Building Traffic

I think traffic is like the brain the more you use certain connections the more they grow. That's why mantras and visualisations work; they expand your neural network in the highest positive direction possible. Building traffic on this or any site means making positive connections that are of the most value to all of us, myself included.

Reaching a wider audience/building site traffic
If you want to reach a wider audience the cyber gurus say:- have useful content, use keywords that would reflect the words people use in search engines and what the bots read, join search engines and blog carnivals. I'm not a cyber guru but I didn't want to disapoint by this article not having the goods it says it does. If you want even more 'goods' read on...


Learning to be Happy
I'm beginning to understand why stories of miraculous events and inspiring peopl have always had such an impact on me. They epitomise the highest degrees of joy, health, awareness, compassion and love, that we as human beings can aspire to feel. They practised the feelings they wished to feel - which makes sense doesn't it, especially in the light of how we are beginning to understand how the nervous system and mind work.

I want to emphasize that like learning to ride a bike we can learn to be happier and have a positive impact. The most important ingredient is persistence supported by gentleness. Be determined, especially to overcome any obstacles that might appear; but be gentle on yourself and extend that gentleness to others. Our own ignorance is always so deserving of compassion, especially as all of us try so hard within the limitations of our awareness.

I want this site to reflect the methods I have learned and used that have helped me to heal and deflect negative thinking. I want to share all of the positive ways I create and maintain my health. In writing this I'm endeavouring to inspire myself to meet my own goals and I hope watching me achieve them you'll be inspired to reach out and make some of your own dreams come true.

Help me to build traffic by putting a link (http://viewsfrommytent.blogspot.com/) on your own site and generate more and more positive connections. I want people to know that just by visiting this site you're contributing positive energy. Firstly because the more of us out there having a Positive Impact the less suffering there is in this world, and secondly to me, (by leaving a comment or sending me a message I know how this is working) .

Every article I write is a connection. I have carefully thought about the connexions between my lifestyle and many problems in the world; problems like starving refugees in Africa. Problems that are in part due to my lifestyle - because my driving has been a component in 'global dimming' which has forced the annual rains away from the Sahel and resulted in the famine in Darfur and nearby regions. I don't take this lightly.

I know that in our hearts we all feel the connection, we all hurt when someone else is hurting, even if we don't vocalise it to ourselves. Happy people make us happy. So in every article there is a way not just of reducing your contribution to world problems like nuclear waste, landfill, homelessness but ways that will increase the solutions, and they're out there. We are surrounded by solutions but a lot of us just don't know about them - or they seem too complicated.

I think a lot of us are scared we'll have to move out of our convenience rut to take loads of bottles to the recycling bank or something. It's not very inspiring being green. But what if knowing what your body needs from you; undestanding that you are your community and recognising that your home is an ecosystem; then has a visible equation in real life. You are able to turn your bills into income; your outgoings become paypackets; your meals become positivity feasts, your home becomes an energy producer - not an energy waster.

You begin with small changes; you change your mind set, you think more positively - you begin to nourish your soul. Maybe you turn off the news and watch something that makes you laugh instead.

Once the little things are there; once you've done your first weeks exercise, it gets a little easier. Maybe you can consider the cost benefits of making your home self-sufficient in energy and resources and you are able to see the realism of making these choices.

I don't want to waste time marketing myself when I can be showing you how easy this is. How putting a solar water heater in is easy, my grandmother could do it and once it's done you don't have to pay for the electricity to heat the boiler; from March to November you have completely free hot water wherever you are AND you're not piling up plutonium for 5000yrs in a corner of your backyad just so you can have a power shower.

So in the next few weeks I'll share with you the EASY way to build a solar water heater or if you want to know now in a crudely simplified version you get a tank join it to two old radiators painted black, the hot water rises by thermosyphon (hot water is lighter than cold water) into the tank and then you can have a shower, or wash up or whatever. We're going to be building one here so I'm just waiting for us to get started on that and you can learn from doing it with me.

That's one connection I like.

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Be Your Healthiest You

It's strange sometimes we have to go through a lot of unwellness or suffering before we figure wellness as an option. We're very ready to be below par and put up with problems like headaches or sniffles; we don't think of normal as 'healthy' but that's what it should be. Our 'normal' should be spark full of energy as we were as kids. But we intoxicate ourselves and stay in bed and watch TV and smoke and generally don't seem to want to be nice to ourselves, but the payback from being nice to ourselves is HUGE!


Doing this course is proof that applying these positive methods is working. I am being productive and from the comments I've already received I'm having a positive impact. There is energy available to carry out the projects and things I have only dreamed about. The main difference has been my willingness to not listen to my own doubts and fears. Now when I get a negative/destructive belief/thought/judgement I just put it aside, I literally ignore it and have a mental image of putting that energy behind me. I switch my thoughts to the positive action I can do; actually, even before that, I turn my mind first to the positive results I wish to see because they inspire me more.
I haven't always been this positive; I was as a kid, and then quite the opposite as a teenager. Later my experiences made me thoroughly lacking in confidence. I feel like over the years I've been tempering steel in myself.

When I was little and very ill with Eczema my parents fought to get me into a special school, they quite literally saved my life, I had one of the severest forms of this condition -with two germs waging war against each other within my skin and me as well and the distraction and lack of sleep drove me out of my mind (and body, all my memories are from outside of myself) and both my parents had no sleep and had to work; my mum had a nervous breakdown and my brother I think, was quite neglected, but so lovely that I remember seeing him looking very helpless at what to do, yet wanting so much to help. He didn't know it but his just being there and wanting - helped.

I got better at the school and turned into a tearaway. Then I got depressed, and when I realised this in my late teens I read up on it and saw that exercise was a cure. Instead of taking up jogging I went on a selection weekend to become an Adventure Sports Instructor, and fake-smiled a lot. Somehow I passed, and then I had to fake-smile and laugh, and act, and motivate kids/adults a lot more; until three months later I laughed quite spontaneously and unrehearsed. Nobody realised that depression was one of the reasons I took up adventure sports.

After the season was over I contracted Glandular Fever. The Doctor prescribed bedrest which was lucky as there wasn't anything else I could do; I couldn't stand up, feed myself, clothe myself or anything for a week or two. For some reason the Doctor didn't say that Glandular Fever is a form of the Epstein Barr Virus (a streptococcus with teeth) and that it can result in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or M.E; as I didn't know this for the next few years I simply thought I wasn't so well because of my Asthma or Eczema or something, but slowly it became obvious as it developed into C.F.S to the point that somedays I couldn't get out of bed to get a drink of water. Again it was only a few people who knew, even then they may not have known just how debilitated I was. Getting money sorted was a nightmare, I failed all my job commitments remarkably reliably and to my own chagrin because I was a fighter, I 'did' things, I got myself out of trouble, I was independent.

When I finally thought 'enough's enough', I went to see a Doctor of Tibetan Medicine. I knew that western medicine is good if you're just about to die of whatever, but for chronic conditions an Eastern/Native medical tradition was my best bet, plus I'd always been interested in Tibetan practices. I was very lucky; this Doctor, Christopher Hansard and his Apprentice Physician, Stephanie Wright from The Eden Medical Centre, Kings Road, Chelsea, London went out of their way to help me. I still feel I owe them so much. Slowly over the last six/seven years I've been able to rebuild my energy levels, my immune system and all the vitality that had been stolen by the M.E.

I learned that my muscles weren't getting enough oxygen and that explained the symptoms of weakness, lack of concentration and poor sleep. It takes such a long time to understand this illness when you're the one that has it it's no wonder it's so misunderstood. I beat myself up about it so much. It wasn't until last March that the symptom of a fogginess over my mind lifted (I wasn't consciously aware of it until it went), suddenly I could remember things and I started memorising poetry just because I could! It was a joy. Since then that fogginess has come and gone but now it's mostly gone and I'm doing exercise consistently without the fatigue backlash I used to get a day or two after. There's also a liver weakness with this illness so I've taken Dandelion root tea and Burdock to strengthen my liver and this too has definitely helped.

My point in relaying this story apart from the fact that including things like Dandelion and Burdock in your diet will also help you feel more alive; is that whatever experience I've faced, I've faced it down and wrenched something amazingly positive from it. Of course I have been helped by so many people there's not enough space to thank them, but what I want to do now is to make sure that you don't have to suffer so much before you decide to be as fit as you can be; be your healthiest you; that you don't have to go through as much as I did before you believe that you deserve to be the happiest you can be - because you do. No matter who you are, what you've done or haven't done, you deserve not just happiness, but joy.

It is rare that we consider the gift we have in just being human; in simply being us, with all the capacity we have for living, for loving, for all of life in its glorious days and minutes.

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Progress Report 1 - SAS Fit!

I was the one taking the photo, and we were up high really, really high...


After, eighty press ups and lord knows how many sit ups and crunches and leg raises my heart is definitely warm. The Home Heart warmer (see Ultimate Fitness and Progress is Process) definitely does what it says. Now there's only 9months 3weeks and a couple of days to go and I'll be SAS fit and hopefully some of you might have been inspired to join me. Let me know if you share this crazy feeling of wanting to feel really alive. It seems that my body is letting me know just that, at least I don't need to look at an anatomy book to know where my muscles are - I can tell you with great accuracy.

So the progress report is - it went ok except I missed a day - really there are a million excuses; the weather, thunder and rain and hailstones the size of golf balls all week. But my old habit would have been to kick myself and mooch about feeling even worse, but now I'm proud to say I missed a day but I got right back on the old horse the very next day. In some ways it's better now as when it says 'Thursday' on the chart it's not Wednesday as it was before, but really is Thursday, so I'm kind of more on track. No more excuses I'm not only letting myself down, but the millions of people out there reading my course who are all struggling along with me. Damn, and I can't lie.

So if you want to get really fit - Join me on the SAS Fitness Training Programme from Adrian Weale's book the SAS Fitness Training Guide and in ten months we'll meet up and do a triathlon or something.


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Identifying Plants

white willow, the bark tea is a natural pain reliever
Learning to penetrate the wall of green - Plants, Learning Plants, identifying plants

Identifying plants gets easier the more you do it. Honest - it's like we recognise our peas and carrots because we have eaten them (some of us ) a lot. Therefore we know what a pea or a carrot looks like, but do we know what a Pea plant or a Carrot plant looks like if we walked past them growing in a verge or someones garden? Do you know that plants from the Pea Family are characteristic by their flowers sharing the features of a banner, wings and keel? That poisonous plants like Water Hemlock may be mistaken for Wild Carrot with dire consequences.

This is why to learn plants we have to get familiar with them - to put in our dirt time, there's a brilliant book called 'Botany in A Day' by Thomas Elpel that helps you really get to grips with plants and plant recognition.

But even before we get to that point, it's a good idea to simply get outdoors into your street or garden.

Start with finding the nearest Poisonous Plant to your doorstep, don't start by testing all the nearest plants on your neighbour's pet dog, start by skimming through a field guide that shows poisonous plants, and imprint the images on your minds eye. Then when you go outside have a look around and see if any plants trigger your memory. Here are some that might possibly catch your eye:-

Buttercup, Rhodedendron, Foxglove, Spurge

These are POISONOUS Plants. Once we know which ones we may stumble across we know what we have to remember when searching for edible plants, because the problem we encounter while foraging is look-alikes. It's very easy in our enthusiasm for learning a new plant to pick a potentially lethal look-alike and try it. That's why starting with learning poisonous plants means you can point out with more reliabililty which plants you should leave alone.

This is not to deter you from exploring the world of plants, but simply to provide the best framework to go about it. Some of us have photographic memories, but for those of use whose memories take a longer time to receive the information; so that a Black Bryony were it newly introduced to us, would remain in our mind's-eye looking like Black Bryony (the same as the carrot has because we remember Bugs Bunny eating one when we were four years old) it is necessary to improve the settings of our minds eye.

Mastering a platform for learning plants means that you then have more confidence. So we begin by exercising our minds eye. When we go out; try going to one spot - a favorite spot on a daily basis - then look for the plants. Notice what the twigs look like in winter, notice what new flowers appear successively. When you get home you'll want to look it up. You remember you saw a 'tall pink plant'. It's not a lot to go on. Opening the field guide you find a hundred pink plants none of them to scale; with latin names thrown in to boot.


So not only do we have to imprint the vague image on our mind's eye - we have to know what to look for. It's like meeting two people with the same name, two Jeffs or two Janes. We notice that one of the Jeffs was shorter than the other, so subconciously we remember one as Tall Jeff who is the one that works as a Hotel Manager. One of the Jane's had blond hair, and the other had dark hair - the blond one is the Legal Secretary and the dark one is the Singer. The problem is most of us have gotten slack and take in the least amount of information we need to get along. If you're a policeman though you probably could guess at both the Jeff's and the Jane's height and weight, and know exactly what they're wearing and be able to guess at their occupation or where they come from. While noticing this you might have also sussed who had entered and left the room while you were talking and what they were eating.

It's a question of awareness. To really function well at IDing useful plants in a wild setting you have to remember where things are like remembering where the washing powder aisle is in the supermarket. You have to notice things. Why do you have to know the Poisonous Foxglove before the Edible Primrose? For the good reason that in the Spring when you are likely to forage for the Primrose leaves; the Foxglove leaves looks almost exactly the same. What are the differences? Look in your field guides or online at the leaves of each. The best Field Guide is a botanist, a Professional or friend/family with a sound knowlege. A Primrose Leaf has bubbly or rounded edges while a Foxglove has pointy or 'serrated' edges - also the veins of a Foxglove leaf run fairly parallel to the stem, upwards to the point of the leaf, whereas the Primrose leaf the veins go outwards more directly. So to tell the difference we need to look at the leaves, compare them if possible; to look at the shape, the veins, and the edges and remember them.

Plants have their own preferred habitats; like we prefer certain climates. Some like disturbed ground, or wetlands; others like dry areas or shady places. The more time we spend outside noticing, the more adept we get at identifying them.Spend time with your field guides, learn how to use them but don't let them use you! You can get lost in field guides.

A good idea is to journal your plants. If you remember that new purple flower on the corner. Go out count it's petals, look at it's leafs - learn the vocabulary for this like 'basal rosettes' - get a solid description just as you would if you were reporting a criminal to the police. Get the plant's 'number plate'. When you have a really good description preferably in your head or written down - Go home and match it up with your field guides. Maybe there's two similar. I had an example of this recently...

My family have not long ago moved to France. We all kept noticing these blossoms hanging down from trees with leaves like a Rowan, my Dad said "like Wisteria" even though its not really like Wisteria. The leaves were rounded so they definitely weren't Rowan. Finally I poured over my field guide and came up with two that looked very similar a Clammy Locust and a False Acacia (also known as) Black Locust and for a little while I wasn't sure which it was. Then I really looked at the leaves and the blossom and noticed that the leaves after the top two were alternate, not opposite and that the blossoms were more yellow and had a fragrance to them. The False Acacia it says has a sweet fragrance and I noticed the Clammy Locust didn't and that the CL had opposite leaves and the blossoms were more pink.

So on my own, and with regard to the bark of the tree as well I'm fairly confident they're False Acaia or Black Locust. Obviously if I was with someone who had fifty years plant experience (not my Dad) I'd be more confident with their confirmation. From the following information I know that if it came to using the parts of this tree I'd cook it first!

This is what it says on the www.pfaf.org site about Black Locust:-


All parts of the plant (except the flowers) and especially the bark, should be considered to be toxic. The toxins are destroyed by heat.


Seed - cooked. Oily. They are boiled and used like peas. After boiling the seeds lose their acid taste. The seed is about 4mm long and is produced in pods up to 10cm long that contain 4 - 8 seeds. A nutritional analysis is available. Young seedpods - cooked. The pods contain a sweetish pulp that is safe to eat and is relished by small children. (re: previous reference - this report is quite probably mistaken, having been confused with the honey locust, Gleditsia spp.) A strong, narcotic and intoxicating drink is made from the skin of the fruit. Piperonal is extracted from the plant, it is used as a vanilla substitute. No further details. All the above entries should be treated with some caution, see the notes at the top of the page regarding toxicity. Flowers - cooked. A fragrant aroma, they are used in making jams and pancakes. They can also be made into a pleasant drink.

Medicinal Uses
Febrifuge. The flowers are antispasmodic, aromatic, diuretic, emollient and laxative. They are cooked and eaten for the treatment of eye ailments. The flower is said to contain the antitumor compound benzoaldehyde. The inner bark and the root bark are emetic, purgative and tonic. The root bark has been chewed to induce vomiting, or held in the mouth to allay toothache, though it is rarely if ever prescribed as a therapeutic agent in Britain. The fruit is narcotic. This probably refers to the seedpod. The leaves are cholagogue and emetic. The leaf juice inhibits viruses.

Other Uses
A drying oil is obtained from the seed. An essential oil is obtained from the flowers. Highly valued, it is used in perfumery. A yellow dye is obtained from the bark. Robinetin is a strong dyestuff yielding with different mordants different shades similar to those obtained with fisetin, quercetin, and myricetin; with aluminum mordant, it dyes cotton to a brown-orange shade. The bark contains tannin, but not in sufficient quantity for utilization. On a 10% moisture basis, the bark contains 7.2% tannin and the heartwood of young trees 5.7%. The bark is used to make paper and is a substitute for silk and wool. Trees sucker freely, especially if coppiced, and they can be used for stabilizing banks etc. Wood - close-grained, exceedingly hard, heavy, very strong, resists shock and is very durable in contact with the soil. It weighs 45lb per cubic foot and is used in shipbuilding and for making fence posts, treenails, floors etc. A very good fuel, but it should be used with caution because it flares up and projects sparks. The wood of Robinia pseudoacacia var. rectissima, the so called 'Long Island' or 'Shipmast' locust, has a greater resistance to decay and wood borers, outlasting other locust posts and stakes by 50 -

These are the sorts of things you want to journal and also draw a picture including the salient points to remember - the drawings don't have to be like a Rembrandt. Don't spend to long, twenty minutes should be enough.

So that's an introduction to plant lore and learning to Identify Plants. Start with your common plants, learn the poisonous ones.
Find out the uses of plants. The more familiarity you have the more experience and confidence you gain. I hope this inspires you to get into the woods. Take care, and use your common sense.

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What to do about sore muscles!

Muscles get sore after doing this - especially if you haven't done it before! Climbing Swiss Alps.I'm hanging from one arm taking this!

Arghh, the aching has begun already, I thought I was fitter than that, but no, any new exercise means new muscles making themslves apparent when you didn't know they existed. So I find Witch Hazel (as advised by a Rugby player) and Arnica (as advised by a Pink haired witch who lived in a purple van) very good for quick recovery from all sports related injuries including broken bones (obviously if they'e broken visiting a Dr's is a good idea too). You rub them on unless they're Arnica as a homeopathic pill in which case I doubt rubbing them on would do much good, but I suppose it would be better than nothing. Comfrey or Boneset is also excellent externally (as it can damage kidneys taken internally). Comfrey by the way is also a good as a natural fertiliser for your homegrown veggies, as are nettles and pee - your choice.

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How to put up a Tarp and Hammock

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How to put up a Tarp and Hammock

Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to put up a tarp and a hammock. Find a Tarp that's got many points for attaching rope around the edges and corners - or put your own in. You want one that's light enough to carry easily with all your other gear and very durable, don't get mixed up with a heavy groundsheet.

Now you can make your own hammock as I once did out of string; learning to use a wooden needle and relying on the sheet bend and a few other knots, or you can buy one and learn to use the Evenk Slippery Hitch and the Tautline hitch, or whichever are your preferred knots. Much of this can be found in books (Ray Mears - Essential Bushcraft) or on the internet, YouTube is pretty good these days. I have found a great video which I have put on my Shelter Videos page, go to videos above and click on Shelter Videos.

Evenk Slippery Figure of Eight Siberian Hitch also known as the Evenk knot or the Evenk Slippery Figure of Eight Hitch originated from the Evenk people of Siberia.It is a quick release hitch knot often used by Ray Mears during his Bushcraft television series. The hitch is known for the ease in which it can be tied even whilst wearing gloves or mittens in cold climates.

Tautline Hitch- Secure one end of the rope. Pass the other end around a stake or other fixed point and run parallel to static line. Make two turns around the static line turning towards the stake. Finish with a half hitch tied on the far side of the two aforesaid turns. Tighten the knot and slide along static line to tighten or loosen it.

The point is to learn how to get one up quickly and efficiently so that it protects you and all your gear, and also how to use it in different situations.At the top of this page is great artistic masterpiece I have created to show the versatility of a plain piece of tarpaulin. There is a picture of a debris hut below, which if you like to have cosy feet is a must have, but you also need some woodland, a lot of leaves and different sized branches and some large branches with 'V's at the ends. You don't really need a tarp because they stay very dry without one if you have enough leaves on top.

There are a lot of people forced to live in temporary shelters these days who wouldn't otherwise choose to. I have chosen to because I appreciate knowing how little you really need to live comfortably and I enjoy the peace that comes from swinging between two hawthorns in an ancient stand of woodland, listening to the birds singing and the wind in the leaves and feeling part of something much bigger than myself. I also like the independence I get from knowing I can literally get a good nights sleep anywhere - within reason - though sometimes I think building a nest in a tree next to a private property sign would be a laugh. That reminds me of the time last year...

...I was on the road in Somerset with Ed and his horse Thorn and the cart (I didn't even put up my tarp on the way just slept under the cart!). We stopped at a supermarket, as you do and Thorn, with the cart, was tethered to a sign that said 'No Parking'. Stopping at the supermarket with a horse and cart was incongruous enough, but seeing Thorn there really made me laugh especially when I thought about him being towed away!

Ed's one of only three farmers in the country still using Plough horses to prepare land for growing food, he's also quite well known for stopping traffic in Swansea when Thorn takes his produce to market to sell in the Town Centre. He used to be a Lecturer at the University of London in Neuropsychology and Statistics - Go figure. Milton who ran the Ecovillage HQ in Canada used to be a Ballistic Missile Engineer, when I met him he taught me to hand milk his cow, and I think he liked nothing better than going out of a wintry evening, through the snow to the cowshed to milk his cow by hand. At least it gave him some peace and quiet. Well there's hope for all of us. Putting up a tarp and hammock is one thing but making ballistic missiles is something entirely different. There are certainly degrees of separation. This is me obviously after I've had the Make-Up and Hair done for the Photo Shoot. This is what getting a fresh 'air-brushing' is like...

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Progress is Process

Above images from Adrian Weale'Fighting Fit - The Complete SAS Training Course'


As of yesterday I began Adrian Weale's 'Fitness Training Program'. I'm starting right from the beginning even if I think I might be able to get a little ahead of myself I want to do the whole thing from start to finish and share the experience. So above is a print out of the Desk Driver Programme, I hope the Mr Weale won't mind me sharing it but it saves me typing the lot out. There's also his 'Home Heartwarmer' Exercises, which I'm going to do today. Yesterday it was a twenty minute run which I had to leave our old dogs behind for because they have to stop every five minutes to sniff and mark their territory which I wasn't that interested in.

Disclaimer - I guess I should put a disclaimer here - Don't do anything stupid! If you do because you were inspired here, it's your fault and nothing to do with me. Use your common sense - if you have heart problems, take a holiday instead. No seriously, there is proper preparation for doing exercise; being passed by your Doctor, taking it easy, stretching. Find out what's healthy. Ask someone who's an exercise fiend that isn't boasting about their latest injury. Find someone who has boundless energy and glows with a perfect complexion and ask them what they do.

I find thinking about what I want to feel like helpful. About how running up this hill is going to feel like a gentle stroll one day if I keep it up. I'm lucky here to have little traffic and lots of fresh air, if you don't have that luxury try and find a place you can get to easily that has fresher air. Oxygen is by itself one of the most healing things for our bodies; not the noxious mix we learn to put up with in the Big City. You are what you eat and you're also what you breathe.
I will post the programme up as I begin each part but would suggest that you acquire a copy of the book as there is a lot of useful and interesting information in there.

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