HEALTH, TEETH, and,

  COPING SKILLS #2

SERIOUS DEBILITATING SYMPTOMS presented at a most inopportune time. I had been careful in my physical activities. My diet had been stable for a time. I was optimistic about the future. What could be wrong?

ENERGY BLOCKS.
I have learned that whenever traumatic events happen to check for energy blocks. It would have had to be a miracle for me not to have any when faced with such a sudden decline in health. I tested myself, found several new and moderate blocks, and released them. I knew that more of something would be necessary. The best combined Balancing Therapist and Chiropractor I knew was too far away and too costly for my low budget.

DELAYS seem to always happen when you must rely on the actions of others or work with insufficient resources. I couldn't see my General Practitioner for almost a week. The local chiropractor's assistant said he would call me on the Monday to arrange something. Through a misunderstanding, nothing happened until the next Thursday. By then, I had written a letter to Social Services and the government begging for a few dollars to help me get to doctors and recover in time to take the job. Bureaucratic delays meant that monies set aside were first lost, then, delivered 10 days later --- AFTER the interview.

WE ALL HAVE EXCELLENT MEMORY but with age our ability to recall typically worsens. Usually, energy blocks built from past traumatic experiences simply provide us with an amnesia to protect our emotions and conscious awareness of, and constant re-living of such experiences. Almost anyone under the influence of hypnosis can remember the smallest detail from their past ... so the memory is there. Toxic accumulations in the body can also distract, cloud and confuse our brain so that recall is made more difficult.

RECALL ABILITY can be permanently altered by some drugs, herbs, hormone levels, mineral imbalances, toxins, parasites, fungal infections, and viruses ... sometimes depending upon one's age. Physical development between conception and age 4 are very sensitive periods for growth or permanent damage due to deficiency, excess, or exposure. I had severe allergies from my pre-teens onward. Work had to be done. Anti-histamines were the only choice offered. Normal doses had NO effect, so I increased the dose until it worked.

THE OVER-THE-COUNTER DRUG I took then is still on the drug store shelf today.
Many people, including myself at the time, assume that such drugs are "safe" so no size of dose should be harmful. Twenty years after I began taking it, details were released to the public that chronic use of it would lead to permanent diminished brain function for memory (translate as "recall"). After many years of trying various speed-reading and memory enhancement systems to no avail, I understood why I couldn't "remember" for exams.

I developed excellent analytical and organizational skills to compensate.
I don't remember past experiences unless I trigger an association to them. It usually then takes my personal records to "re-mind" me of the particulars. As I write this now, I have had to drag out my past records and analyses for the details.

THE MISSION IN LIFE which each person has is matched to the uniqueness of that person's personality. Perhaps someone else would have "remembered" some of the similarities sooner and had better questions and answers sooner. And, perhaps with my financial resources they would have been more despairing, angry, frustrated, and less persistent in their attempts to recover. With greater financial resources, they could have bought services and used more expensive approaches which an increasing population of lower income people cannot consider. And, with less devastation, they could have recovered sooner and been less motivated to share their experience to assist others in avoiding the problem. For the answers to some questions now, I will refer you back to earlier parts of the report.

"The Joy of GINGER", an article by Sharon Crawford, I read later in the April 1999 issue of Vitality Magazine, pages 18-22. She notes various sources both recent and dating back to 3000 B.C. which credit ginger with properties which prevent or reduce ARTHRITIS, heart disease, nausea, sea-sickness, shellfish poisoning, blood clotting, KIDNEY malfunction, skin cancer, menstrual cramps, INDIGESTION, parasites, body odor ... and encourage food preservation and spiritual cleansing. Note that different spices often have high concentrations of different vitamins, fatty acids, and hormones. Ginger is high in VITAMINS A and B and also has a prostaglandin hormone inhibitor. As you can see, being prescribed "ginger" could suggest quite a number of apparently unconnected ailments.

MY PERSONAL REMEDIES over much of the last decade, I again emphasize, I have mostly derived with the aide of Spiritual Guidance through a form of active prayer-meditation. Initially, an EFFECTIVE, experienced, self-trained herbalist-iridologist provided me with a diagnosis and a personal package of herbs, vitamins, minerals, tonics, and cleansers. That gave me the insight to be able to know what to question my Higher Self for in terms of ingredients, from where, taken when, and at what dose.

I DID NOT ALWAYS KNOW what question to specifically ask.
Yes, sometimes I didn't know what the substance was that I needed ... so I asked general questions which would "reveal" the truth I needed. For myself, and sometimes for others, I was guided to a shelf in a store and an ingredient in a particular position on the shelf. The choice of the ingredient often made "sense" AFTER I or the other person recovered.

LOGICAL isn't necessarily "relevant".
From my research done in the 1970s and early 1980s, I learned that one can find many possibilities which make "logical" sense depending upon one's access to quantities of information. A diagnosis is only accurate if the remedy taken is successful. In fact, science demonstrates that "logical" approaches are frequently wrong because assumptions are frequently included about factors we either are unaware of or are in denial about.

COMPLEX HEALTH PROBLEMS make diagnosis more difficult, logically. Each individual's history and experiences may produce an illness composite in which the major problem is masked behind symptoms of a different disease. Treating the surface illness may never allow you to treat the core problem. As long as the core problem remains, like mercury toxicity, you keep falling victim to a host of other diseases. If I had not learned this from experience, it would just be a possible theory. My health journey confirms it. It is not just a good idea. It is reality.

DEEP RELAXATION and avoidance of panic were skills developed decades earlier. They helped me keep the pain and stiffness under control during April and May ... as they began to return after I had been awake and active for 8 hours. With 12-hour shifts beginning soon, I was going to need some help --- until some therapy was arranged. My doctor then gave me some Extra Strength Robaxacet, an anti-inflammatory muscle relaxant. It helped greatly, but was very expensive. That was replaced with similar high strength pain killers and anti-inflammatories to be used with physiotherapy --- for a possible whiplash injury or severe body strain. I was still hoping for and expecting a fast recovery.

THE MUSCLE ACHES and PAINS grew to the point of my muscles erratically going into spasm (tremors) are another characteristic of mercury toxicity. The possible whiplash or severe body strain were red-herring intellectualized rationalizations --- wishful thinking. Remember: Spiritual Guidance is only as good as the question. If you can't think of the question, you won't get an answer. Mercury toxicity was the furthest possibility from my consciousness.

TO MY EGO, I had mercury toxicity before and I had recovered.
I never encounter the exact same problem twice. That, was the trap.
Mercury toxicity can appear in different forms and at different rates of influence and conscious awareness. Worst of all, it dulls your awareness.
What you might usually perceive goes unnoticed.
Later, you may be angry with yourself for being so "stupid."

MERCURY AMALGAMS MATURE to a biodegrading status at different rates. I had been in denial about this. My amalgams had not all been added or exchanged at the same time. It is easy to go into denial about options and possibilities which you don't have (financial) access to. I had also forgotten that I still had a huge amalgam filling on each of 2 upper rear molars, one on each side of my mouth. They hung in mid-air with no opposing teeth so they were never being used.

A SECOND SET of two small amalgam fillings were near the front of my lower jaw. They were on the inward side of my bicuspids (between molars and incisors), were difficult to see, and seemed to be OK. In typical cultural fashion, I assumed the bigger the source (filling), the bigger the potential influence. This is correct, but, may not be relevant. I was carrying risks that I had conveniently forgotten about. And, thinking is not as clear as you wish when you have mercury toxicity.

KIDNEY WEAKNESS accompanies mercury toxicity.
I found that the drugs were accelerating the weakening of my kidneys.
Pain killers taken for as little as 10 days can damage your kidneys.
Kidney dysfunction can equal lower back pain and arthritic symptoms together with headaches and tiredness. Read any prescription medicine enclosure advisory and most of the time the possible side-effects are what you are taking the drug to get rid of.

MY DIET WAS MODIFIED again from mid-June in accord with my Spiritual Guidance. Finances and worsening health were the probable necessity. I wasn't thinking of the correct questions so answers to other questions placed me in a situation such that my choice of questions was narrowed down to the important one. My diet was to include cider vinegar ... lots of it. Normally, I might use 1/4 cup of cider vinegar over a years' time. Now, I was using 1/4 cup or more a day!

A SOUP made up my nutritional and health requirements.
The cider vinegar was mixed with a can of tomato soup diluted with water and heated. Not just any tomato soup, it was the brand with the least sugar and the most tomato. It also had Vitamins A and C, and beta carotene added. Refined sugar increases your ZINC requirement; hence, the honey. A large amount of GINGER powder was added and a good squeeze of blackstrap molasses (iron). Often, I was to add a can of TUNA. About 70% of the time, I added rolled oats or other crushed grains. Again, I stress, this was a Personal requirement. What you may need can be determined by someone who uses muscle testing or Spiritual Guidance.

BEVERAGE: I was guided to select and use daily an herb tea:
Celestial Seasonings Wild Cherry Blackberry was the best choice available for me.
Its ingredients include rosehips (vitamin C), Hawthorne berries (strengthen heart), licorice root (intestinal benefit), citric acid (more vitamin C), cinnamon (anti-bacterial), blackberry leaves (cleanser). One tea bag in 700 ml of water with a tablespoon of unpasteurized honey (easy to digest natural sugar) completed my food for the day. Sometimes, I had a regular tea and fresh lemon with friends.

PARASITES became another concern and another red-herring.
I had researched parasites quite a bit after recovering from an earlier health problem and provided a section on my Chronic Illness Recovery site to raise greater awareness in the general population. Much of what I was eating were effective anti-parasitics. Yet, if I had any destructive ones left in my system, they wouldn't last that long. The problem continued.

My acupuncturist, who was a MEDITATION practitioner, questioned the strength of my meditation in light of all this distress. That was a second realization. I knew my Higher Self meditation was very good ... and it would soon prove itself. What it did bring into focus was the inherent weakness of most practices of meditation. This was a situation in which thinking oneself into a relaxed and carefree state would have meant death.

My form of mediation is active.
It involves going into a mediative state and then asking for specific guidance.
I had asked about the possibility of mercury toxicity about two weeks earlier and received the answer: "Don't ask that yet." Usually, answers are "Yes" or "No". So, I had to wait and be patient for something. These revelations were the something it was necessary for me to know first.

ACTION IS REQUIRED if my teeth are slowly poisoning me.
Placing myself into a meditative state of tranquility will help health problems generated by emotional or spiritual distress. You can't Think your amalgams away or Think your mercury toxicity out of your body. You have to DO something. Relaxing and being at peace with the world when a physical challenge is smothering you, is DENIAL.

WELL-INTENTIONED FRIENDS had been introduced to 3 new-to-me meditation-religious health options in the preceding 3 weeks. I had been spiritually guided not to do anything substantial with them beyond basic familiarization at his time. The answers and support that I needed now were not in any of them. I was to stay focused on the work which I had been doing. NOW, I know why. My Spiritual Guidance had saved my life to this point, common forms of meditation would have meant death.

Having gone through a similar experience before, I was frustrated and angry that it was almost doing me in a second time. Take a closer look at cider vinegar now:

CIDER VINEGAR

• contains potassium (strengthens the heart);
• contains minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, copper, manganese, ...)
• contains easy-to-digest form of beta-carotene (anti-cancer);
• contains amino acids (necessary for effective digestion);
• may dissolve uric acid crystals out of joints and tissues;
• contains pectin which may bind to heavy cholesterol & remove;
• is used to bolster deficient stomach HCL for better digestion;
• is an anti-bacterial and anti-fungal agent as well as an astringent;
• is used as acetic acid in industry to dissolve mercury from ore;
• is a cheap acid for Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) which also removes mercury.

In a SENTICS manner, the music I played strengthened me for life by preparing me for death. FEAR weakens the Kidney meridian energy. If my Kidney energy weakened any more than it was, I would have died. Expressing grief and emotional pain allowed me to intensely feel humility. Expressing aggressiveness and resolve, I felt intense confidence. Expressing humility AND confidence allowed me to emotionally slide into deep reverence. There is NO FEAR in such a state. The pattern of the musical experience was providing a maximum of strengthening to my Kidneys meridian at minimal cost. It was giving me my best chance for survival.

6. Removal