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Cancer: Treating Illness by Generating Health

By Brandon LaGreca / August 11, 2022 / Comments Off on Cancer: Treating Illness by Generating Health

Cancer formation is the planting of a seed caused by unmitigated exposure to carcinogens. Seldom discussed are all the contributing factors—known as proximate causes—that inhibit healing of that initial wound. These proximate causes may not be potent enough to transform a precancerous cell into a malignant one, but they are the soil in which that cancer seed roots itself and grows unchecked.

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Hypnosis for Stress

By Brandon LaGreca / March 28, 2021 / Comments Off on Hypnosis for Stress

Hypnosis is a state of consciousness marked by increased awareness and suggestibility. Despite being a favored technique of magicians, illusionists, and mentalists, hypnosis isn’t all that mysterious. A captivating book or movie drives attention to the exclusion of other outside stimuli, and the reader/viewer may experience emotions associated with the characters. That is suggestibility we allow into our experience as an observer.

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Digital Detox for Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Rejuvenation

By Brandon LaGreca / February 27, 2021 / Comments Off on Digital Detox for Physical, Mental, and Spiritual Rejuvenation

Are you feeling burnt out on social media or suffering from screen fatigue after a week of online meetings? Do your hands feel cold after hours of typing or get brain fog when working next to a wifi router? If so, it may be time to give your body a break from technology. 

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Healing a Lifetime

By Brandon LaGreca / January 20, 2019 / Comments Off on Healing a Lifetime

All healing is an exercise in change. If you want different results, you have to be willing to do something different. Looking over the breadth of a lifetime of destructive choices, sometimes there is much that needs to be done differently.

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Breathing Yourself to Better Health

By Brandon LaGreca / November 11, 2017 /

You may not think the mundane act of breathing could be a powerful influencer of health and disease, but there are many instances where a breathing pattern disorder is a major contributing factor to chronic illness. 

The rate, depth, and intensity of respiration all can have a profound effect on the nervous system, which in turn regulates heart rhythm, stress hormone release, and digestive function.

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How Essential Are Essential Oils?

By Brandon LaGreca / May 23, 2017 /

Essential oils are an ancient medicine. They have not been used as long as herbal medicine, given the distillation technology necessary to derive the oil, but their roots are still very old. There is documented use by Islamic physicians in the 12th century and purported use (as resins) by ancient Egyptians prior to that.

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