tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30528861642255672462024-03-12T19:14:17.011-07:00DrOzieMosesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16740290753420554281noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052886164225567246.post-17049896539841322592012-09-13T00:28:00.000-07:002012-09-13T00:28:34.929-07:00We Are MovingMany thanks to the very helpful crew at blogger dot com<br />
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So will Dr Ozie Moses on blogger<br />
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I will leave you with Maslow's fabled hierarchy of need, which I am in accord with by shifting sites<br />
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See you in the new place<br />
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a:)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16740290753420554281noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052886164225567246.post-62535104807848078102012-08-08T22:43:00.000-07:002012-08-08T22:43:50.946-07:00Evidence Informed vs Evidence Based: The Crucial Difference<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">For the evidence informed practitioner there are always some fundamental clinical or treatment "rules". These "rules" are highly subjective and are as many and varied as the practitioner themselves. But, to the practitioner in question fundamental they will be. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16740290753420554281noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3052886164225567246.post-25303375895621164332012-08-08T08:25:00.001-07:002012-08-08T08:25:33.546-07:00Drug Repair & Recovery: Oats As Power Food, One Mans Testimony<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Cornerstone of the chi cycle approach to rapid repair & recovery is a nourishing breakfast, closely following early morning chi focused practice. The preparation and/or cooking and consumption of oats can be harmonious and delicious. Lurking within this deceptively simple cereal grain is a power food waiting to be unleashed on a daily basis. <br /><br />The wild ancestor of Avena sativa, once called the oat weed, it remained amongst humans wherever possible, leading to its eventual domestication. Much like anything that hangs around us for too long. Oats are grown throughout the temperate </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">zones and are suitable for human consumption but one of the most common uses is as feed for livestock to fodder upon.</span><br />
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<span style="color: windowtext;">Rolled oats are good for constipation... but who wants constipation? But seriously, I have muesli with raw-wheatgerm every morning and it goes through you like a run away train. I’m too scared to leave the house until I’ve been to the toilet coz one morning I left the house before going to the loo and ended up having breakfast twice, once in the kitchen and once in the car seat, if you know what I mean. I ended up having to turn my wipers on, I didn’t really need to turn my wipers on but, somehow, it made me feel better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment--><br />Single as recently separated (divorced). Primary care giver for seriously ill parent. Has recently relocated and now lives with parents. Works over 38 hours per week. Daily lifestyle routine is reported as the following. Wake early, cigarette, make breakfast prepare for work. Strong coffee another cigarette, arrive at work “ready to go”. Work is reported as tense and stressful from the start. This is reported as normal. Lunch is taken anywhere between 12 and 3pm dependant on the requirements of work, which “always” come first. A “feed” is followed by more cigarettes and coffee. Work till late afternoon then head to hospital for a couple of hours, then home for dinner. Around this time cannabis use is reported, “cut” into a cigarette (spliff) and consumed. Over the course of the evening 4 or five times before bed which is usually around midnight. <br /><br />Client reports the following symptomatology. Waking is uneasy and he sometimes feels “confused”. A general feeling of tension (possibly even anxiety) during the day. Fatigue, lethargy are very common in the afternoons. The evenings are more “contained”. Client reports feeling “lost”, with a lack of any meaningful personal direction and an overwhelming sense of “helplessness”. Client thinks he is probably depressed, and/or possibly distressed that his life is “out of control”. Once he had identified this point of reference he sought professional assistance.<br /><br /> Next post on this topic will delve into a detailed professional observation and the treatment plan that was developed between the two of us. If you can identify with this story, the information will be priceless.<br /><br /> Better and better</span></div>
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James Reyne, (lead singer), never sounded more coherent and this band knew something of which they sang.<br />
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"Escape", or "Radically Changing 'Place and Space'" arrangements can be a very successful strategy to employ if you wish to alter any kind of habitual behaviour that no longer serves it's purpose, or endangers your life. In Chinese Medicine terms it could be called a Yang or "masculine" style of strategy. You have to physically move.</div>
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<br />~Cockatoo Concerto in F-Sharp~ <br /><br />A few of days ago I had a couple of thousand drinks with friends in celebration of the Lord Jesus Christ’s birthday, the next day was Boxing Day and over a few more drinks we celebrated the birthday of boxing. The next day we celebrated the amazing fact we were still able to celebrate and, again, after a few too many celebratory drinks I took myself to bed just before the sun hit me and turned me into dust. When I woke, about noon that very same day, I felt crooker than a 2-headed Irish wino after a Saint Patrick’s Day long-weekend and I realised I had a 3-day hangover to deal with, which was when a mate of mine, who’d come down from Brisbane for Christmas, rang and told me he was at my local pub and wanted me to come down and celebrate with him. I told him I’d already been celebrating for 3 days straight and, if I kept it up, the next time he’d be celebrating with me would be at my funeral unless they cremated me in which case he’d be joining me in the afterlife after the alcohol-fuelled fireball sent us both to our great reward. He sent a couple more text messages stating I was weak and how I probably didn’t have a hangover at all and that I was probably just tired from taking knitting classes. I responded that he was correct in that I didn’t have a hangover, in fact, I had 3 hangovers and explained how I wished I had taken knitting classes instead. He sent back another humorous text-message and that’s about the time I contemplated heading down to the pub to have a few brews with him, which was about the time my liver moved into a separate bedroom, which was when I knew it was time to get the hell out of Melbourne. <br /><br /> <br /><br />I was in an alcoholic Christmas rut and needed to go ‘walk-about’, or, more to the point, ‘drive-about’, so I packed my Toyota van, which comes with a double bed, oh what a feeling, and headed north to the river Murray, which is Australia’s longest river and one of the best because, although it looks like the type of river where you’d find Tarzan swinging and crocodiles lurking, there’s no crocodiles anywhere near it and I haven’t yet seen Tarzan swinging... or lurking. I headed for a massive eucalypt-forest I’d been to a fair few times before, on the Victoria-New South Wales border, it’s the biggest river-red-gum forest in the world so I knew I could find somewhere to be alone. I realised there’d be a few scattered Christmas campers here and there but, because there’s only a rough dirt-road going into the forest, the further you go into the forest the less people there are. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against people and, in fact, some of my best friends are people but I needed time-out so I went deeeeep into the forest, about one hour up the bumpy dirt road full of large holes, and selected my home for the next week or two. It was a beautiful open-grassed-space, roughly an acre, surrounded by towering shady river-red-gums and set at the top of a huge, horseshoe bend in the river. It had the perfect swimming spot where you could swim against the current and stay in the same spot, which was just the therapy I needed because I’d fractured the right side of my rib cage a few days earlier while riding my pushbike, with no hands, down a hill alongside 2 magpies who decided not to land in their designated trees every time I squawked loudly and sharply clapped my hands. I’d managed to stop them from landing in 2 trees and was going for a 3rd when I accidentally landed in one myself. A branch had fallen over the road and as I untangled myself from it I heard 2 kookaburras laughing loudly... but I swear it was the 2 magpies. I won’t be tormenting magpies again... not till I’m better anyway. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Here I was at last; I sat on the riverbank and took it all in, the river was wide and flowing like molten chocolate, the sunlit leaves glowed and glistened and waved at me as the warm breeze caressed and cooled my forehead. The flies too were extremely friendly but they weren’t pushing me to have a celebratory drink and, besides, I was miles from any pubs. Before long a Superb-Blue-Wren started dancing around a tree beside me, it whistled and I responded. Its head feathers stood up like a sulphur crested cockatoo, or like hair on an angry dog, but because these critters are only as big as a large thumb it just looked cute. He whistled again and so did I. It was very confused as to where the whistle was coming from and he hopped frantically up and down a tree-trunk looking for another wren and when I whistled a third time his head went from side to side like a confused puppy. I was having a bit of a giggle to myself until I remembered the magpies and then I stopped immediately. <br /><br /> <br /><br />By this time it was even warmer and the flies were getting even friendlier and had invited their friends and family along to welcome the new, big, 2-legged, wingless fly sitting and whistling on the riverbank, so I decided to escape them for a while. I got my pushbike out of the van and went for a ride down the bumpy dirt road for a couple of hours to check out some of the tracks. On one side of the road the tracks lead to prospective campsites along the river and the tracks on the other side are mostly used by pig shooters although the road and all the tracks, as far as I know, were originally put in for timber cutting. The first track I found was very narrow with mini grand canyons to manoeuvre around along the way. I followed it for about 5-minutes and as I saw the river up ahead I also saw a tent, a 4WD and a very athletic pit-bull terrier that, I reckon, hadn’t seen fresh meat in days. It was a scary looking dog that came charging at me, scary enough to send the flies packing with me close behind. I heard a bloke scolding the dog but with the tone in his voice of “Good doggy, come to daddy and I’ll give you a good pat and some beef jerky.” We made it back to the road, me and the flies, and everything was going smoothly until I went down another track where a fisherman-person had left a lead-sinker attached to 20-feet of fishing line, which in turn attached itself to me and got tangled around my bike. Luckily the fisherman wasn’t there because it would’ve been very embarrassing being seated on my bike while he held me up by the scruff of the neck to take the photo. I was hot and sweaty but got busy with both hands untangling the line, which took about 5 minutes, which was excellent because it gave me and the flies a better opportunity to get to know each other on a whole other level. Finally I was free of the fishing line and down the road again we went. The corrugations and bumps in the road were causing quite a bit of pain to my ribs but I thought I’d be ok and that’ll teach me for thinking. After being chased by another dog, which was much less scary but much more (yap-yap) annoying, we turned around and made our way back to the camp, just me and my 40,000 new, over-friendly, flying friends. <br /><br /> <br /><br />After arriving back at camp I sat my weary ribs down on a chair in front of the sparkling river. The flies were exceptionally grateful that I’d taken them out for a long ride and thanked me by dive-bombing my face and eyeballs with wet kisses and by flying back and forth against the inner-walls of my nostrils and ear-holes. I’d had friends before who were annoying but these guys you couldn’t shake. It wouldn’t be long before the sun would begin to set so I took the opportunity of daylight to get out my guitar and play some songs by the river. The guitar was out of tune so I unpacked my electronic guitar tuner, which is highly sensitive, much more than my ears which were now like amphitheatres filled with an excited, vibrating audience eagerly buzzing in anticipation of their first song. I plucked the first string and tuned it to the key of ‘E’ when, out of the blue, home to roost came 27,000 large white sulphur crested cockatoos all screeching in ‘F –Sharp’. I know it was “F-Sharp’ because my guitar tuner said so just before the casing cracked and springs shot out of it. I’d heard cockies squawk before and I knew they were loud and raucous but so many of them had landed in the trees above me and the noise was so intense that even the flies stopped for a second and poked their heads out of my orifices to see what the racket was. Their shrieking-screams were so harsh it brought tears to my eyes and I apologised to the flies for thinking any less of them, then checked my ears for blood and unintentionally tuned every string of my guitar to ‘F-Sharp’. As the cockies fought and battled for their hierarchical positions in the trees their screeching just intensified but only to the stage that would make a deaf-mute vegetarian Christian-hippy drop to their knees, cover their ears and yell, “Christ on a bike, get me a gun, it’s dinnertime!!” It was hell on Earth but then, quite amazingly, just as I was throwing the noose over the tree branch, the cockies, having finished battling for their positions in the trees, began to quieten down and, even more surprisingly, the flies decided they’d given enough love and left me in peace. It was like a miracle from the bible. The plagues were over and there I was, alone at last, seated in front of the mighty majestic Murray River, taking in its awesome energy and watching the sun set over the magnificent radiant river-red-gum forest. It was too good to be true and then the sky turned black. <br /><br /> <br /><br />It was only a rough estimate but going by the sound of the ever increasing hum and the ever blackening sky I reckoned there would’ve been between 25 and 30 billion mosquitoes descending upon me and upon anything else that may have contained even a drop of any life-sustaining fluid; and it wasn’t even dark yet. I stood up from my chair and saluted the brave men and women of Pearl Harbour and Darwin and apologised to the cockies for thinking any less of them. Oh how I missed their ear-shattering, blood-curdling, screeching shrieks. Oh what I would now give to sit and play my guitar in ‘F-Sharp’ while my old mates, the flies, filled my holes with ever-loving bizz-buzzing. Oh just to be able to enjoy what I was now considering peacetime with my previous flying friends again and avoid the horror that was about to reign down upon me. As I stood at attention, alone for the last time, I now understood why the flies had left in such a hurry and why the cockies had fought so aggressively for the best position in the trees. They knew what was to come. They simply wanted to fly away, again to fly another day... and so did I. <br /><br /> <br /><br />The humming of the mosquito squadrons was now so loud it put the cockies to shame and, with only precious seconds left, I about-faced, withdrew my salute, cried out feebly for my mother and raced for the safety of the van. The vehicle was only a couple of metres away and I must’ve killed 5000 of those wretched bloodsuckers before I even got halfway. One metre to go and the loss of blood was taking its toll, I was weakening but somehow managed to take-out another five or ten thousand of those flying filth before making it to the vehicle. These callous creatures of the night hadn’t seen fresh meat for longer than that pit-bull whom I’m sure was now either hiding in the river and breathing through a piece of bamboo or stopped dead in its tracks halfway to the river like a deflated football. I desperately reached for the door handle but barely had enough strength to open it. It was now do or die. I was fading fast and I knew if I didn’t make it inside the van I was done, these vampires were voracious and I would be their venison. With every last fibre of my body and soul, and with every last ounce of strength, I heaved the door open but the sheer vacuum of air sucked-in a couple of hundred thousand with more flying in every second. I had no choice but to dive inside the van, close the door and take my chances. Better to try and fight off a couple of hundred thousand inside the van than stay outside with billions of them and be sucked drier than a pharaoh’s mummy. 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">“Experts warn Xanax usage may reach epidemic proportions”. A</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"> TGA report that has been seen by "The Saturday Age' says that
the drug is addictive and "once dependent, withdrawal is markedly
unpleasant and may be fatal". Xanax is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"> reportedly as addictive as heroin and harder to stop using. It is creating a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">n invisible, potentially lethal epidemic, unfolding across Australia. </span></span><br />
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suicide, motor-vehicle collisions and crimes''.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patients who overdosed on alprazolam were twice as likely to
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Generic Name: al-pra-zo-lam. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">Brand Names: Niravam, Xanax. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">Belongs to a class of drugs called benzodiazepines.
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hours, but it takes a week for your brain's natural Xanax to kick back in, what
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What does that feel like? It feels like a panic attack, but worse. High blood
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seizures. What do folks do when they feel a panic attack coming on? Take
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“You may have seizures or withdrawal symptoms when you stop using Xanax. Ask your doctor how to avoid withdrawal symptoms when you stop using Xanax.” <b>That would be a very interesting discussion.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sleep problems (insomnia);</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">swelling in your hands or feet;</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">muscle weakness, lack of balance or coordination, slurred speech;</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">upset stomach, nausea, vomiting, constipation, diarrhea;</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The Law of Homeostasis states that the body-mind looking for balance will seek Jing. However no drug can give you Jing as it is endowed from birth, and such this cycle is now complete. Only functional organs in conjunction with working spirit can yield the manifestation of Jing. Look for post as relates to this mysterious substance, "Jing".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Every action has a reaction, however heroin is a corrupt correction which depletes Jing and organ size. Jing is derived from the pure Yin of the universe, the essence of pure potential and natural ability. Essence refers to the material aspects of existence and spirit to the non-material. The fusion of the spirit (Shen) with essence (Jing) is the ineluctable event that creates life, (Hammer, L. pg6). Persons enduring this experience, have a “life force fuel” deficiency, oscillating between cycles of pain and heroin intoxication. Symptomatology includes living in fear, with no willpower, tooth decay and a decline of interest in sex. Scratching, fidgeting, angry outbursts, selfish behaviour, a sense of spiritual defeat, incidences of theft, no internal judgment, a will do “anything” context, kill, prostitution etc. Vomiting, due to the inability to assimilate and digest food. Bad skin, immunity problems and a lack of control over life events. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"Free Flow" is a concept from the the Oriental Cosmological perspective. "Free flow" is the feeling of life in harmony with the elements. When free flow meets the stress of resistance there is a disruption of the flow of Qi. As these blocks and shocks become reinforced throughout life, these disruptions become organic blockages, memories held deep within the body-mind and by late teens it’s a slow, possibly sluggish experience of energy. Now opens the door of potentiality to the typical “gateway” cycle for illicit substance use. In part 1, we looked at the role of Cannabis. In part 2 we advance the journey into Amphetamine Type Substances (ATS)</span></div>
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<br />Practice. Rather than being the result of genetics or inherent genius, truly outstanding skill in any domain is rarely achieved with less than ten thousand hours of practice over ten years' time.<br /><br />"For those on their way to greatness in intellectual or physical endeavours, several themes regarding practice consistently come to light:<br /><br />1. Practice changes your body. Researchers have recorded a constellation of physical changes (occurring in direct response to practice) in the muscles, nerves, hearts, lungs, and brains of those showing profound increases in skill level in any domain.<br /><br /><div>
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This article could also be called, "How drug companies deceive and manipulate doctors". As global behemoths of private enterprise, pharma companies are, in a rational sense, driven toward profit. This rationale allows them to explore, identify then exploit emerging markets for pre-existing products. As in all things economic, a morality void will accompany their endeavours. Ultimately it is up to the drug using person to exercise his/her "free will" in making the choice of whether or not to use these products.</div>
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Tony West, the assistant attorney-general, said: "This civil settlement and plea agreement by Pfizer represents yet another example of what penalties will be faced when a pharmaceutical company puts profits ahead of patient welfare." </div>
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Pfizer disclosed in January that it had taken a $US2.3 billion charge in the fourth quarter of 2008 over allegations connected to Bextra and possibly other drugs, but details were not available then. Pfizer shares fell slightly to $US16.25. </div>
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The case centres on the company's use of "off-label promotion", in which it marketed the four prescription medications for treatments that did not have the approval of the US Food and Drug Administration. Bextra, used to treat joint pain, swelling and menstrual cramps, was withdrawn from the market in 2005 by Pfizer after it was shown to have adverse side-effects. Geodon is an anti-psychotic drug, Zyvox an antibiotic and Lyrica an anti- epileptic drug. </div>
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Scott Simmer, of Blank Rome, the Washington-based legal firm that represented three of the whistleblowers said his clients - David Farber, Mark Westlock and Casey Schildhauer - were heroes for taking on the world's largest drugs maker. "They took a huge risk for themselves and their families. Each came forward only reluctantly. This should send a very powerful message to companies that they should play by the rules." </div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Our bodies regulate their own internal environment;
an unceasing process called homeostasis, the state of relative stability of the
body’s internal environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
the first principle of anatomy and physiology that we are set to seek
homeostatic balance, and in a powerful sense we are naturally addicted to this
balance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of us, no exceptions.
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->Beneath our bodies lie the atomic world of positrons,
electrons and neutrons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Below this
world of amazement is a world of pure energy, defined by quantum mechanics as
the Universal Energy Field (UEF).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are all working out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No exceptions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first
law of thermonuclear dynamics says that energy cannot be created or
destroyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Further, energy always
has been, always was and always will be, and further again energy moves into
form through form and out of form.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->As a biological species we are carbon based,
gelatinous sacks of salt water, generating electrical charge, all contained
within an electro magnetic field, known as the Human Energy Field (HEF)
(Brennan p3-5).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Supporting our
perception of the reality of life are the organs of our bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They nurture, assimilate and transform
the Qi of food and air and water into the life giving properties that we take
for granted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They produce
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simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each of our bodies
contains 12 meridians (in pairs), containing 365 acupuncture points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Meridians may be conceptualised as
energetic irrigation channels, each acupuncture point, a special point where
energy is distributed, irrigating Qi into functional bodily systems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acupoints provide fresh chi to each of
the organs, which in turn are responsible for reality as we comprehend it
through our emotions, thoughts, attitudes, physiology and spirit; the
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complimentary pairs or opposites of polarity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Chinese thought this phenomenon is known as the principle
of Yin/Yang.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yin is conceptualised
as the shady side of the mountain, feminine, dark, receptive, contracting,
cold, left, “force of the earth”, inner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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light, expanding, hot, active, right, “force of heaven”, outer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yin is non-active and going within, Yin
is stillness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yang is active and
expansive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yang is doing it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yin/Yang regulate flow of Qi, through
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Element system have been observed to be related to each other in an orderly,
organised and predictable cycle of generation and control, known respectively
as the Shen (generation/production/creation) and the Ko (control) cycles
(Hammer p56). The following summary reflects the nature of the Law of the Five
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->The Law of the Five Elements determines health all of
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no need for
pathology or psychology, only an appreciation for the art of living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing is by accident; all in our
world has a reason, synchronicity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is no right or wrong, only a world of energetic adventurers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From this perspective all drug taking
action is correct action by the individual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No exceptions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brennan, Barbara Ann, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Light Emerging, The Journey Of Personal
Healing</i>, pp3-5 Bantam Books, USA, 1993<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hammer, Leon, MD. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies, Psychology and
Chinese Medicine</i>, Eastland Press Inc, Seattle, USA<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wellness
may be defined as a balanced channelling of energy, energy received from the
environment, transformed within you, and returned to affect the world around
you. Working with drugs and not
against them offers new potentiality for the therapeutic considerations of the
drug using community. A
complimentary medicinal approach, such as the Elemental system, integrates
body-mind and acknowledges that our spiritual nature needs to be nurtured. It is an efficacious and cost effective
method of providing therapeutic assistance for ex drug users by providing a
meaningful and positive way forward.
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“An Elemental Perspective of Drug Use, Repair and
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Allopathic model of response
uses drugs for effect and change, with combinations of tranquillisers,
sleepers, SSRI’s to manage the difficulties created by the mental health
distress of drug withdrawal in combination with substitution pharmacotherapies,
the collective name for a group of drugs that are used as substitutes for other
drugs. These strategies have been
effective in stabilising clients, protecting the community through reduced
crime related activity and removing some aspects of drug culture off the
streets. Decreased levels of
mortality, decreased morbidity, effective disease control, lower legal costs
and increased access to health care services by the illicit drug using
community are considered to be the prime benefits. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, using drugs to deal with
drugs is at best, fuzzy logic and at worst, ineffectual. The services described above require
significant amounts of time and resource, involving long term commitments from
both service providers and their clients.
As a consequence the burden to our community is one of considerable
financial expense. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Complimentary and alternative
medicine (CAM) refers to a large number of therapies, systems and techniques
that exist largely outside the institutions where conventional medicine is
delivered (Mamtani & Cimino, p369).
Chinese Elemental medicine is amongst them and is suggestive of another
approach; if you give the body-mind what it needs, it will repair itself. Repair on all levels is always
possible, no exceptions. All
illness is psychosomatic because we are mind-bodies, not just bodies. That fact must influence therapeutic
strategies in managing disease (Weill p57). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Efficacious CAM strategies involve
identifying and working with the physiological distress of a person in
conjunction with their mindset and attitudes, or thoughts about themselves and
others. Actively engaging the
spiritual dimension, by identifying a sense of purpose, value and connection to
something greater than thou art.
Teaching how to connect and to appreciate the nature of the healing
process as a whole (Wood, p26). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From an Elemental perspective,
this entails establishing rhythm and routine in life to generate a stable
framework for development (Sauer. J, p167). Engaging the services of bodywork professionals to shift
accumulated blockages through the meridian system, relieving the musculoskeletal
stress and facilitate the “letting go” of stored and repressed emotions. Engaging a medicinal diet as prescribed
by a nutrition expert, where food is perceived as medicine and poisons are
avoided.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Transform
negative emotionality by processing traumatic events and developing skills to face
ones self with authenticity.
Engaging in exercise (weight and endurance training), pursuing the study
of yoga, Qi gung or martial arts to develop and harness internal energy. Developing creative skills such
painting, poetry, dancing sculpture, craft and music to harness the passion of
the heart. There are no secrets to
the arts, only repetition (Shaolin proverb). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In
Western medicine receptor sites within the brain dictate our moods and
construct our reality. Chinese
medicine offers a contrasting view, organs, not the brain, dictate our moods
and are responsible for the construct of our view of reality. Organs create bio/psycho/social
life. As such addiction is not
seen as the problem, attaining balance is the real issue and as it is our
biological destiny to feel good, and we get that by creating balance. Symbolically, addictions represent an
imbalance searching for balance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Mamtani, Ravinder, & Cimino,
Andrea, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Primer of Complimentary and
Alternative Medicine and its Relevance in the Treatment of Mental Health
Problems</i>, Psychiatric Quarterly, Vol 73, No 4, Winter 2002<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sauer, Jost, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Higher and Higher, from drugs and destruction to health and happiness</i>,
Kijo Publications, Australia, 2005<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Weill, A., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Health and Healing</i>, Chapter 6, Nine principles of Health and
Illness, Boston Houghton Company, 1983<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Wood E., <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">There’s always help, there’s always hope</i>, Australia, Hay House,
2004<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Modern medicine is
good for two things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acute
interventions to injuries sustained in a traumatic manner and prolonging life
well beyond the body’s own volition and ability.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In these two areas of medicinal assistance, modernity’s
Western industry excels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> So much so, it could be argued, that the medicine industry has been an underpinning pillar in the success of the West. But b</span>eyond
that, it is at best, questionable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For health matters of a chronic nature, the East has many more clues and is, in essence, suggesting that health,
vitality and wellness is a dynamic balancing act, staged within the artful
bounds of living and breathing within the bounds of natural “laws”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the tradition of the East*,
all illness and dis-ease is the inevitable consequence of a reactivity created in breaking the “laws”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
response, some of the finest inquiring minds of the West have been, and still
are, intrigued.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Putting our Western
scientific training to the Eastern philosophical
approach, results over the past two hundred or so years, have been, by and large, are awesome. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Welcome to the eastwest
people. This series of articles is put forward to entice you into a new way of thinking. And thinking, is most correctly, the root of all evil. First comes the thought. Money gets a bed wrap, poor old money, what did it ever do?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">*Which can be taken to
broadly mean anywhere East of the Levant (the area we know today as Jerusalem,
Palestine, Israel and its surrounds, south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by
the Mediterranean sea.).</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-AU;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The first presentation is by Alan Watts. One of the great interpreters of the Eastern way into an understandable language for the Western mind. His legacy of work is a treasure trove of intelligence, and personally I have enjoyed reading his books, which I recommend.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial;">(Serving 4 – 6)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial;">Step 1: Put lamb onto a slow simmer in the chicken stock for 1 hour, add
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial;">Step 2: Fry the onion, garlic and curry paste for 3 to 5 minutes, until
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial;">Step 4: Serve over a bed of rice.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial;">Food and your diet will play a CRUCIAL ROLE in your personal rehabilitation. So pay attention. You will need whole food You must eat whole food. Do no freak out butter is good for you. I am including a delicious recipe that FULLY OBEYS the rules of effective, post-drug repair and recovery. Discipline (= ready to learn) will be required. Are you ready to learn? Yes? Good. Start with this one</span></div>
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