) – 20 grams. 40 grams of warm
water is poured. After 15–20 minutes it is ltered and used. While
using 3–5 grams of honey or sugar candy may be added. is can be
used in all the age groups. It is very eﬀective in burning during
urination and in haematuria. Fine Paste of the Flower for Pigmentation Scars of Face
e ower is made into ne paste and applied to the face once daily. is enhances the complexion and lustre of the face; also the black
spots and freckles are relieved by this. Fried Seeds for Nutritious Diet
e fried seeds are taken similar to any nuts. Seeds are crushed and by
adding little coconut and sugar (or jaggery) it is consumed. is is a
very good nutritive and improves body strength. Flower Decoction for Bilious Complaints, Burning of the Body,
Menopause Syndrome etc. e lotus ower decoction is taken in the dose of 20–30 ml twice daily
in bilious conditions, menopausal problems, bleeding disorders etc. Whole Plant Decoction for Palpitation, Skin Diseases and Blood
Borne Disorders
Whole plant of lotus is taken in dry form and decoction is made. is
is ltered and taken. is pacies palpitation, skin diseases and blood
borne disorders. Pushpayurveda is a unique text composed by Jain Acharya Samanta
Bhadrasena. In this text he explains several owers with their relevance,
action, qualities and uses in therapeutics. e text as such is not
available now a days; but Prof. PV Sharma framed another text by the
same name where he too tried hard to explain such medicinally useful
owers and lotus is one among them.1.136. Malkangani (Celastrus
paniculatus) Remedies:
Rheumatoid Arthritis,
Memory
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Memory enhancing herbs are the special areas of ongoing research. Malkangani
– Jyotishmati is one such herb. Its seeds, leaves and seed oils are the main
usable sources in medicinal eld. e seeds and seed oils are bitter mixed pungent in taste and hot in potency. It pacies Kapha and Vata dosha where as it provokes Pitta and hence in
summer and Pitta individuals it is administered with utmost caution. It acts as diaphoretic, rubefacient, memory enhancer, stimulant and nervine
tonic. Excess dosage may cause gastric irritation, ulceration, acid peptic disorders
etc. Hence it is usually administered with milk or suﬃcient amount of liquids. Remedies
Seed Decoction for Rheumatoid Arthritis
One tablespoon of Staﬀ tree seeds are taken and decoction is made. is is administered in the dose of 20–30 ml after food. is pacies
the Rheumatoid arthritis quite eﬀectively.2. 3. 4.General method of preparation of decoction (kashaya) – 1
tablespoon of powder is added with 2 cups of water, boiled and
reduced to 1 cup, ltered. Fine Paste of the Seeds for Non Healing Chronic Ulcers
Seeds are taken and soaked in water or turmeric dissolved water for 2–
3 hours. en this is made into ne paste and applied over the edges of
the non healing ulcers, regularly. 5–8 days medication initiates healing
of wounds. Malkangani Oil of the Seeds Along with Milk for Enhancing the
Memory
3–5 drops of Jyotismati oil is added to a cup of milk and given to the
children during night. 20–30 days regular medication helps to improve
the memory and intellect. Blanch, spice restricted diet is essential to follow during this
medication. Leaf Paste for Muscular Pain
A stful of matured leaves is taken and ne paste is made. is is
applied over the swelling and muscular swellings. is helps to reduce
the pain.137. Mistletoe –
Dendrophthoe falcata
Remedies: Abscess,
Bleeding Disorders
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Mistletoe is a parasitic herb used in Ayurveda as herbal remedy. e roots and
owers of Mistletoe as well as whole plants can be used in herbal medicine. It
is also called Honey Suckle. In Ayurveda, it is called Vanda, Vandaka and
Bandaka. Botanical name – Dendrophthoe falcata
Loranthaceae family. In Ayurveda, it is  told as –
Tridosha shamaka – balances all the three Doshas
It undergoes Pungent kind of bio transformation (Katu vipaka)
It is cold in potency (Sheeta veerya). e plants are available in diﬀerent colors (owers); violet mixed white
owers are found abundantly in Western Ghats. Mistletoe Home Remedies
Fine Powder of the Leaves/Whole Plant for Dusting Over the Woundse dried leaves or the whole plant is made into ne powder. is is dusted
over oozing wounds and ulcers. 5–8 days of this remedy helps to seize the pus
discharge and initiates the healing. Fine Paste of the Leaf for Swellings and Abscess
Leaf is made into ne paste and warmed a little. is is applied over the abscess
and inamed areas. Decoction of Leaves and Flowers for Convulsions and Hysteria
e leaves or owers or both are taken and made into decoction. is is
administered in 20–30 ml dose, once or twice a day after food by adding a
teaspoon of ghee. is is eﬀective in convulsions and hysteria. General method of preparation of decoction (kashaya) – 1 tablespoon of
powder is added with 2 cups of water, boiled and reduced to 1 cu p, ltered. Fresh Juice of the Leaves for Bleeding Disorders
e leaves are made into hot infusion or decoction. is is administered in the
dose of 30–40 ml twice daily. is is eﬀective in all kind of bleeding disorders. In bleeding piles and heavy periods also this is found to be highly benecial. Classical Reference of Vaidya Manorama –
It explains that the Parasite loranthus developed over the Udumbara (Ficus
glomeruta) is made into decoction and administered along with milk or ghee
for the pregnant women who are at the risk of abortion.138. Night Jasmine –
Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
Remedies: Anorexia, Fever
By Dr. M.S. Krishnamurthy MD (Ayu), Ph.D.
Y
Among the herbal drugs few are important with respect to history and
philosophy also. Night Jasmine is one such plant which is believed to be
favourable to Lord Krishna. According to Ayurveda it is a drug of choice in cystic swellings, painful
conditions of the joints and chronic fevers and recurrent/intermittent fevers. Botanical name – Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
oleaceae family. English name – Night Jasmine. e owers are oﬀered to the Gods and seeds, leaves and bark are used for
treatment. e plants are found in most parts of India. It is bitter in taste, hot in potency and undergoes pungent bio
transformation. It balances Kapha and Vata Dosha. It eliminates out Pitta Dosha. Night Jasmine Home RemediesSeed Powder in Intestinal Worms and Colon Irritations
e dried seeds are taken and ne powder is made. 1–2 g rams of this powder is
administered along with warm water or decoction of cumin seeds. is is
eﬀective in gurgling of stomach, intestinal worms, colon irritation, IBS etc. Leaf or Bark Powder for Cough and roat Irritation
Dried leaves or bark of night Jasmine are made into ne powder. is is
administered in a dose of 1–2 grams by mixing with 1–2 teaspoon of honey. It
cures cough, cold and throat irrita tion. Fresh Leaf Juice for Liver Disorders and Loss of Appetite
Fresh leaf juice – 5 ml is administered along with 1 gram of black pepper or
long pepper powder. is is found to be eﬀective in the conditions like liver
disorders, high viscosity of bile, and loss of appetite. Leaf Decoction with Honey for Dysuria and Chronic Fevers and PUO
e fresh leaf decoction is added with little


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milk and eggs — to the point where an actual deﬁnition is
difﬁcult to achieve. In simpliﬁed terms, our modern sherbet is a
mixture of milk or cream, sugar, and some ﬂavoring. To confuse the issue further, what used to be called “ice milk” in
the United States, was actually a milk sherbet. Today, due to
regulatory changes by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA), that product is called “low-fat ice cream.”
Sorbet is a non-dairy frozen product that contains only fruit,
sugar, and some ﬂavoring along with gelatin for stabilizing the
frozen product. Both sherbets and sorbet are best when eaten soft and served
in small bowls, martini glasses, or ice cream sundae cups. Often
served between courses, sherbet or sorbet serves to cleanse
the palate for the next course. R a s p b e r r y  S h e r b e tPrep time: About 2 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servings
Ingr edients
1 cup low-fat milk
1/4 cup pomegranate or grape juice
1 to 4 tablespoons honey, to taste
2 cups frozen raspberries
1 cup ice cubes
Dir ections
1 Combine the milk, juice, honey, raspberries, and ice in the
blender container. 2 Secure the lid on the container. 3 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. If you have a tamping stick,
use it to move the ice around; otherwise, you may need to stop
and stir the mixture, freeing the fruit and ice around the blades,
and resume blending. 4 Spoon the sherbet into 2 glasses, serve with a spoon, and enjoy! Per serving: Calories 164 (From Fat 18); Fat 2g (Saturated 1g); Cholesterol 5mg; Sodium 64mg;
Carbohydrate 34g; Dietary Fiber 8g; Protein 5g. Tip: To determine the amount of sweetener to use, taste the
smoothie and add honey or maple syrup or brown rice syrup by
the tablespoon until you reach the desired sweetness. C i t r u s  S o r b e t
Prep time: About 2 min • Blending time: 1 min • Yield: 2 servingsIngr edients
1 cup orange juice
1 to 4 tablespoons honey, to taste
1/4 cup frozen lemon or lime concentrate
2 cups frozen orange or grapefruit sections
1 cup ice cubes
Dir ections
1 Combine the juice, honey, frozen concentrate, frozen orange or
grapefruit sections, and ice in the blender container. 2 Secure the lid on the container. 3 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. If you have a tamping stick,
use it to move the ice around; otherwise, you may need to stop
and stir the mixture, freeing the fruit and ice around the blades,
and resume blending. 4 Spoon the sorbet into 2 glasses, serve with a spoon, and enjoy! Per serving: Calories 239 (From Fat 5); Fat 1g (Saturated 0g); Cholesterol 0mg; Sodium 3mg;
Carbohydrate 60g; Dietary Fiber 5g; Protein 3g. Vary It! You can use frozen blueberries or other fruit in place of
the orange or grapefruit sections. Tip: To freeze orange or grapefruit sections, peel, section, and
seed them. Arrange in a single layer on a parchment-lined baking
sheet, and freeze for at least an hour. If not using right away,
transfer to a freezer bag, seal and label it, and store in the freezer
for up to 3 months.Make ’em thick
One of the outstanding characteristics of smoothies — after their cream y
texture, of course — is their thick cons istency. Some of that thickness
comes from the ﬁber and cellulose in the fruits and veget ables. That
banana in the very ﬁrst smoothie ever made was there not just becaus e of
its pretty taste. In fact, banana is used in smoothies as the prime
thickener. Here are some ingredients to use to replace banana in s moothies and still
get that thick consistency. Add them directly to the blender  with all the
other ingredients in place of the banana:
 1/2 sliced avocado
 1/4 cup drained yogurt
 1/4 cup old-fashioned rolled oats (large ﬂake oatmeal)
 2 tablespoons chia seeds, soaked in 1/4 cup water for 10 minutes or
ﬁnely ground and added directly to smoothie ingredients
 1/4 cup silken tofu
Another way to blend really thick smoothies is to add ice or frozen fruits
or vegetables. I prefer to add frozen produce,  but ice is a good choi ce for
people who want to control their weight becaus e it has the added bonus
of being completely free of calories, sugar, and fat. Coconut water is becoming widely available, and it makes a refreshingly
tasty liquid for smoothies. It must be stored in the refrigerator and used
within ﬁve days. If you don’t use all the coconut water  before the end of
the recommended storage time, it can be frozen in ice cube trays and
added to smoothies in the same way as ice is added. You also can freeze
fresh juice in exactly the same way.Part V
The Part of Tens
In this part... This part answered ten frequently asked questions about
juicing and smoothies. I also introduce you to ten fruits and
vegetables that are packed with antioxidants, so you can make
sure your juices and smoothies pack the most powerful punch.Chapter 19
Ten Frequently Asked Questions
about Juicing and Smoothies
In This Chapter
 Making healthy juice and smoothie decisions
 Using juices and smoothies for optimum results
 Enjoying the curative powers of fruit and vegetables
Here I answer the ten most frequently asked questions about
juicing and smoothies. The answers to these questions help to
shorten your learning curve about the why and the how of all
the exciting ways to increase health by incorporating these life-
enhancing drinks into your diet. What Ar e the Benefits of Juices
and Smoothies? We hear a lot about numbers of servings of fruits and
vegetables. Why are so many health professionals adamant that
we get a certain number of them every day? And what is that
number anyway? According to the University of Michigan’s Healing Foods
Pyramid (www.med.umich.edu/umim/food-pyramid/ ), overall, we
should eat more than seven servings of fruits and vegetables —
two to four fruits and at least ﬁve vegetables — daily because a
high consumption “helps reduce risk of various diseases such
as cancer, obesity, heart disease, stroke, arthritis, asthma,
macular degeneration and diverticulosis.” In addition,“increasing fruit and vegetable intake decreases risk of
unhealthy weight gain.”
 One 8-ounce glass of vegetable juice contains three to
four servings of vegetables. One 8-ounce glass of vegetable
smoothie contains two to three servings of vegetable. What’ s the Differ ence between
Juicing and Smoothies? Fruits and vegetables are made up of over 50 percent water,
with ﬁber, carbohydrate, and nutrients making up the other
components. When you juice, you separate the water, which
contains a large proportion (but not all) of the nutrients from
the ﬁber and carbohydrate. You pass the vegetables through a
feed tube in the juicer and by the force of spinning blades
within a basket, juice is extracted and a pile of dry pulp is
collected separately. Juice is easier for your body to digest
because it doesn’t contain ﬁber or carbohydrates. This makes it
an excellent drink for cleansing and detoxing. Smoothies are made with a liquid — usually fruit or vegetable
juice — and the whole fruit or vegetable (water, ﬁber,
carbohydrate, and nutrients intact). This means that when you
drink a smoothie, you’re drinking the total nutrients found in
the juice and the pulp along with the ﬁber, which gives you a
“full” feeling and satisﬁes your hunger longer. Can I Get the Same Health Benefits
with Smoothies as I Get fr omJuices? Both smoothies and juices are healthy and beneﬁcial to your
body, but in slightly different ways. Generally, juices and
smoothies made from natural fruits and vegetables help replace
lost energy and feed the body vital nutrients including enzymes,
vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and protein. Vegetable
drinks restore the pH balance and satisfy longer than soft drinks
or empty-calorie snacks. Smoothies provide all the essential nutrients and
phytonutrients along with the cleansing and cholesterol-
reducing ﬁber because they’re made from the whole fruit or
vegetable. Soluble ﬁber slows down digestion (making you feel
full longer), removes dangerous bacteria and toxins, and helps
build the immune system. Insoluble ﬁber provides bulk in the
stool and is important to the prevention


 in the area
between the two heels of the hand).Dos an D Don’ts
  start out gently, maintaining
eye contact as you work to
check that you are causing no
pain. Be aware of how long you
have worked.   don’t overwork the hand or
work too long. Be careful not to
pull too hard on the fingers or
turn the hand too much. to relax  the hands  even more, apply the squeeze
technique on each hand. Repeat several times.the squeeze (self-help)hand concerns 329Typing
In our technological world, hands get little rest
as we rely increasingly on computers and
electronic gadgets for work and play. Overuse
of computer keyboards can lead to symptoms
1Rest your hand on the palm
of the receiver’s hand. Press
down with the heel of your hand. Hold for several seconds.relaxing the hands
The thumb is involved in half of the hand’s activities, and if it feels
tense and strained, the whole hand may be affected. To help reduce
the strain in a friend or relative’s hand, try the following relaxation
techniques. Once you’ve worked the hand in the four directions
described, consider which movement showed the most stress. See
the technique at right to work on your own hand. 2Now press down gently on
the top of the hand with
the heel of your hand. Hold for
several seconds. 3Rest your palm on top of
the receiver’s hand and curl
your fingers around the edge of
the hand. Gently pull upward
with your fingers.4Now curl your thumb
around the other edge of
the hand and pull upward while
pressing down with your fingers. Hold for several seconds. self-help strategy
1Gently pull your thumb. Turn
it first in a clockwise and
then a counterclockwise direction. Repeat on each digit in turn. 2Now apply the side-to-side
movement to each finger. Hold each finger as shown. Gently
move the joint from side to side. happy thumbs
text messaging and electronic
games have introduced a new type
of challenge for the thumb. keep
your thumbs happy by reducing the
demands on them, resting them between bouts of use. pay attention
to all activities that strain your
thumb and consider their impact.of carpal tunnel syndrome (see opposite), while
using mini-keyboards on cellular phones and
electronic games overtaxes the thumb. The
exercises below can relax the hands.To help you access information,
this chapter couples the reflexology map with
appropriate techniques. It is sometimes convenient
to target your technique application to a
corresponding part of the body rather than
searching for a disorder game plan or embarking
on a whole session. Here you’re given a location
chart for each part of the body, pinpointing the
reflex area on the foot and hand. In addition, you’ll
find techniques to target the reflected part of the
body. Illustrated are techniques to work with
another’s hand or foot as well as your own.ChartsChapter 8332 summary treatment chartsFoot   thumb-walk down each toe,
making several passes (see p85). Foot, self help   thumb-walk up each
of the toes (see p109). Hand, self help   Finger-walk across
thumb and ﬁngers (see pp146–147). Hand   make thumb-walking passes
across thumb and fingers (see p127). head/Brain/ sinuses
The left side of the head and brain, and the left sinuses are reﬂected in
the ﬁrst segments of the toes of the left foot and ﬁngers of the left hand. The charts
This section is designed to enable you to quickly find the appropriate
technique for working a particular part of the body. In the following pages,
body organs and areas are ordered from the head down. First find the area you
want to work, then decide whether you’re working on another person or on
yourself, and also whether you will be applying technique to the foot or the
hand. Identify the appropriate picture and apply the technique. How to use these charts
For fuller instructions on how to apply a
technique to another person refer to pp72-
107 if you are working on the feet or
pp122-141 if you are working on the hands. For self-help instructions, see pp108-121 for how to work on your own feet or pp158-177
for how to work on your own hands. For
step-by-step instructions on using the basic
techniques, such as thumb-walking
and finger-walking, see pp72–77. head/Brain
sinuses
head/Brain/
sinusesthe charts 333Foot   hold the pad of the foot down as
you thumb-walk (see pp86–87). eye/inner ear/ear
The base of the toes of the left foot and the base of the ﬁngers of the left
hand relate to the left eye, inner ear, and ear. Foot, self-help  apply a gentle pinch to
the webbings between toes (see p110). Hand, self-help  Gently pinch the
webbings between ﬁngers (see p150). Hand   Pinch the webbings between the
fingers gently several times (see p131). Foot  apply the hook and back-up
technique to the big toe (see p84). Pituitary
The center of the left big toe and the center of the left thumb correspond
to the left part of the pituitary gland. Foot, self-help  use your index ﬁnger
to hook and back-up (see p108). Hand, self-help  use the index ﬁnger
to hook and back-up (see p146). Hand  apply the hook and back-up
technique to the thumb (see p126). Pituitary
gland
eyeeye
ear
earPituitary
gland
inner earinner ear334 summary treatment chartsFoot   use the thumb-walking technique
to work the areas (see pp84–85).neck/throat/thyroid/ Parathyroid
The thyroid and parathyroid glands are reflected on the thumbs and big
toes, while the neck and throat are reflected on each toe and digit. Foot, self-help thumb-walk, making a
series of passes (see pp108–109). Hand, self-help use ﬁnger-walking to
work your own hand (see p146).Hand  thumb-walk across the areas in
a series of passes (see pp126–127). Foot  thumb-walk across the top of
each toe, making several passes.Foot, self-help  make several thumb-
walking passes across each toe (p116). Hand, self-help  apply thumb-walking
across the thumb and fingers (p155). Hand   thumb-walk across the thumb
and each finger (see p135) Face/teeth
Bands that run across the tops of each toe and across the tops of the
thumb and each finger correspond to the face and teeth. thyroid/
Parathyroid
neck/throat
neck/
throatthyroid/
ParathyroidteethFace
teeth
Facethe charts 335Foot  make a series of thumb-walking
passes up the foot (see p88). heart
The ball of the foot below the big toe and the palm below the thumb
reﬂect the heart, which lies predominantly on the body’s left side. Foot, self-help  thumb-walk through
the area in a series of passes (see p111). Hand, self-help  apply the ﬁnger-
walking technique (see p150). Hand  hold the ﬁngers back and
thumb-walk (see p130). Foot  thumb-walk up each part of the
ball of the foot (see pp88–89).chest/lun G/uPPer Back
The ball of the left foot and upper palm of the left hand reﬂect the chest,
lung, and upper back of the body’s left side. Foot, self-help roll the foot-roller over
the ball of your foot (see p63). Hand, self-help  thumb-walk up your
palm in a series of passes (see p156). Hand  hold the fingers back and
thumb-walk up the palm (see p130).chest/lung/
upper back
chest/lungsupper back
heart
heart336 summary treatment chartsFoot  hold the toes back and thumb-
walk through the area (see p88). solar Plexus
The ball of the left foot and the webbing of the palm of the left hand
correspond to the left side of the solar plexus. Foot, self-help  stretch the toes back
and thumb-walk (see p111). Hand, self-help  Pinch the webbing of
the hand several times each. Hand  thumb-walk on both sides of
the hand, pressing into the webbing.Foot   hold the toes back as you thumb-
walk up the shoulder area (see p88).Foot, self-help  tilt your foot to the
outside and roll the roller (see p163). Hand, self-help  apply the thumb-
walking technique (see p150). Hand  hold the fingers back while you
thumb-walk (see p130). shoulder
The left shoulder corresponds to an area just below the little toe of the
left foot and little ﬁnger of the left hand. shoulder
solar plexus
solar plexusshoulderthe charts 337Foot


 take steps today to
enhance my inner fire.T4  T H E  H E A R T  C H A K R A
A n a h a t a
ELEMENT :  Air (V ayu)
COLOR:  Emerald Green
MANTRA SOUND:  YUM
SPECIAL HEAR T CHAKRA MANTRA:  Om mani padme hum
he fourth chakra is located in the heart center. It’ s where matter and
spirit meet. It m arks the halfway point, with three chakras belo w and
three above. This is a very imp ortant chakra indeed, as it’ s o ur center of
love and connection. Here yo u transc end the confines of the lower chakras and move into a
greater awareness of living in dh arma, your righteous duty or vi rtuous path. Love flo ws from you. Y ou are peaceful, joyful, and compassi onate. Y our
actions are no longer self-serving but are motivated by helping others
overcome suf fering. Anahata encompasses the heart center, lungs, arms, and hands. It also
includes the circulatory and lymphatic systems. The flow  of prana, or life force, is prominent in the fourth chak ra as the
lungs reside here. Air flows in and out from the time you are bo rn until the
time you take yo ur last breath. T he strength of prana is regulated in part by
control of the breath. The mind, in turn, remains calm or becomes agitated
based o n your ability to regulate your breath. The slower  and more
controlled your breath become s, the calmer your mind. A faster, erraticbreathing pattern  gives way to rapid, disor ganized thought, which can lead
to an xiety, panic, and even psychosis. A panic attack cannot manifest in the
presence of a calm, even, and steady breath. The Ana hata chakra is also whe re your deepest heartfelt desires reside. While you have desires that em anate from the second and third chakras,
fourth chakra desires are deeper and more profound, with a greater spiritual
quality to them. T wo A yurvedic doshas are predo minant in the fourth chakra: Ka pha and
V ata. Th e main seat of the Kapha dosha is in and around the chest,
including the stomach, lungs, heart, bronchial passages, and mucus
membranes that line the respiratory system. V ata, too, has a main role in the
fourth ch akra as  the chakra’ s element is air, one of the components of V ata. The sense of touch and the sense or gan skin are both integral parts of the
V ata do sha and the fourth chakra. Also, V ata’ s subdosha, prana vata,
located in the heart and lungs, is responsible for the upward flow of air. The gunas ruling the fourth chakra are rajas and sattva. The color we attribute to the heart chakra is emerald green. The mantra,
or bija (seed) sound, we vocalize for the fourth chakra is YUM. Fourth Chakra Ailments
While im balances in any of th e chakras can create disease, t hose in the
heart chakra can cause major, life-threatening diseases. Mind, body, and
spirit are intimately linked, and the anatomical region of the heart chakra
governs major life-sustaining bodily systems. Among them are respiration
and hea rt health, which is why I encourage you to make certa in that you
keep the heart chakra open and aligned. In th e United St ates, heart disease
is  the number one cause of death, and respiratory disease is the third. Ailments of the fourth chakra in clude heart disease, lung disease, blood
pressure issues, thymus problems, vascular problems, respiratory and
circulatory problems, and breast problems such as breast cancer. Fourth Chakra Energy
The English translation for the Sanskrit word Anahata, “unstruck” or
“unhurt,” embodies perfectly the ener gy of the fourth chakra. Love, theemotion of the f ourth chakra, can be vague and dif ficult to understand in its
fullest sense. Y ou can say in the  same thought, “I love chocolate and I love
my mom,” but love of those tw o things has dif ferent meanings. Loss of
chocolate may not generate the same reaction as loss of your mother, yet
you can  use the same word to describe the emotion you feel  about both
things. The fourth chakra bridges matte r and spirit, and we begin to ex perience
a more altruistic form of love that only grows with great er spiritual
awareness. In the first three chakras, love is mostly motivated  by having
needs met. The first chakra meaning of love is “I love so I can get my needs
met.” Second chakra love is “I love so the other will love me back.” Third
chakra l ove is “I love so othe rs can recognize I’m a good person and
therefore I’m able to love myself.” These are all stages of development in
love and not in herently wrong,  but they can be immature expressions of
love. Growing in spiritual maturity, w hen you reach the fourth chakra, love
comes fr om a less conditional source. Y ou learn to love regardless of being
hurt and regardless of whether others meet your needs all the time. Y ou love
because you know that, like ho nesty, learned in the third chak ra, love is a
higher vibrational frequency that will lead you to greater authenticity. A young  child being reprimand ed will often say to her parent, “I hate
you, Mommy! I hate you, Da ddy!” A parent operating from the fourth
chakra r esponds not with hatred but with love. The greatest spiritual leaders
of the past alway s responded with love in the presence of hate. Jesus said to
God while being crucified, “Father, for give  them, for they know not what
they do.”  Mahatma Gandhi for gave those who oppressed him. Nelson
Mandela for gav e those who imp risoned him for twenty-seven years. These
examples embo dy the true m eaning of Anahata. Despite being hurt
physically, mentally, and emot ionally, they did not allow the hatred to
penetrate their hearts. A pe rson in four th chakra ener gy, who is “unstruck,” experiences strikes
from oth ers but without the marks of being struck. That is pow erful. Their
sense of  worth, well-being, and  ability to love is no longer m easured by
external forces. The love from within radiates outward.Our Societal Relationship with the Fourth Chakra
The form  of love most often portrayed in the media is not the true form of
love from the fourth chakra. But we do have moments when we touch on
this love, often during times of crisis, when people make sacrifices to help
others. For example, after Hurricane Harvey damaged 203,000 homes  and
caused $ 180 bil lion in damage, federal emer gency workers rescued 10,000
people trapped under their homes or on the highways. American companies
pledged over $157 million  t ow ard recovery ef forts. A great n umber of other
people p oured money into charities such as the Red Cross to ai d the rescue
and recovery ef forts. Outpou rings of love often take th e form of
volunteerism for those in need, and these acts of selflessness are an
expression of fourth chakra ener gy. However, on a societal level, the degree
of consc iousness doesn’ t consistently calibrate at the level of un conditional
love. T o help you fully grasp the dif ferent levels of love, I’d like to share
definitions of the word love  from concepts in Greek philosophy. While
there are  around seven dif ferent definitions of love in Greek, I w ill present a
handful to point out how our so cietal view of love relates to fourth chakra
love. Eros
Society today often defines love  in the way of passion and sexua l attraction. If you look at TV shows, movies, and advertising, the portraya l of love is
about immediate  satisfaction and passionate romance. Much of the draw to
reality T V today is because of the display of eros and society’ s attraction to
it. E ros m ostly r epresents the first and second chakra ener gy of survival and
procreation. Philia
Deep fri endship, brotherly bond s, and camaraderie all define the essence of
philia. This type of love represents goodwill to others for a cause or
purpose. Much of society is built upon this kind of love. For example,people w ho serv e together in th e armed forces have a special bond; those
who attend the s ame schools, belong to the same fraternal or gan izations, or
work for  the same companies tend to get together for celebrations; and fans
of the same sports teams bond with one another. Philia b onds are  formed
through commu nity and connection and are important for society as a
whole, a s having  citizens who a re lovingly connected is better than having
isol


 I call them—
were exposed I actually had to take them back. You can’t imagine how
disgusting that seemed at first. I mean, all our dirty secrets look hideous in
our own eyes, no matter how common they might appear to others.”
“I don’t think it’s the horribleness of the unconscious that is the main
block,” I suggested. “It’s more  our fears about forgiveness. What you’re
talking about is forgiving yourself so that you can take back your dark
energies and turn them into love. What if that fails? What if you’re stuck
being as ugly, dirty, sinful, and undeserving as your worst judgments say
you are? That prospect is so terrifying that even tiny sins and blemishes get
expanded into monstrosities.”
Drew nodded and sat still for a moment. “There were times when I didn’ t
think I was going to make it. A voice inside kept crying, ‘You’re going to
die. You can’t take any more.’ But I knew I wasn’ t going to die. My
spiritual life had taught me at least that much. I went back to my old job as
a stockb roker, and so far as I knew nobody had any idea of what I was
going through.”
He noticed my amusement at the kind of job he had chosen. “You like
literature, I recall. Didn’ t Hawthorne write somewhere that a man may go
around to all the world looking like any other man while entertaining the
most extraordinary ideas in his head?”“In his journals, I think. But that could apply to psychotics as well as
visionaries,” I said. “True, but my point is that something that appears normal can be very
wild inside. Which had not dawned on me when I was running around
trying to become a visionary. I walk down Milk Street with my briefcase,
and I ask: Is a tree a tree, a skyscraper a skyscraper? What makes these
things ‘normal’ is that they look like separate, solid objects, but they’re not. They’re bundles  of energy carved out of the infinite energy soup of the
universe, and so are you and I. Therefore at some level you and I are not
simply connected with that tree and that skyscraper. We are that tree and
skyscraper. And that is what a mystic knows, nothing else.”
“You have closed the gap,” I said, feeling both moved and impressed. “Something like that. Have you ever sat by a river, all alone, and tried to
feel it? Of cours e you can’t. You may say that you’re feeling the river—its
flow, its still depths, its constant change that runs unopposed from here to
there—but all you actually feel is yourself. If you can get close enough to it
(and such feelings are very tough to get close to), the sweetness of sitting by
a river actually comes from a tiny point in your heart. That point of
sweetness is perfectly still; it doesn’ t reach out for you, but it doesn’ t ever
abandon you either. What’ s in that sweet point?”
“Everything,” I said. “Yes, everything.”
We both sat without speaking,  relishing this moment of communion. Then Drew said, “The ego surgery ended. At a certain point the process spit
me out. I can’t say I did anything, really, but in some way I had been
through the crucible, and now, past the flames, what was I? I was real. It’s
astonishing to realize what a difference it makes to find out that you are not
false, since to the rational mind of course  I am real. It’s a given. But to
really be real, that’ s the joy. That’ s the revelation. That’ s the ecstasy.”
Impossible as it is to convey ecstasy through the poor power of words,
we can sense what it is, because all of us live from that sweet point in our
hearts. Whatever seems to be happening on the outside, every person wants
to hold on to that spot forever. It is touched in love, sometimes in sex, often
in mom ents of supreme creativity. When we succeed in getting there
permanently, the transformation goes beyond self to change the world.Ecstasy makes this world into God’ s world. The certainty of one’s divine status is probably the most important gift
ecstasy brings, as evoked by Whitman in his poem “Song of Myself”:
I know that the hand of God is the elderhand of my own,
And I know that the spirit of God is the eldest brother of my own,
And that all the men ever born are also my brothers... and the women my sisters and lovers. These words came from a direct, undeniable fusion of self and love. The
melting sensation that ushers in ecstasy isn’t meant to be temporary; when
you remain open to spirit you become spirit, and then universal love is your
natural state. It’s true of all lovers that at moments of intense joy some sort
of boundary melts, and the happiness of loving another perso n is exalted
beyond itself. One crosses over into a place where the traces of personality
diminish until they become so faint that the ego merges into love’ s flow like
that drop returning to the ocean. Despite the fact that only a smal l percentage of people may have  fallen in
love on any given day, lovers have not taken extraordinary journeys, not
compared with those mystical travelers often called ecstatics. The intense
joy of romance  is a reachable experience, a step on the same path that
mystics travel much farther along. Now it is time for us to see what the final
destination actually is. VARIETIES OF  ECSTASY
Rather than use a vague term like mystical, we will explore the different
experiences that have been labeled ecstatic throughout history. Ecstasy can
first be consider ed as a physical  experience. This is the level our culture has
fixated upon, to the extent that a drug has been given the name Ecstasy with
the promise, presumably, that it will deliver the experience. In the very
crudest sense pushing sensual pleasure to its limits is supposed to bring one
to the point of ecstasy. Books on erotic technique pass themselves off as
handbooks to the ecstatic. But in all these cases the real nature of ecstasy has been missed, because
no lasting transformation has taken place. A drug may alter the brain’ s
biochemical status, mimicking the spontaneous sensations that appear inecstatic states, but the experience is devoid of meaning. Altered brain waves
do not equate with the poetic insight of this exalted passage from the Song
of Solomon:
My heart was split, and a flower
appeared; and grace sprang up;
and it bore fruit for my God. These lines are supremely sensual, the images are undeniably sexual. Yet
the poet is not mistaking his ecstasy for mere pleasure, however deep and
intoxicating that may be. He declares,
And my drunkenness was insight,
intimacy with your spirit. Without this insight ecstasy might justifiably be equated with sensory
intensity such as drugs can deliv er. Here my intent certainly isn’t to strip the
pleasure away. Lovers who can freely surrender in sexual intim acy are able
to go far beyond the experience of partners who feel inhibited with each
other. Pleasure is by no means a given in a society that has not yet really
confronted the guilt and shame that cloud sexual desire. Yet the boundaries
that melt in the experience of ecstasy are of a different kind. As the most
famous lines from the Song of Solomon declare,
And you have made all things new;
you have showed me all things shining. You have granted me perfect ease;
I have become like Paradise. For all things to become new and shining requires much more than
sensuality. If anything, intense sexual contact leads to release and
exhaustion; the “little death” of orgasm is a form of oblivion, not a raising
of consciousness. We can’t afford to be absolute here. Sexual energy is
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        The aggressiveness of a warrior doesn’ t
correspond to Shiva, who has no need to intrude, conquer, overcome,
acquire, or compete. Although he is called “destroyer of worlds” in the
Bhagavad-Gita, what is meant is that Shiva absorbs the universe back into
himself at the end of creation. This isn’t a violent act, any more than it is
violent for your brain to reabsorb the neurochemicals that form ed your last
thought; in both cases the found ation for a new creation, a new thought, has
been laid. Shiva is at least a familiar name in the West, known to be one of the three
primal gods of India, along with Brahma and Vishnu. Each was conceived
as a particular form of the divine: Brahma is the creator of the universe,
Vishnu the maintainer, and Shiva the destroyer. It would be a mistake,
though, as I just explained, to think of Shiva as some kind of apocalyptic
avenger, or even as a being outside ourselves. God is within, and the three-part division of the divine is only an image
or metaphor for something that cannot be divided. By analogy


 a boy. Clearly the same
overblown resentment was at work. “That stage lasted no more than a split second. Images were still
whizzing by in my mind; it was like watching myself from the
viewpoint of a pebble falling down a well.”
In rapid succession, he saw that his anger at his father was
connected to feeling that he could never win his father’s love. Then
he saw that he had never been able to take criticism from his
brothers or male friends, either. Images of them ashed by, stirring
up a whirl of emotions and memories. “By now only half a minute had passed, but the pebble was still
plummeting, faster and faster. Instead of feeling giddy and
disoriented, my mind was actually quite clear. I was appreciating
every new angle and seeing it truthfully. Strangely, whenever my
feelings started  to run away with me, a detached, calm, inquisitive
voice in my head kept repea ting, ‘Well, is it true? Do I impose my
feelings on others?’ Whereve r this voice was coming from, it wasn’t
going to be dismissed with half-truths.”
During this entire process, this man had lost consciou sness of
things around  him. He was concentrating with intense focus, as
most of us cannot, on the dynamics of moving out repressed
feelings. In a few more seconds, the sensation of being a rock
plummeting down a well ended. “The thing is, I didn’t feel myself hit bottom. I passed through all
these layers, expecting to wind up God knows where. Instead, all
that happened was that I came to again and noticed that I wassitting at my desk. I took a deep breath—apparently I had been
holding it the whole time—a nd went back to work, feeling calmer
though still wounded. It was only an hour later that the insight
came. I was sitting at lunch with a few co-workers, people whom I
know inside out and who frankly have ceased to interest me for
years. Suddenly, they seemed appealing, even fascinating. “They looked at me with aection in their eyes, they laughed
when I said something funny, and I laughed with them. It was the
most peculiar thing, until I realized, with a ash of recognition,
what had happened: I wasn’t imposing my feelings on them
anymore. It hadn’t occurred  to me that these people had nothing
new to oer because I wasn’t giving them a chance. As soon as I
backed o, they opened up, like shy owers. The change in my
awareness had released something new in them. To see them open
up like that was very intima te, and at the same time it came as a
great relief.”
Craig’s Story
At the ash of insight, psychiatry and Yoga are one—the
revelation of the knower is the goal of both disciplines. However,
psychiatry is content with a ash: insight is basically a tool, not a
permanent state. Patients come to therapy for various reasons—to
relieve unhappiness, to sort out unwarranted guilt or anxiety, to
correct self-defeating behavior, and so on—but they do not come to
wake up from the dream of Maya. If anything, that would be seen as
a confused, disabling fantasy, far removed from the sensible,
rational end product of successful therapy. Psychiatry is an imperfect healer because it is wounded itself. Its
reality does not include a core of magic; in fact, many therapists do
their utmost to stamp out any signs of magic in the patient’s mind. Only the most exceptional people manage to rise above the reality
principle; they alone can begin to appreciate how simple the state of
total insight might actually be. Here I am thinking of one patient whose experience of
transcending his physical boundaries seemed to make the dierencebetween life and death. “For the last year I have been aware of a
battle raging inside my body, but in my heart, I am like the
happiest, most carefree of children. I have found the part of me that
cannot be touched by my cancer. I am so much more than it, so far
beyond it. Sometimes I feel totally in command of my illness, at
other times I simply pay no attention to it. In either case, illness
cannot mar my sense of being alive and whole, though surrounded
by chaos and destruction.”
Craig Reed had been diagnosed with terminal cancer when he
wrote these words in a letter; he showed it to me after he had
recovered. Craig Reed is a meditation teacher in his thirties from
upstate New York. Three years ago he visited his family doctor with
a severe sore throat, only to discover that he had contracted a fast-
spreading form of lymphatic cancer called lymphoma. He had
probably had the disease for six months before noticing any
symptoms, which meant that the cancer had metastasized
throughout his body. Two days later Craig checked into a large
teaching hospi tal in Boston where he was assigned to a leading
specialist in lymphatic cancers. “Our only choice,” his oncologist told him, “is to try to kill this
thing with everything we’ve got. It will be very rough, I warn you,
but absolutely necessary.”
When Craig asked how rough it would be, the oncologist smiled
grimly and said, “First we run a truck over you, then we back it up
to make sure we didn’t miss.” In private, he wondered if Craig
would live long enough to complete the rst round of treatments. But from the very outset, Craig was a highly atypical case. His rst
treatment went unusually smoothly. The fever he entered the
hospital with resolved and the balloonlike swelling in his face
subsided. His psychological readiness to face the trials that lay
ahead began to grow. At this point Craig wrote the letter from which I quoted. It
mentions that he practiced meditation every day and had been
doing so for seventeen years. He had developed a remarkable ability
to stop identifying with his disease. Though centered in his mind,this attitude of nonattachme nt also had a profound eect on his
body. Two months into his treatment, his temperature began to rise
alarmingly; Craig was rushed to the hospital, where it was
determined his immune system was severely compromised. His
white cell count had been cut to the bone—it stood at 200, whereas
a health y person’s is between 4,000 and 11,000. Chemotherapy is
known to cause these crises, which put patients in grave jeopardy
from any passing infection, no matter how minor. Discouraged,
Craig’s oncolog ist left his bedside wondering how many weeks they
would have to wait before the white count crept back up. Three
days later, a second blood test was taken. It showed that Craig’s
count had bounced back to 4,000, from near-fatal to near-normal. The doctor associated with the case had rarely if ever observed or
read about such an occurrence. Despite the odds, Craig was rebounding rapidly, and the cancer
was in retreat. He was releas ed from the hospital after four months,
having chosen not to undergo a bone-marrow transplant, despite his
doctor’s insistence. In Craig ’s mind, there was no doubt that being able to distance
himself from his disease was crucial. “The emotional ups and downs
are endless, the ordeal has dragged me through every imaginable
emotion, but something in me is not involved. I still laugh and cry,
celebrate and grieve, but I remain apart at the same time. I have
discovered how to free my life from hysteria, and when the hysteria
went, I was healed.” It has been nearly three years since Craig left
the hospital. He leads a completely normal life and rema ins free of
disease. It is very heartening to see that patients can pick up the thread to
freedom. And what about Lou? He now stands at a halfway stage,
no longer a prisoner of his fear but not quite believing that he has
escaped. As things turned out, Lou went in for his surgery, which was
supposed to remove the tumor on his pancreas while leaving the
majority of the organ intact. But his surgeons discovered that the
tumor was much larger than they suspected. Lou was judgedinoperable for either a partial or a total removal, and the incision
was immediately closed. When he came out of the anesthesia, he shocked his oncologist by
taking the news in high spirits. “I never wanted surgery in the rst
place,” he told me in his hospital room, “and by a circuitous route I
got what I wanted.”
We both mused  on this. I didn’t realize at the time that something
critical had happened—Lou’s sense of being under a dark
enchantment was broken. He ew back to Europe and a fate I could
not predict. Six months later I was delighted to see him in my oce
again, looking well and without any discernible weight loss. He had
a normal appetite and no digestive diculties. Lou did not seem as
happy with this situation as I was, however. “Do I look all right?” he
asked nervously. “You look wonderful,” I enthused. “That’s what everyone tells me, but inside I don’t know  how I
feel


 on fertile soils or getting a significant portion of their diet from the sea and who beca use of
physical isolation from industrial foods did not make a practice of eating empty calories tended to live a long time and be ver y
healthy. But those unfortunates on poor soils or with unwise cultural life -styles tended to be short -lived, diseased, small, weak,
have bad teeth, etc. The lesson here is that Homo Sapiens can adapt to many different diets, but like any other animal, the o ne
thing we can't adapt to is a diet deficient in nutrition. So here's another "statistic" to reconsider. Most people believ e that due to modern medical wonders, we live longer than we used
to. Actually, that depends. Compared to badly nourished populations of a century ago, yes! We do. Chemical medicine keeps
sickly, poorly nourished people going a lot longer (though one wonde rs about the quality of their dreary existences.) I hypothesize
that before the time most farmers purchased and baked with white flour and sold their whole, unground wheat, many rural
Americans (the ones on good soil, not all parts of North America have ri ch soil) eating from their own self -sufficient farms, lived
as long or even longer than we do today. You also have to wonder who benefits from promulgating this mistaken belief about
longevity. Who gets rich when we are sick? And what huge economic interes ts are getting rich helping make us sick? The Human Comedy
 I know most of my readers have been heavily indoctrinated about food and think they already know the truth about
dietetics. I also know that so much information (and misinformation) is c oming out about diet that most of my
readers are massively confused about the subject. These are two powerful reasons many readers will look with
disbelief at what this chapter has to say and take no action on my data, even to prove me wrong. Let me warn y ou. There is a deep -seated human tendency to put off taking responsibilities, beautifully demonstrated
by this old joke. A 14 year old boy was discovered masturbating by his father, who said, "son, you shouldn't do that! If you keep it
up you'll eventually  go blind!" ` "But father,” came the boy's quick reply. "It feels good. How about if I don't quit
until I need to wear glasses?" The Organic Versus Chemical Feud
    Now, regrettably, and at great personal risk to my reputation, I must try to puncture the very favorite belief of food religi onists,
the doctrine that organically grown food is as nutritious as food can possibly be, Like Woody Allen's brown -rice-eating  friends,
people think if you eat Organic foods, you will inevitably live a very long time and be very healthy. Actually, the Organic v s.
chemical feud is in many ways false. Many (not all) samples of organically grown food are as low or lower in nutrition  as foods
raised with chemical fertilizers. Conversely, wisely using chemical fertilizers (not pesticides) can greatly increase the nut ritional
value of food. Judiciously used Organic fertilizing substances can also do that as well or better. And in either  case, using chemical
fertilizers or so -called organic fertilizers, to maximize nutrition the humus content of the soil must be maintained. But, raising soil
organic matter levels too high can result in a massive reduction in the nutritional content of the  food being grown –a very frequent
mistake on the part of Organic devotees. In other words, growing nutrition is a science, and is not a matter of religion. The food I fed to my daughter in childhood, though Organic according to Rodale and the certifica tion bureaucrats, though
providing this organic food to my family and clients gave me a feeling of self -righteousness, was not grown with an understanding
of the nutritional consequences of electing to use one particular Organic fertilizing substance over another. So we and a lot of
regional Organic market gardeners near us that we bought from, were raising food that was far from ideally nutritious. At lea st
though, our food was free of pesticide residues. The real dichotomy in food is not "chemical" f ertilizer versus "Organic," It is between industrial food and quality food. What I
mean by industrial food is that which is raised with the intention of maximizing profit or yield. There is no contradiction b etween
raising food that the "rabbis" running Or ganic certification bureaucracies would deem perfectly "kosher" and raising that same
food to make the most possible money or the biggest harvest. When a farmer grows for money, they want to produce the largest
number of bushels, crates, tons, bales per ac re. Their criteria for success is primarily unit volume. Many gardeners think the same
way. To maximize bulk yield they build soil fertility in a certain direction (organically or chemically) and choose varieties  that
produce greater bulk. However, nature is ironic in this respect. The most nutritious food is always lower yielding. The very soil
management practices that maximize production simultaneously reduce nutrition. The real problem we are having about our health is not that there are residues of  pesticides in our food. The real problem is that
there are only residues of nutrition left in our foods. Until our culture comes to understand this and realizes that the heal th costs of
accepting less than optimum food far exceeds the profits made by grow ing bulk, it will not be possible to frequently find the
ultimate of food quality in the marketplace, organically grown or not. It will not be possible to find food that is labeled o r
identified according to its real nutritional value. The best I can say a bout Organic food these days is that it probably is no less
nutritious than chemically -grown food while at least it is free of pesticide residues. The Poor Start
    For this reason it makes sense to take vitamins and food supplements, to be discussed in  the next chapter. And because our food
supply, Organic or "conventional," is far from optimum, if a person wants to be and remain healthy and have a life span that
approaches their genetic potential (and that potential, it seems, approaches or exceeds a c entury), it is essential that empty calories
are rigorously avoided. An accurate and quick -to-respond indicator of how well we are doing in terms of getting enough nutrition is the state of our
teeth. One famous dentally -oriented nutritional doctor, M elvin Page, suggested that as long as overall nutrition was at least 75
percent of perfection, the body chemistry could support healthy teeth and gums until death. By healthy here Page means free o f
cavities, no bone loss around the teeth (no wobblers), no  long-in-the-teeth mouths from receding gums, no gum diseases at all. But
when empty calories or devitalized foods or misdigestion cuts our nutrient intake we begin experiencing tooth decay, gum dise ase
and bone loss in the jaw. How are your teeth? I suppose you could say that I have a food religion, but mine is to eat so that the equation Nutrition = Health / Calories is
strongly in my favor. Back to my daughter's teeth. Yes, I innocently fed her less than ideally nutritious food, but at that time I couldn't buy ideal food
even had I known what I wanted, nor did I have any scientific idea of how to produce ideal food, nor actually, could I have d one so
on the impoverished, leached -out clay soil at Great Oaks School even had I known how. The Organic doctrine says that you can
build a Garden of Eatin’ with large quantities of compost until any old clay pit or gravel heap produces highly nutritious fo od. This
idea is not really true. Sadly, what is true about organic matter in soil is that when it is in creased very much above the natural level
one finds in untilled soil in the climate you're working with, the nutritional content of the food begins to drop markedly. I  know
this assertion is shocking and perhaps threatening to those who believe in the Orga nic system; I am sorry. But there is another reason my daughter's teeth were not perfect, probably could not have been perfect no matter what we fed
her, and why she will probably have at least some health problems as she ages no matter how perfectly she may choose to eat from
here on. My daughters had what Dr. G.T. Wrench called "a poor start." Not as poor as it could have been by any means, but
certainly less than ideal. You see, the father has very little to do with the health of the child, unle ss he happens to carry some particularly undesirable
gene. It is the mother who has the job of constructing the fetus out of prepartum nourishment and her own body's nutritional
reserves. The female body knows from instinctual experience that adequate nutr ition from the current food supply during
pregnancy can not always be assured, so the female body stores up very large quantities of minerals and vitamins and enzymes
against that very possibility. When forming a fetus these reserves are drawn down and dep leted. It is virtually impossible during
the pregnancy itself for a mother to extract sufficient nutrition from current food to build a totally healthy fetus, no matt er how
nourishing the food she is eating may be. Thus a mother -to-be needs to be spending her entire childhood and her adolescence (and
have adequate time between babies), building and rebuilding her reserves. A mother -to-be also started out at her


 flesh. Vitamins, if proffered, will be rejected. Resting in
seclusion, preferably in a dark place, while awaiting the completion of the reparative work done
by his own self-healing power—he recovers. There is order in the processes of nature; the haphazard nowhere reigns supreme. There must be,
thus, some profound reason for the suspension of digestive processes and the simultaneous
suspension of the desire for food in states of acute illness. The sick man’s dislike of food would
seem to be as significant as his dislike of noise, motion, light, close air and cold. Yet, while these
latter dislikes are commonly respected, we are inclined to disregard the first and attempt to feed in
spite of the most obstinate repugnance to food. If the patient is chilly, we warm him; if noise disturbs him, we seek to protect him from this; if
light disturbs him, we lower the shades; if the air is close, we open the windows; we respect his
desire to lie quietly and not move about. But we urge him to eat. There is a story told of Pope Leo XIII, that, in his last illness in his ninety-third year, he said to
his physicians: “Gentlemen, you require me to eat more than I ate in health.”
This practice was all too common and is still responsible for much unnecessary suffering and
death. Going without food in acute disease not only relieves pain, but rests the heart and relieves
the kidneys. The ancients well understood the value of abstinence in acute disease and an
78understanding of its value was carried down even into late times. Fasting in fevers was commonly
employed by Neapolitan physicians over a hundred and fifty years ago. They frequently permitted
their fever patients to go for as many as forty days without food. It should not be thought, however, that fasting should be instituted only in states of serious
illness, that one should continue to eat so long as any digestive power remains. On the contrary,
missing a few meals at the beginning of the trouble is often enough to prevent the development of
serious trouble. If functional impairment is only slight, as indicated by a coated tongue, headache,
a general malaise, and similar “insignificant”
 symptoms, a short fast will enable the body to
eliminate the systemic toxemia before more formidable trouble evolves. If, when the first symptoms appear, the patient were put to bed, strict repose enjoined, no good
given, many cases of acute disease would be light and of short duration. The patient should be kept
warm and given all the water demanded by thirst. The room should be light and airy, and visitors
should be excluded. Rest is the important thing. When the acute sufferer fasts his discomforts are less severe, his pains are less intense, his fever
does not rise so high, complications are rare, loss of weight is often less than in the patient who
does not fast, and the duration of the disease shortened. Less weight loss is almost, if not entirely
due to the fact that the duration of the disease is shortened. Typhoid fever, as an example, lasts in
the average case from eight to twelve days instead of the usual twenty-one days. The courses of
measles, scarlet fever and pneumonia are correspondingly shortened. Again we reiterate: Fasting is not a
cure. But, conducted properly, the physiological rest it provides the body’s organs can often help the
recovery forces of nature carry out the healing work. 7918
Fasting in Chronic Disease
“I have lost my appetite.”
“Nothing tastes good to me any more. I eat only as a matter of routine.”
“I suffer with distress after every meal.”
These are some of the complaints of patients who suffer with some chronic form of disease,
such as colitis, chronic gastritis, hay fever, asthma, arthritis, nervousness, stomach ulcer or cancer. These people eat, only because they honestly think that they must eat—regularly, every day,
three times a day—to stay alive. Some of them are overweight, but great numbers of them are thin
and remain so, although they may be overeating. Another class of chronic sufferers are, as they put it, “always hungry.”
They eat at all hours of
the day and night. They habitually overeat, whipping up their jaded sense of taste with condiments,
strong flavors, and in other ways. Often they suffer after each meal but they don’t cut down on their
intake. Then there are those among this class who suffer almost as much when they do not eat as
when they do. “Hunger” here, as we have seen in other cases, is not hunger at all, in a true sense, but a morbid
sensation or set of sensations mistaken for hunger. It may be a “gnawing” in the stomach, pain in
the stomach or some other symptom of gastric irritation. This is the reason the sensation cannot be
satisfied. The fact that eating palliates the discomfort for a few moments, does not prove that food
was actually needed, any more than the need for a cup of coffee is proven when it temporarily
relieves a coffee addict’s headache. The surest, simplest way for those who are “always hungry”
to overcome their supposed hunger is to fast. Man tends to abstain from food when under great emotional distress. Rejection of food is
frequent among the insane. Although it is the present practice to use force to feed mentally ill
patients, it is doubtful if such enforced feeding is proper. Man instinctively fasts under certain
conditions, as do the lower animals, and the rejection of food by the mentally ill is probably an
instinctive act that will, if not interrupted, prove very beneficial. Indeed, my experience with such
patients has convinced me that this is true. The most important feature about fasting in chronic disease is the marked acceleration of
elimination that it occasions, thus speedily freeing the body of its accumulated toxic load. The
disappearance of symptoms, sometimes of years standing, when one fasts, is often dramatic. Fasting provides opportunity for the body to do for itself what it is unable to do under conditions
of surfeit. Surfeit makes impossible the cleaning of the fluids and tissues in a physiological
housecleaning. A properly conducted fast will enable the chronically ill body to excrete the toxic load that is
responsible for the trouble, after which a corrected mode of living enables the individual to evolve
into a vigorous state of health. It should not be thought that eating must be continued so long as the body does not vigorously
rebel against food. When there is functional impairment, symptoms of impairment, sluggishness
and unease, then is the time to institute what may be described as a
preventive fast. A fast at this
point need not be long. Improvement often is swift—preventing an evolution of serious sickness. When we observe the eyes become brighter, the skin fairer, and the breath sweeter while fasting,
80or when we see a poor complexion clear up, or other symptoms fade and vigor return—we can be
certain that the fast has enabled the body to carry out a preventive housecleaning. It is a mistake to expect one fast, even a long one, to be sufficient to
enable the body to free
itself of the whole of its accumulated debris. A lifetime of piling up toxins cannot be corrected in
the span of a few weeks. In such diseases as paralysis agitans, arthritis, a large tumor, and other
conditions that require so much time to build, three or more fasts are often needed to obtain all the
improvement possible in a particular case. Sinusitis is inflammation of the nasal sinuses. It would have been called a catarrhal condition by
our fathers and mothers, but the tendency today is to discontinue the use of a general term like
catarrh and to use so-called specific terms. Sinusitis may be either acute or chronic. Most people
have some inflammation in one of more parts of the mucous membranes of the body—that is to say,
they have one or more “catarrhs.”
Names of
catarrhal inflammations
 vary with the different locations, but it is all the same
disease with the same general cause. The practice of classifying each local inflammation by a
different name and giving each an individuality, confuses both the patient and the physician. This
keeps alive the delusion that there are many
diseases. Replying to the charge that fasting lowers resistance to disease, Dr. Weger says: “I have seen
many cases of infection of different kinds recover completely on a fast. Take for example an
advanced case of sinusitis after five or six painful operations—frontal, ethmoidal, and antrum—
with surgical drainage and irrigations two or three times a week, continued over a period of two to
five years, with no relief or amelioration of symptoms. After almost unendurable suffering, such
patients are as a rule, thin, and physically and mentally depressed. When they make complete
recoveries after a prolonged fast, as the great majority of them do, is this not sufficient proof that
fasting somehow or other raises the power of the organism to overcome infection, rather than
fasting renders them more susceptible? What is true of sinusitis is equally true of other infections
—even those so situated anatomically that they cannot be surgically drained, and must therefore be
absorbed.”
What is here said of recovery from sinusitis is equally true of recovery from other
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 d take back control. O bserve your thoughts as many times as
possible throughout your day, especially when faced with a challenge. There w ill be times when you can quiet your mind ef fortlessly; at other
times th e buildup of emotions may make it more dif ficult. Either way,
observe how negative thinking af fects your body and ask your self if these
types of thoughts are useful to you. Simply asking yourself th is question
will bring awareness to your life and allow you to know yourself better. In time, if you commit to observing your thoughts and the ef fect they
have on your b ody, you will find you spend less ener gy on fruitless
thinking. Y our mind will be clearer, your body more relaxed, and life will
become easier. Y ou will notice more of what takes place around you and
miss less. Repetitive, regur gitating thought is extremely draining, causin g stress,
tiredness, and headaches. The less headspace you give to negative thinking,
the more room you have in your life for positivity and improvement. Consider the following example:
Michael is driving his car to an important training session, well aware
that he is likely  to be late. As he projects his mind into the  future, he
imagines and rehearses the rea ction from his coach and team mates. He
cannot stop these thoughts circ ling around his head, worrying about the
outcome, getting  frustrated with traf fic, and generally winding himself up. His body  feels tense, a headache begins to take hold, and he probably starts
to drive faster than he should. Alan is also driving on his way to a training session. It is likely  that he
too will be late. Knowing that he is doing the best he can to get there on
time and that no amount of worrying is going to get him there any faster,
Alan brings his attention to his b reath, observing the flow of air as it enters
and leaves his body. Every now  and again the thought of being late enters
Alan’ s mind. As he notices the  thoughts, he asks himself whether these
thoughts are helpful. Knowing only too well that anxiety will only serve to
make hi m tense and distract him, he takes his attention back to  his breath,
keeping himself calm and relaxed. Now im agine bo th Michael and Alan are cut of f by another car,  forcing
each of them to apply the brake s. How do you think each one reacts to the
situation. Most likely, Michael is engulfed in rage and soun ds the horn
angrily. Alan, on the other han d, chooses not to react and does not get
sucked into the situation. In this example, the two drivers were presented with the same
challenge, but while one immediately reacted to the challenge, the other
responded by choosing to let i t go. There is no doubt that a  stressed or
anxious person reacts more str ongly to a dif ficult event than a relatively
calm person. Keeping a quiet mind enables you to consider a situation more
objectively and choose how to respond rather than being consumed by the
moment. Alan had the choice to respond or not. Michael’ s instincts took
over before he could make a conscious decision. In a ddition to observing your t houghts, it is just as vital to be  able to
quiet yo ur mind. T ogether, these skills will magnify your ability  to enter the
zone du ring spo rts. When you f irst practice taming your mind it is normal
to fi nd distracting thoughts ente ring your head every few seconds. In fact,
you sho uld expect them to appear. Do not be dishear tened—this
bombardment o f thoughts has built up through years of condi tioning and
will take time to strip away. Layer upon layer of thoughts have been added
by every  influen ce in your life : education, religion, society, relationships,
and wor k. The mind has simpl y developed a bad habit; it knows how to
think but is unable to stop thinking. When yo u first begin practicing meditation, try not to become frustrated
when the mind wanders, becaus e it inevitably will. Many peop le abandon
meditation too quickly when they find it isn’ t an instant fix. Y ou may feel
discouraged if your thoughts do n’ t switch of f as quickly as you had hoped,
but try to view t he practice as ju st that: practice, not as a fixed outcome or
goal. Y our intention while meditating  should be to make a dedicated ef fort to
become aware of your own mind, to observe your thoughts, and to practice
simply being still and present. T houghts will enter. Thoughts will go. That
is th e nature o f the human mind. Each time you notice your mind
wandering, all you need to do is gently bring your attention b ack to your
breath or bring your awareness to your inner body. All throughout my time at school, college, and my early years of work,
my m ind was ex tremely active. I believed that thinking was a po sitive thing
but had no wa y of dif ferentiating practical thoughts from  repetitive,
unnecessary, or negative ways of thinking. Most of the time I li ved stuck in
my h ead, on aut omatic pilot, without realizing just how constantly thoughts
were streaming through my min d. Having such an active mind  diminished
my concentration—to achieve good grades it was ne cessary for me t o spend
many hours studying, and I found it dif ficult to retain information as there
simply w asn’ t any room left in  my head. For one university exam I spent
three mo nths studying in the B erkeley Library at T rinity College Dublin. An hour before t he examination  I headed there again with all my notes for a
last-minute recap and was joined by my friend T erry, who hadn’ t prepared
at al l. W hile the rest of us had been studying business, T erry had devoted all
of his time setting up a tax recla mation service. He borrowed my notes and
studied them for a mere 15 m inutes. As I observed his unw avering and
ef fortless concentration, I could not help but notice that T erry had
something I did not. My concentration at that time was so poor that I was
easily di stracted, and the little a ttention I had was forced. Whe n the exam
results c ame back, I was somewhat scandalized to discover tha t T erry had
secured the very same mark as me. What he achieved in 15 m inutes took
me three months. This is exa ctly the dif ference between a productive,
focused, and concentrated mind and one that is out of control. T o g et through university I c ontinued my long hours of s tudying,
experiencing str ess, fatigue, and severe respiratory problems in the process,
completely unaw are that my mind was working against me. T w enty years
later, it comes a s no surprise th at T erry’ s company employs one thousand
people, winning countless awards in business and customer service. A s kittering mind, jumping from thought to thought, is a leech to
productivity, cre ative endeavor, and quality of life. Having a fo cused mind
is probably the greatest asset in every walk of life, whatever your
occupation or lifestyle. After university  I secured a job in middle management with a U.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What does it mean to enter the zone, and how can one achieve it?,
A: Entering the zone means performing in the absence of thought. To achieve this, one must practice quieting the mind by focusing on the breath or inner body.
Q: What is the importance of meditation and quieting the mind in sports and daily life?,
A: The importance of meditation and quieting the mind is crucial for athletes and individuals in general. It allows for complete focus and concentration, leading to better performance, reduced stress, and increased productivity.
Q: What is the relationship between breathing and oxygenation of the brain?,
A: The text does not explicitly state the relationship between breathing and oxygenation of the brain, but it does mention that overbreathing can lead to a reduction in oxygenation, which can negatively impact mental performance.
Q: What is the author's experience with meditation and its benefits?,
A: The author has personally experienced the benefits of meditation, including increased focus, concentration, and creativity, which has improved his overall well-being and allowed him to reduce his stress levels.
Q: What is the author's advice for dealing with anxiety and negative thoughts during a competition?,
A: The author suggests that one should not let their mind wander and instead focus on their breathing and inner body to quiet the mind and reduce anxiety.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>In terms of importance for survival, breathing is
at the top of the list, followed by water, with food in last place. Health
professionals, athletes, and nonathletes alike pay far more attention to their
food tha n their breathing, but what happens if we switch this fo cus around? Improve your BOL T score by 10 seconds and you will find y our appetite
changing. Impro ve your BOL T score to 40 seconds and yo ur life will
change. The loss of appe tite and resultant weight normalization from obtaining a
higher BOL T score may be d ue to a combination of seve ral factors,


 the long-term self-control and deprivation of araw food cleansing diet that included careful food combining. These people alsoregained their health, but it took them a year at minimum, and once well they hadto remain on a diet tailor-made to their digestive capacity for the rest of their life,usually along with food supplements. Jim was such a case. He was 55 years old, very obese, had dangerously high
blood pressure poorly controlled with medication, and was going into congestiveheart failure. He was on digitalis and several other heart medications plusdiuretics, but in no way was his condition under control. He had severe edema inthe feet and legs with pitting, and fluid retention in the abdominal region caused ahuge paunch that was solid to the touch not soft and squishy like fatty tissue. Jim had long dreamed of having his own homestead with an Organic garden
and now he had these things but was too sick to enjoy them or work in his gardenwithout severe heart pain and shortness of breath. Jim had retired early in order toenjoy many years without the stresses of work, and he was alarmed to realize thathe was unlikely to survive a year. The day Jim came to see me the first time I would have classified his condition
as critically ill because his life was in immediate danger; but he responded soquickly to his detox program that he was very soon out of danger and would bemore accurately described as a chronically ill person. Jim was not prepared towater fast. He was attached to having his food and he was aware that at hisextreme weight he was going to have stay on a dietary program for a long, longtime. He also wanted to choose a gradient that he could manage by himself athome with little assistance from his wife. He had been on a typical American dietwith meat, coffee, etc., so that in spite of his dangerous condition it did not seemwise to me to add the heavy eliminatory burden of a water fast to a body that wasalready overwhelmed with fluids and waste products. Jim immediately went on a raw food cleansing diet, with no concentrated
foods like nuts, seeds, or avocados, and with one day each week fasting onvegetable juice and broth. He did enemas daily even though it wasn’t his favoritething. In one month he had lost 30 pounds, his eyes had started to sparkle, andhis complexion was rosy. The swelling had disappeared from his feet and legs,and he had to buy new pants. Starting the second month he gradually withdrew from prescription
medications. From the beginning I had put Jim on a program of nutritionalsupplements including protomorphogens (see chapter on vitamins and foodsupplements) to help the body repair it’s heart and the kidneys. In only fourmonths he had returned his body to glowing health, and looked great for his age,though he was still overweight. At the end of one year he had returned to anormal weight for his height, and only cheated on the diet a couple of times whenattending a social event, and then it was only a baked potato with no dressing. He was probably going to have many qualitative years working his garden and
living out his dreams. The local intensive care ward lost a lot of money when theyfailed to get Jim. Diet For The Acutely Ill
The acutely ill person experiences occasional attacks of distressing symptoms,
usually after indiscretions in living or emotional upsets. They have a cold, or a flu,or sinusitis, or a first bout of pneumonia, or a spring allergy attack. The intensesymptoms knock them flat and force them to bed for a few days or a week. Ifthey are sick more often than that, they are moving toward the chronically illcategory. People who are acutely ill should stop eating to whatever extent that they are
able until the symptoms are gone. During an acute illness, the appetites isprobably pretty dull anyway, so why not give a brief fast on water or fruit juice atry. Most acute conditions are short in duration, usually not lasting more than a
week. Allergy attacks, some types of flu, and a first bout of pneumonia may welllast for three weeks or a month. The general rule is to eat as little as possible untilthe symptoms have passed, self-administer colon cleansing, even if you have ahorror of such things, and take vitamin supplements, including megadoses ofVitamin C, bioflavinoids, and zinc. (See the chapter on vitamins.) Those having alittle experience with natural medicine make teas of echinacea, fenugreek seedsand red clover and quit eating. Eating as little as possible can mean only waterand herb teas, only vegetable broth, only vegetable juice or non-sweet fruit juice,even only cleansing raw foods. If you eat more than this you have not relievedyour system of enough digestive effort. After your symptoms are gone it is very important to change your life-style and
improve your diet so that you aren’t so toxic and don’t have to experience anacute illness several times a year when your body is forced to try an energeticdetox. Diet For A Healthy Person
I doubt that it is possible to be totally healthy in the twentieth century. Doctors
Alsleben and Shute in their book How to Survive the New Health
Catastrophes  state that in-depth laboratory testing of the population at large
demonstrated four universally present pathological conditions: heavy metalpoisoning, arteriosclerosis, sub-clinical infections, and vitamin/mineral deficiencies.Those of us who consider ourselves healthy, including young people, are not reallyhealthy, and at the very least would benefit from nutritional supplementation. Infact the odds against most people receiving adequate vitamin and mineral nutritionwithout supplements are very poor as demonstrated by the following chart. Problem Nutrients in America
Nutrient Per cent Receiving Less than the RDA
B6 80%
Magnesium 75Calcium 68Iron 57Vitamin A 50B
1 45
C4 1B
2 36
B12 36
B3 33
A genuinely healthy person almost never becomes acutely ill, and does not
have any disturbing or distracting symptoms; nothing interferes with or handicapstheir daily life or work. A healthy person has good energy most of the time, apositive state of mind, restful sleep, good digestion and elimination. Healthy people do not have to live simon-pure lives to remain that way. Healthy people can afford 10% dietary indiscretions by calorie count—eating ordrinking those things that they know are not good for them but that are fun to eator are “recreational foods or beverages.” Such “sinning” could mean a restaurantbash twice a month, having a pizza, French bread, beer or wine in moderation, icecream, cookies, cake, turkey for festive occasions, etc. The key concept ofresponsible sinning is keeping within that ten percent limit. A diet for a healthy person that wants to remain healthy should not exceed the
digestive capacity of the individual, either in terms of quantity or quality. All foodsthat can not be efficiently digested should be removed from the regular diet andrelegated to the “sin” category, including those you are allergic to and those for
which you have inadequate digestive enzymes. I have encountered very few
people that can efficiently digest cooked meat, chicken, or fish, but some can, andsome can with the assistance of digestive enzyme supplements. In order to digestmeats, the stomach must be sufficiently acid, there must be enough pepsin,pancreatin, and bile, etc., and the meat should be eaten on the extremely rare side(not pork), in small quantities (not more than five or six ounces), and notcombined with anything except nonstarchy vegetables. If you must include meat inyour dietary, it should represent a very small percentage of your total caloricintake, be eaten infrequently, with the bulk of the calories coming from complexcarbohydrates such grains, legumes and nuts, as well as large quantities ofvegetables and fruits. The healthy person that wants to stay that way for many, years is advised to
fast one day a week, to give the organs of elimination a chance to catch up ontheir internal housecleaning. If water fasting seems impossible, try a day of juicingit; if that is too rigorous, try a day on raw foods. A similar technique, though lessbeneficial than even a one day each week on raw foods, is delaying breaking yourovernight fast for as long as possible each day. Try giving up breakfast altogetheror postponing breaking your overnight fast, because from the time you stop eatingat the end of one day to the time you start eating the next is actually a brief,detoxifying fast. Eggs, milk, cheese and yogurt can be assimilated by some healthy people with
or without digestive aids. It is possible to take lactase to break down the milksugars for example; sometimes aids such as hydrochloric acid, pepsin, andpancreatin help. If you can buy it or are willing to make it raw milk yogurtcontaining lactobacillus bulgaris or acidophilus may be digested more readily,especially if it prepared from healthy cows or goats fed on unsprayed food, andserved very fresh. Eggs should come from chickens that run around outside,eating weeds, and scratching bugs. The yolks of those eggs will be intense orange,not yellow. Few people these days have ever eaten a real egg. Surprisingly, for
those of you who fear cholesterol, the healthy way to eat eggs is use just the raw
yolk from fertile eggs. It is enjoyed by many people in a smoothie–fresh fruitblended up with water or milk. Eggs contain lecithin, a