INDEX
• Diagnosis.
• Prognosis.
• Planning.
• Resources.
• Activation.
• Caution.

  1. Diagnosis

Don't treat what you don't have!
This may sound redundant. Unless you have confirmed the diagnosis, you have nowhere to go, but down. Unfortunately, there ARE a few reasons why some persons WANT to have CFS-ME. I stress here that they are FEW. And if you are one, then you will likely be in denial. What could possibly be the positive to having CFS-ME. Here are a few:

• Wanting attention.
• Needing to feel Special.
• Self obsession.
• Paranoia
• Energy block overload.

Wanting attention.
When a person continues to have some self-esteem while experiencing continual abuse, they often look for attention from any source willing to provide it. If those closest, like family and friends won't give you encouragement or acceptance, why not turn to professionals whose service IS to give you attention. Immature Identity Factors, like an Ego or SuperEgo, can also look for attention as a means of building an Identity.

We often become what we are told so often we will become.
That may be best for us. Sadly, it is often not relevant for our Basic Personality and it may take us decades, or all of our life, to become strong enough to recognize our strengths and set aside what we have become, and those who have MADE us, to become the best we can be! That turning point will never arrive as long as our weakness demands attention, any attention, from others, whether accepting, or excluding.

Needing to feel Special.
Adopting the robe of CFS-ME is not going to give you much positive attention, except by other people with CFS-ME who have decided to, or been imprinted to become losers and give up making an effort. Yes, when it seems that no one has ANY understanding or acknowledgement of your difficulties and you are not allowed to be included anywhere else, a less positive place may be better than none. Why less positive. Unfortunately, yet predictably, for a Package of illnesses which have been around for so long and yet misunderstood and slandered about for many decades, being marginalized becomes a given.

Those with CFS-ME, and some other poorly-understood-by-many states of unhealthfulness, are just as unlikely to understand the possibilities and realities of what they have as those they expect to know. They also may come to believe that they will never recover and that attempt to do so are no better than pouring money down the drain and wasting what little energy and focus they have. Like anyone with an addiction, the apparent ear of another, who may be staying only to offload their story, is more comforting than no one at all. The downside, is that you are being imprinted, and are imprinting those around you with the fantasy and belief that you cannot recover.

Self obsession.
What is the worst thing that can happen to a person with a strong intellect? A problem which they cannot solve! Like ALL strengths, there is an associated weakness. If the weakness cannot be minimized and the strength harnessed, it can lead to irrelevant use. If you use a vice to install a pane of glass, the chances are good that the glass will be broken regardless of how carefully you use the vice. If the person with CFS-ME cannot find acknowledgement, assistance, or recovery ... they may be strongly encouraged to "share" their symptoms and story with everyone they come in contact with.

Healthy people mostly do not want to be around unhealthy people.
There is an inborn sense of danger in what you do not understand and suspect is terrible. Unless you already understand, you may find that this person seems to be dumping their problems on you. And they are! They hope that you know the answers. The tragedy is that even if you do, they may have become so traumatized by this point that they are simply going about a "Poor Me" ritual and are not listening to any options you mention. They may already be convinced that they have tried ALL the available options.

Paranoia
Some persons may be doing paranoia because of biochemical reactions within their bodies. These may be the result of an abuse of drugs, a confusion of drug side effects, one or more Intense energy blocks, a brain malformation or brain injury, years of abusive behavior, or, a long time with CFS-ME and a continual environment of persons who profess to care about you but are always heaping abuse on you and never respecting you. A little paranoia is to be expected when we consider how most people with CFS-ME are treated. A constant paranoia can be something different.

Energy block overload.
In the work that I have done successfully with energy block definition and release with hundreds of individuals over 15 and more years, the primary indicator of significant chronic illness is a threshold total of 145 to 155 energy blocks. When you have reached that total, you either have a chronic illness, or are inviting one. Your inflexibility of attitude and behavior brings more disasters on you by your inability to adapt and your irrelevant rituals. Reminder, energy blocks are like addictions: you don't have control over them. THEY control you.

Often, you may acquire many symptoms as indicators of the influence of specific blocks or layers of blocks. Releasing some blocks will result in a symptom or more disappearing. You might not have CFS-ME. You might have a high number of energy blocks. Find someone who can accurately access Spiritual Guidance or someone who can accurately muscle test and determine how many energy blocks you have. Having a LOT lessens the chance of CFS-ME. Having less than 100 puts you in the majority of humanity.

IF you really have CFS-ME you will have MANY of the Symptoms, AND, you will have a Great desire to Recover. You may be down, but you won't be out, UNLESS, you have had the Package for a time longer than 3 years and have been surrounded by enough negative influences. "Enough" is relative to the Basic Personality and your Personal Spirit. "Enough" to put you over the edge is not the same for someone else.

You can still be salvaged once you are Doing despair, but it will take a strong will, the Tools in this section, and some significant positive influences. The sooner you KNOW what you have and understand it, the sooner you can begin to build the positives. To never know what you are working with and to be grabbing at every straw is a sure recipe for drowning.

2. Prognosis

Testing will provide a basis for your prognosis: options for recovery.
That testing may be composed of general medical, muscle, highly specific medical, or Spiritual Guidance testing.

General medical testing will consist of inexpensive and unreliable tests in regard to chronic illness conditions. Half of all tests of weakened hearts MISS the reality that the person's heart is on the verge of a heart attack. This is because the tests are now often run for 30 seconds versus a duration as long as 20 minutes, 30 years ago. Medical technology and pathology HAS advanced greatly over 30 years, yet it still cannot define an irregularity which only happens once every minute or three .. with a 30 second test!

Muscle testing can be as accurate as the questions are relevant of the tester, the subject cooperative, and the accuracy of the tester high. If the testing person is not double checking most of their readings, they are unaware if they are being confused by the expectations of their Ego, SuperEgo, or, the energies of other persons.

Highly specific medical tests often run a cost of over $100
Most government sponsored and many insurance sponsored testing excludes coverage of these tests. That leaves you, the patient, to pay for tests which may total in the thousands of dollars. They may not all be relevant. Most of them may not be relevant. How can you know BEFORE you spend the money?

Spiritually Guided answers and testing, similar to muscle testing, will rely upon the accuracy of the person ASKING the questions. It is difficult to ask questions about the possibilities if you have no understanding of the condition. It isn't that God does not want us to know. It is that the answer can often only be as good as our question for the sophistication of our communication with God is usually, if not always, relayed to us through an intermediary some call The Holy Ghost, The Calm, The Holy Ghost, the Interplanetary Telephone.

Understanding is only one problem.
Language and the meaning of words to each individual is another.
The more complicated we make it, the more complicated the answer becomes relevant. Complicated can equal confusion, for us. Keeping it simple requires the wisdom to respect the Process, the ignorance of oneself, and the all knowing of the Source.

3. Planning

A Plan WITHOUT Steps is often the best of what a person with CFS-ME has. If your are going to a doctor or therapist or facilitator, you are expecting that THEY have a plan. The reality is that most such persons have little knowledge of CFS-ME, the relevant tests and how to interpret them, or the possible options for use in recovery. The reality is also that if you try to recover from each seemingly obvious illness you have, one at a time, you may be fortunate to recover from one, only to find that you now have a new one or 2 equally serious and chronic illnesses.

If you make an effort and have a direction to go in there is a good possibility that you will recover. It is difficult to do this if one is depending on others to KNOW what is wrong with them, and, depending on others, to FIX them. With few exceptions, you will meet doctors, therapists, facilitators, family and friends who know less about what YOU have than you do, even if you only know the reality of the symptoms.

After a time, this can become despairing.
If your resources are moderate and your career has been important, you will also be coping with the possibility of losing both! Finally, even if you are purchasing every new seemingly relevant supplement and trying out every therapy you hear about, chances are good that you will be spending a lot of money and having high hopes which always seem to go nowhere. You will do much better with a Plan with Steps.

It is the STEPS which will often arise from much experience and research, largely from someone else. Even if you are using Spiritual Guidance or Muscle Testing, you will find the answers you most benefit from by having an awareness about the Package of Illnesses, their effective diagnosis and treatment, and the skills which can benefit you. With a clear head and no distractions it is possible to receive this information from spiritual sources. If you have CFS-ME, you won't have the clear head and you will have plenty of distractions. Add a spouse, and you add 1000% more distraction. For every additional person interacting with you on a regular basis, like children, friends, neighbors, add another 1000%. Much of the time, you will only receive relevant answers with relevant questions.

Relevant questions demand an awareness.
How can anyone ask questions about something they are not aware of yet.
If you don't know what CFS-ME is, what questions are you going to ask.
For almost 2 years after I acquired CFS-ME, I thought I had one serious illness after another. I kept researching and finding ways to recover from that before noticing that I had another one or several equally devastating and life threatening illnesses.

Denial from potential facilitators is an unfortunate realism.
It didn't help to find that the doctors I went to took a try-this-try-that approach, or, a wait-and-see approach. It also was disappointing that many health facilitators suggested simplistic Just-do-this options which were so far behind what I had already done that it was almost an insult. It was even more frustrating when I finally received a diagnosis of CFS-ME from THE sanctioned provincial medical expert at the time, and he concluded that I would NEVER recover ... Just-live-with-it treatment plan.

You have an opportunity in these pages to use the Tools to put together a Plan by which you can use the minimal energies available to you efficiently and effectively to extend your Resources and make your recovery. If you are like many of us, you don't have a huge savings, have used some of your credit, and won't receive more than 50% of your investment back on any asset you sell. The Reality is that the longer you are ill, the longer you will have no income or minimal income.

If your expenses remain at minimum, it will mean that you are making a minimal effort at recovery. It costs money to take supplements, drugs, see therapists, and have someone put you on a Protocol and oversee it. The Gambler takes a risk on what they Wish will work, even though they are aware that their chosen option does not work for most people most of the time. They make the minimum effort and bet on miracles. Choosing to be a one-in-a-million is little short of Denial. What THIS package of info can enable you to do is to make well informed choices of WHERE, WHEN, and HOW to use any finances you have.

4. Resources

Resources exceed the financial!
For many of us, dollars and cents will NOT pay for our recovery.
Now is the time when you will reap the benefits of how selfish or charitable you have been through your Past. This is both on a Spiritual level and on a physical-emotional one. If you have been supportive, concerned, sincere, and loving towards others .. there is some potential for them to assist you now. HOW you present this to them is the difference between your asking them to assist you and your shaming or guilting them into participation. You only want what is best for you. That is what others are freely willing to provide, NOT, what you believe you desperately need. You don't need their negative energies directed at you along with their services. Make a list of HOW others can help. NEVER, and I seldom use that word, expect others to do anything.

Persons who are very self directed and giving often make up a majority (i.e. 60%) of those with CFS-ME. If YOU are one of these, one of the biggest hurdles you may be best to negotiate is learning to ASK others for their help and not be apologetic about it or feel worthless because of it. Is that how you wanted others to feel when you offered your help to them? Is there a double standard here? Why? Get over it! There are many SMALL things which others can do to bring hope and assistance to those with CFS-ME. Here is a short list:

• Come over and read a newspaper or magazine stories to you.
• Delivery of foods or supplements you have phoned and paid for.
• Reading to you this info or other for 10 to 30 minutes.
• A ride to OR from the office of a doctor/therapist/facilitator.
• Picking up book rentals requested from the library.
• Minor repairs, replacing filters or bulbs from your supply.
• Tell you what has been happening in their life/at their job.
• Bring over a casserole or salad and/or share a meal with you.
• Vacuuming or washing some or all of your floors or windows.
• Doing a load of laundry .. not ALL of your laundry.
• Watch a movie or TV show with you.
• Let you borrow some music from them for 2 days.
• Pick up and share food (fruit, burger, pizza)
• Give an old computer to you or buy a second-hand one.
• Buying a DVD player (as little as $28 in 2009)
• Buy this Package for you, or, pay for a month of Internet access.
• Buy a Joyce Meyer DVD or CD for you & them to share.
• [add your own selections]

Resources determine your options.
They do not decide on what you will use.
Unless you are flush with assets and cash, a sincere Recovery will be benefited from selecting carefully what will be best for you, how often, and at what times. With a Diagnosis, an understanding of what you are working with, a Plan, and a consideration of the Steps towards your recovery, it is now time to begin Doing Getting Better.

5. Activation

Putting your Plan into action often involves working with others or having others assist you with some of the work.

• Become as independent as possible.
• Buy good quality second hand when available.
• Sell whatever you haven't used in 3 years.
• Set a budget for 3 years for basic expenses (food/rent)
• Add as much more to the budget for health recovery.
• Consider that the faster you recover, the more you save.
• Recognize that, often, spending more can mean faster recovery.
• Determine which tests are best to be run for YOU.
• Phone and find out where and who can take these tests.
• Ask if they have worked with people who have CFS-ME?
• Find ways of getting to the places you want to go.
• Adjusting for available transportation time, set appointments.
• Review some TOOLS and Spiritual Principles each day.
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6. Caution

Our Expectations and Assumptions can drown us!
Expect less from others than you would from yourself.
Assume less from yourself than you believe is possible.
Be JOY-filled anytime these limits are surpassed.
Don't sabotage by constantly raising either of these factors to the latest highest level of return, UNLESS, you KNOW you are recovering. Many times, persons with CFS-ME can have a therapy session, follow a protocol for a time, do a detox, or, simply benefit from a period of low negative or high positive stress input.

Persons with CFS-ME may be up and around and doing things they have been unable to do for many days. Often, this interim will be short. A few hours or a day or two may not extend into weeks and months if you PUSH too hard. IF you KNOW you have done something significant which could result in your turning the corner from constant fatigue to constantly available energy, then note that and KNOW that you have no urgency to rush it and impose FORCE on it. This reads simply, yet I know from experience that it is easier to read and say than to do. Particularly from my past successes, I many times thought I HAD turned a corner to better health. Within a few hours, a day, or several days .. I was back to my worst; sometimes even worse than before.

There is no Perfect Environment!
Every option has both benefits and negatives and these become even more clearly defined and significant when you are without an income, have little energy, and may be living by yourself. We had moved to a new location in hopes of beginning a new income generating venture. We short-term rented intentionally to give ourselves time to become familiar with the larger area and the possibilities. We ended up moving to different locations (off season rentals) on erratic periods of 3 months, 6 months, 2 months, 12 months, etc. We kept hoping that we would be recovered before the next move.

The timing of the moves was not always our option to plan for as owners several times either requested their rentals back early, for their own use, or, offered rental extensions, in accord with changes they were making. Rentals frequently mean that you may be at the mercy of the noisiness and unpleasantries of your neighbors, just as it can mean you benefit from their calm and kindness. Ownership can smother your assets, require untimely repairs, and fall just as easily and readily as raise in value. Having to sell anything in a market of falling values, which is more often to happen if your income is interrupted long enough, is like throwing the money away.

To lessen the stress of panic moves, we bought the best mid-sized mobile home we could find after 2-1/2 years and 6 moves. We found, a move is always a panic no matter how much you plan. With CFS-ME, we were always doing our best to pack, clean, and load up with our energies gone before we finished and our mental fog making co-ordination and consistency overwhelming. We DID our research, used the services of a house inspector, and, chose the one with the best surrounding environment, most central to all of our "local" therapists and resources, and, appearing to be best finished for the age and price.

Sabotaged by mind fog and fatigue, I missed "hidden" elements I had the knowledge and experience to evaluate. Over the next 2 years, we "renovated" the house to fix two major problems, a host of minor ones, improve the healthfulness and lower the maintenance, and, eliminate the fear of a likely major plumbing problem. We traded one form of major negative stress for another. It didn't add to the length of either of our recoveries. It DID make sustaining our health from further and faster decline more difficult and it DID make sustaining our recovery more complicated.

Rent or Own: Make it your own.
The best environment you can have is to make where you are as much to your liking as possible. Your liking is best to include having something that is as low in maintenance as possible and as high in health promotion factors as possible. The higher the maintenance, the more you will be required to pay someone else to do it. IF your house or room or apartment enhance your illness, it is like paying for therapies and supplements so that you stay the same and don't become worse! Here are some considerations:

• orderliness
• cleanliness
• carpets replaced with laminate
• pictures you like on the wall
• herbal oil essences
• change room functions
• second hand furniture & accessories