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I would imagine the lifetime of stress you have been under to be a speaker of truth has affected your physical body's ability to stay well. Every body has weaknesses that the stressors of the world tip into becoming actualized; the acute stress of this moment in our world, and being someone who sees and speaks truth, as much as you can try to keep yourself well, I think the subconscious body copes with more than we realize. Wim Hof, I appreciate what he is doing and also I wonder if it is one size fits in the way he seems to believe. I don't think anything is. I wonder if the cold helps a person who spends a lot of their life in the colder realities of the world. What if warmth (warm emotions, warm bathing) is what your body needs? Definitely breath work, but maybe with warmth, instead of cold? Just a thought. My body tips into asthma from emotional stress, and deep sadness and grief and fear about the world, for me Wim Hof fast breathing and cold are not helpful; slower, calmer breathing, and warmth, are. I think if a person ate a junk food diet but they were a pretty happy go lucky person who did not hold on to stress/worry/sadness/fear or focus much on those worldly realties, their health would probably be much better than someone who ate all organic food but carried a lot of stress and sadness. A body might do better with a mind that didn't focus on the horrors of the world; I don't think deeply caring minds were really made for this world, it's too much to cope with if you see it. It might be that your work in the world -- work that people like me appreciate more than I can ever say -- is harming you, because it's just so much to hold in the body all the time. I am just saying this from my experience, of a lifetime of focusing on all the awful things, because they are real, but feeling how my physical body over time shows me the stress it causes. I think the physical body really needs a good amount of pleasure to stay well, and to recover. This would be Reichian, I think. At least in, the importance of the release in orgasm, or however one achieves pleasure and sensory release in a world which currently wants to cast eros so far away we don't any longer remember what it means to feel pleasure. It's interesting you mention Reich, because he gave us a lot of reasoning as to why we are here, in this eros-free scientific world of sterility and injections and covering of senses. But then, in our own lives, if our own bodies and lives mirror that repression and denial of pleasure, it's important that we reassess, otherwise the power structures have infiltrated our lives even while we rally against them. I appreciate your voice so much, but if it is at the expense of your bodily well being, something has to change for you.

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Was there something that happened to you that started all this?

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