Relaxation response: Chair yoga with Melissa Bukosky Check-in: Share two items from your gratitude journal Something you’ve learned from your nutrition log, pain diaries. Nutrition 101 – Things to add/increase in the diet Listening to the Body; Pacing/Adaptation/Delegation Ergonomics Handout: suggestions for sitting, sleeping, reading, standing, etc. – read this and think about what else [...]
Symptoms of Low Thyroid Activity o Muscle Aches o Fatigue o Cold Intolerance o Constipation o Dry Skin and Hair o Depression o Difficulty Losing WeightReasons Blood Tests May Not Show Hypothyroidism o TSH may be normal with low thyroid activity: o If reason for low thyroid activity is in the hypothalamus, not the thyroid [...]
Guided Imagery – A Safe Place Check-in: 1. What is working for you in your pain management and from this program 2. What is challenging Finish intro to CBT/ Change Plan worksheet review Thoughts and Feelings – what is the difference? see feelings handouts A Gratitude Journal & Pleasurable activities Med Check Homework: Relaxation response [...]
Our program met every two weeks for two hours. Each session had a particular agenda: for sessions 2 – 14, a new relaxation technique would be taught, group members would check in, a medical topic would be covered and/or a therapeutic principle would be introduced, there would be a group medical visit with a topic [...]
Mindful Eating with a Raisin Check-in: Introductions Name What kind of pain diagnoses What you are hoping for from these groups (or if you feel coerced and are hoping they will end so you can get back to just getting your scrips) Meanings of Pain Exercise – physical symptoms, feelings and thoughts, and activities affected [...]
For general research: Google Scholar – weeds out all the commercial sites and gives you only research articles These websites are helpful for evaluating alternative cancer therapies: http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/cancer1/altthrpy.htm#AHCC http://www.cancure.org/choiceoftherapy.htm http://cancerguide.org/alternative.html http://www.quackwatch.org/ http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/CIMER/ http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/44.cfm Nutritional information http://www.cspinet.org/reports/chemcuisine.htm
Anusara Yoga is heart-oriented, spiritually inspiring and yet profoundly therapeutic for both the inner and outer body. It is a uniquely integrated style of Hatha yoga in which the radiant potential of the human heart blends seamlessly with the scientific principles of biomechanics. Class levels are determined by ability of students Breathing and Meditation for [...]
Tagged relaxation, yogaLen Wolff was one of the founders of the Pain Management program. 1062 G Street Suite F Arcata, 95521 826-7338
We are all healing all the time. The only thing you need to do to evoke healing is to poke yourself with a pin. (paraphrase of Rachel Naomi Remen) In the same way that there are cells within you that know how to heal a cut, there is a part within you that knows how [...]
Tagged inner healerTreatment with Thyroid Hormones with “Normal” Blood Tests The presence of thyroid dysfunction in nonthyroidal illness (NTIS Nonthyroidal Illness Syndrome, previously known as the Euthyroid sick syndrome) is well-described in the medical literature and is particularly receiving attention in recent years in the critical care literature. This is believed to represent both hypothalamic-pituitary axis dysfunction [...]
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