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Success stories for natural healing

On this page you will find a variety of articles on healing covering topics such as:

Why our body sends us symptoms and how they are a gift in disguise
Why sometimes it may feel easier to die than to get well
Why chronic fatigue is not a lack of energy but blocked energy
How Mickel Therapy is breaking new ground in the world of healing
How listening to your abdominal brain is essential for good health
and much much more

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	My body told me to rest: I got better by doing the opposite. Glasgow Herald April 28 2008 by Martin Greig www.theherald.co.uk
"I remember the morning. It is seared in my memory. It was a beautiful summer day, the first of my holiday. A world of possibilities lay ahead - only I was struggling to open my eyelids. Swinging a leg out of bed seemed like an effort. I looked at my alarm clock: 9.15am. I showered and had breakfast. The tiredness hung over me like a storm cloud. My girlfriend phoned to make plans; I said I didn't feel up to doing much. I could feel my eyelids getting heavy again. I put down the phone and looked at the clock: 11am. I wanted to crawl back into bed"... How I recovered from Chronic Fatigue - read full article

	Symptoms and Messages by Gilles Marin for the NZ Charter Journal October 2006 www.healthcharter.org.nz Learn the real meaning of symptoms and their messages - what is your body really trying to tell you?
"Most people come for treatments because they are ill, in pain, or experiencing symptoms of discomfort. Any truly wholistic approach to healing involves understanding pain and other symptoms not as problems to be fixed but as messages to pay attention to. Treatment needs to be wholistic, focusing on increasing people’s self-awareness, including the parts that are in pain and want to feel good as well as the parts that protect them from feeling pain. Such an approach brings about true healing rather than simply curing the symptoms"... the truth about symptoms of illness and the gift of healing they can bring you - read full article here
	Mickel Therapy - A Quantum Leap in Healing of Dis-ease By Dr David Mickel and Dr Robert Bornstein How Mickel Therapy is a quantum leap in the healing of chronic disease adn energy discorders
"Our experience has confirmed that each individual has the tools and intrinsic ability to correct the physical symptoms of chronic illness. We are not referring to healthy eating, “healthy” sleep habits, healthy activity and healthy breathing, all of which are vitally important to help to conserve and maintain your body’s resources. Rather, we are describing the mounting evidence that emotional energy, which has been chronically mismanaged by internalization/suppression from early childhood through adulthood, leads to chronic disease states. We maintain that learning to manage this energy properly is the key to regaining control over a large spectrum of conditions to the extent of eliminating the symptoms altogether"... read full article
	The 'Guardian' and Resistance to Healing by Gilles Marin from his book "Chi Nei Tsang - Healing from Within Why is it we resist healing when we want to get better? Sometimes it feels easier to die than to get well
"There is a side of us that resists healing. It is the part of ourselves that forgets to take medication, eats the wrong kinds of foods, prevents us from doing our exercises and meditations, and misses an appointment with our practitioner. It is a part of ourselves that we have learned to fight and tried to change in order to heal. This is a merciless part of ourselves we associate with the very reason we get sick. It is a part of ourselves that we have learned to absolutely hate and call “the enemy within’. Without it we wouldn’t be sick; without it we wouldn’t have to change!".... Learn about your health guardian - read full article



	3 Steps to effective Emotional Communication By Kyle Davies, Mickel Therapy Director How you can avoid emotions building up to become symptoms of emotional, mental or physical pain
"Frequently talking to people about emotive subjects can be difficult, often because we anticipate a defensive response, conflict of some kind or just that someone will end up with hurt feelings. The 3 steps to effective emotional communication is a simple process for communicating your feelings while minimising the chance of evoking a defensive response in others. How to communicate effectively and avoid the build-up of emotional energy - read full article
	Chronic Fatigue or Chronic Energy Block? By Kim Knight for Input Magazine May 2006 How and why chronic fatigue is not a lack of energy - it is excess energy that is blocked
"I had been unwell for several years, experiencing over that time what is commonly known as ‘M.E.’ or chronic fatigue, along with low thyroid function. I had tried over a hundred different therapies and although I was making progress, it was a slow journey and I just didn't seem to be getting to the bottom of things"... Learn the truth about the blocked emotional energy of chronic fatigue - full article here

	The Six Conditions for healing by Gilles Marin for Massage New Zealand Journal Spring 2006 www.massagenewzealand.org The six pre-requisites for getting well and the need for safety
"Just as much as our brain, our entire abdomen profoundly establishes our affective life. Our enteric - or second - brain in our abdomen, with its battery of neurotransmitters and gift of memory, contains the archives of all our emotional life. The ancient Chinese knew this. They associated anger, anxiety, fear, worry and sadness with different areas of the viscera. Chi Nei Tsang, a precise massage technique for the internal organs, comes from the most ancient of Taoist traditions. It is a profoundly simple and yet highly efficient way to dissolve the negative energies which manifest as countless somatic pathologies as well as mental and emotional disorders".... Learn how feeling safe is paramount for healing - ead full article

	What is Mickel Therapy? By Kim Knight for Healthy Options Magazine August 2006 The origins of Mickel Therapy and its underlying philosophy
"Mickel Therapy is an innovative body-mind treatment created by Dr David Mickel, who originally worked as a medical doctor in the UK. He developed an interest in CFS/ME and Fibromyalgia during his time as a GP, and becoming frustrated by conventional attempts to treat the conditions went on to train and work as an Eriksonian Therapist, later developing the treatment now known as Mickel Therapy. Following its success in the UK, bringing it to nationwide attention, Mickel Therapy is now being practiced in various countries around the globe, and the first practitioners were trained in New Zealand in 2006"... Mickel Therapy, the philosophy and its solutions for chronic illness - read full article


	Chi Nei Tsang - Helping you to enjoy life By Kim Knight for Health Options Magazine July 2007 www.healthyoptions.co.nz Are you enjoying your life? What is it we need to do to make life enjoyable?
"How long has it been since you experienced deep feelings of joy and inner peace? Perhaps too long? The truth is, we are designed to enjoy life. However, in our modern, fast-paced existence, it’s easy to forget that we are actually meant to feel good"....read full article
	Gut Instinct - what can our internal organs tell us about our state of mind? For Fitness Life Magazine May 2007 www.fitnesslife.co.nz Are you listening to your gut? Do you know it has more neurons than your brain?
"We've all heard about butterflies in the stomach, having a gut feeling or being sick with worry. However, far from being just quaint figures of speech, these sayings actually arise from a link between our gut and emotions"....learn the connection between the gut and emotional intelligence - read the full article
	What is Mickel Therapy? For My Options Magazine Australia Issue 18 - April 2007 www.myoptions.com.au Australian Options Magazine describes Mickel Therapy, ground-breaking treatment for chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and more

	Chi Nei Tsang - Healing from Within By Kim Knight for Rainbow News Magazine Sept 2006 www.rainbownews.co.nz Click here to download page 1 of this article Click here to download page 2 of this article
"How many of us were trained or even allowed to really feel ? E-motions (energy in motion) bring us information if we are willing to experience them. Unfortunately, many of us are on auto-pilot to resist emotions rather than allow ourselves to ‘feel’, which results in emotional charges being stored by the body as a self-protective mechanism. Left unresolved, they may eventually experienced be as emotional, mental or physical symptoms (ie.pain)"... How blocked emotions stop us from leading a healthy life - read full article here.
	The Second Brain For the NZ Acupuncture Association Journal Nov 2006 www.acupuncture.org.nz Why is it so important to get to know your second brain
"Just as much as our brain, our entire abdomen, in its rich complexity not yet completely explored by modern science, profoundly establishes our affective life. Our enteric brain in our abdomen shapes our emotions and, in return is affected by these emotions. With its battery of neurotransmitters, and other psychoactive endogenous substances, the health of the abdomen has the power to give birth to discouragement or enthusiasm, helplessness or pleasure, depression or fulfillment. Gifted with memory, our belly contains the archives of all our emotional life"...Get to know the brain in your belly - read the full article