Just thought I'd pass along news from our neighborhood's Nuin Center. - Heather April 2011 Issue Welcome to the News From The Nuin Center! You can manage your subscription by clicking the link at the bottom of this message to unsubscribe, by emailing us at newsletter@nuincenter.com, or by visiting www.nuincenter.com. Of course, you may forward this newsletter to your friends and colleagues and encourage them to subscribe. Table of Contents Featured Practitioners Articles: Nutritional Supplements: Do I Need Them? by David Mortell. R. Ac Quantum Healing: The Ultimate Energetic Medicine by Paul Block PhD Calendar of Events Workshops Our Center’s thirty practitioners offer a holistic path to maintain optimal mental and physical well-being. You can select from a wide variety of complementary and alternative medicine, psychotherapy, and bodywork, including: The center also offers a conference facility that is available for seminars, classes, community gatherings, social events and showers. We have many evening classes, including various methods of yoga. Practitioner space available. Full day space. Reasonable monthly rates. info@nuincenter.com 412.661.6108 Featured Practitioners Three of our thirty practitioners highlighted are: A Total Living Courageously Approach - Linda Johnson, RN LCSW Courageously facilitating change in your life with healing interventions like EMDR and cognitive re-structuring are among the tools to use and learn. Exploring the possibilities of creating a more satisfying life and learning how to manage stress, anxiety, depression and/or heal from trauma and grief. Goals include Career Interests Assessments/ Strategies/development, Healing from difficult experiences, relationship (to self and others) tools and strategies (including communication tools). My goal is to work myself out of a job through healing and teaching life tools. Contact Linda at 412.956.1987 or email A-TLC-A@comcast.net or visit www.A-TLC-A.com. Networked with many insurances including Highmark and United Healthcare/Behavioral health, Aetna, MH Net, ESI, and often able to contract with others (Cigna, UPMC-except HMO's) Quantum Healing with Paul Block, PhD Quantum Healing is a new approach to addressing pain and illness that goes beyond anything you might have experienced in the past. “This Works”. If you are brave enough to get well and be rid of pain, then contact me at 412.361.5653, pbmed@hotmail.com to get it done. By the way, did I mention no needles, remedies, or adjustments? To set up an individual appointment call 412.361.5653 or email pbmed@hotmail.com De-Cluttering for the Whole You - creating space for living are your closets stuffed to the gills? do you have piles of mail about to topple over? is it hard to find things when you need them? Together we'll sort and organize your possessions - recycling, selling and throwing out items you no longer need! it's not just straightening up one more time! Jude Goldstein 845.641.7908 email jude@judegoldstein.com or visit www.judegoldstein.com NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS: Do I need them? by David Mortell, R.Ac The total sales of nutritional supplements in the US is about $24 billion a year. Every one of my clients, and virtually everyone I know, takes supplements. Yet the majority of people who take nutritional supplements have no idea what is in their products, nor do thy understand what supplements they really need, if they need any! We've all been told we need fish oils or Enzyme CoQ10 or Vitamin D or A or C or E. What are these things and do I really need them? And what is the source of the products I'm taking? Are the nutrients synthetic or are they from a whole food source? I firmly believe, and plenty of evidence supports me, that it is no longer possible to get all the nutrients we need simply from food. Partly because of topsoil erosion, in which 75% of the topsoil in the US has eroded, foods no longer have nearly as much nutrient content as they once did, even if you eat all organic. This erosion has been accelerated by commercial farming methods,including the use of pesticides and inorganic fertilizers. Our soils no longer provide optimal nutrition to the foods that grow in it. Supplementation with organic, whole food nutritional supplements is often a necessary part of maintaining optimal health. Let's start by drawing a distinction between synthetic supplements and whole food supplements. About 98% of all supplements sold are synthetic, which means that the nutrients are chemically recreated to be similar to the vital nutrients found in food. Similar, but not the same! For example, ascorbic acid, which is one part of the Vitamin C complex, is what most suppliers put in their pills as vitamin C. Most ascorbic acid is synthesized from high fructose corn syrup, which we know is a major contributor to diabetes, obesity, increased heart risk, etc. Your body is programmed to digest and utilize real foods, with their vitamin complexes largely intact. The Vitamin C complex also contains co-factors such as bioflavonoids, rutin, copper, cofactors, and enzymes, which when eaten as a food (oranges, peppers,?) is absorbed by your digestive tract and used by your body for a myriad of functions. When you take a synthetic form of ascorbic acid, your body has to recruit the other cofactors and parts of the C complex from other places to be able to utilize the ascorbic acid. So, in reality, when you take synthetic vitamins to treat a deficiency of a certain nutrient, you are actually creating a deficiency of the the vitamin complex co-factors. A net loss! Many scientific studies show that taking synthetic vitamins can actually be dangerous, especially taking the fat soluble vitamins A, D and E. One study from Finland used a synthetic form of Vitamin A, beta-carotene, to see if it would reduce cancer rates in smokers, but found that the synthetic vitamin dramatically increased the incidence of death from lung cancer AND heart disease! Whole food supplements work quite differently. They are made from real food that has been gently processed to maintain the high nutritional value and provide your body with an easily absorbed and usable form of essential nutrients. The whole food supplement will contain a higher dose of say Vitamin C complex, than you could get from eating a normal portion of the same food, but it is not a mega-dose and it is easily absorbed and used because your body recognizes it as food, not a druglike substance. It's important to get most of your nutrition from healthy, organic food sources. It is also important to fill in your nutritional 'gaps' with good quality, whole food nutritional supplements to make certain you have optimal health. Quantum Healing: The Ultimate Energetic Medicine by Paul Block, PhD My work is one of the most revolutionary yet non-invasive and elegant healing techniques today. I use only two tools, your mind and my hands, in a deep yet simple understanding of illness and healing. It can be applied to any physical or mental illness. It has become an important component in the treatment of all chronic illnesses and can be almost magical in the rapid elimination of chronic pain, allergies and emotional distress. Unresolved emotional conflicts (UEC) and unresolved emotional traumas (UET) from early childhood remain active in the unconscious mind throughout adult life and communicate via the limbic-hypothalamic axis with the autonomic nervous system (ANS). The UEC and UET lead to a constant arousal of conflict to specific portions of the ANS. This constant arousal leads to vasoconstriction, ground system and cell membrane changes in the target organs and areas. This causes chronic biochemical and electromagnetic changes, alterations of the immune system, secondary structural changes, and illness. Special testing can be used as the ideal tool to obtain feedback concerning the state of arousal of the ANS. When I ask the patient a question which approaches a painful memory, the subconscious sends a stress signal via the ANS to the body that can be detected with a simple test. Through a series of appropriate questions and my special testing, the UEC can be rapidly uncovered. Applied psychoneurobiology (APN) is used to facilitate this intimate dialogue with the subconscious mind. The focus of my work, has taken Europe and Far East by storm and psychosomatic medicine forever. It is revolutionary new paradigm in healing physically and emotionally. In a family, each member has a profound and lasting effect on every other family member. Every being conceived into a family has an equal right to belong and be loved. Any unhealed wound, conflict or trauma between family members can stay alive in the morphogenetic field of the family for generations. The effect can be seen and felt in the offspring (often 3 or 4 generations past the original event) and appear as unexplained fears, recurrent disasters, chronic illness, suicide, drug dependency, psychiatric illness and chronic pain. Healing can often only begin when the original event is uncovered. Once these entanglements have been uncovered, healing and therapeutic interventions which previously seemed ineffective can now work. In my work, I use the knowledge of the patient’s three generational family tree. In conjunction with my other modalities, many previously therapy and resistant problems can now be resolved elegantly and permanently. Calendar of Events at The Nuin Center see nuincenter.com Calendar of Events for more information Every Sunday Pittsburgh Center for Spiritual Living, Guided meditation 10:00 am; Sunday message, meditation and music 10:30 am. Pittsburgh Center for Spiritual living, Guided meditation 10:00 am; Sunday message, meditation and music 10:30 am. Pittsburgh Center for Spiritual living is a dynamic, diverse community awaking our awareness of oneness, growing together in divine love, connected in God consciousness, creating a more fulfilled life, a better world. oneintruth.org. Rev. Nancy Kandel at 412.362.5096 or nancykandel@comcast.net. Yoga with Adrienne 6:00-7:30 pm For more information, call 412.370.0598 Every Monday Phoenix Institute of Pittsburgh, Inc. Discover: Practical tools for doing and being your best, supportive, positive friendships, and a spiritual family. Phoenix Institute of Pittsburgh, Inc. is based on the teachings of Samuel, channeled by Lea Schultz. www.DiscoverSamuel.com or 412-422-5500 Hatha Yoga Class with Madeline Martucci 5:00 to 6:30 Drop in fee $10.00 Call to register for discounted sessions 724.337.3750 Every Tuesday Art of Living The Art of Living Foundation is an international non profit organization that engages in a wide array of educational and humanitarian programs designed to uplift individuals, invigorate local communities, and foster global change. Graduates of the Art of Living Course meet in order to practice the Sudarshan Kriya; a yogic breathing technique that releases stress while harmonizing and energizing body, mind and spirit. 412.963.7986. Blue Mountain Center of Meditation 7:15-8:45 pm This meditation method is a practical approach that fits naturally into any faith, philosophy, or lifestyle, enabling us to bring universal ideals into daily life. www.easwaran.org If interested, contact F.J. Lucchino, 412.363.9569 or lucchino@verizon.net. Every Wednesday Kundalini Yoga with Ingrid Mundari 6:30-8:30 pm The word yoga comes from the ancient Indian Sanskrit, and it means “union” or “yoke”. The practice of yoga not only enables the union of the body, the mind and the spirit, but even more importantly, it enables the union of individual consciousness with infinite consciousness. The benefits of practicing yoga are many and varied: they include enhanced health and well-being, greater flexibility, and stronger and more balance immune, digestive, eliminative and nervous systems, and in Kundalini Yoga these benefits are enhance through the use of mantras, kriyas and meditations. Kundalini Yoga is an ancient form of yoga practiced for many centuries in India and the East. 412.422.7641 or www.kundalinipitt.com Workshops Natural Chi Movement Course with Tienko, Saturday, April 30, 10 am-5 pm, 412.363.0886 Vanati: Cellular Expansion and Healing Practitioner Training Class, May 5-8 and October 6-9, 2011. “Cellular Expansion and Healing (CE) is living a life of peace – peace that emerges as participants expand into their larger selves in a fully supported fashion. Life changes from here – it becomes the expression of your Soul – in family, in life work, in how the personality itself is supported to live a life of joy. The transformation for students that occurs during the first weekend of study still leaves me in awe.” – Deb Schnitta, originator of CE. For more information call 412.361-2300 or visit www.vanati.com A Woman’s Way of Knowing with Patricia Boswell, MA, LPC, Saturday, June 4, 10 am-5 pm, 724-439-1936. Through use of experiential exercises, we engage in the tasks necessary to find, strengthen and trust one’s intuitive voice. This voice has been there from the very beginning. We recognize it and nurture it during this day of story, ritual, and creative expression which culminates in the creation of an intuitive doll. The making of the doll deepens each woman’s intuitive listening. No prior sewing experience is necessary. Cost $95, before May 6th. www.womenstherapypittsburgh.com. ©2011 Nuin Center | 5655 Bryant Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15206 This email was sent to heatherkropf@gmail.com. To ensure that you continue receiving our emails, please add us to your address book or safe list. View this email on the web here. You can also forward to a friend. Subscribe. Unsubscribe Powered by Mad Mimi® -- Heather Kropf www.heatherkropf.com