Monday, January 20, 2014

to do

rake in front

trim by the sidewalk

when's dinner?
to put it another way
when r u going to b home?

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

time connector

People seem to mostly come into this world just to vibrate around a bit, and that's mostly all they want to do. Some people want to make big huge waves, or super clear tones, but most people just want to sing a little song, and if you suggest they change their song, they don't like it very much.

You, too, are a time connector.

Monday, January 13, 2014

a miracle!

I get to record a miracle, now!

First, some context.

About a month ago, I was, just to start, sort of out of reading material. I was going over in my mind what I might want to read. Novels tend to stink. (I have an amusing story about that which maybe I'll tell a little later.) So called non fiction often looks and even is interesting, but it tends to be sort of depressing. And I've read so much self help and how to get rich stuff that, even though I like reading that stuff, it's like, how many of these books am I going to collect? And when are they going to produce the desired results? I mean, maybe I'm not applying what I'm reading very well, and maybe I should concentrate on that, instead of getting new books.

I had this sort of wistful wish, for something like a workbook, that you would read some of every day, and it would take you through some sort of mental exercise, just while you're reading it, and you could keep doing that for a long time.

I went to Changing Hands - our famous local book store - and I kind of knew what I was looking for. I bought a copy of The Urantia Book for a friend, and a copy of A Course In Miracles for myself. It was time. I also bought several philosophical treatises on computing.

A Course In Miracles is actually written by Jesus Christ - dictated by him to a professor at Columbia. I have kind of a love - hate relationship with Jesus. But the love component is there, so I felt inclined to push through. I had read a bit of ACIM at the library, some years back, and sort of liked it. Even sort of really liked it. It was time I owned a copy to read regularly. I mean, I often think Jesus is kind of silly, and his followers even more so - often extremely so, almost always somewhat so. But Christian practice is clearly also powerful. It's not just that it rules the world as it does - there's a kind of light in it, a kind of clarity, like a crystal. And Jesus addresses my mixed feelings, in ACIM. He says I'm likely to not agree with some of what he says, or even be angry about it, and that's OK, that I should just read the book, and I'll get the benefit. Though he makes me squirm a lot, I do like Jesus. For instance, it's pretty nice of him to let me get close to him this way, by reading so many of his words. I get to read his words - new words every day - for a year, now. I'll be reading ACIM for considerably more than a year, in fact.

A Course In Miracles is in three parts. The first is the text, which is daily reading for a year. So, I've been reading somewhat on a daily basis. I don't feel under any pressure, the book doesn't really press you, it pretty much just says read when you want to. I kind of skipped a week, and I forgot to read yesterday, and have skipped a few other days, but, actually, I've sort of been regular about it. I kind of have the book hidden in my closet, and usually in the morning, after K has gone to work, I get it out, as part of my routine, and read a chapter, which takes about 15 minutes.

The reading is kind of challenging. It's not that difficult to follow, though it is philosophy. I like the challenge of reading philosophy, of working through those kinds of words and thoughts, so in that sense I'm happy to have that kind of thing to read. And my experience with philosophy has been, I tend to not like what the philosophers are saying. Often, it's downright moronic. Why would I want to read that? Even if it's beautiful and deep, why would I want to read something stupid? But I don't feel that way about what I'm reading in ACIM. It's very logical, at the same time that it's quite esoteric, and pretty interesting. And when I say it's logical, I do mean it's like math, where one thing follow on an other in kind of a verifiable way, and I also mean it seems pretty much sensible, in, as I say, an esoteric kind of way. So, when I say it's challenging, partly it's just that I do have to set aside the time and focus on it, which is a good thing, if you're looking for, like, an exercise routine, plus, the other challenging thing is, definitely, at times, I'm going "is this right?" So I kind of have to work that out in my mind, or work on it, as I read. And if I can't work it out, then I have to sort of say, OK, I'll read it anyway, or I'll accept it provisionally - because I'm not finding myself rejecting it outright, as I have with other philosophies - or try to work it out ... maybe I can accept it in this sense, or in that sense. I sort of want to accept it, and maybe I can, and it might even be correct, or it might even seem correct, though I might be in some way wary of this idea or that.

Anyway, the second part of the course is a set of exercises, one for every day of the year, though it says you don't have to do one every day, you can do them at your own pace. (The third part of the book is a resource for teachers.) I thought, when I looked at it in the library, years ago, it said you should read one section of the text every day and then do one of the exercises that day, too, but now I can't find where it says that. So, since I wasn't sure what to do, I thought maybe I should read the text, first, and then do the exercises, and maybe re-read the text, later. But the day before yesterday I thought, listen, it doesn't say that - all it says is to not do more than one exercise a day - so, what the heck, I'll take a look at the first exercise.

The first exercise has you look at things around you and say, about each one "this doesn't mean anything." It seems to say that you aren't supposed to take this too seriously, that it's just an exercise. And you aren't supposed to do it all day long, just for a minute or so. But the one rule is, you should do it with everything you look at, and not reserve one thing or another from it.

So I did the exercise, and let me tell you, it kind of hurt. I mean, some of the things I looked at, I was glad to say they don't mean anything, but other things I looked at are super precious to me, and it really hurt to say they don't mean anything. I was sure glad it's just an exercise.

And once I started doing it, I kind of got in the habit, and found myself doing it spontaneously, so I was really glad Jesus said not to do it all day long, and turn it into a ritual. I'd find myself doing it, during the day, and then I'd go, "no, I'm only supposed to do it for a minute or so a couple of times a day." This is why I do like the book: it's quite carefully worked out. So far, I'm pretty impressed.

The introduction to the exercises says the first series, like, half of them, is designed to separate your mind from its accustomed patterns of thought. And that's also how I feel the text is operating, when I have to struggle with what it's saying, like I described.

So, I've been writing here about some health issues I've been experiencing, and about trying to get more exercise. I lead a strange life, and often don't leave the house (and garden) for days, and it's a struggle to get enough exercise. I try to work in the garden, and when I am out doing errands - that's usually why I go out - I always park away from the store, at the far end of the lot, which is actually a great way to get exercise, in a pinch. You get like 100 times the walking compared to if you park right by the store. Sometimes, too, when I'm driving around, I'll stop and walk in one of the neighborhoods. But it all doesn't add up to that much exercise.

I've always liked running. I've never been a big runner, or really regular about it, but I like it a lot. Maybe, like, ten years ago, I was running somewhat regularly, but I just found it hard to keep up. The only time I really wanted to do it was in the middle of the day, or in the middle of the afternoon, but it was just so ridiculously hot. (I'm in Phoenix, for goodness sake.) I'd feel self conscious about it, on top of its being just crazy. I also liked running very early in the morning, but if I set an alarm - or even if I didn't - when I got up, I'd bother my girl (K), and later she'd say "I'm not getting any sleep."

I just kind of gave it up. I bought a beautiful pair of running shoes, but I've hardly every used them. I kind of even stopped thinking about it. True, a friend, with whom, for a time, I would get together and smoke, and who was kind of roly poly, suddenly took up running, and became this really focused runner and slim wiry type. I was kind of jealous. But following his example wasn't happening.

Yesterday, out of the blue, I woke up quite early, out of a wild dream, and I was just wide awake. That was sort of weird. Usually, I love to sleep, and sleep until K has breakfast ready. I just got up and started making breakfast, but K got up and said "I'll make breakfast. Go rake the leaves." Then I had a busy, busy day. I didn't think too much of it, but it was a bit odd.

Last night, I went to bed sort of early, not extremely so, but it was just nice to crawl into bed and snuggle down. I read for a bit, then got sleepy, and went to sleep. K came in later and turned of the light and went to bed herself. The dark, silent night.

Suddenly, I was awake again. I tried to assess what time it was. It seemed maybe there was a faint light of dawn, or maybe not. I did feel it was morning, but quite early. I was absolutely wide awake. What was I going to do? And I saw it: I could go running!

And I went running. K seemed to keep sleeping as I got myself ready, and then I was out in the beautiful dark, taking it slow, going a little farther than I planned, and it was great. But I was saying "it's a miracle", as I got dressed. It really was. I hadn't tried to make it happen. I had barely even thought about it. (It came to me, I had been thinking about it a little, a few days earlier. And, another thing: tai chi is great - I did it again the day after I had that episode, and made it through OK. But one of the teachers said, "tai chi is great, but you still should go walking." I still had some of the pain in my shoulder, and I kind of knew walking or a jog was the way to really get that loose.) It just happened. Which is sort of what Jesus is saying: stop trying to make things happen. Just put things in my hands and you'll have peace, because I mediate between you and God, and God is the one who makes things happen. That's what he says - I'm pretty sure I'm reporting that correctly.

It was still so early when I got back that I set up and wrote almost this whole post before breakfast, in the shivering cold, outside, and smoked a few cigarettes. If you're a smoker, just take it real easy when you start running. I was fine out there, but I went real slow and pretty much didn't get winded, period.

Saturday, January 11, 2014

computing whatever

I reject the idea that we should have to log on to our own computers just to use them, but there are things we should need a password to access. Giving us access to that kind of graduated security should be part of the operating systems, and maybe it already is. If it is, we could document that, and that documentation would be a product. And, if it hasn't already been done, making that feature available, that would be a product.

It's my contention that our computers should record everything we do with them, or on them. My premise is that our entire experience with a computer is basically a movie that plays out on the screen - a movie that, today, is simply not recorded. A product, then, would be software - essentially, an operating system - that records that movie.

Would we actually be able to make use of such a movie? After all, it might be a very long movie, and difficult or impossible to review. The solution is to build into the software something like a video editor, that can display a movie as a series of stills, which we can edit, and use to access the particular parts of the movie we are interested in at any given moment.

It's hardly unusual for us to watch movies on our computers, as it is, and, as a matter of fact, I think our experience with computing would be considerably enhanced if we could display, say, YouTube videos, too, as a series of stills, editable, anotatable ...

Finally, our experience with computers would be greatly enhanced if screensharing capabilities were simply a default feature. Why should computing be a solitary experience? If I'm doing something fun or interesting on my computer, it should be the easiest thing in the world to broadcast what I'm looking at to your screen.

pain

I've been developing a new morning routine. It's great!

Part of it is I'm getting back into tai chi. I've been doing tai chi for years, but I'm prone to lapsing - I do it for a few days - a profound experience - and then I don't do for months. The reason I lapse like that is kind of interesting, but that's for another time.

Maybe it was Monday I started again, and then I practiced again Tuesday. Wednesday I lapsed, but the real story is, I had pain in my shoulder - bad pain. (That's not why I didn't practice.) Basically, it was a heart attack, or angina. Not surprising. Tai chi works your core intensely, and, if you don't practice regularly, and then you start up again, it's problematic. They say you should practice every day. It sounds like they're saying you won't benefit if you don't do it every day, but I don't think that's actually why. The thing is, if you know the moves, then when you start again, unlike when you're a beginner and learn a few moves, you do a bunch of moves and get an intense workout. Since, if you're not practicing, you get out of shape, when you then do an intense workout like that, you can pay.

Well, I got about 2/3 of the way through my workout this morning, and then I felt it: the muscles in my chest were suddenly stressed. Oh, boy, I thought, I'm going to pay for that. I relax more as I finished the routine ... but it was too late. After I got done, the pain started, and built, and built. I started working my pain management meditation - a very important part of my health theory - where you investigate the size, shape, and color of the pain with your mind. It was like an iron bar, steel, actually, lodged in my chest. There was a knot in my back, too, and a smaller bar of pain across my brow. It helped to know that, a little, but then it started building again, until, actually, it doubled me over. I didn't think I was going to die, quite, or collapse, but I couldn't sit still, and doubling over ... well, that helped. And, after a bit, I did start feeling better. I had survived.

So, what was going on? In an earlier post I described how pain is impeded circulation in the spongy matter of tissues. Here's my theory: Because of the intense exercise, my heart had pumped blood away from itself, into kind of a muscle shield around my ribs. That's good, because intense circulation like that loosens blockages, gunk, in the tissues, but there's a problem: that blood has to circulate back to the heart. Since I'm out of shape, the blood wasn't moving through those muscles too effectively. It wasn't circulating back to my heart as fast and as freely as it needed too. Ergo, heart attack.

But, as I say, I survived. As I write, now, a few hours later, I still have a small amount of lingering pain, but nothing serious. Well, follow along, and I'll tell you how I'm doing in the days ahead.

Friday, January 10, 2014

seeing stars

seeing stars
working on the laptop
whiling away the morning
coughed
saw lots of stars
awesome
supposed to be a sign of good energy
around me
a little surprising
since i feel kind of stuck

earlier
reading the daily chapter
of a course in miracles
that god made me
i didn't make myself
and realizing this makes things
peaceful
something like that
tinitis
according to my theory
the angels singing

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

body work

coughed like crazy yesterday
following my own plan did work - coughed up phlegm, spat it out
but my core (ab) kind of got sore

woke up in the early morning with pretty bad pain
yet another heart attack
rolled this way and that
then into a ball
i wasn't too worried
it wasn't that bad
it passed
and i went back to sleep

felt pretty good, today
just some tenderness below my ribs
on the left side
sucked in my abdomen a little
through the day
soothed it a little with words/thoughts
"i'm here"
mostly, i feel better, now, evening

affirmations

oh, right, and i want to do that core workout in the morning, too

asking the gods for that

affirmations

i actually did work on the side garden today ... just a little
see yesterday's post

i'm asking the gods to help me work on it some more tomorrow
here's the plan: take the loppers out there in the morning

i laid down with the computer in the moring
a mistake
i got sleepy and slept
didn't get to work (on the computer) until afternoon

plan for tomorrow is, set up at the kotatsu first thing
then i can do other things any time i want
between spells inputting chart data, etc.

goodness

If people need to always be doing things and having more things to be happy, it'll eventually lead to trouble. If people are deeply absorbed in their homes, it'll prevent trouble. But how can people be happy at home. If people's homes can become richer and richer in good qualities, people won't need to tromp all over the world looking for happiness.

Aren't computers a good thing? But we're going like "no, no, don't give us more goodness". The computer industry should be putting indescribable amounts of goodness into the product. It has the capacity to contain so much more.

I am asking the gods to help me put a model of the earth into every person's computer - not an on line model they don't own or control, but a model that's in a person's own computer, which they wholly own and control.

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Monday, January 6, 2014

affirmations

I'm asking the gods to help me get the side garden into shape.

forest thinning

In a perfect world we would thin the forest and pile brush into big bins which would be inserted into a generator. A bin like that will burn fast and hot, and we'll use the burn to power a generator, and we'll use the electricity to create hydrogen. Then we'll ship sort of ten gallon size cans of hydrogen to the city, where people will use them for cooking and heating.

the fill

that's my order for aacs, for 40,000 shares, getting filled, first thing this morning. basically nobody else was buying all day.

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Sunday, January 5, 2014

zoomed in

the order for aacs

ordering aacs

thinking about aacs

gestures

On TV, a guy having a stroke. He puts his fingers to his brow, kneads his brow, but what he doesn't realize is that that motion is not just a desperate reflex in response to pain, it's actually the correct action for solving the problem, which is impairment of circulation in part of his brain. If he realized what the gesture actually was, he would have persisted with it, massaged his scalp and his jaw and neck, shaken it out, taken a breath, said ah ah ah to flex the jaw and open the throat, and circulation would have been restored. Same with lumps, so called cancers. We are taught to feel for them by manipulating the breasts or testicles. But we are not taught that, when we find a lump, if we use the same probing motions of our fingers we used to find it to explore it, get to know it (asking, in our minds, "what are you doing, cells"), gently move it around a little and see how that feels, gently squeeze it or rub it a little ... it will soon dissolve.

I want to create an institute 4 this kind of medicine.

patience

if you're acquisition minded, you don't have to buy aacs this instant. it's probably going to spike up above 1, here, but then it should make some low prices again ... 4 a couple of years

aacs

american commerce solution = aacs is a really cool little company out of florida. i've looked at it before, some years ago. i liked it then and i like it a lot now. i plan to buy about 30,000 shares at under 3/10ths of a cent a share and sell 'em pretty soon for $10,000. 30,000 shares at 3/10ths of a cent is about a $100 investment, if my math is right. it's somewhat lightly traded, so i might do it in three trades or something.

for the acquisition minded, this is a beautiful thing, but they should only accept offers from people like Warren Buffett, who will leave them the heck alone.

of course i've looked at this before. it's an "aa" symbol, and always appears at the top of a list. plus, it's trading under a penny, and i look at those stocks often. the gambler's price area. today i looked at stocks under a dollar, and it was the second stock on the list. the aas are good to me.

Saturday, January 4, 2014

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crazy nihd

now we're getting into crazy territory, which is good. why is nihd so cheap? who knows, but it's a bear of a chart. this is going to go up 30 times, and quick. it's january 4, 2014, and nihd is trading around 3. it might go down some more, to a dollar fifty, and then you could buy more, and that would go up 60 times. it's hard to imagine it going all the way to 90 lickety split, from here, but then again, that's what it looks ready to do.

if you're just an investor, the normal rules apply, see the post for leap, and all earlier stock posts. don't put all your money in a stock. this isn't the last great opportunity we'll see, so hold off with most of your money. but if you happen to be acquisition minded, here's a chance to own a blue chip telecom company for cheap. i assume, then, you are bringing along your own experts.

funny thing, here. on scottrade there was no long term chart, so i got lucky, finding one on marketwatch. other times there's a chart on scottrade but no chart on marketwatch. go figure. i don't know anything. if you're just an investor, don't put all your money in one stock. and don't buy on margin. buy what you can buy and stay safe.

mbt

this is good, not super amazing, but amazing, nevertheless. it's not super cheap, and doesn't have monstrous potential, but it sure looks solid. even if it goes down - which just looks unlikely - hold, buy more. don't put in all your money, just some of it. see the previous post. these wireless telecom stocks are kind of wild. they just all look like juggernauts. i haven't found a crazy superexplossive stock among them, yet (there are 43 stocks on the list, and i've looked at about a dozen of them, or maybe twenty) but a lot of them look super solid.

leap

take the leap. it's another great stock, and this one is going up 5 times, and then it'll double again, and then who knows what. you'll be sitting pretty for a long time. yes, it could go down, to 5, and if it does, the one thing you do NOT want to do is sell it. you could buy more. it's a blue chip stock, which means it's a component of a dow jones sector average. it means it's big, and easy to buy and sell. the chart is quirky, the last year or so, but i still rate it a must buy. wonder what's going on. the going price, the good price, is something like 18. it's january 2014 - the fourth, to be precise. this chart should update with the latest every time you load it. no you do not want to put all your money in this stock. too scary. what if i'm wrong? and this blog is designed to enable you to spread your trading money out across lots of stocks, all of which you can easily review every day, if you like, just by reading the blog, which might take you, oh, half an hour, once i get a lot of stocks posted. all posted stocks are buys when posted. check the post dates, and i'll usually confirm that date in the text. and you shouldn't trade with all your money. trading is for your trading money, and then you want to have reserve funds. and check this information out with an expert, if you can. another expert. i'm an expert, but i'm not registered with anybody and i haven't made a billion dollars.

about

kong

you have got to buy KONG. i mean, what else can i say. plus, the chart is great. it's going to double next year and then just keep on going. again, this is both a short term (1 year) and a long term trade. don't know anything about the company, by the way, but it's a blue chip stock: it's a component of one of the dow jones sector indices. its in the wireless telecommunications sector, which i'm taking a look at today. and look at the volume! well, ok, it's not that huge, but it consistently trades ... well, anyway, the better part of 100,000 shares a day, at a healthy share price. now listen, i am not saying this will go up instantly ... in the very short term, we're buying a little early. do not sell it if it goes down.

ircmZ!

iridium warrants! they should go up 5 times when iridium doubles! you're not supposed to put all your money in any one of these trades. but this blog is supposed to make it easy 4 u to track all ur little trades. do you see what's going on here? i'm only posting charts for real winners (at the time i post the chart, which is the post date), and the charts automatically update when you load the page, through the magic of Scottrade.com.

irdm

i've always loved iridium. and it's well positioned right now, january 2014. six is the desired price. it should take off and quickly double. then you can sell it or hold it, because it's a great company that's going to do great things. but, you could sell it. they've still got a long future in front of them.

dcm

this is one of the great companies of all time, and the long term chart is really strong. but it's strictly a long term thing.

chl


this is a very good stock. i'm saying that based 90% on the chart, 10% based on where i found it, which was on a dow jones sector list. or maybe 50-50. it's very well priced at 50. it should go up and up for years and years. of course, i could be wrong. if it goes down, the worst thing to do is sell it. wait, and it'll come back. maybe occasionally one of these will go down and not recover, and then you just have to take a loss.

this isn't an ultra-high potential investment, just a normal good one. it should double and then keep going.

upon review a day or two later, first, it'll probably go down to 47.5 ... 50 is a smidge high. again, this is a long term kind of thing ... which means i'm not that interested, but if you are looking for big safe companies you might find this is one. also, i forgot to put in the standard warning: don't put all your money in one stock. in fact, just ignore this one if you're looking for short term results, and then, if you're doing that, parcel out your money over a number of trades, like ten or more, and don't place them all at once. place one and think it over, while you watch what it does. if you like the way it behaves, look for another trade like it. if you don't like what it does, think about what you might want to do differently, the next trade.

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gotta get those


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this might help


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mars


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safe natural medicine

The problem with natural healing is, if you avoid the doctor, you might not get to the doctor until it's too late.

There was a TV show about an elderly lady who had a sore in her mouth. She went to the doctor, and they showed the horrible possibilities, because it was diagnosed as cancer. It could very rapidly expand, according to the experience of the doctors, and become a hole in her cheek, and then just a disintegration of the entire side of her face. They thought they could help her with a radical surgery, which she underwent. Apparently she was spared the loss of her face, but she was in very bad shape, not at all happy, and just a shell of her former lovely self.

What would I do for a sore in the mouth that might be cancer? I would stimulate circulation in the entire head area, massaging the scalp and the neck and the shoulders and the cheek bone, gently. I would pay attention to sensations to know where to massage and how. I would turn my neck this way and that, shaking it out, and I would say aaaaah, stretching out my jaw and releasing fear and worry. I would gently massage or just touch my cheek where the irritation was with my fingers - on the out side. Then I would monitor my sensations. Does it feel better?

There is a way to get good advice from doctors, and that is to ask them for advice. If you ask them to do things, they are under tremendous pressure to take that instruction. They are so much in that habit that they might even insist on doing things. But, doctors do have training, that's rooted in knowledge, and if you ask them for advice sometimes they will just give it to you. Ask them to interpret what's going on in your body. Their reply might sound a little like what I've been describing. In other words, doctors are capable of good medicine, with your cooperation. And, if they refuse to give you information, now you really know the meaning of getting a second opinion. The second doctor might give you information. Keep in mind that the reason you aren't getting good information could be the nature of your questions. I can't go on forever telling you how to ask for information from doctors. To some extent, it's luck. Just keep getting more opinions until you get one that sounds right.

One doctor thought, when I didn't want him to do anything, that I wanted to talk to a naturopath. NOT AT ALL. I despise naturopathy. I want to talk to a real doctor, but one who will talk to me. Fortunately I didn't in the end need that doctor's care, and took care of myself - decaying molars, a tricky business - myself. Today, I'm fine, no problems. But a really good doctor wouldn't have just cast me out like that, and there are really good doctors - real doctors, not naturopaths.

Besides, generally it's fine to do what the doctor says. Most tooth extractions of course go fine, and so on. Actually, if you go into a procedure saying "I am strong, I'm going to be fine," that's how it will line up. Bring some inner strength, some determination and resolve, with you, when you go to the doctor.

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freedom from worry

The key to freedom from worry is making plans. People are afraid to make plans because they are afraid they will fail. They are afraid their plans will lead them to disaster. But, actually, planning protects you from disaster. And planning makes you happy. Making a plan is just like achieving something. Plans are almost by definition unachievable. It's like, when you make a plan, you have already failed. But it's like you have already succeeded, too. When you have that big, beautiful plan in your heart, you get the same warm feeling you get when you actually accomplish something. And then you can go about your day to day business, staying alive, having fun, taking care of stuff, and advancing your plans just a little, or even not at all, but working on them, nevertheless.

You will never be free from worry. Worry is just another thing you need to deal with and process. It's like a guard rail, protecting you from going over the cliff. Taking the turns of life, measure your distance from worry, and bounce off of it back onto the road of day to day work on your beautiful plans.

keys to health

Trying to figure out how to move forward. What are the magic words? Very successful people are probably people who get a lot done on their own. They may also fit themselves into systems and organizations well. Everybody's disgusted with me because I keep asking them for stuff. What should I do now?

The way to understand health is to think about tissues. Let's imagine a simplified representation of a tissue. Imagine a sphere, and inside it are many little dots. The sphere is an organ, or part of a body: a volume of tissue. The little dots are cells.

If this tissue is healthy, the cells in it are healthy, and if the cells in the tissue are healthy, the tissue is healthy. Cells are little beings, and healthy cells are vibrant, happy, doing their jobs fast and well.

Cells are sustained by circulation. A tissue is like a sponge, and circulation moves through a tissue the way water moves through a sponge. Circulation isn't something that gets pumped into cells, it's something cells are bathed in, and they can get what they need from it.

As long as cells are bathed in healthy circulation, they will strongly tend to be healthy. Healthy circulation has two components. One is the quality of what's circulating, but the other, more importantly perhaps, is the quality of the circulation itself: is it free and easy, or sluggish and constrained.

When circulation is sluggish and constrained, cells become starved of their needs. They then become unhappy, and, sometimes, rebellious. That's what cancer is: unhappy cells rebelling, or running amok.

How, then, can healthy, abundant circulation be maintained? How can we maintain healthy, abundant circulation in all parts of our bodies? It's an interesting fact that just thinking about healthy abundant free flowing circulation in a specific part of our bodies helps tremendously to create that healthy, vital condition. The body is not as automatic as we tend to think. Our conscious minds actually are involved in functions like circulation, as a matter of general principle. If we recognize that fact, we can use it for our health. If we don't, we are left somewhat helpless.

Pain is our cells communicating distress to our conscious minds. If we feel pain in a certain part of our bodies, that's cells in that place telling our conscious minds, "Hey, conscious mind of this body, we've got some limited circulation going on, here. Please give some attention to free flowing and abundant circulation in this area." You can solve a lot of health problems, and even be kind of invincibly healthy, by giving attention to your cells in this way.

When we feel pain, we feel something like lumps of pain. When circulation becomes impeded in a tissue, it's like, say, clay, accumulating in a sponge. It can form a rather solid mass. To restore circulation in an area where something has accumulated and solidified in a tissue, we can't just blast out the obstructive mass. It doesn't work that way. We'll damage surrounding tissues and make the obstruction even more solid. The solution is to bathe an obstructed mass is circulation. Just gently push the circulation around it. Then it will begin to dissolve from the outside, a little at a time, and from the inside, by its own osmotic tendencies. Gently bathe an obstruction in circulation, by imagining that happening, and it will progress very quickly, this opening of circulation into every part of the body, this liberation from obstruction of circulation.

The body also has automatic responses to impeded circulation. Coughing is an example. Coughing is not a sign of disease, it's a sign of health. It's your body working on circulation in specific areas. For this reason, we should cough with gusto, and here's where people get into trouble: they think coughing is a sign of disease, so they suppress the cough. There are times and reasons to suppress a cough, but it is healthy to also sometimes cough with gusto. "This cough is developing free circulation in my body and clearing obstructions from my tissues. I will cough loudly and freely and happily." And people who continually suppress coughing can end up not being able to suppress coughing at all. The coughing isn't doing its job well, because it's being suppressed, so the need for it becomes more and more urgent and continuous.

Still, there is one way of suppressing a cough which can be very useful and healing. Usually we suppress a cough out of something like politeness. But if we are having trouble controlling a cough, if we consciously suppress it, we will feel increasingly strong tickling sensations, until, usually, we at last cannot suppress the cough any longer. If, however, we work very hard not to cough, in these situations, the tickling sensations will become very intense. If, in such situations, we pay very, very close attention to those tickling sensations, really commit ourselves to feeling them and feeling them, that has the effect I was speaking of, of sending circulation to the affected area. I cured myself of pneumonia using this technique. I was coughing and coughing and felt terrible, really sick. I was lying in bed at night. Desperate, I hit on the idea of practicing zazen - zen "sitting" -, something with which I had had some small experience, because in zazen we work hard to suppress our coughs, and, consequently, intensely experience the tickling sensations that stimulate coughing. As soon as I got into my sitting position and started to meditate, I felt much more peaceful. Then I worked really hard to feel the tickling in my throat more and more intensely while not coughing. And I was able to do it. I was able to not cough. And then the tickling started to abate. After a while, I was fine. The next morning, my cold was simply gone.

Thursday, January 2, 2014

to do

write 2 yumi
write 2 sokai
make prints
write 2 james

roads of the world

roads of the world (web site)

memories

but no! that wasn't it!

the other item was ... finishing the garden in the vinyard area

tennis center

remembered another couple of goals
one was to start a composting company
 ... come to think of it, there's also my ecoshopping concept
 ... walk to the store, buy everything you need, no plastic of any kind

 ... and what was the other one?

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oh, yeah! the tennis center!

gol

Do you like the company? This is a stock pick. Buy 20 shares at $5. Sell 'em someday for $50 a share. It's January 2, 2014.
5 day chart is just so you can check if the charts are up to date

resolutions

My dramatically improbable goals 4 2014:
launch a completely new CAD for everyone, and a system for managing information and conducting research, for everyone. complete a hyperurbanistic proposal 4 Tempe. get a new studio.

thought 4 a long time about what to write here

create a product or products 4 computing in bed