Yoda

Thelerner, Nice Ferrarri story! Thaddeus, you are a fellow Abraham head! Abraham is *the* source when it comes to this subject, imo. She's cleared a lot of mysteries up for me. I've been following her for 4 years. She has improved all aspects of my life and has taken a bad marriage and made it into a great one by forcing me to look past my partner and look at my own vibration. She promised that this would happen and it did: when I improved my thoughts and feelings towards Mrs. Yoda, she transformed before my very eyes and she's a totally different person now! Whatever the subject at hand, the whole transformation is a gradual one. If you want a Ferrarri, maybe break it down into more bite sized pieces like learning how to day trade successfully or just enjoy one's job more to increase your earnings, etc. You have to be able to believe whatever it is that you are intending so you'll feel good about it as you make your intentions. If you feel negative about the intentions, it'll just backfire like in Thelerner's example (if you belief death is bad, of course.) In the end, even the Ferrari owners don't give a shit about the car itself, the bottom line is how your goal makes you feel. Milarepa didn't even need clothes or food to feel ecstatic. Nothing against, Ferraris, of course, if anyone has an extra send it my way, but it's a long division approach to happiness, that's all.

I think I'll do some affirmations whenever I take my vitamins: http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060228/sc_...hywedontusethem

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060228/sc_...hywedontusethem

Nice to have you here!

It might be good, it is overpriced, but it's your karma to buy it. We all have our crosses to bear. Good luck!

A- I wasn't familiar with the source of your quote so I looked him up: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Bahadur_Bomjon Cool kid! He'll go far.

DanC--awesome, another winner of the Yoda Tonic Challenge! I'm actually surprised that there are tonics that have passed the one year mark. Says good things about them.

Channelled shit is the bomb!!! Cultures who accept channelers/possessionists/shamans/etc are often more fluid, flexible, and creative. "Medusa's Hair" by the anthropologist Obesekere is a great study of this. The jist of it is that certain individuals really won't fit into a culture very well and will go insane and be outcast. In the process, if they start channelling something worthwhile to the group they'll be reaccepted on new terms (ie no longer needs to be married to so and so (most often)) and become a revered healer or sage and will help others in the same situation. The whole process helps open up a culture a bit when there becomes too much structure. I think that pattern fits Ramtha and JZ Knight perfectly. Obesekere doesn't even comment on the reality or falsehood of the phenomenon, he just shows that it is a natural part of society and that it plays a very important role regardless of if it's really from the other side or not. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022661601...glance&n=283155 In Tibet, high lamas do consult channelers but they also say that channelling and divination tools are best at obtaining adjunct information that one should always follow one's feelings first and foremost. I owe a lot to 'Abraham' for making me see that I create my own reality through my thoughts and feelings. The movie was fun. I liked the wedding scene. I had no idea that was Ramtha until the movie was over. I would have liked to watch it knowing that. You definitely wondered where she got her info. -Yoda Another cool aspect of Obesekere's study is that during the big annual blow out party held every year in that region of Sri Lenka he drank a drink that the villagers brought him before the party... highly psychedelic shit. When the party was over he couldn't exactly recall what had happened apart from the sense that he had had a very nice time. He had taken copious notes during the spell, but sadly were unintelligible. The next year, he passed on the drink and got more publishable notes.

Lozen, I didn't find any info on it either. Any opinions on the Natural Calm so far? -Yoda

Cat, Very cool! Can you still "feel it" then? Several years... you may well be the winner of the coveted Yoda's Tonic Challenge, congrats! -Yoda

I have had a long history of getting excited about various herbs, supplements, etc but I've never stayed on anything long term aside from basic vitamins. It's either a lack of continuing efficacy or my body begins to reject it. It's been mentioned that real yang boosters like caffeine, ginseng, studmuffin medleys, etc can burn you out, but I've had trouble with the gentle stuff like theanine/Tao in a bottle and rescue remedy and green tea too. Now, green tea and theanine have started giving me heartburn and rescue remedy doesn't work if I take it all the time. Now I have a new darling: Natural Calm Magnesium. Love it, but this too shall pass. As I bring my Mg levels back up in the next few months, it won't give me the relaxation it's giving me now, I suppose. I know that my life is fundamentally played out in my thoughts and feelings in the moment, but it's nice to have some sort of magic pill going on too. Maybe these supplements do address some sort of deficiency in the system and when it's topped off you are done--move on. Sounds like others here have had similar experiences, any thoughts on the mechanics of it? Alcohol and tobacco are like that too for me--I can't deal with them regularly, but are nice as an occational treat.

Leo, I've never had a tonic which I took for longer than 6 months. Have you taken apple vinegar for awhile? Feel good meaning happier, more energy, more relaxed, more focused, more libido, etc? Any ole apple cider will do? I just tried your basic honey and vinegar potion and didn't taste great, but if it could give me any sort of boost that lasts longer than 6 months and is simple like, I'll try it out. I could tell that it really stimulates digestive action. Do you take it on an empty stomach and skip breakfast or only take it after breakfast? Thaddeus, All tonics as placebos? I would say absolutely yes, but not in the sense that 'it's all in your head' but in the sense that all of the material world is a manifestation of more subtle thought and feeling vibrations. So whether we are talking about an energy practice, a tonic, surgery, a coworker, your gov't, etc... if you feel good about the subject in question, it'll work for you and vis versa. Mandrake, empty stomach mostly.

I've heard that taking 3 tbspns of coconut oil for 1 week is very purifying to the point of getting a hexameter, or whatever they call it, reaction. Never tried it.

would a cheap yoga ball on ebay do the same thing?

If you have hard water with lots of Mg in it, then you are set. Or follow the diet of a culture that has low heart disease like Japan. I'm sure it's easy to do.

What a stud!! He definitely gets the bodhisattva award in my book!

yeah, but if the tree is seriously hot, then it all evens out.

Lozen, Taking Cod oil is great, but I can never stick with it as it's so yuckers. -Yoda

also the stool didn't seem too safe, either. A sturdy tabletop or the back of a heavy couch would probably be a better bet and then one could really focus on the stretch and flow of things.

Okay, I think Mrs Yoda is at 4 weeks +/- of Mg supplementation and she's 100% better--zero cardio issues. Just on a basic Mg supplement by Solaray--some chelated, some just plain Mg oxide. The Magnesium Factor said that any ole source is fine. So fancy sources probably aren't required. But in the name of science, I'm checking out different brands that I can find in the typical vitamin shop. So far my fav is www.petergillham.com natural calm--I can feel the calm after taking it. I haven't tried the others that have been suggested on this thread, I'm sure they are excellent. One good website suggested taking taurine with Mg to counteract heart problems stemming from long term Mg deficiency and that taurine enhanced Mg assimilation. Google for "rapid recovery from depression using magnesium treatment" for the website. He makes a good point: that the magnesium blindspot in modern medicine isn't from lack of research. Mg is extremely well-studied by American researchers... it's all on pubmed... it's just that the awareness hasn't jumped over to the actual doctors. I guess that there are no cute Magnesium sales reps chatting up doctors on the subject, I suppose. In his case, he suffered long term depression and heart issues for many years and when his zoloft stopped working, it forced him to take research into his own hands. It's a good site on the subject. He believes that depression is genetic in the sense that genetics may have a large role in how well one can assimilate Mg. He is very elitist about Mg supplements and which ones are the best, but he's just a self educated guy. I'd go with the MDness of the Mg factor, saying that common supplements will get the job done too. It would be interesting to go to Pubmed and find out what sort of supplements the researchers used. What I found was that they used magnesium oxide and magnesium sulfate (epsom salts), but my search was far from exhaustive. But usually researchers tend to use a very standardized form of a supplement in their tests like mg oxide or mg sulfate so that would make sense.

I was disappointed that the beginning levels don't seem to involve much flow, just building up to where you can do the flow. I know what you mean... the stool thing isn't as fun to do, but I believe that it would be very effective. One could just do lots of Intuflow and then jump in a bit further on I suppose.

I think the body shifts from warming up to actually engaging in activity in that amount of time. I've always assumed that the first 20 minutes of exercise are sort of a throw away--just like the writer needs to throw away the first page or two per session. But just reaching that state of that "flow" on a daily basis carries benefits per Scott.

I got my Flowfit and checked it out. Lozen, Scott's lookin good and is saving himself for you. For everyone else: it's a pretty rad form of 'condensed yoga'. It's sort of like the sun salutation, as an essential routine but cooler addressing all the basic dimensions of flexibility and freedom. While Scott presents extremely easy modifications to make the practice accessible for anyone, it strikes me that Intuflow is the easier introduction. My family had a good laugh watching me try the intermediate #3 routine. One of the routines is the Russian dancer thing where you swing around a leg underneath yourself and I thought this would be much easier to do than it proved to be. My efforts weren't pretty. Intuflow isn't intended to be a 'workout' but Flowfit is, and a workout it was even though I wasn't trying to exert myself nor was I rushing the routine even in the slightest. That's very nice--I can go at a relaxed yoga pace and still build serious, all around (cardio, strength, flexibility) fitness. Like Scott's other material, the best part is that his exercises are entertaining and fun to do whereas other wonderful yoga programs bore me to tears and I can barely endure one session. If you like Scott's material, this is a must own. At some point I'll be willing to lend out my copy too. Just pm me in a couple of months. I need to take a break from the clubs, so this'll pick up the slack. It's going to take many moons before I can swing #3 with any grace, but I'm very excited about the prospect of acheiving that.

The moral of the story is to feel groovy, loving, fearless, etc as much as possible... still working on that one!