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I watched a clip yesterday where they trained a worm to complete a simple task (how to move from point A to point B to gain food). Once it had learned the path it would follow the same route every-time for food. This showed it had the capacity to memorize.
Then they chopped it up into three parts. Each part re-generated and the two parts without the head re-grew eyes and a mouth. The strange thing is all three new worms still knew the pathway to food. This would suggest that memory is not necessarily stored in the brain.
The point I'm trying to make is that if something does not to conform to conventional ways of thinking we have a tendency to write it off as woo-woo.
The placebo effect is used to explain many such instances of situations we don't fully understand.
A very good friend of mine is Taiwanese and practices such methods for a living over at Sunnybank. He also does a therapy where he simply applies pressure to certain areas of the body to heal sprains and muscle damage. I call him the white witch doctor as some of the treatments he has performed on myself and my kids I would not believe the results if I had not witnessed it first hand.
One example I can give was when I smashed my knee in a bike accident. I was in a leg brace and on crutches and the hospital said they could not do a full x-ray/MRI until such times as the swelling went down.
I was unable to bend the knee as the pain was excruciating.
My friend visited me that afternoon at home as I lay on my sofa and applied pressure further up my thigh for 10 or so minutes. He then asked me to bend my knee. I protested saying the pain was too much when I tired it last time. He calmly smiled and just said - trust me there is no pain there.
I was shocked when I did bend my knee and felt no pain at all. He told me he had reset my nervous system and the pain would return within 2 or 3 hours. He said each time he performed this pressure regime the effects would last longer and longer. He returned for the next three days and did the same routine and after 4 days I WALKED into the hospital and returned their leg brace and crutches. They were blown away as was I by my miraculous recovery.
My Taiwanese 'witch doctor' mate does not have great English but he describes his technique as the body having a bus route with bus stops and he just goes to the relevant bus stop and applies pressure to re-boot the system much like when you re-boot a computer.
Sure, it sounds real woo-woo but the results are incredible.
Then they chopped it up into three parts. Each part re-generated and the two parts without the head re-grew eyes and a mouth. The strange thing is all three new worms still knew the pathway to food. This would suggest that memory is not necessarily stored in the brain.
The point I'm trying to make is that if something does not to conform to conventional ways of thinking we have a tendency to write it off as woo-woo.
The placebo effect is used to explain many such instances of situations we don't fully understand.
A very good friend of mine is Taiwanese and practices such methods for a living over at Sunnybank. He also does a therapy where he simply applies pressure to certain areas of the body to heal sprains and muscle damage. I call him the white witch doctor as some of the treatments he has performed on myself and my kids I would not believe the results if I had not witnessed it first hand.
One example I can give was when I smashed my knee in a bike accident. I was in a leg brace and on crutches and the hospital said they could not do a full x-ray/MRI until such times as the swelling went down.
I was unable to bend the knee as the pain was excruciating.
My friend visited me that afternoon at home as I lay on my sofa and applied pressure further up my thigh for 10 or so minutes. He then asked me to bend my knee. I protested saying the pain was too much when I tired it last time. He calmly smiled and just said - trust me there is no pain there.
I was shocked when I did bend my knee and felt no pain at all. He told me he had reset my nervous system and the pain would return within 2 or 3 hours. He said each time he performed this pressure regime the effects would last longer and longer. He returned for the next three days and did the same routine and after 4 days I WALKED into the hospital and returned their leg brace and crutches. They were blown away as was I by my miraculous recovery.
My Taiwanese 'witch doctor' mate does not have great English but he describes his technique as the body having a bus route with bus stops and he just goes to the relevant bus stop and applies pressure to re-boot the system much like when you re-boot a computer.
Sure, it sounds real woo-woo but the results are incredible.
