I'm guessing many of us know the value of this 811 diet. I am wondering what other factors have been crucial in your health and overall well-being?
For me,
Where I live has been very important to me. My intuition told me that the more north I live and the colder, the better. And that it's just good in general for me personally to keep my surroundings cold. Like don't turn on the heater too high.
Drinking enough water, for sure!
I've tried many emotional/spiritual healing modalities, but the only one that's worked for me was Reference Point Therapy
Avoiding idiots is a major contributor to health (do you think we could sell it as a superfood? idiot-avoiding-cacaoberrycadokrillpowder... ah the joys of marketing :)...)
i love osho. i've been listening to a lot of his discourses, lately. one good line of his;
"life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived"
there should be a yoga pose for that!
reading and listening to eckhart tolle has also brought this similar sense of being and knowing
most topics here are focused on the outward and material side of life; diet, exercise, "raw veganism" and so on...and that's okay, it's 30bananas after all. but at some point, i did forget that outer and inner growth must go hand in hand or one of them will play catch-up... remember Dr D's words "we're only as healthy as our weakest link", even if he meant something else
The person that I am today is basically based on the books that I've read and enjoyed over the past 5 years. Looking back I can see that almost every major change that I've made in my life has been inspired by a book that I really liked. Obviously the 80/10/10 book alone has changed my life in so many ways that it's hard difficult to comprehend just how much of an impact it really has had on me so far and will have on me in the future.
Nice thread, I like reading about others' insights on what had made differences in their personal lives. I liked BigG's comment: Avoiding idiots and energy vampires.
Sounds sort of story book, but I can attest, its real. Its really amazing how all energy intertwines, flows, vibrates, sometimes crosses, merges, disrupts, harmonizes, causes feedback, negative and positive. When we encounter a new vibrational set of energy, it affects our own energy. When we begin relationships with other people, those energies mingle and find their harmony or disharmony, they never really go away either, depending on how they meshed.
But staying away from energy vampires may not always be in our "best" interest. Although avoiding unpleasant experiences seems most logical, my reasoning is that their energy came to us so that a lesson may be learned. Now, some people may have a seriously hard time loosening the grip of an energy vampire, but when they break free, there is new life wisdom. New found determination, and hope. Or more.
One thing that has really made a difference in my life, is understanding just that. That life is a journey to gain wisdom. I don't mean academic wisdom, but life wisdom. Everything we do, everyone we meet, everywhere we go.... we take bits and pieces of the experience, and log it away, so that some other day, we will know how to navigate a challenge that lay before us. We remember. I think a lot of people waltz through life thinking that the world OWES them something, and never take ownership in their woes in life, therefore, they fail to learn.
If you are not learning, you are not living.
Ben Piper said:
NLP helped with an understanding of how humans design their experience (how I design my own)... which was extremely useful in helping me understand how come so many people refuse good advice.
that pretty much sums up what I was referring to, and BTW, what is NLP (I will probably say, oh DUH)
Live~Learn~Grow.
I know that I had to walk down some dark roads, and encounter some energy vampires, to find my way to this road I am on now. And although things seemed hopeless, and dark, that is what gave me the strength, will and determination to find my way to where I am now, AND has given me the wisdom to stay here.
Windlord, I see your point - $2.50 for an energy bar would buy a stack o' bananas... anyway, a
guy telling ppl to eat vegan can't be a bad thing; people must then adjust their purchases according
to their budget allowances.
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