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Wanna know how to make any problem a lot worse?

(This is not a trick question.)

All we need to do is insist something is the answer when it isn’t and things get a whole hell of a lot worse.

Let’s just put that habit in perspective with a simple everyday occurrence called losing your keys.

When you lose your keys how many times do you look in your purse, briefcase or pockets before you move on to where they really are?  Most of the time you aren’t happy until you’ve emptied everything out, even though the keys aren’t there, weren’t there and won’t get there any time soon.

Here’s a more far reaching example of insistence:  How much stronger will a microscope have to get before biochemists find those pesky, practically invisible creatures that are supposedly killing us?  How much more detail will the health experts need about the insides of our bodies before they find the causes for deterioration and pain?  (Both are trick questions.)

What if they’re all barking up the wrong tree—insisting that the answer to our optimal existence and longevity lies in a direction that it doesn’t, hasn’t and never will?  What a bummer that would be, especially since our economy, or what’s left of it, is dependent on the drug industry.

But if we keep our attention focused on the tree with the bio-chemistry fruits, for example, we’re going to engineer ourselves into something not human, at least as we know it.  Maybe that’s OK in the long run, I don’t know, but most of us don’t even suspect that this is already happening.

Let’s fact it! We’re not looking at the long term results of much of any of our human actions: Not looking at the body from a structural standpoint, not looking at the price of rampaging through our natural unreplinishable resources, not looking at our increasing reliance on pharmaceuticals.

Many people are operating on daily doses of medication cocktails (yum yum) with not the slightest understanding about the effects of one medication taken long term, much less the effects of combo doses.  There is no way to figure out the effects of all the combinations except full speed ahead.

Look around. We’ve already engineering our biochemical and genetic makeup in big ways.  We started with the lowly vegetables who couldn’t talk back—just to give them a more eye pleasing color, a different tasting fruit (pluot) and a longer shelf life. We moved on to animals. You have only to google in ‘cloning pets’ to witness cloning gone wild.  And we already do things to humans on a biochemical level that change them into hybrids.

My father, for example, has a testosterone blocker implanted in his arm, so that he no longer lives his life with the influence of this male hormone.  He was diagnosed with a slow growing malignancy in his prostate gland years ago, and, just to be on the safe side, doctors decided to keep his body from producing testosterone—chemical castration, in other words—the same castration used for sexual predators.

The first time I saw my father after two years of his androgen deprivation therapy implant, I was shocked at how much he reminded me of a female/male crossbreed—the way he talked, decided things, his actual looks, the sound of his voice, his changed attitude about life, his very bent over posture…etc.  I didn’t know about the alterations to his hormones, so I just thought this was his version of getting old.

Most recently, though, my father cracked his tailbone, but not by falling down like you would imagine.  It just cracked for no apparent reason other than obesity. I say no apparent reason because most of his time is spent sitting in a recliner and it’s well padded.  You can see why this tailbone thing has not sat well with me, if you’ll pardon the pun. Plus, no doctors are looking at the cause of the crack, either, so I decided to get cracking on my own.

Testosterone, though much maligned, has many benefits too. Today, I looked into testosterone blocking therapy and found a reason for cracked bones.  Without testosterone, bones get soft, so does the head or mind, by the way.

Just last week, my poor father offered a nurse 500 dollars to bring him a gun so he could kill himself.   I’m not saying that suicide is not a perfectly viable alternative in this case. I can even overlook his only offering the night nurse $500 when she might have done it for $50,000. I’m just saying that asking a nurse for a gun is just plain idiotic—-something he never would have done had he been in his right mind.  My father was anything but a stupid man when it came to judging people and their reactions. He used to be an expert and that was only a short while ago.

So back to testosterone: There are those who lustily proclaim the benefits of testosterone and are adamant about its powers to prevent degenerative conditions. According to people who use and believe in testosterone, both men and women can benefit greatly from it.

Testosterone Benefits for Men

According to Neal Rouzier, M. D. in How to Achieve Healthy Aging (WorldLink Medical Publishing, 2007) low testosterone levels in men are responsible for the bulk of men’s physical and mental decline. Rouzier claims that adding testosterone to your chemical makeup can change the course of male andropause— the male version of women’s menopause.  Over 80% of our male politicians are on some form of testosterone additives and so are the women politicians—-surprise surprise!

Besides being a powerful aphrodisiac, adding testosterone to the biochemical mix improves a man’s emotional state, keeps him from becoming a “grumpy old man.” Some forms of depression may actually be the effects of low testosterone levels. Most doctors, however, treat depressed men with antidepressants, which can lower the testosterone levels even further.

Guess what else happens when you don’t have sufficient testosterone! Pot bellies and spare tires happen, along with the increased risk of Type II Diabetes due to the increase in visceral and belly fat.

Osteoporosis is another degenerative condition that can develop because of low testosterone levels.  Bingo, folks!  There you have it—one reason my father cracked his tailbone and is now in a nursing home asking for a gun.

No worries. He just needs a pill to increase his bone strength and density. Daily Boniva reduces spinal fracture risk by 50%.  Meaning one out of two times you fall on your back you won’t break anything?

Do you want to know how to keep your memory functioning at tip-top shape well into old age?  There’s definitely a way, but It’s not what you think, and you would probably never find it in a million years.

The fact is, folks, you don’t need to do a gazillion sudoku and crossword puzzles.  You don’t need to take different routes to work.  You don’t even have to fill up on brain stimulants like ginkgo, selenium and Vitamin E—though I won’t deny their effectiveness in clinical studies.

Keeping your memory sharp and staving off what people identify as memory decline is pretty simple:  Just don’t practice forgetting so much.  I know it sounds weird, but if you read a little further down the page, you’ll see what I mean.

First, think on this:  How do you learn to play a musical instrument?  How do you learn to tie your shoes?   How do you learn to print your ABC’s?  By practicing, practicing, practicing.  So how do you learn to forget everything that bothers you?

Drum roll………………..by practicing practicing and more practicing!    And not only that, practice makes perfect.

Sad to say, the very memories you want to forget are the hardest ones to lose, so you tend to practice every day all the time whether you know it or not.  That’s because emotional memories make deep rivulets in the brain, especially if they were deposited visually or reinforced with strong physical sensations.

The word ‘war’, for example, didn’t bother you much as a child, until you began to associate it with the horrible pictures and screen images that accompany it.  There’s a lot of us who would like to forget the images of war and violence.  They have been pounded into our brains 24/7 for many years now.

But if you practice forgetting day in day out, you’ll learn how—how to forget all the good stuff along with the bad.  You see, folks, forgetting comes at an extremely humongous price.  The price of forgetting everything that triggers bad memories includes the triggers for the good times, along with the people you hold dear.  ‘Cause even the good times trigger memories of horrible things. That’s just how our brain works.

Here’s another way of looking at it: When you’re trying to intentionally forget anything, you first have to mentally segregate that information.  Next, you have block it off access in your brain in order to make it really hard for your mind to retrieve.  After awhile, the good times become harder to retrieve too, til they’re pretty much irretrievable.

We all have things in our lives we’d just as soon forget forever, though. The lucky amongst us have a few million minor incidents, give or take a few thousand.

Some of us, on the other hand, have huge chunks of our lives, rich with negative emotions, that we’d just as soon mine out of our brains permanently.  If you are one of those silly humans who looks back on your teenage years as the best times of your life, then most likely you’re leaving out a substantial amount of emotionally painful experiences.

Without a doubt, the adolescent years, driven by rampant gender hormones, are some of the most challenging times that humans every face.  While the typical teenage girl brain is obsessively concerned with attracting a strong, regular featured mate, most teenage males (poor devils) are 100% concerned with sewing  wild oats in every furrow they see.  And then, of course, there’s the all the genders between what we identify as male and female who don’t even know where they stand in the mix.

Frustration, embarrassment, wild mood swings, self loathing and confidence issues are pretty much the norm during this human growth period, and it lasts about 8-9 years in our culture, if your lucky.

So Be honest.  Can you remember even one year’s worth of adolescence?  Isn’t it kind of an emotional blur of ups and downs, most of which you’ve already repressed, denied, suppressed or intentionally forgotten?

There are findings that add to fast accumulating evidence that emotion places limits on the ability to control the contents of the mind.  Some results suggest that even a mild emotional reaction can undermine intentional forgetting. But this doesn’t necessarily mean that emotional memories can never be intentionally forgotten. If the motivation to forget is powerful enough, individuals might be able to overcome the effects of emotion by enlisting additional coping strategies.   I think this is precisely where memory loss, dementia and Alzheimer comes in— first disguised as helpful coping strategies.

Lest you think I’m nudging you towards a cliff, there is something you can practice that gets rid of the painful emotions of negative experiences while leaving the memories intact.  It’s called deleting and it’s really simple to learn and practice.

If you want to know about Dr. Yuen, but  you’re pressed for time, why not read a couple of the testimonials on his website.  Bet you can’t read just one, though.

No health problem or life issue is too incurable or too insignificant for Dr. Yuen.  Period.

Just to whet the appetite, I’ll list a few bothersome ‘issues’ that the Doctor has successfully handled.  Ooops, did I say ‘handled’?  All treatment is strictly hands-off and not effected by distance, either, no matter what the ’severity’ level.

So if you’re looking for an invoker of the spirit world, or one of those grabby types who pull bloody masses out of living tissue, Dr. Kam Yuen is not your man.

Shaman doing his thing.

On the other hand, if it’s non-invasive results you’re after, then follow this link to a video or read on.

From cancer to schizophrenia, dementia to epilepsy, Dr. Yuen gets to the source of pain and resolves it—instantaneously and quietly.  All those big bad prosperity blocks do not stand in his way, either.  And lest I leave out major organ failures, there’s liver and kidney testimonials.

I think you are beginning to get the picture, but if it’s more written material you need, please keep going.

Fueled by a strong desire to make pain elimination, and not pain management, available to everyone, Dr. Yuen has written three books: “Instant Rejuvenation”, “Instant Healing” and “Instant Pain Elimination”.

I don’t have to tell you that the key word here is ‘instant’, folks. And why should we expect anything less from our bio-computer bodies?  Because……we’ve been taught to, maybe?

mantis in fighting mode

Moving on.  The thing that I find really interesting is Dr. Yuen now prefers to be thought of as a Life Coach or a Consultant, whereas thirty years ago he was a Grandmaster of Shaolin Tai Mantis Kung-Fu with his own martial arts studio. He was even selected as the adviser and stunt coordinator for the Kung Fu TV Series.

From Grandmaster to Consultant. Now there’s a change you don’t often come across!

I can promise you, Dr. Yuen never forgets the principle of change.  He still takes classes and seminars to learn other disciplines—including internet marketing and real estate investment—all of which gets synthesized and disseminated into an infinite world of potential.

As for formal education, Dr. Kam Yuen has trained and is certified in many fields but holds at least two university degrees, one in Chiropractics, the other in Engineering—the aerospace mechanical, structural and automotive type.

And now we’ve come to the sixty-four million dollar question:  Why did the successful Kam Yuen, at the height of his success and popularity, abandon the path of rising stardom and certain wealth?

This question is best answered in his own words. “I decided I didn’t want to fight people any more,” Dr. Yuen explains, “that I would rather work with people to maximize their lives. And though martial arts do that, they also inherently deal with issues like self-defense, aggression and violence; and, therefore, come from a perspective of fear.  I felt it more important to help my students heal themselves than teach them fear.”

Thus the Yuen Method was born and is presently available in two-day, non-linear seminars.  There are three modules to be exact, along with a certification intensive for those who wish to coach others to alleviate life pains, both physical and non-physical.

The truth is, the Yuen Method not only eliminates pain, it eliminates the true cause of pain.  Plus anyone can learn how, so he or she can do likewise—instantaneously and quietly without drugs, surgery or harmful side-effects. (Can I have some moans from the medical establishment?)

As you can see from his website, Dr. Yuen does not rest on his laurels. Nor does he wait for the world to come to him.  Instead, he is always looking to expand his reach. No one is too ‘old’ or too ’stupid’ to learn, so drop that idea.  Currently, there are over 25,000 Yuen students in all walks of life.

This man of seemingly boundless energy takes on many clients, both in person and over the phone.  He will, at his own expense, travel to a college or school and give a free demonstration involving people in the audience.

Kam and Chris

These lectures always include instantaneous alleviations of long term pain…you know, the throw-away-the-crutches type.  If the Doctor wanted to indulge in a guru fantasy, he would have many many devotees, but making people dependent on him is far from his vision, mission and goals. He prefers to make us laugh at ourselves.

Here’s the fun part: You don’t have to exercise, meditate, swallow pills, or even believe in the Yuen Method to experience instantaneous relief.  Imagine that.

Correction, take a Dr. Yuen Seminar.

He’s coming to Mount Shasta in the Spring of 2009.