (jaw)<br />

misalignment.<br />

While treating George, we gave him gentle stretches<br />

to do at home to maintain the release we gained during<br />

treatment. We had a few set-backs since George initially<br />

did not understand how important his role was in doing the<br />

stretches on a regular basis. After the muscles have been in<br />

a shortened state for so long, they need to be retrained, to<br />

return to their full normal length.<br />

We also addressed posture while driving, sitting, sleeping<br />

and working. It is important to keep one’s body in a neutral<br />

position as much as possible. When we sit leaning to one<br />

side on an elbow, it shortens the low back muscles and<br />

fascia. Then we experience ongoing low back pain. This was<br />

an important lesson for George to learn, as it made all the<br />

difference in relieving his low back pain completely.<br />

One of the natural consequences of muscles and fascia<br />

shortening is that we tend to “give in” to accommodate the<br />

shortening by standing, sitting, working and sleeping in the<br />

“comfortable shortened position”. It feels good for a while,<br />

and then the pain starts up again.<br />

You will be glad to know that George became completely<br />

pain-free and did not need to take pain medication anymore.<br />

Whenever he caught himself sitting in a dysfunctional<br />

position, he would straighten up immediately. And he<br />

continued his Home Exercise Program on a regular basis,<br />

which is the way to remain pain-free.<br />

Read more articles by Victoria L. Magown online: www.trulyalive.net<br />

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The Bottom Line<br />

By Sandi Ganshaw, RDH, BS<br />

This issue is dedicated to writing about a<br />

topic that’s proven to be primary in most<br />

prospective new clients’ minds…the<br />

bottom line. When someone calls for the first time,<br />

I hear a wide variety of questions; and the one question that is<br />

asked by all is “How much will it cost?”<br />

Let’s look at the marketplace: one billboard states “$59<br />

cleaning, exam and x-rays”, another: “$34 exam and cleaning”<br />

and still another: “$19 new patient exam”. While these<br />

are (without a doubt) great prices, the prudent, educated<br />

consumer wants more details in order to make an informed<br />

decision. When called these providers, I was told “these prices<br />

only apply to new patients. Any subsequent visits require the<br />

full price payment for services.” If dentistry was a “single visit”<br />

experience, then of course, what a value these offers would be!<br />

However, how often does this happen? Considering we are<br />

encouraged to have our teeth cleaned twice a year (and have a<br />

full dental exam annually), the math just doesn’t add up. It’s the<br />

old marketing ploy of “get them in the door and keep the cash<br />

register ringing!”<br />

When I took over Betsy Ferrell’s Smiles for Miles practice,<br />

I retained the fee schedule that Betsy had for years. An adult<br />

cleaning is still $85 (in the absence of periodontal disease),<br />

child cleanings are $45 (and this includes x rays and exam with<br />

a collaborating dentist, in my office). Granted, we are a small<br />

neighborhood clinic and don’t have all the bells and whistles<br />

of the providers with the screaming deals, but one has to<br />

wonder who is paying for all that. We are a patient-centered,<br />

quality driven practice. We take our time and give you the<br />

individual attention you deserve—providing you with a gentle<br />

and thorough cleaning every time.<br />

Call us for an appointment in our new office at the Rio Grande<br />

Plaza. And remember…a beautiful smile is always in style!!!<br />

Sandi’s Smiles 505-480-7200.<br />

How to Create a<br />

Joyful Life<br />

By Lara LaVonne Jordan, RScP<br />

For most people, the joy of living seems to<br />

wane as we get older. Joy seems confined<br />

to the very young, to people falling in love,<br />

and possibly to retirees. But why can’t we have<br />

joy regardless of age, the burdens of responsibility or the “bad<br />

things” that have happened to us? Why not joy at least 50% of<br />

the time? Why not 90 or 95%?<br />

A great part of joy is freedom. Yes, we would like to<br />

have freedom from the things we don’t want, like ill health,<br />

problematic relationships and money difficulties. But real<br />

freedom comes from getting rid of the anchors in our lives.<br />

Anchors hold us down to one place in the ocean of life. For<br />

our boat, there’s no forward or purposeful movement.<br />

What are the anchors that hold us back and make us<br />

susceptible to all the things we don’t want in our lives?<br />

Resentments, anger, and criticism. If we long for a joyous life,<br />

then we must let go of the negative energies that have taken<br />

up residence in our consciousness and in our bodies. They<br />

re-configure the way we see life and the world. They sabotage<br />

our health, relationships and fiscal well-being.<br />

We must forgive everyone. That’s not to say that any<br />

particular person “deserves” forgiveness or that we are making<br />

bad behavior okay. We forgive to release the anchors in our<br />

lives. We forgive to heal ourselves. Louise Hay, the author<br />

of You Can Heal Your Life, provides the best affirmation I’ve<br />

ever heard: “I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you<br />

to be. I forgive you and I set you free.” Try picturing a person<br />

you resent and say this over and over until you no longer<br />

feel a “charge” around that person. This is the beginning of<br />

freedom. This is the beginning of joy.<br />

Lara LaVonne Jordan is a Practitioner at the High Desert Center<br />

for Spiritual Living<br />

Sunday 10:00 – 11:15 am<br />

(505)922-1200<br />

www.hdcsl.org<br />

Paradise Hills Mercado<br />

5621 Paradise Blvd N.W.<br />

Albuquerque, NM<br />

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Read more articles by Sandi Ganshaw online: www.trulyalive.net


Understanding the Environmental<br />

Influences of Neurotoxins on Your<br />

Brain: Heavy Metals<br />

By Pamela Costello, MD, PhD, Holistic Neurological Physician<br />

You will observe with Concern how long a useful Truth may be<br />

known, and exist, before it is generally receiv’d and practis’d on.<br />

Benjamin Franklin, 1786<br />

While there is a general awareness by the public of our<br />

increasingly toxic environment adversely influencing our health,<br />

the specific relationship of these toxins to our nervous systems<br />

warrants further discussion and investigation. The above quote<br />

is an excerpt from a letter by one of our forefathers, Benjamin<br />

Franklin, written to his apprentice, in which he alludes to his<br />

early discovery as a printer’s apprentice of the toxic influences of<br />

directly handling lead on his and his coworkers’ nervous systems.<br />

He describes developing great pain in his hands when handling the<br />

warmed lead printing agents, as well as cautioning as to the older<br />

guild workers developing ‘feeble hands’ from their more chronic<br />

lead exposure.<br />

After the recent loss of a beloved patient of mine from ALS<br />

(who had toxic levels of uranium, aluminum, and other industrial<br />

toxins), I found myself both heartbroken and angry as to the unconscionable<br />

lack of focus by both those in the industry that allowed<br />

this to happen, as well as by the medical profession, on the role of<br />

environmental toxins damaging the adult and developing nervous<br />

systems. I have consequently made it a practice focus to provide my<br />

patients with a better awareness of the relevant casual relationships<br />

of environmental toxic influences on our nervous systems, including<br />

routes of exposure, mechanisms of interaction, tools of assessing<br />

one’s neurotoxin burden, and mechanisms of remediation.<br />

Environmental neurotoxins include heavy metals (mercury,<br />

lead, aluminum, arsenic, manganese, copper, cadmium, etc.) as<br />

well as industrial solvents, hydrocarbons, insecticides, herbicides,<br />

fertilizers, fluorides, PCB’s, ionizing radiations, and dietary factors,<br />

including ethyl alcohol.<br />

It is well recognized that most disease states are multi-causal<br />

in their origins, including genetics, nutrition, perinatal trauma,<br />

environmental factors, etc. Not as well accepted is the fact that<br />

heavy metal neurotoxic exposures have been directly and indirectly<br />

linked to such developmental neurological diseases as the Autism<br />

Spectrum, behavioral and mood disorders, learning disabilities,<br />

mental retardation and Cerebral Palsy, seizure disorders, Spina<br />

Bifida, and other mal-developmental neurologic conditions.<br />

In the adult nervous system, we see heavy metal neurotoxic<br />

influences manifesting as brain fog, or the inability to focus,<br />

attentional, and memory dysfunction, ALS, MS, balance<br />

dysfunction, pain syndromes, mood disorders, visual and hearing<br />

loss, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Dementias.<br />

A. Mechanisms of Neurotoxicity: most environmental toxins<br />

such as heavy metals have a positively charged lipophilic (fat<br />

loving) component that is attracted to the negatively charged<br />

linings and insulating myelin of the brain, spine, and nerves.<br />

The result of this interaction is abnormal brain development in<br />

the fetal and juvenile brain, and increased cell death in the adult<br />

nervous system. This affinity of heavy metal toxins also applies<br />

to other fat bearing organs and tissues of the body, including<br />

the thyroid, kidneys, liver, pituitary, and bone marrow, creating<br />

similar imbalances and dysregulation.<br />

B. Routes of exposure: inhalation of airborne heavy metals,<br />

transdermal absorption, ingestion (mercury leakage from<br />

dental amalgams, food or water-bearing toxins), nasal neural<br />

uptake, transmission from mother to fetus (across the placenta)<br />

and to child (breast milk).<br />

C. Tools for assessing toxic burden: assessing environmental<br />

exposures is done through history taking, provoked heavy<br />

metal laboratory testing, serologic testing, anatomical and<br />

functional imaging, and physical examination.<br />

D. Mechanisms of neurotoxin remediation: clearing toxins<br />

(chelation), avoidance behaviors (filtering water, air), utilizing<br />

organic food sources, and transdermal detoxification.<br />

Although disease and wellness reflect a multi-causal nature,<br />

the environment represents an increasing source of potentially<br />

reversible factors. In 2008, Neurology journal reported the<br />

incidence of ALS in New Zealand to have steadily increased by<br />

3% per year from 1985-2006. The increasing incidence of autism<br />

is even more dramatic. It is incumbent upon us to deeply explore<br />

these issues further for possible intervention for patients suffering<br />

from these illnesses.<br />

Read more articles by Pamela Costello online: www.trulyalive.net<br />

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A Weekend of Healing with<br />

Sherry (Shahpar) Mosavar Rahmani<br />

R<br />

ecognized<br />

numerous times<br />

by John of God, and the<br />

Dahli Lama as an exceptional<br />

healer, Sherry Mosavar Rahmani has<br />

chosen to live in the US and travel the<br />

world sharing her healing gifts. On<br />

November 9, 10 & 11, 2012 we will<br />

be truly blessed, as Ms. Mosavar is<br />

Sherry with the Dahli Lama<br />

offering three different ways to experience her healing energies<br />

here in Albuquerque.<br />

On Friday evening, Nov. 9th, she will conduct a group<br />

healing session from 7-8:30pm (suggested minimum donation<br />

$20). On Saturday, she is accepting appointments for individual<br />

healing sessions* from 9am-noon and from 1:30pm-5:30pm.<br />

On Sunday Ms. Mosavar is offering a “Parlour Healing”<br />

experience during the hours of 9am-noon and 1:30-5:30pm.<br />

Sherry will create and hold healing energy for all Parlour<br />

Healing participants as she moves from person to person,<br />

working personally with each (in the order she is drawn to<br />

work with). Parlour Healing participants may drop in anytime<br />

during these hours and experience the healing energy as long<br />

as desired (space available).<br />

Recognized by<br />

John of God &<br />

the Dahli Lama<br />

Sherry Mosavar<br />

Rahmani<br />

...will be in ABQ for a<br />

weekend of Healing<br />

Fri., Nov, 9: $20 *<br />

Group Healing, 7-8:30pm<br />

Sat., Nov. 10<br />

Individual Healings<br />

By Appt<br />

Sun., Nov. 11<br />

Parlour Healing<br />

9-noon, 1:30-5:30<br />

Info & Appts: 505-850-0257<br />

*Suggested Donation. “Give what you can from your heart.”<br />

No one will be turned away because of an inability to pay.<br />

Donations from the heart will be gratefully accepted and no<br />

one will be turned away due to an inability to donate. Space is<br />

limited. All three healing opportunities require an RSVP.<br />

Sheri knew right away where my pain was. She also knew the<br />

condition of my internal organs, and how they were functioning.<br />

Her hands are very warm and I could feel a strong energy emanating<br />

from them. I’ve been a massage therapist, yoga instructor, Reiki<br />

practitioner and student of herbal medicine for almost 20 years.<br />

During this time, I have had treatments from many amazing healers.<br />

Sheri is definitely the best energy healer I’ve ever experienced. Her<br />

intuition and ability to channel healing energy come from a deep<br />

stillness within.<br />

April, 2012 – J.M., ABQ<br />

In August of 2006, I had an<br />

ultrasound test which showed 5<br />

uterine fibroids were the cause<br />

of the excessive bleeding I was<br />

having 15-17 days of each<br />

month. This had been going<br />

on for over a year and a half. I<br />

received a birthday gift to attend<br />

one of Sherry’s workshops while<br />

in Frankfurt Germany. Full of<br />

skepticism, I decided to attend.<br />

By the 2nd day of the workshop,<br />

Sherry with John of God<br />

Sherry recognized that I had been struggling to be quiet within<br />

myself and be present to what was being offered. She approached<br />

me and I felt the heat of her hand, sending sensations throughout<br />

my body starting with my head. That night, I slept well and the<br />

next day, there was no bleeding. Soon I returned to the US and<br />

visited my OBGYN. The follow up ultrasound showed that all 5<br />

fibroids had dissolved. There has been no re-occurrence to this<br />

date.<br />

F.J.B, ABQ<br />

In November of 2011, I had an individual session with Sherry,<br />

just before I got on a plane to visit my mother who was in the<br />

hospital. In the short 20 minutes I was in the session, Sherry<br />

provided information on how to handle the time with my mother<br />

(with whom I have been estranged in this life for 16 years at one<br />

point) that was amazingly accurate and proved extraordinarily<br />

helpful. She had no information about me or the relationship I<br />

have had with my mother; but the advice she offered was spot on.<br />

It was exactly what I needed to hear and made all the difference<br />

in my trip!<br />

L.A.K, ABQ<br />

Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to have a profound<br />

personal healing experience in Albuquerque. Call 505-850-0257<br />

to reserve your spot today! www.shahpar-meditation.com<br />

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October...Think Green for Money<br />

NOT Just Pink for Breast Cancer<br />

By Dr. Carla Garcia, DOM<br />

At this time of year we are inundated with information about breast cancer and purchasing products with pink ribbons on<br />

them. Thermography is essentially a “green” type of service. There is no damage to the environment and no risk to the person<br />

having thermography. It does not use “ionizing radiation”. There is no painful compression of breast tissue and it is safe for<br />

women of all ages; including younger women with dense breast tissue, small breasts or women with breast implants. So...<br />

instead of offering something pink, the Thermography Center is offering to give you some green. Every time you refer someone<br />

for thermography, you and the person you refer will receive a $15 credit. This is our way of thanking you for helping spread the<br />

word about thermography. There is no limit to the amount of credit you can accumulate. And you may use your referral credits<br />

for any service(s) offered by Dr. Garcia.<br />

I<br />

recently received a call from a mammogram company<br />

offering to pay me to get a mammogram. They offered a<br />

$25.00 gift card to WalMart to schedule an appointment to<br />

have my breasts compressed and radiated. It was tempting for a<br />

moment because my insurance would pay for the mammogram<br />

plus I’d have $25 extra dollars to spend. Why shouldn’t I earn<br />

$25.00 by having a mammogram? A quick internet search<br />

for the negative effects of mammograms brought up several<br />

articles about mammograms including some written by Dr.<br />

Joseph Mercola.<br />

Dr. Mercola has<br />

written numerous<br />

articles about the<br />

negative effects of<br />

mammograms and a<br />

safe breast screening<br />

technology — thermography.<br />

Mercola<br />

has been called “the<br />

most successful<br />

alternative medical<br />

practitioner in the world”. Health<br />

website rankings list www.mercola.com as the<br />

world’s most visited natural health site. Articles on his<br />

website, such as “Why Mammography is NOT an Effective<br />

Breast Cancer Screen” and “I Will Not be Pinkwashed” have<br />

captured the attention of several agencies. (“Pinkwashing”<br />

is the promotion of a pink ribbon product while selling or<br />

promoting products that are linked to breast cancer.) The FDA<br />

warned Dr. Mercola to stop making claims for thermographic<br />

breast imaging and threatened him with seizure, injunction<br />

and money penalties.<br />

The FDA warning included cautions against using<br />

thermography as a method for diagnosing cancer. Mercola<br />

has not claimed that thermograms detect cancer; he has said it<br />

detects inflammation which can precede cancer. Thermograms<br />

and mammograms can NOT diagnose cancer. They are<br />

screening methods that alert the practitioner to areas that<br />

require further evaluation and diagnosis; including a physical<br />

exam and biopsy. Cancer cannot be diagnosed without<br />

a biopsy. Mercola offers thermographic screenings at Dr.<br />

Mercola’s Natural Health Center in Illinois. Mercola’s center<br />

uses the same equipment and thermography interpretation<br />

services that are offered at the Thermography Center in<br />

Albuquerque. There are several thermographic cameras<br />

out there but the camera used in our centers is the only one<br />

that has been classified by the FDA as a “Class 1 Medical<br />

Device”. Our thermography images are interpreted by M.D.s<br />

while some other thermography practices will do their own<br />

interpretations or rely on other types of practitioners to<br />

interpret the thermal images.<br />

Thermography measures the heat radiated from the body<br />

and creates colored images that can reveal areas of extra heat<br />

that may be indicative of inflammation, lymph congestion,<br />

and/ or estrogen dominance. All of these symptoms can<br />

evolve into more serious health issues if they are not<br />

addressed. Some keys to maintaining healthy breasts are:<br />

annual screening, adequate vitamin D levels, lymph drainage,<br />

exercise, breast massage, and a healthy diet. Monthly selfbreast<br />

exams are essential to finding changes in breast tissue<br />

that may require further evaluation. Click on the link to view<br />

a video by Dr. Mercola about vitamin D and thermography.<br />

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jK62-48PB0<br />

Experience the best in early<br />

detection with an amazing,<br />

pain-free Thermography Screening<br />

Breast & Whole Body Screening<br />

DR. CARLA GARCIA<br />

4550 Eubank NE, #105 • 505.271.6608 • www.ThermographyNM.com<br />

Read more articles by Dr. Carla Garcia online: www.trulyalive.net<br />

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Spin Doctor<br />

By Dr. Stephen P. Weiss, MD, Integrative Medicine and Classical Homeopathy<br />

gentleman<br />

staggered into my<br />

Anelderly<br />

office one day looking<br />

drunk and disheveled. “Doc, I have<br />

the woozy,” he blurted out. At first<br />

I was perplexed, racking my brain<br />

to try to recall what disease he was<br />

referring to. Then it dawned on me<br />

that he meant that he was feeling<br />

“woozy.” This realization, however,<br />

didn’t get me much closer to<br />

understanding the symptom he was<br />

complaining of. One man’s “woozy” is another’s “faint,” is<br />

another’s “vertigo.”<br />

The practice of medicine is very much like detective work.<br />

The patient gives you several leads, but instead of magnifying<br />

glasses and fingerprint detection kits, we use the full array<br />

of Western medicine blood tests, scans, our 5 senses, the allimportant<br />

6th sense as well as numerous studies unique to<br />

Complementary and Alternative Medicine to come up with<br />

a diagnosis. Great care must be taken to understand exactly<br />

what a patient means, or you can quickly be headed towards<br />

Timbuktu. Not even the great Sherlock Holmes could spend<br />

a mere 5 or 10 minutes, the amount of time the average<br />

conventional doctor spends with you, to solve his difficult<br />

cases, which is why I spend at least one hour with a new<br />

patient and half an hour during follow-ups. Most people<br />

don’t realize that 90% of the diagnosis comes from the<br />

patient’s history. I am constantly amazed, particularly when<br />

I am stumped by a patient’s story, how often the patient will<br />

say something which sets off a light bulb in my mind that<br />

helps me solve the riddle of their complaints.<br />

“Dizziness” is the chief presenting symptom in roughly<br />

3% of all primary care visits in patients 25 and older. The<br />

first task of the physician is to understand clearly what the<br />

patient’s subjective sensation is. Vertigo is defined as a false<br />

sense of movement. Presyncope (faintness), disequilibrium<br />

(impairment in balance) and lightheadedness must be<br />

clearly differentiated.<br />

Vertigo is an extremely distressing symptom. It lands<br />

people in bed and shatters their sense of groundedness<br />

and security. Most, if not all of us, have experienced brief<br />

moments of it in childhood after spinning around and<br />

around on the playground and then stopping. Vertigo<br />

can be due to minor conditions such as benign positional<br />

vertigo, or life-threatening ones<br />

such as strokes in the vertebral and<br />

basilar arteries feeding blood to the<br />

back of the brain. Meniere’s Disease<br />

is a debilitating condition and<br />

one of the most common types of<br />

chronic, recurrent vertigo, affecting<br />

2 out of 1000 people (0.2%). It is<br />

characterized by a triad of symptoms:<br />

vertigo, tinnitus (ringing in the ears)<br />

and hearing loss. The exact cause is<br />

unknown, but it has been associated<br />

with “endolymphatic hydrops,” fancy medical speak for<br />

increased pressure of the fluid within the inner ear.<br />

Daniel, a 62 year old Albuquerque attorney, is the first<br />

patient I ever treated with this condition. His story could<br />

probably feature in Ripley’s Believe It or Not. In the early<br />

1990s he developed vertigo and nausea which landed him<br />

flat on his back for days at a time. By the year 2000 Daniel’s<br />

Meniere’s progressed and was accompanied by bouts of<br />

uncontrollable vomiting. He paid me a visit in 2007 after<br />

hernia surgery triggered an entire month of severe symptoms.<br />

I treated him with Cocculus, one of homeopathy’s premier<br />

vertigo remedies, because it matched some of the more<br />

unique aspects of his case, including symptom aggravation<br />

from coffee, motion and loss of sleep, as well as the presence<br />

of ear pain during his attacks. Daniel’s symptoms got worse<br />

for 36 hours after holding the bottle of medicine in his hand,<br />

without ever ingesting it (“homeopathic aggravation”),<br />

and then vanished. He has now been virtually free of the<br />

wretched disease in the last five years. Minor symptoms<br />

occur very infrequently, and completely resolve within 1<br />

minute of handling Cocculus!<br />

In December, 2010, Michelle, a very pleasant 49 year<br />

old professional woman, consulted me at the urging of<br />

her husband, also a patient of mine, whose life has been<br />

positively impacted by homeopathy. She had been suffering<br />

from Meniere’s for a total of 13 years, and it was gradually<br />

worsening during the prior 2 years, with the onset of<br />

perimenopause. The first attack blindsided her in an airplane<br />

while she was flying to California to get her PhD. Now they<br />

were occurring on average once to twice a month and lasting<br />

up to 4- 5 days. Michelle also experienced nausea and visual<br />

disturbances, sensitivity to light and sound, brain fog and<br />

difficulty concentrating during an attack, and would spend<br />

days lying on the couch “completely incapacitated.” It took<br />

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several years for her to get a proper diagnosis, before which<br />

she was told she probably had MS. Michelle consulted the<br />

only ENT in a several hundred mile radius who specialized<br />

in her condition, and he recommended inner ear surgery,<br />

since the medication she had<br />

been prescribed only gave her<br />

partial relief. She came to me for<br />

a second opinion and to see if her<br />

condition could be cured with<br />

homeopathy.<br />

One of the most difficult<br />

aspects about Michelle’s condition, and what ultimately<br />

led me to her homeopathic remedy, was the utter<br />

unpredictability of the attacks. “I feel sucked up into a<br />

whirlwind of energy, completely out of control. I can’t plan<br />

for it, prepare for it, anticipate it,” Michelle reported. “My<br />

husband wants to travel, but I’m terrified because flying will<br />

provoke an attack.” After spending a couple of hours with<br />

her, I discovered Michelle was a deeply spiritual person and<br />

an old soul. Her light shines brightly, never more than when<br />

she shared these words of wisdom with me: “Hardly anyone<br />

knows that I have Meniere’s because I’m not identified with<br />

being sick.” I prescribed homeopathic Asafoetida 30C.<br />

Five weeks later, Michelle was grinning broadly when I<br />

entered the room. “I feel SO much better,” she exclaimed.<br />

“Seven days after I took the remedy, all of my symptoms<br />

started to come on, but they were different, like my system<br />

was in a dance with them. A week later they came back, but<br />

milder than usual. I feel stronger in myself. I asked myself<br />

what I was going to do—keep hiding or go out in the world?<br />

The hiding, the veiling is breaking up. Normally things put<br />

me out of commission—I have a lot more resilience. Energy<br />

has improved. I’m doing a lot more and getting it done. Not<br />

a single full blown vertigo attack since the remedy!”<br />

I haven’t seen Michelle in over a year. She recently sent<br />

me the following letter:<br />

Dear Dr. Weiss,<br />

20 months ago when I first came to you I was incapacitated<br />

for days at a time unable to walk, drive or engage in<br />

simple daily activities. I could barely function even at a<br />

minimal level. I was shuttled from specialist to specialist<br />

and in and out of emergency rooms on a continual basis.<br />

The remedy you gave me was immediately effective. For<br />

nearly two years I have been free of chronic episodes of<br />

Meniere’s Disease. Any minor symptoms that still crop<br />

up rarely are immediately controlled by the remedy you<br />

prescribed. My husband and I flew to India last winter and<br />

had a dream vacation. I am eternally grateful to you for<br />

your exceptional and unique ability to integrate Western<br />

medical skills with homeopathy. I rejoice in my return to a<br />

happy and healthy life!<br />

Chronic disease can be likened to a broken record,<br />

I am eternally grateful to you for your<br />

exceptional and unique ability to integrate<br />

Western medical skills with homeopathy.<br />

I rejoice in my return to a happy and<br />

healthful life!<br />

playing a discordant song over and over again. The<br />

bodymindspirit has lost its innate intelligence and capacity<br />

to self-heal. Homeopathic remedies are packets or quanta of<br />

energetically encoded information which reboot the system<br />

and help to get it unstuck. Patients<br />

who experience profound healing<br />

will often tell me during follow<br />

up visits that the homeopathic<br />

remedy I gave them changed<br />

the chronic symptom(s) they<br />

had been experiencing for years.<br />

Either they felt the symptom about to come on but it never<br />

did, or it was milder and in some way modified compared to<br />

before the remedy.<br />

You don’t have to wait until your health is spinning out<br />

of control to get help with your medical problems, but it is a<br />

true blessing to know that if it does there is a safe, gentle and<br />

extremely powerful form of medicine which can alleviate<br />

the deepest of sufferings.<br />

Dr. Stephen Weiss has been successfully treating patients of<br />

all ages in his Holistic Integrative Medical Practice since 1993.<br />

Patients deeply appreciate his genuine, heartfelt compassion<br />

and ability to seamlessly combine cutting-edge high tech<br />

medicine with numerous effective and safe alternative healing<br />

modalities. Please visit his new and improved website to learn<br />

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A Body You’ll Love<br />

By Dr. Mark L. Schwartz, Chiropractor<br />

the time for you to shed those unwanted pounds?<br />

Are you unhappy enough with your appearance to try<br />

Isthis<br />

something different? Perhaps you are someone whose<br />

tried every fad diet but still hasn’t lost the weight you wanted.<br />

Or worse—perhaps you did lose weight only to have it come<br />

back with a vengeance.<br />

The truth is; you might have a specific health issue that is<br />

standing between you and your ideal body. Traditional diet<br />

plans take a one-size-fits-all approach and never uncover<br />

why your weight got to where it is in the first place. In most<br />

cases, overeating, cravings, lack of energy and weight gain are<br />

caused by imbalances in your system. For some, the problem is<br />

hormonal (did you know that there are 6 different fat burning<br />

hormones that are either working for or against you?); for<br />

others it’s a sluggish metabolism and for still others, it may be<br />

condition like candida.<br />

Our goal is to find out just what’s keeping your body from<br />

burning fat and then balance your body naturally. As your body<br />

returns to the shape and size you desire, you also get healthy<br />

and regain your energy so you can keep the weight off.<br />

If you would like to not only reduce your weight, but also<br />

rid yourself of food allergies, increase energy and vitality, lower<br />

cholesterol, improve digestion, improve physical appearance,<br />

have clearer thinking, eliminate headaches and have clearer<br />

skin, this program may be exactly what you need to make it<br />

happen!<br />

The Club Reduce Program Features Self Mastery<br />

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Health Assessment: We start with an assessment to<br />

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works by uncovering any underlying imbalances you may have.<br />

The program analyzes the data and gives instant feedback on<br />

what you need to add or change to get your body to burn fat.<br />

Treatment Plan: The doctor will use the data to recommend<br />

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Dr. Mark Schwartz is a licensed doctor of chiropractic and an<br />

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<strong>Truly</strong> <strong>Alive</strong> | September/October 2012 17


The Hormone & Anti-<br />

Aging Center Now Open!<br />

By Tom White, RPh, PhC and Frank Latino, RPh, MS, PhC<br />

Former Highland Pharmary employees Pharmacists Tom White and Frank Latino strike out on their own with<br />

“The Hormone & Anti-Aging Center of New Mexico”, a compounding Pharmacy and Clinic!<br />

After 31 years at Highland Pharmacy, you can now find<br />

Tom White RPh, PhC, and Frank Latino, RPh, MS.,<br />

PhC (at Highland for more than 20 years) in their<br />

new home at The Hormone and Anti-Aging Center of New<br />

Mexico (HAAC). This unique business is a new paradigm in<br />

the practice of Pharmacy (in New Mexico) and is stunning<br />

inside with a lovely spa-like atmosphere!<br />

During his early years at<br />

Highland Pharmacy, Tom<br />

started and developed Highland’s<br />

complete hormone and<br />

compounding program, including<br />

protocols, formulations<br />

and educational materials<br />

that were unique to the<br />

industry at that time (now<br />

standard in the industry)!<br />

Tom is a pioneer in the field<br />

of Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement<br />

Therapy (BHRT),<br />

and Frank is one of the most<br />

knowledgeable pharmacists in<br />

the field of alternative health<br />

care and Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy<br />

(BHRT). HAAC represents the future of anti-aging pharmaceutical<br />

compounding.<br />

Facts of Aging: By current estimates, we are all<br />

living longer. The percentage of the elderly population to<br />

total population continues to rise,<br />

promising an impending challenge<br />

and significant effect on the health care<br />

system. The symptoms of aging whether<br />

it be “menopause” for women or<br />

“andropause” for men has revived and<br />

stimulated the old notion of practicing<br />

preventive medicine. The ever growing<br />

field of anti-aging medicine is suggesting<br />

that supporting the endocrine system as<br />

we age might be very beneficial. Maintaining some form of<br />

hormone balance through the replenishment of hormones<br />

levels which our bodies no longer enjoy seems to be<br />

fundamental to the practice of comprehensive preventative<br />

medicine. As we approach 50, almost all hormone levels start<br />

to change or drop—usually never to be restored unless we<br />

supplement.<br />

Exactly what is Compounding? Compounding<br />

is the practice of ancient traditional pharmacy. It is the heritage<br />

of pharmacy. A compounded prescription is defined as<br />

the combination of 2 or more ingredients when combined is<br />

intended to elicit a medicinal or therapeutic effect. The preparation<br />

must be safe (do no harm), prepared to the specification<br />

of the prescribing practitioner using only USP, FDA approved<br />

ingredients. The compound<br />

must be free of contamination,<br />

have a specified stability,<br />

maintain a high level of pharmaceutical<br />

elegance (would<br />

you use the product yourself),<br />

packaged and stored correctly,<br />

address the issue of efficacy<br />

and be prepared in a pharmacy<br />

laboratory compliant with USP<br />

795 and 797 guidelines. These<br />

are a few of the issues and concerns<br />

that we as compounding<br />

pharmacists face with each<br />

formulation. HAAC continues<br />

to improve and strive for perfection<br />

in the formulations they dispense. It is very important<br />

to your health to understand and know the capability of your<br />

compounding pharmacist.<br />

Why Compound? Without compounding the modern<br />

world of medicine in the United States as we know it today<br />

would not exist. Millions of compounded prescriptions are<br />

prepared each day by pharmacists in the US. Are you allergic<br />

to preservatives, dyes, or possibly require a special dosage or<br />

delivery system not available in commercial pharmaceuticals?<br />

Is the preparation your practitioner wants to prescribe not<br />

commercially available? Is the commercial product you<br />

were using no longer available? These are just a few of the<br />

reasons why an exceptional compounding pharmacist can be<br />

extremely helpful.<br />

Multiple Disciplines at HAAC: In addition to cutting<br />

edge compounding services, this innovative and distinctive<br />

pharmacy incorporates several disciplines of medicine under<br />

one roof, including an esthetician, a nurse practitioner, and a<br />

Doctor of Oriental Medicine, offering Live Blood Analysis.<br />

*Pharmacist Clinicians: Tom and Frank are both<br />

pharmacist clinicians (granted by both the Board of Pharmacy<br />

and the Medical Board). As such, they have prescriptive au-<br />

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thority and can access patient’s needs and write appropriate<br />

prescriptions within an approved scope of practice, including:<br />

Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy, topical antiaging<br />

preparations, (such as Retin A), Hydroquinone (Bleach<br />

Creams), anti-wrinkle, anti-aging preparations<br />

and other skin preserving preparations,<br />

topical pain gels and creams and<br />

more. The team at HAAC is here to help<br />

practitioners fulfill the unique needs of<br />

their patients, and patients are referred<br />

frequently to practitioners in the community<br />

for a wide variety of services.<br />

*A Pharmacist Clinician by definition and<br />

legislated in the state of New Mexico, Montana, and<br />

North Carolina is considered a mid-level primary<br />

care practitioner.<br />

Beauty, Warmth & Function: The Hormone and<br />

Anti-Aging Center of New Mexico is located at 5510 Lomas<br />

Blvd NE along with (but separate from) Phil’s Pills Pharmacy.<br />

A door between the two businesses allows access to the full<br />

line pharmacy and the friendly staff of Phil’s Pills. HAAC is<br />

very unique to Albuquerque. It’s warm, nostalgic feeling invites<br />

everyone to-come-on-in.<br />

HAAC also boasts a state of the art compounding<br />

pharmacy laboratory with the capability of preparing almost<br />

any formulation for the patient from the simplest to the more<br />

complex high risk sterile preparations. The laboratory was<br />

specially designed and built for efficiency and productivity and<br />

is 100 percent compliant with both USP 795 non-sterile and<br />

797 sterile preparation guidelines.<br />

Once inside, you will enjoy a relaxed, confident and<br />

professional atmosphere and HAAC is completely service<br />

oriented. For Tom and Frank, providing superior customer<br />

service is essential. “Our intent is for every person who enters<br />

to walk out with a plan; a sense of direction, a referral, an<br />

idea…something that will give them hope in their challenge<br />

for better health.”<br />

Highest Quality Products: Our dermatological skin<br />

care products provide anti-aging properties at their best. HAAC<br />

networks with many professional organizations, individuals<br />

and pharmaceutical companies<br />

15%<br />

Discount<br />

on All Transferred<br />

Compounded<br />

Prescriptions<br />

(Initial prescription only.)<br />

throughout the United States<br />

in order to provide the highest<br />

quality active ingredients in all of<br />

our compounded preparations.<br />

We typically purchase ingredients<br />

which have been double and triple<br />

tested for content, contamination<br />

and purity. We offer only the<br />

VERY BEST. “And, we strive to deliver compounded products<br />

which meet or exceed the highest of standards to ensure: quality,<br />

efficacy, stability, purity, pharmaceutical elegance and batch<br />

to batch consistency.” With the use of the Visia computerized<br />

complexion assessment system, weight loss programs, detox<br />

programs, body contouring using the latest non-invasive Sheer<br />

Wave Technology, plus the introduction of an exclusive line of<br />

cosmeceuticals recognized worldwide, there is no better place<br />

in Albuquerque for a comprehensive approach to look and<br />

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feel your very best! HAAC provides compound prescriptions<br />

for pets, kids, and seniors too!<br />

Experience Counts: With over 70 years of pharmacy<br />

compounding experience, they provide comprehensive health<br />

solutions using state of the art techniques<br />

with the highest quality formulations.<br />

HAAC is licensed in several states<br />

to provide compounded pharmaceutical<br />

preparations outside the boundaries of<br />

New Mexico.<br />

Get to know us; ask about our capabilities.<br />

Your compounding pharmacist<br />

should be able to answer all your<br />

questions about any preparation<br />

that you received without any<br />

reservations. At HAAC, proper<br />

patient education for the proper<br />

use and administration of their<br />

compounded preparations is a<br />

priority that is not overlooked.<br />

The goal at HAAC is to hear, “I don’t know what I would do<br />

without this unique formula. It’s perfect for me.” HAAC is all<br />

about positive outcomes. “We welcome you to stop by and<br />

visit The Hormone and Anti-Aging Center of New Mexico.”<br />

We think you will be pleased and impressed. We’re located at<br />

5510 Lomas Blvd NE next to Phil’s Pills. 505-232-HAAC (4222)<br />

www.haacnm.com<br />

<strong>Truly</strong> <strong>Alive</strong> | September/October 2012 19


As seen on KOB-TV<br />

The Wave of the Future –<br />

BRAIN BALANCING<br />

By Louise Swartswalter, ND, CBS, CNHP, CALT<br />

Our Brain Boosters Program continues to grow and achieve amazing results. Please join us September19,<br />

at 6:30pm in the Albuquerque Natural Health Center Office to learn how you and your family can optimize<br />

brain power, enhance your memory, increase your focus and achieve better grades in school. Read more at<br />

www.abqnaturalhealthcenter.com. See events.<br />

The wave of the future in healing is brain balancing.<br />

It is the Central Nervous System (CNS) comprised of<br />

the brain and spinal cord that send signals<br />

to every part of your body to control vital functions<br />

such as breathing, heart rate, motor functions<br />

and hormones. It also controls your thoughts,<br />

emotions, learning, memory and speech.<br />

As Dr. Amen said, “Change your brain and<br />

change your life.” All of our five biofeedback<br />

programs work on balancing the brain and this is<br />

why we are able to affect change for many different<br />

imbalances: anxiety, depression, allergies, ADD/<br />

ADHD, Autism, Parkinson’s, fibromyalgia, acid reflux, etc. I<br />

like to work on the whole simultaneously — physical, mental,<br />

emotional and spiritual to optimize results. Working on one<br />

area at a time is like building a house and forgetting to put in<br />

the electrical system.<br />

Our Brain Boosters program works long<br />

distance, sending frequencies to harmonize<br />

and balance the brain waves, increase memory<br />

and balance the neurotransmitters (serotonin,<br />

dopamine and others). New brain information (my<br />

work) has been added this to the program so this<br />

group will be “super charged.” Join us September<br />

19 at 6:30 PM in the office and change your brain<br />

for life! See more at www.abqnaturalhealthcenter.<br />

com and www.lousieswartswalter.com.<br />

Recently I have added soul level work. By addressing the<br />

soul level, plus the mental-emotional and physical work in<br />

combination, clients are able to reduce the number of sessions<br />

needed; saving money, time and energy. I am teaching this<br />

work in the Geotran Class in Denver Sept. 7, 8 and 9.<br />

Please join me for an introduction to this breakthrough<br />

soul-brain work at the <strong>Truly</strong> <strong>Alive</strong> Health and Spirituality<br />

Workshop, September 22, 10:30 am.<br />

I am very happy to say that I am experiencing a real and<br />

noticeable benefit from your work. Thank you SO much.<br />

Being a practitioner myself, it is SO nice to have someone<br />

else work on me as I usually don’t work on myself as often as<br />

I could for sure, so thank you. I want to sign up for your next<br />

group along with 2 sons and father you already have us in<br />

your system for Brain Boosting.<br />

A.B., Vermont<br />

Dr. Louise is a Naturopathic Doctor, Biofeedback Specialist,<br />

Certified Natural Health Professional and health educator.<br />

If you have tried many modalities with minimal results, you<br />

can experience whole health with the use of the Quantum<br />

Biofeedback, integrations, naturopathy, and trauma release<br />

work, homeopathy, herbs, kinesiology and ionic cleanse<br />

footbaths. We work with YOU to accomplish your health goals<br />

and correct imbalances in the least number of sessions possible.<br />

Call today for your appointment: 505-797-0540 or visit us at<br />

www.abqnaturalhealthcenter.com.<br />

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From Self-Centered to<br />

Universal Consciousness<br />

By Wendy Foxworth, Center for Conscious Living<br />

The Center for Conscious Living is an evolving spiritual<br />

community whose purpose is to embody unconditional<br />

love. To fulfill this purpose, we provide tools and<br />

methodologies that help people shift from self-centered<br />

to universal consciousness. We honor universal Truths<br />

expressed in many different religious, spiritual, philosophical<br />

and psychological schools of thought and are blessed by all<br />

individualized expressions of Spirit.<br />

Dare to Go Beyond the Field of “Right and Wrong”<br />

As a non-membership, non-profit organization, we<br />

study spirituality in the context of developmental levels<br />

of consciousness. Our contribution to humanity is to be a<br />

welcoming place where people can learn to increase their level<br />

of consciousness to become practical channels of unconditional<br />

love in all forms of relationship. Our integral education program<br />

challenges people to go beyond the “field of right and wrong”<br />

to live in the “field of oneness” with all creation.<br />

Consciousness is the invisible unified field of energy/Spirit<br />

out of which arises everything in the universe. We awaken to<br />

the reality of consciousness over time and developmentally. Just<br />

as a second grader and tenth grader have different capabilities<br />

and skills in a K-12 educational system, so too do we gain<br />

new skills, abilities and capabilities at each successive level of<br />

consciousness. When one becomes aware that there are levels<br />

of consciousness, it is possible to embody one new level of<br />

consciousness every five years.<br />

Make the Shift to Universal Consciousness<br />

Making the collective shift from self-centered to universal<br />

consciousness in the next 10 years is a critical factor in our being<br />

able to co-create positive and life-giving possibilities for the<br />

future of the human race. The Center for Conscious Living<br />

provides a safe and open place to explore making this shift.<br />

Help Birth the Era of Conscious Evolution in 2012<br />

The methodology we are using now to embody and model<br />

universal consciousness is the work of Barbara Marx Hubbard,<br />

Birth 2012 and Beyond: Humanity’s Great Shift to the Age of<br />

Conscious Evolution. By invitation only Barbara will be meeting<br />

with those who are a part of our Evolutionary Circle and Birth<br />

2012 Consciousness Study on September 15th. We encourage<br />

those who aren’t able to be a part of our regular programming<br />

events to attend The Seed Institute Conference in Albuquerque<br />

on September 13-17 where Barbara will be speaking about<br />

Birth 2012.<br />

Schedule of Events for September and October<br />

Sundays 11am-1pm, ”Consciousness Study” Currently we are<br />

studying the Birth 2012 Movement as a path to making the<br />

shift from self-centered to universal consciousness. We will be<br />

studying “Being Prosperous in this Economy” on October 7th<br />

(and is the title/subject of our talk at the <strong>Truly</strong> <strong>Alive</strong> Workshop on<br />

9/22/12, 9am. See pg. 7 for more details).<br />

Tuesdays 5:30-7pm, “Beginner’s Tai Chi Chih” begins on<br />

September 11th.<br />

Wednesdays, 6:30-9pm, beginning October 10th, we will<br />

sponsor a “Conscious Evolution/Evolutionary Circle”<br />

experience that helps one learn what it is like to relate in<br />

community with others from Essence instead of Ego.<br />

Thursdays 5:30-8pm, we are a part of “Circles® New Mexico”<br />

co-creating community to support families with low income to<br />

leave poverty behind in their life experience. Join us as we make<br />

unconditional love a reality in the lives of others.<br />

Fridays, 6:30-9pm, the “Community Choir for Peace”<br />

rehearses. This choir practices allowing Spirit/Source Energy to<br />

sing peace in and through each individual and the group as a<br />

whole. Be peace and sing peace into our community.<br />

Please visit: www.consciouslivingnm.com to explore/register<br />

for classes, circles and events. We deeply appreciate and honor<br />

who you really are and hope to meet you soon. Namaste.<br />

Please join us Sundays<br />

11am to 1pm<br />

Community<br />

Consciousness<br />

Study<br />

“Growing in consciousness<br />

to end poverty and<br />

relational violence!”<br />

Wendy Foxworth<br />

Center Director<br />

2825 Broadbent Pkwy NE, Suite E • ABQ<br />

505.343.8001 • consciouslivingnm.com<br />

Read more articles by Wendy Foxworth online: www.trulyalive.net<br />

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European Commission Report Recommends<br />

Phasing Out Dental Amalgam<br />

By Dr. Mercola (Excerpted from an article published on August 8, 2012 )<br />

A<br />

European Commission report by the BIO<br />

Intelligence Service (BIOS) recommended the<br />

phase-out of dental amalgam and mercury in button<br />

cell batteries has many wondering if the whole of Europe will<br />

eliminate the use of dental mercury by 2018.<br />

It’s about time, and hopefully it would push the United<br />

States to quickly follow suit. Currently about half of U.S.<br />

dentists are mercury-free, and 77 percent of consumers<br />

who are informed that amalgam fillings are mostly mercury<br />

would choose a mercury-free alternative and are willing<br />

to pay more for it. The European Commission has been<br />

working to reduce mercury exposure to humans for the<br />

past seven years.<br />

While the official stand has been that dental amalgam is<br />

safe, recent studies suggest otherwise. Sweden has already<br />

phased out dental mercury, and several other European<br />

countries have either significantly reduced its use or have<br />

imposed restrictions on it. The United States has been<br />

shockingly slow to respond to mounting evidence of<br />

significant harm from dental amalgam.<br />

It’s important to understand that the term “silver filling”<br />

is profoundly deceptive, as the material contains anywhere<br />

from 49 to 54 percent mercury, not silver. The American<br />

Dental Association (ADA) has historically covered up this<br />

fact, and at one time even declared that removing mercury<br />

fillings is unethical—despite the known fact that dental<br />

amalgam emits mercury vapor after it is implanted in your<br />

mouth, and this mercury is bioaccumulative and endangers<br />

your health in many ways.<br />

The BIOS recommendations have yet to be adopted,<br />

but the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and the<br />

Mercury Policy Project say they welcome the study. Project<br />

coordinator for the EEB’s Zero Mercury Campaign, Elena<br />

Lymberidi-Settimo, said the work shows that “mercury<br />

use must be phased out,” especially since alternatives to<br />

mercury use in dentistry are available. “It’s high time that<br />

mercury becomes the exception rather than the rule,” she<br />

said to PR Newswire.<br />

The Environmental Effects of Dental Amalgams:<br />

The BIOS report primarily focuses on the environmental<br />

impacts of dental amalgam as opposed to the health effects<br />

of having mercury, a potent neurotoxin, in your mouth.<br />

According to the authors of the report, dental amalgam<br />

is “a significant contributor to overall EU environmental<br />

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emissions of mercury from human activities.” The situation<br />

is identical in the US. Still, the report offers plenty of<br />

evidence suggestive of the potential health ramifications<br />

of the archaic and downright barbaric practice of placing<br />

mercury in your teeth.<br />

According to the report:<br />

“The current levels of mercury pollution in the EU are such<br />

that all the EU population is exposed to mercury above the<br />

natural background level and certain population groups such<br />

as high-level fish consumers, women of childbearing age and<br />

children are subject to high risk levels, principally due to their<br />

high exposure and/or high vulnerability to mercury in the<br />

form of methyl mercury, which is ingested through the diet.<br />

This presents a risk of negative impacts on health, in<br />

particular affecting the nervous system and diminishing<br />

intellectual capacity.<br />

There are also environmental risks, for example the<br />

disturbance of microbiological activity in soils and harm to<br />

wildlife populations. The effects of mercury releases on the<br />

integrity of the ecosystem are substantial. Various species,<br />

especially eagles, loons, kingfishers, ospreys, ibises, river<br />

otters, mink and others that rely on fish for a large part of<br />

their diet, have been observed to suffer adverse health and/<br />

or behavioral effects. Observed disorders such as effects on<br />

the muscles and nervous system, reduced or altered mating<br />

habits, ability to reproduce, raise offspring, catch food and<br />

avoid predators have been demonstrated to affect individual<br />

animal viability and overall population stability.<br />

According to calculations based on the critical load concept,<br />

more than 70 percent of the European ecosystem area is<br />

estimated to be at risk today due to mercury, with critical<br />

loads of mercury exceeded in large parts of western, central<br />

and southern Europe.”<br />

World Health Organization Report Also Urges Cessation of<br />

Dental Amalgam:<br />

WHO also urges “a switch in use of dental materials” away<br />

from amalgam. WHO noted the following three reasons for<br />

the new position:<br />

• Amalgam releases a “significant amount of mercury”<br />

into the environment, including the atmosphere,<br />

surface water, groundwater, and soil.<br />

• Dental amalgam raises “general health concerns.” The


eport observes: “According to the Norwegian Dental<br />

Biomaterials Adverse Reaction Unit, the majority of cases<br />

of side-effects of dental filling materials are linked with<br />

dental amalgam.”<br />

• Alternative dental restoration<br />

materials are available. The<br />

report cites studies indicating that<br />

many alternatives are superior<br />

to amalgam, and states that<br />

“alternative restorative materials<br />

of sufficient quality are available<br />

for use in the deciduous [baby]<br />

dentition of children”—the<br />

population whose developing<br />

neurological systems are most<br />

susceptible to the neurotoxic effects of dental mercury.<br />

Perhaps more important than the survival of the filling,<br />

WHO asserts that: “Adhesive resin materials allow for less<br />

tooth destruction and, as a result, a longer survival of the<br />

tooth itself.”<br />

The WHO report also included mention of the known<br />

toxic effects of mercury exposure, stating: “Mercury is<br />

highly toxic and harmful to health. Approximately 80 percent<br />

of inhaled mercury vapor is absorbed in the blood through<br />

the lungs, causing damages to lungs, kidneys and the nervous,<br />

digestive, respiratory and immune systems. Health effects<br />

from excessive mercury exposure include tremors, impaired<br />

vision and hearing, paralysis, insomnia, emotional instability,<br />

developmental deficits during fetal development, and<br />

attention deficit and developmental delays during childhood.”<br />

popular alternatives to amalgam is resin composite, made of<br />

a type of plastic reinforced with powdered glass. It is already<br />

common throughout the U.S. and the rest of the developed<br />

world, offering notable improvements over amalgam, as it:<br />

• Is environmentally safe:<br />

Composite, which contains no<br />

mercury, does not pollute the<br />

environment. This saves taxpayers<br />

from paying the costs of cleaning<br />

up dental mercury pollution in our<br />

water, air, and land – and the costs<br />

of health problems associated with<br />

mercury pollution.<br />

• Preserves healthy tooth structure,<br />

because, unlike amalgam, it does not require the removal<br />

of significant amounts of healthy tooth matter. Over the<br />

long term, composite preserves healthy tooth structure<br />

and can actually strengthen teeth, leading to better oral<br />

health and less extensive dental work over the longterm.<br />

• Is long-lasting: While some claim that amalgam fillings<br />

last longer than composite fillings, the science reveals<br />

this claim to be baseless. The latest studies show that<br />

composite not only lasts as long as amalgam, but actually<br />

has a higher overall survival rate.<br />

Alternatives are Readily Available… and Desired by Most<br />

Americans:<br />

Far from being an essential dental product with no viable<br />

alternatives, amalgam is interchangeable with many other<br />

filling materials—including resin composites and glass<br />

ionomers—which have rendered amalgam completely<br />

unnecessary for any clinical situation. One of the most<br />

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TRULY ALIVE FEATURE SECTION<br />

An Interview with Gregg Braden<br />

and an Overview of his newest book,<br />

Deep Truth, Igniting the Memory of Our<br />

Origin, History, Destiny and Fate<br />

by Karen Larré, Carla Garcia & Mary Anne Weaver<br />

New York Times best selling<br />

author Gregg Braden is<br />

internationally renowned as<br />

a pioneer in bridging science<br />

and spirituality. Following a successful<br />

career as a Computer Geologist for<br />

Phillips Petroleum during the 1970’s<br />

energy crisis, he worked as a Senior<br />

Computer Systems Designer with<br />

Martin Marietta Defense Systems during<br />

the last years of the Cold War. In 1991, he<br />

became The First Technical Operations<br />

Manager for Cisco Systems where he led<br />

the development of the global support<br />

team that insures the reliability of today’s<br />

internet.<br />

For more than 25 years, Gregg has<br />

searched high mountain villages, remote<br />

monasteries, and forgotten texts to<br />

uncover their timeless secrets. His work<br />

is now featured on the History Channel,<br />

the Discovery Channel, The Sci Fi<br />

Channel, ABC and NBC.<br />

To date, Gregg’s discoveries have<br />

led to such paradigm-shattering books<br />

as: The Isaiah Effect, The God Code, The<br />

Divine Matrix, and Fractal Time which<br />

debuted in 2009 at #5 on the New York<br />

Times bestseller list just 2 weeks after<br />

its release! His newest, Deep Truth:<br />

Igniting the Origin of Our Origin,<br />

History, Destiny<br />

and Fate provides<br />

insight into many<br />

scientific false<br />

assumptions,<br />

discusses their<br />

implications and<br />

talks about how<br />

humanity may be<br />

at a critical tipping<br />

point. Gregg’s<br />

work is published<br />

in 38 languages and 33 countries and<br />

shows us beyond any reasonable doubt<br />

that the key to our future lies in the<br />

wisdom of our past.<br />

<strong>Truly</strong> <strong>Alive</strong>: Can we start with your<br />

telling us what you mean by “deep truth?”<br />

Gregg Braden: The newest book, Deep<br />

Truth was released in the fall of 2011. This<br />

book was almost complete before it even<br />

had a title, which is very unusual for me.<br />

Albert Einstein had a conversation with<br />

Neils Bohr, the Nobel Prize winning<br />

physicist, regarding the discoveries (of<br />

that time) that were overturning what<br />

had been held—up to that point—as<br />

scientific truth. Neils Bohr said, “It is<br />

the hallmark of any deep truth that its<br />

negation is also a deep truth.” I realized<br />

that what Neils Bohr said about these<br />

discoveries of the mid-20th century is<br />

precisely what is happening in our world<br />

right now. New discoveries are now<br />

overturning the deepest truths held by<br />

science over the last 150 years. These are<br />

peer-reviewed science-based discoveries<br />

—not speculation. They are peerreviewed<br />

facts and these new discoveries<br />

are showing us where our thinking is<br />

either incomplete, or flat-out wrong. It’s<br />

critical to understand this right now<br />

because our young people (as well as the<br />

experts) are simply not aware of some<br />

of these discoveries. We are now being<br />

asked to solve the greatest crises in the<br />

world with the same thinking that led to<br />

the crises. The consequences are that the<br />

solutions aren’t working.<br />

TA: What does humanity need to<br />

understand right now, that will allow us<br />

all to effectively address today’s crises?<br />

GB: In Deep Truth, I’ve identified five<br />

key, false assumptions that science has<br />

made over the last 150 years.<br />

The first key assumption is, no<br />

surprise, from Charles Darwin,<br />

regarding evolution. We’ve been taught<br />

that evolution explains life itself, and the<br />

human mind specifically. The problem<br />

with that neither the physical data nor<br />

DNA data supports it.<br />

Gregg Braden in Caral, Peru<br />

The second key assumption regards<br />

civilization itself. When I was in school,<br />

I was taught that civilization is about<br />

5,000, maybe 5,500 years old…that it<br />

is linear, beginning in the primitive<br />

state, and has advanced to the pinnacle<br />

of technology that we see today. The<br />

problem with that is, peer-reviewed<br />

archaeological discoveries are now<br />

pushing the accepted date of advanced<br />

civilization to over twice as old as we’ve<br />

been led to believe, back to the end of the<br />

last ice age, around 11,500 years ago.<br />

False assumption number 3<br />

regards physics. It simply states that<br />

consciousness is somehow separate from<br />

our physical world. Once again the data<br />

doesn’t support this. Professor John<br />

Wheeler from Princeton University, a<br />

colleague of Einstein—was very bold<br />

in saying that we cannot separate<br />

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consciousness from the rest of the world.<br />

Professor Wheeler stated that the failure<br />

to find the unified field theory in physics<br />

is due to having written consciousness<br />

out of the equation.<br />

False assumption number 4 is also<br />

with regard to physics, and it says that<br />

the space between physical things is<br />

empty. We now know that there is no<br />

empty space. There are forms of energy<br />

that occupy all space. We’ve been led to<br />

believe that everything is separate from<br />

everything else, and what we do in one<br />

place has little or no impact on what<br />

happens somewhere else. Now we know<br />

that is not the case.<br />

The last false assumption is perhaps<br />

the most critical when it comes to the<br />

changes we are being asked to make in<br />

our world today. With regard to nature,<br />

Darwin stated in his book On the<br />

Origins of Species, that nature is based<br />

upon what is called “survival of the<br />

strongest.” Darwin was the first scientist<br />

to attempt to answer the big questions<br />

of the origins of life, beyond the realm<br />

of the religious community and the<br />

church. Because Darwin attempted to<br />

answer these questions through the<br />

emerging language of science, his ideas<br />

were quickly embraced with very little<br />

question, in the world at that time.<br />

People say to me, “OK, Gregg, maybe<br />

Darwin wasn’t quite right. And that<br />

was over 150 years ago. What difference<br />

could it possibly make in our modern<br />

sophisticated technological world<br />

today?” We live in the modern world of<br />

the 21st century; that is true. We have<br />

refined ideas, but the ideas were actually<br />

developed in the late 1800’s and early<br />

1900’s when Darwin’s ideas were very<br />

popular. Possibly the best example of<br />

the “Survival of the strongest” idea is<br />

our global economy. Corporations are<br />

based upon the idea of “Survival of the<br />

strongest.” Our young people in school<br />

more often than not are taught that it’s<br />

all about getting the right answer on the<br />

test, or about scoring the right point on<br />

the field. The underlying belief is, we live<br />

in the world that’s “dog eat dog”— a world<br />

of scarcity, a world of lack, where there is<br />

one pie and everyone must fight for their<br />

slice. The problem is, the best science of<br />

our time is telling us that nature is NOT<br />

based upon “Survival of the strongest.”<br />

While we may see expressions of that<br />

in nature, they are response-specific<br />

situations. The over-arching rule in<br />

nature is that it is based upon a model of<br />

cooperation and mutual aid.<br />

There are two primary kinds<br />

of competition: There is a form of<br />

competition where one person or one<br />

group benefits at the expense of another;<br />

where a group or an individual exploit<br />

the weaknesses of another. In nature,<br />

that’s called violent competition. There’s<br />

another form of competition, where a<br />

group or an individual excels simply<br />

because they have developed their<br />

abilities to their highest expression. Over<br />

four hundred studies were done in the<br />

last 15 years that asked the same question:<br />

what is the optimum amount of violent<br />

competition in the environment? What<br />

the studies found was, the optimum<br />

amount of violent competition in ANY<br />

situation is ZERO, in any environment<br />

—in the workplace, in the classroom, on<br />

the playing field. Competition always,<br />

always, always is detrimental to the<br />

individual and to the group. In 2008, the<br />

prestigious journal New Scientist did an<br />

essay encapsulating this work and the<br />

new discoveries, emphasizing that what<br />

we see in the wild is not every animal out<br />

for itself, and if cooperation were to break<br />

down, the results would be disastrous.<br />

These new discoveries tell us the<br />

bottom line is: we know that nature, the<br />

real nature, is based on cooperation and<br />

mutual aid, and that’s a very different<br />

way of going about solving our problem<br />

than competition and conflict. We are<br />

witnessing the expression…the extremes<br />

of these false assumptions, along with an<br />

opportunity to embrace the best science<br />

of our time. Can we marry that science<br />

with our most cherished spiritual and<br />

indigenous traditions to weave a new<br />

wisdom that is greater than anything<br />

that we have had in the past? This is the<br />

essence of the book Deep Truth.<br />

TA: You have journeyed to many<br />

archeological sites, because you believe<br />

the ancient past hold the keys to the<br />

future. In what way?<br />

GB: When I was in school, I was shown<br />

charts of the history of the world. They all<br />

said that our history began about 5,000<br />

years ago in ancient Sumeria. Now, what<br />

we are finding is this: there is a common<br />

theme that runs through the advanced<br />

civilizations of the world, prior to 5,000<br />

years ago. In every instance with the<br />

excavations, no evidence of war has been<br />

found; no evidence of the need to defend<br />

Gregg Braden playing an Andean flute<br />

homes and cities against intruders—no<br />

evidence of weapons, of walls, of moats.<br />

No evidence of mass graves (that you<br />

would expect at the end of large scale<br />

wars) were ever found; none of the<br />

mutilated bodies and severed limbs with<br />

axes in skulls (that you would expect<br />

to find after wars). As a scientist, I have<br />

to say one of two things is happening<br />

here: either 1) weapons exist, and they<br />

haven’t been found, or 2) they don’t<br />

exist because war is not human nature.<br />

A growing number of historians and<br />

anthropologists are beginning to write in<br />

their papers that war is an aberration of<br />

human experience. It’s a habit that began<br />

5,000 years ago with the first evidence of<br />

large scale war in the nation of Sumeria.<br />

If war is a habit that was learned 5,000<br />

years ago, the question is—can we<br />

unlearn that habit? Archaeology itself—<br />

the peer-reviewed science of civilization<br />

—is now confirming human nature is<br />

also based on a model of cooperation<br />

and mutual aid.<br />

TA: Why is it important for us to<br />

understand that the global economic<br />

collapse did not happen quickly or without<br />

notice?<br />

GB: I think <strong>Truly</strong> <strong>Alive</strong> readers are<br />

well-informed and know that this is no<br />

ordinary time in the history of the world.<br />

But for many people in the mainstream,<br />

it took people by surprise. In all honesty,<br />

so many people’s lives are so full with<br />

just trying to get through the day, trying<br />

to get their kids to school, keep dinner<br />

on the table, hold down their jobs, stay<br />

healthy and have some semblance of a<br />

social life; they just don’t spend a lot of<br />

time delving into the intricacies of what<br />

keeps our civilization on track. They<br />

trust the people in control. They trust the<br />

continued on p26<br />

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Gregg Braden Interview cont’d from p25<br />

Gregg Braden showing<br />

a Yucatan glyph<br />

people in government and politics—to<br />

a large degree.<br />

Experts knew (and they told in<br />

2005) that the world economic system<br />

was unsustainable and was going to<br />

collapse. But it’s hard to think about<br />

those things when everything looks<br />

like it’s chugging along pretty well.<br />

Some of the economists that tried to<br />

alert people were laughed out of the<br />

rooms; some of them lost their jobs,<br />

and their essays weren’t printed. People<br />

and publications refused to hear them<br />

or print them. And, those same people are now telling us that<br />

what happened in 2008 and 2009 is the first leg; and that we’re<br />

in for the second leg if we don’t change our way of thinking. I<br />

don’t know what’s going to happen in the world. I don’t think<br />

anyone knows for certain. But I do know, whatever happens,<br />

it’s going to take an unprecedented level of cooperation on an<br />

individual and on a global basis to address the crises.<br />

TA: Is there anything else that you would like people to know<br />

about you and your work?<br />

GB: Over the last five years, I’ve been on every continent of<br />

the Earth except Antarctica. People know that something is<br />

happening. The question is, what does it mean? People ask,<br />

“What can we do?” When we recognize how steeped we are<br />

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and often unconsciously,<br />

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question. The question in<br />

Gregg Braden in Reed Islands the past has been, “What<br />

can I get from the world<br />

that exists?” In light of the new discoveries, we need to make<br />

the shift to the new question, “What can I give to the world<br />

that’s emerging?” The way we answer that question changes<br />

everything about the way that we approach every problem,<br />

from those of our personal lives, to those of our families, our<br />

communities, and our nations.<br />

What we’ll find is that when we give our heart’s passion,<br />

our greatest gift, the things that we are so passionate about—<br />

not necessarily what we’ve been trained to do or what pays the<br />

best—but when we give in that way, we become better people<br />

and we will create a better world.<br />

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Exploring the Essence of Time at the<br />

Wisdom from the Origins Conference<br />

By Glenn Aparicio Parry, PhD, President of Seed Institute<br />

The ancients understood that time unfolded in the<br />

energy of a circle, emergent from a particular origin<br />

and radiating outward, much like the rings of a tree or<br />

ripples of water. This energy was understood to permeate all of<br />

nature. The role of human beings, therefore, was not to control,<br />

but to synchronize with what was unfolding. We were attuned<br />

to cycles of time, which we learned directly from nature. We<br />

understood that nature was the original teacher.<br />

The ancient calendars of Indigenous civilizations such as<br />

the Mayan culture directly embodied this teaching. You are<br />

invited to discover this ancient wisdom for yourself, and how<br />

it is relevant today, at THE Conference of 2012. Coming this<br />

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and Other Prophecies on the Future of Humanity. It brings<br />

together Indigenous elders, social visionaries, ecologists,<br />

philosophers, healers, and experts on the Mayan calendar —<br />

more than 35 in all — to one place. The entire conference will<br />

be conducted in circles within circles, both in the large plenary<br />

sessions and in the smaller breakout rooms.<br />

Gregg Braden, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Marianne<br />

Williamson, James O’Dea, Kenny Ausubel, Nina Simons,<br />

Robert Sitler, and Kenneth Johnson are joined by the Head of<br />

the Mayan Council of Elders, Don Alejandro; Grandmother<br />

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that promote balance, harmony, and healing.<br />

With opening ceremonies at Chaco Canyon and a special<br />

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The Heart is a Radiator, Not<br />

a Discriminator<br />

4th in a Series of Articles About Chakras<br />

Excerpt from “The Wisdom of the Chakras” By Ellen Tadd<br />

The heart chakra is located in the obvious place, the<br />

heart area in the chest. It is the center of love, joy,<br />

generosity, courage, and forgiveness. Love with its<br />

pervasive positivity, is concentrated in the heart chakra<br />

and is a warm, accepting, unifying feeling that makes us<br />

feel good to be alive. When unrestricted, the feeling<br />

of love stimulates appreciation for life, while<br />

simultaneously supporting and celebrating the<br />

evolutionary process of fully realizing our<br />

spiritual identity. The heart chakra radiates<br />

love whether it is expressed in words,<br />

deeds, or simply in a presence. When<br />

unblocked, love is a natural force that<br />

flows out of the spiritual essence.<br />

In my observation, the heart chakra<br />

has an inner and an out chamber; the inner<br />

chamber contains the intension and<br />

underlying desire to love, the outer chamber<br />

emanates and expresses love. Both chambers<br />

can absorb the feeling of love when unobstructed<br />

by hurts and fears.<br />

The radiating force of love can be interrupted by hurts, fears,<br />

and misconceptions. Like clouds that block the sun, anxieties,<br />

emotional wounds, and distorted beliefs can obstruct the<br />

warmth and radiance of the heart chakra. Yet even when the<br />

sun is covered over by clouds, it is still warm; similarly, even<br />

when love is not acknowledged or experienced, it is stored in<br />

the heart chakra.<br />

People with a healthy inner heart chamber feel the<br />

intention and wish to express and receive love. Yet many may<br />

be unable to actualize their desire consistently or sometimes<br />

even partially because their outer heart chambers have<br />

become blocked or damaged. This affliction is caused by an<br />

accumulation of negative emotional reactions to unwanted<br />

experiences such as feeling hurt when a spouse is unkind. The<br />

repeated occurrence of feeling emotionally hurt blocks the<br />

flow of love from the outer heart chamber. These blockages can<br />

protect the heart from experiencing further injury, but they<br />

also obstruct the heart’s ability to receive and express love. If<br />

hurts and disappointments accumulate, not only can the outer<br />

heart chamber become damaged but the inner heart chamber<br />

can be impaired. Then a feeling of deep unhappiness settles in.<br />

Our desire to express love fades, while feelings of selfishness,<br />

indifference, or hatred grow.<br />

Blocking, however is only one of two ways to protect your<br />

heart chakra from injury. The healthy way is through clarity.<br />

Clarity, which comes from the third eye, protects the heart<br />

from hurt because the third eye sees that an unkind person is<br />

a learning person. My guides say it this way, “If everyone were<br />

enlightened, everyone would be loving.” We protect the heart<br />

chakra from pain by viewing life from a spiritual perspective,<br />

focusing from the third eye, and maintaining spiritual attitudes.<br />

Then it becomes possible to consistently see<br />

our circumstances and other people’s behavior<br />

as part of a positive evolutionary growth process.<br />

When we emphasize learning and the<br />

development of consciousness, each situation<br />

offers constructive knowledge and<br />

lessons. By cultivating and affirming this<br />

understanding of the human condition,<br />

we are less likely to take the behaviors<br />

of others and life’s difficulties personally.<br />

This allows love to flow and protects the<br />

heart from harm.<br />

The hurt of the heart is a by-product of<br />

being attached to outcomes. Such attachment is<br />

commonly created by a focus (conscious or unconscious)<br />

on the solar plexus chakra. By shifting focus to the third eye<br />

we perceive the world in a spiritual context. This attunement<br />

promotes objectivity and serves as an antidote to attachment,<br />

and thus helps to sustain an open heart chakra. Uniting the<br />

third eye with the heart chakra creates a sense of wholeness<br />

and balance, whether others reciprocate love or not.<br />

I cannot emphasize too much that the heart chakra is a center<br />

of love not the center of discernment.<br />

Individuals having difficulty making life<br />

decisions are often advised to “follow<br />

their heart.” Doing so is a problem if a<br />

person is focused and operating from<br />

the solar plexus chakra rather than the<br />

third eye, for then the heart chakra will<br />

function as an emotional, reactionary, or<br />

needy center, which prevents the heart<br />

from giving a clear message. Like the sun<br />

that shines on my lawn and yours, the<br />

heart radiates without discrimination.<br />

Thus, it is critically important that the heart chakra be united<br />

with the third eye and its wisdom rather that than with the<br />

solar plexus and its focus on feelings and emotions. People<br />

with good intentions may feel loving, but their choices may be<br />

inappropriate, unwise, and ultimately, unloving if the third-eye<br />

chakra is not activated and united with the heart chakra.<br />

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Your Last Diet<br />

By Dr. Jan Jay, DOM<br />

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Energy Ways: Restoring<br />

the Light Body<br />

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In this experiential workshop, you will:<br />

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My Body Spoke...<br />

I Listened<br />

By Jennifer McKay Vaitkus<br />

Recently, I had an amazing experience while<br />

dancing. Throughout that day I heard the<br />

message, “Focus on the small parts.” So, I<br />

made this intention for my dance. I brought my<br />

awareness to the smallest areas in my body; the tip of my nose,<br />

the skin between my toes, the area at the base of my throat, my<br />

belly button. Each time I brought my awareness to a part of my<br />

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My tailbone wanted attention and as soon as I brought my<br />

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inside my ears and I felt an intense sense of compassion for my<br />

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skin behind my knees and felt so much joy I wanted to burst out<br />

laughing. I then became aware of the center of my palms. They<br />

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them. I felt my ankles and toes and heard the message “We all<br />

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part is in pain or needs help we all help. It is only your ego/<br />

mind that chooses not to be a part of this community.” What a<br />

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This experience taught me that EVERY part of my body<br />

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Relief from<br />

Your Pain<br />

By Gwen Pullen, CWK, MBA & Dr. Gail Drane , DOM<br />

There are many types and causes of pain. Your<br />

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Pain is most often an indication that inflammation is present<br />

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HCG Diet, Accidents and<br />

Natural Face Lifts<br />

By Dr. Carla Garcia, DOM<br />

What do these things have in common? They are<br />

treatments offered by Dr. Garcia at Acupuncture<br />

Specialists. Many people know Dr. Garcia for her<br />

expertise in thermography, but other services and treatments<br />

are also available in her office.<br />

Dieting is always on people’s minds. If we are not on a diet,<br />

we feel like we should be. Most weight loss programs are very<br />

hard because it can take weeks to lose those first 10 pounds.<br />

Human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) is a hormone that can<br />

be used for quick weight loss that propels you into a lifestyle<br />

of healthy eating that maintains your weight loss. Real HCG<br />

is a hormone available only through prescription. The average<br />

weight loss is about 1/2 to 1 lb per day. Products in stores labeled<br />

as HCG are homeopathic or herbal and do not contain HCG.<br />

Medical coverage on car insurance policies usually covers<br />

acupuncture treatments to help with accident trauma recovery.<br />

Dr. Garcia uses painless micro-current, acupuncture and tuina<br />

(massage) to reduce pain and increase mobility. Auto accidents<br />

can cause nervous system destabilization that leads to physical<br />

and emotional symptoms. Energy becomes stuck in the body<br />

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How<br />

S.T.A.R., Now State of Being<br />

By Nina Brown<br />

On October 19 - 21, 2012, the S.T.A.R. Clinic will welcome starseeds at the Santa Ana Pueblo Hyatt Tamaya for a clinic focused<br />

on “Ascension 2012: Ancient and New Codes Revealed.” After a healing from Divine Mother (Matthew Reifslager), presenters<br />

will explain what codes are and why they assist in the process of inner alchemy. On Sunday within a stargate portal, codes<br />

will be transmitted. This quantum tool, the S.T.A.R. Clinic, has been gifted to you. Come join us for this unprecedented event.<br />

Your participation has the potential to change the trajectory of your life in this most auspicious time in recorded human<br />

history! www.goldendolphins.com • info@goldendolphins.com<br />

are we to “Be” in the New Earth? S.T.A.R. is the<br />

answer. A new age brings with it a new paradigm;<br />

a new way of living our life. The old ways of force, fear, sorrow<br />

are to go. The new is to enter: surrender, trust, allow and receive<br />

(S.T.A.R.)<br />

Two key components will guide us into the New Earth:<br />

knowing who we are and living in the Now Moment. Most of<br />

humanity believes they are the physical vessel from which their<br />

soul expresses, but they overlook the soul’s expression. Their<br />

daily choices are governed by their ego self, which is thinking<br />

hard about what job to get, where to live, how to survive and<br />

all of the other mind-centered activities of getting through life.<br />

The ego self has been in charge for eons, but that is coming<br />

to an end with the advent of the New Earth. It will loose control<br />

in the elevated frequencies and radiance of the crystalline grid,<br />

which will be fully online December 12, 2012 and ignited on<br />

December 21, 2012. On winter solstice 2012, Gaia will connect<br />

to the crystalline grid and duality will loose its power. We are<br />

and will witness expanded awareness of our human divinity<br />

and the softening of our ego selves as each day passes.<br />

As we learn to live our lives in wholeness with the full<br />

acceptance that we are divine humans — an individual aspect<br />

of All That Is, we will choose our life experiences from the Now<br />

Moment of being. Suffering from the past and fear of the future<br />

will not control life circumstances. And we will begin to attract<br />

different experiences. In the words of Eckhart Tolle, author of<br />

The New Earth, “Your entire life journey ultimately consists of<br />

the step you are taking at this moment.”<br />

How do we support the Now State of Being as divine<br />

humans in the New Earth? S.T.A.R. is again the answer.<br />

Surrender to the knowing that you are the One Consciousness<br />

experiencing. Trust that wholeness will catch you as you jump<br />

off the cliff in the new way of experiencing. Allow what the One<br />

Consciousness chooses for your life’s expression as being perfect<br />

in every way imaginable. Receive as already manifested what<br />

your human divinity has imagined and chosen, with gratitude<br />

and appreciation even if it is not yet visible.<br />

In this year of 2012, multi-dimensional/inter-galactic<br />

beings of light have gifted humanity with the S.T.A.R.<br />

Clinic, a quantum tool to assist us in moving from ego self<br />

to the full awareness of our divinity. The S.T.A.R. Clinic is a<br />

quantum-healing collective comprised of practitioners from<br />

multi-dimensions, with diverse backgrounds and gifts who<br />

embody the S.T.A.R. state and work within the unified field to<br />

facilitate healing and promote well-being. The S.T.A.R. clinic<br />

is directed outside the realm of individuated consciousness by<br />

the divine Creator.<br />

Nina Brown is founder of Gathering of the Golden Dolphins,<br />

Golden Dolphin S.T.A.R. Clinic and the author of Return of Love<br />

to Planet Earth: Memoir of a Reluctant Visionary (Cauda Pavonis,<br />

2010, 2011); www.crystalsinger.com.<br />

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The Energy of Prayer<br />

By Rev. Kylie Renner<br />

T<br />

hroughout time, humans have created an incredible<br />

variety of ways that we can commune and<br />

communicate with God. There are morning and<br />

evening prayers, graces said over meals and reverent physical<br />

gestures. Christians bow their heads and fold their hands.<br />

Native Americans dance. Sufis whirl. Buddhists sit quietly.<br />

Hindus offer sacrifices. Orthodox Jews bob their heads<br />

back and forth. Quakers keep silent. All of these methods of<br />

connection point to a greater human need to connect with<br />

the energy of the divine, and to feel its presence in our lives.<br />

But we also tend to mistake the form of the prayer with the<br />

actual communion that the prayer is attempting to get us to.<br />

When we speak of the energy behind thought, or the<br />

power of faith and prayer, we are not thinking of willpower,<br />

but of Original Power. The thought, or the prayer, merely<br />

uses an energy which already is. The electrician does not put<br />

energy into electricity; he takes it out. And so with prayer,<br />

as we recognize that there is an energy behind our every<br />

thought, act, and deed, we can begin to allow all of our<br />

energy to align with the power and energy of the universe…<br />

which is constantly seeking to express itself more fully and<br />

more powerfully in our lives.<br />

The energy was always there. It becomes our task to find<br />

our own unique way to connect with it more fully. This is<br />

why it is so important for us to let go of the outward forms of<br />

prayer, and explore that which makes us feel connected; that<br />

which makes us come alive — because the forms alone can’t<br />

do it. And since the form alone can’t take us to this place<br />

of connection, many of us have rejected traditional forms of<br />

prayer, as empty dogma. But within the bowed heads and<br />

folded hands, the dance, the quietness, the sacrifices, and the<br />

head bobbing there is a greater truth of our desire to connect<br />

with Original Power that is being pointed to. And, if we look<br />

deeper into the form of prayer, we may find ways of access to<br />

our inner wisdom that we had cut ourselves off from.<br />

We should also expect that when we seek this deeper<br />

relationship with the energy behind our prayers, the Original<br />

Power will rejoice at our awakening, and will find new and<br />

more powerful ways to express itself through us. This for me<br />

is answered prayer; not that I took my problem or desire to<br />

the divine and got what I wanted, but instead, I sought to<br />

convene with the energy that created all of life. And because<br />

this communion is my natural state, I opened myself through<br />

this connection to be available to a greater expression of who<br />

I have come here to be.<br />

When focusing on the energy of connection and<br />

communion (without the need for an outside form or<br />

instruction), we access a deep knowing within — a<br />

knowing that provides us with a wisdom and clarity that<br />

are beyond anything we have experienced before. And we<br />

become skillful at being not only an inlet, but also an outlet<br />

for this Original Power. We become skillful at allowing the<br />

blessing of our connection to not only heal ourselves but<br />

this entire planet.<br />

Maybe the next step in recognizing the energy of prayer<br />

is not only affirming (in our prayers) that we create this sense<br />

of connection for ourselves, but that all beings awaken to<br />

their spiritual magnificence…and to their birthright to live<br />

creative, purposeful, abundant, and prosperous lives.<br />

Rev. Kylie Renner serves the Albuquerque community as senior<br />

minister at Albuquerque Center for Spiritual Living (ACSL),<br />

located at 2801 Louisiana NE, between Menaul & Candelaria.<br />

Call us at 505-881-4311 or visit us online: www.abqcsl.org. The<br />

Open Mind Book and Gift Store, open 10am to 3pm weekdays,<br />

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Water, I think you will agree, is important—especially<br />

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up of 90-95% water. Water is a solvent. It hydrates<br />

our cells and delivers nutrients to them while washing toxins<br />

and waste products away (including cellular die off). It escorts<br />

these contaminants to the elimination systems: kidney, bladder,<br />

liver, colon, lungs, skin and lymph. So it is very important to<br />

stay hydrated. If you don’t like drinking water alone, squeeze<br />

a fresh lemon or lime into your water, eat watermelon and<br />

other high water content fruits and vegetables, and/or buy a<br />

juicer and make your own fresh fruit or vegetable juice. These<br />

are nutrient-rich; feed and nourish your cells. You can also<br />

effectively hydrate your body doing a water enema using 1-1/2<br />

quarts of clean, purified filtered water, OR receiving a colonic.<br />

Not only will you be hydrated, you will detoxify yourself,<br />

which will increase your energy level immediately!<br />

When I first came to Albuquerque, I checked out a number<br />

of colon therapists and received treatments from them in order<br />

to find out who was the best in town. There are a number of<br />

things I look for in a quality colon therapy office:<br />

1<br />

2<br />

3<br />

4<br />

Type of equipment, i.e., open system, closed system,<br />

direct pressure, gravity fed, etc.<br />

Do they use filtered water? Is it ozonated, or oxygenated?<br />

Do they use additives?<br />

Does the equipment use ultra violet light for last-stage<br />

purification?<br />

How long have the provider(s) been doing colonics? Do<br />

they receive colonics themselves? How many have they<br />

had and how often do they receive colonics?<br />

Here at ALL ABOUT HEALTH, INC., the city water goes<br />

through 6 filtration stages before going into the holding tank,<br />

where it receives ozonation as the final stage of purification. The<br />

first stage passes through heavy gauge magnets; the second<br />

pass is through a restructuring device; third, a sediment filter<br />

to remove the large particulates; fourth, a 4 foot high carbon<br />

filtration tank from Pure Water Technologies. Then the water<br />

goes to my colonic room, kitchen and laundry room. So the<br />

waters in any of those places are drinkable. Even the towels<br />

you lay on and cover yourself with are washed in this pristine<br />

water with plant-based detergent. And then, there are 2 more<br />

filters in the colonic room (the water goes through) before<br />

being sent to the holding tank (and into your body).<br />

In addition (included in every treatment), is a specialized<br />

water (most often multiple potencies of this water) is used as<br />

additives. They give the cells more support when releasing the<br />

stronger toxins; therefore, there is less cramping during the<br />

releases.<br />

All this to say: we care about the quality of water going<br />

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Manifest What You Want<br />

...Now! By Janet L. Hall, ND, CKP, CMI, CHt, CBT<br />

I had my first integration with Janet Hall in 2011. While the<br />

integration was happening, I could feel my energy becoming lighter<br />

and grounded more in the present moment. I was more empowered,<br />

peaceful and revitalized. Since the integration, synchronicities and<br />

financial abundance have really increased, and miracles of all<br />

sorts are occurring on an everyday basis. I am so grateful, bless<br />

you Janet. In joy and laughter,<br />

S. Wood, ABQ<br />

I went to the Dynamic Integration Class in October in Albuquerque.<br />

I received a dynamic integration and got an immediate shift!<br />

My motivation levels went up at least five times, and I felt freed<br />

up from many of the blocks that were between me and moving<br />

forward in my goals. I feel 100 pounds lighter. Great class!<br />

J. Powers, Santa Fe<br />

Join us for a wonderful interactive workshop showing you<br />

just how you can manifest what you want now! We will be<br />

demonstrating Geotran Integrative work. You could be one<br />

of the people selected for demonstration purposes on the<br />

group’s behalf, wherein you and all will benefit. This event<br />

will be held at the <strong>Truly</strong> <strong>Alive</strong> Health & Spirituality Workshop<br />

Weekend, Rio Grande Center for Spiritual Living, 901 Rio<br />

Grande, Suite E-130, September 23, 2012 from 1-2:15pm.<br />

Signup @www.trulyalive.net or call Karen Larré at 505-828-<br />

3430.<br />

We will show you amazingly fast, easy techniques that a<br />

facilitator can do for you, or you can learn to do them for yourself!<br />

Our goal: Empowering people to lead strong, happy, successful<br />

lives. This system of work uses quantum physics as its basis. This<br />

work is incredibly fast, effective and can be permanent!<br />

If you have experienced accidents, shock, trauma, grief, loss,<br />

abuse, frustration, etc., your memory fields act as a magnet to<br />

attract more of the same until cleared. Blocks like these are easily<br />

removed and replaced with positive attraction.<br />

Find out how to learn the Geotran “language of all<br />

possibilities”—the codes that you can quickly use to transform<br />

any part of yourself, your day, your life and your success. These<br />

codes are to your brain what an IP address is to your computer.<br />

Put the right IP address into your computer and access the correct<br />

items you want. It is the same with your life! Geotran codes can<br />

help you access what you want quickly!<br />

We will show you how you affect others and how others affect<br />

you, along with how to keep yourself clear of negative energy.<br />

Fast de-stressing techniques will be demonstrated for more peace<br />

and harmony in your life!<br />

Most humans use 10-12% of their brain capacity. With<br />

Geotran, just imagine what you could do using 100% of your<br />

brain! And, learn to clear your brain of negative patterns,<br />

addictions and habits as well as depression, learning disorders,<br />

dyslexia, ADHD, etc. Run a viral scan on your body every<br />

morning, just as you do on your computer to prevent illness,<br />

glitches in your day, blocks to your success and so on.<br />

Geotran integrations help with physical, mental, emotional,<br />

spiritual, financial and social problems—every area of your life!<br />

Some integrations help restore self-trust, self-love, self-worth;<br />

your freedom, choice and correct boundaries. Others help rid<br />

your body of old beliefs and hurtful past experiences, allowing<br />

you to move forward in your life and enhancing your ability<br />

to receive and be blessed. Powerful perception and paradigm<br />

changes allow for spontaneous healing and life miracles!<br />

To truly achieve what you want now, align your life and be<br />

on path with all your goals and dreams using this amazing life<br />

altering work. Join the workshop to find out how!<br />

Janet L. Hall has a Master’s degree in Holistic Health and<br />

a Doctorate in Naturopathy. Janet is a Certified: Medical<br />

Intuitive, Hypnotherapist, Kinesiologist, Herbalist, Biofeedback<br />

Technician and is a Nutritional Consultant, as well as Owner<br />

of Alternative Wellness Center. Janet’s Wellness Center is<br />

dedicated to healing, preventative health, life change and<br />

empowerment…helping people to “rise above!”<br />

www.alternativewellnesscenter.org, 505-294-WELL (9355)<br />

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Dear Melissa–<br />

Melissa Frei Answers Your Questions<br />

Dear Melissa,<br />

Because of fear and trying to fit in, I tried to blind myself to<br />

my abilities many years ago. It worked well, though my efforts<br />

did not block everything out. In doing this, there was always<br />

something missing; lacking. I just wasn’t happy. About a year<br />

ago, I decided to accept and embrace my abilities. Once I did, I<br />

felt an enormous happiness, a knowing that this is what’s been<br />

missing from my life. However, I still have a block and I can’t<br />

figure out what it is. I’m feeling an ache, as though something<br />

is within reach, but I’m not able to touch it. Any advice or sense<br />

of the direction I need to take or what the block is?<br />

Thank you so much.<br />

Looking for My Spirit<br />

Dear Looking for Spirit,<br />

Thank you for sharing your story! I can relate to it so much,<br />

as it hits a familiar cord in my soul. I remember being a<br />

little girl, seeing spirits, knowing things and having other<br />

psychic experiences. I shut them off because I did not have<br />

anyone to help me understand what was happening to me.<br />

My experiences were so different from everyone else around<br />

me. With situations like this, it’s common to find ourselves<br />

feeling separate and apart (different from others) and trying<br />

to fit in any way we can. In many ways, we conform to what<br />

others want us to be.<br />

You are well on your way, so please do not be discouraged.<br />

I feel that you are breaking down these barriers. Here is an<br />

exercise that will help: reflect back to different situations in<br />

your life in which you felt less than, or when you felt that<br />

you could not be in your power (it wasn’t safe or you weren’t<br />

supported in being empowered). Start from your earliest<br />

memory until now. As you look at the different situations<br />

that come up, consider what you could have done to be<br />

empowered or to have had a different experience. Doing this<br />

allows for subtle energy shifts that actually heal the situation<br />

in your own personal vibration. This will take time, but as<br />

you do this work, you will break the blocks and be complete<br />

in your gifts! Stay strong!<br />

Love, Melissa<br />

Melissa is available in person, phone or Skype for psychic,<br />

mediumship, pet readings and more: 505-610-7917.<br />

www.melissafrei.com<br />

I feel compassion for you; it sounds like you worked hard to<br />

shut down and fit in. The times when you turned off your<br />

gifts, you were doing things that were not in true alignment<br />

with who you really are. It put you in situations that were<br />

painful for you. As you slowly started to see the light and<br />

realize that expressing your gifts was who you truly were,<br />

your spirit slowly started to awaken.<br />

You have done a great job in accepting and turning your gifts<br />

back on. It is such a blessing when we feel confident that we<br />

are finally walking our paths. Tuning into Spirit Energy is<br />

such a gift. It’s an amazing transformation in your life, even<br />

to this point!<br />

Regarding what the block might be, I feel that you have<br />

some areas in your life in which you have not fully forgiven<br />

yourself and others. There is some healing that needs to be<br />

done —such as with your parents where you would benefit<br />

from some additional forgiveness work. My sense is that the<br />

other part of the block is there because you are not allowing<br />

yourself or giving yourself full permission to be in your<br />

power and be true to you!<br />

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Socially Active,<br />

Peaceful at Heart<br />

By Rev. Martha Quintana<br />

Recently, I was asked how we find balance<br />

between involvement in political activities<br />

and living in a peaceful personal world.<br />

Essentially, how do we stay active in the world and<br />

peaceful in our hearts?<br />

Those of us who have been doing our own inner work and who<br />

have healed have a personal responsibility to our fellow humans<br />

to be active in the world. We act from who we are. Sometimes<br />

this activity looks like traditional political campaigning and<br />

sometimes it looks like visiting a neighbor or helping to clean up<br />

the neighborhood. Any time we go out in the world and make it a<br />

better place, we are engaged in “political activity.” Political activity<br />

is any activity that impacts the community. We don’t have to let<br />

anyone else’s description of political activity drive our actions.<br />

The point is that to change our environment in a positive way,<br />

we act from a sense of love rather than from fear or anger. We<br />

know in our hearts what we would like our world to look like<br />

and we let our actions define how we live in the world. Living,<br />

moving, and having our dreams are essential to a productive<br />

life. We can’t hole ourselves up in a room and feel like we’ve<br />

truly lived. True spiritual practice includes our physical world,<br />

and it’s up to each of us to decide what fits best for our activity.<br />

Sometimes this means we knock on doors to convince people<br />

how to vote and other times it means holding someone’s hand in<br />

their time of need. If we are healthy, we are engaged in our lives<br />

in a positive way. If we are engaged in our lives positively, we are<br />

touching other lives. If we are touching other lives positively, we<br />

have shifted our community in a good way. This shift is bound<br />

to have a positive impact on the world. We then feel good about<br />

ourselves and peaceful in our hearts.<br />

Join Senior Minister Rev. Martha Quintana for inspiring<br />

Sunday celebrations! Pre-service music begins at 9:45 and<br />

the service starts at 10am. Celebrations are held at the Hotel<br />

Albuquerque chapel, 800 Rio Grande Blvd., NW. Classes &<br />

events are held at the RGCSL Event & Learning Center, 901<br />

Rio Grande Blvd. NW, Ste. E-130, ABQ, NM 87104. For info,<br />

call: 505-224-9405, office@rgcsl.org or visit www.rgcsl.org<br />

A Sincere<br />

“Thank You!”<br />

By Rhonda Owen, Perpetual Landscape<br />

Over the past few months of advertising<br />

in <strong>Truly</strong> <strong>Alive</strong>, I have met and had the<br />

opportunity to work with (and enjoy) many<br />

different yards and create several beautiful spaces. I<br />

am deeply grateful. There is nothing more fulfilling than having<br />

a vision come true. The visual gratification and satisfaction from<br />

appreciative customers really keeps me motivated!<br />

Do you have a shady spot on your<br />

property that always looks bare…a<br />

spot where nothing you plant there<br />

seems to like all that shade? There<br />

are actually a lot of plants that thrive<br />

in the shade. Shop around for shade<br />

plants you like (marked “shade”). Then plant them after the<br />

worst of the August heat has subsided. Late August and early<br />

September is the best time for aerating and seeding. Plant fall<br />

colors such as those found in mums, asters, daisies and pansies.<br />

Fall is the best time for new plants to be added. More roots<br />

are developed during the fall season than any other time of the<br />

year. By planting in the fall, you are giving your newly planted<br />

trees and shrubs a head start on next year. Also, October is the<br />

best time for planting spring bulbs.<br />

New Service: Do you find it a hassle to hang all those<br />

holiday lights and decorations? Consider Perpetual Landscape<br />

to do it for you. We’ll save you the time, stress, and bother of<br />

doing it yourself.<br />

As a woman landscaper, you may find that I am more meticulous<br />

and gentle with your project. My team and I will take the time<br />

to do your project right; communicating with you every step<br />

of the way. We are hard working, polite and experienced. My<br />

rates are very reasonable and reflect more my love of this<br />

work than my desire to get rich doing it. In business for seven<br />

years, I have many satisfied customers and references. Call me<br />

to schedule your free estimate today! Landscaping That Lasts<br />

a Lifetime! Rhonda Owen, owner: 505-720-6950.<br />

Perpetual Landscape<br />

Creating Beautiful Outdoor Environments<br />

While Caring for Mother Earth<br />

Rhonda Owen Owner<br />

Serving the Community for 7 Years | Excellent References<br />

505.720.6950 | Call for your free estimate today!<br />

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Fusion Salon is<br />

Enviro-Friendly<br />

By Deborah Remington, Owner, Fusion Hair & Skin<br />

My goal in opening Fusion Hair & Skin 10<br />

years ago was to provide a comfortable,<br />

relaxing environment for my clients. My<br />

new salon was designed to (1) be spacious: (every<br />

work station has its own section or room) and (2) provide<br />

products and services that offer as little toxicity as possible. Hair<br />

coloring is a popular service; we do quite a lot of it actually…<br />

but Fusion does not offer nail services (which are most often<br />

highly toxic). That’s just not an acceptable thing for clients of<br />

Fusion to be exposed to.<br />

In addition<br />

to the lowertoxicity<br />

services we<br />

provide, I spend<br />

more to purchase<br />

and sell lowertoxicity<br />

products<br />

as well. Fusion offers a wide variety<br />

of very high quality, easy on the body<br />

(and the earth) products.<br />

With all of the environmental decisions considered,<br />

combined the spaciousness (and ventilation) of the salon, many<br />

chemically sensitive clients have found a home at Fusion. They<br />

are comfortable and feel safe with us. For those who are especially<br />

sensitive, we schedule appointments at the beginning of the day<br />

(before any hair coloring or the very rare perm is scheduled)<br />

or at the end of the day (when everyone with any services that<br />

could affect the sensitive client have gone and the salon has aired<br />

out). In this way, we are able to serve a great many clients who<br />

want stylish, high quality services and environmentally-friendly<br />

products in a comfortable and safe environment.<br />

Persistent worry?<br />

Excessive thinking?<br />

Irrational fears?<br />

Memory dulled?<br />

Change Your Brain:<br />

Eliminate Stress & Anxiety<br />

By Regina Coffman<br />

Energy drained?<br />

Problems making decisions?<br />

Inability to concentrate?<br />

Poor Sleep?<br />

These are the signs of anxiety — the most common mental<br />

disorder in the world — one that is often ignored and left<br />

untreated. Without help, those who wrestle with anxiety or<br />

stress may find themselves moving into depression, chronic<br />

pain, fatigue and inability to sleep. Some turn to meds or illicit<br />

drugs — or addictions like over-eating or alcohol in order to<br />

achieve temporary peace.<br />

Stress/Anxiety is an “equal opportunity” affliction: it can<br />

attack anyone, of any age, at any time. It can show up as panic,<br />

social phobia, compulsive activities and post-traumatic stress.<br />

The common denominator is that anxiety is a result of an<br />

imbalanced brain, and imbalances are due to trauma. It is not<br />

possible for any of us to go through life without experiencing<br />

trauma; whether due to the loss of a loved one, physical injury…<br />

even childbirth or surgery. When trauma occurs, the brain goes<br />

into survival mode (adjusting frequencies for self-protection).<br />

Oftentimes, it gets stuck in an unhealthy pattern. All pathologies<br />

are simply behavior to self-correct a brain imbalance. Brainwave<br />

Optimization can help!<br />

I suffered for more than 4 years with a form of anxiety that left<br />

me feeling as though I was “stuck” in my environment and in life. I<br />

knew what I was experiencing was irrational and that I should just<br />

“work through it” or “do it anyway”, as self-help research would<br />

suggest but I felt blocked. After just two sessions, I experienced<br />

relief from the debilitating feeling of being “stuck”. Now, after 10<br />

sessions I feel “released”. I am officially moving forward with my<br />

life and I couldn’t be happier about it!<br />

C.C., ABQ<br />

BRAINWAVE OPTIMIZATION is an advanced neuro-technology<br />

that helps people overcome brain-related barriers preventing<br />

them from performing at their highest physical, mental and<br />

emotional levels. Regina Coffman: 505-610-1190.<br />

www.BrainWaveBalancing.com<br />

Deborah Remington has been creating beautiful hair for<br />

nearly 20 years. Her commitment to client comfort & safety is<br />

immediately felt when you walk in the door. For a fabulous,<br />

environmentally-friendly hair and skin experience at an<br />

affordable price, call Fusion Hair & Skin, 215 Central Ave.<br />

NW (downtown), Albuquerque, NM, 87102: 505-242-5111,<br />

www.fusionhairandskin.com<br />

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Get Support for the<br />

Healing Process<br />

By Kerry Leigh, Actualize Your Health!<br />

Healing (literally meaning to make whole<br />

{Oxford English Dictionary}) is the process<br />

of restoring health to an unbalanced/<br />

diseased/damaged organism. Healing may be<br />

psychological or physiological or both. (Wikipedia)<br />

Recently I’ve been undergoing an intensive healing process. I<br />

initiated frequent treatments with a variety of practitioners that<br />

brought me straightaway into “old stuff ”. You know – remnants<br />

of experiences and feelings that have been both hidden and not so<br />

hidden in my being – in my experience of living life. I entered this<br />

process with the usual intention of furthering my connection to<br />

self and Source. However, these sessions immediately led me into<br />

the murky depths of “ick”: feelings and memories that have been<br />

held in my physical, emotional, mental and energetic bodies and<br />

which ultimately brought on a “healing opportunity”, commonly<br />

referred to as “being sick”.<br />

The important part of the story is that I allowed myself the time<br />

and space to just “be”. As the days progressed, I watched, listened,<br />

felt, and acknowledged the thoughts, feelings and sensations that<br />

vented through my being. Not fun or easy; uncomfortable and<br />

emotional, yet necessary. I held space for 5 days of releasing<br />

the substance that we’d excavated from the nooks and crannies<br />

of ME. What originated as energetic, manifested physically as<br />

various kinds of matter exiting my body. Yuck! Glad and Grateful<br />

to see it go.<br />

People with physical ailments are often surprised to discover<br />

that their pain/disease/dysfunction is intricately linked to emotional<br />

memories. Even if current life experiences seem “manageable”,<br />

our bodies are vast storehouses of memories/patterns/<br />

unconscious behaviors that are affecting and influencing us.<br />

Excavating this material is essential to healing…to becoming<br />

WHOLE. With Core Synchronism, I hold space for your being to<br />

rediscover/realign/reaffirm with your deepest self.<br />

Kerry Leigh loves assisting and witnessing the transformation<br />

process within her clients’ beings and lives. Connecting to our<br />

Deep Divine Selves, to Spirit and to Nature so that we embody<br />

the Sacred is what motivates her.<br />

www.actualizeyourhealth.com<br />

Bowenwork®<br />

Changes Lives!<br />

Offered by Hans Levy, PT, LMT #5870<br />

After 18 years of not being able to eat very<br />

many foods, I decided to try Bowenwork®. In<br />

reading about it online, I learned that many people<br />

with longstanding, chronic issues experience them<br />

being about 85% relieved after a series of Bowenwork®.<br />

The morning following my first treatment, I was unable to<br />

get out of bed, except with great effort to go to the bathroom.<br />

Friends came over to feed the dog and provide me water and<br />

food. It was the same inability to move with an enormous pain<br />

level I had experienced 18 years before. During that time, I<br />

changed my diet to the highly restrictive one I had been on<br />

since. Back then, with diet and a few other changes, I was able<br />

to go back to work after two years of disability.<br />

The “healing crisis” lifted enough after about 7 hours so I<br />

was able to care for myself again, but with significant effort.<br />

Over the next few days, the intense healing crisis symptoms<br />

returned at various times. My inner guidance said that I could<br />

significantly reduce my supplements (I had been taking a<br />

drawer full for 18 years) and that I could now eat a few more<br />

foods safely. That week, I tried a salad and yogurt. The old<br />

response (weight gain, bloating, pain and discomfort) was not<br />

present. My body has a lifelong history of an inability to digest<br />

carbohydrates and fermented food; even low-carb veggies.<br />

Since that initial healing crisis week and the introduction of<br />

these new foods, I have been able to eat salads every day and<br />

yoghurt about 3-4x week without any issues! This may seem a<br />

small victory, but to me, it’s huge and I am so grateful!<br />

If you are suffering from a longstanding chronic issue<br />

that hasn’t been resolved any other way, I highly recommend<br />

Bowenwork®. What do you have to lose?<br />

L.A.K., ABQ<br />

Hans Levy, PT, LMT #5870 is a licensed German physical<br />

therapist, massage therapist and Bowenwork Therapy<br />

Practitioner. 505-934-2510, Visit www.PainFreeLiving.biz<br />

Gentle<br />

support for<br />

Healing<br />

Feel Better<br />

With Core<br />

Synchronism<br />

Actualize Your Health!<br />

Kerry Leigh, Certified Core Synchronism Practitioner<br />

505.453.5853 • 9809 Candelaria NE, #2-A • ABQ 87112<br />

www.actualizeyourhealth.com<br />

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Celebrate December 21, 2012<br />

in Ceremony at Chaco Canyon<br />

By Phaeryn Sheehan, Ascended Masters Foundation<br />

Don’t miss our momentous, once in lifetime celebration of this year’s Winter Solstice on December<br />

21st. Ceremony to be held at Chaco Canyon. Contact Marshall Estner at: 505-243-6579.<br />

on December 21st, a rare and magnificent<br />

astrological alignment will occur on our earth; an<br />

At11:11am<br />

alignment that hasn’t happened for 26,000 years.<br />

Ever so many Teachers and Shamans of the Hopi and especially<br />

the Maya Traditions have given us profound insights into<br />

the meaning and significance of this day.<br />

Regardless of how we are<br />

digesting these prophesies, what<br />

is ultimately true (I suggest), is<br />

the enormous Shift that these<br />

prophesies point to. It is a far greater<br />

Happening than we humans can<br />

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time. And because we humans<br />

tend to respond fearfully to what<br />

we don’t understand and can’t<br />

control, there is a very strong<br />

negative mindset in our present<br />

day collective consciousness about<br />

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When we humans lived a far more indigenous life,<br />

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The More You Know About Our Meat the<br />

Better: The 5-Step Animal Welfare Rating<br />

From Whole Foods Market resources<br />

Animal Welfare: We’re dedicated to helping you make informed<br />

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How was that animal raised? How was it treated? Where did<br />

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We can answer these questions because we’ve chosen to<br />

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producers’ animal welfare practices. We’re rolling out their<br />

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The 5-Step Animal Welfare Rating: We are partnering<br />

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The Global Animal Partnership is a non-profit organization<br />

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Ratings for other species (turkeys, lamb, and others) are in<br />

development, so stay tuned.<br />

Throughout our meat department you’ll find chicken, beef<br />

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Step 5: Animal centered; all physical alterations prohibited<br />

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Home Ownership Now – Easier Than<br />

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By Nancy Bowers, Realtor®, Solution Specialist<br />

a lie we have all told ourselves at one time or<br />

another: things will be good when… (fill in the<br />

Itis<br />

blank). But now is the only time there is. It’s folly<br />

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Astrological Forecast: Sept/Oct<br />

John Clinton | Psychic Astrologer | 505-489-1122<br />

30+ Years Experience Interpreting Stellar Events | Starcaster333@ yahoo.com<br />

Aries (3/21-4/19) SEPTEMBER, not only has the<br />

best light for photography, it also casts light in a more<br />

serious mode. It’s harvest time as all life knows. You<br />

are blessed with perfect stellar alignments this month.<br />

There is a call for playfulness and a search for passion and meaning<br />

to life. Blend all that together and you have your personal movie<br />

of a romp through the park on a beautiful day until you collapse<br />

into a pile of very wise ashes. Watch for minor upsets. OCTOBER<br />

has you finishing up things. Mars wants to do something more<br />

mind-broadening by the end of the first week. It becomes a time<br />

to travel or study. You become drawn to churches. It shows you<br />

have a need for a deeper meaning to life. If the warrior must die,<br />

he wants to know why, and even a lie is there to deny the truth and<br />

defy the logic. In other words, make sure you’re not brainwashed<br />

into doing something you know is wrong this month.<br />

Taurus (4/20-5/20) SEPTEMBER could be a<br />

month to remember. Your earthy nature is lulled into<br />

a very sensuous mood as nature sets the perfect world<br />

for you. Love starts at home as you learn after the 6th.<br />

Home is also our core self which consists of spiritual matter. The<br />

troubles of the first 10 days of this month will be worked out on<br />

and after, the 13th. Things build to the 20th where you will be<br />

in a festive mood. Some of you nature lovers will make a levelchange<br />

in your relationship. Your partner is all “manic” this whole<br />

month. You have the energy to keep up. Just pace yourself. OC-<br />

TOBER promises a softer more relaxing kind of romance. Venus<br />

(the planet of love) stays in your house of love almost all month<br />

long. There’s a minor crisis at home to start the month and a few<br />

adjustments are needed during the month, but mostly love floats<br />

you over, under, around, and through the small stuff. There is good<br />

news for the world on the 10th and that ties into your future plans.<br />

Your partner will play a vital role in this success. There is even a<br />

chance to dramatically improve your health from what you learn<br />

around the 8th.<br />

Gemini (5/21-6/21) SEPTEMBER is a good<br />

month for homework especially for students and<br />

homeowners. The 4th and 5th have enough excitement<br />

to rock your day and night. A lot can get done in a 22<br />

hour period starting at noon on the 4th. You can wind up the<br />

hard work on the 16th as the 2nd half of the month is for fun,<br />

creativity, relaxation, romance, children, and all the pleasures of<br />

life. Speaking of pleasure, OMG, Pluto goes direct in your 8th<br />

house. Love can be a little spooky and spooky things could be<br />

what you love. This event on the 18th could bring a closure for<br />

you. OCTOBER is usually pleasant and romantic for the Twins.<br />

This year, the month involves a focus on work and health. At least<br />

Mercury isn’t retrograde so you are able to get a lot done. The<br />

month ends with the promise of festive gatherings. You get to be<br />

a kid again for Halloween and a few weeks into November. Many<br />

of your Sign are moving away from a loss in your life. There are<br />

bright vistas ahead. Keep moving toward the light, away from the<br />

shadows. You will be well-stimulated by the changes around you<br />

this month.<br />

Cancer (6/22-7/22) SEPTEMBER is always a time<br />

to remember as summer begins to wind down and<br />

the Crabs join others in making some cold weather<br />

preparations. You begin the month by shaking off the<br />

confusion from last month. Was it love, or was it another illusion?<br />

You can do some thinking and analyzing this month. Answers will<br />

come by the 15th. A good “balance” is required the last two weeks.<br />

You will do your best thinking at home. A lost partner could<br />

return after the 18th. Upsets on the 29th call for new beginnings.<br />

OCTOBER fills you with gusto. It’s not just leaves changing colors<br />

or Halloween; it’s a feeling to your core. Ah, nothing is better to<br />

a Cancer than to feel deep emotions. Your love life and creative<br />

energy has been cooking on high. Try to keep that high energy<br />

level going after the first weekend. Things, like mundane chores,<br />

will need that energy the rest of the month. Some Crabs will be<br />

taking on leadership roles at work. Others may begin new health<br />

regimens. After the 15th, is a time to focus on the home and<br />

hearth.<br />

Leo (7/23-8/22) SEPTEMBER gives the Lions a<br />

softly dramatic appearance. Any Leo who hasn’t<br />

slipped into the tyrant stage is always someone to<br />

love. You watch, in your countenance all that happens<br />

around you. The planets move round your Sun ruler and they<br />

bring movies to your senses and that makes them real. This<br />

time it’s a movie about love which opens on the 6th. There are<br />

shocking episodes for you to see during the 18th-29th. The 29th<br />

is definitely adventurous if you allow that energy into your life.<br />

Way to roar, Lion Clan! OCTOBER is usually a time of socializing<br />

and partnership focus for Leos. There is a strong energy for<br />

romantic entanglements, or if married, a good time to be creative.<br />

The Leo mind is interesting. They can stalk their prey with such<br />

stealth and apparent lack of interest until their victim sees only a<br />

gleam in their eye as they pounce. It’s fun. We all like it. The 9th<br />

brings good fortune. Constructive changes involve your home.<br />

These should be completed by the 25th. Don’t overdo eating the<br />

Halloween candy and any changes will be good ones<br />

Virgo (8/23-9/22) SEPTEMBER brings a feeling of<br />

wholeness as your mind is working sharply. You win<br />

at any game of intellect for the first two weeks. Your<br />

birthday is always a time of feeling strong, physically,<br />

for the majority of Virgoans. Those of you born during the last 10<br />

days of Virgo are about to make new beginnings in self-esteem<br />

and finances after the 15th. Throughout the fall season, you<br />

will, in general, have a pretty amazing time with great successes.<br />

This applies to all the Virgins. It’s just easier for some. During<br />

OCTOBER, your mind is on travel, but your energy needs to<br />

work on the house. Maybe the house can wait, but your Sign is so<br />

responsibly conscientious. Try to take a little trip, at least. There<br />

is a higher frequency of undiscovered planetary energy which is<br />

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calling you from a secret place in your life (even you may not know<br />

what that means until it unfolds). And then, we cannot forget the<br />

physical passion in the life of a Virgo. You find the human touch<br />

to be very transformative. Watch for deception on the full Moon<br />

of the 29th<br />

Libra (9/23-10/22) SEPTEMBER is the keeper of<br />

the fall equinox which is the beginning of your Sign.<br />

This year it falls on the 22nd at 9:00 am MDT. On a<br />

Saturday at that. These are obviously good signs for<br />

a good fall. Oh sure, there could be acts of violence after midmonth,<br />

but don’t worry. The proper authorities will do the job just<br />

fine for you. The full Moon on the 29th brings out both, the beauty<br />

and the beasts. Sometimes, it’s up to the Librans to restore beauty<br />

where there is grayness. OCTOBER brings Libran birthdays and<br />

cooler nights. You seem to spend half the month waiting for<br />

something new to arrive. Finally, near mid-month, it arrives.<br />

Is it what you expected? Yes! Now for the other news: A more<br />

conservative spending approach, approaches. Saturn is reflecting<br />

the lessons about money in your life. Over, the next 2 years, you<br />

will notice it don’t come easy. However, a logical and persevering<br />

attitude will yield even more success during that time. The only<br />

question is, can you do the discipline required? The month has a<br />

happy ending.<br />

Scorpio (10/23-11/21) SEPTEMBER is a time<br />

to buckle up even if you’re not in a car. The 19th is<br />

the peak of astronomical tension. It’s a power struggle<br />

within and outside of us. As the people rise up to<br />

challenge their power obsessed leaders, so too, it feels like there’s<br />

an inner revolution of mind-changing proportions. You are alive<br />

with new inspirations which bring new actions all month. Labor<br />

Day is your best day of the month for constructive projects.<br />

Your mind is so strong that you might be able to levitate things.<br />

OCTOBER continues that mental reconstruction. Let’s hope the<br />

labor on your brain is union paid. Union could be a big word this<br />

month as Mars transits your Sign. Your libido is activated as you<br />

shred your wall paper. Half of the Scorps. will turn that energy<br />

into productive procurement of security needs. Other Scorps<br />

will continue unabated. Sure these are serious times as elections<br />

approach, but you will not be divided by politics. You can only<br />

be divided by two or united as one. Someone will support the<br />

changes you seek by month’s end.<br />

Sagittarius (11/22-12/21) SEPTEMBER can<br />

sometimes mean hard times at work, but that’s what<br />

you feel like doing anyway. The truly independent<br />

Archers can use the first three weeks to further their<br />

careers. The 7th is time to stand for inspection or anything that<br />

requires complete readiness and perfection. Finally, the 18th<br />

signals the end of Pluto retrograde. Drive your staff into the<br />

ground that day to mark the beginning of seven straight months<br />

of financial progress. Your partner is happy. All is well. OCTOBER<br />

creates relationship concerns. You will be successful in any legal<br />

matters because you will have wise counsel and sneaky tactics.<br />

Venus promises moderate income increases this month. Be<br />

grateful, of course. Friends hold the flashlight and they have lots<br />

to show you until you retreat to your own thoughts after the 22nd<br />

for 30 days. You won’t be drawn out to play, because you need<br />

your own space, now. Your only difficulty is being too honest, and<br />

getting that partner to talk more. Go within as well. Maybe, you<br />

will bump into each other in your subconscious minds.<br />

Capricorn (12/22-1/19) SEPTEMBER opens<br />

with the Seagoats preparing for great success. While<br />

everyone else is distracted by rumors of the world<br />

ending, you can begin sliding your money-making<br />

project down the launching ramp. The sea you are headed<br />

toward is choppy and filled with unseen life forms. Still, it will<br />

be the launching of your career efforts into the black (sea). Do<br />

your publicity this month before you shock the world with<br />

the magnificence of your manifestation next month. Play the<br />

drama card. In OCTOBER your world will change. Some of the<br />

conservative-minded goats may actually transform their ideals.<br />

Some of your Sign will move. Some will start making money<br />

from their careers. Anything that changes your life is possible<br />

this month. Mid-October shows a new beginning with your<br />

career. This fits in with a deep yearning for a new connection with<br />

something beautiful. The 10th is a day to dream and the 25th is a<br />

day to make it real. You can dance merrily into the full Moon on<br />

the 29th, and Halloween has this same exuberance.<br />

Aquarius (1/20-2/18) SEPTEMBER is a lively<br />

month…one that varies in every way. Your energy<br />

often seems unavailable. But just when everyone<br />

seemingly abandons you, they miss the resurgence<br />

of your awesome recuperative powers. You will need to find a<br />

balance in your life over the next 6 years. You can’t do so much<br />

as your mind would like without taking into account your body’s<br />

actual abilities. Study some metaphysical matters this month.<br />

These can surprisingly, become a part of your life philosophy<br />

by month’s end. Don’t be part of the problem around the 19th.<br />

A push against power pushes back. OCTOBER is a time of<br />

reflection as you look within to be in touch with your core self.<br />

It’s hard enough for an Aquarian to acknowledge “self ”, but now<br />

you come face to face with your self. So, are you going to spend<br />

the month contemplating your navel, NO! There are happenings<br />

all around you. There are mostly great aspects for your Sign all<br />

month long. On, and after the 15th, you will need a physical<br />

outlet for your super charged condition. This state-of-being will<br />

last for 30 days. Try not to skip healthy meals. There are natural<br />

“chill pills” available.<br />

Pisces (2/19-3/20) September continues like<br />

a vortex down the rabbit’s hole. It’s not exactly<br />

wonderland this month, but you might wonder what<br />

land this is. You see the suffering, you hear the cries<br />

of the needy, and you hurt for all that is wrong in this world.<br />

Neptune and Jupiter are helping you to think and know on a<br />

psychic level what is right. You see the violence this month and<br />

you know it isn’t right. You cannot sway from your convictions<br />

about humanity without a stiff, karmic reminder. OCTOBER is<br />

another month to show the world how humans should be: very<br />

aware and kind. You are being more withdrawn than normal. It’s<br />

hard to keep the mind on business when there is such value in<br />

those inner journeys. It’s not the same as spacing out. Here you<br />

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there have been slow downs at work and some cut backs, you are<br />

very strong-minded and there is love this month. At mid-month<br />

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Chiropractic<br />

Lee F. Purcaro, D.C.<br />

9004 Menaul Blvd. NE<br />

Reasonable Rates<br />

505-275-1090<br />

Providing gentle, yet powerful<br />

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Cleansing/Colonics<br />

All About Health - Colonics<br />

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Learn about Edgar Cayce<br />

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505-890-0878.<br />

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Electro-Light Microcurrent and<br />

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facial rejuvenation. This is a<br />

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0168. www.AcupunctureClinicABQ.com<br />

Emotion Code<br />

Do you have a Heart-Wall? Do<br />

you have issues you can’t get past?<br />

Are you unable to break unwanted<br />

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authentic life. Discounted rates on multiple<br />

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www.cpmassage.com<br />

Empathic Healing<br />

Clear, relax, balance and revitalize your<br />

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being. With high level empathic<br />

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Handyman<br />

Looking for a great handyman?<br />

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Delasaria Lihon is a licensed<br />

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STEPHEN P. WEISS, M.D.<br />

Blending the Best of Western &<br />

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VOTED ONE OF ABQ’S TOP DOCS<br />

2006 505-872-2611<br />

www.holisticmedicineheals.com<br />

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with a wide range of medical conditions using<br />

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spiritual counseling, lab tests & when necessary,<br />

conventional medications. He has appeared on<br />

national television & radio discussing various<br />

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Detox, lose inches and<br />

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more. Pamper yourself with an Ion Detox<br />

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Hypnotherapy/Reiki<br />

Are you emotionally abused? Find your<br />

Authentic Self, reprogram toxic thoughts,<br />

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spiritual transformation through: Reiki,<br />

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Hypnotherapy/Reiki cont’d<br />

Alchemical Hypnotherapy, Past<br />

Life Regression, and Affirmations.<br />

Rieka Long: Master Hypnotist,<br />

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Find your true self. Clear limiting<br />

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patterns that no longer work for<br />

you. Live a happier & healthier<br />

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Mama’s Minerals<br />

Alternative Health Fair<br />

New Mexico’s Finest Healers<br />

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much more. Get healthy in 2012! Call Gwen<br />

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Sick and tired of feeling sick<br />

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the connection nutrition has to your body, mind<br />

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Dianna White-Holistic Health & Nutrition<br />

Coach: www.nutritionbyintuition.com<br />

Pranic Healing<br />

No touch energy system removes<br />

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Psychic Readings<br />

PSYCHIC COUNSELOR since 1987.<br />

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angels & loved ones. Trish Ann 505-896-0958.<br />

Reflexology = Relief<br />

You may be walking on the<br />

solution to many of your ills!<br />

Reflexology (using intermittent<br />

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hands) has been shown clinically<br />

to bring deep relaxation, ease pain & relieve<br />

symptoms of many health concerns. 50%<br />

discount for first visit, Reg. $60, only $30!<br />

Erma Sylvester, CR, 505-856-2275<br />

www.reflexologyabq.com<br />

Reiki<br />

REIKI MASTER<br />

ELIZABETH VALSALA<br />

Usui Shiki Ryoho<br />

Furumoto lineage<br />

Treatments/Classes/Groups<br />

www.ReikiABQ.com • 505-323-1993<br />

REIKI MASTER Charlotte Motter<br />

505-892-0291<br />

Reiki, Polarity, Reflexology<br />

Raindrop Therapy<br />

REIKI? A HEALING ART? YES! 800-<br />

788-7654 REIKI Giver of Healing (video/<br />

audiotape) 1-800-505-4659. Great parasite<br />

cleanse: Awareness Corp: 800-692-9273.<br />

Reiki cont’d<br />

REIKI MASTER<br />

JAN SCHROEDER<br />

Usui Shiki Ryoho<br />

Leap of Faith Healing Center<br />

A retreat-like setting in RIO<br />

RANCHO. Reiki Sessions, Classes, Path<br />

Guidance. A powerful, intense, yet blissful Reiki<br />

experience! K.H., Rio Rancho., 505-261-1703,<br />

jan@lofhealing.com, www.lofhealing.com<br />

Reiki/Reflexology<br />

Are You Ready To Feel Better?<br />

Lynnie Naslund, Reiki Master/<br />

Reflexologist, Usui Method of<br />

Natural Healing, 505-331-2506,<br />

Lynnie@ReikiInABQ.com<br />

www.ReikiInABQ.com<br />

Retrieve Your Soul<br />

Where did you come from???<br />

Where have you been??? What are<br />

you carrying with you, NOW? As a<br />

Shaman, I lead you into the underworld,<br />

The chamber of woundss –<br />

what is holding you down? The chamber of contracts<br />

– can this be changed? The chamber of<br />

Grace – & be lifted up! The chamber of rewards –<br />

new possibilities. You may have your own power<br />

animal. Experience dynamic mind-body-spirit<br />

transformation as you recreate your life map,<br />

your life story. Bob Hicks: 505-830-2274.<br />

Sound Healing<br />

Holographic Sound Healing<br />

Certification Course, Nov. 9-11,<br />

& Sacred Sounds Concert Nov.<br />

8, with channel for Holographic<br />

Sound Healing, Dr. Paul Hubbert.<br />

Learn about this healing art of the Angelic<br />

Realms with Hathor energy of sound/love at<br />

http://tinyurl.com/hsound. See Classes/<br />

Workshops for more info. Complete details:<br />

www.HolographicSound.com<br />

Starfire Healing, Santa Fe<br />

Walk in Beauty-Receive<br />

Abundance • 413-259-5271<br />

Radiate Light-Be Who You Are<br />

www.starfirehealing.webs.com<br />

Warm Selenite Crystal Massage<br />

Body In Balance Therapeutic<br />

Massage and Doula Services,<br />

by Kay • 1005 21st St, Suite 20,<br />

Rio Rancho • 505-459-9907<br />

www.kayherringtonlmt.com<br />

You Can Channel Too<br />

Dr. Judy Vavrek channels<br />

Golden Ascension<br />

Mon. 6-7pm • $10 • 616 Isleta SW<br />

Pranic Healing: trauma, pain<br />

ADHD in kids. 505-873-0606<br />

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