This is a simple and direct way of providing a painful stimulus of minor degree.

You may suddenly feel, “But I could not stick a pin into myself. The very thought of it upsets me.” If you should feel like this, just remember how many diabetics must have said these words. Then after the first few trials they forget all about it, and go on to give themselves their injections naturally and with very little discomfort. You may say, “But the diabetic has to learn this. I don’t.” But you do. You do, if you wish to master the pain. And there is the evidence of thousands of diabetics that it is really very easy to learn.

Roll up the sleeve on your left arm so as to expose the forearm. Take a pin in your right hand. Now, before you do anything else, let yourself relax. Take your time about it and do it properly. Feel the relaxation of your body, and your face.—Feel the calm.—Let yourself drift.—Your eyes are half open.—You see your forearm, and you see the point of the pin on the skin.—It pushes the skin into a little fold.—You withdraw the pin.

In a way you feel surprised that nothing happened, that there was really no sensation at all. You are utterly relaxed; you feel it in your face and in your mind;—You see the point of the pin on the skin again.—It again pushes the skin into a fold.—There is still no discomfort.—You withdraw the pin.—You are still utterly relaxed.—You do it again.—The pin makes the fold in the skin.—You are utterly relaxed.—You push the pin harder.—It has stuck in the skin.—You leave it there.—You look at the pin sticking in the skin.—The relaxation is still all through you.—You take out the pin.

This is all very simple. But because it is so simple, do not fail to do it. Again, because it is simple, do not just stick the pin into your arm. Anyone can stick a pin in their skin. Remember that you are doing a particular exercise for a particular purpose. If you take short cuts, the whole point of it is lost. The essential feature of the exercise is keeping the mental relaxation while you are doing it.

In this first experiment, it is a help to let the point of the pin rest on the skin for a moment before pushing the skin into a fold with the pin. By doing it slowly and gently at first, we give our mind time to adjust to the situation, and it also makes it much easier for us to maintain our relaxed state.

Do not try to go too quickly. Aim to be leisurely and natural about it. Spread the experiments over a few days, doing a little more on each occasion.

When we have practised this a little, we can push the pin into the skin much more firmly, still without causing discomfort.

We can now modify the experiment by jabbing our skin with the pin instead of gently pushing it into the skin. The jabbing is a much more sudden stimulus, and it does not give our mind the extra time to adjust as when we push the pin in slowly. We are very relaxed, completely

relaxed, our face and our mind.—We take the pin and make little jabs at the skin, just little jabs at first.—We are so relaxed that our eyes are only half open.—We see the pin jabbing our skin.—There is no discomfort.—We are very, very relaxed.—We jab a little harder.—The pin now sticks in the skin.—We leave it there.—We look at it.—Then we take it out.

*141\57\2*

SCLEROSIS-DISPLACEMENT OF THE UTERUS

Is recognised by the fact that the iris fibres in the uterus-area run in large strongly curved arcs enclosing dark lines. The iris fibres then reach as far as the kidney area. With a uterus displaced towards the rectum (retroversion) there is a displacement of the iris fibres from

22′ to 20′—therefore to the low back area, and since there is often pressure upon the rectum, the above signs may also be seen in the left iris in the rectum area. Where there is prolapse the dark uterus sign extends lower and often reaches as far as the iris-rim.

Uterine neoplasms are recognisable in the early stages often only by changes in the iris wreath. Therefore it is absolutely essential to observe any deviation of the wreath upwards, since with all new formations in the abdominal cavity, especially of the larger kind, such as ovarian cysts and uterine fibroids, an indentation of the iris-wreath develops, even when no true sign of swelling has yet appeared. In the subsequent development of the disease, the typical widthwise dark tumour-sign forms in the affected organ area.

In contrast to the large tumours, the uterine carcinoma shows at first only in the form of very small, somewhat pin-head size dark points, around which the iris fibres separate. Only if the condition deteriorates, and disturbs the normal body tissues do these points become black.

Small black points with small white transverse lines in the area for uterus are generally the consequence of difficult childbirth (lesions of the cervix).

If cramp-rings are found which interrupt in the uterus area, the patient complains of painful cramps during the menstrual period.

In the iris, the cerebellum lies opposite the uterus (cerebellum-uterus line), and both these organs have a close relation to one another. Patients in whom the cerebellum-uterus line is indicated tend towards hysteria—they are noisy and talk too much. On the other hand, patients showing the cerebellum-rectum line (left iris) tend to hypochondria. Patients with such signs are silent, say almost nothing, and bear their sorrows without much complaint.

The appearance of the uterus sign in the left iris is very much disputed. On this point I cite Phil. Jung: ‘Since both vagina and penis as single organs are found in both irides, why should the uterus be an exception?’ Jung found that with severe genital conditions the uterus signs appear in both irides, whereas in slighter conditions only the right iris shows the sign, and, as he says, this may have its origin in the strong ‘positivity’ of the uterus as a developed organ.

*32\78\2*

By now I hope you will have found that you can use at least some of the tricks and techniques I have been describing to make your periods easier. With luck and persistence you may have found exactly the right blend and won’t be suffering every month. Good! Or if, in your particular case, this hasn’t been your experience, at least you should be feeling that you are on your way to an improvement, watching your periods get easier and easier month by month. The likelihood is that you will have learnt how to cope with your particular stresses and although you’ll probably have recognized that your periods are rarely going to be entirely painfree, at least by now they’ll be relatively easy to manage.

But sadly. I know that there is bound to be a minority who will go on suffering from far too much pain from the cramps, or far too much discomfort from the aching miseries. It’s also for anyone who’s recognized that an attack of epilepsy, asthma, cystitis, migraine or hay fever may be linked to an approaching period. And for any woman who is afraid that a violent mood swing could be the final straw that could lead her to batter her child.

*74\177\2*