I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #1038 - On Health, Healing, and Vitality - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, May 31, 2025

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 6 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

The topic that I feel called to discuss today is a bit different than my usual asset-leveraging and investing, but one that is equally a passion of mine, and for my entire life: health, healing, and vitality. I've been deeply involved in this domain since I was a child, both in terms of my own personal experience, and in assisting others. I was very hesitant to talk about this subject today because it opens a whole big can of worms. I feel that it's important, however, to share what I know, and what my experiences have been over the course of my life.

I was raised out in the country, with nature and all sorts of animals surrounding me, by a deeply gifted out-of-the-box father, and a mother who was a self-taught naturopathic nutritionist, and an ardent animal-lover, so let's just say that my childhood was far from the norm. We never used doctors or conventional 'medicine', both because we didn't need them, and because it was well understood that they had little to nothing to do with actual health or healing, often quite the opposite (don't get me started on the conventional medical system...lol). We kept ourselves healthy by eating a very broad array of natural and healthful foods, drinks, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients, and if we ever got sick, which was very rare, we turned to medicinal plants and foods. As I matured, and being deeply fascinated by so many different things, I dove ever-deeper into health and healing, both through my own research, and by using me as my experimental guinea pig, and I must say that this has served me exceedingly well to this day.

I'm still the healthiest human that I know. I've never had a cavity, I've never broken a bone (and I have not been gentle with myself, I can assure you!), I've never had an allergy of any kind, I have a rapid metabolism (so nothing stays in my body for long), I have a very strong immune system, and I heal bodily damage extremely quickly. My health also went to a whole new level, however, when I moved to the wild and jungly East side of the Big Island of Hawai'i.

I've always been very healthy, but when I lived in regular society on the mainland, I still did get sick periodically, usually with respiratory 'infections' like colds or flu, during the transitional season of Spring and Fall. Even after I moved to GaiaYoga, which is off-grid in the jungle, for a while I would still occasionally get these same respiratory 'infections', and I also went through many round of quite intense staph infections on my skin, where I'd been cut or even just scratched. It took me years to clear all the various toxicities from regular society out of my system, and I did so though direct connection to earth, nature, and the elements, my glorious medicinal teas made from the land, and my various elixirs that I concoct through a synergy of intuition and research.

As it stands today, I haven't been sick at all, with anything, for years now. I also don't get any kind of infections anymore, even in wounds, which simply heal quickly on their own. When I compare this with most of the people that I know, I'm quite shocked and horrified, given the regular rounds of sicknesses, and assorted persistent health issues that the vast majority experience as their norm, the contrast is overwhelmingly sharp. I'm going to tell you that germs, bacteria, or viruses are not at all the problem, and I'm living, breathing proof of that. When the human system gets what it needs, and is in balance, nothing bothers it, with health and vitality, along with very-rapid healing, being the result. I'm also going to tell you that pretty much everything in regular society is intentionally-designed to weaken and keep people sick, like a thousand needles rupturing the integrity of our skin, every single day. There are many reasons why I choose to live off-grid in the jungle, on the wildest side an Island in the middle of the largest ocean on earth, with a weaponized 'regular society' being at the top of my list. I take full responsibility for my own health and healing, and I deeply trust my body's ability to heal and maintain its own integrity and equilibrium, and thank God for that!

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, once I had finished up my Hive tasks, just a bit before 1:30PM, and although I had wanted to do some photography for my posts, the sun was not at all cooperating, so I put my attention first on helping Braja with a few small tasks at her place, and straining and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) in the Landing, first. I was finally able to get some good photos, and as soon as I was done that, I got my machete and collected a wheelbarrow full of assorted edible foliage for cow-milking food, and after a short asset-mnagement break up at the Flow House, I helped Ano unload his truck after his Friday cocoing trip, and then reload it for the Sunday market the next day. When we finished with that, I got cleaned up, and I made myself some food (spiced and seasoned mini-beef patties, with pepperjack cheese, and mixed mustards) in the Landing, after which I returned to the Flow House, with my food and my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee (this is one of my elixirs) in hand(s), to write and publish My Entry for Reflection Hunters Contest: Round 221 - Pink Coleus Reflections. I had intended to publish my HPUD post last night, but I realized that yesterday was the last day that I could submit my entry for the Reflection Hunters Contest, so I did that first. Once I had that done and published, I got to my regular evening Hive tasks, and catching up on my notifications. I got through them all by a little after 11AM, and after some asset management, and getting my HPUD post ready to write the next morning, I went to bed just a little before 12:30AM. I woke up at 6AM, having slept very well, doing more asset management, getting out of bed around 6:30AM to go make my superfood fire coffee in the Landing, and then back to the Flow House to power up my HIVE, write my HPUD post about it, June HPUD - Hive Power Up Day - 54.27 HIVE Powered Up!, and finally to begin writing this post. It's now just after 12:15PM, so a fantabulous time to end this post, so that I may get to my few other important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House a little later in the afternoon, to focus first on photography for my posts, and then community/land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until the next incarnation of this post tomorrow! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2025 Life Goals

1.) Do regular integral practices again, alone or with others.

2.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again.

3.) Make my plant nursery, and the gardens, beautiful again.

4.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon.

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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