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March 14, 2009
Why it is vital to be gentle with yourself
Hi ,
Daylight savings is here. It is nice to have evenings in the light again. This makes it easier for me to generate the motivation to get to the gym in the evenings to work out. There is something about getting home when it is dark and raining that just doesn't excite me to go right back out again. Plus this means more walking time which I am going to need in a couple months when I go to Japan for my son's graduation from Temple University in Tokyo. He is promising that we will be walking a minimum of 5 miles a day for the week I will be there.
How are you doing with switching to non-sugared beverages and away from sodas and sugary fruit juices? For myself, I have been making lemonade with fresh squeezed lemons and limes and adding in some of the high strength sugar replacement I created 2 weeks ago for the office. For a special treat I have also been buying unsweetened coco flavored almond milk and adding in the same sweetener. Delicious.
Lets continue with trimming the sugar from our diets with the next health challenge.
Health Challenge # 4: Stop buying any products with sugar as one of the first seven ingredients.
Sugar hides in products under many names like high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup solids, rice syrup, sucrose, fructose, maltose, dextrose, lactose, glucose, fruit juice concentrate, honey, molasses, cane sugar, turbinado sugar, invert sugar, date sugar, modified food starch, disaccharides, polysaccharides, and many others. The idea is not to be afraid of sugar, but to recognize that it is designed to be used like salt or spices - as a flavoring agent, not as a main food ingredient. Sugar is not dangerous in small quantities. It is the excess that creates the danger - anything in excess can kill us, even water.
Why it is vital to be gentle with yourself
How are you doing with being a little kinder with yourself? Last time I wrote about taking little steps one at a time towards your health goals. This is not about me being nice and trying to make things easier. This is about what it takes to make things effective. When we "buckle down" what we are really doing is stepping into a left brain control mode designed for short-term survival. It is part of the fight-or-flight mechanism that blocks out pain in order to survive the moment. This is very useful in emergency situations where we may need to override pain in order to do some amazing things to survive. The problem with this mechanism is that those pain signals are important, they are there to tell us we are damaging ourselves. The amazing things we can accomplish in emergency situations occur at a price. That price is our health. We may create permanent damage to our joints, muscles, even our brain, during this override of feelings. So while this is a worthwhile price to pay to survive, it is a lousy price to pay simply to be comfortable. Here is the big issue - people like to go into left brain control mode because it blocks pain - physical, emotional, and mental pain. This means we can think we are ok even when we are not. This is like cutting the wires to the warning lights and speedometer on your car dash so you can feel more comfortable driving. You can pretend everything is all right no matter how fast you are going or how many bad things may be happening to your engine. If you truly think being pain-free would be a good thing then I suggest volunteering at a leper colony. Leprosy is a disease of the pain nerves in your body that makes them not work; hence you feel no pain in your body. Without pain you can not feel when you damage yourself. You have no ability to tell when something gets infected, torn, or even falls off. The body can't even internally regulate itself to direct healing to injured areas without pain signals. Our life works the same way when we live in left brain control. Without the constant feedback of our feeling self to guide us, we become like the leper. We are unable to heal. We don't even notice when important pieces of ourselves fall away. We can not guide ourselves back into health.
What is the upshot of what I am saying? We must be gentle with ourselves if we are to heal. Health is not about fearing and controlling the bad choices. Health is about feeling the consequences of our bad choices and being attracted to better choices.Health is a trial and error process of finding what works best for us individually...what choices actually make our bodies feel good and strong and balanced. In a natural environment Mother Nature provided a simple road map called pain and natural pleasure to guide us to health. For example in a natural environment we seek sweet tastes because things that are sweet in nature are generally not poisonous. We need to use that map today, but we also need to use our intelligence. We have created an unnatural environment in which we can not feel the effects of many of the things that are harmful to us
for a long time
. In our modern environment most things that are sweet are now poisonous... just the opposite of a natural environment. Our natural instincts must now be tempered with awareness and good judgment. Natural pleasure has been replaced with the desire for excitement and the unnatural desire for excess. These are actually just variations on the survival/fear based function of the primitive part of our brain...the same part that avoids feeling. It seems to serve a purpose in the moment, but just remember that its actions lead to ill health physically as well as mentally and emotionally. Feel your way to health. That means a slow and very personal process. It does not work to jump onto other people's bandwagons. We are all different on every level and need different diets and lifestyles to be healthy. I can suggest things to try that I find improve health, but you must then feel the effect of these suggestions for yourselves and see if it helps you personally. This is part of what I mean when I say be gentle with yourself. Find what fits you, because ultimately that is the only thing that will work in the long run.
Good Journey,
David
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Whale Watch: wow, a complete stop in progress. I can feel my metabolism has slowed down tremendously - cold extremities and lowered body temperature. The trick I was trying to play on the body by fasting every other day and eating "normally" on the alternate days to try to convince the body to keep the metabolism up has obviously not worked. That was part of my experiment - to see if that would work.
My next focus is to look at food sensitivities. I am pretty sure I react to dairy and wheat. I usually don't eat either but I chose to have some last night - and bam, this morning I was 3 1/2 pounds heavier. I tested foods several years ago, and by strictly observing and staying away from foods that caused inflammation in me I dropped 30 lbs without any other effort. My curiosity is to see if now several years later I am still sensitive to the same foods. I had blood drawn last Wednesday, so I should have results this coming Monday. There is only one lab in the country that does this comprehensive food sensitivity testing, and it is in Florida. Up until recently it was very difficult to get this test done in California; but now they have a contract with Westcliff Labs to draw blood under a doctor's orders to have the test done. Since I am a doctor, I could order my own testing... so I did.
Allergy and sensitivity to foods is one of those baseline health issues that is responsible for so many different problems. Almost anything can ultimately be caused by food sensitivities. Here are a couple news reports on this:
As these news reports show, allergies and sensitivities affect every system in your body. I am taking the 200 food test. When I did this several years ago I also tested food additives, colorings, and preservatives. If you are interested in this for yourself just ask at the office as we can order this testing for you and have the listing of their tests and prices on file, or send me a request and I will email you a pdf of their tests and prices. email: david@fairoakshealth.com
The watch continues...
David
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness is giving creates love. - Lao-Tse
TV linked to asthma risk doubling
This was an interesting article linking television watching to the development of asthma...sort of. The real substance of the article is really about how important exercise is for your young child's developing lungs. Television watching simply related to time not being spent moving and playing. Life is movement. Over and over I tell patients to "move it or lose it". Your body needs movement just like it needs air, water, and food.
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." - Mary Engelbreit
Experts uncover cause of greyness
Wow, I didn't realize that the cause of gray hair was unknown but apparently this is a new discovery. As our hair follicles age they start producing increasing quantities of hydrogen peroxide. We literally bleach our hair as it is being formed.
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
- Francis Bacon
This is kind of cool in a freeway interchange sort of way. It is billed as an amazing prefab house. Well someone was having some big fun with this. The whole house was put up in only 7 days. Half way down the page is a fast forward video of the house being assembled.
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Guest Article
Why Punishing the Rich Is a Bad Idea
By Matt Furey
The latest laugh in the news.
Secretary of State Clinton begs the Chinese to keep the American economy going.
Don't know if you catch the irony. For years, we've been told that China is nothing but a bunch of thugs who do NOTHING but abuse human rights - and, yes, there are abuses I don't agree with.
But to be fair, very little is reported on the Chinese love of capitalism. Very little on how they love the sound of the cash register going "ka-ching." Very little on the number of rich now living there.
Funny, isn't it?
China changed direction when they stopped redistributing the wealth and did as Deng Xiao Ping advised.
What did he advise?
Two things:
1. To Grow Rich Is Glorious.
2. Yi bu fen ren, qian fu qi lai.
Translation for #2: If you want the country to prosper, you must let a few people at a time get rich. You CANNOT make everyone rich at the same time.
Deng realized that prosperity "trickles down." Some people get wealthy. They, in turn, inspire more to do likewise. And the next batch inspires more. And so on.
But if you punish the rich, if you spread the wealth... the country loses and no one wins.
Now let me be even clearer about something. I am NOT saying we should leave Bernie Madoff alone. I am also NOT thinking of him when I think of capitalism. Nor am I am thinking of anyone else who is corrupt.
Some people have the misguided notion that capitalism and corruption go hand in hand.
No they don't. That's why we have laws.
Yes, there are those who will use capitalism in illegal ways. But their crimes are nothing compared to the crimes of those who steal your dignity and humanity in favor of making everything "fair."
The other day my wife, Zhannie, told me something I didn't know about her early days in China - before we married:
"When I worked in the factory in China, before the government opened the door and let people make money," she said, "everyone got the same pay, no matter what.
"It was 35 dollars a month.
"So we took our knitting needles to work. And everyone knitted when they were supposed to be working. Everyone in my family can knit. Blankets, sweaters, clothes, you name it.
"And we'd go home for lunch and stay too long. Or we'd sneak outside and play around. We did as little as possible. Everyone was this way. NO ONE worked hard. Everyone told you NOT to do your best because it didn't matter anyway. You got paid the same no matter what."
When it came to money, China used to have no self-image. But when it changed... look what happened.
And now the U.S. government is begging these "thugs" to help us with our economy.
Very, very interesting.
Now let's look at money on a personal level.
Truth is that although most people will tell you they'd like to have more - if you had a barometer that measured how they feel inside about the idea of having more, you'd find that their feelings don't match what they say they want.
What this means is quite simple: If you have a goal but your emotional state is incongruent with that goal, you'll never attain it.
It's easy to say you WANT something. But how do you FEEL inside when you say you want it?
How do you feel inside when you picture yourself having it? If the answer is anything less than absolutely fantastic, you aren't going to get what you want.
Your ability to achieve goals is directly proportional to the level of passion you have inside about them. When the commies didn't let anyone make money above and beyond anyone else, no passion. And no prosperity.
Success and positive FEELING go hand in hand.
This is why it's so important to imagine what you want. But before you do so, you've go to put yourself into the right FEELING state.
If you imagine what you want when you're in a negative feeling state, you begin attracting the opposite of what you want.
Right now, most of the U.S. is in a negative feeling state about the economy. And this situation isn't going to change until our leadership and their lap-dog media begin to change the way they're communicating on the subject. Right now, they're imagining nothing but crisis and catastrophe - and they're creating more of it with each passing day.
But I wonder what would happen if they changed what they're imagining - what they're communicating - and gave people optimism and hope instead of fear and despair.
What would happen if they stopped blaming and started changing?
It boggles the mind to imagine such a thing, because I know how much a changed imagination will change YOU.
I also know how fast your life will change when you open the gates and allow the good to enter.
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About Dr. DeLapp
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Dr. DeLapp has been a philosopher, non-force Chiropractor, medical intuitive, and health innovator for over 30 years. He began experimenting with medical intuition in 1972 while studying physics at UC Davis. In addition to physics he designed and completed an individual major in the philosophy and psychology of education. Shortly after he choose to pursue a career in the only truly health oriented profession available at that time, Chiropractic. He graduated with honors in 1981 with his doctorate and opened a private practice.
Since that time he has continued his research into the effects of consciousness and learning on health.
He developed the Biomagnetic Retraining system for correcting movement abnormalities.
Since 1991 he has focused on developing a powerful system for uncovering and assisting the mind-body connection in health and personal growth. The in-depth coaching, guided by the subconscious direction from the body, is called Heartflow and the simpler mind-body retraining for health and unfoldment he has named Gracework. Both are available at Fair Oaks Health.
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Chocolate Protein Bars
Ellen has a very fast metabolism. As a consequence she needs to eat frequent small meals. This is not always convenient, so she likes to carry protein bars in her purse to hold her over at times. The problem is finding good quality low carb high protein bars that don't cost as much as a whole meal at a restaurant...so I decided to see what I could whip up. This is a work in progress and many variations will likely result. If you have tried this yourself or know a good recipe, let me know. Here goes:
1/2 c. Coconut Oil - melted
1/2 c. Almond or peanut butter
1/2 c. Unsweetened chocolate drops or 2 squares of baking chocolate
4 tsp of 4x super sugar (or stevia to taste)
4 scoops (80 gms) pea protein
½ - 1 tsp. Vanilla
pinch of salt
1/2 c. almond slices
1 c. Brown Rice Crisps
Melt the coconut oil and chocolate in a pan over very low heat. Add the Super sugar, protein, vanilla, and salt and blend all the ingredients together until smooth. Any type of pure protein powder can be used...see what you like the taste of best. Taste to adjust the salt content to your liking. Add the almond slices and rice crisps and mix well. Line a glass storage container with plactic wrap and turn your mixture into the pan and flatten it out. You want to use a container that will leave the mixture about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch thick. I used a 5"x5" container. Put the mixture in the refrigerator for an hour or so. Once set cut the mixture into at least 8 pieces. Each piece will have 10 grams of protein, 2-3 grams of carb, and about 230 calories...a nice meal replacement while on the run.
I am thinking of adding inulin powder to my next batch to add more fiber to the bar. Fiber and protein are the main foods that make you feel full.
Let me know about interesting variations you come up with.
Enjoy!
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