MenAlive: Stop Killer Stresswith Simple Energy Healing Tools
Chapter 1: The Hazards and Blessings of Being Male
Jed Diamond, Ph.D. has been a health-care professional for the last 45years. He is the author of 9 books, including
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places, Male Menopause, The Irritable Male Syndrome,
. Heoffers counseling to men, women, and couples in his office in California orby phone with people throughout the U.S. and around the world. His newbook,
Men Alive : Stop Killer Stress with Simple Energy Healing Tools
willbe published in May, 2012. To receive a Free E-
book on Men’s Health anda free subscription to Jed’s e
-newsletter go to www.MenAlive.com.
It isn‘t easy being a man today, though many of us try to hide this fact. We are told thatmales are the privileged sex and boys have it better than girls. We learn that ―real men‖ are
tough, take car
e of their own problems, and don‘t complain. After all what do guys have tocomplain about? Social scientist Thomas Joiner, Ph.D. tells us, ―Men make a lot of money and
have all the accompanying privileges and power. This has been so for millennia. Men are over-represented in each of the following categories, just to choose a few: those earning over$100,000 per year; Fortune 500 company CEOs; and U.S. presidents, state governors, and
senators.‖
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I‘m assuming that most of the men reading this book
don‘t fall into any of those ―privilegeand power‖ categories. But for all of us, regardless of our wealth or position, the stresses weface can be deadly. A recent report stated, ―Males experience higher mortality rates than females
at all stages of li
fe from conception to old age.‖
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The most extreme indicator of the stress men feel today is the high suicide rate we see in men,particularly in men over forty.
According to the National Center of Disease Control andPrevention 34,598 people killed themselves in 2007
(the last year that full statistics wereavailable).
27,678 of them (80%) were male. Eleven times that number attempted suicide.
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I felt the reality of these statistics at a very young age.
I can still remember the terror I felt when I heard my father had an ―accident‖ and was taken
to the hospital. I was five years old and he was forty-two. I never learned until years later thathe had tried to take his own life, but even as a small child I was aware of the stresses he felt as anout-of-work writer trying to support his family. When I was forty, I came across a journal myfather had written during that critical time of his life. He describes his mounting frustration,anger, and despair as his hopes and dreams began to fade away:June 4th:"Your flesh crawls, your scalp wrinkles when you look aroundand see good writers, established writers, writers with credits ablock long, unable to sell, unable to find work, yes, it's enoughto make anyone, blanch, turn pale and sicken."August 15th:"Faster, faster, faster, I walk. I plug away looking forwork, anything to support my family. I try, try, try, try, try.I always try and never stop."November 8th:"A hundred failures, an endless number of failures, until
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Energy Medicine for Men: Stop Killer Stress
As stress continues to increase, we are looking for something that works fast. The emerging field of Energy Medicine has the answers. My new book, MenAlive: Stop Killer Stress with Simple Energy Healing Tools, will be out next year. You don't have to wait to get a look. Here's Chapter 1, The Hazards and Blessings of Being Male.
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