“Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.”
-“Equal Rights” Peter Tosh
Are you healthy? Most people would answer yes - except for this pain, my arthritis or allergies, my high blood pressure, etc. As an industrialized nation most of us have come to define health as the absence of disease above a certain level of distress to our bodies. Below that level, we think we are healthy in spite of the pain, sleeplessness or other stressors that plague the happiness of life. Above that level is “disease”. Diseases have names, symptoms, and pills or surgery to counteract them and bring us back within the level we consider “healthy”.
One dictionary defines health as “soundness of body; freedom from disease”; another states that health is “optimal functioning with freedom from disease and abnormality”. Throughout our day we deny, accept, and live with our lack of health, yet, when we wake in the middle of the night feeling discouraged, in pain, and lost, we know we are not healthy.
Gwenio.com goes where few have gone before…seeking optimum health. Optimum Health is not just the absence of disease. It is soundness of body, a creative mind and stability of emotions. Pain, fear, and doubt are characteristics of the lack of optimum health. Gwenio will guide you toward optimum health by teaching you how to bring yourself into resonance with your environment.
Resonance occurs when two natural vibrations come into harmony with each other. When we are in resonance with our environment, micro-organisms cease to cause colds and flu. The stagnation of our energy and blood that causes pain is relieved. We wake in the morning rested and ready for our day knowing we are physically, mentally and emotionally ready for anything.
The name of this site is taken from the Seneca the name “Oh-yeas-seh-noh-ne-gi-wa-gwen-i-yoh” which means “She Who Restores Truth”. It is the responsibility of every individual to restore their own truth. With that restoration, optimum health is achieved.
However, Optimum Health is not a substitute for treatment of disease by trained medical practitioners. The idea of this website is to show how each of us can achieve Optimum Health ourselves so we can reduce the cost of medical care in America. With 75% of medical costs currently spent on diseases that result from life style choices such as poor diet, lack of exercise and stress; a simple, effective way to restore our own health is certainly indicated. Nowhere in the current money-driven debates has the concept of health education been fostered.
This is not another diet/exercise program. Gwenio is based on the knowledge of Traditional Chinese medicine. For over 5,000 years this knowledge has explained how the vibrations within our bodies interact with the physical, mental and emotional functioning of our bodies. Gwenio is also based in Seneca philosophy. The Seneca Nation of Indians have for centuries taught the concept of our relationship with the world around us. Like Taoism that is the well from which Chinese medicine drinks, Seneca philosophy is grounded in Motherearth. Combining these two great philosophies in simple to follow exercises allows us to move stagnated vibrations throughout our bodies so we choose healthier foods, exercise more effectively, and improve our relationships by simply speaking the truth.
We don’t have to be health practitioners to learn how to care for our own bodies. When Gwenio first began teaching over 20 years ago one of her students asked: “Why don’t we get a shop manual for how to fix our bodies when we are born?” Gwenio.com is that shop manual.
With Gwenio we explore two pathways to health: Optimum Health and Councils in Truth. Below is a chart of the discernments between the two. Throughout the site both pathways are linked to the other path so you can explore conveniently. You’re invited to explore both in your personal search for Optimum Health. 2 Pathways for Exploring Gwenio
| Discernments |
Optimum Health |
Council in Truth |
| What is this path? |
This is the path of our senses. |
This is the path of our thoughts. |
| How do I begin? |
Observation. |
Questioning. |
| Where is this material coming from? |
This approach is grounded in the earth. |
This approach is linked to our inner knowing. |
| How does it work? |
Through observation we find and process the dissonance between our individual vibrations and those of our environment. |
Through Entering into the Silence, we assess our relationship to our environment. |
| How do I measure change? |
Change occurs on the physical, emotional and mental levels and is witnessed by the release of tension, pain and distraction. |
Change occurs on the physical, emotional and mental levels and is witnessed by more energy, new ideas, and improved relationships. |
Our gracious Seneca guide, Twylah Nitsch - a Seneca Elder and woman of wisdom, explained the importance of gratitude in all aspects of life, including health. Read the following poem. It is based on the Seneca word, NYAH WEH, which means “thank you”.
N is for nature, the lessons she provides
Y is for youth, the threshold of our lives
A is for ages, the lessons we’ve learn
H is for harmony, we all strive to earn
W is for wisdom, to the summit we climb
E is for exaltation, the emotion sublime
H is for happiness, the fulfillment of time
Nyah-weh, one love
Gwenio |
Current Events
Resonance Healing Class
June 12, 2011
9 am - 4 pm
153 Summer Street
Acton, MA 01720
The class on resonance healing will be held Sunday, June 12th, from 9am to 4 pm, at 153 Summer Street in Acton, Massachusetts.
We're aware that many who would like to attend this class are not able to because of the time constraint. A CD of the class will be available that includes an outline of the class and relevant graphics.
As we fly thru 2011, we are confronting the duality choice of past or present. Many of us would love to return to the safety of the past with its comfortable familiarity; but we can no longer retreat into an imagined unity. To gain stability in the future, we must release the limits duality has placed on us. 2012 and the future await us all. It is up to us as individuals to create the future we desire in our inner most being.
Da Naho Nyaweh, Swenio
(It is spoken with gratitude, Great Mystery)
One love, Lynn
Class Description
While writing NORA: Comfort Care, I've been thinking a lot about death. It's not a fun subject, but I've come to see it as a leak in the bucket. We all come into this world with a body. Our bodies are equally subject to our environment and our perception of that environment. Our fear of the death of that body colors everything in our lives. It is the leak in the bucket of our bodies.
The bucket is not only our physical body. It is our minds and our ability to think. It is our feelings and our emotional response to our environment. Especially it is our health because the leak precedes everything about our bodies. Without a body, there would be no death.
When we add up all the leaky buckets of all people in the United States, it is easy to see why our health care system does not work and never will work. We are afraid to face the leaky bucket. We are afraid to even acknowledge that our bucket is leaky. We pretend we will not die.
Our mental default setting is belief so we believe that taking another pill or mineral will mend the bucket. The bigger the leak it seems the more likely we are to accept another band aid of invasive surgery or experimental drugs or "far out" treatment that might provide a patch. The cost, emotionally and mentally as well as financially, is staggering. Perhaps we need to stop trying to repair the bucket at the leak. Perhaps we need to let go of our fear of death so our health will improve.
This may also be the answer to why we don't heal. There is ample proof in the latest discoveries in neurology about glial cells. Glial cells appear to be the emotional input aspect of the nervous system that has been missing throughout the last hundred and fifty years. What glia are showing us now changes how we will look at medical care in the future. For example, glial cells are responsible for much of the chronic pain we suffer. If we could find a way, a simple way, to communicate with glial cells we could eliminate much of the pain we currently spend billions of dollars in research, testing, and surgery trying to correct.
In June I'll be presenting a class in the resonance healing of our fear of death. Resonance is the simplest way to interact with glial cells. You may not resolve all of your fear of death in this one class but you will have begun the process and you will know how to complete it. Once this fear recedes, most health care systems will work better to eliminate pain - physical, emotional, or mental.
Due to my limited time here before the house is torn down in July, the 6 hour class must be the weekend of the 11th or 18th of June. It can be either on Saturday or Sunday. Please let me know which day you are interested in attending. The class hours are 9-4 with a one hour lunch. The class is $100. Since we have limited space, it will be due when you sign up.
I can be reached at samabbottart@hotmail.com or by phone at 978-263-4805. |
