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June 28, 2006
Debunking Constipated Ideas About Constipation
Suffering from constipation is no fun. We've all been there. The discomfort, the worry, the relief. But constipation is something that one need not go through, nor worry about as long as one is taking proper steps to ensure that the root causes of it are not started in the first place.
I know that many of us do not want to talk about a topic like this, nor read about it. It's the type of hush-hush information that we all prefer no one else know that we're going through. Even our doctors. But that is something that is going to have to be gotten over if one is going to experience relief with this all-too-common malady we humans periodically suffer from.
I'm not a doctor, nor do I want to be, so let me state from the get-go that I'm not dispensing medical advice, nor anything intend to be misconstrued as medical advice. Go to your trained and degree'd doctor or specialist for that kind of stuff. So in this case, I'll just butt out of your business.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. ;-)
There. Now that we're beyond all that legalese, let's continue with this discussion.
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Let's face it, being constipated is not enjoyable. And the topic in general is not a pretty subject. But still it behooves one to make sure that they know what to do to prevent bouts of constipation in the first place. This is possible. I know this for a fact through personal experience and considerable reading and extensive learning about the subject of constipation in general.
But, to simplify this entire subject let me tell you a story about something that happened to me a fair number of years ago. Don't worry, I'm not going to share and describe something medically graphic here. (I like to keep my insightful articles family-friendly. ;-)
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About twenty years ago I owned a car that I bought from someone for about $450 Cdn. Needless to say, it was an old used car that needed serious repair. But any repairs, such as changing the chronic leak it had would have exceeded the cost I paid for the vehicle so I chose to continue to drive the car and just ignore the blue smoke coming out the tail pipe.
The car had such a bad oil leak that I always carried a supply of several quarts of oil in the back of the car so as to keep the oil level at normal levels. I think the car was losing about one quart every 100 miles, or so.
As the oil continued to drip out from beneath the engine, and the blue smoke continued to spew out the tail pipe, I continued pouring, literally, a quart of oil in the engine oil refill opening every week or two, as needed depending upon my driving distance during that time. I also thought that since the vehicle was getting a 'fresh' quart of oil on a constant basis that I didn't need to change the oil or the oil filter. Ever.
Why? Well, the way my inexperienced mind perceived the situation was to think that since older oil was leaking out and fresh oil was being inputted...why bother changing the oil at all? Right? After all, it was being changed every several weeks overall through my constant oil adding, wasn't it? Not.
Needless to say, after continuing this routine over a period of several months and several thousand miles the car, and the engine, had decided that they had had enough. One very, very cold Canadian winter night the car engine completely froze solid and seized up on me and I was stranded at a local nightclub with no way to get home. In fact, the car had to be junked because the engine was now useless.
And why was the engine now useless? Because I had continued to pour fresh oil in without thinking about getting rid of all the sludge that remained in the engine block from all the other prior used oil that had leaked out or burned blue. Eventually the sludge buildup inside the block was so great that the moving parts within the engine now couldn't function so, viola!, the engine seized up with all the crap that I had neglected to realize was still inside the engine's 'guts'. Big mistake.
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So why am I bringing up this incident from my long ago past? Well, to show you with a more easy to digest example that this is what is happening to one's insides when they choose to live their lives on a daily basis and treat their insides much like I did with that poor old car twenty years ago.
Our digestive system is very similar, albeit not quite as simple, as the innards of that unfortunate automobile. They need to be kept cleaned through digestion of high-fiber, nutrient rich contents. The contents need to be regularly, and entirely, changed out. And the system needs to kept in tip-top shape through regular maintenance.
But what do we do with our insides in reality? Well, let's see.
We continuously fill them with 'fresh' undigestible junk, for the most part, and wait for nature to do its part with the old stuff once it's been processed. But like that old car, nature decides every so often as a warning to us that this type of abuse can't continue, and that it is going to give us a warning about its continued ill-treatment through a painful bout of constipation.
These bouts of constipation are not solely just atypical episodes that occur during our days on this planet. Rather, they're a warning that things are not going right inside, if even for only a few days. They're an indication that better fluids and solids need to be put into the system, used, and eliminated properly.
Analagous with my car engine story above stop: the continuous adding oil routine; smelling the blue smoke spewing out the tailpipe; neglecting regular oil changes; and, thinking throughout that that's sufficient.
You see, these bouts of constipation are indications that something is not right in our insides to the extent that things could be so bad that the system is clogging up, like that old beater automobile did, and ready to seize up and give out altogether. How? Easy...
Can you say 'diverticulitis'?
Can you say 'colon cancer'?
Can you say 'celiac disease'?
Do you want to wait to find out that you need to take better care of your insides with this kind of warning shot? I know I don't.
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I remember, about ten years ago, I went to my doctor when I had a bout of constipation that was especially troubling. It was occuring for quite a long time so I questioned him about how often an elimination should be occurring. He actually told me that it's perfectly okay for a person to have a bowel movement only every four days or so.
"Yeah,...rrrrrrrright." (to quote my nine-year-old son).
Let's detail what I was told by this trained professional in the medical field, from another perspective.
How many meals does one consume during a four day period? 10? 12? Where are all those solids going if they're being ingested but not eliminated? Would you agree that if they're not being purged on a regular basis that they're just being kinda backlogged and stored in the digestive system waiting for their turn to be eliminated?
Well, add this to that scenario...
We all know that what comes out when we have an elimination is toxic and even deadly if improperly contacted. So do you think it's wise to have that stuff sitting around IN your body for several days at a time while it waits its turn to be purged?
I certainly don't. I want that toxic sludge outta me as fast as my body is able to process it.
I would hope you now do too. And that's why it's so important to make sure that your digestive system is working as best as it can on a regular and consistent basis.
And if you, like I once did, suffer from short and long periods of constipation then I would suggest that what might do you a world of good is to get some natural, non-laxative type help to assist your troubled system. And not just when you're experiencing constipation, but rather on a continuous basis as part of a regular maintenance and cleansing process and routine.
The one product that I found that has completely eliminated (sorry for the pun) my elimination problems for the past seven years is produced by a local company here in Phoenix. The product is called Experience and it's a mediterranean herbal product and has been in use by humans for over 100 years now.
Again, through my own testimony and six-year+ usage I can easily say that this product has worked wonders for me and my digestive system. Again, I'm not dispensing medical advice since I don't know your personal issues, rather, I'm just making a recommendation based on personal experience and the outcomes that I was able to achieve. Essentially, to steal a quote from the investment industry -- past outcomes do not guarantee similar future returns. So make your own call on what you think will work best for you, and if you're unsure consult your own doctor first.
And I will add that based on my own experience I certainly don't miss the discomfort, pain, and worry over constipation anymore. And no more visits to the doctor and being told that having a bowel movement every fours days is okay.
So, if you are constipated and suffer from chronic constipation or bouts of constipation I encourage you to visit this link (http://www.andrebest.com/experience) and find out for yourself what a natural product like this might be able to do for you.
Good luck.
Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.andrebest.com
'Learn About Life From Another Perspective'
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June 15, 2006
An Uncommon Way to Deal with Loneliness
I have recently been thinking about loneliness and the things that go on in one's life so as to make them feel that their life is full, especially when they're feeling lonely on a daily basis. More often than not it amazes me just how much people do to pile stuff into their day so as to stay busy.
Loneliness is not a pretty feeling. I know we've all been there at some point, or points, in our lives. And we do whatever we can to appease feeling lonely, or alone.
Loneliness.
...It's dark.
...It's depressing.
...It's hopeless.
...It's bleak.
...It's a blackness or sadness that sometimes seems permanent, pervasive, and inescapable.
But what gets us to that seemingly inescapable abyss in the first place? What gets us to this unseen path of filling our days with something to do just so that we don't feel this feeling of loneliness?
That is the proper question and the question that I think still awaits a good answer for most.
I remember discussing with one of my co-workers several years ago the topic of motivation. He shared the interesting distinction he had learned that it's not a matter of what we're walking towards, or moving towards, but rather it's more a matter of what it is that we're trying to move away from.
Or for more relevance in this discussion, what we're trying to 'escape' (i.e. loneliness) through 'busy-ness'.
I think that loneliness, or the fear of loneliness is a powerful motivator, and a debilitating force, at the same time. It drives us to do things that we don't understand at the time that we do. And at the same time it keeps us entwined in activities that we know we shouldn't be doing or have in our lives and yet we feel powerless to escape the grip of.
But loneliness is still a rather befuddling emotion that I'm detailing now so as to learn more about since for me at least I'm becoming aware that it is never truly ridden from my life through activities and interactions with others. Or to re-state my prior description... through 'busy-ness'.
However, what made this subject even more interesting and compelling for me is recently reading a writing by the great esoteric spirituality author Osho which states that loneliness is not something in and of itself, but rather an absence of something. In this case, light, or awareness of a simple Truth.
I know that I may have lost some of you here so I'll try to make this simpler since even for me it took several readings before what Osho wrote made sense.
Continuing my paraphrasing, what was stated is that loneliness is not something that actually exists in and of itself. It is not something that can be dealt with directly since it really is not something that is in existence because of something.
Of course, we all think it is because...
He left me.
She's gone.
I lost that.
This is over.
That happened.
...So I'm lonely.
This is how the voices go that make us think that loneliness is something that we need to directly address through incorporation of activities and more things and other people into our lives. These are the voices and the words that drive us to fill the 'absence' of whatever was with whatever we are able to find now to occupy that void, or currently empty spot inside of us.
But what has actually happened is we made a critical wrong turn in our thinking of how to handle the situation we're in that involves the creation of this perceived absence that in turn creates the loneliness.
We think that addressing this feeling amounts to filling up the empty space with 'busy-ness'. But it doesn't. And as probably all of us can attest to, that doesn't work. At least not for very long.
Instead, what needs to be done is to see that loneliness is simply darkness that has entered us and that this darkness can't be dealt with directly because it doesn't really exist. Yes, you read right...loneliness doesn't really exist by itself.
Rather, it's simply an absence of the light at that time in our life.
As Osho stated, one wouldn't try to push darkness out of a dark room so as to bring in the light. That is impossible because darkness doesn't really exist. Rather, it's simply an absence of light. So the answer is to turn on the light in that room to make the darkness disappear.
Now I know that I'm still way out there esoterically-speaking. But try to stick with me.
You see, this is only recently coming apparent to me through reading what Osho wrote. But it is so powerful in its teaching.
We can't escape a feeling like loneliness because it can't be dealt with directly. It must be dealt with indirectly but through other direct actions to bring something else, something out of the usual, into us and that lonely space. And the 'other direct action' in this case is to bring the full understanding -- the awareness -- that the loneliness, in and of itself, doesn't really exist.
Bring awareness into the loneliness and the loneliness will disappear.
Bring awareness, or light, into the darkness of loneliness and the loneliness will disappear without being dealt with in some ineffective direct action such as 'busy-ness'.
I know this is radical stuff, and not for the faint of heart to attempt. And I know that this also is oh-so-hard to actually do when one is on the path of trying to escape the darkness of loneliness.
But think about how many things we humans have devised to help us cover up our all-too-common event of suffering through life. In this case suffering with loneliness.
And then remind yourself how ineffective those methods have been, through your own personal testimony, and perhaps you'll begin to see that this is a rather profound and uncommon way of dealing with darkness that just might work in the time of need when one is most lonely.
Give it a try. What have you got to lose, except your loneliness?
And when you actually do do it, let me know how it went. I think you'll be most surprised.
Written by Andre Best
President, Ultimate Results, Inc.
http://www.andrebest.com
'Learn About Life From Another Perspective'
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