“For each new morning with its light, for rest and shelter of the night, for health and food, for love and friends, for everything Thy goodness sends.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insomnia is often the result of incessant thoughts and persistent emotions that keep us physically or mentally tossing back and forth. It is common to experience a sense of anxiety about what the next day holds or concern over things that have already happened throughout the day. All of these thoughts and emotions take us away from being truly present to the experience of slipping away into a peaceful slumber.

“The curious paradox is when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” – Carl Rogers

In Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), the word “dialectic” refers to balancing and comparing two things that seem to be quite different – even contradictory. In DBT, this balance is between change and acceptance. For many people, there is a tendency to engage in behaviors that are self-sabotaging or causing unnecessary suffering. There is a clear need to change destructive or maladaptive behaviors while simultaneously working towards radical acceptance of yourself just the way you are. It can be very difficult for many people to truly and completely – “radically” – accept themselves when they strongly dislike certain ways that they are behaving or otherwise living their lives. Radical acceptance is the key toward ultimately making lasting changes in your life.

The research indicates that cannabinoids hold the secret to helping heal many of the chronic diseases we are facing. From cancer to diabetes, and from autism to Alzheimer’s, medical marijuana helps, and sometimes dramatically so. Cannabinoid medicine holds a great power to alleviate human suffering. There are no words to describe how important this substance is for our race in terms of sanity, compassion and highly rational medicine.

Although medical marijuana is nontoxic, smoking it can be hazardous over the long term because toxic compounds are created in the combustion process. Fortunately there are options for the administration of cannabis but in general all different ways of administrating hemp oil or raw marijuana can be combined with no harmful side effects. Also there are vaporizers that allow for inhalation or what amounts to transdermal treatments into the lungs without burning the marijuana. It’s a cool clean smoke of powerful medicine.

The medical establishment is going Om too. Doctors are catching on the health benefits of yoga and even tapping it as an alternative form of treatment. According to the American Council on Exercise, America’s non-profit fitness advocate … that practicing yoga offers improvements in flexibility , balance and relaxation. 

A study on breast cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy concluded that twice or thrice weekly sessions of yoga improved their social functioning and reduced fatigue, anxiety and insomnia. Other studies have found that a regular yoga regimen can help patients with conditions like asthma, chronic back pain, arthritis and obsessive compulsive disorder. 

“It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head — it is the unique intersection of both.” – David Caruso

We have all had experiences with people who seem to have extraordinary emotional intelligence.  Perhaps we are unaware of the specific nature of their strength, but we notice them because they seem particularly adept at perceiving the emotions of others, responding tactfully in social situations, and managing their own emotions.  People with high emotional intelligence often excel in their interpersonal relations, picking up on the myriad of nuances present in human interactions.

Nature can provide valuable weapons against cancer, but like all things, it is up to you to use them. Although the Japanese have known and used spirulina for medicinal purposes for many years, this form of micro-algae diet is not "mainstream" American. Spirulina natively grows in alkaline lakes of hot water. The demand for food has attracted more and more whole Spirulina for commercial use specially designed algae farms. Since this new deployment, you can purchase at a local health food supplement Spirulina.

Western medicine is finally taking into account the benefits of spirulina cancer, and you owe it to yourself to do the same. Spirulina is blue-green is more than a pretty facade, is also the source of much of its ability to prevent cancer. In Healing with Whole Foods, Paul Pitchford, writes: "It is important to note in the field of prevention, spirulina is rich blue pigment provided with phycocyanin, a biliprotein which has been shown to prevent cancer of the colonies in training ".

Picture the scene. Lab tests indicate that a certain batch of olives contain the dangerous toxin botulinum. The Food Standards Agency advises that they are immediately withdrawn from sale in the UK, only for the Department of Health to ignore their own experts’ opinion and refuse to remove the items. Cue outrage and no doubt confusion amongst the public.

Now replace food safety experts with the experts which make up the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) and this is a common occurrence, with the Home Office happy to report its rejection of its own official advice. If we can’t trust the government to make an informed decision for us then surely the next step is to allow us the freedom to make an independent decision.

Science has always recognized the power of sharing in developing new knowledge. But in the search for treatments and cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, the sprawling bodies of highly diverse research data are not easily shared. Either they are considered proprietary resources for making money, or they are hidden in academic databases that others may not know about, often inaccessible because of incompatible software formats. No single researcher really has the resources or incentive to develop an overarching regime to enable cooperation and sharing. And so dozens of academics, nonprofits and pharmaceutical companies have continued their research in relative isolation.

“Companies were caught in a prisoner’s dilemma,” a research at the University of Pennsylvania recently told the New York Times. “They all wanted to move the field forward, but no one wanted to take the risks of doing it.”