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Healing Times June 2006
Volume No. 9
Issue No. 6
Treat Yourself Right! Some Interesting Facts about
Massage with JeAnne Frey Your Amazing Body!
During the month of June, all hospitality
Your Amazing Digestive System
professionals will receive $10.00 off 60 minute
sessions, regularly $60.00. The digestion and absorption of food takes place
Call JeAnne for an appointment, 434-989-8364, in a muscular tube called the alimentary canal,
or check out her website for more information at which runs for over 9 meters, from the mouth to
www.tyrmassage.com. JeAnne now also offers the anus.
Circuitry Alignment (CA).
The digestive process begins in the mouth, and
Feldenkrais Classes the average person produces a quart of saliva per
Awareness Through Movement® day, or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.
with Marsha Robertson
Every Tuesday The stomach can hold up to 1.5 liters of food,
12:30 – 1:30PM which stays in the stomach for 3 to 5 hours, takes 3
Your First Class is Free! to 6 hours to move through the small intestine,
If you have questions contact Marsha Robertson and another 3 to 5 hours in the large intestine.
at 434-970-1066 or e-mail
marshaerobertson@cs.com. Your stomach is the size of your clenched fist and
can expand to the size of a small football which is
SRI Sessions – Now on Thursdays lucky because during a lifetime a person eats
Dr. Brian is offering individual sessions of nearly 65,000 lbs. of food!
Somato Respiratory Integration™ (SRI), on
Thursdays by appointment from 9:30AM to The average person eats 7-10 liters of food per
2:00PM. Initial Sessions are $50. Follow-up day, but only 350 ml goes into the large intestine.
sessions are $25.
Somato Respiratory Integration (SRI) exercises Your intestines are about 4 times the height of
are designed to help the brain connect with the your body. Your small intestine is about 6 yards
body and its experience and reconnect breathing long and about as thick as your pointer finger.
with awareness of the body and its natural Your large intestine is about 4.5 feet long and
rhythms. SRI helps the individual experience about as thick as your wrist.
his/her body more fully, and instantly shift their
state of consciousness to one that supports trust Your liver performs approximately 500 different
for the body-mind and healing process, as well as functions, including filtering over one liter of
promote increased peace and ease. blood per minute when your body is at rest.
SRI exercises are designed to help you find and
dissipate tension in your body with ease and Your Amazing Nervous System
many people who use them move more quickly
through the Network Spinal Analysis Levels of Your brain can store one billion bits of
Care and get even more from their Network information and can send 100 different messages
entrainments! every second.
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Nerve impulses travel at 155 bone located in the middle ear.
miles per hour some reaching The stapes is approximately .11 different odors.
up to 310 miles per hour. inches long. Your nose can smell
directionally, telling you
Your spinal cord is about the Babies have the most acute where the odor is coming
diameter as your index finger. hearing. from.
It is about 18 inches long and
weighs less than a hen's egg, The use of alcohol, nicotine and Your sense of smell is less
yet there are 10 billion cells in caffeine can affect a person's acute in the morning, but
your spinal cord. hearing by constricting arteries ability to smell increases as
in the inner ear. the day goes on.
If you joined your nerves end to
end, they would reach 43 miles. Earwax is pure cholesterol. A woman’s sense of smell is
That is about 42,000 times the keener than a man’s.
average person's height. Your Amazing
Sense of Taste Your Amazing Body
The adult brain is about the size
of a grapefruit, and we use only During childhood, taste buds Our bodies are recreating
15% of our brain capacity. grow on the sides and roof of themselves constantly – we
the mouth as well as the make a new skeleton every
Your Amazing Eyes tongue. This means children three months, and new skin
are more sensitive to certain every thirty days.
The human eye can see seven tastes (this sheds new light on
million different shades of children and vegetables!), but Every year about 98% of the
color. by the time children reach their atoms in your body are
teens only the taste buds on the replaced.
We are all blind for half an hour tongue remain.
a day because we blink. When you sneeze, all your
Each taste bud is replaced every bodily functions stop – even
People born blind do not have ten days. your heart!
dream images. Their dreams
are sound tracks without Our sense of taste is closely The average cough comes
pictures. linked with our sense of smell. out of your mouth at sixty
With your nose blocked, fish oil miles per hour.
Our eyes are always the same tastes no different from melted
size from birth, but only one butter. In the average lifetime, a
sixth of the eyeball is seen. person will walk the
equivalent of five times
Your Amazing
The human eye can detect a lit around the equator.
Sense of Smell
candle more than three miles
away. The entire length of all the
Everyone has their own unique
eyelashes shed by a human
odor-identity or smell
in their life is over 98 feet.
Your Amazing Ears fingerprint.
There are 30,000 nerve fibers in Our sense of smell is working
each ear. even when we are asleep. Take Good Care of
Your Body –
The smallest bone in the human The average person can It’s the Only Place
body is the stapes or stirrup recognize approximately 10,000 You Have to Live!
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Staunton 8-Noon Ch’ville
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