Jim Grove

Professional writer, retired coach. #LTAD #LTPD #LCHF #meditation

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

What I want to achieve ... is self-realization, to see God face to face, to attain moksha. I live and move and have my being in pursuit of this goal. All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end.
- Gandhi

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

For my dear friend Istvan. I will miss your intelligence, integrity, and distinctly Hungarian humour. #LTAD #LTPD https://t.co/CQRlxCNhnL

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

@NutritionalThe3 Here's a simple piece I wrote for parents recently -- sans science language to make it simple to digest -- it's deliberately light in tone, but you might find it useful to share sometime somewhere: https://t.co/m0adIVTl8x

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

@CarolDa87459927 This is what started Siddhartha Gautama (who became the Buddha) on his search for meaning. He witnessed untold poverty and suffering in the streets of his city and - according to legend anyways - completely shifted his view of life. I think it's good your boys had similar.

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

It is fashionable to speak of "gratitude." Much of it is posturing for social approval. I have seldom seen real gratitude among the affluent. I have, however, frequently seen real gratitude among the poor of Asia and Latin America, who know real suffering. #gratitude

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@BiggestComeback My experience has been the same as you (and I went low carb in 2018 as well). I had an earlier experience of this in 2005 when I fully adopted "Eating Alive" for 2 years by Dr Jonn Matsen. Zero sugar. Conclusion I made: viruses love sugar. I still believe that. Cancer too.

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

@NutritionalThe3 This is known as "take the money and run."

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

"... the three-year-old is not an incomplete five-year-old, but a complete, total, and whole three-year-old. If a child is given all the nurturing to be here as a three-year-old, they'll be the perfect five-year-old later on, and so on." - Joseph Chilton-Pearce #earlyyears

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@CarolDa87459927 @NutritionalThe3 I remember reading in 2009 that the total value of chemotherapy drug sales in the US alone was about $70 Billion per year. We'd be foolish to think anyone in big pharma would want to rush to find a cure for cancer.

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

For those who believe "matrilineal" means "matriarchal" - it does not. North American #Indigenous cultures have traditionally been, at the highest echelons of power, patriarchal - pure and simple. The matrilineal system is primarily a means of insuring healthy genetics.

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

@FiftyReboot What's your blood type? If you are type O, that's your answer -- you should basically be zero carbs. @CaryKelly11

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

The impulse to create represents the best of what we are. The impulse to "achieve", in contrast, leads to moral and spiritual bankruptcy. Creating comes from our divine nature, while "achieving" is a desire of the ego, which seeks recognition and aggrandizement.

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

@hormonedietdoc That's been my first meal, around the same time, off-and-on for the last year. I generally find the same results, but I find it shifts over passing weeks. I think it points to the need for variety over time.

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

@rustyrockets "Vivat Regina Camilla" - but they pronounce it vigh-vat? I was a choir boy and sang in Latin when required. It was always "vee-vat" when we sang. (Compare with modern Latinates "vivre" in French, "vivir" in Spanish.)

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
- JBS Haldane, 1927
#science #spirituality #reality

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

@BradCLemley Have you ever read Robert Bly's "Iron John" (1990) and its follow-up "The Sibling Society" (1996)? This is one of the themes those books addressed. He essentially predicted the chaos that has emerged today in public discourse, universities, media, etc. Highly recommended.

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@BradCLemley I spent several summers at our old family cottage on a lake only 10 miles in diameter just northeast of Superior, and it was little different when the wind came up. Within seconds, waves could be 6 feet tall and breaking. In a canoe or anything under 16 feet, damn scary.

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

"My wife went to Chile and all I got was this book on Childhood Play: The Importance of Play in Human Development." No t-shirt? No coffee mug? Joking. I'm working on a 2-year media project dedicated to active play in early childhood, so this is entirely on-point and appreciated.

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

@RDValerie Yes, observations are not judgments. People who "react" to simple observations have deeper issues. They react because they are being shown something real that they don't want to see or acknowledge. Each has their own reasons for avoiding reality.

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

There's a difference between being a victim and adopting a victim complex. You overcome being a victim anyway you can. You overcome a victim complex by choosing your thoughts carefully.

[Jim Grove @grovecoach]

If you've ever wondered whether Western culture might be fundamentally toxic, this is the book for you. Trauma features in all our lives from childhood, only to greater and lesser degrees. As a culture, we need to turn it around. #earlyyears #trauma #PTSD #ADHD