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When we are discussing anxiety we were careful to bring the relaxing exercises into relationship with our ordinary way of living. We found that we could keep the same relaxed state of mind when we were walking along or doing simple tasks. By this means the calm and ease of the exercises came to pervade all aspects of our life. Now we follow the same principles in relation to pain.

We have learned to do the exercises with pinpricks and the burning string in the calm and relaxed state of mind that we have learned to induce in ourselves. Now we practise the same exercises in our normal everyday state of calm and relaxation, without any of the regression which goes with the mental exercises. We learn to do this gradually. First we do the pinpricks exercise in deep relaxation; then we do it with ourselves still relaxed, but less regressed. We are more alert; our eyes are more widely open, and we are much more aware of our surroundings and what is going on. By doing this gradually we find that these stimuli, which at one time would have been quite painful, now cause us no discomfort. In other words, our threshold of pain has been raised. When we can do this with pinpricks, we proceed to practise in the same way with the burning string.

We are now bringing the effect of the exercises into our everyday life. We find that minor incidents which in the past would have caused us pain or discomfort are now no worry to us at all. When such incidents arise, we are less easily disturbed because of our increased tolerance of pain, and if the stimulus is sufficiently severe that we find we are on the verge of pain, we quickly relax in the way that we have learned, and the threat of pain passes off.

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The head takes in the whole of the upper half of the iris except for the inclusion of heart and lungs. The important organs here include the mouth with the teeth and tonsils, nose and forehead with their accessory sinuses, the eye, brain and ear.

The areas for teeth and accessory sinuses deserve special attention since they are frequently the seat of disseminating or latent foci, which are seen as small black points. With latent foci, one sees on the sclera small tortuous venules which run to the affected area and have at their ends small bluish shining nodes. With disseminating foci the vessels go up to the iris, and with acute inflammations even on to the iris.

The areas for eyes—right iris 7′, left iris 53′—and the areas for ears, right iris about 52′, left iris 8′—are lighter in colour if there have been previous inflammatory conditions. White wisps or clouds are seen, which for example, in the case of purulent inflammation of the middle ears, extend to the outermost iris rim. These acute states are so easily established clinically that one seldom needs to make an exact iris-diagnosis for otitis media. With such disturbances also pay attention to the vascular state of the sclera. Much more frequently, however, one finds in these areas dark signs in the form of dark streaks, and this suggests an old injury which has not completely healed. If, however, these black streaks go inwards towards the iris-wreath, then there may be an optic nerve or auditory nerve weakness, and the patient complains of visual or auditory disturbances.

The brain area in both irides extends from 58′-7′, encompassing a large space, and assuming a correspondingly great importance. A much lighter colour of the brain areas suggests a congestion of blood in the brain, often accompanied by vertigo. White, or in the case of a brown stomach zone—brownish, radiating lines which run from the stomach zone to the brain area are signs for headache, whose origin lies in an over-activity of the stomach.

Single fine white lines in the brain area, the so-called nerve lines, indicate an over-activity of the head and brain nerves with neuralgic pains. Small ring-formations of whitish points in the fifth minor zone (resembling a string of small wax pearls) are signs for circulatory disturbance of the head, which the patient experiences as a feeling of numbness.

Darkening of the brain area in any case suggests a circulatory disturbance, which in such a case is attended by tiredness, depression, weakness and dizziness consequent upon the defective brain circulation —usually the result of cardiac weakness.

If lacunae are to be seen in the brain area then one may assume weakness of thought power and intelligence.

Dark signs in the area for cerebellum in the right iris indicate an hereditary disposition to epilepsy (according to Frau Madaus). If the signs appear in the left iris, it is supposed to indicate weakness of will through faulty upbringing. If radii Solaris, dark radiating furrows, are seen in the iris running from the pupil to the brain area, then there is a state of cerebral weakness. In the remainder of the iris they signify nerve weakness of the organs to which they run, more especially exhaustion of the C-N-S. When they radiate out from the iris-wreath only, exhaustion of the vegetative nervous system is indicated.

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For a start, it’s often a surprise to many women to realize that their wombs are really quite small. At least they are when they’re not pregnant. A non-pregnant womb is about the size of a woman’s clenched fist or a small orange; just right to be tucked safely away behind your pelvic bone, which you can feel low down in your belly linking the two inside edges of your hip bones. Your womb is virtually all thick muscle, with a small space inside it, between those thick walls, like a balloon before it’s been blown up.

That sticking out of the top of your womb, like two narrow curved horns are the two Fallopian tubes, which are specially designed to carry the newly developed egg from your ovaries into your womb. They curl round alongside the womb, so that their open ends are hovering just above your ovaries, the two glands that hold the millions of microscopic egg-cells Nature provided you with even before you were born. The open ends of the Fallopian tubes are fringed like a sea anemone and the inside of each tube is lined with little hairs, so that the

egg-cell can be wafted gently along inside it.

It seems extraordinary that the womb could carry anything as big as a full term baby, or that it could cause so much pain. But as we know, it can and it does. And one of the reasons is that although it’s quite a small bag of muscle, the muscles themselves are exceptionally strong, so when they contract, as they do when they are pushing a baby into the world, or when they are getting rid of the unwanted lining of the womb, you usually know about it.

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