What if you…made billions doing what you love, traveled everywhere in the world, met almost everyone famous and not famous, had many kids, have a happy wife, lived in lots of countries, tried every food item, attempted every job there is, played every sport there is, enjoyed every hobby there is…
What if you had the time to do everything on this planet, breakthroughs in medicine keep advancing life expectancy, what if you lived 500-600 years? 1000 years?
Just think how much you can do if the human life expectancy was 1000 years. How many great-great-great-great-grandkids would you have?! How many technological marvels you would witness? How many happy and sad times? How far people will travel? How fast computers will be? How big your cake would have to be at 915 years old to hold all those candles?!!
It’s unimaginable.
Some people were born when man still traveled on the ground, and died when a mission to Mars was being planned.
One night, I dreamed a dream, I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, one belonging to me and one to my Lord.
When the last scene of my life shot before me, I looked back at the footprints in the sand. There was only one set of footprints. I realized that this was at the lowest and saddest times of my life.
This always bothered me and I questioned the Lord about my dilemma. “Lord, You told me when I decided to follow You, You would walk and talk with me all the way. But I’m aware that during the most troublesome times of my life there is only one set of footprints. I just don’t understand why, when I need You most, You leave me”.
He whispered, “My precious child, I love you and will never leave you, never, ever, during your trials and testings. When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.”
“Footsteps in the Sand” by Brazilian poet Ademar de Barros
Fluoride, and chlorine in tap water is controversial, so distilled water (which basically has nothing in it, except H2O) should be good for you then, right?
Well, here are some arguments made by Zoltan P. Rona, MD, MSc:
Distilled water is free of dissolved minerals and, because of this, has the special property of being able to actively absorb toxic substances from the body and eliminate them.
Studies validate the benefits of drinking distilled water when one is seeking to cleanse or detoxify the system for short periods of time (a few weeks at a time).
Fasting using distilled water can be dangerous because of the rapid loss of electrolytes (sodium, potassium, chloride) and trace minerals like magnesium, deficiencies of which can cause heart beat irregularities and high blood pressure.
Cooking foods in distilled water pulls the minerals out of them and lowers their nutrient value.
Distilled water is an active absorber and when it comes into contact with air, it absorbs carbon dioxide, making it acidic. The more distilled water a person drinks, the higher the body acidity becomes.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, “Distilled water, being essentially mineral-free, is very aggressive, in that it tends to dissolve substances with which it is in contact. Notably, carbon dioxide from the air is rapidly absorbed, making the water acidic and even more aggressive. Many metals are dissolved by distilled water.”
The most toxic commercial beverages that people consume (i.e. cola beverages and other soft drinks) are made from distilled water. Studies have consistently shown that heavy consumers of soft drinks (with or without sugar) spill huge amounts of calcium, magnesium and other trace minerals into the urine. The more mineral loss, the greater the risk for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure and a long list of degenerative diseases generally associated with premature aging.
A growing number of health care practitioners and scientists from around the world have been advocating the theory that aging and disease is the direct result of the accumulation of acid waste products in the body.
There is a great deal of scientific documentation that supports such a theory. A poor diet may be partially to blame for the waste accumulation. Meats, sugar, white flour products, fried foods, soft drinks, processed foods, alcohol, dairy products and other junk foods cause the body to become more acidic. Stress, whether mental or physical can lead to acid deposits in the body.
There is a correlation between the consumption of soft water (distilled water is extremely soft) and the incidence of cardiovascular disease. Cells, tissues and organs do not like to be dipped in acid and will do anything to buffer this acidity including the removal of minerals from the skeleton and the manufacture of bicarbonate in the blood.
The longer one drinks distilled water, the more likely the development of mineral deficiencies and an acid state. I have done well over 3000 mineral evaluations using a combination of blood, urine and hair tests in my practice. Almost without exception, people who consume distilled water exclusively, eventually develop multiple mineral deficiencies.
Those who supplement their distilled water intake with trace minerals are not as deficient but still not as adequately nourished in minerals as their non-distilled water drinking counterparts even after several years of mineral supplementation.
The ideal water for the human body should be slightly alkaline and this requires the presence of minerals like calcium and magnesium. Distilled water tends to be acidic and can only be recommended as a way of drawing poisons out of the body. Once this is accomplished, the continued drinking of distilled water is a bad idea.
Water filtered through reverse osmosis tends to be neutral and is acceptable for regular use provided minerals are supplemented. Water filtered through a solid charcoal filter is slightly alkaline. Ozonation of this charcoal filtered water is ideal for daily drinking. Longevity is associated with the regular consumption of hard water (high in minerals). Disease and early death is more likely to be seen with the long term drinking of distilled water. Avoid it except in special circumstances.”
Passion is a very simple concept and people forget about it sometimes.
From wikipedia, passion is – a lively or eager interest in or admiration for a proposal, cause, or activity or love – to a feeling of unusual excitement, enthusiasm or compelling emotion, a positive affinity or love, towards a subject, idea, person, or object.
To do what you have passion for, and not what you aren’t passionate about isn’t always possible.
Nothing is ever perfect, try every day to do something you are passionate about, even if it’s only for 5 minutes.
This I found hard to do in practice, but I’m trying keep at it… Try an idea to live in day-tight “compartments”, each day has imaginary walls behind which are the future and the past, so you are safe just for today. After all, the today is all you have to begin with. I find this difficult to do, having an over active imagination makes it hard to focus on the now instead of having imaginary “movies” about the future or constantly reliving the past regrets or situations. Too much of the future and it’s like you constantly bounce from one anxiety about something to a different anxiety. Same occurs about the past, bounce from one regret to another. A constant stream of imagination, nothing more than mind movies, is quite difficult to turn off. Mind has a complicated off switch, at least mine does. How do you even stop thinking? Some tricks help, like say to yourself, “What will my next thought be?” We can’t live in the future, can’t live in the past, but trying to do so is very dangerous for our health. Internet is no help, as good as it can be, it can also be a negative source of information to feed our imaginations about future or the past.
“My life, has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.” – Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher.
“Worry is most apt to ride you ragged not when you are in action, but when the day’s work is done. Your imagination can run riot then and bring up all sorts of ridiculous possibilities and magnify each little blunder. At such time your mind is like a motor operating without its load. It races and threatens to burn out its bearing or even tear itself to bits. The remedy for worry is to get completely occupied doing something constructive.” – James L. Mursell, professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia.
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.”
