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March 1, 2015
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The illusion of our life is so fragile. Life itself is tough and durable, but our picture of what our life is all about is all smoke and mirrors. As each day goes by we get so wrapped up in the minutia of daily living that we actually believe that what we are having for dinner or where we are going this weekend matters. We lose perspective and instead focus on just what is up for us next to like or dislike. Life becomes a perpetual pursuit of trying to get our way in the world. Maybe because the alternative is too unbearable – feeling how insignificant we all are in this big universe.
What has me wandering down these uncomfortable lines of thought? I believe it began a short while back when my friend and the doctor I traded with, Brent Fisher, died suddenly without any warning. A couple weeks later a patient I had known forever died. Then on the 16th my sweetheart Ellen awoke me in the middle of the night because she was having a stroke. Now she is paralyzed on the left side. Four days later, Hyla, who worked in my office doing ultrasound therapy, unexpectedly died. She had been sick, but there was no hint that her time was up.
None of these people expected their life to suddenly end or take a radical turn. For each, the day before their sudden transition, they were filled with the minutia of daily life. What’s for dinner; check my email; what bills can I put off till next week; anything good on TV? Life as we know it is full of this stuff. And yet at any moment it could all be ripped away without any warning at all.
Maybe that is the key. Because the unknown is in fact unknown, we can’t prepare for it. Because we can’t prepare for it, we ignore it. Sometimes we do a warm fuzzy feeling thing to cover up the ignorance through the use of religion. We choose to believe that someone somewhere knows what is going on and has things well in hand, all to our benefit. But so many lives suddenly ending or being turned upside down, without warning, stretches the conviction that our view of things is on target. Do we have a clue as to what the target even is?
Many people have been concerned about how stressed I must be with Ellen’s stroke. Curiously I have been doing well. In feeling into why that is the case, I find that stress seems to be all about the resistance to what is. Since I am not resisting what is happening, I am not stressing. I am not feeling bad that things are not the way I want them to be. Instead I am staying open and curious as to what new experiences and learning this change of direction will bring. Yes, my lifestyle and routines have been totally disrupted. But the same would have been true if I had decided to vacation in Italy instead of the experience I am currently having. It is not what happens, but how we relate to what happens that creates our real experience.
Our habits and routines in life are temporary. Life changes, that is the nature of life. Nothing stays the same no matter how hard we try to hold on to the past. For myself, I can see that this is true. But on a feeling level I experience a sameness because it is always just me that I am feeling. I still feel like the same me that I was back in college. I know I am different, but some essential part of me is still me, always and forever. I can’t say what part that is because it is a part of me that does not use or relate to words. But there is a part of me that watches my life story unfold without participating in the story…like a video camera just recording my life without comment, just awareness.
Enough of the Twilight Zone stuff, what is the point? The point is that it is at these times of chaos, when the veil of the illusion of the importance of our minutia stuff gets partially lifted, that we are thrust into assessing “what is really important?” For Ellen, the minutia of having to return a dozen emails and does she have an up to the minute schedule of her day tomorrow is suddenly tossed out the window and replaced with “Will I ever be able to get up out of bed again?” and “How am I supposed to get to the bathroom?” The importance of social propriety is replaced with “Am I going to spend my days alone now?”
Everything we think is soooo important, suddenly isn’t. Truth is, it never was important. Our ego lives to support the status quo of our life, but in times of chaos, it is the needs of the heart that come to the top of the list. Our personal connection to others and to spirit is all that matters. Well, that and the challenges of personal hygiene. I know it sounds silly, but many people would rather die than lose bowel control in front of others. It is not pretty, so lets move on.
So what is the take-away from all of this? If you are fortunate you find a renewed purpose for being alive. Chasing fame, fortune, and immortality are temporary ego pursuits that fail to feed the real part of you that seeks meaning in life. Stuff is temporary. Stuff always changes. Circumstances and situations are seen as plastic and mobile when we step out of the belief that they have any true reality. Their impact on us is about who we are, not about the situation. We are the creators of the stories we tell ourselves about the lives we lead. Are we going to be stressed about what is happening or are we going to stay curious and open to adapting and changing to create a new story with whatever situation we find ourselves in?
Sometimes life really deals us some hard knocks. It happens. It is these times that make life real for us. We don’t have to like it, but it is all about us and what we do with what we have in front of us right now.
Good travels,
David
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Re: Ellen
Ellen is still working hard in the rehab program at Mercy General. She is pretty busy until 3 or 4 in the afternoon each day. Her spiritual lessons are working overtime in this situation. She has really enjoyed all the flowers, cards, and visits everyone has been providing. Here we see her trying a Karma Roll we brought her from a restaurant - not quite ready for something so chewy. She still has no function in her left arm and leg, but the physical therapists say all the working out she was doing really will help in her recovery. - not quite ready for something so chewy
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Colloidal
Silver
The flu and cold season is upon us and the best remedy I know is a couple ounces of colloidal silver every hour till it dissipates. Usually for me that is about four hours. We have new 8 ounce bottles of colloidal silver in the office for only $8 - a tiny fraction of the price elsewhere. Plus refills are only $4. Or if you have a large crew to care for we have a limited number of one gallon containers for only $30.
Pick some up today.
Ultrasound Physical Therapy
Cancelled
We have lost our ultrasound therapist, Hyla, so we are discontinuing offering this therapy in the office at this time. Our condolences to her family at her untimely death.
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Meditation slows brain degeneration
Meditation is being called push-ups for the brain. Meditators have stronger connections between brain regions and they retain more grey and white matter in the brain. Our brain slowly starts to degenerate and shrink from age 20 on. Meditation appears to be the brain exercise to slow that process down.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150205142951.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110714091940.htm
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"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die"
- Mark Twain
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Stress blocks empathy
Recent studies have shown that the more stressed we are the less empathy we feel towards others. Even the simple stress of being in a room with someone we don't know is able to shut down our empathy response.
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
-Leonardo da Vinci
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Names for Sugar
Sugar hides in most packaged foods and more than 6 teaspoons a day is toxic. So knowing the many names it hides under gives you a clue about the toxic load in your food choices.
- Agave nectar
- Barbados sugar
- Barley malt
- Barley malt syrup
- Beet sugar
- Brown sugar
- Buttered syrup
- Cane juice
- Cane juice crystals
- Cane sugar
- Caramel
- Carob syrup
- Castor sugar
- Coconut palm sugar
- Coconut sugar
- Confectioner's sugar
- Corn sweetener
- Corn syrup
- Corn syrup solids
- Date sugar
- Dehydrated cane juice
- Demerara sugar
- Dextrin
- Dextrose
- Evaporated cane juice
- Free-flowing brown sugars
- Fructose
- Fruit juice
- Fruit juice concentrate
- Glucose
- Glucose solids
- Golden sugar
- Golden syrup
- Grape sugar
- HFCS (High-Fructose Corn Syrup)
- Honey
- Icing sugar
- Invert sugar
- Malt syrup
- Maltodextrin
- Maltol
- Maltose
- Mannose
- Maple syrup
- Molasses
- Muscovado
- Palm sugar
- Panocha
- Powdered sugar
- Raw sugar
- Refiner's syrup
- Rice syrup
- Saccharose
- Sorghum Syrup
- Sucrose
- Sugar (granulated)
- Sweet Sorghum
- Syrup
- Treacle
- Turbinado sugar
- Yellow sugar
"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."
- George Eliot
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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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