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  • Law of Health: 3 Climb. 2-10 Steps to Climb from Fatigue to High Energy

    Law of Health
    Law 3: Climb
    Lesson 2: 10 Steps to Climb from Fatigue to High Energy

    You often think you are tired when you are simply bored or depressed. 

    You will look with boredom and fatigue at the books that hold the knowledge that will better your life or at the work that will express your love; then wake up to watch the hypnotic poison of mindless T.V. or listen to numbing music. That’s when you know you were not tired, simply bored.

    But, sometimes, you know real fatigue and fear (not boredom that feels like fatigue).

    If you wish to awaken, then you must conserve the energy that powers the engine of your mind and spirit, for each awakens the other.

    Here are Ten Commandments that have worked for me for replenishing nerve energy. 

    Disregard even one of the ten and you may find yourself supine as if covered with a heavy fog that pins you to the bed and chokes the air from your chest–I know from breaking every law on the list.

    But, I also know the energy of following them.

    Law 1

    Rest.

    If you fight a long battle or enjoy extra pleasure (and I will be disappointed if you do not do both), then spend extra hours in bed. 

    Have a day per week of rest. GOD rested one day per week. 

    The honeybees do not rest; they work every day. But the honeybees gather nectar mechanically and store methodically. 

    The GOD in you wants to create the nectar of Love that human bees gather to their hive. For that, you need rest.

    Law 2

    Play.

    All animals play. 

    Watch the dolphin that jumps from the sea. Does he arrive sooner for going vertical, skyward, rather than horizontal?

    Watch the dog that circles chasing his tail. Do you see the smile on his face?

    Only people seem to think that their role becomes so important that they cannot play. 

    Work without play becomes drudgery and uninspired. Play without work becomes a denervating vacation from nothingness and brings no pleasure.

    If work becomes drudgery, play. If play becomes boredom, work.

    Every day, work. Every day, play.  

    Today you may work 20 hours and play for 10 minutes. Tomorrow you may play for 8 hours and work for 30 minutes; but, everyday work and play.

    Every day work before you play, or your play laughter will be muffled by thought of work undone.

    Law 3

    Enjoy.

    Enjoy everything. 

    Enjoy your work (which is Love made Concrete) or find new work.

    Enjoy and find gratefulness for the water that washes across your hands and face when you wake, for the taste of the first liquid to pass your lips and cross your dry throat when you start your day, for your lover’s kiss, for your morning prayer, for the air that passes down the pipe to your lungs to give you the ability to think about the morning sky.

    Enjoy sorrow for sorrow is the vision that allows you to see joy and the possible sorrow of tomorrow is the timekeeper that encourages you to grab joy today.

    Law 4

    Look.

    If you direct all your thoughts to your career, your family, your self, then you develop a tunnel vision that leads to numbness and boredom. Everything relates to everything. Stop directing all your thoughts toward yourself and look away from your private concerns to the universe outside the people and concerns in your mental world.

    By looking outside yourself, you gain awaken to new worlds and new possibilities and new energy that you then import back to your world to make it larger. You also take what’s in your world and find new ways to contribute to the universe around you.

    Develop and study new interests. Study literature, dance, marital arts, music, gardening, or flowers-you decide. But, pick something new and study and you will find yourself looking outside yourself and your circle.

    When you look outside your circle, you awaken to what’s outside your circle.

    Law 5

    Sweep.

    Sweep your mind of the poisons that will dull you to an anesthesia of despair and fatigue.

    Take time to list every worry, every anger, every resentment, prejudice, and jealousy. 

    Then, find an action for each. Do something toward a solution for every worry, even if it does not completely solve the problem. Do an act of kindness toward those for whom you feel the poison.

    Law 6

    Eat.

    Eat least 5 servings of fresh fruit or vegetables every day. When you bite the apple with seeds still able to grow a new tree, you bite into life and swallow vitality. No need to fear food that is not still living, but make sure you swallow life daily and adequate amounts of life.

    Except for days of fasting, eat a minimum of 5 servings per day (a serving is one cup).

    Law 7

    Walk.

    As much as possible, dress for the weather and walk 3 to 5 miles daily in the fresh air (for a total of 21 miles per week). If safety or other problems dictate that you walk inside, then use and elliptical trainer and still go the distance. But, at least go for a short block or two in the fresh air daily.

    You will find more magic and health than is widely known in the meditation and movement of walking. Add other activities if you wish. But, if you ignore walking, you will see more valleys and miss more mountains.

    Law 8

    Release.

    Release responsibility for the results; take responsibility for doing your best at the most important thing you can find to do. 

    Work with your head and hands and not with your emotions.

    Do not worry that the most important thing does not seem important enough to you. More important things will come to you if you do what is in front of you with excellence.

    Do not worry that you may not see the result you intended. If you learn from that result to adjust to something more important or more constructive, then you did not waste your efforts.

    Do not release effort and focus. Use your strongest effort and your most narrow focus to do your work. Survey the promises made to you and to others, decide the best action, then focus and work.

    Do not dash from one activity to the next. Decide the most important thing to do and stay with it until you reach your predetermined stopping point. 

    Then go to the next thing.

    Law 9

    Ignore.

    The only opinion that matters is your opinion while connected to GOD. Worrying about the opinions of others is a huge drain of your energy. 

    You will make enemies and endear lovers with the same action, no matter your action-good or evil, constructive or destructive.

    Connect to GOD, then enjoy the rest, peace, and energy that comes from doing what you perceive to be right and best and ignore the inner voice that whispers the intrusion, “What will people think?”

    Law 10

    Stop.

    Whatever you are frantically doing (thinking that the world will end if you stop), stop doing it.

    At least for the time it takes to do the first 9 laws-stop and know that the world will keep going without you. Though you may think that you are the superhero that must save your family, your business, and the world, if you do not care for yourself, you cannot help. 

    And, when you are gone, the world will keep going without you.

    Peace & health,

    Charles Runels, MD

    1-888-920-5311

     P.S.: These 10 Laws are a modification and expansion of ideas found in a book published in 1954 by Edward Spencer Cowles, Conquest of Fatigue and Fear. I have used these ideas with great benefit since picking up a used copy of the book at a library sale 38 years ago.

    These laws were further modified into the following pocket book…

    © 2009, 2020 Charles Runels, MD

  • Law of Health: 3 Climb. 1-Maintain the Tool

    Law of Health

    Law 3: Climb

    Lesson 1: Maintain the Tool

    I drove a 1972 Ford Pinto to high school. I kept it clean and waxed, but I thought I was too busy to check the oil.

    I let it run low, and caused some severe damage to the engine and found myself with a car that would not run at all. I bought a repair book, went to the junkyard and took the head from a wrecked Pinto, and then rebuilt the engine in my car.  

    During the three days and most of a night that it took for me to repair that engine, I could not drive it at all.

    After I rebuilt that engine and understood more about how it worked, then I used an old-fashioned timing light and other tools to keep it running at optimum speed. I set up a maintenance schedule and stuck with it most of the time. I checked the oil with almost every fill-up, checked the air in the tires weekly, washed it weekly, and waxed it once a month. The car gave me excellent service and looked sharp until I finally traded it for another car.

    Odd that with the body-temple (which people cannot trade for another on this planet), people will not usually set up a maintenance schedule that will keep the body well-and then stick with that schedule.

    There is a time for use and a time to maintain. 

    The body-temple is a tool that you animate. You are not your body, but you are so closely dependent on your body, and its health can so much control what you are able to do physically and mentally that some think of themselves as the body.

    Ironically, you may be more exacting with your body and take better care of it if you think of it as something separate from who you are. You will not pay as much attention to hunger, or fatigue, or the discomforts of exercise if you think of your body as something you are caring for so that you can enjoy and produce more here on the planet.  

    Keeping your body functional will become keeping your main tool operational. Keeping your body beautiful will become the gift that you give to your lover. Keeping your body pure becomes the sacrifice that you offer to the heaven you find on earth.

    If you think of yourself as your body, you will find it more difficult to judge what your body needs and does not need. You consider more personal and threatening the discomforts that lead to better health and will avoid the pains of the maintenance of health and fall into the pains of disease. For example, temporary hunger will feel like a threat to YOU rather than something your body must tolerate because you think it best. You become almost like the supervising guardian of your body.

    The physical and the spiritual and mental giants of all time have taken time to see to the maintenance of the body-temple on some sort of schedule. Since the spiritual leaders have often found refuge and inspiration in the mountains, I call this maintenance time “Climbing.” This contrasts with the “Falling” into disease and despair that comes with ignoring health maintenance.

    Climbing could literally mean climbing a mountain to seek a place to pray. More commonly, it will mean figuratively climbing to better health by going for a walk.

    Areas to Consider

    In considering the methods for climbing, it’s useful to first consider what needs to be maintained. Consider a body without a healthy mind-not good. Consider a healthy body and mind with a troubled spirit-again, not good. 

    For the best health, the Law is that you must have all three: body, mind, spirit. Here is an example of how cliché originates from truth.

    So, whatever method the Law of Health dictates, must care for those three areas of health.

    Schedules

    There must be a balance between using a tool and caring for it–between walking for travel and climbing for fresh air.

    There are those who so much enjoy tuning a car that they make their living tuning cars. But, if they tuned their own car every day with the full maintenance schedule of rotating tires, changing the spark plugs and head gaskets, then they would never be able to drive the car–it would be continually disabled by the maintenance.

    And here lies an uncomfortable law: when you are climbing, you can’t be doing. When you are replacing spark plugs, you can’t simultaneously drive your car down the interstate. When Christ was on the mountaintop in prayer, He could not speak words of peace to the crowd. 

    When I was a teenager, I worked two to three part-time jobs and went to school and ran track. I had places to go. I did not have time (I thought) to maintain my car. 

    You have places to go and things to do and will think that you do not have time to climb to a place of better health. But, the Law of Health is that you must take time to climb or you will fall.

    Because you do have things to do, however, you will want to find the most effective way to keep your health with the least amount of time possible so that you can go about doing.

    There are those who’s main thing to do is to take the body to an almost super-human place. These may be professional athletes or professional models. And there are those who so much enjoy the activities of maintaining the body that they never get around to the doing. There is nothing wrong with looking to find a place in mind, body, and spirit that few find. Find the place of super-health and mind and spirit if you wish. But, you must do this in a way that leaves time for using your body-temple as the tool it was meant to be.

    The Magic Ingredient of Breath

    The Law of Health recognizes that there is a magic ingredient. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. When I saw someone die in the ER, I could often see what was wrong with the heart or lungs to cause their death. But, between life and death, there is an invisible line which when crossed means the loss of breath. 

    The breath that goes into clay to animate it and make it become life is something greater than the mechanics and chemistry of the body. The more you study biology, the more it becomes chemistry; the more you study chemistry the more it becomes math (I was a chemistry/math major in college and worked as a chemist before medical school).   

    Most importantly, the more you study math, the more it becomes prayer. Math and chemistry describe and predict, but they do not explain. 

    There is a law, gravity, that says two objects are attracted to each other with a force proportional to their mass and inversely proportional to the distance between them. This law predicts and describes but it does not explain why two objects should be attracted in such a way. 

    For more understanding about the difference between explaining and describing, you should watch this conversation with Richard Feynman(who won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1965 and helped develop the atomic bomb).

    Einstein died searching for the “why.” In describing his search, he said, “GOD does not play dice with the universe.” 

    So, there is not just an order but also a breath, not just a “what” but an unexplained and invisible “why” that animates and brings life to clay and brings more life when inhaled. 

    Whatever schedule you use to climb to better health, must account for this breath and allow you to inhale more life into your body-temple. Finding this breath may mean being alone, being around certain people, or being in certain places. But to ignore the inhalation of this breath is to miss one of the benefits of the Law of Health.

    Cosmetic is Good

    On the other hand, in considering the mechanics of health and the magic of breath, you may think that you have the complete picture and to simply try to look more attractive is waste. But, imagine an amazing racing car with a 16-cylinder engine. Now imagine not taking time to wash and wax of even paint the body of the car. Sure, the shine of the paint has no direct effect on how the engine runs (or so we think). But, if you wash your car and wax it, then you will find that the engine seems to run better.

    More practically, I have seen some who will become motivated to take better care of the engine after a good wax job. They take a deeper breath when the body temple just appears healthier. Many women will go on diets and eat healthier after the liposuction. When they see all the fat that I suction out of their abdomen, they go home determined to eat more fruits and vegetables.

    Of course, there are those who would only wash and wax the car and never put oil in the engine. This does not work either. The healthiest become the most beautiful by virtue of their health. The best schedules are those that first take into account the mental and spiritual health. From this power, the person takes care of the physical health. 

    Then cosmetic efforts become the wax job on the finely tuned racing car. 

    Some of the catholic priests of the dark ages thought it vanity, waste, and a detriment to spiritual climbing to even take time to bathe. The Law of Health says, “If the temple where you kneel to pray can have thousands of dollars worth of stained glass and carved wood, then the physical temple that houses your spirit is worthy of cosmetic care.”

    There are those who say, “I would rather age gracefully.” But, who says such about their car: “I’m not going to wash or wax or repair that big dent from bumping into a pole because I’m just going to let my car age gracefully.” 

    Who says, “I’m not going to paint my house and sweep the floors because I’m just going to let it age gracefully and crumble and rot.”

    Yet, many will say with pride, “I’m just going to let my body age gracefully.”

    Conclusion

    The body-temple is worthy of scheduled maintenance that involves effort to climb to a better place of health of mind, body, and spirit. In considering schedules, the mechanics, the breath, and the cosmetics are important.

    Peace & health,
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    Charles Runels, MD

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  • 3 Fight Speeches to Help You Win the War for Health

    My healthiest patients are willing to fight for their health

    (it’s one of the Laws of Health).

    Gladiator looks his son’s murderer in the eye and speaks his reason for being alive–which is tied to his Love for his son.

    Do you say you're willing to "die" for the person you love? Then, are you willing to go through the pain of living in a different way for that same someone you love?
If you would die for the person you love, then will you go through the pain of doing without the thing that makes life not as good for that same person because it affects your health?
Will you go through the pain of exercise or of eating the healthier food?

    The healthy enjoy better health because they need their Body-Temple in its best condition to show their Love and are willing to fight…

    The Law of Health, Buddism, the Tao, Christianity, and Al Pachino–all say Life (and Health) begin with the willingness to die…

    Rocky tells his son it’s not how hard you hit, it’s if you’re willing to get back up. Some have the misconception that healthy people never get off track with their health–they do. But,

    The healthy get back on track the DAY they get off track (they get back up), where often the unhealthy give up for weeks or months at a time…

    I said 3 Fight Speeches, but here’s an extra for good measure.

    “Lying in your beds” who would not want to go back and fight for freedom from disease?

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  • Law of Health. Love. Lesson 1

    If you want to find the laws of driving, you go to the courthouse or read a sign.

    If you want to know the spiritual laws, you read the scriptures.

    But, if you want to find the unchangeable laws of health, if you want to know what rules of health have always been and will always be, where do you go?

    The First Law is Love.
    Here’s Lesson 1 (click)<–

     

  • Law of Health…10 Essential Steps to Glorious Health & Miraculous Healing

    If you want to find the laws of driving, you go to the courthouse or read a sign.

    If you want to know the spiritual laws, you read the scriptures.

    But, if you want to find the unchangeable Law of Health, if you want to know what rules of health have always been and will always be, where do you go?

    Eleven years ago (after 20 years of studying those who suffer from disease and those who enjoy superior health) I wrote my best understanding of the unchanging Law of Health. Considering the current worries and needs of the current coronavirus pandemic, I thought the laws might be helpful to reconsider.

    To examine the Law of Health, enter your info in the form below; you will receive the first lesson on the first law as an email. The lessons are completely free and of course, you can unsubscribe at any time and your email is never sold or shared.

    Study the law (will come as an email most days for the next 10 weeks). If it makes sense to you, then do some of the actions suggested (to have a better life requires doing-not just knowing).

    DO NOT GIVE UP THE ADVICE OF YOUR PHYSICIAN. Simply consider these specific laws of health with your physician and other health advisors.

    Live the truth you know today (in an imperfect human way) and tomorrow you will find more truth. Look for the next email lesson within 24 hours. If you do not receive, please let me know at DrRunels@Runels.com