Emphysema

A while ago I met someone suffering from emphysema. It made me do some research and this it what I found.

Emphysema is a long-term, progressive disease of the lungs that primarily causes shortness of breath. Most of the people who have emphysema are smokers. The primary cause is the smoking of cigarettes. Damage caused by emphysema is permanent even after the person stops smoking.

Let’s have a look at addictions in general and at smoking in particular.

Smoking, alcohol, sex, illegal drugs, compulsive eating, compulsive gambling, whatever you want to name it.... is an addiction.
What I am going to write is written without blaming or judging.
I simply give data and in the data there simply is information.

An addiction is a craving.
Addicts are people who crave something.
What are they craving?
These people have called off their search for the cause of the craving too early.
They get themselves stuck on a substitute level.
I believe that every real search leads to a discovery and so to its own fulfilment.
I find the most rewarding fulfilment in my personal journey on my way to personal development.
All the great heroes of mythology and literature are engaged in searches or quests.
Just think of the following examples: Odysseus, Don Quixote, Parsifal, Faust.
All these heroes do not stop searching until they have attained their goal.
We are all involved in some kind of odyssey or quest.
Some of us keep on searching until we find our goal.
Others stop searching because they are afraid of the trials and the dangers, the troubles and the confusions and they turn themselves into addicts.
What we then do is that we come besotted with the substitute (for instance the cigarettes) and we never tire of it.
We refuse to admit that we have mistaken our goal and that we need to go on looking.
We are firmly in the grip of fear, denial, and delusion.
Many addicts think they do not have the courage to face the fear of new experiences.
True seekers, as opposed to addicts, are people who view life as a journey and are always on the move.

As far as cigarettes are concerned..............
Smoking is linked to airways and lungs.
Breathing is communication.

I wear blue clothes when I am working with clients Blue is the colour of the sky and all over the world all living things are linked to each other with the same air we breathe in and out. Blue is the colour of the communication energy point in our throat. By wearing blue clothes I make a statement: I am interested in communication.

Breathing is communication.
Breathing is contact.
Breathing is freedom.
Smoking is our attempt to stimulate communication, contact and freedom.

The lies of the advertising industry are deliberately aiming at these basic human longings for communication, contact and freedom.
Think of the so-called freedom of the cowboy or the so-called freedom of the pilot, the so-called freedom of travelling and meeting so-called attractive people.
Our human longings are real, but what the cigarettes offer us are substitutes and the advertising industry is manipulating us because their clients simply want to make lots of money by turning us into addicts.

If you want to read more not only about addictions but about health in general get yourself the marvellous book called
The Healing Power of Illness. Understanding what your symptoms are telling you.
by Thorwald Detlefsen and Ruediger Dahlke. ISBN1 84333 048 2

The 12 steps

The 12 steps for the AA became also the 12 steps for hundreds of other self help groups.
You can find information about the AA in wikipedia and you can replace the word alcohol by whatever other substance or behaviour you admit you are addicted to.
I prefer not to speak about god because the word god has been abused for many centuries by organized religions that are until now a real nightmare for humankind.
For myself I speak about the Universe or the Universal Consciousness.
I do know that what is for me the Power of the Universe cannot be a HIM.
It is a consciousness without gender.
Organized religions have used the word HIM in order to abuse the feminine half of humankind during many centuries and fanatics are still doing it today.

Robin Norwood has for instance based her self help system on the original AA steps.
You can read about her on recoveroz.com.

As far as the Natural Tissue Salts after dr Schuessler are concerned, my advice for persons who suffer from emphysema is to take the following combination that will certainly help with the withdrawal symptoms of nicotine:

Nr 6 Kalium sulfuricum: 5 tablets per day

Nr 7 Magnesium phosphoricum : several times per day a HOT 7.

Nr 8 Natrium chloratum: 5 tablets per day

Nr 10 Natriuim sulfuricum: 10 tablets per day.

Nr 21 Zincum chloratum: 3 tablets per day. (P.Holford speaks in his nutrition advice about the importance of zinc).

You can buy NTS in a local pharmacy but you might pay more and you might not have the best quality.
I import the NTS from a pharmacy in Austria owned by the European authority on NTS, a gentleman called Thomas Feichtinger.
I sell the boxes of 400 tablets for 10 €.
These tablets do not contain gluten neither do they contain Magnesium stearate. You can read about Magnesium stearate on http://www.drrons.com/beware-of-additives-in-supplements.htm

If you want to know more about gluten go to the website of dr J. Mercola and read his articles.

All the best.

Brunothedoglistener