Re: No pains, no gainz (was Re: Mindfulness practice explained)

On May 12, 12:47=A0am, Robert Epstein <vze25...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Awaken21 wrote:
> > On May 10, 2:54 pm, Robert Epstein <vze25...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >>^@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>---*=3D# wrote:
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> >>>"Hollywood Lee" <hollywood...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>news:g04adp$750$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>****rley Knott wrote:
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> >>>>>Tang Huyen wrote:
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> >>>>>>****rley Knott wrote:
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> >>>>>>>I quit smoking for 3 years but went, very reluctantly, back on
the
> >>>>>>>coffin nails a year ago because quitting had exacerbated my
medical=

> >>>>>>>symptoms to such a point that a prognosis of future cancer was
> >>>>>>>better to
> >>>>>>>my quality of life than the hideous symptoms I was experiencing.
>
> >>>>>>>My doctor is wryly amused but agrees, smoking is good for me! :-)
>
> >>>>>>Freud famously smoked cigars, and got throat
> >>>>>>cancer. He stopped, but the pains of withdrawal
> >>>>>>were intense, so he decided to go back to them.
> >>>>>>To him the gains of smoking were greater than
> >>>>>>the harms of withdrawal. Doctors kept operating
> >>>>>>on the inside of his throat, and by the time he
> >>>>>>gave up the ghost, most of the inside of his
> >>>>>>upper throat had been removed.
>
> >>>>>>Tang Huyen
>
> >>>>>For me this wasn't a case of craving cigs. =A0In fact, although I'm
> >>>>>smoking I hate the taste but it does seem to regulate some of the
> >>>>>endocrine problems I experience through neurological illness.
>
> >>>>>I think my doctor is brilliant, he says that if something works
that
> >>>>>well it's worth pursuing and trying to gain the same effect from
> >>>>>prescribed medication would probably produce unwanted side effects
> >>>>>that the tobacco isn't.
>
> >>>>>So, all-in-all, it's a great result!
>
> >>>>Yeah. =A0Smoking to solve endocrine problems seems really brilliant.
> >>>>http://www.eje-online.org/cgi/content/abstract/152/4/491
>
> >>>>I know for me, I insist to my doctor that a pound of candy each day
> >>>>prevents nuclear war. =A0She finds my logic unassailable since,
well,
> >>>>look, no nuclear war for my entire candy gobbling life.
>
> >>>on that note i have found that my
> >>>lion-away spray has kept lions out
> >>>of my house for many many years
>
> >>You guys are all copying my Nasrudin story!
>
> >>One day Nasrudin's neighbor saw him gardening and came over to say
> >>hello. =A0He found Nasrudin slowly walking around his tomato plants
and
> >>carefully placing bread crumbs in a circle around each plant. =A0"Why
ar=
e
> >>you circling your tomatoes with bread crumbs?" asked the neighbor.
=A0"T=
o
> >>keep the tigers away" replied Nasrudin. =A0"But," exclaimed the
neighbor=
,
> >>"there have been no tigers in this region for years!" =A0Nasrudin
smiled=

> >>and replied: "You see how effective it is?"
>
> >>Robert
>
> >>=3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D
>
> > I have a running Narudin Joke going on with my wife who's not so much
> > of a cat person. She asks me why I keep the the cat, I respond it
> > helps my heart condition. She retorts I have no heart condition, to
> > which I say "See how good having a cat works."
>
> Well in that particular case you are medically correct! =A0Cats do
> increase one's life and health exponentially. =A0 =A0:)
>
> And sometimes they even keep unwanted people out of the room!

=2E..out of the whole house. :)