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"This causes a reduction in muscle tension. The reduction in muscle tension reduces tension in the jaws. The reduced tension in the jaws reduces the habit of clenching and grinding. This is not a quick fix method. It requires time and commitment. It can take 30 - 70 days for noticeable change to occur. Your patience will pay off. The only mistake you can make is to give up. Remember you are learning a skill and learning a skill takes time. In many ways it is like learning to play a musical instrument. Commitment, patience and time bring the rewards." - Philip Christie, Something to Chew On: A Mouth Map to Health (Get the book.)

"Electrodes strapped to his forehead enabled him to listen to a sound feedback of his frontalis muscle tension and watch a series of lights that also illustrated his tension level. When he clenched his teeth, the lights shot from green to yellow Image from 1970s of the new technology of biofeedback, highlighting its usefulness as a technology to combat stress. The original caption accompanying this image read: "CHICAGO, October 9, 1975. Got a headache? . . ." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Headaches, migraines, or tension in the neck and shoulders resembling that of stress tension. • Eczema, skin rashes, or canker sores. • Swelling of the hands, feet, face, or other areas. • Coughing, sneezing, wheezing, asthmatic symptoms, or tightness in the chest. • Muscle aches, leg cramps, or twitchy legs. • Cognitive problems, including poor focus, poor memory, or brain fog. • Emotional problems, including depression, anxiety, or anger, accompanied by associated behaviors. • Lethargy, or low stamina." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The reduction in muscle tension reduces tension in the jaws. The reduced tension in the jaws reduces the habit of clenching and grinding. This is not a quick fix method. It requires time and commitment. It can take 30 - 70 days for noticeable change to occur. Your patience will pay off. The only mistake you can make is to give up. Remember you are learning a skill and learning a skill takes time. In many ways it is like learning to play a musical instrument. Commitment, patience and time bring the rewards." - Philip Christie, Something to Chew On: A Mouth Map to Health (Get the book.)

"The drug creates energy by creating tension. tension results in fatigue and in the long run the result will be less energy, not more. How about that for a stab in the back? Gradually, more and more coffee will be needed to produce this energy and at the same time the adrenal glands become exhausted and function non-optimally. Adrenal exhaustion brings on profound tiredness. Thus the energy derived from caffeine is a facade. Another knife in the back. How about mood enhancer? A person does feel much happier after a cup of coffee, wouldn't you say?" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Release the tension, and relax for fifteen seconds. Mentally scan your entire body, and note any area that still feels tense. Focus on that area, tense the muscles, and hold for eight seconds. Release the tension, and relax for fifteen seconds. When you are done, take several slow, deep breaths, and open your eyes. The beneficial impact of progressive muscle relaxation on glucose levels and Hb A, levels has been demonstrated in varilc ous studies. A study published in 1983 was one of the first to show that this relaxation technique could significantly improve glucose tolerance. Dr." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"See ultraviolet rays, surface-active Capable of reducing the surface tension of a liquid. The noun is surfactant. surface tension The property of a liquid that makes its surface resemble a stretched elastic membrane. Surface tension is what allows you to fill a glass of water so that it bulges slightly above the lip. Surfactants reduce surface tension. surfactant A substance that reduces the surface tension of a liquid in which it's dissolved. The adjective is surface-active." - Aubrey Hampton, What's in Your Cosmetics? A Complete Consumer's Guide to Natural and Synthetic Ingredients (Get the book.)

"Headaches, migraines, or tension in the neck and shoulders resembling that of stress tension. • Eczema, skin rashes, or canker sores. • Swelling of the hands, feet, face, or other areas. • Coughing, sneezing, wheezing, asthmatic symptoms, or tightness in the chest. • Muscle aches, leg cramps, or twitchy legs. • Cognitive problems, including poor focus, poor memory, or brain fog. • Emotional problems, including depression, anxiety, or anger, accompanied by associated behaviors. • Lethargy, or low stamina." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"It can also result from tension created in the body while having to process varying degrees of ever-present external challenges, thus disrupting our inner connection with the laws of nature and even affect the synchronization of our natural rhythms. Additional tension can also result from the interference of manmade electrical fields. The natural wavelike pattern found in nature is one cycle per second, which is the same rhythm as the heart's." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"This condition is called premenstrual dysphoric disorder and is characterized by severe depression, irritability, and tension. Hormonal changes that occur throughout the menstrual cycle clearly influence PMS, but there is no established, concrete cause for the symptoms. PMS may cause mood swings, irritability, tension, depression, anxiety, and fatigue. Physical symptoms may include breast tenderness, fluid retention, headaches, backaches, cramping, bloating, and lower abdominal pain." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"In their research the Flanagans also found that the surface tension of the water was an excellent measure of the free energy of the water molecules. The more zeta potential, or free energy, a liquid has, the lower the surface tension. Unstructured water, such as distilled water, has a surface tension of 73 dynes/centimeter. Carrot juice, which has the lowest surface tension of all the juices (no data is available on wheatgrass), has a surface tension of 30 dynes/centimeter." - Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Conscious Eating (Get the book.)

"I felt an unbearable tension, even in my own institution. That tension was not with my colleagues who toiled at the bedside, nor with our students and patients. It was with the "institution" across the nation. Furthermore, that "institution" was no longer to be led by scholars of the clinical sciences. Rather, the leadership was chosen and valued for putative administrative prowess. Administrators proliferated and vied to accumulate titles that were deemed indicative of their growing power. The infrastructure became the superstructure." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"When I asked her, she could not remember even a single instance when there had not been tension between her parents. Being a very sensitive person at heart, she took everything more seriously than her more extroverted brother did, and consequently felt insecure, frightened, and depressed. With a painful smile on her face, she said that she had always felt torn between her mother and father and could not choose which one to favor. Eating meals with her parents was particularly difficult. She was forced to sit and eat with them while being tormented by a very tense atmosphere." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Deep inside herself she had dreams that she could never fulfill because she did not want to stir up tension or make other people think badly of her. In order to keep the peace, Mary went along with what her parents demanded of her, but inside she was boiling with rage. When Mary walked into my office that morning, she gave me a beautiful smile which did not reveal the pain she was feeling inside. She had learned to conceal her inner world from the outer world." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"What would happen if, instead of eating, you could freeze-frame your feelings and put them under the microscope at the moment the tension occurs? Like the woman above who came home from a stressful day of work, most likely you'd see that you initially feared that your partner had some valid reason for ignoring you—you feared that your partner was cold because there was something unlovable (self-doubt label) about you and so you deserved the rejection. If you were able to slow down instead of immediately using food to ease the blow, you might be able to make a reinterpretation." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Under stress or tension, the blood vessels supplying the organs of the digestive system become tight and restricted, preventing them from digesting even the healthiest of foods. Furthermore, to eat while you are emotionally upset suppresses the secretion of balanced amounts of digestive juices. Whenever you feel angry or upset, your bile flora (beneficial bacteria that keep bile balanced) is altered, which predisposes it to coagulate. Constant emotional strain leads to stone formation in the bile ducts of the liver and in the gallbladder." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Mary still associates the eating of her meals with the tension she experienced while sitting at the parental dinner table. Her unconscious attempt to avoid everything that has to do with food and eating, programs her body to do the same. The body cannot properly digest and absorb foods that are eaten in a hurry, hence the accumulation of large quantities of toxic waste in her small and large intestines." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"There's a natural tension between your need to evolve and your own critical conscience's need to keep you from striking out on your own. Your critical conscience tries to scare you into not taking risks or venturing out on your own. Yet you have a defiant need for freedom that fuels you into rebellion. It's as if you have two powerful creatures dueling it out in your body, in your mind. In the last chapter we talked about how people make their feelings, circumstances, and interactions with people mean something." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"Your own doctor has the best vantage point from which to direct your child's healing, and encroachment upon your doctor's guidance could create tension in your relationship. In other words, don't say, "The book says to do this," or "The book says to do that." Patients, parents, and doctors must all be partners in healing, and grant one another the deserved and proper respect. This conveyance of respect may be even more important if your physician is not a DAN doctor, or another type of integrative physician." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"The more structured/clustered the water, the lower the surface tension, which makes it electrically available to the cells of our body. The lower the surface tension, the wetter the water is and the more acceptable to our cells. My testing verified that the structure of the water determined how well our body was able to rehydrate. So far, structured/clustered water was winning the race by a long shot, but did one stand out above the others? That was not the case." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

"In addition to frankincense, I recommend trying some citrus oils, which are known for reducing tension and depression. (Tangerine and lemon in particular are effective at boosting moods and brightening the atmosphere of your house.) Bergamot is very relaxing and good for the nervous system, and lavender can soothe anxieties and promote sleep. Every night before he goes to sleep, I diffuse frankincense, lavender, and lemon in my son's room. These oils help you breathe better, transporting oxygen and other nutrients into your cells and into your brain." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"As you obsessively check your wristwatch and look for every potential new delay, your leg is shaking, your heart is racing, your blood pressure goes up, your breathing is shallow and rapid, and you've got tension in your back and shoulders. Welcome to the realm of your reactive lower brain and its far-reaching physical effects. You may or may not be aware of these profound physical reactions, but there are even more effects." - 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.)

"I felt more energized, I was able to concentrate better, and I felt much less tension in my shoulders and neck when I was working. I started with a fifteen-minute walk, and then built up to a thirty-minute walk. Once the project was over, I kept on walking! It really helps keep my blood sugar levels in line, and I feel more relaxed." Stress indirectly impacts blood glucose levels simply because people under stress often do not take care of themselves properly. Patients often say, "I work through lunch," or "I'm too busy to check my glucose levels," or "I don't have time to eat right." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "Release the tension, and relax for fifteen seconds. When you are done, take several slow, deep breaths, and open your eyes. The beneficial impact of progressive muscle relaxation on glucose levels and Hb A, levels has been demonstrated in varilc ous studies. A study published in 1983 was one of the first to show that this relaxation technique could significantly improve glucose tolerance. Dr. Surwit and his colleagues conducted a yearlong study completed by seventy-two patients with type 2 diabetes." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Specifically, the unresolved negative feelings that underlie chronic hurt—our beliefs—have the power to create the physical conditions that we recognize as cardiovascular disease: tension, inflammation, high blood pressure, and clogged arteries. This mind/body relationship was documented recently in a landmark study at Duke University directed by James Blumenthal.' He identified long-term experiences of fear, frustration, anxiety, and disappointment as examples of the kind of heightened negative emotions that are destructive to the heart and put us at risk." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "And unquestionably, it's the tension between them that makes our reality what it is. From the charges of atomic particles to the conception of new life, it's all about pluses and minuses, "on" and "off," male and female. In theology, these opposites take on names and appearances that translate into the forces of light and dark, good and evil. While I'm not denying their existence, I am describing how it's possible to change what they mean in our lives and, by doing so, to redefine our relationship with them." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "When we sense that we're free of the tension between us and those to whom we're beholden, then we feel that we're being led on the right path and we're enveloped in a healing sense of peace and gratitude. This is the work that the program is designed to accomplish. The Code Program Command Purpose For thine is the kingdom, Completion command Closure of thanks and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. With the completion-command statements, once again there is a definite shift in tone and sense." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "The rest of the drama focuses on the emotional tension of the pilot exhausting all other alternatives and coming to a dire realization: To save his crew and himself, landing the plane is his only option. If he doesn't try, they'll all die. Although it's unspoken, the other people also realize that landing will kill their friend under the plane. And the man in the observation bubble knows the same thing. This is where the story takes an unexpected turn. In the next scene, we see the pilot in emotional agony as he begins the final approach for a landing and knows what's about to happen." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"The downside to reperfusion is that this fresh supply of oxygenated blood is delivered under high-oxygen tension, bringing an excessive amount of oxygen to the previously starved tissue. All this oxygen must be broken down by the cells, creating inevitable and harmful byproducts called reactive oxygen species (ROS). In addition, the increased blood flow associated with reperfusion washes huge amounts of energy substrates away from the cell, and some of these energy metabolic byproducts contribute to free-radical formation in the presence of so much oxygen." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

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