Laurie Biggers Massage Therapy

12/15/2022

Good advice.

11/19/2022

No longer taking new clients. Retirement here I come! Yea!

11/04/2020

Your Friday Funny...bahahahaha

11/26/2017

GRATITUDE

is not a passive response to something we have been given, gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us. Gratitude is not necessarily something that is shown after the event, it is the deep, a-priori state of attention that shows we understand and are equal to the gifted nature of life.

Gratitude is the understanding that many millions of things must come together and live together and mesh together and breathe together in order for us to take even one more breath of air, that the underlying gift of life and incarnation as a living, participating human being is a privilege; that we are miraculously, part of something, rather than nothing. Even if that something is temporarily pain or despair, we inhabit a living world, with real faces, real voices, laughter, the color blue, the green of the fields, the freshness of a cold wind, or the tawny hue of a winter landscape.

To see the full miraculous essentiality of the color blue is to be grateful with no necessity for a word of thanks. To see fully, the beauty of a daughter’s face across the table, of a son's outline against the mountains, is to be fully grateful without having to seek a God to thank him. To sit among friends and strangers, hearing many voices, strange opinions; to intuit even stranger inner lives beneath calm surface lives, to inhabit many worlds at once in this world, to be a someone amongst all other someones, and therefore to make a conversation without saying a word, is to deepen our sense of presence and therefore our natural sense of thankfulness that everything happens both with us and without us, that we are participants and witness all at once.

Thankfulness finds its full measure in generosity of presence, both through participation and witness. We sit at the table as part of every other person’s world while making our own world without will or effort, this is what is extraordinary and gifted, this is the essence of gratefulness, seeing to the heart of privilege. Thanksgiving happens when our sense of presence meets all other presences. Being unappreciative might mean we are simply not paying attention.

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© 2015 David Whyte
from ‘GRATITUDE’
In CONSOLATIONS: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words.
© David Whyte and Many Rivers Press 2015

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After the Dinner
Photo © David Whyte 2012

11/14/2017

Imbibing new skill-sets helps our brain build neural pathways that benefit its functioning. Here are 7 hobbies that make you smarter, proved by science:

10/24/2017

Laugh it up folks! HeHeHe

10/17/2017

People really should avert their gaze from the modern survival thinking for just a bit and also look at how folks 150 years ago did it

10/16/2017

COMMON CAUSES OF PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY
Medical pills and capsules (Nearly 40 drugs are known to cause neuropathy)!!! Including STATINS
Diabetes - the most common cause of chronic peripheral neuropathy. High blood sugar levels in people with poorly controlled diabetes damage nerves.
B12 or folate vitamin deficiencies can cause nerve damage and peripheral neuropathy.
Drugs - such as some chemotherapy medication and medicines used to treat HIV can cause damage to peripheral nerves.
Poisons (toxins) - insecticides and solvents can cause peripheral nerve damage.
Cancers - peripheral neuropathy can occur in people with some cancer E.G: lymphoma and multiple myeloma.
Alcohol excess - high alcohol levels in the body cause nerve damage.
Chronic kidney disease - if the kidneys are not functioning normally, an imbalance of salts and chemicals can cause peripheral neuropathy.
Bulging Disc-over time bulging disc in the back can cause nerve damage leading to Neuropathy
Chronic liver disease.
Injuries - broken bones and tight plastercasts can put pressure directly on the nerves.
Infections - damage can be caused to peripheral nerves by some infections including shingles, HIV infection and Lyme disease.
Guillain-Barré syndrome is the name given to a specific type of peripheral neuropathy triggered by infection.
Connective tissue diseases - rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren's syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus.
Certain inflammatory conditions - conditions including sarcoidosis and coeliac disease can also cause peripheral neuropathy.
Hereditary diseases - Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome and Friedreich's ataxia.
Idiopathic - in a few people, no specific cause is found for their peripheral neuropathy. This is known as idiopathic peripheral neuropathy.
Here at Natural Foundations Healing Center we have seen patients with all of the above causes. And if left untreated, the symptoms can get worse regardless of what started it. Located right here in Capitola CA, we offer therapy to reverse Peripheral Neuropathy. Call to schedule an exam at (831) 460-6159. As long as at least 85% nerve damage has not been sustained there is hope!
We are proud to bring the these therapies to the Central Coast.
Dr. White D.C. will do a neuropathy severity examination to determine the extent of the nerve damage for $60 (normally $250).
This neuropathy severity examination will consist of a detailed history review & sensory evaluation, peripheral vascular testing, and a detailed analysis of the findings.
Please call to schedule your exam at 831-460-6159
Note: We are in Located in Capitola CA at 4450 Capitola road Suite 105.

09/12/2017

The signs and symptoms of magnesium deficiency are vast. Some are subtle, while others can cause serious health problems.

08/29/2017

Beets, cactus fruit and dragon fruit have powerful compound called betalain, which has been found to have several powerful effects on health.

08/25/2017

The thyroid is the new hot topic in health. Across age groups, from Baby Boomers (and their parents) to millennials, more and more people—women especially—are hearing that their thyroids are to blame for their fatigue, weight gain, brain fog, memory issues, aches and pains, insomnia, ...

08/25/2017