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Blurred vision can be an entirely unpleasant experience. Not to mention the fact that it can be a symptom of serious diseases and disorders. The most common cause of blurred vision is the weakening of muscles which misshapes the lens of your eyes. When the lenses also lose their elasticity, it can also occur. Loss of elasticity is quite inevitable with aging, but this process can be slowed down by antioxidants.

Cataracts are another cause of blurred vision. Driving at night can be particularly difficult for patients with cataracts because the headlights of vehicles may blind or dazzle them. Another cause of is macular degeneration. Macular degeneration occurs when neurons at the back of our eyes lose their light. Unfortunately, blurring of this type cannot be corrected by glasses alone because the neurons themselves are damaged. Some patients still find some relief from this disorder when their doctors correct micronutrients such as selenium, zinc and magnesium in their eyes.

It can also be caused by myopia, which is the medical term of near or short-sightedness. This occurs when there is too much curving of the cornea or if the eye itself is too long. Myopia is when objects from a distance will seem blurry. They appear blurry because they are too focused in front of the eye’s retina. Nearsightedness is a common disorder and affects approximately 25 percent of American adults.

Another mild eye disorder that can be a cause of it is hyperopia or farsightedness. This is the opposite of myopia and occurs when objects from a distance look clear while objects up close look blurry. In contrast to myopia, hyperopia happens when the eye is too short and when the images are focused beyond the eye’s retina.

If you have dry eyes, you may also be experiencing blurry vision. Dry eyes occur when you don’t actually produce enough tears, or when your tear ducts produce poor quality tears. This is an uncomfortable sensation, because it can cause burning, itching and even loss of vision in some patients. Eye specialists suggest using special eye drops, or “artificial tears” to treat dry eyes. A humidifier in the home can also help regulate your tear ducts. In some serious cases, surgery may be needed to treat this disorder.

Blurry vision is not something to take lightly. It may be something as seemingly harmless as myopia or hyperopia, which can be treated by corrective glasses, lenses or laser eye surgery, or it may be a symptom of something more serious. Either way, when you experience blurry vision, have your eyes checked immediately by your doctor.

According to the Prostate Cancer Foundation, this type of cancer is the most prevalent non-skin cancer in the United States. A man is diagnosed with prostate cancer every three minutes, and one dies every seventeen minutes. It is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in men second to lung cancer. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that over 70% of diagnosed prostate cancer cases occur in men over the age of 65. These two organizations, as well as others are working toward increasing public awareness and making screenings more readily available to all populations. Research

In order to catch prostate cancer in its early stages, it is recommended that men with no risk factors get an annual screening every year beginning at age 50. If there is a relative, such as a father or brother who has been diagnosed, then the recommended age to begin prostate screening is 45. In men with at an even higher risk, such as African American men and those with a higher familial incidence, routing screening should begin at age 40. For many men, it may be more embarrassing than uncomfortable to initiate and undergo a rectal examination or blood PSA test.

Prostate cancer usually exhibits no symptoms and the only way it can be detected is through a rectal prostate exam or a blood PSA screening. The Prostate Cancer Foundation reports that if signs are present, they may be subtle and attributed to other causes, such as, painful or difficult urination, urinary frequency, painful ejaculation, difficulty obtaining an erection, blood in urine or semen, and pain or stiffness below the waist and above the knees.

There are different treatment regimens available for prostate cancer, such as hormonal treatment or chemotherapy, depending on to which stage the cancer has progressed, whether it is localized, recurrent, or metastatic. The physician may even recommend no treatment depending on the individual situation, and what the patient feels is best for him. A second or even third opinion should be sought regarding the diagnosis and proposed treatment plan, for peace of mind that whatever path chosen is the right one. Cancer can be very scary to many people, creating a great deal of stress. When newly diagnosed, patients may have difficulty expressing their thoughts and feelings to their physician as well as their loved ones, and they should be encouraged to seek spiritual and/or psychological counseling to help them accept the situation for what it is and deal with it in a healthy manner.

The incidence of diabetes, once a rare and obscure disease, has skyrocketed in the last twenty years and now afflicts tens of millions of Americans. While at one time experts attributed this increase to the increasing age of the American population, doctors are discovering that the disease is afflicting more and more children and young adults. And it is increasing exponentially in the rest of the world as it continues to emulate the lifestyle of the US. Diagnoses of diabetes are expanding worldwide at the phenomenal rate of a 50% increase every decade. Ironically, most physicians today already have a very good idea of those elements of the American lifestyle which create this epidemic. In a nutshell: refined sugars and carbohydrates and a sedentary lifestyle have been scientifically linked to this disease for years. In this article I will point out how these two factors lead to the disease. In the second I will describe some radical new methods that hypnotherapy can offer to help find the solution as an adjunct to medical treatment.

The facts of this disease are well known. In type One diabetes, often starting in youth, the body’s immune system, for reasons no one understands, simply destroys the islets within the pancreas that produce insulin, the hormone that helps all body cells to take in the primary food for cell energy, sugar. In type Two diabetes, the insulin produced by the pancreas may be reduced, but this is compounded by the cells of the body developing a resistance to this insulin, unable to accept the sugar that each molecule of insulin is trying to deliver. In both cases the cells of the body are starved of energy. But the accumulation of sugar in the blood is usually the most dangerous effect of diabetes, and the definitive diagnostic indicator of the disease. This excess sugar thickens the blood, and thus slowly breaks down the entire circulatory system. Even when blood sugar is controlled with insulin, this breakdown of the circulatory system seems to be an inevitable consequence of the disease process. Some of the many results of this breakdown include erectile dysfunction, heart disease, and stroke, amputation of the extremities, kidney failure, and blindness.

In my previous analyses of various endemic diseases I explored how the function of a particular organ in a healthy body gives clues to the cause of an illness within that body part. We discovered for example that the epidemic of breast cancer is connected to the failure of modern society to support the role of nursing in a woman’s life. The role of the pancreas is clearly about bringing sweetness into our bodies, helping us enjoy the energy of sugar. So we might guess that diabetes is a result of not enough sweetness in our lives. On the surface that analysis may seem counterintuitive, even wrong. After all, most people with diabetes are not short of sugar in their lives, indeed they are entirely too fond of sugary foods. In order to understand the real purpose of the Islets within the pancreas that produce insulin, we must examine the role of this critical organ in early human evolution:

Humans evolved as an upright walking ape at least three million years ago. As the world’s first upright primate, we were designed to walk and run many hours every day on long foraging journeys, digging up roots, climbing fruit trees, fighting off saber-toothed tigers, and carrying children. Humans have lived on vast African savannas, dense northern forests, and even on the icy tundra of ice age Europe. But rarely have we as a species enjoyed the sedentary lifestyle of a lion or the comfortable grazing of a cow. The Islets of our pancreas were designed to give us that lasting and sustainable energy that makes us upright apes uniquely active. Through the power of insulin based sugar metabolism, a small amount of sweet food could be stretched out to last for days of chasing game on the ancient savannas, or keeping warm in an arctic storm. With the help of insulin, some of the sugar could be allowed into the cell walls, while the rest was stored in the liver for later use. It was a great system for primitive humans!

But things are different now with the lifestyle Americans practice and which we are exporting to an eager world. We are eating huge quantities of food, including large amounts of refined sugar and carbohydrates like white flour which were entirely unknown to our ancestors. And even as our minds can travel into the infinite and captivating universe of television and the internet, our bodies are sinking into a sedentary pile that is the veritable symbol of modern domestic bliss: the couch potato. So while our blood stream is filled with the fuel of activity, our muscles have become so lazy they are no longer able to eat it! And this sedentary life finally causes our pancreas to give up. Perhaps we can imagine the energy plant operator that is in the islets of our pancreas just throwing up its hands in despair with the cry “I can’t manage this any more. I quit!” We can also imagine the bored cells of our body’s organs and muscles looking at the rich sugary broth in which they float, and saying, “I don’t care for any. I’m bored.”

An interesting research result bears out my theory. Doctors have found that the children of primitive hunters and farmers from the third world, whose pancreases are especially tuned to survival in the lean hardworking lifestyle of that world, are more prone than the rest of us to diabetes, when they adopt a western lifestyle. It seems their pancreases need more time to adjust than those of the rest of modern Americans, whose ancestors have had over a century to adapt to these new conditions. Keep in mind however, that diabetes is a growing epidemic even in white society, as we descend deeper every year into a culture of conspicuous consumption and sedentary entertainments.

So, how does hypnosis therapy help us solve this increasingly dangerous epidemic? First let me make clear that hypnosis cannot wave a magic wand to heal diabetes with some simple script or cute technique. Patients should continue to monitor their blood sugar and take their insulin according to their doctor’s advice, until their blood sugar tests normal for days in a row without injecting insulin. This is the way some of my clients have conquered diabetes. Medical advice should continue to be sought out well into recovery. Avoiding most processed sugars should also be a lifelong goal of all diabetics in my opinion even after their symptoms are in remission. But with those provisos in mind there is much that hypnosis therapy can do to help these problems.

Part 2: The Treatments

In the first article in this series, I explored the rising epidemic of diabetes in our society, its terrible costs for our health, and some of its likely causes. In this article I will explore some of the ways hypnosis therapy can be used, in conjunction with appropriate medical treatment, to assist in healing this illness.

First we can enter the room of the pancreas and see what is there. What emotions have been stored there? What core beliefs from our childhoods tell us to give up this function? What traumatic memories are stored in this organ? Neither I nor my client can answer these questions. But with the help of a skilled hypnotherapist, the subconscious mind can give us these answers. I saw a young woman with type one diabetes, in which her body had destroyed her pancreatic islets. Entering her pancreas in hypnosis she discovered a memory of brutal abuse from her father against her mother. She begged him to stop abusing her mother, screaming at one point: “I’ll give up all the sweetness in my life if only you’ll stop hurting her.” She then burst into tears. Minutes later I pointed out to her the enormous significance of this statement to her disease process.

Shocked at first, she was soon ready to change this core belief. To do this, I directed her to confront her father, rescue her mother, and angrily kick this monster out of her life. She then welcomed into her child’s life a new inner father (who was in fact the new man her father had become when he entered AA and recovery!). His promise to her: “I will give you back all the sweetness that you deserve from a father, my dearest daughter.” The results of this one session were immediate. Over the next week she reported a more balanced blood sugar and reduced need for insulin in spite of some difficult challenges in her work life.

Many other techniques can be used to explore the meaning of the illness. These are covered in detail in my article The Alchemy of Healing.
Somatic healing techniques can also be useful, after we have resolved some of these core beliefs and feelings. These are outlined in my article Somatic Healing. As one example, one client suffering diabetes experienced her inner healer, who was Jesus, operating on her pancreas islets, turning each islet from a bare rocky island to a beautiful tropical paradise with palm trees, flowers, brightly colored birds, and green grasses in abundance. For a week afterwards she tested her blood sugar levels without needing a shot of insulin. Then with her doctor’s confused blessing she put away her needles and has been symptom free for five years. Yes, that’s exciting. But she did a lot of other healings at my training first to prepare her body for this miracle.

Hypnosis therapy is also valuable in helping to change our sedentary lifestyle and lazy eating habits. Many hypnotic suggestion scripts can be used effectively to alter both our attitudes toward exercise and eating, and our practice of new behaviors in these critical areas of our lifestyle. I often suggest also working with a fitness trainer, coach, and nutritionist, reinforcing their advice with hypnotic suggestion to help my clients make these critical and often difficult changes.

In addition, I help my clients to discover their inner body wisdom guide. This guide is like a personal trainer that we find in the inner world that helps us focus on fitness. This body wisdom guide knows better than any external expert how this body should be cared for. With the help of the body wisdom guide we learn to enjoy the tastes of the fresh vegetables and fruits and grains and nuts that help our bodies become fit and strong. This guide can teach us the sheer pleasure of physical activity, to delight in running, jumping, panting, stretching, sweating, and, in short, playing with our bodies in sheer delight. This guide gives us practical exercises to help us reach our health goals. Result? If we listen to this guidance and follow it our bodies become leaner, more shapely, and stronger. Our cells start screaming for SUGAR PLEASE! And our pancreas is doing its job happily again. And suddenly we have all the energy we need. And did I mention…no more diabetes.

If you or someone you know is ready to stop just living with diabetes and accepting the terrible toll it will take on your health, if you are ready to conquer diabetes, tell your doctor you want hypnosis therapy as an adjunct to medical treatment. And call our Institute at 800 950 4984 to get started with your healing journey. But remember that this disease will not be conquered by some easy new technique or some new super pill. It will only give up its stranglehold on our lives, and our civilization, when we are willing to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes to fight for our health and our freedom.
Good luck!

The law of attraction states that we attract what we give our attention to, wanted and not wanted.

A powerful way to program your unconscious to actually DO the workout program that you have decided to carry out, is to visualize yourself carrying out each step of the process the night before. This is called future pacing when we visualize ourselves doing {step by step} what we want to do the next day, in vivid detail.

The way I do this is to drop into a deep state of relaxation just before going to sleep. This is the time that the veil between the conscious and unconscious is very thin. I then go through each step of what I will do in the morning…I see myself getting out of bed, putting on my running shoes, getting on my gym clothes, grabbing my bag{ I pack my bag the night before with my work clothes so that I can leave from the gym to go to my office}.

In my mind’s eye I step into the process of going to the gym, running and walking the treadmill and the elliptical machine. As I do this I see myself feeling a deep sense of satisfaction at carrying our something I have wanted to do for a long time. {I have worked out before but never with such regularity as this.} I may feel tired at times but I keep going

back to the larger feeling of extreme satisfaction, at doing something so good for myself.

I see a picture of my future self, and how she will look in 4 weeks. I look in detail at my future self’s body and feel delight as I see her looking more toned and fit all over. I then see some different friends telling me that I look so toned and fit lately and I enjoy the pleasurable feelings I get from this acknowledgment. Then I tell myself that at the end of the month I will evaluate whether I want to continue or not. For now,I feel very strong for honoring my commitment to the goals I have set. This sets the feeling tone for my day. Then as I drive off to work, I feel the satisfaction of having already accomplished something very important today and its only 8:45 in the morning!

So after doing everyday for 4 weeks, I am feeling and looking more toned, have lost 1 inch in my waist, and have much more energy than before I started this workout.

So why does this work?

I set a small manageable goal for myself

I set the goal of only 20 minutes working out at the gym first thing in the morning. Everyone can find 20 minutes in their day if they are at all motivated to improve their fitness and appearance.

I do it at a regular time every day. So it is both regular as in daily and at the same time each day. This lays down a pattern in the brain and easily establishes a new habit.

I made use of the power of visualization

I also used the the power of visualization. Tony Robbins in many of his audio programs talks about the basketball practice experiment at UCLA some years ago. In this, one group practiced daily shooting baskets and the other group visualized themselves shooting the baskets, but did not shoot any. At the end of 3 weeks when the experiment was over the group who only visualized actually made more baskets than the other group.

Also an added boost of power is added when you visualize as you are going to sleep, what you will accomplish the next day, if you see yourself doing it with the right emotions.

This can also be done in the morning as effectively if you do it when you are just beginning to stir form your night’s sleep.

If programming the unconscious mind by future pacing can work to add more ease to your exercise program then you can start to imagine what other areas of your life you might want to future pace. Would it be O.K. if life got a little easier?

Prostate disorders have become very common and are of much concern among the men population world over. Especially the men crossing the age of 40 are susceptible for the prostate disorders and the chances of prostate disorders are more among those crossed 50 years of age. Identification of prostate problems at an early stage is an important requirement to avoid severe effects of this malignancy. Men approaching 40s and 50s are advised to go for routine annual checkups for any of the occurrence of prostate disorders. DRE scanning and PSA testing are the usual tools for diagnosis.

Treatment is always risky. Laser treatment is a modern technique with the state of art technology and most modern sophisticated medical equipments are used in laser prostate treatment to treat the prostate related problems. This brand new facility is available in Jacksonville Mayo Clinic. Laser prostate treatment is a better option for the treatment of prostate disorders and better cure is assured with this new brand Laser prostate treatment, if patient is diagnosed with the problem sufficiently early.

“Men generally do not come to a doctor unless they carry symptoms… and lose years of valuable, potential treatment -because they wait until they’re really sick to come in” witnesses Dr. Gregory Broderick.

It is amply proved that, Dr. Gregory Broderick again and again confirmed it, the existing pharmaceutical treatments for prostate affect badly the functions of the sexual organs and most of the men having the prostate problems are eagerly looking for other options for cure. Laser prostate treatment comes as a God’s gift for those looking for better options.

Interstitial Laser Thermotherapy, the laser prostate treatment for the prostate patients in Jacksonville Mayo Clinic is performed by well known urologists in Mayo clinic Dr. Gregory Broderick and Dr. Todd Igel. The laser prostate treatment is conducted under anesthesia as an in-office procedure. Mayo clinic urologists use technically advanced laser equipment for the laser prostate treatment by inserting the equipment through the urethra. This can accurately locate the problem area and burn the excess prostate tissues.

Laser prostate treatment of Mayo Clinic also has the risks associated with it. The bleeding, which can be there for days to weeks, incontinence or impotence can also be experienced as the after effect of laser prostate treatment. But the probability of happening these contingencies are very less comparing with the usual surgical procedures. If the patient has been facing the severe symptoms of excessive bleeding and urinary retention, surgical procedures have to be adopted under anesthesia.

If you are looking for the medical services of the Mayo clinic, you can reach out to their central appointment office. The contact numbers are:

Jacksonville, Fla.: 904-953-2272.
Rochester, Minn.: 507-538-3270
Scottsdale/Phoenix, Ariz.: 800-446-2279

For more relevant information and for further details you can browse through the website mayoclinic.org.

Green Light Laser System provides a similar type of service and you can reach them through laserscope.com. Their procedure is known as Photoselective Vaporization of the Prostate (PVP). PVP functions in a similar way as Mayo Clinic’s laser prostate treatment, Interstitial Laser Thermo therapy.

Among the people affected by Prostate problems, most of them are suffering from Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) and it is the most common problem, apart from prostate cancer. Laser prostate treatments are very effective for BPH, if it is diagnosed at an earlier stage. As far as prostate problems are considered an early detection and proper treatment holds the key for healthy life.

Today with the emergence of medical tourism, patients can not only get world class treatment for cataract removals, they can also make huge cost savings that enable them to take a holiday in the country of treatment with the savings.

Low Cost Cataract Removal and a Free Holiday!

Before we look at the huge cost savings and the opportunity to get the free holiday of a lifetime, let’s look at what cataract removal involves.

Cataracts Definition

The lens of the eye, which is responsible for focusing images onto the retina, is normally transparent.

Cataract removal is a procedure to remove a cataract that is a cloudy or opaque area in the lens of the eye that is impairing vision.

As a normal part of aging for example, the lens begins to cloud and causes a progressive, painless decrease in vision, which results in a cataract removal being needed to restore optimum vision.

Procedures for Cataract Removal

There are two common cataract removal methods.

Phacoemulsification technique:

An ultrasound probe breaks the cloudy lens into tiny fragments and removes them through a small incision.

A plastic lens implant is inserted to replace the natural lens. Because the incision is tiny, stitches are often not necessary and visual improvement is usually noticeable immediately after surgery.

Extracapsular technique:

Entails the removal of the cataract as one entire piece. This requires a larger incision and stitches.

A plastic lens implant then replaces the natural lens. Recovery is usually slower, due to the larger incision.

Cataract Removal – Success Rates
The outcome of cataract surgery is usually excellent.

The operation has low risk, the pain is minimal, and recovery time is short.

The patient can leave straight after the operation and can expect complete healing in about 10 weeks.

Cataract removal costs

Cataract removal costs in the USA are approximately $2,400 – $4,930 and in the UK