A painful bowel disorder. Plus the benefits of tight for body and mind. Feet shoulder with. Knees slightly bent down face the palm of your right hand outwards other way around thats right. In the bowl. Now the left hand falls again and the right one comes up and were back. So. You might wonder what your g. P. Is doing here. And this is an exercise from. She has to do with your health and fitness this is what im going to talk about with today and you know everything about. A great so welcome. Here in china where he went to learn more about a passion of his food but while theyre low hence developed a love for the gentler movements of time and also took up meditation today hes a tight she instructor ember learn and often works with people suffering from parkinsons disease. So what is so fascinating about. Yeah shes an old chinese martial arts and when you train you do some special things for your health some positive things for your health and you do something for your body and for your spirit and you founded a school which is called in german. And this means systematic relaxation learn to type in china lift one year in china for just for training a train come first and then i was so fascinated by. Then i changed and it was a hobby and now its my profession and after teaching a long time in berlin i i saw the system behind this. And then i call it. This is originally comes from martial arts and we can just join one of your groups here and theyre not fighting its grown on the battlefields of the nation ancient china and now its this time its more for a. Sation and for your health but still its in selfdefense and i can show you something yeah yeah just go for it. Its called pushing hands and its the beginning of for our partner work and start the search difference. Were going. To imagine a little bit why this is martial arts but and i mean all the movements are very smooth very slow. And exercise do sometimes sweat here sometimes here at the beginning you start really slow because you want to do it exactly here the right body structure relax assured of your angles and stuff but later you also have a really fast movements ok but in the beginning you must do it slowly because you want to do it right and later you can do more harm you know your action you know every step and then what are the Health Implications. Its a very good for really first come down your mind is more clearly more open and its positive for your Blood Pressure let me take this chance and ask some questions to the students. Im just curious how long have you been doing tai change be doing for fifteen years and what made you start young. I started because i had terrible back pain i found these movements were just the right thing my back pain disappeared immediately and i felt better because a good times and how you also notice benefits to your health yes several firstly ive lost weight my immune system has also improved and ive got less backpacking. In toughman do you do tai chee in the park in the mornings. Sometimes yes im over seventy but now i can breathe more easily and exercise again i had heart problems arrhythmia and now its all gone my cardiologist cant believe it everythings fine. I was wonderful thanks. Even in parkinsons disease you should be helpful since four years of parkins on the people do it got parkinsons disease and they get a better balance better more toric better walking sitting standing here and i didnt even call this keep moving yeah yeah keep moving the Training System yeah and its based on touchy but its not so complex here its more easy because they are have some problems with their movements so even if your have Impaired Health you can try to do yes here we started on a real low level but through the principles of just does slow motion and the right body structure we keep in the movement but not so complex right cause they have other problems tang dynasty are really all that and use their Common Ground with meditation yeah. So we call it. Meditation. In movement. Yeah and you have to concentrate to every movement and so its a. Lot of things in common with me yeah yeah. Because meditation is not all about sitting around and maybe sleeping meditation is a very active process and it has a lot of Health Implications and effects and even scientists are trying to get behind the science of meditation. Driving in rush hour traffic can be stressful and annoying. In situations like this i used to get all worked up. When i have to stop at a red light i welcome it thats not something i can benefit from its a moment of calm. I keep my eyes open but i lean back and relax its. Simple calming exercises in daily life can be beneficial psychologists alric ot is a meditation researcher at the bender instituted Neuro Imaging a case in University Practitioners of various religions have traditionally aimed to enter deep meditative states today thats the subject of Brain Research m. R. I. Scans reveal changes to the brain that are caused by meditation and we recently published an important study we had a control group and another group that taught meditation training they exhibited a marked increase in the grey matter density on the left side of the hippocampus the hippocampus plays a big role in memory learning and the regulation of emotion within eight weeks there was a measurable change out of context of Brain Research we now know which functions are positively affected by meditation. This is the regulation of attention is definitely among the media people who meditate are very good at concentrating on. Specific things when you consider that concentration means being able to filter out things that are irrelevant he also claimed. Also teaches his students ways to concentrate on the here and now. All kinds of thoughts click through our minds what weve been doing the most with thinking of doing. This into engineers or its natural for us to be active in this way to do things to jump from one situation to the next meditation teaches us Something Different you know its an alternative approach which involves taking a step back from everything thats going on and bearing down on us most of the and. That kind of distance can help us prevent all master negative stress but many people are suspicious of the usual meditation courses. From your. I dont think i go to the kind of course you see advertised in the papers than or yoga or whatever. Im pretty skeptical i would wonder what are they going to do to me what they just feed me some weird esoteric stuff. So. The people with such doubts alric art has written a book called meditation for skeptics. Have those people who frequent us but i wrote the book i would like to have read twenty years ago when i first started meditating. It explains quite soberly how to meditate like how it should sit. Many people assume you have to sit crosslegged on the floor. Just because buddha founded litum and while in the lotus position doesnt mean we all have to sit that way. And you dont have to be indoors all motionless to meditate. I think. You know walking meditation you pay close attention to your feet. To the rolling motion of the soles of your feet on the ground. And you can synchronize your steps to your breathing. To start with meditation helps you relax and feel better physically but with time you find theres more. That it affects a deeper level seeing you as a person moment. You become aware of things you have a consciously registered before. And you start to change as a person inch in the way you see and treat both yourself and others. Mentioned. If you find yourself in a serious conflict meditation can be particularly helpful it lets you go back and observe from a certain distance and perhaps choose to change the way you live. Tranquility and even in a freedom thanks to meditation. Now lets talk about what meditation has to do with the first thing i can see is that all your students are not sitting quietly and still they are moving their hands yeah well also have some meditation we do it at the beginning better and we have something to do today of dont have to go in is absolutely silence so they have something to do with what they can observe thats better for them they dont get afraid of meditation or so its easier to get into irritated messages and what are the effects you know you get a better concentration you coming more down your brain is more clearly and your body feels good after so its touchy for everybody absolutely. I have some younger students with them i do more selfdefense and have also some of the students they are more looking for health more for slow movements and other any preexisting conditions when you shouldnt do tight she. Do to achieve also of people who have problems of the lexer can only sit here and restart some movements on a chair or Something Like this thats no problem so if i would say this is a great exercise for me how can i start to just go into the internet and you tube clips know or find a friend of a good idea do to go personally to the school you know searching the internet maybe for three or four schools and then test they can test the school and its also important that you have a good feeling a Good Relationship to the teacher to say yes the test is good and yeah i think you should going to four three or four times joining the teaching joining the training and then you would see yeah and how long does it usually take to. To get into Better Health because some problems like that depends what you want or depends how many time you spend for training you know training to teachers from on one side here but its also important that you do a lot of training by yourself at home and how does the training usually look like i mean its not just sitting and meditating is more like meditation is almost at the end when we start our training we have some warming up some standing exercises from the cheekbones system and then we have some forms some movements one hour one and a half and if this is simple exercise you could show me that we should you could train together with your value is this well yes we can do it if your body should be a bride the movement is called weight the cheese. And its a beginning movement. And you bring up your arms really slowly and sink down and again and again you can prevent and prevent heart so do you start every morning like this yeah. Morning good. Things have you today thank you and if youve got any questions be sure to write me an email and ill let me. On an upcoming show we look at the best ways to kick the nicotine habit most smokers struggle to overcome the addiction so what can they do. What really works. Questions to in good shape d. W. Dot com right now to stop smoking in the subject line we look forward to hearing from you. Stress can lead to a variety of Health Problems and different Health Problems can trigger stress like problems of the intestinal tract like Crohns Disease. Kasten adams may not look unwell but the thirty seven year old suffers from crones disease an inflammatory bowel disorder associated with stomach pain and diarrhea. Line outside during an especially bad flare up i pretty much wouldnt be able to leave the house because i couldnt control it. Kasten has endured many such flare ups some lasted a few days others several weeks and even in the periods between shed have as many as eight bowel movements a day many people are embarrassed to speak about problems of this kind kasten explains why its important to open up. And people know why you dont necessarily always look sick like someone whos broken iran has a cold. The flare ups last a long time and come about gradually at the beginning you still look well when. Im open about it. Friends of mine who have the disease and the less i can suffer more. Poke kasten is a preschool teacher shes glad her workplace has been supportive stress can exacerbate. Crones disease. This is does give you as long as usual psychologically stressful situations where theyre at work or in the home conflicts say can make their disease more acute. And of course they can make it harder to come to terms with the condition. Following a healthy diet makes kasten feel better but it doesnt have any effect on the flare ups. Which does people tend to think they can control it was diagnosed with Crohns Disease and colitis you cant when you experience flare ups you cant eat everything of course you have to make sure to eat a low fiber diet but when you feel ok you can eat pretty much anything. Kasten has been through a lot shes had several operations to remove parts of her intestine and her entire colon shes had to be fitted with an artificial bowel outlet twice. I woke up after the operation with an artificial bowel outlet. That was tough for me. The second time it happened i was trying to conceive. Now six or seven years later im still childless and i found out that because of all the operations i wont be able to get pregnant the conventional way. And thats because of Crohns Disease. For Crohns Disease patients decisions about surgery and medication are made on a case by case basis because theres no cure the focus is on improving patient quality of life. After having several operations on trying out different medications most notably cortisone five years ago cast in began treatment with an immunosuppressant. Percent under. Their antibodies that target hormones that cause inflammation they work fast and need to be administered regularly around every eight weeks most patients respond very well this hyper sensitivity to the sun can be one side effect an immune response is reduced so infections tend to occur three times as often. Even taking the possible side effect into account kasten is satisfied with the results. Since ive been getting treatment i havent had flare ups i can go to work i dont have to search for toilet constantly i feel more free as for. Kasten still has to go for regular checkups. Ultrasound monitoring as well as blood and stool samples allow doctors to identify any warning signs early on. Shes doing pretty well now but managing the disease will always be part of her life. Some practice touchy to stay healthy others sing and its in my case it would have some unwanted side effects but singers are more healthy than on singers they do have less back pain and they are less likely to catch a cold but what would you do if i would sing out of tune because my wife is gone then its time to see a specialist. Two people who both love to sing peter motor is seventy one and sings in acquiring. Sarah breslin is a twenty four year old american studying opera in germany both began to have voice problems. Peter has been in a mens choir in cologne for fifteen years after he had to have heart surgery he could only speak or sing in a recipe whisper. It was a terrible blow it really set me back because i was very passionate about singing it live. Kinds are made like a commodity. The emergency procedure took place two years ago after peter suffered a tear in his aorta the major artery that carries oxygenated blood out of the heart. And not uncommon complication. Such an operation is that the nerves that control the vocal cords are stretched or even severed. First. Contacts and i could only whisper i sounded very breathy theyd. Peters voice lacked a volume because the nerve damage had paralyzed to the left vocal fold and his larynx were. There of the involved increasing its bulk whats called augmentation of the vocal fold. We filled it with hieratic acid we injected it directly into the fold to make it thicker and thus closer to the midline of the windpipe and its counterpart on the right we want the glottis to close better that is to reduce the gap between the folds. Glottal closure is key to creating the sounds needed to talk and to sing both the augmentation procedure and this subsequent checkup are performed under local anaesthetic with the help of an endoscope it allows the physician to inspect the larynx and vocal cords various causes of voice problems can be diagnosed and discovered glee among them a deemer cysts or tumors. You know has a coarseness that lasts more than two or three weeks needs to be looked at by a specialist now adays peters vocal chords close again his voice almost sounds the way it used to. The vocal chords are very sensitive using them wrongly can also cause damage was in the poor technique of not using the voice properly not breathing right all that can make you hoarse oddments or. Thats what happened to Sarah Breslin when singing her voice could suddenly get scratchy and hoarse her entire future was at stake. It was terrible that i thought i might have to give up singing and do something else. So to start. Her doctor couldnt find anything wrong with serious vocal chords and referred her to a speech therapist but what was striking in sarahs case was the tension in the muscles in her neck larynx they were all very tensed up of life as a first. And all that tension affected her voice treatment involved a range of exercises some very simple. This is here and its more relaxed my throat is open. Boyce training helped her relax and lengthen the muscles in her larynx. And her hoarseness was gone. Singer also learned to breathe differently. First you know who used to breathe high up in her chest and didnt make proper use of her respiratory muscles so i try to teach a brief more deeply. Sirrah learn to control the flow of air better and to breathe more deeply not only did her hoarseness get better her voice even improved. Can i can sing so much more now and my voice doesnt. Really simple exercises can make a huge difference. If you try and you should drink a lot and inhale with hot salty water its very important to help keep the vocal track or oysters and scones fish dish food i mean its his turn now to does his exercises faithfully he said to go back to his choir san. Siro present can no face singing for her final exams with confidence. Im so relaxed right now that a how can you notice that this is the end of the show and i will continue doing some she and you can join me too but dont forget to switch on your t. V. Set next week and stay in good shape. The future. International. Journalists discuss the topic of the week as the Global Climate conference gets underway here in germany. Do ambitious Climate Change policy still jobs donald trump says yes but our guest this week on quadriga begs to differ. Quadriga in thirty minutes on w. Your children like chocolate. You cant live without your smartphone. To buy your tomatoes in the supermarket. 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