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Three Baskets of Asheville
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Breast Cyst, Reiki & Super Green Drinks
I want to first and foremost want to thank Sue for her time, healing and advice. She is a gifted and perceptive healer, and I am grateful to have her help!
Secondly, I want to introduce myself; my name is Terri Balog, and I am a NYS licensed massage therapist. I look forward to posting more information to this blog, and supporting Sue and the Morgan Hill Retreat.
Back in June, I went to my doctor's for a routine physical and discovered I had a large cyst on my right breast. To be certain it was benign, I followed up with a sonogram, and discovered that it was indeed a fluid-filled cyst, and thankfully non-cancerous. The recommended treatment was aspiration - injecting a needle into the breast, and draining out the fluid.
Upon doing some research I discovered that not only is aspiration invasive but there would be no guarantee the cyst would not return so I opted to look for alternatives. In the meantime, the cyst continued to grow larger until it was visible below the skin, and my skin had become red and swollen.
I discussed my situation with Sue, who is a certified Reiki Master, and she suggested daily reiki treatments, and an addition to my diet - a super green drink. She graciously offered to come and stay with me for a few days to administer reiki treatments, and to help put together a "green" drink that I was to drink once or twice a day.
After just a day of reiki treatments (twice a day for about 10 minutes), and drinking my green drink twice a day, the cyst was smaller. The redness was gone, and the cyst was no longer visible. After three days, the cyst appeared to be nearly gone.
After leaving me, Sue continued to do distance reiki on me, and I continued my green drink. After about a week, I could not feel the cyst at all. Wanting to document this healing, I made my annual mammogram appointment, and went to get verification that the cyst was no longer there. I am happy to report that the cyst is indeed gone!
I believe that the combination of the reiki healing, and drinking the powerful green food drink, was important. Reiki healing is a natural therapy that gently balances life energies, and brings health and well being to the recipient. Reiki healing can help with acute and chronic problems, as it did with my cyst. And below is an excerpt from an online article on a website called http://www.stomachcancersymptoms.net/ about super green foods:
Green foods have recently become a focus of modern natural health practices across the United States. Juice bars and natural health food markets boost smoothies with spirulina, vegetable juices with chlorella, and power shots of wheatgrass. Naturopaths have been known to prescribe super green foods to aid in the treatment of diseases ranging from asthma, to HIV, to lupus. While the incredibly rich mossy color of these supplements don't always look appealing, just how good they are for you may prove surprising.
One pound of wheatgrass is the nutritional equivalent of 25 lbs. of quality vegetables. Blue-green algaes, such as spirulina, have not only high levels of vitamins and minerals, but, pound-for-pound, more protein than meat or soybeans, adn in laboratory tests, have proven instrumental in increasing the survival rate of cancer-infected mice.
Please feel free to ask any questions, or to share any similar experiences you may have had!
Secondly, I want to introduce myself; my name is Terri Balog, and I am a NYS licensed massage therapist. I look forward to posting more information to this blog, and supporting Sue and the Morgan Hill Retreat.
Back in June, I went to my doctor's for a routine physical and discovered I had a large cyst on my right breast. To be certain it was benign, I followed up with a sonogram, and discovered that it was indeed a fluid-filled cyst, and thankfully non-cancerous. The recommended treatment was aspiration - injecting a needle into the breast, and draining out the fluid.
Upon doing some research I discovered that not only is aspiration invasive but there would be no guarantee the cyst would not return so I opted to look for alternatives. In the meantime, the cyst continued to grow larger until it was visible below the skin, and my skin had become red and swollen.
I discussed my situation with Sue, who is a certified Reiki Master, and she suggested daily reiki treatments, and an addition to my diet - a super green drink. She graciously offered to come and stay with me for a few days to administer reiki treatments, and to help put together a "green" drink that I was to drink once or twice a day.
After just a day of reiki treatments (twice a day for about 10 minutes), and drinking my green drink twice a day, the cyst was smaller. The redness was gone, and the cyst was no longer visible. After three days, the cyst appeared to be nearly gone.
After leaving me, Sue continued to do distance reiki on me, and I continued my green drink. After about a week, I could not feel the cyst at all. Wanting to document this healing, I made my annual mammogram appointment, and went to get verification that the cyst was no longer there. I am happy to report that the cyst is indeed gone!
I believe that the combination of the reiki healing, and drinking the powerful green food drink, was important. Reiki healing is a natural therapy that gently balances life energies, and brings health and well being to the recipient. Reiki healing can help with acute and chronic problems, as it did with my cyst. And below is an excerpt from an online article on a website called http://www.stomachcancersymptoms.net/ about super green foods:
Green foods have recently become a focus of modern natural health practices across the United States. Juice bars and natural health food markets boost smoothies with spirulina, vegetable juices with chlorella, and power shots of wheatgrass. Naturopaths have been known to prescribe super green foods to aid in the treatment of diseases ranging from asthma, to HIV, to lupus. While the incredibly rich mossy color of these supplements don't always look appealing, just how good they are for you may prove surprising.
One pound of wheatgrass is the nutritional equivalent of 25 lbs. of quality vegetables. Blue-green algaes, such as spirulina, have not only high levels of vitamins and minerals, but, pound-for-pound, more protein than meat or soybeans, adn in laboratory tests, have proven instrumental in increasing the survival rate of cancer-infected mice.
Please feel free to ask any questions, or to share any similar experiences you may have had!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Healers need healing too
No matter how healthy your habits and health may be healing and quiet is needed.
I spent a few days in NC meditating with Bhante U Jotika a Theravada Buddhist Monk from Burma.
A perfect opportunity for insight and peace.
Many thanks to Bhante and Suzanne for their generosity of home and wisdom.
Horses are coming to the Morgan House along with Rodeo Pro Nathan Best. Together we hope to design a therapeutic horse experience into the retreat house.
I am returning Sunday July 25 to begin the sanding and priming of the healing space on the ground floor.
Then to Omega on the 30th for a workshop in starting a holistic not for profit- I hope there is a lot of info on writing business plans and grants!
I spent a few days in NC meditating with Bhante U Jotika a Theravada Buddhist Monk from Burma.
A perfect opportunity for insight and peace.
Many thanks to Bhante and Suzanne for their generosity of home and wisdom.
Horses are coming to the Morgan House along with Rodeo Pro Nathan Best. Together we hope to design a therapeutic horse experience into the retreat house.
I am returning Sunday July 25 to begin the sanding and priming of the healing space on the ground floor.
Then to Omega on the 30th for a workshop in starting a holistic not for profit- I hope there is a lot of info on writing business plans and grants!
Saturday, June 26, 2010
On the road.....
Annie ( faithful canine companion) and I have been traveling to Long Island and upstate New York to do Reiki work with persons either terminally ill or struggling in some other fashion. The work is on a donation basis so clients are asked to visit the site www.mountainreiki.org for their support of service.
I have traveled a few thousand miles already and have established clients in Saratoga, New York and Long Island, New York. My next destination is Florida to stay with a woman diagnosed with leukemia.
During the visit I will help her design a diet that is pleasant to the palette and helpful to her body.
It is unfortunate that a common side affect of chemotherapy is the altering or loss of taste. The lack of pleasure in eating promotes a carelessness about the fuel put into an already strained body making the work needed for white blood cell production among many other critically needed functions difficult.
I have also observed a common theme among some of the family members to treat the ill member as if nothing is wrong. This seemed odd at first until I remembered that denial is a family disease and a common mechanism for coping. The unfortunate result is the negligence of a much needed proactive change in diet and habits. The person undergoing chemo or radiation is often depleted of the energy required for "up spirits" motivation or energy to research, shop or cook, no less clean and deal with what feels like mundane day to day drama. However, whether due to guilt, fear or their own denial the cancer patient falls in line with the role the family creates regardless of the impact on their recovery.
Shockingly I have seen family members encourage a drink, a cigarette and a meal at a fast food restaurant to the chemo patient. The absurdity of these acts in light of the circumstances might make you think the family is thoughtless and unloving and in a sense you would be right however, the culprit is denial yet again.
In my visits to the patient I also work with the family and the purpose is to discuss the spiritual, emotional and psychological aspects of what's going on within each person. No healing work can have any lasting benefit if patterns of dysfunction reign, not for the patient or the family
I chose terminally ill diagnosed persons and 12 step recovery people for one simple reason, the potential willingness to make life altering changes needed to heal the soul, body and mind requires a force of great magnitude. I believed diagnosis with a terminal illness is one such condition needed for a spiritual awakening. I am witnessing however that our western medical approach puts little if any value on the condition of the mind and spirit. Those in the medical profession that I have met with that proclaim their belief in the body mind spirit paradigm seem only to carry a prescription pad in their lab coat pocket and not a comprehensive list of professionals in the holistic healing, counseling or spiritual fields.
I have traveled a few thousand miles already and have established clients in Saratoga, New York and Long Island, New York. My next destination is Florida to stay with a woman diagnosed with leukemia.
During the visit I will help her design a diet that is pleasant to the palette and helpful to her body.
It is unfortunate that a common side affect of chemotherapy is the altering or loss of taste. The lack of pleasure in eating promotes a carelessness about the fuel put into an already strained body making the work needed for white blood cell production among many other critically needed functions difficult.
I have also observed a common theme among some of the family members to treat the ill member as if nothing is wrong. This seemed odd at first until I remembered that denial is a family disease and a common mechanism for coping. The unfortunate result is the negligence of a much needed proactive change in diet and habits. The person undergoing chemo or radiation is often depleted of the energy required for "up spirits" motivation or energy to research, shop or cook, no less clean and deal with what feels like mundane day to day drama. However, whether due to guilt, fear or their own denial the cancer patient falls in line with the role the family creates regardless of the impact on their recovery.
Shockingly I have seen family members encourage a drink, a cigarette and a meal at a fast food restaurant to the chemo patient. The absurdity of these acts in light of the circumstances might make you think the family is thoughtless and unloving and in a sense you would be right however, the culprit is denial yet again.
In my visits to the patient I also work with the family and the purpose is to discuss the spiritual, emotional and psychological aspects of what's going on within each person. No healing work can have any lasting benefit if patterns of dysfunction reign, not for the patient or the family
I chose terminally ill diagnosed persons and 12 step recovery people for one simple reason, the potential willingness to make life altering changes needed to heal the soul, body and mind requires a force of great magnitude. I believed diagnosis with a terminal illness is one such condition needed for a spiritual awakening. I am witnessing however that our western medical approach puts little if any value on the condition of the mind and spirit. Those in the medical profession that I have met with that proclaim their belief in the body mind spirit paradigm seem only to carry a prescription pad in their lab coat pocket and not a comprehensive list of professionals in the holistic healing, counseling or spiritual fields.
Healing Space
The Healing space is awaiting painting, a shower floor and shower doors, yahoo!
The septic issue has been looked at by a plumber and it seems the work needed to bring the natural spring water house back into operation is financially feasible. The work will commence after the summer season when I return from the road.
The septic issue has been looked at by a plumber and it seems the work needed to bring the natural spring water house back into operation is financially feasible. The work will commence after the summer season when I return from the road.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The Healing Space is almost done!
The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first slow and painful steps.
Construction of the healing center where Reiki, Counseling and Massage for our guest is almost complete!
This has been a long and costly process, a thousand thanks to our valued benefactors Allison Boyd for her generous heart, deep compassion.
There is still so much to do and much time, effort and money needed to do it.
This Saturday at the Morgan Retreat House will be a dinner for those and with those interested and able in contributing to the creation, development and pursuit of this healing place if you are interested please join us. You can email me at info@morganhillretreats.com for details.
Next items on the “to do” list is another visit from the County Health Department to evaluate our alternative water source as a solution to digging a new septic, next week (keep your fingers crossed)
On July 29, I will be attending a class at Omega Institute entitled Developing a Holistic Learning Center or Wellness-Related Business
For more information visit www.eomega.org
Construction of the healing center where Reiki, Counseling and Massage for our guest is almost complete!
This has been a long and costly process, a thousand thanks to our valued benefactors Allison Boyd for her generous heart, deep compassion.
There is still so much to do and much time, effort and money needed to do it.
This Saturday at the Morgan Retreat House will be a dinner for those and with those interested and able in contributing to the creation, development and pursuit of this healing place if you are interested please join us. You can email me at info@morganhillretreats.com for details.
Next items on the “to do” list is another visit from the County Health Department to evaluate our alternative water source as a solution to digging a new septic, next week (keep your fingers crossed)
On July 29, I will be attending a class at Omega Institute entitled Developing a Holistic Learning Center or Wellness-Related Business
For more information visit www.eomega.org
Friday, April 9, 2010
The C- Word
Cloud Cottage and CarePartners Hospice fundraiser this coming Sunday April 11 at Jubilee! at 47 Wall Street in Asheville, beginning with a silent auction with some awesome items at 2:00, a one-woman show by Barbara Bates Smith, The C-Word, a Life Meets Art Cancer Experience at 3:00, and the four-person expert panel for Q&A to follow. Barbara says the C-Word turns out to be Compassion. If you are coming to help set up, please arrive at 1:00.
Follow the link above to schedule and scroll down to description of this Sundays event.
Follow the link above to schedule and scroll down to description of this Sundays event.
The Health Department
Well, the Health Department came to inspect the house all is well except for the septic tank which needs to be moved 15 feet further form the water pump.
Work to get the funds needed is underway this is a costly endeavor, my resolve is strong.
Many have come forward with great enthusiasm and support for this undertaking.
Work to get the funds needed is underway this is a costly endeavor, my resolve is strong.
Many have come forward with great enthusiasm and support for this undertaking.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Out of darkness and into the light
This is the beginning of an inspiration that came to me while visiting my mother at her winter home in Saint Martin’s.
The changes happening in the economy have been like an earthquake, changing the landscape and boundaries of my world and so many other peoples.
It was during this period of forced deconstruction that I began to re-evaluate what and where I wanted to put my efforts for the future.
It has been a shocking awakening to realize that financial achievement though enjoyable is not necessarily fulfilling. My time over the last many years has been focused as many red blooded capitalist American in the direction of the acquisition of wealth and security. I was not always so driven but in the absence of faith in my spiritual interests providing a living or even being a legitimate form of self sufficiency I pursued the world of finance. A world built on sand.
After the collapse of the economy I found myself owning a company on a collision course for disaster. All my efforts to re assert myself into finance and the real estate industry where met with opposition from a voice deep within “It is time for something new, something more in line with my nature”.
So it was that I sat with my mother of 76 discussing what I would like to do, what I would like with all authentic sincerity to pursue.
I have begun the process of converting my beautiful home in Asheville North Carolina into a Family Retreat for those living with cancer and a healing bed and Breakfast for those seeking respite and tools for a more fulfilling life.
I am using this blog as a way to track my progress in research of cancer causes, prevention and treatment, both traditional and nontraditional (holistic) eastern and western.
This is day 10
The changes happening in the economy have been like an earthquake, changing the landscape and boundaries of my world and so many other peoples.
It was during this period of forced deconstruction that I began to re-evaluate what and where I wanted to put my efforts for the future.
It has been a shocking awakening to realize that financial achievement though enjoyable is not necessarily fulfilling. My time over the last many years has been focused as many red blooded capitalist American in the direction of the acquisition of wealth and security. I was not always so driven but in the absence of faith in my spiritual interests providing a living or even being a legitimate form of self sufficiency I pursued the world of finance. A world built on sand.
After the collapse of the economy I found myself owning a company on a collision course for disaster. All my efforts to re assert myself into finance and the real estate industry where met with opposition from a voice deep within “It is time for something new, something more in line with my nature”.
So it was that I sat with my mother of 76 discussing what I would like to do, what I would like with all authentic sincerity to pursue.
I have begun the process of converting my beautiful home in Asheville North Carolina into a Family Retreat for those living with cancer and a healing bed and Breakfast for those seeking respite and tools for a more fulfilling life.
I am using this blog as a way to track my progress in research of cancer causes, prevention and treatment, both traditional and nontraditional (holistic) eastern and western.
This is day 10
March 4, 2010 - Politics and Nutrition
In the hours following the first post I have been overwhelmed with support, suggestions and referrals, thank you!
Today’s task are varied and range from searching for a septic tank survey for the Health Department to preparing a menu that provides the nutritional ingredients recommended while not tasting like cardboard. Difficult tasks since most Americans are accustomed to processed food and consider French fries and the sliced tomato and lettuce on a Big Mac as a nutritious meal.
The first culinary goal is to include ingredients that increase immunity since those receiving traditional treatments are stripping their body of its ability to fight infection
I will keep you posted
Today’s task are varied and range from searching for a septic tank survey for the Health Department to preparing a menu that provides the nutritional ingredients recommended while not tasting like cardboard. Difficult tasks since most Americans are accustomed to processed food and consider French fries and the sliced tomato and lettuce on a Big Mac as a nutritious meal.
The first culinary goal is to include ingredients that increase immunity since those receiving traditional treatments are stripping their body of its ability to fight infection
I will keep you posted
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