Thursday, January 3, 2019

Gongs, Bongs and B1

Working on my health from various angles, I can share three new strategies I've been using to heal myself. I am not healed, but I am doing damn well most of the time.


First, the qigong: I have completed two gongs, 100 consecutive days of a chosen qigong practice. It's a contract you make with yourself, to without fail, practice everyday. If you miss a day,  you do twice as much the next one. If you miss two days, you start over again. I did not let myself miss two days - God forbid!





To continue on with qigong, I need to think of another gong. For now I am lost in the dark days of winter, dealing with family issues and making casseroles, taking a break from studio work and some days even from qigong. However, now I feel I need it in order to feel well. That's what a 100 day gong can do!


In April I am traveling with another lovely lady to the tropical island of Hainan in China for a qigong retreat. It lasts for 2 weeks, and like my last retreat with Mingtong Gu in New Mexico, we will study Zhineng qigong, a qigong practice developed by the famous Dr Pang of China's Medicineless Hospital. It is a long journey to China from New Jersey, but worth it, I hope, for a deeper understanding of qigong and of myself.







The second strategy is pot, the bongs in this post's title, I now have a Medical Marijuana license to obtain the weed from a nearby dispensary. That will be a new adventure right there. I will meet with a counselor first to determine the best strain of cannabis for me since the various strains have different effects. They will be selling bongs and pipes and papers too, I suppose. I have tried it before and I believe in its value for emotional healing.




The third new therapy I am experimenting with is high dose Thiamine or B1. Dr. Constantini in Italy believes it can be used for PD, to slow it down or reduce symptoms. He works with me by email and since he doesn't write English, we use Deep Translator to communicate. I have tried different doses and it seems we have found the right one now, because I am feeling so well.

It's a new year. I have much work to do to beat my adversary - the Parkinson's Diagnosis. I want to win.








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