G-Jo Self-Health Newsletter Issue #5

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In previous issues, I began telling the story about how an ancient, Oriental self-health technique -- acupuncture without needles, or acuPRESSURE -- made its way into widespread use in America.

Acupressure is now perhaps the most commonly used of the many "alternative medicine" healing techniques which have become so popular, today. This is because of its ease of application plus its remarkable effectiveness for treating a wide variety of health disorders.

There are several forms of acupressure and each is somewhat different than the others. But most of these methods "arrived" on America's shores around the same time -- in the early 1970's -- though by diverse routes.

The system known as G-Jo Acupressure found its way into the West when I returned home from driving around the world with my two children in 1973. I had amassed a medical library on Eastern healing methods -- especially acupressure -- during our travels and had studied these reference manuals voraciously ... when we weren't driving or walking, that is.

This was not out of mere curiosity, however. In many parts of the world that we visited, my family and I had to actually become our own doctors, because of language barriers, lack of drugstores and medicines ... and sometimes due to very primitive conditions.

So we needed something that was easy to use, effective as all get-out and could be mastered even by children -- mine were still pre-teens, at the time. The acupressure methods I was teaching myself and my family during our travels fit our needs perfectly!

After several dramatic successes both on the road and after we returned home, I decided to spend the rest of my life helping others become more health self-sufficient, too. I would do that by sharing this remarkable technique with anyone who would listen.

"If this method really works, why doesn't EVERYbody already know about it?" -- that was a question I was regularly asked. I tried to explain that this was mostly a Chinese family healing technique -- but China was a place Americans couldn't even visit, at the time.

Finally, I began teaching small classes and workshops at the only places which would have me: In a South Florida "growth center" called "Cornucopia"; and several, very liberal churches.

Most of my students were local hippies and New Age seekers of esoteric knowledge. But in one of my 1976 workshops, a participant revealed he had a contact in Jackson Memorial Hospital, at the Family Practice clinic of the University of Miami's School of Medicine. Would I be interested in speaking to a group of doctors?

I was elated! I would finally be speaking to some true health care professionals -- people who could bring this ancient healing art into the widespread use I envisioned!

He arranged for me to give a lunchtime presentation, there, for the doctors in training and residency. During my short lecture, I explained about acupressure and presented them information about how it apparently worked. I reviewed some of its many, reported benefits -- details and information I thought doctors would naturally want to hear.

Yet I was only met with yawns, dull eyes and body language that told me I wasn't getting through to the packed cafeteria.

I was trying to speak to them at their level, using scientific or medical terms, whenever possible. But I was beginning to realize these doctors didn't really have much interest in learning something "new" (even though it was actually much older than the medicine they were now practicing).

I suddenly understood that mine was just another lecture -- one of the many they'd had to endure on the long and difficult road to their practice of medicine.

Finally, as a last resort, I began to treat them as just another group of students: I had them follow along as I found and triggered G-Jo point #13 -- between the thumb and forefinger on the back of the hand (see illustration at
www.g-jo.com/points.html in our free "Mini Crash-Course" in G-Jo Acupressure).

Moments later, one of the doctors actually leaped up from his seat, an amazed look on his face! "Hey," he practically shouted to the group -- "I just got rid of a toothache that I didn't even know I had!" From that moment on, they paid rapt attention to my message and followed closely along as I demonstrated five more of their bodies' most important acupressure points.

By the time I finished my presentation, they were asking questions and truly wanted to know more. The ice had finally been broken!

I now knew that if I could reach even doctors (the hardest of all skeptics to convince, believe me) by having them simply put their hands on themselves, I could surely reach "ordinary people" in the same way! But I had neither the time nor the resources to continue doing small workshops, at least if I wanted to reach my goal of making G-Jo Acupressure as popular as aspirin.

I walked out of that gathering with a new sense of confidence and a clearing vision of what my next steps needed to be: I would have to write a real book, then use the mass media to reach a suffering world. There was no other way!

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"After trying G-Jo point #115 as described in a magazine article, I was amazed at how quickly my allergy symptoms disappeared. Normally, my friend's cats have me sneezing from the moment I arrive at his house, but after applying the first G-Jo technique in the article, I managed to be "Bless-You"-free for the entire evening." A.M., Canada

All testimonials are unsolicited and drawn from our files without permission from their authors. For this reason, only the authors' initials, not actual names, are used. Please feel free to send along your own G-Jo experiences, if you'd like to share them with our many thousands of readers.

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URGENT WARNING -- ACT NOW! Fight the upcoming Senate bill to expand the powers of the FDA! S.722 -- the so-called "Dietary Supplement 'Safety' Act" -- if passed, will drastically limit your access to vitamins, nutritional supplements, health foods and other essentials for many health-seeking individuals.

This is part of a much larger attack on our freedom of choice -- one which, if successful, will overturn the hard-fought victory of the "Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994." The source of this conspiracy is the UN's vile Codex Alimentarius Commission -- a thinly-disguised front for Big Medicine's world-wide plot to destroy any and all drugless health alternatives.

Let your voice join with members of 700 other natural health organizations which are united against this "end run" around our health freedom ... and do it now!

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Yoga classes have become extremely popular, in recent years. But what few people realize is that yoga's stretches and bends are just the "iceberg's tip" of a massive system of thought and action whose roots go back countless generations.

Not a religion, yoga is a spiritual science whose goal is the upliftment and transformation of the mind. To accomplish this, a variety of little-known truths and simple practices are combined to hoist oneself to the peak of his or her potential.

And for more than 5,000 years, people following the pathway of "spiritual yoga" have turned to "The Bhagavad-Gita" for inspiration, guidance and wisdom on their journey. Here, millions have learned about such mysterious concepts as "karma," "reincarnation," "enlightenment" and many other beliefs which have become staples of The East.

Now you, too, can learn yoga's profound secrets -- for free, at your own computer terminal -- with weekly passages from Michael Blate's "A Yogi Explains 'The Bhagavad-Gita': Enlightenment for the New Millennium." Each Tuesday, a new, thought-provoking excerpt is delivered by e-mail to a special list of spiritual seekers.

To opt onto this list, yourself, please send an e-mail to office@g-jo.com with "subscribe gita" in the "subject" line. This is a continuously-revolving presentation, so even if you begin in the middle of the series, it will eventually recycle to your starting point.

The hard-copy version of this book is available from us, as well. Its cost is $34.95 (+ shipping and handling charges). Please see contact details at the end of this newsletter.

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CHINESE NAME: "Kunlun Mountains" (or "Lower Kunlun Mountains" -- these translations are taken from "Grasping The Wind," by Andrew Ellis, Nigel Wiseman and Kenn Boss; Paradigm Publications)

LOCATION: In the hollow (or valley) behind the crown of the OUTER ankle bone (medial malleolus), in the soft area between that protrusion and the achilles tendon (which runs up the back of the foot).

USES: This very powerful and broadacting point has at least 40 uses, two of which are for lower back pain and to relieve pain from being struck or kicked in the testicles (especially helpful for our many martial artist readers to know).

INSTRUCTIONS: To find this point upon yourself, first sit down and reach down behind the outer ankle bone. Then, using the TIP of the thumb, the bent knuckle of the index (or pointer) finger -- even the eraser tip of a pencil -- begin pressing in the deepest part of the hollow behind that ankle bone and the achilles tendon.

Probe for the tender "ouch point." Use deep pressure -- up to 15 lbs. might be needed to both find and "trigger" this (and many other) G-Jo points. The point itself, once contacted, will feel like a toothache or pinched nerve -- definitely more tender than the surrounding flesh ... especially if you are suffering from a problem that this point "controls."

Finally, trigger (deeply massage) this spot in a digging, goading way for a few seconds. Again, it should feel a bit painful. For more complete instructions plus illustrated examples of six important G-Jo points, go to www.g-jo.com/points.html and take our free "Mini Crash-Course in G-Jo Acupressure."

Or you can reach us by regular mail or phone, via our contact information at the end of this newsletter.

The G-Jo Institute is approved by The National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education provider. The "Master of G-Jo Acupressure Home-Study Certification Program" may qualify in your state for up to five C.E.U's (50 hours of study -- see information and statement below).

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A WAY OF EATING FOR PLEASURE AND HEALTH: Each issue, we present a wholesome, nutritious recipe which our family, friends and guests have enjoyed over the years at both Falkynor Farm, and more recently, here, at DeerHaven Hills Farm & Yoga Eco-Center. For soup-lovers, we present:

1 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped celery
5 medium potatoes, cubed
2 carrots, sliced
1 lb. fresh green beans, cut into 1/2" pieces
2 cups fresh or frozen peas
1/2 head cabbage, shredded
2 cups chopped, fresh tomatoes or one 16 oz. can chopped tomatoes
1/2 cup salsa (hot, medium or mild, to taste)
OR 2 small hot peppers, finely chopped
Water to cover the vegetables by 2 inches
Sea salt or herbal seasoning
salt and pepper to taste
3 Tbsp. butter or soy margarine (optional)

Place all the ingredients (except the butter) in a pressure-cooker and cook for ten minutes; or place them into a soup pot and simmer for 45 minutes. Finally, stir in the butter, adjust the seasoning and serve with crackers. Serves 6-8.

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As we discovered in an earlier issue, the urinary bladder -- the "wife" organ of the kidneys -- is closely related to sexual activities. Various sexual problems -- such as "retained climax" in either males or females -- or sexual intercourse without fulfillment, can injure this organ team.

For this and other reasons, ancient healers suggested that sexual activity be restricted to those with whom one shares love and feelings of intimacy, rather than pursuing a life of sexual freedom and promiscuity with random partners.

In the East, it is often said that sex is one of the most karmic or "binding" of all activities, since it creates attachment and "unfinished business" between the partners. This reinforces the suggestion that sex be restricted to "right" partners only. (For a more indepth understanding of the binding power of karma upon our lives, you may wish to subscribe to our weekly transmission of "A Yogi Explains 'The Bhagavad-Gita' -- see details above.)

This highlights the close connection between health, spirituality and lifestyle that is such an important part of the holistic, traditional Eastern viewpoint.

The urinary bladder is further injured by standing or kneeling to excess, by sitting on damp ground or from lifting excessively heavy objects. In fact, any activity which abuses or injures the lower back will also take its toll on the urinary bladder (and because of that, the kidneys).

Conversely, any treatment for lower back pain or distress will, by necessity, also affect the kidney-urinary bladder team, since they are essentially inseparable.

As the wife of the kidneys, the psychoemotional function associated with this organ team is "restraint" -- like the brakes on a car. In good health, this manifests itself as "consideration before acting" ... and caution or even refusal to act, when called for.

But as the abuses against these organs mount, this natural drive is distorted and begins manifesting itself as fear, timidity, nervousness, lack of self-confidence, etc.

Bottom line: When those fearful qualities are present to excess, treatment of the urinary bladder, and its mate, may be called for.

All the body's major organs and glands, along with their many functions, are completely described in the Advanced G-Jo section of "The Master of G-Jo Acupressure Home-Study Certification Program." Please contact us for details.

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Diane Ruby, MS -- Emotional Field Therapy (EFT) therapist, Certified G-Jo Instructor & long-time associate of The G-Jo Institute. EFT is to emotional suffering what G-Jo Acupressure is to pain: Almost instant relief! Diane specializes in telephone EFT counseling and training sessions -- she may be reached at (828) 859-2520.

www.emofree.com -- website for Gary Craig and the growing EFT "self-psychotherapy" movement. This remarkable program does for emotional suffering what G-Jo Acupressure does for pain and other physical distress.

www.garyascott.com -- long-time friends Gary & Merri Scott produce a lively e-newsletter whose topics range from alternative healing methods to New Age (or is it age-old?) spirituality and off-beat investment ideas. They also offer business opportunities in the natural health and fitness industry through their "NATURAL AWAKENINGS" Magazine publishing franchises.

http://health.asiangate.com -- Co-Founder and Medical Director of The G-Jo Institute, Dr. Barry Sultanoff, is now the Features Editor of this useful website for English- and Asian-speaking people. Barry's portion of this interesting and unique website is found by pressing on the "English" button.

www.frontlinethoughts.com/subscribe.asp -- John Mauldin is one of the most savvy people in the investment world. His Saturday morning e-newsletter is eagerly read by many investment professionals and more than two million investors.

www.mercola.com/current.htm -- Dr. Joe Mercola's approach to diet, healing and health is more conventional than ours, but his very popular newsletter is filled with self-health tips and information.

www.theanimalrescuesite.com -- countless animal shelters around the country are in dire financial need. At this website, you can help feed a hungry animal with just the click of your computer's mouse.

www.thehungersite.com -- it's said that more than 24,000 people die each DAY from hunger (most of them, children under five)! Now, you can give food for free to hungry people around the globe, with just the click of your computer's mouse.

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