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How is your day today?How is your day today? How was your day yesterday? What do you think tomorrow will be like? These are very important questions. They reveal our life in a microcosm.Last night I ate chocolate. It was great. Today I have a headache and so, I am living out the consequence of yesterdays fun. Now, I might start to think about how I would feel tomorrow if I ate chocolate today. So, I could feel miserable all day, just so I feel better tomorrow. Then I have another problem don’t I?So, how is your day today? Are you tired from yesterday? Are you thinking about tomorrow and therefore delaying your happiness? How is your day today?Tired? If we sit in front of TV we can feel tired the next day. Why? If we work in a chair, and think we feel tired. If we have emotional pain, we feel tired. If we run a marathon we can feel tired tomorrow. Is it all the same tired?Actually, tired is acid. And to the mechanics of your body, it matters little what the cause. The result is a feeling of exhaustion, unavailable energy. So, the couch potatoes who watched TV all day and became acidic from lack of exercise can feel as tired as the marathon runner or business executive. They all feel tired because they all have acidity.Most disease is acidic. Cancer, digestive problems, heart problems, flu, headache, stomach pains, arthritis, joint soreness, muscle strains, blurred thinking, depression, chronic fatigue and more.On the physical level, to recover from tiredness we must alkalize the body, or at least, get rid of acid. That means, plenty of oxygen, good distilled water, some fruits (definitely not all) and certain other products. I use Paul Braggs Apple Cider vinegar. Disgusting taste, but what a miracle. Bancha tea by the Japanese is also a miracle alkalize.Acidity also makes you fat. Products that are acid include beer, hard liquor, potatoes, mushroom, tomato, garlic, raw onion, and egg plant (really bad)Beware of pills that promise anti oxidant qualities. These include anti aging pills and anti oxidant (oxidation means rust, this is acidity)These are the physical cures for tiredness. But there are others. Meditation, real meditation, is an anti acid product. Sitting relaxed upright, breathing in and out, resting in the calm of love, this is also anti oxidant, anti acid.But we can’t always eat food and drink tea and meditate. We are awake 16 or more hours a day and in this time, we think constantly and therefore have the chance to affect our acidity constantly. There’s acid thinking – tension – and there’s alkaline thinking.The most sustainable cure for tiredness – thinking right. Ultimately all tiredness ends and begins in the mind. We feel tired, we think tired, we think tired we feel tired. For most motivational speakers the answer is excitement and an emotional drive toward a goal. But this can easily be the source of even more acidity. I argue differently. Because youthfulness, vitality and health lead to happiness and happy people create goals that make a better world. Tired people are in survival mode and self obsess.Fighting for peacefulness is acidic. Driving for a life purpose is acidic. Over doing your yoga practice is acidic. Screaming yes, yes, yes is acidic. Note here, I am not arguing that acid is bad, but it must be balanced with alkaline, otherwise, acid creates exhaustion at all levels of body, mind, and spirit.The key to sustained anti acid living is detachment Four key emotions keep us young and healthy. They are kindness, gentleness, care and love. The key to all four, is detachment. These emotions are states of mind that are in fact anti acid. Sustained over long periods they guarantee youthful, healthy and happy individual lifestyles. They are the keys to sustainable energy and vitality in life.So, if we can become emotionally detached from our experience of life, we can actually start to feel well – regardless of yesterday or the promise of tomorrow. Emotionally detached does not mean without emotion, it means not taking emotions seriously. I may feel angry, but if I can laugh at myself – I can be detached.I think this is a great key to happiness. To be detached from what we do. However, there are so many questions that surface when we attempt detachment. Am I still being responsible? How will I get the job done if I am not nervous or fearful? Surely fear drives me to some positive results.I teach detachment to sports stars and actors. Both of these groups of people need masses of motivation, emotion and investment in order to achieve a positive result. So, these people reflect the dilemma we all face. How do I still win the 100 meter sprint at the Olympics, or an Academy award, and yet remain detached from what I do?For me, the best description is the horse and the driver. A man sat on the wagon, holding the reigns of the horses that pull the wagon. First time, he forgot to tie the horses to the wagon, he flicked the reigns and ended with disastrous consequences. This is like living for happiness. Having no sense of duty, purpose or greater function in life. The horses, (your emotions and feelings) will just pull you through the mud and the result is disaster.The same man got back on the wagon, this time, he attached the horses to the wagon and then waited. Nothing happened. You can say, all was peaceful. No problems, no worries, he didn’t even have to stay awake. He eventually fell asleep, but not totally, he knew the horses could bolt at the slightest sound, so he had to remain alert, but inert. This is like living for peace of mind. Trying to live like this achieves a static state of self consciousness, but there is a vulnerability to the real world. When is it going to intrude shake the emotions? And what use to yourself or others are you sitting on a wagon going no where? Eventually, something would have to break.Finally, the guy hitched the horses to the wagon, he decided where he wanted to go, held tight to the reigns and flicked the horses into action. He was silent, still strong, the horses – his emotions, were harnessed to a mission. The cart, his talent refined, he went on his way.Don’t let the cart, or the horses take control of your day. Harness them, direct them, create a direction for the future. Sit firmly on your journey. Sit still, deep with love. Hold your silence within as the most sacred of all life’s gifts. Silence within – means love. Love for life, for self, for nature, for world, for family. I suggest this in the interests of your happiness, your family’s happiness and the happiness of the world.Detachment, is not emotionless. Detachment means not distracted by emotions that do not support your dreams, it means to channel your emotions to a cause you believe in, harness them, focus them, eradicate the useless ones, create an energy and move.Finally, there are as many diseases caused by excess alkalinity as there are caused by acidity. In this article I am referring to the normal individual who is exposed to everyday toxins in city life. If, you are a hippie or a meditator or live in a cave in Nepal, I strongly suggest that your health will be adversely affected if you don’t acidify your life. (the complete opposite).It may come as a huge surprise to many people to find that Yogis in caves, monks in monasteries and hippies in communes are not all that healthy, vital, energetic and youthful. Excess alkalinity can age a person just as fast as excess acid.Live with Spirit and Love
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Chris Walker is a world leading change agent, an environmentalist and author of more than 20 books. Born and bred in Australia, he consults to people and organisations throughout the world on improved relationships, health and lifestyle through the application of the Universal laws of Nature. The result he offers is that we stay balanced, share loving relationships, work with passion, enjoy success, and live our personal truth. To learn more about Chris’s work and journeys to Nepal, visit www.chriswalker.com.au
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