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Went dancing and feet moved as directed by the brain for about two hours--then they stopped talking to each other. Was good to discover that last night's heavy feet was transitory. I walked today without issues and rested quite a bit. Just have to take it one dance at a time.

Breakfast was fruit and cottage cheese. Lunch: DeeDee's (veggie Indian). Dinner: Fruit and cottage cheese. Snacks: two tangelos (mini sized ones). Triphala before going to bed (this remedy seems to be keeping my stomach on an even keel along with careful choice of food). Will have to experiment with a wider range of food items along with continued use of the remedy. Add a small amount of one or two food items and see what happens.

Tomorrow will be a busy day--meeting with my daughter for lunch (she has some "good news"), meeting with the French couple regarding my experiences with the treatments, and a Black and White Cinco de Mayo dance tomorrow night.

I'm glad I went dancing tonight. I almost didn't go after last night's class experience. I was getting into a "why bother" state of mind. But, I convinced myself that I should at least go and see what happens--be prepared to be surprised--and I was, happily so. It was a good lesson in being in the moment instead of being in my head.

Ego, ego! The sneaky ego trying to talk me out of going--making a convincing case for not doing anything except think negative thoughts--instead of just dancing. And it was good to see people there as well. I noticed that I sat so that I isolated myself--need to not keep doing that. Need to mix and mingle.

Feel good from making it to the dance tonight. Will read a bit before going to sleep. Oh, yes! I've been having detailed dreams the past few nights. I didn't write them down, but there were two of them--one each night.

In brief, the first one involved me being hassled by some kids. I grabbed on of them and started pounding on him. In actuality, I threw myself out of bed and across the floor. I ended up smacking the wall several times, as If I were hitting the kid. I awoke sprawled across the floor with some skinned knuckles.

The second involved being on a house boat on a river. There was some altercation that involved guns. Me and two other men ended up shooting some people. The dream was quite vivid--very realistic.

Both dream states were triggered by the Living and Dying book, which talked about the bardos and the intermediate states in this living bardo--awake, falling asleep, dreaming, etc. I'm sure that the book's statements and the remembered dreams are related.

Will keep my dream eye open tonight.