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in front of us, creating frustration.
There are five roadblocks of frustration:
1. We worry not only before making a decision but after.
We carry this extra fifty pounds of worry on our minds all day.
The cure? Express anxiety before we make a decision not after. There are, let us say, five solutions
to a problem. Anxiety is creative while we choose which road to take. Once we choose, however, we
must stop worrying and call upon the confidence of past successes to guide us in the present. If we
call upon the failures of the past to guide us in the present, we create immediate frustration.
2. We not only worry and fret about today, we worry about yesterday and tomorrow.
This sets up a pattern of instant frustration because we call upon past failures and future
apprehensions to guide us in the present. We can't think positively with negative feelings.
The cure? Think only of today. Every day is a complete lifetime. Forget yesterday; lose it in the
vacuum of time. Tomorrow doesn't exist; when it comes it is another day. Let your servo-mechanism
do what it can do well: respond to the present. Try, try, try now, now, now!!!
3. We try to do too many things at one time.
This creates tension instead of tone, spasm instead of comfort. When we try to do too many things at
one time, we try to do the impossible.
The cure? Don't fight relaxation. Join it. Learn to do one thing at a time. This brings relaxation. This
frees you from the burden of hurry and failure.
4. We wrestle with our problems twenty-four hours a day Without letup.
We carry our problems from the job, to the home, to our bed. This creates tension that produces
frustration.
The cure? Sleep on your problem if you are unable to solve it. Sleep on it, not with it. Let your
success mechanism work for you when you hit the pillow as you recall past successes.
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5. We refuse to relax.
We don't know what it is. We just know the word, that's all. The spasm of repeated worry produces
the spasm of frustration. You can't have someone relax for you. You've got to do it on your own.
The cure? You sit in a room of your mind and you relax there to cut the electric circuit of distress.
Relaxation overcomes frustration. Don't think it. Work for it. Do it now! Remember these words of
Plato,
"Nothing in the affairs of men is worth worrying about".
By Maxwell Haltz, M.D., F.I.C.S.
Chapter 17
Salt-Free Program Helps To Relieve Tensions, Which
In Turn Improves Your Memory
Salt is a man-made "food" that appears to be unnecessary and also appears to have a deleterious
influence upon the body processes that influence the emotions. Notably, salt has been known to "whip
up" the blood pressure and cause emotional palpitations that create erratic behaviour symptoms.
A common emotional disorder, insomnia, is often traced to a high salt intake. Michael M. Miller,
M.D., reported to the American Psychiatric Association that he had obtained relief for 11 out of 12
patients from insomnia and nervous tension by cutting down the amount of salt in their diets.
Six patients who had been morphine addicts also showed a marked degree of insomnia and tension.
By cutting down on their salt intake, Dr. Miller was able to ease their emotional disorders so they
could be helped.
In an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association 1945, Dr. Miller tells about treating
20 nervous patients suffering from chronic insomnia. He prepared a wholesome food program and
limited them to two grams of sodium chloride (salt) per day. Results? Seventeen of the patients
reported their symptoms had disappeared. When 13 of these were again given a generous salt intake,
they suffered emotional disorder and nervous relapse.
Why is a low-salt program so soothing? Dr. Miller gives this answer.
"Excess salt increases the irritability of sensitive nerve tissues and brings on tensions and
sleeplessness. On a salt-restricted diet, this irritability decreases because as salt is cut down, calcium is
built up in the tissue in sufficient quantity to alkalize the body fluids and quiet the nerves."
We already know that calcium is a valuable nerve-soothing mineral. Salt appears to interfere with
calcium absorption somehow. This mineral imbalance might well cause tension and emotional unrest.
Minerals especially are desperately needed by the tense organism for healthful relaxation. Salt appears
to upset this balance in the case of potassium too. Salt drives it out of the body, changing the delicate
acid-alkaline balance of the tissue cells, leading to a tense and constricted neurological system.
Wholesome, natural foods have their own built-in flavours. But if you want something more tangy,
then try using herbs instead of salt. Dill, oregano, chopped chives, basil, all-spice, caraway, curry,
ginger, lemon or lime juice, saffron, tarragon, sweet paprika, rosemary, sesame or poppy seeds. There
are limitless herbs and endless combinations you can use to make your own taste discoveries.
Dr. Flanders Dunbar, M.D., in Mind and Body: Psychosomatic Medicine, Pinpoints salt as inducing
tension headaches. He writes:
"Migraine is only one type of headache, although a common one. It and others are attributed to ...
pressure inside the cranium caused by an increased flow of water to the tiny blood vessels of this area
because of an abnormal retention of salt in the tissues".
Dr. Dunbar describes successful treatment of nervous patients by removing "the excess salt and
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decreasing the irritability of the walls of the blood vessels and by recommending a salt-free diet".
Common salt, used in excess, may so disturb the balance of mineral ingredients in the blood, it will
replace worn-out cell tissues instead of potassium. The cells cry out in nervous tension, in response to
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