Is exercise a good word you Love, something you Hate, or something you just Do.

Well if you do Exercise, whether you love it or Hate it, it is a credit to you that Do Exercise. Because Exercise is the one pivotal element that can turn around your health with so many ailments,  from Hypertension,  to Diabetes to Obesity & Weight loss.

Exercise can be a challenge for many, from finding the time to do it, the energy, the space, the strength, and the consistency factor, doing an Exercise regimen say at least 3 to 5 times a week is no cup cake.

However, whether you like exercise or not, exercise doesn’t have to be painful or a pain.

It may seem ‘inconvenient’ at first as anything new in one’s life, not only exercise, is a challenge in some way or other.

And in the case of exercise, as with other decisions to alter a condition or situations in one’s life,a definite strong commitment is required.

Before any of us makes a commitment for anything, there usually is a process that gets us there.

Conviction comes before Commitment.

And Conviction is preceded by experience, and evidence that points to the particular Conviction being the right and perfect choice, and that brings us to a Conviction.

The stronger the experience and evidence ( ie.as evidence that exercise is a healthy choice, exercise being a good thing that your body needs etc.), the stronger the Conviction to do exercise, or any other Practice.

Motivation or the Reward play a big role in setting your conviction.

We are all fueled by The Motivation or the Reward to do what we do.

The Motivation can be: If you exercise 3- 5 times a week regularly, you will be in better overall health, have less stress( studies show that people who exercise regularly,  do tend to have less stress, or able to relieve some of their stress via exercising, and are able to manage the Stress they do have easier than people who do no exercise.

I say all this  for my ears especially, for I find that often exercise is far from if not the last thing I want to do.

All the more we must all try to have balance in our lives.

Exercise, captures & brings that balance back to our bodies, minds and spirit.

Chances are that if you already do some exercise, you know the joys of pushing yourself past that possible resistance, to the other side of Exploding your energy vs. Imploding your energy on a regular basis.

It’s good to be alive, and to even have the ability to exercise, so while you can, do what you can and gradually stretch your limits, you’ll be glad you did.

To our best Health & Wellbeing,

Talia Inanna Kala *

Three or more Cheers for ‘Sister Kenny’

 

Have you ever heard of sister Kenny, who was a nurse from Australia?

 

No? Well you’ve heard of the devastating Illness of ‘Polio’ or otherwise or also know as ‘Infantile Paralysis’.

 

I recently came to know about the life of Sister Kenny from Australia, and i was so moved and inspired i decided to write about her.

There is also a movie ‘Sister Kenny’ Rosalind Russell beautifully plays the role of the ’sister’. In Australia a medical nurse is called a sister, at least they did at the time this old movie was made…

 

The movie opens with sister Kenny’s fiancé questioning why she wants to be a nurse, proclaims that she’ll probably want to give it up in six months..

 

She does become a nurse and her goal is to help the people in her small town in Australia get proper medical help, where before she came there wasn’t a doctor for many miles.

 

Soon she is confronted with a case of ‘infantile paralysis’ and has no clue what to do?

This is not something she had prepared for and moves quickly to write down the symptoms, which a messenger takes to the nearest doctor (riding a horse) and waits for instructions.

 

After some hours and the child is in pain crying, comes the answer: No know cure for Polio/Infantile Paralysis, do the best you can treating the symptoms to make child comfortable…

 

Sister Kenny observes that the child’s back is arched, and legs seem to be in a spasm.

She tells the parents to assist her in applying hot compresses, and after some time the child is in peace, finally sleeping in exhaustion…

 

The next day the child appears fine, no pain, no spasm.

 

However, when the child is told to move her leg she can’t seem to do it.

This is the next fase of the illness, and sister Kenny ever so diligent, experiments and finds a way to retrain/reeducate the brain and muscles to move again.

After some weeks the child is able to walk normally as if nothing had ever ailed her!!

 

Some other cases of infantile paralysis are reported, she uses the same protocol she used the first time and all 5 children recover beautifully like the first girl child, with no trace of ever having had the illness Polio.

 

Some time later she visits with other colleagues and the doctor who first told her there was no cure for Polio, and do her best with symptoms that present themselves.

The first colleague is very curious, and amazed at the results, but the other older, learned doctor, dismisses the whole thing, tells her not to take matters in her own hands, to go by the book, and just follow the guidelines of putting the children in braces…

While at the hospital she sees many young children who had suffered from Polio, and while seemingly Ok the all seem to have a problem either walking or a deformity from the effects of the illness, (and having been in those braces, rather than working with the body..)

She henceforth meets great opposition from Orthopedic Surgeons and the like, who put roadblocks in her path so that she is not allowed to treat the children. After some time and much struggle, she is allowed to work on the hopeless cases only, the ones that have had all the other treatments in the books and have failed.

She has success even there, but still she is not acknowledged for having a working protocol/strategy/cure.

 

This goes on for over thirty years!! Till one day she finally gets to speak in front of an audience of doctors and Orthopedic Surgeons, her long time vision.

 

This is a true story; about sister Kenny and about the perseverance she undergoes to help the world with her gift of the discovery of the treatment for Infantile Paralysis.

 

She did her work at a great cost to her personal life, not staying put in a city long enough to get married and have children etc..

In the end however, after many years, her old fiancé understands her commitment and the value of her work…

 

I find so many inspiring points about this true life story, first her awareness in the moment, the willingness to find a way, and be present to what she had in front of her,

her unwavering commitment , her desire to help others, and just darn old being unstoppable.

 

Sister Kenny had in fact developed a cure/remedy for Polio which changed the face of the significance of childhood Polio for thousands of children while all the time she was being told that if she was able to cure these patients then those children must not have had Polio, but something else?!

 

I honestly don’t know that i can persevere for so long, which is partly why this story is so mindbowingly and admirably inspiring!

 

Lots of cheers and thanks to you sister Kenny.

 

 

to your Best health,

Talia*