Hello Mary,
Diet can be one of the hardest disciplines. Frustrations can become overwhelming especially when we put a great deal of effort into something and discover our expectations have not been met. All I can say out of my own experience I am still learning the ways and patterns of my body and mind. This has been ongoing for the last eight years. I know patience and listening to my physical body after eating and prior to eating has made a big difference. Two years ago I found I was wheat intolerant through my own experience of bloating and swelling after eating wheat products. I am also very intolerant to dairy and I know this from the foul smell of my breath after eating and drinking it and the congestion I feel 20 minutes after eating it. My point is that the foods you are eating may not be compatible with your constitution. What is good for me may not necessarily be good for you and visa versa.
My suggestion to you is that you take time to explore the effects of the food you are putting into your body and how your body is responding, this is the cost effective way or you could go and have some tests taken with a professional. One of our teachers, Jean Shanley, gave a great list for some local heath care professionals. Perhaps one of these may be a good choice for you.
Mary, you have shown dedication and a willingness to move your body and mind into a new way of being, it can take time for the old ways to leave; be patient, be persistent, and be peaceful. Sometimes for the body to transform the mind must lead the way, when the mind has finally been broken from the old patterns of the past the body will follow.
The following list is provided from Jean Shanley; enjoy the read.
Peace
Nicole
- Do you want to feel more healthy, young or energetic but are not sure how to go about it?
- Have you tried various lifestyle changes like exercise and diet improvements and still find yourself having stubborn symptoms?
- Have you told your symptoms to conventional doctors and received nothing but shoulder shrugs, offers of drugs, or advice that your uncomfortable symptoms are “normal” because most of the population also suffers from them ?
- Are you adverse to taking pills to “fix” health problems?
- Are you interested in finding and treating the root cause of your health problems rather than simply treating symptoms?
- Do you find yourself learning to live with symptoms because society has trained you to think it is “normal” to feel that way?
Consider trying a holistically minded healer. Holistic healers believe the human body is meant to function well and symptoms of any kind (ranging from PMS to cancer) are a sign the body is out of balance. They look at the entire picture in assessing the root cause of your health problems, including nutrition, genetics, pathogens and infections, food intolerances, environmental toxicities and emotional health. It is my experience and observation that a quality holistic healer will seek to:
1) Identify through lab testing or other diagnostic methods what is aggravating your body. This often includes testing for food intolerances (including gluten, casein, soy, yeast, eggs), pathogens, parasites, infections, and environmental toxicities (including mold, metal or chemical sensitivities).
2) Identify emotional stressors in your life.
3) Work to remove the aggravating factors to the extent possible.
4) Support the body in the healing process as needed with treatments such as proper nutrition, good lifestyle habits, detox programs and cleanses, exercise, supplements, energy healing and temporary natural hormone replacement.
In my experience, another helpful practitioner to have in the diagnostic and healing process is a specialized energy healer of some sort. Energy healing includes acupuncture and acupressure, qigong, yoga, reikki, bioenergetic healers, etc.
In teacher training, there seemed to be some level of interest in finding a path to healing that does not bow to the habits of conventional medical “wisdom.” There are some very good holistic practitioners in the Dallas area that I have tried, and some others that have been recommended to me. However, they are still out of the mainstream, so I alert you to these:
EnteroLab
Provides food intolerance testing through STOOL samples. Read the website to learn why half the US population has a food intolerance problem and doesn’t know it, and why the conventional blood and endoscopy testing done by GI doctors does NOT diagnose most people with these problems.
Dr. Margaret Christensen, MD
Provides medical evaluations, but she is currently not taking new patients. She refers to Tammy Pon, MD, listed below. Also provides seminars and detox programs.
Dr. Tammy Pon, M.D.
Quorum Drive, Addison 214-722-6457
Dr. Rebecca Burton, D.C.
Provides functional medical evaluations, including lab testing. Provides chiropractic care, but not until functional evaluations are performed and aggravating factors removed.
Dr. Rita Louise, N.D.
Provides medical intuitive evaluations, diagnosis of the emotional causes of your symptoms, and energy healing. I have used her and find her to be very accurate. I have found it difficult to remove all energetic blockage with yoga alone. For more information on medical intuitives, google Barbara Brennan, who is a former NASA scientist who opened a medical intuitive/energy healing school in Florida. These people “see” energetic blockage in the body, can assess the emotional causes of physical malfunctions, and can help clear the energy block.
Dr. Alan Chen
W. 15th St, Plano, 972-599-0852
Traditional Chinese Medical Doctor and Orthopedist, Chiropractor, Acupunturist, Herbologist
Provides energy evaluations, acupuncture, Chinese herbs, chiropractic
Other practitioners are listed in the Holistic Networker, copies of which are available at Whole Foods, under “holistic medicine.”
My personal experience has been that no single practitioner has given me all the answers. I have used a combination of energy healing and diagnostic evaluation and treatments from a variety of healers to reach the level of improvement that I gained through the last year. It was like I was putting together a puzzle and different practitioners gave me different pieces to the puzzle.
You can feel healthy again. It just takes research, effort and the desire to change yourself from the inside out. Good luck with your puzzle!
If anyone else has anything to add to this, please feel free!
Joy and light,
Jean
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