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Searching for the Elixir-of-life: Part 5

- Sylvia J. Harral

What does Einstein’s famous formula, E=MC2, have to do with taking charge of our health?

The “E” stands for ENERGY; a top health concern. The “M” stands for MASS or MATTER (the stuff we’re made of), and the “C2” stands for SPEED or movement. Einstein was referring to the SPEED OF LIGHT, but he was playing with astronomic­al things in the universe and sub-atomic particles. We’re just trying to get out of bed in the morning.

Energy can be actively happening or it can be waiting to happen. Active energy can be experience­d as heat, an object in motion, the push or pull of a magnet, electricit­y in a wire or a bomb going off. Energy that’s waiting to happen can be stored in food, a rubber band, a dead branch hanging in a tree and ready to fall with the help of gravity and next wind.

Our body lying in bed is a mass of stored energy. It contains food waiting to be burned during muscle action. It has electrical energy stored in the brain waiting to tell the muscles to get moving. It has elasticity stored in the muscles ready to stretch and jump out of bed. Our body is lying there because the force of gravity is keeping it nestled under the covers. In order to get out of bed, the stored energy needs to become active.

The body that’s lying in bed and the body that’s up moving around is the same body. The = sign in the middle of Einstein’s equation means the “E” and the “MC2” are the same things. The two are just in different forms.

The whole issue of taking charge of our health lies with building up our supply of stored energy then efficientl­y turning it into active energy. But where does the energy come from? How do we store it, and how can we gather enough to keep life happening at a high level for a very long time? Is there a magic potion somewhere? Is there an easier way to achieve our health goals? Is there really an Elixir-of-life? What will it look like, taste like, be made out of; and how will it work?

EVENTS:

On Saturday, May 21 at 2:00 PM, Bryan Ruiz will be back at Family HELM. The focus will be on healing our pets. We’ll see how a veterinari­an treated a horse’s eye that was going to be cut out, but instead, the eye healed in a few days. This is another FREE event.

On Saturday, June 4 at 2:00 PM, The Body-languages Workshop series will begin. Discover secret messages your body is giving you about your health. The body screams at us sometimes; but we don’t respond sufficient­ly, because we don’t know its language. In the workshops, we’ll experience simple ways to learn what our body is telling us and how to respond sufficient­ly. The series contains 5 workshops; each 2-hours long. Workshops held on the first Saturday of June through October. $20 per workshop ($100 total) will cover your personal Body-languages Manual, materials, handouts and weekly goodies. There will be a 15% discount ($85 total) if the full amount is paid by June 1.

Experience taste-budtrainin­g activities plus experiment­s that demonstrat­e ways your body produces energy. Grab your seat now, and take back your health!

Until then … TAKE CHARGE! … Sylvia

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