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some patter ns, then figur e out how much it’s going to set us back.” Leo said, “ Let me measur e you, L upe. And we can pick the style you want, and add some for your gr owth.” Jonathan sat in a straight-back chair and waited for them to come out of the dr essing r oom. Lupe’s voice was cr estfallen. “I’m $380 short,” she explained when they r eturned. “I thought I had enough, but it tak es a lot of material. I guess I’ll have to wait.” “No, you won’t. I’ll pay for it, L eo.” “Mr. Jonathan, you can’t—” “Who says?”“My grandmother will—” “I’ll e xplain to your grandmother.” “No, I—” “Lupe, we’r e buying this. L eo, wrap up everything and send it to my apartment.” “Thank you,” L upe said gravely. “But I’ll pay you back. I swear to you, I will. And I’ll work double time fr om now on.” “Please don’t,” Jonathan said. “Y ou’ll drive me nuts.” Jonathan was listening to the news later that evening when his phone rang. “Yes?” A long pause, and then: “ Johnny? Son?” Jonathan sank into the chair beside the phone. He felt as if the bones had been r emoved fr om his body. “Are you still ther e?” the voice ask ed. “Dad,” he finally said. “ After all this time. I can’t believe how much family stuff is happening this week.” “Well, that’s pr obably my fault. Y our mother told me your number was unlisted and that you’d r equested that none of us call you.” “What? That’s not true.” “I should have investigated. I didn’t need to tak e her word.” Jonathan sighed, and then fell silent again. He felt as if his mouth couldn’t pr oduce the right wor ds. “How ar e you? Mother said your heart wasn’t gr eat.” “Well, I’m eighty -five. That’s why I’m calling. I wanted to hear about you while ther e’s still time.” “Ther e was a time when I’d have had a lot to r eport, but not anymor e,” Jonathan said. “ As you know, I’m blind—and I’m pr etty much alone her e. I can’t paint or do much else. It’s not very pr etty.”His father said, “I know what you mean. I can’t do much either. I get angina whenever I e xert myself. Plus, Belle keeps me on a short tether.” He sniffed again. “I hear you’r e living right near the Mission District.” “Yes, I’m in it, r eally. Most of my neighbors ar e Hispanic. It’s been fine, r eally.” “I haven’t been over ther e in years. Y our mother’s scar ed of it, though I know she came to see you.” He stopped and clear ed his thr oat. “Is ther e something special you called to say, Dad?” “I guess I called to say that I’m sor ry I wasn’t a better father. You wer e so differ ent, and your mother just couldn’t handle it, so I let her set the tone, lik e I’ve let her tak e the lead in everything. I’ve spent so many years letting her tell me how to feel, and now my life’s almost over. I should have been mor e help to you, especially when you lost your sight. But one thing I can do is look af ter you in my will. I want you to know that when I’m gone, you’ll get a handsome settlement—” “Dad, I don’t want anything—” “No, this is what I want.” “Really. I should have given you money. I’m the one who made money.” “Jonathan, no ar gument. Y our mother doesn’t know, and she doesn’t need to know. I work ed for 40 years at a job I hated; now I’m going to do what I want.” They fell silent again. “Do you want to get together sometime?” Jonathan managed. “I don’t think I better,” his father answer ed sof tly. “It would be too har d on me—my heart, lik e I was telling you.” “Yes. I don’t know how str ong mine is either.” They both br eathed in and out. “Thanks, Dad. R eally.” Suddenly the phone went dead.Jonathan held the r eceiver for a few moments longer and then hung up. Later that week, as L upe r ode her bik e to the gr ocery store, she stopped suddenly and did a double tak e. Brie’s Victorian house had a for sale sign on the fr ont lawn. L upe stood ther e for so long that the lace curtains opened. Brie’s mother peek ed out, and then pulled them shut again tightly. Back on her bik e, Lupe found herself caught in the middle of a funeral pr ocession. No matter how har d she tried, she couldn’t get out of it; she was stuck behind the hearse with a cask et visible thr ough the tinted windows, followed by a carload of elderly women, openly weeping. Since the pr ocession str etched as far she could see, she got off her bik e and walk ed in the pr ocession, head bowed. When the line of traffic tur ned right towar d the cemetery, she got on her bik e again and r ode straight ahead. The ne xt day, Jonathan was lying on the couch listening to the news as L upe put away gr oceries. “Mr. Jonathan, do you ever go to the cemetery wher e your friend is buried?” “How do you know my friend is buried? He could have been cr emated.” “I don’t know, just guessing.” “Well, the answer is no.” “No what?” “I’ve never been to the cemetery. I can’t see, in case you haven’t noticed. It was too painful to go right af ter he died, and now it’s too late.” “How about if I tak e you?” “Are you going to ride me ther e on your bik e?” “No, on the bus. I know the public transportation. I could go with you.”Jonathan was silent for a long time. “ Did you get mor e Milano cookies today?” “Yes, on sale. T wo for one.” “Good.” He was silent again. “I’ll think about it, ok ay?” OceanofPDF.comCHAPTER 11 Lupe was in the girl’s bathr oom stall when she over heard snatches of conversation fr om two popular girls who wer e washing their hands. “I hear d Brie’s dad got fir ed for doing something illegal at work. I don’t know what. But my mom said it was pr etty bad.” “That’s why they’r e selling the house?” “Yeah, plus I hear d they have to move into an apartment. Can you imagine? I’d be so embar rassed...” When L upe emer ged fr om the stall, the two girls clammed up and dried their hands, avoiding her eye. Suddenly, Brie enter ed the r oom. “Hey,” she said, somewhat tentatively, as the two girls brushed by her in silence, “ar e you two going to Cooper’s?” The girls ignor ed her question as they lef t. Brie’s face fell, and she stepped into a stall and lock ed the door. Lupe stood a moment studying Brie’s feet under the stall; then she washed her hands and lef t. Lupe disembark ed from a metr opolitan bus and waited at the bottom as a long ar m extended. She r eached up and took Jonathan’s hand as he got off the bus behind her.Jonathan used a cane and held on to her ar m as they walked. He was dr essed in a pale linen suit and an elegant hat. L upe was wearing the tr opical dr ess she had wor n at her choir concert. They walk ed down a str eet, which gr ew progressively less cr owded and became semir esidential. On the right stood a sign—WOODL AWN CEMETER Y. They walk ed together under a stone ar ch, and L upe looked at a badly photographed map. “Section P, r ow five.” Jonathan didn’t speak, but k ept holding her ar m. They walked silently thr ough r ow af ter row of monuments. Lupe swallowed. She had never been in such a huge cemetery befor e. She found it unsettling that each of these monuments r epresented a human life that had come and gone. “Ther e’s so many—as far as the eye can see,” she said. “Tell me about some of them.” “Ther e are a lot of tablets... you know, just monuments with the

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fuel consumption or preferred fuel sources between even the fastest and the slowest of me tabolizers. The truly fast metabolizer uses more calories per hour throughout the day, than the average person does. The more calories one utilizes in the course of a day, the faster that person's total meta bolism would be. An Example For example, we can reasonably estimate that a moderately active, 110-pou nd, 5'4" woman might eat about 2,000 calories per day and a lightly active man who is 5'10" tall and 150 pounds uses about 2,400 calories. In th is example, the man uses an average of 100 calories per hour. For the sake of simplicity, we shall call 100 calories per hour (plus or minus 10%) the midrange of metabolic rate. We could therefore assert that a person who uses, on average, more than 110 calorie s per hour would be termed a fast metabolizer and a person who uses less than 90 calories per hour would be a slow metabolizer. We cou ld assign people progressively faster and slower metabolic designations the more their calorie usage differed f rom the midrange. At this point we have come to an unbridgeable contradiction. W e are tol d that fast metabolizers—those people who utilize the most fuel per hour, are supposedly the very people who will thrive on the high est fat levels in their diet. Meanwhile, we are also being told that only slow-metabolizing athletes should attempt to utili ze a diet higher in carbohydrates from fruit. Yet we know that athletes are the very people who have the fastest metabolisms, despite any variations in their BMR. To make matters more confusing, scientific research consistently proves that the more fat you consume, the more your health will suffer. Somewhere, someone must be wrong in these assertions. It i s not possible to straddle both sides of this fence. Either a fat-based diet is most healthful or a fruit-based diet is, but it cannot be bot h; and it cannot be one for some people and the other for other people. Small cows eat small amounts of food relative to large cows. Active cows eat more food than their sedentary counterparts, yet all cows eat essentially the same food. Fruits and vegetables have bee n touted as the ultimate health foods for humans for over a century, and they have been the primary food of humankind throughout our exi stence, up until the recent past. Whether you are small or large, active or sedentary, fruits and veget ables remain the optimum foods of choice for fulfilling all human nutritional needs. If one person needs to consume a greater number of calories than another person, it simply means that they must eat a greater quantity of food, not completely different foods. In case the above is not enough of a contradiction to try to puzzle out, work on thi s one: It has been repeatedly asserted that most people would experience the greatest levels of health using a diet that is composed primarily of fats. This assertion is based on the assumption that most people are fast metabolizers, a premise that ca nnot be true. Whenever we work with large numbers, the law of averages comes into play. Using the law of averages, a “normal ” or “bell” curve is always formed. In the bell curve, only about 5 to 10% of the people would truly be classed as fast metabolizers, 5 to 10% would be sl ow metabolizers, and the rest, roughly 80%, would fall somewhere in the middle. These would be average meta bolizers, not slow and not fast. Do not be misled by metabolism (or oxidation) mumbo jumbo. Track your fat intake on an y given day and see for yourself just exactly what percentage of your calories it comprises. Once you do, you wil l understand why so many raw fooders are having problems. High fat is also the reason that most scientific studies of ra w fooders draw negative conclusions. Is it any wonder that people have trouble staying healthy on their high-fat raw regimens, or that they find cooked carbohydrates so alluring? Those who convince unsuspecting new raw fooders to steer clear of fruit and gorge on fat do succeed in accomplishing one goal; the creation of nutritional inadequacies. This opens the door for sel ling us nutritional supplements in a vain attempt to compensate for the very deficiencies that result from consuming a h igh-fat raw diet. Of course, most newcomers want to learn and are prone to following the advice they are given. Can I thrive on only raw foods? No essential nutrient exists in meat, grains, legumes, or dairy tha t is not also available in fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds— and in a form that is easier to digest. Indeed, many vital nutrients, suc h as soluble fibers and the thousands of phytonutrients, can only be garnered from plants. Fruits, vegetables, and leafy greens not only con tain sustainable amounts of carbohydrates, protein, and fat, they also contain them in the percentages, ratios, and forms that are opt imum for human health. People thrive on the raw diet, often telling others how it has improved the ir health and their lives. When people integrate a proper raw diet with other healthful living practices, they rarely, i f ever, develop weight-control problems or chronic (or even short- term) illnesses. Health becomes a fact of life. For millions of years, most humans, and their ancestors, lived a gathere r lifestyle in a tropical environment where large amounts of easy-to-pick fruit were readily available to meet their nutrition al needs. The human diet was likely entirely plant based and eaten without the application of fire or heat. Accordingly, the human digesti ve and eliminative tracts developed to process raw fruits and vegetables for fuel and growth. We are biologically designed to obtain our nu trition from uncooked fruits and vegetables. Only within the last 10,000 years has cereal agriculture allowed huma ns to trade their frugivorous diets for cooked grain- based fare. 83 People’s bodies remained the same, but the food they chose to eat beg an to vary for the worse. The human body has not had sufficient time, evolutionarily speaking, to alter its digesti ve system to meet this fundamental dietary change. The likelihood of doing so is slim at best, as heated foods are of lower nutritional quality, and c ooking introduces toxic elements. Hence, the adaptation would be a downward one, and would be technically considered a devolution. Will eating raw make me healthy? A proper raw diet will result in improved health, but I must emphasize tha t the body, not food, creates health. Food does not build; the body builds. Food does not cleanse; the body cleanses. Good health, after al l, is the result of a healthy lifestyle. The raw diet is but one component of healthful living. Adequate rest and s leep, regular, vigorous physical activity, plenty of fresh air, sunlight, a positive outlook on life, and many other factors are a lso essential to creating good health. Why didn’t the 80/10/10 diet work for me? People come to me at times having tried this method of eating unsuccess fully. Upon examination, I have found almost invariably that they were not actually doing what I recommend. As I t ruly desire to see people succeed, I want to mention here several key factors that people often overlook when adopting the 80/10/10 lifestyle. You are not following 80/10/10 if: Less than 2% of your total calories come from vegetables and leafy green s. For true health, I recommend consuming 2 to 6% of calories from leafy greens. For 4% of your calories to come from vegetable s on a 2000-calorie diet, you would have to eat roughly a pound of greens per day. Your caloric intake is insufficient to maintain your desired body weigh t. You burn less than 40% of your total calories through physical activity ( at least 800 calories per day if you average 2,000 calories). Y our habitual sleep pattern doesn’t meet your body’s needs. You eat all day long rather than one to four meals a day. You lack emotional poise (your lifestyle is sufficiently stressful to cause your system ongoing adrenal exertion). You expose your fully (or substantially) unclothed skin to moderate sunli ght less than 30 minutes per day. (Our bodies require approximately 15 minutes of sunlight exposure per day to produce sufficient vitamin D. I would consider 30 minutes a day a healthful minimum… remember, our species wasn’t designed to live i ndoors.) Why do people “fail” on the raw diet? The most common reason for lack of success with the raw diet is the overal l poor health of the new raw fooders who unknowingly obtains most of his or her daily calories from raw fat sources. This occurs even as they eat what they consider a tremendous amount of vegetables, because vegetables contain so few cal ories. The components of fatty foods are not a match for human nutritional needs. E ating a high-fat diet paves the way to a wide variety of health issues that have their basis in nutritional in sufficiency. Eating sweet-fruit carbohydrates in insufficient volume to produce a feeling of satiation results predictably in carbohydrate cravings and disordered eating behaviors. Almost every raw fooders who goe s back to eating cooked foods find himself eating cooked carbohydrates—bread

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Q: What is the final step? A: E ventu ally, by surrendering every state to God, you enter a space beyond all previous spaces. As each state comes on, be willing to experience an even greater dimension. There is a state beyond all the prior states. A state of pure austerity. I have spoken of it as the High Pass, and detail it here because readers of this book will confront these s tates. When you have surrendered everything to God through meditation and contemplation, and let go of all attachments and aversions, you reach a very High Pass where there is no one. In the High Pass, you’ve let go of the attachment to the details of life, money and power, prestige, and excitement and thrills. There is nothing left except your own life. Y ou’ve let go of everything this world cherishes, surrendered it all to God. Now, what do you have left to surrender to God? Y our very life. In that moment, you realize, I have nothing left. I surr ender my life to Thee, O Lor d. W ith that, there is a terrible fe ar of dying. When you exper ience the agony of dying, you know you’ re in the right place. This is the agony that you agreed to go through. That which you have believed you were, throughout all these lifetimes, al l the way back to eternity, practically down to th e level of the bacteria, n eeds to be surrendered. All through the evolution of consciousness, that which you believed to be the very core of your existence, you are now asked to surrender. The fea r of nonexistence comes up again. And then comes the Knowingness th at it’ s safe to lay down your life to God, because you will have the inner k nowingness, “A ll fear is illusion. W alk straig ht ahead nomatter what.” That was the Knowingness that came from many lifetimes ago. Th at Knowingness has to come through with an absolute certainty from ha ving heard it from that which has walked through the p ass. That is why I am telling you this right now. “All fear is illusion.” Y ou lay down your life and surrender it to G od. Then, the Splendor of Div inity shines forth as All That Exists now or forevermore. That is the final doorway to the U nknowingn ess and Allness of Divinity. Y ou thereby have owned your own divinity. Y ou have no con trol over your l ife from that point on. Y ou serve God by serving your fellows and all life. By loving and serving others, you serve God, and they are not dif ferent from God, for God is in everything. Q: What is the benefit of learning teachings that seem incompr ehensible at the time? A: They only seem obscure to the intellect. They plant the seed, a nd the aspirant’ s spiritu al aura incorporates the transmitted ener gy field of the teacher ’ s aura. Certain informati on is transformational in itself. Exposure to high tru th initiates a yearning in the psyche. The Buddha made that observation when he said that once a person has heard of enlightened truth, they will never be satisfied with anything less, even though it takes innumerable lifetimes to attain it. It is very impor tant to understand that any devoted spiritual stu dent can suddenly be at an extremely high level with no advance warning. Thus, all students should be instructed ahead of time as to how to handle very advanced states of consciousnes s. It is not just a catchy phrase that says that heaven and hell are only one-tenth of an inch apart. Y ou can, in fact, go from the very depths of hell to the most extremely advanced states. One reason for the seemin gly endless delays on the way to Enlightenment is doubt, which should be surrendered as a resi stance. It is important to know that it is a ctually extremely rare for a human to be committed to spiritual truth to the degree of seriously seeking Enlightenment, and those who do make the commitment do so because they are actually destined for Enlightenment. At this time, spi ritual evolution is proceeding at an exhilarating pace, and spiritual information never before available is now readily accessible. Theprogress of a spiritual student of today is already accelerated and advantaged by access to spiritua l information that in past times was limited to the very select few. Spiritual progress does not follow in convenient, definable, progressive steps, as the Map of Consc iousness might seem to imply with its progressive levels. The path is not linear. Unexpectedly, great leaps may very well occur at any time, and all students should have the advantage of knowing the necessary informa tion at certain points along th e way. The knowledge that is needed at the “end” is essential right from the “beginning.” T o know what it is necessary to know in order to reach Divi ne States accelerates prog ress; otherwise, there is an unconscious resista nce of fear due to ignorance. This fear is overcome by the acquisition of the necessary understanding; therefore, there is nothing left to fear, and all fear is an illusion—a Kno wingness that is also required at very advanced states. Any student who is serious about spiritual alignment and devotion to God, to Love, to T ruth, to fellow humanity, or to the alleviation of hum an suf fering or suf fering in all sentient beings is already very far advanced. Consistent application of any spiritual principle can unexpectedly result in a very major and sudden leap to unanticipated levels. At that point, memory may not even be av ailable, and instead, the Knowingness of Spiritual T ruth presents itself si lently. Spiritual students should accept the reality that they are alr eady gifted. A serio us reader of a book suc h as this could hardly be otherwise. Divinity knows its own; therefore, to accept that truth is to already feel joy. T o not experience joy by understanding this means that it is being resi sted. This awareness is reinforced by understanding that, contrary to the dualistic Newtonian paradigm of reality, we a re n ot just the consequence of the past. On the contrary, our present position is due to the attraction of potentiality, because both the past and the future are illusions. Therefore, commitment to Enlightenment now becomes like a magnet p ulling us toward it, and the rate of evolution is up to the individual’ s willingness to surrender resistances. Enlightenment is not a condition to be obtained; it is merely a certainty to be s urrendered to, for the Self i s already one’ s Reality. It is the Self that is attracting one to spiritual information.CHAPTER NINE G U I D A N C E F O R S P I R I T U A L S E E K E R S T o seek Enlightenment is to seek entrainment to the most powerful attractor patterns. Entrainment t o a certain ener gy field on the Map simply means that one is under its influence, similar to a gravitational pull. When the ener gy field is below 200, the entrainment has a destructive ef fect. This is clinically observed in the failure of cocaine addicts to recover if they continue to listen to violent rap or heavy-metal music. The entrainment of a negative ener gy field is possible to escape only through consiste nt exposure to a higher one, as is said: “ Just keep coming back—you’ll get it by osmosis.” Recov ering addicts who leave the supportive ener gy field of their self-help programs rather predictably relapse, for now there is no counterbalance to the downward pull of the negative habits. Their assertion that they can “go it alone” is a notorious symptom of the ego’ s arrogance and Pride, calibrating at 175, w hich is below the power of the ener gy field required for healing. Spiritual aspiran ts, on the other hand, are seeking to align themselves with pow erful e ner gy fields that can lift them out of entrenched ego habits. The key is will, a constantly re peated act of choice. Here, the chaos-theory principle of sensitive dependenc e on initial conditions (a slight change, over time, can have a major impact) provides a scientific explanation of the traditional way of spiritual progress. In all spiritual disciplines, the opening wedge predicated for advancing one’ s awareness is described as “willingness.” History shows what has been clinically know n as well: persistent willingness is the trigger that activates a new attractor field and allows one to begin to leave the old. W e may visualize a lesser attractorfield approaching a greater one, at which point the introduction of a third element (such as free will) suddenly creates a crossover (a “saddle pattern”), and the change takes place. When s omeone suddenly goes from the influence of a lower attractor field to that of a higher, it is often proclaimed a miracle. The unfortunate verdict of human experience is that few escape the ener gy fields that gradually come to dominate the ir behaviors. A currently popular spiritual program designe

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control is the softening self-absorption and bone supporting the ring around the place fracture. Disappears only part of the bone ring, the rest of retained to strengthen the weakened structure. Cases of starvation gives many examples of control carried out by the body over the processes of autolysis. For example, tissue disappear in accordance with the degree of their usefulness - first fats and abnormal growths, and then the other tissues. all living beings - from worm to man - in the period of fasting various organs and tissues are very different in their ability to reduce its weight. Usually, the liver loses more weight than other body parts, especially in the initial period, due to loss glycogen and fat. Light almost nothing to lose, even less - the brain and the nervous system. Vital organs fed by the accumulated reserves and less important tissues, so that abstinence from food could harm only after consuming the reserves. The organism has the ability to move their chemical elements, so that fasting gives many wonderful examples. Assimilation and reorganization of parts of the body, which is observed in living beings when they are denied food, digestion and reallocation reserves, surplus and secondary tissue is observed in all animals when they are forced starvation, are, according to author, one of the most wonderful phenomena in biology. The organism is not only able to build tissue, it is also capable it and destroy it. It can not only distribute their nutritional stocks, but he can redistribute them and, as autolysis time and makes possible redistribution. The process of autolysis can be reversed the great practical advantage and make it serve us in get rid of tumors and other growths in the body. Always first capture and remove those substances which represent the lowest value for the economy, so all pathological Education - Wen, tumors, abscesses, etc. - Decrease rapidly and often completely disappear as a result severe and prolonged abstinence from food and fasting. " To fully understand this, the reader should know that 119 119tumor may be composed of tissues, blood and bones. There are many names for various kinds of tumors, but the name itself indicates the type of tissue that comprises a tumor. For example, the osteoma is of bone, uterine - from muscle, neuroma - from the nervous, lipoma - from fat, etc. Since the tumors are composed of tissues, as and other body structures, they are autoliticheskoy disintegration - the same as normal tissue, with the most different circumstances, but especially during fasting. The reader who is able to understand how hunger causes reduction in body fat, it reduces the size muscles, can also understand how it leads to a reduction in the size tumor or induces its complete disappearance. He only has to understand that the process of disintegration (autolysis) of the tumor occurs much faster than normal tissues. In his "Notes on tumors - work for students in Physiology - Dr. FK Wood wrote: "Spontaneous disappearance of more or less long time was seen in a very small part malignant tumors in humans. The largest number of cases this disappearance occurred after partial surgical tumor removal. They occur most often during an acute febrile process, and less frequently in connection with a certain depth changes in metabolic processes such as the exclusive cachexia (general malnutrition), artificial menopause, and others. " But there can be more profound changes in metabolism, rather than that caused by starvation, and this change is of a nature giving the best possible cause autolysis of the tumor - malignant and other. Conditions, said Dr. Wood as cause spontaneous disappearance of tumors, most cases are in the nature of coincidences and are beyond arbitrary control. Fasting, in contrast, can be conducted and implemented under the supervision and at any time upon request. And over the operations should normally be an even greater tumor growth. Spontaneous disappearance of the tumor after its partial removal - rare. The same could be provided and the artificial menopause. At higher temperatures, we often witness a rapid autolysis in many tissues of the body and its great healing work. But we can not cause a fever as they wish. Pregnancy and childbirth cause many deep changes in the body, but it certainly can not be recommended that sick women as a means of healing from the tumor. Even if it were desirable, it would be means "by eye". And the results of starvation definite. Here There is nothing "by eye". It always operates in one direction. Fever - is a healing process and really helps remove the cause of the tumor. But no other cases of spontaneous disappearance of tumors in Dr. Wood does not help to remove them reasons. But fasting is just really helps remove the cause. 120 120A lot of people who practiced fasting, get rid of tumors by autolysis. Here's how it writes about a doctor with a very large practice of fasting Herbert Shelton, "Let me give you two exceptional cases, to show the wide range of the process. woman aged about forty years fibroma found in the urinary canal size of an average grapefruit. Fibroids completely disappeared in 28 days of total abstinence from food (only when drinking mode). It was an unusually rapid disappearance of the tumor. another woman was similar to the formation of the size of a goose egg. One fasting for 21 days reduced the tumor size to a value walnut. Starvation was interrupted by the appearance of hunger. To complete the total disappearance of the tumor, several weeks after the first fasting required for the second - the duration in 17 days. But it was unusually slow. Tumor formation of breast cancer in women, fluctuating in size from a pea to a goose egg, disappear during the fasting of three days to several weeks. Next a wonderful example of this kind, which the reader and will be interesting and instructive: a young woman aged 1921 on the right breast was firm formation - a little less billiard ball. within four months it will cause severe pain. Finally she went to the doctor, who discovered the cancer and advised an immediate operation. to which she would then either addressed to doctors, she always received the same diagnosis the same advice. But not wanting surgery, the woman resorted to fasting without taking any food, and exactly three days later the cancer and all its attendant pain disappeared. and for thirty years, not had a recurrence, I believe, that we may consider it a cure. Hundreds of similar cases during the fasting have convinced me that many of the "tumor" and "cancers", removed by surgeons, not a tumor and crayfish. They make us very skeptical to published statistics, supposedly proving that early surgery to prevent or cure cancer. Removal of tumors by autolysis has several advantages before its surgical removal. The operation is always dangerous, and autolysis - Physiological process and poses no threat. Operation suppresses the life force and thus enhances the distortion metabolism, which underlies the tumor. Starvation, with which is enhanced autolysis and normalizes nutrition and contributes removal of accumulated toxins, thus helping to eliminate cause of the tumor. After surgery, tumors tend to to relapse. And after the disappearance of the tumor as a result of autolysis possibility of recurrence is small. Tumor after surgery operations are often re-appear in malignant form. Trend to degenerate into a malignant tumor removed starvation. Over the past fifty years in Europe and USA literally thousands 121 121cases the tumor disappeared as a result of autolysis, and efficiency this method is beyond doubt. the author has no specific information about bone and nerve tumors. But because they are subject to the the same laws as the rest of the tumor, he was inclined to believe that they can autolyze as efficiently as other tumors. Of course, the process of autolysis has its limits, and if the tumor is able to grow to considerable size, it only reduced in size and not all cells will be thus absorbed. It is desirable therefore go through the required fasting or starvation, while tumor or cyst is relatively small. It should be noted further limitation: the tumor, which block the lymph ducts, will continue to grow in spite of starvation (because of accumulated these tumors excess lymph). where not achieved complete absorption of the tumor, it significantly decreased to size, is not dangerous. A further right lifestyle will prevent new growth. We have observed several cases when the subsequent decrease in tumor size occurred through healthy lifestyle after fasting. " OMOLA ALIVE mechanical ZM Why the dry fasting is rejuvenating the body. Why it can make the body immortal. " Why the dry fasting is more powerful rejuvenation of the body than in wet starvation. Extreme, harsh environments do not stand with diseased cells, degenerate, weak. When the cells live in a comfortable environment, they get used to the constant level and volume of incoming food and water. They lose the ability to effective-updated and restored. Cells, as it were too lazy to run the mechanisms self-renewal of tissues. Once the flow stops food and water in the gastro-intestinal tract for the organism are fundamentally new conditions. Under these conditions "Dismantled" the old biomolecules, die and decompose cells are unstable (due to the lack of them filled ener

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to be possessed by a god’. You do not have to do it all alone. Enduring enthusiasm fills the existence of positive energy. It's like "a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is ride the wave. " One with life. In these three words is synthesised the secret of a successful and happy life. ABOUT SAPIENS EDITORIAL Books are mentors. Books can guide what we do and our lives. Many of us love books while reading them and maybe they will echo with us a few weeks after but 2 years later we can’t remember if we have read it or not. And that’s a shame. We remember that at that time, the book meant a lot to us. Why is it that 2 years later we have forgotten everything. That’s not good. This summary is taken from the most important themes of the original book. Most people don’t like books. People just want to know what the book says they have to do. If you trust the source you don’t need the arguments. So much of a book is arguing its points, but often you don’t need the argument if you trust the source you can just get the point. This summary takes the effort to distill the blahs into themes for the people who are just not going to read the whole book. All this information is in the original book. SAPIENS EDITORIAL Summary Of A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life’s Purpose, By Eckhart Tolle Sapiens Editorial © 2017 Sapiens Editorial /Sapiens Editorial All rights reserved.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|> Q: What is the main idea of Eckhart Tolle's book "A New Earth"?, A: The book is about transcending our ego-based state of consciousness and achieving a fulfilling existence by recognizing and overcoming our own ego and negative emotions. Q: What is the root of the problem in the world, according to Eckhart Tolle?, A: According to the author, the root of the problem is in our own minds, specifically our attachment to the ego and negative thoughts and emotions. Q: What is the key to achieving a fulfilling life, according to Eckhart Tolle?, A: The key is to recognize and overcome our ego, accept the present moment, and learn to let go of negative emotions and thoughts. Q: What is the concept of "Maya" mentioned in the text?, A: According to the text, "Maya" is a concept that refers to a network of collective beliefs that is the root of our problems. Q: What is the author's message about the importance of inner and outer harmony?, A: The author emphasizes the need to harmonize our inner and outer objectives, recognizing that our thoughts and actions are connected and must be aligned in order to achieve a fulfilling life.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>" Is it Possible? dear Sld11 Sl1arp Sisl1t dear Hearil1S Healil1S of abrasio11s Sl1im1\i -Ma11asable Hair Healms scar tissue Liver Spots deareb Moles.. warts trissolveb It is Possible Is it Possible? A '"Mebicme of all Diseases Reverses Diabetis oM~~~~ Heart 'Problems Helps cataracts of elies Aibs m Artl1ritis Bleebms Piles Aibs biseases ofldbt\~ Aibs il1 Diseases ofNerves It is Possible Awarb Hcaltl1 W'atcl1 Rcscarcl1 DISCLAIMER In the event the reader of this volwne uses the information without the approval of a health care provider, he/she is prescribing for himselVherself and assuming full responsibility for it. This is his/her right to do so, but this researcher and the Company Award Health Watch assumes no responsibility for his/her actions. This therapy and programs are not offered as an alternative to a orthodox medical, osteopathic, homeopathic, or chiropractic approach to treat diseases, but rather, an adjunct to the conventional treatments and a supportive program that can be used in combination or in addition to other therapies, if desired. Good nutrition or alternatives to drugs alone does not oppose or contradict the orthodox forms of healing. It complements them. 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Even though the urine therapy remedy processes contain no synthetic drugs [{patented} {Cost}], and all urine therapy uses are of a total natural and personal resource [{non-patent possible},{Free}]we are legally controJled to remind you that you should use this therapy only as directed by your health care provider. Do not self-diagnose. Do not attempt to treat yourself for any serious condition. Consult your health care provider. However, if your health care provider says that nutrition or therapy is not important and attempts to treat you only with drugs, we suggest that you obtain a second opinion from a diet conscience health care provider who is more aware of the natural methods of biological medicine, because-after all, it is your health! D£D1CAT£D T 0 THOS£ 11{N£W • To Stanley Ward {Father} Died-Colon Cancer -1986 Who the Allopathic Doctors claimed the only way to better his future was to have an operation to remove part of the colon. He trusted and had the operation. 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Degrading life changing multiple surgeries costing over $175,000.00 • To George Kowalski- {Step Father} Died Lung Cancer- 1998 Doctors gave no other method than chemotherapy, radiation, and refused an operative forum. { He didn't have insurance }. • To all those Doctors who claimed to help my family and friends listed above but had no authority to use other then Operation, Chemotherapy, or Radiation and to what end? It is my belief... These fine fellows may not have died if any of them or myself at that time would have had access to this therapy told here in this research. D£D1CAT£D TO THOS£ STlll F1GHT1NG To those who have been left behind by traditional methods and unreasonable costs and are now awaiting their eventual end. + To all those who need help now. • To all those who will need help in the future. • ~ Consider the contents within seriously. ~ It is true. 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he was that bad I should just get out. Then frien ds from the church would say I had no biblical grounds to leave him. It didn’ t matter to them how I was feeling or what was happening in my home. It made me crazy. I knew the pain and damage I felt. Their counsel felt really dismissive.” “Life is rarely black and white,” I said. “I have worked with enough women and narcissistic men to know that your life is complex—and your husband is complex too.” “Yes,” she said. “It’s so confusing. Jed is not all bad, and he’s certainly not all good. I’m not ready for divorce, but I can’t continue with the abuse. A lot of people want to lump him and me into a black-and-white box, where answers are simple. I have come to hate that kind of simplistic approach to life. There are a lot of grays in this world.” “Yes, there are,” I af firmed. “I learned who understands and who doesn’ t by the counsel they give,” she said. “If they offer me simple, two-step approaches, I know they haven’ t got a clue. And I don’t want anyone giving me counsel if they don’tunderstand emotional abuse,” she said, agitation showing on her face. “I can’t take it. It hurts far more than it helps.” “I couldn’ t agree more,” I said. “I feel the same way about working with the men. If you haven’ t worked with these men, seeing both their strengths and weaknesses, then be careful what you say.” Kat nodded. Living in Ambiguity I have a confession to make at this point in the book. I’m not always sure about what I’m talking about. Like those I counsel, both men and women, I live with ambiguity. I live with grays rather than blacks and whites. I’m not always sure about the best course of treatment. I’m not always 100 percent certain whether to encourage a woman to stay and see if he changes or run for the hills to find peace and sanity. I’m just not sure. You know the feeling. Y ou’re not always sure either. I recent ly received a scathing email from a narcissistic man I’d counseled. He was angry about the work I’d done with him. He challenged my work with him and the way I’d confronted him. He didn’ t like the confrontation and felt I’d sided with his wife. This broken rapport adds to my feelings of ambiguity and uncertainty. It is tempting to say he is the only one to blame. I’d like to say his criticism of me must have been completely born out of a narciss istic wound from my confrontation. Perhaps it’ s true. Perhaps not. He is wounded, to be sure. I may never know exactly why. I feel self- doubt. I thought I did good work and thought we had a good rapport. I did confront him on a number of fronts, however, and he is very unhappy with me. Was I too tough? Was I disresp ectful at some level? Did I press in too hard or step on his toes too rigorously? I’ll never know. I live with uncertainty and ambiguity. Can you relate? You probably doubt yourself too. You too probably wonder if you have pushed too hard or tiptoed too long. You know the feeling of wondering about your choices.Your path of healing, and mine for the work I do, must include an ability to accept ambiguity. Our paths are not paved and smooth. They are rough and rocky, rutted and strewn with debris. Savoring Moments of Peace Scripture tells us, “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:32). I’ve always wished this verse added, “But not before going through struggle.” Yes, that’ s more like it. Freedom isn’ t the only thing you will experience from the truth, but also angst and anxiety. Ask Kat if she is feeling free as she prepares to leave her husband to stay with her sister. Ask me if I felt freedom as I prepared to leave the home I loved for an uncertain change. So, what do we do? We savor moments of peace. What do I mean by this? I mean that we must vigorously seek places of peace. Those places and moments will be dif ferent for everyone. These moments of peace bring clarity—a respite from the storms of relationships. They allow us to feel God’ s presence, sensing whether we are moving in the right direction. They bring conviction about needed change. I find comfort in reciting Psalm 23: “The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside quiet waters. He restores my soul” (verses 1-3 NASB ). Ahhhh. This was the passage of Scripture I chose to meditate on for several days during a quiet retreat some years ago. Sitting alone in an austere room with only a bed and desk, I sat quietly hour after hour. Free from electronic devices or connections to the outside world, I retreated. Just God and me, seeking peace together. What are those moments and places for you? Where are the places that restore your soul? Some people find God in the mountains, while others are water people. Some find peace in a gathering of like-minded friends, and others gain respite by being alone. It doesn’ t matter what your place of peace looks like—only that you find it. The Path ForwardWe have talked about how change begins with you. We’ve seen that you have the power and responsibility to make your own choices and that those choices will bring life and health or challenges and dif ficulty. These are strong words but true. This is your one, beautiful life, and you can make anything of it. If you embrace the adversity you have experienced, you can use it to make yourself stronger. None of your troubling experiences have been wasted. You are stronger and wiser than you were in the past. Y ou are ready for change. Perhaps the most important concept of this chapter has to do with attitude. You can choose to no longer identify with your pain, as great as it has been. You can now identi fy with strength, conviction, and positive change. How will you choose? You are different now than you were when you began your healing journey. You are stronger, wiser, and better equipped to make changes. Y ou can do it. Now let’s find out how you can embrace truth and allow it to set you free. OceanofPDF.com11 THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE A lie can travel halfway ar ound the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. MARK TW AIN It will forever be in my wife’ s mind as the worst sailing adven ture ever. Not just a series of mistakes on my part, but a colossal failure that placed both Christie and me in peril. Armed only with arrogance and pride, I figured I didn’ t need to understand compass navigation, maps, boat mechanics, tides, and currents or distances to move my new sailboat from Olympia to Harstine Island in the south Puget Sound. I figured navigating on water was just like navigating on land. Right? Wrong! W ildly foolish and even reckless. On a cold day in November, I coaxed my wife out of our warm home into a chilly car and finally into our freezing 25-foot sailboat. We had to wait a couple hours to leave because there was ice on the water in the cove where the boat was moored. “Are you sure you know where we’re going?” Christie asked anxiously. “I don’ t feel good about this.” “Sure,” I said. “We’re heading north, turning right, and then navigating around Harstine Island. We should be able to get to Jarrell’ s Cove before dark.” “Are you sure?” she again asked, distrusting my glib response.“Yes, babe,” I said. “I know what I’m doing.” In retrospect, this was a lie. It was self-deceit of the highest order. I cultivated an attitude that serve d only myself. I was reckless, foolish, and prideful. My confidence heading out of the Olympia harbor quickly gave way to mild panic I did not want Christ ie to see. My boat plowed through the water at a sluggish five knots per hour, far below my original calculat ions. Rather than taking two hours to get out into open water, it took four. I was behind schedule from the start. Any experienced sailor knows exactly how much gasoline they have on board. They know exactly where all the harbors are to refuel. They know the distance to the destinatio n. They understand their charts and are prepared for a variety of dangerous possibilities that might occur. I knew none of those things. My preparation was stubborn determination, ignorance, and magical thinking—not a good combination for a dif ficult navigation. Needless to say, we motored well into the night. Christie became rightfully annoyed. Only after my ignorance was totally apparent did I admit to Christie that I was unsure where we were. There were no neon signs on the water directing us, no warning lights on land

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during sexual intercourse, into power that can be sent up to the head. I feel confident now that I am learning a more complete system. Furthermore, I feel better and stronger and enjoy more feelings of pleasure than ever before. It is most important to transmute the sperm energy into a type that can be used throughout the system. Simply retaining it is no use and doesn't even really manage to keep you from losing fluids. It is like building a dam. After a while the water just runs over the top. But when I transmute power and send it to my head, I feel my energy routes getting joined and cleared. Otherwise energy builds in areas like the head. Having nowhere else to go, it might cause damage. Right now I'm working on opening the 32 routes that must be opened. This should allow me to accommodate much more power, as there is much more room for it to occupy. SoStudents Experiences 223 what's the end? Immortality seems like a long way off, but it beats the hell out of my job. I think I'm going to go for it.CHAPTER 14 PRACTICAL GUIDELINES TO KEEPING SEX RADIANT AND HEALTHY "The Way of the Tao is to unify the spirit. Do this by gathering your vital energy, calming your mind, and harmonizing your will. The body should be regulated neither too hot nor too cold, neither hungry nor overfed. In this way sex is always leisurely and re- laxed." —Plain Woman's advice to the Yellow Emperor Over the centuries the Taoists observed there were many different ways to maximize the power of love-making and minimize the harmful loss of the sexual energies being exchanged and trans- formed. For example, assume you had mastered the "Big Draw" so you had perfect control over your orgasm. Suppose you then ate a big meal before making passionate love with your partner for several hours. Afterwards, you took a shower right away and then lay about naked under a cool summer breeze coming through the window. You very likely neutralized the energizing effects of the sex, °r worse, harmed your health by ignoring that the flow of energy before and after love-making is as important as the flow of chi felt during sex. Mastering semen retention is an essential step in transforming your sexual energy, but it is worthless if that energy generated is226 Taoist Secrets Of Love not harmonized with the rest of your life. The big dinner ties up your digestive energy and the shower and breeze disperse the chi so carefully conserved during sex. Taoists are concerned with keeping the overall flow of life energy in balance and this demands growing awareness of the subtle events that control your life. Here are some observations culled from Taoist teachings on keeping sex radiant and healthy. 1. GET TUNED WITH YOUR PARTNER'S ENERGY 48 HOURS IN ADVANCE Sex really begins 48 hours in advance of the act, as the energies you accumulate then will express themselves when you go deep into sex. So the day before, during and even after sex you should try to calm down any feeling of agitation or anger, as this, more than almost anything else, will block the balanced flow of energy with your partner and within yourself. A woman's yin nature gives her sensitive antennae to hidden under-currents. So if you are clear, it will help her be clear and relaxed when you begin to make love. If you start on the plane of serenity, sex will more easily take you to a higher level of ecstasy. Be sensitive, stay with your part- ner; the effort is to move to a deeper state of being together, not just share a momentary climax. Let the sex become part of the larger meditation that is your life. 2. FOREPLAY BEGINS WITH A RELAXED ATMOSPHERE Remember a woman's erogenous zones are different and often broader, than a man's. Caress her by creating an intimate "home" or bedroom conducive to love-making. Foreplay begins before you even touch a woman's body; dim lighting or candles, soft pillows and loose, natural clothes, sweet smells, music and gentle talk will appeal to her sexual energy and expand her openness to your own. 3. DON'T MAKE LOVE AFTER A BIG MEAL This common mistake can ruin either your digestion or your love- making. Sex and eating are two separate functions that work best when there is no competition for body energy. Sex on a full belly reduces semen production, causes indigestion and harms theKeeping Sex Radiant And Healthy 227 spleen. Wait until your food is fully digested, and the quality of your love making will be much higher. After sex is over, it may be nourishing to eat some warm sweet foods. Herbal tea can be es- pecially tonifying and help a man regain his energy. Avoid cold drinks, ice cream, or ice cubes afterwards—your body has to heat them up which burns off your subtle sexual energy. 4. AVOID INTERCOURSE IN ANY EXTREME STATE If you are too tired, angry, hungry, afraid, sad, weak, or angry don't have sex. The energy required to make love may throw your health further off balance, and accelerate the development of a minor illness into a major one. A cold acquired from a partner can develop into a flu. If you feel sexual frustration and are literally "bursting" with extreme yang sex energy, engage in sex but with restraint. Don't exhaust the yang energy so that you flip into the opposite "yin" state of exhaustion. This is like a thirsty man dying from gorging on water suddenly found. You may feel passion and should fully enjoy the body sensa- tions and feelings stimulated by sex, but try not to get lost in their extremes, or the pleasure may turn to pain. When the atmosphere is one of relaxed enjoyment both lovers will find it easier to open to the higher energies within themselves. If one lover moves to an extreme state of arousal, the other may feel left out or unbalanced. 5. DON'T MAKE LOVE WHEN DRUNK ON ALCOHOL It's hard to control your semen flow much less your chi flow when you're drunk. The feeling of warmth you feel on alcohol is tempo- rary, caused by your blood capillaries opening and releasing your inner energy. Strong physical exertion while drunk may damage your lungs through loss of breath control. One or two drinks may help some people relax without causing loss of control; if you must drink alcohol learn your own limits and stay within them. When your own energy becomes more intensely satisfying than that of- fered by alcohol, your need for it will drop away naturally, without struggle.228 Taoist Secrets Of Love 6. URINATE 20 MINUTES BEFORE YOU HAVE INTERCOURSE Making love on a full bladder puts stress on your kidneys and thus makes it difficult to feel relaxed during sex. The only time it's advisable to urinate after intercourse is if the woman has her period. The urine will prevent her blood from drying inside the urethra of your penis and blocking it which can be very painful. You should wait a short while after urinating before having intercourse to give your bladder (or intestines if you defecated) and other vital organs time to return to balance. A short rest lying down should quickly restore them. Otherwise your love making may suffer from irregular rhythm and contribute to the development of ulcer tensions. 7. SEX DURING EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS CAN BE UNHEALTHY Severe cold or heat, rain and dampness, fog and great winds, thunder and lightning all have an input on the function of your vital organs and electro-magnetic field balance. These can lead to im- balances between love partners and even illness if one is already in a weakened state. Weather is a very powerful force and should be respected. This is especially true if you are attempting to conceive a child, where it is important to create a balanced "home" (parents energy field) for his/her spirit. 8. AVOID HARD PHYSICAL WORK BEFORE AND AFTER SEX If you engage in vigorous activity for the couple of hours before and after intercourse it may temporarily deplete the organs and muscles being exercised. This may interfere with the transforma- tion of sexual energy into your higher centers, since the energy will be needed for physical recovery. When you are sweating or feel physically exhausted your life-force can easily leak out of the body. Sex is a proper cure to this condition only if the love making is totally passive and restful.Keeping Sex Radiant And Healthy 229 9. DON'T RELY ON ARTIFICIAL SEXUAL AIDS Vibrators and dildoes can be of a great help to someone who suffer- ing from a sexual dysfunction (can't erect or have orgasm). But for most men it is better to "sharpen your own weapon" and strengthen your sex organs through exercise, diet, and sexual kung-fu than to rely on artificial aids. The goal is to have love making become an internal process between the energy poles of man and woman, so the sooner you can leave behind external aids the better. 10. DON'T BATHE/SHOWER IMMEDIATELY AFTER SEX Water is a strong conductor of electricity and that includes human electricity as

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at your side and move the pulsing sensation to your fingertips. Feel the faint pulsation of the blood coursing through your fingers. This exercise shows you that you have more control over body awareness than you think. You can have the intention of your body feeling light or heavy, warm or cold, solid or hollow. With practice, you can intentionally make your heart rate and breathing slow down, and the intention will be enough to create these changes. But the whole process begins by showing yourself that you can merge into the zone of the bodymind and move your awareness wherever you want it to go. THURSDAY Magical Lies Begin by silently repeating today’ s theme: I vibrate in the field of light. I vibrate in the field of light. When pratyahara talks about withdrawing the senses, the main reason is to turn inward, but another reason is just as important: The senses cannot be trusted. Everyone has a glimmer of this since we all know, despite the evidence of our eyes, that the sun does not, in fact, rise in the morning and set at night. But Yoga goes much further, declaring that the five senses wrapus in a web of magical lies. You cannot be in touch with reality, including the reality of your true self, if you are under the spell of these lies. Yoga describes the whole schem e of magical lies as maya, or “illusion,” but I find that this terminology makes people uncomfortable. If this world is an illusion, then what are we supposed to cling to? The physical world and everything in it aren’ t going anywhere, no matter what Yoga says. Clearly, you can’t live in the world and simultaneously call it a total lie—no one could psychologically endure such doublethink. Pratyahara shows another way, which is based on an innocent-looking word that has amazing potency: vibration. Take any object—a tree, a dog, a skyscraper, or a molecule—and we can trace its origin to a set of vibrations. In quantum physics, these vibrations are described as “ripples in the quantum field.” In Yoga, there are “ripples in consciousness.” The fact that the cosmos is held together by invisible vibrations doesn’ t change everyday life, although it is an astonishin g fact. But vibrations in consciousness are everyday life. Pratyahara doesn’t ask you to smash your way through the thickets of maya. Rather, you learn to choose the level of vibrations you want to identify with. Being the realm of the five senses, maya is a gross level of vibrations—at this level, rocks are hard, the wind is soft, roses smell sweet, garbage stinks. Thought is a subtler level of vibration, a realm of imagination, abstract concepts, and the whole scheme of wishes, dreams, fears, and memories that inhabit the mind. Go one level deeper, and you are in the realm of pratyahara, where vibrations are born, emer ging faintly from the unbounded field of your awareness the way that quark s emer ge from the unbounded “quantum foam” that constantly hums and vibrates. Reality bubbles up like fizz in a carbonated drink. But this doesn’ t describe the way that every level of reality does a flip, completely overturning the level of reality next to it. At the level of maya, one experience s physical qualities, like hardness, solidity, warmth, and heaviness, and their opposites, which is why you can instantly distinguish a rock from a feather.At the level of the mind, there is a flip, and physical qualities become imaginary. You can see a rock or a feather in your mind’ s eye, but they cannot be touched or weighed. This level is where most people stop, but there is another flip if you go deeper. Now the imaginary feather and the imaginary rock no longer exist, but the vibrations that give rise to them do. What is a feath er without its light softness or a rock without its solid hardness? Both dissolve into creative intelligence. The whole rationale behind pratyahara is that creative intelligence contains all the essentials for creating anythin g. To make this more personal, this is the level where you are created, with all your essential ingredients held in place, precisely as the essentials of a rock, feather, or any other object are held in place. In pratyahara, your essentials are very different from the body and mind you experience, yet you will still recognize yourself if you list these invisible ingredients. THE “STUFF” THAT IS YOU Your true essence is timeless, unborn, and undying. Every atom of your body is an expression of creative intelligence. Every choice you make reverberates throughout the field of pure consciousness. You are embraced by the organizing power of the field, which governs and regulates everything. You occupy a unique place in creation. You are whole because the field is whole. Human beings can see what they are made of and access their source in the timeless field of pure awareness. No one can explain this, the ultimate mystery known as self-awareness. Each of us is designed to be self-aware— it is simply a fact of human existence. The field of pure awareness is opento all. No one can be deprived of access to their source. At the same time, you can choose how self-aware you wish to be. There is an almost complete absence of self-awareness at one extreme, which is marked by fear, denial, ignorance, unconscious behavior, and robotic conditioning. At the other extreme is pratyahara, immersing yourself in the light, which makes you self-aware in every moment. There is nothing more to seek or desir e out of life. Placed in the flow of creative intelligence, you identify with your true self as naturally as you once identified with your five sense s. You have broken the spell of maya. In place of magica l lies, you expe rience your essence, and every gift of the light is yours for the taking. Exercise You were created from the unbo unded field of pure awareness, which is your true source. To absorb what it means to be unbounded, sit quietly with eyes closed and take a few deep breaths. Once you feel centered and settled, direct your atten tion to the air as it passes in and out of your nose. Visualize each breath as a small puff of air. Now with the next out-breath, see the puff of air getting bigger, and with the next in-breath, see the air coming to you from a lar ger space. Continue the process of expansion until you visualize inhaling air from the whole room and exhaling it into the whole room. If you are sitting by an open window, continue expanding, seeing air coming to you from the neighborhood, then the city, the countryside, never stopping until you visualize the planet giving you air with each in-breath and receiving the air back with each out-breath. (If your room doesn’ t have an open window or any windows at all, visualize an open window.) A variation on this exercise is to visualize the expansion of light instead of air. Direct your attention to your heart. Visualize a dot of white light there. With each in-breath and out-breath, see the dot pulsate, gradually expanding, the same way you expanded the air going in and out of you. Watch the pulsing light fill your body, then expand to fill the room, theneighborhood, and the city, until you can see pulsations of light coming to you in all directions without limit. These two exercises get you in touch with the infinite field that is your essence. FRIDAY Last Stop for Karma Begin by silently repeating today’ s theme: I allow the light to find me. I allow the light to find me. Every person has a double fate. We are destined to be embedded in maya —the scheme of magical lies driven by karma. That is our first fate. But we are also destined to live in the light. Both fates are necessary. Karma keeps the universe going, like a cosmic machine with an infinite number of moving parts, perfectly meshing together. Anything that requires moving parts, connections, and cause and effect comes under the purvie w of karma. The moving parts can be the chemicals rushing in and out of every cell; the connections can be the molecula r bonds that keep these chemica ls intact. At a subtler level, the moving parts can be your thoughts; the connections are the story you weave from these thoughts. Out of habit, most people divide their karma along the lines of pleasure and pain; good karma makes life pleasant, while bad karma brings discomfort and suffering. But the real issue is karma itself. If you achieved a life of perfect pleasure without a hint of suffering, you would still be trapped inside the web of magical lies. The second fate solves this dilemma. Karma no longer touches you when you live in the light. No other living creature (as far as we know) can consciously step out of the karmic machine. Unique on Earth, Homo sapiens can defy biological programming. If everyone knew this fact, Yoga would be the path chosen by all of humanity. There would be different

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of the skin in the affected areas, which resolved in time.5657 DMSO Clinical Pharmacology More recently, topical application of 50% DMSO three to five times daily was given as an anti-inflammatory therapy to 74 patients with CRPS and a mean dis - ease duration of 17 weeks.57 The DMSO treatment was supplemented with physical therapy and acetaminophen as an oral analgesic. Of the 74 patients with early CRPS, 55 (74%) patients significantly showed improvement in their pain score. Although no attempt was made to examine whether analgesia was obtained with DMSO or acetaminophen, the authors concluded that this package treatment should become standard therapy for patients presenting with early CRPS. 57 A review of the most promising treatments for CRPS-1 at the present time con- cluded that early treatment of this syndrome is more likely to respond to treatment.58 Of all the therapies for CRPS considered, including a wide range of analgesics, gan - glionic blockers, steroids, adrenoceptor antagonists, acupuncture, calcitonin, and the glutamate blocker ketamine, the authors concluded that the therapy least likely to do harm and supported by evidence of efficacy was topical 50% DMSO cream 58 (see Figure 3.1). In dealing with the subject of pain in humans, it must be remembered that pain is one of the most subjective of conditions and consequently one of the most difficult to test objectively by any means. Many extrinsic and intrinsic factors such as varying pain thresholds, gender, age, level of stress, culture, health status, mental condition - ing, and other factors make pain a unique ailment in assessing and successfully treating it. Pharmaceutical-grade DMSO has been used extensively as a penetration enhancer over the past 30 years demonstrating a favorable safety and efficacy profile. DMSO enhances the transdermal delivery of both hydrophilic and lipophilic medications that can provide localized drug delivery. NSAIDs are widely used in the treatment of pain associated with a variety of indications, including arthritic conditions, but their usefulness is often limited by dose-dependent adverse events, such as gastrointestinal disturbances, cardiovascular events, and renal toxicity. The risk of such effects could be reduced by the use of topical formulations, which offer the potential to deliver analgesic concentrations locally, at the site of inflammation, while minimizing systemic concentrations. In view that DMSO can potentiate the pharmacological activity of other agents and carry many of these compounds to a biological system, a number of DMSO mix - tures have been described for a variety of medical conditions. In managing osteoar - thritis, a condition with no cure characterized by pain, stiffness in at least one joint, and impairment or loss of function of the affected joint(s), diclofenac sodium topical solution 1.5% in 45% DMSO (TDiclo) was approved by the FDA in 2009 for the treatment of osteoarthritis. This NSAID–DMSO preparation now offers an alterna - tive to single-use (NSAID) agents by reducing the NSAIDs risk of adverse events through DMSO’s ability to enhance the penetration of diclofenac and thereby lower the dose of diclofenac. 59–61 A recent multicenter, randomized, blinded, Phase III clinical study lasting 4–12 weeks of TDiclo for knee or hand osteoarthritis in 280 patients over the age of 75 reported that TDiclo is an appropriate treatment choice for osteoarthritis, with rela - tively few patients experiencing gastrointestinal or rarely cardiovascular and renal/urinary adverse events. 62 Results from this study suggest that TDiclo may offer an 58 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease alternative to oral NSAID therapy for osteoarthritis of the knee or hand, particularly for patients at increased risk for serious systemic adverse events from oral NSAIDs.62 Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. Although it generally affects older men, it causes significant mortality when it metastasizes. The main therapy for metastatic prostate cancer involves androgen manipulation, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. 63 Prostate cancer pain is difficult to treat because the pathophysiology of pain in cancer patients is complex and remains poorly understood, making intractable pain from cancer a challenge for both patients and clinicians. 64 Infusion of DMSO–sodium bicarbonate (DMSO–SB) was used to treat 18 patients with metastatic prostate cancer.65 After a 90-day follow-up, patients treated with DSMO–SB showed significant improvement in clinical symptoms, including pain, blood and biochemistry tests, and quality of life. 65 There were no major side effects from the treatment. This study strongly suggested that therapy with DMSO–SB infu - sions could provide a rational alternative to conventional treatment for patients with metastatic prostate cancer. 65 Another approach for the palliative treatment of advanced prostate cancer involved a subcutaneous implanted device that uses DMSO as a solubilizing e xcipient. The  device was approved by the FDA in 2000. The implanted device contains a solution of 104 mg of DMSO and 72 mg of leuprolide acetate 66 (Viadur), a synthetic form gonadotropin-releasing hormone that can decrease blood levels of the male hormone testosterone. Androgen deprivation using leuprolide acetate and DMSO as an excipient has been shown to have a salutary effect in men with advanced prostate cancer. 67 In two open-label multicenter studies, long-term efficacy and safety using Viadur implanted device for 1 year was reported in a total of 122 patients.68 Among the many antiviral agents used against herpes simplex virus (HSV), idox - uridine and adenine arabinoside have shown minimal therapeutic benefit. However, when combined with DMSO, this treatment has been successful in acyclovir- r esistant strains of HSV. In a double-blind, randomized, patient-initiated treatment study at five medical centers, 301 immunocompetent patients experiencing a recurrence of herpes labialis were treated with topical 15% idoxuridine (IDU) in 80% DMSO. 69 Using this drug combination, the mean duration of pain was significantly reduced by 1.3 days and the mean healing time to loss of crust by 1.7 days. 69 When only patients with classic herpes lesions (vesicle, ulcer, or crust formation) were considered, a greater drug effect using the idoxuridine–DMSO combination was seen for lowering the duration of pain by 2.6 days and increasing the mean healing time to normal skin by 2.3 days, a significant difference when compared to controls. 69 Idoxuridine–DMSO (IDU) has also been used for herpes zoster and for the pre - vention of post herpetic neuralgia and compared to the antiviral agent acyclovir. After 4 days of topical treatment, IDU showed better control of vesicle formation, itching, and pain than oral acyclovir or placebo. 70 These studies support the concept of DMSO as a penetrant and enhancer of other pharmaceuticals and suggest that additional combinations of DMSO and proven active medications for many illnesses should be further studied with the goal of lowering the dose of the active agent and consequently their systemic toxicity by localizing the treatment to a body part. This pharmacotherapeutic approach has not 59 DMSO Clinical Pharmacology been exploited to a greater potential, especially with newer active agents for disease control that are replacing older, less efficacious, and more toxic medications. The effects of DMSO as a neuroprotective agent in the brain and spinal cord are dis - cussed in more detail in Chapters 8 and 9. INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a painful chronic bladder condition that causes debilitating bladder pain that can be associated with urinary urgency, frequency, and nocturia. It is characterized by inflammation, erosion, and thinning of the bladder epithelial cells, and its hallmark symptom is pelvic and perineal pain. IC affects about three to eight million women and one to four million men in the United States, reducing the quality of life and social function of those affected. IC often overlaps overactive bladder (OAB), which can make diagnosis of either one or both difficult. 71 It is gen - erally accepted that the hallmark for IC is pain and abdominal tenderness, whereas for OAB, it is urgency, frequency, and nocturia. However, both conditions can share these complaints. The cause of IC is not clear, and it is still a disease diagnosed by exclusion since many other conditions resemble the symptoms of IC. There is no definitive test to identify IC, but other conditions mimicking IC can be ruled out by urinalysis, urine culture, cystoscopy, biopsy of the bladder wall, and, in men, laboratory examination of prostatic secretions. IC is an understudied disorder lacking diagnostic and strategic treatment modali - ties, most likely from the limited research funding available to investigators. 72 Oral or intravesical therapies are the mainstay of treatment, while surgical procedures are reserved for refractory cases. This condition usually warrants a multidisciplinary approach for optimum outcome. 73 In 1978, Shirley and his colleagues74 introduced DMSO as a treatment for IC and reported dramatic results. They treated 213 patients

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ach other. We went through some tough times, but we grew stronger as a couple as a result. A year or so later, we were married. Everything was wonderful! It was now time to settle down and start our life together. But instead, we went a little crazy for a while, just doing whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted. If we wanted something, we bought it. Itdidn’t matter whether we had the cash or not; we simply charged it. After a while, we stopped and looked at what we were doing to ourselves. It was not a pretty sight! Where did our gratitude go? We were taking things for granted, not appreciating what we had. Just wanting more, more, more. Okay, time to straighten ourselves out. We started a savings account, only paid cash for things, and stopped going overboard with gifts. Family and friends will love us no matter how much we spend on them, we realized. Times were very tough while we dug ourselves out of our financial hole. So, I can tell you that I am really excited to have a little cash in my wallet these days! As time went by, I became pregnant—a wonderful surprise to my husband and me. As the months passed and that little life grew inside of me, so did our gratitude. Being able to experience this miracle was the greatest gift we had ever been given. On the day our daughter was born and she was handed to my husband, I have to say that watching his face was incredible—his eyes filled with tears of joy. You could see the love he was feeling. Then, he placed her in my arms, and all I could say was, “Thank you, God!” Tears streamed down our faces. We had truly been blessed. As I looked into my daughter’s eyes, I was completely overwhelmed with love and gratitude. She was an angel from God. I finally got it—the ultimate feeling of gratitude. I carry that feeling with me every day. Gratitude is a special gift. Don’t take anything for granted. Love and appreciate everything in your life. It’s there for a reason—learn from it. And remember, when you say thank you, really feel thankful. I do! So Many Blessings Sir John Mason Sir John Mason was born in Manchester, England, in 1927. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Cambridge, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in history. He served in the British Army during World War II and the Korean War, where he reached the rank of Captain, John served in the British Foreign Service from 1952 to 1984, serving in Rome, Warsaw, Damascus, and New York. From 1976 to 1980, he was British Ambassador to Israel; and from 1980 to 1984, he was British High Commissioner to Australia. He retired in 1984 and settled in Australia, where he has been chairman of many large companies. He is a dual British-American citizen. In 1954, he married Margaret Newton, and they have a grown son and daughter. John was knighted in 1980. I am 68 years old, and I have nothing in my life not to be grateful about. I’m grateful to all the people who have given me so many reasons to be grateful. I have so many blessings that I lose count of them. I will first try to count some of my personal blessings and then those that I share with others in the world. Personal Blessings My parents gave me high intelligence, motivation, and a secure and happy home. They encouraged me to win the scholarships, which, thanks to excellent teaching, paid for my education. It may not be politically correct to say so, but I count myself fortunate to have been born hetero-sexual because…the greatest blessing of my life has been 40 years of marriage to a wonderfully patient and loving lady, to whom I am, of course, endlessly grateful. I hope I remember to tell her so. She gave us two admirable children, who are not only happy and fulfilled, but also on speakingterms with each other and ourselves.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms: In principle, this always leads to awareness. Gratitude is an access to awareness, and awareness is a doorway to love, unceasing. It is a turn of mind, a re-orientation, a commitment in consciousness towards love and acceptance of what is. We all can do this. We must only be willing. The practice of gratitude saves us from our painful human storyline, for it requires us to look deeper into our lives and the people around us. The surface rarely holds depth; rather, it obscures it. Gratitude enriches and deepens the colorful fabric of our lives by allowing us to see more. It is impossible to feel worry, anger, depression, or any negative emotion of any kind in the presence of genuine gratitude. A beautiful sunny day and a dark, stormy day cannot occur in the same place at the same time. So does the practice of gratitude redirect our minds away from fear and toward the truth, clearing out all negativity, pain, and suffering. I have a preventive maintenance program for resignation, cynicism, and doubt. Every day, more than once, I search my mind for all that I have to be grateful for. Noticing the constant flow of prosperity, riches, and wealth coming toward me leads to a welcome and reliable constant: peace of mind. So, if you are not yet someone who on a daily basis practices gratitude, like an unending prayer or background music for your life, I invite you to consider the possibility of doing so, beginning now. Come up to the higher room. Gratitude requires responsibility. See and begin to own your valuable contributions and talents. Acknowledge the people in your life: those you love and those you may not love. In a true sense, they are all the same. They are your teachers. Be grateful for them. While doing so, realize how powerful you are, how moving your life is, and to what extent you are blessed in just being here. And then watch what happens. Gratitude Feels Good. Sylvia Friedman Sylvia Friedman has been an astrologer, human behavior consultant, and handwriting analyst for over 20 years, and has appeared as a guest expert on numerous TV programs, including Oprah and AM

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the soil, takes in water and minerals. The leaf, being rich in chlorophyll ( it’s blood ), carries out the process of photosynthesis by uniting the water absorbed by the roots with carbon dioxide gathered from the atmosphere. This miracle process produces simple sugar, an organic rich food for the plant. 89 iron and chlorophyll var y in different parts of the plant. For instance, the green outer leaves of cabbage contain four times as much iron as the inner leaves. How Plants Do Their Miracle W ork In order to carr y out their life processes, ever y The stem is an intermediate structure which conducts the water from the root to the leaf. It holds the leaf in the best position for it to receive maximum sunlight. The stem also carries the newly manufactured sugar from the leaf to various places in the plant where it can be stored for future use. Plants are miracles. Iron Ser ves Four Distinct Purposes In Plants, Animals and Man 90 1. Iron produces the chlorophyll (blood) of the plant, principally contained in the green leaves, and the hemoglobin of the red corpuscles in man. 2. Iron enables the plant to take carbon dioxide and nitrogen from the air and to synthesize them into organic matter using chlorophyll and sunlight. 3. Iron assists in the processes of respiration in man and animals. It is the hemoglobin that carries the oxygen to all parts of the body, reaching ever y cell through the capillaries. Here the carbon of the ingested food, stored in the cells of the tissues, is oxidized and changed into carbonic acid. This in turn is combined with the alkaline elements of the blood and eliminated through the lungs. 4. Iron generates a magnetic blood current and an electromagnetic induction cur rent in the ner ve spirals which pass through the walls of the arteries and veins, helping to build and nourish the tissues. The total amount of iron in the human body is comparatively small. Under normal conditions, it does not exceed 75 grains. Of this quantity, about 50 grains are contained in the blood, with the remainder being distributed throughout the marrow of the bones, in the liver and principally in the spleen. Iron is the most active mineral in the system, and therefore needs to be renewed more frequently than the more stable elements of calcium and potassium in the bones and tissues. The treatment of diseases should go to the root cause. Most often it is found in severe dehydration from lack of sufficient water and living an unhealthy lifestyle. 91 Organic V egetables and Fruits are Good, Heathy Sour ces of Iron The best or ganic iron sour ces are organically grown green leafy vegetables, raw spinach (raw is best since cooked spinach has some oxalic acid), parsley, water cress, sprouts, raw squash, Swiss chard, dandelion and mustard The quantity of blood in a 160 pound normal adult man is about 12 pounds (7. 5% of body weight) and contains appr oximately 50 grains of iron. W ith ever y pulse beat, nearly 6 ounces of blood ar e forced from the heart into our major ar tery, the aorta. Ever y 30 seconds, that blood passes from the heart into the lungs. Then the blood travels from the lungs into the arteries and capillaries throughout the body. Consequently, these 50 grains of iron pass through the heart and lungs 120 times per hour, or 2,880 times per day. Within 24 hours under normal conditions, the 50 grains of iron have to perform the same function as 2,880 x 50 grains, or more than 20 pounds. For that reason alone, a daily supply of organic iron in our food is essential to the body. greens, green cabbage, leeks, sorrel, Bibb lettuce, green lettuce, the skins of unwaxed cucumbers, avocado, horseradish, beet greens, artichokes, asparagus, carrots, tomatoes, beets, corn, black radish, pumpkin and corn. Many fresh organically grown fruits and their juices have a high content of organic iron. Leading the list are blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, gooseberries, and grapes, cherries, oranges, peaches, strawberries and pears. Natural sun-dried fruits are high in iron – with apricots being highest ( our favorite ), followed by black figs, prunes, peaches, dates and raisins. Many other foods have a high content of iron: blackstrap and Barbados molasses, raw wheat germ, soy beans, raw and unsalted sesame, pumpkin, sunflower and squash seeds, Br ewer’ s yeast, whole barley, dried beans of all kinds (pinto, kidney, lima, lentils, garbanzos), raw and unsalted nuts, natural brown rice, dried peas, rice bran, wheat bran, rye, whole grain cereals and millet. All these foods will have a higher Only I can change my life. No one else can do it for me. – Carol Burnett 92 content of iron if grown organically with no chemical fertilizers and absolutely no poisonous sprays. Let us again impress upon you that your body needs organic iron – not the iron that comes from inorganic sour ces. Can our bodies get ir on from water. Y ou often hear about a certain well or spring containing large amounts of iron. Some water does contain inorganic iron. But your body cannot use this inorganic iron – in fact, this iron is dangerous to your body. It can cause all kinds of stones to form in your vital organs, cement your joints and could turn your blood vessels to stone. Again we caution you: Stay away from inorganic minerals. Every Mineral Matters The body contains 19 essential mineral elements, all of which must be derived from live foods. Calcium, phosphorus and magnesium are vital for the growth and maintenance of bone; potassium and organic sodium give your body fluids their composition and stability. Phosphorus, calcium and sulphur are the essential constituents of the body cells from which all organs and tissues are composed. Magnesium, iron and phosphorus are important to help with the release of energy from your food. Iodine (seaweed and kelp) is important to the thyroid gland, which controls growth and the rate at which energy is used. Copper and iron minerals are needed in forming the red blood cells. Other minerals like sulphur and cobalt are used in the synthesis of some vitamins by the body. Zinc is an essential part of the insulin molecule. Ever y mineral contributes a unique factor to vitality, which is the positive proof of good health. These Organic Foods are Rich in Organic Minerals. A) Oats B) Wheat C) Rye D) Corn Beets for Longevity Organic raw beets and celer y have the highest amounts of or ganic sodium. We eat them almost daily raw in salads and our fresh juices. Once a week we make a beet – veggie combination soup, based on traditional Russian Borscht. W e know you’ll like this r ecipe. BRAGG HEARTY BEET – VEGGIE SOUP Delicious Hot or Cold. 12 qts distilled water 2 unpeeled potatoes, dice 2 cups cabbage, slice 3 cups raw beets, shred 1 cup carrots, shred 1 cup celer y, dice 2–3 garlic cloves, mince 1 tsp Bragg Liquid Aminos 1 small onion, mince 2 Tbsps Bragg Organic Olive Oil Pinch of Italian Herbs 1 tsp Bragg Organic V inegar 3 fresh tomatoes (or 1 cup unsalted canned tomatoes) Mince onion, lightly saute in olive oil 3 minutes. Add 12 quarts distilled water and coarsely shred veggies. Simmer in covered pot 15 minutes or until veggies are tender. Add tomatoes last 5 minutes. Season with Bragg Liquid Aminos and Organic Raw Apple Cider V inegar just before ser ving. Y ou can var y this recipe by adding other fresh organic veggies in season, and precooked brown rice, beans, lentils or lima beans. Serves 4 to 6. As resear chers in nutrition and longevity, we have been keenly interested in the long-lived people in Russia and the Ukraine. Bragg Miracle of Fasting is the #1 Health Book in Russia and Ukraine for over 15 years. My father made several expeditions to primitive Russia and found people who lived amazingly long lives – some way over 120 years. Beets were an important part of their daily diet. They got water cress from fresh mountain streams which they mixed with raw grated beets for a healthy salad. Dad found areas where the main sour ces of water for drinking were rain and snow waters (distilled by Mother Nature) which helps reduce chances of having hardening of the arteries from inorganic minerals and chemical 93 Soup rejoices the stomach, and prepares it to receive and digest other foods. – Brillat Savarin

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aling the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases www.thegersonway.comaverage diet. The price of survival is to remain on the Gerson program for life. In brief, kidney disease is treatable and can achieve long-term survival, but it is not curable. Once dialysis has been started, normally when kidney function drops below 10%, the patient should NOT attempt to go on the Gerson Therapy. Emphysema: This is another disease that can be greatly alleviated, but not cured. Also referred to as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema causes changes in the structure of the air sacs that filter out carbon dioxide for secretion, and allow oxygen to pass into the blood. Here the lung tissue is severely damaged by smoking, air pollution toxins or inflammation, so that it loses its permeability and the exchange of gases is seriously inhibited. The sick tissue can be restored; dead tissue is gone. The patient can probably function normally with only about 50% of functioning lung tissue, but he or she cannot be fully restored. Muscular Dystrophy: Thought to be a familial (genetic) disease, this condition causes progressive atrophy (wasting away) of muscles and usually starts in childhood, more frequently in boys than in girls. The underlying cause is described as “A disorder caused by defective nutrition or metabolism” (Taber). In Dr. Gerson’s day it responded favorably to his treatment, but more recently we have not seen good results and have to consider it incurable. In one case, diagnosed as Duchenne’s Disease, which usually results in death at an early age, we have seen a more than twenty year long survival. TO SUM UP: The Gerson Therapy would be useless and could even cause harm to the following, who should not undertake it under any circumstances: • Patients on dialysis • Patients with organ transplants (the therapy would cause a rejection) • Patients with melanoma that has spread to the brain (the only case in which melanoma, eminently curable in any other body part, does not respond) • Patients with pancreatic cancer if chemotherapy has been administered. (Pancreatic cancer is curable, but only if not pre-treated with chemotherapy.) Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 8 3Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases www.thegersonway.comReferences: 1. Budwig, J. Flax Oil as a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases, Apple Publishing, 1994. 2. Taber’ s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, F.A.Davis Company, Philadelphia, 1993. 3. Ibid. 4. Booth, F. [email protected] 5. Robbins, J. Diet for a New America, New World Library, 1998. 6. McDougall, J. The McDougall Program for Women, Plume, 2000. 7. Price, W.A. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Keats Pub., 15th edition, 2003. 8. Meinig, G. Root Canal Cover-Up, Bion Publishing, Ojai, CA, 1994. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 8 4Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 7 Restoring the Body’s Defenses “I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living. We must return to nature and nature’s God.” Luther Burbank (1849-1926) “Physicians and the public have exclusively focused on drug therapy to the detriment of at least one of the foundations of good health—appropriate nutrition.” Dr. Mary Keith, St.Michael’ s Hospital, Toronto By now, two basic facts will have become clear to the reader: 1) Everybody’s health and well-being is under constant attack from those factors of modern life that undermine the body’s natural defenses and self-healing ability, leading to a multitude of diseases; 2) The complex, precision-built nutritional program of the Gerson Therapy is able to undo the harm, restore the organism’s damaged defenses and enable the body to heal itself. In his thinking Dr. Gerson always made a close connection between the body’s defenses and its healing mechanism. Indeed, he invariably saw in his patients that the healing mechanism had been disturbed or severely damaged before the body succumbed to disease. Moreover, he was convinced that the appearance of malignant disease, i.e., cancer, represented the ultimate, most severe kind of breakdown, and that it needed the best expert care and effort to reverse the destructive process and achieve healing. Perhaps the greatest of Dr. Gerson’s many revolutionary insights was his realization that the underlying causes of chronic disease were deficiency and toxicity. This approach differs greatly from that of conventional medicine, which prefers to assign a clear-cut cause to each individual disease, but omits to look for the truly basic problems that are common to many. And this difference in approach is one of many factors that separate the Gerson protocol from orthodox treatments. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 8 5Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases www.thegersonway.comOnce the underlying problems are recognized, they can be treated: the deficiency is eliminated with hyper-alimentation, the toxicity with systematic detoxification. Despite their vital importance these methods are simple, straightforward and transparent. Above all, they make sense. We have already touched on this subject in general terms (see Chapter 2, Knowing the Enemy), but now we need to take a closer look at its practical application. Hyper-alimentation : The answer to deficiency is to give the patient maximum amounts of the best possible foodstuffs. However, seriously ill patients are usually unable to eat much. Their appetite and digestion are poor, and their elimination is inadequate. Under the circumstances the only way forward is juicing, since almost every patient is able—and normally willing—to drink a freshly prepared glass of organic juice every hour. Once that routine is established, the nutrients the body so desperately needs are in constant supply. A few extremely debilitated patients, who cannot cope with the usual hourly 8-ounce glass of juice, are given 4- or 6-ounce portions at the beginning of the treatment. To their surprise, after only a few days of juicing and intensive detoxification they are able to eat three full vegetarian meals a day, prepared from fresh organic produce, and drink 13 standard size glasses of juice, besides snacking on fruit. Once they reach that stage of hyper-alimentation, each patient consumes approximately 20 pounds of food a day. Critics of the Gerson Therapy, who find the hourly preparation of fresh juices onerous, (which it certainly is!) often suggest the use of vitamin and mineral supplements instead. What they don’t realize is that the sick body is unable to assimilate and utilize pharmaceutically prepared substances; which would simply pass through the organism without doing any good. Only live, fresh, raw vegetables and fruits are absorbed, and exclusively in the form of juice, which bypasses the digestive process and is immediately assimilated. Detoxification : As soon as the body is being flooded with live nutrients, these are rapidly absorbed and force accumulated toxins from the cells into the blood stream, which in turn transports them to the liver, the body’s chief organ of detoxification. However, the patient who embarks on the Gerson Therapy after a lifetime of living on a so-called normal modern diet has already accumulated considerable amounts of food additives, residues of pesticides and other agrochemicals, plus toxins from many sources that block his or her liver. As a result the liver is unable to deal with the newly arriving toxins, driven from the tissues by the live nutrients. Unless quickly shifted, this logjam of toxins could lead to life-threatening self intoxication and liver coma; hence the vital role of the rapidly detoxifying frequent coffee enemas which are a cornerstone of the Gerson treatment. There are several cancer therapies which use various methods to kill tumor tissue, but without removing dead toxic material from the liver. In order to allow the liver to discard its toxic load slowly and gradually, the treatment has to be interrupted, which diminishes its impact. However, the Gerson method with its constant regular detoxification Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 8 6Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases www.thegersonway.comis able to work continuously, which explains its effectiveness—and also why the coffee enemas are an indispensable part of the protocol. Without them, the additional load of newly released toxins could even cause new liver damage. Whoever wants to embark on the Gerson Therapy

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arrive from Mars or someplace. If it wasn’ t here, you wouldn’ t be capable of visualizing it. How could you visualize what it would be like t o be able to do something that is impossible for y ou to do? How could you visualize yourself being an enti ty that lives on N eptune when you hardly kn ow anything about Neptune and have never been there? Y ou wouldn’ t visua lize yourself as some creature m ade out of gases or vapors. However, it is important to remember not to p ut limits on yourself when it comes to what you are capable of realizing here on planet Earth. I read a very interesting study done with unemployed people who were asked to visualize themselves ge tting a job. One of the people had had a job that paid $25,00 0 a year. Anothe r person’ s previous job had pai d $50,000 a year. An other w as an executive whose job had paid $250,000 a year. All three were told to practice this visualization technique: See your self wit h a job, see yoursel f working again, and then act on that visualization. Each one of them did so, and as they saw themselves working again, that thought began to manifest itself and they began to act on it. Three months later, all of the s ubjects were employed again. The first person, who’d had a $25,000 job, now had another $25,000 job. The $50,000-a-year p erson had a job paying that same salary. And the executive had a job payi ng $250,000. It wasn’ t because these individuals lacked special training or abilities that would keep them from having higher -paying jobs. Th ey got the jobs that the y saw themselves having; that’ s what they imagined for themselves. A jo b is n’ t going to arrive from another planet; a job is already here. Y ou just have to tune in to it now and connect to it. So if you imagine yourself working as a cle rk and tell yourself, That’ s all I’m capable of doing and I can’ t go beyond that, the n you look for and act on clerk kinds of images. W ithout the thought, you can’ t get the job. The job is a thought. Every day you get up and think, and then y ou get into your formation and go do your job. The $50,000-a-year guy was a salesperson who saw himself c ontinuing to make that salary, so that’ s what he went after. His vision wa s not one ofabundance; it was of scarcity. I t’ s like he told himself, Ther e’ s a limit o n how muc h mone y I can make because of my history, because of my training, because of whatever it is that I’ve convinced myself of. The executive went for anot her executive position and matched his previous salary as well. Everyone in the study essentially stayed at the same level they were before. Examples like these preclude anybody from saying, “Y eah, all of this fancy higher -consciousness, spirituality, transformational kind of talk, it’ s very interesting and nice. If I’ve got time and all that, I’ll get in to it.” Such people are missing the message that James Allen talked about: circumstances do not make a man; they reveal him. WHERE ARE YOU PUTTING YOUR FOCUS? Many o f us find ourselves looking at our life backward, which is what the e go encourages us to do. It doesn’ t want us to face inward and contact the h igher self, which encourages us to be present. W e need to stop looking in a rear view mirror and turn toward the now, to see how our li fe can work in a new and authentically free way. Y ou can start by asking yourself this question: What do I want to expand in my life? If you want positive things to expand, for example, then keep thinking positiv e thoughts as much as possible. Y ou’ll act on that vision, and positivity will expand for you. I o nce saw a wonderful story on TV about Mary Thomas, the m other of Isiah Th omas, th e great basketball star of the Detroit Pistons. At one point she said, “I’m not poor. I’ve been broke, I’ve been without money, but I’m not poor. I’ve never been poor, and I never will be poor.” This is the kind of consciousness th at I’m talking about. If you focus on what y ou want to expand in your l ife instead of w hat you don’ t have, then what you focus on is going to expand. When I was doing a radio show some years back, a man calle d in who was now a medical doctor. He h ad been one of 14 children growing up in a very poor part of Jamaica, but his grandmother always told him, “Y our mind is more powerful than anything else.” He was calling the show to validate some of the things I was saying on the air, because I was getting resistance from some of the people out there who were saying, “How canyou say the kinds of things that you’re saying to people who are in such poor circumstances? Don’ t you have any pity for them?” and so on. I r eplied, “The whole focus of what I’m saying is that these are the people who need to hear what I’ve got to say the most. And that if you get yourself focused on what you want and never let your mind detract from that, then you’ll act on that and eventually move out of those circumstances.” This fellow who called in shared how he had always wanted to be a doctor, and everybody laughed at the idea of this poverty-stricken boy, in this little village in Jamaica, ever becoming a doctor. “But my g randmother always said, ‘Never get the idea out of your mind. Never, ever let that idea go. Just keep that thought there, no matter what.’” He adde d, “I never did let it go ; I always thought it. The more I thought it, the more I began to act on it. As I acted on it, I began to do two jobs instead o f one, and then three jobs, and then I sent away for medical books, and I studied hard. I saved all my money, and I applied for scholarships.” This man proved that the ancestor to every action is a thought. All his actions c ame fro m one thought, which was, I am go ing to be a doctor. At the time of this radio show, he had a big practice in W ashington, D.C., where he was a well-renowned heart sur geon. He had become a person of means, b ut he was also incredibl y happy in his dream profession. And all of this had happened because he never got rid of the thought. So w hen it comes to what you want to expand in your own life, keep focused on that thought, couple d with a strong image, and be w illing to do whatever it takes to make it happen. When you do, you’ll embody one of my favorite quotes of all time b y Henry David Thoreau, which has been a guiding force my whole life: “I f one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” CHAPTER 10 LEARN T O MEDIT A TE AND TRAIN YOUR MIND It’ s n ot a n accid ent that all the great spiritual masters have encouraged a kind of meditation practice of o ne kind or another. While most spiritually advanced people do it on a regular basis, I highly recommend meditation for everyone. Y ou might have the false notion that meditation isn’ t for you; it’ s t he k ind of thing made up by some Far Eastern guru with a loincloth. If so, I want you to reframe that concept and know that it i s a way to understand that there is another world available to us when we do it. I’m talking about the world of the mind. When we go into that world, we discover many things about ourselves. For exam ple, w e become conscious of the thoughts that we have all the time and how m uch “disasterizing” we do—and how what we occupy our minds with is often so unnecessary, silly, foolish, and even destructive. Recall th at one of the keys to h igher awareness is “shut down the inner dialogue.” Y ou want to be able to have an open, clear, and calm mind, not have a thousand thoughts rampaging throu gh. Meditation will help you quiet your mind and hear your Divine wisdom. THE IMPOR TANCE OF TRAINING Many of us seem to believe tha t whatever we think just sort of happens, and we can’ t help it. There’ s a thought, and it’ s simply there. It’ s what I call the pop- in theor y of thinking: Y ou’re walking along and all o f a sudden, W ow. What was that? W ell, now a thought popped in.

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was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: [email protected] is very effective in such serious diseases as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, deforming arthrosis, and many others. It’s also effective for ovarian cysts and benign tumors. Unfortunately, this method is used aft er all the modern treatment methods have been tried and proven inefficient. People use it as a drowning man clutches at a straw. The body is completely poisoned by chemistry, hormones, and radia- tion. All the natural bodily defenses are com- pletely suppresse d and paralyzed, and a sick per- son feels hopeless and starts undergoing the longest fasting courses without cleansing and training the body first. In this case, serious com- plications and even death may occur. In my practice, I have had to deal with such cases. Of course, I had cases of treating cancer at Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: [email protected] initial stage, but those patients underwent a few dry fasting courses, relocated from cities to the countryside, and completely changed their lifestyle. That’s why they achieved good results. Other patients with cancer, who were fasting in- dependently at home after chemotherapy and radiation, could only prolong their life and im- prove its quality. Everything should be done in proper time. Of course, people can die during fasting; not from hunger, but because their over -nourished bodies are full of numerous impurities, which start to move about. Incurably sick patients may die while fasting, but they will die from their dis- ease, not because of fasting. Likewise, they could die after eating. Tens of thousands of patients with heart disease die after a hearty meal. Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: [email protected] can die from your own stupidity if you don’t follow the rules of fasting (it happens, but very rarely), especially when coming out of a fast (if you eat everything you see). What does fast- ing have to do with that? Fasting is life! While our stupidity and limitations will surely lead us to death. Myth #9. Many people write that dry fasting requires salt -water enemas and rinsing the mouth with water, as these procedures help undergo dry fasting. During complete (water) fasting, the body switches completely to endogenous nutrition. This unique mechanism is ruined completely if Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: [email protected] start drinking juice or eating apples dur- ing this period. The same thing happens during dry fasting. Body cells start producing their own high -qual- ity fluid from internal reserves during dry fast- ing. When water enters the mouth or intestines, this mechanism is ruined. All of my patients who have tried to rinse their mouth with water say that they felt much better at first, but then the dry mouth sensation inten- sified several times so that it became almost im- possible to continue fasting. Just like with salt enemas, there’s no cleansing effect, but thirst is triggered, making it almost impossible to un- dergo a full ther apeutic dry fasting treatment course. Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: [email protected], it’s acceptable to bathe and douse with cold water when coming out of the fast. However, if you tolerate fasting well, there’s no need for it. “ Health is work, work is patience, pa- tience is suffering, suffering is cleansing, and cleansing is health! ” Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: [email protected] 1. Filonov, S. I. Suchoe lechebnoe golodanie. Mify i realnost (Dry medical fasting. Myths and reality), Barnaul’, 2008. Dry medical fasting. Myths and reality). 2. Filonov, S. I. Lechenie organizma sobstvennymi silami (Curing the body with its own strengths), Barnaul’, 2015. 3. Agadzhanjan, N. A., Katkov, A. Ju., Rezervy nashego organizma (The reserves of our organism), Moscow 1979. 4. Arakeljan, S. Budem zhit’ trista let? (Will we live three hundred years?) / review Trud, 2.10.1984, № 6 Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: [email protected]. Bragg, P., Chudo -golodanie (The Miracle of Fasting ), Saint -Petersbourg, Nevskiy Prospekt 2003. 6. Bulanov, Ju. B., Likvidacija ORZ krat- kosrochnym golodaniem u sportsmenov (Short fast for the elimination of acute res- piratory diseases in athletes). 7. Dorofeyev, Valerij « Treniruj svoi rezervy i zhivi chot’ do 200 let ili dolgozhitel’stvo i sport » (Train your reserves and live up to 200 years or longevity and sport) / review « Sport dlija vsech (Sport for everyone)»). 8. Kokosov, A. N., Luft, V. M., Tkachenko, V. I., Choroshilov, Lechebnoe golodanie pri vnutrennykh boleznej (Therapeutic fasting in the treatment of internal diseases), / «Mir Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: [email protected]» (The world of medicine) – Sankt Peterburg, «Lan’» 1999. 9. Lavrova, V. P. Kljuchi k tajnam zhizni (The keys to the mysteries of life), book 1, part 2, p. 177, Мoscow, 1999. 10. Malachova, M., Solomennikov A. Ochishchenie sorbentami (Purify with intes- tinal adsorbents), Nevskij Prospekt, S ankt Peterburg, 2002. 11. Malachov, G. P. Golodanie i zdorov’e (Fasting and health), Мoscow, 2003. Prime- nenie razgruzochno -dieticheskoj terapij (RDT) v vosstanovitel’noj medicine. Posobie dlja vrachej (The application of the RDT diet therapy in rehabilitati on medicine. Medical Handbook), Moscow 2005 (see below p. 137). Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: [email protected]. Nikolaiyev, Yu. S., Nilov, E. I., Cherkasov, V. G. Golodanie radi zdorov’ja (Fasting for health), Moscow «Sovetskaja Rossija», 1988. 13. Shelton, H., Golodanie i zdorov’e ( Fasting Can Save You r Life ) - Moscow, 1996. 14. Suvorin, A. A., Metod Suvorina. Lechenie golodaniem (Suvorin's method. Treat your- self with fasting ), Moscow,1998. 15. Shchennikov, L. A. Tselebnoe vozderzha- nie ot zhikdosti i pishchi (Therapeutic absti- nence from liquids and food), Moscow, 2003. 16. Vojtovich, G. A., Izceli samogo sam (Heal yourself), Moscow, 1998. Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: [email protected] Gallery First European collective dry fasting practice conducted by Doctor Filonov (Bioenergy Resort, Salinera Strunjan, Slovenia, 29 June 2019 – 13 July 2019) Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: [email protected] Copyright ©

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liver and blocked blood vessels in my right leg. I've been drinking urine for a month now. In the place where the thrombus is, it itches strongly, as if there is some kind of rash. The blood clot suddenly disappeared. I am happy and now drink urine three times a day.' If a person has gallstones or kidney stones and doesn't know about it, sand may start coming out of his body when he drinks urine. This should not surprise you, urine simply eliminates all pathology in the body. Example: "I started doing urinotherapy in 1990. During that time, I managed to get rid of the noise in my head, I can hear again in my left ear, my hands stopped shaking, my fingers and toes became free, and the stones came out of the gall bladder, three months the sand went, the swelling of the knees disappeared. 'Recommendation: When you clean your colon and with it the whole body with urine enemas, you may initially feel great pain and the urine will be excreted immediately. This indicates the pathology of the colon and the whole body. When using enemas with evaporated urine, you can get worms of considerable size, whole chains, jellyfish-like masses, various formations as black as tar, blanks, detached polyps and other messes. The excretion of these pollutants and wastes confirms the healing effects of urine. Continue the urine enemas, every other day, deny your body rest, so that the pain subsides and everything calms down. You will be able to keep even evaporated urine in you for 20 minutes or longer. Example: "I cleaned my colon twice. For the first time, a kind of wick with balls of hard sludge came out. So much crap, it can't be described. And when I did micro-enemas with evaporated urine, I got such clumps that I couldn't believe what was inside me. During the first bowel cleansing, I got chronic inflammation of the intestine, which I always have in the spring. I felt horrible pains in my stomach. Clay compresses with urine, which I changed three times a day, helped me." Comment and recommendation: This woman treated her pain very well with clay compresses. The first cycle of enemas is over, during the second cycle she should get rid of herself deep water pathology, which nothing but evaporated urine (and fasting) can remove. The second cleaning will pass without any problems. Conclusion: Always start your colon cleansing with plain fresh urine and work your way up cycle apply vaporized. The use of urine in gynecological, proctological (digestive) and similar diseases initially causes severe cutting pain. This is due to the effect of the acidic environment of urine on the festering (alkaline) surface of the wound. After several procedures, the pain subsides and the wound heals quickly. Example: Patient 36 years old. Cervical erosion. It all started 12 years ago after a difficult birth. For the past three years, the disease has been in the "blooming rose" stage. She decided to do the morning injection of her own fresh and warm urine on the affected area and apply tampons with her own standing urine at night. During the first injection, the patient felt only a slight stinging. Three hours after inserting the first tampon with old urine, the woman felt unbearable pain. She removed the tampon and wanted to leave everything. The author tried to prove to her that the pains are from the "blooming rose". Until the urine removes the scarring of the mucous membrane, until healthy tissue appears, it is need to suffer. The hospital was convinced by a story about a case of leg gangrene, when a certain professor he made the patient suffer pain until the urine removed the diseased tissue and healthy skin formed and the legs were saved. The patient resumed applying tampons. The pain lasted for another 3-4 days. They stopped completely in a week. The patient started drinking her own urine on the third attempt. She threw up on the first two. She went to the gynecologist in 14 days. The patient's general practitioner was not present, so another doctor took her in. After a long examination of about half a year's records and a thorough examination, the doctor stated in amazement: "This is strange, you have so much in the card and everything is clean here." Recommendations and comments: In such cases, tampons are not soaked in standing urine, but in children's or fresh urine. Fresh urine has an anti-inflammatory effect and reduces pain. Only then can you use tampons with evaporated or long-standing urine, which perfectly removes and tears off dead tissue. Example: “I used to suffer from paraproctitis. They even operated on me. Now there is a relapse, the tumor has grown like a fist, I can't walk. I started doing small enemas with evaporated urine and putting tampons on the perineal area more often. After the first enemas in the paroproctitis area, it burned like a hot iron. I suffered and continued to insert urine tampons. I used to have smaller hemorrhoids that I couldn't feel. Now they came out like little droplets. I continued the treatment, the hemorrhoids disappeared, after two weeks theparoproctitis also disappeared. I've been at peace for three years now.'' Example: Another patient was convinced of what p

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eathwork. Adhama. Madhyama. Uttama. Kêvala. Embryonic Br eath. Harmonizing Br eath. The Br eath by the Master Gr eat Nothing. T ummo. Sudarshan Kriya. The names may have changed over the years, the techniques may have been repurposed and repackaged in dif ferent cultures at dif ferent times for dif ferent reasons, but they were never lost. They’ve been inside us all this time, just waiting to be tapped. They give us the means to stretch our lungs and straighten our bodies, boost blood flow, balance our minds and moods, and excite the electrons in our molecules. T o sleep better, run faster, swim deeper, live longer, and evolve further.They of fer a mystery and magic of life that unfolds a little more with every new breath we take.Epilogue A LAST GASP Nothing about this place had changed. The threadbare Persian rug. The paint-chipped window that rattles in the breeze. The rumble of diesel trucks chugging up Page Street and the jaundiced streetlight illuminating bits of falling lint. A few of the faces are the same, too: there’ s the guy with prisoner eyes, the other with Jerry Lewis bangs, and the blond woman with an unplaceable Eastern European accent. I find my usual spot in the corner and sit by the window. It’ s been ten years since I came to this room and felt the possibilities of breathing. A decade of traveling, research, and self-experimentation. In that time I’ve learned that the benefits of breathing are vast, at times unfathomable. But they’re also limited. This became disturbingly clear several months ago. I was in Portland, Oregon, and had just finished a lecture based on the contents of this book. I left the podium and walked to the lobby to talk with a friend when a woman approached. Her eyes were wide, fingers jittery. She told me her mother had just suf fered a pulmonary embolism and desperately needed a breathing technique to remove blood clots from her lungs. A few weeks later, a woman seated next to me on a flight noticed photographs of skulls on my laptop. She asked what I was working on. After I told her, she explained how her friend was suf fering from a serious eating disorder, osteoporosis, and cancer. No treatments had worked. She asked if I could please prescribe a breathing practice to bring her friend back to health. What I explained to each of these people, and what I’d like to make clear now, is that breathing, like any therapy or medication, can’ t doeverything. Breathing fast, slow, or not at all can’ t make an embolism go away. Breathing through the nose with a big exhale can’ t reverse the onset of neuromuscular genetic diseases. No breathing can heal stage IV cancer. These severe problems require ur gent medical attention. I wouldn’ t be alive without antibiotics, immunizations, and a last-minute rush to the doctor ’ s of fice to zap out a lymph node infection. The medical technologies developed over the last century have saved innumerable lives. They have increased the quality of life around the world many times over. But modern medicine, still, has its limitations. “I’m dealing with the walking dead,” said Dr. Michael Gelb, who’d spent 30 years working as a dental sur geon and sleep specialist. He echoed what I’d heard from Dr. Don Storey, my father -in-law, who’d worked as a pulmonologist for the past 40 years. Dozens of doctors at Harvard, Stanford, and other institutions told me the same thing. Modern medicine, they said, was amazingly ef ficient at cutting out and stitching up parts of the body in emer gencies, but sadly deficient at treating milder, chronic systemic maladies—the asthma, headaches, stress, and autoimmune issues that most of the modern population contends with. These doctors explained, in so many words and in so many ways, that a middle-aged man complaining of work stress, irritable bowels, depression, and an occasional tingling in his fingers wasn’ t going to get the same attention as a patient with kidney failure. He’d be prescribed a blood pressure medication and an antidepressant and sent on his way. The role of the modern doctor was to put out fires, not blow away smoke. Nobody was happy with this arrangement: doctors were frustrated that they had neither the time nor the support to prevent and treat milder chronic problems, while patients were learning that their cases weren’ t dire enough for the attention they sought. This is one of the reasons I believe so many people, and so many medical researchers, have come to breathing. Like all Eastern medicines, breathing techniques are best suited to serve as preventative maintenance, a way to retain balance in the body so that milder problems don’ t blossom into more serious health issues. Should we lose that balance from time to time, breathing can often bring it back. “ More than sixty years of research on living systems has convinced me that our body is much more nearly perfect than the endless list of ailmentssuggests,” wrote Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Györ gyi. “Its shortcomings are due less to its inborn imperfections than to our abusing it.” Szent-Györ gyi was talking about sicknesses of our own making, or, as anthropologist Robert Corruccini has called them, “diseases of civilization.” Nine out of ten of the top killers, such as diabetes, heart disease, and stroke are caused by the food we eat, water we drink, houses we live in, and of fices we work in. They are diseases humanity created. While some of us may be genetically predisposed toward one disease or another, that doesn’ t mean we’re predestined to get these conditions. Genes can be turned of f just as they can be turned on. What switches them are inputs in the environment. Improving diet and exercise and removing toxins and stressors from the home and workplace have a profound and lasting ef fect on the prevention and treatment of the majority of modern, chronic diseases. Breathing is a key input. From what I’ve learned in the past decade, that 30 pounds of air that passes through our lungs every day and that 1.7 pounds of oxygen our cells consume is as important as what we eat or how much we exercise. Breathing is a missing pillar of health. “ If I had to limit my advice on healthier living to just one tip, it would be simply to learn how to breathe better,” wrote Andrew W eil, the famed doctor. Though researchers still have much to learn about this endlessly expansive field, there is plenty of consensus right now about what “breathing better” looks like. In a nutshell, this is what we’ve learned. SHUT YOUR MOUTH T wo months after the Stanford experiment ended, Dr. Jayakar Nayak’ s lab emailed Anders Olsson and me the results of our 20-day study. The major takeaway we already knew: mouthbreathing is terrible. After just 240 hours of breathing only through our mouths, catecholamine and stress-related hormones spiked, suggesting that our bodies were under physical and mental duress. A diphtheroid Corynebacterium bug had also infested my nose. If I’d continued breathingonly through my mouth for a few more days, it might have developed into a full-fledged sinus infection. All the while, my blood pressure was through the roof and my heart rate variability plummeted. Olsson’ s data mirrored mine. By night, the constant flow of unpressurized, unfiltered air flowing in and out of our gaping mouths collapsed the soft tissue in our throats to such an extent that we both began to experience persistent nocturnal suf focation. W e snored. A few days later, we started choking on ourselves, suf fering from bouts of sleep apnea. Had we continued breathing through our mouths, there’ s a decent chance we both would have developed chronic snoring and obstructive sleep apnea, along with the hypertension and metabolic and cognitive problems that come with it. Not all of our measurements changed. Blood sugar levels weren’ t af fected. Cell counts in the blood and ionized calcium remained the same, as did most other blood markers. There were a few surprises. My lactate levels, a measure of anaerobic respiration, actually decreased with mouthbreathing, which suggested I was using more oxygen-burning aerobic ener gy. This was the opposite of what most fitness experts would have predicted. (Olsson’ s lactate slightly increased.) I lost about two pounds, due most likely to exhaled water loss. But trust me on this: a post-holiday mouthbreathing diet is not recommended. The nagging fatigue, irritation, testiness, and anxiety. The horrid breath and constant bathroom breaks. The spaciness, stares, and stomachaches. It was awful. The human body has evolved to be able to breathe through two channels for a reason. It increases our chances of survival. Should the nose get obstructed, the mouth becomes a backup ventilation system. The few gasping breaths Stephen Curry takes before dunk

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fr esh spring herbs (see above) 1/4 tsp (1 mL) sea salt pinch fr eshly gr ound pepper 3/4 cup (175 mL) extra-virgin olive oil or nut oil In a small bowl, whisk together the raspberry vinegar, champagne, mustard, herbs, salt and pepper. Whisking constantly add the oil in a slow, steadystream until completely incorporated. Use: Drizzle over spring greens, cooked fiddleheads, artichokes and asparagus. s p r i n g s a l a d Of c ourse, you c an make this sa lad in the spring using all fr esh ingr edients. But if you hav e asparagus and artichokes in the pantry in January, February or Mar ch, you can cel ebrate spring early. The vinaigr ette is sweet and sour at the same time, lending a crisp, tart balance to the fr esh tastes of the asparagus and artichokes. This salad is r eason enough to want to pr eserve some of spring’ s citrus gr een tastes for the long, dark winter ahead. Use spinach and bok choy or cabbage gr eens in the winter. As you can see fr om the photo, I leave the skin on fr esh baby potatoes, but in winter, y ou can cook them in th e skins, then peel and slice them after they ar e c ooked. So t ry this salad no w with fr esh ingr edients, then pr eserve your own asparagus and artichokes and enjoy it again in six months. MAKES 4 SER VINGS 12 small new potatoes or fingerlings 1 tsp (5 mL) salt 1 cup (250 mL) baby spinach, sorr el or arugula leaves 1 pint (2-cup/500 mL) jar canned asparagus, drained 1 pint (2-cup/500 mL) jar canned artichokes, drained 1/2 r ed onion, thinly sliced 1/4 cup (50 mL) coarsely chopped fr esh spring herbs 1 cup (250 mL) Champagne Raspberry V inaigr ette sea salt and pepper  1. In a s aucepan, cover potatoes with water. Add 1 tsp (5 mL) salt and bring to a boil over high heat. Cover, reduce heat and simmer for 12 to 15 minutes or u ntil tender. R inse under cool water and drain. Quarter or sl ice potatoes as desired.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|> Q: What is the purpose of the Wild Leeks or Ramps?, A: There is no mention of Wild Leeks or Ramps in the provided text. The text discusses wild blueberries, blackberries, and cherries, but not Wild Leeks or Ramps. Q: Can you use lemon juice in place of vinegar in the vinaigrette recipe?, A: The text does not explicitly state whether lemon juice can be used in place of vinegar, but it does suggest that you can make a vinaigrette with lemon juice and oil. Q: What is the purpose of the ginger in the Blueberry Conserve recipe?, A: The text does not explicitly state the purpose of the ginger in the Blueberry Conserve recipe, but it does suggest that the ginger adds a unique flavor. Q: Can you freeze blackberries, blueberries, and cherries separately?, A: The text does not explicitly address freezing blackberries, blueberries, and cherries separately, but it does provide instructions for freezing blackberries, blueberries, and cherries in different recipes. Q: How long do you need to keep the Blueberry Conserve in the refrigerator?, A: The text does not provide information on the storage duration of Blueberry Conserve in the refrigerator.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Heat three 1-cup (250 mL) ja rs in boiling wate, and scald the lids, lifter, funnel and tongs ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ). 5. F ill hot jars, leaving a 1/4-inch (5 mm) headspace. Run a thin non- metallic utensil around the insid e of the jar to allow air to escape. Add more hot catsup, if necessary to leave a 1/4-inch (5 mm) headspace. W ipe rims, top with flat lids and screw on m etal rings. Return jars to the hot water bath, topping up with hot water if n ecessary Bring to a full rolling boil and process jars for 10 minutes ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ). 6. Remo ve cann er lid and wait 5 minutes before removing jars t o a towel or rack to cool com pletely. Check seals, label and store in a cool place for up to 1 year. Use: I am add icted to enjoying this catsup with a good ol d-fashioned breakfast—eggs, bacon, home fries, the works—but it is so much more useful than that. It tops baked meat loaf and brings a real home-style finish to any dish with which co mmercial ketchup might be served. I have not yet tried it to make baked b eans, but I do believe the originator of this recipe, who claims that it is very nice with them.b l a c k f o r e s t m e a t l o a f This is such a r etr o, comfort r ecipe, but with an updated twist. Wher e our mothers and grandmothers might have thought that adding half a cup of commer cial chil i sauce to their standar d gr ound meat and onion loaf was a daring step, our dazzling, jewel-flecked gr ound turkey mixtur e is taken to another level with the addition of Black For est Jam. It’ s easy and very tasty. 9- x 5-inch (3 L) loaf pan, lightly oiled, lined on the bottom with par chment paper Pr eheat oven to 375°F (190°C)MAKES 8 SER VINGS 2 tbsp (25 mL) olive oil 1 cup (250 mL) chopped onions 1 r ed bell pepper, diced 1 small zucchini, diced 2 cloves garlic, minced 1–1/2 lb (750 g) lean gr ound turkey 1/2 cup (125 mL) fine dry br ead crumbs 1 cup (250 mL) fr esh or fr ozen corn kernels 1/4 cup (50 mL) chopped fr esh parsley 1 tbsp (15 mL) fr esh thyme leaves 1 tsp (5 mL) gr ound cumin 1/4 tsp (1 mL) gr ound nutmeg 1 large egg, beaten salt and pepper 1 cup (250 mL) Black For est Fr eezer Jam, divided   1. In a skillet, heat olive oil ov er high heat. Add onions and sauté for 3 minutes. Add red pepper, zucchini and garlic and cook, stirring frequently, for 5 minutes or until vegetables are almost soft. Set aside to cool. 2. In a bowl, combine ground turkey, bread crumbs, corn, par sley, thyme, cumin, n utmeg a nd egg. Mix we ll to combine. Season with salt and pepper. Add oni on mixt ure and 1/2 cup (125 mL) Black Forest Freez er Jam. Stir well to combine. Gently press th e mixture into prepared loaf pa n. Bake for 1 ho ur. B rush remaining Black F orest Jam over the top of the m eat loaf and bake unt il the internal temperature reaches 160°F (71°C) on an instant-read meat the rmometer, about 30 to 40 minutes. Remove from the oven and let stand for 15 minutes before slicing and serving. Pass extra jam. Serve cold the next day with a green salad and a dressing made with 1/4 cup (50 mL) Black Forest Freezer Ja m and 2 tbsp (25 mL) balsamic vinegar. It’ s perfect for a luncheon, along with crusty country bread. Fr eezing Currants 1. Select Equipment: Se lect suitable-size freezer c ontainers, bags or Mason jars ( Freezing ). 2. D ry P ack, Un sweetened: Fill pint (2-cup/500 mL) or quart (1 L) freezer containers with whole currants, leaving a 1/2-inch (1 cm) headspace. Seal, label and freeze. OR Dry Pack, Sweetened: Fill pint (2-cup/500 mL) or quart (1 L) freezer containers with whole currants to within 3 to 4 inches (7 to 10 cm) of the top. Pour dry granulated sugar over top; use 1/2 cup (125 mL) sugar per quart (1 L) of prepared fruit. Squeeze out air; leave 1-inc h (2.5 cm) headspace. Seal, label and freeze. OR Crush: Using a potato masher, crush currants in a non-reactive bowl. For every qu art (1 L) of crushed cur rants, add 1–1/2 cups (375 mL ) granulated sugar. Stir until the sugar is diss olved. Pack into freezer containers, leaving

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• “You are the sunshine of my life.” • “No one else can make me feel the colors that you bring.” • “Without you, I’m nothing.”60 / Your Erroneous ZonesPerhaps you can try an exercise the next time you find yourself listening to a song that sends out the communiqués of approval- seeking. Check for those lyrics which reflect the way you’ve been taught to feel, that is, that you can’t make it if someone disapproves of you or lets you down. Rewrite the songs to fit a mind-set of per- sonal mastery rather than approval-seeking. For example: • I make myself feel like a natural woman; it has nothing to do with you. • I chose to love you. I must have wanted to do it then, but now I’ve changed my mind. • People who need people are the unluckiest people in the world. But people who want love and enjoy people are making themselves happy. • I make myself so very happy because of the things I tell myself about you. • I am the sunshine of my life, and having you in it makes it even brighter. • I can stop loving you, but at this point I choose not to. While they admittedly won’t sell, you can at least make a start on redirecting the unconscious messages that you hear, and which re- flect the way people in our culture have learned to believe. “Without you I’m nothing” must be translated to “Without me I’m nothing, but having you makes this present moment very nice.” Television commercials make a special appeal to your approval- seeking thinking. Many of these commercial skits are efforts by the manufacturer to manipulate you into buying their products, by re- inforcing the notion that other peoples’ beliefs are more important than your own. Consider the following dialogue when friends are coming over to your house for an afternoon of bridge:YOU DON’T NEED THEIR APPROVAL / 611st Friend (sniffing the air): “Fried fish last night dear?” said in a very disapproving tone. 2nd Friend: “George still smoking a cigar, I see,” in a similarly unaccepting tone. You: Looking hurt, distraught—nay destroyed—because others are disapproving of the odors in your own house. Psychological message: “What others think of you is much more important than what you think of yourself, therefore, if you don’t please your friends you deserve to feel bad.” Consider also the following two skits and the message: 1. A waitress putting a bib around a customer’s neck at a lobster party notices “ring around the collar.” The wife shrivels in shame at the thought of not receiving approval from a strange waitress. 2. A woman shrinks in fear as she contemplates how her friends will view her if she has baggy pantyhose. “I just couldn’t stand it if they thought something bad about me. I must have their approval, so I’ll buy this brand over that one.” 3. The mouthwash, toothpaste, deodorants and special spray ad- vertisements are filled with psychological messages that you must have approval, and the way to get it is to purchase this particular item. Why do advertisers stoop to such tactics? Because they work! They sell. They recognize that people are infected with the need for acceptance and they capitalize on this need by creating little sketches that send out the right messages. There you have it, a culture that prizes and encourages approval- seeking. It is hardly surprising that you’ve found yourself placing too much emphasis on what others think. You’ve been conditioned to do so throughout your life, and even if your own family was conscious of the need to help you to promote self-reliance, the ancil- lary cultural factors worked against them. But you don’t have to hang on to this approval-seeking behavior. Just as you work at eliminating the habit of self-put-down, so too can you eradicate this approval-seeking habit. Mark Twain, writing in Puddinhead Wilson’s Calendar, gives a62 / Your Erroneous Zonescogent description of how to break a habitual pattern such as approv- al-seeking. “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” Coaxing Approval-Seeking Downstairs, A Step at a Time Take a look at the way the world works. To put it succinctly, you can never please everyone. In fact, if you please fifty percent of the people you are doing quite well. This is no secret. You know that at least half of the people in your world are going to disagree with at least half the things you say. If this is accurate (and you need only look at landslide elections to see that forty-four percent of the popu- lation still voted against the winner), then you will always have about a 50-50 chance of getting some disapproval whenever you express an opinion. Armed with this knowledge, you can begin to look at disapproval in a new light. When someone disapproves of something you say, instead of being hurt, or instantly shifting your opinion to gain praise, you can remind yourself that you’ve just run into one of those folks in the fifty percent who don’t agree with you. Knowing that you’ll always get some disapproval for everything you feel, think, say or do is the way out of the tunnel of despair. Once you expect it, you won’t be inclined to hurt yourself with it, and you’ll simul- taneously stop equating the repudiation of an idea or a feeling with the repudiation of you. You can never escape disapproval, no matter how much you may want it to go away. For every opinion you have, there is a counterpart out there with exactly the opposite view. Abraham Lincoln talked about this in a conversation at the White House reported by Francis B. Carpenter: …If I were to read, much less to answer all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for anyYOU DON’T NEED THEIR APPROVAL / 63other business. I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out alright, what is said against me won’t amount to any- thing. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. * Some Examples of Typical Approval-Seeking Behavior Like self-rejection, approval-seeking encompasses a large category of self-defeating behaviors. Among the most commom kinds of ap- proval-seeking activities are those detailed below. • Changing a position, or altering what you believe because someone shows signs of disapproval. • Sugar-coating a statement to avoid the reaction of displeasure. • Apple-polishing in order to make someone like you. • Feeling depressed or anxious when someone disagrees with you. • Feeling insulted or put-down when someone states a contrary sentiment to your own. • Labeling someone a snob, or “stuck-up,” which is just another way of saying “Pay more attention to me.” • Being excessively agreeable and head nodding, even when you don’t agree at all with what is being said. • Performing chores for someone and feeling resentful about not being able to say no. • Being intimidated by a sharp salesperson and buying something you don’t want…Or…Fearing taking it back because he won’t like you. • Eating a steak in a restaurant that is not cooked the way *Francis B. Carpenter, Six Months with Lincoln in the White House (Watkins Glen, N.Y.: Century House).64 / Your Erroneous Zonesyou ordered it, because the waiter won’t like you if you send it back. • Saying things you don’t mean just to avoid being disliked. • Spreading bad news about deaths, divorce, muggings and the like, and enjoying the feeling of being noticed. • Getting permission to speak, or to make a purchase, or to do anything, from a significant other in your life, because you fear the displeasure of that person. • Apologizing for yourself at every turn—the excessive “I’m sorry’s” that are designed to have others forgive you, and approve of you all of the time. • Behaving in nonconforming ways for the purpose of gaining at- tention, which is the same neurosis as conforming for the sake of external approval. Thus, wearing tennis shoes with your tuxedo, or eating a handful of mashed potatoes and wanting to be noticed is still approval-seeking. • Being pathologically late for all occasions. Here you can’t help but be seen and it is an approval-seeking device which gets everyone to pay attention. You may be doing it out of a need to be distin- guished, and hence you are controlled by those doing the noticing. • Trying to impress others with your knowledge of something that you know nothing about by “faking it.” • Begging for compliments by setting yourself up for approval, and then feeling bad when they don’t come. • Being unhappy about someone you respect having a contrary point of view, and expressing it to you. Obviously, the list can go on forever. Approval-seeking is a cul- tural phenomenon that is readily observable in all corners of our globe. It is only distasteful when it becomes a need, which, of course

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to mercury comes when fillings are placed and when they are removed. Healthy people have high levels of glutathione and other substances which naturally detoxify the effects of the mercury fillings. As people age or if they are in otherwise poor health, their resistance to mercury poisoning from the fillings decreases, and thus the fillings will eventually lead to disease. If you think your fillings might be making you sick, seek the advice of a mercury-free dentist, a holistic M.D., or a naturopathic doctor who can perform a mercury challenge test to see if indeed you are retaining mercury. Replacing mercury fillings must be done with extreme care and timing. If your dentist does not follow a careful protocol that includes protective devices such as a rubber dam, vacuum for the vapors, and a mask, then you could be exposed to microscopic mercury particles and mercury fumes that are highly toxic. At least six people have contacted me complaining of relentless tooth pain after having their amalgam fillings replaced. The drill got too close to the nerve and was over stimulated. Having several teeth drilled to remove mercury fillings in someone with a sensitive system can explain this negative result. Some people whose bite is out of position will have an already hypersensitive nervous system. This hypersensitivity is compounded by dental drilling to remove mercury fromseveral teeth and can overwhelm the nervous system. The other problem I have encountered is people who remove their mercury fillings yet feel no difference in their health. Removing mercury fillings for most people should lead to a noticeable improvement in energy levels, or a sense of relaxation in the body. The likely reason why people did not notice any improvement from removing their mercury fillings is because it was not done correctly, and because the replacement composite may also have been toxic. Another important detail in removing mercury is the order in which the mercury fillings are removed. Each mercury filling exerts an electrical charge. Fillings create an electrical current when the five metals in the filling combine with saliva to create a battery effect. The electrical charge is much stronger than what our nervous system runs on and it can interfere with brain and heart function. 6 The charge of each filling dictates the order in which they need to be removed. When people have dramatic and noticeable results from removing mercury fillings it is from a change in electrical currents which allows the individual’s nervous system to function properly. 7 Yes, mercury fillings are highly poisonous and need to be removed carefully. But for some people the timing is not right to immediately have them replaced. Contacting an excellent dentist from the resource list provided in this chapter will help you ensure that when you remove your old fillings, it is done in a way that does not make you sicker and with the appropriate timing. Before your dental procedure you will want to take plenty of Activator X rich-butter and cod liver oil. But you will not want to take too much oral vitamin C, since vitamin C interferes with Novocain’s effects. Part of the holistic mercury removal protocol is the administration of intravenous vitamin C, which acts differently from oral supplementation of vitamin C. Mercury Fillings Lead To Crowns and Root Canals Mercury amalgam fillings lead to the need to have root canals and crowns. As a filling material, mercury fillings do not reinforce the strength of teeth. With the “extension for prevention” treatment philosophy sound parts of the teeth are drilled away in order to place mercury fillings in a wedge shape. Thousands of cases illustrate that teeth restored with mercury fillings are the ones that will eventually need crowns or root canals. 8 When 30% of a tooth is drilled out to place an amalgam filling, the tooth can lose up to 80% of its strength. When the mercury filling is in place, the tooth still does not regain its lost strength. Our teeth are under tremendous biting forces. When we bite on the tooth with a mercury filling, that tooth can have stress placed upon it in the wrong spots, causing cracking, or a slow crumbling around the area where the mercury filling meets the tooth. This loss of structural integrity, in combination with a poor diet that does not permit the tooth to recover from its stress, eventually causes the tooth to fracture. I have not even mentioned that the mercury leaking out of the filling will poison the bone-building cells within the tooth. Over time the mercury-laden tooth can continue to weaken, and eventually the severe damage requires an equally severe treatment to save it, such as a crown or a root canal.More Dental Dangers from Toxic Dentistry Battery Mouth Your body and nervous system operate on a very small electrical current. Metal fillings can produce electrical currents that can be exponentially stronger than the electrical currents in your body. Considering that your teeth are connected to the largest sensory nerve in your body, the trigeminal nerve, this excess of electricity can cause harm. The mix of metals in the mouth greatly magnifies the problems of electrical current. For example gold and mercury, or crowns that are reinforced with “stainless steel,” can all be present in a mouth also containing mercury fillings. Dissimilar metals in the mouth can be responsible for neurological problems including migraine headaches. Composite fillings also interfere with the natural electrical current of the teeth. Rather than greatly magnify it, however, composites completely dampen the current since they are made from plastic and plastic does not conduct an electrical current. Gold Fillings and Crowns Pure gold is naturally quite soft. This makes it a bad dental material. It needs to be mixed with other metals to make it stronger. While it is possible that not many people’s immune systems would react negatively to gold by itself, the other metals in gold fillings such as palladium can pose an immune system challenge. 9 Dental gold has an affinity for mercury released from “silver” mercury amalgam fillings. The gold attracts and stores the released mercury from other fillings. Then when exposed to heat such as a hot drink, toxic mercury vapor will release from the gold crowns. 10 To place crowns requires extra grinding down of the tooth. This is done because of the weak bonding strength of dental cement. Dentists using new bonding technologies can avoid placing crowns, or remove significantly less of the tooth to place a crown. 11 Nickel and Stainless Steel Stainless steel contains nickel. Nickel is used in braces, bridges, partials and crowns. Nickel is a metal that is highly toxic the body. Nickel is hidden in crowns and metal jackets for children’s tooth cavities and creates a negative electrical current in the mouth. 12 Nickel is highly toxic to the nervous system and may be related to arthritis and some types of cancer such as lung cancer and breast cancer. 13 Nickel is used to induce cancer in laboratory animals. 14 Porcelain as a Dental Material Porcelain contains aluminum in the form of aluminum oxide. Aluminum is toxic to humans. The official belief in dentistry regarding the stability of aluminum in porcelain is identical to the official belief of mercury’s safety in amalgam. Aluminum is purported to remain bonded to the other materials in porcelain and not leak, but this is not likely the case. 15 Porcelain crowns are often reinforced with low-cost stainless steel which often contains nickel. 16Safer Filling Materials There are at least three holistic paradigms for safe dental filling materials. I cannot determine which one is best. I suggest you choose one that feels good for you after you have done your own investigations. As important as filling materials are, what is equally or more important is the quality of the dental work. My perspective on determining filling materials is first to find a dentist with whom you feel comfortable and trust, and who abides by a biocompatible paradigm. The premise of biocompatible dentistry is that you do not place just any material in somebody’s body and hope that everything will be all right. Biocompatible dentistry aims to test and confirm that the filling materials will not adversely affect your health. One sophisticated but accurate approach to test filling materials is to get a sample vial of the filling material from your dentist, and find an osteopath, or cranial sacral therapist who can check how your cranial / sacral rhythm is influenced by the filling material. Electro-dermal screening, blood testing and muscle testing are other methods to determine how safe filling materials are for you. Holistically oriented dentists typically either subscribe to one of these paradigms and offer treatments accordingly, or offer many of these treatments and they decide with the patient which treatment perspective to pursue. Dentist Hal Huggins – Dr. Huggins developed a careful program for removing mercury fillings and placing compatible replacements. It is based on a blood chemistry test in which your blood is checked with a database of filling materials to match for immune system compatibility. Dentist Douglas Cook – Dr. Cook has tested a variety of filling materials and believes that Holistore by Den-Mat for smaller fillings and Premise Indirect (formally BelleGlass) unshaded for large cavities are the best filling materials. 17 Slow speed drilling prevents damage to teeth during removal. Dr. Robert Marshall – Electrical testing shows that composite materials block vital electrical flows to the body, while metals overly increase them and are toxic. Therefore from Dr. Marshall’s perspective, the only safe dental materials are low-fusing ceramics laser bonded

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, water and air. None of these ideas are new, but what people don’t understand is why they are important. If you allow free radicals to damage your cells—to allow them to become weak and rusty—your body ages faster and becomes vulnerable to disease.Salt Is Often at Fault To be healthy, the nutrients in cells must be in proper balance. Upsetting the natural balance of chemicals inside a cell causes the cell to malfunction, which is what is happening to the balance of sodium and potassium in our cells. Over the past one hundred years, our diets have changed dramatically, increasing the amount of sodium and decreasing the amount of potassium in our diet, thus reversing the natural balance. Modern food manufacturers add lots of salt (sodium chloride) to their products, while modern diets do not include enough potassium-rich foods such as fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains and legumes. When our genes were evolving, human diets contained little sodium and a lot of potassium. For example, eating an apple provides only 1 mg of sodium, but 310 mg of potassium. Eating a piece of modern apple pie provides 110 mg of sodium and only 80 mg of potassium, a drastic change. Salt-rich diets force excess sodium into cells, disturbing the normal and healthy sodium/potassium balance. Among other problems, excess sodium interferes with cellular energy production, causing fatigue. Sodium attaches itself strongly to water molecules, so when more sodium goes into the cells, so does more water. Water retention elevates blood pressure and causes weight gain. Dietary salt contributes to an increased incidence of cancer and metastasis, cardiac disease, stroke, kidney disease, bronchial problems and kidney stones. By avoiding processed and packaged foods, most of our excess dietary sodium can be eliminated. An Important Litmus Test Healthy cells must have the correct pH. In addition to the dangerous imbalance of sodium and potassium, our modern lifestyles and diets have detrimental effects on another critical balance: the pH of our cells. Commercials commonly tout “pH balanced” shampoos for our hair, and most of us remember the litmus paper tests from our chemistry sets or grade-school experiments— those tiny sheets of paper that turn pink or blue based on pH. Cells must maintain proper pH balance, and our food choices affect that balance. The pH is a measurement of acidity or alkalinity. On the pH scale, 7 is neutral; 0 to 7 is acidic, and 7 to 14 is alkaline. The normal pH inside of a cell is about 7.4, which is slightly alkaline. Maintaining normal pH in the fluid inside the cell as well as in other body fluids is critical for keeping body systems functioning normally. Most of the chemical reactions in the body, including the production of energy, occur most efficiently in an alkaline environment. The enzymes involved in these reactions are pH sensitive and only function within anarrow pH range; pH level affects other vital operations, such as the transport of substances through cell membranes. You can monitor your acid/alkaline levels by using pH paper (see appendix C). Modern diets often cause cellular pH to drop below 7.0, into the acidic range. (Cells also can become too alkaline, but excessive acidity is most common.) A cell that becomes too acidic is said to have intracellular acidosis. Acidosis, an extremely serious condition, is one of the common factors present in many manifestations of disease. The more acidic a cell becomes, the more impaired its function. At very high acidic levels, the cell will die. Herman Aihara, author of Acid and Alkaline, says that “one of the important causes of cancer— and other degenerative diseases—is the cumulative effect of the acidic condition of body fluid.” How do cells become too acidic? Different foods have different effects on our pH. Ideally, we should consume only foods that maintain proper cellular pH. Instead, we consume a diet high in foods that have an acidic effect, such as sugar, soft drinks, white flour (pasta and bread), excessive protein and salt. Consumption of these foods, which deplete the body of alkaline materials, has skyrocketed over the past few generations. Because acidosis is such a threat, the body tries to prevent it by using its own alkaline minerals (such as calcium and magnesium) leached from the bones and teeth, leading to dental problems and osteoporosis. By contrast, fresh and unprocessed foods, rich in alkaline minerals, help keep pH within normal limits. For this reason, among others, most of our calories should come from fresh, unprocessed vegetables, fruits, beans and whole grains. Concerned about your pH? Measure the pH of your first morning urine before eating. This test offers an indicator of your cellular pH and can be used to monitor changes as you work to normalize your pH. First morning urine should be in the range of 6.5 to 7.5. If readings fall below 6.5, you are too acidic. Occasional readings above 7.5 are normal, but consistent readings above 7.5 are an indication of tissue breakdown, and a pH over 8.0 is a serious matter. Fatigue is often reflected in an acidic pH. Why Am I So Tired? Fatigue is one of the most common complaints made to physicians today. During the onset of my own illness, the first thing I noticed was fatigue. I simply did not have the energy I had been accustomed to having. So many people— epidemic proportions, actually—are tired and lack energy, but they do not knowwhat to do about it. Indeed, when I told my doctor about my fatigue, he told me it was the result of aging. In truth, the fatigue had nothing to do with growing older and everything to do with becoming sicker. All cells require energy to function. Your cellular powerhouses use enzymes to turn carbohydrates, fatty acids and amino acids into energy the body is able to use. Fatigue occurs because the body’s energy production systems have been impaired. The powerhouses (called mitochondria ) may not be receiving sufficient fuel or oxygen, may have been damaged by free radicals, may have the wrong pH, or may have their enzymes disabled by toxic chemicals. The high- energy compounds made by the powerhouses, such as

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ins. If we eat proteins, they must be laboriously digested, that is, broken down by body enzymatic action in t o amino acids. Per Dr. Mark Hegstead of Harvard University, the true need for amino acids by an 154-pound (70 kg) man is about 21 grams per day, or 84 calories. Very active people will need close to 30 grams. The FNB’s protein numbers for a 154-pound man are high: 46.2 grams. The FNB’s are so high because they agree with Dr. Hegstead’s numbers; however, they almost double them to give a safety margin. Beware: when you’ve got your build - ing built, throwing extra bricks into it may mess things up! Any amount of cooked pro - tein will cause your body-temple structural weakness and reduced vitality! Twent y -one grams of amino proteins in a diet consisting of about 500 grams of usable nutrient solids required daily is about 4%. In our natural diet the amino acids are about 100% usable whereas in the conventional American diet they are only about 20% us - able! The average American consumes about 105 grams of protein daily, but mostly in a cooked form. C ook ing coagulates, deranges and deaminates proteins and amino ac - ids, thus rendering them unusable except as carbohydrates. In the cooked and oxidized form they are v er y readily putrefiable. Ninety percent of amino acid and protein wastes of the body are recycled. This means that proteins involved in body processes are providentially used and reused. It also means that losses through cellular death are largely reclaimed and reused. The overall loss is thus about 10% of the daily usage. It is estimated that the body of the average 49 Fruiticultureman requires about 230 grams of new protein formation daily. If 90% of this is supplied by recycling spent proteins, then only about 23 grams of new protein need to be con - sumed. Make it raw amino acids! Our Natural F o ods Must Supply Our Needs For Mineral Matter Mineral matter that the human body uses consists of minerals in an organic context, that is, in a colloidal form within living substance. Heat quickly destroys the organic context, thus returning mineral matter to an inorganic state. Though super fine in con - sistency, minerals that were in the organic state become, through the agency of heat or dec omposition of their medium, inorganic the same as they occur in soil, r ocks, ores, etc. In this form they are not utile by the human body except in certain applications. For example, base minerals will alkalinize the intestinal tract even though they cannot be assimilated. Minerals which the body requires become toxic if appropriated in an inorganic context. This is easily demonstrable. Leukocytosis is recognized as a pathological state. This is a proliferation of white blood cells, the whole of which is often referred to as our im - mune system. If the components of a cooked or heat-deranged meal are taken, leu - kocytosis results. If only inorganic minerals are ingested, leukocytosis likewise results. Leukocytosis is a body def ensiv e act wherein the body unleashes huge armies of white blood cells to apprehend and carry toxic substances to the nearest exit or put them harmlessly under the rug somewhere. Thus the body must have, according to the RDIs, about 1% of its solid food intake as minerals. To be usable these minerals must be in an un-deranged organic state. Our Natural Foods Must Supply Our Needs For Fatty AcidsThere was, at one time, proclaimed to be three essential fatty acids, namely arachidonic, linoleic and linolenic. Today only linoleic is said by nutritional researchers to be essen - tial. Popularly, linolenic fatty acids are referred to as omega-3 while linoleic fatty acids are referr ed to as omega-6. Essential means that the body has a need of a component or components, in this case fatty acids, because it cannot itself synthesize them. Our natu - ral foods must, of course, contain our needs for essential fatty acids, because the body never found it necessar y t o develop faculties to produce them or they were so plentiful in the food the body ceased to produce them and lost its ability to do so as it did with 50 Fruiticulturevitamin C and certain amino acids recognized as essential. Our Natural Vibrant Foods Must Supply Our Needs For VitaminsWhile vitamins comprise such a small portion of our total dietary need that all the RDIs taken together on an annual basis could be put into a sewing thimble, they are, never - theless, essential to our well-being. The RDIs for vitamins vary with each vitamin. Here I will not deal with individual vitamins as separate c omponen ts. At this time only the ob - servation need be made that our natural foods must adequately contain these vitamins or g ive rise t o them in absor bable form while in the intestinal tract. Our Natural Foods Must Supply Our Needs For Miscellaneous Nutrients The above nutrients are said to be macronutrients though, as can be seen, vitamins are really micronutrients. Other micronutrients which the body may require are auxones (certain plant hormones). The science of nutrition is yet young. Whether or not there are needed nutrients in foods other than the five categories of solids treated above remains open to question. In any event you can be sure our natural foods are replete with all the nutrients we need in the quantities we require. After all, our virtual abandonment of our natural dietary fare is only a few seconds on the clock if we regard our earthly existence as being 24 hours thus far. And our natural fare is scientifically established as responsible for our high state of development. Our Natural Foods Should Supply Our Water NeedsInasmuch as humans, like many desert creatures, are not designed with the oral equip - ment to naturally drink water, our natural diet should be water-sufficient just as it is in the case of desert animals as well as numerous other crea tures in nature. Healthy people eating their natural diet usually have a surplus of water without drinking. The addition of some foods without sufficient water, less than 25% water content, does not occasion thirst. However, substances with water content equal to or greater than our natural foods occasion thirst if ingested cooked, if they are biologically incorrect, if they are condimented, especially with salt, and toxic substances in general. While thirst generally arises from pathogenic conditions within, there are exceptions: extraordinarily warm climatic conditions, extraordinarily low humidity, periods without 51 Fruiticulturenormal food intake, partaking of good foods that have been dried, heavy labor or exer - cise under warm conditions, and yet other conditions. When thirst arises, always drink water —pur e water. With ready supplies of pure water and tools that facilitate drinking such as cups, glasses, etc., we can easily drink the water necessary to make up deficits. Our Diet Must be Alkaline, Overall, in Metabolic End-ProductsHumans require a diet that is alkaline in its metabolic end-products. For practical pur - poses this means at least 80% of alkaline-forming foods against not more than 20% of acid end-pr oduct foods. The human homeostatic condition is alkaline with essential flu - ids normally having a pH of 7.40. Any significant variation in the pH can result in coma and dea th. Acidosis is deadlier than alkalosis. The body can rather easily discharge ex - cess organic alkalis, but must first neutralize excess acids. In the absence of sufficient alkalis, the body must take alkaline miner als , including calcium, from bones and fluids to effect neutralization. Americans eat a predominantly acid-forming diet, a diet that is not only pathogenic in itself, but causes such complications as base mineral depletion char - acterized by osteoporosis and metabolic disorders. What W ould Y ou Eat in Nature? Considering Various Foods and Our Natural DispositionDespite the gross perversion of our instincts, they are still alive and well and will reas - sert should we be relegated back to nature. Therefore, this quest is to ascertain what we would eat in natur e . Our instinctive foods, the foods which helped to develop us to our magnificence, necessarily contain all that we need to thrive on. This assurance being soundly based, as you will soon determine for yourself, it then behooves us, as respon - sible members of society, to undertake the course which makes us the most we can be so tha t we can maximally serv e ourselv es and those who depend on us. This is a mutual arrangement, as those whom we serve in turn serve us better. This exalts everyone and has a ripple effect that makes all in our society healthier and happier, more loving and more caring. In serving yourself best, you at the same time serve others best. This inqui - ry will survey almost all the foods that humans, in their varied habits, eat. We’ll consider each as a possible food for ourselves as it oc curs in na ture without benefit of cooking apparati, tools and containers. Remember, your instincts will reject or cherish each food on its merits; that is, its appeals 52 Fruiticultureto your senses and palate; the only criteria that guided us to food selection in plentiful nature. 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sorrows. We are all seeking to return to the peaceful core of consciousness, which is to return to the heart. As we move into our deeper consciousness, our heart opens and our awareness expands into the Infinite. The calm and clear heart reflects the Absolute and gives liberation from the cycle of rebirth. Our deeper consciousness is the level at which traumas Conditioned Consciousness 83 most affect us and where they get deposited deep inside us, particularly the sufferings of birth and death. There we hold our deeper sorrows, attachments, fears and anxieties. We must get to this level to remove deep-seated hurts, habits and addictions. This is very difficult because reach- ing the core of consciousness requires peeling off the layers of the mind, which are numerous and complex. Once our deeper consciousness is disturbed, which is a trauma to the heart, it is very difficult to regain psy- chological equilibrium. We must nurture our conscious- ness with higher impulses, not expose it to negative influ- ences from the external world. Our core consciousness is the mind of the child that takes in everything and must be protected. Composition Conditioned consciousness (Chitta) is primarily Sattvic in nature but contains all three gunas in their seed forms. The essence of the three gunas within us determines the nature of our deeper consciousness. It is composed of the gunas that we most hold to in our hearts. Our relation- ships at a heart level most affect our consciousness and transmit their gunas to us. Consciousness becomes purely sattvic and fully devel- oped as the result of spiritual practice. Otherwise its func- tion is inhibited and distorted. Rajas and Tamas (aggres- sion and ignorance) in consciousness cause pain and delusion and are the source of all problems in life. These are the main psychological impurities or toxins that we must eliminate. Our deeper consciousness is the level at which these mental toxins reside and the seat from which they have to be removed. Tamas in the Chitta becomes the unconscious, which Ayurveda and the Mind dominates us during sleep, dullness and depression. It is the basis of the habits and tendencies that we know are wrong but are unable to change with our surface mind. Rajas in the Chitta underlies our usual waking conscious- ness, characterized by action and expression. It keeps our consciousness ever moving, disturbed and distracted, caught up in its own imaginings. Sattva in the Chitta pro- vides the basis for our higher conscious and superconscious functioning. Chitta constitutes the causal body, the reincarnating vehicle of the individual soul that persists through the entire cycle of rebirth. It contains the kannic residues set in motion in various lives, only a few of which come to the surface and manifest in any particular incarnation. As the causal or creative venture, consciousness contains the potential for all developments of body and mind. It is the source of the five sensory potentials and the five gross ele- ments, which create and sustain the subtle and gross bod- ies. Chitta is desire predominant1' and is the basis of the core desires that keep us in the cycle of rebirth. The field of consciousness (Chitta) makes up the Anan- damaya kosha or bliss sheath in which we carry our deep- est joys and sorrows. In its unawakened (Tamasic) condi- tion the Anandamaya kosha is the repository of our clinging to embodied existence. In its awakened (Sattvic) state it reflects the bliss inherent in our Self that is one with God. Relative to the five elements, Chitta most corresponds to air and ether. Its substance is like ether, its motion like air. Like air, it is ever changing and adjusting itself both inwardly and outwardly, ever expansive and creative. Con- sciousness, like air, is ever contacting things and making sound. Consciousness is nothing but the inmost core of Conditioned Consciousness 85 A sound vibrating within us. Chitta transcends the senses but has a special connection with the sense of hearing, par- ticularly non-verbalized sound and music. Sound influ- ences and heals the Chitta, a point we will examine under Mantra Therapy. Though Chitta is much more subtle than the biological humors, Chitta generally relates to Vata, the most prima- ry of these. Vata people live with an exposed consciousness or vulnerable heart. Their consciousness is open and they are less grounded in their bodies and senses. For this rea- son, Vata-types are more easily hurt than others and should be treated with care. Keeping Vata in balance protects and aids in the proper unfoldment of our deeper consciousness. Similarly, Chitta corresponds to Prana among the three vital essences. Energy/Will Chitta governs the original Prana, the immortal life- force of the soul through which we are animate or alive on all levels. Just as it relates to the Gunas in general, so does it relate to the Pranas, and also corresponds to Prana among the three vital essences (Prana, Tejas and Ojas). This master Prana gives life to the mind and the body and upholds all autonomic functions. Nothing is dearer to us than life itself, which takes us to the bliss inherent within us. Consciousness holds the original life-force that is the reflection of the eternal and immortal life of the Supreme Self. Because of its deep connection with the life-force, the practice of Pranayama can help us enter into and purify the Chitta. What alternative medicine calls the "intelligence of the body" is the hidden aspect of Chitta working in the body. When we give up ego control, it can function with- Ayurveda and the Mind out obstruction to heal and rejuvenate us physically and mentally. Consciousness holds the deepest level of will, which is the will to live, the desire to exist forever. Our deeper con- sciousness holds our most primal and ultimate motiva- tions, our heart's desires and wishes, what we really want in life. Consciousness is will in the general and potential sense — pure will without a defined goal, the will to expe- rience that is the basis of all other intentions. From it aris- es all the desires that keep us bound to the world and to the body. Only if we gain freedom from these core desires can we perceive the truth. Consciousness and Individual Nature The fabric of our consciousness consists of deep-seated thought tendencies called Samskaras in Sanskrit. These are deeper than what we ordinarily regard as thoughts. They are the residues that we retain from our mental operations, like the ruts a turning wheel makes in a road. These residues support the behavioral patterns that motivate us from within. What we call the nature or being of the individual is the consciousness of the person. Our individual conscious- ness is the field of the tendencies that we have made our own, the ground of our repeated actions that have become automatic or second nature. Our conditioning in life cre- ates the state or condition of our consciousness. It is our deepest level of programming. Our existence is our con- sciousness which determines how we relate to life. The state of the Chitta or core consciousness is the mental natur (Manasika Prakrit) of the person and determines our unique character and mentality. The nature of a person cannot be changed without Conditioned Consciousness 87 A changing the deeper consciousness, which means to change the heart. Unless an influence gets to the level of the heart, it cannot have any deep or lasting effect. This is why mere words or thoughts have such little value. They do not go beyond the surface mind in their effects. Yet to get to the core of the heart requires uncovering all our sor- rows and regrets, which most of us are unwilling to face. Functions All the functions of the mind are functions of the Chit- ta, which constitutes the entire mental field. However, Chitta has three general functions, which are three prima- ry ways to access this deeper consciousness. To reach these we must withdraw from the outer mind and senses which keep our awareness on the surface of our being. These three are: 1) memory; 2) sleep; and 3) samadhi. Memory Consciousness is the ground of memory and consists primarily of memories. It includes not only the ordinary memory of information but what we really remember in our hearts, those things that most deeply affect us for good or ill. It holds our seed memories from life to life. Our deeper consciousness governs memory on an organic level, including the memory that exists in our cells, through which the body functions. Our consciousness even has the capacity to remember God and to remember that we are God because, as consciousness, in its core is the soul which reflects God. Our consciousness can remember the entire universe, which after all is a formation of consciousness. Memory can give us either bondage or liberation. True memory is self-remembrance, remembering our Divine nature in consciousness. False memory is memory of per- sonal joys and sorrows, the history of the ego. 1 he best way

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has taken place, they feel the painful and cruel ener gy. The pheromones of fear are in the atmosphere and they impact the ener gy field of the environment to such an extent that it af fects anyone who enters that space. The opposite is also true. In places where spiritual consciousness and unconditional love are practiced, pheromones of grace, beauty, and tenderness are emitted and remain in the environment. I have felt the pheromones when I have been in places where both these extremes were standard practice, and I definitely felt the impact on my state of well-being. Here are four examples from my life experience, two from the low/slow ener gy fields of fear and two from the opposite high/fast energy fields of love. As you read all four, remind yourself of your power to contaminate and to illuminate the ener gy fields you work and play in every day. Just because you can’ t see those pheromones does not mean they don’ t exist. Environments of Fear Amster dam, Holland On three separate occasions I visited the home where Anne Frank lived in fear of being captured by the Nazis during W orld W ar II. This home, including the attic where Anne hid for several years with her family and recorded her thoughts in her diary, is now a museum visited by thousands of people each year. The theme of the museum is both a tribute to the spirit of Anne Frank and a reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust. Each time I’ve visited and toured this home along the canal I have been struck by the feeling of sadness that seems to permeate it. That feeling remains in the pheromones of fear from the Frank family and those who risked their lives to shield them from the prying eyes of the Nazi occupiers.Furthermore, all who visit here seem to be emitting their pheromones of sorrowful ener gy. On my last visit, I could no longer tolerate the ener gy field in this house. I found it extremely dif ficult to catch my breath and I was physically feeling choked and nauseous. When I spoke with others leaving the Anne Frank home they also reported similar experiences of feeling the slow ener gy of sadness and literally becoming physically ill. Robben Island, Cape T own, South Africa When I observed Robben Island from atop T able Mountain in Cape T own I immediately felt a strong ur ge to visit, though I was unaware, at that moment, what the island was or anything of its history. When I was informed that this was where Nelson Mandela spent seventeen of his twenty-seven years incarcerated, I knew it was a must-see for me. I made reservations to visit the following day, which turned out to be the tenth anniversary of Mandela’ s release in 1990. My wife elected not to take the half-day trip so I boarded the boat with my friend Dimitri, who lives in South Africa, along with his eleven-year -old son, Simeon. Only black political prisoners were incarcerated at Robben Island because of the South African system of apartheid and racial separation. At that time, black South Africans became political prisoners merely for attending some kind of a meeting in which plans were being formulated to overthrow the system of apartheid. Consequently, Robben Island was a place where innocent people were forced to work all day crushing limestone in the quarries. T oday, tourists visit and are given tours by the former inmates of Robben Island. As I toured with Dimitri and Simeon, I saw the cell where Nelson Mandela had lived in seclusion and forced silence. I feel that this man symbolizes the highest example of what this book is designed to teach: that there is a spiritual solution to every problem. Nelson Mandela’ s imprisonment forced him into silence and in going within himself he was able to make conscious contact with God. Silence, like God, is indivisible. When Nelson Mandela walked out of prison in 1990 he had for giveness and reconciliation in his heart. I believe it was the spiritual ener gy in him that transformed SouthAfrica, dismantled apartheid, and democratically elected him president. This happened with relatively little violence in contrast to the all-out war that was projected for eliminating racial political policies. Throughout our visit on the island I felt the anguish that is in places where injustice, torture, and fear have been practiced. When we left the island, young Simeon turned to me, and without any prodding or conversation said, “I felt wrong in there. Did you notice it too?” Indeed, this innocent boy confirmed what I had been feeling all morning. An ener gy field of fear is created where mistreatment flourishes and Simeon articulated what we both felt. Environments of Love Assisi, Italy In a small village not far from Florence, a thirteenth-century soldier was imprisoned. The son of a rich merchant, this young soldier had been “lost” for most of his life, when suddenly he had a vision to serve God in an unconditional way. He gave up all material possessions, ultimately living and teaching the message of Jesus of Nazareth. This was the man who would come to be known as Saint Francis of Assisi. Saint Francis, who experienced the wounds of Christ (the stigmata), practiced Patanjali’ s advice, which I wrote about in chapter two, of steadfastly abstaining from falsehood and thoughts of harming others. He became renowned for helping many by simply being in their presence. W ild animals and birds became tame and domesticated near him, meekly licking his fingers and flying into his open hands. For my wife and myself, Assisi was a pilgrimage. W e went to Lower Assisi to visit the tiny chapel that Saint Francis had prayed in every day. The chapel still stands in its exact condition from that time. A spacious edifice with glorious stained glass windows and an ornate ceiling surrounds it. Thousands of people mill about in this outer structure, all in Assisi to pray and pay homage to the thirteenth-century saint. The visitors come and go every day from all over the globe, in solemn, somber, loving tribute to this divine being.My wife and I were escorted into the tiny chapel which once was the spiritual meditative home of Saint Francis. W e both sat down to meditate in this sacred place, and immediately felt the pheromones of bliss and unconditional love entering our ener gy fields. Our tears of joy and bliss were a response to the glorious feelings. In fact, we returned a second day to visit again and confirm how powerful the experience had been and to be certain that it wasn’ t just our expectations at work in that chapel. The room radiated with unconditional love. It was in the air, so to speak. This little chapel, inside the outer chamber surrounding it, seemed a metaphor for ourselves. Our body is the outer protective chamber. But deep inside that chamber is a place of perfect harmony and peace, a place to visit often and feel the radiance that abides therein. Here in Lower Assisi is a place where Saint Francis made conscious contact with God, and a place where millions of people have come with love and gratitude to mill about and be in the imprint of his ener gy field. This kind of energy leaves its mark. It remains there, invisible though it may be; it is surely felt and experienced. Loving radiant ener gy joyously impacts the energy field of all who enter that field. I feel the presence of Saint Francis with me as I write this book, and I have acknowledged it in the opening pages. Machu Picchu, Peru The Spanish went through South America performing their version of the Holocaust, much like other European marauders decimated Native Americans who lived in North America for thousands of years before the arrival of invaders. No one within the gunsights of the conquistadors was spared. Millions of people were slaughtered. The consciousness of hatred and intolerance permeated both continents. The history of these places, played out in every village, is the story of man’ s inhumanity to man. The Spanish conquistadors missed nothing in spreading their terror as they systematically killed native peoples. Those they didn’ t kill with arrows and bullets became infected with diseases the invaders brought with them. They found every village, with an exception here and there. Machu Picchu is one such exception. The unwelcome visitors just missed it altogether. This place, built thousands of years ago as a holy shrine by the native peoples,sits at the top of a remote mountain in the Andes. It went undiscovered by anyone from the W est until 191 1. As we approached Machu Picchu, first by air, then by train, then by bus, and finally by foot, we pondered the questions everyone asks about this place. How did they build this thousands of years ago? How did they carry millions of gigantic rocks up such a treacherous path, without cranes, helicopters, and earthmovers? Who carried the rocks to the top of this remote mountain and placed them in a terraced formation? How did they build this tribute to their divine worship of nature thousands of years ago when the wheel had only recently been discovered? How did the hatred that infiltrated the countryside bypass Machu Picchu? How was it that this remained

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about seven times more numer­ ous than Lactobacilli and fulfil many useful functions. Apart from pro­ ducing different antibiotic-like substances which protect the gut from pathogens, engaging the immune system, maintaining gut integrity and health, they act as a source of nourishment for the body. Bifidobacteria actively synthesise amino acids, proteins, organic acids, vitamin K, pan­ tothenic acid, vitamin Bi (thiamin), Vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B3 (niacin), folic acid, vitamin B6 (pyridoxine), vitamin B12 (cobalamin), assist absorption of Ca, iron and vitamin D. Bifidobacteria are the second most numerous family of bacteria in probiotic supplements available on the market. 3. Saccharomyces boulardii This is a yeast first discovered by a French scientist H Boulard in 1920. He observed that people in China treated diarrhoea with an extract from lychee fruit. He found the yeast in this extract which was named Saccharomyces boulardii. Supplementing this yeast has been found to be effective in treating various forms of diarrhoea in children and adults. Recently there has been a lot of interest in using S. boulardii as an antagonist to a pathogenic yeast - Candida albicans. 4. Escherichia coli or E. coli E. coli is a large family of bacteria. Pathogenic members of this family can cause serious infections. However, physio­ logical strains of E. coli are normal and numerous inhabitants of healthy human gut. They normally occupy particular areas of the digestive system: the bowel and lower parts of the intestines and should not be found anywhere else. If they are found in the mouth, stomach or duode­ num that indicates an abnormality in gut ecology - gut dysbiosis. Physiological strains of E. coli fulfil a number of beneficial functions in the body: they digest lactose, produce vitamins (vitamin K and group B) and amino acids, produce antibiotic-like substances, called colicins and have a powerful stimulating influence on local and systemic immunity. They are very active against various pathogenic microbes including pathogenic members of their own family. Indeed having your gut popu­ lated by physiological strains of E. coli is the best insurance not to suc­ cumb to pathogenic strains of E. coli. That is what a German physician Alfred Nissle found in 1917 when he was trying to find out why some sol­ diers in the First World War did not fall prey to typhoid, when most of their comrades were ill. He identified a particular strain of E. coliin the stools ofthese soldiers, which was named the Nissle strain. He grew this bacterium and sealed it in gelatine capsules. After trying this product on himself he started manufacturing it under the name Mutaflor. Mutaflor is still available on the market. Some other physiological strains of E. coli have been studied and are used in some commercial probiotic formulas around the world. 5. Enterococcus Faecium or Streptococcus faecalis As the name would imply these bacteria, as with all other probiotics, were isolated from human stools. They normally live in the bowel where they control pathogens by producing hydrogen peroxide and reducing pH to 5.5. They break down proteins and ferment carbohydrates. There are a number of clinical studies showing that they are effective in treating various forms of diarrhoea. These bacteria are quite common in probi­ otic formulas on the market. 6. Bacillus subtilis or soil bacteria Bacillus Subtilis was first discovered by German microbiologists during the Second World War, which led to the use of this micro-organism in protecting German troops from dysentery and typhoid. After the war Bacillus subtilis was extensively studied in Germany, Russia, Italy, Finland, Eastern Europe, China and Vietnam. Number of subspecies were identified: B. licheniformis, B, cereus, B. brevis, B. mesentericus, B, pumilis, etc., most of which were shown to be therapeutic in animals and then humans. This led to the develop­ ment of a range of products with B. subtilis for animal use. For humans there are number of products with B. subtilis which have been used by doctors in Russia, Germany, Italy, Eastern Europe, Japan, Vietnam and China for decades. B. subtilis is a spore-forming microbe and is resistant to stomach acid, most antibiotics, temperature changes and other influ­ ences. It has strong immune-stimulating properties and is considered particularly effective with allergies and autoimmune disorders. It pro­ duces a whole host of digestive enzymes, anti-viral, anti-fungal, anti­ bacterial and other active substances. Soil bacteria are not indigenous to humans, they are transitional microbes, which do not colonise the gut but go through it doing a lot of work on the way. We humans used to consume soil bacteria in large amounts when we were drinking water from wells and streams. In the process of evolution the human gut has developed a need for these transitional bacteria. One possible need is keeping the gut clean. B. subtilis species are used in waste management because they have a great ability to break down rotting matter and to suppress putrefactive microbes. By clearing out old putrefaction in the gut soil bacteria may lay the ground for re-establishment of normal gut flora. In my experience probiotics, which contain soil bacteria are the most effective probiotics on the market. The market offers a wide range of probiotic products from probiotic drinks to powder, tablet and capsule forms. Unfortunately, many of them are not strong enough or do not contain strong enough species of bacteria to be of therapeutic benefit. There is also a problem of quality control. The last "Which" magazine report showed that many brands of probiotics on the market do not have bacterial species listed on the label or do not have claimed bacterial strength. So, how do we choose a good probiotic? First of all it always makes sense to work with a qualified practitioner with experience in using probiotics who will help you to chose good- quality supplements. If you are trying to chose a probiotic yourself, then there are some general guidelines to follow. 1. A good probiotic should have as many different species of beneficial bacteria as possible. A human gut contains hundreds of known species of different bacteria. We should try to get as close to that as we can. Different species of probiotic bacteria have different strengths and weaknesses. If we have a mixture of them then we have a better chance of deriving maximum benefit. 2. A mixture of strains from different groups of probiotic bacteria is more beneficial than just one group. For example, many probiotics on the market contain just Lactobacilli. A combination of representatives from the three main groups: Lactobacilli, Bifidobacteria and soil bacteria usu­ ally works best. 3. A good probiotic should have a concentrated amount of bacteria: at least 8 billion of bacterial cells per gram. You need to provide probiotic bacteria in large enough doses to see an improvement. 4. The manufacturer of the probiotic should test every batch for strength and bacterial composition and should be prepared to publish the results of testing. Once you have found a good probiotic you need to know how to use it. A good therapeutic strength probiotic will always produce a so-called "die-off reaction". What is it? As you introduce probiotic bacteria into a digestive system, they start destroying pathogenic bacteria, viruses and fungi. When these pathogens die they release toxins. These are the toxins, which made your patient autistic or schizophrenic or hyperactive. So, whatever charac­ teristic symptoms the patient has may temporarily get worse. Your patient may also feel more tired than usual, generally "off colour" or develop a skin rash. It is a temporary reaction and usually lasts from a few days to a few weeks in different individuals. To make this reaction as mild as possible, build the dose of your probiotic slowly. Start from a very small amount. Observe the patient for any "die-off" symptoms. If there are none then increase the dose. When you see a reaction, let your patient settle on this dose until the "die-off" symptoms disappear. Then increase the dose again and let the patient settle on it. Keep on increasing the dose until a therapeu­ tic level is reached. This period of building up the dose can take from a few weeks to a few months in different patients. It is very individual and depends on how much overgrowth of pathogenic microbes the person has in the gut. The therapeutic dose level of probiotic is individual and your health prac­ titioner should be able to help you with that. Here are general guidelines; An adult should have around 15-20 billion of bacterial cells per day. An infant up to 12 months of age can have 1-2 billion of bacterial cells per day. A toddler from 1 to 2 years of age can have 2-4 billion of bacterial cells per

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a bladder problem, women with this condition are often given drugs to relax the bladder, such as Detrol or Ditropan, which are ineffective and have anticholinergic side effects (such as dry mouth, constipation, and glaucoma). Or they receive surgical treatment, such as placement of a vaginal mesh, which has been known to cause severe complications. The latest approach is to inject Botox into the bladder muscles. However, incontinence is not caused by a Botox deficiency. Moreover, Botox is so effective at preventing incontinence that women can wind up with the opposite problem and require catheter placement for three months until the drug wears off. However, stress incontinence can be completely eliminated, usually in three to six days, using intravaginal bio-identical testosterone cream in conjunction with doing Kegel exercises. I discuss this in more detail in my books The Miracle of Bio-Identical Hormones and The Platt Protocol for Hormone Balancing. The release of adrenaline at night to raise the sugar level to fuel the brain is very often the cause of nighttime urination. Many people have problems with nocturia (nighttime urination); some have to get up three or four times a night. This condition is often blamed on drinking too many fluids, prostate problems, heart problems, or having a “small bladder.” However, the release of adrenaline at night to raise the sugar level to fuel the brain is very often the cause.ADRENALINE DOMINANCE 60 | A child who has problems with enuresis (bed-wetting) almost always has ADHD. In fact, a pediatric urologist shared with me that the correlation between bed-wetting and ADHD is widely acknowledged in his field. I have observed that bed-wetting seems to occur almost exclusively in children who have a creative type (right-brained) component to their ADHD. This is not surprising, since the right brain is more active, even at night, so more adrenaline is released during the night, creating the urge to urinate. Bed-wetting seems to occur almost exclusively in children who have a creative type (right-brained) component to their ADHD. The pediatric urologist also told me that the primary treatment for bed-wetting in children was Vasopressin, a powerful antidiuretic hormone. I expressed surprise at the time that the FDA would allow this. To their credit, the FDA did wake up to the dangers of using this drug in children and has since disallowed it. However, this raises the question: what drugs might these doctors be prescribing now? Again, to my way of thinking, the urinary issues just discussed are all about adrenaline. Children with excess adrenaline can have a problem with bed-wetting, and adults with excess adrenaline will get up at night to urinate. Lowering the adrenaline level in both children and adults can bring dramatic improvement in this condition. | 61 ExCESS ADRENALINE: THE BAD HOW ADRENALINE DOMINANCE PRESENTS: PATIENT OBSERVATIONS Excess adrenaline rarely causes a single condition. It is more likely to manifest as several conditions. The particular array of conditions tends to be unique to each patient, and in general, the number and severity of the conditions may increase as the years go by. Thus the following key points can be made: 1. The effects of excess adrenaline frequently start in childhood and progress throughout adulthood. 2. A person often has a combination of the “good,” “bad,” and “ugly” effects of adrenaline. 3. Everyone is different in terms of how they react to excess adrenaline. 4. Everyone is the same in terms of the dramatic relief they experience from reducing adrenaline. These points are illustrated in two letters from patients that follow. I have found that excess adrenaline is almost always associated with a low progesterone level. Low progesterone would account for the history of severe menstrual cramps described in the first letter. I suspect that this woman’s severe constipation was a manifestation of irritable bowel syndrome exacerbated by low thyroid function. The almost miraculous change in her demeanor and feelings she describes can only be attributed to a decrease in her adrenaline.ADRENALINE DOMINANCE 62 | Patient K.B. November 3, 2009Good morning everyone, This past week has been like moving from living in black and white to waking up each day [to living] in color ….The shades of grey are slipping away more and more each day and are being replaced equally by a brilliance of colors. That is the best description I can share. Today is the last day that I will be taking both Lamictal and Seroquel. Good riddance! I woke up today realizing something BIG is happening and I’d best keep a record of it! I am now convinced that the better cause of my turbulent childhood was my imbalance of hormones. What I can remember of my childhood (and that is not much) that directly contributes to my areas of concern today are, but are not limited to, the following: Constant constipation with periods between bowel movements of 7–10 days and sometimes longer, throughout my entire life. Horrible menstrual cramps with clotting. Inability to concentrate; an inability to relax and “be myself” at any time, even when alone. Nervous, self-doubt, and on and on…. I thought that I would share my journal entry for today, which prompted this e-mail: Today is Monday Nov. 3, 2009. I woke up today, after an extremely restful night, in no pain, energized, alert, clear headed, light spirited, calm, no pressure in my head, clear eyes, excited (and I am sure there are more adjectives that apply here) for the very first time that I can recall in my entire life. I know that Dr. Platt said that this would happen, but I walked out scared shitless that | 63 ExCESS ADRENALINE: THE BAD “I” would be right and that “Dr. Platt” would be wrong in my case. (After all, I sat through that meeting in my numbed, lethargic, toxic state, hearing the words as they “bounced” off of my head.) I was sure that it would not happen to me. I didn’t even know what good “ feelings” to expect or how to recognize them if they “popped up”! I actually asked myself, “How will I know that I am feeling better?” I didn’t know how horrible I felt. I just didn’t know …and the journaling goes on. These are my good reasons to journal. I always want to reference how bad I felt so I would never forget again. Our minds are designed to eliminate bad pain, but this bad pain always needs to be remembered at a safe distance and in a safe place, in the way of a reference point. I initially came to you for severe constipation and incontinence as well as rapid hair loss, just as my mother had. My remarkable improvement in one short week, in all of these areas and more, additionally gives me hope that my hair will hang in there (no pun intended) for a few more years than my mother’s did.With great appreciation,K.B. The patient who wrote the following letter consulted with doctors in five specialties at the Mayo Clinic, who put her through an extensive workup. Even though they eliminated lupus as one of her diagnoses, not one of them suggested that she taper off any of her nine medications, even the ones prescribed for lupus. In general, doctors hesitate to eliminate a drug that another doctor has prescribed. This is one reason why traditional medicine so often fails at getting patients well.ADRENALINE DOMINANCE 64 | Patient C.R. November 16, 2009Dear Dr. Platt, I am writing to express my deep gratitude and appreciation for all that you have done for me in assisting me to basically turn my life around. When I first came to you as a new patient for treatment approximately 3 months ago, I had just been to the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ, for an extensive series of evaluations by five doctors, who ordered a comprehensive workup of diagnostic tests for fibromyalgia, systemic lupus, and multiple health issues: interstitial cystitis; irritable bowel syndrome; fibromyalgia; peripheral neuropathy; sleep disorder; anxiety; depression; and chronic fatigue. I was a mess! Fortunately, I found out at Mayo that I did not have lupus, which had been misdiagnosed by my rheumatologist in Hawaii, who had prescribed Lyrica, Prednisone, and hydroxychloroquine for my pain and inflammation and to suppress my immune system. When I came to you last August, I was not only taking these medications, but also Lexapro, Wellbutrin, Ambien, Sonata, Detrol, and Vicodin—all prescribed by different MDs in Hawaii as well. I was so exhausted all of the time. I could barely get out of bed! I felt like my health was spiraling downwards and that I had no recourse but to seek an alternative approach from one of the most highly respected medical professionals in your

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the mind’ s ego is so vain that it doesn’ t want to give credit where credit is due. This proclivity of mind to discount inner progress is sometimes quite comical. For instance, a man who had been stuck in the same job position for 23 years began using the technique of letting go. W ithin a couple of months, he suddenly jumped to the position of V ice President and, by the end of the year, he was President of the company. When asked if he was pleased with himself about what he had accomplished by using the inner technique, his mind totally discounted it and ascribed his gains to “shifts in business patterns. ” His marriage had also improved and the mind, again, ascribed the improvements to external reasons: “My wife’ s attitudes finally changed. ” The relationship with his son also improved, and the mind again circumvented the inner transformation and said it was due to the fact that his son was “getting older. ” In the discussions that follow, it will be noted that the transitions from one state to a higher state are not dif ficult to make. They may only seem “dif ficult” to us because of current perceptions. It’ s important to keep in mind that, as we surrender, our perceptions will change. Our goals will automatically be elevated. What now seems impossible will become old hat after we have been practicing the technique a while. W e will also notice that, as the mind contrasts the lower level of life with the higher level, a peculiar resistance to the description of a higher level of functioning will occur at times. The mind will get critical and try to save face by ridiculing a higher state. This is a golden opportunity because this is the very attitude that prevents a person from reaching that higher state of life. The very process of reading this material is invaluable, for it will reveal precisely what the blocks are and exactly why these goals are impossible at the present time. As resistances, criticisms, and disparagements come up, we can begin surrendering them and letting them go right now in the process of reading about them. It is a great opportunity to identify the inner blocks to fulfillment. As Pogo said, “W e have identified the enemy, and it is us. ” As a professional psychotherapist and psychiatrist with many decades of clinical experience and training, these higher levels of functioning were considered to be impossible for most people. However, learning how the mechanism of surrender works on the practical level and watching hundreds of families, friends, patients, and ex-patients transform their lives has totally changed this view. Now, higher levels of functioning are seen to be automatic, easy to achieve, and available to everyone, often in asurprisingly short period of time. As a matter of fact, some of these levels of success and happiness will seem impossible, but the higher level will already have occurred by the time you have finished reading this book. Y ou can tell yourself right in the beginning that these high levels of functioning are not only possible, but they are an inherent birthright. They are the natural state of which you have been deprived by all the programming that the mind has been subjected to since birth. Before reading on, it is advisable to sit quietly and make an inner decision to let go resisting higher levels of functioning. This means to make a decision to stop denying the higher levels to yourself, and to make a decision to let go of all blocks to happiness, success, health, acceptance, love, and peace. By doing this, the deed is already done, for you have set the whole experience into a context that will automatically begin to unfold. Health The average person is preoccupied with the body, its functioning, performance, appearance, and survival. The average mind is beleaguered with worries, fears of sickness, suf fering, disease, and death; therefore, the mind sets about defending the body in a great variety of ways. This leads to over -attention to diet, weight, exercise, and the health of the environment. W ith such inner tension, by the end of the day the average person frequently feels like a victim: drained, empty, and exhausted. One consequence of this preoccupation with the body is self- consciousness. W ithin the field of awareness, the body’ s presence is prominent, and there is a mental fixation with what it is doing, its whereabouts and movements, its survival, the attitudes and approval of other persons toward the body, its appearance and behavior. Underlying all of this concern is the unconscious equation, “I am a body. ” This is a very limited level of consciousness. In fact, in the spiritual world this is called “being unconscious. ” Because it is a false identification due to a marked narrowing of awareness, it is like wearing blinders. It is like having a pimple on the nose and thinking that the whole world now revolves around that pimple, and going through the day with that pimple most prominent in our mind. Be aware of how much ener gy is drained by this constant preoccupation with the body. Our mind has been continuously programmed with a countless variety of belief systems about the body: what it needs,what will be good for it, and its infinite number of vulnerabilities. This leads to constant preoccupations with all kinds of health preventive measures, including health food fads, the endless reading of labels for potentially poisonous ingredients, the fear of being near someone smoking a cigarette, the fear of dusts and pollens and all of the supposed contaminants of the environment. There is an obsession with of fsetting all of these “dangers” by various countermeasures. As we have seen from previous discussions, these vulnerabilities are merely the product of the mind, and the body will react to what is held in mind. This was demonstrated in our discussion of multiple personalities where the body reflected in each instant what that particular personality and mind believed. As we begin letting go of all these fears, cancelling the belief systems and reaf firming that our true Self is Infinite and not subject to limitations, we move into a higher state of health, wellness, and vital ener gy. A helpful way to phrase it to ourselves is, “I am an Infinite Being, not subject to ____________. ” W e put into the blank space whatever disease or substance that the mind has been programmed to see as a possible “danger” for us. After letting go of the endless variety of bodily fears, concerns and belief systems, physical illnesses begin to resolve automatically. There is an increase in the feeling of aliveness and personal freedom. In the state of total surrender, the body is barely perceived at all. It is only peripherally in awareness, and there is no preoccupation with it. It functions ef fortlessly, smoothly, and with very little attention. A surrendered person can eat anything or go anywhere and is no longer subject to fears of contaminants, pollutants, drafts, germs, electromagnetic frequencies, carpet, smoke, dust, animal dander, poison ivy, pollen, or food dyes. Our perception of the body shifts, and it now seems to be like a puppet or a pet. This shift of perception is from “I am the body” to “I have a body. ” It becomes progressively obvious that the body is not experiencing itself at all. On the contrary, it is the mind that is experiencing the body. W ithout the mind, the body cannot be perceived at all. The arm cannot experience its arm-ness. Only the mind can experience the arm-ness. This, of course, is the very basis of anesthesia. When the mind is asleep, the body has no sensation. It slowly dawns on us that, in fact, the body doesn’ t have any sensation; only the mind is capable of that function. This is a very important shift of consciousness because now the preoccupation is not with the body and defending it. The focus of attention now shifts to the mind, which is where the greater power lies. As we shift our thoughts, feelings and perceptions, we begin to notice that the body follows suit. W e recognize that people are not really responding to our body at all but to our inner attitudes, our ener gy state, and our level of awareness. One day it dawns on us that everyone and everything in the world are responding to our level of consciousness, our intention, and to the inner feeling we have about them. W e register the magnetism of saintly people such as Mother T eresa, the Dalai Lama, and Mahatma Gandhi. W e see that they are beloved not because of their physical appearance, but because of the inner radiance of love and peace they emanate. The shift of focus from the physical level to the level of consciousness begins to bring rapid results. The persistent surrender of negative feelings and attitudes means that the associated guilt is also being constantly relinquished. A consciousness that is not guilt-ridden tends no longer to attract disease. In the unconscious, guilt requires punishment and sickness, with its attendant pain and suf fering, as the mind’ s most frequent means of self-retaliation. This self- retaliation may take the form of an accident, cold, attack of the flu, arthritis, or any of the multiple diseases that the mind has invented. These diseases take epidemic forms due to television and media publicity. When a prominent figure shares with the public some

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don't have much money, then receiving bills won't make you feel good. But the m oment you react negatively to a big bill, you give bad feelings, and most surely you will receive bigger bills. Whatev er you give, you receive b ack. The most important thing is that when you pay your bills, you find a way, any way, to make yourself feel good. Never pay your bills when you don't feel good, because you will just bring bigger bills to you. T o change what you're feeling, you need to use your imagination to turn your bills into something that makes you feel better. Y ou can imagine they're n ot really bills at all but instead you've decided to donate money to each com pany or person out of the good ness of your heart, be cause of the wonderful service they provide. Imagine your bills are checks y ou're receiving. Or use gratitude and give thanks to the company who sent you the bill, by thinking about how you've benefited from their service for electricity or being able to l ive in a home. Y ou can write across the front of a bill when you pay it, "Thank you - paid." If you don't have the money to pay the bill right aw ay, write across the fron t of it, 'Thank yo u for the mon ey. "The law of attraction doesn't question whether what you imagine and feel is real or not. It responds to what you give, period. "Y ou ar e r ewar d ed not accor ding to your work or your time bu t accor ding to the measur e of your love. "(St Catherine of Siena 1347- 1380) When you receive your salary, be grateful for it so it multiplies! Most people don't even feel good when they are paid, because they're so worriedabout how to ma ke their salary last. They miss an incredible opportunity to give love every time they're paid. W hen so me money comes into your hands, no matter h ow little it is, be grateful! Remember, whatever you'r e grateful for multiplies. Gratitude is the great multiplier! Seize Every Opportunity to Play Seize every moment that you are handling money to make the money multiply by feeling good. Feel love wh en you pay for anything! Feel love when you hand over money! Feel love with all your heart by imagining how much yo ur money is helping th e company and the staf f who work for the company. It will make you feel goo d about the money you'r e giving instead of feelin g bad because you have less money. The dif ference between the two is the dif fer ence between having plenty of money and struggling with money for the rest of your life. Here is a game you can play so you remember to feel good about money each tim e you handle it. Imagine a dollar bill. Imagine the front of the dollar bill as the positive side, which represents plenty of mon ey. Imagine the b ack of the dollar bill as the n egative side representing a lack of money. Each time you handle money, deliberately flip the bills so the front is facing you. Put bills in your wallet with the front facing you. When you hand over money, make sure the front is facing upward. By doing this you are using money as your cue to remember to feel good about plenty of money. If you are using a credit card, then flip th e credit card to the front where your name is, because the front of your credit card is telling y ou that there is an abundance of money and it has your name on it! When you pay for anything, as you hand o ver your card or money, imagin e an abun dance of money for the person you are handing it to, and mean it. Whatever you give out, you receive back! Imagine that you are wealthy right now. Imagine that you have all the money you need right now. How would you live your life dif ferently? Think ab out all the things you would do. How would you feel? Y ou would feel dif f erent and because you would feel dif ferent, you would walk dif ferently. Y ou would talk dif ferently. Y ou would hold your body in a dif ferent way, and you would move dif ferently. Y ou would react dif ferently to every thing. Y our reaction to bills would be dif ferent. Y our reaction to people, circums tances, events, and everything in life would be dif ferent.Because you would feel dif feren t! Y ou wou ld be relaxed. Y ou would have peace of mind. Y ou would feel happy. Y ou would be easygoing about everything. Y ou would enjoy every day, without giving any thought to tomorrow. That's the feeling you want to capture. That is the fee ling of love for money, and that feeling is magnetically sticky! "Captur e the feeling associated with your r ealized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours wer e you alr eady in possession of the thing you desir e, and your wish will objectify itself" (NevilleGoddar d 1905-1972)Say Y es to Money Remember, any time you hear of another person receiving more money or success, get excited, because it means you're on that frequency' It is evidence that you're on a good frequency, so be as excited a s if it were happening to you, because your reaction to the news is everything. If you react wi th joy and excitement for the other person, you are sa ying yes to more money and success for yourself. If you react by feeling disappointed or en vious that it's not happening to you, your bad feelings are saying no to more money and success for yo urse lf. If you hear of a person winning the lottery, or you hear of a company making rec ord profits, be excited and happy fo r them. The fact that you heard the news tells you that you're on the same frequency, and your reaction o f feeling good feelings for those people says yes for you! A few yea rs ago, I rea ched an all-time low with money in my life. I had several c redit ca rds that I had char ged up, my apartment was mortgaged to the limit, and my c ompany was in debt for millions of dollars because I wa s making a film called The Secr et. I thi nk my situat ion with money was about as bad as anybody's can get. I wanted money to finish the film, I knew the law of attraction, and I knew I had to fe el good about m oney to bring it to me. But it wasn't easy because every single day I was confronted by the mounting debt, with people calli ng for money, and had no idea h ow I would be able to pay my staf f's wages. So I took drastic action. I w alked to an A TM and drew out several hundred dollars from my credit card account. I n eeded that money so badly to pay bills and buy food, but I took the money in my hand, w alked down a busy street, and I gave the money away to people on the street. I put a $50 bill in my hand, and as I walked, I looked at each person's face as they wa lked tow ard me, trying to decide who to give the money to. I wanted to give money to every single person, but I only had a certain amount. I l et my heart c hoose and I gave the money away to all kinds of people. It was the first time in my life I had felt love for money. But it wasn't th e mone y itself that caus ed me to feel love, it was giving the moneyto pe ople that m ade me feel love for money. It was a Friday, and afterward I had tears of joy all weekend about how good it felt to give money. On Monday afternoon something astounding happened: my bank account received $25,000 through the most incredible sequence of events. That $25,000 literally fell out of the sky into my life and into my account. I had bought some shares in a friend's company years earlier, and I had for gotten about them because they had n ever increased in value. But that Monday morning I received a ph one call asking me if I woul d sell my shares as they had skyrocketed in value, and by Monday afternoon the money for the shares was in my account. I didn't set out to give money away to bring more money to me. I gave it away so I would feel love about money. I wante d to change a lifetime of feeling bad about money. If I had given away that money in order to get money, it would never have worked, because it would have meant I was motivated by feeling a lack of money, which is negative, instead of be ing motivated by love. But if you g ive money a way, and if you feel love when you give it, most surely it will return to you. One man wrote a check and donated $100 to a charity he felt was really w orthwhile. W ithin ten hours of writing the check, he closed the lar gest sale he had

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Mother Earth for being the perfect example of how to love no matter what. The ancient Vedic scriptures guide us toward living a life where we intentionally support each other, respect the world, and honor God as the source of all that is. When we show up in our relationships, of fering our gifts without selfish motives, without the need for validation or recognition, we will feel a deep satisfaction and fulfillment that might otherwise feel elusive. While this may be hard to conceptualize, the living example of millions of mothers gives us an insight into what selflessness really is. Devotional service is love expressed. I remember when I was learning to love my little one: the kind of love that is beyond what I could feel, but rather a love that stemmed from learning what he needed and how I could serve him. I remember the depth of experience I began to move into as I took full responsibility of caring for him, and the realization that the experience of love is deeply enhanced through service. When you really love someone, you will naturally go out of your way to make them feel happy, content, and at peace. It will give you the greatest joy to see them joyful, and the greatest satisfaction to know they are satisfied.My first experience of loving him was a knowing that there was nothing I would not do to protect him. There is nothing I would not give up or give away if it meant that he would be safe. Through serving him, I began to know a love that I had only heard about from others. My own needs effortlessly became secondary, as the well-being of my little one moved to become my top priority—a constant meditation and full absorption. The way a mama serves her little one is unmotivated and uninterrupted, which births a love consisting of those same qualities. un·mo·ti·vat·ed: without a reason or motive. un·in·ter·rupt·ed: without a break in continuity. You are here to love, and thus serve, your little one—to let them feel the way that God loves them through the way that you care. When you can remember who they really are, beyond the limited scope of “your” child, you can see the pure spirit soul within their tiny little body; this eternal spirit who has been traveling from one body into the next since time immemorial searching for the lasting happiness that can only be found in connection to their true Self and in relation with God. You can understand that the greatest service, while caring for their basic needs and loving them with attention and intention, is to raise them to know who they really are, beyond their body, mind, and emotions. Instill within them, through your own example, the real value of living a deeper life and the importance of spiritual connection. Nama Karana Samskara: Name-Giving Ceremony In Vedic tradition, it is auspicious for the parents to have the name-giving ceremony— nama karana —on the 10th day, 12th day, 101st day, or first year after the birth of their baby.After the father spends the morning bathing and worshipping the Lord with certain of ferings and mantras, the V edic name- giving ceremony is done with the father of fering ghee- soaked wood into a fire while saying specific prayers. If you will be doing a baby-naming ceremony, you can bring your own sacred intention into naming your baby. Start the morning by cleaning your house and then taking a shower. Make a small fire or light some candles, and arrange some flowers, leaves, or fruits in a mandala shape around the fire with the intention of creating a sacred space. Say the following prayer, or a prayer that you write yourself with similar intention. I offer my respects to the earth. I offer my respects to the space between the heavens and the earth. I offer my respects to the heavens. I offer my respects to the universe. With your family sitting around the fire, you can hold your baby in a clean cloth and sit on the father ’s right side. Handing the baby to their father, mama walks behind papa and comes to his left side. At this point you should be facing east. The father touches the mouth, nostrils, eyes, and ears of the baby with his right hand and says: Your essence is spiritual, immortal like the Lord, O [baby’ s name] enter in this solar month. May the Lord consign you to the day. May the day consign you to the night. May the night consign you to the day and night. May day and night consign you to half-months. May the half-month consign you to the full months. May the months consign you to the seasons. May the seasonsconsign you to the year. May the years consign you to long life, O [baby’ s name]. The father then whispers the name of the baby into the left ear of the mother, saying, “[baby’ s name] is your son/daughter.” The father then gives the baby back to the mother and places more ghee-soaked wood into the fire. He can end the ceremony by saying the same of fering of respects as in the beginning. He cried a lot this week. And I bounced on the ball as I put him down for a nap and cried too. I begged him, or God, to just tell me what he needed. I felt frustrated when he seemed to cry for no reason and sometimes annoyed by how much he needed me. I felt like I needed a moment. One breath. Two seconds for me. The ability to shower without saying, “I’m just showering, little angel! I’ll be right there!” To eat a whole meal in peace, or at least sitting in one place. And then he smiles and my whole world melts. My whole world melts.I am yours, little one. Completely taken. I feel like God must have given mamas super powers. Truly. To love like this is unreal. And the ability to serve like this… what an opportunity. I need you too, little one. I’m learning what it means to love. L. R. Knost, the author of Two Thousand Kisses a Day and The Gentle Parent, writes, I discovered early in my parenting journey that raising my voice might scare my children into compliance, but it taught them nothing other than to be afraid of me, to hide their mistakes and problems from me, and to raise their own voice when they were frustrated or upset themselves. Speaking quietly, though, drew them in close, quieted them down, built trust, and opened their little ears and minds and hearts to my words and my thoughts and the life lessons I wanted them to learn. Teaching and guiding and modeling positive communication skills naturally took center stage once I’d made that first discovery. Learning to control myself rather than try to control my children, to show respect instead of demanding respect, to listen instead of lecture, to communicate instead of command, to parent instead of punish, to problem-solve instead of becoming part of the problem myself, has been the journey of a lifetime. What a lifetime it’s been. As mamas, our job is to instill within them the knowingthat there is nothing they could do that would make them undeserving of our love. That there is no emotional state that we cannot hold space for with patience and attention. There is no need that is too big of a burden. It’s a practice, as there are moments when I’m tested. And I know that when I’m tested to step into something, there lie my greatest opportunities for healing and growth. There are moments when I feel things or want to do things that I would never do. There are moments when I want to shake you. There are moments when I want to leave you crying on the bed. There are moments when I want to avoid you or ignore you. There are moments when it takes everything in me to take a deep breath. To pause. To ask myself, “How can I love you more, little one?” And I feel guilty even admitting these things, because I feel that maybe I’m the only mama in the world that ever feels like this. Though I know that I’m not, because this is the work of a mama. There are moments when I want to project onto you what’ s happening inside of me instead of taking responsibility.These are the moments where healing can happen. When I don’t react out of frustration or anger; When I don’t act based on how my parents may have acted; When I choose not to act based on my patterns and conditioned beliefs; When I instead exercise my ability to respond with more awareness, more love, and more kindness. The real work of a mama is the inner work. Where are your actions coming from? A place of love? A place of frustration or anger? Because that’ s what they feel and that’ s how they then learn to respond to the world. Deep breath, mamas. It’s a huge responsibility. It’s the most important work. And I’m right here with you. Understanding Newborns Your newborn babe has left the warm, watery, dark, quiet, and comforting home of your womb and entered into a world that is cold, dry, bright, loud, and startling in contrast. You will notice them adapting to these changes in different ways. Their skin may become dry; their arms will reach out looking for the distinct boundary

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has recently been brought to public attention and conclusively substantiated in instances to which reference is now made. It would appear that the medical profession in whole or in greater part has been egregiously in ignorance of t he resources of the human body when for any cause it is denied nourishment. The various encyclopedias, notably Britannica, until revisions were made in 1921, carried articles on inanition and fasting, which asserted over medical signature that from ten to fourteen days marked the extreme limit to which the human body would endure in the absence of food. In other words, starvation and death would occur were nourishment denied for approximately the period of time named. While doubt may have existed in the min ds of the more advanced among the medical fraternity, revision of these articles was definitely occasioned only by the comparativel y recent "hunger strike" of Terence McSwiney, former Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland, and of several of his political colleagues. The charge upon which Lord Mayor McSwiney was convicted, and for which he was sentenced to two years in Brixton prison, England, was that of sedition against British government. He began to serve his sentence in August, 1920, and upon his incarcerat ion, in protest against what he considered an unjust trial and conviction, he refused to eat. In spite of constant persuasion and attempts at forced feeding, McSwiney's fasting continued until October 25th, 1920, a period of seventy -four days, when his death occurred. McSwiney was quite cognizant of the details of the method of fasting for the cure of disease, and in so far as w as possible in prison surroundings, he made use of the hygienic accessories that are described herein. His familiarity with the writings of the author of this text accounted for the knowledge that permitted him to continue his fast without succumbing for two and one- half months. McSwiney might, and, in the opinion of the writer, would have lived longer had it not been that, in the lat ter days of his life, he became too weak to prevent efforts on the part of the jail physician to force food upon him, and, when he lapsed into unconsciousness because of strength overstrained and nerves tensed beyond limit through resistance, strychnine wa s injected into his veins as a heart stimulant, and he died. Of McSwiney's political colleagues, also imprisoned and also on "hunger strike," one died after sixty -eight days of fasting, while the others all endured until McSwiney's death and after. I t is reported that one of these men continued his fast for the extremely lengthy period of ninety days. And it is to be noted that, with the exception of that seditionist who succumbed at the end of sixty -eight days, all of the others, who fasted much long er than McSwiney himself, resumed feeding and rapidly recuperated to a condition of body ultimately superior to that which was theirs before they undertook their "hunger strike. " Page 57 of 72 Earlier in the text cases were cited that underwent abstinence from food for periods ranging from eleven to seventy -five days. And it is to be remembered that these cases resorted to the method because they were ill, and that some of them were in an ex treme state of emaciation to begin with. Yet, although no food was ingested, life was supported, functional processes were restored, and recovery resulted. In one instance, a patient of the writer during a period of 140 days fasted absolutely 118 days. This case was bedridden, and had been so for years; the body was emaciated, and chronic functional disease and confinement to bed had caused progressive wa sting of the muscles. Yet, as a consequence of the bodily purification resulting from abstinence from food, not only was great reli ef experienced, but recovery, save in minor degree, the aftermath of muscular non -use, occurred. If, then, the body can exist without food for an extended time, and, if in illness the stomach instinctively objects, as it does, to ingestion, it is reasonable to infer that food not desired is not at this time necessary for bodily maintenance; and, once ac cepted as true, this inference is abundantly justified. The results of a practical and scientific application of the method of systemic purification defined herein are such as to lead to the conclusion that, in the absence of serious structural defects in vital organs, abstin ence from food, accompanied by its natural health -restoring and health -preserving accessories, is the unfailing remedy for relief from functional ills. CHAPTER XIX MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ACTION AND REACTION MIND INFLUENCES FUNCTION AND FUNCTION INFLUENCE S MIND: A CASE OF INSANITY: SICK GENIUSES: THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND: THE EXAMPLE OF JESUS MUSCULAR action in the body may be brought about in two ways --through the brain itself, or through internal or external physical causes. In both instances the nerve centers perform their functions, either in the inception of the thought or in the transfer of inward or outward cause. The act of moving the hand, for example, may originate in the brain, or it may occur because the member is in proximity to fire. In the former contingency the act begins with the thought in the brain, and nervous influence operates directly upon the muscles. In the second condition the sensory nerves inform the brain that the flesh is burning, an d the brain sets in motion the muscles necessary to move the hand. In both cases the motive power emanates from the brain, and the phenomenon as observed may happen in connection with any specific portion of the body. Not only are these phenomena true of the muscles controlled by the will, but they may also be observed in similar phase in organs beyond the power of volition in function, as the heart, the lungs, and the stomach. Swallowing an emetic causes vomiting, an effect occasioned by muscular contraction of the stomach for the purpose of ej ecting a substance irritating to the nerves of that organ. The mere sight or thought of a disgusting object may have the same consequence, and imagination is frequently able to produce results like those that a re caused by the administration of a powerful drug or by a combination of physical conditions. Every organic act, normal or abnormal, is due solely to a current sent from one of the great nerve centers, and the latter ma y be called into operation either directly by feeling or thought, or indirec tly by reflex action. The mind and the emotions exercise large influence upon physical function, but the field over which that influence extends is comparatively little known. It is, in so me respects, almost unbounded, for every bodily function may be hast ened, retarded, or even totally suspended by the subjective effect of thought. Pleasurable emotions are physically wholesome; painful ones, the reverse; but, when too intense and sudden, eithe r can terminate life. The fibers of the pneumogastric nerv e are distributed principally in and about the lungs and the stomach; hence its name. Whatever may be the motor functions that this nerve supplies, it has great power over the process of digestion, for, when its fibers are severed below those branches that extend to the trachea, digestion is virtually arrested. Nervous influence is essential to the proper action of the stomach, and, in the region of this organ, the nerves are so interlaced one with another that, even thou gh the direct road be destroyed, by -paths will still remain for the passage of nerve energy. If the latter force were not needed in digestion, no reason would exist for the suspension of function by its withdrawal. This is well illustrated when it is observed that the invariable effect of wo rry, anxiety, fright, anger, and the like, is to arrest for a time all digestive action. Cause is obvious when the close connection that exists between the brain and the pneumogastric nerve is considered. Also, if nervous force is diverted in directions ot her than those pursued in the digestion of food, or if it is impeded by impingement of nerve substance at emergence from the spinal column, similar results ensue as when the pneumogastric nerve is severed. Does the physical condition of the body in r eflex affect the minds. Observation shows that it has such influence upon brain function that perfect reflection of physical condition is continuously displayed in the working of the intellect. A healthy a nd balanced mind can emanate only from a healthy bo dy. The reverse is equally true. Page 58 of 72 In health the constructive and destructive changes that take place in the human body progress without noticeable diminution o r increase in excellence of brain function so long as balance between assimilation and elimi nation is the rule. In conditions of debility from whatever cause, but especially when the intake of food is in excess of demand, and waste is accumulated in quan tity too great for disposal by the eliminative organs, absorption of poisons generated in ferm enting refuse retained in the intestinal tract is continuous, and the subject becomes a victim of autointoxication, is drunk with the products of his own decomposition. Thi s condition, long continued, is no less baneful in effect than is that of alcoholic saturation, and in some instances it takes the form of insanity, while in

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an avid reader of and subscriber to NEXUS magazine and, at the time, although the doctor demanded to know what self treatment I had taken, neither Margaret nor I would divulge that the application of urine did the track, but the nurse in question (NEXUS reader) stood at the back quietly smiling to herself. Later she said when no one was about, “”You tried that urine therapy, I’ll bet! You old devil; trust you!” The nurse agreed to bring her issue of NEXUS into the inner sanctum of the clinic and leave it in conspicuous places in the hope the one of the doctors might just pick it up, read it and come to some sort of conclusion on their own. We are still waiting for some feedback news from “our nurse on the inside”. Margaret and I still keep on monitoring the entire arm, but it seems remarkable that just one outbreak of cancer on just one area of the surface of the body can actually drain one’s strength and affect one’s general health the way it did with myself. I have, since the treatment, experienced a remarkable improvement in strength, health, and general well-being and, yes, quite a wonderful success story. Duncan, I feel personally indebted to this brave woman, and you have my permission to give her a copy of this personal authentic experience. Kind regard to all at NEXUS, Robert Adams, Whakatane, New Zealand.” Urine: The Holy Water by Harald W. Tietze SKIN DISEASE “R.N. Patel, Nairobi, Africa, had a small eruption on his leg-joint and it slowly turned into skin-disease on the whole body. There was an itching sensation all over the body, and there was oozing of a watery substance at some places. Doctors could not cure the disease, even though he spent hundreds of dollars. He underwent Urine Therapy and was completely cured, even though he did not observe all the rules of treatment. Thereafter, he became a propagator of Urine Therapy and cured his wife's diabetes and his friend's burning sensation at the time of urination by Urine Therapy. His brother's disease, heart-disease and sinus problem were completely cured by this treatment.” Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn 170 SKIN DRYNESS “She has very dry skin to the extent that she gets deep cracks. They are very painful and do not heal easily. External use of urine therapy every two hours relieved the pain almost instantly and the cracks healed within twelve hours.” Drink Your Own Water by Tony Scazzero SKIN INFECTION “Kalyanjibhai Mehta, the first Speaker of Gujarat State Assembly, had a skin infection. He had an itching sensation on the leg, and then there was burning, and blood began to ooze. He tried various medicines for a month, but to no avail, and was much harassed by the disease. He applied urine-soaked pads on the spot for three nights and was completely cured.” Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn SKIN LESIONS Mr. T. California "Seven years ago, I was diagnosed with a lymphatic disorder. The doctors first thought it was Hodgkin's disease. During a vacation in Brazil I contracted some parasites. One was Shigella and the other was Giardia. I was treated with penicillin and many other antibiotics. But I still lost weight and the diarrhea was persistent. Then the new testing for AIDS came out, and I tested positive. I had constant problems with thrush. I also suffered from Kaposi's sarcoma intermittently over portions of my body. My energy level was very low. To make long story short, I started Urine Therapy. The first treatment with urine was on my skin. The second day I noticed that the KS lesions were starting to fade. Then I stared to drink my own urine. I took about one ounce a day in the beginning. My thrush went away. Every time when I apply urine to any aberration or sore on my skin, it all but disappears. The KS lesion I was talking about is not even one-fourth the original size. Also, my energy level is much higher. I had colitis. I no longer have an inflamed colon. I am steady as a clock and do not suffer anymore from chronic diarrhea. So evidently this is working for me." World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward 171 SKIN MARKINGS “I have been washing my face with urine and I have taken all the black marks off my face. As I am very fair, I used chemical cream all my life until the last six years or so, when I woke up to the rot. Congratulations on your books for making them small and good.” Urine: The Holy Water by Harald W. Tietze SKIN SORE “Last year a Jain Mulli told me that Shri Satyendra Muniji propagates the urine therapy. In somana Mandi (Punjab), I met him after Divali. He told me that at his instance several people had been free from their respective ailments. He also narrated his own case. He had cured but it turned into a sore. Western and indigenous medicines, even the so-called "germs-cutter" proved futile. He had to suffer from it for nine years. At last urine massage and urine intake drove away the nine-year-old complaint.” from Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel SLEEPING PROBLEMS Mr. D. Georgia "I am a PWA. Three months prior to starting Urine Therapy I experienced heavy night sweats, and I needed 18 hours of sleep daily! Also my skin was very dry and ashy looking. All these symptoms got resolved within 10 days of Urine Therapy. I now play one hour of basketball every day. What a difference!" World-wide Case Histories of Urine Therapy by Gary Ward SORE THROAT “Mrs. Mistri from Bombay (Karve Road), informs that she could cure her own sore throat and could get rid of tonsils of her son by the use of urine by taking it orally and by its garglings.” Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel SORE THROAT 172 “Shri Dinubhai Joshi (Advocate, Bombay High Court) advised his brother to take to urine therapy for curing his sore throat and tongue. In three weeks he was cured of his trouble.” Manav Mootra by R. M. Patel SNAKE BITE “Ishwarbhai K. Mehta ( Gangasadan, Matave Road, Malad Bombay 64 ) had a good chance to treat a case of snake-bite. A young man of 25 had a snake-bite and was about to die. His blood-mixed urine was given to him constantly, and he was massaged with urine. His life was saved.” Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn SNAKE BITE “Urine is an anti-poisonous substance and a good tonic. Snake-charmers keep a bowlful of urine handy while catching a snake, so they may be able to drink and apply it without loss of time in case of a snakebite. Jain monks say that one who drinks urine regular for six months becomes immune to snake-poison.” Urine Therapy by Dr. John O'Quinn SNAKE BITE “A friend who lives in New York, told me that he was once bitten by a poisonous snake in the African bush. He knew that the bite of that snake was fatal and could kill him in a few minutes. He was so terror stricken that he could not control himself and started urinating. In that instant he was inspired to collect the urine in his hands and drink it. A few minutes later he started to feel pain and his leg became numb. He slept a few hours, had fever for two days, but did not die and had no permanent damage to his limb. ‘Drinking urine saved my leg and my life,’ he beamed.” Uropathy by Martin J. Lara SNAKE BITE, COPPERHEAD In the thick jungle… “A snake, most probably a copperhead, pressed its teeth deep into my lower leg. Blood was streaming out - the distance to the next hospital was at least one hour. Certainly, I 173 remembered my mention on the front cover of my book and treated myself with the miracle juice [urine]. I went to the hospital and continued my treatment but had to give some of my urine to the doctor for analysis. The effect of the bite was to our surprise minimal. I left hospital without ‘modern’ treatment, on my own feet and not in a wooden box.” Urine: The Holy Water by Harald W. Tietze SNAKE BITE, COBRAS “Following the first All India Conference in 1993, I met a man who had been bitten twice by cobras. I am sorry I didn’t get the exact details of his treatment. How did you handle your snakebite… in detail? I kind of vaguely recall he had a local doctor inject the region of the bite along with drinking his urine and applying it topically. Urea has a mild de-naturing effect on proteins. That may be one of the mechanisms of the antidote. Our house has always a lot of brown recluse spiders. I don’t worry much about them… maybe its because I know pee.” Urine: The Holy Water by Harald W. Tietze SPIDER BITE, FUNNEL WEB SPIDER From B.J.K. “I would like to share from personal experience, an effective remedy for treatment of poisonous bites and stings. Firstly about two

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as many people wonder how acupuncturefeels, they want to know how herbal food tastes. Just as they want to know if the needles work, they want to know what eating these foods will do for them. The most accurate assessment will come from your own experience, but here are some general principles. Foods that supplement Qi, like yams and astragalus, have a sweet, bland avor and will energize and build resistance to colds and us. Foods that supplement Moisture, like polygona tum and pears, tend to be sweet and juicy and help the body generate vital uids and lubricate tissue. Foods that nourish the Blood and Essence, like eggplant and rehmannia, help to build and repair tissue and taste rich, sweet, bitter, or tart. A sense of adventure and access to the ingredients are all that is needed to eat herbal cuisine. The Chinese herbs listed in this chapter can be acquired either from your local Chinatown herb shop or by mail order. Even before you use the herbs, you can begin to apply the principles of Chinese food therapy. Ask yourself what your body wants to eat, how it needs to be nourished, what foods you ought to avoid, and how your daily habits could be modied to remedy patterns of disharmony and reinforce your body’s integrity. In addition to carefully noting your own physical responses to food, refer to the charts on this page–this page to help you identify patterns of disharmony and which foods could be benecial. Become sensiti ve to your responses to a meal—both the ingredients used and the methods of preparation. We have seen people with Damp, Cold Spleens miraculously improve when they stop eating raw fruits, raw vegetables, and cold, sticky dairy products and switch instead to a diet of cooked foods. People with Hot, congested Spleens feel better when they eat lots of ber-rich vegetables and avoid fried and spicy foods. Herbal supplementation can be especially benecial to people who have been adhering to a strict vegetarian diet or who nd they have cravings for salt, fat, coee, alcohol, or sugar. Herbal cuisine can prevent disharmonies from becoming symptoms and sicknesses—it can be healing and keep us healthy as well. If you are unsure of your dietary needs, try a variety of these recipes. Unless a recipe makes you feel ill, you can assume that it’sgood for you. If you want to build your strength, rotate the supplement Qi, Moisture, and Blood recipes along with those that harmonize the Five Phases, sampling each one. COOKING TIPS Cooking is a matter of trusting your own sensibilities.…  A cook’s mind is supple and exible enough to do justice to the beauty and particularity of fruits and vegetables and is always ready to warm to the task. There is a lot to think about and a lot to get done, but to be ecient does not mean to be hurried, and to be unhu rried does not mean to sit in a lawn chair. Take the time to give each task its due—it comes out in the food: a generosity of spirit. Call it rejoicing, tenderness, graciousness, or simple attention to detail, the quality of caring is an ingredient everyone can taste. Edward Espe Brown Greens Cookbook       PREPARATION OF CHINESE HERBS Among people concerned about healthy eating and cooking, prevailing opinion holds that foods retain more value when they are closest not only to their natural but to their raw state. Chinese herbal cuisine, however, depends on the cooking process to extract medicinal properties and make the ingredients more easily digestible, so cooking in this context enhances food value. Ideally herbs may be soaked overnight or a few hours before cooking, but because many of us do not plan that far ahead, it is also possible to soak the herbs for a shorter period of time or not at all. If they have been soaked, save the soaking water and add this to the stock. When using dried black or shiitake mushrooms and black fungus, cover them with boiling water and soak them for ten to thirty minutes, again adding this soak water to the stock. Blackfungus needs to be rinsed carefully because of occasional pebbles. Red or black dates are easier to pit if they have been soaked, although if diners are warned of the pits, they can remain unpitted. Herbs such as tangerine peel and codonopsis are also easier to cut after being soaked in boiling water, whereas dioscorea can be broken into small pieces when dry. When herbs have not been soaked, make sure they are well cooked—tender and easy to chew and swallow. This helps them to be digested easily. Some herbs are inedible because of their brous or stringy texture and are therefore placed in a bag or tied with string so that they can be remo ved after cooking and before eating. The herb astragalus is too brous to be broken down by chewing—it can be identied as a slightly yellow, at-cut root that looks a little like a tongue depressor. Another inedible herb is corn silk because it is too stringy. Chrysanthemum or honeysuckle owers can be eaten, but we suggest that they be removed because of their texture. To make the edible herbs more appealing visually as well as easier to eat, it is best to cut them into bite-size pieces. Corn Silk, Astragalus, Chrysanthemum After adding herbs, it may take ten to twenty minutes for the stock to resume simmering—the cooking time is for simmeringstock, so wait until the broth simmers again before you set the timer. PREPARING STOCKS Our recipes use either vegetable- or chicken-based stock. Although it is also possible to purchase vegetable and meat bouillon, or canned chicken stock, there are advantages to preparing your own. The more legumes and vegetables in the vegetarian stock, the richer it will be (the recipe below makes an excellent soup base). Chicken bones are inexpensive, less than fty cents per pound, and rich in the marrow that nourishes Blood and Essence. A rich chicken stock congeals into a gel when cooled overnight; then the unwanted fat may be easily skimmed o. Ready-made broths are usually high in salt and some include mono-sodium glutamate. Generally, their nutritional value is less than that of a homemade soup. It is prudent to make the stock ahead of schedule so that dinner preparation does not take an unreasonable length of time. If you plan to try many of these recipes, the stock recipe can be doubled and frozen until needed. Vegetable Stock Yield: 7–8 cups of stock2 large carrots 3 celery stalks 1 zucchini 1 onion 2 leeks (white part) 1½ inch fresh ginger 10 c. water 2 cloves garlic Cube and simmer all ingredients for 1 to 2 hours over low heat, strain the broth, and discard the solid portion. Additional options: 1 tbsp. sesame oil, 1 tbsp. soy sauce, 2 beets, 1 eggplant, 1 turnip, 1 c. parsley, or ½ cabbage. Chicken Stock Yield: 7–8 cups stock 3½ lbs. chicken bones or 1 whole chicken 3 celery stalks 2 carrots 1 inch fresh ginger 1 onion 12 c. water Cube the vegetables and simmer along with the chicken for 3–5 hours over low heat. Strain the broth, squeezing the liquid, and then discard the solid portion. Cool and remove congealed fat (this is most easily done after refrig eration). Refrigerate (up to 5 days) or freeze (up to 2 months) until ready to use. Additional options: 1 c. parsley, 1 tbsp. soy sauce.ADAPTING RECIPES Recipes may be varied according to taste or available foods. Feel free to experiment. When substituting ingredients, the food property lists (this page–this page) will be helpful (for example, for a recipe to supplement Qi, substitute ingredients from the food category for supplementing Qi). Most of the Condiments : Cilantro, Rice Wine, Soy Sauce, Sesame Oil, Garlic, Scallions, Peanuts following recipes are for soups that depend on the stock to extract the benets from the herbs. But the meal can be structured in a variety of ways, depending on preference. For instance, a meal that includes lotus seeds and spinach in the listed recipe could be altered to use those items as a side dish, cooked separately: for 1 oz. of lotus seeds, use 1 cup broth, simmer for 1 hour, addspinach for 5 minutes, and season to taste. The lotus seeds and spinach can be served as a side dish, called “pearls in jade forest.” We urge you to use your imagination to devise variati ons that work for you and appeal to your tastes—these recipes are meant to provide an example and some direction. Fresh vegetables are available seaso nally, so it

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, unpleasant events and feelings. Silencing the Mind; Going Beyond It Motives One can observe that the mind gains satisfaction from its musings and thought processing. Pleasure results from thinking and the function of ‘doing something,’ e. g., “Don’t bother me; I’m thinking.” Part of the pleasure of doing something is the illusion that one is accomplishing some goal, creating solutions by rehearsal and planning, righting imaginary wrongs, or giving other people a piece of one’s mind. There is, therefore, the motive of reworking one’s life and its history into a more favorable and satisfying picture that reflects more favorably. There is an attempt to restore self-esteem and increase one’s capacity to survive. The basic intentions of ordinary mental activity are (1) to feel better, and (2) to survive. The Formation Of Thought To accomplish the objectives, it can be observed that the mind is primarily concerned with its own moment-to-moment operation with the control of the next instant; it is endlessly poised in anticipation of being on top of the nextsplit second, and it tries to monitor each succeeding instant of experiencing. This core intention underlies all the forms that mental processing can take, and it is ever present. It lies just beneath the surface of the content of thought itself. Its motive is the survival and perpetuation of its own functioning. The mind seems to have a fear that it will disappear if it is silent for even a moment. (Most people drown out silence with background music and conversation.) To quiet the mind, certain motives have to be surrendered and relinquished to God: 1. The desire to think. 2. The desire for the pleasure of thinking. 3. The comfort of the guarantee of the continuation of one’s existence. It is not recommended to try to stop thought by an act of the will as that merely perpetuates the mind by forcing it to continue to will its own stoppage. A more effective technique is to let go of the wanting to think and the imaginary rewards or benefits that one’s thinkingness would presumably bring about. There is actually no personal entity behind the thoughts. They are selfmotivated out of habits. Thoughts actually serve mere convenience but not survival because when the mind becomes silent, life goes on joyously without them. As one approaches surrendering the mind, one will first notice that the mind is creating stories and lengthy scenarios. Its desire to do this can be surrendered. Then the mind talks in shorter paragraphs and then in shorter sentences, phrases, and word groupings. Underneath whatever form the thoughts take, irrespective of the thought content or images, there is the same motive for the desire for self-propagation and thinkingness directed toward controlling and anticipating the experience of the next instant. Thoughts take on increasing detail of form as they emerge from a more diffuse anlage that arises out of the energy field that supports and propagates thought. As one focuses on letting go of the motives behind thinkingness, it is possible to catch the thoughts as they are in the very process of formation. This thought-form matrix can be detected in the split second just preceding the formation of a specific thought. This matrix is the locale of the subtle pressure behind thought production. Surrendering this intention results in the cessation of thought. In the silence that ensues, the stillness of the Presence prevails as All That Is. The divinity of its Essence radiates forth as the formlessness behind all form in exquisite perfection beyond all time and space.The letting go of thinkingness is facilitated by the awareness from the spiritual viewpoint that all thoughts are vanities with no intrinsic reality or value. Their attraction stems from the exaggerated value that accrues from their being considered as ‘mine’ and therefore special, worthy of respect, admiration, or careful preservation. To undo the grip of the mind requires a radical humility and an intense willingness to surrender its underlying motivations. This willingness receives energy and power from the willingness that arises from the love of God and the passion for surrendering love of thought for love of God. One reluctance to letting go of thought is the illusory identification of the thoughts not only as ‘mine’ but also as being the ‘me’. The mind tends to be proud of its thoughts as though it were preserving a great treasure. It is helpful to realize that the Self is comparable to the hardware or the main frame of a computer, and the thoughts are really just on the software as replaceable programs of external origin. Of all the programs, opinions are often highly valued, although when looked at critically, opinions are basically worthless. Every mind has endless opinions on everything, even it if knows nothing at all about the subject. All opinions are vanities with no intrinsic value and are actually the result of ignorance. Opinions are dangerous to their owners because they are emotionally charged triggers for dissent, strife, argument, and positionality. One cannot hold to an opinion and at the same time transcend the opposites. The undoing of opinion is facilitated by humility; when the mind penetrates through its own self-infatuation, it discerns that it is not actually capable of knowing anything in the true sense of what knowing actually means. The mind has only information and imaginations about anything; it cannot actually ‘know’ because to know is to be that which is known. All else is only speculation and supposition. When the mind is transcended, there is nothing to know because, in reality, the Self is All That Is. There is nothing left out to ask about. That which is complete lacks nothing, and that completion is self- evident in its Allness. The letting go of all pretensions to knowledge or of knowing about anything is a great relief and is experienced as a tremendous benefit instead of as a loss as one had feared. One had been, without knowing it, in bondage to the content, and therefore the release from mind is accompanied by a profound sense of peace and absolute security. When this occurs, one is finally profoundly at home at last, with no doubts remaining. There is nothing more to be gained, nothing that needs to be accomplished or thought. Its finality is absolute, profound, motionless, and still. The endless nuisance of desires and wants and pressure of time have come to a final end and theirhollowness stands revealed. Positionality As positionality ceases, one becomes aware that it was the source of all prior miseries, fears, and unhappiness and that every positionality is inherently in error.

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seeds of the people we most desir e to be. It is our sincer e hope that you tak e this jour ney, for we know what’s waiting inside. Debbie F ord OceanofPDF. comPART I OceanofPDF. comThe Shadow DEEP AK CHOPRA Once people hear about the shadow, the dark side of human natur e, almost no one denies that it e xists. Every life has been touched by anger and fear. The evening news e xposes human natur e at its worst, week af ter week, without letup. If we ar e honest with ourselves, dark impulses ar e free to roam our minds at will, and the price we pay for being a good person—something we all aspir e to—is that the bad person who might ruin everything must be k ept under wraps. Having a shadow side seems to call for some kind of intervention, maybe therapy or a pill, maybe a trip to the confessional or a midnight soul confr ontation. As soon as people acknowledge that they have it, they want to be rid of it. Ther e are many aspects of life in which a can-do, let’s-fix- it attitude works. Unfortunately, the shadow isn’t one of them. The r eason that the shadow hasn’t been fix ed for thousands of years—the whole time that human beings have been conscious of their dark side—is totally mysterious. It only mak es sense to unravel the mystery befor e asking how to deal with it. Ther efore, I’ve divided Part I into thr ee sections, in which I fall back on a physician’s instinct to find a diagnosis, offer a cur e, and then honestly tell patients their pr ognosis for the futur e: The F og of Illusion The W ay Out A New R eality, a New P owerThe first section (the diagnosis) describes how the shadow came to be. I differ fr om some in believing that the shadow is a human cr eation, not a cosmic for ce or a universal curse. The second section (the cur e) deals with how you can diminish the shadow’s hidden power over you in everyday life. The thir d section (the pr ognosis) unfolds a futur e in which the shadow has been dismantled, not only for certain individuals, but for all of us. T ogether we cr eated the shadow that now haunts us. Despite our fear and r eluctance to face this fact, it tur ns out to be the k ey to transfor mation. If you and I wer en’t part of the pr oblem, we would have no hope of being part of the solution. THE FOG OF ILL USION If you cannot see your own shadow, you must go in sear ch of it. The shadow hides in shame in the dark alleys, secr et passages, and ghost-filled attics of your consciousness. T o have a shadow is not to be flawed, but to be complete. That’s a har d truth to confr ont. (Haven’t you tried to tell people a candid truth about themselves, only to have them snap back, “ Don’t psychoanalyze me,” or something of the sort. The unconscious r ealm feels as danger ous as the depths of the ocean; both ar e dark and full of unseen monsters. ) W e are all living with the wr eckage of failed ideals that once seemed lik e perfect solutions. Each solution matches a pictur e of what the dark side is all about. If you think that shadow aspects lik e fear, anger, anxiety, and violence ar e the r esult of demonic possession, the solution is to purif y the afflicted person. Demons can be driven out with rituals, cleansing of the body, fasting, and grueling austerities. This is not a primitive notion. Millions of moder n people hold fast to it. Y ou can’t pass a newsstand without seeing a glossy magazine that pr omises a new you through some kind of purification, whether it’s a diet thatwill over come your craving for bad foods or a checklist for finding the right spouse by avoiding the wr ong types of people. “ Clean up your act” is the moder n version of purifying fr om demons. Akin to this e xplanation is the notion that cosmic evil has been loosed in the world. If this is your e xplanation for the shadow, the natural solution is r eligion. R eligion aligns you with cosmic good in its battle against cosmic evil. F or millions of people this war is very r eal. It e xtends to every aspect of their lives, fr om se xual temptation to abortion, the rise of godless atheism, and the decline of patriotism. The Devil cr eates every for m of human suffering and wr ong- doing. Only God (or the gods) has the power to defeat Satan and r edeem us fr om sin. Y et it’s har d to settle whether religion defeats the shadow or actually mak es it str onger by arousing str ong feelings of sinfulness and guilt, shame and fear about the tortur es of a hellish her eafter. Since we pride ourselves on living in an age when superstition no longer rules our lives, these time-honor ed explanations of the dark side ar e no longer the only choices. People can tur n their backs on cosmic evil and tak e personal responsibility. The dark side has been updated as sickness, a branch of mental health. Along this path lies a huge ar ray of treatments. A ddicts ar e sent into r ecovery pr ograms. The anxious and depr essed ar e sent to psychiatrists. Out- of- contr ol rage-aholics wind up in anger -management classes after ramming a car on the fr eeway when they can’t contr ol themselves. Given all these e xplanations, each of which leads to a definite solution, why is the shadow undefeated. This may seem lik e a gloomy pr ospect, but in fact the first step towar d dealing with the shadow is to acknowledge its power. Human natur e includes a self -destructive side. When Swiss psychologist Carl Jung posited the ar chetype of the shadow, he said that it cr eates a fog of illusion that surrounds the self. Trapped in this fog, we evade our owndarkness, and thus we give the shadow mor e and mor e power over us. It’s no secr et that the Jungian appr oach to archetypes quickly tur ns very intellectual and complicated. But the stubbor n power of the shadow isn’t comple x at all. I flicked on the television while taking a br eak fr om writing this paragraph. The famous billionair e Warren Buffett was being interviewed about booms and busts in the economic cycle. “Do you think ther e will be another bubble leading to a huge r ecession. ” the interviewer ask ed. “I can guarantee it,” Buffett r eplied. The interviewer shook his head. “Why can’t we lear n the lessons of the last r ecession. L ook wher e greed has gotten us. ” Buffett gave a small mysterious smile. “ Greed is fun for a while. People can’t r esist it. However far human beings have come, we haven’t gr own emotionally at all. W e remain the same. ” In capsule for m, ther e’s the shadow and the pr oblems it poses. In the fog of illusion, we don’t see our worst impulses as self -destructive. They’r e irresistible, even fun. Hence the enormous popularity of r evenge dramas as entertainment, whether in Shak espear e’s theater or a spaghetti W ester n on the silver scr een. What could be better than unleashing all our hidden rage, demolishing the enemy, and walking tall in triumph. The shadow e xerts its power by making the darkness seem lik e the light. The world’s wisdom traditions have spent most of their energy and thought meeting the same primal dilemmas. Creation has a dark side. Destruction is inher ent in natur e. Death inter rupts life. Decay saps vitality. Evil is attractive. No wonder the fog of illusion eventually seems lik e a nice place to be. If you face r eality head- on, the dark side is too overwhelming to bear. Yet ther e is a counterfor ce that has steadily—and successfully—over come the dark side. Thewreckage of failed solutions k eeps us fr om seeing it. The fog of illusion insulates us fr om it. Y ou would never guess, dialing past the disasters and hor rors of nightly television, that human beings have always had the power to find peace, e xaltation, and fr eedom fr om darkness. The secr et lies in the wor d “consciousness. ” When people hear this

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seven inhalations and seven exhalations at each sitting. NOTE A: It is important to remember to keep the anal muscles contracted while performing the exercise as this will lock the energy in the upper chambers of the body and will allow the energy and the smoke to rise up the spine,into the brain. NOTE B: At first it may be difficult to coordinate the breathing with the sensations. But with determined and motivated practice, you will be able to clearly feel the smoke as it comes into and leaves your head. Also at first you may not be able to feel the clearness that is left behind, but with patient practice you will be able to develop a strong feeling of clarity. If the mind is clear, then your problems will be eighty percent eliminated. BRAIN CLEANSING II This exercise provides a marvelous stretch to the back, shoulders, and arms, as well as helping to balance your energy and relieve tension and fatigue from the body. It also keeps the mind alert and fresh. It is beneficial to practice the Brain Cleansing II exercise at any time during the day when you feel tired, such as in the morning upon rising, at the office, or in the evening after work. 1. This exercise is performed while in a standing position (it may also be practiced from a prone position while lying on your back) with the feet slightly apart but parallel to each other. The hands are relaxed but 196 Tao ist Medita tive, Contem plative, and Breathing Exercises straight and are held at the sides of the body, and the head is in an upright position as in the first position of the Turtle Exercise. 2. Begin by exhaling the breath to complet ely empty the lungs. 3. Now drop the head back and begin to inhale slowly. As you inhale, expand the chest and bring the arms up away from the sides of your body so that you bring the hands together up over your head wit h the palms together. (Do not strain during any of these movements. If it is impossible to touch the hands together comfortably, simply raise the hands as far as they will go and stop there.) As you bring the arms up over the head, feel as if you are bringing in the active (yang) energy of the universe (or white smoke) into your lungs, body, and mind. a. b. Figures lOla and IOib. Brain Cleansing II. 197 Tao ist Medita tive, Contem plat ive, and Breathing Exercises 4. After you have inhaled a full breath, and while still keeping the anns held over your head, hold the breath in, lock your anal muscles and relax in this pose for as long as you can wit hout strain. Feel as if the white smoke is coming up to comple tely penetrate every space inside the mind. Feel the energy circulate around within your bod y and your mind, knowing that it is beginning to wash away all of your negative thoughts. 5. Next, as you slowly begin to exhale, bring the head forward and separate the hands. Keeping the arms straight, move them back down to your sides. As your hands move in the downwar d arc, try to feel the passive (yin) energy from the earth (cool breezes) com e into the arms through your fingers. This exercise is symbolic of embracing the entire universe so that one achieves a feeling of oneness from uniting the earthly passive energy with the active, heavenly energy. As you continue to exhale, feel the smoke leave, leaving behind a clean and clear feeling. 6. When you have finished exhaling, repeat the breathi ng and ann movement sequence a minimum of seven times or until you feel like stopping. NOTE: It is refreshing to practice this exercise out of doors in the sunshine, gathering the fresh air into the body. As you perform the ann movem ents, feel as if you are reaching out to touch the clouds and the sky. 198 8 Immortal Breathing: Small and Large Heavenly Cycles There are two special mer idians surr ounding the Seven Gla nds System. One is called the Jen- Mo Concept ion Merid ian, and the other is called the Tu-Mo Govern ing Mer idian. They are the only two merid ians whose energy flows can be cha nged. If we chang e them we will bring about prof ound changes in the seven glands which will immort alize our bodi es. The seven glands of the human body are responsi ble for cont rolling all of the bodily functions. As mentioned earl ier, they mutual ly balance and are interconnect ed with one anothe r. They ener gize, recharge, and help circu­ late energy in the body, and may be likened to electrical transfonners or generators or stor ehous es of ener gy within the human body. When the energy within the Seven Gla nds System is elevated to a higher frequency by the body, the entire body will be brought to a perf ect or spiri tual orde r. Before undert aking the Imm ortal Breath ing, it is necessar y that you have already achieved sufficient expertis e in the syst em of Internal Exer cises so that the body is in a balanced state of health without any serious or chronic Immortal Breath ing: Small and Large Hea venl y Cycles ailments. It is impossible to practice the final stages of the breathing exercises if there are any blockages in the meridian pathways. The Merid­ ian Meditation and the other Internal Exercises are therefore necessary prerequisites for opening up the meridians and preparing the body for receiving the Immortal Breath. The human body is an electrical system. It is capable of carrying a load of electricity through it only as strong as the resistance of the nerves and glands are to that electrical current. The stronger the body is physically, the greater the curre nt load of electricity it will be able to handle. Top tan-t"ien Middle tan-t "len Lowest tan-t "len. the Caul dron or Furnace - - - - -- -- Figure I 02. Schematic Represe ntation of the Path of Energy Flow. Immortal Breathing brings into the body very powerful levels of energy, and if the body is not sufficiently strong to handle it, the nerves and glands may "bum out" from an overload of energy. It has been said that many people who suffer from extreme mental conditions are that way only because they are unable to handle the energy levels flowing within their bodies. Unfortunately, if one experien ces excessively high levels of energy over too long a period of time, irreversible damage may be done to the body. Do not. therefore. regard the Immortal Breathing lightl y. 200 Immortal Breath ing: Small and Large Heavenl y Cycles However, if you have followed the steps of the Internal Exercises and meditations conscientiously and have practiced the Crane, Turtle, and Deer Exercises so that you are proficient in them, you will be ready to begin the Immortal Breathing (the Immortal Breathing exercises are extensions of the Deer at a very, very elevated level). This is the fina l stage of the Taoist system of Internal Exercises. Mastery of Immortal Breathing may require from one year to a lifetime of diligent practice. Letting the body raise its energy levels to higher frequencies is not something to be rushed. Promising miracles for a minimum of effort and time is a sin, for many lives can be ruined permanen tly, or "disintegrated into evil' '. However, if impatience can be overcome, the rewards are indescribable. The spiritual eye of the practitioner is fully awakened, and he or she is raised to the level of the Hsien, or wise and immortal person. The Hsien is one who knows the secrets of the universe by being in complet e union with the Tao, or God, exists perpetually, and has the power of the universe at his or her disposal. Is this not the true desire which lies in the hearts of all men? God has put this desire for spirituality in mao-no other organism in the universe is so gifted-so that man may one day accompany him. SMALL HEAVENLY CYCLE This type of breathing is often called the ''Self-Winding Wheel of the Law". When first practicing this type of breathing, one must use one's will power to initiate the cycle. However, there comes a time when the breath­ ing becomes automatic and will continue on an involuntary basis. Thus, once the process has been initiated, it becomes something which, in a manner of speaking, becomes self-winding, irreversible and beyond one's control. In such a way the final stage of enlightenment comes not from something you are doing, but comes all of its own to you. I. Sit with your spine and head held erect. 2. Grasp your thumbs inside your fingers and lay your hands lightly on your legs. 3. Begin to inhale slowly, without forcing your breath at any time. As you inhale, feel the breath come in through your nose and 201 Immortal Breathin g: Small and Large Heavenl y Cycles descend through the Jen-Mo meridian into the abdominal cavity (stove) where the breath will

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ookedlikeaconcentration-campvictim.Hisdiarrheahadincreased tothepointthathecouldn’tsleepformorethan45minutesata timebeforehewouldhavetogetoutofbedandruntothetoilettorelievehimself.Hehadnoappetite,andhisabdomenwasbloated andfullofgas.Heforcedhimselftoeattostayalive,buthecould n’tkeephisfoodin—everythingthatcameinthefrontdoorwasimmediatelyexpelledthroughthebackdoor. InadesperateattempttosaveRonald’slife,hisdoctorsenthim tothenation’stopspecialistsingastrointestinaldiseases.Afterreviewinghisrecordsandexamininghim,theyallagreedRonald’s wasoneoftheworstcasesofCrohn’sdiseasetheyhadeverseen.If hislifeweretobespared,theconsensuswasthatsurgicalremovalof hiscolonandalifetimeofimmunosuppressivemedicationswasRonald’sonlyoption.Ronaldreturnedhometocontemplatehisfate.Hebecameextremelydepressed,andeventhoughtofsuicide.Becausehewasmalnourished,hehadtobefedthroughalarge,intravenouscatheterinsertedintoaveinnearhisneck.Thiscatheter,whichcouldeasilybecomeinfected,becameRonald’slifeline. AsRonaldlayinbedwastingaway,oneofhisfather’sfriendssuggestedsomethingsimplebutradical.HesuggestedthatifRonaldcouldregainthebalanceofnaturalflorainhisintestines,hehadagoodchanceofrestoringhishealth.Hebasedthisideaonrecentresearchthatsuggestedthat,inadditiontothe500goodbacterial 222 YourExtraordinaryHeahngSystem strainsthatresideinthehumanintestines,theremaybemanymore typesofbeneficialbacteria,perhapsupto10,000strains.HeaskedRonaldtotryseveralcapsulesadayofaspecialhygienicdirtcultivatedforhumanconsumption;thisdirtcontainedmanystrainsofthesebeneficialbacteria. Atfirst,Ronaldwastakenabackbytheideaofeatingdirt,but,becausehewasdesperate,hewasreadytotryanything.Afterlonghoursofreading,research,anddiscussionswithhisfatherandhisfather’sfriend,herealizedthatwhatwasbeingproposedwasareturn tothedietaryhabitsofhisancestors.Inthosedays,beforepesticidesandartificialfertilizers,peopleoftenatevegetablesrightoutofthefields,ingestingsmallamountsofbeneficialsoilorganismswith eachbite,and,intheprocess,replenishingtheirnaturalintestinalflora.Whenwethinkofcows’digestivesystems,andhowtheirmultichamberedstomachsarefilledwithmanybeneficialbacteriathat helpdigesttheirfood,thisideaisnotsoradical. Thefirstday,Ronaldtooksixcapsulesofhygienicdirt(twoat atime,threetimesaday).Thefollowingmorning,afterhisfirstsoundnight’ssleepinalongtime,Ronaldfelthisabdominalpainlesseninintensity.Forthefirsttimesincehisillnessbegan,hedidn’tawakenwithafever.Throughoutthecourseofthenextseveraldays, hisdiarrheaslowedinfrequencyandintensity.Afterseveraldays,hisstoolsbegantofirmup.Afteroneweek,hisappetitebegantoreturn andhehadhisfirstnormalbowelmovementinalmostayear.Overthenextseveralweeks,ashecontinuedtoswallowthecapsulesofbeneficialdirt,Ronald’sappetiteandbowelmovementscontinuedtoimproveandnormalize.Hisjointhealth,skin,mouth sores,energylevel,andattitudeallimproved,aswell.Aftersixmonths,hisweightwasbackupto180pounds,hewasbackinschool,andhewascompletelywell.Eatingdirtfliesin~thefaceofconventionalmedicine,whichoftenviewsnatureastheenemyandthecauseofmostdiseases.Whenweworkwithourhealingsystems,however,naturalsolutionsoftenworkbest.ForRonald,usingbeneficialorganismsthatarenormallyfoundinhealthy,hygienicsoilwasthesecretingredientthatultimatelycuredhisdisease.Beneficialbacteriahelpindigestion,andtheyproducemanyvaluablesubstances,suchasvitamin K,thusrestoringbalancetotheintestines;consequently,theyare YourHealingSystematWork 223 oneofthemostimportantwaystocooperatewithyourbody’snat uralhealingsystem. Rani’sStoryofExtraordinaryHealing RaniwasanelderlywomanwholivedinacommunityIregularlyvis itedinIndia.Shehadsufferedfromasthmasinceshewasalittlechild, andshetookmedicinesregularlytocontrolit.‘Whenevershecaught acold,breatheddustyair,orwasunderheavystress,herasthmawould flareup.Atthesetime,sometimesevenhermedicineswouldfailher, andshewouldhavetogotothehospital,whereintravenousmedica tionsandspecialbreathingtreatmentswereadministered.Havingbeenawayforalongtime,IreturnedtoIndiaoneyear tofindRaniinaveryprecipitouscondition.Notonlywasherasthmaflaringup,butherfeet,ankles,andabdomenwereswollen. Shehadnoteatenfordays,shecouldnotgetoutofbedwithout help,andsheappearedtobeondeath’sdoorstep.‘WhenIexaminedRani,Idiscoveredshallowrespirations, afeeble,irregularheartrateandabnormalheartsounds,fluidinherlungsandbelly,andanenlargedliver.Shetoldmeshehadn’turinatedinseveraldays.Thesewereallominoussigns.Isuggestedshe behospitalized,eventhoughherfamilycouldn’taffordit. Inthehospital,aftermanyexaminationsandinvestigations,thedoctorsfoundthatRaniwasincongestiveheartfailure,herliverwasfailing,andherkidneyswereshuttingdown.Shewastoldthatnoth ingcouldbedoneforher.Raniwasdischargedfromthehospitalwithlittlehopeoflivingmorethanaweekortwo.Herfamilypreparedforherimminentdeath. Asalast-ditchefforttohelpRani,Iattemptedtoadministersev eralverystrongmedicinesIhadbroughtwithmefrommyhospitalbackhomeintheU.S.forpatientswithserious,life-threateningconditions.Oneofthesewaslanoxin,aderivativeofdigitalis,usedforcongestiveheartfailure.Anotherwaslasix,astrongdiuretic(water pill)usedtoremovefluidfromthelungs,feet,andabdomen.Ialsohopedthelasixmightflushherkidneysandrestoretheirfunction.Inaddition,Ibroughtthelatest,strongestbronchodilatorandcorticosteroidinhalerstoopenupherairwaysinanattempttotreather 224 YourExtraordinaryHealingSystem asthma.Butseveraldaysonthesemedicationsonlysawhercondition worsen.Shewasgoingdownhillfast. Onemorning,whenIwasdoingmyusualrounds,IsawanIndiangentlemansittingdownandtalkingwithRaniasIapproachedherhome.ThefamilytoldmehewasDr.Vinod,arenowneddoctorwhopracticedAyurveda,India’sancientfolkmed icine.Ayurvedausesprimarilynaturalmedicinestohelprestorehealthtothebody.Rani’sfamilyhadcalledDr.Vinodtoseewhethertherewasanythinghecoulddotohelpher. Dr.VinoddidsomethingthatIhadneverseenbefore,andwhichwentcompletelyagainstmymedicaltraining.Hestoppedall hermedicines,wentoutbackbehindRani’shome,pluckedaleaf fromaparticulartree,andplaceditonherabdomen.Herestricted herdiettothreeglassesadayofpuregoat’smilk.Everydayafresh leafwasapplied.Thistreatmentseemedprimitivetome,andIwasextremelyskepticalthatanythinggoodwouldcomeofit.However,withinseveraldays,Ranibegansittingupinbedunder herownpowerandeatingfullmeals.Herbreathingslowlyreturned tonormal,theswellinginherfeetandabdomenweregone,and,withinaweek,shewaswalkingaroundthegroundsoutsideofherhome.Withinthreeweeks,herbreathingbecamenormal,andsheregainedalmostallofherpreviousstrength.IfIhadn’tseenherrecov erywithmyowneyes,Iwouldn’thavebelievedit.Rani’scasewasmorethanalessoninhumilityforme,aU.S.-trainedphysicianwhosupposedlypossessedthelatest,mostup-to-dateeducationandhigh-techmedicines.Moreimportantly,itshowedmehowinstitutingtherighttreat ment,evenaridiculouslysimpleone,andeven

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as much as is humanly and spiritually conce ivable. I look back upon my dream state, and I realize that everything that I needed for my dream I was able to create with my subconscious mind—without effort, and with no need for involving my physical body at all. And so I know that manifesting the person I wish to be while awake also involves effortless perfection and that I have my imagination—or my intentions, my attention, and my feelings—to use while awake as well. My sleep time fully embedded in my subconscious mind is providin g clues for me to put those mental activities into practice when I leave my slumber. I further look back at my dream time from a place of wakefulness, and I see that everything and everyone that was in my dream was created by me with my imagination. I keep this in mind as I gaze at who and what I have created in my awake dream. I look back from my wakeful perspective and realize that I lived in a world where time is an illusion, where nothing is unavailable to me, where cause and effect are total illusions, where all obstacles are turned into either opportunities or revealed as illusions, where there is no beginning and no end, and where my body experien ces feelings even though the thoughts that resulted in those feelings are all illusions and were totally devoid of judgments by my dreaming self. And finally, I look back and realize that the only way I know for certain that I was dreaming was to awaken. I remind you here as well that you do have within you these amazing powers of manifestation, and you use them on a regular basis every night and for one-third of your entire time in this incarnation. I suggest that while you are awake, you view this two-thirds portion of your life as a dream as well, and realize that the only way you’ll know you are dreaming is to awaken. Awaken to a new consc iousness in which distance and time constraints can be overcome just by a change ofstate. An awakened state that knows and trusts in the power of your thoughts and feelings to live a wishes fulfilled life. In all of your waking hours, I encourage you to stay closely aligned to your originating Source of being. Practice thinking like God (your highest self) thinks. As I pointed out in a previous book, Excuses Begone., when your contemplations are a vibrational match to originating Spirit, you are synchronized with Divine mind, attracting and fulfilling your desires. You have the same power as originat ing Spirit, as long as you don’t replace your Divine nature with ego’s thoughts, which are essentially the mental meanderings of your false self. While awake, use your mind to repeatedly remind yourself of your true I am that I am nature. Remember that universal one subconscious mind creates in a way known only to itself. It is the great mystery. Learn to live in that mystery, making every effort to use all of your mental and feeling powers to manifest the life you desire, all the while staying in an uncompromised state of love. Here is what Erich Fromm wrote on this subject of living the mystery : “Rather than be confronted with an overwhelming proof of the limitations of our understanding, we accuse the dreams of not making sense. ” You needn’ t be concerned with how it will all work out; all you need to know is that you are always connected to your Source of being, and that you and God are truly one. Just as no scientist can tell you how a caterpillar knows how to turn itself into a butterfly and then migrate thousands of miles without the benefit of a brain, you must simply accept the great mystery of life and death and stay as closely aligned with this miraculous thing we call creative Source of all being as you possibly can. You don’t have to understand it all; all you need do is remain in a state of love while reprogramming your subconscious mind to develop the habits of a God- realized being, rather than an ego-dominated person. As the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran observed in his classic book The Prophet, “Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. ” I urge you to follow the poet’ s advice and open up that gate and come to know a new external you, in your dreams awake, and never forget your own Divine magnificence. Three Suggestions— As you lie in bed preparing for your nightly slumber, reme mber that the last thought you have in your mind can last up to four hours in your subconscious mind. That’ s four hours of programming from just one moment of contemplation prior to going into your unconscious state. Create a reminder like a prayer or mantra to place by your bed. Write these words and read them as you get comfo rtable: I am going to use these moments to review what I intend to manifest into my life. Keep that sign there to remind you how to spend your presleep moments nightly. — Reproduce this quotation from Saint Germain in The “I AM” Discourses and repeat it at least three times as you prepare to go to sleep as a daily/ nightly reminder that you are sending forth the greatest decree possible: “‘I AM’ the Governi ng Presence, governing in Perfect Divine Order, commanding Harmony, Happiness, and the Presence of God’ s Opulence in my mind, my home, and my world. ”45 Make a serious effort to feel the sustaining power of this in your body. — If before dropping off to sleep you are assailed by worry, distress, or fear, do not stay in bed. Get up, turn on the light, take a few deep breaths, read from a spiritual text, medi tate for a few moments in front of a white candle, say a prayer—do anything other than staying there lying down. You cannot defend yourself against these onslaughts while remain ing snug in your bed. If distressing feelings come back when you return to bed, get up, turn on the lights, and try someth ing else. When you finally do feel peaceful back in bed, repeat the I ams from suggestions one and two on the previous page and drift off to sleep ready to have your ears opened and your instructions sealed. OceanofPDF. comCHAPTER NINE MAKING IT ALL COME TOGETHER “Turn back to the higher planes and plunge into the cosmic ocean once again … People think that it is in the details that they will find the light, the precision, they ar e looking for, but this is an illusion: you will find far mor e light in what is vague and indistinct … The human soul needs immensity; only in immensity can it be happy and feel fr ee to br eathe. ” — O MRAAM MIKHAËl AÏVANHOV This final chapter will assist you in achieving that immensity that your soul is seeking. It is comprised of seven questions for you to contemplate and explore as you begin your wishes fulfilled life. The questions are based on the five wishes fulfilled foundations and the three opening chapters. These questions, along with my ideas and suggestions, are in no particular order of importa nce—they are offered in the hope that as you finish reading this book, you have a strong aura of all things are possible swirling around in your consciousness. Once you decide to live from this Divine awareness, your life takes on an air of appreciation for the mysterious and a belief in the miraculous. All of your God-realized wishes will indeed be fulfilled. Question #1: Does It Feel Natural. There will be times when you doubt your ability to attract into life the successful fulfillment of your wishes, including the ideal person you would like to be. I realize these words appear to contradict what I’ve written earlier in this book. However, I’m addressing this question from the position of the overly conditio ned ego that’s been trained to believe it’s preposterous to think you can become what you would like to be by simply assuming the feeling in your body of your wishes being fulfilled. Neville alerts you to this disruptive influence with these words: The time it takes your assumption to become fact, your desire to be fulfilled, is directly proportionate to the naturalness of your feeling of already being what you want to be—ofalready having what you desire. The fact that it does not feel natural to you to be what you imagine yourself to be is the secret of your failur e. Regardles s of your desire, regardless of how faithfully and intelligently you follow the law, if you do not feel natural about what you want to be, you will not be it. 46 Think about what you plan to manifest—then use your imaginat ion to feel what that feels like in your body. Does it feel natural to you. I mean, does it really feel like this is the you that you are deciding to be. If you’ve been sickly for most of your life and you are assuming the feeling of a healthy body, does it feel natural to see yourself as a picture of perfect health. Do you feel that with your imagination and God, all things are possible. If you’ve been overweight, or addicted, or poor, or victimized, or unlucky, or weak, or anything at all that is incongruous with your perfect well-being, can you feel natural when you assume

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Body 9. Heaven Endnotes About the Author Copyright About the Publisher OceanofPDF.comA C K N O W L E D G M E N T S This new edition of A Return to L ove is possible because of the book’s popularity since 1992. F or that, my deepest thanks to Oprah W infrey. Her enthusiasm and gener osity have given the book, and me, an audience we would never otherwise have had. Many thanks as well to my literary agent, Al L owman. Because of him I started the book, and because of him I finished it. Andr ea Cagan also did much to help bring this book to completion. Her contribution was enor mous. Thanks to Car ol Cohen, A drian Zackheim, Mitchell Ivers, and all the others at HarperCollins who helped pr oduce this new edition. F or my friends Rich Cooper, Nor ma F erarra, David Kessler, and V ictoria P earman, my gratitude is deep and abiding. Thanks to every person who has attended my lectur es since I began giving them. Thanks to my par ents for all they’ve given me, and to my daughter for bringing a sweetness to my life that soars way beyond wor ds.And most of all, thanks to all the many people who have read A Return to L ove since it was first published and shar ed with me such powerful testimony of its value their lives. Their support for my efforts means mor e to me than I can express on this page. OceanofPDF.comFORWORD TO THE NEW EDITION A Return of L ove has had a life of its own, as does any book. An author is lik e a mother who brings a child into the world and then watches it live its own life story. This particular book has had a wonderful life so far, and I have been priviledged to r eceive countless testimonials to its positive effect on r eaders. Because I am not the author of A Course in Miracles but mer ely an interpr eter of its principles, I cannot tak e credit for the best things about Return to L ove. The ideas in the Course had, and continue to have, a miraculous effect on my own life, and thus I understand the e xcitement that others feel upon coming across “miracles” for the first time. I’m the older than I was when I wr ote this book, and in some ways I am less innocent. I have tasted mor e of love’s oppositions. Y et having seen as much as I have now seen of the world’s r esistance to the ways of love, I r ealize mor e deeply than ever the r esponsibility which each of us has to embrace it mor e fully and e xpress it effectively. Hatr ed is the spiritual malignancy of our species and, lik e any other form of cancer, does its most ter rible work not outwar dly but within us. The fear behind it literally eats us alive, destr oying minds, bodies, cultur es, nations. Exter nalremedies can manage its effects, but only love has the power to undo it. Undo it we must. F rom for eign wars to domestic catastr ophes, our work is the work of casting fear fr om the world. W e do this not only to serve ourselves but, most important, to serve our childr en. They shall inherit what we bequeath to them, and ther e is no gr eater gif t to futur e generations than that we do the work God has ask ed us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right. Fear uncheck ed gr ows e xponentially. Love pour ed forth has the power to r emove it. Thus is the power of God in our lives. If A Return to L ove mak es one iota of differ ence in anyone’s ability to e xperience that power, then I am exceedingly glad I wr ote it. I wish you miracles. I wish you love. Marianne W illiamson January 1996 OceanofPDF.comP R E F A C E I grew up in a middle-class Jewish family, laced with the magical overtones of an eccentric father. When I was thirteen, in 1965, he took me to Saigon to show me what war was. The V ietnam W ar was beginning to r ev up and he wanted me to see bullet holes firsthand. He didn’t want the military -industrial comple x to eat my brain and convince me war was ok ay. My grandfather was very r eligious and sometimes I would go to synagogue with him on Satur day mor nings. When the ark was opened during the service, he would bow and begin to cry. I would cry too, but I don’t know whether I was crying out of a budding r eligious fervor, or simply because he was. When I went to high school, I took my first philosophy class and decided God was a crutch I didn’t need. What kind of God would let childr en starve, I ar gued, or people get cancer, or the Holocaust happen? The innocent faith of a child met the pseudointellectualism of a high school sophomor e head on. I wr ote a Dear John letter to God. I was depressed as I wr ote it, but it was something I felt I had to do because I was too well-r ead now to believe in God.During college, a lot of what I lear ned fr om pr ofessors was definitely e xtra-cur ricular. I lef t school to gr ow vegetables, but I don’t r emember ever gr owing any. Ther e

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a problem. Loss of Now is the problem, or rather: the core delusion that turns a mere situation, event, or emotion into a personal problem and into suf fering. Loss of Now is loss of Being.T o be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulf illment. It represents the most profound transformation o f consciousness that you can imagine. In some rare cases, this shift in consciousness happens dramatically and radically, once and for al l. When it doe s, it usually comes about thro ugh total surrender in the midst of intens e suf fering. Most people, however, have to work at it. When you have had your first few glimpses of the timeless state of consciousness, you begin to move back and forth between the dimensions of time and presence. First you become aware of just how rarely your attention is truly in the Now. But to know that you are not present is a grea t success: That k nowing is pres ence — eve n if initially it only lasts for a couple of seconds of clock time before it is lost again. Then, w ith increasing frequency, you choose to have the foc us of your consciousness in the present moment rather than in the past or future, and whenever you realize that you had lost the Now, you are able to stay in it not just for a couple of seconds, but for longer periods as p erceived from the external perspective o f clock time. So before you are firmly established in the state of presen ce, which is to say before you are fully conscious, you shift back and f orth for a while between consc iousness and unconscious ness, between the state of presence and the state of mind identification. Y ou lose the Now, and you return to it, again an d again. Eventually, presence becomes your predominant state. For mos t people, presence is experienced either never at all or only accidentally and briefly on rare occasions without being recognized for what it is. Most humans alte rnate not between consciousness and unconsciousness but only between dif ferent levels of unconsciousness. ORDINAR Y UNCONSCIOUSNESS AND DEEP UNCONSCIOUSNESS What do you mean by differ ent levels of unconsciousness? As you probably know, in sleep you constantly move between the phases of dream less sleep and the drea m state. Similarly, in wakefulness mostpeople only shift between ordinary unconsciousness an d deep unconsciousness. What I call ordinary unconsciousness means being identified with your thought processes and emotions, your reactions, desires, and aversions. It is most people’ s normal state. In that s tate, you are run by the egoic mind, and you are unaware of Being. It is a state not of acute pain or unhappiness but of an almost continuous low level of unease, disconte nt, boredom, or nervousness — a kind of background static. Y ou may not realize this because it is so much a part of “normal” living, ju st as you are not aware of a continuous low backgrou nd noise, such as the hum of an air conditioner, until it stops. When it suddenly does stop, there is a sense of relief. Many people use alcohol, dr ugs, sex, food, work, television, or even s hopping as anesthetics in an unc onscious attempt to remove the basic une ase. When this happens, an act ivity that might be very enjoyable if used in moderation becomes imbue d with a compulsive or addictive quality, and all that is ever achieved thr ough it is extremely short-lived symptom relief. The unease of ordinary unconsciousness turns into the pain of deep unconsciousness — a state of more acute and more obvious suf fering or unhappiness — when things “go wrong,” when the ego is threatened or there is a major challenge, threat, or loss, real or imagined, in your life situation or confl ict in a relationship. I t is an intensified version of ordinary unconsciousness, dif ferent from it not in kind but in degree. In o rdinary unconsciousness, ha bitual resistance to or denial o f what is creates the unease and discontent that most people accept as normal living. When this resistance becomes intensified through some challenge or threat to the ego, it brings up intense negativity such as ang er, acute fear, aggression, depression, and so on. Deep unconsciousness often means that the p ain-body has been triggered and that you have become identified with it. Physical viol ence would be impossible without deep unconsciousness. It can also occur easily whenever and wherever a crowd of people or even an enti re nation generates a negative c ollective ener gy field. The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life’ s challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious per son tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. Y ou can use a challenge toawaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare. If you cannot b e present even in normal circumstances, such as when you are sitting alone in a room, walking in the woods, or listening to someone, then you certainly won’ t be able to stay conscious when something “goe s wrong” or you are faced with dif ficult p eople or situations, with loss or the threat of loss. Y ou will be taken over by a reaction, which ultimately is always some form of fear, and pulled into deep un consciousness. Those ch allenges are your tests. Only the way in which you deal with them will show you and others where you are at as far as your state of consciousness is co ncerned, not how long you can sit with your eyes closed or what visions you see. So i t is essential to bring more consciousness into your life in ordinary situations when everything is going relatively smoothly. In this way, you grow in presenc e power. It gene rates an ener gy field in you and around you of a high vibrational freque ncy. No unconsciousness, no negativity, no discord or violence can enter that field and survive, just as darkness cannot survive in the presence of light. When you learn to be the witness of your thoughts and emotions, which is an essential part of being present, you may be surprised when you first become aware of the background “static” of ordinary unconsciousness and realize how rarely, if ever, you are truly at ease within you rself. On the level of you r thinking, you will find a great deal of resistance in the form of judgment, discontent, an d mental projection away from the Now. On the emotiona l level, there will be an undercurrent of unease, tension, boredom, or nervousness. Both are aspects of the mind in its habitual resistance mode. WHA T ARE THEY SEEKING? Carl Jung tells in one of his book s of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to him that in his perception m ost white people h ave tense faces, staring eyes, and a cruel demeanor. He said: “They a re always seeking something. What are they seeking? The whites always w ant something. They are always uneasy and restless. W e don’ t know what they want. W e think they are mad.”The undercurre nt of constant unease started long before the rise of W estern industrial civilization, of course, but in W estern civilization, which n ow cove rs almost the en tire globe, including most of th e East, it manifests in an unprecedentedly acute form. It was already there at the time of Jesus, and it was there s ix hundred years before that at the time of Buddha, and long before that. Why are you always anxious? Jesus asked hi s discipl es. “Can anxious thought add a single day to yo ur life?” And the Buddha taught that the root of suf fering is to be foun d in our constant wanting and craving. Resistance to the Now as a collective dysfunction is int rinsically connected to loss of awarenes s of Being and forms the basis of our dehumanized industrial civilization. Freud, by the way, also recognized the exis tence of this undercurrent of unease and wrote about it in his book Civilization and Its Discontents, but he did not recognize the true root of the unea se and failed to realize that freedom from it is possible. This collective dysfunction has created a very unhappy and extraordinarily violent civilization that has become a threat no t only to itself but also to all life on the planet. DISSOL VING ORDINAR Y UNCONSCIOUSNESS So how can we be fr ee of this affliction? Make it conscious. Observe the many ways in which unease, di scontent, and tension arise within you thro ugh unnecessary judgment, resistance to what is, a nd denial of the Now. Anything unconscious dissolves whe n you shine the l ight of consciousness on it. Once you know how to dissolve ordinary unconsciousness, the light of your presence w ill shine brightly, and it will be much easier to deal with deep unconsc i

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Some patients report that when they release the castor oil enema, it burns the anus. Burning can occur, but the circumstance to remember is that castor oil does not burn. Instead it’s the release of highly toxic materialcoming out of the body’ s tissues that burns! This is one more indication of how important it is to take these castor oil enemas. Indeed, after two or three castor oil treatments, the burning is reduced and disappe ars. Such a disappearance indicates that the toxic level in the system is lower and no longer irritates the rectum and anus. If irritation exists, use a little petroleum jelly to soothe the area. You may also use a little zinc oxide ointment (not suppositories, which contain painkillers). A numb er of patients, if they previously suffered from hemorrho ids, have a flare-u p of this situation. It can be uncomfortable for a few days; but the patient should definitely not stop the enemas. Zinc oxide ointment may be applied locally. But please keep in mind that hemorrhoids are usually caused by toxic pressure; therefore, detoxifying is extra-important, and stopping the enemas is entirely wrong. It has also been observed in those patients that the hemorrhoids shortly disappear and do not recur. It just takes a little waiting time and patience. PHYSICAL FLARE -UPS FROM THE ENEMA TREA TMENTS The frequency of taking coffee enemas as well as castor oil treatments is reduced after a period of time. Some patients are so toxic that reduction of enema frequenc ies do not apply to them. If they reduce the detoxification too soon and then feel ill, toxic, or headachy, they should go back to the more intensive level for a period of time. Later, they can try to reduce the frequency again. Each patient needs to adjust the frequency of detoxifying to his own needs. At times, when the patient does well upon receiving less- frequent enemas, flare-ups still could occur. These may include new toxic releases, increased swellings or pain, headaches, or lack of appe tite. At such times, an extra coffee enema or a castor oil treatment has been known to work wonders. Occasionally, flare-ups are accompanied by diarrhea. At such times, the patient should only take perhaps two chamomile tea enemas daily to gently cleanse the colon. When the diarrhea lets up, the patient could instill one chamomile tea enema, followe d four to six hours later with one coffee enema, and another one of chamomile tea at night. When the colon is calmed, the regular schedule may be resumed, but some of the coffee enemas can still be mixed with chamomile tea.Some flare-ups are extremely intensive and cause a great deal of bile to be released by the liver. This bile could flow over into the stom ach. Bile is highly alkaline, but the stomach cannot hold anything that is not maintained in an acid medium. The alkaline bile will therefore bring on immediate severe nausea, almost always accompanied by vomiting. At such times, the patient should omit the coffee enemas, since they simply stimulate more bile flow and more vomiting! Drink a lot of peppermint tea and eat oatmeal gruel. Use only chamomile tea enemas. When the flare-up is overcome and nausea or vomiting has stopped completely, then resume the cof fee enemas. Some patients have problems with a great deal of gas. When there is much pressure from gas, it is difficult to infuse the coffee. At such times, it will probably be necessary to lower the bucket to the patient’ s body height while prone or even below the patient’ s body (if he is in bed or on a bench) to allow the fluid to flow back into the bucket while also allowin g the gas to bubble out of the rectum. However, if the gas is too high up in the intestinal tract, this approach will not work. In A Cancer Therapy (chapter 27, p. 201), Dr. Gerson discusses some of the problems of flare-ups, includ ing difficulties with the coffee enemas. We already mentioned (see above) that during these unpleasant flaring reactions, patients occasionally have a problem with infusing the enema although previously this procedure went smoothly. The other problem which occurs is that the patient takes an enema, holds it for the optimum twelve minutes, and then goes to release it. But the infused fluid won’ t release! Such an uncooperative bowel comes from intestinal spasming or cramping, which may not necessarily be accompanied by pain or discomfort. There are several actions the patient can take for a spasming colon: 1. Lie down on the bed, on the right side, legs pulled up, possibly with a warm water bottle on the abdomen. 2. Don’ t panic. 3. If after a little while, the coffee still cannot be released, take another coffee enema, adding 3 tsp of a 3 percent solution of hydrogen peroxide to the solution. 4. If the spasm still won’ t release, take castor oil by mouth. 5. For the next few days, put 3 or 4 tsp of the regular potassium compound into each coffee enema. Do not continue the potassium in the enema for mor e than a week; otherwise, the colon becomes irritated.During the course of this bowel spasming, at no time is there any danger to the patient even if she or he is not able to release the coffee. The entire enema solution is easily absorb ed through the colon and excre ted through the kidneys and urine if it is not normally released. There are still other ways to use the Gerson technique of enema therapy. These are not really cleansing enemas, but rather rectal implan ts. In a few cases, patients during a healing reaction vomit almost everything they take in. They become dehydrated and hypoglycemic. At such times, it is easy to warm the regular carrot or green juices (including the medications) to body temperature and put the 8 ounces of juice into the bucket or bag and let it run into the rectum. (Use only carrot/apple and green juices, not orange juice. Do not add wate r to the juice.) This implant should not be expelled. Consisting of only 8 ounces, it can easily be held until it is fully absorbed. And instilling with a juice enem a may be repeated every hour as the juices are ready. As soon as the patient is able, he or she should start to drink the juices again normally. Somewhat in the same area, Dr. Gerson also suggested in cases of severe ulcerations of the uterus or cervix to use a douche made up of green juice. This is gently cleansing as well as detoxifying, and the procedure stimulates healing. Dr. Gerson suggested that enough coffee for a full day’s needs can be prepared at one time. In that case, you can prepare a concent rated coffee solution. HOW TO MAKE COFFEE CONCENTRA TE To concentrate coffee for later use as a dilution, use a fairly large pot and perhaps 2½ to 3 quarts of water. Here is how to make cof fee concentrate: 1. When the water boils, add 15 rounded tbsp of organic drip-grind coffee. Since each enema should contain the equivalent of 3 tbsp of coffee, using 15 tbsp will give you enough coffee concentrate for five enemas. 2. Bring the solution back to a boil for a few minutes, then let it simmer for about fifteen minutes and then strain. 3. Divide the resulting concentrate into five equal portions. (You can put equal amounts into five equal 1-quart glass bottles.)4. Then fill the bottle to the full quart with distilled water for use. 5. If you need to modify the coffee enema with chamomile tea as we have already explained, you can add a pint of tea to the coffee concentrate. 6. Finally, fill up the container with enough water to make a full quart. Before using this mixture, heat it to body temperature. Reference for Chapter Thirteen 1 Gerson, M. A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases and The Cure of Advanced Cancer by Diet Therapy, 6th ed. Bonita, Calif.: The Gerson Institute, 1999, p. 190. OceanofPDF.comPart Three ADAPTING THE THERAPY FOR VARIOUS DISEASES OceanofPDF.comChapter Fourteen STANDARD GERSON THERAPY FOR MOST CANCERS In 1984, Alexandra Lennox of Sacramento, California, aged forty-four, divorced and raising three teenagers, was rediagnosed with invasive, in- traductal carcino ma of the right breast after a previous lumpe ctomy. The patient’ s initial diagnosis leading to the initial lumpectomy had been simpler and less dangerous than it was this second time. Immediately following her repeat operation for lump removal, the breast surgeon saw that the margins in her cancerous breast tissue s were not “clean,” meaning that the lumpectomy had not cut away all the cancer. The surgeon therefor e suggested that her lymph

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digestion. If your friend finds her new-look yellow veggies and curries appetizing, gradually introd uce her to other stars in the Indian spice box: cumin, coriander, cardamom, and more. A Gift of Ser eni-tea. Ayurvedic practice includes avoiding such caffeinated drinks as coffee and tea. They are thought to overstimulate the mind and, taken in excess, disturb the balan ce of the doshas. Herbal teas, on the other hand, pack both flavor and healing qualities. The sweetness of licorice calms vata and pitta. Teas containing rose petals cool the pitta dosha, and those with cloves perk up a lethargic kapha. In general, Ayurvedic herbal teas zap fatigue, relax the mind, and calm the senses. Tea flavors like mint, lemon balm, and jasm ine are so delectable that your friends can also try using them to flavor sauces and fruit-based desserts. You should be able to find some good herbal tea brands in natural food stores. Maharishi Ayurveda also makes some gourmet mind-body beverages for balancing each dosha type. (See resources for buying information. )For the Thought Gourmet To me, one of the most precious gifts is the gift of beautiful words: a collection of love poems, recipes, or short stories; a book of quotations; a life-changing novel; an inspirin g book on natural healing. Choose from among some truly sensitive works that you have read and loved, books written with a sincerity that awakens the body’ s natural intelligence, stimulates the mind, and soothe s the spirit. Giving away good health need not cost you a fortune. You could create a handmade booklet that is filled with health tips, recipe ideas, and beautiful pictures cut from old magazines. I wish you a fulfilling lifetime of living and giving the priceles s gift of Ayurveda. OceanofPDF. comBCHAPTER 14 surfing the ayurvedic ocean Each today, well-lived, makes yester day a happy dr eam and tomorr ow a vision of hope. Look, ther efore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life. — Sanskrit poem efore typing the first word of this book, I wanted to know what a reader would want from it. So I asked some friends to list their expec tations. This was a diverse group of people; some had never heard of Ayurveda, others knew the definition but not much more, and still others had dipped their toes into the Ayurvedic waters but had hastily withdrawn them when they encountered the Sanskrit terminology. Here’ s a sampling of what they said: •   “I’d like to see a book that doesn’ t use any of those confusing terms. ” •   “I want to know whether Ayurveda can help me live a health ier life — and if yes, how. In plain English, please. ”•   “I cannot tell Ayurveda from chelation therapy, acupressure, and yoga. Please enlighten. ” And so on. I hope I have been able to write this book to the satisfaction of most of my friends. For those, however, who still feel that Ayurvedic terminology gets in the way of making it easily approachable, I have this to say: I understand your wariness completely. For me, the journey toward Ayurveda posed fewer obstacles, for I had some basic advantages. Ayurveda and I were born in the same country. Hindi, a language derived from Sanskrit, is my mother tongue. My parents — and, more than them, my grandparents — understood Ayurveda by instinct. Hence, I grew up hearing the proverbial wisdom of the Indian village. Some of those proverbs were gems in rhyme — so succinct and so wise that they’re written in my mind with indelible ink. For example, my grandfather used to say, “A person who has a bowel movement once a day is a yogi [ascetic]. One who has it twice a day is a bhogi [taker of life’s pleasures]. And one who has it thrice a day is a rogi [sick person]. ” My grandmothe r would not let us eat cucumber salad in the evening, reciting this haiku-like poem: Kheera Subah ko heera Din mein kheera Raat mein peera. It means, “A cucumber eaten in the morning has the goodness of a diamond, in the afternoon it has the benefits of cucumber, and in the evening, it is a source of pain. ” Lunch was always given the highest priority. Come noon, my mother would want us to abandon anything we were doing — be it a math problem or a game — saying, Pehle pet pooja, phir kaam dooja (“first worship your stomach, then attend to other things”). I don’t know how long ago these sayings were actually coined, or whether they came from Ayurvedic tradition at all. Whatever their origin, they later helped me understand Ayurveda and its aphorisms without feeling too surprised or skeptical. “Rise early. ” “Scrape your tongue. ” “Don’ t read while eating. ” These admonitio ns had always been part of my life; they were locked in my DNA, so to speak. Even so, when I studied Ayurveda more formally it was somewhat of a daunting prospe ct. There were things that intimidated me about this system of healing: •   Its age. Ayurveda is, at the very least, more than 5,000 years old (some say it is a 10,000-year -old tradition, others say there’ s no way of knowing how old it really is). But even 5,000 years is a significant perio d of time, considering that we can barely visualize life as it must have been as recently as one hundred years ago. •   Its scale. Ayurvedic knowle dge comes to us from comprehensive texts called samhitas and nighantus. Each one is an ocean in itself, and ancient Ayurvedic sages were prolific writers. Sage Atreya alone wrote 46,500 verses, all in Sanskrit — a language so scholarly that it is hard even for an Indian to learn. •   Its terminology. Doshas, dhatus, gunas — would I be able to wade through the vocabulary. •   Its complexity. Ayurvedic healers seemed to have had dozens of guidelines on every little thing. Drinking water, for instance: don’t drink ice-cold water; don’t drink warm water, either, if you’re a pitta type; spice your water with cumin if you’re a kapha type, and fennel if you’re a vata; and so on. But I am happy to say that my doubts and fears dissolved stead ily. The more I studied Ayurveda, the more it resonated with my childhood years. Soon, I came to a delightful conclusion: Ayurvedic wisdom, in its purest essence, was a distilled version of my grandparents’ admonitions. From that epiphanic moment on, I was able to see Ayurveda as the majority of Indian people see it. In India, most people don’t study Ayurveda. They live it in simple ways. When a child has a cold, her mother will steep some holy basil leaves in boiled water and have the child sip it atregular intervals. A sore throat is soothed with crushed black pepper stirred into honey. Food is cooked fresh, lavished with spices and herbs, then eaten hot. Because a daily bath is cleansing and healthy, many people accord it the status of a religious ritual — they will say their prayers and eat their first morsel of the day only after a bath. In these small ways, they live Ayurveda. Even massage is an integral part of life in India; barbers-cum-masseurs are a common sight. Identifiable by the tool kit they carry, these barber/masseurs can be hailed on the streets. All they have to do is find a shady tree in the vicinity, and lo. A folding chair is pulled out, the kit is opened, and, a neat shave later, a relaxing head massage calle d champi is under way. At the other end of the spectrum are expensive herbal massage parlors, whose popularity is rising by the minute. I hope that this book has helped you recognize that you can live Ayurveda, too. In my own life, Ayurveda is a major influence; but I admit that my routine is often less than exemplary. There are times when I misuse my body — by going to bed late, watching TV too long, or slum ping in my chair. When I’m rushed, I grab a muffin instead of stewed fruit. And I’m not abov e temper tantrums and arguments. But then, I don’t allow these slipups to make me feel unduly guilty, because I know that Ayurveda does not mean constantly judging or berating oneself. On the plus side, studying Ayurveda has made me give up carbonated sodas, canned beans, and bleached flour. I haven’ t tasted leftov er food

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conceivable naturally differ. In the spiritual alchemy even the pursuit of longevity had its origins in the idea that the longer the physical life, the longer the time for attaining spiritual transformation into the True Man and becoming one with the Tao; to this end the alchemist had to transmute the base metal of the physical desires into the pure gold of the spiritual. From the Shen Hsien Chuan comes the instruction: ‘If you are bent on attaining immortality, begin by getting rid of the body-spirits. As soon as they are gone you will gain fixity of will-power and freedom from passion and desire. ’ Waley, in his ‘Notes on Chinese Alchemy’ dismisses the theory that alchemy was a pre-chemistry and pithily expresses it as: ‘Alchemy, on the rare occasions when it has been made the subject of reasonable enquiry, has usually been studied as part of what one may call the pre- history of science. But if, to use a favourite phrase, we are to see in alchemy merely “the cradle of chemistry,” are we not likely, whatever its initial charm, to lose patience with an infancy protracted through some fifteen centur ies. ’ The true alchemy was, in fact, an applied science or art (spoken of as either by its adherents) in the control of the elements affecting life and Nature and humanity in a spiritual development; it was called, as Taylor puts it, ‘a chemistry of the spirit. ’ ‘Let alchemy be called a “chemistry of the spirit” and it will be possible to understand its many aspects and the conflicting views ofthose who have not grasped its essential featur es. ’ If it were only gold-or-pill making and early science, it is remarkable that as Professor Sivin points out, ‘there were many treatises which give no directions for making anything,’ and if it were merely the search for gold, why the universal reference to ‘our gold’ as being something distinct from the common gold. The search for gold was the search for wisdom, for the knowledge of the necessary transformat ion of unregenerate humanity into the Sage or integrate d being, expressed as ‘the opaque becomes luminous. ’ Roger Bacon said that ‘Nature has always had for an end and tries incessantly to reach perfection, that is gold. ’ In Vedic tradition ‘gold is immortality;’ that is, the incorruptible spirit, the illuminated being. The colouring, or tincture, represents the colouring of the unregenerate or base nature with the divine. In Europe Fludd said: ‘Be ye transmuted from mortal to living philosophers' stones. Indeed, every pious and righteous man is a spiritual alchemist. who. understands not only how to distinguish but with the fire of the divine Spirit to separate the false from the true. for only this way is unclean lead turned to gold. ’ The medieval ‘Rosarium’ says: ‘Our gold is not the common gold’ and ‘the philosopher is not the master of the stone but rather its minister. ’ Then yet again, ‘Our gold is not in any way the gold of the multitude, but is the living gold. it is wisdom. ’ The real alchemy was the search for wisdom; its work was esoteric and on the individual, not in the laboratory, or rather the body is the laboratory in which the knowledge of the Self is gained. That the quest was spiritual, not material, is attested by alchemy's religious affiliations, to Taoism, in particular, in the East; there are also constant references to it in Hinduism and Buddhism and strong associations in the Babylonian and Chaldean civilizations,the Egyptian-Greek hermeticism and, later, in Christianity and Islam. Alchemy is also essentially mystical since its aim is union, the end of duality and absorption in the Absolute. Alchemical terms are used throughout for spiritual processes; the conjunctio is the same as the mystic's union with the One, the loss of individual identity with the limitations of the ego dissolved in the perfect whole, and again the base metal, transmuted by purification and refining, becomes the gold of perfection, of wisdom. The alchemist Ali-pili wrote: The highest wisdom consists in this, for man to know himself. therefore let the high enquirers and searchers into the deep mysteries of nature first learn to know what they have in themselves, and by the divine power within them let them first heal themselves and transmute their souls. if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee thou will never find it without thee. He who desires the primacy among students of nature will nowhere find a greater or better field of study than himself. Therefore will I from certain true experie nce proclaim: ‘Oh man, know thyself, in thee is hid the treasure of treasures. ’ The study of man and Nature cannot be separated. As the alchemis t worked on Nature so he could not avoid working on himself. As Hopkins says: ‘To Aristotle organic nature was like man. But to the alchemist all nature was like man; the spiritual overshadowing the material, and reproduction, the greatest of all mysteries, was possible only when the body of the metal was endowed with excess of the spiritual. ’ Sendivogius uses the symbolism of the mirror: ‘The Sage sees Heaven reflected in Nature as in a mirror; and he pursues this Art not for the sake of gold or silver, but for the love of knowledge which it reveals. ’ Themicrocosm and macrocosm reflect each other but are one, there is no difference between humanity and the cosmos. ‘The natural world is only an image and material copy of a heavenly and spiritual pattern; that is, the very existence of this world is based upon the reality of its celestial archetype. ’ Again, this is the hermetic ‘As above, so below,’ or, ‘In truth, certainly and without doubt, whatever is below is like that which is above, and whatever is above is like that which is below. ’ This enunciates the law of correspondences: that all creation is, in fact, a reflection; the phenomenal reflects the spiritual. The hermetic tradition also says that ‘The work. is to be found within you and is enduring: you will always have it present, wherever you are, on land or on sea. ’ Meditation was an important factor in Chinese alchemy in developing the ‘inner elixir,’ and the sealed vase was the isolated mountain retreat, hermitage, or meditatio n room, where knowledge of the inner self was attained, where transformation took place and from which the new man was born; hence the constant reference to the foetus or the seed as also symbolically the birth of this new being. There is pre-natal growt h in the seclusion of the closed room or retreat, the womb, before the new being emerges from darkness to light, from dependence to indepe ndence, into the life of the spirit. A modern Taoist Master called this foetus ‘an incorporeal manifestation of the union of spirit with vitality,’ and a Japanese professor, visiting the Taoist White Cloud monastery in the 1940s, found the ancient values still alive: Little significance was attached to the artificial, so- called cultur al, activities. Taking pride in gathering scraps of knowledge, conducting surveys, doing research—those may be efforts to find some satisfaction or self-understanding in the society of men, but they end, as does life, like the flaring out ofa candle. It is better to be embraced in the vastness of Nature, to melt into it. Then there is no wasted resistance to life, no useless conflagration. When one's breath ing is in harmony with nature, one becomes identical with its very life-flow. Alchemists of both East and West state categorically that Nature is their guide and exemplar, that they are working with her and following her laws. In alchemy they may be hastening some of her processes, but never working against her. As a science alchemy aimed at the understanding of the properties and formations of mineral substances; as a spiritual art or philosophy it was concerned with the mysteries of life and the cosmos. It had a cosm ological relationship with every aspect of life, human, anim al, plant and mineral. One could not go wrong in following Nature. As the Golden Tract says: ‘Nature seeks and demands the gradual attainment of perfection, and a general approximation to the highest standard of purity and excellence. ’ The cult of longevity was not considered to be going against living in accord with Nature since she had long- lived creatur es

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r emain. Amen.DA Y 237 A g i n g d o e s n o t d i m i n i s h m y b e a u t y. N ever at any point does the univ erse give up on me, consider me not good enough, or consider me a has-been. Only if I think of myself in such ways do I block the flow of miracles into and through me. My valu e does not decline wit h my physical beauty. As my outer beauty b egins to fade, my inner beauty shines forth most brightl y. T o the universe, I am never invisible. I r e alize the li ght in each of us is the gor geousness of the universe, no matter our age o r physical condition. I live wi th humble gratitud e for the light that shines within me. I will not be tempted by worldly thoughts that would hide fr om me my value.DA Y 238 I a m i n t o u c h w i t h m y a n g e r, a n d I r e l e a s e m y a n g e r. I want both to be in touch with my anger and to release my ange r. What I do not want is to project my anger onto someone else in the fa lse belief that I will then feel better. Such behavior of fers temporary relief, yet a more enduring suf fering. Anger, if I feel it, should be acknowledged. But I need not, and should not, act on it in dysfunctional ways. I feel my anger, ac cept it is there, an d surrender it to God for transformation. May spirit a lchemize my broiling emotions, that I might rise above them. I a sk that my anger be transmuted by love, so I might be show n another way to h andle my despair. May my anger be r eplaced b y a higher way of seeing. T oday I make a stand for my capacity to move be yond my anger, as I place any temptation towar d attac k thoughts into the hands of God. Amen.DA Y 239 G o d f o r g i v e s m e, f o r H e n e v e r j u d g e d m e. G od l oves me when I act wisely, and He loves me when I am fo olish. His love is based not on how I’ve acted but on who I am. He knows who I am, for He created me. God’ s love is unconditional. My erro rs do not call for God’ s punishment, but for His corre ction. As I aton e for my errors—willin g to make amends with a repentant heart —then His merciful hand sh all reorder events to allow me new beginnings. Such is the miracle of a non-judgmental God, the source of all good and the reason for unending praise. How aw esome is God that—even when I have fallen fr om grace, fr om the truth within me, fr om the love that is the meaning of my life—He loves me still. How mer ciful is God that—even when I have br oken the bond that ties m e to His righteousness—He has cr eated the Atonement to allow m e new life. My gratitude is deep, and shall for ever be. Amen.DA Y 240 FOR REFLECTION O n M e d i t a t i n g i n t h e M o r n i n g M any do yoga or work out in the morning. Many eat breakfast, read the newspaper, and shower in the morning. But those who empower themselves most in life are those who meditate in the morning. Through meditation, we cultivate our inner strength and release our inner po wer. W e align our spiri ts with God and place our minds under the direc tion of divine guidance. W e open our hearts to the h oly, and greet th e day lovingly before sauntering out to meet it. W e prepare ourselves as miracle-workers so we can then go out and work miracles.DA Y 241 M a y m y w a y b e u n b l o c k e d t o d a y, a s I u n b l o c k m y h e a r t. T he path before me isn’ t set in stone, but in my consciousness. All fearful thoughts result in fear; all loving thoughts result in love. I unblock my heart today, that I might walk a path of love. No matt er what path I have taken to this moment in my life, I can change it as I change my thoughts. I for give myself and others; I let go the past and release the future; I remember that there is no lim it to the miracles that come from God. T hus am I released from fear, and set upon a path of love. Dear God, May my mind not stray fr om love. May my heart not stray fr om love. May my feet not stray fr om love. Not today or ever. Amen.DA Y 242 M a y m y e y e s b e o p e n e d t o t h e m i r a c l e s a r o u n d m e. E very instant, the universe begins again. Miracles happen not in the past or future, but now. Every moment, God is pouring forth His love, with endless opportunities for renewal and rebirth. His voice proclaims eternally, “Here is the glory of the universe. Embrace it, for it is yours.” May I not resist the beauty of life, the colors of nature, or the nuances of light. May I not be hardened to the fragility of the heart. M ay I not abandon the field of miracles that is laid before me every mome nt of my day. Dear God, Open my eyes that I might see And open my ears that I might hear The magnificence of everything. Open my mind that I might know And open my heart that I might feel The radiance of everything. Open my soul that I might r ealize The miracle of Y ou. Amen.DA Y 243 I a m w h o G o d c r e a t e d m e t o b e. I am a child of God. I was crea ted in a blinding flash of creativity, a primal thought when God ext ended Himself in love. Everything He touches is infused with His wonder, and He has touched me. The perfect me isn’ t something I need to create, because God has already c reated it. The perfect m e is the love within me. I allow His spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds my perfect self, so I might extend to all the world the light He placed in me. May every thought I think and every feeling I feel be an extension of God’ s love. May fear and illusion fall to the wayside as I embrace the knowledge of who I r eally am. I am who He cr eated me to be, and nothing else is r eal.DA Y 244 G o d a n d I a r e o n e. G od is my source, who continues to fill me with His nurturance and love. I am never without His sustenance, for in every moment He pours into me His divine elixir. Every cell within me opens up to receive His light. I d o not look to outer things to complete me, for I am complete in God. I do not look to outer things to sustain me, for I am sustained by God. I need only to realize who I really am, and my relationship to Him. I live in Him as He lives in me; my God and I are one. God is closer to me than my br e ath. He is the light of compassion and the power of for giveness. H e is the truth of my being and the sour ce of my str ength. As long as I r emember this, I will know who I am.DA Y 245 FOR REFLECTION O n L e t t i n g G o o f W h o W e A r e n ’ t S o W e C a n B e W h o W e A r e W hen Mic helangelo was asked how he created a piece of sculpture, he answered that the statue already existed within the marble. God Himself had created the Pietà, David, M oses. Michelangelo’ s job, as he saw it, was to get rid of the excess marble that surrounded God’ s creation. So i t is with you. The perfect you isn’ t something you need to c reate, because God already created it. 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very much but for 25 years of our married life she stayed two weeks behind with her worrying. I felt so sorry for her. One day I asked God about worry, and He said, 'WORRY IS THE DEVIL'S PRAYER.' So I wrote on little cards: JESUS SAID THAT WORRY IS THE DEVILS PRAYER, and stuck them up an over the house. And to this day she has never worried again. It is absolutely impossible to worry and to pray to the Lord Jesus Christ at the same time." Reams is a very unselfish man and anything that he can do for an- yone he does and he does not feel that he is being imposed upon. Most of the time he will do things before he is asked. He is very apprecia-tive of any kindness extended to him. One of the things that he said was a little difficult for him was that when younger people wish to help him across the street, or to do any-171 thing for him, he had to learn to accept it graciously, even though he felt he did not need it. He was a Boy Scout (Eagle Scout and Scout Master) many years and loves to work with young people. He is never too busy to help them with their problems. Reams has some favorite sayings such as: "Hate is one of the great causes of illness, beside the mineral defi- ciency." "Hate is the breaking of the Golden Rule because you must hate yourself before you can break the Golden Rule." Regarding the Golden Rule Reams says, "Much illness could be prevented, food digestion improved and constipation greatly relieved if more people would live the Golden Rule. It is impossible to speak unkindly about anyone and love them too. Anyone may unintentional-ly cause a person to feel inferior or may be a threat to his vanity, and consequently, in his own egotistical defense he forgets the Golden Rule. "In an cases that this situation exists the predominate factor is fear. So in self-defense unkind words are spoken. "Anyone who disobeys the Golden Rule only exposes his own true character. ('Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged:. and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why be holdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?' Matthew 7: 1-3. 'But we are sure that the judgment of God is ac-cording to truth against them which commit such things,' Romans 2:2). "No one can break the Golden Rule and be truly humble. Humility is hidden from the eyes of its possessor. "No one has a right to judge anot her. God has reserved this posi- tion for Himself. Only God has the power to destroy the soul, even af-ter death. "We do have a right to be a 'fru it' inspector, providing we do not permit anyone to know that we may be challenged to be his fruit in-spector. The second we crow about the bad results of our fruit inspect-ing we become a critic and a judge. The judgment of character by an-172 other is a sin. It matters little whether the judgment is just or unjust. The Golden Rule was broken the moment the first unkind word was spoken. Such action affects our health. "Never push down anyone. If you push him down you must go down with him. Lift him up and you will go up with him. "There are many ways to lift others up and evaluate their fruit without transgressing the Golden Rule. You can say things that will not degrade and not break the Golden Rule and hopefully lift anyone up. At least no evil is thought and no harm done. You may say, 'He does very, very well considering his mentality. Except by the grace of God I could be just like him.' This shows love. Or, you may say, 'That fellow is a genius. His most serious hand-icap is his handicap.' Again love is shown. Again, you can say, 'That fellow does the best he can. He probably never had the opportunities that you and I had.'<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms: The flame of the fire slew the men who placed them in the furnace, yet when the king looked, he said, "Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. " When they came out their clothes were not burned, or even smelled of smoke. When Elijah was taken up to heaven in a flaming chariot-a chariot of fire-bears out what I'm saying about the temperature of God, the Father and the Son. When Jesus was crucified a sword was thrust in His side and His blood and water ran out. He shed the last drop of blood He had for your sins and my sins and then was buried, and on the third day He arose again. He went down in a cationic body and He arose in an ani-onic body like Adam and Eve had in the Garden of Eden before the fall. Let's compare the cationic body we have and the anionic body our first parents had. Whenever we eat food it has to be mixed with the sa-140 liva in our mouth, then it goes to the stomach where it is digested by the gastric juices manufactured by the liver and the pancreas, and we live off of' the energy of the food we eat, and the excess of this food is passed out of our system, excreted from our body, and there is decay. This food that passes out of the body is in the state of decay. Leaves fall from the trees and decay. When animals die they de- cay. This is because we are living in the oxygenic age. But in the Gar- den of Eden, before the fall, Adam and Eve ate fruit, but the fruit was digested by the heat of their own bodies and the energy, or heat and electrical energy, went right out of their bodies. They had absorbed the total amount of energy that was in their food and therefore there was no decay. Like putting wood into a stove and the stove giving off heat, and yet there was no smoke. There were no bowel movements. They didn't have to urinate. There were no tears. There was no death. They were living in the age of eternity, in which there was no time. Jesus, after He arose from the dead met with some of the disciples and ate fish. That fish He ate went off as heat energy and electrical energy because He had no blood. There is no constant frequency in the blood, it is only our cationic flesh that has frequency. I Corinthians 15:50 tells us that flesh and blood shall not inherit the Kingdom of God. Therefore, it cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven. So we will have a flesh but not the cationic flesh. We will have an anionic flesh, and we too will again be clothed in light which will appear as a white raiment. There is another important factor that bears out this biological sci- ence of the resurrection given in the Bible. Hell is fire and brimstone. Any high school student who has studied chemistry knows that brim-stone is sulphur, and that sulphur bums at 720 degrees centigrade, and that sulphur casts off heat fumes which displaces oxygen, which would make it impossible for anything that breathes oxygen to live. Let us draw a conclusion now that heaven is hotter than hell, but the saints can walk through hell and not even need a fan as their body temperature is 980 degrees, and hell only has a temperature of 720 de-grees. So we will then have become like the Father again, as Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden. 141 Satan tries to make everyone fear death. He tells big lies about death. He tells you that when you ar e dead you are going to be dead a long time. That is not so. In death there is no time. The person that died in Abraham's day, or before, will not have been dead any longer than the person who dies one hour before Jesus comes, because out there, there is no time. The Book of Revelation tells us, "time shall be no more. " When you go to sleep at night and wake up the next morn-ing, it's as though no time has passed. The event that revealed this so clearly to me was during the war when I was unconscious for 31 days and then I awakened. The last memory I had was that I was thrown above the trees and my last thought was "This is it. " I was sure I was going to die, and the next thing I knew was 31 days later, 2,400 miles away in the Seventh General Hospital in New Guinea on an operating table, and it was just like seconds because I said, "I sure did land easy. " The 31 days to me was only a matter of a part of a second. I knew nothing of what happened during those 31 days. So in death there is no time. To be absent in body is to be present with God, or, to await the judgment day of the soul. We don't exactly understand it, but we do know that each of us has our own number as frequency, micronage, milli-micronage, or milli-milli-microna ge, as

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in a world that has never been explored as well as in India. In his purest form, the sadhu is an investigator into the transcendental reality lying beyond the gap—th at is the tradition he upholds, one of the longest and wisest on our planet. To understand his findin gs will take us on a new road, away from physics, but still on much the same track, in search of ourselves. — In the West, before the advent of the theory of relativity, there was no question that time, space, matter, and energy occupied separate compartments of reality. Our senses detect a tree as entirely different from a beam of light or a spark of electricity; we may feel that time is a more mysterious entity, capable of slowing down, speeding up, oreven standing still, but we would never say, “I like New York better than Monday.” It seems self-evident that time and space, matter and energy, are opposite pairs, for the simple reaso n that none can be turned into the others. The normal world of the senses can be diagrammed in our familiar manner: After Einstei n published the equation E=mc2, this simple, commonsense view had to change, for it was now possible (as the atomic bomb proved) for matter to be transformed into huge amounts of energy. The general theory of relativity did the same thing for the separation between time and space. Now physics deals in a fused entity called space-time, which can be bent to fit certain circumstances (whenever an object travels near the speed of light, for example). After proving that nature was much less compartmentalized than science had previously thought, relativity opened another, even more surprising possibility. Einstein suggested that one underlying field exists as the background for all transfo rmations of space-time and mass- energy. This implies a level of nature that is totally fused; in other words, there is a region of space-time-matter-energy. Einstein was intuitively convinced of this possibility—the ultimate demolition of the world of the senses—at a time when no one else had the vision to consider it seriously. Beginning in the 1920s, he spent the last thirty years of hislife, isolated from the other physicists of his generation and largely ignored, trying to compute the mathematics for a “unified field theory.” His theory would unite all the basic forces in creation and thereby explain the unive rse as a whole. Instead of four compartments, there would be one. “To unite,” in the sense that physicists use the word, means to prove that two things that appear to be totally different can transform into each other at a deeper level of nature. The photon and the light wave are classic examples of this: they appear to be entirely different, yet at an infinitesimal level of nature, called the Planck scale, which is more than a billion billion times smaller than the smallest atom, the photon and the light wave can be united. No one has yet solved the math ematics for a unified field. That would be as much as solving the entire hidden zone we have labeled with a?. (A new theory, however, called the superstring may have cracked the problem at last, thirty years after Einstein’s death.) In the face of a problem that rational thought cannot solve, science necessarily stops, but other routes may be open. Thousands of years ago, the ancient rishis, or seers, of India also contemplated this question of whether nature is ultimately unified. A rishi is like a sadhu in that his life is devoted to silence and the inner life, but rishis lived much further in the past—they were responsible for writing the most ancient texts of Veda, or revealed truth, such as Rig Veda, which may predate the Egyptian pyramids by several thousand years. If you ask a modern India n what the Veda is, he will point to the books that contai n the rishis’ words, but in truth Veda is the content of the rishis’ consciousness, which is alive. A rishi has seen deep enough into the nature of things that even God sits at his feet to learn—th e lesson can be found in the Yoga Vasishtha, in which the youngLord Rama, a divine incarnation, begs the sage Vasishtha for instruction. I am not emphasizing the spiritual value of the rishi and his knowledge here. Until very recently in human history, all cultures freely blende d religion, psychology, philosophy, and art into one homogeneous whole. But individual strands can be pulled out; in this case, I am interested in what the rishis had to say about the fundamental nature of reality (in the Yoga Vasishtha, God also showed a lively interest in this subject). The rishis were just as capable as we are of dividing nature up into space, time, matter, and energy, but they turned their backs on such an approach, which so totally dominates our way of seeing and thinking about the world. They chose instead to solve the problem in the most practical way imaginable. They decided to cross the gap and actually enter the? zone, where thinking cannot go. They used a simple twist in their awareness, but one that has profound consequences—it was like turning the objective world inside out. To do that, the rishis had to analyze nature in an unexpected way, which can be represented by another diagram: This diagram is just as valid as the one on page 206, but it looks on the world from a purely subjective viewpoint. Rather than seeing time, space, matter, and energy “outthere,” the rishis observed that reality begins “in here,” with our conscious awareness. At any particular time, they reasoned, a person must be in one of three states of subjective awareness—waking, sleeping, or dreaming. What he perceives in these states constitutes his reality. The ancients assumed that reality was thus different in different states of consciousness—a tiger in the dream state is not a tiger in the waking state. It obeys entirely different laws, and similarly, the laws of the sleep state, although not known to the conscious mind, must be distinct from those of the waking and dreaming states. The rishis looked closer and detected between each of these states a gap that acts like a pivot as one reality turns into another. For example, just before falling asleep, the mind gradually leaves the waking state, withdra wing the senses, shutting out the waking world, but at the junction point before the mind actually falls asleep, a brief gap is opened, identical to the one that flashes by between each thought: it is like a little window into the field that is beyond either wakefulness or sleep. This realization opened the possibility for leaving behind the usual boundaries of the five senses by diving through the gap. Considering that the West is supposed to be practi cal and the East mystical, it is fascinating to find that the rishis were much more avid for direct experience than any quantum physicist. Their subjective approach was called Yoga, the Sanskrit word for “union.” (The various exercises taught in yoga classes belong to just one of its branches, called Hatha Yoga; we will be looking at Yoga’s most powerful approach, which is mental.) Because both are looking for an underlying layer of unity in nature, one can immediately see the resemblance between Yoga and Einstein’s quest for a unified field theory. The major difference between the two is that the rishis, not being theoretical, declared that the unified field exists in the realworld—it is an experience and not merely a mental construct. From the rishis’ subjective viewpoint, the only thing that the unified field could be is another state of consc iousness. They called it simply turiya, or the fourth, to denote that it was not part of the three states of waking, sleeping, and dreaming. They also referred to it as para, or beyond, meaning that it transcended ordinary experience. But how could a fourth state even exist? The answer was twofold. First, the seers said that the fourth state exists everywhere but is hidden by the other three states as if by a screen. (Some ancient texts declare that the fourth state has been mixed into the other three like milk into water, and finding it is as difficult as separating milk from water.) Second, they said that the fourth state can be directly experienced only after the mind has transcended its normal activity, which requires the special technique of meditation. The word rishi itself stands for a person who has learned to enter the fourth state at will and observe what is there. 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become true for everyone. W e believe that these same principles apply to human aging. If we look at recent historical times we see that the average life expectancy has shifted remarkably. The average life span of a human being during the Roman Empire was twenty-eight years. The average life span of a h uman being born in the W estern world at the beginning of the twentieth century wasforty-nine years. Although in the past, high rates of infant mortality influenced human life expectancy, the fastest-growing segment of the American population today is over the age of ninety years. A baby girl born in America today is expected to live just less than eighty years; an infant boy has a life expectancy of almost seventy-four. Historically, the re are many pe ople who have lived to ripe old ages and have made major contribution s to civilization. Leonardo da V inci was drawing sketche s in his sixties, Leo T olstoy was writing nov els into his seventies, and Michelangelo was sculpting in his eighties. W inston Churchill, with his fondness for cigars and Scotch, was active and productive until his death at age ninety. As our collective consciousness embraces the belief that we can have the biology of youth with the wisdom of experience, it will become the pervasive experience. The Science of Aging Recognizing tha t human beings do not age at the same rate, scientists have described three dif ferent ways to characterize a person’ s age. The first is chr onological age, which is what your birth c ertificate says. Y our chronological age measures the number of rotations Earth has performed on its axis and around the sun since you left your mother ’ s womb. Y our chronological ag e cannot be altered through mind/body approaches, but it has the least relevance to how you feel or function. Biological age is a measurement of how well your physiological systems are f unctioning. It is the most important component of the ag ing process. Y our biological age is calculate d in reference to an average population of people who have the same chronological age that you have. V alues for almost every biochemical and physiological process can be determined for dif ferent age groups. Known as the biological markers, or biomarkers, of aging, these include blood press ure, amount of body fat, auditor y and visual thresholds, horm onal levels, immune function, temperature regu lation, bone density, skin thickness, cholesterol levels, blood sugar tolerance, aerobiccapacity, and metabolic rate (s ee the table on page 18). Once you know your results, you can compare them with the group average and see if your biomarkers are older or youn ger than your chronological peers. Y our biological age can be very dif ferent from your chronological a ge. A fifty- year -old who takes good care of herself can have the biology of a thirty- five-year -old. Alternatively, a f ifty-year -old who has not been attentive to his h ealth may h ave the biology of men many years older. Wh atever your biological age is today, we believe we can alter it by implem enting the changes recommended in this book. Biological age is the key component of the aging pr ocess. Psychological age is your subjective experience of how old you feel. W e meet ma ny people in their sixtie s who report that they feel better than they did in their thirt ies. In prior tim es they may have been smoking two packs of c igarettes a day, were unhappy in their jobs, and were not eating well. Since instituting the ten steps to reverse aging, their mental and physical well-being has dramatically improved. They have learned to relax and enjoy life, so although they are chro nologically older, they unequivocally feel younger than they did years ago. Psychological age is closely linked to biological age. When the body is functioning in a more ef ficient, ener getic manner, we experience this vitality as feeling more alive. Although we cannot reverse our chronological age, we can reverse the more im portant measures of our biological and psychological age—and by so doing can regain the physical and emotional vitality we had in the past. The Biomarkers of Aging AEROBIC CAP ACITY ANTIOXIDANT LEVELS AUDIT OR Y THRESHOLD BLOOD PRESSUREBLOOD SUGAR REGULA TION BODY F A T BONE DENSITY CHOLESTEROL AND LIPID LEVELS HORMONAL LEVELS IMMUNE FUNCTION MET ABOLIC ACTIVITY MUSCLE MASS MUSCLE STRENGTH SKIN THICKNESS TEMPERA TURE REGULA TION VISUAL THRESHOLD Resear ch into Aging In the 1970s, Alexander Leaf, a Harvard doctor, journeyed around the world seeking the secret to a long, h ealthy life. He visited communities in the southern republics of the former Soviet Union, northern Pakistan, and the Andes Mountains of Ecuador, where it was rumored that many people were living dy namic, vital lives well into their eighties, nineties, and beyond. In many cases, these stories were t rue. Leaf discovered that the one consistent feature o f these people living in widely separated regions of the world was their atti tude about aging. Simply stated, in these societies, growing older meant growing better; vibrant centenarians were revered for theirknowledge, phy sical vitality, and personal presence. They had the wisdom of experience with the biology of youth. Another interesting study was performed by Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer. She took groups of men in their seventies and eighties and encouraged them to think and behave as if they were twenty ye ars younger. After doing this for only five da ys, these men showed a number of physical changes associa ted with age re versal. Their hearing and vision improved, they per formed better on tests o f manual dexterity, and had improved joint mobility. Both of these studies tell us the same thing. Expectations determine outcomes. If you expect your mental and physical capacity to diminish with age, it probably will. If you have the expectations that you can grow younger and live longer, this will be your experience. As more and more people shift their expectation s and experience reversal of aging for themselves, it will become the expectation of everyone. Restoring Y our Life Energy When a doctor w ants to check the status of a specific biochem ical in your body, he draws blood for analysis. The results obtained from scrutinizing a minute samplin g are accepted as being true for the entire body. For example, if we want to check your blood sugar level, we need to examine only a minuscu le amount that can be collected from a tiny p inprick. W e assume that what is true for one drop of blood is true for every drop in your body. This assumption is a result of the recognition that the body is holographic. This means that the whole is contained in every part; whenever one aspect changes, everything changes. Applying this principle to the reversal of aging, you can see that making a he althy shift in any one com ponent of your life will have a positive influence on your entire state of well-being. The more you are able to replace life-damaging choices with life-af firming ones, the more profoundthe benefits you will experience physically, emotionally, and spiritually. When you reverse one biological marker of aging, you will reverse almost all the others. For example, improving your muscle strength leads to an increase in bone density. Improving your aerobic capacity enhances your immune function. Our ten-steps-to-reverse-aging program is therefore a practical holistic approach to creating a profoundly better quality of life. These approache s are simple ye t powerful and we are enthusias tic to share them with you. The body is holographic; ther efor e, when you change one biomarker you influence them all. The conditioning of our society leads us to believe that as we grow older, we dete riorate physically and mentally. When you break out of this conditioning, you will learn from your own experience that every day in every way you can increase your physical and mental capacity. That is the promise of this book. If you practice the ten steps you will reverse your biological age, and biological age is the only age that really matters. 2 Y ou Can Reverse Y our Biological Age by Changing Y our Perceptions   ACTION STEP #1 I am r ev ersing m y biological age by changing my per ceptions of my body, its aging, and of time. I put this into practice by: Changing my per ception of aging by r esetting my Biostat and practicing on a daily basis the rituals that r emind me of my biological set point. Changing my per ception of time by the practice of self- r eferraltechniques, bringing my attention to the nonchanging factor in the midst of change. Changing my per ception of my body by learning to experienceit as a field of ener gy, transformation, and intelligence, practicing the Ener gy, T ransformation, and Intelligence technique. Per ceptions cr eate r eality. By changing your per

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life is to consciously seek and practice it. Enlightened leaders and global spiritual traditions advocate spiritual practice as the essential foundation of comprehensive health and vitality, including all aspects of a sound mind and body. This book does not advocate any specific religion or spiritual practice, but does recommend some type of practice. Why? Because being self-involved, self-centered and “stuck in your own head” is so easy. Only when body, mind and spirit are fully integrated can you truly optimize your health. Spiritual practice brings about measurable changes in the brain and in overall health. Larry Dossey, M.D., in his book Healing Words, described “one of the best kept secrets in medical science”: the benefits of prayer. Dr. Dossey defines prayerfulness as “a feeling of love, compassion and empathy toward another,” and he explains that prayer is “a powerful and legitimate (if often overlooked) method of healing.” Dossey uses an impressive array of evidence to show that prayer can have a positive effect on health. A 1988 study conducted in San Francisco investigated the effects of prayer on the cardiovascular health of 393 coronary-care patients. Unknown to the patients involved, one group was prayed for and the other was not. At the end of the ten-month study, the prayed-for group was five times less likely to require antibiotics and three times less likely to develop a condition in which the lungs fill with fluid. Dr. Dossey’s research also found that prayer can have beneficial effects on various living cells and organisms, including mice, chicks, fungi, yeast, bacteria and enzymes. In the October 2001 issue of the Journal of Reproductive Health, researchers at Columbia University—expressing great surprise at their own profound findings—announced that when complete strangers prayed for women who went to a fertility clinic, the women had twice the pregnancy rate as women for whom prayers were not given. How does spirituality influence health and performance, and how do we integrate it into health-care promotion and practice as professionals and as individuals? No one scientifically understands the mechanisms. Nonetheless, the scientific data prove that spirituality does work. Such data pose profound questions. Perhaps these precise questions are the ones we need to be asking in order to develop a more complete understanding of health. Even if we don’t have all the answers, we can still benefit from the power of spiritual practice. A Great Opportunity While health generally is measured and understood at the physical level, as we have discussed, psychological health and physical health are indivisibly one and the same. What goes on in your mind is also going on in your body, and the good news is that you have a wide menu of practical, productive, self-empowering and excitingoptions to promote psychological— and, therefore, physical—well-being. Too many people fall into self-defeating lifestyle patterns. If you want to move yourself in the right direction on the psychological pathway and improve your health for the better, you cannot continue to do the same negative things and expect to obtain different and positive results. Changing one’s patterns of behavior, belief, thinking, feeling, perception and physical response is the goal of the psychological pathway. Such changes take practice and commitment. The first step is to notice and identify the feelings associated with stress, then to implement strategies consciously to take care of yourself. Beyond mental techniques —such as prayer, biofeedback, therapy, meditation and numerous self-regulation techniques—physical activities also can be helpful, including exercise, breathing techniques, yoga, massage, saunas and hot baths. Understanding how the mind affects the function (or malfunction) of our cells enables us to make the positive choices that enable us to maintain or improve health. Keeping a healthy outlook is both one of life’s great challenges and one of life’s great opportunities. Having a purpose, a higher meaning to your life than mere existence, is a critical part of the whole picture of health.8 T HE P HYSICAL P ATHWAY “Many of the things we call biomarkers of aging might actually be biomarkers of inactivity.” William Evans, Ph.D. The Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging Y ou’ve heard the advice before: If you want to stay physically fit and healthy, get plenty of exercise and sleep, and stay away from drugs, tobacco and alcohol. You may have heard it so often, in fact, that you no longer are paying attention. Also because this advice is common—the kind of thing “your mother told you”—you may think that you know all that you really need to know. Think again! There is more to the story. Without understanding how everyday choices affect your health at the cellular level, you may not recognize the risks to avoid, nor the benefits you can reap. For example, missing too much sleep may create more than dark circles; it may cause brain damage. Breathing the right way may help you feel better and live longer. Exercising your eyes, in simple ways, may help you to avoid needing eyeglasses, or to discard eyeglasses you already wear. Using hairdryers, electric razors, cellphones and other electrical appliances may increase your risk for cancer, as does exposure to medical X rays. Simple choices can make the difference—turn on the dishwasher only when you plan to leave the kitchen. • Much of the disability in our elderly population attributed to aging actually is the result of decades of inactivity. • A study reported in the October 1999 issue of Lancet found that after one week of only a few hours sleep per night, hormone levels change and the body even has trouble metabolizing carbohydrates. • A study reported in the February 2001 issue of Occupational Medicine showed that factory workers, chronically exposed to loud noise, suffered calcium and magnesium losses. • Medical X rays may be the leading cause of cancer. If you do not support your body’s needs for sleep and exercise and protect yourself from physical harm—everything from noise to microwaves to X rays—you cannot be healthy. Also you cannot be overweight and healthy; you cannot be exhausted and well. Terms like “overweight” and “exhausted” are definitions of ill health and, in the long-term, invitations to disaster. Think of all the people you know: those who wear their age well and those who “break down.” Think of all the cars on the streets: beautifully maintained classic cars as well as rusty old “clunkers.” If you want long-lasting health, you must maintain your body properly and “drive” it with care. Maintaining yourself on the physical pathway is not only about preventivemaintenance but also about protecting your body from the physical damage that results from physical events (accidents, sport injuries), the environment (noise, sunburn, electromagnetic radiation) and medical treatments (X rays, drugs, surgery). Given the lifestyles of many Americans who spend most of their days sitting or driving, who have hectic schedules and interrupted sleep and whose days may be bombarded by unrecognized environmental assaults, the time has come to be serious about preventing wear and tear. The Joy of Movement Throughout human evolution, our biological ancestors were very active, engaging in hours of vigorous physical activity every day. They walked or ran everywhere they went, and they needed to work hard, physically, to meet their basic needs. Because of this evolutionary history, human bodies require physical activity for good health. Historically, healthy populations such as the Hunzas and the Vilcabambas met those biological needs by default. They lived their entire lives in mountainous farming communities where they had vigorous exercise through regular daily activities. As you recall, older Hunza men—often well into their hundreds—worked in the fields and participated in strenuous folk dancing. Exercise is like an essential nutrient; without it, your body malfunctions. Unlike our hunter-gatherer ancestors, most of us now engage in little physical activity. The Industrial Revolution radically changed human existence. Machines and technology perform work formerly done by hand. No longer do we hunt or farm; our work is done sitting at a desk or standing behind a counter, and we meet our daily needs with a quick trip to a store. Even our recreation is sedentary: We read books, play video games, and watch movies and television (the average American watches three hours a day). We seldom walk or run; instead, we use automobiles, trains, taxis and buses. Sixty percent of our adult population is sedentary, and one out of four people engages in absolutely no exercise whatsoever. Lack of activity contributes to our epidemic of physical problems such as low-back pain and spine problems, fatigue, arthritis, osteoporosis, obesity and a host of chronic diseases. Almost everyone has the nagging sense that they “should” exercise, but few understand why exercise is so important. Exercise is good because (like anything else that is “good for you”), it promotes the health of cells. Exercise prevents both of the two causes of disease—deficiency and toxicity— by promoting efficient nutrient delivery to cells and stimulating the lymphatic system (the body’s sewage system), vital for removing toxins from cells. Exercise is great for body and mind; it slows the effects of aging, reduces pain and helps to improve mood, clarity of mind, balance, coordination and spatial awareness—not to mention the confidence boost that comes from “getting physical.” The body has almost seven hundred different muscles;

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: The two approaches are the conscious ego's dialogue with the ignorant egotistical child and the universal, spiritual self's guidance. They work together to gradually mature the inner child. Q: What are the common denominators of healthy desire and healthy desirelessness?, A: An absence of fear and the presence of trust. This allows for the manifestation of the universal life principle. Q: How can you determine whether your feelings are real or put on?, A: You can determine this by seriously probing and considering the possibility that your feelings may be fake, and then confronting and reeducating the part of yourself that refuses to change. Q: What is the key to experiencing the universal spirit and accessing its power?, A: It is necessary to tune in to it, make a conscious effort to use it, and then deliberately choose to change your thoughts and will. This requires a willingness to be honest, constructive, loving, and open. Q: What is the importance of self-observation and self-reflection in the process of spiritual growth?, A: Self-observation and self-reflection are crucial in the process of spiritual growth, as they allow you to confront and overcome your own negative tendencies, leading to a more harmonious and constructive approach to life.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Then the rst reaction is very often, “I do not even want to acknowledge that I am afraid of this. I’d rather continue busyi ng my mind in order not to face the terror that I am nothing inside, that I am only a shell that needs sustenance from without.” This self-deception is obviously futile. It is of utmost importance that you face this fear and deal with it openly. You need to create an atmosphere within yourself in which you allow this emptiness to exist. Otherwise you perpetually deceive yourself, which is very wasteful because the fear is unjustied. How can you ever live inpeace with yourself if you do not know what you fear and therefore make it impossible to nd out that what you fear is not so? As a result of a process that has continued for centuries, humanity has conditioned itself to make the outer mind a very busy place, so that when that busyness ceases temporarily, the resulting quiet is confused with emptiness. It indeed seems empty. The noise will recede, and you must indeed embrace and welcome the emptiness as the most important channel through which to receive your innermost Godself. The Way Leads Through Seeming Contradictions There are several psychic and spiritual laws you need to comprehend in order to nurture this emptiness and make it a creative venture. Some of these laws seem to be contradictory. Let me put it this way: If you cannot let yourself be empty, you can never be lled. Out of the emptiness a new fullness will arise, yet you cannot disregard your fear. It must, like everythin g else, be gone through. My advice is that you challenge that fear, and at the same time welcome the emptiness as the doorway to your divinity. This seems contradictory, but it is not. Both attitudes are necessary. Another appar ent contradict ion: It is extremely important that you be receptive and expectant, yet without preconceived ideas, impatience, or wishful thinking. This seems very hard to explain in human words. It is something you have to feel into. There must be a positive expectancy that is yet free from preconceived notions of how and what should happen. Still another related apparent contradiction: You need to be specic, yet this specicity must be light and neutral. You must be specic in one way, but not in another. If this seems confusing now, ask your inner being to relay the comprehension to your mind, rather than trying to understand directly with your ego-mind. The workings of the greater self so far surpass the mind’s imagination that specicity would be a hindrance. Yet the mind must know what it wants, be prepared for it, reach for it and claimit, know that it deserves what it wants and will not misuse it. The outer mind must make const ant changes in order to adapt itself to the greater scope of the inner God-consciousness. Your outer mind must become empty and receptive, yet it must hold itself poised for all possibilities. Thus it will be able to mate with the inner stillness and what appears at rst as emptiness. A New Fullness Begins to Manifest As you do this, in a spirit of patient, persevering, positive expectancy, yet empty in mind and soul, a new fullness can manifest. The inner stillness will begin to sing, as it were. From the energetic point of view, it will convey light and warmth. Strength you never knew you possessed will arise. From the point of view of consciousness, guidance will come for the biggest and smallest issues in your life. Receptive, creative emptiness must truly be nurtured. Listen with an inner ear, and yet you must not do this with urgency but become receptive to when and how you will be lled. This is the only way, my friends, to nd your inner sustenance, to nd your divinity, and become a receptacle for the great universal power that is being released and will manifest in your life, even more than you have already experienced. This is an important time in the history of evolution, and you are all needed to comprehend and perpetuate a great change in thinking and perception regarding the laws and values that the Christ consciousness is spreading. The way must be open from within and from without to create as many receptacles as possible. The mind can be a hindrance or an aid to this process. You all know that your mind is limited only by your own concept of its limitations. To the degree you limit your mind, you cannot perceive what is beyond it. The mind is nite and it must aim to spread the boundaries of its niteness until it measures up with the innite that is beyond the mind and that is within yourself, right here, right now. Then the mind merges into the innite consciousne ss of yourinner universe, in which you are one with all that is, and yet innitely your personal self. As it is now, you carry your mind with you almost as a burden because it has become a closed circuit. Inside that circuit there is a certain leeway for ideas, opinions, and possibilities you have made room for in your life as a result of your education and the mores of your society. That circuit contains what you have chosen to learn and adopt as knowledge, both as part of the group consciousness and as your personal experie nce. To the degree you have grown and expanded, the closed circuit of your mind has widened; however, it is still a closed circuit. You are still burdened with limiting ideas about yourself and your world. It is therefore necessary, in order to elicit creative emptiness, that you visualize the boundaries of your mind by questi oning yourself about all the things that you think are impossible for you. Where you are hopeless and frightened there must be an idea of niteness that is simply locked into your mind; thus you lock out the great power that is here for all those who are ready to receive it honestly. Puncturing the Closed Circuit of the Mind Again we have an apparent contradiction. On the one hand, it is necessary that this limited mind open itself up to new ideas and possibilities, as you have already learned to do in your meditation. You have seen infallibly that where you have made room for a desirable new possibility, it has indeed come into your life. You have also seen that when it does not come into your life, you deny that it can, for whatever reason. It is therefore necessary that you begin to puncture that closed circuit. You cannot immediately dissolve it; you live with a mind and you need your mind. But where you puncture your mind, the ow of new energy and consciousness can penetrate. Where it is not punctured, you stay locked within its narrow connes, which your spirit is fast outgrowing. On the other hand, your mind must rest, not holdopinions, be neutral, in order to be receptive to the great new force sweeping the inner universe of all consciousness. But let us return to the process of puncturing the limite d mind. How do you do that? First tell yourself that you do hold limited beliefs, instead of taking them for granted. The next step is to challenge them. This requires taking the trouble to walk through, in the well-practiced attitude of self-observation and self-confrontation, your limited beliefs and to truly think about them. Sometimes it is not just that you have a false belief, and possibly a negative intentionality in holding on to it, but you can also see that you keep the circuit closed and deprive yourself of the inner plenitude you yearn for. Another law of great importance for this purpose is that the opening to the greater universal consciousness must not be approached in a spirit of magic that is supposed to eliminate the growing and learning process. Now, this ultimate power is supposed to ll and sustain you; however, your outer mind must go through the steps of acquiring whatever knowledge

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 the troubles in the world  are either directly or indirectly   due to the same cause. Nor will I exclude wars ‐extravagant  though it  may  sound. Those men who foment or are directly responsible  for wars  are not normal and  healthy human  beings. Julius Caesar was an  epileptic, Napoleon  died  of cancer of the stomach, and Hitler presents  a 137   neurosthenic  of the most  pronounced  type. Goebbels  with his club foot,  may  be regarded as a degenerate,  and  the obese Goring at one time  was a drug addict. Mussolini  was another  diseased  type, and suffered  from some chronic internal trouble for which  the doctors  dared not  operate. As for the late Kaiser Wilhelm, he was also atnermal and  was  born  with a physical  deformity. It is only very advanced  souls who can  exhibit  mental balance in spite of physical  disabilities;  and  such souls  are comparatively  few and far between. But  my principal contention  is that when human beings register a  hundred per cent true health, or even a litlle less, they  feel at peace  with all the world, and  have no wish to slaughter  or persecute  their  fellows or exalt themselves  above  others. For health not only means an  inner' happiness,  but consequently  a feeling of contentment  with one's  lot, and  an absence of fantastic ambitions  such as those from which  self‐appointed  leaders have suffered‐ at what cost  to humanity! That  one hundred per cent health is attainable  I have every  reason to believe. But it is not what people can do but what they  will do towards this  desideratum  which  is the crux of the matter. Before  theca can be well‐ being for all there will need to be a vast  reformation  in prevailing   practices,  and  in the methods  of instructing  the masses how to be well  and  keep well. As to the reformers  themselves,  they  will be regarded  merely  as cranks  for all their pains. Yet never let us forget that the  "crank" of one generation  often becomes the wise man  of a later  generation. Even old  wives' remedies  come into their own when  scientists find some scientific method of explaining  them, just as the  scientists have found some method of explaining  the necessity of eating  a certain amount  of vital  foods  by calling the vital  elements  vitamins. 138   That I shall  be labelled  a crank is of course fully to be expected,  and  if  the Medical Profession  condescends  to pay any attention  to this  exposition  of urine‐therapy at all, it will probably be to bring all kinds of  purely theoretical  arguments  against it. But will a single one of its critics  be able to substantiate  his theoretical  condemnations  by saying  truthfully  that he has tried  the method over a long period of years, if at  all, and  has found  it wanting? I think not one; for I have ceased to be  the only practitioner  of urine‐therapy according  to the method here  described,  and other practitioners  declare  they  find it as efficacious  as I  myself have done.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms: There  is no practical reason  whatever  why the discovery,  or rather re‐discovery  of urine‐therapy  should "deprive the doctor of his bread," though that is a matter which  rests entirely with the individual  doctor. This book  places him in  possession  of the facts, and  should he refuse when requested  by a  patient to supervise  a urine‐fast, then I can hardly be blamed  for what  is not my fault. It will not be the first  time that a patient has suggested   to his physician  the particular  treatment  he wishes to try,  and  if  spectacularly  beneficial  results accrue therefrom,  then all the better for  the doctor's reputation. Moreover,  a doctor can act as a buffer  between the well‐ intentioned  but  obstructive  and tiresome  interferences  of anxious but  often quite prejudiced  and ignorant  relatives, who not only fear the worst but fear the formalities  and  publicity of an inquest as well. All the same, I must  sound a note of warning. If a doctor thinks he can  combine drugs with the urine‐fast, despite my affirmations  to the  contrary, the suit will be failure. As we have seen, urine‐therapy  is a  Naturecure  in the  most  literal sense of the  word, and  to employ 121   measures  which  are contrary to Nature  at the same time, would not  only be quite illogical but even dangerous. I know  this to my cost‐ not as  the result of this  interfering  with Nature  myself, but as the result of  others doing so when my back was turned. Therefore,  I give this  warning, and  sincerely  hope it may  be heeded. Provided it's heeded, I  again repeat that the supervision  of a doctor is desirable from many  points of view. Nor need the doctor feel any compunction  in the matter  nor any slight  to his dignity merely because this  form  of therapy was  the outcome of a layman's experiments. Any  physician  who knows his  medical history also knows that laymen have contributed  much to the  faculty of medicine. Even the adulated Pasteur, who "did more  to  commercialise  medicine than any other  man, " was not a doctor, but  merely  a chemist. I may  also

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longer even; one has stood out from the rest. All it took was for you to focus your consciousness on it. Your consciousness is a force, and you are focusing that force on a particular mental object. When the force of consciousness is focused on a mental object, that object cannot pass through the mind like the other objects. Just as the solar winds interfere with objects passing through space, so focused consciousness is a force that affects objects passing through the mind. When you focus consciousness on a particular mental form, you impede that form’ s ability to pass through the mind. The very act of concentrating on it makes it stay in your mind. You know this. When you want to do math in your mind, you concentrate on the numbers so they stay long enough for you to manipul ate them. In fact, anytime you want to hold something in your mind, you must focus your consciousness on it so it does not just fade away. Concentrat ion of consciousness freezes forms in the mind so that they don’t just pass through. Thus, when you saw a rattlesnake, it might as well have been a standalone item in your mind. The truth is there were trees, grass, sky, and other items rendered in your mind aside from the snake. But you focused your consciousness on the rattlesnake and let the rest pass through. Interestingly, because you focused so much consciousness on it, you froze the experience of the snake in your mind. There was no way you were going to let this uncomfortable experience all the way in, and that is the birth of resistance. Do you know what that means, “letting it all the way in”. We discussed this earlier regarding the beautiful sunset and the perfect romantic experience. You wanted to fully experience these beautiful moments, so you opened up and let them pass all the way into your being. These are the special moments in life, when something touches you to the core of your being. No way this rattlesnake is going all the way in there. You don’t have to think about it. Resistance is simply a natural response to something that’s not comfortable. Y ou try to keep it at a distance. Have you ever kept something at a distance in there. Perhaps something some one said that hurt you in the past, maybe an awkward stage you went through when you were young, or even a terrible divorce. Ofcourse you have, but that doesn’ t mean the event didn’ t happen. It wouldn’ t be in there if it hadn’ t already happened. You can’t stop the event from having happened, but you don’t have to let it all the way in. Mind is a big place. There’ s plenty of room between where the experience is first imaged in your mind and where you actually fully experience it. You can use will to keep the mental image at a distance from you. This is a very primal act of resistance. Now that you have resisted experiencing the rattlesnake, and let the rest of the moment pass throug h, here comes a butterfly. It lands on you, which is such a beautiful experience that you naturally focus on it. When it starts to fly off, you don’t want it to go away, so you use your will to hold on to the mental image. This is what Buddhists call clinging. You can’t hold on to the butterfly itself because it flew away. So you try to hold on to the mental thought pattern of the butterfly. You push away what it was like to experience the rattlesnake and you cling to what it was like to experience the butterfly. Neither of these mental patterns can finish their natural journey through the mind. Not only do you lose out on fully experiencing them to the depth of your being, you are also left with these mental patterns stuck in your mind. Neither rattlesnake nor butterfly remain before you, but they are left as patterns in the mind’s energy field. Such is the power of like and dislike. Both clinging and resisting keep the mental renderings in your mind. This is very important to understand. Experiential mind was meant to be like a clear TV screen: it renders the image being sent to it. But now you’ve held on to imag es that are no longer being generated by the outside world. They got stuck in your mind as mental patterns, and as a resul t, you’re out of harmony with reality. You were in there experiencing the gift of reality; now you are also experiencing the patterns you held on to in your mind. These patterns in your mind are totally different from the patte rns in other people’ s minds. Each person’ s trapped mental patterns are unique and very personal. They come from how we interacted with our past experiences. Since we’ve all had different past experiences, and interacted with them differently, the impressions held in our minds are totally different. This is the birth of the personal mind. The problem is: reality is not personal. As you’ve already seen, we didn’ t create this world. We are simply experiencing the miracle of creation unfolding aroun d us. Yes, there are rattlesnakes and butterflies in the world,along with lots of other things. But now there are RATTLESNAKES and BUTTERFLIES in your mind, even when they are not actually in front of you. Now that you’ve held these leftover mental impressions in your mind, reality has to compete with them for your attention. Your ability to fully focus on the outer world is going to be hindered by the constan t distraction of these inner impressions. Chapter 13. Fall from the Garden Resistance is the beginning of what can be considered the fall from the garden. You were just fine being aware of this awesome, everchanging creation. It presented constant gifts of experiences for you to learn and grow from. Take the gift of music. When you are deeply absorbed in music, there are no stray thoughts, only the music effortlessly coming in and feeding the depth of your being. You can be raised to the state of ecstasy while listening to music. When the mind is clear, everything comes in that way. You are either in a heave nly state experiencing what is pouring into you, or you are deeply absorbed in the inner stillness of your being. You have returned to the garden—everything is ef fortlessly beautiful. Once you hold on to rattlesnakes and butterflies in your mind, you are unable to stay in that pure state of consciousness. These two mental patterns have become powerfully charged objects that draw your attention toward them. When the mind was clear, what attracted your consciousness was the rendering of the outside world as it passed through. This rendering was very entertaining and fulfilling, but since you had nothing going with it, it just came and went. In contrast, the powerfully charged objects you have held in your mind do not come and go. The world in front of you comes and goes, but these mental objects remain because you are holding them in your mind. Furthermore, since they are differentiated as more important than the rest, your consciousness becomes more distracted by these mental objects. Everything is no longer equal, and this creates a major problem. Next thing you know, you’re walking down the road, and there’ s a rope. But the rope no longer feels the same as it would have before you saw the rattlesnake. The rope reminds you of the rattlesnake. What does “reminds you of” mean. It’s not a rattlesnake; it’s a rope. Nonetheless, when the rope comes in, consci ousness now has a choice: pay full attention to the rope thatcame in, or be distracted by the negative rattlesnake image stuck in your mind. The mind will immediate ly join these two mental objects together as one, and you will get scared. Scared by a rope. Y es, terrified by a rope. A similar thing happens with the image of the butterfly stuck in your mind. After the butterfly flies away, you’re still focusing on the image in your mind. You’re still feeling good about it and trying to hold on to it, even though it is no longer part of your here-and-now reality. Then something new comes in from the outside, like a person walking by. Your mind may be rendering this new image perfectly, but your consciousness is not fully seeing it. Your consciousness is still distracted by the butterfly image that got left in your mind. It used to be that the moment in front of you was the experience you were having inside. Now you have a preference— you would rather experience the mental image of the butterfly than the reality in front of you. There has become a whole new world for consciousness to focus on —the world you built in your mind. That world does not match the reality of creation. That inner world is your own personal creation made out of the mental objects you didn’ t let pass through. That’ s what those images in your mind represent: things that happened in the past that you willfully kept in your mind. As we shall see, these impressions are the initial seeds that eventually grew into the self-concept or personal self. To see this more clearly, let’s once again look at the example of a flat- screen TV. When the first plasm a screens came out, they had “afterimages. ” Manufacturers warned that if you

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otherstressful situations, often show up in my office with little orno DHEA on their hormone panels. It’s well known that pilots report unusually high levels of prostate cancer. Many of them theorize that this might becaused by the radiation they are constantly exposed to, flyingat high altitudes. But it’s my theory that lack of DHEA maycontribute to the problem. Another likely cause is lack ofprogesterone. Progesterone, like DHEA, diminishes in people who live under constant stress. The most dramatic example is seen inwomen living in abusive situations. They very often showalmost no DHEA on their hormone panels, and they tend tohave all the signs of estrogen dominance as well. Living inconstant fear depletes both DHEA and progesterone.77 DHEA—KE Y TO WELL-BEING MENOPAUSE AND PERIMENOPAUSE chapter TEN I purposefully did not put this chapter at the beginning of the book, even though, for many readers, it will be the most impor-tant. Having read through the preceding chapters, you shouldnow have a feel for the importance of hormones—how necessaryit is for them to be in balance, and the devastating consequencesthat occur when they are out of balance. You should also be awareby now of the tragic lack of knowledge among doctors regardinghow the body operates with regard to hormones. It is no wonder,then, that the way of treating menopause in women (andandropause in men, which I discuss in chapter 12) has remainedbasically unchanged for the last 50 years. This situation has had more consequence for patients than the inconvenience of putting up with symptoms; it has literallyput their health at risk for serious diseases and higher deathrates. This is particularly the case in two areas where informa-tion is deficient: how natural hormones can prevent many ofthe diseases of aging, and how the incorrect use of hormonescan cause unnecessary deaths due to cancer, heart disease,and strokes. 79USING BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES Perhaps the most commonly known application of hormone therapy is the treatment of women going through menopause.The term “menopause” means the absence of periods, whetherthe absence occurs naturally or is surgically induced (e.g., due toa hysterectomy). As women approach the time of menopause, that is, during perimenopause, there is a drop in levels of the hormonesproduced by the ovaries. This causes a number of symptoms,the most common of which is the onset of irregular periods,which may start occurring sporadically and be of shorter thanusual duration. This reflects a drop in estrogen levels. At thesame time, a drop in progesterone levels may cause women toexperience an increase in PMS (premenstrual syndrome) orcramps, a drop in libido, an increase in weight, and moredifficulty in thinking. Eventually, estrogen and progesterone levels will fall to a level where they can no longer prepare the uterus for bleeding—menopause has begun. Some women go through this phase of their lives with few or no symptoms. Other women develop hot flashes, nightsweats, and other symptoms and become very uncomfortable. But no matter how you look at it, menopause is a very natural condition that all women eventually go through. Theproblem is that the medical system has taken this naturalcondition and turned it into a disease that has to be treated.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms: Fortunately, I was able tohelp her regain hormonal balance, restoring her zest for livingand ability to have a full life with her loved ones. But howmany chronically fatigued homemakers stumble through thedaily grind of the caregiver’s life, branded as hypochondriacsand failing to receive help. I’ve chosen to include Rhonda in this book because I find something frightening in the way the medical system failed herand fails people like her every day. Here is her story: My medical problems began early, with pains in my pelvic area that would get so bad I would be doubled over. My firstpregnancy was an ectopic pregnancy. That’s a pregnancy in whichthe fetus develops in the fallopian tubes, and I had to have surgeryfor that. Later I had endometriosis and went through severaloperations for that. My two sons were conceived through theexpensive and painful method of in vitro fertilization. At age 31 my whole system started taking a dive. That was when the weight gain started. My weight had always been normal, 35but suddenly I started putting on pounds. Along with the weight came a host of new symptoms. One was asthma. Another was acid reflux, which was very painful, and then came a third painful condition, irritable bowelsyndrome. I developed high blood pressure and also had a kidneyinfection. These were all debilitating conditions, but the worst ofit was a new level of fatigue that hit me, that made raising mychildren a kind of daily torment. The fatigue went on all day, but it would hit me hard at about 7 or 8 o’clock at night, at which time I just couldn’t doanything. I pretty much set my bedtime at 8 P. M. The fatigue made domestic chores impossible to complete. I needed to rest a lotduring the day. The messes around the house began to seem likemountains I had to climb. The kids’ demands were constant, andI lost my cheerfulness early in the day. I yelled a lot and feltconstantly irritable. Often I couldn’t face putting a big meal on the table in the evening and cleaning up afterwards, so I’d take the kids out forfast food. (My husband didn’t come home until 8 or 9 o’clock atnight. ) I was craving caffeine and sugar to give myself a lift, andI could get those at a fast food place. I felt guilty about not givingmy kids whole foods, but by the time evening came around I oftenfelt too tired to care. Luckily, I’m blessed with wonderful kidswho were aware of my problem and learned how to take careof themselves. I was just getting by as a mother, doing the bare minimum. The area where there was the most fallout was recreation andsocial activities. Once I’d taken care of the necessities, I just didn’thave the energy for anything more. My husband would take thekids places on Sundays, but I never went with them; I was sorelieved just to be able to rest and not have anyone asking me foranything. The kids got used to playing with their dad and notexpecting mom to be there. 36 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES As far as socializing with other families went, I didn’t have what it took to prepare meals and entertain. We were isolated. Myhusband compensated by socializing with his family, who live closeby. I enjoy my husband’s family but I rarely went with him andthe kids. I just wanted to rest. I went to a lot of doctors about the fatigue. They all said there was nothing they could do about it. Most of them were conde-scending and treated me like a child or some kind of mental case. My husband was constantly concerned about my health and what was going on with me. Our sex life had come to a standstill. I had no sex drive. It could have been because of the 20 milligramsof Paxil that I was taking for my depression. Or it might havebeen the blood pressure medication, which I took in high doses. Orit could have been plain old fatigue. You don’t feel much likehaving sex when all you want to do is lie down and rest. What with all of my ailments and the depression and the fatigue, I started to think my life was coming to an end. Familylife had become nothing but domestic tasks, and it seemed asthough every week my body was failing in another way. I was onmedication for depression but it didn’t help because I had this senseof impending doom. I wondered what would happen next thatwould cause me to be put on even more medication. I was unsureand frightened. One day I was talking with the therapist I saw for my depres- sion, and she mentioned that she had some other clients who’dbenefited from going to the compounding pharmacy in PalmDesert and getting natural hormone therapy. I went there, andthey recommended I see Dr. Platt. Since I had consulted with atleast 25 or 30 doctors, I was a little skeptical about seeing Dr.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|> Q: What was the main reason why the author's patient, Rhonda, was unable to receive help from doctors?, A: The doctors were unaware of the pivotal role of hormones in sustaining health. Q: What was the main cause of Rhonda's fatigue?, A: An imbalance of hormones, specifically a low progesterone level. Q: What was the result of Dr. Platt's treatment for Karen, who had been experiencing severe postpartum depression?, A: The treatment helped her regain her zest for life, and she was able to participate in family activities and social events. Q: What was the main cause of Janet's fibromyalgia symptoms?, A: An imbalance of hormones, specifically an underactive thyroid and low progesterone levels. Q: What is the author's recommendation for vitamin D intake to prevent osteoporosis?, A: 10,000 I.U. of vitamin D3 daily<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Back in the 1960s, Robert Wilson, M.D., a gynecologist in New

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with shorter life span—just the reverse. Extensive actuar ial studies conducted by Dr. Reuben Andres have shown the lowest mortality among those who are 10 percent overwei ght and the highest mortality among the chronically underweight. Andres’ s work, based on studies of millions of people in all income and social brackets, plays havoc with societal values that equate slimness with all things good and healthy; as a result, many docto rs have chosen to overlook facts that do not fit in with prevailing beliefs. The Harvard study further undermines the stereotype through its emphasi s on maintaining a steady weight. It also supports the long-held notion that going on crash diets is unhealthy, but calling this a purely physical finding seems misleading to me. Weight is inevitably boun d up with self-image. At a young age many people, both men and women, learn to use dieting as a quick fix for a poor self-image. The thinner they are, the better they feel about themselves and the more prone they are to believe that their problems in general have been cured. The improveme nt brought about by losing five or ten pounds is superficial, however, since deeper emotional issues remain untouched. Typically, the chronic dieter falls into the “yo-yo syndrome,” dropping a few pounds when self-esteem is relatively high, only to gain them back quickly (and with more to spare) when self-esteem sinks again. The fact that either gaining or losing weight shortens one’s life span makes me speculate that poor self-esteem is the real culprit. The subjects who maintained a steady weight are likely to be psychologically steady as well —this is their saving virtue, not their weight per se. Clinical obesity remains a proven risk in heart disease and type II diabetes, but being physically active may compensate for being overweight due to the fact that carrying the extra pounds provides considerable aerobic exercise to the heart. Longevity and Exercise The strong grip and good muscle tone of Jewett’ s subjects indicate that they were active people. However, there is a marked absence of pursuing organized exerc ise, despite the fact that exercise is known to retard aging. To understand this seeming anomaly, we have to look deeper into how much activity is actually needed to make a significant contribution to longevity.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|> Q: What is the age of the oldest person mentioned in the text?, A: 113 (Delina Filkins) Q: What is the significance of Belle Odom's longevity in the context of the article?, A: Belle Odom's longevity is used as an example to illustrate the fact that lifestyle does not entirely determine one's life span, as she had a poor diet and physical labor, but still lived beyond 99.99% of her generation. Q: What is the conclusion drawn from the study on Harvard graduates?, A: The study concludes that the factors that contribute to longevity are not just physical, but also psychological, as the subjects who maintained a steady weight, ate moderately, and remained active throughout their lives. Q: What is the key takeaway from the study on mice by Dr. Roy Walford?, A: The study suggests that it is possible to extend the maximum life span of cells by using a gradual reduction in caloric intake, as the mice lived 20% longer than usual. Q: What is the main issue with the idea of using Hayflick's work to overcome the Hayflick limit?, A: The issue is that even with advanced technology, it is difficult to create a controlled environment for tissue culture, and it is uncertain whether cells can divide more than 50 times.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Even though the Hayflick limit is often considered the most significant experimental finding in resear ch on aging, its relevance to real life is unknown. In the laboratory, every generation of cells is the offspring of a limited number of mother cells. On the other hand, babies are not born with a full complement of cells; new ones are produced throughout life. Your bone marrow, for example, gene rates immature blood cells that grow up to become mature ones. At various stages of early development, and sometimes throu ghout life, every organ contains a mixture of primitive, partly mature, and mature cells. Mature ones are those that have differentiated, choosing to become a heart cell as opposed to a stomach cell, a brain cell as opposed to a kidney cell. The same DNA exists inside every cell, but through differentiation, it expresses certain characteristics and represses others. Some theorists would get past the Hayflick limit by proposing that a cell doesn’ t begin its career of fifty divisions until it has become differentiated. At various stages of our lives, some primitive cells divide and become mature while others remain primitive. Thus the body is equipped with backup resourc es. Even if every cell has to obey the Hayflick limit, they don’t have to obey it together. Whether this escape clause will ever be accepted depends on understanding how cells choose to differentiate in the first place, and geneticists are still far from knowing that. One whole class of cells—cancer cells—is devoid of growth limit. Freed from genetic restraint, cancer cells divide wildly until the host body dies; if raised in vitro, even this limit is removed. Most malignant cells cultured inlaboratories around the world are descendants of tissue taken from a few individuals, now long deceased. One undisputed victory for Hayflick is that he took aging to the cellular level. His method of “aging under glass,” as he once dubbed it, is accepted as the norm by biologists. Hayfl ick declared that “the primary cause of age changes can no longer be thought of as resulting from events occurring at the supercellula r level, i.e., at cell hierarchies from the tissue level and greater. The cell is where the gerontological action lies.” Accor ding to this logic, looking at how organisms live is much less important than looking at how their cells live. This logic domi nates today’ s biology of aging, but it strikes me as pure reductionism. The logic I have followed throughout this book is that the whole is far more important than the parts; a person’ s life determines the activity of his cells, not vice versa. And yet these aren’ t irreconcilable approaches, for no one can outlive his cells—that much is certain. Biologists such as Hayflick tend to regard DNA as all-powerful and far removed from daily life—a kind of biochemical Jove whose dictates cannot be overruled. “It is as if DNA used us to keep itself going,” Albert Rosenfeld mourned. Yet this is only one point of view. If you look at life through the eyes of a geneticist, it means nothing that a very old person has a strong will to live or enjoys the simple pleasures of life. And indeed such facts may be insignificant in terms of DNA ’s original programming, but as the outcome of a life well spent, it is enormously significant—indeed, it is the most significant thing. Outside the biologist’ s test tubes and flasks, DNA gets influenced by your every thought, feeling, and action. The stress hormones that play such a critical part in aging are regulated by RNA, which is a copy of DNA; even though the DNA itself may sit quietly in its vault, its active twin is constantly chang ing its instructions. When you make a lifestyle change that reduces stress, the RNA in your cells responds by churning out fewer stress hormones. The Hayflick limit renders the whole aging process meaningless; it becomes a mechanism to be tinkered with in a laboratory dish, devoid of breath, motion, warmth, experience, memory, love, hope, courage, sacrifice, will, curiosity, and everythin g else that makes life worth living.Unfortunately, manipulating cells is still the dominant activity in gerontology and attracts the most excitement. In 1990 the media announced that researchers from the University of Wisconsin had injected synthetic human growth hormone into a small group of elderly men betwe en the ages of 61 and 81. The result was sudden rejuvenation that reverse d biological aging by as much as twenty years. Over the course of the six-month trial, muscle mass and strength steadily returned; fat melted away without dieting; memory and other brain functions improved; vigor and stamina were renewed. This artificially regained youth was greeted with tremendous public excitement. Popular accounts breathlessly compared it to the fantasy rejuvenation in the hit movie Cocoon. The subjects themselves were deeply affected. “I started feeling the changes after three months. I felt much stronger—I mean, I never felt stronger in my life,” recalled one retired Waukegan factory worker. The experiment involved only men whose natural levels of growth hormone were extremely depleted. Most old people have adequate, if reduced, levels of growth hormone; those who do not have sufficient growth hormone age faster and more severely than normal. When these subjects began the experiment they were exhibiting excessive biological aging; therefore, restoring their hormone levels made a dramatic difference. For the first time in years, many of them could travel, take long walks, or work in their gardens. But the improvement was not permanent. After the extremely expensive treatments (around $14,000 a year) were withdrawn, the ravages of age gradually return ed. Mus

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orethroat FlatulenceSymptomsPains:burning;pressing;raw;splinter- infants.Eyeswatering.Eyelids like;stitching;spreadingtoear.Tonsils:swollen; ulcerated. Worseforswallowing. Thepainsaresevere-itfeelsasifsomethingsharp werestuckinthethroat-andthevextendtotheearon swallowing.Swallowing isextremelydifficult;even tinyamountsoffoodseemtolodgeinthethroat. SymptomsWind:smellv;obstructed(difficulttoex- pel). Headache SymptomsHeadfeelsconstricted.Pains:spreading toeyes;inbones;recurringatregularintervals; pressing. Worseforjarringmovement;formovement;atnight; fornoise;forpressure;onwaking;forwalking. Thisisasevereheadachethatisworseatnight.The bonesofthefacearesore,andtheslightestpressure, eventhatofahat,makesitworse(theheadfeels constricted,asifitwerebandageduptightly)The pressingpainsintheheadextendtotheeyeswhich alsofeelsore.Theymaycomeandgosuddenly(see GeneralSymptoms); iftheydo,thismayfollowa pattern,forexampletheheadachemayreturnevery eveningornight. Insomnia SymptomsDreamsanxious.Sleepunrefreshing. Worseafter2a.m. Thepersonwakesaround2a.m.andisunabletoget backtosleep. Jointpain SymptomsPains:inbones;inlegs;splinter-like; stitching;tearing. Worseatnight. Mouthulcers SymptomsUlcers:onedgesoftongue;painful. Thesearepainfululcersorpimplesontheedgeofthe tongue.Thereisanincreaseofsalivainthemouth, andthegumsmayalsobleedeasily.Thebreathisvery smelly.Thrush(genital) SymptomsDischarge:burning;smelly;itching;thin. NUXVOMICA(Nux-v.) Familyname:Loganiaceae Commonnames:poisonnut;Quakerbuttons;semen strvchnos 124•Nuxvomica(Nux-v.) INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Nuxvomicaseedsareproducedbyalargeevergreen treenativetocertainpartsofIndia,Burma,Thailand, ChinaandNorthernAustralia. Itproducessmall,un- pleasant-smelling flowers,andbeautifulorange- colouredfruitthesizeoflargeapples,whichcontaina softwhitejelly-likepulpandfiveseedscoveredinsoft hairs;theseseedshavenosmellbuttasteextremely bitterowingtothestrychninecontainedinthem. Theplantwasknownasthe'Vomitingnut'andwas thoughttohavelimitedmedicinalvalueonaccountof theseeds'poisonousnature,althoughinGermany it wasusedasanantidotetotheplague,totreatworms, mania,rabies,hysteria,rheumatismandgout. Asapoison,smalldosespromotetheappetite,aid digestionandincreasethefrequencyofurination. Largerdosescauselossofappetite,anincreasedsen- sitivitygenerally,depression,anxiety,disordered muscularsystemwithtrembling,rigidityorstiffness ofthelimbsandstaggeringwhenwalking.Stilllarger dosescauseconvulsionsanddeathfromasphyxia (suffocation). Theseedsarepowderedfinelyinaheatedmortar andtrituratedwithsugarofmilk. GENERALSYMPTOMS Catchescoldseasily.Complaintsfrom:getting chilled;cold,drywind.Likesspicyfood.Pains cramping.Senseofsmellacute.Sweat:hot; one-sided;smellySymptomsright-sided.Taste: mouthtastesbitter;sourinthemorning. Betterforheat;forlyingdown;forsittingdown;for hotdrinks. Worseafterdrinkingalcohol/coffee; aftereatingcold food;fortobacco;forcold;cold,dryweather;cold wind;freshair;forlossofsleep;duringthemorning; inthewinter;touch;forbeinguncovered;forwalking. Theseareextremelychillyindividualswhohatethe coldinanyshapeorform;theycatchcoldeasily, especially ifexposedtodraughtsorafterbecoming chilled,andtheyhatedry,windyweather.Theyare alwaysbetterforwarmthandifsickwillnotwantany partoftheirbodiestobeuncovered;theybecomeso sensitivetocoldthattheslightestdraughtunderthe bedclotheswillupsetthem.Alltheywanttodowhen sickistositorliedownandkeepwarm-thisiswhat helps. Nuxvomicaisusefulforallsortsofdisturbancesthat followover-indulgence infood,alcohol,coffeeor tobacco.Oncesick,anyfurtherindulgenceswillmake themworse,buttheyfindithardtostopandwilloften carryondrinkingandsmokinginspiteoffeeling ghastly. Morningsaretheirworsttimeofday,especially afteradisturbednight,whichisnotunusual.They willbeirritableandfeelgenerallyattheirworstthen.Losingsleepalwaysaffectsthem.TheNuxvomica motherwithanewbabyhasanawfultime. EMOTIONAL/MENTALSYMPTOMS Angry:violently;whenhastoanswer.Complaints fromanger;angerwithanxiety.Concentrationpoor. Excitable.Impatient.Impulsive.Irritable. Quarrelsome.Sensitive:generally;torudeness;to light;tomusic;tonoise.Spiteful.Stubborn.Tidy. Nuxvomicatypesareself-indulgentworkaholics!They overdoeverything:theyworktoohard,stayouttoo late,takenoexercise,eattoomuchrichfood,drinktoo muchalcohol,becometoowounduptosleepandthen consumevastquantitiesofcoffeeinordertogetgoing thenextday.Thentheyfinditdifficulttoconcentrate andloseinterestintheirwork.Theybecomeabagof nerves.Inthisstatetheyareextremelysensitiveto bothlightandnoise;evensmallnoiseswillirritate them. Theseareextremelyimpulsive,quarrelsome, stroppyindividualswhoknowwhattheywantand who'wantitnow'!Theyareextremelyimpatientand donotliketobekeptwaiting.Theyarecritical,fussy andexacting,easilyfrustratedbyanylimitations. Theycanbetidybutnotfanaticallyso(likeArsenicum). Theyhatetobecontradicted,areirritableifques- tionedandthenenragediftheyareobligedtoreply whentheydonotwantto.Theirirritabilitymusthave anoutletanditusuallydoes-theytendnottokeep theirangerinandwillalwaysfeelbetterforagood row.Iftheydosuppresstheirangertheyfeelawful andoftengetsick. Nuxvomicachildrenaremischievousandfullof contradictions.Theycanbespiteful,stubbornand irritableontheonehand,andextremelysensitiveand veryeasilyoffendedontheother.Astheygrowup theybecomedifficultandeasilymoroseifthingsare notgoingtheirway. SomehomeopathsbelievethatNuxvomicaworks moreeffectivelyonmeateatersthanonvegetarians, whohavebeenobservedtobelessaggressive.Inter- estingly,theoldhomeopathsthoughtofNuxvomica mainlyasaremedyformen.Anxiouswivesputitin thesoupofthosehusbandswhoweregettingoutof handwithworkingallhours,drinkingandsmoking toomuchandbecominggenerallyabusive.Sincethe adventofwomenassertingthemselvesmoreand more,thisdivisionisnolongertrue-Nuxvomicais nowneededasoftenforwomenasitisformen. PHYSICALCOMPLAINTS Backache SymptomsPains:inlowerback;aching;pressing; sore,bruised. INTERNALMATERIAMEDICA Nuxvomica(Nux-v.) •125 Worseinbed;duringthemorning;formovement. Causesgettingcold. Thepersonhastositupinordertoturnoverinbed. Thepaincomesonafterbeingchilled,andisoften accompaniedbyadesiretopassastool. Colic SymptomsPains:cramping;griping;pressing;sore, bruised. Betterforpassingastool;forhotdrinks;forwarmthof bed;forpassingwind. Worseaftereating;forcoughing;duringthemorning; duringafever;forwearingtightclothing. Thesepainscomeonafterover-indulging.Theymay accompanythenauseaortheindigestion(seebelow) butthebasicpatternis

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. You will see good multiply as needed, when you come to know that you are not powerless to make it happen. The universe is rich with abundance that will be provided to you when you let go of rea- soning that says your past must be your present. Manifest Your Destiny The reason that you have been unsuccessful in manifesting what you want is because you are attached to an idea that is erro- neous. Your past is an illusion. It is the trail left behind you, and a trail behind you cannot drive you today, regardless of what you choose to believe. All you have is now, and you have never tried anything. You have simply not done it yet. You can now shift that reasoning right out of your inner world. 4: Only highly evolved beings can manifest. This is the ego saying that you are separate and distinct from your spiritual teachers and others who live at the highest levels. Even though every spiritual practice encourages you to see the divine within yourself, to know you have in you the same mind as your master, and to dis- cover the kingdom of heaven within yourself, your ego cannot buy it. It is sold on separateness, and convinces you that you are less than those highly evolved beings you’ve heard about. Relinquish those thoughts and replace them with seeing your- self as connected to everyone by that unseen life force that is your divine essence. Refuse to put others either above or below you, but instead see them as you. It is necessary to grasp this idea firmly before you can experience true manifestation. These are a few of the thoughts that swirl around in your head whenever you contemplate the idea of having what you want and need want and need you. This first spiritual principle directs you to overcome your condi- tioning. It requires you to adopt a new attitude about yourself, and then to put this attitude into daily practice. I am encouraging you to know the highest self rather than read about it. To know it in the deepest reaches of your being, and then to never again doubt it. Having a philosophy is useless if it is simply an awareness of rituals and the teachings of experts. To make your philosophy work for you it 15 WAYNE W. DYER must become an energy pattern that you use in your daily life. It must have both an eternal truth to it as well as a utilitarian quality that makes you feel, yes, I know this to be true because I apply it and it works. You do have a highest self. You can know this highest self in both the seen and the unseen dimensions of your life. Once you are con- vinced of this, the belief that the ego is the dominant motivating force in your life will lose its power. I encourage you to follow these suggestions for developing this first principle as a permanent part of your total awareness. This plan of action worked for me. If I encounter doubt, I return to this four- point plan. It always reacquaints me with the highest self. HOW TO KNOW YOUR HIGHEST SELF WITHOUT ANY DOUBT 16 Here is a great definition of enlightenment: to be immersed in and sur- rounded by peace. Your highest self only wants you to be at péace. It does not judge, compare or demand that you defeat anyone, or be better than anyone. It only wants you to be at peace. Whenever you are about to act, ask yourself this question: “Is what I am about to say or do going to bring me peace?” If the answer is yes, then go with it and you will be allowing yourself the wisdom of your highest self. If the answer is no, then remind yourself that it is your ego at work. The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best. You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace. Go beyond the restriction of the physical plane. The purpose of the highest self is to assist you in this effort. You do this by creating Manifest Your Destiny an inner sanctuary that is yours and yours alone. Go to this silent inner retreat as often as you can, and let go of all attachments to the external world of the ego. As you go to this sanctuary, a light will be born within you that you will come to know and respect. This light is your con- nection to the energy of manifestation. It is like taking a bath in pure light; you wiil feel this energy as you go silently within. This light is not of the earth plane. It will help you go beyond the physical world. Remember, you cannot go beyond the earth plane if you are still in it. The real you, the unseen you, can attract the energy of the sun, the wind and all that is celes- tial. Refuse to defend yourself to anyone or anything on the earth plane. You must learn to stay within your higher energy pattern regardless of what goes before you in the material world. This means that you become like an unknown sage who refuses to lock horns with anything on this physical plane. This is the challenge of the highest self. It is beyond the reality system that you identify as material and as form. Use your inner light for your alignment and allow those who disagree with that perspective to have their own points of view. You are at peace. You never explain, and you refuse to flaunt your energy. You know it, and that is enough for you. Finally, surrender and trust in the wisdom that created you. You are developing a faith that transcends the beliefs and teachings of others. This trust is your corner of freedom, and it will always be yours. In fact, it is so important that it is the subject of the sec- ond spiritual principle of manifestation, which you will read about when you turn to the next section. 17 WAYNE W. DYER Your highest self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life. 18 TRUSTING YOURSELF IS TRUSTING THE WISDOM THAT CREATED YOU The Second Principle earning to trust may be difficult in the beginning. It will be an exercise in futility if you rely upon your mind to create trust. This is because the mind works on material problems by interpret- ing sensory data. When turned toward spiritual matters the mind attempts to come up with intellectual answers by using proofs, logic and theoretical reasoning. It demands assurance and proof to estab- lish tangible results. In contrast, the method of the heart, focused on spiritual under- standing, is an intuitive recognition of the value of love. Whereas the mind attempts to know the spirit by setting up conditions that must be met logically for there to be a release of love, the heart 19 WAYNE W. DYER employs intuitive love as its way. It is not a. conclusion of reasoning. It is the way of spontaneity, not the result of bargaining with the intellect. The heart trusts the inner wisdom that it feels and spon- taneously knows, whereas the mind demands scientific evidence before it will trust. Most of us in the West have been taught that the center of our wis- dom is in our heads. If you ask people where their ability to process thought and experience is, they will generally respond that it is in the brain. Ask consciously spiritual persons the same question and they, will indicate the heart. When the mind seeks corroboration through specific proofs as an aid to spiritual understanding, it is encroaching into an area far more suited to the heart. For this reason, it is necessary to trust what the heart knows. Without total trust, it is impossible to know the mira- cles of the higher self and become a manifester. Spiritual life does not grow in the soil of intellectual information gathering. Spirituality needs the fertile ground of feelings, which the unseen dimension provides. Trusting your heart space is imperative for the growth of a healthy spiritual life. This means cultivating a harmony between mind and heart, and for most of us this means terminating the intellect’s domination. The mind must surrender its role as full-time judge and allow the heart to contribute its wisdom. It is with this oe process that trust begins to flourish, replacing doubt. Mistrust begins early in most human beings’ lives. It is helpful to realize why it is that the heart space has not been permitted to be the center of our being. Here are two theories describing our place in nature. I think you will agree that the first theory illuminates why mistrust of ourselves and our divine abilities is so deeply rooted. 20 Manifest Your Destiny TWO THEORIES OF NATURE THAT AFFECT OUR ABILITY TO TRUST First Theory: Nature as a Mechanism In the mechanistic view of nature, everything is an artifact made by a boss who has many different names. In the Western view, the boss is called God. This God is often depicted as a white-bearded male who roams around the sky creating the natural world. In this theory, the world is a construct

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sex hormones) and of corticosteroid hormones such as cortisone. Wild yam does not contain estrogen or progesterone, and wild yam “natural progesterone” products are derived from chemically processed diosgenin, and have little or no relationship with naturally occurring wild yam. ■ Anti-cholesterol activity Research indicates that diosgenin reduces the absorption of cholesterol from the gut and increases its elimination from the body. Traditional & Current Uses ■ Traditional uses Both the Maya and the Aztec peoples used wild yam medicinally—possibly to relieve pain. The plant is also known as colic root and rheumatism root in North America, indicating its use by European settlers for these conditions. ■ Gynecological problems A traditional remedy for painful periods and ovarian pain, wild yam has estrogen-modulating activity and is used to treat menopausal symptoms. ■ Arthritis & rheumatism The herb’s combination of anti-Wild yam A deciduous perennial vine, climbing to 20 ft (6 m) with heart- shaped leaves and tiny green flowers. inflammatory and antispasmodic actions makes it extremely useful in treatments for arthritis and rheumatism. It reduces inflammation and pain, and relaxes stiff muscles in the affected area. ■ Muscle spasms & pain Wild yam helps relieve cramps, muscle tension, and colic.Wild yam can be found growing wild in damp woodlands in North America. Parts Used Key Preparations & Their Uses ■ Digestive problems The herb can be used as an effective treatment for digestive problems, including gallbladder inflammation, irritable bowel syndrome, and diverticulitis. Self-help Use ■ Period pain, p. 315.Caution Do not take during pregnancy.Root and tuber have valuable antispasmodic properties. They are used to treat colic and menstrual cramps. US_090-091_Curcuma_Dioscorea.indd 91 07/04/16 4:37 pm 92EchinacE a spp.key medicinal plants The best-quality root leaves a tingling sensation on the tongueEchinacea spp. (Asteraceae) Echinacea, Purple ConeflowerEchinacea A perennial growing to 4 ft (1.2 m) with upright stems and pink to purple daisy-like flowers. Echinacea is a name derived from the Greek word for hedgehog and was inspired by the appearance of the flower’s central cone. Habitat & Cultivation Native to central parts of the U.S., three species of echinacea are used medicinally: E. angustifolia, E. purpurea, and E. pallida. All are threatened in the wild and only commercially grown plants should be used. E. purpurea is cultivated widely in the U.S. and Europe. Grown from seed in spring or by root division in winter, it thrives in rich, sandy soil. The leaves and flowers are gathered during flowering; the roots of 4-year-old plants are lifted in autumn. Key Constituents (E. purpurea) ■ Alkylamides (mostly isobutylamides) ■ Caffeic acid esters (mainly echinacoside and cynarin) ■ polysaccharides Key Actions ■ Immune modulator ■ Antimicrobial ■ Anti-inflammatory ■ Detoxifying■ Heals wounds ■ stimulates saliva Research ■ Immune system Clinical research into echinacea has confirmed that it increases the number of white blood cells and their strength of action, although its precise mode of action on immune function is not well understood. The polysaccharides inhibit the ability of viruses to take over cells, while the alkylamides are antibacterial and antifungal. Research supports the use of echinacea to prevent colds and respiratory infections resulting from air travel. Not all clinical trials have found positive effects, possibly because in some cases too low a dose of echinacea was used. Traditional & Current uses ■ Native American medicine The Comanche used echinacea as a remedy for toothache and sore throats and the Sioux took it for rabies, snake bite, and septic conditions. ■ Western uses Echinacea is a key remedy in Western herbal medicine, and is used to treat many health problems, notably viral and fungal infections, and skin infections such as acne and boils. It makes an excellent gargle for throat infections, and is typically prescribed by herbalists wherever the immune system is underperforming. ■ Allergies The herb is a helpful remedy for treating allergies such as asthma. Self-help Uses ■ Acne & boils, p. 305.■ Bites & stings, p. 303. ■ Chilblains, p. 302. ■ Cold sores, p. 304. ■ Coughs & bronchitis, p. 310.Parts Used Key Preparations & Their UsesRoots of all three species have valuable immune-stimulating properties. ■ Earache, p. 312. ■ Flu, sore throats & tonsillitis, p. 311. ■ Canker sores, p. 306. ■ Urinary & fungal infections, p. 314. Fresh E. purpurea rootA key medicinal herb, echinacea has a tonic action on the body’s immune system. Known by 19th-century Americans as Indian Snakeroot (due to its ability to treat snake bites), the herb has a potent ability to counter infection, especially viral and bacterial, and to aid the clearance of toxins from the body. It is commonly taken as a preventative and treatment for upper respiratory infections such as colds, flu, and coughs. QCaution Can cause allergic reactions in rare cases.Dried rootFlower of E. purpurea is occasionally used for infections. Tincture of root (to make, p. 292). For chronic infections, take 1⁄2 tsp in water 3 times a day. Capsules of powdered root (to make, p. 292). For colds, take a 500 mg capsule 3 times a day.Decoction of root (to make, p. 291). To treat throat infections, gargle with 2 1⁄2 tbsp 3 times a day. Tablets T ake as an immunostimulant for infections. US_092-093_Echinacea_Elettaria.indd 92 26/02/16 3:59 pm93ElEttaria cardamomumkey medicinal plants Infusion (to make, p. 291) is a pleasant drink. For indigestion, drink 3⁄4 cup (150 ml) after meals.Tincture (to make, p. 292) improves the appetite. For poor appetite, combine 5 drops with 15 drops gentian tincture and take 3 times a day. Crush cardamom seeds using a mortar and pestle just before you are about to use them.Fresh seed pods on stem Essential oil For digestive pain, dilute 10 drops with 4 tsp carrier oil ( see p. 297). Gently rub into the abdomen.Elettaria cardamomum (Zingiberaceae) Cardamom, Elaci (Hindi) Cardamom is one of the oldest spices in the world and was used extensively in ancient Egypt to make perfumes. Its medicinal uses, however, are less well known. Cardamom has been employed in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years, and is an excellent remedy for many digestive problems, helping to soothe indigestion and gas. It has an aromatic and pungent taste and combines well with other herbs. Habitat & Cultivation Cardamom is native to southern India and Sri Lanka, where it grows profusely in forests at 2,600–4,900 ft (800–1,500 m) above sea level. It is also widely cultivated in India, southern Asia, Indonesia, and Guatemala. Cardamom is propagated from seed in autumn or by root division in spring and summer, and needs a shady position and rich and moist, but well-drained soil. The seed pods are harvested just before they start to open in dry weather during the autumn and are dried whole in the sun. Key Constituents ■ Volatile oil ■ Alkaloids ■ Flavonoids ■ Saponins ■ Sterols Key Actions ■ Digestive tonic ■ Protects liver ■ Mild stimulant ■ AntispasmodicResearch ■ Antispasmodic A 2009 Indian clinical study found that cardamom successfully lowered blood pressure in 20 adults over a 3-month period. Those taking part in the trial had “a feeling of well-being without any side-effects.” The herb has a long- established antispasmodic action. Traditional & Current Uses ■ Ancient herb Cardamom has been highly valued both as a spice and a medicine and was known in Greece in the 4th century bce. ■ Digest

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contemporary Western herbal medicine because of its potential toxicity. The seeds have been taken, especially in the Middle East, to treat a very wide range of conditions, including high blood pressure, eye problems, psychiatric disorders, depression, Parkinson’s disease, and cancer. In central Asia, the root is a popular medicinal remedy that is used to treat rheumatism and nervous conditions. RCaution This plant is toxic and should not be used under any circumstances.Paullinia cupana syn. P. sorbilis (Sapindaceae) Guarana Description Woody vine growing to a height of 33 ft (10 m). Has divided compound leaves, clusters of inconspicuous yellow flowers, and pear- shaped fruit that contains small shiny brown seeds. Habitat & Cultivation Guarana is native to tropical forests of the Brazilian Amazon, and is also cultivated in Brazil. The seeds are gathered when ripe. Parts Used Seeds. Constituents Guarana contains xanthine derivatives (including up to 7% caffeine, together with theobromine and theophylline), tannins, and saponins. The xanthines are stimulant and diuretic, and reduce fatigue over the short term. History & Folklore In Brazil, guarana is traditionally prepared by roasting, crushing, and drying the seeds. The resulting “cakes” are made into a tea, which is taken to counter fatigue or to treat diarrhea. Guarana has recently become a popular alternative to coffee.Pausinystalia yohimbe syn. Corynanthe yohimbe (Rubiaceae) Y ohimbe Description Evergreen tree growing to 100 ft (30 m). Has reddish-brown bark, oblong or elliptical leaves, and clusters of small yellow flowers. Habitat & Cultivation Y ohimbe is native to the forests of western Africa, especially Cameroon, Zaïre, and Gabon. The bark is gathered at any time of year. Part Used Bark. Constituents Y ohimbe contains approximately 6% indole alkaloids (including yohimbine), pigments, and tannins. The alkaloids have a cerebral stimulant action at moderate doses, but are highly toxic in large doses. History & Folklore Y ohimbe has an ancient reputation in western Africa, especially among the Bantu people, as a male aphrodisiac and mild hallucinogen. Medicinal Actions & Uses Y ohimbe is little used in herbal medicine owing to its potential toxicity. In western Africa, it is often employed as a stimulant and as a means to counter erectile dysfunction. Y ohimbine has been used in conventional medicine in the treatment of erectile dysfunction. QCautions T ake yohimbe only under professional supervision. The herb is subject to legal restrictions in many countries. US_224-245_Jasmine_Harmala.indd 245 26/02/16 12:47 pm 246 other medicinal plantsPergularia extensa Pergularia extensa (Asclepiadaceae) Pergularia Description Perennial climber with broad oval leaves and small greenish-white flowers. Habitat & Cultivation Pergularia is native to India. Its aerial parts are gathered throughout the year. Parts Used Aerial parts. Constituents Pergularia contains a resin, bitter principles, and plant sterols. Medicinal Actions & Uses Pergularia is thought to have bitter, expectorant, diuretic, and laxative properties, and is employed in several ways in Indian herbal medicine. It is prescribed as a treatment for bronchitis and asthma. Pergularia is also used as a means to curtail heavy menstrual or non-menstrual uterine bleeding. Juice from the leaves may be applied to relieve the pain and swelling of cysts and rheumatic joints. Habitat & Cultivation Suma is native to rainforests of South America, from Venezuela to southern Brazil. Parts Used Root. Constituents Suma contains triterpene saponins (pfaffosides), sterols (including beta-ecdysone), and minerals (including significant levels of germanium). History & Folklore Suma has been used by the people of the Amazon rainforest from the earliest times for conditions as varied as wound healing, diabetes, and cancer. Also taken for its aphrodisiac qualities, suma has become a popular herbal medicine in Brazil, where it is known as para todo (“for all”), or Brazilian ginseng. Medicinal Actions & Uses Suma has many medicinal applications, most centred around three areas of activity: as a hormonal and glandular tonic, as an immune stimulant and detoxifying agent, and in cancer prevention and treatment. Suma is perhaps best known as a male sexual tonic, but it is equally effective for women and has value in treating menstrual and menopausal problems. Suma root enhances nonspecific immunity and has a role to play in treating chronic infection and lowered immune resistance. Research Research into suma suggests that it can be useful in cancer prevention and treatment; several of the pfaffosides have been shown to prevent tumor growth in laboratory conditions. The pfaffosides are chemically similar to the ginsenosides found in ginseng (Panax ginseng, p. 118), and, like ginseng, suma’s acclaimed value as an aphrodisiac appears to have a scientific basis. Male rats with depressed sexual function were observed to become more sexually active on being given a suma extract. Cautions Avoid taking suma during pregnancy and while breastfeeding.treatment of gout, rheumatism, and arthritis. Both plants act by encouraging the flushing out of waste products from the inflamed joints, and the waste’s subsequent elimination via the kidneys. Parsley root is taken as a treatment for flatulence, cystitis, and rheumatic conditions. Parsley is also valued as a promoter of menstruation, being helpful both in stimulating a delayed period and in relieving menstrual pain. Cautions Parsley is a safe herb at normal dosage and consumption levels, but excessive quantities of the seeds are toxic. Do not take the seeds during pregnancy or if suffering from kidney disease. Peumus boldus (Apiaceae) Boldo Description Strongly aromatic multibranched evergreen shrub or tree growing to 20 ft (6 m). Has egg-shaped leathery leaves with a lemony scent, clusters of white or yellow bell-shaped flowers, and small yellow berries. Habitat & Cultivation Boldo is native to Chile and Peru, and has become naturalized in the Mediterranean region and the West Coast of North America. It grows on dry sunny slopes and in mountain pastures in the Andes, where it is widely cultivated. The leaves are gathered throughout the year. Parts Used Leaves. Constituents Boldo contains 0.7% isoquinoline alkaloids (including boldine), as well as a volatile oil and flavonoids. History & Folklore Boldo is a valued remedy in Latin American herbal medicine and is used by the Araucanian people in Chile as a tonic. Medicinal Actions & Uses Boldo stimulates liver activity and bile flow and is chiefly valued as a remedy for gallstones and liver or gallbladder pain. It is normally taken for a few weeks at a time, either as a tincture or infusion. Boldo is also a mild urinary antiseptic and demulcent and may be taken for infections such as cystitis. Cautions Do not take during pregnancy. This herb is subject to legal restrictions in some countries.Phaseolus vulgaris (Fabaceae) French Bean, Haricot Bean Description Slender-stemmed, annual climber growing to 13 ft (4 m). Has pointed oval leaflets, curly tendrils, clusters of white or lilac flowers, and a beanpod containing kidney-shaped seeds. Habitat & Cultivation French beans are thought to have originated from South America. Today, varieties are cultivated all over the world. The ripe beans are gathered in summer. Parts Used Beanpods, beans. Constituents French beans contain lectins, saponins, flavonoids, allantoin, amino acids, and sugars. History & Folklore French beans have been used since antiquity to treat diabetes. In A Modern Herbal (1931), Mrs. Grieve records that “because Petroselinum crispum (Apiaceae) Parsley Description Annual herb growing to 1 ft (30 cm). Has an erect stem, bright green compound smooth or crinkled leaves, small white flowers growing in clusters, and small ribbed seeds. Habitat & Cultivation Parsley is native to Europe and the eastern Mediterranean. Today it is rarely found in the wild, but is cultivated throughout the world as a nutritious salad herb. The leaves may be picked from spring to autumn, and the seeds are gathered when just ripe. Parts Used Leaves, root, seeds. Constituents Parsley contains a volatile oil (including about 20% myristicin, about 18% apiole, and many other terpenes), flavonoids, phthalides, coumarins (including bergapten), vitamins A, C, and E, and high levels of iron. The flavonoids are anti-inflammatory and antioxidant.

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to God, to yourself, and to others the exact nature of what you find to be your shortcomings. 6. Be willing to give up what you are doing wrong. 7. Seek through prayer to improve your conscious conta ct with God. Pray only for knowledge of His will for you and the strength to c arry that out. Having had a spiritual awakening as a result of thi s action, practice these principles in your every thought. Just as the body must be purged and cleansed, so mu st the emotions and spirit be purified. This is a comparatively simple task to accomplish, but do n ot lull yourself into believing that it is an easy task. Rigorous self-discipline and the ability to grasp and develop a manner of living with complete honesty in all of your actions and thought are necessary. You must become strong willed to be a winner in accomplishing that which y ou set out to do for yourself. You will look for all the good in everything and refuse to accept any negation. STOP! LISTEN! Listen with your heart He’s been knocking softly Just ask Him to come in He made you He loves you He’s always been there He is the truth He not only has The answers He is the Answer for you The Lord is the Light Through Him you’ll see the Father He’s knocking He’s knocking Just let Him come in and His gift to you Will be Heaven Mrs. John Mark Kelley (Dei) *Chapter VIII* Metabolic Typing — Discovering Your Personal Nutritional Needs Without knowing your metabolic type, you are guessi ng as to what foods and supplements you should take. This chapter explains how you can deve lop a personalized nutritional program that gives you the results you want. A person may be following a program of the best foo ds, the best supplements, and plenty of exercise — but how does he or she know that those really are the best foods for them? Each of us is different and has a different metabolism. Many of the world’s leading scientists including, f or instance, biochemist Dr. Roger Williams, author of many excellent and well-known books such as You Are Extraordinary, and Nobel Prize Winning Physicist, Dr. Linus Pauling, have proven t his through their own research. Basic Metabolic Considerations Individuals are classified into ten basic types, wh ich are named "Metabolic Types One through Ten." By classifying each person into their own pro per type, it is possible to determine accurately what vitamins, minerals, foods, and othe r supplements would best support his or her own body chemistry. Equally important, it is possib le to know what supplements and foods they should not have. With the knowledge of these factors, it is p ossible to design a program that has the fullest potential. All people fall into one of the metabolic types, that is to say they fall into one of the basic ways the body functions. Each pers on’s body takes in food, water and air. How a person uses these raw materials to maintain life di ffers from one person to another. This function of maintaining life is called metabolism and is nor mally defined as the sum total of all the chemical reactions occurring in the body. The Nervous System The body has two nervous systems — the voluntary ne rvous system and the autonomic nervous system. The Voluntary Nervous System The voluntary nervous system is that part of the br ain and nerves that are under the control of the conscious mind. Activities that you have definite c ontrol over, like making decisions, walking, speaking and the like are controlled by the volunta ry nervous system. The Autonomic Nervous System The autonomic nervous system is that part of the br ain and nervous system that carries on the functions of the body that we have very little or n o conscious control over. The autonomic nervous system controls such activities as our hear tbeat, respiration and reflexes (like what happens when a person sits on a tack). The autonomic nervous system regulates the basic li fe-sustaining functions of the body such as the turning on and off of glands and organs, mainta ining the acid/alkaline balance of the blood, saliva, and urine, digestion of food, balancing gla ndular functions, turning the cells on and off, and stimulating and retarding the body and its part s. The autonomic nervous system is the master regulato r of metabolism. It determines how efficiently and effectively the body uses food, wat er and air. The Autonomic Nervous System Consists of Two Divisi ons The autonomic nervous system consists of two divisi ons. One division is called the sympathetic nervous system and the other division is called the parasympathetic nervous system. Each of these two divisions sends messages in the form of e lectric current to the different parts of the body. There is a nerve from each of the divisions t o each part of the body. The Sympathetic Nervous System The sympathetic nervous system sends messages that in general accelerate or speed up our activities. The Parasympathetic Nervous System The parasympathetic nervous system sends messages t hat in general retard or slow down our activities. Three Groups — Ten Types The autonomic nervous system plays a major role in the classification of the metabolic types. The ten metabolic types have been arranged into thr ee groups: 1. Group A, which includes the Sympathetic Dominant Metabolic Types: One, Four, and Six. 2. Group B, which includes the Parasympathetic Dominant Metabolic Types: Two, Five, and Seven. 3. Group C, which includes the Balanced Sympathetic/Parasympathetic Metabolic Types: Three, Eight, Nine and Ten. Group A — Sympathetic — Vegetarian Types Group A metabolizers are classed as Types One, Four and Six. These types have very strong or dominant sympathetic nervous systems. These types h ave very strong functions of the brain, pineal, anterior pituitary, parathyroid, thyroid, a nd adrenal medulla glands; heart, bone, muscle and connective tissue, kidneys, gonads (ovaries or testes), and uterus or prostate. Their muscles are usually quite well developed and show good musc le tone. Their hearts normally beat a little fast. Constipation is an ever-present plague. Frequ ently insomnia is a problem. Tension, hyperactivity and drive are their plight. Sympathetic Metabolizers Are More Prone To: Achlorhydria Acidosis Acne Alcoholism (to slow down) Anemia Angina pectoris Anxiety Appetite, diminished Arteriosclerosis (hardening of arteries) Arthritis, rheumatoid Bleeding (slow to stop) Blood pressure, high Bowel movement every 2-3 days Boils Bones, pain in Breathing, rapid & irregular Buerger’s Disease Bursitis Cancer Canker sores Carbohydrate metabolism, slow Caries (cavities) Cataracts Chorea Circulation, poor from muscle tension Colitis, ulcerative Conjunctivitis Constipation Cystitis Dehydration Diabetes Digestion, slow Dizziness Earache Emotional instability, easily upset Endurance, lack of Energy reserve, low Epilepsy Extremities, cold from tension Eyes, dry Fat metabolism, slow Febrile diseases Food, feels like rock in stomach Function well in hot climate Gag easily Gas, sweet odor Glossitis Goiter Gout Halitosis Heart attacks, several Heartburn Heart rhythm, regular & fast Headaches; migraine, tension Healing; bones, fast Healing; tissues, slow Hemorrhoids High temperatures Hyperirritability Hypertension Hypochlorhydria Indigestion Infections, bacterial Insomnia Ketosis Kidney, infections Kidney stones Legs, restless at night Mastitis Moods, frequent severe changes Mouth, dry Myocarditis Nephritis Nervous strain Numbness Oxygen metabolism, poor Pain, unusual sensitivity Pellagra Peyronie’s Disease Photophobia Pneumonia Protein metabolism, poor Pulse, fast Purpura Rheumatic fever Sensitivity to light Sensitivity to shots, vaccinations Skin, dry & thick Sour stomach Stools; dry, light in color, ribbon-like Sweating, little Teeth, pearly white Tinnitus aurium Tonsillitis Tremors, muscle Ulcers, gastric Uremia Urinate, infrequently Veins, varicose Vincent’s infection Vision, hard to focus Typical Characteristics of Sympathetic Metabolizers : A lot of "get up and go" or drive Actions are usually explosive Anger easily Bowel movements normally light in color Can’t recall dreams Crave sweets, fruits Difficulty in falling asleep Diminished or lacking appetite Dislike fatty or

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event=experience. This is not true. The proof that it’s not true is that emotion does not arise uniformly. The same things do not produce fe ar, for example, in two different people. They sometimes do, but they just as often do not. A roaring lion can produce fear in one person and not in another (say, a lion tamer). Heights can produce fear in one person and not in another (say, the star of a high -wire act). Giving a speech can produce fear in one person (it has been listed in survey after survey as among the single biggest fears faced by many human beings) and not in another (say, a lecturer or an entertainer). So we can agree that no two peop le can be guaranteed to have the same experience (fear) when faced with the same exterior event, yes? Heck, the same event does not even produce the identical experience in the same person every time. So what does produce the fear? If it is not the roaring lion or the height of the ladder or the audience waiting to hear you, then what is it? It’s something inside you. It’s your ideas and your memories and your projections and your concepts and your apprehensions and your understandings and your desires and your conditioning and more. And all of these things fall into one broad category. Thoughts. It is your thoughts that sponsor your fears, and nothing else. Thoughts sponsor all emotions. Now this is both a revolutionary and controversial statement that I am making here, because standard brain science says that is it just the other way around. Neuroscientists tell us that emotion comes before thought, as a product of the brain’s limbic syst em, and that “thought” occurs in the higher regions of the brain, which analyze the emotions we are having. I am saying here that the opposite is true. I am saying that the limbic system produces what I call a Truth (an overall mental concept of something), from which emerges a Thought, which generates an Emotion. Every time you display any kind of emotion you can say, “And now, a word from our sponsor!” Like the sponsors on television, thoughts stop the show. That fact that thoughts sponsor emotions is the greatest news you could ever hear. If we accept the view of scientists that it is the other way around, we accept as a matter of fact that each of us has a built in handicap: an utter inability to decide objectively which emotions we are go ing to feel. We accept that we are subject to our emotional reactions and then have to overcome them with our thoughts if we want them to be different. My thesis here is that it is not a question of overcoming our emotions to get them to be what we want th em to be, but of creating them that way from the start. This idea may be new to medical science, but it is not new to spirituality, which insists that we are more than biological machines, and that the Mind is not the same as the brain, but is far more com plex and sophisticated —and that the Soul is even bigger and more sophisticated than the Mind! In this moment, as you face all the changes that are occurring in your life, this is the best news you could ever receive. Why? Because it gives you tools you nev er thought you had. Because it reverses the standard medical model, putting thoughts before emotions, rather than after them —meaning that we are in charge here, since thoughts are changeable. Just a while ago we talked about changing your emotions. I said that changing emotions was the way to change Change Itself. I’m now going to tell you how you can change emotions. Change your thoughts. Whereas the Heart is used to being the only place where Love is found a Mind full of joy draws the Heart like a moth, into a surprisingly different flame. A flame where nothing burns — no wings are forfeited. As if God stretches the length of The Home to abide in every room at once, simply because We can * —‘A Mind Full of Joy’ © 2007 Em Claire 7. THE THIRD CHANGE YOU MAY N OT BE able to change the fact that things are changing, but you can change your thought about the things that are changing. Not only is this possible, it is next on the list of Nine Changes That Can Change Everything. CHANGE #3: Change your choice of thoug hts Thought is an idea that you are making up. The change that is occurring in your life is not something you are making up, but your thought about it is. That thought often bears no relationship to ultimate reality, it often bears no relationship to observed reality, yet it often does bear a relatio nship to distorted reality. In fact, it often creates it. Oh-oh, this is Something Big here. I’m thinking we should not just fly right past what was just said. Let’s look at it more closely. What I said was... “Your thought is something you are making u p. It often bears no relationship to ultimate reality, it often bears no relationship to observed reality, yet it often does bear a relationship to distorted reality. In fact, it often creates it.” Now, I just introduced a whole new idea there. Did you cat ch me at it? I just referred to three different “realities”... Ultimate Reality Observed Reality Distorted Reality I have come to call this the Triune Reality —three versions of reality existing at one time. There is Ultimate Reality (what is “so” about what is going on, what is “so” about why it is going on, and what is “so” about you), there is Observed Reality (what is readily apparent right in front of you), and there is Distorted Reality (what you imagine is going on). Which one of these realities yo u experience in any given moment is up to you. It depends on what your mind entertains prior to forming a thought. The sweet Unveiling is so becoming there is perhaps nothing more beautiful. The glide that you once called “walking.” Your fears dropped as g ently as lingerie. As Who You Are naked child turns every purpose Lightward toward what has always been right here shining as You. —‘The Sweet Unveiling’ © 2006 Em Claire 8. THE FOURTH CHANGE WE’RE MOVING VERY FAST now, and I don’t want you to think that you’re hearing all I have to say about these changes. There is much more to say, in fact. I’m just introducing Changes #2, #3, and #4 right now, to give you an idea of where we’re headed in this conversation. This is going to be quite a ride, and I want you to have a sense of the terrain. Really, these three changes are interlinked and, as I said a moment ago, they should be considered together. So the exploration here is going to be rather free -flowing, as a chat between friends would be, as opposed to following an outline and being more structured, as a lecture might be. I trust that you’ll see the close inter linking between Change #2, Change #3, and Change #4 as we go. So here, as we lay down the road map, is... CHANGE #4: Change your choice of truths Earlier I said that the event s of your life are created by conditions and occurrences outside you, but that reality is created by conditions and occurrences inside you—in your mind. It is there, I said, that events are turned into data, which are turned into truths, which are turned i nto thoughts, which are turned into emotions, which are turned into experiences, which form your reality. Now let me put those elements in a straight line, with plus and equal signs placed strategically between them, so that you can have a way to visualize this. This allows us to focus in on the process of reality -creation a little more sharply. As I observe it, that process works like this... event+data+truth+thought+emotion=experience=reality I call this the Line of Causality, and I’ll be bringing it i nto our discussion again. This is the path the mind travels on its way to producing your reality. You’ll notice that on this line, Emotion comes before Experience, and produces it. Thought, likewise, comes before Emotion, and gives birth to it. Truth comes before Thought, and gives birth to that. And we’ll get to the “Data” part later. What the line does not show is that there are three kinds of truth. This is more than a little important to know, because it is the existence of these three kinds of truth th at leads to the possibility of a Triune Reality. Put another way, if there were only one kind of truth, there would be but a single reality. The three kinds of truth are... The Actual Truth The Apparent Truth The Imagined Truth In a bit I’m going to exp lain all of this, and I think you’ll find it fascinating. These are what I have called the Mechanics of the Mind. For right now, know that it’s really as simple as A -B-C. Each step away from “A” takes you farther from peace. If peace is

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remember a few things or not hing, but surely not everything. Most experiences fli cker past and vanish, escaping all notice. But you cannot abando n the sense of self. Putting it out of mind doesn’talter, d istort, o r destroy it. L ike a cork bobbing to the surface, it will always return. Unexpectedly, we are plopped back onto the direct path. Your sense o f self is the thing that makes you whole already. Ev erything that exi sts “out there” or “in here” is glued together by your sense of self, because it is the common denominator in every exp erience. Once yo u see this, you can identify with your sense of s elf, and then the direct path has reached its goal. P a s s i n g t h e “ S o W h a t? ” T e s t As intriguing as this discus sion has been, “so what?” Why should you and I go to the trouble of following the direct path? Looking at their lives, most people feel happy, more or less, with the cho ices they’ve already made. Or so they tell pollsters, who find dec ade after decade that more than 70 percent of responders, when a sked the simple question “Are you happy?” say yes. News stories appear naming the happiest countries in the world—the latest c andidate is Denma rk—and correspondingly there are unhappy count ries, which turn out to be those that are ve ry poor, afflicted with war and strife, and where people must str uggle to acquire the basic necessities of life. The direct path and everything else we’ve been discussing— waking up, enlightenment, wholeness, the true self, meta reality— confronts the “So what?” test. We make choices based on whether they ma tter enough in our liv es. This isn’t a trustworthy measure of what is actually beneficial, however.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms: You kno w that you exist; that’s all. As the still silence of “I am ” starts to vibrate into thoughts, images, feelings, and sensations, the first stirrings are very faint and subt le. They are highly fluid and malleable, which is why desires and intentions that come from our deepest source are not distorted by all the cruder desires of the ego. “I want peace” is a subtler, fine r desire than “I want a Porsche. ” At the level of the true self, all desire for change reaches its goal, because only here is “I a m” enough to bring total fulfillment. No exte rnal gratification compares with this. It seems strange on the face of it that the mind at its subtlest level should be more fulfilled than the mind at more superficial levels. Chasing worldly desires is what life is all abou t to the vast majority of people. Being still and quiet, by the same token, feels very uncomfortable for many. “There’s nothing to do,” we complain. Yet stillness can unlock new realities. The key is that pure consciousness c ontains infinite resou rces of creativity, bliss, intelligence, lo ve, and awareness. By living close to the source, you have access to this infinite potential that allows you to be a genuine co-creator of reality. I’ve put these three se lves—the ego-personality, the unconscious self, and the true self—into separate categories only for the purpose of description. In daily life we call on all three. As awareness rise s from its source, any impulse has an unconscious component and eventually an ego component. A common example is fr iendship that turns to romantic love. Two friends interact largely on an ego level, me aning that they present their social persona to each other. But as friendship deepens, the unco nscious reveals itself more intimatel y, and sometimes, if the two people feel safe enough, the true core of friendship, which is love, reveals itself. T hat see ms to be the final goal, but at the level of the true self, no other person is needed. “I am” already has the q uality of love, trembling on the edge of pure consciousness. What th is com es down to is that the self you identify with is simply the self you ar e aware of. T here is no fixed self, just as there is no fixed body. Fight ing for your place in line at the post office calls up the ego-personality. Feeling tenderness toward ababy calls up the unconscious personality. Feeling that you matter in the great scheme of things calls up the true self. At a certain po int, the true self dominates the scene, and when this change occurs, the wor ld changes as well. The wo rld feels hard, fi xed, stubborn, and inflexible if you are all those things. The ego-personality finds it easier to resist than to accept, to hold on rather than to let go. So being hard, fixed, stubborn, and inflexible isn’t rar e, and seeing the world the same way isn’t rare, e ither. If someone explo res more deeply and begins to identify with the unconscious self, then the world seems beautiful, fresh, renewed, and filled with light. This, too, is a reflection of the person’s state of awar eness. Look at the gl owing light in French impressionist paintings and you’ll see where such a state of awareness leads painters. Yet you must go deeper to see the world in complete p urity. This sta te, kno wn generally as “enlightenment,” represents direct contact with metareality. Sin ce our daily life is dominate d by the ego’s de sires, needs, and demands, it isn’t possible to conceive of what it feels like to experience metareality as a constant state. Let me give a strik ing example in the thinking and teaching of Krishna Menon, born in 1883 in the S outh Indian state of Kerala. Although obscure most of his life—Men on died in 1959—he has come to be regarded as extremely important among seekers who want to investigate the experience of enlightenment (as opposed to the veneration of gurus and spiritual teachers, which has a major religious component). The uncompromising nature of his awareness can be gleaned by read ing the answers that Krishna Menon, later known to his followers as Sri Atmananda, gave when questions were posed to him. Time and again he took every subject back to one e ssential question: What is reality. Here are some succinct examples: On pleasure and pain. I feel pleasure at one moment and pain at another. But I am changeless all along. Thus my pleasure and pain are not part of my real nature. How are physical objects related to thoughts. The question arises on the assumption that objects exist independentof thoughts. That is never the case. Without thought, there is no object. Should we follow a personal God. I say no, because a personal God is nothing but a concept. Truth is beyond all concepts. Such unshakable certainty feels liberating and audacious at the same time. But it’s clear that Menon was not speaking merely to draw at tention to himself; he was speaking from the perspective of the true self, o nce the ego-personality and the fragmented mind it creates have been abandone d. This is made evident in another question and answer. Q: Is reality indivisible. A: Real ity is only one and cannot be affected by quality or degree in any way. Reality is purely subjective. I am t he only subject, and all the rest are o bjects. Diversity can be diversity only through me, the “One. ” You ha ve to reach the end o f this answer to discover tha t far from being an expression of s olipsism (“I am the only subj ect, and all t he rest are objects”), Menon’s viewpoint reflects his sense of wholeness (the One). This way of speaking echoes an Indian tradition going back thousands of years, known as Advaita, which in Sans krit means “not-two. ” One could also call it the perspective of the whole m ind, because the primary purpose of Advaita (and metahuman) is to get people to identify with consciousness as a whole, instead of its fragmented products. I’ve com e to the point wh ere I hesitate to adopt spi ritual language, preferring to see the inner journey as an escape from illusion to reality. The questi on still lingers: If Menon, alo ng with others who are called enlig htened, are so exceptional, do they stand to o far outside the norm. I say no. The process of waking up is natur al; any one can do it. The proof of this is right before our eyes. Every day we follow the guidance of the ego-personality, the unconscious self, and the true self in a kind of jumble. But the very fact that the true self is

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fiber (while meat and dairy do not). It’s also important to diversify. The bacteria that digest your food, known as intestinal flora, consume the fiber that we cannot digest. There are between 500 and 2,000 species of these microorganisms in the digestive tract, and they feed on all manner of fiber. Variety is therefore essential, covering the entire plant kingdom in your diet, which means fiber from whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. To maximize the effect of any fiber, use the whole food; choose whole fruits over straight fruit juice, for instance. Buy brown rice in place of white, and choose steel-cut oatmeal over sugary, processed cereals. This natural diversity is much healthier for you than commercial fiber supplements. Careshould be taken with the rough bran in bran-rich cereals, however, since it can scrape against the intestinal wall and even injure it. See this page for tips to increase your fiber intake while avoiding excessive gassiness. HOT WATER Drinking hot water in the morning (with some lemon squeezed in) can encourage your bowels to let go and allow for more efficient elimination. This morning practice contributes to good hydration, which, as noted earlier, is really important. It’s also a good idea to get up earlier. Your gut does not respond well to being rushed, so allow for ample bathroom time after drinking your hot water to let your body relax and do its thing. AVOID HARD-TO-DIGEST FOODS Processed foods, fried foods, and dairy are particularly hard on your digestive system. The more detoxified your body is, the more beautiful you become. TIME YOUR MEALS WISELY Try waiting at least 3 hours between meals instead of constantly grazing during the day. This allows the foods in your system to digest more fully. Bloat (see this page ) may be compounded if your digestive system is constantly full of food, and you pile more and more food that doesn’t have enough time to digest on top. Also try simplifying your meals by using fewer components. USE SPICES STRATEGICALLY Boost sluggish digestion, or agni in Ayerveda, with spices like turmeric, cumin, black pepper, and ginger. You can sprinkle these spices into stir-fries, soups, and salad dressings, or try adding them to hot water and make your own spice tea. TRY A MAGNESIUM-OXYGEN SUPPLEMENT (LIKE DETOXY +) This nonlaxative, non-habit-forming aid helps clear out accumulated waste in your system. Constipation and waste buildup may also contribute to bloating. TAKE DIGESTIVE ENZYMES BEFORE MEALS These are capsules you can take to help your food break down more efficientlyand support better digestion and assimilation. There are various kinds of enzymes included in various formulations, but in a nutshell, proteases break down proteins, lipases break down fats, and amylases break down carbohydrates. AVOID FIZZY BEVERAGES The carbon dioxide that makes soda and even plain seltzer bubbly can cause or exacerbate bloating. STEAM YOUR VEGGIES If your system is rebuilding, try steaming your veggies instead of eating them raw. This can help break down the fiber and make them easier to digest. EAT MORE SLOWLY AND DON’T OVEREAT The latter probably seems quite obvious, but if you scarf down your lunch while hunched over your computer or lap up a huge plate of food in record time as soon as you get home after a long workday (maybe because you skipped lunch), you may find that eating quickly has a sneaky way of contributing to overeating. Slow down your consumption and you’ll leave the space in your stomach needed to break down foods, which can help abate bloating. LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF DENSE FAT IN EACH MEAL Fat takes longer to digest than protein or carbohydrates and can make you feel uncomfortably heavy if you consume too much of it at once. Avoid bloating by limiting fats in your everyday diet. (You do need the right amount and type of fat, but you don’t need to overdo it. See this page for more info. ) A little bit of oil goes a long way when cooking. Try getting a ceramic (non-Teflon) nonstick pan that allows for easier cooking and cleanup while letting you use less oil overall. SOAK BEANS, LEGUMES, AND GRAINS OVERNIGHT These foods contain sugars called oligosaccharides, enzyme inhibitors, and phytic acid, which bind to essential minerals and inhibit their absorption. Soaking can help deactivate these substances, which in turn assists in preventing bloating while improving nutrient absorption. CHOOSE YOUR VEGETABLES WISELY Brassica or cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts,and leafy greens are fantastically high in nutrients but can be particularly gas inducing due to the sugars and starches they contain. If you are having major bloating problems or especially if you are transitioning your diet, try temporarily cutting back on broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts and having leafy green salads instead of kale salads, as kale (a popular new “superfood” rich in minerals, vitamins, and amino acids) also happens to be in this vegetable family. EAT PINEAPPLE Pineapple contains the enzyme bromelain, which helps break down proteins in your body and aids digestion. Try using pineapple as the fruit component of your Glowing Green Smoothie ( this page ) or having a bowl of cut-up pineapple midmorning. HOW TO INCORPORATE MORE FIBER (WHILE PREVENTING GASSINESS. ) Internal Nourishment is all about consuming plenty of veggies and natural foods, so by eating more veggies, plant-based meals, and health drinks such as Glowing Green Smoothie ( this page ), you are going to naturally increase your fiber intake. This is a great thing, which is a bit of an understatement. Fiber is important for cleansing and helps move toxins out of your body so that your true beauty can shine through. But if you abruptly increase your fiber intake from a little to a lot, you may feel more gassy and bloated as your body adjusts. The key is to drink more water to prevent gassiness. Fiber happens to be an indigestible carbohydrate. That’s why it’s great for bul

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careful not to overcook or let the rice dry out. The cooking process will take about 20 to 30 minutes total. Taste the rice for creaminess, adding more broth if necessary. Heat the remaining 1 teaspoon of the oil in a sauté pan over medium-high heat and add the carrots, celery, and zucchini. Add some broth, if necessary, to keep the vegetables moist. Sauté until the carrots are al dente or almost soft. Add the spinach and continue to sauté until just wilted. Pour all the ingredients from the sauté pan into the rice, add the mint and the raw apple cider vinegar and gently combine. Season with sea salt and black pepper, as desired. Place the rice in a serving dish and garnish with freshly chopped parsley. Radical Beauty Desserts ALMOND BLISSFUL BEAUTY SHAKE SERVES 1 1 cup unsweetened almond milk 1 tablespoon almond butter2 teaspoons coconut nectar or raw, organic honey Pinch of grated nutmeg Pinch of ground cardamom ½ teaspoon chia seeds 1 teaspoon cacao nibs (optional) Place all the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. SILKY CHOCOLATE MOUSSE SERVES 4 1 cup organic dark chocolate chips or cacao nibs 1 tablespoon coconut oil 1 12-ounce package organic low-fat, firm, silken tofu ¼ cup maple syrup or coconut nectar 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract Shredded unsweetened coconut, for topping (optional) Sliced or crushed raw almonds (optional) In a small saucepan over low heat, melt the chocolate chips and heat the coconut oil. Stir frequently to avoid burning the chocolate. When the chips are melted, remove from the heat and stir to a creamy consistency. Set aside to cool. In a blender or food processor place the tofu, maple syrup, and vanilla. Process or blend for about 1 minute. Scrape the sides down with a spatula; continue to blend to a smooth consistency. Add the cooled melted chocolate. Process and blend again until smooth. Serve the mousse in dessert bowls and top with shredded coconut and almonds, if desired. CRANBERRY GODDESS SNACKS MAKES 6 BALLS ¼ cup pine nuts ¼ cup sunflower seeds ¼ cup almonds ½ cup dried cranberries 2 tablespoons maple syrup, plus more as needed1½ tablespoons coconut oil ½ teaspoon vanilla extract ½ teaspoon nutmeg Pinch of sea salt ½ cup finely shredded unsweetened coconut flakes Note: Ideally soak seeds and nuts overnight and rinse well. Place the pine nuts, sunflower seeds, and almonds in a food processor and pulse until coarsely ground. Add the dried cranberries and pulse again. Add the maple syrup, coconut oil, vanilla, nutmeg, and sea salt. Continue to pulse until the mixture begins to stick together. Taste for sweetness, adding more maple syrup if necessary. Place the shredded coconut flakes in a flat bowl. Shape the nut and cranberry mixture into 1-inch balls and roll them in the coconut flakes to coat. Place them in the fridge for at least 1 hour before serving to harden. Store in the fridge in an airtight container.Acknowledgments From Deepak Chopra: Every book calls upon a publishing team, and Radical Beauty was fortunate to have such a superb one, beginning with our astute and encouraging editor, Gary Jansen. Also many thanks to others at Harmony Books who constituted and managed the working team: Aaron Wehner, Publisher; Diana Baroni, Vice- President and Editorial Director; Tammy Blake, Vice President and Director of Publicity; Julie Cepler, Director of Marketing; Lauren Cook, Senior Publicist; Christina Foxley, Senior Marketing Manager; Jenny Carrow and Christopher Brand, our jacket design team; Elizabeth Rendfleisch, Director of Interior Design; Heather Williamson, Production Manager; and Patricia Shaw, Senior Production Editor. We all know the pressures that book publishing is under today, and so a special thanks goes to the executives who must make tough decisions about which books to publish, including ours. Generous thanks to Maya Mavjee, President and Publisher of the Crown Publishing Group, and Aaron Wehner, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Harmony Books. I want to take a moment to thank the people around me who are so selfless in their dedication. From the Chopra Center for Wellbeing: Sheila Patel, Valencia Porter, Lizabeth Weiss, Wendi Cohen, and Sara Harvey. Deepak offers thanks to a fantastic team whose tireless efforts make everything possible from day to day and year to year: Carolyn Rangel, Felicia Rangel, Gabriela Rangel, and Tori Bruce. All of you have a special place in my heart. Thanks also goes to Poonacha Machaiah, cofounder of Jiyo, for helping to bring an online presence for a lot of my work. As always, my family remains at the center of my world and is cherished all the more as it expands: Rita, Mallika, Sumant, Gotham, Candice, Krishan, Tara, Leela, and Geeta. From Kimberly Snyder: I have so much deep appreciation for all those who contributed to the creation of Radical Beauty . First of all, I want to thank our fantastic editor, Gary Jansen,who made the collaboration process such a joy. We could not have asked for a more outstanding partner! Thank you also to the entire team at the Crown Publishing Group and Harmony books, including Aaron Wehner, Diana Baroni, Julie Cepler, Tammy Blake, Christina Foxley, Lauren Cook, and everyone who worked so hard to produce this book. Thank you to the Chopra Center for providing the base of the recipes used in the Radical Beauty Recipes section. And a big heartbeat thanks to my inspiring coauthor, Deepak. Thank you for the gifts of your collaboration and friendship. I have immeasurable gratitude for the talented and brilliant John Pisani, who is my co-creator in everything and has been a rock of support and love along my journey from day one. I also want to express my deep gratitude for my Beauty Detox superstars, Katelyn Hughes and Cheri Alberts, who so passionately and tirelessly work to make the world a better place, as well as Dorothy Lysek and all the Beauties who are part of

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protagonists in our own lives and the extras in a lar ger drama.I choose to believe that series of events like these are part of this universal princip le called synchronicity. A collaboration with fate, in which each of us makes choices withi n a larger context in which it is all perfect. No principle of science curre ntly available to man can explain such happenings. Yet there is not a person reading this right now who cannot relate a similar “mysterious” story. It happens all the time. This is truly thought meeting thought and being played out in form. All of my hemming and hawing about whether to do the radio show can be seen from hindsight as mean ingless. It was already done, and the evidence is that it occurred. A free will within a completed universe. Of course it is a huge paradox, but what isn’ t when you start considering such things? Several years ago I was driving home when suddenly the skies opened and it was raining harder than I had ever seen in my entire life. I could barely see out of the car windows. As I drove, I saw a woman standing next to her stalled car, hitch hiking in the drenching rain. I obeyed a very strong impulse to stop and give her a ride. As she got into the car, she explained that her car had stalled in the rain, and she needed a ride to a telephone so that she could call for assistance. I decided to drive her home instead. As we introduced ourselves, Shirley exclaimed in stunned surprise that she had been told by two frien ds that she should contact me about some personal matters in her life. As a matter of fact, she had been told that day that she would meet me soon. I dropped her off at her apartment, gave her a copy of Gifts from Eykis, and encouraged her to contact my wife about some concerns that she had told me she had about childbearing. My wife is an expert in this area, and I felt that they would become friends. Several weeks later, Shirley came to our home with a videotape which was to become the impetus for my exploration into some of the metaphysical principles which are a part of my life today. All because of a “chance” meeting in a rainstorm. Shirley had several long talks with my wife about the value of using her creative powers to visualize herself giving birth to a baby. She affirmed her ability to create such a situation, though she was unmarried and uninvolved, and thirty-eight years old. Two years later, the following letter arrived from Shirley.Dear Marcie and Wayne: Remember me? The wet hitchh iker, befriended by a blue auto whose driver ’s tapes echoed the theme of my health clinic? Shirley Lorenzini—here I am, almost two years in Los Angeles. Marcie, you will beam at hearing that I am blissfully married. My husband just had his vasectomy reversed, and parenthood is looming. Life is wonderful. I’m enclosing a little snapshot of us one hour after the wedding festivities. Thus the relaxed look. Joe is everything I had on my list. Thanks for your belief and encouragement that he would show up. Wayne, I love seeing you in my Nightingale-Conant literature and I quote you often in my health discussions. Just last week I told the story of your stopping on Federal Highway to rescue me from three miles of torrential hiking. That incident was providential. I think of it so often to remind myself of the miraculous nature of life. Did I create that incident out of just having listened to your tapes and needing to meet you? Did God know that I needed a morale booster? And then, Marcie, you appear, so genuinely loving and listening. Listening to all my dreams and fantasies. Assuring me that I’ll be a happy wife and mother. You two are really angels. So on your next magical appearance in California, please call. Hugs to all of you, Shirley So many truly wonderful things have come about as a direct result of my following an impulse to give a woman a ride. Shirley became a catalyst for me, and we became catalysts for her on her own journey. My life took a sharp turn, and some of the material that she felt compelled to bring to me altered my own spiritual journey in a way that I could not have predicted. Moreover, Shirle y became a great friend to us, and we helped her to believe in her own power of co-creation and visualization, truly helped her to beat all of the odds, including having a vasectomy reversed, and becoming a mother to a beautiful little soul who was absolutely destined to be with Shirley and Joe.How can we possibly know what seemingly insignificant event is waiting to change the course of our life? And what role do we play in it all? Synchronicity is the basis for allowing these forces to meet and work for us in our life, but we must say “Yes” to life. One “No” response anywhere along the path stops the flow of energy. This is why I believe so strongly in the notion of positiveness. Every single positive response in life allows the next one to flow, not as a cause and effect, but as a continuation of the energy that is in each of us and in everything else in the universe. You, with your own mind as the source of thought, which is the source of energy, which is really the source of life, can make all the difference in the world. A “No” response to that intuitive knowingness within you, stops it all, and you stay stagnant. But one positive “Yes,” one internal acknowledgment that you choose to go with that flow of energy, and it continue s in its own perfectly miraculous way. As human beings we are the very source of thought, that eternal connection to the divine intellig ence that is in and in front of and behind all form. Our willingness to say yes, to be positive, unafraid to take the next step, to go with our internal intuition (thoughts), gives us the power to co- create with that divine intelligence that is our universal essen ce. We can make choices in a completed universe, and our willingness to say yes to life allows it to flow. The stories of my experience in Monterey and our “chance” encounter with Shirley are but two in a list that could go on for a hundred more pages. They are simply a part of the tapestry of my life today. I see them because I believe, and the more I know this within, the more evidence I have for it every day. A few months ago I was reading a fascinating novel called Winter ’s Tale by Mark Helprin. Toward the end of the book, the author included a short chapter that was completely separate from the story he was telling. I must have read this chapter, “Nothing Is Random,” fifty times, and I still had great difficulty in accepting it as I read it. Today, I know it is true for me, and it is how I now see this entire onesong. With the permission of the author and the publisher, I reproduce it here. Nothing is random, nor will anything ever be, whether a long string of perfectly blue days that begin and end in golden dimness, the most seemingly chaotic political acts, the rise of agreat city, the crystalline structure of a gem that has never seen the light, the distributions of fortune, what time the milkman gets up, the position of the electron, or the occurrence of one astonishingly frigid winter after another. Even electron s, supposedly the paragons of unpredictability, are tame and obsequious little creatures that rush around at the speed of light, going precisely where they are supposed to go. They make faint whistling sound s that when apprehended in varying combinations are as pleasant as the wind flying through a forest, and they do exactly as they are told. Of this, one can be certain. And yet there is a wonderful anarchy, in that the milkman chooses when to arise, the rat picks the tunnel into which he will dive when the subway comes rushing down the track from Borough Hall, and the snowflak e will fall as it will. How can this be? If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined. No matter, it all happened at once, in less than an instant, and time was invented because we cannot comprehend in one glance the enormous and detailed canvas that we have been given—so we track it, in linea r fashion, piece by piece. Time, however, can be easily overcom e; not by chasing the light, but by standing back far enough to see it all at once. The universe is still and complete. Everything that ever was, is; everything that ever will be, is—and so on, in all possible combinations. Though in perceiving it we imagine that it is in motion, and unfinished, it is quite finished and quite astoni shingly beautiful. In the end, or rather, as things really are, any event, no matter how small, is intimately and sensibly tied to all others. All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart

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ITION: 11 taking meal, he should fast for seven days and then l:x~~ the fast. The long~r Pratm,, ·also should be at a time and at a place as shown above. In case d monk begins it after the meal, he should fast for seven days and in case he adopts it without taking the meal, he should fast for eight days and then break the fast. During the fast, he should drink all the urine passed 0t1t during the day, every day." Lamas in Tibet have been freely using urine. It is by the miracle of urine only that they have been able to keep their bodies healthy for hundred and fifty years or even longer. late Sir Morris Wilson had come to know of its use by Lamas, before his making his expendition to the highest peak of the Himalayas, i.e. Mt. Everest. While climbing, he had been drinking urine and was also rubbing it on the body. Thus he could safeguard his health against all minor and major ailments, bear the onslaughts of severe high-altitude weather and maintain his vigour and vitality. Travellers in deserts and on the seas were accustomed to the use of urine. Those in the deserts used to take urine when their stocks of food and water were exhausted and thereby they could reach their destination safely. Similarly, it has been described in the annals of sailors that passengers on ship were induced to take their own urine wben the ship lost its way during the storm and the stock of drinking water and food ran ou,. They could thus avoid death until they came across another ship or reached ashore. But man is after all human. He has many weaknesses. Only a few can overcome them. The rest behaving responsibly, spoil their health through minor and major bad habits or indulgence. The farther man goes from Nature, the more he spoils his health. Thus, alienation from Nature has reached its clil1lilX in this age of artificiality. Nothing can be worse than the present state of human health. The seeds~ of such consequence were sown when ~n abandoned the use of urine and began to use various artificial &ugs which gradually us,ped the palce of the original substance, i.e., urine. Physicians of those times lived in the lap of Nature and their venture some naturf induced them to carry out many experiments. 12 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY Thus they could create the system of Ayurveda. In the beginning herbal preparations may have been used with urine. as the main substance. But, in the course· of time, it appears that urine was discarded and water, honey, ghee, or milk took its place. At last, the place of urine was taken up purely by herbal preparations. The only benefit gained from this was that at last, direct contact with Nature was still maintained. Urine as a valuable gift of nature was, however, generally forgotten. Allopathy is so advanced today and it has dominated the society to such an extent that Ayurveda, if associated with it, would be forgotten. ~ut fortunately, some forgotten valuable cures are still found in use among the village people. The village provei"b, "This person would ~t urinate on even an injured finger", is still prevalent in the rural society. It implies that urine has a strong curative effect on any wou11d. I have observed myself that itinerant ironsmiths who live on village borders in mobile hutments and do the manual labour, make their bullocks drink their auto-urine and such bullocks become very robust and have full stamina. Suer instances show that urine has high power of nutrition, too. The question naturally arises as to why urine, so valuable fc•· health, has been given up in the present age. The only answer to th, is that our views regarding the values of life have altered. We have 1)10ved away from Nature and have forgotten the use of natural means. It is a sign of the socalled progressive scientific age! Still, however, there are a number of men who like to be benefited by this gift of nature. In India, as well as in foreign lands, there are a number of persons who, though quite ignorant of the modern cultural developments, keep themselves hail and hearty by using such gifts of Nature. Their ignorance has proved a boon to them as the reside away from the poisonous effects of modernism. There are many ascetics, saints, mystics, monks and other seekers of truth, in India and elsewhere who have deep faith in such natural means of health. The system of urine therapy works quite in harmony with Nature and is almost flawless. Moreover, it does not hurt the religious sentiments of any ~rson as it encourages one to lead a restrained THE TRADITIONS OF URINE THERAPY-WESTERN TRADITION: B ... urine was commonly used for and simple life. In a_noent tl~~~lly forgotten in the middle ages. It preserving hefaltlh but It wa; pg~~de that it is being revived these days. is a matter o P easure an b da It is hoped Its utility is being realized more a~•d more day y y.h ld.., · pagated all overt e wor · that in the course of time, It w'" ue pro CHAPTER V THE TRADITIONS OF URINE THERAPY-WESTERN TRADITION . f fon about the times when urine therapy We have n? In orma' ars that orthodox Christians began came into use 1n Europe · It appe.. h h 1 B'ble The late. h b · f an exhortat1on 111 t e o Y 1 · its pract' ce on t e ~SIS of the Water of Life too, got this clue from john Armstrong, aut or I~ ffth chapter ~ontains the following the Old Testament. s 1 ·. · " This sentence and. "Drink waters out of thme own Cistern.. d h comm. man of his past experiences an e remmded Armstrong of_. y himself A detailed description of experimented this prescnptiOn on_ · · f this book: It . h been given 111 the second part o his expenments as f t the Bible that people in the can be inferred from these re e:ences o d were enJ·oying its d k bout th1s treatment an West alrea y new a t contains the following reference : benefits. The New Testa:nen d and wash thy face." When "When thou fastest annomt thy hea.. d h t while fasting on Armstrong read this an idea struck his mm t I Ia. the body... h ld also be rubbed externa y on unne, It s 9U a e with urine also, particularly on the Consequently, he began mass gh to realize the underlying head, face and neck. Thus e came meaning of these Biblical words.. I de that the West got inspiration for unne th~r~py We can cone u. d ctor attached to a Chnstlan from its religiou~ book, the ~~ble. ~n t~e above prescription ofthe missionary hospital, ~ho_ bel'e:'ed H sed to collect OJrine of the Bible, had been servtng m Guprat. e u u.T.-4 14 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY patient under the pretext of its examination, mixed it with medicine in proper proportion, and obtained the desired effect. The patients were cured rapidly. In this way, he cured thousands of patients, suffering from different diseases and earned good fame. Nobody knew this method of treatment except his assistant! In the beginning of the nineteenth century a wonderful book was published in England, its title being One Thousand Notable Remedies. Some of the prescriptions found in it are given below : 1. The best and surest medicine for curing all the internal as well as the extenral ailments is one's own urine. One should drink one's own urine continuously for nine days in the morning. It cures leprosy and makes the body healthy. 2. Similarly, the application of urine cures dropsy and jaundice. 3. An ear douche with warm urine, removes deafness and many other troubles of the ear. 4. An eye-wash with urine removes pain, inflammation and many other diseases of the eye; the vision becomes clear and sharp. 5. Hands washed with urine and massaged with it are cured of paralysis, worms, itching and become flexible at the joints. 6. A fresh wound is healed when washed with urine. 7. Itching and burning sensations are cured by the massage of urine. B. Piles and other troubles subside if anus is washed with urine several times. A book, Soloman's English Physician, was pub! ished in 1695. It gives wonderful facts about urine. Some of them are as follows: "The urine of human being and some of the animals is useful in many ways. The urine is the part of blood in the form of serum. Blood reaches the kidneys

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etermined to defeat death, for I want Satyavan in my arms again. But if Yama is victorious, I won’t cling to ghosts. At least I have won that much wisdom. ” THE FIELD OF DREAMS When people wonder if the personality survives death, the answer is that the personality doesn’t even survive while we are alive. We are not the same person we were five, ten, or fifteen years ago and it would be a sorry state if we were. Our personalities are constantly evolving, transforming, growing. If the question becomes, Does the individual survive death., the answer is, What’s an individual. In reality what we call “me” is different from day to day, week to week, year to year. Which individual are you talking about, the young person who was in love and full of romance and desire, or the child who was full of innocence and wonder. Perhaps we must wait for the one who is senescent and dying. Which one would you survive as. Perhaps none. Vedanta tells us that the afterlife brings the opportunity for a creative leap. As our choices continue to expand, we will experience a new reality that is far richer than the conventional notion of heaven. Heaven is an end point, whereby definitions, all transformation, stops. Souls lounge around in a blessed state that sounds, frankly, like eternal assisted living. Why should consciousness become inert. In the afterlife survival would be meaninglessunless we continued to respond. The biggest difference is that in the afterlife the input of the five senses no longer stimulates us. The furniture of the mind has been cleared away, leaving a space that is both inside and outside ourselves. This is why Jesus wasn’t being paradoxical when he sometimes talked about heaven “within you” and heaven “with the Father. ” When you empty a room of furniture, the space left behind is empty, but the Vedic rishis say that mental space is different. It is full of possibilities. Anything can be born there. They called this pregnant space Akasha. The closest equivalent in English would be “dream space,” or at least that’s a good place to begin. A dream is like a blank screen on which anything can be projected: any event, place, or person. Akasha is the same. When Vedanta says that every world is a projection of the mind, it is describing an Akashic dream. “Worlds come and go like specks of dust in a beam of sunlight,” declares a famous Vedic saying. In Akasha we realize the transience of all things and the immensity of the unknown. The Akashic dream is cosmic, unlike the personal dreams we have at night. NDEs tell us that the stage of “crossing over”—the temporary realm preceding the full experience of the afterlife—still feels personal. People report seeing their deceased friends and relations, for example. The dying person continues to see the room in which his body lies, and memories and associations keep tying him back to physical existence. The possibility of taking a creative leap has yet to be realized. As long as you continue to feel like the person you were, you can’t experience the unknown. Let me give you an example. On a speaking engagement a few years ago I met Gerald, a man who told me that he had become fascinated by the healing powers of shamans in the Southwest. What kind of healing did he need. I asked. “I don’t want to give you any background just yet,” Gerald said. “I flew down to New Mexico and found myself in a group outside Santa Fe, about twenty of us. I’d never met a shaman before. Ours was Hopi, but he didn’t wear any religious symbols. He was just a very pleasant older man with shoulder-length hair. He greeted each of us as we entered the meeting room in a motel. ” The shaman began by asking everyone to pick a partner. “We were asked to pair off with the person in the room whom we felt most comfortable with. I picked a guy about my age who was standing next to me. I was as comfortable with him as anyone else, considering how bad I felt anyway. ” Gerald now revealed that he had been through a debilitating course of treatment for prostate cancer, including surgery and chemotherapy. He had been cancer free for two years but was haunted by fears that the doctors hadn’t gotten everything. His anxiety kept on growing even though he keptbeing reassured that he was in the clear. Finally, on the advice of a friend, Gerald reluctantly sought out a shaman. “Once we’d picked our partners we formed a circle. The shaman walked into the middle and began to chant. He didn’t ask us to do anything but observe. After fifteen minutes he turned to the first pair, a man and a woman. The shaman looked into the man’s eyes and muttered something. Immediately the man’s body began to tremble, then he fell down in a kind of mild seizure. “In an insistent voice the shaman said, Speak to me. The man’s eyes had gone blank. He began to mumble about being freezing cold, lying on the ground in winter. He’d passed out from alcohol and was dying. “The shaman nodded. He turned to the woman, who looked pretty shaken. ‘Are you an alcoholic. ’ he asked. ‘Is that why you’ve come here. ’ Turning red, the woman nodded. ‘Well, you have a spirit in your family line, someone who died of alcohol. We need to free him. ’ He helped the woman’s partner to his feet and told him he’d done a good job. And that’s how it went, one pair at a time going around the circle. ” Gerald watched as each partner was used to invoke a departed spirit. In each case the spirit would talk about a problem—depression, cancer, addiction—which turned out to be a perfect match for the problem that the other person in the pair had come about. No one had talked to the shaman before meeting in the motel. Gerald was astonished when his partner brought in the spirit of Gerald’s grandfather, who had died of lung cancer when Gerald was a small child. “Not everybody recognized their spirit, and it wasn’t always a close relative. In my case I had heard a lot about my grandfather, who had been a prominent citizen. It was spooky hearing him beg to be released from his pain, very spooky

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enlighten his fellows while still in the dark about himself, and who can purify if he is himself unclean. …The physician may no longer slip out of his own dif ficulties by treating the dif ficulties of others. He will remember that a man who suf fers from a running abscess is not fit to perform a sur gical operation. Jung also addressed the need to go beyond a narrow, specialized approach. In his autobiography, Memories, Dr eams, Reflections, he wrote that, just as physicians learned to use x-rays with no thought of lecturing on subatomic physics, he was “not concerned with proving anything to other disciplines; I am merely attempting to put their knowledge to good use in my own field. ” Jung broadened psychology by incorporating the perspectives of mythology and philosophy, and, in like manner, today’ s physicians must apply the insights of psychology and religion to medicine. Later in the same book Jung describes the advantage a doctor derives from this willingness to learn from other fields: The dif ference between most people and myself is that for me the “dividing walls” are transparent. That is my peculiarity. Others find these walls so opaque that they see nothing behind them and therefore think nothing is there. To some extent I perceive the processes going on in the background, and that gives me an inner certainty. This expanded outlook helps a doctor to inspire hope, give with the heart as well as the head and hands, keep ego in the background, and share major decisions with the patient. Such an approach rewards the physician aswell as the patient. The love returns in words and looks of gratitude, in cards and letters, and in little gifts for the of fice, all of which restore you. A doctor who acts out of love doesn’ t burn out. He or she may get tired physically, but not emotionally. The wonders produced by close doctor -patient collaboration never cease to amaze me. One experience illustrates how acceptance can lead a patient to utilize the doctor ’s recommendations, and also how it can reduce pain. Thelma, a patient with recurrent breast cancer, came to me and said that she wanted God to heal her while I observed and monitored the process. I explained how dif ficult I thought that would be. On her next visit, the cancer was smaller, and I asked her what had happened. She said, “I left the house with the phone ringing. ” It was the first time she’d ever said no to anything. Next time, her cancer was even smaller. Again I asked what happened. All smiles, she said, “When my alcoholic husband acted up I called the police. He said, ‘Y ou’re embarrassing me in front of the neighbors. ’ I told him, ‘I have cancer now, and I don’ t accept your behavior anymore. ’” By the third visit, however, she realized how much I cared for her and we became a team. She said, “It’ s hard work becoming a saint and healing yourself. Why don’ t you operate and remove the tumor. I’ll work on staying well. ” Thelma told me that the night after sur gery the nurse came in, pulled the curtain, and said, “T ell me about Dr. Siegel. ” My patient responded, “What do you mean. You act like you think he hypnotized me. ” The nurse said, “W ell, you’ve had a radical mastectomy, and yet you’re walking around the ward cheering up the rest of us, and you have no pain. What did he do to you. ” “He shared with me. This was our decision, so there’ s no reason for me to be depressed or in pain. I know the right thing was done to me by the right person. This is my way of getting well. ” Another woman with breast cancer, a young law student named Julie, had terrible fears and dreams about dying under anesthesia. She asked me if I could do the operation under local. I told her, “I had a dream in which I did it under local and permanently injured your arm. ” It was her dream against mine. Our laughter broke the tension. She was able to see my concerns, and, after talking it over some more, she had her mastectomy under general anesthesia with no complications. Let me explain that this was a fear dream, not a precognitive one. Otherwise I would never have defused it with a joke. If a patient had a dream that I felt predicted that person’ s death, I would not operate that day. For example, one patient dreamed of her headstone with “Thursday” engraved on it, so we made sure her sur gery was not done on a Thursday. The day after Julie’ s operation I was at a seminar in a nearby town. A familiar voice asked a question from the audience. It was Julie. I rushed over to ask what in the world she was doing there. She said, “Don’ t worry. All the tubes are under my dress. When I had no pain and wanted to leave, the nurses said, ‘Oh, she’ s just another one of Dr. Siegel’ s patients,’ and your partner signed the dischar ge order. ” It isn’ t me, though. It’ s the relationship that makes such results possible. It’s sharing and caring, doing things for people, not to them. We physicians must become instruments. When that happens, motivated patients will use us to work miracles. Just how fundamentally we can change the patient’ s reaction to our treatments has been exquisitely captured by Page Coulter, one of my patients, in her poem “Repairs. ” Even the title points up the difference between a cooperative approach and the typical medical talk of “assaulting,” “mutilating,” or “insulting” the body in order to heal it. After showing how her fears were calmed by a gentle anesthesiologist, she continues: We could justify the need for love, or crack open the eye of a tulip. Who cares. We try to stretch our bodies to catch the rain Or fallout or darkness, anything that falls from outer space. But instead I hear the sur geon singing “Desert Song,” And I feel his gentle tugs and pulls as though it were my father Caning chairs or my mother sewing pockets in my wedding dress. OceanofPDF. com3 The gr eat majority of us ar e requir ed to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you gr ovel befor e what you dislike and r ejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’ t just a fiction, it’ s a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can’ t be for ever violated with impunity. —B ORIS PASTERNAK, Doctor Zhivago OceanofPDF. comDisease and the Mind Neglect of the mind-body link by technological medicine is actually a brief aberration when viewed against the whole history of the healing art. In traditional tribal medicine and in Western practice from its beginning in the work of Hippocrates, the need to operate through the patient’ s mind has always been recognized. Until the nineteenth century, medical writers rarely failed to note the influence of grief, despair, or discouragement on the onset and outcome of illness, nor did they ignore the healing ef fects of faith, confidence, and peace of mind. Contentment used to be considered a prerequisite for health. The modern medicine man has gained so much power over certain diseases through drugs, however, that he has for gotten about the potential strength within the patient. One elderly physician friend recently told me of reading the diary of his uncle, also a doctor. In the early years, the diarist always recorded what happened to the individual or the community prior to an illness or epidemic, but as medicine became more technological, this part of the history grew less and less important to him and finally was omitted altogether. Awareness of the mind’ s powers was lost as medicine cast out all “soft” data, the information that’ s not easily quantified or scientific. THE MIND—BENIGN OR MALIGN Part of the mind’ s effect on health is direct and conscious. The extent to which we love ourselves determines whether we eat right, get enough sleep, smoke, wear seat belts, exercise, and so on. Each of these choices is a statement of how much we care about living. These decisions control about 90 percent of the factors that determine our state of health. The trouble is that most people’ s motivation to attend to these basics is deflected by attitudes hidden from everyday awareness. As a result, many of us have mixed intentions. Consider, for example, Sara, a woman who came to me with breast cancer a few years ago; she was smoking when I walked into her hospital room. Her action clearly stated: “I want you to get rid of my cancer, but I’m ambivalent about living, so I think I’ll risk a second cancer. ” She looked up sheepishly and said, “I suppose you’re going to tell me to stop smoking. ”

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(ingredients and indication) After Panchakarma medicines, Charaka explains about Yavagu. Order of Treating any Disorder in Ayurveda First and best choice is Panchakarma After Panchakarma – Agni – digestion strength is low. So, some medicines are given to improve digestion strength. Even food is also given from low dose, liquid food to high quantity solid foods – gradually. Once after the digestion strength is restored, then oral medicines for treating the diseases are given. First Panchakarma S eliminated out overly imbalanced Doshas. After Panchakarma – improve digestion strength Yavagu Fits in Here After this, Once after the digestion strength is restored, then oral medicines for treating the diseases are given – to eliminate or to pacify whatever the remnant Doshas/symptoms. Even after this if some symptoms are remaining, then Shirodhara, oil massage etc sub therapies are used. Chakarpani Commentary on Charaka After explaining Panchakarma medicines, different Yavagus are explained. • • • • • • •After Panchakarma, the digestion strength weakens. e Yavagus are especially useful in improving the digestion strength and to treat abdominal pain (Shoola). After Panchakarma, the Diet of the Patient Is Planned From Liquid to Solid. is is because soon after Panchakarma, the digestion strength is low. Hence, lighter liquid foods are given rst and gradually hard to digest solid foods are introduced. Like a tiny ame grows big with hey and cow dung cakes, with liquid – to – solid diet, the digestion strength increases. – Charaka Siddhisthana 1 To aid in improving digestion strength, Yavagus are explained. Usually spices are used in Yavagu preparation. Yavagu are more dilute than a regular Kashaya Often mixed with food preparations Often prepared with food ingredients. Formula for Yavagu 1p + 64P S 32 P 1 part of coarse powder of herb is added with 64 parts of water, boiled and reduced to 32 parts, ltered and administered when hot. Sharangdhara mentions 4p + 64 P S 32 P. 4 parts of herbs in place of 1 part. Types of Yavagu• • • • • • • • • • • • • •Medicinal Yavagu Prepared with potency based medicinal herbs – Veerya Pradhana Aushadha Dravya. Eg: Spices, amla, triphala etc. Diet Yavagu Prepared with taste based ingredients – Dietary ingredients – Rasa Pradhana Aushadha Dravya. Eg: grains like rice, wheat, barley, meat, chicken etc. Medicine Based Yavagu Medicine Based – 3 types. Teekshna Veerya – very strong herbs such as ginger, Bhallataka – Marking nut, etc. Madhyama Veerya – moderately strong herbs – Dashamoola (group of 10 roots), licorice, neem, etc. Mrudu Veerya – low potency herbs – Amla, raisins, pomegranate, fruits etc. Yavagu Formula Based on e Strength of the Herbs For very strong herbs, formula of yavagu is 12 grams (karsha) + 768 ml S 384 ml 1:64 S 32 For moderately strong herbs, formula is 24 grams (Ardha Pala) + 768 S 384 ml 2:64 S 32 For low strength herbs, formula is 48 grams (1 Pala) + 768 S 384 ml• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •4:64 S 32. Kashaya vs Yavagu Kashaya – herbal decoction S 1:8 S 2 Yavagu S 1:64 S 32 Yavagu is ~1/8th times weaker than Kashayas. Once you prepare kashaya with strong reduction of water boiling, You cannot add water to kashaya to prepare Yavagu – the added water will dilute the strength of the kashaya active principles and makes it difficult to digest. Yavagu is 4 pala +64 pala water S boil S 32 Pala 1:16 S 8 1 pala = 48 grams. 10 grams + 160 ml S boil and reduce to 80 ml. Diluted form of Kashaya. Stands between medicine and diet drink. Useful in medium Doshas, or in almost cured state of disease. Less strong, less “re component” when compared to Kashaya. Examples of Yavagu – Weaker Decoctions (gruel) Sharangdhara Samhita Madhyama Khanda 2 Bark of Amra – Mango seed – Mangifera indica• • • • •Bark of Amrataka – Wild Mango (Hog Plum) – Spondias pinnata Jambu – Jamun tree bark 30 grams + 480 ml S 240 ml. Filter. Use. Mix with cooked rice S Useful in Grahani – Malabsorption syndrome, Irritable Bowel Syndrome with diarrhea Yavagu for Raktapitta: Medicated Gruels for Bleeding Disorders Yavagu forms the most important dietetic inclusions in the treatment of Raktapitta – bleeding disorders like nasal bleeding, Ulcerative colitis and menorrhagia Since Yavagu is gruel, it forms the food for raktapitta patients. Chakrapani advises Tarpana (Tarpana = nutrition or nutritious food/drinks) to be given in the form of food and yavagu. Here, yavagu is used as diet, which serves the purpose of tarpana cooling and nourishment. In Raktapitta – bleeding disorders like nasal bleeding, Ulcerative colitis and menorrhagia, As a rule, Yavagu should be given after Langhana (lightening therapies), mainly in the form of fasting or avoiding food. After Langhana, the ama or immature essence of nutrients formed due to sluggish digestion present in circulation will be digested. is forms a suitable background for administration of cooling and nourishing Tarpana Panchakola Yavagu – Charaka Samhita Sutrasthana 2e gruel prepared with Panchakola – Pippali fruit (piper longum Linn. ), root of Pippali, Chavya (Piper chaba Hunter), Chitraka (Plumbaga zeylanica Linn. ) – Leadwort and Ginger stimulates digestion, and cures abdominal colic pain. Usually, patient is weak for digesting strong medicines and is also dehydrated. So, giving them weak Yavagus S improve the digestion strength, provide good amount of water. ese Yavagus can be mixed along with food and administered. e ginger, astringent herbs like wood apple, mango seed etc S coolant and astringent S blocks the diarrhea. Dose of Yavagu Dose is not specically mentioned. Highest dose of Kashaya is 2 pala – 96 m l. Because Yavagu is a weaker form of Kashaya, it can be considered as 96 m l as the dose. General dose of Yavagu – is considered as 48–96 m l. 1. 2. 3. 83. Yusha – Broth of Pulses Y Yusha is prepared with Pulses – green gram/black gram/horse gram References: Kashyapa Samhita Khilasthana 4th chapter. Sharangdhara Samhita Madhyama Khanda 2nd chapter Ingredients Any pulse (green gram/horse gram/black gram) – 1 p art Water/ butter milk/decoction (Kashaya – astringent) /herbal juice extracts Swarasa/ cold infusions (Hima) – 16 p arts Sesame Oil/Ghee, salt, black pepper, long pepper etc spices – Quantity sufficient References Kashyapa Samhita Khila Sthana 4th chapter Sharangdhara Samhita Madhyama Khanda 2/154 Kashyapa explained 25 medicinal pulse broths. 75 of them are on the basis of Doshas and 50 o f them are on the basis of taste. Method of Preparation Cook pulses with liquids Use without oil/salt/spices – Akruta yushaUse with oil, salt and spices Kruta yusha Properties Deepana – improves digestion strength Rochana – improves taste, relieves anorexia Vrushya – aphrodisiac, im proves vigor Swarya – improves voice tone and quality Varnya – Improves skin tone and complexion Balya – improves strength and immunity Swedana – induces sweating. 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0mg; Sodium 8mg; Carbohydrate 32g (Dietary Fiber 3g); Protein 2g. Tip: As a palate cleanser, this is the best. Serve it on ice or freeze it slightly and serve with a spoon as a between-course cleanser. Use more or less peppermint as your taste dictates. Exer cise Juices Juice is an excellent pre- or post-exercise drink because, along with the refreshing water, come minerals and vitamins. But you can design your juice drinks so that they’re part of your exercise toolkit. Athletes involved in hard exercise may require higher amounts of potassium-rich foods because potassium works with sodium to maintain the body’s water balance. Tomatoes, carrots, celery, spinach, molasses, and unsalted nuts are good sources (300 mg or more) of potassium. Along with a long list of healing properties, turmeric has one thing to offer people who are exercising: It reduces post- exercise pain by reducing inflammation. Start soft, finish hard Prepare for juicing by cleaning, seedi ng (when neces sary), peel ing (when necessary), and chopping all your ingredients before you start to juice. Line up the ingredients for juicing in order from soft to hard, becaus e it’s easier on you and your juicer if you work in an organi zed way from easiest (soft) to most difficult (hard). If you have a multispeed juicer, you can start juicing at the lower speed and gradually increase the speed to match the firmness of the fruit or vegetable. You start on low because the liquid in a soft fruit or veget able is easier to extract than that of a hard one. The cellulose isn’t as strong, so the basket on the juicer isn’t requi red to spin as fast. And if you use a slow speed for soft items, you’ll extract more juice from them becaus e, at a high speed, they fly right through the blades and much of the juice remains intact in the pulp. In contrast, for hard veget ables like beet s and rutabaga, you need a higher speed to cut through the dens er flesh and you need the faster spinning basket to extract the juice from the fiber. P o t a s s i u m P o w e r Prep time: About 3 min • Juicing time: 2 min • Yield: 2 servings Ingr edients 3 tomatoes1/2 cup spinach 2 celery stalks 2 carrots 1 apple 1/2 to 1 teaspoon ground turmeric 2 teaspoons finely chopped walnuts Dir ections 1 Cut the tomatoes and apple if necessary to fit the juicer feed tube. 2 Turn on the juicer and place a jug under the spout. 3 Working on a slow speed, process the tomatoes and spinach, alternating them to help push the spinach leaves through. 4 Increase the speed to medium and process the celery, carrots, and apple. 5 Stir the turmeric into the drink. Pour into 2 glasses, garnish each with walnuts, and enjoy. Per serving: Calories 146 (From Fat 27); Fat 3g (Saturated 0g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 104mg; Carbohydrate 31g (Dietary Fiber 3g); Protein 4g. E x e r c i s e E l i x i r Prep time: About 3 min • Juicing time: 2 min • Yield: 2 servings Ingr edients 2 tomatoes 1 cup packed spinach 1 handful green beans 1 small zucchini1 apple 1 piece (1-inch) peeled ginger 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric 2 teaspoons sesame seeds Dir ections 1 Cut the tomatoes and apple if necessary to fit the juicer feed tube.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|> Q: What is the recommended amount of cumin to add to a smoothie?, A: The text does not mention a specific amount of cumin to add to a smoothie, but it suggests adding a small amount and tasting, then adjusting to taste. Q: What is the recommended way to store pulp?, A: The text does not provide specific guidance on storing pulp, but it suggests refrigerating or freezing it immediately and using it within a certain time frame. Q: Can you use dried herbs in smoothies?, A: No, the text explicitly states that dried herbs do not have the same medicinal benefits as fresh herbs. Q: What is the recommended way to add spices to a smoothie?, A: The text recommends adding a small amount of spices and tasting, then adjusting to taste. Q: What is the recommended way to make a smoothie?, A: The text does not provide a recipe for making a smoothie, but it does provide general guidance on how to make a smoothie by combining ingredients in a blender and adjusting to taste.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Yogurt and low-fat milk: Use milk as the liquid and add 1/4 cup yogurt per serving. Cheese: For calcium and protein; 1 to 2 tablespoons per serving. Tofu: For calcium, manganese, iron, protein, and omega-3 fatty acids; 1/4 cup silken or soft tofu per serving. Flaxseed: Use ground flaxseeds to add omega-3 fatty acids; 1 tablespoon ground flaxseeds per serving daily. If you suffer from poor digestion, be mindful of combining protein ingredients — like yogurt, cottage cheese, nuts, or seeds — with fruit in smoothies. The body sends different enzymes to the gut for digesting proteins and, in some people, fruit prevents those enzymes from doing their job. Some fruits have natural digestive agents that can be combined in a smoothie to help remedy this problem. Chapter 11 offers some tips on natural digestive ingredients you can add to smoothies. B a n a n a B r e a k f a s t Prep time: About 3 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings Ingr edients 2 ripe bananas 1/2 cup low-fat milk 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed2/3 cup plain, low-fat yogurt Dir ections 1 Peel the bananas and break each into 4 chunks. 2 Combine the milk, bananas, blueberries, flaxseed, and yogurt in the blender container. 3 Secure the lid on the container. 4 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no visible pieces of fruit in the mixture. 5 Pour the smoothie into 2 glasses and enjoy! Per serving: Calories 247 (From Fat 37); Fat 4g (Saturated 2g); Cholesterol 7mg; Sodium 96mg; Carbohydrate 48g (Dietary Fiber 6g); Protein 9g. Vary It! Bananas are a great source of potassium, which is thought to play a role in controlling high blood pressure, but some people just don’t like them. If you fall into the anti-banana camp, you can substitute any one of the following for the bananas: one sliced avocado; 1/3 cup old-fashioned rolled oats (large-flake oatmeal); 1/3 cup silken tofu; or 2 tablespoons chia seeds soaked for ten minutes in the milk plus two peeled and pitted mangoes. G e t U p a n d G o Prep time: About 4 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings Ingr edients 2 mangoes 1 orange 3/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice 1 cup frozen fruit chunks (see Tip)1/2 cup low-fat cottage cheese Dir ections 1 Peel the mangoes, cut them in half, and remove the flat stone from each. 2 Peel the orange and break it into segments. Remove the seeds. 3 Combine the orange juice, mangoes, orange, frozen fruit, and cheese in the blender container. 4 Secure the lid on the container. 5 Starting on a low speed and gradually easing toward high, blend the ingredients for 45 seconds or until smooth and there are no visible pieces of fruit in the mixture. 6 Pour the smoothie into 2 glasses, and enjoy! Per serving: Calories 287 (From Fat 16); Fat 2g (Saturated 1g); Cholesterol 2mg; Sodium 236mg; Carbohydrate 64g (Dietary Fiber 7g); Protein 10g. Tip: You can use mixed, commercially frozen berries or fruit chunks, or you can slice and freeze any fruit that is in season, including tree fruit, stone fruit, and berries for this recipe. This smoothie is very thick! If you prefer a thinner version, add more orange juice: 1/4 to 1/2 cup extra for a slightly thinner smoothie, or 1 cup extra for a very thin smoothie. B e r r y N u t t y Prep time: About 2 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings Ingr edients 1

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against the thumb of the working hand. Use the tip of your index finger to press the center of the thumb repeatedly.2 Now make a succession of finger-walking passes across the thumb, to work the reflex areas corresponding to the head, brain, thyroid, and parathyroid.3 Locate the adrenal gland reflex area by placing the tip of the index finger in the center of the fleshy palm, midway along the long bone below the thumb; the area is sensitive. Press repeatedly. 4 Now thumb-walk through the pancreas reflex area with the working thumb.5 Pinpoint the ovary reflex area with your index finger. Using the rotating-on-a-point technique, circle the hand repeatedly clockwise, then counterclockwise. 6 Pinpoint the uterus reflex area. Once again, use the rotating-on-a-point technique, circling the hand repeatedly clockwise, then counterclockwise. self-help242 reflexology for every life stageReflexology for men Reflexology work can provide a good break for men after a stressful day, giving respite from physical work, and a few quiet moments. Health concerns, sports injury, on-the-job injury, tired feet from standing occupations, and tired hands from physical work are all demands that require attention. The challenge with men is to help them find a way to address their stresses rather than ignoring them. Men have a tendency to override their physical concerns. As you begin your work with a man’s feet, first consider that men’s feet are frequently heavier and less flexible than women’s. This is especially true for men whose jobs include constant standing, walking, and/or physical labor. As a result, working with men’s feet may take some adjustment. Allow yourself time to build up your hand strength to match the challenge of the heavier, less flexible, foot. You may find it easier to work with men’s hands. Establish your goals. Start with the one that’s most important, whether it’s stress reduction, a health concern, a physical complaint, or tired feet. This section includes some issues particularly important to men: stress, flexibility, enlarged prostate, impotence, and hair growth. You may find it easier to work with men’s hands. Whatever your interest, starting your session with techniques that target improved flexibility will help make more effective the techniques applied for other goals. Improving flexibility adds to the overall relaxation of the foot making it more receptive to further technique application. reflexology can provide a few quiet moments of intimacy. your work on his feet can be followed by his work on your feet.reflexology for men 243Encouraging flexibility Try techniques that loosen and relax muscles on the soles of the feet as well as those around the ankles. To maximise results, apply techniques in varying rhythm. 1First, target the ankle for relaxation with the double- cupping technique. Rhythmically and simultaneously make contact with both sides of the foot, centering around the ankle bones. Apply five to ten times.2Go on to apply the percussion technique to the heel, loosening the muscles at the bottom of the foot. 3Continue your work by applying percussion to the midfoot. Hold the toes back and use the padded outer edge of your hand as you apply technique.4Use the tapping technique in the midfoot to loosen the muscles there. Remember to keep your fingers loose, allowing you to tap rather than chop the foot.5Now rotate the foot, drawing a circle in the air with the big toe. You have now relaxed the major muscle groups that move the foot, encouraging flexibility.244 reflexology for every life stageStress To work toward stress reduction goals, target the solar plexus and heart reflex areas. The thumb-walking technique is used here, along with a generous application of desserts. self-help 3Rest the golf ball at the base of the thumb and roll it throughout the solar plexus reflex area. Work on both hands.2Roll a golf ball over your palm, targeting the adrenal gland reflex area, which is helpful for responding to stress.1Start by relaxing the hand by applying the finger-pull dessert. Grasp the thumb and pull. Turn the thumb from side to side.1Start by holding the toes back with one hand and resting your working thumb on the solar plexus reflex area. Apply a succession of passes using the thumb-walking technique.2Reposition your working thumb so that it rests on the heart reflex area. Make a series of passes through this area using the thumb-walking technique. Repeat on the other foot.reflexology for men 2455Work the heart and upper back reflex areas, using the foot roller. Roll through the area, increasing pressure by crossing one leg over the other.4Now turn to your feet. Wrap your hand around the big toe, positioning the golf ball in the brain stem area. Roll the ball throughout the area. Enlarged prostate gland Enlargement of the prostate, which causes problems with urination, is a common health concern in men, especially as they get older. To use a self-help technique, rest your thumb on the prostate reflex area. Apply the rotating-on-a-point technique, making circles in the air with your big toe, first clockwise, then counterclockwise.Rest your middle finger in the prostate reflex area. Apply the rotating-on-a-point technique, turning the foot 360˚ clockwise several times, then 360˚ counterclockwise. several times. self-helpReflexology work targets the prostate gland reflex area. The rotating-on-a-point technique is utilized. Use several times a day.2461First, pinpoint the prostate reflex area. Rest your thumb on this reflex area. Now apply the rotating-on-a point technique. 2Next, position your index finger on the outside of the foot. Use the finger-walking technique to make several passes through the testicle reflex area. 3Now, go on to work the groin reflex area, holding the foot upright and using the thumb-walking technique to walk across the ankle several times.Impotence The inability to maintain an erection is addressed by working on the prostate, testicle, and groin reflex areas. Apply self- help techniques several times a day. 1 Position your middle finger on the prostate gland reflex area. Now use the rotating-on-a- point technique, drawing circles in the air with your big toe. 2Go on to position your thumb on the outside of the ankle. Using the thumb-walking technique, make several passes through the testicle reflex area. 3Next, apply the thumb- walking technique from the outside to the inside of the foot, making several passes through the groin reflex area. reflexology for every life stageself-helpreflexology for men 247Hernia Herniation of the groin is a protrusion of abdominal contents through a weakness in the groin, often causing a visible bulge. Target the groin reflex area. self-help Rest your index finger on the ankle. Apply the finger- walking technique, making several passes through the groin reflex area.Holding the foot upright, rest your working thumb in the groin reflex area around the ankle. To work this area, make a succession of thumb-walking passes across the ankle.Stimulating hair gro wth Hair loss is a very serious concern for many men. Use of this self-help nail-buffing dessert may help. Rest both hands in front of you, with the flats of the nails touching. Now rapidly move the right hand in one direction and the left in the opposite direction. Without stopping, reverse direction, building up a steady motion.In treating ailments it is sometimes obvious which reflex areas should be worked. For example, reflexology applied to the lung reflex area has an impact on the function of the lungs. It makes sense therefore to target the lung reflex areas for bronchitis, asthma, and other respiratory conditions. multiple factors Reflexologists have discovered over the years that many factors can have an impact on health problems. For example, as well as targeting the lung reflex area to relieve asthma, working the adrenal gland reflex area may also help. This is because the adrenal glands produce adrenaline, which has an important role in lung function. In addition, many health concerns result from multiple factors. Constipation, for example, can result from tension and/or the malfunctioning of any one of the different organs that contribute to digestion and elimination. To have an impact on constipation, reflexologists will work the stomach, colon, and other reflex areas to get the desired result. When you apply reflexology to target health

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shift your thinking and behavior toward a healthier pathway. The W estern interpretation of T antra or T antric sex, in its purest meaning, gives a clearer picture of a more spiritual experience with sex. W e are d if ferent from other animals in that we have the capacity to con trol and modify o ur emotions, breath, bodily functions, and connection to each other and to spirit. W e have the choice to act dif ferently than with the instinctual and hardwired reactions programmed in our brains by our predecessors. From m y understanding in connection with yoga, which means “to yoke,” “ to unite,” or “to join together,” the act of sexual intim acy can be spiritual in nature, as a way to honor the body, mind, soul, and s pirit of your partner and vice versa. In accordance with bramacharya, this union is best explored in a committed, exclusive, and long-term relationship. Instead of pure me chanical performance, s o to speak, spiritual sexual intim acy brings more awareness to the physical connection. It involves taking the time to get to know your partner on every level and arriving at the level of vulnerability nee ded to create union in a yogic sense of the word. The act of lovemaking can be a truly transcendent experience. In this understa nding of transcendent sexuality, you wouldn’ t want to take lovemaking lightly, but instead come at it from a vantage point not of shame b ut of purity — a sense of purity that comes from within you, as a true rec ognition of the gift your sexuality brings, rather th an an idea imposed on you from someone or something external. When you assimilate this understanding into your being, you won’ t want to squander your sexual ener gy on a subpar or purely physical experience. Some of the things you might want to explore within yourself as you look toward healing the sexual power of your second chakra are the following: 1. What is my view of my own sexuality? 2. What was I taught about sexuality growing up? 3. Have I ever given away my bod y to another because of demand s put upon me?4. Have I ever ha d a sexually intimate experience in which I felt connected to my partner in body, mind, soul, and spirit? 5. Have I ever used sex to get what I want? 6. Has my view of sexual intimacy changed over the years? 7. H ave I had physical symptoms in my second chakra as a result of my beliefs about my sexuality? (Examples are lower back pain, uterine problems, erectile dysfunction, and ovarian cysts.) 8. How will I change my view of my own sexuality to help hea l my second chakra? C REA TIVITY As I was growin g up, I thought the creative gene had been given only to my sister, who was naturally artistic. I looked at my scribbles and stick-figure drawings and felt destined to a life of desk work and intellectual pursuits. Y et as I grew up I learned I did have some creativity in my gene s. After all, writi ng is creative. But I als o love to bake, cook, and dance. Creating is all about taking raw materials that you know, such as words or food ingredients, and putting them together to create something new. So even if you’re an accountant and have discovered a more ef ficient w ay to enter numbers, you’re a creator. That bei ng said, awakening the creative ener gy of the second chakra is about op ening y ourself to the c reative mind of the universe to assist you along the way. Napoleon Hill in Think a nd Gr ow Rich says, “The great artists, w riters, m usicians, and poets become great because they acquire the habit of relying upon the ‘stil l small voice’ which speaks f rom within, through the faculty of cr eative imagination.” He explains that this crea tive imagination, als o known as “ hunches,” is only obtained through four sources: infinite intelligence, one’ s subconscious mind, the mind of another person, or another person’ s subconscious mind. He explains that genius is only released through this meth od and that most people don’ t access this incredible force during the entire span of their lifetime. I’m reminded of the great W alt Disney, who, despit e major failures and setbacks, worked the second chakra in a positive way to create magic for families across the globe.T aking a break f rom daily monotony to do something creative ca n allow your imagination to run wild. Daydreaming, imagining, and mind wandering are wonderful ways to create anything you desire. As speaker and auth or T ony Robbins says, “Everything in your external world started in your internal world.” T oday, t ake thirty minutes out of your day to do something creative. T urn of f all elec tronic devices, and give your imagination free re in. Become immersed in the creative flow. SV ADHISTHANA GUIDED MEDIT A TION W earing clothing that allows you to breathe fully into your lower belly, sit comfortably with you r eyes closed. T ake a couple of deep inhalations and deep exhalatio ns, imagining the breath circulating throughout the area of the second chakra. V isualize a deep orange color m oving in a spinning motion, like a disk, cleansing the area above the pubic bone and below the navel. Imagine this spinning disk catching debris, toxins, and any other negative impressions left in the Svadhisthana chakra. Imagine the disk, like a mag net, attracting all negative and clogged ener gy from your bladder, sex or gans, lower back, and pelvis. Once the spinning orange d isk has collected all debris from the second chakra, it now pulverizes that negativity and turns it into dust. That dust will be eliminated throu gh your excretory system. Now your second cha kra is free from all blockages and negativity. Next, im agine b eautiful, cleansin g water such as clear ocean water moving through the second chakra, polishing it and making it like new. Imagine the swishing soun d as the salt water flows throughout, bringing harmony back to your creativity chakra. Y ou are now ready to move into a higher aspect of second chakra ener gy. Y ou are freed from addictions, lust, cravings, low self-e steem, sexual d ysfunction, and infertil ity. Y ou are now ready and open to create whatever it is that you d esire. Y ou are free to create a baby, a new job, a new home, a new re lationship, a new company, or a new work of art. W hatever you can imagine, you can achieve. Y ourcreative ener gy is at one with the creative mind of the universe. In your he aling, you draw from this ener gy, the ener gy of S ource. Creativity flows through you and outward. Y ou are infinite possibilities. Notice how connected you feel to the water element. Notice ho w awake a nd alive your creativity chakra feels. Y ou can enhance the vibrations by chanting the mantra sound V AM three times. E NERGY -B ODY H EALING WITH G EMS AND C OLORS Y ou can remind yourself to focus on second chakra healing by wearing the color orange or surrounding yourself with orange objects throughout the day. The gemstones for this chakra are amber, orange calcite, citrine, and orange aventurine. Second Chakra Mindfulness Ideas to Ponder 1. Af firmation: I am strong and healthy. I am valuable and perfect the way I am. I am a creative force like the One who created me. 2. I wi ll spend part of my day near a water source — a flo wing fountain, a pond, a river, a stream, or the ocean — or I will imm erse myself in water sounds such as falling rain or ocean waves. As I listen to and experience the power of water, I will imagine the fluidity of my own body. Even though it’ s seemingly solid, it’ s ever flowing and transforming. 3. I will embrace the power of lunar ener gy and its cycles of waxing and wan ing. I know that I too have cycles within my body, a nd I respect t hose cyc les. I will respe ct my need for rest and relaxation as well as activity. I will align mys elf with the earth’ s cycles of day and night and the ch anging of the se asons, and in so doing I will move with the creative flow of the universe. 4. I wi ll re spect m y need to play, dance, sing, paint, bake, and ex press myself and my body in creative ways. I know that giving in to this carefree side of who I am will create balance in my life.T3 T H E S O L A R P L E X U S C H A K R A M a n i p u r a

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Ireland, where they had married late in life, Connor and Mary Patrick were seventy but still good looking and vigorous. After a long period of calm and happiness in their lives, their youngest son contracted AIDS and died. The family was grief stricken, but the boy’s mother healed her grief by reaching out to others. Mary Patrick became a full-time advocate for AIDS victims. She worked politically on various fronts but spent most of her time offering herself personally, driving AIDS patients to the grocery store, visiting them in the hospital, clearing the way for them to pay their enormous medical bills. “Your wife soun ds like a saint, ” I told Connor, unembarrassed to use a cliché because nothing less would fit. Connor had a defiant look in his eyes. “You think so? Then why was she diagnosed last week with advanced lung cancer?” he asked bitterly. I was shocked and told him so, of fering to help in any way I could. “Does your wife smoke?” I asked, expecting that she must, since lung cancer among nonsmokers is extremely rare. Connor shook his head. “She doesn’ t smoke or drink. She is the most loving person I’ve ever met, and this has to happen.” I was silent for a moment as various thoughts ran through my mind. The woman in question is seventy, I told myself, an age not incon sistent with cancer. The general medical finding is that tumors are presen t in almost everyone in old age, even if a malignancy doesn’ t manifest in declared symptoms or become the cause of death. We have all become used to the fact that diseases strike randomly from a statistical point of view, afflicting the good and wicked alike. But we find it hard to accept this when diseasestrikes close to home. My reflections seemed like puny rationalizations in the face of Conn or’s bitterness. We both knew what he was saying: you try to be good and loving, and look what happens to you. I asked what the prognosis was, and Connor shook his head. “No hope,” he said. “It’ s spread everywhere.” “How is your wife taking all this?” I asked. Connor ’s expres sion became less defiant. “Much better than I am. She’s still doing her volunteer work with the most incredible peace of mind, but deep down I know that she’ s suffering.” “Do you?” I thought. I could have simply agreed with him to show my sympathy, but we had a candid relationship. We both sat for a while, not speaking. It’ s very common in my experience that one person’ s tragedy isn’ t necessarily another’s, and that if Mary Patrick was as loving as I knew her to be, she may very well have found the inner peace to see beyond her “dreaded” disease. “Even saints die,” I said quietly, “and they don’t all pass away kneeling in prayer.” I thought Connor would glare at me again or push this comment away. He didn’ t, though. He paused, waiting to hear more. “What I mean is that love isn’t defeated by death. Your wife has found something that death cannot touch, with you and with your son, which makes her situation very different from that of someone for whom the prospect of death is terror and ultimate loss. What if death isn’t a loss? Since you and I haven’ t experienced it, we project our own feelings onto it, but there is another approach. You can fortify yourself with love, not as an emotion but as your sense of identity.” Life brings losses of every sort; death is only the most drastic and unanswerable. At some level everyone knows that death is inevitable, but rather than learning the nonatta chment brought by love, our response is to cling—to each other, to things, to life itself. How can you cling to life when it is constantly changing? Y ou might just as well try to cling to a river. When a grieving husband says about the death of his wife, “It was like losing part of myself,” the phen omenon is physical, even visceral. To the ego the loss of a beloved feels like a survival threat, despite the obvious fact that your body didn’ t perish. Another person was so closely identified with you that you extended your identification beyond its boundaries in time and space. Thus grief mimics love. In both instances two are felt as one.Connor reacted to his wife’ s crisis with anger, one of the first responses of the ego to any loss. Anger says, “This isn’t fair; it’s an outrage.” The loss seems totally unjust. If I had met him another time, Connor might have reacted with denial instead. Denial says, “This can’t be happening.” In denial loss is rejected and made unreal. Or Connor might have reacted with fear, which lies deeper than ange r or denial. The voice of fear says, “I won’ t survive.” Although it was his wife who had contracted cancer, Connor could easily have gone through all the now-familiar stages of dying. In the dying process the final stages are acceptance and transcendence. Only when they have been reached does a person stop futilely bar gaining with the inevitable. Unlike the ego’s reactions, acceptance is a spiritual state. Acceptance says, “This is reality, and I am at peace with it.” The dying describe this as a beautiful stage, which often has no parallel in their lives. The way is opened for relea sing all claims on this world and acquiring a higher vision, which is the stage of transcendence. But the dying do not return to us, and therefore we have to find acceptance on our own, before the crisis of death. That is why so many spiritual traditions speak of “dying every day” or “dying unto death”—these are metaphors for nonattachment, the state Christ called being in the world but not of it. Connor and I didn’ t talk again for almost a year. When I saw him next his wife had died. Despite an extensive course of radiation, Mary Patrick’ s condition had deteriorated rapidly. Sometimes a person with lung cancer can be very active up to her or his final days. Connor ’s wife had continued to visit AIDS patients in the hospital until she was forced to admit herself. She died peacefully with her family around her, having made her farewells and requested that her last hours not be prolonged by life-support machines. Outwardly Conn or seemed to have surmounted the immediate trauma of his grief, but as he recounted these details his voice betrayed much of its former bitterness. It hadn’ t gotten easier for him to discuss his wife’ s dying. “Have you ever thought much about dying?” I asked. “Never,” Conno r replied vehemently. “If I had it in my power, I’d refuse to die. The best I can do is get incredibly angry whenever anybody else dies.” “You’d like to be immortal, in other words,” I said. Connor nodded. “What if it turns out,” I sugges ted, “that you ar e immortal? What if yourwife’ s death is trying to show you that?” “You’re speaking in paradoxes,” Connor said abruptly. “Most people would say that a dying person reminds us of our own fear of death.” “That’ s one interpretation. But the sight of someone dying isn’t just painful or cruel. It’ s real. And in the real must be a spark of spirit.” “I think dying might be too real,” Connor said with conviction. “By which you mean too overw helming,” I replied. “In my experience, the antic ipation of death is always unreal. What do we typically imagine death to be—extinction? falling down an endless hole? going unconscious forever? But these are all projections. Can you imagine the day you won’ t exist? Can you imagine the day before you existed? Both are essentially the same, aren’t they? Therefore couldn’ t both just be stages of life that we aren’ t in contact with?” “I suppose someone with a great deal of faith could believe that,” Connor said. “It’s not a matte r of faith. If you enter into the process of accepting the real, which means stripping away what is unreal, you could be free from death, here and now. Our worldview assumes that death is an ending when in fact dying is a transition.” “A transition to what?” Connor asked. “Why not find out now instead of waiting?” I asked. “No amount of anticipation gives us a preview of death. Fear, anger, and denial are all mental ways of pushing away and rejecting. Why don’t we go into the fear, the anger, the denial, and find out what lies underneath? Because we have conditioned ourselves to believe that clinging to life is the only way to face death. Actually it is the worst way. It is a response rooted in fear and ignorance, and only when we stop clinging can we hope to find the reality beneath the illusion—presumably what you find out when you die. Reality is always on the move, shifting the known out from under us and bringing the unknown into view. Dying to the known brings knowledge that cannot be acquired any other way. The scriptures have called this ‘dying unto death.’” It is a commonly held tenet of psychology

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encer, in the other it is the experienced. “Now ask yourself, ‘Who is it that switches from experiencer to experienced?’ Being in contro l of the operation, you must be beyond it. You are larger than the experiencer, larger than any set of experiences. Whatever you are, you will only nd yours elf beyond the things you now know.” Perhaps not everyone will nd this lesson as earth shattering as I do. It tells me that my indivi dual mind and body, which place such obvious limitat ions upon me today, cannot be the whole story. What is the mind but the experiencer, the knower? What is the body but the experienced, the known? If I can switch my attention from oneto the other, then there must be a “me” that is not trapped in the dualism of mind or body. This “me” is not to be discovered by simple means. I cannot look at it, because it is in my eye; I cannot hear it, because it is in my ear; I cannot touch it, because it is in my nger. So what is left? Only the voice inside that whispers, “Go beyond.” By following that whisper I may lose myself in unknown country. On the other hand, I may step outside the boundary of time itself. Then I will discover, once and for all, whether time is my real home, or eternity. OceanofPDF.comPart Two Beyond Boundaries OceanofPDF.com5 A Mirage of Molecules As a boy growing up in New Delhi, I wondered at the wild contrast between my two grandfathers. One was a man of action, a soldier who was born the son of a small-scale rajah in the dry hills of the Northwest Territory. “Rajah,” or prince, is rathe r a grand title, too high-own to capture those ercely independent tribal chieftains, whose people were the most warlike in India. When British soldiers were sent to force his allegiance to the Crown, my great-grandfather rashly decided to re on them. His tiny forces were quickly defeated. Our family legends hold that the rebellious village had only a single antiqua ted cannon to ght with. The old gun futilely thundered away, and when the foreigners nally marched in, the dead were sprawled beside it, my great-grandfather among them. The sins of the father were not visited upon the son. The British graciously presented my grandfather with the pension that would have been oered to the rajah, along with a life commission as a sergeant in the British army. This was a signal honor at the time. Grandfather relished regimental life, and it molded every detail of his character. He greeted my birth by climbin g onto the roof of his villa in Lahore, ring a smart volley of rie shots into the air, and blowing a triumphant blast on his bugle. Having satisfactorily alerted (and terried) the neighbors, he descended to calmly resume his breakfast.My other grandfather, on my mother’s side, was a man of peace. His life had been molded by foreign inuence, too, but in an entirely dierent way. When the Singer sewing machine was introduced to India at the turn of the century, he became the company’s sales representative, traveling throughout the country to tout this miraculous machi ne that could do the work of three women. He quickly amassed a sizable sum of money and retired before he was fty, spending the rest of his life in medi tation and spiritual inquiry. At the announcement of my birth, he unobtrusively took his way from his house on Babar Road in New Delhi to a back street in the old city, where he distributed alms to the poor. This grandfather passed hours in the company of yogis, swamis, and other holy men, or simply with his old cronies, who constantly talked of “the Mysterious One.” If a friend found a Queen Victoria gold rupee in the street, they would smilingly shake their heads and murmur, as if sharing a private joke, “Oh, it’s the Mysterious One again.” If a young mother lost her rst child, that, too, was a whim of the Mysterious One, and in fact no unusual incident, large or small, went by without invoking this unseen and unseeable person. I had no idea whom they were referring to, although there was a mixture of the inscrutable, the unpredictable, and the divinely playful in his character. Few ten-year-o ld boys, even in India, can be said to have a contemplative bent, and I was no exception. It did not occur to me that these old men in their white jackets and peaked caps, sitting on our veranda half the day without exchanging six words, could be investigating anything very worthwhile. This grandfather died without letting me into his world. Instead, most of my life has been dominated by my army grandfather. Medicine is suited to action and is almost military in its disciplined training, its attention to defense, its rallies and last-ditch stands against the enemy, and not least of all, in the violence often done to the human body in the name of doing it good. To most physicians, the most fearful prospect is not a case that cannot be cured but one where the doctor is helpless to act. Even anincurable disea se has treatments, working toward the day when one of them will prove eective. Without this “anything is better than nothing” attitude, we would not have most of the cures that do exist. But what about the times when doing nothing is the cure? In those moments the Mysterious One begins to make his presence felt. In his brilliant book of essays on surgery, Mortal Lessons, Richard Selzer recalls one patient of his, a short-order cook named Joe Riker, who always showed up for his weekly appointments wearing a fedora. Beneath the hat was hidden a terrible secret: In the middle of his head a tumor had progressively worked its way through the skin, the skull bones, and the three tough outer layers of the brain, leaving a gaping hole. Through it, the actual moist tissue of the brain could now be seen. Selzer’s reaction to this disturbing sight was not horror but urgent compassion: I would gaze then upon Joe Riker and marvel. How digni ed he was, as though the tumor  … had given him a grace that a lifetime of good health had not bestowed. “Joe,” I say, “let’s get rid of it. Cut out the bad part, put in a metal plate, and you’re cured.” And I wait. “No operation,” says Joe. I try again. “What do you mean, ‘no operation’? You’re going to get meningitis. Any day now. And die. That thing is going to get to your brain.” I think of it devouring the man’s dreams and memories. I wonder where they are. The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain, but he does not know his patient’s dreams and memories.… “No operation,” says Joe. “You give me a headache,” I say. And we smile, not because the joke is funny anymore, but because we have got something between us, like a secret. Week after week, for six months, Selzer had no choice but to apply fresh dressings and set the next weekly appointment, always for Thursday at four o’clock. Then one day Joe missed his appointmentand did not return. After a month, Selzer drove to the diner in New Haven where Joe worked and found him behind the counter, still wearing his fedora. When he demanded to examine him, Joe nervously refused, but he agreed to meet Selzer at his oce that Thursday. He showed up late for his appointment. “Take o your hat,” I say, and he knows by my voice that I am not happy. He does, though, raise it straight up with both hands the way he always does, and I see … that the wound has healed. Where once there had been a bitten-out excavation … there is now a fragile bridge of shiny new skin. “What happened?” I manage. “You mean that?” He points to the top of his head. “Oh well,” he says, “the wife’s sister, she went to France, and brought me a bottle of water from Lourdes. I’ve been wash ing it out with that for a month.” “Holy water?” I say. “Yeah,” says Joe. “Holy water.” O and on after that, Selzer would see Joe at the diner, looking completely ordinary, not at all like “a eshy garden of miracles,” as Selzer dubbed him. There seemed to be no change at all in Joe’s shuing walk or his matter-of-fact manner. “Perhaps the only change is just the sly wink with which he greets me, as though to signal that we have shared something furtive. Could such a man, I think as I

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sessions if the condition has not been relieved in one s tint of supervised fasting. Each successive fast will produce some improvement and if a light, largely raw -food diet is adhered to between fasts the patient should not worsen and should be fairly comfortable between fastings. If there has been major func tional damage to an organ as a result of any of these degenerative conditions, healing will not be complete, or may be impossible. By organic damage, I mean that a vital part of the body has ceased to function due to some degenerative process, injury, or s urgery –so badly damaged that the cells that make up the organ can not be replaced. I once had a twenty five year old man come to my spa to die in peace because he had been through enough diagnostic procedures in three hospitals to know that his liver was beyond repair. He had been working on an apple farm in between terms at university when he was poisoned several times with insecticide from an aerial spray on the whole orchard. He absorbed so much insecticide that his liver incurred massive organic da mage. When he came to me his body had reached the point where it was incapable of digesting, and because of lack of liver function, it was incapable of healing while fasting, a condition in which death is a certainty. He was a Buddhist, did not fear de ath and did not want to be kept alive in agony or in prolonged unconsciousness by any extraordinary means, nor did he want to die with tubes in every orifice. I was honored to be a supportive participant in his passing. He died fasting, in peace, and witho ut pain, with a clear mind that allowed him to consciously prepare for the experience. He was not in a state of denial or fear, and made no frantic attempts to escape the inevitable. He went quietly into that still dark night with a tranquil demeanor and a slight smile. Fortunately, in my many years of practice I had the pleasure of seeing the majority of the people totally regain their health or at least greatly improve it by means of the fasting and healing diets. Many cancer patients watched with ama zement as their tumors disappeared before their eyes, many arthritics regained their function, serious skin conditions such as psoriasis disappeared, mental conditions improved, addictions vanished, fatigue was replaced by energy, and fat dissolved reveali ng the hidden sculpture beneath. I will talk more about procedures and the particular reasons bodies develop specific conditions in later chapters. Social/Cultural/Psychological Obstacles To Fasting Numerous attitudes make it difficult to fast or to p rovide moral support to friends or loved ones that are fasting. Many people harbor fears of losing weight because they think that if times were really tough, if there was a famine or they became ill an d lost a lot of weight they would have no reserves and would certainly perish. These people have no idea how much fat can be concealed on an even skinny body, nor of how slowly a skinny body loses weight while fasting. Substantial fat reserves are helpful as h eat- retaining insulation in those rare accidents wh en someone is dropped into a cold ocean and must survive until the rescue boat arrives. Being fat might keep a person alive longer who is lost in the wilderness awaiting rescue with no supplies, no means of procuring food, and no means of keeping warm. On the other hand, fat people would have a far harder time walking out of the wilderness. And extensive fat deposits are merely fuel and do not contain extensive nutritional reserves. An obese person fas ting without significant nutritional supplementation wou ld begin starving long before they became really skinny. On the balance, carrying excess weight is a far greater liability than any potential pro -survival aspects it might have. There are other attitudes associated with weight loss that make it difficu lt for people to fast. People hold rather stereotypical notions about what constitutes an attractive person; usually it involves having some meat on ones bones. Hollywood and Hugh Hefner have both influenced the masses to think that women should have hourg lass figures with large, upthrust, firm breasts. Since breasts are almost all useless fatty tissue supporting some milk -producing glands that do not give a breast much volume except when engorged, most women fasters lose a good percentage of their breast m ass. If the fast is extensive, there should also develop an impressive showing of ribs and hip bones; these are not soft and cuddly. Husbands, lovers, parents, and friends frequently point out that you don’t look good this way and exhort you to put on weig ht. Most people think pleasantly plump is healthy. Skinny men, especially those who had lost a lot of weight during an illness, are pressured by associates to put on weight to prove that they are healthy. I had a client who was formerly a college vars ity football player. Before his illness he had lifted weights and looked like a hunk. His family and friends liked to see him that way and justifiably so. Then he got seriously il l. On a long extended healing diet he lost a significant amount of weight and seemed down right skinny, causing all who knew him well and cared about him to tempt him with all kinds of scrumptious delicacies from the best of kitchens. But this case was like L uigi Cornaro, a man who never again could look like a hunk. His "friends" made an absolutely necessary change in life style and appearance far more difficult than it was already. My client was torn between a desire to please others, and a desire to rega in and retain his health. This problem a sick person doesn’t need. If you have the independence to consider following an alternative medical program in a culture that highly values conformity and agreement, you are also going to have to defend your own course of self -determined action based on the best available data that you h ave. But fasters are usually in fragile emotional condition, so I advise my clients who are subjected to this kind of pressure to beg their friends and associates to refrain from saying anything if they can’t support the course of action you h ave chosen. A fter this, if friends or relatives are still incapable of saying nothing (even non -verbally), it is important to exclude them from your life until you have accomplished your health goals, have regained some weight and have returned to eating a maintenance diet, rather than getting skinnier on a healing one. The very worst aspect of our culture’s eating programming is that people have been wrongfully taught that when ill they must eat to keep up their strength. Inherent in this recommendation is an unsta ted belief that when the body is weakened by a disease state, the weakness can somehow be overcome with food, and that the body needs this food to kill the virus, bacteria, or inva ding yeast, and uses the protein to heal or rebuild tissue. Sadly, the exact opposite is the case. Disease organisms feed and multiply on the toxic waste products of misdigestion, and the body is unable to digest well when it is weak or ill. There’s an old saying about this: ‘feed a cold, starve a fever." Most people think th is saying means you should eat when you have a cold. What the saying really means is if you feed a cold then you will soon have to starve a fever. Protein foods espe cially are not digested by a diseased body, and as mentioned before, the waste products of protein indigestion are especially poisonous. That is all the body needs when it is already down, another load of poison which it can’t eliminate due to weakness and enerv ation. Weight loss is usually associated with illness, as it should be! In times of acute illness an otherwise healthy body loses its appetite for food because it is pro -survival to stop eating. It is very hard to coax a sick animal to eat. Their bodies, not controlled by a mind full of complex learned responses and false ideas, autom atically know that fasting is nature’s method of healing. Contrary to popular understanding, digestion, assimilation, and elimination require the expenditure of considerable energy. T his fact may contradict the reader’s experience because everyone has beco me tired when they have worked a long time without eating, and then experienced the lift after eating. But an ill body cannot digest efficiently so instead of providing energy extracte d from foods, the body is further burdened by yet another load of toxic material produced by fermented and putrefied food. This adds insult to injury in a sick body that is already drowning in its own garbage. Worse, during illness most available vital force is already redirected into healing; it is not available for diges tion. It is important to allow a sick body to proceed with healing and not to obstruct the process with unnecessary digestion or suppress the sympt oms (which actually are the healing efforts) with drugs. If you have an acute illness, and you stop all food intake except for pure water and herb teas, and perhaps some vegetable broth, or dilute non -sweet juice, you have relieved your body of an immense effort. Instead of digesting, the body goes to work on catching up on healing. The body can and will almost i nevitably heal itself if the sick person will have faith in it, co -operate with the body’s efforts by allowing the symptoms of healing to exist, reduce or eliminate the intake of food to allow the body to marshal its energies, maintain a positive mental at titude and otherwise stay out of the way. Many people intensely dread missing even one meal. These folks usually are and have

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discomforts disappear. Most of us know something of the suffering and prostration brought on by the “withdrawal symptoms” of the inebriate when he is taken off alcohol. In a parallel way many who go on fasts have become so used to food stimulants through the years, that they go through a period of depression similar to that of the inebriate deprived of his alcohol. They may become nauseous and vomiting may occur. They may become irritable, sleepless, weak; there may be pains and aches in the body; there may be severe headache. It is not proper to call these developments “withdrawal symptoms,” in my opinion. It is important to know that they are evanescent, of brief duration, are rarely severe. Sometimes, to avoid and to ameliorate these symptoms, the faster is given fruits. I doubt that this is wise. With these foods, the fast is interrupted when the first signs of discomfort appear, and then it is resumed after two or three days of light eating of this nature. The interruption with light feeding may have to be repeated two or three times during a fast of considerable length, if this plan is resorted to. It is doubtful that the interruption saves the faster a single slight twinge of discomfort and it is certain that it prolongs the time he has to be under observation. If the faster will grit his teeth, clench his fists, grin and bear the evanescent discomforts until the crisis is over the first time, there will be no recurrence of the symptoms. Frequently such a crisis is of extremely brief duration, no more than an hour or so. Only infrequently does it last longer than three to four days. In addition to the foregoing general developments in fasting, there are a number of specific areas where changes and developments are usual and should be understood. Even though they present no problem or serious difficulty whatsoever, they should, as a part of the fasting routine, be discussed frankly with the experienced Hygienist who is directing the fast. When one starts a fast, certain physical developments occur almost invariably and should not 50cause alarm. Chief among them are: The tongue coats heavily, a bad taste develops in the mouth and breath acquires a bad odor. Teeth may become pasty. The whole complex resembles the tongue, mouth and breath in fever. Indeed, there are fasting advocates who liken this to the depurative work of an acute illness, a fever. Disagreeable as this condition may be, it represents a cleansing process. As the body unloads its toxic burden, a process of slow clearing of the tongue begins at the tip and on the sides and gradually clearing backward and towards the middle, until, by the time hunger returns, the tongue and mouth are clean and the breath sweet. However light the urine may be at the beginning of the fast, it will become very dark and foul within a few hours to a day after the fast is started. It may become almost black in many cases and the odor will be very strong. After a week to two weeks, depending on the condition of the faster —the urine begins to clear, becomes lighter, loses its strong odor until by the time hunger returns it is normal in color and odor. The whole procedure is part of the evidence that the kidneys are engaged in throwing out unusual quantities of waste. Urine tests verify this fact. As purification continues, the urine returns to normal. Loss of weight that results from fasting is consequent upon the utilization of the body’s reserves in nourishing the vital tissues and the excretion of toxic accumulations. This loss should be regarded as part of the process of purification and the resulting improvement should be welcomed. The degree of unwholesomeness of the tissues helps to determine the rapidity with which weight is lost. Loss is greatest in the early days of the fast, fat people losing at a faster rate than thin individuals. There are however, thin individuals who because of the toxic state of their tissues lose as rapidly as overweight fasters during the first few days. Losses at this stage range from a pound and a half a day, at the start of the fast, to four to six pounds in very stout individuals. After a few days of fasting, the rate of loss slackens. In the later stages of a long fast, less than a quarter of a pound a day may be lost. It is easily possible to exaggerate the importance of weight loss in any consideration of fasting. The emaciated person who remains thin on his various “weight gaining” diets may be very reluctant to lose more weight, although generally after the fast, he will gain weight on much less food than he has been in the habit of eating. It is an error to think that fasting is of benefit only to fleshy people. The feeling of weakness, sometimes experienced during a fast is due, in the main to functional inactivity. There is a general functional let-down as the organism takes full advantage of the proffered opportunity to rest. The heart slows, circulation slows, there is a slowing of respiration. The glands of the body reduce their activities. In general, the tired body heaves a sigh of relief and goes to bed. This is just what is needed and proof that it is beneficial is seen by the fact that vigor returns as the body rests and is cleansed, long before food is taken. Indeed weakness during the first few days of the fast may be nothing more significant than an absence of the accustomed stimulation. Many people undertake to fast with the mistaken idea that the cleansing processes carried on during this period are necessarily of extremely trying and of disagreeable nature. This is true in only a minute percentage of cases; it is by no means the rule. On the contrary, most fasters go through even long fasts without the development of any dramatic or extraordinary crises. Most of the work of excretion is carried on without the production of troublesome crises. When a crisis does develop it should be welcomed, as it is almost always of a remedial nature. 51Skin eruptions rarely develop during the fast, but are definitely eliminative processes when they do occur. Giddiness, fainting, palpitation of the heart, and symptoms of this nature, though not common, should not be regarded as crises. They present no danger to the faster. Perhaps the most annoying development that occurs while a fast is in progress is that of nausea and vomiting. Not only is it a trying time while it lasts, but the faster is very weak also. Fortunately, there can be no doubt that this crisis is definitely beneficial and it does not occur in more than fifteen percent of cases. Nausea and vomiting can develop on the first day of the fast or at any time thereafter. Generally, a crisis develops after several days of abstinence. In a few instances they develop after four or more weeks of fasting. What is ejected is usually a rather abnormal and watery bile with considerable mucus. The liver works over-time (for a day to a few days) and much of the bile thus turned out is regurgitated into the stomach, and is thrown out. The faster is so greatly benefited by the ordeal that he is well compensated for the discomfort. These episodes may last a day or they may last two, three, four days or a week. Rarely does vomiting persist beyond a week. The faster's strength returns when vomiting ceases. If it persists for several days and water is not retained there is some inevitable dehydration. This is a serious matter, especially in cases where vomiting lasts for several days. The possibility of breaking the fast must be considered promptly. The faster is weakened by the dehydration and the recovery of strength is slow. If there is diarrhea along with the vomiting, and this occurs very rarely, the dehydration is more severe. In such cases, if vomiting does not subside after a reasonable time, break the fast. This is not always easy as there is a tendency to vomit the food as well as the water. In supervising some fasters, I have often tried several kinds of juice before finding one that could be retained. Diarrhea in a fast is not as common as vomiting, but it does occur occasionally. When it does develop, it may come at any period of the fast, even after thirty-five days. The discharge is composed of bile, mucus and retained feces. This crisis is undoubtedly of a cleansing character. It may be viewed in the same light as the diarrhea that accompanies marked edema in nephritis (Bright’s disease) by which much of the edematous fluid is expelled from the body. That this ever occurs in non-fasters I am not sure, but it is a common development in fasting a dropsical case. 5211 Nine Basic Steps Let me warn emphatically that fasting is a much more complicated process than generally realized even by some of its ardent advocates. It involves much more than merely going without food. There is an art to fasting as well as a science of fasting. The uses of fasting seem, at times, almost unlimited. Its inconveniences are not great, its dangers are few and rarely seen. Yet for the most satisfactory results it must be conducted in accordance with a few well-ascertained rules and techniques by an experienced man. It is not a process to be left to the guidance of anyone of meager knowledge or no experience in conducting fasts. Paradoxically, less supervision

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rotein is a type of lipio found in the body. It serves a number ofimportant functions, including scouring the blood for excess cholesterol, removing the excess to the liver, where it is broken down so that the body can eliminate it. This type of cholesterol is sometimes referred to as ‘good cholesterol’, because of its positive health benefits. Free Radicals Free radicals are atoms or groups of atoms with an unpaired number of electrons and can be formed when oxygen interacts with certain molecules. Once formed, these highly reactive radicals can start a chain reaction, like dominoes. Their main danger comes from the damagethey can do when they react with important cellular components such as DNA or the cell membrane. Cells may function poorly or die if this occurs. To prevent free radical damage, the body has a defence system of antioxidants. Glycemic Index GI is a measure of the effects of carbohydrates on blood sugar levels. Carbohydrates that break down quickly during digestion and release glucose rapidly into the blood stream have a high GI; those that break down more slowly, releasing glucose more gradually, have a low GI. Homocysteine Homocysteine is an amino acid in the blood. Some studies have shown that too much homocysteine in the blood (plasma) is related to a higher risk of coronary heart disease and stroke. Phytochemicals Phytochemicals are non-nutritive plant chemicals that have protective or disease- preventive properties. There are more than a thousand known phytochemicals. It is well known that plants produce these chemicals to protect themselves but recentresearch demonstrates that they can protect humans against diseases too. Some of the well-known phytochemicals are lycopene in tomatoes, isoflavones in soya and flavonoids in fruits. These have all been mentioned in Chapter 1 on super foods. Each phytochemical works differently. Here are some possible actions: Antioxidants – Most phytochemicals have antioxidant activity, protecting our cells against oxidative damage and reducing the risk of developing certain types of cancer. Phytochemicals with antioxidant activity include allyl sulfides (found in onions, leeks,garlic), carotenoids (fruits, carrots), flavonoids (fruits, vegetables) and polyphenols (tea, grapes). Hormonal action – Isoflavones, which are found in soya, imitate human oestrogens and help to reduce menopausal symptoms and osteoporosis. Stimulation of enzymes – Indoles, which are found in cabbage, stimulate enzymes that make oestrogen less effective and could reduce the risk of breast cancer. Other phytochemicals which interfere with enzymes are protease inhibitors (soya, beans) and terpenes (citrus fruits, cherries). Interference with DNA replication – Saponins, found in beans, interfere with the replication of cell DNA, thereby preventing the multiplication of cancer cells. Capsaicin, found in hot peppers, protects DNA from carcinogens. Anti-bacterial effect – The phytochemical, allicin, found in garlic, has anti-bacterial properties. Physical action – Some phytochemicals bind physically to cell walls thereby preventing the adhesion of pathogens to human cell walls. Proanthocyanidins are responsible for the anti-adhesion properties of cranberry. Consumptionof cranberries will reduce the risk of urinary tract infections and will improve dental health. Recipes Some of these recipes are mine and some are from around the world. I found that some recipes are made differently in certain regions. That’s not to say they don’t taste good – having a variety of different cooking methods makes it more fun. I have adjusted some of the ingredients in the recipes to my own taste; you can do the same, but have fun with them. Enjoy. Oven Temperature Conversions This is an approximate conversion chart between gas mark and electric ovens. It should be accurate enough for all your cooking needs, though keep in mind that temperatures will vary between different types, brands and sizes of ovens, and also in relation to your location’s altitude, temperature, humidity, etc. Chapter 7 Salads I usually eat salads for lunch but you could serve any of these recipes as part of a dinner menu as a starter. If you eat any of the salads that contain fruit as a starter, wait at least 20 minutes after eating the salad, allowing time for it to be digested, before having your main meal. Arabic Salad This salad is simple, healthy and especially ideal for spring. Serves 2 2 tomatoes, diced 1 courgette, peeled and chopped ½ red onion, finely chopped 1 tsp cumin 1 tsp coriander, finely chopped ½ tsp cayenne pepper 1 lemon, juiced 1 tbsp water 1 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp flaxseed oil ½ tsp sesame oil Parsley to serve 1. Add the tomatoes, courgette and onion in a salad bowl.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|> Q: What are the health benefits of ginger?, A: Ginger has anti-inflammatory properties and has been shown to have potential in fighting heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and arthritis. Q: Which spices have anti-cancer properties?, A: Turmeric and saffron have been researched for their anti-cancer properties, and some studies have shown promising results. Q: What is the recommended daily water intake?, A: The text does not mention a specific daily water intake recommendation, but it emphasizes the importance of eating foods with high water content and drinking plenty of water throughout the day. Q: What are some of the health benefits of sesame seeds?, A: Sesame seeds are a good source of various nutrients, including calcium, magnesium, and iron, and may help lower cholesterol levels. Q: What is the pH level of the human body?, A: The text does not mention a specific pH level of the human body, but it does discuss the importance of maintaining an alkaline pH through diet and antioxidants.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Serves 4 1 litre vegetable or chicken stock 450g carrots, peeled and chopped 1 garlic clove, crushed ⅛ tsp cinnamon ¼ tsp cumin ½ tsp paprika ½ tsp cayenne pepper or hot sauce Juice of 1 lemon ½ tsp honey or agave nectar ½ tsp orange flower water 1 tbsp parsley, chopped 1. In a medium saucepan, boil the stock. Add the carrots and garlic. Reduce the heat and simmer until the carrots are tender. 2. Remove half the carrots and set aside. In a food processor, blend the carrots, garlic and stock, then return to thesaucepan. 3. Mix in the cinnamon, cumin, paprika and cayenne or hot sauce. Add the remaining carrots to the soup, and simmer for 10 minutes. 4. When the soup is ready to serve, stir in the lemon juice, honey or agave and orange flower water. Serve in bowls and sprinkle with parsley.Chapter 10 Starters and Vegetables Make sure you wash all vegetables thoroughly, preferably in filtered or bottled water, especially if veggies are not organic. I tend to wash veggies like courgettes (veggies with skin) with salt or lemon.Avocado Stuffed with Seafood (South African) If you love avocados, then this recipe will be a treat. It’s an easy-to-prepare dish that can be served as a starter or snack at any time of the day. Serves 2–4 Juice of ½ lemon 4 tbsp dry white wine 1 tsp curry powder 150 g mayonnaise ½ tsp mace or nutmeg 225 g prawns, cleaned and deveined 450 g crabmeat or lobster meat 1 head romaine lettuce, cleaned and leaves separated 2 avocados, peeled and halved 1 grapefruit, peeled and sectioned 1. Mix the lemon juice, white wine, curry powder, mayonnaise and nutmeg in a small bowl and set aside. 2. Place the prawns and crabmeat in a bowl and add half the dressing. Leave to marinade slightly. 3. Arrange the lettuce leaves to form cups on plates. Place the avocado halves in the lettuce cups and spoon in the seafood and dressing. Place 4 grapefruit sections on the side of each plate and serve.Asian-style Coleslaw Crunchy, healthy coleslaw you can enjoy with any food or just on its own. Serves 2–4 ½ medium head white cabbage, sliced ½ medium head red cabbage, sliced 1 red pepper, chopped 1 yellow pepper, chopped 3 carrots, peeled and shredded 4 spring onions ½ bunch fresh coriander, chopped 50 g roasted peanuts, chopped 3 tbsp rice vinegar

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10,000 meters and indoor 3,000 meters, and silver medal winner at the 2012 London Olympics—had recently collapsed during training. Rupp’ s headph ones had fallen of f and “he was unable to hear his coach reminding him to breathe. ” Reading between the lines, it seems as if Rupp may well have been practicing breath holding during his training sessions, with his coach setting his limits. Please note that it is neither necessary nor safe to hold your breath in order to create such an extreme air hunger. T o get the most benefit from the breath-ho ld exercises in th is b ook, only hold your breath until you experience a mediu m to strong ur ge for air. Pay attention to the intensity of the air hunger you create as you perform each exercise, and rele ase your nose when you feel challenged. Y ou should be able to recover your breathing within 2 to 3 breaths following a breath hold. T o the uninitiated, purposely h olding the breath may seem strange. Oxygen is necessary for life, so why subject the body to such a limitation. Just as physical training is a very natural activity for mankin d, so too is breath h olding. As a child, you might have held your breath any time you swam to pick up a coin or other object from the bottom of a swimming pool. A t other times, you may have held competitions with siblings or friends to see who could hold their breath for the longest, with passing the 1-minute mark being an acceptable accomplishment. For the past th irteen years, thousands of children have attended my courses to help address coughing, wheezing, and symptoms of breathlessness a nd asthma. Children as young as four are able t o practice a number of dif ferent breath-hold exercises, each with a specific purpose. For example, there is a breath-hold exercise to help unblock the nose, another to help stop a wheeze or a cough, while another is designed to improve breathing volume by holding the breath for as long as possible. While ad ults ma y at first be wary of holding their breath, children often take to it like ducks to water. I usually work with five or six children to a group, ranging in age from fo ur to fifteen years. Beginners are gently introduced to the exercises by walking a distance of 10 paces while they hold the ir breath. After 3 or 4 re petitions, the number of paces is increased in in crements of 5 until the child understands the exercise and ex periences a moderate need for air. Most chi ldren master the exercise in no time at all, and are soon in friendly competi tion with their peers to hold their breath for as many steps as possible. I usually expect children to hold their breath for 30 paces during the first session, increasing by 10 e xtra paces each week. Some c hildren will make qu icker pr ogress and can learn to hold their breath for up to 80 paces in a s little as two or three weeks without losing breath control or experiencing any stress. Even professional athletes would be impressed by this feat. More important, at 80 paces, in my experience, the child’ s blocked nose, cough, wheeze, or exercise-induced asthma will have completely disappeared. The beauty of breath holding is that while the air shortage can be relatively extrem e, it is entirel y under our own control and for a short duration of time only. For premenstrual women, vegetarians, or those with a history of anemia, it m ay b e necessary to take an iron supplement to support the production of normal red blood cells. If, despite sustained practice of these exercises, your BOL T score fails to increase, it may be useful to visit your doct or to have a complete blood count. If your hemoglobin is low, speak with your doctor about iron supplementation. In some individuals, I have witnessed iron supplementation making a remarkable dif ference to BOL T scores within just a few short weeks. The fol lowing Oxygen Adva ntage breath-hold training e xercises provide simple ways to simul ate the beneficial ef fects of h igh-altitude training and high-intensity train ing while allowing you to exercise in your usual wa y. Each exercise provides both a hypoxic (lack of oxygen) and a hypercapnic (high carbon dioxide) response. Combining these two ef fects produces important changes in the body, such as: •  Lowering sensitivity to carbon dioxide•  Increasing endurance •  Reducing discomfort and fatigue from lactic acid buildup •  Increasing the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood •  Improving breathing economy •  Improving VO 2 max By i ncorporating these easy techniques into your routine, you w ill find that your breath-hold ability increases quickly, and you will begin to see results within your training and your competitive performance. Using a Pulse Oximeter T o get the best results from breath-hold exercises, it can be helpful to use a handheld device called a pulse oximeter that measures how loaded the blood is with ox ygen. Convenient and noninvasive, using a pulse oximeter simply i nvolves placing a probe on your fingertip to measure the oxygen saturation (SpO 2 ) of your blood. A pulse oximeter can be purchased rather cheaply, but my advice is to purchase a better -known brand such as NONIN, as they tend to be more responsive. One of the main benefits of using a pulse oximeter is that it can be very motivating to witn ess the drop in oxyge n satura tion as you prac tice breath holds, reinforcing the success of the exercise. In addition, the device can help to ensure that you don’ t overdo the exercises by lowering your SpO 2 below 80 percent. Normal oxygen saturation at sea level varies between 95 and 99 percent (as we have seen), while the benefits from breath holding occur when the SpO 2 l eve l is dropped to below 94 percent. In the beginning, you may not notice m uch of a decrease to your oxygen saturation while performing breath holds. However, with practice and the ability to tolerate a stronger air shortage, the drop to oxygen sat uration will become evident in as little as a few days. The ef fects of breath holding de pend on two factors—oxygen saturation during training and the length of the exposure to reduced oxygen—but slow and steady is the way to go, just as it is whenever you start a new exercise program. T o get the most out of breath-hold exercises, it helps to startgently, h olding the breath until you feel a medium air hunger during the first two or thre e breath holds b efore gradually increasing the duration and intensity. This way, you will fe el in control and be able to practice more ef fectively. As your BOL T score increases, you will find it easier to manage the sensation of air hunger, and your blood oxygen saturation will start to drop below 94 percent. Simulate High-Altitude T raining While W alking W e beg in by introducing a simple walking exercise that ena bles you to achieve similar benefits to those experienced during intense physical training in as litt le as 10 to 15 m inutes. The beauty of this exercise is that it can be performed anywhere and at any time, even if an injury is preventing you from engaging in normal training. Similar to any intense physical exercise, it is important to practice at least two hours after eating. Just as it is not advisable to go for a jog directly after eating, it is also best to practice breathing exercises on an empty stomach. Not only would it be uncomfortable to perform breath holds too soon after a meal, bu t the benefit of the exercise would be much reduced as the process of digestion increases breathing. During this exercise you will be practicing breath holds as you walk. For the first 2 to 3 breath holds, in order to gently acclimatize your body to lower levels of oxygen, it’ s important to hold your breath only until you feel a medium hunger for air. For the remaining breath holds, challenge yourself by aiming to ac hieve a relatively strong need for air. Due to a delay in the pulse tra nsit tim e, it is commo n for the decrease in oxygen saturation to take plac e not during the breath hold, but soon after it. Therefore, to get the most fro m the exercise, minimize breathing for about 15 seconds following the breath hold by taking short breaths in and out through the nose. If you have a pulse ox imeter, you might enjoy observing the decre ase to your oxygen saturation as you do this—ef fectively simulating h igh-altitude training and bringing the mountain to you. •   W alk and hold: Aft er a minute of continuous walking, gently exhale a nd pinch your nose to hold your breath. If you feel uncomfortable pinching your nose while walking in public, you can simply hold your breath without holding your nose.

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quality butter is almost unobtainable.First of all, it has to be raw, made from unpasteurized cream. Second, butter cancontain very high levels of fat-soluble vitamins, but doesn’t have to. Vitamin-richbutter’s color is naturally bright yellow, almost orange. This color does not comefrom a test tube. Pale yellow butter as is found in the commercial trade wasprobably almost white before it was artificially tinted. Butter from grass-pasturedcows naturally changes from yellow-orange to white and back again through theyear as the seasons change. Spring grass, growing in the most intense sunlight ofthe year contains very high levels of chlorophyll and vitamins. Cows eating thisgrass put high levels of vitamins A and D into their cream, evidenced by theorange color of vitamin A. By July, natural butter has degraded to medium-yellow in color. By August, it is pale yellow. Industrial dairy cows fed exclusively on hay or artificial, processed feeds (lacking in these vitamins), produce butterfat that isalmost white. I prefer to obtain my butter from a neighbor who has several dairy cows grazing on fertile bottom land pasture. We always freeze a year’s supply in latespring when butter is at its best.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms: Enemas given at home take a lot less time than traveling to receive a colonics at someone’s clinic, and can be done entirely at you own convenience—a greatadvantage when fasting because you can save your energy for internal healing. Butcolonics are more appropriate for some. There are fasters who are unable to givethemselves an enema either because their arms are too short and their body is toolong and they lack flexibility, or because of a physical handicap or they can’tconfront their colon, so they let someone else do it. Some don’t have themotivation to give themselves a little discomfort but are comfortable with someoneelse doing it to them. Some very sick people are too weak to cleanse their owncolon, so they should find someone to assist them with an at-home enema or havesomeone take them to a colonic therapist. Few people these days have any idea how to properly give themselves an enema. The practice has been discredited by traditional medical doctors asslightly dangerous, perhaps addictive and a sign of psychological weirdness. YetNorthamericans on their civilized, low fiber, poorly combined diets suffer widelyfrom constipation. One proof of this is the fact that chemical laxatives, with theirown set of dangers and liabilities, occupy many feet of drug store shelf space andare widely advertised. Is the medical profession’s disapproval of the enemarelated to the fact that once the initial purchase of an enema bag has been madethere are no further expenses for laxatives. Or perhaps it might be that once aperson discovers they can cure a headache, stop a cold dead in its tracks with anenema, they aren’t visiting the M. D. s so often. The enema has also been wrongly accused of causing a gradual loss of colon muscle tone, eventually preventing bowel movements without the stimulation of anenema, leading finally to flaccidity and enlargement of the lower bowel. Thisactually can happen; when it does occur it is the result of frequent administrationof small amounts of water (fleet enemas) for the purpose of stimulating a normalbowel movement. The result is constant stretching of the rectum without sufficientfluid to enter the descending colon. A completely opposite, highly positive effectcomes from properly administered enemas while cleansing. The difference between helpful and potentially harmful enemas lies in the amount of water injected and the frequency of use. Using a cup or two of waterto induce a bowel movement may eventually cause dependency, will notstrengthen the colon and may after years of this practice, result in distention andenlargement of the rectum or sigmoid colon. However, a completely emptyaverage-sized colon has the capacity of about a gallon of water. Whenincreasingly larger enemas are administered until the colon is nearly emptied offecal matter and the injection of close to a gallon of water is achieved, beneficialexercise and an increase in overall muscle tone are the results. Correctly given, enemas (and especially colonics) serve as strengthening exercises for the colon. This long tubular muscle is repeatedly and completelyfilled with water, inducing it to vigorously exercise while evacuating itself multipletimes. The result is a great increase in muscle tone, acceleration of peristalsis andeventually, after several dozens of repetitions, a considerable reduction of transittime. Well-done enemas work the colon somewhat less effectively and do notimprove muscle tone quite as much as colonics. Injecting an entire gallon of water with an enema bag is very impractical when a person is eating normally. But on a light cleansing diet or while fasting theamount of new material passing into the colon is small or negligible. During thefirst few days of fasting if two or three enemas are administered each day inimmediate succession the colon is soon completely emptied of recently eaten food and it becomes progressively easier to introduce larger amounts of water. Within a few days of this regimen, injecting half a gallon or more of water is easy andpainless. Probably for psychological reasons, some peoples’ colons allow water to be injected one time but then “freeze up” and resist successive enemas. For thisreason better results are often obtained by having one enema, waiting a half hour,another enema, wait a half hour, and have a final enema. A colonic machine in the hands of an expert operator can administer the equivalent of six or seven big enemas in less than one hour, and do this withoutundue discomfort or effort from the person receiving the colonic. However, theAMA has suppressed the use of colonics; they are illegal to administer in manystates. Where colonics are legal, the chiropractors now consider this practicemessy and not very profitable compared to manipulations. So it is not easy to finda skilled and willing colonic technician. Anyone who plans to give themselves therapeutic enemas while fasting would be well advised to first seek out a colonic therapist and receive two or threecolonics delivered one day apart while eating lightly and then immediately beginthe fast. Three colonics given on three successive days of a light, raw food dietare sufficient to empty all recently eaten food even from a very constipated,distended and bloated colon, while acquainting a person with their own bowel. Having an empty colon is actually a pleasant and to most people a thoroughlynovel experience. A few well-delivered colonics can quickly accustom a personto the sensations accompanying the enema and demonstrate the effect to beachieved by oneself with an enema bag, something not quickly discoverable anyother way. How To Give Yourself An Enema Enemas have been medically out of favor for a long time. Most people have never had one. So here are simple directions to self-administer an effective enemaseries. The enema bag you select is important. It must hold at least two quarts and be rapidly refillable. The best American-made brand is made of rubber with aboutfive feet of rubber hose ending in one of two different white hard plastic insertiontips. The bag is designed for either enemas or vaginal douches. It hangs from adetachable plastic “S” hook. When filled to the brim it holds exactly one-halfgallon. The maker of this bag offers another model that costs about a dollar moreand also functions as a hot water bottle. A good comforter it may make, but thedual purpose construction makes the bag very awkward to rapidly refill. Irecommend the inexpensive model. The plastic insertion tips vary somewhat. The straight tubular tip is intended for enemas; the flared vaginal douche tip can be useful for enemas too, in that itsomewhat restrains unintentional expulsion of the nozzle while filling the colon. However, its four small holes do not allow a very rapid rate of flow. To give yourself an enema, completely fill the bag with tepid water that does not exceed body temperature. The rectum is surprisingly sensitive to heat and youwill flinch at temperatures only a degree or two higher than 98 Fahrenheit. Coolerwater is no problem; some find the cold stimulating and invigorating. Fastershaving difficulty staying warm should be wary of cold water enemas. These candrop core body temperature below the point of comfort. Make sure the flow clamp on the tube is tightly shut and located a few inches up the tube from the nozzle. Hang the filled bag from a clothes or towel hook,shower nozzle, curtain rod, or other convenient spot about four to five feet abovethe bathroom floor or tub bottom. The higher the bag the greater the waterpressure and speed of filling. But too much pressure can also be uncomfortable. You may have to experiment a bit with this. Various body positions are possible for filling the colon. None is correct or necessarily more effective than another. Experiment and find the one you prefer. Some fill their colon kneeling and bending forward in the bathtub or showerbecause there will likely be small dribbles of water leaking from around the nozzle. Usually these leaks do not contain fecal matter. Others prefer to use the bathroom floor. For the bony, a little padding in the form of a folded towel underknees and elbows may make the process more comfortable. You may kneel andbend over while placing your elbows or hands on the floor, reach behind yourselfand insert the nozzle. You may also lie on your back or on your side. Some thinkthe left side is preferable because the colon attaches to the rectum on

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can. You must learn to assume responsibility for the circumstances of your life without any accompanying guilt. The circumstances of your life aren’t theway they are because of karmic debt or because you’re being punished. The circumstances of your life, including your health, are yours. Somehow they showed up in your life, so just assume that you participated in all of it. Your inner speech is uniquely your own creation, and it’s responsible for attracting more of the circumstances that you don’t want. Link up with intention, use your inner speech to stay focused on what you intend to create, and you’ll find yourself regaining the power of your Source. 3. Thinking about what has always been. When your inner speech focuses on the way things have always been, you act upon your thoughts of what has always been, and the universal all-creating force continues to deliver what has always been. Why? Because your imagination is a part of that which imagined you into existence. It’s the force of creation, and you’re using it to work against you with your inner speech. Imagine the absolute Spirit thinking like this: I can’t create life anymore because things haven’t worked for me in the past. There have been so many mistakes in the past, and I can’t stop thinking about them! How much creating do you think would occur if Spirit imagined in this way? How can you possibly connect to the power of intention if your thoughts, which are responsible for your intending, focus on all that’s gone before, which you abhor? The answer is obvious, and so is the solution. Make a shift and catch yourself when you’re focusing on what always has been, and move your inner speech to what you intend to manifest. You’ll get points in this match game by being on the same team as the absolute Spirit. No match: I’ve always been poor; I was raised on shortages and scarcity. Match: I intend to attract wealth and prosperity in unlimited abundance. No match: We’ve always fought in this relationship. Match: I’ll work at being peaceful and not allowing anyone to bring me down. No match: My children have never shown me any respect. Match: I intend to teach my children to respect all of life, and I’ll treat them in the same way. No match: I can’t help feeling this way; it’s my nature. I’ve always been this way. Match: I’m a divine creation, capable of thinking like my Creator. I intend to substitute love and kindness for feelings of inadequacy. It’s my choice. The match items reflect a rapport with the originating Spirit. The no match statements represent interference that you’ve constructed to keep you from matching up with intention. Any thought that takes you backward is an impediment to manifesting desires. The highest functioning people understand that if you don’t have a story, you don’t have to live up to it. Get rid of any parts of your story that keep you focused on what has always been. 4. Thinking about what “they” want for you. There’s probably a long list of people, most of them relatives, who have strong ideas about what youshould be doing, how you should be thinking and worshiping, where you should be living, how you should be scheduling your life, and how much of your time you should be spending with them—especially on special occasions and holidays! Our definition of friendship thankfully excludes the manipulation and guilt that we so often put up with in our families. Inner dialogue that commiserates about the manipulative expectations of others ensures that this kind of conduct continues to flow into your life. If your thoughts are on what others expect of you—even though you despise their expectations—you’ll continue to act on and attract more of what they want and expect for you. Removing the obstacle means that you decide to shift your inner speech to what you intend to create and attract into your life. You must do this with unswerving intent, and a commitment to not giving mental energy to what others feel about how you live your life. This can be a tough assignment at first, but you’ll welcome the shift when you do it. Practice catching yourself when you have a thought of what others want for you, and ask yourself, Does this expectation match up with my own? If not, simply laugh at the absurdity of being upset or frustrated over the expectations of others about how you should be running your life. This is a way to match up and become impervious to the criticisms of others, and simultaneously put a stop to the insidious practice of continuing to attract into your life something you don’t want. But the big payoff is that these critics realize that their judgments and critiques are pointless, so they simply desist. A three-for-one bonus, achieved by shifting your attention away from what others want or expect for you to how you want to live your life. Here are a few examples of how to win at the match game: No match: I’m so annoyed with my family. They just don’t understand me and they never have. Match: I love my family; they don’t see things my way, but I don’t expect them to. I‘m totally focused on my own intentions, and I send them love. No match: I make myself sick trying to please everyone else. Match: I’m on purpose and doing what I signed up to do in this lifetime. No match: I feel so unappreciated by those I serve that it sometimes makes me cry. Match: I do what I do because it’s my purpose and my destiny to do so. No match: No matter what I do or say, it seems as if I can’t win. Match: I do what my heart tells me to do with love, kindness, and beauty. Your Level of Energy—Match or No Match? A scientist will tell you that energy is measured by speed and the size of the wave being created. The size of the wave is measured from low to high, and slow to fast. Anything else that we attribute to the conditions we see in our world is a judgment imposed upon those pulsating frequencies. That being said, I’d like to introduce a judgment of my own here: Higher energy is better than lower energy. Why? Because this is a book written by a man who stands for healing, love, kindness, health, abundance, beauty, compassion, and similar expressions; and these expressions are associated with higher and faster energies. The impact of higher and faster frequencies on lower and slower frequencies can be measured, and it’s in this regard that you can make ahuge impact on eradicating the energy factors in your life that are obstructing your connection to intention. The purpose of moving up the frequency ladder is to change your vibratory level of energy so that you’re at the higher and faster frequencies where your energy level matches up with the highest frequencies of all: the energy of the all-creating Spirit of intention itself. It was Albert Einstein who observed, “Nothing happens until something moves.” Everything in this universe is a movement of energy. Higher/faster energy dissolves and converts lower/slower energy. With this in mind, I’d like you to consider yourself and all of your thoughts in the context of being an energy system. That’s right— you’re an energy system, not just a system of bones, fluids, and cells, but actually a multitude of energy systems encapsulating an inner energy system of thoughts, feelings, and emotions. This energy system that you are can be measured and calibrated. Every thought you have can be energetically calibrated, along with its impact on your body and your environment. The higher your energy, the more capable you are of nullifying and converting lower energies, which weaken you, and impacting in a positive way everyone in your immediate and even distant surroundings. The objective in this section is to become aware of your own energy level and the actual frequencies of thought that you regularly employ in daily life. You can become proficient at raising your energy level and permanently obliterate energetic expressions that weaken or inhibit your connection to intention. Ultimately, your goal is to have a perfect match with the highest frequency of all. Here’s a simple explanation of the five levels of energy that you work with, moving from the lowest and slowest frequencies to the highest and fastest. 1. The material world. Solid form is energy slowed down so that it’s approximately commensurate with your sense perception of the world of boundaries. Everything that you see and touch is energy slowed down so that it appears to be coalesced mass. Your eyes and your fingers agree, and there you have the physical world.2.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms: Be unattached to all who come into your life by not demanding that they stay, go, or appear, at your whim. Discontinue judging yourself or others for being too fat, too tall, too ugly—too anything. Just as the power of intention accepts and reflects you without judgment or attachment, try to be the same with what appears in your life. Be like a mirror. 3. Expect beauty. This suggestion includes expecting kindness and love along with beauty to be in your life by deeply loving yourself, your surroundings, and by showing reverence for all of life. There’s always something beautiful to be experienced wherever

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washed human e-rythrocyte as a polyanion. I. Gen. Physiol. 44:251, 1960. 28. Seaman, G. V. F., and Vassar, P. S.: Changes in the electroki­ netic properties of platelets during their aggregation. Arch. Biocbem. Biopbys. 117: 10, 1966. 29. Seaman, G. V. F.: Surface potential and platelet aggregation. In: Brink.hous, K. M., c:t aJ. (~s. ): Plate-le-ts, their role in hemostasis. Stungan, F. K. Schauauer Verlag, 1967, p. 53. 30. Sheppard, 8. L., and French, J. E.: Platelet adhesion in rabbit a.rteriet observed by scan:ning and tran&missio n electron micro­ scopy. Notur< 225: 1054, 1970. 31. Srinivasan, S., and Sawyer, P. N.: In: Silverman, H. T., Miller, I. F., and Salkind, A. I-(eds. ): Electrochemica l bio­ science and bioengineering. Prineetown, New Jersey, Electro­ chemical Society, 1973, p. 17. 32. Srinivasan, S.• Cahen, Jr.• G. L., and Stoner, E.: Elcctrochem· istry in the biomedical sc.ienca. In: Bloom, H., and Gurmann, F. (eds. ): ElecU"'Cheminry, the past thirty and lhe next thirty years. New York, Plenum Press, 1977. 33. Stem, 0.: Zur theorie d.er electrolytischen Doppelscbicht. Z. Elecuocbemie 30:508, 1924. 34. We-isli, L.: The cell periphery. In: The cell periphery, metasta· s.is and other <»ntact phenomena. Amsterdam, North-Holland Publ. Co., 1%7, p. 17. 35. Weiss. L.: Studies on ce31ular adhesion in tissue cuhure. Exp. CeU Res. 53:603, 1968. 36. Weiss, l., Be.llo, ]., and Cudney, T. L.: Positively eharged groups at te-ll surfaces. laternat. I. CanC't'.r 3:795, 1968. 37. We-is5, L., Zeigel. R., Jang, 0. S., and Bross, I. D. I.: Binding or pos.iri\'ely charg~d putides (0 glutarald~ h)'de-fixc:d human erythrocy tes. Exp. Cell Res. 70: 57, 1972. XI. Structural effects of an artificial tumour in dog lung A. Experimental studies To study modification of structure surrounding a tu­ mour in the lung of a living aruma!, experiments were performed in which an artificial "tumour" was im· planted in a dog. The "tumour" was constructed of radiographic density and internal structural appear­ ance sufficient to be identifiable in radiographs (Fig. XI: 1). Two used, small, disc-shaped, mercury batter­ ies were glued together, leaving a millimetre separat­ ing their contact surfaces. This separation made it possible to find comparable projections of the "tu­ mour'' in radiographs exposed during different exami­ nations. An aluminium foil was wrapped around the glued batteries and shaped into a ball about I em in diameter. The metal foil shielded completely any re­ sidual charge of the two batteries and served also as a support for two outer, electrically insulating layers of shellac. The insulating shellac thereby prevented tis­ sue fluids from corroding the aluminium. A thoracotomy, incising the right 6th intercosta l space, was performed on a 40 kg dog. A small incision was then made in the posteromedial part of the apical segment of the right lower lobe. A small haemostat was inserted 2 em into the lung tissue to create a small pocket, in which the artificial tumour was placed. No obvious bleeding appeared when the pocket was cre­ ated. The pocket was then closed with two silk su­ tures. After the chest was surgically closed, air was aspirated from the pleural space. Radiographs taken immediately after surgery revealed no visible structur­ al changes of the lung parenchyma lateral and anterior to the "tumour" (Fig. XI: 1). When the completely recovered animal was exam­ ined 17 days later, chest radiographs showed a radiolu­ cent zone around the "tumour" (Fig. XI: 2 a). Lateral to this zone the lung shows a zone of relative increase in x-ray absorption (arrow). The interface between the two zones shows also some arch-like formations. No air or increased amount of fluid was present in the pleural space. For comparison, the appearance of a uhalo" around the same utumour", examined before operation and surrounded by semolina grains on liquid paraffin, is seen in Fig. XI: 2 b. A recording of the tissue profile of electric potential was then made in the same dog using Ag-AgCI elec­ trodes and KCI bridges, as previously described (Chapter VI). The potential was recorded between a grounded subcutaneous electrode and the exploring electrode in the lung. Fig. XI: 3 shows the recording of potential as the exploring electrode was moved in Artificial tumour in dog lung 105 a b Fig. XI: I. Effects of implanting an artificial "tumour" in the apical segment of o.he right lower lobe in a dog are illus· t.rated in Figs. 1-8. The "'tumour" consisted of two small mercury batteries glued to each other, I mm apart, to make the in vivo orientation of the utumour" radiographically de· tectable. The baneries were wrapped in aluminium foil, which served as electric shielding. The surface of the foil was painted wirh two layers of shellac to prevent corrosion and insulate e-JectricaUy the "tumour" from the surrounding tis· sue. (a) Anteroposterior and (b) lateral radiographs. I I 06 Artificial tumour in dog lung Fig. XI: Z. Structural modifications around the artificial "tumour". (a) Seventtro days after implantation, the "tumour" is surrounded by a radiolucent "A" zone, l-l.S em broad. Laterally the interface is seen as a suggested arcade against a radiopaque "B" zone ( +-). The pleura also became thidcened locally after the thoracotomy, a finding veryfied at atuopsy. (b) A similar "A" zone around the same "tumour" was also demonstrated in a preceding in viuo experi· men! (see Chapter X, Section G) with semolina grains sifted on a liquid paraff1.11 surface. Note the slightly undulating edge (arcade) of the semolina grains at this stage of their structuring. Earlier ph•·~ of the same process are presented in Fig. XI: 6d, • and the earliest phase in Fig. XI: 7 c. I10mV F.O,S Lung I *.. Tumour" In Out Fig. XI: 3. Two tracings ofthe prome of electric tissue po­ tential, each with different cut-off mters. Two grounded Ag-AgCl electrodes with KCl bridges were employed, one placed in tbe subcutis. The exploring electrode was ad­ vanced to tbe artificial "tumour" and tben pulled back to the chest wall. The DC tracing shows a positive surface of the 11h_lmour" ( t) io ulation lOth~ surrounding lung. ~ in-•. the lung to the "tumour" and then away from it. A potential difference of 8-10 mY was found between the "tumour" surface and surrounding lung on each of many recordings. The proflle of tissue potential shows a pattern ratha-similar to that shown in the patient illustrated in Figs. VI: 20, 21. The possibility of an air pocket around the "tu­ mour" due to the operative procedure is excluded by these recordings. Fluoroscopic control permitted easy guiding of the electrode to the "tumour". If the probe had entered a pathologic air-filled cavity, an open circuit with high frequency oscillations should have been created. This possible finding never happened in any of the movements of the electrode in different directions to the "tumour". The electrode caused some small haemorrhages in

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cases from the world's medical literature, Everson and Cole (29) came to the conclusion that cancers occasionally do heal spontane­ ously. The mechanism has seemed obscure but is usu­ ally ascribed to spontaneous hormonal or immunologic influences. Theoretically, an additiona l explanation may now be offered, i.e., the stimulation of BCEC mechanisms sufficiently to heal the tumour in certain 326 Principles and consequences of BCEC fortunate situations. The injury that is the originating stimulus might then include the development of spon­ taneous necrosis, bleeding or infection inside the tu­ mour. Such degrading processes are common inside a tumour but usually have no obvious effect on continu­ ing growth at the periphery of the tumour. Empyema after thoracotomy for lung cancer, however, has been reported to increase the patient's chances for cure, by mechanisms which have been unclear (79). BCEC mechanisms may explain this association. If we now assume that in the fortunate patient the degrading process releases sufficient energy to induce the biologic reactions of healing over a VICC system, then the degrading process will indirectly affect the periphety of tumour tissue. The induced changes can then be expected to include altered ionic composition of the tissue fluid, electrophoretic attraction of leuko­ cytes and creation of microthromboses in capillaries. The presence of scar tissue (scirrhous cancers) and microcalcifications, often encountered in association with malignant tumours, may speak in favour of the assumption that such a biologic process of healing over the VICC can take place. Clinical behaviour shows it to be in (almost?) every case insufficient to cause a can:er to heal. Cancer is a progressive disease and develops propessive injuries, in contrast to simple injur­ ies such as an incision, which represents a nonprogres­ sive injury. Logic should then encourage us to support the tendencies of healing in malignancies, in hopes that healing may become complete. Steps should then be taken to deliver more energy than does the tumour itself to activate the VICC system. The supply of electric energy over implanted electrodes appears to be such a step. A clinical trial was therefore undertaken by posi­ tioning one electrode in the tumour and one in the interstitia l or vascular part of the VICC, i.e., about 4-5 em away from the tumour in the parenchyma or a ves~el of the organ. Energy could then be delivered to the tumour in the perspective of strongly activating the biologic healing process. The process also included the creation of an extended local electrochemical injury inside the tumour. These attempts to induce healing hy ~irecr current (Ch~pt er XVI!) of nonope111b le, but relatively small cancers in the lung have shown encour­ aging results. The technique of treatment can, howev­ er, be varied in many ways, so future improvementS should be possible. E. A possible role of BCEC in biogenesis, including.. carcmogene sts In the author's opinion, endogenous activation of BCEC systems, leading to unidirectional flow of cur­ rent over long time periods, may lead to modification of cells and tissues. The mechanism involved in cell and tissue modifications demonstrated in Chapters XIV and XVI should function with endogeno usly generated currents as well as with currents from an external source of power. Strong currents will destroy cells and tissue (Chapter XVII). Weak currents, on the other hand, will more gently create new internal and exter­ nal environments for cells.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms: Therapeutic effects are then induced by anodic liber­ ation of protons as well as by electrophoretic and electroosmoric events, which change the microenvir ­ onment of the ti~ues. Cells and tissues in the elcmic field thereby undergo a variety of reactions. The eke· rrolytic production of H2, 02 and Cl2 also produce mechanical effects by compression of tissue, an effect more pronounced around the cathode than around the anode. The ionization of water, which has a high dielecric constant, indicates that the range of compound s which undergo molecular splitting is wide. Biologic mole­ cules with strong internal bonds will require higher electrode voltage than molecules with weak internal bonds, which indicart-s that rhe magnitude of applied electrode voltage produces qualitative differences in electrolysis of tissue. At relatively low voltages, e. g., below 10 volts, ion- 314 Treatme nt of cancer izatioo effects and transport phenomena are compara­ bly prominent while hear production is comparatively negligible. Nevertheless, coagulation still takes place due ro electrochemical precipitation of protein, an effect which also occurs ar high voltages. Coagulation appears around the anode as a central grey-white and a surrounding black, dry region. The black anodic zone has the general appearance of dry gangrene and is produced by diffusion and migration of protons. The central grey-white zone is caused by chlorine bleaching the tissue. Over biologically closed electric circuits (BCEC), several biological effects are encountered. Extensive thrombosis, for instance, is induced as far as several em out into the tissues surrounding a spontaneously polarizing tumour. Such extensive thrombotic changes are also induced when a tumour undergoes treatmem. These changes narrowing the lumens of vessels sur­ rounding a tumour will obviously restrict its blood supply. An instructive example is the DC-treared patient no. 4, in whom one metastatic tumour, as large as a cher­ ry, disappeared after a dose of I 00 coulombs. A second tumour of the same size six weeks later received 180 coulombs under otherwise comparable conditions of treatment. This tumour decreased only slightly in size during the IS months rhar followed. Similar results were obtained in patient no. 2. At first glance, these fmdiogs do nor seem logical, but may be explained in the following way: If a dose of current is just sufficient to devitalize a tumour, including a "minimum" of capillary throm­ boses at its periphery, then the resorption of destroyed material from the tumour should proceed relatively rapidly, possibly after a recapillarization of the tissue surrounding the tumour. On delivery of an "over­ dose" of current, the destructive effects on the capil­ laries and other component s of the tissues around the tumour may become too extensive to allow sufficient recapillarization for ready resorption of devitalized tis­ sue. A sequestrari~m effect can then be expected to ensue; a ball of dehydrated, decomposed tumour tis· sue is formed, which probably best can be regarded as a focus of dry gangrene. The extensive dystrophic changes in lung tissue around granulomas are a possibly related phenom· enon. For example, radiograph s of the tuberculous granuloma in Fig. IV: I show surrounding dystrophy, which may be explained as a result of intense, sponta· neous, focal, elecrrochemical polarization caused by the tuberculou s agent. The amount of electric energy which is delivered to tissue from an external electric power source is deter­ mined by integrating momentar y densities of current flow and the duration of the treatment. Considerable ionization and electric transports may therefore ensue spont2neously, at low den5ities of current flow over long tissue periods. The size and shape of the electric field will be determined by the sizes, shapes and posi­ tions of the electrodes and the conductivity properties of the tissues. An obvious advantage in DC treatment is placement of the anode in the tumour. Tumour cells are known to possess an excess of fixed electronegative charges on their surfaces. These charges will therefore be attract­ ed inward toward the anode, which is a compelling reason for placing only the electropositive electrode in the tumour. Another specific effect in DC treatment of tumours is the selective attraction of leukocytes to the region of the anode and the accumulation of leukocytes in ves­ sels wh. icb direct tht flow of blood toward the cathode. This effect appears probably beneficial for the healing of tumours. A potentially far-reaching possibility is the concept of delivering via the blood stream an electronegatively charged cytostatic compound during DC treatment. In this way an increased amount of the cytostatic agent might be accumulated in the tumour and in its sur­ rounding tissue, at the same time as undesired general effects could be diminished. In spite of many differences, both radiation treat­ ment and DC treatment ionize tissue, which may justi­ fy some comparisons. Ion

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is not permissible; for it is you who are being destroyed, limited and interferred with. You don't harm anyone else. You might affect them tem- porarily, but very little; especially you cannot affect the Students of the "I AM," who know how to protect them- selves. Dear Hearts, I could cite to you in your earthly ac- tivity, thousands and thousands of homes and families which have been wrecked, by a sudden angry vicious sen- tence or remark. Oh, as you value your lives, Beloved Ones of the Light, never allow yourselves to say an unkind word, about another one of your fellow Beings. One day, you will have to face it. Now in the Onrush of the Great Cosmic Light into the outer world, which is coming more and more quickly, you won't have so much time to escape it. 158 THE "I AM99 DISCOURSES We have been compelled to stand by and see happy fam- ilies, happy husbands and wives separated by vicious gos- sip, in which there was not a Word of Truth. It is a tragedy before the face of mankind. That thing is done constantly. Over the bridge games, in the social gossip of the world, tragedy is created each day. Oh, the pity, the pity of it. Sometimes people think they can say a word, a sentence of falsehood; and they know it is false when they say it. Yet that impulse comes on and acts; and then destruction starts and it gathers. Homes, happiness and sometimes whole embodiments are destroyed—by a thoughtless, cruel, unkind word. We see. We have to see. all of such unhappiness acting within mankind. Today when the opportunity is so great and Complete Understanding is before you, in how to gov- ern these things—why they produce certain effects and lim- itations upon mankind—won't you join Us; every one of you, in stopping instantly every attempt at gossip. Oh, it is the most frightful thing in the activity of mankind. We know of one instance now, where the greatest injustice is being done; and those who have started it, will weep in sorrow for the mistake. I prompt you, We want you to be Free; but you cannot do it, Precious Ones of the Light, as long as you allow these qualities to act in your feeling world, and give expression to them. There is no provocation for these things. It is only because the old destructive momentum generated by man- kind, is acting in the atmosphere of Earth; and people, who DISCOURSE VIII 159 do not know how to protect themselves, take it on. It is like one impulse after another, forming a momentum. The mo- ment people get too much gin, they begin to talk. If they get a little excited, they begin to talk. If they become a little angered, they begin to talk. That is the human impulse of the destructive qualities within the human Being. It is why under the old order, the students who went to the Retreat, were held in Absolute Silence for from three to five years. They never were allowed to speak a word. That taught one obedience. You today, are being taught by the experience of the outer world. The Light is before you. Use it, Dear Ones, and have the Blessing and the Freedom which It brings. Remember, you are the Chooser, the Decreer how this energy is going to act in your world. Don't make any mistake about it. If you insist on allowing discord to act within your feeling world, falsehood and gossip; then you will reap those qual- ities and it is a most unhappy reaping. So today, in My Calling your attention to the Achieve- ment which has been attained; whose Blessing We are so happy to have given to the Students of the "I AM" thruout the World; and in the prepared atmosphere today, I have taken the opportunity to prompt you again; not to do the things which bring destruction into your world. I thank you very much. DISCOURSE XIII September 18, 1937 NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS. Beloved Students of America. Great is your Privilege. Imperative is the need of your Call to God, your "Mighty I AM Presence"; to release Its Power into the activity of the physical world, to give the Assistance to mankind which is necessary today. The world, as you commonly use the term, is "on the spot"—before the Great Cosmic Light. It will not tolerate longer mankind's tardiness, let us call it, in giving forth the assistance which is required today. If you have not known it before, you shall tonight. There is no destructive force in the Earth or anywhere else which is not caused by human Beings. The only place where de- structive force exists is upon your Earth and in its atmo- sphere; which is known as the psychic or astral world. Make no mistake about it; in the psychic or astral world, which is but discordant human creation, there is no good thing; and there are no gradations of that octave of vibra- tory action. Everything of a destructive nature which is generated by mankind, is held within that octave from the surface of the Earth up to approximately seven thousand feet. It is known as the astral or psychic world; in which humanity 160 DISCOURSE VIII 161 is compelled to move all the time unless—observe the Chart —unless mankind will understand the "I AM Presence," the Individualized Presence of God; and call It into action to form about the outerself the Tube of Light, which can be made Invincible to all surrounding discord. As In- dividuals call the Presence to do this, they will find them- selves enveloped in a Tube of Invincible Protection; in which they can move among mankind, untouched by dis- cord. Students everywhere thruout America, who have been earnest and sincere and called the Presence into action to produce the Tube of Light, have had Its Results. Mrs. Ballard and This Good Messenger have been compelled to call That into action in order to survive; and they have gone forth expanding the Activity of the Light, untouched by the discord of the outer world. So you too, Beloved Ones, if you will call the Presence to formulate This Tube of Light about you, can do the same thing. It is a part of yourself. Observe the Chart. Again, That Stream of Light and Energy is you. When you call the Presence into action, to formulate This Tube of Light about you, the Higher Mental

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serious medical conditions.Directions: • Sit upright on a straight-backed chair. • Take a small, light breath in through your nose if you can and a small breath out through your nose. If you are unable to inhale through your nose, take a tiny breath in through the corner of your mouth. • After exhaling, pinch your nose and hold your breath. Keep your lips sealed. • Gently nod your head or rock your body until you feel that you cannot hold your breath for any longer. You should feel a relatively strong need for air. • At this point, let go of your nose, and breathe in gently through it. Breathe gently in and out with your mouth closed. When you first breathe in, try to avoid taking a deep breath. Instead, keep your breathing calm and focus on relaxation. Use the mantra: “Relax and breathe less,” if it helps. • Repeat the exercise until you can breathe easily through your nose. If your nose does not become fully unblocked, wait around one minute and practice the same steps again. Y ou may need to do the exercise up to five times. After practicing this exercise, your nose will be clear. Howeve r, your nose will continue to become congested again until you have normalized your breathing with a BOL T score of at least 20 seconds. With regular practice of the exercises in this book, your nose will eventually remain clear. It is my experience with thousan ds of students that the more the nose is used for breathin g, the better it works. When the nose is stuffy, the normal response is to switch to breathing through an open mouth, but this only increases nasal congestion, causing a vicious cycle of mouth breathing. If you feel air hunger when you first switch to nasal breathing, it is important to continue breathing through the nose. Practice the nose unblocking exercise as often as necessary, and wear a nasal dilator during rest, exercise, and sleep to alleviate the feeling of suffocation. In time, with sustain ed practice of the breathing exercises and a better BOLT score, the feeling of nasal congestion will dramatically reduce.Until that happe ns, you can use this exercise whenever you need to, even when you have a stuf fy nose because of a bad cold! As many as 90% of people have a deviated septum.5 This is where the bone and cartilage dividing the nostrils is crooked. It is a common complaint in people playing sports, in mouth breathing during childhood, and in people who have had trauma to their nose, and it can occur in newborn babies too.6 The vast majority of people with a deviated septum can still make the change from mouth breathing to nose breathing. To determine whether you can physically breathe through your nose: • Practice five repetitions of the nose unblocking exercise (exercise #14). • Can you breathe through your nose yet? The rule of thumb is, if you can breathe through your nose for one minute, you can do so for life. This exercise is the same for adults and children. If you need help introducing breathing exercises to your child, I have plenty of free training videos available. You can find these on YouTube by searching “Patrick McKeown, exer cises for childr en.” #15. Exhale to Improve Diaphragm Function The main breathing muscle is called the diaphragm. It is located at the base of the ribs and serves a number of important functions in the human body: • It provides postural support and stability for the spine. • It regulates the mood and calms the emotions. • Healthy diaphragm function helps optimal gas exchange take place. • Diaphragm breathing slows the breath. It is important that the diaphragm muscle be able to move freely during breathing. When you inhale, your diaphragm moves downward. When you exhale fully, your diaphragm returns to its resting position. This free movement of the diaphragm is instrumental for healthy movement because greater amplitud e of the diaphragm muscle creates pressure, inside the abdomen, which supports the spine and pelvis. It also helps keep thebreathing muscl es strong, just as using any muscle helps keep it toned and functional. When the diaphragm is not able to move freely back to its domed resting position, the result is a rigid, immobile rib cage that drives breathing into the upper chest. Proper movement of the diaphragm and healthy diaphragm breathing occur with minimal movement of the upper chest. Directions: This exercise can help ease the diaphragm back to its resting position. • Slowly exhale through your nose. Do not force the breath in any way. • As you exhale, gently suck your stomach inward, almost as if you are “squeezing the air out of your stomach.” • Continue to exhale slowly until you have breathed out all the remaining air from the lungs. • As you exhale, imagine that your diaphragm is moving back up to its resting position. • Allow the inhalation to happen naturally. • Repeat several times over the course of 10 minutes. This exercise can be used at any time—whether you are suffering from breathing difficulties or not—and it will help improve functioning of the diaphragm breathing muscle. #16. Three Exercises to Help Stop a Panic Attack1. Breathing into Cupped Hands At the first sign of a panic attack, cup your hands across your mouth and nose, and gently slow down your breathing. If you can breath e slow and low with lateral expansion and contraction of the lower ribs, then great.Otherwise, just concentrate on breathing slow. Cupping the hands will pool CO2 from the exhale d breath, allowing you to rebreathe the CO2 back into your lungs. This will increase CO2 in the blood, which will improve blood flow and oxygen delivery to your brain. This is like the “brown paper bag” technique, but it is safer because it allows a plentiful supply of oxygen while increasing CO 2. OR 2. Breathe Slow and Deep Fast and shallow breathing will feed into feelings of suffocation and air hunger. To help alleviate air hunger, slow down your breathing with lateral expansion and contraction of the lower ribs. If the feeling of air hunger is quite strong, breathe in slowly for two to three seconds and out slowly for three to four seconds. If this feels okay, you can slow down your breathing a little more, inhaling for five seconds and exhaling for five seconds. Place your hands on your sides to feel the ribs gently expanding and contracting as you breathe. OR 3. Breathing Recovery, Sitting• Sit up straight and take a normal breath in and out through your nose. • Pinch your nose with your fingers to hold your breath for up to three seconds. Count: 3, 2, 1... • Let go of your nose and breathe through your nose for 10 to 15 seconds. • Repeat the sequence for as long as symptoms are present. #17. Achieve Deeper Sleep This exercise can be practiced before you go to sleep. (The procedure and evidence for nose breathing during sleep is described in detail in Chapter Seven on sleep and in the Children’ s Exercises section of this chapter.) The following Breathe Light practice is an excellent way to help with sleep-disordered breathing. It also promotes relaxation and enables you to fall asleep more easily. Directions: • Place one hand on your chest and one hand on your abdomen. • Gently soften and slow down your breathing to create a slight hunger for air. • Slow down the speed of air as it enters your nostrils. • Allow the breath out to be slow and relaxed. • The goal is to breathe softly so that about 30% less air enters your lungs. • You are doing it correctly when you feel a tolerable air hunger. • If the air hunger is too much, take a rest for 15 seconds and start again. • Continue the practice for approximately 15 minutes. #18. Alleviate the Feeling of Suffocation or Air Hunger The normal response to the feeling of air hunger or suffocation is to begin breathing fast through an open mouth. This kind of breathing is shallow and will only feed into your discomfort and fear. This is because a considerable volume of inhaled air remains in the airways and upper chest instead of reaching the small air sacs deep in the lungs where oxygen transfers to the blood. If you have a low BOL T score of less than 15 seconds, it is likely that you frequently feel air hunger during everyday breathing. One of the most commonly repor ted symptoms is the feeling of not being able to take a deep breath. In the long term, a BOL T score of over 20 seconds is necessary to alleviate this feeling. Some people might only experience air hunger during asthma, anxiety, or panic related symptoms. Others may feel breathless as a matter of course. To reduce the everyday feeling of air hunger, practice the breathing program specific to your conditi on or BOL T score, as described in the next section. OceanofPDF.comSECTION THREE: TAILORED BREA THING PROGRAMS FOR SPECIFIC CONDITIONS BASED ON BOL T SCORE Each of the conditions listed here is covered in significant detail in the second part of this book. This section is intended as a practical guide to help you develop a breathing program. The suggestions for

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21/7 regimen) may prevent the estrogen withdrawal that triggers the headache. This idea is based more on clinical practice than on research trial data,50,51 but this does not detract from the validity of the evidence. In one study, a 168-day placebo-free regime of hormonal contraceptives, where hormones were taken at regular levels every day, helped relieve headache severit y and improve work productivity and day- to-day function, compared to the normal 21/7 pattern. In a placebo-free contraceptive regime, the same levels of hormones are taken every day without a “break.” In another trial, a transdermal contracepti ve (a patch worn on the skin to preven t ovulation), when used for 84 days consecutively, resulted in fewer headaches compared with the standard 21/7 contraceptive regimen.53 Research into menstrual migraine is limited. It should be noted, however, that women who suffer from migraine with aura should not take combined horm onal contraceptives due to an increased risk of ischemic stroke.54 More study of the link between sex hormones and migraines, and of the possible genetic predisposition in some women is needed to develop more targeted diagnosis and treatment. Nonetheless, it is important to understand that the functions of the sex hormones are not confined to the reproductive system—they are active in the nervous systems too. PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTIONS Another aspect of pain and function specific to women is the connection between the breath, pelvic floor function, and sacroiliac joint stability.55 The sacroiliac joint connects the pelvis to the spine, essentially supporting the weight of the upper body. The pelvic floor and the diaphragm are structurally and functionally connected by fascia and muscles,56 especially the pubococcyg eus—the muscl e that controls urine flow57 and contracts during or gasm.58 The skeletal and muscular systems of the pelvis have been described as a unit forming the base of a lumbopelvic “cylinder” with the diaphragm at the top and the transversus abdominis at the sides.59 The spinal column runs through the center of this cylinder, supported by elements of the lower back,psoas, and abdominal muscles. Because the psoas fibers merge with the diaphragm and the pelvic floor, stiffness or dysfunction in any of these muscles is likely to affect the ability of the diaphragm to function normally, impacting the stability of the spine. Analysis of over 38,000 telephone interviews showed that middle-aged and older women were more likely to experience back pain alongside breathing difficulties. It also showed that problems with both incontinence and back pain might be due to physical limitations of functional movement, posture, and respiration in the trunk.60 The fact is, if the muscles of the pelvic floor are dysfunctional, compensatory muscle activity may interfere with the activity of the pelvic floor, compromising spinal stability and possibly resultin g in urinary incontinence. The results of a 2007 study into pelvic floor and abdominal muscle function in women indicated that women with incontinence actually have increased activity in these muscles.60 Researchers concluded that their finding “challenges the clinical assumption that incontinence is associated with reduced pelvic floor muscle activity.” Women with chronic pelvic pain frequently breathe into the upper chest. They have poor coordination in basic functions such as sittin g, standing, and walking, and very stiff muscles in the lower back and hips. In a 2007 interview, Dr. Leon Chaitow explained that, when normal diaphragm breathing is restored and the pelvic floor muscles are relaxed, it is relatively easy to reestablish function in the pelvic floor.61 Dysfunction in pelvic muscles affects the stability of the spine and pelvis, while hyperventilation contributes to problems with motor control. Normalizing imbalances in the joints and soft tissues, along with postural and functional breath ing training, has the potential to modify, relieve, or eliminate symptoms, including chronic pelvic pain. Chaitow explains that manual deactivation of trigger points and physical relaxation exercises, combined with breathing rehabilitation, “offer a practical way forward.” Conversely, because the pelvic floor mechanism can affect diaphragm move ment and the function of the lungs, the author s of a 2015 study also suggest including pelvic-floor -strengthening exercises in breathing rehabilitation programs.62Many chronic symptoms relatin g to the urethra, bladder, lower bowel, and prostate can be caused, maintained, or aggravated by active myofascial trigger points in the muscles of the pelvic area.61 When these trigger points are helping stabilize hypermob ile joints or enhance the stability of the pelvic floor, their deactivation may ease pain at the cost of stability. It is therefore necess ary to first address the underlying causes of the instability. As we discovered in the chapter s on functional movement and pain, trigger points can be the result of psychological stress. They are a sign of autonomic imba lance, and the autonomic nervous system can be regulated through the practice of slow, light diaphragm breathing. It is also important to remember that the respiratory alkalosis intrinsic to hyperventilation encourages the development of myofascial trigger points. Trigger points, clenched pelvic floor muscles, and hyperactivity of the muscles can sometimes be caused by psychological issues, including a history of abuse or assault, or by excessive tone created by a background of athletics, dance, or badly taught Pilates. When a psychosexual or psychosocial element is present, appropriate therapeutic support is necessary alongside breath and bodywork.61 FEMALE HORMONES, LUNG HEAL TH, SLEEP, AND ANXIETY There is evidence that some respiratory illnesses behave differently in women than in men. Asthma, for instance, is more common in women. However, its prevalence change s with age.11 In childhood, more boys have asthma than girls, but once puberty hits, women are more susceptible, and their symptoms fluctuate through the menstrual cycle. Up to 40% of women report premenstrual asthma symptoms that can lead to severe attacks.11 One study of girls aged between 8 and 17 years found that girls who begin menstruating earlier tend to develop more severe asthma after puberty.63 The fact that respiratory symptoms change as hormone levels fluctuate indicat es that sex hormones contribute to the onset and persistence of asthma.1,64 This theory is further confirmed by the fact that 20% of asthmatic women suffer from worse sympto ms duringpregnancy11 and that female sex hormones can make the severe form of asthma even worse.65 A 2009 study compared respiratory function in women with and without asthma over the course of the menstrual cycle. In all women, forced expiratory volume and blood gas transfer varied through the menstrual cycle, peaking during menstruation and declining to the lowest point in the early luteal phase when progest erone was at its highest. Forced expiratory volume is an important measure of lung function, measuring the volume of air that can be forced out in one second after taking a deep breath. The cyclical respiratory changes occurred by way of very dif ferent physiological mechanisms in women with asthma compared to healthy women. In asthmatic wom en, cyclical variations in gas exchange were due to differences in the functioning of the alveoli66. These change s were consistent, regar dless of inhaled corticosteroid or hormonal contraceptive use. As horm one levels fluctuate over the 28-day cycle, blood vesse ls in the lungs are constantly forming and disappearing. This impacts the way the lungs take in oxygen because it affects ventilation perfusion. These findings begin to provide insight into the way asthma presents in women, why difficult-to-control, severe asthma is more common among women, and why exacerbations occur in the luteal phase. Female sex hormones also contribute to asthma exacerbations in women who are overwei ght because obesity causes imbalances in the levels of estrogen and progesterone.67 Another factor in the way asthma presents is the size and collapsibility of the airway11. Men tend to experience much more airway collapsibility, while women are more prone to inflammation in the airways.68 In one 2010 study, hormone replacement therapy (HR T) was linked with a high number of cases of newly diagnosed asthma in menopausal women.69,70 Some research also shows that menopausal women who are given hormone replacement medications experience worse asthma. One trial assessed 184 women aged between 34 and 68 over the course of 10 years and found that E2 (estradiol/estrogen) replacement therapy increased the incidence of asthma.71 However, more recent papers contradict this finding, specifying that women are more likely to experience airway obstruction if they do not take HRT.72 While the literature is limited andsometimes confusing, these findings begin to paint the picture that certain features of asthma are unique to women, including the much greater prevalence of symptoms that are severe or difficult to control and the phenomenon of premenstrual asthma exacerbations.66 COPD (

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I be a blessing on it. I offer a kind “Good morning!” to those I see. Friends or family who live with me, or any others who ar e in my house this morning, r eceive a pleasant gr eeting fr om me. W ith a smile, a hug, a positive wor d; or by giving them a glass of orange juice, I do what I can to be a loving presence in their lives. From brushing my hair to putting on a nice r obe; fr om making breakfast for my childr en to giving encouragement to my spouse; fr om opening up a window or door to br eathe in the beauty of the new morning, I celebrate and add to the good that is all ar ound me. When ther e is quiet, I take the opportunity to r ead scriptur e or inspirational literatur e, to pray and meditate, to r eflect and contemplate on all that is loving and divine. I consciously surr ender my day to God. When ther e is time, I do something loving for my body such as light weights, yoga, or a short walk. I do this as a blessing on my body, gratefully serving it as it so serves me. Even if I don’ t exer cise for a prolonged period, I do some kind of movement. Daily I do this … helping sustain my heart and lungs and other vital or gans, allowing my skin to receive the nourishment of the sun, str etching my muscles to make andkeep them str ong … I am taking car e of my body in or der to pr epare myself for joy and for better service to the world. Note how dif ferent such programming is from what fear would pour into your mind. The thinking of Divine Mind is 180 degrees away from the thinking of the world, and it is your choice—as well as your responsibility to yourself—to cultivate the thinking that will lift you above your wounded self. If fear rules your thinking—if your intentions are not loving but rather some form of, Oh darn, another day just like the last one. … They can get their own br eakfast. … I don’ t care what he does. … I don’ t care how I look. … I just want to eat something. … I don’ t owe anything to anyone. … I don’ t want to take time to pray. … I don’ t want to take the time to walk. … I hate my life. … What point is ther e to any of this? … Ther e is nothing to be happy about —then do not expect your physical appetites to do anything other than reflect the fear that is in your mind. And for you, fear has taken a specific form: the compulsion to eat inappropriately. It might seem at times that you have no control over your ur ge to eat— and for all practical purposes, many times you do not. But you always have free will regarding what you think, and as you begin to think differently, in time you will begin to eat differently. Your compulsion will dissolve in the presence of the divine. 2. Br eakfast I feed my body this morning with loving nourishment. I do not harm it with unhealthy food and drink; rather, I fuel it with healthy food or drink that I know will make my cells mor e vital. With the food I eat, I help my body have gr eater ener gy and health, as well as be mor e aligned with the spirit within me. My body is a holy temple; I joyfully feed it with food that supports my divine purpose in the world. 3. Morning ActivitiesMy morning is spent doing things that contribute goodness and light to my family, my community, and my world. I use my body as an instrument of peace, as I seek to shar e peace with others. My body serves me in doing good and living joyfully. At every moment, I br eathe in the perfection of the universe and breathe out any toxicity in my mind or body. My body supports me by showing up as a positive for ce for everyone I encounter. My body is a temple in which my spirit r esides, supporting me in extending love to all I see. At work, I pray only to be an instrument of peace. I pray for all those with whom I work or will encounter. I pray for their happiness and well- being. I for give quickly and try not to judge others. I surr ender my job to Spirit and ask that with my work, I serve the greater good. I feel the cells of my body awaken as I think these things; I feel my body ener gized as I apply it to love’ s purposes in the world. While I do chor es, I ask that Spirit make even mundane activities a thing of goodness. As I do my family’ s laundry, I think with love about the cherished ones whose clothes I am about to clean, and feel gratitude for the clothes I own. As I go to the stor e, I give thanks that I can affor d to buy the essentials I need. As I pick up something for a family member or do a chor e for someone else, I surr ender any r esentment I feel and ask to be filled with a lighter attitude. I know my body is r esponding to every thought I think, and I choose to think with love. This way, my body is made healed and whole. 4. Lunch As I stop to eat lunch, I thank my body for the way it has served me so far today, and commit anew to its sustenance and nourishment. I use lunch as an opportunity to nourish not only my body but also my soul. I stay away fr om frantic envir onments, and cultivate peace as I eat. I pur chase or bring fr om home healthy food. I am awar e that unhealthy food choices abound in the world ar ound me. I do not judge those choices, but neither do I participate in this cultural weakness by eating unhealthy food, even if it is most easily available to me. I make thischoice in or der to do right by my body and my mind. I r ealize that my body is a holy temple and deserves only nutritious, r estorative food. I silently say grace befor e my meal, thanking all the people who contributed to the manufactur e and pr eparation of the food I eat, thanking the earth for giving it to me, and thanking God for the fact that I have food at all. 5. Afternoon Activities I choose to give my body r est, that it might have a chance to r echar ge. I take r esponsibility for carving into my day even a short period of time during which my body and soul can r ealign with Spirit, casting off the stress of a world that is moving too fast. I allow my body some sort of afternoon movement as a way to r einvigorate itself. Even a walk ar ound the block is good for my body and pr ograms it in a healthy way. I continue to give it positive affirmations of love and encouragement as I move thr ough the r est of the day, thanking God for the miracle of my body and dedicating it continuously to the purposes of love. Befor e dinner, I take time to r est, pray, meditate, do yoga, take a bath, light candles and/or incense in my r oom, and otherwise give my body and soul the chance to de-str ess after the busyness of the day. I value r est and r ecognize its importance. I know that I alone am responsible for cultivating a lifestyle that supports my health, my good, and my ser enity. I know my body may r eact with compulsive behavior if I fail to pr oactively cr eate a peaceful envir onment. I surr ound my body with peace so that it will be at peace. 6. Dinner As I pr epare for dinner, I dedicate this important time to goodness and love. I pr epare myself inwar dly to be a vessel of love’ s goodness. The goodness of my family gather ed ar ound a dinner table. The goodness of my partner coming home to a loving envir onment after a str essful day. The importance of my childr en knowing that someone is waiting to nourish them and listen to them at dinnertime.During dinner, I consciously r eject the frantic stimuli of the world. I turn off the television and computers and insist that my childr en do so as well. I pr epare a beautiful table, per haps with candles or fr esh flowers. I say grace befor e the meal and include my family. I take r esponsibility for a healthy envir onment while I eat, for I know that such an envir onment supports healthy habits. In the food I pr epare, the way I dr ess, the way I behave, and the way I interact with others, I pray to be a positive influence on those I love. I feed healthy food, healthy wor ds, and healthy ener gy to others and myself. I see the food I eat as a way to give thanks and service to the body I have been miraculously given, and to feed those I love with gr

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a matter of disciplining oneself to endure pain in order to achieve a desired end, but the immature person often seizes on the image power of the mind to seek refuge from reality, and as a result develops a kind of wish-thinking that makes them absolutely ineffectual in all circumstances. They turn the power of the imagination upon itself, destroying its ability to influence the outer world by setting it to work on problems that have no relationship to the outer world. The victims of such delusions are legion. Some populate our mental hospitals, addiction treatment centers, and halfway houses. They constitute the majority of those admitted to rehab for the treatment of alcoholism. And they are to be found all over the world in a zombielike trance, making the movements of the living, but with one foot in another world. On the other hand is the blessing that imagination brings. It is the mystic seeing that enables us to gaze upon our surroundings with x-ray eye and perceive in them their hidden potentiality. This harnessing of the image- making power of the mind to the outer world of things and events has transformed life on earth, has enabled us, in a few short centuries, not only to achieve dominion over our immediate environment but to arrive at theverge of extending that dominion through the time-space continuum of the universe. Most modern thinking conveniently divides the world into two dif ferent classes of things, one substance, the other intelligence. Science takes great pains to classify substance. It catalogs the elements and their various combinations, delineates the makeup of the molecules whose cohesion forms the elements, breaks down the molecule into various atomic weights, and even dif ferentiates the atom into a nucleus and a certain number of encircling electrons. At this point, the dif ference between hydrogen and lead, for example, has become startlingly slight. Each has an invisible nucleus encircled by a certain number of electrons, more in the case of lead, but hardly appreciably more, and the dif ference between them appears to be one of degree rather than one of kind. Our confusion grows when, through the sudden process of nuclear fission, the atom itself is reduced to nothing measurable, disappearing in a burst of flame, and we are forced to inquire at last if substance is really substance after all but perhaps might not represent a vastly subtler conception, of idea only, intelligence itself. Behind the Atom If we examine any consciousness, we inevitably find a body of some sort, a weight, scale, and dimension that houses the intelligence being examined and refuses any kind of scrutiny separate from it. It seems most probable that matter and intelligence are one and the same thing, that intelligence is only a higher manifestation of matter, becoming apparent only in that substance that takes on complexity. Once we have agreed that intelligence is a manifestation of form, it is but a step further to gain a glimmer of the truth that intelligence is evolutionary in the growth of matter, which leads us inescapably to the conclusion that intelligence, while a manifestation of matter, is superior to and has basic control of that matter. In short, intelligence, or consciousness, or awareness, has inherent in itself control over all physical circumstances, all events.The American artist and New Thought author W alter Russell is interesting here: “That which man calls matter or substance,” he writes, “has no existence whatever. So-called matter is but waves of the motion of light, electrically divided into opposed pairs, then electrically conditioned and patterned into what we call various substances of matter. Briefly put, matter is but the motion of light, and motion is not substance. Our creative thinkers must look primarily to light to perform tomorrow’ s miracles.” Light, ener gy, intelligence — whichever of the three you choose to acknowledge as the moving force behind the universe, the primary thing is to be able to acknowledge that substance is only relative, not a solid and absolute thing at all, but representative of the working of mind and always subservient to mind. A desk is not a desk except in the most crudely sensual way. In actuality it is an enclosure or series of enclosures in which molecules are speeding about at many times the swiftness of rifle bullets. A million times more volume exists outside the molecules than in them, and if those in steel, for instance, were to cease their movement for a moment, you could poke your finger through the steel with the same ease as you poke it through air. Basic behind the construction of matter is an innate symmetry, a kind of mathematical ideation that can only be attributed to a thinking mind. The atom itself, the smallest building block of substance, has a cohesiveness and aesthetic composition that, beyond all things, implies individuality. The atom indicates purpose, and it indicates an ur ge to survival. And when a sufficient number of atoms of the right electronic makeup were combined to make a protein molecule, then it was a very short time indeed before arms and legs and eyes and brain were grown and there moved about on the surface of matter an autonomous being seeking dominion over his environment — the human. Consciousness Is Pr oportional to Complexity When we turn our reflections back to the origins of life and the purposes of evolution we are struck at once with the picture of increasing complexity. From amoeba to human has taken many millions of years, and the two seem scarcely related. Y et the step from inanimate matter to animate matter, as is represented by the amoeba, is perhaps more breathtaking than the step from amoeba to human, for the latter represents simply an increase in complexity while the former represents something entirely dif ferent from what preceded it. Out of the masses of slag and rock and steam emer ged an element that moved, that grew and maintained itself — life. Y et even growth there was not so much the evolution of one thing out of another dissimilar thing, but rather an adding unto one thing of characteristics lacking in its predecessor, so that the dif ference in condition between an animate and inanimate thing is primarily one of complexity as against simpleness. No physicist or chemist will deny that the protein molecule is more complex than the molecules of inor ganic elements. Some great change once transpired in nature for life to grow from inanimate substance, but in order for this to ever happen, consciousness had to be inherent in all matter. It is consciousness that is responsible for form. Wherever form is, there also is an intelligent presence. It inhabits the rock and the mountain just as surely as it does the human being. The form of the thing is dependent upon the idea that holds its whizzing molecules within boundaries, and this contour is just as surely mental as the concept of mathematics, and just as surely is held by a thinking being whose presence is always found within. This leads us dangerously close to the established province of religion, but we are not concerned here with a father image who has created children and is raising them to knowledge. What we are concerned with is the bottom root of intelligence, how and why it manifests in the universe, and whether humans are divorced from that originating intelligence, subject to it as slaves to master, or umbilically tied to it in such a manner that they are it and it is they. How Thought Conditions Things Those who see chaos as the originator of the worlds, coincidence as responsible for the formation of human life, and futility as the earmark of life, find at every hand just such a universe. Those who perceive a hardened creator ordering his vassals about cannot help but be impressed by the inequality of the human lot and perceive in the world much bitterness and pain. Those who see an inhabiting presence in all things instinctively know that all forms of the world are only ideas given substance, that the mind which upholds each is resident within themselves, and that therefore they are part and parcel of all peace, perfection, and ef fectiveness. The world, as always, turns out to be exactly what our consciousness is conditioned to see. It is this astounding and tremendously dynamic premise that life is built upon, the central law upon which evolution itself hinges. We see only that which we think we will see, and in consequence the world is peopled with things and events all dredged up out of our consciousness. A thing or a person or an event is not changed because of our consciousness, but inherent in each are all qualities, and we sift out only those that already occupy our awareness. It is for this reason that people are villains in one circumstance, heroes in another; that each of us in our time plays countless roles. It is not so much that we are dif ferent in each circumstance, but that we are being constantly perceived by dif ferent persons who view us only through a narrow slit of individual vision and accept us for the thing they expect us to be. Consider an ordinary knife. T o the baker it is an instrument with which to divide a loaf of bread into parts. T o the irate sociopath it is a weapon with which to dispose of the object of his wrath. T o the sur geon, come to a sickbed without instruments, it is a lifesaving tool that will allow her to take from the abdomen of her patient a diseased appendix. T o the young boy passing through the kitchen it is

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human creation and given their Eternal Victory in the Light! I accept this done right now with full Power! I AM this done right now with full Power! I AM, I AM, I AM God -Life expressing Perfection all ways at all times. This which I CALL FORTH for myself I CALL FORTH for every man, woman and child on this planet! BY THE MIGHTIEST…! (x3) THANK YOU! (x3) BELOVED I AM! (x3) MANTRA : O Disc of Light from Heaven's Height, Descend with all Your Perfection! Make my aura bright with Freedom's Light And the Masters' Love and Protection! (x 9) Sevenfold Flame of the Seven Mighty Elohim Decrees THROUGH THE BELOVED MIGHTY I AM PRESENCE WHICH I AM! I DEMAND, I COMMAND the Unfed Flame in my Heart, to expand and become One with the Sevenfold Flame of the Elohim in my forehead! Then blending with the Flame at the top of my head, unite into a Sun of B lazing Sacred Fire, of all that is the Supreme Commanding Presence of the Love of the Great Beings from the Great Central Sun! This is my Destiny! I AM THE COMMAND OF THE SEVEN MIGHTY ELOHIM! I DEMAND the Seven Mighty Elohim’s Authority and Commanding Flame come into me, and fill my world right now! I DEMAND I FEEL THE ENFOLDING PROTECTION OF THE SACRED FIRE OF THE SEVEN MIGHTY ELOHIM! I STAND WITHIN IT! BELOVED MIGHTY I AM PRESENCE AND MIGHTY HERCULES! I DEMAND the Flame in my Heart and t he Sevenfold Flame of the Seven Mighty Elohim in my forehead blend, which keeps the upper portion of my body held within a Sun Presence of the Sacred Fire’s Love, Wisdom, and Power, and the Faculties of the Seven Mighty Elohim which makes me Invincible aga inst mistakes! BELOVED MIGHTY I AM PRESENCE AND BELOVED SEVEN MIGHTY ELOHIM! I feel the Power of the Seven Mighty Elohim in and around me, and I command It to produce Eternal Freedom for me, and Eternal Mastery over all in this world! I DEMAND the Seven fold Flame of the Seven Mighty Elohim in the forehead, the Unfed Flame in the Heart, the Violet Consuming Flame, COME FORTH and enfold me, and through the Wisdom contained within the Flame, handle everything by the Action of the Sacred Fire! I DEMAND the c onstant use and expanding Activities of the Sacred Fire through me! and I demand the Unfed Flame in my Heart become One with the Sevenfold Flame of the Seven Mighty Elohim in my forehead! and I demand the Expansion of the Great Creative Power of Love from the Seven Mighty Elohim through my Heart, until It becomes One with the Sevenfold Flame in my forehead —which releases through me the Seven Mighty Elohim’s Desire for Perfection for me! for Perfection in this city! for the Nation and the world! I give conscious recognition to the Sacred Fire from the Great Central Sun, anchored within my brain structure as the Sevenfold Flame of the Faculties of the Seven Mighty Elohim, surging into my outer use whatever They know I require to bring me greater Perfe ction! I feel my connection with the Beloved Seven Mighty Elohim, through the Sevenfold Flame of the Seven Mighty Elohim within my forehead, anchored within the forepart of the brain structure! I visualize the Unfed Flame expanding and filling my brain structure, as well as the upper part of my body —then blending with the Sevenfold Flame of the Seven Mighty Elohim in my forehead! I AM ENFOLDED IN THE SEVEN MIGHTY ELOHIM’S SACRED FIRE PRESENCE! Notes of Instruction - Sevenfold Flame a. Each of you, through the Sevenfold Flame of the Seven Mighty Elohim in your forehead, is an Open Door at all times, through which more of the Sacred Fire from this Retreat may flow at any moment through the physical flesh body and through the mental and feeling wo rld of each of you. b. Try to feel, even in the midst of your daily activities, that your physical body is at all times surrounded by a Cosmic Sun Presence of the Sacred Fire of the Seven Mighty Elohim. Then you have at hand, right within your own atmosph ere, the gathered Energy that you need to accomplish anything in the outer world in the midst of outer world conditions. Try to realize and keep in mind that whatever you call forth must live and move within your Sun Presence of the Sacred Fire of the Seve n Mighty Elohim. Everything you want to draw forth or do in the physical world - whatever you do, before you do it, demand the Cosmic Sun Presence of the Sacred Fire of the Seven Mighty Elohim around you, because Their Sacred Fire is always Protection. c. The Power of the Sevenfold Flame in the forehead is an Action, also, of the Great Central Sun Magnet, that forever blazes upon life and raises it into greater and greater Manifestation of the Fulfillment of the Divine Plan. So try to remind the intellect t hat whenever you call the Sacred Fire Mastery, Control, and Protection into conditions, It is always a Raising Activity. It reorders conditions and brings greater Perfection; and It always is raising, raising, raising all you touch, and raises you, yoursel f, and your whole Life Stream, into greater Manifestation of Perfection and the greater attainment that releases the Power for your Ascension. It is vitally important at this time to recognize the Power of Protection that has been given you for your own mi nds, your mental and feeling world, by the Seven Mighty Elohim of Creation. You must recognize that Sevenfold Flame of the Seven Mighty Elohim in your own brain structure is the Protection of your mental and feeling world. Count -To-Nine Decree In the Name of the Beloved Mighty Victorious Presence of God, I AM in me, My Very Own Beloved Holy Christ Self, Beloved Archangel Michael, Prince Oromasis, Mighty Astrea, Goddess of Light, Beloved Ascended Master Cuzco, Beloved Lanello, the Entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood and the World Mother, Elemental Life—Fire, Air, Water, Earth and Ether! I Decree: Come now by Love Divine, Guard thou this soul of mine, Make now my world all Thine, God's Light around me shine. (Visuali ze the White Light filling the ovoid of the aura) I count one, it is done. O feeling world, Be still! Two and three, I AM Free, Peace, it is God's Will. (Visualize a band of White Fire around the solar plexus) I count four, I do adore my Presence all Divine. Five and six, O God, affix my gaze on Thee Sublime! (Visualize a band of White Fire around the neck and throat chakra) I count seven, Come, O Heaven, my energies take hold! Eight and nine, completely Thine, my mental world enfold! (Visualize a band of White Fire around the head and third eye) The White-Fire Light now encircles me, all riptides are rejected! With God's Own Might around me bright I AM by Love Protected! (Visualize the White Light encircling all the chakras and the four lower bodies) I accept this done right now with full Power! I AM this done right now with full Power! I AM, I AM, I AM God -Life expressing P erfection all ways at all times. This which I CALL FORTH for myself I CALL FORTH for every man, woman, and child on this planet! BY THE MIGHTIEST…! (x3) THANK YOU! (x3) BELOVED I AM! (x3) Ascended Masters' Consciousness Decree In the Name and Authority of the Presence of God which “I AM”, Great Host of Ascended and Cosmic Beings, Powers and Forces of Life and Light, fill my being and world with the following Divine Qualities and Activities. Help me feel and know with Absolute Ascended Master Assurance and Confidence that … • I AM Beloved El Morya's Ascended Master Consciousness of Illumined Obedience to the Will of God and Spiritual Humility before the Love of God! (x3) • I AM Beloved Lord Lanto's Ascended Master Consciousness of Reve rence for all life and the Love that helps set it Free! (x3) • I AM Beloved Lady Nada's Ascended Master Consciousness of Pure, Divine Love and the balance contained within It so that I may become the Christ in action at all times! (x3) • I AM Beloved Serapis Bey's Ascended Master Consciousness and the feeling of the Ascension Flame raising everything in my world into Happiness, Opulence and Perfection, until I have attained the full Victory of my Ascension! (x3) • I AM Beloved Hilarion's Ascended Master Consciou sness

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h a v e h a d a b o u t 2 0, a t l e a s t. I n e v e r c e a s e d t o a d m i r e t h e d e p t h s h e b r o u g h t t o t e a c h i n g t h e p r a c t i c a l a s p e c t s o f t h e B u t e y k o T e c h n i q u e, n o r t h e s e l f l e s s w a y s h e t a u g h t t h e m! S h e u s e d t o g i v e h e r w h o l e s o u l t o p e o p l e w h o w e r e i l l. M o s t o f D r B u t e y k o ’ s p r a c t i t i o n e r s w e r e n o t d o c t o r s b y p r o f e s s i o n. P r o f e s s i o n a l d o c t o r s f i n d i t h a r d t o l e t g o o f t h e i d e a t h a t h i g h l y c o m p l e x d i s e a s e s l i k e a s t h m a, h y p e r t o n i a a n d s t e n o c a r d i a c a n b e c u r e d b y n o n - M E D I C I N A L m e a n s … J u s t t h e t h o u g h t o f t h a t c o u l d n e a r l y k i l l t h e m. T h e y w e r e u n a b l e t o c u r e i l l n e s s e s l i k e t h e s e u s i n g e v e n t h e m o s t e x p e n s i v e p h a r m a c e u t i c a l s a t t h e i r d i s p o s a l. T h e n b l o w m e d o w n! S o m e s o r t o f ‘ n o r m a l ’ b r e a t h i n g w o u l d c l e a r i t a l l u p! P r o f e s s i o n a l d o c t o r s f o u n d i t a w f u l l y h a r d t o o v e r c o m e t h i s p s y c h o l o g i c a l b a r r i e r, a n d e x t r e m e l y f e w o f t h e m c o m p l e t e l y s u c c e e d e d. I f C l a r a L a g u n o v a h a d n o c o m p u n c t i o n a b o u t c u t t i n g o u t p a r t o f h e r p a t i e n t s ’ n o r m a l d r u g i n t a k e w i t h i n t h e f i r s t t w o w e e k s ’ o f t e a c h i n g t h e m, ( a n d s o m e t i m e s a l l o f i t ), d o c t o r s … w o u l d n o t a l w a y s l e t t h e i r p a t i e n t s m a k e a c l e a n b r e a k f r o m t h e i r d r u g t r e a t m e n t s a f t e r s i x m o n t h s! T h e y p r e f e r r e d t oc o m b i n e t h e n o n - t o x i c B u t e y k o T e c h n i q u e, w i t h d o s a g e s o f t h e i r c o n v e n t i o n a l ‘ p e s t i c i d e s ’. C l a r a L a g u n o v a d i d n o t m e r e l y t e a c h t h e B u t e y k o M e t h o d. S h e w o u l d a l s o t e l l h e r p a t i e n t s h o w s h e p e r s o n a l l y u s e d t h e m e t h o d w h e n d i a g n o s e d w i t h c a n c e r. T h a t w a s a n a m a z i n g s t o r y! – a n d i s t o l d i n p a r t i n V o l u m e 2 o f m y t r i l o g y. T h e s e d a y s s o m u c h i s s a i d a n d w r i t t e n a b o u t c a n c e r t h a t i t i s s i m p l y m i n d - b e n d i n g. Y o u h a v e t h e i m p r e s s i o n t h i s i l l n e s s c u t s t h r o u g h t h e p o p u l a t i o n i n s w a t h e s – a n d t h a t c o n v e n t i o n a l m e d i c i n e i s p o w e r l e s s t o s t o p i t. P e o p l e a r e u r g e d t o h a v e i t d i a g n o s e d i t e a r l y, b e c a u s e o t h e r w i s e - i t ’ s a d e a t h k n e l l. B u t w h e r e a r e p e o p l e s u p p o s e d t o a c q u i r e t h e s e e a r l y d i a g n o s e s, w h e n d o c t o r s s t i l l c a n n o t i d e n t i f y o r p r o g n o s t i c a t e f a r s i m p l e r d i s e a s e s w i t h a n y a c c u r a c y? C l a r a L a g u n o v a c a m e t o s e e D r B u t e y k o w h e n s h e h a d a m a l i g n a n t t u m o u r i n h e r r i g h t b r e a s t t h a t w a s a l r e a d y t h e s i z e o f a n e g g! I n h e r c a s e t h e r e w a s n o t a l k o f a n e a r l y

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again. Patients were forced to eat when not hungry. This diet looks like a conspiracy to keep the patients sick for the added business it brings the doctors. According to a survey made in 1946 regarding the percentage of polio recoveries under the various methods of healing we have this interesting report: -91% to 100% recover under certain Chiropractic treatment—(not all chiropractors understand this method) -97% to 100% recover under correct Hygienic treatment. -72% under Nurse Kenny treatment. -35% recover with no professional care. -17% under medical care. ARE PHYSICIANS ON THE "COLA" PAY ROLL? Some doctors are actually advising their pregnant patients to drink several bottles of cola each day for nausea. Duon Miller, founder of Polio Prevention Inc. met one of these medically misinformed women and he told her about the harmful effects of cola drinks and other such drinks but the woman said, "You are no doubt right, but my doctor has advised me to drink it so I’m going to follow the doctor." Cola makes "drug addicts" of its customers so she probably couldn’t quit anyway. She continued her poison diet and when her baby was born it was malformed without any complete fingers or toes. The poisons in the cola had robbed it of the necessary minerals to build a normal body. It will have to go through life as a helpless cripple, dependent on the public as thousands of others have to do because certain physicians and manufacturers want to make money. "Any doctor who will suggest to a pregnant woman that she drink "cola" or suggest that a child of any age drink "colas" should be disbarred by the Medical Association and given the rest of his life to realize that the letters "M.D." after his name actually mean "Mentally Deficient." (Duon Miller) ‘Doctors from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School undertook a study of the prenatal diets of mothers who had given birth to 45 children so malformed that 90% were born dead or died within a year after birth. The diets of these women were found to have been deficient in practically every nutrient." —"Lets Have Healthy Children", Adelle Davis, p. 18-19 Dr. Joseph C. Risser, in a broadcast on the subject of NUTRITION AND HEALTHY BONES stated: "Delay in development of fragmentation of bone growing centers, porous or soft bone, are commonly seen in X-ray of recent POLIO patients. These X-ray evidences, having appeared long before the attack of polio, strongly indicate that in the polio patient there was a pre-existing state of malnutrition." SIMILARITY OF POLIO TO PELLAGRA, BERIBERI AND OTHER DEFICIENCY DISEASES Ralf R. Scobey, M.D., president of the Poliomyelitis Research Institute. Inc. Syracuse, New York (in the Archives of Pediatrics, Sept. 1950) lists 170 diseases of polio-like symptoms and effects but with different names such as: epidemic cholera, cholera morbus, spinal meningitis, spinal apoplexy, inhibitory palsy, intermittent fever, famine fever, worm fever, bilious remittent fever, ergotism, etc. There are also such common nutritional deficiency diseases as beriberi, scurvy, Asiatic plague, pellagra, prison edema, acidosis etc. No drugs, medicines or medical treatments have ever been able to cure any of these diseases and no germs have been isolated as the cause. But they all respond to fasting, cleansing, proper diet and improved circulation. The similarity of these diseases to polio is too obvious to go unnoticed. They are, in reality, all one disease with varying stages of intensity and different names. It is ridiculous to assume that polio is caused by a virus and the rest of them are caused by nutritional deficiency. Dr. Scobey senses this fact when he states: "Inasmuch as nerve cells react in much the same way to various poisons, further research will probably show that in these cases polio micro-organisms are not always present, but intoxication (poisoning) may be produced through faulty metabolism or by the absorption of poisons from without." There are literally thousands of cases in which beriberi, scurvy, polio, pellagra, etc. have developed among arctic explorers, sailors, construction gangs, prisons and every other group where the people try to live on an unbalanced diet of starch, protein, coffee and devitalized, processed foods. Alfred McCann describes many of these (poison squads) in his book THE SCIENCE OF EATING. In the case of the German crew on the "Kronprinz Willem" when the ship’s hospital was filled with helpless sailors and more were dropping on the deck each day the German and American doctors exhausted all their skill (such as it was) but the condition grew steadily worse. The men had polio but all the doctors had a different name for it. They thought the disease was contagious and the ship lay in quarantine in an American harbor. When all the medical methods had utterly failed, Mr. McCann went aboard and gave the captain a simple diet which was followed out and it brought about recovery of most of the patients within 10 days. The rest of them were well in record time. Not a man was lost. On the other hand, when the workmen on the South American railroad began collapsing with the same deficiency disease, the doctors failed (as usual) and there was no "health" man to give them a diet so 4,000 of them died. Viruses, germs or bacteria did not cause these epidemics. The men were stricken with acidosis from malnutrition. They suffocated in their own internal poisons. They had the fever, the swelling, the sore throat, the lack of coordination of muscles and finally paralysis the same as our present polio patients. When will our blundering physicians ever learn to profit by the experiences of the past instead of torturing animals and experimenting on and killing people in a effort to learn something that is already known? COMMON POISONS THAT CAUSE POLIO In addition to the drastic vaccine poisons and the self generated poisons from wrong foods there are a number of other poisons that are being freely used that are known to cause polio. IN

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is total." The lunch served at this gathering consisted of roast beef with mashed potatoes and gravy, broccoli, Jell-O, and chocolate pie. Their ignorance of the principles of proper food combining is most assuredly total. Were it not for the time-honored belief in the four-food-group approach to eat­ ing, such grievous food combinations would not be so commonplace. For some, forsaking the four-food-group myth may be hard. But the only thing that makes it hard is the belief system people have built over the years. Belief systems can be the biggest obstacle to one's progress. If the belief in something is strong enough, no amount of evidence or proof of its falsity can dissuade the believer. Consider the plight of Galileo three centuries ago, severely chastised for his ridiculous belief that the sun did not orbit the earth. Galileo, whose theory was based on Coper- nicus's earlier work, was sent to jail for insinuating something as pre­ posterous as the sun not orbiting the earth. Why, any fool could go outside in the morning and watch the sun as it traveled across the sky, plopping into the ocean or disappearing behind a mountain every night. Right? Wrong! I daresay that no one today believes that the sun circles H • FIT FOR LIFE the earth. But it sure looks that way, doesn't it? It's the same thing with certain dietary habits we have. They look as if they're right, but they're exactly wrong! Over three hundred years after Galileo's observations were made public, and even though he was right and everyone else was wrong, the Catholic Church is just getting around to exonerating him for being right! Traditions, no matter how fallacious they may be, die hard. Proper food combining does not prevent you from eating the foods you like; you just shouldn't eat them all at the same time. If you eat in ac­ cordance with the principle of compatibly combining foods, there will be no enormous loss of energy. There will be an energy surplus. Do you remember when you had your last Thanksgiving meal? After eating, did you happen to utter that famous sentence, "Uhh! I'll never eat again"? Many of us have used it. After the meal, you go to the living room and sit down and that's it. "I'm just going to watch the rest of the game. A cup of coffee? Okay. Huh, a piece of pie? Well, okay." You can't even bend over! You have to slide into the chair. Well, why? Because you had so many combinations of foods. You had the turkey, and I'm not saying not to have turkey on Thanksgiving, but along with the turkey, there was probably a roast beef or a ham, or both. You had a little of each. Then there are the mashed potatoes and yams. You had some of those. And the stuffing! Of course, you had to have the stuffing, with gravy. And those biscuits, and pumpkin pie. And a token vegetable on the side that nobody touches. You know what I'm talking about? I'm not suggesting that you not participate in Thanksgiving. But the reason the body is totally ex­ hausted after a meal like that is that there are so many different, concen­ trated, incompatible foods in the stomach at one time, the system is thrown into turmoil. Doing this once in a while, the body has a chance to deal with the situation. On a regular basis, however, the body breaks down. After nourishing the body, especially at a celebration, we should feel vibrant and ready to conquer the world. Instead, we're barely able to conquer the couch. Do you remember the lion that we were talking about before, that took down the zebra? When that lion ate the zebra, it wasn't having baked potato with it. It's strictly a la carte out there in the jungle. The animals in nature experience a much higher level of health than we do; not only eating high-water-content food, they are also properly combining their food. Animals in nature don't combine their foods improperly. That is the beauty of it. They eat one food at a time. Not like us. We eat anything we can get our hands on, including them! Here's something that may surprise you: Henry Ford was also a propo­ nent of food combining. In an article from Early American Life, David L. Lewis discusses the "Wayside Inn," a vocational school set up by Ford THE PRINCIPLE OF PROPER FOOD COMBINING • 45 in 1928 to "teach boys how to work with their hands and how to think." Underprivileged boys between the ages of twelve and seventeen were en­ rolled in the ninth through twelfth grades. They received training in agri­ culture, electrical and automotive engineering, plumbing, carpentry, and other vocations as well as academic subjects. "Along with a Ford-fi­ nanced education, the students had to suffer Ford's theory on diet. Sugar, candy, cakes, pies, puddings, and other kinds of sweet desserts were for­ bidden, as well as tea, cocoa, and table salts, STARCHES AND PROTEINS WERE NEVER MIXED BECAUSE THEY WERE CONSIDERED TO BE CHEM­ ICALLY INCOMPATIBLE [emphasis mine], while vegetable salads were served twice a day." All right, Henry! He wasn't about to feed them ill- combined meals; they wouldn't have any energy left for work! It is essential that we start to respect our digestive limitations. We need to free up energy to get toxic waste out of our bodies. The digestive tract uses more energy than any other function of the body. Food combining frees up that energy so your body can work to detoxify itself. And the beautiful thing is you don't have to go hungry. How would you like to be ten pounds lighter ten days from now, while eating? Well, of course, anyone who is overweight would like to do that. Just by making use of your new understanding of proper food combining, it is possible for you to achieve that. Food combining works! This is not something that you have to take my word for. All you have to do is start to combine your foods the way I have described, and you will know exactly whether or not this information is true. That, after all, is what really counts, isn't it? Does it work? Whether it is proved or not proved means nothing. If you can dramatically increase your energy, do away with stomach ailments, lose weight, and feel good by properly combining, would it matter to you if it was "proved" not to work? Of course not. Don't believe me. Try it! Proper food combining simply creates the environment for weight loss. If you can eat food and have it go through your stomach in three hours instead of eight, there are five hours of energy right there that you have picked up—five hours to be put toward detoxification and weight loss. And you're going to pick up more energy as that food goes through the intestines with great ease. Some people have said to me, "This makes pretty much sense, I have to admit, but I'm a businessman, I go out for lunch every day, so I can't do this." Why not? You can adhere to this principle in any restaurant you wish. Any good restaurant will allow you to order what you want. You are the customer. You are paying. You can have what you want. You can go in with your business associates and say, "What is today's special?" "Today we have fresh trout, absolutely fantastic." 46 • FIT FOR LIFE "Wonderful! I'll have the trout, and instead of the rice that comes with the trout, what vegetables do you have this afternoon?" "Well, we have fresh asparagus and cauliflower." "Fantastic! I'll have the trout and vegetables, and would you please bring me a salad with that?" You're going to be able to participate in ordering and eat your lunch, and your business associates are not going to say, "Hey, how come you're not eating the rice?" No one's going to say anything. The beautiful thing is that when you and your business associates stand up, you are going to feel light and be able to finish the rest of your day with abundant energy, and your business associates are going to have stomachs full of rotting food that will hold them back. They'll feel tired and will have to pick themselves up with coffee or some other toxic, addictive stimulant. What's so fantastic about proper food combining is that it dramatically improves your level of energy and at the same time it frees up everything necessary within the body to rid itself of the excess toxic waste that is keeping you heavy. I know it sounds simple, and the marvelous thing about this method is that it is simple! You just make little changes. If it took you twenty, or thirty, or forty years to build up the problem, you have plenty of time to turn it around, but the important thing is you have to start. I get excited and carried away each time I discuss this subject, because 1 know how simple and obvious this information is. I have seen it work with thou­ sands of people, and I know that thousands of

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. Below are some of the leadin g qualities of Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, along with a few of the typical charac teristics they produce. VATA Vata dosha is notably: Cold, leading to cold hands and feet, dislike of cold climates. Moving, giving good or bad circulation, depending on how well balanced this dosha is—hypertension is related to excess Vata, as are irregular heart rhythms, muscle spasms, and backaches. A nervous, darting glance is a sign of imbalanced V ata. Quick, leadin g to many related characteristics: ability to pick up new information quickly, which is also quickly forgotten; poor long-term memory; good imagination but frightening dreams; restless activity; acting on impulse; mood swings; racing, scatter ed thoughts; and fast speech. Dry, leading to dry skin, dry or dull hair, dull eyes, and scant or moderate sweat. Skin may chap and crack easily and be subject to psoriasis or eczema. Rough, leading to r ough skin and coarse-textur ed hair. PITT A Pitta dosha is notably: Hot, leading to warm, flushed skin, any kind of inflammation or overactive metabolism, hot sensations in stomach, liver, intestines, and so on. Pittas are usually fond of cold food and drinks, which offset their own heat. Sharp, leading to a sharp mind but also sharp speech; the same quality can turn into excess acidity in the body and oversecr etion of stomach acids. Moist, which may show up as profuse perspiration—hot, sweaty palms are typically Pitta. Being hot and moist gives Pittas an aversio n to humid summer weather. Sour-smelling, giving rise to bad breath, sour body odor, or bad-smelling urine and feces if excess Pitta is pr esent. KAPHA Kapha dosha is notably:Heavy. Any heavy disorder suggests Kapha imbalance, whether it is obesity, heavy digestion, or a heavy, oppr essive kind of depr ession. Sweet, leading to weig ht gain or diabetes if too much sweetness is added to the body. Steady, which makes Kapha types self-contained. Bodily processes do not swing to extremes; Kapha’ s steady natur e also has to do with not needing outside stimulati on as much as Pitta or Vata. Their bodies remain unaffected by changes that would thr ow other body types out of balance. Soft, leading to a wide variety of characteristics, such as soft skin and hair, soft manners, a soft look in the eyes, and an undemanding approach to situations. Slow, as expressed in the typically slow, fluid movements of Kapha people, along with slow speech and deliberate thinking. Dry, hot, and heavy are three good markers for the doshas. Whe n anything becomes dry, Vata increases, whether it is a dry climate, the dry wind of autumn, or dry food (popcorn, crackers, dried prunes). If your skin or sinuses get too dry, then Vata is on the rise and probably going out of balance. Anything hot increases Pitta. A hot day in July, a hot bath, and “hot” emotions like anger or sexual passion share this quality. If you feel burning sensations anywhere in your body (stomach, intestines, rectum) or your skin becomes inflamed, Pitta is rising. Pitta is not as subtle or penetra ting as Vata; it is aggressive and sharp. Anything that becomes heavy increases Kapha. Gaining weight, feeling heavy inside, or a heavy, overc ast day will all cause more Kapha dosha to come out. If your sleep become s much heavier than usual or makes you feel groggy instead of refreshed, then likely too much Kapha is to blame. Of all the doshas, Kapha is the steadiest, the closest to material form. From the Ayurvedic standpoint, the body’ s systems exist to balance these twenty-five gunas. All of us have to make our way through a world thatbalances hot and cold, heavy and light, rough and smooth conditions. Warm air mass es pursue cold arctic fronts, droughts succeed floods, high tides replace low. The play of nature is the play of these things. Ayurveda says that we ourselves are a balanced ecology, perfectly matched to the one outside us —we too move through contrasts that make us feel light or heavy, hot or cold, steady or unsteady, smooth or rough. As you begin to consider the gunas associated with a particu lar dosha, their dynamic balance becomes more complex. Life grows more interesting, but at the same time, remaining in balance is more of a challe nge. This is how nature sharpens our individuality and fine-tunes our senses. For example, Pitta is moist as well as hot, so muggy summer conditi ons are more challenging to Pitta people than is dry heat. Typically, a Pitta type can stand the desert better than the tropics. But there is a deeper significance than that. More than twenty thousand years ago, prehistoric men crossed the land bridge that then connected Alaska and northern Asia, migrating through every region from the Arctic north to Tierra del Fuego, almost touching the Antarctic. The same gene pool produced Eskimos (who live almost solely on whale blubber, seals, and fish), Mexican Indians (who live on corn and beans), and Amazonian Indians (who live on the animals and plants of the tropical rain forest). The DNA in all these people is nearly identical; the same cells, organs, enzymes, and hormones are at work. But each people has attuned itself to a different environment—their inner ecology has learned to adapt to the outer one. One fascinating fact about Eskimos, the Indians of northern Mexico, and the Indians of the Amazon basin is that none of these groups has any heart disease to speak of. This represents almost a miracl e of natural adaptation, for none of these people achieved their diet by thinking about it— they ate what was available to them and relied on their bodies to strike the proper balance. Until very recently, thinking about a diet of whale blubber would give a nutritionist shudders, because of the extraordinarily high amounts of cholesterol. Now we point to the fact that blubber contains newly discovered omega-3 fatty acids, which are said to thin the blood and prevent dangerous clots from forming in the coronary arteries. This ostensibly explains why Eskimos manage to enjoy a heart-attack rate that is 3 percent of that in the continental United States. But does it really. Other indigenou s people related to the Eskimos are not eating omega-3 fats, yet they are just as protected. Although they live in different worlds, each people has found a healthy balance with nature, both inner and outer. Can we say the same for oursel ves. There is nothing intrinsic to modern life that means we must succumb to the epidemic of heart disease afflicting the United States and almost every other industrialized country. Ayurveda would say that we simply need to shape our inner world to match the outer one we have built for ourselves. The ultimate significance of the twenty-five gunas is that they extend human nature beyond the confines of the body. As a collection of cells, a human being stops at the frontier of his skin; as a collection of gunas, he blends into nature as a whole. For example, Kapha dosha is cold and moist, so on a cold, damp, December day, Kapha imbalance becomes much more likely. People might become more depressed on such days, as in fact they do. There is even a specific synd rome, the much-publicized SAD (seasonal affective disord er), that affects certain people by making them extremely depressed in the winter. The cause of SAD, from a Western perspective, is a deficiency of sunlight reaching the pineal gland, causing elevated levels of the hormone melatonin. How the pineal gland realizes that winter is here remains a mystery, however, since it is buried deep inside the skull and has no access to light. Ayurveda would use a simpler principle to explain SAD: When Kapha increases outside, it also increases inside. Certain people— those vulnerable to Kapha imbalance—will become sick from this added Kapha, leading to depression. All of us will be affected by the increase, though, because we all have Kapha within us. In Ayurveda, there is no mystery : A sliding scale of effects takes in every person, healthy or ill. The challe nge is not how to fight winter depression but how to flow with the change of seasons. Nature has given us this challenge, and it has given us the ability to meet it. Every day nature asks, “Is your ecology in balance. ” and every day you have to come up with an answer. Inthe final analysi s, whether you are healthy or sick is nature’ s verdict on your ability to remain in balance with the world, with the constan t play of the gunas. Balance is flexibility in the face of change; perfect balan ce is perfect flexibility in the face of constant change. 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18 percent on the placebo who felt improved. Of the dimethylsulfoxide group, 93 percent had objective improvement versus 35 percent of the placebo group. Thus, DMSO proved to be superior to placebo in the objective and subjective improvement of patients with interstitial cystitis. 7 REPORTS SHOWING DMSO’S VALUE FOR OTHER URINARY SYSTEM PROBLEMS Bladder diseases in general respond well to instillation of DMSO into the urinary tract. For instance, as indicated in a 1985 published paper, complex irritative bladder syndrome responded well to the solvent. 8 Intravesical instillation of DMSO was used in the treatment of patients with intractable urinary frequency due to chronic prostatitis, chronic cystitis, tuberculous contracted bladder, and interstitial cystitis. A 1985 report from Japan indicated that before the application of dimethyl sulfoxide, all four patients were examined carefully to rule out cases of acute infectious diseases of the urinary tract, active urinary tuberculosis, neurogenic bladder (nerve pain of the bladder), and carcinoma in situ of the bladder (cancer within the bladder). Three of the four patients achieved an excellent response both subjectively and objectively. In the United States, intravesical instillation of DMSO had already been established as the specific method in the treatment of interstitial cystitis and no side effects have been reported so far. Therefore, the Japanese physicians used intravesical instillation of DMSO with success and recommend its application for various forms of intractable urinary frequency. 9 Urethral syndrome in women is an annoying condition that is not uncommon, but a 1987 report from Poland indicates that it does respond well to DMSO instillation. The chronic urination disorder is relieved by intravesical administration of the solvent solution. 10 A case of bladder amyloidosis was treated successfully in February 1986, report Japanese researchers, with DMSO bladder instillations. A diagnosis was made by a biopsy of the bladder epithelium (cells lining the inside of the bladder). Amyloid fibrils were confirmed in the biopsy specimen with polarization and electron microscopy. The patient was treated with trans-urethral resection (a surgery) plus DMSO. From these bladder instillations the residual lesion disappeared within four months. DMSO bladder instillations were given twelve times without side effects. Thus DMSO bladder instillation with surgical resection is designated as an excellent therapy for bladder amyloidosis. 11Epilogue “Pain is only four letters, but it means different things to different people,” said Ray Peppi of Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. Peppi suffers from excruciating pain caused by undergoing three back operations for relieving spinal arthritis. “You can’t understand great pain unless you have it—unless you can’t remember a day in your life when you didn’t have it. It makes you want to jump off a roof. It drives you crazy,” Peppi explained. In desperation, because drugs prescribed by his doctors failed to alleviate his pain, four years ago the man acquired DMSO from a nonmedical source. The solvent is not authorized in Connecticut for use on back problems. State residents whose pain is so severe that they are willing to try anything are using the crude industrial grade. DMSO did what other remedies couldn’t, said Peppi. It got rid of his pain. The Public Health Committee of the General Assembly for the State of Connecticut considered legislation that would legalize DMSO for use in Connecticut but rejected it eventually. Texas has passed such legislation, as have Florida, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Montana, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Because of political pressure exerted by interested state assembly members and by members of the United States Congress, the Food and Drug Administration has been prevented from simply ignoring the drug. FDA officials promised the House Select Committee on Aging that they would take another look at it. Dr. J. Richard Crout told committee members that clinical trials of DMSO, which have been around for twenty years, and are still being carried out, haven’t been precise enough to merit the drug’s general use. Yet, when the medication proves, in fact, to be as effective and safe as the evidence may show, the American people will certainly be justified in wondering why they have had to wait so many years to use it. Some FDA critics argue that if the Salk vaccine or penicillin were developed today, it would take the same length of time for them to become available to the people. How many would have died in the interim? What numbers are suffering needlessly or dying now because DMSO is unavailable on the legal, open market? This is another of those big questions underlying the whole DMSO controversy. Government bureaucracy is known for waste and inefficiency in almost all areas of activity. In agriculture, housing, welfare, and other areas it has not solvedthe problems for which government programs were initially instituted. Often it has compounded them. With DMSO the problem is even more serious. Pain, health, life, and death are involved. To leave an inefficient and ineffective bureaucracy in charge of approving a pain-relieving, life-sustaining drug like DMSO will cost the victims of injury and illness far more than tax dollars. I believe the medical consumer deserves to have the medicines he or she needs as soon as they have proved to be safe and effective. I ask that the FDA fulfill its mandate to protect Americans from foods and drugs that are unsafe and to facilitate the speedy availability of new foods and drugs that are found to be both safe and worthwhile. DMSO is one of these. DMSO is one of nature’s healers— among the safest and most efficacious ever uncovered. We are entitled to it. We must have it generally available. The life and health of our people lie in the balance. The story I have told highlights the obstacles DMSO has met in getting FDA approval. More than that, I have shown that pain relief is available, pathology reversal is possible, and good health restoration is probable if only DMSO is not denied to us. The crime of denial is senseless. How do we get DMSO to all the people? If there is no medical answer, there may be a political one. With the former Reagan administration’s concern about the regulatory impact on the return on research and development investments, ways were found to lessen the FDA ban. The election of Ronald Reagan as our President meant significant personnel changes for regulators, including the Food and Drug Administration’s Bureau of Drugs. FDA Commissioner Jere Goyan, a political appointee during the Carter administration, finally lost his post. Reagan’s advisors had searched for highly qualified scientists who understood the problems with regulations. But they wanted regulators who were people-conscious first, then regulation-conscious. They didn’t find them. Neither did George Bush. Instead, David Kessler, M.D., J.D., has turned out to be the most restrictive enforcer of Gestapo-like rules coming out of the FDA. Kessler would remove every American’s ability to choose what should be done for or to his or her body. The FDA, by expanding its mandate and reinterpreting the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 for its own purposes, is approaching dictatorial powers. I hope his successor will take immediate and decisive steps to reverse this trend. I want my book to move the regulatory process. DMSO, nature’s healer, is a new therapeutic treatment for the people. They deserve to have access to it.APPENDIX I The Mechanisms of Action of DMSO, Miscellaneous Conditions That Respond Well to DMSO Administration, and Arthritis Treatment Details for Physicians DMSO lessens platelet adhesiveness, platelet aggregation, and, thus, clot formation. Because of its prostaglandin activity, DMSO is a potent vasodilator. Prostaglandins—long chain hydrocarboxylic acids—are affected in a unique way by dimethyl sulfoxide. The “good prostaglandin,” prostaglandin E, which is a powerful vasodilator, is stimulated by DMSO. The “bad prostaglandins,” prostaglandin E 2 and prostaglandin F 2 alpha, which are strong vasoconstrictors, are depressed by DMSO. Prostaglandin E 2 and prostaglandin F 2 alpha not only cause vasoconstriction but lysosomal destruction. Lysosomes are cellular “toilets” and their destruction leads to release of the cytotoxic enzyme beta-glucoronidase. This enzyme not only destroys its own cell, but surrounding cells as well, leading to further beta-glucoronidase release, and further destruction. Prostaglandin E 1 , like aspirin and indomethacin, stabilizes lysosomes and probably blocks the release of vasoconstrictive prostaglandins from brain tissue and platelets. Because of the body’s “negative” or destructive responses to injury, including toxic prostaglandin release, beta-glucoronidase destruction of cells, noradrenaline stimulation, reduction of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, release of calcium ions, and other actions,

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a great opportunity. Preferences and values change, and one may also be surprised at the strength of spiritual energies that, when activated, can be experienced as though one has stepped into a current that is more powerful than one had suspected. Efforts to control and rationally regulate the process are progressively revealed to be illusory. On the other hand, some trends that seem simple on the surface may turn out to be resistant and tenacious. Those that at first glance appear almost impossible may be resolved with surprisingly relative ease. It will be discovered that all experiences and phenomena have an intrinsic value to spiritual evolution and discovery. Eventually, it becomes necessary to simply subordinate the personal will to the process itself, which tends to become progressively stronger. The unfolding of the life of the serious spiritual devotee becomes increasingly orchestrated by the Self rather than the ego/self. Former presumptions become meaningless, and Divine Intelligence and awareness reinterpret meanings that were once considered beyond comprehension. Thereby does the world continuously become ‘newly born’ each instant, as by the radiance of the Self, the clouds of illusion fade away and Essence replaces appearance.Operational Values and Principles Along the spiritual pathway blocks and temptations appear, as well as doubts and fears. Classically, they have been termed the ‘tests’ that arise from the ego that does not relish relinquishment of dominion. These are overcome by reaffirmation of goals and commitment, as well as by reinforcing counterbalancing principles, such as dedication, tenacity, constancy, courage, conviction, and intention. The greater the challenge, the greater is the development of inner strength, decision, and determination. By persistence and discipline, it can be seen that temptations are options to merely refuse rather than call for attack or negation. This is also a consequence of the subordination of the lesser to the greater, and thus, priority prevails by an act of the will, assisted by surrendering the personal will to God. All the above are subsumed under the quality of devotion, which is empowered by love and not just reason or mental comprehension. Devotion is of the heart for, at times, it is solely by the power of the heart and Divine Love that an obstacle can be transcended. A useful practice is to look ahead on the spiritual road and see what will eventually have to be surrendered, such as attachments to the world and its values. This awareness facilitates greater ease, willingness, and readiness to surrender the attachments voluntarily. (If not now, when?) The ‘letting go’ of materialism and worldly gain is facilitated by the realization that everything belongs to God, and that humans have only temporary custody or stewardship. Thus, in reality, there is no ‘my’ anything. In fact, nobody even ‘owns’ their own body, for it belongs to the world and returns to the world from whence it came. As a paradox, it will be noted that the ego/self believes that it has ownership of its possessions and properties but, upon examination, the opposite is true, that is, one is owned by their possessions and properties, not the reverse. The capabilities that ensue from spiritual devotion and commitment are often of greater magnitude than originally suspected, and the seemingly ‘impossible’ turns out to be ‘possible’. What seems impossible dissolves as such if one imagines whether they could let go of an attachment if a loaded gun were pointed at their head. One can also witness the extremes to which humans have gone over time and in other cultures in the service of devotion, including major deprivation, hardship, and voluntary sacrifice.Although these options may not appear during spiritual practice, their psychological equivalents may well appear to be ‘sacrifices’. It is helpful to remember that value and attraction are in the eye of the beholder and are not qualities of the world itself. What is imagined to be ‘out there’ stems from ‘in here’. The same applies to cherished positionalities and seductive presumptions. There are no temptations ‘out there’, and their attraction diminishes by simple refusal and renunciation. Religion vs. ‘Religionism’ Devotion often starts with dedication to the religion of one’s upbringing and is therefore experienced as complete and satisfying. Faith plus worship, prayer, and religious observances serve the needs of the majority of truly religious people. Their faith is often augmented by selfless service or support of humanitarian activities. The traditional pathway of religion is self-fulfilling and leads to advanced states of consciousness and selfless saintliness that may eventuate as dedication to the goal of Enlightenment itself, which is frequently associated with a change of lifestyle. The downside trap of religion could best be termed ‘religionism’, by which overzealousness is expressed as extremism or by the alternative of worshipping the religion instead of God. This is characterized by an almost obsessive-compulsive preoccupation with the written word and ecclesiastical doctrine. This aberration is typified as ‘confusing the map with the territory’, a phrase taken from Our Language and Our World (Hayakawa, 1971) and also expressed as ‘missing the forest for the trees’. This signifies limitation by the intellect to content and ignorance of context, meaning, and significance, which reflect conversion of language/symbols to subjective realization and contemplation. This error results in religionists’ using concrete quotations of religious doctrine to justify behaviors that are the exact opposite of the true, abstract, nonlinear meaning of the cited scriptures. (The Inquisition; burning heretics at the stake; Islamic terrorism; religious wars; and hatreds, including prosecution and genocide, are some examples.) Thus, religionism in the extreme becomes fanaticism and a pathological, destructive aberration that often seeks secular totalitarian power and political extremism. As is well known, it is a simple matter to find a quotation that justifies any position when it is taken out of context (e.g., confusing the ‘sword of Truth’ with the ‘sword of steel’). Thus, there is a very wide disparitybetween dedication and zealotry, and by their fruits, the distinction becomes obvious. That pathological states may cloak themselves in religiosity does not preclude the more serious fact that they are intrinsically pathological despite the efforts of apologists to ignore the distinction. As would be expected, religious zealotry calibrates extremely low, and, in contrast, true religious devotion calibrates very high. Religious extremism also contributes to the social appeal of secularism and even militant antireligionism, as was seen in the wake of communism (Tibet, China, etc.). True religious devotion is not coercive nor does it impair the lives of others or imperil their survival. Thus, balance counters extremism and is a component of spiritual wisdom and maturation that offsets the substitution of rituals for religious observances. The value of scripture is in its meaning and capacity to facilitate subjective transformation that is often consequent to interpretation of meaning rather than literal translation. Renunciation As A Process The primary renunciation is to refuse and refute the value and attraction of that inner theater processor of the ego called the ‘experiencer’, which is desirous of attention as a focus of energy. The ‘experiencer’ is a quality of attention processing that greedily and endlessly searches for a subject of focus, interest, and excitement. This aspect of consciousness is like a compulsively exploratory probing fueled by curiosity. It is greedy for linear data, sensation, and form, as well as the payoff of emotionality itself. It feeds on ‘change’ and something ‘happening’ and is attracted by the allure of excitement. (Witness the pile-up of slow cars as they pass even a minor accident on any highway.) Its characteristics are also displayed by nature films of the creatures that live at the bottom of or in the sea. The ‘experiencer’ consumes energy, and as a result, the human being requires sleep for renewal of energy and the capacity to function. It is this focus of the experiencer that is to be transcended by meditation and contemplation. The experiencer is hungry for novelty and ‘interesting’ data about which the ego is eager to react in order to keep the emotional circus activated. The experiencer’s circuit is seductive to involvement and participation in the kaleidoscopic melodrama of life. It is important to appreciate that the reactive, eager ‘experiencer’ aspect of the ego seeks to be on center stage and performs as the inner ‘celebrity’ of the self. It is the hero/heroine of the ongoing story that is entitled ‘me’,‘I’, and ‘myself’ and is thereby considered to be of great value and supposed worth. It is the focus of the self’s narcissistic involvement and is thereby highly invested with psychological energy and prioritization. The ‘experiencer’ is the central actor/actress that is credited as the doer of deeds, the thinker of thoughts, and the secret causal agency of actions and decisions. It is the victor and the victim. Most important of all, it is believed to be the core, source, essence, and cause of one’s life and therefore central and crucial to existence itself. Its demise is thus inwardly feared as death and therefore heavily defended. It is this experiencer/personhood that is the substitute identity for the Realty that is

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THE KAPHA PERSONALITY Psychological Nature Solid as a rock, cool as a glimmering stream in the white moonlight; such is the essence of Kapha. Kapha is influenced by the water and earth ele- ments, which are the energies of attraction and fasci- nation in the universe. Kapha pervades the food body, and has its base in the upper thoracic cavity of the body. The energies of Kapha's earth principle are sym- bolized by Airavata, the translucent elephant with four trunks displaying the rainbow. He is the vehicle of Lord Indra, ruler of the firmament. Airavata is the symbol of the foundation chakra, or muladhara. Earth dissolves into the water element of the second chakra, or svadhisthana, and translates as the abode of the self. The element of earth has the figuration of a square and is yellow in color. The seed mantra that holds the energy memory of the muladhara chakra is LAM, the m being a nasal sound. This sound contains the divin- ity to be invoked during meditation upon that chakra. The element of water bears the sign of the crescent and is white in color. The sound of svadhis-thana is VAM, the m being a nasal sound. Svadhisthana is the dominant energy pervading Kapha. It is ruled by Mercury, which is feminine and lunar in nature. This primal feminine force of procre- ation is contained by the masculine solar energy of muladhara. The vivacious water person is ruled by both the masculine principle of muladhara and the feminine principle of svadhisthana. Together these energies form the basis of the creation as a whole. Kapha's spiritual nature is influenced by the first and second chakras, which permeate the pelvic plexus and the genital areas of the body. Its physiological and psychological sites are the exact reverse of Vata, which is also balanced by the upper and lower bodies: Vata's psyche is in Kapha's physiological terrain and Kapha's psyche is in Vata's physiological area. In essence, Vata and Kapha are the two opposite extremes, which are regulated by Pitta. At the cosmic level, Kapha is the food force, Vata the mobile force, and Pitta the dy- namic force of dream. The principles of the planet earth were perfectly defined for Kapha. Of all the body types, Kapha types are the most attuned to the pace of earthly survival. They wrote the social and familial dharmas for hu- mans. Compared to Kapha, Vata flightiness and Pitta fury stand out in sharp contrast. Kapha's basic energy sustains everything. She is the principal foundation upon which all the blocks of existence are built. Kapha is the archetypal Mother Earth. From svadhisthana she procreates and maintains the universal cycles of life. The apana air, which circu- 52 jmt. THE PSYCHOSPIRITUAL NATURE OF THE BODY TYPES lates through her chakras, flows downward to give birth to life. She is the late winter and early spring of all living things. Kapha washes away the blood and mud of daily existence, to reveal vital freshness. She is the basic and continuous routine of life and without her, there is no home, no children, no family. Being the maternal bosom of the planet, both Pitta and Vata types go to her for replenishing. She is like the calm, beautiful cow grazing contentedly with her calves on lush and fragrant fields of buttercups and grass. The primordial elephant who carries the pains and bur- dens of earth is her mascot. Her symbols, the square and the crescent, represent our foundation, and the maternal, feminine nature of both male and female life. The Kapha person is the classic synthesis of stoi- cal grace, calm, and sensuality. This buoyant life-form provides stability to insure the freedom of Vata and Pitta. Kapha insures the present for her partners. The Kapha type exists on the physical and astral planes. Kapha, in the form of earth and water on the planet, dominates more than fifty percent of our total existence in space and time. These elements also per- vade over sixty percent of the dhatus and approxi- mately eighty percent of the total body weight. As a result Kapha types tend to be frightfully attached to the material world. Their predominant senses — taste and smell — get them into deep trouble with excessive rich foods and possessions. Just as pure sound is imperative to Vata, clear and unobstructed spaces are essential to Kapha's well- being. Their ability to breathe while performing herculean tasks is aided by brisk conditions. Their terrain may be filled with prolific energy, but it may not be cluttered. The environment of the home should be comfortable but practical. The greatest sadhana for Kapha types is to generously detach themselves from unnecessary hoarding. The difficulty for Kapha is to determine what is necessary. It is usually one quarter of everything this type deems essential. These solid, gleaming people have a strong ten- dency to lose their progressive incentives and to head straight for the murky waters. Excessive and uncon- scious intake of foods, visuals, sounds, and fragrances render them lethargic. During the vulnerable sea- sonal and daily times, Kapha types need to remain especially observant of their desire to turn inward so as not to add to their inertia and bodily weight

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, cover, and simmer over medium heal for -1 hours. Allow to cool for l() minutes. Place a colandei in an empty pan and drain barley. ( lombine resulting C ream) barley water with turmeric, bala, c innamon, and maple syrup. Add vegetable water, il available. Allow brew to cool for 30 minutes more. The cooked barley can be eaten as pari ol a regular meal. Take brew once oi twice a week; make it fresh each time. 32 1 jmi, UNIVERSAL RECIPES FOR EACH BODY TYPE Warm Barley Brew K, KV. KP Serves 2 'A c hulled barley 'A c leafy green water 2 c water Pinch of turmeric Pinch of cinnamon Pinch of cardamom 'A tsp bibhitaki powder lh tsp honey Bring water to boil in a medium pot. Add barley, cover, and simmer over medium heat for 2 hours. Allow to cool for 10 minutes. Place a colander in an empty pan and drain barley. Combine resulting creamy barley water with spices, herbs, and vegetable water. Simmer over medium heat for 2 minutes and allow to cool for 5 minutes; add honey. The cooked barley can be eaten as part of a regular meal. Take brew once or twice a week; make it fresh each time. Warm Rice Brew v, VP, VK, P, PV, PK Serves 2 yh c sweet brown rice 2 c water Pinch of turmeric Pinch of black pepper Pinch of cinnamon Pinch of nutmeg 'A tsp bhringaraja powder 'A c sweet orange or mango juice Bring water to boil in a medium pot. Add rice, cover, and simmer over medium heat for 2 hours. Allow to cool for 10 minutes. Place a colander over an empty pan and drain rice. Combine resulting creamy rice water with the spices and herbs. Then add fruit juice and warm over medium heat for a few minutes. The cooked sweet rice can be eaten as part of a regular meal. Take brew once or twice a week; make it fresh each time. Warm Spiced Tea Drink as a revitalizer; to relieve intestinal distension and cleanse the blood. nm* V, VP, P, PV, PK Serves 2 'A tsp cardamom seeds 'A" piece cinnamon 'A tsp ground cloves 1 tbs unrefined brown sugar 1 c boiling water 1 tsp black tea (optional) 2 c certified raw cow's milk A few drops almond essence Warm a large heavy pot by pouring hot tap water into it and letting it sit for a few minutes. Remove the water and add cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, and brown sugar. Pour the boiling water over the herbs and tea (if desired); cover and steep for 8 minutes. In a saucepan bring milk to boil and add almond es- sence. Strain the spices and return liquid to pot. Add the boiled milk and serve hot. 322 jmt. NURTURING BREWS AND BEVERAGES Elder Flower Tea (variation 1) Elder flowers have a bitter and pungent taste with a cooling tendency. They cleanse the blood, encourage the elimination of wastes through the skin, and are a diuretic. Elder flowers may be used occasionally by all, but they are best for P and K types. wm P, PV, PK Serves 1 1 tsp elder flowers 1 c boiling water 72 tsp maple syrup Steep flowers in boiling water for 5 minutes; strain and add maple syrup. (Flowers may also be steeped in 1 cup of hot certified raw cow's milk or soy milk, for occasional use only.) Elder Flower Tea (variation 2) V, VP, VK Serves 1 1 tsp elder flowers Vr tsp cardamom powder 1 c boiling water (or certified raw milk) 1 tsp honey Steep flowers and cardamom in boiling water for 3 minutes. Strain and allow to cool for a few minutes before adding honey. Elder Flower Tea (variation 3) K, KV, KP Serves 1 '/2 tsp elder flowers 7s tsp cardamom powder Pinch of clove powder 1 c boiling water 72 tsp honey Steep the flowers, cardamom, and cloves in boiling water for 5 minutes. Strain and allow to cool before adding honey. Ginger, Cumin, Coriander Tea All three herbs used in this recipe are considered to be pungent. Cumin and coriander have a bitter taste as well; ginger has a secondary sweet taste. While ginger and cumin have a heating tendency, coriander is cooling. Ginger, a potent stimulant, relieves phlegm and mucus from the lungs, relieves gas, and encourages sweating and the elimination of wastes through the skin. Cumin synergizes well with ginger, performing most of the same functions; it cleanses the blood also. Coriander provides the cooling balance to both herbs while performing most of the same actions; it is also a diuretic. LATE Elf EARLY S$S: V, VP, VK EARLY Serves 2 LATE &1J: K, KP, KV 74 tsp roasted cumin seeds 74 tsp roasted coriander seeds 74 tsp grated dried ginger 2 c boiling water Warm a teapot by rinsing with hot tap water. Place seeds and ginger into the warmed pol and covei with boiling water. Steep for 5 minutes, stiam, and serve. When cooled, add a touch of honey lor K types. 323 ^r UNIVERSAL RECIPES FOR EACH BODY TYPE Cardamom, Coriander, Fennel Tea Coriander, fennel,

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old,” I tell her. “You were very young,” says Louise. “I elected to take my midlife crisis early,” I say. “We shouldn’ t compare our journeys, I know, but sometimes I wish I’d learned what I know now a lot sooner,” she says. “‘There is a Divine Design for each man!’” I say, quoting Florence Scovel Shinn, which makes Louise smile. “So what happened when you were 18 years old?” she asks. “I met A vanti Kumar, my first spiritual mentor.” “What did he tell you?” “Well, he gave me a lot of books to read. Books like the Tao Te Ching, the Bhagavad Gita, The Dhammapada, and Autobiography of a Yogi, which is where I first learned about af firmations. These books were my lifelines.” “Did you struggle like I did?” she asks. “Yes. Just like you, I believed in a divine potential that exists in everyone else but not in me,” I tell her. “You felt unloveable,” she says. “Yes, but I kept on turning the pages.” “You were listening to your inner ding,” Louise says with a smile. “I’m so grateful that I did.” “So how did this help you feel prosperous?” she asks. “Avanti was the first person to tell me that I am already abundant,” I tell her. “Did you believe him?” she asks. “I asked Avanti, ‘If I’m already abundant, why can’t I feel it?’ And he said it was because I was blocking it!” “I hope you got angry,” Louise says, laughing. “Yeah, I did some pillow bashing,” I tell her. “And then what?” “Avanti said something that blew my socks of f!” “What did he say?”“He said the reason I didn’ t feel abundant already is that I didn’ t expect to feel abundant now; I expected to feel abundant in the future.” “That’ s very good,” says Louise. “Avanti helped me take my first step on the spiritual path.” “What was that first step?” asks Louise. “It was the willingness to seek the blocks to love inside myself.” “Dissolving our barriers,” says Louise. “Amen.” Avanti Kumar taught me what I call The Already Principle. The Unconditioned Self, which is our true nature, is already blessed. “From the very beginning, all beings are Buddha,” said Hakuin, a Japanese Zen Master. We carry with us a timeless wisdom that exists already in us and helps us to reme mber what we forgot. In the depths of our soul, we find our divine inheritan ce. We discover that we already are the person we most want to be. Divine potential exists now, not in the future. This potential is our divine mirror. We see our God-given talents in this mirror. This is where we find the big happines s, the timeless wisdom, and the boundless love. Somehow, though, we forget about this mirror. It gets covered over with a thousand Post-it notes. These notes have terrible messages written on them, like I’m not loveable and I’m not enough. They are full of our judgments and self- criticism, self-rejection and unworthiness. Pablo Picasso is often quoted as saying that “[e]very child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” According to the Already Principle, you have already been given everything you need for your journey in this life. No matter which road you take, divine guidance will meet you there. ”I am fully equipped for the Divine Plan of my life; I am more than equal to the situat ion,” wrote Florence Scovel Shinn. Florence’ s affirmation reminds me of the scene in the film Mary Poppins in which, before Jane’ s and Michael’ s eyes, Mary Poppins pulls item after item from her bottomless carpetba g. Our real potential is like this. It reveals itself when it is needed and when we ask for it. It’ s bigger than anything our ego can carry. What about our darkest moments, when our ego is on its knee s? When we doubt that love exists? When we can see “only one set of footprints” andfeel utterly alone? In terrible times, it’s virtually impossible for anyone to say the right thing. Words are probably not appropriate, anyway. They make a wound sting even more. You can’t possibly know it then, but even in the most forsaken place, the healing has already begun. That’ s how reality works. Nothing takes place outside the Oneness. Love abandons no one. The Already Principle reminds us of our true nature and the nature of reality. It teaches us that there is more to this world than meets the eye. Even in a world of fear, there is love. Even when you are in lack, there is abundance. Even when you experience conflict, there is peace. Even when you are alone, there is help. Even when you are confused, there is guidance. Everything you need is here, and it’s here now. That’ s why Louise always encourages us to pray and af firm in the present tense. Just like this: I am willing to let life love me today. Everything I need to know is revealed to me. I gratefully accept all the good I have in my life now. I release all struggle now, and I am at peace. My healing is already in progress. I now accept and appreciate the abundant life the Universe of fers me. Beyond Independence I teach a modul e called “Life Loves You” in my three-day Loveability program. In this module, we explore the blocks to love. We look especially at the ways we make it difficult to be loved. We see how our lack of self- love makes it harder for others to love us. We examine fears about love, roles we play in relationships, old grievances we carry, and defenses that stop us from letting love in. One block to love we pay special attention to is independence. How independent are you? I ask my studen ts this question at the start of the “Life Loves You” module. I follow that question up with this one: Areyou a H.I.P. or a D.I.P.? I explain that H.I.P. stands for Healthy Independent Person and D.I.P. stands for Dysfunctional Independent Person. On the spectrum of independence, there is a healthy range and a dysfunctional range. It’s impor tant that you know the difference and that you choose well, if you want to let life love you. Healthy independence is a creative force that moves through everyone and everything. This creative force comes from the Oneness. It’s how the Unified Field—the energy of the universe—grows flowers and whales, rainbows and stars, amethysts and people. It gives form to life and makes embryos into babies. It helps children take their first steps and stand on their own two feet. “I can do it all by myself,” cries the child. Soon he can run and play. And all of this happens not in isolation but in a holding environment of support and love. Healthy independence helps you to take your place in the collective. It helps you to express yourself as I Am. You know deep inside yourself that I am blessed and I am loved and I am loveable. You are an I that is made out of everything. Everything helped to create you. This isn’t just poetry, by the way; this is science. In the “Life Loves You” module, I show my students a short film featuring Carl Sagan, the astrophysicist and cosmologist. In it Sagan says, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” Healthy indepen dence promote s freedom of thought. It helps you to know your own mind, which is, in its purest form, an express ion of your Unconditioned Self. It helps you to be “independent of the good opinion of others,” as the psychologist Abraham Maslow explained in his work on the hierarchy of needs. Healthy independence helps you to be free of conditioning and to express yourself freely. It helps you to individuate, to become fully yourself, and to be the wise woman or wise man that you are. “Healthy independence saved my life,” Louise once told me. “It gave me the courage to leave home at 15 and to escape from abuse.” Healthy independence can get you out of a bad situation. It helps you to rely on an innate wisdom that is your true power. It saves you from losing yourself in unhealthy depen dency, giving up on yourself, or throwing yourself away. Without healthy independence, family patterns wouldn’ t be healed, and humanity could not evolve in the direction of love. So what about dysfunctional independence? In basic terms, dysfunctional independence is a mistake. It takes a good thing too far. We stop relating toourselves as an individual expression of the universe. Instead, we believe we are self-made. W e exist in isolation. This is how the eyes of the body see it. However, when you look through the eyes of the heart, or through the lens of quantu m physics, you discover that all forms of separation, including a personal ego, are “an optical delusion,” as Albert

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but only by attempts to normalize the energy metabolism, as well as strong and persistent anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory therapy. However, if you had already medical intervention or decide to use it, that is all right as well. Just do your best and be confident that you will be successful. Furthermore, if you follow an inten se anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory cleansing program before and afterwards, then tumor surgery, or other tumor destroying interventions, should no longer be a starting point for the formation of metastases, and might in some cases be beneficial. Conventional or Natural or Both? Most individuals reading this will be inclined to use conventional as well as natural cancer therapies in various combinations. However, the ef fect of natural therapies is dif ferent when used on its own than in combination with orthodox methods. As pointed out in The Cause and Prevention of Cancer, P.G. Seeg er has experimentally demonstrated that the virulence or malignancy of cancers can be reduced and even be removed with high-quality live food. Cancer cells can gradually be converted back to normal cells. However, the more malignant the cancer cells are, the more difficult is this conversion. Above a certain degree of malignancy this no longer works. The degree of malignancy of a cancer depends mainly on the lifestyle of the individual. With good nutrition and balanced emotions malignancy tends to remain low, and vice versa. The main impact on malignancy comes from medical treatment. Drug treatment, exposure to chemicals or radiation, and any kind of chronic stress will increase malignancy. With good nutritional support surgery can have a positive effect by stimulating healing responses, but a strongly negative effect comes from the chemicals used in general anesthesia. They compromise the immune system for several weeks afterwards. If the tumor has been cleanly removed and there is good nutritional and emotional support, then this may not matter, the patient may be cured. However, if there is metastati c spread or other tumors are already present, then these may start growing much more strongly and become more malignant. Because radiotherapy and chemotherapy introduce an even greater toxic load and impair the immune system even more than surgery, they tend to increase malignancy to such a degree that nutritio nal therapy will not be able to normalize the metabolism of any cancer cells present, and the only option is their destruction. At this stage nutritional therapy is still important to support the body, but it is no longer a primary therapy. The more toxic therapies are used, the less the cancer will respond to nutritional therapy.10/30/24, 4:48 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Cancer Strategies https://health-science-spirit.com/Diseases/Cancer/Cancer-Strategies.html 2/7At this stage nutrition and other lifestyle improvements will only have a minor effect on the eventual outcome. However, non-toxic tumor-destroying methods in combin ation with nutrition and emotional therapy may still be effective in destroying tumors, or making them dormant, or reducing their rate of growth, minimizing pain and improving quality of life. A STARTER PROGRAM For a newcomer to natural cancer therapy it takes time to digest all this information, and to select and implement an individualized program. In the meantime you may use the following emergency program to stop or slow the growth of any tumors. After taking in all the necessary information, you can then add to it, and make changes to suit your specific conditions. You may also add this basic program to whatever else you are already doing, if that does not seem to be successful. An effective way of slowing or stopping tumor growth is by alkalizing the body, and preventing the formation of new blood vessels that supply the tumor with nutrients. Here are some suggestions for a starter program. For details see the relevant parts of Overcoming Cancer. Alkalizing inactivates the enzymes that allow a tumor to expand into surrounding tissue; it also is a good pain reliever. Potassium citrate has the strongest effect. If available take a teaspoon of potassium citrate or of mixed citrates daily in divided doses with food or drink. If citrates are not available, then several times daily stir half a teaspoon of potassium bicarbonate or dolomite powder into lemon juice. In addition start sodium bicarbonate therapy as in Cancer Remedies. Cod liver oil, shark liver oil, halibut liver oil and other fish oils supply fat-soluble vitamins and anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids. Preferably open capsules and emulsify their content together with a tablespoonful of cod liver oil by shaking in a jar together with a small amount of lecithin in some juice. You may also mix these ingredients directly in the mouth. Diet: Use predominantly fresh, raw and organic food with plenty of ginger, garlic and purple food (beetroot, dark grapes, blackberries and blueberries). Use mainly unheated or raw fats and oils, e.g. extra virgin olive oil, ground linseed, egg yolk, avocado, and virgin coconut oil. Avoid processed food, chemical additives, sweeteners, gluten grains, cooked meat, seed oils, pasteurized milk products, chlorine or fluoride. Garlic: Use plenty of raw garlic (provided that this is compatible with your social interactions) followed by probiotics, preferably as acidophilus and lactic acid fermented food. In addition use MMS and a 3-week course of Lugol’ s iodine solution, see Cancer Remedies. Continue with these until cured. L-Lysine is an essential amino acid which inhibits cancer enzymes that dissolve collagen and allow the cancer to expand; take about 2g or half a teaspoon of L-lysine 3x daily before meals. (If the label just says ‘Lysine’ then it probably is the synthetic D, L form and may not be ef fective). Pau d’arco (T aheebo), Olive leaf and W ormwood: Alternate these as detailed in Cancer Remedies. Pollen and Spirulina: Several times daily take 1 teaspoon of spirulina, half a teaspoon of chlorella, 1 teaspoon barley or wheatgrass powder, and 2 or 3 teaspoons each of bee pollen and ground linseed stirred in juice, herb tea or energized water as explained in Cancer Diet. Probiotics: use cultures of acidophilus, bifido and other lactobacilli, preferably as acidophilus and lactic acid fermented food. Protein-digesting enzymes help to break down any tumors. Use plenty on an empty stomach half an hour before meals (details in Cancer Nutrients). Selenium is essential for the immune system: Initially 400 mcg, later 200 mcg daily. Zinc taken in high doses inhibits the formation of blood vessels in a tumo r by depriving it of copper. Take about 30 mg of zinc with all meals or 3 times daily with food. Recently also green tea and turmeric (the main ingredient of curry) have been shown to inhibit the formation of new blood vessels in tumors. Use plenty of both. Vitamins: If your diet is not high in raw foods and antioxidants, then take up to 1 teaspoon of vitamin C 3 times daily. Vitamin B2 aids cell respiration and slows blood vessel growth; use up to 400 mg daily in divided doses. Niacinamide is important for cellular energy production, try 250 mg with each meal. Folic Acid is helpful with many types of cancer. Take 400 or 500 mg with each meal. For details on vitamins see Cancer Nutrients. Introduce remedies one by one in small amounts and increase gradual ly to the indicated full amount. In the meantime read all the cancer information on this site, and start implementing the Basic Cancer Program. After sufficient improvement gradually phase out supplements, remedies and therapies that may no longer be needed. BASIC CANCER PROGRAM In this Basic Cancer Program you select key components from each modality of a holistic approach. Implement this program gradually, one component at a time, to see how your body reacts to each new step. DIET The main aspects of the Basic Cancer Diet are: •  Maximize food that is fresh, raw, high in enzymes and antioxidants, and free of polluting chemicals. •  Maximize unheated proteins, fats and oils such as marinated fish, goats’ cottage cheese, sprouted legumes, soaked almonds,    ground linseed, fish oils, extra virgin olive oil, virgin coconut oil, and avocado.10/30/24, 4:48 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Cancer Strategies https://health-science-spirit.com/Diseases/Cancer/Cancer-Strategies.html 3/7•  Avoid linoleic acid as from seed oils, and while a tumor is still growing minimize egg yolk, meat and fowl even as raw foods as    they contain the related arachidonic acid. •  Use several spoonfuls of green protein powders (spirulina, chlorella and barley or wheat grass powder) and bee pollen. •  Use plenty of colored fruit and vegetables, especially berries with red and purple juice, beetroot, pumpkin/squash, carrots,    sweet potatoes, onions, members of the cabbage family, and green leaf vegetables. •  Preferably produce and drink fresh vegetable and grass juice made with a slow-turning juicer. •  Preferably use lactic acid-fermented foods. •  

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n g b e e n s a v e d f r o m t h e b o t t o m o f o u r o w n d e e p h o l e. E v e r y c h a l l e n g e i s a n o p p o r t u n i t y … f o r a m i r a c l e. G o d c a n a n d w i l l d i s e n t a n g l e t h e m y r i a d l i n e s o f d y s f u n c t i o n a l e n e r g y t h a t p e r v a d e a s i t u a t i o n, a s l o n g a s w e p l a c e i t i n H i s h a n d s. I n y o u r m i n d ’ s e y e, p o u r l i g h t o n t h e t r o u b l i n g c i r c u m s t a n c e. L o o s e n y o u r a t t i t u d i n a l g r i p. S e e i t a s a l e s s o n — a p o t e n t i a l d i s p l a y o f G o d ’ s m i r a c u l o u s p o w e r t o h e a l a l l t h i n g s — a n d s u r r e n d e r i t w i t h t h a n k s t o G o d. F e e l y o u r p e r s o n a l s e l f n o l o n g e r h o l d i n g t h e p r o b l e m n o r h a v i n g t o s o l v e i t. E x p a n d i n t o t h e i n f i n i t y o f y o u r b e i n g, a n d f r o m t h e r e a p p r o a c h b o t h t h e p r o b l e m a n d i t s s o l u t i o n. I n t h i s w a y, y o u g a i n a n a d d e d d i m e n s i o n o f p o w e r t o y o u r a b i l i t y t o h a n d l e a n y t h i n g. W e a r e h e i r t o t h e r u l e s o f t h e w o r l d w i t h w h i c h w e i d e n t i f y. * O n c e w e i d e n t i f y w i t h s p i r i t a l o n e, t h e r e a r e n o r u l e s e x c e p t t h o s e o f m e r c y a n d l o v e.   D e a r G o d, I l a y t h i s p r o b l e m o n y o u r a l t a r. P l e a s e i n t e r p r e t t h i s s i t u a t i o n f o r m e. M a y I s e e o n l y t h e l o v e i n o t h e r s a n d i n m e. S h o w m e w h a t I n e e d t o s e e, G u i d e m e t o w h a t I n e e d t o d o. H e l p m e t o f o r g i v e. R a i s e m e a b o v e t h e f e a r i n m y m i n d. T h a n k y o u, G o d.A m e n.    T h e P o w e r o f T h o u g h t   I t ’ s e a s y t o m i n i m i z e t h e p o w e r o f o u r t h o u g h t s, y e t a l l t h o u g h t c r e a t e s f o r m o n s o m e l e v e l. * Y o u d o n ’ t g e t k a r m i c a m n e s t y f o r, “ O h y e a h, I t h o u g h t t h a t, b u t I d i d n ’ t r e a l l y m e a n i t. ” T h e s u b c o n s c i o u s m i n d h e a r s e v e r y t h i n g a n d s i m p l y r e f l e c t s i t b a c k t o u s : t h e r e ’ s n o s u b c o n s c i o u s f i l t e r t o l e a v e o u t w h a t w e d i d n ’ t r e a l l y m e a n. J o k e a b o u t h o w n o o n e l i k e s y o u, a n d p r e t t y s o o n t h e y p r o b a b l y w o n ’ t. A f f i r m t h a t y o u ’ r e i n y o u r p o w e r, a n d p r e t t y s o o n y o u w i l l b e. T h e s u b c o n s c i o u s m i n d d o e s n ’ t k n o w h o w s e r i o u s y o u a r e w h e n y o u t h i n k s o m e t h i n g ; i t s i m p l y s e t s y o u u p t o f u l f i l l y o u r o w n e x p e c t a t i o n s. I l o v e d t h e n e r d y c h a r a c t e r i n t h e m o v i e L o v e, A c t u a l l y w h o k e p t a f f i r m i n g h e w a s a s e x g o d a n d t h a t w o m e n i n A m e r i c a w o u l d a d o r e h i m. H i s f r i e n d k e p t t r y i n g t o t e l l h i m h e w a s n u t s, b u t h e w o u l d n ’ t b e l i e v e i t. A n d b y t h e e n d o f t h e m o v i e h e w a s i n A m e r i c a b e i n g s e d u c e d b y g o r g e o u s w o m e n — s e v e r a l a t a t i m e! S o m e p e

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m. Y o u h a v e t h e s a m e b r a i n, b u t i t o p e r a t e s d i f f e r e n t l y. Y o u h a v e t h e s a m e h e a r t, b u t i t i s b e a t i n g w i t h H i s n o w. A n d t h e r e s u r r e c t i o n i s n o t a m o m e n t b u t a p a t t e r n. F o r e v e r y t w o s t e p s i n t o t h e l i g h t, w e m i g h t f a l l o n e s t e p b a c k i n t o d a r k n e s s. B u t o n c e w e a r e o n t h e w a y u p, o n c e w e h a v e g l i m p s e d t h e O n e w h o h a s p r o m i s e d t o t a k e u s t h e r e, t h e r e i s n o r e a l g o i n g b a c k. I t d o e s n ’ t m a t t e r w h a t a n y o n e s a y s o r d o e s t o t r y t o s t o p y o u. Y o u ’ r e o n y o u r w a y t o a b r a n d - n e w l i f e, n o t j u s t f o r y o u r s e l f b u t f o r o t h e r s a s w e l l. Y o u a r e n o t a m a r t y r ; y o u ’ r e a t e a c h e r o f l o v e. Y o u h a v e s e e n t h e l i g h t, a n d y o u a r e w a l k i n g t o w a r d i t. J u s t k n o w w h o y o u a r e a n d W h o l i v e s w i t h i n y o u. H e i s r i s e n, a n d s o a r e y o u.  T h e P o w e r o f F a i t h   I n b o t h t h e B i b l e a n d A C o u r s e i n M i r a c l e s i t i s s t a t e d, “ B l e s s e d a r e t h o s e w h o h a v e f a i t h w h o c a n n o t s e e. ” I t ’ s e a s y t o b e l i e v e i n l o v e w h e n y o u ’ r e s u r r o u n d e d b y k i n d n e s s ; i t ’ s n o t s o e a s y w h e n y o u ’ r e c o n f r o n t e d w i t h t h e j u d g m e n t s a n d t h e a t t a c k s o f t h e w o r l d. F a i t h i s a n a s p e c t o f c o n s c i o u s n e s s. W e e i t h e r h a v e f a i t h i n t h e l o v e t h a t i s e t e r n a l l y t r u e o r f a i t h i n t h e i l l u s i o n s o f t h e e g o. I n t h a t s e n s e, t h e r e i s n o s u c h t h i n g a s a f a i t h l e s s p e r s o n. I f y o u h a v e f a i t h i n t h e r e a l i t y o f d i s a s t e r, t h e n d i s a s t e r w i l l b e r e a l f o r y o u. I f y o u h a v e f a i t h i n a r e a l i t y o f l o v e t h a t l i e s b e y o n d a d i s a s t e r, t h e n y o u b e c o m e a n o p e n i n g f o r i t s t r a n s f o r m a t i o n. T h e m i r a c l e w o r k e r d o e s n o t l o o k a w a y f r o m d a r k n e s s, b u t t h r o u g h i t t o t h e l i g h t b e y o n d. F a i t h i s a k i n d o f p o s i t i v e d e n i a l : w e d o n ’ t d e n y t h a t s o m e t h i n g i s h a p p e n i n g i n t h e p h y s i c a l w o r l d. W e s i m p l y h a v e f a i t h t h a t t h i s r e a l i t y i s b u t m e r e i l l u s i o n b e f o r e t h e l o v e o f G o d. W e d e n y t h e u l t i m a t e r e a l i t y o f t h e w o r l d i t s e l f. D o e s y o u r f a i t h l i e i n t h e r e a l i t y o f t h e c r u c i f i x i o n o r i n t h e r e a l i t y o f t h e r e s u r r e c t i o n? W e t e n d t o h a v e g r e a t e r f a i t h i n t h e l i m i t a t i o n s o f t h e w o r l d t h a n i n t h e l i m i t l e s s n e s s o f G o d ’ s p o w e r. W h e n t h ed i s c i p l e s o f J e s u s t h o u g h t t h e y w e r e g o i n g t o d r o w n, t h e i r f a i t h l a y i n t h e p o w e r o f t h e s t o r m. W h e n J e s u s c a m e o u t a n d w a l k e d o n w a t e r, H e d i d n ’ t s a y t o

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laws of their own physics even for any major advancement of Recovery from any disease process is good sense of humor. Beware the if they are not Newtonian; to for give is to consciousness to have compassion for dependent on willingness to explore new humorless, whether in a person, be for given. As we have observed one's self and all of mankind as we go ways of looking at one's self and life. institution or belief system; it is always repeatedly, in a universe where through the painful struggles of This includes the capacity to endure inner accompanied by an impulse to controleverything is connected with everything evolution. Only thus do we become fears when belief systems are shaken. and dominate, even if its proclaimed else, there is no such thing as an healers as well as healed. And only thus People cherish and cling to their hates objective is to create prosperity or peace. "accident;" and nothing is outside the may we hope to be healed of any and grievances; to heal humanity it may One cannot create peace as such. Peace is universe. Because the power of causes malaise, physical or spiritual. be necessary to pry whole populations the natural state of af fairs when that is unseen and only the manifestation of Does all this mean that if we learn to away from lifestyles of spite, attack and which prevents it is removed. Relatively effects is observable, ther e is an operate on the level of unconditional love revenge.few people are genuinely committed to illusion of "accidental" events. A we will become immortal? A prime dif ficulty with thoughts and peace as a realistic goal. In their private sudden and unexpected event may Unfortunately, the protoplasm of the behaviors associated with the ener gy lives, people prefer being "right" at appear to be random, unr elated to physical body is vulnerable to its own fields that calibrate below 200 is that whatever the cost to relationships or observable causes, but its actual origin genetic programming as well as its they (184) cause counter -reactions. A themselves. A self justified positionality can be traced thr ough r esear ch. A external environment. But from the familiar law of the observable universe is is the real enemy of peace. When sudden illness always has discernible viewpoint of consciousness level 500 and that force results in equal and opposite solutions are sought on the level ofantecedents; even accident-proneness above, it appears that death itself is only counter -force. All attacks, therefore, coercion, no peaceful resolutions are involves numerous small preparatory an illusion and life goes on unimpeded whether mental or physical, result in possible. steps before "accidents" occur. by the limitation of perception which counter -attack. Malice literally makes us The health-care field itself demonstrates A disease process is evidence that results from being localized in a physical sick; we are always the victims of our how attempts to control only compound something is amiss in the workings of the body: consciousness is the vital ener gy own spite. Even secret hostile thoughts themselves into a bur geoning bureau- (185) mind, and that is where the power to which both gives life to the body and result in a physiological attack on one's cratic morass. Complexity is costly, and ef fect a change resides. T reating ansurvives beyond the body in a dif ferent own body. systems are as weak and inef ficient as the illness as a physical process only, within realm of existence. 89 90 that this experience may have a universal On the other hand, like love, laughter attitudes that underlie their construct. the A>B>C world of ef fects, does not applicability to all disease processes. The heals because it arises through viewing a Systems associated with very weak correct the origin of the dysfunction and advice Carl Jung gave Rowland-Throw small context from a lar ger and more attractor fields are inef fective because of is palliative rather than curative. It is yourself wholeheartedly into any spiritual inclusive one, which removes the their inherent dishonesty and becomepossible for a lifelong af fliction to heal group that appeals to you whether you observer from the victim posture. Every wasteful and cumbersome. The health- rapidly with a mere shift of attitude; but believe in it or not and hope that in your joke reminds us that our reality is care industry is so overburdened with although this shift may seem to occur in a case a miracle may occur"10-may hold transcendent, beyond the specifics of fear and regulation that it can barely split second, it may take years of inner true for anyone who wishes to recover events. Gallows humor, for instance, is function. Healing from individual illness preparation. from a progressive disease. based on the juxtaposition of the or the healing of the health-care industry (186) W e remember that the critical point inIn spontaneous recovery there is opposites of a paradox; the relief of basic itself can only occur by the progressive any complex system is the locus at which frequently a marked increase in the anxiety then results in a laugh. One of the steps of elevation of motive and the least power is required to alter the capacity to love and the awareness of the frequent accompaniments of sudden abandonment of self-deception, to attain whole system. A move of even one pawn importance of love as a healing factor. enlightening realizations is laughter. The new clarity of vision. There are not any on the chessboard completely changes W e have been told that to love is to live cosmic joke is the side-by-side villains; the fault is in the misalignment the possibilities of the game. Every detail healthily by numerous books on the best- comparison of illusion with reality. of the system itself. of the belief system that we hold has seller list. But the mind resists change asHumorlessness, in contrast, is inimical to If we say that health, ef fectuality and consequences for better or for worse. It is a matter of pride. Love of our fellow man health and happiness. T otalitarian prosperity are the natural states of being for this reason that there is no condition can ensue only when we stop systems are notably devoid of humor at in harmony with reality, then anything that is incurable or hopeless; somewhere, condemning, fearing and hating him. any level. Laughter, which brings less calls for internal scrutiny rather than sometime, somebody has recovered from Such radical change can be disorienting; acceptance and freedom, is a threat to the projection of blame on things outside it through the process we have described. the courage to endure the temporary their rule through force and intimidation; the system involved. Attractor patterns It is instrumental not only in recovery butdiscomfort of growth is also required. it is hard to oppress people who have a obey the laws of their own physics even for any major advancement of Recovery from any disease process is good sense of humor. Beware the if they are not Newtonian; to for give is to consciousness to have compassion for dependent on willingness to explore new humorless, whether in a person, be for given. As we have observed one's self and all of mankind as we go ways of looking at one's self and life. institution or belief system; it is always repeatedly, in a universe where through the painful struggles of This includes the capacity to endure inner accompanied by an impulse to control everything is connected with everything evolution. Only thus do we become fears when belief systems are shaken. and dominate, even if its proclaimed else, there is no such thing as anhealers as well as healed. And only thus People cherish and cling to their hates objective is to create prosperity or peace. "accident;" and nothing is outside the may we hope to be healed of any and grievances; to heal humanity it may One cannot create peace as such. Peace is universe. Because the power of causes malaise, physical or spiritual. be necessary to pry whole populations the natural state of af fairs when that is unseen and only the manifestation of Does all this mean that if we learn to away from lifestyles of spite, attack and which prevents it is removed. Relatively effects is observable, ther e is an operate on the level of unconditional love revenge. few people are genuinely committed to illusion of "accidental" events. A we will become immortal? A prime dif ficulty with thoughts and peace as a realistic goal. In their private sudden and unexpected event may Unfortunately, the protoplasm of the behaviors associated with the ener gylives, people prefer being "right" at appear to be random, unr elated to physical body is vulnerable to its own fields that calibrate below 200 is that whatever the cost to relationships or observable causes, but its actual origin genetic programming as well as its they (184) cause counter -reactions. A themselves. 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erotic techniques. While the male essence is limited, according to these classics, the female essence is inexhaustible. Around this premise, the clas­ sics devised elaborate means to boost the male's sexual stamina and thereby to prolong the sexual union. One happy consequence of the Art of the Bedcham ber is as­ sured female satisfaction in bed. It is uncertain whether this ap­ proach had anything to do with the fact that the three earliest, most renowned, and most quoted sexologists of ancient China were female. 6 Lady Doctors of Love Sex Therapists in the First Century The Yellow Em peror asks the Elemental Mai d : "M y spirit is weak and disharm onious. My heart is without joy, and my body is filled with appr ehensions. What should I do?" The Elemental Maid repl ies: "The debil ity of men is cause d by faulty way s in the mating of Yin and Yang. Wo men prevail over men, just as water prevails ove r fire. They that kno w the way are like a good cook, who can blend the five flavors into a tasty soup; they that kno w the Tao of Yin and Yang can blend the five pleasur es. But they that know not may die an untim ely death. How could they eve r en jo y sexual pleasur es?" THE OPE NING PASSAGE from The Classic of the Elemental Maid (Su Nu Ching) epitomizes the ancient Chinese art of lovemaking by suggesting that good health comes from good sex, and good sex comes from good health. Written in the first century A. D., the Ele­ mental Maid predates all known sexology classics of other cul­ tures: India's Kama Sutra (third-fourth century A. D.) and Rati Rahasya (eleventh century); the Arabian The Perfumed Garden (fourteenth -fifteenth centuries); and the Muslim Ananga Ranga (fifteenth century). Although written probably around the same time, Ovid's Art of Love is about courtship and seduction, not sex. Actually, the Elemental Maid is predated by at least a dozen other Chinese sexology classics. In Hunan province, in 1973, four manuscripts from the second century B. c. were unearthed in a 81 THE ART OF THE BED CHAM BEn 82 roya l tomb of the Han dynas ty. These arc the oldest extant sexol­ ogy classi cs, althoug h their conte nts arc not as well-known and significant as those of the Elcmentall\tfaid. Addition ally, the bibli­ ography of the dynastic history of the Han dyna sty lists books from the entire spectrutn of Chinese learning at the time. In the section on medicine, under the heading "Inside the lledchan1bcr," are mentioned eight sexology books, among the oldest known such texts in the world. All of them disappear ed many centuries ago. However, the Han tomb discovery suggests that one day some of these may be unearthed in another tomb. A note from the compiler of the Han bibliography advises: "If a person regulates his sexual pleasure, he will enjoy tranquility and attain longevity. If he indulges in this pleasure and ignores the tenets set down in these treatises [the sexology classics], he will damage his health and even harm his very life." This reveals the quintessence of ancient China's Art of the Bedchamber: the inti­ mate relationship between sex on one hand, and health and lon­ gevity on the other. Good health through good sex was a branch of legitimate medicine in ancient China. For centuries, sex man­ uals were listed in the bibliographies of Chinese dynastic histories in the category of medicine. THE EARLIE ST SEx THERAPISTS The three women who arc the earliest known sexologists of an­ cient China were the Elemental Maid, Su Nu, who was the most widely quoted; the Arcane Maid, Hsuan Nu; and the Iridescent Maid, Tsai Nu. Th eir central theme, like that of their successors, was that health, youthfulness, and longevity can be attained dur­ ing happy hours in the jade chan1ber-the boudoir. The classics named for each of these women, like other major works of the genre, arc in the form of dialogues. In these three classics, the legendary Yellow En1pcror, Huang Ti, who ascended to the throne in 2697 B. c., converses with his three female consul­ tants in the Tao of Yin and Yang. The Yello\v Emperor served as interlocutor because reputedly he pursued health and long life in bed with a total of no fewer than twelve hundred women. This feat, according to Chinese legends, tnade him an immortal and enabled him to ascend into heaven in broad daylight. CLASSICS LosT-AND CLASSics RE GAINED Today \Ve can count at least three dozen Chinese sexolog y classics written frotn the second century B. c. to the ninth century of the Christian era. This rich lode is no surprise; for centuries China was the tnost bookish nation on earth. Its enonnous bulk of writ­ ing, on every conceivable subject, retnains only slightly tapped, even to this day. The sexology classics have had their ups and downs. At tin1es this nornully autho r -\vorshipping etnpire would go through epi­ leptic periods of book-burn ing and literary purges. Nutnerous classics, especially those explicitly on erotic techniques, disap­ peared fron1 China during the past nine centuries, among then1 the books by the three \Votnen sex therapists. Their existence has been known all along, since they are not only listed in the bibliographies of the several official dynastic histories, but widely cited in Chinese literature. Although the n1odern Chinese still consume food and herbs that they believe will nurture their sexual vitality and general health, they are only dimly aware of the lost Art of the Bedchamber. They arc unaware of the specific erotic techniques used joyously by their ancestors in the ancient bedchan1ber. Fortunately for posterity, several of the lost classics were re­ covered, in part, a century ago. The trail led back to the late tenth century, when Tamba Yasuyori, a distinguished Chinese physi­ cian living in Japan, compiled The Essence of Medical Prescriptions (I Shim Po or I Shing Faug). This volumin ous work, which cites tnore than two hundred Chinese medical sources from the third century through the tenth, is a priceless repository of Chinese medical knowledge. Many of the passages quoted would become the only versions in existence when the originals disappeared in China. Tamba was most scholarly in his citing; he left even obvious n1anuscript errors intact, but added warnings of such errors. Upon its publication, Tamba's book imn1ediately became the most authoritative medical source in and around the Japanese imperial palace. After n1any sexology classics disapp eared in China, Chinese scholars believed that these literary gems were lost forever. They did not know that japan, which fortunately always has been inter­ ested in things Chinese and acted as a great repository of Chinese Lady D(,ctors (�f Lot'l' THE ART OF TH E BEDC HAM BER culture, had preserved large fragments of many texts in Tamba's enormous medical treatise. A Chinese scholar learned this fact in 1 87�some nine hundred years after the book's publication-when he came upon Tamba's work in Japan's Imperial Library. Early in this century, another Chinese scholar, Yeh Teh-hui, visited the Imperial Li­ brary. Using the more extensive quotations from Tamba's book, Yeh reconstructed five of the major sexology classics and pub­ lished them in China. But he was promptly ostracized by his con­ servative nco-Confucian colleagues, and his work was studiously ignored. Only in the 19 sos were his reconstructed classics repub­ lished; today they are being noticed. At about the same time that fragments of the lost classics were being restored, the French explorer Paul Pelliot discovered an erotic classic of major literary and sexological significance, quoted in the previous chapter. This document had been sealed for nine cen­ turies in the Tun Huang grottoes. The resurrected classics, includ­ ing those unearthed from the Han tomb, together with the vast body of ancient sexology hardly touched by modern researchers, give us a fascinating view of ancient Chinese sexuality. A NE W DAZZ LE FOR AN CIENT SEXOLOGY Since they are quoted from and analyzed in this book, 1t 1s worthwhile to take a brief look at the reconstructed classics indi­ vidually. The best-known of the five books reconstructed by Ych Teh-hui, The Classic of the Elem etztal Maid, is probably aln1ost as complete as its original. The second book, Prescriptio11s

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crease your breathing and possibly aggravate your symptoms. Your maximum breath hold should be no greater than half your Control Pause at that time. For example, if your CP is four seconds, then do small breaths hold for only two seconds. After each breath hold, breathe normally for 10 to 15 seconds. Don’t interfere with your breathing. Continue to do a small breath hold followed by normal breathing for 10 to 15 seconds until your symptoms have passed. When you experience the first symptoms of a panic attack, anxiety or stress, immediately do Many Small Breath Holds . Don’t wait until the symptoms worsen, as getting your breath under control will be a lot more difficult. If you wake up during the night with attacks, then sit up in bed and do Many Small Breath Holds to calm your breathing. Very important: these techniques are to be used in conjunction with normalday-to-day treatments.Nasal Breathing for good health (A free video of this exercise is available from www.ButeykoDVD.com .) A ll of your breathing should only be through your nose. Do not breathe through your mouth. Nature has provided us with a wonderful instrument, our nose, to help make our breathing more regular, filter incoming air and help retain moisture in the body. Many humans sleep, walk, rest and work with their mouth open, as if their nose is nothing more than an ornament! Mouth breathing generates chaotic and upper chest breathing that stimulates the sympathetic nervous system. On the other hand, nasal breathing and correct posture help promote regular and diaphragmatic breathing, thus generating calmness. Just watch a healthy baby breathe for an example of good breathing. Note: If your CP is less than 10 seconds, then refrain from holding your breath for too long. Your nose gets blocked as a result of breathing too much. Blood vessels become inflamed and larger amounts of mucus are secreted, making breathing through your nose more difficult. A vicious circle ensues because, as your nose becomes blocked, you switch to mouth breathing. This involves an even greater loss of CO 2 , resulting in even more congestion. The following exercise is very effective for decongesting your nose in just a few minutes. Sit up straight. Take a small breath in through your nose if possible, and a small breath out. If your nose is quite blocked, take a tiny breath in through the corner of your mouth. Pinch your nose with your fingers and hold your breath. Keep your mouth closed.Gently nod your head or sway your body until you feel that you cannot hold your breath any longer. Hold your nose until you feel a strong desire to breathe. When you need to inhale, let go of your nose and breathe gently through it, in and out, with your mouth closed. Calm your breathing as soon as possible. If your nose does not become totally unblocked, wait about 30 seconds until your breathing has recovered before performing this exercise again. You will need to do this exercise a number of times before your nose is completely unblocked. Doing this exercise many times will unblock your nose. You might also feel warm and more alert given the dilatation of your blood vessels. This exercise is also useful for shifting mucus from the airways and for removing constipation. To remove constipation, perform this breath hold exercise many times while sitting on the loo!A low CP indicates that you are breathing big, and your nose will become blocked again. Your nose will remain clear only when your morning CP is over 20 seconds. Perform this exercise each time that your nose becomes blocked. Even if you have a cold, make sure to breathe through your nose. You might think that you cannot clear your nose when you have a heavy cold, but you can. If you do have a head cold, close your mouth and reduce your breathing throughout the day. Your nostrils are smaller and thus create more resistance than breathing through your mouth. As a result, you may feel that you are not getting enough air. This sensation will last for a short time. In a few days, your respiratory centre will become accustomed to the more correct volume that you are breathing. Whatever you do, keep your mouth closed. Your body may begin to play tricks and convince you to breathe more by inducing yawning, sighing, regular sniffing or the odd mouth breath. Do not increase your breathing at this point. When you feel a need to breathe big arises, for example during a sigh, swallow immediately. If you need to yawn, avoid taking the big breath that accompanies a yawn. Instead, stifle the yawn by keeping your mouth closed or by swallowing. It takes just a few days for a habitual mouth breather to change into a permanent nasal breather. Increased observation of your breathing and practicing to breathe less are important elements to making this change. Nasal breathing should be enshrined at all times and during every activity. Remember that when you mouth breathe for periods of time, you are reducing oxygenation of your brain! Correcting breathing volume (easy approach) T here are two approaches to learning how to return your breathing volume to normal levels. The following is the easier version. Sit up straight. Bring your attention to your breathing. Concentrate on the air flowing into and from your nostrils. Feel the air going in and coming out of the nose. Watch, feel and listen to this for a few minutes. Can you feel the air? You might feel cold air on the inner part of your nostrils as it enters your body. You might feel warm air leaving your nostrils. You might feel the air moving over the top of your lip. Just follow your breath. If a thought comes in, as it will, just bring your attention back to the air passing through your nostrils. Keep bringing your attention back to your breath, over and over again. Don’t get upset if your mind wanders. This will happen and is the nature of thought. Keep bringing your attention back to your nostrils, over and over again.When you notice your mind wandering, you are waking up. Before this, you might not h

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