Many people have asked me about my story, why I do what I do, how it all started           and How I do what I do. I didn’t set out to become an expert on either weight-loss or detoxification. In the spring of 1990, I was an ordinary woman living an ordinary life.          I was 35, married, a mother and happily following my calling as a registered nurse.

We lived in Southern California, where my husband at that time and I also owned and  operated 3 nursing homes providing healthcare to medically fragile and developmentally disabled children and adults. However,  unbeknownst  to our staff  and patients,  I had begun experiencing medical problems of my own.

I noticed  I was getting occasional headaches that, over time, became more frequent.  Since,  I was very busy at home and at work,  I just chalked it up to stress and popped       an aspirin.  No big deal,  I thought.  Then,  I started feeling a little pain in my joints— nothing too uncomfortable or disabling. I would ignore these indications  something      was wrong, down another aspirin or Tylenol and go on about my life.

Little by little things started getting worse. My joints started aching; my muscles      began     to hurt;  I started  having night sweats;  my heart started racing.  I did not       sleep for days even though I was exhausted.

I sought help, beginning with my internist, who did not know what was wrong, so suggested I see another doctor.  Over the course of several years,  I saw close to thirty physicians: my primary, different neurologists, immunologists, a rheumatoid arthritis expert, several heart specialists, a psychiatrist, a gastroenterologist.

None of them could figure out what was going on. Was it lupus? Multiple sclerosis? Cancer?  A bone disease?  Chron’s disease?  A boatload of viruses?  Over time different doctors suspected many ghastly,  horrible things,  but nobody  was certain about what   was happening to my body.

At first, they also told me to keep taking pain medications to relieve my symptoms.

Then they started handing me prescriptions: antibiotics, arthritis meds, steroids.

At one point I was taking thirteen different drugs, the worst being Methotrexate a         drug used for chemo- therapy. In the meantime my symptoms kept getting worse           and instead   of occurring individually they started happening all at once.

Before long, whatever was going wrong with me took over my body and life. I lost             my appetite.  I lost weight.  I was so constipated and very nauseous most of the time.        My thinking became slow and muddled—sometimes my brain was so foggy that it felt     like I was stuck in a Coca-Cola bottle and couldn’t get out.  My body was bloated; my      skin hurt and so did my eyeballs.  At one point  it felt like bugs were crawling all over       me. Needless to say, as my body and life spiraled out of control and I sunk into a deep depression. I had basically become bedridden.

On one of the rare days that I dragged myself out, I apparently drove in circles for hours while taking my daughter Whitney to Nursery school.  Her school was only 2 blocks from our home.  When I snapped out of a deep fog,  I had no idea where I was,  where I’d been or where the time had gone. That’s when I knew something was desperately wrong. I also admitted to myself that I had a serious problem.  I knew that if I didn’t get help,  I would be in serious trouble and possibly lose my daughter.

You might wonder how someone like me could find myself in a situation like this. As          a nurse and a nursing-home owner and administrator,  I certainly knew a lot of doctors.     I, of all people, should have been able to obtain proper care. So it would seem.

But like many people who develop a chronic illness, I had unknowingly strayed onto    what healthcare providers secretly call “the sick wheel”:  you go from doctor to doctor    none of whom knows exactly what’s wrong or has the complete picture of what’s going    on, though each prescribes an additional medicine.

When you’re on the sick wheel, you end up taking drug after drug, one for the physical symptoms you originally showed up with, then another to cover up the symptoms, or side effects, the first drug causes.  After a while your kidneys start hurting from trying to filter the man-made chemicals from the first two drugs out of your system. The kidneys are like the body’s trashcans,  filtering waste and toxins from the blood,  creating urine, helping to regulate blood pressure, however, they aren’t designed to process synthetic substances like pharmaceutical drugs, pesticides in your environment or chemicals in your food and water.

Once they start aching the doctors typically prescribe a third drug to mask those symptoms. Before long, you have to take a fourth to cover up the symptoms caused by    the third one.  You reach a point where so many things are going wrong with your body that no one really knows what the problem is: the drugs or the disease.  Many people in   the medical community know this cycle by a more ominous name: the “death ceremony.” It’s only a matter of time before the synthetic ingredients in the drugs wreak havoc inside your body, which becomes burdened with substances it wasn’t designed to process and, therefore, experiences as toxic.

Eventually, these chemicals exhaust the kidney and liver. My eyes turned yellow a serious indication that my liver was not working at optimal level. Many people end up on dialysis or a transplant list because medicine has damaged their organs.  And lots of folks actually die of so-called  “side effects” rather than of the disease they’re being treated for.  In fact, the fourth leading cause of death according to the Food and Drug Administration is cited as “Adverse drug reactions.” Not surprisingly, people become depressed as they lose their quality of life and hope.  Full Story ==>  http://mvholisticretreat.com/dr-ronis-story/ 

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Candida albicans, a common yeast, and its links to cancer?

Expert Gerald Green believed that the common yeast, Candida albicans, was linked to cancer and a host of gut illnesses from IBS to Crohn´s and he had an anti-candida diet to beat it.   http://naturalsociety.com/candida-may-actually-cause-cancer/

Do you have a yeast infection?

Mouth ulcers, sweet tooth, bloating after meals, flatulence, cystitis or thrush? Or stomach problems, pain in the stomach, frequent bowel movements or constipation? How about unexplained fatigue, lack of energy, frequent minor infections, fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome?

Most people simply would not think that one of the first steps in a cancer prevention programme might be to cut out excess yeasts or candida infections. They drain you, and poison you. Certainly few oncologist doctors would tell a newly diagnosed cancer patient to go on an anti-yeast, anti-candida diet. Moreover, they will probably give you antibiotics, steroids and other drugs that will only make your yeast infections worse!

However, there is a growing body of evidence that yeast infections, and particularly candida, are involved in a number of cancers. They are definitely an acknowledged problem in certain cancer treatments, for example in Multiple Myeloma and Leukaemia,   a by-product of the heavy drug routine and the lack of a strong immune system.

But could yeasts and candida actually lie behind many cancers, far more than Doctors would expect? Could they even be the cause of a cancer? Or a factor that could drive the disease as it progresses?

Try this for size:  “Cancer patients undergoing radio or chemotherapy did not finally succumb to the cancer itself, but to an infestation of candida albicans”. That was taken from Contemporary Oncology Magazine 1993 in the USA.

This is one article about the possibility that common yeasts, which can show as symptoms like thrush, cystitis, yellow toe nails and/or bloating after meals, can develop in the body to become serious candida albicans infections. These thrive in a low oxygen environment (as do cancers) and produce toxic by-products that can both feed and stimulate cancers. This article, about the work of Gerald Green, will even give you a simple anti-candida diet. (Readers might also like to read our book: ´The Secret Source of your good health´, which covers beneficial bacteria, pathogens, candida and all chronic illnesses).

Candida, yeast infection and cancer!!!!

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I have a wonderful job. I also meet so many interesting people, so many experts all on   the  same mission – helping people beat cancer.  One minute it´s Charlotte Gerson, then Dr. Contreras. I may get a complex soon though; none of Britain´s top orthodox doctors ever seem to ring me up to tell me of their latest work,  which is very sad because icon now goes out to over 450,000 readers every issue in over 600 hospitals, oncology units, complementary centres and health centres in UK libraries.

It is estimated that 70 per cent of the British population
have a yeast infection

One gentleman, with whom I had been corresponding, was Gerald Green, a medical herbalist and immunologist in Bexhill, Sussex. His grandfather (Professor Fritz Hber 1868-1934) won a Nobel Prize and was one of Germanys finest scientists. Energy and investigative endurance clearly run in the family. Gerald devoted a large part of his life to studying candida, but sadly died a few years ago.

It is estimated that 70 per cent of the British population have a yeast infection. The primary cause of this is our love of antibiotics. Swollen glands? Take antibiotics. Tonsillitis? Take antibiotics. Are you allergic to antibiotics? If the answer is no, that´s fine. Antibiotics have no side effects. Who says?

So would you be surprised if I told you that The Journal of the American Medical Association (Feb 18th 2004; 291; 827-35) has reported a study on 10,000 women in which women who took over 500 days of antibiotics in a 17 year period (dubbed 25 plus doses) had twice the risk of breast cancer as those that took none at all. Even women taking just ONE DOSE had a statistical risk increase to 1.5 times. This followed worrisome findings   in Finland in 2000.

Friendly Bacteria and cancer

Apart from a minor problem that they may well be toxic to brain cells (Drs Goldman & Klatz – US), antibiotics kill many strains of bacteria in the body, including the ones you need; the friendly ones in the gut. You see, friendly (commensal) bacteria are fragile.

Friendly bacteria?  You´ve probably heard of acidophilus, or bifidobacteria?  But they       are not even in the top 50.  Your gut actually contains about 800 different strains, 400      of which have been identified. Roughly 12 come up time and time again in research and, for example,

1. They are known drivers of 85 per cent of your immune system – they stimulate it to produce antibodies.

2. They actually make important (and anti-cancer) vitamins like biotin, folic acid, B-12  and vitamin K. And melatonin, glutathione and seratonin.

3. They help you eliminate carcinogenic hormones and chemicals like oestrogen, nitrosamines, cadmium and mercury

4. They even produce an anti-cancer chemical from your foods

5. Their favourite foods are whole foods and whole grains – and candida albicans and microbes

Antibiotics kill most of the bacteria in the body,
including the ones you need

At night they can digest roughly 2.2 kilograms of yeasts and microbes for you.                They are your first line of defence.

Go to: How to heal Your Gut

They have inhabited our bodies for thousands of years. They help us, and in return           we give them a nice cosy place to live.

Except we don´t anymore.  We have broken our lifetime deal with them.  We no longer  feed them their favourite fibre-rich, whole foods. And, we eat too much salt, pickled foods, drink excess alcohol and chlorinated water,  which each can change our stomach´s acidity and so harms them and reduces their growth, multiplication and action. Worse we eat food with antibiotics in it and take drugs, which can kill them.

And to make matters worse we feed their enemies – yeasts and candida love sugar           and dairy!

Stress and poor diet can reduce levels of good bacteria in just a few days,                              so you are wise anyway to take an effective daily probiotic.

It is no wonder there is a growing volume of research linking your gut to the encouragement, or prevention, of cancer.

Go To: Gut Bacteria and cancer – from Breast cancer to liver and colorectal cancer

An anti-candida diet

It is easy to see how yeasts have taken a hold in the Western world. The US and UK diets are simply weak in the foods that keep yeasts under control.  My Thai wife used to live in    a country with a trillion such microbes lounging on every street corner, however in a Thai diet rich in coconut (caprylic acid),  garlic,  chillies and bee propolis,  foods are natural controllers of yeasts. Once upon a time in England, we ate cloves and raw honey, but now our diets merely help to propagate yeasts.

High sugar drinks, snacks, fast food, alcohol, refined wheat, indeed any high glycaemic food, feed the yeasts. And we live in a high glycaemic world in the West.Gerald Green believesd there is a ´Super-Herb´ that could kill off yeasts like candida, and pathogens  like E. coli, viruses, and parasites. It is called Artemisinin.

Go To: Super-herb artemisinin kills yeasts, pathogens, parasites and even cancer cells

Yeasts Are Parasites

Over the last 80 years several people have had theories about parasites and their cause of cancer. By and large they have been ridiculed. Hulda Clark, Royal Rife and others. I helped Geoffrey Boycott beat his mouth cancer by killing off a parasite and his yeasts. They both weaken you, and they both produce toxins.

So why ignore yeasts?? Maybe because antibiotics are the big blame factor that no one dare own up to??

Yeasts Cause Other Illnesses

Diabetes is a well studied disease. Arthritis is probably less clear. But recently research in the USA showed that by taking cinnamon could – in some people – significantly reduce the symptoms of both diseases.  Why?  Well yeast infections eventually move across the gut lining (Leaky Gut) and into the blood system.  Every cell has large numbers of receptor sites on the cell wall which it needs to function properly. In non-diabetics, insulin alights on some receptors, for example, to take glucose out of the blood and into the cells.

But what if the receptors are blocked with yeasts? In the past 5 years two Nobel prizes were won by people showing how these receptor sites could become blocked and cells could not communicate very well. One reason for this blocking was that carbohydrate could make them sticky and what stuck to them? Yeasts.

Now, there´s many a nutritionist that knows what these scientists don´t know. Namely that cinnamon will help kill yeasts in the blood stream. So now you can see why some people may well benefit. The receptor sites for insulin become unblocked. And although taking cinnamon is officially credited with glucose control in the blood stream, you can  see that the research results that cinnamon benefited 25 per cent of diabetics may have had nothing to do with sugar directly, but by unblocking receptor sites the insulin could suddenly work again and thus, indirectly, blood sugar was lowered.

Yeasts – a cause of Cancer?

I recently went to a cancer clinic in the USA, and to the Dove Clinic in the UK.                     At both I talked to the nurses.

Every Cancer patient they see, man or woman, has bad candida

They were unanimous. Every cancer patient they see, man or woman, has bad candida. Whether it is breast cancer or prostate cancer. (It is most definitely true for    my daughter with her brain tumour too).

The problem is that these yeasts get everywhere. Whilst they might start off in your gut, they soon pass into the blood stream and then, like Alien, they are loose in the mother ship. And they make an alcohol as a by-product of their very existence, and this alcohol feeds cancer cells. Moreover, yeasts are anaerobes – they don´t use oxygen to metabolise and survive. If they move round your body and colonise an area of your breast or prostate they set up anaerobic conditions. And cancer thrives in situations where oxygen levels are lowered.

Cancer Treatments Make Matters Worse!

To repeat: “cancer treatments make matters worse!” Steroids, antibiotics and chemotherapy, for example, kill the good bacteria and thus help the growth of the yeasts. Once they dominate, they are like mushrooms, having roots which punch holes in the gut wall. If you eat gluten it increases levels of zonulin, which in turn makes the holes formed by the roots, even bigger. This allows food molecules into the blood stream and even yeasts. Result? Fatigue, lethargy and even reduced oxygen, with yeasts sticking to cell membranes and blocking important cell receptor sites creating deficiency inside cells.  This is leaky gut.

But don´t take my word for it,  as I started the article above,  try this comment from          the prestigious US magazine Contemporary Oncology as long ago as April 1993: Cancer patients undergoing radio or chemotherapy did not finally succumb to the cancer itself, but to an infestation of candida albicans.

The anti-candida diet

So back to the late expert Mr Green. (And he is an expert. I have seen the letters he receives from hospitals and microbiology units saying he knows more than they do).        He believes even terminal cancer patients can be saved if the root cause is candida.

He believes sufferers must immediately ELIMINATE THE FOLLOWING FROM THEIR DIET:

All cows´ milk products:
cheese, yoghurt, whey. And all cows milk derivatives which are everywhere in processed food.

Yeast products:
alcohol, bread, Marmite, Oxo, Bovril, vinegars, mushrooms, processed and smoked fish and meats.

All sugar products:
honey, fructose, lactose, glucose, dextrose and sweeteners like Nutrisweet and Canderel.

Nearly all fruit:
overripe fruits are full of sugar and yeasts. Plus vegetables like courgettes, pumpkin, squash, marrow.

High sugar root vegetables:
carrots, parsnips, sweet potatoes, beetroots, (maximum 1 potato per day).

Personally, I would add all high glycaemic foods to this list, e.g. refined wheat, rice, pasta, fizzy soft drinks, fruit juices and squash, biscuits, pastries, pies and corn. Gerald mentions most of these too in his diet and he suggests you avoid all pulses, processed meats, high salt foods and hydrogenated vegetable oils too.

Below you will find his list of Good Food Choices.

His sweetener of choice is Stevia, a herb 100 times sweeter than sugar but a natural anti-fungal agent.

He recommends astragalus and echinacea pIus 1 gm vitamin C daily to boost the immune system. (Gerald does a lot of work with cancer patients, MS, Crohn´s and Lupus sufferers too).

Good Food Choices

EAT PLENTY OF THE FOLLOWING FOODS:

Alfalfa sprouts
Bean sprouts
Bell peppers (sweet peppers)
Bok choy
Broccoli
Brussel sprouts
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Celery
Cucumber
Endive
Fennel
Garlic
Green beans
Hot chilli peppers
Kale
Lettuce
Onions
Parsley
Radishes
Spring onions
Spinach
Swiss chard
Turnips
Yellow beans

FATS (in moderation):
Granose sunflower margarine
Tomor kosher margarine (both these margarines should be available at your local health food shop)
Avocado oil
Fish oil
Flaxseed oil
Grapeseed oil
Hemp oil
Mayonnaise
Monounsaturated fats
Olive oil
Primrose oil

FLUIDS
Try to drink eight glasses of water each day.

Herbal teas are acceptable

PROTEINS
Free range eggs
Fresh fish and seafood
Pork, lamb, veal
Poultry: chicken, turkey (particularly skinless white meat)
Game
Tofu
Quorn
5oy milk/cheeses (in moderation)
Rice milk
Sheeps milk/cheeses (dilute sheeps milk 50/50 with water and it will taste the same as cows milk)
Goats milk/cheeses

Culinary herbs and spices

Not that far from the excellent CANCERactive diet. Go To: Rainbow Diet

Personally, I would add that garlic, caprylic acid, oregano oil and Pau D´Arco are all excellent yeast killers. Cinnamon can kill yeasts in the blood.

Gerald Green´s favourite natural destroyer was Artemisinin, or Sweet wormwood, and again I agree and want it in my pathogen and parasite course. It kills yeasts, pathogens, parasites, E.coli, and even some cancer cells. Wormwood is a natural herb and is now fast replacing poorer performing anti-malarial Drugs in the world. It is very efficient.

Go To: The Super-Herb that kills yeasts, pathogens, viruses, parasites and some cancer cells 

Finally, I believe people don´t understand probiotics – you don´t need 45 strains and    250 billion. You need probiotics that deliver – and 8 billion of them.   You need  one that contains L. Acidophilus, L. rhamnosus (to heal your gut wall) and Bifidobacteria. It should also contain a delivery system to get the bugs through the dangerous stomach, and specific foods to feed the bacteria immediately the bacteria arrive at their destination. I use a probiotic called Modere protozymes. To read more about toxin-free products and advanced supplements like protozymes go HERE to buy.

Chlorella is a supplement that seems to enhance the action of probiotics and the natural flora in the gut. And I believe fish oils can help too, as can vitamin D.

Astragalus and Echinacea tinctures, plus Wormwood, parasite killer and protozymes are all available in the Natural Selection Products of Choice shop – simply click SHOP at the top of this page or click here.

Reviews of herbs etc. can be found in our Nutritionals section, under Complementary    and Alternative Treatments.

Readers are also advised to look at our article on Beneficial Bacteria.

Gerald published a book called “Breaking Through the Untouchable Diseases”.        This along with multi-strain probiotics and other products mentioned here can be   found in the Natural Selection shop.

Bottomline: anywhere between 79 to 97 % of all cancer patients also have Candidiasis  

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I watched my father  for  fourteen  years battle cancer  and the 4th time it finally took his life. His cancer began when he was 70 and ended at 84 years old. Soon after he retired was when he as diagnosed,  until this day  I believe it was this sense of lost lowered self – worth that caused his cancer.  He was a machinist by trade: that was what he loved about his life and that is how he identified himself!!!!

Healing the Roots of Low Self-Esteem

 

Past experiences and environments have created the self image we hold today. Learn how to heal the root cause of your low self-esteem.

  There is always a root to a problem,  and there is a root to low self-esteem,  but without identifying why or how it got there,  we don’t have the tools  to eradicate it for good. The struggle with developing unshakable confidence and self-esteem is like a battle with annoying ivy covering a beautiful home. Perhaps you have been used to the vines, even embracing them on occasion, but at the end of the day they are more problematic than positive, and they destroy the foundation.

I used this analogy just today with a beautiful young woman who felt anything but attractive. “I am trying, and I practice the tools, it just seems like I am not getting far;     I am always struggling with the way I look,” she said.

“So, its like you are cutting a small leaf or branch off, but still feel like your covered in vines. Some of the tricks and tools we have used work but they don’t seem to be fixing    the root cause—the reason these toxic thoughts developed in the first place.”

Even if we have done deep work in the past, when we thought we had eradicated those low self-esteem beliefs for good, the root can keep growing and the right circumstances can make it feel like the weeds are taking over your mind.

How to Get to the Root of Low Self-Esteem

Think of the ways your self-image, confidence, and self-esteem developed. These could have been thoughts you have had since childhood, early experiences, or circumstances you encountered through life. The beliefs stemmed from somewhere.

1. Invalidating environments: an overly critical parent, lover, or friend. On the   flip side,  it could have been a person in your life  behaved in a way that made you    feel incapable of making your own decisions or trusting yourself. An overprotective parent or someone who made you feel fragile and that alone you couldn’t handle the demands of the world.
2. Loss or trauma: feeling out of control, death of a loved one, divorce, feeling abandoned, abuse
3. Rejection: this could have been from a loved one or a group of kids at school,         not getting into a program or holding on to feelings of perceived inadequacy.
4. Unspoken pressure: from peers, friends, even society, giving you standards       you tried to live up to but always felt like you were coming up short.
5. Mistaken beliefs: these come from our own experiences, attempting to make     sense of the life circumstances and feelings we encounter.  However,  they hold          us back and keep the roots from healing.

Common Mistaken Beliefs that Lead to Low Self-Esteem

Do any of these feel true for you? If so, get curious and look for the roots or experiences that made these come about.

• I am powerless; I am a victim of circumstances greater than me.
• Life is not easy; it’s always a struggle
• If I try, I will fail.
• I don’t matter.
• I should always look good and put together for others to like me.
• I need to be a certain size or weight to be worthy.
• I need to have X, Y or Z to feel successful.
• I can’t cope with the demands of the outside world.
• I am not good enough and I never have been.
• I will never be worthy of love or respect.

As hard as this may be to admit, there is power in recognizing where your mistaken beliefs come from. When you can identify, to the best of your ability, the ways the root may have formed, and the toxic thoughts of low self-esteem that keep it growing in your mind, you have a much better grasp on how false they really are.

For my client, we examined that many of her mistaken beliefs came from her peers, the media, what she was told was “pretty” by television and the images she saw. She has supportive parents, but had highly critical grandparents who made confusing comments to her about weight, appearance, and the need to be attractive. She also had friends who placed a lot of emphasis on outer appearance.

When you also become aware of how these thoughts became stuck in your mind, you are better able to attack them when they come up. The more and more you practice, it’s like treating the ivy with chemicals.  Each time you spray,  it may not go away,  but it is slowly killing the root. Overtime, the real you, the empowered you, becomes more visible. When you catch a new bud or leaf starting to grow, you can stop it in its tracks. Knowing and understanding the root cause of your pain or mistaken beliefs is the best way to rid yourself of toxic thoughts and low self-esteem for good.

Emily is the author of Express Yourself: A Teen Girls Guide to Speaking Up and Being Who You Are.You can visit Emily’s Guidance Girl website. You can also find her on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter.

Author: Emily Roberts MA, LPC

Emily is a psychotherapist, she is intensively trained in DBT, she the author of Express Yourself: A Teen Girls Guide to Speaking Up and Being Who You Are.     You can visit Emily’s Guidance Girl website. You can also find her on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter.

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The Importance of Self Esteem

Self esteem is crucial and is a cornerstone of a positive attitude towards living.

It is very important because it affects how you think, act and even how you relate to other people. It allows you to live life to your potential. Low self esteem means poor confidence and that also causes negative thoughts which means that you are likely to give up easily rather than face challenges. In addition, it has a direct bearing on your happiness and wellbeing. Read more about why self esteem  is so important to you.

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“What is the most important thing for a person starting out on the road to success?”

“I would tell them the most important thing is to work on your self esteem, that’s the best advice I can give.”

What is Low Self Esteem?

Low self esteem comes from a poor self image. Your self image is based on how you see yourself. Do you think you are a good, reliable, hardworking, honest or friendly person? Do you like what you see when you look in the mirror or do you believe others look better and dress better than you?

Low self esteem also depends on other factors like your job. For example, do you value the job you do? Does the job you have help you be happy with who you are?  Do the others in your office respect you?

Low self esteem feeds your negative thinking and causes you to believe the critcism others make of you. Do you take what others say and not speak up? This can cause you to lose confidence so it is vital to end negative thoughts if you want to build your self esteem.

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What is High Self Esteem?

High self esteem is the opposite of the above! If you have a high level of self esteem you will be confident, happy, highly motivated and have the right attitude to succeed.

We all know that self-esteem can be an important part of success. Too little self-esteem can leave people feeling defeated or depressed.   It can lead people to make bad choices, fall into destructive relationships, or fail to live up to their full potential. But what about too much self-esteem?  Narcissism can certainly be off-putting and can even damage personal relationships.

Self-esteem levels at the extreme high and low ends of the spectrum can be damaging, so the ideal is to strike a balance somewhere in the middle.

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A Breakdown of Self-Esteem

In psychology, the term self-esteem is used to describe a person’s overall sense of self-worth or personal value.

• Self-esteem is often seen as a personality trait, which means that it tends to be stable and enduring.
• Self-esteem can involve a variety of beliefs about the self, such as the appraisal of one’s own appearance, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors.

Components of Self-Esteem

According to one definition (Branden, 1969), there are three key components of self-esteem:

1. Self-esteem is an essential human need that is vital for survival and normal, healthy development.
2. Self-esteem arises automatically from within, based on a person’s beliefs and consciousness.
3. Self-esteem occurs in conjunction with a person’s thoughts, behaviors, feelings, and actions.

Self-Esteem Theories

The need for self-esteem plays an important role in psychologist Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, which depicts self-esteem as one of the basic human motivations. Maslow suggested that people need both esteem from other people as well as inner self-respect. Both of these needs must be fulfilled in order for an individual to grow as a person and achieve self-actualization.

Factors That Can Influence Self-Esteem

As you might imagine, there are different factors that can influence self-esteem. Genetic factors that help shape overall personality can play a role, but it is often our experiences that form the basis for overall self-esteem. Those who consistently receive overly critical   or negative assessments from caregivers, family members, and friends, for example, will likely experience problems with low self-esteem.

Self-Esteem Synonyms:

• Self-worth
• Self-respect
• Self-value

The Importance of Self Esteem and Self Worth

by Karl Perera

I think the importance of self esteem cannot be underestimated. It affects your behaviour and thoughts. It changes how you feel about and value yourself. It affects your confidence, and that can affect your success and thinking in a big way.

Can you imagine anything else so important?

Why Should Self Esteem Matter to You?

• Self esteem can be the difference between success and failure
• Esteem can affect your thinking, causing your outlook to be positive or negative
• Esteem affects your confidence
• It affects your self image
• If you do not value yourself how will you be able to value others?
• Self esteem enables you to have the right attitude to succeed at work
• It affects your happiness

Let’s take a moment or two to look a bit more closely at what  I’ve said above –                 and then I hope that you will appreciate just how important self esteem is to you.

Your potential to achieve what you most desire is directly related to your self esteem. On the other hand, failure is much more likely when you suffer from low self esteem because you will believe others when they tell you why you cannot succeed. LOw self esteem will affect your motivation and make you more likely to give up on anything that seems difficult. So, work on building your self esteem and success will be that much easier.

I’m sure you realise the importance of positive thinking. Increase your esteem and you  will become more positive. This will benefit you in every area of your life.

Read more about optimism here.

Do you Have a Problem with Self Confidence?

Self esteem affects your confidence, how important is that? If you want to rise to any challenge you must believe in yourself. Without confidence in what you can do, and in   who you are, what chance do you have of happiness or success? And if you can’t believe     in yourself, how will you be able to trust and believe in others?

Want to increase your confidence and feel much better about yourself? Then go download feel better about yourself hypnosis audio now.

Self image is another important part of how you feel about yourself. Low self esteem means that you will have a poor image of yourself and this will result in a loss of confidence.  Your social skills will also suffer and you will find it harder to socialize   because others will respond negatively to your lack of confidence. With some effort  though you can improve your self image so that it helps you.

To learn more, read this page about feeling good about yourself.

Self esteem will also help you at work. Your confidence and positive attitude will enable you to look and feel your best. You will have no trouble presenting yourself in a favourable light because you will be full of self respect and comfortable with who you are.

Confidence in one’s own worth or abilities; self-respect.

“assertiveness training for those with low self-esteem”

synonyms:

self-respect, pride, dignity, self-regard, faith in oneself; More morale, self-confidence, confidence, self-assurance “the best thing I ever did for my self-esteem was to divorce Roger”

Do You Value Yourself?

Value yourself, your ability and your contribution in the world because you are unique.   Do you understand this? You cannot value and respect others unless you first value and respect yourself.

Finally, one last reason why your self esteem is so important. It will help you be a happier person. To find out why read this page about moods and how they affect your thoughts and behaviour.

I hope that this short article has been helpful to you. Take a look around at the rest of the site which is filled with information about different aspects of self esteem.

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What Nikola Telsa Know About 0ur Universe!!!

Nikola Tesla states  — ‘If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms          of energy, frequency and vibration.’ http://www.one-mind-one-energy.com/Law-of-vibration.html

We live in an ocean of motion

Our thoughts are on a certain vibrational frequency and hence is part of the vibrating universe. The Law of Attraction, which is based on The Law of Vibration, states that we attract what we are sending out. Hence positive energies attract positive energies and negative energies attract negative energies.

Our thoughts are cosmic waves of energy that penetrate all time and space. Thought is the most potent vibration – so this means you can attract to you what you want and wish for.

S0 Why doesn’t the Law of Attraction work f0r some people?

When Astrid Walschot-Stapp was eight years old.

Lisa Park in piece “Eunoia.” The headpiece is not conveying anything to her directly.

It’s reading her. In her recent bodies of works, Lisa has used biofeedback devices as a

tool to investigate her inner states and emotional states.

These performances explored the possibilities of self-monitoring her physical

and psychological states to create an audio-visualization of herself.

In her first interactive artwork, Park encased her head in a plastic orb filled with live (terrifying) butterflies, then modulated the pitch of a recorded speed depending on the speed of her heart rate.

She later flipped Man Ray’s Le Violin d’Ingres by creating a bow that responds to human touch, then letting herself be played like the violin. She first donned an EEG in 2013 while doing research for her thesis project and first virally popular artwork, Eunoia.

As far as Park is concerned, she’s exploring uncharted territory. “When people think of new media art, they instantly think of screen-based work,” she observes. “But in New York, when you say ‘interactive art,’ there’s a lot of mediums to consider.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTOQZNkQukg

So you show up at an art gallery one day, not really sure what to expect. You pass through the rooms. White walls. Canvasses. Statues. Some of it grabs you. A lot of it doesn’t. Then you enter another room and, besides some more wall hangings, you see five bowls of water sitting on the floor.

Each bowl sits on some sort of electronic device. Wires run out from beneath them.          As you’re trying to make sense of all this, a young woman in a full-length smock walks     out from behind the bowls   and moves into their center.  She’s barefoot.  What strikes        you most,  though,  is that she’s wearing a strange headpiece,  a cross between Google    Glass and recording studio headphones, yet no part of it reaches her ears or eyes.

She sits on her heels in the center of the five bowls and looks at them. Strange sounds rumble out from beneath the bowls, and the water begins to respond to the sounds. At first, it simply quivers. As you watch, however, a deeper sound makes the water in one bowl or another hop up, even splash. The young woman isn’t saying anything.

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She alternates between looking at one of the bowls in front of her and closing her eyes. She just sits there as the sounds change. The water alternates between still and rippling, and the sound moves between a low drone and sharp charges.

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The young woman is Lisa Park. The performance is called “Eunoia.” The headpiece            is not conveying anything to her directly.  Instead , it’s reading her.  It’s a NeuroSky MindWave transmitting data about her brainwaves via Bluetooth back to a computer, where a program takes the brainwave data and translates it into sounds played on the speakers set beneath the dishes of water.

For Park, the goal of the piece is to exercise control over her own mind, to make her    mind so still and so calm that there’s nothing for the EEG sensor to read. Ideally, the  water is still. The speakers are silent. She has attained total self-control.

It’s just the opposite of another recent art piece called “The Emotional Arcade.”                   In “The Arcade,”  artists Brent Hoff and Alexander Reben use different devices to     measure emotional states  and encourage people to compete  to see who can feel it              the most.  So,  for example,  similar EEG technology is used to fill “Rage Balloons,”         where participants compete to make themselves as angry as possible. What viewers          see are balloons blowing up as the EEG readings inform how much air gets pumped          in. The person to get angriest the fastest “wins.”

 Park’s work heads in the opposite direction, using technology to aid introspection—not    to facilitate chaotic emotions. She says that stillness “has been an ongoing theme” in her work, “something I am always interested in and trying to find.  Sometimes I feel like my emotion is too much. It is all around me.”  One of the ironies of “Eunoia,” she tells us, is that the audience likes it when the water jumps and splashes.  When she struggles and  fails to reach the goal of the piece—total stillness—that’s when viewers have something      to see.

The piece demonstrates how, in your own mind, calm is the heaviest lift. It may be more    exciting to visualize frenetic thought, but an absence of thought takes more work to attain. Like the disconnect between viewers’ interest and Park’s goals,  language creates an irony between the mind and body.  It’s harder for the body to exert itself and easier to rest,  but the opposite is true for the mind.  Yet both are described  in the same terms:  “rest”  and “calm” vs. “exertion” and “activity.”

“Eunoia” is the third in a trilogy of technology-driven performances expressing            Park’s feelings about herself and the context of her upbringing.  It’s interesting to               see the narrative these three pieces create—and how effectively they evoke a future             in which we are all awash in our own data.

In the first piece, “Obsession Is a Sad Passion,” Park shuts her head into a large bubble   full of butterflies. She doesn’t know why, but Park has always been afraid of butterflies. Locked inside this bubble with butterflies flitting about her face,  trying to escape, she stands there, trapped with her fears. Meanwhile, a recording is played: a short story by Patrick Suskind about a young artist driven to suicide by the expectations of the people around her.   http://www.thelisapark.com/obsession-is-sad-passion/  https://vimeo.com/61442808

The recording is governed by a heart rate monitor attached to Park. If she lets her            fear of the butterflies increase her heart rate, the sound of the recording gets lower         and slows down.  If she’s calm, it remains normal. In this piece,  Park is victimized              by her own work and must try to master the fears to which she has exposed herself.

 The second piece in this trilogy of self-control and anxiety, “Le Violon d’Lisa,” is the           most narrative. In it, she has modified a cello bow so that it creates sound when it comes in contact with skin that has a very small amount of electrical current running through it.

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The piece begins with her body being unveiled and a male performer beginning to play music on her exposed back after putting her head into his shoulder, much as one would    an actual cello. Park’s body is played in that way for a while, until she begins to act like a living person and eventually plays herself. She transforms from an object into a human with agency.  http://www.thelisapark.com/le-violon-dlisa/     https://vimeo.com/58863266        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09fiSgoF-Y0

 

With Eunoia, she closes the loop. She doesn’t just have agency—she exhibits control.       She has opted for stillness. She’s choosing to seek her own goals, not what her audience wants from her performance.  The audience might want to see drama: water jumping      and shaking and exploding, as if powered by a sort of telekinesis. However, that’s not what      she pursues.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ywzE6vsytw 

Eunoia II was the follow up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXMXqULrEWg 

That said, Park explains that it’s not so simple just to ignore the audience. She spent     three months practicing with the EEG sensor, the speakers, and the water.  By the end,   she was able to create stillness in the water.  “When I was by myself,  it was easier,” she said. During performances, it gets much harder. Having other people around makes her nervous. She responds to their presence.  She can get there,  but it takes her longer and    she can’t hold it.

She’s performed “Eunoia” three times: first at the spring 2013 show for NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program,  then at the digital arts space  319 Scholes  in  April,  and finally at “Art from the Heart 2013”  at a Gowanus Loft.  “If I do this again,”   she told us,     “I think the ideal would be to do it for five or six hours. There I would reach a point where I am in the zone.”

These works, she told me, initially explored the limits placed on women with her upbringing. Now, however, she says, “I realized last year that it is myself who is putting those limits.” Park is not the only artist who has found that using technology to augment introspection helps yield insights.

When I met Brent Hoff, one of the architects behind the “Rage Balloons,” he told me several similar stories. In one, a young woman said she would definitely win the balloon contest because she was so angry at an ex-boyfriend. Once she was strapped in, though, she couldn’t muster even the faintest inflation on her balloon. Afterward, she told Hoff that she’d realized she wasn’t angry with him. She just thought she was.

It won’t be long before more people—not just artists—will be able to create their own methods of transmuting brainwaves  and emotions into real world manifestations. In    fact, 2 engineers have a Kickstarter for the first completely open-source EEG platform, allowing users to get pure data and feed it back out into anything they want, any way    they want.

How long before we start to see more pedestrian applications of this data? For example, managers could use EEG sensors to tell them which of their employees really stay focused throughout the day and which ones let their minds endlessly wander.   It’s also not quite machine-assisted telepathy, but it’s getting there.

Lisa Park may continue to ride the cutting edge of this technology. She has already begun exploring other ways to take readings of her own emotions and physically manifest them. For Park, however, the technology is only a tool, one that facilitates a new level of introspection, yielding personal and artistic growth.

Heartmonic (heart+harmonic) is an interactive performance piece that uses the bodies of participants as instruments, turning their heartbeats into a symphonic ensemble in real time.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp2nZitK5e8

What if people’s heart rhythms create music based on their interaction with other people?

Two groups of participants will be a part of this performance: eight dancers, or eight individuals. Heart rate sensors are connected to each of the eight participants, and their heart rhythms are converted to sound.

Each individual is assigned the sound of a different instrument—cello, piano, violin, marimba, percussion, flute, clarinet, or bassoon—which is controlled by their heartbeat. The artist, who acts as a conductor, will guide the participants in both physical and emotional activities designed to provoke their feelings. These activities include choreographed dance movements, holding hands, hugging, tickling, and kissing.

Resting heartbeats will be associated with a slower tempo, and elevated heartbeats correspond to more dynamic sounds, giving feedback to the participants about their      state of body and mind.

 We Are All Creators of This Reality!

Listen to Bruce Lipton drop some truth bombs about the power of our minds to control our health and the reality we experience.

We have forgotten the divinity that is inside all of us. We are able of achieving miracles but our educational system teaches that matter is the highest there is, but we know better know don’t we? Everything is energy, every emotion or situation is purely energy, we don’t have senses to sense emotions, but what we do sense is energy. Ancient civilizations were very well aware of this, and they were master in harnessing and directing energy to they’re will. We must reclaim this knowledge.

 We are not the victims of this reality, we are the creators of it. We must remember that nature’s natural state is abundance! When something is lacking in the natural world the eco-system will be out of balance and will not thrive but try to survive. This is humanity right now, we are not really living we are merely surviving. Regain your ancient power and be in charge of your experience here on the physical plane.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wlaViS9EsQ      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqjpTsUuNDY&t=2420s

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Just because water covers 70% of the earth’s surface and composes the majority of our bodies doesn’t mean we know everything about it. Marcia Barbosa talks about the many anomalies of water.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OLFwkfPxCg

Being humans are Water: is of major importance to all living things; in some organisms, up to 90% of their body weight comes from water. Up to 60% of the human adult body is water. According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed of 73% water, and the lungs are about 83% water.

Water burns? Water has a memory? Water can be effected by cell phones? It seems that there is much more to know about water than what we are taught about in science class at school. In this video you will learn about how water is effected by electricity and microwaves and that the water will carry that information and pass it along to other water. You will learn about an Austrian inventor by the name of John Grander who invented a way to “revitalize” dead water.

The water in you

Think of what you need to survive, really just survive. Food? Water? Air? Facebook? Naturally, I’m going to concentrate on water here. Water is of major importance to all living things;  in some organisms,  up to 90% of their body weight comes from water.         Up to 60% of the human adult body is water.

According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed of 73% water, and the lungs are about 83% water. The skin contains 64% water, muscles and kidneys are 79%, and even the bones are watery: 31%.

Each day humans must consume a certain amount of water to survive. Of course, this varies according to age and gender, and also by where someone lives. Generally, an adult male needs about 3 liters per day …. while an adult female needs about 2.2 liters per day. Some of this water is gotten in food.

Water serves a number of essential functions to keep us all going:

• A vital nutrient to the life of every cell, acts first as a building material.
• It regulates our internal body temperature by sweating and respiration
• The carbohydrates and proteins that our bodies use as food are metabolized                and transported by water in the bloodstream;
• It assists in flushing waste mainly through urination
• acts as a shock absorber for brain, spinal cord, and fetus
• forms saliva
• lubricates joints

According to Dr. Jeffrey Utz, Neuroscience, pediatrics, Allegheny University, different people have different percentages of their bodies made up of water. Babies have the most, being born at about 78%. By one year of age, that amount drops to about 65%. In adult men, about 60% of their bodies are water. However, fat tissue does not have as much water as lean tissue. In adult women, fat makes up more of the body than men, so they have about 55% of their bodies made of water. Thus:

• Babies and kids have more water (as a percentage) than adults.
• Women have less water than men (as a percentage).
• People with more fatty tissue have less water than people with less fatty tissue              (as a percentage).

There just wouldn’t be any you, me, or Fido the dog without the existence of an ample liquid water supply on Earth.  The unique qualities  and properties of water  are what make it so important and basic to life. The cells in our bodies are full of water.

The excellent ability of water to dissolve so many substances allows our cells to use valuable nutrients, minerals, and chemicals in biological processes.

Water’s “stickiness” (from surface tension) plays a part in our body’s ability to transport these materials all through ourselves. The carbohydrates and proteins that our bodies use as food are metabolized and transported by water in the bloodstream. No less important is the ability of water to transport waste material out of our bodies.

Water ~ is it just a liquid or much more?

Many researchers are convinced  water is capable of ‘Memory’ by storing information     and retrieving it. The possible applications are innumerable: limitless retention and storage capacity and the key to discovering the origins of life on our planet. Research      into water is just beginning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIOx7i7MkY8

Bottomline: What Nikola Telsa know about our universe ?

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