4. Experiences from Shizen Hado Ho
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After experiencing Shizen Hado Ho,
I felt limitations with the Western medicine
( Female, 27 years old Japan )
I was born with too long and large intestine, and I grew, it adhered to order organs causing various physical problems. I became undernourished and had low blood pressure ( 75-30 ), chronic peritonitis, pancreatitis, constant inflammation of the muscles in my back, and so forth.
When I was 19, I had an abdominal operation which was followed by strict diet treatment for 5 years. Thanks to that, my organs were functioning normally by the time I was 24. But the inflammation of the muscles in my back did not leave me.
The inflammation of my back muscles started because of the burden on them that was caused by the adherence of the large intestine to other organs. When I was 16, my stiff neck and shoulders became more severe, and sometimes the pain rose into the back of my head giving me a really bad headache. At that time, the headache would go away if I slept for about 3 hours. But when I was 18, my hard study for university entrance examinations made it decisively worse. The pain became constant and would not disappear. I was told by the orthopedic surgeon that by just standing up, the gravity would cause a burden to the back muscles and make them ache, and that I should be lying down except when going to the toilet because my muscles would be permanently damaged by being too much burdened. So, I stayed in bed for about half a year taking painkillers and using warming packs.
One year later, the orthopedic surgeon told me that my back muscles were no longer inflamed, and that I did not need to come for checkups any more. But the truth was that I did not feel much had changed. I still had stiff shoulders together with severe pain coming from deep inside. When I told the doctor, he did not believe me and he just said "The X-ray shows nothing wrong with your bones, and there is nothing we can do for you any more," He even said "Do you really have pains? They will get better soon".
Without being able to find any workable treatment thereafter, I lived my days taking painkillers and using warming packs to fall asleep when my shoulders ached. The pains became worse before rains, in early spring and during rainy seasons before summer and in fall, though I was not sure how the changes in atmospheric pressures and weather affected them. I used to stay in bed for about a week at every change of the seasons.
I tried orthopedic treatments for some period with a thought that some bone displacement not detectable by X-rays might be the cause of pains in my shoulders. But it was of little effect. Some people told me about acupuncture and moxa cautery, but I was too frightened to try them.
During the past three years I read books about pains and muscles and tried treatments which I thought might work for me. I learned about "positive tiredness", the idea of which is get rid of tiredness by light physical exercises rather than by mere resting. I tried this idea to get rid of the stiffness in my shoulders that did not go away with poultices. I warmed up shoulder muscles with stretching exercises first and then used a poultice, and it worked. Another therapy I had been trying for one and a half years was "deep breathing " exercise. Deep breathing helps the blood circulate throughout the entire body right down to the fingertips. As my blood circulation had not been good, my hands and feet had been always cold. But after starting the deep breathing, I soon felt warmth in my fingertips and toes, and my cold hands and feet were cured.
I also found that my stomach pain would go away when I rubbed over my stomach with my hands warmed by deep breathing.. My stomach pain was caused by poor bowel movement which was an aftereffect of the abdominal operation. The doctor had told me that I would have to live with the stomach pain as there was no curable treatment, and that I should not worry too much as it was not a disease. So I could not believe that my hands warmed by deep breathing worked so miraculously.
Another positive effect of deep breathing was relaxation of nerves. Years of my bodily problems from childhood had been causing both physical and mental pains for me for so long, and had made me very nervous. But deep breathing fulfilled my mind and body, made me relaxed and comfortable, and enhanced my outlook.
The stretching exercise and deep breathing had almost removed the pains from my right shoulder. But the pains did not go away from my left shoulder. The pains were much less, only as large as the tip of my thumb, as compared to the worst time when my entire back was swollen and painful. But the pains on my left shoulder got worse, becoming like throbbing pains coming from deep inside. The poultice did not work any more, and pains increased while sleeping, though sleep had alleviated pains before. At last I could not sleep due to pains which caused esophageal inflammations. Again I had to look for a new treatment.
At such time, my father found a clinic, which was run by Mr. Komuro. My father was suffering severely from hernia of the intervertebral disc and just walking was very painful for him. incredibly, after 3 to 4 times of treatment by Mr. Komuro, my father's pains were almost cured and he could walk normally again. He now receives the treatment only once or twice a month just preventively. So far he received the treatment about a dozen times in total.
It was when my father's pains were cured that my throbbing aches on my left shoulder were at their growing peak. So I tried Mr. Komuro's clinic. At my first treatment, my long-lasting pains totally disappeared for several hours. It was such a fantastic feeling beyond expression that those agonizing pains were totally gone even for hours. With every treatment, pain-free hours became longer and longer, and after the seventh treatment the pains were only occasional and nothing like they used to be. I did not have stiff shoulder any more, either.
Mr. Komuro offers three kinds of treatments, finger-pressure therapy for entire body, Shizen Hado Ho and glass bottle treatment. Among these three, the Shizen Hado Ho would be the most important and outstanding treatment offered uniquely by Mr. Komuro.
Mr. Komuro explains that by the Shizen Hado Ho, the energy of life existing vastly in the universe is brought into the body of the recipient of the treatment via him, and that this energy helps the natural healing ability of our body start working properly and vividly.
When we start the Shizen Hado Ho treatment, our body begins to live, function and feel naturally, and starts instinctively moving and stretching in the best way for itself. Though I had been doing stretches for some time, there were always muscles on the left side of my body which did not feel like moving. But what surprised me with Shizen Hado Ho was that I really felt those muscles stretching and relaxing with the treatment. I also felt that the blood of my entire body suddenly started circulating freshly.
Another great effect of the treatment was that I started feeling comfortable with myself, a totally new experience for me. I had been always so nervous because of my years of bodily problems, and I had always felt it difficult to talk to people. But with Shizen Hado Ho treatment, I could feel the energy flowing through my nerve system, relaxing my whole body and mind.
I think that the two most important things with Mr. Komuro's treatment are that he listens to you and believes in what you say you feel, and that he treats the cause of pains and the whole body surrounding them, not just the pains themselves.
In my experience, Western medicine appears to approach the bodily problems only dealing with the causes which are tangibly visible. And once those visible causes are treated, there would be nothing more to explore, even when the pains still remain. "The X-rays are normal, there is nothing wrong," and "We can not find anything wrong with you." I think this is the worst thing to hear for anyone who feels ill or suffers pain. I think that this would be the limitations with Western medicine. It appears to me that a solution to make up for the possible limitations of Western medicine lies in the direction of Eastern medicine. As a patient I am still receiving treatment of the Shizen Hado Ho, and I am sure I will find more about it. Through learning more, I wish to contribute to make up for the limitations of Western medicine in the future.
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