Tuesday Talk
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 4th, 2011
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Fox News Producer, Occupy Wall Street Protester Have Testy Exchange In Unaired Interview (VIDEO)
A Fox News producer and a protester with theOccupy Wall Street Movement had a testy exchange in an interview that didn’t make it onto the air.
A member of the movement’s media team sent the New York Observer footage of Jesse LaGreca, the protester, politely but pointedly criticizing Fox News, as well as Griff Jenkins, the producer asking him questions. (Fox News has sent several producers and correspondents to the New York encampment; much of the coverage has leaned toward negativity or mockery.)
The video shows Jenkins asking LaGreca if the movement took any cues from the protests in Greece and Europe. “I’d say that we didn’t take our cue leading off of anybody really,” LaGreca says. “It became a more spontaneous movement.” He then turns his sights on Jenkins, and on Fox News itself.
“It’s fun to talk to the propaganda machine and the media, especially conservative media networks such as yourself, because we find that we can’t get conversations for the Department of Justice’s ongoing investigation of News Corporation, for which you are an employee,” he says.
“We’re here giving you an opportunity on the record … to put any message you want out there, to give you fair coverage,” Jenkins responds. “…You wouldn’t be able to get your message out there without us.”
“Take for instance when Glenn Beck was doing his protest and he called the President a person who hates white people and white culture,”LaGreca says. “That was a low moment in Americans’ history and you guys kinda had a big part in it. So, I’m glad to see you coming around and kind of paying attention to what the other 99 percent of Americans are paying attention to.”
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October 4th, 2011 at 10:18 am
“In order to confine and kill animals for food, we must repress our natural compassion, warping us away from intuition and toward materialism, violence, and disconnectedness.” ~Will Tuttle~
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Will Tuttle is an educator, musician, Zen Master, and author of a powerfully compelling book “The World Peace Diet”. The theme of Tuttle’s best selling book is that cruelty to animals (particularly farmed animals) sets a tone in our society that plays out in interpersonal violence, war, and environmental destruction. Animal agriculture brought on a desensitization to violence and a reduction in our essential feelings, awareness, and intelligence (ability to make connections). This is a root cause of oppression, exploitation, and spiritual disconnectednes.
October 4th, 2011 at 11:47 am
PUTTING PAIN UNDER A SPELL
We’ve all seen images of those strange old stage acts where Svengali-like hypnotists pulled reluctant folks up onto the stage and induced them to dance like chickens.
But of course we know better now — contrary to its old reputation as mere hocus-pocus, hypnosis is a genuine medical therapy that has been proven to help people stop smoking… lose weight… reduce anxiety… and now, I am happy to tell you, ease the awful pain and discomfort of one of the most intractable conditions, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
I’d already read that Peter Whorwell, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine and gastroenterology at the University of Manchester Medical School in Britain, had been working with exactly this challenge.
But could it really be true that his success rate was hitting close to the 70% mark?
That’s a very big number for such a stubborn disease… and knowing friends and coworkers who had suffered with the miseries of IBS.
I called Dr. Whorwell after I read about his work. He confirmed this phenomenal success rate and said he’d be happy to fill me in on his work.
IT’S MISERABLE
In case you don’t know anyone with IBS, the first thing to understand is that you actually probably do know someone with it — it’s just not something that most people like to talk about.
IBS is a chronic illness of the gut that torments one in six people in the US with some combination of bloating, constipation, diarrhea and abdominal pain that can all range from mild to very severe.
Pharmaceutical companies have spent lots of money trying to come up with drugs for IBS and have yet to develop anything very effective… and what drugs there are tend to have alarming side effects, severe constipation being just one.
Dr. Whorwell told me that not only was hypnotherapy helping patients with their IBS — it was also helping them to stay off the drugs.
HOW HYPNOTHERAPY WORKS
Hypnotherapy uses processes that bring about deep relaxation and an altered state of consciousness, sometimes referred to as a trance.
But that word shouldn’t put you off — a person in this deeply focused state is simply unusually responsive to an idea or image — in other words, highly suggestible, but this does not mean that the hypnotist is in charge of the patient’s mind or free will.
To the contrary, hypnosis can help patients master their own states of awareness and, in so doing, help impact their bodies’ reactions and their psychological reactions as well.
According to Dr. Whorwell, once patients are in that relaxed state, he is able to talk with them about how the gut and mind are connected, and how mental distress — such as anxiety — may cause discomfort in the abdomen.
Then he can work with them so that they can visualize what is happening within their bodies. “We give them suggestions on how they can relax and soothe their guts.”
Voluntary relaxation by a patient diminishes his/her reactions to gut disturbance and discomfort. It might be imagining a river rushing over sharp-edged rapids, then shifting the vision to the river in a rerouted state, gliding smoothly by those rocks, skimming over the painful places.
Patients build on what their imaginations provide, and through a process of repetition, they can start to take control of what’s happening to them.
IBS THERAPY: WHO IS HELPED? AND HOW MUCH?
Listening to Dr. Whorwell, it was easy to see why he says that a vivid imagination is helpful. Dr. Whorwell and his team have developed screening tests that check whether a potential patient for hypnotherapy has the imagination to be a good candidate –
for example, there is something called the Manchester Color Wheel, which was developed to give a graphic means of assessing healthy versus anxious or depressed people.
When asked which colors they liked best or were most drawn to, healthy people tend to choose clear, pure, light colors (identified as a positive) and depressed or anxious people choose dark, muted neutral shades (identified as a negative).
Interestingly, many depressed people associated their mood with gray rather than black. Dr. Whorwell’s team has found that patients who selected the positive color — regardless of what the color was –
as the one that most closely matched their mood over the past few months were most likely to be open to hypnotic suggestion.
WHAT IT ALL MEANS
Hypnotherapy for IBS requires both time and money, and yet the results are impressive. For example, the center in Britain that conducted the studies mentioned worked with 250 patients, each of whom had suffered IBS symptoms for at least two years.
The patients received 12 one-hour sessions at weekly intervals. In some cases, results lasted more than five years, and although those who were more suggestible responded better, the patients who were not as good hypnotic subjects, saw results as well.
Dr. Whorwell stressed that it’s important to find a reputable hypnotherapist who understands the gut-directed approach to hypnotherapy.
To find a certified hypnotherapist, call and ask if he/she offers this specific kind of hypnotherapy, and visit the Web sites of these nationally recognized organizations:
The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (www.asch.net)… the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (www.sceh.us, click on “Referrals” under “Resources”)… and the American Association of Professional Hypnotherapists (www.aaph.org).
Source(s):
Peter Whorwell, BSc, MB, BS, MD, PhD, FRCP, professor of medicine and gastroenterology, The University of Manchester, Manchester Medical School, UK.
October 5th, 2011 at 6:43 am
Of course faux news wouldn’t air that interview, their agenda to brand the demonstrations foreign influenced had been blown.
October 5th, 2011 at 7:02 am
Michele, I’m a Tennessee girl from a white family that has been here before it was a state. We can’t accept that black people are our equal. We owned them so we know that they are not on our level.
But I think Hank Williams Jr. went too far comparing the President to Hitler. I secretly voted for the man. I probably will again. I don’t understand this health care argument but I know that the group before Mr. Obama didn’t do this country any good.
Sharon
October 5th, 2011 at 7:04 am
I’m from Nashville, I saw the show live. Hank said it like it is. You bitch are a traitor.
October 5th, 2011 at 7:13 am
I’m a Tea Party member and we are going to take our country back. If the niggers, chinks, spicks and rag heads don’t like it, they can join the jews in israel.
This is a white man’s country given to us by God. The Book of Mormon proves it.
Reading that traitorous bitch’s comments is the reason why we white men know better than to trust the likes of Palin in the White House. God made the White MAN the lord of this country. We began to lose that when we allowed white women to join us on an equal level.
White women are merely a half step above that minority lot. If they are willing to follow us and support out lead fine, if not we should regulate those unstable bitches to motherhood and be done with it.
Jake
October 5th, 2011 at 7:25 am
So you racists are upset because Monday Night Football pulled old Hank’s opener from their show.
You are screaming foul because what he said comes under free speech. Is that the same “free speech” you condemned Rev Williams for using it to say. “Goddamn America?”
Let me further inform you. It’s not the government censoring him. It’s one of those private corporations you love to give “laissez-faire” to that censored him. He broke the terms of his contract.
And like most of you hypocrites, he will be backtracking as fast as he can to get that money back. Money is your real god.
Olsen
October 5th, 2011 at 7:26 am
He’s full of crap. His context was clear. He thinks that Obama is the enemy. Not that they have different political views, but the enemy.
Williams is garbage. Screw him and screw anybody that supports this sort of attitude.
And for all you idiots that think it’s a First Amendment issue, IT’S NOT THE GOVERNMENT CENSORING HIM!! IT’S A PRIVATE CORPORATION!! Stop perpetuating this myth that people can say whatever they want without repercussion.
You’re only protected from the government. Why moronic *******gers can’t figure this out is beyond me.
October 5th, 2011 at 7:27 am
Jr is your typical redneck – ignorant, me-me-me-me-me, can’t see past his own nose and isn’t intelligent enough to even understand anyone else’s viewpoints but their own. Sell the South to Mexico immediately.
October 5th, 2011 at 7:29 am
Why is it people assume if you don’t support Obama’s politics you are a racist? The fact that people do that EVERY day shows a serious lack of intelligence.
October 5th, 2011 at 7:35 am
S., Hank said the VP and the President were the enemy. No one is asking him to agree with them. But they are Americans too and just as patriotic as the rest of us.
October 5th, 2011 at 7:36 am
S., so are you denying that the Tea Party isn’t racist?
October 5th, 2011 at 7:37 am
All liberals know how to do is protest and bitch about EVERYTHING while collecting welfare checks. PUT DOWN YOUR PROTEST SIGNS AND GET A ******* JOB! Oh yeah u can’t get a job because obama has destroyed the country
October 5th, 2011 at 8:44 am
I find it so amazing of how calmly ignorant people hide behind their god. It is such a convenient out to any means to further ones knowledge, create valid input to an discussion, or need to learn to better one’s self.
October 23rd, 2011 at 12:14 pm
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