A Message of Love

My name is Matthew. For five and a half years I struggled with a unidentifiable, supposedly "chronic" illness before I finally made peace with it and began to heal. I am now well on my way to great health. Where once I had no energy for anything, now I work out several times a week. Where before I had horrible anxiety and panic attacks, I'm now centered and happy more often than not. With this blog I share my experiences from this journey, all of which should help you on your own healing path. I provide information about spiritual/emotional aspects of healing as well as physical ones, sometimes even posting inspiring poetry, essays, or links to helpful sites.

If you have experiences of your own that you would like to share, I welcome you to send them to me so that I can possibly post them if I feel they can be of use to other people.

Feel free to share these posts anywhere you feel like doing so. Post them on Facebook, email them, print them out, or whatever. It is my hope that together we can build a site that not only helps people, but also enriches and brings joy to our lives.

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One final note: feel free to contact me, if you would like, at beautytheory@gmail.com. I am available to do individual healing and coaching work. Hablo español, también.

8/17/12

The Wonders of Raw Honey

I always knew raw honey was awesome -- not just delicious, but extremely healthy.  But this article shares a lot of information most of us don't know about it.  Different types of honey, what NOT to do with it, different ways it can benefit your body, and so forth.  Useful stuff, if you love honey like I do!

Read the article here.

One last word on this:  I don't believe in doing things to ward off illness or health problems, because that puts you in a resistant relationship with that thing -- in other words, it actually strengthens the likelihood that it'll show up in your life simply because you're resistantly entangled with it.  However, if you're doing something because you already enjoy it and it just happens to be healthy. . . now that's perfect!

Enjoy!

Love and Light,

Matthew

8/5/12

Gun vs. Pharmaceutical Violence

This is an interesting mini-documentary that questions the logic of our government's fight to control guns at the same time that they fail to do with a much bigger public safety threat:  the pharmaceutical industry.  106,000 people die each year from FDA-approved prescription drugs.  An estimated nearly 784,000 die each year at the hands of the allopathic medical establishment.

Hell, drugs companies are actually BRIBING doctors to prescribe more of their drugs!

What does this mean?  It means you're far more likely to be killed by your doctor than by a James Holmes or a Jared Loughner, and that you should question these so-called authorities like the news media and (cough) your doctors.

While I'm not going to speak on the merits of gun control or whether doctors might have a role in mass shootings like Columbine (as the video suggests) -- these are just too big of topics, and I'm not interested in getting them on a health blog -- I would encourage you to watch this 5.5-minute video and decide for yourself.

The final point the video makes is that it's time for us to start instituting "doctor control" to protect people from the harms of overly prescribing prescription drugs.  What do you think?

That all said, there's a place for pharmaceutical drugs, albeit a much smaller space than what your doctor would have you believe.  So be informed, and then make conscious decisions for your own life.

Matthew


7/30/12

More Damning Evidence on Vaccinations

Vaccinations are a dangerous money game that benefits only the big pharma companies that manufacture them.  Here's yet another bit of evidence in the broad tapestry of damning evidence against them, showing that whooping cough outbreaks have been spread mostly through vaccinated populations.  Once again the theme is, don't just take your doctor's word for it.  If it doesn't feel right in your heart, don't do it, no matter what the "experts" tell you!

Click here to read the article.

Have a blessed, healthy day!

Matthew

6/28/12

Merck promotes mumps outbreaks

Need any more proof that you shouldn't get your children (or yourself) vaccinated?  Read here about how pharmaceutical giant Merck deliberately falsified the results of efficacy tests for its mumps vaccine -- and sold a vaccine that actually promoted mumps and measles outbreaks.

Read the article here.

On a side note, what does it say about the medical establishment -- your primary care doctor, your surgeon, your psychiatrist -- that they're in bed with companies like Merck?  I'm not saying they're all corrupt, but I am suggesting they may not realize what they've gotten themselves into.  (These days, on the rare occasion that I need to name a primary care doctor, I give the contact info for my chiropractor.)  Something to think about the next time you take your doctor at his word.

6/3/12

Daydreaming is Good for You

Introspection is critical, looking within yourself to see Who You Are.  It's even more critical that our children learn how to do this, for their sake as well as the sake of our society when they take over.

I'll leave it there, and send you on to this article from NPR about the value of daydreaming!  (How cool is it that we've finally been validated, eh?)

Click here to read the NPR piece.

Love and Light,

Matthew

3/31/12

Sewage On Our Produce?

A good reason to eat organic?  How about the fact that conventional ag sometimes uses sewage on produce?

Check out this article from organicgardening.com to read more.

Happy (organic) eating!

2/28/12

Can You Heal Yourself?

The law of the universe is simple: what you focus your attention on is what you will receive. Focus on negatives, and you will receive more negatives in your awareness. Focus on positives, and you will find more and more to be thankful for.

It can be difficult, I admit, to focus on positives -- and really FEEL positive about anything -- when it doesn't feel like anything is going right. It's especially tough when it's your health that's not "cooperating." It's easy to get negative and start to believe untrue statements like, "This is the way it's always going to be;" "There's nothing I can do about this;" "I'm just going to have to live with this."

Well, I don't think I have to tell you that that kind of thinking is bullshit, even if it comes from a doctor. The fact is, what is possible is determined entirely by what you believe, whether that be continuing in long-term illness or depression or poverty, or conversely, choosing to live in abundance and Love and health. Because, after all, you can CHOOSE to be healthy by focusing on aligning your internal vibration with joy -- in other words, choosing to be happy and positive no matter, and then believing that you can be healthy.

Now, before you try to punch me, allow me to point out -- in case you don't know me very well -- that as recently as a couple of years ago, I was in chronic pain, severely depressed and sometimes suicidal, and running out of options after seeing scores of doctors. Today, I'm not only feeling better, I'm living more joyfully and abundantly than I ever could have imagined before I "got sick." The point is, if I can heal, so can you.

Still, it helps to have some support. We can't always be strong, and that's when we need someone or something to remind us that we are capable of doing anything.

That's what I wanted to share with you today: a website that I found called www.incrediblehealingjournals.com. Although I haven't dug too deeply into it yet (just discovered it about 20 minutes ago), the site features some pretty awesome stories about people overcoming conditions that are supposed to be chronic and incurable. In story after story, people tell how they got past conditions like asthma, autoimmune disorders, cancer, and so on.

Check it out. Read through some of the stories. If you're in a situation of less-than-ideal health, start to imagine yourself in a place of great health by putting yourself in the stories as the person who experiences the healing.

Remember, you potential for healing is limited only by your beliefs!

Much Love,

Matthew

(P.S. - For more on attracting what you focus on, and where I'm learning about it, look for a post about the Law of Attraction in the coming weeks. In the meantime, don't hesitate to do a search on the subject. Amazing stuff. I'm just waiting till I feel inspired before I do a post on it.)