Acupressure (no needles) and its parent of acupuncture (needles) from Traditional Chinese medicine, has been around for a few thousand years. I have been leaning and practicing acupressure for almost 40 years with great results.
I will be speaking next week at the University Club of Winter Park, about the benefits of this type of self massage. Headaches, low energy, faintness, stress, general & specific pain, and restless leg syndrome are conditions that I will teach specific techniques to better manage.
If interested in attending this FREE event, please contact me at 407-234-0119 for more details. Class is limited so let me know as soon as possible if serious about joining us for an hour of learning.
University Park Club
841 N. Park Avenue, WP
2-3pm, January 13th
Be well, get healthy, be wise.
I am currently available for health and wellness lectures and classes for group, & private instruction in the Orlando, Florida area. Mind and Body Exercises on Google: https://posts.gle/aD47Qo
Why do food companies seem to have more rights than consumers, when it comes to disclosing what ingredients are in particular foods? The FDA loosened food labeling requirements mid-2020, with the stated goal of providing regulatory flexibility, to lessen the impact of supply chain disruptions of product availability related to the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Reports show that the FDA is actually partially funded by the same companies that they are tasked with regulating, raising concerns with conflicts of interest. It is almost always best to do the due diligence and find where this information is coming from and find reputable sources as there is so much information available to the public today that can and will support whatever ones beliefs and viewpoints tend to lean towards.
The US government at its relative public health agencies, save severely lost the trust of the American people. Medical experts that have an audience, can start to rebuild trust, by just putting themselves out there with some transparency, honesty, humility, and empathy regarding these topics at hand. For example, if a scientist is interviewed as an expert on a particular topic, have them tell their story of being a director for the FDA and now being a board member for Pfizer, instead of people Googling this fact, seeing it maybe as a conflict of interest and then formulating their own conspiracy theory from it. Similarly, if the FDA is going to report that they took 108 days to review documents for licensing of the Pfizer covid19 vaccine and will honor a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, don’t take 55 years to fully release the information to the group of scientists that made the request. Leaders and experts need to stop creating the perfect storm of events that will undoubtedly lead to conspiracy theories and consequently, more vaccine resistance.
I am currently available for health and wellness lectures and classes for group, & private instruction in the Orlando, Florida area. Mind and Body Exercises on Google: https://posts.gle/aD47Qo
I have learned a bit about energetics over the years from my massage therapists as well as my martial arts/qigong teachers. During a massage, energy is depleted by the practitioner from the physical effort as well as the mental energy in trying to help and often heal the patient. This is very similar to emergency room doctors, nurses and others that can find themselves very run down or ill, while attempting to treat others. My understanding is that you can only give out what you yourself have an abundance of. If massage therapists and various other health-related professionals continue to draw from their well (life force, qi, prana) but fail to replenish it, they will soon have their own health issues. Exercise, diet and lifestyle choices all affect the practitioners’ own well-being to replenish or retain their innate life force.
My understanding is that it really comes down to any occupation or activity that one individual loses some level of energy while trying to help another. It can be a parent taking care of a child; caretaker of a parent, teachers, etc. It is all about intent and energy expelled and received. This can lead to the topic of energy vampires and energy suns. We have probably all meet people who when walking into a room, drain the energy of all in their company. Or conversely, the person who comes in and brings up everyone energy and puts a smile on everyone’s’ face. Yin and yang in all things!
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I am currently available for health and wellness lectures and classes for group, & private instruction in the Orlando, Florida area. Mind and Body Exercises on Google: https://posts.gle/aD47Qo
I have found that in order to manage posture issues, it helps to have some type of physical exercise program that is geared towards maintaining symmetry while also providing strength, flexibility, control, etc. Examples would be be Yoga, tai chi, Pilates, kettle bells, and some weight training (with lighter weights). Most people don’t realize that they have a posture issue until they have pain and discomfort. It is similar to have tires on one’s car that are out of alignment, where the owner sees and feels their car bouncing around so they replace the balding tires. A few months later the problem returns and they again replace the tires, but the alignment is the root problem. I know a root cause of postural issues is sometimes the lack of flexibility and muscle tone to keep the spine and associated joints and muscles in the proper alignment.
I have had issues with my posture due to an old knee injury affecting other parts of my body, causing me to pursue TCM, chiropractic, yoga, massage, rolfing, martial arts and maybe a few others. I attached a graphic I produced a while back showing what I have learned from my teachers and other CAM practitioners.
From my past experiences, many people lift weights with the goal of becoming stronger or cosmetically more “in shape” which are both admirable results to pursue. I have found that training with lighter weights, with exercises that work more than just the main muscles groups, can actually provide better overall body strength as well as flexibility, control, reflex, speed and eventually power. This latter concept can often lead to better posture and consequently less chronic pain issues.
Depending upon the trainer, instructor and/or practitioner heavy weight training is often geared towards the main muscle groups of the pectorals, abdominals, quadriceps, glutes, biceps, triceps, etc. Some exercise programs with lighter weights, wrist/ankle weights, medicine balls, kettle bells, etc. are sometime referred to as functional training, where the movement of the body with the weights for resistance is more of the focus than just trying to lift a certain amount of weight.
From my experience, staying active and even more specifically being engaged in exercise methods that not only stretch but encourage strength and flexibility are key components of managing chronic pain. Many types of pain relief methods whether massage, pharmaceuticals, heat/cold therapy, acupuncture, etc. often address the symptoms of the root cause of the pain. Chronic pain issues of the spine can be relieved but in order to find long-term benefits there needs to be some muscle tone to hold the proper alignments of the muscles, bones, fascia, nerves etc. in place. Flexibility is needed to allow a comfortable range of motion for joint mobility. So to sum it up, pain relief methods can help, but long-term benefits come from strength, stability, flexibility and range of motion, or so I have been taught and experienced.
Be well, get healthy, be wise.
I am currently available for health and wellness lectures and classes for group, & private instruction in the Orlando, Florida area. Mind and Body Exercises on Google: https://posts.gle/aD47Qo
A new year comes, another new cycle begins. I think most would agree that this is true. Nature demonstrates patterns (universal truths) that have been around before humans and will be here after, such as seasons, weather patterns, natural disasters, etc. Humans being part of nature are subject to its patterns.
Hard times create strong men (people)
Strong men create good times
Good times create weak men
Weak men create hard times
Study and contemplate my graphic below, representing relationships between the universal truths of nature, whether manifested in the time of the day, time of the year, phases of the human lifecycle and consequently, how human nature (behavior) is often dictated by the natural environmental that we all exist within.
I feel we are all experiencing a watershed event, where we are just working through the above cycle. Some people may dispute this theory or cycle but I think it holds true as compared similarly to the sun rising and setting, or the seasons of the year. So I feel we are exactly where we are supposed to be whether viewed as a time for major political, societal and cultural changes, re-evaluation of our moral compasses, world health crises or the advancement of technologies – everything exists within cycles, and it all connects back to nature on some level.
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Be well, get healthy, be wise.
I am currently available for health and wellness lectures and classes for group, & private instruction in the Orlando, Florida area. Mind and Body Exercises on Google: https://posts.gle/aD47Qo
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