We showed Shirley how to do the appropriate exercises for reactive and frozen muscles, while we used muscle testing to monitor progress. In about 20 minutes' time Shirley's shoulder was completely released, and she could raise her arm straight up over her head without pain.

We then proceeded to coach her on using exercises for her lower back problems. This completely released her hip pains. She remained free of pain with full use of her right arm throughout the rest of our stay at the RV park. The morning after we helped Shirley, her husband told us that he had had neck and shoulder pains also and, after watching us help his wife, he used the exercises (without doing any muscle testing) to get rid of the pains. They later wrote us a nice letter thanking us and saying that they both still felt fine.

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COMPUTER STRESS AND PAIN: When we first starting using the Macintosh computers, we had considerable difficulty because of the higher position of the screen and different keyboard. Our necks and arms tired quickly as we worked on the computers and we placed telephone books in the chair seats temporarily to ease the problem. We started doing the brain integration exercises and balancing reactive and frozen muscles several times a day. By the end of the week we no longer needed to sit on the telephone books and were able to work the computers without strain and fatigue.

We have been using Macintosh computers for over 10 years now with many heavy duty desktop publishing sessions, writing books, reports, and papers, editing entire journals, etc., and have no wrist or muscle problems. Of course we do our exercises whenever our wrists or arms begin to tighten up, before this becomes a problem. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

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DENTAL WORK STRESS: A dentist was having difficulty with weak and stiff muscles in his arms and shoulders and could hardly move his wrist by the end of a typical working day. He was concerned that he might have to have surgery or reduce his practice. We spent 40 minutes coaching him at the end of the day, while he went through the motions of each task, working on patients, working on appliances, looking at x-rays, etc., one at a time and then balancing reactive and frozen muscles. He also balanced his electromagnetics to the lights and wall paper patterns in his office suite. He experienced immediate relief.

He repeated the exercises as he felt the need on following days. He wrote us six months later to say he was still doing fine.

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SPRAINED ANKLE: Elizabeth stumbled in a hidden hole on a hillside while hiking, painfully over-turning her ankle; so she could not stand on it and walk. She started immediately using the Self-Help basic balancing routines and was able to reduce the pain considerably and to stop any swelling. Then she was able to walk back to the car without assistance. She repeated these balancing exercises several times and also did additional exercises to reduce joint stress. The sprain healed rapidly. Even though the pain was greatly diminished, several days later she went to a hospital emergency room for x-rays to make sure no bones were broken. The medical staff could not find anything wrong.

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A STANDING ISSUE: During a group presentation, a lady rode up to the speaker's platform in a little electric cart. Then she said she could not lift her legs to go up the platform stairs. She had to sit down and crawl up the stairs. Once on the platform, we had her stand and lift her legs as far as she could to activate any reactivity and range of motion limitations. Then we showed her how to do the various Basic Balance exercises until she could lift her legs. At the end of the day she returned to our booth, riding in her cart. Then she stood up on the ground and said, "Look at me I can raise my legs," as she alternately raised her legs to the point that her thigh bones were horizontal. She was very proud of her accomplishment.

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A BACK PROBLEM: At one of our Self-Help classes for massage therapists, our sponsor asked us if we would work with one of her clients who had just called in requesting an emergency treatment. She had been carrying firewood and had hurt her back so that she could not bend over or move without extreme pain. As a demonstration for the class we went through the Self-Help sequence for low back pain. In about fifteen minutes she could bend over and was free from pain. The client did all the techniques on herself. The class had a chance to see the techniques in action.

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AN ARM RAISING: We did a demonstration for the Sonora Arthritis Foundation group. A volunteer came up who could not raise her hand far enough to comb her hair. We also found that she was unable to bring her hands up to her neck to do the Neck Release Exercise. By moving her hand as close to her head and neck as possible and then doing the Basic Balance exercises just one time (30 seconds elapsed time), she was able to raise her hand over her head. She was also able to go through her hair combing motions and the Neck Release Exercise with no problem. She was so amazed that during the rest of the lecture she continued to raise her hand above her head from time to time, possibly to assure herself that she could still do it.

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CATCHING UP IN SCHOOL: A mother started helping her 12 year old son, who was dyslexic and had been having trouble with school since the beginning, with exercises from the Self-Help for Kids book in March In May when he had his yearly R.S.P. testing and evaluation the teachers were as surprised as the mother to see that he scored 5 years ahead of his previous year's score in math. He had finally made his own grade level. Instead of the regular summer school that he has always ended up doing, he went with his mother to the book store and got the teacher's books of work sheets for the 6th and 7th grade (he was going into 7th) and did them at home along with all the exercises out of the Self-Help for Kids book. His attitude is great. He actually reminds his mother that he has work to do instead of hoping she will forget. He is also losing weight and much more interested and active at other projects then he had been before. "It has to do with self-esteem. Right?" the mother writes.

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VERTIGO: We met a lady who had a "vertigo" problem. She felt dizzy when she stood up and used a cane for walking so that she wouldn't fall. We showed her how to do the Self Help basic balancing exercises to integrate the brain functions and to correct reactive muscles in the eyes, ears, jaw, and neck. The next day she was walking without her cane and not having any difficulty.

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MUSICIAN STRESS AND PAIN: We have showed a number of musicians how these exercises can improve their playing. The muscle and structure balancing routines helped a tuba player whose right arm went weak in the middle of the concert (reactive to his left foot tapping out the beat), piano and organ players whose arms also weakened while playing (arms reactive to their feet pressing on the pedals), a bass violin player whose right arm weakened during long passages, an oboe player and violinist who needed to improve their breathing while playing their instruments, and tenor who had been having dificulty reaching high G, and many more. We remember with particular compassion a highly talented keyboard player who feared she would have to permanently give up her career until she found she could once again perform at long recording sessions without pain, once she learned to do our Self-Help exercises.

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