Health Journeys blog syndication http://www.belleruthnaparstek.com Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:37:34 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.belleruthnaparstek.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://www.belleruthnaparstek.com Health Journeys blog syndication http://www.belleruthnaparstek.com/update-from-belleruth/belleruth-talks-about-guided-imagery-at-strongsville-oh-public-library.html Well, it always happens in the Spring. I go to the studio to record our new audio for ADHD, called Concentratiion, Focus and Learning, on Bruce Gigax’s impeccably tuned, super-pricey, new microphone, and for some reason or other, I find myself sounding like a baritone frog. Chagrined to say I got sent home, having failed to execute my mission. Usually allergies are the culprit. This time, I’d caught a monster cold a few days earlier, or thought I had, in Boston Harbor, in an open boat taxi on a nasty, windy, rainy day. On reliable advice, I... Update from Belleruth - Update from Belleruth Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.belleruthnaparstek.com/update-from-belleruth/maintaining-equanimity-while-your-smoke-detector-is-chirping.html Hello everyone. I’m smiling ruefully as I write this, because once again a smoke detector in my house is chirping. It’s in a place I can’t reach, so I’m waiting for a rangy and supple (not to mention kindly and generous) friend of mine to come over and set things straight. In the meantime, I’m trying to not waste energy on being too annoyed by it, which is a little bit like trying to not think of a blue elephant. Remember the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode when Larry David takes a baseball bat to his smoke detector?... Update from Belleruth - Update from Belleruth Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.belleruthnaparstek.com/update-from-belleruth/finding-a-nice-research-surprise-in-pubmed.html Hello again. pilot study (http://www.belleruthnaparstek.com/hot-research/guided-imagery-reduces-inflammation-sleep-trouble-after-heart-surgery.html) assessing the effects of our Healthful Sleep (http://www.healthjourneys.com/product_detail.aspx?id=13) imagery on sleep disruption and systemic inflammation in the ICU and step-down unit, following cardiac surgery (the CABG and valve replacement variety). Even though it was a small RCT – only 20 patients in the experimental group and 20 controls – it was impeccably analyzed and written up, showing positive effects of the imagery over time, falling just short of significance. The investigators recommend guided imagery as an adjunctive resource to remediate sleep troubles and inflammation in this post-op population, and make the case for a larger... Update from Belleruth - Update from Belleruth Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.belleruthnaparstek.com/update-from-belleruth/new-catalog-new-mind-body-resources-in-the-warehouse.html here (http://www.healthjourneys.com/images/products/Catalog.pdf). I’m really happy with the new titles the staff picked out. The impeccable Dr. Carol Ginandes has a terrific, new, double CD set for hypertension, Perfect Pressure, Healthy Heart: A Systematic Hypnotic Approach for High Blood Pressure (http://www.healthjourneys.com/Product_Detail.aspx?id=654) which is simply first rate. We’ve got Dr. Rubin Naiman’s extraordinary The Yoga of Sleep (http://www.healthjourneys.com/Product_Detail.aspx?id=665) – another double CD set - that offers insights and meditations from both the science of sleep and the sacred meaning of sleep. Wow. I’ve never heard anything quite like it. We also have 3 marvelous, new offerings for kids by Mellisa Dormoy, for building up inner resources and... Update from Belleruth - Update from Belleruth Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://www.belleruthnaparstek.com/update-from-belleruth/new-blog-free-webinar-explaining-violence-to-kids.html I just visited the new Health Journeys Blog (http://blog.healthjourneys.com) and had a great time enjoying articles by our practitioners – Traci Stein, Julie Lusk, Mellisa Dormoy, Lynne Newman – as well as hearing from our own staff members – Maggie DeMellier and Elizabeth Hauser. If you haven’t clicked over there yet, try to check it out. These are wonderfully warm, informative, talented and fun people offering a wealth of insights and personal experiences. The question we just got about what to do for a fearful 8-year-old who’s been terrified by the random violence of the Boston Marathon bombings on this week’s... Update from Belleruth - Update from Belleruth Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100