How Do You all Stay Happy People??

[Juss]

Here is a Top Secret Experiment of mine, it’s not like anyone reads my posts. Well, perhaps I can think of 3, the same three that reply on this thread. Or is it 5 people? Thus, I don’t mind blasting this. Experiment with Boswellia Serrata. 

Here, I will point you in a direction:

https://thejournalofheadacheandpain.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/1129-2377-14-S1-P37.pdf

 

[Juss]

I will admit that Feverfew is dicey in treating CH, and I think it was the University of London that did a clinical trial of Feverfew on CH, however, if it works, oh it works. It helps my migraines in Amazing ways.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3210009/
 

This is one of the best alternative headache treatment guides (written for Medical Doctors). Fire your doctor, less on disability and requiring CDR, and doctor yourself.

https://headachejournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/j.1526-4610.2011.01846.x

 

Diet and Nutraceutical  Methods for the management of Headaches:

https://headachesociety.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Orr-diet-supplements-Ceph-2015.pdf
 

Go to your GP, keep in tune with full lipid panel, comprehensive metabolic, renal panels, those things. I fired all my doctors. I have a Nurse Practitioner for primary care, and a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner for mental health and save a fortune. I’m lucky only 20 or so states allow Nurses to practice without supervision.

[Shaun brearley]

Interesting 

[spiny]

Juss, I see an FNP. More respect, more interest, and more time. She has recently been moved into her own office by the hospital she works for! This is the third office that I have followed her to and the first one that is hers alone.

I find that the interest is there and she thinks about her patients. Actually had a medicine prescribed by her two weeks ago that is allowing me to eat protein again. The gastro tried to take credit for the script when I told her that my PCP had given me samples and it was working very well. 'Nope, I will not let you call in the script!! That is the job of the one who gave the medication to me to me in the first place.' Gastro left me hanging for three years now and my FNP figured it out within two weeks of seeing her. Medicine is crazy.

The study on frankincense is interesting. I wonder why it had no follow up? 

Have you read the Licorice Root Protocol? It is in the files thread. 

[BoscoPiko]

Here is one of my most happy places. This was Thanksgiving day or as @Bejeeber said ThanksBirthGiving day I was having her connect up with me prior to hoping on

[Bejeeber]

Riding that horsey has to just be super FUN, with a capital WOW, and it looks quite pleased at the prospect itself - I bet you go for some full on speed gallops (or whatever it is the real fast horse riding is supposed to be called) out in the open! 

My enthusiasm is much derived from a personal bucket list item to ride a horse one mo' time - last time I was on a horse was as a 13 year old city/suburb kid, on some poor rent-a-horse that wanted to get back to the stable real bad and decided to race another horse - replete with jumpings over otherwise deadly obstacles - to get back there ASAP. It was a true highlight of my life experiences.  

[BoscoPiko]

1 hour ago, Bejeeber said:

poor rent-a-horse

LoL Bejeeber this reminds me of a time I went to Maui and thought it would be a good idea to do one of those rent a rides... The guid asked everyone if any of us wanted to lope (run real fast) some say gallop anyhow me being a decent rider I said yes so they put me on this particular horse... unbeknownst to me this horse knew exactly what spot on the trail to start loping so.... all the sudden the horse took off like a bat out of hell... I've never had to hold the horn to stay on but I'm pretty sure I would have went flying off if I had not.. I couldent even try to stop this gelding as it was all I could do to stay mounted.. then he got to a spot and just stopped (he knew where to start and where to stop)... Never again will I do a rent a horse LOL... If your ever in CA just give me a buzz and I'll let ya ride my mare

[Juss]

I was on a second cousins' family farm and attempted to ride Mr. Ed, yeah not so hot. Or was it Mrs? Ed. It doesn't matter. 

At a young age, I said no to crop farming, hell no to chicken farming, and just grab the teat of a moo moo one time, that ends the idea of being a dairy farmer. 

I'm glad that you had fun, or are having fun. 

[Juss]

10 hours ago, spiny said:

Juss, I see an FNP. More respect, more interest, and more time. She has recently been moved into her own office by the hospital she works for! This is the third office that I have followed her to and the first one that is hers alone.

I find that the interest is there and she thinks about her patients. Actually had a medicine prescribed by her two weeks ago that is allowing me to eat protein again. The gastro tried to take credit for the script when I told her that my PCP had given me samples and it was working very well. 'Nope, I will not let you call in the script!! That is the job of the one who gave the medication to me to me in the first place.' Gastro left me hanging for three years now and my FNP figured it out within two weeks of seeing her. Medicine is crazy.

The study on frankincense is interesting. I wonder why it had no follow up? 

Have you read the Licorice Root Protocol? It is in the files thread. 

Wow, I have to get better at following up on things, Chri$&. I have not followed the licorice protocol and honestly, I am most likely taking on far too much. I am at the dividing point. If I attend college again, just to take neurobiology, epidemiology, and biochemistry courses, SSA throws you on the ticket to work, you can never apply for disability again, and in three years you have to find work. 

I'm at a point where I would like to assume some risk, not to that extent. Anyway, I need more science courses to properly understand what I am trying to accomplish. I am exploring ways to pay for things under-the-table but it will take considerable time. 

I am not using the system as I spend about 7 days a month flat on my ass, usually at the most inopportune times. These times cause complete disruption and chaos. The personality disorder presents multiple disruptions. I don't and can't interact with people. And when Borderpolar-lookout. Fibromyalgia and “headaches,” present their challenges each month.

It was my first CRNP that explained to me malnutrition caused my spine problems. Sure enough, severe deficiency of Vitamin C stops collagen production and causes bone spurs, herniated discs, and osteoarthritis. Because of her, I reversed my Severe Degenerative Disc Disease. I was 27 and 3 top 50 spine surgeons (all in my region said that I would be rods and screws by 30 and in a wheelchair). After the two major fusions, she helped me with quitting smoking and had me megadose on Vitamin C, I'm 38 they can't find the degeneration on an MRI. Smoking saps the body of C, stopping can help, but you have to replenish. 

Next, it was my current NP that encouraged me to explore Dr. Hoffer, even Dr. Amen protocol for Orthomolecular psychiatry. I went from 10 psych meds, life in chaos, down to two. You tell me.

Their approach is concern, compassion, and understanding. In the past 20 years, I have watched M.D.s (expletive justified) become “it been 15 minutes get the fuck out of my office.” I pay-under the table-$50 and get up to 1.5 hours with my NP. Most Weatern medicine is useless I can back that. 

[BoscoPiko]

I used to milk the neighbors cows and thought it was fun. You have to learn the rhythm then got rewarded with  1 gallon containers of fresh milk with cheese cloth separating the cream from the milk. I loved the farm life it was beautiful all the funny chickens and home raised cows,  tomatoes fresh off the vine.. 

[Juss]

3 hours ago, BoscoPiko said:

I used to milk the neighbors cows and thought it was fun. You have to learn the rhythm then got rewarded with huge 1 gallon containers of fresh milk with cheese cloth separating the cream from the milk. I loved the farm life it was beautiful all the funny chickens and home raised cows,  tomatoes fresh off the vine.. 

I'm country-well was-but I'm not that country Ms. Reba McEntire (Basco). Lol. If you are not in the know, she is a huge cowgirl. That is a great story though.
 

My country life, well, I painted cars and did all the bodywork in a friend's empty chicken house. We laid down the tarps, ran the electricity for lighting and the compressor and the rest is history. The fans worked perfectly for blowing out the aerosols. God knows what I inhaled, smoking, without a respirator, spraying basecoat clear. God... And all the lead dropping while smoking. Body filler is garbage, we went old school and dropped it, or welded it.

I also know my way around a Massy Ferguson, and International. And sadly, a Deere. 

While most brag about drinking out a damn red cup, jacking up some truck that they never drove, and so on, shopping at Central Farm and Tractor was part of life, necessity. And, we drove trucks, long beds, and 1 ton (often dualies) out of necessity, and not some cultural phenomenon. If we did put a lift on our damn truck it was because we were tired of being stuck on job sites. It amazes me how the country music turned into something people know absolutely nothing about.
 

Everything we did was to get by, make enough to make ends meet, help each other, and to survive. There wasn't anything cool about having to port/polish & machine a friends cylinder heads cause he is in a bind and has to be to work in that broken down vehicle to feed his family. 

Anyway, that is a great story and I would love to hear more. I believe that it was called transcendentalism, you know being connected to nature. I must get back to that.

[Juss]

Edit: if you want some lesson that doesn't shy from truth message me. 

[Shaun brearley]

Sorry didn't mean to do that lol was trying to do something else 

[Shaun brearley]

I'm useless with technology lol Bosco what a lovely photo.  . That brings back some really happy memories.  When I first joined Army in 1985 I join the junior Leaders instead of 12 weeks training it's 12 months training , the idea of the 12 months training is you fast track through the ranks lol that didn't happen with me I only made it to l/col, that's another story ., but anyway whilst in the junior Leaders we had the opportunity to ride .I'd never sat on a horse in my life but thought I'd give it a go .wow I loved it rode every weekend for the whole 12 months whilst I was training . Haven't ride for about 9 years know but it is my intention to get my daughter riding it's a great hobbies 

[Juss]

Edit: Dr. Peterson is too much for most in this discussion. If you want a reality check read his 12 rules of life and watch his channel. 

 

[Juss]

I don't own a TV and don't follow the logic of owning one. Further, I am anti-social media, and while this is a form, it is as far as I will take it. Your life has considerably more meaning when you drown out the nonsense and when you start focusing on what matters. If I wasn't starting over in life, I would have rooms full of books on bookshelves and stacks upon stacks of printouts.

Respectfully, I just don't understand how one can find enjoyment in watching a bunch of egotistical maniacs indulge in self-importance while speaking in utterances of preposterous levels. Reality TV is not intellectually stimulating and a complete waste of time. It's a sad reflection of society when one finds someone professing their love for how their nasty cellulite injected derriere as work of art as something worthy of more views than Rod Serling in his prime. Most would not be able to comprehend the enormity of his genius. 

Don't worry about the world around you, if the news is that important then someone will tell you. Once a week I review a periodical such as The Economist or Reason Magazine to remain relevant. For more pressing there is The Times and in our country the liberal Wall Street Journal. If someone points me to something of utmost importance I turn to a verified independent source, almost certain not in this country, and on YouTube. 

By no means comprehensive, and far from selective, here is a small sample of book titles, with links to a synopsis, to help you on your quest to find happiness. You should read the following, here are a synopsis:

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805073690

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of The American Community 

http://bowlingalone.com

Full Catastrophe Living

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/89149/full-catastrophe-living-revised-edition-by-jon-kabat-zinn-preface-by-thich-nhat-hanh-foreword-by-joan-borysenko/

Thinking Fast and Slow 

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374533557/thinkingfastandslow

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

https://www.google.com/amp/s/aliabdaal.com/book-notes/atomic-habits-summary/amp/

Why We Sleep

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Why-We-Sleep/Matthew-Walker/9781501144325

Who switched off my brain?

https://www.leadershipnow.com/leadershop/9780980122329.html

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness

https://tomorrowsprofessor.sites.stanford.edu/posting/995

Steven Pinker, How The Mind Works

https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393334777

How to be a Stoic:

https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/massimo-pigliucci/how-to-be-a-stoic/9780465097968/

Meditations, Marcus Aurelius 

https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/marcus-aurelius/meditations/9781541673854/

Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic

http://sqapo.com/ayer.htm

Karl Popper, The Open Society, and Its Enemies (A monumental and quintessential 20th century read on the defense of democracy which is inexorable to our freedom and happiness ). Some consider this one of the most important books of the 20th century.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691210841/the-open-society-and-its-enemies

Wittgenstein TLP, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus is a landmark book on logic, language how we structure meaning...

https://www.roangelo.net/logwitt/remarks-tlp.html

Human Knowledge: Its Scopes and Limits Lord Bertrand Russell

https://www.routledge.com/Human-Knowledge-Its-Scope-and-Limits/Russell/p/book/9780415474443#

T.S. Elliot The Waste Land

https://poets.org/poem/waste-land

Joe Conrad’s Novella The Heart of Darkness, his third language mind you, is a book everyone should be required to read before they die. And, it was the foundation for the movie Apocalypse Now. Though it was written decades before. Throw that Clive Cussler and Danielle Steele shit where it belongs, the landfill. Read something with literary merit.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/how-conrads-imperial-horror-story-heart-of-darkness-resonates-with-our-globalised-times-94723

Love or hate, no room for in-between, Ayn Rand’s pinnacle of Objectivist Epistemology (Atlas Shrugged)

https://aynrand.org/novels/atlas-shrugged/

Robert Nozick, Philosophical Explanations

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674664791

The Social Construction of Reality, Berger

https://pressbooks.howardcc.edu/soci101/chapter/social-construction-of-reality/

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn

https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/Kuhn.html

The Social Animal

https://www.bookbrowse.com/bb_briefs/detail/index.cfm/ezine_preview_number/6057/the-social-animal

The Invisible Gorilla

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Invisible_Gorilla.html?id=f8AN1DAud5sC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&gboemv=1

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature

https://oll.libertyfund.org/title/bigge-a-treatise-of-human-nature

 

 

[mit12]

Don’t worry about your post, we all have came on here and let our frustrations get the best of us. We live in a world that 99% of the world can not begin to understand. This site saved my life, the great people here know what we are going through and are willing to listen and give advice. 

[BoscoPiko]

11 hours ago, Juss said:

Ms. Reba McEntire (Basco). Lol. If you are not in the know, she is a huge cowgirl.

I think even non country folks know who Reba is.. She is amazing love her song Fancy...I grew up on 40 acres in Northern CA so country life is very familiar to me. I don't live that way any longer though. I hope to retire (long time off) in the country with my horse and animals one day.

[BoscoPiko]

13 hours ago, Juss said:

It's a sad reflection of society when one finds someone professing their love for how their nasty cellulite injected derriere as work of art as something worthy of more views than Rod Serling

Oh my Juss.. thank goodness I wasent taking a sip when reading this section of your post! Thankfully I was sitting passenger on the way home from the equestrian facility and when I read this line I belted out a laugh that anyone would be curious about.. My husband was seriously confused at my random laughter when I reread what you wrote he named off several so called iconic reality gals that seriously wear this shoe.. I do have a boob tube but only watch it on Sunday when Yellowstone is on or some other show of that nature. Shoot I still watch the re runs of Bonaza

[Juss]

29 minutes ago, BoscoPiko said:

Oh my Juss.. thank goodness I wasent taking a sip when reading this section of your post! Thankfully I was sitting passenger on the way home from the equestrian facility and when I read this line I belted out a laugh that anyone would be curious about.. My husband was seriously confused at my random laughter when I reread what you wrote he named off several so called iconic reality gals that seriously wear this shoe.. I do have a boob tube but only watch it on Sunday when Yellowstone is on or some other show of that nature. Shoot I still watch the re runs of Bonaza

I only try to help, though admittedly my approach may be abrasive. To be fair, twenty years ago it wasn't and I don't believe in the modern sociolinguistic theory, abuse, and destruction of our language. Euphemistic language is nothing but a strange bedfellow. 

I try to teach people that some common approaches are true, and one holds much truth: “ignorance is bliss.” When you turn off from the boob tube you turn off from an assault of behavioral programming, derision, division, and politics. I think it is 5 corporations control the message that goes into your mind, it was 20 when Chomsky wrote the landmark Manufacturing Consent in 85(?). Do the math.

The key to happiness is to stop the frivolous pursuit and instead self-discovery. Egoism, hedonism, it seems all the isms are deleterious.

Read for enlightenment, challenge yourself. Good luck.

 

[BoscoPiko]

1 hour ago, Juss said:

I only try to help, though admittedly my approach may be abrasive. To be fair, twenty years ago it wasn't and I don't believe in the modern sociolinguistic theory, abuse, and destruction of our language. Euphemistic language is nothing but a strange bedfellow. 

I try to teach people that some common approaches are true, and one holds much truth: “ignorance is bliss.” When you turn off from the boob tube you turn off from an assault of behavioral programming, derision, division, and politics. I think it is 5 corporations control the message that goes into your mind, it was 20 when Chomsky wrote the landmark Manufacturing Consent in 85(?). Do the math.

The key to happiness is to stop the frivolous pursuit and instead self-discovery. Egoism, hedonism, it seems all the isms are deleterious.

Read for enlightenment, challenge yourself. Good luck.

 

Thanks Juss. Please do realize that not all of us have endured what you have and that dosen't make us less aware of the current economic environment or the current political environment.  We are smart Americans with tough skin God loving and God fearing individuals. I know you are a deeper into what's going on but please don't discount us . Many make a small crowd..  masses make a movement not to be ignored...The time is here and now as Time has no way to stop ticking on you or me. Time in itself is the most wicked of all things as it cares not..

[shadowcatsam]

On 8/25/2021 at 7:22 PM, BoscoPiko said:

. How do you all stay happy????     

I don't, lol.

Dissociation and an odd sense of humor help.

[Shaun brearley]

Juss you really are a deep thinker and I really love that I'm learning so much from you buddy . But please don't switch yourself off from the modern world as you have to live  within it,  as Bosco has said time moves forward we have no control over that buddy and I'm afraid we as human beings have to move forward with it 

[Sue mcdonald]

I stay happy by remembering to believe in myself. In chile? Its a heck of a great story... crux of it was in hospital i ran into a man who hid out in my h room. He whispered in my ear? I understand. I like horses. I like to ride, too. 

I was completely out of it but i heard him. I believe i had dissociated due to pain, took days to get to hosp, plane ride thru storm, i was supposed to die. Lips n hands had turned blue.

That man i later ended up finding him, he had gone there to explore native plants & cures.  Like datura- which i actually saw in back of an ox cart, and the seeds of the bola tree (boaa tree?) Hallucinogens. Beginning of looking into that stuff by u.s. 

Its kinda funny that this many yrs later? Here i am. But see? Thats how my mind works - im often at the answer waaay before im even aware the question is coming.;)

Thats 1 solid way i stay happy. I believe in myself.

I meditate. Ride horses, train my dogs. Read books, travel n learn. Hot mineral springs. Learn. Help others(was 4h leader horses dogs for 10 yrs here).

"Nothing forced, or misunderstood, can ever be beautiful."

[Juss]

On 12/1/2021 at 1:05 PM, Shaun brearley said:

Juss you really are a deep thinker and I really love that I'm learning so much from you buddy . But please don't switch yourself off from the modern world as you have to live  within it,  as Bosco has said time moves forward we have no control over that buddy and I'm afraid we as human beings have to move forward with it 

@Shaun brearleyI do adapt to the modern technology that suits my needs: Instacart for online grocery delivery, Ride Sharing (Uber and Lyft) for services outside the paratransit hub, things of that nature. I own an antiquated iPhone and refuse to upgrade, and can't afford to anyway. If I need to type a document or print something I go to whatever they call Kinko’s now. 

Otherwise, isolating yourself from people and modern society is best. I didn't understand society and the nature of things at the turn of the century and most certainly am lost now. Furthermore, the alarming trends then, are past the point of no return now. Perhaps if a Funk & Wagnalls for modern life existed I would consider the purchase. 

I always supported the idea of a few friends, at most three. That always was fitting and high quality I should state. Oh, the conversations, sometimes up for days discussing Dostoevsky, or F-Number and Aperture, and why Velvia 50 is an amazing medium. Then it could switch to the private law society and Nozick vs Rawls, to Marxism. Christ, it was all over the place. People waste their lives on nonsense. Why should I talk sports? An athlete is paid $50 million to throw a ball and does nothing to contribute to society. Yet an educator has a master degree, mountains of debt, and after 30 years makes $40,000? 

Most in society are drowned in self-importance and self-indulgence and know nothing intellectually stimulating.  I prefer a Renaissance Man and true intellectuals, and not self-proclaimed pseudo-intellectuals that profess ignorance by their verbosity and inconsistencies in thought. And I don't mean ivory tower! Most that I mention never obtained a diploma. I knew dropouts that could outwit any Ivy League graduate. They didn't have the breaks in life. Give me real photographers, artists, crackpots, poets, writers, hell tradesmen. Give me the fuckups, and rejects. Those are the closet intellectuals.

Wow, you have a million followers and have done nothing to contribute to society but profess love to your monstrosity of cellulose and glucose that you call bubbly. Honey, act like a miss, put a blouse and some slacks on, and learn proper elocution. How did you get so far annunciating such utterances? 

That is the next thing, I was always most concerned with having a woman in my life. Not the suit pant type, but not the hussy kind either. The girl that was against the norm, but still could be dainty and classy. I had that and blew it. These modern women ain't the type that you can take home to momma. And where I'm from that is a death sentence. And now the cool thing is for everybody to cheat on each other, sleep around, open marriages, it is disgusting.

MIT predicts that society will collapse by 2040. I think it will be 2030. There is no hope for society. Except for a select few of us, no one studies the humanities for ethical gain and enlightenment. As a society, most if not all, are in it for themselves, and everybody is out to screw everyone else or exploit them for their gain. People use hook-up sights. Women call it their John. I'm like, seriously? No modesty? And men, no dignity? Everybody has lost all morals and self-respect. Society isn't doomed, it is done. 

I will live in my world, lost in documents, journals, books, and wonderful fiction. If the finances work, I will renew my passion for 35mm SLR photography. Perhaps independent journalism. Respectfully, intellectual journalism is dead as well. If your vernacular doesn’t include yo, sh$&, f$&@, and all the gutter talk than you stand a chance.

Last, I openly chose to cut myself off from society and I hope that in due time I can retreat up into the mountains and live in isolation. That is my dream. Respectfully, those of us in the know realize that our options are wearing thin: isolations in the mountains, or go back to the old country where my family escaped from. If paying any attention, everyone knows it’s about time to consider Poland, Hungary, or Czec. Western society is about to collapse. Call me disgusting, I pray I have all my ducks in the row so I can stand a substantial profit when the 90% correction comes. If you know finance, the money comes when everyone loses.