Natural Healing
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Herbal Therapy Counseling
For those who are not inclined to needles, herbs can do the trick. This session is usually a half-hour session. It includes an assessment of your intake form (for first meeting) and a recommendation of herbs that address the cause and symptoms of your complaints or condition. Aside from botanicals in the form of pills and tinctures, other supplements (vitamins, minerals, topicals) may be prescribed. If appropriate, nutritional changes, yoga movements and other lifestyle practices are also recommended. The session may include a Bio-Impedance Analysis. Bio-electrical Impedance Analysis or Bio-impedance Analysis (BIA) is a method of assessing of "body composition," the measurement of body fat in relation to lean body mass. It is an integral part of health and m\nutrition assessment. Improving your BIA measurement by lowering the percentage of unhealthy body fat can help reduce your risk to a variety of serious health conditions. Nutritional Counseling When weight loss, detoxification or optimal health is your specific goal, nutritional counseling is imperative. Alma is certified as a blood type diet practicioner. She is certified in First Line Therapy, a therapeutic lifestyle program that helps you live your life in a way that improves your health. She can recommend a personalized dietary plan, nutritional supplements, and exercise to help you support optimal health and well-being for a lifetime. Lifestyle Coaching How to attain your full-potential may be the loftiest goal of lifestyle coaching. But perhaps, just to get rid of a nagging health problem, get motivated to organize your work space or get over heart-breaking times may be the thing you need so you can get back on track and directing yourself to more progressive and functional goals. Alma can help. Hypnotherapy Benefits of Hypnosis Hypnosis has been a powerful tool transforming the world of psychotherapy for many years. It has the power to penetrate deeply and directly into the subconscious mind to tap into profound psychic complexes and untapped resources of your inner power. Through the power of suggestion, fueled by imagination, we can change our conditioning. Suggestion influences us everyday and has since our conception. The earliest moments of life play an important part in the formation of lifelong habits and behaviors. Even as we lay dormant in our mother's womb, we become the recipients of suggestions that influence us for the rest of our lives. Accepted suggestions ultimately become the basis of our personal beliefs and become the guiding principles of our lives. Often the emotional memories of childhood, both good and bad, breed habits in all of us. Some of these serve us very well. Unfortunately, some do not. We recognize that the mind has the capacity for change and can erase negative past influences and establish new beliefs and new behaviors. That inner belief system that we are consequently developing is our inner programming. Through hypnosis, that inner programming can be changed to alter our behavior and change our lives. Hypnotherapy Can Help You! Questions about Hypnosis 1.Will I lose control? You are always in control. No one can make you do anything you don't want to do while in a hypnotic state. 2. Is hypnosis dangerous? No more so than sleep. Every day you go in and out of a hypnotic state. For instance, have you ever driven to work and arrived there without remembering driving there? That is an altered state - just as hypnosis is. 3. Can I be hypnotized? Many people believe they cannot be hypnotized. Truth is, everyone can be hypnotized, once they understand what to expect. 4. Will I be asleep or unconscious while under hypnosis? No. You look like you are asleep, you may even snore, but you are not asleep. You are in an altered state of awareness; not asleep, not awake, not dreaming. 5. Can a hypnotherapist make me do anything I don't want to do? Absolutely not! You are in control - not the hypnotherapist. However, in a hypnotic state, you can change unwanted behavior easily and effortlessly. 6. What can I gain from hypnosis? Hypnosis can be used to improve your general functioning - to make you feel better mentally or physically. The power of suggestion facilitates behavior changes in the easiest, fastest way possible. You get the results! |
Herbal Therapy Human beings have relied on plants for healing for millennia. Herbs are a superior grade of food providing natural and primary therapeutic remedy for all sorts of ailments for both humans and animals. I believe drugs to be a poor substitute for plants. They may be helpful for short-term or acute conditions but their long-term action often depletes the body's chi (energy) because of their inorganic nature. Herbs are a necessary adjunct to treatment. While acupuncture and physical treatment are good, they cannot be utilized enough. Appropriately administered herbal therapy, however, will help sustain physical treatments and bring about healing response through different mechanisms. Simply put, herbs prolong the energy created by physical treatments. Herbs remind the client of the healing process everyday, especially if practiced as a daily ritual which involves taking them with tepid or warm water and visualizing treatment goals before taking the herbs. Properly administered, herbs produce fast results. Herbs can correct existing symptom patterns. Together with vitamins, minerals and other dietary supplements which are used to address nutritional deficiencies, the combination is a powerful one for transforming the body's constitution and composition. Herbs help us reestablish our connection with the universe and natural healing, truly essential issues for our survival as a species. We must replace our present medicines of death with those of life. My concern as an herbalist is not only technical or medical but planetary and humanistic. Alma's Pharmacy My pharmacy contains Chinese Herbal Formulas in tablet or tincture form. I do not store nor prescribe raw herb formulas. In my Los Angeles practice, I find that Americans are not inclined to drinking tea. Rather they are a pill-popping culture. So I combine herbs in pill or capsule forms and liquid herbal tinctures for easier compliance. The tinctures I use are procured from a cultivated, certified organic farm in Williams, Oregon. In making the varied extracts, pharmaceutical grade, certified organic alcohol, certified organic olive oil, distilled water and pharmaceutical-grade vegetable glycerin are used. I carry homeopathic remedies, vitamins, minerals and other supplements to augment herbal therapy. I recommend books, exercises and lifestyle changes to increase the healing potential. The Limit of Herbs Herbs by themselves can only be expected to do so much. For optimal results, they should be used in the context of a natural wholesome diet, ample exercise and rest, a positive attitude, fulfilling work and a simple lifestyle. This combination will almost always have a favorable influence on one's health and often induces healing, where modern medicine has failed. However, it must be understood that there can never be any guarantees that herbs will always help or heal every health problem for which they are indicated. There is no form of medicine, herbal or otherwise, that can make such a guarantee. Massage Treatments If it feels good, just do it Massage styles Alma was trained at the Shiatsu Massage School of Santa Monica where she is currently teaches Traditional Chinese Medicine. Among the techniques she has learned and mastered over the years are: Shiatsu-anma- Japanese Acupressure Swedish Massage- long strokes, kneading and effleurage Reflexology- Acupressure points on hands and feet Thai Massage- stretching and different postures incorporated with pressure points. Clients say, "Its like doing yoga without moving a muscle!" Cranio-sacral Therapy- adjusting and enhancing the flow of cerebro-spinal fluid Couples Massage Alma has trained her daughter, Sasha, in the art of massagework. Sasha has her own distinct style and is an excellent masseuse. Together they do couples massage. So for that special occasion or for Valentines Day, consider allowing both to treat you and your special someone with a very delicious relaxing time! |
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