The Turning Scripture

Place a paperweight on the open newspaper to hold it in place. With the scissors slightly open, use the tip of the scissors as forceps to pick up the outer edge of the coupon. Don't worry if you don't do it perfectly the first time. This takes practice. The coupon will be accepted even if you cut a little wider than the dotted line indicated. First, check the Internet for your area stores' participation. Tearing Paper Off a Roll. Move the back of your hand up against the dispenser and proceed to break the remaining paper off the roll by using the same process, your thumb and index finger. This is as succinct an explanation of a coronary heart attack as you will get today: if you substitute coronary for collateral. Maybe Jenner's grasp of Chinese was better than mine, for his other great discovery - vaccinations - had precedence in China way before he was born. Phlegm, then, is a substance that emerges from Dampness and binds up the tissues of our body. But this article is about the pancreas - what has it got to do with the pancreas? Furthermore, when is this all going to tie in with the spleen? In Western medicine the spleen is absolutely vital in `cleaning' red blood cells. To be fair, this is done by removing the `dirty' ones, but the result is the same - it cleans the blood and enables it to move smoothly. Smooth flow of blood is not as simple as it sounds - because the critical aspect of this smooth flow at the capillary level is the deformability of the cells. Red cells, incredibly, are twice as wide as the capillaries they need to get down, and to do this they need to deform. That funny biconcave, doughnut shape is no accident: this allows them to be squashed into a sphere and so get through tighter spots. And it's been a tough one. We've done some good work--knowing what I've previously been unable to know, feeling what I've previously been unable to feel--but I'm quivering right at the edge of my window of tolerance.

And after previous such sessions I haven't coped well. I don't know how to answer. I don't really know what she means. I don't know what the right answer is. And I don't want to get into trouble. She knows I'm bluffing. She bites her lip and her eyelids squeeze together a bit. A long pause. Professionals don't consider dissociation to be psychotic even though it can involve some degree of departure from reality. Dissociative experiences are rather common in people with BPD, especially when they are under extreme stress. Many experts believe that dissociation in a person represents a way of coping with some severe trauma and/or stress, which would otherwise emotionally overwhelm the person. Dissociation may be a way for some people to keep powerfully disturbing memories at a manageable distance. Dissociation can occur in the following forms: Dissociative identity disorder (DID): Professionals once called this problem multiple personality disorder. This condition occurs when someone adopts two or more completely different personalities or personas. In fact, people with dissociative identity disorder commonly take on as many as fifteen separate personalities over time. Each personality may represent a strategy for coping with a different type of stressor or problem. The changes from personality to personality can include voice pitch, vocabulary, dialect, and posture. I excitedly ran down the little hill toward the other children and arrived at the merry-go-round, ready to participate in the fun. However, all the children--and I mean each and every one of them--took one look at me, turned around, and walked away.

I didn't understand what had happened, but I did know that I now had that merry-go-round all to myself. At no time did I have any urge to follow those children or wonder why they left. I just wanted to spin on that ride as long as I could. I loved spinning. I don't know how long I stayed on that merry-go-round. I just kept making it go and go and go. What I didn't realize was that my mother was sitting in the car, watching it all. She saw the children look at me as if I were from another planet. If you owe them something or know a secret you want to tell others, they will use fear to control you. They may agree to do something for you, but they pose a threat if you disobey them. If they frighten violence or make you appear scared, please leave and find a safe place immediately. How Do You Know If You Are Being Manipulated in A Relationship? When dealing with a person to be manipulated, it can sometimes be challenging to realize that their behavior is the problem, not you. People who are good at manipulating may be good at transferring responsibility for their actions or making you feel that you are at fault. Even though identifying manipulation can be tricky, it is possible. Signs of manipulation in relationships, so be sure to read them through to fully understand some of the various forms of manipulation you may encounter. A brief list of types of manipulation is as follows: Threatening specific actions or consequences to achieve the desired result As opposed to perception, which depends on cognitive awareness of sensory input, neuroception takes place unconsciously, in the most primitive parts of our brain. We are built to weigh environmental and behavioral cues that help us figure out whether or not we're safe.

If we neurocept safety, our nervous system inhibits our animal defenses (fight, flight, and freeze) and grants us access to our social engagement system. This means we'll be in our window of tolerance. If we don't neurocept safety, we fall back on defensive, sympathetic responses such as fight or flight. Some trauma survivors experience something called faulty neuroception. When this happens, safety cannot be recognized even in an environment that would normally be nonthreatening to them. Ogden explained it this way: Continuing to neurocept danger, [trauma survivors] often experience intrusive fears and phobias, waves of shame and despair, impulses to desperately seek help, fight, flight, freeze, or shut down, that sabotage their efforts to function. This, as I covered, is one of the paralyzing costs of trauma: a horrific, overwhelming event comes to play out indefinitely in our bodies and minds. The person isn't just less vulnerable to attack, they also notice more. With more energy, a person can also absorb more attacks. And all of this is `only' because we entered G4 and `did nothing' there (you'll learn all about this article 6, `The Concept of Not-Doing'). Soultana from Munich, Germany This is the case of a 56-year-old patient who had been made redundant from her long-term employment six months earlier and was extremely irritated and distressed because she had no idea how she'd find another job. She came to my practice to deal with other issues and mentioned this incident in passing. I treated her, and afterward she returned to me, beaming with joy and saying that she'd found a position through the job center and was very happy. The new job paid more money that the last one, the conditions were markedly better, and the new boss had been determined to get her specifically to take on this role. She could hardly believe it: after all, she was `just' an unskilled worker, and not a young one at that. As people work on themselves and resolve their blocks, life unfolds for them and constructive solutions appear. Stone is hard to chisel. Consider the voice.

Often, someone is speaking in the first person (a relative, a friend, the deceased). You might want to think about whose voice you want this to be. If you're doing this for someone else, consider the dead person's voice. If they weren't funny, don't go for funny. If they weren't religious, don't go for religion. If they hated poetry, don't give them a poem. My favorite epitaph in the local cemetery belongs to a young man Hollis Hudetz, whose gravestone reads, He claims to have died rescuing thirty-seven orphans from a burning building. I imagine this guy as funny, and I am grateful for someone who was so generous he gave a stranger a laugh in the graveyard. Part of the difficulty may be in holding the pen or pencil and moving the hand. Try using the Writing-Bird from North Coast Functional Solutions. By gently pressing on this lightweight device, the pen or pencil tip will glide along nicely. Pet ownership is a big responsibility. Animals need daily care too. They need food, fresh water, exercise, frequent veterinarian checkups and immunizations, grooming, a city license if required, and lots of love. If you have a pet that has been with you before you had a stroke, the animal may be a great comfort to you when you return from the hospital. However, there are some issues of pet ownership that you should be aware of after a stroke. If you have a small dog or a cat, be aware that your pet may come up to you on your stroke-affected side and you may not be able to see it. Your new equipment may appear to be a plaything to your animal. Red cells that can't flex either get stuck or split. Split red cells are bad news;