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Continued from my June blog on the effects that positive affirmations can have on our lives, and tips on how to create your own statements. 

Here are some affirmations that may be helpful in expressing what you wish for yourself, or they may trigger an ‘a-ha!’ moment, helping you to recognize a certain thought pattern that may be holding you back in some way.  It’s fun to use a list like the one below to exercise your intuitive muscles, too!  Try scannin

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Here at the Pittsburgh Center for Complementary Health & Healing, we realize that the benefits of massage extend to so much more than just our bodies.  While massage therapy may get most of its attention for the effects it has on us physically and for stress relief, there are many other areas of our emotional, mental, and social health that can be positively influenced by massage.  You may be pleasantly surprised at the list below, as it points out some areas of our lives that we you not have realized can benefit so greatly from therapeutic massage.  I think the most wonderful thing about

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To affirm means to ‘make firm.’  Using positive affirmations by speaking or thinking them to ourselves can literally reprogram our subconscious mind by telling it something that we wish to make true, or firm, in our lives.  Our minds have been programmed by the old and often negative thought patterns of our parents, past experiences, and the society around us. -->

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(4) 8” tortillas

2 cups deli smoked turkey, diced

(1) 11 oz. can mexicorn, drained

(1) 15 oz. can black beans, rinsed & drained

2 tbsp. lemon juice

1 cup pepper jack cheese, shredded

-Preheat oven to 350. Place tortillas on greased baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes. Heat turkey, mexicorn and beans in oiled skillet. Stir in lemon juice. Spoon mixture on tortillas, top with cheese, and bake for 2 more minutes.

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As a student in massage school I took a psychology class and learned something very surprising about stress. I always thought that stress was caused by events we would consider to be negative, but it turns out that any life change causes stress, even if it is a desirable change, such as a vacation or reaching a weight loss goal. And this stress caused by change can go much farther than making us feel frazzled. There is a method of identifying stress called the Life Change Index, developed by Dr. Thomas H. Holmes.

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