River's Chi House

I was moved to write this blog today after watching CBS news in the morning. They had a headache specialist on their show being interviewed about headaches and what caused them. No where in her talk did she say one word about bad breathing patterns i.e. neurosis breathing or unnecessary muscle tension in the head neck and shoulders. I am not a headache specialist in her league. But I do know that Dr Janet Travell, in a landmark book published in 1983, showed the relationship between muscle tension and head, neck, and shoulder pain. My question is, why did the headache specialist not talk about that relationship and that most people who suffer headaches, also have that muscle tension pattern? In my experience of working with people with all kinds of headaches, I have not seen one person who suffered headaches that did not have the muscle trigger points or knots that Dr Travell discovered. You can find information on her findings on referred pain patterns at the following links. http://w...

The above photo is of Osho a Mystic Teacher. You can find more about him and other meditations he teaches at the following link. http://www.osho.com/Main.cfm?Area=Meditation&Language=English This was sent to me by my good friend Chamki. I think it is good to know this information, Thank you wondrous Chamki. THE MIND ALSO BECOMES TRANQUIL BY ALTERNATELY EXPELLING AND RETAINING THE BREATH. Patanjali gives other alternatives also. If you can do this: being happy, with happy people, friendly; compassion with the miserable, joy with the virtuous, indifference with the evil ones; if you can do this, then you enter from the transformation of the mind towards the supermind. If you cannot do, because it is difficult, not easy, then there are other ways. Don't feel depressed. Says Patanjali: THE MIND ALSO BECOMES TRANQUIL BY ALTERNATELY EXPELLING AND RETAINING THE BREATH. Breathing and thinking are deeply connected, as if they are two poles of one thing. You also sometimes become aware,...

The above illustration can be found at the following link. You will find more information there on breathing. http://www.geocities.com/flutepower55/breathing.html I had hoped to do today's blog on the mind and emotions but no. I feel I must add one more thing about breathing and muscle tension. Learning about the importance of proper breathing and releasing unnecessary muscle tension throughout the day is easy to learn intellectually. Internalizing this important knowledge into our day to day life is not easy. The human mind can only remember consciously so much for so long. Then the knowledge or awareness fades away and old habits resume their dominate place in our lives. For instance, we learn diaphragmatic breathing or belly breathing in a class that deals with any number of disciplines like singing or playing the flute. Perhaps we learn it in a yoga or chi kung class. Or we are taught belly breathing as a form of stress reduction or for meditation. We learn belly or diaphragma...

People suffer from all kinds of problems. Physical and /mental/emotional, and social life inevitably produce painful situations. In the words of a song from the 60s., " There is no way to delay that trouble coming everyday." When problems come to us or our loved ones that do not match our coping skills life gets pretty rough for most of us. Then we have to face the fact that we need help. What to do? A friend of mine wrote a song back in those days that went something like this, " Dogs in the dog house,cats up a tree, and the whole worlds crying, oh please Mr Fireman won't you please save me." We want to be saved from whatever pain invades our lives or the lives of our friends or families. When the easy or familiar ways do not work, we pray to God. We rush to the doctor or the shrink and hope like hell that the problem will go away. If it does not go away, or God forbid, it gets worse, what do we do? We pray more, or go to new doctors or therapies. Still nothing...

Then We Can Decide Better, Where We Want To Go! I was invited to a 360 blog today and found a entry he had written for today about the Hippie's. You can find the blog by clicking the following link. http://360.yahoo.com/profile-jHKlDAo1Y6hDqjne2p8kZA--?cq=1 My response is after his entry. The Hippie Culture - Misunderstood by society? "I just finished watching this documentary on the History Channel called "Hippie". It was made to introduce things about the Hippie era that most people would no idea about. For example, the Hippie era was actually born in Switzerland?!? We all known that LSD was the starting point for all of the flower children in the Haight, but what you probably didn't know was that it was created by a chemist in Switzerland who mixed a chemicals together and drank a large amount of it as an experiment. When he was riding his bicycle home, he began to experience strange images. The drug was then brought to the US which is mostly looked upon as a ...

My wife, "My" and and I send our love on this Mother's Day. Happy Mother's Day To All Mothers Everywhere!!! I bow with deep love and respect to my mother and my wife, the mother of my step-children, and all mothers and the THE MOTHER of all things. Thank you for my life and thank you for your love. May I never forget. May you always know, that I LOVE YOU!!!! Love River