26 Jan

Massage Your Baby, and Reap the Benefits in Yourself

I have massaged my own children from birth, with techniques and patterns, and have reaped the benefits of it in more ways than I can count.  I love massage and what it can do for people.  Just think about how massage makes you feel when you have a good, solid, specified massage.  I have had total lock ups in my core and QL (lower back), and other areas of my body, that have opened up completely after massage specified for the area of the body in need.  Just think what this will do for your baby or child.

I am here, helping parents to learn to massage and nurture their babies. It is much more than learning strokes. It is a profound way to:

  • Help babies get off to the best start for healthy growth and development
  • Support parents’ sensitivity to their baby (i.e. the parents understanding of their baby’s emotions and cues)
  • Encourage parent-baby interactions and parents’ capacity to support their baby’s regulation
  • Support parents’ adaptation of strokes as their child grows
  • Reduce symptoms of postnatal depression
  • Relieve stress
  • Increase school readiness
  • Help the whole family get off to the best start.

Make an investment in a lifetime of benefits for your child and yourself.   I say yourself because when your baby is healthy and happy, or calmed from symptoms or complications, you are less anxious and able to move through your days with confidence.

Register with me. If you are in a location other than Russellville, AR, contact me to discuss options (even to the extent of live video feed).

Jeana Anderson,

jeana@besmiley.com
501-690-3306

11 Nov

ready for real change? want healing for your child?

I just spoke with a friend and a client. She did a hair analysis with me through the best lab (recommended in books) in the nation for this kind of test. She has been learning so much about herself, experimenting with taking things out and adding things in to her food and life and supplements. She just told about how she stopped taking her calcium this week and has felt so much better, and her heart was not hurting at all; she said is had affected her sluggishness during the mid day and other things, that are disappearing! The analysis results showed that she did not need calcium; she needed other things to absorb it (there is more detail in this if anyone wants more examples). I am just on a high for what can be done and how the body will heal anything given a chance. I had a convo with someone last night who has a daughter with tourettes, which is totally curable despite the pharma take on it. It is a disorder in the category of ADD and other things similar. It is a mineral/vitamin/nutrition deficiency/gut disorder. It can be fixed. It can be cured!! Please contact me if you want to change your life or change your child’s life. I am totally excited about having complete and total time to serve and learn. I am learning so much more than I have ever, putting pieces together I never would have put in the same puzzle. The body is AMAZING! THE CREATOR IS AMAZING. We are given the power to heal and be healers. Action friends. NOW BREATHE, just breathe. AND LISTEN. just listen.

www.naturalhelpinghands.com

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10 Nov

clean that gut :)

this is a good site: check it out. I can help you understand this stuff if needed.

“YOU ARE COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY GOOD. I BELIEVE THIS.
you are separate from your behaviors. you do not change your essence. 🙂 Know this. Think on this. Believe this. I believe this in all of you.”

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08 Nov

Allergies or Nasal congestion?

Many ways to take care of this.

congestion is congestion,  and it all comes from the nasal passages or the stomach (core) of your being.

I can help you with finding the right formulas for you. My daughter does well with homeapohy tabs. My son does better with tinctures and Allergy capsules. I do best with tincutures alone.

Contact me for the lists of the best I can suggest (tried and experimented with and watched many others do the same over 20 yrs)

NOTE: the ultimate best way to turn around the body to congestion and to allergies is with knowing the minerals controling you. Mineral hair analysis is the way to go. I use one of the best companies/labs for this: Trace Elements. I am a consultant, taking the samples and explaining the results to you. It is worth it!!! Babies, children, all ages, have been changed with just a simple test like this. There is much nutritional advice and supplement recommendations. If one does what the lab says, changes will occur, always for the better.

Massage also does great things for the allergies. It releives the lymph, relaxes the inflammed muscles, and causes cleansing, creating a stonger body to handle those congestion issues.

Contact me to find out more, or set a consulting apt.

I am a certified Health Coach and Massage Therapist, practicing herbalist, and healthy lifestyle advocate. I have done this my entire life.

 

 

 

06 Sep

let’s get together and feel alright

OK everyone, my blog today is to encourage you to take a moment with yourself.

Yes, now.

Think about who you are.  How do you see yourself in this moment? What would you want to make different in this moment? Have you asked the Father above to help you in this moment? If not, take a few seconds and ask. Yes, it is that simple to request, but the harder part is to stay quiet long enough to listen. When you hear it, write it down.  Now, ponder it. Was it a simple, yes, or was there more to it? Do you need to ask more questions? Write down the answers. Begin the path to renewal within the gut voice talking to you. It is always correct. Your gut, your core, where the voice comes from, and where all the emotions and past junk or past joys are stored (not in the head are they stored, not at all…memories are completely different from emotions from those memories). Think on this little bit I have given you today, and I will have more for you tomorrow.

If any of this has stirred some “I need some health help, or a massage, or just want to get friends together for a class in cooking, bread making, simple herbal basics, natural remedy making, infant massage instruction, survival topics, or something else, just give me a call or message me for a free consultation (unless you are already my client), and we will blaze the trail.

Jeana Anderson, nature mama

 

 

25 Aug

Prepare your mind, body and soul

Pathways to Family Wellness Magazine

Whether you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or chasing your 2-year-old around, take a moment to pause and reflect. “Quiet your mind; listen to yourself, learn to trust what you are saying on the inside. Nothing is more important for parenting—nothing.”

A beautiful interview on preparing your body and mind with yoga and meditation by Sarah Kamrath with Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa: http://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/…/prenatal-yoga-and-chi…

01 Jul

Infant Massage Classes

Please Touch Me
A poem by Phyllis K. Davis

If I am your baby, please touch me. I need your touch in ways you may never know. Don’t just wash and change and feed me; but rock me close, kiss my face, and stroke my body. Your soothing, gentle touch says security and love.

If I am your child, please touch me. Though I may resist, even push you away, persist. Find ways to meet my needs. Your goodnight hug helps sweeten my dreams. Your daytime touching tells me how you really feel.

If I am your teenager, please touch me. Don’t think because I’m almost grown I don’t need to know that you still care. I need your loving arms, I need a tender voice. When the road gets rocky, then the child in me still needs.

If I am your friend, please touch me. Nothing lets me know you care like a warm embrace. A healing touch when I’m depressed assures me I am loved and reassures me that I am not alone. Yours may be the only comforting touch I get.

If I am your sexual partner, please touch me. You may think that your passion is enough, but only your arms hold back my fears. I need your tender reassuring touch to remind me I am loved just because I am me.

If I am your grown-up child, please touch me. Though I may have a family of my own to hold, I still need Mummy’s and Daddy’s arms when I hurt. As a parent, the view is different. I appreciate you more.

If I am your aging parent, please touch me the way I was touched when I was very young. Hold my hands, sit close to me, give me strength, and warm my tired body with your nearness. Although my skin is worn and wrinkled, it loves to be stroked.

Natural Helping Hands is a great place to learn how to touch those you love with confidence. We have classes available for the public. Please visit our website for more information, www.naturalhelpinghands.com  

30 Jun

Your Baby’s Brain

Your Baby’s Brain

The wise remain aware

of the spirituality of life.

Every mother has felt

the stillness and the stir

of Eternal Consciousness

in her womb. Remember that.

Bring that mysterious, silent moment

into the clamoring present.

—Vimala McClure

from The Tao of Motherhood

The development of an unborn baby’s brain is fascinating and it helps us understand the amazing benefits of massaging your baby. Knowing how your infant’s brain is handling all of the new things surrounding him enables you to approach him with both knowledge and compassion. Doctors Eileen and Tom Paris contend that part of creating a healthy relationship with our children is owning our feelings and expressing them as our own. They say, “For example, telling a startled newborn, with kindness, ‘I see you were startled when Mommy and Daddy yelled and had a fight. Grownups get angry sometimes, especially when we are tired. You’re okay, we love you,’ mitigates the effect of the fighting.” You may think, ‘How is a newborn going to understand that?.’ They do! Most of our communication is in the tone of our voice, our body language, and our intention. These are communicated very clearly to your baby. Even though it is true that adult fighting stresses children (even in utero), never feeling angry is an unreasonable expectation for either ourselves or our children. We can notice when we feel angry, own those feelings, and try to talk them out, reassuring the little one that everything is okay.

“The most complex information-processing device ever constructed is on its way,” says John Medina, author of Brain Rules for Baby. He goes on to say, “During the attachment process, a baby’s brain intensely monitors the caregiving it receives. It is essentially asking such things as “Am I being touched? Am I being fed? Am I safe?” If the baby’s requirements are being fulfilled, the brain develops one way; if not, genetic instructions trigger it to develop in another way. It may be a bit disconcerting to realize, but infants have their parents’ behaviors in their sights virtually from the moment they come into this world. It is in their evolutionary best interests to do so, of course, which is another way of saying that they can’t help it. Babies have nowhere else to turn.”

In her book, Philosophical Baby, Alison Gopnick says, “In adults, vivid awareness accompanies attention, and attention is linked to brain plasticity (the quality of being easily shaped or molded).  Attention literally allows us to change our minds and brains. If we made the backwards inference that brain plasticity implies attention, which implies vivid awareness, it would seem that babies are more conscious than we are. They are vividly aware all the time.” She concludes that infant awareness is steeped in “a kind of exaltation and a particular kind of happiness.”

Once I saw a video of a baby, probably 5 months old, sitting on a couch with her father on the floor in front of her. He began tearing pieces of paper. She giggled, and then laughed and laughed and laughed, so hard for so long I could hardly believe it. She was the perfect example of this “exaltation and a particular kind of happiness.” Alan Schore, in The Neurobiology of Child Brain Development, says, “The brain does not continue to grow and grow. It organizes, then it disorganizes then it re-organizes. This disorganization of the brain and the massive death of billions of cells and synapses is part of how the brain is growing.” He goes on to say, “Positive affects (meaning happy faces) are key to early development. They’re key to growth, they’re also key to not only positive psychological states but to physical health. Joy has something to do with the quality of life.”

Excessive stress responses also pump him up to be less trusting in general, less able to believe that life is on his side. This wiring of joy and intimacy happens not only in the infant but in the mother as well, a significant but often overlooked factor. “The infant and mother’s psychobiological systems are co-regulating each other,” says Alan Schore in an interview, “Joy is the key to attachment. By joining in the child’s joy in the first years of life, mother and baby are both “interactively co-regulating very high levels of positive emotion.”

I have written an entirely new edition of Infant Massage: a Handbook for Loving Parents, which will be released by Random House in February, 2017. The present chapters have been revised, updated, and expanded. There are five new chapters, including a chapter on your baby’s brain. This new book will introduce the art of infant massage to new generations of parents.

To locate an Infant Massage class near you, click here.

Celebrate Independence Day Safely

The mission of Pathways.org is to “provide free tools to maximize all children’s motor, sensory and communication development”  They offer information on how to safely celebrate the 4th of July along with other summer safety information.

                                                         Product Recalls

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission provides up to date information on product recalls.  There is a search bar to search for more specific products such as, clothing, toys, furniture, etc. that have safety related concerns. The site also provides seasonal safety tips and other helpful information for families.  Click here to access this important information.

Vimala McClure, the author of Infant Massage, A Handbook for Loving Parents is the founder of the International Association of Infant Massage with headquarters in Sweden. Her work is the foundation for all of our trainings and classes.
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30 Jun

Healing yourself and others part 3

Another good well written article I am sharing. Why rewrite the stuff when someone already wrote it with style 🙂 (below is her blog post link, and copy and pasted article. In the copy and pasted part, I have removed the last part of her article because I have a different perspective about the “cannabis” issue, but it is all good in the end).

ENJOY

Source: The Sounding Off of an Unsound Mind

 

Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine: part 2 -The Good

This may be the most important blog I ever write.

For those that have just tuned in, there is a part 1 to this tale. It is bursting at the seams with information that simply points to a much bigger, hairier ordeal. We must take responsibility for our own bodies and learn to take care of ourselves. It is important that you understand where we are as a society, so that we can collectively move forward. I will attempt to address the good that is happening, and what you can do.

For those that don’t know me personally, my father passed away one year ago from aggressive prostate cancer. To say that it sucked is an understatement of gargantuan proportions, but it caused me to delve deep into the medicine surrounding cancer treatments and what progress is being made. My father refused to do chemotherapy. I don’t blame him. The cure rate for chemo is around 3%. (The odds are better if you are young…It also depends on the cancer itself.)

In my studies, I think I stumbled upon a secret that most do not understand…and I need to share with you….and you need to share it with everyone you know…

Are you ready?!
You ARE what you EAT!

You mean you’ve heard that before?! You should have. That was originally said by Hippocrates, the father of medicine, in ancient Greece. He realized ALL the way back then that eating a certain way seems to ward off pretty much Every. Single. Disease.

The idea is simple really. You body is an interconnected set of systems that run on a specific fuel source…like a car. If you were to put marine fuel into your car, It would not run well. (For those who are unaware, boats run on a slightly different fuel than cars.) It is the same with our bodies.

A moment about cancer:

Cancer naturally pops up in our bodies, but is wiped out by our own immune system before it can become a real problem. It is only when that cancer can get a steady supply of blood and nutrients that it actually takes hold and becomes an issue.

Dr. William Li with the Mayo Clinic has done a lot of research about angiogenesis. (AN-G-O-JEN-E-SIS) It’s a big word that means blood vessels in your body can OVER grow. What he found first was that when we eat the typical western diet (aka–junk and bread and junk…and then maybe a vegetable…deep fried), we cause our blood vessels to grow so much that they can feed blood and nutrients to other things…and if a cancer can get hold of some of that….you get the idea….

Here’s the good news: Dr. Li believes that 2 out of 3 cancers are caused by diet…and can potentially can be cured by diet! You can watch his TED  Talk here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_5Z31mUmtc

Cancer is nowhere near the only illness that food can fix! Diabetes, heart disease, blood pressure… Google how to naturally prevent these things from happening, and you will always get the same answer… Lots of organic veggies, lean organic meat, and less  (or less traditional) carbs.

Now, organic can be expensive, but it is worth it to keep chemical pesticides and GMOs out of your body. I’m notoriously cheap…I recite this mantra while grocery shopping: I can pay more money for the food now or more money for the doctor later.

HERE’S THE GOOD NEWS: Organic food is becoming less expensive and more available all the time! In fact, the struggle of farmers to hang on to GMO corn is FAILING SO MISERABLY, we actually had to import over 40,000 lbs. of organic corn to meet the demand. Companies like Hershey’s are promising to be GMO free by the end of the year! Farmer’s markets are more popular than ever…The food revolution is upon us! I know that my state recently legalized raw milk sales… (I’m very excited!)

***I may try to write a blog on how to shop for healthy food amid all the fake healthy food soon.***

With regards to vaccines, the good news is that a revolution is occurring all around you…and it has recently caught fire with a little film called Vaxxed. Vaxxed: From Cover up to Catastrophe is a documentary produced by a well respected film producer who worked many years on the show The Doctors. He joined forces with Dr. Andrew Wakefield (Yes…THAT Andrew Wakefield…who incidentally was vindicated by the whistleblower from the CDC) to expose the world to the CDC’s fraudulent actions concerning the 2004 autism-mercury study.

It is changing lives. If you believe in transparent medical practices like I do, then support this film as it reaches your area, and get everyone you know to see it. The evidence is irrefutable. If you are particularly froggy and want to help more, try and join the support groups pressing to bring the movie to YOUR area.

Also, a local school in our area recently sent home flyers to every student giving some false information and scare tactics pushing the vaccine agenda. There are medical exemptions for vaccines in every state, and most also have philosophical and/or religious exemptions from vaccines. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO VACCINATE! Turn to social media…Look for local groups. Someone will help you.

Doctors are sold out to medicine, that’s true. However, more and more doctors are coming to realize it, and many are switching over to a more naturopathic style of healing. Also, more people are opening natural offices of medicine. BE ADVISED: These people went to school and trained just as hard as a traditional M.D. You are NOT crawling into the hands of an amateur as some would have you believe. As with any doctor, check their background, but they put in the same 8 years as your doctor.

The herbs and minerals prescribed by these doctors are generally safer than pharmaceutical drugs, and they tend to treat the cause instead of the symptoms… (Big shock: They almost always start with your diet.)

The dental industry is waking up, too! You can now find natural dentists that will remove amalgam (mercury) fillings and replace them with safer materials. They also forego use of sodium fluoride. (which isn’t the kind that helps teeth) (neither is what’s in the water system…but that’s a different blog.)

Everywhere you see corruption in the world, there is some sort of coup bubbling under the surface. If Batman were real, he would be preparing his vigilante bat-gadgets onto his utility belt because the whole thing is close to blowing like Mount St. Helens. There is a Chinese curse that says,”May you live in interesting times…” Well, I think it’s safe to say we’ve been cursed, but it is also exciting. We all have a choice to become a part of the change that will be in history books 100 years from now. It is our time to make a difference…not by rioting or being violent or ostracizing like so many other groups for revolution, but through simple actions. Carving a different path by simply buying organic, buying local, growing a garden, choosing a natural doctor, refusing a flu shot, or voting…These small acts of defiance are the key. Not all superheroes wear capes. You can’t change the world, but you can make a dent. Take the bull by the horns.(…and any other cliches you can come up with.)

Until my next rambling, I bid you adieu. Peace.

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