Love How You Feel {Acadiana} Volume 2 Issue 1

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LOVE HOW YOU FEEL1201 General Mouton

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Love How You Feel was designed to bring back that personal relation-ship with yourself by offering you a vehicle to simplify the amazing break-

through nutrition called Macro-Balance…

We personalize your life course with sound advice from your physician, personal trainer, and nutritionist. Together, you can achieve a level of well-

being everyone deserves.

We bring this full circle with a thorough look into your everyday eating hab-its, and removing a lot of the restrictions by doing the research for you.

We take a deep look into the menu of your favorite restaurants without scrutinizing a thing. We balance the many choices,

publish them in these pages, and show you how to do it yourself. The purpose of our work is to provide a healthy solution as you learn to

incorporate Macro-Balance anywhere you go.

We follow a simple philosophy of eating in thirds. 1/3 protein, 1/3 smart carbohydrate, and 1/3 starchy carbohydrate.

This balance expresses a one to one ratio between proteins andcarbohydrates. The lifestyle ensures your lean muscle to remain healthy, and keep your metabolism in an optimum state. The metabolic state we

describe is; Energy all day long at the expense of your body fat. How the human body is supposed to run.

LoveFrom the Cover

Eating Out on the Town

In the Kitchen

Macrobalance

Spiritual Solutions

A focus on local Businesses.

Are You Feeling Stressed

The Mad Scientist

How I got Started

Don’t feel guilty about eating out!

Check out our Restaurant guide withmenus that are MacroBalanced for you!

IF YOU LOVE WHAT WE DOAND WOULD LOVE TO BE A PART

OF THIS REVOLUTION, WE ARELOKING TO EXPAND OUR

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This section is filled with recipes for you to create your own MacroBalanced meals at home!

Your Lifestyle

The Art of MacroBalance

Your health doesn’t stop at food.

EDITORIALS DIRECTOR

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Bernard Graham

Amanda Borne

Justin Pilcher

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Quit Smoking

The Wonders of Juicing

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iana Wow, 2012. What an explo-sive first year. We launched the MacroBalance Revolution, and gained support from numerous contributors, health care profes-sionals, and restaurants through-out Acadiana. It was definitely a year of learning.

We learned how MacroBalance is the cornerstone for good phys-ical health with Dr. Ralidis. Jus-tin Pilcher simplified this nutrition with his guidance in “The Art of MacroBalance” and showing you how easy it can be to balance restaurant menus in “Out on the Town”. We triggered some intui-tive thought when we introduced “Spiritual Solutions” with myself and Brandon Alleman, and em-powered Acadiana with “Food for Thought” by bringing Mac-roBalance to your kitchen and table. These are healthy habits for generations to come.

There is a lot to be said for new beginnings. We start off this year with a few things to get you started on a healthier track. From resolutions to spiritual res-titution. Our contributors share a wealth of knowledge and inspi-ration. You’ll find new places to eat, community support events, shaping up for the summer, and taking a different look at the goals we set for ourselves. We will broaden the awareness of

GMOs (geneti cally modified or-ganisms) in the United States and Acadiana, and we’ll uncov-er the artificial “everything” be-ing passed off as food.

In this quarter, Kate Rountree, RD, LDN shows us a lifelong ap-proach to weight loss and well-ness. We will dig deeper into the effects of tobacco use with Dr. Jim Morvant, B.S.N.,D.C., C.C.S.P. We learn about the wonders of fruit and vegetable juicing with Emma Ferguson, RN. Brandon Alleman, CHEK 3, HHP will share how he got started in his business, and we show you a little trick to help you stay on track with your New Year promise. Buckle up for our second year of real life lessons, real life nutrition, and real life spirituality. Let’s face it Acadiana, if we’re not step-ping outside the box, we’re not growing.

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Getting Started

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How do I want to feel?

Where do I start?

Who can help?

Are they the best choice?

Are there alternatives?

Put this workbook to good use!Ask yourself:

Asking yourself how you feel is the first action in getting to a better you. Let’s get to the bottom of how you’re feeling.

Are you sleepy at mid-day? Is it tough to get out of bed in the morning? Diabetic? Hypertensive? Has the doctor been on you about balancing your diet? Realized you let yourself go and need to get yourself back under control?

You’re not alone! Now ask yourself different ques-tions to get yourself on a path to a better you. It is a goal of

Love How You Feelto give you the infoyou need to get you started on a path to a better,healthier, and happier you!

Try something that empowers you. A 90 day goal that is meant just for you is a great way to get started.

Use these calendars to plan!

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Dr. Philip Ralidis is a Board Certified Emergency Physician with 20 years of specialty prac-tice. Since residency training at LSU Charity Hospital in New Orleans, he has practiced at the highest volume emergency centers in Austin, College Station, and Waco, Texas. He is currently an emergency physician at Lafayette General Medical Center. He and his family are happy to be back in Louisiana and have found areal home in Lafayette. He has always had a personal and professional interest in proactive health maintenance. Through-out two decades of emergency medicine practice, he has seen how the combined effects of poor nutrition, sedentary lifestyle, and lack of personal empowerment in one’s life have taken their toll on our na-tion’s health, even to the point of affecting our children’s wellness.

Welcome to YourLifestyle

by Phil Ralidis

Welcome to the fifth edition of Love How You Feel! I hope this New Year finds you open to em-powering your life by taking con-trol of your most precious posses-sion, your health! This quarter’s article will have a different focus from the previous ones, by dis-cussing a theme that is recurrent throughout our lives, central to Universal Law, and often met with vigorous resistance- I’m talking about the essence of CHANGE, the only real constant in our ever turning world!

Clearly we experience change on a daily basis, although often in measurements that are too small for us to appreciate fully. “Anoth-er day older” is an axiom that is also a truism, and yet do we re-ally appreciate its significance? After all, what is just another day in the long string of days we tie together to make up our lives? We can comfort ourselves that if we didn’t meet our goals and expectations today, there is al-ways tomorrow to make up for it. And yet as an Emergency Physi-cian practicing for nearly twenty years, it is painfully obvious to me that none of us knows how many of these “tomorrows” we have in store. In fact, “live for the day” is another axiom we might take to heart if we are to fully appreciate the potential bounties it offers.

I am not trying to be the bringer of doom and gloom, but rather would hope to give you pause to reflect upon the saying “there is no time like the present-or no present like the time!” Today is THE day to reclaim your right to a healthy lifestyle, to feel good about how you feel, to look for-ward to another days’ challenges and opportunities because you have the energy and self empow-erment to take it all in stride! All that is needed is an open mind and spirit, a willingness to look outside the parameters of your current life, a curiosity about how you might feel if you were able to take some simple steps towards health that were easily accom-modated into your busy lifestyle. THAT is the positive change that I want to focus on in this article.

Remember in past articles how we talked about the body’s natu-ral decline with age? Those de-tails are readily apparent to us by direct observation: we are not the same bodies (or people!) we were twenty years ago, and the march of time brings on the inev-itability of aging and all the varied concerns that this encompass-es. Our lean muscle mass (bone, skeletal and smooth muscle that comprises the majority of our body mass) declines about 5% every decade past the age of


30, so that we are but shadows of our former physical selves when most of us reach retire-ment age. We think this decline is inevitable, and that we are powerless to halt its progres-sion; it is therefore hardly sur-prising that we exert only pas-sive resistance, or even actively engage in its rapid completion! Yet there are persons who live a physically active and rewarding lifestyle even as they grow older, seemingly defying the odds that befall their peers along the way. What are they doing differently? What makes those persons more enabled to actively participate in life when most others are seek-ing a gradual withdrawal from it?

The essence of any real change must come from within. It takes a real sense of adventure, and no small amount of courage, to be able to look at one’s current lifestyle and view those parts of it that are literally killing us and making us older before our time. If we focus on just those aspects this publication is primarily con-cerned with, we look honestly into the mirror of our nutritional and exercise habits. We see ar-eas we can change for the bet-ter. Most importantly, we recog-nize that although other persons might appreciate these changes and support us with flattering observations, we are doing this because it is OUR given RIGHT to live a healthier life that will em-power us to do so even when it is not CONVENIENT, or takes some extra EFFORT for immedi-ate and long term benefits. And we realize that this is not self-ishness, but rather enlightened SELF AWARENESS that allowsus to see more clearly how our

health impacts not only upon our own life, but also upon the lives of others.

In past articles, I talked about how physical change must pro-ceed along a steady and gradual course if there is to be any long lasting effect: a case in point is weight loss. I spoke about how our lean muscle mass (LMM) is designed to burn body fat to stimulate the daily protein de-position essential to the health of our vital organs, when sup-plied with the necessary amount of dietary protein (remember LEUCINE?). I further illustrated how this LMM functions as an 8-cylinder engine, each cylinder working at capacity to meet the daily metabolic demands of the body. Do you recall what hap-pens when a rapid and dramatic weight loss occurs? Not only do you lose fat, but also the LMM machinery needed to consume it for metabolic stability. In short, rapid weight loss results in a 6 or 4 cylinder engine, functioning at only partial metabolic capac-ity. Of course the inevitable then happens: we are proud of our weight loss and feel enabled to go back to our pre-diet nutrition-al habits, the same ones that put us into such a mess in the first place. No wonder we are worse off than before this crash diet be-cause we have less LMM to burn off the increasing fat content that crash diet courses ALWAYS re-sult in.

GRADUAL change is the hall-mark of physiological stability. One does not become signifi-cantly overweight in just a fewmonths, and cannot properly re-gain a healthy homeostasis in

such a short time frame. Grad-ual change in diet and physical activity allows the body’s inher-ent self healing and correcting mechanisms to exert their influ-ence; along the way, we gain the much needed boost of increased self confidence and self esteem, all of which result in our FEELING BETTER about ourselves and our ability to make wise deci-sions about our health. Our fam-ily, friends and peers ultimately see this too, and like a pebble thrown into a pond we become (perhaps unwittingly!) an inspi-ration for others to take up the path of self-empowerment and self-awareness.

Throughout the past year’s LHYF articles, I have talked about how to start gradually on the path towards better health. I have outlined the benefits of the MACROBALANCE approach to healthier nutrition, and the ben-efits of a properly fitted gradual approach to exercise that can benefit anyone within their cur-rent medical and physiological parameters. Your personal physi-cian can help guide you through any necessary prerequisites to-wards active participation in this pathway. However, the essence of the choice is YOURS- will you take the first step, a com-mitment to being more healthy, more active, and more fulfilled in the coming year? You will find a whole cadre of people ready to welcome and assist you in meet-ing your personal wellness goals. I trust you will make the right de-cisions, and make 2013 a very prosperous and healthy New Year!! Until then, eat well, be fit and enjoy life!


Justin is a full time mentor of health, wellness, fitness, and pos-itive energy. There are all the technical ways he mentors, like health and wellness classes, nutrition plans, and specially de-signed work-outs, but then there are all the day to day. Justin is the one that pops in just to say, “Hey!” He is the trainer that asks you how your weekend was and genuinely wants you to tell him. He has been shaping the fitness world for many years through all natural body building compe-titions, cross-country running, and a state tennis player. He is a certified Crossfit trainer and hasover 3000 hours of functional movement training under his belt. I promise when you run into Justin, it will not be an expe-rience you are going to forget.

The Art of MacroBalance

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What do you eat to be? Seems like a simple enough question, but really do you eat to be sick? Do you eat to be well? Do you eat to be fit? When I first sit down with people, they usually don’t even know.

Throughout the production of this magazine we will talk about how you can eat to be well and eat to be fit through the art of MacroBalance. The MacroBal-anced diet allows you to eat with a purpose and use your food as a fuel for optimum health.

On the sick side of this arc you have the sick side of eating: heart disease, diabetes, cancer, obesity, and more. Here there is an imbalance of hormones. Unfortunately, this is how most of us are eating. Today we start to changr that style of eating.

What we want to do is eat to balance our hormones so that our body may function in an op-timal condition. We want to let food be our “drug” of choice, and start eating to be fit and

eating to be well. This is where the “art of MacroBalance” comes in to play.

Before we can really under-stand the art of anything, we must first truly understand what it is we are talking about. So let’s break down the term “Mac-roBalance”.

MacroBalance = The Balance of Macronutrients.

It is no secret that our body needs certain nutrients to func-tion properly. What I want to teach you is how our/your uses three specific macronutrients.

Protein or “US”: Our skin, mus-cles, nails, hair, the list goes on is composed of proteins.

Carbohydrates: We all love them. They are the fuel for workouts and brain energy. We work out to burn carbohydrate storage, not fat. “The healthier the carbohydrate, the better the brain function.”

Fat: We need it, people. In a balanced way. Fat helps in re-covery, daily energy, digestion/metabolism, etc.

How do we balance the ma-cronutrients? Let’s talk about where you may be now.

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Typically we load up on starchy carbohydrates, reaching a peak of energy and then we dip into sleepiness. You know the point at 2pm when you want to fall asleep at your desk? We typi-cally repeat this cycle. Every time we eat an unbalanced meal of carbohydrates and protein we hit that peak; we are getting fat-ter. This process is called “Met-abolic Derangement”. Who re-ally wants to get fatter?!

With complete MacroBal-anced meals you never hit that slump. Better yet, you never get to that “fatter” peak. There are no highs and lows; you are always full of energy with no crashes. Who needs an energy drink when you are using the power of food to feel great?

So, now you are wondering what a MacroBalanced meal looks like. A MacroBalanced meal is based on a 1/3 method. One-third protein, one-third

smart carbs and one-third starchy carbs. (Yep, those starchy carbs have been given a bad rep, but you can still have them.)

Let’s break down our plates, and talk about what they should look like as you are cooking or ordering your meals. How much protein? What are smart and starchy carbs? How big is one-third? There are two methods you can use to figure out your one-third portions: using the la-bel or the eyeball method.

The label method is by far the simplest way of measuring in a perfect world. Look for the grams of protein on the label. If there are 7 grams of protein, then balance that with 7 grams of smart carbs and also 7 grams of starchy carbs. If there is no label, let’s talk about what it looks like.

For more information and explanations or just to join the online conversation go to www.lovehowyoufeelacadiana.com.

Justin is also offering Nutrition classes. If you would be interested in attending one of his classes email us at [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you!!

Pointers and Advice:

Invest in a simple food scale. You and your body will be hap-py you did.

Fat does not play a part in hor-mone balance, and in modera-tion is HEALTHY.

If you understand and apply MacroBalance between protein and carbohydrates, you will en-joy great benefits.

If you feel sleepy after a meal, you just got fatter.

Eat food and have it work for you. Use it as fuel for your life-style.

Remember, MAcroBalance is not a diet; It’s a WAY OF LIFE!

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Quit SmokingThe Best New Year’s Resolution

by Jim Morvant, B.S.N., D.C., C.C.S.P.

When the issue of smoking comes up with my patients, I al-ways remember what my now retired pastor’s comments on smoking were. Although some-what on the comical side, the message would get to the point. He would say that people don’t smoke, cigarettes do; people are only the “suckers”. Another common saying of his was that smoking won’t send you to hell, but it may make you smell like you have been there. I haven’t found one positive thing about smoking. I have found that once a person begins to smoke that it is extremely hard to quit. If you are a smoker this New Year should be the year to quit. Quit-ting would improve your health, longevity, your family’s health, save you money and help your back pain.

The World Health Organiza-tion estimates that almost five million people die annually from tobacco-related illnesses. Even with warnings on packaging and millions of dollars spent on edu-cating the public on the damag-ing health effects of smoking ap-proximately 22% of adults in the U.S. are smokers. Researchers have found that 80% of smokers would like to quit smoking, but only less than 5% can do it on their own. Even though people

know it is bad for them, why is it so hard to quit?

Nicotine is Highly Addictive

When a person quits smoking they will experience actual phys-ical withdrawal symptoms due to the fact that the nicotine is a stimulant to the pleasure centers of the brain’s central cortex. The nicotine’s toxic stimulation to the brain, gives it a highly addictive side effect, which makes the per-son want to stop the withdrawal symptoms and start smoking again. No one person has ex-actly the same nicotine with-drawal symptoms. Some of the common withdrawal symptoms include, but not limited to: cough and chest tightness, irritability, difficult concentrating, cravings for a smoke, fatigue, sore throat, sore tongue and gums, head-ache, flu-like symptoms and sleep problems.

You may be Predisposed Genetically

Heart disease, cancer and al-coholism are examples of genet-ic influence on your health in life. These were once thought to be mostly behavioral in nature. With the advance of scientific studies it has now been established that there is a genetic link to

Dr. Jim Morvant is a practicing Chiropractic Physician in the Lafayette area for the past 25 years. He is a Certified Chiro-practic Sports Physician and has a bachelor’s degree from McNeese State University in Nursing, along with being a former quarterback for the Mc-Neese Cowboys. He has served on the medical support team for the Olympic Track and Field Trials and NCAA Track and Field Championships. He has also volunteered as a team chiropractor for the Louisiana Icegators, the Nation-wide Golf Tournament and the Wrecking Rams of Acadiana High School. He is the former owner of Building BetterAthletes and continues to train athletes on an individual basis for speed and agility.

If you have any questions or interest in speed and agility training you can contact Dr. Jim Morvant at Morvant Spinal Care and Rehab by phone (984-0206) or email [email protected].


smoking behavior. Research has led to the genetic component in-fluences, even the urge to start smoking and the continuing on to become a smoker. This could explain the diversity of attitudes to smoking. It is interesting how some people cannot stand smok-ing or being around people who smoke, some people can smoke occasionally without becoming addicted, they can have a take it or leave it attitude toward smok-ing, and others will become ha-bitual, addicted smokers.

Aspects of Smoking Can Be Rewarding Psychologically

Many young people start smok-ing because of peer pressure from friends they hang out with that are smokers. Never with the intention of becoming addicted. There are social and behaviorial

aspects of smoking that appear tobe rewarding. Smoking behav-ior becomes closely linked to cer-tain daily activities and cues such as socializing with friends, when drinking alcohol, after a meal, when taking a break, when relaxing. I have noticed when you see photos of casinos it seems that the people have three addic-tions or habits; gambling with a drink and cigarette. It is only my observation that possibly addic-tive personalities are not selec-tive to just one unhealthy habit

The factors discussed may be an explanation why even when using behavioral approaches and anti-smoking medications, there is s till a high percentage of relapses. After a person quits smoking the first few weeks are the most difficult. It is usually not uncommon for a person to feel

uncomfortable without smok-ing cigarettes for eight to twelve weeks. This is due to your body working hard to overcome the withdrawal symptoms. Stop-ping smoking over the long term, becoming a true non-smoker is very difficult and challenging but well worth the effort..

The Wonders ofJuicing

by Emma FergusonR.N.

Virtually every authority, in-cluding the USDA, the Surgeon General, the National Cancer Institute, and the U.S. Depart-ment of Health and Human Ser-vices, recommend that we eat plenty of vegetables and fruits amounting to about 6-8 serv-ings a day. The reasoning be-hind this is very simple-- a diet high in these foods will prevent or cure a wide range of ail-ments. Unfortunately there are few of us that actually manage to consume this amount.

Everywhere you look, research-ers are searching for chemicals in plants that will prevent or even cure many of the most com-mon types of diseases. These plant chemicals, known as phy-tochemicals, are part of the cut-ting edge of nutritional research because they hold important keys to preventing some of our most deadly diseases such as cancer and heart disease , as well as some of our most common, like asthma, arthritis and allergies. Besides not consuming enough vegetables and fruits, we also have a majority of people with impaired digestion as a result of making unwise food choices over an extended period of time. This problem with digestion limits the body’s ability to absorb all the nutrients from vegetables and fruit even when they are eaten.

Juicing becomes a way to guarantee that we get enough fruits and vegetables and thus assist our body in maintaining or returning to health. Juicing removes the indigestible fiber so that more of the nutritional sub-stances are readily absorbed. For example, because many of the nutrients are trapped in the fiber, when you eat a raw car-rot, you are only able to assimi-late about 1% of the available beta carotene. When a carrot is juiced, removing the fiber, nearly 100% of the beta carotene can be assimilated.

Our bodies love to have a wide assortment of vegetables rotated through our eating pat-terns but most of us tend to eat the same things over and over. Juicing is a wonderful way to reap the benefits of a wider variety of vegetables then we would normally take in. Fruits and vegetables provide another substance that is absolutely es-sential for good health-- water. Most people do not consume enough water plus many of the fluids that are taken in contain substances that require extra water for your body to eliminate them. Fruit and vegetable juic-es are free of these unneeded substances and are full of clean, pure water.

Fresh juices are a tremendous source of enzymes. When you eat cooked foods, if the food is cooked at temperatures above 114 degrees, the enzymes have been destroyed by the heat. Since fruits and vegetables are juiced raw, the enzymes are still viable when you drink it. Many of the phytochemicals that nu-tritional researchers are focus-ing their attention on are either enzymes, or more often, they are substances that help build or activate enzymes that play

Emma Ferguson is an R.N. , intuitive Life Coach, Writer, Reiki Master, Quan Yin Joray energy instructor , and presently leads yoga and aerobic classes for se-nior citizens. She has been juic-ing for 10 years and maintains an eating plan that includes many nutrient dense foods. At 66 years of age her hair still has no grey and is on no medically prescribed medications. Her website is www.auntiemma.com . She is also part of One Force Productions (oneforce.cc) with her husband Rick. She has been fully dedicated to the elevation of Consciousness for the last 27 years.


essential roles in protecting cells from damage.

Juicing is not normally meant to be taken in as a meal re-placement unless you are being supervised in a de-toxing pro-gram by a health professional. In most cases, it is great to aim to drink about 16 oz. of fresh juice a day that can be spread out over the day.

It is best to use pesticide free veggies that are organic. The following vegetables are the most pesticide loaded: 1. Celery 2. Spinach 3. Kale 4. Collard Greens 5. Lettuce 6. Carrots 7 Cucumbers (or peel before juicing)

Start juicing with vegetables that are mild in flavor and ones you are already used to. Make the juice taste good. The addi-tion of some lemon or lime (mi-nus the peel) can make a huge difference. Also the addition of an apple can add to the flavor.

Drink your juice right away. If it is necessary to make the juice ahead, use a mason jar with

a lid and fill to the very top so that there is no oxygen in the container and then store in the fridge. There are even some devices that can be purchased that suck the air out of a closed glass container.

Fortunately, there are now available many books and on line information and recipes to help you in your juicing pro-cess. If you are serious about making juicing a normal part of your diet, it is best to invest in at least a medium priced juicer. Some of the cheaper brands do not extract the juice very well and so there is much waste. Some of these low end juicers also break down quite rapidly if used every day.

Happy Juicing everyone--- Here is to your Health!!

How I GotStarted

by Brandon J. AllemanCHEK 3, HHP

I feel that my purpose on the planet is to use my knowledge and wisdom in alignment with my highest vision to help im-prove the consciousness of the world, in service of others one individual at a time. My intention is to effect change for a healthier, more conscious world through the use of breath, water, food, movement, sleep, and the sci-ence of mind. Simply put, I am here to help.

This quest began with an in-tense desire to study nutrition and human physiology at the age of 15. I have continued the study of nutrition as it relates to human physiology, devoting no less than 10 hours per week to that study, since 1996. At the age of 17, I suffered an injury to my back (disc pathology) that prevent-ed me from playing basketball, which was and is my favorite sport. Having zero success with traditional approaches, I decided to rehabilitate my own spine. I read my first orthopedic and re-habilitation text at that time. I began working with clients as a personal trainer immediately out of high school. From there, I de-cided to take up the study of cor-rective exercise kinesiology and holistic health with the C.H.E.K. Institute, now in Vista, CA (5.5 year program). I completed my Level I training as a C.H.E.K. Practitioner (currently a Level 3)

and in 2001 relocated to Rhode Island. There I was part of an elite group of professionals of a clinically based holistic well-ness center that specialized in the treatment of acute and chronic pain syndromes. I was director of clinical and correc-tive exercise for the facility for 2 years as well as handling all of the holistic nutritional coaching. I returned home in 2004 (heads up, it’s REALLY cold in Rhode Island) and started the clinically based corrective exercise and holistic health consulting prac-tice that I have today.

Over the past 11 years my studies have taken me through human anatomy, function, and movement, corrective exercise, kinesiology, Posturology, func-tional muscle neurology, patho-mechanical pain patterns, neu-romuscular therapy, osteopathic techniques, and many other ap-plications of health as it pertains to the locomotor system. Re-garding holistic health, my stud-ies have included naturopathy, homeopathy, TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) Food Cures, functional medicine, functional physiology, and all matters of human nutrition as it relates to human physiology.

Where my heart truly lies is in helping those with chronic health issues and chronic pain.

Brandon Alleman is a highly sought after Rehabilitation and Nutrition Consultant. He is Board Certified as Holistic Health Prac-titioner via the American Associ-ation of Drugless Practitioners. In addition, he is a Level III (of Four) C.H.E.K. Practitioner and Holistic Lifestyle Coach. Since 1999 Brandon has specialized in helping clients from all walks of life achieve freedom from chronic health issues and pain through various applications of holistic health and nutrition, as well as cutting edge rehabili-tation and corrective exercise techniques. For more informa-tion about Brandon and his ap-proach to wellness, please visit his website at www.brandonjal-leman.com.

People come to me and throw all of the pieces of their health puz-zle on the table. It is my pleasure to teach them how to organize those pieces to create the health picture that they desire. My spe-cialty, if I have one, is to teach people exactly what they need to know about how to LOOK and FEEL exactly the way they want, regardless of their starting point. I truly cannot see myself doing anything else!


Mr. Graham is a dedicated father, husband, inventor, en-trepreneur, medical scientist, teacher, naturopath, and predoctoral fellow. He is cur-rently pursuing his PhD in Bio-medical sciences with a dual concentration in neuroscience and clinical translation. He enjoys research and constantly skims through scientific journals looking for new discoveries. The best part is that he filters through the scientific jargon and explains how everything works in plain English. Then he passes the informationto us. We af-fectionately refer to him as “the mad scientist” and we look forward to his contribution each quarter.

Are you Feeling

Stressed?by Jim GrahamMedical Scientist

Goodbye 2012 and hello 2013! How are you feeling? Did you accomplish your goals in 2012? Did you push off a few things for 2013? Did you plan your new year’s resolution yet? Are you feeling… stressed? Don’t wor-ry! Stress is a normal emotional and physiological event that can be good for you. Stress triggers the “fight or flight” response and can help you focus on the task at hand. It causes your blood pres-sure to increase, pupils to dilate, activates your attention, and gets your body ready to perform. As a procrastinator, I tend to put off things until the last minute. This triggers a stress response for me and I perform better… I think. I know many students, includ-ing my daughter that will push things off until they are due. This causes more stress for me and I start to worry if she will get her project done on time. Then, I get stressed about my other kids, the value of my home, my invest-ments, my job, bills, health care, the “Fiscal Cliff”, terrorism, built-proof backpacks, politicians, the price of milk, school tuition, booster fees, taxes, gas prices… WHOA! Hold up… I’m getting stressed out right now.

As I mentioned above, stress is normal and was very beneficial long ago. Early humans were

hunters and gathers. Stress stimulated the body to focus on providing food or defending the family against attack. This is a good thing. But something hap-pened over the last 150 years that caused humans to become stressed over non-life threating events. Urban development and the industrial revolution caused migration of people from the farms to the cities. People began to work for money and then used that money to buy food. At this point, money became a stress trigger. If you had plenty of mon-ey, you were not stressed. On the other hand, if money was scarce, that meant you could not provide your family with the necessities of life. While early humans would simply go out and hunt for some food, today most of us cannot do this.

Ok, so we are stressed about money and therefore, the source of our money. That means our jobs are another stress trigger. Many companies are reducing their workforce and this causes us worry about our current em-ployment status. Most of us will work harder in order to appear more valuable to the boss. This can lead to longer hours at the office or bringing work home. Now we are spending less time with our families or both parents

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are working. This requires day-care to look after the kids… but that costs money. Many of us feel guilty about dropping our kids off all day so we can work. To make up for this, we tend to spend money on the kids with gifts, vacations, or extracurricu-lar activities. This is a terrible cy-cle that continues to create ad-ditional stress triggers. Soon, the kids will expect gifts or vacations which can cause parents to feel unappreciated. This can lead to a new stress trigger… the kids!

Many of us can relate to the lifestyle above but most of don’t realize the dangers of too much stress. The body is not designed to survive under constant stress-ful situations. Stress serves to protect the body against an im-mediate dangerous situation. Once the situation is resolved, your body will relax and return to normal. What would happen if most of your day is stressful? Let’s assume you have a stress-ful job. Your body will prepare itself to perform under pressure. Your blood pressure will increase and your attention will become focused to the task at hand. You finish that task perfectly. Then your body will start to relax… but wait! Another situation at work has appeared and you need to perform again. Your body will get ready to perform. Your blood pressure will increase and your attention will focus on the new task at hand. You finish that task perfectly and your body will start to relax… but wait! Another situ-ation has appeared. I hope you can understand that this cycle of stress and relaxation causes “stress” (for lack of a better

word) on your body. Over time, your body will start to anticipate the stressful situations at work and you will lose the ability to ful-ly relax. Just the thought of work will become a stress trigger. Your boss and coworkers will become a stress trigger. If your job is to interact with people, your cli-ents will become a stress trigger. What if you were a nurse, doc-tor, police, or a paramedic? The people you are trying to help and protect will become stress trig-gers. This is not good.

So, we understand that stress can affect our job performance but what will happen to our body if we never fully relax. The physi-ological changes that prepare our body for the “fight or flight” response can cause damage if kept in flux. The most obvious symptoms from chronic stress are emotional and include feel-ings of agitation, frustration, and feeling overwhelmed. Physical effects of stress include low ener-gy, headaches, irregularity, heart palpitations, aches and pains, in-somnia, dry mouth, loss of sexu-al desire and performance. While the emotional effects are easily recognized, most of the physical symptoms can be confused with

other ailments and we may not recognize them as being attribut-ed to stress. The problem here is that you will treat the symptoms (take a drug for your headache or drink an energy drink for fatigue) without eliminating the cause. Al-though most of us do this, it can be very dangerous and cause severe injury or death. Caffeine is a stimulant and most energy drinks contain the equivalent of several cups of coffee. Your body is already primed to perform un-der stress and adding caffeine is like throwing gas on a fire. Now let’s get down and dirty with the science of stress.

A recent study was published in the International Journal of Clinical Practice. The authors showed a strong correlation of cardiovascular events and acute mental stress. The study compared incidents of heart at-tacks, stroke, and death with a range of stressful triggers from earthquakes to job demands. Stress causes your body to in-crease blood flow so your brain and muscles are ready to react. The shear forces from the blood running through your blood ves-sels increases and this causes cells lining the vessels to be-come damaged. The damage is immediately repaired by forming a scar. These scars, or plaques, are weaker than the normal blood vessel components similarly the scar on your skin is weaker than the surrounding skin. The results


from the study show living with chronic stress causes an increase of the formation of plaques over time. When a major event hap-pens in your life (birth, death, di-vorce, your team losing the world cup… yep, this was reviewed in the study), the additional stress can cause these plaques can break loose and travel throughout your body in the blood with no symptoms. This is a time bomb! If that loose plaque gets lodged in the blood vessel in your brain… you will suffer a stroke and could die! I hope I have your attention now. Gives a new meaning to the phrase “this job is going to be the death of me…”

How can you reduce the stress in your life? There are lots of rec-ommendations from medicines to meditation. Modern medicine is amazing, but those convenient pills are meant to treat an acute stressful situation. Chronic use of pills to deal with stress will lead to dependence and you will not function well without them. Oth-ers chose to self-medicate with alcohol or cigarettes. Again, these can lead to addiction which will cause more stress on an already stressful situation (obviously not the best plan). What about medi-tation? There are many studies that show significant reduction in stress when you practice medi-tation or yoga. But seriously, do you have time to go to a yoga studio? How can you meditate when your two year old wants juice… NOW! In an ideal world everyone will meditate for 30 minutes a day, but I don’t have the time or the desire. So, I will give you a little secret how your brain works. This will help you

learn how to deal with stress in your life. Ready?

Your brain contains two minds: the subconscious and the con-scious. The subconscious mind is amazing! It is the ultimate mul-titasker. It is the autopilot that runs your body without you hav-ing to think about it. It calculates everything in perfect timing so you can stand, walk, or swing a bat at a 90 MPH pitch. On the other hand, the conscious mind is rather limited. It can only fo-cus on one thing at a time and is aware of your immediate envi-ronment or task. Your conscious mind will take over your subcon-scious mind when your body is faced with a threat (stress trig-ger). Remember the last time you drove your car? Your sub-conscious mind allowed you to drive while your conscious mind was surfing the channels on your radio. When your car started to swerve, your conscious mind took over. Your body immedi-ately went into stress mode and your attention was focused. You no longer heard the radio and time appeared to stand still while you made the necessary correc-tions to avoid the danger. Once you passed the danger, you felt your racing heart beat and the in-creased blood pressure. After a few minutes, your body returned to normal and you went on your merry way.

The secret to dealing with ev-eryday stress is to take advan-tage of your conscious mind. As mentioned above, your con-scious mind can only focus on one thing at a time. This is an ab-solute truth no matter how good

you think you are at multitasking. Anyway, the way to deal with a stressful life is to switch your conscious mind from one sub-ject (the stress trigger) to another subject (something that brings you the feeling of relaxation). To prove this to you, I want you to think about the statue of liberty. Picture it in your mind. Now, I want you to NOT think about the statue of liberty. How did you do? No matter how hard you try, most of us cannot do it. Not thinking about the statue of liberty is the same thing as thinking about the statue of liberty. Your conscious mind is focused on the subject (the statue of liberty). Now, the best way to not think about the statue of liberty is to change the subject… think about the liberty bell. That is the secret!

I want you to make a small list of things, memories, and accom-plishments that make you smile. Keep it with you always. When you start to feel stressed about a situation, simply take out your list and read it to yourself. Your conscious mind will immediate switch from the stressful situa-tion and focus on your list. These thoughts will flood your con-scious mind and you will smile. Try it… It works every time! Oth-ers carry pictures or keep a good book with them. Keep a family photo on your desk. Hang a pic-ture your child drew for you. Sur-round yourself with reminders of how wonderful life is. If you plan on any new year’s resolutions, make sure you include this. It will help you deal with everyday stress and may just save your life!Source: Schwartz B.G., French W.J., Mayeda G.S., Burstein S., Econo-mides C., Bhandari A.K., Cannom D.S., Kloner R.A. Emotional stressors trigger cardiovascular events. Int J Clin Pract. 2012 Jul;66(7):631-9


Clearing the Plate:A Life Long Approachto Weight Loss and Wellness

by Kate H. Rountree,RD, LDN

Juice fasts, colon cleanses, low carbohydrate/sugar/fat, cabbage soup, raw food, DIET, DIET, DIET. The greater major-ity of us have tried at least one of these with varying degrees of weight loss results. All of these trendy diets have one thing in common: eliminating a main food group of which our bodies need in order to function prop-erly. Don’t get me wrong, these diets can work to provide tem-porary weight loss. In addition, this weight loss is typically fast and we are a nation that likes fast. We want faster technology, faster cars, faster cash, faster meals, and faster weight loss. We can’t escape the fast pace! However, what we do know by looking at the obesity epidemic in America is that what we’ve tried isn’t working on a long term basis. We are the sickest our nation has been since our inception. These trendy diets are not providing us with long lasting health benefits that pro-tect our bodies and minds from chronic physical and mental disease.

Rather, in order to achieve long term results, we must un-derstand the benefits that REAL food plays in our health. We must understand that health-ful carbohydrates, proteins and fats in the right portions are

I am a firm believer in that REAL food must be enjoyed. We need to learn to eat more from the ground up not from the box down. Most children cannot tell you where fruit and vegetables actually come from. They don’t know the origin dif-ference between an Oreo made in a manufacturing plant and an apple from an orchard. We, as a society, must realize that in order to achieve our best emo-tional and physical health, we must fill our shopping baskets with foods that are surrounded by soil versus those surrounded by cardboard. We need to spend our money on vegetables, fruits, lean proteins, and whole grains. We must emphasize what is most healthful and focus on

necessary for proper function by our bodies, and this includes weight loss. We must accept that all foods fit and that slower, steady weight loss is the key to long term, sustained weight loss.

Kate Rountree is a Registered, Licensed Dietitian and owner of Rountree Dietetics. Kate spe-cializes in bariatric nutrition and feels strongly about the benefits of supplying the body with ben-eficial foods and regular activity in order to achieve your best self. She began her studies in Hu-man Nutrition and Food at LSU in Baton Rouge. Upon gradua-tion, she furthered her studies with a post-graduate dietetic in-ternship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. Since 2004, Kate has had the opportunity to work with sur-gical and non-surgical weight loss patients in the Birmingham, New Orleans and Acadiana ar-eas. Currently, she is in private practice, working alongside the physicians at Surgical Special-ists of Louisiana, specializing in pre- and post-operative bariatric surgery nutrition and medically supervised weight loss. She is active in the local, state and na-tional dietetic associations, as well as, the American Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery and is a supporter of the Obe-sity Action Coalition. Most re-cently Kate was recognized by the Louisiana Dietetic Associa-tion as the 2011-2012 Emerging Dietetic Leader.


the flavor. Once you are done with the one portion, take time to notice how this food made you feel. Do not feel bad for in-dulging in this once in a while treat. In order to achieve life-long weight loss and wellness, we need to feel that we can indulge here and there, while maintaining a healthful balance on a daily basis.

The MacroBalanced approach emphasizes the need for all foods and nutrients. That is what attracted me to the mac-robalanced lifestyle! No food group is off limits. All foods fit! Just in the right portion and amount. It focuses on a 1:1 protein to carbohydrate bal-ance that stresses minimally processed, fiber rich carbohy-

drates. Fiber rich carbohy-drates should be consumed in the presence of lean protein in order to achieve long lasting full-ness. These are carbohydrates that are typically not going to be found in a box; such as sweet potatoes, brown rice, quinoa, dried beans, whole wheat prod-ucts (with at least 3 g fiber per serving), fruits, and vegetables.

Clearing your plate of dieting and adapting to an improved way of eating will assist you in achieving lifelong weight loss and maintenance. Learning how to fit all foods and provid-ing quality foods to you and your family will not only improve your health, but give you more sustained fullness and energy along the way.

these foods 90% of the time. So, what do you do with the other 10%, you ask? Enjoy and savor those foods that may not fit into a daily balance. Whether that food is a cookie, cake, brownie, chip, fast food, or some of our favorite Cajun delicacies, enjoy it. Take your time to serve your portion, and actually taste the food by observing and savoring


by Laurah Hawkins

Living a Paleo-Zone lifestyle is a commitment. What is Paleo? Paleo, short for Paleolithic, is an aggregate term describing a collection of dietary and fitness guidelines that are developed based on theories of human evolution. Just like your body requires training to learn certain movements to perfect exercis-es, your mind requires nutrition-al training to learn what types of food are Paleo and what to eat at Restaurants etc. Like being committed to your workouts, living a Paleo-Zone lifestyle takes commitment too.

That’s where Eatology comes in. Not only do we provide gour-met Paleo Meals, but we also provide you with free access to our Nutrition Training Program. The Nutrition Training Program provides you with access to work closely with our Nutrition-ist who reviews Foodlogs, as-sist with individual snack plans, dining options, help with zoning rations, and basically anything

else you might need on their journey to becoming a cave-man!

Our clients who participate in this program achieve far greater success rates than those who don’t. Why? Because, those who work with our team to ad-just their lifestyle will surpass those who try and do it on their own. We help you stay account-able!

What do You Need to do?

You are automatically enrolled in the program with the pur-chase of any Eatology weekly meal plan. Our Nutritionist will call you sometime during that first week. Once enrolled in the program, we will ask that you do the biggest favor not only for us, but for yourself. KEEP Your Foodlog daily! TURN IT IN DAILY! Yes, we know this is a huge pain, but this is where we can really dial into the cor-rections to deliver you optimal performance… and results. By looking at your foodlog, we can dial in your ratios to fit your lifestyle. Basically, your foodlog is the key to your success!

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The Many Faces ofMacroBalance


Redefining

Resolutions

by Bernard Graham

New Year Resolutions… just the thought and pressure of making one fills me with anxi-ety, doubt, fear, and disap-pointment from the many years past. There was a point in my life when someone would ask me what my resolution was and I came up empty handed. My answer was, “None.” Being a self-driven motivated individu-al, this took many by surprise, myself included. That’s when I started to examine my feelings associated with a 365 day goal, and was astonished with the re-alization that through the years, I kept setting myself up for fail-ure. You see, I’m not like every-one else. I don’t have “the will power” all the time, nor do I feel like I can give the commitment of 365 days to a “project” with-out taking a break. Moderation was a concept that I couldn’t easily define. I didn’t know what it was. It wasn’t real for me. So, year after year I set myself up to be disappointed.

I mentioned the feelings asso-ciated with these broken prom-ises to me because they play a big part in what I think as I look in the mirror. If I want to live a more balanced life--body, mind, and spirit--I had to look at every part of me. What was I doing? What were my motives? Who

was I with? What did I put into my body? Why was I thankful? The hardest part about this self-examination seemed to always point at life. It was never my fault. I was distracted by long work hours, what other people expected of me, my moral re-sponsibilities, dreams of early retirement, other peoples pos-sessions, what I looked like in the mirror, what was on the news, the economy, and the many other faces of fear. This all stems from one little promise--one little thing called a resolu-tion.

Bernie has been known to be the catalyst. On his own from a very young age, his life has tak-en him through various caribbe-an adventures, big city lessons, military services, divorce, and a career as a commercial diver in just 36 years. The thrills and substitutions have always left him wanting more, but he could never fill the void. Strength, ex-perience, and hope is what he found on this journey. Actuated by a spiritual awakening and personal application of a few principles, Bernie’s new life jour-ney started on November 8th, 2010. He shares what is known to be true for him. His life les-sons is how we relate. Bernie has lived from New York to Puerto Rico, Florida to Arizona. Currently loving Lafayette for over seven years, he recently opened a fitness center and developed this publication with like minded friends to offer a ve-hicle that brings body, mind, and spirit together. Bernie believes in the healing powers of energy, natural sources of medicine, and love as our highest state of con-sciousness. His favorite ques-tion? “where would you like to eat tonight?” His favorite quote? “ Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.” ~Wayne Dyer

These realizations didn’t ne-gate that I still needed to make a change. How can I meet life on life’s terms? This paradox was the birth of a 365 day monster, broken into four 90 day goals. I would take the end result and backwards plan to get there. If my goal was to lose 20 pounds.


my four 90 day goals were only 5 pounds a quarter, or 1.66 pounds a month. Holy Moly!!! I could do that. That’s less than half a pound a week! Now that the math looks easier, how could I keep myself motivated? A course I took with Klemmer and Associates (www.klemmer.com) taught me to set up every goal with a cost and a reward. The cost for not reaching my goal rendered a $500.00 dollar check made out to the opposite political party that I support. A close friend would hold it, keep-ing me accountable. I definite-ly didn’t want my hard earned money going there! This was a great motivator to say the least! But on the up-side, the conse-quence was balanced with a

reward. If I met my goal, the $500.00 would go towards a shopping spree for me. This would prove exceptionally use-ful because 20 pounds can make a few changes in how my clothes fit. I was sold!

This seemed like a great per-spective to achieving some-thing in life, but the underlying lessons were the most valuable. How do I stay out of myown way when it comes to life? How do I identify the many faces of fear? How can I ensure that disappointment and shame can no longer force me to be come disempowered? What happens to these feelings after I push them deep into my protectionvault of lost memories?

Through self discovery, I’ve dug deeper into the realms of my existence and often find myself reflecting upon my own feelings and intentions as these are truly the only things that I can con-trol. I’ve become a deeper per-son because of it. My favorite question used to be, “Where do you want to eat tonight?” Now, I’m sure my favorite question resonates deeper with, “Why am I feeling this way?”

Quoting a very good friend and spiritual mentor, “Be good to yourself.” And I wish the same for you, Acadiana. Be good to yourself in this new year…and many more to come!

Love, Bernie

The Development ofHuman BE-ings

by Brandon J. AllemanCHEK 3, HHP

Every single one of us who is granted the gift of the human experience has choices to make in this lifetime. In my opinion, it is choice that is the core gift of the human experience. Those choices are not free of conse-quence. Every one of us will go through our share of ups and downs in Life and that is part of the beauty of the entire jour-ney! What is important to un-derstand is how your thoughts and choices are influenced by your early upbringing and how that upbringing can shape how you navigate the journey we call Life significantly.

placed there by the age of 7. At that point, a pruning or rip-ening, process begins. It has been documented by many psychologists and cognitive scientists that the majority of the ideas that are planted into the human nervous system are placed there by the age of 12, and that less than 1% of the population is actually going to develop their intellectual intel-ligence beyond that point.

If you study the work of some of the greatest experts in child development – Rudolph Steiner (founder of the Waldorf School system and “Father” of Biody-namic farming), Joseph Chilton-Pierce, Luther Burbank (author of Raising the Human Plant), and many others, they suggest that if a child’s home environ-ment does not support unstruc-tured play and is not loving and nurturing that the child will grow to learn to defend itself to a far greater degree than it learns to explore and expand itself. The ideals that a child grows up to express are largely placed and programmed in by parents, so-ciety, culture, religion, school, government, etc. Sometimes, the programming leads to dis-empowering beliefs that in turn lead to self-destructive habits like alcohol and drug abuse.

Brandon Alleman is a highly sought after Rehabilitation and Nutrition Consultant. He is Board Certified as Holistic Health Prac-titioner via the American Associ-ation of Drugless Practitioners. In addition, he is a Level III (of Four) C.H.E.K. Practitioner and Holistic Lifestyle Coach. Since 1999 Brandon has specialized in helping clients from all walks of life achieve freedom from chronic health issues and pain through various applications of holistic health and nutrition, as well as cutting edge rehabili-tation and corrective exercise techniques. For more informa-tion about Brandon and his ap-proach to wellness, please visit his website at www.brandonjal-leman.com.

Yet at other times, they can lead to overcompensation syn-dromes and identity crises.

Here is a very abbreviated example in my own life. My parents divorced when I was 6 months old. My father had every other weekend visitation “rights” granted by my moth-er and the court. My parents would meet at a halfway point to “exchange” me every other

The first seven years of a child’s life is critical to its develop-ment. The brain and the “neu-ronetworks” that it forms grows very rapidly as the child takes in virtually unlimited information from every input available by the use of all of its senses. The vast majority of the “software” programmed into the mind is


If someone has self-destruc-tive habits like alcohol or drug abuse as an adult, consider that those outlets may provide a way for them to meet emotional needs that were not met early in Life. Another possible explana-tion is that these outlets provide an escape from the reality that these individual’s have co-cre-ated for themselves. Whatever your chosen viewpoint, it is im-perative to remember that ev-ery single one of us is doing the best we can with what we have right now. This is what it means to be a human being.

Now do not get things twisted, we are not blaming anyone (par-ents, etc.) or anything (the past) for the way we are today. That is not what this is about. Haul-ing out your past and using your emotional wounds as a calling card is not likely to progress you to your next stage of develop-ment at the appropriate speed. You are a conscious adult and can change whenever you see fit. This is about expanding your Awareness about the “why” be-hind your thoughts, words, and deeds. Placing blame will get you nowhere fast.

weekend. I remember on one particular occasion (age 4) I was sick with a pretty bad head cold and had a nasty cough. I moved into my father’s car and he asked what was wrong. I said I was sick - to which his re-ply was, “I can’t handle you if you are sick, go back with your mom.”

What WILL support your per-sonal evolution is to examine the origin of the ideas that you have about yourself, Life, and others. Develop an Aware-ness around your thoughts and actions. If you do not like the way something is –change it. If you cannot change it – change your attitude or thoughts about it. This undoubtedly takes a LOT of practice! Be patient and compassionate with yourself and that will extend to others. Take time to act like a child and have unstructured play as often as you can!

I will close with a great quote from Maya Angelou, “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”

Author’s Note: This is an ex-tremely elaborate and sensitive topic. The above article barely exposes the tip of the prover-bial iceberg where Mind, pro-gramming, and development is concerned. Suggested reading includes: Feelings Buried Alive Never Die by Karol K. Truman; Loving What Is by Byron Katie; You Can Heal Your Life by Lou-ise Hay; Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C.G. Jung; Virus of the Mind by Richard Bro-die, and pretty much anything written by Wayne Dyer, PhD, Caroline Myss, PhD, and David Hawkins, M.D., PhD.

This led to a screaming match in a parking lot between my par-ents with me sitting in the front seat of my mom’s car watch-ing (and listening intently to) the whole thing. After personally investigating my own psyche and using some Applied Kine-siology and muscle testing, I traced much of my Life back to this event. I was left from that incident with a feeling of not being worthy of Love and that Love had conditions (as in – only if you are healthy and well). Of course none of that is true in any real sense of the word. From then on, I dealt with a feeling of not being worthy of… anything, of somehow being inadequate. Again, all of which are not true.

The point that I am trying to make here is that the environ-ment prior to the age of 7 sets the stage for Life. Children learn through mimicry; you emulate your parents, parents emulatetheir parents, and so on.



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