1. Find a quiet place where you will not be interrupted.
2. Sit in a comfortable chair or upright in bed.
3. Close your eyes and take a few slow, deep breaths. Allow your body to relax.
4. Vividly picture yourself in a state of complete physical, mental, and emotional health.
5. Focus not only on the images, but on the feelings, sensations, emotions, smells, sights, and tastes around you. Imagine yourself in enjoyable scenarios where you have plenty of energy and are having a wonderful, pain-free time.
6. Allow yourself to completely 'step in' to the reality you are creating for yourself.
7. Now, allow yourself to feel the freedom and gratitude you would feel if your pain was completely gone, and you were restored to a state of …show more content…
When you are healing from any type of chronic disease, it is wise to start with your gut. A study published in Clinics (Sao Paulo) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898551/, showed the possible link between increased intestinal permeability (leaky gut) and chronic disease.
There are a lot of gut-healing tonics and supplements out there, but you should keep it simple to start. That's why I recommend two things: turmeric and fermented foods.
Turmeric
According to a study published in Food & Function, curcumin (turmeric) is a powerful anti-inflammatory, immunomodulator, and healer of oxidative stress. Preclinical studies in laboratory animals have shown turmeric to be effective in preventing or ameliorating the inflammation of ulcerative colitis. (http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/fo/c2fo30097d#!divAbstract)
Fermented Foods
Probiotics, the live, active cultures found in fermented foods, are absolutely essential to good gut health. They have also been shown to effectively treat autoimmune disease.
According to a study published in the Journal of Nutrition, (http://jn.nutrition.org/content/137/3/798S.full) a probiotic strain called Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota (LcS) was especially effective in the inhibition of the autoimmune disease,
2. Sit in a comfortable chair or upright in bed.
3. Close your eyes and take a few slow, deep breaths. Allow your body to relax.
4. Vividly picture yourself in a state of complete physical, mental, and emotional health.
5. Focus not only on the images, but on the feelings, sensations, emotions, smells, sights, and tastes around you. Imagine yourself in enjoyable scenarios where you have plenty of energy and are having a wonderful, pain-free time.
6. Allow yourself to completely 'step in' to the reality you are creating for yourself.
7. Now, allow yourself to feel the freedom and gratitude you would feel if your pain was completely gone, and you were restored to a state of …show more content…
When you are healing from any type of chronic disease, it is wise to start with your gut. A study published in Clinics (Sao Paulo) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898551/, showed the possible link between increased intestinal permeability (leaky gut) and chronic disease.
There are a lot of gut-healing tonics and supplements out there, but you should keep it simple to start. That's why I recommend two things: turmeric and fermented foods.
Turmeric
According to a study published in Food & Function, curcumin (turmeric) is a powerful anti-inflammatory, immunomodulator, and healer of oxidative stress. Preclinical studies in laboratory animals have shown turmeric to be effective in preventing or ameliorating the inflammation of ulcerative colitis. (http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2012/fo/c2fo30097d#!divAbstract)
Fermented Foods
Probiotics, the live, active cultures found in fermented foods, are absolutely essential to good gut health. They have also been shown to effectively treat autoimmune disease.
According to a study published in the Journal of Nutrition, (http://jn.nutrition.org/content/137/3/798S.full) a probiotic strain called Lactobacillus casei strain Shirota (LcS) was especially effective in the inhibition of the autoimmune disease,