If you suffer with Fibromyalgia or CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), you likely have a major symptom that drives you bonkers at times and it’s called memory problems. It’s much more than an occasional lapse in memory. Today let’s explore a way to look at this that will make better sense than thinking you’re dumb, getting old, losing your mind, or not able to remember anything! And, if we’re successful at this, you should come away with useful knowledge and lesser degree of feeling frightened and helpless with what this illness symptom implies.

(Audio podcast is 8 minutes 45 seconds long)

“I felt so dumb when it was happening…so helpless. My mind just wasn’t there, you know…with me. It was like it had checked out and left my body. And worse than that, I had no idea what to do to get out of the trouble I was in. Plus, I couldn’t figure out why everyone was looking at me so strangely.” At that point, she cried and we hugged a long time.
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When I, personally, was so sick for fifteen long years, I found myself in situations like the one my client described many times. I would feel scared, humiliated and definitely worried to the bone, worried that I might lose every cognitive ability I had ever had. In the beginning months, all I could do was read and retain the meaning of the headlines in the newspaper. Sentences strung together in a paragraph no longer made sense and forget about remembering the content. I was lucky to keep general impressions only; details were non-existent.

If this sounds like similar memory problems that you have experienced, ask yourself the following questions, but do so in the comfort and security of your home or in a quiet moment. These are thought provoking, for sure, and you’ll want to take your time to answer them.

I know I’m not crazy, but WHY has my body and brain apparently stopped working together?
WHAT has happened to drive them so far off course? Like the connection between them has been broken?
And WHEN will I feel better and more like myself again? Or will I be in this condition…forever??

The answers to what is going on, what to do about it -and- if it’s possible for you to get significantly better are not simple. Scientists actually have few answers to memory problems. But even so, I urge you to keep reading the following, important background information.

At birth a newborn infant’s immune system usually functions well, maybe even for several months before the first taste of sickness arrives. Doctors tell us this is a carry over of the biological influence and immunity of the mother. As the baby grows and matures, that immune system protection dissipates and, in some cases, the baby’s own system doesn’t function as efficiently. If so, sickness ensues.

Your and my health, as we keep growing from babies to older children, to teenagers and finally to adults, encounter times when the immune system is negatively affected by tough and sometimes virulent disease-promoting entities, like viruses, bacteria, spirochetes, mycoplasmas, etc. And when one of us gets sick, a common symptom is some degree of cognitive impairment of the brain. [Whether we're talking about disease mechanisms actually attacking tissues of the brain (e.g. a herpes virus) or simply the person's central nervous system not working well (e.g. a functional breakdown of the cerebral process, nerve conduction and pathway damage such as what is seen in cases of Multiple Sclerosis), a sick person can be left at one end of the spectrum with a short, mildly dysfunctional physical situation all the way to a totally dysfunctional memory system that would disturb the hardiest of souls!]

And getting back to you, if you have Fibromyalgia or CFS, know that memory problems are extremely common problems. Not rare, not occasional nuisances, but very common problems. If you’re fortunate, the symptoms may come or go, but when significant cognitive dysfunction appears, you, the patient, feel as if your brain is barely functioning. As mentioned in the last paragraph, this could be from the inflammatory process of the body and brain fighting a (example) herpes virus or it can be something else entirely. Either way, your immune system is likely on guard, active and sometimes too active.

Your best bet is aiming to improve and bolster the functionality of your immune system while calming it at the same time. Think about it. In this case, y our immune system is doing the hard work, all the heavy lifting here. Your brain is simply the organ that is most affected when you suffer with significant memory problems. *To find out more about how I help clients successfully refine and re-tune their immune system, I invite you to visit my Free 15 Minute Health Consultation page. I’m happy to help you if I can.

Thank you for joining the Health Matters Show today,
Cinda Crawford, your host

(Video: 5 minutes 57 seconds.)

The Truth About Healing is a video explaining the fact that there are a lot of people capable of healing, even people suffering with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I know this is true because I help many of those same people. I work with them constantly as they progress, get healthier and work to reclaim their lives. Through God’s grace, through their beliefs, their efforts and the introduction to the concepts of Sacred Cellular Healing as one-on-one clients or as members of the Learn How to Heal Membership Course, they are doing it. They are getting their health back. They are getting their lives back!

You’ve probably heard people say, “There is no cure for Fibromyalgia,” or “You’re doomed if you have a bad case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.” Neither statement is true.

My clients are being successful and so many of them are enjoying better health. I’m shouting “Hoorah!” and doing my Snoopy dance. This work is fun and thrilling.

But all kidding aside, please know this is one of the most critical life issues that a person saddled with chronic illness can face. I support each individual directly or indirectly through the healing course with every ounce of energy, skill and faith that I have. I’m sure you wish them well, too.

Some of the people that I see are private clients. I work with them one-on-one in Roanoke, Virginia. Others I consult with at a distance over the phone, via Skype or on private teleconferences. Because this healing technique involves spiritual/energy healing, distance of a mile or 5,000 miles is of absolutely no consequence.

Sacred Cellular Healing is based on 1) spiritual and energetic universal laws that have no boundaries and 2) the spiritual concept that holds this statement as absolute truth: God Has No Limitations.

My clients in the third group are enrolled in Learn How to Heal Yourself membership course. Check it out right here on this page before you go and the oh-so-fantastic special offer that I bring you today. If you want more healing in your life, be sure to enroll in this course.

Healing your mind, body and spirit is more possible than ever. You only need to have 2 things: an attitude that somewhere, somehow, there is healing in your future and you really, really want it! And, you need to act and seek out that healing.

I hope you feel better, get well and learn the truth about healing, too!

Cinda Crawford of Roanoke, Virginia, host of the Health Matters Show and creator of the Learn How to Heal Yourself membership course

These days the idea of giving to support the causes we believe in (even the research being conducted at WPI, the Whittemore Peter Peterson Institute) is becoming more and more challenging. When it comes to supporting someone, a group or a corporate entity, you probably wrinkle your nose and ask a lot of questions because support can cost you in time, money and precious energy.

Today there’s really not much time to think too long. I just read about an iGive.com campaign to support WPI (which is working to discover how the retrovirus XMRV is involved with or possibly causes Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). Now this is only a $5,000 campaign to raise money and obviously that’s not much in the corporate research world, but money is money and it does show our interest in supporting them!

However… this campaign is only on at iGive.com until 12 pm today (Chicago time) and, believe it or not, the campaign has not met that $5,000 goal! So if you have any interest in at least showing your support for WPI and what they are doing there for the cause of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome research, I encourage you to go right now.

The link is: http://www.igive.com/welcome/warm_reg_promo.cfm?m=706712. If you want to read more about the announcement, continue on.

*I appreciate your efforts and everything that you are motivated to do. I always believe that people are basicly good and kind. The act of sending your friends here to the Health Matters Show and you reading and acting upon what you find here is such a wonderful and inspiring endorsement. Keep up the good work! Now, get ready to Tweet this post, if you have a Twitter account, or Facebook it to your friends.

Time is truly ‘a-wasting, if you want to act to support WPI today!
Thanks, Cinda Crawford
Host of the Health Matters Show

(Here’s the whole announcement for you to read through if you like. There is a link at the bottom where you can see the total amount of money raised.)

In just three short months, thousands of causes just like Whittemore Peterson Institute have, all together, earned tens of thousands of dollars from our special challenges. The most earned by a cause was over $1,000. We’re tremendously pleased that these Challenges work and we’re excited that
supporters like you are making it happen. So pleased that we’ve put together another 24 hour / $5,000 challenge.

According to the Nonprofit Finance Fund’s recent survey:

* Nearly 90% of nonprofits surveyed expect 2010 to be as difficult or more difficult than 2009.
* 80% anticipate increased demand for services in 2010.
* Only 18% of organizations expect to end 2010 above break-even.
* The majority – 61% – have less than three months of cash available; 12% have none.

Together, you and iGive.com can make times a little less tough for Whittemore Peterson Institute.

We’ll donate our marketing budget, you spread the word, and Whittemore Peterson Institute gets the money. It’s that simple.

We’ll give Whittemore Peterson Institute a dollar for each person who joins iGive using the special link below and visits one store via iGive between noon Wednesday, March 24, 2010 (Chicago time) and noon Thursday, the next day.

Here’s where you come in. Send your friends, family, and colleagues the following link in an e-mail, tweet it, do a Facebook posting, put up posters, shout from mountain tops (you know the drill) and let them know you think Whittemore Peterson Institute is pretty cool and deserves their support, especially since it’s free! You can even just forward this e-mail. The only way Whittemore Peterson Institute will get new supporters and that free $1 (or more) is if you invite them.

This is the link:

http://www.igive.com/welcome/warm_reg_promo.cfm?m=706712

Make sure you tell your friends to perform a store visit, so that they earn the dollar.

5,000 new members, $5,000. No purchase necessary. That’s 5,000 new members for all causes, not just yours, and it’s only for 24 hours, so it’s a bit of race.

It can turn into more than a dollar, much more … if these new members search or buy something at an iGive store they’ll earn much-needed money for Whittemore Peterson Institute. Right now, we’re donating a special bonus of $5 for that first purchase plus the usual percentage. Active iGive
members raise an average of over $40 per year for their cause.

The details:

- Offer active between 12:00 p.m. (noon) March 24, 2010 and 11:59 a.m., March 25, 2010 (Chicago time).
- New members only (never have been an iGive member previously).
- All the normal rules of membership, searching, and purchasing apply, our site has the details.
- Once we’ve given away $5,000 in total, the offer ends.
- The special link and visiting a store via iGive are necessary. No link, no store visit, no $1.

That’s it. We’ve added tons of new stuff in the last months that we want to really test out, so spreading the word helps both Whittemore Peterson Institute and iGive. Check it out yourself at http://www.iGive.com. You may need to login first.

Yours,

Robert N. Grosshandler
Founder

P.S. If you want to track how you are doing, just visit http://www.iGive.com/html/referralsreport.cfm.

If you want to track how your cause is doing, please visit http://www.iGive.com//html/causestats.cfm .

For help and questions, please visit http://support.iGive.com

To manage your subscriptions, please visit http://www.iGive.com/html/mysettings.cfm (you may need to login first.) This e-mail is a Member Alert that we don’t usually send out more than once a month, and is a required part of your free membership at iGive.com.