Betty White turned 97 years young on January 17, and she’s still razor sharp, healthy, and enjoying life. What’s her secret? You might be surprised. White shares at least one quality with President Donald Trump. “I don’t need much sleep, If I get 4 good hours, then I’m fine. I’ve been that way all my life.” Betty, however, is an optimist, enjoys life and she still has no plans to retire.
She has a passion for animals. She works with the Los Angeles Zoo commission, the Morris Animal Foundation, and has been on the board of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association for many years. “I have to keep acting so that I can afford to keep doing my charity work!” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “Half my life working in a profession I love and the other half is working with animals.”
In rare quiet moments, she enjoys needlepoint, crossword puzzles, and invites friends over to play poker, “There’s no spare time, so I’m active all the time,” she told People. “I think that forces you to stay well.” She never expected to be working in her 90s, she said. “I’m the luckiest broad on two feet.”
Her active lifestyle she says jokingly is due, in part, to her house. “I have a two-story house and a very bad memory,” she told People. “I am up and down those stairs all the time. These traits alone could count at least in part for White’s long life. A recent study of people over the age of 95 found — most of them were positive and upbeat about life.
Another study conducted at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College found that people who worked longer, lived longer. The common factors found. . .among these people are — drinking moderately, taking less stress and staying social and active. Betty too does the same, she stays active, works for good causes like supporting animal non-profit organizations and stays positive.
According to the American Heart Association, people who skip breakfast are at 27 % risk of getting heart ailments and are also prone to obesity.The Golden Girls star, on the other hand, stated in a 2014 Harper’s Bazaar article that she was not a breakfast eater. She has not suffered any heart attack or other cardiovascular issues so far.
“I don’t eat anything special,” she said. “French fries maybe potato chips. Hot dogs if I can get ’em. And I’m not a big breakfast eater. I’ll have a sandwich at lunch,” she told Harpers. When she gets home, she enjoys a vodka on the rocks, she said, then dinner.
“You can’t get much better.”
While her diet may not be ideal, a daily drink may have contributed to her longevity. Studies have found that moderate drinking — White’s daily drink is the recommended amount for women — lowers the risk of heart disease and Alzheimer’s, and reduces the risk of dying.
So what is White’s secret to looking and feeling great, despite the fact that she has lived almost a century? She claims it has to do with her sense of humor and sense of optimism.
“I know it sounds corny, but I try to see the funny side and the upside, not the downside,” White told Parade earlier this year. “I get bored with people who complain about this or that. It’s such a waste of time.” Expanding on her theory, she also encouraged readers to “enjoy life” and “accentuate the positive, not the negative.”
SO Betty’s Secret:
Nope, it’s probably not the food that’s helped her age so marvelously. It’s the activity:
“There’s no spare time, so I’m active all the time. I think that forces you to stay well. To be 90… and still be working–that’s what I wouldn’t have expected. I’m the luckiest broad on two feet.” She also jokes that she has a two-story house and a “very bad memory,” so she’s constantly going up and down the stairs. She does seem to be living testament by keeping active and involved keeps you smart as a tack.
Researchers who study longevity analyze the traits & habits followed by centenarians. Places such as Okinawa, Japan, the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica and Loma Linda in California, which are described as blue zones as the number of very old people living there are high.
The common factors found among these people are — drinking moderately, taking less stress and staying social and active. Betty too does the same, she stays active, works for good causes like supporting animal non-profit organizations and stays positive.
Do what you love.Love what you do!
Do what you love and love what you do. That is Brandi Shigley’s theme song for life. Founder of Fashion Denver and B23 Productions, she finds herself juggling a vast amount of projects at one time, but she says that’s what keeps her ticking. Petite in frame.
“ßråñÐï §. §hïglê¥a creative energy force of nature who can’t be ignored. When she walks into a room, you can actually feel the atmospheric pressure change.” If you’re in a room with her for five minutes she’ll fill it with optimism, knowledge and lots of creative ideas.” — Westword
Brandi is a powerhouse of creativity: having entrepreneur spirit; strongly believing what you put your mind to, can be done. Follow where your heart takes you. Known for helping to launch numerous careers in Denver, at 36-years-old, she has come to a place where she knows that life is too short to not go after what you want. “One of my biggest passions is to be able to assist others in helping them start up their businesses,” she says.
“Because I’ve been an entrepreneur with my own businesses, it fulfills my goal to share my own experiences in helping others.” She started her first business at age 23 by designing custom handbags under her label “b.shigley designs,” creating funky one-of-a-kind purses. A success both locally and internationally, Brandi’s bags were featured in Lucky Magazine, Denver Business Journal, 5280 Magazine and International Design.
Popular with local fashionistas and beyond, Brandi’s bags were also sold in boutiques in Paris, London, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, L.A., San Diego and her hometown of Denver. Her designs were also used as gifts for donors and performers at the Paris Opera.
Do what you love. Love what you do! from Denver’s weekly alt-newspaper Westword for her business insight and efforts on behalf of the independent arts and design community.
Electrical Bursts May Help Fight Pancreatic Cancer
Study found procedure improved survival for people with stage 3 disease. Using tiny but powerful bursts of electricity to make holes in pancreatic cancer cells may improve survival rates for some patients, new research suggests.
Using zaps of electricity in certain patients “nearly double the survival rate with the best chemotherapy and chemo-radiotherapy,” said study author Dr. Robert Martin II, director of surgical oncology at the University of Louisville.
Surgeons can use the short electrical bursts to kill cancerous cells in delicate areas without destroying noncancerous tissue nearby, such as nerves. The electrical bursts make permanent holes, or pores, in the cells, eventually killing them, the researchers said. The procedure is called irreversible electroporation, or IRE. However, Martin said the next step for his team is to test the treatment in a clinical trial with a larger group of patients.
The people in the current study all had a pancreatic tumor that had extended into nearby organs, making complete surgical removal impossible. The zapping technique is intended to corral the cancer cells and extend the patient’s survival. One pancreatic cancer expert called the approach another potential treatment opportunity.
“The goal is to eliminate as many cancer cells as possible that linger after other treatment types, like surgery, chemotherapy or chemoradiation,” said Lynn Matrisian, vice president of scientific and medical affairs at the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
The more opportunities presented to pancreatic cancer patients, the more hope for improved outcomes.” Such opportunities are critical for those with pancreatic cancer because the disease is among the deadliest of all cancers.
By 2020, this cancer is expected to be second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer-related death, according to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. All of the 200 adults with stage 3 pancreatic cancer included in the current study underwent electrical IRE treatment after completing chemotherapy.
About half of the patients in the study experienced complications. But the side effects related to IRE were minimal, according to Martin. Any side effects were “directly related to the surgical procedure” required to make the tumor area accessible, he said.
The improvement in survival with the procedure is good news for patients whose pancreatic cancer cells haven’t yet escaped the initial tumor, Martin said. Even some patients with an earlier-stage cancer might be good candidates for it if they can’t have the usual surgery to remove a tumor, he said.
Unfortunately, patients whose cancerous cells have escaped the original tumor probably won’t benefit from the procedure, said Martin. “For stage 4 cancers, we don’t recommend IRE since it is a local therapy,” he said. Cancers that have traveled beyond their original location require a body-wide treatment.
Matrisian agreed the procedure would likely be best suited for patients with advanced cancer that hasn’t spread elsewhere. That’s a substantial number of patients with the disease, about 30 percent of pancreatic cancer cases, she said.
“There is currently a lack of consensus in the field on how to treat patients with [this stage of pancreatic cancer], underscoring the importance of novel and effective approaches to improve patient outcomes,” she said.
The electric IRE approach also has been used to treat other types of cancer, including prostate cancer, said Matrisian, and other studies are also in progress in pancreatic cancer patients.
Matrisian added that her organization recommends “that all patients consider clinical trials when exploring treatment options.” Results of the current study were published in the September issue of Annals of Surgery.
Additionally, the Soft Tissue Ablation Registry has been created among the centers that are currently using this technology in the United States, and publications based on this registry data are being planned. Irreversible electroporation (IRE) — a tissue ablation technique — appears to double median survival compared with historical controls for patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC), according to data extracted from six surgical centers in the United States. Source: WebMD.
Known as “Dr. V” is a natural health pioneer with over 30 years active practice in Bio-Energetics, Digital Thermography, also Meridian Stress Analysis, Homeopathy, and Chiropractic. After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 and healed herself through natural means, she decided to devote her time sharing her personal, also non-toxic healing journey with others.
My [breast cancer] journey lasted from 2004 through 2006 and I have been happy and healthy ever since. But as I was going through that journey, there was one thing that was gnawing in my gut.
Her story, wisdom, and knowledge has touched the lives of thousands internationally, Her years of experience and extensive research have culminated in the award-winning book “Heal Breast Cancer Naturally” & “The 7 Essentials,™” her coaching program unravels the mystery of healing the body in 7 easy steps.
Dear Joan Lunden: Why I Say “No” to Chemo for Triple Negative Breast Cancer
and “Yes” to Natural Healing.
A big part of awareness for me is dispelling the myths when it comes to the various types of breast cancer, their supposed causes, and how well they respond to “treatment.” For conventional medicine, this treatment mostly means chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery.
Today Show personality Joan Lunden’s announcement in 2014 she had triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) created a lot of hype around this form of breast cancer in the media. As a bio-energetic chiropractor with 36 years of experience and as a professional who has worked with thousands of women who have or had breast cancer, I would like to dispel some common myths about triple negative breast cancer.
What Are the Real Facts About TNBC?
When Lunden was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer and went public about it, she began to chronicle her course of action, which included 19 weeks of chemotherapy followed by a lumpectomy and six weeks of radiation therapy.
Here is what she had to say in an online article for the Today Show:
Doctors found 2 tumors in my right breast, both triple negative breast cancer, which means it’s more aggressive and faster growing. From the moment you hear the words ‘You have breast cancer,’ it’s almost like you’re shot out of a cannon.
You are just propelled at this meteoric speed straight to a cancer surgeon.
The first thing I must question ( you should too) is why is there such a stigma around triple negative breast cancer? If a woman has TNBC, is it REALLY the doom-and-gloom scenario that traditional doctors (and Lunden) say that it is?
The reality is that there is much hope for healing TNBC, especially when one is open to adding evidence–based natural medicines to their healing protocol. The scary scenario that conventional medicine paints around TNBC is caused by the fact that conventional treatments mostly focus on hormone-positive cancers. TNBC cells do not have receptors for estrogen, progesterone, or Her2/neu proteins.
Therefore, there is nothing for hormone-based treatments to “latch” on to. So what does this mean for a woman who has triple negative breast cancer and decides to treat it with conventional treatment like chemotherapy?
Unfortunately, a less-targeted and more intense round of chemo is often needed.
The result is treatment that is more toxic to the body’s immune system and a treatment that creates very resistive breast cancer stem cells. These cells can potentially create a reoccurrence of cancer and metastasis.
Use Nature to Heal Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Through natural medicine there is hope for women with TNBC. Nature-based protocols work with the body to boost the immune system and target unhealthy cells.
Here is a listing of just a few documented studies that show the effectiveness of natural products for TNBC patients: Researches at NYU have discovered the effects of caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE), a major component of bee propolis, which has anti-tumor effects in TNBC-affected women.
Phytochemicals found in blueberries can inhibit the metastatic potential of TNBC by inhibiting tumor growth, according to a joint study published in the Journal of Cancer Research (2010). Curcumin, in turmeric root, has been shown in numerous studies to inhibit the growth of TNBC cells.
It also induces a state of targeted apoptosis, or programmed cell death.
When researchers at the University of Albany in New York gave mice Vitamin D supplements, they discovered that D, which is actually a hormone that regulates over 100 genes in the human body, suppressed the proteins required for TNBC survival. TNBC patients usually have depleted levels of vitamin D, also making it a defining characteristic of those who have this form of breast cancer.
Some studies, including ones published in January and February 2015, suggest that cannabinoids may lower the number of inflammatory cancer cell cytokines, reduce their proliferation, and induce programmed cell death.
Detection Alternatives for Dense Fibrous Breast Tissue
Lunden is a large proponent of early detection for breast cancer, which I am as well. What I don’t agree with, however, is the large-scale advocacy of mammography as the only option. This trend also continues even though there is no evidence that early stage breast cancer detection through mammography has reduced the rate of late-stage breast cancers.
However, there is evidence that low dose ionizing radiation, which mammography uses, increases the risk of breast cancer among high-risk women. (Note: Learn more about the stages of cancer here.)
Lunden’s passion for early detection was based on her having dense, fibrous breast tissue. There are many non-harmful options for early detection, however.
These include thermography and specific blood tests for very early detection.
Did you know that thermography is especially effective for women, like Lunden, who have dense, fibrous breast tissue? Thermography, detects heightened areas of heat in the body to pinpoint where inflammation may be occurring, sometimes years before it develops into full-blown cancer. According to a 2008 study, breast thermography has a 97 percent sensitivity rating in discovering breast malignancies, sometimes even before a lump has formed.
Did you also know that there are hormones and proteins that cancer cells can secrete that can determine if you have cancer (and where), even when it is the size of a pinhead? In my professional experience, the best test to determine if you have these substances in your system is called the Oncoblot test.
It gives me hope and encouragement to know that 63 to 83 percent of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer now use at least one alternative protocol as part of their overall healing journey.
Each kind of cancer is unique, as is each woman. Choosing healing methods that work with a woman’s own unique body system, instead of against it, is the only way to allow nature to nurture the body towards health.
You Must Rebuild Your Immune System – Since your immune system is your first line of defense against cancer and all other diseases, you must rebuild it because the chemotherapy and radiation treatments will have blasted the hell out of the very thing you are relying upon to stay well. Yes, your body may eventually do this on its own, but the process is generally quite slow, we don’t want to give any open doors for stray cancer cells.
‘Your Health’ with Dr. Richard and Cindy Becker Show. Dr. Blaylock discusses his book ‘Natural Strategies For Cancer Patients’ and offers crucial advice for those suffering from cancer and or going through chemotherapy. (When video finishes — click onto Part 2.)
Brain tumors grow inside your head within your brain. Knots on the outside (on your head) are not brain tumors, they have to do with the skull bone, scalp muscles or skin. An actual brain tumor will not change the outward shape of your skull. Your skull is a hard, bony container for your brain.
If you had a brain tumor, it would just be squishing the soft tissue of the brain, but it wouldn’t be able to change the actual shape of the skull. An actual brain tumor will not change the outward shape of your skull. A big bump, may be a ruptured blood vessel inside the skull causing a build up of blood putting pressure on the brain.
The study involving scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research in London, along with colleagues in Europe and the US, aimed to find sequence changes in DNA among these people passed on from their parents that increase risk of the disease. Researchers carried out two new genome-wide studies and combined the results with six previous studies in a ‘meta-analysis’ – involving in total 12,496 cases of glioma and 18,190 people without.
They detected 13 previously undiscovered genetic changes that increased the risk of glioma.These were found to affect a variety of cell functions, including nerve cell division, DNA repair, cell cycle control, protein production and inflammation.
11-year-old girl’s brain tumor disappears in medical mystery.
By Dr. Tara Narula CBS News December 18, 2018, 6:46 P.M.
When 11-year-old Roxli Doss was diagnosed with what appeared to be a rare, inoperable brain tumor in June, she faced it with courage. Each year, some 300 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with this particular brain tumor, also known as a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG. There is no cure, and less than 1 percent of all people who develop one survive beyond five years. “It’s a devastating disease.
You have decreased ability to swallow, sometimes vision loss, decreased ability to talk. Eventually difficulty with breathing,” said Dr. Virginia Harrod, Roxli’s doctor at Dell Children’s Medical Center in Austin. Roxli was given months to live. She went through weeks of radiation, her parents Scott and Gena Doss prayed for a miracle. “We got it,” Gena said. “Praise God, we did,” Scott added. Typically, radiation is a life-extending treatment and not a cure. But just over two months after being diagnosed, the tumor appeared to have completely gone away.
Doctors can’t explain the remarkable response.
“It was actually unbelievable. The tumor is undetectable on an MRI scan, which is very unusual,” Dr. Harrod said. Doctors acknowledge the tumor may return, but for now Roxli is just as active as she ever was. For the Doss family, Christmas came a little early this year.
Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)
DIPG is the worst form of brain cancer in that it is inoperable and the median survival rate from diagnosis is 9 months. A Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) is a tumor located in the pons (middle) of the brain stem. The brain stem is the bottom most portion of the brain, connecting the cerebrum with the spinal cord.
The majority of brain stem tumors occur in the pons (middle brain stem), are diffusely infiltrating (they grow amidst the nerves), and therefore also are not able to be surgically removed. Glioma is a general name for any tumor that arises from the supportive tissue called glia, which help keep the neurons (“thinking cells”) in place and functioning well.
A brainstem glioma is a cancerous glioma tumor in the brainstem. The brain stem contains all of the “wires” converging from the brain to the spinal cord as well as important structures involved in eye movements, face and throat muscle control and sensation.
THE Numbers: Brain tumors are the leading cause of death from childhood cancer.
We estimate that approximately 300 children are diagnosed each year in the US with DIPG (interpolating this to the world population will lead to a few thousand globally).
Over 90% die within 12 months, 97% within three years.
Usually diagnosed in children from ages 5 to 10.
Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas account for about 10 out of every 100 brain tumors in children but constitutes about 80% of deaths resulting from brain tumors.
DIPG Causes and DIPG Symptoms
We don’t know what causes a diffuse pontine glioma. There is no way to predict that a child will get brain cancer. Some DIPG symptoms are muscle weakness on one side of the body, swallowing problems, speech problems, crossed eyes, drowsiness, hearing loss, and personality changes. The brainstem has cranial nerves. . . that control many of these functions. The tumors affect these nerves and cause symptoms.
Treatments
Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas are difficult to treat because the tumor cells grow in between and around normal cells. It is impossible to remove a tumor in this area because it interferes with the functioning of this critical area of the brain. Radiation (30 sessions done under general Anesthesia) is the only proven treatment for DIPG and produces a temporary improvement in symptoms (average of 3 months) which eventually reappear and develop at a much faster, more aggressive pace.
While the search for a cure continues, children with DIPG must endure one experimental trial after another, usually suffering terrible side-effects. Ultimately, it is with enormous cruelty that this disease takes its final toll. DIPG spares children of their cognitive abilities, allowing them to remain fully aware of their decline, while robbing them. . . of their motor functions resulting in partial paralysis, loss of voice, sight and finally their ability to eat and breath.
Justin Rackley, known as Lakeforkguy in the fishing world, creates fishing and outdoor videos on youtube and other social platforms. LFG provides fishing tips and techniques for mostly largemouth bass fisheries but also travels to other freshwater and saltwater fishing spots to explore new fish species and fishing techniques to help you catch more fish.
Lakeforkguy likes to hang out on any fishing vessel or go bank fishing with his other YouTube Fishing friends and vlog with his Wife Stephanie AKA Ocean Spoon Girl and French bulldog Winston. Since having brain surgery, I explain how it’s changed my life and what to expect next with treating the tumor. Thank you again for your continued support and uplifting messages. My heart goes out to everyone with brain tumors and all other neurological conditions, I wish we knew more about the brain.
One British man from Wirral, Merseyside, has defied conventional medicine and beaten his cancer. After being diagnosed with a Glioblastoma Multiform 4 brain tumor in July of 2015, Dave Bolton took matters into his own hands. The father-of-two and former police officer claims that ditching carbohydrates and sugar in favor of protein and fat saved his life. A Glioblastoma Multiform 4 (GBM4) brain tumor is often called “The Terminator” by doctors because of its low survival rates. Bolton was given a year to live after his diagnosis. However, after transforming his diet, his tumor began to shrink. This year, doctors say there is almost nothing left of the cancerous mass.
Bolton decided to eliminate all carbohydrates, sugar and most fruits and vegetables from his diet. Instead, he filled up on more meat, dairy and fat. His game plan to fight cancer is based on the principles of a ketogenic diet. Many people believe that following such a diet can help to fight cancer by cutting off the tumor’s primary energy source: sugar. Of course, many mainstream medicine practitioners do not agree with the diet, and insist that there is no evidence to support such a claim.
Mom stuns doctors by beating her deadly brain cancer. In her case, the pathology was “not controversial,” according to her surgeon, Dr. Robert Spetzler, director of the Barrow Neurological Institute at Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. In his 35 years as a neurosurgeon in the United States, Dr. Spetzler said he has never seen such a triumph against a stage 4 glioblastoma.
Also, Cheryl Broyles was diagnosed with the Glioblastoma Multiforme brain tumor in 2000. She has survived the GBM 18 years. Presently, Cheryl is still alive and loving life! During that time she has been through 4 brain tumor recurrences and 5 brain surgeries. This video Published on Apr 7, 2013 is encouraging. . . following Cheryl through her 5th brain surgery and recovery. Giving everyone HOPE that brain surgery is not as scary as most may fear. It takes time and patients recovering, your brain can work again after a craniotomy! Cheryl’s web page is also inspiring and informative for others battling brain tumors and fighting cancer.
Yet another Famous Brain Cancer Survivor is President Jimmy Carter who credits the new cancer drug Keytruda. . . . for shrinking his brain tumors completely. It’s one more possible victory for the newest class of cancer drugs that empowers the immune system to fight off tumors. What about the future of stem cell research?
Two Other Doctors to Research Who Are Leaps Ahead of the Pact!!!
1/2this is one of my more incredible research items. I have found in 12 1/2+ years of research and Hrayr Shahinian, M.D. is amazing in Los Angeles. Hrayr Shahinian, M.D. of the Skull Base Institute in Los Angeles, California discusses with Dr. Travis Stork and Dr. Andrew Ordon the revolutionary minimally-invasive brain surgery he performed to remove a life-threatening brain tumor on 14-year old Christa Hvidsten. 2/2 University of Oklahoma Medical Center First in the State to Acquire Advanced Technology for Brain Surgery. Dr. Michael Sughrue in an innovator in skull base and keyhole brain surgery, establishing one of the busiest awake brain surgery programs in the United States. Using advanced brain tumor mapping techniques.
When you can legitimately say you have the state’s foremost expert in brain tumors, you want the state to know about it. OU Medicine asked us to help share the story of Dr. Michael Sughrue, Oklahoma’s only full-time adult brain tumor expert. This video documents his cutting-edge techniques, Dr. Sughrue’s uses the “keyhole” technique for brain surgery, offering the most forward thinking, least invasive means to remove brain tumors. Instead of giving up, she decided to blog, hence, getting the attention of neurologist, Dr. Michael Sughrue.
Dr. Michael Edward Sughrue
Neurological surgery
1000 N Lincoln Blvd Ste 4000, Oklahoma City, OK 73104 (405) 271 – 4912
One of Scott Hamilton’s doctors told him that proton therapy was, “an elegant choice.” BY Scott Hamilton PUBLISHED December 20, 2018. Unlike traditional radiation, where there may be some “pass through,” proton therapy leaves little to no collateral damage by affecting tissue that is not being treated.
Nutrition During Chemotherapy. Practicing healthy eating habits before, throughout and after cancer treatment is essential. Staying hydrated and maintaining muscle tissue with enough fluids, calories and nutrients. . . that can reduce treatment delays, will boost your immune system & help minimize debilitating side effects
I know a 22 year old from Piqua Ohio that had Proton therapy when he was 15 years for a brain tumor at Indiana University. They have since shut down that center because the treatment cost to much and the youngster couldn’t figure out why they would shut down something that saved his life :'( Chemocare.com
Another study conducted in 2014 by Wai Lu, an oncologist at St. George’s University in London found that cannabis is promising in destroying glioma cells. Lu discovered, the primary cannabinoids THC and CBD alone were already beneficial in eliminating almost half of the glioma cells in affected animal models. Additionally, they found that when the cannabinoids were used together with radiotherapy, the treatment caused the tumors in many animal models to stop growing completely.
Lu and his team also found that when CBD and THC were used together, they were able to achieve the same effects when less of each compound was used. Lu thinks the reason behind the success of the cannabinoid treatment lies in neural pathways used for radiotherapy.
“We think the cannabinoids are hitting a number of cell signaling pathways, which also primes them to the effects of irradiation,” he says. What’s amazing about this study is it reveals even if THC and CBD kill glioma cells, they don’t have any negative impact on the healthy cells surrounding glial cells.
The precise causes for Leiomyosarcoma, or LMS, are currently unknown. What they do know does not, necessarily, point to any specific cause. However, the most common factors seem to be age (with most people developing LMS . . . . being over the age of 50), exposure to radiotherapy (many people previously treated for other forms of cancer with radiotherapy may develop soft tissue cancer — a year before my father’s tumor started he had radiation), chemical exposure (especially vinyl chloride, dioxins, and a wide range of herbicides, and genetics.
First thing being first: When you have cancer its always important to know your vitamin and mineral levels; Angiogenesis is the formation of new blood vessels.
Tumors need a lot of new blood vessels to supply blood to its rapid growth.
Copper is needed in order to grow these new blood vessels (Blood Test are Important.)
Copper Depletion Antiangiogenesis is based upon the assumption that there is a window in which the copper concentration in the body is high enough to carry out the necessary business of the body, but too low to enable tumor angiogenesis.
Ammonium tetrathiomolybdate is a copper chelating agent. . . .used to lower body copper stores. It is an FDA approved orphan drug to be used in Wilson’s Disease, a copper storage disease. If Ammonium tetrathiomolybdate cannot be obtained, however, then zinc salts can be used. Either way, a doctor’s supervision is necessary.
However, if you are on a copper chelating medication….while attempting to attain target copper levels. Green leafy vegetables, nuts, seeds, whole grains and shellfish tend to be high in copper. Vegetable copper levels reflect the ground they grow in. Dairy and also rice are relatively copper free. SO HAVE YOUR COPPER LEVEL CHECKED.
High Iron contents increase the Likelihood your cancer will be aggressive and Doctors always made a big deal. . . . about my fathers selenium de·fi·cien·cy, however, wouldn’t do anything to correct but to tell him it was low. While its also important to know that vitamin D helps to prevent cancer.
IMPORTANT REMINDER: to eat clean before during and after chemotherapy because the treatment doesn’t distinguish the difference between cancer cells and food additives it will only go after anything foreign to the body. ALSO. . .after chemo has been administered it’s critical to detox your system gradually so the toxins don’t build up in vital organs!!!!
by Patricia Moreira-Cali (Author) Dr. Patricia Moreira-Cali, MNT was registered dietitian nutritional professional specialist in Gainesville, Florida. She graduated from her medical school with her medical degree in 1987 and had over 31 years of experience in the field of medicine.
On April 23, 2013, Patricia’s Cali world turned upside down when she was diagnosed with Leiomyosarcoma (LMS), an extremely rare cancer affecting only 1 in 5 million people. LMS is also a very aggressive type of tumor, thus nicknamed the Purple Dragon. After the initial shock of the diagnosis subsided, Patricia was ready to discover ways to heal herself and find Hope & Faith. She went from being a counselor to thousands of patients on how to be proactive and take charge of their own health, to taking unknown paths in search of hope for surviving a disease that does not have a single established medical treatment.
Patricia Moreira lived for 55 years old 2/15/1962 – 6/12/2017 She embarked on a spiritual journey, which took her to Omega Institute, Bali and Brazil, where she met healers, a guru, a physician and other extraordinary people who became instrumental in her finding peace within and starting to believe that everything can be healed, even the Purple Dragon. Born in Brazil, Patricia moved to the United States at age 20. She also has a Master of Nutrition Science from the University of California, Davis, and has worked as a university professor, researcher, speaker, clinical dietitian and diabetes educator.
She was the proud mother of three children (including an angel in heaven) and the founder of Helping Children Heal (HCH), an NGO that provides medical treatment for impoverished and sick children who don’t have health care. She also traveled the world, having backpacked solo in Tibet, Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Namibia, India and many other countries. Above all she is a proactive woman who has been inspiring many as she travels the paths of healing and discoveries, keeping alive the flame of faith that even the Purple Dragon can be tamed.
For my Good Friend:
Tom Enright and his wife Alice they pay Leiomyosarcoma no mind. With Mind Body & Spirit as their guide: Tom and Alice’s views about cancer is out of sight …..out of mind and this is the protocol we adhere to. Our protocol: check scans every 3 months to start with then move it back to 4 months and now Susan George at Dana Farber has moved it to 4-6 months and whatever we deem necessary (we are going to stay at the 4ish month plan.)
Tom has learned Regular scans are the best awareness one can get for Leiomyosarcoma at well known Sarcoma Centers like Dana Farber, Sloan Kettering or M.D. Anderson. Alice has been clean now for 2 1/2 years of high grade uterine LMS.
Since her Vat Surgery: the plan is if it shows up again she we be headed for another Vat Surgery. Alice works and study’s hard and she is very warm, open and speak to and would work with anybody if necessary.
Alice and I believe eat clean with mindfulness meditation and being at peace helps with all things. What we find that works for us is being grateful while feeling blessed, hopeful and thankful. Controls what we can control. Vat surgery is lung surgery and when LMS recurs the lung is the common spot.
LMS surgery is the best protocol maybe spot radiation if surgery can’t get to it.
It’s critical to find a great surgeon and get your butt to either Dana Farber, Sloan Kettering or M.D. Anderson. Alice Vats surgery on July 7 2016 was a major success! Alice had it at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston with Dr. Yolanda Colston. She works with Dr. Suzanne George at Dana Farber is one of the best!!!
Problem is people get treated by DR’s who don’t know about sarcoma’s and they want to throw chemo and other poisons into patients and see if it works…Because that is how they get paid. Thereby, A person has to be their own advocate and not do that stuff. The number one thing a person can do is believe in what they believe and that helps to keep the cancer away. Also we have Faith what we do… will keep the LMS at bay and away.
Tom Enright Mantra to live by:
Now is the time ~ 2018 was great.
It was yesterday ~ Tomorrow is not promised.
Today is the gold ~ The day is now.
The time is now ~ The present is now.
If we all live in now ~ We Accomplish ALL.
Move it forward!!!
We together have the answers.
It’s a combo recipe ~
It takes a village of committed people.
Are we in the now?
Yesterday we can live in the what if we changed that.
While Living in the Future is filled with what if and hope
Now the present is peaceful and manageable controllable
The teachers message is very clear us students make it complicated.
When the student is ready the teacher appears!
We just have to think NOW!!!
We need to fertilize the positive and weed the negative.
I am what I think ~ thoughts are powerful
I am blessed grateful thankful.
It’s a mindset and commitment to I am me
We are sooo blessed and sooo lucky
Whatever the I am you tell yourself you will become.
I am learning ~ It keeps us healthy on the inside
and the outside and it cleanses our heart <3
~ in his own words… Tom Enright 🙂
Other Options for Leiomyosarcoma…
Kelly Pounds is a vibrant, active, 18 year-thriver who found a rock-hard, though painless lump in her right thigh Memorial Day Weekend, 2000. Fortunately, she was scheduled to see her GP the following Monday later, Kelly saw an orthopedist who took one look at the MRI, ordered an X-ray, and then sent her the following morning to Dr. Craig Jones, an orthopedic oncologist.
After a scheduled biopsy, Kelly had a three-week wait for the results. The reason? The results were so rare that the sample was sent to three different labs for confirmation. The diagnosis? Leiomyosarcoma. A subsequent bone scan showed some inflammation of the periosteum, the covering on the bone, while a CT of her chest, abdomen, and pelvis were negative except for small cyst in the liver.
The treatment plan was for three rounds of AIM: Adriamyacin/doxorubicin, Ifosfamide, and Mesna to be given 21 days apart, followed by resection of the distal femur and the four quads where the tumor was growing. The third round of AIM had to be postponed one week because of low blood counts.
Since Kelly’s follow-up surgery could not be scheduled for 2 months, her own medical oncologist, Dr. Steven Mamus from MD Anderson/Orlando, decided she should have an additional round of ifosfamide/mesna to ensure the cancer did not have the opportunity tostart growing again.
Another option that A Facebook friend reported in the past is that Dr. Breelyn Ann Wilky is using Keytruda every three weeks. Plus…. 10 mg. of Axitinib for Leiomyosarcoma and that she was so happy to report the three month scan from University of Miami in Florida showed 30% shrinkage on a leg tumor and that the tumors on the liver were gone.
In September 2011, at the young age of 29, Kamala was diagnosed with a rare cancer called leiomyosarcoma, which is a soft tissue cancer that develops in the supporting or connective tissues of the body, such as muscle, fat, nerves, blood vessels, bone and cartilage, the womb (uterus), and the limbs. Also as a mother of two young children (age 7 and 10) and a newlywed, she was heartbroken.
She was referred to a good team of doctors at the Brigham and Womens Hospital & Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The tumor was initially detected in her uterus and was classified as high grade and aggressive. She had a full hysterectomy and was in remission for two years, until she started having back pain in December 2013. After a few weeks of unbearable pain and unable to walk or sit, it was determined the cancer returned to two sections of her spine.
Kamala was airlifted to Boston on January 17,2014 where she also received six weeks of radiation. While hospitalized she developed a pulmonary embolism. After three months it was determined that the cancer once again spread. This time to her lungs. She and her family were devastated but she was ready to fight. Before she was able to start treatment she started having pain again. A pain which was becoming all too familiar to Kamala.
She knew that the cancer was in a new location.
After bone testing, it was determined that there was another tumor in the sternum. All of theses tumors cause Kamala…to be in extreme amounts of pain on a daily basis – – but she somehow continues to smile through it all. She started chemotherapy treatment in August 2014 and is currently still undergoing treatment. She travels to Boston every three months. The costs of these trips are an expense that she does not have in her budget but she must go to these visits as they are crucial a part of her treatment.
Kamala is a strong woman. If you know her, you know she is a bag of smiles, giggles and laughs! She is independent, smart, funny, and tough as nails. She has the spirit to fight her cancer, Therefore, She changed to a Vegan diet, alkaline water only, no sugar, no salt. I also started consuming apricot seeds.
There’s also a product called Medolife escozine… cost about $700 per month and you can get it at Escozine.com I started taking. I don’t know exactly what worked or if it was a combination of all. Even though I’m still battling…. but my life span has been longer than doctors expected.
For Cielo Superticioso I have followed her Facebook post since we met on July 4th, 2018 and you have taught me a lot in the groups you belong to. When it comes to LMS ..You are more likely to get more detailed answers about this topics on …. LMSDR FB support group for patients and caregivers. To join, you MUST answer the questions that appear when you hit the join button. The moderators appreciate full answers to their questions since it is a private closed groups.
When I was first diagnosed with LMS and began doing my research on the disease, I was lucky enough to come across the Leiomyosarcoma Support and Direct Research Foundation or LMSDR. Today I am pleased to have Sharon Anderson join us to talk about the LMSDR. ~David Carlson
In the poll : Where did your LMS begin? (add option if yours isn’t listed) in the one group LMS affects these areas the most Uterine = 135, Retroperitoneal = 49, IVC = 21, Thigh = 19 and Arm = 8. I was also surprised to learn that Leiomyosarcoma can affect large blood vessels, particularly the vein that carries blood from the lower part of the body back to the heart (inferior vena cava) and the artery that carries blood from the heart to the lungs (pulmonary artery).
Being my father had a heart attack in 2002. I wonder if bacteria from his stent placement may have been the culprit that also initiated the LMS, although his tumor was located on the breast bone…. Inferior vena cava (IVC) leiomyosarcoma is a rare malignant neoplasm more commonly seen in women in the fifth to sixth decade of life. Complete resection of the tumor with negative margins is the only Therapeutical option that has demonstrated a survival benefit. Cielo I am learning a great deal from the groups that you post in about the type of cancer that took my father life in 2006.
Martee L. Hensley, MD
Treatment with trabectedin (Yondelis) significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS) compared with dacarbazine in women with advanced uterine leiomyosarcoma, according to a subgroup analysis of the phase III SAR-3007 trial presented at the 2016 Society of Gynecologic Oncology Annual Meeting.
Panelists on this video are: William D. Tap, MD; Mark Agulnik, MD; Damon Reed, MD; Martee L. Hensley, MD; Shreyaskumar Patel, MD; and George D. Demetri, discuss the role of chemotherapy for the various histologies in soft tissue sarcoma and the options for patients with chemotherapy-insensitive subtypes.
RESOURCES:
LMS Boot Camp webinars were written by Sharon Welton Anderson, herself a LMS survivor & President of Leiomyosarcoma Support & Research Foundation. She talks openly and frankly about the most important things. . . you need to know to survive. Sharon’s knowledge comes from her research, discussions with sarcoma experts and personal experience helping patients since 2002, after she was diagnosed with stage 4 ULMS. For more guidance from leiomyosarcoma survivors see Words of Wisdom.
It was November of 2008 and has been over 10 years since I was diagnosed with Uterine Leiomyosarcoma. I changed my lifestyle radically to remove stress and consume food like it was my medicine. I was given a 20% change of living 5 years, and I survived. I’ve started a blog to share Integrative and Natural Treatments for Uterine Leiomyosarcoma. It’s also positive site, looking at the many ways we can enable the immune system to fight cancer. … and empowering my immune system.” Jeannie Ross Leiomyosarcoma survivor.
Nothing Positive Ever Comes From Negative Thoughts⁉️
The Schachter and Singer two factor theory of emotion was presented by researchers Stanley Schachter and Jerome E. Singer in 1962. The theory suggest that emotional states contain two components, one physiological and one cognitive. In the case of experiencing a physiological arousal which has no obvious explanation, the individual will attempt to label or describe the state based on the explanations available to him or her, but where an explanation is necessary, not cognizing as to an explanation is needed.
The theory also states that physiological states can arise from a cognitive evaluation of an event or situation. The theory suggests that we cannot control our external events but we can control our internal responses. Basically as humans when we experience life, we are doing it in the “now.” However, we live based off of an accumulation of what ever we live through. That’s why we tend to repeat things unknowingly (unconsciously).
This theory proposes that when something happens , that we LABEL it (oh this is scary, this is sad, this is happy) that we then physically feel that way. (Our heart jumps, sweaty palms) This theory then proposes the idea that when things happen in our lives, we can change the physical end reaction based off of how we think and choose to label events/ give it meaning. Your life truly is all about perception and how you CHOOSE to SEE and UNDERSTAND yourself and the world around you.
Schachter- singer two factor theory- our interpretation of emotion leads to a cognitive “I’m afraid” label plus our bodies arousal equals actual Emotion ● Zajonc and Ledoux- emotions occur before our conscious interpretations or appraisals of the event ○ with Lazarus emotion that requires cognitive appraisal even if interpretation don’t reach conscious awareness. Question: “Why does God allow sickness?”
“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.” —E.W. Howe
● Happiness, well- being and health (correlation research) ● Happiness ○ Easy to make decisions, satisfied life, perceive to world to be happier ○ Feel good-do good phenomenon: when we are happy we are more willing to help others ■ Volunteer 4 hours ○ Subjective well being- self perceived feeling of satisfaction with life ● Our positive moods rise 6-7 hours after waking up ● Eventually our emotions balance and people adapt to bad situations ● Wealth and well being
○ Money brings temporary happiness ● Lottery winners going bankrupt in five years ● Students who value love more than money has higher life satisfaction ● Adaptation-level phenomenon – people adapt to income levels ● More we make the more we spend Relative deprivation- we are worse off than those we compare ourselves with ● Stress (adrenal gland release stress hormone (cortisol a glucocorticoid)) ○ Independent risk factor- uncontrolled risk factor.
○ How you cope with environment threats & challenges ○ If it’s short it may help prolonged it’s harmful (maladaptive) ○ Psychological stress causes physical illness ○ Causal relationship ○ Measuring stress ■ Physiological- self reported ■ Physiological- immune, endocrine & cardiovascular functioning and also musculoskeletal ■ ALSO Behavioral – directly observe individual and clinical interview ○
Stressful life events ■ Catastrophics events (community event)- earthquakes ■ Significant Life changes- death of aloved one ■ Daily hassel -rush hour traffics ○ Triggers Fight or flight response which can be good ■ Walter Cannon – fight or flight ■ Evolutionary response- wired to respond to threats ■ Physical stressors – threats to physical safety ■ Symbolic stressors- threats to self-esteem ●
Memories of past hurts ○ Increases risk of illness and health problems ○
Outpouring of epinephrine and norepinephrine from adrenal glands, increases heart rate and respiration ○ (HPA axis ) Hypothalamus( fast acting) initiates stress reactivity pathways ■ Endocrine system (slow acting, fight or flight.)
Type A personality – hostility, impatience, difficulty expressing emotions, competitiveness, drive, perfectionism and an unhealthy dependence on external rewards such as wealth, status, or power.
Type B personality – is that these people do not get irritated or angry easily. They are laid back and relaxed. They rarely tend to be aggressive or frustrated. They are very calm as compared to their highly strung counterparts (type A). They are very patient and usually have a lot of self-control.
Supporting Evidence
In 1962, Schachter and Singer conducted a study to test their theory. The research included 184 male college students as participants who were told a vitamin compound called Suproxin would be injected to them. However, the injection was not Suproxin; rather, it is composed of either 0.5 mL of epinephrine (experiment group) or 0.5 mL of saline solution as placebo (control group).
Then, the researchers divided the subjects into three conditions:
(1) Informed condition (participants know the potential side effects of the injection),
(2) Ignorant condition (participants do not know the potential side effects), and
(3) Misinformed condition (participants know of the side effects being fabricated). Then, the participants encountered paired stooges whose roles were to act in either euphoric or angry manner. The variable also being manipulated was the “cognitive circumstance”.
The measurement of emotions was done via two processes: semi-private index (one-way mirror assessment) and public index (Likert scale self-report).
The result of the study was that the subjects under the Ignorant condition and Misinformed condition revealed considerably and consistently higher scores on both euphoric and angry conditions as compared to participants under the Placebo condition and the Informed condition.
This proved the original hypothesis of Schachter and Singer, that is, cognitive labelling (informed, ignorant or misinformed) together with general autonomic arousal (euphoric or angry) lead to the emergence of emotions. Psychology: Some people are just genetically tougher. But you can train your brain to better handle stress.
The Fronto-parietal Central Executive Network (CEN) handles inhibition, task switching, and updating. It inhibits the default mode network, engages your conscious brain to think and maintains attention on a prioritized task. It’s helpful to think of it as active when you put effort forth to keep your mind from wandering during a goal directed task.
Many psychiatric conditions including ADHD are associated with poor inhibitory regulation of DMN activation by the CEN. The dance between the CEN and DMN are coordinated by the Salience Network which, based on the amount of relevant outside stimulus triggers a switch out of REST mode into cognitive functioning.
‘My brain simply shut off the pain,’ said Dr. Michael Moskowitz. Pain specialist Dr. Michael Moskowitz was 49 when he and a friend decided to take a look at some army tanks & other armored vehicles that were about to take part in a parade. Dr. Moskowitz couldn’t resist climbing up onto a tank turret.
But as he jumped off, a metal prong caught his corduroys, and as he fell, he heard three popping sounds: his thigh bone was cracking. When he hit the ground, the leg was at a 90-degree angle to the other one. Immediately after the fall his pain was a true ten out of ten (ten is meant to be like being dropped in boiling oil), but as he lay motionless waiting for the ambulance, Dr. Moskowitz felt no pain at all.
‘I had first-hand experience that the brain, all on its own, can eliminate pain, just as a conventional pain specialist, had tried to do for patients by using drugs, injections, and electrical stimulation.’ The brain can shut pain off because the function of acute pain is to alert us to danger. So, as long as Dr. Moskowitz didn’t move, he was in no danger, as far as his brain could tell.
In the aftermath of his accident, Dr. Moskowitz nearly died three times. Yet as the years have passed, he’s had very little pain in the leg. He’d learned another pain lesson: the wise use of sufficient morphine. Had prevented his nerves from becoming over-stimulated and saved him from his acute short-term pain turning into the chronic, permanent variety.
For centuries the traditional view of pain was that nerves send a one-way signal up to the brain and intensity of pain is proportional to the seriousness of our injury. In other words, pain files an accurate damage report about the extent of the injury, and the brain’s role is to simply accept that report.
But that view was overturned in the Sixties – we now understand that the pain perception system is spread through the brain and spinal cord, too, and the brain controls how much we feel. When pain messages are sent from damaged tissue, these messages ascend to the brain only if the brain gives them ‘permission’.
If this is granted, a gate will open and increase our feeling of pain by allowing certain brain cells to turn on and transmit their signal. But the brain can also close a gate and block the pain signal by releasing endorphins, the natural narcotics made by our bodies to quell pain.
Knowing that switches exist is one thing, knowing how to turn them off when you are in agony is another. And that’s where the brain’s ‘neuroplasticity’ comes in. Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to change its structure and how it works in response to mental activity and experience. Each time he got an attack, he began visualizing his brain in chronic pain. Then he would imagine the problem areas shrinking!
Dr. Moskowitz, who originally trained as psychiatrist, specializes in treating patients with intractable pain in California. But he became a world leader in the use of neuroplasticity for treating pain after making discoveries while treating himself.
Three years before his fall, Dr. Moskowitz suffered another accident when water-skiing with his daughters. He flipped off an inflated tire behind a boat, hitting the water with his head bent backwards. The resulting pain dominated his life. Morphine and other heavy-duty painkillers and treatments including massage, self-hypnosis, ice, rest and anti-inflammatory drugs, barely touched it.
That pain tormented him for 13 years. Dr. Moskowitz was 57 when he hit rock bottom – and then began researching the discovery that the brain is neuroplastic and seeing how this might relate to him. The role of acute pain is to alert us to injury or disease by also sending a signal to the brain.
But sometimes an injury affects the body and the nerve cells (neurons) in the brain. As acute pain continues, these neurons become hypersensitive, firing more easily with less stimulation. This is where the brain’s ability to change becomes a curse — because the neurons keep firing, the connections between them become stronger.
As a result the acute pain develops an afterlife: it becomes chronic pain. The area of pain begins to increase. Ultimately, the pain neurons fire so easily we end up in excruciating, unremitting pain over a large area of the body – all in response to the smallest stimulation of a nerve. So for Dr. Moskowitz this meant that every time he felt twinges of neck pain, his brain’s neurons got more sensitive to it, making it worse – his brain was learning to feel more pain. The name for this neuroplastic process is ‘wind‑up pain’. I don’t believe in pain management any more. I believe in trying to cure persistent pain.
In 2007, he then began reading 15,000 pages of research to try to understand the laws of neuroplastic change. He realized that many of the areas in the brain that fire in chronic pain also process thoughts, sensations, images, memories, movements, emotions, and beliefs – when they are not processing pain that is. This explains why, when we’re in pain, we can’t concentrate, tolerate certain sounds or light, or control our emotions well.
Because areas that regulate these activities have been hijacked to process the pain signal.
Dr Moskowitz’s strategy was simple. When his pain started, instead of allowing those areas to be pirated by it, he ‘took them back’ for their original main activities, by forcing himself to perform the activities, no matter how intense the pain.
In April 2007 he put his theory into practice using visualization exercises to overpower the pain. He knew two brain areas process both visual information and pain, the posterior cingulate and the posterior parietal lobe. Each time he got an attack, he began visualizing his brain in chronic pain. Then he would imagine the problem areas shrinking.
‘I had to be even more relentless than the pain signal itself,’ he told me. He greeted every twinge with an image of that area of his brain shrinking, knowing he was forcing his posterior cingulate and posterior parietal lobes to process a visual image.
In the first three weeks he also noticed a very small reduction in pain. After a month he never let a pain spike occur without doing visualization. It worked. By six weeks, the pain between his shoulders in his back and near his shoulder blades had disappeared, never to return.
By four months, he was having his first totally pain-free periods throughout his neck. Within a year he was almost always pain free.He shared his discovery with his patients, helping with chronic conditions including low-back pain, cancer pain, irritable bowel & arthritis. Opioid narcotic drugs, such as codeine or tramadol ‘ can make chronic pain worse.’
So, is it just a placebo effect? The placebo effect generally doesn’t last long. And unlike medication or placebo, patients who use the neuroplastic technique can reduce their use of it over time. Dr. Moskowitz also thinks once the patients have learned and practiced the technique over hundreds of hours, their unconscious mind takes over.
Such effects last. He has patients who’ve maintained their reduction in pain for five years, though many still have damage in their bodies (which can on occasion trigger acute pain).
One of his most important insights is that opioid narcotic drugs, such as codeine or tramadol can make chronic pain worse.
The brain adapts to being inundated by long-term opioids by becoming less sensitive to them, which can make chronic pain worse. The problem exists, says Dr Moskowitz, with all pain medicines. ‘I don’t believe in pain management any more,’ he says. ‘I believe in trying to cure persistent pain.’
One of the extraordinary people I’ve met during my research is John Pepper, 77, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s more than two decades ago. He was put on medication, but because of a program he developed was eventually able to stop taking it 9 years ago.
Yet he does not appear to have the classic symptoms: no shuffling gait or tremor; he has good balance and seems to walk perfectly normally. When Pepper, a businessman who lives in South Africa, was first diagnosed, he spent two years slumped in a chair, ‘feeling sorry for himself’.
He then pledged to alter his attitude. ‘Because it is a movement disorder, I assumed the more I moved, the slower the Parkinson’s would be able to take over my life,’ he said.
He broke down the normally complex automatic activity of walking into various parts and analyzed each and every muscle contraction, movement & shift of weight.
It took him more than a year of practicing to internalize these changes. His walking also became normal, as long as he concentrated .With change happening gradually, Pepper only belatedly began to realize one or another of his Parkinson’s symptoms, such as his tremor, had either improved or disappeared. Walking is one of the most powerful neuroplastic interventions.
When we walk fast, we produce new cells in the hippocampus, the brain area that plays a key role in turning short-term memories into long-term ones. Walking may promote brain growth factors – or specifically a brain chemical called glial-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF). This helps promote the development and survival of dopamine-producing neurons, the cells that die off in Parkinson’s. GDNF helps the nervous system recover from injury.
100,000 is the number of miles of nerve fibres in the human brain.
Research in laboratory animals has shown exercise can boost the production of GDNF, although Pepper did not know this when he began his walking regime. He told me: ‘I walk 15 miles per week, in three sessions of five miles. The GDNF produced in the brain appears to have restored the damaged cells. But they do not cure the cause of Parkinson’s, and if I stop exercising, my condition goes backwards.’
He has now taught hundreds of fellow Parkinson’s sufferers how to move more freely.
Science is finally catching up with him. In 2014, a study of Parkinson’s patients by the University of Iowa found that six months of walking three times a week for 45 minutes improved their symptoms and reduced fatigue.
Not all neuroplastic changes are beneficial, however. With our frequent use of computers and screens, we are rewiring our visual systems to fixate on what’s in front of our eyes.
U.S. children are thought to spend up to eleven hours a day looking at screens.
Their peripheral vision is being underused, meaning they are less able to see things at the edges of their vision – vision loss more traditionally seen in older people. However, computers can help rewire people’s eyes and brains to use their peripheral vision fully.
U.S. neuroscientist Dr Michael Merzenich and his colleagues developed computer-based neuroplastic exercises to expand peripheral vision in elderly people to keep them driving (one involves watching cars on a screen and taking into account images on the side).
Another company, Novavision has developed brain exercises that can help people who had strokes, brain injuries, or brain cancer surgery that have radically reduced their vision.
It’s another example of the potential of neuroplasticity, and proof that many ‘incurable’ or ‘irreversible’ problems can improve. The brain really can heal itself.
If you listen to Forrest Maready you know that hypersensitivity to taste & texture can be a vaccine injury. He says if he puts a Dorito in his mouth it feels like there is a flamethrower being held against his tongue. We never know what torture a child is experiencing when we force feed them.
“HUMAN AURA”
Bio Energy (or Bio Photons) is energy obtained from biomass, the total mass or weight of living material in a unit of area, whether human or animal, plant or other vegetation material, especially as long as it’s a source of fuel or energy.
Bioplasma is another name for the make up of existing aura called vibes, vibrations, moods, spirits, daemons, intuition, guardian angels, guides, and even God. Bioplasma is the hypothetical energy field that surrounds ALL living things, like a plastic bubble or force field. These scientific ions or electrons can become excessive energies and are certainly beyond inorganic. Superfluity.
The Nucleus being centered and balanced, stands alone in its proper and right position at all times, in moderate form without any extra help or sources (technically) of an “aura” or Electron field or cloud. Nevertheless, as the mind and heart, so is the universe and any thing instilled inside itself, whole; only that which is whole can harness a shell (cell wall, no cell wall).
Either way, the Nucleus is an individual you, as the eye of a storm surrounded by chaos, you are at peace within. All things outside of the Nucleus are just photons, ions, extra baggage, weight, balls and chains of illusory states of being.
One should question if smudging is enough for a clean “aura” or rather blood transmutation will be more beneficial than herbs, candles, incense, crystals and various rocks (collecting outside of self, source-ry) will ever be?! WE HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE 7 CHAKRA SYSTEM!!!
Simply, the 12-chakra system brings forth the vision of our connection to the entire universe. The premise of the 12 chakra system is that all living beings are part of a whole. Each of us is grounded to the earth and linked to the universe via a thin cable. That cable stretches from roughly three feet below your feet to miles and miles upward through the atmosphere and on deep into outer space.
Cyndi Dale, energy healer & author of the “Advanced Chakra Wisdom”, emphasizes the 12-chakra system as a way to use a wider range of energies for healing. Using 12 chakras allows us to draw from powerful energies outside of the human body & get in touch with the whole array of dimensions of our human experience.
Even though contemporary healers mention the existence of additional chakras, it’s said that shamanic traditions have used the extraneous chakras or “power centers” for millennia for their healing practices. In many ancient traditions, earth and sky energies are believed to mix within the human body. The 12-chakra system is a representation of this belief.
Healing With the 12 Chakra System
Working on the assertion you are already familiar with what a chakra is and the basic seven energy centers, let’s focus on the remaining 5 introduced in the 12 chakra system. Similar to the format of standard spiritual chakra charts, each one of the five additional chakra possesses their own location, color, and function.
The traditional chakra colors follow the spectrum of the rainbow, while the extended system may add colors associated with metals or other elements. Among them are gold, platinum, and a combination of colors that are sometimes referred to as “opalescence” or “iridescence” for the highest frequencies.
The 8th and 9th chakras are generally represented above the head, and the 10th chakra slightly under the ground. However, we can find descriptions of the twelve chakra system locating the 8th chakra underground and the remaining higher energy centers above the crown.
To sum it up, the number of additional chakras is the same, but the order in which they are presented is slightly different. Below is a presentation of the 2 main series of 12 chakras with a slight variation where the 8th chakra is interchanged with the 10th chakra between the first and second system.
12 Chakra Chart #1
The position of chakra #8 et #9 above the crown chakra is a fairly common representation of the higher chakras. The following chakra chart contains 12 energy centers and locates the “underground” earth chakra in 10th position.
8th chakra – Located slightly above the crown chakra, about 1 inch above it. With the 8th chakra, we enter realms transcending space and time. This energy center is said to open access to parallel universes and lives; it gives access to the realm of the Akashic records and the sphere of potentialities in the making. It is a useful center for shamanic healing and communication with spirit guides.
9th chakra – Located further above the crown chakra, the 9th chakra is said to be the “seat of the soul.” It allows access to your soul’s code or higher purpose. It can be seen as the door to archetypal energies or patterns that play an important role in shaping our destiny.
10th chakra – Located about a foot and a half below the surface of the ground. It ensures our connection with the earth. Because it works primarily with the energies of the earth, it is very physical in nature. It participates to our physical well-being and connects us to the grounding energies of the earth and our environment. Just like the first (or root) chakra, it is useful to heal any bone and bone marrow-related issues. It can play an important role in any DNA-related or hereditary issues.
11th chakra – Located outside of the human body, it is said to be accessible through the hands and feet. It makes up and energy field that connects of human sphere of influence to the supernatural. Shamans use this chakra’s dimension to produce magic and influence the physical with supernatural powers. The 11th chakra emphasizes the mind as a powerful tool to shape matter.
12th chakra – Located on the outskirts of the 12-chakra system, it allows us to stretch beyond our common sphere of understanding into universal unity with all that is. It is said that it’s the chakra of mastery of the soul’s purpose through our human existence.
12 Chakra Chart #2
The second 12 chakra chart we present will include the following centers:
Earth chakra — (8th) — Located roughly three feet below into the earth at your feet. — Brown — No matter where you are, the earth chakra keeps you grounded. This chakra anchor harnesses all the pieces of the human puzzle, from DNA to bone and blood.
NOTE: Depending on individual interpretation of chakra study, also the location of the 8th chakra varies, but its function as grounding chakra epicenter is the same. Additional locations range form between the heart and throat chakras to just above the crown chakra. Another interpretation states the human aura is the 8th chakra; conglomeration of all chakra energy.
Lunar chakra — (9th) — Located just above the (7th) sahasrara chakra or crown chakra. Silver or white — The ninth chakra links you to the energies of the moon. It is the main hub for karmic understanding and channeling that governs intelligence, communication with spirit guides, and funnels information about incarnations.
Solar chakra — (10th) — Resides above the ninth chakra. — Gold — Also Associated with masculine energy, the solar chakra governs your ability to live your dreams. This chakra helps you to focus your will to remove blockages and give your existence purpose.
Galactic chakra — (11th) — Located just above the solar chakra. — Mixture of violet, gold and silver — Considered a channel for prophecy, the 11th chakra governs your ability to transcend space and time and allows you to access the Akashic Records, also referred to as the Universe’s cosmic “Book of Life.”
Universal chakra — (12th) — Located above the galactic chakra. — Multi-faceted, multi-colored orbs of light — Known as the chakra of Universal Consciousness, the 12th chakra allows you to transcend the mundane to reach Enlightenment and also commune with the Divine.
This holiday season, The United States Air Force Band offers the beautiful song “One Voice,” a reminder that together we can create a better world. Watch until the end. . . as one voice becomes a chorus inside the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Let the power of unity light the way throughout this season.
Epiphany is celebrated 12 days after Christmas on 6th January (or January 19th for some Orthodox Church who have Christmas on 7th January) and is the time when Christians remember the Wise Men (also sometimes called the Three Kings) who visited Jesus. 0n January 6, which is 12 days after Christmas in the Gregorian calendar, marks not only the end of the Christmas holidays but also the start of the Carnival season, which climaxes with Mardi Gras.
Dr. Esther Sternberg is a major force in mind-body-stress-wellness research and studies the way our environment affects our health. Having started out as a family Medical Doctor, becoming a specialist in Rheumatology, she is now a world-renowned researcher, known for her groundbreaking work on the interaction between the central nervous system and the immune system.
The focus of her work is on the science of the mind body connection, how stress can make us sick, how believing can make us well, and how mind body wellness activities like meditation, Tai Chi, Yoga, prayer, a healthy diet and exercise can help us heal.
Some of her most groundbreaking research delves into the brain’s stress response and how it makes us susceptible to inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.
“There is no doubt that when you take it to the next level, the mind and the body are connected, and that when those connections are intact and in balance you have health and when they’re broken you have disease.”
She is recognized by the National Library of Medicine as one of 300 women physicians who changed the face of medicine and is the author of best — selling books “The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions” and “Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being.” In 2009, she co-created and hosted “The Science of Healing with Dr. Esther Sternberg” for PBS.
Dr. Sternberg has also acted as adviser to several U.S. and international organizations, including the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization. She has published numerous scientific and review articles and chapters in leading scientific journals including Nature Medicine, Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Scientific American, J. Clinical Investigation and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In her position as Professor of Medicine and Research Director at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona Dr. Sternberg is looking to the future of mind body medicine and researching smart-technology that can provide real time feedback on mind body interactions.
We hear the catch-phrase “body-mind-spirit” everywhere.
We know it is connected to optimal health and wellness, but HOW? Do we REALLY understand what it means on a practical every day level?
More often than not, these terms evoke a sense of spirituality and esoteric wisdoms that make you feel like your head is floating up in the clouds. Many people shy away from yoga and other forms of alternative healing simply because the concept of body-mind-spirit seems too “woo woo.”
This blog post defines Body-Mind-Spirit in simple and practical terms by going back to basic grade-school science class and remembering about the body’s basic functions.
It will explore the:
Mind–body dualism, in philosophy, any theory that mind and body are distinct kinds of substances or natures. Thus, a dualist would oppose any theory that identifies mind with the brain, conceived as a physical mechanism.
How the Mind Affects the Body ★ Healing Thru Thoughts & Infinite Spirit ~ (law of attraction).
BIOLOGY of the BODY in your bones, muscles, blood and breath.
NEUROLOGY of the MIND in your electrical impulses along nerve pathways.
CHEMISTRY of the SPIRIT in your ever-changing moods and hormones.
Once you understand how body-mind-spirit works as a science, you can work it as a medicine to achieve INSTANT WELLNESS. When you put your BODY into alignment, focus and clarify your thoughts in your MIND, and you also breathe from your SPIRIT, everything, absolutely EVERYTHING in life works better. Your body works better, your mind thinks clearer, and your mood feels happier. Understanding of Body-Mind-Spirit as simple and practical science that you can apply to your everyday!
Mind-body medicine is a revolutionary twenty-first century approach to health care that includes a wide range of behavioral and lifestyle interventions, on an equal basis with traditional medical interventions. The patient in mind-body medicine is understood as a totality of body, mind, and spirit, and interventions are directed at each of these aspects of the person. The conditions which cause human suffering today, in the affluent societies of the developed world, are caused as much by lifestyle, dietary habits, activity level, and life-stress, as they are by such traditional causes of disease as is infection, virus, bacteria, and physical trauma.
The mind-body medicine approach also creates a partnership among specialists in the medical and mental specialties, including physicians, nurse practitioners, and psychologists, as well as mind/body specialists, such as a biofeedback practitioners, chiropractors, nutritionists, spiritual counselors, and yoga teachers. The result is an integrated team of caregivers who address mind, body, and spirit in each visit. Read More: https://www.aapb.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3386
The Spiritual Heart — is in a way a little like a smart phone, invisibly connecting us to a large network of information. It is through an unseen energy that the heart emits that humans are profoundly connected to all living things. The energy of the heart literally links us to each other. Every person’s heart contributes to a ‘collective field environment.’ This short video explains the importance of this connection and how we each add to this collective energy field. The energetic field of the heart even connects us with the earth itself. NOVA Wonders What’s the Universe Made Of?
Science and The Mind-Body-Spirit Connection to Health:
Your beliefs affect your health, including your genes – Dr. Bruce Lipton, internationally recognized biologist and article of The Biology of Belief , is a leader in teaching about the science of epigenetics. His scientific experiments proves that your perception or beliefs, affect your health. His studies show that even if you have a gene for a certain disease, it is your beliefs that can turn that genetic issue off or on. To learn more, read The Biology of Belief.
Janine Shepherd’s story is nothing short of incredible. While training for the Olympics, Janine was struck by a massive truck and sustained life-threatening injuries to her neck, back and head. Here she delivers a powerful speech on how she rehabilitated her broken body and broken spirit to defy the odds and achieve the impossible: becoming a licensed pilot. Janine’s story reminds us that we are not limited by our bodies, but by our spirit to overcome the odds and win. See Video Below!!!
That is an unknown question, however, it is also considered to be a possibility by many theoretical physicists. There are many theories on the universe yet none can be proven beyond doubt. It has been concluded there is one universe (uni–meaning one) containing everything in existence. There may be a parallel universe. Or several, or even more. There are a few theories. And there are so many more questions and things we don’t know.
Is there really more than our one Universe and why?
We do not know. It could just be our universe or it could be groups of universes called multiverses and groups of multi verses and groups of those. We have no way of knowing but it is probable that there is extra terrestrial life who know the answer.
Sending spacecraft to Mars is all about precision. It’s about blasting off from Earth with a controlled explosion, launching a robot into space in the direction of the Red Planet, navigating the intervening distance between our two planets, and landing with incredible precision. This intricate and complicated maneuver means knowing the exact distance from Earth to Mars. Since Mars and Earth both orbit the Sun – but at different distance, with different eccentricities, and with different orbital velocities – the distance between then is constantly changing.
However, astronomers now calculate the distance to objects in the Solar System using the speed of light. They measure the time it takes for signals to reach spacecraft orbiting other planets. They can bounce powerful radar off planets and measure the time it takes for signals to return. This allows them to measure the distance to planets, like Mars, with incredible accuracy.
Distance Between Earth and Mars:
So, how far away is Mars? The answer to that question changes from moment to moment because Earth and Mars are orbiting the Sun. It also requires a little explanation about the orbital mechanics of each. Both Earth, and Mars are following elliptical orbits around the Sun, like two cars travelling at different speeds on two different racetracks….as it just took 6 months for The United States to guide itself there to check out mars surface.
Is there really a more than our one Universe and why?
We do not know. It could just be our universe or it could be groups of universes called multiverses and groups of multi verses and groups of those. We have no way of knowing but it is probable that there is extra terrestrial life but who really knows for sure.
As I age I find more and more people who have set themselves above others, some of which wouldn’t be where they are if I hadn’t been there for others. and it hurts. So I do think this. In the end we all turn to dust.
Well there may not be physical evidence, but many people that have been very close to dying have pretty similar memories. most say that they saw themselves below as they had this out-of-body experience. most people say they saw some flowers and other beautiful things and a tunnel with a bright light at the end. these people usually say that they didn’t want to leave their family, so they fought hard to get back in to their body.
Quantum mechanics reveals a phenomenon called quantum non-locality which is a situation at the sub atomic level where the laws of physics as we know them, do not apply. This, by definition, is what we call the SUPERNATURAL. The Bible tells us that, all around us, unseen to us, angels are battling demons on our behalf.
This sounds an awful lot like alternate dimensions to me. Lazarus and the rich man were able to see each other but were unable to touch. This sounds like the partial opening of a gateway between dimensions. Quantum non-locality states, particles can communicate without using time and space. God sees everything past, present, and future.
In non-linear time, all things are actually happening at the same time. Time travel is possible by using doorways between dimensions to cover vast amounts of space.
The problem is that travel between dimensions requires vast amounts of energy which thus far, are only conceivable by supernatural means. The only way to cross over to the other side is by dying. Our soul is able to travel but leaves our body behind. Basically, we all will live forever, but also, we have our present lifetime in which to learn about our options and to choose where we want to spend eternity. Good luck in your choices.
How can we know? When the notion of heaven and hell was being developed, they were assumed to be physical places, with hell down below and heaven just above the sky. Science has shown that heaven and hell can not be located in any physical location in the universe. Religion has therefore adapted by saying that heaven and hell are not actually physical places, but spiritual states of being. Even if they exist, they are nowhere.
If they exist they would most likely be in another dimension of some kind or in another universe or galaxy trillions of light-years away. Neither exists where they are supposed to, so assuming they exist I think my hypothesis makes about as much sense as any.
It is understood from the Bible that hell is a real place which is most likely inside the earth where the fire burns continuously. Heaven is a little harder to pinpoint.
Heaven and hell are more states of being, then actual places, although, of course, they are places too; but not as we understand them here on earth. Primarily heaven is union with God, it is enjoying the Beatific Vision; to some extent, we are in heaven here on earth to the extent that we conform ourselves to God’s Will.
Hell is the state of being permanently alienated from God, it is a state that we build ourselves while alive on earth, to which we are permanently exiled when we die. It is more important to understand that state then worry about the place; mostly because we cannot completely access either place while we are alive in our body, and that most importantly, when we find out, we don’t want to be in the state alienated from God for all eternity: as union with God is what we were created for.
Is heaven or hell real?
Opinion The postulation there is a Heaven and/or Hell is a common motif in religious belief. These locations vary in nature from the ancient Greek afterlife of a rather dreary wandering around in gloom to the rollicking beer fest that Viking heroes enjoyed in preparation for Ragnarok.
The existence of a spiritual place or places in which the souls of the dead are treated in accordance with their behavior when alive (reward or punishment), is a tradition of mankind, which finds expression (in differing details) in various religions. It cannot be conclusively proven as long as we’re alive; and that’s the whole point: God tests us as to whether we will live in a way that demonstrates that we’re aware of His presence, even though His presence is not readily visible.
We hold it to be evident that an infinitely wise Creator, whose wisdom is vastly manifest (for example) in the wonders of our bodies, would not be so unwise as to neglect any and all unfinished business. If a tyrant “escapes judgment” by swallowing a painless poison, to our mind it is axiomatic that his tribulations have just begun. God is just (Deuteronomy 32:4).
In the metaphorical sense, indeed I also believe so. this questions is a warzone waiting to happen. i believe there is something greater but not heaven or hell. simply put we believed heaven was in the clouds until we could fly above them. then perhaps it was space until we traveled its expanse. so where is heaven? then we drilled to the deepest regions of earth to find more rock, where’s hell?….on that note check out “sounds of hell”
Google and interpret it as you like, its really cool or spooky. In either event science cant provide answers to existence but god can’t provide answers to his devout disciple who kill to purify the land.
Be a good person in heart and you don’t need a road map to heaven,
See also: The afterlife in Judaism
Are you going to heaven or hell?
Neither. I am realistic enough to know that heaven and hell simply do not exist. You arrive at a place in your spiritual sense after you die?
Heaven is a useful concept for those who fear their mortality, and perhaps for some hell is a useful substitute for conscience. But these concepts exist in the imagination only.
Answer For the Christian heaven and hell are not so much places as states of being.
Heaven is when you are united to God, which is the purpose for which every single one of us was created; and hell is existence where we have rejected God.
We are actually beginning to live in one or the other right here on earth, death really doesn’t hold that many surprises, it just removes the possibility of changing anymore. If we have been living for our fellow men, seeing God in them, denying ourselves, etc.,
then we are living in heaven before we die and death removes us from this “vale of tears” and we are happy and joyful for ever. We may have a firm hope or a pretty good idea which one we are going to end up in, but even though we begin to live in them here, we can never be sure, especially as everything depends on our last moments as we die. All we can do is live the best life that we can – with God’s help – and pray constantly for His Grace.
Do people go to hell or heaven?
It is a matter of belief and faith who goes to any heaven or hell, not a fact. Many people believe there is no kind of afterlife. People who are good in life. example: They do not steal , do not lie , do not hit , do not kill go to heaven.
People who are bad in life. example: They kill other… people, curse use bad words , are disrespectful to their parents, the steal, lie, hit people, are unfair in treating people, in a simple meaning they do bad things these people go to hell!! Most of the major religions have versions of heaven and hell.
Christians should also live their lives according to God’s laws which are the Ten Commandments. But the bible also says one does not get to heaven by good works. Jesus Christ is the only door that leads to paradise after we leave this world.
Answer The information contained in some scriptures implies that all nonbelievers are going to hell. If you are to believe the prejudice of some scriptures then you must believe that if a baby was born in a home where the false reli…gion is observed then it is obvious that he/she will go to hell. The scriptures that proclaimed this authority did not qualify age or gender. If death does not respect age or gender then hell will not.
This means that this God willfully places people in the homes of these false religions as some kind of sadistic game that only a vicious psychopathic murderer would play.
Answer No, they go to Limbo. The idea of Limbo stems from a strict understanding of Scripture, described above, that only baptized Christians can achieve Heaven. Because the idea of a loving God consigning innocent infants to eternal damnation is so repulsive, the Roman Catholic Church devised the doctrine of Limbo as a sort of compromise.
Unlike Purgatory, souls confined to Limbo will never achieve heavenly bliss but neither will they be punished in Hell. Thus the common use of “limbo” to refer to being caught or suspended in between two extremes.
When you die why do you go to hell or heaven?
Because God wants us to feel we have the power of eternal life. He doesn’t want us to just die and leave life forever, He wants us to live a second eternal life judged by your first life. Other contributors have said… You don’t, that is nothing more than a way of controlling people. If people thi…nk they are going to burn in a lake of fire for doing bad things.
Then they probably won’t do them and if they think they are going to heaven for doing good things (and following a religion’s rules) then they will follow them.
The idea that a God. . . .that supposedly loves you would send you to burn
FOR ALL ETERNITY for something like being lazy or not believing in him, etc… is just ridiculous.
Can you imagine being burned for even one whole minute…you would probably pass out from the pain, needless to say all eternity is just ridiculous. Well, you have to consider the possibility that going to heaven or hell is not based on your actions. Plus it depends on the religion you are thinking about. If you’re talking about Christianity, God DOES NOT want you to go to hell. He loves you. The problem is that when you live a sinful life and have not asked for forgiveness, it is impossible for you to enter the gates of heaven. Heaven is also a sinless territory. It’s not God’s decision whether you go to Heaven or Hell, it’s yours. Also I must inform you that this is a religion biased answer and I am a Christian. Thank you.
When you die do you go to heaven or hell?
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man can come to the Father but by me.” In other words confess your state of sinfulness – that we all share – and accept the atoning forgiveness, grace, and salvation offered by the only purely righteous man who has ever walked this earth (as bot…h a man as as God incarnate). Then, and only then, will you inherit eternal life and can share the presence of God in his heaven.
(Also, see or Google ‘Bible Gateway’) Answer It depends on who or what is the “YOU”. If the “YOU” is the body, then when we die the body will revert back to its mineral and chemical components and become foods & fertilizer for others and rise up no more.
This agrees with the Bible; Job 7:9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more . Job 14:12 So man lies down, and rises not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. Job.20:7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: But if the “YOU” is a Spirit, then it cannot die and may be reborn as other person. This is taught in the Bible:
If you are not a Christian do you go to heaven or hell?
Opinion The world’s religions offer differing answers to these questions. Some teach, not only, if you live a good life, you will go to heaven, but also, if you live a bad life, you will burn in a place of torment. Other religions teach that at death, people will pass on to the spirit realm to be with their ancestors. Still other religions teach that the dead go to an underworld to be judged and are then reincarnated, or reborn in another body.
Such religious teachings all share one basic idea-that some part of us survives the death of the physical body. According to almost every religion, past and present, we somehow live on forever with the ability to see, hear, and think. Yet, how can that be? Our senses, along with our thoughts, are all linked to the workings of our brain. At death, the brain stops working. Our memories, feelings, and senses do not continue to function independently in some mysterious way. They do not survive the destruction of our brain. Opinion Simply, when you die, you return to dust and you have the hope of living in a paradise earth if you obey God.
Opinion: The only religion that will take you to heaven is Islam.
After death will you go to heaven or hell?
It depends on how many sins you make. check the bible for more info John 3:18 “Whoever believes in Him (Jesus) is not condemned but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.” All you need is Faith to go to heaven after… death, how many sins you have has NOTHING to do with it for ALL have sinned and fallen short of God’s Glory. That is why the Father sent His Son to die & make us Holy so that we can stand before God in Heaven and be just as righteous as Jesus Himself. Glory to God!
We can never be as righteous as Christ, but we are saved by Him. During His earthly ministry Jesus forgave and then said ‘You are forgiven, go and sin no more.’ We can not live sinful lives and expect a heavenly reward. Yes, only belief in Jesus Christ can one attain eternal life with Him, but you do have to strive to be a true follower by living by God’s law, which happens to be the 10 commandments.
When you are dead do you go to heaven or hell?
It all depends on whether you believe in God as your Savior or not. If you believe God sent his One and only Son, Jesus Christ to die for all of our sins on the cross and proclaim He is the Son of God then you will go to Heaven.
If you are one of these and you want to become a Christian a…nd ask God for forgiveness of your sins and ask Him to be your Savior and ask Him to come into your heart then you will go to Heaven. If you need more help you should try visiting a local Christian church or just pray to God. He will hear you wherever you are.
I think this is partly right and partly wrong. God says that the person who sins will die. Satan says that the person who sins will not die. All have sinned therefore all will die. No man has ascended into heaven, only Christ. A ‘soul’ is a combination of body and spirit Minus the spirit, which goes back to God at death, the body dies Humans are not immortal. The ‘soul’ that sinneth shall die.
The soul is the person. At the resurrection, those who believe what Christ has said, i.e., believe in Him, will be resurrected to eternal life. After 1000 years, the remainder will be resurrected to judgement No one is judged immediately at death. But will be judged at resurrection ‘Hell’ is a combination of words in Hebrew and Greek. Sheol, and hades, and lastly Gehenna, which is a real place in Israel, is a place where they used to burn rubbish and throw the bodies of criminals. Eternal worms….NO But a fire that consumes…Yes O, and I forgot to say, Sheol and Hades, both mean the same thing…’the grave’.
What are the requirements to go to heaven and not hell?
Okay, so I have a feeling that you probably don’t attend church very much, so I am going to give them to you straight from the Bible. I don’t like to think of them as requirements, because when I do it feels like more of a religion than a relationship with Jesus Christ.
We in the holiness church wor…ld believe that a person can be saved (the term is used to define a person redeemed or cleansed from all sin or unrighteousness) by three simple steps. If you are serious about this.
1. Admit that you are a sinner.
2. Believe on Jesus Christ as your personal Saviour and he can cleanse you from all sin.
3 Confess your sins to Him. John:16 “For God so loved the world He gave His one & only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not die but have eternal life.”
You need to have faith that God sent His Son to die so that we can stand before God in Heaven & Him NOT SEE any sin in us at all, only seeing us as fully Holy & Righteous as His Son! Thank You Father.
What will determine if you go to heaven or hell?
by the acts you do. A lot of people misunderstand the word of God, I believe it is best not to believe what others say unless they can show you where they got their info. So you need to read for yourself.
I learned that hadies is just the judgement plate where you go to be judged for your acts on ea…rth. That after you die you are in limbo on earth until God calls for his people. Read the book of Revelation’s. But be careful, it is symbolic in allot of ways. Research it not just in the bible but on-line and at the library and NEVER listen to someone who wants to tell you only one verse and give you what they think it means. The bible explains it self if you read it and allot of it’s history has even been proven.
For example, research on line about Noah’s ark. Did you know that it has been found?
The tribe that lives at the base of the mountain forbid it to be removed because it goes against their own religion. I myself do believe there is a higher power and there are many scriptures in the bible saying one day all our tears will be wiped away and there will be no more suffering. Please, just a little each day, just read for yourself. The book of genesis is the most boring but it even speaks of dinosaurs in it.
You just have to get past all of the this man was the father of who was the father of who was the father stuff. Good luck…God bless READ King James version of the bible, it is the closest to the original you can get.
Can you go to heaven from hell?
No you can’t go to heaven from hell. Once you are in hell you are stuck there.
Bernard Nathanson, the former abortionist turned top pro-life activist who is perhaps best known for his role in creating the pro-life video The Silent Scream, died at the age of 84 after a lengthy cancer battle on 02/21/2011, at 10:00 PM, as Posted by Catholic Citizens of Illinois. At one time Nathanson was deeply entrenched in the American pro-abortion movement, having co-founded the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and overseen 75,000 abortions as director of an abortion clinic.
Nathanson’s high-profile conversion to the pro-life movement was sparked by the advent of the ultrasound machine in the early 1970s. He has related how he was moved to acknowledge the humanity of the unborn child after he watched an unborn baby recoil from a vacuum abortion device before being sucked from its mother’s womb. Nathanson titled the video of this incident The Silent Scream and began using it to spread the pro-life message.
The Lazarus Phenomenon – The Movie has a running time of 100 minutes, and includes some amazing computer generated graphics of Heaven and Hell. The movie is Cinema quality, and has already been screened in many public cinemas in many countries. The narrative is documentary in style, filmed on the actual locations of the events portrayed, with fantastic special effects, and amazing music.
The Lazarus Phenomenon – The Movie is riveting viewing for both non-Christians & Christians! The movie is an ideal tool to use to bring the unsaved to investigate eternity. The movie deals with Man’s continual search for life after death. Non-believers are also fascinated to have their question answered, “Is there life after death?”
The whole subject of life after death is looked at from both a Biblical and a truly scientific approach, with interviews with four medical doctors.
I remember back in December 2005 when my father was struggling with Leiomyosarcoma when I began taking a greater depth look into what life really meant. All the while looking around myself at the greater aspects of life. About the same time that Tim Tebow entered into the picture. At that same time Tebow was inspiring me to become a greater man.
It’s amazing when a high school senior can change an adult’s outlook on life.
(John 3:16). For God so loved the world he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For The Divine love to the whole of humanity in its condition of supreme need, apart from himself and his grace, has been of such a commanding, exhaustless, immeasurable kind, that it was equal to any emergency, and able to secure for the worst and most degraded, for the outcast.
Tebow Time: was white washed out of the end zone for being a good man. Probably because he knelt down to pray and not during the national anthem to dishonor those that service the greater good of this country. To understand Tim Tebow we must go back to his roots where through his success in high school he once played an entire second half with a broken leg — ESPN aired a documentary that followed him through his senior year called The Chosen One: The story of his Senior year at Nease High School on and off the field, what the recruiting process was like for the phenom, and ultimately his decision to attend the University of Florida.
Regarded by many as the greatest player in the history of college football, Tim Tebow was born in the Philippines to Baptist missionaries. Before she became pregnant with him, his mother had contracted amoebic dysentery. During her pregnancy, the medications used to treat the dysentery caused a severe placental abruption, a condition in which the placental lining separates from the uterus.
The Tebows decided to carry the baby to term as abortion is against their faith. Tim and his mother appeared in a pro-life commercial funded by evangelical group Focus on the Family during Super Bowl XLIV (2010) which stirred national controversy.
The family returned to the United States when Tim was 3 years old, moving to a farm outside of Jacksonville, FL, where he and his siblings were also home-schooled by their mother. Taking advantage of a state law which allowed home-schooled students to compete in high school sports, in 2003, Tim and his mother moved to Ponte Vedra so he would be eligible to play football for Allen D. Nease High School.
He was named Player of the Year as a junior (playing his last game that season with a broken fibula), and named Mr. Football his senior year after he lead Nease to the Class 4A title. On December 13, 2005, three days after Nease won state, Tim announced he would be playing for his parents’ alma mater, the University of Florida. Also a second documentary followed him from his last college game to being selected by the Denver Broncos with the 25th pick in the first round (It was entitled Tim Tebow: Everything in Between.)
To say he dominated at Florida is an understatement.
Tebow threw for 9,285 yards and 31 touchdowns, and rushed for 2,947 yards and 57 touchdowns (breaking Emmitt Smith’s school record, and Kevin Faulk’s SEC record) for 12,232 total offensive yards (breaking Danny Wuerffel’s school record).
He lead the Gators to 2 SEC titles and 2 NCAA titles, and was the first player ever to
rush for at least 20 touchdowns and pass for at least 20 touchdowns in a single season. Among the slew of accolades he received were the Sullivan Award, the Davey O’Brien Award, the Maxwell Award, the Wuerffel Trophy, the Chic Harley Award, the Wooden Cup, the Manning Award, the Campbell Trophy, also Touchdown Club of Columbus Quarterback of the Year Award, AP College Football Player of the Year, the SEC Male Athlete of the Year, and the Heisman Trophy.
However, pundits doubted he had what it took to make it in the NFL, and were shocked when he was taken 25th overall in the 2010 draft by the Denver Broncos. He became a sensation in 2011 when he took the 1-4 Broncos to an 8-8 record and the AFC West title, most of those wins coming in the last minutes.
“Tebowing” – a term coined to describe his habit of kneeling on one knee in prayer as he bowed his head and either rested an arm on the opposite bent knee or his elbow on the knee with his fist at his forehead – was aped by celebrities, and inspired a web page which received over 20,000 photos of people “Tebowing”. The Broncos beat the then- AFC champ Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round of the playoffs when Tebow connected with Demaryius Thomas for an 80-yard touchdown on the first play of overtime.
While Broncos fans were sold on Tebow Time, Broncos head coach John Fox and Executive Vice President of Football Operations John Elway were not. After which Elway signed Peyton Manning, Tebow was traded to the New York Jets. And a disastrous season followed as offensive coordinator Tony Sparano, and head coach Rex Ryan couldn’t figure out how to best-utilize him. He was released on April 29, 2013, throwing for 39 yards and rushing for 102 yards for no touchdowns in 12 games.
He signed with the New England Patriots on June 10th. As it carries two quarterbacks, as opposed to most teams, which carry three or four, he had his work cut out for him.
In 3 pre-season games, he completed 11-of-30 passes for 145 yards, 2 touchdowns, and 2 interceptions, rushed for 91 yards, and spent most of those games, literally, running for his life. His performance intensified criticism of his football acumen. He was released on August 31st despite owner Robert Kraft claiming he was rooting for him to make the team. In December, he signed with ESPN to be an analyst on its SEC Network, which launched on his 27th birthday.
The Christian doctrine of immortality cannot be understood apart from the right conception of the tripartite nature of men. Many think that man is a physical being only. There is a great danger of any man thinking thus of himself. In his desire to satisfy the needs of the body there is the tendency on man’s part to lose sight of the fact that he is immortal. There have been persons who have lived all of their lives either in ignorance or willful neglect of a life after death, but upon their death-bed they suddenly realized that they were more than physical beings.
There is an idea also that prevails largely today that man consists of only two component parts: namely, body and spirit. In the thinking of the writer this view appears to be one that might create confusion in the minds of any Christians. While soul and spirit are so closely related that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish accurately between them, there seems to be only one logical conclusion: namely, that “soul” and “spirit” are not the same.
The Bible does make a distinction.
Man is a triune being because he is created in the image of God. “God said, Let us make man in Our image” (Genesis 1:26). We know that God is a Trinity. The Holy Trinity is clearly set forth in the Apostle Paul’s benediction that closed his Second Corinthian Epistle: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen” (2 Corinthians 13:14). Our Lord Himself said, in what we call “The Great Commission”: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19). Created in the image of God, man is likewise a trinity. He has a spiritual nature that is separate and distinct from the body in which it dwells.
The Spirit
The word “spirit” when used in the Scriptures has several meanings. Whenever the word “Spirit” appears used with a capital letter, it has but one meaning. It is the name of the third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit of God. The word “spirit” spelled with a small letter may have one of several different meanings. It can have direct reference to the spirit of man which is as much a part… of the tripartite nature of man… as the Spirit of the living God is a Person of the Holy Trinity. Or it can indicate an evil spirit such as any agent of the Devil. We will confine ourselves here to the Biblical usage of the word only as it relates to the spirit of man, one of the three constituent parts of his being.
The threefold nature of man might be illustrated in several ways. Dr. Clarence Larkin uses three circles (Rightly Dividing The Word, page 86). The outer circle stands for the body of man, the middle circle for the soul, and the inner for the spirit. At this point it will be well to quote a portion from Dr. Larkin’s book:
In the outer circle the ‘Body’ is shown as touching the Material world through the five senses of ‘Sight,’ ‘Smell,’ ‘Hearing,’ ‘Taste’ and ‘Touch.’
The Gates to the ‘Soul’ are ‘Imagination,’ ‘Conscience,’ ‘Memory,’ ‘Reason’ and the ‘Affections.’
The “Spirit” receives impressions of outward and material things through the soul.
The spiritual faculties of the ‘Spirit’ are ‘Faith,’ ‘Hope,’ ‘Reverence,’ ‘Prayer’ and ‘Worship.’
In his unfallen state the ‘Spirit’ of man was illuminated from Heaven, but when the human race fell in Adam, sin closed the window of the Spirit, pulled down the curtain, and also the chamber of the spirit became a death chamber and remains so in every unregenerate heart, until the Life and Light giving power of the Holy Spirit floods that chamber with the Life and Light giving power of the new life in Christ Jesus.
It develops then that the spirit of man, being the sphere of God-consciousness, is the inner or private office of man where the work of regeneration takes place. Dr. James R. Graham says that the main theatre of the Holy Spirit’s activity in man, and the part of man’s nature with which He has peculiar affinity, is the spirit of man.
The Apostle Paul gives us the Word of God on this, a passage that is sadly neglected. Quoting from the sixty-fourth chapter of the book of the Prophet Isaiah, Paul wrote: But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him. A great many people stop here, content to remain in ignorance. However, Paul continues:
But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit; for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God (1 Corinthians 2:9-11).
Man in his unregenerate state comes to know the things of man by the operator of “the spirit of man” which is in him. If I have a will to know certain scientific facts, by my human spirit I am enabled to investigate, think, and weigh evidence. If I set myself to the task, I may become a scientist of world-renown and of great accomplishments. However, my human spirit is “limited to the things of man.” If I want to know about the things of God, my dead and dormant spirit is not able to know them.
The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned (1 Corinthians 2:14).
The human spirit requires “the spark of regeneration” before there is an understanding of the things of God.
Man’s spiritual nature must be renewed before there is a true conception of Godliness. Only one thing stands as a guard at the door of man’s spirit, and that is his own will.
When the will is surrendered, the Holy Spirit takes up His abode in the spirit of man. And when that transaction takes place we will know it, for, says Paul: The Spirit Himself (meaning the Holy Spirit) beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God (Romans 8:16 R.V.).
Many people confess that they get nothing out of the Bible even though they attend church and read their Bibles regularly. Perhaps they do not know that they are not regenerated and that they need to yield their will to the Spirit of God so that He can renew their human spirits. The deep things of God never will be understood by the world outside of Jesus Christ.
No amount of religion or church activity can change the spirit of the unregenerate man. “Remember,” says Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, “if out of false charity or pity you allow men of material ideals and worldly wisdom to touch holy things, to handle the pearls of the Kingdom, presently they will turn and rend you.
The Bible says; “There is a spirit in man; and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding” (Job 32:8). Here we are told that it is the spirit of man that is given understanding. The materialist tells us that the spirit of man is the air that he breathes, and that man’s body is all there is to his personality. Such is not the case.
The spirit of man is his personality and it is that which differentiates him from the lower animal creation. If “spirit” meant merely “breath,” God certainly would not deal with it as a personality. He is called “The God of the spirits of all flesh” (Numbers 16:22), and “the Father of spirits” (Hebrews 12:9). It is by his spirit that the Christian both serves and worships God. Paul testified: “For God is my witness, Whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel” (Romans 1:9). Jesus said: “God is a spirit; and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24).
The Soul
Man not only has a living soul but he is a living soul. The Bible says: “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul” (Genesis 2:7). We must be careful not to confound that which is truly spiritual and that which is merely soulish or psychical. We have seen that the spirit of man is the sphere of activity where the Holy Spirit operates in regeneration. Just so is the soul the sphere of activity where Satan operates making his appeal to the affections and emotions of man.
Satan knows full well that he dominates the psychical or the soulish man. Therefore he does not care if a man goes to a church where the Spirit of God is not in evidence. He knows that his victim is a creature of emotions, and it matters not if the emotions are stirred to sentimentalism or even to tears, just so long as man’s spirit does not come in contact with God’s Holy Spirit.
Personally, I believe that Satan would rather have man go to a modernistic church where there is false worship than he would have him go to a house of prostitution. The soul is the seat of the passions, the feelings, and the desires of man; and Satan is satisfied if he can master these. F. W. Grant has said that the soul is the seat of the affections, right or wrong, of love, hate, lusts, and even the appetites of the body.
Hamor said to Jacob, “The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter” (Genesis 34:8). Of David and Jonathan it is written: “The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul” (1 Samuel 18:1). These passages show the soul to be the seat of the affections. But as the soul loves, so it also hates. We read of those “that are hated of David’s soul” (2 Samuel 5:8).
It shall be even as when a hungry man dreameth, and behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreameth, behold, he drinketh; however, but he awaketh, and behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite (Isaiah 29:8).
The soul of man, that is, his affections and desires, are never directed Godward until after the spirit has become regenerated. Man can never love God nor the things of God until he is born from above.
He may have a troubled conscience or be so stirred emotionally that he may weep bitterly, and still remain dead in trespasses and in sins. We do not feel that we are guilty of judging men when we state that some who have answered an altar call and shed tears never were born again. Man’s desires and affections are turned toward God when he realizes his sinful condition and God’s grace in salvation.
When the Spirit of God illuminates the spirit of a man with divine light and life, that man begins to yield his affections and faculties to God.
The Virgin Mary said; “My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour” (Luke 1:46, 47). She could not extol the Lord in her soul until she had recognized God in her spirit as her Saviour. The initial triumph is in the spirit when Jesus Christ is acknowledged as personal Saviour.
In that immortal classic of the Psalms, David says: “He restoreth my soul” (Psalm 23:3). The Hebrew word translated “restoreth” is said to mean quite literally “turneth back.” At no time had David lost his salvation, but there were times when his affections and desires were turned from the Lord, as in the case of his sin with Bathsheba.
Having become one of the Divine Shepherd’s flock, he testified: “The Lord turneth back my soul.” The Christian who is enjoying unbroken communion with his Lord will then be able to say, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name” (Psalm 103:1).
Betty White turned 97 years young on January 17, and she’s still razor sharp, healthy, and enjoying life. What’s her secret? You might be surprised. White shares at least one quality with President Donald Trump. “I don’t need much sleep, If I get 4 good hours, then I’m fine. I’ve been that way all my life.” Betty, however, is an optimist, enjoys life and she still has no plans to retire.
Do what you love and love what you do. That is Brandi Shigley’s theme song for life. Founder of Fashion Denver and B23 Productions, she finds herself juggling a vast amount of projects at one time, but she says that’s what keeps her ticking. Petite in frame.
