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What is Reiki?: with The Academy of Reiki!
One
of the most effective self-help methods to emerge from
the upsurge in alternative therapies over the past two
decades is REIKI. REIKI (pronounced Ray-key) is a Japanese
word meaning "Universe Life Energy", the vital, creative
force that flows through everything. When used as a
therapy, referred to as the Usui System of Natural Healing,
it an energy balancing technique for improving and maintaining
health, based on the principal that a balanced energy
system leads to a healthy mind and body.
In these difficult times, many people are looking for
something with which to enrich their lives. Whether
this enrichment takes the form of relief from pain and
stress (physical, emotional or mental), the ability
to make better quality choices or nourishment of the
spiritual aspect of their being, millions of people
throughout the world use REIKI for this purpose.
REIKI is not learned in the sense of becoming proficient
in a technique, but rather learning to work with energy
to achieve inner harmony, which leads, in turn, to health
and well being. It does not depend on one's intellectual
capacity as it is passed from Teacher to student through
the transfer of energy and thus is available to everyone
regardless of age, education or culture.
REIKI is a gift with many benefits.
Here are a few areas in which it has been helpful.
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Relieving pain and discomfort of chronic diseases
" Day to living (headaches, colds, flu, cuts, burns,
fatigue, stomach upsets, sprains etc)
" Promoting recovery from surgery
" Strengthening the immune system and increasing vitality,
thus reducing the incidence of illness and injury
" Reducing stress and tension and promoting relaxation
" Providing the equivalent of about 3 hours sleep
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Replenishing and re-vitalising depleted energy
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Enhancing creativity through better communication between
the left and right hemispheres of the brain
" A unique and powerful tool for personal growth and
improving the quality of life
" Experiencing inner strength, love for ourselves, and
the ability to communicate these expressions of love
and strength to others
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Helping us take responsibility for our lives and to
experience positive feelings of balanced wellness
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Helping to change our mode of belief systems and to
release negative feelings about people and past experiences
The Academy of Reiki conducts workshops in all aspects
of Reiki, for those wishing to learn for their own benefit,
those wishing to become a therapist and also for those
wishing to become a Reiki Master/Teacher. Academy of
Reiki.
GPO Box 2820 Brisbane 4001 www.academy-reiki.com.au
email
info@academy-reiki.com.au or call 1800 880 810
Making Mistakes and Movin on: with Clayfield Counselling!
Have you ever noticed how some people just seem to walk
through life moving from strength to strength, while
others make one mistake, get knocked down and never
seem to be able to recover? Everyone makes mistakes,
there's no harm in getting things wrong occasionally
but problems occur when you are reluctant to try something
new for fear of making a mistake, or when you use a
mistake as an excuse to give up.
Find the silver lining
Our mistakes can make us better, stronger and wiser
if we are willing to pay attention and change. We have
to be willing to admit our failures and accept responsibility
for our actions though, and this is where many people
fall down. It's so common to see someone make the same
mistake over and over again and each time things begin
to unravel, they will blame everyone else except themselves.
People often make decisions according to bad habits;
they will be attracted to the same kind of unhealthy
person or they'll continue to have the same argument
with a loved one; sometimes for years. For some the
habit is alcohol or drugs and for others it's violence
or sexual addiction. Commonly these habits are learned
through watching our adult caregivers and other influential
people during our childhood and adolescence. All of
these habits result in harm to oneself and to others
and all of these habits can be changed. Each time we
make a mistake we are presented with an opportunity
to learn. Sometimes the lesson isn't clear and we have
to really stop and think but there is always something
positive to take away from even the most negative experience.
Don't accept defeat
When Donald Trump failed to lower his prices in order
to challenge his competitors he lost his fortune but
instead of giving up, he chose to work his way back
to the top again. He didn't allow his mistake to shame
him into inertia; he worked his way back up the corporate
ladder and is now one of the wealthiest men in the world.
Mistakes are only a problem if they cause us to doubt
ourselves. It's when we stop believing in our own abilities
that we cease trying to succeed; it's then that we're
defeated before we even try.
Change the pattern
If you see a pattern in your life that continually results
in problems or heartache, stop what you're doing and
rethink your behaviour. Are you repeating a habit you've
learned during childhood? Perhaps it's self talk that's
the problem and you're telling yourself something that
just isn't true for you anymore? Sometimes the pattern
is so heavily entrenched that it can be difficult to
see it for what it is. This is when counselling can
really help.
A counsellor is often able to identify a habit or learned
behaviour that keeps causing problems for you in your
life and can assist you with strategies to change the
behaviour. If you'd like some help in changing an old
habit or learned behaviour, why not give us a call and
make an appointment? It doesn't matter what your upbringing
was like or how many mistakes you've made in the past.
Your future is a blank canvas and whether or not a masterpiece
will ever be revealed is entirely up to you. So go on,
choose a paintbrush- what will you paint today?
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Should Health Insurance Really Cover Massage therapy
in Australia: with Brandon Raynor!
Should Health Insurance really cover massage therapy
in Australia? by Brandon Raynor (Email: brandon@brandonraynor.com)
Health Care Rebates and Health Insurance in the Massage
Industry in Australia
There has been a lot of fuss made about Health Care
Rebates in Australia for massage therapists over the
last 5 to 8 years. Some people and some schools seem
to think this is one of the most important aspects of
a persons massage training criteria. We at Brandon Raynors
School of Natural Therapies often get asked the question
"Can I give Health Care Rebates to clients after completing
your course?"
I would like to discuss why I have an opposing point
of view to many in the industry as to the importance
and relevance of these rebates.
Insurance for most things is generally to cover an unexpected
event that is very costly. For example a car accident,
a ship sinking, your house catching on fire. These are
generally events with a low likelihood of occurring
but with very costly effects when they do occur. Having
insurance generally spreads the risk that these events
will bankrupt a person or company out to many individuals.
In other words customers of an insurance company all
pay a certain amount of money to create a pool of money
( Minus the insurance companies fees) in order to pay
for some unexpected costly event.
This was also the original idea behind health insurance.
Pay the insurance company some money so that if you
have a heart attack then you can get the best treatment
without a huge sum coming out of your account all at
once.
This idea does not fit with the massage industry. Massage
is Preventative medicine, in its best form, and only
sometimes used to treat specific injuries. What's more,
even when used in its non preventative form, massage
is not a high cost treatment like many medical procedures.
Even getting 50 massage treatments may only cost $3000
or less, which is the amount many people will spend
on a car if it blows a head gasket or has some other
problem.
Let me discuss this further. Preventative medicine is
things that you do to keep you healthy. For example,
eating healthy foods, exercise, relaxation, meditation,
yoga, and massage. Stress is a part of everyone's life.
It only really becomes a major problem when it builds
up too much. Preventative medicine techniques such as
massage stop that build up happening. This is a predictable
event, just as getting hungry is a predictable event.
This should not be covered by insurance, as I mentioned
before, as insurance covering predictable regular events
is not its intended purpose. In fact, when insurance
covers predictable regular events like getting a massage
to keep stress levels down and prevent muscle tightness
from developing then it adds an unnecessary layer of
bureaucracy and cost to the transaction.
So instead of a person doing a simple financial transaction
by paying a practitioner $60 for a massage, which only
takes about 3 minutes or less of administrative time,
a person has to get a receipt, take it to their health
fund, get them to refund the money etc... Not only that
but the practitioner has a lot of compliance time and
money wasted by having to fulfill the criteria that
the health fund want in order to get a provider number
etc....
In other words something economically simple has become
economically complicated but achieves nothing more.
A lot more people being paid to put pens to paper, and
more stress created complying with regulations but the
real actual produce was still one massage treatment.
Not only that but the government has gotten involved
by subsidizing health funds so now we have more tax
money taken out of our pockets to pay bureaucrats to
keep this ludicrous system going.
Imagine if we did that for every other simple economic
transaction that goes into preventative medicine. Every
time I go to the health food shop I get the receipts
mail them off to an insurance company and get them to
pay me back some of the money ( minus fees) that I just
recently sent them for my insurance coverage. Its crazy.
The way this has all come about is because the medical
industry is not preventative based and some people in
the natural health industry have very low self esteem
about what they are doing and feel that they need to
be "recognized" by the medical industry to be respectable.
So we have this crazy system of a preventative medicine
technique such as massage fitting into a system that
is designed for acute care.
The orthodox medical profession is designed mostly to
treat sudden onset problems such as heart attacks and
car accidents and this of course it does better than
preventative medicine and these can be very costly.
However it is not as successful in keeping people healthy
as a preventative medicine system.
So the major use of massage in a health system should
be to keep people destressed and well but even when
massage is also used for people that have injuries or
chronic problems massage is not so expensive that having
insurance is required. As I mentioned earlier very few
people, even when really not well, would require more
than 50 1 hour massage treatments. Even if they required
this many it would only cost $3000 at $60 a treatment.
Considering also that 50 treatments would be spread
out over several months this is hardly an unbearable
expense for most people. Certainly not more than the
cost of many common problems that occur periodically
with automobiles.
So this is why I do not subscribe to being part of this
crazy system nor do I want to encourage it.
I also believe that there is a danger to this system
in that many people when they choose their training
options think that this is very important. The reality
is its not. The most important thing for a person when
they consider their training options are the quality
of the massage course that they want to undertake. Actually
less than 20% of people have even subscribed to the
highest levels of coverage with health funds and there
is not benefit to the practitioner from these patients
having this coverage anyway. The only thing the practitioner
has to be concerned about in his early stages of having
a clinic is not to lose potential clients. What we recommend
is that people can offer a discount for the first treatment
to these people to get them "in the door" so to speak,
and then give them such a good treatment that they will
want to come back, even if they don't get their $10
back from their health fund. So compete on the basis
of giving a quality treatment rather than on whether
you can fit into an insane bureaucratic system of health
rebates.
If a person focuses on becoming an outstanding practitioner
and having excellent customer service skills, then they
will soon have more clients than they can treat. They
will no longer be so desperate for clients that they
need to offer discounts to get people "in the door".
They will be able to choose their clients or even raise
their rates if they desire.
A course that trains people to be excellent massage
therapists is what people should look for when choosing
a course to undertake for their training and that's
what we aspire to in our training techniques.
Brandon
holds Diplomas in:
- Remedial
and Swedish Massage Therapy
- Shiatsu
- Chinese
Herbal Medicine
- Naturopathy.
He is a member of the Australian Traditional Medicine
Society.
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Riverside Fitness: Boutique Without The Attitude!
Do
you want results, but feel "lost" in the anonymous atmosphere
of a large gym?
Riverside Fitness is a fully equipped, medium sized
fitness centre, with a big personality: boutique without
the attitude.
Located conveniently behind the Regatta Hotel on Coronation
Drive, we have taken the best of traditional gymnasiums
to create a centre that is all about attention, variety
and results.
You stay more focused on your health goals when you're
part of a friendly, intimate environment where personalized
service is always on hand.
Our mission is that you'll keep coming back to Riverside
because you WANT to, not because you have to.
We offer pay-by-the-month memberships at reasonable
rates (with discounts to students, corporate and seniors).
You pay NO JOINING FEE, NO ADMINISTRATION FEE and
NO LONG TERM CONTRACTS.
We also offer Pilates classes, which is excellent for
working your core stability. It is a full body conditioning
program that enhances posture and lengthens and strengthens
muscles, boosting the effectiveness of every other type
of exercise you do.
You can also get 'up close and personal' with our Personal
Trainers. The additional cost of personal training may
be more than offset by the rate at which you will achieve
your personal fitness goals. They will personally guide
and extend your progress, ultimately leading you to
goals you never thought achievable.
Boot camp and massage is also available at an additional
cost.
Joining a gym is a significant commitment, one that
should potentially deliver major enhancements to your
body image, self-esteem and lifestyle. Riverside Fitness
welcomes all enquiries by way of our FREE initial
consultation and review (normally valued at $90). For
more information call us on 07 3870 0299. ( mention
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email
info@riversidefitness.com.au
http://www.riversidefitness.com.au
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Health, Wellness and Lifestyle!
Ice
Cream Lies with Joanne Hay
Ask
any pig farmer, how they fatten up their pigs before
slaughter and they will tell you, “feed them grains
and skimmed milk.” Funny, that’s just what most modern
dieticians will put you on to lose weight! While dairy
farmers of bygone days always kept pigs and fed them
the skimmed milk left over from butter and cream making,
this is no longer the case. Now dairy corporations pick
up the milk from the farmer and take care of the rest
at their factory. So we have a problem.
What
do dairy factories do with the skimmed milk after thay
make butter and cream? They don’t have a quaint little
pig sty out the back that’s for sure. Dairy corporations,
with the help of some friends in government nutrition
departments, have invented a way to get rid of ’skim’
milk as they slyly renamed it. “Sell it to the fatties”
as a diet food. So after a week of trying to be strong
and drinking skimmed milk, fattie begins to crave for
what is missing from ’skim’ milk - the fat. They find
themselves at the freezer section of the supermarket,
guiltily salivating over the brightly coloured packaging
of litres upon litres of delicious ice cream. Unfortunately
along with the cream, comes refined sugar, highly refined
wheat (maltodextrin) and a whole host of scary chemicals.
If you want to keep enjoying your commercial ice cream
treats, please do not read any further. (more…)
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Short
and Sweet: Yogurt Beef!
makes:10
Ingredients
2
tablespoons cornflour 1 cup beer 250g Australian Matured
Cheddar Cheese, grated 250g Mil Lel Superior Romano
Cheese, grated 1 clove garlic, crushed 30g Australian
butter 1 teaspoon wholegrain mustard
Method
1. Dissolve cornflour in a little beer, reserve. Place
remaining beer, Cheddar, Romano and garlic in a large
saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring continously,
until the cheese has melted. 2. Stir in butter, mustard
and dissolved cornflour and stir until thickened. Transfer
to a warmed fondue pot under a low flame. 3. Serve fondue
with crusty bread, grissini sticks, dill pickles, bbq
chipolata sausages or steamed or char-grilled asparagus,
capsicum or mushrooms.
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Laughter
is the best medicine!
Subject:
What it means to be Australian
Being
Australian is about driving in a German car to an Irish
pub for a Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing
an Indian curry or Turkish kebab on the way, to sit
on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese
TV.
Oh
and...only in Australia can a pizza get to your house
faster than an ambulance.
Only
in Australia do supermarkets make sick people walk all
the way to the back of the shop to get their prescriptions
while healthy People can buy cigarettes at the front.
Only in Australia do people order double cheeseburgers,
large Fries and a DIET coke.
Only
in Australian do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars
on the drive and lock our junk and cheap lawn mower
in the garage.
Only
in Australia do we use answering machines to screen
calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a
call from someone we didn't want to talk to in the first
place.
Quote
of the week!
Listen
to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen
to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen
to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything
can happen, child. Anything can be.”Shel
Silverstein, writer
For
a Good Cause: Why support The Abused Child Trust?
It
is a sad fact that thousands of Queensland Children
suffer some form of child abuse every year. But the
Abused Child Trust can help. The Trust provides prevention
and treatment programmes for families experiencing,
or at risk of, child abuse or neglect. These programmes
offer the specialised help of a social worker, psychologist,
occupational therapist, speech pathologist and nurse
to assist individuals and families to resolve the issues
that maintain destructive patterns of thought, feeling
and behaviour - helping them break the cycle of abuse.
The Abused Child Trust needs your assistance to continue
this work.
http://www.abusedchildtrust.com.au.
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on Macregor!
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McMahon!
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