I am not a medical doctor; I am a doctor for educational management. I do researches but I don’t think my researches can meet the standards of my venerable doctor friend who respects only researches done by Harvard. According to him, researches must be evidenced based.

My researches are personal, anecdotal reports based on my pathway to wellness. For me my researches are based on evidences! I validate my personal experiences against published findings about my health challenges.I understand that this type of sampling at best will be considered as mere anecdotal reports by medical practitioners more so by those who practise pharmacological medicine.

In the 90s I was still covered by an HMO, not anymore since 2003. Ironically, the elderly when they need an HMO the most can no longer be covered. Anyway, while I was still covered by n HMO, the attending physicians would shake their heads when I would be confined. They just could not pinpoint what was wrong with me. I would always be a marginal case in all blood and other medical tests. I know secretly they must have considered me a case of psychosomatic illness. However, one manifest evidence was my voice problem which forced me to resign from a leching job.

I was treated for hypertension because the readings proved it. When my hypertension normalized my voice problem persisted. I was sent to a psychiatrist. Now, I know it must have been a ploy to rid the HMO of  their perceived unnecessary expense. Of course, the fee of the psychiatrist was not reimbursable! Understandably I had to take steps to handle my health issues.

The Internet has given me new information. Lactic acid which used to be blamed for tiredness has been redeemed by more recent studies. Cortisol , the stress hormone is not as bad as described in my old books in the 90s. This leads me to think how important it is for health care providers to continuously update themselves. I can imagine how my voice problem even my clinical depression in the 90s could have been remedied had my doctors or even myself known about the wonders of Magnesium.

I am grateful for the magnesium spray of Jean Netario Cruz which has significantly improved my walking, enough for me to dream that soon I will be able to walk without my cane. She has done a lot of research about magnesium but I would like to add what I have learned.

According to the “Essential Guide to Vitamins and Minerals and Herbal Supplements” (2010) : Few enzymes can work without it [magnesium]  and magnesium is now known to help monitor healthy tissues, especially those in the muscles, lung airways, blood vessels and nerves. Lack of magnesium leads to cell death due to depletion of energy stores.

Magnesium could have prevented my frequent trips to the ER and hospital confinement in the 90s. The above 2010 book continues: One of the most important functions for magnesium is to maintain the integrity of ion pumps that control the flow of sodium, potassium, chloride and other salt components across cell membranes.
But an 80 year old doctor friend of ours would rather stick to pharmacologically driven medicine. He does not believe in Internet accessed researches. He would patronize only researches done by Harvard. I had to Google this because all the while I thought Harvard did not have a of college of medicine!

In fact he believes only in Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) When I complained against my present attending doctor he categorically told me to stick with this present physician. Our doctor friend wants my attending physician to take care of him  when he is finally hospitalized.

I am no longer a traditional Catholic. I am still a Catholic. After many, many years of robotic compliance with the teachings of my church I have become a highly critical of nuns and priests. Fortunately, for my many books like those of Neale Walsch and Rabbi Darfour have changed my image of God from an angry, punishing one of the Bible to a God of love.

The Hawaiian Ho’oponopono (definitely not a religion) which I learned from Joe Vitale’s “Zero Limits has been helping me tremendously.
Instead of the burdens from the doctrinal teachings of my church, the Ho’oponopono has made me live up to the teachings of my church: made to the image and likeness of God.

I still believe in the power of the Mass and the sacraments. I owe my steadfast faith in the Eucharist to a book by Bro. James Ebner FSC which I read when I was pregnant with our only daughter and now she is on her early 30s.

I resonate with what a msgr from Iloilo wrote in the Philippine Inquirer “Sacraments Trump Novenas, Processions, Says Prelate.”
It may sound heretical. But my life has been suffused with joy ever since I awakened to the truth that truly God is in me.

The Ho’oponopono videos available in YouTube, sometimes on Facebook as well as on my website remind me daily that life is beautiful. Divinity does what I can’t do by myself.

The Ho’oponopono cleanses our memories or programs as Joe Vitale calls them. I can easily equate the memories/programs with original sin.

Original Sin just like memories are always with me preventing me from hearing God. That is why I do Ho’oponopono cleansing when I wake up and also before I go to sleep. Actually, I do Ho’oponopono even while waiting for my laptop to access the Internet.

The guidance spoken about in Ho’oponopono can easily be translated into the guidance of the Holy Spirit. I pray that soon my church will look kinder upon Ho’oponopono instead of dismissing it as “New Age”.

I think this essay will be an impediment to my canonization1 But I don’t need to be canonized. I’m sure there are more human beings in heaven than those canonized. BDW I have personally observed that canonization can be very expensive.

I was taught in a Catholic school that we celebrate  “All Saints Day” every year to honor those who did not get canonized but are in heaven

My philosophy in my health care is “no size fits all.” After my mild stroke in May 2012, I comply with my doctor”s orders but I always ask a lot of questions and quietly guard my misgivings. i do a lot of research more in the Internet now than in books.

I was surprised when I goggled “tilapia”. I learned from a nephew that eating “tilapia” is equivalent to eating stripsof bacon. Incidentally I learned from Goggle that “Tilapia” is widely eaten in the USA. Goggle used the term “tilapia”.

My doctor pooh poohs good naturedly my complaints about the side effects of his many prescribed medicines. The more I complain the more medicines he adds. I can no longer completely disobey this present doctor because when I did away with maintenance medicines for 16 years I had a mild stroke. By the way my present doctor is connected with another hospital not the one which I frequented in the 90s.

My doctor is vry kind; he doesn’t prescribe a strict diet. He says something about eating even forbidden foods but just a taste! He did not agree with a doctor in the emergency room who prescribed a low salt, low ft diet for me. Interesting1 This doctor is a patient of my present, kind doctor!

In my effort to improve my condition and to convince my doctor to lessen my medicines I have tried juicing as prescribed by many Facebook friends via colorful posts. I stopped because the concoctions meant frequent visits to the toilet.

I tried herbal aids in capsules but they did not lower my blood pressure. I tried acupuncture but didn’t persevere after the 4Th session because of my low threshold of pain.

Now I’m into a special magnesium treatment via a spray that I learned about from Faceook. I feel blessed already having met a kindred soul in the person of Mary Jean Netario Cruz.  The magi spray has improved my walking. I still walk with a cane but with less difficulty since i can lift my left foot a bit higher now.

Through the years, I have personally learned that thoughts don’t automatically manifest as the documentary “The Secret” presents. Some of the personalities featured in “The Secret” have this to say. Joe Vitale in “Zero Limits” gives the Ho’oponopono strategy. Vitale claims that one must not be attached; one cannot want things to go one’s way. Also thoughts must first be cleared by the Ho’oponopono of fear, anger and confusion.

Esther Hicks says: “You have to let go of the struggle, and focus upon the end result that you are seeking”.

Dooley says: “Gratitude is a prerequisite. When you think thoughts of having received, those thoughts seek to come back to you experientially (manifesting in time and space).

Martha Beck (not featured in the “Secret” ) says: “Manifesting requires wordlessness and oneness”.

Here on my website are filed under the “Health and Well Being” category two videos of the Ho’oponopono. At the end of each video are more versions of the Ho’oponopono. There are Spanish/Mexican, French, German, Korean/Japanese versions. A Facebook friend of mine from Russia shows Ho’oponopono is practiced in that country.