“Wind is the Spear Head of a Thousand Diseases!”

Headaches, Upper back and Neck pains are more often than not due to an attack of wind.

At this time of year when we go outside into the cold, the westerly winds attack us like a knife in the back. If your body is weak the wind will get under the skin lodging itself into the muscles. The muscles will spasm to stop further penetration into the body. Once in spasm, the muscles will pull the vertebras out of alignment impinging on the nerves and give you neck pain.

With this neck pain you are most likely to experience headaches as well. If the headache is caused by wind it usually feels like a clamp or a wet towel tightly rapped around the head. You’ll feel dizzy, blurry and have heavy eyelids as if you need sleep. You’re likely to have a runny nose and tension at the back of your head, just below the skull. (This area is called the wind gate because it’s where the wind enters)

• If it was a stress related headache your eyes may also be sore and the headache would be sharp instead of dull. And you are mostly likely to be irritable and anxious with a stress headache.

All of this happens because your “wei Qi” pronounced (whey chee) has been compromised by the wind. Your Wei Qi works just like the earth’s ozone layer protecting us from external pathogens but when your Wei Qi is weak the opening and closing of your pores becomes slow. So instead of your pores closing as you leave the warmth of your home or office they stay open for a while longer giving the speedy wind a chance to dive straight in and give you all the above symptoms.

How to avoid this from happening?

• If you know you are run down be sure to cover your neck and shoulders when ever moving from a warm area into a cold area and this includes bed to the bathroom!
• Avoid working out at the gym under an aircon. When you are sweating, your pores are open, a perfect opportunity for that wind (from the aircon) to dive straight in there.
• Going from the shower to another room cover your shoulders before leaving the bathroom.
• Also cold and wind can even penetrate the body if your back is exposed to the glass of a window when sleeping.
• But the number one way to prevent it is strengthen your body’s Qi and keep it strong.

How to Strengthen Your Qi

• Be sure you get plenty of sleep and eat well.
• Eat root vegetables more often – they have qi strengthening properties
• Be sure to do some type of exercise at least 3 times a week – Yoga , Tai Chi and Qi gong are all ideal for strengthening Qi.
• Have acupuncture and herbs before your body is run down, that way you are building on the strength of your Qi instead of recovering from an illness and then have to build up after the illness has gone.

If you have the above symptoms can it be treated?

Yes, absolutely! You will need cupping, acupuncture and maybe some herbs, all this will depend on what level the wind is at. It can dive 6 levels into the body, all the way to the bone marrow. If it gets there, you will be in a lot of pain and no matter what you do to get warm it won’t work. At this stage you will need herbs for sure. So don’t let it get there!

I hope you found this [boyf News Letter] interesting?
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Take care

Sincerely,
Scott

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Everybody will get to a point in their life where if you don’t keep your body and mind in a state of peace that your body will go down hill and age rapidly. A man and woman’s body does not need to age it’s just a concept that us as human beings use to justify why all our ancestors dropped off in their 60’s & 80’s. We actually have a brand new body every two years, so if it is new why does it date so quickly? STRESS!

I once visited a Buddhist monastery in Thailand where there was a monk who at the age of approx 83 died. He new he was going to die and instructed his family not to bury or burn his body and instead leave it on display to show the world what peace of mind can achieve.

So what this monk did was he went into a deep state of meditation and from there he passed away. His body is fully intact and has been for 20 years the only thing missing is his eye balls so they put sunnies on him, (Cool dead monk!)

Ok he did not live into his hundreds but he offered the world something else, he has shown that the body can preserve its self if it’s free of stress. It is said that when we die we see our lives before our eyes like a movie show and due to the stress of our past life is the reason why our body rapidly breaks down and decays. The monks body was not injected with preservatives and was not prepared in any other preserving way, the body simply sits there with his hair and fingernails still intact. The body is in-cased in a glass box to stop the animals from eating him but otherwise nothing, nudda, 0, just a peaceful dead monk.

If you are thinking, what has this got to do with you living today? Well if you are constantly complaining, over weight, have a sore back, have re-curing headaches, sleep and wake up as if you haven’t slept, don’t have a bowel movement for days and yes some people weeks, if you are in a job and you don’t know why, you are in a non supportive relationship or you have period pain these are all signs of stress in your body causing you to age much faster than you should.

Stress is the cause of disease, whether it’s from environmental pollutants, emotions, or even side effects from medicines stress will have our body’s break down and die. To free ourselves of stress we must keep check of our health, emotions and the way we think. What is Stress exactly? It’s when a situation arises either mentally or physically that we have trouble dealing with and then react in a negative way to rid that discomfort. A way to deal with stress is to learn about the situation at hand and this will take away the anxiety. Understanding the truth, the laws of cause and effect will free you from stress.

In the old texts its states that to live a long healthy life the key is to keep the heart calm in all activities including exercise. The analogy was that of a turtle, they travel hundreds of miles yearly, live into their hundreds and they have one of the slowest heart beats of all animals.

Over exerting the heart will have you age faster than one who doesn’t. My Kung Fu teacher who was in his 80’s would have us feel his heart rate and then he would do 5 minutes of very physical kung fu exercise and when he finished he would quickly have us feel his heart beat again, it was the same. He laughed and then walked away. Why do you see top athletes age rapidly from the age of around 40? It’s because of their intense training! Don’t get me wrong we all need a bit of competition in our lives it keeps the spirit strong and reflexes sharp but if you plan on living a long healthy life consider keeping the heart calm.

Always balance out activity with stillness this will keep you balanced. Hatha Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong are all slow exercises but what they do is stress the bones and muscles without over exerting the heart and this is an ideal way to stay young.

If you have any questions please feel free to email or come in for a treatment. My focus for you is preserving your health and age. All future studies I take on will be devoted to keeping you young.

Some clients I see are often surprised to know that I do more than just treat muscular problems. Chinese Medicine is a very well rounded discipline and incorporates all sorts of tools. Below are some things I do and treat if you didn’t know already.

•  Massage – Chinese, remedial, facial

•  Stretching – based on Kung fu and a history of physical education

•  Acupuncture – body, face, ear

•  Reflective Listening – life coaching based on NLP techniques and Buddhist psychology

•  Acupuncture Face Lift

•  Moxa

•  Cupping

•  Electro stimulation

•  Herbal pills

•  Meditation

•  Qi gong training & Kung Fu body strengthening exercises

Some uncommon conditions I treat;

Sore teeth, migraine, period pain, insomnia, constipation, heart burn, nervous twitches, depression, breeched baby, infertility for men and women, preparation and post pregnancy, asthma, plus many others. If you think your condition or a friends condition is unusual and not sure if I treat that please ask. It saddens me to see people suffer for years for no reason. Many conditions that western medicine cannot treat Chinese Medicine can. The reason is because of 3000 years of trial and error, that’s a long time.

Take care and see you soon.

Ps. If you have a friend who may like my news letters please pass this on to them and ask them to send me their details.

Kind regards,

Scott Cansdell

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