Acknowledge your power. You are largely the master of your own destiny. You can master being a fearful victim to herpes or you can master living a herpes lifestyle that includes a strong immune system, a fulfilling ethical and safer sex life, with little or no sign of herpes symptoms. The choice is yours.

Date:   1/18/2006 7:19:23 AM ( 18 y ago)

Five Steps to Herpes Empowerment.

1. Acknowledge your power. You are largely the master of your own destiny. You can master being a fearful victim to herpes or you can master living a herpes lifestyle that includes a strong immune system, a fulfilling ethical and safer sex life, with little or no sign of herpes symptoms. The choice is yours.


2. Understand your disease. Understand that herpes is a life-long viral infection, which is unlikely to be cured in your lifetime. Understand that herpes is simple disease to manage without drug-therapy by being on the right diet, living a balanced lifestyle and having an empowering attitude about being a person with herpes. Understand that the herpes virus prefers to stay dormant unless triggered. Discover your triggers and you can avoid having outbreaks and protect your loved ones from being infected with your herpes virus.


3. Challenge yourself. Like being a visible minority or having a physical handicap, you can challenge yourself to not buy into the false stigma attached to herpes and to not live the life of a victim. Challenge yourself to tell those important to you that you have herpes- you would if it were any other disease and you need the support and understanding of those who truly love you. Challenge yourself to practice safer sex with an anti-viral gel and a condom/dental dam so that you can date whomever you want and don’t ghettoize yourself by only dating others with herpes. Challenge yourself to not feel ashamed, guilty, or dirty.


4. Live a life of integrity. It is immoral and unethical not to tell those you are intimate with that you have herpes. For those who have cold sores which is herpes of the face and mouth it is necessary to tell even those who you plan to kiss on the mouth that you have herpes. The best and most empowering time to tell of your herpes status is as soon into the relationship as possible. Why not tell even before the first date? Get it off your chest, put your cards on the table. It’s important to ask if the other person has had a blood test for herpes because few people have and it’s the only way to tell if they have herpes also. Up to 70% of people who have herpes don’t have outbreaks that they can recognize. 60% of the population has herpes simplex type 1 or type 2.


5. Make peace with the herpes virus. I’ve written before that herpes is like an uninvited guest in your body’s motel. That guest can be unruly, making your life miserable. But if you make sure that your motel is in good repair and running smoothly and if you make a peaceful understanding with the herpes virus it will transform itself into a well-behaved guest who will stay in it’s room almost all the time causing no significant damage or inconvenience to your body and your life. It’s foolish to fight a battle you cannot win and you cannot win a fight with the herpes virus but there’s no need to fight it anyways. Make peace with the virus. Make peace with the fact that you are a person with herpes, a member of the herpes nation and boldly go and re-claim your life.

Christopher Scipio
Homeopath/Herbalist
Holistic Viral Specialist
Person with Herpes
http://herpesnation.blogspot.com
http://www.natropractica.com


 

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