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Zoom to Reiki with Be The Medicine

Designed to meet the special needs of this year, Be The Medicine is pleased to offer Reiki 1 & 2 Self & Distance Healing Class via Zoom from 6:30-9 p.m., on May 14 through June 18. The class blends the attunements and teachings for self-healing and healing others to help build immunity, stay well and energized. Participants will also learn how to send healing energy to someone in the next room or across the world. 

Janet StraightArrow has been teaching reiki since 1996 and brings incredible experience, energy, and information to all who attend. This exciting course offers practical healing and energy work teachings in addition to Reiki attunements, meditations, and practice, with each student receiving a full healing session.

StraightArrow will also host an Experiential Healing Circle from 7-9 p.m., on May 19 via Zoom. She is also available for private consultations by phone or Zoom.

Reiki Class is offered at specially discounted rate. For questions call 973-647-2500 or email [email protected]. To register, visit BeTheMedicine.com.

In-Print, Community reiki May 2020
Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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