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Far Infrared Sauna (FIRS) is an effective, proven means to rid the body of excess toxins. Our bodies store toxins from the environment, food and drugs and without a means of clearing them out can result in poor health. The benefits of de-toxifying our bodies are far-reaching including:

• And more FIRS does not have the high heat of regular saunas so is tolerated better for those who have difficulty with high temperatures. FIRS use the rays which are the longest and most healthy rays from the sun. A series of ten sessions is recommended for maximum benefit.

Just a reminder to our patients that we require 1 full business days notice for cancellations for Erin Whyte and Rosemary Brown-Tucker, otherwise there is a cancellation fee of $35.00. Unfortunately, if an appointment is completely missed than the full fee for the appointment is charged.

Also, please note that reminder calls are a courtesy provided to our patients; however it is ultimately the patient’s responsibility to remember their appointments.

Today, there is an ever-increasing understanding of the need and importance of taking personal responsibility for healing our bodies and maintaining optimum health. Similarly, there is no less a need to take responsibility in healing our emotional selves. In fact, emotional wellbeing is pivotal in removing the obstacles -- rooted in our emotional selves -- that inhibit physical wellness. “Emotional Intelligence” -- the road to a healthy emotional self -- is an ability that can be learned. As a process, it involves dedicated personal work. This begins with a commitment to investigate and uncover the essential patterns and dynamics of our emotions – the what, why and how of our feelings and core emotional reactions, which continually emerge and unfold in the course of our daily lives and relationships. These emotional patterns and dynamics can be as much pre-conscious or habitual (in the case of our automatic coping mechanisms and strategies) or unconscious (in the case of more deeply rooted, unresolved childhood and early family issues), as conscious (readily available to our own rational scrutiny and examination). As such, they profoundly influence and even directly motivate a wide array of our personal choice and actions in a sense, “from behind our backs!” Such emotional patterns and dynamics can represent real and tenacious barriers to achieving not only better physical health, but mental and spiritual wellbeing too. They can take attention and effort to overcome. As a goal then, gaining Emotional Intelligence means developing and enhancing our level of emotional awareness, skill and capacity in order to better access, understand and work with our own emotional responses. In so doing, we can remove barriers to achieving optimum personal health and foster more conscious and consistent choices in service of our whole being.

Effective professional support and guidance can be a valuable aid in helping to address and work through personal emotional blocks and limits to our growth and wellbeing.

Dr. Sanford Siegel is a trained and experienced psychotherapist and counsellor. He has spent over a decade providing support and guidance to individuals committed to developing an enhanced Emotional Intelligence through their personal work in the therapeutic process. In his 12-year practice in Vancouver, clients included individuals dealing with a wide range of personal issues including, the impact of childhood abuse, addiction, relationship break-up, anger, anxiety and depression.

Dr. Siegel’s office is now located at the Network Healing Centre. However, for information, appointments and fees, please only call 613 729-4478 or email drssiegel@rogers.com .

Join us for Westfest, June 11-15^th! More details to follow in the June Newsletter!

I was sent this article as part of an email from a colleague Dr. John Madeira, D.C. This article speaks to my experience that resistance to change is most relevant in health care. It seems another area we are all resistant to change is in children’s education and upbringing.

A good example of people’s resistance to change can be found in the true account of how long it took for the British Navy to eliminate the dreaded malady of scurvy.

When long sea voyages became common, the disease of scurvy became rampant among sailors. Little was known about what caused scurvy and less about its cure.

In 1553, Admiral Sir Richard Hawkins noted that during his career on the high seas, ten thousand seamen under his command died of scurvy. He also recorded that in his experience sour oranges and lemons had been most effective in curing the disease. The observations of this admiral went unheeded by those in authority.

Two hundred years later in 1753, British naval surgeon, James Lind, published a book based upon many case histories from his experience at sea. He stated explicitly that his research showed that scurvy could be eliminated simply by supplying sailors with lemon juice or most any citrus juice.One might rightfully expect that Dr. Lind would have been highly honored and praised for this great discovery. However, the reverse is true. The physicians of the day ridiculed him and his evidence was ignored by them and The Admiralty.

It was not until 1794, 41 years later and the year of Dr. Linds death, that a British Navy squadron was supplied with lemon juice before a voyage. On that twenty-three week trip, there was not one case of scurvy.

Yet, unbelievably, it was still another 10 years before regulations were enacted requiring sailors to drink a daily ration of lemon juice to prevent scurvy. With this enactment, scurvy disappeared from the British Navy.

Simply because those in authority were resistant to change, thousands of sailors needlessly lost their lives.

Do not let your attitude toward change, or your own predisposition to avoid it, create detrimental hindrances to your own personal success and/or that of your organization.

As a CranioSacral practitioner I am struck by the parallel between Homeopathy and CranioSacral therapy. Where CranioSacral practitioners use their hands to facilitate balance, Homeopaths use gentle remedies. Where CranioSacral therapy is rooted in anatomical harmony, Homeopathy strives to balance the body's resonance, changing its expression of illness. Both treat the core, the very root of disease and imbalance.

Homeopathic treatment involves a thorough investigation of the client’s history and the administration of a remedy. A remedy is a diluted form of some substance. It displays the same resonance as the patient's problem. The remedy works to match the patients’ state at its core resonance. The right remedy is a suggestion to the body to bring about greater self-awareness. This initiates the individual’s life energy/chi/inner physician etc. to bring about a shift to greater balance and harmony of the patient as a whole.

CranioSacral treatment involves carefully listening with the hands to treat old imbalances and traumas long forgotten or too difficult to overcome. The CranioSacral therapist applies, with their hands, only gentle/dilute forces (a suggestion to the body) to allow release of stored tension in the area. The skilled therapist applies only the amount of gentle force required to facilitate the body to self-correct and remove tissue restrictions. The body has an opportunity for greater self-awareness, initiating the body’s inner physician/chi/life energy etc. to bring about a shift to greater balance and ease. After a session the body may take days or even weeks to continue with the self-correction. The body can now begin healing the way it couldn't before, without strain, without hindrance.

Both CranioSacral therapy and Homeopathy respect the principal of the body’s natural method of healing and get at the root cause of imbalance. Together they become quite powerful approaches to greater health and well-being –working harmoniously to the same end.

A small change……..Dr. Michael has extended his hours to be available for appointments on Mondays until 7pm

What do these three things have in common? Well, apart from starting with the letter ‘G”, the first two are obviously outdoor activities. Gatineau Park plays in there because of all the activities it has to offer; hiking, biking, canoeing, and swimming. The second is that with the scent of spring and more than a hint of what the summer holds, we tend to throw our sluggish, hibernated bodies into vigorous activity that it is not ready for.

Some of you may ask, “How hard can gardening be on your body?” Well, let me tell you! Extreme gardening (as I like to refer to it) can wreak havoc on unsuspecting and hardcore participants. You go out with the expectation that you might rake, pull some weeds, or plant some bulbs for just a couple of hours. You don’t think to stretch or take a break an hour later as you’ll be done soon enough. Then lo and behold it’s six hours later, you’ve had a small sip of water and you’re feeling very proud of your accomplishments even though your entire afternoon just slipped by without you noticing. What happens in the next 24 hours might be a different tune though.

Although you were probably moving back and forth between soil, water, bulbs, weeds, etc. you were most likely bent over most of the time. That could be bending from the hips while standing, or on your knees or sitting on your haunches. Either way, it was likely a prolonged period of time for your muscles to be in a repeated, long-term position. When the muscles aren’t used to something they get fatigued and irritated. Blood flow can get a bit restricted as you compress certain areas and without a lot of movement can pool in areas. You may or may not notice it at the time but if you have strained your back you will certainly feel it the following day. Strains need not be elicited by strong contractions and gross movements. Tiredness alone can compromise the integrity of the muscles and then we you go to make a small movement the following day it will feel as if something much larger should have brought it on.

Golfing does involve such movements. They are quick, calculated and powerful. If your muscles are not warmed up then this could easily lead to some kind of muscle strain. Golf is also a one-sided sport. By that I mean that you have a dominant swinging side which forces some muscles on either side of the body to do most of the work while the same muscles on the opposite side of the body seem to work less effortlessly. This can be a perfect recipe for tendonitis. Some of you may have heard of the term golfer’s elbow: this is an injury involving micro-tearing of the muscles in the flexors of the forearm (turn your palm up and follow the surface of your arm to your elbow to have an idea of their location). Muscles imbalances in golf can hinder your swing and put your entire game off.

And then there is Gatineau Park. I won’t go into detail about what injuries can occur with biking, swimming, hiking or canoeing. Suffice it to say that often times our bodies just aren’t ready for the intensity that our minds have decided we are going to subject it to. Any number of mechanisms of injury can occur and may not even be 100% related to the activity that you were doing at the time.

So with all this doomsday speak of some of your favorite pastimes how does one go forth knowing that the summer will be pain-free and pleasurable??? Fear not for massage therapy can aid in such ailments. Massage is absolutely indicated for muscle soreness, strains, sprains, contusions, tendonitis’, repetitive strain syndromes, dislocations and more.

In an acute phases (up to about 48 hours after an injury), massage can help to enhance healing by reducing the effects of inflammation which helps with pain and swelling. It helps control the ‘spreading’ of tight musculature as irritation to one muscle can then cause other muscles to tense up which can serve to worsen the initial problem. If a complaint has been around for longer, then depending on the assessed impairment, massage can help to reduce muscle tension, break down scar tissue, increase range of motion and help you understand what factors are contributing to the injury so that you can avoid them in the future.

Here is where I like to add a bit of a disclaimer: Massage is a completely viable therapeutic therapy to help with and to eliminate all types of injuries. However, YOUR compliance to following advice and recommendations for self-care will GREATLY improve your chances of a quicker and more complete recovery and reduce the risk of RE-injury! Only you have control over your own actions.

Massage can also be very beneficial BEFORE you engage in activity. It helps ensure that the muscles are in good health, normal tonus and ready to work for you before you put them to work.

Whatever it is that makes you happy in the outdoors I wish you a healthy summer that fulfills you and challenges you. If I can help with any specific goals that you may have in respect to sports or otherwise please feel free to contact me at erin@networkhealingcentre.com.

Send date:	Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Mailing subject:	May 2008 Newsletter
Mailing content:
May 2008 Newsletter Get rid of Built-up Toxins and Reinvigorate yourself for Spring! Sauna Special! 10 sessions for $100.00 (Incl. tax) 1 session for $32.00 Far Infrared Sauna (FIRS) is an effective, proven means to rid the body of excess toxins. Our bodies store toxins from the environment, food and drugs and without a means of clearing them out can result in poor health. The benefits of de-toxifying our bodies are far-reaching including: • Pain relief from fibromyalgia, arthritis, muscle spasm • Strengthens the immune system • Weight loss (up to 600 calories in 30 minutes) • Reduces stress and fatigue • Lowers cholesterol • Reduces cellulite • Improves circulation, lowers blood pressure • Reduces swelling • And more FIRS does not have the high heat of regular saunas so is tolerated better for those who have difficulty with high temperatures. FIRS use the rays which are the longest and most healthy rays from the sun. A series of ten sessions is recommended for maximum benefit. To find out more detailed information visit www.sunlightsaunas.com Valid until May 31, 2008 Office Policy: Cancellations Just a reminder to our patients that we require 1 full business days notice for cancellations for Erin Whyte and Rosemary Brown-Tucker, otherwise there is a cancellation fee of $35.00. Unfortunately, if an appointment is completely missed than the full fee for the appointment is charged. Also, please note that reminder calls are a courtesy provided to our patients; however it is ultimately the patient’s responsibility to remember their appointments. Healing Your Emotional Self *An essential element to holistic health* Today, there is an ever-increasing understanding of the need and importance of taking personal responsibility for healing our bodies and maintaining optimum health. Similarly, there is no less a need to take responsibility in healing our emotional selves. In fact, emotional wellbeing is pivotal in removing the obstacles -- rooted in our emotional selves -- that inhibit physical wellness. “Emotional Intelligence” -- the road to a healthy emotional self -- is an ability that can be learned. As a process, it involves dedicated personal work. This begins with a commitment to investigate and uncover the essential patterns and dynamics of our emotions – the what, why and how of our feelings and core emotional reactions, which continually emerge and unfold in the course of our daily lives and relationships. These emotional patterns and dynamics can be as much pre-conscious or habitual (in the case of our automatic coping mechanisms and strategies) or unconscious (in the case of more deeply rooted, unresolved childhood and early family issues), as conscious (readily available to our own rational scrutiny and examination). As such, they profoundly influence and even directly motivate a wide array of our personal choice and actions in a sense, “from behind our backs!” Such emotional patterns and dynamics can represent real and tenacious barriers to achieving not only better physical health, but mental and spiritual wellbeing too. They can take attention and effort to overcome. As a goal then, gaining Emotional Intelligence means developing and enhancing our level of emotional awareness, skill and capacity in order to better access, understand and work with our own emotional responses. In so doing, we can remove barriers to achieving optimum personal health and foster more conscious and consistent choices in service of our whole being. Effective professional support and guidance can be a valuable aid in helping to address and work through personal emotional blocks and limits to our growth and wellbeing. Dr. Sanford Siegel is a trained and experienced psychotherapist and counsellor. He has spent over a decade providing support and guidance to individuals committed to developing an enhanced Emotional Intelligence through their personal work in the therapeutic process. In his 12-year practice in Vancouver, clients included individuals dealing with a wide range of personal issues including, the impact of childhood abuse, addiction, relationship break-up, anger, anxiety and depression. Dr. Siegel’s office is now located at the Network Healing Centre. However, for information, appointments and fees, please only call 613 729-4478 or email drssiegel@rogers.com . Please also see his web site at: www.ottawapsychotherapy.com Join us for Westfest, June 11-15^th! More details to follow in the June Newsletter! Success is Impossible without Change by Dr. Michael Tucker, D.C. I was sent this article as part of an email from a colleague Dr. John Madeira, D.C. This article speaks to my experience that resistance to change is most relevant in health care. It seems another area we are all resistant to change is in children’s education and upbringing. A good example of people’s resistance to change can be found in the true account of how long it took for the British Navy to eliminate the dreaded malady of scurvy. When long sea voyages became common, the disease of scurvy became rampant among sailors. Little was known about what caused scurvy and less about its cure. In 1553, Admiral Sir Richard Hawkins noted that during his career on the high seas, ten thousand seamen under his command died of scurvy. He also recorded that in his experience sour oranges and lemons had been most effective in curing the disease. The observations of this admiral went unheeded by those in authority. Two hundred years later in 1753, British naval surgeon, James Lind, published a book based upon many case histories from his experience at sea. He stated explicitly that his research showed that scurvy could be eliminated simply by supplying sailors with lemon juice or most any citrus juice.One might rightfully expect that Dr. Lind would have been highly honored and praised for this great discovery. However, the reverse is true. The physicians of the day ridiculed him and his evidence was ignored by them and The Admiralty. It was not until 1794, 41 years later and the year of Dr. Linds death, that a British Navy squadron was supplied with lemon juice before a voyage. On that twenty-three week trip, there was not one case of scurvy. Yet, unbelievably, it was still another 10 years before regulations were enacted requiring sailors to drink a daily ration of lemon juice to prevent scurvy. With this enactment, scurvy disappeared from the British Navy. Simply because those in authority were resistant to change, thousands of sailors needlessly lost their lives. Do not let your attitude toward change, or your own predisposition to avoid it, create detrimental hindrances to your own personal success and/or that of your organization. In the words of George Bernard Shaw: Success is impossible without change. CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY AND HOMEOPATHY By Rosemary Brown-Tucker, RMT As a CranioSacral practitioner I am struck by the parallel between Homeopathy and CranioSacral therapy. Where CranioSacral practitioners use their hands to facilitate balance, Homeopaths use gentle remedies. Where CranioSacral therapy is rooted in anatomical harmony, Homeopathy strives to balance the body's resonance, changing its expression of illness. Both treat the core, the very root of disease and imbalance. Homeopathic treatment involves a thorough investigation of the client’s history and the administration of a remedy. A remedy is a diluted form of some substance. It displays the same resonance as the patient's problem. The remedy works to match the patients’ state at its core resonance. The right remedy is a suggestion to the body to bring about greater self-awareness. This initiates the individual’s life energy/chi/inner physician etc. to bring about a shift to greater balance and harmony of the patient as a whole. CranioSacral treatment involves carefully listening with the hands to treat old imbalances and traumas long forgotten or too difficult to overcome. The CranioSacral therapist applies, with their hands, only gentle/dilute forces (a suggestion to the body) to allow release of stored tension in the area. The skilled therapist applies only the amount of gentle force required to facilitate the body to self-correct and remove tissue restrictions. The body has an opportunity for greater self-awareness, initiating the body’s inner physician/chi/life energy etc. to bring about a shift to greater balance and ease. After a session the body may take days or even weeks to continue with the self-correction. The body can now begin healing the way it couldn't before, without strain, without hindrance. Both CranioSacral therapy and Homeopathy respect the principal of the body’s natural method of healing and get at the root cause of imbalance. Together they become quite powerful approaches to greater health and well-being –working harmoniously to the same end. A small change……..Dr. Michael has extended his hours to be available for appointments on Mondays until 7pm Notice of Fee Change Effective May 1, 2008 CranioSacral Therapy: Rosemary Brown-Tucker, RMT ½ hour session - $50.00 1 hour session - $85.00 Massage Therapy: Erin Whyte, RMT ½ hour session - $50.00 ¾ hour session - $65.00 1 hour session - $80.00 1 ½ hour session - $110.00 Gardening, Golfing and Gatineau Park By Erin Whyte, R.M.T. What do these three things have in common? Well, apart from starting with the letter ‘G”, the first two are obviously outdoor activities. Gatineau Park plays in there because of all the activities it has to offer; hiking, biking, canoeing, and swimming. The second is that with the scent of spring and more than a hint of what the summer holds, we tend to throw our sluggish, hibernated bodies into vigorous activity that it is not ready for. Some of you may ask, “How hard can gardening be on your body?” Well, let me tell you! Extreme gardening (as I like to refer to it) can wreak havoc on unsuspecting and hardcore participants. You go out with the expectation that you might rake, pull some weeds, or plant some bulbs for just a couple of hours. You don’t think to stretch or take a break an hour later as you’ll be done soon enough. Then lo and behold it’s six hours later, you’ve had a small sip of water and you’re feeling very proud of your accomplishments even though your entire afternoon just slipped by without you noticing. What happens in the next 24 hours might be a different tune though. Although you were probably moving back and forth between soil, water, bulbs, weeds, etc. you were most likely bent over most of the time. That could be bending from the hips while standing, or on your knees or sitting on your haunches. Either way, it was likely a prolonged period of time for your muscles to be in a repeated, long-term position. When the muscles aren’t used to something they get fatigued and irritated. Blood flow can get a bit restricted as you compress certain areas and without a lot of movement can pool in areas. You may or may not notice it at the time but if you have strained your back you will certainly feel it the following day. Strains need not be elicited by strong contractions and gross movements. Tiredness alone can compromise the integrity of the muscles and then we you go to make a small movement the following day it will feel as if something much larger should have brought it on. Golfing does involve such movements. They are quick, calculated and powerful. If your muscles are not warmed up then this could easily lead to some kind of muscle strain. Golf is also a one-sided sport. By that I mean that you have a dominant swinging side which forces some muscles on either side of the body to do most of the work while the same muscles on the opposite side of the body seem to work less effortlessly. This can be a perfect recipe for tendonitis. Some of you may have heard of the term golfer’s elbow: this is an injury involving micro-tearing of the muscles in the flexors of the forearm (turn your palm up and follow the surface of your arm to your elbow to have an idea of their location). Muscles imbalances in golf can hinder your swing and put your entire game off. And then there is Gatineau Park. I won’t go into detail about what injuries can occur with biking, swimming, hiking or canoeing. Suffice it to say that often times our bodies just aren’t ready for the intensity that our minds have decided we are going to subject it to. Any number of mechanisms of injury can occur and may not even be 100% related to the activity that you were doing at the time. So with all this doomsday speak of some of your favorite pastimes how does one go forth knowing that the summer will be pain-free and pleasurable??? Fear not for massage therapy can aid in such ailments. Massage is absolutely indicated for muscle soreness, strains, sprains, contusions, tendonitis’, repetitive strain syndromes, dislocations and more. In an acute phases (up to about 48 hours after an injury), massage can help to enhance healing by reducing the effects of inflammation which helps with pain and swelling. It helps control the ‘spreading’ of tight musculature as irritation to one muscle can then cause other muscles to tense up which can serve to worsen the initial problem. If a complaint has been around for longer, then depending on the assessed impairment, massage can help to reduce muscle tension, break down scar tissue, increase range of motion and help you understand what factors are contributing to the injury so that you can avoid them in the future. Here is where I like to add a bit of a disclaimer: Massage is a completely viable therapeutic therapy to help with and to eliminate all types of injuries. However, YOUR compliance to following advice and recommendations for self-care will GREATLY improve your chances of a quicker and more complete recovery and reduce the risk of RE-injury! Only you have control over your own actions. Massage can also be very beneficial BEFORE you engage in activity. It helps ensure that the muscles are in good health, normal tonus and ready to work for you before you put them to work. Whatever it is that makes you happy in the outdoors I wish you a healthy summer that fulfills you and challenges you. If I can help with any specific goals that you may have in respect to sports or otherwise please feel free to contact me at erin@networkhealingcentre.com.