Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Aliza Vanderlip <songbird97520@yahoo.com>]

I just worked with a client today on pain issues - my other hat then the raw milk dairy is that of an EFT practitioner and trainer - and in a two hour period she went from depressed, in horrid pain and frustrated to feeling strong and flexible and looking forward to the healing in her body.  The fact that this type of stuff is getting closer to being in the mainstream is wonderful news.  I do lots of free teaching on energy medicine in my community (the focus is on them doing their own healing) and the more folks know the more they can take responsibility for their own health and well being.

This is as good as everyone having their own garden:o)  Thanks for posting it Paul.

Blessings,

Aliza
www.eftashland.com


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--- On Fri, 3/26/10, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:

From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
Subject: [Livingontheland] complementary and alternative medicine
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 10:57 AM

Not exactly on topic but I must pass this on.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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"the definition of the health care workforce was amended so that it now officially includes, "licensed complementary and alternative medicine providers and integrative health care practitioners."


Health Reform 2.0: Help With the Work We Have to Do Next!
March 26, 2010 09:20 AM Mark Hyman, MD
Practicing physician and pioneer in functional medicine
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/health-reform-20-help-wit_b_513751.html

The health care reform bill has passed and many people will be celebrating that, finally, the United States will work to assure every citizen health insurance that cannot be canceled because you change your job, because you get sick, or for any other reason.

Remember this is just a start to the transformation of health care. While all of the things I worked for with my colleagues, Drs. Dean Ornish and Michael Roizen, on Capitol Hill the last year did not make it into the final bill, a few important things did and we can build on that. In fact, in my last meeting with Senator Harkin in December, he assured me that the passage of this bill would be just the beginning of reform and that after it passed we could move on to health care reform 2.0 that addresses more of the underlying issues about not only who is covered but what
is covered.

Those of us who believe in preventive health care, integrated health care, functional medicine, and complementary and alternative medicine have special reasons to celebrate. This bill has provisions that explicitly support these approaches to health care. One of these is the creation of a National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council, which I testified about before the Senate last February.

Today I want to introduce you to your new best friend, a friend who has been working on your behalf for years without your knowing it, a friend who had a huge role in seeing to it that this health care reform bill addresses preventive and integrative care.

The Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium (IHPC) was created in 2002 and has been quietly working on Capitol Hill to bring about the kinds of changes in health care that we all want. Last month, I was in New York presenting at the Integrative Healthcare Symposium and I was on a panel with IHPC's executive director, Dr. Janet Kahn. When I heard her describe what IHPC has been doing about health care reform and the things that are lying quietly in this bill, I got very excited about their work and what is to come in 2010.

Dr. Kahn explained 3 major aspects of this bill that IHPC helped shape:

1. Due to Kahn's work with Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the definition of the health care workforce was amended so that it now officially includes, "licensed complementary and alternative medicine providers and integrative health care practitioners."

2. IHPC was a collaborator on the creation of the Wellness Initiative for the Nation (WIN), a document that prompted the inclusion of the National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council that I mentioned above. Truly remarkable.

3. And third, IHPC worked hard to have the Council on Comparative Effectiveness Research in the bill. This will allow functional medicine approaches to be evaluated toe to toe with conventional medicine.

I often say that I practice functional medicine because it tackles and fixes the underlying causes of health problems and doesn't paper over the symptoms as so much of conventional medicine does. That is exactly IHPC's approach to health care reform. IHPC is about reforming the very architecture of American health care.

I encourage you to join the IHPC Online Action Network as I have done. Help move this work forward. By joining the Network you will receive updates and insider information about how IHPC is continuing this commitment to true health care reform; you will receive opportunities to communicate directly with Congress and the Obama administration; and you will be able to provide critical feedback on strategy, priorities, and the direction of this work. And most importantly, IHPC will be working every day on behalf of you, me, and all of us who believe in functional medicine, preventive medicine, and integrated health care.

Take action now and join the Network.



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