The Light Comes

'The darkest hour is just before dawn ", as the adage goes.  The collective "we", in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, feel as though we may not see the light for many months to come.  The emotional and physical gutting of our homes is mostly complete.  That was the darkest hour. Rebuilding is the next phase. It is a project for all and more daunting for some than others. The Light shines through the studs in the bare walls of every home in Rockaway.  The Light comes onto the faces of neighbors as we greet those returning to their homes for the holidays.  The Light twinkles in our eyes as we laugh together and shop at the Red Cross tent and recall days gone by when we would have shuddered at the idea.  The notion of "stuff" , more stuff to give this year is somehow distasteful to me.  I witnessed all the "stuff' that we had stored and hoarded in our basements piled high on our streets. Soggy, moldy remnants of our past. How much of that did we really need? How often did we use any of that which we felt was too precious to dispose of? I am wont to accumulate more of what I will end up storing.  In fact, if it needs to be stored, I do not buy it. The Light, for me, will be in Lightening up.  Lightening my load. Lightening my step. Lightening my attitude. Lightening the burden of someone else. Lightening the path forward.  And forward I will go.  The Light comes to those who see it. It is always shining brightly for all to see. It simply depends on whether or not you are looking for it. Tomorrow, the Winter Solstice, will be the shortest day and the longest night of the year. We celebrate the fact that the darkest hour is just before dawn.  From that day forward, the Light comes. it promises to get stronger and warmer along the way.  This we know for sure. The Light comes.

The Power of $ELF CARE - Now Available on Amazon.com

This inspiring book is a breakthrough gem that empowers you to think in a new way to understand self care as a solution to your health and wellness. Dr. Gahles, an internationally recognized expert in integrative healthcare, clearly shows you how to use a common sense action plan to achieve your wellness solution through heartfelt storytelling, video demonstrations and practical applications. Creating health and well-being is a lifestyle. Dr. Gahles, a healthcare futurist, teaches you common sense strategies to invest in an individualized wellness portfolio to realize the benefit of a premium quality of life at dramatic cost savings as the return on your investment.

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Available in both Paperback and Kindle: 94 pages  

Language: English
ISBN-10: 1470013789
ISBN-13: 978-1470013783
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
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About the Author

Dr. Nancy Gahles is CEO and Founder of Health & Harmony Wellness Education and TeleHealth & Harmony. She is a Chiropractor, Certified Classical Homeopath and Ordained Interfaith Minister in family practice since 1979 specializing in integrative healthcare. Dr. Gahles is Pres. Emeritus of the National Center for Homeopathy and serves as Director of Public Education and Advocacy. Dr. Gahles is a member of the Board of Directors and the Federal Policy Comittee of the Integrative Healthcare Policy Consortium; Co-Chair of the healthcare policy working group of the American Sustainable Business Council; Advisory Board, Integrative Healthcare Symposium and several ask-the-expert panels. She is a health columnist, free lance journalist and author of “The Power of $elf Care:A Common Sense Guide to YOUR Wellness Solution”.

HEALTH & HARMONY

Information is Power

The information highway, the internet, has been our means of travel to vast storehouses of information for decades now. The plethora of sources that exist to plumb the depths of any subject one desires to explore is a wonder to behold. The caveat all students are given is to beware of the source. Not all websites have reliable or evidence-based data.  Wikipedia, for example, is not considered acceptable as a footnote in research papers as anyone can contribute comments and these are not necessarily factual. Certainly, in many instances, they are biased.

Caveat Emptor, buyer beware,  can surely apply to the world of information.  Informing oneself on a subject implies that you have credible sources, cross check your references and fact check your informants. Then, when you feel confident that you have accumulated the best data available on a subject, you can articulate your position with power.

Information is used as power when one is attempting to persuade another to accept their theory, opinion or position on a subject matter. Information is used as power when it is given to a person to use in media, print or otherwise. Information is power when it needs to be regurgitated on a test and your grade reflects your understanding of that information and so dictates your accomplished passage through the course.

Information must be intermingled with intuition to become powerful. The process is essential to understanding, which is the corollary to learning. Intuition is our gift of inner knowing. The bell that rings true. The resonance with truth that one feels and knows and owns as their own. Information is power when it is infused with intuition.

Right action based on information and the decisions that emanate from that is the power base from which you create your life. Once you begin to operate on this level, using this format and these tools of conscious awareness, the information that you disseminate will be powerful. Your voice will be heard as credible. The invitation is then open for others to share their viewpoint, to disagree with yours, to develop another one that flows from the dialogue.  This is how intelligent, dynamic, informed discussions lead to theories, practical solutions, problem solving and the creation of public policy.

This is also how relationships are formed, social networks are built, companies are born and new ideas and innovations are spawned.

Be an individual at all costs. Information is power when you own the rights to it because it flows from within you. Hard won, forged with the heat of due diligence, controversy and challenges. In this way, no man can ever take it away from you. Information is powerful when it is malleable like hot steel. It can be transformed, can change states, can be set in stone. These are the qualities of information that make it so powerful. So magical. So compelling. These are the qualities that you look for and sense in another who is disseminating their information to you. You will know it when it resonates with you. When it does not ring true, search for the truth behind those words. You know the path to tread. You know where the treasure is hidden. You know you simply have to start digging to find it!

May The Blessings Be!

Dr. Nancy was Featured in Corporate Wellness Magazine

Dr. Nancy's Article, "Cosmetics, Environment, and Breast Cancer" appeared in the Corporate Wellness Magazine: 

http://www.corporatewellnessmagazine.com/article-detail.php?issue=issue-35&article=cosmetics-environment-and-breast-cancer

Upholding the ACA

Upholding the ACA means upholding your CHOICE and ACCESS to MORE than conventional medicine! Sec. 5101 provides for a NEW national healthcare workforce. One that includes integrative healthcare practices like chiropractic, homeopathy, acupuncture, naturopathy and more.  These professions will lower cost and add safe, effective therapeutics to our menu.

State insurance exchanges are mandated to include prevention and wellness in their insurance offerings. Guess who provides TRUE primary prevention AND wellness...the integrative healthcare practioners!

So, step up to the plate, get involved with your state exchange and tell them what you want in your insurance benefits package. You are ALLOWED to speak up. Sec. 2706 of the ACA says that insurance companies CANNOT DISCRIMINATE against providers acting within their scope of practice OR certification.

Be passionate about empowerment!

Dr. Nancy Gahles is a recognized expert in the field of integrative healthcare.

As a thought leader in the field for over 30 years, Dr. Gahles has advanced the concept of empowerment in consumer centric healthcare. Emphasis in her care paradigm is on the whole person, body, mind, emotion and spirit.
She believes that creation of a wellness culture begins at home. Dr. Gahles educates the people with whom she consults to be aware consumers of health care and conscious co-creators of their own health and well being.

 A healthcare futurist, Dr. Gahles combines her talents and wisdom, to empower consumers to be disruptive innovators in their healthcare.

Self-care, a principle that everyone can practice, is the source of acknowledging your own power. Dr. Gahles is an ardent patient advocate and works with each person to develop their best strategy for short and long term healthcare goals.

Here is the link to her book, The Power of $elf Care:A Common Sense Guide to YOUR Wellness Solution
http://amzn.to/16G1hAB

Her innovative concept of creating a Health Investment Portfolio© to realize these goals is the foundation of Health & Harmony Wellness Education.

Here is the link to her TEDxTalk explaining the Health Investment Portfolio©:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6bZBwl636s

Revolution in the way in which healthcare is delivered has brought access to a broader range in choice of treatments and providers. TeleHealth technologies enhance the provider-consumer relationship with real time access to each other via the Internet.

 Dr. Gahles is a pioneer in delivering integrative healthcare solutions via
information prescriptions through TeleHealth and Harmony™

Here is the link to her blog:allabouttelehealth.wordpress.com

Spirituality in healing is an essential element that Dr. Gahles is competent to address through her compassionate nature and her ministry as an Ordained Interfaith Minister. Ceremonies of the Heart celebrate love, vibrant health and well-being, through encouraging relationships that support and sustain us by giving meaning
and purpose to our lives.

Dr. Nancy Gahles invites you to visit with her in person or by Internet to begin
the journey of creating a vibrant YOU now!

Dr Gahles archived radio shows -http://www.innerhealth.us/for-clients/homeopathy-radio.html

Sleep hygiene is the best prevention for Alzheimer's, click on link to article.

http://www.naturalnews.com/035008_sleep_memory_loss_Alzheimers.html

Here is an interesting link on living in the moment!

http://m.wimp.com/nofear/