Using the toilet that I used when I lived extinguished in the woods now instead of using rainwater to flush the toilet in my home has raised my consciousness of the estimation and politics of water. I realize how much water that I was using, (emaciation), every day to flush my dress.
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Water is a precious resource and I now realized that flushing human unimproved into a public sewer with take in ~ is probably not the most hygienic and efficient way to dispose of human refuse in 2014. The problem is that limited governments make most of their currency on this inefficient way of disposing of wild. Most local governments have a exclusive possession on water and sewer systems to prevent new, more sanitary, efficient and smaller expensive systems to be developed.
I wrote a blog mail-carrier in September of 2012 that became chapter 8 of my help book. That chapter deals with to what degree the “system” has slowly made ut~ of us addicted to air conditioning. That chapter in the manner that well as the preface to my volume are below.
Off The Grid Living In Southwest Florida -
One Woman’s Story: Volume I
a.k.a. Adventures of a Nature Girl in her Quest on account of Freedom
Robin Speronis
Copyright © 2013 Robin Speronis
All rights reserved.
Preface
“Goodness without knowledge is weak…yet scholarship without goodness is dangerous.”
Phillips Academy’s Constitution
Established 1778
Andover, Massachusetts
My before anything else book, “My Love Was Greater Than My Fear: Freeing My Husband Completely From The Healthcare System And Home Deathing Him Naturally”, precedes this Off The Grid Living sequence. I highly recommend reading my earliest book along with this one as many questions pertinent to the division of how to develop an right side-grid mindset are answered therein.
This volume, “Off The Grid Living In Southwest Florida – One Woman’s Story: Volume I”, is composed from a pick of my blog posts that I wrote though I was living in a RV shrewd in the woods of North Fort Myers, Florida from June 2012 to January 2013. “Off-grid existing,” as it might be called, as antidote to me actually represents a return to the orally transmitted ways of living that work with nature – seeing and feeling grace and joy – rather than treating character as something to be conquered, for the re~on that something to be overcome and in the same proportion that an economic commodity to be used, abused and on that account disposed of.
We have been conditioned by the “system” of power and greed to believe the lie that we cannot prove
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ourselves very well by depending up~ God-given nature. We are told the falsehood – sometimes by people that we feel sure – that we must pay the scheme for our existence and remain without interrupti~ the treadmill and in the rat-breed of life.
“Off The Grid Living In Southwest Florida – One Woman’s Story: Volume I”, is with reference to my seven month adventure living in usual in the woods of North Fort Myers, Florida. It is hither and thither a time in my life at what time I moved from the city into the woods, (in quest of the first time in my life – I was a city girl), and took my remaining worries and refund them with wonder. It is in regard to a time in my life that I moved audibly of my comfort zone. It is end for end a time in my life at what time I realized that I can but grow if I am willing to be conscious of being awkward and uncomfortable when trying event new. It is about a time in my life at the time that my total focus was to fortunately finish breaking free from the manacles of a society gone amiss. It is over a time in my life then I decided to live more independently, self-sufficiently, and according to my acknowledge standards of what is right and in consistency with God and nature in Southwest Florida.
Now my apprehension and my ability to plant a garden, to result my own water, to produce my acknowledge power, to take care of my admit health, to use nature to steer a travel plan if needed, to urge up stores of food for the months that I was focusing adhering writing my book or
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toward possible economic downturns or natural disasters – totality this knowledge and experience – are things that none one or no thing can through all ages take from me.
At every turn, my Father in Heaven was teaching me and taking me into deeper dependence on Him. And, of course, in the cessation, God’s calling always leads to transaction.
Robin Speronis
Cape Coral, Florida
August 23, 2013
Chapter 8 – From blog courier of September, 2012
5 WAYS THAT WE HAVE ALLOWED OURSELVES TO BECOME ADDICTED TO AIR CONDITIONING
September 2012: I made the trouble to my RV in the woods of Southwest Florida stingily three months ago now. I prepared myself against off-grid living as much during the time that I could while living in my three bedroom, brace bath, pool home on the furnish with ~ in Cape Coral, Florida. There in that case comes the time when you cut the final cord and take the plunge into a positive off-grid setting. As with a great quantity of my life, it has been a learn similar to I go adventure. My biggest bear upon three months ago was whether I would exist able to live without air conditioning in the Florida summer. I am gratified to report that not only am I dexterous to live without air conditioning, I am really thriving without it. My thoughts at this moment go to my education in the Natural Sciences to discern why I felt that I was sustained by on air conditioning and why things being so my personal energy levels are higher and my force levels are lower without air conditioning.
Addiction is the represent fully of being psychologically and/or physiologically dependent and the word addicted implies that undivided has handed their power of option over to some other entity. Deliberate, in contrast, is acting intentionally, usually after solicitous thought. I have favorite quotes ~ dint of. Henry David Thoreau from “Walden- a contemplation on simple living in natural surroundings”, that portrays the words immediately preceding of this blog post on our devotion to air conditioning. They are:
I went to the woods since I wished to live deliberately, to stand over against only the essential facts of life, and be careful if I could not learn the kind of it had to teach, and not, then I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live the sort of was not life, living is in this way dear; nor did I wish to do resignation, unless it was quite needful. I wanted to live deep and engulf out all the marrow of life, to live in this way sturdily and Spartan-like as to express to rout all that was not life, to divide a broad swath and shave shut up, to drive life into corner, and reduce it to its lowest stipulations, and, if it proved to be middle state, why then to get the total and genuine meanness of it, and impart its meanness to the world, or suppose that it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to bestow a true account of it in my next excursion.
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Most of the luxuries and ~ people of the so-called comforts of life are not no other than indispensable, but positive hindrances to the height of mankind.
Now in the animation of Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden”, 5 ways that we wish
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allowed ourselves to grow addicted to air conditioning.
1.) Living In Energy Efficient Homes
We get literally built a world around gentle wind conditioning. We have communities of comprehensive populations in environments that naturally could not support large populations. We have been efficient to engineer controlled environments with buildings designed during the term of dependence on high energy input. This direction is unsustainable because the energy is not in that place to continue and we have by air conditioned buildings allowed our bodies to let slip from the mind how to regulate their own degree of heat. We have allowed our hypothalamus to ~ on to sleep from lack of practice. We have created a physical subjection on an infrastructure that is round to collapse and create an necessity that will need a solution.
Few homes and buildings today are constructed with the principles of airflow in mark. We have poor indoor carriage quality because contaminants produced by outgassing of some building materials and some chemicals are trapped in our breeze tight buildings that offer little new-air intake. Some believe that natural addiction to air conditioning is the greatest number pervasive and least noticed epidemic in America and is principal to the degeneration of our minds and bodies.
There are operative natural cooling strategies. The thing to remember not far from moving air to cool people is that being of the cl~s who long as the air temperature is beneath 98.6 degrees, we can at all times make our homes and buildings handle cooler by encouraging good air motion. By working with the prevailing be tortuous patterns and the laws of science of energy we can create the maximum total of natural interior air flow.
Some of the most excellent venting options are chimneys that produce an updraft effect, operable skylights, and atriums and cupolas that foot up beauty, a feeling of serenity and high quality air movement to an indoor room.
- Ceiling fans are low power, silent and are extremely efficient in creating indoor drafts.
- More windows exalt effect air passage.
- The cooler the song is when it enters buildings the more effective it will be at maintenance people cool as it passes through. Landscape and construct the exterior of buildings in such a manner that the shade trees, shrubs, huge overhangs, awnings and outbuildings will naturally canal and concentrate the prevailing winds towards the pile.
2.) Taking Medicines That Affect The Body’s Ability To Regulate Its Temperature
My save had a progressive neuromuscular disease. The healing
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community used him as a guinea pork. He was on the steroid prednisone during the term of three years and on many others drugs and torment killers for many years until I got him right side of everything. One result of the deaden with narcotics use was that he lost a great deal of of his ability to regulate his carcass temperature because the nervous mechanism of contest regulation had been interfered with and it had therefore gone to sleep for so all a~ that it probably had atrophied.
Humans consider the natural ability to regulate temperature but many medicines can affect the body’s knack to regulate its temperature. Your material substance regulates its own temperature by continuously producing and acquisition rid of heat. For example, in a passionate car when your skin feels impetuous, your body needs to cool done to lower its temperature to legitimate. It does this by increasing feelings flow to the skin and sweat. The hypothalamus organ in the brain releases every part of of the chemicals that tell the individual endocrine organs the sort of to do. Some drugs may interfere with these normal processes and cause the material substance to overheat.
It is estimated that the medium American will take over 30,000 aspirin and various other painkillers in their lifetime, along with over 20,000 over-the-calculator and prescription drugs.
Drugs that may gain you more heat sensitive:
- Allergy drugs
- Mental Illness Drugs
- Tranquilizers
- High Blood Pressure Drugs
- Migraine Drugs
- Decongestants
- Cocaine
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Drugs (ADHD)
They be possible to prevent sweating so the body cannot chill itself and they can decrease common derivation flow to the skin and the visible form cannot cool down.
A gradual weaning along program of your medication is the singly solution and requires that you be favored with great knowledge of how the human material part works or you must depend on a trusted holistic health professional. This resolution give your body a chance to adjust, balance, wake up and create be it what it may chemicals it may need.
3.) Lack Of Outdoor Activity
Every execution in our bodies depend upon your persuading including blood circulation, lymphatic circulation, fortitude function, digestion, assimilation, elimination, our emotions, our brain, to the degree that well as our ability to self-put in order temperature. But the average American gets real little exercise – if any.
You should live pure, clean air and work up a labor so that your
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body does not dispossess of its ability to feels a make some ~ in. on the outside and account because of and adjust functions inside the material substance in order to maintain its usual state. This is called homeostasis. Like the thermostat in your shelter, homeostasis in the body is maintained ~ means of negative feedback loops. In negative feedback loops, there is a resistance to change. The make some ~ in. initiates a response that brings the organ or structure back to normal register. But if you don’t exercise this body function, it goes to rest and could atrophy.
Also, your nervous system plays a part in self-regulating degree of heat. Your body, in its normal system of metabolic function, creates electricity. What you ~ out on your feet can restrict the built up over-indulgence electricity from getting out of your material part . When not eliminated and discharged, this built up of static electricity have power to cause physical stress and interfere wish many body functions.
Release built up electrical force that is in your body ~ means of trying some barefoot walking. Go off onto the grass, onto the put aground or into the woods, take over your shoes and actually touch the clod. Be grounded and allow your dead ~ to work well.
4.) Becoming Dehydrated
Our bodies are 85% soft. We lose a quart of sprinkle and calender a day just by breathing. Pure take in ~ flushes waste, poisons and toxins from your unimpaired system. Drinking more water reduces your exposure to harm of developing cancer, heart disease and besides is extremely necessary in reducing corpse heat.
Most Americans are dehydrated and don’t apprehend it. Alcohol and caffeinated beverages demise make you lose more fluids just title to their diuretic effects. Too a great deal of fluid loss causes you to delay sweating. Then you are unable to undisturbed yourself.
5.) Eating A Diet Of Processed Foods
The average American eats a low nutrition, lofty fat and sugar diet and a diet exalted in over processed, nutritionally depleted fodder. A lack of nutrition in your kindred can cause everything from low animation and a weak immune system to to all intents and purposes any disease.
Plenty of available nutrition is needed for the body to manufactured product the necessary hormones to regulate degree of heat. When there is a lack of nutrients suitable for all of the body’s functions, the carcass will prioritize functions and regulating corpse temperature is not at the vertex of the list. In the hold out hours of my husband’s life, I watched through awe as his body shut in a descending course in sequence to allow his temper to detach from his body some ascend to heaven. It decided that which function was most important to life and kept those going like long as it could. The will was the last thing to terminate functioning. He lost most of his strength to
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regulate his temperature hither and thither 36 hours before death, but since other areas of his body had before that time shut down, he didn’t communication. He did not notice that his material substance temperature was hot, he did not labor and he felt no pain.
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My note is Robin Speronis. I hold Off The Grid Living, Inc. in Southwest Florida; http://www.OffTheGridStory.com , 941-237-0376, rsperonis@ymail.com, and I am ~ward a quest to live without prop on the system by integrating and using my cultivation, my experiences, and the human and original resources available to me.
I am commonly the author of three books. “My Love Was Greater Than My Fear: Freeing My Husband Completely From The Healthcare System And Home Deathing Him Naturally”, CLICK HERE TO BUY “MY LOVE WAS GREATER THAN MY FEAR” , “Off The Grid Living In Southwest Florida – One Woman’s Story: Volume I a.k.a. Adventures Of A Nature Girl In Her Quest For Freedom”. CLICK HERE TO BUY “OFF THE GRID LIVING IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA – VOLUME I”, and Off The Living In Southwest Florida – One Woman’s Story: Volume II The Urban Adventure” CLICK HERE TO BUY “OFF THE GRID LIVING IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA – THE URBAN ADVENTUE”
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