Archive for April 29th, 2009
You may say, “I already suffer enough pain. What good can it do to inflict more pain?” I have asked you to go along with me in these ideas, and I must ask you to go along with me in this. Yes, you are suffering pain. In suffering pain in the way that you do, you are having an experience of suffering uncontrolled pain, pain that you can do nothing about. Perhaps it is better to say that your mind is having an experience of pain which it can do nothing about. Now, what I want to do is to give your mind a different kind of experience—an experience of pain which it can do something about, of pain which it can control. This new experience will give your mind a basis from which to work. In this first experiment it does not matter if the pain is very slight. The thing that matters is the new experience of the mind in being able to control it.
Inflicting Pain on Oneself-There is no doubt that these exercises in pain would be easier if I were there to inflict the painful stimulus on you for the first time, rather than you having to do it to yourself. But if you will just make a start, you will find that you can do it quite easily.
Instead of inflicting pain on the patient, I sometimes do it to myself while the patient is watching, and then ask him to do it to himself. So now, although I am not there with you, you can let yourself feel that I have just done it, quite easily and naturally. I was completely relaxed. There was nothing complicated about it. Now it is your turn.
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Dark signs—grey to dark wisps, clouds or lines—also testify to an under-function or weakness of the affected sexual organs. Small black points, or grey-black indented marks, are signs for sclerosis, i.e. enlargement. These signs are especially found in the area for prostate gland.
Iris signs in conditions of the female sexual organs: One finds:
i. Ovary: right iris 35′ and left iris 25′—in the third major zone,
ii. Uterus: right iris 25′—in the second major zone,
iii. Vagina: right iris 25′-28′—in the third major zone.
The ovaries, as with the testicles in man, have close connections with the fore-brain. In case of inflammation-signs in the area for ovary (white signs), one often finds similar signs in the opposite brain area. The same may occur with the dark signs of under-activity, where we often find the so-called Brain-Ovary line. The appearance of this line always indicates disturbance of the sex life with effects upon the cerebrum and mind. Patients with such signs are depressed and oppressed.
In this connection, one should refer to the hypotrophic state and deficient development of the internal and external sex organs in both sexes. This condition may be presumed when one finds a patient with short flat finger-nails. In such cases, the deficient development of the ovary affects the nerve life of the fore-brain, giving rise to the following symptoms:
Frontal headache, giddiness, disturbance from exposure to the sun, travel sickness, sense of pressure from headwear, bitten finger-nails and enuresis in children.
All these symptoms can be confirmed, either singly or in association, in persons with flat short finger-nails. Short nails frequently recede behind the fingertips, especially when they are continuously bitten off or torn off. This is pathological, and no child should be punished for the condition. Headaches cease after the menopause. Furthermore, it is found with especially small nails that there are small dimunitive nipples with deficient lactation in childbirth. On the other hand, nature makes up for these deficiencies by giving an easy normal digestion, so that these persons are seldom thin. Usually, they are of a simple homely disposition, a probable consequence of the influenced cerebral function.
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PRESSURE GROUP TACTICS
You and your friends may well have worked out that a change of school policy would help a lot of you cope more easily with the difficult business of being a woman and a schoolgirl at the same time. You might want to persuade the Head to allow you to wear trousers, for example, or to permit you to stay inside in the warm at break and lunchtimes; to opt out of games or to convert an unused space into a rest room or a sick bay; or to persuade the staff to give you a week’s notice of homework so that you can plan your lives. One or two of you may have made tentative approaches about it and been turned down, so you could be thinking of forming a pressure group. If you are, remember that there are rules to the game and you are more likely to succeed if you follow them.
Start by involving as many of your parents as you can. Parents are far more influential than they realize. Then try to involve the seniors as well. Half the girls in the fifth form have far more impact than two lone second formers. Assume that the Head and his/her staff will agree with what you say and be sympathetic. Most of them will be, eventually, and those who aren’t will find it more difficult to refuse you if you approach them confidently and politely and obviously expecting a favourable answer. If you are thinking of a petition, take great care with the wording. Get parents to help you. And if you are using a spokeswoman, make sure you send her to plead for you at the right time in her month. Last but not least, try not to look too fierce! A smile gets results much quicker than a scowl. Good luck!
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