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Meh:
Well the health system is varied. It's a matter of hit and miss, luck, persistence, insurance, how much time and money a person can throw at a problem. A person has to be on the right track to start with, ask for the correct tests etc. Typical family docs spend 7- 9 minutes with a patient it seems. They will only ever address one single issue per visit. They want patients to make an individual appointment for each health concern. There are a lot of alternative medicine types of things out there, it's almost too much, lots of it seems like trendy fads. Somewhere between the trendy fads and real medicine there are some things that really are going to help or work.
It's hard to know which issues in life we just have to accept and live with as unchangeable. OR what are the things we should work on and shouldn't just accept as status quo. It's exhausting to fight a losing battle. It's also almost wrong to do nothing about a situation that could be improved or even healed. As I type that I just think holymoly where do we prioritize.
Acupuncture and acupressure seem somewhat legit. I know of someone who was diagnosed with a non-cancerous tumor but large enough it had to be removed after her acupuncturist took her pulse! I guess they are sensitive enough they could tell the blood flow or qi flow whatever wasn't correct where the tumor was growing. So that is evidence enough to me that there is something to it.
In life it's like one doesn't pay attention to subtle or non emergency signs that something is just off and not working in general.
Maybe I have dumbed myself down somehow. Perhaps in a Narcissistic way I wish the world would just stop for me so I could catch up. So I could surreptitiously experiment with my health and feeling good. So I could take some classes or something. Financially one is forced to eventually just keep going.
haha... I mean if horses are coming out of the starting gate it feels like my horse decided to turn around and start out of the back of the gate IN the opposite direction. It's just a feeling. I remember a sports class I took so long ago and the instructor would be telling people they can never stop practice or else they will forever be trying to catch up. I don't know. It it possible that sometime we believe we are doing okay but we really are not. OR maybe we are not doing as badly as we think we might be doing. Just rambling here. I really need to ramble sometimes. I have faith that it means something eventually. Sometimes one feels like they are NOT doing the best they can do but not have the motivation or energy to do better...
I have wanted to start yoga (at home) again for so long but I haven't gotten into it. I know it's yet another one of those fad things. It does force us to pay attention to our body though.
It was easy to do yoga and jog and do all that stuff when I was young and fit I was fascinated by the exoticism of it. I STILL need to do that stuff even though now it feels like it's from a totally different perspective. I'm old and I'm just trying to be JUST OK perspective.
Hopalong:
I think the very simplest form of getting in shape at home is those stretchy exercise bands. You can also google "home exercise with household items" for loads of programs using soup cans, chairs, your body, the doorframe, etc. JUST AS GOOD.
I love the Royal Canadian Air Force XBX plan too--did it as a girl and it was one that really helped me. Mainly because you could begin at a very very easy level and gradually move up the chart. The gradualness is so specific that even my brain could follow it, and it also meant that it was very hard to hurt yourself. The whole thing is reproduced here.
http://www.corvedale.com/5bx/xbxPlan.pdf
Plus which, watching June Cleaver perform these in the illustrations is a stitch.
Good luck, Boat! Woot woot!
xxoo
Hops
Twoapenny:
--- Quote from: Garbanzo on May 17, 2019, 06:00:28 AM ---Well the health system is varied. It's a matter of hit and miss, luck, persistence, insurance, how much time and money a person can throw at a problem. A person has to be on the right track to start with, ask for the correct tests etc. Typical family docs spend 7- 9 minutes with a patient it seems. They will only ever address one single issue per visit. They want patients to make an individual appointment for each health concern. There are a lot of alternative medicine types of things out there, it's almost too much, lots of it seems like trendy fads. Somewhere between the trendy fads and real medicine there are some things that really are going to help or work.
That sound very system to our health system, G, you have to kind of know that the problem might be when you go in so you can request specific things are checked out. Which to my mind makes doctors kind of pointless if you have to try and work it out on your own first! And yes, single issue appointments, and here they only make one referral at a time as well, so you wait months to see a doctor, they say that you don't have the thing you thought you might and then you have to go back and start again to get referred somewhere else to check for a different problems. It can take years and it seems mad to me not to make multiple referrals at once and then just cancel the ones you end up not needing. Much 'fadness' around alternative treatments, I think, it's hard to work through the maze and figure out what might help.
It's hard to know which issues in life we just have to accept and live with as unchangeable. OR what are the things we should work on and shouldn't just accept as status quo. It's exhausting to fight a losing battle. It's also almost wrong to do nothing about a situation that could be improved or even healed. As I type that I just think holymoly where do we prioritize.
Gosh, yes to all of that, where is the line between acceptance and resignation? So hard to know when you should keep trying and when you should just throw in the towel and let it happen. So tiring.
Acupuncture and acupressure seem somewhat legit. I know of someone who was diagnosed with a non-cancerous tumor but large enough it had to be removed after her acupuncturist took her pulse! I guess they are sensitive enough they could tell the blood flow or qi flow whatever wasn't correct where the tumor was growing. So that is evidence enough to me that there is something to it.
Wow, I had no idea they could pick up a tumour with something like that! That is amazing. I have had times with the lady I used to see for acupuncture where she knew how exhausted I was just from taking my pulse - I often didn't need to tell her what was wrong, she'd take my pulse and tell me! The guy I'm having treatment with at the minute picked up on an emotional thing I hadn't mentioned because I didn't think it was relevant - so amazing being able to read a body like that.
In life it's like one doesn't pay attention to subtle or non emergency signs that something is just off and not working in general.
Maybe I have dumbed myself down somehow. Perhaps in a Narcissistic way I wish the world would just stop for me so I could catch up. So I could surreptitiously experiment with my health and feeling good. So I could take some classes or something. Financially one is forced to eventually just keep going.
haha... I mean if horses are coming out of the starting gate it feels like my horse decided to turn around and start out of the back of the gate IN the opposite direction. It's just a feeling. I remember a sports class I took so long ago and the instructor would be telling people they can never stop practice or else they will forever be trying to catch up. I don't know. It it possible that sometime we believe we are doing okay but we really are not. OR maybe we are not doing as badly as we think we might be doing. Just rambling here. I really need to ramble sometimes. I have faith that it means something eventually. Sometimes one feels like they are NOT doing the best they can do but not have the motivation or energy to do better...
I think my horse is lying in a field waiting for someone to bring her some hay, G :) Rambling is good, I think it clears our minds out a bit. I think sometimes not doing much is the best we can, you know?
I have wanted to start yoga (at home) again for so long but I haven't gotten into it. I know it's yet another one of those fad things. It does force us to pay attention to our body though.
It was easy to do yoga and jog and do all that stuff when I was young and fit I was fascinated by the exoticism of it. I STILL need to do that stuff even though now it feels like it's from a totally different perspective. I'm old and I'm just trying to be JUST OK perspective.
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There are loads of good yoga vids on YouTube now, and a lot of them are quite short. If you've not looked yet, I like 'Yoga with Adrienne' stuff and also things by Jen Hillman - they seem quite real and human, you know? One video I tried to do had a lady that was so bendy she ended up with all her limbs pointing in the wrong direction. She looked like someone had folded her and stuffed her in a suitcase lol
Meh:
yah there is a difference though between what we might do, could do, like to do, want to do, feel like doing, know how to do, inspired to do, think about doing, talk about doing versus what we really do
the most I do right now is if I feel my shoulders n neck all scrunched up I will deep breathe and relax them, about as little engagement, not much "doing" in that
Meh:
watching ted talks instead of actually doing anything, one presenter stated there is research that chips go through midlife crisis so I had to look it up
randomness
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-say-chimps-and-orangutans-have-mid-life-crises-136191276/
well they are zoo apes.... do wild apes also have a midlife crisis I wonder??
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