Healing Matters
July 2011

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Parents Corner

Helpful Tips When Sending Your Kids to Camp

 

As children head back to school, parents once again shift their focus from the fun and freedom of summer, to the  joys and concerns of their child's learning years.  Often, this comes with worries over your children's emotional and educational development.  Click below to view some resources for parents, children, and adolescents who are navigating their way through these important years.

 

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Greetings!

In each issue of Healing Matters, we plan on sharing information related to body, mind, and spirit and the importance of
each of these in living a healthy, fulfilling life.
We hope you enjoy this publication, and we welcome feedback on possible future topics that would be helpful for you.

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade:

Thriving in Tumultuous Times 

 

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane - Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, regardless of your own needs... It's the end of the world as we know it...and I feel fine...   --Michael Stipe, REM

 

Stipe's 1987 lyrics ring prophetically true as we ended last month with a sudden earthquake and a hurricane. The end of the world? No! However, sometimes we might feel like the bad news is ratcheting up the stress levels.


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Did You Know . . .

*  The human brain has the capacity to store everything we experience.

*  Stress can result in more headaches as a result of the body rerouting blood    flow to other parts of the body.

*  The pupil of the eye expands as much as 45% when a person looks at something pleasing.

*   When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red too!

*   The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

*    Deep breathing gives you healing benefits similar to aerobics.

*   Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.

*   Children laugh about 400 times a day, while adults laugh on average only 15 times a day.

*   Panaphobia is the fear of everything.

*  Most dreams last only 5 to 20 minutes.

 - From www.funfactz.com 

Recommended Reading

When Love Meets Fear:  How to become    

Defense-less and Resource-full

 By:  David Richo                Paulist Press

 

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