a story about Yeshi Donden...
Yeshi Donden was the long-time personal physician to HH the Dalai Lama. In this story, he visits a US hospital.
"I join the clutch of whitecoats waiting in the small conference room adjacent to the ward selected for the rounds. Yeshi Dhonden, we are told , will examine a patient selected by a member of the staff. The diagnosis is unknown to Yeshi Dhonden as it is to us. We are further informed that for the past two hours Yeshi Dhonden has purified himself by bathing, by fasting, and prayer. I, having breakfasted well, performed only the desultory of ablutions, and given no thought at all to my soul, glance furtively at my fellows. Suddenly we seem a soiled, uncouth lot.
The patient had been awakened early and told that she was to be examined by a foreign doctor, and had been asked to produce a fresh specimen of urine, so when we enter her room, the woman shows no surprise...
Yeshi Dhonden steps to the bedside while the rest stand apart, watching. For a long time he gazes at the woman, favoring no part of her body with his eyes, but seeming to fix his glance at a place just above her supine form. I, too, study her. No physical sign or obvious symptom gives a clue to the nature of her disease. At last he takes her hand, raising it in both of her own. Now he bends over the bed in kind of a crouching stance, his head drawn down into the collar of his robe. His eyes are closed as he feels for her pulse. In a moment he has found the spot, and for the next half hour he remains thus, suspended above the patient like some exotic bird with folded wings, holding the pulse of the woman beneath his fingers, cradling her hand in his. All the power of the man seems to have been drawn down into this one purpose. It is palpitation of the pulse raised to the state of ritual.
I cannot see their hands joined in a correspondence that is exclusive, intimate, his fingertips receiving the voice of her sick body through the rhythm and throb she offers at her wrist. All at once I am envious- not of him but of her. I want to be held like that, touched so, received. And I know that I who have palpated a hundred thousand pulses, have not felt a single one.
At last Yeshi Dhonden straightens, gently places the woman's hand upon the bed, and steps back. The interpreter produces a small wooden bowl and two sticks. Yeshi Dhonden pours a potion of the urine specimen into the bowl and proceeds to whip the liquid with two sticks. This he does for several minutes until a foam is raised. Then, bowing above the bowl, he inhales the odor three times. He sets down the bowl and turns to leave. All this while he has not uttered a word. As he nears the door, the woman raises her head and calls out to him. "Thank you doctor," she says, and touches with her other hand the place he had held on her wrist. Yeshi Dhonden turns back for a moment to gaze at her, then steps into the corridor. Rounds are at an end.
We are seated once more in the conference room. Yeshi Dhonden speaks now for the first time. He speaks of winds coursing through the body of the woman, currents that break against barriers, eddying. These vortices are in her blood, he says. The last spendings of an imperfect heart. Between the chambers of her heart, long long before she was born, a wind had come and blown open a deep gate that must never be opened. Through it charge the full waters of her river, as the mountain stream cascades in the springtime, battering, knocking loose the land, and flooding herbreath. Thus he speaks and is now silent..."
The host of the rounds speaks, with the diagnosis he has known: "Congenital heart disease, interventricular septal defect, with resultant heart failure."
from Mortal Lessons, a book by surgeon, Dr. Richard Selzer
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Eat Well-Move Well-Think Well TM
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Greetings-
Many of you know that James Chestnut MS DC CCWP has written four great books concerning evidence based wellness care (showing the scientific literature that supports wellness care for health and well being). Dr. Chestnut's work is excellent!!! I wish that everyone had the oppurtunity to learn this empowering information.
It boils down to these simple truths. The state or level of health we experience depends on the state or level of health of the cell. (The cells in our bodies are the basic unit of life. Cells make up tissues, tissues make up organs, and organs make up systems). When our cells are healthy we experience health.
The question is then, what makes our cells healthy and what makes them unhealthy? In his books, James clearly answers this question. I will summarize it: Purity and Sufficiency is what makes the cells healthy...Toxicity and Deficiency is what makes the cells unhealthy. Interestingly enough, genetics is not responsible for the chronic degenerative diseases mostly all Americans face today. Yes, genetics is not responsible for the epidemic of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity. Yes, once again let me repeat...do I need to go on. I urge people to attend my seminars or read Dr. Chestnut's books, because the general public is being dangerously misinformed!!!
Genetic disorders do exist i.e.: Downs Syndrome, Cystic Fibrosis, and Hemophelia are examples of genetic disorders because everytime someone has that genetic makeup they get the disorder. A million times out of a million. Perhaps I will write more sometime about Epigenetics, genomes, phenotypes and gene expression, however for now let us get back to eating well, moving well and thinking well.
The key to being more healthy is to focus on adding more purity and sufficiency into your life in respect to how you eat, move, and think. Focusing on eating well, moving well, and thinking well will create higher levels of health. You can start by adding raw organic fruits and vegetables into your meals, moving your body with whole body movements (walking, swimming, cycling, yoga, pilates, tai chi), and thinking loving thoughts of spiritual connection will create more health in your cells, thus make you a healthier you. Part of moving well is having a spine that moves well, and seeing a chiropractor regularly is paramount for the health of your cells!!!
As far as the toxicity and deficiency issue goes, follow this recommendation: the more purity and sufficiency you add (good stuff) the less toxicity and deficiency you will crave and accumulate (the bad stuff). Literally, focusing on adding the good stuff rather than worrying about the bad stuff. In addition to focusing on the good stuff it would be wise to detoxify and cleanse the body on a regular basis (toxins accumulate through time). There are many ways to do this, and maybe that will be a blog for another day. For simplicity sake, I would suggest having a raw day or two or three (or 30 days...see www.rawfor30days.com ) in which you would have only raw fruits and vegetables (locally grown organic is best, if possible). Another simple way to get the body to start detoxifying and cleansing is to use alkalized ionized water ( www.newlifewater.info ).
I hope that this motivates you to implement more purity and sufficiency into your life and/or encourages you to read up on this information and learn more.
If you are a science minded individual and want to study this information and/or if you are a skeptic and need the science to feel ok with putting your trust into it, then I suggest you buy and read Dr. Chestnut's books, or attend one of my seminars, or start with these references: Eaton, S. Boyd MD & Konner, M. PhD. Paleolithic Nutrition: A consideration of its nature and implications. 1985: N. England Jounal of Medicine Vol: 312. Boothe et al. Waging war on physical inactivity: using modern molecular ammunition against an ancient enemy Jounal of Applied Physiology vol 93, 2002. Esch, T. et al.. The role of stress in neurodegenerative diseases and mental disorders. Neuro Endocrinology Letter. 2002 June; 23
many blessings
scott
www.scottlloyd.info
Greetings-
Many of you know that James Chestnut MS DC CCWP has written four great books concerning evidence based wellness care (showing the scientific literature that supports wellness care for health and well being). Dr. Chestnut's work is excellent!!! I wish that everyone had the oppurtunity to learn this empowering information.
It boils down to these simple truths. The state or level of health we experience depends on the state or level of health of the cell. (The cells in our bodies are the basic unit of life. Cells make up tissues, tissues make up organs, and organs make up systems). When our cells are healthy we experience health.
The question is then, what makes our cells healthy and what makes them unhealthy? In his books, James clearly answers this question. I will summarize it: Purity and Sufficiency is what makes the cells healthy...Toxicity and Deficiency is what makes the cells unhealthy. Interestingly enough, genetics is not responsible for the chronic degenerative diseases mostly all Americans face today. Yes, genetics is not responsible for the epidemic of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity. Yes, once again let me repeat...do I need to go on. I urge people to attend my seminars or read Dr. Chestnut's books, because the general public is being dangerously misinformed!!!
Genetic disorders do exist i.e.: Downs Syndrome, Cystic Fibrosis, and Hemophelia are examples of genetic disorders because everytime someone has that genetic makeup they get the disorder. A million times out of a million. Perhaps I will write more sometime about Epigenetics, genomes, phenotypes and gene expression, however for now let us get back to eating well, moving well and thinking well.
The key to being more healthy is to focus on adding more purity and sufficiency into your life in respect to how you eat, move, and think. Focusing on eating well, moving well, and thinking well will create higher levels of health. You can start by adding raw organic fruits and vegetables into your meals, moving your body with whole body movements (walking, swimming, cycling, yoga, pilates, tai chi), and thinking loving thoughts of spiritual connection will create more health in your cells, thus make you a healthier you. Part of moving well is having a spine that moves well, and seeing a chiropractor regularly is paramount for the health of your cells!!!
As far as the toxicity and deficiency issue goes, follow this recommendation: the more purity and sufficiency you add (good stuff) the less toxicity and deficiency you will crave and accumulate (the bad stuff). Literally, focusing on adding the good stuff rather than worrying about the bad stuff. In addition to focusing on the good stuff it would be wise to detoxify and cleanse the body on a regular basis (toxins accumulate through time). There are many ways to do this, and maybe that will be a blog for another day. For simplicity sake, I would suggest having a raw day or two or three (or 30 days...see www.rawfor30days.com ) in which you would have only raw fruits and vegetables (locally grown organic is best, if possible). Another simple way to get the body to start detoxifying and cleansing is to use alkalized ionized water ( www.newlifewater.info ).
I hope that this motivates you to implement more purity and sufficiency into your life and/or encourages you to read up on this information and learn more.
If you are a science minded individual and want to study this information and/or if you are a skeptic and need the science to feel ok with putting your trust into it, then I suggest you buy and read Dr. Chestnut's books, or attend one of my seminars, or start with these references: Eaton, S. Boyd MD & Konner, M. PhD. Paleolithic Nutrition: A consideration of its nature and implications. 1985: N. England Jounal of Medicine Vol: 312. Boothe et al. Waging war on physical inactivity: using modern molecular ammunition against an ancient enemy Jounal of Applied Physiology vol 93, 2002. Esch, T. et al.. The role of stress in neurodegenerative diseases and mental disorders. Neuro Endocrinology Letter. 2002 June; 23
many blessings
scott
www.scottlloyd.info
Greetings
Greetings Everyone-
May this blog site serve to inform and empower us to move more and more into the love and light that we truly are.
many blessings
Scott
May this blog site serve to inform and empower us to move more and more into the love and light that we truly are.
many blessings
Scott
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