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H E A L I N G T I M E S
Multiple Sclerosis
Parkinson’s Disease
Divorce Doesn’t Have to Cause Trauma in Children
Multiple Sclerosis
Conceiving New Perspectives
Parkinson’s Disease

Eliminate Defensiveness
Discover Tools for Peace
Sharon Strand Ellison
Editor’s Column
Purify
the power of
the four elements — fire
Forgiveness Feuilleton
Dr. Joel Kreisberg as above so below
Emotional Authorship
Divorce Doesn’t Have to
unlearning helplessness
Cause Trauma in Children
Karen Sprinkel
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Welcome to Healing Times Magazine where we are going to focus on the latest
trends, research, case studies, and reports that show how infusing consciousness
into the healing process can allow any healing methodology of your choice to
become more effective.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
— C.G. Jung
Publisher Contributors
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Sharon Strand Ellison / Author
Editor-in-Chief Power Struggle: The Invisible Addiction
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Divorce Doesn’t Have to Cause Trauma
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Editor’s Column
To date, hundreds of different neurological disease classifications exist within or-
thodox medicine. While specific and unique in their presentation of signs, symp-
toms, and damages caused, they each share a common inability to properly trans-
mit nerve impulses.
Orthodox medicine has identified a variety of possible culprits in the promo-
tion of neurological diseases. They include: toxins, lack of nutrition, infectious
pathogens, radiation, accidents, as well as genetic and autoimmune causes. In
many cases, though, both an exact causation and cure have so far escaped mod-
ern medicine. An arsenal of tests may provide insights into some of the specifics
of disease development, and by extension, manage progression. However, treat-
ment is most often limited to pharmaceutical medication. In addition, most of the
neurological disorders are chronic and the patient deteriorates over time.
In the last edition, we examined Altzheimer’s Disease and this month we are fol-
lowing up on with a deeper look at two other neurological diseases, Parkinson’s
and Multiple Sclerosis.
We are also continuing our look at working with the purifying elemental forces.
In this summer month of July, elemental fire is omnipresent in the sun. One of the
many examples of using the element of fire can be found in the Fire article and in
Feuilleton.
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Multiple Sclerosis
Orthodox medicine considers multiple sclerosis (MS) a chronic, inflammato-
ry, and degenerative neurological illness with no cure and no exact cause.
In fact, MS is one of the most common neurological diseases.
The meaning of the word multiple sclerosis provides a clue about the general
picture of this illness. It derives from the Latin words ‘multi’ and ‘plus,’ which to-
gether translate into ‘manifold,’ and the Greek word ‘sclerosis’ which translates as
‘hardness’. Place the words together and we get ‘many folded hardness.’ Apply
‘manifold hardness’ to the brain and spinal cord and we have a description of MS.
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by the break-
down of some of the thin sheets which cover the brain and spinal cord. These
fat-based myelin sheets normally provide insulation and protection, but when le-
sions occur, nerve impulses misfire across the broken insulation causing a variety
of debilitating symptoms.
Scientists speculate that MS might be an autoimmune disease that inadvertently
prompts adhesion molecules, which summon immune cells to fight an inflamma-
tion, and thus contribute to the destruction of myelin sheets. Other likely culprits
include a combination of genetic factors, infections and environmental influences
such as decreased sun exposure and subsequent insufficient vitamin D.
Some pharmaceutical medications exist to manage symptoms as they develop
or worsen, but they come with a steep price of significant side effects. MS may
initially appear as only acute attacks or it may progress to its chronic degener-
ative form in which symptoms accumulate and gradually worsen. Some of the
most common symptoms include: muscular spasms affecting the eyes, bladder
and bowels, numbness, increased weakness, ataxia, slurred speech or acute and
chronic pain.
Due to limited success within the allopathic model, many MS patients have
turned to other healing methodologies in the hope of finding help and relief.
EXPLORING MIND–BODY CONSCIOUSNESS
A cross-cultural study of patients with MS from the US and Israel showed that
both patient groups experienced similar concurrent psychological challenges at
the time of the emergence of MS symptoms. These challenges were “characterized
as a psychologically stressful situation involving difficulty in coping and feelings
of helplessness”. Later studies revealed emotional stress as a potential trigger for
the onset, exacerbations, and relapses of disease activity.
QUESTIONS
How do I turn my energies on myself?
What do I try to control in my reality even though I know I can’t?
How do I have impact in life when I don’t want to participate?
Why am I so hardhearted with myself, others and the whole
world?

Why am I so rigid with what I perceive as right and wrong?
What other perspectives can help me melt my stubbornness
away?
Where are my tears wanting and where are they wasted?
What keeps me from facing changes and unforeseen events?
What paralyzes my courage and substance?
How do I love myself so as to allow a world where I am free and
where I am safe?
Why does it hurt to move or to show backbone?
How do I numb my senses or myself?
Why is life so exhausting?
AGGRAVATING FACTORS
Difficulty in coping / feelings of helplessness / emotional stress.
HEALING FACTORS
Learning / adapting positive coping mechanisms to reduce
trigger events.
CONSIDER THIS
Cannabis: The earliest study listed in the National Library of Health took place in
1981 when researchers found motivation in anecdotal accounts of MS patients
who reported that inhaling cannabis gave relief from spasticity. This, combined
with the scientific discovery that THC was able to inhibit spasms in animal studies,
opened the door to a multitude of scientific inquiries.
While initial studies merely focused on observing the effect of cannabis on the
most common symptoms of MS, later studies worked to discover the mechanisms
underlying the observed therapeutic effects.
The scientific community began to build on the data accumulated. The thera-
peutic frame of cannabis in the context of MS became more clear and defined. A
reduction in spasticity was recognized as only the first of many benefits. Cannabis
use also reduced pain, depression, anxiety, paresthesia, neuropathic pains, sleep
disturbances, urge incontinence and nocturnal polyuria.
Even the U.S. Federal Government issued itself a patent on the neuroprotective
properties of cannabinoids employed in the treatment of several diseases involv-
ing inflammation and the nervous system such as MS.
One of the latest animal studies on the cannabinoid receptor systems alludes
to the involvement of cannabinoids in the inhibition of brain adhesion molecules,
which in turn may be responsible for some therapeutic effects on MS. If clinical
trials can confirm these results, scientists may be able to partly understand how
to slow or even reverse the progression of MS.
While the focus of 26 studies differs in approach, scope and methodology, the
results share a common denominator. For patients suffering from MS, cannabis
may be a potent and powerful ally in alleviating the disease’s symptoms. Further-
more, cannabinoids may slow the progression of the illness itself, and thus pro-
vide an improvement to long-term survival and quality of life.
WARNING: Most clinical studies reported adverse effects of cannabis use in ad-
dition to benefits dependant on dose and form. Those included reduced balance
and posture, nausea and dizziness; and at high dosages, negative psychological
symptoms such as anxiety. These studies indicated that when used within the
proper subjective therapeutic dose, cannabinoids’ potential adverse effects are
usually well tolerated and negligible especially when compared to the beneficial
effects.
To determine the best possible therapeutic window for you, seek advise from
peers with MS who have used cannabis themselves, and consult a licensed health
care professional familiar with cannabinoids.
Turmeric: Ayurvedic practitioners, herbalists and naturopaths have long known
about the multitudes of potent therapeutic properties of curcuma longa or tur-
meric. Curcumin is a naturally occurring compound found in the rhizome of the
plant. Now researchers from Nashville, Tennessee, have examined the compound’s
ability to affect mice with MS. Results of the study revealed a similarity between
the amount of curcumin used to protect the mice from artificially induced MS and
that found in the typical Indian diet. One author of the study reported that MS in
India is very rare, and while no human studies to date confirm the results, it cer-
tainly can’t hurt to add some turmeric to your food.
Vitamin D: Researchers in Stockholm, Sweden, suggest that vitamin D is impor-
tant for MS patients. “One of the environmental factors that has been implicated
in MS and autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes, is vitamin D deficiency.”
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