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Don’t Let A Doctor (Or A Google Search) Limit Your Healing Potential

Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

The entire model of medicine is backwards and needs a major re-do. The way the current medical model is set up is to test and report the outcome of a medication or surgery or intervention in the scientific literature, and to use these statistics as the standard of care. I’m very familiar with the scientific method of research not only through keeping on top of the current scientific literature to as a licensed physician… but also because growing up as the daughter of one of the lead scientists at the National Institutes of Health I attended …

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Nov 21 2016

6 Questions To Ask Yourself Before December Gets Here

Grounding, Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

It’s time to post my annual winter checklist of all the crucial health tips I have collected that keep me feeling my best during the darkest month of the year. The end of fall is the perfect time to make sure we are doing all we can to feel our very best… to slow down and care for our inner spark while the earth prepares for winter. It’s okay to take these upcoming winter months slower, to tend to our inner needs more, and to make sure we are getting lots and lots of sleep. It’s not only …

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Nov 14 2016

You Have Angel Wings Inside Of You

Healing Artwork, Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

This is my second painting that I painted last month. Remember my reminder to stand up tall? Well, this one is my reminder to: Stop. Grow Still Take A Deep Breath. It occurred to me, when I was working with a patient on his breathing issues, that our lungs remind me very much of wings. I told him to take a big deep breath of air as if he were stretching out his wings behind him, imagining his lungs filling, his shoulder blades growing wings, and his arms reaching out and up as if he were …

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Oct 17 2016

Posture Affects Your Health

Chakra Health, Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

I just finished teaching my annual Chakra Healing Class… and one of the most interesting topics came up. On of the participants (thank you Steve!) mentioned that he noticed becoming more short of breath when his posture slumped. That brought on a wonderful discussion of all the different ways that poor posture literally physically affects your health… …everything from dry mouth and dental issues to decreased oxygenation, decreased sleep quality and even increased ADHD symptoms! But posture affects more than just our physical body… it affects our spirit. In class I shared a link to this …

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Sep 26 2016

Release Stuck Emotions To Improve Your Health (Here’s How)

Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

As energy naturally flows through your body, it gives rise to emotions… emotions are the body’s natural energetic release valve. Often we are tempted to label this as a bad thing…. as something gone wrong if we are feeling something intense. But when energy is flowing through your body â€” this is never a bad thing. Change and flow and sensation and emotion are all essential to life. The body giving rise to emotions and symptoms is a really good thing. When the energy is flowing unrestricted through your body, you are releasing the old and welcoming …

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Sep 19 2016

Prevent A Fatal Heart Attack Naturally

Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

I’ve blogged before about how important Omega 3 fatty acids are for your brain, increasing brain volume and protecting against dementia… … and I’ve touched on how Omega 3 fatty acids are super hearth healthy after speaking with cardiologist Dr. Sinatra about holistic heart therapies… … but now there is more proof than ever that if you want to protect your longevity, make sure that consuming omega 3 fatty acids is part of your plan. A new study, published on June 25, 2016 in JAMA Internal Medicine, shows that higher levels of Omega 3 fatty acids lowered the …

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Jul 25 2016

Recovering Memory In Dementia — One Simple Trick

Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

New research shows that in Alzheimer’s patients, long term memory can be regained through listening to music! Listening to music that is familiar to the dementia patient from their past reawakens long term memories about who the person is, who their family is, and the context of their life. This has huge implications in quality of living, in social interactions and even in activity levels. If you play music that holds special meaning to a patient experiencing memory loss, you are very likely to help them recover context and depth and recognition in the form of long term memory …

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Jul 18 2016

Don’t Let A Doctor (Or A Google Search) Limit Your Healing Potential

6 Questions To Ask Yourself Before December Gets Here

You Have Angel Wings Inside Of You

Posture Affects Your Health

Release Stuck Emotions To Improve Your Health (Here’s How)

Prevent A Fatal Heart Attack Naturally

Recovering Memory In Dementia — One Simple Trick

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