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Understanding why I need to eat such a heavy diet has been a lifelong preoccupation. Many years ago, I met some folks who were fasting and said they felt wonderful—light, energetic, spiritual. That sounded pretty good, so I tried water fasting. In 30 hours, I felt so bad, I wanted to die. Eventually I decided that it must be because I was so toxic, and lymphatically congested. Which was partly true at the time, but it wasn't the reason I felt so awful. People kept telling me about the right way to eat: low fat, a little fish and chicken if necessary, and a whole lot of fruit and vegetables. Skim milk if you must have it, avoid full fat anything. Problem was, I felt truly awful if I ate like that, often ravenous in an hour. I needed much heavier food to feel good. Fast forward many years of wisely ignoring popular dietary advice, eating to feel good, but not understanding why that advice didn't work for me, even though it worked fine for most of my friends. I finally came across the book that explained why I needed to eat heavier food. BioBalance: The Acid/Alkalline Solution to the Food-Mood-Health Puzzle, by Rudolph Wiley, PhD. Wiley explains that your venous blood pH determines what you need to eat. If you have an alkaline pH (>7.46), measured by venous blood, NOT by saliva or urine, you will do pretty well eating as advised above. However, if you have acid blood (<7.46), you will feel like crap eating like that. AHA! A clue! Acid metabolizers need to eat not just a heavy diet, but one that is specifically heavy on purines, which means lots of organ meats, sardines, some other fish, and relatively few specific veggies. In people with this acid blood, the purines actually alkalize their blood, bringing the pH up to optimal! To most people who have delved around in "dietary theory", this sounds flat out nuts! But here's the thing: it works. Few people want to spring for a special blood test measuring blood pH to the nearest hundredth to find out if their blood is alkaline or acid. So Wiley gives us a ball park method: just answer two questions. Can you feel good all morning with just coffee for breakfast? Can you feel good on a water fast? If you answered yes to both questions, you are an alkaline metabolizer, and you'll probably feel pretty good on that light diet. But truly acid metabolisms react poorly to caffeine, and they do not do at all well with water fasting. That's because they metabolize food too quickly, and their blood sugar tends to tank. (Acid metabolizers can use some caffeine if they feed it, that is, drink it with some substantial food.) Most people are in the middle, not too acid, not too alkaline, and can actually eat pretty much as they like. But 10% or so are at the extreme ends, and need to follow opposite diets pretty strictly in order to feel well. Some women are actually acid during one part of the month and then alkaline for the remaining days. If the "lite diet", vegetarianism, or paleo is working for you, don't bother with Wiley's book. But if your regimen doesn't work for you, (or women, if it works part of the month, but not the other part) check out the book. Note: this isn't about paleo: it's about purines. If you are an acid type, just eating a lot of meat/protein won't cut it. You need the purines. One of the most fascinating elements of Wiley's book is his claim that blood pH deviations of even a couple hundredths percent profoundly impact your psychological well being. If you eat right for your metabolic type you will feel remarkably stable and optimistic. If not, you— and maybe others around you—may start thinking you need a psychologist! His client stories are pretty impressive. I went to a live blood test with 2 friends. One I knew was an alkaline type who had been eating a lot of meat and purines. The other was an acid type who was a religious vegetarian—both wrong diets for their metabolic type. The fellow gave us a dietary lecture before testing our blood, recommending a PC lite diet. The vegetarian was eating pretty well by his standards. I was doing almost everything wrong, eating right for an acid metabolizer. Both my friends' blood pictures had major problems, but mine actually looked pretty good. BioBalance is THE most helpful book I've ever read on dietary regimens. Bar none. And I have read a LOT of them! If you're puzzled by your reactions to food, or contemplating switching dietary regimens, do check this one out. [Note that alkaline metabolizers need to avoid purines, as they raise uric acid levels which can result in gout.]

Mysticism and activating your pineal gland. Really interesting interview, Dispenza shedding more light on his approach.

PS: So far, neither in the book, nor in the description of the meditation have I seen anything related to retention or semen turning into CSF. Thankfully. LOL And if it's a cult, it's not an MCO cult. It's a self-induced drug cult. Most fun thing this Niwan junkie's seen in quite awhile.

I just got the book, so can't answer any questions, lol. I have read recently from another source on CSF, that the CSF goes down, but is then reabsorbed in the blood stream. But CS therapists have said it goes up and down with the CS rhythm. (Actually, I realize both can be true.) I'm particularly interested in the breathing and encouraging the CSF to go (press) up, pressurizing the pineal crystals to do interesting things. Anybody who gets actual sensations of pressure build up in their head trying to do this probably shouldn't. Years of taiji ruler and a circulation practice keep energy flows open and nothing builds up in my head. So far, anyway. Time will tell. I'll post here if it gets interesting.

Jambon, never in million years would I have come across this fascinating book, much less bought it, if you had not posted this. Thank you! It just arrived today, and I can already tell I'm going to be exploring some amazing territory that is clearly connected to my previous Niwan explorations and the energy circulations I've been doing for years. (If I hadn't already been experiencing some of this stuff, I would think the man was just plain bonkers, lol) I hope you're experimenting with the breathing methods and spinal mechanics Dispenza describes and that you will report back on your experiences.

Check out this fascinating and beautiful review of Peter Wohlleben's book! Just the review is amazing! Can't wait to read the book! The Secret Life of Trees: The Astonishing Science of What Trees Feel and How They Communicate https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/09/26/the-hidden-life-of-trees-peter-wohlleben/

Yes, when your arms come down, you rock back on your heels and your toes rise. In addition to the lymphatic push, moving the ankles activates a couple of the extraordinary channels, which is also really good energetically. I think I learned his practice slower than I do it now, but I base the speed on where I feel the chi flow, too fast or too slow, I tend to lose it. I was doing short practices a few times a day, but find a couple longer practices (100-300 reps) are doing a lot more for me now. The short practices weren't getting the breathing going much, and doing it longer creates a stronger, more global effect.

This is a great little book, both as a review of the five versions presented, and as reminder/motivation to actually DO it, lol. I'd already been doing a little arm swinging as an antidote to too much computer sitting, but not nearly enough to make a big difference. The book has encouraged me to do it more often, longer, and properly (according to Jahnke anyway) One thing that stands out. I learned the exercise before I learned much about the lymphatic system, and now understand the many levers into the system this exercise provides. Swinging the arms loosens and stimulates the lymphatic dumping mechanism behind the collar bones, where the lymphatic fluid rejoins the blood stream enroute to the liver for detox and elimination of toxins. Modern life and aging have most of us tight and relatively immobile in this area, and arm swinging loosens it up quickly. The deeper breathing from doing many repetitions (100-300?) activates the large lymphatic duct at the bottom of the diaphragm, which is one of two major pumping mechanisms for the lymphatic system. Lifting the heels and toes activates the calf muscles, which are the other major pumping mechanism for the lymphatics. Doubling down on this exercise is providing noticeable changes in blood circulation as well. I strongly recommend it!

Decades back, swing arms was the first qigong exercise where I started to feel the energy circulation. It was so subtle! I couldn't really tell, but something seemed to be happening, and it was the only exercise I wanted to do for awhile. Forty five minutes of swing arms. Nobody wanted to practice with me, LOL. I think I learned it from Roger Jahnke, and I think he was the one who told us that, in parks in China, you would see some of the old practitioners, hardly making any movement at all, but benefitting greatly from the circulation they'd established over the years doing this simple movement. I ordered the book. Thanks Dainin!

Let me first comment how beautiful and intelligent you are @cheya ..... ! LOLOL @Apech Even after all these years, you still can make me laugh more than any other DaoBum... actually probably more than all the rest of the DaoBums combined! A good belly laugh is so precious these days. Grats

Our comments about others often — if not usually — describe ourselves much more closely than those we mean to target.

@Miroku Curious which brand you got that was "more bitter than sweet." Sounds like a version I'd like!

Sugar free, but sweetened with sorbitol and sucralose. Nah. I'll take mine with honey. Just can't go crazy with it, lol

@escott A totally fascinating video. Thank you! I mean Self-Induction! I'd love to learn that.

This was really helpful to watch. Thank you!

@Earl Grey So glad it's going well for you! You're going into a transition phase (7-10 days in) according to this chart here... Probably not an issue for you, but do keep your eyes out in case it is! Best of luck with this, and thanks for keeping us updated! https://www.thedaobums.com/topic/52511-on-the-vax-fence-lets-talk/?do=findComment&comment=967337

May it go easy with you, Earl Grey, and may your recovery be rapid and complete.

Anybody tried soapwort? (A plant with soap-like qualities.) @Taomeow Is there a particular product and/or you recommend?

Makes me curious about the story behind that pic... @steve?

I think this is a genius solution to the problem of all those threads filling up the TDB daily feed, even though I do like to read and respond to them, which I will over there in Current Events and continue to post in my PPD. @Taomeow That's a hoot! Thanks for the laugh!

Yes. And some people even have the talent to say the exact right thing to comfort people or calm them down, to take care of them inside.. That's not one of my talents, alas, but I'm very grateful there are some of you on the forum.

I love this whole post, Taomeow. It describes, in words I've never used, how my brain works. For me, I think of it as I have "files" in my brain, and when I run across something that contradicts my files, an "anomaly" from what I think I know or can expect from what I think I know, it immediately gets my attention, even if it's kind of a minor-seeming thing. Some I can ignore, but others, not so much. I'm kind of driven to figure out if the files are wrong or if the new info is wrong, or if it indicates something else entirely going on. Sometimes I think of it as related to paranoia... like why can't I just let inconsistencies and anomalies lie? Other people seem to have no problem doing that. I really like hearing that that's it's a pattern recognition skill and that it's hardwired in our brains. That "that just doesn't fit" feeling always gets my attention.

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Well, it's certainly moved the project along, which has not moved at all for months. Thanks Bhathen for trying to move it even further. (Think they were maybe... trolling... a previous artist? )