For Better Health with Long Years

Fri Sep 19 18:05:08 PDT 2008

"*TWO ARE BETTER THAN ONE" MINISTRIES*

*Jim & Marie Watt*

*PO BOX 25116 – Federal Way WA 98097-2116*

*Tel: 253.874.4265 – Email: **jmbetter at gmail.com*

*Web: **www.2rbetter.org*

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

 *(2008.09.19 - A friend of mine in Minnesota pointed out that my original
instructions for the use of the "rebounder" were not clear. So this portion
on the rebounder has been rewritten. I trust that it will be clearer now. My
friend was right - the original instruction were not only not clear, but
they were wrong also!) *

 I have a 9-fold regimen for good health. Two of these activities have to do
with exercises. I have been sharing with others through the years. .

 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 psychiatrists were so
helped by his lectures, that they felt inclined to return a blessing to him.
So they asked him, would you be open to our returned blessing? He assured
them that he was. So they next asked, "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 at least a mile 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, Washington.. 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 have used myself for the past 20 years or so:

 1. I breathe in to the count of 2, while lifting my weighted arms straight
up and then back to my shoulders, twice.

 2. Then I breathe out to the count of 2, while stretching my arms straight
forward twice, bringing my weighted hands back to my shoulders each time.

 3. Next I repeat 1, but for

 4. I breathe out to the count of 2, but stretching my arms sideways this
time, out and in to the shoulders to that same count.

 I do the above 4-fold routine 5 times with my left eye closed, to
strengthen the muscles of my right eye, which happens to be weak for the
past 81 years.

 Next I repeat the above with both eyes open 5 more double times.. .

 Then, with my weighted hands extended fully sideways, I rotate them
backwards in a circular motion, breathing in to the count of two, and then
while continuing the circular motion, I breathe out to the same count. I do
this routine again bouncing only with my heels, while retaining the soles of
my feet on the matting.

 I do this double exercise 11 times. I then repeat the above routine 11 more
times, but now moving my weighted arms forward in a circular motion.

 For me, I like to keep my Hebrew alphabet up to date, so I repeat the first
11 letters of the alphabet for the backward circular motion, and the last 11
letters to the 11 forward circular motion.

 This also 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!!

 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 bad – 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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