Question: Hello doctor! Symptoms of peripheral neuropathy have been in definite decline in association with using a special breathing technique. Can you help with the interpretation of this development? Please see the attached Report for details.

Hello doctor! Symptoms of peripheral neuropathy have been in definite decline in association with using a special breathing technique. Can you help with the interpretation of this development? Please see the attached Report for details.

Thanks Dr. Sood. Concerning my consulting a neurologist, please note in my Report sent to you that I have already done so, and there you see his replies in my Report. I have also noted that the waiting time to see a local neurologist is reported to be about 3 months, so managing pain and anxiety during those three months becomes a significant *medical* issue because the quality of that management can becomes a variable in the duration of the condition.

In any event, I am *not* asking you to be concerned about this matter of the consequences of the waiting time to see a neurologist.

I am asking you o teach me some more about the Aryuvedic perspective.

You say: “it can be assumed that you might have increased your vagal tone which in turn has caused increased sense of mental and physical well being.”

Here is my question: Is the result *only* sense of mental and physical well being?

Could the result also be seriously enhancing the internal heating power of my mind-body system?

I am not saying this is why I am seeing improvement in my condition (no one provably knows why, I think); but with each passing day my condition improves. The cracking sounds from my neck bones are almost entirely gone today (remember I mentioned a serious head trauma), and over the last 24 hours the feelings of randomly arriving needles and burning in my skin are gone, and I have had just a few rapid vibrations at my feet bottom. Each of these is associated with my pitching my head in a certain angle (as a result I use a neck brace most of the day).

In other words, the improvement is very evident — far more than a sense of well being.

I understand that Eastern medical traditions (both XXXXXXX and Chinese) hold that the body’s self healing powers are sometimes pre-eminent, and that the mind (especially deep belief and intention) is a powerful variable in many healing processes.

From the very day (a few days ago) that I realized that by using a certain breathing technique I was moderating the symptoms, I formed the belief that I would in fact get well enough to be satisfied (even if not cured) and I decided that I would *firmly intend* get well — that is, try to spiritually unleash my internal healing powers.

Why are these mental forces not part of what is happening to me — the very evident improvement?

I know, all this sounds like crazy thinking, especially if you believe Western medicine is the only route to healing. So, please tell me why it is crazy thinking.

Thanks Dr. Sood. Concerning my consulting a neurologist, please note in my Report sent to you that I have already done so, and there you see his replies in my Report. I have also noted that the waiting time to see a local neurologist is reported to be about 3 months, so managing pain and anxiety during those three months becomes a significant *medical* issue because the quality of that management can becomes a variable in the duration of the condition.

In any event, I am *not* asking you to be concerned about this matter of the consequences of the waiting time to see a neurologist.

I am asking you o teach me some more about the Aryuvedic perspective.

You say: “it can be assumed that you might have increased your vagal tone which in turn has caused increased sense of mental and physical well being.”

Here is my question: Is the result *only* sense of mental and physical well being?

Could the result also be seriously enhancing the internal heating power of my mind-body system?

I am not saying this is why I am seeing improvement in my condition (no one provably knows why, I think); but with each passing day my condition improves. The cracking sounds from my neck bones are almost entirely gone today (remember I mentioned a serious head trauma), and over the last 24 hours the feelings of randomly arriving needles and burning in my skin are gone, and I have had just a few rapid vibrations at my feet bottom. Each of these is associated with my pitching my head in a certain angle (as a result I use a neck brace most of the day).

In other words, the improvement is very evident — far more than a sense of well being.

I understand that Eastern medical traditions (both XXXXXXX and Chinese) hold that the body’s self healing powers are sometimes pre-eminent, and that the mind (especially deep belief and intention) is a powerful variable in many healing processes.

From the very day (a few days ago) that I realized that by using a certain breathing technique I was moderating the symptoms, I formed the belief that I would in fact get well enough to be satisfied (even if not cured) and I decided that I would *firmly intend* get well — that is, try to spiritually unleash my internal healing powers.

Why are these mental forces not part of what is happening to me — the very evident improvement?

I know, all this sounds like crazy thinking, especially if you believe Western medicine is the only route to healing. So, please tell me why it is crazy thinking.

Thanks fr a very helpful response, doctor Munish. My condition continues to improve, so I am just fully embarked on my educational journey.
I will eventually get to see a neurologist; but after I can present a good history covering all the things I have already eliminated.

Thanks fr a very helpful response, doctor Munish. My condition continues to improve, so I am just fully embarked on my educational journey.
I will eventually get to see a neurologist; but after I can present a good history covering all the things I have already eliminated.

Dear Dr. Dr. Munish Naimittika,
Thank you for your recent messages. I am happy to report on my progress.
To save your time, I will state at the outset the question to which I ask your response. Given the clear evidence of continued correction of the problem I previously reported, what do you think might have been damaged in my neck bones and/or nervous (or other) system and which is now in the process of being corrected?
Your answer is just for use in my education and not for use in directing the process of treatment. I say this explicitly to help you to be comfortable that I will not be misusing your answer.
What is the status of my progress? The random sensations of annoying “pins and needles” at various parts of my body have practically stopped. Over the past 2 days, I may have one or two (at most) of these sensations over a 24 hour period.
I can now fairly consistently cause a tickling sensation at the bottom of my feet or a light stabbing pain at the **same** spot in my right leg calf by holding my body at a certain angle and tipping my head forward slightly. (This combination of angles has been used hundreds of times in the past few months due to my computer work, and my failure to know the damage I was doing to myself.) Obviously I am trying my best to avoid doing this any more, and I often use a neck brace; so all I want to tell you is that I am now increasingly able to turn on this particular symptom, and thus increasingly able to avoid it. (This is not something that arrives at random times.)
In closing, I am deeply grateful that you have directed me to read “Science of Breath” by Yogi Ramacharaka, some chapters of which I have studied three times. I have also gone into other books about energy healing. This has been easy work; because Dr. XXXXXXX Weill (the most well known Western pioneer in bringing Eastern-medicine principles into N. XXXXXXX — he was trained at Harvard Medical School and so he could not be dismissed as a quack doctor) has been one of my professional heroes. My knowledge of his work lead me to you.
I have used this information from Yogi XXXXXXX to greatly enrich my ability to use health-promoting breathing patterns. As a result, the quality of my life and my ability to deal with new problems will actually improve. And so thank you very much.
There is a waiting time of about three months to get to see a neurologist. I am deliberately delaying trying to make the appointment because I am fairly sure that I will be sent for high-powered tests (CT scan, MRI, etc.), and then be given medication whose effect (according to drugs.com) will be to disrupt the passage of signals from the brain to other systems — which will heal nothing. And, as you know, I have decided that I would prefer to see what Eastern medicine has to offer in contrast with this Western procedure.
Thanks in advance for your answer to my question.

Dear Dr. Dr. Munish Naimittika,
Thank you for your recent messages. I am happy to report on my progress.
To save your time, I will state at the outset the question to which I ask your response. Given the clear evidence of continued correction of the problem I previously reported, what do you think might have been damaged in my neck bones and/or nervous (or other) system and which is now in the process of being corrected?
Your answer is just for use in my education and not for use in directing the process of treatment. I say this explicitly to help you to be comfortable that I will not be misusing your answer.
What is the status of my progress? The random sensations of annoying “pins and needles” at various parts of my body have practically stopped. Over the past 2 days, I may have one or two (at most) of these sensations over a 24 hour period.
I can now fairly consistently cause a tickling sensation at the bottom of my feet or a light stabbing pain at the **same** spot in my right leg calf by holding my body at a certain angle and tipping my head forward slightly. (This combination of angles has been used hundreds of times in the past few months due to my computer work, and my failure to know the damage I was doing to myself.) Obviously I am trying my best to avoid doing this any more, and I often use a neck brace; so all I want to tell you is that I am now increasingly able to turn on this particular symptom, and thus increasingly able to avoid it. (This is not something that arrives at random times.)
In closing, I am deeply grateful that you have directed me to read “Science of Breath” by Yogi Ramacharaka, some chapters of which I have studied three times. I have also gone into other books about energy healing. This has been easy work; because Dr. XXXXXXX Weill (the most well known Western pioneer in bringing Eastern-medicine principles into N. XXXXXXX — he was trained at Harvard Medical School and so he could not be dismissed as a quack doctor) has been one of my professional heroes. My knowledge of his work lead me to you.
I have used this information from Yogi XXXXXXX to greatly enrich my ability to use health-promoting breathing patterns. As a result, the quality of my life and my ability to deal with new problems will actually improve. And so thank you very much.
There is a waiting time of about three months to get to see a neurologist. I am deliberately delaying trying to make the appointment because I am fairly sure that I will be sent for high-powered tests (CT scan, MRI, etc.), and then be given medication whose effect (according to drugs.com) will be to disrupt the passage of signals from the brain to other systems — which will heal nothing. And, as you know, I have decided that I would prefer to see what Eastern medicine has to offer in contrast with this Western procedure.
Thanks in advance for your answer to my question.

Thanks for an extremely helpful reply Dr. Naimittika. I will re-read and study it carefully and bring it to the attention of the concussion rehabilitation specialist (physiotherapist) I will be seeing tomorrow, and the neurologist I will eventually see a few months from today.
Your point about the uncertain prognosis is very helpful. I will keep it mind, while noting that at my age there a "lot of things not working properly and will never be fixed" and so my issue is to manage them all as well as feasible toward having a decent life until "God calls me".
This is precisely why I am biased toward Eastern medicine, where there is a great focus on harnessing the power of your *internal** mind-body-spirit linkages to help yourself to cope with issues that will not go away.
Cheers!

Thanks for an extremely helpful reply Dr. Naimittika. I will re-read and study it carefully and bring it to the attention of the concussion rehabilitation specialist (physiotherapist) I will be seeing tomorrow, and the neurologist I will eventually see a few months from today.
Your point about the uncertain prognosis is very helpful. I will keep it mind, while noting that at my age there a "lot of things not working properly and will never be fixed" and so my issue is to manage them all as well as feasible toward having a decent life until "God calls me".
This is precisely why I am biased toward Eastern medicine, where there is a great focus on harnessing the power of your *internal** mind-body-spirit linkages to help yourself to cope with issues that will not go away.
Cheers!

Hello again Doctor Munish!

With the help of my XXXXXXX colleague, the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Google Translate, and the translations you provided, I have arrived at the following interpretation of your very interesting message.

With proper and sufficiently deep training I may be able to harness the healing power of my mind-body-spirit system to improve neurohormonal balance, which will help to to calm down the “annoying flutter” created by damaged nerves. Thus, the nerves may remain damaged; but you have gained sufficient control over some autonomic nervous system functions to reduce the disruptive effects of the damage. This comes from using your training to move your kundahlini towards the upper chakras.

So, that is my interpretation.

Most interestingly, the Western medications that I have read about in connection with my problem are designed to do exactly this — break the normal linkage between the brain and the mechanisms that produce the disruptive symptoms. So, we can achieve the same result without taking the Western medications; which makes sense when you remember that XXXXXXX medicine is thousands of years old.

There is another interesting point here. If I focus only on the history of the great XXXXXXX yogis, I will draw the impression that the proper kind of training takes decades of attention to special meditations, etc., all done with proper guidance of gurus; but Win Hoff of Denmark has demonstrated conclusively that there are methods of gaining serious control of some autonomic system functions in a relatively short period of time that is to say in a few weeks of intensive effort. University researchers are confirmed that he is correct.

Cheers!

Hello again Doctor Munish!

With the help of my XXXXXXX colleague, the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Google Translate, and the translations you provided, I have arrived at the following interpretation of your very interesting message.

With proper and sufficiently deep training I may be able to harness the healing power of my mind-body-spirit system to improve neurohormonal balance, which will help to to calm down the “annoying flutter” created by damaged nerves. Thus, the nerves may remain damaged; but you have gained sufficient control over some autonomic nervous system functions to reduce the disruptive effects of the damage. This comes from using your training to move your kundahlini towards the upper chakras.

So, that is my interpretation.

Most interestingly, the Western medications that I have read about in connection with my problem are designed to do exactly this — break the normal linkage between the brain and the mechanisms that produce the disruptive symptoms. So, we can achieve the same result without taking the Western medications; which makes sense when you remember that XXXXXXX medicine is thousands of years old.

There is another interesting point here. If I focus only on the history of the great XXXXXXX yogis, I will draw the impression that the proper kind of training takes decades of attention to special meditations, etc., all done with proper guidance of gurus; but Win Hoff of Denmark has demonstrated conclusively that there are methods of gaining serious control of some autonomic system functions in a relatively short period of time that is to say in a few weeks of intensive effort. University researchers are confirmed that he is correct.

Cheers!