Alternative Healing Helps NFL Player

Alternative Healing Helps NFL Player Out

The story below is to me without question an amazing one to come across, and I'm sure there will only be many more like this in the future, or at least I'm hoping there'll be.

Deepak Chopra the acclaimed author on spirituality and mind-body medicine had recently been quoted as saying; "Your Physical Body is a Fiction" and "Your Real Body is Energy" I certainly concur with this too. It appears that this athlete may possibly be following along here in this way as well.

I have on my own discovered many ways in which to replenish and raise your prana or vital energy in order to actually experience greater or optimum levels of health. As a person who regularly practices meditation, I can also give clear testimony to it's real effectiveness in helping our lives, as well as changing them too, and much for the better, I might add.

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Alternative healing helps Miami Dolphins' Ricky Williams stay fit
11/21/09

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/miami-dolphins/story/1345745.html


Miami Dolphins
• Saturday, 11.21.09

Alternative healing helps Miami Dolphins' Ricky Williams stay fit

Miami Dolphins running back Ricky Williams is all alone as he scores his third touchdown of the game on a 46-yard run against the Carolina Panthers on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C.
JOE RIMKUS JR. / STAFF PHOTO
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By BARRY JACKSON
bjackson@MiamiHerald.com
As Ricky Williams was scoring three touchdowns Thursday, his ``pranic healer'' was listening to the game on the radio in California -- in between conducting a meditation session -- just in case Williams needed his help.
So can a man thousands of miles away help treat Williams' nicks and pain through deep thinking?
It doesn't matter if you or I are skeptical. For Williams, it only matters what he thinks. And he's a believer.
Williams, averaging a career-high 5.3 yards a carry, said the way he cares for his body has a lot to do with his terrific season. There's the vegetarian diet. The daily breathing and meditation, sometimes for two hours.
The acupuncture and massages. The twice-weekly yoga. The new water-based energy drink Evolv that's sold online -- he ``swears by it'' after he drank three bottles before the Saints game and then scored three touchdowns.
``He also does things you wouldn't expect,'' Ronnie Brown said.
One is pranic healing, an alternative medical treatment that originated in the Orient 4,000 years ago. Williams, 32, performs pranic healing on himself and uses a pranic healer, Daniel O'Hara.
Here's how it works: ``Ricky will send me a text message saying, for example, to work on his ankle,'' O'Hara said. O'Hara, in Orange County, Calif., will then ``visualize Ricky's ankle as if he's standing in front of me. I visualize him glowing. I make a sweeping motion over my ankle to remove the dirty energy from his ankle that's creating an abnormality and give his body fresh, revitalizing energy.''
``Ricky could be doing anything when I'm doing this -- watching TV, sleeping,'' O'Hara said. ``It's like a voodoo doll. I know it sounds strange.''
O'Hara said Williams then text messages him indicating how the body part feels. ``He says it's a four, and I'll try to get it to a 10. It takes me four minutes with Ricky because he meditates and has positive energy. It could take 25 minutes with somebody else. He's special.''
Williams, in his Charlotte, N.C., hotel, called O'Hara on Wednesday night and O'Hara said they visualized ``Ricky having three touchdowns and 184 rushing yards'' against Carolina. (He had three touchdowns and ran for 119 yards.) He also worked on Williams' slight arm numbness.
Williams, who appears on O'Hara's website, has done pranic healing since 2007 and said last week, ``Usually, I prefer to work on it myself, but for some of the little nicks I've had this season, Daniel has really helped me. I know for a fact it works. It's fascinating.''
O'Hara said when Williams sprained an ankle in the first Jets game, ``The second I saw that on TV, I started working on him, and when he got back to the sideline, he was fine. He figured I was doing something. I can feel what is going on in his body.''
Williams, held out of the last series against Carolina, had pain in a chest muscle, but coach Tony Sparano said he will be fine.
Encouraged by pranic healing and the other ways to heal his body, Williams said he hasn't ruled out playing beyond 2010. ``I'm looking forward to my plans after football,'' he said Tuesday at his new South Beach restaurant, PROOF. ``But if it's the right situation, it would be difficult to turn down.''
CHATTER
• An FSU official said university president T.K. Wetherell leans toward keeping Bobby Bowden for 2010 (with conditions), but it's not definite: ``T.K. makes his mind up and then waffles.''
FSU officials privately have discussed giving Bowden the option to coach one final season (which he wants), while also allowing coach-in-waiting Jimbo Fisher to hire and fire assistants this offseason and essentially run the program, even with Bowden there. Of the 11 trustees, three strongly want Bowden gone, and several others see merit in a change. But this is Wetherell's call. He will meet with Bowden soon after the UF game Nov. 28.
• Many UM fans hope Miami Northwestern junior quarterback Teddy Bridgewater enrolls in 2011 and succeeds Northwestern alum Jacory Harris when Harris graduates, though Pace High senior/UM oral commitment Stephen Morris will provide competition.
Bridgewater said following Harris at UM is appealing but has no idea if he will go to UM. For now, ``I want to play receiver'' in college, he said. ``Receiver is the first position I played. Miami wants me as a quarterback. Georgia was the front-runner, but I have no front-runner now. Just because [Northwestern alums at UM] want me at Miami doesn't mean I have to. They won't impact my decision.''
• Former FIU center Freddy Asprilla, whom UM coveted, signed with Kansas State instead because he's friends with former UM guard Denis Clemente and has a strong bond with coach Frank Martin, advisor Art Alvarez said. ``He was torn.''
• According to an NBA executive, the Heat said it's open to offers for James Jones -- who has a good chance to be bought out next summer. Because of Quentin Richardson's back injury, Jones started Friday's game.
But Jones played in just three of the Heat's first 10 games because coach Erik Spoelstra likes splitting small forward minutes between Richardson and starting power forward Michael Beasley. And Spoelstra often has used Dorell Wright instead of Jones because Wright is the better ball-handler and defender.