Finding Your Way Out of the Autistic Spiral

July 20th, 2009

Finding Your Way Out of the Autistic Spiral
By: Aurore Adamkiewicz, ND
Beyondnaturalmedicine.com

Alot of people have made subtle comparisons between my work and Kaufman’s work the founder of Sonrise ™. I also continue to get emails about what I think about the Kaufman’s program which has proven to be effective in treating autism. I am very familiar with Kaufman’s work and I have two opinions about it: one positive and one negative.

The first is, I appreciate the fact the son rise(tm) program focuses on the psychological aspects of autism (but also merging with bio-medical supplementation and rehearsed educational processing). In this way Kaufman’s work is refreshing and is a needed balance in the treatment of autism. What I don’t like is the simple program they have created is over $2,000 and that is just for the start up of the program. To complete Kaufman’s program one would spend easily over $10,000. This is evidence of autism carpet bagging; I remember feeling both desperate and financially stressed because when my son was autistic we had spent over $100,000 in attempting to heal him.

My husband and I sat down with the figures and arrived at this conclusion that: 60% was useless, 30% helped somewhat but not enough for the price paid and the 10% which healed him-also was that which was the most economical.In some ways Kaufman is teaching parents how to become more controlled but scripted parents-is this the best option? Creating scripted parents? I believe the only true way and better way of treating autism and behavioral problems and used this model with my own son, is to:

1) Work with Mother and child simultaneously-increase heartfelt emotions, connections and understanding
2) Using Waldorf education-which accomplishes the task of filling the holes in the early childhood intellectual structure

One of my biggest disagreements with Kaufman and so many others is reprogramming; either educationally or intellectually. Unfortunately this does not address the autistic child, or any child for that matter, innate and necessary need for human connection. In this way it must come from the Mother-because without the rehumanization and reactivation of human emotions into the mother and parent-any healing is just temporary or even impossible.

This accounts for the reason why there will be a significant amount of kids that will be helped only so much and stopped progressing or will revert because of this one important aspect-teaching a disassociative autistic way to parents in order to deal with or handle their children. Kaufman on his autism website getting started page proposes the Mother should handle the child’s anger and emotions by running out of the way and/or showing a dead-numb no reaction on the face. This goes against the work of a doctor whom I follow, respect and utilize her work in my practice Dr. Martha Welch of the book “Holding Time.” Dr. Welch proved definitively back in the 1980’s that 30% of autism is caused and/or healed by the Mother/child bond.

Dr. Wilhelm Reich, a doctor whom I base my psychology treatment and work on research on autism back in the early 1900s showed that children learn these autistic traits from the parents, doctors, and teachers in the first years of life. With all of this information pointing to the Mother/child relationship, it is reasonable to assume that it is us, human-adults, which need to reach out to the children and set the example. All of this information and research is conveniently located in my book “Beyond Natural Cures.” In light of this, Kaufman’s work is wrong or ineffectual on these two fronts:

1) Repressing children’s emotions-and teaching them to emotionally withdrawal-which they are already doing to an extent
2) Thinking he can side swipe the Mother/child relationship-by using parental replacements, teachers in a clinical setting, and also teaching parents to treat their children methodically and robotically by memorizing laws and dogma and not truly changing the parents heart. His focus is human computer-parental scripting or as Waldorfers would describe “Ahrimanic association.”

I propose that excess education and intellectualization of early childhood specifically-has been a very strong factor in forming the parents and children’s lives thereby attributing to the way the parent treats and looks at the child and also giving unrealistic age expectations for the child. The books “You are Your Child’s First Teacher” by Waldorf educators Rahima Baldwin and “Over the Rainbow Bridge” by Waldorf educator Barbara Patterson provide an in depth study and explanation of that fact.

If autism is to be healed-it can only do so when there is a heartfelt connection-with and through the parent and the parent and child are both able to withstand and allow feelings and emotions themselves- if you take for example the story of Helen Keller and her teacher Ms. Sullivan-her teacher was eventually under much duress, force, upheaval and difficulty was able to sublimate Helen’s parents role, bond with the child and earn her trust-thereby initiating the forces of healing and survival within Helen. While Helen’s illness was physical blindness and deafness-her emotional body had become autistic in nature. She was living in a dark lonely world which her parents unconsciously kept her in. In healing my own son of autism, I believe that Helen’s healing should have come from the parent. Sure, Helen received a miracle but at the expense of letting go of her Mother emotionally and giving up on the Mother/child relationship something every child longs for. The Mother was replaced with the teacher Mrs. Sullivan and while it is not optimal, given the time period and the severe emotional/moral restriction within society at that time-that may have been the only hope. However, we are in a new time period, a new age of healing and a new age of consciousness.

We must raise our standards and our hope-and go the extra mile for our children. We can stop poisoning our children with vaccines, pesticides, anti-biotics and drugs but we must never forget the poison of complacency and parental emotional abandonment which plagues our society today. No special laws, rules, regulations or affirmations will bring the healer out of the parent-and for autistic children-it is hard to believe they would accomplish any of that-or even come close to it-far from home-in a school/clinical setting.

When my own son was autistic, the greatest strides we made were within our own home when we were getting in touch with our emotional body-and encouraging him to do the same-In all truth, this is where communication comes from, this is where it SHOULD come from…..we are more than just computers and expensive methods of learning how to pretend and act differently from self-help books-
We have the desire to heal and love-and in the end that is what changes us, that is what heals us, and that is what sustains us.

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Natural Alternatives to Surgical Breast Augmentation: What is it to You?

July 16th, 2009

I was recently told by a writer for a body building magazine that the majority of female body builders choose breast implants-this is a strange dilemma and made me contemplate deeper more profound psychological issues regarding breast size and breast augmentation. In the case of female body building, the process is making the female body overly masculine, only to try to make it more feminine again. On another note, many of us know someone who did not loose their breasts by body building but actually never really developed breasts, at all, or could be described as underdeveloped. Then there are the over developers who experienced the pain of having too large of a chest, too early. Another strange breast fact is that more often than not-breast size does not coincide with other females in the family. This is because breast development is highly emotional and psychological.

Where Do Breasts Come From?…
Breasts are developed during puberty-all of us remember puberty and how many can honestly say they had a “great” and empowering puberty? A difficult puberty might cause one to under-develop, or actually repress growth development. While other times a female might over-develop who is too passive, nurturing, and “matured” for her age. Still there is the toxin factor, the endocrine disrupters which are so prevalent in our society. Sytrofoam, soy, and hormones in the food chain can cause excess estrogen and excessive pubescent breast growth. With all of these factors, we can see the emotional need for breasts and/or implants later in life as a means to come to terms with, to avoid, or to indirectly try to change powerful emotions and memories of puberty.

Natural Alternatives to Breast Augmentation
There has been some research into changing breast size by taking women back to puberty by leading them through a breast growing session-I am not at all condoning hypnosis but a relaxation/visualization session. I did it myself twice, once after I had my daughter in 1998 and again in 2003. In 1998 I had finished breastfeeding and my breasts deflated into a very saggy, empty A cup.
I stimulated my breast growth with tapes that helped me visualize lying on the beach topless and feeling my breasts grow…I went back up to my B cup within a year.
Then, in 2003, with the help of orgonomy treatments- I went through the emotional pain of being rejected by my father during puberty and actually had my entire chest cavity expand from a lifelong 34 to a 36. I have personally experienced the benefits of seeking to heal and release the core issues that prohibit or inhibit breast development-because those physical issues directly coincide with the emotional body.

The Modern Breast
In school I learned that the post-modern female breast is being used as a phallic symbol-
to dominate, intimidate and assert power. Obviously my work might offend some-just as the vaccine and circumcision information does-people don’t want to hear it after the fact, it brings them
to a place of uncomfortable retrospection….however, we must all enter into the uncomfort zone to find forgiveness and healing.
My aim is to help educate people on all sides, from all walks of life-some feathers are ruffled but then that is a risk to take when so much information is being withheld and kept from the masses purposefully…there has to be balance in all things. I am a woman like any other woman, I was not born yesterday- I both understand a womans need to feel womanly with breasts and also the masochistic need to make oneself beautiful at all costs. Because of my commitment to natural health, the empowerment of the American female and the loving protection of infants. I believe that there is always a better way.
May we never cease seeking and reaching.

Side note: I am researching about the connection between breast implants and autism-I think there is a correlation there…..please see my previous blog.

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Are Breast Implants Compatable with a Natural Lifestyle? Sadly, This Issue Needs to Be Addressed

July 13th, 2009

As you know, I am one of the foremost critics of breast augmentation. Specifically for those trying to follow a natural lifestyle and for women who are Mothers, or who will become Mothers. I expect a certain amount of people to succumb to the American “breast” hype, this is the society reality we live in but most recently I have become disappointed with a well-known Naturopath doctor. She is a beautiful woman who teaches sex and dance for natural health-she claims to have come from a family of natural traditional healers. She advocates healthy eating. She is also a Mother. With all of these things-I have no problem with-and agree with her as it is high time for us to start unifying sex and health. However, it is her obvious fake looking breast implants which discredits her success and message in natural health. I recently confronted her about it, I asked her why would she have breast implants and also advocate natural living. She assured me she was all natural-gave me a fake and strange “thank you” and then removed my question from her page!

What does a Real Woman and Mother Look Like?
I would like to believe a woman with children would magically grow-big hard round painful looking breasts- but the fact is, she has what 80% of breast implant survivors get-capsicular contraction. When scar tissue forms a hard tight bag around the implant and pulls it up and in tightly-creating an unnatural-painful looking circle of a breast. Often these breasts look bolted on and high. My sadness is that this look has become the norm-and the real breast that nourishes our babies-gives life and milk, gives orgasmic pleasure to the female- is completely hated and “destroyed” through mutilation and surgery. While it may appear that I am being harsh, the truth is, this the breast implant realm is in the same category as vaccine and circumcision-the truth about side-effects and dangers have been disappropriately ignored for profits. This is an issue that is screaming out for education and balance.

In an Age of Breast Cancer and Autism-Why Implants?
I am also concerned about the health risks to children with mothers of implants. Besides the harmful effects of feeding a baby breast implant milk but the effects of a baby in-utero absorbing the toxins, mold and bacteria for 9 months. If you have paid close attention to the media-and even my celebrity health blog. You will see that the number of celebrities with implants and autistic children are very high. In an age where children are being born constitutionally weak and genetically broken down from generations of parental vaccine, pesticide, radiation and anti-biotics- why complicate our precious childrens life further by adding the unneeded, unnecessary-poisonous breast implant?

But the Big Hard Fake Breast Looks Sexy-Right?
You might think the modern hard breast is beautiful and sexy-but think of what is inside of the breast. Underneath the skin surface lurks a moldy black bacteria covered plastic sac-a foreign body within us. Have you seen what an implant looks like after it has been removed? I invite you to google what a removed implant looks like-although, I have found the pictures do not stay up for long-they are also “removed” quickly and hidden away, lest to discourage potential implant victims. Besides of the advantage of the so called “sexy” look-what about the unsexy feel? Some women with implants may choose to brag and intimidate other women into also getting them. They may even refer to them as “toys” as the way singer Toni Braxton refers to them but one thing they do not brag about is the loss of nipple sensation. Which is a huge loss in my own opinion, I don’t know about other women but nipple sensation for me is a strong factor in my ability to climax.

The Life of a Breast Implant
Think of the life of a saline implant-it is supposed to be kept at room temperature-but the human body is much hotter, thus, bacteria and mold proliferate under these conditions. Implant companies recommend removing and changing the implants every couple years. Also, with all of the recent discussion of the poisons of plastic and plastic toys for children, you have to take into account, not just the saline but the hard plastic covering. So, what if you decide to change over the implants, per recommendation, again, every time you go under the knife you risk-kidney damage from mass amounts of broad-spectrum anti-biotics, increased infection from open the body up for surgery and danger of death from anesthesia. Is all of this worth the risks? Ask a child what they would think if they lost their Mother over such a vain and ridiculous quest for modern American breast “perfection.”

The Dynamics of a Mother Child “breast implant” Relationship
Even if a Mother/woman chooses to endure all of the health risks associated with breast augmentation-she must also consider the high price her children pay emotionally, in terms of mental health, because of her “painful” decision. For a female child, plastic surgery of the Mother almost always means lack of self-confidence, self-doubt, depression and even subsequent plastic surgery later. As the female child comes into her own puberty, a time of tremendous energetic “push” and emotional-hormonal upheaval, she begins to realize she is not like her Mother-she is lacking and not “woman” enough. So she grows in her Mothers plastic breast shadow. She will one day have to face the strange and modern phenomoena of having to mutilate her God given healthy breasts in order to feel “good and normal.”

Male Children are Effected by Implants Too!
Our little boys (I have two sons myself) are inundated since birth with pictures of fake looking females. They are raised peering over their Mothers shoulder at womens catalogs and under their father or friends bed searching for Playboys. What do these boys see? Airbrushed women with huge, hard, plastic fake breasts. I myself am an advocate of topless beaches, I appreciate taking a vacation to a foreign resort and going topless-getting much needed vitamin D and the sun healing rays on my breasts. I also appreciate the fact that both my sons and my daughter get a chance to see many different types of unaltered, natural breasts. European women with their children, topless, with their many different shaped natural nipples and breasts-is therapeutic and healing to the psyche. At least my children have something to compare-fact from fiction, reality to non-reality. I blame the porn-i-fication of the breast in America which has led to nipple fear, breast obsession and breast shame…for all of this self-hatred and confusion of the American female body.

To Mutilate or Not-The Best Breast
I have taught or rather shown my children since birth-that birth and breast feeding is a beautiful-and MOST IMPORTANT-job that a woman has in life. Just as we as a society have started to take a stand against infant boy circumcision, the procedure has taken a significant downturn, even with the ridiculous promotion of circumcision to protect against AIDs and STDs..we have thereby protected and healed a new generation of boys-emotionally and physically. But we are now on an up turn of mutilation of womens genitalia-and because of the over sexualization of the female breast-we are now in the midst of a mass hypnotism about the breast-that to change it by through surgery is no “biggie” shows a gross misunderstanding of 1)the human body and 2) what surgery is
These life giving beautiful mammory glands and toxically block the life giving lymph nodes surrounding the breast itself-that we have some how accomplished something or moved forward- we have not moved forward as women-by treating ourselves masochistically, isolating our children-unconsciously, and dangering our lives and health-willingly….

Breast augmentation is cheaper and more affordable for the “everyday” woman, but that doesn’t outweigh the emotional, mental, and physical risks which costs more than just $10,000 and a good surgeon.

A side note for Waldorfers…we pride ourselves by using natural toys and education for our children-it goes without saying that plastic breastimplants-are not part of a Waldorf lifestyle. Plastic is a dead in-organic chemical substance-an environmental solution that is one of the greatest contributers to environmental pollution. Because of the American womans fear of showing her nipple-she chonically covers it with thick plastic cupped bras. Because of a woman’s fear of having a small breast she may choose to fill it with plastic. Obviously-plastic in and on our bodies is debilitating naturopathically and will not be conducive for healing and health. In both instances, plastic is looked to as a savior and it was fear which motivated the decision to augment and cover.
A side not to Christians: All of this has indirect references to faith and even idol worship in Christianity-would Jesus want you covering your nipples for shame and to poison you? Would Jesus want you to implant plastic into your body and cut yourself and harm yourself. In the New Testament circumcision was done away with-we are set free from mutilating ourselves for both God and man’s approval. The bottom line for any religion-needs to ultimately be conducive to good health. See my next blog on natural alternatives to increasing breast size.

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More on Laws of Attraction and Personal Affirmation…

July 12th, 2009

The Secret, Jane Roberts, Laws of Attraction, new-age thinking, forgiveness
Everyone is talking about the new book “The Secret”-this secret is another book based on the laws of attraction-reminiscent of the Jane Robert books; “Nature of Personal Realities” and “The Way Towards Health”-Why does this subject continue to intrigue us? Perhaps we do realize it is a great truth and want to harness this power in our lives. Seemingly simple-we are attracted to attraction-but it is far from simple. While, we can talk about changing our thoughts till we turn blue, and we can tell ourselves over and over what we want to feel or are supposed to feel-The truth is, until we get honest about our true feelings and what is really going on inside-we will never be able to apply the laws of attraction faithfully and all of our efforts to attract the things we want will be in vain. For instance-I can be filled with rage and anger-for years-built up, and I can do the “right” thing and turn the other cheek or advertise to the world that I have moralistically forgiven others-The fact, is no matter how hard I try to move forward and attract positive things in my life to me-the only thing I will be attracting is more anger and more deception into my life. Clearly, ideologies like “The Secret” or various self-help techniques-be it mantra’s, meditating, visualization, yoga- are empty and useless until we truly experience our own personal reality and view these ideologies within the concepts of Wilhelm Reich’s work.

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More on Dosha and Constitution; Problems with Yeast and Candida

July 12th, 2009

Ayurveda and Yeast -Entry for February 18, 2007
How you do you come to the conclusion of what your dosha is? Is vikriti, or pakriti? I generally see people drawing conclusions about their doshas without getting a genuine ayurvedic pulse diagnosis-and without using the necessary guidelines. For instance-to come to conclusions about the dosha you need: pulse diagnosis (before 9 am for constitutional), you need a body observation analysis (eyes, lips, hair, tongue, body type, etc), you need a symptom inventory-for the present condition and one for throughout your life, and a sort of psycho analysis (is the person paranoid, short tempered, or passive)-It is only through looking at all of this information,carefully, and reviewing the present and past symptoms, piecing it together can one arrive at a dosha diagnosis.I find most people will say, oh I am fire, because they been having a bout of acid indigestion, or skin problems-but this is not always the case.Sometimes, what happens is that you have all three doshas excessed and it is a sort of snow ball effect, by the time the illness has made it through kapha, and vata- and gets to the pitta stage and is presenting on the skin-great care needs to be taken to balance all three. You will generally find adult pittas are not constitutionally pitta- but their body is suffering from an accumulation of ama in all three doshas. I do ayurvedic analysis- (without pulse through the internet) but I have had a lot of success with my thorough questionaire method….

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Judging Others or Healing Others: Christians and New-Agers Learn About Communicating with Children

July 12th, 2009

Judgment: What does it mean?
A Christian/newage Perspective
By: Aurore Adamkiewicz, ND

I recently read a story in a new-age magazine urging people to be non-judgmental…this is the Same story I heard when visiting a friends church. Both stories were changed around-perhaps, lied about-to make it sound like the pastor and the writer of the New-Age Magazine (The Mind-Body-Spirit Magazine- March 2007) had personally known the family. That fact disturbs me, but what disturbs me more was the nature of the story and how the moral of the story was both manipulated-the same way by both parties. With my knowledge of Naturopathic Psychology and Orgonomy-I was able to see the moral in a clear light, thus, I wanted to share it with you-perhaps you have heard this “urban legend” as well.

A family received a phonecall from their son who was coming home from serving as a soldier in Iraq. He asked his parents if he could bring a friend home that had no legs and had no where to go. His parents said “no” and that they were not equipped to take on someone like that but would help him get the help that he needs. Well, lo and behold, the parents get called to the hospital and find their son dead with no legs…the message in this article was not to judge..as the parents had judged the man with no legs.

Well, if that story is in fact true-then the true message is about the sadness and pain that the son felt. He could not come to his parents and tell them the truth about himself because of shame and fear of rejection-

The issue is not with “judgement” but rather that children and parents still cannot communicate effectively. The judgment here came from birth between the parents and child and throughout his life he functioned on that frequency-the son knew his parents did not accept him-that’s why he choose to lie and perceived that he could not be honest.

This word judgment gets thrown around negatively in new age circles, but often this word describes people who are afraid to feel-and lie to themselves about the way they really feel-and so desperately try to describe themselves as non-judgmental.

The object for psychological health should not be about never being judgmental-as we are human beings, and that would be quite impossible. But, the focus should instead be on awareness of what our judgments are are and why we have them.

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Is Healing Possible with Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation?

July 12th, 2009

This is in reference to the many people I see that either overload themselves with expensive vitamins or feel confused as to what vitamins and minerals to take…

This blog is about deficiencies- in particular, zinc which appears to be quite common. My children and I all had a rather severe zinc/mag deficiency-we also had aluminum poisoning that was off the charts. You will find mineral deficiencies go hand and hand with heavy metal poisoning. This leads one to believe that one must
A) chelate for the rest of their lives or
B) taking extra mineral supplementation will be the answer to making sure that the person does not absorb heavy metals anymore. This issue is very complex, but one that I will try to simplify as best as I can. Let’s look at a common protagnist-the Zinc deficiency/aluminum poisoning/alzheimers combination profile.

In regards to zinc not everyone has a zinc deficiency, if you have one there are two ways to find out. The first is through a hair or blood test and the second is to evaluate the physical symptoms that the person is presenting. Sometimes zinc deficiency is easy to see-ADD or Autism like symptoms, inability to focus, wandering mind, and white spots in the nails. A zinc deficiency will cause someone to hold aluminum, the body grabs onto aluminum as an attempt to balance itself. Aluminum is linked to dementia and alzheimers disease. We can already see that whether you have aluminum poisoning or zinc deficiency that the results are the same. I propose that the zinc deficiency comes first and then the person manifests years of aluminum build up culminating in brain poisoning with symptoms of alzheimers and forgettfulness, shakiness, as in Parkinsons disease. With that being said, the natural next step would be to supplement with zinc for the rest of your life-sounds like a good safe guard, and I wouldn’t discourage it. But the perplexity of vitamin and mineral supplementation is not quite that easy.

Most often the problem with mineral deficiency lies in the metabolization of the vitamins and minerals and not exactly in inefficient supplementation. For instance, a child with a lot of zinc in their hair may not be assimilating it within the blood and therfore excretes it via the kidneys and hair…like wise, the same could be said too little zinc in the hair and blood. In my naturopathic practice I use a variety of methods to change metabolization/assimilation at an infitissimal level with a variety of methods. I describe different ways to change imbalanced metabolism.

First of all the physical body does well with prana/chi building exercise like yoga, pranyama-breathing exercises…these are all apart of the Aurore Yoga that I invented, I use the pranayama and orgone breathes to release blocked emotions and “energy cysts” as Upledger would call them. In turn, this stimulates a free flow of energy throughout the body. Please see my book “Beyond Natural Cures” and look for my video on Aurore Yoga next year.

Secondly, For metabolization, I use a variety of constitutional homeopathy- chromatherapy, sound therapy, flower essences, and craniosacral. This is apart of my Aurore Method of Healing and what happens is that there becomes a powerful stimulation of core healing mechanism within the body. This is a process that may take 1 month to a year- but the object is to put the body in balance-your body can and will heal itself, and is always seeking a way to balance itself. I often recommend to my clients the chi machine and it’s regular use. What an amazing machine for a small investment. I will blog about this machine specifically at a later time.

Give your body the tools to heal itself, and PLEASE don’t get stuck in the endless cycle of buying expensive vitamins, minerals and herbs to live- Don’t get fooled our tricked by these “nutraceutical companies” that are not much different than phamaceutical companies as far as I am concerned. They expect you to believe that your body is weak and broken and that you need to be dependent on “them” for the rest of your life to be happy and healthy. This is a sickening trick to play on our American population. They are playing on a debilitated belief system that we all have been taught since childhood-but let’s move on from this broken communistic thought and move on to a greater ability to heal ourselves-using “them” only as a catalyst for healing and not the end all of healing in and of itself.

YOU CAN HEAL YOURSELF!! This is all apart of the Truth Healing that I practice.

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Unschool, Homeschool, Public School, and Private; Educating Children Through Emotional Repression: Is This as Good as it Gets?

July 12th, 2009

The Education System: Do We Have to Repress Children to Educate Them?
By:Aurore Adamkiewicz, ND

How many of us have been led to believe that a numb, placid, apathic state is the norm for American society, especially in reference to children and the education system?

How Does Freedom of Expression Work in Education
Obviously, this makes for a more complex educational model-but under the current one, bullies proliferate and even flourish under the concept of intimidation and watching teachers closely to find a time to “strike” and get their anger out on an unsuspecting host. Knowing full well that the teachers-either won’t care or will blame the victim, school is their domain, even if at home their parent is the bully and they are the victim. When speaking on a continual home evironment for schooling, the parent too often becomes the bully and the children may spend years repressing, controlling, and hiding themselves and their true feelings. In this way, the school system is more conducive, as some children will get their anger and emotions out-even if it is in a deviant, harmful, victimizing way.

What About Waldorf Education?
My belief is that Waldorf is the most perfect educational model for children and I am a Waldorf homeschooler myself. I have always wanted to send my kids to the Waldorf school but
the elitism, politics, and high-price of the school always deterred me. Even with all of Steiner’s work (the founder of Waldorf) and the highly trained teachers, I have time and time again witnessed Waldorf kids that function and act no differently then public school children.
This is because:

1) The parents are not true Waldorfers at home and therefore they are relying solely on the building and school to “create” a Waldorf child. or
2) Children forming a “pack” or dysfunctional peer group to replace the family unit that they have been prematurely displaced from.

All children under the age of 9-10, when thrown into a group setting (Waldorf for instance is against group sports at a young age) function as a dysfunctional family if not carfully monitored and “tended to”…like a garden. Just think of a playdate with only two or three 3-7 year olds, so much chaos, hurt feelings and misunderstandings. But eventually it stops…does it truly stop? How many parents and teachers tell children to go back and play or endure the abuse…to not bother them. Or if you have a female and male in the abuse ratio the child might even hear “He is hitting you and being mean to you because he likes you…” How harmful is that in the longterm…extremely.

Out of the Home into the Classroom
If you think about a class with as little as 10 and as much as 30 children, how effectively can one tend the child garden…even with two teachers? At a time when young children should be bonding with the family unit and learning simple aspects of sharing and relationship-they are thrown into a huge group-and are told to function as a “whole.” This is the communistic aspect of education, Waldorf or not, that denies a child the right to individuality-if only for a time. Now granted, there is a time for transition, when children need to come out of the family unit and function as a collective group-but even Steiner himself admitted that time doesn’t come until all of their adult teeth are in. At that time the children in school practice making circles with dots in the middle, to indicate their 9 year change and transformation and understanding that they are separate from the collective-as children start to then realize and feel they are different from everyone. However, even with that valid and appropriate recognition of age appropriateness and education-I have seen Waldorf children act like bullies-sneaky and manipulative-in kindergarten and first grade.

What Makes a Bully a Bully…..or a Victim a Victim
Is this because they are born into sin, like Christianity would tell us? NO,
Is it because there are some kids that are mean and some that are nice? NO. We would be foolish to believe passive children are passive all the time, never forget the second part of that equation which “passive-aggressive.” Passive children will one day get their feelings out-and one day express. These children, bullies and victims, are two sides of the same coin, both desperate to release and express themselves. Some kids have been forced into passivity because of other children that have been allowed to, or have learned sneakily how to, get their anger out. It is not fair and it is deviant and wrong. All children deserve the right to both protect themselves from aggression and also express themselves. After all, rage and anger is a completely sane and logical response to assault. However, in a school setting, all logic is put to the side for the sake of collective peace and rigid rhythm. As time is of the essence and classes are set up in time slots, there is no time slot to sort out emotions and problems-even if it is important, legitimate and can even heal and help the group in the long term.

What is a school- a homeschool, a public, or private? First and foremost it should be a place to learn about relationships and mental “health,” after all, what use is it to read, write and “surf the internet” if we can treat ourselves and our fellow human beings with love and respect? We need to rethink what the goal of education is, we are more than just analytical scientific robots-we have a heart, a spirit and emotions that desire wellness, unity and health.

To School or Unschool: That is the Question
How do we school or “un” school our children or even begin to think of freedom oriented learning- if we don’t first “unschool” ourselves in the restrictive unrealistic lies we have been taught in our own childhood concerning human emotion and thoughts? I was taught as a child that even thoughts were bad, and one time I admitted to my parents that I had secretly wished they were dead and came to them out of guilt and apologized-guess what happened? I was spanked and told not to think those thoughts anymore. I have sought desperately with my own children to give them their own mind and allow them to express with words, movement, art and music. No homeschooling day is so scientifically and rigidly important that we cannot take ten minutes, a half hour or even an hour to sort through are relationships and feelings. Becoming conscious of our feelings of anger, accepting it and releasing it when it becomes prudent to do so-Keeps the pathways of humanity and human emotion OPEN!!!

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The Alarming Rate of Children with Cavities: “Bad Teeth” -A New Generation of Weakened Constitution

July 11th, 2009

Dental problems with children-A case of metabolization and assimilation not a case of insufficient fluoride (a POISON!!)
One of the first classes I took in naturopathy was about research done on teeth, adults and children. As a ND I am supposed to find out about people’s teeth, when they got their first dental carry etc.This has alot to do with the constitution of the individual and the book I have right here-that I got in school has a lot of research on teeth and what it means.For instance, 100 years ago, people didn’t even brush their teeth or floss, yet many retained their teeth,My Father, for instance- is very unhealthy, yet has no cavities and has all of his teeth, The new research shows how many children are now being born with “bad” teeth, I was born in the seventies, I remember getting my first cavity at around 13, several of my friends also got first cavities in high school…Now, we are seeing many children being born with soft teeth-or with cavities and dental deterioration within the first year or two.I believe it is because of mass fluoridation, vaccination which has caused the degredation of DNA, and faulty nutrition.If you think you are not getting enough fluoride,I beg to differ-Our food has been raised and rinsed in it, before it even get’s to us…The name of the book i have here is called “Human Health and Homeostasis” by Emanuel Cheraskin M.D. It is sort of a clinical book, but some fascinating research lie within the pages…Another book to check out is Gabriel Cousen’s “Conscious Eating” this is a somewhat overwhelming mammoth book-which in my personal opinion tackles too much in one book, however, he has the Pottinger cat information and research in it and how the mortality rate of cats was tracked and recorded over generations. The information is highly informative and raises questions as to how degenerated we really are. It also adresses the importance of rebuilding DNA and our health and how many generations that it takes to combat degenerative effects of modern society. You could probably check out the Pottinger Cat information by just searching on google or check out Henry Lindlahrs book “Natural Therapeutics.” In response to metabolic balancing and teeth, Again,It has been my experience that just giving minerals-is not enough,because at a cellular level-the body is not absorbing or processing it,to change metabolic processes, deep within the body-I use a mixture of Chromatherapy, sound therapy, and constitutional homeopathy. Please see my other blogs on vitamins and minerals. As a side note, Raw milk and green vegetables are a far better way to add calcium than with pills. Also, If you are considering a root canal, I highly highly highly advise you not to-please research the new information on root canals and how they cause cancer.

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Candida, Fungus and Tinea: Can They Be Healed By Coconut Oil?

July 11th, 2009

Coconut Oil and Candida-Ayurvedic perspective
By Aurore Adamkiewicz, ND
Weight gain, skin afflictions, and mood swings are all signs of fungus overload in the body.
If you are having a problem with yeast and you are vata pitta, I would suggest you locate where your yeast is presenting itself. If it is in the skin then you have a pitta type-this could be ring worm, athetes foot- or if it is presenting first in the colon-then you would have Vata… You would have to look at your body symptoms in the present- are you cold and constipated now-do you have alot of flatulence- popping and cracking joints? These are all signs of excessed air/vata.Treating for air first, warming herbs and lots of sunflower oil, almond oil, sesame oil, or ghee..I would like to ask how you come to the conclusion of what you dosha is? Is vikriti, or pakriti?I generally see people drawing conclusions about their doshas without getting a genuine ayurvedic pulse diagnosis-For instance-to come to conclusions about the dosha you need: pulse diagnosis (before 9 am for constitutional), you need a body observation analysis (eyes, lips, hair, tongue, body type, etc), you need a symptom inventory-for the present condition and one for throughout your life, and a sort of psycho analysis (is the person paranoid, short tempered, or passive)-It is only through looking at all of this information,carefully, and reviewing the present and past symptoms, piecing it together can one arrive at a dosha diagnosis.You can wait to do the coconut oil if you have your heart set on it after you have balanced the air-Coconut oil right now only if you are having skin/liver/digestive acid problems.If you are a fire/air, pitta/vata- I suggest, keeping it in check to keep your yeast from proliferating. Adding cinnamon, fennal, or cardamom to the oil may be prudent.
Furthermore, yeast, candida and fungus can be a sign of pancreatic dysfunction and possible diabetes. You would be prudent to work on the kidneys and pancreas first and foremost-to make sure the fungus does not come back. I do ayurvedic analysis- (without pulse through the internet) but I have had a lot of success with my thorough questionaire method-if you are interested you can contact my web address
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