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This is issue two of CYBER_PHUCK Magazine. I hope you enjoy it.

1. Introduction To Meditation
(An introduction to meditation with the bullshit
present in most meditation techniques removed)

2. Intermediate Meditation Techniques
(More advanced information and techniques on meditation
with the bullshit we normally expect about meditation
removed)

3. DEPRESSION
A Paper on clinical depression. A condition that affects
50% of all people at some time in their lives. Learn about
depression and know how to help yourself or a friend or
family member that you love.

4. BE YOUR OWN CHIROPRACTOR
Tired of having a sore as shit neck or back. Here's some
tips that just might help you feel better.

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INTRODUCTION TO MEDITATION

MEDIATION INFORMATION.

Introduction to meditation; CRASH COURSE IN INTRODUCTORY MEDITATION

Meditation is old and comes from India and China and places like that.
Basically western countries have developed a society based on accumulation
of things, while eastern countries, which are quite accumulated already,
have developed techniques for relaxing, and focusing, the mind to
appreciate what is already there. As the U.S. becomes more overpopulated,
the need for relaxation techniques and self discovery through meditation
will become much more important.

Goal of meditation:
Short Term:
Relaxation
Long Term:
To search for the true "self" by learning to control our perceptions.

Three "B"s
Relax the body,
Slow the blood flow,
relax the brain.

Beginning Technique

Find a comfortable sitting position. A lawn chair will do or
any chair pillow on the floor etc. This is meditation, NOT yoga, so
don't go out and buy incense and shave your head just yet.

Breathing is very important. Breath slowly. Pay close attention
to your breathing. When you exhale, have your mind relax a specific part
of your body. Exhale and physically realax your foot, then your leg, then
your arm, etc every time you exhale learn to relax a part of your body. This
step is easy and very interesting and beneficial to relieve stress.

Eyes closed. Keep your eyes closed while learning to breath.
You will be seeing the inside of your eye lids of course, but work on
breathing. Breathing is good for your lympathic system. (body's sewage
system).

As you learn how easy it is to relax various parts of the body,
feeling the stress leave a specific body part as your breath leaves your
lungs, then move towards relaxing internal organs as well. Just as you
can exhale and relax your leg, work on exhaling and relaxing your internal
organs. Your adrenal glands are in the back near the kidneys. Work on
those in paticular. They are part of a feed back loop between the mind
and body that keeps us tense once we get tense, or keeps us depressed when
we get depressed.

Once the body is relaxed, try relaxing the brain as well.
As you exhale "think of nothing" or "do not think". If you think of
"nothing" you may drive yourself mad, perhaps "do not think" is a better
term for western people to grasp. Since nothing, emptiness, is something
real in the western mind. As you exhale, relax the brain, just as you
would your leg or arm each time you exhale. think.. "do not think".

Between each thought, is a microsecond where we don't think about
anything. When we veg on a campfire, or some relaxing primevil thing,
the space between thoughts grows, and we benefit. Good meditation lets
us look at our "self" which is inbetween the thoughs, telling us what
we really want to think about, what we truly are inside.

So.
1. Find a comfortable place.

2. Close your eyes.

3. Concentrate on breathing.

4. Each time you exhale, relax a body part, feel the tension
in that body part leave your body. You can actually feel
the bad energy leave.

5. When the body is relaxed, do the same to your brain. Relax
the brain each time you exhale.

6. "do not think", or "think of nothing" whichever works for you.

7. Try relaxing the internal organs, especially the adrenal
glands.

8. At first you will see the inside of your eye lids and your
eyes will try to focus on them. "do not think" and allow
the space between thought to increase, slowly increase the
time space between thoughts.

During meditation, the body functions slow down, yet the brain
does not. After meditation, you will feel more relaxed and peaceful
than before. The human is not designed for prolonged stress, and
meditation allows the mind time to heal itself, and enhances the body's
ability to heal itself. This is a basic introduction to fundamental
introductory technique. Try this and see where it takes you. Don't
be too surprised if you loose the physical sensation of your physical
body and see, not the insides of your eye lids, but the infinite
rhelm of your own mind. As outter space, is a void, a vacuum, you will
soon see that the human mind is exactly the opposite.

Tom Line
Head Chef
Cyber BBS 513-863-0447
[email protected]

What is the sound of one hand clapping... JUST KIDDING one hand.. RIGHT! :)

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INTERMEDIATE MEDITATION TECHNIQUE

MEDIATION INFORMATION.

INTERMEDITE MEDITATION TECHNIQUE; CRASH COURSE IN INTERMEDIATE MEDITATION

Finding a comfortable place is important in learning meditation
since distractions at first, make it harder to meditate. Some people
picture meditation being performed in the lotus position, with sticks
of incense making the room smell like a head-shop. Well the opposite
is true. Meditation is fun to do in a big comfortable chair in your
living room, or a simple lawn chair in the back yard.

Close your eyes when you begin to meditate, and at first you see
the inside of your eye lids, then you begin to see beyond that. The most
fundamental thing I notice when I begin to relax and meditate, is that
I hear sounds around me that I was previously unaware of. Just as during
normal activity I am unaware of my "true self", during meditation I
become dramatically more aware of sounds around me. Especially outdoors,
I hear the sounds of birds and the wind through the trees, and the
drone of traffic in the distance becomes less and less.

As I concentrate on breathing, it gives my mind something singular
to do. The opposite of meditation is the state in which our mind
flows continously with random thoughts and pictures. Concentrating
on breathing and relaxing our muscles and internal organs and brains
each time we exhale, also slows down the number of thoughts that
normally fire randomlly across our frantic minds.

Each time you exhale, relaxing a body part, feeling the tension
in that body part leave your body is actually healthy and allows blood
to flow more freely, yet more slowly throughout. Relaxing the mind
as we exhale also relaxes the small blood vessles, allow blood and
the oxygen it carries to penetrate the brain blood barrier more
successfully. The goal is to "not think" for a change. Turn off
that thought machine. If a thought bounces out from someplace, ignore
it and don't bounce it back.

"do not think", or "think of nothing" whichever works for you.
Sometimes when we meditate, the mind is a jumble of thoughts. These
thoughts are the outter most and most frantic and most unimportant
thoughts. The mind is perhaps like a large corporation. On the outter
most levels are workers. They work and work and work, and dream up
more work and work, without real insightful thought. As you see further
and further into the inner most workings of the company, you see folks
doing less and less, yet they are more important to the success of the
company. At the very inner most workings of the company is one man
who really does the least amount of work, or so it appears.

Our mind is something like that. As your whirling thoughts begin
to slow, and true relaxations and absence of though follows, we can
begin to look inward. Thoughts still flow, but in less frantic and
more important forms. As we peer deeper and deeper between all the
frantic thought factories, we are allowing the inner most voices in
our mind a chance to be seen. To get in touch with our "true self"
like the president of the company, we must turn off all thoughts,
and look deeper and deeper within until we reach our true self. And
only by "not thinking" in our very aware state are we able to turn
off all the noise that prevents from hearing what our true self has
to say. Our true self may not instantenously say anything, but it now
knows that we want to hear what it has to say. Thus the insight we
achive through meditation may not happen during meditation, but maybe
days later, when we least expect it, the pieces of ourselves, have
shut-up long enough finally for the rest of our "true self" to hear
what we really want.

I have heard peering into the mind described as "tip toeing
through sleeping elephants" so immense are our normal thought processes.
Have you ever gone camping, and had no radio, no idiots pissing beer
into the fire. Have you ever been able to stare at the fire. It's
energy draws one out of the deepest corners of our minds. When we
sit by on a fire, it feels relaxing, because it helps us to quiet our
normal frantic thought processes that are necessary for survival
in a split second dangerous world. Frantic thoughts are hard to turn off
once they start.

THE MANTRA:
Some people use tricks to help in meditation. Just as quietly
watching a peaceful warm campfire relaxes the mind and helps us to
focus our thoughts, and turn off the frantic unneeded noise in our
minds, so does The Mantra. Some people are aided in meditation by
humming some deep, low, primevil sounding chanting sounds, or by
staring at an imaginary object in their relaxed state. If this helps
you than it's great. If ANYTHING help you meditate than it is good,
but everybody's mind is different, so although hearing a Mantra
sound inside your mind, or actually vocalizing it outloud may be
worth trying sometime, it may or may not actually help you.

Meditation is so simple to do, and is so valuable to us as
humans, but yet it's difficult to find sane information on the subject.
I've looked for good books on the subject, but most just seem to be
hippies playing their own drum. Meditation is very valuable and a
personal thing we mustn't let wierdos scare us away from. The human
body is a temple, but hell, I sure like to smoke a cigar once in a while
and eat a cheese burger at MacDonalds. After all, there is more to
life than TV and traffic. I don't consider living in a old VW bus to
be anybody's answer to life. It sounds more to me like running away from
life. If you want to take a trip, try taking one into your own mind
through meditation and visiting your true self for a change. You'll
probably like what you see :)

ahhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
(pause)
ahhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Tom Line
Head Chef
Cyber BBS 513-863-0447
[email protected]

"Snatch the pebble from my hand..." FUCK YOU! GIVE ME THE FUCKING ROCK!
DEPRESSION.

BY THE HEAD CHEF
CYBER BBS 513-863-0447
[email protected]

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DEPRESSION
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DEPRESSION
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There are two types of depression.

1. BI-POLAR. (or Manic Depression)
This means one day you feel like killing yourself,
and the next day you feel like painting the house purple.
Bi-polar depression is characterized by INTENSE mood swings,
from feeling super super super super great, to feeling lower
than slug shit.

Bi-Polar depresssive is also called MANIC-DEPRESSION. Manic
means you want to go out a run up 8,000 $ on your credit
card and just might do it too. Manic means you feel like
taking clocks apart, putting them back together, and then
writing a 3,000 page novel about it. Then the next day you
might mood "swing" back and feel like killing yourself and
feeling afraid to leave your bed for a month or two. Manic
depression can cause hallucinations and other scary shit
in some folks.

Lithium.
Lithium is a mineral salt, like... salt. People
who are manic depressives, (or bi-polar), can have their
mood swings slowed and even stopped by the proper daily dose
of lithium. Lithium can poison the system if too high a dose
is given, so people have to be tested while their lithium
dosage levels are being adjusted. Too little lithium and the
effects aren't felt correctly, and too much lithium and they
get physically ill from the stuff. TONS of people take lithium
every day. Manic depression doesn't affect one constantly,
it may lay dormant for years and years. People with manic or
bi-polar depression should take their lithium even when their
depression or manic behavior is dormant just as a preventative
to keep it from coming back.

SSRI's. (prozac, paxil, zoloft)
SSRI's are Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, are drugs
that have been almost as revolutionary in the treatment of
depression and lithium was when it was introduced. SSRI's are
pretty new to the scene. The theory is that feeling good, is
caused by serotonin, and feeling bad is caused by serotonin
being cleaned out of the brain to quickly by the brain. These
drugs keep serotonin from being cleaned out of the brain as
quickly as it normally would be during a depressive phase.

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2. Strait depression.

Another type of depression, perhaps much much more common
than bi-polar depression, is what I call strait depression.
This is where you just feel depressed all the time, or worse
feel like killing yourself continously. SSRI's are very helpful
to many people who feel this way, and others aren't helped by
them as well, but the beneficial effect of SSRI drugs can be
so dramatic that their use is certainly worth experimenting with.
Some people are helped tremendously by one SSRI, and not by
another type at all. The effect takes several days to weeks
to be fully felt. If you feel depressed like this, even a little
you should go see a doctor or councelor immediately before
it gets worse, and tell them you want to try a SSRI. It's not
like pain killer and they will be happy to try to help you out.

Head Chef's theories on depression.

Our mind is under continous stress from the outside world. Living
in traffic, sucking down car exhaust, it never ends. Some depression
can be triggered when we are exposed to seemingly unsolable stress
for a prolonged period, such a job search, not finding a sexual
partner, living with a drunk, etc. We may form pictures in our
mind that motivate us. We see a picture in our minds of living
like Ozzie and Harriet, or making tons of money at a great rewarding
job, but as this picture of a possible future is so vivid, yet
as each day goes by that it seems that more unobtainable... well
we reach a point where we either say "fuck this picture" and
form new pictures in our mind, or we get profoundly depressed
mentally and physically as well.

Intelligence also plays a roll. People who constantly blame others
for their problems are probably less likely to become depressed.
When something bad happens to us, we either blame.

1. Ourselves or Somebody else.
2. Something temporary or somthing permanent.

If we blame something on somebody else, as less intelligent persons
always do, we are less likely to be depressed because we have no
responsibility for the situtation if it's completely somebody elses
fault. But if that person isn't around to be blamed, and we blame
all or even a small part of the blame on ourselves... well it's
not fair to ourselves and ads to worries that cause depression.

Again, if we blame something permanent like ourselves or the
government or a giant corporation, we see less hope for ourselves,
than if we were to blame something temporary. This is flawed because
even though we may see fault in ourselves as being permanent, we in
fact are continously changing. Personal changes happen continously
but inpercievably because they are in us, and because, well you can't
watch a flower bloom if it's right in front of your face the whole
time. Personal change is like a flower blooming. Give it a chance
and cut yourself some slack.
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What to do.

1. See a doctor and try SSRI's, or other drugs and see if they help.
Most psychiatric offices have counselors you can talk to who
can get the head shrink to prescribe you medications. This is
probably the way to go.

2. Learn about depression by reading everything you can get your
hands on about depression and feeling better.

3. If your doctor wants you to come in more than you think is necessary
just call and cancel the appointment and ask for a refill of your
medication over the phone. They should be happy to oblidge.

4. Slow down your mind. Once the mind starts thinking about solving
what is perceives as an unsolbable problem... well it's like
telling a computer to divide something by zero.. it just blows up
eventually. Take a hot bath, try camping and having a campfire
etc.

5. Let your friends in on how you're feeling. If they call and ask
you to do something you feel freaked out about doing because of
your depression, tell them why and thank them for asking. You
DONT want to isolate yourself from your friends. Explain to them
that you feel really really really wierd right now, and that you
really really appreciate them asking you to do something and that
you really really would appreciate if they would not hesistate to
ask you to do something again. Don't dwell on WHY you feel depressed.
It can be contagious and make folks less likely to enjoy your
company.

6. DEPRESSION IS TEMPORARY no matter what your temporarily sick
mind tells you. Hang in there, dig in your heels and kick
your fucking depression in it's stupid depressing ass!

7. You have NO idea how many people are affected by depression. It's
like 50% of the population at one time or another.

8. Try meditation. This may be a hopeless effort at first, but as
you begin to get your shit back together this can really help
speed-up the healing process. Our mind is flooded with wierd
thoughts that mess us up sometimes. Meditation is relaxed
concentration, where the person meditating turns off thoughts
and just peers into the blackness of the mind. In a relaxed mind,
there is a pause between thoughts during which time the deep
parts of our soul do the thinking. But when we're stressed out,
there is no time between thoughts. Relax and tell the mind to
shut up for a while and it lets the quieter parts of the mind
come forth and help us out.

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Suggested Reading.

Feeling Good ... a book on depression
Quantum Healing ...book on the mind's healing power by Dr. Choopra

Books That Are a Waste Of Time

Anything by the American Psychiatric Association.
They can't fix things so they just classify and
reclassify things.

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Good vitamins.

B6 and B12

Avoid stimulants from health food stores, but don't hesitate to drink
coffee in the morning if it helps.

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Good foods

A good dinner type of meal with meat in it and a salad and potatoes. Being
depressed take a lot of energy. If you're feeling really stressed out
try chicken or turkey which contains tyrosine which helps calm one.

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Good activities.

Watching TV shows about people helping people. Avoid stupid movies about
coke dealers and low budget HBO gangster movies. AVOID THE FUCKING NEWS
SHOWS their job is to make people worry so they will pay attention during
the commercials :)

Exercise.
Buy a bike (one where you don't have to bend over to ride it).
Camping. Short trips with a campfire.
Walking.
Gardening etc.

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Hang in there, it passes find something meaningful and purposefull to do.

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BE YOUR OWN CHIROPRACTOR

How to be your own Chiropractor
by THE FOLICALLY CHALLENGED WHITE DUDE at Damage Inc.

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Notice Use at your own risk. I am not a doctor and attempt only
to describe some techniques which have been helpful to me
personally. If you cripple yourself accept responsiblity
for it. When in doubt see a chiropractor. They do great stuff.
Your problem may be more serious and the following exercises
may cause more problems.
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Problem: Computer Neck, also know as Military Neck.

Cause: Sitting in a cheap chair while using a computer.

CHEAP CHAIR
BackGround:
A "Cheap Chair" causes strain on the neck when the top of the
chair-back leans back too far. If you lean back in the chair and
your face is 1.Pointed at the ceiling, or 2.Too far to see the moinitor,
then you have a cheap chair. A good chair should have lots of right angles
while a cheap chair is for watching TV and slouching in.
Go to an office supply house and get a real chair. Don't spend
over a hundred bucks, but it will be the best investment you can make
since a sore neck affects all the rest of your life. Look for one with
a adjustable height lever on the side, a back, and arms. Don't buy a used
one because it was probably put on the market to keep some cheap ass company
from spending more money on workers compensation claims due to bad chair
design.

Helpful exercises:

SHOULDERS
Sitting or standing, point your arms strait up into the air then
move them to point behind you and outwards. This will make your shoulders
crack.

NECK CRACK
Sitting or standing, relax your neck, slowly letting it fall back
wards, slowly, slowly, CRACK! Try letting it slowly fall forwards, or
to the sides too SLOWLY. Moving around a sore neck to much will make it
worse!

Sitting or standing, shrug your shoulders backwards and together.
Crunch!

Middle Back Pain and lower back pain:

CAR SEAT
Sitting in a well designed chair that swivels, or on the seat
of your car, rotate your shoulders with your torso from side to side.
Crack.

MONEKEY BARS
Go to the park, hang with your hands from the moneky bars over your head
taking the weight off your legs so you feet don't touch the ground. Release
and return CAREFULLY to the ground. Do this regularily. This is helpfull
for many conditions but works slowly. Be carefull when returning to the
ground. Bend your knees considerably when landing to absorb shock and
prevent further damage to your back. This is my favorite but should be
done regularily and be very carefull when letting yourself back down from
hanging.

SWINGERS
While you're at the park, try the swings. They are very good for your
back and kind of fun too. The swings that are made of pieces of rubber
that grip your butt are better than the old wooden ones. Great exercise.

STEPS
Go to some steps. Carpeted is best. Sit near the bottom of the steps.
Lay back against the steps and relax. Experiment.

WALK
Go for a walk. Take long steps with your torso turned to one side or the
the other. Experiment. If it hurts more one way than the other. Do it the
way that hurts the least. These exercises SHOULD NOT HURT if THE EXERCISE
HURTS, DO NOT DO THAT EXERCISE! Proper chirporactic exercise should feel
relief, not pain!

STAIRS
Find a staircase you can get underneath and hang by your arms taking the
weight off your back and relax. This works like monkey bars. Helps lower
back pain.

BATHTUB
Find a bathtub. If it has a shower door rack on the rim, put a soft towel
over it. Stand on the bathroom floor with your back to the tub. Bend
your knees and do a deep knee bend with your back barely touching the
side of the bathtub, then slowly lean backwards with your lower back
pressing against the top/side of the tub. Put your hands behind you on the
tub floor if necessary and slowly bend your spin backwards. Maybe turn
your head from side to side.

BICYCLE
Get a bicycle and go for a short ride regularily, every day up and down
the street is great. This is a great preventative for the back and an
outstanding cardiovascular exercise. Exercise should raise the heart beat
SLIGHTLY for a prolonged period of time. Running isn't aerobic exercise,
while fast walking is. Avoid exercises that are hard on the joints, like
running.

Deterimine what causes your pain and remedy it if possible. Don't be
embarassed to do brief calestenics before lifting a heavy object or doing
heavy work. Ten million Chinese can't be wrong!

Middle Back Pain. Get somebody to pick you up from behind, have your
arms crossed across your chest first like a dead guy. Have them pick you
up from behind then quickly drop you and jerk you back up very slightly.

Lower Back Pain. Try laying on the floor, with a large pillow to support
your head while you watch TV. Take a very small pillow and put underneath
your lower back while you lay there.

Sleeping causing you pain?
Try a different pillow. Too fat of one is bad as it bends the neck during
sleep. Try an old flat one before trying one of those high tech ones.

Don't be afraid to visit a chiropractor. They have done wonders for millions
of people. Beware that many will try to get you to come in 8 times a week
for the rest of your life. Don't be afraid to cancel an appointment. A
friend of mine had a sore back and her doctor recommended surgery. A friend
suggested another doctor who recommended a chiropractor who recognized that
one of her legs was much longer than the other (this is very common) and
adjusted her back for a couple weeks and had her get special shoes. Her pain
went away and no surgery was required.

Going to a chiropractor will help you realize the ways he or she helps the
problem that you may be able to do yourself.

Some folks go to a (non-sexual) massage place and for less money have
better results than a chiropractor. Don't knock something you haven't
tried. Chiropractors make their money on prolonged visitors, so you
shouldn't be afraid to cancel appointments and go less than they suggest.
Find what works for you. Find an old established chiropractor. The one's
that advertise on TV are often fly-by-night outfits.

A regular doctor can give you pills but that won't make the pain go away
will it really. He can also send you to a surgeon who will recommend
surgery. Try a chiropractor FIRST before surgery. Some surgery is a fucking
racket. The dangers of sugery are very understated by surgeons and
hospitals.

So start living without pain. Recognize what you can do, and get help from
a reputable chiropractor if you can't figure it out and correct it
completely with a new chair or whatever.

Good luck.
The Folically Challenged White Dude
Damage.Inc.Ohio
April 1994

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I hope you enjoyed issue two of CYBER_PHUCK Magazine. If you have
questions, comments, suggestions, contributions -monitary or literary-
send 'em to the head chef at [email protected] or call the Cyber BBS
at 513-863-0447.

Tom Line
Head Chef
Damage Inc Ohio
[email protected]
cyber bbs 513-863-0447 USA