February 26, 2007

Trading almost put me in a wheelchair!

Yeah, I know that may sound crazy so please let me explain…

Between active trading, doing market research and managing my trading clients I spend between 8-18 hours a day, seven days a week staring at my PC. In a sense I am a “High Tech Couch Potato”.

Over the past 4 months I started to notice a very sharp pain in my right knee. It hurt so bad that I would be limping around for a few hours a day and then it would usually go away. As time went on however it got so bad that it was with me all day and would keep me up much of the night.

I knew I was in trouble when my 75 year old father who has had both knees replaced was able to walk 3 times as fast as me. To fully get the picture, when he is fully up to speed he still moves at a “snails pace”.

I decided I better get some help pronto so I went to a physician who specializes in knee problems. He told me that due to the years of sitting without any exercise that the muscles in my legs and lower back had shortened. As a result it was causing stress on my knee joint. This in turn was causing pain and swelling in the tendons, ligaments and surrounding tissue. He said he could do a series of deep tissue treatments that would help release the tension in my muscles which in turn would help my knee. Amazingly after the first treatment I felt about 30% better but unfortunately the pain came back in a few hours. Even after a week of twice daily treatments I was no closer to a cure.

To say I was concerned was an understatement as this effected my ability to sit, walk, exercise, concentrate, trade, work and sleep.

I didn’t want to go the traditional medical approach as that usually involves pain killers of have some kind or anti-inflammatory injections. These would only mask the symptoms and not cure the original cause.

I was really at my wits end and didn’t know what to do until…

Everyday I take a break for a few hours and visit a place called Urth Café on Melrose Ave in West Hollywood California. It is a great place to sip a cappuccino and people watch in the balmy California weather.

Anyway, I have a group of regulars that I hang out with much of the time. One of them is a guy named Raymond Salas.

Raymond has spent many years in corporate America and as I found out has a special gift for healing people with a wide variety of illnesses. Even though I wasn’t sure what to make of it, I was desperate and decided to ask Raymond if he could do anything for me.

He explained to me that he does a thing called “Energy Healing” and it only takes one to two sessions and that I don’t even need to be present. I thought it sounded a bit(make that a lot far out), but I had no other option that appealed to me. Besides, if this didn’t do anything then I could always pursue the traditional medical route.

The next day I woke up and to my amazement 90% of my pain was gone. I couldn’t believe it and didn’t even know Raymond had done any work on me. As it turns out he did a healing session on me that night.

It has now been 3 weeks and the pain has been reduced by 70-90%. It sometimes flares up if I really push it in the gym. Raymond just did one more treatment and I had my first day in 4 months without any pain. It would be a huge understatement to say that Raymond turned my life around.

So why am I telling you this?

Because… Some of you may be at your wits end regarding some type of physical problem and think there is no hope. Listen, I don’t suggest you throw out traditional treatments, but if you think you have run out of options, then I suggest you talk to Raymond.

By the way… I get no compensation for telling you this, but feel it is my obligation to pass this invaluable resource onto those who need it. Even if it helps turn one persons life around then it is well worth it.(It certainly turned mine around!)

I should also note that his fees are ridiculously small. The same price you pay for an e-book and the best thing that it only takes 2 treatments max.

I know to some of you this may sound like some form of “New Age Voodoo” or some type of religious faith healing but… It doesn’t require any faith or understanding of the principles involved as it works regardless of your beliefs. I didn’t believe it would work, but it sure did and boy am I glad.