The first step in managing a stressful painful past is to forgive the people who hurt you and leave them in the past where they belong. Do not continue carrying them in your mind and thereby marring your present. Cut the cords of bitterness binding them to your heart and reduce the tension in your life by forgiving and forgetting them so that you can reach forward into your future unencumbered.

If the urge to revenge hinders you from forgiving them, remind yourself that God says vengeance is His and He will repay. (Romans 12:19) Cry out to Him in prayer so that He can deal with all those who have hurt you. Scriptures you can pray include Lamentations 3:59 which asks God to judge your case Himself as He has seen how you have been wronged.

It is surprising how little the medical community knows about progesterone, especially the consequences of a progesterone deficiency. In many cases, these consequences can be prevented with the use of natural progesterone replacement. It is fairly easy to diagnose women with low progesterone levels because these women are the ones who have PMS, severe menstrual cramps, headaches with their periods, and breast tenderness. They will be estrogen-dominant and very often will wind up with complications such as fibroids in the uterus and fibrocystic disease of the breast.

Humans have used drugs of one sort or another for thousands of years. Wine was used at least from the time of the early Egyptians; narcotics from 4000 B.C.; and medicinal use of marijuana has been dated to 2737 B.C. in China. But not until the 19th century A.D. were the active substances in drugs extracted.

Lilian Barbara Yeomans was born June 23, 1861 to Amelia and Augustus Yeomans. Her family was originally from Montreal, Canada. Her father was a physician and they moved to the United States in 1862, when he became doctor for the Northern Army during the Civil War. He died in 1878.   Lilian decided to follow in her father’s footsteps, and so she attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to become a physician. Her mother, who was a woman of strong character and personality, joined her at the University and began studies to become a doctor herself.

Lilian graduated when she was 21 and passed an examination to practice medicine in Manitoba, Canada in 1882. Her mother graduated in 1883 and joined her daughter February of 1885 in Winnipeg. They specialized in women’s and children’s health issues. Lilian was surrounded with the problems of the poor and the unemployed. She served prostitutes, visited prisons, worked with alcoholics, and dealt with the social breakdown of people in a rapidly growing city. She also became addicted to drugs, which she had easy access to as a physician.

Sleep is one of the most important pillars of good health. While we sleep, we are recharged both mentally and physically. Our bodies become rejuvenated, allowing them to secrete an important growth hormone that signals the tissues and organs to enter a time of repair and rebuilding. During periods of sleep, toxins are also removed from our systems, and our minds are given a break from mental activity. This break allows our memory to be restored and helps us sort through and resolve emotional conflict through dreaming.

Although sleep is essential, we seem to be getting less of it these days. In 1910, the average adult slept about nine to ten hours a night. Now, however, the average American adult sleeps about seven hours a night. Individuals who suffer from chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, frequent colds or infections, depression, anxiety, or most any other chronic disease, usually need at least eight hours of sleep a night and would benefit even more from nine hours.

Years ago, when I encountered one of my patients or friends I would ask them, “How are you doing?” Their response was nearly always, “Fine.” Now when I ask that same question, I find that people tend to respond with answers such as “Busy,” “Tired” or “Exhausted.”

I have met people who genuinely believe being busy is a sign of success. Some even take pride in being busy and push themselves to the point of exhaustion. As a nation, America seems to be trapped in a work-and-spend cycle. Author John de Graff calls this “afluenza”—a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.

Rex Russell's Three Principles Inspired Improved Health and Life Changes

February 4, 2009 -- Rex Russell was not your ordinary kidney transplant candidate. A board-certified invasive radiologist, Dr. Russell was the author of What the Bible Says about Healthy Living, a landmark book that many credit as the genesis of the mainstream biblical eating movement. Russell died last Thursday at the age of 68.

"God used Dr. Russell to deliver a message that transformed the health and lives of thousands of people," said Jordan Rubin, the New York Times best-selling author of The Maker's Diet, and himself a longtime admirer of Dr. Russell's.

Russell's Three Principles are (1) eat only those things that God designed to be eaten, (2) eat those foods in a form as close as possible to the form in which God provided them, and (3) do not let any food or drink become an idol. While some people might interpret these guidelines to mean a raw, vegetarian diet, Russell was a strong proponent of eating beef, chicken and certain fish, since the Bible permits eating these foods in Leviticus 11.

When Hope Egan rushed to release her cookbook based on Russell's three principles by January, she had one goal: get it to him before his kidney transplant. However, a stroke two days before his scheduled surgery left him in a coma. Russell died just moments before Egan received her first case of books.

"He was amazing," said Egan. "He always had a story about God's design for eating. Sometimes it was about a new scientific study he'd read. Sometimes it was about a friend whose health had improved with a change in diet. Most of the time it was about the miracles he'd experienced in his own life; for example, he reduced his blood pressure by going off his four blood pressure meds and eating Real Salt, and lowered his cholesterol by going off statin drugs and eating nuts. He was a hard-core adherent of the Three Principles."

"Rex is a hero of mine," agreed Doug Hudson, speaker for Song of Solomon Resources and longtime friend of Russell's. "He never understood the magnitude of what God did through his life. To me, that is the mark of a true hero: to be given ‘genius' but to never take credit for it. Russell's life and influence will be better known 20 years from now than when he was alive."

Russell is survived by his wife, Judy, and their sons, Randy and Rodney.

Let’s face it. Exercise can become just another boring task in our lives…that is IF we even find the time for it. Some people are lacking motivation and passion, thus never really starting a fitness program. Others may be utterly frustrated because they try hard at times but always seem to lose momentum, running out of steam and never really sticking with anything very long.  Yet others still have all the best intentions, do their homework, plan it out but allow life to prevent them from starting. If you relate with any of these, I have good news for you!