Gluten sensitivity test

[inavalan]

This is so cool!

(The Independent) Cetojevic told Djokovic to stretch out his right arm while placing his left hand on his stomach. The doctor then pushed down on Djokovic's right arm and told him to resist the pressure. The strength Djokovic would feel in holding firm, the doctor said, was exactly what he should experience.

Next Cetojevic gave Djokovic a slice of bread. He told the bemused player not to eat it but to hold it against his stomach with his left hand while he again pushed down on his outstretched right arm. To Djokovic's astonishment, the arm felt appreciably weaker.

It was what Cetojevic had expected. His crude test had been to discover whether Djokovic was sensitive to gluten, a protein found in wheat and other bread grains. Looking back, it was the moment when Djokovic discovered why he had suffered so many mid-match collapses in his career – and the starting point for a lifestyle change which led to his becoming world No 1 just 12 months later.

[Deb]

This is a drive-by post, lol. Currently living life at the speed of sound and trying to keep up. 

This to me is a perfect example of beliefs at work. Djokovic believed he had a gluten sensitivity that affected his life. He expected the test results, expected the improvements he got when changing his lifestyle. Placebo effect of diet rather than medicine.

We could save ourselves so much time and effort if we all accepted how belief and expectation mold our circumstances. But that's why we're all still HERE.

[Michael Sternbach]

This is a drive-by post, lol. Currently living life at the speed of sound and trying to keep up. 

This to me is a perfect example of beliefs at work. Djokovic believed he had a gluten sensitivity that affected his life. He expected the test results, expected the improvements he got when changing his lifestyle. Placebo effect of diet rather than medicine.

We could save ourselves so much time and effort if we all accepted how belief and expectation mold our circumstances. But that's why we're all still HERE. ;

Hi Deb,

I agree with you overall. While food allergies are real (and should be dealt with according to one's beliefs), they too exist in parallel with, and reflect, the contents of one's psyche.

While nutrition plays a role, there is more than that to one's health condition, to be sure... So much more!

[inavalan]

The Djokovic story could be used to exemplify the multi-level approach in dealing with reality.

Djokovic experiences unexpected match losses.

1. He could draw the conclusion that he isn't prepared enough, so he needs to train more.

2. A next level, would be to realize that he unexpectedly gets weak in some matches, so he needs to workout to improve his physical conditioning.

3. A next level: he could be consulting a medical doctor, that could give him some legal medicines and supplements, and make other lifestyle recommendations.

4. Further, he could consult a specialist that identifies his allergy to gluten, and recommend specific dietary changes.

5. Eventually he could consult and engage a psychoanalyst to find out the psychic cause of his situation.

6. And if he somehow ends up consulting a non-conventional healer he might discover the belief that made him not win matches, and fix it.

Djokovic seems to have gotten up to #4. All seemed well, and the crowd labeled him as weird, exaggerated.

Still he couldn't keep winning because the covid happened. He couldn't play and win in the Australian Open because of violating a quarantine mandate, and faced the opprobrium of the pro-vax herd.

Then he couldn't play and win in the US Open because he wasn't vaxed, and he was denied US entry.

All this is because he actually, seemingly, didn't find the limiting belief that prevented him from wining. I don't know what that might be, but as long he doesn't identify it, his reality will be impacted, and all kind of obstacles will prevent him from winning as much as his skills of tennis player would allow him.

[inavalan]

Regarding the bread-on-tummy trick ... That actually makes more sense than most people think.

Psychic Feeling is most closely intertwined with our physical being. Its Psychic Reception Area is at the front of the body, extending from the top of the diaphragm to just below the navel. This area, often called the solar plexus, is the site of many nerve junctions. The extrasensory impressions received here are, quite literally, "gut" feelings. They are often accompanied by uneasy physical sensations ranging from vague discomfort to actual nausea or even abdominal pain.

[inavalan]

I had some success with telepathically connecting another's personality (without his knowledge), and regressing it to find the cause of his migraines.

Identified the event and belief that caused the first migraine (a specific fear for survival 20+ years ago, and the resulting anger). Confirmed it for the current migraines. Gave telepathic suggestions to suspend / replace that unfounded belief. This rapidly alleviated the current migraine, and he had no other migraines for more than two weeks. Then migraines gradually returned, intensified and reached the same rhythmicity as before my (non-consensual) intervention.

I tried to approach the person with the idea of self-healing through self-hypnosis, but I was strongly rebuffed, so I didn't confess my intrusion. At another time I tried again the telepathic intervention, half-heartedly, with a similarly positive result; then I let it be.


The discussion about Djokovic made me wonder about the cause of his gluten allergy, so I gave it a try.

Surely, I may be way off, but my finding is that in his early youth, before teenage, while he started playing and showed great promise, somebody very close, closer than a coach, with the best intentions, tried to build in the little Novak a warrior / winner spirit, and pushed him to want not only to win, but to "destroy" his opponent on court. When the little boy didn't do that, he was told he was weak, so that eventually he became afraid he might be weak on court.

I think that these were the events and the belief that manifested as the condition later identified as gluten allergy, and that later manifested in other ways too, preventing Djokovic from winning even more than he did and does. I believe that if he understood this, he could free him self of the unconscious fear of being weak, and he would unleash all his talent and win much more.

This seems to somehow be related to "humility", but not the way that is usually understood the term, but more as acceptance that not destroying his opponent on court isn't weakness, that greatness can occasionally experience flaws, undiminished. In this sense, "humility" might be Djokovic's life lesson, and not realizing it would be detrimental to his personality to some degree.

Obviously, I will never know if any of this has any conformity to reality.