"We had seen the first automobiles reaching Tahiti and a single one kept as a curio between the palms at Takapoto. They symbolized one of white man's pet philosophies: Any device that saves us from using our own muscles is a blessing. To save physical labour we add motors to bicycles, to dinghies, to lawnmowers, to razors and tooth brushes. And we sit. We sit and do overtime to pay the bills for these gadgets, and run to our doctors because we are overworked, overfed and stressed. The doctor presents another bill and tells us to do exercise, and then we buy a bicycle without wheels or a rowing boat without a bottom. There we sit cycling and rowing without getting anywhere, trying to regain the shape and health of our progenitors before the motor was invented." - Thor Heyerdahl
I agree. We have an evolutionary drive to conserve energy for the most part as we never know when scarcity and famine could strike. At least in our evolutionary memory.
However. Without movement we cease up. Atrophy occurs. Fascia tightens. Bones become brittle. Lymphatic and venous return becomes difficult and the list goes on.
Use it or lose it.
Yoga from my understanding may have evolved this way. Monks meditating all day, every day realized it wasn't helpful to be so sedimentary. They needed to move, hold themselves and stretch. Invert themselves. And it worked. Monks/yogis that meditated with the added movement we call yoga lived healthier lives than those who did not. I am sure their understanding of why was slightly different than ours now. But never the less they seem to have figured it out and is an interesting story whether entirely true or not.
I think we have become lazy consumers. I have a mate and no matter what ails her she is off to the doc for antibiotics - its ridiculous. I have said to her many times, take Manuka honey, drink water to flush out the system etc but she thinks there is a magic pill for every ailment under the sun.
The Gov adverts don't help the situation as they appear to want dependent citizens, for example, the smoking ad to stop smoking: their first words are, 'we know its difficult but you can do it.' They are telling you its difficult and people believe this and use patches as a crutch. Others are workaholics, their work being their crutch. Its sad really that we can't rely on our own instincts and get back to basics and enjoy the beauty of life. The Dalai lama sums it up succinctly:
“The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered "Man! Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
A sad story about Sparky regarding him not realising what was good for him.
I remember we had a hamster called Hammy and he escaped and managed to get behind a bit of built-in furniture around the fireplace. He got quite huge with all the food he was getting from somewhere and looked like a huge ball of fur almost the size of a hedgehog but we could never catch him. We went on holiday to visit a great aunt in London with another couple of great aunts left to watch the house while we were away and my mother phoned home after we had been a few days in London to see how they were getting on and she looked increasingly horrified at what she was hearing. It turned out that they had caught Hammy and thought he was a rat and had chucked him down the toilet and tried to flush him but he wouldn't go so they battered him to death with a back scrubber with blood going everywhere in the toilet bowl and they then flushed his wee dead body down the toilet. You see like Sparky wee Hammy didn't know what was good for him either, he should have followed his instincts and kept away from my two great aunts.
I learned an important lesson too from my parent's and Hammy's mistakes and that was to follow my instinct and never leave anyone in charge of my stuff in future as they would never do with it what I had actually wanted done with it. If you want something done properly then you have to do it yourself as Tess is doing.
Yes we were horrified. A hamster looks nothing like a rat and why didn't they Chuck him out the front door which was only feet away. Anyway lessons learned all round, RIP Hammy.
Sadly domesticated animals mirror human behaviour and belief systems. At the Amazon river region in Bolivia, I observed that wild animals knew what exactly they needed to eat and didn't over eat. And when they're full, they don't unnecesarily attack another prey animal. I also work with wild dolphins. They demonstrate deep knowing of inter-connectedness. Wild animals already have built in, high, sophisticated intelligence, whereas many humans have even stopped using their intuition and have lost their inner authority.
"I am now feeling more confident than ever that I know what is good for me and feel empowered to take control of my life and my health. I hope that you all will soon experience the same if you don’t already."
But you have missed the important bit: the illusion that you are in control? IMHO nobody is in control except that universal power that some people call God. I know my God and His Son, for I am blessed to have received His spirit in my life - and I am so undeserving of this gift from my maker that it makes my cry with the pain of the responsibility of preaching His word.
Progress from paradise.
"We had seen the first automobiles reaching Tahiti and a single one kept as a curio between the palms at Takapoto. They symbolized one of white man's pet philosophies: Any device that saves us from using our own muscles is a blessing. To save physical labour we add motors to bicycles, to dinghies, to lawnmowers, to razors and tooth brushes. And we sit. We sit and do overtime to pay the bills for these gadgets, and run to our doctors because we are overworked, overfed and stressed. The doctor presents another bill and tells us to do exercise, and then we buy a bicycle without wheels or a rowing boat without a bottom. There we sit cycling and rowing without getting anywhere, trying to regain the shape and health of our progenitors before the motor was invented." - Thor Heyerdahl
That’s because we’re designed to be lazy, provided we can be so without immediate hazard, like being eaten by an apex predator or running out of good.
Of course we’re incentivised this way.
I wonder how you mean 'designed to be'? Surely it's more generations of conditioning, in order to disconnect us from our body signals?
I think nature guides us to conserve unnecessary energy expenditure. That’s helpful in times of scarcity but thoroughly toxic nowadays.
I might be wholly wrong, this isn’t a skill area of mine!
I agree. We have an evolutionary drive to conserve energy for the most part as we never know when scarcity and famine could strike. At least in our evolutionary memory.
However. Without movement we cease up. Atrophy occurs. Fascia tightens. Bones become brittle. Lymphatic and venous return becomes difficult and the list goes on.
Use it or lose it.
Yoga from my understanding may have evolved this way. Monks meditating all day, every day realized it wasn't helpful to be so sedimentary. They needed to move, hold themselves and stretch. Invert themselves. And it worked. Monks/yogis that meditated with the added movement we call yoga lived healthier lives than those who did not. I am sure their understanding of why was slightly different than ours now. But never the less they seem to have figured it out and is an interesting story whether entirely true or not.
I think we have become lazy consumers. I have a mate and no matter what ails her she is off to the doc for antibiotics - its ridiculous. I have said to her many times, take Manuka honey, drink water to flush out the system etc but she thinks there is a magic pill for every ailment under the sun.
The Gov adverts don't help the situation as they appear to want dependent citizens, for example, the smoking ad to stop smoking: their first words are, 'we know its difficult but you can do it.' They are telling you its difficult and people believe this and use patches as a crutch. Others are workaholics, their work being their crutch. Its sad really that we can't rely on our own instincts and get back to basics and enjoy the beauty of life. The Dalai lama sums it up succinctly:
“The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered "Man! Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”
I applaud all that you're doing to try to improve the health and wellness of people around the globe.
RIP Sparky and all the other guinea pigs recently.
Sadly we are much like the guinea pigs. We eat whatever we are "fed".
A sad story about Sparky regarding him not realising what was good for him.
I remember we had a hamster called Hammy and he escaped and managed to get behind a bit of built-in furniture around the fireplace. He got quite huge with all the food he was getting from somewhere and looked like a huge ball of fur almost the size of a hedgehog but we could never catch him. We went on holiday to visit a great aunt in London with another couple of great aunts left to watch the house while we were away and my mother phoned home after we had been a few days in London to see how they were getting on and she looked increasingly horrified at what she was hearing. It turned out that they had caught Hammy and thought he was a rat and had chucked him down the toilet and tried to flush him but he wouldn't go so they battered him to death with a back scrubber with blood going everywhere in the toilet bowl and they then flushed his wee dead body down the toilet. You see like Sparky wee Hammy didn't know what was good for him either, he should have followed his instincts and kept away from my two great aunts.
I learned an important lesson too from my parent's and Hammy's mistakes and that was to follow my instinct and never leave anyone in charge of my stuff in future as they would never do with it what I had actually wanted done with it. If you want something done properly then you have to do it yourself as Tess is doing.
Gawd, that was a horror story...lol
Yes we were horrified. A hamster looks nothing like a rat and why didn't they Chuck him out the front door which was only feet away. Anyway lessons learned all round, RIP Hammy.
Sadly domesticated animals mirror human behaviour and belief systems. At the Amazon river region in Bolivia, I observed that wild animals knew what exactly they needed to eat and didn't over eat. And when they're full, they don't unnecesarily attack another prey animal. I also work with wild dolphins. They demonstrate deep knowing of inter-connectedness. Wild animals already have built in, high, sophisticated intelligence, whereas many humans have even stopped using their intuition and have lost their inner authority.
"I am now feeling more confident than ever that I know what is good for me and feel empowered to take control of my life and my health. I hope that you all will soon experience the same if you don’t already."
But you have missed the important bit: the illusion that you are in control? IMHO nobody is in control except that universal power that some people call God. I know my God and His Son, for I am blessed to have received His spirit in my life - and I am so undeserving of this gift from my maker that it makes my cry with the pain of the responsibility of preaching His word.
I can do more than spread the truth: https://www.theburningplatform.com/author/austrian-peter/
Peace be with you.