MBSR is based on a form of meditation known as mindfulness.  Mindfulness is a basic human quality, a way of learning to pay wise attention to whatever is happening in your life that allows you a greater sense of connection to your life inwardly and outwardly.  Mindfulness is also a practice, a systematic method aimed at cultivating clarity, insight, and understanding.  In the context of your health, mindfulness is a way for you to experientially learn to take better care of yourself by exploring and understanding the interplay of mind and body and mobilizing your own inner resources for coping, growing and healing.  Mindfulness is not something you have to “get” or acquire.  It is already within you—a deep internal resource available and patiently waiting to be reawakened.

Jon Kabat-Zinn started MBSR at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1979.  Nearly three decades of scientific research at UMASS and at medical centers all over the world suggest that training in mindfulness and MBSR can positively and often profoundly affect participants’ ability to reduce medical symptoms and psychological distress while learning to live more fully.

The Stress Reduction Program has benefited people reporting a variety of conditions and concerns:

Stress—with work, school, family, financial, illness, aging, grief, uncertainty about the future, and feeling “out of control”.

Medical conditions—chronic illness or pain, hypertension, cardiovascular disorders, allergies and asthma, skin disorders, GI distress and many other conditions.

Psychological distress—anxiety, panic, depression, fatigue, and sleep disturbances.

Prevention and Wellness—health enhancement and wellness focused on prevention and learning the “how” of taking good care of yourself and feeling a greater sense of balance.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction is meant to work synergistically as a compliment with medical and psychological treatments.  Studies over the last three decades suggests that doing what you can for yourself, coupled with what your healthcare provider can do for you, can be far more effective than either approach on its own.

Dates

The program consists of eight weekly 2 hour classes and one day long practice (on a weekend) between sessions six and seven.  Classes will include meditation practices, mindful movements such as yoga and qi gong, and group discussions.

Our first class will be a free introduction to MBSR held on Thursday, March 1.

Classes will be held from 6-8pm on Thursday evenings starting on March 8.

Cost

$295 for the module (8 sessions plus the day long practice) + $20 materials fee (includes MBSR workbook)

Teachers

Christopher Gunst, MFTI

Dr. Jennifer Gunst, DAOM, L.Ac

Links

For additional information please visit www.cnmhealth.com and www.umassmed.edu/cfm/stress/index.aspx.

Please contact the front desk at 650-323-7345 or email info@cnmhealth.com to sign up.

Thank you to all that donated to our “One Warm Coat” drive . We received over 55 coat donations and are so thrilled with the number of people we are able to help this year! We could not have done that without our supporters and are very grateful for your generosity!

We will be closed for the Holiday’s from Friday, December 23rd through Wednesday, January 4th. We will reopen on Thursday, January 5th at 9:30 am.

We look forward to partnering with you in 2012 to help create health and wellness in your life!

In Health,

The Cypress Natural Medicine Team

Here at Cypress Natural Medicine, we have been fortunate to have had many beautiful, scenic photographs, taken by photographer Peter Buranzon of Pacific Visuals Photography, adorn our walls for the past few months. We have enjoyed working among such captivating and peaceful images of our environment and have received many compliments from our patients. We invite you to visit our clinic to view the showcase while on display until December 12th. You can even wrap one up and take it home as these beautiful, framed photographs would make a wonderful Holiday gift for someone on your list!

To learn more about Pacific Visuals Photography, you can visit pacific-visuals.com

“One Warm Coat” is a fundraiser for the Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition in Half Moon Bay. Their mission is to provide safe and affordable shelter of high quality to those in need, to establish stability and opportunity in the lives of residents and to foster communities that allow people from all ethnic, social and economic backgrounds to live in dignity, harmony and mutual respect.

Thank you for helping us to benefit others this Holiday Season.

As a society, we spend billions of dollars each year pursuing better health. We buy drugs, try to eat the right foods and take health supplements to help us achieve and maintain peak performance. But how much of this is guess work, how do you know if you’re making the best choices for you as an individual?
Using ZYTO biocommunication you can discover specific, individualized information that will help you and your healthcare professional design a personalized health and nutrition program. It provides insights that can make a significant difference.
Providing your body with the specific nutrition and care it needs allows it to perform at its highest level. When you’re functioning on ‘all cylinders’ you feel better and have more energy. ZYTO wellness and decision support software can help you maximize your investment in health. It can assist you in getting the most out of life! If your body knows what it wants perhaps all you have to do is ask!

What is it like to get a Scan?
Getting a ZYTO biocommunication scan is a simple and painless process. Simply place your hand on the ZYTO hand cradle while a scan is run. During the scan, subtle energetic impulses are introduced to your body through multiple input channels including the hand cradle. Your body will naturally respond to this communication and the ZYTO software records each response. Although a few people may be able to sense this energetic communication, most are unaware that the scan is taking place.

TYPES OF SCANS – Scans are organized into what are called biosurveys. You’ve probably filled out a survey before; a series of questions that you provide answers to. A biosurvey is essentially the same thing, only you don’t answer the ‘questions’ consciously, you answer them subconsciously. With biocommunication scanning, the ‘question’ is the subtle energetic impulse called a Virtual Stimulus Item or VSI, and your response, which is recorded and analyzed by the ZYTO software, is a change in the electrical properties of your skin.
Different biosurveys will include different VSIs. Some biosurveys are general in nature and include VSIs concerned with overall wellness, others include VSIs relating to specific areas of the body or body processes, and some may deal with environmental factors like toxins or allergens. A biosurvey can be as varied and versatile as any other survey.
Health practitioners use ZYTO products to help them make better decisions for their patients and clients. That’s why ZYTO technology is referred to as decision support technology. It’s important to note that ZYTO scans do not treat or diagnose.

Bioenergetic Technology Overview Bioenergetic Medicine combines leading-edge technology with Western and Oriental medical theories and adds a crucial component for any practice wishing to achieve the best results with the fewest side-effects while drastically reducing cost.
Bioenergetic technology may be divided into three broad categories characterized by each unit’s degree of credibility based on A. method of measurement, B. level of interference by the practitioner, C. ability to give consistently-credible information, and D. ease of use.

How Bioenergetic Technology Interfaces with the Body
The most common method of measurement in category one and two devices is Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), which is a global marker for measuring brain activity related to clinical stress. This makes it useful not only for polygraph tests, but also to measure responses to any type of health challenge.

More specifically, in order to maintain (or regain) optimal health, the body’s systems must maintain balance. To do so, it must continually react to hundreds or thousands of stressors (bacteria, toxins, physical injury, negative emotions, and even gravity – as blood pressure throughout the body must be regulated depending on the body’s position). GSR shifts each time the brain reacts to any stressor and the degree of that reaction is captured by the measuring technology.

A Promising Future for Medicine
Bioenergetic Technology promises to revolutionize the healthcare industry by providing vast amounts of reliable information quickly, non-invasively, and inexpensively. It is not a replacement for other medical approaches, but optimizes them by assisting medical professionals in selecting the best course and easily personalizing their application to each individual patient.

Antioxidants in dark berries like astaxanthin and reservatrol are supportive to blood flow in the brain and body.  You can increase these in your diet with dark berries such as bilberry, blueberry, Concord grape, blackberry and elderberry.  You can also take a capsule of these concentrates in the Juice Plus Vineyard available through Cypress Natural Medicine. 

Phosphatidylserine is important for memory, judgment, and reasoning.  This is a phosphlidpid involved in brain nerve cells and is a building block for your brain’s 100 billion nerve cells. 

 DHA is a fatty acid in fish oil that may have a central role in nerve and brain cell function, and critical communication between nerve cells.  EPA/DHA supports the function of natural brain phosphatidylserine to better activate your memory and mental performance.

Add these to your support plan and increase you brain longevity.  If you have any questions, feel free to ask your doctor here at Cypress Natural Medicine for more information.  We can be reached at 650-323-7345.

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In Health,

Dr. Bryan Skinner, ND

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