A full and wonderful 12 months in which to achieve our greatest, be our best and have the best year of our lives… a wonderful blank slate of 365 as-yet completely empty days for us to fill as we wish.

So WHAT IS IT that we want from this New Year challenge?

We all want for some kind of change… for some kind of event… or some kind of notable improvement or achievement in our life.

My quick tip for life-changing force or goal-achieving power for 2012 is to set yourself just ONE GOAL for the year.  That’s it.

Rather than thinking vaguely about all the things you might like to change or achieve this year, try setting yourself just ONE goal instead. You’re much more likely to achieve it and it could make a MASSIVE difference.

Your one goal could be something big and concrete such as build a shed… go to see and walk through the great pyramyds of Egypt… or move home.

Or it might be something more on a personal development level such as: to take definite steps to tackle an anxiety problem or depression… to be more optimistic about your outlook… or to start looking for the positive in every day, or to get some education so that you can help yourself and others with their health issues.

The Universal College of Reflexology can offer you two great life changing choices..

1) Help other people change their lives for the better and to make a difference in your life at the same time. Plan a career as a certified Professional Reflexology Practitioner.  Save $200 before the 2012 rates kick in, click here and register now.

2) Or if you are already a certified Reflexologist – consider joining an incredible group of other certified Reflexologists from all over the world, all driven to enrich their lives with 12 unique post graduate monthly certification courses. Click here for information and make sure you join the Priority Access Group. Invest your change in your future, only $3.23 a day, that is less than a cup of Latte! Program starts January 17th and is filling up fast!

Act now, email Jack@JackMarriott.com for your application form.

Whichever one you choose you will be glad you did.

Happy New Year

Send your Reflexology skeptics to read this post and my earlier post “Reflexology & Breast Cancer – results are in”

Introduction

* The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of foot reflexology in improving the quality of life for women undergoing chemotherapy for late stage (III and IV) breast cancer within the context of conventional medical care.

Abstract

* More than 80% of women with breast cancer are now reported to be using complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies during conventional treatment.  Although there is some debate over how best to study the efficacy of CAM therapies , the Randomized Clinical Trial  (RCT) nevertheless remains the gold standard for scientific research.

* Upon completion of baseline interview, these women were randomly allocated to one of the following three groups: (I) 146 women in intervention (foot reflexology from Certified Reflexologists);  (ii) 143 women in placebo foot treatment from lay people;  or (iii) 96 women in the control group without any foot treatment.  Women in all three groups continued to receive standard medical care.

This is the most comprehensive Randomized Clinical Trial study ever published on Reflexology.  The results are shown in my earlier post – these results were so extremely positive that the National Health Institute has initiated a second 5 year study fully funded for another $3 million!

My conclusion

Few of us would ever complain about the wonderfully relaxing feeling of our feet being rubbed by a spouse, loved one or anybody else for that matter.

However, the proof is in the pudding – Reflexology performed by a professionally certified Reflexologist is so efficient that its results far outweigh those of a foot rub.

Your comments please.

For information on becoming a Professional certified Reflexologist http://budurl.com/mlmy

The 3 things this grant has established for Reflexology are

1. Safety
2. Feasibility, and
3. Efficacy

Reflexology improvement is substantial and improves physical function:

1. better ability to walk
2. able to carry groceries
3. could again climb stairs
4. reduction in difficulty breathing from having received reflexology

Extremely important point – although the study group had very delicate health conditions: Not one patient had a negative side effect from receiving Reflexology.

“This 5 year study is the largest federally funded grant ever awarded to Reflexology.  Many studies in the past did not have a control group. This study was the first high quality (robust) study done with 2 comparative groups. It has established that Reflexology used in conjunction with standard medical care is beneficial to the patient.”

Due to these exceptional results, the National Institutes of Health has awarded Michigan State University a second grant.  Grant number 2 is getting ready to start.

In conclusion – This national medical community recognition verifies Reflexology as a safe and effective complementary therapy that will ‘do no harm’.

The science of Reflexology is advancing in its recognition worldwide.  The future for Reflexology and Reflexologists is now!

Contact the Universal College of Reflexology for career information on how you can become a Professional Certified Reflexologist http://budurl.com/mlmy

Some of the major benefits in honing your communication skills include:

• Improved results for your clients
• Time saved in resolving any misunderstandings
• Improved cooperation and teamwork
• Increased productivity
• Reduced stress
• Increased satisfaction
• Good interactions enhance the levels of connection and trust

The ultimate goal of communication is to elicit some type of action.  The communication skills necessary in effective therapeutic relationships are:

• the ability to establish rapport
• listen to a client’s answers
• Effectively utilize communication technology
• be patient
• make astute observations
• elicit information
• ask open-ended questions
• gain cooperation
• conduct excellent interview
• ask for input from the client
• assert boundaries
• use active listening techniques
• show genuine concern

Your first interaction with a person sets the tone for future communication.  You only have between four and twenty seconds to make that vital first impression.

For information on how you can become a successful professional Reflexologist, contact Jack@JackMarriott.com and make sure you take a look at the Universal College of Reflexology courses http://www.ProReflexology.com celebrating its 20th year of changing lives!

Your comments on this important article are requested.

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See you in Edmonton!

This article was really an advertisement for the government and it’s big business lobbyists stating the defeat of bill 51 and its successor bill 6 puts Canadians lives at danger by not restricting the production and sale of natural health products in Canada without DIN numbers.  This follows the huge outcry by Canadians who challenged our government’s attempt to take away our freedom of choice and rights to stay healthy.

I think it’s particularly ironic that this “article/advertisement” chose to pick on an obscure foreign toothpaste from India made with natural products as potentially harmful for Canadians.  Consider domestic toothpaste containing such dangerous products as fluoride and chalk to name just two.  The United States passed laws twenty years ago that domestic toothpaste must carry a POISON label on it.  Despite the American government requiring the POISON label on its toothpaste, our Canadian government refuses to allow a POISON label on the very same toothpaste sold in Canada and yet has the audacity to go after foreign natural brands of toothpaste without poisons that may be harmful.

Way to go my fellow Canadians for meeting this challenge head on.

From this article some astounding facts surfaced. Here’s a summary.

1.  High Fructose Corn Syrup – entered the marketplace in 1970 and within 20 years accounted for over 1/2 the sweeteners used in the US food supply.

(No wonder corn has become the crop of choice by US farmers, Jack)

2.  Between 1970 and 2000, the per capita consumption of High Fructose Corn Syrup in the US increased from less than one pound per person to over 60 pounds yearly.

(This is astounding!  During our Reflexology classes we quote the deleterious effects of sugar consumption based on the statistic that the average American consumes 5 pounds of sugar annually by 1900, and by 2000 personal sugar consumption rose to nearly 150 pounds, Jack)

3.  Large amounts of fructose in the diet rapidly turn into fatty acids which are then stored as fat or released into the bloodstream as triglycerides. Refined fructose sweeteners are primarily converted into triglycerides and adipose tissue (body fat).

4.  Obese people who drank a fructose-sweetened beverage with a meal had triglyceride levels almost 200% higher than obese people who drank a glucose-sweetened beverage with a meal.

The article provides similar problems with Agave nectar.  Which is even more insidious because Agave nectar is sold as a “health food”!

A medical doctor and former member of Pfizer Inc.’s speakers bureau accused last year of perpetrating one of the biggest research frauds in medical history, was charged in a federal court in Boston with falsifying medical research studies.

The Doctor faces up to 10 years in prison and a US $250,000 fine.  He was accused of accepting a $75,000 grant from Pfizer to research the effectiveness of pain medication Celebrex for a 2005 study in which no patients were actually enrolled.  Prosecutors allege the doctor made up the data, which he subsequently had published in the medical journal Anesthesia & Analgesia.

This journal had to retract 10 papers written by his Doctor, and medical experts at the time said that at least 21 journal articles by this anaethesiologist appeared to be fabricated.

(source:  TheDay.com 15 January 2010.)

“It’s not surprising to find that six members of the World Health Organization’s vaccine advisory panel are currently under investigation for financial ties to the pharmaceutical industries.

Well-known vaccine researcher Dr. Gary Null was shocked to find that there has not been a single study on the dangers of combining vaccines!

An article in the June 2000 Rolling Stone magazine, by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. exposed US government scientists, health professionals, CDC official, the FDA, WHO vaccine experts and reps from every major pharmaceutical company for hiding the dangers of and links between thimerosal (mercury) in childhood vaccines and autism.

This group stated that the original data had been lost, and they handed over their remaining data to a private company which excluded the public from accessing it via the Freedom of Information Act.

 They still believe it’s a “coincidence” that the Amish, who refuse all vaccinations, have ZERO autism rates.

 The swine flu vaccine contains squalene.  Your body recognized squalene as a molecule native to the body and found throughout the nervous system and brain.”

 I’m going to dedicate my blog for the next few inputs to bring you up-to-date on some of these important issues.

 My first segment today is the ongoing plight of Martin Armstrong brought forward in a letter to the editor. 

 ”Mr Armstrong, an economics expert, is currently incarcerated in the US without charge or fair trial.  Martin developed a software program called the Pi Cycle Economics Confidence Model.  It’s able to allegedly accurately predict economic trends form real estate and commodity prices right down to trends in individual countries.  Having refused to surrender the source code to the CIA, he was denied his constitutional rights and apparently locked up.”

 For information http://www.princetonecomoics.blogspot.com