u/Jiangximan

I imagine these days the routes would be sent electronically to a phone or tablet. It is my understanding they provide the electronics. Pay in the job ad starts at $20hr. Questions are below:

1. Is it really $20hr or is it piecework that might reach $20hr in perfect conditions?

2. If it is true hourly, does it start when you leave your house, and end when you get home, or does it start at your first locate, and end at your last locate?

3. Do you have anything else helpful to add about working for USIC?

I mixed up some DMSO and castor oil probably at least 2 mths back. I stored it in a clear glass 6oz mason jar, so it was sealed but with a large airspace, and exposure to light. Is it still any good?

My 2022 KLX300 cranks but won't start. It does not even sputter like it is trying to start. It's been stored for a bit over a year with the same gas in it. I'd hate to drain it if that's not the problem. I've had yard equipment sit for over a year with the same gas and it starts right up. Any ideas?

I have 2 that were on dual sports that sat for awhile and the batteries discharged, and wouldn't charge back up. Charger has an AGM setting but after awhile on there the red "bad battery" light came on. The most recent one was at 8.8V before putting on the charger, and after about an hour and taking it off the charger it was at 11.4V. Is that normal when the battery is supposedly bad?

Update: Thanks everyone for your replies. A new battery has been ordered. I put the old battery back on the charger for another round and it is charging without the "bad battery" red light coming on, but like you guys said, it can no longer be trusted.

I get mild tendonitis from time to time, as I lift regularly at a gym. In this case it is my right inner elbow, on both sides but mostly the left side. I have enough experience with DMSO that I feel comfortable trying it out for this issue.

I'm using 99.995% pure applied to a clean cotton ball, then rubbed into the elbow areas where the inflammation is. I used it straight, as I want to judge the effect based on DMSO alone.

Update(16 hrs later): Tendonitis was greatly reduced after that single application. I did not notice much right after applying the DMSO, and then was out and about with people and not paying attention to it, but when I woke this morning, it was mostly gone. I will do another application later today.

I will update this post tomorrow or maybe this evening. In the meantime all questions are welcome, and tell me if you've healed your tendonitis with DMSO.

One thing interesting to me since starting The Sedona Method a few months ago is some physiological change. I'm sort of tuned to noticing that because I practice alt-health, eat alt-diet, and do strenuous exercise, all as hobbies interwoven into lifestyle. Here are some notable changes since starting with Sedona.

1. Gained almost 10 lbs with no noticeable fat gain. I wanted to gain muscle mass, but was not working any sort of plan for it, so as a desire it was kind of on the back burner. I don't recall if I ever released on it. The gain came on it's own without direct effort, though.

2. I've long been oversensitive to caffeine. I've been mixing decaf and regular together for years, and tried weaning completely off of caffeine, but to no avail. A few weeks ago my mix was 1 tsp reg with 3 tbs decaf(dry grounds per 8 oz cup), and a 2nd cup of that any time after noon would make me way over-hyper, and contribute to bad insomnia. Then one day that all changed, abruptly. I woke up one morning, feeling a bit extra groggy and I made the mix 1TBS:1 TBS, which is 3x more caffeine per cup. No hyperness, just normal alertness. a 2nd cup same strength around noon and still no overt hyperness. That's 6x my old dosage! Last 2 nights I experimented with a bit of caffeine around 4-5pm to counteract evening fatigue, and had no problems with insomnia.

3. Lots of stress must've been stored in muscles and joints. Over the last month or so I've noticed a great deal less pain and tightness, and often when bending or leaning in everyday activities there are light "pops" that seem to relieve a pain or two.

I find it interesting because I wasn't yet deliberately applying Sedona to physiological goals, and yet they've come along for the ride anyways. Has this been true for any of you?

Have any of you applied Letting Go for these things? I was thinking today about when I used to go bowling a lot. After around 3 games I should be warmed up, and should be doing better according to my own logic. What I think happened is as I got a bit fatigued, I got more ego trying to control outcome. That's creates the opposite of flow state. I happened to be playing disc golf when I thought of this, and tried it on a few throws and it think it has merit. I threw further and more accurately. What are your stories?

I came across Sedona while researching somatic release for some physical ailments. I had read some of Hawkins books, so the Sedona Method clicked with me, and I began practicing it.

I never formalized the practice so no, "sit down 2x per day for 20min minimum release sessions.", but I do tend to do a sit down session or 2 per day anyway, and carry mini-releasing over to various everyday activity. So what's changed?

I was going to try to make a bullet point list of all the improvements, as there are many, maybe too many to list, and they are all interwoven anyways. It's like night and day the differences internally. Nobody notices, as I had a strong ego all these years and it held everything in order. I am just calm in most situations now. I see everything through a different lense. Sometimes it is as if I am seeing things through my own eyes but at different ages. I can sort of see the differences in my own interpretations based on the age I am viewing from.

It's deep. I feel like I am in touch with my own soul much more so than I was over the last 40 years or more. Where are you in your journey?

I've been a member for about 7 years. I've had the black card membership the whole time. This may be my longest membership at any one gym system. I really have no complaints. I go to 3 locations depending on crowd level. The staff is always friendly and polite. Most gym goers are respectful. There are always a few buffoons, but I just go at off-peak times to avoid the crowds....fewer people, even fewer buffoons.

All 3 locations are clean, and I don't think my membership fee has ever gone up.

Well, it always goes internally via osmosis, but I mean taking orally. I used 1 tsp in about 8 oz water, on an empty stomach. There was a slight warming feeling in my stomach in the first 30 min. I did not get the characteristic smell, but my diet includes brassicas, onion, and garlic, so my senses could be dead to that. No one else notices, or at least doesn't mention it, lol. Other than that I did not notice any particular effects.

A friend who is Christian but not Catholic says he has been visited by his deceased girlfriend. I suspect it is a demon masquerading as the deceased girl. Am I correct?

If so what was the experience like? I have a chance to do a silent retreat at one that is 2 or 3 days.

I bought a house that has a stack of fiberglass 3 tab shingle bundles in the garage. They look to be leftover from when the garage was reroofed. They are probably 15-20 years old. There's probably 300-400 sq ft total. Can they still be used like new shingles? Garage is not heated or cooled but rarely gets over 85F in Summer.

Has anyone heard of this combination? Hyaluronic acid is already used in some eyecare products. There's talk of taking it internally to cure floaters. What about a combo of highly diluted DMSO with Hyaluronic acid as eyedrops, and maybe with some castor oil as well?

The purpose of this post is to show that Christians and Catholics in particular are safe following Hawkins methods. I think many Christians fall into the trap that if something is not overtly or singularly Christian, then it is new-age woo woo, or even demonic.

The Bible has many verses about dying to oneself to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. We now refer to that "self" as ego. The modern Church has mostly minimized actual methods of dying to the ego. What was once a true Lenten fast is now seen as merely abstaining from red meat one day per week.

Father Keating of the Catholic Church saw this issue and was studying The Desert Fathers who lived austerely years ago, and practiced meditation. He came up with Centering Prayer.

I have an excerpt below from one Keating's books that illustrates the similarity to Hawkins methods. Long story short, doing Hawkins method does not conflict with Christianity.

When to use it: Whenever you feel "unseated" by negative emotions (like anger or fear), physical pain, or even ego-driven highs (like the pride of winning an argument).

Step 1: Focus and Sink In Instead of getting lost in the story of why you are upset, move your attention entirely into your physical body. Scan your body: Notice where the emotion lives. Is your jaw tight? Is your breathing shallow? Is your chest heavy? Feel the raw sensation: Do not analyze, psychoanalyze, or justify the feeling. Simply sit with the raw physical sensation of the emotion.

Step 2: Welcome Counterintuitively, do not push the feeling away. Pushing it away gives it more energy. Instead, embrace it to create inner spaciousness. Name it lightly: Identify the sensation (not the situation). Welcome it: Gently say to yourself: "Welcome anger." "Welcome fear." "Welcome pain." Allow the feeling to be there without resistance. This physically shifts your nervous system from constriction to spaciousness.

Step 3: Let Go This is the final phase (the "coda"). Do not rush to this step until you have fully welcomed the sensation. Use this specific four-step litany to release the core subconscious programs driving the reaction. Repeat the following affirmations precisely: "I let go my desire for security and survival." "I let go my desire for power and control." "I let go my desire for esteem and affection." "I let go my desire to change the situation."

A Crucial Reminder for the Practice: The goal of this practice is not to fix the situation or to forcefully make yourself happy. The goal is to realize that even if this discomfort were to last forever, your core consciousness would be just fine. By letting go of the need to change the situation, you build true equanimity.

I learned meditation years before learning of Hawkins, and Sedona methods of letting go. I never got fully into meditation, but was at it long enough to learn I didn't have to pay attention to thoughts if I didn't want to.

My mind started to form a habit of inward popping up of a resounding , "No" to negative thoughts, and my mind would then switch to the present. If I engaged with the negative thought, only then would I get the negative emotions. I wonder if this is just avoidance. After all I didn't allow the thought to develop long enough to welcome the emotional energy, so never allowed it to dissipate completely. Could that be a form of resistance....just a burial of the thought/memory/feelings?

It seems like an optimal time when the intellect part of the mind is still a bit jumbled from sleep. I will be experimenting with it.

Can we rationally discuss this here? I don't know if reddit still calls everything but the authorized narrative "misinformation". Since this subred is an alt-health type I assume it is ok here, but they may be under reddit orders to remove it.

I resisted pressure to get the vaccine. I'm rebellious toward authority in general, but I think it served me well. My job was considered essential so I continued to work during the Covid years.

I am Christian and prayed about it and felt a nudging from The Holy Spirit to not take the vax, and moreover to not wear masks. There was no wrath in my area for shopping or working unmasked, but online I was branded a "Covid-carrier" and told I was "killing grannies".

I rarely get sick, and I don't think I ever caught covid, but I never got tested or treated for any respiratory illnesses anyways, so I will never know. In those days I didn't know anything about DMSO.

I am pleased that I avoided that vax, but saddened about people in my age group who took it. If they had a chronic but mild illness it became worse. Dementia came on and accelerated with one woman. Another started having continual problems with her blood. I never found out the details but would not be surprised if it is inordinate clotting. There are more. All of them just attribute their issues to "old age". Since when does old age strike suddenly?

What are your views, and stories about Covid, the vax, and DMSO in relation to it?

I believe in starting small with experiments. The dose was 0.5 ML pure DMSO(edited from 1ml to .5, because I remembered the dropper bottle was already 50/50 dmso and purified water and I took 1ml of that mix.) mixed in around 8oz filtered water, and I took it on an empty stomach, around 1/2 -1 hr ago.

I've read of people taking 1 tsp up to 3 tbs daily, but I started small to avoid any possibility of stomach upset.

I will update with any results I notice. Feel free to ask questions or give advice.

I know it goes internally through transdermal processes, but have you taken it orally? If so what were the results, and what way did you dose it? Do you consider it safe to take orally?