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Sima: Posted on Wednesday, June 01, 2011 7:04 PM
I received an e-mail about how games improve our lives and our businesses. Since I was at work at Mind Alive, a company that specializes in using Audio Visual Entrainment to addresses mental health issues from fears to ADD to scholastic achievement, I figured I should look up some Brain Games. Oh my are those things addictive. I literary spent an hour just playing these different games. Quality control of course. I mean I had to make sure they were of suitable quality for our blog readers:)
For me games are therapeutic. |
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Sima: Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 11:34 PM
Last week before attending the Goddess Retreat I decided to try Tong Ren Therapy. It's based in Chinese Medicine and follows the meridian system, though it's a bit creepy in that it's healing voodoo. I mean okay, doing Body Talk on a doll is kind of voodooish too, BUT I'm not beating the doll with a hammer. Yeah, these practitioners take a doll labelled with a selection of the meridians and tap out a sequence according to a book they have. The "tap out" portion involves lasers and hammers. |
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Sima: Posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 9:54 PM
Singing Bowl Therapy is pretty neat. Everything vibrates so it makes sense that vibrations from the bowls should have some effect. For me, my treatment had 6 bowls focused on my upper body, especially my sinuses and throat. I'd definitely try it again. Singing bowls originated in the orient. The bowls Kristian had were smuggled, because of the tense political climate between China and other small countries. Unlike many other spiritual items singing bowls can be passed off as an everyday item, but I guess when governments want to eradicate a culture they will take those too. |
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Sima: Posted on Sunday, April 17, 2011 8:20 PM
R was a tough one. It was a toss up between Reiki and Reflexology though I have also experienced the Reconnection. /sigh after I registered my company name I realized Reconnection healing was a separate modality. Reconnective Health I thought was a great name for Body Talk because that's what it does reconnects all the links in order of importance to be tapped out. Oh well.
Reiki is a popular energetic healing modality, because it is cheap to learn. For a couple hundred dollars and some practice you can get pretty far, where as Body Talk just to be certified is a couple thousand. |
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Sima: Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 10:21 PM
It's taken FOREVER for me to post this and I apologize. I was growing so much with the snowboarding :) Anyway, Qi Gong as one may guess is a practice integrated with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). What I found interesting was it's also a form of training for martial arts. My colleague Kristian teaches a form for Qi Gong called Wu Dang ('nother reason this was late. I couldn't decide whether this should be for Q or W lol) His reason for teaching this form is because he felt it complemented his kung fu training the best. |
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Sima: Posted on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 3:44 PM
Pilates is a form of exercise developed by Joseph Pilates in the early 20th century. With his skills and knowledge in many forms of physical fitness he developed apparatuses for progressive resistance along with work out programs. His students outlined six major principles, concentration, control, centering, flow, precision and breathing. From the classes I took I don't think the teacher knew anything about these. Pilates is not well regulated, which means the quality of instruction varies.
I have a strong bias against pilates, before ever taking a class. |
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Sima: Posted on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 2:06 PM
I saw an Osteopath many years ago, but the treatment was quite relaxing. It reminded me more of Cranial Sacral Therapy, which I found out is a descendant of this particular technique. He did all sorts of different palpations, but most of the focus was on my head.
The theory behind it is to keep the fluids moving and make sure the bones and organs are in the right places in relation to each other. The founder Andrew Still believed bones were the place to start looking for pathological conditions, which sort of agrees with my training. |
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Sima: Posted on Monday, January 24, 2011 7:29 PM
Naturopathics to me is like the medical field in many ways except instead of dispensing drugs they use diet plans and herbs. They incorporate Asian medicine with western philosophies of pharmacology, biochemistry, anatomy and physiology etc. Many practitioners also study homeopathy and nutrition as part of their program. The upfront costs to the appointments without extended health coverage can be expensive. Most naturopaths in my area charge about $250 per session. The follow up sessions are marginally cheaper and then you have to add the cost of the remedies. |
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Sima: Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:03 PM
Working in a clinic where most practitioners are massage therapists has lovely benefits of exchanges. I've been working with a few of people as you know if you've read my other posts where I have had a lot of insights from them and advice which I take seriously. Most of my problems have been in my feet, because that's where I feel the pain, though I've known for a long time my back was twisted, but working with them I can feel things untwist and not only on a physical level, but psychologically too. |
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Sima: Posted on Thursday, January 13, 2011 8:41 PM
Lymphatic Drainage Massage is a light massage done in sweeping motions towards the heart, though major lymph nodes are pumped. It's meant to stimulate lymph nodes and help lymph circulation. Lymph is basically the body's sewer system taking all the dead blood cells to the spleen to be recycled. This is particularly important if the body has been fighting off an infection. In Body Talk our charts have a couple places with lymph nodes and lymph circulation are addressed.
Personally, I loved it! Apparently, most people prefer the harder massages, but I enjoyed the increased awareness that the light touch offered. |
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