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Tito Puente with Alfredo De La Fe, Carlos Potato Valdez and Jorge Dalto.  These guys are so bad ass.  Check the spaced out violin vibes in the intro!

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I stumbled upon this video trippin on a blotter a couple weeks ago and found it quite great at unearthing concepts that have been developing in my mind but not fully realized.  A lot of how we approach problems these days is based on pursuing symptoms and it seems we’re not really interested in getting to the root of a problem because we feel that it can be offset or outsourced to someone else.  I’m into the idea of taking responsibility for a lot of the things that we’ve outsourced to “outside authorities.”  I’ve found that although my western doctors have the best intentions in mind, they aren't the best equipped to heal me.  There’s an economic system that is intertwined with the medical system and each system influences the other so at the end of the day my doctor may be getting rewarded for something other than healing me.  The way we think about addiction is linked to a type of control system that promotes the idea that you need something outside of yourself to solve your problems.  This creates the need for a middleman to take your money and determine your fate.  We empower this system by outsourcing the responsibility for our well-being to others.  While there are people out there that can help you, no one is more in tune with what you need than yourself, now is the time for you to take responsibility for your health.  Your body is the number one source of information about you.  trust yourself.  learn to understand what your body is telling you.  Our bodies have been developing for thousands of years and we have all of our ancestors’ work and everything they’ve learned embedded in our bodies.  Our bodies will tell us what is right for us, we just have to listen.     This cartoon is simplifying a lot of the issues but lets us check out our relationship with the idea of addiction.    There’s a path to “health” and that health originates in the individual but extends to the environment around the individual.  If we look at our natural environment and community as part of ourselves or an extension of our body then we can start to take responsibility for the stuff that affects our life.  We are all interconnected and looking at relationships and the dynamics within them may yield greater results than focusing on specifics.  

Anyway I just wanna share some ideas on different ways to upgrade our experience here and I hope this is usefull if even just to check out some different perspectives.  Peace!  -RK

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Current mood

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some good vibes to start your day from the master Milton.  Such a beautiful tune :)

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Taking it way too far in the best ways possible

https://youtu.be/pP_uHJhQpGY

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Brah! check out Wayne on this one!  

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cool story on the early days of the the Shocklee Brothers and P.E.