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Your Key to Good Health. Elaine Hruska
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Автор произведения Elaine Hruska
Жанр Эзотерика
Издательство Ingram
CONCLUSION
After this rather technical introduction, a few concluding ideas to help summarize the concepts presented are needed here. Offering an overview of any bodily function that one can easily comprehend and grasp is difficult with any system, not only because of its overall complexity but because the understanding of the functioning of our body is a work in progress. Discoveries continue to be made, explorations continue to be done, revising former conceptions and rethinking old formulas.
The lymphatic system has several functions:
1.To drain interstitial fluid; this is the fluid that arises in between the cells; the lymphatic vessels help drain the tissue spaces from excess fluid
2.To transport dietary lipids (fats); these and other substances, such as proteins, are carried by lymphatic vessels and returned by them to the blood
3.To protect against invasion; lymphatic tissue carries out immune responses by targeting particular invaders or abnormal cells (such as bacteria, viruses, cancer cells, and so on) and responding to them in specific ways; in effect, destroying them and eliminating them from the body
Since blood and lymph are part of the circulatory system, comparisons between them may help in understanding more fully their role and function. Some differences include the following:
1.The lymphatic system does not form a complete and closed circuit like the blood.
2.The circulatory system has a muscular pumping organ—the heart; the lymphatic system does not.
3.Lymphatic capillaries structurally have larger diameters than blood capillaries and thinner walls than veins; also pressure is lower than in the blood vascular system.
4.The lymphatic network, unlike the blood, has “interruptions” by way of lymph nodes, stations which slow the movement of lymph temporarily in order to purify and filter the fluid.
Similarities between the two systems include the following:
1.Veins and lymphatic capillaries both have valves which move the fluid through the vessels; lymphatic vessels, however, have more valves.
2.Each forms increasingly larger structures, beginning with tiny capillaries and progressing to larger tubes and channels.
3.Respiration and joint/muscular movements affect transport for both.
4.Both are pervasive and widely distributed throughout the body.
These similarities and differences may assist in a better understanding of how the lymph operates in the physical body as well as the nature of its importance in our overall health and balance.
With the conclusion of this presentation, we will begin in the next chapter to study in greater detail the functioning of the lymphatic system as seen through the readings of Cayce. What were some of the indications, first of all, that pointed to improper lymph flow in the body? How were these conditions described? What were the circumstances surrounding this dilemma? Recognition of the overall pervasiveness of the lymph will be one of the results from this examination.
CHAPTER THREE
Approaching a Balance: Conditions Related to Lymph
In our desire and willingness to learn more about our physical body’s wonderful activity, we discover that we also need to learn a new language to accompany the description of its functioning. We enter a fabulous world, ranging from microscopic particles invisible to the naked eye to masses of vital organs and tissues pulsating with energetic life. The processes and parts of our body require a fresh vocabulary to explain its workings, as we are approaching a whole new field of wonderment and exploration.
The health readings of Edgar Cayce add another dimension, another viewpoint, another level to our understanding and knowledge of our physical selves. They present, as stated in chapter 1, a holistic model of the body, interacting with and influenced by mind and spirit. This three-dimensional outlook, consistent throughout the readings, provides the dynamics upon which healing is based. When we take it upon ourselves to care for our bodies, no matter what health concern we are currently experiencing, we have a number of choices available to us to undertake this healing journey. Based upon a holistic concept, these choices include both allopathic and complementary therapies; thus, we can utilize the best combination of treatments from these two systems of medicine.
FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON CAYCE’S CONCEPTS
Through just a cursory examination of the Cayce physical readings (which, by the way, are often difficult to comprehend even by medical professionals), one gets a sense of what might be termed “the domino effect”—that a certain result will follow a certain cause. If dominoes, for example, are lined up in a row and the first one is tapped so that it falls, the rest will fall, one after the other. During the Cold War era of Communism, this description was sometimes used to explain the potential “fall” of certain nations to the effects of Communism’s influence, perhaps being drawn in to this sphere by neighboring countries whose governments had already collapsed to its evils. The Balkans, Southeast Asia, and Central America are some examples of regions where the spread of domination from one neighboring nation state to another was feared, and the effort to forestall this from happening legitimized U.S.-backed coups and other interventions. But the idea that one region or country influences another and may indeed have a direct effect upon another is reflected in our physical selves as well. This domino effect is indicative also of the holistic nature of our bodies: one area being healed or hurt affects another part.
Clients receiving massages at A.R.E.’s Health Center and Spa frequently report on feeling effects elsewhere in their body than where the therapist’s hands are working. While one client’s head and neck were being massaged, for example, she felt her toes tingle. Another client felt waves of energy going down his arms during his scalp massage. Another woman whose shoulders were being rubbed felt heat in both hips. Perhaps a release of energy took place that the body in its wisdom distributed to areas where it was needed. Of course, this energy could take the form of increased blood circulation, stimulation of nerve endings, relaxation of muscle tension, or simply an excess of healing energy from the therapist’s hands that the body then carried to deficient areas.
While this scenario of the domino effect probably occurs quite often as our physical bodies become more dis-eased over time, a number of play-by-play descriptions of this happening are offered in Cayce’s readings. Though the terminology may be a bit unusual and the syntax convoluted, the message of the domino effect process, however, can still be understood. While lengthy, the following excerpt is a representative sample of such a scenario:
In times back there were those reactions that have caused an unbalancing of the elements that go to make up what may be called a proper chemical balance necessary in the system. We had then an expression of what may be sometimes called a catarrhal condition, which developed in the sympathetic functioning system, by the amount of reduced circulation to the head, throat and nasal cavities. And this, tending to be of a drying nature, affected the muco-membranes especially in the upper portion, or in the head, antrum, nasal cavity, throat at times, the ears even. Not to the extent as to produce falling antrums or falling Eustachian tubes, yet these have been at times affected. This reducing then the quantity of the activity of the lymph circulation has caused lesions to form in various portions of the body, especially in the soft tissue; more adhesions than lesions, as related to muscular forces, though the toxic poisons that arise in the