Category: Therapy
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Wellness Through Cycling
Movement is critical to getting your heart as healthy as it can be. Cycling can be done indoors or outdoors, depending on your preferences and the time of year. Those who live in states that get cold in the winter months likely won’t want to be out cycling through the snow! Regardless of where you…
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Protect Yourself From Lyme Disease: Prevent Tick Bites
The best protection against Lyme Disease is to not get bitten. This includes knowing how to protect your skin and clothing to repel ticks, how to properly scan for ticks that have latched on, and how to remove a tick. Time is of the essence when it comes to removing a tick you find on…
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Binaural Beats
Did you know that your brain creates a singular beat when it hears two tones of two different frequencies? It’s a scientific phenomenon in brain science known as a binaural beat: an illusion created by the brain when you listen to two tones with slightly different frequencies at the same time. Now why would that…
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The Healing Power of Horses in Equine Therapy
Horses are magnificent, majestic, and mysterious creatures. Despite their large size, horses often display a gentle nature and an intuitiveness for human emotion and states of mind. The use of horses in therapeutic situations dates back to Ancient Greece (600 BCE). Today, there are several types of equine-assisted therapies in use for the treatment and…
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The 20/20/20 Rule for Protecting Eye Health
The eyes are “the window” through which we experience the world: taking in information, and assimilating it by way of brain activity. By design, the eyes have exceptional endurance but they still need sufficient rest periods, especially from digital input. The 20/20/20 Rule, recommended by optometrists, is a way to give our eyes the necessary…
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Pain Relief with TENS: Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation
If you’ve ever been to a chiropractor or a physical therapist, you may have received treatment using a machine that passed a small, tingling electrical pulse to your nerves. This is known as Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation or TENS. A TENS treatment is used to help relieve pain due to certain health conditions and injuries. TENS…
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Wet Sheet Wrap to Stimulate Whole Body Circulation
Often used as a method for reducing fevers in adults and children, Wet Sheet Wrap is a form of hydrotherapy that has many uses in natural medicine. Also known as “Spanish Mantel” or “Magic Carpet” (as children like to call it), Wet Sheet Wrap may be used to help elevate the body’s natural detoxification process. The primary…
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Wound Healing with a Carrot Poultice
Have you ever wondered how wounds were treated “back in the day” before the wonders of modern emergency medicine when a person couldn’t travel to a medical center and a doctor couldn’t get through a storm to make a house call? In all likelihood, a poultice was used. A poultice is a traditional medicine remedy…
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Lotus Pose: Grounding and Expansion for Mind-Body-Spirit
One of the oldest of the ancient yoga poses, Lotus Pose (Padmasana) is a cross-legged sitting meditation pose. To understand the significance of the Lotus Pose for mind-body-spirit, it helps to learn about the namesake for this pose: the beautiful Lotus flower plant. Rooted in mud, the majestic Lotus flower begins as a seed then…
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Nadi Shodhana: The Simple and Powerful Tool to Create Calm
Nadi Shodhana, or “alternate nostril breathing,” is a yogic practice intended to balance and clear the circulation of air through your nasal passages. This simple, yet powerful technique has been used for centuries in traditional medicine and yogic practices to settle the mind, body, and emotions. Alternate nostril breathing can help: Nadi Shodhana is a great…