The first 78 Steps To Remission
I am changing. The process will never be complete, because it is not something with an end goal. I have befriended my body. I sing, and dance, and pray.
- Watch the sunrise
- Accept (auto-immunity)
- Refuse (the label/diagnosis)
- Find silence (internally)
- Eat (food, not poison)
- Find the ground state
- Find solitude
- Find friends
- Rest
- Rest more
- Regulate the nervous system
- Take stock of the present (see #1)
- Go offline
- make art
- Dance
- Read novels
- Get angry
- release anger
- Blame your parents
- Blame the medical establishment
- Blame big pharma
- Blame agri-business
- Blame God
- Get embodied
- Practice Meditation
- Pickup Taijiquan and Qigong
- Pick up Yoga
- Learn to cook (everything from scratch)
- Live away from the city
- Take probiotics (as many as possible)
- Swim in lakes, rivers, oceans
- Stop drinking
- Stop coffee
- Stop smoking
- Stop sugar
- Stop TV
- Stop social media (for a while)
- Stop meds (gradually)
- Examine fundamental thoughts (ongoing)
- Learn about ~t r a u m a~
- Learn about positive psychology
- Take up walking as a practice
- Take up journaling as a practice
- Sleep (more, better)
- Learn from your dreams
- Get help from healers (who might be MDs, but probably are not)
- Pray
- Drop out (of school, of work)
- Reduce stress to near zero (ongoing)
- Eat fermented foods
- Get lots of sun+air
- Fast (intermittently, and for longer periods)
- Fall in love
- Meet your mentors
- Get projected upon ('you should do X! I think it will help you.')
- Practice listening to your heart
- Recognize when you're wrong
- Listen to elders.
- Take everything as an opportunity for growth
- Dis-identify from the body (it is not I)
- Get to know your cells (sing to them)
- Tremor (release tension from your animal body)
- Pendiculate
- Sing to your heart
- Gradually befriend the body as it is (without //trying// to change it by force)
- Get inspired (by ancient wisdom, by your contemporaries, by a tree, by other cultures, by your self)
- Uncompromisingly make self-healing the only priority
- Relinquish attachment to outcome (I may never "get better")
- Learn about orthorexia nervosa
- Draw like your child self did.
- Slay your ego
- Accept help
- Forgive your parents
- Take in old ideas about human potential (read old books)
- Take in new ideas about human potential (read new books)
- Cultivate awe
- Look back with gratitude on the journey so far
- Watch the sunset.
- Read Auto-Immune Heresy by Laure Marin de La Vallée
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A long winding path, tremulously lit.
Traveler, there is no road.
I am crossing time
each of my selves
conceived otherwise
leap through one another in memory.
The road is made as you go
But tell me more about this path.
It is ever present, shifting
Not to accommodate,
Though it remains navigable.
Divergences cease to exist
Once a decision has been made
The path is only travelled once
Though it may come back around.
Each day along the path brings new learning
The feeling of the path changes
Come now, you're already on your way
The path is shared by all, and differs for each.
(from my book, page 206)
I am changing. The process will never be complete, because it is not something with an end goal. I have befriended my body. I sing, and dance, and pray.