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More on Headaches as explained by Dr. Michio Kushi. His book, The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health goes into this common ailment with great detail.

Cause: While it’s true the stress and tension may increase the pain, the cause of headaches is primarily due to excessive diet that violates the law of yin and yang. For those who are on modern macrobiotic diet, adults and children never experience such an ailment. In their regular lives, they also face pressures and challenges but not once are they driven to the point of needing aspirin or other relief. From energetic analysis, headaches can be characterized into 4 types: frontal lobe, stem of the neck radiating towards the crown of the head; side of the head/ears toward the nose, and the central pains… whenever those have tensions, contractions and blockages, pain may be triggered. If treating at home, what’s essential is to determine from the symptoms, if the pain is Yin or Yang in nature.

Headaches in the forehead/frontal region oftentimes comes from consuming foods categorized as excessively yin in nature. Over-consumption of sugar, chocolate, honey, fruits, fruit juices, peer, wine (uh-oh)and alcoholic beverages (cocktails a no? who gave me that to “fix” my jet lag, cough, cough…) of any kind, aspirin, pill… these extremely yin foods can trigger this kind of headache. These headaches can feel “pulsating, sharp, stabbing and splitting” and during hot weather, the pain is exasperated. Some tension headaches, sinus headaches that are near chronic, falls into this classification.

Headaches radiating from the back of the head, stemming from the base of neck (C7) region is usually caused by excessive intake of Yang foods such as red meat and other domesticated animal meat, eggs, salty cheese, fish, foods high in sodium, breads, cookies, crackers and other hard and dry toasted foods. This kind of headache is not pulsating but rather a dull pressure and worsens when cold. Tension headaches mostly fits into this classification.

Headaches that challenges you from the ear and temples/side of the head, inward is usually caused by excessive intake of oily foods. The intake of excessively oily foods

(in midst of translation, got to go – to be continues later – life revolves)

Born: February 24, 1955, San Francisco, CA
Died: October 5, 2011, Palo Alto, CA

Yesterday was third anniversary of his death…

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

– Stephen Jobs

君の時間には限界がある、だから他から押し付けられた人生を送るなど、無駄にするな。ドグマ、定説・常識などに囚われるなーそれはただ他からの考えにまどわされ生きているだけ。他の者の目を気にして他の者の意見などにおぼれず自分の内からの声を聞け。一番重要なのは勇気をもって自分の心と感に従え。自分の声は真の自分がどうなりたいのか（どうしたいのか）知っている。他は皆（雑音だ）どうでもよい。

One of Steve Jobs’ last gifts was left in a brown box and handed out at his memorial service.

Inside the brown box was a copy of “Autobiography of a Yogi” by Hindu guru Paramahansa Yogananda. The book was about self realization, Salesforce (CRM) CEO Mark Benioff told an audience at annual tech conference TechCrunch Disrupt. Benioff, who wrote some of the first code for the Macintosh, was one of Jobs’ closest friends and colleagues.”That was his message,” Benioff said. “Actualize yourself…. He had this incredible realization that his intuition was his greatest gift, and he needed to look at the world from inside out.”
Benioff emphasized the spiritual side of Jobs’ personality, a trait he says is often lost in the books and movies recounting Jobs’ legacy.
Before Jobs passed away in October 2011 , the Apple founder knew the people who would attend his memorial. Known for his vision and precision, Jobs organized the speakers, the attendees, and the performers, Bono and Yo-Yo Ma would play at a memorial service as planned, Benioff recounted. On the way out, each guest received the gift.

“I knew that this was a decision that he made that everyone was going to get this,” Benioff, said. “Whatever this was, was the last thing he wanted us to all think about.”
– excerpt from CNN Money & News 9/2013

U-2’s Bono …”I already miss him…one of a very small group of anarchic Americans who through technology literally invented the 21st century. We will all miss the hardware software Elvis.”

…ehh, more than “Hardware Software Elvis”, actually,
Stephen Jobs was a Yogi… practicing Karma Yoga.
He just needed to practice more Restorative style yoga iThink… at least he had the time to read this book and gift the book to some 500 of his family and friends. That is a wonderful gift…a message in a bottle (Sting’s song?), a message in a book. There was a time I worked in Palo Alto and frequented a hole in the wall down to earth (i.e., very reasonable) place called Homma’s Brown Rice sushi – where Stephen Jobs often came to get lunch – it’s a strange feeling. Our time is limited.

Safety, security and … support.
& that comes from a place where there’s no … judgement.
No Judgement. We are all on a journey that’s really not that long – so, we want to relish every second, every minute by being “radically present” as my teacher Judith Lasater would say. We are meant to live a life that’s radically PRESENT. How? Through Restorative Yoga and all forms of yoga that restores you, of course!

In restorative yoga – every pose is a … meditation.
Jon Kabot-Zin shares a more scientific, medical evidence based practice what late S. Suzuki taught here San Francisco. There’s a great body of evidence on the benefits of meditation I don’t even have to go over – But, it’s true – we are not monks – we all have a regular lives to live – we don’t have hours to sit and meditate nor is it our job to meditate like it is for some of us where it is in service – It’s a service to self first and then it’s a service to others when you come from a place of clarity and peace, even for ordinary folks living what’s seemingly a regular life. (BTW, what’s regular? everything is indeed relative…)
As in Judith’s book, “Living Your Yoga”, there’s yoga for everyone, everyday. Bliss can be found in fleeting moment to moment – in meditation.