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Our produce departments are all organic! We no longer carry any commercial items. The organic industry has changed and grown to the point where there is enough supply and variety of produce items that we can carry only organic. Our commitment to organics has always been strong, but we felt that we needed to balance it with our customers' needs for items that were not available organically. We now feel that we are able to do both by carrying only organic.
Discover a wide range of vitamins and herbs at our health and nutrition store. We offer an extensive selection of health products including herbs in capsulated form and some liquids and teas.
Iridology/Study of the Iris
Iridology (also known as iridodiagnosis) is an alternative medicine technique whose proponents believe that patterns, colors, and other characteristics of the iris can be examined to determine information about a patient's systemic health. Practitioners match their observations to iris charts which divide the iris into zones corresponding to specific parts of the human body. Iridologists see the eyes as "windows" into the body's taste of health.
Iridologists use the charts to distinguish between healthy systems and organs in the body and those which are overactive, inflamed, or distressed. Iridologists believe this information may be used to demonstrate a patient's susceptibility towards certain illnesses, to reflect past medical problems, or to predict health problems which may be developing.
Iridologist is used to interpret the changing patterns and markings in the iris, which can be used to reveal emerging conditions in every part of the body. You will also learn to identify inherited weaknesses that may lead to physical and emotional disorders.
Muscle Testing
The human body is a very useful instrument that provides all kinds of information. For processing purposes there are various ways of utilizing the body of the client to provide feedback on how we are doing. One easy and effective way of getting feedback is through a method called muscle testing.
Muscle testing is also referred to as Applied Kinesiology. Chiropractors use it to find which parts of the body need adjustment, and to check if an adjustment has been successfully made. They use it combined with elaborate knowledge of the skeletal and the muscles really do react to what one thinks and feels and imagines. But the test is fairly honest and unbiased. Whereas a purely analytical assessment of what one feels might not be as honest.
The facilitator can use muscle testing according to preference. It is just one of the tools that are available. You don't have to use it for anything at all, or you can use it for every single issue that you work on with the client, that is up to you.
 If you do a number of tests after one another the arm will eventually become tired. One can then switch over to the other arm, or take a rest for a moment.
Muscle testing can be used for a comprehensive test of items from a list or arrived at some other systematic way.
For example, you can read aloud, or let the client read from a list of possible items one could be allergic to, and you can test her arm for each one. This can give amazingly precise results.
Also, one can go over the client's body and test each body part systematically. It can be done by mentioning it and having her put attention on it, or if it is an outer body part it can be touched lightly. And you test for each one if it is strong or weak. This indicates areas that should be worked on in one way or another.
A transformational process facilitator is not a health practitioner, so don't pretend that you are. If the person needs medical attention, refer her to an appropriate practitioner. What you are addressing is the mental, emotional, and spiritual phenomena that can be found in the person's world. Finding out what is there and changing it can have profound effects, also on health, but you aren't going to promise that.
In using muscle testing, it is important that you are very precise in what you ask for or what you put attention on. If you give a sloppy unfocused question or direction you will get a confused answer.
There are many texts available on muscle testing that can give you a much more thorough understanding of its use than what is presented here.
Musculatory System
If one touches certain key points of the body and at the same time tests if a certain muscle is weak or strong, that can indicate if that key point needs correction or not. The interesting thing is that muscle testing works just as well as mental or emotional issues as on physical body parts. Basically one can put one's attention on something and then test for a weak or strong response. That is something we can use.
See, the body is not as much of a liar as the conscious mind is. It is much more likely to give an honest assessment of what is going on than the person's analytical thinking is. The body will give answers to things that are submerged and unknown to the conscious processes, and it will give answers without being biased by wishful thinking or social maneuvering.
Many different muscles could be used for the test. The easiest is usually to use the big deltoid muscles or the arms. The client stretches one arm straight out in front of her, or straight out to the side. The facilitator instructs her to resist and then presses down on the arm. And she notices if the arm holds up to being pressed down, or if it gives in and becomes weak. There is a certain knack to sensing it, but once one has got it, it is a very finite sign.
One would pick a muscle that tests strong when we don't put attention on anything in particular. Then we will know that it means something when it tests weak when we bring up particular subjects.
Face, Tongue & Nail Analysis
Primarily drawing from traditional Chinese medicine with some ayurvedic influence, this class will analyze the tongue, nails and face. Since each person represents a walking history of their development, you will understand how the features of the body reveal constitutional strengths and weaknesses. They learn the genetic and lifestyle markings in relation to the body's systems, organs and glands. These valuable tools require neither expensive equipment nor elaborate technology. This will enable them to gain quick and easy assessment for determining imbalances in the body and understanding the whole person - a holistic approach.
Everything sounds muffled... Am I losing my hearing? What can I do?
There's nothing worse than experiencing ear pain or sinus headaches where you can't work, think or sleep.
For thousands of years, a form of hygiene known as ear candling was used as a way of naturally cleansing the inside of the ears and head. Today, more and more are seeking alternatives to digging in the ears with Q-tips or using a hydrogen peroxide flush to clear blockages in the ear canal.
 Ear candling is a natural, non-intrusive procedure that may help alleviate the painful effects of chronic headaches or sinus conditions, ear infections, allergies or vertigo, as well as minor hearing loss due to excessive earwax build up. Material that appears after ear candling, sometimes alleged to be earwax and toxins, was found to be residue from the candle itself in certain brands of candles.
Ear candling, also called ear coning or thermal-auricular therapy, is an alternative medicine practice claimed to assist the natural clearing of earwax from a person's ear by lighting one end of a hollow candle and placing the other end in the ear canal. According to medical researchers, it is both dangerous and ineffective.
One end of a cylinder or cone of waxed cloth is lit, and the other placed into the subject's ear. Usually the subject is lying on one side with the treated ear uppermost and the candle vertical, perhaps stuck through a paper plate or aluminum pie tin to protect against any hot wax or ash falling down the side. However some have the subject sit up, keep the candle nearly horizontal, and watch for dripping wax. Some candles have an internal filter to catch debris. The Flame is cut back occasionally with scissors and extinguished between two and four inches from the subject. Its proponents claim that the flame creates negative pressure, drawing wax and debris out of the ear canal, which appears as a dark residue.
An ear candling session can last from 15 minutes to 45 minutes, during which time a series of 1 or 2 ear candles may be burned for each ear. |
