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"I felt a freedom from the fear of death for the first time in my life." The word freedom is synonymous with options. Rita's freedom from fear enabled her to abandon the regularity she felt was protection against death. Within the person who had been carefully treading the well-worn and predictable path of her life, Rita discovered an experimental, joyful, flexible woman: herself! Filled with new feelings of wild abandon, power, and free rein, she ventured beyond the borders of her previous experience. "My life is ten times better, because baby, now I try it all." - 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.)

"Hagelin's words, Since it is generally assumed that the unified field is the only dynamical degree of freedom present at the superunified scale, to the extent that a subject-object relationship can be defined there at all, the 'observer' and the 'observed' must both be found within the dynamical self-interaction of the unified field itself. From this perspective, the unified field is formally as much a field of subjectivity as a field of objectivity." - Hari Sharma, Freedom from Disease: How to Control Free Radicals, a Major Cause of Aging and Disease (Get the book.)

"Freedom has no history, future, or present. freedom is alone, empty, and without adjectives. What is important is to be the Truth in every moment, not to seek the Truth. Being present gives us the freedom not to be captured by the mind and its preoccupation with itself, the past, present, or future, or its relationship with the world. We are awakened from our trance and liberated from the entrapment of our stories. The Zero Point process allows our mind to become open like the sky, which holds the sun, moon, stars, clouds, rain, snow, or just pure blue." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"That new free market, although free of prior restraints, should be tempered by law enforcement to arrest those who abuse their freedom to communicate false health information to the public. The system recommended here fulfills, rather than violates, the First Amendment and replaces a legacy of FDA speech suppression that has sacrificed life and health with one that will promote health freedom." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Another influential, outspoken lobbying group is the Center for Consumer freedom, which Dr. Kelly Brownell describes in Food Fight. "Dressed up to appear to defend consumers and basic freedoms, the Center for Consumer freedom opposes actions that would hurt food or tobacco companies," Dr. Brownell writes, noting that the organization was started with tobacco money and is now a coalition of restaurant and tavern owners that "attacks people who argue for policy changes to improve nutrition." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Could the freedom in time and space that these particles show us be revealing to us the freedom that is possible in our lives? Following all of the research, documentation, and direct experience of those who have transcended the limits of their own beliefs, without reservation I believe that the answer is a solid yes. The only difference between those isolated particles and us is that we're made of lots of them, linked through the mysterious stuff that fills the places we used to think of as "empty space"—a form of energy that we're only beginning to understand." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"The word freedom is synonymous with options. Rita's freedom from fear enabled her to abandon the regularity she felt was protection against death. Within the person who had been carefully treading the well-worn and predictable path of her life, Rita discovered an experimental, joyful, flexible woman: herself! Filled with new feelings of wild abandon, power, and free rein, she ventured beyond the borders of her previous experience. "My life is ten times better, because baby, now I try it all. Everywhere I look, there are new prospects lying in wait." - 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.)

"Respect for people's freedom means that they are permitted to exercise the freedom they possess. That is not sufficient. freedom has to be augmented. The human being can be freer by the perfection of his own being, which is gained in the progressive actualization of all his faculties. Freedom is all that is necessary Everything is ours if freedom is left to us.1 Reprinted with permission from: Luis Alberto Machado The Right to Be Intelligent Pergamon Press Ltd., 1980 MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUM TIME ?" - Ross Pelton, Mind Food and Smart Pills (Get the book.)

"Benjamin Rush, a famous doctor in colonial America, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, wrote: "The Constitution of this Republic should make special provision for medical freedom as well as religious freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privilege to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic." He also said "Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship." - Gregory, A. Gore, Defeat Cancer (Get the book.)

"But then they find out they have less freedom to choose doctors or "manage" their illnesses than they would have had if they had signed up for at least one indemnity or FFS plan. Note: In exchange for freedom of choice, the indemnity or FFS plans usually don't cover 100% of doctor or surgical costs. Plus, they have a deductible that must be paid by the insured before benefits accrue. But up-front costs are not a large concern when a serious illness strikes. The best care—and substantial reimbursement—matters more." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Respect for people's freedom means that they are permitted to exercise the freedom they possess. That is not sufficient. freedom has to be augmented. The human being can be freer by the perfection of his own being, which is gained in the progressive actualization of all his faculties. Freedom is all that is necessary Everything is ours if freedom is left to us.1 Reprinted with permission from: Luis Alberto Machado The Right to Be Intelligent Pergamon Press Ltd., 1980 MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUM TIME ?" - Ross Pelton, Mind Food and Smart Pills (Get the book.)

"Titled 'Systems of Medicine', the article opened gloomily: 'Intellectual freedom, like political freedom, is for many people a burden ...'. Its author then discussed the emergence, persistence, and gradual 'debasement' of Aristotelian physiological theories. The author argued that, although in the West, these ideas disappeared during the Renaissance, they remained the basis of Unani Tibb and Ayurveda. In faintly scandalized tones, the author noted that Ayurveda has latterly gained increasing importance because it receives so much official encouragement." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"And when they did, something precious and beautiful happened in their lives: They discovered a new freedom for themselves that opened the door of possibilities for others. It all began by their asking the question that was just as bold in their time as it is in ours: What if our beliefs are wrong? As we'll see in the story of the yogi that follows, it's in our absolute surrender to such a possibility that we discover the freedom that tells us who we really are. My personal belief, however, is that we don't have to live in a cold, damp cave in the middle of nowhere to find it." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"He is now the author of a series of brilliant books of quotations published by Gramercy Books, including his most recent, Freedom: More than 600 Quotes Celebrating Independence, Liberty, and Justice (2007). Leonard has also written a book and a carefully researched scientific publication on the damage wrought by shock treatment.25 For those of you who have been injured by psychiatric treatment, it's worth knowing that many others have transcended that abuse and gone on to live marvelous, inspired, and inspiring lives." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Basing my conclusions on clinical experience, research reports, and documents obtained from the FDA through the freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I described in the book how Prozac can cause "murderous and suicidal behavior" by means of overstimulation. The following excerpt from that book illustrates how there was already sufficient data in 1991 for me to come to conclusions that would evade the FDA for more than a decade: Prozac often affects individuals as if they were taking stimulants, such as amphetamine, cocaine, or PCP. . . ." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"One important and different kind of meta-analysis used the freedom of Information Act to obtain FDA reviews of every clinical trial—published or unpublished—of SSRIs between 1987 and 1999. On average, placebos were 80% as effective as the SSRIs. According to Marcia Angell, the former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, the difference between treated and untreated groups "is very unlikely to be of clinical significance." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"David Steinman's book, Nature's Ultimate Anti-Cancer Pill: The IPg with Inositol Question and Answer Book: How to Use Nature's Ultimate Anti-Cancer Pill for the Prevention and Treatment of All Forms of Cancer, published by freedom Press, and in Dr. Shamsuddin's book, IPg: Nature's Revolutionary Cancer-Fighter, published by Kensington Publishing. 5 Cat's Claw Cat's Claw {Uncaria tomentosa), commonly known as "una de gato" in Spanish, is a South American rainforest herb known among the natives for its curative properties." - freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Based on my clinical experience, research, and documents obtained from the FDA through the freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I warned in Toxic Psychiatry that Prozac was causing "murderous and suicidal behavior." I suggested that Prozac's stimulating effect could be one of the causes of this abnormal behavior: "Like amphetamine or cocaine, Prozac can produce the whole array of stimulant effects, such as sleeplessness, increased energy, jumpiness, anxiety, artificial highs, and mania."1 I was not the first doctor to notice the dangerously stimulating effects of Prozac." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "Credit for that goes to the FDA's Richard Kapit whose observations remained buried within voluminous other documents inside the FDA until I obtained them through the freedom of Information Act and made them public. Kapit derived his conclusions from the drug company's own data. Eli Lilly knew and initially failed to disclose the fact that its drug was dangerously over-stimulating many patients." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Nonetheless, SmithKline Beecham, the manufacturer of the antidepressant Paxil, hired a PR firm to coordinate a broadly targeted educational campaign about the "disease" through three nonprofit organizations: the American Psychiatric Association, the Anxiety Disorders Association of American, and freedom From Fear. Within a month after the FDA's approval of Paxil for the treatment of SAD, articles about this "underdiagnosed illness" appeared in the New York Times and Vogue magazine. The PR campaign was deemed such a success that it earned recognition as the "Best PR." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"On a positive note, it is not difficult to see that living in a pleasant, sunny climate with low humidity and a comfortable temperature range will offer the best chance of comfort and freedom from climatic stress problems. Treating Arthritis: Help from the Sea There are several natural and effective treatments for the varied symptoms of arthritis that can be derived from marine sources. However, the most universal and well-researched treatment discovered so far is the New Zealand Green-Lipped Mussel Extract." - John Croft, Health from the Seas: freedom from Disease (Get the book.)

"In another study, researchers in the United States obtained data under the freedom of Information Act from all of the studies (both published and unpublished) that the FDA had reviewed in the process of approving seven new antidepressants (Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Effexor, Serzone, Remeron, and Wellbutrin SR) between 1987 and 1997—a total of 5200 pages of documents. The results of all of the "pivotal" studies (those deemed to be of high enough quality to be used in the FDA's determinations) for these seven antidepressants were then put together to assess the overall effect of the new drugs." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"CHAPTER SIX "The Victories Granted Us by Heaven" 533-540 "When I treat with my enemies," replied Belisarius, "I am more accustomed to give than to receive counsel; but I hold in one hand inevitable ruin, in the other peace and freedom." —Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire OF ALL THE pieces of the legal code that bear his name, the ones in which Justinian's own hand—as distinguished from that of Tribonian, or any of the great historical jurists—are most evident are the Novels, the new laws and interpretations issued during the emperor's own reign." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Gaiseric's admirals towed unmanned fireboats into the Roman fleet, destroying it, the army it carried, and Leo's dreams of conquest. freedom from imperial rule would survive even the death of Gaiseric, seven years later. Another of Gaiseric's legacies would survive him as well—this one more unfortunate for his people. The Vandals' law of inheritance required that each king's oldest direct male successor automatically succeeded to the throne upon the death of his predecessor." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Boating enthusiasts want to have freedom to sail in coastal waters without the hindrance of marine farm structures. Here again it is important that these factors are considered at the application stage for the farms because neither of these impacts need be a problem if properly addressed. Some marine farms are already being changed so that the flotation units supporting the top of the farm are under the surface." - John Croft, Health from the Seas: freedom from Disease (Get the book.) "People have often said that the initial relief from pain encouraged them to use the affected muscle or joint, leading to a gradual increase in its freedom of movement. This use of the affected part of the body has, in itself, been therapeutic and has led, in many cases, to full recovery of mobility or the ability to grip things." - John Croft, Health from the Seas: freedom from Disease (Get the book.) "Normally, the first thing to be noticed is a reduction in pain, which is then followed by a gradual improvement in grip strength, freedom of movement or other mobility, dependent on the nature of the original problem. The assessment of the product, based on clinical trials, presents the changes in the arthritic condition in strictly clinical terms, which is of value to doctors (Gibson et al.; Huskisson et al.; Caughey et al.; Larkin et al.; Orima et al.; Ankenbauer-Perkins et al.; Lambnert et al.; Kendall et al.; Hawkins, T.)." - John Croft, Health from the Seas: freedom from Disease (Get the book.)

"Of course, if a consumer is drawn to a particular practice because it is not orthodox, this normalizing would not necessarily be welcome; as the Report noted, 'if complementary medicine is subsumed within conventional medicine, the opportunity to be "different", and the valued freedom associated with that opportunity could be lost'.22 At this point it is appropriate to note, even if this volume cannot discuss at length, the substantial differences between national responses to the rise of alternative, complementary, and cross-cultural medicine." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "Denied the freedom of the medical press, Esdaile stubbornly published his article himself as a pamphlet. This fits well with his approach in a book-length version, in which he urged patients themselves: to exercise their common sense and sober judgment in determining for the doctors the matter of fact; and if the community decides that it is really a remedy of great efficacy, that there is no resisting the proofs in support of it, that to know nothing about it is no recommendation to a medical man; then Mesmerism will assume its proper rank as a remedial agent..." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"MONKEY FUN The monkey is another agile animal which displays freedom of movement and an easy, relaxed attitude. Children just love to pretend they are monkeys so it's not difficult to get their cooperation to play this game. Sometimes simply crawling on the floor can loosen and relax limbs and free body movement. Encouraging Controlled Pattern Breathing With children below the age of five it is nigh on impossible to have them participate in Controlled Pattern Breathing exercises: they are usually too busy playing and exploring their world." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

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