Well, I awoke this morning to another Mercola post that is showing conventional treatments increasing the risks of cancers. It seems that increasing cancer rates are at the least, acceptable by-products of “advancement.”
If we add up increase risks of cancer from the air we breathe, the water we drink (Dean Burk, a former head of NCI–National Cancer Institute–had stated in the 70′s that fluoridation is the fastest way to develop cancer), the cosmetics and personal care products we use, the out gassing of new cars, new plastic products, paint, Polyurethane, etc, the prepared and fluoridated food we eat, the computers we sit at and cell phones we carry on our bodies and hold to our ears, regular “health treatments” we are told increase our chance to stay healthy (dental radiation, mammograms, fluoridation, prostate screening, etc. see Mercola, it seems a wonder we stay healthy at all.
Could brain fog have anything to do with why we ignore and devalue any information that suggests that all of this is making us sick, continue to engage in behaviors that are making us sick, and continue exposing those we love to chemicals that are making us sick and die?
The foods we eat that increase this fogginess, and the big candidates here are the carbohydrates and sugars. It is some of these, especially the grains with gluten, corn, soy, and refined sugars that have such a powerful effect on behavior.
Did you know that increased histamine levels, coffee, too acidic an internal environment, anti-depressants and more might produce bi-polar imbalances and suicidality in people?
Did you know that fluoride calcifies the pineal gland and accumulates with age, which also causes early sexual development in children, is implicated in such diseases as MS, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s? And it may be that the pineal is deeply involved in our capacity to know truth for ourselves, so that it’s calcification makes the masses easier to control?
That anti-depressants are filled with fluoride, I’ve seen reports of SSRI’s having/being between 30 and 90% fluoride, which calcifies the pineal gland (and affects other parts of our bodies negatively as well), and contributes to brain fog, as do the anti-psychotic medications as well?
That all the left brained activity of modern life along with the increasing disconnection from nature, the calcification of the pineal gland, along with everything from above, has us living a more disconnected, ungrounded life, generating a greater difficulty in exploring truth for ourselves, making our own decisions, following our own intuition?
When I first started writing Lifting Brain Fog, I felt I had the responsibility to inform people in general, and psychotherapists in particular, of the affects of food allergies on behavior. As a therapist I could be treating someone for anxiety for years and feeling as though we weren’t making much progress, perhaps even actually believing what doctors often tell people with anxiety, that once they have it they will always have it, never knowing that it won’t go away as long as a person is eating foods that generate it. To me this was very important information.
It still is, for sure. But in the past year, which has been one of profound waking up fore me, I have become aware that inducing brain fog prevents people from acting in their own best interests, from taking responsibility for their own health and choices in life, from standing up for what’s right and just, from protesting the taking away of personal freedoms, from knowing how to encourage the indispensable development of creativity and independent thought in our children and grandchildren whom we love with all our hearts.
You might wonder if I am going too far in suggesting that this is done with intent. And yet the evidence, once you begin to look, is overwhelming. We are so discouraged from looking, and yet, we are increasingly clamoring for truth, as public trust collapses on every front more and more every day. On the one hand we are prone to believe things that others say because they are authorities, and so we trust what they say without significant question, and on the other increasing numbers of people do not know who to trust anymore, another cog to heightened anxiety and increased disconnection from others and self.
In the face of cognitive dissonance, in which contradictory information is co-presented, we have two choices: one is go numb, unconscious, block out the information that is more unsettling and disruptive, the other, is to wake up, to investigate, to explore, to engage our right brain, and meditate, which frees us from the acceptance of the information that is fed to us by those who benefit from our continued acting against our own best interest.
Aldous Huxley gave a speech in 1953 in Berkeley, CA, saying that powers that be were working on ways to mollify the public, and he thought that the pharmaceutical industry was what they would target. Even Huxley didn’t guess at how pervasive the opportunities to mollify would become.
“Brain Fog” I now see as a larger, more pervasive issue and concern. It might be intentionally induced or not, but it is everywhere. Curious to me how at a time when people are beginning to wake up everywhere, Americans, especially, are becoming so sick. Some statistics say that 1 in 5 adults have a mental health diagnosis, rates of autism in children are now 1 in 88 –a 78% increase in ONE decade, that’s just 10 years–, cancer is increasing dramatically, diabetes is epidemic, well, they all are, actually. And then there’s heart disease, Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases, other auto immune diseases, especially arthritis, and then don’t forget respiratory illnesses.
Sounds so gloomy…my apologies for this. Yet I want to share that becoming informed yourselves, taking your health into your own hands, allowing yourself to question what you are told and to investigate, making choices in your life that both free your thinking and your hearts, and healing yourselves emotionally synergistically catalyze your emergence as an empowered, awakened, and aware human being.
To rise together is the overarching spiritual, evolutionary step we have the opportunity to take now, unlike any other time in history. We are all, I believe, so blessed to be alive at this time of such profound challenge and opportunity. We are the ones we have been waiting for. We are the difference we want to see. We can free ourselves from the limitations and distortions that have made all of us caricatures of our true selves and be the loving, awakened authentic selves of which we are so very capable, co-creating a world where everyone has a place at a table that is richness overflowing with love, appreciation, deep connection, possibility, honoring, mutuality, and justice for all.
I love to repeat an adage from an MD, PhD, whose class on natural ways to balance neurochemicals and restore psychological balance I took a number of years ago now: Google away ye miners of truth! The results of your exploration might produce different conclusions and will certainly lead you down different rabbit holes than the ones I have traversed. But, please, by all means, and for everyone, everywhere, take on the mantle of being a miner of truth. We are all depending on it!
With great love and a cherishing of all life,
Holly
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