Columbus Polarity Center
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Columbus Polarity Center specializes in complementary therapies and holistic healthcare.
There is a wide range of qualified practitioners available for Polarity Therapy, Cranial Sacral, Rolfing, Reiki, Herbal Therapy, Aromatherapy, relaxation massage and Massage Therapy by LMTs. Our practitioners work with an integrative healthcare focus and often will provide the client with various options that will meet their needs. Many of the practitioners work together to provider the best preventive care for the client. Please check our website www.columbuspolarity.com for more details.

Practitioners at Columbus Polarity are not medical doctors, nor do they diagnose or treat illnesses or prescribe any type of medications. For medical needs consult your physician.

Healthy Tidbits

Can You Believe....

Evidence appears overwhelming that the consumption of dark chocolate can improve both glucose metabolism and blood pressure. (In the available research the study done showed that white chocolate had no affect).

Cocoa is rich in flavanoids a class of Polyphenal found in plants – researchers believe the regulation of nitric oxide production by the flavanoids found in dark chocolate could explain it’s effects on insulin sensitivity and blood pressure.

For text of study, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition March 2005; 81(3): 541-542

Wise Choices to Chocolate Selection:

• Only eat dark chocolate
• Milk chocolate is a No – adding milk cancels the antioxidant effects
• Don't over-do it – chocolate, even dark, still contains large quantities of sugar.
• Can find antioxidants elsewhere also – apples, grapes, most veggies, blueberries

Your Eating Habits Affect the Environment

Being a vegetarian has its pros and cons but one thing for sure, heavy meat eaters have a detrimental affect on the environment.

• Animals raised for food produce 130 times more excrement than the entire population. Affect: gets into streams and contaminates groundwater.
• Nearly 90% of all agricultural land in the US is used to raise animals. Affect: 20 times more land is required to feed a meat-eater than to feed a vegetarian.
• Nearly 50% of all water consumed in the US is used for livestock. Affect: you save more water by not eating a pound of beef than by not showering for 6 months.
• Raising animals for food requires more than 30% of all raw materials and fossil fuels used in US. Affect: one hamburger patty uses enough fossil fuel to drive a small car 20 miles.
• 70% of US grain and soybeans are fed to livestock. Affect: cutting 5% consumption of beef would free up 12 million tons of grain needed to feed every single person on the planet that suffers from hunger.

Take That CoQ10

Studies show CoQ10 is necessary for energy production and immune response. CoQ10 is absolutely needed in highest concentration in heart cells: Heart benefits are high – reduces high blood pressure, helps keep heartbeat regular! Take it daily.

Toxins – Root Cause of Disease?

If allowed to accumulate in the body, tissues and organs, toxins can make you sick.

Toxic build up is dangerous to the body and some research indicates it can lead to cancer. According to a Essential Cleansing special report from Dr. L. Smith, MD of Gainesville, Florida “when cells are stressed long enough either the nucleus, cytoplasm or membrane may respond (malfunction) in reaction to toxicity. If the cell reproduces and makes other cells that are all malfunctioning in similar ways a small growth may form. When a few more form, you may have a carcinoma or minimal cancer. If left long enough, it may progress to an undifferentiated, highly toxic cancer.”

Best Solution – Detox – clean your filters. Healthy fasting. Drink filter water, eat organic, use air filters and talk to your holistic health practitioner for an effective way to detox. Detoxing can save your life!!

* See Educational article at end of this newsletter.

We All Need Enzymes

Taking a high protein enzyme blend should be part of a good digestive enzyme routine. Protease is a category of enzymes that help break down protein. A blend of protease is more effective.

To learn more about enzymes talk to a Naturopathic Health Practitioner. Many local health food stores have a great selection of enzymes and can help you find the best one for you.

Hand Hygiene

• Nothing works better than simple soap and water.
• Washing hands with soap and water was able to kill viruses that cause the common cold, hepatitis A, and other illnesses. (Hand wipes removed only 50% of bacteria from hands).
• Antibacterial soaps were not as effective as regular soap and water.
• Antibacterial soaps are loaded with negative side effects – they are prone to contributing to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Essential Herbs

ASK CHAROULA

If you have any questions, please email Charoula at energy@columbuspolarity.com and your questions will be answered via email.

Question:

My 13 year old daughter seems to be caught in a cycle of colds, congestion & sinus problems. Our family doctor had her take some antibiotics which worked for a bit, but the symptoms always returned. Any ideas?

Answer:

This is the time of year for the condition you are describing. With the weather so unstable, children are susceptible to colds. Your daughter gets rid of it, then probably picks it up again from other children in the school.

For starters, it would be a good idea to build up her immune system. A good safe immune tonic would be a combination of herbs that would include Astragalus, Reishi Mushroom, Schizandra, Red Clover and Ashwaganda. Best way to take these is in a tincture form though a tea would certainly work.. She should just have to drink four or five cups of it a day. With a tincture, 30 to 40 drops twice a day in a bit of water would be sufficient.

To combat colds and the congestion, look to the herb used by thousands of Americans, Echinacea. At the very beginning of symptoms, begin giving her Echinacea—30 drops three or four times a day. After two days, cut down to 30 drops twice a day.

The following tea is excellent for the Upper Respiratory Tract:

1 oz. each elder flowers, mullein leaves, chamomile flowers, licorice root, and peppermint leaf. Boil a quart of water and pour over the herbs. Steep for half an hour, strain and try drinking a cup every four hours.

If the symptoms include a sore throat, gargle with sage tea mixed with apple cider vinegar. To one cup of strong sage tea (1tbsp. Sage leaf per 8 oz. of water) add ¼ apple cider vinegar. Add a pinch of cayenne, and some sea salt.

For sinus problems and congestion, boil water in a pot, wait until it steams, drop ten drops of Eucalyptus essential oil and five drops of Oregano essential oil, and inhale deeply, preferably with a towel over her head safely near the steam for about 5 minutes. Best to take breaks!

Nasal washes with a Neti pot are highly recommended.

A good natural antibiotic is Colloidal Silver. Try some Chlorophyll for cleansing her system. I also recommend taking Vitamin C, 500 mg., 3-4 times a day.

Hope this is of help.

Charoula, herbalist

* For more information on our herbal tinctures, go to www.columbuspolarity.com and click on online herbals.

THE ABOVE INFORMATION IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. PLEASE CONSULT YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER/PRACTITIONER! INFORMATION IN ANY PART OF THIS NEWSLETTER IS NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE, TREAT, CURE OR PREVENT ANY DISEASE.

New Wellness Classes

Energy Movement

Energy dance-fun movement to enhance flexibility and strength. "A Healthy spirit resides in a healthy body." Dance with your spirit. Energy movement works with the 5 basic elements of life, Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth.

• Spinal Flexibility
• Joint balance
• Muscle Strength
• Release stress and tension
• Balances the Chakras

Join Irina Tatarintseva, MA, APP who brings this new system of energy dance to us from her studies in the Ukraine. Every Wednesday evening 7:00-8:00 at 1253 N High Street. Parking in rear of building. Cost is $10 per class. All ages welcome and no experience is required. Polarity CEU's available.

CEU Classes

CEU Course Information

Enclosed you will find information on our Introduction to the Theory and Basic Principles of Polarity Therapy and the Science of Energy Medicine classes.

We are excited because we are now offering professional CEU's for Nursing, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, Chiropractors and Activities Professionals! Our Associate Polarity Practitioner Program is a certificate program additionally registered by the Ohio State Board of Career Colleges and Schools.

Holistic Healthcare and Complementary Alternative Medicine is one of the fastest growing professions in medicine today. As a healthcare practitioner, there will be many work related opportunities for you, if you have skills and competencies in this area. We are seeing more job opportunities for healthcare practitioners who have a background in energy work such as Polarity Therapy, Reiki, Therapeutic Touch and other Alternative Therapies.

Polarity Therapy is based upon Ayurvedic concepts of healthcare, which is a system gaining wide recognition and being used by medical researchers such as Dr. Deepak Chopra. Polarity Therapy gives you detailed information on energy theory, stress management techniques, energetic touch protocols and the integration of systems such polarity reflex points, acupressure points and cranial sacral balancing techniques. It truly is a very integrated and holistic field of study.

For further information, please go to our website at www.ohioinstitute.com and click on the Ohio Institute or CEU button. Also email us at energy@columbuspolarity.com and/or call our office at 614-299-9438. Registraion is also available online.

The classes meet for two days or three evening classes, see schedule enclosed. Snacks, all materials and a video of the class are included in the registration fee of $298.00 as well as your CEU certificate.

Dates:
April 9&10, 2005
May 7&8, 2005
June 11&12, 2005
July 9&10, 2005
August 20 &21, 2005
September 10 & 11, 2005
May 16, May 23 & June 1 (4:30 - 9:30 pm)

Cost: $298.00 for 16 CEU's All Materials and Video included

CEU's available for Activities Professionals, Physical Therapists, Chiropractors, Occupational Therapists and Nurses

*Course registered by the Ohio State Board of Career Colleges and Schools (Reg.#00-01-1528T)

Click here for more information including course schedule and to register online!

Pre-registration is necessary to reserve your space. Call the Columbus Polarity Center or the Ohio Institute of Energetic Studies and Bodywork at 614-299-9438, e-mail us at energy@columbuspolarity.com., or register online!

Educational Seminars

Cancer & Cancer Rehabilitation Through the Polarity Energy Model

• Educational slide show on cancer specifics.
• Cancer prevention techniques.
• Energy work and cancer rehabilitation.
• Holistic approach.
• Herbal/vitamin approach.
• Energetic Bodywork technique for:
• Lymphatic Care
• Pre and Post-Surgery

A complete approach to integrative cancer care.

Date: Saturday, April 2nd, 2005 Cost: $185.00
Time: 10:00 am – 5:30 pm Manual: $18.00

OPEN TO ALL: CEU Credits Available

*Course registered by the Ohio State Board of Career Colleges and Schools (Reg. #00-01-1528T)
*Please pre-register by calling 614-299-9438, email us at energy@columbuspolarity.com or register online.

FYI

Health Freedom Comes to Ohio

Ohio Health Freedom Bill: House Bill #117, Senate Bill #98

Mission Statement

To preserve the right of all Ohioans to obtain information and services related to the building and maintaining of health, and the reversal of disease from the source or provider of their choosing, and to promote a legally safe environment in which practitioners of all types can offer health care with informed consumer consent.

Here's How You Can Help
Doing any or all of the following will further our cause:

• Write letters to legislators
• Attend hearings on important legislation
• Attend meetings of licensure boards when needed
• Donate money for our lobbying efforts
• Recruit others to become involved.

Call or email the coalition. Are you willing to join our cause and insure health freedom in Ohio for the future? The Ohio Health Freedom Bill is ready …. Go on line to read entire text.

Go to the web site at: http://www.ohiohealthfreedom.org/
For more info call (614) 841-7700 or email at pampopper @msn.com

Articles

Acupuncture & Pain

Pain is a warning signal, an alarm that goes off when your body is trying to tell you that something is wrong and out of balance.

Acupuncture is a time-tested, safe, effective, natural and drug-free way to eliminate pain. Unlike other methods for handling pain, there are no side effects.

An acupuncturist's approach to pain.
Acupuncture practitioners recognize that there is vital life energy, called Qi (pronounced “chee”), circulating within the body. Qi flows through a series of pathways called Meridians. Meridians are like rivers within your body. Wherever a river flows, it brings with it water that provides nourishment and life to the land, plants, and people around it. Likewise, Meridians transport life-giving Qi that provides nourishment to every cell, tissue, muscle, organ, and gland in the body.

For example, a kink in a hose will not provide an adequate supply of water to a plant. Eventually it will become unable to thrive, grow and blossom.

Similarly, a blockage to the flow of Qi anywhere in the body will inhibit the amount of nourishment that reaches our cells, tissues, muscles, organs, and glands.

Many things can cause Qi to become blocked:

• Poor diet
• Physical trauma
• Emotional trauma
• Inherited weakness of Qi
• Chemical, physical, and emotional stress

Acupuncture cannot only treat signs and symptoms of pan and discomfort; it can get to the root of what initially caused the problem. When the problem is corrected, your body can begin to heal on deeper levels.

Reference: www.acupuncturemediaworks.com
Local reference: "Melissa" N. Yang, MD (China), R.Ac., www.integra.homestead.com

Spring Cleaning

Healing occurs when the life-sustaining systems of the body function at peak performance. Unfortunately, with our environment being so toxic and with the pesticides in our food being so prevalent, we have no other choice but to detox and repair our bodies’ support systems.

Healthcare of the future will incorporate all levels of detoxing. Detoxing is for everyone and can change the quality of your life while slowing down the aging process.
Everything needs cleaned or detoxed. How often do you spray down all your filters—car, hot tub and furnace? We clean our house vents, flush our radiators and call Roto Rooter when our pipes get clogged. So what’s wrong with taking this one step further—cleaning our body’s pipes, removing plaque from our arteries and cleansing our colons?

The problem is toxins. Our environment, which has reached high levels of toxic waste, is the main culprit. We cannot get away from the fact that we live in a toxic waste nightmare.

Dr. Christina Scott-Mancrieff, in her book Detox, states that these toxins can affect our ability to think properly; they can produce physical symptoms such as exhaustion or headaches; and create emotional turmoil such as anger and frustration. Following a detox program, she continues, reduces the amount of toxins entering your body and helps your body deal with them better by improving nutrition and enhancing the removal of unwanted waste.

A checklist from Scott-Mancrieff’s book gives us some eye-opening information on toxic elements in our life. How many of these toxic elements are in your life?

Toxic food and drink

• Tea or coffee
• Sodas or fizzy drinks
• Processed meals
• White bread
• Artificial sweeteners
• Non-organic fruits and vegetables (not washed or peeled)
• Processed meats

• Do you live in a city?
• Do you live near sprayed areas?
• Do you swim in or drink chlorinated water?
• Do you have clothes dry-cleaned regularly?
• Is your plumbing more than 20 years old?
• Do You use pesticides?
• Do you use large amounts of bleach, detergent, household cleaners or disinfectant?

Is everything toxic? No, just a large % of what Americans eat, wear and use!!!

What's so difficult to understand is the correlation of cancer to environmental toxins and the lack of concern about these facts. One in three of us will have cancer in our lifetimes, yet we still sit idle watching the environment deteriorate. It’s more of a shame when we see the rise of cancers in children knowing that it’s often environmentally induced.

Beginning a simple detox plan

• Increase your water intake. This helps keep your fluids moving, flushes your kidneys and keeps your minerals balanced. Drink reverse osmosis bottled water.
• Add one tablespoon of liquid chlorophyll to at least two glasses of water daily. Chlorophyll is a natural antiseptic and removes mucous from the body.
• Brush your skin, using a dry vegetable brush, before you shower. Brush every part of your body stroking toward the heart. This stimulates the skin to begin purging toxins.
• One day per week all day drink organically juiced juice—carrot and/or green vegetables. Eat a large organic salad in the evening. This helps with digestion.
• Drink “green” daily. Spirulina, barley, or wheat grass adds oxygen to the body and eliminates toxins.
• Sweat it out in stream, sauna, or hot Epsom salt baths. Infra-red sauna’s are great!!
• Most healthcare systems, except Western medicine, use some form of fasting as a preventative practice. There are major hospitals in Europe that use controlled fasting for many debilitating diseases.
• A colon cleanse can be as simple as eating specific foods such as grains, organic fruits and vegetables, or could include a more elaborate system of taking certain herbs and digestive enzymes. I find colon cleansing to be one of the most effective ways of healing the body. Most experienced holistic practitioners or naturopathic doctors can advise you on the process.
• Vitamins, minerals, herbs and homeopathics all are useful for detoxing. The antioxidants are primary.
• Fasting – is not about just not eating, but will detox and cleanse the body through resting the digestive system.

Constant tiredness is the main symptom that indicates a person needs to detox. A final quote from Dr. Scott-Mancrieff: “Health is more than the absence of disease, you need to feel well.” It’s your choice.

For more info on personal detox programs, email energy@columbuspolarity.com.

Glossary

MUSIC AND SOUND THERAPY

MYOFASCIAL UNWINDING

NATUROPATHY

NUMEROLOGY

MIDWIFERY

OSTEOPATHY

* More to come each month!