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A vital life force flows through our bodies via the arteries, veins, lymphatic system, nerves and chi (energy). Our bodies can self-regulate, self-heal and self-repair if there is unrestricted flow of these elements. When the obstacles to the free and dynamic flow are removed, hemodynamics (blood and fluid circulation) and homeostasis are achieved. Maya Abdominal Therapy, Chi Nei Tsang, and Visceral Manipulation can assist in both homeostasis and hemodynamics, enabling us to live the divine promise of a long and healthy life with fully functioning organs that digest, assimilate, eliminate and reproduce in a manner that is easy and uncomplicated.

"There is no intelligence required for healing. To heal, we don't need to be intelligent, we don't need to be good, and we don't need to deserve it. Healing is pure grace. To heal, we do need honesty. We need to be true to ourselves. We need to be able to admit that we have feelings we wish we didn't have. We need to own these feelings so we can outgrow them, and so we can mature as human beings." Gilles Marin

Resistance: Dr. Semmelweis, who was born in 1818, was an obstetrician in Vienna, Austria. During the 1840s, he noted that up to 30 percent of the women giving birth in the hospital where he worked were dying of a bacterial infection. By contrast, women who were giving birth at home with the help of midwives, were not succumbing to this deadly bacterial infection.

He discovered that medical students were coming straight from the autopsy room to the delivery room and spreading the infection to the mothers.

He recommended that all doctors wash their hands before delivering babies. It seems like such a no-brainer today, but this suggestion was met with strong resistance at the time.

When he ordered those working with him to wash their hands before the delivery process, the death rate shrank to about 1 percent.

But hospital officials still resisted adopting the hand-washing policy, and eventually Semmelweis left the hospital. He began to write inflammatory open letters to the obstetric community about the importance of hand-washing, but he was often ridiculed and his findings were largely rejected by his colleagues. He even stood outside of the hospital and cried, "Wash your hands" to the doctors who were going to work.

It wasn't until many years after his death in 1865 that the concept of hand-washing as a way to avoid transferring infectious diseases became commonplace.

 

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