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Hello everyone welcome to another DailyJim It is monday june 6th 2022 if you can't tell I'm a bit sick. I'm pretty sure it's not Covid I tested yesterday I think even tested two days ago when I was feeling a little bit but lots of sneezing, a bit of a runny nose kind of stuffy and uh yeah so today I wanted to talk about that a little bit and just how, sometimes I think there are things that happen in our bodies and we're not really sure what's going on and I'm not sure what the science would say about this but I'm curious I'll throw it out there and again this is I think a lot of times because. Oh I don't think we fully know what happens on the inside of the human body. We have lots of guesses, we have lots of research that points to different things and that. But I was reading about It was much more recent than I thought. I think it was like 2006 or something Something quite recent. 2005 2006. Anyways I was in Tanzania 2000 and 8 2009. And when I was there I got diagnosed with H Pylori. And if you're unfamiliar H pylori is the bacteria that causes ulcers. And so they gave me a series of antibiotics whatnot. And then H pylori went away and when I had it it was pretty horrific. And if you're unfamiliar with the story it's something like I said around 2005 2006 I think where there was a doctor, I believe in Australia who. Um or a scientist who believed that ulcers were not caused from stress or were not caused from spicy foods or were not caused from a lot of these reasons that people had believed that they were caused by, and said no no it's caused by a bacteria. And the scientific world said no no that's not right. You know it's really caused by this and he says no no I'll prove it to you. The guy drank a vial of the H. Pylori bacteria and got horrific ulcers and then took antibiotics and was rid of the ulcers and they went oh okay, maybe maybe he's onto something. And so I wonder how often this happened happened in science and medicine but still might happen. Right? So what, you know, I'm trying to be careful because I do believe in the power of medical studies and medical science and just curious at what points do we have? Do we have it wrong at more points where we learn what points are somewhat counter intuitive things like this. So anyways, long story to say that. I have noticed that so intentionally, I've been trying to relax my legs. So just my, my hands and my feet mostly and just make sure that they're not moving. That I'm not like picking at my fingernails, that I'm not kind of like moving my toes or whatnot. Just a lot of those nervous tics that I think some of us have. And so I woke up this morning, I was intentionally trying to keep my feet still and and I started, my nose started running again and started, I started sneezing a lot. I'm thinking, wait, what? And my belief. I have believed that this is something related to maybe withholding some type of infection, viral bacterial or maybe just holding uh. A lot of the fluids up in my head because my scalp has been super tight for a while and my shoulders have been super tight. And I noticed that when I relaxed and kept my feet still and kept my hands still, that my scalp relax so much and that my shoulders relaxing the muscles around my neck and shoulder area. And I wonder how much that impacts. Is it simply just gravity, you know, without the tension in those muscles holding up these fluids. Is it gravity? Just pulling it down? Is it without the tension that my body is now fighting off an infection? Maybe it's not an infection. But just noticing that something so simple as just changing the amount of tension held in my feet and my hands and how that changes the tension in the muscles around my neck and also my scalp, you know, is that we would have other impacts, you know, so maybe it's, it's leading to the sneezing right now. Maybe that'll go away if I maintain this for a day or two. Um, let me try. What else might happen if I don't have the tension in the scalp? Is hair loss actually related to tension in the scalp? From what I've seen over the last couple of years, the hair that I've been losing has seemed to come. You know, the loss seems to come the most when I'm most tense in the scalp. So I wonder how much of it relates to genetic disposition or how much of a genetic disposition is really just hereditary, hereditary cultural behaviors that we've received from our ancestors, from our parents, grandparents, right? How we've learned to express anger, how we've learned to express sadness, how we've learned to express emotion or where we carry it in the body, how our posture is learned from, you know, the people we see above us and things like this. So ironically, I'm clearing up now that this is ending. But you're just curious to explore that more and how, and it's really just to pay attention to our bodies and how that intersects with what's happening on a larger scale in science. And I think science is right so often, and you know, the fact about china's science is that it changes sometimes. So just being mindful believing in it strongly, but also me having an open mind to sometimes it may change. On that note, I'm gonna try to sleep this off and keep the feet and the hands still and see what happens for a day. Because maybe maybe just doing this is what my body is needed to get that kick to get back in and for an operating mode. Gosh! So many machine metaphors for the body it is. Take care and I'll talk to you tomorrow.
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