I felt it moving in my body .
My second discovery was :
"This vertebra works in the place the japanese call the HARA".
Hara means belly in japanese language
and is located five centimeters under and behind the navel.
That corresponds exactly to the third lumbar vertebra.
The oriental ZEN masters have
written something like this :
"The man who has lost his ROOTS should look for them in the hara. Then
he walks along the PASS to reach the BEEING".
ROOTS, PASS and BEEING are the
words you'll find in their writings.
I'm European and cartesian too, so I see the same things in occidental
anatomy.
The man who has poor posture, with no good ground support (ROOTS), look for
it in the third lumbar vertebra (HARA).
When he anchors his lower body to the ground, he is able to unwind the spine
towards the sky(PASS) and stretch up his body to have a good head-position(
BEEING).
To have the ZA ZEN posture
you must have :
- the ears in line with the shoulders.
- the nose in line with the navel.
Try to do it while stretching your
spine towards the head. If you succeed, you have made your third vertebra
work properly
BUT WHAT ABOUT MY OWN PROBLEM
? WHAT ABOUT ARTHROSIS ?
When doctors sentenced me thirty
years ago, there were two hypothesis :
-Arthrosis was a 70% degeneration of articulations.
-It was a 30% mechanical problem.
Now, doctors believe it is 70%
mechanical and 30% degenerative.
In my opinion (in my own problem) it was one hundred per cent mechanical.
If so, I had not degenerated.
I experimented with this idea on my own body first and later on my patients's
bodies.
I concluded that arthrosis was primarily a mechanical process and secondly
a degenerative one.
Now, I a'm sure you would like to know some ways "not to get old".
There is only one recipe : "
Do your hara work properly ! "
You must have a good head-position.
To have a good posture, you need a large sense of separation between the lower
body and the upper body, at the third lumbar vertebra level.
First of all, you have to know why you are growing old wrongly : you grow
old from an internal rotation of your body.
In internal rotation, your body is a block.
You can't separate the upper body from the lower body.
So, you let your chin go forward in order to have a correct horizontal sight.
Then, you walk dragging your feet. If you want to stay young, you must always
express your body in external rotation.
In that case , you'll make your hara work properly and have an energetic life.
