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This is issue two of CYBER_PHUCK Magazine. I hope you enjoy it.
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1. Introduction To Meditation
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(An introduction to meditation with the bullshit
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present in most meditation techniques removed)
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2. Intermediate Meditation Techniques
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(More advanced information and techniques on meditation
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with the bullshit we normally expect about meditation
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removed)
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3. DEPRESSION
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A Paper on clinical depression. A condition that affects
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50% of all people at some time in their lives. Learn about
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depression and know how to help yourself or a friend or
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family member that you love.
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4. BE YOUR OWN CHIROPRACTOR
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Tired of having a sore as shit neck or back. Here's some
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tips that just might help you feel better.
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INTRODUCTION TO MEDITATION
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MEDIATION INFORMATION.
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Introduction to meditation; CRASH COURSE IN INTRODUCTORY MEDITATION
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Meditation is old and comes from India and China and places like that.
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Basically western countries have developed a society based on accumulation
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of things, while eastern countries, which are quite accumulated already,
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have developed techniques for relaxing, and focusing, the mind to
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appreciate what is already there. As the U.S. becomes more overpopulated,
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the need for relaxation techniques and self discovery through meditation
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will become much more important.
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Goal of meditation:
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Short Term:
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Relaxation
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Long Term:
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To search for the true "self" by learning to control our perceptions.
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Three "B"s
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Relax the body,
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Slow the blood flow,
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relax the brain.
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Beginning Technique
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Find a comfortable sitting position. A lawn chair will do or
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any chair pillow on the floor etc. This is meditation, NOT yoga, so
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don't go out and buy incense and shave your head just yet.
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Breathing is very important. Breath slowly. Pay close attention
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to your breathing. When you exhale, have your mind relax a specific part
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of your body. Exhale and physically realax your foot, then your leg, then
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your arm, etc every time you exhale learn to relax a part of your body. This
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step is easy and very interesting and beneficial to relieve stress.
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Eyes closed. Keep your eyes closed while learning to breath.
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You will be seeing the inside of your eye lids of course, but work on
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breathing. Breathing is good for your lympathic system. (body's sewage
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system).
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As you learn how easy it is to relax various parts of the body,
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feeling the stress leave a specific body part as your breath leaves your
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lungs, then move towards relaxing internal organs as well. Just as you
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can exhale and relax your leg, work on exhaling and relaxing your internal
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organs. Your adrenal glands are in the back near the kidneys. Work on
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those in paticular. They are part of a feed back loop between the mind
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and body that keeps us tense once we get tense, or keeps us depressed when
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we get depressed.
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Once the body is relaxed, try relaxing the brain as well.
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As you exhale "think of nothing" or "do not think". If you think of
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"nothing" you may drive yourself mad, perhaps "do not think" is a better
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term for western people to grasp. Since nothing, emptiness, is something
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real in the western mind. As you exhale, relax the brain, just as you
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would your leg or arm each time you exhale. think.. "do not think".
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Between each thought, is a microsecond where we don't think about
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anything. When we veg on a campfire, or some relaxing primevil thing,
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the space between thoughts grows, and we benefit. Good meditation lets
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us look at our "self" which is inbetween the thoughs, telling us what
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we really want to think about, what we truly are inside.
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So.
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1. Find a comfortable place.
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2. Close your eyes.
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3. Concentrate on breathing.
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4. Each time you exhale, relax a body part, feel the tension
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in that body part leave your body. You can actually feel
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the bad energy leave.
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5. When the body is relaxed, do the same to your brain. Relax
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the brain each time you exhale.
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6. "do not think", or "think of nothing" whichever works for you.
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7. Try relaxing the internal organs, especially the adrenal
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glands.
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8. At first you will see the inside of your eye lids and your
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eyes will try to focus on them. "do not think" and allow
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the space between thought to increase, slowly increase the
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time space between thoughts.
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During meditation, the body functions slow down, yet the brain
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does not. After meditation, you will feel more relaxed and peaceful
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than before. The human is not designed for prolonged stress, and
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meditation allows the mind time to heal itself, and enhances the body's
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ability to heal itself. This is a basic introduction to fundamental
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introductory technique. Try this and see where it takes you. Don't
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be too surprised if you loose the physical sensation of your physical
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body and see, not the insides of your eye lids, but the infinite
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rhelm of your own mind. As outter space, is a void, a vacuum, you will
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soon see that the human mind is exactly the opposite.
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Tom Line
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Head Chef
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Cyber BBS 513-863-0447
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tline@iac.net
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What is the sound of one hand clapping... JUST KIDDING one hand.. RIGHT! :)
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INTERMEDIATE MEDITATION TECHNIQUE
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MEDIATION INFORMATION.
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INTERMEDITE MEDITATION TECHNIQUE; CRASH COURSE IN INTERMEDIATE MEDITATION
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Finding a comfortable place is important in learning meditation
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since distractions at first, make it harder to meditate. Some people
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picture meditation being performed in the lotus position, with sticks
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of incense making the room smell like a head-shop. Well the opposite
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is true. Meditation is fun to do in a big comfortable chair in your
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living room, or a simple lawn chair in the back yard.
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Close your eyes when you begin to meditate, and at first you see
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the inside of your eye lids, then you begin to see beyond that. The most
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fundamental thing I notice when I begin to relax and meditate, is that
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I hear sounds around me that I was previously unaware of. Just as during
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normal activity I am unaware of my "true self", during meditation I
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become dramatically more aware of sounds around me. Especially outdoors,
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I hear the sounds of birds and the wind through the trees, and the
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drone of traffic in the distance becomes less and less.
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As I concentrate on breathing, it gives my mind something singular
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to do. The opposite of meditation is the state in which our mind
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flows continously with random thoughts and pictures. Concentrating
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on breathing and relaxing our muscles and internal organs and brains
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each time we exhale, also slows down the number of thoughts that
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normally fire randomlly across our frantic minds.
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Each time you exhale, relaxing a body part, feeling the tension
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in that body part leave your body is actually healthy and allows blood
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to flow more freely, yet more slowly throughout. Relaxing the mind
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as we exhale also relaxes the small blood vessles, allow blood and
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the oxygen it carries to penetrate the brain blood barrier more
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successfully. The goal is to "not think" for a change. Turn off
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that thought machine. If a thought bounces out from someplace, ignore
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it and don't bounce it back.
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"do not think", or "think of nothing" whichever works for you.
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Sometimes when we meditate, the mind is a jumble of thoughts. These
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thoughts are the outter most and most frantic and most unimportant
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thoughts. The mind is perhaps like a large corporation. On the outter
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most levels are workers. They work and work and work, and dream up
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more work and work, without real insightful thought. As you see further
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and further into the inner most workings of the company, you see folks
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doing less and less, yet they are more important to the success of the
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company. At the very inner most workings of the company is one man
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who really does the least amount of work, or so it appears.
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Our mind is something like that. As your whirling thoughts begin
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to slow, and true relaxations and absence of though follows, we can
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begin to look inward. Thoughts still flow, but in less frantic and
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more important forms. As we peer deeper and deeper between all the
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frantic thought factories, we are allowing the inner most voices in
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our mind a chance to be seen. To get in touch with our "true self"
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like the president of the company, we must turn off all thoughts,
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and look deeper and deeper within until we reach our true self. And
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only by "not thinking" in our very aware state are we able to turn
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off all the noise that prevents from hearing what our true self has
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to say. Our true self may not instantenously say anything, but it now
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knows that we want to hear what it has to say. Thus the insight we
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achive through meditation may not happen during meditation, but maybe
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days later, when we least expect it, the pieces of ourselves, have
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shut-up long enough finally for the rest of our "true self" to hear
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what we really want.
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I have heard peering into the mind described as "tip toeing
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through sleeping elephants" so immense are our normal thought processes.
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Have you ever gone camping, and had no radio, no idiots pissing beer
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into the fire. Have you ever been able to stare at the fire. It's
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energy draws one out of the deepest corners of our minds. When we
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sit by on a fire, it feels relaxing, because it helps us to quiet our
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normal frantic thought processes that are necessary for survival
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in a split second dangerous world. Frantic thoughts are hard to turn off
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once they start.
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THE MANTRA:
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Some people use tricks to help in meditation. Just as quietly
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watching a peaceful warm campfire relaxes the mind and helps us to
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focus our thoughts, and turn off the frantic unneeded noise in our
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minds, so does The Mantra. Some people are aided in meditation by
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humming some deep, low, primevil sounding chanting sounds, or by
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staring at an imaginary object in their relaxed state. If this helps
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you than it's great. If ANYTHING help you meditate than it is good,
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but everybody's mind is different, so although hearing a Mantra
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sound inside your mind, or actually vocalizing it outloud may be
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worth trying sometime, it may or may not actually help you.
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Meditation is so simple to do, and is so valuable to us as
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humans, but yet it's difficult to find sane information on the subject.
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I've looked for good books on the subject, but most just seem to be
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hippies playing their own drum. Meditation is very valuable and a
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personal thing we mustn't let wierdos scare us away from. The human
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body is a temple, but hell, I sure like to smoke a cigar once in a while
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and eat a cheese burger at MacDonalds. After all, there is more to
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life than TV and traffic. I don't consider living in a old VW bus to
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be anybody's answer to life. It sounds more to me like running away from
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life. If you want to take a trip, try taking one into your own mind
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through meditation and visiting your true self for a change. You'll
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probably like what you see :)
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ahhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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(pause)
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ahhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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Tom Line
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Head Chef
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Cyber BBS 513-863-0447
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tline@iac.net
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"Snatch the pebble from my hand..." FUCK YOU! GIVE ME THE FUCKING ROCK!
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DEPRESSION.
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BY THE HEAD CHEF
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CYBER BBS 513-863-0447
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tline@iac.net
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DEPRESSION
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DEPRESSION
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There are two types of depression.
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1. BI-POLAR. (or Manic Depression)
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This means one day you feel like killing yourself,
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and the next day you feel like painting the house purple.
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Bi-polar depression is characterized by INTENSE mood swings,
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from feeling super super super super great, to feeling lower
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than slug shit.
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Bi-Polar depresssive is also called MANIC-DEPRESSION. Manic
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means you want to go out a run up 8,000 $ on your credit
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card and just might do it too. Manic means you feel like
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taking clocks apart, putting them back together, and then
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writing a 3,000 page novel about it. Then the next day you
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might mood "swing" back and feel like killing yourself and
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feeling afraid to leave your bed for a month or two. Manic
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depression can cause hallucinations and other scary shit
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in some folks.
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Lithium.
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Lithium is a mineral salt, like... salt. People
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who are manic depressives, (or bi-polar), can have their
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mood swings slowed and even stopped by the proper daily dose
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of lithium. Lithium can poison the system if too high a dose
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is given, so people have to be tested while their lithium
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dosage levels are being adjusted. Too little lithium and the
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effects aren't felt correctly, and too much lithium and they
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get physically ill from the stuff. TONS of people take lithium
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every day. Manic depression doesn't affect one constantly,
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it may lay dormant for years and years. People with manic or
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bi-polar depression should take their lithium even when their
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depression or manic behavior is dormant just as a preventative
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to keep it from coming back.
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SSRI's. (prozac, paxil, zoloft)
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SSRI's are Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, are drugs
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that have been almost as revolutionary in the treatment of
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depression and lithium was when it was introduced. SSRI's are
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pretty new to the scene. The theory is that feeling good, is
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caused by serotonin, and feeling bad is caused by serotonin
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being cleaned out of the brain to quickly by the brain. These
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drugs keep serotonin from being cleaned out of the brain as
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quickly as it normally would be during a depressive phase.
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2. Strait depression.
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Another type of depression, perhaps much much more common
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than bi-polar depression, is what I call strait depression.
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This is where you just feel depressed all the time, or worse
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feel like killing yourself continously. SSRI's are very helpful
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to many people who feel this way, and others aren't helped by
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them as well, but the beneficial effect of SSRI drugs can be
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so dramatic that their use is certainly worth experimenting with.
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Some people are helped tremendously by one SSRI, and not by
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another type at all. The effect takes several days to weeks
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to be fully felt. If you feel depressed like this, even a little
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you should go see a doctor or councelor immediately before
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it gets worse, and tell them you want to try a SSRI. It's not
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like pain killer and they will be happy to try to help you out.
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Head Chef's theories on depression.
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Our mind is under continous stress from the outside world. Living
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in traffic, sucking down car exhaust, it never ends. Some depression
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can be triggered when we are exposed to seemingly unsolable stress
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for a prolonged period, such a job search, not finding a sexual
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partner, living with a drunk, etc. We may form pictures in our
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mind that motivate us. We see a picture in our minds of living
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like Ozzie and Harriet, or making tons of money at a great rewarding
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job, but as this picture of a possible future is so vivid, yet
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as each day goes by that it seems that more unobtainable... well
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we reach a point where we either say "fuck this picture" and
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form new pictures in our mind, or we get profoundly depressed
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mentally and physically as well.
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Intelligence also plays a roll. People who constantly blame others
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for their problems are probably less likely to become depressed.
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When something bad happens to us, we either blame.
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1. Ourselves or Somebody else.
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2. Something temporary or somthing permanent.
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If we blame something on somebody else, as less intelligent persons
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always do, we are less likely to be depressed because we have no
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responsibility for the situtation if it's completely somebody elses
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fault. But if that person isn't around to be blamed, and we blame
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all or even a small part of the blame on ourselves... well it's
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not fair to ourselves and ads to worries that cause depression.
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Again, if we blame something permanent like ourselves or the
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government or a giant corporation, we see less hope for ourselves,
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than if we were to blame something temporary. This is flawed because
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even though we may see fault in ourselves as being permanent, we in
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fact are continously changing. Personal changes happen continously
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but inpercievably because they are in us, and because, well you can't
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watch a flower bloom if it's right in front of your face the whole
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time. Personal change is like a flower blooming. Give it a chance
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and cut yourself some slack.
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What to do.
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1. See a doctor and try SSRI's, or other drugs and see if they help.
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Most psychiatric offices have counselors you can talk to who
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can get the head shrink to prescribe you medications. This is
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probably the way to go.
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2. Learn about depression by reading everything you can get your
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hands on about depression and feeling better.
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3. If your doctor wants you to come in more than you think is necessary
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just call and cancel the appointment and ask for a refill of your
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medication over the phone. They should be happy to oblidge.
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4. Slow down your mind. Once the mind starts thinking about solving
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what is perceives as an unsolbable problem... well it's like
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telling a computer to divide something by zero.. it just blows up
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eventually. Take a hot bath, try camping and having a campfire
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etc.
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5. Let your friends in on how you're feeling. If they call and ask
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you to do something you feel freaked out about doing because of
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your depression, tell them why and thank them for asking. You
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DONT want to isolate yourself from your friends. Explain to them
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that you feel really really really wierd right now, and that you
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really really appreciate them asking you to do something and that
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you really really would appreciate if they would not hesistate to
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ask you to do something again. Don't dwell on WHY you feel depressed.
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It can be contagious and make folks less likely to enjoy your
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company.
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6. DEPRESSION IS TEMPORARY no matter what your temporarily sick
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mind tells you. Hang in there, dig in your heels and kick
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your fucking depression in it's stupid depressing ass!
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7. You have NO idea how many people are affected by depression. It's
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like 50% of the population at one time or another.
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8. Try meditation. This may be a hopeless effort at first, but as
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you begin to get your shit back together this can really help
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speed-up the healing process. Our mind is flooded with wierd
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thoughts that mess us up sometimes. Meditation is relaxed
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concentration, where the person meditating turns off thoughts
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and just peers into the blackness of the mind. In a relaxed mind,
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there is a pause between thoughts during which time the deep
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parts of our soul do the thinking. But when we're stressed out,
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there is no time between thoughts. Relax and tell the mind to
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shut up for a while and it lets the quieter parts of the mind
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come forth and help us out.
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Suggested Reading.
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Feeling Good ... a book on depression
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Quantum Healing ...book on the mind's healing power by Dr. Choopra
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Books That Are a Waste Of Time
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Anything by the American Psychiatric Association.
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They can't fix things so they just classify and
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reclassify things.
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Good vitamins.
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B6 and B12
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Avoid stimulants from health food stores, but don't hesitate to drink
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coffee in the morning if it helps.
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Good foods
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A good dinner type of meal with meat in it and a salad and potatoes. Being
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depressed take a lot of energy. If you're feeling really stressed out
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try chicken or turkey which contains tyrosine which helps calm one.
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Good activities.
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Watching TV shows about people helping people. Avoid stupid movies about
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coke dealers and low budget HBO gangster movies. AVOID THE FUCKING NEWS
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SHOWS their job is to make people worry so they will pay attention during
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the commercials :)
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Exercise.
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Buy a bike (one where you don't have to bend over to ride it).
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Camping. Short trips with a campfire.
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Walking.
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Gardening etc.
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Hang in there, it passes find something meaningful and purposefull to do.
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BE YOUR OWN CHIROPRACTOR
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How to be your own Chiropractor
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by THE FOLICALLY CHALLENGED WHITE DUDE at Damage Inc.
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Notice Use at your own risk. I am not a doctor and attempt only
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to describe some techniques which have been helpful to me
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personally. If you cripple yourself accept responsiblity
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for it. When in doubt see a chiropractor. They do great stuff.
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Your problem may be more serious and the following exercises
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may cause more problems.
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Problem: Computer Neck, also know as Military Neck.
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Cause: Sitting in a cheap chair while using a computer.
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CHEAP CHAIR
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BackGround:
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A "Cheap Chair" causes strain on the neck when the top of the
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chair-back leans back too far. If you lean back in the chair and
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your face is 1.Pointed at the ceiling, or 2.Too far to see the moinitor,
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then you have a cheap chair. A good chair should have lots of right angles
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while a cheap chair is for watching TV and slouching in.
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Go to an office supply house and get a real chair. Don't spend
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over a hundred bucks, but it will be the best investment you can make
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since a sore neck affects all the rest of your life. Look for one with
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a adjustable height lever on the side, a back, and arms. Don't buy a used
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one because it was probably put on the market to keep some cheap ass company
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from spending more money on workers compensation claims due to bad chair
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design.
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Helpful exercises:
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SHOULDERS
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Sitting or standing, point your arms strait up into the air then
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move them to point behind you and outwards. This will make your shoulders
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crack.
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NECK CRACK
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Sitting or standing, relax your neck, slowly letting it fall back
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wards, slowly, slowly, CRACK! Try letting it slowly fall forwards, or
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to the sides too SLOWLY. Moving around a sore neck to much will make it
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worse!
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Sitting or standing, shrug your shoulders backwards and together.
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Crunch!
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Middle Back Pain and lower back pain:
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CAR SEAT
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Sitting in a well designed chair that swivels, or on the seat
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of your car, rotate your shoulders with your torso from side to side.
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Crack.
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MONEKEY BARS
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Go to the park, hang with your hands from the moneky bars over your head
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taking the weight off your legs so you feet don't touch the ground. Release
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and return CAREFULLY to the ground. Do this regularily. This is helpfull
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for many conditions but works slowly. Be carefull when returning to the
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ground. Bend your knees considerably when landing to absorb shock and
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prevent further damage to your back. This is my favorite but should be
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done regularily and be very carefull when letting yourself back down from
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hanging.
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SWINGERS
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While you're at the park, try the swings. They are very good for your
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back and kind of fun too. The swings that are made of pieces of rubber
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that grip your butt are better than the old wooden ones. Great exercise.
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STEPS
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Go to some steps. Carpeted is best. Sit near the bottom of the steps.
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Lay back against the steps and relax. Experiment.
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WALK
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Go for a walk. Take long steps with your torso turned to one side or the
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the other. Experiment. If it hurts more one way than the other. Do it the
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way that hurts the least. These exercises SHOULD NOT HURT if THE EXERCISE
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HURTS, DO NOT DO THAT EXERCISE! Proper chirporactic exercise should feel
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relief, not pain!
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STAIRS
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Find a staircase you can get underneath and hang by your arms taking the
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weight off your back and relax. This works like monkey bars. Helps lower
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back pain.
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BATHTUB
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Find a bathtub. If it has a shower door rack on the rim, put a soft towel
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over it. Stand on the bathroom floor with your back to the tub. Bend
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your knees and do a deep knee bend with your back barely touching the
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side of the bathtub, then slowly lean backwards with your lower back
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pressing against the top/side of the tub. Put your hands behind you on the
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tub floor if necessary and slowly bend your spin backwards. Maybe turn
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your head from side to side.
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BICYCLE
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Get a bicycle and go for a short ride regularily, every day up and down
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the street is great. This is a great preventative for the back and an
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outstanding cardiovascular exercise. Exercise should raise the heart beat
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SLIGHTLY for a prolonged period of time. Running isn't aerobic exercise,
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while fast walking is. Avoid exercises that are hard on the joints, like
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running.
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Deterimine what causes your pain and remedy it if possible. Don't be
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embarassed to do brief calestenics before lifting a heavy object or doing
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heavy work. Ten million Chinese can't be wrong!
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Middle Back Pain. Get somebody to pick you up from behind, have your
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arms crossed across your chest first like a dead guy. Have them pick you
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up from behind then quickly drop you and jerk you back up very slightly.
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Lower Back Pain. Try laying on the floor, with a large pillow to support
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your head while you watch TV. Take a very small pillow and put underneath
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your lower back while you lay there.
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Sleeping causing you pain?
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Try a different pillow. Too fat of one is bad as it bends the neck during
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sleep. Try an old flat one before trying one of those high tech ones.
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Don't be afraid to visit a chiropractor. They have done wonders for millions
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of people. Beware that many will try to get you to come in 8 times a week
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for the rest of your life. Don't be afraid to cancel an appointment. A
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friend of mine had a sore back and her doctor recommended surgery. A friend
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suggested another doctor who recommended a chiropractor who recognized that
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one of her legs was much longer than the other (this is very common) and
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adjusted her back for a couple weeks and had her get special shoes. Her pain
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went away and no surgery was required.
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Going to a chiropractor will help you realize the ways he or she helps the
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problem that you may be able to do yourself.
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Some folks go to a (non-sexual) massage place and for less money have
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better results than a chiropractor. Don't knock something you haven't
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tried. Chiropractors make their money on prolonged visitors, so you
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shouldn't be afraid to cancel appointments and go less than they suggest.
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Find what works for you. Find an old established chiropractor. The one's
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that advertise on TV are often fly-by-night outfits.
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A regular doctor can give you pills but that won't make the pain go away
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will it really. He can also send you to a surgeon who will recommend
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surgery. Try a chiropractor FIRST before surgery. Some surgery is a fucking
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racket. The dangers of sugery are very understated by surgeons and
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hospitals.
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So start living without pain. Recognize what you can do, and get help from
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a reputable chiropractor if you can't figure it out and correct it
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completely with a new chair or whatever.
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Good luck.
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The Folically Challenged White Dude
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Damage.Inc.Ohio
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April 1994
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I hope you enjoyed issue two of CYBER_PHUCK Magazine. If you have
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questions, comments, suggestions, contributions -monitary or literary-
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send 'em to the head chef at tline@iac.net or call the Cyber BBS
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at 513-863-0447.
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Tom Line
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Head Chef
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Damage Inc Ohio
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tline@iac.net
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cyber bbs 513-863-0447 USA
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