currently reading Power Up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment, David Perlmutter and Alberto Villoldo
There's a point in the workshop wherein the phrase "intermittent fasting" comes up. I guess it's a popular phrase right now. Years ago, before I ever picked up a kettlebell, I had been probably automatically doing whatever this protocol is without knowing it. The process went like this: Get up, make green tea, rev up the studio, drink green tea, write and record music, make more green tea etc. for usually no less than 7 hours straight. The amount of work accomplished on that particular day was stunning.
Nowadays we have professional nerds like Dave Asprey to suggest getting quality coffee and fats together like manna. [Seriously, get good butter in your life. Don't be a cheapskate. Good butter=good life; this is infrastructure. While you're at it, Chicago, get good coffee, I haven't had much Intelligentsia lately, but have found the Sumptown Hairbender to be one of the cleanest feeling coffees. There is a huge difference in coffee and you should never be cheap here either.]
But it's worth noting that every major religion fasts. In the Native traditions one fasts before vision quest. Pavel and Dan have been playing with writing before eating, and I prefer practicing/meditating before eating.
There was mention of playing with nicotine patches. I think there is possibly a better product for dosing:
There's a point in the workshop wherein the phrase "intermittent fasting" comes up. I guess it's a popular phrase right now. Years ago, before I ever picked up a kettlebell, I had been probably automatically doing whatever this protocol is without knowing it. The process went like this: Get up, make green tea, rev up the studio, drink green tea, write and record music, make more green tea etc. for usually no less than 7 hours straight. The amount of work accomplished on that particular day was stunning.
Nowadays we have professional nerds like Dave Asprey to suggest getting quality coffee and fats together like manna. [Seriously, get good butter in your life. Don't be a cheapskate. Good butter=good life; this is infrastructure. While you're at it, Chicago, get good coffee, I haven't had much Intelligentsia lately, but have found the Sumptown Hairbender to be one of the cleanest feeling coffees. There is a huge difference in coffee and you should never be cheap here either.]
But it's worth noting that every major religion fasts. In the Native traditions one fasts before vision quest. Pavel and Dan have been playing with writing before eating, and I prefer practicing/meditating before eating.
There was mention of playing with nicotine patches. I think there is possibly a better product for dosing:
Dr. Hauschka's Nicotiana Cramp Relief is nicotine, camomile, and probably a little sucrose. Those cute little buggers are sublingual. Never tried them but woman friend did and reported a noticeable buzz with just one or two of those things. Men may not have thought to look at women's cramp products....
This right here is an intersection. Where intermittent fasting leads to brain-enhancing metabolism, is also right where neurogenesis [brain growth!] lives. It's right here in this neuroplasticity quality and neurogenesis process that we can enhance certain neural pathways. We can engage a metabolism that literally changes gene expression. Whether we're rewiring primitive emotional patterns [fear, anger, shame] or rewiring movement patterns, the infrastructure gets built by more or less the same process. I think this has huge implications for any trainer that is pattern-aware.
Thomas Ryan, a Roman Catholic priest, stated, "Fasting as a religious act increases our sensitivity to that mystery always and everywhere present to us. It is an invitation to awareness, a call to compassion for the needy, a cry of distress, and a song of joy. It is a discipline of self-restraint, a ritual of purification, and a sanctuary for offerings of atonement. It is a wellspring for the spiritually dry, a compass for the spiritually lost, and inner nourishment for the spiritually hungry" [163, The Sacred Art of Fasting: Preparing to Practice; 2005]
Fasting disallows distractive eating--eating out of boredom or to quell anxiety. What is your prime directive? Hunger for it appropriately. Feast.
Thomas Ryan, a Roman Catholic priest, stated, "Fasting as a religious act increases our sensitivity to that mystery always and everywhere present to us. It is an invitation to awareness, a call to compassion for the needy, a cry of distress, and a song of joy. It is a discipline of self-restraint, a ritual of purification, and a sanctuary for offerings of atonement. It is a wellspring for the spiritually dry, a compass for the spiritually lost, and inner nourishment for the spiritually hungry" [163, The Sacred Art of Fasting: Preparing to Practice; 2005]
Fasting disallows distractive eating--eating out of boredom or to quell anxiety. What is your prime directive? Hunger for it appropriately. Feast.
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