3 REASONS FOR DESTRUCTIVE LIFESTYLES: ENEMIES OF THE LEOPARD'S CODE (Part 2)

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      The next step is to embark on a fast. Since all abused substances are chemically wired into the user's bio-system, the natural purification method has to do with flushing. The individual must embark on a 15 days’ water-fast. In other words, the individual must not eat any food for 15 days but must drink lots and lots of water daily. At least 20 - 25 cups of water must be consumed daily. Depending on how long the body has been contaminated and abused; purification will usually take between 7 – 10 days.  The fact of nature is that any form of change is resisted. The body will protest vehemently to the process of detoxification and the removal of poisons from it. There will be withdrawal symptoms in the form of pain and feelings of sickness. This is where common sense and discipline must rule. By the tenth day, all that would have disappeared and the rest will be the sweeping up of the dregs.

       On the sixteenth day, the fast is broken with raw fresh fruits and raw fresh vegetables. The second stage of the operation must now start. From the 16th to the 30th day the process of recharging the body must now commence. During this period, you eat lots and lots of raw fresh fruits, raw fresh vegetables, and water, only. No animal products. No grains. No cooked or, processed food. No type of drink except ordinary water. On the thirty-first day, normal eating and drinking can be resumed. However, it is hoped that the individual will have enough sense not to revert to old habits and not be a masochistic a**hole !!
       In the case of obesity, the same approach is used with some modifications. Depending on the severity of the obesity case, the thirty-day programme mentioned above may or, may not be first implemented. If the individual is really obese then the programme above must be carried out. However, if it’s just a case of being moderately overweight or, just out of shape then the above programme should be skipped.
        Now, let’s look at the Feast-Fast method. This is for people who are moderately overweight or, just out of shape. If you are really obese you must do the 30-day detox programme first before continuing with the Feast-Fast method lifestyle. The Feast-Fast method is really simple and it works like this: You can eat and drink anything you like from sunrise to sunset on the day you are starting. You stop eating after sunset and fast on water throughout the next day. You break the fast with fruits, and, or, raw vegetables on the morning of the third day. It is very simple. You eat whatever you like on one day and nothing the next day. You make sure that you're hydrated all the time. You should drink like 16 cups of water or more daily.

Simple, average, everyday consistent action will always produce better results than super-aggressive, high-energy inconsistent action. -Ayo Sodipo

        At first, depending on the level of your lack of fitness your system will revolt. You will feel weak, nauseous, have headaches, etc. These are all withdrawal symptoms. Make sure that you are drinking lots and lots of water all the time, and engage yourself in activities that will take your mind off food and your body. The withdrawal symptoms will soon disappear, and within 45-60 days you will notice and experience vigour, virility, and wellness flooding your being. Make this your permanent lifestyle and you will understand how a person can enjoy every second of life without experiencing "debilitating old age". This routine even produces better results if you can add a disciplined regimen of resistance/weight + aerobics training to it. The best strategy with this is to start with a very, very small training target; and then increase the intensity as time goes on. You always get better results in life with consistency than aggressive spurts. Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? Simple, average, everyday consistent action will always produce better results than super-aggressive, high-energy inconsistent action. However, the best physical exercise is the one designed by the body by nature - walking.

 Believe me - There's nothing more delicious than having a sharp 65year-old mind and a fit 35year-old body!! - Ayo Sodipo

        

Thus, you feast half the time, and, you fast half the time. This programme is no secret.    

         And, it has never been a secret! It has been known and practiced since pre-history! It was one of the "power blocks" of the military-religious aristocracy of antiquity. And, it is still practiced by the "top-ranking" today. I'll tell you this - What hurts and frustrates most people is that by the time they get to their fortieth birthday and are just getting wise enough to figure "what it's all about", their bodies begin to fall to pieces. Believe me - There's nothing more delicious than having a sharp 65year-old mind and a fit 35year-old body!!

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3 REASONS FOR DESTRUCTIVE LIFESTYLES: ENEMIES OF THE LEOPARD'S CODE

It is strange that despite all the information and advances we have in medicine, health care, and whole-some living, most people in the world are still grappling with trying to have a healthy body. This problem can be traced to a number of reasons. First, big government. Second, big business. And, third, the shrinking society. Each of these reasons impacts negatively on our lifestyle choices and, makes it more difficult to live according to the Leopard's Code. However, we must realize that each of these reasons acts separately and together.   

      First, is the issue of big government. Depending on which part of the world you live in, will determine how much influence government has on your life. If you live in the developed parts of the world like Western Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan; you’ll find that government is highly efficient and highly pervasive. Governments in these parts of the world are successfully fulfilling their obligations of providing top-quality social goods and services for their citizens. The pole positions these countries occupy in the global economic system means that they decide the economic fate of the rest of the world. Consequently, their societies are awash with cash. Although some people may want to dispute this, it is a verifiable economic fact that 75% of the world's population lives on less than a dollar a day. Being poor in Britain, U.S.A and Japan is totally different from being poor in Sudan, Bangladesh, and Haiti. In the former, you are poor but still human. In the latter, your poverty gives you the quality of life of a sewer rat. That is why economic migrants are flooding the developed world daily. These 3rd World chaps know that no matter what happens, where they are going will always be better than where they are coming from.

It is strange that despite all the information and advances we have in medicine, health care, and whole-some living, most people in the world are still grappling with trying to have a healthy body. - Ayo Sodipo

       Therefore, because these societies are awash with cash there's a lot of food and money to indulge in vices. In fact, there's verifiable evidence that the developed countries produce enough food yearly in an amount that can feed the globe five times over. Food is being thrown at people from every angle. There's is so much food available that dieting is an industry that rakes in billions of dollars annually for its businesses. According to alliedmarketresearch.com the weight loss and weight management diet market size was valued at 192.2 billion American dollars in 2019 and is projected to reach 295.3 billion American dollars by 2027. The developed world is effectively feeding their societies to death. The abundance of so much food makes healthy eating an uphill task.

      The second reason militating against healthy lifestyle choices is big business. Big business means big advertising and advertisements. Big advertisements mean big persuasions. You are just persuaded to eat, eat, eat and eat. Although the food industry does not have the exposure of the tech industry or, the glamour of the garment industry, it is colossal in assets and politically very, very influential. Thus, government policy will always be in favour of you eating more, more and more.  

      The third issue militating against healthy lifestyle choices is the shrinking society. Please don't get me wrong, I don't mean that the population is shrinking. I mean that organic human interaction is reducing at an alarming rate. One of the top ten enemies society has right now is loneliness. People are having less and less quality time with other human beings. So people sit in front of their TVs and eat, eat and eat!
        Obesity is the result of all these issues. Obesity can be traced to all sorts of internal organs failure, limb, and joint malfunction, and myriad debilitating ailments. We should consciously avoid choices that we know are destroying our lives. Death is easy, it is the end, but, suffering is difficult. One should not consciously put him/herself through the hell of poor health.
       How do we naturally get back to good health after we've messed up through bad lifestyle choices? The answer is common-sense and discipline. The vices of substance abuse and obesity are the result of continuing degeneration and regression of organic social interaction but, the cure has to be carried out individually. Nobody will help you get a better quality of life except yourself. Your personal health is your business and its attainment is in your hands. Now let's look at the issue of substance abuse first.           

 The very first step to be taken is that you must remove yourself from social situations that encourage the vice. This is very important. If you don't do this, the possibility of you ditching the vice (especially if it's hard drugs) is very slim. I'm not saying that it's impossible. I'm saying that it will be difficult. This is because most vices as habits are socially hard-wired. For example, if you are a cigarette smoker, the probability is very high that your circle of friends are also all smokers. Thus, you must first remove yourself from social situations that encourage it. As of necessity, you may have to change your social circle. The easiest way to do this is by embracing religion. This has nothing to do with fanaticism. Religion, anyone will do, and I hope you have enough common sense to distinguish between a religion and a cult lest you go from the frying pan into the fire. In this case, religion is used as an instrument of social circle replacement. The fact is that most religious circles find any form of substance abuse anathema and, are sympathetic and supportive of anybody who is trying to liberate themselves from that kind of bondage. You'll use this to acquire a new social circle and believe me, you'll not miss the old one

Physical Fitness For Life: The Leopard’s Code

Grace and Power!!!

Leopards (these are spotted panthers indigenous to Africa) are considered to be mythical creatures. This belief holds true among the indigenous tribes of Africa and South America. The reason is not farfetched. The panther is the picture of physical grace, power, and ageless beauty. In fact, among the Yoruba, an ancient and wise people inhabiting the South Western parts of Nigeria and, can be found in parts of Benin and Togo, the leopard is a symbol of fearlessness, power, and agelessness. There's a saying among the Yoruba which originated from their hunters, which loosely translated means - "you cannot stumble on the carcass of a dead leopard while wandering through the jungle". Now, what does this really mean? The meaning is esoteric. It is the view of a creature that reaches the prime of physicality at young adulthood and retains it until it breathes its last in death. In other words, it is a creature that does not experience the degeneration of old age. This is the "Leopard’s Code"     

   The scientific accuracy and verification of this claim are unimportant, what is important is the principle at work here. The principle of a physically active and productive life without the degeneration and indignity of what is known as "old age". It is an active belief that a creature’s lifespan is genetically coded into its being. Therefore, when its lifespan runs out, it simply dies! Relating this to a human being, it means that one can live a physically active life through one's lifespan without experiencing the indignity of becoming a doddering vegetable before dying!

    The fact remains that, among the Yoruba, thousands of examples of this type of panoramic health existed before the destructive encroachment of modernity. Even in this day and age, we still have examples dotting the landscape here and there. I have seen octogenarians and nonagenarians taking women in their early twenties as wives and are still physically able to do what they were "doing" when they were twenty-five. This is the Leopard’s Code - "To live every single second actively! And then die!!!" Not to waste part of one's precious life as a doddering vegetable!

"They see their bodies for exactly what it is - a superbly engineered, fine-tuned, high-performance bio-machine that houses their essence" - Ayo Sodipo

        In the western world, this kind of panoramic health has been witnessed over and over throughout the ages. Some have attributed it to some mysterious elixirs, magic, mutant genes, or membership of certain esoteric cults, etc. What nobody likes to hear is that these few consciously disciplined individuals have simply been observing and working with natural law. They see their bodies for exactly what it is - a superbly engineered, fine-tuned, high-performance bio-machine that houses their essence. Thus, they don't do things that can destroy it. At least not consciously. They know that like every machine, it has an expiry date. They also know that like every machine, if it is well maintained it serves its owner well throughout its manufacturer's designated lifespan. This is an observable fact.

      I have always been mystified by how a person can take loving and infinite care of their car, motorbike, golf clubs, dog, etc.; and yet be a smoker?! How can you be loving and caring to inanimate objects and lesser creations and be careless and hateful to yourself?! True believers, before you can love anybody or anything you must first love yourself. Intelligent people don't destroy themselves.

        The leopard's code is being observed daily by a few people all over the world. These are men and women in their 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s; but who have the highly functional and fine-tuned bodies of people in their mid-20s to mid-30s

             

A classic example of discipline and self-esteem!!!

Wonder woman!!

The pictures are those of Ernestine Shepherd and were taken when she was 74 years old in 2010. According to the Guinness Book of Records in 2010 and 2011, she was then the oldest competing female bodybuilder in the world. Ernestine started taking care of her body when she was 56. According to her, she could do everything she was doing at 30. I believe her completely!! Now, that's what I call a cougar!!! 
   

Classic self-preservation!!!

The picture above is that of the late Jim Morris, bodybuilder, and former bodyguard to rock star Elton John. The pictures above show his body at different ages. Notice that there's very little difference between how he looked at 25 and how he looked at 77!!! This is the Leopard's Code taken to its zenith. This elderly (not old) gentleman surely enjoyed life to the last seconds of his physical existence on this plane. This is because he has maintained himself for a lifetime.
       It’s very easy to start giving excuses that it’s too late because of advanced age and ill-health but, these are just what they are -  Excuses!! Take the example of the elderly gentleman that has his picture shown below - 

It’s never too late!!!

The late Mr. Ray Moon of Australia took this picture when he was in his 80s. At 75 years of age, Mr. Moon has had polio, open-heart surgery, suffered a cardiac arrest, and was once pronounced clinically dead. He has had a pacemaker fitted, has suffered a twisted bowel, two minor strokes, a hernia, and prostate problems. As you can see, Mr. Moon was an old man having the normal problems of old men. However, at 75, Mr. Moon got tired of being an old man and hit the gym. The result is what you see above. He now has a better quality of life and is happy about it!

       As we can see, the earlier one starts taking care of his/her body the better. Mr. Morris started in his early 20s and today looks better than most 30 years old people. Mrs. Shepherd started when she was 56 and looks like a delicious 40. And, Mr. Moon started at 75 and can pass for well preserved 60 years old. Therefore, it doesn’t matter when you start. Take care of your body, and your body will take care of you!!