Bach Flower Essences Soothe Stress & Add Quality to Your Life

By Deborah Jeanne Kline

What are Bach Flower Essences? 38 natural, plant and flower based formulas activate the body's own healing power to promote overall wellness. In liquid drops dispensing form, these individual blended formulas can assist your mental attitude and emotional stamina as you handle the demands of everyday. By creating a formula just for you, your thoughts and feelings regain balance and perspective.

How can Bach Flower Essences help me? Bach Flower Essences can reduce your perception of stress and help you maintain control of your health. Unwanted mental and emotional states can interfere with your health and enjoyment of life. Bach Flower Essences can support you to ease your response to anxiety, depression, insomnia, trauma, overburden of responsibilities, indecision, anger and impatience, insecurities and more. By enhancing your healthy thoughts and emotions, you contribute to your physical health and quality of life.

How do I know which Bach Flower Essences to use?

Option 1: Schedule an initial consultation with me. After you complete a questionnaire, I will interview you to see which essences will be included in the best blend for you. Then I will mix a one-month supply of your personal remedy.

Option 2: Pre-register for the Bach Flower Essences Workshop Saturday, February 17th from 1 pm to 3 pm. I will introduce the 38 essences and you will complete a self-diagnosis questionnaire and blend your personal remedy to take home.

Calendar of Events

New Years Resolutions
With Mikela Licona
Sat. Jan 13th, 4 pm at Ames Library

The Healing Path
With Ria Keinert, Deb Kline, and Mikela Licona
Sun. Jan 21st, 9 & 11 AM
at UU Fellowship of Ames

Bach Flower Essences
With Deb Kline
Sat. Feb. 17th, 1-3 at HealthWise

Women's Symposium
With all of HealthWise
Sat. Mar 3rd, all day at ISU Scheman

"Non-diet" Techniques of Intuitive Eating

By Judy Trumpy, RD/LD

1. Reject the Diet Mentality: Recognize and acknowledge the damage that dieting/restricting food intake causes. It decreases metabolism and increases binges and cravings. It is associated with decreased self-confidence and feelings of failure. Become aware of diet mentality traits such as counting calories, points or fat grams. Forget about being obedient and using your willpower! Learn to enjoy the food you choose to eat.
2. Honor Your Hunger: Pay attention to hunger cues, the only way your body has to alert you to re-fuel, if only with a small amount of food. If you feel lightheaded, a gnawing stomach, difficulty concentrating, headachy or irritable, and if it's been 4-5 hours since you've last eaten, that's a sure sign you need to eat something. How soon you get hungry is based on what and how much you last ate, and how much physical activity you've had in the meantime. Learning to hear your hunger cues takes time unless you diligently pay attention and then eat rather than ignoring the cues.
3. Feel your Fullness: Learn to listen to your body's signal that you are nearing fullness or that general, overall feeling of satiety. This is the ultimate step in learning to eat intuitively as it offers the clue to when to stop eating.

Being a member of the "Clean Plate Club" or gauging appetite by the amount of food on your plate may make it difficult to discover when, during eating, you begin to become satisfied. This process may take longer than recognizing true hunger because your body needs considerably more time to recognize fullness cues. If you would like to read more about the process of intuitive eating, go to www.intuitiveeating.org and take the quiz to determine if you are an intuitive eater, and read all 10 intuitive eating principles. Working with a registered dietitian will help you learn healthier eating behaviors in 2007. Call Judy at 233-1139 #15 at no cost, to hear more about Intuitive Eating.

Another Satisfied Client!

"I was having a bad day, so I went to Wild Women's Weekend and got a Reflexology treatment. I don't usually like to have my feet touched, but Phyllis was very professional, and afterwards my feet felt wonderful!"

- Vicki Sieve, Boone, IA

Wise Care at HealthWise

HealthWise Resources A Complementary Clinic staffed by talented independent practitioners. We are located at 327 Sixth Street, Beautiful Downtown Ames Iowa. We believe in the power of the client heal in body, mind, and spirit and take their wellness into their own hands. We offer massage, reflexology, aromatherapy, physical therapy, Reiki, hypnosis, herbal remedies, nutrition coaching, Bach Flowers, healing touch, body-work, ear candling, and wise counsel. Feel free to call or drop by for a visit and a cup of tea this winter. We are on the web at www.hwiseresources.com, and our phone number is (515) 233-1139.

Ready for a change?

MAKE YOUR NEW YEARS RESOLUTION A REALITY WITH HYPNOSIS FREE WORKSHOP Learn life changing techniques to easily, naturally accomplish your life path and health goals with hypnotherapist Mikela Licona. When: Saturday, January 13th, 4 pm Where: Ames Public Library, Community Room Questions? Call HealthWise Resources at (515) 233-1139, #18.

HealthWise Resources Clinic
327 Sixth Street
Ames IA 50010