#body physics

Jumada Awwal 1447 Blog - (Toe dipping, Snorkel)

Introduction (Snorkel): With in mind those who do not know nor practice any form of practice that addresses the physics of the body beyond its biology and chemistry.

My body breathed out a type of air that had to be different from the particles carried in my every split second exhale. Not once, it may have been twice or three times within a span of what would have been 20 mn or so.

I had my arms wrapping reaching my waist. My right palm cupping that last bit of the left of my rib-cage, my left palm cupping the right one. Like a light soft tissue would sit and shape onto what it lands on.

It came naturally. It's not always nor often that I choose this arms-crossed position. I was lying down.

I know that in the language of Mary Burmeister's Self Help book, she a student of Jiro Murai, that that would be lock 14, but leave that aside. I am looking at the natural inclination to have put my arms as I did and that my palm wrapped that very edge of the rib-cage as it drops into the softness.

I stayed with it, I was wanting to stay with it I was not elongating that position except perhaps a few minutes at the end. Two other noticeable unusuals happened. I can't fully recall one of them but it had to do with movement of the inner part of the foot, where the arch is, of both feet. It was unusual, quick and soft so I may not have grasped it sufficiently to describe it here.

The second was clear, a lift and drop at least twice if not even five times of the knees up, folded then back flat.

And I felt well. I did realize at standing after that that I would have needed a few minutes before standing, legs a bit softer at the knee than to shift to standing. I felt and till this morning, it was then night time, that there was a cleanse. When one knows that nuance of stuffiness in the body one can say this is lighter, this is different at least. I still feel that through my nose something exited that I am grateful it did.

The miracle that is the creation of all things, and the miracle that is our own body.

سورة الروم - ٨

أَوَلَمْ يَتَفَكَّرُوا فِي أَنفُسِهِم ۗ مَّا خَلَقَ اللَّهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا إِلَّا بِالْحَقِّ وَأَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ۗ وَإِنَّ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ النَّاسِ بِلِقَاءِ رَبِّهِمْ لَكَافِرُونَ ‎

Do they not contemplate within themselves? Allah has not created the heavens and the earth and what is between them except in truth and for a specified term. And indeed, many of the people, in [the matter of] the meeting with their Lord, are disbelievers. [30:8]

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Disclaimer: I do believe wholeheartedly in the advancements of science and the field of medicine and activities that build up body strength through muscle. Believing in the wealth of avenues towards health that we can maneuver through knowledge such as application of Jiro Murai's work, Jin Shin Jyutsu, relayed to us unknowing of Japanese, English speakers, through Mary Burmeister, Bagua and other forms, does not in any way cancel out my knowledge that both are part of the wealth God has generously made possible for humanity.

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Safar 1447 Blog - (Toe dipping, Snorkel)

Introduction (Snorkel): With in mind those who do not know nor practice any form of practice that addresses the physics of the body beyond its biology and chemistry.

I am a witness of tremors, and falls of a woman in her 50s who is said to have Parkinson disease. How, when applying basic guidances of the Self Help books, for instance the first step of the Main Central (Book I, project I), how her body settles. It’s not that all tremors stop, in fact in some instances the very application of two points becomes like a switch was turned on, and a part, especially the leg, one, right be it or left, starts shaking or shivering or be in tremor. I would need more precision in knowledge of the English language to know which word is a match to which bodily movement. Word precision set aside, I am a witness, not only with my eyes, with my skin, hands. I can sense, even with eyes closed, and more so then, that the body has settled. That the tremors have subsided, that the body has let ease settle in.

She states that she has hope. After the application has taken its course, she says she has hope.

I witnessed when it was a short 24 or 48 hours that set her out of any semblance of hope, when her body could not but fall. It was that time after a doctor’s visit. When she heard: there is nothing you can do, you have to be on medication. In ways, words that can be translated as: there is no hope, you will become more crippled as time goes by.

That two hands on two chosen spots of the body, or even hovering over, give a person whose nervous system has gone off, to give that person a glimmer of hope, without speaking, simply and more importantly by her very experience.

For that alone, I am grateful to God AllMightly to have gain studentship in this knowledge, and while limited in knowledge, that it was powerful enough to set a person in the hands of a system setting off alarms of hopelessness, to instill hands on experienced hope.

AlhmaduliLlah.

-- Disclaimer: I do believe wholeheartedly in the advancements of science and the field of medicine and activities that build up body strength through muscle. Believing in the wealth of avenues towards health that we can maneuver through knowledge such as application of Jiro Murai's work, Jin Shin Jyutsu, relayed to us unknowing of Japanese, English speakers, through Mary Burmeister, Bagua and other forms, does not in any way cancel out my knowledge that both are part of the wealth God has generously made possible for humanity.

Muharram 1447 Blog - Introduction (Toe dipping, Snorkel)

Introduction (Snorkel): With in mind those who do not know nor practice any form of practice that addresses the physics of the body beyond its biology and chemistry.

As I align my writings to the cycle of the Islamic calendar, the moon cycle, the Hijri calendar, I acknowledge that in the two decades past, I missed the mark in the structure I built around healing. Every phase, I was advocating for one or another of a multitude of what is a possible path to healing, here bodily and all tied to it from attitudes, emotions, beliefs, physical ailments and strains, accidents, infectious diseases and other.

Applying this, applying that, for the length of years, months, testing, or sticking to it like I do today with deep diving with the Self Help Books by Mary Burmeister taught by Laila Moustafa, initially coined in Japanese to which I have no access by Jiro Murai.

What I noticed in the way I advocate such knowledge, to the point of doing what I can incrementally to get it to those oppressed be it in Gaza or imprisoned elsewhere, is that I put so much faith in the practice that I seem to not keep the essence intact, that of God being The Healer, that all else, anything else, the range that is on offer by man’s evolution and God’s enabling of man, that all is only what is named أخذ بالأسباب akhth bilasbab. I admit that I am building trust in the tool with a weak grasp of the only net, that Will of God and that I as a human being cannot hold on to the tool before knowing that no tool heals alone, and no tool is the ultimate go to, responsible for the healing. That it is the faith in God above all, that He alone is The Healer, and that all else are means, many means, that we all are responsible to use, work on spreading, applying, evolving. That we are accountable to use those tools, but not at any point can we drop The Source, that all, no matter how seemingly powerful a healing path, can come to zero if God wills it so. That while building up my knowledge of the tool, here the content of Mary Burmeister’s books, the Self Help Books I, II, III and Text 1 and 2, that this will limp if before it, holding it, is the largeness and deep rootedness of God’s will and the His is the only source of healing.

May this renewed revision of the path I am educating myself in, I am learning and passing on, may it never drop the foundation: the knowledge that no tool heals. That The Healer is one, and that I am responsible to search, learn, apply tools for healing, that this is tawakkul, the knowledge of The Healer, while seeking, through earthly means, what is available to mankind and within mankind’s capacity.

توكلت على الله.

-- Disclaimer: I do believe wholeheartedly in the advancements of science and the field of medicine and activities that build up body strength through muscle. Believing in the wealth of avenues towards health that we can maneuver through knowledge such as application of Jiro Murai's work, Jin Shin Jyutsu, relayed to us unknowing of Japanese, English speakers, through Mary Burmeister, Bagua and other forms, does not in any way cancel out my knowledge that both are part of the wealth God has generously made possible for humanity.

With in mind those who do not know nor practice any form of practice that addresses the physics of the body beyond its biology and chemistry.

Weather forecast. Projections of earthquakes, volcanos. We know that these readings are true, not always accurate but a tool that humans have come to take seriously. I do not know how these readings work, but I imagine that it is not too far off to say: the body has an impeccable signaling language that we ought to learn and that it be a reading before the eruption.

My ring toe, left foot, turns purple at times. My little toes curl in and have very small recessed nails, my left eyelid is lazy, my voice cannot come out from deeper than my throat, I stomp when I walk, I get yellowish colouring around my eyelids, my gum is recessed near certain teeth. To name the easy ones.

Now if those are not signs of what is to come based on inner workings before an eruption than what are they? And why not give the human body the chance to be read the way we read mountains and earth strata?

I fail to see why. I know it makes absolute sense and so I am learnig the language of the body, of those textbooks that aid in such translations is the Mary Burmeister Self Help books I II III, from the teaching of Jiro Murai originally passed on in Japan in Japanese, orally and in demonstration, as was reported. One on many tools to read the body. I am grateful for such tools.

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Disclaimer: I do believe wholeheartedly in the advancements of science and the field of medicine and activities that build up body strength through muscle. Believing in the wealth of avenues towards health that we can maneuver through knowledge such as application of Jiro Murai's work, Jin Shin Jyutsu, relayed to us unknowing of Japanese, English speakers, through Mary Burmeister, Bagua and other forms, does not in any way cancel out my knowledge that both are part of the wealth God has generously made possible for humanity.

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Home, Yansoon, Dubai, UAE. Thursday 16 Dhul-Qi'da 1446, 12 June 2025.

With in mind those who do not know nor practice any form of practice that addresses the physics of the body beyond its biology and chemistry.

I chose those words for the title, binning, secreting to guide me. We may reach another place by the end of my text. We dump our mail into trash, we cyclically dump our bodies' unwanted (sometimes wanted) matter, we sweat, we have days to take out the trash.

Exactly, stop right there. What is it that we do with our anger, with our sorrow, with our worry, with our fear, with our disconnects inside out? We move on. We speak, we console but really the physics of it is not addressed. Perhaps through hard sports or soft practices but those seem to say generalities. There are multiple practices that I was fortunate to learn that speak directly to: anger sits in this location of your body and forms that type of result in your organ, or in the functions of a certain set of flows, like digestion, or that it materializes into say calcification or other. Very tangible. And so we address it, through steps, a liver flush for instance by Andreas Moritz. What if we wanted to tackle it before the formation of a bodily matter or a disruption in a function? Or that it is tucked in a place so unidentified and you want to reach it but no tube nor cleanse can really reach it. This is where I have come to see the immense potential impact of a regular practice of what we learn through Mary Burmeister's Self Help Books.

It's a mindset, one does not approach the Self Help books as a remedy. Rather they are a way to say acknowledge that your body needs regular maintenance, like your teeth need daily, and multiple times, brushing; like your body needs food, hopefully to energise not to deplete; like all other daily practices that we may enjoy or not.

As a person who is a practicing muslim I find it very soothing, I am already trained to bring into my life multiple times a day what I am not forced to do: letting loose matter from your body is forced on you because it causes discomfort if you don't. Prayer on the other hand takes training, to get into the full sensibility that it is the way to be as a creation of the Creator. Nothing like prayer but perhaps needing some of that level of connection with the abstract, integrating a holding of a finger or point in your body daily multiple times is something that becomes part of your certainty, I feel it moving flows within me, I feel the transitions in the pulse, and so I know it is doing something in my body. And I integrate it. I bring it in, and it becomes part of my life, not a remedy.

A culture of fidgety fingers, one of hard core muscle building will miss out entirely on deformation that do happen to many if not all of us that suddenly strike us, a ring finger leaning on the middle finger, an inflamed knuckle, a limp. Perhaps as avoidable as wrinkles in communities that live on to their 100th year seeming like they are 60 in age. But that is a culture, it's not a trend. Very tough to implement, to integrate. But for those of us who thirst for it, it seems like the obvious lifestyle. One finger at a time, one harmonised flow at a time.

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Disclaimer: I do believe wholeheartedly in the advancements of science and the field of medicine and activities that build up body strength through muscle. Believing in the wealth of avenues towards health that we can maneuver through knowledge such as application of Jin Shin Jyutsu, Bagua and other forms, does not in any way cancel out my knowledge that both are part of the wealth God has generously made possible for humanity.

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With in mind those who do not know nor practice any form of practice that addresses the physics of the body beyond its biology and chemistry.

This article is a shift from the framing title I was using earlier 'Jin Shin Jyutsu'. I must say it was easier to start under that framework and derived from Mary Burmeister's teachings, she as a student of Jiro Murai who named the practice Jin Shin Jyutsu among other names, revived from earlier practices and wisdom.

I choose to not focus on Jin Shin Jyutsu simply because I do not have direct access to the material written by Jiro Murai and would not want to be promoting something under a name he gave the practice through someone else's text in another language, English. Also, reaching that clarity made me zoom out again reviving the benefits of other practices that feed into the health of the human through its physics. I say that as an amateur, too, as someone who trusts we have a certain capacity to understand large matters in life as God's creations that do not only rely on the deep study of it. So, from personal experience of various practices, I use the simple description of Body Physics.

End goal: health of the whole, the human. Which practice? I won't argue for one over the other, the practice I am speaking from at this stage is from Mary Burmeister's Self Help Books, I, II, and III, referred to in her book as Jin Shin Jyutsu.

If a force is pushing onto your eyelid to close. You can have a surgery to lift that eye lid. My logic tells me, a while and it will drop again, if the force that pushed it down in the first place is not addressed and harmonized, balanced. This is where becoming attentive to the Physics of the human (body: I may skip using that word at times so that the reader does not narrow down the field to what is perceptible, the body as matter) is an ABC to addressing issues that surface whether as physical ailments or as, what Mary Burmeister names 'Attitudes'.

If I back track to a few years back, I could not only feel, too, I could see issues aggravating in my body. One of the noticeable ones was a progressing drooping of my upper left eyelid. A very noticeable one especially in passport photos. I can't say that it is entirely gone but it has surely improved so considerably that when I look up at a mirror I do not see it. My knee cracking sound is gone. The skin under one of my left foot toes - I believe it was the ring toe - was starting to form an edge with dry skin. I reverted that at the time to what I could feel in my walk was an increasing imbalance in my structure, I believe hip down, from my chronically aching left foot. I do not see that edge on the skin nor the dryness.

Life has been life in the past two years, and perhaps a tougher life to handle at the scale of what ways on all our minds starting and ending with a lot in between, with the massacres of a people, the Palestinians, with other atrocities rising, surfacing. So its surely not the environment on earth that has helped my body. It could be a sense of serenity in marriage, surely that contributes. But I revert such physical changes to two possible factors that actually move the physics of my body: seeking to live by God's guidance and towards purity of direction in that, and, practicing the knowledge shared by Mary Burmeister in her Self Help books, taught by my teacher Laila Moustafa. Of course this comes after years of steps towards tapping into the physics of the body, through internal martial arts, namely Bagua with my teacher Yasser Bilgrami, along with other forms.

This is a realization about the overarching field that I am practicing within, the physics of the body. From it, an invitation for each to see whether any practice in their life actually taps into the body physics or is all of what they know and tap into restricted to biology and chemistry.

Simply, it is all three that are our making. By becoming aware of all three, too, our clarity in the greatness of the Creator's creation, the human body, is amplified and closer to fulfilling its amplitude.

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Disclaimer: I do believe wholeheartedly in the advancements of science and the field of medicine. Believing in the wealth of avenues towards health that we can maneuver through knowledge such as application of Jin Shin Jyutsu, Bagua and other forms, does not in any way cancel out my knowledge that both are part of the wealth God has generously made possible for humanity.

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