A Healthy Snack?

For some reason Spirit wants me to write this. So I am.

CoCo Orange Mango Happy Squeeze vs. Pomegranite Lifeway Kefir:

• I am a label reader. The first says, on the front (and you know you should only read the BACK!!) 'good source of calcium and magnesium' and '2/3 cup of fruit' and USDA Organic.  On the back there is a WARNING: CAPS PRESENT CHOKING HAZARD. KEEP CAP AWAY FROM CHILDREN. Choking always gets my attention; I can't help it, I'm an anesthesiologist and keeping the airway open is my specialty. The good thing is this snack is vegan, and vegetarian by default. It's about three mouthfuls of product in one pouch, at ninety calories. It's low sodium. And only one gram of fiber. What caught my attention is seventeen grams of sugars! It's from the organic pear juice concentrate...The calcium is fifteen percent USRDA, Magnesium ten percent, Vitamin A eight percent, and Vitamin C one hundred fifty percent (it's supplemented as ascorbic acid, most likely to preserve fruit). I was disappointed at how 'unnatural' this 'natural' snack is, especially at one dollar fifty a pouch. (Total volume is 99 grams--it's sold by weight--or 3.5 oz)
• The kefir, on the other hand, has the same twenty grams of sugar in eight ounces (240 ml)--so actually the product is less concentrated sweet than the coconut milk. The calories are one hundred forty, but eleven grams of protein and thirty percent of USRDA for calcium are in it too. It is not vegan, but is vegetarian and also is probiotic. It is also kosher, gluten-free, and made with renewable energy (wind).  It also is USDA Organic.
• I had them both <3

Go RAW Real Live Apricot Bar vs. Organic Dried Turkish Apricots

• both on front are USDA Organic
• The Raw bar is very small, only twelve grams (recall one gram is the weight of one small paper clip). It's three bites, and has fifty calories. Except for the one hundred milligrams of Omega 3 fatty acids, two grams fiber, six grams sugar, one gram protein, and ninety milligrams potassium (3% Daily Value USRDA). Everything else was less. It is vegan and gluten free.
• The actual dried apricots are vegan, raw, and gluten free. One serving is only eighty calories, and you get twenty-eight grams--more than twice the bulk of the Raw bar. There is three grams of fiber, eleven grams of sugar, and one gram of protein. The highest nutrient value is iron (4% Daily Value).
• I had them both. <3

Alka H2O

This is naturally alkaline artesian water--from the ground in Puerto Rico. The pH is 9.5. The bottle is BPA free.  The purpose of alkalinizing the body is to 'neutralize the effect of free radicals and their associated acidity of the body due to modern foods.) As a physician, I know what the kidneys do, and that is maintain homeostasis in pH. The lungs and the kidneys work together to maintain pH of the bloodstream within the optimum levels for all enzymes to function. When there is lung disease, the kidneys compensate, and vice-versa--to approximate a normal pH. I need to do some more looking in to alkalization. I have heard that some cancers do not grow well in a mildly alkaline environment. Your body is in pretty tight equilibrium at 7.40--I know, I've taken the blood gases of my patients my whole career...perhaps I can sit next to a nephrologist one day at lunch next week and find out the real story behind all of this! <3

Aloha and Mahalos,

Namaste,

Peace,

Reiki Doc

Update On The Vegan Hospital Food Project ((( woo hoo! )))

As requested, last night I informed the hospital chef by text that I would have time to eat lunch in the Doctor's Dining Room today.

I am his guinea pig for RAW vegan and vegan options for the hospital. He is working on recipes!

The phone rang at 11:15 a.m. Come to the doctor's dining room.

Inside a little black styrofoam box was a salad with what looked like chicken but it was fake. It tasted like the real thing! But it wasn't! The salad had apple slices, jicama, good lettuce blend, and vinaigrette dressing.

I was smart.

I made it 'Show and Tell'.

I came to the Doctors Dining room armed with packages of WrawP brand Raw Vegan Flat Bread, Spirulina flavor (six ounce package, four slices, cost about eight dollars), Manitoba Harvest Hemp Hearts brand raw shelled hemp seeds (ten grams of omegas three and six per serving), and Himalania brand antioxidant RAW Goji Berries.

You should have seen chef's face. And my colleague, the Vietnamese (here is her story http://reikidoc.blogspot.com/2013/07/reflections-on-boat-people.html), and the vegetarian who loves animals and won't eat meat but loves the taste of meat Persian Gastroenterologist!

What the heck is THIS?????

It was the delight of pure joy to discover something new to eat.

I offered tastes of the fake chicken and what I brought. The Persian asked politely where he could buy it. (he and his wife eat lots of fake chicken and it 'isn't nearly as good'). It turns out it is restaurant 'special order' only, but chef graciously offered to cook up the other piece he had back in the kitchen.

I sat next to the Persian doctor, and he enjoyed his lunch very much. I sat next to the Vietnamese anesthesiolgist, too. We were across from an Egyptian internist. He tried the fake chicken, and said it wasn't bad! Even HE was happy to have new choices! The Vietnamese says she 'Likes meat!' and I smiled and confided, 'some people NEED it, and that's okay. We just want to have more options for vegan and vegetarian patients, doctors, visitors, and staff. I am the guinea pig, that's all'. The Vietnamese lady anesthesiologist also worked with a doctor in San Diego who wrote the book Super Foods, went on Oprah, and became totally famous! He looked twenty years younger than he was and enjoyed excellent health!

Then who came and sat next to us? The author of Conquering Cancer. Did you know eighty-five percent of all cancers are preventable--they are not 'just genetic'? He says it is due to alcohol, tobacco, obesity, and 'where you live' (environmental factors). Apparently Japanese women have very low rates of breast cancer, but 'bring them here and after five years they get it just like us.' He also shared the mystery over stomach cancer in Japan, but not here. I shared that there are two subtypes of helicobacter pylori, and the Japanese one is more aggressive. The gastroenterologist looked at me--yo, anesthesia! the 'party' doctor LOL--with new respect because I was right. I laughed and said I learned it from someone who says since westerners have 'friendlier' h pylori we should 'kiss a Japanese and save a life' so they get our 'good h pylori' too. He totally cracked up. (Here's the link to the blog post and video on that--http://reikidoc.blogspot.com/2013/10/something-to-add-stomach-cancer.html)

He asked me if I meditate mindfully or mindlessly. I was like, what?! (Apparently mine is mindfully because I do it when I drive. He used to during a long commute as well.) Right then my boss sat at the table. (Blush!). Caught red-handed with my goji berries, hemp seeds AND the raw vegan bread. Yes, Dr. Boss, this one has a 'case' that is WAY worse than not having the steak and fish at the black tie fundraising gala banquet! LOL LOL LOL

Fortunately, he is very financially motivated, and another 'worldy' doc sat down too, and they talked 'business' while the Persian and I quietly discussed meditation. (I noted that Boss and other ate salad--that vortex in the Doctor's Dining Room I put in last year is really WORKING BEAUTIFULLY! LOL)

Here's the scoop--mindless meditation gets you to the 'bliss' the gastroenterologist used to need twenty minutes to 'find' in TWO MINUTES! And instead of fifteen minutes 'result' with mindful meditation, he gets it in 'five'. He suggested this book, which I just bought on Kindle, 'Silence Your Mind' by Dr. Manesh Ranoja. He says it is an Australian doctor who studies meditation quantitatively, like a medication--its effects on Blood Pressure, etc. 'It is Science, not gobble-de-gook' the gastroenterologist said.

He also shared that through Dahn yoga, he was able to heal his right knee that was so bad he almost needed a knee replacement.

I asked him another question--is your wife into meditation too? How does that work?

She is. They 'each do their own thing' and she likes Sahaja yoga for her mindless meditation. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahaja_Yoga)

I laugh now because I shared I do kundalini yoga with Ana Brett and Ravi Singh on amazon prime instant video at home on my computer, and that I love kundalini. No wonder why he said I need to go join his wife!

The end result is that he said, 'This vegetarian project never would have happened without your effort' with gratitude towards me.

And I did not disclose I am in Conquering Cancer with Reiki (just one page!). But I did share about my being a Reiki Master. I got his respect again with that--I saw his whole face change. I mentioned briefly, too, my blogging, the international interest in what I post, and my keeping it on the 'down low'--but that the point is to bring the Spiritual back into medicine, and for the Healers to Unite across all disciplines for the benefit of humanity globally to reduce suffering, illness, and encourage health for all. I sincerely shared with him how our lunch is going to give so many people hope! How so many think we are in medicine for the wrong reasons. He understood. He said, 'Actually, many doctors are the smartest ones--the most educated and the most forward-thinking. Some are clearly in it 'for the money and chasing the money' but others are in it for humanity and 'the money washes over them' because they are helping others to have less suffering.'

His story of how he came to medicine is worth a moment. He was going to be electrical engineer. But in Iran, all the universities closed for two years. The only one to reopen was medicine after that time. He sat for the entrance exam to practice test taking. He scored so well, he got accepted! So her enrolled, thinking he 'could take the general requirements and be six months ahead of the engineering school when it opened and transfer.'. What happened and why is he in the Doctor's Dining Room eating lunch next to me? On the first day of medical school, everyone calls you 'doctor'--your family, the school, people in the community. He said to himself, 'Are you crazy? This is really a good thing!' and he finished his studies to complete his M.D.!

I gave him the biggest hug! All these years we have worked together. I thought he ate meat until about three months ago. And he thought I was just, well, you know... a 'gas passer' (the nickname for anesthesiologists in the hospital LOL).

This is what my Heaven looks like. It is Here and Now, and the Energy and Joy is immense and highly contagious!!!!

Aloha and Mahalos,
Namaste,

Reiki Doc

P.S. This gastroenterologist is the same one Spirit guided me to ask about High Colonic Hydrotherapy in this blog--funny how Spirit 'knows' when we 'don't', isn't it? http://reikidoc.blogspot.com/2013/10/something-to-add-swollen-colon.html

Something To Add: Mc Medical 'Info'

I just read a very disturbing 'article' that was shared on Facebook. It has to do with the 'Most Dangerous Prescription Drugs'.

I am compelled to add my expertise both as a physician and as a holistic energy healer to address this Disinformation effectively:

Number 15:  Just Because It Is Prescribed, Don't Trust It

Here's the link: http://precious786.likes.com/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?pid=118591&utm_source=mylikes&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ml&utm_term=26712190

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add:  The authors are telling you THIS: 'trust us--who have NOT gone to medical training for ten years--to inform YOU of what your doctor WON'T TELL YOU'. This is a substitution, asking you to take your trust in your doctor and give it to them, the writers of the post. What does your heart center say to you when you read this? Your mind is probably like, 'Cool! Secrets! I'm in!' but listen to your heart. The fact of the matter is most prescriptions are written on a 'standard of care' basis. Yes, there might be unscrupulous 'outliers', My advice to you: read Wikipedia, or Up To Date, not this article, for balanced information to help you decide on whether this drug is right for you. Do NOT read the drug inserts--they aren't helpful, and show every bad outcome. Do your research online, and ask your doctor too. Look at the page again. It is a vehicle to sell adds! Three-quarters of the page IS adds! And you need to click to fifteen different pages to read the whole article! This makes about four pages of information and roughly twelve of Advertising! I see this:

Does this author have your best interest at heart?

Number 14: Use Antibiotics In Moderation

Here's the link: http://likes.com/misc/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?pid=118591&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDIyNzUwMTc2MDYsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjY3MTIxOTAsICJjIjogIm90aGVyX3N1c3BlY3QifQ&page=2

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add:  STOP! Time out! What is this???

• The three most dangerous drugs are--levaquin, Vancocin, and Bactrim? Why? For creating multi drug resistance in bacteria? 
• Levaquin is a fluoquinolone. It is big for pneumonia and urinary tract infections. It's a 'big gun' as far as pills go. Levquine and the family aren't to be used in children--it affects growth and development of the body.  http://www.medicinenet.com/levofloxacin/article.htm
• Vancomycin is i.v. 'big gun' antibiotic used for surgical prophylaxis in heart surgery and other cases where the patient is penicillin-allergic. Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus and Vancomycin-resistant staph aureus are being seen and this makes the news. Vanco can cause 'red man syndrome', where histamine release makes the skin turn red as it is given. It also can cause nephrotoxicity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancomycin. 
• Bactrim causes a reaction that makes sunburn worse. It also has sulfa in it, and some are allergic. It also might cause weakened bone marrow (myelosuppression) and liver toxicity. Here's wiki for more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bactrim
• See how easy it is to find real information? It takes no more clicks and not much more reading than the original article about the "Most Dangerous Prescription Drugs'. 

Number 13:  Beta Blockers 'weaken the heart in its pumping over time' so 'keep your regimen short term'

Here's the link:  http://likes.com/misc/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?pid=118591&page=3&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDIyNzUwMTc2MDYsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjY3MTIxOTAsICJjIjogIm90aGVyX3N1c3BlY3QifQ

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add: If you were healthy, would your doctor even be WRITING you for beta blockers? NO. Beta blockers are used to rate control atrial fibrillation, to support the heart and increase lifespan/quality of life in congestive heart failure, AND to control blood pressure. It is used for migraines, anxiety before public speaking, and essential tremor. Please know WHY you are on it, and then read this link--I didn't see anything about 'weakening of the heart' here--do you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_blockers  How do you think your health will be if you go untreated with your medical condition out of 'fear of the long term heart weakening'. Always keep in mind the risk to benefit ratio--and go for the most benefit with the least risk to you. If you don't like the side effects, you can explore alternative medications with your doctor. This includes going RAW Vegan. It lowered a friend's triglycerides from the 1000's to the 100's in three weeks. (always be sure to test and recheck if a treatment, any treatment, is WORKING).

Number 12: Cold and Flu Over-The-Counter Medications

Here's the link:  http://likes.com/misc/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?pid=118591&page=4&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDIyNzUwMTc2MDYsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjY3MTIxOTAsICJjIjogIm90aGVyX3N1c3BlY3QifQ

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add: One summer I worked for a major consumer products company. They made these things. Do you know what the research scientists on the projects called these products? Garbage Medicine. I kid you not! There was NO benefit from them, and this was decades ago, but people liked them so they kept selling them! I agree with the authors on this one. Pediatricians do not recommend any decongestant or over-the-counter like this for infants and toddlers for a reason. Why take them for you? Especially if you have high blood pressure, these medications will raise it. I wouldn't recommend 'colloidal silver' routinely--some have turned gray in the skin from its overuse.

Number 11:  Arthritis Medications Only Cover The Pain and Speed Up Joint Degeneration

Here's the Link:  http://likes.com/misc/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?pid=118591&page=5&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDIyNzUwMTc2MDYsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjY3MTIxOTAsICJjIjogIm90aGVyX3N1c3BlY3QifQ

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add:  Again, it is a question of risk to benefit. The risk is kidney toxicity (increased exponentially if tylenol is taken at same time as NSAIDS), GI bleeding and ulcer, and accelerated cartilage destruction. The benefit is pain relief and increased motility. Other things to try? Well, it depends on whether it is Rheumatoid arthritis or Osteo arthritis. One college classmate was bedridden until he learned he changed his diet--no 'nightshade family'--eggplant, tomato, potato--and he could walk and function with his juvenile arthritis again. Daily self-Reiki is going to help with the pain. And here is an affirmation from Louise Hay: I am Love. I now choose to love and approve of myself. I see others with Love. The more debilitating the illness, the more other options need to be explored; find 'what works for you' and stick to it.

Number 10:  Antipsychotic Drugs Have Long-Term Side Effects--Research them well

Here's the link:  http://likes.com/misc/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?pid=118591&page=5&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDIyNzUwMTc2MDYsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjY3MTIxOTAsICJjIjogIm90aGVyX3N1c3BlY3QifQ

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add:  Again, I agree. My ex-husband was a Seroquel rep. We knew Zyprexa made people gain a lot of weight. Everyone in the business knew it made people get high cholesterol and diabetes. But it was a living. (This concept is called career-ship--an excellent lecture is here: http://youtu.be/L7pBpvFHO2g)

this is a researcher, a physicist, who understands the 'research game'

Again, it's a tough call--psychosis and possible harm to self or others, or serious side effects? Look things up on the Internet. Ask other patients. Ask doctors and nurses. Try it and see what works for you. As an aside, I shudder inwardly when I have a patient on Duloxetine (Cymbalta) for surgery--the blood pressure behaves erratically, and my standard medicines to correct blood pressure don't work 'right'. All of these inhibitors affect some of the 'fight or flight' biochemicals that affect blood pressure as well as the brain under anesthesia. I work hard on those patients to keep their blood pressure stable during the case.

Number 9:  Proscar Is Unsafe For Sexual Partners--to touch or have sex with

Here's the link:  http://likes.com/misc/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?pid=118591&page=7&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDIyNzUwMTc2MDYsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjY3MTIxOTAsICJjIjogIm90aGVyX3N1c3BlY3QifQ

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add:  It is a known teratogen--induces mutation in human embryology--Here's Wiki on it: 

Teratogenicity

Finasteride is in the FDA pregnancy category X. This means that it is known to cause birth defects in a fetus. Women who are or who may become pregnant must not handle crushed or broken finasteride tablets, because the medication could be absorbed through the skin. Finasteride is known to cause birth defects in a developing male baby. Exposure to whole tablets should be avoided whenever possible, however exposure to whole tablets is not expected to be harmful as long as the tablets are not swallowed. It is not known whether finasteride passes into breast milk, and thus should not be taken by breastfeeding women. Finasteride may pass into the semen of men, but Merck states that a pregnant woman's contact with the semen of a man taking finasteride is not an issue for concern. Finasteride is known to affect blood donations, and potential donors are typically restricted for at least a month after their most recent dose.^[35]

How many men with big prostates are going to be fathering children? This is like, men over Fifty! And even if it was a 'love at last starting the second family', the sperm is okay, the pill is okay, only if it is taken by the woman or the pill crushed would it cause harm. So don't freak out, okay? It's do-able. And just go and get a TURP (trans-urethral resection of the prostate). You'll pee better too, and won't need that medication. Here is the rest from Wiki on this drug to 'open a large prostate'; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finasteride

Number 8:  Long-term Use Of Diuretics Has Potentially Serious Side Effects

Here's the link: http://likes.com/misc/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?pid=118591&page=8&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDIyNzUwMTc2MDYsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjY3MTIxOTAsICJjIjogIm90aGVyX3N1c3BlY3QifQ

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add: If your doctor is prescribing you diuretics. your body has been in 'imbalance' and 'Dis-ease' for a very long time. This is a serious 'wake up call' to you. The things the article says are basically true, but 'slanted' to frighten you. This is unfair because you don't have many options. Research everything you can, including major lifestyle changes, and alternative treatments. Keep a check on your 'target organ function'--blood pressure, heart studies, kidney function, to make sure you don't waste what time you have left. Twenty years can pass by very fast, and you might stretch it to thirty, forty, or longer with 'what works for you'. Here is an affirmation, again from Louise Hay, for hypertension: I joyously release the past. I am at Peace.

Number 7:  Cholesterol Lowering Drugs

Here's the link: http://likes.com/misc/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?pid=118591&page=9&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDIyNzUwMTc2MDYsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjY3MTIxOTAsICJjIjogIm90aGVyX3N1c3BlY3QifQ

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add: I remember the lecture when the famous researcher taught us that cholesterol and lipids and plaque rupture led to heart attacks. He was creepy. And very arrogant. I was like, 'how does he know that this far-fetched fairy tale is the REAL reason behind it?' I was skeptical. Yes, we do know that aggressive lowering of cholesterol prevents restenosis of coronary artery stents. This is achieved with medication. However, we are also starting to learn that the low-fat diet which is promoted for Heart Health almost guarantees diabetes and kidney disease. Everything is connected. If you have serious requirement for health reasons to lower your cholesterol, don't just 'eat healthy'--go RAW vegan. Bill Clinton went Vegan. He hasn't been back to the hospital since...just saying....

Number 6:  Ritalin

Here's the link:  http://likes.com/misc/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?pid=118591&page=10&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDIyNzUwMTc2MDYsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjY3MTIxOTAsICJjIjogIm90aGVyX3N1c3BlY3QifQ

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add:  This is way outside the scope of my practice. What I DO know is that if you study with it, you need to test with it too. Caffeine. Music. It has something to do with the way knowledge is stored. Here's the link to Wiki on the drug: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritalin . And what I hear in my studies on Spirit online is that these souls are Higher Vibration, and don't need Ritalin. They 'remember' their origin, and how education was done there, and just aren't a good match for our 'dumbing down' system of control through education in society today.

Number 5:  Coumadin

Here's the link: http://likes.com/misc/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?pid=118591&page=11&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDIyNzUwMTc2MDYsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjY3MTIxOTAsICJjIjogIm90aGVyX3N1c3BlY3QifQ

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add: This post has gross medical errors. The newest drug on the market, Dabigatran, Pradaxa, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabigatran, does not need the patient to 'keep coming back'. However, it is more expensive than coumadin alone, perhaps not more so than coumadin plus monitoring. (Here is a link to anticoagulation, in general--from the best medical reference site out there--Up To Date. It's subscription, but perhaps your library might 'connect' for the whole article for you. http://www.uptodate.com/contents/anticoagulation-with-direct-thrombin-inhibitors-and-factor-xa-inhibitors). Vitamin C has nothing to do with coagulation--it is Vitamin K--which is a typo but also dangerous because then the Coumadin can be reversed. It takes 10 mg intramuscular injection for three days to reverse overdose of coumadin. And fresh frozen plasma transfusions.)

Number 4:  Prozac

Here's the link: http://likes.com/misc/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?pid=118591&page=12&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDIyNzUwMTc2MDYsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjY3MTIxOTAsICJjIjogIm90aGVyX3N1c3BlY3QifQ

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add: For some people this might prevent them from committing suicide. For others, who are under MK Ultra programming, it might be something to keep them 'controlled' and/or and 'excuse' for then the MK Ultra 'handler' sends them off to do a 'terrorist act'. We don't know. I know for me when I was depressed and getting treatment, my intuition said, 'talk therapy only, no drugs'. I only speak for myself. I do not know and do not judge another's depression.

Number 3:  Prednisone

Here's the link:  http://likes.com/misc/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?pid=118591&page=13&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDIyNzUwMTc2MDYsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjY3MTIxOTAsICJjIjogIm90aGVyX3N1c3BlY3QifQ

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add:  I, too, fought prednisone for years with my chronic sinus infections. They'd prescribe the pills, I wouldn't take them. In medical school I learned about adrenocortical suppression, and always refused the drug when it was prescribed. But the last few bad sinus infections I had, I took the prednisone shot, along with the antibiotic shot, and it saved me from surgery. Again, know there is a definite pattern of side effect from prednisone--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prednisone

But for some people, like my niece and mom who have had kidney transplants, my father who had pulmonary fibrosis, the life-saving anti-inflammatory effect of the prednisone justifies the risks.

Number 2:  Methotrexate

Here's the link:  http://likes.com/misc/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?

pid=118591&page=14&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDIyNzUwMTc2MDYsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjY3MTIxOTAsICJjIjogIm90aGVyX3N1c3BlY3QifQ

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add:  Methotrexate is a very big gun. It frightens me. That being said, when nothing else works, what else is there to do? It is a chemotherapeutic drug, but my grandmother took it for her rheumatoid arthritis. Again, it's all with the risk to benefit ratio. Here is what wiki has to say: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methotrexate. I choose Wiki for the links because it is more 'reader friendly' than other medical sites, and pretty balanced...

Number 1:  The Determination--All in Moderation

Here's the link: http://likes.com/misc/the-most-dangerous-prescription-drugs?pid=118591&page=15&v=eyJjbGlja19pZCI6IDIyNzUwMTc2MDYsICJwb3N0X2lkIjogMjY3MTIxOTAsICJjIjogIm90aGVyX3N1c3BlY3QifQ

Here's what Reiki Doc has to add: Is this a drug? Wasn't it Fifteen Most Dangerous Drugs? And this is number ONE?! 'Moderation' is a tricky concept.  Let's call it, 'Inner Knowing'--get your facts, and listen to your gut once you have good, non-fear-based data. And sleep on it! In this day and age, know that 'food is a medicine' and further, getting rid of poisons that are marketed as 'food' is going to have a pretty dramatic effect on your overall health. Crystals, energy healing, Reiki, sound therapy, light therapy are all the ways of the future. Do what 'feels right' to you, and be sure to test, test, test to measure your progress with each form of treatment. Be sure to make an informed decision every step of the way. 

Then again, there's always the Pendulum! Here's how to use one to have Spirit 'guidance' when making a decision! http://reikidoc.blogspot.com/2012/11/vote-your-pendulum.html

Aloha and Mahalos,

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

I've been in the MRI scanner for a pituitary tumor, and my right ACL--and I STILL do not like it! (If you ever have to go, ask for music or earplugs, and a blanket. It's cold and LOUD.)

Vitamin D and You

Depending on the location and time of day, ten to thirty minutes of sunshine on unprotected skin gives enough Vitamin D needed each day.

It's a good thing I check my ego at the door each day, because yesterday would have been kind of painful...

My meat-eating doctor told me my Vitamin D levels were 23; I need to take 1,000 IU daily with calcium every day now.

Here's what I found out:  although I took my supplements suggested when I turned RAW vegan, my Vitamin D levels became dangerously low.

This is because I was told to take B-12 every day, 1000 mcg, and Dr. Shulze's green powder and RAW meal. Nobody mentioned Vitamin D.

So here is the dilemma--Vitamin D is kind of hard to get with my schedule. It is important in bone health. Mine is so low if I was growing I would get rickets with the levels I have in my system. That is why Vitamin D is added to milk, both Goat Milk, Cow Milk, Soy Milk and sometimes even Orange Juice.

Here are the numbers:

• Vitamin D levels less than 30 are 'officially low'
• Vitamin D levels between 30 and 50 are 'officially normal'
• Vitamin D levels around 50 to 65 are 'considered possibly optimum'
• Vitamin D levels above 150 are 'toxic'  because they can lead to hypercalcemia

The symptoms of hypercalcemia are:

• feeling sick or being sick
• poor appetite
• not wanting to eat anything
• feeling very thirsty
• having to pass urine often
• constipation or diarrhea
• muscle weakness or pain
• feeling confused
• feeling tired

Hypercalcemia can lead to some serious health problems with the electricity conduction through the pacing system in the heart and even muscle and nerve function.

Well why do I have LOW Vitamin D?

Here is the differential--it's either low food intake (With RAW vegan diet this is common) or Primary Hyperparathyroidism (my body wants to get rid of calicum in my bones from a tumor of the parathyroid gland, which low Vitamin D is protective to prevent hypercalcemia).

How do I know which is which?

• Normal Vitamin D is between 30 and 65, and normal Calcium is between 9.0 and 10.1 (in adults over 35).
• Low Vitamin D intake would have Vitamin D levels have Vitamin D under 30 but the Calcium is always less than 10.
• Low Vitamin D that is protective in Parathyroid tumor (in the neck) is under 30 but the Calcium is always 10.2 or higher.
• http://parathyroid.com/low-vitamin-d.htm

So what is a RAW vegan with a left thyroid nodule to do?

Get an ultrasound, and possibly a biopsy of the thyroid. And double check on the Calcium levels.

If the Calcium level is low, then it's nutrition, and treat it.

If the  Calcium level is high, then treat the parathyroid disease (with surgery).

Assuming normal Parathyroid function, the RAW vegan is in a bind--take supplements or consider 'food as a medicine'? Which is more 'natural'? I don't know.

What I DO know is that RAW plant-based foods have more Vibration that is good for Spiritual Growth and Development. The foods are closest to the original structure and Vibration, and therefore carry not only more nutrition but also more Light energy with them too. This is good for Spirit.

I also know that as one advances in Spiritual Development, there is a Universal lack of desire to eat meat and animal products. They appear 'very dead' and do not stimulate the appetite any more.

What are my options? I need a LOT of Vitamin D!

1. Sunlight On Unprotected Skin: with my olive skin coloring (half Sicilian) and living in Southern California, this is theoretically possible to get thirty minutes of direct sun every day. It is important not to shower off after sunbathing! The Vitamin D process that takes place for twenty four hours after exposure in the top layer of the skin is disrupted. Only cool water and soap limited to 'your stinky parts' is not going to stop the manufacture of Vitamin D in the skin. However, with my schedule, natural sunlight is out of the question. I can, however, make time for sunbathing on my days off when the weather is good, for my health.
2. One tablespoon Cod Liver Oil every day:  this gives me over 1000 IU.
3. 'Sunlight treated' mushrooms: this is best with Shitaki mushrooms that have been exposed 'gills up' to sunshine for six hours. This reaches the over 1000 IU range.
4. Wild-caught salmon: this is in the hundreds of mg Vitamin D. I would need this every day.
5. A Broad Spectrum Light Box, or a Grow Light: These range from expensive to cheap, and I do not have thirty minutes a day to sit.
6. Changing my diet:  Include ricotta cheese, whole milk, light tuna (less mercury than white tuna), eggs, and beef liver.
7. Taking supplements: Vitamin D3 is better absorbed and lasts longer than D2 (note, mushrooms have D2)

Note--the USDA 'daily dose' is 400 IU. Supplement range in the absence of low Vitamin D is about 600-800 IU a day.

How will I know I've 'fixed it'? Well, Vitamin D3 has a long half-life of fifteen days! So by one month to six weeks we should start to see changes. 

Remember, take a lab test after you begin treatment to make sure your progress is on track!

Sometimes I wonder why everyone is so low on their Vitamin D? 

I think for my health, I am going to need to change from RAW vegan, to RAW. That's up to seventy percent RAW foods with the strong Light vibration to support mine, and then some combination of 'medicine' in the form of food--tuna, salmon, whole milk (I prefer goats), ricotta cheese, and eggs because they are more 'kind' than beef liver. I will also seek sunlight, and begin calcium and cod liver oil.

You know, I had been starting to crave mushrooms about two weeks ago.

I had been wondering why.

The body sure is smart, isn't it?

Aloha and Mahalos,
Namaste,

Reiki Doc

Your Vibration and YOU: The Effect of Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll ; )

Just how high do you want to get?

Everyone is vibrating at a certain frequency. I am not talking about Vibrators or anything sexual right now.

There is a time and a place for everything. For now, let us talk about the energy that is moving through every cell in your body. It flows in a column of white light that is about ten centimeters wide, right down through your head and the rest of your body. I see it.

This Light connects your Mental, Astral, and Etheric bodies together through the chakra system into your physical body. There are pathways for energy to flow. In acupuncture this energy flow is called 'chi'. I see this too.

Long story short--sex with LOVE increases chi. sex without it decreases it. Drugs in all forms decrease chi. Loud amplified music weakens the aura and therefore it must decrease the chi.

Everything is relevant. If you are serious in your wanting to raise your Vibration as high as possible, meditate. Make sure it is your heart center and not the ego that wants the Highest Chi you can attain.

Then do these simple steps:

1. Drop the Vibration -toxic thoughts, beliefs, and habits: Forgive. Release hatred you may carry against anything or anyone. Even in sports. http://reikidoc.blogspot.fr/2012/01/love-anger-and-hate-how-sports-fits.html. Be on the alert for anything that is going to 'suck you in' to a lower vibration. News, movies, and anything that is televised is designed to 'suck you in'. There is a 'science' to this. There is also 'disinformation' on the internet too. One has to be cautious with everything 'one takes in'. If it is Truth, it will 'resonate' in your chest, in your Heart Center, not your mind.
2. Carefully examine your religious beliefs and lifestyle:  up to a point, religion and mind-altering substances can raise the vibration or make someone focus on Spirit/Source. Then it becomes a dependency. 'YOU' can't go above a certain Vibration because 'something or someone' is required to 'help you connect and focus'. Here are two excellent references. This one might upset some seekers, but it is Truth; it is better a sore Truth than an exquisite Lie. 1) http://reikidoc.blogspot.fr/2012/12/how-to-see-higher-dimensions.html 2) http://www.annereith.com/blog/metaphysical-classes/can-i-be-psychic-medium-or-a-healer-if-i-consume-caffeine-or-if-i-use-cigarette-alcohol-or-other-drugs/ (more related links, such as vegan diet and antidepressant use will be listed at the end).
3. It is like riding a bicycle--the faster you 'pedal' the more stable your 'vibration' will be:  After you make the first choices to raise your Vibration, you might be surprised at the others that follow! I never thought I would become vegetarian, never mind RAW vegan. My heritage and acceptance of the fact that 'energy is energy' and 'some beings generously give of their lives so I may be healthy' led me to think I would always eat meat. I met someone who has been RAW for twelve years now. It wasn't him, or the other owner of the place where they work. It was the look in their eyes that got me to try it. And I found, much to my surprise, I felt better than I have in years!  So be open to Spirit, through 'hints' and 'nudges' through others. Try something new, and if it feels good, continue!
4. Make it a point to be around Like-Minded Others:  Your vibration will be more stable when others of similar vibration are around. Even online. Just stick to 'what feels right' and don't feel an obligation to 'raise others'. By direct aura-to-aura contact your vibration is going to have an effect on your family, coworkers, and loved ones. It will happen. You only have to work on yourself for it to be so.
5. The closer you get to your Purpose, the easier your Life Experience will be: I always tell young people to try a lot of things, and to do what they enjoy. Why? Because because you will have the advantage against others in the field of choice by loving what you do! Your Purpose is going to energize you and give you focus and strength like never before. For me, I heal and I write. I could write all day and never tire of it! Once you find your Purpose it will be your Strength too.

Here are more article links that might interest you:

• An addict who became a healer; http://www.annereith.com/blog/metaphysical-classes/how-i-learned-to-use-the-law-of-attraction-part-1/
• How dietary choices can affect Spirituality http://www.annereith.com/blog/metaphysical-classes/eating-a-certain-diet-for-psychics-mediums-healers-vegetarian-vegan/
• Antidepressants and their effect on psychic ability: http://www.annereith.com/blog/metaphysical-classes/antidepressants-or-antianxiety-medications-and-your-psychic-connection-101/
• How FUN and doing what you enjoy is healthy for your vibration: http://reikidoc.blogspot.fr/2013/03/when-you-do-what-you-enjoy-you-heal.html

I hope this answers your questions. Remember, each of us has our own Spiritual Purpose. There are no 'right' and 'wrong' answers. We each have eternity to grow in Spirit. 

This blog post is for those who want to understand what is happening, and also who wish to become their 'highest vibration possible'.

Love and Light,

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

P.S. What do I do as Reiki Doc, here and now?

• I exercise moderately when I can, yoga and ballet are my preference. I also like walking outside.
• I get about fifteen minutes of direct sunlight on my skin daily.
• I 'ground' with my bare feet on soil or grass whenever possible.
• I take naps when I can. Most of my 'on ship' experiences are when overwhelming sleepiness hits and I am able to rest for about twenty minutes.
• I appreciate Nature whenever possible--I hug trees, pet animals, enjoy fresh air.
• I look at the Night Sky whenever I can--it really 're-sets' everything spiritually for me. In daytime I look at clouds too. (I just saw an Andromedan ship this morning and said high--they are clouds that look like a stack of pancakes that are not all the same size.)
• I buy organic everything.
• I eat RAW vegan whenever possible, and always first at a meal if I am going to have anything else.
• My next choice is organic goat milk and cheese from Redwood Hill Farms (I know and trust the owners)
• All other dairy and meat for my family is organic whenever possible.
• My diet is between 50-70% raw, and almost 100% vegetarian between travel and the hospital.
• I avoid fast food. If I eat it, I put reiki in it first. I also reiki anything that is microwaved.
• I enjoy an occasional glass of wine. I do not drink soda or mixed drinks. Very rare Guinness.
• I do not smoke tobacco or anything else.
• I do not take recreational drugs.
• I take my medicines for my health conditions--proton-pump inhibitor and allergy med. Also a daily aspirin.
• I supplement my RAW vegan with daily B-12, Dr. Shulze green powder, and RAW meal
• I meditate whenever possible, and send daily free healing to my readers
• I am generous of heart, of time, and of gifts whenever possible
• I edit my thoughts, and when a negative one comes I 'pluck it out'.

Aloha to you; we are Ohana in this Ascension together. 

Galactic "Anthropology": It Starts With Food!

I made these cupcakes for a potluck yesterday

It all starts with food!

Yesterday a friend who manages an Outback restaurant offered my son a free plate of food at a street carnival. I saw him hand one with ribs and salad and bread to him. I made a mental note--ribs for him, salad for me--and looked forward to sharing it together.

Next I knew, the salad disappeared and only ribs were on the plate! 

I asked him what happened? No sooner had the words popped out of my mouth, than our friend saw I was hungry, and offered me a plate for myself to eat, ribs, salad, bun, everything!

It was one of those moments when time stands still.

I looked at the ribs.

I looked at the arm extended with the plate.

I looked at the face of the friend, with a total gesture of love and generosity of spirit and JOY of giving in the smile, the crinkles at the eyes, and deep within to the windows of the soul.

Like lightening, the thought came to me:

what is more important--the meat or the soul of the person who is sharing it with me?

My heart knew what to do. I took the plate. I thanked him profusely. I went right where he could watch us sit down, and I ate it. I enjoyed it! (My son, who is freaking out about 'his new mom' relaxed at seeing me eat ribs.)

I said to him, 'God gave this. I eat ribs once a year. This is it!'.

Here is an example of how I was on the 'giving' end of the same situation reversed with the Galactics:
http://reikidoc.blogspot.com/2012/09/all-aboard.html
I still feel the sting of shame and humiliation, although unintended, by their reaction to my offering of milk and cookies to them.

I took my son out to dinner at a new Italian restaurant near our house. They are famous for a homemade sausage factory. I had my order all set, eggplant parmesan. But my boy wanted to try out their homemade sausage instead of meatballs and asked for a taste.

They made two tastes.

Next thing I knew, one was on the end of a toothpick being handed to me. I looked at the meat, the hand, up the arm, and to the face filled with pride at the family tradition on the end of that toothpick.

I took the meat. It tasted awful because I no longer eat meat. I smiled, and said, ' You know, I don't eat meat, but for you, this time, I make an exception! This is DELICIOUS!' for it was 'good meat', I just 'don't like meat', yes?

You should have seen the total smile, beaming, on the worker's face that I accepted his 'gift' to me, and enjoyed it.

So what does Spirit have to say about food? Well, funny you should ask! Matthew Ward had a message about it just channeled 'fresh' yesterday: http://galacticchannelings.com/english/matthew04-07-13.html
It is very reasonable, and permissive and directing you to find the optimum health for all of you, your body, mind, soul, and Vibration. (Scroll halfway down in the article to find it.)

For two weeks now, a massive 'getting to know one another' has been going on between the Agarthans in Inner Earth and the Galactics, who have established First Contact in that realm. There is a lot of adjustment being navigated between the two 'families' of Light.

Our time is on the horizon. Surface Gaia is next. We don't know when, exactly, or how, but what happened in Egypt on July 3, 2013 is a dress rehearsal for The Event. After that is Disclosure. At a later time, First Contact. When this joyful reunion happens,  I want you to be as beautifully open, at ease, and loving as this little girl is here looking like it is the most natural thing in the world to be 'hanging out' at the Mayan Ruins in Mexico.

Because it is.

We are One Family. No matter what we eat. We eat to stay alive.

And next time, if someone in ceremonial attire in the wilds of Indonesia offers me a crawling bug on a stick, I'll look at the bug, up the arm, and to the smile and eyes and spirit of the one who is offering it to me to eat it.

It is only one bug.

It is worth it, the price of earning their trust and keeping Goodwill between us.

I can always reach for the glass of water and help wash it down. It won't kill me.

Nor will it kill you to reach outside your comfort zone to accept the hand that is extended in Love and wants to welcome you home as Family, and embrace you once again.

It has been a long time waiting.

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

Healers Unite: A Guided Tour In The O.R.

I gave a guided tour today.  To my Reiki student, who it turns out was also my patient three years ago in an emergency case that was in the middle of the night. She thought there was a chance it was I who had done her anesthesia for her cesarean. She asked me to look it up. I did, and there was my note in the chart! What a coincidence is that?

I also had a section scheduled for today with the same surgeon who had done HER section.  I shared with the surgeon how my friend was happy with everything about her delivery and said it really helped to turn her life around for the better. The obstetrician was delighted to learn of the impact her care had made on this person. My friend had a chance to thank all of her team that was at work today, including her surgeon. ( this patient did not know, but I did, that the surgeon had surgery last year, and understood on a deep level the gratitude that was being expressed.)

For me it was a blessing--for the first time I had someone around while I was on call for OB. I have to stay on the hospital grounds for the entire call, and there is not much to do when there is down time. There was not much work, so we did an impromptu tour of the O.R.

I wanted my student, who is a server at Au Lac, to experience the energy of healing in the O.R.

We put her in 'a bunny suit' scrub clothes worn over clothing. She had a hat and booties. There were no cases, so there was no mask. She met a world-famous transplant surgeon who was practicing on the robot on his free time. He let her sit at the console and give it a try. She met a surgical technician, a gynecologist, a PACU nurse who had requested me for her c-section,  and the director of orthopedic surgery who is a world-class expert at what he does (his partner works on professional athletes).

It was exciting to share on a professional level, on a Reiki level, and on a RAW vegan level 'healer to healer'.

This is the medicine of the future; this is exactly how it is going to happen--one to one.

I emphasized over and over how we are in the same business--to make healthy, to ease suffering, and to share 'what works best' with all healers across the globe. One blog post at a time, one O.R. tour at a time ( the O.R. was empty, and she was 'from L&D and interested in a new career in medicine').

I loved watching her face when she smelled anesthetic agent for the first time! She works with High Vibrational Aromatherapy --but had never experienced anything like that! I told her three breaths, big lungfuls of that stuff, and one would be asleep and under anesthesia. She asked, 'where is this from?' I said some chemical plant somewhere (sevoflurane, a halogenated hydrocarbon inhalation all agent that is Fast On and Fast Off,  originated in Japan before it went generic). She also learned  heparin comes from bovine (cow) lung and porcine (pig) intestine. And protamine is from salmon sperm! "I didn't realize animals were so important in medicine." she shared. Yes, they are. And lots of animals are used in research too. I don't like it, but it is true.

She tried on lead apron and thyroid shield, and sat in the doctor's lounge to have a cup of chai tea from our Keurig. She looked the part and blended in. I took pictures throughout, and they show such a smile and joy at being able to experience this type of healing and know. She said , "the people here are just hanging out, and doing their work, and are very calm and capable. And friendly too!"  (An add-on case was being organized).

Want to know the best part? She offered to bring food. She went to pick it up, wearing scrubs! No one could believe it--they totally treated her like 'a doctor' and were convinced she had a surgery emergency to go do!

She came back with the food, which we shared, as we talked about the day.

She also asked me to 'do my magic' and give channelled information about her future. I said, 'let's get out the pendulum and see!' She also learned how to do the pendulum and answered my questions too. What started as a way to meet up after my trip to Hawaii, student and teacher, so she could share about seeing a ghost for the first time, and how intuition saved her from the Santa Monica massacre (she felt guided to go to the library and stayed there for two hours) turned into a first 'diplomatic tie' between conventional medicine, reiki, and RAW vegan healing.

It was awesome!

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

Conversations At The Checkout Counter At The Grocery Store

She was leaning on her forearms on the little counter by the 'slide your credit card through' machine. I heard her plaintively ask, 'Where is the coke at this store? Don't you just carry coke?'

young female cashier: We used to have it, I think.

customer: I looked everywhere and I couldn't find it.

cashier: Our coke is the kind that has Real Sugar in it.

customer: Actually, I was looking for the seven up. I want to make a good Sangria. You know, the kind where you take a bad bottle of wine and make a good Sangria.

cashier: (finishes the order0 Do you want me to ask someone to help you find it?

customer: No, that's okay.

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I don't shop at regular markets.

'Conventional' markets are full of pesticide, GMO, and High Fructose Corn Syrup. From what I understand, there are three basic 'types' of stores:

• The 'health food' kind with lots of supplements and everything is 'safe to eat'
• The 'Trader Joe' kind where there is a little of both and you have to 'look' before you buy
• The 'conventional' and 'big box' type of stores that sell what is 'cheaper'

Apparently this 'second type' of store was converting itself over to a 'first type'!

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Gluten-free dessert made with oats, nuts,and maple syrup in Vitamix

I saw a mother pushing a cart with two teenagers taller than her following in tow, holding a list, and she was asking them, 'What is next on this list?'

They looked embarrassed and totally bored.

'You know what I don't like about shopping at this store?' she asked out loud, to no one in particular as my cart passed hers and we maneuvered, 'The aisles are too narrow!'

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I saw the chakra necklace on the Young Female Cashier at the store when it was my turn. I made a comment.

me: I LOVE you necklace! Where did you get that?

her: my mentor gave it to me.

me: do you do Energy Healing?

her: I do. My mentor doesn't. I am Reiki Two.

me: Wow! Do you put it into the food?

her: well when I work at the supplement aisles I do. I look at them and think, Reiki!

me: You can wave your hands and put it in as you check the items too. You have the opportunity to touch a lot of lives!!!

She looks at me and smiles at this new idea--she likes it!

me: I am a blogger. I am a physician who does Reiki on my patients. I have over seventy-two thousand hits.

her: (is surprised and smiles) That's really good!

me: yes. And I am turning RAW vegan. Not all the way there yet, but working on it.

her: I was vegan once. For about six months...

box boy: I can't spend a day without eating anything that is meaty or dairy! (smiles)

me: (smiles back) some people are like that. It's in their DNA. That's okay.

box boy: I gave up the dairy, though. It makes my skin break out and gives me acne. 

I look and see that he is right. His face is full of acne.

her: You know there is this restaurant...Au Lac....It is my favorite. It is half RAW and half Vegan. No matter what you order, it is okay!

me: (I smile big) I know the owners. They are my best friends.  It is my favorite too. 

her: You know, as you turn vegan I know a lot about nutrition too. I can help. Come talk to me next time.

me: Okay, thanks! I will.

box boy: would you like some help out to the car?

me: no thank you, I am good. Have a nice day.

Times are changing for the better, are they not? It is a very small world in Southern California.

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

RAW And The Sushi Plate Moving Belt

As you may or may not know, I have moved to a plant-based, as RAW as possible diet in the last six months. I do it because of Vibration. I like mine to Vibrate as F-A-S-T as possible. It is more comfortable for me, and therefore to achieve this I eat RAW.

I also have a fascination with the sushi places, like Genki Sushi in Hawaii, where you get charged by the color of plate kind of like Dim Sum, and the plates go by on a little conveyer belt that goes right by where you sit.

Today I went there before the plane leaves for home in California.

It wasn't the same! : (

The plates would go by and I would think: fried. dead. too much mayonnaise. unhealthy. 

And what I did eat wasn't as much fun:

• The SPAM musubi was overcooked and had no flavor
• The sea salad sushi had too much rice
• The little sesame balls with red bean inside were too sweet and too fried
• The ahi had lost its 'thrill'
• The california roll was 'okay' but not like I had remembered
• The green tea was the best part--and it was FREE!

My boy ate a four-dollar cupcake and orange juice. I drove him after to Target, where he had a cheese pizza. He ate more 'healthy' in some ways than me!

Long story short--we change.

That is the progression of Consciousness, even more so than 'Life' itself.

If what it took to turn me RAW was what it did, I am okay with it. 

But today, I am 'unattached',  I am happy, and I eat RAW for myself. Or more accurately, for my Vibration. 

Whatever else comes next, God--and Source--I am okay with it. Even if it is big space ships coming in the sky! I don't have ANY attachment to the outcome. Just get on with it! If you ask me...and....

here are some wishes, though, just because I can ask:

• I would like a RAW vegan conveyer belt with little colored plates that go by and I get to pick
• A hula troupe with 'real bodies' --i.e. post surgical changes--would inspire a LOT of people, much in the way Winter the dolphin inspires a lot of amputees.
• I think free, safe childcare no matter where you go, much like Aunty's Beach Shack at Disney would make the world a better place for all the single parents
• Hawaii is SO much more than an ocean facing window at a high-rise hotel
• Aloha is something worth cultivating in everybody--it has truly changed my life for the better
• The opportunity to live off the land and form community is a basic human right
• Daily yoga is a must for me! And possibly, you? Any daily movement is awesome!
• Staying where there is laundry is the BEST--no nightmare at the washing machine when you unpack. Seriously consider it on your next vacation.
• A lot of the post-plantation changes/modernization in Hawaii are owed to the brave Nissei who enlisted in WW2. 
• I want to snorkel and be in salt water EVERY DAY!
• After this hard year, two weeks in Hawaii, and not having to use the alarm clock when I wake up, has been a miracle cure in so many ways for both my son and myself. I am so thankful!

Take care, and it is my hope that one day soon, you too may visit the islands, experience ALOHA first hand, and 'connect' with the 'aina heart to heart. In the meantime, I have sent Reiki to you from here every day. I hope you felt the 'difference'. ALOHA!!!

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

Hara

Hara is the seat of power in the human body/energy body.

In Martial Art, it is used to draw the Ki Yai breath--the loud DON'T MESS WITH ME! yell that is used to warn an attacker to back off.

In some people, Hara is imbalanced. Spirit is wanting me to study this. I like a puzzle, especially one that involves the body and the energy body.
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Let us review medical knowledge of the healthy GI tract, the small and large intestines:

• It is a 'second brain', due to the complex neuroendocrine tissue that ennervates the intestine.
• It is a big immunity center in the body--a major seat of it.
• When bowel is 'unhappy' from a health point of view, bacteria 'sneak through' the walls and into the peritoneum due to a process called 'translocation'. Ischemic bowel is known to do this.

Without dipping in to the 'Teacher's Edition'--'All Is Well' by Louise L. Hay and Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D. for 'the answers', let's discuss several people I know with intestine disease.

1. The Arbitrator:

This one developed life-threatening ulcerative colitis in childhood. The infection and anemia from the diseased colon would have killed them. To save a life, the entire colon was removed. A continent-ileostomy was created. This looks like an extra 'belly button' on the abdomen, and a small tube can be used to drain it of undigested food. 

The colon absorbs water and creates formed stool from gastric juices/digested food. 

Therefore someone without a colon has to release the 'waste' about six times a day. Some have the end of the small intestine, the Ileus attached directly to the rectum. Others, like The Arbitrator, have to drain it themselves.

This person also happens to enjoy trashing other people's reputations. A very negative person overall.

2. The RAW Vegan in Florida:

Some of you may know who this one is. This person 'self-healed' when 'doctors could not do anything for them'. They did 'everything that doctors say not to do' and got better. It is doubtful that this person had the severe form of Ulcerative Colitis like The Arbitrator. If it was mild, it wouldn't be troublesome. It probably was life-long medication, bleeding and diarrhea and pain, the 'moderate' form of the disease. With RAW foods, prayer, and optimism, as well as reaching out and helping others, this person has achieved 'permanent remission'. I would enjoy seeing a biopsy and a colonoscopy to prove the disease is gone forever from them. 

Because of the immune system, there may have been some 'trigger' to upset the bowel. By eating anti-inflammatory, high antioxidant RAW food, which contains its own enzymes to aid in the digestive process, the irritated bowel in his case 'calmed down'.

This person is a fast-talking New York Jew with a heart of gold and a real 'connection' to God.

3. The Business Owner:

This one has had recurrence of bowel issues with the colon. Diet, optimistic outlook, and social support along with medication achieved good 'quality of life' about three years ago. Since that time, there has been stress upon stress in the family business. The diet has changed back to baseline to allow for coping with the stress, some of which is financial. The rest is interpersonal.

This 'patient' is misery personified. The list of drugs keeps increasing, at great personal cost. The number of tests that are required to monitor the condition are expensive and keep needing 'more' to be done. Depression and poor outlook are starting to creep in. 

There is a downward spiral and this person is not 'pulling up'. Doctors orders are no lettuce, no vegetables of any kind. Only meat, cheese, and bread. 

Can you see there is some 'connection' with Hara to MORE than the digestive tract?

I do. In Medicine many of us notice that the Ulcerative Colitis and also the Crohn's patients have a certain tendency in the personality. They are highly detail-oriented, extremely focused and knowledgeable about their disease and its treatment, and in my practice seem to need a great deal of reassurance with their anesthetic because of a perceived 'loss of control'. Extra time is necessary to address their concerns. As health care workers, we are not sure if the unpleasant nature of the illness creates the personality, or the personality magnifies the effect of the illness. All that can be said is the two tend to 'go together'. It is always a pleasure for me to take care of these patients because they are nice people who have been through a lot; I enjoy the chance to 'be there for them' at their surgery and make it as pleasant an experience for them as possible.

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There is a story you should know about me. I was in La Jolla for a class, sitting on a park bench, and I got to where I was so happy I just radiated love and joy for that moment there and then.

Guess what? Some old dude came up to me. His name was Myron A. Coler. He was a scientist and a writer. He said, 'you look smart.' and offered for me to have dinner with him to discuss business at the La Valencia hotel where he lived. His energy felt 'different', and I sort of wanted to run, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to hear him out.

He had come up with a new theory to cure all disease. It had to do with the molecular weights and the archimedes points of certain molecules. If the center of gravity was the same, it would cure the same disease.He called it 'hydropathy', which I just googled and there is nothing about it.  He hired me to do his calculations, since a woman who had been doing them for him was getting 'unreliable'. I did them for him but was concerned because like all millionaires I have met, they seem to feel entitled to your time and talent. I had three more years of medical school to finish! So when I did a wrong calculation (I didn't look up the atomic weight of some element like I should have), I 'got fired'. He was dying of prostate cancer, and I didn't miss his dinners or his brandy.

But wasn't it funny how the Universe 'sent' him to me at that moment of sheer joy and liberation from my everyday concerns? And even further, how I learned to extricate myself from his situation?

I used my intuition a lot on that 'lesson'. My Hara was slow to kick in, but when it did, I got the heck out of there and got 'back' to my life so I could enjoy it again.

If it wasn't for the money, I never would have went at all. But I paid for med school, all of it, by myself, and I was hoping for a little easier time of it with the extra money from my extra work with him.

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Are you ready?

Here are Louise's affirmations for this second chakra illness:

• I trust the process of life.
• I know that Life always supports me and takes care of me.
• I am lovable and loved

I think we got some good insights on that one together, didn't we?

Namaste,

Reiki Doc

P.S. This is medicine for your healing, above. Enjoy!