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Jost Sauer.

JOST Sauer writer, therapist and lecturer in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).


Jost Sauer is an acupuncturist, therapist and a one-time speed-addict, smuggler and deserter. Born in 1958 in Germany, Jost undertook studies in Social Pedagogics before arriving in Australia in 1981. After many years working in the field of youth drug and alcohol counselling, he completed a Bachelor of Health Science in Acupuncture, an Associate Diploma in Oriental Massage and certification in Sports Injury Management, Structural Balancing and Deep Tissue Massage. He has also studied Rolfing, Reiki and Body Harmony. Jost has been a practising therapist since 1991 and lectured in Traditional Chinese Medicine for a decade in Brisbane. In addition to his own drug-taking experiences and academic qualifications, his work is based 20 years of spiritual practice. He is committed to health and healing on every level and has been undertaking a two-hour daily regime of exercise, chi-gung and meditation since 1985. He regularly presents meditation workshops and public seminars and his current area of research is the impact of recreational drug use on the body, mind and spirit.

Happily drug-free for twenty years now, he has enabled thousands of people to understand drug experiences, both good and bad, and recapture excitement in life via a unique blend of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Energy Medicine, Tai-chi, Meditation, Martial Arts and Western exercises.


Jost has operated several Health Care Centres, but has also worked privately as a therapist in USA and Malaysia. He has treated over 30,000 patients to date and, drawing upon this experience and his diverse training, he has understood the importance of a holistic approach to healing. In his therapeutic work he is now focusing on one-on-one intensives aimed at accelerating recovery and generating health and happiness.


Jost has been studying and playing music since 1968, initially learning classical piano and classical guitar and later flute, saxophone and synthesizers. He played in several bands and performed semi-professionally during the 1980s.

By the mid-nineties he began the study and practice of electronic music, researching in particular the connection between the frequencies of healing and the frequencies of musical chords. Working in his own recording studio he composed and produced unique experimental New Age music which he used to assist patients transcend into the deeper layers of the mind or to evoke emotions needed for the emotional-release process. These CD’s became an integral part of his healing work and allowed the process to continue when the patients listened to them in their own time.



Jost believes that we are destined to seek perfection, that this is our reason for being in this world. However, this requires self-healing and training and he follows the Daoist philosophy of pursuing perfection through daily practice in all aspects of life - from health to spirituality to creativity. Besides his daily practice of Chi-gung, meditation and holistic fitness, Jost also dedicates an hour a day to improve his musical skills.

Higher and Higher
From Drugs and destruction to health and happiness.

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Why people get ‘the munchies’ or feel paranoid on marijuana
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Why acid trips can feel so good — or so bad
Why total strangers bond on ecstasy
Whether drugs can enhance your spirituality
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THE BODY-MIND OF DRUGS by Jost Sauer

From the body-mind perspective drugs feel good because they create a temporary union of body, mind and spirit. If the process of recovery does not capture this sense of union it can result in a feeling of chronic lack - as if something crucially important is missing in life. This is a major contributor to the cycle of addiction. In TCM quality of life and a sense of fulfilment is dependent on the effective functioning of the organs. As drugs
temporarily and artificially enhance the function of organs, they produce emotional, physiological and spiritual states in accord with the true nature of the organ.

So drug highs also offer first-hand experiences of our organs in peak-performance. We all know
how good it feels when we are operating under peak-performance, life is worth living and we feel complete within ourselves. Humans are programmed to realize our highest potential so you could say that it is peak-performance which is the real addiction.

Athletes are addicted to this as are many business people or high-achievers. In the drug context, someone who might be shy, introverted and socially fearful can, on drugs,
suddenly become confident, strong and outgoing. These experiences become a reference point stored as memory in the Human Energy Field (HEF), just as winning a race does for an athlete. This can impact upon the drug-user for life because they link these great states to the drug and then chase it relentlessly through substances.

I feel as if I spent
twenty years of my life chasing the initial exhilaration and excitement of my early drug experiences. However, like other heavy drug users I ended up emotionally empty, stagnant and depressed for a very long time after quitting. This is partially due to organ depletion caused by drugs, but also because in body-mind medicine the reference points
from those awesome drug experiences are stored in the body-mind and now operate as active memories to remind ex-users what they are missing. In order to counter this, organs need to be built and trained to reach peak-performance state again to match those
memories.

From the body-mind perspective this is a crucial factor in healing substance addiction and in helping people avoid turning back to drugs. Once people give up drugs, most think that their life will return to ‘normal, that drugs were ‘the problem’. But things will probably not return to normal, at least not in terms of the way their life was before drugs. The person is different physically, spiritually and emotionally and this will change their world view significantly.

Heavy or long term recreational drug use dehypnotises people
from society in the same sense that therapy can but with recreational drugs the process is not guided by a professional and unable to be processed. In addition the person is physically depleted and drained and, as society is not educated to understand what ex drug-users are going through, partners, parents and friends also react inappropriately. One simple example is that recovering addicts, feel overwhelmed by having too many options
and find themselves unable to do anything or make choices. Life after drugs is often the beginning of a very hard period of physical, spiritual and emotional readjustment.

 

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Many ex drug-users feel alienated and alone and, in addition to their heavy emotional pain, it makes recovery so challenging that many people simply can’t handle it and relapse back into drug use.I believe that the inability to experience that blissful feeling of union again after drugs is
why many people return to drugs. The body-mind connection is the missing link. The body needs to be repaired in line with the mind to avoid a separation of the two. From the body-mind-spirit perspective, drug-highs work via the body, they originate in your
organs. Drug-highs are awesome ‘gut’ feelings, you really feel drugs like cocaine and speed in your organs. So drugs provide a conscious experience of body-mind awareness
as on drugs you feel your mind and body as one. It’s a union that easily surpasses sexual experiences. Orgasms are elusive, you can’t grasp them, but on some drugs (really good ones) it can feel like a six-hour orgasm that you can grasp. Drugs take you into an
emotional realm so intense that most non-drug users simply can’t imagine it. The highs seem unlimited. Way beyond anything experienced in normal life. In the seventies in Amsterdam and in Berlin, when LSD was pure and speed and cocaine were uncut, I had extraordinary drug experiences.

Like everyone else I assumed this was a result of the
action of the drug. But my decades of research since then, into TCM, spirituality and body mind medicine, has made me realise that there are no limits to what we can experience internally without drugs and that a deep natural union derived from internal
practices feels much more real, more intense and more addictive than any created by drugs.

Body-mind awareness and union is derived from practices such as Tai-chi, Chi-gung, Aikido or Yoga and correct diet, prescribed herbs and powerful supplements. This facilitates union. The practitioner surrenders to the natural function of his/her organs allowing them to becomes one with the creative forces of the universe rather than letting
their mind create reality. Ideally this is how we would all live but unfortunately, seeking inner union in the West is a difficult process. We have developed a separation between body and mind which we inherit during our formative years and which then leads to
resisting the actual process later in life when we decide to go ‘within’. Drugs override this split and our inherited resistance and provide union instantly. We experience true purpose in life and drugs take over the role of spirituality and spiritual practice.

But when the destruction from drugs reaches the point where we need to stop, we are faced by devastating withdrawal symptoms and a gloomy future, of being an addict for life medicated with methadone or antidepressants. I had nearly fifteen years of other people
trying to convince me that this was my future and that my addiction was an untreatable disease. That didn’t feel right to me but I couldn’t articulate why. Now I see that simply stopping the drug is not the full answer because this doesn’t create union and life after
drug requires union of body, mind and spirit, otherwise drugs continue to control your inner and outer life.

In the body-mind of drugs, as a drug user you don’t only collect positive reference points from drug highs, but also negative reference points which are also stored in your body- mind and these need to be addressed as well. A very common negative reference point is
developed from the interaction between drug users and family members. In all my years as a therapist I have never met a parent who said to me they were delighted that their son or daughter was doing drugs. The contrary is the norm; parents and family members of drug users often hate drugs with a passion. The irrational and abnormal behaviour
patterns resulting from heavy drug abuse in their children establishes a battleground for aggression, pain and verbal or physical violence.

Young drug users in particular are
repeatedly exposed to statements confirming that they are hopeless, useless, a loser, and these too become reference points stored in the body-mind. The ex-user is caught in a situation where they will be plagued with an inner negative voice whenever they deal with progress in life. This could be when exercising in order to build the body or when doing something like signing up for a college course to further education. The voice in
the head criticizes any attempt to improve and to do something about your life.

In my
experience this can make people give up, feel defeated or go back to drugs because that makes the voice shut up for a while.

Drug users often put the drug-free life on a pedestal, it becomes their holy grail. Drugs have brought so much misery and pain that a drug-free life is envisaged as blissful and perfect. However, after some time without drugs, the user is faced with the fact that life
after drugs is more difficult and painful than they ever imagined. They have memories of unbelievable highs, they are plagued by the negative references which jeopardise their attempts to rebuild and in addition they have to face a social environment that has
absolutely no comprehension of how they feel or where they have been. This is why when giving up drugs it is essential to find a technique to grasp union on a daily basis and to continue the journey the drugs have initiated.

The union of body and mind requires
daily actions that have to become routine. In my period of speed addiction I woke up every morning to take drugs. I didn’t wake up and think of work or feeding the cat or paying bills. A drug addict wakes up for union of body, mind and spirit because everything else in life is meaningless. Life after drugs has to look exactly like this. Every day you wake up for union, you don’t do it just on the weekends or have an acupuncture
session once a week.

Life after drugs means chasing union all day long as your sole
purpose - just like the addict.

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LIVING IN HARMONY WITH THE 24 HOUR CHI-CYCLE
by Jost Sauer

A Chinese proverb says, ‘We are like a piece of wood that needs to be carved every-- morning. If we don’t carve ourselves, someone else will do it for us’. If you want to create success and follow your dreams you need to ‘carve yourself’, otherwise your path will be directed by external conditions or other people’s needs. Traditional Chinese Medicine has established that Chi moves through the twelve organs and five elements in
a regular cycle and to ‘carve yourself’, by building Chi and strong organs, you need to live in harmony with this cycle.

24-HOUR CHI CYCLE

METAL ELEMENT
3:00am – 5:00am Lungs
5:00am – 7:00am Large Intestine

EARTH ELEMENT
7:00am – 9:00am Stomach
9:00am – 11:00am Spleen

FIRE ELEMENT
11:00am – 1:00pm Heart
1:00pm – 3:00pm Small Intestine

WATER ELEMENT
3:00pm – 5:00pm Bladder
5:00pm – 7:00pm Kidney

FIRE ELEMENT
7:00pm – 9:00pm Pericardium
9:00pm – 11:00pm San Jiao (Triple Heater)

WOOD ELEMENT
11:00pm – 1:00am Gall Bladder
1:00am – 3:00am Liver

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as having a physiological function, each of your organs also has a spiritual and emotional function. Accordingly, each morning, when the Chi is in the Metal and Earth element, you have a window of opportunity to start shaping
your life. Metal is about embracing the new by letting go of old conditioning and Earth is about operating as an independent individual by building Chi and Blood. So, depending on what you do between 5:00 and 9:00am, you can either shape the day ahead and your
destiny, or let others shape your life for you in accord with their needs. To shape your day yourself and prevent others shaping you, you need to do a body–mind–spirit workout during the Metal element and Large Intestine time (5:00–7:00am) and then have a Chi
and Blood building breakfast during the Earth element and Stomach time (7:00-9:00am).

This sets in place a chain of positive interactions within the five element cycle. Earth
nurtures Metal (control), Metal nurtures Water (Jing), Water nurtures Wood (happiness),
Wood nurtures Fire (joy) and Fire nurtures Earth (independence).

If you make a commitment to developing and improving yourself at this time each day it will automatically improve everything in your life. It sounds simple enough, but the important things are never easy to do and living in accord with the Chi cycle will bring
you face to face with discomfort. With our 21st century lifestyle of high stress and nutrient-poor diets, many people have lost their relationship with natural rhythms and
replaced them with bad habits. These range from the physical, such as staring at a computer screen until 2:00am and drinking coffee and eating chocolate to stay awake night after night, to the psychological, like refusing to take responsibility for the self.

This has an adverse affect on the organs and it makes early rising and regularity even harder to do. No one likes discomfort, and much of our Western lifestyle is based on avoiding it at all costs, but discomfort is a part of life — no matter how sophisticated we become technologically this will not change. The trick is to embrace discomfort because
in the long term, facing the discomfort of getting up early, of learning to eat well or of exercising routinely is much easier than dealing with the more serious discomfort that will inevitably arise if you don’t do this. If you want to feel great it is important to get
natural rhythm and routine back into your life. This provides a stable framework for development and allows you to build Chi or energy.

 

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In the West, most people do not realise that everything we do costs energy and that we don’t have an unlimited supply. If we don’t make an effort to conserve and build our energy by living, thinking and acting in a manner that is beneficial to us, our energy
stores will be drained. Then we can become emotionally weak, vulnerable and reactive.

This is when other people start shaping you and life can spiral downwards into negativity and ill health. I experienced this several times myself as a result of taking too many drugs, by not dealing with my own pain and then by over-work but, based on my years of
experience as a therapist, I believe that every one of us can reach this point via one means or another. Scores of my patients have ended up in the same state but due to external factors such as family dramas, the death of a loved one, divorce, accidents and so on.

The internal imbalances that arise from the unprocessed pain and trauma of these external factors can be just as destructive as those derived from an inappropriate lifestyle.

However, if you live in a way that conserves and builds your energy, it can correct existing imbalances and create a base from which you will be able to deal with future traumatic events in a manner that will limit the development of blockages in your Energy Field and prevent a downward spiral starting. This kind of lifestyle is based on routine
and includes exercise, meditation, Chi-training, goal setting, a healthy diet, nutritional supplements, therapy, and beneficial sexual practices. Then the organs will have abundant Chi and function perfectly and you will feel great physically, spiritually and emotionally.

The Body - mind - spirit workout

This workout inclued elements of Eastern practices such as Tai-chi, chi-gung or yoga, because there are no equivalent Western practices for this kind of inner energy work, as well as Western exercises. Thus the body-mind-spirit workout fuses the 'internal' practices ofr the East with the 'external' practices of the west.

While I recognise that these eastern practices cover full body-mind-spirit development, I have found that many of my patients and students resist some elements of the discipline, so they are not able to gain the full benefits of this practice.

This work out is designed for the body-mind constitution of the west. It particularly targets deficiencies, blockages and stress, three health conserns in current western societies.

5.00am

Step 1; 10min Get up, drink water ( 2 liters )
Step 2; 20 mins stetch
Step 3 ; 30 min Meditate
Step 4-6 60 min, Chi Training (tai chi or yoga ect..) endurance, and waights
example,

4 - 20 mins tai-ch or yoga
5 - 20 mins of cardio like tai-bo, running or swimming ect...
6 - 20 minutes of heavy weight lifting ( monday chest,shoulders, tri, tuesday- legs and abs- wednesday - back and bicepts then repeat for the rest of the week)

Step 7 ; 5 mins focus your energy ( Goals, affirmations)
Total 2 hours a day to build health and happiness

Do you want to feel happy ?
We all want to feel good, and we all want to be happy.


Food has a direct impact on your well-being
The food you consume has a direct effect on your ability to function, to absorb and process information.

This is the diet I have found to be effective and energetic.

Breakfast
Breakfast is a crucial meal which should be consumed between 7.00 and 9.00 am when the Chi is in the stomach. Later than this is not benefical, because from 9.00 to 11.00 am the chi is in the Spleen. If you haven't eaten a proper breakfast by then the spleen, which has to provide you with Chi for the rest of the day, has nothing to draw . It will be forced to from your Jing instead.

I recommend long-chained sugers such as porridge or congee for breakfast. Have some high quality protein as well. This is particularlyimportant if you are doing a workout. My breakfast is a protein shake followed by porridge made from organic oats. I avoid fat,suger, white flour products and highly processed breakfast cereals. Sit down to your breakfast in a calm environment.

Lunch
Between 11.00am and 1.00pm the Chi is in the Heart, and between 1.00 and 3.00pm the Chi is in the small Intestine. Would recommand eating lunch between 12.00 and 1.30 pm. This is when Yang peaks, so it is the best time to eat your main meal, with your main protein intake for the day, as protein requires Yang to digest.

Becaurse this is Heart time it is important to eat with joy. Eating lunch under stress ( like at your desk at work) effects the Heart adversely. Then imbalances of the Heart such as anxiety, insomnia, depression and unsettled and restless mind develop.

Food that is cooked and warm is ideal for lunch.
From my experience, a benefical lunch would be a combination of rice, which nourishes and nurtures the Spleen ( white rice is preferable as many people cannot digest brown rice properly), protein such as lamb, beef, chicken, fish, or beans and a good serving of vegetables. As a rule of thumb, green and orange vegetables are best. Asian style meals often have the perfect combination of these elements

I avoid foods that contain cheese and large amounts of fat, or cold or raw foods as they are taxing to the Spleen. I also do not eat pasta and sandwiches at lunch time, as wheat has a high concentration of an amino acid which is used to treat insomnia, so if you eat wheat products it is best to do so in the evening. if you have foods such as pizza or cheesy, creamy pasta for lunch, I can guarantee that your ability to focus and concentrate in the afternoon will be impaired. You will be tired, have short attention span and will fell unproductive.

If you suffer from low energy lows in the afternoon and need a 'sweet' snack, I would recomment seasonal fruits or dried fruits and nuts.

Evening meal

If you have eaten a good breakfast and lunch at the right times, the timing of your evening meal is not as important. The main thing is that you should finish eating at least two hours before you go to sleep.

The evening is yin time, so you need to eat a Yin-nuturing meal. This means eating light foods that are easy to digest, rather then fatty foods or even the lunch meal, with it protein that requires yang to digest.

If you eat a a heavy meal like that in the evening, you body uses the energy that is required for a deep , nurturing sleep to digest the food instead. This can contribute to the development to sleping disorders.

If you want to cook an evening meal, it need to be no more than steamed rice and vegetable, otherwise wholesome bread and salade would be good


Wholemeal is good 2 hours befor you sleep as it is natural cure for insomnia

, nuts, wholemeal bread, dates and potatoes are rich in an amino acid tryptophan (chemical messenger in the body), which on reaching to the brain approximately an hour later it releases serotonin (hormone) that helps you relax. Large meals should be avoided at least four hours prior to going to bed and avoid caffeine and nicotine. Drinking alcohol before bed may also lead to problems since once the alcohol is metabolises it disrupts the restorative levels of sleep.

Calcium, magnesium and zinc as well as vitamins B6, B3 and C supplements can help calm the nervous system and so help treat insomnia.

The actual set-up of your room may also effect your sleeping habits. Avoid bright colors and different patterns in the room and radios and alarm clocks should be kept at least three feet away. Soft calming pastel colours are the best and there should not be a drastic difference in the patterns of your bedspread, curtains and carpets. Place your bed near a wall and it is best if you can see your bedroom door (directly or through a mirror). Your room should also be tidy before going to sleep. Use dim lighting (or candles), have adequate ventilation and the room should be at a comfortable temperature. The most important aspect of your room, regarding a good nights sleep is your bed. A good-quality mattress and pillow are essential. It is recommended to replace your bed every ten years.

Establishing a routine before bedtime is a good way to program your mind ‘that it is time to sleep’. Several ways to’ let go’ and relax before bed is not going to sleep right after work or watching TV in bed. Getting a massage with calming essential oils will increase the effect, taking a warm bath, having sex, drinking a warm cup of herbal tea or taking a herbal supplement. Go to bed and wake up at the same time every day and try reading or listen to soft music before going to bed. Finally, try burning camomile or frankincense in an oil burner for about an hour before bed.

Diet is a complex area, and the 'best' foods for each person vary depending on constitution, state of health, lifestyle, ect.

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