We’re entering the busiest season of the year and that’s all the more reason to consider relaxing for health. I know this because I’m as prone to getting caught up in the hoo-ha as anyone else. Just yesterday I went to the mall and stayed too long. That’s when I officially became my own worst enemy. I lost my keys!

Well, you know how the tiredness and pain of Fibromyalgia and CFS can take you to that really bad place and you truly need a transport machine to instantly “poof” you back home? I didn’t have one and I began to get frantic as I walked around, overly tired, with an aching back and legs and surely a big frown on my face. Why me? Why did I have to lose my keys in the middle of the 8th row of sweaters in the store’s last display? It happens.

So today, dear ones, I have a treat for you. Click on the Health Matters Show podcast link below and hear me read a creative visualization to help you relax and help your health be all it can be. The title of it is Healing Firemen. I believe you’ll like it, plus I know you can benefit from such a nourishing experience. Block out a portion of your day to do this. Find a quiet spot for a few moments to really do some relaxing for health. Don’t let people or responsibilities distract you from taking care of yourself. But,…don’t drive while you’re listening either!

You should get an immediate benefit from this experience. If you’d like to create some of these visualizations for yourself, check out Julie Lusk’s great book below.

(12 minutes 18 seconds jewel of an audio- Be sure to DOWNLOAD and keep this one!)

I hope you enjoyed my creative visualization reading from Julie Lusk’s wonderful book, 30 Scripts for Relaxation, Imagery and Inner Healing. Get your own copy at Amazon.com…

Thanks so much me for joining the podcast today. Please leave a comment if you like this type of broadcast -and- about how your “relaxing for health” needs are or are not being met!

Cinda Crawford, your host of the Health Matters Show

When it comes to the power of the mind, the average person may feel more like a slave to circumstance, the whims of chance, or the sail beneath a cruel wind. And, beyond on all reason, certainly not capable of controlling personal destiny with any kind of power of the mind whatsoever.

As time goes by though, most of us find out that that is not true. History and personal growth tell us that we are in more control than first believed. How? With our power over our personal minds.

Take Fibromyalgia for example.

Do we succumb to the pain and stiffness or move about as best we can and keep on searching for answers?

Do we feel threatened and at risk because of the intense pain or do we take the point of view that the it is merely letting us know that something is wrong. Our job is to figure out the problem, fix what we can and learn to live with the lessons made clear to us along the way of the Fibromyalgia life journey.

I invite you to search further for the answer by checking out a post I made earlier this week at Get Well Health. Take a look the ideas there. Let me know what you think. Good, bad or indifferent, illnesses like Fibromyalgia have a lot to teach us if we are willing and teachable students.

Thanks for visiting today, Cinda Crawford
Host of the Health Matters Show

What we all want is a decent shot, whether it’s at life in general or specifically with something as important as our health. If you’re sick and hurting with Fibromyalgia or CFS, I am pretty sure that you can feel the truth of that statement all the way to your toe nails. I encourage you to watch the video below this Sunday morning. Then take your shot at health by creating a new and better life for yourself.

By signing up for the Learn How to Heal Yourself membership course. The information and resources included in this course will give you the edge that you’ve wanted and needed. It’s an effective way to take charge of your own health today, like the young man in this video did in his life. Learn how to heal yourself. How powerful! How very possible. If you sign up, I promise to see you at the foul line shooting the winning “hoop.”

Both Fibromyalgia and CFS are darned tough illnesses. If you’re sick, you deserve to feel better. You deserve to get well. This is the way.

Here’s wishing you a fantastic level of renewed health!

Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show and creator of Sacred Cellular Healing and the Learn How to Heal Yourself membership course

(See below- a video of a brave young man who took charge of his life!)

Today we’re having a likely and candid conversation about getting well from illnesses like Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and how alternative health tools may help you.

You might hear these probing questions from a friend, a colleague, a co-worker or a relative. How would you answer them?

(today’s podcast audio is 6 minutes 5 seconds)

What are you actively doing to recover from Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Find the answers right now with alternative health tools.

I figure that it’s not an exaggeration to say that you want to get well from Fibromyalgia /or/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Am I right?

–No, it’s not an exaggeration at all. I’ve love to get well. I’m tired of being sick and feeling so rotten all the time.

That’s what I thought. So tell me what are you doing to help yourself begin the process of getting well? Have you tried anything beyond traditional medicine? Have you tried any alternative health tools?

– Well, I guess when you ask the question like that, I’m not doing much really. I take some prescription drugs that my doctor recommends and a few supplements. Most of them don’t do more than ease my symptoms a little. I’m unsure of what types of alternative services and products to look into? Frankly, I don’t know much about any of them.

You see… I feel terrible most of the time. My health is definitely not improving. I’m not the least bit well. I do the same ole’ things over and over again and hope for different results. In truth, I am barely surviving.

If these comments sound like you and your health, then why aren’t you considering alternative health ideas and methods of healing?

We discuss a lot of different ones here at the Health Matters Show, plus we provide you with timely and helpful information and lively interviews with professionals. Many of the special alternative health and healing tools that you will find and learn about here will give you additional resources for improving your health.

You must know that in your heart of hearts… you deserve to have your health turn around and you deserve to feel better, sooner rather than later! Don’t wait any longer.

Now… what do you say? Will you join us here?

Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show, an absolute treasure trove of information about how to heal Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the alternative health information and health tools that can help you.

And we’re your link to Get Well Health where you can learn more about the alternative healing tools, Sacred Cellular Healing and the Learn How to Heal Yourself Membership course.

Today on the Health Matters Show, we will look at the topic of working with your energy for health and how doing so can affect your health status in a major way, if you have the right means to make “healing” happen. Mostly this information on energy is general and easy enough to understand. But there is bonus material here: an explanation of how to manipulate your energy matrix and impact your health in a positive way. Now, that’s valuable!

(Audio 12 min 15 seconds)

Case in point: today we’re looking at energy and how the teachings of the Learn How to Heal Yourself membership course can help you begin to improve your health because it teaches you how to use your own energy to get well. If you haven’t heard much about the course, let me encourage you to investigate it now and join the program… that is, if and when you’re ready to heal from Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or other chronic illnesses… because that is what you’ll most likely do. HEAL!

I could go on and on with how wonderful this coure is, but I’m not. Just check it out for yourself. Essentially, you’ll begin to see that there really is a way for you to turn your health around. Then, you’ll be headed back in the direction of being healthy and enjoying your life again. At the least today, you’ll likely learn some information about your own energy system that you didn’t now before.

Thanks so much for joining me. Know that “working with your energy for health” is a doable and worthy goal.

Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show

What does it take to make sure that you have good muscle and bone health when you’re already sick with an illness like Fibromyalgia (Fibro) or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)? That’s a tough question because you’re starting off sub-par and symptomatic from two of the least-respected and toughest illnesses around anywhere. Even some doctors will equate the pain levels of living with Fibro and CFS to the horrible pain of someone dying in the last stages of cancer!

I acknowledge your hurts and your aches. Sharp pains would just as soon shoot across your back as stay still. Your legs may just as well cramp and seize with charley horses as hang below your hips in submission. You may be suffering with the deep bone ache of Fibro & CFS… almost as if you had a fullblown case of Lupus or Lyme Disesase. How horrible!

What you need are recommendations for:

• Muscle, fascia and tendons
• Joints and connective tissue
• Bones and cartilage

All of this week, please think about this topic and the others to follow. Jot down some notes on a sheet of paper. And then on Friday this week, I’ll ask you to post all of your ideas about everything. There’s an important reason for this.

Plus… you can expect much more on this topic on the Friday podcast, namely specific ideas and help functions to Get Physically Healthy Again and to feel better from Fibro and CFS.

Thanks so much,
Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show

When it comes to cleaning up your health, it may seem like a job well suited for spring because people are already in the mood for spring cleaning.

Similar to creating & maintaining a blog… every so often you mess up, have to clean out and re-do something that isn’t right and needs work. Such is the case today with the Health Matters Show. Thanks for your patience in waiting around some extra time for it to air. (It’s normally available on Friday 3:00 PM EDT.) Plus, I’m hoping that you enjoy the video. As a re-mastered, QuickTime project, hopefully it will load correctly to i-Tunes.

Now, back to our big “cleaning” task at hand. Today on the Health Matters Show, we’re talking about you cleaning up your health. Watch today’s video because it offers several ideas for cleaning up, cleaning out and finally… getting well from chronic health problems like Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

As you probably know by now, “getting well” can seem like an unreachable, lofty goal. It doesn’t help when you’re already sodarned sick!

Being sick ain’t for sissies.

However, today I have good news. I’m pleased to tell you that “getting well” is more possible than ever for a lot of people. I’m hoping in my heart of hearts that you’re one of them.

I am purposefully attracting the people to my new “Learn How to Heal Yourself“ course who really, really, REALLY WANT TO HEAL!

For today… well, I’m sitting here by my pond waiting for you. Let’s talk about this ever-important subject of “cleaning up your health” and getting well. I know that you’d like to feel better sooner rather than later from Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the other health problems that have nagged at you for so long. Get your gloves on (wink, wink). We have a lot of work to do!

Thanks, Cinda Crawford
Host of the Health Matters Show

During this interview and the previous one with Dr. Mike Funicello, DC, he explains why you may be sick with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, what happens during the illness process, what you can do at a physical level to relieve the trauma your body has stored, plus he offers a tantalizing opinion of where health comes from. By all means, take time to listen to the whole Health Matters Show today!

(Then when you get a chance, go back and review the previous interview, if you haven’t already heard it.)

When energy is stored in your body after a traumatic event, it has the capacity to influence your health very negatively and for a very long time.

(This whopping interview is 23 minutes long and includes information that could potentially help you. Listen here on the website by clicking the right-facing arrow on the left of the blue bar. To download this interview to your computer, iPod or telephone, right click your mouse directly over the hyperlink that says, “Download MP3″. Then left click it to save the file where you can find it on your device. Enjoy. )

Dr. Funicello and I discuss muscle memory in the body and how it relates to 1) a type of chiropractic care called Network Spinal Analysis and b) an exercise-type process called Trauma Releasing Exercises, which is done for the purpose of removing trauma. The following is paraphrased from our talk:

…Trauma can show up after any physical, mental or emotional biochemical event. If we do not adapt well after the event is over, the body lodges the energy bound to the event as actual trauma. *Where trauma is concerned, we’re talking about the difference between safe and un-safe experiences. How our bodies react immediately and, very importantly, how they react long term is critical to whether we’re healthy or suffer with chronic illnesses.

Our discussion reached a defining moment when we began discussing our healthcare system. In its present form, our present medical environment is not good at helping us resolve the underlying reasons for our (personal) recurring health problems. All too often many of us spend our life savings looking for answers that are not within the realms of traditional medical care. They don’t exist.

That includes a lot of people suffering with Fibromyalgia and/or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. If you’re one of those people, you need the right answers now, you need answers you can afford and you need to find the people who can really help you make healing happen!

I enjoyed my extended interview with Dr. Mike Funicello, who is a wise medical practitioner and, I’m sure, a skilled and compassionate chiropractor. The websites and books that we discussed are listed below for your ease in locating them:

Reach Dr. Mike Funicello at the Infinite Healing Arts Center or to find out more about Network Spinal Analysis, either read the information on Dr. Funicello’s website—

Or find a professional in your area to work with at this website.

To find out more about the Trauma Releasing Exercises and the author/originator of this healing concept, Dr. David Berceli, check out his website.

To get your own copy of 12 Stages of Healing by Donald Epstein, DC, check it out here at this Amazon.com link. It will take you to a page where you can create an account or log in:

Dear Ones, I hope you act on these suggestions today while they’re on your mind. You can see from the price of this great book that you can begin to use the concepts for as little as $3.47 plus shipping. If you would like information about the alternative healing concept that I have to offer and figure out how to get rid of the trauma causing your health problems, please check it out. Either way you start your healing process, you will be leaps and bounds ahead of standing still and doing nothing. Wellness… here you come!

Thanks so much for dropping by. Please comment below, Tweet this post or send to your buds on Facebook. Let’s spread the word that there are some health practitioners who do understand us and our illnesses, have compassion and are very skilled.

Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show

Getting well from Fibromyalgia or any other long term illness can be a lot like preparing and selling a house. To put your house up for sale you have do whatever it takes to get it into great functional shape, looking good and performing really well again. Believe it or not, the same goes for you if you suffer with Fibromyalgia: you’ve got to do what it takes.

Can getting well from Fibromyalgia be that easy? Not really, but this simple hilosophy will head you in the right direction of anticipating and planning for the healthy state of your future body.

This week we’re focusing on the topic of how to get well from Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. On Friday, Dr. Mike J. Funicello will speak with us and share his philosophy and practical experience of what makes people like us (with Fibro and CFS) sick and what can help us get well. I encourage you to begin thinking about these things and be sure to tune in to the Friday 3 pm EST broadcast.

If… you want to be happy and you want your body to be appealing and functionally working in top shape again, then doing whatever it takes to have it be balanced and functional are major key support structures in your healthy house foundation. Consider approaching the task from a broad viewpoint and incorporate every component of what makes you– you. Strive for complete health in mind, body and spirit, not leaving out a single building block.

From a marketing perspective, do the things that “your particular house needs doing.” Make yours the best body house around, just like you would do to the house you live in if it needed plumbing, painting, or landscape work. From a health perspective, figure out where the holes are in your health and begin filling them in one by one. That may seem like a daunting task. Often we know where our weaknesses are, but we have no idea how to fix them. Other times we know what needs doing, but we don’t do it.

Helpful Hint: Go back in your mind to the time right before your health failed. Think about what shape you were in… . What was going on in your life. Were you going through a tough time for some reason? Did a traumatic event suddenly happen to you or did you experience overwhelming daily stress over a period of time?

Fact: You would not have gotten sick if you had not been suffering with some kind of health deficit. And, what’s more interesting, you wouldn’t continue to be ill to this day, if you did not continue to have some degree of dysfunction.

Before then, begin by making a list as details come to mind. Jot down the facts about your life right before you got ill. Have a heart-to-heart talk with yourself and be extremely honest. No cheating just to make yourself feel better. One way of the other, acknowledge your history and your true feelings. You don’t ever have to show this list to anyone if you don’t want to.

Know that what you’re doing may stretch and challenge you; it really should if this introspective exercise is to be effective. That is the virtual definition of a personal growth process. When you feel like you’re finished, save this potential repair list for Friday, when you visit the Health Matters Show and listen to me interview Dr. Funicello.

Resolve to do whatever it takes to learn more about this subject of getting well from Fibromyalgia.

Until later,
Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show

And the type of sitting you do does not seem to matter: at the office in your work chair, at school attending classes, in the car commuting to work or before a computer or the television trying to wind down after a stressful day. The overall number of hours that you sit during the day seems to be the problem and the risk factor here.

Most of us knew that sitting for long periods of time endangers and spreads the waistline and hips, but actually the act of sitting being an overall health risk? Yes, that’s news. Check out the following link… .

Several studies suggest that people who spend most of their days sitting are more likely to be fat, have a heart attack or even die. The following information was published in an editorial this week in the British Journal of Sports Medicine by Elin Ekbook-Bak, from the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences. “After four hours of sitting, the body starts to send harmful signals.” Apparently and unfortunately, the genes that regulate the amount of glucose and fat in the body start to shut down.”

So what does that mean to the millions of people with chronic health conditions, who, out of necessity, find that they’re sitting or lying somewhere many hours of the day? (If that’s you and you’re not capable of getting up, doing, exercising and the like, then you must recline in some fashion, right?!?)

With illnesses like Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the acts of getting up and doing often bring increased pain and fatigue. For Fibromyalgia, any type of activity can result in perpetuating and escalating the cycle of pain. Often activity can compound the degree of profound fatigue felt by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients. “Activity” may not feel like your friend at all. If you’re really sick with one of these illnesses, being active for the sake of activity is not necessarily a win-win situation.

So what should you do? I’m suggesting… you do the best that you can. Exercising is not recommended for some people, however others are capable of getting up and out of their chair or bed and doing gentle-paced to moderate walking or stretching. Many people can participate successfully in warm water pool therapy or Arthritis-designed classes without causing them undue pain. This amount of activity might keep you out of the high risk category discussed above and keep you from getting totally de-conditioned.

I started with warm water pool therapy and improved gradually in physical ability and stamina through the years. Because exercising in a warm water pool does not put stress on the joints, it helps to support the body during exercise, plus the warm water feels soothing to the muscles and the whole body. This type of “activity” is still one of my very favorites. Why just this morning I worked out to sixties music and had a blast!

So here are two things to remember:

• Do as little sitting or lying down for hours at the time as possible. (Remember, it’s the total number of hours of inactivity that are the problem, according to the British study.)
• If you can move around without exacerbating your illness, do it, but only do what you can safely do. (Hint: You’re less likely to hurt yourself in a warm water pool exercise class, but you must be careful and vigilant. Sometimes the increased pain and fatigue comes immediately; other times it can sneak up on you a day or two later!)

Often at the beginning of a tough illness, you’re not able to move and be active. If you push beyond your limits, you won’t help yourself in the long run and your efforts will only succeed in putting you back into a horizontal position!

Be reasonble; listen to your doctor; consider getting advice from a physical therapist or a medical specialist who knows about this issue. There is hardly anything more important to your long term health prospects than “not becoming” an invalid forever because your body became so de-conditioned it could barely function. Ask any person who has experienced this health problem and they will tell you the same thing.

I wish you a great and healthy day,
Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show

Whether you’ve been hiding in the closet fervently hoping that Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome would go away on its own -or- you’ve been fighting with every last breath, speck of energy and last dime in your pocketbook, it’s still incredibly important not to lose hope because 2010 can be your year to return to better health.

Now don’t turn away. Hang in here with me. Yes, there are only a handful of people who say that it’s possible to get over, get well from, heal from… either illness, yet people are getting well. You may not have realized it, but healing is happening.

Make it your New Year’s Resolution: listen to the rest of this story, as Paul Harvey would say. It is “possible” to heal from Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

(Audio 18 minutes 27 seconds. Listen here or download.)

Other people have done it. Why not you? Yes, I asked… WHY NOT YOU? Really, why not you? Is there some scar you have emblazoned across your chest that says, “I will be sick forever!”?? Of course, not. So why incorporate that attitude into your thinking?

Embrace change…an opportunity to learn and grow. James Arthur Ray

Wise people repeatedly tell you that you can change your future by believing in what you want to happen. Dear One, believe it or not, right now you’re influencing what will happen to you in 2010 and beyond. Don’t stop here on this mere webpage. Don’t dismiss this idea because other people are negative and say it can’t happen. Instead, take your personal power in your hand. Stoke the fires of your personal enthusiasm. Start making plans to get well– today. Let this be your first step of many to come.

If you didn’t catch this week’s posts that highlight the work of James Arthur Ray, I encourage you to review the concepts of the peasant and the warrior.

Then your next step is to sign up to catch every podcast and post of the Health Matters Show automatically. (Don’t depend on your memory to remember to come back here.) The facilities to do that are in the right-hand column. Feel free to sign up via the RSS feed or by email notification. (If you do it that way, be sure to clear your email filter to receive notices from “Get Well Health.” Don’t let them go to spam because your email filter locks them out as unfamiliar.) However you choose to read and listen is fine. Just be sure not to miss a thing; this is too important.

Why? Because it’s vital that you stay tuned to the Health Matters Show. I provide all kinds of important information, products and services all the time.

Why? Because within the next few weeks I will open up at least two membership sites for those people 1) who want to learn more about how the Sacred Cellular Healing concepts work and 2) who want to feel better and make their own healing happen sooner rather than later!

My tentative plans are that one of the membership sites will be absolutely “free” and one will be paid. I will provide both groups of people with information about how to get well using Sacred Cellular Healing. That’s right. You guessed it…

All of this is so exciting! (I like to think of myself as being healed from Fibro and CFS at the 95% level.) That’s why you must plan to join in and sign up for one of these membership sites. They’re coming very soon in 2010. I will explain more as we get closer to the launch date. I can find nothing else like this opportunity anywhere else on the web or otherwise. This is truly a unique, life-changing opportunity.

So… as it stands right now, I plan to teach the concepts of Sacred Cellular Healing at the free level. However, I will provide personal access to me only at the paid membership level. There, you will hear me (audio), see me (video) teach the concepts directly. I will answer all of your questions about: how it works, why and the knowledge, attitudes and actions you must take to make healing happen. Also, for people who need a bit more help in getting well, I will offer special, discounted rates for individualized healing sessions. To qualify for that reduced hourly rate, you must maintain the status of being a paid member.

Dear One, I have so many people who want this type of healing work that I have trouble keeping up with the demand. Everyone wants to feel better. So I’ve decided to do this within the framework of a membership site. It works well because 1) money is tight for many people, yet they want to feel better, 2) I want to help a lot of people and there are millions that are sick, and 3) this type of learning works best in a small group setting where you have time to take in the concept slowly and methodically. Hopefully, teaching within this membership framework will help me to keep up with demand and you to get the help you need at the same time. That’s a win/win situation!

As I reveal my ideas, techniques and methods for healing, you have to know it is my sincere desire that many, many get well. I want you to resume your healthy, happy life!

Today, let me say a sincere “Thanks for joining the Health Matters Show today.” I’m your host and the creator of Sacred Cellular Healing… Cinda Crawford

If the clouds part (or if it rains for us… we’re dry) and everything works as it should, the Health Matters Show podcast for Friday will include me talking to a great speaker and physical therapist, whose name I will keep under wraps for just now.

Just a little bit of drama here to encourage you to tune in Friday, August 29, 2008 for a very special show.

I know that many people with Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and other chronic illnesses have thought about physical therapy and wondered if it would help them. If you have a question that you’d like me to ask our guest, send in your question by commenting right here on this particular blog post or e-mail it to cinda@getwellhealth.com. I will include as many questions as I can during this frank and honest discussion.

Have a good one. Be sure to join us Friday!
Cinda Crawford, host of the Health Matters Show