Mahatma wrote:Because I've no reference to a period in life where my health was exceptional, could someone provide me with evidence that feeling shit is really as bad as I think it is? I mean that by removing all the above mentioned poisons, life improved considerably? And what would you consider the biggest problems facing people today? I suspect there are more people like me in a similar situation who would like to know.
Well, I have a sort of kind of example - August 3rd I decided to give up processed sugar, caffeine, alcohol and junk. Started back on eating my "mega salads" as I call them, where it's a large bowl of like, 8 or 9 raw veggies basically and homemade salad dressing. As well as eating fruits, whole grains, meat, and consuming water and herbal teas in the place of my former coffee, soda, and caffeinated teas.
The proof of a change came when I was doing some "rebirthing breathing" one night. It's just where you steadily breathe deeply in and out through your mouth, making sure to fill up your lungs, connecting your exhales to your inhales so it's a steady stream of steady breathing. Anyway, when people do this for the first time often times they will have a hard time of it, breathing shallow, not having the strength, etc. The goal of it all is to develop "prana", or life force. You don't hyperventilate yourself, just breathe and exhale deeply in a steady way. It also has calming affects on the body as you're oxygenating everything. So I had done this a couple of times prior to my diet change, which gave me a mental note/comparison of what it was like "before." Then about 3 weeks after my diet change I laid down to do it again, but not even thinking or expecting any sort of difference. I had no idea there would be a difference. I was doing the breathing just because, why not, let's do this again, it's supposed to be good for you, you know?
Well, let me tell you.................my breathing was now super strong and deep...but with minimal effort. It was a HUGE improvement from how it had been weeks before. I laid there thinking WOW. !!! What's that all about! I felt like I had all this "prana" life force now that I obviously didn't have only weeks before. All those raw veggies and fruits and spirulina and water nearly every day, no more coffee and alcohol and soda. It really did make a difference. The thing is though, I wasn't physically feeling like shit before I went on the diet change, I didn't do it for that reason. But still, there was a difference, an improvement that showed up in breathing strength. Also somebody who saw me several weeks after being on the diet change said "You look fantastic! You're buzzing!" So I thought that was interesting. Who knows.
Anyway, this thread is interesting, only because of your wording. It's blunt, but very true, and it's exactly what I've thought myself SO many times - everybody just thinks it's normal to feel like shit!!!!!!
I can't tell you how many low energy "blah" people I encounter on a daily basis just trudging through life with blank faces. After awhile it's begun angering me, that people don't realize how sick they are. I'm tired of encountering low energy people just trudging through life like flat zombies!!! Most of these people are fat too, which is a part of the problem, but here's the thing.......................if you're in America, then most EVERYBODY is overweight nowadays. Unless you live somewhere like SoCal, then it's normal to be fat and/or obese!!! These people often shop at mainstream grocery stores buying all that chemical laden food and piles of junk and just shove it in and don't care. And the ignorance of health matters is astounding, like that one anecdote I relayed last year here at NR about that obese woman at the one church temp job I had - she helped with the food pantry for the poor, and one day she was telling me about how she had bought stuff for her daughter's birthday party or something, and she chose Gummi Bears as one of the snacks "because they have fruit juice in them, so they're one of the food groups." It was one of those times I just sat there dumbfounded, staring at somebody, not even able to respond. You couldn't get more ignorant than that, believing that Gummi Bears really contain fruit juice, and enough so that it becomes the equivalent of drinking real fruit juice, and therefore, fulfills some part of the "food pyramid."
But this is what's going on out there. I had a coworker who told me how her brother is really fat, just obese, but it's because he eats nothing but garbage food from mainstream grocery stores. Because he's poor. And that's all poor people can afford. She in comparison shopped at Whole Foods and ate a lot of veggies and natural foods, and was not obese by any means.
And that right there was a big part of the issue, that she had pinpointed - the fact that poor people in this country are loading up on the crap food because the powers that be have made that stuff dirt cheap, while hiking up the prices on real, natural food. It truly is a conspiracy, if there ever was one.
TPTB want people to kill themselves. Pure and simple. And if people have spent the majority of their lives complying by eating the garbage food and partaking in negative health habits then they don't know any better.
Here's an interesting article excerpt:
article wrote:Of course, the main victims of this horror are the children. At the day care center she has run for more than 13 years, Mrs. Levant routinely sees hundreds of children who have never eaten vegetables and hundreds of others who eat corporate junk food every night, who never eat anything else. At least 50 of them are babies less than one. Some of those babies cry all night in hunger.
“I’ve had a two-year-old child of a multi-millionaire come to day care every day with a satchel full of at least eight bags full of different candies, chips, and snacks, and I was instructed to let her eat them when she liked during the day. Of course, the child ate all eight bags of treats, and was lethargic at the end of the day. Her mother thought her lethargy was due to playing when, in fact, the child never, ever, moved off the couch because she was physiologically ill with sugar peaks and valleys.”
Of course that child’s health is being seriously damaged. Maybe she can recover because she is so young, but the damage may not show up for many years. It’s a scenario that makes the Stepford Wives look like Little Women. Nancy Levant explains what women have lost:
“Okay, so women don’t cook anymore. They really don’t know how to cook, as my mother’s generation was the last to prepare meals as a rule. Thank God, again, that I had an older mother who taught me to cook and that I enjoy the time in my kitchen preparing meats and vegetables, fruits and, yes, even baking. So many women don’t realize what they are missing. They don’t know about the womanly arts, how it feels to give good, nutritious food to children, as many women now rebel against the notion of mom as family cook. . . .” http://newswithviews.com/Stang/alan.htm
The rest of the article pertains to feminism's role in destroying the family and ruining children and how awful many American women have become, a topic for another thread but, that part was relevant for this thread.
Solofleks wrote:Omega-3 is just vital for everyone.
I have a Nexus magazine that talks about how Omega 3's need to be balanced with Omega 6's and 9's, otherwise it's not good. I used to just take Omega 3's too, but now I buy the oil supplements that contain all three. Just a note........
"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!" - Anonymous
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"I get by with a little help from my (higher density) friends."
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