Yonder Willow Wellness

You probably hear almost daily that another one of your friends or co-workers is sick. The media is still pumping up the swine flu even though some medical authorities have said that it has already peaked and has not been the event that it was predicted to be. Personally, I’m tired of hearing about it.

I don’t believe that most people need to get sick, especially not with things like a cold or the flu. None of my immediate family has been sick in over a year, and it isn’t because we live in isolation. I have small kids who go to school every day and are around other sick kids, so they have been “exposed” to whatever is out there, as have my wife and I.

So why don’t we get sick? We do just a few things different than other people. The biggest is that we drink a lot of alkaline water instead of carbonated beverages or coffee.  Other things that we do include taking a good green barley grass supplement, a mushroom based immunity supplement, and make sure that our indoor air is filtered. My kids like taking these supplements too.

Naturally, I can’t guarantee that you will have the same results as we have. It is sure worth giving it a try. Find out more about the water filtration that we use and the  nutritional supplements that we take.

Wayne Woodworth
Nikken Wellness Consultant

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My “local” congressman called a few nights ago with an automated phone survey to get my input on what they are working on in Washington. One problem with the survey is that it only accepted “yes” or “no” answers, so it was pretty meaningless in my opinion. The other problem is that I really don’t care too much about what they are doing because I look after my own interests.  The two major areas in the survey were about health care and taxing the wealthy. I give my viewpoint on the taxation issue on one of my other blogs. This is about my view on health care.

First, I prefer “wellness care” to “health care” because the idea of health has become so tied to doctors, drugs, and surgery. I don’t think that they are the long-term answer. If you really want to be healthy and stay healthy, then you need to make choices on a daily basis. Are you going to take the time to get enough sleep? Are you going to eat better today? Are you going to drink enough water? Will you take the time to do something for yourself and have fun?

Health doesn’t come from a pill bottle or a syringe. Your health comes from your lifestyle. It is what you do and eat every day and have done every day from the moment you were born. Actually, it starts before you were born but that was out of your control. If you eat a lot of processed foods and fast food, drink soft drinks instead of water, get completely stressed out, and only sleep 5 hours every night then you will probably get sick and there is nothing that a chemical can do to prevent it. These things all stress the body. Doing some of these things in small amounts is OK and could be beneficial because small amounts of stress could strengthen the body. When these choices become the norm though and the body is constantly stressed, it eventually reaches a breaking point and it will let you know.

On the other hand, if you usually get a good night sleep, drink plenty of water, eat your veggies, save desserts for special occasions, get some exercise, and take time to play then you will be much more resistant to illnesses. The body gets the nutrition and water it needs to properly function. Sleep gives it the time to repair and ready itself for a new day. Exercise helps to pump the blood and keep the muscles toned. Time for play, whether that is physical play or mental play, allows the body to release stress and relax. This all helps the body to be ready for whatever comes along, deal with it, then get ready for the next thing. That includes dealing with illnesses.

I don’t think the federal government’s plan is looking at health this way.

Wayne Woodworth
Take a look at my other wellness blog to see what I am using to help stay healthy.

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In the traditional medical approach, the parts of the body are all treated independently. Medical science is learning that those old ideas aren’t true. The body is actually very interconnected and nothing can take place in one part of the body that does not have some effect throughout the rest of the body.  These effects can be broadcast around by the fascia.

They have learned that the fascia is much more important than they realized and that it binds the body together down to the intracellular level.  In the past, the fascia has been treated as just another layer of tissue and pretty much ignored.  It is easy to see how the fascia surrounds the organs and muscles and separates the large structures of the body.  What they are finding now is that it also penetrates the cell and even the nucleus of the cell.

If you think back to high scho0l biology you might remember the picture of the inside of a cell.  It had several small structures called organelles that floated around in fluid. That’s not the case anymore.  Now they know that it is filled with a matrix that they are calling the cytoskeleton, which is an extension of the intercellular matrix, or fascia.  It also penetrates the nucleus of the cell and interacts with the DNA.

The importance of this interconnection is that it provides a communication channel for the body from any given point to all other points and even into the cells and nucleus without being impeded by the cell membranes.

Where this communication channel does run into problems with scar tissue.  Scar tissue is caused by cutting the skin and the underlying fascia, which as far as the communication aspect is concerned, is the same as cutting your phone line.  The scar tissue forms to repair the skin and knit the fascia back together but the communication path is still damaged. Fortunately, there are techniques that can help deal with the scar tissue, techniques like myofascial release.

The point I want you to get from this is that you are not a collection of parts that work independently.  You have a whole body that needs to be treated as a whole body.  Accidental injuries to the skin and cutting during surgeries have a greater significance than the forming of scar tissue because they damage the bodies ability to transmit information from one area to another.  Finally, it is possible, and important, to properly treat scar tissue to help keep the body functioning properly.

Wayne Woodworth
Myofascial Release is my favorite form of body work. Better than a massage.

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The body generates electrical and magnetic fields. That idea has been taught in Eastern traditions for thousands of years. Western traditions have always held to the idea that “if I can’t see it then it doesn’t exist”. Fortunately western science is now getting sophisticated enough that we can now measure these fields.

It turns out that the major systems of the body each generate their own fields that can be measured independently.  The first energy that medicine was able to detect were the electrical fields generated by the heart and brain.  This gave rise to the electrocardiogram to measure the heart’s electrical field, and the electroencephalogram to measure the brain’s field.  These are pretty common now but they have a rather significant problem.  The electrical field gets distorted as it passes through other tissues.  For example, the brain’s electrical field gets distorted as it passes through the dural tissue, skull, and scalp.

The solution is to measure the system’s magnetic field,  which does not get distorted.  Science has developed equipment that can measure the much weaker magnetic signals.  For the heart and the brain they are they magnetocardiogram and magnetoencephalogram.  Another benefit of these technologies is that they don’t require skin contact like the electrical counterparts do.

The heart produces the strongest fields,  followed by those generated by muscle contractions, brain function, and sensory responses.  That sensory responses generate measurable electrical and magnetic fields is interesting.  Just by seeing this page, your retinas generate a measurable electrical and magnetic response.

So, what does this mean for wellness?  I’m reading information that says that the body’s  systems effect each other through the energies that they generate.  I’m really interested in finding research that shows that we can help the body heal by applying external energies, such as magnetic and far-infrared, to balance and tune these fields that we can now measure.

If you want to read this information yourself, it is coming from Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis by James L. Oschman.

Wayne Woodworth
So psyched by this energy medicine that you can probably measure it.

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I read some things about an early 1900’s energy medicine pioneer, Harold Saxton Burr that I would like to share with you.  He was a professor at Yale School of Medicine starting in 1929, published several papers on the nervous system and 93 papers on the role of electricity in human development and disease.

At the time that Burr was doing his research on energy fields, they were very out of fashion.  Now, as scientists are getting interested in energy medicine again, his work is showing its real value.

He believed that “fields of life” are the basic blueprints for all life and that these fields reflect mental and physical conditions.  Therefore the fields were useful for diagnostic purposes.  Obviously he was right because we have MRIs and other devices that use electricity and magnetism to find out what is going on inside our bodies.

In the 1950s he studied trees by hooking them up to recording voltmeters.  He found that he could detect their electric fields and that their fields changed in advance of changing weather and other atmospheric phenomena.

The book I am reading mentions two areas where he focused his attention.  In 1935 he showed how he could detect when a woman ovulated by measuring the electrical potential between one finger from each hand on a daily basis.  Other scientists couldn’t duplicate his experiments, so he kept working until they could.  It turned out that other functions in the body also produced changes in electrical potential.  Once they figured out how to filter them out, they could reliably detect ovulation.  There was even a US patent awarded in 1975 for an electrical circuit based on Burr’s work.

The other area mentioned in this book is in early cancer detection.  Burr was convinced that diseases would manifest in the energy field before symptoms showed up in the body.  His work was later confirmed by other scientists who found that electrical conductance was significantly higher in tumors than in healthy tissue.  In later stages of the disease, the conductance drops as the tissues deteriorate.

His work was started back in the 1930s, more than 70 years ago.

The significance for me is that there is real scientific proof of the existence of the human body’s energy fields, and has been for a long time.  The next thing is to scientifically prove that these energy fields can be manipulated through the use of magnets, far-infrared, and various energy practices like Reiki and Pranic Healing.  I’m sure I will be posting more from this book, since this information came from chapter 1.

BTW, the book I’m reading is Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis by James L. Oschman.





Wayne Woodworth
Totally amazed that this has been known and suppressed.

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