When I was in my late teens we got into gaming. I would buy the latest stuff to game on and was amazed at how cool it was playing electronic games, no one could match me. But I was, and have always been, heavily addicted to cycling on racing-type bicycles. So I always got my fresh air, lots of exercises, did martial arts, and weight training, still do.

Then I found that I really loved computers and for about 6 years I barely left the house. I stayed indoors teaching myself how to write computer software, and then I taught other people internationally how to write computer software. One of my web sites got 40,000 visitors a month, and I interviewed the top software programmers in the Delphi community, and it was all rolling along, but I had to keep at it to stay in the game.

I became very pale, didn’t go cycling, put on weight, got sick, lived a lot on cigarettes and coffee, had about 4-5 hours of sleep a night often.
And while that was going on my wife went to work and I homeschooled our children all day. Homeschooling 4 children daytime, computer programming, teaching, keeping updated 4 web sites that I had written after teaching myself how to do HTML programming for around 6 years all night.
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Then my wife left our 4 children and I. I didn’t know how to cope in the real world anymore because I had not left the house for about 6 years and my mind had been on other things for that period of time. All my friends were Internet friends, all my socializing was on the Internet, all my fun other than with my children was Internet, I had lost contact with the real world in so many ways.
Then I was told that I was going to get emphysema if I kept smoking and my heart was fluttering so bad I could see it through my stops banging away. I was told to back off and take things easy, to stop worrying about others and to start looking after myself, lose weight, get fit, get back to real living.

I gave up programming, gave up smoking, gave up alcohol, became a vegetarian, and a Christian, and with the help of God turned my life around, that was in 2004. I also realised that we have become indoor people and that indoor living is very unnatural and very unhealthy.
Without cars we used to be very physical and walked most places, today in the house and in cars we are unnaturally in the sitting positions for hours on end, if we got to work or school the same.
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When I Fasted, especially during the likes of a 40 day Fast I found that my gums would ache really bad and that I had to chew on something because I was not taking in solid foods. So I bought some chewing gum and the aching stopped. Teeth and gums were made for chewing and if we don’t chew they hurt.
I think that when we are unnaturally in the sitting position for so many hours each day that we are doing our knees and hips a lot of harm because they were made for stress and action, and when we let them rest for many hours and then go to the gym and stress them out we cause an unnatural strain on them and this is probably why so many people get knee and hip operations. Some people never get exercise so they stress their knees and hips etc from doing nothing.
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And what we breathe in our homes, the dust, chemicals, the over-cleaning. Then the eating foods sprayed with chemicals, meats soaked in chemicals, we fill our air with chemicals, we fill our minds with junk entertainment, all this is against human nature and not what our spiritual or physical body was designed for.

The think that I have never gotten into is the Gyms. People run indoors, they cycle indoors, they may develop muscle but they are removing the spiritual experience of running outdoors and cycling outdoors which is the experiencing of the wind, seeing nature, listening to the wind, birds, animals, and going left and right, stopping to catch a breath and talking to people.

All this is part of the new toxic plastic world that we have created, so fake, so dysfunctional, and no unhealthy.
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Wisdom is keeping life simple, enjoying the little things, and being in nature as we were designed to be.
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All the best from
James M Sandbrook.