NATION or RACE:
Population density:
People educated in industrialized countries hold most of the powerful political leadership positions in the world. The ethics and values instilled into people in most industrialized nations include a disrespect for the environment in favor of an obsession for material wealth and power. Particularly in North America, the Commonwealth of Independent States (formerly, USSR), China, and the wannabe lesser industrialized nations --- to be a person is to be a polluter.

THE ETHICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESPECT, conservation, recycling, and self-sufficiency have only been idealistically acknowledged at the edge of environmental and human health collapse. In the countries mentioned above, the more people who live near to you, the more polluted will be your immediate environment. This is unfortunate and totally the opposite of primitive band organizations living in forest or deserts --- in which they have been imprisoned or to which they have been driven by militarily and occupationally aggressive peoples. If you want to experience a lower level of toxic environment, you will necessarily have to go to a region which has been avoided for its "un-economic" factors.

In the past 56 years (1957 - 2003) the behavior of the general population has become increasingly self-indulgent, irresponsible, desperate. With the increasing separation of the materially wealthy from the materially impoverished, those who have don't care about those less fortunate, and those who haven't (wealth) feel too desperate, defeated, or apathetic to care. Simple matters of washroom cleanliness, littering of public places, efficient storage of foods to prevent cockroach infestations, annoyance of food service preparers at their disrespectful customers --- all contribute to high levels of viral and bacterial presence.

THE EASY WAY, taken too often, of "fixing" the problem is to spray toxic disinfectants, insecticides, fungicides ... everywhere. All this does for the human immune system is replace one form of toxin --- responsible for acute illnesses, with another form of toxin --- which contributes to chronic illnesses. In such self-obsessed and individualism focused social environments, my garbage is always your problem. For the environmentally hypersensitive person such an environment can be a constant health challenge.

With few parents setting a good example for their children, and almost as few actually parenting their children --- requests by strangers or neighbors for one to be more responsible are more often rebuked or laughed at than considered. Rather than heighten one's immune response by becoming angry, it is often best to leave for better soil.

NEIGHBORHOOD
- Peers - Club - Gang - Association:

Moving one's residence is often a costly event and how can one know if the new choice of location will be any better than the last? With all the other factors mentioned on this site taken into consideration, the remaining factor would be population density. It has always been a healthy and pro-survival behavior for humans to group together in sharing communities for mutual benefits --- until the past two millennia.

HISTORY HAS CONTINUALLY DEMONSTRATED that wars and epidemics do not happen in low density countries with clean environments. The opposite is also true. For good health and for a healthy environment, modern humanity has changed the rules by which it has previously survived. Interpersonal contact is a requirement of balanced health. Now more than at many other times, having one or more significant others in one's life is more important than how many friends, acquaintances, and associates one has.

A DECEPTION OF INTERNET CHAT GROUPS, electronic bulletin boards and Usenets is that a long-distance communication cannot be made close no matter how fast the bits of information travel. Videophone conversations will both improve the quality of the communication and its deceptive substitution for personal contact and sharing.

Ultimately, you can waste a lot of time role playing with other people who are role playing rather than speaking honestly, respectfully, and openly with another person. Moving inside technology is not the answer to more balanced health. Moving to an environment where you can be open, honest and sharing with your neighbours is.

MASKED Symptoms:
When you don't know what you know, or have misplaced, forgotten, ignored, or become unaware of something --- it is masked. There are several dynamics by which this can happen.

A STRONG AND/OR CONTINUOUS STIMULATION can result in desensitization. If we have been aware of a strong smell near us, and then later notice that we no longer can smell it --- our senses have desensitized us to that particular odor. This may happen as soon as we have consciously acknowledged its presence --- often within minutes after our first exposure. Beef and dairy farmers who must work near manure dumps (straw and cattle excrement/urine) each day do not notice the odor within a short time of being near it. The manure doesn't disappear or stop giving off its odor, the mind of the person simply accepts that it is there and dulls the sense signal.

THIS BRAIN STRATEGY is excellent and mandatory for survival in non-industrialized environments --- which represent 99% of human recorded history to date. In those environments it is highly advantageous to be able to individually sense the presence of different plants, animals and inanimate factors near one without having to specifically see them. Sensing hundreds of different things at once would be "sense-less." That is, with the soup of 40 or 50 odors impressed upon one simultaneously, no single entity could be recognized. The capacity to "identify" a selection of odors by acknowledging the most irritating and powerful first, and then others separately --- is fundamental to knowledge collection and an expansion of one's awareness.

DENIAL is one form of Masked Symptom.
With a masked symptom, we may be reacting to a real trigger substance which we can no longer consciously identify. This can be confusing. We may feel nausea, headache, irritability, anger, frustration, confusion, fear, disgust, attraction --- and be unaware of why we feel this way. In our "educated" and industrialized culture, this IS a problem.

As we are taught from the earliest age that everything is cause-effect related, we feel compelled (the intellectualizing addiction) to find an answer to every question. Our "educated" dominant Ego cannot easily accept confusion, anxiety, or humility. It is proud of its ability to take Control and give meaning to Everything. So, frequently, when we don't know the answer --- our minds are rewarded for creating one.

A BIG DANGER OF A MASKED SYMPTOM is that we will find a spurious "reason" to justify the symptomatic response. That means we totally believe our association even though it is totally false and probably has no connection to the real INFLUENCES. The result is that we make excuses for our symptoms which usually take the form of blaming:

• others - things - pets (victimization),
• our assumed weaknesses (shame),
• our supposed strengths (pride),
• the weather - climate - God (irreverence),
• enemies - adversaries - former spouses (hatred).

This inability to quieten and calm our Ego, and the Ego and SuperEgo of others --- is spiritually weakening. This pattern of reactive thinking lessens our ability to be open to finding and understanding the REAL INFLUENCES and diminishes our sense of flexibility, hope, curiosity, optimism, and self-directedness by negating our experience of positive spiritual coping characteristics:

• What is bothering them? (empathy),
• I can understanding this. (self-esteem),
• What am I not aware of? (humility),
• Please help and guide me. (reverence),
• What is producing this conflict? (love).

YOU ARE EMPOWERED with the awareness of this dynamic so you now have a choice NOT to fall into this reactive reasoning trap and ruin your relationship with everything else in the universe. The other information on this site will give you a good start into understanding what the following are.

• Triggers,
• Symptoms,
• Positive Influences,
• Energy Blocks, and,
• Spiritual Guidance.

CO-DEPENDENCY - a second masked symptom.
Intolerance or hypersensitivity can occur when we develop a dependency upon the substance which makes us overreact. Our SuperEgo is continually taught and rewarded according to the status quo values and customs of the culture we grew up in and the culture we live in. In North America, some of those values dictate that we SHOULD always be ---

1. active;
2. hopeful;
3. gracious;
4. trusting;
5. confident;
6. happy;
7. involved;
8. patient;
9. peaceful;
10. sexually receptive.

PERFECTIONISM arises from TOXIC SHAME.
While all of the above characteristics can be considered positive, to INSIST on judging a person by their total expressiveness of these and no other characteristics is neither human nor constructive. Each of the above traits can be destructive, endangering, and fatal --- when applied at an irrelevant time. Many of the opposing and often destructive traits also have their constructive and survival enhancing relevant times of application. Life, and reality --- are not a simple intellectualized mechanistic equation of what we want and what is required to fulfil that desire.

PAINFULLY OBVIOUS to people who LIVE real lives beyond the bounds of the artificially constructed certainties of institutional and bureaucratic job descriptions, guaranteed hours of work, and stable hourly incomes --- is uncertainty, unpredictability, irresponsibility, unfairness, and challenge. And yes, as the 1990's have progressed, more and more of those persons who proudly followed the orders of their superiors without regard to the people they were supposed to be assisting --- are finding themselves pushed out of the cocoon into a challenge of their identity.

EVERYONE IS INDIVIDUALLY DIFFERENT.
We are not all replicants stamped out by the same die and simply dressed, educated, and named differently. Trying to find value-of-identity through the acceptance of others has left many people searching urgently for

• more freedom;
• more energy;
• more money;
• more power;
• more opportunity;
• more acceptance.

We look for the fix that will make everything as it SHOULD be. The more determined, needy, and desperate we are --- the more likely that we will find something that gives us that "EDGE".

A BASIC PERSONALITY, Energy Block, or other hypersensitivity which depresses/relaxes our Life System (body), may give us comfort in a hypersensitivity which stimulates us. Of course this stimulation will continue for only as long as this food is in our body, a specific odor is in the air, or, a certain behavioral pattern is being expressed. Like any addiction, an attraction to a substance which seems to promise all those things we feel substandard without, is enticing.

OUR REPTILIAN UNCONSCIOUS BRAIN STRUCTURE develops a "Should be" pattern, and, we are hooked. Of course, the "should be" pattern only provides a short-term "I'm OK". When that wears off, we "feel" a "need" for more of the "should be" pattern. As many as 30% of food intolerances are identifiable as masked allergies.

OVERWEIGHT AND MALNUTRITION are contributed to by masked allergies and masked behaviors. Eating too much of anything places negative stress on the Life System. So does having a food obsession or a food or substance irrelevant attraction. Eating food because we need to feel good is unbalancing when what we need is acceptance by others and ourselves, the benefits of touch and exercise, and a lifestyle which doesn't encourage us to feel "bad".

SCIENCE is not what it used to be.
SCIENCE BECAME ACCEPTED as a TOOL in the 1700s by a society in distress. Such environments for decision-making are poor. Urgencies often result in our being impatient and assuming too much, ignoring too much, biasing our perception too much, denying too much, and, acting too quickly on too little. Science is and has always been a PHILOSOPHY -- a love of knowledge. Within its basic foundations the following apply:

1. Truth is always sought, but seldom known;
2. Perceptions require witness to avoid deception;
3. Consistency of testing = probability of result;
4. Objectivity is cultural assumptions - expectations;
5. Theories are a best interpretation of what is known.

GIVEN SANCTION AND POWER by political authority, science became, and has been taught in every grade school and high school for the past century to be understood as providing:

1. Truth is always sought, and always found;
2. Replication confirms authority and correctness;
3. Consistency of records = certainty of result;
4. Objectivity is unquestionable;
5. Theories are Laws.

SCIENCE COULD BE A MOTIVATOR to find solutions to huge problems like Hypersensitivities --- yet it has become a de-motivator which has PREVENTED an earlier resolution of such. As the secular god of academics, bureaucrats, and politicians --- science has been used as an excuse to deny, frustrate, abuse, and abandon the hypersensitive and chronically ill person. What other issues of REALITY are being avoided in the hope that they will just go away?

CHANGE only comes for a hypersensitive person when she or he takes control of their life, accepts the fact of their uniqueness, defines their hypersensitivities and MANAGES their identity and their immune system.