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E VERGREEN W ELLNESS C ENTER In our understanding, every part of creation is based in frequency of one type or another, whether it be the color, sound, or electromagnetic spectrum (which includes color, sound, radio frequencies, etc.), and that each and every cell of our bodies has a specific resonance, speed of oscillation, or frequency. In fact, there are scientists, doctors and inventors who are able to calibrate frequency of things, including living things, and even different parts of the body. Recent scientific data supports the theory that illness, whether physical, emotional or mental, is directly related to the vibration of the frequency at which our cells are operating.
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When the frequency of our cells is high, we experience good health. Conversely, when the frequency of our cells is low, we are more susceptible to experience disease. Disease is found in cells that are not vibrating or energized. Over time our cells stop vibrating properly because of environmental toxins, emotional issues and improper nutrition. As the frequency drops, the cells are unable to maintain a healthy environment. Our cells get ‘gummed’ up which causes them to stick together. This can result in fatigue, depression and many kinds of illnesses. So how do we raise the vibration and frequency of our cells?
An electromagnetic device called the V.I.B.E. Machine (Vibrational Integration BioPhotonic Energizer) has the sole purpose of increasing the vibration of the frequency of our cells. The V.I.B.E Machine therefore, reinforces a positive frequency spectrum in the body, and strengthens the body energetically, assisting it to ward off toxins, whether environmental or otherwise.
What goals do you have for the coming year? Quite often our thoughts turn to eating better, exercising more, and learning to manage our
- Norman Vincent Peale
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Health occurs by design. Disease occurs by default. It’s that time of year again—another chance for a fresh start—a clean slate. “We’ve got high hopes…..” Most of us are thinking about changes we want to make in our lives. Usually some of these goals have to do with making choices that help us to feel better, look better, and get healthier.
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
stress. The question is—how can we set ourselves up for success? Putting structures and support systems in place to insure positive forward motion is the key. The very first step is to take stock. What’s working, what’s not? If something is not working—or there is an area that needs improvement—then there is a decision to be made. The decision, coupled with commitment, summons forth what it takes to move into action. Continued on Page 5
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D ECK THE H ALLS WITH S CHLUMBERGERA T RUNCATUS ! While most of us are preparing for/ recovering from the holidays, there are a few die-hard gardeners, like yours truly, who would rather daydream about next season’s garden. I look at this time of year merely as a brief respite in the gardening cycle. So how does the passionate gardener get a dose of green when snow is galling or that dead conifer in the living room is dropping needles? Why houseplants, of course! One in particular comes to mind for this time of year. Schlumbergera or zygocactus or for those who are not familiar with binomial nomenclature*, Christmas Cactus is the name for this tropical gem. Originating in Brazil, this group of plants is classified as epiphytic or “living on air”. They attach themselves to trees, using them as anchors and absorb moisture and nutrients from the air and debris around their “feet” (roots). This makes them perfect for hanging baskets. Growing schlumbergera is quite simple. The growing medium (soil) should be a light all-purpose mix with a little added sand. This assures the roots have proper drainage.
Remember, this is a jungle cactus, so its growing habit differs radically from its desert leaf cousin. Keep the soil moist but not soggy. Too much water will cause root-rot, making the leaf segments dull and shriveled and they will eventually turn brown and die. The leaves should look glossy and a healthy green. A light “spritz” several times a week will mimic jungle humidity. Keep Christmas Cactus out of direct sun. Being accustomed to a canopy of tall trees, too much sun will discolor and eventually burn the leaves. A bright window shaded with a sheer curtain is ideal. If the leaves turn a reddish green, they are giving you fair warning to cut the sunlight or pay the consequences. A summer vacation out of doors is greatly appreciated, but again, in a shaded area. Bring them in before the first frost and cut back on the watering and they should begin flower bud-break shortly thereafter. The flowers vary in color from white to violet with the occasional rare yellow hybrid. (Good luck in finding one!) Fertilize every two weeks from end of bloom time to the end of July. From August on, let new foliage mature by feeding and watering less often. Propagation is practically fool proof. Break off leaf segments by carefully
twisting at the joint and let callus (air dry) for a day or two. Gently place each segment in the moist planting medium. When new growth appears you will know your new plants have taken root. Although bloom time is relatively short, just a few weeks, that blast of color is worth all the effort. Contributing Author: Donna Demeter
*Binomial Nomenclature *Binomial nomenclature – a system of names in Latin. The old plant guys used to specify species of plants with specific and generic terms. This system is universal and guarantees that no mater where you buy your plants, schlumbergera truncatus is the same in Colorado, Russia or France. Donna has been an organic gardener for more than 20 years and is a Master Gardener in Pueblo County. She does garden consultation on a limited basis, specializing in Xeriscape. She also works in the vitamin department of a local health food store, and makes beaded jewelry for fun and profit. She labels herself as a seeder, a weeder, and a beader.
E VERGREEN W ELNESS —C ONTINUED VIBE Machine creator Gene Koonce was originally experimenting with a device that would change the structure of drinking water to energize people. However, he realized that the body is 70% water and decided to take it a step further and invent a machine that would put the frequencies directly into the body.
At the Evergreen Wellness Center we offer a variety of vibrational and frequency-based treatments and products to our clients. This includes the V.I.B.E Machine and variety of other alternative therapies. We also have a line of air and water purifiers, healthy skin care and health supplements.
Come in today for a free trial and experience for yourself the new way of feeling good.
Call William at 719-583-4006. For more info on the V.I.B.E. Machine and its inventor please go to the website.
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S CHOOLS B ENEFIT F ROM N EW H OME P ARTY Market Day, the nation’s leading food fundraising company, announces the launch of a new home party business called Market Day Gourmet. This new program will help raise funds for local schools and other worthy causes in the area. Market Day’s fundraising program has helped meet the educational needs of communities across the country, raising funds for resources such as computers and playground equipment. Since its inception nearly 30 years ago, Market Day has raised over $330 million for education nationwide, improving the lives of millions of children. The Market Day tradition continues today with the introduction of Market Day Gourmet, offering a special selection of unique, high quality foods and kitchen accessories exclusively through in-home parties. And in keeping with Market Day’s
fundraising mission, a portion of party sales can be designated to a school or charitable organization of the hostess’s choice. Any school or non-profit organization can benefit from a Market Day Gourmet party, including bands, sports teams or summer camps. Parents, friends and family can attend or host a party and raise funds for their organization or a charitable cause.
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During home parties, guests have the opportunity to sample all of Market Day Gourmet’s products, share ideas and receive specially-designed serving suggestions.
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P UEBLO P ERFORMING A RTS G UILD P RESENTS Pueblo Performing Arts Guild recommends this performance by Pueblo’s outstanding performing artists.
Damon Runyon Reparatory Theatre January 12th &13th at 7:00 PM, and January 14th at 2:00 PM.
Same Time Next Year For tickets call 719-564-0579 or on-line at www.runyontheater.org.
“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.” -Henry David Thoreau
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T HE E CONOMIC V ALUE OF L IVING W ELL My experience in helping folks with their life, disability, and long-term care insurance planning has really opened my eyes to the economic value of living well. Today we will focus on how minor health issues can cost you big in some less obvious ways related to your insurance program. Coverage Gaps: The healthier you are, the fewer restrictions you face in getting proper protection. Let’s say you want to protect your income with a long-term disability plan. Being moderately overweight in combination with another “minor” health problem could limit the benefit period to 1 or 2 years. Your monthly benefit may be limited as well. You also may not qualify for valuable features that would allow you to protect future increases in income, or to receive a partial return of premiums if no claims are made.
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This forces you into partially self-insuring, and paying a higher net cost for protection. Inefficiency of Self-Insuring: A limited benefit period could be very costly with your long-term care insurance. If you are limited to a certain number of years or maximum daily benefit amount, you could end up paying $60,000 to $100,000 for just a year of care. You may also be ineligible for certain inflation protection options, reducing the future value of your benefit dollars. Self-insuring is the most risky and inefficient way to deal with the need, but you could be forced into it. Unavailable Coverage: Here’s an example of this with critical illness protection. A critical illness policy pays a lump-sum benefit upon diagnosis of any of several major health conditions (often including heart attack, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer’s, MS, Parkinson’s and others. But if you have ever had ANY of the covered conditions, you
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cannot get a policy. Thus, you could lose the opportunity to have a check come in at a time when you need it most to pay for the many indirect costs associated with these conditions (home modifications, alternative treatment, domestic assistance, travel/lodging for family, etc). Not every option on any policy is right for every person. But in order to have the options to create the most ideal and efficient plan, you need to be as healthy as possible and get the coverage while you are still healthy. Live well and save money! Next: How controllable health conditions cost you in your insurance program; Steps you can take to save money. Contributing Author, David Shepson, is an agent with Mutual of Omaha in Pueblo, Colorado, and can be reached at 719.545.3569 or david.shepson@mutualofomaha.com
•With raw milk, teeth are less likely to decay. (Lancet, p 1142, May 8, 1937) •Raw milk promotes growth and calcium absorption. (Ohio Ag. Experimental Station Bulletin 518, p 8, Jan 1933) •Raw cream prevents joint stiffness. (Annual Review of Biochemistry, 18:435, 1944) •Pathological organisms do not grow in raw milk but proliferate in pasteurized milk. (The Drug and Cosmetic Industry, 43 (1):109, July 1938) •Pasteurization destroys vitamin A, B complex, vitamin C, enzymes, and
whey proteins. (See abstracts at www.realmilk.com) •After 3 generations on pasteurized milk, cats developed numerous health problems and pathologies of behavior. At four generations, all reproduction ceased. (Pottenger's Cats, 1983, Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation) Raw milk is available through "delivery" in the Pueblo area.
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Taking action with baby steps is what I recommend. A baby step is something easy at which you cannot fail. Taking small steps allows us to build on our successes. My husband Roy always reminds me of this by asking: How do you eat an elephant? ONE BITE AT A TIME! Nutritional Support System: What is missing in most diets is enough raw fruits and vegetables—and fruits and vegetables are the guardians of health. If there were a way to get large amounts of vine-ripened, pesticide-free fruits and vegetables every day—that would take less than one minute, and cost less than a latte— wouldn’t you want to add that into your healthy lifestyle program in 2007? Well—there is a way—and it is called JuicePlus+- a concentrated encapsulated produce. JuicePlus+ is a baby step
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you can take every day. JuicePlus+ is proven in 9 published independent studies to improve health and reduce the risk for disease. Accountability Support System: Getting a buddy is a huge help for sticking with positive choices. Hiring a health coach is another way to ensure that we have someone supporting our healthy choices. Most of us know what to do, we start to make changes, and then we falter. A coach can help keep us moving in the direction of health.
Dr. Donna J. Hinders Call 719-583-8258 or 719-544-0649
Dr. Hinders is expanding her health education focus into one-on-one and group health coaching by phone, in person, or online. If having someone to support you in your healthy choices sounds appealing, please call for a no obligation coaching demo.
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It is time to step up to the plate people of Pueblo! Yes, I am talking to you!! Recycling is not a new idea; in fact it is one of the oldest concepts known to man. Our forefathers and foremothers realized this; they recycled or reused everything they could, because they had to! It was not necessarily a choice, it was a necessity! This is most unfortunate for us ‘modern’ people, because now we can just ‘go out and buy a new one’ or throw whatever it is away because we can. Resources are not endless; trash doesn’t just go away because you no longer see it. It is there, it may not be in your own backyard, but it is there. Recycling is a responsibility of each and every one of us, whether you are rich or poor, young or old, a high school graduate or hold a doctorate degree, and whatever race, creed, color, nationality, gender, sexual preference etc, you get the point…it is our collective responsibility. It seems that here in Pueblo, good ideas take a long time to catch on. Pueblo lags shamefully behind most of the environmentally aware world. But it is not because we are not trying! Did you know that the City County Health Department has had four recycling drop-off sites which collect glass (brown, green, blue and clear), aluminum and tin, and newspaper for the last couple of years? These sites are located at Rocky Mountain Steel Mill off of Abriendo (Pueblo), Pueblo West Metropolitan District at 109 E. Industrial Blvd, Civic Center Drive in Pueblo West and at the General Store on McCulloch in Pueblo West. To my amazement, I run into people all of the time who
have no idea that these recycling drop off sites exist. You can also recycle all kinds of paper. The Shrine’s club has about 25 bins across Pueblo and Pueblo West; they accept not only newspaper, but magazines, office paper and junk mail.
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to $14.85. Compare the Commercial Grade Microfiber mops to store brands. A sponge mop costs $12.74 and refills $6.46 each. A cotton mop costs $9.98 and the refills are $5.12 each. Because the store-bought mops cannot be washed in the washing machine, they can hold odor causing bacteria and the floors never really get clean. The commercial grade microfiber mops are a
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In Colorpuncture treatments, frequencies of colored light are focused on the skin using a handheld acu-light tool, which emits different colors of light through focused tips. Each color consists of different wavelength frequencies of light and therefore communicates different energetic information. As the skin absorbs the light and is transmitted along energetic pathways or meridians deep into the body, it stimulates the intra-cellular communication, which supports life.
Light is subtle in its effect, yet fast moving and penetrates deeply into all cells of the body. Scientists are now discovering that light is actually the medium by which cells communicate and the basis of many For more information regarding bodily functions. Colorpuncture, Contact Wendie Stauffer, Reflexologist Golden Flower Health Clinic “Offering You Pathways To Your Health.” 719-542-9210
A CUPRESSURE Acupressure is an ancient Oriental practice involving therapeutic touch on specific body points to treat tension, stress, pain, cramping, arthritis, etc., and to improve energy flow in the body. The only “tools” used in Acupressure are the practitioner’s fingers. People seem to automatically think it is a form of acupuncture – but there are no needles involved. Actually history indicates that acupressure came first.
acupressure techniques 10 years ago and only became serious about sharing this therapy with my clients several years ago after I experienced several treatments. I have found a variety of ways to use acupressure as a standard part of my massage practice.
When a client experiences a full acupressure treatment, she/he remains fully clothed on the massage table while I apply gentle pressure to “acupoints”. However, I often combine acupressure along with massage of cranial sacral therapy, depending upon the Acupressure addresses the energy pathways client’s needs. When used as an introduction that are present in the body and helps relieve to massage, it helps relax an individual more congestion in various areas of the body, thus quickly and gets the energy flowing before promoting healing. I first learned of the massage begins.
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R ECYCLING , C ONTINUED Pueblo Recycles, a local grassroots organization, and the City County Health Department have been hosting a three-part plastics recycling pilot project. The last date is January 20, so it is not too late to participate. Please save your #1 and #2 plastics and join us on January 20 from 9:00-12:00 at the State Fair Grounds through Gate 3 off of Mesa. This is the third and final date in this pilot plastics recycling project. It would be awesome if we could recycle plastics monthly, but it won’t happen without adequate participation and collection during this pilot project. I realize that some of you who may be reading this are already responsible citizens and recycle! My hat is off to you! Now we just have to put our heads together and come up with some brilliant ideas on how we can increase recycling participation in this fair city and how can we collectively encourage our friends and neighbors to live respon-
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The Guide to Healthy Living is very excited about publishing a separate edition for the Pueblo Region for our 10th Anniversary. This year, our circulation for this region will be 10,00015,000 copies. For nine years we have worked to connect the holistic community of the Pikes Peak Region, a responsibility that we continue to uphold.
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In 2007, we also turn our focus to expanding our reach into the mainstream markets. It is our hope that we will be a driving force in connecting the traditional and alternative health communities in Pueblo and its surrounding communities. We wish to provide a place for them to meet and to work together for the benefit of all those who live in this beautiful area.
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We are offering 20% off to all advertisers in this area. For past advertisers, take an additional 5% off. We want to thank you for supporting this Guide and this movement. Cover space is available and comes with a free ad inside as well! Our deadline has been moved to April 15th, so there is plenty of time to become part of this wonderful resource! Please contact us to become part of this network or if you have any questions. Don’t forget to check out our website on line at www.theguidetohealthyliving.com. May you be blessed with health and abundance. Lorelei Beckstrom, Publisher: lorelei@theguidetohealthyliving.com Michele Woods, Pueblo Sales Director: emv@theguidetohealthyliving.com 719-388-3623
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