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Days 6 and 7 of 14: We Overlook Our Breath

"Don't just let your business or your job make something for you; let it make something of you."
—Jim Rohn

The idea of self-healing is catching on. Even Rich, my trainer, 'got it' when I told him I had NOT used the inhaler to recover. That's huge for an asthmatic. He recognized that.

Moreover, the Qore DETOX seems to be affecting my weight. I seem to be keeping lost pounds off. And if my initial feeling is right, I feel more mentally balanced. This is a biggy around the holidays--where emotions tend to run very high. Anything that helps me be calm is appreciated. And the detox may be getting stuff out that exacerbates the physical tension, tiredness, and roller coaster emotions of the holidays.

Overlooking our breath is a mistake. Obviously we need it to live. So how interesting we take it for granted. Fail to keep fit. Fail to lose weight if that will make us healthier. (I know a diabetic who criticizes the documentary movie "Supersize Me!" Small wonder. His weight is a challenge for him. It is easier to criticize than change.)

The breath is like the Buddhist teaching to keep 'beginners mind." That is a state of awareness and calm in everything we do and think.

In this series you are reading about a transformation. It is something anyone can do. With the right thinking and actions.

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Day 5 of 14: Acid Test

Well, the day came.

The asthma triggered after I pushed myself on the elliptical exerciser--like cross country but circular steps. I was ok, until Rich had us moving to constrict my upper lung and...

It seemed like it was no better. My breath was short. I pressed on into the ab exercises but I had to stop to regain my breath.

It WAS different though. Sure, it was hard to breathe, but it was because I was cruching my windpipe and upper thorax. My lung was irritated, but I was recovering full breath faster.

And compared with the usual state, where I have high-tailed it to get my inhaler.... I didn't have to. The workout ended at 3pm. It is now 11:20pm.

But, I have not used the inhaler. I never needed it to 'recover." And.  It's cold outside. I worked out physically hard. But no inhaler? Only if you have asthma or COPD will you get the full force of what this feels like.

Freedom.

The Qivana Detox MAY actually be doing what I need it to.  Maybe it is 'fixing' in the ways I would love it to be.

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Day 4 of 14: Addressing Dysfunction, But Not at Applebees

 “I've tried those homeopathic medications, and they don't work.”

“My father was an old man at 55.”

“… may cause nausea, vomiting and headaches. See your physician if symptoms persist.”

We are in a time of significant paradigm shift.  The accompanying changes are not going to be imposed on us. The accompanying changes and their results will be our choice.

In the fourth day of my Detox I don't suddenly feel metal free.  I may notice the subtle side effects, and hopefully my use of inhalers and my congestion will be reduced, even eliminbated. (That's from the research that I've been reading.)

I explained to my friend Nick this morning that taking homeopathic products does not provide  instantaneous pharmaceutical-like "cures."  Neither do they have dangerous side-effects like liver or kidney damage.

The use of homeopathic and natural remedies, especially those that address bodily systems, are part of a lifestyle change. Becoming truly healthy doesn't happen because of a fix, but because of the lifestyle and behavior change--like eating well always and getting rest and exercise, being in good relationships and so on.

Nick is smart and he gets the idea of balance--he is healthy and has good habits. But he's also around a lot of people living inside their own boxy thinking. I say, they're too busy to consider that there might be another way.

I am preparing a paper, now, that will address how to get 5 to 10 hours of productive time per week. Probably it will need a label that discloses the truth:  Reading this paper may be hazardous to your bad habits and under-productivity.  I really do not intend to be cynical. I find it interesting that we so easily surrender control over our lives.

I just found an old Chinese fortune cookie message. I must have received this over 10 years ago.  It says simply: “He who hurries cannot walk with dignity.”

We permit ourselves to be hurried.

How can we possibly allow ourselves to become so busy that we stop thinking rationally?

Americans are terribly spoiled and like to point blame to an outside cause when things don't work. The tragedy a mindset that misses or belittles opportunities. 

Healthcare system or not, we need to be responsible for our own health… to be responsible for our own financial security… to be responsible for our own family. And not to look to government, or quasi-government services, to manage those jobs.

Maybe this is what's happened for me here. As I detox from heavy metals it's causing me to realize how much I can actually achieve.  Many people say that heavy metals are in oour tissues and body to stay-and someone should stop the polluters and bad producers. As if it's a death sentence of unimaginable scale--and helpless.

I choose otherwise.  Both for the opportunity to rid myself of heavy metals and then to experience   and participate in the extraordinary opportunities before me.

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Day 3 of 14: What the Dormouse Said About Our Mind

`You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, `that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!'
                                                                                                     - Alice in Wonderland

Try this the next time you go to a restaurant.

Find something you like on the menu, say, the special. Call the waitress over. And then ask her, “Is the  special good?”  She will look like she's actually thinking about your question. You'll be able to count… one… two… three. And then she'll say, “Yes. It's VERY good.”

I ask you. What is the difference between that and what the dormouse said?  And really, sometimes life is like the netherworld described in Steig Larsen's books,  and now the movies, like “ The Girl Who Kicked A Hornets Nest.”  In Steig Larson's fictional world, the authority is ultimately revealed as corrupt.  It's something he understood very well from real-life Sweden, that the questions we ask  are often nonsense.  Weak questions make us co-conspirators in hiding the truth.

And yet we do it all the time, probably most dangerously with physicians. “Will this help my asthma?” “Will this add years to my life?” “Is this dangerous?”

I suppose it's a cultural thing that we've given up control of our own decisions to other people. In my own book I decry this and make recommendations about how to make better decisions unilaterally, but using a team of highly trained professionals and experts for their thinking.

A mentor of mine, Dan Kennedy, made a great observation about the truth behind powerful action. "If you're accountable you're in charge, he said. And if you're in charge, you're accountable.”

Several people I know have tried to provide for their own wellness. What's missing in almost every case are consistency and an ongoing level of input and support. These friends tend to work in a vacuum, they take multiple herbs, vitamin supplements and compounds. My sister once made her self sick doing this. Of course, she denied that that's what happened. But I noticed that she stopped swallowing her own mixtures.

One of the benefits of having a clinically tested, scientifically proven business behind a product for wellness is said, particularly if you're involved in business with them, there is a sort of co-responsibility. And in the process of taking regular supplements you're getting the results and adding to your knowledge about your own body and how it works.

The Qore Detox I'm taking, now in the third day, is addressing something that few doctors do,  the cause behind my un-wellness.

What I wasn't fully prepared for when I committed to taking this detox product for the two weeks recommended, is the philosophical shift and the heightened understanding of how directly my own decisions so quickly begin to alter my future.

I hope that sharing these thoughts, here, can help you gain a similar control over your decisions.

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Day 2 of 14: New Thinking About Heavy Metal Detox

Anyone who has a chronic condition, or a condition that reappears seasonally or because of some unhealthy trigger, suffers from an unhealthy distraction.  Within that world are tales of great courage and new thinking.

In his book “Mornings  On Horseback” David McCullough writes about a young Teddy Roosevelt suffered from asthma that was relieved by a nanny who had the boy smoke cigars and drink coffee to quell the wheezy coughing that accompanies the condition. It was Roosevelt's determination to lick his asthma that led him to a lifestyle filled with vigorous health.  Teddy's battle readiness and wild game hunting were part of his response to what in those days might have been a cloistered, asthmatic life.

Research is so easy now. Google has made it so.

Without thinking much about it last night, I started looking at the connections between modified citrus pectin and asthma inhalers, thinking that the albuterol or Advair themselves might contained some metals, either in the distribution mechanism or in the device itself. Instead, my inquiry to me in a different direction. It seems that asthma, and other health challenging conditions, may be the result of the absorption by our tissues of heavy metals, creating an inability for the organ to function properly to keep us well.

I found several references to people who had detoxed from heavy metals and thrown away their inhalers!  Now, I am fortunate to have a doctor who's open-minded to health giving methods such as the use of a Neti pot, in fact he calls my condition “mechanical.”   In other words,  if I'm able to restrict the congestion my asthma loses one of its key triggers. Dr. Stanchina, however, is unusual in medicine today. I do not anytime soon expect the AMA or any other professional medical Association seek remedies for patients other than what is produced in New Jersey or New York out of the lab on a patent.

This is why the use of Detox is starting to really feel like a mission. Everyday I learn a little bit more about what the combination in this product is supposed to do, by combining Dr. Eliaz' research with Qivana's quality mandate.  Something else I realize about incorporating a detox regime into a system, as this company does,  is that it is a self reinforcing, self-care system.

Lewis Thomas, the physician and writer, once observed that with medical progress, physicians have literally distanced themselves from their patients. Doctors once put their ears to the patient's chest to listen for breath and heartbeat. The stethoscope allowed the doctor, and perhaps the patient too, greater comfort and concentration.  And now we have the CAT scan, the x-ray and technology where the doctor and the patient are in separate rooms, sometimes even separate countries.  Thomas himself questioned whether the healing result was the same without the doctor's touch.

In my self-healing effort, I have realized that I need to drink more water, especially during this process. Detoxing in general, and particularly with something like this modified citrus pectin blend, there's a chance of constipation. Now, with some knowledge about what kinds of things are coming out of my tissues, I don't want that stuff hanging around. I want it out and away from my body.

SO far, this detoxing regime is feeling as I had hoped it would. I am optimistic that moving ahead during my lifetime, and continuing this detox quarterly, will help me combat the asthma, even prostate or another cancer, as Dr. Eliaz and my network marketing friends at Qivana intend.

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Day 1 of 14: I Begin Heavy Metal Detox

Teddy and I have each been taking the Qore probiotics for several months.  I have significantly cut back on the use of my inhalers for asthma, albuterol and Advair.  Teddy says she has not noticed much, but Robert, the fellow who helps maintain our house says he's seen her become more energetic in the morning over the last few months. Considering this is a home based business, too, it is worth looking at all the implications.

I am between healthcare insurance plans right now. At 55 I should probably have already had a colorectal exam.  Maybe two. We eat well. We exercise. We work hard and play hard. And like most Americans, I have a health arrogance. I think, “it will never happen to me…” Far too often.

But lately, I've become a little more concerned. I lie awake in the morning and wonder if that feeling in my bowels, if that feeling in my private parts isn't something more. It doesn't make me fearful exactly. But the thoughts are never far from my efforts to plan. Everything else in my business life is going so nicely… it would be a shame for my sons and my relationship if were to end abruptly.

So, last night I took a handful, five, of a blended modified citrus pectin, Qore Detox.

I am told that this is a very high grade of the product and carefully balanced. It is based on work of a Dr. Isaac Eliaz. The Russians, I am told, used a product very similar to this to help the victims of Chernobyl reduce their radioactivity. The Chinese government used a similar product to reduce lead levels of citizens in certain areas of China with high industrial production.  it is a very similar formulation to that used for  three and four-year-old children with high lead levels;  reportedly it has reduced intolerably high levels to acceptable levels in the children within a mere few weeks.

In my case, there is some family pathology linking me to the potential for prostate cancer. The flipside of  my family pathology is a tendency for extraordinary youthfulness. It is not unusual in my family, on both sides, for members to live natural, healthy lives into their  80s and 90s. This is extraordinary in the context of those like my maternal and paternal grandfathers who were born at the turn of the 20th century.  The characteristic appears to be continuing. My own parents  are reasonably vital for eight-year-olds, despite their dealing with “parts troubles” as my mother refers to them, as if she was an automobile going to the shop.

A bright sense of humor is always close at hand.  Another family characteristic.

Still, I don't take anything for granted. And so I was pleased to have the feeling, real or imagined, this morning when I woke, that the Detox had actually begun to work. I had to pee several times during the night, possibly a sign that the detox is already working. Possibly it was nothing, and I just had too much water last evening.

If over the next two weeks I have any feelings of improvement or reduction of that feeling in my colon I'll be very pleased.

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