Do you ever wonder what is the risk of accidental poisoning for you or someone you love by exposure to a toxic substance in your home, a pill bottle in your purse or such a simple, innocent act as dropping a pill that rolls under your bed? I do. My sister had a dog who sniffed out a lost Sudafed. Unfortunately, the canine gobbled it up and died within hours!

Such is the risk of living and trying to exist in a world full of medicines and so many, many toxins and poisons. At the very least, it is our duty to keep an eye on medications.

Recently, Lynda Albertson of Nanny Babysitter contacted me to share the following article. It is so appropriate! I hope you read the small snippet below and then proceed on to her website for the rest of her insightful information.

We all need to take good care of the medications and “chemicals” in our possession.

Thanks, Cinda Crawford
PS- When you’re through reading this post and Lynda Albertson’s, take this great pop quiz to see how much you know about the risk of accidental poisoning, especially in children.

Keep an Eye on Medications

The prescription medications that safeguard your health and the over-the-counter pills that ease minor aches and pains can be a blessing to ailing adults, but present a very serious danger to young children. Making sure that all of your household medications are stored in a place children cannot reach and are inside child-resistant containers is imperative. It’s also very important to make sure that you keep an eye on visitors’ belongings. When Grandma stows her pills in a daily dosage container with a simple flip-top and tosses it in her purse for easy access on the go, there’s very little keeping an inquisitive child from ingesting those medications. This especially holds true for toddlers and preschoolers that may have learned to associate “Grandma’s Purse” with “candies and sweets.” Make sure that visitors have a safe place to store their bags while they spend time in your home.

Two levels of my Learn How to Heal Yourself healing course are offline for now. Problems with the back office functioning of the software that ran the program became too cumbersome and undependable. That’s why I’m choosing to go another route, but keep reading. I’m not leaving you high and dry.

For all those who are on the Silver Level of “Learn How to Heal Yourself”, there is no change. Your course work will arrive on time and as usual, via email. But both the Gold and Platinum Levels only function on the Internet connection only and that is where the problem kept happening.

I ask your forgiveness and patience. My intention is to get the whole “healing course” back up in another form soon. By taking it down now though, it gives me an opportunity to revise the material, possibly upgrade some of the resources and bring it back better than ever a bit later. Actually, I’m excited and glad I’ve finally made this determination. I don’t like to offer anything that isn’t working perfectly and as expected. Life is too tough when you’re not feeling well to try to tackle any other problems. No, no. That won’t do!

In the meantime, feel free to join “Learn How to Heal Yourself” at the Silver Level. It’s FREE and it’s great, even if I do say so myself!

Thanks, Cinda Crawford

Health Behavior: Subconscious Brain

When you’re battling your emotions and one or more chronic illnesses at the same time, it may seem like you’re losing a knock-down, drag-out wrestling match. That’s because human health behavior is greatly influenced and affected by our emotions.

Emotions can be extremely negative motivators when you don’t feel well. Consider how powerful they are when you’re grouchy, irritable and would rather be left alone. When they boost you up in the blink of an eye, you’re great! You think you’ll always feel that way.

Yes, emotions can slam you down on that wrestling mat of life without your realizing that they are in control and promoting more and worse symptoms. This concept applies to lots of chronic illnesses. Dramatic shifts of emotion make you feel unstable and prompt doubts about whether you can really handle your illness.

But there is help. Join me at the Health Matters Show.com tomorrow (Friday) for the podcast, “Emotions and Fibromyalgia” and then next Friday for “How Intentional Healing Can Help Fibro & CFS”. Truly these principles are universal. They can help you no matter what chronic illnesses you have– and more than you ever dreamed possible!

Thanks and I hope to see you at the Health Matters Show,
Cinda Crawford

Drugs Causing Mental Confusion

Today topic is important if you or someone you love is suffering with mental confusion, a condition that can be partially caused by prescriptions drugs or the illness we all dread hearing the name, Alzheimer’s! Yes, that’s right. Prescription drugs can cause such a symptom as increased mental confusion. This reality is the basis of an article in the Wall Street Journal, Detective Work: The False Alzheimer’s Diagnosis by Melinda Beck, health reporter. *Please read all the way to the end and catch her video interview.

Family members of J.D. “Jasper” Cain suspected he had Alzheimer’s disease…maybe even Parkinson’s. Doctors kept raising his prescription drugs.

Now, 13 years after his symptoms began Mr. Cain, 70 is walking, joking and matching wits with TV’s ‘Jeopardy’ again. ‘It was just like getting my life back.’

What changed for this man who was seemingly headed downhill toward the end of his life and suffering with a multitude of horrible symptoms? Answer… .

The right diagnosis and the right prescription drugs.

Alzheimer’s symptoms such as mental confusion, memory loss and personality changes can be side effects from prescription drugs- even commonly used and accepted drugs.

As reported in the article, this list of possible drugs can include:

• antihistamines
• anti-anxiety drugs
• muscle relaxants
• drugs that block the brain chemical acetylcholine
• cholesterol-reducing statins

In many instances, the mental confusion (cognitive symptoms) vanish when a medication is stopped. The results can be even more drastic when another condition is implicated. Take a quick look at this video on Alzheimer’s, featuring the Wall Street Journal’s health reporter, Melinda Beck.

This is shocking yet incredibly valuable information. Use the buttons below to “share” this info or print it out and take it to your doctor or your parent’s physicians. If you suspect that such drugs may be causing mental confusion, this is critically important.

There could be a lot more to your story than being doomed to suffer with symptoms caused, at least in part, by prescription drugs!

Cinda Crawford

Current research is now indicating a strong relationship between Fibromyalgia and many diseases that Rheumatologists treat, such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sjogrens Syndrome, Lupus and infections like Hepatitis C and Lyme disease.

New studies point to the fact that Hepatitis C can be associated with Arthritis. It can cause arthralgias, which are joint pain conditions without the swelling.

According to the authors of the following study, in rare cases several forms of Arthritis have been linked to Hepatitis C infection. One of the most commonly types of Arthritis associated with it is Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). The relationship of these two conditions results in antibodies that start to attack normal body tissue (e.g. with an autoimmune attack), although some physicians feel it may be more closely related to liver damage and argue that the condition usually affects people with cirrhosis.

Read an excerpt of this report from the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology: May/June 2012 – Volume 46 – Issue 5 – p 407–412, below and see if this is something that should be of concern to you:

Prevalence of Fibromyalgia Among Patients With Chronic Hepatitis C Infection: Relationship to Viral Characteristics and Quality of Life

Mohammad, Ausaf MBBS, MRCPI*; Carey, John J. MBBChBAO, MS, FACR, FRCPI, CCD†; Storan, Eoin MBBChBAO, MRCPI‡; Scarry, Margaret RPN-RGN H Dip in Hepatology Nursing‡; Coughlan, Robert J. MBBChBAO, FRCPI†; Lee, John M. MBBChBAO, FRCPI§

Abstract

Objectives: We determined the prevalence of fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) in a cohort of subjects with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV), and the relationship to subject demographics, viral characteristics, and quality of life.

Methods: In a cross-sectional study of a cohort of HCV-infected individuals, all subjects underwent a standard assessment including
history, clinical examination, and functional assessments for pain and disability.

Results: A total of 185 subjects met the inclusion criteria. Median age was 48.7 years, and 110 (59%) were women. A total of 106 (57%) of the subjects met criteria for the presence of FMS. Widespread pain and ≥11 tender points were present in all of the subjects with FMS, fatigue in 98 (92%), and depression in 60 (57%). Among those with FMS, mean pain score was 70±11.78 and 36% reported some functional impairment on (HAQ-DI>0), with 17% reporting moderate-to-severe functional impairment (HAQ-DI≥1.5). Compared to subjects who did not meet criteria for fibromyalgia, patients with fibromyalgia were more likely to be older, females, living alone, smokers, have a history of depression, had acquired HCV via a blood transfusion, and had HCV genotype-1(table 1, p

Conclusions: This study reveals a high prevalence of FMS (57%) among subjects with chronic HCV infection, one third of whom reported some degree of functional impairment. Recognition and management of this condition in such patients will help improve their quality of life.

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Is Hepatitis C and Fibromyalgia an unwanted relationship? You bet it is. As indicated above, people suffering with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Sjogrens Syndrome, Lupus and Lyme can be affected, too, such as when an autoimmune attack occurs. Check this out with your doctor, if you have any of these co-infection-type conditions that could be affecting your health and making it that much more complicated.

Cinda Crawford

When dealing today with the topic of Past trauma in your life and how it can harm you, I have written two previous posts that you may want to read first in preparation for this revealing information:

1) Healing Work and
2) Healing Chronic Illness.

They will help make sense of what I’m about to share with you. Much of the mental, emotional, psychological, physical and spiritual trauma that occurs in anyone’s life (*this trauma may have already occurred) is more than capable of making us physically sick and thoroughly miserable. And what’s worse, you can be merrily living your life and WHAMMO! It rears its head and strikes out of the blue. Suddenly, you’re very ill!

Leaving this past life-based trauma as is can and probably will negatively influence your health. Unless you find a way to completely, 100% resolve it (e.g. deal with every aspect of the event, situation or person), the energy can and usually does linger on producing something akin to your own personal hell.

In this case, you can’t afford to let this particular sleeping dog lie. His teeth are sharp and…he’ll come back to bite you!

As an energy consultant and someone who works on this reality all the time, these are my thoughts today for you. They are important if you want to get well and stay well. I want this for you.

Removing this type of traumatic energy from your being is critical to your current and long term health. If you have ever been the victim of a past life-based trauma, I hope these remarks help you see through a bit of this serious problem. Read on for more information.

Many people have previous occurrences of trauma (hurt? pain? disappointment? being yelled at? being put down? being told they are worthless? Ugly? Fat? Skinny? Unloved? etc. etc.) that continue to linger and cause damage within them. What’s amazing about this is no matter how long the occurrence was, no matter how far down you stuffed the memory, the damage caused by it does not go away until you choose to do something about it and fix it!!

Many times these events were originally dismissed as simply part of growing up, but the mind, body and spirit can perceive it to be so much more than a little event. The occurrence can seem major to a sensitive, growing child. Traumatic energy damage can occur in an adult, young person, child, infant… or originate in the months when you were a physical part of your mother en utero. A new born, otherwise perfectly healthy infant can be in danger of dying as well as a middle-aged adult doomed to suffer with a chronic illness the rest of their life after divorce or death of a spouse.

Past life-based trauma holds court for people of all ages and for all reasons. You’re not immune just because you’ve been told you’re Super Man or Super Woman. Literally anyone can live their life doomed to such a horrible prison!

It’s a sad but true fact that many children were never wanted or loved the way they deserved to be. Energetically, their souls received this negative, damaging message from the parent(s). Very often such an occurrence will manifest long-term issues of damaged self-worth, self-image, etc. It may not be self-evident to you (the damaged person) that you have an unresolved problem that won’t go away until you address the trauma and completely heal from it.

When I do personal, one-on-one sessions, my client and I sometimes have to dig for that information within them. Once we get past it and clear up the mind and spirit damage that this belief causes, the body healing can follow so quickly. It’s encouraging and an absolutely amazing process to see unfold. It’s like bubbles in the water rising to the surface. Be prepared to be inspired!

If you’re doing this work (without my direct intervention) inside of the Learn How to Heal Yourself membership course, it is possible to uncover such old, yet ever-present damage within you. Be determined to find it. Work through it. If you let this opportunity escape you, the symptoms you’re experiencing (that are directly connected to this emotional damage) will not resolve. (If they should go away for a short time, they will likely show up again later.)

I wish you all the success and healing possible. If I can help you by answering a question or you want to book a “free” 15 minute consult with me, let me know. Call 1-512-827-0505, extension 4654 -or- Email me.

Have a good and healthy day,

Cinda Crawford

Healing Chronic Illness #2

is an important continuation of where we began yesterday with the first post. In it I gave you quite a few examples of how and why a chronic illness begins, which is surely important and worth going back to review. I urge you to do so. Today, I’m offering you sensational inside information about how the Learn How to Heal Yourself online healing course works by showing you my response to a client’s question.

Read how I explained why it seems so difficult to get rid of symptoms that have been addressed in the course work, but won’t seem to totally resolve. This happens sometimes and can be fixed. In many ways, it means the person may be uncovering truly difficult, deeply buried issues that are contributing to her or him being so ill. What seems bad is actually good!

To be clear, this particular lady is taking the online healing course work, Learn How to Heal Yourself, and is in Month 8. She’s actually progressing nicely, yet she’s experiencing the following sticking point.

(Note: this online course is presented monthly for anyone to enroll, including you. Each student learns that month’s work, then proceeds on. Each section builds upon what you studied before until finally you master all the skills. If you’re interested in this type of healing work, consider signing up at the Platinum Level because that’s where you get the most information and best help!)

Okay, she asked me:

• How she should proceed? She worried that she was getting wrong answers from her muscle testing.
• Was it simply that her stubborn symptoms were not going to go away- period?
• Should she continue?
• Or, should she go back to previous questions and re-do something?
• If so, where was the best place to start the work again?

I hope my answer to her offers you ideas of what is possible by using this type of healing work. Keep in mind that a major part of any healing includes self-healing, self-discovery and self-honesty. I find that people do not achieve the highest degree of healing unless they are totally open with their self. Without a doubt, this degree of honesty breeds a more thorough healing and longer lasting good health. This concept is one of the many factors that make this course so powerful and dynamic!

To give you a little history, the Learn How to Heal Yourself healing course is based on Sacred Cellular Healing, the tool I created to enable healing almost anyone of their chronic illnesses. The online course teaches you how to do this healing for yourself. It requires you to ask questions and address the energies that are as much a part of you as your liver or brain. Such energies are nothing to be scared of; we’re all made up of energy. After the advent of this fantastic, online course, you have the tools you need to successfully work with your own energy and bring about your own healing. How empowering!

Each question requires a correct response and positive muscle testing to confirm your answer. I even show you how to correctly do muscle testing! After the initial preparation and learning phase, the protocol sequence goes question, answer, question, answer. That’s it. With blessings, with work and with self-discovery, the healing happens for most people when the offending energy is dealt with and the body re-learns how to be healthy once again.

Most of the time, the process works smoothly. However, occasionally when a symptom reoccurs, you need to go back and re-test for a previous question to make sure you got the right answer the first time. It could be that all of the offending energy that caused (triggered) this particular set of symptoms that you’re addressing did not clear. This isn’t a disaster. You can fix this! To help better understand how this happens and what to do, here are a few reasons why and how this occurs and the answer of what you can do:

1) Some portion of the healing work that you requested did not complete itself. Possibly, the processing was stopped, when you inadvertently went on to the next question too soon.

2) There was underlying offending (read- traumatic) energy still in charge from a previous question or section of the course. The unresolved point caused your answer to show up false this time. (It simply did not clear the first time you addressed it.) When this happens, go back further in the process to find the source of the wrong answer in the previous questions. It may be one or more questions back.

3) There is energy present that hasn’t been addressed yet, but will be in a question to follow. Simply, you haven’t had a chance to ask for that particular aspect of the healing yet. If so, try to be patient; you’ll get there soon enough.

An occurrence like this last one often means to go on, while jotting down a few notes about your response. It’s possible that the problem will be cleared up later by another question and the appropriate processing. Example: pain that’s not caused by a dysfunction of the immune system (e.g. due to autoimmune activation and inflammation), but instead is really caused by a musculo-skeletal dysfunction.

More times than not, to get a stubborn symptom to resolve will not require such mental gyrations. Difficulty of a request not holding can come from a person’s incomplete, emotional self-work. *Instructions for doing this “emotional self-work” appear early in the course, virtually in the first few months. You’ll find this important and fascinating because you, the client, want answers to be correct and not include leftover remnants of old emotional traumas that still are capable of influencing your symptoms and making you feel terrible. Yes, it may be hard to ask yourself the difficult questions, but getting the answers can be more gratifying than you know!

If you’re getting the idea that healing is a process, you’re right. For the average person, it doesn’t all happen at once. If you are to enjoy success with any true healing technique, it is necessary to resolve ALL mind, body and spirit damage. That’s why some alternative and energy healing techniques make you feel better for awhile, but ultimately, the underlying condition is still there and the symptoms eventually pop up again. In regular and alternative healthcare today, healing chronic illness is one of the most challenging pursuits, but it is possible to feel better.

Like this query from my client, I welcome your questions and responses. Bring them on. In life, we learn from each other. Please feel free to share this important message about healing with your friends, colleagues and family. Healing chronic illness is a universal goal that we all share.

Also, feel free to explore and sign up for the Learn How to Heal Yourself course today. Check out the description and what you’ll get if you subscribe as a Platinum member. Yes, a new way of Healing your chronic illness awaits you and it’s darned exciting!

I’ll see you on the inside! Thanks so much for exploring the topic of healing chronic illness.

Cinda Crawford

The is the second post in a series which began as Healing Work last week. Today’s message is entitled

Healing Chronic Illness

and that’s purposeful because I’m revealing a little known secret to healing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Lupus, chronic Lyme. … The list goes on.

THE SECRET: The causes of a chronic illness can be many–

(1) A genetic predisposition.
(2) Exposure to a toxin, parasite, mycoplasma, bacteria, virus or an overabundance of harmful yeast.
(3)Illness commonly occurs after one or more traumatic events, such as last week’s car wreck or your grandmother’s death three months ago.
(4) These factors can produce damage to the immune system, which then triggers autoimmune problems.
(5) The complication of autoimmune damage can follow a simple infection or because the body (e.g. immune system) becomes too weak to function normally. Chronic illness ensues, but why? Possibly the body gets stuck in a loop of sickness that never seems to end.
(6) Symptoms and illnesses can be precipitated or complicated after taking a prescription drug, too many drugs or drug interactions with prescription compounds that you’re already taking. Symptoms can easily compound on each other and, all of a sudden, you have another horrible illness or syndrome to deal with.
(7) Lastly, trauma from old memories such as physical, mental, emotional or spiritual abuse can trigger chronic illness symptoms. If this seems confusing, go back and read #5.

When an illness symptom is associated with old traumatic events (whenever the body is reminded of that event), it can trigger current symptoms. Example: past, old, unresolved traumas can result in self-esteem problems that have their roots in childhood. That type of damage follows through into your current life and health. Yes, emotional damage of any kind can promote physical symptoms today, tomorrow, possibly for the rest of your life unless it can be resolved.

When this type of trauma triggers an illness, I find that a spiritual and energetic approach to getting rid of the damage is necessary. It is critical to access these traumatic memories and instruct the mind, body and spirit to heal the damage. If you don’t, they can continue to cause symptoms for a week or fifty years.

Tomorrow I’ll present part #2 and fascinating information about “how” this type of healing works and “why” often you can’t get well until you participate in this type of mind, body and spirit healing. Be sure to return tomorrow for this free info! Thanks so much,

Cinda Crawford

Like the value of sitting and quietly listening to water gurgling in a pond on a Sunday afternoon, most people do not understand the magnitude of what healing work can mean to their life. They think it must be something woo woo; it’s not. Anyone who has ever felt better after receiving any one of a number of alternative medicine healing techniques can attest to the fact that it’s possible that this type of healing can work for you when nothing else will. Using your intuition will show you that there’s very likely a whole lot more to this. Definitely, alternative healing work merits closer inspection.

I hope, by following this blog, you’re starting to get ideas of what real healing entails. Within the structure of the Sacred Cellular Healing that I do directly with clients and the Learn How to Heal Yourself membership course that’s available online, there is a lot of information available to you.

• First for anyone doing or receiving any healing technique, there must come a recognition or awareness that something is going on within you that is not positive for your health. There are too many negatives (e.g. hurts, pains) showing up in your life. A lot of times these negatives manifest as chronic illness symptoms. By becoming aware to the presence of this negative energy within you, you’re beginning the growth process of using your intuition.

If you’ve experience this, I urge you to look at your new-found awareness as a good thing. Once you recognize that something is wrong or harmful within you, your awareness antenna has officially been raised. You’re on your way to being more thoughtful about the issues concerning how you got sick. This is not the time to quit or let your guard down. Instead, use your intuition and begin seeking the answers of how these issues are connected to your health. Yes, how are they involved? How are they causing your health problems?

• Second comes the actual search process to determine what is going on. If you’re open-minded and really, really want the answers about how to heal, questions surely will rise to the surface. Imagine the scene of effervescent bubbles escaping a hidden source below the water and rising to the top. Pop, pop, pop! Like the bubbles in my pond. They are oxygen. They give life! What can they reveal to you? Or about yourself? This process of self-discovery can be quite exciting if you think of it as part of your healing journey. It will demonstrate the value of using your intuition for your health.

• You want to find the best answers. That process leads to the goal of healing your chronic illness as the ultimate achievement. Interacting with clients has shown me that this type of search is not only a very personal process, but it involves every aspect of mind-body healing. It is easiest, most thorough and lasts longer if the spiritual aspects of you, the person, are fully engaged.

One of the best illustrations for this is the mind, body, spirit, 3-legged stool principle. If the mind is in trouble, no amount of stabilizing the body and spirit will keep a 3-legged stool erect for long. The same goes if the body is failing or if there’s a spiritual, self-concept problem from previous trauma. All three legs must be stable, supportive and capable of doing their job. In other words, healthy.

The three remaining parts of this will be published over the next two weeks in posts entitled, Healing Chronic Illness and Past Life Trauma. I hope you’ll join me to read the specific answers I share with this lady who really, really wants to heal. Then return the third week for learning more about past life traumas and how they can graphically influence your health. We all want to conquer our chronic illness health problems.

Thanks so much,
Cinda Crawford

For the last fifteen years, patients have had two Rheumatoid Arthritis drugs that work, namely Humira and Enbrel. They were the cream of the crop if you suffer with daily Rheumatoid Arthritis symptoms. Do you need better answers than simply adding more drugs to your daily intake? Maybe, but that’s not the situation you have now.

As of this week, the FDA Advisory Panel and Pfizer announced the creation of Tofacitinib, which is not a biologic like the first two mentioned, but it is “the first oral disease-modifying antirheumatic drug, or DMARD.” The FDA is not expected to make a final decision on Tofacitinib (a JAK inhibitor) until August, but usually any drug approved by the advisory panel does go smoothly through the final approval process.

Unlike biologics, which are made from large and complex engineered proteins and taken by injection or infusion, JAK inhibitors are small-molecule medications that would be taken orally, once or twice a day.

To my way of thinking, that makes Tofacitinib as much more likeable and easier choice for the average patient to consider.

Tofacitinib essentially fights inflammation from inside the cell, while biologics block pro-inflammatory cytokines from outside the cell. There are several other small-molecule drugs like Tofacitinib in testing phases, but this is the first to come before the FDA for approval.

Due to the side effects of past rheumatological drugs such as stomach bleeding, liver toxification, etc., if you don’t want to try another drug, consider the benefits of diet, exercise, massage and simple pain relievers like Aspercreme or other topical medications. At Drugs.com you can find reported side effects of Humira and Enbrel.

When appropriate, the FDA will urge new patients to report their personal side effects. Here are ones so far associated with Tofacitinib during the drug trial process: (*some of them were rare)

• Infections and infestations,
• Changes in neutrophils and lipids were observed
• Transaminase increases and small increases in serum creatinine
• Possibly leading to serious muscle side effects!

Pfizer is also studying orally administered Tofacitinib in psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis) and renal transplant, and topical Tofacitinib in both psoriasis and dry eye disease.

Please leave your comments about personal experiences with these prescription drugs and your questions below. Together maybe we can find out more vital information about Tofacitinib and other Rheumatoid Arthritis drugs.

Thanks so much, Cinda Crawford