Healthy Happy Loving Life: Expert Advice on Headaches

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© 2020 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM.  World Rights Reserved.

What’s on your mind?

In my holistic- and energy healing practice of many years, I treat headaches more often than any other discomfort. The image above reminds us that the mind takes a battering from stressful thoughts and feelings, as does the brain itself.  Also taking pressure from stress is the entire head and its attachments–muscles, ligaments, and all attached tissue.  Which makes you wonder, with all the stress in the world, why everyone doesn’t have headaches?  I once met a man who said he never had had a headache. Excellent!

Note that I am not covering migraine headaches in today’s discussion.  However, if you have been diagnosed with migraine, these pointers may help also.

Now, for the rest of us, here are some pointers from my expertise in dealing with headaches.

1.  In oriental energy medicine, it is understood that different stressful thoughts lodge in different parts of the body. So in my office, I immediately ask the headache sufferer where exactly the head hurts:  across the top of the head, front of the forehead, back of the skull, sides of the head over the ears, or vaguely wrapping from the front of the face to the back (especially if accompanied by vague nausea). I am highlighting 3 of these types of headaches in this article.
2. Head pain across the top of the head, much like the illustration above, means your deepest stress level is affected.  Gently roll your shoulders and try to relax. Repeat.  Lying down may help, plus reflecting on your biggest priorities and letting some things go.  Some people have gotten this head pain from taking opioids, so if you are taking those, coordinate with your doctor.
3. Head pain at the front of the forehead.  This can be sinus/allergy disharmony, as when you have just walked through a field of pollen or dust. It can also mean kidney meridian stress.  In that case, eliminating the following can help: artificial sweeteners, added salt, caffeine, chocolate.  Also, try putting your right hand on the pain, just as in the above photo.
4. Head pain at the sides of the head. This is often from frustration stress.  It can also be from eating rich foods and/or alcohol. Your best weapons are accepting what is (another upcoming column) and going from there, plus holding your head just as in this photo.  Eating lean foods will help also.
5. For any head pain, gently rolling and stretching your shoulders may help.  Also, gently running in place may help.  These approaches are quick, free, and worth a try, so why not?

My goal as an energy therapist and holistic guide is to relieve as much pain and discomfort as I can, in my lifetime.  When you feel good, you will be happier, and when you are happier, you can be grateful and enjoy life.  It’s a system I like to call: Healthy, Happy, and Loving Life^sm!  Why not go for it?

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress solutions expert and award-winning author who  celebrates life.  She also has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Privacy You Want?

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How much privacy do you want?  We are in a world of surveillance and sharing.  People post health details on Facebook that they tell friends are “shhh– just between us!” Some take photos of their most personal body parts and text those to people they are intimate with, or would like to be.  (Those photos are stored on the Cloud, people!)  Some chat out loud in a coffee shop, and others use only their keyboards. Some keep a dot taped over their laptop camera eye, and some don’t care if there are lurkers.  Some cover the ATM keypad, and some never do.

A popular food delivery service, Doordash, had a data breach a year ago.  They said 4.9 million customers were affected.  Some customers were horrified.  Some cancelled a credit card. Some didn’t care.  In hotels, some go to their room and throw the curtains open.  Others go to the hotel room and carefully close the sheers, and sometimes the blackout panels as well.  Some like a nudist encampment, and some haven’t seen their own skin for years, outside of the shower.

In conversation, some people won’t answer any questions about themselves; they prefer to toss off a light quip, flip the question back to the asker, or simply give a frownsmile of disapproval.  Extroverts may be so delighted to answer that they can’t stop divulging. Seriously HSP–Highly Sensitive People–or introverts will simply stay out of the coffeeshops, gyms, and church coffee hours, thanking God for the plethora of new delivery services.

If you have a new friendship, look for symptoms of the person’s comfort level with privacy. Decide if you are comfortable with short, cryptic conversations until your new friend feels comfortable sharing.  Focus on secondary topics or text witty pieces and beautiful photographs: “Thought you might enjoy this.”  If someone wants to get to know you, be sure they are who they say before you give out details, as they may have an agenda that will harm you later. And it will be too late.  Once data is out there, data is out there.

Privacy:  define your own level to help yourself live happily.  My mission is to help you release your stress, then help you see beyond the “OK” level to an uplifted and expanding level of being Healthy, Happy, and Loving Life (Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm).  That is where you find you are “living in the Flow”, living with ease and joy, and seeing miracles occurring.  Are you in?

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She also has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Light Comments on COVID19 Times

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© 2020 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

Not every load is yours

What’s stressing you out during the COVID-19 times?  Sometimes we just have to lighten up, right?  So here are some light comments circulating about this pandemic period.

1.  If I had only known in March that it would be my last time in a restaurant, I would have ordered dessert.
2.   I’m going to stay up on New Year’s Eve this year.  Not to see the  New Year in, but to make sure this one leaves.
3. I still can’t believe people’s survival instincts told them to grab as much toilet paper as possible.
4. Until further notice, the days of the week are now called: thisday, thatday,  otherday, someday, yesterday, today and nextday.
5. They said a mask and gloves were enough to go to the grocery store.  They lied.  Everybody else had clothes on.
6. The dumbest thing I ever purchased was a 2020 dayplanner.
7. When does Season Two of 2020 Start?  I do not like Season One.
8. Keep in mind, even during a pandemic, no matter how much chocolate you eat, your earrings will still fit.
9. The buttons on my jeans have started social distancing from each other.
10. I never thought the comment “I wouldn’t touch him/her/that with a 6-foot pole” would become a national policy, but here we are.
11. Pretty wild how we used to eat birthday cake after someone had just blown on it.  Good times!
12. I’m not adding this year to my age.  I didn’t use it.
13. If you have a phone with a curly cord, stay home:  you’re in a high-risk group.
14. Lockdown can go 4 ways:  you come out a monk, a hunk, a chunk, or a drunk.  CHOOSE WISELY!

In these strange times, just do your best to stay in your best, in Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm!  Are you in?

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She also has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: It’s Four Stress-Questions Friday!

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© 2020 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

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Any week, you can “Bring your stress, pain, and fatigue to (my Zoom or) my office– and leave it there!”  Yes, and you can ask questions anytime.  Today, it’s time to answer four questions sent in yesterday.

1.  Will we always have to wear masks?  The Spanish Flu pandemic, of 1918-1920, lasted 2 years and 2 months.  With today’s much-better medical technology and  communications capability, we probably won’t have the COVID-19 that long.  But I think those of us who have lived through this pandemic will always keep a stash of masks in a drawer.  And backup toilet paper.
2. How should I be on Election Day?  Won’t there be violence in the streets? If you were asking how the civil authorities should prepare, I agree they should be prepared for some street activity.  And the authorities will already have specific plans. So that’s out of our hands.  Your best strategy is to stay calm, vote as early as you can, prior to Election Day, and don’t go downtown for any reason that evening.  As you would guess, I’m for the most democracy for the most people with the least strife and the most harmony. I’m holding the vision of peace in the streets.   You can do that also: picture everyone calm and eager to vote pleasantly.  See the streets quiet and peaceful. As the classic song goes, “Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with me.”
3. How do I transfer my own attitude of calm and resilience to others around me?  A friend was taught how to flow with life.  Her mom frequently said, “This too shall pass”, whenever something awful happened.  My friend says she has learned how to be resilient and to flourish.  So, how to transfer that to others?  My friend, you are already doing it!!  People have been picking up on your energy and counting on your steady peacefulness for long years. You are grounded, as so few are.  Just by being who you are, you inspire and calm others.  If you want to do more, pick someone who needs a core of Peace Within, and vividly picture them until you can see them smiling with peace and assurance.  Do it for them every day, or more often if you like.  You may be surprised at how they change.
4. Why does it take so long to manifest what you want? I feel like I partner with God on these things, and it works. But it feels like forever!  This is because God can see absolutely Everything, and we can’t. We don’t know what is coming around the corner, and He does; a traffic light that goes extra long seems frustrating, but then we see a nasty accident ahead and realize the delay saved our life.  We have ideas about what we want to manifest and when.  God absolutely listens to us and wants to bless us. But God’s timing is not our timing because God is working on so many factors behind the scenes.  God is bringing many things to fruition in order to realize the perfect plan for each of us.  Our job is to remain in joyful expectancy, knowing that He wants to and will bless us at the perfect time in the perfect way.  We need to love Him and be ready.

I hope you have enjoyed Four Stress-Questions Friday!  Thanks especially to Paul Taubman, Florence Callendar, C. Winsel, and Jeanine Byers, for submitting your thoughtful questions this week.  My mission is to help you release your pain, then help you see beyond the “OK” level to an uplifted and expanding level of being Healthy, Happy, and Loving Life (Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm).  That is where you find you are “living in the Flow”, living with ease and joy, and seeing miracles occurring.

I would like you to feel as great as you can!  Are you in?

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She also has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Four Questions Friday Coming Up!

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© 2020 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

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“Bring your stress, pain, and fatigue to (my Zoom or) my office– and leave it there!”  Variations of that tagline have concluded my self-introductions at networking gatherings for many years.  This year, Zoom has been added for consulting and some forms of energy transformation work.  IRS calls me a “stress management therapist”.  I am both a Masters’ Degree scientist and an ordained minister.  So, I deal with all forms of pain: of the Spirit, Mind, Heart, and Body.  And relationships.  Including your relationship with the Divine.  My mission is to help you release your pain, then help you see beyond the “OK” level to an uplifted and expanding level of being Healthy, Happy, and Loving Life (Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm).  That is where you find you are “living in the Flow”, living with ease and joy, and seeing miracles occurring.

Right now, we are in a time of accelerated living and increasing density of our cities and roadways.  Everything is more stimulating than even several years ago. And now we have a global pandemic that necessitates new rules for how we move around in community and in life.  So what’s bothering you the most?

What’s stressing you out?

So I pause today, from writing normal articles, to asking WHAT YOU WANT: WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE?  And tomorrow will be Four Questions Friday, answering the first 4 questions that are sent to me!

The World is very stressed right now, so don’t judge anything or anyone harshly.  Just do your best to stay in your best, in Healthy Happy Loving Life^sm!  Are you in?  What questions do you have for me?  I would like you to feel as great as you can!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She also has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: 5 Tools for When You Are Crashing

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Breakdown, Crashing, Dealing with stress, Effective living, energy, Energy therapy, exhausted, Health, Overwhelm, Overwhelmed, Stress Management, The life you want, unstuck, vitality

© 2020 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

Feeling overwhelmed?

We are living in a stressed-out society currently, and each of us needs to have some tools to deal with that.  Here are 5 of my top immediate tools, for when stress is getting to you so badly that you think you may crash. Or fold. Or can’t go on.  Or collapse.  Or scream.  Or make big mistakes with loved ones. 

At one time, I was President of my HOA, and one day I received some strange news:  our HOA Community Manager had walked off the job. And he did not resign or say goodbye.  And he destroyed all his Sent Mail.  And he left no notes.  And it turned out he had been lying about things that were done and not done.  I had noticed this guy apparently in melt-down, or on drugs perhaps, interacting unevenly.  But I waited to say anything to his company, because… well, sometimes you hope they’ll rectify their own situation.  But sometimes, he talked so fast you could hardly make out what he was saying.  He gave different specifics on work orders that would have had one set of facts.  Finally, he walked off the job and has not been heard from.  But what if he had had the tools to prevent going into breakdown?  Don’t you be this guy!

What’s stressing you out?

These are the tools to use right away, when you’re feeling out of control.  Steps 2-5 are neurobiology and metabolic support.

1.  DECIDE if you want to be in control and move through this sanely.
2.  EXHALE every bad thought down the front of your body and out through your toes.  Don’t worry about the inhale– it will come.  Repeat as needed.
3. TAKE EMERGENCY HOMEOPATHIC DROPS, such as the Bach Flower product, “Rescue Remedy”.  It comes in a spray, drops, or pastilles.  Take it every half hour if needed.  Have some on hand for bad days and terrible days.
4. HOLD YOUR CENTER PALMS.  This calms your central nervous system and allows you to feel sane again.
5. AVOID SUGARS, CARBS, ALCOHOL, AND DRUGS until you feel much better.  These are all false friends when you are stressed.

Now TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION.   After you have taken Steps 1-5, of course, you’ll want to think what needs to be done to change your situation.  Start brainstorming with yourself, and make a lot of notes; then turn these into priorities. You may want to call someone for prayer or Go(o)d Thoughts or professional counseling.  You may want to call your attorney.  Or you may decide it has simply been a rough day, and a long shower will help greatly.  Only you can make this call.

The World is very stressed right now, so don’t judge yourself harshly.  When you’re falling apart, do these things to get back into the realm of Healthy Happy Loving Loving Life^sm!  Are you in?  Got any questions?  I would like you to feel as great as you can!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She also has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Healthy Happy Loving Life: Acupressure to Zap Your Stress and Pain

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Effective living, energy, Energy therapy, Feeling energized, Health, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Jin Shin Jyutsu classes, optimal health and wellbeing, Stress Management, vitality

© 2020 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

The most powerful healing art I have ever experienced is an acupressure art called Jin Shin Jyutsu®.  In fact, it is now a core service in my holistic healing practice. Jin Shin is an ancient healing art that looks like acupressure and feels “like melting”.  It was revived in the early 1900’s by Jiro Murai of Japan and brought to the U.S. by the late Mary Ino Burmeister. Using “nature’s jumper cables”, the arms and hands, we jump starting your energies. The practitioner gently holds pairs of points, or while you feel tension, pain, and other disharmonies “melting away”, “unwinding”, and “lightening up”.  Jin Shin brings balance to the body’s energies, promoting optimal health and wellbeing, and bringing forth our own profound healing capacity.  It complements conventional healing methods, relaxing you and reducing the pains and dysfunctions caused by stress.

How does it do this?  Without needles, using only light finger touch, Jin Shin uses key points, or small zones, called “safety energy locks” along energy pathways that feed life through our bodies.  This seems to work by accessing nerve junctions, opening up the flow through the nervous system.  Whether you call this nerve function or meridian flow, when one or more of the paths become blocked, usually due to stress, the resulting stagnation can disrupt functions and cause discomforts.  Holding the key points, or energy locks, in combination can bring balance to your mind, body, and spirit.

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I personally have used Jin Shin with dramatic effects for myself and my clients.  In my first experience, many years ago, I had a foot/ankle injury that refused to heal.  After two orthopedists, two casts, and 4 months on crutches, my foot and ankle were still very painful, swollen triple, and a lovely purple-fuscia color.  Friends sent me to a Jin Shin practitioner, and twenty minutes into the session, my pain was rolling away.  I walked out carrying my crutches.  In six weeks, this ridiculous, aggravating injury was healed.  A huge part of the healing was my stubborn use of Jin Shin self-help holds, twice a day, during the entire healing period.  I wanted to be well and mobile again as fast as possible!

I was so astounded by the power of Jin Shin that I became a direct student of Mary Burmeister, the world’s living master teacher at that time.  I ultimately gave up my other work to devote myself to my holistic healing practice.   I have been helping others with stress relief, pain dissolution, and other often-dramatic results, in the twenty-plus years since.  I have experienced Jin Shin improving every condition I have applied it to.  It’s a secret weapon in my life, which allows me to manage moods and frustration, work long hours, feel energetic and cheerful, quickly zap illness, and have unusually young-looking skin.

Jin Shin relieves pain and painful emotions.  In a sense, Jin Shin rolls back the aging and disease that hold us back.  It powerfully shifts you into the realm of Healthy Happy Loving Loving Life^sm!  Are you in?  Got any questions?  I would like you to feel as great as you can!

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Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert and award-winning author who celebrates life.  She also has a longtime natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. Among her books are: Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), Inspirations for Peace Within:  Quotes and Images to Uplift and Inspire, and Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine.  The books are available on Amazon and through Kebba’s office.   To email us, kebba@kebba.com .

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Six Super Secrets to Defeat Your Cold NOW!

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© 2015 Kebba Buckley Button, MS, OM. World Rights Reserved.

 

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Colds feel bad and stress you out.  Colds keep you from doing the things you would rather do.  But take heart!  Today, there are more ways than ever to help yourself beat a cold—inexpensively. I recommend using ways that strengthen your system, allowing you to rise out of the illness, sometimes stronger than before. A cold is a virus and won’t respond to an antibiotic. So don’t think about using an antibiotic, unless your doctor says you have a secondary bacterial infection.

 

Secret #1: Make sure you don’t have the flu. Severe muscle aches say flu (influenza), probably not a cold. Call your doctor now. New antiviral prescriptions that may help you. Also, if you have special medical conditions and should call your doctor in case of cold/flu symptoms, do that immediately. Every doctor’s office has 24-hour paging or emergency numbers. If you are sure you have the flu, and you prefer a homeopathic remedy, you may want to try Oscillococcinum from your health food store (under $15). Dissolved under the tongue, this is very effective for many.

 

Secret #2: Support your body with rest, fluids, and soaking. Get extra rest. Drink lots of water and soup–alcohol is generally not helpful for a cold. Take a hot bath, at the “ahhhhh” temperature for you, which may be about 103 degrees F. Add 2 cups, or a one-pound box, of Epsom salts and set a timer so you stay in for at least 20 minutes. If you are concerned about your tub’s jets being hurt by the Epsom salts, dissolve them before adding to the tub, or buy your Epsom salts in liquid form. Most drug stores and grocery stores have both forms.

 

Secret #3: Treat a sore throat with natural gargle. If your throat hurts, mix salt and baking soda in equal proportions in a small storage jar; use a teaspoon of mix in a glass of pleasantly hot water, and gargle thoroughly. Making deep tones while you gargle will help the liquid reach further into the back of the throat.

 

Secret #4: Try a homeopathic remedy. A popular one for colds is Coldcalm, made by the same company as Oscillococcinum for flu. Just follow the package directions.

 

Being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and not obliged to work until one is better.

~ Samuel Butler

 

Secret #5: Bolster yourself with nutritional helps. These are cheap and can strengthen your immune system to beat the cold virus quickly.

• Drink black or green tea, with minimally processed honey in it. The tea contains heart-healthy compounds and the honey contains many enzymes and other energizing nutritional components. Get organic tea, loose or in non-paper bags. The chlorine in the paper may give some people joint pain.
• Eat yang foods. In Chinese medicine, a cold is a “yin” condition, so adding “yang” foods to your body will make you feel much better and literally make you more vital, right away. Keep warm (yang) and drink your tea or soup warm. Stir a little ginger powder into that tea or chicken soup. You probably have ginger powder in your spice rack. Or use ginger extract drops from your health food store.
• Try Vitamin C with bioflavonoids. One highly absorbable form is the widely available “Emergen-C”, available in most grocery stores and drugstores in many flavors; the small packets contain ascorbate compounds of Vitamin C, B complex, and minerals. Related popular products include “Cold-Eeze” and “Airborne”. Try different formulas to find the one/s you like best. Most pharmacies now carry these.
• Soluble B-12 with folic acid and B-6 is also widely available now.
• Eat fresh fruit, not frozen or canned if possible, due to the loss of nutrition and vital life force energy in processing. The colors represent the natural bioflavonoids. Add fresh lemon to your tea.
• Herbal drops are widely available for strengthening the immune functions. Separately or in combined drops, these may include: astragalus, echinacea, goldenseal, shitake or reishi mushroom, fresh red root, licorice root, and suma root.

 

Secret #6: Get some energy therapy. Jin Shin Jyutsu and Reiki can be very powerful for harmonizing your system right out of a cold. You’ll finish this cold and come out on a higher vitality level than you went into it with. Then let me know what worked best for you!

 

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• Kebba Buckley Button is a stress management expert.  She also has a natural healing practice and is an ordained minister. She is the author of the award-winning book, Discover The Secret Energized You (http://tinyurl.com/b44v3br), plus the 2013 book, Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core, Second Edition(http://tinyurl.com/mqg3uvc ). Her newest book is Sacred Meditation: Embracing the Divine, available through her office. Just email SacredMeditation@kebba.com.
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UpBeat Living: 10 Top Tips for Natural Pain Relief NOW

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© 2013 Kebba Buckley Button.  World Rights Reserved.

 

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Do you have pain and hate to take drugs?  Here are some nonprescription ways to help yourself with minor pains, especially muscular pain due to stress.  These are from our 30-year holistic healing practice and stress management coaching practice.  These tips are not meant to be medical advice, nor are they meant to be all-inclusive or comprehensive.  If you have serious pain, especially due to a medical condition, by all means consult your doctor, and ask about the compatibility of these techniques with your situation.

1. For any pain, exhale to the end of your breath.  Allow a reflexive inhalation.  Do this twice more.  Notice the pain is…less.  Let your shoulders drop gently.  Repeat as often as you like.
2. For tooth pain, (1) stop consuming sugars.  (2) Hold the pain area with one hand while holding the same side outer ankle with the other hand.  (3) Over-the-counter pain remedies such as Orajel can assist until you get to a dentist.
3. Got knots in your back?  They are called “trigger points”, and everyone has them. (1) Try a heating pad for 20 minutes at a time.  (2) A hot soak (at the “ahhhh” temperature for you) with at least 2 cups/1pound of Epsom salts, for 20 minutes, will relax the muscles.
4. For knots in your back or for tension headaches, roll your shoulders slowly, gently stretching the muscles, for two minutes at a time.
5. For overall tight back muscles, sit in a favorite chair and lean slightly forward.  Reach those arms forward, stretching, as if you are grasping at a bank of chocolate ice cream.
6. Did you twist an ankle or a wrist?  Put ice on it for 20 minutes at a time, for less internal bleeding, more comfort, less swelling, and faster recovery.  After 20 minutes, ice will have a stimulating effect, rather than a calming one, so stick with 20 minutes 4 times a day.  Keep the injury generally propped up for comfort.
7. For minor annoying injuries, ask your health food store for Arnica products, as creams or to take by mouth. But do NOT get Arnica tea.  The tea smells so foul, you would remember UpBeat Living forever, and not kindly.  Ask the store for the correct strength of the homeopathic pellets for your issue—strength makes a huge difference.
8. Eat your fresh fruits and veggies—yes, salad is veggies!  Dark greens and colorful fruits are best, loaded with various antioxidants that make your skin, nerve, and muscle tissues all very healthy and disinclined to have pain.  Plus, you will heal faster.
9. Heal thyself:  place your right hand on the injury and your left hand on top of the right, to drive energy into the injured area.  No pressing.
10. Think happy, healing thoughts, and see yourself relaxed and fully healthy.

Now get some sleep and call the office if you want a Jin Shin Jyutsu ® session for a tuneup, pain solutions, or speeding your healing.  You will get through this!

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UpBeat Living: 3 Ways You Can Release Pain and Stress by Holding Your Fingers

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Energy therapy, healing, Health, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Jin Shin Jyutsu classes, Releasing

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Got physical discomforts from stress and emotional burdens? From fatigue and appetite problems to skin eruptions and ulcers, our bodies may store our distressful experiences. Spiritual, mental, and emotional ills can make us feel bad physically. Also, if we feel bad physically, it is harder to feel great emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

Releasing stress and pain feels good and means less effort is required to live each hour. It takes more work to hold in pain and hurts than it does to release them.  Here are three simple, portable LifeTools(sm) to help you release stress and pain, even physical pain. Finger holds and pressure points are related to acupressure, the art of using access points to the nervous system to release build-ups of discomforts.

First, gently hold and take three complete breaths on each finger and then the palm center. Start by gently grasping your left thumb with your right hand. Wrap the right fingers and thumb around your left thumb as if “hugging” it. Don’t squeeze. Pressure is not necessary or helpful. Take 3 slow, complete breaths and move to holding your left forefinger. Repeat with each finger on both hands. Also, touch your right fingertips to the left palm and take 3 slow, complete breaths, then repeat with the left fingertips to the right palm.  This series will release overall stress, and it can be used to prevent jet lag.

Second, hold the thumb-forefinger web about an inch below the large knuckle of the forefinger. Hold the muscle that feels like firm tofu.  Ideal for tension headaches and headaches caused by high-pollution days, this is a general pain releaser for the body.  Also works for throat pain from high-pollution days.

Third, place the thumb of each hand over the ring-fingernail of the same hand, and hold as long as you like. This releases constricted breath or lessens temporary pain, such as that caused by dental drilling.  Do this while jogging!  Relax your hands and no one will ever notice you are doing finger poses.

If you are interested in learning more ways to use healing arts on yourself:  in the Phoenix area, our next Jin Shin Jyutsu Self-Help Classes are coming up.  Part 1 will be held February 2d, from 9 am to 1 pm, and Part 2 will be February 16, from 9 am to 1 pm.  The class is $100 for each part, which includes the book for that part and a laminated chart of the key points.  Your payment (Cash-Check-Visa-MC-Amex) holds your place.  Space is limited, so call or email now, 480-250-1177 or kebba@kebba.com.

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● Kebba Buckley Button is a corporate stress management trainer and the author of the award-winning book, Discover The Secret Energized You (on Amazon.com >Books>Buckley), and the 2012 book, Peace Within:  Your Peaceful Inner Core (on Amazon.com >Books>Button).  She also has a natural healing practice and is an ordained minister.

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● Reach the writer at kebba@kebba.com .