JMO

Mark

“I’m not going to swear off doctors like a conspiracy nut or something, but I don’t trust them or modern medicine like I used to – blindly.”

Not a surprise here. Let’s see, the trend continues, medical doctors in the US live an average of 10 years less than the rest of the population. Why? Could the answer be that they auto-medicate themselves numb, and work constantly under stress? There was a time when the Healer was also the example to follow, for…how can you follow the guidance of the unhealthy? Isn’t it like the blind following the one-eyed? Is the shrink crazier than the client?

The healthcare system in the US is in a sorry state of affairs. It is like a black hole sucking money. Forget Mr. Obama’s so-called reform. Until we don’t shake off the vampire of the Pharmaceutical and Drug companies (Dracula companies), stop looking at the human body like a mechanical, Newtonian system where the liver does this, and the kidneys do that, return the family doctor into the picture and decrease the hold of the so-called specialists, not even Superman and Batman will get us out of this loop.

Luminaries like Dr. Fritjof Capra have been sounding this warning for 30 years now, to no avail. The Ayurvedic community faces bigotry, restrictions, licenses, BS.

I digress a little from Monsieur Pasteur, and consider – at the personal level – vaccination to be in the real of Voodoo medicine.

Having studied Ayurveda (ancient medicine system from India) for several years, with Dr. David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri) in the US, Atreya Smith from France, and in India, my approach to illness is a bit unorthodox.

The problem is not the virus itself, or the bacteria, but the nervous envelope that surrounds and protects the individual that allows, once out of balance and temporarily damaged, for the intrusion. Otherwise the person is “immune”. A microbe is a materialization of a vibration or a will, often not a good will. Strong emotions, stress, fatigue, dissatisfaction, depression, shocks, bad diet, toxins and toxic environments, or combinations thereof, scratch the vital equilibrium, so the illness enters through the subtle body. The best remedy, once the viral illness has taken hold is peace and equanimity and confidence, faith in health, undisturbed repose and quiet contemplation.

As for diet,which is a very important part, I offer a 40-page eBook on eBay that tries to summarize the nutritional benefits from Ayurveda that apply to all constitutions (Main 3: Kapha or water, Pitta or fire, Vata or air and combinations of them.). The system is called “Perfect Sense Nutrition”.

Buy a Mac. This has been said.

Stay away from Microsoft. Don’t trust them. They are cheap, incompetent and dishonest. The inconvenience of not using Microsoft is far outweighed by the convenience of not using Microsoft.

A more radical approach will absolutely protect you whether you use a Mac or PC: have a dedicated computer and a dedicated internet device. REMOVE ALL INTERNET CONNECTION DEVICES FROM THE COMPUTER. Dell is good in this respect in that you can build a completely custom computer from the ground up. I use a Mac, but if I used a PC it would be a Dell for this reason – though perhaps other competitors now do this: I wouldn’t know. Flash drives, etc. can be used easily to transfer data that needs to be transferred, while your personal data is as safe as it would be if it were in a filing cabinet in your basement. In my opinion the peace of mind gained by this far outweighs the added cost and minor inconvenience.

I nearly died of pneumonia a few years ago (and I’m only 37) when my doctor gave me the wrong medicine for it. I went to another doctor and got the “right” medicine, but three months later I was still unable to work and nearly bankrupt so I was desperate for another answer. The answer came from a friend and was so simple and EFFECTIVE it blew me away: raw orange juice – lots of it. I was well in two weeks. This after a total of nearly six months of being nearly unable to care for myself. I also used a mixed drink of hot water, raw lemon juice, grade B maple syrup and cayenne pepper, and a hot toddy of tea, brandy and cinnamon (and sometimes cayenne there too). I’m not going to swear off doctors like a conspiracy nut or something, but I don’t trust them or modern medicine like I used to – blindly. And while doctors complain about abusive lawsuits there are many like me who could sue, probably should sue, and don’t. I lost a good job over that and a half a year of work/income. I almost lost everything.

Shalom and get well soon. And what ever your strategy – if it isn’t working, try something else!

I hope you feel better soon. My computer almost suffered the same fate as yours.
Luckily Geek Squad (www.geeksquad.com) remoted to it, got rid of the malware, and helped me to install Norton AntiVirus; which thus far has been protecting my hard drive.

It was extremely annoying as the offending company kept sending me noisy fake emergency notices to take action against the malware it had installed.

I agree that more action needs to be taken against these sham malware companies.

Recommendations:

First install the new HD and load the operating system and application software on it. Also install programs such as AVG anti-virus and Spybot Search and Destroy, both of which are free – and unlike Norton do not periodically decide not to work any more so that you have to buy a newer version. And update the programs, every day, if possible.

Then install the old HD as a slave drive. Use the anti-virus and anti-spyware prgrams to clean it up. Then take the data (Word, Excel, etc) files and e-mails and so forth off the old drive and put them on the new HD.

Then once you have all you want off of it, reformat the old HD. Or keep it as is, take it off the computer, and use it as evidence when you sue their sorry butts off!

And get well!

Wishing you a quick recovery. Perhaps there is some solace in an early season flu in that your body will become a kung fu fighter against any others viruses that lurk near you over the Winter period.

Me not being computer savy but a friend that works on supercomputers advises people to have a mac computer. I myself developed the mantra of save, save, save, everything as attachments to my e-mail for that reason or in case of burglary or fire. It has saved me from my eyes rolling in the back of my head due to computer hassles after experiencing a faulty hard drive.

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PS Spring Summerin New Zealand, thankfully.