Monthly Archives: June 2014

Three Secrets to Unlocking Hidden Energy

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In the year 1214, a sea of Mongols was poised outside Zheng Ding’s city gates. The citizens knew that at best it would mean seeing their parents slaughtered, friends tortured, and children enslaved. As the city walls held and the people waited in terror, they began dying. Chinese doctors began to observe that the stress was killing people. They were unable to sleep regularly, digest food and were succumbing to illnesses. At this time Li Dong Yuan needed solutions to the “modern” disorders caused by stress.

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Li created new theories of Chinese medicine.[1] His theories eventually formed into a prominent school of thought based on the balance of the digestive system and its relationship to stress. Before that time, disease was thought to come mainly from bugs outside of the system. After the brutal lessons from the Mongols, Chinese doctors better understood the relationship between emotions and digestive health. Since that time, every major formula for digestion has taken the effects of stress into account. Continue reading →

What Fungi Can Teach You about Diet

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“Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.”

– Paul Stamets

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Fungi are critical to plant life and the overall health of a forest. They break down dead matter and help life to spring anew. They are at once some of largest organisms on the planet and among the smallest.

Fungi are diverse and can eat a wide range toxic materials. Some consume heavy metals, plastic, and toxic waste. After the tragic nuclear fallout in Chernobyl radiotrophic fungi began to restore the environment. They used their pigment melanin to convert radiation into chemical energy.

Fungi are capable or restoring order in ways we are just beginning to understand. They are among the more chemically active substances on our planet. The right fungi can serve as medicines, while having the wrong ones can make you hallucinate or even prove to be fatal. They are powerful and prolific. Their spores are everywhere. Continue reading →

Yawning and Sighing

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SIGHING

When people are stressed they naturally sigh. This is how the body blows off steam and relaxes. The exhalation is stronger than the inhalation. When people are hot or stressed, they exhale forcefully with a “hhhaaaa” sound. It is similar to the way a dog pants on a hot day. When people are angry they tend to raise their voice of shout. This is because they are forcing out air with every breath. At a fundamental level it isn’t that different from Lamaze breathing during childbirth to alleviate pain. It’s quite literally how we vent. It’s how we expel. It’s how we cough and sneeze.If you need to “Get something off your chest.” This is a good way to do it. Continue reading →

Survive the End of Antibiotics

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According to Dr Arjun Srinivasan, director of the Center for Disease Control (CDC), “We’ve reached the end of antibiotics.” Antibiotics are one of the main cornerstones of modern medicine. Everything from surgery to chemotherapy depends upon them. Without antibiotics, we will no longer be able to use modern medicine. In the last century, our  over reliance  on antibiotics and ignorance of the climate barrier has created conditions for  super bugs. It is not a question of if a major plague will thin out the human population, but when. With our modern population density and international travel, we can expect death tolls that will make the bubonic plague seem mild. The more we rely on antibiotics, the faster these super bugs will develop. These superbugs are not evil. They are just like wolves or mosquitoes or anything else that can potentially kill you. They will simply become part of the ecosystem. How they influence you will depend on your ability to adapt. If you want to discover how to adapt yourself, you must first look at how the climate affects living things.   Continue reading →

Qi and Gut Balance

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” …and He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”

— Genesis 2:7

 

The gasses in the Universe form a living breath. The Sun is a burning ball of gas. Hydrogen and oxygen combine to form droplets of water which fall to Earth as rain. In a flash of lighting, nitrogen descends to Earth. As this breath of the heavens mixes with soil, the land becomes a living thing.

The gasses in the heavens descend to the Earth allowing life to thrive. As the winds blow over the landscape microbiota in the soil rise up on vapors into the atmosphere. Sometimes when the light is just so you can see the fullness of the air.

I was maybe six years old when it first donned on me that the air wasn’t empty.  In the morning light, sunbeams shone through an old window. I could see the dust floating and swirling in imperceptible currents. It seemed at once like an the undulating ocean or the swirling of the cosmos. Continue reading →