Resources
This page is provided to you so that you can more easily find information that you maybe seeking to help you better take care of your mind and live a long and healthy life. Each website listed has been reviewed and at least some of the content is valuable.
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Health Information
Cypress Natural Medicine Newsletter provides up to date information on how to take care of your body naturally. It is always informative and they often give you ideas about things you can do at home to support your health and longevity.
WebMD conventional Medicine Resource http://www.webmd.com/, or for the integrative medicine information http://www.webmd.com/content/pages/25/113599.htm
Healthful Living - Some great information about how to take care of your health, mind, body, and planet. http://www.healthfulliving.org/hlsf/. Don’t miss their radio program Reality Sandwich.
Excellent Health and Healing Providers
Cypress Natural Medicine -The doctors at Cypress are experts in natural and alternative medicine supporting you in healing and acheiving optimal health. http://www.cnmhealth.com/
Providence Chiropractic - Dr. Jack Bourla of Providence Chiropractic is skilled, knowledgable and kind. He offers gentle and effective chiropractic adjustments to the spine to relieve pain and provide proper nerve function. http://www.drjackbourla.com/home
Healing Techniques
Explore information on a number of related techniques that involve subtle energies of the body
NET- Find out more about NeuroEmotional Technique as it is used at MindWave Institute.http://netmindbody.com/index_ntsc.html
EFT - The main site for Emotional Freedom Technique http://emofree.com, developed by Gary Craig, provides an enormous amount of information about the technique.
Energy Psychology http://www.energypsychologyinteractive.com/
Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
Free Online Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Magazine, HypnoGenesis provides a wealth of information on hypnosis and its uses. http://www.hypnos.co.uk/hypnomag/
Out of the Area Hypnosis to Quit Smoking. If you don't live in the San Francisco Bay Area and need a hypnotherapist to quit smoking, search for other qualified hypnotherapist at IWantToQuitSmoking.com
Hypnosis for Irritable Bowel Syndrome provides wonderful and accurate information on hypnosis in general as well as how hypnosis can improve IBS http://www.ibshypnosis.com/
Dr. Alan Brauer a Palo Alto psychiatrist with TotalCare Medical Center, provides an informative article on Hypnotherapy http://www.totalcare.org/hypnosis.htm
American Association for Professional Hypnotherapist http://aaph.org/
Schools for Hypnotherapy
Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy - http://www.pasoh.com/ an excellent school for Hypnotherapy provides a good deal of information on hypnosis.
Center for Hypnotherapy http://hypnotherapycenter.com/
Academy for Guided Imagery http://www.academyforguidedimagery.com/index.php
Childbirth Resources
http://www.postpartum.net/http://epregnancy.com/
http://www.bayareahomebirth.org/
http://www.dolphinyogaanddoulacenter.com/
Blossom Birth Services http://blossombirth.com/ is a Palo Alto resource center for childbirth and early parenting education.
LeClaire Method of HypnoBirthing http://www.leclairemethod.com/index.html an alternative to Mongan Method of HypnoBirthing developed independently and also useful.
Marie Mongan’s HypnoBirthing web site http://www.hypnobirthing.com/ provides a back ground for the original HypnoBirthing program.
Spinning Babies.com http://www.spinningbabies.com/is a great resource for understanding the importance of babies position and how to help baby find the best position for easy birthing
Nutrition
Institute of Nutritional Science http://healthyinformation.com/ providing cutting edge nutritional information.
What Should You Eat? If this question occurs to you, you will enjoy Michael Pollan's article "Unhappy Meal" that was published in the NYTimes in Jan. 28, 2007.
Gerda Endman Ph.D. http://healthyfat.com/ nutritionist provides useful information about nutrition especially with regard to fats – they're not all bad.
Consciousness, Brain Research and Other Good Science Resources
Brain Place http://www.brainplace.com/bp/, is a resource page for Amen Clinics a research organization which does brain imaging studies.Find cutting edge information about how the brain works.
Ever wonder about the complexity of human neurobiology?See these up-to-date, science-rich diagrams at BioCarta Pathways. http://biocarta.com/genes/Neuroscience.asp. More than you ever wanted to know.
Scientific American is always a wonderful resource for current cutting edge research http://sciam.com/
Listen to interviews with leading scientists on Science Friday http://sciencefriday.com/, search archives of topics related to mental health and neuroscience.
All in the Mind a radio program about consciousness http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/mind/s849289.htm#links, many great resource listed at the bottom of the transcript.
Perception is not reality; see for your self with this short video clip http://viscog.beckman.uiuc.edu/grafs/demos/15.html.. Watch very carefully to determine how many times the basket ball is passed between the players in the white shirts. Then count the number of times the ball passes between players in the black shirts. Did you really get it right? Watch one more time, and this time don’t count. If you have the correct answers you will receive $5 off their next hypnosis session.
For a sleep information resource go to http://www.Sleepnet.com , “every thing you wanted to know about sleep but were too tired to ask.” http://sleepnet.com/intro.htm
Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease
These sites provide information about how to PREVENT Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. They provide excellent guidelines about how to take care of the health of your brain. The physical health of your brain is critical for the functioning of your mind.
Alzheimer’s Prevention Foundation has a mission to provide information and research for prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease. http://www.alzheimersprevention.org
Alzheimer’s Association provides a wealth of information on Alzheimer’s disease.
http://www.alz.org/, including ways to prevent this devastating disease.http://www.alz.org/maintainyourbrain
What the National Institutes of Health have to say about Alzheimer’s. You need to search around this site to find prevention but it is there.http://www.nia.nih.gov/Alzheimers
Books and other products worth looking into
Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa is arguably the expert on Brain Longevity. He has written several very informative books on brain health and longevity including Brain Longevity and The Pain Cure. http://www.drdharma.com/Public/Home/index.cfm
From Here to Longevity http://www.fromheretolongevity.com/
Finding More
Holistic Health Network http://www.holisticnetwork.org/index.html
HolisticDirect.com Natural Health Portal www.holisticdirect.com