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Compounding Choices: Why They Count in Your IC

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Eliminating Foods From DietDoing energy science work to heal is different than what you’ve been exposed to as you’ve wandered through the matter science world of medicine and nutrition  This is because it does its science differently but its recommendations are at least grounded on a system of thinking that spans thousands of years, not just decades  This approach to IC(interstitial cystititis….bladder pain syndrome), IBS, GERD, fibromyalgia, chronic prostatitis, and vulvodynia exposes us to a different way of thinking

Fad Diets

Rumor has it that there is no specific diet for IC  That’s true if the only diet you’ve been exposed to is based on fad  We hear the term “fad diets” these days but what constitutes a diet as fad?  The origins of the word “fad” comes from different sources and some are interesting; a hobby or pet project, from the early 1800’s; perhaps 18th century term, fiddle faddle, implying fashion or craze; from the French, fadaise meaning trifle or nonsense; unltimately from the Latin, fatuus meaning stupid

Whatever,  we don’t take a fad seriously A passing fancy as implied  But currently a fad is only a fad after we have experienced that there is no truth in its approach  I would purport that a nutritional fad is grounded on the following:

No test of time to establish validity or that it actually helps with IC(is there still confusion in the ranks of IC patients?)

Guidelines are based on hearsay (Mary said that this was bad for her IC and corroborated by many other IC patients in a survey)

Based on a particular food(certain fruit, berry etc)

Based on a type of food(carbohydrate, protein)

Elimination of food types until there is nothing left to eat

Based on measurement(number of calories consumed, number of pounds lost)

Intuitively claims cannot be believed(in six weeks you’ll lose 30 pounds!)

No nutritional system supports the overall process(employing scientific concepts…..not molecular information)

This first and last guideline are the most salient because(and this seems like heresy) they place our current matter science nutritional model as suspect as fad

Why? Because there is no nutritional system that supports the underlying tenets of its dimension Therefore I would have to term our current molecular nutritional system as fad and I believe that’s why we fall for all the fad diets; we don’t have a system of nutrition that isn’t fad

How in the world could we know the difference between what is quality and real and fad when we have only been exposed to fad?

Energy Science Medicine and Nutrition:  The Nature of Compounding Qualities

If you’ve read my books you’ll understand that nutrition is different than diet  Nutrition focuses on how food qualities lead to disease  Stay with me here  Just because this may sound confusing doesn’t mean it should be discounted  As the phrase goes, “how’s what you’re doing with diet working for you?”  The energy science says that nutrition should take into account who the consumer is  What a concept!  You mean if I’m a Pitta Vata my food choices would be different than a Pitta Kapha?

In the energy science of healing if you take in the HOT quality in the form of a tomato, then go out on a HOT summer day and enjoy the hot sun(putting on sunscreen of course….hint sunscreen doesn’t negate the hot quality), come inside and have a HOT pepperoni pizza(with some incompatible food combinations….cheese and meat), and the next morning have your routine fruit smootie that you have everyday that is loaded with incompatible food combinations  With this scenario you have just compounded your chances for having a HOT flare sometime in the near future (I know, this may seem like a fictitious scenario that you wouldn’t do….I made it up to make the point about compounding quality…but nonetheless compounding happens in each one of our lives if we just pay attention)
But because we all live in this bubble of convincing molecular dietary fadism, you cannot believe that the moment to moment choices that you make in the day have anything to do with your IC  As a matter of fact you are told by the “authorities” that there is no specific diet for IC so live it up and journal!!
So if you’re caught in the net of dietary fadism, find a hole and swim out   There is a better way             Love DB

The Power of Rituals in IC

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When you think about it, all healing involves rituals   If the doctor gives you a pill for high blood pressure, you make a point during the day(preferably the same time every day) to take the pill  If you want to change your nutritional format to heal your IC, you put into place things that you do on a regular basis to change your pattern of choices

So painful bladder flares are no different than any other disease in responding to planned ritualistic behavior

But why does employing rituals work?

Rituals and Healing

Rituals are a way to grab our attention  When someone gets married, a wedding is held to grab everyone’s attention about the significance of a happening in two familys’ lives as well as the couple getting hitched  When you brush your teeth, it’s done out of a ritual that you’ve created called “getting ready for the day”  But when you think about it, this concocted ritual is really important for your health  It not only sets the tone for the day but there are health advantages such as clean teeth and bodily hygiene  The holidays that have just passed is another great example of ritualistic behaviorMarriage

Some people create rituals around various health activities such as exercise

The characteristics of a ritual are: 1 they are done consistently, 2 usually best done when they are at the same time of day, 3 as above they are done to grab our attention that something important is being done

Hey,  Pay Attention

I’m sure you’ve experienced the “well worn rut” in your life where you feel that something has to change but instead of doing something different you continue on the same path as yesterday

A ritual has the power to break up the “same old” behavior patterns that may not be serving you very well and asks the bodymind to “Hey, wake up, pay attention to what I’m doing here…..it’s important!”Shaving

And the beauty about rituals is that they are done as a matter of a habit….just like the old habits that didn’t serve you very well  Think of it as replacing one habit with another  But the habit being replaced is usually not a well thought out pattern of behavior but something that has crept into your day somewhat by accident not by your permission

Things To Know About Rituals

Probably the hardest thing that you do in life is change behavior patterns that don’t serve you very well  This is why rituals can be so powerful

Many of the healing techniques in the energy science realm are those suggesting a shift in behaviors, such as eating differently(avoiding coffee, carbonated drinks, use of spices) going to bed early and getting up early to start the day, morning oil massage, use of mono diets on occasion based on your energy makeup, etc

But there are some things that you should know about rituals employed for health

1 Not a quick fix  It’s about the proverbial “drip on the forehead” that over time has the physical capability to make a groove in granite  So it’s the persistence and consistency that pays off with any health ritual  You may know of the consistency of exercise and its rewards but it’s the establishment of the exercise ritual that does the magic

2 Real healing takes time   Actually a corollary to the above is that any energy healing requires time and patience  This is particularly difficult to believe if you’re experiencing pain  After all the whole reason that you’re taking on the ritual to begin with is to reduce the pain that is causing havoc in your life

3 Ritual adaptation  At times the ritual may need to be adapted, modified, or altered to get the best result  This doesn’t mean that the ritual is dismissed but rather it is changed as it is experienced  For example, if you find fatigue with your new exercise ritual, instead of doing it every day in the week, reduce it to 6 times per week

Good luck in your ritual planning for 2014!   Love DB