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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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.
!Another Way!
It was a miracle that I found the Simple Carbohydrate Diet for Crohn’s!!! (This diet works for ulcerative colitis and other inflammatory bowel diseases, irritable bowel syndrome, candidiasis, celiac, cystic fibrosis, chronic diarrhea conditions and even autism, so the research goes.)
I can eat everything except complex sugars. So honey is OK! No sugar, syrup, milk, or any kind of starch… but I can have so many other things that I missed so much while trying the alkaline diet. With that I lost so much weight, so much energy– it was not for me. The old, virtually vegan diet did not make me feel better at all. Perhaps not in conjunction with the medicine from the Amazon I had gotten, maybe the rice cakes and stratches I should have limited more (but according to the SCD, which is strict, even a little would have kept me in a “vicious cyle”.)
Whew, it was a tough couple of months.
I feel SO much better now, already!!! This diet, brought to light by bio-chemist Elaine Gottscham, has been a god-send, delicious and satisfying for sore and thin guts. It has helped like nothing else has. The idea is that I avoid consuming what my florally unbalanced and damaged intestines cannot assimilate, and the bad bacteria that has been feeding on the leftovers in there is starved out. Gottscham’s book, Breaking the Vicious Cycle describes the science. The SCD website has been particularly helpful as well. As I read about sugar-molecules and colonic colonies of bacteria and what they do, it resonated with me in a way that nothing else has. Scientifically, it attacks the problem, not just masking the symptoms like the pharmaceuticals the docs prescribe for this mystery disease. I have significant reason to believe that after an extended length of time on this diet, I will be the cured one I have been praying to be. I want everyone who suffers like I have to know about this! Relief comes quickly to many, so I’ve read, from the 150 five-star reviews of Gottscham’s book on Amazon, and from my personal testimonial as well.
I can eat meat, cheese, home-made yogurt, cry curd cottage cheese, eggs, fruit, veggies, wine, coffee, black tea…!!! I had no idea how much joy these things bring to my life!
!Yes, I can!
Nina Lois is a graduate student at the University of Colorado at Denver obtaining a Master's Degree in Humanities with a B.A. in political science. Her passions are broad when it comes to the human condition. She is deeply interested in philosophy, psychology, environmental and social justice, peace studies, music, nutrition, tradition, and progress. 
Upon her imminent graduation, she wishes to contribute to the health, wealth, and happiness of the community through involvement, writing, and research. For goodness's sake, love the body, cultivate the mind and a garden, and feed the soul!
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