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This list is by far from exhaustive and it is a list based on the British situation, but I am sure those of you in other Anglo-Saxon nations will be able relate to many of the New Righteousness’ Commandments.

And the 21st Century Pharisees spake all these words, saying, we are the New Righteousness which hath brought thee out of the land of freedom under your constitutional Monarchy or American Republic and into the slave camp of political correctness.

1) I am the New Righteousness and thou shalt serve no other Righteousnesses before me nor question any directives that may emanate from the new world order EU Heaven in Brussels and Rome.

2) Thou shalt blaspheme The Lord Jesus Christ’s name at every opportunity, especially on television and in films.

3) Thou shalt hold Her Majesty The Queen (God’s anointed) in utter contempt. For American readers please read The Republic of the USA.

4) Thou shalt conform and thou shalt not think for thyself, neither shalt thou exercise any form of freedom of speech even in the ‘privacy’ of your own home. In such an event the thought police will be called to arrest you.

5) Thou shalt not utter any word that the New Righteousness may deem offensive to any of those of an alien origin or of an alternative sexual life style.

6) Thou shalt be branded a phobic if thou disagreeth or holdeth an opinion that be in opposition to, or blaspheme against, the directives of the New Righteousness.

7) Thou shalt attack the sacred institution of marriage at every turn.

Thou shalt emasculate, insult, ridicule and mock heterosexual men when and wherever possible, especially in TV dramas, films and advertisements.

9) Thou shalt not complain when those of alien origin or those of the New Righteousness remind you repeatedly of your ‘wicked’ imperial past.

10) Thou shalt follow the directive of open season hostilities towards Christians and Christianity, but woe be unto thee if thou shalt pick on or question other religions or cultures or deem them as any way other than superior to you and your own.

11) Thou shalt not make reference to any form of racial or cultural difference even if apparent for all to see, as this will be deemed cloaked racism by the New Righteousness.

12) Thou shalt drive thy motor vehicle keeping to restrictions designed for brakeless vehicles of the 1930’s. Neither shalt thou drive using the freedom of personal judgement as this will bring forth punishment as fit for a deadly sin.

13) Thou shalt understand that those guilty of motoring offences are evil criminals and will be jailed when and wherever possible even though prisons are bursting to over flowing and violent thugs are set free to repeat offend.

14) Thou shalt not measure any distance in miles, yards, feet and inches nor weigh any goods in hundred-weights, stones, pounds and ounces as this will be deemed a national identifying sign to be shunned, by order of the New Righteousness, and punishable by public stoning.

15) Thou shalt not fly the national flag as this is deemed offensive by the New Righteousness and to a lesser degree those of an alien origin.

16) Thou shalt be prepared to lose the names of thy country England and counties and happily receive the characterless EU names: southern, northern, eastern or western region in their stead.

17) Thou shalt receive without question the unproven doctrine of man made global warming and anyone providing viable exhaustive scientific evidence to the contrary will be charged with treason.

18) Thou shalt also welcome and receive all directives by the Health and Safety executive especially those that render machines and equipment so safe they cannot be used.

19) Thou shalt not exercise any form of nous or common sense. Anyone found guilty of such will be sent to a New Righteousness concentration camp for conditioning.

20) Thou shalt not drive any form of motorised vehicle ‘unnecessarily’, but suffer wholly the purifying experiences of the sack cloth and ashes of public transport or road tax free, cycling.

21) Thou shalt be prepared to carry the derogatory label “Little Englander” if thou displayeth any form of patriotism.

22) Thou shalt smoke cannabis and addle thy brain and drive thy car whilst under its influence, but thou shalt not smoke plain cigarettes or plain tobacco.

23) Honour thy Establishment puppets in Westminster and Downing Street that thy days may be long in the land, even though they are as corrupt as the Devil, and they give you no political choice, they live the life of old Riley, they knock off at 5:30 and just rubber stamp new directives from EU Heaven.

24) Thou shalt be guilty until proven innocent, and thou shalt be prepared to accept it unlikely, that thou shalt be found innocent, as all judges will swear allegiance to the New Righteousness.

25) Thou shalt live thy life in permanent gratitude and thankfulness to the New Righteousness which will provide all thy daily needs, but thou shalt not aspire to want more and to know better than the New Righteousness.

26) Thou shalt not believe in any conspiracy theories against the New Righteousness, even when those who do put them forward are met with obfuscation and denied access to data that should be readily available, thereby confirming they are conspiracies and not theories.

27) Thou shalt not believe that the New Righteousness is responsible for atrocities against their own people in order to subjugate and enslave them through an organised programme of fabricated fear.

28) Thou shalt not question in any way shape or form the New Righteousness’ artificial ‘war on terror.’

29) Thou shalt not even consider the prospect that many Muslims are being used by the New Righteousness as scapegoats.

30) Thou shalt not teach thy child about God and The Lord Jesus Christ as this undermines the authority of the New Righteousness. Anyone found doing so will be put to death.

31) Thou shalt no longer seek to have thy children educated as free thinkers but, rather, send thy children every day to a New Righteousness conditioning centre.

32) Thou shalt not smack thy child nor correct it with any form of physical contact, as this will be considered physical abuse by the New Righteousness. Any parent guilty of such will have their child taken into care where it will be sexually abused and conditioned by the New Righteousness and taught how to grow up to become a responsible single parent or how to survive living rough on the street.

33) Thou shalt not be allowed to leave New Righteousness conditioning centres until age 18 whereby dumbed down examinations will allow conditionees to go straight to universities for further higher level conditioning. All conditionees will swear allegiance to the New Righteousness when they leave, and receive its mark in their hand or in their forehead. They will then be given employment for life by the New Righteousness unless they rebel by thinking for themselves and are sacked.

34) Thou shalt not learn any constructive subjects i.e. science, construction and engineering at New Righteousness conditioning centres only media studies, sociology and drama.

35) Thou shalt believe all propaganda that the New Righteousness spews out through its subservient controlled media outlets and newspapers.

36) Editors shalt not employ investigative journalists and any journalist found guilty of writing the truth will be sacked and/or punished.

37) Thou shalt be pleased with infantile, dumbed down TV, news and general programming and thou shalt enjoy having thy intelligence insulted by the New Righteousness.

38) Thou shalt recycle all thy rubbish; any rubbish found not recycled will be used as evidence to punish thee with severe fines.

39) Thou shalt not object nor complain to New Righteousness superstores about their packaging that creates the rubbish thee has to recycle.

40) Thou shalt not have any right to stop junk mail that fills your recycle bin.

41) Thou shalt be prepared to prove thy identity when thou openeth a bank account, as thou art automatically considered to be a fraudster or money launderer or guilty before proven innocent.

42) Thou shalt be prepared to be finger printed and eye scanned like a criminal in order to obtain a passport.

43) Thou shalt welcome the idea of ID cards and be prepared to carry one as if your country were at war.

44) Thou shalt continue to believe there is a war on terror when all the while thy national borders are like a garden sieve and the New Righteousness makes no effort to block the holes nor has any intention of doing so.

45) Thou shalt continue to think as if thou were one born yesterday, by order of the New Righteousness.

46) As an employer thou shalt discriminate at all times against white males, with complete disregard to merit, unless of course they are of an alternative sexual persuasion.

47) Thou shalt not expect pedestrians and cyclists to demonstrate any road sense as all accidents are automatically the fault of the motorist.

Charles Crosby mailto:yes2faith@yahoo.co.uk yes2faith@yahoo.co.uk

The Problem
You don’t need me to tell you how pervasive stress is in our modern lives. In part, this is due to our chosen life styles. One element of our life styles that is likely to be making matters worse, is our diet, by which I mean, what we eat.

You see, when we are under pressure, we tend to save time by eating food that actually increases our stress and may fuel an addiction to stress.

Now before you turn off in disgust, thinking that this is an entirely negative article about what is bad for you, let me assure you that some changes to your diet can be achieved very easily with a little thought and that I am not advocating wholesale changes in your life styles, though this would possibly be the best way to defeat stress.

It is not impossible that you are reading this article out of sheer curiosity, or that you suffer from stress although your diet is of the kind that I would recommend (for diet is not the only factor in reducing stress). Accordingly, I suggest we do a simple test to see if what I am going to tell you could benefit you directly if you took my advice. Just answer these questions:

1. Do you frequently or continuously complain of any of the following?

• Tiredness

• Fatigue

• Exhaustion

• Lethargy

• Apathy

• Poor concentration

• Lack of motivation

If the answer is yes, you almost certainly need the advice contained in this article.

2. Do you seek relief from the worst effects of stress and regain energy by:

• Eating sugary foods?

• Drinking coffee or tea?

• Smoking a cigarette?

• Burying yourself in a high-powered job?

• Indulging in an exhilarating sport or pastime?

If the answer is yes, you are probably addicted to stress, and the advice in this article is essential for you.

Let us first of all set the scene.

Stress Chemistry
Whenever we perceive a situation that needs urgent and immediate action, our adrenal glands begin to make adrenalin. Almost immediately, our heart is pounding, our muscles tense, our eyes dilate, our breathing changes, our blood thickens and glucose is pumped into it: so much glucose that we could run a mile, though this might be overkill if the cause of our stress is an unwanted telephone call, a traffic jam, or kids fighting on the back seat.

The glucose is produced by breaking down the glycogen that is contained in our muscles and liver. Getting it from our blood to our bodies is achieved by hormones, produced by the pancreas. These are insulin and glucagon. The insulin, with another chemical, this time from the liver, facilitates the movement to the cells of the body, whilst glucagon is used to top up the blood sugar levels if these fall too low.

You will realise that this process of equipping us for fight of flight is expensive of energy. We might wonder where the extra energy comes from, especially if we were feeling tired immediately before the event that we are now reacting to.

The answer is that energy is diverted from the body’s normal functions of maintenance and repair. Thus, so long as we are feeling stressed, our digestion, rejuvenation and cleansing functions are turned off. No wonder people who are continuously stressed look old before their time.

But things are even worse than this for people who suffer from chronic stress. Consider the unnecessary aging involved in the process if the pituitary, the adrenals, the pancreas and the liver pump out chemicals continuously to control blood sugar that we don’t need. In short, the process wears us and our bodies out.

The Blood Sugar Saga
Worn out by the process described above, our energy is sapped. We lose concentration, become easily confused, make silly mistakes, fall asleep after lunch, become irritable, find it hard to sleep at night, don’t want to wake in the morning, sweat more than normal, and/or suffer from headaches. Does this ring any bells with you?

This is where most people turn to stimulants to help them regain energy and control. Typically, these will include tea, coffee, cola drinks, chocolate, cigarettes, horror films, retail therapy and such extreme activities as free-fall parachuting and bungee jumping. Those who are not fussy about keeping within the law may seek their buzz from amphetamines, crack, cocaine, or crime.

The use of stimulants to regain energy tends to lead to a demand for relaxants, such as alcohol, sleeping pills, tranquillisers and cannabis.

It will not surprise you to learn that no-one can live like this for long without experiencing burn-out. This is why holidays are so popular. But packing and travelling can be extremely stressful too. Moreover, the typical holidaymaker will choose to read a steamy or gripping paperback novel while waiting for the plane or while lying on the beach. Stress is never far away.

If the holidaymaker is truly addicted to stress, he or she will soon crave some excitement. Lying on the beach is not enough to provide the buzz that is needed. Water skiing or wind surfing may meet the need.

If you have ever found that you become ill or feel completely exhausted whenever you take time off from work, it is likely that you are already addicted to stress.

The Formula for Balance
In order to maximise your energy resources and avoid burning out, follow these guidelines.

• Eat slow-releasing carbohydrates (such as fruit and nuts), but not fast-releasing carbohydrates (such as sugar, white bread, foods containing sugar).

• Check that you are taking in all essential nutrients, such as vitamins and minerals (eat plenty of fruit, nuts and vegetables).

• Avoid taking stimulants (e.g. coffee and tea) and depressants (e.g. alcohol.

This doesn’t mean that you can never break these rules – unstressed people can safely eat chocolate and drink wine, in moderation - but if you are addicted to stress or just badly stressed you break the rules at your peril.

When you keep to these rules, you will find that you are better able to face stressful events. This is because you have given yourself a consistent supply of energy. Adopting this approach both helps to break the cycle of energy-consuming behaviour (the blood sugar saga) and creates energy to overcome the mental habits that result in our reaction to stress in the first place.

Warning
If you give up tea and coffee and other stimulants, sugar and chocolate, and you begin to suffer headaches, loss of concentration, tiredness or nausea, this is evidence enough of addiction. You are suffering withdrawal symptoms. Stick to your plan and these unpleasant side effects will pass. What’s more, you will feel a whole lot better when they do than you did before you stopped taking the stimulants.

Use this article for your training, website, or newsletter.

Written by and Copyright © Stuart E. Nelson (2005)

Stuart E. Nelson ( stresskill.com stresskill.com) specialises in teaching business owners and their staff how to make more money yet have more time, and in helping people to find balance in their lives. He does this by concentrating on the elimination of stress, and the building of supportive environments. Let the author of “Potential for Harm” and the founder of “Success Story”, the FREE newsletter, help you to find better balance in your life, happiness and fulfilment and to grow the profitability of your business. Request your copy of “Success Story” today!
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