Tue, 22 Dec 2020 21:59:34 -0800WeeblyTue, 07 Nov 2017 10:06:29 GMThttp://www.balancinghealth.co.nz/weekly-blog/november-07th-2017Blog 57    7th November 2017
 
Hi Everyone
It's been a while due to hacking of the accounts, is nothing sacred? Why these people take pleasure in upsetting peoples’ lives I have no idea…..threatening virus’ to others and their friends. What is the point?  All I hope is that they get caught and karma will get them in the end. 
So today I was talking with some yoga students where I teach and they wondered how I look so good at 51.  I have dropped down to a steady 62kg, (I have been up to 120kg twice in my life, hovered around 80-95kgs for some time too.) I feel great and all it took was some mindfulness about what goes into my mouth.  And a bit of a jiggle with different foods.
It’s about thinking what foods can do what, how to not to eat so much.  Originally we as humans often went without food, depending on the season.  Like the people in Alaska, hunting for winter and if they don’t get enough then they have to ration or go without.  Here of course food is plentiful, we never go hungry unless you are strapped for cash, and only have enough to feed the kids.  This happens even here unfortunately but generally not in the cities of plenty. 
It doesn’t hurt anyone to go without food for a short time, the body is okay about it.  (Unless of course you have a serious medical condition that requires pills with food, - however there is nothing wrong with just eating piece of fruit of veggies to aid the digestion for the pills.)
The hungry feeling for a short time is what we used to go through.  The diet of 5:2 is the one where on any two days of the week you only have 500 calories the other 5 days you eat sensibly.  People are driven to oral fixations, and out of habituation.  Fasting stops that habit but must seek a professional for advice on that if you want to do it for longer than 3 days.
The ELF diet works – Eat Less Food…. Don’t have carbs late unless you are about to exercise, if you are craving for something have a cuppa or a glass of water and lemon, wait for half an hour and see if you really really need it, want it…. Etc.  If you are not big on breakfast then don’t eat it. I have found that when eating breakfast I am hungry by 11- 12 midday, and if I don’t eat breakfast I am hungry by about 11-12 midday, so actually loading on the calories by having breakfast that my body doesn’t need.  Boredom is another factor, get busy, phone a friend, write an email don’t shove unnecessary food in your gob.  It is that simple.  A dear friend used to work in a health food store selling supplements, a popular one is green coffee bean, or a slimming tablet. Someone asked if it worked… “If it worked don’t you think I would be taking it… look at me!” She is about a size 14-16.
Just be mindful, choose wisely.  
 
]]>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 03:06:54 GMThttp://www.balancinghealth.co.nz/weekly-blog/connectivity-different-connections-to-different-peopleBlog 55. 10th July 2017
Connectivity, what does it mean to different people?
In this new era, new epoch it is said to be the golden era, beginning of the Malayan calendar in 2012, This is a one year a new beginning of a nine year cycle. 2 + 0 + 1 + 7=10 = 1+0= 1.
 
We speak of trying to connect with others through the internet in all sorts of ways, messaging, calling and even video calling.  When I grew up we thought that speaking on the phone and seeing each other, Skype, would be weird and really invading but in fact we get used to it. 
 
Face Book has certainly opened the doors of connectivity. Keeping families in the loop with far off relatives, grand children, on the other side of the world.  If we keep more common ground and communicate more often then, the connectivity seems more assured.  But how often have we sat amongst our families and felt completely unconnected. Alone almost yet we know we are not.  There is love all around us.  (Mostly: as always “it depends”).
And yet in this modern day society on trains, buses stations people are more often than not are using their phones, staying in their insular world.  Are they connecting with someone else?  Suicide goes up at Christmas because this is the time most people feel alone – not connected.
We live in busy cities going about our work lives earning money hopefully doing what you enjoy. We must connect as humans, we have similar interests, football, cooking, reading clubs, do we connect with all in the same way or is there a solar plexus feeling with certain people.  Psychology says it grows with exposure to each other. Research found that new students at residence make friends with the floor and stay friends. All have something in common, they are local to each other.
Why some and not others?
Is the connectivity in our DNA? Some would say soul families, We often stick together perhaps with many past lives together, if that is your thought. The seven sisters of Eve say we all come from 7 lines of DNA, perhaps there is that blueprint that we subconsciously detect.
Some manage to find that connectivity and stay together for all of their lives.  Others bang around like a pin ball, trying this trying that hoping to find the one… Some have given up trying.  Instead choosing to stay in their comfortable connections that they already have, family, friends.  Are we as souls and social animals that we are deserving of a “one”.  If we reach out and try, surely having 3-18 months of great feelings to 2-3 months of sadness. Is it worth it..? Only you will know.  Try checking in with your soul area –solar plexus when meeting someone, is “it“ there?
I think I would like to be open to new experiences to see who and what you connect with. For we as humans need that touch, that interaction, that social event.  To feel a sense of community to feel connected.
 
​]]>Wed, 05 Jul 2017 08:05:33 GMThttp://www.balancinghealth.co.nz/weekly-blog/barmy-army-creativity-and-the-sourceBlog 54:  July 3, 2017
 
The weekend just passed the All Blacks lost and the Lions won, so much is invested in to the national team.  It is great for the tourism from the Barmy Army, what a great name for them all.  Its good to see so many getting out and driving around the country.  As locals sometimes we forget how amazing our back yard is – well the nearest area of bush.  Which is not that far away from anybody.  I have heard it say that for about a 40 min drive for anybody in New Zealand is the coast.  So how cool is that when you think about some Japanese travel 4 hours to get to a golf course.  Commuting for 90 mins at a time is not unheard of in other places.  So much time travelling.  I guess now at least you can work on a train, but driving well you have to have eyes on the road.  So whilst driving why not try
Gamma music. It is really good for getting you ready for work.  Crick – Nobel prize winner on discovering DNA double helix existed, believed it was the sound of creation.  Imagine creating your day and it turning out like you envisaged.   How cool would that be.  That’s what the message seems to be again and again, The Secret… that was all about visualization, red bike, nice house, better job.
I too was a cynic, but don’t knock it until you try it.  Then what always got me was that if it didn’t work then the “chosen” or “They”  or as my father used to say “The Clan of They” said it was to wait and it wasn’t the right one.   Sometimes its really hard believing that.
Believing in the higher self, what is that to different people, God, Allah, Mohammad, Jesus, Mary, Krishna, Buddha, and all of those reincarnations.  So many variations but really all from the same source.
Then the question is – what is the source?
 
To put it in layman’s terms, why can’t we just get on.  Does it really matter about the
​source....       Treat others as we would expect to be treated. Treat others with love and respect. 
If we can do that in the office, at home and live more in the conscious mind (mindfulness) than the subconscious which happens to be about 95% (unmindfulness) . change our patterns it does take practice.  The brain is plastic remember and takes approx. 8 weeks. E.g., home a little tense and you are trying to get your 3 year olds shoes off and partner pops head round the door and asks a really basic question and you snap.  Answer automatically.  Perhaps you sound like your mum or dad. In order to break that unconscious answering we have to make a concerted effort.  Change the patterns.  Perhaps we can try that at work – just a thought,
]]>Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:41:03 GMThttp://www.balancinghealth.co.nz/weekly-blog/spine-reset-and-dowgers-humpBlog 53 19th June 2017,
Spine reset and Dowagers hump, find a ball .
Well it is still Monday where I am in sunny Denver. The temperature is in its 30’s Celsius that is about 90 F.  So pretty hot and dry.  The Air B n B was great and had a shared pool.
The conference was full of so many great people and many many years of experience.  Arthur Lincoln Pauls died in 1994, and many of his students were there to continue on the wisdom.  Ortho-bionomy® that was talked about were about listening to the person.  To hear their story be it a shoulder, or ankle, or lower back, to find the place of comfort and stay there to feel the tissue moving.  To releasing itself on the body’s own terms, not to force it but to wait. The reflexes of the body are easy to instigate then it finishes it off itself.
Gary Lee Williams who has a practice in New York spoke of the dead hamster pose. I think we really do recognise it.  Look around in your office, see how people sit in their chairs.  The backs go forward, the shoulders go up, and almost become earings.  You know the one. 
Now Gary talked of the self-care that everyone can do to help off-set the Dowagers hump.  
Find a small ball of approx. 65mm in diameter soft but not too squishy.
Lie on your back on the floor, watch out for animals that want to lick you.
They can be an enthusiastic helper.
Place the ball under your C7 – T 1, you’ll know the one. It’s the big ole knob on the back at the top of your spine. 
Lay on that ball and let your spine rest on to it. After a minute or two then push your shoulders and back of your head into the floor, on the out breath.  Hold for about 7 secs.
Rest, for a bit, and repeat three times. Relax off the ball then get up and notice the different posture.
Really helpful maybe to find an empty conference room, or do it when you get home or even at the gym to relax the whole back. The other reset of the spine is:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dLxzIasOAk.
Lie on one side put the upper leg over til the knee reaches the bed and the ankle is at the knee.
Now gently twist back. Hold for a minute of two and repeat.  
Have ago and now stop the hamster pose and STAND UP STRAIGHT AND CURL YOUR SHOULDERS BACK.  It will feel uncomfortable at first as the spine starts to reset but gradually the bones and structure can change if you change the functionality.

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]]>Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:49:01 GMThttp://www.balancinghealth.co.nz/weekly-blog/a-little-bit-of-music-goes-a-long-way-and-the-conference-ob14th June Blog 52,
Hello From Denver, Colorado. It is beautiful here but New Zealand has this all. However the streets are wide and people seem relatively laidback.  There is always congestion and some of the roads are single lane but it seems to work. Traveling from one side of the city to the other with rush hour can take about ¾ hour to an hour, flowing traffic about 30 mins. With experiences like these you realise how lucky we are in Wellington or even most of New Zealand. 
Unfortunately Auckland does have a congestion problem, but tricky to widen some of those roads.  Traffic causes people stress, I think the trick is to realise that it won’t get there any faster than it will.  So use the time to contemplate your day, how you want to start and finish.  Visualise how you want the meetings to go.    This is taught in mindfulness.  I would also recommend if you have data to plug into your smart phone music with Gamma or Beta music. Gamma wave lengths, so Crick says is the vibration, resonance of creation, so they have found that the human brain responds to this and help create new ideas.  Beta is for focus. So if you have to write a document its worth plugging into You Tube for these sounds.  My newly developed web site, Stresslessbuddy.com incorporates this and others to help you achieve what you need to.
I’m here in Denver  to talk about the relationship of ortho bionomy and brain plasticity.  How the brain can change and develop with environmental stimuli, either physical or emotional. It was hypothesised by Santiago Ramon y Cajal, that the brain could sculpt itself, and in 1906 he was given the Noble prize for that plasticity theory and the growth of a brain.  Later much later in 2000 it was confirmed by Eric Kandel that the brain was in fact plastic it, confirming Cajal’s work. Kandel too received a Noble prize for work with brain plasticity. 
This conference I am speaking at there are other great Ortho-bionomists who also do amazing work with MS, chronic fatigue and trauma.  How to facilitate the body’s innate sense of healing, holding and prompting the system to self-correct.  Be it in the structure, muscles, fluid, organs or brain.  There is so much more to discover, and hanging out with all these great teachers.  Those who were taught by Arthur Paul in the 80’s and 90’s. To be able to draw on their experience will be very exciting. 
So the new techniques and further knowledge about ortho and mechanisms of the body can only help our clients to a better balance.
I will report in next week, whilst sitting at another airport. Hmmm my favourite pass time.
Have a great week and listen to some music. It is all on You Tube.
 
 
 
​]]>Fri, 02 Jun 2017 08:13:32 GMThttp://www.balancinghealth.co.nz/weekly-blog/different-societies-and-coping-with-stressBlog 51 1st June 2017
 
Hello again, I apologise for not publishing on Monday but I am travelling across the world to promote STRESSLESSBUDDY.COM.  This is my new project to help more people get less stressed and enjoy life more.  As well as not needing to take sick days off either from mental fatigue or autoimmune diseases. 
At the moment I am in Hong Kong and looking around they have a very different way of conducting life. 2/3rds of the world’s population are of a collectivists society and 1/3 individualistic society.  Us westerners are individualistic and here in Hong Kong and the surrounding countries are all collectivists. 
What this means is as a collective society eg, Maori, Aborigines and other native populations, including the Pacific Islanders etc are all collectivists. These societies look after one another through generations.  So in one house hold there will be 3 generations.  This is really good for community and family in helping against stress and disease.  They have in-groups and out-groups.  Those in-groups are very loyal to each other and always consider the members of the in-group before they consider themselves.  An experiment offered a group of Chinese to take a pen from 5 pens, one was clearly more attractive to the eye than the other 4.  Mostly they took the boring pens as they considered that the beautiful pen may be needed by some one else.  However when the same test was down with westerners, (an individualistic group of people), they more often took the beautiful pen for themselves. The experiment was repeated to check validity and it was so. 
Because collective societies think of others before themselves and support each other, there are less mentally stressed people here.  Although if a business man has felt he has let down his in-group of family then he will feel stress.  However a gentlemen from an individualistic society will feel stress as everything piles on top in order to be the bread winner, parent, mate and friend to others and they have no personal support.  These will often get more autoimmune diseases, or suffer from stress.
 
So I think what I am trying to imply is have a great relationship with your family, friends and have a good stable set of support.  Or have a regular session with a councillor, (there is no shame) we all need an outlet.  Sometimes if an issue is bothering you and you only see it from one point view this can be quite stressful.  Trying to understand others point of view is necessary but as with most it can be difficult as things are often not what they seem.  There are often underlying issues that they may not tell you.  A dear friend always said: find out about context and purpose.  This often clears up the whys and whats.
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]]>Tue, 23 May 2017 04:36:44 GMThttp://www.balancinghealth.co.nz/weekly-blog/being-alone-is-more-important-than-you-thinkBlog 50…. 23rd May 2017
 
Wow I made it to 50 blogs.  And pretty much every week.  In the beginning I was afraid and felt awkward about doing these and whether it would be good enough.  But looking back I feel quite proud at what I have accomplished.  It was about getting over the anxiety and the judgement of others that may or may not have been there.  But we can easily blow things out of proportion in our own mind.  FEAR = false evidence appears real.  And this is a perfect observation of what we make up in our own minds.  We need to trust our own judgement and be sure of the decisions that we make.  We rush around hoping to accomplish “stuff”.  Is all the “stuff” necessary?  If we really stop to think - why do we fill up our lives with stuff that we think we should enjoy? What is expected of us? What helps is culling some of the chores, activities, visits etc.
I found a great quote from Paramahansa Yogananda, “Every individual needs a period of aloneness or solitude in order to cope with the increasing pressures of life…. Do not encroach upon one another’s independence. 
Yoganada was a great Guru and left India and went to America, he went into monk hood quite early – it was his calling and to spread the word of Eastern philosophy .  His philosophy was for love, serving others, treat others as you would be expected to be treated.  Harm no one and live and accept with no judgement.  Meditate to get closer to bliss and God.  A wonderful philosophy. He started centres in America and has been directed by his higher self to help spread the word.  Working with all other religions, lectured all over America, had conversations with eminent scientists, leaders of politics and leaders of different churches. 
 
To be alone, for some it is often a challenge, always wanting someone there, to distract, to entertain, to occupy time.  However the brain, the body and the energy needs to recharge and we need to learn who we are.  I realised when married and in other relationships that I was always compromising on furniture tastes, art tastes, music being played.  I never really knew who I was, what I liked in paint, wallpaper, ornaments. I think sometimes if it isn’t important to us we can lose our individual style.  Parents often loose it for the children and family home.  This also can happen if you do split from a long term partner and then go straight into another relationship - give yourself time to find out who you really are.  What do you enjoy doing? Once you find out do it and to hell with everyone else. (safe stuff :-)  )
Everyone needs time out from the world.  Meditation is great for that. Check out YouTube and lose yourself – even if it’s just for 20 minutes.  Give yourself a rest, your body a rest and above all, your brain, your soul and your spirit.  Have a great week.
 

]]>Tue, 16 May 2017 08:59:11 GMThttp://www.balancinghealth.co.nz/weekly-blog/eight-weeks-to-form-a-habit-brain-plasticityBlog 48 16th May 2017
The change in eight weeks.
Soon I will be going overseas again.  This trip is to Denver Colorado to speak at a conference about brain plasticity and ortho-bionomy®.  What I have found in using Ortho bringing the brain back to balance in more or less 8 weeks. “They” say it takes eight weeks to form a habit and here’s why…
The neurons which were originally thought to be static and once you had reached your peak – approx. 22 -24 years old then the neurons start dying.  This has now been found to be wrong. (Nothing is absolute in science.)  This is good news.  What scientist have found is that the brain continues to make new stem cells in the hippocampus.  Unfortunately if you are chronically stressed this process is slowed down. Especially as the hippocampus shrinks in stress as does its capacity to remember and store memories and produce stem cells.  Now scientists have grown a brain from stem cells.  The cells and their DNA coding helped them go to the places where there are designed.  They grew, organised, changed according to task, formed and grew some more.  It doesn’t work like a brain as there is no electricity to boost it and make it compute but the fact that this can happen shows us we can help parts of the brain regenerate in case of severe brain damage.  The possibilities are endless.
Now forming a habit over eight weeks starts by the first action.  This fires a neuron to do this task.  Repeat it and the signal gets stronger along the same neuron.  Keep doing this task – say juggling and the neurons will build a strong network signalling this movement and control.
Whilst I was working with amnesia I treated the area with ortho-bionomy and I was able to stimulate a change back to balance and to remember who she was and other memories, father, mother, home etc.  This took eight weeks for the memories to begin to come back, and gradually with faster recollection and more memories.  Through brain plasticity we are able to bring balance back to our lives by stimulating the self-healing mechanism.  Concussion, dyslexia, dyscalculia and social phobia can all be treated by using our own brain mechanism and ortho-bionomy.
People at first if they are trying to meditate find it hard to quieten the noise of thoughts of the day.  Persevere as it is worth it, this helps the brain change with more efficiency.  Whilst the brain is still in meditation it is repairing and resting.  When people say they are an active relaxer that is great but you are still using your brain to control the activity, to move the limbs etc. It takes close to a dozen times for the mind to still.  There are great You Tube meditations to follow.  Do the meditation and practice the task, be it exercise regime, juggling, no sugar or quit smoking the two will work much more efficiently with your brain to help that change and keep it.  
​]]>Tue, 09 May 2017 09:32:06 GMThttp://www.balancinghealth.co.nz/weekly-blog/the-power-of-positive-thinking-slightly-alternativeBlog 47 9th May 2107


Hi again, another week, another day, another dollar.  That’s how it goes doesn’t it.  Unless of course you spring out of bed, look forward to a day’s work and can’t wait be there and turn on the computer.
Your energy is high you have had a great night’s sleep and all is well in the world, unfortunately this is not really a common feeling.  Gratitude for what we have – even the small things.  If you are struggling go small, really small, like “I am grateful the kids didn’t finish off the milk for my tea”, or “I am grateful that the train didn’t get cancelled.”  Even if your life feels like a drag try and think of something special.  I believe I have mentioned about the hmmmmm moment in your like.  For me is was when I was hanging out with my grown up children in Ruakaka, Northland.  We jogged on the beach, we played ball in the ocean.  Simple yet so memorable and always brings me up from a dark place if I happen to slip down.  I also think of it when I meditate to help my focus, but often it makes me smile physically and I am trying to relax all of my muscles, including mouth and cheeks.  But this kind of thought really helps focus to begin with.  This kind of thought can distract from what is getting you down, this kind of feel good thought stops you from being sucked into another’s negativity.
So if someone is always a downer, has nothing positive to say, always complains of things that you have never even considered were bad.  If you have to stand or sit there listening to them think of your sweet thoughts, the happy thoughts.  Often negative people like to have comrades in arms to give them validation for feeling bad, so will try to get agreement about a negative point.  However you have a choice……
One phrase comes to mind “Can I just stop you there.”  Then change the subject.  This helps stopping people in their tracks of going down that slippery slope of commiseration and negativity.  What these feelings do to your body is stress the very bases of your being. Masaru Emoto, a Japanese gentlemen  looked at the energy of some water in our country -NZ, what he found was water carries and absorbs energy. For example, the Waikato river when frozen and shaved to see a part under a microscope was confusion and chaos of the water crystals, and a slight muddy brown.  This was not happy water. However they tested another couple of water supplies namely Petone and Lake Wanaka, when frozen they came back looking like a snow flake, almost symmetrical and clear patterns. This is happy water.  Imagine if you are that negative what is happening deep down in your fluids and we are 80% water and fluid.
Please try to stay positive and do not let negative people take up your time.
Have a great week. ]]>Mon, 01 May 2017 05:50:11 GMThttp://www.balancinghealth.co.nz/weekly-blog/stressless-buddycom-is-here-to-help-if-you-like-it-share-itBlog 46 1 May 1, 2017
 
Something different.
Hi I have been absent from writing a blog for a week as I have been focusing on a project to help more people from injury, lack of concentration, diseases derived from chronic stress and more.  To help people have a quick efficient tool to help them get the optimum out of life. 
For example, Busy office day, lots of thinking, meetings, and have a report that is due next week.  And you are still waiting on a couple of others to complete their part.  You have to catch the train home or drive, sit in traffic and you are going home to a wife/husband and two or three children.  They either have to be picked up from day care, or school care.  The dinner has to be prepared and the children are eager to see you.  Some days you don’t feel as though you have the mental capacity to cope with all things.  If your spouse has been home with the children he or she will want to talk or hand over the kids for a break. And all you want is maybe a drink and a way to the cave for 30 minutes.
So what I have put together is a specific web site to help you keep this all balanced.  For example :  Plug the earphones in on your way home to either alpha or theta and this will calm the brain in 10 minutes.  Allowing you to leave work at work until such time that you have to do it again and brings you to the present moment to enjoy the family.   
There are food ideas, easy recipes - very basic. If you want a specific recipe there are so many on the web that there wasn’t any point.  But I have mentioned go to meals with foods you are likely to have in the larder.
As well as a list of foods that specifically help your cognition and health of the brain.  
Included in this site are yoga and Ortho-Bionomy.  For those of who have sampled ortho from me you know that it is a gentle way of bringing the body out of pain and balance and health back in.  Just like yoga.  As part of the web site I have performed certain exercises and they are on You tube that you can do pretty much anywhere.  Opening up the body, helping blood flow and release tension from sites around the structure. Thus making it easier to concentrate and often less snappy!  
There are also different types and lengths of meditations linked to the site that perhaps can be listened to on the way home.  On the train not whilst driving.  
If this sounds like a really good idea to you and you would like to access it go to your manager, HR, Health and wellness person and suggest that they contact me. Exclusive to companies as it covers Work Safe’s voluntary suggestions.   Prices are variable eg, 100 people in a company $6, 500 = $4, etc. There will be a serial number for every person.  No data of personal detail is entered.  It is giving information not wanting it from you.   This site co-insides with science from Harvard, MIT, ACU, and others regarding stress: immunological diseases: early death: many sick days.  Instead if followed most of these practices daily then the body will come into line and help your mind body and spirit.  It would be a yearly cost as I would continue to add more science and processes to help.  I just want less people to suffer from chronic stress and anything related to it. 
Too many people across the board have come to my practice suffering from stress related injuries or pain.  Please help me to help more people.
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