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How to Save an Injured Brain? Art and Science!

An Art of Wellness POV

When I was blind-all-and-systems-frying from the effects of industrial toxins on my body and brain--the first real relief and concrete reason to keep believing I could beat this--I could get better--came when I met Dr. Hershel Toomim.

Experimenter, researcher, scientific inventor and pioneer--my kind of guy all around. Interested with something experimental to offer. The success we began to have gave him one of his first HEG case studies. I was lucky to meet him. He got was I was going through. He was the first one who asked questions that made sense--that mattered--to figuring out what was going on. The first who had something to help.

There was no comprehensive program for me to follow. No roadmap but my own lifelong Wellness practice and a strong background in human development, peak performance, mainstream and alternative medicine. That’s how I knew how to find the cutting edge of the BioFeedback Center of Los Angeles, BioComp Research and Dr Hershel Toomim.

Our first goal was to stop the deterioration caused by neurotoxins. The healing didn’t start til I began to get enough oxygen. That took time. Time for me to get it, and once I did, time for my body to use it and start healing itself.

In our first HEG-training sessions, we worked on the areas that gave me some of the most troubling brain malfunctions--cognitive, physical, and behavioral.

Then everything began to improve and continued improving.

We worked and talked of many things: the other wholistic treatments, natural products and practices in my own Self-Designed rehabilitation plan.

He was my seasoned scientific guide into brain-injury and technology and I the determined trainee who challenged him to develop his art. We talked about HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen) and how it was being used in cases of toxic chemical brain injuries.

My own rehabilitation program combined with regular HEG sessions with Dr. Toomim let me return to living life: I was working--I gave up my Disability, I volunteered in my community, and I told stories at the Getty--but I was still blind, and I still needed supplemental oxygen. What I was doing was not enough. I chose a clinic south of the border to get the holistic, medically supervised detox treatment I needed combined with HBOT. The only treatment they didn’t have there I wished I could be doing concurrently was HEG via neurofeedback.

I left LA a blind woman and came back with sight. At last I could see the man who’d taken a confused, deteriorating neuro-toxically brain-injured blind woman and helped me fight my way back! He helped me make sense of things over the next many months as my brain continued to reorganize.

Today, Dr Hershel Toomim’s combining HEG and HBOT with great success in his Los Angeles facility. Thousands of individuals who have benefited from HEG neurofeedback therapy or who use Brain Exercise Works!™ at home, attain the benefits of cognitive acuity (improved I.Q.) as well as improvements in social integration (autism). The idea that anyone can learn to voluntarily control the blood flow in their brain is now as real as the ground we stand on. The Biofeedback Institute of Los Angeles is entering a new expansion phase to provide many more people the opportunity to experience Brain Exercise Works!™. Currently, there are over 2,000 instruments and 1,000 therapists worldwide providing HEG brain exercise at any given moment.

One Love | Playing For Change | Song Around the World

Poetry Feeds Body Mind and Spirit, Communifies and Heals

An Art of Wellness POV

“Take My Picture Gary Leonard!” http://www.takemypicture.com/TakeMyPicture.com/Home.html holds more visual treats than you can imagine. I love going there for inspiration. Gary’s a famous LA photojournalist--I’ve been his fan for years. Prolific with an incredible vision, he’s photographed people and our landscapes all his life--the famous, the infamous, and the unknown. You’ve seen his pictures in newspapers and magazines and books. Today, he has a gallery on S. Broadway with a revolving exhibit of his work. The best part--not only can you see his wonderful photographic work, you can buy it and take it home to provide you with continual inspiration.

Last week I felt the need for an infusion of Inspiration--I knew where to go. A houseful of weary Angelino’s (who’s NOT weary in this particular moment of economic turbulence?) got a real Body-Mind-Spirit-full of Inspiration at an event Gary hosted: Ad/Verse Reactions a Word performance by Ed Rosenthal and Jack Skelly.

With the backdrop of Gary’s iconic exhibition--The Billboard Show: Selling the So-Cal Lifestyle Photographic Landscapes of the 1950’s and 60’s-- the pure healing power of vocal poetry backed by the old-school bongos-and-bass by Gilbert and Charles, members of The French Semester made the Body groove and sway, transformed the crowd with the music, the spoken words engaging the Mind, and the satisfaction of the Spirit with the expression of what-we-all-feel-yet-can’t put into words.

We feel the joy, the laughter, the pain, the ridiculous, and the sublime and are delighted and healed by the words of the poets. And in the company of others who, too, are delighted and healed, we have a shared experience, and feel communified.

Art heals us: Body-Mind-and-Spirit. Art allows us to experience things we often don’t have the words to explain or express. Science has not yet figured out why. Yet wisdom handed down throughout the ages has us turning to the Arts--especially Music and Poetry when our Spirits need healing and the inspiration to keep on keeping on. Times like we’re going through today.

My thanks to the Host Gary Leonard and the Poets Ed Rosenthal and Jack Skelly for a wonderful evening of Healing Through ART, to Gilbert and Charles, and to John F. Gannon, Strike Out Studio, who filmed the event so I can share it with you--so that you too can experience the healing power of the Art of the Poets.

Just click here or on the title of this blogpost.

Look fast, you'll catch me at the door, while the intrepid Tom Gilmore introduces the night.

You'll need 39 minutes to see it--so take the time, enjoy, and be healed by the gifts of the Poets!

Invite some friends or co-workers to share it with you and experience how Art Heals and Communifies!

Once a Brain-Damaged Blind Chick...So Cut Me Some Slack

An Art of Wellness POV

Give me some time to work it all out. Isn’t that what we’re all asking for these days? It’s what we all need--especially in this insane economic mess we’re all in.

A lot of you have contacted me (phone msg or e-mail) saying you CAN’T POST REPLIES--and asking about Open ID.

Thanks for the alerts! I was starting to feel unloved. I’m working out the glitches and consulting my experts today!

I promise I’ll master Blogger in no time--and FIX whatever’s not letting you post.

And then we can talk.

For those of you who (like me) said “what’s open ID?” I posted a link so you can empower yourSELF. You probably already HAVE an Open ID and just don’t know it! Check the link! It's worth it--it basically eliminates the need to think of multiple usernames across oh--about 50,000 different websites. This SIMPLIFIES your online experience. Computers--always more to learn:)

When I was blind, it was serious survival need for me to learn talking computers. No one had the vested interest I did in researching what had happened to me, what they knew and how I could get better. I used to earn my allowance and brownie points doing research for my father-the-doctor. I knew how, where to search, and what to look for.

Talking computers were my correspondence, my library, my sanity, my lifeline to the world. But a whole new world opens when you get your sight back. Talking computers give you linear information--line by line. It’s all different-when you can SEE. When I saw what was on the monitor--for the first time in more than 5 years--it scared the bejeezus out of me.Think about how different what’s on the screen looked like to you by 2003 from what we had in ’98! The first year I often had to turn the monitor off and just use the talking programs I was used to--just to work.

THEN came learning how to use a computer visually again. Even though my brain, mental, cognitive, and others systems are back at excellent smart function--my visual systems were pretty trashed--and still tire. After all those years blind--I want to see everything. Sometimes I just have to close my eyes for a while--they’re so greedy for input--they overeat.

If YOU get confused with new programs and new sites and all the changes--imagine what it’s like for ME? Blogging's a great platform--but I’m just figuring it all out.

Which brings me to: a real-life example of Zeeva’s Art of Wellness Lifestyle.

I highly recommend you consider it for your own excellent SELF-Care. Real SELF-Empowerment.

Integral to the Art of Wellness: Want to master something? Go to the Masters.

When I got my Mac--I got the Apple One-to-One program. Best deal in town--$99 for the year and you can get a LOT of excellent training! You set up your appointment for

whatever you want to learn, come into the Apple Store a few minutes before your appointed time--and no waiting, you get your own Apple-trained and exclusive to Apple guru to teach you how to do pretty much everything you can do on a Mac! Ryan in Pasadena sold me the Mac I needed--with nuthin’ I didn’t--a few years ago and sold me on the One-to One Program. The first couple of years--I got some basics and was too involved with my late Mom’s needs to do much else. Used a virtual assistant to run my site, assist me with the Z’zine, and I wrote the book.

Last year, my VA got flaky. I walked into the Apple Store, showed ‘em my site, and said “How long will it take you to teach me to re-design, manage and maintain my own site?” THEY said “If you come in once a week--5-6 weeks.” 5 weeks later I published my own first site! Been redesigning on the fly since.

The last few months--I’ve been there every week--so I want to give Apple, Ryan, Matt, Mike, Jay, Darryl, Nathaniel, Warren, & Elaine some serious props. And brag just a bit:

Everything you see on my site--site design & implementation, the video’s, audio’s soon--has been created and done my ME--the woman people used to refer to as “the blind chick.” With the exception of the Zeeva logo and the portrait of me “as Zeeva” (from which I clipped that cool “Z’s Eyes” logo you see on top of each page) everything you see when you go to Zeeva.net or the ZeevaFamily site has been and is being done by a woman who is supposed to be “permanently blind, “permanently brain-damaged, and “permanently disabled.”

I shot the film, now I’m learning to edit, and this fall--you get to watch how an artist who lost a lot of abilities that defined me to a long battle back from brain-injury and blindness see what I can do now that I can see again.

(I chronicle that experience--and what I do as I continue my own Self-created, Self-guided, and Self-monitored ongoing rehab from the brain injuries the Medical establishment defined as “Toxic Encepalopathy-with-a -long-list-of-diagnoses “secondary” on the free ZeevaFamily membership site--sign up on Zeeva.net.

All the stuff you see--I’ve learned how to do for and by my SELF with the brilliant training and support from my Apple One-to-One team at the Pasadena CA store.

I’m such a big One-to-One fan--when store customers who stop to look over my shoulder as I’m working ask--I tell ALL of them “Get One-to-One and stop worrying about tying your friends and family down to those promises of showing you how to do something!” Usually--you can come before your One-to-One session or stay after to participate in the daily workshops in all-things-Mac they have going on too!

So hang in there, stick with me--and save your comments-to-post to a doc!

That’s MY story--I’m working on making it so you CAN post YOURS.

Pearls Before the Swine(-Flu)

An Art of Wellness POV

Food for Thought: Once upon a time the USA was the healthiest country in the world. Today we’re immune-deficient pill-poppers, terrified of the latest flu scam-demic.

We have a new flu virus going around every year. The nature of the flu virus beast is that it mutates--which is why chemical--uh--pharmaceutical companies get rich creating the new and improved vaccines for YOU each year. This year it’s a Swine-Bird flu mutant.

So far--this new flu has made it’s way around the world--and killed far less people around the world than prescription drugs kill in the US alone every year. Kathleen Sebelius--our Secretary of Health and Human Services tells us that our most vulnerable--our children--are going to be the first on the list to be vaccinated against this big bad Swine-Flu.

Her Australian counterpart--Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon is telling Aussie parents not to worry: the Swine Flu is no more dangerous than the “regular” flu. An Aussie immunization specialist estimates that though the average year in Australia sees 5 or 6 “regular” flu deaths among their kids--the H1N1 could take twice that number--from 10-12. Hmm... Are the Aussies that much healthier and more robust than Americans? Shouldn’t we be building our immune systems?

I’m listening to CNN this morning. Media’s really programming us to clamor for the new vaccine. Creating a consumer demand. Direct quotes from their newscaster:

"So we're not going to really have an immune population til December...”

“It's been in many countries around the world...”

“Swine flu's different--it kills young people and pregnant women...”

“You're worried about younger people--old people have some advantage here--at some time in their life--they were exposed and developed some immunity to it...”

“Young people’s immune systems have never seen this--so they're vulnerable..."

Why are our Media, our government, and the CDC running such a scare campaign about Swine-Flu?

What do YOU need to know?

There's no vaccine yet. There won't be ‘til mid-fall. They say you need to get TWO shots, two weeks apart, even then-- you won't have "full immunity" until about 2.5 weeks after the second shot. That’s why Ms. CNN said we won’t have "an immune population ‘til December."

This formerly blind chick sees the Media really earning those pharmaceutical advertising dollars for the networks.

NaturalNews.com’s Mike Adams points out: “To most people, vaccines sound medically harmless. “They’re good for you!” say the doctors and the drug companies, but they never really talk about what’s in those vaccines. There’s a good reason for that: if people knew what was really in those vaccines, they would never allow themselves to be injected with them...” http://www.NaturalNews.com/026779_swine_flu_patents_vaccines.html

Mike’s famous for his passion--and sharing information you just don’t see on other Health and Wellness sites. He can get pretty hot about stuff--and for good reason. Read his article to find out:

What do infected, killed-then-harvested African green Monkeys have to do with the upcoming new Swine-flu vaccine the chemical --uh--pharmaceutical companies are preparing for you?

Why does a top US military contractor share the ownership of key viral vaccine patents with the US government’s National Institutes of Health? http://www.NaturalNews.com/026779_swine_flu_patents_vaccines.html

Mike also wonders why the media’s not paying attention.

C’mon Mike--you grew up on the inside of Pharma like I did on the inside of Medicine. Follow the money.

HOW many commercials for drugs do we see daily?

In a related article (you can get it off the same link) called “10 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know About the Swine Fly Vac” Mike points out something very important:

“Let’s not beat around the bush on this issue: the Swine Flu vaccines now being prepared for mass injection into infants, children, teens, and adults have never been tested and won’t be tested before the injections begin...Notably, there is absolutely no safety data on the use of adjuvants in infants and expectant mothers--the two groups being most aggressively targeted by the Swine Flu vaccine pushers.” http://www.NaturalNews.com/026779_swine_flu_patents_vaccines.html

Dr. Mercola has a lot of great information and a new health networking site! He’s got a lot of good info on how you can start building your immune system up and be ready for flu season before the vaccine is!

He’s got a great article laying out the dangers of adjuvants in this particular new brand of kool-aid they’re trying to scare you into taking! http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/04/Squalene-The-Swine-Flu-Vaccines-Dirty-Little-Secret-Exposed.aspx

And what about this case in Poland: a medical trial done on as many as 350 homeless and poor people involved an “untried vaccine to the highly contagious virus.” People thought they were being paid to test a conventional flu vac. Investigators found it was actually a “bird-flu vac.” More than 20 people died. Wait--isn’t this the Swine-Bird-Flu mutant hybrid virus they’re scaring US with? Even though they haven’t proved the direct link between the deaths and the medical staff’s activities yet--the Polish Health Minister Ewa Kopacz said about the MD’s and nurses embroiled: they shouldn’t return to their profession--and that “in the interests of all doctors--the ones responsible for this should be punished.”

Makes me remember all the speeches I heard my father--the research and teaching physician--make about the “indiscriminate use of antibiotics and other drugs” American Medicine was taking from the 1960’s onwards. His concern--as a old-school pathologist--was that “we’re messing with our immune systems.”

After generations have grown up taking a pill for whatever ails you, here we are. A Chronically Diseased people on drugs, buying into all the commercials to ask you doctor about...

The CDC and all the big TV doctors are teaching us the basic hygiene habits we all learned from our grandmothers so we didn’t get sick--or if we did, we didn’t spread it. If only Medicine hadn’t developed the culture of treating symptoms with drugs instead of teaching people how to be HEALTHY. We might not have forgotten those basic habits. They’re on TV now talking about the new pandemic and how hard everyone’s working on the new vaccine--those patented expensive drugs they’re making.

If only they’d concentrate on telling us about how easy it is to build up your immune system naturally--and you should start NOW to be ready for FLU season. Oh, right--then people wouldn’t need the drugs.

That’s MY story--what’s YOURS?

Z

Artist, Dancer...Map-maker? What we're prepared for but never expect...

An Art of Wellness POV

In 1998--when they told me--the daughter of a research and teaching pathologist and a United Nations Secretariat staffer--what chemicals were in the mix I'd been exposed to--and what'd been found in my blood--I was terrified. I was already blind--that was bad enough. I knew how those neurotoxins and carcinogens would operate. I went to my alter lifted up my arms and said "You have given this to me. Now give me the strength to see it through. Give me the wisdom to learn what I'm supposed to learn and then do what I'm supposed to do."

I'd been an environmental activist, early organizer for the California Green Party, and canvassed on Prop 65--a law that controls the way that (a first 65 identified--many more now) common but very toxic industrial chemicals can be used. Ironically--asphalt--used VERY illegally--inside a building--was what did me in. It's on the list.

I understood Medicine and the human body and got into holistic as a child, human development and peak performance as a teen--and had lived Body-Mind-Spirit Balance for so many years. I knew what the law said.

As scared as I was then--the knowing came upon me--that if this terrible thing was to happen to anyone--the parents I was born to, the Masters of many fields that had guided me through childhood and since--all the different things I'd learned--had prepared me to get through this and come out the other side.

A lot of the many Alternative Health Pro's--MD's and Scientists too-- who helped me along the way commented on how even though what I was going through was terrible and confusing--I understood so much about my body-brain nervous systems and could tell them what I was experiencing and how that helped them. Not only with me--but to ask the right questions with other patients who were terrified and couldn't explain or understand what was happening to them beyond "somethings reallly wrong."

I'm an artist. I understood that even if it killed me--I had to document. I did. I learned talking computers to research and document and be able to communicate with wonderful online communities who couldn't tell from my e-mails how impaired I was and how long it took me to put my words and thoughts together. After years of catching up to a life disrupted by disability, I’d really just like to do my work. Make art.

Yet with so many people being told they must suffer with illness or disability "for the rest of your life" maybe the reason I has to go through the fires of blindness, brain injury, and disability--and all the many "systems" that people facing health issues go through--is so I can use the creative gifts from my Muses to provide others a road-map back to Wellness, and tell the story in whatever way I can--so that others who've been given the negative doom and gloom that encourages people to give up the inspiration, to tell what I experienced along the way, and provide some kind of direction for a safer path through their own journeys. No matter what state of health you're presently in--you CAN GET BETTER THAN YOU FEEL NOW. You don't have to be perfect to be Well. You just have to start.

Welcome to My New Blog--and What to DO!

An Art of Wellness POV

Dear Friends--this is Z who was blind--from Jan 1998-May 2003--and the Medical Mainstream said it'd be "forever!"

I was a lot worse than blind--I was brain-injured and all systems going haywire!

I'm an Alternative Wellness miracle--and I grew up on the inside of Medicine. That’s one reason how I knew what I knew--and was able to beat the Medical Life Sentence of “permanent brain-damage, permanent blindness, and permanent disability.” Mainstream Medicine gave me up gave me up for a goner and recommended a board and care.

I beat that life-sentence. I was blind 5.5 years. I used Alternative Medicine and worked the Wellness Lifestyle I’d preferred all my life. In 2003--after 5.5 years of battle to regain my sight, my brain, and my Health and Wellness--I got my sight back. It took another year or so before I really felt my brain starting to balance the incredible reorganization that kept taking place AFTER my sight returned.

Though we live in a free country--I’m NOT free to share specific Alternative Health and Wellness information with you--unless you agree to that “standard required disclaimer” and join my free membership site--the ZeevaFamily. Find out how on zeeva.net. There’s actually a federal directive put out by the FTC a few years ago--that opens any non-doctor who talks about natural and healthy alternatives to people--without that disclaimer being clearly agreed to--is open to prosecution! That’s kind of funny--considering MD’s have virtually no training in Wellness--they spend their years in Med School studying disease, how-to manage it pharmaceutically and how to treat it once it gets extreme. But Well-educated Wellness Pro’s can get in trouble for sharing real Health and Wellness!

Isn't it just crazy that natural safe Wellness info has to be Censored?

After all I lived through and come back to tell the story--you can imagine that I’d really like to have some peace in my life.

Readers of the Z'zine know I've written that Health-Care knows no politics--or it shouldn't. Health problems hit you whether you voted Red, Blue or Purple and I've posted links and articles to experts Left, Right, Center--and some way out there too--ALL agreeing that there are BETTER ways in the Alternative Health directions we share.

UnCommon Sense should be always be UnCensored and free--this is America!

But ‘til we get real about Health-Care and what Preventative Lifestyle and Medicine actually are--until we open the chokehold that the latter 20th Century style of Medicine has had on our Health Freedom--I have to go to the complexities of two blogs and two sites just to be able to do my part, use my knowledge, education and experience to help others learn how to be Well!

Come to UnCommon Sense for my POV on the many things I CAN share with you about Wellness and about my Difficult But Triumphant Adventure through the Worlds of Blindness, Brain Injury, Disability, and the Broken Systems That Wiped Out America’s Economy. For those of you who want more, join the ZeevaFamily.

I’m so concerned about what’s happening--and NOT happening in DC--on Health-Care, I’m also using my constitutional rights as a citizen of the USA.

I ask YOU to step up too!

Since the government and the media are not providing this forum--I started a blog where YOU can discuss and tell your stories and tell what KIND of Natural Alternative Medicine needs to part of any meaningful change!

The Alternative Health-Care Reform Discussion http://alternativehealthdiscussion.blogspot.com.

We voted for CHANGE. Our DC Rep's are talking to the usual players--no real Wellness Pro's! Without Alternative--they're leaving a whole lot of solution out of their talks! Let's talk about what they need to put on the table that works!

Join your voice! Tell YOUR stories! Let's talk about what the deciders in DC need to have on the table if they're really going to give us the CHANGE we want and NEED!

I WANT America to GET WELL AGAIN like I DID!

I'm fighting for my right--and YOURS-- to CHOOSE to BE WELL!

I want my right to choose not to be a chronic managed disease, and to be Well and Healthy holistically.

If you want that too--please help me. I'm good with words. But I’m just an artist taking my life back. I can't do this alone. UnCommon Sense is about the Art of Wellness.

The Alternative Health-Care Reform Discussion is about US!

Tell your friends and family, your colleagues, your connects--there a place online we can have this discussion--and together we can make enough noise for our Washington Reps to HEAR US!

Go THERE to make your opinions heard--and save UnCommon Sense with Z for the things Zeeva does best--Art, Human Potential, Inspiration, and Zeeva's Art of Wellness.

Be Happy, Be Healthy, Be WELL

Z