Homestead mailing list

[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Sep 27, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> And make no mistake it cost me no end of pains but this sort of  
> practical
> moving yoga has paid off handsomely.  If one looks about their life,  
> you will
> find no end of examples of this.  There are always at least two ways  
> of doing
> things, one will promote health, vigor, and flexibility and the  
> other will promote
> aging and geezerdom.

Casual observation verifies that the vast majority of Americans use  
their bodies as minimally as possible. So of course they will lose  
them as soon as possible.

Due to back injury and stress I once joked that I paid my  
chiropractor's college bill for one of his children. At some point I  
decided to self-treat. I bought gravity-inversion boots and hung  
upside down again and again until my eyeballs no longer felt they  
would explode. I rolled a towel around a wine bottle and laid on the  
floor with it in the crook of the neck.

My body responded. I have not been in a chiropractor's office in more  
than thirty years.

Today, in both Phoenix and here at Heartwood, I have chinning bars,  
one-inch pipe held up at a height that allows me to not only do chin- 
ups but more importantly to hang, to grasp the bar and to let my body  
sag. When I hear the vertebrae pop back into place I hold the position  
for a few seconds more and gradually put weight back onto my feet.

The spine is one of the keys to health.