So what goes on inside your head?  Does it frighten you? Do you find yourself admonishing yourself? Or do you indulge? Would you tell your mother about it?

Well, I figure... if one of your Passions is Healing, you better know a lot about just about everything that people might do... So, some of this is actually interesting to me, others just plain odd, but something I bump into.  My focus is better health... So this stuff doesn’t get to me.. but it might you... so Don’t Go There, if you have any fears. If you do choose to go on, don’t blame me... it’s your stuff, not mine. You have been warned.

Let’s get serious about Death. (OK, this one’s pretty tame.) In my business this actually comes up more often than most people. But it does come up for everyone. I often have to tell my clients and especially colleagues: “Everybody dies.” Less understood: “It’s a choice.” When the energetics are cherry, and one could live on; some choose not to. Eventually, choices seem to loose their power and it happens: “Everybody dies.”

I don’t have an external reference for this but that brings up an aspect that draws lots of attention. Below I will send you to my own Tales of Power. What’s next for us after life? Lots of people step right out of what’s in front of them (their life) and go to what’s next, believing they’ll have lots of chances to make up for what they can’t face now.  Here I have data... it’s pretty strange stuff, and no, I haven’t died and checked it out “in this life”. So if you’re able to comfortably suspend disbelief without judging the scribe, check it out. But I have to ask: “Why?” Too much time on your hands? Disengaged from this life so much that you’re bored? If there is something beyond this, given the choices you have to live this life, and finding yourself choosing to look at another instead, what do you really expect to be different? You’d have to not be you to have a better life hereafter.  Why?  Because, “No matter where you go, there you are.” Buckaroo Banzai.

So, as a pretty disinterested observer, these are just aspects of consciousness that I’ve dealt with in my work. For me it’s as much metaphor of expressions of consciousness as reality revealed.  So far in dealing with this type of thing, I have no proof one way or the other... is it just a mental construct that enables us to cope and manage the aspects of reality that our culture and language can’t grasp, or are we accessing and interacting beyond the limits of our physical form. Eventually we will all know the answer or not, because: “Everybody dies.” (See, I had to say it again.)

Women.  It’s deep in the DNA, an essential part of the core essence of our beings... we need to see and perhaps even touch (despite the Puritan Dogma of many cultures) others. This link is not under my control otherwise I’d copy it. But somehow I think it helps to actually see people as they are, below the fashions of the day. So, take a break from the cultural restrictions... look beneath the wrappings and trappings of glamor. Enjoy the beauty in many expressions, the factories of civilization as we know it. Honor our sisters of the world, the real deal. Not the commercial versions.

The Mind-Body Connection.  Its unbelievable that I’ve embraced the essence of the philosophy that was taught to me in High School with classic examples of discipline, health and responsibility.  However, unlike back then, now it has a deeper and cleaner edge.  The truth of the matter is that we are not running our bodies on our own energy. We are symbiotic systems that depend on other organisms in careful balance to function successfully.  Being closed systems, our own perceptions of how well we function depends on how well we function.  Sadly, our culture of indulgences seems to have lead many of us to blindly sedate ourselves and disable our own abilities to make sound choices for ourselves. Instead of being capable of making responsible choices, we’ve become a culture of making choices for comfort and distraction over true happiness and fulfillment.

Specifically, I was over weight for nearly 20 years. But that wasn’t the problem, I still looked pretty good for some of it.  The problem was I was addicted to cheap carbs.  You know: candy, fruits & fruit juices, bread, cookies, cake, pastries, pasta, soda, sugar, alcohol and caffeine.  All the items that require that necessary organism “yeast” to digest. As it does, starting a chain reaction in the body that leads to swiftly increasing blood sugar, spikes in insulin, manufacture and accumulation of fats, with the side effect of emotional sedation. And the need for larger and larger quantities of yeast in the gut, with its own appetite for more carbs and the accumulation of more and more fat. Today I’ve reset the entire cycle. The shift is amazing.

From a self limiting appetite, to amazing weight loss without restricting food intake, to clarity and fortitude of emotions, the changes continue to be effortless and profound. It becomes so clear that the easiest thing that any of us can do for everyone else is to take excellent care of ourselves. People have commented how good it feels just to be around me when I’m clear.

The entire program I’m on is complex, and although I’m not convinced every aspect is completely necessary, I’ve made a commitment to do everything I’m told by my (I hope you appreciate my sense of humor here. Anankha is a wonderful soul, and a delight to work with. I highly recommend her as a very talented and accomplished Naturopath.) “Diet Nazi & “Supplement Pusher”.  At the core it has two simple features: The first is no simple carbs including fruit for the first three months, the only grain I eat is rice, preferably brown.  I find two to three meals a day suit me just fine, but I eat as much as I want, when I want.  The second is exercise.  I follow the methods of Body For Life.  Its the most efficient approach to the gym I’ve met, quick and effective. But stay away, far away from their supplementation.  Its full of sugar and having tried it in the past, I know that’s not the way for me. (In month four I’ve added one muscle building supplement, and I like the effect after three weeks. Contact me if you want more information on this.)

I’m two months into it.  I’ve gone beyond the thirty pounds I lost doing a reduced carb diet that wasn’t so strict, and now lost another 20 pounds. Since you plateau every 10-15% of your body weight you drop, I’ve held at my present weight for 2 weeks, but clearly increased my muscle mass during that time.

Its now been more than four months.  I’ve added back in moderation fruit and an occasional indulgence in bread or dairy product (as infrequent treats), but mostly I’m eating quinoa, millet and amaranth for grains.  My resting heart-rate is 54 bpm (down from 85), my jean size is down from 48” waist to 34 with some room, I’m lifting way more than I could when I started, my 20 minute interval-cardio workout on the treadmill runs 1.91 miles and ranges from 4 to 8 through the intervals. I’m continuing to build mass, yet strangely have plateaued on the scale at just under 200.  The gym has shifted from a task to a refuge and a pleasure. Gone are the days of working up to talking myself into making the trip to the gym. I like my body and enjoy it and the compliments it inspires from the people I meet.

Anything becomes possible when you stick with it.  You just have to realize that some things can’t change instantly or even day to day. The body doesn’t change over night, or with one visit to the gym.  It grows into the changes that you encourage it to make over time.  Weeks or even months.  Life is about eagerly embracing patience. When I finally get the definition in my Abs on the outside to match what I feel on the inside, I’ll post before and after pics. Stay tuned.

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