“You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north” (Deuteronomy 2:3).

When our oldest son died I bought a new Bible for the purpose of marking every positive and uplifting verse I could find. During my journey through this Bible I came across some surprising and insightful verses that helped me to get beyond this searing experience, verses I had never noticed before. Grief will do that! This particular verse told me to turn north. North means a rough and tough way, but it also means victory, if we persevere. God highlighted that verse for me, for it became crucial in the agonizing days ahead.

I had to define “mountain,” too. The molehills that seemed so large before Chuck’s death now became nothing. It is truly amazing how something that shatters our lives can also put everything in perspective. I’m thinking about the fires in California several years ago and the incredible losses. One of our sons is a doctor in southern California, and many of their staff lost homes. One of the lessons I learned from Chuck’s death, and I imagine the dear people in California did, too, is the sad fact that we do not appreciate what we have until we lose it.

Before Chuck’s death I took so much for granted. I took a normal life for granted. When our sons left to go anywhere I assumed they would be back. Now when they leave I stand there and wave until I can’t see the car anymore. The last time I saw Chuck was when he was going back to college and I was waving goodbye to him. I find myself looking at our family differently, knowing that the unexpected can indeed happen, and thanking God constantly for these magnificent people in my life.

Will there be an empty chair this year at your Christmas celebrations? If not, then thank God with every fiber of your being, dear Friend! Have you a home, enough to eat, and a precious family who loves you? Oh, how blessed you are! And how blessed I am! God help us to quit circling our mountains and molehills and forge ahead in our lives and help us to appreciate and care for what we have.

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Many lay people are familiar with phenomenon of multiple personality disorder that in the last decade became renamed Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID for short. Over my 20 years in Psychiatric practice I saw my fair share of individuals with DID.

Very simply the theory as to why DID exists goes something like this:

When an individual experiences repeated incidents of severe trauma such as sexual, physical and/or emotional abuse during their lives, the emotional/physical pain associated with such memories become “split off” or “compartmentalized” in the mind/body as separate personalities.

The supposed purpose of the compartmentalization is to keep the pain associated with such trauma out of consciousness so that the person does not feel overwhelmed by it and therefore can go on functioning to some degree.

Unfortunately, this leads to a whole host of other problems. Specifically, the individual becomes prone to having these “alternate” personalities “taking charge” of the mind and body they exist in thereby overpowering what is called the “host personality”. This is the personality that is supposedly the central one whose mind and body it is.

During such “switches” in personality the host often can lose awareness of what is happening to them, only to find out at a later time that they have been absent. They often experience episodes of “lost time”, being in places that they don’t recall traveling to, wearing clothes they can’t remember purchasing or putting on etc. As expected this leaves them feeling frightened and vulnerable.

Over the last 25 years the phenomenon of DID has received its fair share of skepticism as a true psychological/psychiatric entity but has in recent years become more accepted.

One of the main tenets of treating DID these days rests on the idea that the individual’s personality has become, in a manner of speaking, “fragmented” or broken down into many “sub parts” and the healing process has thereby been directed and “re-integrating” all of the “parts”.

After many years of attempting this approach I, like others, have found that a plethora of personalities begin to emerge from the shadows and that this places the entire process of re-integration in serious jeopardy.

In the last 10 years I decided to take a different tack on this problem which appears to have yielded interesting and promising results. This has involved the use of a new modality called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) (MRP) that is effective in healing PTSD (i.e. post traumatic stress disorder) which can be considered a sub-category of DID.

I recently presented this work at a conference hosted by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation in Toronto, Canada.

MRP works by helping to permanently release negative beliefs and memories from the mind/body of a traumatized individual. By doing so the individual heals and begins to regain their functional integrity.

Employing MRP I conceptualized the sub-personalities seen in DID as “compartmentalized trauma” in the form of a “personality constellation”. This is equivalent to the idea that a traumatic memory is a “constellation of negative beliefs/images/perceptions/emotions”.

Now since the MRP approach can quickly release trauma in whatever form I focused it on helping individuals “release” their “compartmentalized personalities” from their mind/body.

So rather that “re-integrate” the trauma it was released or more accurately “erased”.

To my surprise this led to a rapid and sustained positive effect on the individual’s emotional state as well as their functional ability. It reduced the frequency of the “switches” that individuals with DID experienced. It also reduced the other problems that DID clients also experienced i.e. panic disorder, depression, suicidal gestures, fugues etc.

I report this here as anecdotal evidence on the effectiveness of MRP but more so as a call to therapists treating DID and PTSD to re-consider their philosophical approaches to the treatment of these disorders.

I feel that much can be gained from an open minded and fresh look at this serious problem.

Dr. Nick Arrizza is trained in Chemical Engineering, Business Management & Leadership, Medicine and Psychiatry. He is an Energy Psychiatrist, Healer, Key Note Speaker,Editor of a New Ezine Called “Spirituality And Science” (which is requesting high quality article submissions) Author of “Esteem for the Self: A Manual for Personal Transformation” (available in ebook format on his web site), Stress Management Coach, Peak Performance Coach & Energy Medicine Researcher, Specializes in Life and Executive Performance Coaching, is the Developer of a powerful new tool called the Mind Resonance Process(TM) that helps build physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well being by helping to permanently release negative beliefs, emotions, perceptions and memories. He holds live workshops, international telephone coaching sessions and international teleconference workshops on Physical. Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Well Being.

Business URL #1: http://www.telecoaching4u.com

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There are so many insurance companies and with them come a big number of “types of insurance”. Among them are house, car, life, flood, fire, Disability, Health, and credit among thousand of others. If you are looking for a weird type of insurance the likelihood if finding it is very easy. Insurance was created with one purpose and one purpose only to assure you and your family in case anything happens. Just like Acceletrim was created to provide you with maximum weight loss results. The likelihood of anyone ever having to file a claim a small since we are always out and about putting us at risk. This is the reason that we recommend and take this very seriously. Getting the right coverage is essential to really live a peaceful, and worry free life. It really is essential for your family’s well being as well and for the things that you have worked so hard in your life to get like your home, house, boat or anything that holds value. It may seem sometimes that you are paying more insurance that you could thing possible, but this is one expense that cannot be avoided. There is nothing better that to be able to go to a beautiful beach with your kids, pack the bags and forget about anything that you may have left behind, knowing that if anything happened it would be taken care off, peace of mind that is really what you are paying for.

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Am I depressed or just unhappy? A difficult question you may think, but it is my opinion that a depressed person knows when they are depressed and a sad person knows when they are sad.

It is perfectly human to experience the feelings of sadness. There is not one person on this planet who will live their life and not experience sadness. Sadness is a natural reaction to a painful circumstance. Depression on the other hand is more extreme, a clinical illness which has many more symptoms than general sadness and can, if not treated lead to suicide.

A person experiencing feelings which upsets them can logically distinguish what it is that is causing the unhappiness. Whereas a person suffering depression can not necessarily do so. As a person suffering sadness would know, their feelings will begin to heal over a period of time, this person is dealing with their pain and know that it will get better over time. Whereas a person suffering depression tends to get worse and see that they are feeling sad more-or-less all the time with little or not let-up.

Depression can last for weeks, months and for some years. It is not something that a person can merely ’snap out of’, much as they wish that they could - it is impossible. The feelings involved are intense and overwhelming and believe me; no-one wants to be contemplating taking their own life.

Generally, if a person has had a loss of interest in ‘life’ in their daily activities, job, relationship or socialising for more than approx 2 weeks and their mood is out of character for them, then the doctor could potentially diagnose depression.

Some of the main symptom of depression are:-

1. Tiredness/lethargy or inability to sleep (insomnia)

2. Loss of interest in social activities and sexual relations

3. Recurrent thoughts of death and/or suicide

4. Lack of self worth and inappropriate guilt

5. Significant weight changes

6. Inability to concentrate

Seeing your GP should be the first port of call, however screening tests are available and there are a range of them available on the internet.

Author reserves all rights to this work

(c) Samantha Weaver 2006

Samantha Weaver is the Author of ‘Saving Samantha: A Young Woman’s Escape from Childhood Hell’ due for release 17/04/2006. Samantha also works in Medical Information and has recently enrolled with the Institue of Counsellors. Find out more about her at http://www.samanthaweaver.com

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All the great efforts made for making your own site, goes in vain when your site doesn’t bring you business. The reasons can be anything right from less traffic, to less page-per-views, or lesser PageRank. Upon serendipity of elaborating all of the above said problems, I would land up in search engine marketing basics.

- Less Traffic means fewer hits to your site.

- Fewer pages per views mean users checking your site but not getting interested in clicking on other pages. They don’t find it interesting to surf through.

- Lesser PageRank. PageRank is Google’s way of measuring the quality of a site. They will give your site a rank marking out of 10 as maximum. So your site may stand 0/10 initially. Then it may acquire higher PR (PageRank) according to the above said factor enhancements. It is to be noted that a PageRank of 4 is thousands time better than a PageRank of 3.

- If your site doesn’t appear on any search engine result pages (SERPs), upon searching for any keyword, then it may take a backseat.

So here is some advice to what can be done to improve it.

For outrageous results on your business-through site, make your site lucrative in terms of design. Such imponderable designing factors as aesthetic sensibility and human-user friendly site-making can be an obstacle. But you have to go through each and every aspect of your site to make a mark through your site. So design terminology would go as follows:

The architecture-savvy site should or I would say must have Home, About us, Contact us, sitemap, products, articles. All these links and others should be present on each and every page of the site, so that these are accessible from every corner of the site.

Interlinking of the site pages would make an impact, so I will add-up here that sitemap plays a vital role in connecting your site in a star-shaped connectivity. Whereas, product information to users can be conveyed via articles. So articles need to be well placed and comprehensive in language.

I would like to share my experiences on how your keywords can be found out by a human user, who doesn’t know about your site. A normal person goes to internet and opens up any search engine to look for the information on the product he/she wants to purchase. Now he is landing up on the pages where a site of your competition tops and the user clicks and buys the necessary things; you stand to be the loser. Here comes the role play of keywords on your site.

Your site should be full of keywords, which are, or related to the products on your site. The articles would be enriched with these keywords. Title, description and images of the pages should be named with the keywords.

If your site is selling an ebook on meditation, then the keywords will be the same as the product and they will read as “ebook on meditation”, “find peace online”, or “online meditation book” on your site. More these kind of keywords are accommodated on your site, the more your site could be searched out by a user via using any search engine.

Is there any special way by which search engines work and pick up the site for the keywords?
Yes, they do. They have automated crawler or human auditor system. The crawler acts as a scanner, a human user uses the search engine to find out ebook on meditation, he types in the same keywords, and the search engine crawlers at the backend does the scanning on the server database to find out the same keywords. If they find the keyword on a genuine site and appearing explicitly and not spammed, then they will show that site on top. The keyword search via automated crawler will be broken down into a few steps as follows:

- Crawlers will check out for the content of the site, expert pages (expert pages are the product related pages, or articles), title and descriptions of the site.
- They will also read the headings on the page which is mainly H1 sized headings, and yes if they read as “ebook on meditation” then an added advantage for those keywords to your site.
- Crawlers will also look for the Meta tags, Meta descriptions and Alt tags used.
- Crawlers are more prominent and effectuously look for the anchor text pointing towards your site. Anchor text has been explained below:

Anchor text (link text) is the text that points towards the page or resource for which the link has been placed. It is the normal text attached to the URL of any site. Clicking on that text it will take you to that URL/site. A link can lead to either a page on the same site (internal link) or to a page on a different site (external link). Thus, a user who clicks on one of your site’s internal links would be directed to another page on your site.

Linking further is bifurcated into two parts, namely Incoming and outgoing. An incoming link is an external link that appears on a different site and points toward your site, while an outgoing link is an external link that appears on your site but points toward a different site.

The link text is also known as Title and it’s followed by a nice description. Description again can contain keywords of your site; it’s a little advantage to your site but surely is a benefit. Links are usually placed on the Links page or Resources page of the site; some sites name these pages as “Other sites” or “Other cool links.”

A title should not exceed 65 characters but we recommend a title of not more than 55 characters and a description of not more than 250 characters in length as per latest strategies of search engines.

The more the number of links pointing towards your site, with the right anchor text, the more meritorious results of your online presence for that keyword.

If you want to know more on types of linking, and what kind of links benefit and what are the hazards of linking for your site, please feel free to contact author. He shall serve you for no charges.

About the author: Sandeep Juneja is Manager-Internet Marketing, in a leading Company and is an avid researcher in the SEM segment.

© Copyright 2005 Sandeep Juneja

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Sandeep Juneja is a search engine marketing specialist and an avid researcher. He specializes in Links exchange strategies and internet techniques. He loves to learn from others and wants to explore search engine marketing.

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Depression is not a straight-forward thing. There are different kinds with different causes. If you suspect that you are depressed, the first thing to do is examine the cause. That cause will help you to determine what kind of depression you suffer from.

There are different types of depression. The two main classifications are clinical and situational. These are not mutually exclusive - you can suffer from both, but to know which is the primary cause is important.

Situational depression is just how it sounds, depression based on what is going on in your life. Have you just lost your job? Did your girlfriend just break up with you? It’s common to be depressed after these events. While therapy would be beneficial here, medication most likely would not.

Are you depressed for no reason? If you have trouble getting out of bed on a daily basis, or you feel down and don’t enjoy things that you used to with more frequency, then you might suffer from clinical depression. Clinical depression is caused by changes in brain chemistry and can be treated with medication.

While situational depression is more common, people who suffer from one can frequently suffer from both. What is important is to find the cause and get treated for all parts. Situational depression can frequently exacerbate clinical symptoms.

You can read more about depression at http://www.curemydepression.com

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Owning a home is one of the most important things a man or woman can desire in
life. It is not a simple, short-term investment. Building or buying a home is not an
easy thing to accomplish. It is likely the single largest investment that most people
will ever make in their lives. It is in a house that a family is born and a home is
made. As a result, few types of insurance are as important as homeowner’s
insurance.

Sometimes there are certain things a man cannot control and predict in his life.
Such circumstances occur when we least expect them. They are the inevitable
occurrences that humans cannot foresee. On most homeowner’s insurance policies,
damages caused by theft, fire, lightning,
smoke, frozen pipes, ice and snow are provided against. Commonly, homeowners
insurance also provides coverage for liability claims, medical payments to third
parties, and legal costs if a lawsuit is brought against you.

The cost of homeowners
insurance sometimes depends on what it would cost to
replace the house or which additional items to be insured are attached to your
policy. Within the insurance policy, the things on what will be covered and what will
not be covered are stated.

Typically, claims due to earthquakes, floods or war are excluded; however, in some
cases, unique insurance policies can be secured depending upon the particular
event. In some other cases, insurers will give discounts for home security system
and other safety features.

Kinney Dancair is an author with interests in finance.

http://www.homeinsurancequotes.org

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Choosing a qualified Independent Insurance Agent is one of the most important things you can do to protect your assets. Independent Insurance Agents can provide you with more choices when comparing price, reputation and customer service.

Independent Insurance Agents can help you choose from several companies to provide the best possible coverage at the best prices. The biggest mistake people make when choosing insurance is to only look for the lowest price. The disappointment comes when it is time to file a claim and you do not receive the customer service necessary to help you through a difficult process.

Nearly everyone will file a claim at some point in their life. Your local Insurance agent will not only be able to help you with filing a claim but with recovering all your losses. In addition, your agent will be able to help you with questions about your policy or your bill. They will act on your behalf by dealing directly with your insurance provider. Many providers like Allstate, State Farm, Farmers, Prudential, New York Life, Northwestern Mutual utilize independent agents to sell their products. These agents can help you with analyzing your insurance needs to find the best company for you.

Choosing the right agent means doing your homework. To find local agents in your community visit, The Independent Insurance Agent Directory. You will find profiles on over 1,000 Independent agents sorted by state and area code. Your financial future depends on the advice of these qualified professionals.

Michael Schriner is the owner of FindMyBestAgent.com (http://www.findmybestagent.com), which is an online resource for finding leading Insurance, Finance and Real Estate agents.

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Taking care of our body is an immense responsibility. To some this may sound as vanity but for most people like us who respect the temple of our soul and consider it as a gift from God, well it is of great magnitude to really deem our body with foremost importance.

We only have one body for life. On this note, I must say that it’s our duty to treat our bodies with utmost and proper respect, develop how they function and look, and be happy with the wonderful body we live in.

Oftentimes we forget that our minds and bodies are closely connected. If we feel excellent physically consequently we feel brilliant mentally too, and vice versa. In taking good care of our body we’ll surely have more vigor, endurance and motivation to do everything we wish to accomplish, may it be a daily task or any activity we like to do. To top this marvelous chain reaction, if we value our body as our temple, the self-esteem of a person is cultivated and improved. This plays a major role in making decisions and picking the choices that would make up one’s life full of relevance and worth.

We usually admire other bodies but we always take for granted and don’t even have the time to appreciate and marvel at our own. Perhaps it is the right time to finally look at our bodies and start regarding it highly and give everything it needs.

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The state of California requires that all drivers carry car insurance; as a result, there are many drivers who are looking for cheap car insurance and many companies willing to supply it. Drivers who do not have their cars insured are subject to civil penalties. In California, un-insured drivers who are involved in accidents may even lose their license. California drivers are also required to have proof of car insurance on them whenever they are operating a vehicle. A ticket can be issued if a driver cannot produce proof of insurance when requested to do so by someone in authority. Given the strictness of the California statutes, it is important for any driver looking for cheap car insurance to make sure that when he/she purchases a policy it meets or exceeds the state minimums.

California state car insurance minimums are $15,000 for the death/injury of one person in an accident and $30,000 for the death/injury of all the people involved in an accident plus an additional $5,000 of insurance to compensate for property damage. While a person may fulfill this obligation by posting a cash deposit or surety bond with the California State Department of Motor Vehicles, it is far easier to buy a cheap car insurance policy. However, it is important when purchasing cheap car insurance to make sure to deal with a reputable company.

There are other important considerations when deciding whether or not to buy cheap car insurance. Cheap car insurance is generally suited to those who drive old vehicles, don’t drive a great deal and are of limited means. People who own late model cars and use them a lot should not skimp on insurance. The same is true of people who have significant assets. Bear in mind that significant assets does not mean that a person is a millionaire. All of a person’s assets (including future earnings) can be at risk as the result of a car accident for which the person at fault is not sufficiently insured. Also, cheap car insurance may not cover a person in the event that his/her vehicle is damaged or destroyed by an un-insured driver or a hit-and-run driver. Cheap car insurance almost certainly will not reimburse a person for towing charges or for a rental vehicle while a damaged car is being repaired.

All cheap car insurance companies are not created equal. In the state of California insurance companies have the right to charge premiums based upon their loss histories; thus, different companies may have different rates depending upon the payout expenses they have incurred. Therefore, when searching for cheap car insurance, a person should compare several area companies. It is important to make sure that the companies being compared are compared with the same policies. This ensures that a decision is made based on the reputation of the company, rather than the policy differences.

The California Compulsory Financial Responsibility Act mandates that all persons operating vehicles within the state must carry a certain minimum level of insurance. Possible civil penalties for disregarding this law should convince a person of the need to be properly insured. Many cheap car insurance policies will meet these minimum standards. When buying cheap car insurance, however, it is smart to understand the risks inherent in buying this type of policy. Remember that with insurance the wisest course a person can follow is to buy the most expensive policy within his/her price range.

Tristan Andrews is a writer for California Car Insurance.

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