Despite the obviously unsanitary conditions here in Thailand, including open bamboo kitchens with flies, geckos, frogs, mosquitos and the occasional snake sitting next to your cornflakes box, people here seem to develop quite early a strong immunity that allows them to weather almost any illness that comes along and live well into their 80’s. What’s their secret?
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If we accept responsibility for our body then we are accepting the fact that aside from an accident, anything that we experience in our body develops as the result of how we care for our body and our environment. And if you do accept responsibility, then why do accept that every illness, infection or symptom must be due to something outside of your control? Why would you accept a treatment that is designed to treat the body as a victim, rather than part of the cause?
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The idea of pain medication is to block the nervous system from either detecting or reacting to the challenge. Now the positive note is that by doing this, it allows you to relax more, to sleep more, to regain function more quickly. But is there a negative side?
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The idea that we live with viruses for our entire lives is a fact. When you are exposed to a virus, any virus, it will always remain in your body at an untraceable level, ready to rise to the occasion any time your immune system is challenged or compromised.
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I began my Sudoku journey ... easy, then on to medium, then on to tricky, then on to challenging, etc. Now I have developed a habitual rhythm to solving them and actually find them very relaxing and stress-reducing. My point here is that practice really does make perfect, and not just with mindful time wasters. It also is true with your body.
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You might be thinking that I'm speaking of war, where resistance often means death... or perhaps you think I mean in a test of strength, where resistance eventually leads to death. But in fact, I'm talking about our own bodies. One of the things I've noticed in my practice is that often I will give exactly the right thing, and yet the body does not respond. Why?
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