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Dear Tom
Thank you for your message.
Please don't call me Dr. Abas. Jan will do nicely.

You say:
(i) maybe  I am able to do what I can do only because I have a mild version

of the disease. (I hope you noted that in about a month I will be 66).
(ii) will Neurobics work for advanced cases?

Well, I am a scientist, not a guru. I offer no certainties, only
probabilities.
Nothing is guaranteed. There are 4 factors (genes, environments, use and
random accidents which determine what happens to us) and we can only try
to optimize 2 of these - our environments and use. Even then, we have to
accept that like Parkinson, at present life itself is a progressive
degenerative disease leading ultimately to complete paralysis (this will
not be true in maybe 50 years
as we gain power over our genes).

Having stared these nasty limitations squarely in the eye, I can now say:

YES! I AM CERTAIN THAT NEUROBICS WILL IMPROVE THE
CONDITION OF EVERYONE SUFFERING FROM PD OR ANY
OTHER MALADY. THIS IS SO BECAUSE OUR MODELS DETERMINE WHAT WE CAN DREAM AND
ACHIEVE AND NEUROBICS OFFERS
A SUPERIOR HOLISTIC BRAIN-CENTRED MODEL OF THE HUMAN PERSONALITY AND THROWS
THE PRIMITIVE MIND/BODY MODEL
IN THE GARBAGE BIN.

Let me prove this. If we are going to minimize the damage due to any
malady, then our first step must be to REVISE OUR ATTITUDE. As Tom Blandi
put
it:


     Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power
     working
      twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount
     importance that we know how to harness and control this great
     force.

How can we know how to harness and control this force? By understanding
that our attitudes are signals that we send to our brain, which in turn
produces
electro-chemical events, which in turn either increase or lower stress,
which
in turn improve, arrest or accelerate our degeneration. Once we fully grasp

this we can design exercises to improve our attitude.

EXPERIMENT
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Try this. Are you shaking? Are you fighting to stop the shaking? Don't.
Look at the bit that is shaking and say " Come on you bastard, shake,
shake,
shake even more. I will help you. Take charge of the shaking and exaggerate

it and at the same time laugh as loudly as you can.

Now instead of the shaking controlling you, you are controlling the
shaking.
You are now:

                Enjoying The Pleasure Of Being Effective

which Neurobics tells us,  every brain is trying to achieve. It is
guaranteed
to reduce stress and improve your condition.

Everything I say is based on this kind of approach. Every morning I say,
"Parkinson is a divine gift. I will enjoy it today. I will treat it like
an adventure, liking fighting a crocodile."

So there you have a view of step 1.

All the best.

Jan





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                School of Informatics
                University of Wales, Bangor, UK LL57 1UT
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