Dorland's Ghosts [Dedicated to: Clark A. Smith]
Dorland’s GhostsThe road separated when I found my appointed way: ”Your poems shall ring as chimes In ancient ruins…” a covert Storm from an irretrievable island Carried this Echo: Dorland’s Ghosts! “There is a hexed bounty On love and peace,” they inserted Into my dreams: perhaps (thinking, Someday I’d be one of them) entrenched, Long ago in those rose-colored marble stones, Vine-vindictive pillars that cling like Phantom cords: these dreams and Echoes are flowers that never can be, Laughter that never

Miracles Made Easy - The Four Types of Miracles and How To Create them in Your Life
Miracle A: Mini Miracle There are four types of miracles. You probably experience the first type frequently, without realizing it. This is the mini-miracle or the baby step miracle. These are daily events, such as finding a parking space right in front of Costco on Christmas Eve, for example. In another case, maybe you think about whom you need to speak with and they call -- out of the blue. Last week I was wandering down the bread aisle at the supermarket, wondering when my son Anton’s basketball game was and I ran into another mom on the team who knew the answer right then.Stress is the response to the situations we find ourselves in. Certain amounts of pressure provide healthy stimulus, but too much or too little pressure can lead to anxiety and unhealthy personality changes. Relieve the pressures of work by educating the mind and body. Understand how to accentuate the good and make the bad proportionately less important. Learn techniques that you can adopt and use every day in most situations. How? Read on.

PANIC DISORDER What is it? It is recurrent and unexpected attacks of acute anxiety, usually coming to a peak within 10 minutes. Such panic attacks may occur in a familiar situation such as a crowded elevator or on a crowded bus. What to look for: Look for palpitations, chest pains, sweating, chills or hot flushes, trembling, shortness of breath or choking, nausea, light-headedness or feeling of unreality. Sometimes a panic attack can emanate in the fear of loosing control or dying. Three or more of these symptoms in at least two discrete episodes could spell trouble. The condition responds to treatment provided you seek help.

SPECIFIC PHOBIAS What is it? It is a consuming fear of a specific object or situation, often accompanied by extreme anxiety symptoms. What to look for: Do you come up with elaborate ways to avoid the object or situation? Do you dread the next possible encounter? Are you aware that the fear is excessive but you are unable to control it? Does just thinking about the thing you fear make you anxious? You should not worry if you simply hate snakes or heights or crowds. The thing to notice is how powerful your feelings are, and are they hindering you in what you want to do. The condition responds to treatment provided you seek help.

POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER What is it? It is repeated, anxious reliving of a horrifying event over an extended period of time. What to look for: After witnessing or experiencing or hearing about an event that caused or threatened to cause serious injury you may: Have recurrent recollections or dreams about the experience? Feel emotionally or physically as if the event were still happening? Experience intense anxiety when something reminds you of the event? Try to avoid thoughts, feelings, activities or places associated

NIC DISORDER What is it? It is recurrent and unexpected attacks of acute anxiety, usually coming to a peak within 10 minutes. Such panic attacks may occur in a familiar situation such as a crowded elevator or on a crowded bus. What to look for: Look for palpitations, chest pains, sweating, chills or hot flushes, trembling, shortness of breath or choking, nausea, light-headedness or feeling of unreality. Sometimes a panic attack can emanate in the fear of loosing control or dying. Three or more of these symptoms in at least two discrete episodes could spell trouble. The condition responds to treatment provided you seek help.

SPECIFIC PHOBIAS What is it? It is a consuming fear of a specific object or situation, often accompanied by extreme anxiety symptoms. What to look for: Do you come up with elaborate ways to avoid the object or situation? Do you dread the next possible encounter? Are you aware that the fear is excessive but you are unable to control it? Does just thinking about the thing you fear make you anxious? You should not worry if you simply hate snakes or heights or crowds. The thing to notice is how powerful your feelings are, and are they hindering you in what you want to do. The condition responds to treatment provided you seek help.

POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER What is it? It is repeated, anxious reliving of a horrifying event over an extended period of time. What to look for: After witnessing or experiencing or hearing about an event that caused or threatened to cause serious injury you may: Have recurrent recollections or dreams about the experience? Feel emotionally or physically as if the event were still happening? Experience intense anxiety when something reminds you of the event? Try to avoid thoughts, feelings, activities or places associated

ear of loosing control or dying. Three or more of these symptoms in at least two discrete episodes could spell trouble. The condition responds to treatment provided you seek help.

SPECIFIC PHOBIAS What is it? It is a consuming fear of a specific object or situation, often accompanied by extreme anxiety symptoms. What to look for: Do you come up with elaborate ways to avoid the object or situation? Do you dread the next possible encounter? Are you aware that the fear is excessive but you are unable to control it? Does just thinking about the thing you fear make you anxious? You should not worry if you simply hate snakes or heights or crowds. The thing to notice is how powerful your feelings are, and are they hindering you in what you want to do. The condition responds to treatment provided you seek help.

POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER What is it? It is repeated, anxious reliving of a horrifying event over an extended period of time. What to look for: After witnessing or experiencing or hearing about an event that caused or threatened to cause serious injury you may: Have recurrent recollections or dreams about the experience? Feel emotionally or physically as if the event were still happening? Experience intense anxiety when something reminds you of the event? Try to avoid thoughts, feelings, activities or places associated

you aware that the fear is excessive but you are unable to control it? Does just thinking about the thing you fear make you anxious? You should not worry if you simply hate snakes or heights or crowds. The thing to notice is how powerful your feelings are, and are they hindering you in what you want to do. The condition responds to treatment provided you seek help.

POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER What is it? It is repeated, anxious reliving of a horrifying event over an extended period of time. What to look for: After witnessing or experiencing or hearing about an event that caused or threatened to cause serious injury you may: Have recurrent recollections or dreams about the experience? Feel emotionally or physically as if the event were still happening? Experience intense anxiety when something reminds you of the event? Try to avoid thoughts, feelings, activities or places associated

f a horrifying event over an extended period of time. What to look for: After witnessing or experiencing or hearing about an event that caused or threatened to cause serious injury you may: Have recurrent recollections or dreams about the experience? Feel emotionally or physically as if the event were still happening? Experience intense anxiety when something reminds you of the event? Try to avoid thoughts, feelings, activities or places associated with the event? Have difficulty recalling details of the event? Experience anxiety symptoms such as irritability, jumpiness, difficulty sleeping, feeling of detachment from others, diminished interest in things, feelings that your future is in some way limited? Often this disorder will not appear until sometime after the event. The condition responds to treatment provided you seek help.

GENERALISED ANXIETY DISORDER: What is it? It is excessive anxiety or worry occurring on a regular basis over a six month period. What to look for: Look for restlessness, difficulty concentrating or sleeping, irritability, tiredness and muscle tension. If you have two or more of these symptoms for six months then seek help as the condition responds to treatment.

Treatment for all these self inflicted conditions has a basic foundation.

Mediate … learn to meditate and make it something that you do every day of your life. Meditation is the one of the most powerful healing processes.

Cut out unhealthy and fatty foods. Food affects behaviour See ‘The SCREWEDUP Letters: Your Past Does Not Equal Your Future.’

Stop drinking alcohol. What you put in to your body affects your behaviour. All food and drink ingested has a chemical reaction on the cells in your body.

Stop smoking or taking drugs. It is fact that these activities will damage your health and shorten your life.

Exercise regularly. Your body needs regular exercise to improve blood circulation and healthy organs. You are responsible for your body … no one else. Take responsibility.

This is not a prescription for not enjoying yourself … ask yourself the question how can you enjoy yourself if you are constantly stressed and anxious? Did you know that it is now accepted by scientists and doctors that genet