Caffeine (Page 1 of 2)

Some more notes: http://chetday.com/caffeineeffects.htm

'Caffeine, you see, acts a as powerful vasoconstrictor in the brain. That is, it constricts blood vessels in the brain and decreases circulation!'

So that's why I can't win a cent at poker recently, I'm stupidifying myself. Dammit. Stupidifying isn't even a word. That is how stupid i have become.

http://www.bodytechnician.com/caffeine.html

deadly headaches:
http://coffeefaq.com/site/node/10

Daily caffeine intake leads to adrenal fatigue, which wears out the heart, reduces bloodflow to the brain, increases the stress hormone cortisol, throws off other hormones, and makes you age faster. But I think there is an additional effect -- it first overexcites the etheric body, causing it later to weaken. With a weakened etheric body, your soul finds it harder to express through the body, the body ages more quickly because there is less of an energetic 'scaffolding' to keep the cells working in proper pattern, and you would become more reliant on physical-brain thinking since the reduced etheric strength cuts off receptivity to nonphysical stuff. Pavlina is right on with is observation. Your intellectual and tactical abilities may increase, but true creativity and intuitiveness goes down. Therefore caffeine might be "good" for college students, cops, corporate people, etc... who don't use higher intuitive thinking anyway. Put in terms of the Ra Material terminology, I think caffeine increases physical energy at the expense of vital energy.

In my experience, 20 mg or less per day is still okay, especially if you take a break from caffeine every couple of days. That covers light teas, some chocolate, or decaff coffee. But fully caffeinated coffees, especially from Starbucks, are absolutely the worst... I do think there is a caffeine conspiracy though, coinciding with the epidemic of sleep deprivation in this country, to turn people into zombie workers cut off from their spirits. Too much caffeine is an excitotoxin to the etheric body, that's my conclusion.

I get migraines if I have too much caffeine for a couple days and then go cold turkey. And if not a migraine, then at least a couple days' worth of fuzzy-brain, bouncing knees, not feeling like doing anything important --- all symptoms of weakened etheric or lowered vital energy. It's good as a temporary booster every once in a while when you really need it, but I wouldn't recommend it as a daily thing or else it becomes an addiction. That would be like never changing the oil in your car, and instead adding nitro to your fuel to overcome the sluggish engine... things just overheat and wear out.  If I go off caffeine for a week, my energy levels even out (few or no crashes), my mind is more consistently clear through the day. A better substance for increasing energy levels, though without side-effects, is spirulina. A tablespoon a day does more than caffeine in terms of heightened alertness, but without interfereing with the intuitive stuff.

My main source of caffeine is guaraná  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarana
but I only use(mixed with fruits in the blender) in the morning and not everyday.

BTW,  guaraná is much more than only caffeine...

I also have used (a lot of ) guarana in the past, it is a most effective stimulant and a tonic apparently as well. However, I have become somewhat sensitive to all manner of stimulants and use any of them as sparingly as fits the circumstance: for instance this morning I had coffee with the love of my life when I took her out for breakfast. I would not have made any for myself had I stayed at home. As long as I use caffeine less than daily and give myself breaks, I can tolerate it, but this makes me think that it can't be that good for me overall. I think that, as with anything, it is up to the individual, but that presupposes self-awareness, and when it comes to substance use/abuse, those are murky waters. I already added this to another posting, but it seems apprpriate here:

Cake

If you’re anything like me, then you know better.
Like me you know better, but then you do it again:
shopping spree junk food ,endurance sleeping,
drive, don’t walk, take the drink, the drag, the hit,
the bite of whatever it is that doesn’t really nourish,
but feels so fine, so good.

Maybe it’s killing us slowly … or maybe not.

But what else is there to do with this abundance of life,
endless time, boredom, mediocrity and pain?

Eating our cake, hoping for more.

Because we can.
Because we want to. 
Because we don’t want to want.
Because we don’t want to
stop.

Expect withdrawal symptons to up to 10 days: headaches, shakiness, nervousness.

If you have been having a lot, maybe cut in half for a week or so before you
go on cold turkey.

Nexus: get back to me about that audio lecture please, I think somethings is up. Whenever I drink caffeine now I can feel some tingling around my temples and at the top of my head. So that point about intuitive thinking might have some merit. Since I quit smoking my brain feels like its rewiring itself so I don't know if the tingling is something to do with that or not.

Can anyone comment?

A useful place to look for symptoms of tea and coffee drinking is an online Homeopathic Materia Medica.

Here are a couple from George Vithoulkas' website http://www.vithoulkas.com/EN/materia_medica.html