The skin acts as a window by which we can see inside the body. What we look like on the outside reflects what is happening inside. (Fife)

The skin is a great tell-tale sign of unease within the body. It doesn’t take a great deal of health-jargon-know-how to simply observe the expression on your face, to note the vitality of your skin, hair, and nails, and, of course, to put your body composition into perspective (i.e. weight gain - the body’s attempt to balance homeostasis). Sadly, it’s pretty easy these days to cover-up these blatant get-your-shit-together signs from the body with make-up, lotions, creams, spa days, wearing all black or not wearing horizontal patterns, quick-fix supplements, quick-fix work out programs, and the ridiculous amount of magazines/marketing which reinforce this crap on a daily basis.

How many “revitalizing skin cream” commercials have you seen recently? How about those absurd ads to cover up dark circles under the eyes? And what about the 30-minute infomercials jabbering on about extreme weight loss pills? So many people just want to treat the symptoms and absolutely neglect/run-away from the true cause!

The skin is a major detoxification organ. Whatever possible mayhem exists within the body will certainly find it’s way to the surface. Rashes, eczema, dry skin, flakey skin, dandruff, ringworm, warts, chicken pox, mumps, measles, candida overgrowth, jock itch, yeast infection, fungal infection, brittle nails, white spots on nails, dry hair, hair loss, bruise easily, cut easily, sensitive skin, sunburn easily, dark circles under the eyes, body odor, and liver spots (large freckle-like spots) are all signs of an internal imbalance. Much of these can be contributed to bacterial, fungal, or parasitic overgrowths or infections. At the same time, said symptoms are merely an effect of a greater cause: a run-down immune system, a slow metabolism, a sluggish detoxification system, and, the end-all-be-all, not meeting the nutritional, caloric, and rest demands of the body to keep these systems running at peak performance.

Yes, there are a few health-promoting topical solutions (i.e. coconut oil, vitamin e, progesterone) to treat these symptoms effectively, but wouldn’t you rather wake up, look in the mirror, and not look like shit? Not look like you haven’t slept in days even those you got a solid 8 hours of sleep? Not look like your skin or hair has seen much better days? Not look like you have to pretend that you are happy?

What we look like on the outside reflects what is happening inside. 

That “inside” includes our internal physical environment - the digestive system, the endocrine system, the lymphatic system, the respiratory system, etc. - but also our internal non-physical environment - our thoughts, beliefs, and emotions which are highly accountable and responsible for our physicality.

If you’d like to discuss this perspective along with other health-related insights, please contact me for a FREE Conversation.

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Why are bad times bad? 

Why can’t we spin the bad times to actually be good - if not the best thing to happen to us?

We can learn a lot from the worst of the worst; the bad of the bad. Absolutely everything can prove to be a learning experience - an untapped perspective on life and on ourselves that we’ve never seen before. I understand that certain bad times aren’t ideal. For instance, I’ve recently dealt with the loss of a good friend and it’s certainly not an easy reality to grasp… but I have come to learn a great deal from the experience. I’ve learned a lot about a lot: how I experience myself, how I experience my loved ones, and how I experience life. Do I wish I came to this realization in a different manner? Of course, but the impact or gratitude may not have been as prominent.

I’m encouraging you to look at every bad experience as good, if not the best experiences of your life to date. Instead of asking “why did this happen to me?,” say “I experienced this through my personal definition of reality and I am going to take responsibility for my reality, my experience, my thoughts, my feelings, my actions, and my reactions, and I’m going to use that responsibility towards the betterment of myself. Nothing ever happens to me, onlyI decide how I let an experience affect or reflect upon me.”

We can’t always prevent bad times, but we can certainly view them in a different light so they’re not-so-bad after all.

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You’ll figure it out, J.

I’ve heard this perspective plenty of times throughout the past 8 years of my life. While I was not always welcoming of this advice, I knew that these words were genuine and that they held a universal truth. You’ll figure it out was a reminder that no matter what I was going through at any given point in my life - trials, errors, hardships, pains, shames, blames, ups, downs, or confusions - that I will eventually figure it out.

The last time I heard these words from my friend was on August 2nd, 2011. I didn’t know that would truly be the last time I heard them from his mouth and with his genuine delivery because two months later my friend passed away in an accident. While I wish I still had him a phone call or hang out away to ask for his advice through my ups and downs, I already know what he would tell me: You’ll figure it out, J.

No matter what happens - good or bad, right or wrong, healthy or sick, happy or sad, loved or unloved, accepted or un-accepted, understood or misunderstood, strong or weak, bulls-eye or complete miss - I’ll always figure it out. It may not happen in the most ideal time frame or in the most ideal experience or on the most ideal terms… but I’ll figure it out. I always have and I always will.

I have used this advice over the years to get me through the hardest of hard and the easiest of ease. Currently, this is where I’m at…

• Love and accept myself and others
• Forgive myself and others
• Be happy with myself and others
• Give myself and others the benefit - never the doubt
• Have faith in myself and others
• Have an open and honest heart with myself and others
• Listen to my mind, heart, and body - they always know best
• Have perspective when my Ego is calling the shots
• Find a balance of Wants vs Needs
• Do not judge, assume, or shame my battles or other’s battles
• Do not place unrealistic expectations on myself or others
• Do not provide myself with unnecessary boundaries or limitations
• Do not compare myself to others
• Surround myself with caring people who unconditionally support and understand me, and to not waste my efforts on those don’t
• Take everything and everyone that I experience into perspective
• Learn from everything - even if I don’t learn right away
• Appreciate every single experience that I go through - good or bad
• Be kind and easy on myself and others
• I am always doing my best - that’s all I can ask of myself and others
• Communication is the foundation of a good relationship with self and with others
• Take responsibility for my actions and reactions
• Never run away because it’ll only create more problems in the end
• Fear is an illusion - I create all of my fears and fears create all of my dis-eases
• Trust that what I give will be received in return
• Try not to take myself so seriously
• Have fun!
• At the end of the day… I’ll figure it out

I share this story because I have faith that we all will figure it out. Some may figure it out quicker than others. Some may figure it out and have it fall through their hands only to figure it out again. Some may figure it out longer than others. Some may think they figured it out only to realize they have a lot more figuring out to do. Some may figure it out in different ways than others. Some may not think they need to figure it out only to experience quite the figure-it-out-wake-up-call. In the end, we all figure it out.

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• An Experience is a moment of one’s reality
• An Experience is purely individualized
• No two people Experience the same reality
• No two people equally define an Experience or a reality
• Reality is an independent perspective of our Experiences - non-physical - past and present
• A non-physical Experience is our true reality
• We Experience reality solely through our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs
• One cannot “have” an Experience without the Experience of the mind
• A physical reality is a manifested Experience of the non-physical self
• A physical reality is not actually a “real” - it is only Experienced by our non-physical self
• We have the power to choose how an Experience influences or defines our reality
• We can choose if an Experience is good or bad, right or wrong, positive or negative
• We can choose if an Experience makes us happy or makes us sad
• The same moment will be Experienced differently by two (or more) people
• It is important to understand that your Experience will be different than someone else’s Experience
• It is important to understand that your Experience of me is different than my Experience of myself
• Our present Experiences are a reflection of our past Experiences
• It is impossible to recreate a past Experience - it can be a reflection of, yet entirely new
• We can choose to repeat past Experiences or to learn from past Experiences (good or bad)
• Experiences are necessary and an integral part of life

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A clip from “The Cure is U” - Can Thoughts Create Disease?

Where the does chemistry of the blood come from? The brain is the chemist - it releases the chemistry into the blood through our thoughts. What determines which of the chemicals that are released by the brain? Your thoughts, your beliefs, and your perceptions - your mind interpreting the world. My perception of someone I love causes me to release chemicals [that encourage] pleasure, bonding, relationships, growth hormone - hormones that when they get into the blood enhance a body’s health and maintenance of the body and growth of the body. When you open your eyes and you’re in love, you are feeding the best nutrition and information to the cells as possible. If I were to take the chemistry of negative thoughts, which are stress hormones (cortisol) and inflammatory agents, and add those to my culture dish my cells would ultimately die out in that cultured environment. It’s the chemistry of the body the regulates the behavior and genetics of the cell, and the chemistry of the body is controlled by the brain releasing all these different modulators of our health.

When we feel stressed, when we are frightened, when we live our lives in perpetual and chronic fear - that is a very different kind of signal. It’s not right or wrong, or good or bad because all of these signals serve us in one way or another. Chronic perpetual stress, chronic perpetual fear shuts down the ability to create the healing our bodies because we are in what’s called “fight or flight” and that kind of experiences signals our heart to tell our brain to the create hormones - cortisol, for example, and high levels of adrenaline - that prepare us for the “fight or flight” that we are receiving.

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Karma will always come back to bite you in the ass if you give the opportunity to do so. That opportunity presents itself in a state of unawareness. 

Awareness is the ability to be completely conscious, awake, present, responsible, and confident in your current decisions, trusting in whatever the future may bring. 

Unawareness, such as irresponsibility, unconsciousness, carelessness, or an emotional blockage, may lead to consequences that bring a change, fear, anxiety, depression, or “unpredictable” experiences.

I believe that predictions are decided the moment we are either aware or unaware of our present decisions and their future consequences (good or bad). The choice is purely up to us whether Karma exists in a good or bad state within our lives. Although some decisions/outcomes are out of our control (serving a greater purpose), the majority are well within our choice, our reasoning, our reaction, our responsibility to ourselves and others, our wants vs. our needs, our intuition vs. our ego, our past selves vs. our present selves.

Allow your decisions to predict your Karma by being aware, responsible, and confident in your present moment. Make every decision count now so that you don’t have to make up for them in the future. Subtle positive changes develop bigger positive results.

Suffering

Suffering or “pain” in a broad sense is an experience of unpleasantness and aversion associated with harm or threat of harm in an individual. Suffering is the basic element that makes up the negative valence of affective phenomena.

Let’s dissect this…

Aversion is the first word that jumps out at me and, ultimately, the only word that matters. We are so quick to deflect, hide, point fingers, or run away from the pain that causes our suffering. Why? Is it much easier to suffer from suffering or to suffer temporarily when we address our pain? 

For example, a person who wants to lose weight can choose their path of suffering: long or short term. Long term: Contain, hide, run away, blame, or makes excuses for their suffering - never addressing the true cause of their pain within themselves and their past. Short term: Admit, accept, and forgive themselves for their pain, and suffer temporarily through a battle of wants vs needs. Addressing the cause of the pain will create suffering, but we must take the perspective that the temporary pain is necessary in order to heal. This concept can be transposed to various types of suffering; the cause can be universal…

We all suffer for ourselves. We do not suffer for anyone or anything. Let that sit a little…

How we experience a situation can dictate if we suffer, when we suffer, how long we suffer, and how much we suffer because our reality (our experience) is what we perceive it to be. 

We can suffer because we are suffering.

Suffering becomes a “problem” when we become comfortable in the chaos. 

The difference will be perspective…

First one must admit that they are suffering.

Do you know why you suffer [for yourself]?

What is the cause of your suffering, not the symptoms?

What lessons can you learn from your suffering?

How do you react in situations that encourage your pain from within?

Do you take responsibility for yourself - how you experience and perceive reality?

Does fear play a factor? Why are we so afraid to overcome our fears?

Suffering is necessary - death brings rebirth. Often our suffering is our own way of saving ourselves from a greater pain that we are too vulnerable to confront when it occurs.