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Apply oil to the soles of your feet

 *Apply oil to the soles of your feet*

  1. A woman wrote: My grandfather died at the age of 87, with no back pain, no joint pain, no headache, no loss of teeth. He said he had met an old man when he lived in Calcutta. The latter had advised him to always apply olive oil to the soles of his feet before sleeping. It is my only source of treatment and fitness.

  2. A student said: My mother insisted on applying the oil in the same way. Then he said that as a child his vision had weakened. As she continued this process, the light in my eyes gradually became fuller and healthier.

  3. A businessman wrote: I went to Chitral for vacation. I slept in a hotel there. I could not sleep. I started to walk outside. The old guard sitting outside at night started asking me, "What's wrong?" I said I can't sleep! He smiled and said, "Do you have any oil?" I said no, he went to bring some oil and said, "Massage the soles of your feet for a few minutes." Now I can sleep all night. 

  4. I tried this oil massage on the soles of my feet before sleeping at night. It allows me to sleep better and relieve fatigue.

  5. I had a stomach problem. After massaging with oil on my soles, my stomach problem was healed within 2 days.

  6. In fact, this process has a magical effect. I massaged the soles of my feet with oil before falling asleep at night. This process gave me a very relaxed sleep.

  7. I have been doing this trick for 15 years. It makes me very drowsy. I also massage the soles of my young children's feet with oil, which makes them very happy and healthy.

  8. My feet hurt. I started massaging the soles of my feet with olive oil every day for 2 minutes before falling asleep at night. This process relieved the pain in my legs.

  9. My legs were always swollen and when I walked I got tired. I started this oil massage process on the soles of my feet before I fell asleep at night. In just 2 days, the swelling in my legs was gone.

  10 At night before going to bed, I put some oil and  massaged the soles of my feet and started doing it. It made me sleep very peacefully.

  1 1. This is a wonderful thing. This tip is better than sleeping pills for restful sleep. Now I sleep with the soles of my feet oiled every night.

  12 My grandfather's feet had a burning sensation and a headache. By the time he started applying pumpkin oil to his soles, the pain was gone.

  13. I have had thyroid disease. My leg hurt all the time. Last year, someone suggested that I massage oil on the soles of my feet before going to bed at night. I do it all the time. Now I am generally calm.

  14. My feet were listening. I massage the soles of my feet with oil before going to bed at night, for four days. There is a big difference.

  15. I had hemorrhoids twelve or thirteen years ago. My friend took me to a wise man who was 90 years old. He suggested rubbing the oil on the palms of the hands, between the fingers, between the fingernails and on the fingernails and said: Add four to five drops of navel oil and go to sleep. I started to follow Hakim sahib's advice. I was very relieved. This tip also solved my constipation problem. My body fatigue also goes away and I feel relaxed. Prevents snoring.

  16. Oil massage on the soles of the feet is a proven trick.

  17. Massaging the soles of my feet with oil made me want to sleep.

  18. My legs and knees hurt. Since I read the tip of the oil massage on the soles of my feet now I do it daily it makes me drowsy.

  19. Since I started using this prescription oil massage on the soles of my feet before going to bed at night due to back pain. My back pain has calmed down and thank God I am sleeping well.

  The Mughal secret is as follows:

  The secret is very simple, very short, very easy everywhere and for everyone. Apply oil, mustard or olive, etc. on the soles of the feet and all over the foot, especially for three minutes on the sole and three minutes on the sole of the right foot. Never forget to massage the soles of the feet at bedtime and massage children the same way. Make it a routine for the rest of your life. Then look at the fullness of nature. Instead of filling you up all your life. Why not apply the oil to the soles of the feet.

  According to ancient Chinese medicine, there are around 100 acupressure points under the feet. Human organs are also healed by squeezing and massaging them.

  Foot reflexology

  It is said.

Foot massage therapy is used all over the world.


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Precious Blood of Jesus

 


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Gift of Money

Thank you Lord for Your gift of money.

You give me insight to see the market

with unclouded eyes.

Your voice tells me when to enter a trade.

Your voice tells me when to exit a trade.

Your presence is like the morning dew

watering my soul.

Amen
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Loosen arteries and deep breath exercises.

 


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In One Of China's Rare Catholic Communities, Christmas Is A Colorful Mix Of Customs


In One Of China's Rare Catholic Communities, Christmas Is A Colorful Mix Of Customs

Heard on All Things Considered

For the past 150 years, Cizhong Church in southwestern Yunnan province has been home to one of China' rare Catholic communities.

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Cizhong Church in China's southwestern Yunnan province is bathed in a golden light on Christmas Eve.

The faithful are streaming into the church in full Tibetan regalia, with the women splitting off to sit on the left in their bright pink headscarves and silk brocades, and the men to the right in cowboy hats and shearlings. Neighbors wave at each other. Heavily swaddled children run up and down the church aisle.

The rare Catholic community has survived more than 150 years here in the village of Cizhong, just a few dozen kilometers away from the border with both China's Tibetan region and Myanmar.

Their traditions are a colorful mixture of Buddhist and Christian practices. The church embodies this amalgamation: painted Buddhist lotuses spiral around the balustrades, while Tibetan yin and yang symbols panel the ceiling.

Inside, several hundred of Cizhong's faithful chant Catholic prayers — with a twist. My companion in the pews explains their prayers and their Bible were originally written in Latin but were translated by French and Swiss fathers into Tibetan — and written phonetically in Chinese characters. Outside, church attendants light round after round of firecrackers to announce the official beginning of mass.

The traditions of the Catholic community in Yunnan province are a mixture of Buddhist and Christian practices. The Cizhong Church embodies this amalgamation.

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Cizhong lies in a part of Yunnan province that is predominantly Tibetan and Naxi, another ethnic minority. They are both largely Buddhist. In 1852, the first French missionaries settled up river from here.

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In 1905, Buddhist Tibetans attacked, killing at least two fathers and driving out the survivors downriver, to Cizhong, where the church they rebuilt four years later stands today.

"They further withdrew to essentially avoid the influences of the state. That withdrawn nature allows them to maintain that identity and that culture, despite outside influences elsewhere in China," says Matthew Chitwood, a researcher who once lived in the region.

Cizhong's remote location then helped it weather the decades after 1949, when China's now ruling Communist Party took control of the country, ushering in a period of political turmoil and often violent persecution of religious and intellectual leaders.

Members of the faithful filled the Cizhong Church in China's southwestern Yunnan province on Christmas Eve.

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During this time, the Cizhong church was defaced of much of its Chinese and Buddhist inscriptions. It narrowly escaped full demolition because its hefty stone walls proved too difficult to burn down.

China today still does not allow free and unfettered religious worship. The state has demolished religious sites and imprisoned Islamic and Christian religious leaders.

A woman says a prayer during Christmas Eve services at Cizhong Church.

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But now Cizhong is rising in prominence as authorities work to rebrand Deqin county, where Cizhong is located, and neighboring Zhongdian county as attractive tourism destinations. In 2001, the area was renamed "Shangri-la," after the fabled but fictional utopia of religious tolerance described in the novel Lost Horizon.

"Having this community of Catholics has also allowed the government to promote the community, you know, as a sort of a tourist spot because of this Catholic identity," says Brendan Galipeau, an assistant professor of anthropology at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan who has done fieldwork in Cizhong.

Wine-making is becoming a draw. Cizhong's first French fathers brought with them grape vine cuttings with them from France, and they grow to this day in a vineyard adjacent to the church. More than 20 years ago, villagers began nurturing the vines once again and planting new cuttings on their own plots of land to make a range of full-bodied red wines and ice wines that have further drawn in tourists.

The region is also the site for official poverty alleviation projects, bringing in about 400 new residents relocated from even more remote villages nearby.

"There's a big concern the Catholics, who had been a majority, are now going to become a minority in the community," says Galipeau.

In the past four years, the local county government tore down nearly all the rice fields and replaced them with squat cement homes for the new residents, more than doubling the size of Cizhong. The sound of construction is ubiquitous.

So is the state scrutiny. NPR was followed by several government minders in Cizhong who questioned anyone NPR spoke with.

I tried to meet Xiao Jieyi, a French-speaking 90-year-old Tibetan Catholic who once aspired to be Cizhong's priest. Those ambitions were dashed when the church was closed during a decade of political turmoil in the 1960s.

Now, while Xiao can sing First Noel to us, he cannot talk freely. He receives a phone call as soon as I step into his courtyard: it is the police. He tells me - there are orders from above.

The same thing happens when I try to meet with Yao Fei, Cizhong's first resident priest since the 1950s. (The last one, Reverend A.F. Savioz, was expelled from China in 1952.) In 2008, Father Yao was sent to Cizhong by the state-run Catholic Associa­tion of China, which is not recognized by the Vatican and now runs several masses a week.

Cizhong's celebrations conclude on Christmas Day with hours of Tibetan music and dancing. Worshipers bring large cakes — which they pile in front of the altar to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Later, the cakes are distributed to anyone who comes by.

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"Merry Christmas," he manages to tell me as he finishes receiving confessions before rushing off to mass. After the service, he remains surrounded by several state minders who also prevent NPR from speaking individually to revelers.

Cizhong's two-day celebrations conclude on Christmas Day with hours of Tibetan music and dancing. Worshipers bring large birthday cakes, which they pile in front of the altar to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Later, the cakes — as well as large vats of chicken-infused rice liquor — are distributed to anyone who comes by, including many Buddhist relatives who enjoy the festivities and help with the preparations. Many families are mixed religion, with both Buddhists and Christians among their ranks.

"Buddhism, like Christianity, has many sects, but none of us have disputes," said a Tibetan Buddhist surnamed Xu, who spent Christmas eve slaughtering pigs with several of the Catholic choir boys, for the communal lunch the next day. "It is simple. You believe in your god, and I believe in mine."

Amy Cheng contributed research from Cizhong, Yunnan.

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