Charles Kong Soo

Giv­en the west­ern mind­set for in­stant re­sults and grat­i­fi­ca­tion au­thor and holis­tic health prac­ti­tion­er Rex Las­salle says lifestyle dis­eases or chron­ic dis­eases such as can­cer, heart at­tacks, strokes, di­a­betes, hy­per­ten­sion and obe­si­ty can be treat­ed with East­ern med­ical prac­tices such as Japan­ese shi­at­su, Chi­nese five el­e­ments the­o­ry, and Ayurvedic mar­ma points. How­ev­er, he said, they are no quick fix and en­tails lifestyle changes.

He said chil­dren with at­ten­tion deficit hy­per­ac­tiv­i­ty dis­or­der (AD­HD) and autism can al­so be treat­ed us­ing al­ter­na­tive med­i­cine.

Las­salle, a qual­i­fied os­teopath who pi­o­neered the de­vel­op­ment of shi­at­su mas­sage in Britain, lec­tures in­ter­na­tion­al­ly on tra­di­tion­al East­ern prac­tices and re­lat­ed dis­ci­plines.For al­most 40 years, he has worked with thou­sands of in­di­vid­u­als us­ing a va­ri­ety of body­work, nu­tri­tion­al, herbal and holis­tic tech­niques.

He will be in Trinidad for a two-day work­shop on No­vem­ber 12-13 at The Teach­ing and Learn­ing Cen­ter, The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), St Au­gus­tine. He has dis­tilled his al­most 40 years of knowl­edge gar­nered from work­ing with thou­sands of in­di­vid­u­als us­ing a va­ri­ety of body­work, nu­tri­tion­al, herbal and holis­tic tech­niques in­to his re­cent book, The Time Of Your Life: Could It Be Now? which will be fea­tured at the event.

Las­salle will be shar­ing knowl­edge from his book on top­ics such as the sig­nif­i­cance of num­ber sign, and peo­ple will be amazed at what he can "read" about them from just their birth date.

He will al­so teach peo­ple what they can do when things go wrong with their sys­tem, how to cre­ate a bal­anced, stress-free en­vi­ron­ment with­in them­selves, their home and at work us­ing the sim­ple nine Star Ki prin­ci­ples, get­ting a whole new prac­ti­cal in­sight about their chil­dren and how to sup­port them at school and at home.

Speak­ing to the Sun­day Guardian via Skype from Fin­land, where he cur­rent­ly re­sides, Las­salle said "It's nev­er a quick fix, a hu­man ba­by takes nine months to be born, there are many holis­tic ap­proach­es to health and well­be­ing.

"Re­gard­ing AD­HD and autism in chil­dren, quite a lot al­so comes from the time of preg­nan­cy or im­print.

"If you have a lot of dig­i­tal de­vices as part of your lifestyle which we all do, but have no bound­aries with such as sleep­ing with them in close prox­im­i­ty 24/7.

"Cell­phones con­stant­ly on, tele­vi­sion, com­put­ers all around you, these types of im­prints have an in­flu­ence and im­pact up­on the ner­vous sys­tem of chil­dren." He said a child in the womb was al­so af­fect­ed by the qual­i­ty of food the moth­er ate, all these fac­tors played a part in his or her de­vel­op­ment.

Las­salle said mar­ma points made a big dif­fer­ence in treat­ing chil­dren with AD­HD, chil­dren had dif­fer­ent pat­terns, some were more kines­thet­ic, how to deal with them had to do more with touch, while some chil­dren were more dy­nam­ic and need­ed to move and play more.

Ac­cord­ing to Las­salle, vet­er­an pan arranger and com­pos­er Len "Boogsie" Sharpe will be the fea­tured guest at his work­shop on No­vem­ber 13 where he will be in­ter­viewed to ref­er­ence the pat­tern and har­mo­ny of his cre­ative process.

He said Sharpe had a very sim­i­lar pat­tern to fa­mous mu­si­cians such as Amer­i­can jazz pi­anist and com­pos­er, Th­elo­nius Monk, Amer­i­can jazz pi­anist Bud Pow­ell and Mex­i­can-Amer­i­can award-win­ning gui­tarist Car­los San­tana.

Las­salle, who al­so does per­son­al coach­ing, said he will be show­ing peo­ple how they can tap in­to this "flow" or what he calls peo­ple's time DNA im­print, just like many fa­mous mu­si­cians and ath­letes and ap­ply the same prin­ci­ples to their own lives, health and cre­ativ­i­ty, and es­pe­cial­ly with their chil­dren.

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