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MANAGE CHRONIC PROLONGED STRESS with those people who encourage you and do likewise to others.
Considered by many physicians and health Medical researcher T.S. Wiley once wrote, “We always knew that
care practitioners to be the most common culprit there were certain rules for staying alive in harmony with all other living
for inflammation and chronic illness, prolonged things—how much you could eat, how long you could stay awake, and
stress must be addressed in order to achieve how much stress you could endure.”
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long-term hormonal balance. The first step Finally, a key ingredient to stress management is to make a commit-
in managing chronic stress is to create more ment to restorative sleep. More on that later.
margin in one’s day and schedule. This requires
prioritizing and being realistic. ESTABLISH RHYTHM AND SPEND TIME OUTDOORS
Modern culture has imparted high demands Our hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal-gonadal axis is designed to re-
on individuals with our pervasive use of technol- ceive signals from the sun, in a roundabout way. These signals are initiated
ogy. It takes a great deal of self-control to create by the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) of the anterior hypothalamus. The
healthy boundaries and safe spaces, if you will. SCN is the master clock controlling circadian rhythms. In essence, our
But without boundaries and safe spaces, quiet is biological time clock, or circadian rhythm takes its cues from sunlight.
all but stolen from our existence. Take steps to Prior to the advent of electricity, it was easy to go to bed at an ideal
limit your availability via email and cell phones. time, two hours after sunset. As the eye perceives darkness, a message
Learn to say “no” to excessive commitments. is transmitted via the optic nerve to the anterior hypothalamus and then
Refuse to be driven by the tyranny of the urgent. to the pineal gland. Once received, the pineal gland, a neuroendocrine
Very few “urgencies” are truly such. Make it a gland, initiates the production of melatonin. It takes the body roughly two
practice to turn off devices before dinner. Guard hours from receipt of this signal to produce melatonin in levels sufficient
your safe spaces, giving yourself regular time to induce deep sleep. What happens if we live in bright artificial lights
outdoors daily without the presence of devices. all day until late night? You guessed it. We miss the natural signals that
Practice quietness on a daily basis. Journal, pray, should be transmitted. We live in a perpetual state of summer. Long days
meditate. Be still! of light which translate to less sleep. 10
Another area of chronic stress comes in the
form of unhealthy relationships. Look honestly SUPPORT DETOXIFICATION AND ELIMINATION
at those relationships that bring repetitive stress Gentle detoxification and biotherapeutic drainage provide crucial
into your day. Take positive action through the support for balancing hormones and recovering from the use of both
counsel of trusted friends, therapists, pastors, bioidentical and synthetic hormone therapy. As a complement to bio-
priests or rabbis or other counselors. Find solu- therapeutic drainage, simple home therapies such as castor oil packs,
tions to rebuild strong relationships. Spend time dry brushing, dry sauna, liver-gallbladder flushes and coffee enemas

SPEAKERS AT WISE TRADITIONS 2017

Ronda Nelson gave a fascinating Sylvia Burgos Toftness gave a class Stephanie Seneff presented yet
seminar on thyroid health. on making healing bone broth. another spellbinding lecture on
cholesterol sulfate and the
harmful effects of glyphosate.

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