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Patience is enormously helpful! It’s needed when waiting for a response to medication. While some people respond relatively quickly—within a few weeks—it often takes longer. A medication may take up to three months—and occasionally even longer— to work. If the first medicine doesn’t work, another should be tried. Occasionally, it takes many tries to find the right one. Persistence and patience are needed in such cases.
Similarly, CBT can take time to work. It can take creativity and a good understanding of the person and their symptoms to come up with the cognitive and behavioral strategies that will work for them. As with medications, more than one try may be needed.
You’ll also need to be patient when implementing the suggestions in this chapter and while waiting for symptoms and functioning to improve. Some people improve fairly quickly, whereas others need more time. Patience is also needed if symptoms flare during stressful times.
For people who are reluctant to get adequate treatment, keep in mind that time and your continued support can make a big difference. I’ve treated many people with BDD who finally, after many years—even many decades—of suffering, decided to give psychiatric treatment a try. In many of these cases, the continued support and patience of family members made all the difference.
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All parents will be aware by now of the health risks associated with smoking. Even if you do not smoke yourself, you can still be affected by cigarette smoke. Passive smoking — the inhalation of cigarette smoke while you are in the vicinity of others who are smoking — has been shown to cause major health problems also. There have been court cases recently in Australia and in other parts of the world that have established a legal connection (the medical connection has long been established) between passive smoking and a host of health problems. Most work places are now smoke-free, or in the process of becoming so.

Young children cannot make a choice about whether or not to smoke. If one or both parents, or other family member’s smoke, then they will also inhale the smoke. Passive smoking has been linked to over 50 children’s ailments and disorders. These range from relatively minor things such as sore throat and irritated eyes to serious and even life-threatening problems. Young children whose parents smoke have an increased frequency of respiratory tract infections such as bronchiolitis and pneumonia, and suffer more from acute asthma attacks. Passive smoking results in decreased lung growth, and there is a definite increased risk of Sudden infant death syndrome in babies when parents smoke. The risk to the child’s health is worse if the mother smokes (because she usually spends more time with the child) and increases if both parents smoke.

So the message is clear. Do not allow your child to smoke nor to be exposed to smoke! Even if you wish to continue to smoke (and we would advise strongly against it), please give up for the sake of your child’s health. Your doctor will be able to provide advice and support for you to quit this deathly habit.

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The thirteenth key to super marital sex is to teach and learn, to teach and learn with each other as husband and wife and as a family. The thirteenth key is the most important of all the keys, and the one that has seldom been discussed from the first three perspectives. The focus has been an individual focus, an adult focus, when in fact sexuality is a lifelong process that begins in the uterus and affects the entire family every day. The thirteenth key is a family sexual orientation, an openness and specificity of sexual discussion to prevent the tragedy of abortion, sexually transmissible disease, sexual problems, even the emotional trauma that results in drug abuse and an alarming rise in adolescent suicide. Our children are, and we have been, looking for love in all the wrong places and in the wrong ways, seldom benefiting from a strong and supportive

sexual and loving education from within our family, educational, and religious institutions.

This chapter is about sex education in the United States. In spite of all of the talk and writing about sex education, there are very few programs that are successfully teaching the combination of love, sensuality, morality, and responsibility. With few exceptions, we continue to teach mechanics and the first three perspectives with their genital and energy-release focus. We are not offering love education, not talking about the purpose behind the struggle of the young people in the story you have just read. We are teaching “preventive sexuality,” a way of preventing disease and pregnancy rather than an enhancing intimacy that can bring the joy of closeness with another person.

Think about your sex and love education. Where and how did you learn about sexuality? Have you really learned enough to teach it yourself? There will never be a school- or church-based sex-education course that will do the job that needs to be done, the job of telling the whys and hows of making love and not just the mechanics of procreation and contraception. As long as sex remains a dirty joke in our schools and a mystery in our homes, we will continue to suffer in a sexually stagnant society. There has never been a sexual revolution at all, but a sexual involution, a turning in to a mechanical, pleasure-oriented sex rather than a looking forward to loving, fulfilling, long-lasting sexual relationships in a daily living context. We will never really be able to have super marital sex by looking only for super sex. You have read throughout this book that sex and love, and all the learning that each requires, cannot be separated from each other. This is the connection that can be opened with the thirteenth key, the key of lifelong learning.

Teaching sex will never be enough. We have to role-model love and caring, talk about everything sexual with everyone in our home, and continue to learn about sexuality and intimacy throughout life. We cannot leave our children to struggle blindly in parked cars. We will have to talk about the snaps on bras and the zippers on jeans. We will have to help them find a safe place and a safe way to be sexual, and not tease them with the joys of sex, then try to hide sex from them. They will always find it. They have already found it. They were born with it and born doing it. Do we want them to suffer without our help? If that happens, what they find will never be super marital sex. We have to put the love, the real snap of sex, back into sexuality.

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Without giving each item too much thought, answer true or false to each of the items below. If possible, take this test with your partner and discuss each answer. The process of super marital sex depends more on this open exchange than on learning new techniques.

1.Orgasm and ejaculation are the same thing.    

2.Men cannot be multiply orgasmic.    

3.Men must learn to control themselves sexually, so    

that they are able to fulfill their partner through an

appropriately timed sexual response.

4.The best time for sex as a man is when you are

completely rested.

5.    The penis is the most sensitive part of the body for

sexual interaction.

6.    Intercourse is the ultimate form of sexual fulfillment.

7.    The fewer sexual outlets you have, the more aroused

you become. By having less sex you can become

sexier and want sex more.

8.    Firm erections are necessary for fulfilling sex for

yourself and your partner.

9.    Excessive masturbation can interfere with sexual

interactions with your partner.

10. Whether we like it nor not, new and different partners are more arousing than the same partner.

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The active practice of listening to your higher mind and developing a better connection with it is what many wise people call “meditation”.

There are many meditation techniques passed on to us by our wise ancestors. There is again no room here to analyse them even briefly. Perhaps the best I can do is to summarise some of my personal experiences.

In my opinion, the single most important thing common to the best meditation techniques is the teacher, or master, who is capable of showing you the access path to your own higher mind. No words can describe this connection. You actually have to be shown the beginning of your own path, together with some instructions, so you can progress along it yourself every day.

I had two meditation teachers: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a leader of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement, whom I never met and Master Ching Hai.

TM people will charge you about a thousand dollars for the basic technique, and several thousand dollars if you want to learn more advanced techniques. In my opinion, the gaining of knowledge, for those who are ready to learn, should be essentially free of any charges, so I could not justify the latter. However, I must say, that I have had considerable degree of success, using the basic TM technique.

Master Ching Hai, on the other hand, teaches you the Quan Yin method, known for thousands of years to be the best meditation technique, totally free of charge. Her organisation does not even accept donations. The only way to help their activity financially is to buy books, works of art, fashion clothes and other things they produce. Master Ching Hai’s requirement to teach you the Quan Yin method is your commitment to become a vegetarian for life and to meditate 2.5 hours each day. (Master Ching Hai books are listed in the References).

After meditating for some time I noticed, that my life has become much easier. Most problems, including stress, have been practically eliminated. I have found that nothing is truly difficult to understand, you just need to learn to listen to your higher mind.

I have also found that development of our wisdom is actually the purpose of our existence. Life is just a lesson. If we do not learn, it becomes harder, until we do.

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Jaundice, or a yellow discoloration of the body, may occur when the outflow of bile is obstructed. It may also occur if too many red blood cells are being broken down, exceeding the liver’s capacity to deal with them.

Interference with the function of the liver cells may allow the bile to accumulate in the liver and spill over into the blood rather than passing freely down to the gallbladder and into the duct.

The liver makes the proteins in the blood and many of these are concerned with normal clotting mechanism so that impairment of liver function can lead to a bleeding disorder.

Glucose is stored in the liver ready to be released when the blood sugar levels drop. Vitamins Â12 and A are also stored in this organ, which is also the major site for the breakdown of most drugs.

The liver can suffer injury, infection or cancer. Primary cancer of the liver is rare but secondary spread of cancer from other organs is common.

Drugs, particularly alcohol, may damage the liver and, if the insult is severe and, in the case of alcohol, prolonged, the liver cells can be destroyed and replaced with scar tissue. This is cirrhosis.

This hard-working and fascinating organ is hardly thought of by most people until, for some reason, its function starts to fail.

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