Minutus

Dear Y'all,

Here is a maintaining cause of ill health that you-all probably did not think about. I am pretty sure that you did not think about it because I just discovered it recently.

Gravity. There is an invention called a Back Bubble which costs $395, which you can duplicate for next to nothing in your basement, which I have been using for a long time: http://www.thebackbubble.com/ I recently have modified my version of it so that more of my back would be stretched, and I have been using it more often, especially after running or rebounding.

It is absolutely amazing how it allows my inner healer to heal my back. Gravity is the maintaining cause of a lot of my back pain, and running or rebounding merely aggravates that cause.

I also do my version of the Back Bubble differently from the fellow who sells the Back Bubble, and this is crucial: I lower myself down slowly so that I am at full dangle, then I stand up. I can do this for as much as 100 times, which takes about 5 minutes. This follows my first law of alternative healing, which is to get the bad stuff out and get the good stuff in. Up and down I go, slowly and gently. This gives my inner healer a chance to do the real healing. After about 10 days of this, my back feels so much better, so much stronger. I can do more rebounding with less "presence" in my back. ("Presence" is what I experience before more aggravation causes actual pain.)

I hope that someone benefits from this. Learning this and keeping it to myself is only a temporary blessing, which amounts of no blessing at all. Giving it to others is an eternal blessing.

Sincerely,
Roger Bird

Roger

I need this DESPERATELY and no money. How much did it cost you to make it? Could you send me some pics please?

Vicki

Dear Vicki and anyone else with back pain,

My son was in a big hurry, but I convinced him to take a picture of it and send it to me; that may not necessarily happen since we have been having trouble sending pictures from his cellphone to me. I will know in a few minutes. In the meantime, I am delighted to tell you more about making it.

You will probably need a very strong support, like a beam in the basement. I took a sheet and put a sleeping bag and some old blankets and other soft things that we never use. Then I rolled it up. I tied up the ends with a smallish rope. Then with a much bigger rope I tied the ends up to the beam. Experiment and use your imagination. The center should be quite soft. It forms a sort of circle or harness. You put your body in the harness and hang from your arms, with the harness under your armpits. For a few days after your first day your latissimus dorsi ("lats") may be a little sore. You hold your body up with your upper arms using your lats and pushing your elbows out as in nameste. This gives the harness a better hold on you.

You don't have to completely dangle. You can leave your feet on the floor. Check out what guy at http://www.thebackbubble.com/ The only difference with my system is that you will let yourself dangle for a short time, like perhaps a one count, and then stand up. When you are dangling, you want to focus on relaxing. The dangle pulls your vertebra apart, and the standing pushes them back together. When you want to clean a sponge, do you just toss it in water? No. You squeeze it, and then relax it in the water, drawing clean water into it, and then squeeze it again, and then relax it, and so on.

The Back Buddy dude will tell you that most people will get relief immediately. But we want more than relief. We want permanent healing. And a way to facilitate that is to get the old, metabolic and other toxins and inflammation out and get the good stuff in. This requires squeezing and relaxing. Those disks have very little if any blood supply, and only movement is going to "get the bad stuff out and the good stuff in". And this the Roger's variation on the Back Buddy will do that for all of your disks from about your shoulder blades down.

There is also inversion tables, but I have not tried them any more than to discover that they messed with my sleep and unpleasant things like that. They would of course work on all of your disks, but there is no squeezing and relaxing. But many people swear by them.

I will forward a picture if I get one from my noble son.
Roger Bird
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To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 17:31:11 -0700
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Maintaining causes
Roger

I need this DESPERATELY and no money. How much did it cost you to make it? Could you send me some pics please?

Vicki

I do well with inversion. It might be more difficult for someone with severe functional compromise, or who is heavy for their strength. I have no unpleasant effects, though I was a little concerned the first time I had to sneeze while inverted.

ginny

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Ginny Wilken

gwilken@fastmail.fm
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