Every recovering addict wants to feel better as quickly as possible. I can’t think of how there would be any exceptions to this rule.  No one likes feeling bad and the feeling bad associated with early addiction detox and ongoing recovery for the body can seem to take forever.

We’re trying to rebuild a body that’s been degraded from drugs and alcohol and it can take many years. We can speed things up though – if we are willing to exercise some dietary discipline.

Lets start with the liver as a key to feeling better and rebuilding the body. The first thing we can do is eat as much raw plant food as possible. Here’s a list of foods that will help:

• Raw vegetables and fruits that are grown without chemicals
• Roots like Jicama and Radishes
• One (locally grown if possible) Avocado per day
• Chlorella and/or Spirulina
• Turmeric

Here’s the part you might not like (I didn’t). Meat. The body and the liver in particular uses blood to accomplish it’s goals and functions. Clean healthy blood is our responsibility. Meat equals greasy blood – that’s the best I can explain it.

While we need protein we don’t need meat to get that protein. In the human body meat is a negative input. As a food, meat is mainly a flavor. A good flavor but still little more than taste.

I still eat eggs, cheese, milk and fish but have let go of the grease.

There are a couple of herbs I’ve added, they are Ashwagandha and Tulsi (Holy Basil). You can find teas or supplements that contain these herbs.

I use some other supplements too, because I don’t think there is a lot of healthy soil left on the planet and certainly not in the US. I use trace-minerals research brand for electrolyte and mineral supplements. I use Super-Nutrition’s “Simply One” Vitamins.

The websites for those supplements:

• Super Nutrition Products
• Trace Minerals Research

Feel Better, Have Fun

Do you have a recurring dream theme? I do. I’m not talking about the content of the particular dream but the theme of it. What if the theme of the recurring dream was some sort of message. You think it might be?

If so my message is as frustrating as my dream. My recurring theme is “I want to do something but I can’t”. That’s it in a nutshell. Over and over for as long as I can remember, played out in a thousand different ways, “I keep trying to do something and I can’t seem to do it”.

I wonder how my waking life might be different if the theme was “I want to do something and I do it easily”? Or “Everything I want I get”? I’ve got to work on this …

Everyday I’m faced with a choice between saying something comforting or delivering the facts. Many years ago I was introduced to a book, and a movement of sorts, titled, “Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong”. It started me on a journey of discovery.

I guess this idea of investigation and moving information on the pathways of the modern internet is, for me, about the most important thing happening today.

I don’t know how many people are completely unaware of the facts about medicine, government, war, science, religion and “Everything Else We Think We Know” but it’s substantial. Enough so that millions of people are laying hope for their future on some political election. Millions of people think our wars may be justified and so on.

So everyday I’m faced with the unpopular choice of saying to friends, family and readers – Look at this, that’s not real, no that’s just a story etc. It gets old, for me and for others. But what choice do I have? Really? I don’t see that I have one. I do sometimes not say anything. I get tired of it.

The thing about finding things out is it destroys all those comforting fantasies we lived in. It tears up the family, the social circle, maybe messes up our career, most likely ruins our life. But what kind of a life is a life based on make believe?

After the initial unraveling it gets better for us personally. But we still have to deal with what is gone. Like I said, it’s a choice.

I thought this was worth a look. There is always the question, “What does it take to stay clean, stop an addiction, change your life and behaviors and so on”. This is something to consider:

… a hundred years ago—Carl Jung reclaims the term archetypebecause he sees archetypes at work in people’s psychological experience—in their dreams, in their visions, in the unconscious, as the recently published Red Book reveals. More generally, he saw it in the psychological phenomena of human experience, whether in a person’s artistic expressions, dreams, or psychopathological phenomena. Jung believed that these enduring forms that structure the human psyche, which he called archetypes, were the fundamental structural principles of human experience and the human psyche. He wouldn’t say, however, that they are the fundamental principles of the world, of reality itself.

Jung argued that all of our experience is ultimately psychologically shaped. So seeing these archetypes empirically within the human psyche, as when people have experiences of gods and goddesses or of God or other numinous qualities, doesn’t mean that gods and goddesses or God actually exist in the way that another time would have assumed. They might. But Jung said he couldn’t conclude that on the basis of these experiences people have. He could only conclude that these archetypal factors are fundamental to the human being but couldn’t tell whether they transcend the human psyche.

However, in the later years of his life, Jung fully developed something he’d been noticing through much of his adult life, the phenomenon of synchronicity. He noticed that external events could happen that perfectly reflect with great coincidental force what is going on internally in a person’s psyche at that time. It was as if there were some orchestrating factor, something that was bringing the inner and the outer worlds into a coincidental correlation that could be so significant in meaning that it could act like a paradigm shift for them. noetic.org-the timing of paradigm shifts