DECENTRALIZED MEDICINE #11: LEARN TO CUT THE SUPERFLUOUS

Knowledge, wisdom and insight all are valuable and all have a place in our lives. The difficulty lies in the fact that many of us are unclear as to their differences, often percieving the terms and their application to be interchangeable. Being clear and consciously aware of how our minds are engaged may be important to getting the most out of all three. While acquiring and applying information is valuable in and of itself, we also need to distill and judge that information, and ultimately find the deaper meaning and relevance to the whole of our lives. Perhaps the truest form of knowing is in acquiring all three, and understanding how they each enhance the quality and experience of life.

It has often been said that the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge we have.  Do you believe it?  If not, why not? 

How do you know you're afflicted with this viral infection.  Why does a Black Swan mentor tell his tribe constantly a half-truth always leads to a full lie? 

Knowing a concept wrongly is more dangerous than skipping a concept when you are searching for wisdom.  The illusion of knowledge is just like drinking too much wine with your beliefs.  I'd suggest you never get drunk on your own dogma.  This idea is simply stating that ignoring may not harm you as much as partial or incomplete knowledge may do.  Today this idea is harming millions in the centralized world of healthcare and few realize it.  They are inebriated with many false beliefs. Some people out there truly believe think they can help others with their incomplete knowledge but the reality is they are only creating deeper problems than a firm solution.  This is the deep problem with the illusion of knowledge. 

You better be careful out there in the world of online gurus.  Who helps pack your parachute may not be the wise choice.  My cognitive bias is 100% toward nature's wisdom.  She is the only lady I will dance with now.  I believe most "parachute packers" cease to look for further information when they are arrogant enough to believe that have all they need already.  My advice is simple. 

At the end of every year, I write down and document my current beliefs. I started the process today.   Then I try to toss out the things that are no longer solidly supported.  I call this process, removing my "via negativa." This is how I cut the superfluous from my life. When you develop a habit of updating your knowledge or facts openly, it becomes a vaccine against the "illusion f knowledge. This idea may help you at some point in your life. Rather than being completely ignorant, about the negative connotations of knowledge, if you ignore everything, then the world will ignore you. When you do this constantly rarely do you live with regret.

When younger, we make various choice's without the future in mind. Sometimes those choices bite us in our mid-life. These are some of the things one might regret when they're older.

1. Marrying the wrong person

When you're young, check your motives for marrying. Don't marry to copy your peers, or for social standing or out of pressure. Marry for love and companionship, marry the right person, marry your best friend. For if you marry the wrong person or for the wrong reasons, you will have to put up with that person the rest of your life. Things might get worse between you two; then depression, physical abuse, affairs, pain, shame, court cases, bitterness will define your mid-life years all because you chose the wrong one. Things will get worse when children are involved. Make the right choice of a spouse when you are young.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

2. The opportunities you did not seize

When you are younger many doors will open, you will get many chances. Many young people let these opportunities go because of fear, laziness, or pride; yet well younger and with more energy is the best time to start a venture and a name for yourself. Some think the opportunities are too big for them. Take advantage of them or one day when you're older you will want to go back and grab those missed chances.

One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being who you were born to be. "Opportunities multiply as they are seized."

 "If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."

Ideas that resonate.

3. The bridges you didn't burn

Burning bridges in your past is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.

When we are younger, we care little for relationships, what most think about is getting money and moving up the ladder of success at all cost. Many use and trample on people to progress, they take relationships for granted, messing up bonds, sleeping with people for personal gain. But these bad actions will catch up with you ahead. When you will realize how empty life is without love and friends. When you will have success but no one around you or no one to trust you.

I have learned that the stigma of “burning bridges” often holds people back from speaking out against tyranny and injustice. And if we want to build a better world, we need to encourage people to put aside their fears and speak up.

4. The child you aborted

You are a young lady, you get pregnant and you are scared. You take the aborting option quickly thinking of that moment then. But when you are much older, you will look back and wish you kept that baby. When you will be rich and successful you will wish that child you gave up on would be around to enjoy the fruits of your hard work. Being a single mother doesn't mean you can't make it in life or you can't find a man in future.

As a man, a father, you stayed silent and let somebody choose for you. You forgot how deeply and unknowingly humans are connected. Life knows us all and plays with our interconnectedness. Were entangle to those who we did not speak up for or fight for.

In my opinion you'll find in life, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.

5. The child you rejected

Young man, you impregnated a woman, she told you she's pregnant with your child. You rejected her and the baby and ran. But years later when you're 50 something, you will wish you were responsible, you will wish you manned up and became a father to that child. You will see that child excel and become an adult but will have no claim to that grown child who you rejected from the beginning. You will regret being a Dead Beat Dad by choice.

The measure of a man's success as a father is not just in the material things he provides, but in the love and guidance he offers his kids. Protect them by teaching them properly.

 6. The marriage you destroyed

So you get married to your good fiance; the first months in marriage were good but shortly after, with your money and charm, you started having affairs. You became unfaithful. Your spouse begged you to stop, your children started hurting, your marriage was collapsing. One day when you are older, it will hit you how foolish you were to destroy the good marriage you had began to build for mere temporary thrills in affairs that did you no good. You will realize the damage you caused to your children and spouse.

7. The God you disowned

When you are much older you become wiser, God becomes more real as you see life in a more meaningful way. But don't wait to get older to start enjoying a relationship with God. Know God when you are young, build your future with God. Don't be a young rebel who runs back to God when age catches up and your time runs short.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

You are never alone. You are eternally connected to everything and everyone in Nature.

8. The body you messed up

You have only one body to live with all your life. The cigarettes, the alcohol you are abusing, the drugs you are taking, the unhealthy food you're consuming; all that will destroy you slowly. When you are 50 and lifestyle diseases catch up with you, you will wish you took care of your body when younger, that you exercised more; but now the damage is done.

How we value and honor our own bodies impacts how we value and honor Nature.

There is a whisper we keep hearing; it is saying that we must build in us what we want to see built in the world. When we act from this truth on a global scale, using the lens of the body, we usher in the transformative opportunity of radical self-love, which is the opportunity for a more just, equitable, and compassionate world for us all.

9. The time you wasted

Time is our most valuable asset.

The time you are wasting when younger in worry, wrong relationships, laziness, being a couch potato, giving excuses and pursuing meaningless things; you will never get it back.

It is only when the clock stops does time reality come to your life.

Nicole Shanahan on time wasted: “Trump called RFK Jr. hours after he was almost assassinated, and the thing he wanted to talk about was childhood health” “If your head goes to ‘I wanna do the right thing with my remaining time on this Earth’ … that is a powerful thing. I think Trump was moved to a place of higher integrity. I’ve received hundreds of letters from people saying that we’ve been duped, but I’ve got to look at the sequence of events as critically and clearly as possible. Our goal is to use the leverage that we have to make sure that health is center stage. And I’ll tell you, nobody could have expected the kind of reception Trump gave Bobby this past Friday. No one. That was pretty special.”

10. The dreams and talents you shelved

Are you talented when young; are there things you love to do and you are good at them? Nurture those talents, exploit them, don't give up even if you encounter set backs, don't give up on your dreams. If you give up, when you're older you will look at your peers who stuck to what they love and made it and think to yourself, "That could have been me". Pursue a career, study a course you love. Don't waste years of your life in a field that doesn't fulfill you.

Most people's dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not pursued with the same heartfelt intensity as when first born. Slowly, subtly, a dream becomes elusive and ephemeral. People who've lost their own dreams become pessimists and cynics. They feel like the time and devotion spent on chasing their dreams were wasted. The emotional scars last forever.

Ideation without execution of the idea leads to its deletion. Dreaming is not enough. It requires doing to make it work.

11. The name you defamed

When you are older, a legacy is very important, the value of your name is crucial. You will ask yourself what is your reputation, what are you leaving behind? Your legacy is a sum total of your actions since youthful days. We write our biography by how we live life everyday. When you look back your path and you see the mud you threw at your own name, the shame you attracted and the little value you have added to the world; you will regret.

Everyone must leave something behind at death. What will you leave? My tongue is sharp because I am carving my legacy into beating hearts of the living. I'm not interested in carving cliches into tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about what you did in your life.

12. The wealth you threw away

Are you riding on good money during your productive years? Earning good money? Don't throw away that money in clubs, reckless living and wasteful shopping. Invest with that money, widen your revenue stream, make that money work for you and keep it safe to take care of you in your older years. Leave an inheritance for your loved ones so that you will never say "I wish I knew better"

Time and money are almost always saved to be wasted. Realize it and learn this lesson. Buying something you do not need is a waste of money, even if it is a bargain.

What is the best way to help people? Make them keep the question and toss the thought.

13. The good love that got away

Is there that great person in your life loving you good? Don't push that person away, or else that person will walk out your life and you will never ever find someone that incredible and who connects with you all your life. It will torment you to grow older with thoughts of "What if I was still with that person?"

When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

14 The parents you despised

When younger, it is easy to show contempt to your parents; what do your parent's know? They are old-fashioned, shady and small -minded. But your parents are still your parents whether you agree with them or not, whatever their style. Don't let your parent die or age separated from you, reconcile and make up. When you get older, you will realize why your parents wanted to be close to you. The older you get, the more you see the value.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their offspring, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

SUMMARY

Think & contemplate

To realize

The value of a sister or brother

Ask someone

Who doesn't have one.

To realize

The value of ten years:

Ask a newly

Divorced couple.

To realize

The value of four years:

Ask a graduate.

To realize

The value of one year:

Ask a student who

Has failed a final exam.

To realize

The value of nine months:

Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.

To realize

The value of one month:

Ask a mother

Who has given birth to

A premature baby.

To realize

The value of one week:

Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize

The value of one minute:

Ask a person

Who has missed the train, bus or plane.

To realize

The value of one second:

Ask a person

Who has survived an accident.

Time waits for no one.

Treasure every moment you have.

And learn to live without any regrets.

This is a key part of decentralized health.