"Health, like success is neither magical nor mysterious. They are the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals." (Derived from a quote by John Rohn)

What are the fundamentals of, not just good, but GREAT Health?
Read on only if you are truly willing to change your life.
Every person who seeks help in resolving symptoms, improving their quality of life or trying to seek answers to a condition that they don't yet understand, must follow the path to healing. In this adventure there are a few very common chasms that must be crossed:

• The first chasm is the sincere desire to be truly healthier.
• The second is the ability to act out of a creative mind set.
• Third is to be willing to sacrifice the mind set that allowed the unhealthy condition to grow, mature and thrive.

Everyone wants benefits of great health. But how many can manage the responsibility? Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves. There is a responsibility to freedom; and great health is a freedom. It takes a powerful will to use it. It takes a will to choose to honor your higher self. It takes a strong will to choose consistently to be conscientious in your choices, and motives. In Chinese Medicine we learn that our will is controlled by our kidneys. The kidneys are analogous to the emotion fear, the ears, the bones, and the low back. When we strengthen the kidneys energetic function, all these functions become stronger, including our will. Fear weakens the will. When we allow fear to provide counsel to us, we are gradually weakening our will. If we fear our pain, our financial ability to pay, our future life as we fear it may be if our condition does not change, we weaken our kidneys, and thus our will to act, and our power to be creative.

To act in a creative mind set is vital to improving our health. health is not something you get from taking a pill, eating differently or beginning an exercise program. Health comes by changing the very way you look at the world around you as well as the world in side of you. You must see yourself in a powerfully creative way. Creativity comes from a vivid internal picture of the state you want to create. The blueprint to a building, or to your new and improved health, needs to be complete before you progress very far in the construction of your new dynamic health. How do you want to feel? How much energy do you desire? How much pain to you want? How do you want to feel emotionally? What are you going to give to the universe or your fellow children of God, to justify receiving this gift? Why should you have this level of health? Is it so you don't want to suffer? I understand that motive, but that isn't a good enough reason. Be creative with your life and your potential. Why should you have this amazing gift of vibrant health? Why do you need it and why do you deserve it?

Be willing to give up the old mind set that has created this level of ill health in the first place. Our mind is the most powerful instrument in the formation of your level of well being. It is more powerful than your genes, your circumstances, your likelihoods and even possibilities. You can have a one in a million chance of a recovery, and capture it, against all odds, because of the quality of your mind set and thoughts. But this can only happen if you cultivate that mind set that can create the unusual and amazing feat of spontaneous healing. This mind set is the exact opposite of that mind set that causes disease. That means that if you are ill, you must turn about and go in a 180 degree direction to the one you are now traveling, at least in those aspects that are causing the dis-ease in you. Be willing to sacrifice those emotions, feelings, beliefs and habits that have contributed to your unhealthy state. Be willing to give up the benefits of your illness: the attention, freedom of responsibility, the ability to use your condition to say "no", the self criticism, the spite or the way to use your condition to punish others. What ever these limiting thoughts are, be willing to give them up. Add this willingnesss to sacrifice your unhealthy mindset to the first two steps, desire to be healthy and the ability to be creative, your pathway to a freer, clearer life is open for you to travel at your will.

The older we get the more we regret not having fun, says new study in the September issue of the Journal of Consumer Research from Columbia University shoe that choosing work over play leads to regrets about having missed out on the pleasures of life. Over time, these regrets intensify, while guilt indulging tend to fade.

"While yielding to temptation can be harmful, this article argues that over control and excessive farsightedness ('hyperopia') can also have negative long-term consequences," say Ran Kivetz and Anat Keinan.

As with many mid-life (and quarter-life) crises, we tend to experience especially strong regret if pleasure is constantly delayed. According to the study - one of the first to compare indulgence regret to self-control regret. We begin to experience wistful feelings for delayed pleasures - for not taking that around-the-world trip sooner or for constantly dieting and not eating dessert.

"Consumers sometime suffer from excessive farsightedness and future-biased preferences, consistently delaying pleasure and overweighing necessity and virtue in local decisions."

In my mind, This quote shares a vital piece of advice. Several years ago I had a patient who had just retired. He looked fairly young. I asked him how his retirement was progressing. His response was a shock to me. He said that throughout his career in bankiing, he had set aside activities and hobbies he was interested until after he had retired. Now that he was retired he stated that he didn't feel good enough to do any of them. Ouch!

With that in mind, read the following quote. "Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part time crusader, a half- hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it while you can. While it's still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: You will out live [them]."
- Edward Abbey

-University of Chicago Press Journal

Find your passions and practice them. Don't put off your pleasures. Honor your goodness. Build your virtue. But don't miss the fun in life. Laugh, cry, play hard and fair.

An antibiotic-resistant strain of staph bacteria similar to the bug that has plagued hospital patients for years is now spreading across America.

Called community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphlylococcus aureus (MSRA), the potentially fatal infection has turned up in parts of California, Texas, Illinois, and Alaska and has been detected in New York and Pennsylvania.

Several strains of staph bacteria have been infecting hospital patients for the past 15 years, but the new, related to MRSA strain began turning up in the general population in the late 1990s, according to time magazine.

The superbug spreads quickly, and is resistant to the most common antibiotics. It is also showing up among prison inmates, athletic teams, and others who are in close contact and may share contaminated items.

MRSA usually begins as a skin infection. The danger comes when a scrape or cut allows the bacteria to enter the body.

Six recent outbreaks of MSRA have been traced to unlicensed tattoo artists, according to the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

MSRA infection typically manifests as a abscesses or areas of inflammation on the skin, though it can also lead to more serious problems such as pneumonia, blood infections or, in some cases, necrotizing fascitis, also referred to as the flesh- eating disease.

We are still riding a big wave in this bacterial infection disease and I really dont see any end in sight, said Dr. Mysheika LeMaile-Williams, a CDC infectious disease investigator who co- authored the report.

Doctors advise that if you have a skin infection accompanied by a high fever, a lot of redness or an abscess, you should seek medical attention to find out if you have a MRSA infection.

-Newsmax

The real answer is to avoid overuse of antibiotics at all cost. We have created this problem by inappropriate and irresponsible use of antibiotics. Antibiotics should only be used if the infection is persistent and proven to be bacterial. Antibiotic use for viral infections is purely irresponsible by both physicians and patients. Antibiotics don't help viral infections and may actually make them worse.

One study showed that use of one round of antibiotics before the first birthday can increase the risk of asthma by up to 8 times. We must enter such arenas with great care and cause.

Keep your immune system healthy and active by living a healthy life style, getting enough sleep and exercise and getting a regular chiropractic adjustment.