Drug And Alcohol Abuse

By Lawrence Jameson

Drinking and Driving in America has gotten way out of hand ! Every day there are just so many new Fatalities caused by People who Drink then get in their Cars and Drive home. Every day when you look in the paper you hear so many Horror stories and they all seem to involve the Death of a Child ! Drinking and Driving is a huge Problem and the Answer to stopping it does not seem to be forth coming.

One of the big problems seems to be the same people are getting DWI's over and over . Why is it that these people are not getting the help they need to stop them from Drinking and Driving!

Recently I unwillingly took a look into what happens after a person is convicted of a DWI. What I found out made me both very mad and also very Scared ! It seems that at many of the Drug and Alcohol treatment Centers it is all about the all mighty dollar and there is not much concern put on Treatment.

I went to Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma NY run by Ruth M Meyer for an Evaluation. Now as a person who Drinks very little and who's Drug use was left back in the 90's with my Old Bongs, I was not worried about the out come . I was a little Surprised when I was told I would need to start going to Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma NY for treatment twice a week. I was very Surprised when I heard the cost per week for this was more then half my income per week. But I had Court and I did not have a Choice but to do as they said.

I was quickly told by just about every staff Member at Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma to go apply for Medicaid. I was told that they can charge Medicaid allot of Money. I took the hint that it was in my best interest to apply for Medicaid, After a trip to the Department of Social Services I was given a form that said I was Medicaid Pending, This seemed to make everyone Happy.

I set up to go to Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma twice a week once for one on One Consoling and once for what was called the Group Class. The One on One Counseling which was planed out to be a one hour a week talk almost always seemed to be me sitting in the room for some where around 15 Minutes with a Counselor named Chris. He would ask me how my week had been and then I would sit there listening to him apologies while he did paper work that had nothing to do with me! I remember about every week he would tell me how He was over booked and then tell me that He was going to let me go early.

The Group was just a little better it was two hours long and run by a Women named Heather , The Group meeting would consist of People Complaining about their lives, Heather loved to give advice to the Group Members and She was never shy about telling you your opinion on something was wrong and of Course She was Never wrong about anything.

Now to tell the Truth at the Time I did not care at all I was just going to these meetings to look good in court for my DWI trial . Things where going fine with me at Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma , I was not getting any real treatment but I also did not care.

After about four Months of Treatment I found out I did not qualify for Medicaid. Well things Changed quick with the relationship between me and Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma , I was told by Ruth Meyer that I owed over a Thousand Dollars. I told Her I did not have the Money. I was then informed if I did not pay a huge part of the Debt off and sign a paper stating I owed the Money that Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma would report to the Judge in my case I was Non Compliant and ruin any chance at a plea Bargain ! All I could think was this is Blackmail, I signed the paper and gave Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma a Couple of Hundred Dollars!

After Court was done the Sentence I received was I had to do 50 Hours of Community Service and Attend a Meeting of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and also my License was Suspended for 90 days.

In my next one on one Counseling with Chris after my DWI case was over, I was told by Chris I no longer needed to come to Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma anymore. Chris looked at me laughed and said We both know you don't have a problem with Drugs or Alcohol and you don't have the Money any way.

After 40 days with no licence I received a letter from DMV saying I could get a conditional License if I attended a Seven week Drinking and Driver Program. One part of the Class is you must get an Evaluation, when I told the Teachers of the class I had taken one an attended Classes at Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma I was told that was fine! Around the end of the Seven weeks of Classes I received a letter from the Drinking and Driver Program saying I was going to fail the Class because I had never gone and had an Evaluation done! Confused I called the DDP and told them I had taken one at Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma . They told me that Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma told them I had never Completed the course there! When I called Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma and spoke with Ruth Meyer I was told that they would not consider me completed and release my info to the DDP until after I was finished paying Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma all the Money I owed them. Well I got very angry and I made a big Mistake I began Speaking loud to Ruth Meyer that I did not have all the Money right now and if She didn't release my info to the Drinking and Driver program I would lose my License for 90 days all over again! Ruth told me that it was a Business and she felt this was the only way to get me to pay.

I borrowed the money from a friend and paid off Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma figuring everything was now Finally over, I found out real fast what happens when you raise your voice to Ruth Myer. After paying Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma they told the Drinking and Driver Program that I had never finished the Classes at Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma. I called and ask to speak to Chris but was told he no longer worked for Community Counseling Services of Ronkonkoma. I of Course lost my License for another 90 days!

This is just one outpatient rehab I had to deal with, I have talked to many Poeple who have gone threw the DWI System and I found out that it is a very cut throat Business run by People who if you do not do as they say when they say it, will do what ever they can to make your life a living Hell. During this whole ordeal the only time I felt that anyone really didn't want me to drink and drive again was when I attended the Mothers Against Drunk Driving meeting and Surprise that meeting was free! The MADD meetings are run by Mothers who have lost Children to Drinking and Driving! These Women were not rude or condescending they just gave an honest heartfelt plea asking us to please not drink and drive! After hearing their Stories I know I never will again.

Drinking and Driving is a big Problem in America, But it is also a very large and Profitable Business !

This is only my opinion and how I remember the events.

About the Author:

Lawrence Jameson Begs everybody come on do not Drink and Drive Lawrence Jameson hopes for an end to Drinking and Driving

How Does Someone Develop Precognition

By Kelsey Allan

The ability to foresee events that may occur in the future before there is any way possible to know about them is often called precognition. These visions are sometimes symbolic and the person that experiences it has to try to decode the message that is in the vision. Other times they are very straight forward and the person is able to look straight into the future. Many people are of the belief that time is a spiral variant, not linear. This is why they believe you can see, at times, straight into the future.

In order to completely understand what precognition is about you must be willing to understand it. Many people believe that clairvoyance is the same as precognition. Clairvoyance allows people to see problems, situations, and people that are happening in the present and precognition involves things in the future. ESP, or extra sensory perception, is used in clairvoyance and precognition is more like a paranormal experience. Knowing before is the definition of precognition.

Dreaming presents the easiest way to experience precognition. Dreaming about the future is something that most people do from time to time but they are often unable to remember their dreams. They do sometimes feel a sense of "dejavu", or that they have been in the same place once before. This nearly always comes from a precognition that they have had in a dream but were unable to remember.

Some people who are trained mystics may even be able to see the future consciously in an awakened state. However, this happens only after a lot of practice and is not as common. These kinds of seers or mystics use their conscious will to see the future.

Some professional psychics also use old techniques like crystal ball and mirrors for precognition.

Anyone can achieve precognition. Once you have sharpened your intuitive abilities you are ready. Most people do not allow their mind to think past what their five senses can tell them. Listening carefully to intuition and gut feelings is important in order to develop precognition. The subtleties in the environment are valuable to give attention to and beginning to believe in your subtle senses is also very important if you want to develop precognition.

A person is made up of much more than a simple physical body and many people are not aware of it. The energies about them and their emotions play a large role in who they are as a person. This is why it is so important to pay close attention to how you feel on a daily basis so you can get a feel for what kind of day you will have in advance. Guessing games are very helpful in developing precognition. Using a deck of playing cards you can try to guess what the next card flipped will be.

Dreams are an important instrument in the development of our precognitive abilities; Try to start recalling your dreams after you wake up. Keep a dream journal on your bedside. Record your dreams in vivid details the moment you get up. If writing is too much for you (some of us find it cumbersome), then you can try recording your dream on a small recorder immediately when you wake up. If you do this regularly, you will find that you will remember dreams which you could never remember before!

If your dream repeats then you should think hard about what the meaning is that is hidden or look for any symbols and signs in the dreams that can lead you to gaining a better understanding of what the dream means.

Other than via dreams, you can develop precognition using hypnosis and meditation. Meditation is said to be the practice of allowing your mind to fall quiet so it is open to the highest levels of consciousness in the universe. It is commonly a belief that there is a central life force that flows through each of us and that we are all connected to each other by it. As you are able to clear the chaos from your daily life from your head your mind will become quiet and you can feel the connection to supreme consciousness and you will know the past and the future.

Meditation is a method that has been around for many years. Many thinkers, seers, and sages have used this practice all over the world. There are actually several ways to meditate. One group of people prefers to have perfect quiet and solitude when they meditate while others would like to have the natural sounds of life around them. No matter what the preference is, your mind will surely wander in the beginning and you may have to fight through several thoughts. Just keep brining your mind back to the thought of making the mind still and simply observing, not wandering into, the random thoughts that are going by. You will slowly find yourself in the area that the mountain of information is stored in the universal consciousness.

One barrier that we have to overcome when we begin the quest to develop precognition is fear. Many people are very afraid of the future because the end is always death and not being around the people they love any longer. The universal information is blocked by the fear. That is why it is so important to rid your psyche of fear in order to develop precognition. It is simple to develop precognition. It simply takes continuous commitment and a lot of practice.

About the Author:

The author Kelsey Allan writes for the http://www.develop-clairvoyance.com website. Discover for yourself how easy it is to develop-precognition. Discover previously undisclosed information. Anyone really can learn everything you need to be a clairvoyant find out how by visiting here and receive twenty nine free clairvoyant audios and videos!

3 More Very Good Reasons Why You Should Manage Your Anger

By Broyde McDonald

All the time you hear about how your anger affects you. But anger affects the people around you as well.

Your anger hurts the people around you this is how

They have to stay away from you

There are people who care a lot about you. That is at least most of you.

The problem is there are people who love you and really would like your company. These are the ones who see you as a special person. But they stay away so that they can protect themselves from you. They know that you are capable of hurting them, or you might just be anti social. So for their emotional health and personal safety, they stay away from you.

When you are mad, the people who care about you can sometimes feel as if they are dead inside.

When you are angry, you make other people angry

The smart people would stay away from you for one big reason. Your anger without a doubt would make them angry too.

Anger is an emotion just like happiness, sadness, disappointment etc, and because it is only an emotion, it is very easily transferred from person to person. That is just the nature of emotions, they are contagious.

This means that if I know you are angry, and I go around you for just five minutes, I run the risk of having my entire day messed up. How smart a person am I to go where you are, knowing what is likely to happen?

An angry person can mess up a child for life

You may have also seen that children learn angry behaviors in a very short space of time.

As your child watches you and discovers how to act angry the way you do, his life becomes that much more complicated. The reason it is complicated is because he unlearns how to act his behavior will only become worse.

What you will get is a small person who when an adult, will probably get every problem that people with uncontrolled anger experience. There will be a difference though it is that his difficulties are likely to happen while he is younger. This means that his anger will affect him more during his adult life than it did for the person who he learned his behaviors from.

Stop it. Don't let it just keep on happening. Control your anger. The anger management classes we have here will see you through the hard parts of what it takes to get your anger under control.

About the Author:

Broyde McDonald gives instruction that helps you succeed at your anger management efforts. Find out more about anger management classes and how to control anger with his famous free anger management e-book.

Do You Understand The Term 'Past Regression'?

By John Paul Harding

As reincarnation gains ever more acceptance in our society, you may have been hearing about something called past life regression. This is exactly what the name implies; and it is something that a growing number of people are interested in. When we know more about our past lives, it gives us insight into our lives in the here and now.

One of the methods often used is to keep a journal of those thoughts and emotions which come to you, no matter how small that do not fit with the experiences you have had in your current lifetime. Even the smallest things may be a helpful clue to figuring out more about your past lives. For instance, phobias or an attraction to a certain place you may not ever have been. A journal is a good way to spot patterns which may point to a past life.

You can start off your past lives journal by making a list of likes and dislikes, foods, places and cultures you seem particularly attracted to and other such details about yourself. Any talents you seem to possess without having had to practice should be noted; basically, everything which makes you who you are should be here; this will help you to identify patterns later on as you add to the journal.

You should also write down any details from your dreams which seem relevant. As you do this though, remember that your dreams will also contain a lot of things which are drawn from your life in the present.

Or you could try past life regression.

Often, this will mean a session with a professional past life regression therapist. These people are trained in using hypnosis to guide you through a regression experience and help you to understand the information you gain from the session. While many choose to go to a professional, self-hypnosis may also work for you.

Meditation is another method of finding out more about past lives.

For a lot of people, it is hard to induce a past life regression experience using meditation. We are often skeptical of what we receive during these experiences; but in order to make the most of your regression, you have to learn to trust your instincts and to listen to yourself.

When you meditate, you might feel as if you are daydreaming, but some of the information which comes through as you calm your mind may be important. Be sure to write down everything which comes to you in your journal so you can compare it against the larger picture you are assembling there.

Those who have some difficulty meditating often find aids including visual focal points, incense or relaxing music or sounds to be helpful. There are guided meditation tapes you can try as well as recordings of relaxing natural soundscapes.

You can also use binaural beats.

These are specially designed audio recordings which contain specific frequencies which can help you reach a deep meditative state quickly. While you meditate, choose a quiet place where you will not be disturbed and that you can sit or lie down comfortably. As you begin, make a conscious effort to relax your body and maintain a positive mindset.

You need to relax your muscles and clear your mind. When one of those thoughts of your everyday concerns comes through, simply acknowledge it and move on. It may take several tries before you can successfully meditate, but you will get there - and the answers to your questions about past lives may start coming to you.

Past life regression can even help you to cope with problems in your present life as well as give you information about the past. Some even learn that they have known the people they know now in a past life.

A large number of the world's religious traditions include reincarnation among their beliefs, particularly the Karmic religions of South Asia. Jains, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists all believe that your actions in every lifetime influence the circumstances you will be born into the next time around. What this teaches us is that having an understanding of your past lives can be the key to living better right now.

Regression has to be done with an open mind to the possibilities the practice opens up. You need to be willing to take in what comes to you and open to learning from your past mistakes to change your current life for the better.

There are many who hold the opinion that a regression through a past life can help to free you of mental blocks and improve your mental health and your outlook on life.

When you can deal with the problems of your past, you may be able to make positive changes by knowing where you have gone wrong in past lives and make better decisions in the present as a result. A regression can show you the way towards living a better life with a greater degree of kindness to yourself and others.

You might even find that you have talents or abilities which you were not even aware of. If you see yourself in a past life as an expert pianist, for instance, you will most likely find that if you take up the instrument you will be an accomplished player quickly. Discovering these latent abilities can add to your quality of life immensely.

There are many benefits which past life regression has to offer to anyone whose mind is open to the possibility that they have led other lives before. For those who are willing to listen, the past has much to teach us.

About the Author:

John Paul Harding is a writer for the popular http://www.past-lives-regression.com site. You can enjoy the incredible experience of past life regression and you can try it yourself when you get thirty Free past regression Audios and Videos when you visit here.

How To Secrets About Controlling Your Anger

By Broyde McDonald

Anger is one of several emotions that make up the true character and personal strength of a person. The way that you control and deal with your anger helps determine how the world will respond to you.

While uncontrolled anger is terrifying and dangerous thing that leads to more anger. The other type of anger, controlled anger is used to help solve problems. In fact, if it were not for anger many times you and I would not even know that something is wrong and needs to be fixed.

The way you can tell if your anger is controlled is by watching the way you act and feel when you become angry. If you are able to carefully choose the words you say when angry, you can consider that things are controlled.

However, if when mad you only know what you had said when you had finished saying it then you should know that you need to learn to control your anger before you get into even more trouble.

There are many ways that anger is controlled. If you are going to control your anger you should know that there are a lot of tools available to help you do this. What you need to do is sort them out and find the methods that you are able to use best.

To control your anger, two of the first things you must do are know when you are getting angry. Secondly you need to use your will power as soon as you start to get angry to do something that calms your anger down, instead of letting it grow up into a rage.

Hold on a minute, excuse me, be right back, one second, one of these or a similar phrase can be used to get yourself out of a situation that is starting to turn hostile. All you need to do is say one of these things, then walk away and stay away until your anger has cooled off.

You would only use walking away for a short time. It would be like having training wheels on a bicycle. Once you are managing your anger better you will be able to skip the walk away part and use another anger management skill in its place.

Until that time, you will stop anger from damaging your affairs by walking away and slowly counting, first to ten, then twenty, one hundred or whatever number you need to until you are relaxed again.

Until you know more about how to control anger you should not underestimate the ability of this simple act to help. It has helped many people in the past. Use it. It will help you too.

As a more long term method of controlling anger make sure that you find the time to relax at least every other day. If you are having a problem with anger, you should take the time to treat yourself with time alone that you can concentrate on thoughts about things that you find satisfying. Believe it or not, this will take a lot of the angst out of your anger.

Get some help with controlling your anger.

If you make up your mind to control your anger more speedily, I recommend that you do an anger management class. With eight weeks of training you will be managing your anger 20% better.

About the Author:

Broyde McDonald gives information that helps you succeed at your managing your anger. Find out more about anger management classes and how to control anger with his popular free anger management ebook.

Past Life- Do you Believe in Reincarnation?

By George Paragos

Do you ever think about what will you become 100 years after your death? Perhaps you will enter a whole new personality, something which is completely different from the way that you are now. If this thing enters your mind, well you are thinking about reincarnation and many cultures actually has something to say about the idea of coming back to earth after living the past life.

Reincarnation is not an issue to laugh about. Can you think about those times when you felt a sudden gush of connection to a certain place or people that you don't know? This may have something to say about your past life. Historians and people who believe about the topic of reincarnation would strongly suggest the claim that out past life has a direct influence to the present situation.

Although you may say that it is not really important to know who you are during your past life but there are some people who find relevance when doing this because they think that such information will help big time to be able to improve their personality. As we all know, we should learn about the lessons from the past so we will not repeat history again.

Just in case you are bothered by the fact that you are always haunted by dreams because you can always see some of the many events during the past which you can't explain, then do not worry. What you need to do now is to undergo self-hypnosis.

The process of self-hypnosis will allow you to feel relaxed hence thoughts and feelings may flow easily. This process will give you the ability to access past life with ease. After the whole process, you will see yourself to be highly relaxed hence you will be able to go with your memory with ease as you try to explore the issue of past life regression. This will allow you to have some information regarding past life and you will now know those things that you need to work on to in order not to commit the past mistakes again.

Memories in the past might rush in your thoughts causing you to feel intense emotions. However, you need to handle everything smoothly and think of it that you are traveling back in time. You must take the privilege and act on it accordingly. If you think you set a bad example in the past then it's time that you straighten and change that image into a good one.

You will need to have a brave heart for you to excellently travel back into your past life and so you can conquer your fear about the things that your past life will have to offer. Keep in mind that you are living a whole new different life as of the present and this is your chance to make everything right. Never be scared to discover who you are back then because the past serve as the greatest lessons in life.

Don't pressure yourself if you can't make it to your part life. Stay relaxed and have a thought whether you're reincarnated or not, you still have to live your life and take the right path. It's always better to live a different from your past life but make sure that you're living each day accordingly.

Never misjudge people who believe in reincarnation because they just want to learn something from their past that might help them in their future. Respect their beliefs as much as you respect yourself. There's nothing wrong to question the fact behind reincarnation but never deny its existence since you have no evidence to judge whether it's real or not.

About the Author:

George Paragos is a writer for the popular http://www.past-lives-regression.com site. You can enjoy the incredible experience of past life regression and you can try it yourself when you get thirty Free past life Audios and Videos when you visit here.

Telepathy Test - You Could Be Telepathic!

By Rickie Evans

To measure an individuals psychic abilities there are numerous telepathy test available. However, there is an element of luck in many of these tests. But over a period of time and many trials, the results will show your telepathic abilities. And alleviate any guessing as to your ability.

Some of these tests are simply to test you for psychic ability and others were designed to measure the range of you ability and its strength.

It is best to keep in mind that all of the telepathic skill-set includes ESP, precognition, telepathy and clairvoyance. And developing one may lead to an increase in other powers of telepathy by default.

It's possible to access your own sub-conscious using meditation and deep breathing exercises that help to open your mind and expand your focus. These exercises can often help you access more aspects of your psychic and telepathic skills and help to develop that part of your mind responsible for these skills.

Regardless the amount of your telepathic or psychic powers, at the moment, your telepathy skills and the strength range of your skills can be developed even further. It is, however, hard to know in what area you may need improvement. This can be accomplished with a telepathy test.

Here Is A Solo Telepathy Test

The quickest solo telepathy test you can use is to try and predict who's calling you whenever the telephone rings. If you're using a cell phone with caller ID, don't look at the screen. Take a moment to concentrate and think about who wants to talk to you.

Before you answer the phone make a good guess. You can do this for the next several calls you get and write down the results. With this test you can get an idea of the level of your telepathic ability.

Many people have said they know who the caller is. Even before answering the phone. This is done unconsciously. You can learn to focus this ability consciously over a period of time.

Here Is A Quick Psychic Test

Sometimes it's possible to test your psychic ability with a simple prop, like a coin. It's important to find a quiet spot to sit before you begin the test. Be sure you won't be interrupted or distracted by noisy TVs or sudden sounds.

Do some deep breathing exercises in the beginning, for a few minutes, to relax. Clear your mind. Now toss a coin in the air, make a prediction on what side will come up. Try this several times and mark your results.

You have a 50/50 chance of making a correct guess. However, any score over 50% might show a definite psychic ability that can be developed further.

The Basic Telepathy Test

Perhaps the simplest form of telepathy test is the card test. This is best conducted with two people and a set of psychic flash cards.

Choose a quiet location where you can both concentrate without interruptions and sit facing each other. One person needs to be the sender and the other will be the receiver. The person you've chosen to be the sender needs to send an image of the picture on the flash card without allowing the receiver to see the card directly.

Practice, quit a bit of it, is required for the sender to concentrate and focus on the image being sent to the receiver.

The person receiving the images should concentrate on any impressions they see in their mind's eye. Never try to second-guess the impressions you see. Just say the first thing that comes into your head.

Record your responses over the entire pack of flash cards. Your results should take into account an element of luck, as there will be some responses that could be lucky guesses. However, a high incidence of correct answers could indicate a latent psychic ability that could be developed with a little patience.

Keep in mind that this type of telepathy test is not always the best test to use. This is because your friend may not have a strong level of psychic ability and may not be sending strong images, which can skew your results.

Intermediate Telepathy Test

Once it becomes noticeable that your results are improving with the basic test for telepathy, you should start to increase your range a little more. Conduct the basic telepathy flash cards and this would be the easiest. This time have the sender and receiver in separate room. Use a speaker phone or another device to verify images being received by the receiver.

Again, patients and some practice will be needed. It is sometimes more difficult to send images over distances. It's more difficult to pick images up with the possibility of outside interference between sender and receiver.

There are many telepathy tests you can use to not only check for the presence of psychic ability but also to practice and strengthen your telepathic skills. The best way to choose a telepathy test is to work with one that suits your schedule and feels comfortable for you.

About the Author:

The author Rickie Evans writes for the popular http://www.telepathyrevealed.com site. You can enjoy the incredible experience of a telepathy test for yourself and find out the real hidden secrets of telepathy when you visit here and get your FREE DVD Package.