Reprogramming a faulty mechanism
Oh, task-master within my mind: I cannot caffeinate myself or snack myself into focusing on my work when my body wants a nap so bad. It’s time I listen to my soul, not to you. No more Crohn’s.
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Lois’ Health Care Reformation
I have been quite sick again with Crohn’s since my adventures at the significantly less than ideal jobs I went through over the last four months. The showdown with at the English language school with the mean office queen, the Punjabi trainer lady from hell at the Indian restaurant… the cockroach cocktail I inadvertently had (cockroach fell into my glass of water) did not help the situation, nor did the broken sewer line at that location.
Then, at the glorified diner I was scheduled practically non-stop, and my heavy thick-soled waitress shoes irritated the arch of my foot and my knees. So the inflammation spread to those parts of my legs, and I have been hobbling around like an old lady. The pain peaked yesterday, I had arthritic sores on my knee, I was in bad shape.
I’m playing chicken with seeing the doctor for some prednisone. I have been on the SCD diet, but it was not kicking in this time.
I started up again doing weekly or bi-weekly colonics. I started an intensive acupuncture treatment. Interestingly, I found through the electronic meridian test that the Chi in my stomach was weak, and too strong in my lungs, large intestine, and three warmers (whatever these are). The lungs are grief, which does not surprise me. The “autoimmune” label does not surprise me, because when I was a teen I had suicidal tendencies because of the grief that I was submerged and trapped in. The weak stomach makes sense.
Stomach is where we accept nourishment. I have understood that for me, the diarrhea is a repudiation of that nourishment, as was the bulimia of my youth. It is time for me to ACCEPT the nourishment that is self-love.
I’ve started taking huge amounts of oil of oregano, topically and ingestion, following Jini Patel Thompson’s protocol. Bentonite clay, vitamins, fish oil, enzymes, probiotics. I’ve pulled out all the fireworks I can muster.
Last night I felt a shift. I wasn’t in SO much freaking pain in my legs. I hope this trend of betterment continues.
On Techniques Releasing Negative Emotions
I been wanting to write about a very easy and accessible technique to release negative emotions. When I was getting colonics for the ulcerative colitis, my hydro-therapist told me about the “baby’s breath.” It is something that one of her babies did, like a pant with the belly moving in and out rapidly, followed by a deep inhalation and loud exhalation. Seen from the perspective of babies being wiser than we often give them credit for, the technique is worthy of considering how to apply to adult life.
Another healer I was working with recommended Dr. Berceli’s book, The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process. I didn’t get the book, as money is tight, but through browsing the web I found that the premise of his book is based on the idea that we shake after a trauma for a reason: it releases the trauma from our system. His book describes how to bring on a state of shaking muscles specifically to release trauma still being held by the body.
I feel that the baby’s breath works the same way- especially for me in my gut region. When I pant and my belly shakes, and then I deeply inhale and exhale, I feel “stuff” dislodging. I love it. It is the only technique that I actually feel working, and I am so grateful for it. I can use it any time, any place, rather discretely. It has also changed the way I cry. I no longer pack it in, but using the breath, crying is the release that it is meant to be.
Health-Care Reform would…
End the bias towards pharmaceutical companies and singled-out dependence on drug therapy!
Educate about real food outside the box and package!
Drive less, walk more!
Be a behemoth of a switch to a nation of preventative care.
What is it to be good to yourself?
Food Obsession
It is remarkable how much I enjoy the food that I enjoy. I think that I may be a bit obsessed. The contrast between the alkalizing diet and the SCD (Simple Carbohydrate Diet) that I am following in my quest for healing has provided me with a sense of profound gratefulness for the items that are available to me. There are very few shortcuts available to me, which is fine, because I am a capable cook. I am eating wholesome, hearty, well-rounded meals, and loving it. Even while I am eating, I scheme about the delicious meal I will have next.
Here is what my day of eating looked like today:
Breakfast: smoothie with banana, yogurt, and cottage cheese. (The yogurt I make, extra fermented (24 hours) so that all the lactose gets broken down into a more simple sugar. Extra-ripe banana, and dry-curd cottage cheese.) A couple of poached eggs, and fruit juice jello (grape).
Lunch: a home-baked chicken breast seasoned with sage, steamed asparagus, a salad with red-leaf lettuce and a home-made red wine vinegarette with dill and red onions.
Snack: a piece of you-guessed-it, home-made almond bread with almond butter (store-bought, can you believe it) and honey. Mmmmmm, sweets, my favorite.
Dinner: Home-made chicken soup. Buffalo meatloaf with home-made ketchup (has to be sweetened with honey, and no weird starchy ingredients like xanthan gum) and cauliflower mashers.
Thank goodness for left-overs of I would never leave the kitchen because I’d always be cooking.
Since starting the diet I have learned how to make my own practically everything. The best items so far have been almond bread (guess what, I ground the almonds to make the flour) and honey-sweetened strawberry jam.
Bees, I love you. Please stick around and pollenate the flowers and make delicious bee vomit here on Earth for a very long long time.
Nina Lois is a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Denver obtaining a Master's Degree in Humanities. Her passions are broad when it comes to the human condition. She is deeply interested in philosophy, psychology, yoga, gardening, music, myth, story-telling and shamanism. 
She understands that the greatest enemy is the self, and the Self the greatest source of nurture. For goodness's sake, love the body and feed the soul!
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