Eating : an art. Strictly applied, macrobiotics would be able to prevent or cure almost all diseases.
Developed around 1960 by George Ohsawa, Macrobiotics promotes nutritional precepts designed to promote physical and mental health. One can learn it through books that explain the theory and give recipes.
Principle: The macrobiotic diet emphasizes the close relationship between living beings and nature, whose food is the main agent. The art of preparing meals obeys the law of complementary opposites: yin and yang (see section: Traditional Chinese Medicine) To balance your menus, so you have to worry about the nature of the products. The pineapple, eggplant or fishing, for example, are yin. Buckwheat and yam are yang.
Food consists exclusively of organic products, with lots of grains and many vegetables. It is not exclusively vegetarian, eggs, fish, meat are allowed in reasonable quantities. Macrobiotics is not a diet to follow in case of illness. If you want access to health and well-being by this method, you need to practice a strict and daily life. That respect for the discipline that the results depend.
You can learn about the macrobiotic reading: "The macrobiotic cookbook," Lima Ohsawa, Guy Trédaniel editions.
Healer unarmed. You enter the mysterious realm of energy transfer, donation, the laying on of hands, despite the troubling results, it should be very careful.
The Chaldeans, Egyptians, the Chinese were using rods and clocks as instruments of "revelations", or to detect the existence of a source, they laid hands to heal. Today, they are healers magnetizers radiesthésites conjurors or warts, still experiencing some success.
The principle : According to Professor Yves Rocard, the body has areas particularly sensitive to magnetic influence. Thus, man can feel variations in Earth's magnetic field and suffer without realizing a physical imbalance. Despite experiences that seemed promising, Professor Rocard was unable to conclude definitively on the reality of the phenomenon of magnetism. For their part, healers, hypnotists, dowsers believe that energy blockages can cause malfunctions, cellular or hormonal imbalance and cause disease. The hypnotist, with an energy subject to a higher rate than other humans, may, by imposition of hands or with the clock, get in touch with the people he treats and restore energy balance.
indications : We just see healers for all kinds of evils, the best results in nervous disorders (depression, shingles) skin diseases, respiratory problems (bronchitis, sinusitis )
The first meeting: interview, pendulum, laying on of hands, passing on the entire body, everything is pretty fast, between 15 and 30 minutes. Energy intervention take effect for about 3 weeks. Sometimes you will not need to return, you will be relieved. Sometimes several sessions are needed.
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MAGNETOTHERAPY
The power of magnets
Known to relax muscles and soothe the pains, the technique uses magnetic fields emitted by magnets.
The Chinese and Egyptians already knew the healing properties of lodestone. In 1979, Dr. Jean Bernard Baron rediscovered this therapy in Japan and shows the action of opposite polarities north and south on muscle tone. Then it was in 1982 that Dr. Philip Orengo said the action of magnetic pain relief in muscle spasms. Mostly what we retains today.
The principle : The magnet acts as the polarity of magnetic field. By its north pole, it relaxes the muscles by its south pole, it has a calming and anti-inflammatory.
Indications: Osteoarthritis, cervical or lumbar pain, tendinitis, strains, effects of surgery: the magnets are effective jump over 20% of subjects, these subjects being said magneto-resistive. They are ineffective in calcifying tendinitis. Meniscal damage, the shingles ... and cons are listed in pacemakers.
The first session : After diagnosed muscular pain, the therapist places on the area to deal with magnets or magnetic plates held in place by adhesives, to keep a few days to a month depending on how long the pain. This is neither painful nor unpleasant. One can only observe a feeling of warmth after application of the magnet, and sometimes a temporary worsening of 2 to 4 days.
Factsheet : Doctors rheumatologists, physiotherapists and naturopaths practice this technique: some have been trained at the Faculty of Medicine of Bobigny or to St. Anne Hospital in Paris.
To read: "Magnéthothérapie, magnets that cure" AK Mehta, published by Mountain.
One touch source of well being and vitality.
Massages unravel your nervous and muscular tensions, relieve your pain, you activate your circulation and recharge energy.
For millennia, massage participates in the East an art of living: by balancing the energy, it is a weapon usual prevention against diseases. In the West, massage is healing or well-being (in Do, Shiatsu)
Principle: The medical massages, prescribed by doctors and covered by Social Security, under the jurisdiction Exclusive physiotherapists. They help to treat conditions of order vascular, nervous and relieve various pains. Massage wellness undone deep muscle tension, awaken the senses and the surface energy resources. From the California massage for relaxation deep overall, they have diversified as more targeted approaches (back, face).
indications : Among the massage, the massage "aesthetic face" blurs wrinkles and fine lines and restores radiance to the complexion. The "back massage" helps to overcome the tensions accumulated during the day and revitalizes. The "slimming massage", often assisted by slimming gels based on the auklets, caffeine, stimulates circulation, relaxes in depth and stimulates the lymphatic system, suppressor of excess fat. The massage "descontracturant of athletes provides good concentration before exercise and a rapid recovery after. The baby's full body massage "strengthens its immune system, regulates sleep, breathing and the development of its skeleton. The" sensory massage, "as used in sex therapy, couple's inhibitions fall.
The meeting : a good relaxing massage is done with light oil and fluid. preheated to body temperature. The massager carries the rounded, both powerful and hairlines (practicing kneading, sanding, sweeping, stroking) , symmetrical (right and left, top and below) and dispersing nodes always straining towards the periphery.
more contact of her hands is broad and enveloping, relaxing is more your deep In the end, when you are refreshed, the masseur you covered with a soft towel and warm. Thai massage, a blend of pressure on energy points, joint mobilizations and stretching.
Read : "The book of massage" Clare Maswell-hudson (with examples of self massage), solar edition.
ABC Thai traditional massage "Denis Lamboley, Editions Jacques Grancher.
Dealing healthy so they do not get sick.
In China, we expect it to be sick to go to the doctor: in fact, traditional Chinese medicine is primarily preventive.
Old at least 2500 years, Chinese medicine includes the pharmacopoeia (composed of herbs), diet, exercise and energy, some extension is by meditation and concentration (qi gong), massage and acupuncture is the only branch officially recognized and practiced in France (see Acupuncture).
Principle: For the Taoist tradition of Chinese medicine, all derived from qi (pronounced chee), vital energy. Everyone knows the symbol of Taoism, contained two commas of opposite colors that complement each other to form a circle. These two elements or breath, the yin and yang, one each from the earth and sky, are inseparable and complementary opposites. Yin emanating from the earth, are Related example the solid, passivity, cold. Yang, which emanates from the sky, are associated with the intangible, business, hot. These two elements are found in everything that exists, and in the human body, their steady-state that guarantees health. So if you have hypertension, that circulates in excess yang in your body. If instead, you miss the tone is that outweighs the yin yang of the practitioner's intervention aims at rebalancing.
indications : Chinese medicine has the same indications that Western medicine. If every winter you get the flu, if you are allergic, diabetic, or if you suffer from any disease known field, Chinese medicine, mostly concerned with rebalancing the body, is more effective than Western medicine. It is less so, however, for acute diseases, emergency treatment, care of the injured. In China, the two medicines are often associated. In the case of cancer, for example, are used for treatment of Western medicine, Chinese medicine as a complement, allowing chemotherapy stronger and more effective, safe for the patient's life.
The first consultation : If you look for an upset stomach, for example, the Chinese physician takes into account a range of symptoms, it asks you if your hair is falling, if you have a history of respiratory If your periods are painful, if you support the change of seasons etc. ...
From there, it provides a comprehensive picture which contains your stomach. This diagnostic method allows energy to pinpoint the cause of your symptoms. Thus, it does not issue standard treatments, but prescribed a personalized treatment.
acupuncturists Only physicians are qualified to practice this branch of Chinese medicine.
Relax instead of contracting muscles. It is a gentle exercise which helps increase awareness of body image and derive a sense of well-being, Therese Bertherat, a great friend Francoise Mezieres has helped to inform his approach to the general public by publishing a book in 1976.
Principle : In his method we retain the idea that the body is a brand that stands through the posterior muscles: too tight, these are the cause of many pains. Unlike the classic gym rather seeks to make the muscles work, the method helps to find and Bertherat to dissolve the deep tensions that affect them. You relax by tiny movements and gentle exercise.
At your pace, making slow movements and harmonious, this is gymnastics a good way to get flexibility and mobility, particularly after trauma.
Moshe Feldenkrais, born in Russia in 1904 was quickly convinced of the prominent role played by awareness of the body. He showed that the concentration can, will, get rid of automation and find more mobility.
Principle: The Feldenkrais Method focuses on movement, not based on effort but on the sensation of his own mobility exercises offer new ways to move and appropriating the movement more efficient, less tiring, the most personal. By connecting new neural circuits in the brain, you create new habits, improve movement defective you happen to work so unusual coordinations drive, for example, the arms move in one direction, the legs in another.
The first session : The exercises run very slowly. You will discover the physical possibilities that you did not know, and feel the different parts of your body. That said, it takes some practice to concentrate on ourselves. Sessions last one hour and are conducted in small groups.
A rehabilitation gym based on stretching the muscles. A gentle manual technique is ideal when one wants to take her back in hand seriously.
Developed in the 70s by Francoise Mezieres, this method of stretching muscles continues to be applied by physical therapists specifically trained in this particular teaching.
The principle : The pain in the lumbar or cervical dorsal come from shortened muscles, since those toes to those of the skull base. The goal is to make these muscles throughout their length and their flexibility by stretching. The physiotherapist Mezieres views the body as a whole, just as if there was only one muscle from head to toe and not spare parts.
Indications: The method is recommended primarily for back pain and acute back pain or chronic, traumatic or rheumatic origin, but also joint pain, arthritis and the various ailments of the hand, knee, foot .... To be considered more as a rehabilitation method as that prompt treatment of pain.
The first session : The physiotherapist you submit to a lengthy interrogation, he paints a comprehensive morphological assessment after spotting deformities, bad attitude you take to compensate for an imbalance or pain. It will make you aware of your bad attitude, then you will naturally find proper alignment (head, shoulders, pelvis) and show you how to maintain a posture by stretching and contracting your muscles intensely, almost without moving. You can do this work lying, standing, resting on a table, sitting or on all fours. The sessions are individual, weekly, about an hour, treatment usually quite long: allow several months for a result (time sufficient to chain lengthening muscle). Not drive home, but the physiotherapist will advise you to do the right things of everyday life.
Read "Mezieres, back reinvented," Sylvie Geismar, publish Josette Lyon.
Music releasing tension. Method using melodious waves to free you from your stress, improve your communication skills, reduce psycho-emotional disorders, or help you cope better with your pain.
Throughout history, primitive societies have linked music to medicine. In Africa, India, Bali sound rhythms are the means of access to ecstasy, to the unconscious, and the means to expel the evil of body and soul. Ancient Greece gave a great place to music in education, next to the gym, these two disciplines to facilitate relaxation, harmony of gesture and motor coordination. The twentieth century discovered in turn the result of research in neurology, therapeutic and balancing virtues of certain music. In France, the first study to have examined the physical and physiological consequences of sounds is an engineer, Jacques Jost. He founded the International Center music therapy (ICD).
The principle : Mountains studied music, the sweet and simple melody lines, helps restore the fundamental rhythms of the body (heart, lungs, blood ...) and lead to relaxation muscle, the first stage of relaxation. The well-being felt up blockages, relieves anxiety.
There are two kinds of music therapy: receptive music therapy, based on listening, individual or group of specially selected pieces of music and music therapy active when added musical improvisation on the subject of simple instruments allowing him to speak and communicate with the therapist, the latter responding to music.
The meeting : In method receptive, it makes you listen to each session three musical pieces that fit your sensibility. The first prepares you for responsiveness. It reflects your emotional and tends to evoke your emotional reactions customary, your psychological problems. The second fragment erases the effects of the first and helps you release of your current problems. The third, therapeutic, stimulates or soothes you you, as appropriate, and opens new perspectives. In the final session, the therapist invites you to describe what you felt, he alone could then translate your verbal message and better discover your problems.
Read : "Balance and Health Through Music Therapy" by Jacques Jost, Editions Albin Michel.
