The Gentle Barn

I just spent a couple of hours on The Gentle Barn website reading everything, including the stories of the animals they rescued. The result, lots of tears of gratitude for the love, compassion and healing they have provided each of these beings, and tears for the experiences of these wonderful creatures.

Please visit their website, http://gentlebarn.org or “Like” them on their facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Gentle-Barn/54967149038.

While you are on facebook, I invite you to also “Like” us  at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bearfoot-Healing/80268197978.

Thank you!

Rev. Christopher StandingBear, RMT.

Naturally Releasing Anxiety and Panic

There are many who experience anxiety and panic attacks that often show up suddenly and appear to be unprovoked.

Why is that?

To answer that question we need to look at the core cause for anxiety.

The human mind, also known as the egoic or ego mind, operates in the past and future exclusively and essentially takes unresolved past traumas and creates fear of reliving it in the future. These fears are triggered whenever we experience anything that has a similar energy signature or feeling, compounded by unfinished healing, and anxiety and panic attacks are the result.

The ego jumps back and forth from past to future as a way to distract us from the moment because when you are “here now”, it doesn’t exist. The ego mind relates this to something it fears most, its own death.

Regardless of how it may appear, there is a positive side effect to the ego mind; it brings unhealed issues to conscious awareness for resolution.

Have you ever found yourself so deeply involved with something you really love and enjoy that everything seems to be coming together perfectly, time has been lost and you feel completely in peace? This is the inherent flow of life in the moment.

Anxiety is fundamentally the result of living in fear of the natural flow and process of life.

How do you completely release this fear?

There are two distinct ways to naturally and permanently resolve anxiety and panic attacks.

1. Use Energy Medicine such as Reiki and ThetaHealing, or Energy Psychology such as EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and the Sedona Method to find and quickly discharge the emotional attachment to your unpleasant past experiences.
2. Use Self-Inquiry to discover the truth behind your experience in the moment.

Want to quickly move through an anxiety or panic attack?

In working with my clients and patients, I have found that when they are distracted away from the anxious moment, they move through the attack quite quickly. Since it is typical to start breathing rapidly during an attack, I ask them to place the palm of their hand on their diaphragm or belly while focusing all their attention on feeling themselves breathing nice slow, deep breaths.

The positive effect of doing this exercise is that three things are accomplished.

1. The attention is taken away from the fear at the core of the attack and places it in the moment.
2. It makes them aware of their breathing, and therefore gives them something they have control over in a situation that can very easily become overwhelming.
3. It provides the body with a nice level of oxygen for the brain to use for clear thinking, which further helps them move through the fear reaction.

A more in depth version of this article is available at http://bearfoothealing.org/ReleasingAnxietyPanicAttacks.aspx

 

Rev. Christopher StandingBear, RMT. is an Energy Medicine and Energy Psychology Practitioner specializing in Anxiety, Trauma, and PTSD.

He can be reached through his website http://BearfootHealing.org

Copyrighted 2012 – Rev. Christopher StandingBear, RMT – All Rights Reserved

New Workshops at Bearfoot Healing

We are excited to announce that starting in January 2012, Rev. Christopher StandingBear, RMT. will be offering two new workshops.

Transcendence of Pure Consciousness, which focuses on releasing attachments and coming home to pure consciousness within an environment of quiet contemplation,

And

A Path to Complete Healing, which focuses on getting answers to what is holding back your healing within an environment of life coaching with Rev. Christopher StandingBear.

Now’s the time to sign up for the first workshop since January is just around the corner!

You could give yourself and everyone you love a Christmas gift by signing yourself up and save $20.00 on each additional person you pay for!

Happy Holidays!

Rev. Christopher and Bearfoot Healing are in the news!

Rev. Christopher StandingBear, RMT. and Bearfoot Healing were written about in the Mountain Loop exPress, the free online newspaper for Granite Falls, Washington.

We invite you to read it at http://mountainloopexpress.com/index.php?fn_mode=fullnews&fn_id=163

Halloween at Bearfoot Healing – Granite Falls, Washington

 Bearfoot Healing in Granite Falls WA is offering a $50.00 off on your first coaching appointment coupon with each organza bag of USDA Organic gluten-free, corn-free, soy-free made with real fruit extract lollipops, and has teamed up with Dr. Bishop at Granite Falls Naturopathic to provide the same offer with her USDA Organic gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free raw chocolate candies.

Rev. Christopher StandingBear, RMT. offers three coaching programs at Bearfoot Healing in Granite Falls Washington:

• Spiritual Path Coaching -focuses on personal & spiritual transformation and growth through dealing with past traumas (sexual, physical, emotional or otherwise), past unreleased spiritual vows, unresolved past relationships, issues with forgiveness, or regrets, the dis-ease you may be experiencing, finding your spiritual or life purpose, releasing phobias, and so much more, all with ease and grace.
• Trauma Release Coaching -focuses exclusively on trauma releasing without the spiritual perspective.
• Personal Performance Coaching -focuses on collapsing the emotional causes, hang-ups, yes-buts, and energy disturbances within the body to clear the way for peak performance in the corporate world or sports arena.

You can receive your 2011 Halloween candy at two locations:

Bearfoot Healing 312 W. Galena St. Granite Falls, WA

or

Granite Falls Naturopathic 112 N. Alder Ave. Granite Falls, WA

You can also purchase Dr. Bishop’s Organic Chocolate online at

http://drnitasbrand.com/

New page added to website

We have added a new page on the Bearfoot Healing website showing all the articles written by Rev. Christopher StandingBear and thought you might like to check it out… http://bearfoothealing.org/HealingArticles.aspx

FDA labeling rules are a straitjacket!

FDA labeling rules are a straitjacket!
Food and Medicine are NOT opposites

Nita Bishop, N.D.

I live up the street from a retirement center and many elderly people walk by my office daily.  One day an arthritic, hunched over gentleman pushing a walker called out to me as I was getting into my car, “Are you the doctor?”   I nodded yes.   “Well”, he said “if I had known I was going to end up this way I sure would have taken better care of myself”.    What if I told you that the20 tons of foods we eat over several decades of living reshape physiological function in the body?   And if we modify these factors by eating antioxidants such as blueberries and chocolate we may eventually reshape disease outcomes.

The FDA dictates that every nutrition label and therefore every product must be labeled as either a FOOD or a SUPPLEMENT but NOT both.   The FDA position is that it is impossible for any one product to both heal and feed you.  It is time to change that paradigm.   Every Naturopathic physician knows this is simply not true. We have been using carefully selected foods as effective medicines for over 100 years.  There is no quackery here; it’s backed up by the 2002 Human Genome project.   This provided scientific evidence that certain co-factors (which influence chemical reactions in your body) match up to certain “nutrient genes”.   The food you eat doesn’t just nourish your body; it is loaded with information for your nutrient genes.   The Human Genome project demonstrated that all of us have 99% similar genes, but there is that 1% of them, approximately  1300 genes linked to specific health traits and this makes up your biochemical individuality.  Nutrients from the food you eat are really just signaling substances for modulating your genomic expression. They affect those chemical reactions or metabolic pathways that are occurring in your body every minute of every hour of every day.   What you eat sends different messages to your genes and that alters their expression patterns and that in turn can alter disease.    It’s a whole new way of looking at eating because we are now looking at food as potential bioactive molecules.

An example I recently discovered is the Amazon Sacha inchi nut.  This organic “tree nut” is so high in Omega 3 oil content that 12 Sacha nuts are equivalent to the 400 mg RDA Omega 3 stated as sufficient by the FDA.  That’s no empty claim; it was calculated by Food Quality Labs in Portland, Oregon which tested our Sacha inchi nuts in a fatty acid profile.  But the FDA insists it must be labeled and sold as either a food or a supplement when it is obviously both.

Inflammation is implicated in a number of diseases, including cardiovascular disease and cancer.  Certain foods can have either a positive or negative influence on inflammation-related genes and that can impact chronic disease.   An example of these bioactive compounds is flavonoids that are contained in blueberries and most recently discussed in chocolate.  These plant nutrients or phytonutrients activate specific signaling factors which produce messages to cancer genes called NF-kappaB or AP1 located in the nucleus of your cells.  Eating enough of these blueberry and chocolate flavonoids can positively modulate inflammatory genes.  Chocolate was once thought to be nothing more than a decadent indulgence. The latest scientific research shows that it may be the top antioxidant, higher than even  blueberries.

Twenty years ago when I was in the Amazon, our shaman/guide sliced open a cacao bean and a dazzling purple juice flowed forth.  What I was seeing were those purple anthocyanins, similar to what is in blueberries and I realized chocolate by its very nature was an antioxidant.  A few years later at a worldwide Flavonoid conference in Malta conducted by French agricultural scientists, I met the Hershey’s European division who were introducing a healthy antioxidant chocolate called Coco Via.   This was not successful, but only because the world wasn’t ready yet.

The world is ready now: Nestle Health Sciences, a newly created division of the food giant for researching and developing medical and functional foods this week stated they believe there is an “opportunity between food and pharma.” and have opened a war chest of funding to study phytochemicals and plant extracts in foods

I strongly believe in chocolate as medicine.   Unfortunately, most chocolate companies process chocolate at over 110°F, which doesn’t affect taste but severely diminishes the antioxidant potential.   You won’t find a flavonol content category on any FDA label.  Antioxidant values are extrapolated by running an expensive battery of lab tests (TROLOX, TEAC, FOLIN ASSAY, ORAC) and averaging the results.  But flavonol content may be the single most important thing when choosing chocolate.

Now chocolate is opening her secrets.   Research is demonstrating what  Naturopathic physicians,  practicing science- based nutrition, have always known; food IS medicine.   Food has a superior effectiveness and relative freedom from side effects.

Food is not just A medicine – it is your BEST medicine.

Nita Bishop, N.D.

www.newworldnaturals.org

www.DrNitasBrand.com