Natural Health Tip – Thanks for Creaky JointsBy Gary ScottEvery day is a gift…a fact that in the hustle and bustle of life is easily forgotten. See www.garyscott.com if you missed how a car crash 30 years ago gave me a gift of life. The crash broke my knee and back…but I did not know. (This was added to a serious whiplash gained the year before.) 30 years later was when I finally found out about the back. The knee was discovered just last year after a chain saw accident to the same knee which needed Xrays. They showed that previous break. That wreck was in the 60s. People were not so careful then. It was a wreck. No one was killed. There were things to do. So next morning it was back to work. That night it was “back to school” and that was that. Not surprisingly a decade later, at the ripe age of 30, back problems began. The day is easy to recall. We had moved to London, and I was driving down Wigmore Street in a brown Audi with a business associate. The simple task of turning onto a side road was all it took. The spasm was agonizing. I could not get up, could not walk nor move nor lay down not sit nor move without stabs of intense pain. Staying in bed for a couple days just made it possible to move. This did not end the pain. The problem grew. Again and again the simplest task would throw my back agonizingly out of whack. Finally in desperation I went to a Harley Street back specialist. They poked, prodded, took blood tests and did all types of things. Funnily not one xray was used. The final diagnosis was “Creaky Joints.” “Some people just have it,” he said. “We can’t do a thing except give you cortisone shots. But let’s wait on this as long as we can.” I fled and lived with continual pain and occasional bouts in bed for the next five or six years. Everything, in every day is a gift and I thank that specialist for being so bad. I needed pain to lead me where I needed to be. Had he given me a pill that masked deeper symptoms I would have missed vital understandings and tools of health. During this time Merri’s holistic and natural living influence grew in my life. She suggested an alternative doctor for the back pain after one especially bad bout that left me laying in bed. This was the 80s and such treatment was still considered off beat in the West. Having lived in Hong Kong for six years, I was open. Plus pain will open your mind to just about anything. There was a doctor who later became a client in Old Naples and we went. He put four or five needles in my arm. I was skeptical…until….the pain literally melted away! He gave me exercises and other simple alternatives that all worked. To this day perhaps 20 years later that feeling of relief is still with me. There has never been “laid up in bed” pain again. The continual pain then had been such a daily habit that I felt very strange when I left that chiropractor’s office….not that I was craving to have it back! Nor has it come back with any intensity in 20 years. This was my first love affair with the concept of energy processing points in the body. Our body is loaded with them. When they become out of balance, we call the imbalance “disease”. Many healing disciplines are built around these points. The Andeans use bees and sting the imbalanced points. The Chinese use needles and heat. Dr. Joe Spano uses infrared light on these energy processing points. A friend of ours, Michael Blate, uses pressure and introduced G-Jo a way to use pressure to resolve all types of aches pains and imbalances. See http://www.g-jo.com/ Ayurved of India uses massage, colored lights, herbs and oil on these points (called Marma points) to correct imbalances. Knowing how to energize (or sedate) the most important of these points is such an incredibly vital area of health that we are delighted that we’ll have Dr. Mishra’s course this coming weekend. We had a cancellation to this filled course so there is still a chance to attend. We should give thanks that there is a simple way to maintain vitality and avoid illness. Marma is the essential part of Ayurved that most people do not know….originating from one of the oldest forms of martial art called Marma Shastra. Healing has always been a key in defense. Fighters must know to heal wounds. Marma is the ultimate evolution in this life and death connection and just a matter of pressure in the correct place can heal, eliminate illness and restore health youth and vigor. Marma is the science of manipulating the vital points that are nerve junctures usually close to the skin surface. The human body contains 107 marma points which, when struck or massaged, produce healing, restore balance, enhance vitality and bring back our youth. Like acupressure, marma functions by pressing these points through which the prana (chi in Chinese) flows. Now you can learn marma from one of the world’s masters. You can enroll in our course, June 16-17-18 that will be conducted by one of the great ayurvedic healers so this ancient healing will be yours to use for life! Learn special marma. The unique marma you will learn is called Transdermal Marma.™ This science evolved over thousands of years and uses oils, ointments, creams, salves and clays to delivers rejuvenative energy through the skin! Transdermal Marma™ enhances the body’s ability to receive natural healing energy. Most importantly, it zeros this energy in on targeted health gaps, molecules, cells, organs and body systems to detox and restore health, youth and vigor through marma points on the skin. Enroll at garyascott.com/catalog/ayurvedic_cleanse.html Here is what a previous delegate at our courses wrote: “Hi Gary, Ah, you make my life worth while. Each day I read your emails (maybe I miss parts of some) but in general I get THE MESSAGE. Just read your story about crashing the Austin Healy Bug Eye Sprite. I crashed my '53 Indian Chief into a block wall at my parents’ home (luckily they weren't home at the time) showing my brother how to ride it. It ended up on top of me still running with the forks and wheel smashed. My Guardian Angel allowed me to get a chipped tooth out of it. I lucked out again on a twisting mountain road near Highlands N.C. with my Triumph TT 120 laying it down into the mountain as the next bend was into the tree tops of the lower valley. “I give THANKS every day for this life and for the creatures that sacrifice their lives to give me life. Forgiveness is another GREAT virtue that us humans need to practice more of. I've taken your advice on the pH adjustment with my health and am feeling more energetic as my Hep C fatigue has been a problem for many years. Also started adding turmeric to my daily supplements. So THANKS for taking your precious time to read this email. Hopefully we'll get some time to reminisce in person in the future. YOU and MERRI are GOD SENT for humanity. In Gratitute.” After this note, I began to think….will you do me a favor? Send me your story of miracles that gave you the gift of life for which you are thankful. Let’s share these so we can all be more thankful! For those who can’t make it this week for Vaidya Mishra and and the Science of Marma, stay tuned, I’ll be writing more on what I learn. Here is the cathedral in Cotacachi a village where shamans work on energy points
June, 2006 |
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