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How to Heal Chronic Fight or Flight

by Kalidasa on January 5, 2012

Healing Fight or Flight

After the article on the fight or flight response came out I started getting requests for more information on how I release that from the body. Great questions.

What is the fight or flight response?

To review, the fight or flight response is an instinctual and physical reaction to a threat. This was very important in ancient times since attacks from wild animals or other humans could be sudden and deadly. The reaction causes a lot of very powerful chemicals to be released into the body causing intense changes to the physiology and chemistry. At one time it was essential for the body’s survival.

The threat doesn’t have to be real as the response is emotional, and emotions don’t need a reason. In other words, you don’t have to have an animal jumping out at you, your boss yelling at you or a near miss on the freeway will do it. How we respond to any situation is strictly individual and has to do with many factors that I won’t go into here.

The problem is that we don’t have a way to release from the chemicals that are released into the body. Ancient people used to run away from the animal or fight it off which would burn off the chemicals that are the fight or flight response.

Today we just don’t have that luxury — we have to sit in the car feeling our heart pound, or take it when some authority figure is doing their thing. And, that’s not all, processed foods cause the same chemicals reactions. There’s a little more to it than the above, but the result is that the body gets stuck in the fight or flight response.

That is a condition you don’t want to have constantly going on in your body. The body shuts down everything except what is needed to get out of there. This causes many physical conditions that you can read about in this fight or flight article.

What are some fight or flight problems?

The list of conditions that chronic fight or flight can be responsible for is long including: digestion problems, anxiety, immune system dysfunctions, toxicity, slow wound healing, constipation, high heart rate, heart palpitations and loss of libido. One of the worst is that nothing seems to help a physical condition, that is, supplements, herbs and even medication don’t seem to help physical and emotional problems. Even life issues like, ‘nothing seems to work in my life,’ can result from chronic fight or flight.

Fight or flight and adrenal fatigue

The chemicals that are used in fight or flight are mostly produced by the adrenal glands. Adrenal fatigue is sure to follow when there is chronic fight or flight. The issue can become even worse as the brain chemistry is usually affected if this goes on long enough.

What you can do to heal fight or flight.

If you want to find out how to take care of the fight or flight response with herbs and supplements I suggest you get Adrenal Fatigue — Get Your Life Back. It gives a lot of details of what you can do to heal the condition.

The main thing that would help would be a very long vacation. Short of that you can get calming herbs either from the health food store, or online. You want to look for ground up herbs in capsules. Tinctures aren’t usually of good quality and so won’t work. Also, get something with an assortment of herbs in them because they have a synergistic effect.

How to heal from fight or flight fast

If you’d like to speed up your healing then you might like to consider a phone consultation with me. I have a very limited amount of time to do phone sessions, but I am offering them because so many people have asked for help.

You can email me through the contact tab above to set up a time. Tell me what your availability is and be sure to include your phone number or skype id if you are out of the US and Canada as well as what time zone you’re in.

Usually I can get people out of the deepest level of fight or flight within a few minutes. I use applied kinesiology to find and clear the emotion(s) that are causing your fight or flight. If there is a life issue then you may need another treatment as stress can cause it to come back. But, there are other things you can do about that. Let me know in the comments if you’d like me to go into some of those in another article.

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How to Cure Insomnia Naturally

by Kalidasa on December 23, 2011

How to Cure Insomnia Naturally Image by Callee MacAulay

Let’s look at how to cure insomnia naturally. This is going to step on a few toes, so be forewarned, I’m going to debunk a few pretty solid ideas that people and even most doctors think believe about how the human body works.

First of all, humans are naturally meant to sleep a lot more than they do. Believe it or not, nine and a half hours is ideal, at least in the winter months. After all, what did humans do for almost 200,000 years before artificial light? When it got dark they went to sleep and got up when it got light! It’s pretty obvious, but there are studies to back that up.

So, why do you have trouble sleeping? What does this modern world throw at us that our ancient ancestors didn’t have? Stress is the answer. We have a LOT more stress than they had thousands of years ago.

Excess stress is the primary cause of adrenal fatigue. And, the cause of most sleep problems is adrenal fatigue, something that most doctors don’t even recognize as a condition at all.

The adrenal glands produce a hormone called cortisol, as well as other hormones, in response to stress. This article focuses on cortisol levels and how they affect sleep.

When there is a lot of stress the adrenals can become exhausted from making all that extra hormone. With adrenal fatigue comes an irregularity in how much cortisol is released as well as when it is released. This is the key to why adrenal fatigue causes sleep disorders.

Why aren’t people hungry when they first wake up in the morning? At least most people. It’s been hours since dinner, much longer than most people go through the day without eating. The reason is that cortisol is released at night to keep blood sugar up so hunger doesn’t wake you. One of cortisol’s actions is bringing blood sugar up, and hunger comes from low blood sugar.

So, if the adrenals are fatigued, then blood sugar will go down during the night which will wake you up. This is one form of insomnia; waking in the night and not being able to go back to sleep.

During the day cortisol is released when there is an emergency, which should be relieved within a few minutes. Once the stressful situation is passed the body can go back to balance which means cortisol levels go back to normal.

When there is a lot of stress like the modern world has to offer, the body gets over amped and doesn’t get a chance to go back to its normal balance. Consequently, cortisol levels are high at bed time which makes it hard or even impossible to go to sleep.

How to cure insomnia naturally is to treat the adrenal glands. There are a lot of ways to do this, but the protocols I give in my book, Adrenal Fatigue — Get Your Life Back, are the most effective I’ve ever seen. I got them from a natural healer who tested them with hundreds of clients using saliva tests to see the real changes in cortisol levels. Of course, there’s more to it than just treating with herbs and supplements, so the book goes into other factors that need to be addressed as well.

You’re always welcome to ask about something you may have going on that seems different in your case. You can email me using the contact tab above, or better, write a comment, your question may help someone else. No worries about privacy, your information is never shared.

Get your copy of Adrenal Fatigue — Get Your Life Back and learn how to cure insomnia naturally today.

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5 Causes and Treatments for Lower Back Pain

by Kalidasa on December 20, 2011

Lower Back Pain

Lower back pain is so common today as to be staggering. There are several possible causes, but one stands out as the most common. Lets look at some common causes of lower back pain and what treatment they require.

One way to think about lower back pain is that the body has something wrong with it and it wants you to slow down. Since the lower back is so integral to being active this is a good place to give you pain so you have to slow down.

Another way to think about it is on an emotional level. Since the lower back supports the entire upper body, the largest percentage of your weight, then it might suggest that you aren’t being supported in some way.This could be that you aren’t supporting yourself, or the universe isn’t supporting you, or that you don’t feel supported by the important people in your life.

Applied kinesiology describes another type of lower back pain called “cardiac back” which has to do with the heart. Not in the sense of heart disease, but more in like a broken heart. It can be related to support as above, a sense of loss or some other emotional stressor.

Treatment for the emotional issues is fairly obvious. Acknowledging the emotional issue, taking time to reflect and deal with the stress, talking to a friend or professional and taking time to rest are the best things you can do.

Applied kinesiology offers a way to remove the emotions from the body that are affecting it so healing can begin sooner, sometimes immediate relief is found. Other treatments include herbs and supplements designed to help deal with stress. In some cases they can be essential. AK has a technique for cardiac back that can bring immediate relief.

Tight muscles can also cause lower back pain. The psoas is a deep muscle that runs from the inner lower back through the abdominal cavity over the outer hip area and down to the inner upper thigh. When this muscle is tight it can pull the lower back in causing extra curve. Releasing the psoas with a psoas release technique can completely eliminate the pain.

Another tight muscle that can cause lower back pain especially sciatica is the piriformis. This muscle runs across the upper hip area in back. Some people have a sciatic nerve that runs through the piriformis. When the muscle is tight it squeezes the nerve causing the characteristic back of the leg pain.

Simple stretches can give immediate relief to sciatica though more treatment is usually needed. Even though a single muscle is usually the primary cause, the usual problem with lower back pain is often the indirect cause.

Most lower back pain is caused by adrenal fatigue. The ligaments and tendons use the same nutrients as the adrenal glands. When there is high demand for those nutrients as there is with adrenal fatigue, the adrenals get the largest share so the ligaments lose out and become lax. Since the lower back caries the greatest weight that area is usually effected first.

In most cases I find that lower back pain needs to be treated through treating the adrenal glands. You can find this information in my book, Adrenal Fatigue — Get Your Life Back, available here for immediate download, and soon will be available on Amazon in physical form.

Knowing what treatment is needed for lower back pain, or any condition for that mater, can be very hard to find. Applied kinesiology uses muscle testing to find the cause and treatment that the body most wants. While muscle testing isn’t always 100 percent accurate, it does have a very high success rate that goes beyond what most doctors can claim.

Muscle testing and many applied kinesiology techniques can be done over the phone. I often give phone sessions to my clients as well as to people like you who find me through my website. Let me know if you’d like to schedule a session. I offer a sliding scale in an effort to help people out in these hard economic times.

There are many more causes of lower back pain. Many are discussed in my free book Back Pain Secrets. Be sure to download your copy today. And, let me know if you’d like help in finding the cause and best lower back pain treatment or other condition you may have.

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Is Fight or Flight Doing You In?

by Kalidasa on December 16, 2011

Fight or Flight

Fight or flight is an instinctual response to threats. How this keeps you in disease and how to reverse the problem is of highest importance. You simply cannot get healthy when your body is revved up ready to run or fight all the time.

The instinct of fight or flight causes some serious biochemical changes in the body. There is a big release of cortisol (cortisone) and epinephrine (adrenaline) that causes several other changes to happen. These changes cause the body to drop everything, biochemically speaking, for the sole purpose of either getting out of there fast or fighting off the threat. The main systems that are important for this are the muscles and heart rate.

The systems that are revved up or boosted are release of fat and sugar into the blood (so there is fuel for the muscles), constricted blood vessels (to slow bleeding if injured), high heart rate (for blood supply), an increase in serotonin (to react without thinking, or to freeze in fear — anxiety attack), closing the sphincters (constipation), Do any of these sound like conditions that people deal with all the time?

The systems that shut down include digestion, the immune system, cellular repair, reproduction and detoxification. You don’t need any of these when you’re running for your life!

Do any of these sound like some of the symptoms of adrenal fatigue? In many ways adrenal fatigue is biochemically identical to being locked in fight or flight. Many modern ailments are a result of these changes which all start from being stuck in a chronic state of fight or flight.

Let’s look a little more closely as specific conditions caused by this.

Releasing fat and sugar into the blood stream (to feed muscles) leads to high blood sugar (type 2 diabetes) and high triglyceride levels.

Constricted blood vessels leads to poor circulation which can be the cause of high blood pressure as well as cold hands and feet.

High heart rate is sometimes heart palpitations. It can also lead to heart conditions.

Increased serotonin is misunderstood by most people, even some doctors. It is the primary cause of depression and panic attacks as well as some forms of schizophrenia — hearing voices.

Closing the sphincters causes constipation which can lead to serious issues.

Digestion shutting down leads to poor digestion and contributes to irritable bowel symptoms.

Immune system shutting down leads to chronic infections and autoimmune conditions. Yes, the immune system shutting down is one of the possible causes of the immune system eating away at healthy tissue.

Cellular repair shutting down is the reason people don’t get healthy even if they eat perfectly and take the right supplements. In fact, supplements and herbs don’t do much good when this happens.

Reproduction shutting down leads to erectile dysfunctions and general loss of libido. Libido is a lust for life as well as sex, so nothing or very little seems interesting.

Detoxification stops causing toxins to build up. Detoxification happens in many ways with the liver and bowels being the most important ones that are lost when in fight or flight. And, acid is not detoxified so the body becomes acidic.

Any of the symptoms of adrenal fatigue could indicate that you are stuck in a state of fight or flight. Several symptoms would increase the chances that your are.

The cure can take a lot of time. Several weeks of vacation is one way to do it. Taking herbs and supplements can help. Applied kinesiology has techniques for releasing the emotions that hold on long term.

Treating for adrenal fatigue is a great way to start. You can find information on how to do that in my book, Adrenal Fatigue — Get Your Life Back.

If you like I can also help with a phone session using applied kinesiology. The best way to contact me is through email. You can use the contact tab above to send me an email. Please email again if I don’t get back within a day or two as I get a lot of email and sometimes lose track. Please send your phone number or skype id if you live outside the US.

This is a major issue that baffles doctors more than adrenal fatigue. Keep yourself from becoming overly stressed, eat a good diet without any processed foods, avoid drugs like illegal ones as well as tobacco and caffeine and get some exercise most every day to stay healthy and generally free from the fight or flight response.

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How I Almost Died From Adrenal Fatigue

by Kalidasa on December 6, 2011

Adrenal Glands

One of the reasons I write so much about adrenal fatigue is because it almost killed me. Yep, I almost died from the reactions my body had to this all too common condition. Let me tell you what happened.

That’s the adrenal glands in the photo above. They are walnut sized glands that sit on the kidneys. Very active little glands, they produce a quart of hormone every day — unless you have adrenal fatigue.

There are several ways adrenal fatigue can lead to poor health. One is the lower back issue that I often write about here, another issue I’m all too familiar with from personal experience. You can find more about that subject in my free book Back Pain Secrets.

The issue that nearly killed me was a blockage in the bowel. This was from a progression of irritable bowel syndrome or IBS. According to the doctors I had inflammatory bowel disease or IBD. There are two varieties of IBD, Chron’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. I had Chron’s. Of course, the medical community says this isn’t curable, but they are wrong, I’m living proof.

The blockage I had caused a lot of pain as well as damage to the intestines which I had surgery to repair. I was very lucky though, a blocked bowel can very quickly lead to death. And, yes, all these conditions respond favorably to adrenal fatigue treatment.

The happy ending to my story is that I met a holistic healer who not only cured me from my condition, but who took a liking to me and taught me all his amazing secrets. I used to sit in his office for hours watching him work and listening to him educate his clients on how to get healthy and stay that way. This is also your good fortune since what I write about is mostly from what I learned from my good friend “Dr. G.” Sorry, I won’t even ask him to lend his name to what I do, but I’m happy to refer anyone who wants to see him in his Oakland, CA office.

There is a lot more to the problems that adrenal fatigue can lead to. I cover some of that in my book Adrenal Fatigue — Get Your Life Back, as well as on here at SelfAdjustingTechnique.com.

You can get Adrenal Fatigue — Get Your Life Back as an instant download so you can get started in finding great health. Here’s the link again: http://selfadjustingtechnique.com/my-books/adrenal-fatigue-book/

Whatever symptom you’re experiencing I’m sure you can turn it around by following the suggestions in my book. As always, I do guarantee that you will find the answers you are looking for or your money back. You can also email me to ask any questions you have about the book. You can use the contact tab above, or the email you get when you order.

I usually answer quickly because I get a lot of email and things tend to drop off if I don’t. Be sure to email again if I happen to miss you though. And, stay healthy!

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Holistic Back Pain Relief

by Kalidasa on October 28, 2011

Looking for Back Pain Relief

Here’s an article on back pain relief using holistic methods. This is a good idea since the medical model is much less likely to work. Not to mention the side effects of drugs and surgery which are the main methods used by doctors.

The article covers several different methods from taking a break to massage, acupuncture and manipulation of the joint by a professional.

The author acknowledges that surgery may be necessary for back pain relief in serious conditions: “Another common reason for back surgery is a herniated disc. Some very painful conditions are caused by a disc pinching a nerve, which requires surgery to relieve pain.” But acknowledges that not all herniated discs need surgery. “However, not all bulging discs as MRIs show it need surgery. ”

An interesting statistic I didn’t know is how fast a herniated disc can heal. “According to studies, many herniated discs heal well within six months without surgery, unless the disc hits on the sciatic nerve.” I thought it took much longer, which is probably true of more serious problems. She didn’t say anything about using supplements to aid in the healing, something I am a strong believer in.

I really like how she says that back pain needs to be treated at the root of the problem rather than just treating the symptom. “Since back pain is not a disease but a symptom, there is a need to treat the underlying cause. A holistic approach does that to heal back problems.”

Other methods of back pain relief that she discusses are heat, exercise (the closest thing to a cure all I’ve ever seen) and dealing with weight issues.

I really like how she says that people need to change their life style if they really want to heal from back pain. “The above holistic treatments require dietary and lifestyle modifications along with supplements. ”

My Methods for Back Pain Relief

The one thing she doesn’t recommend is my treatment for lower back pain, dealing with adrenal fatigue. I wouldn’t expect her to say anything about how it is possible to adjust yourself using Self Adjusting Technique for back pain relief as that is a very unique method that isn’t very well known yet.

She and I both agree that you might want to consider holistic healing before rushing to the operating room or giving in to long term medication. Back pain relief can be found through natural methods and should always be considered, at least in our opinion.

You can read her entire article on Holistic approaches for back pain at the link.

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Lower Back Pain and Medical Treatment

by Kalidasa on October 21, 2011

The medical community continues to look for solutions to lower back pain, and they continue to fail. Here’s part of an article from the Doctors Lounge.
“Ultrasound, Shock Wave Not Effective for Low Back Pain

The available evidence does not support the effectiveness of ultrasound or shock wave for treating low back pain, according to a review published in the October issue of The Spine Journal.”

http://www.doctorslounge.com/index.php/news/pb/23989
This is really unfortunate. I haven’t seen a case of lower back pain where there isn’t a herniated disc that does not have an adrenal fatigue connection. Every case that I’ve seen in my practice or friends of mine responds well to treatment with adrenal herbs and supplements.

This article on adrenal fatigue treatment gives a lot of information of the kind of treatment I use to treat adrenal issues. If you’d like to learn more about this all to common condition the you might like to get my book, Adrenal Fatigue, Get Your Life Back. Still at a ridiculously low price that will be going up as soon as I can get the sales process set up for it.

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Iodine and Nuclear Radiation

by Kalidasa on April 12, 2011

Iodine Rich Kelp

Yesterday the Japanese increased their nuclear reactor crises to level 7, the highest there is, equal to Chernobyl. The reason for this increase is the amount of radiation released into the environment. I gave some recommendations in this article on minimizing radiation risks.

The worst part of this story is how the Japanese and US governments have downplayed the severity of the radiation released on the northern hemisphere. Personally, I have taken action to avoid at least some of the radiation we are being dosed with.

First, I avoid dairy, which most people should do anyway. This is important as the radioactive iodine 131 that blows over from the crippled reactor is concentrated in milk. Second, I continue to use and recommend reverse osmosis purified water — RO removes 98 percent of all heavy metals. Finally, I am taking iodine supplements to protect my thyroid.

What we need to be concerned about most in the US is radioactive iodine. This is especially true for children. Infants and gestating babies are particularly susceptible as their need for iodine is much higher.

I talked with a doctor friend of mine who also studies holistic methods. She says that we only need to take a little iodine, not the massive doses that many people are taking out of fear. The larger doses have the potential of side effects that aren’t worth the risk. She asserts that a small dose taken daily is enough to protect most people from future thyroid issues.

The recommended dosage of iodine is 150 mcg for adults, and 175 mcg for pregnant women. A slightly higher dose may be needed to insure protection for the thyroid while the crisis continues.

If you do use dairy products, especially if you have children who do, you can reduce some of the radioactive iodine by storing the products for at least a week before using.

Radioactive iodine decays quickly, losing half its damaging effects in eight days. Figuring that it takes a day or two for it to travel to cow feed and then into milk, a week later the effects will be reduced by half. After a month it is almost completely gone. Milk can be frozen for that month if you want to be really safe.

Taking a little iodine, drinking water purified by reverse osmosis, and avoiding dairy products will help insure that you and your children survive this northern hemisphere crisis.

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