I don't know where to start, so I'll try chiropractic.
As a kid I was sent to have several sessions. It would cure my asthma.
It didn't work. I still suffer with it decades later.
It makes a living for chiropractors and that's all.
It suggests that long term diseases can be fixed by pressing down on the spine and freeing nerves.
A process called subluxation.
Only chiropractors with special healing hands can do this, so don't try it at home otherwise spinal damage is likely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertebral_subluxation
Another form of healing is the Japanese art of Reiki.
You can visit a practitioner or even do it yourself.
All the better that this is of alien origin.
https://reikitrainingprogram.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/the-extraterrestrial-reiki-connection/
Reiki is also the chi. It's just spelt with a K. 'Reichi' would not sound quite right.
Tai chi is based on the same idea that healing energy exists in the universe.
All you have to do is to channel it.
Help a teacher by going to a class.
I don't wish to discourage this, but it IS nonsense.
Give thanks for the influence of the British royal family.
King Charles believes in homeopathy:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/17/king-charles-has-appointed-homeopath-why-do-elite-put-faith-in-snake-oil
In his first speech as president of the British Medical Association he told the assembled crowd of doctors that modern medicine was "like the celebrated Tower of Pisa, slightly off balance".
He also believes in talking to plants.
"I just come and talk to the plants, really — very important to talk to them. They respond." (1986 BBC interview)
Should he require urgent treatment he might select this option:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqWieBlI1bA
^ :lol: So true!
After the decline in spiritualism, popular in the 19th century, we now have the idea that science can keep us alive for many extra years.
Religion still believes we can have immortality.
Animals can't, but humans can if they have faith.
Living to 150 sounds great, but it doesn't mean we will have good health and freedom from pain.
As the author John Gray puts it in his book The Immortalization Commission:
"What could be more deadly than being unable to die?"
This is like the Greek legend of Tithonus.
He asked the gods for immortality but forgot to tell them to preserve his youth.
He grew older and older in ever increasing pain and became envious of others who had the privilege of dying.
Even the universe is dying faster than we thought, but humans still believe they might be exempt.
https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/the-universe-is-dying-much-faster-than-scientists-thought-new-study-suggests
I will be glad to get out of the pain of living one day, and not preserved like Lenin.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/how-the-quest-to-preserve-lenins-body-helps-the-living
Above does not mean I won't participate in the yoga industry.
It's worth over $200 billion in the global economy.
Yoga is so good, you will feel like a new person in just a few sessions.
You will feel like a microcosm of the universe.
It will stimulate your hormones, grow your telomeres, make your body elastic.
It's so good I probably shouldn't mention you are more likely to get pain in the back, the neck, the wrists, the knees and shoulders. So keep your doctor's phone number handy.
Best to forget the great guru of American yoga, Richard Hittleman only lived until he was 64, and Larry Shultz the inventor of Rocket Yoga died at 60.
I've also known plenty of people who never did yoga and lived into their 90's and 100's.
Tired with yoga teachers who can't demonstrate the headstand, because they can't do it, I embraced the idea that maybe our bodies work off energy centres called chakras. These are stimulated by yoga poses (asanas) and are colour coded. There are 7 of these, or is it 14, or even 21?
Go into the next room at the sports' centre and someone is talking about the meridians in our bodies.
These are channels connecting our internal parts through which the chi flows.
Freeing up these connections will free you of disease. It's also how acupuncture works.
If only. Would save trillions in global healthcare.
For my holidays in 2026 I hope to visit the nearest star.
In my Blue-Sky Voyager I'll refuel at the sun, then take the ride to Proxima Centauri.
Hoping that by the time I get there, Alpha Centauri has not become closer.
Depending on the speed I'm going it could take 83,000 years, but if I manage near light speed I won't get any older and it will only take just over 4 years.
I could bridge the gap by travelling by wormhole, should technology be available to push matter through by then.
Another possibility is teleportation which again should only take 4 years.
In the teleporter, my body will be broken down into probability waves and then reassembled on arrival.
Only danger is I might end up dismembered.
Coming back also has its hazards.
To quote Douglas Adams, "I teleported home one night with Ron and Sid and Meg. Ron stole Meggie's heart away and I got Sydney's leg."