What an amazing experience it was to be a guest on the World Hope Cast with Dr. Paul Jenkins and Don Hudson. I hope you will all have the opportunity to listen to the interview. My tips on hope: practice smiling, don't live in the what if's or if I'd only mindset, and be happy now! -GMC‪   

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My World Hopecast Interview

 

Many of you have heard of motivational speaker Dr. Paul Jenkins, well I am being interviewed by him on the WORLD HOPECAST next week, so please sign up now to listen!

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Grace Marie Chumley

"Put on your natural make-up, SMILE"

Author of:

"Grace Under Pressure - Smiling Through Adversity"

Medications AND Alternative Choices (Healthy Habits #7)

As I have grown older, I have felt that everything we need to heal the body is found somewhere on this earth. Heavenly Father planned it that way. Now we need to find the cures. This leads me to say that I am a skeptical about some things, but lately I believe more and more that the medical field is going the wrong direction in many areas and that alternative medicine has some really good options.

When I moved to Utah, I was on one medication for high blood pressure. High blood pressure for me is hereditary. I have tried so many natural things including loosing weight and the blood pressure does not change. I am okay with that. I had an MD/ND in Washington and he worked with me trying things.  In one year of living in Utah, which is a proactive/preventive medical state in many ways, I am on 4 prescriptions.  My doctor freaked out that I wasn’t on something for my high cholesterol. He also felt I needed potassium and thyroid medication. So I don’t want to add more medication!

Now my important main medical issues to me are my bursitis in my hips and the osteoarthritis in my legs. Occasionally I have issues with my lower back and left shoulder. All of these issues are due to the 2002 roll over car accident I was in or just old age. Years of physical therapy and chiropractic work have helped some but often not completely. When you get older, you will try just about anything to see if it will work, especially when it comes to relieving pain.

I would guess most of my friends and family don’t even know I am in pain or when I am in pain. After awhile it is just part of life and we adapt to the pain and live with it. It doesn’t help that I have a higher tolerance to some pain than most people. I have been at levels 8-10 of pain and still out doing what needs to get done. A bit slower, but most the time I don’t say anything.

So when I found a new natural direction to go that has been working, I have been shouting to everyone that I have been pain free for 6 weeks! Like I said, most people didn’t know I was even in pain. I do not understand how energy works. I do not understand how pressure points, reflexology, or essential oils work, but I know in many cases they work. I chose to try Bowenwork. Like I said, I don’t get it but, during my first appointment with Andrea, a Alternative Medicine Practitioner, she picked up on a high school knee injury that no doctor has ever noticed. This is a description of Bowenwork:

“Bowenwork is a dynamic system of muscle and connective tissue therapy that was developed by the late Tom Bowen in Australia. It utilizes small but measured inputs to the body stimulating the body to heal itself, often profoundly.Bowenwork usually results in the relief of many specific injuries and other health problems, both acute and chronic. Signals are delivered to the nervous system at specific locations (on muscles, tendons, ligaments, or nerves) and the body does the rest.”

At my first appointment I laid on the bed wondering how it was even going to work. It was definitely new to me, but it made a few differences immediately and some over time. 

It has helped with my bursitis, osteoarthritis, digestive track, and amazingly my ear that has never popped well with elevation change. I just took a trip and my ear popped on its own for the first time since…I can even remember! 

Now this is not a one time cure all. It is a process. I had 6 weeks pain free then went on a road trip to Seattle where I slept on the floor, worked cleaning my aunts 1 acre property, demossed the roof, cleaned the gutters, and sat in a non-reclining seat for hours. My lower back is in excruciating pain as I write and I am going to see if my miracle practitioner can help.

So I will admit that I don’t understand the how and why, but I believe the body and mind are powerful. Instead of being skeptical about alternative medical choices, I am becoming a believer more and more every day and feel that medicine and alternative choices can work hand in hand.  And as I lay there on the table, I am learning to meditate for the first time in my life. That is an added bonus! 

 Andrea Jones Bowenwork in Lehi