The wages of sin are death. Sin = missing the mark. Food to heal, vs food to die

The Wages of Sin are Death

“Sin” = Missing the Mark

What mark/ goal / aim are we missing if we are sick or dying?

You can eat anything you want. No laws against filling yourself with food that will clearly lead to ill health.

Sin is missing the mark, which means we need to be very clear about what our mark/ aim/ goal is.

In terms of health, we could have the aim/ mark/ goal of treating our body as a temple.

We could have the aim/ mark/ goal of living to a hundred in a healthy and totally mentally and physically capable state.

In terms of that aim/ mark/ goal these foods are “sin”

Sugar

Modern wheat ( the bread of the Bible was far, far different wheat. See the book, Wheat Belly. Modern wheat has been mutated beyond recognition by our cells and has disastrous results.)

All pasteurized dairy except grass fed butter.

The bad oils. See Fats that Heal and Fats that Kill.

White carbs like potatoes and almost all flour products.

Pause:

(Why is this so important to me?

Food and health are super important to me. My father died of brutal cancer. My Mother’s brilliant mind rotted away. I was sickly as a child. Very sickly. Read the essay on my childhood terror with almost daily asthma if you wish the fuller story:  http://wakeup-feldenkrais.blogspot.com/2017/01/asthma-terror-health-food-fanaticism.html)

Back to the road to death via missing the mark foods.

Canned foods.

The whole list of the “Dirty Dozen”, the foods most contaminated by pesticides. Cides = kill, = poison. If you’ve ever lived near grapes or tomatoes and watched the poisons being sprayed from air or tractor, you’d realize how grime it is. What are the dirty dozen. See my food page http://www.4brainfitness.com/Stuck2Unstuck/Food,_Health,_Transformation.html

And maybe almost as bad as wheat and sugar: industrial meat, cows and chickens and worst of all pork, raised in stuffed conditions and fed corn to fat and poison them, so we can have poisoned meat. 

Don’t believe me? 

That’s good. If you want great health you’ve got to do the work. But only if your goal is to honor your temple and live healthy until at least 100.

If that’s a goal, or a possible goal you might want to watch the DVD Fresh, or the  DVD Food, Inc. 

I haven’t seen Farmaggedon yet, but I suspect it has the same message: industrial food is a straight line to heart attack, cancer, diabetes and obesity.

Ah, but this is a lot of trouble to avoid all that.

Well, it’s all about sin as missing the mark/ aim/ goal.

What if your  mark/ aim/ goal is one of these:

To have food that “tastes good” in your mouth

To eat what you are used to/ makes you comfortable.

To eat like everyone else.

To stuff yourself with something to have familiar sensations that drown out the rest of the day.

To “reward” yourself for putting up with a life you don’t like.

If these are your  mark/ aim/ goal, then eat all the pizza you want. Or almost all food at restaurants that don’t serve farm to table meat. Or the quick fast food that seems to “do it” right away.

The wages of that might be death or dying, but that is “sin” only if you don’t want a death before your rightful time.

Life is tragic and glorious. We can chose. If we don’t, there are consequences.

We die young.

We get sick. (And not all sickness is bad eating. But almost all.)

This isn’t God’s fault. It’s our conscious or unconscious choice of goals. He didn’t invent industrial farming or pesticides or pasteurized milk. Sugar in Biblical days was almost always from honey, and wasn’t much. Wheat as I’ve mentioned was a non-mutated and very different food.

We can ignore this.

We can “go to the trouble” to make clear what our real goals are.

What a drag.

Or: what an immense opportunity!

Four Suggestions for "lots of fatigue" during a series of lessons

I'm working with a Pilates and Personal Coaching Gal,
looks great,
does fine work with her clients
and in all sorts of pain, in her ribs and neck
on one side from an accident awhile back.

She had temporarily gotten the pain to be "under control"
when she became a Pilates instructor and developed a
great deal of strength,
strength with which she seemed to be able to hold
herself rigid enough not to feel pain

Eventually that didn't work.
She came to me,
and though the lessons need to be slow
and delicate,
huge shifts are happening.

BUT she called, worried that she is sleeping hours
after each lesson and fatigued and taking naps even on
days between lessons. Was this okay.

Four part answer:

1.

This is great. All the healing that didn't get to take place
after the accident,
that got more or less "swept under the rug"
by her strength training,
is now getting to happen.

She needs lots of sleep for this healing time.

Also, all the mobility her strength was holding in bay,
and than can now inch forward out of pain
because we are re-wiring the brain to work the whole system,
all that re-wiring needs lots of integration time.
Hence more sleep.

So, goody. Sleep and rest all you can.

BUT

2. Before you take your naps, or go to sleep for the night:
do small movements, aware movements.
Movements she has learned in the lessons.
Movements she feels good about, and does slowly and gently.
The famous touch the ground, lift to the sky movement.
Get high quality movement reawakened before sleep,
so the brain can be working on that in the sleep and rest time.

3 Put to yourself the "big picture" questions
before you go to sleep:
what dreams and changes do you have for the
next thirty years.
What can your dreams tell you about pathways and adventures
you'd like to include in your life.
Get excited about sleep in this third realm: the prepare for new
territories in your life.
And dreams to help you see things you can't quite see clearly.

So sleep:
to heal and integrate the wounds and the learning

to practice and expand the new movements while we sleep

to dive deeper into and take advantage of any wisdom from the unconscious

The first and second sound almost the same,
but in the context of my one, two, three,
the first is the healing of the ribs and the neck from long ago,
that is now being attended to,
the second is deepening learnings of new movements and patterns and the ease
and pleasure they create
and the third
is just getting interested in what the sleep and dream and intuitive world has to teach us

And a fourth suggestion?

What is my work about?

Being present.
And creating learning and awareness no matter what.
And giving ourselves the joy and freedom that a life of curiosity almost always brings.

So, she has, or anyone has a "fatigue thing."
What differentiation can we notice about our fatigue?
Is it always the same?
Is it in our neck, our ears, our toes, our breathing, our eyes.
Is it the same on the left side or the right?
Is morning fatigue different than afternoon fatigue?
What kind of words do we have in our heads when fatigue starts
to come along?
If we stand up and move slowly, gently and with awareness does the
fatigue shift?
If we take a walk while in fatigue, does is shift the walk? Does our fatigue shift?

Which is all to say:
put part of the attention on the fatigue
and part on learning about and playing with the fatigue
and part of curiosity about the fatigue
and part on getting more clear about the different subparts to the fatigue

A Sufi master of name Idries Shah, when busy putting out a whole slew of books
that brought the Tales of the Dervishes, and the Sufis and Nasrudin to the west,
would feel "tired."
He would go out and rake leaves for awhile.
If the tired went away, he'd know what he'd been feeling was mental staleness.
if the tired stayed, he'd know it was time for a nap.

Now Sufis do sensing exercises, so for all we know he did something close
to two above by sensing himself in certain ways as he feel asleep in his naps.

Who knows?

But everyone's fatigue is different.
What can we discover about it and it's parts?
Can we make it "more."
Can we make it so it's just on our left side?
Mainly in our left foot?

There are many possibilities.
Many.

These three books, by the way
are MUST READING
for anyone on any spiritual path:

Tales of the Dervishes


Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin


The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin

What to do after the Surgery: Or, New Wine in New or Old Bottles/ Skins?

NEW WINE IN OLD BOTTLES




How to be kind to yourself after a “big shift”

Sometimes Life throws us what could be called a “big shift.” In the Bible Jesus talks about this “big shift” as the creation of ourselves as a new person, as New Wine. And He says, Why put the New Wine in Old Bottles, it will just go to waste that way. Put the New Wine in New Bottles.

The quote from my version of the New Testament, a highly recommended, The Restored New Testament: A New Translation with Commentary, Including the Gnostic Gospels Thomas, Mary, and Judas by Willis Barnstone, goes like this:

“No one pours new wine in old skins,
Since the wine splits the skins,
And both wine and skins are lost.
No, put the new wine in new skins.”

This is hugely applicable today, in the era of so many hip, shoulder, knee replacements. This is the New Wine. Because without a New Bottle, we really are not getting any where near all the benefits and improvements we could.

We had the shoulder or hip or knee surgery because we weren’t using ourselves in an ease-ful and pleasurable and efficiently masterful way. Basically, we were using our body as a neglected step-child, not really paying attention to our dis-ease and pain until they became intolerable. And truth be told, for people who don’t know about, or know and haven’t tried yet the two methods recommended here, there is often little effective that can be done.

Come to think of it, a chiropractic “adjustment” could be another way to set us up as New Wine.

And after our chiropractic help, we still haven’t addressed the underlying need to organize and sense and move in easy and efficient and pleasurable ways.

So here’s where the Feldenkrais Method, or the Anat Baniel Method come are crucial.

They are the most powerful, and most gentle ways on this planet to create inside of ourselves a new organization, a New Bottle for the New Wine of post operation, or post chiropractic. (Post alcohol, and post dis-ease, too, and during cancer and depression, and that’s a longer story, but thing of this: if we improve ease and comfort and breathing and pleasure in life, how much will that help our Whole Life.)

Almost invariably, people who have had one knee or hip replacement, need the next, and it is almost always from not having created a new organization from the one that created the stress and dis-ease and harm that necessitated the first operation.

Does that mean after two knee operations, or the second hip operation you should do FM or ABM? Only if you want to have a low level of ease, comfort, awareness and functioning for the rest of your life.

Don't worry, also from the Bible, but that doesn't mean "do nothing," it means: put your energy into love and improvement and into making the world a better place, and stop fretting. See, if you'd please, yesterday's posting: Don't Worry, Be Happy

Good.

sept 11

didn't write my Wednesday ramble
yesterday
and
today
is a famous
day

september 11

things
"went wrong"
if you/ we/ one
held the story:
no one can do rude
and senseless attacks
on Americans
in America

I'll skip any talk
of perhaps
attacks have come from
our organized violence
wing,
known
as the military
(and composed
of fine
and sometimes confused
and often idealistic
and often brainwashed
and sometimes clear as a bell
young men)

people
can get into habits

the enemy
habit
has been the ruin
of a million marriages
throughout history
and probably
even this moment,
this very moment
a million relationships
are suffering from the

ME RIGHT .... YOU WRONG

ME GOOD....YOU BAD

wars


and so nations,
something
goes
wrong,
and the
so called "leaders,"
go for habit
rather than
learning,
and
find
an
enemy
and attack


and
alas,
many suffer as
a result

and
also:

in

our bodies:
we often
fall back on
the same habit,
almost,
and
find an enemy:
the pain,
the clumsiness,
the inflexibility,
the limitation,
the I can't do that
place

and attack

and gosh,
just what that place
needs,
like a child confused
and afraid
and having a "bad day"
is someone to slow down,
listen
pay attention,
ask
and discover:
what's going on?

how can we make that a little better?

how can we pay attention in
a soft
and easy
and
healing
way?

ah,
nice idea for
"bodies"
and
"partners"
and
of course
even for ourselves




more thoughts
on sept 11
and the "enemy game"
over at the Brain Plasticity
and Amazing Changes blog

ciao,
for
now

Now, Mindfulness, Movement, Healing

We come into this world whole.

And wholy dependent.

With a huge brain,
and lots to learn.

We try this,
we discover that.

Our brains and
our bodies
learn to move,
learn to roll over,
learn to sit up,
learn to crawl.

Words come our way,
we make sounds,
we stumble on words,
we discover the meaning
of that game.

And then,
a sort of sleep descends
we fall into habits,
our dependence
has created habits
huge habits
of addiction to approval
feal of disapproval
we stop exploring
we stop living in the moment

we are no longer whole

many ways to get back

movement
mindful movement
experimental mindful movement

is one of the best

partly because it's away from words,
the way we were when we started
partly because it's so "real"
when we feel how our arm or leg
or spine "feel" (sensing the actual bone
and muscle and blood and movement)
and partly because we spend so
much of our time
in our bodies
but not really knowing we are
there,
which is to say:
here

so,
welcome home
if you want to come home
to now
to movement
to awareness

waking up moving
a nice thing to learn
a nice thing to discover
a nice way to live

ciao