Hi, I'm 85 years young.
Nice !
And
I saw a Tibetan monk. Who's 118 years old
Doing Qigong and that's what I'm going to do at 118
My wife and I get up at 4 o'clock and do the meditations. We're serious. Hey, how can you not love this guy?
And I've seen you a lot lately haven't I?
I don't know. Yeah. We've been around.
Three advanced workshops.
How would you like to have a grandpa like him?
I'm asking this question because others might be helped.
I got a voodoo curse in February when I had an MRI and
I didn't have any pain but I had an MRI because of a long story and the MRI showed that my
spinal column was
challenged T5
T4 and S1.
L5 L4 and S1. Yeah, whatever.
And I had no pain so the doctor said
Here's some pain pills come back in a month and we might look and see if we need surgery. You don't need it now.
And I said, thank you. I said by the way, I'm going to meditate this out of my system."
Oh, he probably or she probably loved that one
And he said I've seen a lot in this world
But I ain't seen anything like that. And I said, "Okay. Thanks."
So you didn't take the voodoo curse,
Okay
So the question I have is
I know through through the meditations I'm getting healed somehow and
I really don't know whether I should get another MRI and when.
But I don't have any symptoms. So do I just forget about the MRI and say this to the doctor or what?
Excellent question, I love him.
Now
Let's build a model here.
I have nothing against medicine. I love medicine.
And it works really well for acute conditions. If you have appendicitis, you break your arm,
It's a good idea to go to emergency care or see a physician and not go to an acupuncturist
It's just not the best choice to make, right ? Because that is the protocol you need for that condition.
When we talk about chronic conditions, though
chronic, long-standing conditions require a lifestyle change and
A lifestyle change means you got to change behaviors and make different choices and you have to learn how to adapt to your environment
without having any stress
Or reducing the amount of stress that you have in your in your body and you can talk to people who treat chronic conditions
I had a huge clinic in the Pacific Northwest where we treated a lot of people in one week and
We treated chronic conditions because nobody wanted to do it and we took it on and we have referrals from all kinds of different
physicians in the area and we helped people a lot
but when you deal with
chronic conditions if a person doesn't really understand how to manage their emotions
you will see them back in your clinic six months later to a year later with the
exact
same condition and they'll ask you "How did it come back?" and the answer is you're just perceiving your environment the same way and
you're reacting to the same people in the same
conditions in the same way and producing the same emotions and it's those emotions then they keep your body in the past.
How many people understand?
Yet, you know or if you look at the Medicare guidelines in the United States,
arthritis needs an incident which means if you flagged 20 people down on the street and took x-rays and MRIs of their spine,
you would see about a little more than 50% of those people with some type of degenerative changes.
Just wear and tear. But out of those 10 or 12 people only half of them would have symptoms.
The other half would have no symptoms at all.
In fact, if you did the MRI, some of them would show a bulged disc and have no pain.
So the objective measurement has to be correlated with the subjective finding. Are you with me still?
So the answer to the question is simple.
Keep doing the work. If you have no symptoms, there's no need to address it.
Sure, there's some degeneration and doing everything that you're doing
as a man that's over 80 years old with that kind of amazing mind and that kind of amazing body and that kind of energy
If I was attending that case, I would just say keep doing exactly what you're doing
Surgical surgery is not indicated in that condition because there's no severe pain that's interfering with that person's life.
And there's no objective orthopedic findings that would be
significant enough for that person to make that choice. Does that make sense?
And you start doing a little bit more yoga. You start stretching a little bit more. The spine is really poorly vascularized.
It doesn't have a good blood supply it gets blood through osmosis through changes in
in
concentrations of fluid. So the spine tends to dry out
as we age, because we become less active. And so the wear and tear begins to cause some degeneration.
So as you begin to do motions where you're stretching the connective tissue and you're
stretching the tissue, you're getting oxygen and nutrients into the joints.
And if you had oxygen and nutrients in the joints, you get waste products out the other side.
And those discs can actually puff up. They can get fresh blood in there. And you can start to notice a significant change.
Now there is a future you that already exists
that has no symptoms and a change in your arthritic condition.
And all you have to do is become that person. And I pretty much have no doubt that you will.