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The Dick Sutphen Files: Part 2. NOTE: This article was originally released as a free audio tape given to those ordering from Valley of the Sun, September 1996. The information has been gathered by the Sutphen staff from international sources: doctors, professional newsletters, research studies, books and authorities in various fields. The concepts include: sex and relationships, success, health, safety, diet, security and general awareness. Check with your doctor before making any lifestyle or dietary changes, or before using products discussed in this article.
At the First Sign At the first sign of chest pains or a heart attack, you're going to want to call your doctor, or 911. But what else can you do? Some specialists say, take an aspirin because it might make the difference between a serious heart attack and one with no muscle damage. Aspirin helps to keep a blood clot from fully forming. Doctors estimate that 10,000 lives could be saved annually if immediately after a heart attack people would take an aspirin and then continue to take one a day for a month. Here's another fact from UCLA Medical Center that could save your life if you're having a heart attack and begin to black out. Force yourself to start coughing rapidly. This can serve as cardiopulmonary resuscitation long enough to call for help -- maybe 60 to 90 seconds. By coughing vigorously, you keep blood moving through your heart and brain.
Key Signs of a Heart Attack The key signs of a heart attack: Any pain that spreads to your shoulders, arms or neck. Also, nausea, sweating, dizziness or fainting are indicators. Another sign is any kind of chest pressure that lasts longer than two minutes ... from a feeling of being overly full to a sense of squeezing in the center of your chest. Sometimes, especially with older people, there is no chest pain, but rather a severe shortness of breath.
How to Quickly Calm Down When you need to calm down quickly, here's one of the best ways in the world. Begin deep, diaphragm breathing. Take a very deep breath in, and hold it for as long as you comfortably can ... then let the breath out through slightly parted lips, and when the breath is all the way out, contract your stomach muscles and push the breath even further out, and further out. Then repeat the process. After a very few minutes of this deep breathing, you'll find yourself much calmer. Continue as long as necessary. Relating anger to driving, a survey shows that one out of every five drivers who died in auto accidents had been emotionally upset within six hours of the time of the accident. An American Journal of Psychiatry report found that people with angry, hostile and immature personality traits tended to have the most auto accidents. They're more prone to risk taking and have difficulty dealing with authority.
Stop A Cold Before It Starts Want to stop a cold before it starts. If you have the beginning stages of a cold -- a dry nose, sore throat, or achy muscles, it's time to start taking a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar seven to eight times a day. Sure, you may also want to take some mega-doses of time-release vitamin C, some beta-carotene, and zinc ... but the vinegar is most important because it turns your system acid, making it far more difficult for a head-cold to take hold. When your system turns alkaline, you tend to get sick. Physical fatigue or a change in the weather will usually turn your system alkaline, which explains why spring and fall weather changes generate so many colds. Drinking cranberry, apple and grape juice are also of value in creating restorative, biochemical acid changes within the body. Even a hot bath will help to temporarily shift your system back to acid. Some people put the vinegar in a cup of tea and add honey. Other just mix it with water. If you want the full story, read the book, Folk Medicine by Dr. D.C. Jarvis. It's available in paperback in most bookstores. And don't be turned off by the idea of "folk" medicine ... this really works, if you catch an on-coming cold soon enough.
Fact About Success To begin, your greatest resource is TIME. You either spend time or you waste it. Spending time means using it constructively, profitably, and ideally in a way that is fulfilling to you. Spending time might be working toward your goals, a dinner with good friends, or sitting and doing nothing. Wasted time is exactly that. Any time spent with people you don't enjoy is wasted. Time spent doing busy work without benefit is wasted. We all have the same 1440 minutes per day -- which is lost forever unless you invest it in your future ... future income, acquiring knowledge, learning skills, making business contacts or enhancing your personal life. So, if you have trouble planning, organizing your life, and setting your priorities, you need to study time management.
Project Confidence Project confidence, even if you don't feel it. Speak with authority and act confident. Some of the new psychotherapies stress a life-changing fact. You don't have to change how you feel about something to affect it, if you are willing to change what you are doing. In other words, even if you don't feel confident, if you will just act confident, soon your feelings will follow your new behavior and you will become confident.
What Is, Is Here's a bit of awareness that just may be the wisdom of the universe. It is your resistance to the things you cannot change that causes all your suffering. Once again ... it is your resistance to the things you cannot change that causes all your suffering. When people and things aren't the way you want them to be, you get upset. But be aware that any time you resist your mate or lover, your kids, co-workers, friends, family ... or the government or even a waiter in a restaurant, you are responding to the illusion that other people and events are doing something to you. Instead, you need to change your experience of people and circumstances, because they are incapable of doing anything to you, short of physical violence. They simply trigger feelings that lie within you. You choose how you are going to react. It is your viewpoint and you can choose to react positively or negatively to outside circumstances. The wise response is to choose a detached, positive viewpoint. You can view your setbacks and frustrations as problems, or as opportunities. It's always up to you. And while we're on this subject, know that anytime you get upset with another person, it's because you had expectations of approval or control. You wanted the other person to approve of you, or your ideas, or actions, or you wanted to control their actions. This is simply not your right. No one can change another person, and if they could, any forced change would not last. So the real problem is your expectations being in conflict with what is ... which takes us right back to resisting things you cannot change.
I Will Spend Each Moment . . . Here's a simple reminder that will absolutely, positively increase your level of production and assure greater success. Print out and put up a little sign on your bathroom mirror, the dashboard of your car, and your desk. The words are ... "I will spend each moment doing the most productive thing I can." Think about that. It's a statement from you to yourself. Let it become your affirmation for success. "I will spend each moment doing the most productive thing I can." "I will spend each moment doing the most productive thing I can." ...... And then do it.
You're Programmed To Be "Right" Here's some awareness about how the mind works that will make your life a lot easier. The idea is to base your decisions and actions on rational thinking, instead of emotions. Your emotions are the result of your past programming, and won't always serve you when used as the foundation of decisions. Emotional based decisions too often tend to make BEING RIGHT more important than winning the game. Your subconscious mind works very much like a computer, programmed for survival -- your personal survival or that which you identify with, which might include your mate, your family or your country. And your subconscious computer judges your safety based upon your past experiences. Maybe next weekend a friend invites you to go out on a boat. But, you've been afraid of water since you nearly drowned at age eleven. Your subconscious mind scans the memory banks and decides that it would be a bad idea to accept the boating invitation. It equates water and survival. In other words, your subconscious computer says it is all right to live your life just the way you do, as compared to your past. And in so doing, YOU SURVIVE. The result is your current life, just the way you are. You see, YOUR COMPUTER CAN'T BE WRONG. To be wrong threatens it's very survival. It refers backwards through your past for all it's present guidance and justifications, and like the machine it is, it has to be right. Everyone of us is programmed to have to be right to survive. But of course, in reality, all this has nothing to do with survival, and to complicate the issue, your reactions are often based upon events from your past that aren't valid anymore. Now understand that your subconscious computer doesn't care if you get what you want out of life. It just needs to be right to protect itself. So, you get to be right and lose the game. You either win or lose in life. You get what you want or you don't. The rational approach is to let others be right and see how much more often you win the game. Be aware that the other guy is also programmed to be right. And unless you allow him to be right, his survival is threatened and there will be a conflict. Maybe you can let him be right with a simple phrase such as, "Yes, I understand that." or maybe, "I see your point, but I have this problem. What can we do about it?" Often that's enough. His subconscious computer is no longer threatened, so he can concentrate upon the issue. The key is to approach all problems from the other person's vantage point. Don't let your pride get in the way. The goal is to win the game, not get to be right.
You Need Goals Okay, let's explore goals. You must have goals or a strong general direction in order to take control of your life. When you don't plan a life direction, you're making a choice ... because inaction is NO CHOICE. Your subconscious mind generates the events in your life. In a mental environment of no choice, if your thinking has been negative, you can be assured of moving toward potentially negative events. Thoughts are things -- they create circumstances by programming your subconscious mind. If you don't have goals or if you lack clarity of intent, start exploring what you would really love to do -- something so enjoyable that you'd be playing rather than working. Don't even be logical in your search. When you become clear about what you want, everything will fall into place. Once you have pledged this direction, things begin to happen almost magically, as if you were a magnet drawing into your experience whatever is necessary for manifestation. The key to success is to have great emotional desire and no indecisiveness at all. Let me repeat that because it is all important ... the key to success is to have great emotional desire and no indecisiveness at all. The greater your emotional desire, the more energy you will generate to fulfill the goal.
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