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pandora_parrotAn entry on ashtma, and an entry on barefootedness.
I just ran for a little bit at lunch. Just 5 minutes of running or so. And amazingly, I'm not feeling like someone is trying to forcibly remove my lungs through my rib cage using white hot needles. I just took my new inhaler for a test drive. 90 mcg of albuterol for what my doctor thinks is exercise induced asthma.
I ran, and it didn't hurt as much. This feels about as amazing as it did when I went on my first really intense hike out here in the bay area during the summer and discovered that I could actually breathe while doing it.
I need to do more running to determine if this was just a fluke or if this is actually the cure. My lungs *are* still hurting from that little run outside, just not as much as last time. Maybe, just maybe, we're onto something here. And if that's the case... then I can finally start running. And that would be incredible.
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Barefoot Day 25: There are times, when I'm walking across a particularly painful gravelly rocky rough surface, that I question the value of going barefoot. At these times, it's not pleasant; it's not fun; and I'm wincing with every step I take. It's just not nice. Then I walk into a restaurant, step onto the plush carpet in the lobby, feel a sensation of delight and joy coming over me, and I remember why I'm doing this. It's for moments like that, where I get to experience new sensations and delights that I wouldn't be able to otherwise.
I had a really delightful surprise when I walked into CVS the other day. I was wandering around on their really odd carpet, feeling something pleasantly tickling my feet, like a bit of detritus that had gotten stuck to a toe or something. I kept trying to brush it off, but nothing was working. Finally, I paid attention enough to try to figure out what this thing was, and I discovered that it was the carpet itself! They have this really strange carpet in there that has lots of little fuzzy fibers sticking out of the ground. It's like there's an inch of thin fuzziness above the carpet itself. After I realized what was going on, I really enjoyed feeling the tickly bit of the carpet as I did my shopping. I may start shopping there for my convenience store goods just so that I can feel the carpet in there. It's really pleasant!
When walking to lunch today, I had another awesome moment there. I was walking on all this rock and cement and crap, feeling the usual bit of discomfort that comes from such things, when I needed to cross from one parking lot into another. There was no cement walkway, so I had to walk through the muddy, tree detritus filled garden thingy between the two lots. It looked like there was a lot of crap in there, so I expected it to be thorny and unpleasant.
Boy was I wrong. I put one foot down in there, and I felt like I could have stayed there all day, just padding around the tree. The rain had made everything this delicious sogginess without being wet, so it felt like I was walking around on soft, wet, cool sand or something. It was incredible. I was just amazed at how delightful and delicious the experience was!
I had to pass through some gravel while walking through another section of my path to lunch, and since it was wet, it all got stuck to my feet. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't entirely pleasant either, so I detoured through some grass to get my feet cleaned. The grass was pleasant on my feet and much much softer than the hard cement that I'd been walking on.
When I was walking on the grass and moved back to the sidewalk, I found myself wishing that our society made walk paths out of grass and dirt instead of this harsh cement and stuff. And that got me to thinking about how backwards this world is. We construct our pathways and walkways out of hard rocky cement and use dirt and grass to decorate. Yet the very thing that we build to *walk* on is unpleasant and harsh on our natural, unshod, feet and the things we decorate with, that you're *not* supposed to walk on, are actually very pleasant and comfortable for the foot! Then, in order to walk on the very thing we built for walking on, we need to make and wear shoes, shoes that promote fungus, foot deformities, joint problems, and unnatural walking. It's like we're deliberately making things harder than we need to.
True, I've barely been barefoot for a month, so part of my unpleasantness on these paths can be attributed to the relatively thin soles of my feet. But still, it all just seems a bit silly. I've always just assumed that cement/asphalt paved roads and walkways are the best way to do things, but I've never really thought about it before. How much of this is actually necessary, and how much is just silly busy work we give ourselves because that's "just what you do?" I wonder.
I did my quick jog earlier today barefoot, and I can definitely feel the difference from when I tried it a couple weeks ago. My feet are definitely stronger from just what I've been doing. This is definitely going to help with my rock climbing, I think.
I just ran for a little bit at lunch. Just 5 minutes of running or so. And amazingly, I'm not feeling like someone is trying to forcibly remove my lungs through my rib cage using white hot needles. I just took my new inhaler for a test drive. 90 mcg of albuterol for what my doctor thinks is exercise induced asthma.
I ran, and it didn't hurt as much. This feels about as amazing as it did when I went on my first really intense hike out here in the bay area during the summer and discovered that I could actually breathe while doing it.
I need to do more running to determine if this was just a fluke or if this is actually the cure. My lungs *are* still hurting from that little run outside, just not as much as last time. Maybe, just maybe, we're onto something here. And if that's the case... then I can finally start running. And that would be incredible.
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Barefoot Day 25: There are times, when I'm walking across a particularly painful gravelly rocky rough surface, that I question the value of going barefoot. At these times, it's not pleasant; it's not fun; and I'm wincing with every step I take. It's just not nice. Then I walk into a restaurant, step onto the plush carpet in the lobby, feel a sensation of delight and joy coming over me, and I remember why I'm doing this. It's for moments like that, where I get to experience new sensations and delights that I wouldn't be able to otherwise.
I had a really delightful surprise when I walked into CVS the other day. I was wandering around on their really odd carpet, feeling something pleasantly tickling my feet, like a bit of detritus that had gotten stuck to a toe or something. I kept trying to brush it off, but nothing was working. Finally, I paid attention enough to try to figure out what this thing was, and I discovered that it was the carpet itself! They have this really strange carpet in there that has lots of little fuzzy fibers sticking out of the ground. It's like there's an inch of thin fuzziness above the carpet itself. After I realized what was going on, I really enjoyed feeling the tickly bit of the carpet as I did my shopping. I may start shopping there for my convenience store goods just so that I can feel the carpet in there. It's really pleasant!
When walking to lunch today, I had another awesome moment there. I was walking on all this rock and cement and crap, feeling the usual bit of discomfort that comes from such things, when I needed to cross from one parking lot into another. There was no cement walkway, so I had to walk through the muddy, tree detritus filled garden thingy between the two lots. It looked like there was a lot of crap in there, so I expected it to be thorny and unpleasant.
Boy was I wrong. I put one foot down in there, and I felt like I could have stayed there all day, just padding around the tree. The rain had made everything this delicious sogginess without being wet, so it felt like I was walking around on soft, wet, cool sand or something. It was incredible. I was just amazed at how delightful and delicious the experience was!
I had to pass through some gravel while walking through another section of my path to lunch, and since it was wet, it all got stuck to my feet. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't entirely pleasant either, so I detoured through some grass to get my feet cleaned. The grass was pleasant on my feet and much much softer than the hard cement that I'd been walking on.
When I was walking on the grass and moved back to the sidewalk, I found myself wishing that our society made walk paths out of grass and dirt instead of this harsh cement and stuff. And that got me to thinking about how backwards this world is. We construct our pathways and walkways out of hard rocky cement and use dirt and grass to decorate. Yet the very thing that we build to *walk* on is unpleasant and harsh on our natural, unshod, feet and the things we decorate with, that you're *not* supposed to walk on, are actually very pleasant and comfortable for the foot! Then, in order to walk on the very thing we built for walking on, we need to make and wear shoes, shoes that promote fungus, foot deformities, joint problems, and unnatural walking. It's like we're deliberately making things harder than we need to.
True, I've barely been barefoot for a month, so part of my unpleasantness on these paths can be attributed to the relatively thin soles of my feet. But still, it all just seems a bit silly. I've always just assumed that cement/asphalt paved roads and walkways are the best way to do things, but I've never really thought about it before. How much of this is actually necessary, and how much is just silly busy work we give ourselves because that's "just what you do?" I wonder.
I did my quick jog earlier today barefoot, and I can definitely feel the difference from when I tried it a couple weeks ago. My feet are definitely stronger from just what I've been doing. This is definitely going to help with my rock climbing, I think.
