I think I have found the perfect place to have it. My new home (since September) is on the small very rural island of Molokai, tucked in between Maui and Oahu in the Hawaiian Islands chain.
The reasons it is perfect are these:
Clean air (the trade winds blow almost all the time)
Clean water (my tap water is rainwater filtered through volcanic rock. It's like a mineral supplement.)
Organic produce. Everything grown in that rich volcanic soil tastes like it is just bursting with nutrients.
Organic protein. Grass fed meat, wild caught seafood, farm fresh free range eggs, local goat dairy. Yumm.
All the stuff we shouldn't be eating (like booze, sodas, packaged junk) is super expensive being shipped in from the mainland while all the locally grown organic stuff that would be expensive at a Whole Foods urban market is cheap here.
Every day there is a free Vitamin D treatment just by walking around outside.
The world's biggest Epsom Salt bath (aka the Pacific Ocean) is right there for a treatment and warm year round.
There is never a weather related excuse to not exercise (unless a hurricane comes through.)
A very unhurried unstressed pace of life. There are no freeways or even stop lights. Drivers stop for pedestrians. If two cars get to an intersection at the same time both drivers will be motioning the other to go on ahead.
People take the time to talk to each other here. They kiss people on the cheek when introduced. They call people in their same age cohort brother and sister and older people are addressed as uncle and auntie.
There is NO noise at night (the loudest thing is the crickets) and it is really DARK at night. Both of those are good for my sleep seizures.
Electricity is insanely expensive so that is a good incentive to turn off the lights and get to sleep at a reasonable hour.
There are free yoga classes at the community center and a Lomi-Lomi massage is ridiculously inexpensive.
I am experimenting with alternative remedies in order to reduce my dependence on meds. There is this stuff that grows like crazy here called the Moringa tree. They make it into a powder and capsules. I don't think it is a miracle cure by any means but it is a great broad spectrum nutrient supplement in a very bio-available form (not a synthetic compound, it's an actual plant.) I've noticed that I am sleeping better since I started taking it (2 weeks) getting to sleep easier and waking up feeling more refreshed.
It's a place where you don't need to own a watch or use a calendar much. If something doesn't get done today, that's fine, maybe tomorrow or early next week.
I think I have found paradise.
The reasons it is perfect are these:
Clean air (the trade winds blow almost all the time)
Clean water (my tap water is rainwater filtered through volcanic rock. It's like a mineral supplement.)
Organic produce. Everything grown in that rich volcanic soil tastes like it is just bursting with nutrients.
Organic protein. Grass fed meat, wild caught seafood, farm fresh free range eggs, local goat dairy. Yumm.
All the stuff we shouldn't be eating (like booze, sodas, packaged junk) is super expensive being shipped in from the mainland while all the locally grown organic stuff that would be expensive at a Whole Foods urban market is cheap here.
Every day there is a free Vitamin D treatment just by walking around outside.
The world's biggest Epsom Salt bath (aka the Pacific Ocean) is right there for a treatment and warm year round.
There is never a weather related excuse to not exercise (unless a hurricane comes through.)
A very unhurried unstressed pace of life. There are no freeways or even stop lights. Drivers stop for pedestrians. If two cars get to an intersection at the same time both drivers will be motioning the other to go on ahead.
People take the time to talk to each other here. They kiss people on the cheek when introduced. They call people in their same age cohort brother and sister and older people are addressed as uncle and auntie.
There is NO noise at night (the loudest thing is the crickets) and it is really DARK at night. Both of those are good for my sleep seizures.
Electricity is insanely expensive so that is a good incentive to turn off the lights and get to sleep at a reasonable hour.
There are free yoga classes at the community center and a Lomi-Lomi massage is ridiculously inexpensive.
I am experimenting with alternative remedies in order to reduce my dependence on meds. There is this stuff that grows like crazy here called the Moringa tree. They make it into a powder and capsules. I don't think it is a miracle cure by any means but it is a great broad spectrum nutrient supplement in a very bio-available form (not a synthetic compound, it's an actual plant.) I've noticed that I am sleeping better since I started taking it (2 weeks) getting to sleep easier and waking up feeling more refreshed.
It's a place where you don't need to own a watch or use a calendar much. If something doesn't get done today, that's fine, maybe tomorrow or early next week.
I think I have found paradise.
