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1. Inner peace is the goal of life. Do and acquire only things which will maintain and deepen our inner peace. Cease desiring superficial excitement and stimulation. Lasting happiness comes only from contentment. When we are content and at ease, both body and mind are calm and relaxed.

2. Forgiveness is our primary function in life. So forgive everyone, now and forever, whom you feel may have caused you harm at any time. From now on, forgive instantly, on the spot, anyone whom you believe may be threatening you in any way, or pushing your buttons.

3. The way to achieve peace and forgiveness is to stop judging and condemning others. Judging and condemning is nothing more than a surface habit which is easily broken when we forgive everyone and love everyone unconditionally.

4. Live only in the here and now, in the present moment. As we let go of the past, we release all guilt and resentment. And fear disappears as we let go of our concerns about imaginary problems in the future.

5. Realize that the real you is not your ego but your higher mind and that its essence is love. Therefore, you are love. The ego is totally concerned with animal instincts linked with your body and arising from fear of lack and based on getting and receiving.

6. Realize that giving and receiving are the same. When you give and help others, you will receive back an abundance of love and other good qualities.

7. Love everyone unconditionally (including yourself) and accept everyone as they are without requiring others to change. (Naturally, children have to be led and guided.) But always remember that you cannot become upset or angry when your awareness is on a higher consciousness level. By allowing only positive thoughts and beliefs, we cannot be upset by anything that others may do or say. If there’s something we don’t like about another person, the answer is to change our own beliefs so that we perceive the other person without upsetting ourselves.

8. Cease seeking fame, wealth, prestige, recognition, praise and other strokes to swell the ego. Be willing to live unknown and to make your wants few.

9. Experience constant abundance. See no scarcity or lack. Be a millionaire of love and goodness and share your abundance with others. When we focus our awareness on the here and now, we find we always have everything we need to enjoy the present moment. As a result, we can stop wanting and experience immediate contentment.

10. See every problem as leading to a wonderful new opportunity. As one door doses, another door opens. Re-call that every adversity contains the seed of a greater opportunity. So surrender all problems to a higher power for an answer while you continue to live without worrying. Feel as though a higher power is guiding your life, living your life for you, and even thinking your thoughts for you while you enjoy living without stress or disease.

11. Problems are solved by staying calm and by listening to an inner voice or intuition or gut feeling for guidance. Be careful not to let negative feelings guide you. We must not allow negative feelings to run our lives and determine our choices. We can always tell when we are being run by the lower ego-mind because to receive genuine guidance, we must be perfectly calm and relaxed with our awareness on a higher consciousness level and free of any negative emotions. So try to avoid acting and making choices unless you are completely calm and relaxed.

12. Always be open and truthful. Do not repress or stifle any negative emotions but avoid pouring out your negative feelings on others. Bearing this caveat in mind, do not conceal your inner feelings.

13. Never compare yourself with others or with their acquisitions or achievements. And don’t look back and compare yourself with how you used to be. Keep your awareness in the present.

14. We can only win when everyone else wins also. Compete only with your own excellence but not with other people.

15. Be flexible and flow along easily with life. Avoid rigidity and holding strong opinions. Accept whatever you cannot change and adapt to it.

16. Accept complete responsibility for whatever you say or do and cease to blame others for whatever happens to you.

17. Realize there is no such thing as absolute security. The closest thing to security is to maintain high-level wellness through sound nutrition, exercise and Positivism, and to learn a job skill that is in demand.

18. Being alone or by yourself, or being single, is not the same thing as feeling lonely. We feel lonely when we begin to think that no one needs us. Yet millions of married couples feel so miserable they would prefer to be single. And millions of Americans who must share their homes with others would prefer to have the privacy of being alone. So feel thankful that you have the privacy, and the freedom from spats, that others long for.

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A popular homeopathic remedy that relieves fever by stimulating sweating is a tea made of Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis) or Boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum). A mix of the two will combine the decongestant qualities of Hyssop with the pain-relieving properties of Boneset.

Natural sedatives can help calm both body and mind, thereby stimulating the biological activity of the immune system. Natural sedatives most often recommended by herbalists include Catnip (Nepeta cataria) which is particularly helpful for relaxing nerves in the chest and lung area. Others include Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora), Hops (Humulus lupulus) and Valerian (Valeriana officinalis). Ail should be taken in very moderate amounts. Chamomile tea is another efficient relaxant which can be drunk without restriction.

Herbal pocket inhalers are available in many health food stores. Alternatively, you may place one or more essential oils in a humidifier or vaporizer. The vapors will soon permeate your home and will work constantly to soothe cold symptoms.

Almost all of the herbs and herbal remedies can be found in the herb departments of larger health food stores. The majority are also carried by almost all medium-sized health food stores. It is important to realize that although available without prescription, some of these herbs are quite powerful and they should be used sparingly. Discontinue immediately the use of any which appear to cause adverse effects.

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Another possible way to prevent the common cold is based on the discovery that 90 percent of rhinoviruses bind to one type of receptor in nasal cells. It is also known that monoclonal antibodies will also bind to this same receptor. Several scientists have speculated that if enough monoclonal antibodies are released into the nose, they will block all receptors and prevent access to the viruses.

To test this theory, a group of volunteers took nose drops containing monoclonal antibodies ten times over a thirty-nine-hour period. A control group took nothing. Both groups were then exposed to a rhinovirus.

Only nine of the thirteen-member test group caught colds compared to eleven of the thirteen-member control group. However, the test group did have significantly milder symptoms. While the study suggests that monoclonal antibodies can indeed block cell receptors, results as yet do not justify their use as a cold prophylactic.

Drug WIN 51,711, developed by a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer, has demonstrated broad antiviral effects against the rhinovirus as well as against a wide spectrum of related viral infections. An analog of the drug binds to a site on the surface of the rhinovirus, preventing it from shedding its protein coat and, as a result, from being able to replicate.

Although this may sound promising, by the time the drug is taken and becomes effective, the worst of a cold may be over.

The eventual outcome may be that both the interferon spray and WIN 51,711 will be combined with related antiviral compounds to provide a shotgun approach to preventing and curing the common cold. Meanwhile, it seems fairly safe to assume that a medical cure for the common cold or flu still lies in the distant, unforeseeable future.

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Humidity keeps the mucous membranes in the nose damp, enabling them to repel invading viruses and to trap and destroy millions of others. If you have a humidifier or vaporizer, use it to humidify the air in your home. Lacking either, rum the thermostat down a couple of degrees and leave a kettle or a pot of water simmering on the stove.

To decongest the nose, mix a teaspoon of salt into a glass of warm water and inhale it through the nose until it runs back into the throat. Blow the nose gently and steadily using disposable tissue. Five inhalations will usually clear the most stubbornly-blocked nostrils.

Next, boil a kettle full of water and pour it into an open dish. Place the dish on a plate or pan and put it on the table. Lean over the dish, keep the eyes closed, cover the head with a towel, and inhale the steam into the nasal passages, sinuses and lungs. The steam swiftly breaks up all congestion and also makes the nose too hot for viruses to thrive.

A caution: do not be tempted to inhale steam direct from the spout of a kettle; you may get burned.

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Most of the headache-causing beliefs we should let go of fit into one of the following patterns.

1. They condemn, judge, criticize or attack someone else.

2. They are unforgiving.

3. They concern the past or future. They cause us to analyze the past and to feel guilt or resentment about something that has already happened. Or they may cause us to worry and become anxious about possible problems that lie in the future.

4. They provoke selfish instincts linked with the body that arise from fear of lack, and arc based on getting and receiving.

5. They cause us to expect a reward for everything we do, or to anticipate fame, wealth, prestige, recognition, praise and other ego-swelling strokes.

6. They cause us to see everything in materialistic terms and to become strongly attached to money and possessions.

7. They cause us to feel discontented and dissatisfied and to crave and want things that are not absolutely essential.

8. They cause us to see difficulties, problems and conflicts in everything.

9. They allow our lives to be run by negative feelings.

10. They confront us with choices when we are tense and emotionally upset. Decisions made when emotionally upset are usually regretted later.

11. They cause us to love a person only if that person meets our conditions.

12. They cause us to compare ourselves with others and to feel dissatisfied.

13. They cause us to compete with and to try to win out over others.

14. They cause us to be rigid and inflexible and to hold strong opinions.

15. They allow us to blame others for the way we are and for what happens to us, creating a convenient victim role for us to play.

16. They cause us to be always concerned with our* selves and to place our own needs ahead of everyone else’s.

17. They cause us to fear being alone or doing anything unless we are part of a group.

18. They anise us to magnify molehills into mountains.

19. They cause us to feel insecure, either financially or n relationships.

20. They cause us to feel helpless, hopeless and totally dependent for headache relief on drugs or on passive therapies administered by someone else.

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