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it's not that it lowers testosterone, it messes with the hormonal balance by increasing eostrogen. in the long term this leads to decrease in bone density as the only way to remove excess eostrogen from the body is by binding it with calcium.... so it steals the calcium from the bones. many pepole, like weston price foundation, dr mercola and plenty of others reccomend against soy milk. it was never used in traditional asian cultures ever, until recently. it's a modern invention and just another highly processed food. oat milk is ok, but again it's a highly processed food..... but as always, do what feels right by you and don't feel like you have to change yourself for my benefit personally i never liked the taste of soy milk and it felt wrong to drink it. i liked rice milk.... but now i drink raw biodynamic buttmilk.... yummy i love the sour taste. best is if you can get some raw milk of some kind. there are sources out there, i'm sure. yoghourt is ok too, or kefir if you can get a culture to start your own brew.

couldn't agree more.

ewwww soy milk. evil!!!!

oops i meant to ask where in australia you are. anyways no matter.... i haven't managed to find people yet, i have a few friends interested but they are heavy dope smokers and hence despite how good it sounds and how much they are interested, are extremely unmotivated. it'll happen eventually though...

i apologise for being the resident "RMAX head".... but ever since reading more about this system i have decided that the value of iron shirt style training is minimal and even possibly detrimental. if being concerned about strikes to the body i feel the "shockability" (RMAX flowfighting) technique or "yielding" (cheng hsin) technique has much more value as it teaches the body also to move fluidly.... i've been feeling the impacts of this style of training even when i bump into things. i banged my shin on a tow ball from a car when working the other day and was suprised that i "yielded" to it and actually didn't hurt myself even though i impacted quite hard. i was initially attracted to the healing tao system of mantak chia for all the purported health claims.... what i really wanted was a method of restoring my body and moving it in ways that i could no longer more and being strong. i dabbled with it for a while but the results werent forthcoming and the training was boring and complicated (for me).... i find RMAX has given me everything i want in that department. i was doing 4-square breathing by yudelove for a while but have also decided it is of little value to what i really want..... a solid, integrated structure is important yes.... but i'm not so sure about the pressurisation through inhale protocol as followed in iron-shirt breathing methods.... but then again there have been lots and lots of monks over the years who have done this kind of training to great results..... so i could be just talking out of my bum.

it's a guy in melbourne... matt jones (isohealth), i haven't spoken to him except for a cursory email.... i actually ordered my initial stuff (back in the days, warrior wellness, be breathed & body-flow book) from amazon.com but recently anything i have ordered i ordered straight from the RMAX site cos usually it's a new release and i want it "right now!" haha. whereabouts in sydney are you? i'm looking for some people to start an informal training group to explore "softwork".

there is one guy i met who has just opened a cafe.... he is doing amazing things with sprouted grains. for example at this seminar the other week (he is running a sydney version of a group called 'freedom force' trying to get our freedoms back from the government-corporate-media-military conglomerate that now virtually runs our lives... but anyway) he made HEALTHY sausage rolls.... yummm!!! slow cooked lamb mixed with sprouted grains (i think barley and rye) and the pastry was made from sprouted barley that was then milled into flour. mmmmm *drools* i could go some of them right now. he's got a pie shop, unfortunately it's the other side of sydney, but i'd so love to try a pie.... pies are my favorite, and to be able to eat a healthy one.... that would be incredible.

cool.... i'll try the apple and potato (i'll put the potato on a couple of areas that tend to sweat more, where there is a rash that breaks out). i use raw coconut oil to further wash my skin after a shower, i think thats pretty good for parasites. unfortunately no access to a sauna. p.s. love the oil pulling, my mouth feels so fresh!!

no need for apologies. i can do without the molassas... not a problem i was only having a very small amount (1/2 tsp per day) of it anyway, i bought a jar cos i was curious and it's almost finished now. i have a source of raw honey, i'm just avoiding sweetners in general at the moment. good tip about the tea and not putting honey in it...... although i really love sweet tea. what's your take then on evaporated sugar can juice? (essentially raw sugar can juice that has been dehydrated). i have been making hot chocolate (not at the moment though) with organic cocoa powder, coconut cream and that stuff. when i begin on the sweetners again i might make my afternoon snack honey and walnuts and a cup of raw biodynamic buttermilk. i don't eat raw and i'm not interested in it at the moment. i'm careful how i cook, i don't cook meats in oil.... and generally i slow cook stuff. my dosha (ayurveda) is very airy/ether (vatta) and i've had a go of raw foods before.... makes me even colder and drier than usual plus i wasted away to nothing. i have a fair amount of raw salads daily now though.

hahaha yeah... honestly i have great doubts about history as it is told to us. like all this "our life expectancy is greater than ever before" nonsense. i am certain that traditional people living natural lifestyles, when not fallen victim to naturally occurring accidents, would have lived long lives for sure..... based on the time it takes for our skeletal structure to reach maturity compared to all other animals, we should be living till 130-150 easily.

herbamere is celtic sea salt mixed with vegetable and herb salts plus some kelp. is very minerally balanced in that sense. himalayan crystal salt has every mineral available in it in a decent balance.... 84 minerals in hcs! very nice stuff, i put it in water to drink while working out as a mineral supplement.

thats the other side.... feeling. great picture by the way no i haven't.... if i ever come across it i'll be sure to read. have so many books on my plate right now and no chance to read them that i'm not currently interested in ordering anymore (plus with the impending travel plans i wont be able to take many with me and no way will i be able to be read up by then).

hmmmm seeing the pictures of the microcosmic got me musing more about something i have just been reading about the chakras. this woman, catherine wilkins, in her book "5 keys to psychic ability" (it's a small, simple, easy to read yet quite brilliant and amazing book) talks about how each chakra has both a front and a back (except crown and base, which are pointing at each other and are the beginning and end of the kundalini). now... the points of most interest on the microcosmic seem to link up with the front and back of each chakra point, with the only difference of the abdomen points (related to the tan tien i think.... yet the heart and mind tan tiens are located pretty much in the same area as the corresponding chakras). seems as if the microcosmic orbit is a circuit through the front and backs of the chakras.... makes sense. undoubtadely it has to all be related, regardless of which culture it comes from. she goes on to talk about how energy can both enter and exit each chakra from both the front and the back. the front is more related to ummmm.... i forget (will edit at home and clear this up), while the back is more related to the will. some food for thought.

check for soy based emulsifiers or anything else soy.... those things are no good and have no place in any of our food! p.s. here is my new fantastic morning tea snack: celery stick with tahini

beautiful house. i was thinking something simpler... in a tropical climate... just a simple hut in the tree with a floor, a place for a fire, and a mat for a bed. thats it. everything else could be on the ground, just for sleeping in the tree. would be beautiful to wake up with the birds and other tree life. sonnon's stuff is great. it's there as a vehicle for you to access whatever it is you want.... check it, take it, adapt it to you.

i like herbamere or himalayan crystal salt. salt is important!!! our entire nervous system runs on salt.

i get ya, even if others might be missing the point it's all related. CST may appear to work only with the physical... but it actually works backwards into emotional and hence thought. freeing up my movement is freeing up my emotions is freeing up my thoughts freeing up my spirituality. no, seriously it is. the freer i become in movements, the more ability i have to express myself fully and the more fluidity i have in response to situations and the less stress arousal i suffer. but then outside of CST scope i am working back the other way too.... from spiritual to thoughts to emotions to physical. yeah i think so. to be safe and appropriate to the moment. women are incredibly erratic and even destructive by nature..... we need to be a willow of strength (ability to take the strongest buffering of a storm and bend without breaking) as well as nurturing and supportive. hah. damn you women want a lot!!

thank you karen although.... honey is off for the moment too. i'm liking very minimal grains at the moment (the past two days the only thing close to grains is potatoes that i've had). but when i let myself go a bit more, i'll get into some millett too.... good grain cos of it's high protein content and is also alkalising on the body. but yeah, almond flour cookies, VERY good idea for the future. and yes that reluctance is definately ready to be healed. i just realised something very interesting.... about 5 or 6 days ago i started this energy balancing exercise before sleeping (it whacked me out for a couple of days, was weird) but it was a few days after doing this exercise that i suddenly got a great urge to really heal myself. then all the resources and information to enable what i think is a very effective plan of action came together really quickly. all just a lovely balancing thing

ahhh yes, i know about that. can't get it done in australia unfortunately.... i could always try the same thing using diluted food grade hydrogen peroxide (i have my own enema kit... called a "douche bag" hahaha) but for now my plan seems to be working wonders. the garlic implants are unpleasant for about 5-10 minutes though cos those buggies in my gut REALLY don't like it. and the oil pulling this morning was great! thanks pietro for bringing it up, and ummm lozen i think it was, for giving me more details.

hey... post something funny http://www.mercola.com/funnysigns thats my contribution.

very supple and graceful. i'm going to enjoy making my own 'qi gong' in the future

second that.... i am very interested.

me too love those golden rays.... or.... and here is a HUGE one.... what if you were taught not to give up any of those things!?!?!?!??? children when left naturally do yoga, give themselves massages and i am certain circulate energy freely around their bodies plus they see all kinds of things outside of our 5-sense dimension (think 'imaginary' friends). if we let them play and explore creatively, without imposing/enforcing limits upon them and we lead by example in our own practices while letting them come to whatever aspect interests them.... i am certain they would be well on the way. we are born to be enlightened, but somewhere along the way we get somehow derailed. our state of disconnection, dissatisfaction, unhappiness, etc, etc is all a conditioned one. we are nothing but beings of light and beyond that we are nothing but god/the tao/the universe/the cosmic/infinite love.

huh? never heard of it and i'm pretty up on all things oxygenated.... please explain. might not be available here in oz. i've had plenty of drastic treatments in my time... but i am realising it has come down to one thing (that is dual in nature): the reluctance to give up wheat is pretty much the reason i am still plagued by this i think, and i believe this is just the external manifestation of me being reluctant to let myself heal. i'm ready now, and only my second day in and i'm noticing changes, for sure..... but man i got some really intense bread cravings like you wouldn't believe. im real keen to try out the oil pulling technique tomorrow morning, i think it's going to be really powerful in helping this whole issue resolve itself. might get some more colloidal silver on the weekend too to really hit it up.

if you do, let me know we can hook up. i'll be heading there in september and intend to stay at least 6 months at this point.... am gonna relax, train, write, get lots of massages and pursue hot thai girls and backpackers