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"It's a nutritionally based program for a variety of issues, but particularly for mood disorders, addictions (alcohol, substance abuse addictions, and sugar addiction) and depression. Alzheimer's Disease The Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation Tucson, Arizona 520.749.8374 www.alzheimersprevention.org A charitable organization that advocates a complete prevention program for memory loss and Alzheimer's, mixing complementary and conventional medical modalities." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Addictions Imbalances in the second chakra also show up as addictions. We all struggle with addictions. Even if we are not overtly addicted to alcohol, drugs, tobacco, sex, money or power, we are likely to be addicted in some way to our past, our expectations, our relationships, our emotions or our work. One simple definition of an addiction is that it is something we can't stop doing. We all know people who are addicted to negativity. For them the weather is either too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry." - Robin, Dr. Kelly, The Human Antenna: Reading the Language of the Universe in the Songs of Our Cells (Get the book.)

"It's a nutritionally based program for a variety of issues, but particularly for mood disorders, addictions (alcohol, substance abuse addictions, and sugar addiction) and depression. Alzheimer's Disease The Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation Tucson, Arizona 520.749.8374 www.alzheimersprevention.org A charitable organization that advocates a complete prevention program for memory loss and Alzheimer's, mixing complementary and conventional medical modalities." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"As you have gained skill with your food plan, become more biochemically stable and started to feel better, you may find that you are ready to tackle some of the other addictions in your life. Start by once again being tender. You don't need to attach any negative judgments to having addictions. It's not your fault. This is about biochemistry leading you into behaviors. As you understand more and more what is going on, you will be able to work with your biochemistry and change your behavior. Use the same process that has been working so well. Use your journal." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"Before Miller and like-minded colleagues, motivation, particularly in the addictions field, was viewed as a static trait that the client either had or didn't have. As a result, the therapist had little chance of enhancing the client's motivation, and if change did not occur, it was the client's fault. "A client who seemed amenable to clinical advice or accepted the label of alcoholic or drug addict was considered to be motivated, whereas one who resisted a diagnosis or refused to adhere to the proffered treatment was deemed unmotivated." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Tens of thousands of Americans have not outlived their addictions. Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control reported in 2006 that they had found "a national epidemic" of deaths from accidental overdoses of prescription narcotics beginning in 1990, about the same time that sales of the drugs started to take off. Between 1979 and 1990 unintentional deaths from drug poisoning had increased an average of 5.3 percent a year, the government scientists said. After that, the numbers skyrocketed, they said, matching the sharp increase in prescription opioid sales." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Critically ill people, as well as those suffering from drug and alcohol addictions, are participating in our Brilliant Health workshops. The results have been stunning. Even those who have battled disease for decades and have tried countless other approaches report having made significant and immediate progress toward becoming emotionally and physically healthier. We don't have a finish line. Each day we learn more about happiness, health, and the vital relationship between the two." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Stuck with our material addictions, we anticipate that in one way or another the inconveniences of such changes will cause us some discomfort. The same pattern underlies our resistance to change on a global level. This is why farmers continue to degrade the soil, why corporations continue to buy hardwood from the rainforest, why industries continue to pollute the air and water. This is why the world continues to spend $750 billion per year on armaments, rather than on food, sanitation, housing, and education. Someone, somewhere, believes the change would not be in their own best interest." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"You don't need to attach any negative judgments to having addictions. It's not your fault. This is about biochemistry leading you into behaviors. As you understand more and more what is going on, you will be able to work with your biochemistry and change your behavior. Use the same process that has been working so well. Use your journal. Take it slowly and maintain a sense of humor. Caffeine You may not even think of caffeine as a drug, but let's take a look at how it affects your body. Caffeine creates temporary alertness and clarity. It increases your heart rate and gastric secretions." - Kathleen DesMaisons, Potatoes Not Prozac: Solutions for Sugar Sensitivity (Get the book.)

"The counterfeits are modern exploitations of the ancient wisdom of positive emotions: recreational drugs, gambling, and other addictions. The cousins are bodily pleasures, like eating and sexual stimulation. My strong scientific hunch is that my discoveries, distilled as Facts 2 through 5 following, apply only to positive emotions. Fact 2. Positivity Broadens Minds o The second fact is that positivity opens your mind and expands your range of vision. Although this broadened mindscape is temporary, it creates much-needed mental space." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Beck; adapted version of the chart, "The Stages of Change Model," from Addiction and Change: How addictions Develop and Addicted People Recover by Carlo C. DiClemente, Howard T. Blane, and Thomas R. Kosten, copyright © 2003 by Carlo C. DiClemente, Howard T. Blane, and Thomas R. Kosten. Reprinted by permission of Guilford Publications, Inc. BMJ Publishing Group: Excerpt from "Scientists Find New Disease: Motivational Deficiency Disorder" by Ray Moynihan (British Medical Journal, April 1, 2006, vol. 332, page 745). Reprinted by permission of BMJ Publishing Group Limited." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Monahan RJ, Ml J addictions 12(1977): 729-54 14. Shafii M, et al, AmerJ Psychia 132(1975): 942-5 15. Gelderloos P, et al, Int'l JAddictions 26(1991): 293-325 16. Wallace RK, et al, Int'lJNeurosci 16(1982): 53-8 17. Alexander CN, et al, J Personality Soc Psych 57(1989): 950-64 18. Glaser JL, et alj Behav Med 15(4)(1992): 327-41 19. Orme-Johnson D, Psychosom Med 49(1987): 493-507 20. Herron RE, The Impact of Transcendental Meditation Practice on Medical Expenditures, A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School of Maharishi Int'l University (August, 1992) 21." - Hari Sharma, Freedom from Disease: How to Control Free Radicals, a Major Cause of Aging and Disease (Get the book.)

"Remember that addictions are simply more extreme habits where the substance used is seen as a life and death issue. A person genuinely believes that they cannot live without it! Their negative thought patterns and the stress that is produced by them are severe and extreme. This stress is often an all-consuming terror of life without the substance. Heroin and other "heavy drug" addictions have inflicted and continue to inflict the most horrific suffering on our society. Alcoholism, the more acceptable first cousin, is also wreaking havoc in families and communities." - Philip Christie, Something to Chew On: A Mouth Map to Health (Get the book.)

"I hadn't had much experience with people with severe addictions, and as with the distinction between Depression and depression, there is no comparison between the hardcore addict and the functioning person who drinks or drugs too much. Armed only with outrage, I found myself increasingly at a loss about what do with my clients, who were doing such things as selling the entirety of their possessions in order to get high." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"I would only make one addition to this list: 6 They are not willing to give up their addictions to the unhealthy beverages, cooked meals, sweets, and other acid-producing foods they like. All of the above are choices, whether based on attitude or will. Health is a choice. But so is disease! If we truly want to get healthy, we have to use the approach that really works. This is what Dr. Joel Robbins advises: We can whine, cry, psychoanalyze, blame, run, relive the past, hide the past, or resign ourselves to a particular wrong frame of mind or attitude." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "It is relatively easy to understand addictions to caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, and drugs, but it is a little harder to consider foods such as bread, pasta, meat, and desserts as addictive. The ultimate, but not so obvious, addiction that virtually all of us have is to cooked food. This is what causes our diseases; consider the Pottenger cats experiment. Addiction to cooked food is so ingrained and set in from thousands of years of custom, tradition, and practice that we accept it as normal. But, for the way we were designed physically, it is not normal; it destroys our health." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Auto-suggestion can benefit everyone, but is particularly useful for anyone experiencing tension, anxiety, fear, asthma, allergy, psychosomatic illness and addictions to food, alcohol or smoking. It can be used to build your self-esteem, your confidence and your relationships. Just set aside some time night and morning to repeat—aloud or silently—one particular phrase or affirmation. You need to be completely relaxed and repeat your chosen phrase about 20 times, rather like an incantation. Affirmations have to be worded positively and in the present tense: 'I am' or 'I have'." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.) "Hypnotherapy and acupuncture are extremely successful treatments for cigarette addictions. Try auto-suggestion to reinforce your decision and help you overcome the subconscious desire to smoke. Buy tape recordings with stop smoking messages and play them repeatedly. Keep photographs nearby of lung damage caused by smoking. Here are some tips to help in difficult times: þKeep clearly in your mind why you smoked and why you have stopped. þAvoid situations where the urge to smoke is strong. þConfront the problem straight on. þChange your routine. þGo for an early morning walk." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Migraines, depression, back pain, allergies, arthritis, nausea (whether from morning sickness or chemotherapy), addictions, insomnia, and chronic pain: these mundane forms of morbidity have proven unresponsive to biomedical solutions. Meanwhile, the time consumed in repeatedly addressing them biomedically has grown increasingly costly and scarce for patients and practitioners alike. But governments, especially, are committed to 'evidence-based medicine', and reluctant to spend taxpayers' money on unregulated and unproven procedures." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"ZERO POINT PROCESS INTENSIVE The author, an internationally recognized spiritual teacher, psychiatrist, and family therapist who developed and teaches in the Zero Point Process Intensive, has this to say about it: Zero Point assists clients in: clearing emotional and mental blocks, psychosomatic problems, food and other addictions; loving ourselves and overcoming the subtle resistance to healing from diabetes; dissolving co-dependent and unhealthy relationship patterns; and ultimately aligning with our sacred design so we may become the full living truth of who we are." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Make a list of false beliefs that keep you energetically "stuck." addictions are a dead giveaway you have a set of false beliefs needing a close look. Be aware that some of these beliefs can be unconscious. They justify the continuation of the addiction and the reasons you can't stop or can't seek assistance. addictions are as much an energetic dysfunction as they are physical compulsion. They signal an energy blockage that causes the misdirecting of energy into some other unproductive discharge." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis is a program for recovery that uncovers and treats the true physical underpinnings that drive addictions. Tai Sophia Institute Laurel, Maryland 800.735.2968 The Tai Sophia Institute is an accredited and highly respected graduate school for acupuncture and other healing arts located between Baltimore and Washington." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"The positive outcomes of these various approaches in alleviating some of the most intractable of human problems—such as addictions and the most severe mental illnesses, like schizophrenia—have been proven repeatedly and spectacularly. But no one outside the field even knows about these alternative approaches. Why should they? There are no products associated with these developments to sell to the masses, no billions to be made on Wall Street. Furthermore, research on the brain has revealed the unexpected "plasticity" of the organ—i.e." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Scant attention is paid to the causes of this epidemic of mental trouble—not only "depressive illness" and addictions, but rising numbers of schizophrenics, children who can't sit still long enough to learn anything in school, and ordinary people unable to focus, sleep, or think clearly. It's taken for granted that our mental capacities weaken as we get older, but that isn't necessarily true. The environmental poisons and nutritional deficiencies that obviously contribute to mental and physical trouble, disease, or deterioration are conspicuously ignored." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"All such brain circuitry is intimately associated with leptin and appetite. All addictions play off this fundamental drive to survive. Individuals who develop leptin problems, for whatever reason, are at significantly increased risk for developing addictions to substances (alcohol or drugs) as well as addictive behavioral patterns (sexual compulsion, gambling, shopping). This is because the solution to any "brain pain" or life stress is to get a surge of pleasure as quickly as possible." - Byron J. Richards, The Leptin Diet: How Fit Is Your Fat? (Get the book.)

"Our broken brains cause many problems—anxiety, depression, bipolar disease, personality disorders, eating disorders, addictions, obsessive- compulsive disorder, attention deficit disorder, autism, Asperger's, learning difficulties, and dyslexia. Broken brains take many shapes, including psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia and mania, as well as all the neurodegenerative diseases of aging, especially Alzheimer's, dementia, and Parkinson's disease. In addition, there are brain dysfunctions that fall on the lighter side of the broken brain continuum." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"If the demand is there, the dopamine genes get activated to produce more, and the overall effect is a more stable regulation of these pathways, which are important to controlling addictions. Serotonin is equally affected by exercise, and it's important for mood, impulse control, and self-esteem. It also helps stave off stress by counteracting Cortisol, and it primes the cellular connections in the cortex and hippocampus that are important for learning." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Many individuals have begun to confront addictions that, in past centuries, would have been considered socially normative. Taken collectively, they represent a society that is making a serious dent in its addictions. Another watchword of today's society is diversity. Today, multinational corporations find ways in which to turn multiculturalism into a benefit, to appreciate the diversity of employees and turn that diversity into a strength. Global companies spend millions of dollars on training and equipping their employees to understand and appreciate differences." - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"Indeed expensive treatment is common to all addictions and the effects of addictions, but never guaranteed to work. Maybe the reason that our treatments are so singularly unsuccessful has become clearer as we finish our journey of understanding through the human side of dental disease. After all dental disease is just disease in a specific system (the mouth) and thus shares the common attributes of all disease in other systems. In a sentence, we are attempting to treat an effect (the end product) without reference to the cause (the source or origin). What hope of success could come from this?" - Philip Christie, Something to Chew On: A Mouth Map to Health (Get the book.)

"The amino acid glutamine, in a dosage of 500-1,000 milligrams, is particularly useful for reducing cravings, including alcohol cravings," she says. "Addictions and allergies are often related to magnesium deficiency and can be corrected by supplementation. There are also techniques that can actually eliminate food allergies through the use of acupuncture and acupressure. As we can see," Dr. Cass concludes, "there are many ways, other than psychotherapy and medication, to approach what at first seems like a psychological problem." Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

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