Tag: healing

Herbs to Help Normalize High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure or hypertension is often discussed at doctor’s visits and frequently triggers a prescription. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute warns that half of all Americans have high blood pressure, some without even knowing it. Our blood pressure changes throughout the day. The problem is, if it stays high for too long,…


A Culture of Lies and the Healing Power of Truth

Commentary To a friend, I was trying to explain what made the Brownstone Institute annual conference and dinner in Miami this past weekend so very special. It was just fantastic that The Epoch Times covered it with a livestream, which is now up and ready to watch. The interviews were great all day but the…


Cancer: Treating Illness by Generating Health

Readers of my Empowered Patient blog may recall my straightforward explanation for the cause of cancer—carcinogens. Whether the culprits are chemicals such as glyphosate, non-native electromagnetic fields such as radio frequency radiation, or lifestyle behaviors such as smoking, the initiation of the cancer process is an epigenetic damaging of cells creating a “wound that doesn’t…


The Body Is the Best Doctor: How to Harness Your Natural Ability to Heal Yourself

The average person who finds out they have cancer is faced with a frightening number of decisions. Those of us who have been there, understand that standing at the precipice of a cliff is not only scary, it’s mind-numbing. But don’t let the fear paralyze you. The first thing to do is to take a…


Patient Mindset Matters in Healing

I recently published a book detailing a healing mindset to best empower cancer patients. Reflecting upon those who have not had a brush with cancer, I realized there is a more general approach to mindset that applies to all health challenges. While there may be elements of mindset that correspond to the ebbs and flows of…


A Healing Dose of Courage

With all the world in disarray, one tender blossom survives; In the deepest crevasse of the human soul the kindness of heart still thrives. —From “Reveries” by Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave, 2021 “Reveries: In Search of Love, Hope, and Courage” is a book of poetry by American writer and photojournalist Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave. Within,…


Hospital Design Should Consider the Psychological Aspects of Healing

Long before COVID-19 made the public aware of the importance of good air ventilation, designers had been concerned with how physical environments affect people’s well-being and mental health. In the 20th century, hospital design underwent a profound change. Hospitals used to be a place for only the treatment of diseases and injuries—or places strongly associated…


Music Tuned to 432 Hertz Vibrates on a Divine Level?

A decades-long debate among musicians about tuning is bound up with Nazi conspiracy theories, New Age healing methods, practical consideration of what’s easiest on a singer’s vocal chords, a revived connection to ancient math and aesthetics, and more abstract connections to a higher order. Should instruments be tuned to 440 hertz or 432 hertz? In…


The Healing Power of Music for Stroke Survivors

Julie Stillman was 55 years old when a blood vessel in her brain suddenly burst. The hemorrhagic stroke left her unable to compose a simple sentence – a hard blow for a woman who built a career in book publishing. It also robbed her of the ability to speak properly. But not the ability to…


3 Good Reasons You Should Be Listening To More Music

Music is a universal language that hurdles all obstacles, beliefs, and language barriers. It has a transcendent ability to touch the human soul like nothing else. The cells in our bodies respond to it, and even those who can’t hear it still feel it. The organic power of music is inescapable. When individuals find themselves facing physical or emotional…