New Sound Healing Meditation To Eliminate Stress and Heal Your Body
Friday, August 17th, 2007 2:45 PM
Just imagine what it would feel like if all you have to do to get rid of your stress and tension was to listen to healing, relaxing music based on Chinese medicine principles. You gently close your eyes and follow the guided imagery that allows your body to heal itself.
As a practitioner of Chinese medicine I sought to design a healing program that my patients could listen to when they were between treatments. I’m talking about a guided meditation audio program that would balance your body the way an acupuncture treatment does but without the needles. So I thought what if you could clear your negative emotions by just putting in a CD into your player? What if you could do this easily and effortlessly in less time that it takes to watch a sitcom? If you’re like most people, you can’t seem to relax and unwind, but this is exactly why we all experience so much stress and illness!
This sound healing audio uses ancient meditation techniques that easily remove stress and allow for greater health and well-being. The guided imagery shows you how to inject loving energy into your internal organs. You probably know that your precious internal organs are your most important source of life energy.
The new Qi Gong Meditation CD facilitates rapid healing through:
- The ancient Chinese science of sound
- Guided imagery culled from my 20 years of experience in Chinese medicine
Exactly what is Qi Gong? A vital part of Traditional Chinese medicine since ancient times, Qi Gong is taught to hospital patients in to speed their healing.
Studies have shown that Qi Gong can:
- Reduce pain
- Balance your emotions
- Lower blood pressure
- Reduce your risk of stroke
- Improve the quality of your sleep
- Increase blood supply flow to your brain
- Boost your energy, strength, & vigor
- Increase concentration
- Strengthen your mind
- Extend your lifespan
- And more!*
In less than 30 minutes each day, the healing power of the new Qi Gong Meditation CD will bring you fast results! And it’s simple, fun, and easy-to-follow! Even my patients who have used the CD two or three times per week (or even less) have experienced dramatic results. But the more you use it, the faster your health will improve and your stress will melt away.
Click on http://www.theqigongmeditation.com to find out more. Musical direction and narration by Steven Sonmore, L.Ac.
P.S. As a bonus diagrams are included inside the CD to aid your visualization.
Music composed and performed by Joseph Smith.
Steven Sonmore is a licensed acupuncturist, a practitioner of Chinese medicine, a certified Chi Kung instructor and a musician. He has studied at the Minnesota Institute of Acupuncture & Herbal Studies,
*These statements are not approved by the FDA.
Treating Depression with Acupuncture
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 12:25 AM
A new pilot study by researchers at the
This study is important because it is the first randomized, controlled, double-blinded study of acupuncture’s effectiveness for depression reported in Western scientific literature. The study design compared the results of treatment for three groups. Specific treatment involved acupuncture treatment for symptoms of depression. Non-specific treatment involved acupuncture for symptoms not clearly related to depression. The third group was wait-listed for eight weeks. Both placebo or control groups then received treatment specific for depression. Patients who received the specific treatment improved more during the eight weeks than patients who received the non-specific treatment. For this small sample size, the comparison between the specific treatment and the wait list condition was not statistically significant. Researchers plan to investigate the benefits of maintenance treatments for depression, acupuncture treatment for more severe chronic depression, specific treatment for non-responders to conventional treatment, and specific treatment for those who cannot tolerate side effects of medications.
The study was funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Alternative Medicine. The results were published in the September 1998 issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the American Psychological Society, as “The Efficacy of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Major Depression in Women.” The authors were John J.B. Allen, Rosa N. Schnyer, and Sabrina K. Hitt.
Read another article on Acupuncture for Depression” by John McManamy at http://www.orientalmedcare.com/acupuncture_for_depression.html.
"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Acupuncture Promotes Weight Loss in Women
Monday, October 23rd, 2006 9:15 PM
Medical Acupuncture 2003 14 (2) 32-33
MSG Causes Nerve Cell Damage
Monday, October 16th, 2006 6:17 PM
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have found evidence that mixing the common additives aspartame (an artificial sweetener) and monosodium glutamate (MSG) causes nerve cell damage. The researchers found that when the additives were taken together, they interfered with nerve signaling systems and actually stopped the nerve cells from growing in mice. The mice were exposed to concentrations of MSG and aspartame relative to what a child would receive in an average snack and drink. Aspartame is commonly found in diet soft drinks (Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi), artificial sweeteners (NutraSweet, Equal, Splenda, Spoonful), candies and flavored medicines, while MSG is frequently found in chips, processed cheese and many processed foods. The results of the two-year study were published in the journal Toxicological Sciences.
Study Finds Acupuncture Effective For Relieving Fibromyalgia
Friday, July 21st, 2006 12:04 AM
Many people have been asking me if acupuncture is effective for treating fibromyalgia. Now a recent study at Mayo clinic says yes.
According to a research team led by Dr. David Martin, an anesthesiologist at the Mayo Clinic, fibromyalgia patients who received acupuncture reported improvement in fatigue and anxiety as well as other symptoms. This work lends credence to patients' belief that nontraditional methods may improve their health, they noted.
The study involved 50 fibromyalgia patients enrolled in a randomized, controlled trial to determine if acupuncture improved their symptoms. Twenty-five in the acupuncture group and 25 in the control group.
In the acupuncture group, total fibromyalgia symptoms were significantly improved compared with the control group during the study period, the reseachers found. Fatigue and anxiety were the most significantly improved symptoms during the follow-up period.
"We found that acupuncture significantly improved symptoms of fibromyalgia. Symptomatic improvement was not restricted to pain relief and was most significant for fatigue and anxiety." the researchers concluded.
Patients are increasingly interested in pursuing complementary medicine techniques, such as as acupuncture, in conjunction with their mainstream medical care, Martin said.
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