Dr Varela-Hall Integrative Medicine

22/11/2020

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🇪🇸Abrirnos, en todos los sentidos. Permitir nuestros escudos ser agrietados, nuestra semilla ver la luz. Nuestros sentimientos ser compartidos. Intimidad. Auto-exploración. Auto-realización. Se*******ad. Descubrir nuevos horizontes internos. La ayuda. El s**o. La vida es un viaje y compartirnos es señal de fortaleza. Caer puede ser doloroso pero levantarnos de nuevo es valiente. Emparejarse puede resultar decepcionante pero dar segundas oportunidades puede también resultar muy satisfactorio. Encontrar nuestro propósito es necesario. Descubrir qué resuena contigo. Qué hábitos, alimentos, personas, pensamientos, plantas, actividades, tareas, trabajos, lugares, movimientos, climas, olores y sabores te hacen sentir arriba, en la cresta de la ola, viva, motivada, alegre, positiva, con ganas de. Y luego, ten el valor de buscarlo. Busca ayuda si la requieres para ponerlo en práctica. Rodéate del equipo o círculo que te permita soñar, a aspirar a tu mejor Yo. Teje tus sueños.

🇬🇧Opening ourselves in all senses. Allowing our shell to be cracked. Our seed to eventually see the light. Our feelings to be shared. Intimacy. Self-exploration. Self-realization. Sensuality. Discovery. Help. S*x. Life is a journey and sharing it is a sign of courage. Falling can be hurting and trying to stand up again is brave. Partnership can be deceiving sometimes, but giving second chances can be extremely rewarding. Finding our purpose is a must. Discover what resonates with you. Which habits, foods, people, tasks, herbs, thoughts, jobs, places, moves, weather, smells and tastes make you feel higher, alive, motivated, joyful, positive, eager to live. And then take the courage to practice them. Find help if you find it difficult. Surround yourself with the team or like-minded souls who may guide you. Circle yourself with those who encourage your dreams, and aspire for a better You. Knit your dreams.

10/11/2020

Stellaria media (español abajo)

🇬🇧Chickw**d: this annual w**d is common in Europe and North America, growing largely in the fields. You will identify it by its line of thin tiny hairs on the stem that distinguished it from other similar ones. I love to cook it in soups, or make a pesto sauce with it. It is refrigerant, laxative and diuretic. Should better be avoided during pregnancy and breastfeeding. More info here with your fav doc!

🇪🇸La Pamplina es una delicia que crece silvestre por nuestros campos norteños. Se la identifica fácil al mirar sus tallos que tienen una fina y única línea de vello que la diferencia de otras similares. A mí me encanta en sopas y en salsa de pesto. Es refrescante, laxante y diurética. Mejor evitarla durante embarazo y lactancia. Más info aquí con tu doc favorita!

01/11/2020

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🇬🇧Plant-based fats (those “omegas”) have been proven not only NOT to increase your body weight (although they don’t make you loose it either) but also to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. They protect the brain and nervous system from aging, they help sustain blood glucose levels so our energy is stable and we don’t feel hungry, they keep our joints hydrated, our bowels moving, and our organs happy. Veggie fats come in different forms and we should be eating them daily for our health. Avocado, olives, cacao, seeds, nuts, cold-pressed oils, spreads and butters... Such variety!
🇪🇸Las grasas vegetales (los conocidos “omegas”) han demostrado a la ciencia no solo que NO engordan (aunque tampoco adelgazan) sino que además son un factor de prevención cardiovascular enorme. Protegen al cerebro y sistema nervioso periférico de los efectos de la edad, ayudan a mantener los niveles de glucosa en sangre estables (y así mantienen hambre a ralla), “hidratan” nuestras articulaciones, mantienen flujo intestinal... un chollo que mantiene a nuestro sistema feliz, ¡vaya! Las grasas vegetales las podemos consumir de diversas formas y las debemos incluir diariamente en la dieta. Aguacate, aceitunas, frutos secos, semillas (cáñamo, chía, sésamo), aceites vírgenes (oliva, lino, nuez), mantecas (avellanas) y untos (tahini)... tal es la variedad que solo puedo darte ejemplos.

24/10/2020

🇬🇧Diji or Spleen 8 is located 3 fingers under the widening of the inner side of your tibia. It is widely used for menstrual pains and any pre-menstrual symptom that disturbs you, from bloating to mood changes, from breast tenderness to pain during periods. Firmly press it when you’d like to alleviate these feelings or stimulate your period.

🇪🇸Diji es el punto número 8 de bazo, localizado a 3 dedos bajo la curvatura de la tibia. Se usa principalmente para dolores menstruales y síntomas premenstruales, desde hinchazón pasando por labilidad emocional, dolor de pechos o menstrual (dismenorrea). Masajéalo firmemente para aliviar estos síntomas o incluso estimular la menstruación.

23/10/2020

🇬🇧Dance. Move. Laugh. Even when clubs and pubs are closed. Sweat. Enjoy the movement of your muscles. Explore the range of all of your joints. Feel the joy of your cells as you boost your immune system with the happiness of your favorite songs. Remind your body of your love to it, despite the restrictions of social distancing. Engage with your own Self.

🇪🇸Baila. Muévete. Ríe. Aún cuando nos cierran las discos y los bares. Suda. Disfruta el movimiento de tus músculos. Explora el rango de todas tus articulaciones. Descubre la alegría de tus células con la felicidad de tus canciones favoritas. Recuérdale a tu cuerpo cuánto le amas, a pesar de las restricciones y del distanciamiento social. Dedícatelo a tu propio Ser.

13/10/2020

🇬🇧Traditional Chinese Medicine also takes good care of Aesthetics Medicine. Guasha is one of its techniques. It provides a relaxing massage while improving blood and lymph circulation, helping the skin look clean, hydrated, and soft. With its smooth pulling it also stimulates de connective tissue for improving skin tightness, great for preventing wrinkles and lifting your muscles.
🇪🇸La Medicina China tiene en cuenta la Medicina Estética. La Guasha es una de sus técnicas. Produce un relajante masaje que estimula la circulación sanguínea y linfática, ayudando a que la piel luzca limpia, hidratada y suave. Sus suaves tracciones estimulan también al tejido conectivo y muscular, mejorando la elasticidad, efecto antiarrugas y lifting.

12/05/2020

Publish *Sol’s Healthy Adventures*


Hello! I have the dream of seeing my first comic book about health published: Sol’s Healthy Adventures. In this book we share health tips, scientific knowledge, and philosophical reflexions for all the family, from a fun perspective, for learning and practicing all together!
Read more, get your free ibook for the first chapter “Essential Knowledge” here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/m4whlp5nprjkpl6/sols_healthy_adventures.essential_knowledge_with_links.pdf/file

And donate here: https://gf.me/u/xzyu6u

Please share!

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23/03/2020

I feel honoured to be able to share, during this complicated period of time and history, but from all of my love and kindness, this little comic that we’ve (Cae and Pablo) been working on for now 4 years. There is a paper version that we’d also like to promote, but we thought it’d be beautiful to share an ebook version with all of you during these days we are under a lockdown, so that we can all share knowledge, wisdom, healthy practices, love and self-care. We will appreciate if you can share with as many contacts as possible, and also if you feel like giving a donation! 😇😃💙

We hope you and your loved ones enjoy this as much as we have enjoyed making it and profiting from its contents.

We have an English, Spanish, and bilingual version too 🙏🏼

https://www.mediafire.com/file/43coofv8lh6f7pc/sols_healthy_adventures.essential_knowledge.pdf/file

MediaFire is a simple to use free service that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.

20/03/2020

Skype Sessions offered now more than ever:
- Integrative Medicine & Nutritional Consultation:
- Reiki distant healing (sessions, and Zoom group classes!)
- Flower essences for emotional support
- Qingong (private or Zoom group classes)
- workshops (via Zoom) about Natural Medicine, self-healing and care with Chinese Medicine and/or Reflexologies, Herbal Medicine, Wild food nutrition
- Coaching

Pass on the message to your loved ones, let yourself be held by a skilled and experienced physician in these difficult times, and learn something you have always been interested in!

15/03/2020

Soy la mujer que abrazas cuando tienes miedo, la mujer que busca tu abrazo cuando siente frio. Soy las mujeres que lavaban en el rio. Soy el miedo en la noche el silencio en las lagrimas de dolor. Me duelen los sentires de las otras como los pedazos de cristal que se clavan en el zapato, soy la tristeza de las que golpeas sin espanto, [ 313 more words ]
https://silenceisthemotherofpatience.wordpress.com/2020/03/15/canto-a-las-mujeres-que-hay-en-mi/

Soy la mujer que abrazas cuando tienes miedo, la mujer que busca tu abrazo cuando siente frio. Soy las mujeres que lavaban en el rio. Soy el miedo en la noche el silencio en las lagrimas de dolor. …

14/03/2020

Like in any other form of Medicine, also in TCM we have not only a physiology but also a Pathophysiology. Although it differs widely from the Western perspective! There are basically 7 ways of falling sick or out of balance, and any can be Wai (internal) or Nei (external) source: Climate/weather: if it happens excessively or out of its season, affecting the orifices and skin. [ 361 more words ]
https://silenceisthemotherofpatience.wordpress.com/2020/03/14/pathophysiology-in-tcm/

Like in any other form of Medicine, also in TCM we have not only a physiology but also a Pathophysiology. Although it differs widely from the Western perspective! There are basically 7 ways of fall…

02/02/2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfRVCaA5o18

A look at the many strange effects of placebos. Created by: Daniel Keogh - http://www.twitter.com/ProfessorFunk Luke Harris - http://www.lukeharrisgraphics.c...

01/02/2020

During this last level of Reiki training you will learn a few extra techniques and to master the healing energies of the Universe, but most importantly, you will be ready to teach and program others into the different Reiki teachings. A reiki master will know how to propagate the light and love, constantly, from this high vibrational healing energy. During this course we learn certain meditations to improve our healing energy levels and cleanse our energy centers in only a few seconds, for giving us vital force and elevate our Kundalini energy. [ 413 more words ]
https://silenceisthemotherofpatience.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/tibetan-tantric-reiki-level-4/

During this last level of Reiki training you will learn a few extra techniques and to master the healing energies of the Universe, but most importantly, you will be ready to teach and program other…

01/02/2020

Once you have been initiated in the first two levels of Reiki, considered practice is needed before you can start getting empowered for channeling Reiki energy for people as therapy. The main goal of this therapeutic level is to "install" or program the person into the fourth symbol, that heals the 7th chakra. It is the Mastery symbol and it represents the Universe, the Great Light or enlightenment, and has a masculine version (for enhancing intuition or used for distance treatments) and a feminine version (for awareness, communication with your higher Self, for guidance and protection, and when performing physical treatment). [ 599 more words ]
https://silenceisthemotherofpatience.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/tantric-tibetan-reiki-level-3/

Once you have been initiated in the first two levels of Reiki, considered practice is needed before you can start getting empowered for channeling Reiki energy for people as therapy. The main goal …

31/01/2020

After being initiated by your Master during your First Level of Reiki, you automatically become a channel for this Universal Energy. The more you use it, the more you meditate, the more you are silent, the more powerful it will become. In this degree of Reiki we learn about the first 3 symbols. We learn how they can not be named unless using for amplification and energy during a treatment, and they cannot be drawn or shared to non-Reiki therapists. [ 309 more words ]
https://silenceisthemotherofpatience.wordpress.com/2020/01/31/tibetan-tantric-reiki-level-2/

After being initiated by your Master during your First Level of Reiki, you automatically become a channel for this Universal Energy. The more you use it, the more you meditate, the more you are sil…

20/01/2020

So many different cultures have been aware of the energy of the body and of all things. From Asia to America, from Africa to Europe, Hindus, Chinese, Japanese, Tibetans, Mayans, Cherokees, Incas, Africans, ancient Greek, northern Russians, Soufis, Taoists, Persian, Celts... They all developed systems for using the energy in the body and understood its interconnection with the one in the rest of the Universe. [ 982 more words ]
https://silenceisthemotherofpatience.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/tibetan-tantric-reiki-level-1/

So many different cultures have been aware of the energy of the body and of all things. From Asia to America, from Africa to Europe, Hindus, Chinese, Japanese, Tibetans, Mayans, Cherokees, Incas, A…

12/01/2020

Meditation with Sujay 💙💚💜

When we are too busy, the world can sometimes feel like it is spinning too fast. Take a moment to download this complimentary guided audio meditation with ou...

15/12/2019

The way we value ourselves shapes the amount of power we give to ourselves. The way we treat ourselves is a mirror of how we treat others or how we have perceived others' treatment towards us. Society can be very challenging with the way we are meant to be, look, act, buy, socialize, travel, eat... We are bombarded with social media and news that create opinions and we are forced to feel things should be done in a certain way to be "good" or "right". [ 381 more words ]
https://silenceisthemotherofpatience.wordpress.com/2019/12/15/my-relationships-my-mirrors/

The way we value ourselves shapes the amount of power we give to ourselves. The way we treat ourselves is a mirror of how we treat others or how we have perceived others’ treatment towards us…

13/12/2019

Emotions are, similarly to feelings, the best way ourselves have to connect us and help us survive and thrive. Exploring your emotional world, how you feel, is extremely important to be content in life. To help you learn what makes you feel good or what makes you want to run away, what is helping you or if you should run for your life. [ 433 more words ]
https://silenceisthemotherofpatience.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/my-emotions-my-allies/

Emotions are, similarly to feelings, the best way ourselves have to connect us and help us survive and thrive. Exploring your emotional world, how you feel, is extremely important to be content in …

13/12/2019

Taking the time to discover our minds and they way we think if crucial for a fullfilling life. There are many unconscious thoughts triggering and conditioning the way we behave, act and shape our lives with. For that same reason, it is so important to bring awareness and consciousness to our minds. Mindfulness is that: the consciousness of our lifestyle, of exploring the depths of our being, taking the time to travel through our mindsets and understand our allies and our enemies. [ 315 more words ]
https://silenceisthemotherofpatience.wordpress.com/2019/12/13/my-mind-my-teacher/

Taking the time to discover our minds and they way we think if crucial for a fullfilling life. There are many unconscious thoughts triggering and conditioning the way we behave, act and shape our l…

26/11/2019

I am taking part in a course (me? a course? nah... how odd xD) about female-hood in all of our spheres. Our allies are our bodies, our minds, our emotions and our souls/spirit. It is so true how we are not taught to listen to our multiple sources of information provided by signs in all of these levels... From our menstrual blood to hunger, from a short-tempered week to fatigue after certain foods, from a fever to our sexual desire. [ 365 more words ]
https://silenceisthemotherofpatience.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/my-body-my-master/

I am taking part in a course (me? a course? nah… how odd xD) about female-hood in all of our spheres. Our allies are our bodies, our minds, our emotions and our souls/spirit. It is so true h…

04/11/2019

The use of Cannabis as a Medical Drug is becoming more and more popular and legalized in various countries, including Thailand (despite having been hardly punished for its consumption in the past). I am updating my scientific knowledge towards better knowing how to prescribe this medicine with several courses and would like to know, if you have some time to dedicate to me:

1) What kinds of questions would you ask at a dispensary if you are suffering from a condition that you might be interested in knowing if Cannabis can help you?

2) Where did you get your information about that condition being treated with Cannabis?

3) Which kind of Cannabis-based products would you use or are you aware of?

4) Which risks and benefits do these products have?

5) Do you know some differences between THC and CBD?

Thank you!

29/10/2019

food for thought. This is the reason why I ended up stopping prescribing so many drugs... Companies just don't publish the studies that show adverse effects or no effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zihdr36WVi4

A Harvard scientist says the drugs used to treat depression are effective, but for many, it's not the active ingredient that's making people feel better. It'...

27/10/2019

new final post about Ayurveda! Check it out!

https://silenceisthemotherofpatience.wordpress.com/2019/10/26/the-science-of-life-ayurveda-v/

Prana is the life force in the air, the main nutritional element for our bodies. It comes in the body through correct breathing, possible thanks to the Prana & Udana Vata, as I had mentioned be…

26/10/2019

Prana is the life force in the air, the main nutritional element for our bodies. It comes in the body through correct breathing, possible thanks to the Prana & Udana Vata, as I had mentioned before, in the first post. The Part of Ayurveda that studies breath is Pranayama, “the mastery of the breath’. Also in practices such as Yoga and Meditation there is great importance given to the breathing. [ 791 more words ]
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Prana is the life force in the air, the main nutritional element for our bodies. It comes in the body through correct breathing, possible thanks to the Prana & Udana Vata, as I had mentioned be…

26/10/2019

For many of us, skin care is also something we cook at home. I personally find it so important to cook your own food as many times as possible, the same way as making your own toothpaste, face creams and soaps. Ayurveda also finds this important and offers us many tips on how to treat our skin depending on our skin type (check the previous post for that). [ 533 more words ]
https://silenceisthemotherofpatience.wordpress.com/2019/10/26/science-of-life-ayurveda-recipes/

For many of us, skin care is also something we cook at home. I personally find it so important to cook your own food as many times as possible, the same way as making your own toothpaste, face crea…

26/10/2019

Regular cleanses (Panchakarma or "the five actions"), at the beginning of every season or at least once per year are very important in Ayurveda. It is done in 3 stages: Preparation: Before starting there is a Purvakarma period of 14 days in which you should get ready for the detox: Sleep, light exercise (yoga, walking 30 minutes), daily massages ( [ 528 more words ]
https://silenceisthemotherofpatience.wordpress.com/2019/10/26/the-science-of-life-ayurveda-iii/

Regular cleanses (Panchakarma or “the five actions”), at the beginning of every season or at least once per year are very important in Ayurveda. It is done in 3 stages: Preparation: Bef…

20/10/2019