CONTENTS

Preface   /     X....

Introduction    /    XI....

CHAPTER ONE: FACTS ON FLATULENCE....

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Biological Reasons We Pass Gas     /    1....

Why Farts Stink    /    2....

Other Factors That Induce Farting    /    4....

Is It Harmful to Hold in Farts    /    4....

What Happens When You Hold in Farts    /    4....

Other Words for Farting    /    5....

Other Words for Feelings   /   6....

            Pleasant Feeling Words    /    6....

            Unpleasant Feeling Words    /    7....

Negative Rules and Messages  /    7

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CHAPTER TWO: FEELINGS....

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Farting and Feelings-How they Relate   /   9....

Similarities Between Passing Gas and Expelling Feelings    /     18....

Self Will Gone Wild    /    20....

Clutches of Love (Poem)    /    21....

Transformation of A Dirty Rotten Sinner (Poem)    /     34....

Back to Wauters    /    39....

Surprise Farts    /    56....

Hidden Hurts    /    56

            The Treason    /    63....

Unveiling and Unification of Self   /    63....

Summary    /    75....

The Lady Who Cried    /   77....

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The Body’s Mind, Voice and Emotions    /    80....

Facts On Feelings    /    82....

Beliefs    /    101....

Positive and Negative Emotions    /    108....

Gays, the New Minority   /   111....

Can Gays Be Christians?    /    112....

Things We Do With Our Feelings   /   114....

             Blame    /    114....

            Stuffing    /   115....

            Masking    /    118

            Enabling    /   119....

           Dismissing, Ignoring and Putting on Hold    /    121

                                         Fighting Feelings    /    122

            Confused Feelings    /   122....

            Reasoning and Justifying    /   123....

            Disassociation and Emotional Numbing    /   123

Self Love   /    126 ....

            The Little Girl Inside  (Poem)    /    128....

Taking A Feelings Inventory   /   130....

On Good and Bad   /    132    ....

Listening To the Voices Within   /    137....

It's Not About You    /    170....

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CHAPTER THREE: INNER REFLECTIONS  /   154....

Search Your Heart and Thoughts   /    155....

Two Hearts, Two Minds    /   167....

            Vivian, on Love    /    172....

            Kahil, on Love    /    175....

On Love and Fear    /    177....

Right Relating            and Reasoning   /     184  ....

Family Roles   /    186....

The Hero    /    187....

            The Scapegoat    /    187....

            The Mascot    /   188....

The Lost Child    /    188....

            More On the Same Stuff   /   193....

            Emotions On Health   /    195....

            Tips on How to Heal   /    198....

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CHAPTER FOUR:     FARTING WITH GRACE     ....

Farting Without Fear   /    201....

            Taking a Subtle Stance    /   189....

            The Standing Method                /    202....

            Spreading The Wedge    /    202....

            Some Tips    /   202....

            The Sitting Method   /   202....

            Securing A Clearing    /   203

            Farting With Grace    /   203....

Take A Pill and Chill   /   203....

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CHAPTERT FIVE:    ....

SHARING YOUR FEELINGS EFFECTIVELY WITH GRACE....

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Fart Rhymes, Riddles and Reason   /   205....

Things to Say After Farting            /    211             ....

The Secret Fart   /   211....

Types of Farters   /  212....

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            The Chronic Belter    /    212....

            The Vulgar Bulger    /   213....

            The Methane Maker    /   215....

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Wise Fart Sayings   /   216....

What To Do When You’ve Offended Someone   /   216....

About the Author    /   220....

References    /    222....

Index   /   224....

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The End   ....

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PREFACE....

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You sit quietly at a family gathering filled with loved ones, friends, and new acquaintances. There are rumbles among the natives about past conflicts, lack of money, gossip, and mistakes made in the past that still haven’t been resolved. Your husband lost his job and has been sitting on his keister the past six months wearing out your nerves and sofa.  Your wife’s cousin and best friend got you tangled up in shady investments and now your flat broke and one step away from sleeping in your car! Your daughter's doing drugs, your parents are getting a divorce and you just found out there is a pedophile in the bunch. ....

This gathering is about to become World War III, in a matter of moments. Suddenly, you feel a rumble of a different nature. Your stomach feels as if it’s expanding and ready to explode and then it happens . . . you fart. It’s not just a normal fart, either; but one of epic proportions. There is no avoiding the embarrassment. There is no hiding the truth. It’s out; it’s offensive, and you can’t take it back.....

The question is: Do you even want to? Breaking that wind released a pressure inside you that was making you uncomfortable, grouchy, and down right mean to everyone around you. It needed to be let out!

But what about the emotional farts? What about the things you keep inside of you that make you feel just as uncomfortable, grouchy, and down right mean and depressed? What happens when you let those rip? Who goes running? What gets broken? Who’s left standing by your side?

INTRODUCTION....

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Fart in the Wind is a Comedial, and Inspirational Self-Help Book, about Letting Go. It’s an Emotional and Spiritual Guide on Successful and Graceful Communication With Anyone. We hold in our gas like we hold on to our fears. We are so afraid to let it out because someone might hear it or smell it, and know that we fart!

The fear of farting, is synonymous with the fear of letting go, facing our true feelings, and our fears. Then sharing those feelings with others is even scarier, because we’re afraid of loss of friendships, judgment, and losing respect. The reality is-sometimes life stinks! But once you let them out, the smell fades, the air is clean to breathe again and everyone’s happy. Nobody dies! We deal with feelings every day, even if it only includes trying to hide the negative ones or masquerade them.

Have you ever been in a car, a small car filled with people and someone breaks wind? I have, it was so bad the driver had to pull over and we all rushed out, pushing each other to safety. I thought it was funny, afterward. My friend became so angry because the stench was so bad. It was his brother that did it, and I was in stitches. They actually almost physically fought over a fart.

When you fart badly like that and someone is approaching you, at the exact same moment you realize they smell it- they realize you did it. They want to kill you or vomit, and you want to dig your own grave. Your eyes look like those of an innocent dumb deer who’s about to become road-kill. Time stands still--- . . . seconds become the longest dark day of your life. You’re so horrified you break out in a cold sweat and wish you could just twinkle your nose and disappear.

            This book needs to reach today’s market. The face of America and the world for that matter is changing as you read and I write. The lives of busy people have forced our feelings to take a back seat to work-family-traffic jams, business meetings, addictions, and the hustle and bustle of everyday life. The state of the economy has more people at home and in bad spirits because of loss of employment, income and/or other assets. At home with nothing left to do but think about their lives, their past and their unhappiness, problems flare.

So afraid to get real with our honest feelings behind all the hardships we face everyday; we ignore them. Who gives the emotional education anyway? Not our parents, nor our schools, and we run from Counselors and Therapists for fear of people thinking we are crazy. We hold in our feelings like we hold in our flatus, as hard as we can.

When we get in trouble, we get negative consequences. When we are angry, upset or afraid, we react in self-defeating ways out of fear of the consequences while our feelings behind the situation are swarming around inside us like a cyclone. Seldom do people confront the feelings but instead, focus on the outburst of the feelings. There are few who will have the patience and take the time to facilitate an understanding of the feelings behind behavior, yours and their own.

In my twelve years experience as a Substance Abuse Counselor, working with adolescents, adults and families, specializing in addiction/substance abuse problems, has afforded me ample opportunity to witness the lack of communication skills individuals possess. It’s astonishing. I have sat chair to chair with nurses, paralegals, murders, drug dealers, robbers, thieves and child abusers who all share the same problem as the average American family. The white and blue-collar workers and the everyday convict on the street, suffer from the same deficit, effectively sharing honest feelings. They don't know how.

We walk away from conversations designed for resolution still holding on to anger and things we “should have said.” Improper communication, or lack of communication, is the biggest reason relationship’s fail. Second only to purposely doing hurtful things. Being a good listener is a major component in successful communicating. Remember, problems don’t simply go away; they just change. We’ve become so good at masking our emotions in all areas of our lives.

In this book, I’ll show how difficult we make the process of sharing our feelings and the reasons why. Also, the effects of not letting go of negative emotions on the body, mind and emotions. I’ll illustrate how our method of communicating or lack thereof, affects others and ourselves. I’ll provide new and effective ways of talking about problems without creating new ones. After all, who gives the emotional education anyway? We can get advice from our friends and family members who then share with us their well-intended, subjective views. However, we can help ourselves by studying new approaches to handling our emotions, learning to recognize when and how to share what and how we are feeling, with whom and when.

How do you handle your feelings? The goal of this book is to assist the reader in knowing it’s ok to fart. The analogies made between farting and feelings show how the farter experiences the same feelings before, during and after breaking wind, as the person who has been holding in negative emotions and then finally explodes. Though farting offers great physical relief, it brings the same embarrassment, shame and shock, along with the desire to run away from the scene like passing gas does.

The most important relationship we will consider here is the relationship with self. How are you relating to you? How are you emoting, storing, processing and releasing your own feelings. How do you feel about you, who you are, your past, your present and future? Once the personal relationship is in tact, all other relationships become manageable.

I struggled a good portion of my life with stuffing emotions, scared of my own feelings, while destroying my life, my dreams, and relationships in the process. Redemption is possible; so don’t give up hope.

In this book I’ll teach you tried and tested ways of “farting without fear.” This is a book you’ll read over and again, then pass on to a friend. It’s a book mothers will give to their children, children their to parents, teens to peers, bosses to employees, sisters to brothers, wives to husbands, and Counselors and Therapists to patients; and now . . . I give it to you.....