A Blue Moon gift for you ~

Blue Moon Blessings. This is a gift for you, our sweet listeners. A Holographic sound ~ Crystal singing bowl healing meditation. What do you do with that you might ask? Use this music as a tool for visualization, inner healing, manifesting or magic! This healing meditation is by Paul Hubbert, of The Institute for Holographic Sound and Inner Balance. Paul gives you instructions in the beginning of this piece, so get comfy! You can find out more about Paul in the blog post below. Click here to listen.
Much love and Blue Moon Magic,
Teresa and Misty.

Natural medicine and addiction

A topic that we have touched on here on Tales from the Golden Cabinet is natural medicine's ability to help a person fight addictions. We have shared about the use of Acupuncture, and the NADA protocols used in treating both addiction and Post Traumatic Stress, as well as herbs that can be helpful. This article was written by Alex Kerwin for to us to share with you, it's a good reminder of a topic I would like delve into more, thank you Alex!

Natural Medicine's Ability to Fight Drug and Alcohol Addiction

In today’s society, drug and alcohol addiction has become an increasingly prevalent problem. Addiction does not just destroy and hurt the lives of addicts but also damages the lives of the family and friends close to the addicts. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, millions of Americans currently suffer from drug addictions, and the US Department of Health and Human Services reports that 1/2 of all Americans over the age of 12 are alcohol consumers. In a world where prescription medication addiction rates are skyrocketing, with 7 million Americans using prescription medications non-medically every year, natural medicine therapies have risen as a popular way to battle the high rates of medication, drug, and alcohol addiction in today’s society. While conventional addiction treatment program’s substitute one drug for another, providing heroin users with methadone to wean them off of their addiction, natural medicine techniques try to offer a more inclusively supportive program for the patient that incorporates mental, emotional and spiritual practices into standard addiction programs.

Natural medicine techniques for dealing with addiction can range from specific techniques to overall therapies designed to help the addict deal with withdrawal symptoms. One of the most popular and well-known forms of alternative treatment is acupuncture. Chinese medical practitioners perfected acupuncture thousands of years ago. Tiny needles are inserted at specific points along the meridian points in the body, which is believed to redirect the flow of energy in the body to help drug abuse patients manage their withdrawal symptoms. A 2009 study published in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse suggested that acupuncture was an effective treatment for opium withdrawal.

Another beneficial way to help recovering addicts is through nutritional therapy, as people with alcohol or drug addiction are usually malnourished and have suffered some amount of physical damage to the body, such as liver damage. This type of therapy attempts to correct any nutritional shortcomings while aiding the body to eliminate toxins.

Supplements like zinc and vitamin C can help the body in the detoxification process. Many alcoholics are severely deficient in many nutrients because alcohol limits the body’s ability to absorb vital nutrients, and alcohol and drug use may increase the body’s load of free radicals, compounds that damage the body’s tissues. Working with a nutritionist and herbalist can help recovering alcoholics and drug addicts get their body working to its full potential again, minimizing the withdrawal symptoms and helping them to feel their best physically and emotionally throughout the recovery process.


by Alex Kerwin

Paul Hubbert ~ live Crystal singing bowl session

This Monday join Misty Odom as she welcomes Paul Hubbert of the Institute of Holographic Sound and inner Balance back into the KOOP studios. In June Misty shared a conversation with Paul, about Holographic sound, this Monday Paul is returning to share a  live Crystal singing bowl session with us!

"In his workshops, Paul Hubbert uses Holographic Sound Therapy, the unique healing power of multidimensional sound vibration, created using specific techniques along with vocal toning and crystal singing bowls, as well as traditional and conventional methods of counseling, including physical and emotional energy movement. These processes are used in the transformative therapies and practices, helping us to uncover and transcend limiting life patterns and thinking. In doing so, we recognize our wholeness, know our oneness with all, and realize a renewed sense of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual peace and well-being."

To connect with Paul or get more information about the Institute for Holographic Sound and Inner Balance, just follow the link!

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KOOP Radio - the station that brings you the full spectrum of community radio - has launched its Fall 2012 Membership Drive. The goal is $70,000, and we are depending on listeners like you to reach it! Here's all you need to do to make your contribution (and don't forget to find out about our thank you gifts!):
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Prashanti de Jager ~ Organic India (part two)

Prashanti de Jager founder of Organic India

As I’m sure you all know by now, I love having the opportunity to share  my favorite sources for healthy living. Some sources are local, some are online. Last week we heard about one of my favorite online choices for buying high quality organic herbs, Organic India. If you missed that show Organic India is a wonderful resource for; high quality, organic Ayurvedic herbs, supplements and teas. (Check out the blog post below.)

My guest was Prashanti de Jager, founder of Organic India. Prashanti shared Organic India's vision, and stories about how they got started as well as what inspires them to bring us great organic herbs. Not only are the folks at Organic India growing and selling high quality organic herbs, they are a living example of a company that makes sustainability a way of life.

This week I am delighted to have Prashanti continue with insights into some of the herbs themselves. Many of the herbs carried by Organic India are adaptogens. Tune in this Monday at 1pm and find out why adaptogens are considered superior herbs, in both Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, and how they are used.

As well as being the founder of Organic India, Prashanti de Jager is a Yogi, activist, ethnopharmacologist, an Ayurvedic Doctor, and original Organic India crew. In speaking with him I was so inspired by the depth of knowledge and insight Prashanti has into Ayurvedic Medicine and herbs, and it's such a pleasure to be able to share him with you!

To find their website, follow this link : ORGANIC INDIA

Earn credits towards purchases at Organic India by learning about herbs : how cool is that?

Check out YouTube video's by Prashanti de Jager
To listen to today's pod-cast just follow this link : Organic India part 2

Healthy Lifestyle picks ~ Organic India

One of my favorite online herb stores is Organic India.  Their fabulous organic herbs is what brought me to their door.Their vision of sustainability; a business that embraces the earth, farmers, the health of the people, sharing knowledge, and passion for right livlihood is what made me love them. Organic India is beautiful in so many ways, that I just could not resist sharing them with YOU.

This Monday I am delighted to welcome Prashanti de Jager to the show. Prashanti is a Yogi, activist, Ayurvedic Doctor and the founder of Organic India. This week Prashanti is going to be sharing about Organic India, and what inspires them to bring us fabulous organic Ayurvedic herbs, supplements and teas from India. You can tune in next week for part two of this series and hear Prashanti talk about the herbs themselves; herbal knowledge shared with inspiring insight.

At the heart of Organic India is a commitment to promote holistic sustainable development for all beings through organic agriculture. They are committed to service, sanctity and integrity, and to operating an ethical and sustainable business that harms none and benefits all. Organic India is a global leader in promoting organic products and in supporting sustainable farming, wild crafting and village/tribal agricultural communities in India.

Organic India cultivates, collects, processes, manufactures and markets Certified Organic Tulsi Teas, Herbal Supplements, Psyllium, Castor Oil, Ayurvedic and Medicinal Herbs, and many other organic foods and organic spices. Their products are of the highest quality and marketed all over the world. 

Tulsi harvest

Organic India works with thousands of family farmers in India, cultivating tens of thousands of acres of farmland that has been 3rd party certified organic through funding from Organic India. The farmers are commissioned to grow organic crops under their guidance, which  Organic India  then purchases from them at a premium market price.  Organic India  also works with local tribes-people in India who ethically wildcraft herbs on 592,000 acres of forest that  Organic India  has converted to USDA certified organic."

To find their website, follow this link :

 ORGANIC INDIA

Earn credits towards purchases at Organic India by learning about herbs : how cool is that?

Check out YouTube video's by Prashanti de Jager
To checkout the pod-cast of today's show please follow this link : Organic India part 1

Meet your local practitioners ~ Brian Kurtz

One thing that keeps getting reaffirmed to me by producing this show is that healing is quite mysterious and comes to us in wonderful and sometimes unexpected ways, especially when we are open to listening to our inner selves. It's such a blessing for me to be able to share so many wonderful healers with you; I learn something new with every person I interview. I'm grateful for this experience.

Part of my intent in producing this show is to encourage you to trust your innate wisdom when seeking healing. That's is why we present so many types of healers on this show. It gives you, our much loved listeners the opportunity to hear about different modalities and get a feel for practitioners with out having to pay for the experience. My intent is to offer you the opportunity to get a sense of what resonates with you. Then, when the need arises you can make informed decisions about health care for you and your loved ones.

Speaking of mysterious, the topic of this Monday's show is energy work, more precisely healing through Spirit. I am delighted to welcome Brian Kurtz into the KOOP studios. Brian is a gifted energy worker, who has been doing energetic healing for the past 28 years. Brian facilitates a person's healing by being an open channel for spirit or energy, then directing this energy for the healing of his client. Brian is a certified Reiki Master practitioner as well as being an ordained non-denominational Christian Minister. Brian readily acknowledges that the source of the healing is spirit, or the Creator, how ever you choose to name that energy. For the past 28 years Brian has shared his gift for healing with people of all ages and virtually any disease or source of discomfort you can imagine.

I keep coming to the word mysterious, because energy healing is something that science and Western Medicine can't explain, unless you get into Quantum Physics. While energy work is an everyday reality in some circles, for many it is something to be skeptical of, so I want to reassure you. I have many ways of verifying my guests, with Brian it was through personal experience. Brian did some healing work with me a few weeks ago, and I was amazed with what a powerful energy worker he is. So I can whole heartedly recommend him to you my precious listeners.

To connect with Brian you can go to his website : Brian Kurtz
To listen to the pod-cast of this show, just follow this link.