Essential Health is just that. We have found life to be so much more expanding when our bodies are radiating life force and vitality. This is essential, wouldn’t you agree?
We have come to truly understand the significance of our daily intake of whole food nutrition and basic foundational nutrient supplementation. Your adrenals are on the clock. This clock is one that is timed to the light of day.
From sunrise to sunset your adrenals are monitoring and adjusting your energy levels based on natural cycles. Your body needs you to be consistent in your timing of when you eat and what you eat and how you eat. We would like to share with you some general guidelines for nutritional adrenal support. Please know that we will be updating and expanding this information often. En~joy!
It is always best to eat a wide variety of whole, organic, minimally processed foods. This is body wisdom for all of our systems.
It is recommend that one who desires to step out of adrenal exhaustion to eat a fat, protein and carbohydrate source with every meal.
You will greatly benefit from eating lots of vegetables with each meal…especially ones that are brightly colored..
If you can, avoid fruit in the morning. Experiment with having these potassium rich foods a little later in the day?
Mixing 1-2 Tbs of Essential Oils into your grains or vegetables on a daily basis will certainly bring a smile to you adrenals. ( Learn about Macadamia Nut, Kukai Nut and Black Current seed Essential Fatty Acid Blend, that really makes the veggies sing and also supports your Adrenals wonderfully)
Eat the best quality food you can afford. Some would say that this is a Self-Health Essential in all facets of your wellness. As you know, your food becomes you!
For those with moderate to severe adrenal depletion, increasing your protein intake and decreasing the whole grains and fruit from your food plan will better serve you. Please know that as you make these simple shifts your body will respond. How quickly is truly a personal experience, is it not? Patience is a gentle herb that will do wonders for your adrenal replenishment.
A consistent whole food nutritional lifestyle will really help your adrenals. We have also found that for an already deficient body, we benefit greatly by adding low-stress supplements that are easily absorbed and created to replenish a body that has little extra energy to use for breaking down nutrients.
We highly recommend that as with any general guideline you go within your own reference systems and carefully choose the foods that are best for you!
This inner reference system is one that we develop with intention, skill and sometimes guidance. It is our sincere wish for your Self-Health; that with these educational offerings you will develop your own personal Self-Health guidance system, this could be a health essential!
As you know you are a very intricate being. Between physics and medicine, we have constant reminders that the interplay between our Mind and Body is constant and much more active then we might truly understand.
The following lifestyle experiences are offered to support you in the inner inquiry with the sincere knowing that most of these are within your personal parameters of perception and action to re-design. Ask us how?
Poor Food and drinks as stimulants (sugar, caffeine, excessive carbohydrate)
Trying to be perfect
Staying up late even when fatigued and therefore lack of deep restorative sleep
Staying in situations that are no-win (for example: double binds)
Being consistently in a position of powerlessness
Poor food choices
Lack of enjoyable and replenishing activities
Constantly driving oneself
Over exercising
Environmental toxins
Relationship turmoil
Skipping meals
You will note that many of these circumstances involve how we might create our relationships. These relationships seem to encompass every interaction we have with our outside world. Do these interactions have our bodies constantly in a fight or flight mode?
This is a very subtle awareness. By that we mean that when one is interacting in a relationship with self or another, we are very unlikely to have the awareness in that moment of the potential physiological consequences, often until it is too late.
For example, you are late for an appointment and instead of pushing yourself out the door in a flight mode perhaps calling ahead to have a more calming drive time would be a good self-health alternative? Would this simple action step begin to layer off some of the "external" stimulants our lifestyles can produce for us? Would this simple step begin to re-design a more favorable wellness approach for your adrenal system? Could this step save you a cold or flu episode in the near future?
Research is showing the strong relationship between the emotions and emotional wisdom and their affect on the health of the body. This plus the importance of consistent whole food nutrition and supplementation is being supported everyday in new reasearch. It often takes a multi-faceted approach to support our bodies in creating a new homeostatic way of relating to itself.
Please take a moment to wonder about your personal relationship with yourself and your body. This might be a very good list to play with and give another look at in a few weeks time. This would allow you to gently anchor the possible cause with effect of some of your lifestyle realities.
As we discuss in class, juices pose a number of problems and our bodies actually do better without them. First, we typically strain the fiber out of most our juices, fiber we need to grow the right intestinal flora. Second, … Continue reading→
Change your words…change your life. This is a simple formula for transformation. Begin be listening to yourself. Simply LISTEN.
As you listen make note of how your words ‘feel’ or resonate with you and others. Begin by playing with words that might sound negative. Play with changing them to happier words or phrases. Notice.
Here is a stunning example of the power of our words.
For most of my life I have not enjoyed sauerkraut.
Each time Robert would try a different recipe…I would assist him and after it was fermented take one bite then leave the batch for his lucky digestive system. You may or may not know that sauerkraut is really good for your entire body but particularly your digestive system.
One day we found sauerkraut at a Health Food Store that I really liked. I liked the taste as well as the texture. We decided to create our own version of the concoction. We decided to use our Champion juicer to grind the green cabbage into fine pieces instead of the food processor. We found that the finer pieces fermented quite easily.
So now I love sauerkraut our way. I share this recipe with you so you can bless your digestive system with a wonderfully tasty and beneficial fermented food. YUM!
Robert and Tessa’s Easy Sauerkraut
3 heads of organic cabbage (about 5 lbs)
2-3 Tablespoons of Celtic or air-dried sea salt (or not)
Chop your organic green cabbage up so it will fit into your juicer.
Juice it.Save the pulp.
Mix the pulp and juice and salt.
Place in a crock, covering snugly with a lid or plate that just fits inside the crock. Tamp down to pack kraut. Best to place a heavy object on cover to hold it in place. This also keeps the cabbage in the brine. Now cover the whole thing with a towel and place in an unobtrusive corner of the kitchen.
The beauty of juicing the cabbage is you have created the brine quite easily. If the cabbage is not covered by the juice (it should be) add water until the cabbage is covered; then let it ferment for 6-7 days. May take less time with this juicing step.
Mix and put into clean, glass jars with lids.
Put in refrigerator and enjoy.
We use our sauerkraut on many many many things…salads are my personal favorite. With a little organic extra virgin olive oil, the taste is quite wonderful replacing salad dressings. You can add other vegetables, fruits, herbs or spices. I encourage you to start simply then explore your organic vegetable section of your market to personalize your sauerkraut.
Can you believe I am saying this?
Yours in Self-Health!
Tessa
PS We will be sharing some articles on the self-healthy benefits of eating fermented foods shortly!
References: Wild Fermentation, The Flavor, nutrition, and craft of live-culture Foods by Sandor Ellix Katz
What are the Therapeutic Benefits of the CZ Infrared Heater?
Far-infrared heat has many therapeutic effects on the body due to it’s penetrating ability deep into the tissues. Other forms of heat or light do not penetrate as far below the surface of the body.
As the Infrared heat penetrates the skin, the light energy is transformed into thermal energy. This deep tissue heat in turn produces many health benefits such as:
Improved circulation
Stimulates cellular metabolism which increases oxygenation and detoxification of the cells
Stimulates regeneration and healing
Reduces inflammation, swelling and pain
Increases flexibility in muscles and joints
Provides penetrating warmth
Far-infrared has gained tremendous popularity and is widely used now in many applications, from providing warmth for premature and newborn babies in incubators to adjunctive treatment in cancer therapy.
An additional and important component of the CZ Infrared heater is the interaction of the infrared waves with the copper ionization panels in the heating chamber, generating beneficial negative ions which are released into the air.
Negative ions have a profoundly enhancing effect on overall health and well-being. It is that supercharged invigorating feeling that you get when standing by a waterfall or after a rain.
Negative ions also have a cleansing effect on the atmosphere, neutralizing pollutants such as smoke, dust and many other pollutants.
Conventional heat sources produce just the opposite, positive ions, which cause irritation and fatigue and general malaise in the body. Positive ions are abundant in areas where there is high pollution and smog.
The CZ Infrared heater not only produces the most efficient and effective heat, but it is the only heater that actually improves your overall air quality as it heats. Besides it’s production of therapeutic far-infrared heat and it’s negative ion generating ability, we have also added a lifetime electrostatic air filter that filters out dust particles.
We have received some wonderful feedback from our customers with health challenges that have remarked on how better their joints feel, and how much easier their breathing is and how much less skin and sinus irritation they are experiencing, even so much as to mention that they notice a lesser incidence of colds and flus in the winter since they started heating with the CZ Infrared heater.
Diminished indoor air quality caused by most heaters in the winter is one reason that the body is more susceptible to colds and flus and sickness during this season.
Truly, the CZ Infrared heater is so much more than just an effective heater. It provides wonderful, fresh, oxygen rich air and very comfortable, cozy, soft, natural therapeutic heat.
Meet Tessa and Robert Brauer and Learn more about what they can offer YOU!
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The following is an interview of Tessa and Robert Brauer by Joan Newcomb on Contact Radio. This interview took place on April 7, 2009. This interview offers you some telling insights into their views on health, their passions and gifts. It gives you a deeper feel for who they are and what they can offer you in Self-Health Essential Consultations and Life-Force Coaching.
Enjoy!
How did you come to offer the things that you offer?T-Joan, May I take a moment to appreciate you and each person hearing my voice? Thank you for inviting us to your radio show. I also am appreciating each person listening for joining us in our conversation.Self-Health Essentials is the name of our website as well as our philosophy around wellness. We believe health, be it physical, emotional, or energetic is an essential personal journey. We offer informational articles, services and products that we have found essential to our own self- health. We speak from a very personal perspective and celebrate the empowerment of others in their personal path to self- health.
R – For me I grew up listening to my heart, although I didn’t call it that at first. I also always had a strong sense of self honesty and a desire to know truth.That led me to a study of spiritual teachings, metaphysics, science, psychology, counseling, business, and the study of nutrition. My study of spiritual teachings opened me to meditation and contemplation and the appreciation of simple spiritual practices like being kind to self and others and having respect for all life.Along the way I honed my skill of listening and found that what I had been doing naturally was deeply intuitive. At some point on my path I started attracting to myself teachers and masters and I have become a practitioner of Matrix Energetics and the Yuen Method. I call myself a Life-Force consultant because I focus on what promotes life in my practice.
Flashback about 27 years when I met Tessa, my wife, best friend, and mirror. She and I have developed a synergy to our slightly different but complementary skills and now work together with the mission of sharing with others practical tools, learned from experience, that we call self-health essentials.
What is your passion?T-I have many passions! The two I am hearing to share today are: I love to do distance Self-Health Energetics sessions. I love to witness the phenomenal personal “ahas” my clients experience during our sessions. To be in the presence of another’s light of self-recognition is pure joy for me! I am also passionate about designing self-healthy life style and nutritional programs that are rich in life force as well as simply successful. This is another source of joy for me!
R – I have always had an interest in nutrition. About 30 years ago that interest grew into a passion. Since then I have used my body as kind of a test laboratory. Testing one diet or fast after another, after awhile my changes became fewer as I began to recognize a natural relationship to food that I believe man has mainly lost. The good thing is we can reclaim a healthy respect for the food we eat, in fact through my research I have learned that eating in harmony with nature is backed by science and numerous studies.
What is the difference between calendar age and biological age?R – Well calendar age is the number were used to thinking about when we consider our relationship to when we were born. The problem with this way of looking at ourselves is that it has been overlaid with a lot of programming that says as you get older certain things happen, like your ability to move around, your health, mental function, and your ability to enjoy life all suffer, which is not true. It’s a very strong thought form in developed counties around the world.
In contrast, biological age is the health and integrity of your body and its various organs and tissues. All of us probably know someone who looks and feels 20 or more years younger than their calendar age. Why is that? Well, if you ask these people questions about how they live, certain common things begin to surface. These people have a strong sense of self-determination that is flavored by their taking responsibility for the things in their lives. They enjoy life. They care about something more than themselves. And, they take care of themselves, which includes what they eat and exercise. After being around people like this you come away with an up, light feeling, which I feel is the joy of feeling alive. Very low on this list, if it is there at all, is the common reply most heard that it’s probably genetics.
In our practice and on our website we share with others practical tools for making the shift away from a calendar age way of being to a biological age way of being.
What is Useful Magic?T-Useful Magic is a phrase that came to me after a session with a client who was experiencing a dental dilemma. May I refer our listeners to our website Blog article titled Useful Magic for the specifics of her success? I blend intuitive energetics with self-healthy references into Self-Health Energetics, which is supercharged by Matrix Energetics and Yuen and a dozen other methods I am trained in. My clients find these sessions very useful in navigating life experiences. IE the name Useful Magic. Isn’t that truly the way we could be living in ways that seem magical.
What is your personal peak health experience?T-My personal peak health experience is a 67-day juice cleanse, Robert and I did together. 67 days of raw veggie juices with a veggie potassium broth in the evenings. I have many stories from that cleanse. I can still remember the image of a hamburger floating in my consciousness for days somewhere around day 45. Hmmmmm! The cleanse was an amazing journey in the power of life force and the transformational power of enzyme rich raw veggie juices.
R – I have come to view health as a journey and not a destination. Early on in my personal health journey I would come upon certain benchmarks that could be labeled a peak health experience only later to find that my health would be setback by some temporary healing crisis or retracing. What I learned, is that the body in its infinite wisdom, because of the good things I was continually doing for myself, was able to eliminate old incomplete illness patterns or toxicity that were not completely dealt with when they originally occurred. The body doesn’t forget old health transgressions it just stores them so that at a future time when it has the energy it can clean house. After a number of years my healing crisis became less of a factor until now I rarely experience physical distress. I wake up feeling refreshed, after a good nights sleep, with constant energy throughout the day into the night. Can you remember a time, perhaps when you were really young, when you were eager to face the day and have fun playing? We often forget how those times felt because we have become use to how our current state of health feels and assume that it’s just the way it is. I believe that now my personal peak health experience is sharing with others the reality that we can feel eager to face the day again and that it’s a precious gift as soul to be alive in a physical body.
What kinds of things are people dealing with when they seek your services?T-We attract clients who want to be guided and empowered. They are self-starters who lead busy lives and want guidance in nutritionally sound; life force enriched strategies so that their personal wellness matches their vibrant life styles! We also attract clients who desire guidance in adrenal rejuvenation, weight reduction and Age(less)living.
R – A lot of people I see have physical energy issues, hormonal imbalances like adrenal burnout and low thyroid levels, sleep disturbances, weight issues, allergies and digestive problems. Most of these can be alleviated by making the proper diet and lifestyle changes. But there is also the emotional and psychological aspects related to these same issues as well as to recurrent negative patterns in their lives that they would like help being resolved. There is often various levels that subconsciously interfere with a person taking positive steps toward realizing their health and life goals. I help people with these things, sometimes in working with a client; we get insights into the reasons behind a stuck pattern – like a forgotten unnecessary belief pattern. Other times it’s not necessary to know the reason, a shift is felt and it’s like walking through a door into a new way of being with the old pattern left behind. It’s all very personal, everyone and every session is different.
Anything else you want our listeners to know?T- Joan, There is a relationship that we each have with Self….with our health and with our bodies. That is a key element to successfully navigating the many storms life may present us. You mentioned that Robert and I have been married 27 years, might I mention happily married….We have discovered many secrets in our relationship. I will share one with you and your listeners. To achieve success in your relationship with your health or wealth you must first begin with your inner relationships….with your personal relationships with your heart and your body. I love to guide others in learning how to communicate in real time with their own bodies—to learn how to listen and relate—to learn how to translate that information into self-healthy action steps in their lives.We know you can achieve radiant self-health if you want it! Contact us at Self-Health Essentials.com. We have the experience and the passion to empower you in your personal journey to self-health!
Hello, this is Tessa from Self-Health Essentials. The story below so touched me I wanted to share it with you in this form. This is a sharing from one heart to another. I know I am only the conduit for the possibility that is available to each one of us. It is an honor for me to witness and facilitate Self-Health Energetics (Matrix/Yuen + more)sessions like this one.
"On 2/16, I called a new dentist’s office (one who uses laser technology) to schedule a cleaning before I left town for 3 months–needed to have it done within the next 3 weeks. I was told that I had to have an exam first as cleaning was a treatment and exams were required before any treatment. The dentist’s office scheduled a new patient exam for me on 2/18.
The dentist told me a crown needed to be removed as there was a cavity underneath, and that there was a strong possibility I would need a root canal or implant. I was opposed to having either and discussed this with him. I even considered having the tooth pulled. At the time to schedule the cleaning and appointment for the crown, I was told the crown appointment would be 1 month out and the cleaning 2 months out. I told the scheduler this was not acceptable, she said I could go on their short list.
When I returned home, I called Tessa to ask for her help in opening a window of opportunity for these appointments, to have it all completed within the next 3 weeks. Tessa also recommended I do work on saving my tooth instead of a root canal or implant. Tessa said she would create a distance session around this for me.
On the morning of 2/19, the dentist’s office called and they had an opening for a cleaning that afternoon so I took that appointment. Then on 2/26, they called and said there was an opening on 3/2 for the crown work which I also took.
On 3/2, my appointment with the dentist lasted for 3 hours. The dentist told me it was the toughest and most difficult process he had ever done and he has done hundreds of crowns. He was amazed at how many prior fillings needed to be removed and that we were able to save the tooth.
Thanks to the laser technology, he made the crown there in his office. It was an amazing process, with the added benefit of everything being completed that day.
I am so deeply grateful for all the Matrix Energetics processes Tessa facilitates that can bring such wonders into my life!" (Comments from J.D. in Montana)
I like to refer to this as useful magic. The Self-Health Energetics (Matrix/Yuen + more) sessions I offer can touch you in areas and in ways that might seem impossible to imagine. In this instance my dear friend and client chose to ask for everything she wanted. She not only wanted the timing to match her life plan…she also chose to create new options for her teeth…ones the dentist hadn’t even offered. She chose to create the best possible outcome for her life, her health and her teeth.
How often do you settle for an outcome that is less then what you truly want?
Let’s facilitate some Useful Magic for you. Choose one of the buttons below to begin the process. You may also choose the three session package at a discounted price. Many clients enjoy the benefits of creating an expanded window of possibility that linking three sessions can offer. I will contact you over email and set up a time for a 60 minute session. This could be the best investment you have ever made. Let’s create some Useful Magic for you!
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Just a few of the personal stories from those who are enjoying the many self-healthy benefits of Far Infrared heat.
"For a couple weeks I’ve been using my ComfortZone™ far Infrared heater to warm up my bedroom before going to bed. Previously an electric space heater brought the room’s temperature to a comfortable level. But my sheets and blankets would still be chilled! Now within just an hour or so the FIR heater gets the air warm and my bed, too. I jump into bed and am immediately embraced by friendly and comforting warmth. After just a few minutes of reading, I fall gently and comfortably to sleep and rejoin my dreams of adventure and epic achievements.
In the morning I wake up refreshed and not grumbling about the obligations of the day. I feel like the warmth stays with me long after breakfast. A hidden benefit: I’m much more cheerful on the bus and fellow commuters are relieved they don’t have to sit next to a grouch." D.S., WA.
"My experience with the ComfortZone™ far infrared heater is … WOW !!! I feel this like ‘surge of energy’ when I walk into the house where the heater is heating. For the first time in years I feel warm from the inside out, top to bottom. Previously, I had a gas furnace, but that would bring a ‘wave’ of heat, then one would slowly get cold. This is NEVER experienced with this FIR (Far infrared) heater! I LOVE IT… just wanted to tell you that I just received my new power/gas bill. It’s amazing what having 3 heaters has done to my power bill!! It was less than last month’s bill…AND was over 100.00 less than the bill at this time last year! Gotta love the FAR…" C.B., WA.
"I am loving my ComfortZone™ heater! I feel fed! The quality of heat generated is like being bathed in natural light. I wish every building had this kind of heating system because it feels so good.
I no longer wake up in the morning with dry sinuses and throat. For the first time in my life I feel normal. I’ve suffered for years with forced air furnaces, and am thrilled that there is an affordable alternative to heating my home."
K.L., WA.
"We have noticed our plants growing with more vigor even in the dead of winter since we started using our ComfortZone™ heater! This is a miracle especially in this house since it is so dark anyway. The cut flowers I place close to the Comfort zone heater last 3X their usual amount of bloom time. How neat is that?!"
T.B., WA.
"My Comfort Zone FIR heater has made such an amazing difference this winter in my home in Montana. It was about November 15, 2008 when it was placed in service.
The first difference I noticed was my amaryllis plant, which I planted on 11/18. In the past, it has always taken approximately 6 weeks for the first bloom, and as I was late this year in planting mine, was hope it would bloom by New Year’s. This year the first bloom appeared on December 11th~~~by New Year’s Day two stalks had each bloomed, providing 9 glorious blooms for the holiday season.
The rest of my houseplants are enjoying the FIR heat also, looking far better through this winter than last.
We have experienced a lot of snow here this year (only my 2nd winter in Bigfork) and more gray days than last year, and yet my attitude is much more upbeat!
The small house I am renting has electric baseboard heat only and the quietness of the Comfort Zone heater is much more pleasant to live with, as is the way it disperses the heat, which feels much more even.
This heater is now a permanent part of my life." J.D., MT
We receive many inquiries from our clients about Soy. One dear friend drinks soy milk as often as she can hoping it will assist her body with healthy aging.When in fact it is quite possibly speeding up her aging process.
There are many, many studies available to offer another view. The following comes from Dr Mary Eng and Sally Fallon in their book Eat Fat Lose Fat.
Today, many dieters try to meet their health requirements by eating foods based on soy, promoted as beneficial in many popular books and weight-loss plans. However, soybeans contain several toxins, and high-temperature chemical processing adds many more. As early as 1972, a soy-industry textbook (Soybeans: Chemistry and Technology) listed a number of well-documented toxic effects from soybeans—everything from endocrine disruption to undesirable changes in many organs.
The most serious problem with eating soy while you’re trying to lose weight is that soy is a goitrogen, that is, it depresses thyroid function. When your thyroid gland malfunctions, you tend to gain weight even when you eat very little. Dr. Dan Sheehan and Dr. Daniel Doerge, government researchers at the National Center for Toxicological Research, discovered that the anti-thyroid component of soy is the isoflavones or phytoestrogens, which inhibit the synthesis of thyroid hormone. All soy foods, including tofu, soymilk, protein bars and meal replacements, contain these thyroid-inhibiting isoflavones. In 1999, these researchers actually wrote a letter urging FDA to require a health warning on soy foods, rather than the health claim the agency eventually approved.
Soy foods also contain anti-nutrients known as phytic acid which blocks mineral absorption, and enzyme inhibitors that block the enzymes needed for protein digestion.
Reading labels is very useful especially when it comes to soy. Over the years we have removed soy from our diet and happily so.If you would like to learn more about this topic, the book, The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America’s Favorite HealthFood, is a must read. This is an area that one is best served as a Self-Health sleuth!
Self-Health Essentials LLC suggests a way of life for reaching and maintaining peak health. It is based on the best of the latest research and the best of the time-tested methods.
Although the medical profession encourages us to take more responsibility for our health, seeking wellness should be done in cooperation with a doctor. More and more physicians are becoming aware of the benefits to be derived from preventive methods, among them optimal nutrition.
Self-Health Essentials LLC and information on this site is not to be considered a prescription. You are unique. You have your own set of individual variations-physical, mental, and emotional. Only the doctor who knows, examines, and treats you can prescribe for you. For this reason, the authors, writers and researchers of Self-Health Essentials LLC cannot take medical or legal responsibility of having the contents of this website considered a prescription for anyone.
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Your body needs you to be consistent in your timing of when you eat and what you eat and how you eat. We would like to share with you some general guidelines for nutritional adrenal support. Please know that we will be updating and expanding this information often. En~joy!
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