You need to make peace with your herpes. I understand the instinct to want to fight herpes, to 'annihilate it' as one young man told me. I fought herpes for nine years and lost. I didn't start winning my own personal battle with herpes until I made peace with it and with myself. You cannot win a war against herpes. Like Israel and Hezbollah or the Hutus and Tutsi or the Catholics and Protestants in Ulster you will have to find a way to peacefully co-exist. Herpes is for life, but how peaceful that life is up to you.

Negotiation is the path to herpes peace. Here are some rules of herpes diplomacy that I learned during my nine-year struggle. The same rules can apply when dealing with HPV or any other disease.

1. Treat your adversary with respect. Understand and recognize what herpes is and what's its purpose in your body. You can review the chapter in my book entitled 'The Mystical-Magical Herpes Virus' for a refresher.

2. Be willing to speak and listen openly and sincerely with the virus. There is a visualization exercise in the book to aide in this.

3. Negotiate in good faith with the virus to come up with a win-win situation for your mutual benefit. The deal I stuck with the virus was this: 'I understand that you are in my body for life and I will stop projecting anger, bitterness and resentment towards you and in return I require that you conduct yourself like a well-behaved guest. If I treat my body well with the right diet and not allow myself to get too far out of balance you must agree to stay dormant'.

4. Practice Patience. Real peace agreements rarely happen overnight. Being impatient and anxious will show the virus that you are weak and desperate and will reduce your leverage in the negotiation.

5. Practice Perseverance. You must be in it for the long haul. You must have the commitment and stamina to see the peace process through. Whenever peace negotiations break down usually the situation on the ground worsens.

Peace is always better than war, especially a war you cannot win. With all the strife and suffering in this world, why not make your own body into a haven of peace?

Christopher Scipio
Homeopath/Herbalist
Holistic Viral Specialist