Making the best, of a bad situation. Maybe a topic for Thursday's living the Good Life. After 8 years of recovery, I have had many, many bad situation's, and pretty much, train wreck after train wreck. An adage say's, when life give's you lemon's make lemonade. Of course, trademark regulation's say that you can't call it lemonade unless it has "sugar" in it, cane or beet. I have made and drunk fresh squeezed lemon's, peels and all, with no sweetener. Much easier than onion garlic juice, which made my eyeballs sweat, but the truth is in the pudding.
The white pulp of grapefruit's is the single most concentrated source of quercetin. The apple seed's have the basis of red blood cells. And we find the most nutritious parts of foods to be found in the skin's. We have to eat our medicine to find the sweetness within. The pomegranate, whole, cleans out vascular congestion in the heart. To do best, eat the whole food, not just the sweet or salty component's.
I once rescued a near death friend and patient. His testies' were the size of a volleyball, and OHSU, VA had maxed out diuretic's with no success. I told him to grab what he needed if a fire hit his home, and moved him into my home. I fed him grapefruit and pomegranate's whole, peels and all, and in one week, his edema was gone. I taught him the therapy, and then, week three had him. prepare his food. His VA doctor had to say, his recovery was due to her care, and had nothing to do with his naturopathic care, and then she took miner studies of silicosis, and suggested that the minor silica additive in his capsules could lead to lung cancer. What an arrogant, insecure, lying idiot. I saw this way too often in our hospitals and health care system. We kill more than we heal, but they make a whole lot of money off our illnesses.
Adaptive response is our highest function, the assimilation, accommodation of Piaget, Not operant Pavlovian response (BF Skinner too), but creative adaptation and wisdom. Piaget finished his theory with stages, and schema's. We learn, that the next, more challenging situation can be dealt with, from our acquired knowledge. True from his first studies of muscles and clam's, and on up the evolutionary ladder. We are all created in the image of the creator. Slug, grasshopper, bat, crow, primate.
Yesterday, I pondered, if this lifetime, I wasn't supposed to show up as a human. I have come to have a very negative opinion of both women and men. Only up to 5 or 7, do I enjoy humans. But then every animal infant is cute and adorable. My conclusion is that this bardos was chosen from above, and not, as usual, my chosen next life.
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