Barefoot Doctor's Journal

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A comprehensive guide to natural health and healing, the Barefoot Doctor’s Journal seeks to empower it's readers to take control of their own health, find their own inspiration, help create healthier communities and share the adventure with whoever is interested. Internationally recognized experts in the fields of healthy aging and Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Living Younger Longer Institute has helped hundreds of people each year to live healthy naturally.

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March 25, 2018
Joe Brady

Mind and Body Approaches for Chronic Pain

The National Center for Health Statistics’ provisional data shows that the state’s opioid drug overdose deaths increased by more than 23 percent from 2016 to 2017. Meanwhile, there are alternatives in the treatment of pain that could save many lives in the U.S. each year. Scientific reviews and randomized clinical trials provide encouraging evidence that practices such as tai chi, qigong, yoga, acupuncture, mindfulness, and biofeedback may provide significant relief from chronic pain. For example for patients with chronic low-back pain recent evidence-based clinical practice guidelines from the American College of Physicians gave a strong recommendation based on evidence that clinicians and patients should initially select nonpharmacologic treatment with exercise, multidisciplinary rehabilitation, acupuncture, or mindfulness-based stress reduction. The guidelines also strongly recommend, based on evidence, tai chi, yoga, motor control exercise, progressive relaxation, biofeedback, low-level laser therapy, operant therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, or spinal manipulation. More funding to gain higher quality evidence is needed to reinforce these recommendations.  (more…)
March 18, 2018
Joe Brady

Asian Cultural Arts Festival

Zhang San Feng Asian Cultural Arts Festival

Saturday, April 7, Sunday, April 8, 2018

Elks Lodge 3690 Jason St. Englewood, CO

Opening Ceremony, Competitions Festival / Masters Demonstration. Lion Dance, poetry, music and the Asian healing arts.8:00 – 9:30 a.m 9:30 a.m. 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. 3:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Same-Day Registration and Check-In Opening Ceremony Begins Daytime Qualifications and Competitions Festival / Masters Demonstration / Evening Show
SPECTATOR PRICING AND ATTENDANCE
Spectator Price:
$10 adult / $5 child (5yrs or older)
Everyone is welcome to attend the Daytime Qualifications and Competitions in order to support the competitors!

For More Information Visit zsffestival.com (more…)

February 8, 2018
Joe Brady

Free Concert and Open House

University of Denver Osher Life Long Learning Institute (OLLI) Program, Coming to Park Hill United Methodist Church

“The biggest problem in the world today is ignorance,

and the only cure for ignorance is education”!

Free Concert and Open House Sunday, February 25th 1:00-3:30 pm
at Park Hill UMC, 5209 Montview Blvd, Denver, CO 80207

To Register https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-concert-and-open-house-tickets-42983494790

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February 4, 2018
Joe Brady

Giving Peace a Chance: On the Evolution of Violence

An old saying from the tai-chi classics runs, Winning by fighting is the worst way; winning without fighting is better; winning hearts is best. We are currently living in the most peaceful, non-violent times in all of human history and almost nobody knows about it. Suffering from historical amnesia and media-driven myopia, most people today are certain that the world is going to hell in a hand-basket and that idea is utterly false. Every measurable indicator of violence has declined dramatically in the last few centuries and these declines have accelerated in the last fifty years.

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January 28, 2018
Kim Blair Woodruff

Coming to Peace with PTSD

Finding the Flame: From A Columbine Survivor’s Standpoint

Sometimes people believe that peace after trauma is not humanly possible. Trauma sticks with you like that mustard stain on your shirt that will never completely go away, no matter how many times you wash it. But the question is – why do they believe that? It is truly a matter of semantics. If there was a way to get rid of the pain, nightmares, PTSD triggers, and instead be happy – who wouldn’t take that leap? The problem becomes with how we define peace as individuals, and the effort it takes to achieve it. Most people don’t find peace because they don’t think they can since it is not a pill, a drink, or a magical elixir found elsewhere to numb their pain. It lies within the depth of their being, enveloped and suffocated by the emotions and reminders of their trauma. (more…)