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CAM in the USA

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Approximately 38 percent of adults in the United States aged 18 years and over and nearly 12 percent of U.S. children aged 17 years and under use some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)

Approximately 38 percent of adults in the United States aged 18 years and over and nearly 12 percent of U.S. children aged 17 years and under use some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)

According to the newest figures from the 2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual study in which tens of thousands of Americans are interviewed about their health- and illness-related experiences, developed by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 38 percent of adults in the United States aged 18 years and over and nearly 12 percent of U.S. children aged 17 years and under use some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

That’s a lot of therapy outside the mainstream of “traditional” American medicine. According to the survey, most of the care was for pain. The higher the level of education and socioeconomic level, the more likely the use of CAM. As CAM is rarely covered by US insurance carriers, more wealthy people are more likely to be able to afford such care.

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Could RET Improve Academic Performance?

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A study into the relationship between emotional intelligence and educational achievement, presented at The British Psychological Society’s Education Section Annual Conference, found that emotional intelligence predicts exam success. So, the answer to the question is – YES!

A significant relationship was found between boys’ and girls’ emotional intelligence and their SAT and GCSE English scores. Those with higher emotional intelligence scores fared significantly better than those with lower emotional intelligence scores.

What does that have to do with Rapid Eye Technology? Plenty!

Rapid Eye Technology, Emotional Freedom Technique, and Self-Hypnosis, are great for training teenagers how to manage their emotions – in other words, improving their emotional intelligence levels.

“Further detailed analysis of the results [of the studies] suggests that emotional intelligence may moderate the effects of IQ on academic achievement. Faced with failure, a student low on IQ but who is emotionally intelligent will be able to manage their emotions surrounding failure, reconcile poor performance and work to improve; a student low on IQ and low emotional intelligence may find failure more difficult to deal with, which undermines their academic motivation.”

Those students with better emotional management strategies in place are more likely to do better academically than their peers with fewer such inner resources.

Seven Stages of Projection to Celebration

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Why leave your happiness up to someone else when you can account for it yourself?

Why leave your happiness up to someone else when you can account for it yourself?

Sometimes we get caught up in the blame game. We are so sure that it is someone else’s fault that we are poor, or angry, or left out, or disrespected, or unappreciated, or ugly, or fat, or clumsy, or afraid – we are the victim of somebody else’s bad behavior. Because we are the victim of somebody else’s actions, someone else’s mistakes, we are helpless to change our circumstance and must take what comes our way.

Blaming makes us feel better temporarily, but somehow, blaming others never really satisfies us for long because blaming others never brings about a change of condition. After a while, we grow accustomed and maybe even addicted to the blame game.

You can only change that which you own. So long as you give your power for change to another through blame, you are powerless to effect change. You will continue to be the victim of others to whom you have given your power.

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Rapid Eye Yoga for Performance Boost

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All twelve shooters were stressed to the max. If they failed the test, they lost their jobs. For them it had come down to this one moment.

All twelve shooters were stressed to the max. If they failed the test, they lost their jobs. For them it had come down to this one moment.

It was 1991. Twelve shooters remained at the firing line, their scores too low to pass the Army National Guard weapons qualifications requirement. All twelve shooters were stressed to the max. If they failed the test, they lost their jobs. For them it had come down to this one moment – pass or fail.

The stress was palpable as the shooters stepped up to the firing line with their M-16 for their “last chance”. Fortunately for them, I was in charge of that firing line that day. I told the shooters to add just one simple action to their shooting process. I instructed them to simply cast their eyes several times from side to side and then up and down as far and as fast as they could move their eyes, then shut them very hard and open again three times and then make a big sigh – then shoot.

Each shooter had 60 seconds to fire 20 rounds from each of 5 positions – 100 shots in roughly 5 minutes. Each had to hit a tiny silhouette marked on a target 100 meters away. To pass, each had to hit the target at least 60 times (60%). Every shooter had previously missed that minimum requirement and this was their “last chance” to qualify.

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Positivity for Survival?

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It’s good for our overall health to laugh and give thanks often, find moments of peace, and to practice joyfulness.

It’s good for our overall health to laugh and give thanks often, find moments of peace, and to practice joyfulness.

Why do we have positive emotions? What purpose other than making us “feel good” do they serve – especially as they relate to survival of the species? The survival value of negative emotions seems fairly obvious: Fear helps us avoid attackers, and disgust alerts us to poisons, and so forth. But what possible survival or evolutionary good are joy, contentment, gratitude, and curiosity?

University of North Carolina psychologist Barbara Fredrickson studies the behavior of young patas monkeys, who love to play tag on the savannahs of West Africa, as both an example and metaphor for her “broaden and build” theory of positive emotions. When they are being chased, young patas monkeys will  fling themselves on to saplings, which bend and catapult them in unexpected directions.

The young monkeys are engaging in what appears to be pointless fun – just for the sheer joy of it. In fact, their joy and play are creating a reserve of body memories that later could keep them alive. In adulthood, when fleeing a predator, they will fling themselves on to saplings, which bend and catapult them to escape.

Fredrickson’s theory is positive emotions are life savers. Fredrickson believes these emotions increase cognitive flexibility, conquer harmful negativity, and create a reservoir of resilience that helps us cope with life’s challenges. She has published her studies in a new book, Positivity (Crown Publishers).

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