For Better Health with Long Years

Mon Jul 7 17:11:08 PDT 2008

*"TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE" MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

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*2008.07.07 - "FOR BETTER HEALTH WITH LONG YEARS"*

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I have a 9-fold regimen for good health. Two of these activities have to do
with exercise. I have been sharing with others through the years the
blessing these have been to me, especially these latter two.

Recently a friend of mine returned after a number of years from Hawaii, and
remembered hearing from me some 10 years ago or so of these, and asked if I
might write up for her the details how to make use of them.

Because it takes a bit of time to do so, I felt that it is no more effort on
a computer to do this for 900 than for one – so – here goes!

Many years ago Dr. Norman Vincent Peale – famous for his book "The Power of
Positive Thinking," was lecturing in Switzerland. Two psychyatrists were so
helped by his lectures, that they felt inclined to return a blessing to him.
So they asked him, "Do you know how to walk?" "I think so," he replied. "But
we mean, do you know how to walk *scientifically*?" "Tell me," he responded.
Following is approximately what they told him.

When you walk, try for several miles a day. Whether you are walking up or
down hill, do not change your pace. If you share your walk with another,
stop when either wants to talk. Continue on with the above pace without
further talking.

As you walk – breathe in through your nose as your left foot strikes the
ground twice. Then breathe out through your mouth as your left foot again
strikes the ground twice. This will increase your blood circulation, your
lymphatic system will be activated, and you will strengthen your lungs.

Dr. Peale followed this routine daily up to his 95th year – enjoyed
extraordinarily good health, and had such a clear mind that he finished
writing his last book the year of his death!

I have been following the above routine, and this morning experienced more
ease in walking briskly up steep hills, and more sense of strength in my
lungs than in many a year. I passed my 85th birthday July 5th of this year.

*Number Two.*  Some twenty years ago or so I was purchasing some Vitamin
Supplements at a Health Store in Puyallup. One of the owners asked me, "Do
you know how to use a "Rebounder" (mini-trampoline) scientifically?" "Tell
me," I invited him.

"Well," he said, "when you use the Rebounder, *don't* try like young folk to
see how high you can bounce! Instead, don't let the soles of your feet leave
the matting. Only rise and lower with your heels! Also, use weights in both
hands, starting with 3 #, up to 5 #, or even up to 10 #." (I am sticking
with the 3 #!)

Following is the routine I use myself for the past 20 years or so: I breathe
in through my nose, 3 x while I do 3 bounces, at the same time lifting my
arms with the 3 # weights in upward position 3 x. Next I breathe out through
my nose 3 x, while extending my arms sideways with the weights, 3 x. I then
repeat the upward 3 x routine, but then change to stretching my arms forward
the next three times. I do this double routine 5 times with my left eye
closed, so I can strengthen my right eye, which has been weak for 81 years.

Next I repeat the above with both eyes open 5 more double times. This
wonderfully strengthens your eyes. Just last month I went to my optometrist
after a 4 year break, and he said. "Your eyes at your age are so good, that
I am not prescribing any change this time in your lenses for your glasses.
You do have incipient cataracts, but they are so under control, that they
will actually be a help to you!

Good news, and a saving of money!

Next with the weights in your arms extended sideways, I move them backwards
in a circular motion, breathing in 3 x. I repeat this 3 more times breathing
out, both times breathing through my nose. I do this routine, again bouncing
only with my heels, retaining the soles of my feet on the matting.

I do this double exercise 11 times. Then I repeat the above 11 more times,
but now making a circular motion forward.

All the above only takes about 6 minutes, and it not only causes better
blood circulation, but it also causes the lymphatic system to be optimally
activated. The lymph system has no heart to move it. Only exercise does
this. Out of the 22 major sports of America (walking, jogging, bicycling,
swimming etc.,) "Cross Country Skiing" does more for the body than any of
the other 21 sports. But "*Rebounding*" is one percent even better for the
body than Cross-Country Skiing! – And you can do it indoors good weather or
bad!

The lymphatic system brings food to the trillions of cells in the human
body, and removes wastes. If the lymph is not activated by exercise (think
of couch-potatoes!) your body becomes like sludge, and your brain gets
headaches and feels lousy – and no pep physically.

There are a number of books on "The Miracle of Rebounding," which you can
locate by a "Google" search.

I broke my back severely on a motor-cycle accident in 1947. I crushed 2
thoracic vertebrae which then fused with the 3rd and 6th. I fractured the
two lower cervical vertebrae, and severely injured 2 of the lumbar ones. Dr.
Portnuff of Yorkton, Saskatchewan, said it was a miracle that I did not
sever my spinal cord, for not knowing my back was broken, I rode another 100
miles in great pain. I was in a cast for 6 months. 10 years later I started
to experience severe pain and stiffness in my total back area. By the late
'40's, I despaired of being able to continue adequately in life. God then
led me into a number of stretching exercises which I continue to do to this
day. My daughter said, "Dad, if you don't keep up these, plus the others you
do, you'll become like a board." She got my attention!

I can honestly say, because of the severe back injury I received when 23,
God has used it to keep me in better health at my age, than I would have
been apart from the back injury. I frankly would not be wisely looking after
my body the way I do, had I not been severely injured!

Because of the exercise systems, I have a clear mind to do the extremely
difficult preparation for Panin's Interlinear Greek New Testament
(approximately.2000 pages). I am now using the Berlitz method of Hebrew
phonetic pronunciation for tourists, and will soon start putting on our
Website Psalm 91, in the same Interlinear format I am using for the Greek
New Testament. I hope to complete the entire NT within 3 years, plus much
more, and put all of this on a revised Website now being prepared by one of
our 6 grandsons.

"Mens sana en corpore sano!" A sound *mind* in a sound *body*! You don't
have to be a wreck like I was up to 47 – You can voluntarily learn
"Scientific Walking" and the scientific use of the Rebounder – and be like
Norman Vincent Peale and me – writing books joyfully right up to your
golden, diamond and platinum years.

Jim Watt

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