Hypertension Mantra

When I was 8 years old I had a dog named Blackie because he was black all over. That's why. Ha!Ha! He didn't really have a pedigree, just plain and simple mongrel , a street dog , if you like. But I came to love him so much because he was such a playful and loving dog. We were together for two years. At that time, we were living in a neighborhood infested with drunks. Every time Blackie and I went for an errand these beer junkies would tease me by saying they like my dog very much. I didn't realize that they had other plans for him. And then one day, Blackie suddenly disappeared. We looked all over but could not find him. My mother realizing what happened told me that perhaps Blackie was feasted on by the junkies. These sons of their mothers casually did this sort of thing with the animals around the community. It was a devastating. I was horrified and couldn't stop crying for a week. Coming from that experience, I don't remember ever owning a dog again. And why am

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Since 5 or 6 years ago, I thought I didn't know anything about cooking . My illness changed all of that. (You see, all my female relatives were all good cooks. Good in the sense that they can cook for two or two hundred - without a whimper.) Today, I can whip up anything-- well not everything. I can cook, a lot of Filipino dishes, a few Chinese, several Thai, perhaps, a dozen of Italian. That' it. I can bake, do salads and juice drinks --- and everything the healthy way. To completely heal my body was essential but more important was to heal my mind and my soul as well. Healing entails surrendering one's self to the workings of the universe. Heal then to the Queen. Am I being funny? This seems to be one of my "up" days. Cheers!

My daily ritual is to cook our meals, clean the house, and do some laundry. In fact it has somehow made me an 'expert' on cooking with herbs, clothing detergents - which works best and which don't; which can dry your hands, etc. Focusing my mind on these seemingly trivial things takes a lot of unproductive things from my head. I choose to recall a one liner wizmo, "Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you busy, but gets you nowhere".

Reading is helping me heal . Whether "hard reading" or online, reading has brought me to places I've never been, showed me things I would otherwise not have known, taught me lessons which would have taken me an inordinate amount of time to learn. Reading allowed me to feel emotions that saved both my body and spirit from the doldrums of self-pity.

The way to healing is to treat and care for yourself well. There is no one who can do that better but you. And so my mantra today is 'I will treat myself well. I will care for myself better. I will treat myself well. I will care for myself better'. ooooohhhhhmmmmm ... ooooohhhhhmmmmm ... ooooohhhhhmmmmm ... ooooohhhhhmmmmm...

Anything and everything that gets me through the day and that which helps me bring down the BP I must like. Because this is one of those low days .

If only during the time I AM blogging. I remember back when I was new at blogging I had a hard time doing my posts. First, I didn't know how to get around blogger - it's first version. At my age, I thought I was being stupid. This is for young people who mostly use the medium to hyperventilate. I was too old for this. Again, I thought. But today, I have several blogs, essentially about things I had just wanted to offload my chest. Things that may seem unimportant or trivial to others. But hey, why would I allow that to bother me? My blog is my own little private space. Passers by are just that -- passing through. If they find my writing so-so then what can I do? Blogging is my way of fighting my hypertension. I am usually lost out there when I blog. And I feel good about it. Specifically, my blogs were about my angsts, my fears, my dreams and my hopes which I couldn't have verbally expressed because people I love might get hurt. Ideas that could prove silly at the least.

I read somewhere that deep breathing helps make the body more alkaline . It is said and I think I have already posted earlier, that the acid:alkaline ratio is crucial to good health. The ideal is 80:20, that is 80 percent alkaline and 20 percent acid. "Over acidity can be harmful to the bones, tissues and leads to fatigue, dulled mentality, headaches, depression and arthritis." Most of the ordinary daily food that we consume brings acidity to the body. I fully believe this theory. It happened to me. And so today almost no animal protein for me, nor carbohydrates like pastries, pastas, and grains. Gasp!!