I love dramatic success stories. I have a success story...letting it brew as it becomes more dramatic :)
Marks Daily apple has a nice collection. Our triumph to sculpt the type of physical body we want is such an amazing thing. I become aware of things as I express my self. For example I'm becoming aware of something very important.
Human physical triumph is post mental triumph. The journey began within.
Getting a lean healthy strong flexible body is one heck a journey.
There are many steps and stages in a journey. Here is a step I'm thinking about...that perhaps is not a step but a belief system that one carries with them along the journey.
I think of what I want to be.
I realize, to be different, I have to think, then do, different things.
I understand what I want to be.
I work to express that.
I work to enjoy each step because victory is now, not later.
I realize I'm responsible for my thoughts, feelings, and physical output.
repeat.
Monday, January 2, 2012
morn
I have not posted in awhile, glad to be back.
I enjoy capturing my ideas, so I'll keep the spirit of this blog coming from that place. I think I'll enjoy it more then, meaning it will primarily be about me and my enjoyment. This must mean that I can write no wrong, and comparisons are not rational.
I did (i think I just let details slip often...hmm) 10 ashtanga sun salutations this morning...first thing..before I left my room. my thoughts on that.
This was the first time ive done that..body really stiff. When I did yoga this morning I became aware of how asleep, tight, wrapped up, slow every system in my body was. I am naturally very unflexible but became painfully aware of how much more unflexible I am first thing. Every joint was way tighter...my lungs would burn from deep breath (reminded me of being a smoker).
Here is what is cool. I experienced tremendous benefit...or profit :) from these 10 moves. It took prolly 15 minutes...but I felt very awake after and warmed up and ready. I can infer a lot of wisdom from this...why it would be good to start the day like this ETC ETC. I'm going to do this again. Tomorrow in fact.
I enjoy capturing my ideas, so I'll keep the spirit of this blog coming from that place. I think I'll enjoy it more then, meaning it will primarily be about me and my enjoyment. This must mean that I can write no wrong, and comparisons are not rational.
I did (i think I just let details slip often...hmm) 10 ashtanga sun salutations this morning...first thing..before I left my room. my thoughts on that.
This was the first time ive done that..body really stiff. When I did yoga this morning I became aware of how asleep, tight, wrapped up, slow every system in my body was. I am naturally very unflexible but became painfully aware of how much more unflexible I am first thing. Every joint was way tighter...my lungs would burn from deep breath (reminded me of being a smoker).
Here is what is cool. I experienced tremendous benefit...or profit :) from these 10 moves. It took prolly 15 minutes...but I felt very awake after and warmed up and ready. I can infer a lot of wisdom from this...why it would be good to start the day like this ETC ETC. I'm going to do this again. Tomorrow in fact.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
leading or being lead to knowledge
I don't learn very well when someone leads me to knowledge...in fact being lead to knowledge can be one of the most frusterating things I can experience.
Being lead means that I don't have much interaction...I just, and only follow or listen. I've learned that I really need to be able to repeat things back, put them in my own words and reiterate where I think we've been and where i think we're going. A huge Part of me learning, is me guessing where I think we're going next. I enjoy telling this guess to my teacher. If I feel that I truely understand where I've been then I will have a good idea where we're going. If however I can't guess where we're going there is a good chance I don't know where we've been and have actually been lost for some time. When I get to this point....I get soooooooo angry......its a terrible feeling. When I'm lost that anger and pain come from the fact that I have TOO MANY possible truths, meaning the "truth" the teacher is trying to teach is not solidly related to what he/she said before, and I feel like "why in the hell would they say that" and I just have to agree...even if I don't understand I just have to agree...and that is soooo dumb...that is what slaves have to do. The truth is that I DO WANT TO UNDERSTAND. But If I feel like I'm lost I start trying to guess on my own...and I'm in the huge endless world of guessing...but I'm not supposed to be there I'm supposed to be riding int he understanding boat with the teacher.
I'd like to not feel this way.
Being lead means that I don't have much interaction...I just, and only follow or listen. I've learned that I really need to be able to repeat things back, put them in my own words and reiterate where I think we've been and where i think we're going. A huge Part of me learning, is me guessing where I think we're going next. I enjoy telling this guess to my teacher. If I feel that I truely understand where I've been then I will have a good idea where we're going. If however I can't guess where we're going there is a good chance I don't know where we've been and have actually been lost for some time. When I get to this point....I get soooooooo angry......its a terrible feeling. When I'm lost that anger and pain come from the fact that I have TOO MANY possible truths, meaning the "truth" the teacher is trying to teach is not solidly related to what he/she said before, and I feel like "why in the hell would they say that" and I just have to agree...even if I don't understand I just have to agree...and that is soooo dumb...that is what slaves have to do. The truth is that I DO WANT TO UNDERSTAND. But If I feel like I'm lost I start trying to guess on my own...and I'm in the huge endless world of guessing...but I'm not supposed to be there I'm supposed to be riding int he understanding boat with the teacher.
I'd like to not feel this way.
ATP, Mito's, homeostasis, oh my!
I think Peter is looking for the "original sin" in this whole cascade.
As I read this article I thought to my self...this seems historically significant. I think it will be a very long time until this info is public knowledge..if ever. I wouldn't be suprised if this guy wins a nobel prize one day. Its deffinately heavy stuff...but the concepts he is getting at are going to explain a lot of the issues and diet descrepancies we've seen.
This explains a real good relationship between the idea of cal's in vs cal's out and actual hunger with out directly talking about those two topics. How it may "work" for some and not others. That over eating is an effect of some other mechanism and not a psychological one. Over eating is not the primary cause.
The whole Adipostat thing...is a competing hypothesis from another researcher. The idea is that the somewhere in the Hypothalamus is a "thermostat" that regulates your fatness hence Adipostat. Peter disagree's with this Adipostat hypothesis. As do I.
A good part of this is over my head, but I like to listen in on discussions by the intellectual giants and take from it what I can. This way I'm sort of ahead of the curve of the pop culture spin machine, and can better form my own opinion's when that wave hits me, because I'm watching TV, or listening to the radio. I've always been facinated how ideas drive the world. Sometimes we're really wrong for 50, 100, or 1000 years.
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2011/10/adipostat-ballon.html
"Let's just set this out:
Mitochondrial dysfunction leads to cytosolic fatty acid derivative accumulation.
This leads to chronic hyperinsulinaemia via insulin resistance.
This leads to adipocyte distension.
This leads to adipocyte insulin resistance.
This leads to increased plasma FFA delivery at a given level of insulin.
This leads to increased cytosolic FFA derivatives.
This leads to mitochondrial ATP production being normalised.
The cost is increased insulin resistance. Oh, and the MECHANISM for improved ATP production is OBESITY. Call this a cost if you wish." - Peter
wow....
As I read this article I thought to my self...this seems historically significant. I think it will be a very long time until this info is public knowledge..if ever. I wouldn't be suprised if this guy wins a nobel prize one day. Its deffinately heavy stuff...but the concepts he is getting at are going to explain a lot of the issues and diet descrepancies we've seen.
This explains a real good relationship between the idea of cal's in vs cal's out and actual hunger with out directly talking about those two topics. How it may "work" for some and not others. That over eating is an effect of some other mechanism and not a psychological one. Over eating is not the primary cause.
The whole Adipostat thing...is a competing hypothesis from another researcher. The idea is that the somewhere in the Hypothalamus is a "thermostat" that regulates your fatness hence Adipostat. Peter disagree's with this Adipostat hypothesis. As do I.
A good part of this is over my head, but I like to listen in on discussions by the intellectual giants and take from it what I can. This way I'm sort of ahead of the curve of the pop culture spin machine, and can better form my own opinion's when that wave hits me, because I'm watching TV, or listening to the radio. I've always been facinated how ideas drive the world. Sometimes we're really wrong for 50, 100, or 1000 years.
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/2011/10/adipostat-ballon.html
"Let's just set this out:
Mitochondrial dysfunction leads to cytosolic fatty acid derivative accumulation.
This leads to chronic hyperinsulinaemia via insulin resistance.
This leads to adipocyte distension.
This leads to adipocyte insulin resistance.
This leads to increased plasma FFA delivery at a given level of insulin.
This leads to increased cytosolic FFA derivatives.
This leads to mitochondrial ATP production being normalised.
The cost is increased insulin resistance. Oh, and the MECHANISM for improved ATP production is OBESITY. Call this a cost if you wish." - Peter
wow....
Monday, May 16, 2011
Grass Based Health
A new Recomended blog!
Hi everyone I am adding the blog link http://grassbasedhealth.blogspot.com/ to my blog. I think it is really impressive and filled with information from a perspective that I had not been exposed to previously. I think its another angle that helps build the case for paleo type eating.
Thanks Peter, great stuff!
Hi everyone I am adding the blog link http://grassbasedhealth.blogspot.com/ to my blog. I think it is really impressive and filled with information from a perspective that I had not been exposed to previously. I think its another angle that helps build the case for paleo type eating.
Thanks Peter, great stuff!
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Hard like Squats
Wanna try something interesting? Consider it an excercise for your emotion. Read this blog and the comments below, or just the comments below it, and just experience how the comments make you feel.
http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/lipid-hypothesis/the-vegetarian-myth/#comments
Me, I feel people being angry and it makes me angry.
I can feel insulted even though I'm not being talked to.
I personally have not made any comment on that blog, but as I read I can feel like I'm being talked to. I'm taking responsibility for something that is not mine.
I wonder about my defensive insulted emotion. I let it sit, feel it start to go away then I want to make it burn and I want to reply and get angry back. Notice how anger is hungry.
Find a post that makes you upset. Re-read it and highlight the sentance that makes you upset. Then force yourself to highlight the word in that sentance that really triggers it for you. Try now to realize what you are visually picturing this person looking like or what their life is like or what they are like. Notice you are starting to compare this person you are making up to people that you do actually know. Why are you doing this? What is the point in getting up set. Turn away from your computer, look around, and realize where you have power. Get out of your head. Come to the present notice a smell in your immediate surroundings.
Then read it again. Is there common ground? I see experiencing things like this without giving in to the negative landscape of emotion as a really good workout.
The only reason you would feel angry is if you felt threatened. Anger is a gift yes, but a tool more, and every tool is a weapon if you hold it right....or wrong.
These are hard questions and hard topics to answer. There are many hard topics to cover. Imagine what other topics this post could cover. The cool thing is that if you can control your emotions you have a good chance of thinking about them more often, with grater clarity, with a increased chance of making progress in your quest for your relationship to the world around you.... and you can begin to ask and answer some really hard questions.
To this often. Do this with real live people. Its hard, but worth it. Like squats :) Don't give up. Don't disengage. Do one more rep.
http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/lipid-hypothesis/the-vegetarian-myth/#comments
Me, I feel people being angry and it makes me angry.
I can feel insulted even though I'm not being talked to.
I personally have not made any comment on that blog, but as I read I can feel like I'm being talked to. I'm taking responsibility for something that is not mine.
I wonder about my defensive insulted emotion. I let it sit, feel it start to go away then I want to make it burn and I want to reply and get angry back. Notice how anger is hungry.
Find a post that makes you upset. Re-read it and highlight the sentance that makes you upset. Then force yourself to highlight the word in that sentance that really triggers it for you. Try now to realize what you are visually picturing this person looking like or what their life is like or what they are like. Notice you are starting to compare this person you are making up to people that you do actually know. Why are you doing this? What is the point in getting up set. Turn away from your computer, look around, and realize where you have power. Get out of your head. Come to the present notice a smell in your immediate surroundings.
Then read it again. Is there common ground? I see experiencing things like this without giving in to the negative landscape of emotion as a really good workout.
The only reason you would feel angry is if you felt threatened. Anger is a gift yes, but a tool more, and every tool is a weapon if you hold it right....or wrong.
These are hard questions and hard topics to answer. There are many hard topics to cover. Imagine what other topics this post could cover. The cool thing is that if you can control your emotions you have a good chance of thinking about them more often, with grater clarity, with a increased chance of making progress in your quest for your relationship to the world around you.... and you can begin to ask and answer some really hard questions.
To this often. Do this with real live people. Its hard, but worth it. Like squats :) Don't give up. Don't disengage. Do one more rep.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
In the end
In the end death will be.
Instant
or
chaotic
or
peaceful
If its not Instant and you happen to be concious for some part of it; What direction will your mind move you as the lights go out.
If you are alive right now. What direction will your mind move you as the lights burn on?
Instant
or
chaotic
or
peaceful
If its not Instant and you happen to be concious for some part of it; What direction will your mind move you as the lights go out.
If you are alive right now. What direction will your mind move you as the lights burn on?
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