It is also known as alcoholic liver disease or its medical name is hepatitis, when you have liver damage lots of things occur you may find yourself lacking in energy and feeling tired all the time.

When liver cells become damaged scar tissue is formed within the liver and prevents blood from flowing freely to your heart. Another problem which occurs with liver cirrhosis is you will have a weakened immune system.

Your liver plays a important part in removing toxins and bacteria from your body however if your liver is damaged due to excess alcohol abuse than it will not be able to filter out bacteria and viruses as effectively as it would do if it wasn’t damaged.

Depending on how advanced your particular problem is will decide ultimately whether you will survive or not, there are some symptoms that you may become aware of but not necessarily associate them with a diseased liver.

You might start to feel generally unwell this is probably due to the large amount of toxins that will be contained with your in your bloodstream, if you go to your doctor and have a liver blood function tests or LFT as it is called, when you go to see him to discuss your results he will tell you about the levels of albumin and bilirubin, he will tell you whether these levels are higher than they should be or not, when these are quite high then this means that, you do have the initial beginnings of cirrhosis but do bear in mind it does depend on how high they actually are.

If you want to reverse your cirrhosis then the best thing you can do is cut down on your alcohol consumption and make sure that you don’t drink again, you must take this as a warning that something is very wrong within your body.

Depending on how bad your cirrhosis is and to instigate further investigation, you may be referred to a specialist/physician who will be able to advise you in more detail about your particular problem and how bad it may be.

You will probably due to discuss your levels of albumin and bilirubin and where he thinks the initial stages of your hepatic liver disease are. In order to get a better idea of how bad your liver may be you may be referred to have a ultrasound scan of your liver, much the same as pregnant women have when they are having babies.

This is done to see if there is any enlargement of the liver, that is all it will show it will not tell you if your liver is functioning properly or not, once you actually get the results back and there is nothing showing.

Then the only other thing that you can have is a liver biopsy where you have a needle inserted into your side, and a small liver tissue sample is taken away for analysis this will give a far more accurate picture of the state of how bad the cirrhosis is and what stage it is actually at.

In order to get things back on track you may be offered medication in order to stop the initial malfunction of your liver you would be advised to stop drinking, eat less fatty foods in your diet this will help your liver from working too hard and aid digestion, your doctor will probably suggest that you switch to a high protein diet and eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables. And drink a lot of water this will help to flush the toxins out of your body and help your liver to recover.

There are some natural aids to help with detoxifying your liver one of the more well-known ones is something called milk thistle, this is something that you could try, but it is better to discuss it with your doctor or a healthcare professional who will be able to able to advise you whether or not it is something that will help you or not.

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I can always remember watching a lecture on DVD and somebody saying to the person whom was doing it this he was at a particular stage in his life, and somebody said the exact same thing to him “do you know who you are” and person answered promptly by telling the person his name.

The particular person who was asking him this question said to him that that isn’t who you are that is your name, if you ask anybody the same question you will probably get the same answer.

Let’s now look at some of the reasons why it’s good idea to get to know yourself on a much deeper level, there may be many things in your lifetime or many experiences, where you may have wanted to try to do something out before you have even tried to do it.

And decided in your own mind that it wouldn’t work or you would fail at it without even knowing what the actual outcome the problem with this is sort of thinking it’s quite catastrophic in nature you don’t really know how well you would or wouldn’t do at a particular activity until you actually try to do it.

We don’t like to try new things sometimes because it takes us right out of our comfort zone, and somewhere in the back of our minds either something or some experience which might have happened in the past will be rattling around in our subconscious minds.

Mentally stopping us from doing a particular thing you could probably compare it to a car having its brakes stuck on all the time and not really going anywhere, we don’t particularly like to try somethings in life because ultimately we think we might fail.

And it’s all due to the fact that we get butterflies in our stomach and that feeling of anxiety which tends to be in the bottom of our stomach, then we can tend to build a picture in our minds of is actually doing the task or whatever is we want to do and then failing.

The thing is failure tends to work like a feedback system or you could say it’s a bit backwards in the way it works we tend to think it’s happened even before it’s happened, so ultimately what tends to happen to is that we stay where we are and don’t do the particular task or whatever it may be.

And stay as we are in our safe zone the problem is we have to realise ourselves to what is going on here, what is it that we are particularly afraid of the simple answer is nothing really it is just a feeling.

So really in essence all we are frightened of is having that feeling of overall failure, I would say these sort of beliefs tend to come from things that may have happened in your past think back to when you were a child. Let’s say for instance your in a classroom and the teacher asks a question so hoping you know the right answer you put your hand up.

You answer the question and it may end up being the wrong one, so because that has happened you tend to feel a bit humiliated and your pride can be heard, I can also remember myself being in a particular class at one time, and the teacher asked a question.

And I put my hand up and just blurted out the answer, it was the wrong one and also it tended to had a bit of a double meaning, which tended to be funny of course the whole class burst into laughter and I felt like two inches tall, so perhaps later on in life we might want to be able to do something.

But our brain remembers the last time that we try to do something and became humiliated, the whole problem with this is it can tend to affect all of your life, if you think about that say for example the fear of failure what you have here is a label.

That you have put something on which is namely fear but there is another way to look at this why not relabel fear as something else for example happy fear, exciting fear, funny funny fear. Hopefully you can see a pattern now building with this it’s the label, that you give to the words that provide the association with the feeling.

Having a fear of failure can be one of the most crippling things in your life there may be so many things that you want to do, but can’t because ultimately you tend to think you’re going to fail even before you have actually done the particular task in hand.

This is what is known as catastrophic thinking, the particular problem is everything can become attached to this one particular thing if you draw a circle on a piece of paper, and put fear of failure in it, and then think about all the things that is attached to you will see a pattern forming so we have fear in the middle and we have branches coming off, to other things and so on.

And in another branch coming off in one of the circles we have talking and approaching women, in another one we have fear of public speaking.

To be continued.

In the next part of this post I will go into things in more detail and share some tips on how to find who you are.

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choices you had made, and then you would be given advice as to which particular career would suit you best.In our particular family especially on my mother’s side of things, she had always had people who had been in the police force, it is a well-paid job and it was always assumed that is what I would do when I left school for a job.

When I went to the careers adviser I told her what I wanted to do and she told me the best thing for me to do was get better qualifications, by going to college because my grades that I had wouldn’t be in order to get it in the police force.

So it was arranged that I went to see a principal at a college in Nottingham with my mother, however it didn’t quite go as well as I expected it to, when we were talking he was looking at my grades from the school. And more or less told me I would be better looking for a job rather than going to college and getting better grades.

I must say I was rather disappointed by what was said to me at that particular time. I think the main reason being was that my mother was feeling, probably quite let down because she always wanted me to do well with my life. Little did I know that person’s decision would dramatically affect my whole life as we shall see later on.

So as it came to leaving school everything was a bit up in the air shall we say, I had no job to go to or anywhere else for that matter. I think now at this particular time I probably had mixed feelings about leaving school I suppose really you could say it about anything in particular really you don’t tend to think about things until they are really upon you.

So came the day that I had to leave school and I can always remember being on the bus, and a particular song playing as I went there and having butterflies in my stomach as I traveled towards my school. Just a year before we had moved houses so I had to travel to school on a bus.

Whereas before it was just a five-minute walk I was there, so I get to school and we have the morning assembly and now you are sitting at the back as fifth year students, it’s quite strange really because when I first went to that school.

I started out as a third year student, and I can remember every year at a certain particular time say about April or May time when the fifth year students would leave school, you don’t tend to think about it too much when you’re sitting there having the morning assembly.

All you tend to think about is this well they are leaving and I’m not and carry on as normal, so we go through the rigmarole of the egg and flour routine and water bombs etc that you get pelted at you when you leave school, and then once that was over you go home covered in eggs and what ever else has been thrown at you.

A couple of months before this happened I became involved in my first-ever relationship with somebody, I can vaguely recollect how it happened but I was quite friendly with some other friends from school, and he was seeing another girl at the time.

And she had a friend who expressed the interest in me I must say at the time I was quite surprised, because it really did happen, out of nowhere having not much luck with members of the opposite sex for such a long time.

And then all of a sudden being with somebody did seem quite strange to me, all my other friends had interest from members of the opposite sex except me so when it did eventually happen I was quite overjoyed to tell you the truth because it’s something I never expected to happen.

We spent a bit of time on the park and then she grabbed hold of my hand as if to more or less say we are together now, I must say it did seem really strange to me holding the hand of female for the first time, I was coming up to about the age of 16 at that particular time so I suppose you could say I was a bit of a late developer when it came to members of the opposite sex.

So on this particular day it was time to go home, she grabbed hold of me and we stood next to a wall and started kissing, I must say at the time this is one of the most strangest experience I’ve ever had in my life I can’t knock it though because I did enjoy it and it was my first kiss ever.

She even French kissed me as well which I didn’t quite know what to make of at first, this is where you touched each other’s tongues, I don’t quite know what that significance was at the time and even now I’m at the age that I am now. I don’t think I still even know now really thinking back about it.

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1. Throw out nonessential numbers.
This includes age, weight, and height.
Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay them.

2. Keep only cheerful friends.
The grouches pull you down.
(Keep this in mind if you are one of those grouches!)

3. Keep learning:
Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever.
Never let the brain get idle.  ”An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.”
And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s!

4. Enjoy the simple things in life because those are the best

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with her!

6. The tears happen:
Endure, grieve, and move on.
The only person who is with us our entire life, is our self.
LIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love:
Whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health:
If it is good, preserve it.
If it is unstable, improve it.
If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don’t take guilt trips.
Take a trip to the mall, even to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

And if you don’t send this to at least four people - who cares?

But do share this with someone.

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So as I came up to the age of about 14, things weren’t progressing that well at the private school which, I was still at although. I can’t particularly remember the reason why I went downhill it’s still quite a mystery to me even now.

All my marks all across various subjects went way down so much so, that I had to take a letter home to my parents and contained within it was the headmaster saying that I would be required to leave because my grades were so low.

I can’t remember exactly how I felt at the time when I found this out. I think both my parents were devastated, because they were quite literally sacrificing a lot money wise in order to give me a good start in life, I must say now actually thinking about this at this point in time I do feel quite sad really.

Because I now know how much it meant to them in order for me to get a good education so I would have a good start in life, so I eventually left that school and went to another one which was a comprehensive school which was state run this school,wasn’t too far away from where we lived, I do have actually one memory of it before I started there.

I was coming home one day in my school uniform and I had to wear a cap, one of the pupils from this particular school decided for some reason that he would like to thump me rather hard in the stomach, which consequently winded me and left me out of breath.

So I started at the level of third year groups, which was how it worked at this particular school, where as in the previous school I went to things were completely different they didn’t have first second, third, fourth and fifth years.

One of the things about this particular school was, I did know quite a few of the pupils from it the main reason being I had joined the Cub Scouts quite a few years ago, and some of people that I met there went to this particular school.

Which in a way made it easy for me to integrate within it, otherwise if it hadn’t have been for that, then I probably wouldn’t have known anybody at all, it can be quite awkward when you first start somewhere and don’t know anybody.

You have always have that first-time awkwardness feeling, being the person that, I am tend to get that, first-time awkwardness feeling when it comes to meeting new groups of people in any particular situation no matter what it is.

So I start at the new school not knowing what to expect apart from the fact that it was a completely different school to my previous one, it quickly became apparent to me that the zero tolerance that we had in my previous school was nowhere to be found whatsoever at this school.

This led to lots of unruly the behaviour within classes, not all of the classes had this particular problem but when the pupils themselves knew, that the particular teacher was a pushover than they used to do whatever it is they wanted to.

So most of the time I would be in a class which was full of chaos and no organisation and people doing whatever they wanted to do, which made it extremely difficult to concentrate and get things done as you can probably imagine.

There were lots of times when all I used to do was just walk around talking to people, I can always remember doing this particular activity in woodwork, a friend of mine who used to do metalwork used to be in the next classroom, so I used to go and talk to him in order to pass the time of day.

I can honestly say now I don’t know what happened to me when I was at school but for some reason. I just lost all interest, and used to find it very difficult to motivate myself to do things at all, I just wasn’t interested, and being due to the fact that I didn’t particularly enjoyed being at that particular school.

The main reason for this being it had a rather large unruly West Indian, group of people whom used to go around bullying other people as well as myself, I can honestly say now thinking about it at this point in time I didn’t enjoy being at school one bit.

Most of the pupils who were there were either expelled or ones that had behaviour difficulties and no other school wanted them so they use to end up all there, I can remember one particular time when there was the argument between two pupils.

And there was some scuffle between them outside the classroom, the next minute one of the pupils was crying out in pain although at the time it wasn’t apparent as to why this was, however we did find out later that he had been stabbed by the other pupil with a knife.

And bearing in mind this was long time ago when this particular incident happened that is something that would be never tolerated at my old school at all, if that would have happened there I think he would have been expelled straight away.

In fact I seem to remember that some pupils at the other school the private one that is, sometimes were sent home for a period of about two weeks or a week in order to sort themselves out.

So they could think about what it is they had done, so I can honestly say that the environment that which I found myself at that particular school wasn’t a very good one at, there always seemed to be some sort of trouble happening there.

Needless to say when I eventually left that school and went to pick up my exam results, they were not very good at all in fact my heart sank when I saw them, I expected them to be far better than what they were.

But although saying that towards the end of my school years we had to do some projects, based around particular subjects which we were doing, say for biology, commerce, history and so forth, the problem was though that I had to do these particular projects at home. And for some particular reason I just couldn’t seem to motivate myself to give it my all.

So I just half-heartedly cobbled a few together and hoped for the best, maybe it was because I was at an age where I was very impressionable and didn’t particularly like who I was.

I was beginning to notice things about myself which I didn’t particularly feel comfortable with. I always seem to remember being teased about the size of my nose and coined the nickname concorner which was my second name with the first part of the Concorde tacked onto it.

In the next part of this school post I will talk about my first kiss with a girl about leaving school and some other things stay tuned.

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It was about how the youth of today use there ipods to listen to music, and how she bought one and never used it then she loaded some tracks on it.

And started to think about the best song ever as she remembers surprisingly enough it was a theme tune from a TV program, years ago called white horses this immediately struck a chord within me so magazine in hand I went to my PC to see which one’s I could find, I listen to the white horses theme and it had the same effect it made me cry all those wonderful memories of years gone by.

I would say by far it’s one the best Sundays I have had in a long time so what I thought I would do is compile my ones that I can remember here in this post. I do hope it strikes a chord with some people as it did me.

So first up white horses a lovely song.

Robinson Crusoe

Casey Jones

Double Deckers

Banana Splits

Daktari

Skippy

UFO

The Virginian in memory of my late father

The High Chaparral

Champion The Wonder Horse

The Champions

 Z-Cars

Joe 90

Dr Who

Hawaii Five-0

Man About The House

Tales of the Unxepected

The A-Team

Knight Rider

Lost in Space

I hope you enjoyed seeing these as much as I did putting this post together.

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Then one day when I was reading somebody’s blog they said that they listened to new age music while they meditated this was something at the time I never even considered or thought about doing, so I thought I would see what all the fuss was about.

So I found some music which was quite relaxing which you were supposed to use during meditation, and went to sit somewhere quiet with my portable CD player and headphones and listened to the music with my eyes closed.

After doing this for quite a few days I noticed there was a big difference in how I felt, because at the time I was going through a bit of a dark period in my mind, and the more I did it the better I tended to feel it was if somebody had lifted a great big weight off my shoulders.

At the time when I was just starting to get into meditation I was also reading a book by Jack Canfield called the success principles, and one day was flicking through the book and happen to find a passage about somebody who had been listening to brainwave CDs, which are supposed to greatly enhance and speed the process up of how deep you go when you meditate.

It can take many years to be able to meditate like some monks to whom go very deep when there meditating, but the brainwave CD’s

help you get into this state much quicker than it would normally take say for instance if you were meditating the same as a monk would.

So I got hold of some brainwave CD’s off of eBay and began to use them every day sometimes even twice a day, the way I felt was just amazing my levels of focus went through the roof and that is something I have always struggled with really my whole life.

Ideas about particular things I wouldn’t of thought of before just came from nowhere overall I just felt a do a lot better about everything as a whole. And and here are some of the many benefits of meditation there may be more but these are the ones that I am aware of.

• It can help reduce anxiety as it reduces the amount of lactate in your bloodstream
• It will help build your self-confidence
• Will help in the production of serotonin which is the brains feelgood chemical, when you are low in this particular chemical within your brain, it can cause you to have headaches and also suffer from depression.
• Can help with blood pressure
• Helps improve concentration and focus and encourages creativity.
• Can help with weight loss if that is something that you need help with.

So for the meager time investment of 30 minutes a day you can have all these benefits I myself think it is well worth the investment for the benefits that you get back, I have only just started meditating again myself for reasons which I don’t particular want to go into. But needless to say I am going to hopefully continue with it merely because of all the benefits I reaped from it last time when I practiced it regularly.

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1. My life has started to change direction slightly

2. I now feel as though I am beginning to find myself whereas before I used to feel quite lost and didn’t know who I was.

3.Overall I feel more comfortable with who I am than I have done in a long time.

4. I seem to be putting my past behind me and not dwelling on it so much, because I felt I no longer need it what’s done is done.

5. I feel more motivated than I have done in a long time and I am becoming slowly more organised than I used to be.

6. My focus is a lot better than it used to be before so I am able to keep on track and not drift off course like I used to.

7. My general awareness is becoming more apparent, and I seem to be living more in the moment which is something that people who, practice meditation frequently do often experience.

8. I seem to be becoming more goal orientated, and wanting to achieve more than I used to be, at one time there was no inclination to want to set goals because I never thought I would be able to accomplish them.

9. I no longer tend to think, that being alone and not being in a relationship doesn’t make any of a lesser person.

10. I am beginning to realise that I do have potential and that he has been smothered by negative emotions and or energy, which was suppressing my ability to do things.

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And I must say I am now glad that I decided to start it because for quite a while I was wondering if I would be able to come up with any ideas for content at all, so for at the moment I’m doing quite well, but I suppose with it being a new blog as it were am going to be quite enthused about it.

The one great thing about life is there are so many experiences that you have throughout your life, you don’t even begin to realise that those can easily be translated into words and people can learn from your experiences and mistakes.

This blog compared to my other blog is a completely different direction so during the forthcoming months it is going to be quite interesting to see how it develops over time.

And I have now realised that I do in fact find blogging quite therapeutic, instead of thinking that some of my experiences make me a bad person I am quite looking forward to sharing those with other people, so that they realise that they are not the only person who has had problems throughout their life what with one thing and another.

One of the great things about blogging is it can open up so many doors for you, by the people you meet and those people who read your blog and pass it on to other people which is something I am looking forward to I must admit.

I thing more than anything it can to be quite exciting to see what kind of direction this blog will take me compared to my weight loss one which I am very pleased to say is doing extremely well.

How well this particular blog will do is anybody’s guess but that’s the great thing about blogging you never actually know what will happen and what won’t happen, as always my blogging philosophy tends to revolve around quality rather than quantity.

I would rather have a few posts per week that people who more reading the blog will get something out of rather than just posting for the sake of it.

And I really do hope people enjoy reading this blog as much as I am enjoying writing the content for it the more you do it the easy it seems to become I seem to get ideas popping into my head all the time for posts from life, they just seemed to come from all over the place inspiration just seems to be around me all the time.

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Sometimes it’s a good idea to remember to act silly and remember some of the things that used to laugh at when we were younger.

So here are 10 reasons why you should laugh more.

1. Laughter can tend to make you a more productive person, and happier people tend to work harder than those people who tend to have miserable thoughts and be miserable people.

2. Other people like being around people who make them life, it’s almost like being a magnet, and the more you tend to make people laugh the more you will attract people into your lives because they will enjoy being around you, because you make them feel good overall

3. Because laughing can put you in a better overall mood, this can put your creativeness into overdrive, and you will have more ideas for doing things, because overall happier people are more driven and have less setbacks in their lives, so able to overcome obstacles far more easily than they would do if they wasn’t happy.

4. Laughing will give you a overall sense of well-being mainly due to because of all the oxygen that is moving around in your body.

5. When you laugh your whole face lights up almost like the sun is shining from it, it adds sparkle to your eyes and gives your skin a very radiant glow.

6. It will increase your energy so you will have plenty, to do tasks throughout the day which in turn will boost productivity levels.

7. It uses a general overall feeling of feeling good about life in fact the more you laugh about life the better it you will feel, comedians do this all the time and the reason they make it funny is because most of it is true and that is why we laugh at them

8. It gives our heart and lungs a good workout making us feel good throughout our bodies.

9. Having a good belly laugh makes our attention spans better as well so we are able to concentrate for longer periods of time.

10. It shifts our focus from feeling negative emotions the more we tend to laugh in our lives, the easier it becomes to overcome negative hurdles as they come to us throughout our lives.

So have fun and laugh more it does you the world of good.

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