Hotel Orion Relais is a luxury 4 star hotel in Sapri, located in Via Carlo Pisacane 69 - Villammare

Newly renovated Hotel, new management. Situated in a absolutely untouched scenery, in the charming landscape of Cilento, overlooking the Gulf of Policastro, a few kilometres from Sapri and half hour from the junction of the SA / RC Buonabitacolo - Padula.

It has 38 rooms with all modern services, air-conditioned and equipped with every comfort, with sea view balconies, large halls and bars catering, in addition to the availability of free parking for guests.Ideal for those who want a vacation of sea and relaxation, the hotel has a private beach, with the adjacent kiosk bar, equipped with umbrellas and chairs.

The restaurant offers dishes of Kitchen of Cilento.

Quality, courtesy and professional services for all those who love truly to live in harmony with the sea and the sun of Cilento, as well as for those who whish to enjoy the natural beauty of the Park of Cilento and Vallo di Diano …

We are waiting for a serene and pleasant holiday in the comfort of the new Hotel Orion in Villammare.

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For great rooms in London without spending all your money, Visit London offer an efficient hostel reservation service. With a top10 based on client reviews and a selection of search options to choose from, Visit London makes finding a hotel in London simple.

Hostels can provide excellent value for money, especially if you’re in town for two nights or planning a longer stay in London. Hostels like the Ace Hotel in trendy Kensington, have lively bars and communal areas, so they can offer a very cordial place to stay. And, if you thought hostels were aimed at the young people and backpacker market, than you have to think again! London’s hostels have lots to offer to tourists of any ages.

Staying in a hostel might often be a good way to visit some of London’s most graceful period buildings. For Victorian elegance, try Palmers Lodge, the ex home of Samuel Palmer of the Huntley or Palmers Biscuits Empire. Alternatively step back in time at Holland House YHA, previously a Jacobean mansion with large, cosy rooms with a nice view.

Hostels aren’t simply about sleeping in dorms, although this can be the cheapest tactic to stay in the capital if you’re on a budget. More and more there are hostels with private rooms with room comforts, like for instance, The Globetrotter Inn London, a 4 star hostel in Hammersmith.

Rooms in central London may be cheaper if you choose a hostel. Astor Museum Inn is located next to the British Museum and not far from Soho, Covent Garden and Oxford Street. Astor Victoria is near to many central London landmarks, for example Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, the London Eye, and Westminster Abbey.

Summer might be a particularly good time to find a cheap hostel in the UK’s capital. Some universities and colleges, an example is King’s College London, open their student halls of residence to guests during the holidays, so you may find a bargain.

As well as saving you money, staying in a hostel might well be a wonderful occasion to meet similar folks if you’re new to London. From swapping tips about places where to go in London, to discover the best route to get from one place to another, your fellow hostel guests can hold a wealth of useful information!
VisitLondon.com has also a list of london clubs - enjoy it.

Your wife can have some amazing mood changes. One minute you will be sitting there in your living room, just minding your own business, and then bam, all of a sudden you are in the thunder dome. You must have forgot to take out the garbage, because suddenly she is tossing all the trash right at you. “Why don’t you do anything around here?” she also says, “I’m sick of picking up your dirty socks, turn off the lights!” All of the above can be products of the hormonal rage that lies within all pregnant women. One day I made the mistake of telling my wife that she can’t have another cup of coffee with her breakfast. Mistake! She freaked out! ” I have stopped eating all the foods that I love, haven’t had a drink in months, taking all sorts of pills. All I have lefts is my coffee! It’s not going to hurt the baby if I have another cup. Don’t give me a hard time, give me that cup of coffee right now” Then she burst into tears and cried for a few minutes. She didn’t drink the other cup.

All I am saying is that pregnant women are moody, and it doesn’t take much for them to get all riled up. Just try to go through it with them. As for the coffee thing, if your wife really thinks that she needs the coffee, try the old bait and switch. Dump out all of the regular coffee, and replace it with decaf. Most women put tons of cream in their coffee anyway and she’ll never know the difference. Don’t egg them on, when they get upset. Remember that you are not dealing with a rational person anymore, and there will be lots of time, just like this. You must learn to deal.

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Capturing the perfect wedding day video takes more than just luck. There are a number of factors involved that should be considered when you’re planning your wedding video whether you’re the one behind or in front of the camera.

1. Experience

Make sure the videographer has considerable experience, has just about seen it all and can anticipate what is about to happen in order to capture events as they unfold. Take note of any recommendations from people you know or testimonials to this regard.

2. Communication

The videographer must be prepared to liaise with other people who have key roles in your day, from the photographer to the hotel manager, in order to be alerted to upcoming highlights such as cutting the cake and the speeches as well as ensuring s/he is updated of any changes to the schedule.

3. Post Editing

The video service should be able to provide additional interesting extras, such as background music and slow motion shots, which will give your finished video a professional and polished touch, distinguishing it from a regular home movie.

4. Expertise

The wedding video should be a professional piece of work, make sure that as well as having top quality equipment, the videographer also advocates technical knowledge such as an understanding of white balance, manual focus and shutter speeds. Ask to see examples of their work to judge the picture quality for yourself.

5. Lighting

When discussing locations for the wedding day, ensure that the videographer has lighting equipment suitable for indoor filming and will be able to transport it to each venue, to ensure each picture is evenly lit and exposed.

6. Sound

Ask if it is possible for the groom to wear a tie-clip microphone in order to pick up both sets of vows being made. Even the most confident of couples can be softly spoken when exchanging vows and this is the most important moment in your marriage ceremony that will want to be relived. This inconspicuous device will record voices onto the video, which may otherwise be lost.

7. Discretion

The ideal videographer will be unobtrusive and record the day without becoming a feature of it. Choose someone who understands the sensitivity needed to get all the shots whilst remaining invisible. Look for comments highlighting this ability when checking recommendations.

Rob Whibley’s websites are Action Wedding Videos Wirral, Chester and Liverpool and Action Wedding Photography. Both websites by Web Star Creations Wirral Website Design

My son slipped a penny in the slot, cranked the machine, and turned his (or was it mine?) penny flat. He can’t spend it now, but who uses pennies these days? We have drawers full of them. Watching him made me think of Thomas Friedman’s book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History Of The Twenty-First Century (an easy recollection since I was reading the book).

Friedman writes for the New York Times editorial department. He has written Longitudes and Attitudes and The Lexus and the Olive Tree. The World is Flat completes a trilogy that validates Marshall McLuan’s maxim, “We now live in a global village…a simultaneous happening.”

Friedman makes global observations with wise criticism and keen understanding. For example, listen here to Friedman talk about the Iraq War, “If you don’t visit a bad neighborhood in a flat world, it will visit you, ” and it did.

11/9 and 9/11 I won’t give away the entire content of Friedman’s book. I couldn’t do it justice, and it is too long (471 pages). I will tell you that two events hinge the world for Friedman. The fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of Windows95, and the fall of Windows on the World. Oddly, the first happened 11/9/1989 and the last 9/11/2001.

Finding Flat Pennies The world is flat because nothing is proprietary. What can be made, learned, constructed, and used in America can be made, learned, constructed, and used almost anywhere. Information and innovation are not constrained; the Internet, the cell-phone, and imagination have global instincts. Almost anyone can flatten a penny.

What a flat world means to your investment choices Friedman does not address foreign investing. He emphasizes collaboration between scientist, analysts, researchers, academics, and corporations. I encourage you to read the many examples of outsourcing, insourcing, and infosourcing articulated by Thomas Friedman. If we are to maintain a viable international presence, we must involve ourselves with other nations, their betterment, and our mutual benefits.

We can make one keen observation. Investments are not ethnocentric. Intelligence is not either. Every investor must accept a future that involves opportunities in China, India, and Singapore (oriental not occidental). American companies scramble for this opportunity; the Congress and the President should avoid quasi-protectionist acts.

My Son Must Do More Than Flatten Pennies Fortunately, he does! While doing homework, he types messages to his classmates (discovered girls recently). I told him, “When you spend time sending messages, a young man your age in China or India is working on his next math problem. He is your competition.” Americans are not entitled. Encourage and warn your children and grandchildren.

“The flattening of the world is moving ahead…nothing is going to stop it. But what can happen is a decline in our standard of living, if more Americans are not empowered and educated to participate…. This is not a test. This is a crisis, and as Paul Romer has so perceptively warned, ‘A crisis is a terrible thing to waste’” (The World Is Flat, page 305f).

Ray Randall serves clients as a registered investment advisor with his firm, Ethos Advisory Services, Essex, Massachusetts Ethos Advisory Services. He has wide experience within the financial services industry, writes a weekly newsletter for Ethos Advisory Services, and coordinates the developments at Echievements.com. Ray holds a Masters Degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Hamilton, MA. You may call Ray (617-275-5565).

The story so far…

At a metaphysical lecture facilitated by Guy Williams, Guy made the
comment that most people don’t really want to heal. What most people want,
according to Guy, is to stop hurting. In Part 1, we met the ego, and discovered that
the most effective way of letting go of our limiting and outmoded beliefs is to
accept that there is no need to change these beliefs because they’re actually
working just fine. What we have, on the other hand, is the option to upgrade our beliefs and to make more elegant choices.

For most of us, healing is a big, scary, and uncomfortable prospect. Healing
requires that we do two very simple, yet incredibly unappealing tasks. First, we must
accept that we are responsible for creating our own illness: Our thoughts, beliefs,
choices and actions are directly responsible for the imbalance and dis-ease we are
experiencing in our physical bodies. Second, we must be willing to change our lives
and eliminate the thoughts, beliefs, choices and actions that created and supported
the imbalance and dis-ease, replacing them with new choices that support balance
and health.

Taking Responsibility For Our Illnesses

The first step to healing is to accept that we created our illnesses in the first place.
This can be a difficult concept to swallow. So many of us are invested in the
prevailing Western scientific medical view of reality that we can’t quite understand
how we created our illnesses.

Most illnesses are caused by viruses or bacteria. If we catch a cold, or get the flu,
how is that our responsibility? Someone sneezed on us in an elevator, and now
we’re laid up in bed for a week. We’re so helpless against the various flu strains that
there’s even an annual cold and flu season every year. Every ad for cough
medication, every news report on flu vaccinations only serves to reinforce the belief
that we’re helpless victims of forces beyond our control. The only way to avoid
getting sick is to avoid human contact for six months of the year.

But what about the people who don’t bother with flu shots, and don’t avoid human
contact and yet they also don’t get sick? Are they just lucky? They’re being exposed
to the same bacteria and viruses that we are. How is that that they stay healthy?
Could it be that their thoughts support perfect health and a strong and functioning
immune system, while ours somehow invite illness?

What about hereditary or genetic disorders? How can we be responsible for these?
Or is it just possible that our belief in heredity is what creates hereditary diseases? If
we believe that because heart disease “runs” in our family that we are “at risk” for a
heart attack, how does that belief become our reality?

Of course, in the case of heart disease, there are so many other contributing factors,
such as diet and exercise that have as much, or more to do with the health of our
hearts than heredity does. It may just be possible that what we inherit is not a
genetic predisposition to heart disease, but the nutritional and lifestyle habits that
actually result in heart disease. We inherit behaviors from our families as well. We’re
responsible for our choices, and we’re responsible for any dis-ease that results
from our choices.

I have a friend who “inherited” a degenerative neurological disorder that affects her
feet and makes it difficult for her to walk. Every doctor she saw told her that she
would be in a wheelchair by the time she was 40, and there was nothing she could
do about it. She knew how her relatives had lived out their lives with this disease,
and decided that this was not an acceptable life for her. She refused to accept the
diagnosis, and began to explore alternative therapies. She made radical changes to
her diet and lifestyle, and very quickly noticed a radical improvement in this chronic,
progressive, degenerative condition. According to the best medical experts, she
shouldn’t be able to walk today. However, because she took responsibility for her
illness and changed the thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that created her illness,
she has been able to reverse it.

Many conditions result from negative thinking and limiting beliefs. Unexpressed
anger, regret, grief, and other painful emotions can manifest as chronic, painful,
and sometimes terminal illness. In order to heal these conditions, we must identify
the negative thought or belief that is at the core. The challenge, however, is to
identify and release the negative thought without triggering the ego. All too often,
we punish ourselves for having negative thoughts in the first place–we beat
ourselves up for beating ourselves up. This only reinforces the negative thought and
destructive patterns.

We must accept that every belief we hold, no matter how negative or limiting, serves
us in some way. This goes for our illnesses and dis-eases as well. Before we can
heal, we must become aware of what benefits we get from our illnesses.

Discovering And Accepting That Our Illness Serves Us

Every choice we make, we make because it meets a need. We created our illness
because it gives us something that we believe that we want. What is the payoff we
get for being ill? What are we getting out of this situation?

No matter how painful or debilitating the illness, there is always a benefit.
Objectively, we may have made a rather unskillful bargain, of course. We may feel
that we’re paying much too high a price for the benefits we receive. But until we
identify the benefituntil we become aware of what it is that we get out of being ill,
we can never truly heal.

Healing requires that we identify what it is that we get out of being ill, and then
become aware of our beliefs surrounding this need. We must be willing to give up
these benefits, or recognize that we can meet these needs in less debilitating ways.

When it comes to minor illnesses such as the cold or flu, often we get sick because
we haven’t been listening to our bodies. We’ve been working too hard, and under
too much stress. We haven’t been taking care of our physical, emotional, or spiritual
needs. The only way that we will take any time for ourselves is if we’re too weak to
get out of bed, so that’s what we create.

I have a friend who has a rather intense family history, with enough drama and
intrigue to fill a prime-time soap opera. A number of years ago, she experienced a
rather significant identity crisis. An inheritance set her up financially so that she
could do whatever she wanted to do with her life. The fact that she could do
whatever she wanted with her life meant that she had to actually choose what she
wanted to do with her life, and this created a great deal of stress. She began to have
anxiety attacks, and soon developed acute agoraphobia, finding it very difficult to
leave her house. She’s struggled with this condition for many years. The payoff of
this condition is that she has an iron-clad excuse not to face her fears and do
something with her life. All of her time and attention is focused on her condition
and her anxiety.

We may find it difficult to accept responsibility for having created our illnesses
because we created our illnesses to avoid having to take responsibility in the first
place. Illnesses and injuries are often cries for attention and validation. When we’re
ill, injured or otherwise in pain, we’re entitled–and even expected to think only of
ourselves. We are excused from our responsibilities to others. We don’t have to go
anywhere we don’t want to go, we don’t have to do anything we don’t want to do.
And we can expect other people to do things for us and we’re under no obligation
to return the favor. We can cancel plans at the last minute, or even simply not show
up, because we were in too much pain to fulfill our social obligations–and we don’t
even have to call to apologize.

Within reason, we’re able to complain to others about how we feel, or put on a brave
face, enduring the pain (but also making certain that everyone knows that we’re a
martyr to our pain and we don’t want to ruin everyone else’s good time). Either way,
our illness is making us the center of attention, and this makes deposits in our
Validation Accounts. Granted, the deposits are very small, and the cost is extremely
high, but for many of us, this is the only way we believe that we can receive
validation and attention from others.

Healing means that we will have to give up our “special” status. We will no longer be
entitled to be the center of attention at all times. We will no longer be able to
demand that other people notice us and pay us special attention. We will be
expected to do things that we may not particularly enjoy, in order to meet our
personal and social obligations to others.

If our illness is a chronic disability, healing means that we will once again have to
work to earn a living. If we believe that the only way that we can earn a living is
doing work that we find repugnant and draining, where is the incentive to heal? And,
could this belief be one of the primary reasons we created our disability in the first
place?

Sometimes it’s more important to keep our handicapped parking privileges than it is
to heal and have to (or even be able to) walk an extra block to the
supermarket.

Please know that there is nothing at all wrong with that choice. We are free to
choose to keep our illnesses and our dis-eases. These conditions meet very
important needs for us, albeit at a considerable cost. We may not really want to
heal, and that’s a perfectly acceptable choice.

Of course, once we accept responsibility for having created our illness, and become
completely aware of the costs and benefits, we may realize that we can, in fact,
meet those needs more effectively in other ways. When we realize this, we are truly
ready to heal.

The Courage to Heal

Healing is a very threatening process because it requires that we make significant,
often dramatic changes in our lives, and change is always threatening. On the most
fundamental level, safe equals familiar. When our most basic, physiological needs
are being met, we’re often able to overcome minor concerns about the unknown
and embrace change without feeling threatened. When we’re in pain because of dis-
ease, however, our most basic needs are not being met.

When our Physiological Need account is overdrawn, all of our need accounts are put
on red alert. When we’re in pain, we’re most definitely not feeling safe, and
any change will be a threat. To make matters worse, the behaviors that we
will have to changeoften eating, drinking, and/or smokingseem to be the few
reliable ways that we can make deposits in our Safety Accounts.

On an intellectual level, we may understand that the only way to truly heal and be
free of the pain of our dis-ease is to alter our behavior. However, when our safety
needs aren’t being met, we act on instinct. The very thought that we have to give up
the few things that give us pleasure makes us feel even less safe. p>

What happens next is that we often retreat into victim consciousness. We long for
the magic wand that will miraculously make the pain go away and let us continue
with our lives exactly as they are, because that’s the only option we can imagine
that lets us feel reasonably safe. When we escape into fantasy, of course, we avoid
any personal responsibility. We also give up all personal power, and lose the ability
to heal.

In order to truly heal, we must accept each healing crisis as a call to awareness.
When we’re in pain, all we can do is find some way to alleviate the pain. This is an
essential first step. Healing requires that we address our safety needs, and we can’t
do this until our physiological needs are being met. Healing isn’t about stopping the
pain; healing is about what we choose to do once the pain has stopped.

Healing is not about pain management; it’s about safety management. In order to
change our behaviors and allow our bodies to heal, we must learn how to manage
our Safety Accounts.

For example, we might have an emotional attachment to sugar. Anytime we feel
stressed, unhappy, or otherwise unsafe, we can always rely on a candy bar or some
ice cream to make us feel a little better. If we are at risk for diabetes, however,
eating sugar poses serious health risks. Of course, the thought of having to give up
sugar makes us feel unsafe, and in order to replenish the balance in our Safety
Account, we dive into a pound of Godiva chocolates.

The only way to break this pattern is to learn to manage our Safety Account. We
must discover other behaviors that help us to feel safe that do not involve eating
sugar. We can use the “Present Moment Awareness Safety Exercise” (see The
Relationship Handbook: How to Understand and Improve Every Relationship in Your
Life, page 48) to manage our general stress levels so that we’re less likely to
give in to our cravings. We experience the truth that we can meet our needs in many
different ways, and so we do not feel threatened and unsafe by the thought of
limiting or excluding sugar from our diet. And, of course, we apply AWARENESS,
OWNERSHIP and CHOICE to create new behaviors that support our health.

Now, anyone who has struggled with attachments or addictions will tell you that
while the theory is very simple, simple isn’t the same thing as easy! Throughout the
process, we also have to be careful not to trigger our egos (as we covered in Part 1).
We must take small steps, validating and rewarding ourselves for each elegant
choice, no matter how small, and avoid punishing ourselves for not being able to
change our behavior patterns instantly.

We did not create our dis-eases overnight, and we won’t be able to heal them
overnight, either. We must accept that healing is a gradual process, and in this
acceptance is one of the keys to healing. We generally do not need to make drastic,
immediate changes in order to heal. We can make gradual changes in our behavior
and our beliefs, and the more gentle we are with ourselves during the process, the
more successful it will be.

Healing does not have to be difficult. It’s just that for most of us, as soon as we stop
hurting, we lose interest in actually healing.

Kevin B. Burk is the author of The Relationship Handbook: How to
Understand and Improve Every Relationship in Your Life. Visit http://www.everyrelationship.com for a FREE report on
creating AMAZING Relationships.

Heard about the Child Trust Fund? surprisingly few appear to have heard of the fact that all newborn children get a free £250 voucher from the State to put in a Child Trust Fund. The voucher can be invested in any one of three sorts of CTF account, Stakeholder - a shares-based account thatswaps into cash, a savings account or a shares account. It is an excellent way to save for the future requirements of a infant

Scottish Friendly is an accredited provider of the Child Trust Fund The Government is eager for the public to have access to Stakeholder accounts and this is the sort of account that we provide. This means that:

Investments are deposited into Scottish Friendly’s Managed Growth Fund, which aims to provide good growth potential

An investment is made in part in shares to make the most of potentially higher returns over 18 years,compared to a cash deposit account (although the value of shares can
decrease as well as increase whereas capital would be protected in a deposit account)

It is available with a low ‘Stakeholder’ funds charge of just 1.5 percent perannum

When a person reaches the age of 18 the young person will get a lump sum, completely free of Capital Gains and Income Tax under present legislation

It is affordable - additional payments can be placed in the account from as little as £10

An attractive feature of the Child Trust Fund is that anyone - parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, friends - may contribute to the Fund to an uppermost limit of £1,200 per year to help augment the child’s Fund (once added, this money cannot be withdrawn).

All this means our Stakeholder account offers a good balance between possible high returns and a reduced level of risk. There is also the extra assurance that our account is in accordance with with the Government’s stakeholder criteria. However this does not mean that returns are guaranteed or that Stakeholder accounts are suitable for everyone. Remember that the value of shares in the Managed Growth Fund (where your Child Trust Fund money is invested) can fall as well as rise and would not be guaranteed.

Only children whose birthday is on or after 1st September 2002 are authorised to open a Child Trust Fund. If you have older children born before the 1st of September 2002 who are not qualified you could contemplate saving for them with a Child Bond - it’s a tax-free savings plan which was created for long-term growth.

There can be no doubt that investing for a child.your children is a sensible means of preparing for tomorrow.

Last week the media circus surrounding the flu vaccine reached a crescendo.

Half of all the flu vaccine supply is not available this year!

Why? Because the British company that supplies half of the U.S. flu vaccine supply was shut down by health officials.

Does it really matter?

Unless you are under 2 or over 65 and are in poor health, It doesn’t matter.

Because of the flu vaccine shortage The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have said that healthy people under the age of 65 should do without a flu shot.

Gee, that’s what we just talked about.

So even if there were enough flu vaccines, why would You be urged to get one?

The CDC just said that healthy people under the age of 65 can do without a flu shot.

Those of you who take care of your immune system Year ’round don’t have anything to worry about.

The question you want to ask yourself is “Do I really want to have a live vaccine injected or inhaled into my body when my immune system is not in the best of shape?”

Before you decide just how easy this decision is to make, Let me explain a few things which will make the decision a little easier.

This years’ flu vaccine is tailor made from LAST years’ flu strains, so it is not going to be as effective against THIS years’ flu strains.

Are you aware of all the additives in the flu vaccine and vaccines in general?

These additives are all highly toxic to the human body, let me show you …

The biggest problem you face with flu shots is that you are being injected with a number of toxic additives.

How would you like to have antifreeze injected into Your body? Don’t worry, they call it ethylene glycol. Makes it sound better doesn’t it?

Anyone for aluminum? (it’s only to promote Antibody response) Or formaldehyde? (to kill Viruses).

Here’s the best one - a mercury derivative (used as a preservative), called Thimerosal.

Are there safer alternatives to vaccines?

Of course there are. Let’s go over some of the most effective proven, safe and natural ways to keep your immune system healthy no matter what season it is.

Are you aware that you can do one simple thing to easily boost your immune system?

Lose the sweets. That’s right, sugar compromises the immune system.

Eat a healthy diet with plenty of vegetables, fruits and fresh organic meat protein.

Here’s another one - wash your hands more often.

As many people are walking around with colds, you may be shaking hands and touching things others have.

How about those zinc gluconate lozenges you can get at any drug store? These are not only highly effective when you have already caught a cold, but also to keep Your immune system strong when those around you are sick.

Naturally, supplements and herbs have been effective for thousands of years as a proven remedy to ward off colds and flu.

And here is a list of proven natural and effective Homeopathic remedies.

Vitamin C - Be sure to get a natural form of this one

And also make sure it contains bioflavonoids to help absorption.

A good natural multi-vitamin

Echinacea

Grapefruit seed extract (GSE) which is available in liquid, tablet and capsule form.

Olive Leaf Extract

Black Elderberry Extract

And finally, as long as you are cooking, cook with plenty of fresh garlic.

These are all simple and inexpensive remedies for maintaining your best health all year long.

Naturally, the more of these remedies you combine, the more healthy benefits you will receive.

You can easily stay healthy by taking action now.

Sources:

Health Sciences Institute e-alert “Flu vaccine shortage”,

October 6 , 2004, Jenny Thompson

Health Sciences Institute e-alert “This week”,

October 8 , 2004, Jenny Thompson

About The Author

Lee Cummings has been helping people solve real problems and feel better with proven nutrition for over 4 years. Lee publishes the montly LC Nutrition newsletter. For a No cost Report - mailto:report@lc-nutrition.com.

Discover proven nutrition information visit: http://www.LC-Nutrition.com; leeman@lc-nutrition.com

Glutamate is one of the most important transmitters of chronic pain. By using visualizations you may be able to use your subconscious to limit the impact of glutamate on your pain.

The Role of Glutamate

To appreciate the importance of glutamate in the pain process, it’s helpful to review the three stages by which pain signals are transmitted to the brain:

• In Stage 1, a pain signal is generated in the body (the lower back, the joints, or other location of a pain stimulus) and is sent to the spinal cord.

• In Stage 2, the signal is increased and sent to the pain processing center in the brain, the thalamus. This is the stage where the role of glutamate is critical.

• In Stage 3, the signal is sent from the thalamus to the cortex, at which point you actually feel the pain.

In Stage 2, glutamate helps to trigger a cascade of events that can seriously increase your pain.

NMDA Activation

The first is the activation of NMDA (N-methyl D-aspartate). This is a powerful protein that ratchets the pain signal up to a new level.

A normal pain signal reaching Stage 2 does not trigger the release of NMDA. But if the signal is strong, and enough glutamate is present in the NMDA receptors on your Stage 2 nerve cells, NMDA is activated and the pain signal is seriously increased.

Windup

Once NMDA is released, it makes possible the activation of a chemical that has been called the master control switch of nerve-injury pain, MAPK (mitogen-activated protein kinase).

MAPK causes more and more pain-generating chemicals such as glutamate to be produced. And at the same time it increases the sensitivity of pain receptors to those very chemicals.

The result is that glutamate causes nerve cells in the spine to be triggered with less input, which in turn requires less glutamate to activate the pain signal, beginning a vicious cycle of less stimulation and more pain. Pain nerves begin to fire out of control. This process, known as level 2 neuron windup, can cause devastating pain.

Visualization - An Alternative

Through visualization statements it may be possible to focus your subconscious on reducing the impact of glutamate in the pain process. This could be true for back pain or pain in the neck or other extremities, arthritis pain, fibromyalgia pain, or neuropathic pain (nerve pain).

Visualization statements represent the specific language that your subconscious wants you to read back to it to help ease your pain. They’re simple and are targeted directly at the main factors that could bring you relief.

You can obtain these statements by learning how to communicate directly with your own subconscious mind. The process is straightforward and can be done at home by working with a facilitator over the telephone. You you need no special skills and no previous experience in working with the subconscious.

• On one hand, your subconscious may indicate that it’s possible to reduce the likelihood of NMDA activation by limiting your release of glutamate. If so, it will probably provide a visualization statement to help achieve that effect.

• On the other hand, the subconscious may also indicate that it’s possible to reduce the chance of windup in Stage 2 by preventing your body from becoming overly sensitive to glutamate. Again it will probably suggest a visualization that may help to produce that result.

Engaging the Subconscious

The subconscious is quite powerful. When programmed through the very visualizations that it suggests, it may be able to turn glutamate-related episodes of uncontrolled pain into events over which you have a degree of control.

Ben Plumb is CEO and President of The Visualization Group, Inc. The company’s service is delivered by people like himself who personally suffered from years of chronic pain, and used the visualization method described in this article to obtain relief when nothing else worked. For more information, please visit http://www.thevisualizationgroup.com.

(c) 2005 The Visualization Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The methodology and program disclosed in this article are Patent Pending.