I have learned over TEN years of my Psoriasis Healing Warrior Journey that mental health is just as important as diet and physical health. Watch my video and read my whole letter to you below.

I want to share my ARA Triangle of Triumph. Awareness at the pinnacle, Responsibility and Accountability at the cornerstones. This came to mind a few years back as I wrote in my journal to help reduce negative mental feedback loops and thoughts around this awful affliction known as psoriasis.  This triangle has become the foundation of my psoriasis healing practice.

I keep my focus inside this Triangle. I practice equanimity. This means I focus my efforts and thoughts on what I can control and reduce thoughts about things outside of my control. What I can control is inside of the triangle which is where my focus lies. I practice to mute thoughts around what is outside of my triangle. This improves clarity, peace, concentration and attention which expand Awareness.

“Triangles are my favorite shapes. Three points where two lines, meet.” ~alt-J

The Three Points of my Triangle of Triumph

1.) Awareness

At the pinnacle is Awareness. The tide that raises all ships. An expansion of consciousness and power. A sovereign life. A quest for freedom from anxiety, fear and guilt. My C.U.R.E. to the human mind and emotional condition. These all lie within one’s Awareness. It you are asleep, you cannot take action. It is only as you begin to wake up, that you see your true Self. You see the Warrior in You.

You are now on the Way of the Warrior. The path towards action, observance, growth and lasting results.

We increase awareness through exploration, contemplation, empathy, humility, compassion for Self, then the World outside. It is the Eye of the Triangle, the Mind’s Eye. Perception and then perspective is built from this. Only as Awareness is improved, expanded and increased, can responsibility be taken. There is no ‘blame game’ here. There is no ‘waiting game’ here. This is NOT a task you outsource to your doctor or other health professional and they fix you quickly. This is the path less taken and most long.

This is YOUR work and MY work. It is a unique map that you are charting here. There is no cookie-cutter template that you can connect your life’s dots to. What I can tell you is that, this is the most important work of your life and you better get to it, NOW. Your Healing Work. Your catharsis. Your salvation.

Awareness rises through thoughtful questions, ponderance, meditation, walks in nature, ‘alone time’, studying and reflection. Now, you are ready to bring on true Responsibility which is one of the cornerstones of my ARA Triangle.

The key to your approach is HOW you go about it. You carry this out while striving for my C.U.R.E. – Compassionate contemplation, Unifying the multitude of competing thoughts in the mind, Reflecting on your personal benchmarks only to chart progress. Progress is measured in the power you are building, the skills you are sharpening, the discipline you are practicing, and the life you are changing. Finally and most importantly, Endurance for the many trials, tribulations and Triumphs to come. Commit to your body, your health, your vitality. Do it for the sake of your mind, heart and soul. Do it with love.

2.) Responsibility

This is when the rubber hits the road, when you get your butt in gear and trip into the tasks needed to change Life from one of sick and weak, to strong and well. Responsibility is chiseled out of a daily routine. A practice that you carry out with steps you compile from your research, community and creative spark.

You chisel away at the concrete rock of old bad habits like Andy Dufrane did at Shawshank Prison. As you plot your escape from psoriasis, know that there is years of work to be done. You must commit to the work and that is your Responsibility. The results are nuanced, barely observable, which is why increasing Awareness is the foundation of responsibility improving.

There is SO much distraction now stealing our attention and concentration from us. It is digital and accepted. This puts a high value on your attention and what you ‘pay’ it to. It is called ‘paying’ attention for a reason, there is a cost and a benefit. Sometimes a cost and no benefit. Sometimes a dear cost that we cannot even pay, but we do anyway to our detriment. You can slip into attention debt and give yourself no credit.

As you build a refined practice, improving skills, that you can carry out with less and less self-generated excuses, responsibility facilitates a powerful life. Now you are not just walking the path. Somedays you run, sprint, swim, climb and hurdle on the Path! Some days you faint, keel over and want to die. But, you get up, and you keep walking as you build momentum towards the next Sprint! This is responsibility. Now you are ready to account for your successes and failures.

3.) Accountability

As you learn to crawl, walk, run and hurdle, measurement is needed. An account needs to be created. Who else is going to chart your progress, other than you? What else will stand up in the face of great scrutiny and doubt, coming from inside and outside? A written account will stand up and keep you moving on your healing path with excellent and methodical pace. Not too fast, not too slow, not too stressful, not damaging you, only empowering you to keep going, don’t stop.

This is the means to the end. I stay connected with my efforts, because a routine is nothing more than a repetition of these efforts. As I build more awareness and responsibility to my healing practice, I have more to document, chart and analyze. My account of healing my psoriasis naturally is why all of these MILLIONS of words I have recorded and written are available to you. It’s why we are connected. It’s why the world can change so quickly now, because our connection is real and in real-time.

The more accountable you become, the more habitual systems you create and keep in your journal, the easier life gets. The less doubt and guilt you feel, and fear loses it’s grip on you. Psoriasis loses it’s grip on you. “Autoimmune disease” loses it’s grip on you.

You are Powerful.

This triangle is small at first and a moving target. As you improve it will become bigger and steadier. You will become bigger and steadier.

You are becoming the shepherd of your attention and concentration. Focus on what is inside of your control more and more. Reduce thoughts about the things outside of your control more and more. This practice of Equanimity provides mental clarity and freedom. I will write another post about my 3 C’s of Attention. Stay tuned for that.

For now, master my Triangle of Triumph. For the honor of Psoriasis Awareness Month 2022. Do this for those that cannot do it for themselves yet. Those that are still completely asleep to the fact that they CAN heal. Your determination is the alarm that will wake more Warriors Up!

We are breaking free from chronic dis-ease! The Warcry is “POWER! SOVEREIGNTY! HEALING! VITALITY! COMMUNITY!”. Yell that out loud to yourself. You have what it takes to begin healing. Build your personal Triangle of Triumph. Commit to your health and you can heal from psoriasis.

We CAN heal. We WILL heal. Hope is ACTION!

Do you need help building your psoriasis healing practice and awareness? Check out my private 1on1 coaching here and we can do this together.

Get my free psoriasis healing guide and emails here to build your psoriasis healing practice at home.

Much Love, Mad Respect, More Healing.

~Matt

fellow Psoriasis Healing Warrior

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As our amazing clan of Warriors from around the world grows, I want to take a moment to reinforce the Way of the PHWarrior.

Psoriasis has profoundly changed my life. It threatened to become a prison cell that would keep me from the world and those close to me. It threatened to shrink my existence to nothing more than a hermit in a cave. It was a curse.

“Why me?“, I always asked. I was a very healthy person, active, athletic, ate pretty well. Why should I be stricken with this? It made me resentful, it made me angry, it made me sad, it made me depressed and it was leading to despair.

This was a path of pain and confusion. One where I became powerless. I struggled to grasp the concepts of medicine available to me, I doubted the advice I was getting from doctors and I was shattered by the consensus of what they all told me,

“This is an incurable autoimmune disorder you are genetically predisposed to and need to manage.“

Then, for eight years, it became a game of masks. Steroid creams and oils, all over my body, as the Psoriasis continued to grow. Head, face, chest, arms, genitals, legs, everywhere; no more social life, no more sex life, no more life. I was one big itch that could not be scratched.

The steroid creams and injections kept coming, and I kept buying them with the little money I had. Then came the methotrexate, and this threatened my life in a different way, pain so bad I couldn’t get out of bed. How can this be? A 30 year-old male, active, pretty healthy (so I thought), now stricken to not only his apartment, but the bed in his room.

My only ‘hope’ was to reach the “severe” tier of Psoriasis to become eligible for the biologic injections such as Embrel, Humira or Stelara. I was frightened by the thought of that. I realized that this was not the answer, and I started to believe that Psoriasis was a curse, because there was no answer.

At that moment, as I had the refill script in my hand to fill for more methotrexate, I had a realization…

“I must get in the game.”

I then had an Epiphany…

“I wasn’t born with this shit, I sure as hell, aint gonna die with this shit.”

So, I took the empty orange bottle, and I threw it in the trash, I put my car keys down, and I picked up Pagano’s “Healing Psoriasis” book and Young’s “The pH Miracle” book, wiped the dust off of them from prior years where I had failed, and I put pen to paper on a plan.

That was March 5th, 2012, I took six months to indulge in life as I had known it while studying and researching holistic healing and joining forums to prepare myself. I then left my friends, my family and my country behind to find a sanctuary to heal.

I started building my natural healing practice in October 2012, with a careful and methodical plan. I did not know what to expect, and I knew the journey would be lonely, but I didn’t care, because at that moment I knew that now, I am walking this journey, no more sitting on the sidelines.

It’s been three and a half years since I threw that prescription refill in the trash, and all my steroid creams & oils along with it. It’s been hell and high water the whole way. My skin erupted as my immune system lashed out from stopping the harsh drugs, and I embraced it.

After one year of natural healing, and building my practice, I realized something important about myself. I learn more when I teach and I help myself better, when I help others.

That was the true crucial moment, much more powerful than the moment when I threw away my useless drugs. That was the moment that lead to PHW. A powerful natural healing movement based on sharing my story. PHW drives me through the perpetual crisis that healing is.

Click here to watch the first video I put on Youtube on August 11th, 2013 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94smO-tpFh4

At that moment, I realized that Psoriasis is NOT a curse, but a blessing. Why? Because through my choice to learn from my pain, I’m helping others do the same.

When we become students of our struggle, we become the masters of our destiny.

When I became the answer to my questions, I became the answer my body needed.

This is now my life’s work.

This is the Way of the PHWarrior. This is why I created these online spaces for others to come who are seeking their own natural answers and a level of self-discipline through practice that will set them free of pain.

A safe, positive, empowering and inspirational place to work hard like other Warriors are working and walk hand in hand on the rocky road of healing naturally.

Three and a half years later, I am still clearing what I know now, is a viral strep infection, my skin is still a mess, but my spirit, body and mind are sound and in sync. This is the difference between the curse and the blessing, the difference between hope and action and the difference between trying and doing…

I am in the game. I am only interested in Natural healing, building my practice and helping others.

This is not how I cope. This is how I cure.

The Way of the PHWarrior is:

1. Natural Healing
2. Build A Practice
3. Help Others

This is why my group exists, my youtube videos, my blog, it all comes from these principles. Learn how to move away from the helpless drugs, and towards a power inside Self, to heal using the elements and a practice.

I know others are at that point I was at, and this helps me with the virtue of patience, one of the many things I am learning beyond healing Psoriasis, thanks to having these places to help others.

I want everyone to know that the goal here are those 3 principles above and that is what we are together to discuss and do. We slowly move away from the drugs and towards the elements; Earth, Wind, Water & Fire.

The Earth grows the remedies we need, the wind carries the oxygen we need, the Water flows through the Planet and us as the source of life and the Fire is our desire to be the solution. Using these four elements has led me to the fifth element, Love for the Man I see in the mirror. The man that Psoriasis made me hate, The man that Psoriasis threatened to take from this life and my loved ones…

The man Psoriasis should never have messed with.

Now, I am in the game and Psoriasis is my opponent, and I love that Man in the Mirror and I’m only focused on winning victories, not focused on defeat. That is why Psoriasis is a blessing, not a curse.

Move forward strong, understand that time is NOT of the essence. What is a few months or a couple years for the rest of my life? “I wasn’t born with this shit, I sure as hell, aint gonna die with this shit.“

This only comes through building a natural healing practice and helping myself through helping others. That is what this PHWarrior clan is for, that is the Way of the PHWarrior.

“I am the answer. I am the cure.“

Much Love. Mad Respect. More Healing.

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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.” ― Jerzy Gregorek

This TEN year natural healing journey, from September 2012 until now, has taught me a lot about mySELF. A lot about my resolve, willpower, determination, perseverance, hard work and what I am truly capable of. I am now reaching my potential and making it kinetic. In other words, I always take action to make things happen for myself, without hesitation.

It has also taught me about fear, anger, doubt, pain and stress and how they really work in the human mind and body.

The most important lesson this Psoriasis healing journey has taught me is that PRACTICE leads to BELIEF which builds FAITH.

1. Practice – “practice makes perfect”. Boy, is that ever true! When I was playing basketball as a youngster, my coach hammered that into me. One other adage I took from sports is: “get lost in the process”, which I take as meaning, the preparation, and the means to the end, the reason we obtain victories in our life, and we must embrace that entire process.

Sure, at the finish line, it is the sweetest feeling, but during the race, it can be a bitter taste. I have learned to embrace my practice, and realize that it is the foundation to everything in my life. Healing Psoriasis has given me an opportunity to seek my true potential, purpose and passion in life. I am finding solace and growth in those lessons, way before I’m enjoying the victory, which will be clear skin and no pain.

Without my practice, I wouldn’t have learned of the natural solutions, I wouldn’t be applying mySELF, and I wouldn’t be accountable and responsible to my body, health and vitality. Through my practice, I am healing, and more importantly, growing as a person. My body needs fuel and it needs me, and it is a miraculous machine.

Putting in the work is where all victories come from. The victory is experience and wisdom from application. On this special holiday in my country, where we celebrate Labor Day, I want to emphasize that practicing is the only way to drive results. In this modern culture, where we give away our choices to professionals that charge huge sums of money and we end up waiting so long to see them, has resulted in the essence of a self-built practice fading away. I want to clearly bring it back to the forefront.

I Value my intellect, I Value my efforts, and I get to WORK on mySELF.

2. Belief – This is only obtained through practice. Belief is not a gift. It isn’t random, and it doesn’t fall off of a tree. My belief comes from my Practice. Like we practice our faith, like doctors maintain their practice, and like athletes practice their sport; to be the best, to win victories, to believe in myself, ONLY comes from working hard each day, every day, over and over again, for days, into months, and into years, without question.

The less I question myself, the less I doubt myself, and the less I doubt myself, the less I fear, and the less I fear, the less stress I create in my mind, which ruins my body. Now, my body comes first, my body does not concern itself with doubt or fear, it only absorbs stress from the mind. The body only needs fuel and it needs to rely on and trust in me. As that trust grows, my body will go deeper into healing, my job is to FUEL and ENDURE.

Minds are important, complex and brilliant, but this works both ways, in support and in detriment. The mind must support the body at ALL times, and be the driving force of my practice. This process, the process I am lost in, drives a strong-building belief, that no ONE or THING can deter me from. This is my life’s work, I have my own natural healing practice and I BELIEVE IN MYSELF.

“Do or do not, there is no try.” – Yoda.

3. Faith – When this beautiful realization starts to take place, that I CAN heal, I no longer “try”, I just “DO”.  When results start to come, that is when FAITH starts to build. I do whatever it takes every day, while questioning myself less, and seeking answers more. There is always a sustainable solution around every corner, if we just take a peek. My mentality and lifestyle have shifted entirely from being a victim with no cure, to being a warrior that IS THE CURE.

Faith will cure us. Through a growing Faith, which comes from belief in ourselves, community and HARD WORK together, will we be the masters of our own health and vitality.

A Warrior walks his own path and builds his own practice.

Research, ask questions, join groups, find fellow warriors, find a naturopath, find a mentor, find those that are walking the same path as you and walk with them, hand in hand. I emphasize, WALK, not just TALK. Take an action for every comment, and apply yourself as you discuss with others.

The doubters, the skeptics, they will come, and they will talk, and say many words. The warrior walks, and practices everyday, building belief and eventually faith in self. A faith that is driven on a simple concept. “You’re The Cure.”

What do I mean by that? That I can change my lifestyle, my diet, make really HARD choices, and sacrifice anything to be the master of my destiny and be fear, doubt and pain free, while at the same time, mastering stress.

The “cure”, is the person I am becoming; an empowered, inspired and limitless human being that can then help others do the same. Clearing my skin? Well, that’s just one notch on my belt. I am aware now, that ALL of my body must heal, from the inside, and that the skin is just a sign that my body needs my help to do it.

Does this happen overnight? No, of course not, but let us reminisce on the quote that I started with on this fine Labor Day…

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty…” – Is removing your Psoriasis from your body and removing the pain in your life, without drugs or creams worth having? Just know that you will need to put in constant EFFORT, you will experience healing PAIN and you will go through immense DIFFICULTY to reach your powerful Warrior plateau.

The beauty of it all, will be the person you become. I am still going through pain, and putting in more effort than I ever have, and experiencing incredible difficulty to do this, but the difference now, (as to when I started), is that I now believe in myself that I CAN do this. I have faith in myself that I am winning and that ONLY comes from my practice.

So start your practice today, and don’t ever STOP, don’t ever QUIT, don’t let fear, doubt or pain stop you.

Happy Labor Day, now…..Get to work.

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By the time you are done with a routine, say 10 minutes a day, you will feel a high from the oxygen and very loose from flushing out the acids from your body. Drink your first liter of water with 1 whole lemon or lime as you do these. They will change your life. This was the final piece to my puzzle that cleared Psoriasis. I plateaued until I started this and some Yoga poses as well.

These movements are vital to becoming a TRUE PHWarrior in full sync with body, spirit, then mind.

Here are the 4 skills to master for your WoW – (Way of the Warrior):
http://www.psoriasisdiary.com/heal

1. C.O.W.S. – Chlorophyll, Oils, Water, Salts – Read my guide for more and commit this to memory. Every choice of what you put in your mouth starts with COWS

2. Master COWS as a liquid medicine kit, starting with water, then adding in fresh green juicing. While slowly getting these supplements as you can afford them, involved daily –

· Omega 3,6,9 – 1
· Chelated Zinc – 1
· L-Glutamine – 1
· L-Glutathione – 1
· MSM or Glucosamine – 1
· Milk Thistle – 1
· Triple Ginsa – available from GNC – 2
· Oil of Oregano 70% carvacrol – 2
· Neem Oil (from the leaves) – 2
· B-complex – 1

3. Oils and Superfoods to add (Click here to join my FB group and see the full list)

4. Qigong stress circulation and oxygen stretching exercises from this video – do them every day as many times as you want each day.

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Confessional: I reached an amazing level with my healing and clearing of P in November 2014, right at the 2 year mark of my decision to take action on my own and go down a radical natural path. That two years is the foundation for the rest of my life. It was the hardest two years of my life, the scariest, I faced most every fear, I found ways to move all of my energy and choices away from fear entirely.

So, going into this two year mark, I decided I needed a break from my strict regimen. I had trips planned, holidays coming up, lots of awesome things going online with Psoriasis. I knew that slipping from my practice was inevitable, and eating some of my favorite foods was welcomed! The unfortunate aspect of this hiatus was my eating choices, and slipping the farthest I had away from my practice… I’ve been having the funnest few months of my life in other words, lol!

My body is very resilient now. I felt somewhat invincible. Well, now, my body needs me again. Psoriasis is creeping back on my scalp, navel and groin, and this is not the Way of the Warrior. I know firmly these things about myself now:

• I know what to do.
• I know and believe my natural practice works.
• I need to assess my budget to to get what I need when I can.
• I am a Warrior now, with an open mind and a strong community.
• I take action and full responsibility, I am accountable to my body, listening to and following it’s signals.

I have realized these past few fun months, that I spent with many family and friends, that I fell far below the plateau and level my body needs me to be at to keep fighting and win this battle with Psoriasis, whatever is causing it, for Good.

In other words, now is the time, for me to Rise Up! It is time build up my convictions back to where they were two years in and continue to increase my plateau of health and vitality.

Next time, I will be better, when I decide to take a ‘hiatus’. Taking a break is natural and it is IMPORTANT. This is part of our lives and we must live. I stopped living by the 7th year of my Psoriasis. It was defeating me completely. I have reached such a higher level, and I see this happening in many others’ lives now that I work with.

This beautiful strength, coming from self, and vesting all unknowns. This incredible journey through the worst and best of times. The pain that must be experienced to leave pain behind. This is always a journey, that is life. Getting lost in the process, and being the best I can be at all times, even when I feel my worst.

I will Rise Up on the ground, and use that same Earth to heal thyself. We fall, so that we may learn to pick ourselves back up.

I love and live by a book called The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz, a brilliant book. I will reaffirm my self and my convictions, to dedicate and persevere based on these same simple agreements I built my practice on two quick years ago. Here they are for those who haven’t come across this short must-read yet. This is from the book’s website, then I’ll discuss what each means to me below:

 1. Be Impeccable with your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your Word in the direction of truth and love.

2. Don’t Take Anything Personally: Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

3. Don’t Make Assumptions: Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4. Always Do Your Best: Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

These guidelines really impacted my paradigm shift and practical transition towards healing myself of Psoriasis. The process of going down an alternative natural route is very unknown and frightening. Going against the tide of better judgement of others who love and care about you. My process is based in self-care and loving myself. I have noticed lately, as I had very good times, but ate very acidic, drank, smoked, that I fell away from my self-care and hence my peaceful alignment.

So today, I will Rise Up! and I am doing this by following the agreements above as they mean to me, which is:

1. Be Impeccable with my Word: I have to be honest with myself, and therefore easy on myself as I transition back to the daily juicing, water and eating clean that got me to the highest level I have ever accomplished. I will do this by being completely transparent and candid with Everyone who cares about me and follows me on this journey. This journal entry is the proof of my honesty and my integrity is my word, I will always speak the truth.
2. Don’t Take Anything Personally: I’ve realized I’m losing patience with myself, feeling upset with myself that I slipped to a point where my body is regressing a tiny bit. This is a useless motivation. It does nothing for me, and it is because I am taking it personally. Once I do that now, I take other things personally, that others do or say to me, I get very sensitive and short. This is a bi-product of slipping away from my regimen. Health and vitality of my body is in totality, not in separation. I need to live and treat others this way, the practice I’ve built, at all times and Never will I be “the victim of needless suffering.” That is a powerful proverb to hold close, avoiding needless suffering.
3. Don’t Make Assumptions: This has certainly transformed my life. As soon as I went online with blog posts, and a group on Facebook, everything changed. Over those six months from July – December 2013, when I made my blog and started Psoriasis Healing Warriors, which is my proudest endeavor of my life, I became fully dedicated to persevering and clearing Psoriasis forever. It was a beautiful moment, and the moment came because I reached out, and stopped assuming that I was alone. My assumption of being alone came from nine years of dealing with a disorder that drives loneliness. It made me a recluse, and the more I disappeared, the less I lived and it was ALL based on my assumptions of what all others thought of my P. Like a mask I had to explain before myself could enter the consciousness of others. This agreement changed my life and my outlook on Psoriasis and I overcame it completely. This small regression now, is a big deal to me, because of the new person I am. It is not a big flare, considering I went from 90% down to 0%… I would say now I’m at 1% or less. This warrior only will settle for 0% P and 110% me. That comes from asking others and learning from all the Warriors I have met and now practice along side of. We win this fight together.
4. Always Do My Best: … ALWAYS, at all times, no matter how much sleep I didn’t get, or how itchy I am, or how alone I want to be for the moment. I will do my best, EVEN at my worst. This is what I have to offer, it allows me to be ultimately in alignment and with self-care as my  main objective, I am above circumstances and drama. I don’t judge anyone else, and most importantly, I don’t judge myself and the choices I make, even the stupid ones. I have made some ignorant mistakes, as I slipped down a bit from my level. It is inherent, that as your body becomes weaker, your mentality can suffer. I then punish myself for doing so. I realize this is foolish, and when I don’t spend focus or energy on that, just naturally being the best I can be for everyone in any certain situation…heck, life is just plain Easier.

Well, I hope my reaffirmation, that I decided to put down on paper, helped others who may be on their path, and going through the worst of times, yet being their best and being courageous enough to live in action and in the truth. I know this natural path is hard. Just take it easy on yourself, and I promise you I will do the same for myself and that’s the least we can do for each other, ;). Life is hard, other can do the worst most wicked things, I will always be benevolent and will always lend a hand to those who need me. This makes me the best I can be.

Click here to purchase a copy of The 4 Agreements to read.

What do The Four Agreements mean to you? Tell me your #RiseUp pledge!

My legs have been doing a lot better, just small bouts of acne on right knee, as I rise my level back up!

Rise Up To Heal Psoriasis

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I am about 100% clear now. I am dealing with the underlying infection that caused my Psoriasis for about one year now.

I still have inflammation in the knee joints (where I had my ACL surgery originally) and my elbow joints. The joint battle appears to be the longest aspect of this Psoriasis healing war. It happens in cycles, about 3 days out of every week have been inflammation, itching, rash and chunks of gunk coming out.

(Queue the music.)

None of this is the typical set of symptoms of Psoriasis I dealt with for almost a decade.

As I get to a whole new plateau of healing I wanted to take a moment to reflect and lay out the key aspects that made me consistently successful.

I want you to write the following equation down and tape it to your wall, windshield, desk at the office, wherever you need motivation:

Choice + Challenge + Cherish = Change.

Change is what we are striving for. We need to change the environment of our body so that it may heal.

Change is a process, a journey, it does not happen overnight. There is so much power that comes from it, the sheer energy alone forces change to start.

The Warrior’s Work:

1. Choice
2. Challenge
3. Cherish

1. Choice – Your power and conviction

Choice is the hardest part. This is when you must reach into your soul and spirit, NOT your mind. This is where your Power Generator is, where all energy moves and circulates. “I CHOOSE TO HEAL MYSELF”. Say that out loud, and say it again, until you become “hooked on a feeling, and get high on believing.”

I believe the choice is most important. It is the foundation for all practical transition.

Your persistence and determination will continuously be fueled by coming back to your concrete foundation. That mortar of that foundation is the modification of the choices your making.

You must seek depth in your feelings and emotions, then work on seeking balance. The mind will be influenced by this and adjust over time as it lets go of what it THINKS it needs and better deciphers FUEL vs. DESIRE

2. Challenge – Get lost in the process

Challenge is the routine practice. This is where you work the mind into a routine. You can jot down notes, a daily outline, focus in on your habits, learn about yourself, your tendencies, your passions, your circumstances, and work through them, ONE by ONE.

The challenge is changing your mind about your vitality. You will notice that your diet will follow suit as you gain higher consciousness and awareness. This then leads to inherit responsibility and accountability to your body. Challenge yourself.

3. Cherish – Give yourself a pat on the back

Cherish is the most important part. This is where joy and happiness are obtained in the practice. You must get lost in the process, and seek out motivations and inspirations from simplicity. We are so complex, the world, our work, our lives have many variables we have accumulated from conditioning. I want you to go back to the simple innocent constants of life. Breathing, stretching, moving, drinking water, the essential biological needs of the body. This is where the body’s signals can gain influence and eventually take over entirely.

Simple -> Practical -> Routine -> Guiltless -> Constructive -> PROGRESS.

So on this day where we celebrate our Life’s Work in America, I want Warriors WorldWide to celebrate in their Life’s Work. The most important work. The work that strengthens your soul and spirit and helps you fight. That is your job, and you are HIRED!

You’re the Cure – Seek Out Your Inner Superhero – Watch What Happens…

A Miracle!

This song was stuck in my head this morning when I woke up, not sure why, but that’s the beauty of music’s influence on the soul, we do not have to be sure why, we just have to be ourselves, love ourselves and take action.

We Are Guardians Of The Galaxy! We Are Warriors!

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• I swore I would not be too hard on myself
• I would focus on what to ADD, more than what to SUBTRACT
• I would take the transition slowly & embrace the long journey
• I would strive to minimize acidic foods and drinks I love, but NOT try to CUT OUT anything completely and have a treat day or two per week.
• I would strive to maximize healing foods and alkaline water I needed
• Most importantly, I would not measure progress by any one given day, good OR bad

I want you to write down this list above, where you will look at it every morning as you build up the proper practice around a Psoriasis diet that will heal you.

Commit it to memory, and start the morning out with a good stretch, and some breathing exercises. I’ll make another post that outlines the qi-gong, yoga and stability ball exercises I do soon.

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You must first find and be at peace with your healing, before any dietary approaches will really sustain and work.

This is the mind’s release to the body’s needs.

The mind must begin letting go of the desires attached to food and lifestyle a little bit, while embracing the new way of letting your body dictate nutrients, taste, flavors and fulfillment.

It is very important to release the tensions, anxieties and negative energies that all lead to stress as you are fundamentally adjusting your diet. It will get easier as your focus and awareness build up.

Stress reduction is a large part of healing naturally. You watch, when you find more peace in your life and your diet, you will notice marked improvements in your Psoriasis spots and joint pains.

I want you to understand that you may face any and all symptoms of your body as it digs deeper while you continue your commitment to the proper fuels it needs.

Your body needs to build up confidence in you, that overall, you will maximize the healing fuel, while minimizing the acids.

Ok, Here are my ABCs and 123s to focus on to keep your diet for Psoriasis manageable and practical.

Do your best to strive to these as an outline for each day.

Some days you will be better, some days you will cheat, BUT I want you to have these to fall back on and use as your foundation.

Do NOT do anything cold turkey – meaning, don’t quit any of your favorite foods for good. That approach will only hinder your progress via self-guilt when you have cheats (bound to happen occasionally).

A – Alkaline vs Acid Balance: The health of your bloodstream. That is your #1 goal, raising it from the depths of acidity into a healing environment that promotes regeneration of your immune system and the self-healing process. Strive each day to keep flooding your body with Alkaline Water. Try to have a green juice every other day to start, then work up to one a day.

B – Buffering The Belly: This is a little tactic that helps your body so much. The most important times to buffer are: first thing when you wake up in the morning (your most acidic), 30-45 minutes before an acidic-based meal, and right before bed. The easiest way to buffer is to flush in ONE liter of Alkaline Water first thing in the morning, 20-30 minutes before a meal and just before bed.

Won’t that make me stay up all night going to the bathroom?

YES, and you need to, especially while healing, because your body does it’s finest work while you sleep. When you are pumping in enough fuel to promote overtime, you will need to acid flush multiple times throughout the night. The basic rule is to go to the bathroom RIGHT when your body first signals, no matter when, to get rid of toxins. DON’T HOLD IT!

C – Chemical Combinations: There are certain combinations of foods and liquids that really screw up the chemistry of your guts. I notice bad combos being the main trigger for me. I don’t really have triggers any more, but combos will still twist my guts. Some common bad combos are milk in coffee, milk in cereal, well, milk in anything really. Drinking while eating creates liquid acid reactions. It’s better to not drink liquids during meals whenever possible.

Gluten, Dairy & Alcohol cause hell-fire reactions in the guts, simply because they end up being white, refined and fermented sugars that Candida and other potentially bad fungus thrive on.

You want a constant stream of water, juice, oils and the proper salts flowing through you. I will break down my 123s using the COWS approach.

1. Alkaline Water: I get asked a lot what I mean when I say Alkaline Water, I simply mean water with nutrients in it like lemon, chlorophyll, greens, and trace minerals. I make my Alkaline water using the following:

1. I start every day with 20-32 fl oz of lemon water.
2. I fill up my water bottle with Liquid Chlorophyll and Liquid Zinc Sulfate to sip on all day.

I strive for 3 liters of alkaline water every 24 hours. I keep it by my bedside and drink whenever I wake up. If you can’t get lemons/limes, putting the liquid chlorophyll in each liter is fine and GREAT for you! I also add a dropper of zinc along with that for trace minerals.

I also keep a bottle of green grass powders in the fridge. I have a cup of water with a 2 scoops mixed in the morning. These grasses are a powerful prebiotic (food source) for you gut bacteria. This strengthens your gut wall and heals Leaky Gut Syndrome.

Also, try unsweetened raw coconut water. The electrolytes fire up the body and heal the Liver. This is the best drink for before an after workouts, exercising to replenish electrolytes. Don’t drink Gatorade or other sports drinks they have NOTHING on coconut water. Coconut water counts towards your daily Alkaline Water intake goal.

Just doing this step will change the environment of your body quickly. It is essential to flush the systems constantly. Your relationship with water needs to be BFF style – Best Friends Forever.

Here’s what to get:
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1. Liquid Chlorophyll – http://amzn.to/2Fe3ETB
2. Liquid Zinc Sulfate – https://amzn.to/2LPqFQU
3. Wild Greens powder – https://amzn.to/2AFaWyA

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Water keeps the vehicle moving.

2. Green Juicing: There is no better way to introduce essential vitamins and nutrients than fresh green juice. Drinking the juice takes all digestive pressure off the body, so it can focus only on assimilation of the fuel it needs and apply it directly to where it needs to go! Green juicing is how you detoxify and heal the blood. Once you are healing the blood, you are healing all the internal vital organs and systems.

Something as simple as one juice a day, can increase your vitality and energy levels. Once you start carving out all the ancient sediment and waste in your intestinal tract, liver, and colon, your body will become vibrant and renew itself automatically! Without any pills, imagine that.

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My basic Psoriasis Juice recipe consists of celery, cucumber, broccoli, spinach and/or kale, cilantro, ginger, green apple, kiwi and carrot. I used this recipe for almost two years now with great success! You can make a bunch of the greens and store in fridge for a few days of juice. Do NOT mix in the apple, kiwi, broccoli and carrot if you store the juice, as this will make it acidic. You can add it in separately, OR, just make it all fresh each day.

Then I’ll put in a green apple, 1 kiwi, thumb of ginger, handful of broccoli (including the magical stalk) and a handful of baby carrots per serving, to sweeten it to taste, Yummy! You can get as creative as you want with your juice, the baseline principle is to get as many greens in as possible

3.  Daily Stretching, Breathing, Yoga and Qigong

Click Here for my list of Healing Foods to eat and things to minimize and avoid as much as you can.

You want to strive to lower your caloric intake. This takes pressure off the digestive system and allows the immune system to regenerate. There are more studies showing that doing a fast occasionally can really help regenerate immune cells and immune activity.

When you do eat, strive to minimize gluten, dairy, red meat, white sugar and junk foods. Notice, I use the word “minimize” and not “cut out”. This is because I want this to be self-empowering for you, not self-limiting. Focus on what you are ADDING, more than SUBTRACTING. This is how I succeeded the third time around. So if you have a beer, or a cookie, or a piece of pizza, you will not punish yourself with guilt. Just enjoy it, then get back to work on your alkaline water and foods.

Maximize, raw vegetables/fruits, cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil for cooking and try to keep you temperatures lower and cook al dente. Basically once any living food is at 200 degrees F or higher for more than a few minutes, it’s electro-activity dies. That’s a huge reason why raw foods are so beneficial. Their electrons are still vibrant and bouncing which causes a reaction in the cells.

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Here’s my top10 list of superfoods, raw plant-based foods for Psoriasis and diet:

1. Apples – organic if possible (wash well if not to remove pesticides), of all colors and kinds
2. Atlantic Dulse flakes – sprinkle on meals, in guacamole, on salads. Aim for 1-2 tablespoons daily
3. Grapes – organic if possible (wash well if not to remove pesticides), red or black are best
4. Cucumber, Celery and Broccoli (juice the stem for magical anti-oxidants)
5. Garlic and onion
6. Coconut – water, milk, flesh, oil any of it. Drink coconut water in afternoon
7. Avocado (make guacamole with half lime, garlic, onion, cilantro, natural seasoning) and munch down with organic corn or veggie chips, cucumbers, celery sticks, carrots) – try to eat 1 per day if possible.
8. Spinach, leafy greens, eat a salad everyday.
9. Sweet potatoes and potatoes, cook then let cool in fridge for more resistant starch (organic, don’t worry about the nightshades thing)
10. Turmeric and Italian Seasonings (shake on all meals)

Here is my top10 list of powerful herbs to heal:

1. Cilantro
2. Garlic
3. Ginger
4. Parsley
5. Thyme
6. Rosemary
7. Basil
8. Sage
9. Turmeric (with black pepper)
10. Cinnamon

Add them to your salads, guacamole, cooking, smoothies, juices, teas everywhere! They make your kitchen smell lovely too.

It’s so important to remember to NOT measure progress in any one given day, good or bad.

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“you got a little too much sun, huh?” or “Is that poison ivy?”

My favorite, was a recent trip through airport security, the TSA gal asked:

“Oh man, is that chicken pox?”

“Umm, No…it’s Psoriasis.”

“Ok I just wasn’t sure if it was maybe contagious.”

Other TSA guy nearby chips in with: “Yea man, 1 out of every 3 people have that, it sucks.”

“Yea, but I’m healing mine, so it doesn’t suck for me!”

(That just came out of my mouth on instinct, my reprogramming is almost complete!)

Bless their hearts, people care and they are concerned, most are uninformed. I notice that I had developed a hyper-sensitivity towards people when my skin catches their eye. When I talk to a person, and their eyes are focused on my spots, It’s quite a spectacle for me, leading to a train wreck of thoughts. All the while, they may not even be thinking about my skin, its my assumptions most times, a developing complex.

For a long while, during my “why me?” years, I cursed the fact that I have to wear my disorder like a straight jacket, binded to it like padded walls. Always having to come up with a description, break it down, go over what Psoriasis is and move the conversation a different direction softly.

Then of course, the suggestions fly, have you tried this? that? the other thing? “My friend ate coconut shells and his acne cleared in a month”. Once again, this is just people being helpful, but it sometimes tends to become a tad frustrating internally.

In general, us with Psoriasis, LIVE to try anything that will work, anything.

This of course leaves me yearning, thinking about where I may go next with trying things, hygiene, maintenance, itching, scratching, self-consciousness and these thought processes transcend to emotions and run through me, all within seconds…

“I just … Don’t want to think about it!”

There is a social anxiety inherent with Psoriasis

So for years, I covered up, used my oils and creams like a good boy, and a complex slowly crept in. So, as I started my healing practice almost a year ago, I knew it would be imperative to exercise this perception through, that Psoriasis had created inside me…this social anxiety.

To approach this, I have been practicing THREE things that remove this anxiety from my life, as I remove these spots.
1. A daily yoga and inner-thinking session

2. An ‘add’ reaction to negative thoughts

3. I give Psoriasis much less credit
1. I have a routine of about 10 stretches that I do when I wake up. This session takes about 15-20 minutes and during it, I go over my thoughts…and I’ll even talk to myself…like a crazy person. During this time, I go over my task lists for the day, my financial situation, etc…then i breathe those thoughts out, and I think inwardly about the processes of my body and what it’s going through. How can I help my body get more healthy today?

I think only about my heart beating, my bones setting, muscles stretching, lungs breathing, skin working and I sense vitality. I put all the power of my mind towards this thought process, which silences it. I am getting more in tune with my body and how it works.

2. Every time I cheat and eat illegal food I LOOOoove, or have a little flare, itch attack, and I scratch till I’m bleeding (much less these days), which will spin off negative thoughts and emotions; I flip the script in my head to thinking about something I can add to calm my inflammatory response, or trigger, at that moment. I gotta get my hands busy on something constructive.

I’ll grab my liter bottle, fill it up with water, ADD in the pH drops & chlorophyll, and spend two to three minutes drinking it. Eat some cucumber or a celery stalk, to emotionally win. I will not let Psoriasis win over my choices. I will ADD something right now, to help my body.

3. When the conversations come up now, the questions fly, I have an oscar-winning documentary script ready to go. I simply answer all questions about my Psoriasis, without using the word Psoriasis.

“I had a knee surgery in December 2003, I turned very ill after that for about four months, then Poof, a spot of skin on my head and it spread from there. I believe it was a staff infection. That bacteria has harbored in my body progressively ever since living in my skin, and I have allergic reactions to that, which causes my skin to do this, it’s not contagious. I’m fighting off the infection and the rash is slowly going away…”

Now, when I’m talking to people about it, I don’t start off saying, “oh, this is Psoriasis”, instead I’m discussing a temporary bump in the road of my health & life. I give it no credit. Now, my credits roll.

The main weapon is belief. Practice leads to belief. Belief is powerful and only comes with time & practice.
What do you think? Do you carry a complex? Any anxiety to work out? Am I crazy?

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Psoriasis Diet Lifestyle Shift

To move in to a new mindset, one must have Transition & Routine methods firmly established. Stay Practical & Persistent when you approach this methodology. What I am saying is, define clearly your definition of the path necessary to transition a lifestyle Change via routine. Every day, you make a step in the right direction, every day, one less cup of coffee, every day, one less cigarette, every day one step closer to healing your Psoriasis or any Auto Immune (AI) disorder and beyond with your choices.

My personal set of Commandments to Transition a firm lifestyle & diet change, aka paradigm shift, in the mind (which controls everything else in this universe):

1. Break old habits
2. Pretend morning is night
3. Sugar feeds the invader
4. If it’s in the house, i’LL eat it
5. Oxygen is more important than water which is just as important so breath deeply and drink!
6. Lemon and/or Lime are your best friends, get used to the sour
7. Green is the new Red (Think of an avocado as a steak)
8. Get a lil sun
9. Stretch my muscles, or better yet, move em
10. take atleast 5 breaks from my work each day.

Now, remember, before you start to move towards these 10 steps, the first aspect you must accomplish, is being candidly honest with yourself. No one else, just yourself. Take into account your three E’s, Environment | Emotions | Eat before you start practicing these steps every day. This will help measure a time frame on Your own spectrum of health. If you are not brutally truthful with yourself, and moment aware at all times, you will struggle to make it on this path to Healing Psoriasis.

A Warrior’s Story is the Journey, his Honesty is the Map

1. BREAKING HABITS – The art of habit breaking, that is a tough one. We get so stuck in our ways and what we choose to throw in our mouths at record paces. We work hard, we play hard, we live life to the fullest, But, a Psoriatic must overcome a disorder that is in the way. An issue the Immune System needs the Warrior’s help with. In order to get by this huge roadblock in the path, we have to be smart, and proactive. So, I swear, that I will use this blog as my testament to myself  “Ode to Me” and whomever else happens upon it. It will be the Map that I draw, the day I started being completely honest with myself and helped my body heal Psoriasis. That time is now… This is the time. There is a saying that “habits are broken in about 2 weeks”. I say, they can be removed completely on an indefinite time schedule. Just methodically approach the transition.

2. PRETEND MORNING IS NIGHT – From Dawn till Dusk. This is a tough one, maybe the toughest. For me, I was raised eating delicious large meals later at night, from 8-9pm. I carried this conditioning into college and beyond, eating large late night meals, highly acidic in content of course. So, as I engage my T&R plan for healing my psoriasis, this is my main focus of practice. Like anything else in life, wether you were in athletics, dance, band, science club, chess club, PRACTICE was everything, it didn’t make perfect, but it was the potential grabber. It gets you there, where you want to be, with anything in your life. So slowly start moving dinner earlier, move lunch to a brunch. Snack on veggies throughout the day, always have hummus, guacamole, olive oil/apple cidar vinegar/herbamare dips ready. The most difficult aspect, is eating breakfast. I was not brought up eating a timely consistent breakfast, and never have in my life. So, I’m slowly adding something small to eat after my morning liquid routine.

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