CONSTIPATION is a slow movement of nutritional and fiber resources through the intestines such that waste products, which are best for health to be eliminated, remain too long in the digestive tract.

Constipation is NOT hard compacted stool only as regular and loose consistency stool may also be passed by people who are constipated. While there is some variability as to what is healthful and acceptable on an individual basis regarding frequency and quantity of stool excretion, an adult will be healthier if they manage a frequency of once every one to two days comprising a bulk equivalent to the food ingested in the previous one to two days. More often may lead to dehydration. Less often will encourage toxin build-up.

Oversimplification and denial are frequent patterns of perception within over-rationalized authoritarian social structures. They allow us to avoid realities and self-awareness that could preserve us from chronic health problems that rob us of much happiness, energy, and participation. Humility and self-acceptance provide us with the power to work constructively with what we have to an optimal and efficient degree. Anything less, or more, is simply fantasy and illusion.

Constipation and Depression comprise the majority of all health complaints reported and treated by North American physicians for the past 50 years. Without continual medication, those influenced have experienced only minimal and singular improvement. WHY?

SYMPTOMS:
Constipation can induce all of the following inter-related symptoms:

• drowsiness;
• headaches;
• anxiety;
• weight gain;
• flatulence;
• groin pains;
• distended abdomen;
• fatigue;
• passivity;
• forgetfulness;
• depression;
• impatience;
• lower back pain;
• reduced libido;
• joint aches;
• anger;
• increased susceptibility to chronic illnesses.

When digestion slows down, constipation increases.
When constipation increases, digestion slows down.

The intestines are a finite pathway of flexible yet limited volume. If waste products are not eliminated, only less nutritional resources can be admitted without tissues being stretched, and nutritional and waste products becoming intermingled.

Healthfully, resources admitted to the system are continuously processed and advanced along the pathway until their usefulness has been exhausted and their continued presence becomes a burden.

INFLUENCES and SOURCES:
Reasons why a person may become constipated.
They are often inter-related.

• imprinting;
• depression;
• over-refined foods;
• inadequate exercise;
• worm-like parasites;
• unbalanced nutrition;
• energy block patterns;
• side effects of drugs;
• over-under-cooked foods;
• foods unsuited to your blood type;
• subluxations in the back;
• over-intellectualization;
• fungal parasites;
• viral parasites;
• chronic illness;
• concussion.

IF you have examined and maintained a fibre rich diet of foods suited to your blood type and have not been involved in an accident or diagnosed with a chronic illness, nor are taking drugs of any kind, consider the following:

1. Energy-block patterns can induce constipation by tightening the abdominal muscles as a chronic unconscious fear-anger-anxiety reaction. Consider finding out which ones you have and releasing them.

2. Intestinal parasites can colonize areas of the intestines and by their bulk act to block the flow of digestive material and of stool. Consider being muscle-tested for these, taking periodic intestinal cleanses, or trying an anti-parasitic diet of spices, root vegetables, fish, molasses, and cider vinegar.

3. Excessive intellectual activity can produce disharmonious hormone and neuro-transmitter (serotonin) levels which can reduce both peristaltic and digestive actions. Obsessions are often the result of denial or avoidance patterns resulting from energy block control and cultural encouragement. Do others care honestly about you, or, only what you can do for them.

4. IMPRINTING is almost always overlooked as well as the above, by most medical practitioners, and many alternative and holistic health consultants. Imprinting is what happens when we observe consistent forms of behavior in significant other people, such as parents and other figures of authority.

IMPRINTING as a process of learning.
Social bonding to one or more other persons who are significant to us produces an almost hypnotic influence. Confusion and insecurity and need in the receptive person, especially as an infant or child, prepares us for dramatic influence by others who present an image of confidence and direction. Such images of authority, often parents or social leaders in all politically developed societies, provide us with suggestions of power and acceptability for the price of duplication.

We are often persuaded, by the position of the imprinter, that if we can just be like them, we will share some of the benefits we know (by appearance), or assume, by projection, they have. We will have enough food, we will be loved and cared for, we will be sheltered, we will be employed or admitted to a group we consider attractive.

We are most desperate and needy as dependent infants.
Frequently, cultures provide patterns of parenting and socializing that maintain and strengthen this dependency into adulthood as co-dependency.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT or INDUCTION?
It is a rare family or other social organization which acknowledges the personal characteristics of the individual and rewards the development of those "different-than-average" traits. To do so requires an inner strength that most parents lack: self-assertion, tolerance, patience, compassion, humility, self-direction, commitment.

More often, parents are concerned about how their children fit the expectations of other relatives, of neighbours, and of social and business leaders. Their major concern is often the trauma-induced fear of the prejudices of others, who may have the ability to greatly influence one's opportunities, than take pleasure in the possibility of creativity and growth that defines human from machine reality.

Humanity has ignored its own imprinting structures for so long because they represent learning which is non-intellectual. The insecure conscious mind must constantly question in an attempt to sedate its fear of the unknown and the possibility of loss of advantage through loss of control. It has little interest in factors which it cannot embrace and possess, theorize into a strategy of manipulation, and proudly proclaim victory over. So, the immature rational mind is happy in denial of what it is not: Induced Patterning.

INDUCED PATTERNING includes those forms of learning which we are influenced by, without involvement of our conscious mind. We do NOT willfully elect to learn such patterns and attitudes. Involvement-by-association or herding, crowd-mania, energy-block trauma-induced patterns, mirrored observation or imprinting, and, cellular genetic transferred patterns of instinct are some forms of induced patterns.

Many, we can elect to direct IF we are aware of them and resist inclusion from the beginning. Historically, we are usually ill prepared in awareness of what we are involved in and so well patterned before we know what is going on, that we may simply assume that those behaviors are natural and unchangeable. Such an assumption enables the rational thinking structures to simply ignore what they cannot understand and which they fear is too BIG and overwhelming by its automatic nature to be questioned.

An expectation that imprinted patterns are almost unchangeable and that the process of changing them is not politically acceptable and often becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. Chronic cultural depression grows to permeate older cultures as citizens increasingly believe that many situations and patterns are both destructive AND unchangeable. Oneself, one's family, one's nation, one's culture, one's species can all be sources of depressive feelings where an awareness of their destructive history and presence is addressed by hopelessness and despair. Such attitudes encourage the physical state of constipation.

Repetition is the most effective tactic for Reptilian Structure learning.
The more times we hear something, see some process, or have a pattern imposed or impressed upon us --- the easier it becomes to accept, as an expectation. Once it has become an expectation, we have been engineered to REACT to that expectation with a predictable defensive response.

Much of what we learn in infancy and primary school is learned by rote, by repetition: crawling, walking, running, using a toilet, tying our shoes, styles of dressing, drawing, language, spelling, writing, arithmetic tables, formulas, non-verbal language, housekeeping standards. Without the benefit of such basic culturalized patterns, humanity would live life in a social state of individualism similar to perpetual emotional, social, and intellectual retardation.

Imprinting is a POWERFUL political tactic.
It encourages harmony by duplication and order by the group assumption of beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. Yet, what is equally REAL, is that POWER can be utilized for constructive or destructive purposes, for the individual or for the group, or, for the partial benefit and partial restriction of both individual and group. While much of what we learn as "Manners" can be taught, we more often learn it by PARTICIPATING in the standards of routine imposed by others. There are only subtle differences between routine, custom, manners, correctness, ways, habits, traditions, and imprinting.

Unconsciously understood is often an association that by duplication of the acceptable, one will be acceptable. This expectation can become intellectually and emotionally crazy making when the love starved person carries out the requests of a parent, older sibling, priest, teacher, babysitter, peer, employer, spouse, or mentor -- yet still receives the unloved indicators of continuing criticism, denial, anger, demands, accusations, penalties, and, distancing.

These "toxic shame" patterns give rise to both imprinted and energy-blocked patterns of destructive physical health and communication and relationship patterns of misunderstanding, anger, depression, conflict, distrust, separation. ALL of these "depressive" destructive results encourage chronic intellectualization and anxiety, which encourage constipation.

What are the TACTICS of Imprinting?
Many lab researchers know that newly hatched goslings and ducklings will follow and become socially bonded to the first moving object they encounter when other environmental distractions are controlled and minimized.

Konrad Lorenz, in his classic studies of this learning style, thought that the bond formed immediately, that it was irreversible and that it only developed during a brief "critical period" in the first day or so after hatching. Lorenz employed the term "Imprinting" to describe the process by which this social bond of interaction was formed. He implied that during a gosling or duckling's first encounter with a moving object the image of the object is somehow stamped irreversibly on the nervous system. For decades, no one questioned these assumptions.

The Occam's Razor principle, often quoted to justify authoritarian simplicity against the reality of multiple factors and variabilities, is more often wrong than correct. It states that

"whenever a solution to a problem remains confusing and indefinite,
it is the simplest, which is correct."

Is it time yet to take responsibility for our Present and our Future, as individuals, and a species. IF we have any rational capability to be proud of, we must realize that the rest of the universe will eventually set in balance the existence of those lifeforms which integrate best with their environment and each other, against those which do not. We do not have a history of many successes in this direction over the past 5000 years, and, particularly over the past 100. Perhaps we should stop waiting for a mythical supermom or superdad to rescue us from our infancy and force us to be self-respecting adults. To do that, we must understand and acknowledge what we are and what we have and what we can do to improve ourselves as individuals and as a species.

Imprinting is neither rapid nor irreversible.
This has been the finding of Howard S. Hoffman, as expressed in his summary of findings in 1996, at http://animatedsoftware.com/family/howardsh/imprint.htm

Imprinting is a general conditioning process which occurs in many species including humanity. It may be physically authoritarian, using FORCE and FEAR. It can also use the deception of unconscious (hypnotic) suggestions of implied GUILT and PENALTY. Self-deception may build further on these patterns of induction such that PROJECTION makes associations of expected demand and penalty where only a kind request or a personal preference has been asserted. Even further, it may take the authoritarian principle of forgiveness induced guilt as a manipulative tactic. That is, you are "PRIVILEGED" to receive additional chances to conform before the expected tragedy of a penalty is imposed.

The social bond that develops through imprinting entails an addictive process that is mediated by the release of endorphins (the brain's own opiates). Hoffman understands that imprinting works as follows: To be an appropriate target for social bonding an object (a person, organization, peer group, authority) has to provide stimulation that is pleasurable and in this sense, comforting. This will happen when some aspect of the object (for example, its shape or its texture or its motion) has the capacity to innately stimulate the production of endorphins (the brain's own form of morphine). The individual gets a high (joy) from the EXPECTATION of attention associated with a specific pattern of interaction as defined by the parent, peer, or other source.

Human infants receive holding, feeding, cuddling, stroking, singing, talking, smiling, cleaning, warmth, from most caregivers in some degree and for some period of time. It is a normal attribute of all human infants to be curious and novelty seeking, creative and exploring. The more structured and social this environment becomes, the greater are the possibilities of danger, accident, and risk. Thus, it is at the point of parents imposing Control on this process of individuation that Imprinting is most emphatically introduced. The more chaotic the environment and the more sensitive the identity of the infant, the more comforting is sought. This can encourage the development of persons who seek greater attention than less deprived and restricted individuals.

The perception of abandonment can open one's Identity to a susceptibility to build energy-blocks which can impose depressive patterns of social aloofness or social hyper-involvement. Extremes are often indicators of imbalance. Extremes often encourage increased sensitivity and reactiveness, which also encourage faster and more dramatic imprinting. A parent may only need to mention an association once for the child to experience as traumatic the necessity to follow the pattern, or face rejection. "We have no money! I'm going to kill myself," said by a despairing mother to her young daughter, may traumatize the daughter never to have children and/or to never consider that she has enough money or possessions. Yet this situation is the formation of an energy block.

An implied perception of abandonment is different.
It is the statement that a behavior is categorically wrong. There is no explanation given. The statement, or action, is made or taken with such confidence that should the child or member applicant raise a question they are threatened with exclusion. "What! Are you so stupid?" "(Good) people don't do that!" "We (smart) people never/always go there." Consistency of attitude, tone, and wordings to define options of response in frequently occurring situations presents opportunity for Imprinting.

A common behavior for many humans is excretion.
"Going to the bathroom" is the common term for excretion of stool and urine. It is an activity involved in by many people every day, 365 days every year, repetitiously. In North America, it has been a research statistic for decades that women who live in urban areas experience a much higher frequency of urinary tract disorders than those in rural areas. It has further been defined that the major reason for this is the pattern of behavior of many women NOT using public washrooms and holding their urine until they reach home.

Rather than adapt the culture to the species and teach better washroom practices, we adapt the individual to irresponsible cultural practices. Personal health is endangered. Yet no one wants to take a position of leadership in an area of cultural taboo. The mere mention of the subject is expected to result in interpersonal rejection. We are imprinted to be quiet about topics of cultural denial and weakness.

What serves to induce this destructive pattern?
After a few times of the child wanting to go to the bathroom while away from home and being told by their mother that they have to wait until they get home, the child knows what the "acceptable", "preferred", and "tolerated" behavior is. They may not understand why, but they know what is. The sense that their mother fears or hates public washrooms conveys to the emotionally immature child that to like and use public washrooms is to be associated with them. That association brings an expectation of fear (anger) and hatred (rejection) from the parent IF one visits public washrooms. That expectation may even worsen the washroom cleanliness as desperate girls and women rush in, and out, of the washrooms. Induced fear leaves no time for habits of cleanliness imposed at home.

Constipation can simply be the other side of this need.
The child, teenager, then adult -- expects and experiences a form of anxiety and fear in using public washrooms in times of urinary and intestinal distress. It is so common a need and so consistent a mentored response that the automatic reactions assumed often mask the pain and discomfort with endorphins released in acknowledgement of doing something "acceptable" to the parent, and worthy of acceptance, and hopefully love rather than being unloved. Refusing to defecate when the body is ready and needs to, presents a learned destructive response. The body needs to get rid of toxins. The person feels good by retaining them.

If the HOME is the only acceptable place for going to the bathroom, and if the home is a stable location for a longer (more than 6 years, 2200+ times of reinforcement) period of time, the particulars of the HOME may become significant. Moving to another home or visiting other locations for vacations, or on business, can produce periods of constipation. The person's Reptilian Structure may associate a certain size of room, wall covering, pictures, paint color, flooring, odor, degree of lighting, sounds, and presence of others as significant to the pattern of HOME it maintains. This imprinted dynamic now presents a conflict between health and freedom of choice in matters of social interaction.

Changing Imprinting to Choice and Relevancy.
There are a number of ways to modify imprinting. First, it must be emphasized that Imprinting is not Energy Block formation. Know the difference. They are created and constructed differently. The ways of changing and releasing them are entirely different and if exchanged will have no influence or benefit whatsoever.

RE-IMPRINTING is the simplest, longest, and least effective manner of change.
One defines the tactic of using, in this case, public washrooms, and, a strategy of how to do that in an acceptable fashion for oneself. The strategy may include an expectation of finding the washroom dirty and taking with one sufficient wiping paper to prevent a shortage situation. It could include an expectation of flushing the toilet BEFORE use as well as after. It might include an expectation of taking the time to wipe down the fixtures and seating, with wetted paper and soap, followed by drying with other paper, before using. To the extent that activities are planned and expected, the time to carry them out can be rationalized and taken. If less is required, one has reason to be pleased and happy with the saving of time and effort.

The danger of re-imprinting is that it simply overlays the original pattern.
In periods of stress, we tend to fall back on longer-standing primary patterns. If we recognize and acknowledge this, our "failures" can be compassionately overlooked. If we do not understand this reality, we may sabotage our progress by victimizing ourselves and feeling weak and despairing. Confidence encourages pattern learning. Anxiety and despair sabotage pattern learning by introducing the emotions of self-doubt, anger, confusion. Why would we want to learn something which encourages these destroyers and preventers of endorphin release?

REFRAMING is the most difficult and the most effective, though not ordinarily the longest means of changing imprinting into choice. Reframing requires the individual, and perhaps a counsellor or therapist, to reflect and research on and into one's background and determine the realities. This includes determining, as best as one can, the statements and actions that were the original sources of the patterns to be changed. What was said? How many times was it repeated? Were there a number of persons who demonstrated this pattern? What were the implied penalties for not following the standard? What were the real dangers associated with Not following the behavior? What are the real disadvantages of following the behavior, without relevance to the situation?

If you can define where you have been and why you were there, and, you can define where you would like to go and why that direction is an improvement on where you have been, you have an opportunity to use reframing. If you have the understanding of the past experience and how it follows a deceptive and distorted perception, you can mentally re-live those old experiences through the new attitudes you choose and with the new awareness that you have found. This provides confidence, consistency, self-direction, and security within oneself. This enables your Ego and SuperEgo to positively support your Reptilian Structure in exchanging the old habits for the new.

A danger of reframing is that you will fall victim to the Attitudes that accompanied the old behaviors. This can sabotage your efforts. Blaming is a frequent negative attitude. Your parents, in most cases, did their best with what they understood and according to how they were imprinted. They did not set out to make you weak, unhealthy, anti-social, or hyperactive. They made mistakes. Everyone, including yourself makes mistakes. Your focus is relevant here only as far as your responsibility for yourself, your lifestyle, your health, your relationships. If you know your future, as a projection of the patterns that you follow, you can change it by changing those patterns. If your life does not improve, you have mostly yourself to blame.

HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION can be the most effective and fastest form of imprinting change IF you are a good applicant for this approach. Hypnosis, either self- or practitioner-induced, is a method of focusing the attention of the brain on one perceptual and learning topic. One must have confidence and trust in the hypnotist or results cannot be expected. Take the time, often only a few minutes to less than half an hour, to develop an understanding between yourself and them. This can prevent personality clashes, miscommunication, inappropriate post-hypnotic suggestions and wasted time and effort.

It is encouraged here that you take the responsibility for the outcome.
YOU are the client and you know your history better than the hypnotist. You know what you want to achieve or it is without benefit for you to be involved. You are not asking them to make your decisions for you, or structure your life, as they would their own. Disasters happen when clients assume that hypnotists can magically determine wordings which will be relevant to your mind. All minds and personalities are not the same. You are best to know HOW you received your original imprinting and how it fits into your current behaviors. Be critical in determining the EXACT wording of statements you want the hypnotist to transfer to you.

Possibilities on WORDINGS of SUGGESTIONS.

• Don't overgeneralize.
  (NOT: "I want to go whenever I feel like it.")

• Release the old pattern.
  (Acknowledge what it is and that it is no longer required.)

• Use short, direct positive statements.
  (I will ... when ... and when ....)

• Use several statements if addressing several related problem steps.

• Use several statements if attitudes, expectations, and actions are involved and to be defined.

IF this is an appropriate method for you, don't sabotage it by rushing in and having new patterns induced that simply complicate the old ones. A little planning and self-reflection is a great savings over having to undo and redo the hypnotic sessions many times rather than simply repeating them several times.

SUMMARY:

• Imprinting is a Powerful form of learning.
• Constipation is a generalized health problem.
• Resolving a problem can be assisted by understanding.
• To change the reality, know and accept the reality.
• You are the best earthly authority for yourself.
• Imprinted behaviors can be changed.