I'm back. I've been distracted by a gimpy knee which is getting better. I think. The knee doctor I visited did not want to listen to my evaluation. He was fixated on a knee replacement, but I think it is a partially torn LCL. Time may tell who is right. But I'm not doing a knee replacement unless I'm sure that's what is needed. That would be like having your tonsils removed because you need a haircut. Which leads into this blog topic.
There are four legs to most tables and chairs and to my program for resisting PD. In most tables and chairs, each leg is pretty much the same. In my program, the legs are very different. They consist of 1) Mental aka, frame of mind 2) Exercise 3) Medical (take your medicine) 4) Sleep (my favorite leg). Without using each leg, a person with PD will suffer more than they should and is gauranteed to lose the PD battle. It's like a dog in a dog fight without any teeth. That dog will lose every fight.
The first and most important leg is the Mental aspect or the frame of mind. Parkinson's is a disease of the brain. The part of the brain that causes electrical impulses or messages from or to the brain does not work and the message system is shutting down. The same brain is still capable of helping itself fight back. But it takes an extraordinary amount of effort to get the brain to ignore its broken part and resist giving up. It requires an arrogant, in-your-face, chip on your shoulder approach to life. "Fuck everything. I'm not giving in."
Only with this frame of mind can one make use of the other three legs. Even a Parkinson's afflicted brain can produce powerful willpower to get up off that comfortable chair and get in some exercise to teach those weakened muscles to respond to new messages from new brain cells which we grow daily, whether we have PD or not. These new brain cells are there. Use them.
There are numerous medical studies going back more than 50 years and continuing today on the strength of the brain to use its untapped and poorly understood electrical energy to overcome illnesses. I'm not saying you can think your way to health, although some studies strongly imply that. But you can use your brain for a lot more than being a resting place for your hat.
I am reading Mind to Matter by Dawson Church. Somewhat technical but insightful to the power of the mind to create physical changes in our health.
A beach in the Hamptons...
There are four legs to most tables and chairs and to my program for resisting PD. In most tables and chairs, each leg is pretty much the same. In my program, the legs are very different. They consist of 1) Mental aka, frame of mind 2) Exercise 3) Medical (take your medicine) 4) Sleep (my favorite leg). Without using each leg, a person with PD will suffer more than they should and is gauranteed to lose the PD battle. It's like a dog in a dog fight without any teeth. That dog will lose every fight.
The first and most important leg is the Mental aspect or the frame of mind. Parkinson's is a disease of the brain. The part of the brain that causes electrical impulses or messages from or to the brain does not work and the message system is shutting down. The same brain is still capable of helping itself fight back. But it takes an extraordinary amount of effort to get the brain to ignore its broken part and resist giving up. It requires an arrogant, in-your-face, chip on your shoulder approach to life. "Fuck everything. I'm not giving in."
Only with this frame of mind can one make use of the other three legs. Even a Parkinson's afflicted brain can produce powerful willpower to get up off that comfortable chair and get in some exercise to teach those weakened muscles to respond to new messages from new brain cells which we grow daily, whether we have PD or not. These new brain cells are there. Use them.
There are numerous medical studies going back more than 50 years and continuing today on the strength of the brain to use its untapped and poorly understood electrical energy to overcome illnesses. I'm not saying you can think your way to health, although some studies strongly imply that. But you can use your brain for a lot more than being a resting place for your hat.
I am reading Mind to Matter by Dawson Church. Somewhat technical but insightful to the power of the mind to create physical changes in our health.
A beach in the Hamptons...
