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Leg Cramps and Low Blood Pressure on 80/10/10

Started by mckohtz. Last reply by Cheryl T Apr 18. 6 Replies 0 Likes

I'm finding hard to eat 80/10/10 especially with a family that doesn't, but also with some of the symptoms I have with it. I can do it for breakfast but if I do pure 80/10/10 for a day or two, I get…Continue

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Comment by Sephtan on April 12, 2013 at 3:25am: Definitly related. This video might be of some help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBQaoxGi2VA&list=PL221E843A5C670B07

But I am not sure how much 80 10 10 or natural hygiene can actually help with trauma work or better how deep it can go. Still working on that one. But there are a lot of things that can be done additionally like EMDR, Holotropic Breathwork, Peakstates, ... you could look into. Seeing your husband die, working a strenuous job, ... dealing with all that alone is a lot, but there is also a lot that can be done to break a vicious circle and turn it into a virtuous circle. Glad to read you are making progress :)

Wanted to write sooner but my life is more or less a permanent spiritual emergence, so stuff like this can take a while

Comment by Cheryl T on April 12, 2013 at 1:39am: Happy note... losing weight... doing 100 squats a day w/ my daughter... paying off my debt... adding more fruit... decluttering my mind and body.... Does anyone else believe that it's all related? --- clutter of the mind leads to clutter of the body or home--maybe it's the other way around- a vicious cycle

Comment by Cheryl T on April 2, 2013 at 11:29am: just tried the EFT's and think I may have discovered the deeper problem (been frustruated at work lately- as hospital RN and Sitting here crying (a little)...when the patient's seem to want to give up and start to ''CTD'' (Circle the drain) I get angry-- well about 5 yrs ago- I came home and found my hubby dying (brain aneurysm) and despite my efforts could not save him- I yelled at him- angry that he would die on me... I think it's related... At nursing school- it's a challenge unlike any other- you have to be perfect and hard on yourself to make it. They don't prepare you for all the death that you encounter. I gotta get over this... gotta eat more fruit and deal w/ this.

thanks everyone for letting me unload and now-- Let the Healings Begin!, raising my mango up in the air. CT

Comment by Cheryl T on April 2, 2013 at 10:33am: Thanks Sephtan, I have difficulty sorting out my thoughts... mind-body- and home... I guess I need to imagine a huge metal trash bin and toss anything that no longer serves me... I know it's all related somehow... Thanks again CT :o)

Comment by Sephtan on March 31, 2013 at 10:08pm: Meditation is a good exercise to transfere a state of high awareness into everyday life and also to reduce mind chatter. I really love the saying / joke / play of words "Better to meditate than just sitting around doing nothing" :). I try to be careful with films like What the bleep because they tend to be a bit ... over the top, which can lead to frustration. Some of the scientists from the movie distanced themself from the movie afterwards saying they been quoted out of context. When it comes to creating my own reality I try to stay on a more .. human level - like when I act nice towards others, it increases the chances that they will act nice towards me, but not for certain. There are a lot of factors at work there including once own subconcious mind acting not nice without me knowing it, so for me that too mostly boils down to awareness. A nice combination of awareness and creating ones reality on a "human level" can be found in this saying from Ghandi:

Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words. Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions. Consider and judge your actions, for they have become your habits. Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values. Understand and embrace your values, for they become your destiny.

Comment by Cheryl T on March 26, 2013 at 3:35am: Thanks Sephtan, I will check out the EFT-- my youtube not working now for some reason... I don't meditate yet but I'm going to do it- one of my goals and perhaps one of the most important as each day we make our reality... at least that's what they say on the movie, "What the bleep do we know?"... good movie! C.T. :-)

Comment by Sephtan on March 26, 2013 at 2:00am: Namaste Cheryl :)

ETF stands for Emotional Freedom Technic. The theory behind it is that tapping some meridian points can help to release ... stuff. A lot of people are, of course, trying to make money with it, but the technic itself was actually free from the beginning and you can find masses of youtube videos showing it. I heard from people having good results with it but I was never one who could feel them (but I used be dissociated from my feelings and they are even now still somewhat new for me). In my therapy I am told to use one of them, and while I am still not feeling anything related to that tapping the therapy itself has helped me that much, that I am doing it at home too now. Only because I am not able to feel the result doesn't mean nothing is happening :)

Comment by Cheryl T on March 26, 2013 at 1:03am: HEY SEPHTAN!.. oops- sorry to yell... h.e.y. (whispering. Lol)... what does "ETF" mean? Cheryl :-)

Comment by Sephtan on March 25, 2013 at 2:43pm: Thanks Cheryl. I had a huge slip this weekend, but that also meant that I was able to take a break, think more clearly, get my motivations straight - and of course epxperience how extremly bad I feel (body, not emotions - they are nicely tuned down) in comparison to only eating fruits. While I probably wont be able to get just one layer but half the onion at once, I will do what you suggested - it is my usual approach - I also combine it with some ETF. I think I also bring it more out into the open, or at least myself - like alone managing to join this site has helped me a lot, being around positive people - and it took me a very long time to register. But now I'm nearly falling asleep in my chair so I hope what I wrote made sense and I will still feel sick from my slip when I wake up for a better motivation :)

Comment by Cheryl T on March 25, 2013 at 1:48pm: Hi Sephtan, I hear ya, my suggestion for learning to deal with vs suppressing feelings... Maybe just take 1 layer of the onion at a time and meditate... bring up a simpler issue and just sit and feel it-- no judgements- it is what it is- but once you've faced it- and sat with it- maybe it won't be so scary. I'm listening to Pema Chodran a Budhist nun I think- have her ''Getting Unstuck'' audiobook. She's good... best wishes, Cheryl :o)