Kung Fu Sifu

So, 35 years ago, ??the 24th or 25 th of October ,1975, I was given the

Rank of Sifu of "Wu Chi Tao Ch'uan" it's, 1st & last Master Instructor .

I remember, my seriousness,devotion and intent. A few years earlier,

I'd visted a Psychic,who later became famous, asking

"When would I become a Gung Fu Master?" He develped a wild and long story

of my Past Lives, my present(which was on the mark),my Future/

Predicting,my future wife, several deaths, and Stating,

"my Finalteacher would be ,Ridiculously Ugly!,

but would have a Mind like a Diamond"

All I wnated to Know, and Kept Repeating,Was,

"When Was I Going to be a " Gung Fu Master"!!

Well, I am Riduculous, and a bit Ugly,

but my Mind is far from being a diamond. Myteacher is still Waiting"

I stated in my journal the night I became "Sifu" that I would be a

"Warrior and a Healer", I have been a War with myself for decades,

and ,yes, I am a "Healer" ,It has been a Journey, one ,I have Treasured.

My Kung Fu Brothers and Sisters, My Tai Ji and Kung Fu Instructors,

have All , been Patient, Skillfull,Lovely Persons, and Many.

My Best teachers,were my Students,and my Patients.I am their Student.

As an ER doc,former, Army Doc, Osteopath and Internist,

and now the Warrior in Transition Unit PCM, my patients,have taught

me how to Live, Suffer, and Move On ,with Grace,Strenth,Balance & Dignity.

So,I guess, after 35 years,Grey,Fat,but Fit,and though my Forms,

are more on the "Inside"than "Out",

I am finally a Sifu, and can Begin , All Over, Again,


\My Journey,of Kung Fu

Bill Swann D.O.

12 Methods to Solve Almost Any Problem

12 Methods to Solve Almost Any Problem

1 ) Manage your emotional state

2) Focus, 20 % on the problem, 80 % on the solution

3) Obtain and maintain momentum, write it down

4) Analyze the issue

5) Re assess, Redirect, your method/ solution

6) Recruit Role models to assist, people who’ve been there ,negotiated a similar problem successfully before

7) Reassess your relationship with this challenge

8) Find out what is good about this challenge

9) Find out what is not perfect yet, but could me

10) Find out what are you willing to do , to solve this challenge

11) Find out what you are no longer willing to do ,or continue doing to solve this challenge

12) Find out how you can deal with this challenge and enjoy, learn ,grow from the process

Perceptions

So how are you doing? Have your moods improved a little bit?
It was a beautiful day today! Isn't it funny, isn’t it strange how though they can be so beautiful, the weather, the sky, the fall foliage and our own personal memories,
But something in our perception can sabotage and contaminate that day.

That something can be something that exists every day, however for some reason or another, a personal focus for a certain emotional or perceptual trigger will turn on slew of negative perceptions despite the grandeur that surrounds us.

So, is it the weather, is it our perceptions, is it our failure to manage our perceptions and emotional state that contaminates and sabotages our day, despite no new negative occurrence or event?

I pretty much learned that most of my episodic despondency, frustrations and anger
are generally rooted in my perceptions, my emotional state and not reality.

If it were the reality, then other people would also have similar perceptions and emotional states, like being in an earthquake or Forest fire. This goes for the opposite situation, where I'm feeling great or I think things are great, but that is only perception or emotional state and not truly reality. So how do we discriminate?
Wisdom!

SMILE...

SMILE...


Smile when you are in pain,
For a smile can make your lighter.
Smile even if someone hurts your feeling,
For a smile can win heart over.
Smile when you adore someone very much,
For a smile can reflect your love.
Smile even when you are depressed,
For a smile can give a healing touch.
Smile if you are not beutiful enough,
For a smile can enhance your beauty.
Smile with all your heart,
Since it costs nothing but gives everything.
For a smile can win your enemies.

If it ever happens that some people
is too tired to give you a smile,
why not you leave one of yours.


http://www.coolraj@coolraj.com

Halley's [HAL-lee] Comet

Halley's [HAL-lee] Comet has been know since at least 240 BC and possibly since 1059 BC. It and the associated Meteor showers can be seen early Wednesday morning(pre Dawn)
Its most famous appearance was in 1066 AD when it was seen right before the Battle of Hastings. It was named after Edmund Halley, who calculated its orbit. He determined that the comets seen in 1531 and 1607 were the same object that followed a 76-year orbit.

Unfortunately, Halley died in 1742, never living to see his prediction come true when the comet returned on Christmas Eve 1758.
Halley's Comet put on bright shows in 1835 and in 1910. Then in 1984 and 1985, five spacecraft from the USSR, Japan and Europe were launched to make a rendezvous with Halley's Comet in 1986. One of NASA's deep space satellites was redirected to monitor the solar wind upstream from Halley. Only three comets have ever been studied by spacecraft. Comet Giacobini-Zinner was studied in 1985, Comet Halley in 1986, and CometGrigg-Skjellerup on July 10th, 1992. The nucleus of Halley is ellipsoidal in shape and measures approximately 16 by 8 by 8 kilometers (10 by 5 by 5 miles).

SO, HeyThere Haley, my Lovely Niece, Look up and see the Stars!

Puns for Intellectuals

Puns for Intellectuals

>1. Two vultures boarded a plane, each carrying two dead raccoons. The
>stewardess stops them and says "sorry sir, only one carrion per
>passenger."

>2. NASA recently sent a number of Holsteins into orbit for experimental
>purposes. They called it the herd shot round the world.

>3. Two boll weevils grew up in S Carolina. One took off to Hollywood
>and became a rich star. The other stayed in Carolina and never
>amounted to much--and
> naturally became known as the lesser of two weevils.

>4. 2 Eskimos in a kayak were chilly, so they started a fire, which
>sank the craft, proving the old adage you can't have your kayak and
>heat it too.

>5. A 3-legged dog walks into an old west saloon, slides up to the bar
>and announces "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw."

>6. Did you hear about the Buddhist who went to the dentist, and
>refused to take Novocain? He wanted to transcend dental medication.

>7. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel, and met in the
>lobby where they were discussing their recent victories in chess tournaments.

>The
>hotel manager came out of the office after an hour, and asked them to
>disperse.
>He couldn't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.

>8. A women has twins, gives them up for adoption. One goes to an
>Egyptian family and is named "Ahmal" The other is sent to a Spanish
>family and is named "Juan". Years later, Juan sends his birth mother a
>picture of himself. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband
>she wishes she also had a picture
> of Ahmal. He replies, "They're twins
>for Pete sake!! If you've seen Juan, you've see Ahmal!!"

>9. A group of friars opened a florist shop to help with their belfry
>payments. Everyone liked to buy flowers from the Men of God, so their
>business flourished. A rival florist became upset that his business was
>suffering because people felt compelled to buy from the Friars, so he
>asked the Friars to cut back hours or close down. The Friars refused.
>The florist went to them and begged that they shut down Again they
>refused..
>So the florist then hired Hugh McTaggert, the biggest meanest thug in
>town..
He went to the Friars' shop, beat them up, destroyed their flowers,
>trashed their shop, and said that if they didn't close, he'd be back.
>Well, totally terrified, the Friars closed up shop and hid in their
>rooms. This proved that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist
>friars.


>10. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot his whole life, which
>created an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very
>little, which made him frail, and with his odd diet, he suffered from
>very bad breath.
>This
>made him ...what?
>(a super-callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.


If you got this far, Well ,what does that say??

Take Care
Bill Swann D.O.

Comfort and Self-pity

Comfort

Say! You've struck a heap of trouble --
Bust in business, lost your wife;
No one cares a cent about you,
You don't care a cent for life;
Hard luck has of hope bereft you,
Health is failing, wish you'd die --
Why, you've still the sunshine left you
And the big, blue sky.

Sky so blue it makes you wonder
If it's heaven shining through;
Earth so smiling 'way out yonder,
Sun so bright it dazzles you;
Birds a-singing, flowers a-flinging
All their fragrance on the breeze;
Dancing shadows, green, still meadows --
Don't you mope, you've still got these.

These, and none can take them from you;
These, and none can weigh their worth.
What! you're tired and broke and beaten? --
Why, you're rich -- you've got the earth!
Yes, if you're a tramp in tatters,
While the blue sky bends above
You've got nearly all that matters --
You've got God, and God is love.

Robert William Service



Self-pity

I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.

David Herbert Lawrence

Some Poems by Bill Swann in Graditude of being an Osteopathic Emergency Medicine Physician, a Kung Fu / Tai Ji Guy and in Getting Older!

Code Blue, ICU!!!

Code Blue, ICU!!!

Code Blue, ICU!!!


Sometimes, I Wake the Dead,

So,that they can Die , a little bit longer.

Sometimes, the Dead Awake!!!

Sit Up!! And Laugh Outloud,

Ha, Ha, Ha,!!!

Then Death,

Skulks out the Door,

For AWhile, with a Guiltless Smile.

The Joy is Out There!!

If You Want IT!!

With the Tears>


Code Blue, ICU!!!

Code Blue, ICU!!!


Bill Swann D.O., June 1986


The Winds are my Walls

The Winds are my Walls

The Sky , my Ceiling

The Earth my Floor,

I Live with a Feeling,

of teh Breath of Life,

moving thru the Floods and Into the Stones

then Threw the Trees,

Now, Into my Bones.

Peace and Contentment,

are Possible to Find

If One Lives in Their Breath

Not, in their Mind.

Bill Swann D.O. 2007

I am Moderation's Bitch

Bill Swann D.O. 2009

Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman

So,

here is a story, a True one, a Hisotry lesson, that we didn't hear about ,untill I got it in an email from a friend.

There are books that review all teh Medal of Honor Recipents,
but ,it wouldn't hurt to hear their stories on a more regular basis.

Include their civilian counterparts, not only the warriors, that'd be OK.

SO, here is the story of Ed Freeman

You're a 19 year old kid.

You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, on

11-14-1965, LZX-ray , Vietnam . Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 - 1 and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.



You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know you're not getting out.


Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away and you'll never see them again.


As the world starts to fade in and out, you know this is the day.

Then - over the machine gun noise - you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter..!!


You look up to see an un-armed Huey!! But.... it doesn't seem real because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.


Ed Freeman is coming for you...!!


He's not Medi-Vac so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fireanyway. Even after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come.


He's coming anyway.


And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board..


Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the Doctors and Nurses.


And, he kept coming back..!! 13 more times..!!


He took about 30 of you and your buddies out who would never have gotten out.


Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise , ID


May God Rest His Soul.



I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch about Michael Jackson, Teddy Kennedy, and Kayne West!!!




Medal of Honor Recipient
Ed Freeman.


Shame on the American Media..!!


Now..... YOU pass this along on YOUR mailing list.

Please.

To My Wife(Sometimes, WBSJ)

To My Wife(Sometimes, WBSJ)

Indeed, Indeed I Cannot Tell

Indeed indeed, I cannot tell,
Though I ponder on it well,
Which were easier to state,
All my love or all my hate.
Surely, surely, thou wilt trust me
When I say thou dost disgust me.
O, I hate thee with a hate
That would fain annihilate;
Yet sometimes against my will,
My dear friend, I love thee still.
It were treason to our love,
And a sin to God above,
One iota to abate
Of a pure impartial hate.

Henry David Thoreau

A WOMAN'S POEM:
Before I lay me down to sleep,
I pray for a man who's not a creep,
One who's handsome, smart and strong.
One who loves to listen long,
One who thinks before he speaks,
One who'll call, not wait for weeks.
I pray he's rich and self-employed,
And when I spend, won't be annoyed.
Pull out my chair and hold my hand.
Massage my feet and help me stand.
Oh send a king to make me queen.
A man who loves to cook and clean.
I pray this man will love no other.
And relish visits with my mother.

A MAN'S POEM:
I pray for a deaf-mute gymnast nymphomaniac with
big tits who owns a bar on a golf course,
and loves to send me fishing and drinking. This
doesn't rhyme and I don't give a shit

Subject: 7%

Subject: 7%


This is something we should all read at least once a week!!!!! Make sure you
read to the end!!!!!!


Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio


"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.
It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and
parents
will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey
is
all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

0A15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never
blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up
to
you and no one else

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an
answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't
save
it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will
this
matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive20everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or
didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd
grab
ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.

42. The best is yet to come...

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

Hot Chocolate

A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired.

During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives.
Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate.

When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said: "Notice that all the nice looking, expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. The cup that you're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup; but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each others cups.

Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life. The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate God has provided us.

God makes the hot chocolate, man chooses the cups. The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Enjoy your hot chocolate, and live your life with joy!

SwannDO's Modified Pain/Function Scale

SwannDO's Modified Pain/Function Scale

Level of Pain Objective Abilities Level of Function


1-2 Able to Do About Anything 5
e.g. Run Sprint Triathlon
Function at Level 5

3-4 Almost Able to Anything 4
30-50 minutes of intense aerobics, very sore 2-3 days but with NSAID's
Function at Level 4

5-6 Full ADL's, some loss of composure, 3
Needs NSAID's perhaps even 1-3 vicoden's a day Get to Appointments, Work,School, Pain relates reflective of irritability, disturbs sleep
Function at Level 3

7-8 Basic ADL's only needs 4-8 Vic/Perc's a day 2
Sleep, relationships ,Obligations
Significantly& Adversely affected
Function at Level 2

9-10 Bedridden or Incapacitated,? Go to ER? 1
Needs Parenteral Narcs, dilaudid/Morphine
Incapacitated ,Screaming Inwardly or Outwardly Pain
Function at Level 1


ADL means Activities of Daily Living

Growing Old

On Growing Old

Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying;
My dog and I are old, too old for roving.
Man, whose young passion sets the spindrift flying,
Is soon too lame to march, too cold for loving.
I take the book and gather to the fire,
Turning old yellow leaves; minute by minute
The clock ticks to my heart. A withered wire,
Moves a thiun ghost of music in the spinet.
I cannot sail your seas, I cannot wander
Your cornland, nor your hill-land, nor your valleys
Ever again, nore share the battle yonder
Where the young knight the broken squadron rallies.
Only stay quiet while my mind remembers
The beauty of fire from the beauty of embers.

Beauty, have pity! for the strong have power,
The rich their wealth, the beautiful their grace,
Summer of man its sunlight and its flower.
Spring-time of man, all April in a face.
Only, as in the jostling in the Strand,
Where the mob thrusts, or loiters, or is loud,
The beggar with the saucer in his hand
Asks only a penny from the passing crowd,
So, from this glittering world with all its fashion,
Its fire, and play of men, its stir, its march,
Let me have wisdom, Beauty, wisdom and passion,
Bread to the soul, rain when the summers parch.
Give me but these, and though the darkness close
Even the night will blossom as the rose.

John Masefield