Christianity and the Defeat of Globalism Can Save Western Civilization on PaleoJays Smoothie Cafe Podcast

“Aristotle argues that for city-states that fall short of the ideal, the best constitution is one controlled by a numerous middle class which stands between the rich and the poor. For those who possess the goods of fortune in moderation find it “easiest to obey the rule of reason” […] They are accordingly less apt than the rich or poor to act unjustly toward their fellow citizens. A constitution based on the middle class is the mean between the extremes of oligarchy (rule by the rich) and democracy (rule by the poor). 

I know, this sounds very far from Ancestral, Paleo lifestyle!  

But, it’s really not: hear me out.   

Western culture is so interwoven with Christianity, that it utterly unravels without it.  Beethoven, Mozart, Dickens, and any other masters of their arts of Western Civilization are incomprehensible without the lens of Christiantity.

Why is this so important?  Because, today- Leftist Nonsense is so prevalent!!  Socialism, once considered extreme- is now the standard LIE of the Democratic Party!

I remember when I was young.  Jimmy Carter won the presidency, and everyone thought Nirvana would soon follow!  It turns out that his reign was a nightmare, unravelling US (and Western power) worldwide.  

US speed limits were lowered to 55, which simply resulted in everyone becoming a scofflaw.  Contempt for the law ensued.   He also pardoned all Vietnam draft evaders- inflation ran amuck from his horrid policies.

He did lots more, all of it bad.  In my youth, Ronald Reagan SAVED the country!  (Really, look it up).  

Sadly, just as in diet and nutrition, the standard recommendations have proven to be anti-science, and overall ridiculous and evil.  To wit:

Get flu vaccines!  (They don’t work, but we make a big profit)!

Get ALL vaccines: especially for your newborn children- they often don’t work (especially when bunched together), and will have lots of downsides, especially when taken in huge, multiple doses- but hey- if you don’t, you are not a good liberal (fake science) supporter, and we need to make a big profit! 

So vaccinate as much as possible, and ignore the mercury and other poisonings, since scientism says they don’t exist.  If your kid has autism, or many of the endlesst modern auto-immune diseases, don’t worry- 

We don’t know why they are happening!  Just like all other auto-immune disease- it has nothing to do with our diet or lifestyle.  

NOTHING.  

The cause of bad things dietarily, just like in Socialism, is totally random.  

Socialism is perfect.  Just as the modern western diet of flour, corn syrup, and and government run health care is perfect!  

“To each what he can provide, from each what they can contribute!”

So, anyone who can do nothing (or chooses to not work at all) should gain all the rewards of life that are available)- it’s only fair!!  Socialism/Communism in a nutshell…

Socialistic, totalitarian doctrines are always lies.  

Governmental nutrional advice is always completely wrong!   (Low fat, high carb/grain nonsense, prevalent since the 1970’s).

Go directly, and often, to the medical doctor/clinic to preserve your precious health and wellness!

Wrong.  The TRUTH is to avoid your doctor as much as possible!  They have been trained to prescribe as much pharmaceuticals as they can, to maximize their own profits.  That is it, bottom line.  You are a profit target, pure and simple!!

I feel kind of bad, telling you this.  I am from a time, (the 1950’s), when we all assumed that the government, and commerce, were all aimed at helping us all, the overall benefit was paramount!

Those days, sadly are long behind us.  I hope it is not the total unravelling of Western Civilization, but sadly- it might be!  

Most vaccines are bogus- more harmful chemicals than real anitbodies.

Especially when they are done in multiple doses for small infants.  The flu shot is an utter joke, and purely motivated by profit.  

In fact, just today I heard an ad on the radio by our local medical clinic.  The woman speaking said “You should definitely get the shot!  Even if you get the flu, the shot will help you bounce back faster!”  

This is nonsense.  Utter BS- but we have been conditioned to just accept such ridiculousness- because we believe: Big Government, Big Pharma, and Big Medicine!!

Don’t buy in- avoid all of these organizations seeking only to control you.  

This is the same group of people telling you that we in the western world should be importing as many people from the 3^rd world as we can.  And allowing endless immigration, and eliminating our borders.  They utterly ignore that most of these people are infected with numerous diseases that we have eliminated in our own societies through sanitation and by living in an organized, high IQ society.  

If we allow endless, third world, low IQ immigration,(including those Muslims who are our historical mortal enemies), we are dooming not only our country, but Western Civilization itself, which will be swept  back into the mud of savagery unless we defend our borders, and our civilization itself!  

We are the shining light, here in the West, of Civilization as a whole!  If we allow ourselves to be suckered into a leftist, Marxist ‘Utopia’, it means not only that our lives will unravell, along with our health…

It means a new DARK AGES!  And I am not exaggerating, not at all.

Just as in ancient Rome, when the barbarians were at the gate, there were those decadent, privileged, ancient Democrats Leftists opening the door to let them in!  History repeats itself, and since no young people have been taught real history for decades, we are doomed to repeat it, unless we older ones stop our self suicide.

Bribe Yourself to Exercise podcast on Paleo Quick Tip of the Day

Perfectly Paleo Exercsie

I know for a fact that most people will make any excuse not to exercise.  Not just occasionally… but consistently!  There is just something about hard, physical work that makes us consider any excuse to avoid it.

No two ways about it: exercise, if done properly, is really hard.  Really, Really hard!  

That is how it is designed to be.  Only by (briefly) pushing our bodies to the limit, and maybe a little bit beyond-can we hope to adapt to actually increase our strength and physical abilities!  It is a hormetic response to stress, and is the only way to increase our physical strength and resiliance.  

Just as hard study is necessary to increase our knowledge base, so too are hard workouts to increase our physical base.  And, there is no immediate payback after each workout!  This makes it hard to continue, especially as we get older, and no longer compete in childhood sports where we achieve recognition and immediate feedback.

I’m now 66, and I exercise every single day, (at least when I can).  How do I motivate myself, since there is no one there to “whip me into shape”, no ‘coach’ that I rely on??  Why do I walk donwstairs into my living room every single morning of my life, (early because I have to do something else), and willingly push my body to its limits???

Because I bribe myself!  

Television nowadays is incredibly addictive.  For many, many years I went without TV altogether, since reception in my rural location was almost non-existant.  

But finally- cable TV, and then Netflix and Amazon Prime became available, even here in the middle of ‘flyover country’; (i.e. Heaven).  All at once, all of the movies, and tv shows I hadn’t seen for decades were available to me- and without commercials!

I would watch shows in the evening, but it soon occured to me that this cut into what was my treasured reading time.  I decided to relegate my television viewing, especially my fun, leisure, Netflix and Amazon type watching to the mornings only!

This was exactly what I needed, and I believe what you need too!  

When you awaken, ( I always do limbering exercises in the bathroom upstairs before I even go down), just immediately make your coffee, and then fire up your TV!  (Because that is what you have bribed yourself with)!

Take your coffee mug into the living room, start your program of choice (which you haven’t seen since the last exercise session, and you are dying to continue), and start watching! (And exercising!)

Virtual exercise (ala Perfectly Paleo Exercise) is ideal, as are pushups, straight-legged situps, isometrics and self-resisted exercises.  Stretching on the floor is also desirable, so make sure you have a yoga mat tucked away in the room.  

Just do it, every single morning!  You will look forward to it, trust me- TV is that addictive- as is the addictiveness of endless physical self-improvement.  I really, really enjoy pushing myself each and every morning, as I am immersed in watching an action-packed video- 

And I know that you will too!!

Once you tie watching your favorite movies, and other programs to also exercising at the same time- well, it like taking a bad addiction, and making it productive and wonderful!!  

Really- start your positive addiction.  Couple TV watching with Exercise!  Watch your health and physique dramatically improve. 

And the funny thing is that: once you start this habit of exercise, you will want to do it more- heavy hand walking in the afternoon, pushups in the basement on gymnastic rings, pullups in the garage- your body becomes what it is meant to be, that of a strong, vital, uncaged animal!  

And, you watch enough TV to satisfy you, while leaving your evenings free for self-improvement of your mind, along with family interaction.  A true, WIN WIN!

Can Medicine Be Cured? PaleoJay's Smoothie Cafe Podcast

Can Medicine Be Cured?  

Subtitle:  The Corruption Of A Profession.

This is the title of a new book by Seamus O'Mahony, a physician at Cork hospital in Ireland.  This is an impressive book, since he goes out on a limb and says what most physicians are actually thinking:

He challenges the usefulness and credibility of medical research; the illusion of progress; our stubborn belief that we can be perfected; over-prescribing; poly-prescribing; the efficacy of many drugs that are routinely administered; the corruption of academic medical research; our collective failure to accept that medicine cannot cure everything, and indeed can cause trouble of its own; over-reliance on metrics; the pharmaceutical industry and its vast reach and influence, and far more.

There was, he points out, a 'Golden Age' of medicine, from the 1930s to the 1980s, during which a number of huge advances were made. TB, smallpox, polio, all huge killers, were effectively eradicated in the developed world. This Golden Age ended "just as I came into it, I caught the end of it. There have been very big advances since then, but nothing like that accelerated level of discovery and innovation that occurred in those 50 years." Since then, medicine has increasingly lost its way.

Starting with 'research' - that great hope that will save us all - he is fairly scathing. I suspect that many of us believe (as I did) that medical research is being conducted in a coherent, structured, completely credible way, such that it will gradually solve all ills. That all one has to do is wait, and research will do the rest, finding cures for sicknesses long before we succumb to them. Maybe not, it seems. 

"Contemporary bio-medical research is itself very sick as an endeavour," O'Mahony says. "There is even an acknowledgement and a consensus within bio-medical science that it has lost its way. It's been estimated that anything up to 85 percent of all bio-medical research is a waste of time. 

And that's at a cost of $170bn annually."  

There is a fairly negative trickle-down effect to this; "frontline workers, GPs, hospital doctors, who may not be carrying out any of the research, who just do what they're told in a way. I've drawn a parallel between modern medicine and medieval church: the higher level lay out dogma, the lower level work on the front line and implement it. They are not supposed to question any of it".

At a more practical level, there's the routine over-prescribing that goes on. "Pushing people into patient-hood," as O'Mahony describes it, "for marginally elevated cholesterol levels, for example. The statin story is a great example of how the medical-industrial complex works. The overwhelming majority of people prescribed statins for high cholesterol levels are never going to benefit from taking this medication, and may experience harm."

Connected with that, is poly-pharmacy, in which patients are prescribed further medication to deal with the side effects resulting from the primary medication, to the point where many elderly patients in particular are now taking five or more medications daily, all with their own side effects and possible complications.

What would he like readers to take away from this book? "I write about the bogus contract between doctor and patient that has existed for several decades. The basis of this contract is that we can diagnose everything, fix most things, we never make mistakes and medicine is not dangerous. All of these things are untrue. We have limited powers. Medicine is very often ineffective and sometimes dangerous. We can't fix everything, particularly social and existential problems. I think society needs to lower its expectations around what medicine can deliver. That's one message I'd like people to take away with them.

"Then, there's this cultural thing where a consultation with a doctor must conclude with a prescription.

 I'd like people to think, 'Is this medication really going to help me?' I'd think about that in particular when it comes to drugs like statins, drugs for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, osteoporosis - these drugs that you're going to take for the rest of your life, maybe 40 years, with an overwhelming likelihood that it will not give you any benefit whatsoever."

There is also a strong current of social conscience that runs through the book:

 "Medicine and healthcare has relatively little effect, now, on overall population health," he points out. "Your health is far more likely to be determined by your education, your income, your job and where you live. Take the USA where they spend around 20pc of the GDP on healthcare and yet they have some of the worst outcomes, healthwise, in the world in terms of infant mortality, longevity and so on. We're spending an ever-increasing amount of money on healthcare, but the benefit to us as a society is getting less and less as time goes on." 

That healthcare budget should be put into housing, education, the eradication of deprivation, a boost in opportunity, the arts - "that's a more effective way to treat the health of the population."

Equally, he has simple, obvious solutions to the growing gap in global health inequality: "If we simply applied evenly and fairly across the world what we know currently works, medicine and society would be transformed. If we never did another new research project, and just took what we know now, and gave everybody access to it, global health would be transformed."

I certainly agree with this last!  If everyone would live in a rural or small town area, with pure water and air, low congestion and stress, that is half the battle right there.

If you also added in daily natural, perfectly paleo types of exercise, eliminated wheat and most sugar, and slept a good 8 hours per night in a blacked out room with no TV or screens present- why, that alone would solve most health problems right there!

And if we gardened organically, eliminated herbicides and pesticides from our areas, if we also ate organic fruits and veggies, pastured eggs and meat and dairy, and consuming a daily green smoothie…

We would rarely need a doctor or hospital at all!  Most diseases and conditions would simply evaporate, healed (as they are meant to be) by the healthy body itself!

Ancestral Living and YOUR Tribe! PaleoJay's Smoothie Cafe Podcast

Last of the Whites

There is a modern phenomenon in modern times, at least in the advanced, complex, high intelligence European world: the indiscriminate importing of Low IQ populations into Western European civilization.

Think about this from an ancestral perspective:

You live in a tribe in northern Europe, but it could be virtually anywhere in the world.  (I just use northern Europe to keep it relatable, since my listeners and readers are vastly of that ancestry.)
Your tribe, as all tribes are, is incredibly focused on defense of its borders, and maintaining its territory!  The world is an incredibly hostile place, and evolution has programmed you to be so focused.
Unfortunately, an Evil King has taken over your lands, and oredered you to aquiesce to his evil dictates!  (In England and Germany this would be an Evil Queen in the present day.)

Dictate number one, crazily: is to take into your tribal lands people who have been your enemies since time immemorial!  Those who have fought you for centuries, who hate you, and only want to turn your people into slaves.  Let’s call them Muslims.

But, in addition- the evil rulers also want you to take into your country, not only your hereditary enemies- but also- LOW IQ PEOPLE FROM COUNTRIES THAT HAVE NO CONCEPT WHATSOEVER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION- AND, who could not even comprehend it if they did.  Parasites.

Also, in the ultimate in ridiculousness, your evil rulers have put into place a Welfare System- a system where, unbelievably really- those low intelligence people from starving countries that are brought into you tribal homelands, are given all they need for free!  No work necessary, although for the native tribal people, work is mandatory.  What the natives produce is taken by force, and given to these low IQ PARASITES,  because that is what the evil queens have decreed.

Does any of this sound familiar, despite how ridiculous it seems overall??

Well welcome to our modern, Western, pathologically altruistic world!  For that, unfortunately, is where we are today.  The Western, civilized, European world is being doomed by its own patholigically altruistic nature.  Let me explain:

Eons ago, some humans moved northwards from Africa, mixing with Neanderthals.  With light skin, higher intelligence, and other advantages, they set out to survive the northern winters.

While their brethren back in Africa evolved physically for the hunt, those who had moved (and mixed) in the north, evolved to plan, think, and thus survive!  Those that did not plan, or think- died out.  Those that did- lived to breed, have large families, and survive- even in a harsh environment!

This is your European tribe.  In spite of all odds, over time- they did very well- very well indeed!  By evolving to their harsh environment, they learned to not only survive, but to cooperate.

For, especially during the Ice Ages, when survival chances were at their worst- it turned out that those tribes, and people who could cooperate, who could feel the stirrings of altruism and compassion were thus ennabled to survive the incredibly strenuous and awful hardness of these ages of ice and snow.

They learned to cooperate in the hunt, taking down mammoths with primitive weapons of flint attached to wooden spears, and then butchering them with the same flint blades for dispersement to the European tribes that required this nutritiion!  And this was no small thing, not at all.

Meanwhile, back in Africa, back in the easy southern climes, things were very different: the hunt, along with the gathering, was available constantly.  Unfortunately, endless warfare was also an option, so black tribal aggression never had to stop, since cooperation, altruism, and compassion were all viewed as fool’s errands in such an easy land, where only physical might determined who ( and who’s people) survived!

Fast forward thousands of years:

The whites, who mixed with the Neanderthals with their larger brains (from being northern dwellers dealing with planning and adversity), evolved into more intelligent beings.  From the 8th century BC to the 1950’s- they made 98% of the scientific and technological discoveries of the modern age!!

The Asians did alright as well, since they also, given their more northern clime, were forced to plan and adapt.  But, since they had far less Neanderthal DNA, and were also admixed with Denisovan stock- for whatever reason, they did not have the ability to innovate like the Whites did.  But they survived, and thrived- actually, almost too much, since their numbers were far too much!

The Present:

Hordes, hundreds of thousands of low IQ southerners are being imported into the North!  They are coming, not for freedom, or any other reason than this-

Free stuff from White People!!

Since we are from a cooperative, compassionate (especially in the case of our women) society: We Welcome Them!

Thousands of years ago, we would instantly have recognized them as INVADERS!

For that is what they are, obviously.  They don’t want to “join our tribe”, they really can’t, given their low intellect.  They want us to give them what we have, that is the bottom line!

And so- don’t be politically ‘corrrect’!  These Southron invaders are the enemy.  Deal with it as a real Northron!  As a defender of Western Civilization!!

Socialism is a cancer, and really an Invasion.  You support it, and you are supporting the extermination of your Tribe, your Tribe of Western Civilization, which is the LIGHT OF THE WORLD! 

Literally.  If white people, Europeans, are eliminated:  So is Civilization.

Exercise for Those Who Don't! PJSC

Let’s say you don’t exercise- most adults don’t!  In fact, about 80% don’t exercise at all…  Perhaps this goes a long way in explaining just why Americans (and other western countries) are so fat, sick, and nearly dead.  (But they sure can watch long binges of Netflix!!)  

Here is the thing: exercise is essential, not optional.  Just like getting a proper diet, our environment has changed vastly since we were hunter gatherers, or even small family farmers and housewives.  Or, for that matter, from how it was even just a few short decades ago, when just to earn our livelihoods entailed quite a bit of physical work, and using the strength of our bodies to get by.  In other words, for most of human history- exercise was built into our lives!  

Not tons of endless cardio as was espoused just in the 70’s and 80’s, (which mainly destroyed joints and muscle), or violent sports such as football, (which also destroyed lots of joints and other body parts).  No- sports are not exercise.  This is an elusive concept really: for introverted types, who hate spectator sports by and large, they really don’t want to ‘do sports’, thinking that this is necessary to ‘exercise’.  

It isn’t, in fact it is quite the opposite!  Sports destroy exercise results, exploiting it while tearing it down through over-exertion and injury.  (Average pro football players die in their early 50’s).  Also, they lost muscle mass during the season, while they drive their bodies to destruction.  Sports are kind of like warfare- win at all costs- including yourself!

Exercise is like nutrition- slow and steady wins the race!  In fact, I will go so far as to say that most successful, lifelong exercisers- are those who don’t participate in organized sports, and just build exercise into their lives, enjoying the lifelong resulting health benefits.  It actually helps to not have a competitive bone in your body!

I have exercised my entire adult life, from when I was starting college at 18 on.  To me, it was simply a logical choice.  While I fell slightly into the ‘long distance running’ delusion early on, I never ran more than a few miles at a time.  I could see that it diminished muscle mass, thus destroying my hard-won strength gains!

Now I am 66, and exercise daily for about an hour or so, sometimes more sometimes less.  When I hike, or cut and move wood, or go skiing or a hundred and one other physical things- this is not exercise.  When I exercise, I make the movement as hard as possible.  When I do physical work- I make it as easy as possible, even if sometimes it is quite physically taxing.  Physical work is about efficiency, just like sports!

How do I do it?  Do I force myself??  No.  I just do it, daily- I feel so much better with it, that I hate to miss!  

Here is how you can do likewise:

When you first awaken, do stretches and mobility movements, I wouldn’t even call them ‘exercise’.   I go to my bathroom, shut the door, and begin by stretching from one side to the other while standing.  (You probably already do this, most animals do as well)!

Next, I methodically rotate each part of my body a few movements both clockwise and counter clockwise, to ‘wake each joint up’, and get the synovial fluid within the joints lubricating.  This also helps to gently awaken you, and so encourage you to methodically go through each region of your body likewise.  

Within a few minutes, you will feel totally awake and energized, ready to tackle your day!  For a video of this, see my ebook Perfectly Paleo Exercise

 https://www.amazon.com/Perfectly-Paleo-Exercise-Training-Transformation-ebook/dp/B0083LP8JG

It will run you through all the basics.

But for now- just stop with that!!  It is really a huge step just to have rewakened the body you were given in your childhood.  Just enjoy the feeling, and thing about how it feels to have an awakened, aware physical body!  

Just as with nutrition, once begun is half done.  Have a good breakfast today, perhaps scrambled eggs and sausage, or maybe just a little sprinkled in cheese or onions.  Skip the toast, now and forever.  

That’s it: you are on your way.  

Next step: park 2 blocks away from work, or if it is the store, so be it- 2 blocks!  

Now, just build on this, incrementally- more mobility in the morning with stretching, perfect breakfast (and then lunch and supper), and perhaps more walking after dinner.  

Next week, add in pushups, stretching, and situps in front of the TV before you make breakfast!  Not a ton, just a few minutes, and then, as you get stronger and fitter, more the next day of week…

Get it??  YOU ARE ON YOUR WAY TO LIFELONG EXERCISE, HEALTH AND FITNESS!!

Stay Away From Doctors, Dentists, and Hospitals pqtd podcast # 1 of season 9!

Veterinarians too!  I know that to most folks this statement seems extreme, irresponsible, and downright crazy.  And, if it does to you, it means you are one of the indoctrinated, and I would encourage you to think it through, and give me the suspension of your disbelief for a little while.

Every time you go to the doctor, you will be recommended (actually, pretty much ordered to undergo a plethora of tests and ‘services’, where your blood is tested, blood pressure taken, cholesterol measured, and dozens of other procedures that will absolutely insist that you are on the brink of death, or at least of severe diseases!  

I don’t care who you are, or how healthy and wonderful you felt when you arrived at the clinic- these tests prove that you need lots of expensive medications, possibly a surgery or two, and some very expensive procedures that will cost you, or your insurance, or medicare, or someone tons of money.  All payable to that hospital, doctor, and clinic, thank you very much!

For instance: last year they changed the blood pressure guidelines.  Where a few years ago, 160- 100 was considered pre-hypertension, and even higher was OK if you were over 60, now they have lowered the first diastolic number first to 140, then 130- and now 120!  And, advanced age be damned- that means everyone has high blood pressure, for grade schoolers to seniors.  So- want to buy some meds??  

You also need statins, you know those medicines that lower cholesterol- cholesterol, which is actually one important tool used by the body to repair damage??  Why would you want to lower an important bodily component such as that?  And with another (expensive) drug, just loaded with side effects, like muscle wasting, heart damage, muscle pain, and the list goes on.  

So, I hope you are seeing a pattern here:  They all want to sell you stuff!    Never is addressing the root cause mentioned, except with useless outdated advice to ‘eat less fat, eggs, and red meat’, and ‘eat less calories’.  Very bad advice indeed.  Oh, and ‘lower your salt consumption’- only valid for a tiny minority of people who are salt sensitive.  

Be your own doctor, it is the only thing that actually works.  Cut sugars, not fat!  Eat more fat, in fact, and more red meat.  Don’t eat vegetable oils like margarine or corn oil or canola or soy or any other of those poisons.  Mainly, eat animal sources of food, and if you can handle greens, eat them as well.  (Be aware that plant foods are loaded with protective chemicals produced by the plant itself, to prevent it from being eaten).  Like oxalates, which cause kidney stones, and prevent your body from utilizing the many minerals within them.  Spinach, beet greens- these are vegetables that just aren’t worth consuming.  Kidney stones can result, and I am here to tell you they are incredibly painful!

Exercise daily, and no marathon sessions of ‘cardio’, just short bursts of what I call Perfectly Paleo Exercise.  Strength building, stretching, and getting out in the natural world- these things build true strength, health, and fitness.  Gyms are another place to avoid- do it yourself, at home and outside.

If you start by cutting sugars and grains, and eating meat and fat along with green smoothies, your health will improve dramatically, inside and out.  And then you will never need any prescription drugs, for anything, as long as you don’t go in and get sold on some by the snake oil doctor you visit.  Remember- Doctors don’t usually read the latest scientific literature and studies at all.  They learn what they ‘should’ give you by the drug reps that come to visit them, bearing gifts, i.e. Bribes.  

You will find that you will no longer have tooth or gum issues, either- a good paleo type of diet will send such issues into remission, despite what any dentist will tell you.  In addition, if you have wonderful nutrition, uncomplicated by the side effects of drugs- you also will be mentally healthy.  Depression will not haunt you, and remember that drug side-effects are what often causes depression.

Even veterinarians:  did you know that once your dog or cat gets the rabies vaccine, they are safe for life.  Each subsequent vaccination is just a way to get you to bring your pet in, and get you to pay another huge bill.  Most pet vaccines are unnecessary for normal animals living in a household, and each one is not only expensive, but hazardous to the animal’s health.  

Just as are human vaccines!  Don’t get me started on the endless, combined, mercury laden vaccines on infants- awful!  AND the absolutely non-science based flu vaccine, which has almost no efficacy against the flu (since no one knows the current strains that might pop up), and many side effects, like headaches, depression, and vomitting.

Caveat Emptor- buyer beware!  For you are, after all a buyer in the doctoring environment.  They don’t do anything for free, and it is their advantage- always- to upsell you!  There are wonderful medical people, just as there are in all other fields- but, there are awful charlatans as well, not only in other fields like used car salesmen and card sharks, but also in the most renumerative field of all: Medicine.

Hygge- Why You Need it on PJSC podcast

First, I’d better tell you what hygge (pronounced hue-guh) means: it is a Danish word to describe a special moment or feeling.  There is no English equivalent word, but several put together can approximate this concept- cosiness, charm, happiness, ‘contentness’, security, familiarity, comfort, reassurance, kinship, and simpleness.

And so, the conscious creation of a special moment in a certain time and place that such a wonderful feeling of intimacy and friendliness- that is hygge!  To me, it is a type of motionless, indoor forest walking; consciously becoming one with your simple environment and your companions in a moment of shared contentedness.  I like the concept of ‘cozy’ most of all- as in Dicken’s A Christmas Carol, when Scrooge is shown by the ghost of Christmas Present the little kitchen of Bob Cratchett, in which sits his entire family including Tiny Tim.  The kitchen is humble, and the family is poor, but they are all happy together, celebrating their thrifty Christmas dinner.  Scrooge is touched, he doesn’t know it, but he is witnessing Hygge, Victorian English style!

It is thought that the long, sunless winters in Denmark gave birth to this concept of the preciousness of hygge.  Small, delightful moments in one’s life can illuminate both the mind and spirit in the midst of even an otherwise gloomy existence!  Sprinkle enough bright moments throughout your day, and then each and every day can be a delight, filled with times to cherish.

My Christmas was absolutely wonderful this year, filled with a snowy landscape, candles in all the windows, and my family, both grandchildren included, playing with their presents about the tree.  I grilled a ham, slathered in orange marmalade, (I know, not too paleo, but it was Christmas!), and we had mashed sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, and we’re all so full that no one wanted dessert- although we were able to eat some chocolates from the Sweet Shop in La Crosse’s north side, which were amazing.  They make their own candies with equipment that must have come from Dicken’s London, with real ingredients, from scratch!

Needless to say, that is a day of endless Hygge!  It is so much, that it wears you out, and you are happy to fall into bed.  But now, two days later: a day long rain has come, and the temps are in the 40’s- unheard of at this time in Wisconsin!  The snow has been washed away, but I have achieved hygge several times already today, even though it is still raining, and dark now, at 4:30 PM.  The electric candles in all the windows, and the lit Christmas tree helps, as did my book reading in my favorite easy chair, feet up and a cup of green tea by my side.  My wife sleeping on the couch, with two sleeping felines, one on the couch back, the other on her leg, and a small space heater blowing gently onto us both.  And I had just before gone down to the cellar, doing pushups on my gymnastic rings, and flies, and rows, then a series of isometric presses on the power rack- and so now, I was deliciously exhausted and content- hygge!

And so, you see you can achieve this state of hygge almost anywhere, if you set your mind to it.  It takes no money, very little time, and does wonders for your mood and state of mind- it’s rather like a form of meditation or prayer.  An attitude of gratefulness permeates you’re entire being.

I remember years ago, when I was a mailman.  It was a rainy, cold winter day, much like today, and I was soaked through.  I had heated up my lunch using the microwave at the old folk’s home on my route, and had parked along the shoreline of Lake Onalaska on a dead end road.  The dark waves tossed before me, and I cranked the heater in that mail truck onto high.  I unpacked my lunch of a small steak and veggies, mixed into white rice, and lit a small candle that I kept in my truck.  

That did it!  As the steam rose from the drying raincoat I had taken off and that was hanging beside me, I tasted the wonderful food, as the candle flame shed a golden glow across the drab interior of that ancient truck.  I didn’t see an eagle that day as I ate (I often did), but still, although I didn’t know the word to describe my feeling at that time, I do now-  HYGGE.