1. Winter colds and flu: What you think does make a difference
by Petrene Soames

Last season, colds and flu affected up to 77% of all American households, as reported by Diane di Costanzo in Family Circle (November 14, 2000). Adults get two to four colds and the average child as many as twelve during a typical year according to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and as quoted by di Costanzo. Another important fact that we often ignore is that we have been bombarded for many years during the Fall and Winter seasons with advertising campaigns and statistics that make many of us believe that colds are a normal and inevitable part of the winter season. However, it does not have to be that way. How many people do you know who simply said: "I am not going to have a cold this year, I don't have time for it", and walk through the cold season unaffected? Conscious choice and will power do make a difference.

Stress and taking care of needs

Let's look again at those winter months: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year celebration. These are Holidays times, family times, wonderful times, but periods of high stress for most of us. Our nervous system plays an important part in the well-being of our physical body, and when we are stressed, our bodies become run down. These high stress times are when we strive to make things perfect. We worry the most, overdo things physically, don't get enough sleep, forget meals, find it hard to wind down and relax and don't take time for ourselves. Natural order and flow in our life is replaced by turmoil. Our body becomes out of balance and weakened. Colds happen. We race to the local store, hoping for a quick fix, denying what our body is telling us: "It's time to slow down and take a break". Unfulfilled needs create chaos and imbalance. Our bodies suffer. It often only takes a few minutes to make time for what we need in our lives. Yet it's easy to ignore this and become out of touch with our bodies and our health. Being ill even with the common cold becomes acceptable and normal. Being a little selfish and putting yourself first, instead of last, is not a bad thing. Yet we often perceive it as so. The winter months may also seem dull and dreary. But that's only one way of viewing them. They can also be cozy, even invigorating. Put on some bright colors and take time to do something that makes you feel good now despite snow, wind, rain and gray skies. Remember that if the sun is not shinning where you are, you can travel in your mind to wherever it is and feel great. So visualize that sunny place today.

Staying well and cold free

1. Get in touch with yourself. Take at least ten minutes each day to be still; breathe deeply from the bottom of your stomach; relax and enjoy the wonder and joy of you.
2. Catch up on sleep and accept the amount of sleep that you need to stay well and healthy.
3. Eat a healthy and varied diet. Eat foods that make you feel good. Do regular gentle exercises; even a regular thirty minutes walk will make a difference.
4. Deal with life a piece at a time. Take each day as it comes. Feel positive about the bigger picture and future outcomes. Know that everything is as it needs to be, no matter how it appears right now.
5. Feed yourself a diet of positive news (avoid watching or reading horror, disasters, violence, crime, etc). Invite and allow love into your life. If you are alone, keep working on loving you and the rest will follow.
6. Find ways to express yourself writing, drawing, talking and creating. Remember the action is more important that the result. Enough self-expression will keep you in the flow of life and your body in great shape, balance and cold free.

Take care of yourself today. Fulfill your needs. Don't expect to be ill. Be positive. Express yourself, and let colds and flu be things of the past.

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2. Managing your pain by Petrene Soames

Personal... Pain is personal.
Answer… You need to find your own answers: Why and how to change?
Investigate… Find out what are the bottom issues behind your pain.
No more… Time to say NO MORE PAIN.

Five Tips to Manage Your Pain

1. Question. Ask yourself why you are having and need to have pain in your body and in your life. Make a decision and state firmly and clearly in your mind: No more pain. Decide that it's your reality and that you will no longer accept pain as a part of it.
2. Demand. Be demanding. If you are in great pain and feel you must have medication, insist on the dosage and formula that works best for you. Accept nothing less.
3. Do. Relax into pain. Breathe deeply. Let go of the fear. The less you tense and fear, the less localized and intense it will be.
4. Visualize. Imagine that like a river, the stress, pain, and tension is running away from you. Offer no resistance. Go with the flow. When you are relieved and pain free, breathe that good feeling all through your body to become accustomed once again to that pain free feeling.
5. Hands on. Rub your hands together. They may begin to feel warm. Place them one on top of the other on the area where your pain is. Breathe deeply, relax, tell yourself firmly: "I am letting go of everything I no longer need". You can also move the hands after a while in slow gentle circles or backwards and forwards on the pain area. Pain may just disappear, or it may feel as if you have drawn it out. Be open to all positive possibilities.

3. Breathing... Excerpt from The Essence of Self-Healing

Deep breathing, taking long slow deep breaths from the bottom of the stomach, is a process I mention often throughout The Essence of Self-Healing. To breathe is to live. On a metaphysical level, I use the idea that each time you breathe in, you breathe in the "all that is." And each time you breathe out, you breathe out all that you no longer need. It works. I also mention breathing as an activator of the implosion and explosion healing process, whereby unneeded foreign matter is expelled from the body. On a basic physiological level, we are told that a deep abdominal breath increases the oxygen supply to the brain and musculature and stimulates the branch of the autonomic nervous system that promotes a state of calmness and quiescence. Deep breathing also helps to excrete toxic substances through the lungs.

Breathing is used in many disciplines, such as yoga, meditation and mind control exercises. Different systems have been used in various cultures throughout time. Recently in Russia, for example, two scientists, Professor Vladimir Frolov and Professor Eugine Kustov disclosed a technique and process called endogenic breathing. The theory of endogenic breathing is based on the recent medical research of another Russian, Professor Georgi Petrakovich's hypothesis of breathing. It has been promoted as a way to develop longevity, the increased life span of human beings.

There are also some people who believe that the breath is a life force and that by breathing deeply each day in a specific way we can revitalize and rejuvenate the body and feed ourselves, even to the point of eliminating the need for food. These people are known as breatharians. It would seem there is still much more for us to discover about the breath and breathing.

At this time, I would suggest researching the positive benefits of breathing for yourself by simply using deep breathing in the exercises included in this book. I also recommend taking at least ten minutes every day to breathe deeply from the stomach, preferably outside in the open air. Include deep breathing in your life and observe the positive benefits for yourself; view it as another useful tool in your collection of self-healing techniques.

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4. Vegan Recipe by Etal: Portobello Mushrooms... Yummy!

All the ingredients listed below should be easy to find. Take the recipe as a base, and use your imagination to make it even better! This recipe is so simple!

You need...

• 1 tablespoon of olive oil
• 2 Portobello Mushrooms
• 2 tablespoons of your favorite vinegar
• 1/2 teaspoon of dried dill or 1 teaspoon of fresh dill
• 1 or 2 tablespoons yeast extract (Marmite or Veggie Mite)

Putting everything together...

1. Cut the mushrooms in ½ inch slices
2. Hit the oil and sauté the mushrooms (3 minutes or so over medium heat)
3. Sprinkle the rest of the ingredients and sauté for another 3 minutes

Serve with basmati rice. I also love it as an appetizer with the good old fresh French bread!

Interesting web sites about vegetarianism:

• http://www.peta-online.org/ [People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals]
• http://www.vegweb.com/ [Veggies Unite! - Lots of free recipes]
• http://petrene.com/articles/vegetarian.htm "To be or not to be a vegetarian" by Petrene Soames.

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