The Big 4: Peace

Inspiration: The most important peace in life, lives inside of you.

If you want peace in your life, get the big holistic four: acupuncturist, chiropractor, medical doctor and pharmacist. Make them all holistic. You will never regret doing this.

This is what my whole blog is all about.

You would not be at my site if you, or someone you love, were not very sick. If you get each of these in your life, you will get sooooo many more options, and soooo much more peace.

Once I was well, I began to work at Dr. Dorene Witter's office. What amazed me, was the look of fear on the faces of patients as they walked in the door for their first appointment. They were as scared as I previously described in a blog about walking into Dr. Manso's office. And there is absolutely no peace in that huge level of fear.

From experience, I knew they had fear that yet again no doctor would find solutions to their many symptoms, and yet, again, be charged out the kazoo to be told that. In addition, I knew they had fear that maybe some of their previous doctors were right: maybe it was all in their mind. If you know anything about doctors, if they can't find an answer for a problem, (with the tools they were taught in medical school) your problem becomes either a virus, or a mental problem. And that mental problem is YOURS, not theirs. Talk about demoralizing, and zero peace giving!

When in all reality, if their was a mental problem, it belonged to their medical doctors, not those innocent patients looking for answers. The mental problem was simple lack of knowledge, combined ego (I could be wrong) and fear ( being sued and peer pressure if I do something others aren't). From experience, looking at faces these new patients first coming ever so fearfully into Dr. Witters' office, I knew each of their medical doctors, not holistic, hadn't looked past what they were taught in medical school, where research is sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, or by medical conferences, where pharmaceutical sponsorship abounds. In other words, their doctors medical bag of tricks held only diagnoses and solutions that accommodated surgery and pharmaceuticals.

And that was sad.

But I knew it was going to change. I knew that the war struggling inside, shown as fear and uncertainty on the outside in their faces and body stance, would change after just that one, first, appointment with Dr. Witter. The war: 'is this doctor an idiot, after all my other doctors said there is nothing to be done?' 'Am I wasting our money, probably all out of pocket?' 'Am I crazy? Is it all in my mind?' 'If this doctor was that good, wouldn't she be in the medical center?' 'My husband/mother/friend/sister/daughter/son /doctor tell my I am totally crazy for making this appointment, what if I am wrong and she is no help, what do I tell them? Do I look like an idiot to them?' And the biggee, that haunts everyone, including atheists and agnostics, deep down: "Has God (the universe) abandoned me? Or is Dr. Witter, perhaps, God's (the universes) hand out to me, to pull me back up?"

War. Conflict inside.

Let me shift quickly to the appearance of each new patient leaving Dr. Witter's office, walking to my desk, paying their first bill. They stand up straighter, their shoulders are squared back, their chin is up, their eyes hold yours, and above all else, they SMILE! It is a gentle smile, it is not a huge smile, but it is, above all else, something they didn't have before, walking in her door.

You see no war inside that body, reflecting in that body language. What you see is peace! Knowledge and options can give you peace. And I knew, from experience, this was exactly what Dr. Witter had given them. Peace through options and knowledge not reached through what is current western medicine. WOW.

I remember discussing this obvious change in patient body language, with Angela, who has worked for Dr. Manso for now, about seven years. She sees the exact same thing from each of Dr. Manso's first patients as well. First time patients walk in, body language saying 'I am at war, and losing' and walk out, body language shifted to: 'I have a real friend on my side with options I did not know about. Together, we are winning this war, and I am for once, feeling some peace.

Peace.

Do you think it is any different in an acupuncturists office? Of course not. Do you think it is any different with holistic pharmacists? Of course not. Read my little story about the first time I walked into People's Pharmacy. Even with Dr. Witter, holistic acupuncturist and chiropractor, and Dr. Manso, holistic medical doctor, on my side, I found even more peace finding a holistic pharmacist!

Once you have found, and have become the patient of, a holistic pharmacist, a holistic acupuncturist, a holistic chiropractor, and a holistic medical doctor, you will find so many more options for the options you have now. And then, once you are well, you will always know that you have sooo many more options for your health if something else arises, and for those you love when things happen to them.

That is empowering.

And it brings you a level of peace that I cannot even express in words!

Good Luck! You can do this!

Simple Easy Recipe of the Day

Easy Hamburger Stew

Brown one pound ground beef in a pan. Salt and Pepper. Add one can crushed tomatoes, no seasonings, no high fructose corn syrup added. Add one can pinto beans, broth drained. Add one can corn, with broth. Heat through about five to ten minutes. Enjoy

I got this recipe from a friend of mine, named Janice Benkowski, waaaay back when I was a sophomore in high school. It's lived with me ever since, and I have loved it. Talk about bringing peace to a chaotic household when you come home from work and have to put food on the table, yet don't want it to be either junk food or expensive, this can do it.

Joke of the Day (from Readers' Digest website at www.rd.com)
-- Joann Vogel, Evanston, Wyo.

I hadn't fully realized how much everyone in a small town knows everyone else's business until I moved back in with my husband after a short separation. Included in my mail one day was an envelope forwarded from my prior address. Instead of affixing an official change-of-address sticker, someone in the post office simply wrote on the other side of the envelope, "She moved back."