“…Learning proper breathing techniques can impact your health profoundly for the better. But that is just the beginning, because the truth is that the more easily you learn to breathe, the more happy you feel. Contentment is synonymous with a calm body, and calm breathing is one of the most powerful tools for creating that calm body. Now isn’t inner happiness and contentment a goal worth pursuing?”

Holding the initial reaction of fear, contraction, freezing or numbing can lead to depression, chronic pain or fatigue, insomnia and a variety of other ailments. Berceli’s exercises are uniquely designed to trigger the muscle release that is necessary in order for our bodies and psyches to heal. The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process may offer tremendous comfort to almost everybody who tries it.

Chicken Soup for the Soul has made Elizabeth’s poignant true story, It’s Just a Word: Reclaiming Your Life Through Cancer — Beautifully, available to the public in Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Cancer Book. As a book within a book, It’s Just a Word is an inspirational, frank memoir that brings forth a distinct viewpoint — the powerful 45-page handbook was written to help others embrace life with cancer as Elizabeth did.

“No matter where you are in the mix, navigating through the health care system can be a complicated process. This book helps give power back where it belongs” to the patient. It encourages questioning, investigating and challenging to become informed. Make no mistake – while the tone of this book is often irreverent, the message is important: being a smart patient empowers you to receive the best health care possible. This is a must have reference book for every one of us.”

Professor Mike Richards, National Clinical Director for Cancer, said: “The evidence linking diet, physical activity, obesity and cancer has become stronger over the last decade and this report can play a part in people adopting healthier lifestyles. “After not smoking, it is clear that diet, physical activity and weight are the most important things people can do to reduce their cancer risk.”

“An awakened person is only unhappy when he is reminded of how people are blinded by their own self-awareness and how a current majority of humanity is fixated only on the limited identity offered by the ego. This is not personal unhappiness for an awakened person, because he is no longer attached to such a concept. In awakening, he has ended the illusion of personal unhappiness.”

Self-actualization is a term that describes the process by which you become everything you can be, living up to your possibilities and the inner dream that motivates your life. Your life is a journey that gives you the chance, through both obstacles and opportunities, to self-actualize. Doing anything less is cheating both yourself and the world.

“… We are moving energy with Jin Shin Jyutsu. All disease and disharmony is stagnant energy. When the pond is stagnant, how can life grow? We, too, have to cleanse and oxygenate our bodies for our cells to renew. Overnight healing is rarely a scenario we see in those with chronic pain or illness. These people often have developed attitudes that dictate where they remain in their illness. Thoughts are very powerful. If they think themselves as unwell all the time with no possibility of hope, their process of healing could possibly take longer.“

Tibetan Home of Hope is a home and school for children who would otherwise be abandoned — a home in the deepest sense, where young people receive loving care, food, shelter, medical attention and the practical foundation needed to develop into independent adults with a full appreciation of their Tibetan heritage. They are unique in that they provide for Tibetan children in their native land — where there is a desperate and immediate need. Harsh living conditions mean that each year thousands of Tibetan children are left on their own. Sadly, many of these children are sent to orphanages outside of their native country, far from their family contacts and cultural roots.