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Read It | Eastern Body Western Mind

1/10/2023

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A thought-provoking blend of Eastern and Western philosophy.

I recently finished reading "Eastern Body Western Mind" by Anodea Judith and was blown away by the depth and breadth of the material covered in the book. As a westerner with limited prior knowledge of Eastern philosophy, I found the explanations and examples provided by the author to be clear and easy to understand.

One of the things I appreciated most about the book was the way it seamlessly blended together traditional Eastern teachings with modern psychological concepts. The result was a holistic approach to understanding the human body and mind that felt both grounded in ancient wisdom and relevant to contemporary life as well as, easy to remember.

I found myself highlighting passages and making notes in the margins as I read, as the book was full of insights and revelations that I wanted to remember and reference again in the future. Overall, I would highly recommend "Eastern Body Western Mind" to anyone interested in exploring Eastern philosophy or seeking a more holistic understanding of the body and mind.
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Grabbing QNRT by the Balls

10/8/2022

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I stopped taking the slow road with QNRT. 

If you don't know what QNRT is, click here. 
Up until now, I've taken the gentle approach to QNRT. That means, I let my body decide each time what it wanted to retrain. Often with this approach, you can avoid the negative side effects that can crop up with brain retraining. These could be things like uncomfortable emotions bubbling up, headaches, fatigue, etc. 

And, then, I reached a point over the summer where I didn't feel like playing it safe anymore. I have some huge health hurdles and I wanted to speed up the process by targeting these big issues. So, I decided, fuck it, let's grab QNRT by the low hangers.

​My first target, the most uncomfortable health issue I've ever experienced.

Fucking vertigo.

I experience different types of vertigo and dizziness. Sometimes it's my blood sugar, sometimes my vagus nerve. Sometimes it's my inner ear canals (Meniere's) and other times it's hormones or my blood pressure or a food sensitivity (gluten is the worst culprit). I'm sure there are more and I'm not looking to discover them. This one lately is a weird one. I think it's from changes in the weather. My would ears turn red and burn. Then, I would feel a sourness in my stomach and my ears would start to pop. And, then the world would sway and spin around me.

I think I'm about as comfortable as one can get with vertigo. I've had it for over 10 years now but it's still the single most horrible experience, every time. You learn to breath and tell yourself "nothing lasts forever". When vertigo was first hitting me in my early 30's was the first time I truly embraced death. Can you spin if you don't have a body? 

​Some patterns of brain dysfunction are from trauma we've personally experienced and some of it is trans-generational. Meaning, our parents, grandparents, etc handed down this dysfunction. This form of vertigo was gifted to me by my mom's mom, I call her Poon. She's less of a grandma and more of an annoying abusive narcissistic asshole that actively works to create chaos and pain in our family for her own personal enjoyment. Much like my sister, they are cut from the same cloth.

The day following the retraining was my birthday and I spent almost the entire day trying to stave of an aggressive migraine. Unfortunately, this is how things can go when you rush QNRT. Although I had wanted to target my chemical sensitivity next, I shelved it. These fucking migraines had to stop. 

As of writing this, I am 5 weeks vertigo-free. I've had the burning ears and sour belly since but no vertigo manifested. 

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Podcasts | Mito Life

9/14/2022

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A goldmine of information.

If you're interested in health, longevity, and/or healing, this is the podcast for you. It is chuck full of helpful material about our bodies and how we heal. I learn something new with each episode and I'm someone that has been researching healing modalities for over a decade now while trying to heal myself. So, I've heard a lot of what's out there.  

​I appreciate how Matt Blackburn deep dives, tries out tons of stuff, and admits when he got something wrong in the past & shifts his opinions based on new information. So much of the health world is dogmatic and rigid. Sadly, I've gotten sucked into that many times but, one thing I've learned over and over is that there is no "one way" to heal and no "one answer". 
This podcast takes me down so many rabbit holes of health. One rabbit hole I especially enjoyed is episode 188 about PEMF with Bryant Meyers. The sound was a bit choppy on Bryant's end for most of the episode that made it a bit challenging to listen to but the information was so interesting that it made it worth the effort. ​

PEMF stands for Pulsed ElectroMagnetic fields. And, according to Bryant's website, there have been "more than 10,000 scientific papers" written on PEMF and "2,000 double blind studies" done on PEMF. The longevity science alone makes me really excited about this technology. I want to try it out so bad but with high quality PEMF mats starting at just over $5,000, it might be awhile before I get my hands on one. In the meantime, I'm going to continue to learn about PEMF as it is fascinating! 
Something I really enjoyed learning was that reiki healers emit pulsed magnetic fields, the same technology as these mats but from our own hands. Something most people don't know about me is that I've always had energy coming out of my hands. I've never understood it. It's happened my whole life. It's much weaker now than when I was a kid. And, when I learned about reiki, I became certified in it but never practiced it because it seemed so hokey, even though the energy that has flowed through my palms has been so noticeable my whole life. It's nice to actually know what that energy is now and that it has been tested. While I was married, I learned that the energy that comes out of my palms does heal. I did reiki on my husband almost every day working to relieve his headaches and pain in his ankle.

​The YouTube videos embedded here are from Bryant's YouTube channel if you're curious to learn more. Be sure to check out that episode (linked above). And, to check out the Mito Life podcast itself, just click the button below. 
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Read It | The Invisible Rainbow

7/11/2022

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A history of electricity and life.

Yeah, I know, sounds like a snooze fest, right?

Not to me!

​This book is fascinating beyond words and at around 70 pages in, it gets into the guts of what this book is really about. The effects of electricity on our health and its relation to the flu. Cue most people rolling their eyes. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the people who think they know the most have almost always done the least research.

​Bye you basic Felicias.

A lot of us have probably seen this meme floating around social media

I always wondered what the deal was with it and why anyone would think that something like the flu, that's been around for as long as history has been recorded could have any connection with new technology like cell towers. And, I filed the whole theory under "there could be something there but seems extremely unlikely." Where I think most people would only see "crazy". I've learned that this is a huge, fascinating, and often surprising world where we shouldn't blindly rule out most things no matter how crazy they seem.
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If you check out sources on this phenomena like Reuters, they'll tell you it's false as hell. I don't trust "fact checkers" anymore in this era where everyone seems to be bought, I'd rather do research myself and come to my own conclusions using critical thinking. Something that used to be encouraged and a sign a being a reasonable human being but is now an act of rebellion in today's society. And can easily make you a figurative witch to be burned at the stake. 

Anyway, I find all the fact-checking sites ruling this false as odd because The Invisible Rainbow is as thick as a dictionary and over 1/4 of it is the bibliography. Could it still be BS? Sure. But, let's dig into one little thing.

​What I found particularly interesting was the section on virologist Robert Edgar Hope-Simpson whose career spanned 71 years and was one of the world's authorities on the epidemiology of influenza who, toward the end of his career in 1992, still had so many questions about the flu like:
  • Why do flu epidemics end?
  • Why don't out-of-season epidemics spread?
  • How do epidemics explode over whole countries at once, and disappear just as miraculously, as if suddenly prohibited?
  • How is it possible that flu epidemics traveled at the same blinding speed in the past centuries as they do today?
  • How does the virus accomplish its so-called "vanishing trick"?
Robert had another theory about the vanishing trick, one that's taken more seriously, and that is vitamin D. Even if this is correct, it only answers one aspect of the many mysterious questions listed above (and more that aren't listed). As you read through the book and explore these other mysteries of flus, you begin to see that there very well appears to be other factors at play...

If you want to go down the rabbit hole even further...

I thought of this book a lot while listening to this podcast.
​The interview begins at the 10 minute mark if you aren't feeling the intro.
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