The Power Of Visualization In Improving Your Health Status

My wife, Mildred, attributes much of her early recovery after being diagnosed with MS to her dedicated use of healing visualization.

Her most debilitating symptom during the first couple of years after her sudden onset of MS symptoms was profound and constant dizziness, accompanied by nausea. This was so severe that she was unable to walk without assistance.

The only way she found to control the dizziness, even with the use of Meclizine, was to keep her head immobilized. Even while doing so, however, she became aware early on that even if she IMAGINED that she was moving her head, the dizziness would be activated.

Having been an ardent swimmer from the time she was a young child, she hit upon a simple visualization exercise that she practiced repetitively over a period of many months.

This consisted in simply imagining that she was swimming, turning her head from side to side with each stroke. Since this visualization always activated some degree of dizziness, she reasoned that if she could develop the capacity to visualize this activity very vividly WITHOUT becoming dizzy, it might then generalize to the same result when she actually moved her head in this same way.

Happily, after nearly two years of doing this practice, her intuitive theory about it proved to be correct and strongly reinforced her previous convictions about the potential power of healing visualization. Once she had achieved the ability to IMAGINE moving her head from side to side without experiencing dizziness, she was then gradually able to increase her actual degree of head movement without setting off an attack of vertigo.

This is just one small example of the potential power of using visualization to improve physical functioning, a method that nearly all Olympic athletes utilize, for example, in optimizing their performance.

This has some very important implications for people who are physically impaired due to multiple sclerosis--or through any other form of illness or disability. There is now much evidence showing that vivid visualization of any previously learned skill actually contributes to the improvement of that skill to a degree that is equal to, or sometimes even greater than, actually practicing that skill.

Stephen Pierce, a highly successful online entrepreneur, is an outstanding exemplar of somebody who has transformed himself amazingly through the application of positive visualization, which he associates with the now well-known "Law Of Attraction." (This has recently been promoted by Oprah Winfrey and many other highly successful people.)

He has recently developed and released a new CD, called the OptiMINDzation CD, that systematically activates key parts of the brain to increase one's power of visualization in the service of helping to actualize whatever kind of change one desires in life.

You can get more information about Stephen Pierce and this remarkable CD by clicking here.

The Seven Keys To UltraWellness By Dr. Mark Hyman

This is the first in a series of videos in which Dr. Mark Hyman introduces a truly "outside the box" approach to optimal health or, as he calls it, UltraWellness.

His cutting-edge and highly innovative application of knowledge arising from human genome research bears great promise for the future of healthcare. He definitely is shining a very bright light into the current darkness of chronic, degenerative diseases that are taking such an incredibly heavy toll in all of the world's developed countries.

He, like others whose inspiring healing stories have been presented on this blog, exemplifies how remarkably the human body can heal itself when provided with all of the necessary conditions and nutrients.

Fish Oil Helps Ease Multiple Sclerosis Symptoms

Posted on Thursday, August 23, 2007 (EST)

"A new study has found that the intake of fish oil, containing Omega-3 fatty acids could provide relief for those suffering with Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic, inflammatory and cureless disease that affects the central nervous system. . ."

Read the full story here.

Ann Boroch's Impressive Recovery From Multiple Sclerosis

The Downsides of Mainstream Medicine

There is evidence that a growing number of Americans are becoming disenchanted with mainstream medicine as the only or best way to address chronic disease. In this series of News Target articles on About.com, Mike Adams points out some of its many shortcomings. In a related article, he focuses on "The Hoax Of Modern Medicine."

The Dangers Of Prescribed Medications

Many people put unwarranted trust in mainstream medicine with its ever-growing armamentarium of pharmaceutical drugs. It is conservatively estimated that over 100,000 Americans die from taking these medications each year.

For an eye-opening revelation of just how dangerous they are, check out this website

A Nutritional Watershed--The Classic Work of Dr. Weston A. Price

If you are like most average people, you've probably never heard of Dr. Weston A. Price or of his classic book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration:



In terms of it's crucially important implications for optimal health, this book should be on everyone's coffee table--or at least in their library.

A dentist and dental researcher, Dr. Price traveled to many remote parts of the world to investigate the natural diets of native peoples. Through his studies, he documented the remarkably high levels of health and longevity that was associated with their highly varied, but universally natural diets.

Of equal importance, he showed how the introduction of processed foods into the diet led to the development of a wide range of degenerative diseases.

As a result of this watershed work, he became one of the foremost authorities on the wide-ranging and important health benefits of eating natural foods.

The following video provides further details about his work and underscores the crucial importance of natural foods to optimal health.

Essential Fatty Acids Are Indeed Essential--Especially For Folks With MS

There is a prevailing consensus among nutritionists that around 85% of Americans are deficient in omega 3 fatty acids (EFA's). Nothing is more important to achieving and maintaining optimal health, therefore, than adding a high quality source of EFA's to our daily diet.

EFA's, however, are not all created equal. There is growing evidence from placebo-controlled, double blind studies that krill oil--and especially Neptune Krill Oil--is preferable to fish oil in many ways.

This research shows that this remarkable source of EFA's has all of the following benefits:

1) Improvement in heart health, reducing heart damaging inflammation.

2) Improved concentration, memory, and learning efficiency.

3) Stabilization of blood sugar levels.

4) Healthier joints, with a decrease in pain associated with arthritis.

5) Reduction in the damaging effects of aging.

6) Improved development and functioning of the brain and nervous system.

7) Protection for cell membranes.

8) Improvement in cholesterol and other blood lipid levels.

9) Improvement in liver functioning.

10) Reduction in painful menstrual periods and PMS symptoms.

11) Improvement in immune system functioning.

12) Improve in mood regulation.

13) Improvement in skin health.

14) Improvement in subjective quality of life indicators.

Please note that in the above list, numbers 2, 6, 7, and 11 in particular have a high degree of relevance for anyone with MS.

CLICK HERE to get a comprehensive overview of the broad range of specific health benefits of Neptune Krill Oil.

Jon Barron's Baseline Of Health Program

"There are no magic bullets; only a series of steps for optimum wellness."

Jon Barron

If you're open-minded and willing to look outside the box for a highly sensible optimal health solution to ANY form of chronic illness--and especially auto-immune diseases--Jon Barron's Baseline Of Health program is an invaluable resource.

You can find an introduction to this great program here.