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In the first part of this article series, I suggested energy healing techniques as the best way to heal emotional wounds because it works at the cellular level and helps with the emotional clearing of unresolved memories, painful feelings and limiting beliefs. In that article, I gave you several essential oils you can use for healing emotional wounds.

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This article will offer healing meditation as a technique for emotional clearing.

Benefits of Meditation

• Meditation helps you relax and deepen your breathing. It strengthens the mind-body connection and can help you deepen spiritual awareness and connection, as well.
• Meditation helps you know yourself more intimately, becoming more aware of who you are at a deep level. It also can help you identify what needs healing or change in your life.
• It also can increase self-esteem, and help you think more clearly and improve your ability to focus.
• Meditation can help you heal. According to Belleruth Naparstek, psychotherapist, “trauma lives in the right side of the brain” and thus is best healed by right-brain activity. This makes meditation and guided imagery ideal for healing trauma.

Because our feelings also are stored in the right side of the brain, meditation is ideal for emotional healing, in general.

Grounding Meditation

“Have you ever been nervous before a speaking engagement, irritable after a sleepless night, or felt nauseous or hot after an argument? If so, you were probably not grounded. When we are ungrounded, we become nervous, easily irritable, or even nauseous.” -Sarah Wood Vallely, Sensational Meditation for Children

One easy way to get started with meditation is with simple grounding meditations.

When you focus on centering or grounding yourself, you then can let go of stressful or painful feelings like anxiety or irritability or tension. In meditation, when you experience letting go, you actually release the energy from your body.

Creating Your Own Meditation

With any meditation, you want to engage all of your senses, focusing on what you see, what you hear, what you feel, what you smell and maybe even what you can taste.

For a grounding meditation, you need at least two things: rootedness and release, but I also would add the element of healing.

First, include earth-centered imagery that suggests rootedness, like having roots grow from the bottom of your feet into the ground. Next, you might breathe in and out deeply and imagine having healing energy fill you.

And then imagine some form of release, like having your stress flow out of your feet and into the ground. When I create a healing meditation, I also usually imagine that whatever has been healed becomes absorbed into love.

Many people have hypertension, also known as high blood pressure. I myself have mild hypertension. Hopefully I’ll never need to go on medication, and there are several ways to lower blood pressure besides medication.

• Eating a balanced diet is one. Low in saturated fat, with lots of fruits, veggies, fiber, and whole grains is often recommended, and the DASH diet is one example. DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. For those of us who love to eat, this can be tough, but your diet doesn’t need to be perfect to make a difference.
• Exercising regularly will lower your blood pressure, even simply walking 30 min several days a week. Exercising is simple to do, although getting into the habit can be tough. Once you get into the habit it’s not tough, and you may find you even look forward to your daily exercise. I know I do.
• Keeping alcohol intake low helps with hypertension. I have a problem with this as I’m a wine lover. Medical professionals recommend no more than two drinks a day. My doctor has suggested trying close to zero alcohol for a month to see what affect it has, and I am trying that now.
• Reducing stress in your life. This can be tough depending on your life situation. I have a high stress job, a high stress wife, and three little kids, but every little bit helps.
• Weight, keeping it close to your ideal weight. Of course many of the above suggestions help with weight a lot, like exercise, limiting alcohol, and eating a balanced diet. Unfortunately I fight with my weight a lot like many do, and it goes up and down, but averages much lighter than it used to fortunately!
• Not smoking. If you don’t smoke, obviously do not start. If you do smoke, quitting is ideal if possible. It’s easy for some folks and next to impossible, perhaps actually impossible, for some. If you cannot quit, cut down. My friend Grim Jon has cut down to a pack a day from an amazing three and a half to four packs a day!
• Reduce your salt intake. In fact it’s the sodium in the salt that affects blood pressure. Numerous studies have shown that limiting salt has an often significant effect.

There are many ways to potentially reduce your blood pressure other than medication, and I’m working on them, even though mine is only borderline high.
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The calf is made up of two muscles. The gastrocnemius is the larger of the two, and this attaches above the knee and heel joint. The soleus is the smaller muscle positioned beneath the gastrocnemius, and this attaches below the knee and heel joint. When these contract, flexion of the knee joint occurs. During sports, calf muscles are commonly injured resulting in pulled or even torn calf muscles. Pulled calf muscle treatment is recommended when the muscle is pulled to prevent a worsening of the injury. This form of muscle treatment can be done on your own as explained in this article.

When pulled calf muscle injury occurs, immediately apply this treatment by following R. I. C. E. ‘R’ stands for ‘Rest’, ‘I’ stands for ‘Ice’, ‘C’ stands for ‘Compression’ and ‘E’ stands for ‘Elevation’. The first thing we want to do in a pulled calf muscle injury after muscles building workout routines is to stop any internal bleeding which causes swelling of the muscle. Applying cold compression will cause the blood vessels in the pulled calf muscle to constrict, thus restricting blood flow to the area. Elevation of the limb also discourages blood flow to the injured area. All this reduce any further internal bleeding and starts the healing process. The injury will not heal without adequate rest. So make sure you stay off physical activities until healing is complete.

The short term treatment is R.I.C.E.

For the injury to heal, the long term pulled calf muscle injury must be started. This basically involves treatments that will aid blood flow to the area. It might sound contradictory here, but it is not. R.I.C.E. stops the internal bleeding. Once the internal bleed stops and swelling is reduced, the injured muscle needs to be flushed with nutrients for repair and healing to take place. Our blood carries all the necessary nutrients to the injured area for repairs to begin. Hence, the more blood flow towards the area, the better and quicker is the healing.

To increase blood flow to the area, you can do three things:

• Apply heat treatment. By rubbing and applying heating ointments like tiger balm to the area will cause blood vessels to expand.
• You can gently massage the area with the ointment. Massage will speed up blood flow to and from the area.
• You can apply a hot bag over the affected area and secure this with a bandage. This combination of heat and massage treatment will allow the injured area to heal up.

Of course this will take time, and you must rest a lot.

While resting, it is sometimes impossible to give heat and massage treatment to your pulled calf muscle all the time. In between periods, you can also apply R.I.C.E. to make sure that swelling does not occur. However, the pulled calf muscle treatment should be made up of more heat treatment than anything else.

Yeast infection is known to be one of the most difficult infections to ever deal with. The sufferer would be subjected to intense itching, which makes it very uncomfortable, even debilitating. Well, to begin with a yeast infection happens when there is more yeast level in one’s body, usually in moist parts like the skin and mouth and vagina as well.

Bacteria build up equates to more yeast production and of course, this then is a good recipe for disaster. The best and easiest way to prevent yeast infection doesn’t even require anything but what if you may ask? Nothing else but common sense! The reason people get infected with something is because of bacteria build up. How can one avoid bacteria build up? Of course, by proper hygiene. More than spending hundreds of dollars on antioxidants, everything starts from being conscious about how you take care of yourself, particularly, your hygiene.

How many time do you hit the shower in a day? Once? Twice? Sometimes none? Everyone should take a shower at least twice a day no matter what season it is, yes, even on winter! Many people are under the impression that you only take a shower when you get to sweat profusely, then let me tell you that this not at all true. You take a shower to remove excess dirt and oil accumulated the whole day whether you just stayed home or went out to work or grocery shopping.

Accumulation of dirt and oil is a perfect breeding ground for bacteria, and of course next to it would be yeast infestation as well. When you take the shower, ensure that you clean thoroughly, with a mild antibacterial soap.

If you notice, this is nothing but the simplest way to avoid yeast infection, or any other sickness or infection for that matter. But it is also so true that the simplest of things sometimes or more often than not overlooked.

The new discoveries by medical researchers are that anorexia (the male version is known as manorexia) is not limited to women and that the idea of starving yourself in order to achieve the perfect body is crossing gender lines. Manorexia is a serious eating disorder which needs to be detected at its early stages.

What is Manorexia?

Manorexia is an eating disorder. Dietary restriction is the most significant manifestation of the disorder/disease. It sometimes occur in its pure form however appears in the form of alternating crises restriction and bulimia with vomiting. The body is viewed as too big, despite been extremely thin. This physical state due to malnutrition is often times fatal.

Who is affected by Manorexia?

While anorexia is typically thought to be a disorder affecting only teenage girls or women, experts estimate that about 1 million American men suffer from manorexia and the figures seems to be rises.

At what stage in life?

Risk of manorexia is particularly said to be high during two main periods i.e. between ages 12 and 13 and then between ages 17 and 18. This latter part is made significant because it is at the end of high school when ’serious’ dating occurs i.e. you want to get attention from girls.

How does it start?

For many it often starts as a simply attempt to get fit but it quickly turns into a deadly battle for the perfect body.

What are the underlying and predisposing factors of Manorexia?

In as much as there are biological factors, external factors like early like interactions e.g. family values, identity development and sense of worth/self esteem are vital I triggering the disorder. Pop culture is also a great influence here with some aiming to be wiry — think Mick Jagger, some want to be lean, muscular Brad Pitt, James Bond while other just want to be big and chiseled like Arnold [Schwarzenegger], the governor.”

Warning signs?

A sudden feeling of insecurity followed by a change in eating habits, an obsession with the mirror, an rate of loss of weight leading to general weakness are all signs of manorexia that should not be taken fore granted.

Are there consequences?

Since Manorexia is essentially depriving your body of nutrients dangerous consequences such as stated below may follow – abnormally slow heart rate, low blood pressure, changes in the heart muscle, risk of heart failure, electrolyte imbalance, anemia, changes in bones density (meaning your bones can break more easily, dental problems) loss of muscle tone, general weakness, severe dehydration, which can result in kidney failure, hair loss is common, death.

What should I do now?

It is important not to isolate yourself. The first thing to do is talk to a doctor. There are also a number of associations for parents of children with anorexia which offer good support and are good sources of information.

If you are going through it and you have a problem with manorexia, put away the pride, put away the ego, and don’t be afraid to seek the necessary treatment for it. It’s OK. It’s fine. Just because you are a guy doesn’t mean, ‘I can’t ask for help.’ Do not procrastinate consulting a medical practitioner as an early treatment facilitates cure.