Robert????????

One thing I'd like to know .. is that Robert Clifton coughing on the front of the flu pamphlet ... lol!!! Used to know him and I know he did a few public service jobs like that. From London .. then Oz .. then London again!!!

He must be 60ish now. Someone I know saw him about a year back and said he hadn't really aged!!!

And .. now .. goodnight ... lol!!!

Goodnight

Did get a lovely book on synchronicity that I'll be reading soon. Well, I expect it's lovely and I expect I'll be reading it soon. Got it from The Works. £2.99 or something similar .. should keep me entertained for quite a long time and then the information'll be in my head plus the time spent thinking about it. Not bad value for £2.99.

Maybe I'll start reading it tomorrow. Whoops .. it's five minutes in to what I meant by tomorrow .. and time for me to go!!!!

Family history

Someone I know has just told me that she has some recipies passed down in her family from the very early 18th century, I don't know how old the book is that they're written in .. will have to ask .. maybe it's not so old .. but what a fascinating bit of family history to have. I guess it's more likely that things like this will have been kept in very rural areas where she lives.

There's absolutely nothing in our family. I know and have known people whi're making all kinds of booklets to pass down in the family. Some have been made because the grandchildren are interested some because the person writting has decided that they'd like to do one.

I never did write mine .. though I still have the one I started for my brother .. might finish it. I'd have to write notes and then write and illustrate from those.

Probably won't though .. it's nothing you can prove while I'm on the earth plane so to speak and .. in the future they'll probably just think that I was rather creative and imaginative and leave it at that. Though keep it and dream around it a bit because it's rather cute and imaginative and speaking down through time.

C'est la vie .. lol!!

I expect someone would keep it though

Would quite like to do it and it wouldn't be difficult writting from a few notes.

Might .. might not!!!

Apparently people are feeling a bit achy and sniffley this morning. The gunge has gone but they're not feeling much like eating and are quite tired. Hopefully it was the flu .. sounds like it. One woman is like me .. always has a cold so it's quite amazing if it was. Didn't really sink in til this morning.

Good night

One of the things that annoyed me a little was that I couldn't really find out what a "mild" illness really meant as far as this flu went.

I think it often starts off with a sore throat and a bit of a stonking headache. Not sure how many people get this gunge .. if it was the flu my friends had .. I've now heard of someone else who had the same symptons .. she had a tummy ache and fluey aches and pains in the muscles that seem to go with this illness and is still feeling very weak and achy but is otherwise ok. She had loads of this transparent gunge. TMI .. but if you bend down it is so strong it can just hand there from ur nostrils for minutes.

Well, it certainly sounds like an odd virus .. does sound like the flu. One of friends has slight buzzing in the head too .. I guess that's from having a bit of a temperature. I remember one year, many, many years ago .. getting the flu and being kept awake by a very loud buzzing in my head .. after that I didn't sleep well for about eight years. I didn't have anything in the house to bring my temperature down and it came on in the middle of the night so had to wait til morning to get something unfortunately. It did slowly improve but the fever must've affected my sleep centre very badly. Think it's best to be prepared!!! I'd generally slept well for quite a few years upto then. It really was a very loud buzzy kind of shrieking noise .. the result of a high fever. It only lasted an hour or two but it did some damage to my sleep centre which could possibly have been avoided if I'd had something to take to bring my fever down.

I had a temperature of around 103 degrees and should really have called a doctor in I guess.

Bit of info here .. it's advertising but it does seem to give some useful information.

http://www.superliving.co.uk/pharmacy/your-health/temperature-fever.html

Anyway .. off to bed now.

Two of me ill friends have had mild cases of the flu

Well, my first two friends have come through what we think was the swine flu. Both had thick nasal mucous .. think that's the best way to decribe it. Tip .. if you're finding it difficult to shift .. close one nostril and blow into a tissue/ kitchen towel etc .. then do the same with the other. You might find that you only have to do it with one to clear it though!!!!!!!!

One didn't have a temperature .. possibly because. like me, she's on pain relief that includes paracetamol .. so her temperature could've been controlled when the virus hit anyway.

Both had a sore throat. one had a headache .. the one that didn't was taking pain meds. Her sore throat didn't feel that bad .. more like a grazed feeling but it was still there .. she said as far as her head went she got what seemed to be spots of mild pain here and there now and then but no real headache. Both had mild symptoms though .. except for the nose gunge .. which was totally clear .. no infection.

The woman on the pain meds is also on immune suppressants like me. much the same dose .. 10mg of corticosteroids a day and 1000mg of a steroid replacement med. A bit less than mine.

The flu, if that was what it was, lasted for about 5 days and was very mild indeed. The woman on the steroids etc expected to have a really hard time .. wasn't well ofcourse but nothing too awful .. except feeling frightened I guess because of the risk of pneumonia taking hold because of the meds. Have to say that she was taking large concoctions of herbs and spices. She was drinking mugs of the herbs and spices teas that are said to be anti virals and anti bacterial without boosting cytokines .. bunging it all in together. Drank two and a half small bottles of beet juice too. She forgot to finish the bottle on the first day.

Still feels slightly whoozy and a bit sensitive but the gunge has more or less stopped .. started clearing noticeably yesterday so it wasn't there for long.

Apparently it was quite amazing stuff .. sort of masses .. well, quite a lot .. of thickish clear .. see through .. gunge. Quite a lot means more than you'd usually expect with a cold/flu. No infection at all.

Do phone helplines for advice if you think you have swine flu .. if you have an underlying condition phone your doctor.

My friend on the pain meds was a bit slow phoning for help and advice because she wasn't sure what was possibly happening til the gunge started. If you're in the same situation .. or similar .. that she and I are in with regards to meds phone the doc or help line and ask for help.

Both are still feeling a bit whoozy and sensitive .. no great aches and pains and the gunge seems to be clearing .. well, just a tiny bit today .. had to blow hard to find it. Did wake up with a bit though.

Every picture tells a story

Found a picture of my brother and a friend of his from back in the 70s .. he told me that she went off to India on the hippy trail to learn more about life. I didn't though I think I would've liked to but it wasn't really part of my life. The Beatles and Donovan went to see Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who they later fell out with saying he was too materialistic. What he actually did was to introduce transendental meditation to the West in 1959 .. the year my younger brother was born .. he died in The Netherlands last year the day before my father's birthday .. so all very easy for me to remember .... aded 91. He'd read maths and physics at university then after studying yoga brought transcendental meditation to the West.

It was seen as a stress reduction technique. I have no idea what it's like really. I do know that it's said that it can leave a person a bit dazed afterwards and that it can bring repressed feelings out so people could find themselvesw feeling quite angry.

I lost interest in TM when I read that it could have some negative results.

I used to meditate using a mantra .. but mine was just med .. i .. tate repeated over and over to stop my mind wandering .. or to try to anyway ... lol!!!. Have to say that I never felt angry or dazed .. so I guess I was doing something different from TM!!! You can feel a bit twitchy to start with when you first start meditating because the body is releasing tensions as it's learning to relax in this way. It shouldn't last for many sessions. I didn't meditate for that long either.

TM must be far removed from ordinary meditation because The Maharishi must've thought that it could influence events .. British TM meditators proved it couldn't ... lol .. when they were asked to meditate The Labour Party out of power and they got back in again ... lol.

I don't know how it affects the personality .. probably not at all .. from what I know he had to be quite vain as he called himself The Maharishi which means Great Seer in Sanskrit and Donovan's old web pages went on about Donovan being a great musician which I found rather off putting .. and someone else had remarked on the same kind of thing after going to see him .. but George Harrison was very into all this as well for all his life and it's said that he was the opposite in personality. I didn't know anyone who practiced The Maharishi's particular brand of meditation.

Told my brother that I'd found this photo of him and this young woman .. it was taken during work experience .. he remembered it and said he'd like it and told me the story behind the photo.

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Then there was the Russian method whose name I forget but is on an earlier post with a Wiki link and the yoga teacher's experience and exercises.

I was really just going to write about what the woman I was speaking to told me but as I found these other ideas thought I'd put them in too..

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Anyway I guess Baba Ramdev included all the breathing exercises that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar uses. Bit of luck that he shares a name with a famous musician or I expect that I would've forgotten it after 2/3 years and one conversation on the phone where the conversation around health and asthma took about 5 minutes I guess. Well, not much lomger anyway.

Watching the videos took me back to my youth when I was very into yoga as were lots of people,

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will have his own methods of teaching the pranayama exercises which obviously I don't know as I've not been on one of his courses. And if I had I wouldn't describe his methods anyway as it is private and for people who attend the courses but you can learn the same exercises at yoga class which is really the best way to learn or from someone who's been to classes.

The Baba Ramdev videos seem a good introduction as he's careful about explaining things as he goes along.

There's a Baba Ramdev video for asthma but it's not in English. It will contain exercises in the Pranayama one .. listen to what he recommends for asthma in that one. Good idea to make notes as you go along I guess and watch what he's doing a lnumber of times..

I can tell you the three exercises that Ravi Shankar uses apparently. But that's all .. to know his teaching method you have to go on one of his courses. I'd think that it might be well worth going on one .. the woman I spoke to thought so but there aren't any scheduled for this area at the moment.

Anyway they are the one I mentioned earlier on ... ujjayi .. 2 .. kapalabhati and .. 3 .. bastrika. The last two exercises shouldn't be practiced by anyone with a hernia, high blood pressure or heart problems the Yoga teachers say..

Kapalabhati

http://www.subodhgupta.com/yogaarticle/Kapalhabhati.html


Kapalabhati video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSm1d1KWmhg

Just pottered off to rajshri.com .. I wish I spoke Hindi. Um .... oh, well .. u never know ... lol!!!!

I hoped the asthma video might be there in English ... but ... no ... but you can buy it in English I found out through Google. I would imagine it's selling well!!! If it's as good as the marketing ploy behind putting it on youtube in Hindi to a huge English speaking audience it should be worth watching.

I'm only doing four or five each of the breaths I've seen while searching through all this .. not all from Baba Ramdev's videos .. at a time. And then leaving it.

Anyway .. on to Bastrika. Women using an IUD shouldn't do this exercise either and best not to do it with a stuffed up nose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUytJJDAHk0

http://theancientschoolofyoga.com/yogic_breathing-pranayama

This covers a few yoga breathing techniques.

Anyway .. there you are .. those are the exercises that it's said are in Ravi Shankar's exercise.

Starting with ujjayi that I mentioned before and ending with a couple of OMS.

Exercises

Well, it appears that there are four ways that you might be able to improve and control asthma through exercises . The yoga teacher's exercises, Ravi Shankar's exercise, some yoga exercises with controlled breathing and some Russian exercises.

But, I guess you can mix and match to suit yourself too.

I wasn't keen on putting the whole exercise up because it's got contraindications again and, for some people, it's best to ask your doctor next time you see him/her if it's wise to do these exercises. I'm doing a very gentle modified version but my body still seems to be looking up and taking notice that there's something going on.

The Russian exercises are apparently very gentle.

Pranayama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranayama

Please take notice of the cautions.

Buteyko .. which I found out about by reading the notes towards the end of the wiki Pranayama page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buteyko_method

These exercises are to be used along with asthma medication.

Baba Ramdev mentions contraindications for this kind of yoga in his Pranayam video that I've linked to later on. The main contraindications for these exercises are a hernia, high blood pressure and heart problems and it's best to have a word with your doctor when you next see him/her before starting on these exercises. That's what yoga teachers say. The exercises can be done at a much higher density than Baba Ramdev is showing. Should not be done without a teacher I'd think. If you have any of the contraindications do them at a slower pace after being given the go ahead on your next visit to the doc. Also epilepsy is a contraindication. Have to say that Baba Ramdev goes into this a lot .. can't remember if he mentions a hernia but it's something to be careful with too.

As I said I.m just doing very gentle versions while sitting at the computer .. and that seems to be enough to have some effect. I haven't got asthma, though my brother has .. he's very interested in all this too as well as drinking his teas. I have to be careful because of the condition my muscles are in and can only do this very gently and slowly. As I said I just do the exercises sitting at the computer. Very gently.

There are some long videos from India ... Baba Ram Dev's ... that you might've watched on youtube. Unfortunately the one for asthma hasn't been dubbed into English .. though, as it's about exercising I suppose watching it might help a bit!!!!!!! But there is another one about breathing techniques that is. He's very enthusiastic about the breathing exercises .. they have been shown to work for asthma .. and I guess they do tone up the whole system!!!! Might be worth making notes from the various things as we go along I guess, These weren't the videos I watched to start with. Well, still haven't watched much of them but I guess I will. He seems to do them for all ages dubbed into English cept for us older folk. I guess we have to adapt as we go along if we haven't been doing yoga or our health has changed .. the last goes for everyone.

Again if you have heart problems, a hernia or high blood pressure ask your doc next time you see him or her about doing these exercises. I watched the first 20 minutes or so of the video and it seemed that he was doing gentle exercices. But, still, it's like running the marathon .. you'd ask first if you have certain health problems.

He does a video for high blood pressure in English too

Breathing exercises

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Jnra2O9Fc

Blood pressure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io1orTAgVHM

I will write about other exercises later on and link to written pages for the yoga exercises.

Yoga classes

When I saw what the two other exercises are I wondered about putting them up here because I really think that they should only be learnt under the supervision of a yoga teacher. Obviously they are up on the net as is Mr Shankar's exercise.

The yoga teacher's exercises are there for people and so is the information about yoga helping asthma in ten weeks. The best thing to do is really to go to classes I think and learn that way.

My reason is that many people I've found don't take in the information that's put up logically .. that's an understatement .. and, knowing that from experience, I think it's best to leave it.

Sorry about this.

If you have found the exercises it's best not to do the third one if you have high blood pressure, a hernia or heart disease. If you do them TAKE NOTICE of what's being said and do them sensibly and gently.


I'm doing them very gently and will keep it that way.

If you want to learn best to go to yoga classes.

No more ......

No more junk food though .. tummy is revolting again!!! I had hoped .. but ... no ... sweet things like that are definitely out.

Getting better then!!!!

I think I'll have to have medical assistance to get back cause it wouldn't be fair to ask someone not medically trained to travel that distance with me. I must be much better than I was on the journey to Leicester and back though when I was sweating like mad and my sores started getting worse. Blogged about it at the time and wondered how just sitting in a car for a few hours could do that. It was a relaxed journey but something about it put my body into overdrive, I was very, very ill at the time ,, though enjoyed my time out .. and couldn't believe or understand what the journey had done to me physically. Some illness, huh!!!

Anyway .. must be much better now. No blood round the mouth this morning ,, though some slough .. rhymes with stuff incase ur a poet and want to write poems about stuff called slough .. most everyone will think that it rhymes with ow as in ouch .. like Slough the town .. but not to worry!!!

I thought that I was coming down with a nasty virus this morning cause my throat was so sore when I tried to get up .. just more muscle movement around a place that is a bit tender from the illnesses .. it was back to the usual pain in about ten minutes. Well, maybe a bit more painful than it normally would be but not much.Nothing to write home about .. well .. u no wot I means!!! lol!!!

Anyway .. regardless of all the improvement it'll still be best to have medical people with me I guess.

Home

Well, just had a mug of tea. Time to go and get some things sorted cause I'm away home in about five weeks .. flu permitting. Back to where I came from ... lol!!!

Made easier by a cup of tea!!!

Another yoga teacher's exercises

This appears to be a very good article by someone who has helped her asthma through breathing techniques. With exercises to save and print out.

http://www.yogajournal.com/health/127

I remember having an asthmatic friend who used to drink coffee with tumeric sprinkled in them to help with his asthma. Apparently coffee helps open the airways .. I expect every person with asthma knows that but it seems that you should only have so much a day so the tumeric helped to space it out a bit more through the initial effect and/or having a cup of hot water with some sprinkled in it separate from the coffee a couple of times during the day. Dunno if teas ... lol .. with tumeric in them would help. Ones with mullein should help get mucus up too. I was going to buy some mullein from Neal's Yard the other day to add to my spice/herb collection .. but just stared at it for a little while and decided to think about it. Wonder what it tastes like .. I suppose it doesn't really matter.

Mullein grows in Streatham .. lol .. it's a plant you won't forget if you see it as it grows to about 6 feet tall.

He also used to drink hot chocoolate for the same reasons as the tumeric and coffee.

Think he used to use about half a teaspoon of tumeric. Best not on an empty tum .. he used to drink it in water or milky coffee .. through reading this morning I've found that some people do drink it in milk.

Anyway. I'll look at the other two exercises that are meant to help asthma. I don't know what rhythm he teaches they be practiced at or where your arms should be or whether you should be sitting or standing. Guess you'd have to do the course to find out all that but knowing these exercises is a start. I wish I'd kept the phone number of the woman in Birmingham now.

There was a study done a couple of months ago that showed a link between yoga and improving asthma symptoms

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/151558.php

The symptoms improved by almost 50% after 10 weeks.

1. ujjayi

Finding something to put up here for the first exercise wasn't easy .. some videos were over simplified .. some the opposite. Anyway I chose this one eventually.

ujjayi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHGHGBkGU0Q

Found this too about asthma and yoga.

http://www.sudid.com/asthma.html

Anyway .. apparently ujjayi is the first part of Ravi Shankar's breathing technique. Whether it's longer .. shorter ... I don't know .. all the guy mentioned were the three techniques ,, this is the first one. There's plenty to read about it on the web anyway. Ujjayi .. not Ravi Shankar's exercise .. couldn't find out much about that til I found that forum and there wasn't much on there either.

As I said years ago the woman who told me about it said it had stopped her asthma .. though I've no idea how bad it was .. but she was very pleased about it.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I dunno if anyone remembers a couple of years ago I wrote about a guy called Ravi Shankar that someone had told me .. not the musician .. but Sri Sri Ravi Shankar who's a guru. She told me that she'd learnt a breathing exercise from him that had helped with her asthma. She said that it'd cured it. I don't know how bad her asthma was .. probably just forgotten bur, ofcourse I've not forgotten about the breathing exercises. She told me that you could get a booklet from a woman in Birmingham which would explain about it. I never did.

Anyway I was searching for some information about breathing exercises for someone I know who has asthma and someone had posted ab approximation of the exercise .. or, at least he said it was. He just named three yoga breathing exercises and said it was made up on these. I've searched one if them out and will put it up later on.

Have no idea if these are the exercises he uses but they are genuine yoga breathing exercises so thought I'd put them up when I've learnt them all.

I'll be telling my friend too .. and other friends who I've not told about the blogs ,,, lol ... incase they can help him/them .. The woman who told me about them told me cause she thought they could help me but, as I said, I didn't send off for the booklet.

GOOD night

My muscles seem to be moving more than they were. I said before that I didn't want it to happen too quickly because it would be difficult and very painful .. but it's happening faster than it was and, so far it's OK. Probably because they've relaxed a bit before and it's not as bad as it was when it first started. The muscle problems are from the steroid drips.

I can't believe it. I know there's still a long way to go but I'm pleased with the way things are going .. as long as the pain doesn't get worse.

I think I might ask if I can have my meds reduced again. Didn't have my blood test when I should've a couple of weeks ago so I think I'll take my form up next week and have one done. Think they have to send it away to the lab in London .. but it's still quick .. and if the results are ok again I'll ask if I can cut out another one .. half less in the morning and half in the evening.

I guess this might be down to the teas too. I'm leaving the one I mentioned out last out for a few days to see what happens when I start it again. I'm drinking a different concoction of herbs instead and I'm just wondering ... you never know.

Last night I suddenly heard click .. click .. crack as things were moving around my right shoulder and right side of my neck. Stayed up a bit later than I intended waiting to see what was going to happen .. if anything .. then when things seemed to have stopped I went to bed.

It feels very strange at the moment and rather unpleasant .. but then it has for a long time one way or another so there's no point complaining.

Still haven't tried my new pain relief but I had a lot to do one way or another and didn't want to risk trying a new pill that could make me feel ill like the last one did.

Don't think the herbs are helping with the pain. I know I wondered once .. but, all in all, I don't think they have, or not much. Though a piece of liquorice is very good for mouth ulcers etc if you hold it against them. Seems to kinda numb them. After I'd done that .. can't remember wht .. just for comfort or something I guess .. can't remember .. and found out that it'd cut the pain down I looked it up on the internet and found out that this is what should happen .. lol!!! That was brilliant .. feeling the effect before knowing thst it could do this. Not the placebo effect then. I did think that was good .. though I'm not sure if I'm the sort of person who would have a placebo effect very easily .. people I know don't think it's very likely .. more's the pity .. especially as far as pain goes at the moment .. for anything though really if it'd mean cutting the pills down.

But .. no, they're right I'm not a placebo type person.

Spoof?????

I'vw been back looking at that site .. surely it must be a spoof .. no-one could have that little story about spending three days in spirit on their site and be serious .. surely!!

Surely those people telling their stories on the video weren't for real .. but were actors. They certainly weren't having NDE's if they could wave arms around and run on treadmills ..and the person holding the segments together on the video kept on explaining what a NDE is quite correctly .. so he must have realised this rather than being someone who was getting the terminology totally mixed up.

But it wasn't very nice if it was a spoof it could leave some people with nightmares and there were other bits that weren't really spoof material .. though I didn't watch it to the end and maybe, if it was a spoof, that got sorted out.

Obvious from describing the criteria that make up a NDE and then describing something totally different and impossible.

Some people seem to think that the person is serious .. if so I guess it could show you that some people out there do have serious problems with reality and it's best to go through things with a fine tooth comb.

We all make mistakes .. but, obviously, these weren't mistakes. Some of the subject matter took a lot of it away from being really funny especially taking the mickey out of people who had sorted their lives out. Though continually describing something as being real and then showing something different was I thought.

It does have to be a spoof surely though. A lot of work has gone into it and why would those guys be describing things they knew weren't NDEs as NDEs. We had another one not recognising himself when out of the body too .. was he taking the mick out of that people of light guy. If I remember rightly he recognised himself until he was in the ambulance and then forgot what he looked like .. or, rather, what he'd said before when making that joke I guess ... lol!!!

Guess it's a spoof .. not done very well at times .. or someone .. or rather .. some people ... aren't very well.

Investigation and results

Anyway .. always read checking as you go. Whatever it is. lol. I'm really not sure if that site's for real .. but .. it just can't be .. surely!!! I was puzzled as I watched the video because the dr kept on insisting that he knew exactly what the requirements were to have a NDE and then introduced things that were rather missing the mark which surely won't impress those dreadful scientists who won't believe in things like this.

Well, to be honest I can't say I blame them.

I can't believe that the site's serious in any way at all .. surely the 3 day NDE was put on just incase someone missed the telling bits in the video. It's a bit scary if you do and maybe the site owner just wanted to be sure that no-one got upset.

The site worried me when I first landed on it but I was laughing when I left.

I'm really glad that I just mentioned a few of my experiences. It would've been impossible to be serious about it if I'd written about more for a number of reasons. It would've become harder for me to be sure .. and that's for sure fer sure!!! And it's much better to know what someone's talking about if you're reading about something and to have a variety of stories to read rather than just relying on one person who, because you didn't know much, would probably left you feeling more umcertain, Better to read a variety of peoples experiences along with explanations of why they could've happened.

You're hardly going to feel very reassured reading about one person's who could be/ mightm't be telling the truth .. especially if you have no knowledge of the subject at all.

Goes for anything like this.

Well it made me laugh

Think I've just landed on a spoof site .. ot at least I hope it is!!! I#ve been watching a video about NDEs. The first one had someone thrashing around while they were having their NDE. The second had someone still walking for 2 minutes on a treadmill after they'd passed over and the third didn't recognise himself after he'd left his body .. quite strange considering he must've had mirrors in his house you'd've thought .. but, maybe not .. maybe he hadn't ever seen himself before. People do recognise themselves when they're out of the body.

There's also a story from someone .. written rather than on the video where the person had passed over for 3 days before returning.

The doc on the video had got his medical facts wrong too!!! lol!!!

Bible probe is a spoof .. surely,

The next thing I Googled was bible probe spoof .. there was one forum where the site was discussed and someone suggested it might be .. though there were a few people who thought that it might be serious.

I Googled a M Scott Peck book which was mentioned on the site whose title I hadn't heard before which could've just been a spoof .. but it was real.

Surely not the whole site though. Surely it has to be a spoof site!!! lol!!!

Sssshhh

The Secret. Sssshhhh .. it doesn't work .. for most people .. BUT .. if you buy this new book apparently you'll be taught the things that were left out of the first book so that you can have success with the first book.

I knows this cause I got an email from people who teach The Secret and write books about The Law of Attraction to tell me.

I'd've thought that they could've put up a website and just explained the new revelations to people so that people who'd bought The Secret could've come along and updated like they do with some academic books for free .. no need to go down to the local bookshop and buy another book.

My mistake.

A couple of weeks late I got another email asking if I'd like to go on one of their courses How to get rich quick .. or something like that. Cost of the course? I feel like saying have a guess and then telling you tomorrow. But, I won't. It was ... ONLY ... $2,000.

I know a few people who believed in The Law of Attraction .. the last two? One's just had an appaling tragedy in her family life. This happemed a few months ago. A couple of months ago she agreed to help out someone she knows from her past by taking this woman's son in for a while to give him some stability. She's not got much money but gave him around £250 all in all for his phone so he could stay in touch with people plus a phone. Literally all she could afford. When he realized that there was no more money coming he left taking some of her things with him. She called him on the phone. When he realised it was her he told her to go off and die .. the first word was rather different from the one I've used.

She was still defending this book while all this was going on. It seems some people just close their minds to what is going on round them. I think she's changed her mind though.

The other one has lost his job and his girlfriend. He didn't want either thing to happen.

There are ways apparently that can help you see opportunities where you possibly wouldn't've been able to once. Wrote about it on the blog once, maybe twice I think. It has nothing to do with secret laws of the universe .. just psychology. Can't remember what it was called now but there was a TV programme based round it and it was written by a guy who teaches at one of the universities here.

Weird is the last word ... lol!!!

I've promised a friend not to mention life after death again on my blogs ... lol!!! OK .. I can only repeat myself so many times before everybody falls asleep.

Everything is in the books and on the net. And. he's right .. how many years is it. Four, five. six. Everything's been talked about on the blogs so people know exactly what to read if they want to know anything about any of it.

There are loads of peoples experiences on the net, in books. There've been programmes on the radio and on the TV for years and years.

If you really want to know it's all there.

And the last word of the last sentence of this paragraph will be my last word about it on here .. lol!! 5 years is it!!! There are sites on here you can discuss things with. Societies etc you can join.

All the things I've done. If you haven't .. then you can't really be that interested.

I know there are some interested people as I've picked up some good books in the charity shops here. And, ofcourse, there've been my meetings. Haven't been for a while but I do think of you.

If people were interested they would know where I'd been going ... lol!!! Thinks of books in The Works too.

Weird!!!!!!

Oranges

One bit of interesting informatiom I read today which is of no use to me ... lol .. but might be to you ... that is if you take hypertension meds taking vitamin C will help lower blood pressure .. if you're not on the meds it doesn't have an effect.

Oranges and orange juice do too .. though better to eat an orange than drink loads of fruit juice .. not because of the vit C but because of the potassium so you don't have to be on meds to get benefit from this.

Sunday

Feeling quite a bit better this morning except for the lack of sleep. Have been feeling a bit cold the last couple of days for some reason or other .. might be cause I had a day where I really wasn't watching my diet and I always feeling extra rough for a while afterwards not surprizingly.

Though the most likely cause is that I forgot to take some of my meds the night it started and because I've just had the Cellcept reduced by a third my body might have had trouble dealing with the missed dose along with the usual problems that go with not taking them.. The body has quite some adapting to do when you stop taking it. Usually a missed dose doesn't cause any symptoms but this mightn't be the case when the system is having to get used to being without a third of the usual dose it's used to anyway.

That and a crappy diet .. which always makes me feel sickly wouldn't've helped. And, ofcourse, not much sleep which is important at the moment. Still, I can catch up on that during the day,

Did start a new tea but couldn't see anything in that which should have caused any problems .. but will miss it out for a day. According to everything I've read the ingredients in it that I haven't tried before shouldn't be causing any problems.

Probably down to forgetting my pills and having a bad diet for a little while.

Not to worry. That seems to have worn off regardless of the physical problems..

lol

Someone I know said a couple of days ago that he didn't mind being proved wrong because it meant he'd learnt something. We were talking about spiritual things and I was the one on the other side of this.

I thought he'd be a bit .. if not .. a lot .. pissed off about all this .. lol .. but, not at all .. infact the total opposite .. rather happy about it.

I had wondered where it'd all go .. there were hints from someone else's behaviour there that this mightn't be how things would end up .. moan, groan, grizzle .. grizzle, groan, moan. I was hoping this wasn't the personality of the whole group more or less.

Grumble, grouse, grizzle, groan, moan, Have a sweet .. how could you do this to ne .. none of the green ones have any lemon stripes .. moan, groan, grumble. grouse.

So, I waited.

And .. found out that he was happy about it all.

He seems a nice person.

Guess it might be my turn to be wrong next time or to make a mistake .. hope I'm as cool about it.

Did make the right decision

Ofcourse I couldn't really tell people about many of my experiences because as they were physical synchronicity they could've been manipulated to happen by other human beings .. and you just know that they would've been. Just like my estimated 5% of people who lied to people researching for the books I've described. I could tell that one of the NDC stories was made up and suspected a couple of others. One, I'd dearly like to believe but I'm not sure though it's one of my favourite stories in the book. Most are obviously true. Well. to most people. There'll always be people who won't accept them because their beliefs or behaviour won't allow it .. as I said things are processed through a person's own thoughts and beliefs. There are people who deny the holocaust ever happened and you can't be much more in denial than that. If people will deny something like that took place you're not going to have much luck with something you can't prove to that extent.

Something got me thinking about it all again yesterday and I realised how glad I was that I hadn't run around telling people because it really would've messed things up ... lol!!! That is totally beyond question. I hadn't thought of it from that angle .. well, you wouldn't've thought that people would waste their time .. because they would want to know .. or they've got better things to do with their time. I'd looked at it from quite a few other angles and realized it wouldn't be the right thing to do .. but not that. Now I know I made the right decision,

Well, I already did. People reading this will fall into a number of categories .. some will think that if I'm telling the truth about having the experiences then I'm telling the truth about this too which are the only people I'd really be interested in telling strangely enough because I'd feel I could trust them not to mess around and pull stunts etc. Some would be encouraging me to talk about them so they could say either I was lying or that I'm mad .. they would already've made up their minds about this before I'd said anything. Some would just want to know cause they want to know about my personal life.

It's obvious that there're plenty of accounts out there that include lots of things that I/you have no personal experience of so if people insist that it's just my or your experiences that are going to make so much difference .. you know they have an agenda that has nothing to do with furthering an understanding of whether there's life after death. It's about control or something along those lines because they're obviousky not being truthful about their motives.

And, given that, I'm very pleased that I didn't say anymore than I did. Today has made me think and realise that for sure.

Finished my cup of tea. Bought a tea infuser today to put my tumeric and other dried herbs and spices in to try and make my own blends of spicey teas .. just add them to a cup of tea with a teabag of some kind in it .. or even drink the infusion by itself.

Lol ... yuk .. lol ... yuk. I bet white tea'll have nothing on this. Tummy get ready ... cause here it comes .................. lol!! I bet some, if not most of it is going to be rather ... well, you know .. will have a look at my herbs and spices tomorrow .. I have some bags of various spices .. mixed spices. tumeric, ginger, black pepper and garlic.

Will I dare. I'm trying out a new teabag at the moment .. maybe they need a bit more testing!!! I will try with the tumeric though.

Silly me .. I bought one medium/large bag and two smaller ones .. just incase.

What could I have been thinking of!!!

I was wondering if I'd ever made a tumeric infusion before .. like when I first found out about it in Disability Now and it's effects on the platelets on the brain .. but I think that I always added it to food. Probably need to drink it after food if it's got tumeric in it.

tumeric

Tumeric too .. I forgot about that lasr night, though I'm not using it as I should at the moment is said to help with viruses as well as stopping platelets attaching to the brain.



Your pharmacist would possibly a good person to ask about these things as they are trained to know about drugs and their interactions or a local herbalist and will be up to date with all the latest findings.

It's always recommended to ask your doctor .. for obvious reasons .. but it's also recommended to go and ask your pharmacist if you needd advice so I think that now it's probably best to ask your pharmacist or phone up a herbalist or the companies that make the teas. Time has moved on a bit.

I suppose I should be making tumeric teas. All you can do is hope that they will have some good effect.

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But, still, the illness is. for most people, a mild one. we're told. Thousands and thousands of people have caught it .. some, apparently, aren't even aware that they've had it.

But, for people like me it could be serious and we need all the information we can get that possibly could help us.

And I guess for other people, if they're interested in herbal medicine, then maybe they'll want to try it because they feel it'll be a safeguard. And one I certainly wouldn't put people off from.

I've decided out of all the roots mentioned in connection with the immune system that the only ones I'm using are liquorice and ginger along with garlic which isn't technically a root .. but seems a bit like one.

It's certainly made me feel better and has led to my immune suppressant meds being reduced .. don't know if it'll be enough to cope with this flu but it's certainly going in the right direction. I'm wondering if it'd be a good thing to reduce them again. I guess it could be worth asking.

Anyway .. off to bed now.

Manuka honey

I remember a couple of years ago I used manuka honey to stop what appeared to be a chest infection and other people did the same with infections.

Unfortunately honey is not a good thing to use with this flu because of it's promoting cytokine production .. it works a bit like the elderberry extract and echinacea do.

Wonderful stuff usually but not for this flu .. the same goes for all honeys .. manuka is thought to be the second highest promoter of cytokine production in honey. It's sad cause it's a good antiseptic and wound healer ... used in hospitals .. but not something that would be recommended for this present pandemic at all.

I should really be careful with it too because of my auto immune illness and I guess should just use it when it looks like I have an infection brewing .. which is what I do. I tried it for a while orally to see if it would help with my illness .. though I guess didn't really give it lomg enough. I doubt if I'll try again but ointment from the docs has been very good with new wounds .. not so much with the older ones though .. though the plasters from the doc did appear to start one healing .. had to stop using them cause it went into overdrive though that was easily sorted out. It has been very good with later ones .. though they are kind of pressure sores, rather than the original illness. which I believe was the cause of the one that healed.

Anyway, I think it could be right to say that with an auto immune ullness it's fine for healing wounds on a temporary basis but not good long term.

And .. with this flu .. mot to be used at all.

Gd night

Anyway, I'm going to leave off talking about the possibility of life after death. Doubt if there'll be anything new in the books except a few more experiences I haven't read about .. and I've managed without them upto now quite happily. I suppose it'll do me good to read things along that line at the moment though.

Oven's on ..bit late .. but long phone conversation .. so ............. the best laid plans etc!!!

One day I'll get there .. I know it'd be better for me but I'm not very good at getting to bed. At least the meal's not frozen so I'm not going to have to wait for the oven to heat and then another hour on top of that.

Haven't done much excercising today to expand my ribcage .. though it appears to've been having a very noticeable effect on my tummy but that might be because it's more sensitive because of the meds.

Beyond Coincidence

I can't remember the title of the book I read about synchronicity, It was by two guys who made a radio programme for the BBC about it. That was a very good book .. think it's out of print now anyway but there might be a few second hand copies around or the library might be able to get it. I wrote about it in the blog a couple of times I think. When I first read it and then when I saw another copy.

I'm guessing that two other people here read the book. Ah, it's called Beyond Coincidence. Found out that I'd been blogging about all this at least since 2005 while I was searching for the title. Wondered if I'd linked to something connected to the book but it was the ADC one. The ADC book is as much about synchronicity as it is about ADC anyway .. they often seem to merge in that book.

I haven't looked into things like UFOs or past lives cause I'm not really interested though I would be interested to know if anyone's come up with something that has been traced that it's as good as impossible that they didn't know before connected to the past lives. I expect it would be interesting to read about it all though.

I found Colin Wilson's autobiography in a charity shop in Warwick yesterday. Walking in from the hospital might be why I didn't sleep too well last night I guess .. that on top of my new exercises .. it's maybe trying to do too much at once. I felt ok, all things considered when I got in, but not only might I've changed things slightly but I might've stiffened up a bit I guess too. If I have that should sort itself out in a day or so.

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I guess this really is a testing time for people who do believe in life after death!!! I expect peoples doubts are rising to the surface quite a bit because ofcourse there's nothing you can produce and say look this is from spirit or anything like that.

I still think the best book is After Death Communication. My copy is by my bed and I might have a bit of a read I guess. I've forgotten some of the stories now so it'd be nice to refresh my memory and good for me too.

I'm pleased that my younger friends read it .. and my older ones too .. because it seems to be a great help and a good base I'm glad that The Works had it reduced too or I might never have read it .. but that drew my attention to the book.

I find it very reassuring. I've added some of my and other peoples experiences in my blogs .. so that's my contribution. There's plenty on the web though .. going into all aspects. I suppose Dr Moody's books on NDEs are good too as they are different peoples accounts of what happened to them in that situation. You have to accept, I think, that not all will be true but I think in those two books the majority are.

Dr Moody's books are the first books I read on the subject .. found them in a charity shop a long time ago. They're very good though I have to say that I do find him a bit on the gullible side .. but .. maybe he knows things I don't .. just speaking from my perspective.

The early books are good though cause they're just patients accounts of what happened to them.

If you make a rough estimation that 5% of people in a study like this mightn't be telling the truth in one way or another you'll probably be fine. It could easily be less in those books I guess

His website

http://www.lifeafterlife.com/

The National Institute for Discovery Science has disbanded now. I 've no idea what they were like. The Exceptional Human Experience ork has gone too. Those links really need to be updated.

There's so much on the net both in print and video and I might've seen much less than you which is why I always refer to those books .. they're what I like the best out of what I've seen and heard. Some of my friends know far more than I do ... lol!!!

I'm ok with it still.

Anyway I'm off to bed now. Well, as soon as I've drunk my tea. Was speaking to someone else today who they seem to have helped.

I've been ok

Went to the hospital this morning and I was ok. I was told that things were looking better. They booked me for a later appointment then changed their minds cause I suppose they're a bit curious to see just what's going on. My consultant tends to get a bit worried if I'm not there that often too sometimes .. but things are improving now. I'll leave them a note about the teas ... lol.

Looking for anti bacterial things that might be useful now.

I'm a bit sensitive to the green and white teas .. quite a few people are .. and I suppose mixed with my meds and my illnesses it's quite a lot for my tummy to cope with .. especially if I sneeze .. poor tummy!! Still it seems to be able to cope with them better than it did to begin with .. I'm not sloshing so much generally now. I've done a bit of exercising today too.

Tuesday

Guess I'm one of the people who have a bit of a sensitivity to the tea .. was still aware of the change in my tummy though. It's taking so long to sort out .. but then when you think that once I could just about get to Waterstones things have improved a lot. I suppose it's not surprizing that my stomach's a bit sensitive though considering the meds I take. I've been lucky that they haven't affected me more maybe though I do take a tummy protection pill to help.

The best scenario would be that my illness went into remission and sorted itself out so the pills could be reduced more. Technically it has gone into remission .. but as I explained before .. it wasn't reflected physically .. until I started drinking these teas .. then my cellcept were reduced.

I was reading about the young woman who's heart has recovered so that she doesn't need any more help and found out what her immune suppressant pills had done to her body. Think I'll keep on with the teas. Though will still be careful with the liquorice ones. I think I left them out too long during last week .. should've drunk a couple right at the beginning of the week cause I felt as if I had a heavy cold coming on .. it didn't develop into anything much. Felt like a cold though rather than what I'd become used to.

I suppose my tummy is always going to have problems though but at least it doesn't go into spasm anymore like it did .. that was due to excercising. I think if I hadn't bothered at all I'd still be back as I was and hobbling down to Waterstones to rest.

What I did quite a lot of yesterday .. and possibly too much ,, was a sort of standing cobra .. just arching my back and holding that position for a little while then slowly straightening up again. Was trying to expand my ribcage and probably did .. expanded my tummy too!!!!

Off to bed

Off to bed now .. was ready to go earlier but had a bit of a tummy upset so stayed put. Thought I'd stay up until it'd gone .. or whatever. I have more movement in my tummy .. when I breathe I can really feel my tummy moving which makes a change .. but it's also making me feel rather sickly. I've had a few extra sharp pains in my shoulders too so I think it's just my muscles along with the mug of white tea. Can't blame it for being rather sensitive really!!!! It seems to've settled down again anyway so think I'll turn in.

Didn't expect the tummy muscles to start doing that.

C.C(2)

I read a longer article about the conference I was reading about on someone else's site about climate change. It seems this anti=climate change conference wasn't given much coverage in the media at all. Maybe it wasn't considered that serious because it wasn't a purely scientific meeting. I don't know much about it .. who was hosting etc.

What did annoy me was the hooting attitude taken by the person who wrote it and again by the person who wrote the second newsprint article. Almost seemed to be more about attitude than anything else much. Surely it's important enough to be way beyond that.

You know, something like that catches your eye, and it was really totally tabloid .. Al Gore watch out .. we've gottem this time .. you know really heavy scientific stuff .. lol!!

Made all the more conspicuous by it's general absence from the media who it seems had hardly noticed it at all.

xxddzyge

Had to laugh .. I corrected the heading to this .. and it went off somewhere else. It keeps on happening with this keyboard .. don't know if I press too hard on some of the keys if it's affecting other ones .. but yesterday it was just all over the place. It's very flat so I suppose that could happen. I bought it in a sale too. Generally it's ok though .. just that now and then it goes off all over the place and I find meself typing in the middle of sentences or at the beginning of what I'm typing. Ir's not that often but more often than usual.

The keyboard before this had all the lettering coming off within about a week.

Lol!!

Not to worry though .. I usually spot it but last night I was tired and I didn't check.

???

It looks as if something has changed on the site and maybe people who want to know what's going on should bypass the complaints team and go to head office.

Something is wrong.

I've now heard of someone who got in touch with the complaints team about this, writing five emails in all, none replied to until the last, when they were told their account was going to be closed .. it hasn't been.

I'm not easy about the person who this started up about but that seems not to be relevant over all in this. Nothing to do with what has actually happened.

It's just something that's started happening in the last week or so .. so what on earth is going on.

What's happening isn't right across the board .. I've been checking some profiles who they do know about for sure and if it was a new policy causing this along the lines it appears to be .. however odd .. these accounts would certainly be down. They're not. And, anyway, we'd've been told about it if it was surely. And, if it was a company policy, the person writing to them would've been told not told his account was going to be closed down ... lol!!! And they wouldn't've closed people's accounts without a warning over a change in the rules that no one had or has been told about.

Something is wrong and it looks as if the people who want to sort it out or get an explanation are going to have to get in touch with the guvs guvs. They need to know really cause this could turn out badly for them especially as children can open accounts there as long as they're not paying.

If there's more to it than meets the eye and they want this guy off the site with no further trouble they should tell people that he had broken the terms of membership.

It's all very strange. I think the problem is at the guvs end though I can't be sure .. best for people to get in touch with head office now I think and try and get the whole thing sorted out.

There's no climate change etc

You really have to read articles with the blinkers off. I was reading an article about climate change which is against the idea of global warming .. maybe .. or, maybe just that they think nothing should be done to halt it.


Because cold affects people much more than warmer climates .. though at the moment due to climate change New Scientist's leader was that the ice is melting much faster than predicted by those studying the change.


The people behind the article were worried that if emissions were cut back and if the planet cooled one day .. thereby saying that climate change did have something to do with human emissions .. lol .. hmmm .. well, never mind. Though, at the same time going on about how no one can agree about whether there is such a thing as human made climate change and Al Gore you better look out kind of attitude.

Then you got the there's no concensus about what's causing climate change .. making it look as if it's a scientific concensus about the mechanics of climate change rather than including the political and economical .. but the group of people at the meeting were a mixture of business people, economists and others as well as scientists.

I remember saying when I first started my blogs .. long gone cause one needed a bit of editing and cross referencing and I couldn't be bothered to do it .. so down it went .. really I should've just left it cause it wasn't really important .. infact would be nice to go back and read now. Well, I said that there would be surprizes and there have been. I've missed some of them but me teas are bringing me back and I'm having a nose around. Didn't miss all the years though at times I was too ill and too tired to really register that much.

Must go and get a cup of tea now. Kettle's on.

But regardless of who's for and who's against you still have to wonder why they feel that climate change mightn't be due to emissions yet worry about cutting them back cause they're keeping the earth nice and cosy and warm.

I don't think anyone's ever said .. well, maybe they have ... kinda figure of speech there .. that they thought that temperatures were going to be constant because people have wondered what different changes to the ecostructure would do to the climate overall and in different areas. But it's warming than has caused these things to happen.

One of their arguments after you get the fact that they're going to contradict themselves because they don't want to let go of the no global warming theory yet need to say that it's happening if reducing emissions is going to change anything .. is that the planet might get colder so we should carry on heating the atmosphere up.

Yes it might .. but look what's happening now and people are talking about a run away scenario where a change in one ecosystem just sets off a chain reaction and trying to stop that.

Is the cooling down to changes in the oceans because of the melting ice will there come a time soon where because of the speed of how things have changed that the cooling will for the most part .. stop.

Will there be another natural cooling time soon. They don't know anymore than anyone else. Think I wrote once that I wondered if collecting carbon and then releasing it could help through colder times but didn't think that it would be easy to release so it might just be a fairytale.

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It's been quite a nice day starting off with the birthday surprize!! Or, the surprize birthday!!! It was someone else's and someone passed the wrong message round so everyone thought it was mine.

I'm really tired though. Will probably search my nook out and head for bed after dinner. Well, a book anywat.

Yesterday was nice too cause I made someone happy just by caring a little for them. I could hear the kind of amused pleasure in his voice because he'd been looked after a little bit .. made me chuckle too.

Have to be careful with the laughter though ... lol .. because they say that laughter can contribute to a healthy immune system .. and we don't want mine that healthy ... well, completely healthy would actually be nice .. but I mean healthy as in strong. Only joking .. the more laughter the better I should think. I've started laughing more again .. since the teas I guess ,, bit more like before .. I'll chuckle when something funny crosses my mind.

Am going to do a bit of yoga too .. I think the cobra pose is probably best for me as it should help with the ribs and breathing and tummy .. though, for me, it might be rather uncomfortable.

http://www.ehow.com/how_4990_cobra-pose-yoga.html

Very strange

There's something very strange going on at that site right now. It's a massive gaming site and you'd think they'd want the best publicity they could get.

Another profile has gone and this time I can't see a reason for it. They're not giving out any reasons to the rest of us so people are just left wondering what's going on.

The profiles I mentioned before are a bit strange though there's nothing that the guvs would usually close an account for there as far as I can see. But another one's just gone who's a friend of people I know and this is very odd indeed. Can't see any reason for her going. She did have a campaign going to bring the other guy back ,, but so does someone else I know whose name was mentioned on this other woman's profile so the guvs would've seen it .. but her account's still open and she doesn't appear to have the guvs hassling her at all.

Ah .. she's taken down her personal profile this morning to be on the safe side.

It does seem odd .. all these people had the email addy to write to if you needed help from the guvs and mentioned a couple of accounts that had actually been shut down by the guvs .. no active accounts were mentioned!!! And I know one account which is much the same who the guvs have to know about and that's still there. It must be one of the best known accounts on the site.

All very odd.

I've checked the site and I've checked my email and there's nothing to explain what's happening or if there's something we're not allowed to do that we don't know about yet!!!!!

I guess I'll write to them and ask .. not about individuals but in general. See what they say. Give it a week though to see if anything happens on the site as there's quite a bit of activity going on around it all and the guvs might get publically involved.

They could end up getting some very bad publicity though over some of this. It's not their concern whether I like one of the people involved .. lots of people have multiple accounts there with no hassle from the guvs .. I told them about mine and they weren't at all concerned .. it's to do with them seemingly doing things that look as if they might be taking away from the security of people on their site .. there are no rules about age providing that you're not playing the games for money .. so this includes children.

It's all very strange.

I'll wait a week and see what happens. If it's nothing I'll contact them.

morning

Found some photos this morning .. will give some to my brother if he wants them and throw the rest out .. they're nearly all of me. I've saved the ones that aren't plus a few that are. Finding them came as a bit of a shock. They brought back a lot of memories .. there was one where I had no idea who the people are .. I've put that in the pile for my brother incase he recognises them.



Got to potter over somewhere and tell them that it's not my birthday .. !!!!logged in just before I went to bed to find cake piccies and happy birthday greetings waiting for me.

Well, gotta get in touch with everyone and thank them ... but .. they've got the wrong person. There's another six months to go. Think it must be someone else so I'll sort that out. Probably a site error.

Have breakfast and sort it out now.

Zzzzzzzzzz

One thing about studying something you have to be as sure as you can about your facts or you're going to end up in a right pickle .. studying anything to do with the possibility of life after life .. apart from your own experiences means having to be careful about what you believe and what you don't.

I find it difficult .. after all the only ones I can be scientifically sure have happened are my own. I know others have because I know I've been told the truth but that's a personal judgement rather than a scientific fact. I believe them because I know the person well enough to be as sure as I can be that they're telling the truth .. well, I know they are for sure .. though scientifically I don't because as they're not me it is ofcourse possible that they're lying to me cause anyone and everyone who's talking to me is perfectly capable of lying. It's just a physical fact .. even though I know that they haven't lied.

I also know that other people who I don't know so well haven't lied too.

I could sit here and make things up and people reading this would be none the wiser and nobody would know except for me. I know whatever I write if someone's reading who doesn't know me then they're always going to wonder if it's real or not .. until they have experiences of their own.

Some people must be wondering why I write this over and over again when it's so obvious. But it's because I've come across rather a lot of people who apparently have never heard of the concepts I've discussed over the years. Who apparently believe no one else in the world has come across any of this before.

Anyway, I'm off to bed .. have got another interesting book to read which says it investigates the approaches of science and spirituality towards the subject. Might start it when I get up though I feel, almost certainly mistakenly, that I don't need to study anymore. I have no idea what it's about .. other than the general idea .. it looked as if it could twiddle a few braincells though.

I want to search back to see what Judy Garland's daughter has to say too .. I caught something then went off to read something else and now looking back I can't remember what it was.

Saturday

I can't do what spirit does and I've put a few of my experiences up on my blogs and others were read when people were reading Empower too so they'll be common knowledge in some places.

Different people will draw different conclusions. There are lots of books to read .. lots of articles and discussions on the net .. people to talk it over with if you're interested, I mean. I've been mentioning it for years .. apart from some of my personal experiences, if you've been interested enough to find out what other people experience and think, if you've been reading these blogs you should know as much as me .. plus you're own and/or peoples you know's experiences.

That's all there is to it.

The % of people who have these experiences is high expecially when all kinds of them are added in together so there must be quite a lot to talk about with people you can trust not to abuse the situation.

I do wish people who have a spiritual interest the best .. in all honesty I can't say the same for people who would be lying and abusing the situation or I'd be supporting them .. lol!! We have freedom of will so it's just as much upto them what they do as it is everyone else.

But for those who aren't I really hope they find peace through this. Ofcourse doubts creep back in now and then cause it seems so fantastic .. but then, it's far less fantastic than all this being here in the first place .. millions of tmes less fantastic I'd say .. it's just that you can see this .. but it is more fantastic that all this is here and we exist as individuals than the possibility that we have a "soul" that continues after death.

That would just be part of the process than the basis of all of it rather than the concept of something from "nothing" and then all the different things that have had to happen to get us to here. Life after life would just be a part of it .. nothing as fantastic as it all being here in the first place.

Unfortunately spirituality seems to have become a byword for things like The Secret. I have to say I was amazed by the emails that arrived from that quarter.

I might actually read The Secret. I'd quite like to so that I can see how it's set out and know everything that's put forward .. but, on the other hand, I don't really want that in my mind so maybe it's best just to let it be. Don't want to spend the time on it either really .. there are better things to read in my opinion!!!! So, oh well, maybe not!! Actually, think I'll leave it to be honest. Maybe if a second hand copy turned up I might but I don't really like the idea of putting more money in their pockets . Could borrow it from the library too .. but I think I might just leave it!!

morning

I suppose it wouldn't really do any harm to boost me immune system for a few days. Will mention it to my doc .. or leave a message with my consultants secretary. If the osha root had such good results back in 1918 and this is similar then why not give it a go. It probably works much the same as an antibiotic from the docs I guess but does it work in a slightly different way .. is there something extra there. Seems it's rather a mystery.

Didn't sleep so well last night .. so I put in some time meditating this morning .. just slowing and calming the mind and body. Definitely no more junk food either .. well, no more overly fatty, sugary things .. they just upset up stomach.

Have my tea here with me and have eaten some ginger .. that does seem to be good for the tummy .. maybe ... lol .. but, no .. the junk food has to go!!!

.....

And I hoped that cause I thought it was the nicest thing I could hope for.



Lol.



Nothing like feeling that I'm going up a path which isn't to the end. I used to think, very occasionally .. I've never been one to dwell on all that as apparently some people are .. I mean this has been upbeat rather than the other way round .. about losing me and what was the point of being here at all if that was all it lead to. But I've never been one to dwell on that .. maybe thought about it two/three/four times in my whole life.



But now I am very ill and moving down the road to passing over and I'm very grateful to feel the way I do. I did welcome spirit into my life and I did show that I was interested and grateful.

I'd hate to think where my thoughts might be going if I hadn't welcomed, been pleasant and interested enough to put work in to find out what it could all be about.

That's my take on it and how I feel

Really ..... zzzzzzzzzz now.

Good night .. rushes off to bed

I'm ok. Ofcourse today's news made me start a bit. Partially because of the differences in this flu. Earlier I'd been reading that this flu doesn't always some with a fever and that it can be so mild that people don't go to the doctor then I read that someone on the TV's son had the illness and he'd been complaining of a really bad headache and feeling ill and then came back to the news that the first person who didn't have an underlying illness had died.

I'm ok though .. bit tired so my thoughts aren't quite so focused .. used to happen when I was going through the spasming in hospital too .. but I'm still sure that life .. um .. follows life .. so I don't have that to worry about .. well, not in my mind anyway. I realized this evening that some people aren't going to be friends with spirit because of the way they behave .. I mean there's just no way .. not because of spirit and what they might do but because of the persons actions.

Don't quite understand how this happens. Though I can understand rationalizing it away.

I find that easy to a certain extent too .. until it becomes irrational to continue to do so. I believe in evolution and I find it hard to see how the two are compatible .. that's what's gets me .. and why life is so cruel .. and why there are so many people like the two I've been writing about and worse .. amd why there is so much hardship kinda built in along with the cruelty.

It seems incompatible with the kindliness that appears to go with spirit now that I'm pottering towards them .. and what I've heard about most NDEs and certainly the two of people I've spoken to.

I do believe that life follows life. I do hope too that those who really have a spiritual interest will know too. What I was saying to spirit was that I hoped the nice people here who really would like to know to the degree that I feel I do can but without it interupting their lives in anyway because of this is probably the best way of putting it isn't it.

I hope that they'll know enough about what could happen not to miss it or misinterpret it. So, it's kinda three way request. I suspect those who are really interested will know more now anyway. If they didn't anyway.

I can't give anyone proof really except those nearest me who know me well enough to know that I'm not lying.

The number of people who have these experiences is statistically high which has left me with another puzzle. Unless the researchers are wrong. This all leaves me with a lot of questions .. about understand what research is etc.

In times of trouble

It's strange .. often in times of trouble .. like the flu .. especially this evening .. though there's no qualifying what they mean by no underlying health problems but not surprizing .. so it's not as broad spectrum as "no underlying health problems" would seem at all. Going back to what I was saying people who care for people get more loving and people who don't tend to go the other way .. something that's been known for a long time. Makes you wonder .. I know that there are one or two .. well, not many that have lost touch with reality totally or seem to have .. unless it's bravado .. but these people seem to have some feeling for themselves .. sometimes masked by not looking ahead into the future of failing to see the consequences of their actions because they tend to believe that other people aren't smart enough to outwit them .. so they think they'll always come through. But they do know the consequences of what they do to other people because they can apply it to themselves.

They mightn't give a damn about others yet I think as they usually can reverse their actions as if they're happening to themselves they should always be accountable for their actions.

I've found it very strange when there's been discussion about this and them not being able to .. often rthey're more um "sensitive" about themselves than people who care for others so perhaps they should be held even more accountable .. huh!!! lol!!

But I always find that strange .. if they are aware of actions towards them they know that other people are people too so they know what they're doing.

It's said that they view other people as ants but they're still aware of themselves and they do know that other people are people really so they are aware of the consequences of their actions.

There can be a recklessness but it's still true in the main.

Brain imaging brought this to the fore and there was discussion about how actions should be viewed but I believe if someone can see themselves as a person then they're perfectly capable of seeing other people so too.

Just a thought though cause there's been some nice messages flying round the net .. but it did remind me. because of something me friend said to me, that we'll be seeing the other side of it too.

I wonder ....

Actually, my friend did know he'd been chucked off .. a couple of morons .. see above again about times of stress and nasty people .. on the site had sent her messages gloating about it though not because he possibly should've gone .. she hasn't noticed any of the things that are at odds about him though so I'm just leaving it. She mightn't know that all three accounts belong to him including the one he said didn't. I'm leaving it for now. See if she'll be telling me in a few days.

He will be back .. he might even be reinstated .. who knows .. ir might be easier than dealing with the people who are pissed off at what the guvs have done and having him back with another profile somewhere anywhere.

He did seem a very nice guy in lots of ways .. not my sort .. but there were things that caught my attention that made me wonder.

Such as saying he has a very, very expensive car .. the titled site name .. the fact that there was something like a 7/8 year difference in the profiles ages .. but it is him for sure .. I googled and compared the profiles and the style of writing was so similar and used wording that was quite unusual.

Shudder.

There are a lot of them out there.

Extended family

Yeah, think I'm over the last bug. Really it's not going to matter if I have a bit of astraglarus root if I feel very ill is it. I've spent so long looking into all this but it's been worth it for me .. the last few weeks have been better than for a long time so even if I do go over with the swine flu they've made things a lot better and I can't complain. I expect there's more to find out though even now.

I did think things were going to get worse last night but it was just a symptom that usually heralds the end of a cold for me. Just me body returning to normal.

We've just lost another person off the site .. not E for a change!!! .. but there's a campaign to get him back. I only know him through other people but it's difficult to work out why the guvs would do this from what I know .. I think he'll soon be back. Though there is something a little strange .. his age was quite different on two of them and my closest friend on there, who does speak to him a fair amount, said to me when I'd asked if she knew if he was the same person as this other person had said no cause he referred to this other profile as being someone else's. The plot thickens. I do find it difficult to believe the guvs threw him off for the reason he said too .. it just doesn't make sense. I actually wrote about it here then deleted it. I wrote about it saying that the guvs must've lost the plot but I realise now that it just sounds very, very weird all round. It's very hard to get them to shift their bums and get something done when people write to them .. it's a big complaint there .. well, I know they deal with E .. but that must be routine now!!!

Oh well it's not really any of my concern. My friend likes him a lot and so do quite a few other people and he's always come across to me as ok .. rather over excitable .. but that's fine. I expect he'll soon be back .. but it's all rather strange. When I first wrote about it I thought, blimey, what's up with the guvs .. but now I realise nothing might be .. it's very odd. Also they usually give people a warning unless it's very bad .. or E .. and he wasn't given one it seems and with a warning he could've easily sorted this out ,,,,, hmmmmmmmm!!!

I hope he's not Er as well.

He didn't come across as my type of person .. too much of the I ams and he'd called himself something like lordjames on his last profile .. but everyone seemed to like him so I reckoned I must be wrong .. but maybe not after all.

I wonder if he's Er.

Only joking .. he's certainly not her. lol!! But there's something not quite right here.

Just read me latest messages from my friend .. a luverly person .. she doesn't seem to know yet. He'd not long arrived in her life .. about the same time as E tried again .. lol!!

Oh God .. I hope he's not connected.

Thinks ... no warning!!!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!

Spirit

It would be nice if everyone found out but I guess lots of people just push spirit away anyway so they're not going to know anyway. Often because they have an agenda where this doesn't fit in.

I don't believe Sylvia Browne .. I just couldn't believe that someone who had a blouse covered in ... um .. "ectoplasm" .. wouldn't hand it over for testing and to give proof to all of us that weren't lucky enough to have such amazing contacts.

She annoyed me a bit because people who do things like that can only spread doubt .. there seem to've been quite a few people who have trusted her in the most awful situations only to have their trust seemingly broken.

I can only believe that somewhere along the line she's rejected spirit cause she must've heard some amazing stories .. but, maybe she just believes that everyone is like her and making it up or getting it wrong.

People like her aren't going to bother but I do wish people who really want what I refer to as spirit in their lives the very best.

When people lie there often seems to be money involved or an unpleasant motive.

Sylvia Browne must've heard some really amazing and valued personal experiences that mean so much to the people who've told her but something stops her taking in what they're saying .. I suppose it must be her attitude.

I do wish all the people who are looking on a spiritual basis the best though. But I guess it's up to each person how they react.

But it depends on you .. not me I think!!t

Anyway .. that's what I hope happens. You have to be reasonably aware of spirit for it to I think .. it took fifteen years for them to come back to me and they obviously decide everything.

But that's what I'd hope for. I believe they go to everyone. I've lived through a lot of very serious troubles .. one reason I'm pretty tough now. I do hope that there aren't problems surrounding people getting to know. I'd lost the nearest people in my life before I did though and found myself extremely ill which is why I said I hope there aren't any hard times surrounding getting to know.

I have known people have experiences that aren't painful.

Some of mine have been quite funny but still in the middle of a lot of pain.

I guess spirit try with everyone but it seems that people who aren't very pleasant push them away anyway but that's up to them.

But at least I've opened the door of realization that there could be something for those with open minds who read these blogs.

But I do hope that you get to know as much as you can and without pain.

But I didn't know til I was in my late 50s.

I'm sorry if people haven't really looked into things like the ADC book cause that would've explained things pretty well.

But most experiences happened around someone passing over.

I hope people get to understand that there is something .. researching would go a long way.

I have no power to give anyone anything .. just point in what appears to be the right direction.

Gud night

I'm slowly starting to work .. just messing about a bit really. I'd said I was when it was more in my head than going down on paper or computer .. it's quite fun and I often have myself curled up in fits of laughter .. which, ofcourse, is good for the immune system .. so maybe I shouldn't be doing this at all .. it's bad for me health!!

I think you just have to get on with your own life .. but there should be more pressure groups again .. I don't know if the present recession is going to politicise people again but I hope so .. well, politicise them into fighting for a better society. Some people think it might.

It's daft saying that this is a good society, it;s not and it's going furher down the plughole day by day. I don't expect it to pick up during a recession .. it's more likely that crime rates will go up .. suicide ones too unfortunately .. mainly in middle aged and older guys.

I hope I've managed to give out a bit of encouragement to the cool people who read this. Enjoy and learn about what you want to do if you're not already working.

You mightn't believe, like I do, that there's life after life. If you're really interested in a spiritual way I hope you have proof in a way that causes no pain or suffering.

I've found out that telling people about your experiences doesn't give them proof unless they've had them themselves because there's no concrete proof other than belief in someone else. It's ok if you know the person well enough to know what's going on .. as I've said .. family and friends you trust .. otherwise you're not going to know.

I know a few peoples experiences are true that I've been told .. I could pick a few from books I thought were true.

And, obviously, you draw the line at telling people who call you a liar about them because they are obviously lying about their reasons for wanting to know. I've been through all this with my younger friends who I know to talk to.

I'll talk about them because I'm getting older and I'm quite sick but I think if you're young it's best not unless you know you're in the right company cause there are lots of unpleasant people out there who are looking for things to try and make your life a misery with .. obviously if you know that life after life appears to be much more likely than not .. you're going to view them from a different viewpoint ... lol .. but I still think it's best to keep them within trusted circles within your life. Write to people researching things or even to a magazine if you want to share it because of the distance but I think it's best to leave it at that.

Too many unpleasant headcases out there but you can still share things through publications and researchers.

I do hope that the nice people who have a spiritual interest do understand and develop a true and knowing belief. I'll add .. only if they want to ofcourse and without it causing any pain or upset.

It's a hope for the nice local people who've been reading this if that's what they'd like to happen if it hasn't already and for further afield ofcourse too ... lol!!!

I expect the people who are interested have a reasonable knowledge now .. I'm talking about factual happenings. It's a very beautiful thing .. very beautiful indeed .. even for an old skeptic like me .. I'm willing to give up my skepticism for this know I've come to the conclusion that there comes a time thay it's less scientific to believe than not even if the methodology used isn't scientific .. it's only not scientific cause a stage has been reached where it's not possible to make it so.

Anyway that is what I'd like to happen but only with no pain or cruelty and with love and trust and permission. One reason for writing this is so that you'll be more aware if it does happen too ... lol.!!!

A thankyou.

t bags!!

Just been back to have another look at my mouth .. ok, it's far from perfect .. but it's a lot better. I used to wake up with one top arm and one lower side of my face caked in blood and what I guess is this stuff called slough .. slough rhymes with stuff .. sluff!!

Have done some sorting .. taken some pain relief .. I wish that could be sorted out too!!! Apparently there's a new form of very promising pain relief in the pipeline .. more effective than morphine and with few side effects. I don't like morphine really .. it makes you feel tired and it loses a lot of it's analgesic effect after a while. But this new stuff sounded great. Can't remember if I linked to an article about it last time I mentioned it .. can't remember what it was so would have to spend ages looking for it .. though it did come up quickly in a search .. for something else not so long ago .. it would've been to do with morphine,

My brother's not really reacting very well to the new meds .. he's sleeping very well .. but he sounds as if he's exhausted .. much more than he was when he wasn't sleeping much. I guess it's the sedation. I think the mixture he might go on next will be better.

I've done some more sorting .. not so bad once you get down to it. Feel as if I could go to sleep myself though.

I am amazed by my mouth though .. if there was this kind of improvement when my doc looked in my mouth no wonder he looked so surprized cause nothing had happened for so long.

It's hard to understand but the only answer seems to be the teas. It felt for a moment that my tongue was going to get sore again with this last cold but it hasn't!!! That used to be painful.

My breathing has changed a lot today too .. much more movement going on .. to start with I thought it was problems and I was going to call the doc but then I realized I wasn't making that noise cause my breathing had got worse but because it'd got better .. though it is a bit painful ... but it certainly has changed .. think it's making me feel a bit tired though that mightn't be surprizing cause of the extra effort and oxygen. It's making my back itch.

I can't believe it if this is somehow all a result of one or other herbs/spices in my teas. The mouth surely must be though the rest might be coincidence .. after all this has been going on little bit by little bit .. though not the mouth part which is related to a different condition.

I'm so grateful for the teas. I'm not sure that I would have made it without them. I wasn't having the muscle spasms and cramps anymore from sneezing but overall the colds just seemed to be making me feel weaker and weaker.

But ..................

We'll see what happens. Ofcourse I'm wondering what the result of the flu might be. To say I've underlying health problems is a bit of an understatement I guess and I'm on these meds that dampen down your immune system but we shall see.

Will keep on taking the teas.

They say that a lot of people aren't even bothering to go to the docs with the flu because it's so mild. Some haven't even known they've had it.

From now on though .. all things being well .. I'll always keep a bunch of herbal remedies on hand. I've been quite amazed by them up to now. I didn't really expect much to happen at all. I mean .. 1 liquorice tea bag that was only around 40% liquorice anyway .. only brewed for 7 mins to start with .. I left it in for ages after a while I have to admit .. so heaven knows how many that was actually equal to .. I've read with other herbal tea bags , that although the strength goes down a bit each time, you can use them 3/4 times ..especially for the time I was drinking two a day. To start with though it was only the one and just for 7 mins and I did feel a lot better quickly .. after a couple of days.

I'm going to drink lots of tea I think!! But not much liquorice tea even though I didn't have a problem with it before .. though if I feel it's a good idea I'll up me cups to two again.

I do have to say that I haven't had a flu vaccination since I've been on these meds .. and, yes, I have been told off about it!!! And I got through with no more than antibiotics and being in hospital .. but this is different I guess as it's a new strain. But it does show that I'm not totally vulnerable.

Someone has just gone past here with a barking cough .. reminds me of an uncle who must've had one of the loudest coughs. Heavens if he got a tickle in his throat .. much louder than a cold cough cause of the way it was projected on the whole ... we certainly knew about it.

I'm still coldy .. just finished another cup of tea but I'm being more affected by my muscle movement I think. Dunno why but I've been losing quite a bit of water today .. more than you'd expect .. I have a bit extra round my ankles cause of the meds .. not much but a bit and I was wondering if something was happening there too .. it's not pink ... lol!!! I'm not drinking much beet juice anyway at the moment .. so not as alternative as Uncle John .. lol!!!

Drinking liquorice tea is like taking a feel good supplement for me. Not that I've ever come across one of those .. but, it just makes me feel so much better. Why don't they make teabags without this chemical in it .. I noticed that the capsules that had been modified were still being sold as being able to help with colds and flu. Obviously I don't feel brilliant .. but I do feel better. I guess it's because it weakens the virus for a while. Maybe I should be drinking more until I've had this flu. I've me beet juice ... lol!! .. for my potassium and blood pressure plus quickly chopped or chewed garlic .. not my favourite but there you go. I'll start monitoring my blood pressure soon .. and certainly will if I have two teabags ,

I have read that liquorice only raised blood pressure at rather large doses occasionally in a few people .. but I think this is a load of tosh .. what does seem to be as near the truth as I can find it is that eating liquorice over 20g a day regularly could raise your blood pressure. Each Yogi teabag weights 2g of which just under half is liquorice .. so that's just under 1g of liquorice which is soaked in hot water rather than eaten. To make the tea they seem to want you to boil it from the root too so I suppose a teabag soaking would give out less than the root. Don't know if the liquorice gets sticky when its wet but anyway it would be stuck in with the other herbs from what I've seen with my teabags. Adults .. 70 kg can have upto 5g 3 times a day chidren of 20 - 25 kg upto 1.6g 3 times a day.

But that concoction seems to do something .. the yogi tea.

I'd say though still make sure this is ok .. check with ur doc if you take meds .. bung in somethings that are said to reduce blood pressure and raise potassium levels .. and one teabag containing 1g of liquorice a day has been enough for me .. I don't know why it affected my colds the way it did cause it's said to make the action of the corticosteroids stronger so should be weakening my immune system more .. but it looks like it had more of an affect on the virus than me at that dose. It might be a good idea to drink it a couple of hours after taking the steroids though .. ofcourse that could explain why it didn't affect them that much from what I could see .. or it just could've been too little. I take 10g of steroid now along with 2000g of cellcept to replace the original much higher dose.

Down ... hill .. all the way!!!!

The general attitude seems to be that a lot of the parents don't care and the kids don't care .. so that's quite an age group spoken for .. and that the 60s generation were too easy going with their kids and that's when the downward trend started.

My experience is that so many people seem to think lying is fine now .. I think that's why they live in such a detached world .. if you keep on lying continuously how can you possibly live in anything like reality. Then you add a cocktail of drink and drugs to the picture and you get .. the present situation.

I also think that a lot of people want to keep it that way. Society seems to be based on lies .. as long as they're nasty they'll do .. top it up with booze etc and you get the situation as it is.

There are lots of nice people out there but this seems to be the way things have gone.

Now people say what's it going to be like in ten years time if it continues heading this way and quite honestly I think it's going to be quite difficult to stop it. A lot of them seem totally out of it .. but I guess that's where behaviour like that leads you.

It is interesting though cause it's changed from the flog 'em all brigade blaming everything on the kids to much more rational debate .. but I still wonder how much people really want things to change.

Wonder when the next report's going to come out.

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I'm tired again this morning but feeling better than I did yesterday. I'll start my new pain relief on Monday I think .. don't really want to do it over the weekend when the surgery's shut.

I'm still trying to excercise a bit cause I want to get my body in as good a shape as possible for when the flu arrives .. if it does before the vaccine. I hope it doesn't though.

People are saying that they hope I'll be ok. I don't have such dreadful muscle spasms as I used to when I've caught a virus now. Looking back how I got through all that combined with this illness is amazing .. just wonder if I'll pull it off with the flu though. People think I might be ok cause I've not been having a flu jab yearly though I should've been and I've got through without having any serious complications, other than the ones I had with a cold developing. And that the herbs and spices have given me a rest from what colds had been doing to me for a while.

Like most other things .. will just have to wait and see.

It would be nice if someone did discover a nice remedy .. these teas have helped .. though I do so wish that you could drink the liquorice one as much as you wanted .. it's great. I have discovered that you can buy capsules with the problematic ingredient removed. But will it still help!!

I still eat me garlic .. it's said that if you chop it to use within an hour or the oil loses it's potency and drink a bit of beet juice. I'm told that my teabag shouldn't make much difference anyway because I'm not using it in large doses and I'm trying to treat it as if I was .. but I do realize that I'm among the people it's contraindicated for so am careful.

Should've measured me blood pressure over the last few days when I was drinking it I guess. Didn't feel that I needed a cup today so haven't had one. Think I'll add an extra cup of green tea though. I'm not drinking much of any of them really and I suppose I should.

There was hardly any blood on my lip or in my mouth today. I've no idea what's caused this .. but it looks as if it's the teas .. as I said my doc was amazed by the improvement at the back of my mouth. I guess that would benefit first cause I sort of sloshed it with tea as I was drinking while my lip didn't get the same amount.

Just have to see what happens though .. but something certainly has and even if I'm not round long enough to benefit from it maybe some other people will.