While the previous post was on emotions and ones health, I thought this would be appropriate.

How long do your emotions affect you, or better yet your health.

We have seen in many different situations how negative emotions (fear, anger, frustration,etc) can have a dramatically negative effect on ones health. 

This is often seen in those in a fragile state of health, such as a recent stroke victim looking to regain previous cognitive function, a newly diagnosed diabetic fighting to avoid a lifetime of insulin and revitalize their pancreas, etc.  Please keep in mind, even in the healthiest of individuals these emotional charges can anchor in and cause damage.

Where these emotions can hang on and affect you for a long time if not released, there is often a time span right after the fact that packs a real punch.  Is this true for you?

Think back to a time when you were in a emotional storm, something quite big might have happened within your life, kind of shut normal life down for a few days?

Did it affect your health?  If you have high blood pressure, was it more difficult to control?  Chronic pain was ever not manageable?

What was this time frame for you?  Obviously everyone might be different, as well as depending on the emotional experience, but do remember, its how we perceive a situation to be.  Because of this we usually find a consistency.  If the emotional incident does not linger on for days or even weeks, we have seen in our practice a 72 hour window where it takes for the emotional charge to release itself out of the system, from its aggressive state?

What have you noticed?

It has been said that the foundation of all happiness begins with good health.  We are under an enormous amount of health stressors from electromagnetic pollution, to heavy metals, to the overall stress our society seems to encompass.

Ill health often comes with frustation, fear, anger, helplessness.  What do all of these have in common?  They are emotions.  Emotions are very powerful and a major player in our health.

We would like to give you a tool to help evoke positive, life and health fulfilling emotions.

What we would like you to do is sit down and write a letter to yourself, or your inner you, that you would like to see reality one year from now.  This letter is how you would like your life to be, especially your health, one year from today.  Go Big.  Write with no limitations.  Feel what it will be like to have the ultimate freedom that optimal health provides.  What would you be doing?  Where would you be doing it?  Who would you be doing it with?

Rememeber, feel the positive emotions that this will evoke. 

Next, fold this letter up, put it away somewhere that you can refer to it.  Maybe when you are feeling low, or maybe when you just need a reminder of where your inner game can take you.

A Secret Health Drink of Ancient Cultures

A delicious, traditional morning drink in many countries such as India is lassi, a simple drink made with fresh yogurt, water and spices. Often fruit may be blended in, such as one of India’s national favorites, mango lassi. This favored drink is so common you can order it in almost any restaurant in India.

This same drink can be made with homemade kefir, instead of yogurt. Kefir is preferred since its unique Bulgarian bacterial culture is able to more completely digest the lactose in the milk. (Lactose is indigestible by most Afro- Americans and many other nationalities.) Most lactose-intolerant individuals are able to easily digest fresh kefir. In addition, the kefir molecules are much smaller and therefore, easier to absorb. Kefir also provides large amounts of natural highly active, probiotic “good” bacteria for the intestines – an important nutrient for daily immune protection in today’s infection-rampant society.

Quick and Easy

You can easily and quickly make kefir drinks or shakes (only takes just a couple of minutes) – and you can make unlimited variations – use your imagination!

Kefir drinks can be made with a sweet taste or with a salty (non-sweet) taste. Add fruit for a sweet taste or add sea salt and spices for a non-sweet drink (a more common version in Persian countries).

Kefir drinks provide highly absorbable calcium, highly absorbable protein, excellent amounts of probiotic bacteria and are famous for helping to protect the body’s bones, teeth and gums and to invigorate the body’s overall health. Kefir drinks help keep the body’s temperature cool and well-adjusted in hot weather and strong in cold weather. Kefir drinks are excellent for children as well as adults. They can be a “meal in themselves” in the morning. Kefir drinks are especially recommended for the elderly because their nutrients are so easy to absorb and help prevent muscle wasting. You can also use the Kefir drink in place of regular milk to use over cereal (hot or cold). (Note: avoid most commercial milk – typically high in toxic pesticides and artificial hormones).

Favorite Recipes

Note: The following recipes are for one person. For two people, just double the recipe.

The Source Is Everything

We always say, “The source is every-thing.” This means that unless the source of a product is premier quality, the benefits of taking the product may be very poor. And this definitely applies to kefir and yogurt. All kefir and yogurts are not created equal. In fact, the quality of yogurt (even organic) in the U.S. is typically very poor because the final product has been pasteurized which kills the beneficial bacteria, thus negating its health promoting benefits.

Bio-available Minerals for Strong Teeth and Bones

We have long observed that societies that eat cultured milk products, including even those from the poor classes, commonly have few or NO dental cavities. On trips to third-world countries, you may have noticed the beautiful, exceptionally white, strong teeth of many poor people. We believe one reason for the excellent dental health of many foreign countries is their daily consumption of fermented milk products such as kefir. Kefir contains a complex culture of many healthy, hearty bacterial strains, passed down from family to family for centuries.

A Kefir A Day Keeps the Doctor Away

Unlike Americans, many traditional cultures eat homemade kefir or yogurt every morning, made the night before from fresh, whole, nontoxic cow’s milk. Culturing fresh milk into kefir makes the inherent nutritional factors in the milk, such as vitamins and minerals, extremely bio-available so your body can easily absorb and digest them. In addition, kefir provides super healthy, valuable bacteria strains to promote healthy bowel function and digestion, and to help ward off pathogenic disease organisms. A healthy colon is the cornerstone of a healthy body.

Home Culturing

Culturing your own milk with premier quality kefir bacteria provides a wonderful, healthy, easy-to-digest food, for little tots up to great-grandpa. It’s extremely easy to make and tastes delicious. Enjoy eating a bowl of homemade kefir every morning. You can eat it as is or use it as a creamy base for kefir -based salad dressings, sauces, part of your morning health shake or experiment with making kefir ice cream.

How to Make Kefir

The best milk to use is organic whole milk (that comes with the cream on top) from cows never injected with synthetic hormones. In the evening, pour the whole milk into a saucepan (for example, use 1 or 2 quarts of milk per person). If desired, skim the cream off first. Gently heat the milk until it comes to a boil, stirring the milk every few minutes so it does not stick to the pan and burn. Then turn off the heat and let the milk cool until it is still fairly warm but not too hot to hold your finger in the milk. Heating the milk to a boil kills any undesirable bacteria which may compete against and inhibit the growth of the healthy kefir bacteria.

Next, stir in 2 tablespoons or more of kefir culture into the warm milk. Immediately pour the milk with the added culture into a large glass bowl, cover, then wrap the entire bowl, with 2 large towels to keep it warm. Place one towel under the bowl and cover over the top. Place the second towel on top and wrap the bowl from the top down. Keep it out of drafty, cool places.

By morning (about 6 to 8 hours later), you’ll have delicious kefir. The milk has been converted into kefir when it has become thickened. This hearty kefir strain can culture very fast (within a few hours if kept fairly warm).

Trouble-Shooting

If the milk does not thicken into kefir or the kefir turns out too watery; you may have to trouble-shoot to find out why:

1. the milk may have gotten too cool during the night (you may need more towels to cover it or a warmer place),
2. the milk may have cooled down too much before you added the culture,
3. you may have not put enough starter kefir in the milk (we usually use 1 to 2 tablespoons of the culture per quart of milk),
4. your starter may have been too old and no longer active (the kefir culture is usually good for 7 to 10 days, sometimes longer),
5. you may have accidentally heated the milk together with the culture to a boil, which kills the culture, or
6. everything may be fine except that you may need to let the milk culture longer to be a firmer yogurt (12 to 24 hours).

Once the kefir is made, if desired, you can spoon the kefir into a strainer perched over a pan for 10 to 15 minutes to drain off the watery liquid (called whey). But don’t throw this enzyme-rich whey away. Use it to water your garden. Draining off the watery whey makes the kefir thicker, but it is not required. Some people prefer a thinner kefir.

But don’t eat all the kefir: save a couple of tablespoons to start your kefir for the next batch. We make a big batch of kefir twice a week, saving the kefir in a glass container in the refrigerator. We then have a nice bowl of kefir every morning. The kefir will last usually for 7 to 10 days. To save the culture for longer periods of time, put a small amount of the kefir in a glass jar and freeze it.

Finding the Best Milk

Fresh, whole milk from organically fed cows is the best milk. Good quality milk has a fresh, sweet, full-bodied taste. It is available only from healthy cows that are allowed to free-graze on fresh grass in clean, fresh air. Only organic, nongenetically engineered feeds should be given. The cows should be treated with kindness and respect. If possible, the fresh milk should come to you from the farmer in nontoxic containers, with no middlemen to process it or add synthetic hormones or vitamins.

The richest milk comes from Jersey and Guernsey cows. These breeds are world renowned for the quality of their milk, which contains higher concentrations of proteins, solids, and butterfat than other breeds. Commercial milk (sold in supermarkets) comes mostly from Holsteins which produce larger quantities of more watery milk.

Store-Bought Milk: Hazardous To Your Health

Commercial milk is usually pasteurized (flash-heated at high temperatures), homogenized (processed so the cream won’t rise to the top), adulterated with synthetic vitamins, and usually contains antibiotic residues, growth hormones or other chemicals.

The genetically engineered growth hormone, rBST, is now given to over 70% of commercial cows. Consuming milk from rBST cows has been shown to disrupt normal digestion and cause cancer in laboratory animals. According to Robert Cohen, rBST has not been thoroughly tested and presents a grave risk to humans.¹ This risk includes cheese made from rBST milk.

Commercial milk is usually “standardized,” a process used by the major producers where milk is separated into its constituent solids and fat, partially dehydrated, then mixed back together to form a product that conforms to the minimum legal limits for milk. In contrast, the best source of milk comes directly from organic cows, without any intermediate processing of any nature.

Certain dairies attempt to provide organic milk, but if cows are kept in polluted, smoggy areas near big cities such as Los Angeles, drinking poor quality water, and eating commercial feeds, the quality of the milk is bound to suffer. We recommend milk only from “happy” cows raised without toxic chemicals in a clean, nontoxic environment (outside smoggy cities).

Commercial Yogurt: Dead and Toxic

Since commercial milk (with its antibiotic residues, synthetic hormones and other chemicals) is used to make commercial yogurt, its toxic contaminants end up in the yogurt. Secondly, most commercial yogurt manufacturers pasteurize their product after the culturing process, which kills all the friendly bacteria, if any have even been used in the first place. Pasteurization allows the product to have a longer shelf life— but the yogurt has little therapeutic value since all the beneficial healthy bacteria are dead!²

Slime, Anyone?

You may be as surprised as we were to find that many commercial yogurt producers use pima, an organism which produces slime, to make their yogurt. But why would anyone want to use a slime culture, which has no known health benefits, to make yogurt? The answer is because it’s cheap.

In commercial yogurt production, there is a normal separation process of the yogurt called “watering off.” To avoid this watery separation, the yogurt producers usually add milk solids (from commercial milk) or bean gums to “thicken” their yogurt. But it’s far cheaper to use the slime-producer, pima, to make the yogurt look creamy.² In the U.S., this unnatural mixture is allowed to be sold as “yogurt.” No thanks!

Miralcles do happen.   You profit on what you work hard for.  So many times we might look at the “reality” and think it is only an uphill battle.

We are here to let you know that Anything Is Possible.  Dont fall into the fear.  Dont loose grip on yourself.

If you have the passion and you have the drive  You can overcome Anything that is thrown your way….Anything!!

Why are writing this?  Because we as a soceity find it easy and almost automatic to blame complain and justify!  What is this doing for us.  It is only hurting us.  We have the ability to create the life of ultimate wisdom and intent, to create a world of beauty and abudnance.  A world where childern should not have to struggle.

One of my clients questioned me on the possibility of the nutriton and protocols that we are using to heal.  Now, what they must understand is that the ultimate power to heal lies within,  They already have it in them.  The nutrition and protocols that we share are only catalysts to make the healting more effecient.

Today is a day of giving thanks, every day should be such a day.

In our book we recommend to write out a gratitude list.  List everything in life that you are grateful for.  This can be from the mundane to the most life changing issues that have happened to you.  Remember everything matters.

Remember, the universe will not provide more of what you are not grateful for.

In Health and Gratitude,

Robert and Amy

There has been a lot of press lately on the problems with bottled water—based around environmental concerns due to the plastics.  News stations are doing expose’s on tastes tests asking “can you really taste a difference?”

Now, lets put the taste aside, why would be drinikng bottled/purified water?  For our health.  There is no pure water on this planet unless measures are taken to purify it.

The water out of your faucet is a disgrace and it is ashame that the news media is given such an off course focus on the why’s behind the water.

Yes, I understand there is an issue of trust behind the companies, after all was’nt it Aquafina that admitted that it was just tap water?

Do your self a favor, get a water purifyer, buy good quality water, and better yet demand from your state representatives that you want acces to water free of flouride, heavy metals and all the other junk that is polluting our in home water supplies.

We have been getting a lot of emails from concerned parents and citizens about the recent news of parents of children in Maryland facing a Vaccinate or Do Time policy.

If you have read our book we recommend the importance of putting together your health team.  Whether it be primary personal for you health such as a nutritionist or auxillary such as someone to take care of the chores around your home so you have the time to focus more on your health.

If you have not heard the news it turns out that parents are being threatened that if they do not vaccinate their children then they run the risk of being put in jail.

This recent news is forcing us to recommend that parents concerned about future regulations and rules coming down the pike (especially if Sir Hillary Clinton has anything to to about it—-please do not support her—-her policies have no concern for your health—my feeling only detriment) a versed lawyer in vaccination policies and health freedoms can be a tremendous member of your team.

Please, educate yourselves, question your physicians–There is no foundational proof that these vaccinations are safe and effective!  How can “trained health care professionals” reccommend anything not based on pure science?  Fear maybe?

Last point, all members of your healthcare team should be working for you, and out of love, not fear.  If the use fear tactics on you, they do not have your best interests in mind–Fire Them!

The business of health care.  Yes, health care is a very big business, acutally the biggest business is based around disease management.  I was having a conversation with a customer yesterday and they mentioned they believe that our current health care/disease management system is set up to gain profit on illness, for the most lucrative customers are those that are sick, not healthy or dead.

I have pondered this before, acutally had many a conversation around it, and yes it does make sense.  But for now, no need to go into the conspiracy side of things.

Our goal here at healthwarrior book and blog.com is to educate and empower through the information the we utilize in our daily practice based around nutrition, mind-body medicine, and the allopathic system that we have been trained in as well.

Our primary platform is this blog, our e-book (www.healthwarriorbook.com)–and here is the hard sell, yes we recommend that you get it, it is full of invaluable information for a great price—stuff you will get nowhere else.

So, we believe health care and disease prevention is our business.  What is your business?  Do you have a specialty?  Maybe you are in sales, marketing, consulting, personal care such as skin care, massage, or chiropractic?  Maybe you are a culmination of passions, but have not geared them into a lucrative format.

For those of you looking to expand your business or turn your passions or hobbies into business I encourage you to check out www.teleseminarsynergy.com

This is world class information, a way to get a free expert evaluation and tips on your electronic marketing in a matter of minutes, and I personally have been taught by the instructor, and can claim that the content you get is top notch and delievers results.

So remember, for a great book… www.healthwarriorbook.com and for great electronic marketing info … www.teleseminarsynergy.com 

In Health, and in this case In Wealth,

R-n-A

Meet Ivón
 We would like to introduce you to Ivón.  We are sure you have had relationships with Ivón before, though most likely have not realized it.  Ivón is very powerful and Ivón does not have your best interests in mind.
Ivón is your Inner Voice Of Negativity.  Recognize him now?  Ivón is the inner self-talk that plays on your weakness of self-esteem, while at the same time creating more issues of low self-worth.
  We would like to introduce you to .  We are sure you have had relationships with Ivón before, though most likely have not realized it.  Ivón is very powerful and Ivón does not have your best interests in mind.Ivón is yournner oice f egativity.  Recognize him now?  Ivón is the inner self-talk that plays on your weakness of self-esteem, while at the same time creating more issues of low self-worth.Ivón then turns the inner-talk into outer-talk.  Have you ever made comments like, “I am so stupid”, “I hate”, or “I can’t”?  This is the work of Ivón and it begins from within.  After numerous repetitions being heard within your head it has felt comfortable enough to make its debut via your voice.  This serves you no purpose, even if you “don’t mean it.”
We want you to evict Ivón.  He is welcomed no more.  He is not only staying in your head rent free, but at a cost to your self-esteem and your health.
p.s.- Say Ivón out loud.  What does it sound like?  “I won!” 
That’s right!  He feels he has won over your mind, don’t let him!
Exercise in Negative Self-Talk
 Monitor your thoughts and your words.  Write down each negative example of self-talk whether it is through thought or through speech.  As you do this and recognize it you will be taking the charge away from Ivón and he will realize his efforts have no impact and will disappear.Monitor your thoughts and your words.  Write down each negative example of self-talk whether it is through thought or through speech.  As you do this and recognize it you will be taking the charge away from Ivón and he will realize his efforts have no impact and will disappear.

Monitor your thoughts and your words.  Write down each negative example of self-talk whether it is through thought or through speech.  As you do this and recognize it you will be taking the charge away from Ivón and he will realize his efforts have no impact and will disappear.