No More Blues

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Tell a story through diary/journal entries, transcriptions, and/or newspaper clippings.

No More Blues!

OK, this will be rather a long journal entry here. I want to be able to recall ways to fix feeling blue, feeling down. I want to create a card with information on it to help people in the same way I got help.

We have all experienced being a bit off colour or under the weather. It happened to me badly last week, but I managed to fix it pretty quickly and simply. So no more blues! Leastways for the present.

I managed to get positive and energetic again with a herbal concoction of green leaves and arrowroot with ginger, a lot of ginger, very zingy, very uplifting. Actually, it made me grimace, but there was no more depression, all gone!

I mustn’t confuse this mix with an ordinary herbal tea. My concoction had more oomph, more grab-you-by-the-goolies, than a weak and watery herby cuppa. I knew my low feeling wasn’t anything like a depression, didn’t need a doctor and medication. I just felt mildly off-colour and not fully living. I reassured myself by thinking that’s natural, everyone feels like that from time to time. But I want to feel great all the time.

My recipe for “No More Blues” is very simple. (Glad it’s not “No More Booze” because I couldn’t live without my glasses of wine.) The secret is leaves! I read somewhere that Maori people do great things with leaves

by names of kawakawa, piripiri and pikopiko, which make healing tea. There’s also manuka, like Australian tea tree oil, a natural tissue healer

which I can rub on.

The trick I found with the leaves is to make a smoothie with some spirulina, lots of spinach and seeds (I used sesame and sunflower) and some sphagnum moss, wattle and eucalyptus. I know that sphagnum moss turns into peat, but I had read it’s good to eat as a moss, making me thirsty for some sparkling water, which is very good for you, of course. And garlic is good to add for reducing blood pressure (it was great for mine). I need to remember that I have to eat or drink quite a lot of this healing food, not as young as I used to be so the absorption of good stuff isn’t so successful.

I have found that pills or capsules are excellent. I must remember to tell people to double the recommended dose for greater effect. Also I should recall that I’ve done that a few times and survived! Also remember to wash them down with a good thick mossy smoothie. I found healing massage very good, too. I can mainly get this from a good bubbly spa pool, great on the back and legs.

Then there’s cancer treatment. At the moment, I’ve got quite a few friends with a form of cancer. They ask me what extra they can do apart from the standard medical treatments. I am not against any treatment that has been proved to work. However, the side effects can be tough, such as fatigue, intertia and loss of appetite.

I do not apologise to anyone for telling them it’s got a lot to do with who they are, how they’ve regarded themselves in life and how they’ve treated themselves. If they can change their penny-pinching attitude to soul and mind, they’ll kick their cancer. It’s a case of facing up to the truth of illness, the better to do something to help themselves. What I am suggesting here, I know is very difficult for many people but I have to say that there’s a force or power with some sufferers where they really want to help themselves. I should probably remember to recommend a change of diet first, try my special diet, my Cancer Diet (CD). It goes without saying here I’ve never had to try it myself but I know people who have.

I must remember to tell people the truth that it doesn’t work for everyone but it has huge potential, especially if they can avoid the ghastly chemotherapy. I must find a way of telling people more persuasively the benefits of my diet. I should produce a printed card or something displaying the wonderful results. It might be worth accompanying them with the deleterious effects of the usual medical treatments, which can be addictive.

I should put some recent good news on the card, too! There’s a company in Australia working on finding a prevention or a cure. Their researchers use photosynthesis or something very natural to stimulate the immune system to ward off cancer, prevention being better than the usual cures. It’s a case of using your natural defences incurring no nasty side effects.

One essential point to remember for the card is not to ask for money, and really mean it. The online video “artists” always say something like, “Send no money no”, meaning try my advice first, and then people will feel prompted to donate something to the adviser’s connections, be it a church or some society or whatever. Anyway, I have no desire to get people to be like I would wish, seeing some golden light or finding how to be at one with some luminary.

One thing, I certainly won’t be making an online video, because there are too many of such around, usually with male healers ranting on about extra energy, divine love, potent practices and bountiful breathing – they think their advice is so essential that they pour it out as if they’ve seen some light or found god. Actually, it’s usually money they’re after! I am sure I could and should write something about them. I feel so strongly about their style of repeating the same stuff over and over, their style all predicated on telling you, telling you ad infinitum, usually the same message, too, advising this and that, their discovery, their vision, their exhortation that you can do the same, feel the same, find the same, just make one simple change, just read my book or watch my video made specially for them.

My info. card should be simple, so as not to be too boring with any history or life stories. I think best just to impress people with easy-to-read points about my diet. I don’t think it should even go on about the successes. I should try to keep away from how wonderful it all is, just saying try this diet. So the card shouldn’t be anything like this rant and rave here in my journal … but this is my journal and I’ll take the liberty to write it any way I wish, since I’ll be choosing very carefully what to put on the card!

All I have to tell people about really is the leaves, Maori leaves, the more natural the better, but the smoothies have to be half a dozen times a day. You’ll get to be a dabhand at doing them, and there are more recipes, easy ones. Maybe it’s in the making, maybe there’s some healing that takes place in the actions of preparation, feeling that people are making something good for their being, for their soul, for their depression or whatever blues they want to fix.

I could advise people to start meditating, anything will do … but I won’t! Instead I would advise finding peace from exercise that’s full of movement and physicality. I must say I started not long ago, it’s great! I should tell people it is strenuous limb-flailing exercise, so they get totally knackered, until all they’re left with is a sense of being … being sensationally stuffed! That’s the real McCoy of extreme exercise, reaching for your inner core! I’m sure that all sports and exercise people feel that wellbeing. I must stress to readers that it takes a lot of practice though, a long time to get the high, so it’s not for the faint of heart or weak of body.

OK, on a lighter note, a good song to go with all this stuff would be The Beatles’ “Let it Be”: “I’m speaking words of wisdom …” All my information recorded here should be enough for my readers … not listeners! They just need to remember to keep up serious exercise and deep breathing! Also make a real thick mix of “No More Blues”. Try a bit of singing from time to time, it sure helps me in my blue times.

And I should tell people one last piece of advice in case they get around to my diet: they’ve got to wash the sphagnum moss thoroughly first!