BOUNCING BACK FROM A TRAMATIC EVENT

Many people have experienced all kinds of traumas in their lives - death of a loved one, divorce, parents dying or losing a job. So how can someone bounce back? A key element turns out to be a person having one person that they were close to who believed in them and told them they were going to get over the trauma. So, if you can support a friend or a loved one, you may be really helping them to recover.

THE POWER OF PACEBOS

The placebo effect occurs when a "sham" treatment causes someone to be healed.  The placebo effect has been known for years.  There is recent research that is exploring and validating its impact even further.

        Placebos have been studied in a number of ways:

        1 - Doctors in Texas did fake arthroscopic knee surgery on patients.  One group had only three little cuts made where the instruments would have been inserted.  Two years later, the sham surgery and real surgery patients both reported the same amount of relief from pain and swelling.

        2 - A baldness study found 86% of the men taking a drug either maintained or recovered the amount of hair on their heads.  42% of the placebos did, too!

        3 - In Japan, people had poison ivy rubbed on one arm and were told it was a harmless leaf.  On the other arm, they had a harmless leaf rubbed on it, but they were told it was poison ivy.  100% broke out with poison ivy on the side where the harmless leaf was actually rubbed.

        Scientists are looking at a concept called expectancy theory to explain the phenomenon.  What the brain believes about the immediate future, it will begin to react to, whether or not the future event is real or sham.
A study with monkeys showed that their brains would begin firing 20 to 30 seconds before they received a consistent reward for doing something.

        Another key element is the belief of the doctor or healing practitioner.  Studies have shown that when the doctor was positively enthusiastic, the placebo effect was much higher.

        Since placebos are 55% to 60% as effective as drugs, maybe we need to be more intensely exploring how to increase this to 100%.

THE POWER OF NOT BEING A PESSIMIST

Does it pay to be positive?  The answer is yes.  Optimists recover from surgery faster.

What if you're not an optimist?  Then fake it.  A study at Ohio State University found that it was more important for a person's health and stress levels to not be a pessimist than to be a real optimist.  If you find yourself seeing the glass as half-empty, ask yourself if that thought
is real.  You might at least move to neutral if not seeing the glass as half-full.

Today, nutrition is being used as never before both to prevent and to heal damage to the nervous system.  Can a dietary mineral have any role to play in promoting recovery from serious head injury?
        A test was done by a medical group at the University of Kentucky and Lexington Virginia Medical Center in which this has been found to be the case.  Over a period of more than three years, 60 head-injury patients were given either the normal amount of zinc found in hospital food or about five times that much by supplementation.  A month after the accidents, the zinc-supplemented patients had significantly higher scores, indicating faster recovery from injury.  Zinc is not something that can be piled on top of an already fine diet to achieve super mental powers, but replacing it when it's low can help turn the mental dial back to normal.

Happy New Year too!

My shoot at Breakfast TV in Calgary: Watch Clip on Impacts of Stress

I’ve been invited several times to be a guest on Breakfast Television in both Toronto and Calgary, CN.

This October 16th, we had a great time, and shot a clip for broadcast to demonstrate the effects and impacts of stress on our bodies.

Watch the 4-minute segment above or click http://bit.ly/QvIPPI

This Week on My Internet Radio Show: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND BUDDHISM – TWO WAYS INTO YOUR MIND

Buddhism and Western psychology are two disciplines that can enhance and enrich both the mind and spirit. What’s the difference and how are they similar?

Learn about the inter-relationship between the two as I interview Pilar Jennings, Ph.D.. Dr. Jennings received her Ph.D. in Psychiatry and Religion from Union Theological Seminary. She’s a researcher at the Columbia University Center for Study of Science and Religion.

She’s a long-term practitioner of Buddhist meditation techniques and has just written the book Mixing Minds: The Power of Relationship in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism. You’re not going to want to miss this one. www.PilarJennings.com

Go to http://webtalkradio.net/shows/healthy-alternatives/ to listen or download the program.

Since I do this show weekly, we can inform you of each show with an email reminder.  Just click here to register.

Invitation to 20 hours of F.R.E.E. Self Help Audio Instruction on How to Reduce Stress in Your Life

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What Time You Go To Sleep May Affect Your Level Of Depression

Brazilian researchers found that people who go to sleep late at night are nearly 3 times more likely to experience depression symptoms than people who go to sleep early and wake up early.

The researchers speculated that there may be an optimal time to fall asleep and to wake up.

My guess is that this may be accurate since it is only a relatively short period of time that we’ve had electricity which has allowed us to stay up far later into the night than our ancestors who had no electricity.

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Staying Focused Is Another Reason To Eat Dark Chocolate – Yummy!

  Research presented at the British Psychological Society’s annual conference found that eating dark chocolate containing at least 70% cocoa may keep the brain alert by increasing blood flow.
When adults consumed a drink containing this amount of cocoa, they reported less mental fatigue.
For more Chocolate/Health Info, search my Past Issue Archives and this -  Chocolate, Good for You?.

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