Natural Health Tip – The Power in the
Key Muscles
Dusk fought a horizon of darkening finery in oranges and gold. Twilight brushed
fading light with amber memories on quiet waters below. The patina of eventide’s
weariness descended on the day.
Our anticipation grew as we approached
Ganges Harbour, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada, just as the
sun slipped beneath the sea. The pilot
had pushed the little float plane high, despite its full load and awkward pontoons,
so we could see a wider spread of the spectacular sunset below. Golden light
muted the darkening Pacific islands. Then we descended with the sun onto a
sheltered bay. My wife Merri and I were taking this trip to be treated by and
to learn from Dr. Ram Pandey. He is a master of deep healing routines called
Kayakalpa.
When we learn from such masters or take treatments, we observe closely.
Often this brings understanding of more than what is being
said or done. We try to connect dots with knowledge that has been given by
other masters we have met. This is our way of seeking truth and this is how
we stumbled across the secret of key muscles that we share here.
Purification
One practice that permeates every healing ritual we have enjoyed, studied
or heard is purification. We have visited and studied many, Andeans, Amazonians,
Tibetans, Indians, Mayans, Sufis and found that all have one form of internal
cleansing or another. Kayakalpa is one of the best and deepest cleansings we
have experienced and our goal on the trip to Salt Springs was to be cleansed
for rejuvination.
However we gained more. Dr. Pandey’s introduction of three exercises
for retaining energy and vigor was the first of seven coincidences that has
improved our health for more than a decade. Just recently we discovered (and
share here) why.
The three exercises taught by Dr. Pandey stimulated key muscles in the buttocks,
abdomen, chest and mouth. We did not know then, that this is a foundation for
weight loss. This report outlines how we discovered this.
Nor did we know that a coincidence would occur while staying at Salt Springs
(it took us more than ten years to discover this fact). This first coincidence
occurred when we stumbled across a book in a Salt Springs health food store.
That book, The Secret of the Ring Muscles by Paula Garbourg was the second
coincidence that began a series of crossroads.
We unknowingly picked up a simple, easy to use philosopher’s stone that
would lead to better health. I did not know it then because I did not read
that ring muscle book until a decade later.
We spent over a month living with Dr. Pandey. Then catch-up work buried us.
The book on ring muscles was quietly slipped unread on the bookshelf and forgotten.
The importance of what we learned with Dr Pandey did not arise until later.
Merri and I found ourselves living high in the Andes with a Shaman, his wife
and apprentices. More coincidences occurred.
Coincidence #2
I took books to study in the mountains. One was The
Book of Internal Exercises by Stephen T. Chang. I began to read this book as I joined with the shaman
and his apprentices in their daily routine.
The book introduced three exercises called the The
Deer, The Crane and The
Turtle. I still was not connecting dots when I read the excerpts in this book
below.
“The Deer, the Crane and Turtle form a foundation of Internal Energising
Exercises. They make a wonderful healing system, are easily performed, and
require no strenuous activity and do not require a great deal of time.
“We receive much of the energy we need from the food we eat and the
air we breath. However the body much like an high performance automobile must
be finely tuned if it is to run properly and attain maximum efficiency.
“Through the centuries the seven glands within the body have been understood
to be energy centers, responsible for regulating the efficient flow of energy.
These seven glands in ascending order are the sexual glands, adrenals, pancreas,
thymus, thyroid, pituitary and pineal.
Chang’s book outlined how the seven glands are connected and said that
well being comes when each is energized and exchanging energy with the others
in a balanced way. Another excerpt from his book explains this.
“The sexual glands form the basis of the glandular complex. By exercising
the rectum and anal muscles one can strengthen stimulate and energise the sexual
glands. This simple action supplies energy to the thymus which in turn pushes
energy up in to the succeeding glands which lie above. Taoists refer to the
sexual glands as the stove which when properly filled with energy and stimulation
supplies the rest of the body with energy.”
Part of this Deer exercise is to simply tighten the buttocks and anal sphincter
muscles, exactly as Dr. Pandy had taught! The Crane works on the abdomen and
the Turtle stretches the neck (to stimulate the thyroid).
Reading about these exercises rang a familiar bell. Buttocks,
abdomen, chest and neck. More dots I was still far from connecting. The power of what I was
reading, seeing and living would come later.
Coincidence #3
While in the Andes we lived in the shamanic way. Rising at 4:30 to start a
busy day. First we began with prayers, then gentle and finally vigorous exercise.
This part of the routine ended with a cold shower. The air and icy water at
the seven thousand foot altitude were a brisk wakeup! Then we prayed again,
ate breakfast, studied and worked until lunch. Again prayed, ate, studied.
Then we prayed again, worked till dinner, prayed once more, ate dinner, had
some social time and at a very early hour (8 to 8:30) prayed once more and
went to bed.
This coincidence came through observations of the shamanic prayer and eating
routines. Many Andean prayers are performed in an exercising position, most
aimed at unlocking energy in butt and abdomen. Plus the shaman’s wife
gave lessons on how to eat. She never said a word, but chewed and chewed…in
long, deep chewing motions. We thought they were trying to show us how to slow
down chewing. I now, ten years later, know better!
Coincidence #4
Another book I read while living with the Shamans was Breathe!
You are Alive! By Thich Nhat Hanh. This book explains a Buddhist teaching called a sutta or
sutra. This particular sutra teaches 16 exercises, but it was the first three
of them that began to help me see the coincidences that had been taking place.
These three exercises were described in terms of breath. The sutra read:
“Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out I know I am breathing
out. Breathing in a long breath, I know I am breathing in a long breath. Breathing
out I know I am breathing out a long breath. Breathing in a short breath, I
know I am breathing in a short breath.”
Here were words from another master telling us how to be happy and healthy.
These words seemed far removed from Dr, Pandey’s lessons and the shamanic
rites Merri and I had lived and observed, until I noticed something in these
breaths. When I breathed the regular breath I could feel it stimulate the neck
and butt. The long breath stretched the abdomen. That short breath seemed to
work high in the chest.
A glimmering began to rise. A flickering light, “Neck, butt, abdomen
and chest,” I thought. Yet the picture was still murky and undefined.
I had not yet read Paula Garbourg’s ring muscle book.
Coincidence #5
During our stay with the Shaman we took many trips, usually on Saturday the
Andean day of rest. One such outing ended in Chordaleg, a small village, high
in the Andes. While there he bought a wooden carving depicting an Incan Royal
in a kneeling position. The figure’s front knee was bent
forward and the back knee was bent to reach the heel of the front foot.
The shaman used the carving to tell a fascinating tale about how the Spanish
abolished the traditional Andean teachings and made them illegal. The Shaman
then explained how funny this was because at the same time the Spanish museums
worked hard to preserve Incan artifacts such as this carving. “This
is how we pass on the knowledge,” the shaman explained. “This
figure shows one of our most important exercises called the Llama Walk”.
He then went on to teach me this exercise. You take a step and as you bend
your knee forward bring your other knee forward toward your heel.
This is an impressive exercise that stretches the inner leg muscles and strengthens
the upper leg. Another dot was added. I was using these techniques. My health
improved enormously. My weight dropped, yet I still had not filled in the lines.
I did not understand why my weight and health remained in good order while
so many others my age suffered from chronic obesity and poor health.
Coincidence #6
Years passed and still I did not catch on, though slowly all these ideas were
coming together. The pace of understanding accelerated a couple of years ago
when I was honored with an invitation to join an ancient order, The Knights
Hospitaler, commonly known as the Knights of Malta. Beatitudes of this organization
are:
To have spiritual joy, To live without malice, to humble thyself to those
who injure thee, to love justice, to be merciful, to be sincere and to be pure
of heart. However there was nothing in the written doctrines concerning physical
fitness or good health.
As I became increasingly involved with the Knights I learned that a great
deal of knowledge about how to lead a correct life is passed on in pictorial
form. Often the illustrations in illustrated manuscripts are as important as
the text.
Regretfully a lot of the meanings in the pictures has been forgotten. Few
know what to look for. I surprised while preparing stationary to see an illustration
of a knight in what appears to be a kneeling position of reverence. This knight
is doing the Llama Walk!
This accelerated my understanding. Many ancients from many different places
tell us to exercise our neck, abdomen, chest and butt. One more event was required
though, to connect all these dots.
Coincidence #7
The revelation finally came in the way so many important things do, through
a totally mundane act. Merri and I conduct Wellness Weekends at our Blue Ridge
Farm. These events are get-togethers where we share ideas about how to live
better and immerse ourselves in what we learn. Days begin with country walks
and gentle exercise. We share how to prepare delicious organic food and live
as the shamans, masters and healers who have taught us.
Before each course I prepare, thinking about new ideas to share. This preparation
began the seventh coincidence. I was standing barefoot in our office, searching
through our book shelves to stimulate ideas. The unopened and ten year unread
copy of the book, The Secret of the Ring Muscles by Paula Garbourg fell from
the shelf onto my foot.
Pain sat me down. Ouch! The book lay before me, open at page eight. I picked
it up and read: “Sphincters are ring-shaped muscles that surround
the various orifices of the body both internal and external. They include the
muscles around the eyes, the nostrils, the mouth, the anus, the urethra and
the genitals. In a healthy body, all the sphincters work together, contracting
and relaxing simultaneously.
“As they do so, they activate the respiratory system, the gastrointestinal
system, the circulatory system, the lymphatic system, the musculoskeletal system
and the urogenital system. In fact the ring muscles are ultimately responsible
for putting all the other muscles and all the organs of the body to work.”
The seven coincidences came crashing together. Dr.
Pandey’s exercises,
Stephen Chang’s explanation of the Deer, Crane and Turtle, the shamanic
positions and the chewing lessons, Thich Nhat Hanh’s book on breath
and the Knight’s kneeling position were all tied to the ring muscles!
This explained why exercising the lower muscles was so important to our balance
and health.
But how did this tie to exercising the lungs and the neck, I wondered? I did
not have to read far to find out. Page twelve explains the connection when
it says:
“The functioning of the sphincters is closely linked to the functioning
of other bodily structures. Two of the most important of these are the diaphragms
and loredoses (the inward curvature of the spine at the lower back and neck).
Through these structures the ring muscles affect the health of the entire body;
conversely the health and proper functioning of these structures also affects
the coordinated activity of the sphincters. All the diaphragms should work
in unison with the opening and closing of the sphincters. Lordoses affect and
in turn are affected by conditions elsewhere in the body, especially the sphincter
muscles.”
Bam! There it was. The connection, between the butt, abdomen, chest and neck.
Opening pathways in these areas exercises the sphincters in the abdomen, chest
and neck. When you exercise sphincters, health and energy miracles can occur!
The purpose of this report is not to sell you on sphincter exercises or health
system. In fact its aim is not to sell you on anything. There are only two
simple goals.
First this report introduces the idea that ring muscles may be important to
health. Pursue this idea only if you desire.
Garbourg’s book says that sphincter exercises can reduce or even eliminate
asthma, bed-wetting, childbirth, menstruation, nursing, depression, developmental
disabilities, flat feet, hemorrhoids, prolapse of the uterus, tremors, varicose
veins, nervous tics, excessive sweating and even more.
These exercises can even help stop smoking, Garbourg states. “The oral
sphincters of smokers are usually slack. To compensate for adequate muscle
tone, the smoker puts a cigarette his or her mouth and the lips close around
it and contract. This contraction of the lips increases the smokers ability
to concentrate. He or she is able to think more clearly and work better because
the oral sphincter is making all the other sphincters work.”
If you have any of these problems, then this knowledge may help. The contacts
section of this report shows how to get more information.
The report’s second goal is to show how one enormously simple exercise
can help more than half of the modern world. We have a common problem, obesity.
Garbourg’s book shows on page 41 one simple exercise for better digestion
and weight control. This is so simple yet so powerful because it only has to
do with the way you chew. Here is what she says:
“Chewing should be done with the lips closed, but with the oral cavity
open as wide as possible. When chewing is done correctly the lower sphincters
and intestines can be felt working in rhythm and causing the abdomen to contract.”
There you have it, exercise of the neck, chest, abdomen, all the way down
to the butt, just by chewing differently.
The book also says: “If you open your jaw widely enough while chewing,
there is no need to chew your food a great deal before swallowing it.
It also says it is important to chew on both sides of the mouth. Overeating
is a very common problem today and this is fundamentally a result of poor muscle
tone of the oral sphincter.
The book explains that when our sphincter muscles are out of balance the body
tries to restore them by chewing. Thus what seems to be the bodies craving
for food can be the body’s craving for proper exercise of the
sphincters.
Garborg explains: “With proper exercise the sphincters return to normal
operation and there is no longer a demand for more food than the body needs.
It is possible to eat enough without the fear of getting fat. All you have
to do is to make sure to open your jaws widely enough with each chew to bring
all the sphincters muscles into action. This will reduce your body’s
craving to eat and will also enable your body to burn up more calories more
efficiently.
Can weight control be as simple as just chewing food
in a slightly different way? This has definitely helped me. Upon using the
technique described in Garbourg’s
book, my weight dropped and I have been able to reduce the amount of discipline
required to not snack in mornings and afternoons. More important I feel better,
more relaxed and at ease.
Will this technique work for you? I do not know, but it might and what does
it cost to try?
We are all different. Your weight challenges may be created by different imbalances
than mine. However you have little to lose by finding out? The knowledge here
has been given free. No extra time, no special uniform, no extra space, place,
coach or expense of any kind is required to see.
My experience is that proper exercise of sphincter muscles brings profound
improvements in one’s heath, well being and energy. I feel blessed that
seven coincidences helped me discover this fact. I had to travel the world
and spend years to gain these techniques that improve my health.
All you have to do is chew!
If what we have shared in this report makes sense, I recommend trying this
chewing technique. If it improves your life, study more from the contacts below.
At the least you may gain a valuable aid in weight control. Even better, this
report may be the first coincidence in your life that leads to a better, healthier
life.
Merri and I hope so!
Gary & Merri Scott over twenty years wrote and published 36 books and
hundreds of reports on international investing for over 23,000 readers in 82
countries. Their success in helping investors prosper economically concerned
them when they saw that readers gained wealth but not happiness or health.
The Scott’s quest to help readers have
everlasting wealth, beyond the balance sheet led them to live and study for
years with great healing masters from the Amazon, Andes, China, India, Middle
East, Tibet and the Western world. Gary is a member of the Knights Hospitaller
whose emblem is shown above.
Contacts
The Book of Internal Exercises, Stephen T. Chang. Great Tao institute 1-201-358-0620.
Fax: 201 722 8934, E-mail: ron@taohealing.com Born and raised in China, Dr.
Chang studyied Taoist medicine from age six. His family has practiced medicine
over 400 years. His great-grandfather was a physician to the Emperor of China
(Tung Tse) and the first ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Dr. Chang is author of several books translated in over ten languages with
over a million copies sold includeing The Great Tao, The Complete System of
Self Healing, Internal Exercises, The Integral Management of Tao, Complete
Achievement and The Tao of Balanced Diet. His books are used in universities
and as hospital texts and he holds degrees in medicine, law and philosophy.
He is honorable professor at University of Beijing, China, Ai Ji University,
Japan, Oslo University, Norway and has lectured at University Of California,
Berkeley, Stanford University, The Chinese Medical Assoc., London and many
others. More details are at the website www.taohealingarts.com/changsbio.html
Breath! You are Alive, Suttra on the
Full Awareness of Breathing. Thich Nhat Hanh, Tel.: (760) 291-1003, Fax.:
(760) 291-1010 Email: deerpark@plumvillage.org.
Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk whose tireless efforts for reconciliation
between North and South Vietnam moved Martin Luther King, Jr. to nominate him
for the Nobel Peace Prize. More details are at the website Website: www.deerparkmonastery.org
The Secret of the Ring Muscles, Healing
Yourself through Sphincter Exercise. Paula Garbourg Institute, Tel: 954-394-5770
Fax: Number 954-337-0820 Email:info@rings.net After
immigrating from Germany to Israel in 1936, Paula Garbourg contracted a serious
debilitating disease. Four physicians
said she would spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. Unwilling to accept
this Paula drew on her early training in opera and ballet dancing, and began
a rigorous, physical experiment trying to find a cure for her condition.
She developed a set of exercises based on relationships between muscles and
organs and recovered. This led to physical therapy of ring muscles. These
exercises have been recognized to help almost any common ailment, Asthma,
Arthritis, Backache, Headache, Depression, or any other ailment for over
50 years by Israel’s
HMO's and insurance companies. More is at the webste www.rings.net
R & R Weeks at Merrily Farms. International
Service Center, Tel: 336- 384-1122. Fax:336-384-1577. Email: gary@garyascott.com
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Learn how to unlock the mystery of key muscles to
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