Well, apologies for being away.  Blame it on tech problems that remain unresolved. No phone or computer. That leaves cell phones. Which I avoid.  And friends. Whom I also avoid.

But time away from blogging is always good, because it reminds me how pleasant life away from  “instant access” can be.

The first benefit is the amount of time that seems to be freed up when you aren’t tied to the net.  Computers were supposed to make things faster and easier so we’d spend less time on communicating. instead, they made communication more time-consuming…. by raising the bar.  Staying in touch used to be a letter or post card every month. Now you’re a hermit if you haven’t called in a week. We want to reach out and touch someone, it seems, no matter where they are – driving, eating, sleeping, in the loo…

That seems to be the characteristic of a lot of technology. Or, perhaps it’s a characteristic of human beings. We’re prone to turn a good thing into a bad thing, no matter what.

The net, taken intravenously the way bloggers tend to, is calculated to overwhelm you with buzz, with noise.  You’re inundated daily with events that are either completely irrelevant to your life or of vital relevance…. but completely beyond your ability to affect in any way.

It’s like watching a train hurtling at a baby while you’re locked behind a glass window.

You’re inundated by second-by-second bad news getting badder, class-warfare out of Occupy Wall Street, legislation authorizing indefinite detentions without trial for practically everyone, incipient legislation to shut down the Internet, cheer-leading for all kinds of schemes to remake the system into something even more liable to being gamed, dreamed up mostly by people whom I wouldn’t trust to microwave a pop-tart.

The result for most of us is that we freeze. We give up.  Or we exhaust our nerves and vital energy.

I spent the last few days thinking about that and the fix for it. At least, a temporary fix. It’s quite a simple one and it boils down to this – narrow your focus.

Take your eyes off the big picture.

The big picture is the incessant drive by the elites of the Anglo-Zionist establishment to centralize, manage, and police the entire globe. I say, take your eyes off that picture and fix it on something you can do something about. Not permanently. But just for now. Intermittently. As a discipline.

The small picture I focused on was my desk. Yes, the long-suffering brown kitchen table where I usually work.

I forgot about the empire, Occupy Wall Street, Soros, hackers, the Line of Control, Neocons etc. etc. I took aim at my old receipts, my warranties, old letters, junk  mail, JC Penny deals, gala opening invitations, bank statements, unidentified metal objects, dust bunnies of venerable age , computer thingies that don’t fit anything, cables lurking in a Loch Nessian tangle in the bottom drawer of the cabinet.

And I won. Almost. A few sorties left. A skirmish or two. Then I will be on top of it all.

And I did something else. I began a new nutrition regime.  Specifically, cod-liver oil. It’s better emulsified, but I got a bottle of 100 good quality capsules for about eight bucks and I thought I’d start with that. I’m taking B-Complex and C along with it, because those always help with assimilation.  I cut back on the coffee (slipping for a few days recently), because you never want to drink coffee or tea while taking vitamins, as they don’t get absorbed.

Coincidentally, (or was it synchronistic?), Bill Sardi has a piece on this at Lew Rockwell today on what happens if you don’t get enough B1 – you get beri beri. He claims, plausibly, that because so many people drink tea or coffee today, this is fairly widespread. I believe him.  Here are some of the symptoms he says you should look out for:

• Difficulty walking
• Loss of feeling (sensation) in hands and feet
• Loss of muscle function or paralysis of the lower legs
• Mental confusion/speech difficulties
• Pain
• Uncontrolled side-to-side eye movements (nystagmus)
• Tingling
• Vomiting
• Increased heart rate
• Swelling of lower legs
• Neck veins that stick out
• Droopy eyelids
• Fatigue
• Irritability, moodiness, depression
• Loss of appetite
• Heartburn
• Abdominal pain
• Leg cramps
• Mental confusion
• Underactive thyroid
• Anxiety
• Oversensitivity to pain or noise
• Pain upon pressure to calves (classic early sign)
• Slow heart rate or fast heart rate
• Multiple sclerosis
• Diabetes
• Sleep disturbances
• Memory loss

That’s quite a list, and the good thing is, unlike the bad news, you can do something about it. Quite easily and quite fast.

And my third tip is simple too.  Yoga breathing.

You probably know how already. 5 seconds breathe in through the left nostril, 10 seconds hold with nostrils pinched shut, 5 seconds out through the right nostril. Do that whenever you have a minute, when you’re waiting for someone to pick up, at a traffic stop, or while the hot water is boiling.

That’s it. Clean your work space; take fish oil regularly (with Vitamin B); take deep breaths.

Try that for a week. And then get back to worrying about the globalists. You’ll do it much better.