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There Is Strength In A Herd

I once was asked to speak to a group of teenage boys about the importance of families. I am a high school religion teacher and often speak to teens. But this assignment made me nervous because I knew it was a topic the boys weren't excited to hear.

Minutes before speaking I had an unusual experience. A visual image came to my mind as though someone had turned on a television set in my brain. I clearly saw a scene you might see on the Discovery Channel -- it was a lion scattering a herd of animals.

The image came so powerfully that it surprised me. I wondered if it had anything to do with the talk I was about to give. The understanding quickly came.

When a predator attacks a herd the first job is not the kill. There is strength in the herd and the predator knows it. The first job is to scatter. If the predator can separate the weak from the strong and the young from the powerful they become easy targets.

This was demonstrated powerfully in a National Geographic special I saw about mother elephants (cows) and their babies (calves). Elephant cows are careful to keep their calf within a step or two because danger is always waiting nearby. Lions sometimes stay as close as 20 feet. When the cow charges the lions they easily lope away. The lions understand they can never get to the calf with the powerful mother nearby. So they watch and wait for one of them to make a mistake.

The program then showed of one calf becoming separated from its mother. The lions quickly pounced on it, trying to bring it down and kill it. Somehow this lucky calf was able to escape and return to the safety of its mother.

We live in a society now filled with children not so lucky. Predators have successfully scattered and separated families. Children have become easy targets. These attacks are devastating not only families but entire societies.

In his book, The Broken Hearth, former US Secretary of Education William H. Bennett stated:

"It is fashionable these days to say and to believe that matters like divorce, illegitimacy, cohabitation, and single-parenting are "private" matters that are not the business of the wider community. To which I would respond: There are few matters of more profound public consequence than the condition of marriage and families. Most of our social pathologies -- crime, imprisonment rates, welfare, educational underachievement, alcohol and drug abuse, suicide, depression, sexually-transmitted diseases -- are manifestations, direct and indirect, of the crack-up of the modern American family."

What is the answer? Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said it well:

"We either build our children or we build more jails. Time to stop building jails. Our children are not the problem, they are our future. If you want young people to become contributing citizens and not convicts, then early in life we must give them the character and the competence they need to succeed in this exciting new world. It begins in the home with caring, loving parents and family members who pass on the virtues of past generations" (GOP National Convention, July 31, 2000).

It begins with parents. We have the responsibility to stand close to our children, to make time for them, to love them, to teach them. If we do not they will become victims to the serious predators that now surround them.

There is strength in a herd.

How To Deal With Gad

Worry is something that every one has. it is seen even in teenagers who have worry about school or even in the youths who face problems at school and work and for adults there are many reasons that they will feel worried, as the responsibility that they carry on their shoulders is immense. In short, none of us can escape worry however much we control it. The very cause of worry is stated as fear of loosing someone or something (job). Worry is a sign of a normal human that has daily stress and fears. But if this worry of yours is acting as an obstacle in your daily life than you need to get rid of it. A person that is always worried cannot give his productive best. So for you to avoid worry it is very necessary to find out the root cause and demolish it from your life.

About 4 millions Americans are said to be prone to generalized anxiety disorder every year. Also the people around the globe that are affected is very high an astounding 13%. GAD is seen more in women than men. It is caused due to genetics but the main reason seems to be daily stress that has to be handled. In this state person always worries about his financial problems, family problems, work, and health. At times the person with generalized anxiety disorder feels worried about the things that are of least of concerns. This will lead to a person’s ill health where he will find that he has headaches, sleepless nights, lack of concentration, stomach ache and so on. As all our problems are related mentally it is our mental state that needs to be taken care of above all. Our mind is the one that has been creating problems so far, so it is a must to eradicate the ill thought and replace it with something that can help a person.

If GAD affects you then you can look forward to get the best help possible. The best treatment for this is hypnosis, hypnosis deals with your mind allowing it to relax from the daily stress that had caused a state of worry for it. Hypnosis takes your mind to a subconscious state and allows it to calm down. Once done with this it is directed to looking at things positively, where fear will no longer trouble you and you can carry on with your daily schedule without getting disturbed by worry. This treatment is made available for you in the form of mp3; you can download this from the Internet. Once done with this you will see that hypnosis has helped you with the problem of GAD, which earlier seemed to be difficult for you to get over. Not only will this mp3 treatment help you with driving away worry from you but also it will teach you new techniques in handling such situations. Wouldn’t this hypnosis help be great for you in eliminating worry from your life and giving you your normal life back? Go ahead and get one (mp3) for yourself.