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Hyperbaric Chambers

every day, usually around 11am but it varies, I show up at the Hyperbaric Chambers and get to enjoy 1 hour and 30 minutes of confined, chill out time.  Yep, for 1 hour and 30 minutes, all I can do it sit and meditate, read, sleep or watch a movie.  inside of a big metal tube with some windows on it.

Ivan and the Chamber

It’s pretty amazing actually, that these chambers exist.  Not only are they helping me, but they are also helping limes desiese patients, diabetics, tons of leukemia children, autism and so much more.  

Inside Chamber

So the jist of the chamber is this.  you crawl in, the door is seal and 100% pure Oxygen is pumped into the chamber as the chamber is pressurized. The pressurized chamber is similar to as if you were scuba diving down to anywhere form 40-60 feet depending on what a person is being treated for.  For me, I go down to 40 feet, the depth at which my good healthy white blood cells are stimulated with pure oxygen to produce more of, and to clean out my blood. What also happens is my red blood cells produce more healthy blood and so thus my whole immune system is boosted into a healthier space. all while relaxing and breathing.  it’s wonderful! the only down side for some, but not for me! is that your ears pop a lot as you go down in pressure. Since i have tons of scuba diving experience the ear clearing is easy for me and not something that bothers me. 

Lymph Machine

Every day before I get into the chamber and then right afterwards, I get to stand on a machine that is built for draining the lymph system.  Its a shaker of sorts, at least my butt shakes like crazy.  It’s kinda like getting a giggly massage through shaking.  The purpose though is to help my lymphatic system move.  I believe the theory is that unlike other systems in our body, our lymph system down have a way of circulating itself, it needs to be “moved” either through massage, exercise or this fun machine. So every day twice, I get to get my lymphs moving. 

While I’m not used to doing some activity every day, such as this, I’m starting to like the time alloted each day to having required relaxation time.  I’ve been reading the last couple of days, and today I slept for a change.  

When I get out of the chambers, if it’s day time I’m filled with energy and a bit hungry, if it’s night time, I’m usually a bit more tired and want to go home to chill.  Each day is a new and fun experience!

Healing Ceremony 1/28

This is going a bit back in time, only a week ago and a day… it’s amazing at how time flies so quickly.  

The day before I left,  I was blessed to have a healing ceremony held for me, hosted by Susan and the sister from Tulum.  While my journey up till that point, had been about being in action, the ceremony was a turning point of not just being in action, but also owning my actions along with owning what has been going on.  

There are many who speak about The Stages of Grief that happen when life changings situations occur, such as death and life thretening illnesses.  The stages are 1. denial and isolation, 2. anger 3. bargening, 4. depression and 5. acceptance.  When I read these stages, I feel that I personally do not fit into these 5 stages.  Why… because I don’t view my diagnoses of Hodgkins Lyphoma, Stage 4 Cancer as something I should be scared shitless about.  For I know deep in my soul and being that there is much more life for me to be living, and many more things for me to be doing, till a very ripe old age and a rocking chair.  But, I do own that there are serious things that needed to be changed in my life.  The healing ceremony held at Yoga Now was a huge realization point for me. 

There were so many people that day who care about me, care so much they came to be a part of a ceremony that was foreign to many of them, a little bit out of the ordinary, or bizarre, but they stretched their ways of being to be there for me.  Love.   And there I was, in the center, in the space of letting it all in, washing over me in gold ways and sinking in… deep.. penitrating the years of walls I had built up around my heart and soul to protect it for fear of being hurt by those that I love.  I learned last Thursday that Love is beautiful and sometimes hurt comes with it, but that is just a facet of living.  Love prevails though and is so strong it shook my core and rattled some sense into it.  I surrendered to some of my strongest fears, and feel so much stronger for it. 

below is a photo of the Ancestor Plate I created as a gift to the ancestor spirits for this ceremony.  The plate and the foilage from the ceremony were saved and then placed on the icy shores of Lake Michigan at sunrise the next morning, on my way to the airport.  

To all those that came for the ceremony, Thank You

to all those that couldn’t come in person to the ceremony, Thank You.. for I felt you there.

Ancestor Plate for Healing Ceremony

Activating my inner warrior

I awoke today with a splitting head ache.. not to sure why, maybe from my body detoxing, maybe from something else. Either way, waking up with a headache, is not the most enjoyable thing in the morning. Instead of being in constant annoyance of the headache, I’ve chosen to funnel this energy into something else. The energy of being driven to succeed, to win the battle, to be the warrior I am that will defeat my enemy.
It feels really good to have a spark of pissed-off-ness inside of me to funnel towards my fight against my intruders. Today is all about engaging in the things I know I need to do to be healthy.

A Quote of Inspiration and Direction

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose
recognized by your self as a mighty one. The being
a force of nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments
and grievances, complaining the world will not devote itself
to making you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community,
and as long as I live, it is my privilege, my PRIVILEGE to do
for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die,
for the harder I work, the more I live.

I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me.
It is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got to hold up for
the moment. I want to make it burn as brightly as
possible before handing it on to future generations.
~~George Bernard Shaw

Truth Is Everlasting

“Truth is Everlasting” my yogi tea said this morning

Love is the truth that rings through in my life right now, so strongly that I feel I’m standing beneath the bells of Notre Dame.

It’s been such a crazy journey thus far, and I recognize that it’s been a bit overwhelming throughout the last 2 months. Enough so, that it’s been hard to even put into words all that is happening.  One day, I feel this, another day, I feel that. Sometimes I know that one thing is right and another time, it’s something else.  I know that I am breathing, living and surrounded by Love and amazing people… and everything else, is changes depending on the wind pattern.

The support I have gotten from everyone has blown me away.  I’ve always known that I am Loved, now there is no denying the deep extent that I care for those around me and that they care back for me.

My spirit has been talking to me a lot more lately, or maybe it has always been talking to me, and I’m just listening a lot more.  The other evening, as I owned that my life is in my own hands, and that I am empowered and making my own choices, I realized how much that everyone’s life is very fragile, and in this realization it struck me how precious each moment is.

My vision as been clearer since this moment.

There is not a second to waste, for we will never gain it back again.  and in these seconds, there is no reason to not be living with each ounce of our being and each piece of our soul.  Living with pure Love for all that we do.

Today I start my blog, this amazing technological recording device to document what I’m going through, my thoughts, feelings, emotions, a way to keep in touch with those around me and with  myself.

Today I continue to Live.

On my way to a round of testing, Chicago winter style