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Posted 3/19/2021 3:54 PM (GMT 0)
It started with that I planned that Saturday last week would be a detox day from internet, but I ended up feeling so much calmer and I said to my brain: forgive me for what I have done to you, and I ended up crying a lot.
Today is the first day I surfed on the internet since last Friday, and I will keep on only doing that on Fridays after school/work. I still check my mail, use Spotify, watch movies, use internet for school/work but I haven't checked Healingwell, news, forums, youtube, etc.

I have been so much calmer, way less brain fog and I have had exams on Wednesday and Thursday but still feel great today. I believe this is my biggest breakthrough so far. I have so much more time, I'm a way better partner to my girlfriend and I believe I will perform at a whole new level in school. Lately when I recently started studying 100 % and working some on two jobs has been very hard where I don’t have any time and always feel behind.
Now I need to find other things to spend that time on. I have read two books in a week and have been social today IRL, over phone, and video chat so I'm on a good start, but it will take some time to figure out. I hope to be able to do cardio again from this and do more mountain bike.

I got inspiration from this book
https://www.amazon.com/digital-minimalism-choosing-focused-noisy/dp/0525536515

I want to add that today has been the fourth of these days where I have been crying a lot of happines. It feels so strange to have the feeling that I made it. I will still take treatment, work on other things, etc, but this will calm down my limbic system and mast cells. That leads to a system that works better for detox, a stronger immune system than can kill things by itself and other things. There so much positivity that I can't believe it's real.

I'm so grateful for friends in my school that have supported me in labs where I have had so much brain fog, and wouldn’t be able to finish things without their help. I see a future for the first time where I'm able to contribute at another level and it feels so fantastic.

I will update in a week from now how it feels.

Post Edited (Deep_sleep) : 3/19/2021 4:48:12 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 3/19/2021 11:51 PM (GMT 0)
Great job, Deep_sleep!

I've previously posted about how much better I felt about being away from health-related websites, blogs, podcasts, etc. While I'm not implying this is the case for anyone else, I know my constant "researching" of health-related topics has been detrimental to me.

It kept me in a frequent state of worry, confusion, and fear. I'd go down so many different rabbit holes, trying to understand various supplements, tests, herbs, treatments, diets, etc. in ever-increasing detail and isolation. But, of course, few things work in isolation -- certainly not our impossibly complicated bodies.

These days, I'm less likely to obsess over whether the best form of Vitamin B1 -- as one example -- is benfotiamine, thiamine mononitrate, cocarboxylase chloride, or anything else. For me, something like this is especially unhelpful, when I'm not taking care of bigger items like sufficient sleep, proper circadian rhythms, eating whole foods, doing whatever movement I can manage, etc.

Once the big things are handled, then I can decide if I even need to tinker with some of the finer controls. In some cases, handling the big things might take care of some of the smaller things.

Anyway, I wish you continued success on your journey.
Posted 3/21/2021 2:37 AM (GMT 0)
That’s great, Deep Sleep!!
Posted 3/26/2021 3:33 PM (GMT 0)
Thank you.
I have been reacting very strongly to a very tiny amount of liver pate or earthing before this. On both Monday and Tuesday, I took 10x the amount of liver pate and did earthing and still had fewer reactions compared to just either the small amount of liver pate once or earthing once.
So this is definitely reducing MCAS problems and sensitivities. I'm less tired after 6 days of work/school in a row than before.
I'm reading this book now that kind of reinforces what I have noticed that it's more demanding for me to surf the internet compared to reading a book on my kindle.
https://www.amazon.com/shallows-what-internet-doing-brains/dp/0393339750

Youtube, tech sites, etc gives me something positive, but even 30 min of surfing news, Reddit and similar, and I'm already tired of it.
Posted 3/26/2021 4:51 PM (GMT 0)
Agreed 100% with deep_sleep and The Dude Abides

I've been spending less and less time online lately trying to focus on other things, and my mood and anxiety has improved tremendously. There are pros and cons of the online world. My intuition is telling me that the developed world has jumped the shark as far as the online world has gone.

I went back and read Dr. Rawl's book "Unlocking Lyme" and one part of it really hit me hard. The advice was to make your world small while you are recovering. Everything else should be secondary behind your health...both physically and mentally. The problems in the world, or even down the street, mean nothing when your health is impaired. I really needed to hear that.

Basically...unplug and enjoy smile
Posted 3/28/2021 3:27 PM (GMT 0)
I’m only on faceBook For just a couple of interest groups and I don’t use it for socializing , I’m not connected to people on it, It’s too much of a time sucker. I figure if something important is going on I’ll hear about it somewhere else., Just like the days before Facebook.

Even with that limitation some people post the most useless junk on Facebook even in groups just for the sake of posting something I think sometimes.

I still use a digital alarm clock and sometimes I wind up one for back up. I don’t sleep next to my phone, since it’s a form of stress. It’s usually charging on my home entryway table.

It would be nice to completely disconnect from my phone but for me it’s also a connection tool for additional side gigs/work which I do on my terms. When I need a break yeah I just disconnect and it feels a lot better.

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Freedom with extra time :

When face to face socializing with other middle age and older people the subject of “time flies” usually comes up Since it seems to progressively get faster as you get older and that is somewhat scary. My comment is usually “remember when you were a kid in the simple 70s or whenever and you were bored off your arse?”

Well there’s lotta adults that would probably pay to be bored just so time would slow down. I’ve had some people tell me that you just have to personally except the fact that there is not enough time in life to get everything done you want to do and feel that you need to do so just suck up to the fact that not all of it will get done. This is kind of hard for me to accept , because if something doesn’t get done it’s still there in the back of my mind And feels stressful to not have Completed it. It’s a difficult balance to achieve, if you have a full-time job with only weekends off.

So here I probably just wasted 20 minutes of my life online LOL well I’m gonna go put the phone back where it belongs and chill because it’s Sunday.
Posted 4/1/2021 5:45 PM (GMT 0)
I switched this week and having today to be my internet day instead of Friday. Normally I have school/work 6 days a week and still need to spend a ton of hours in front of my computer, but now I will have 3 days off over Easter.
I took a lot bigger dose of GI Ultramax on Monday compared to what I used to take and felt almost no reactions directly after where I normally “herx” a lot after taking it. I now believe that that’s more likely to be an MCAS reaction that I got before. I still got sleeping problems where I was awake during the night for two nights so I'm going to wait a bit longer until I take it again.

My current focus is instead going to be to increase time in nature to help MCAS and stress levels. As I don’t react as much to earthing, I have been doing that more also. We have a nearby park that was a bit shady last year but that they have rebuilt now where we sit on a hill barefoot and have a cup of coffee/tea.
The book I'm reading now is about spending more time in nature and I even tried tasting a spruce tree today.
https://www.amazon.com/nature-fix-happier-healthier-creative/dp/0393242714

I'm trying to help my girlfriend to implement this also, but it's hard as she uses social media for work, and it's “positive” to comment and be there all the time. But I helped her today with hiding her phone for the first hour in the morning, checked some stuff for her, and then we went out to a park.

Sound sensitivity has also decreased and sleep is better as I don’t use screens as late.
Sometimes it feels like my brain has gotten a higher bandwidth and I can connect things faster than I could do before.

Post Edited (Deep_sleep) : 4/1/2021 12:29:04 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 4/9/2021 4:03 PM (GMT 0)
It continues to go well. It's nice that I have more experience of flow in school and work. As I wrote in my last post, spending time in nature is my focus for the moment. I tried a focused meditation a few days ago where I focused on the trees and how they were moving in the wind. Pretty nice.
It's so nice that earthing works better than before, but I can still easily overdo it if I do it too many days in a week.

I bought some new quercetin tablets with bromelain, so will try those soon.

This video is quite good for just watching nature and focusing on the breath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlwii4xvxky

My day off tomorrow so going to a park nearby for some earthing and a cup of coffee quite early in the day. Will spend some time on the balcony in the sun and hopefully go for another walk with my girlfriend. Then going walking by myself for almost 2 hours, where half of it are smaller trails in a forest. Sadly it's a 40 min walk to get there with a decent amount of traffic nearby, but I don’t take any public transportations. Might do some more focused meditation in the forest.

Post Edited (Deep_sleep) : 4/9/2021 2:48:15 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 4/16/2021 1:29 PM (GMT 0)
I “cheated” some earlier in the week as I found out that my mother got the Astra Zeneca vaccine. My body has been pushing toxins a bit too fast and I have been having a bit of problems during a few days but nothing compared to what I would normally have when my urine has been smelling as much as it has lately.

Today I had the first mountain bike session of the year and it felt amazing. It will be interesting to see if I get an increase in symptoms because of this or not. I have also continued to spend a lot of time in nature and going for a longer forest walk soon.
Posted 4/23/2021 5:16 AM (GMT 0)
It seems that I can finally do some cardio again with a minimal increase in symptoms compared to earlier this year. I have done two mountain bike sessions now for about one hour each, and it worked well.

I have also tried the 2x quercetin +bromealain combo and it knocked me out the first time I took it. I felt like smoked a heavy indica and I even had to go to bed and sleep during the day, which I almost never do. The second time went better, and I had an increase in symptoms after it taking and pushing of toxins, so I will take it slow and mostly just take only quercetin.

I have added Youtube to the “allowed” things I can use the internet for during all days of the week. I only watch positive things there compared to news, covid, health, etc that I read about when surfing the web. But only on the computer, so my brain gets the brakes from overstimulation.

Post Edited (Deep_sleep) : 4/22/2021 11:53:51 PM (GMT-6)

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