Brain Fog and depression... what"s the connection?

Is brain fog the same as depression, or is depression associated with brain fog?

My assertion is that if you treat the brain fog, you also treat the depression.

Their overlap is 90%. And because brain fog is not emotional but all physical, the approach to treat it is all physical.

The human body is complicated. Not complex... Complex is still penetrable with the human mind, or with artificial brains. No. It"s complicated... not penetrable.

What different foods, different chemicals, different gut flora do and how they interact is complicated.

Trying to understand it is impossible. Not near impossible: it is impossible. Explaining, finding cures or fixes to symptoms is impractical and ineffective, and yet, this is the level of medicine and science... explaining, finding cures for symptoms, finding fixes to symptoms. Ugh.

So what can you do?

Simplify. That is what you can do...

When something is complicated, simplification is always a good step towards a solution. "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler." When you make it simpler your "premise" is false.

There are a few things we know. From observation. Not many things, but definitely a few things.

• 1. If your cells are dehydrated, you"ll feel stupid, sluggish, and perform poorly in the world


• 2. If you don"t sleep right, you"ll be tired, sluggish, brain fog, and often depression follows


• 3. If you don"t poop you"ll feel off, foggy, and lethargic


• 4. If you eat like everyone else, eat the common diet, you"ll be an underachiever just like them. And you"ll have problems with your sleep, your poop, your brain, your energy level. (This category includes a what to eat, and the eating style... also having the building blocks the body can use to build a healthy body, the nutrients.)
  5. If you use mood altering substances, brain stimulants, and you stop them, you"ll suddenly find yourself in withdrawal... Anything normal, anything befitting for human consumption, anything really good for you won"t do that... So avoid mood altering substances... including caffeine.

The strait and narrow method of getting well

This simplification strategy will use the strait an narrow method. With this method we eliminate what is harmful, what doesn"t produce what you want, and you"ll be, at the minimum, will be reasonably well. And mostly: really well.

Start with one thing, take it to where it needs to be, and ratchet it in.

That is a rule of life: when you achieve something, make it permanent.

Instead of what everyone else does: drop the ball and go back where you have been before you started, or maybe worse.

It will be hard, because of three reasons:

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  1. everyone is pulling against you. The crab bucket syndrome...

  
  misery loves company. People, your family, your friends, cannot care, cannot love, cannot let you escape.

So don"t share. Don"t talk about it. Don"t ask for support, don"t ask them to understand. Just do what you need to do. If they tell you you are weird, then either lie, or just let them say whatever they need to say.

You are responsible for your well-being: take it on. It"s your job, and nobody else"s.

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  2. The temptation to go back to doing the wrong things is as strong as for an alcoholic. Really.

  
  

Consider yourself an addict. Consider the rules of the 12-step programs, especially the first step: declare yourself powerless in the face of "normal" but that doesn"t mean you cannot do one day at a time...

Know that by the second part of the day you have depleted your will-power, so don"t get tempted.

Find an accountability partner who is in the same boat as you: trying to become a strait and narrow path walker: become a joyous, intelligent, productive human.

I have and will write articles on every phase of the strait and narrow.

3. Make sure you don"t expect unrealistic results in an unrealistic timeframe.

You got where you are... it will take about 10% of the time, without mistakes, to get out of the ditch.

If you are like everyone else, this is probably the biggest enemy: expecting fast results... instead of committing to "whatever and however long it takes."

My most successful student has been doing the work on the strait and narrow for years. He started almost exactly five years ago.

But as long as he keeps it up, he"ll enjoy the life very few get to live: health, wealth, love and happiness, a life worth living.

It"s taken ME longer... I am older.

Neither of us is done. I still make dietary mistakes, and I still use mood altering substances. But I already feel better than I have ever felt before.

Today I felt that if this well-being continues, I"d love to live till a hundred... whereas a year ago I was praying for early death in my sleep.

What can I do for you?

I don"t specialize in illnesses. I am not a doctor. I am not a nutritionist.

I use muscle testing to get stuff known, and I use Source energies to support you on your journey for a life worth living.

I use the first step, the hydration, as the test if I should take you on as a client. If you cannot accomplish that, then you won"t accomplish any other step... you are too far gone. I cannot help you.

So your first step, the easiest, is to increase your cell hydration.

Follow this link to see if you want to become brain fog free...

https://www.yourvibration.com/energywater

It"s amazing how much you can get if you quietly, clearly, and authoritatively demand it...

Everybody dreams of a stress free life... even though stress wakes you up. Stress as in challenge. I am not talking about the anxiety where you are fighting what if scenarios... that will never happen.

My countryman, who worked in Canada, Selye Janos (aka Hans Selye), was an endocrinologist, who was the first to demonstrate the existence of biological stress.

Stress response, what stress can do to your body.

But in his groundbreaking book, "Stress without Distress" he showed that stress also keeps us alive.
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5 Characteristics Of Grit -- How Many Do You Have?

Reprinted from Forbes... ((by Margaret M. Perlis I write about Excellence in practice, people, places & product.))

Recently some close friends visited, both of whom have worked in education with adolescents for over 40 years. We were talking about students in general and when I asked what has changed with regards to the character of kids, in unison they said “grit” – or more specifically, lack thereof. There seems to be growing concern among teachers that kids these days are growing soft.

When I took a deeper dive, I found that what my friends have been observing in-the-field, researchers have been measuring in the lab. The role grit plays in success has become a topic du jour, spearheaded by Angela Duckworth, who was catapulted to the forefront of the field after delivering a TED talk which has since been viewed well over a  million times.

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You live in a world of your own design... You don"t like the design?

You live in a world of your own design

But how do you build a world of your own design?

Everyone hopes that this sentence "you live in a world of your own design" means that you can change your life.

But the sentence means: you have the world that you have designed. You built it. brick by brick. Anxiety by anxiety. By self-limitation or self-indulgence. By lack of self-worth, self-esteem, lack of any knowledge, lack of any values... or by delusion... yeah, YOU built it. Not ever considering the consequences of your actions.

You built it to be a tiny cage: secure enough so you can feel safer, that you can feel not too much for you to deal with it, tight enough to feel trapped.

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How dead are you? If your life is not a roller coaster, then you are not alive.

What you are, instead alive, is a walking dead, resigned, and settled for the little that, it seems, life has to offer. To you. You see others, seemingly happy, seemingly alive, and you feel regret, shame, and envy.

Your heart, where rain forests and colorful birds, and life used to live, is devastated. The lush rain forests gone, the birds gone, life: gone.

Your ups and downs are tiny, not like a roller coaster. They are about money, or noise, or that you are fat, or skinny, or that you are aging. Irrelevant circumstances.

Maybe it is about someone being sick, maybe dying... but that is also a circumstance. Storm in a teacup.

Your pain is the pain of not having lived.

But...

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Updated: Learning lessons the hard way or the easy way: choose

You can make the same mistake, over and over, expecting different results.
You can eventually learns from your mistakes, but you insist on making them a few times...
You can learn from other people"s mistakes.

I am not talking here about your IQ? About ability?

I am talking about behavior. Behavior that comes from your world view, your self-view, and the number of the capacities you are wielding...

To consider doing things differently needs a modicum of humility. Modicum means: a little bit. Most people have none... Just watch a 3-year old: "Don"t tell me what to do! I know!" yells the little boy... and they freeze into that attitude.

Humility is a capacity. Without some humility there in no curiosity, there is not real learning, there is no experimentation, thought or otherwise, there is not growth.

If you are a fatalist or determinist, ((religious?)) you probably have no humility.
If you find the juice in life in being a victim: you probably want no humility.

Thought experiments are tools for growth, tools for evolution...  ((Occasionally you can do the thought experiment in an illustrated form, like a mind map, or in the case of military: on the war map. You need less intelligence to do it in an illustrated fashion, and the accuracy of the thought experiment is very much in question... You can be seduced by the physical activity of writing and drawing... feeling really smart...))

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Living Dangerously: The habits that keep us feling safe, small, bankrupt, and feeling dead UPDATED

I had a one-on-one session with a student yesterday.

Sometimes I notice something "out"... something that doesn"t fit the picture, and just like a good detective, I latch onto it, and watch it, and if I can, I use it to unravel the mystery someone"s life is.

But sometimes it takes a while to really identify what it is that doesn"t fit... it is just a hunch, it is just a feeling... like the faint scent of death for a search dog...

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What if you have something blocking you from growing? The Seven Boulders principle

Some ten years ago I learned a valuable way of looking at making life meaningful, or living a meaningful life. The teacher suggested that we pick a horizon, a direction, and then look what"s blocking the way of getting there.

Since then I saw that even seeing the horizon is blocked... Blocked by seven boulders, lined up one behind the other, blocking your view, blocking your movement.

So, in my coaching practice, when I ask people to set a direction, and they can"t see any, I am inclined to suggest that they choose the direction: living a meaningful live, or a fulfilled life... without specifying what it is.

The goal is to see the first boulder that blocks your view, that blocks your path.

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The feeling that you are insufficient for the task that is in front of you

This feeling can be colored by fear, dread, can feel like anxiety, but at the root of most fear is a sense that you are insufficient for the task that is in front of you.

Not big enough, not smart enough, not fast enough... Not enough = insufficient.

Now, for most people, feeling this is all they need to run for the hills.

For some people, they can hang in there, waiting for the feeling to subside.

For some people, unless they feel up to the task, they won"t even start.

For me: I know that unless I feel that and go beyond it, doing what I don"t feel I can, several times a day, I am not growing.
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The Pleasure Principle and winning in life

Psychology, as a science and as a practice has some tools: Observation and brain scans.

But the problem with either is that the human element, the interpreter between what is being seen, their mindset, their attitude, their approach, is crucial.

But, of course, this is true everywhere, except with psychologists, we expect them to interpret what they observe accurately... except they don"t. As a rule.

And then there are some outliers... like Freud.

I am observing myself, and I am observing my students.

And I am getting clearer and clearer, that The Pleasure Principle is indeed one that has to be taken seriously.

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DNA activation: Human DNA is like a Christmas tree: it has lots of light on, and even more lights off.

Human DNA is like a Christmas tree: it has lots of light on, and even more lights off.

A light on is a human capacity that is active. A light off is a human capacity that is not active.

Evolution of the species is an inside job. It happens on the DNA level: some capacities turn on.

But how do these capacities turn on, and why isn"t everybody the same on the level of DNA?

A DNA capacity turns on when it"s needed. Comfort, peace, smooth living don"t turn on new capacities.

You don"t need them. You could use them, but you don"t need them.

When I came to America, I spent all my money... it wasn"t much anyway. Eventually I made a habit of asking myself every time I wanted to buy something: do you want it or do you need it?

It was hard to tell. I wanted most things and therefore I felt I needed them.

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Vibrational Review: 5 stages of Consciousness Evolution by Vishen Lakhiani

Vishen Lakhiani is the owner of MindValley... a huge company promoting gurus and their programs.

The original article was to promote his webinar workshop on becoming limitless, on October 13. The webinar"s job is to promote their continuity, i.e. subscription to the $29 a month Mindvalley Academy.

Because so many people are interested in becoming limitless, or at least happier, I am going to review the article... I can"t review the webinar, or something I haven"t happened... but I can look at the person and his work any time, and make bold assertions to their results.

One thing that will clue me in is the truthfulness of this article... or the lack of truthfulness. I don"t mean honesty, by the way. I mean: are the principles valid? Do  the methods produce the results he claims they produce? Is the thinking correct?

This may take me days... I just hope I won"t miss the deadline.

So, here is the article by Vishen Lakhiani:

The 5 Stages Of Consciousness Evolution: Where Would You Stand Today?

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7 steps to create ease and grace about making money?

What does it take to have, make, save, invest, and spend money in a way that you end up enjoying it, benefiting from it, being enriched by money?

Before we can talk about money, we need to define what we mean by abundance... Abundance is a being that says: All is well with the world. Abundance is also an experience.

I don"t know anyone who lives in abundance, although all of us have experienced abundance for moments, minutes, hours... sometimes even days. Don"t kid yourself, rich people don"t live in abundance... every person I have ever checked, had some version of anxiety in them.

And yet... abundance is our birthright... we are hardwired for abundance. But because...

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Can you change by changing what you say? Why aren"t your affirmations make money appear for you?

Back in 1987 I took a course about money. I had been poor, just a tad poorer than most of my life.

I remember working in New York City as an architect for hire, freezing my ears off... the weather always felt worse in the wind-tunnels of the New York City streets.

My two big investments were ear muffs and boots. It was more important than food: you can be hungry and alive... these were mostly my two choices: full or alive.

I took the train to the City from New Jersey, and spent all my time daydreaming about stuff... stuff I wanted, stuff I needed, stuff I had to have... as in "I have to have that!"

Then I did this course. The main message of the course was that you can change your relationship to money by simply speaking some magic words.

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The in-order-to syndrome that wastes your life... Do you have it?

Why you were happy as a child and what you lost that you could regain?

Children live for the now moment, until they get corrupted by their parents.

They do what they do NOT in order to get something else, not in order to get it over with, to get to the promised land...

Christmas and vegetables are the first means to destroy joy in children.

How many days till Christmas makes the days till Christmas something to get through, so the real thing, Christmas can come along.

And eating your vegetables so you can get to the promised land of dessert... You are doing that to your children... you are doing that to yourself. Other examples: get good grades so you can get into a good school... Study to get good grades... Study so you can dazzle by having the right answers... Recognize yourself?

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My plans for new product delivery

August is a month where there is little business, so I have time to look at myself, my business, my life, my plans, and ask the question: what can I do for you that would make the most difference for you?

I found two area of life where I have something really revolutionary to offer,

in the fight of the mites and their effect on your health, mental and physical,

in your mental and emotional autonomy... to make you independent from those terrible Dark Side transmissions and the negativity of society



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NEW: Feeling lonely? Are you sure you are feeling your own feelings?

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Are your feelings yours? I had a realization a few minutes ago: Every summer I am attacked by this strong feeling that unless I have a life-partner, I am alone, and I have an empty life. It comes fortified with … Continue reading →

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What did Genghis Khan, the greatest conqueror in history do to raise his people"s IQ?

I have been reading about the Mongols, the nomadic people that occupied lands and people in the 13th century, from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, in the 13th Century under Genghis Khan.

99% of those Mongols didn"t read, didn"t write. Their average IQ (my measurement) was the same as college educated people"s today. Their available IQ was 90%, as opposed to today"s college educated people, whose available IQ is less than 80%. Which means, those Mongols were more intelligent than you. Ugh, that hurts.

What is the secret difference between them and you, that they were able to conquer and you are not? And what could you borrow from them, even though you are not a steppe warrior?

Here are my insights that I hope will be useful for you today:

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The "you can do anything" myth... or what is the source of your anxiety

The anxiety attacks you experience
There are two types of anxiety attacks, as far as I can see:

Dark Side attack. It is an energy that is broadcasted from up North. It is "in the air" and it only waits for you to notice.Then your reaction to it makes it more real, and also last longer than the energy duration would make it justifiable.I have written about this a lot.
Your unrealistic expectations of yourself

If I wanted to design a system for unhappiness

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Are you adding good to the bad, hoping the bad will get better?

In almost any endeavor, removing what you don"t want makes more difference than adding something good to the mix.

And although this makes a lot of sense, in spite of it not being common knowledge in self-improvement, you keep on trying to add stuff to your anxiety, to your inability to breathe,
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