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Well Being Journal™ VOL Nature Bathing • Conversations with Mary • Carrot Latte Recipe WELL BEING JOURNAL™ VOL. 28 NO. 4 July/August 2019 U.S. $8.99/Canada $10.99 HERALDING THE INTEGRATION OF MEDICINE WITH PHYSICAL, MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, SPIRITUAL & SOCIAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH Eye-Care Nutrients Music Rewires the Brain Artificial Intelligence Imagination & Empathy The Power of Creativity Intuitive Medicine Chemist: The 3-Step Sugar Detox How to Balance Hormones, Avoid Weight Gain, Crush Cravings, Kill Candida and Put the Brakes on Aging THE 5 MOST IMPORTANT TIPS: • Bring Your Thyroid Back to Life • Protect Against Depression • Boost Athletic Performance • Increase Functional Lifespan • Elevate Your Energy Levels Throughout the Day GET YOUR FREE COPY AT www.FreeSugarDetox.com Tens of thousands have already snatched up this simple guide to improve their longevity and help their families live healthier and happier. NEED HELP? [email protected] (505) 510-1117 10am to 4pm PST Monday – Thursday WELL BEING JOURNAL™ Features Music and Rewiring the Brain with Neurologic Therapy……6 GRETA BURROUGHS discusses the power of music in “rewiring” fine and gross motor skills in individuals who have sustained neurological damage. Imagination & Experiencing Empathy……10 JOHN ERIC BAUGHER, PHD, describes how empathy is not a discrete skill, but rather a moral capacity intrinsic to our basic humanity. Imagination—and the ability to play—are often overlooked as aspects of empathic capacity. Eye Care & Nutrients for Excellent Vision……12 MARC GROSSMAN, OD, AND MICHAEL EDSON, MS, provide a detailed exploration of nutrients crucial to healthy eyesight, and how best to integrate nutrition as part of an ongoing eye care regimen. Various disorders of the eye are discussed, as well as nutrients targeted toward disease prevention. Flourishing with Artificial Intelligence……20 DARSHAN GOSWAMI, MS, PE, provides a look at how Artificial Intelligence (AI) for all its perceived downsides, might just be the key to unlimiting humanity’s future. The Power of Creativity: Coloring, Painting, Dancing……22 GEDALIA GENIN, PHD, discusses how connecting with our “inner artist” opens us up to the healing power of creativity, with implications for a variety of physical and psychological ailments. Can You Decide When to Get Sick—And When Not To?……26 BLAIR JUSTICE, PHD, comments on some of the relationships between stress and illness in this excerpt from her book Thoughts, Attitudes & Your Health. Messages from Mary……28 ANNA RAIMONDI, in an interview with Well Being Journal editor Scott Miners, describes how she came to have conversations with Mary, a spiritual master. Here Raimondi discusses her role as Mary’s amanuensis while reflecting on a variety of spiritual truths. The Restorative Gifts of Nature……36 CAROL ROBERGE, CHHC, discusses the power of “forest bathing” or the practice of spending time in nature, which can restore us and return us to ourselves, particularly after engaging in today’s high-tech urban environment. Intuitive Medicine: The Light Within……40 SHANNON MCRAE, PHD, reveals how intuitive healing enhances the role of our cells’ original blueprint. In Brief & Health Notes 4 Things That Make You Go Hmmm... 21 Does Anyone Have to Labor for a Living? 11 Acts of Kindness 25 The Power of the Now 17 Green Leafy Vegetables Reverse Fatty Liver 38 Growing with Greenery 18 Nitric Oxide from Leafy Vegetables 39 Urban Nature Dosages 18 Magnesium: Essential Trace Mineral 39 Children, Nature & Quality of Life 19 Recipe: Carrot Cake Latte 39 Outdoor Care Retreats The Well Being Journal (ISSN 1559-4955) is published 6 times per year at 10371 N. Oracle Rd. Suite 205, Tucson, AZ 85737. Periodicals Postage Paid at Seattle, Washington. 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Oracle Road, Suite 205, Tucson, AZ 85737-9392. Vols. 14 –current issue available for $4/each. Up Front Ka…ching, Intelligence, and Music “The important thing is never to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. Never lose a holy curiosity.” —Old Man’s Advice to Youth: “Never Lose a Holy Curiosity,” LIFE magazine (2 May 1955) statement to William Miller, p. 64. elcome to our latest co-creation! You collectively, will integrate AI into our cultures and learn may have noticed a new cover price, especially how to enhance life through the use of intelligent technol- if you have been purchasing the Journal reg- ogies. ularlyW at newsstands. Ka…ching, Ka…ching: The price Darshan Goswami, for many years a project manager for tag reflects increased costs for production, primarily paper renewable energy, micro-grid and smart grid projects at the price increases. Readers will US Department of Energy, continue to find that the has a passion to help create a Journal contains abundant better world. His article on AI feature content. Subscribers “The emergence of in this issue hopefully helps might note, also, that we have assist understanding of its use- retained subscriptions at the fulness and role in our growth current price, which represents “musical medicine” is as individuals and as societies a savings (just a few cents shy globally. of) $20 per year over news- more evidence that we We are also excited to stand prices. present Greta Burroughs’ We are looking for ways to wonderful feature on mu- decrease costs, and, of course are expanding into a sic and rewiring the brain, the use of artificial intelligence which highlights the power of (AI), in the form of com- new world of health and music to heal our bodies while puters for research, editing, enhancing our lives. The emer- communications, and design gence of “musical medicine” helps immeasurably. Regard- wholeness…” is more evidence that we are ing AI, some express concern expanding into a new world of that AI will displace humans health and wholeness. from jobs, but it need not. Here at the Journal we’ve made It would be a pleasure to focus on the other remarkable changes, and adjustments, and our roles change, but we features in this issue here; however, the annotations in have the same staff as before. AI will never be superior to us the table of contents on the previous page can be a good because we are organic beings and can raise our awareness guidance system. We hope subscribers and new readers will or our thoughts and emotions to change our lives, expand, enjoy this issue and that it in some small way will enhance and grow, which machines cannot do at all. It is we who, your health! ∆ —Scott Miners, editor WELL BEING JOURNAL Vol 28, No. 4 3 Things that Make You Go Hmmm... ter. “We know that exposure to toxins learning disability, and is a hyperbar- Chemical
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