Introduction
This is Where I was
Where I am today
How I got there
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another, without helping himself," by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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I would like to thank all of you for your interest in our self-help work. Our paths touched along the way though attending one of our self-help workshops, signing up for the Loving Life newsletter, signing our guest book, requesting a pain analysis, or by purchasing our books and videos.

Many people ask me how we got into such a unique profession, how this form of communication got started, and how our products got their start. Life is an adventure for those with the courage to explore. I am an exployer searching out my path. There are many modalities out there for healing.
This is the one I chose, This is my story Elizabeth Barhydt... It is not that went wrong in my life but what I did about it.

THIS IS WHERE I WAS
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Most of my life I was in constant pain, emotional and physical. I lived on prescription drugs, (Codeine for 25 years, Cortisone for bursitis in the shoulders for 20 years). I became an alcoholic, I had two nervous breakdowns. I was also very dyslexic. I had a bad marriage and divorce. I felt I was doomed, nobody could help me.

THIS IS WHERE I AM TODAY
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Now I am mostly free of pain, emotionally and physically. I found the cause of my emotional and physical stress and pain, which I will be discussing in future newsletters.

As long as I keep my muscles working and communicating with my brain, I do not have any problems with my herniated disc, bad hip or feet.

In December 2002 at the age of 70 yrs 8 months & 4 days I walked the Honolulu Marathon 26.2 miles in less than 8 hours with no pain. Our Self-Help Techniques can be done on the run or walking just as I did on the Marathon to eliminate pain. Hap, my husband at age 74, with Parkinson's disease. walked the 10 K (6.2 miles) in 3 hours using our self-help techniques along the way.

Here is one of the self-help techniques Hap & I were able to do while walking, using the neck stress technique. Click here to read more.

HOW I GOT THERE!!
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DEALING WITH EMOTIONAL STRESS
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My life started to unfold in 1977 at the age of 45, when I attended a workshop with Ken Keyes, Jr. called "Living Love". I attended the workshop, just to keep a friend company. However I soon discovered that I was there for me. I took alot away from that workshop experience. I finally had a reason to live and a desire to see my beautiful dreams come true.

Ken Keyes, wrote a book called "HANDBOOK TO HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS" where he describes methods on how to create a more happy life. I spent nine months at his center called "Cornucopia" located in St Mary, Kentucky. While at Cornucopia I met my husband Hap Barhydt and we created a Living Love marriage based on Ken Keys book "A Conscious Persons Guide to Relationships". Hap has even given me more opportunities to learn and to expand my power to love.

DEALING WITH PHYSICAL STRESS
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Now that I had taken care of how to work on the emotional aspect of healing. I was still in constant pain being, diagnosed with arthritis, fibromyalgia etc. I still had difficulty in walking, limited range of motion , back and neck pain, feet pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and tendonitis . I also have a herniated disc in my lower back, and a deteriorated left hip, and on and on it went.

I started with a course called "Touch for Health" where I started to learn how muscles work together. This was my first experience with muscle testing. We learned that every muscle is connected to a meridian, and every meridian is connected with an organ; so working with the muscles can help to heal the whole body. After Touch for Health we went on to learn more. See our web site, "who we are" for details.

After attending many classes I kept asking. "What can I do for myself?" I have a simple mind, and I need simple techniques that I can do even when I am hurting, like in the middle of the night. My synthesis was to take these complex techniques, (as I saw it) that I had learned and make them into simplified tools of self-help, that I could do for myself.

What Hap & I discovered is that "Muscles are the Missing Link" to our aches and pains, Muscles have to work together in groups or in pairs. A Reactive Muscles is when you use one muscle other muscles may go weak.
Reactive Muscles we feel may be the greatest cause of our aches and pains.

OUR DISCOVERY of SELF-HELP
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In 1988, I was still in constant pain. We were parked at an RV park where there were mineral hot springs, which I was told was good for people with arthritis. After soaking in the hot pool for about an hour I was free from pain for the first time in many years, but when I went to get out of the hot pool, all my muscles locked up. I had to literally crawl up to where we had the motor home parked. I asked Hap to get out the massage table to help me. I was in so much pain that I could not even raise my arm for Hap to muscle test me. At that time the Reactive Muscle Basic Balance, as described in our books and videos, came to me intuitively. I tried the technique on myself and to my amazement it worked. I started to feel better. Then I knew we had the answer to helping me with my constant pain.

SELF-HELP FOR HELPING OTHERS
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This worked for me, but I wondered how these techniques could work for other people not familiar with muscle balancing. An opportunity to check this out soon appeared. In another RV park. we met a lady who had bursitis in her right shoulder. She had been to the emergency room, but received little relief. She also had low back pain. When I first saw her, she asked if this was Black Magic. I asked her permission to work with her. She was in so much pain she said "just get rid of my pain."

I proceeded to do our Reactive Muscle Basic Balance and our Frozen Muscle Basic Balance techniques, a little at a time, as she gradually started to raise her arm. In less then 20 minutes she raised her arm and the pain was gone. We also taught her how to balance her hips to help with her low back pain.

We saw her the next morning and she was fine. Her husband stated he did the techniques on himself for his neck stress and his neck was better.

With this success, which happened in 1988, we wrote the first edition of our "Self-Help for Stress and Pain plus Learning Blocks" book (48 pages). Now 16 years later our 7th edition has grown to 96 pages. We taught our Self-Help for Stress & Pain work in 13 countries. October 2003 we attended the Kinesiology conference in Italy and also taught a 3 day Self-Help workshop. Elizabeth gave a lecture on Subtitles in Muscle Testing and Hap gave a lecture on how he is dealing with Parkinson's without drugs using the Barhydt self-help techniuqes and nutrition.

MORE THAN 8 MILLION PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING FROM HEADACHES INCLUDING MIGRAINES, BACK PAIN, WRIST PAIN, TENDONITIS, HEAL SPURS, HIATUS HERNIA, NECK AND SHOULDER PAIN, ALLERGIES.

You owe it to yourself to learn more about this exciting new development in pain manageent that could change your life. Why live with pain when you don't have to?

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