Manifesto for a Happy Earth! aka How to end Violence Part 4

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Manifesto for a Happy Earth! aka How to end Violence Part 4

People have the tendency to induldge in counter productive activities. We lost simplicity in our era. And there is majestic beauty and surprising complexity in simplicity. It's not simplification, it's not degeneration and downgrading. It is reinventing your best instincts, remembering the best from your ancient traditions, and discovering the hidden wisdom you had in you and were unaware of.

We are a culture that live in our heads. We are so invested in what the latest research said, and scientific papers, and what nutrients do dieticians tell me to get daily. Yeah. But what does your body say about it? We've forgotten how to listen to our body's "voice".

Manifesto for a Happy Earth! aka How to end Violence Part 4

You will say testimonies mean nothing, but i will share with you my testimony which you will fine is backed up by million other people's similar stories in the world.

I was your standard western girl, grown up with the standard western diet, meat, dairy, eggs, some fast foods, fried foods, lots of sugar. You know the deal. I had a mother who like most western mothers was "religious" on taking my dairy daily "to have strong bones and teeth" etc. I don't blame the poor woman. That was what she has also received as a legacy by her mother.

For Generations now the dairy, egg, and meat industry, grew people up with more often than not controversial if not down right purchased studies, about the benefits of their products. I don't hold a grudge on my mother. She did the best that she could. One trap in which people with new found wisdoms can fall in, is to build resentment towards those who wronged them in the past. That's a terrible mistake, and you hurt noone but your very self and beloved surroundings.

Manifesto for a Happy Earth! aka How to end Violence Part 4

(^Well not always^)

I had quite some health problems. Huge constipation. For years and years. Since i was a little girl. I needed days and days to go the bathroom and when i did, sorry for the explicit details, but i literally suffered. What came out was huge and definitely something was not alright. Chronic head aches. At 14 i began showing signs of dandruf. Which two year laters began spreading on the sides of my face etc. It was severe. I discovered at 16 i had sebhorreic dermatitis, a seriously disturbing autoimmune disorder. S.D.That's how the doctor called it at least.

"What's autoimmune doctor?" i asked, "something we can't explain and just made a fancy name for" answered the doctor with surprising honesty. "There are creams girl, but sorry for hearing that, you will have to adress those symptoms your whole life. It will get a little better, a little worse, have its flunctuations, but it will always be there. Don't worry we have the means to keep it to a good level and you will live a fulfilling life".

It was red, inflamed, itchy, with white and yeallowish scales, and you bet it was annoying as hell and never ending. At one point it was even spread behind my ears and almost in my whole head and face. When it was a winter, and when i went under a very stressful event, it had flares. And not pleasant ones at all. Can you imagine the embarassment of a young person to look like that, and the torment to want to literally scratch your scalp off with your nails every day?

Manifesto for a Happy Earth! aka How to end Violence Part 4

As you can imagine, i tried pharmaceutical shampoos, i tried creams, creams with cortisol, creams of "natural origin", aloe vera gels, dead sea minerals, took in-mouth pills. everything on the book. But all i was doing was adressing symptoms. We live in a culture whose whole healthcare system has been built around adressing symptoms instead of deep rooted healing and prevention.

To make a long story short, after a lot of struggles, a lot of embarassment, a lot of tough days, i discovered the vegan diet. A person that has gone through that much doesn't play games. I got straight to the point and went hardcore. No refined sugars, no gluten, no dairy, nothing fried, no meat. The first three months were a nightmare. My body had even worse flares. was starting to get desperate. starting to believe i failed. I was strongly compelled to return back.

Manifesto for a Happy Earth! aka How to end Violence Part 4

But a very good friend of mine, to whom i will be forever in debt, stayed to my side and helped me procceed. After about one year the symptoms left me. I had a few mild breakouts but were barely noticeable. After that period, i had no single breakout ever again. My scalp was clean like a S.D. free, healthy scalp. Face the same. I am sebhorreic dermatitis free, for 10 years now. !!!

So dear doctor, be great wherever you happen to be right now, forever was a bit of an overconfident word though wasn't it? Especially for a "autoimmune disease" i must supress all year round. I also got more into workout, learing how to have a good posture, how to breathe, relax, meditative prayer, fasting, I'm daily taking massive action in my offering activities. I feel healthier than ever. My mental clarity has increased. My energy levels are like up there. CONSTANTLY, no flunctuations. My skin is clear and shiny. My eyes bright and inviting/sympathetic. My toilet experience? F-a-ntastic, never had such bathroom reliefs in my life. My colon is happy, my stomach as well. Sleep is a-ok. So is there any going back for me now? I wouldn't even want to contemplate on the thought.

Manifesto for a Happy Earth! aka How to end Violence Part 4

I began for my health problems, but as i researched along the way, i discovered that by being healthy, not only me, but the whole world is happier. i can give all that I am, not just what i have. The animal industry, except for strikingly brutal, is also very heavy on the environment. And have you even gone near a slaughterhouse? I tell you, the smell is unbareable from miles away.

So my beloved friends, you can bring me all the studies on the world, but i tell you. They cannot convince me for changing that lifestyle. Not a slight chance. I feel amazing. I felt what human food actually tastes like. I had lost my true sense of taste. I didn't know how true hunger is like. All the myths in my life, "5 small meals a day", "tons of water", "8 portions of fruits and veggies a day", "the almighty important breakfast", kept being debunked one after the other, falling like paper towers.

Manifesto for a Happy Earth! aka How to end Violence Part 4

What i also learned, is that while diet and breathing and exercing and all these great stuff are very helpful, where true healing actually lies, is inside the person's heart. Do you know what my mindset was when i lost even those tiny signs of miniflares that occasionally creeped out some times the final months of the first year? That I don't care about fighting it anymore. I had come at peace with my health problem and with my self. Life goes on. I came to understand also, that is was not accidental at all that greatest flares accured when i had quarrels with a beloved person of mine, or when a big, stressful event emerged.

Holding grudges, unforgiveness, not letting go past incdents or material possessions you cling to, unfulfilled caprices. If we only knew the impact these things have in our lifes and how they can manifest in all sorts of physical forms.

Manifesto for a Happy Earth! aka How to end Violence Part 4

Thoughts, people living a whole life in their heads. Thoughts aren't half bad, but sorry for the shocking, possibly hurting truth, as many of you probably haven't seen true hunger yet, many haven't seen true thinking yet either. You can have 300 IQ, but still there are higher powers in the human psyche than that. When all live in clarity and allignment, and when desires, thoughts, and moral compass aren't in conflict, you can have thinking as two natural processes. You can process meditative prayer for example deep in your "heart" - the lower, less known core of your mental prowess - and at the same time do logical processes with your square logical brain. But a newfound, transcending logic, filtered from biases and passions. I know this sounds, unfathomable, and completely alien mumbo jumbo to you. But well, i just put it out there, and whoever wants to find out shall find out.

Manifesto for a Happy Earth! aka How to end Violence Part 4

So... in what ways shall we help the earth? Let's help ourselves, to be able to help others. and remember that life is relationships. Let's stop with the self occupation. We are living in a culture of movies, video games, "self growth" (the misinterpreted form), and generally self- occupation. People living parallel lives (even husbands and wives, lots of them actually), making parallel monologues thinking they are dialogues, even hanging out together and being consumed in individualism. If we bothered to give a look to our fellow man, to see a bit out of our narrow borders and also sense what struggles have other humans in the distant world. Then we can say we begin being onto something.

Manifesto for a Happy Earth! aka How to end Violence Part 4

Three basic ways being friendly with earth and consequently ourselves.

1) Green energy. We have an abundance of energy all around us but we still strive with fossil fuels like its the 1800s. An example of alternatives? This simple but wonderful Cretan electrician, who so loved humanity and research managed in 30 years of harsh struggle and research to develop a system that produces, free, clean, 100% pure hydrogen, from merely the humidity of air and without any of the contrivances of the heavy industry at all. He can now, after two years from this vid, make it at the size of a simple home fridge. And could even go mass scales for cities if he was asked. But of course the countries will all play the fools.


2) Re-inventing agriculture. Industrial and common agriculture don't work. They just deplete our earth from fertile, living soil. And poisons our water reserves, food and planet. And make us poorer, our children sicker, and creates domino effects all over earth which of course boomerang eventually back at us.

Natural farming, fukuoka's method, cover crops combined with full spectrum bug, myco and animal life in harmony, nature's simulation, zeolite clinoptilolite. So many great ways to make earth beautiful, and our children safe again. And our food great as ever!

We think we are so wise with our complex models, but lose the bigger picture and constantly fall back in self defeating attitudes. It isn't necessary though.

3) Education. True education, not was is taught today to the masses. Making the next generation of humans that will have all the potential to make and even more harmonious civilization than the one we ought to bestow to them. And what we currently can do? Practice simplicity. Non greed. Non violence, inside and out. Re-evaluate our true needs. Learn minimalism. Love humility over pompousness. Open our consciousness to knew messages and our ears to the pain and worries of those around us.

Two short stories to close this take:

Some years ago, i saw a documentary once that showed an African mother living in the dessert. She had to go three hours on feet, to gather the quantity of one glass of water for her children by poking cacti. This was so striking to me. She had to go through an unfathomable odyssey, while i can simply open my faucet and fill all the glasses i want. I never looked a glass of water in the same way. I feel such gratitude now, even to be blessed enough to have that LUXURY that others haven't dreamt of.

And second, my kid was watching TV and a tsunami had hit another country. My kid slowly walked towards the screen, tears running over his face, watching the kids his age looking for their parents, and attempting to reach to them by touching his little hand on the screen. What a shock. What a lesson that kid is, to all of us. That's what true empathy is. He didn't "feel sorry for them", he didn't "put himself in their shoes". His sensitive little heart was EMPATHISING with them. He was living what they are living in vivo. Their struggles, fears, pain, despair and uncertainty. He was struck himself by the monstrous wave. Lost his own parents. Got outside time and locality. He sets an example for all of us. On how much of a long way to have to ressurect this little kid in us. We are so consumed in our egos, our little adult ego games, our tough nut attitudes, our emotionlessness, our facade, our superficiality. We have built an impenetrable shell and a fortress around our heart. We've grown and grown in "logic", rationalising the preposterous, and thinking we live in absolute truth and enlightment. So lost and deluded we truly are. Let's find that kid's heart somewhere in there once again.

I will hopefully come with more takes on diet and life.

#health #relationships

Manifesto for a Happy Earth! aka How to end Violence Part 4
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