GENERAL DELIVERY: BLOODThe blood which the elaborate circulatory system carries about so expeditiously is a watery solution of salts, minerals, food substances, and waste products, to give part of the list.Floating in it are the blood cells. They are mostly red cells, or erythrocytes. Statements as to their number sound like the federal budget. There are about five million in a cubic millimeter. As a millimeter is something like a twentieth of an inch, this is a small space to hold so many. The body is said to contain two hundred fifty billion of them.It has been determined that the length of life of a normal red blood cell is about 1:20 days. Some mathematician, or at least arithmetician, has figured out that this means that they are made at the rate of three hundred thousand a second. Women, whose bodily functions ordinarily go on at a slower rate than men’s, have about nine-tenths as many as men. Also, of course, it must be remembered that throughout a considerable portion of a female life there is a monthly loss of blood by menstruation. The fluid loss is quickly replaced, but the loss of red corpuscles much more slowly.I do not think that the shape of a red blood corpuscle is too definitely known, but it seems to be disk shaped. This gives a great deal of surface in proportion to bulk and our arithmetical friend who deals in large numbers has figured that the combined surface is equal to four baseball fields.Mixed up with these red cells are the white cells, or leucocytes, of which there are usually in the neighborhood of eight thousand to a cubic millimeter. There are a number of varieties; usually the majority are polymorphonuclear leucocytes. I mention this long name because they are very important. The long word means “many forms of nuclei.” The nucleus is the center and headquarters of a cell. These p.m.l’s, which alphabetical lingo I am sure you will forgive me for using, fight our battles for us in many types of infection. Dying in our defense, their dead bodies form the familiar pus. In appendicitis or pneumonia, to cite familiar examples, the “white count” is apt to rise from 8,000 to 15,000 or 18,000 or higher; and instead of, say, 70 per cent being p.m.l.’s, there may be 90 per cent. There are other types of white cells, the most common being the lymphocyte, which sometimes occurs in incredible numbers in the disease so often heard of in the news nowadays, leukemia. Also blood platelets, which look to the eye like small fragments of cells, occur in many hundreds of thousands to the cubic millimeter.The red cells are composed mostly of hemoglobin, a compound of iron which takes up oxygen as it streams through the lungs and gives it off just as promptly to the tissues. Having delivered the oxygen, the cells then take up carbon dioxide and carry it to the lungs where it is given off in the breath. You may see now why there is such an enormous extent of surface in the body of cells, as these gases have to pass through the surface. Unfortunately there are certain substances which are absorbed many times as easily as oxygen. Among these is carbon monoxide. That is why the exhaust from an auto in a closed garage may cause death. The red hemoglobin has tremendous staining qualities; a few teaspoon-fuls in a bucket of water quickly transform it, in the eyes of the startled onlookers, to a bucket of blood.Although the red cells are the most prominent part of the blood to our inquiring eyes, actually two-thirds of our blood is a fluid called plasma, which is 80 per cent water and has very little color. It is really most important, however, for besides furnishing water transportation for the red cells which would otherwise get nowhere, it carries food materials to the cells and waste products to the kidney and skin where they are eliminated. Other things too numerous to mention are also thus moved about.*13/276/5*
OVERCOMING CANCER: THE MENTAL IMAGERY PROCESSIn this section, we will lead you through the relaxation-mental imagery process, repeating the previous instructions for relaxation. You may want to tape-record instructions, as we do for our I patients, or have a friend read them to you. If you are reading to someone else, be sure to read slowly. Allow the other person plenty of time to complete each step. Remember that j we encourage our patients to take ten to fifteen minutes to complete the entire process and to practice it three times a day.Even if you do not have cancer, we ask you to go through the cancer visualization once to give you an emotional understanding of this process and insight into how the cancer patient feels.1. Go to a quiet room with soft lighting. Shut the door, sit in a comfortable chair, feet flat on the floor, eyes closed.2. Become aware of your breathing.3. Take in a few deep breaths, and as you let out each breath, mentally say the word, “relax.”4. Concentrate on your face and feel any tension in the muscles of your face and around your eyes. Make a mental picture of this tension—it might be a rope tied in a knot or a clenched fist—and then mentally picture it relaxing and becoming comfortable, like a limp rubber band.5. Experience the muscles of your face and eyes becoming relaxed. As they relax, feel a wave of relaxation spreading through your body.6. Tense the muscles of your face and around your eyes, squeezing tightly, then relax them and feel the relaxation spreading through your body.7. More slowly down your body—jaw, neck, shoulders, back, upper and lower arms, hands, chest, abdomen, thighs, calves, ankles, feet—until every part of your body is more relaxed. For each part of the body, mentally picture the tension, then picture the tension melting away, allowing relaxation.8. Now picture yourself in pleasant, natural surroundings—wherever feels comfortable for you. Mentally fill in the details of color, sound, texture.9. Continue to picture yourself in a very relaxed state in this natural place for two to three minutes.10. Then mentally picture the cancer in either realistic or symbolic terms. Think of the cancer as consisting of very weak, confused cells. Remember that our bodies destroy cancerous cells thousands of times during a normal lifetime. As you picture your cancer, realize that your recovery requires that your body’s own defenses return to a natural, healthy state.11. If you are now receiving treatment, picture your treatment coming into your body in a way that you understand. If you are receiving radiation treatment, picture it as a beam of millions of bullets of energy hitting any cells in its path. The normal cells are able to repair any damage that is done, but the cancerous cells cannot because they are weak. (This is one of the basic facts upon which radiation therapy is built.) If you are receiving chemotherapy, picture that drug coming into your body and entering the bloodstream. Picture the drug acting like a poison. The normal cells are intelligent and strong and don’t take up the poison so readily. But the cancer cell is a weak cell so it takes very little to kill it. It absorbs the poison, dies, and is flushed out of your body.12. Picture your body’s own white blood cells coming into the area where the cancer is, recognizing the abnormal cells, and destroying them. There is a vast army of white blood cells. They are very strong and aggressive. They are also very smart. There is no contest between them and the cancer cells; they will win the battle.13. Picture the cancer shrinking. See the dead cells being carried away by the white blood cells and being flushed from your body through the liver and kidneys and eliminated in the urine and stool.• This is your expectancy of what you want to happen.• Continue to see the cancer shrinking, until it is all gone.• See yourself having more energy and a better appetite and being able to feel comfortable and loved in your family as the cancer shrinks and finally disappears.14. If you are experiencing pain anywhere in your body, picture the army of white blood cells flowing into that area and soothing the pain. Whatever the problem, give your body the command to heal itself. Visualize your body becoming well.15. Imagine yourself well, free of disease, full of energy.16. Picture yourself reaching your goals in life. See your purpose in life being fulfilled, the members of your family doing well, your relationships with people around you becoming more meaningful. Remember that having strong reasons for being well will help you get well, so use this time to focus clearly on your priorities in life.17. Give yourself a mental pat on the back for participating in your recovery. See yourself doing this mental imagery exercise three times a day, staying awake and alert as you do it.18. Then let the muscles in your eyelids lighten up, become ready to open your eyes, and become aware of the room.19. Now let your eyes open, and you are ready to resume your usual activities.If you have not done so already, please take the time to go through this mental imagery process. When you completed the entire exercise, draw a picture illustrating the images you created, so that you can analyze your imagery in more detail.You needn’t worry about not being able to “see” the imagery if you were able to “sense” or “imagine” or “think” it. The word describing what you were doing is much less important than the fact of your doing it. Also, if you found your mind drifting during the process, next time just bring it back gently to the imagery without being harsh on yourself. If you were aware, while going through the process, that you were unable to complete certain of the instructions because you could not believe or accept them, then you have begun to confront your attitudes about cancer or recovery. By now you know how important that recognition is.*42\347\2*
You can see that it is not at all surprising that we need to be much more careful during the change of seasons than in the depths of winter, since we become chilled much more quickly when the body is still attuned to the warmth of sunny autumn days. Therefore, do not be tempted to sit down to your work in the morning without having taken some vigorous exercise previously. Do not despise the idea of making your own bed or tidying up your room in the morning. Even this exercise will warm you up. Again, do not just hop in the car or let the bus or train take you to your place of work. It is much better for you if you can walk or bicycle to work. If you live in an area where snow falls, enjoy the new day by shovelling snow in the fresh air. You will afterwards appreciate the warmth of your room, and it is true that brain work is much easier after brisk exercise and deep-breathing, which invigorates and promotes good circulation. You can also warm up in a natural way by doing early morning exercises and deep-breathing in front of an open window, and by giving yourself a good brush massage. Exhaling vigorously rids the body of waste gases and deep inhalation saturates the lungs with oxygen. This is particularly important in discouraging the conditions that favour colds.
If you do have a tendency to catch colds, make sure to eat plenty of foods rich in calcium, because the body is more susceptible when it lacks calcium; especially during the change of seasons, take a biological calcium preparation (Urticalcin) as well. The veins should not be overlooked either, so that the circulation remains unimpaired. Heed this advice and you will acquire more resistance to the common cold and related afflictions.
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People in sedentary occupations suffer to a much greater extent from cold feet than those whose work allows them plenty of activity and movement. If you have inherited sluggish circulation, you will feel the cold even more; even overheated rooms will not seem to be warm enough for you. Of course, heating does not make up for the lack of exercise and unless the feet are covered with warm stockings and adequate shoes, they will be cold. Moreover, if you leave an overheated room inadequately clothed and go out into the cool, damp air, the body will react to this drastic drop in temperature and become chilled, with an adverse effect on the mucous membranes. And there you have the best precondition for the development of the germs that cause colds, coughs, head colds, catarrh, pneumonia and other infections. So, never seek to make up for a lack of body heat by overheating the rooms; instead, wear warm clothing, take some exercise and try to improve the circulation. Once we become used to the cold, we will be much less susceptible to colds.
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While a small baby can generally be taken out with you, there will come a time when you will want or need to leave him in the care of someone else. As he gets older, taking him out, especially at night, will be disruptive to his routine.
Sometimes members of the extended family may be able to take care of the baby on a regular basis. Alternatively, there may be an older sibling who can perform this task. It is difficult to specify at what age a child can be entrusted to look after his or her sibling(s). It depends on a number of factors such as the maturity and personality of the older child, the number and ages of the younger siblings that will be looked after, how long the parents will be gone, and so on. It is unlikely that a pre-adolescent child will have the maturity to be able to take responsibility for younger children on a regular basis.
Often you will need to seek the services of a babysitter.
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Dr. Susann Kobasa researched what she calls “psychological hardiness.” She found that men and women who showed commitment to their own development, felt control over their life, and continued to be challenged by changes in their day-to-day life enjoyed a degree of psychological, even physical, immunity to stress. My interviews supported this, and I extended her “three C’s” to “Ten C’s of Working and Still Being Sexual.” Here is the list as it evolved from the couples’ interviews. You might want to score yourself on a 0-10 points system for each item, with 10 indicating that you are near perfect on a given item and 0 meaning you don’t enjoy or manage that aspect of working at all.
1 Are you challenged by your work? When problems occur at work, do you feel excited and activated rather than overwhelmed and helpless?
2. Have you maintained a balance between commitment to work and commitment to self, including family, life, loving, and sexuality?
3. Do you have a sense of control over your work and family life? Does that sense of control allow you to feel that you are running you instead of being run by things and events?
4. Do you feel competent at work and still maintain a feeling of competency at home? There was a direct correlation between feelings of competence in bed and at the desk or counter at work
5. Have you maintained a sense of concern for your job and those persons you service? Are you still concerned for the job you do? Some people deal with work stress by adopting an “I could care less, I put in my time” approach that only worsens their stress and may affect their sexual life as well
6. Have you maintained your ability to communicate at work and home both professionally and intimately? Some people spend all their communication energy at work, leaving little for intimate exchange with the spouse.
7. Do you feel a sense of connection between work and home? To be healthy, life must be an intergrated system. Are you able to integrate working and loving, sharing feelings about both in both places? Being a “completely different person” at work than at home is one clear symptom of increasing stress and an ineffective strategy of adjustment to one place or another.
8. Are you careful both at home and at work? If you find that you are having several little accidents, forgetting your turn-off on the expressway after driving the same way for years or slamming your finger in the same kitchen drawer, you are showing signs of poor balance between work and loving. Are you aware of being careful?
9. Do you have a feeling of being complete at the end of the day? Things are never done, but you should have a feeling of closure when the day ends instead of thinking about tasks left undone or new tasks coming up.
10. Would your colleagues and your family, particularly your spouse, describe
you as cheerful? Is your report of “Good Morning!” when starting the
day at work or home a greeting or a ritual? “When I walked into work,”
reported one of the wives, “Sam came up and said, ‘Hey, a smile is the
one curve that straightens everything out.’ He’s lucky I didn’t straighten
his mouth out with a punch.” Are you more cheerful than this wife?
Happiness and the desire to be intimate are interconnected.
Any less than 80 total points, and work or career is probably getting in the way of a super marital sexual relationship.
All ten C’s are needed for super marital sex, so practicing them at work and in daily living is necessary if they are going to be present in marital intimacy. Here is the same list presented as the C’s apply to super marital sex. Use the same 0-to-10-point scale and see how your scores compare.
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DESCRIBE THE FEMALE SEX ROLE?
The female sex role is just as stereotyped as the male’s among the people interviewed in this sample. How about you? How do you view the female sex role, personally view it, not intellectually think it should be?
“Simply stated, I’d say women are emotional, essentially the caretakers of the family. They are stronger psychologically, more mature, and have to sort of nurture men along,” reported one wife.
“Well, women are really inferior copies of men. They have their own strengths, but they are not up to men in most things. They are really just a little short of men in most things except having and raising kids,” reported one husband.
Both male and female sex-role expectations influence the love maps of both genders profoundly. Talk these roles over with your partner. Your sex role is how you behave sexually in our society and your sex or gender identity is how you feel, your sexual self-concept. Both are the result of love-mapping, and the gender identity is the capital city, the control center on the map.
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The essential defect when a vein becomes varicose is a breakdown in this valve system — not only in the superficial veins but also in the communicating channels between the deep and the superficial veins.
This vein, then, becomes distended with blood and becomes lengthened and tortuous.
Those small dilated veins which may appear on the thigh or on the foot are not varicose and are not amenable to treatment.
As well, there is an heredity factor, with some people having an inbuilt weakness in the vein and its valves.
When the pressure inside the abdomen is raised, such as with pregnancy, the enlarged womb may press on the abdominal veins and lead to varicosities in the leg.
Apart from their appearance, varicose veins may cause aching in the legs and, eventually, because of the pressure effect, pigmentation and thinning of the skin in the lower leg.
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