#qray

On Friday the 12th, a close friend bought me a QRay bracelet. I don't feel like doing a blabbering explanation of what it is, so if you haven't seen it advertised on TV before just look it up on google. In short, it's a magnetic energy healing bracelet that is supposed to balance your internal energies and make your pain tolerable/unnoticable, as I understand.

Anyway, to continue... I've seen these things advertised for years, and while I am a full believer of alternative therapies (I practice energy channeling myself), I have always been skeptical. I mean, magnets? Really? Come on. I figured there was no harm in trying, though, and knowing how alternative healing works I have kept an open mind about it and tried to not think about what it's supposed to be doing other than acting as decoration on my wrist. 

On Sunday, I participated in a Hunter Pace which is like a big marked trail ride. I was on horseback for about 3 hours, which would normally have me in serious pain from an old knee injury. Basically it feels like having a nail jammed in the side of my knees, under the kneecap. Also, dismounting after such a long ride usually finds me either crumpled in a heap as soon as I hit the ground, or limping for a good 10minutes. I wore the QRay for the extent of the ride, and while I had some discomfort in my knees, there was never any of the piercing pain, and I had no troubles when I was back on the ground. 

Tonight I decided to break out the good ol' DanceDance Revolution game, which I haven't played in any regular pattern since I was about 17, again due to my knees. I would be able to do 2 or 3 songs and then no longer be able to stand. Tonight I played for 20minutes, and didn't have a single ache in my knees. 

Perhaps it's all coincidence; perhaps, like my doctors keep telling me, the knee problems are "All in my head" (say that to my friends when I collapse in the middle of a street in downtown Toronto), but I'm going to pay more attention to my regular aches and pains and see if they improve during the course of this little bracelet experiment. 

That's my thoughts on the matter of the QRay for now - many of you know me, and know I'm not saying all this for money to be advertising the QRay. If you or someone you care about has persistent health problems of some sort and have an open enough mind, it's worth a try. Even if it doesn't appear to help, you've got a pretty new piece of jewelery.