CFS 14 July Ayurvedic

Hello All,

Well, the finances are restrictive. However, I am under budget for the first time in a long time. Actually have little choice in that matter as the savings are running out.

Found a book at the library last week about Ayurvedic Health. Been very interesting reading it. I already knew from other sources that I was Vata. There are three 'Doshas' Vata, Pitta, Kapha. Vata doesn't like winter cold weather. Pitta and Kapha don't like the heat of summer.

I see these people walking around this winter still in a T-shirt and I am bundled up with many layers and gloves too.

I am carefully trying different avenues to get my health stable and up too possibly. Number one is to pay attention to what the body wants and give in to it without a fight.

My Guides gave me a message about 6 weeks ago maybe even 8 weeks ago to learn to sit comfortable with who I am as I am without trying to improve my health, wealth, finances anything. Learn to just be me as I am NOW. It was quite difficult to allow my self to not struggle to get ahead. And most of my friends couldn't understand attempting to do nothing. I can tell you that to truly do nothing is hard work. To truly sit with the feelings of the body and listen closely and to pay attention and then to actually DO little or nothing.

I went through many iterations of doing less. And truly thought that I was doing the nothing as requested, comfortably. NOT. I nearly collapsed a couple of times when I really thought that I had plenty of energy. Where I thought that I would do what I was doing and get low on energy, and that I was sitting at 50% in the tank I was already at 5%. I have now applied for an Ambulance Insurance Policy just in case I collapse somewhere and need the rescue of my situation. Like if I collapse in Coles shopping for groceries, the people would automatically call an ambulance. They are expensive running about $500 per trip. That would wipe me out financially completely. It is money well spent as far as I can tell now. As insurance I hope that I never need it.

The study of the Ayurvedic has me changing my diet and/or reinforcing the changes that I had already made from my own understanding of what was working for me and what was not. Like now I eat 4-5 times per day small meals. I am not digesting food really well and there is little hydracloric acid in my gut or so it seems. I am doing two different things to increase the acid but they seem slow to react and I don't always remember to do them either.

One big improvement has been to add CoQ10 to my diet. I am only taking one tablet per day (all that I can afford for now) but it seems to help my energy levels a lot.

I had a pretty good week going last week until the neighbor decided to start a party at 12 midnight. His loud talking to his friends out side his door....beside my door woke me. Then more friends showed up about 20 minutes later. Then he decided to nail something into the concrete walls at 01:00. Then everyone left loudly at 01:30. After all those wakeups I couldn't get back to sleep until after 02:00.

I have started a Vata balancing tea: Cardemon, Cinnamon, Ginger, and Licorice. The licorice taste comes through the strongest for now. Also, I found some sesame oil that is supposed to be the bee's knees for the Vata in winter. After my nightly shower to heat the body (suggested for Vata in winter) I massage in liberal amount of the sesame.

the last two nights have been very cold here < 3 c. So, the showers and oil massage have helped me have a great night of sleep. Also, I am to put the warm oil on the bottom of my feet prior to putting on my socks to go to bed.

Today is the last day of sunshine for another week. I have been getting out in the sunshine at the beach every day for the last 4 and plan on doing so again today.

Overall this week and last I would say that my energy has been stable. Trouble is in defining stable. If as a healthy person one thinks of themselves as tired and could put a percentage to it....it might be like running at 75% or so. I mean for a healthy person from 100% to 75% is huge. I am way down the ladder. When I have been really weak I feel more like .001%. And fortunately I double in energy nearly every day. So, .001 becomes .002, .004, .008, .016, etc. Well after two pretty good weeks, I am feeling safely around 1-2% of what I used to feel like.

I feel that I might be stable just now. But, as you can see, if you are only at 1-2% it doesn't take much to floor you or me. It also leads to great care in paying attention to all the needs of the body. Water, Tea, food, Sleep, rest, slow slow walks, sunshine etc.

I know that I created this challenge and I know that I am learning a lot from it. And I will have energy again one day.

peace to all of you

Oh, I have one thing to add. Be aware of your energy. When you are tried, rest, cut back, say NO, sleep, eat good for you foods.

peace

gene