Saturday, March 21, 2009

Panic Kills

FDR once said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." We live in times like these again.

In the times we live in worldwide panic will ONLY destroy your finances and take your life, your family and everything you care about from you, nothing else.

So, if one understands this then it is time to take a warriors stance, not in getting ready to fight but mentally girding oneself to protect oneself, ones family, and one's families finances and possessions from ruin and theft.

WE live in times of extreme change. There is a Chinese curse. "May you live in interesting times." What this meant in the past was that wars and drastic weather changes like floods and droughts were to them interesting times.

So, to view what the world is experiencing as an economic war is useful. It may just be an economic war by the very rich against everyone else. But it is simaltaneously, because of this a war of everyone to survive this which will unfortunately create many criminals out of those who want to survive worldwide. So we must all be vigilant in these times and always watching out for scam artists trying to harm us and our families in various ways.


I would like to tell you a story about myself and panic. In September 1998 I woke up from a nights sleep and looked in the mirror only to see my lips starting to turn blue. I found my arms to be tingling and could barely feel my fingers. So I called my son on the phone to take me to the hospital because I wasn't in any condition to drive myself there. The doctors didn't know what was wrong with me and finally sent me to have my heart tested in various ways. They said my heart was only pumping at about 35% to 45% maximum of normal. They didn't know what was causing this.

However, what this meant to me was that my heart couldn't pump enough blood to properly oxygenate my blood from my breathing. So the effect was that I felt like I was strangling and suffocating. Many if not most people who have been through this have died. However, I had two things going for me: first I had been a vegetarian since I was born until age 32 and was still a 95% vegetarian so I had totally clear arteries and veins from not eating meat growing up and second I had spent time with Tibetan Lamas in the United States, India and Nepal and had learned a disconnection meditation. This allowed me not to panic and die like most people did who experienced this. So when I couldn't oxygenate and felt myself start to panic I just refused to panic and went into a meditation because I knew if I panicked I was dead. So, in these times remember.

Panic Kills!

7 months later my heart specialist told me that I wasn't going to die. He had told me the previous 7 months that I was likely going to die. So I had grown used to the fact that I would die soon even though I had a 2 year old daughter and had been married to my new wife a little over 3 years. So living on for my daughter and wife was very important to me so I did.

Since this was in 1998 the main difference in my life now is that my wife insisted I retire then. Luckily, I could afford to otherwise I would have almost certainly died during the 7 months the doctors expected me to die. However, in May 1999, after my wife's stepmother died in March and her mother died in April and my wife had a miscarriage the same month that her mother died I was told I wasn't going to die in May 1999.

So, remember refusing to panic while observing everything and staying rational and calm just might save your life, your finances, your family, your friends and you!

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