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Hello Dr. Stoll!,
I have been away from the bulletin board for quite some time but have thought of you often. I have become somewhat interested in dhea/cortisol (adrenal) regulation in conjunction with fight or flight syndrome having a disregulating and cell destroying affect on the limbic system of the brain and what the potential long term harmful affects on the brain immune connection could be. At any rate skilled relaxation seems to favorably correct the imbalanced adrenal/brain chemistry brought on by (chronic) fight or flight.
I have read various recommendations on sauna detoxification.
Ralph Golan M.D. states in Total Wellness 110 to 120 degrees F. Others state 140 to 180 (Hubbard etc.). Also some claim humid saunas are better. Others claim dry saunas. I have also read that to achieve the detoxifation benefit you must reach core body temperature of 103 degrees plus (Source is from Finland and also says that only humid saunas can achieve this.). To say the least I am pretty confused about this subject and have absolutely no definitive books to consult. Can you shed some light here.
I am going rock climbing in Yosemite again in a couple of days. Probably be gone for a couple of weeks. Quite a change from the old days. I have learned a lot but still don't know anything. No matter how hard I try to learn, the more I learn the less I know. It is frusterating sometimes but I can say with exclamation even though my life is limited in scope compared to someone I once was it is nice to be alive and be as well as I am. Just to have interest in living is a grandious accomplishment. The ignorance of mainstream society's reward and validation system wich is set up to reward and validate antiquated ideas and opinions and persecute true learning often takes the passion from the living but I for one am gaining some ground on reclaiming it.
Christ and Einstien both referred to the mainstream as already dead. I think it had alot to do with power systems structured around idea containment to protect and perpetuation the reward and validation of simplistic thinking. There is no passion in idea containment. Only mental imbalance. Of interest studies of rats in cages seem to be saying that idea containment promotes brain wasting.
Laughably I often feel that the institutionalized mind molding machine has never discovered the fact that a human being was created with a right brain. Perhaps much like our tonsils they should just cut it out for our own good. We don't need it.(Sorry for the poor humor!)Funny thing is right brain is responsible for big picture thinking. It seems a mistake that we elect left brain idealists to govern our thoughts and actions. They seem logical in the small picture but without right brain interaction there always seems to be the outcome of no method to there madness. Even though they are quite (left brained) logically gifted.
Manipulators must come from an imbalance between hemisperes. Seems odd the worshipped ones are actually in large part brain dead (imbalanced). It would seem that in order to heal the planet and to heal society we would have to start validating and rewarding a hemisperically balanced method of living. I have recently come to equate left brain/external self and right brain/internal self. In my opinion mental health, societal health, physical health, earthly health etc. can only come from a yen/yang like balance of these hemispheres. Societies straying from this is promoting the destruction of the universal organism. Yet in such an odd twist and amidst so much torment wich has been created from this break away from the internal/externally balanced self we are without question developing amazing idea states for the future of medicine and technology. I can only argue here that if uniqueness of individual were instituted over the current conformity to critical judgement from the external realm, that not only perhaps would the idea base increase exponentially (no more idea containment) but the human organism would live in much more harmony with enviroment e.g. inner peace e.g. mental and spiritual fullfillment but I feel perhaps most of all important no chronic lifelong fight or flight state. Of wich I for one am sick of! (Quite literally).
Imagine telling a young child that he/she is a wonderful human being and constantly building upon his strengths instead of giving him a life of pointing out his imperfections and comparing him to an unachievable standard of perfection and pushing him to achieve it anyways. I don't know. Wierd concept and it would mold a wierd world compared to what we currently know. I think this would lead to a society where actions ruled over words and cosmetics. People could not only be themselves and be free of the mental torment we all feel hidden away in the privacy of our own minds but they could also speak freely and say what they mean. Empty words would then be rendered worthless.
I say alot of the above because of some extremely important things I have learned about mental states and disease. Not really so much in the context of mind/body connection but in the context of mind and body and universe as one organism. My post is way too long so I won't elaborate except to perhaps say free the mind/free the body. etc.
Best wishes,
Raul Black
In Reply to: sauna detoxification posted by Raul Black on August 29, 1999 at 20:25:54:
I guess I meant yin yang and a bunch of other spelling mistakes. See how the fear of critical judgement infringes upon living?
One of the greatest gains I made in my health was after many months of meditation I was shocked to realize that I wanted to be sick and die (hidden way, way deep within me somewhere). Even though every outside piece of my existance wanted to be free from the bed-ridden misery of tormenting neurological suffering beyond description . Even though the grief stricken losses illness had dealt me were beyond measure. After much initial alarm and a huge amount of thought I concluded that if I got better I could no longer be myself and would have to re-enter the game as the made up me. Then during a long drive on a trip I realized the affect that psychological trauma had upon the body and how it set up many blocks. I then thought of the psychoanalytical school of thought and my brother mentioned the acupunture school of thought (energy blockage) but I seen something beyond these two areas of knowledge but it is hard to define. Especially in brevity. It is as if every cell in your body is not only connected with every thought but also every memory. No matter how buried that memory may be. Even beyond this is the infrastructure with wich this is put together. In part in the clearing of for instance cancer one has to clear the traumatized blockages set up in the body for so many years. Burned in and etched into our cells. Those unknown parts of us that have been brutalized by the ignorance of living. Of course like everything else this is only a piece of a huge puzzle. To some people chronic illness becomes a wake up call asking do they really want to exist. A body that is screaming out loud that it can take no more abuse and neglect. Whether this be diet, abandonment issues, Chronic fight or flight, toxic exposure or more likely a huge coctail of mistreatment coupled with genetic weakness (wich also includes the mistreatment of your anscestors bodies handed down to you) that is succeptable to ones specific method of living, the only rational road is to adress these issues.
My thoughts then drifted to the great Dr. Bernard Jensen and his healing sanitariums. It was not enough to just be a patient. One had to work in the organic garden and produce their own food. Without a reason for living and a life that promotes interest, passion, joy and purpose our hospitals and nursing homes are rendering a great disservice to their patients. We must prepare them for and return them to life. Not prepare them for and hand them over to death. In a miracle so great as existance and conciousness but so short lived and misunderstood we have all experienced too much death. To wake up and live for the first time would be an equally grandious miracle as the miracle of being born in the first place. Perhaps even greater.
I buried both of my parents in my twenties. I can now say with confidence that I don't think either of them really wanted to live any longer. Oh on the outside they did and they went through all the motions of trying to heal themselves. But under all those layers was traumatic experience wich went unadressed (and a boat load of enviremental, genetic etc. and other unknown issues). They both needed a huge change in their method of living. Greivably I can also say that early death was too much of a change. The trauma should have been undone long before early illness manifested.
We each have our own coctail of circumstances wich keeps us sick and I feel this one fits into mine rather strongly. I am moving on. Life is for living. I think the first step back is to truly desire life. That seems to mean creating wonderful (or at a minimum realistic) circumstances amdist wich to live. Deal me back in Please. The vacation is over.
I'm heading to Yosemite to climb those big walls! Then I'm going white water rafting. Then school starts. And I have a couple of really important (to me) CD's to finish. There is also my new theory of gravity wich is still incomplete. Those years on the death bed sucked big time and I ain't going back for a long time. I got a lot of living, learning and experiencing to do in the meantime. Life at the moment is truly magnificant!
Please understand what I have stated above is but a fraction of my treatment regime but it is and was a very important fraction. Embrace life. I'm still sick but nowhere near the level (I mean no where near) I once was and I am living again. I truly wish the best for all of those that are facing illness that may stumble across this post. I lost everything and was completely thrown away and left for valueless and dead. I didn't believe I was valueless and deserving of such a fate. I also don't believe that you are. You have enormous value as an individual. A rare thing on this planet but truly worthy. Even in ill health one can embrace life.
Uh oh here I go rambling on again,
I apologize if I am out of line,
Raul Black
In Reply to: sauna detoxification posted by Raul Black on August 29, 1999 at 20:25:54:
Welcome back Raul.
I am not an expert in this type of detoxification; although I am sure it works. There must be books written on the subject. I would be iterested in your sharing anything you did learn with the BB. Ralph (Golan) is a friend of mine and I know that he would not promote something if it were not carefully researched and safe to do.
The rest of your thoughts are refreshing to say the least! This BB could stand an infusioin of this kind of thinking every once in a while.
Walt
In Reply to: Re: sauna detoxification posted by Raul Black on August 29, 1999 at 22:44:51:
Dear Raul,
This kind of information is NEVER "out of line" on THIS bulletin board!
Namaste`
Walt
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