pmCoffee Green 2 tsp. 3:00
pm
4:00
pm
5:00
pmCarrot/
Apple2 tsp. 50mg3
6:00
pmCoffee Green 2 tsp. 7:00
pmDinner 1 Tbsp. 2Carrot/
Apple2 tsp. 1 drop 50mg 2 3
10:00
pm
Make yourself a blank schedule to be filled in later as the medications change and the frequency of enemas is reduced. Depending on the patient’s condition, it is possible to reduce the number of juices from 10 to
8. These should consist of 4 carrot/apple juices; 3 green juices and one orange juice. However,
do not reduce it further! Also patients with collagen diseases (lupus, rheumatoid arthritis or
scleroderma) should not take orange juice. Substitute freshly pressed apple juice, carrot or green
juice. It is understood that the food intake, coffee enemas, caution to avoid toxins in the home,
etc. all apply. For details of how to pursue the Therapy when returning to work, see Chapter 20, sub-
heading Household Help. 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 139Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 20
Things to Remember
In this chapter we present a number of miscellaneous items in support of your efforts to improve
and protect your health. Knowledge is power, and the emergence of the so-called ‘expert
patient’ around the world is a sure sign that more and more people are willing to take responsibility
for their health and well-being. No doubt you are one of them. We hope you will find the following
information useful. Orthodox Cancer Treatments
Unlike the non-invasive, non-toxic and holistic cancer treatment contained in the Gerson
Therapy, orthodox oncology concentrates on the removal or destruction of the tumor by three
means, namely surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. In the following we give brief summaries
of each. Surgery
In many cases of cancer, patients are able to avoid surgery by embarking on the Gerson
Therapy instead. However, occasionally a Gerson doctor will suggest surgery in order to ‘de-
bulk’ the patient’s tumor load. It is true that removing a tumor makes it easier for the body to
deal with the remaining disease in order to heal. This is because malignancies have a different
metabolism from that of normal cells and release toxins into the surrounding tissue, as well as into
the blood stream. It stands to reason that this process should be stopped. However, surgery has
serious negative side effects. To start with, prior to the operation tranquilizers are administered to the patient to keep him
or her calm and prevent a rise in blood pressure. This is followed by local or general anesthesia
for the operation, plus fairly heavy doses of antibiotics. On waking up, the patient is in pain and
receives several doses of pain-relieving drugs. In sum, many damaging toxins are introduced into
the patient’s organism. In recent times, another problem has emerged. Due to the excessive use of antibiotics and
poor hospital hygiene, so-called “Superbugs” have come into being, which are resistant to all
available antibiotics. As a result, large numbers of patients are infected in hospitals with powerful
staph (staphylococcus aureus) bacteria that can’t be controlled. Especially for cancer patients
who already have a weak immune system, such infections can be life threatening. 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 140Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comNevertheless, under certain circumstances surgery is urgent and must be performed quickly to
save a life. Such a situation could arise from the development of thick scar tissue that is blocking
an organ; it could be bleeding from a large blood vessel, damaged by invading cancer, that has
to be stopped; or a patient may be injured in an accident and the damage needs to be repaired
urgently. But often surgery does not have to be immediate. For instance, when a patient on the
full Gerson Therapy needs to go to hospital for some non-urgent surgical procedure, there is just
enough time to make sensible preparations for the event. It should be borne in mind that once a person is well detoxified, his or her body will react much
more strongly to drugs, including anesthetics, pain medication and even antibiotics. If a more
or less detoxified Gerson patient tries to discuss this concern with the regular hospital surgeon
and/or anesthesiologist, they simply will not understand what he or she is talking about. For that
reason it is best to prepare the body to accept the unavoidable drugs by making it temporarily less
sensitive, even though unfortunately this means reducing the effectiveness of the therapy. The
way to do it is to double the regular daily helping of yogurt, and to serve two or three meals of
boiled or broiled fish just prior to entering the hospital. This actually puts a temporary stop to the
body’s self-healing activity. After any necessary surgical procedure it is advisable to leave the hospital as soon as
possible. On returning home the full therapy is resumed, even omitting yogurt for a week or
so and stepping up the enemas temporarily to four or more, in order to clear out the toxins that
have been introduced. Afterwards the patient returns to the level of treatment he or she was using
before preparing for the hospital visit. Diagnostic Surgery
When a mammogram or MRI discovers a ‘suspicious’ lump or ‘shadow’ in the breast area,
the doctor as well as the patient need to know the exact nature of the lump. The physician will
usually suggest an urgent biopsy and examination of a tissue sample, to ascertain the situation. The next step is a “lumpectomy,” i.e., the removal of the breast lump. If in the surgeon’s
experience this is likely to be malignant, he will also examine the surrounding tissue, especially
checking the underarm lymph nodes to see if the malignancy has spread. The problem is that when
he starts to dissect the lymph nodes, he is likely to take out not just one or two, but as many as
eight or ten. In orthodox medicine this is done to give the oncologist the information he requires
for choosing what he considers appropriate chemotherapy drugs for the patient. However, if the
latter has already decided to reject chemotherapy, it is pointless to remove a lot of lymph nodes. To do so would damage her circulation and cause swelling of her arm, due to the accumulation of
blocked fluid, and this in turn would lead to severe discomfort and even make the arm virtually
useless. 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 141Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comSo how can this risk be avoided? As a matter of routine, before any surgery the doctor requires
the patient to sign a release, stating that he is allowed to do anything he deems necessary or best,
under whatever circumstances he may encounter. If the patient agrees to such a general release,
she may end up having too many lymph nodes removed. Instead, she should state in the release
that she does not agree to the removal of more than two lymph nodes. Radiation
Radiation can be used for medical diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. The earliest exposure
of patients to radiation is in the form of X-rays, for diagnostic purposes. These are comparatively
the least harmful. Other diagnostic tools include CAT scans (CT, Computed Tomography
Imaging), which uses a large amount of X-rays to produce detailed images from several angles
of the patient’s body, arm or leg. The only diagnostic tool that does not use X-rays is Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI), which utilizes radiofrequency waves and a strong magnetic field to
produce clear pictures of internal organs and tissues. If the initial investigation results in a cancer diagnosis, the patient is advised to have a course
of radiotherapy, usually consisting of 30 treatments. Although the technique has been greatly
improved in recent years, aiming to limit the radiation solely to the affected area of the patient’s
body, severe damage in the form of burns can still occur. According to the official allopathic view,
radiation burns are virtually impossible to heal; yet the damage is almost entirely reversible by the
Gerson technique. Dr. Gerson’s book, A Cancer Therapy—Results of 50 Cases, features a patient
(Case #11) who had been pre-treated with 88 applications of deep X-rays, and was left severely
burned. Worse still, his cancer recurred. Interestingly on the Gerson Therapy his spreading
lung tumors and lymph nodes disappeared faster than the radiation burns. However, he healed
completely and lived for almost 50 years in good health. In cases of oral cancers radiation treatments are particularly destructive, since they cause
the salivary glands to dry up. The resulting dry mouth keeps the patient from sleeping and
requires constant sipping of water, to moisten the dry mouth. Yet we have seen patients’ mucous
membranes reverting to normal after radiation damage in less than two weeks on the Therapy. In general, Gerson doctors rarely use radiation treatments.


 was in the military, I gave courses
on e pistemology and self-direc tedness on my own time. I’d get 30 guys
coming to my “classes,” and we’d discuss these kinds of things. I alsohelped people who were havin g to deal with the system there, all the
bureaucracy and  regimented rules. Then I got out and went to college, and
when I started teaching, I would have after -school seminars about the
subjects that we’ve talked about in this book. I’ve been living t his stuf f for
as long as I can remember. This deeper, more purposeful part  of my life
seems to be what I showed up on earth for. When you get tuned in to what your purpose is and that beco mes your
primary motivat or, you have an overriding spiritual objective. Y ou know
that all the petty things you en counter on a daily basis are simply minor
distractions from your deep desire. Y ou don’ t need anyone’ s approval, nor
will you feel the need to dominate others. As you tame your eg o and leave
behind y our self-importance, yo u become focused on what you’re here for. Y our en er gy is placed only o n that, nothing more, and anything that
anybody else says that’ s in opposition to that will be seen as just where they
are on the path. Y ou won’ t disagree or feel annoyed with them; as a matter
of fact, you won’ t even notice it because your ener gy will be concentrated
solely on what you’re here for. — Y ou won’t ever be lonely. The  ego  promo tes loneliness because the
more alo ne you feel, the more you try to fill the void with external pursuits. When you don’ t feel any void within you, it’ s easy to love whom you’re
alone with, which is your higher self. Loneliness is impossible for you. Y ou also  know that we’re all one and we’re all connected. There’ s a
Divine ener gy that flows throug h all of us, so there’ s no possib ility of ever
experiencing alienation. Y ou n ow have the ability to love much more
powerfully, wh ich reduces the possibility of your living with broken
relationships. Y o u live according to your higher self, which prom otes peace,
fulfillment, integrity, and joy. The very ener gy that you are, the force that
holds every cell together, the glue that holds the universe together, is
something that we call love. Th is glue is who you are. Once you discover
and experience that, then you see only through the eyes of love and
acceptance. The ego  wants you to live with fear, which is the opposite of love. It
ur ges yo u to feel that you’re incomplete or there’ s something wrong with
you, which comes from that fear. But you know that you don’ t have to make
anyone wrong, and you don’ t h ave to make yourself right, because you’renot s eparate from them. Y ou see  the fullness of God in them, an d you allow
and love that Divine part of them. I r emem ber my  friend Deepak Chopra once telling me a story about a
famous Indian saint who was being escorted into some very fancy place. Right as he was about to step on to the red carpet that had been prepared for
him, a beggar appeared. One of the people who was with the  saint said,
“Get out of the way! Can’ t you s ee that we have a master coming through?”
The beggar looked up and asked, “Who is it that you’re asking to get out of
his way? Is it this body, or is it the god that is within me?” And the saint
bent over, kissed the man, and s aid, “Y ou don’ t have to move aside; we are
both one.”
That kind of awareness becomes something you consistently practice, for
it’ s a  wa y to take your relationships and imbue them with harm ony. Since
you know that we’re all connected, there is an absence of discord. — Y ou become a mor e powerful human being. Y ou are more powerful
than you’ve ever even considered before, but not in the sense that most
people t hink of  it. As Gandhi once said, “Strength does not come from
physical capacit y. It comes from  an indomitable will.” Y ou will create that
strength of your indomitable will, which really means that you ’re going to
stop associating  who you are with your form. Many peop le identify
themselves with who they are based upon their bodies; they say that if their
bodies are not working the way they think they should, then that’ s an
excuse to become impatient, less loving and caring, and so on. If your power comes from your physical prowess, then when your
physical prowess leaves, that means you’re no longer a powerful human
being. Of course you know that your power doesn’ t come from that; it
won’ t dissipate when your form  dissipates. Y ou know not to  give in to
every sin gle plea sure or selfish desire that comes along; you only ever treat
your body in a healthy way. Y ou have changed the identification of yourself
away from your embodiment to your higher self, and you are free. — Y ou discover the ultimate security. It’ s as if someone once told you
that tree s were glued to the ground, and you believed it. Then an expert
came al ong and told you that was false; there are roots under trees. The
expert helped you dig a bit ben eath the soil, and sure enough you saw the
truth.This whole process of finding security is like discovering that you have
roots be neath th e surface too. Y o u have unearthed parts of yours elf that you
never kn ew wer e there, and you  enjoy a security that you never experienced
before when you identified so closely with your form. — Y ou kno w that any pr oblem y ou have is to be solved in the mind. That’ s a  very powerful insight, and it’ s a freeing one as well. When you
have a struggle or conflict, when you are provoked or contradicted and it
manifests itself physically, you know it’ s really a problem to b e solved in
thought. Y ou know that what your body is reacting to is nothing more than
how you  are choosing to process something. Recognizing that it’ s your own
reaction causing  you stress, anxiety, tension, fear, and pain is  liberating. Y ou understand: No one else ha s to change in or der for my pain or
struggles to go away. My ego te lls me that others have to change in or der
for m e to feel successful, happy, fulfilled, or whatever, but I know it comes
down to how I pr ocess everything. So d o yo u process it through the lower identity of your ego and your self-
absorption, which allows you to be of fended because other peop le aren’ t the
way you  are? Or do you do it through your higher self, which wants you to
have peace, feel no turmoil, and experience love? This is an intelligent system that we are part of; there’ s an intelligence
flowing through us all. Even though it’ s invisible, you can’ t get hold of it,
and it’ s impervious to the senses, you just know that this is who you are. Y ou kno w that you are not your packaging. Y ou can’ t weigh your life; it
doesn’ t have any form, substan ce, boundaries, or dimensions beyond the
senses. It’ s beyond the physical—it’ s metaphysical. Y ou have reached the point where you know you are that which is
changeless and eternal, rather than that which is always changing and
shifting. Y ou’ve  learned to stand  up to your desires. Y ou won’ t b e repressed
... you’re going to be free. When you live i n the light, you experience a sense of peace and  bliss, an
absence of turmoil. It’ s really all about love. And when you exp erience this
kind of love, fabulous things happen all the time.DAIL Y PRACTICES
Finally, I’d like to of fer you a series of suggestions, specific things that
you can do on a daily basis to h elp you enjoy the totally awake, aware, and
enlightened life:
— Remind yourself that you ar e her e to fulfill a Divine her oic
mission. Att empt to ser ve others in so me small way, and do it without
telling anyone or looking for any credit. Let go of your own self, and
simply ask, “How may I serve others?” Keep in mind that it is in the
serving of others that we feel the God within. Think o f some positive, loving thing that you can do without a sking for
anything back. Practice it sometime today, even if it’ s just letting someone
go a head of you in line at the  grocery store, smiling at those  you come
across th roughout your day, or giving a few dollars to someone in need. Sharing with your fellow huma n beings


 the things that weshould not do, and leaving undone those thingsthat we ought to do," as the Prayer Book tellsus, including carelessness of eating, andshirking physical exercise. To return to thecallow book of the canny doctor-son of myantagonist of a dozen years ago. It isn't socallow as it is canny, and since the persons inthe case are of the canniest of peoples, thosewho are so shrewd that Jewish merchants do
not thrive among them, and the prescriptionresults in thousands of pounds a year revenue,the game may be set down to ordinarycommercial cupidity and popular gullibility. It issafe to always warn against Prescription forRevenue. Like patriotism or religion forrevenue, it is questionable, if not surelyselfishly prejudiced. On the other hand, MotherNature charges no fee for her advice. She paysgood coin as a premium for her patients in thesame way that I bribed my first test subjectsinto eating right by paying them for eating in
addition to furnishing the food. DOUBTING  THOMASES
who are too lazy, or incredulous, or careless, to
take a month to try the Mother NaturePrescription as interpreted by me, are liable tosay: " Appetite is abnormal. Taste is perverted,and the demands of the body are whollyunnatural. " True. But abnormality of that sortcan be corrected in a very short time. A "poorchap " who is lucky enough to have to gowithout food long enough to " whinney like ahorse " at the smell of fresh-baked bread and
the thought of good Danish butter on it, is notgoing to " turn up his nose " at even a crispbaked potato; neither is he likely to requiresweetbreads to coax himself to eat. Correctingperverted appetite is like purifying a streamwhich is being polluted at its source and runsmuddy all the way to the sea. Stop thepollution, and the stream will purify itself asfast as ever it can by hurrying along with itsimpurities to the great ocean sewerage. CHAPTER X
WHAT CONSTITUTES A FLETCHERITE
Fletcherism and Longevity—W. E. Gladstone, Fletcherite —
Fletcherizing Liquids—Getting the Best out of Everything— TheStudy of Mother-Nature. SINCE the term "Fletcherite" is incorporated
in some of the latest dictionaries, it is properthat the person whose name has been used forthe designation should define what constitutesa Fletcherite. Any person who eats in a healthy manner is a
Fletcherite. Any person who eats in a polite manner is a
Fletcherite. Any person who is faithful to his end of
responsibility in securing healthy nutrition forhimself is a respectable eater and a goodFletcherite. WHAT  IS NOT A FLETCHERITE. The above definitions are fully compre-
hensive, but sometimes it is more effective todescribe a thing by telling what it is not, andleaving the remainder as an inferential
description. Following this suggestion: it is safe to say,
that :
Anyone who eats when he is not hungry or
what his appetite does not approve, is not aFletcherite. All this presupposes the ordinary opportunity
for selection in civilized communities where thisbook is liable to be read and where itsrevelations and recommendations are mostneeded. Any one who does not give his appetite a
chance to guide him to healthy nutrition is not aFletcherite. Any one who does not extract all of the taste
from his food, while it is in the region wheretaste is developed, is not a Fletcherite. Any one who succumbs to greed of " getting
the worth of his money," because he has paid forfood, or can get food free of cost, or takes it onthe insistence of Aggressive Hospitality, or tokill time, or for any purpose other than for thesatisfaction of a real appetite, is not aFletcherite. FLETCHERISM  AND LONGEVITY. Returning to positive definition of a
Fletcherite : it is a good safe betting propositionthat all persons who have passed the seventyyear-mark in the life race are Fletcherites inthe fundamental requirement of healthy eating. If they reach beyond the eighty year-mark it iscertain that they have been fairly decent eatersfor many years, even if they abused themselvesearlier in life. For example : vide the
autobiography of Luigi Cornaro,* which wasconcluded only when he was nearly onehundred years old. Vide also, occasional
newspaper statements attributed tocentenarians or near centenarians who claim tohave been Fletcherites before Fletcher wasborn. Some of them have had the " constitution "necessary to attain the respectable longevityand have used tobacco and alcohol at the sametime, but there is no evidence that eithertobacco or alcohol lengthened their lives. In thesame category of questionably-profitableindulgences may be put any of the stimulants or
* London: Ewart, Seymour & Co.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the author's approach to understanding the importance of personal responsibility in nutrition?,
A: The author emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility and encourages readers to "Show me!" and verify the information through their own experiences and observations.
Q: According to the author, what is the key to good digestion?,
A: The author stresses the importance of head digestion and mastication in the mouth, emphasizing that the head plays a crucial role in the digestive process.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the role of the stomach in digestion?,
A: The author does not believe that the stomach plays a significant role in digestion, emphasizing that the mouth and head are responsible for the digestive process.
Q: What is the author's stance on the idea of prescription and proscription in nutrition?,
A: The author is strongly against prescription and proscription, emphasizing that Mother Nature is the ultimate authority on nutrition and that any attempts to prescribe or proscribe food are misguided.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the concept of "Fletcherite"?,
A: The author defines a Fletcherite as someone who eats decently, respects their appetite, and does not succumb to gluttony or greed, and also emphasizes that being a Fletcherite is not a personal achievement, but a natural and normal state.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>He was a medicalman, past forty, beginning to slack up a little inhis elasticity and strength. He was reachingthat age when even the most temperate andcareful begin to be a little lenient withthemselves. His doctor friends were in the habit
of prescribing a little stimulant to counter-balance this expected decline in energy and hetook their advice. It was the medical fad of theperiod. At first, Dr. Anderson ordered for himself one
small drink of good medicinal whisky a day, andthe effect was as expected. By and bye, however,a little more was needed, and this increasingdemand continued its insistence until threedrinks were no more efficacious than one hadbeen at first. When I was introduced to him hehad begun on his fourth drink daily, and yetburned it up in his exercise without feeling itmuch. A couple of weeks after he began to check up
my tests by personal experience, which is theonly scientific way, he all at once remembered,one day, that he had forgotten to take hiswhisky, and yet he was fitter than usual. I hadnot mentioned my own experience in this regardto him, I believe, as when we were together hekept me busy with the exercises of the ‘Varsitycrew, and I had little chance to give himaccounts of my full experiences. Besides, it didnot occur to me that it would interest him who
seemed to be moderation and temperancepersonified. And so he was, according to thescientific estimate of the time, but Nature hasanother standard of temperance, and under herstrict guidance very little but good spring wateris needed or desired. HOW TO ENJOY  WINE. To illustrate this and also suggest a way of
letting Mother Nature prove that I representher correctly in this important matter, I willgive an account of an actual happening. I was lecturing in Buffalo, New York, in
America, and was invited to address themembers of the sumptuous Buffalo Club. Idwelt especially on Fletcherizing as a means ofgetting the good and the best out of food anddrink, and yet for little cost, and at the close ofthe lecture a dozen or more of the audienceasked me to demonstrate my point as above. Iwas happy to do this, and called for a pint of thechoicest still wine, with cordial glasses. Therequest caused a smile among some of my hosts
who were proud of being " one bottle " consumers.When the wine came I poured out half a
cordial glass as the portion I selected for myselfand recommended the same prescription for theothers, as a " starter." Then I breathed andsipped my delicious grape-juice, as I hadlearned to do from the professional wine-tasterson the Rhine, in Germany, and in the Burgundyregion, in France. The others did the same, andseemed to get unusual satisfaction from boththe boquet and the taste. What happens is this : You sense the wine by
means of the olfactories as you would breathe inthe odour of a delicately perfumed flower. Tasteis excited and becomes jealous of Smell. Yougive Taste a taste. Something more subtle thantaste ; a sort of aroma, so to speak, spreads overthe head. You feel the taste of the delicacy uparound the temples, and


's
say
in
ten
years,
to
compare
the
health
status
of
children
whose
richer
mothers
could
treat
them
to
various
types
of
panties
(look
how
beautifully
dry
that
ass
is),
and
children
who
naturally
peed
in
their
diapers
and
thus
actually
they
used
urinotherapy
from
a
young
age. I
believe
that
children
who
used
to
urinate
until
late
in
life
have
healthy
urinary
and
sexual
systems
today. At
least
for
me
it
is
100%
true. Whenever
I
start
studying
the
human
body,
I
am
always
surprised
by
the
enormous
sophistication
and
harmony
of
its
systems
and
organs,
I
bow
in
deep
humility
before
its
intelligence,
which
is
many
times
higher
than
our
thinking
mind. I
am
therefore
convinced
that
if
nature
wanted
the
child's
body
not
to
bathe
in
its
own
urine
from
the
diapers,
or
rather
from
the
mother's
womb,
it
would
certainly
have
arranged
it
differently
and
would
not
have
waited
for
the
invention
of
some
bobby
pants. Urine
therapy
is
most
helpful
to
those
people
whose
internal
environment
is
strongly
alkaline
and
there
is
total
decay
in
the
entire
body. This
is
especially
common
in
older
and
senile
organisms. Therefore,
taking
urine
gives
the
best
results
in
such
cases. Example:
Patient,
76
years
old,
after
4
operations,
sepsis
at
46
years
old,
exudative
pleurisy,
hypertension,
tachycardia,
extrasystole,
gastritis,
diseased
bile
ducts
at
the
same
time. She
started
urinotherapy
by
drinking
400
grams
of
urine
a
day. After
a
year,
severe
diseases
disappeared:
arrhythmia,
pain
in
the
digestive
tract,
in
the
head,
in
the
coccyx
area
and
high
blood
pressure. More
secondary
problems
also
stopped:
the
consequences
of
pleurisy
in
the
left
side,
pain
in
the
neck
area,
problems
with
vision
and
swollen
arteries
in
the
groin
area,
no
colds,
the
fat
tumor
on
the
breast,
stomatitis,
hemorrhoids
disappeared,
the
hair
stopped
falling
out
and
became
much
better,
thicker. Stool
normalized,
bloating
and
heartburn
stopped. Her
ribs
have
also
stopped
hurting
as
a
result
of
the
illness,
and
her
head
no
longer
spins
when
she
bends
forward. The
excessive
appetite
has
disappeared
and
the
patient
no
longer
suffers
from
painful
cramps
at
night. Outside,
her
eyes
no
longer
water
and
the
dark
spots,
"flies"
and
serrations
have
disappeared. Varicose
veins
(inflammation
of
the
veins)
also
subsided
and
sleep
improved. Example:
Female
patient,
70
years
old. "I
have
been
practicing
urinotherapy
for
4
years
and
I
will
tell
you
about
my
results. First
of
all,
the
humming
in
my
head
stopped,
I
can
hear
in
my
left
ear
again,
my
hands
stopped
shaking
and
my
fingers
and
toes
became
free,
the
stones
came
out
of
my
gall
bladder
and
sand
was
secreted
for
three
months. Her
knees
stopped
swelling. I
cured
my
cataracts
by
washing
my
eyes
with
urine. The
doctor
also
confirmed
this. But
otherwise
I
don't
tell
the
doctors
anything,
because
they
wouldn't
believe
me
that
I
cured
my
diabetes
with
urine. I
don't
have
sugar
in
my
urine
or
in
my
blood,
the
doctor
praises
me
for
following
my
diet. I
didn't
admit
to
him
that
I
was
drinking
urine. For
about
five
years
I
had
severe
pain
in
my
spleen. Here,
too,
I
cured
compresses
with
urine,
which
I
put
on
for
10-15
minutes. When
I
drink
urine
three
times
a
day,
it
feels
like
jackhammers
are
working
in
my
gallbladder. I
can
even
hear
the
rocks
crunching. I
also
cured
my
hemorrhoids
and
varicose
veins. All
my
life,
the
skin
on
my
feet
and
wrists
cracked,
so
I
couldn't
walk
barefoot
for
years. After
bronchitis,
I
often
had
colds
and
chills. In
the
summer,
I
wore
a
fur
vest
athome. And
now
it's
14
degrees
in
my
apartment,
I
walk
naked
after
a
bath
and
I
don't
die. I
gained
immunity. I
had
periodontal
disease
and
13
teeth
were
pulled
out
in
three
years. Nevertheless,
the
purulent
pockets
in
the
gums
did
not
disappear. Thanks
to
urine
and
regular
gum
massage,
all
dental
problems
stopped. I
stopped
visiting
doctors,
they
don't
help
a
person
anyway. I
once
had
an
infection
in
my
left
ear
and
I
stopped
hearing
them. After
washing
my
ears
with
urine,
my
hearing
returned
and
I
can
hear
very
well. I
cured
my
daughter's
eczema
and
my
granddaughter's
asthma. An
acquaintance
of
mine
had
varicose
veins
and
a
large
open
wound
on
her
leg,
which
festered. After
the
urine
treatment,
she
was
cured. The
important
thing
is
that
I
am
no
longer
tired
in
the
morning
(urine
has
a
huge
energy
charge
-
note
author). I
get
up
early
and
start
doing
urine
therapy,
I
feel
wonderful. I
used
to
be
lifeless,
now
I
can
walk
like
when
I
was
young,
no
one
would
guess
that
I
am
70
years
old. At
the
same
time,
if
it
weren't
for
urine
therapy,
I
would
have
been
in
my
grave
a
long
time
ago. " Example:
Patient,
80
years
old. He
started
urinotherapy
boldly
and
with
gusto. "I
drink
urine
four
times
a
day:
at
night
after
2
a. m.,
then
at
1
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A: Through the skin, as it is absorbed by the skin receptors.
Q: What is the second way urine enters the body?,
A: It is not explicitly mentioned in the text, but it is implied that it is also absorbed through the skin.
Q: What is the third way urine enters the body?,
A: It is not mentioned in the text.
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who need to be treated to have an impact on one person. They called their or ganization The
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crunched the numbers and found that combination LABAs and steroid inhalers were not only
totally inef fective but harmful. Only 1 in 73 asthmatic patients who used the drug reduced their
chances of mild to moderate asthma attack. Meanwhile, the drug provoked a severe asthma
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death” for 1 in every 1,400 asthmatics. LABAs were equally inef fective for children. More
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Bronchodilators: T ime for a Re-think,” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine  99, no. 8
(Aug. 2006): 382–83.


 stems of the dill florets close to the point where they all join the
stem, leaving them long. The stems act like a handle for inserting and
removing the dill from the jars. Y ou will need about 4 florets per jar, 16 in
total. 3. Heat four 1-p int (2-cup/500 mL) jars in boiling water, and scald the lids,
lifter, funnel and tongs ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ). 4. In a Maslin pan or canning kettle, combine white and cider vinegars,
water, s ugar, sa lt and spice bag. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring
constantly, until sugar and salt are dissolved. Reduce heat and boil gently,
stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes. 5. P ack cucumber spears into ho t jars and add up to 4 florets of dill, using
the stem to pack them between  the spears. Add 1 clove of g arlic and 2
allspice berries to each jar. 6. L adle hot bri ne into jar to cover cucumbers, leaving a 1/2- inch (1 cm)
headspace. Run a thin non-metallic utensil around the inside of the jar to
allow air to escape. Add more brine if necessary to maintain a  1/2-inch (1
cm) hea dspace. W ipe rims, top with flat lids and screw on m etal rings. Return jars to th e hot water ba th, topping up with hot water if necessary. Bring to  a full r olling boil and process jars for 15 minutes ( Boiling W ater
Method, Step by Step ).7. 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. a s i a n  l i m e  p i c k l e s
Easy to make and stor e, these pickles can be fr ozen in convenient 1- or 2-
cup (250 or 500 mL) fr eezer containers or bags. Developing a fr eezer pickle
was a new adve ntur e for me—as far as I know, ther e ar e no r ecipes for
them. I wonder ed if they would be too soft; while ther e is no doubt that the
cucumber is softer than in trad itional pickle r ecipes, the textur e held up
amazingly. I think the key is to thaw the pickles in the r efrigerator. Y ou can  make and use these pickles almost immediately with out fr eezing
them—they will stor e for up to 2 weeks in the r efrigerator. Either way, do
not s kip the salting pr ocess as explained in step 1 because it dr aws out the
water, which makes for a crisper pickle. MAKES 8 CUPS (2 L)
8 cups (2 lb/1 kg) cucumber coins
(about 1/4 inch/5 mm thick) 2 tbsp (25 mL) coarse salt 1–1/3 cups (325
mL) ric e vinega r 2/3 cup (150  mL) granulated sugar 2/3 cu p (150 mL)fr eshly squeezed lime juice
1/2 cup (125 mL) nuoc nam (V ietnamese fish sauce)
1 r ed bell pepper, diced (1/4 inch/5 mm)
2 tbsp (25 mL) hot r ed pepper flakes
2 tbsp (25 mL) finely chopped candied
ginger
2 stalks lemongrass, cut to fit the container, optional

1. In  a lar ge non-reactive conta iner, combine cucumbers and salt. T oss to
mix well. Cover with cold wat er and let stand at room temperature for 3
hours. 2. Mean while, i n a saucepan, c ombine vinegar and sugar. Bring to a light
simmer over medium heat, stirr ing constantly. When sugar has completely
dissolved, remove from heat and let cool. 3. Using a colan der and working in batches, if necessary, drain and rinse the
cucumbers well  under cold water. Drain well. In a lar ge non-reactive
container, combine cucumbers, vinegar solution, lime juice, fish sauce,
peppers, hot pepper flakes and ginger. Pack into two 1-quart (1 L) freezer
bags and add 1 stalk of lemongrass, if using. Leave a minimum 1-inch (2.5
cm) headspace; press out air. Seal and freeze. Thaw in  the refrigerator for about 8 hours or overnight before se rving. Store
thawed pickles in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. Fr eezing Cucumbers
Due to their high water content, I do not recommend freezing cu cumbers as
a viable method for preserving them. E g g p l a n t
A M EMBER OF THE NI GHTSHADE F AMIL Y,  which includes
potatoes, tomato es and peppers, eggplant (Solanum melongena)  bears fruit
that is actually a berry, but which we eat as a vegetable. Good Pr eserving V arieties
Eggplants vary in length (from 2  to 12 inches/5 to 30 cm) and shape—they
can be round, oblong or pear -li ke. Most North Americans expect that the
skin of an eggpl ant will be deep purple and shiny, but eggplant s can range
from pu re white  to pink, bur gu ndy, violet, blue, red and gree n, to black;
they can also be  striped. Any o f the varieties can be frozen, but the best
ones for  canning or pickling are  those that are small and either round, long
or oblong. There are excellent small types among the Japanese, Asian and,
especially, Thai varieties. T eardr op T ypes
Most common in North America are glossy purple-black eggplants in the shape of a teardrop. Classy
Chassis is a good example of this type. Thai T ypesKurume Long is a long and thin Thai eggplant, good for pickles. Round T ypes
A great eggplant for pickling and roasting whole, V iolet Prince is small and round with pink to light
purple skin. Other T hai V ari eties: Thai Gr een; Thai Round Gr een  ( sm all, light gr een
skin);
Hybrid White Ball  ( sm all, round, w hite skin); Hybrid T iger  (small, round
with dark green striped shoulde r); Hybrid Gr een Doll  (small, egg-shaped,
crisp and good for pickling); Petch Siam  (round, green w ith dark green
stripes). Indian T ypes: Some Indian-type eggplant cultivars include Hybrid Chu-
Chu,  w hich is tiny and pear -shaped with bur gundy skin; Hybrid Southern
Pink,  which is round and has purple-pink skin. Japanese T ypes: Hybrid Mangan,  high -gloss black; Kurume Long,  glossy
purple-black skin, long.Chinese T ypes: Ping-T ung Long  is a T aiwan variety that is long, with
purplish glossy skin. It adds colour and interest to pickles, especially if you
can get it when tiny. Other C hinese V arieties: Long White Angel  (long white hybrid); Purple
Ball  (small, round, dark blue skin); Purple Excel  ( lon g, t ender, b ur gundy-
purple skin); Ma-Zu Purple  (very long, purple skin). Pur chasing/Storing
1 lb (500 g) yields about 2 cups (500 mL) diced eggplant. Y ou will need 1- 1/2 lb (750 g) for each quart (1 L) jar, less if
using mini whole eggplant. Select fi rm fruits with a uniform glossy colour and that are hea vy for their
size. Ch oose small rather than lar ge fruit. A void eggplants wit h spongy or
dark brown spots. Store in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. Good W ith
Herbs su ch as basil, bay, thyme, sage, rosemary; spices such
as cumi n, curry blends, garam masala, cinnamon, cloves,
allspice, nutmeg. Other vegetables, such as onions, garlic, hot and sweet bell
peppers, tomatoes. Pistachios, Brazil nuts and walnuts; sesame seeds. Parmesan and other hard Italian cheeses; mozzarella. Poultry, lamb, pork, fish. Pr eparation
Remove the stem end. The skin of the tiny or immature eggplant is tender
and edib le, so leave it on, espe cially if pickling. As eggplants mature, the
skin toughens and becomes b itter, so peel the lar ge mature ones. For
canning or freezing, blanch eggplant cubes or slices in boiling water for 4
minutes. T o prevent discolouration, add 1/2 cup (125 mL) lemon juice per 1gallon (4 L)


 which you don’t even subscribe, and yet you are unable
to break away and decide for yourself what works and doesn’t work
for you. Nothing is absolute. There are no rules or laws which always make
sense or provide the greatest amount of good for all occasions. Flexibility is a far greater virtue, and yet you may find it difficult,
indeed impossible, to break an unserviceable law or violate absurd
tradition. Fitting into your society or enculturation may be useful
for getting along at times, but carried to an extreme, it can become
a neurosis, particularly when unhappiness, depression and anxiety
are the consequences of your meeting the shoulds. 138Nowhere is it being implied or in any way suggested that you
become contemptuous of the law, or break rules simply because you
see fit to do so. Laws are necessary, and order is an important part
of civilized society. But blind adherence to convention is something
else entirely, something, in fact, which may be far more destructive
to the individual than violation of the rules. Often rules are foolish,
and traditions no longer make any sense. When this is the case, and
you are unable to function effectively because you must follow
senseless rules, that is the time to reconsider the rules and your be-
havior. As Abraham Lincoln once put it, “I never had a policy that I could
always apply. I’ve simply attempted to do what made the greatest
amount of sense at the moment.” He was not a slave to a single
policy that had to apply in every single case, even if the policy was
written with such an intention. A should is unhealthy only when it gets in the way of healthy and
effective behavior. If you find yourself doing annoying or otherwise
counterproductive things which are the result of a should, you have
renounced your freedom of choice and are allowing yourself to be
controlled by some external force. A closer examination of this in-
ternal versus external control of yourself will be helpful before con-
tinuing to look at these erroneous musts which may clutter your
life. Internal vs. External Locus of Control
It has been estimated that a full seventy-five percent of the people
in our culture are more external than internal in their personality
orientation. This means that the chances are that you fit into this
category more often than you don’t. What does it mean to be “ex-
ternal” in your locus of control? Essentially, you are external if you
assign responsibility for your emotional state in your present mo-
ments to someone or something external to yourself. Thus, if you
were to be asked the question, “Why doBREAKING THE BARRIER OF CONVENTION  / 139you feel bad?” and you responded with answers like…“My parents
mistreat me,” “She hurt my feelings,” “My friends don’t like me,”
“My luck is down,” or “Things just aren’t going well,” you would
be in this external category. Conversely, if you were asked why you
are so happy, and you responded; “My friends treat me well,” “My
luck has changed,” “Nobody is bugging me,” or “She came through
for me,” you are still in the external frame, assigning responsibility
for how you feel to someone or something outside of you. The internal locus of control person puts the responsibility for
how he feels squarely on his own shoulders, and this person is in-
deed rare in our culture. When asked the same questions, he re-
sponds with internally oriented answers such as: “I tell myself the
wrong things,” “I put too much emphasis on what others say,” “I
worry about what someone else thinks,” “I’m not strong enough
now to avoid being unhappy,” and “I don’t have the skills to keep
me from being miserable.” Similarly, when the internally-put-togeth-
er person is up, he responds with “I” references such as, “I worked
hard at being happy,” “I made things work for me,” “I’m telling
myself the right things,” “I’m in charge of me, and this is where I
choose to be.” Thus, you have one-fourth of the people taking re-
sponsibility for their own feelings, and three-fourths bestowing
blame on external sources. Where do you fit in? Virtually all shoulds
and traditions are imposed by external sources. That is, they come
from someone or something outside of yourself. If you are loaded
with shoulds and unable to break conventions which are prescribed
by others, then you are in the external bag. An excellent example of this externally directed kind of thinking
is a client who came to me recently. We’ll call her Barbara. Her major
grievance was an obesity problem, but she had a host of minor
complaints as well. When we started to discuss her weight problem,
she said that she had always been overweight because she had a
metabolism problem and also because her mother had forced food
on her as a child. Her pattern of140 / Your Erroneous Zonesovereating continued now, she said, because her husband had neg-
lected her and her children were inconsiderate of her. She had tried
everything, she lamented—Weight Watchers, pills, a variety of diet
doctors, even astrology. Therapy was to be her last resort. If I couldn’t
make her lose weight, she said, no one could. As Barbara told her story—and viewed her own dilemma—it was
no wonder she couldn’t lose those unwanted pounds. Everything
and everybody was conspiring against her—her mother, her hus-
band, her children, even her own body and the stars. Weight
Watchers and diet doctors might be able to help less afflicted souls
but in Barbara’s case the odds against her were too great. Barbara was a classic example of external thinking. It was her
mother, her husband, her children and some uncontrollable part of
her own body that made her fat. It had nothing to do with her own
choices to eat, or overeat, certain foods at certain times. Moreover,
her attempts to alleviate her situation were as externally directed as
her perceptions of the problem itself. Instead of recognizing that she
had chosen to overeat in the past and she would have to learn to
make new choices if she wanted to lose weight, Barbara turned to
other people and things—society’s accepted conventions for weight
loss. When all her friends went to Weight Watchers, Barbara went. Each time a friend discovered a new diet doctor, Barbara was close
on her heels for help. After several weeks of counseling, Barbara began to recognize
that her unhappiness and her complaints were the result of her own
choices, not the actions of others. It began with an admission that
she simply ate too much, often more than she really wanted, and
did not exercise enough. Her first decision was to change her eating
habits through sheer self-discipline. She could and would manipulate
her own mind. Next time she felt hungry she resolved to reward
herself with thoughts of her own internal strength rather than a
cookie. Instead of blaming her husband and children for treating
her badly and driving her to food, sheBREAKING THE BARRIER OF CONVENTION  / 141began to see that she had been playing the martyr for years, virtually
begging them to exploit her. Once Barbara began demanding to be
treated well, she found that her family was only too ready to treat
her that way, and instead of seeking solace in food she found fulfill-
ment in relationships based on mutual respect and love. Barbara even decided to spend less time with her mother who she
had come to see as running her life and ruining it with overdoses
of food. Once Barbara came to recognize that her mother did not
control her and that she could see her when she chose to, not when
her mother said she should, and similarly that she didn’t have to
eat that piece of chocolate cake just because her mother said she
should, Barbara began to enjoy rather than resent the time they spent
together. Finally Barbara realized that therapy had nothing to do with
anything outside herself. I couldn’t change her. She had to change
herself. It took time, but gradually, with effort, Barbara replaced her
external shoulds with internal standards of her own. She is now not
only thinner, but happier as well. She knows that it isn’t her husband
or her children, her mother or the stars that are making her happy. She knows it is herself, for now she controls her own mind. Fatalists, determinists and people who believe in luck are in the
external slot. If you believe that your life is mapped out for you in
advance, and you need only follow the appropriate roads, then you
are very likely loaded with all of the shoulds that will keep you on
your road map. You can never find self-fulfillment if you persist in permitting
yourself to be controlled by external forces or persist in thinking
that you are controlled by external forces. Being effective does not
mean eliminating all of the problems in your life. It does mean
moving your locus of control from the external to the internal. In
that way you make yourself responsible for everything that you ex-
perience emotionally. You are not a robot, running your life through
a maze, filled up with other people’s rules and142 / Your Erroneous Zonesregulations that don’t even make sense to you. You can take a
sterner look at the “rules” and begin to exercise some internal control
over your own thinking, feeling and behavior. BLAM


a
. A closed and relaxed jaw as shown in the skull photographs and in figure
a
 is especially important
during sleep. The body regenerates while we sleep. But if the molars are not comfortably touching, as
in figure
b
, then side effects such as night time tooth grinding or clenching can occur. As the teeth
clench at night, if they are in positions
b
or
c
they can easily become worn down and overly stressed
since the molars are not comfortably supporting the mouth. This is exactly why teeth become infected
and eroded. This situation can also be associated with snoring and loss of fully restful sleep. What also happens in the condition illustrated by figure
b
 is the body’s sensory nervous system
receives messages through the trigeminal nerve to the brain that the jaw is not relaxed. The body then
tries to make the molars contact one another to find the relaxed and natural position. Yet in order for
the body to find a natural biting position and for the molars to touch as they were designed to, the jaw
must hinge backwards and upwards as shown in figure
c.
 Since the body seeks relaxation, and since
chewing and eating require the front teeth to avoid colliding while the molars grind food, what
happens is that the jaw must hinge in a forced manner to compensate. While the jaw joint is capableof sliding forward and backward, it is not supposed to slide backward all the time. In figure
c
 you see
the final
closed bite
 position; the molars are touching now, but the jaw is jammed backwards. At the
same time, the front teeth may be contacting each other wrongly and wearing down. Over time, the
hinging of the jaw in the unnatural position overly strains the thin friction disk in the
temporomandibular joint, and there is pain, popping, and cracking on the light end of the symptom
scale. The worst thing about this common condition is that the body rarely or never is able to
completely relax, heal and regenerate. Instead there is a constant experience of tension. Electro-Magnetic Fields (EMF) and Cavities
Some people experience tooth pain when exposed to electro-magnetic fields such as from a television
or a computer monitor. The connection between our nervous system and our teeth could explain why
this happens. Root Canals, Tooth Infections and Your Bite
A significant proportion of tooth infections have at their source a usually unrecognized component of
bite dysfunction. Nighttime clenching and daytime stress from the molars not comfortably touching
cause strain on specific teeth depending on how the jaw is misaligned. Nighttime clenching is also
one of the main causes of abfractions—gum line ridges and sensitivity of teeth caused by relentless
stresses from the jaw pressures that wear them down. When the jaw cannot comfortably close as in figures
b
and
 c
then certain teeth can become severely
worn or traumatized. The body has a hard time healing those specific teeth because they are
constantly being bruised, and these are the exact teeth that become painful and infected. A poor bite is
one of the main reasons why people develop tooth infections. The “Feel Good” Substance P
Neuropeptides are a type of molecule our nervous system uses to communicate. Substance P
 is a
neuropeptide that stimulates inflammation and also functions in the transmission of pain signals within
the nervous system. So when you have a toothache, there is a marked increase in substance P. If you
have an injury in your body, amounts of substance P increase near the injury site. After substance P is
released from your nerves it lingers in your body for a while. 5
The trigeminal nerve has such a high density of pain fibers that it can have a dramatic effect on the
substance P levels in your body. Substance P is actually good for us. It stimulates cell growth and
promotes wound healing. 6
 But when someone’s bite is out of alignment such as shown in figure
c
 then
the trigeminal nerve which is laced throughout the mandible (jaw) releases pain signals through
substance P in large amounts. Perhaps this happens because the body correlates the jaw misalignment
with a physical injury. The constant release of substance P from the trigeminal nerve over time causes
our sensory system to become over stimulated or hyperactive. This then substantially reduces our
body’s ability to send substance P to the parts of our body that require healing and regeneration. Therefore when our bite is out of alignment we heal more slowly. Too much substance P in the system
leads to a burned out nervous system. It can cause hyperactivity in children. Excess substance P frombite imbalances leads to hypersensitivity to touch, smells, light, and loud noises as well as to general
irritability. 7
 Disease conditions that respond well to jaw alignment include fibromyalgia, irritable
bowel syndrome, autism, asthma, and all of the autoimmune disorders. When your jaw is relaxed, then substance P is not being overly released because your jaw is aligned. Substance P then can do its job to help heal and regenerate all the parts of your body. A relaxed jaw
from a correct bite makes your body relaxed and your body rejuvenates itself. A relaxed bite keeps us
youthful, helps us heal well, and have strength and energy when we need it. This is the power of your
bite. Your Bite and Your Vitality
The excess of substance P released from a bad bite in part explains why neurological and physical
function usually improve dramatically when the jaw is in the relaxed and neutral position as seen in
figure
a. Mouth guards that improve the strength and vitality of athletes move the jaw into a more
biologically correct position. The body senses through the trigeminal nerve that everything is in
alignment, the nervous system relaxes, and the body functions more optimally. 8
 As a result, strength,
endurance, and reaction times increase. There are early studies that indicate that jaw clenching and
chewing have an anti-stress effect and are stress coping mechanisms, provided the bite is correct. 9
How TMJ and Bite Affect Cavities, Tooth Infections and Toothaches
When your bite is out of alignment, your body receives pain signals via substance P. A misaligned
bite affects cavities and tooth pain in three ways. First, the nervous system of the jaw is hyper
stimulated which inhibits the natural healing response of the body to mend damaged teeth. Second,
when the bite is out of balance, specific teeth become overly stressed from the mechanical forces of
the jaw. Third, with a bad bite, the trigeminal nerve becomes hypersensitive. With these conditions a
toothache will hurt much more than it normally should. What this means for you is that if you have a
tooth ache, or tooth infection, then any types of body therapy you can do to relax the stresses on your
nervous system, particularly the trigeminal nerve, can dramatically impact the health of your teeth. Perhaps half or more of tooth infections and tooth pain can be healed simply by helping the jaw relax
and by moving the bite into a more correct position. Profound Effects of TMJ Dysfunction and a Bad Bite
TMJ dysfunction (TMD) can present symptoms such as pain behind eyes, difficulty opening and
closing the mouth, ringing in ears, tooth grinding, over clenching, worn teeth, headaches and even
vision problems. If the jaw is allowed to hinge normally and does not need to be forced into the
closed bite position as shown in figure
c
 then the TMD symptoms can resolve if the joint is not
excessively damaged. The method of resolution of TMD is usually some type of dental appliance
which helps the jaw function correctly. Pain with TMD is caused by overwork of the nervous and muscular systems as they must function in
an unnatural manner to bring the teeth together for chewing and the natural jaw clenching position. Over time the muscles fatigue, become strained, and can lead to pain in the jaw, the back of the neck,head and ears. 10
The hyper stimulated nervous system has some surprising side effects. For example, orthopedic
orthodontist Dr. Brendan Stack believes that the basis of most of the symptoms of Tourette's syndrome
is essentially a misalignment of the mandible to the base of the skull. By correcting the position of the
jaw with a dental appliance, the eye blinking, eyelid tics, mouth tics, head nodding, shoulder
shrugging and head tremors disappear. Dr. Stack has videos on his website that appear to depict
miracles. Yet the amazing recoveries are based on a correct understanding of how the jaw and cranial
system were meant to function. You can see immobilized people walking again within minutes at
www.tmjstack.com
Many diseases, particularly neurological diseases like autism, have a significant symptom component
in that the bite of the afflicted individual is severely compromised. Symptoms of a severely
misaligned bite are a crooked face, improper facial growth, the mouth hanging open, tongue sticking
out, and a very poor posture. Not all bite misalignments are that obvious. An imbalance of as little as
1/8 of an inch can cause malocclusion and health problems. 11
 Treating and resolving diseases that
have nervous system components can require a therapeutic correction of the bite. Unfortunately the
connection between neurological diseases and the bite is often completely overlooked.Orthodontics
Now we will learn why braces are generally unnecessary and in fact harmful. First, two definitions:
Orthodontics
 is the practice of forcing teeth to appear to be in alignment using non


	(and
the	protein/sugar	combination	also	results	in	the	formation	of	harmful	AGEs—as
described	in	the	sugar	section	of	the	Big	Four). Learning	how	to	apply	proper	food	combinations	to	your	diet	can	help	your
health,	as	it	did	for	Andrea. Her	high-profile	career	was	interrupted	when
chronic	fatigue	and	an	autoimmune	syndrome	called	lupus	overwhelmed	her. Before	she	came	to	see	me,	Andrea	had	been	sick	for	five	years	and	had
exhausted	all	the	remedies	that	modern	medicine	had	to	offer—with	no	help. I	encouraged	Andrea	to	keep	a	food	diary	so	that	we	could	track	what	she	was
eating. The	diary	revealed	that	Andrea’s	diet	consisted	of	a	lot	of	processed	junk
(“make-believe”	food). I	taught	her	how	to	shop	for	“real”	food	and	suggested
special	vitamin	supplements. Within	one	week	this	woman—	who	had	been
chronically	ill	for	five	years—was	starting	to	feel	much	better. She	gained	more
energy	and	more	mental	clarity,	and	she	began	to	have	hope. Then	she	reached	a
plateau	and	seemed	unable	to	make	further	improvement. I	suggested	that	Andrea	prepare	another	food	diary,	this	time	looking	at	the
combinations	of	foods	she	was	eating. We	found	out	why	her	recovery	process
stalled. Andrea’s	meal	choices	were	causing	maldigestion	and	creating	toxins
that	were	inhibiting	her	recovery. For	example,	she	had	gone	out	to	a	Sunday
brunch	and	ate	a	breakfast	consisting	of	a	vegetable	omelet	(protein	and
vegetables,	okay),	hash-brown	potatoes	(starch	with	protein,	not	okay),	toast
with	jelly	(starch	and	sugar	with	protein,	not	okay),	and	a	fruit	cup	(fruit	with
other	foods,	not	okay). Combining	egg	protein	with	the	starch	of	bread	and
potatoes	was	bad	enough;	the	fermentation	caused	by	combining	that	with	sugar
from	fresh	fruit	and	jelly	made	things	worse. By	maldigesting	her	food,	this	meal	was	not	supplying	Andrea	with	the
nutrition	she	thought	she	was	consuming. At	the	same	time	her	choices	were
creating	toxins	that	were	poisoning	every	cell	in	her	body—certainly	not	what
she	had	in	mind	when	she	ordered	brunch. At	another	meal,	Andrea	had	a
sandwich	made	of	organic,	whole-wheat	bread,	organic	turkey	and	organic
lettuce. While	definitely	better	than	the	breakfast,	combining	starch	(bread)	with
protein	(turkey)	just	does	not	work. I	knew	how	important	it	would	be	for	her
health	if	she	had	a	good	understanding	of	basic	food-combining	rules. I	taught
her	the	simple	rules	of	food	combining:
vegetables	with	protein,	okay;vegetables	with	starch,	okay;	no	protein	with	starch;	eat	fruit	alone. Andrea	put	these	simple	rules	to	work. Her	health	continued	to	improve,	and
she	went	into	complete	remission	of	all	her	chronic	health	problems—something
she	had	been	unable	to	do	even	with	good	food	and	supplements	alone. Proper
food	combining	was	critical	to	this	woman’s	wellness	process,	which	is	no
surprise,	because	improper	food	combining	causes	disease. It’s	All	in	the	Technique
When	you	eat	cooked	foods,	eating	something	raw	first	is	best. Cooked	food
appears	to	be	so	alien	to	the	human	system	that	it	can	provoke	an	immune
response,	as	if	you	are	being	exposed	to	a	virus. Scientist	Udo	Erasmus,	author
of
Fats	and	Oils,
wrote:
[W]hen	cooked	(or	dead)	food	is	eaten,	a	defense	reaction	occurs	in	the
tissues	of	the	stomach	and	digestive	tract. This	reaction	is	similar	to	the
reaction	we	find	in	infections	and	around	tumors	and	involves	the
accumulation	of	white	blood	cells,	swelling,	and	a	fever-like	increase	in
temperature	of	the	stomach	and	intestinal	tissues. [As	a	result,	we]
experience	tiredness	after	the	meal. The	same	reaction	takes	place	when
half	the	food	is	eaten	raw,	but	the	cooked	part	is	eaten	first. When	the	raw
part	of	the	food	is	eaten	first,	however,	this	reaction	does	not	take	place. Chewing	your	food	also	is	important. The	style	that	many	people	use	is
“chomp,	chomp,	gulp—down	the	hatch!”	Lack	of	proper	chewing	can	cause
maldigestion	and	contribute	to	disease. Many	of	our	modern	foods	are	easy	to
gulp	down,	requiring	little	help	from	the	teeth	(because	of	excessive	cooking,
processing	and	fat	content). By	contrast,	real	foods	(whole	foods	and	especially
raw	foods)	tend	to	have	more	texture	and	fiber,	and	require	more	chewing. If	you
want	good	nutrition	to	support	good	health,	you	need	to	eat	real	food	and	you
need	to	chew	it	well. First,	your	teeth	physically	mash	food	into	small	particles. Then,	your	saliva
combines	enzymes	with	food	as	it	is	being	chewed	and	helps	to	break	down	and
digest	it. The	purpose	of	chewing	is	not	simply	to	break	the	food	into	small
enough	chunks	to	swallow,	although	many	people	eat	this	way. The	purpose	of
chewing	is	to	assist	the	digestive	process	by	grinding	your	food	into	small
particles	and	coating	them	thoroughly	with	the	digestive	enzymes	in	your	saliva. There	is	an	old	saying:	“Drink	what	you	eat	and	eat	what	you	drink.”	Solid
food	should	be	chewed	thoroughly	enough	that	it	becomes	liquid	before	youswallow	it;	liquid	foods	(such	as	juices	and	soups)	should	be	“chewed”	so	that
the	enzymes	in	your	saliva	have	time	to	work	on	them. Nutrition	starts	in	your
mind	and	in	your	mouth. Eat	your	food	with	the	intent	to	nourish	your	body,
rather	than	merely	to	fill	the	void	in	your	stomach. Rethink	“Acid	Indigestion”
After	leaving	the	mouth,	the	chewed,	enzyme-coated	food	moves	to	the
stomach	and	triggers	the	release	of	hydrochloric	acid	and	other	digestive
chemicals	that	further	break	down	the	food	before	it	moves	into	the	small
intestine. In	fact,	until	sufficient	hydrochloric	acid	is	present	and	food
breakdown	takes	place,	food	does	not	leave	the	stomach. If	undigested	food	sits
in	the	stomach	too	long,	it	forms	toxins	and	poisons	you. Adequate	hydrochloric
acid	is	critical	in	the	digestive	process. People	often	think	that	indigestion	is	caused	by	“too	much	acid”—commonly
called	“acid	indigestion.”	While	in	some	rare	cases	this	diagnosis	is	valid,	the
overwhelming	majority	of	acid	symptoms	originate	from	the	opposite	problem—
too	little	hydrochloric	acid. As	a	result,	the	food	does	not	digest	properly	and
remains	in	the	stomach	too	long,	whereupon	the	food	rots	and	becomes	acidic. Rotting	food,	not	excessive	digestive	acids,	causes	an	acid	burn	feeling. Deliberately	taking	antacid


 carry oxygen, zinc for reproductive health etc. Plants growing on mineral-depleted soil do not get enough nourishment and, thus, are to some degree devitalized and more vulnerable to their insect, worm and fungi predators. Remineralization encourages greatly increased growth of soil microorganisms and the
assimilation of nutrients, leading to high quality, flavorful crops. It also counteracts acidity and erosion, increasing the storage capacity of the soil, contributing to the build -
ing of humus complexes and, when sprayed on plants, repels both fungi and insects. As well, plants and trees become highly resistant to frost, drought and all devitalizing influences. Adding rock dust to your compost pile also enhances composting benefits and is anoth -
er excellent way to remineralize soils. Rock dust is finely ground rock,
often as fine as talcum pow -
der, typically passing a 200 mesh screen. A broad variety of rocks, as found in most river and glacial gravels, generally ensures that a natural balance of all the 30+ biologically-essential mineral elements are provided for health. These naturally mixed gravels can provide all 92 elements of the Earth’s crust. Summa Minerals rock powder/dust127
FruiticultureTo purchase rock dust, try your local nursery or garden supply store, requesting they
carry it if it is not in stock. You can help them find the most practical suppliers for your region by using the worldwide Resources listing at http://www.remineralize.org. A 50-pound bag of rock dust typically costs about $25, with quantity discounts available. Bulk purchases with fellow growers may be wise. Rock powder should be as finely ground as possible to encourage the growth of tiny soil
microorganisms and earthworms and, thus, soil fertility. Microorganisms secrete acids and enzymes to digest the inorganic rock minerals and build their organic protoplasm, in turn creating organic soil matter. They “feed at the first table” (as stated by Professor William Albrecht), transforming the soil components into readily assimilatable “plant food. ”  As such, they are the first link in the food chain for all planetary life. They also need organic matter, such as your homemade compost, water and the atmospheric gas-es of carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, etc. For better plant health at home, add a couple of tablespoons of rock dust to houseplants
or other potted plants. To grow mineralized, organic produce in your garden, apply 1/4 pound to 1 pound per square foot of planting area. This is a generous rate of about 5 tons to 20 tons per acre. Also, incorporate rock dust throughout your compost heap for a superior finished product. When planting fruit and nut tree orchards, add 10 to 20 pounds of rock dust to the soil
surrounding new tree root zones (including throughout the planting hole), spreading the dust out to the drip line and beyond. Mature trees and sick trees will especially ap -
preciate 50 pounds or more. While rock dust is great for the soil and plants, you should,
Rock powder/dust products128
Fruiticultureof course, avoid breathing it and use a protective mask. The Link to Climate Records show that there have been 25 or more Ice Age cycles, each lasting approximate -
ly 90,000 years, followed by a temperate period, such as ours, of approximately 10,000
years. Glaciers advance and recede in many cycles during each recurrent Ice Age. This action grinds down the rocks in the glaciers’ paths, yielding mineral-rich dust which, along with mineral-rich volcanic rock dust, is distributed by glaciers, water, and wind far over the surface of the Earth, remineralizing soils and enhancing plant life. It has been established that the Earth’s soil becomes progressively demineralized dur -
ing each lush, warm interglacial period. This has major global consequences—primar -
ily, a decline of the world’s forests and other vegetation. This in turn causes a release of
carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, exceeding the available sinks for the collection of greenhouse gases, thus trapping excess heat from the sun and dramatically altering the world’s climate. We have seen the level of carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere rise exponentially over the past century, while global weather patterns have become more and more extreme. Hamaker’s research on soil demineralization and CO
2 at last explains the reasons for the
recurring 90,000-year glacial periods following each 10,000-year warm period. His re -
search indicated that CO2 released from soil demineralization and consequent forest die-
back and burning intensifies the greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect occurs primarily in the tropics, which get the most sunshine, rath-
er than in the polar regions, which get very little sunshine. When the temperature dif-ferential between the tropics and the poles increases, there is a resultant cycle of fierce wind systems, hurricanes, tornadoes and other violent storms. (Sound familiar?) More of the moisture gathered by these increasing storm systems is transported to the higher latitudes where it is deposited as snow and ice, eventually inducing a new glacial cycle. Thus, we can understand the paradox in Hamaker’s theory of how global warming can
trigger the next Ice Age. Our agricultural and deforestation practices, fossil fuel burning and overpopulation all contribute to and accelerate the climatic shift process. In light of this and the historical evidence that we are at the end of a 10,000-year inter -129
Fruiticultureglacial period, it would be prudent to wake up to the far-reaching and potentially tragic
implications of this. The current man-made “climate chaos” which is costing upwards of $100 billion each year in economic damages alone will most likely steadily worsen. The global toll of devastation should inspire us—or could force us—to wake up to our plan-etary responsibilities of remineralizing and regenerating the Earth today. Evidence supporting most of Hamaker’s thesis has mounted in recent years, as shown by
record snow cover in parts of the northern hemisphere and a shortening of the growing season by weeks in some locations. Insects, disease and fire are devastating forests at record levels worldwide. Hamaker first estimated in 1976 that within a few decades the growing season could decrease to the point that millions of people will starve, and this applies to the currently affluent countries as well. Unfortunately, there is now much evi -
dence for the truth of his predictions. Clearly, no nation or world can be truly rich with -
out rich, productive soil and healthful foods as its foundation. Reviving Dying Forests There have been stunning results from the remineralization of forests suffering from acid
rain, soil erosion and general disease. Here are some examples from the Research sec -
tion at http://remineralize.org:
•  “A 1986 report on long-term experiments in central Europe by the Bavarian Research
and Experimental Institute of Forestry in Munich, Germany showed that in one forest, 24 years after pine seedlings were remineralized, the wood volume was four times higher than in the untreated area. ”
•  “The results of Dr. Robert Bruck’s experimental remineralization trials of a dying forest
on Mt. Mitchell near Asheville, North Carolina showed that 12 weeks after the applica-tion of rock dust, the height of red spruce was increased by 27% over non-treated con-trols, and the height of Fraser fir was 19% greater than the untreated controls. ”
•  “The Men of Trees organization in Australia (www.trilliontrees.org.au) performed rem-
ineralization trials on many species of trees in Australia with phenomenal results. For ex -
ample, compared to untreated controls, trees grown from eucalyptus seedlings in remin-eralized soil grew five times faster. ”
•  “The Sudden Oak Life organization website (www.suddenoaklife.org) displays photos 130
Fruiticultureof some of the thousands of ‘fatally sick’ trees that have recovered through remineraliza-
tion. Orthodox forestry still appears to be stuck on the ‘no cure—use chemicals’ mental-ity in treating such disease. ”
Remineralization of the world’s soils and forests will propagate carbon sinks which ab -
sorb CO
2 from the atmosphere and contribute to climatic stability. A return to normal
interglacial CO2 levels of about 280 ppm, rather than the current 408+ ppm, is quite pos -
sible and probably essential to our survival. By accepting the great task of remineral-
izing the Earth’s soils (much as the glaciers do during an Ice Age), we can create fertile soil and sustainable abundance for all to share. We must also plant many billions of new trees, including fruit and nut varieties, and convert farms and gardens to the organic, mineralized approach. Using our great intelligence and compassion in giving back to the Earth, we can restore human health and sanity and create a new Eden. The Nutritional Aspect When we eat food grown on depleted soil we, like the plants, become more susceptible
to disease. All degenerative diseases have been on the rise in America in recent decades. Dietary fat, cholesterol, salt, overly-refined and pesticide-contaminated foods are obvi-ous culprits, but a serious deficiency of minerals in our food is a frequent contributing factor. Mineral-depleted soil has been directly correlated with increased death rates. Laboratory studies have shown that trace mineral deficiencies are associated with an in-creased risk of cancer. Even one trace mineral deficiency carries this risk. Vibrant health depends upon a broad spectrum of all the minerals essential to human health. “The rock is the mother of the soil, ” is how one geologist in the 1800s put it. Since the
most


, self-promoting, fear, identified
manipulative, strong mainly with one's
identifications (as own body
with family,
country, religion) Ayurveda and the Mind
How to Properly Develop the
Functions of the Mind
Chitta Pranayama, mantra, meditation on infinite space or
the void, concentration and mindfulness techniques,
Samadhi, devotion (Bhakti Yoga) and knowledge
(Jnana Yoga) combined, right beliefs, receptivity,
clarity, faith, love, peace, joy, communion, right
associations, satsang (spiritual communion)
Buddhi Concentration, meditation, Self-inquiry, mantra,
meditation, contemplation of universal truths, yoga
of knowledge (Jnana Yoga), self-examination, devel-
opment of conscience and ethics, right reasoning,
self-discipline, developing Tejas (inner fire)
Manas Devotion (particularly using a particular form or
image), self-discipline (like fasting), control of sexual
energy, mantra, meditation on inner light and
sound, visualization, work, service, Yoga of Devotion
(Bhakti Yoga), Ojas enhancement therapies, right
intake of impressions, right diet, practice of
patience, development of character, will-power and
control of senses
Ahamkara Spiritual aspiration, devotion to God, selfless service,
self-discipline, self-inquiry, self-observation, right
association Ego and Self
Exercises in Consciousness
The following are some simple exercises in conscious-
ness to help you understand the different levels of your
mind and how they are working to make your life more
creative and aware or more constricted and asleep. Taking an Inventory of Your Consciousness
Examine the weight of your life experience: the sub-
stances and energies you have taken into yourself
through your habitual actions and expressions. Look
at the quality of your food, impressions, and associ-
ations, the emotions you have most frequently, the
thoughts and beliefs which motivate you. See what
you hold most dear, what abides most deeply in your
heart, what you most give your attention to. On one side, place all your negative life activities —
negative emotions (anger, lust, fear, ambition, vio-
lence), pursuit of pleasure, desire, and selfishness. On the other side, place all your positive life activi-
ties — meditation, prayer, spiritual study, good
works, social service, and so on. Note the balance. Your consciousness is the storehouse of all this expe-
rience. Its nature depends upon the predominance of
your mental activity, particularly at a heart level. Another way to do this is to examine your sponta-
neous and automatic reactions, to see what your pro-
gramming is. Note your immediate reactions to sit-
uations, particularly those in which you are taken off
guard, or are in some way threatened. Note also your
consciousness during habitual states like sleeping,
eating, entertainment and other mechanical activi-
ties, when you are not engaged in any specific men- 144 Ayurveda and the Mind
tai activity. This underlying inertia of the mind is
your consciousness (Chitta). Examining Your Intelligence
See where your sense of discrimination is most
developed, whether it is food, movies, sex, sports,
scientific information, politics, art, philosophy, or
spiritual knowledge. See where your intelligence has
its greatest refinement, clarity and depth. See if you
have cultivated an outer sense of discrimination,
developing opinions about people or situations, or
an inner sense, learning to discern the inner truth or
reality of things. Note where your sense of discrimination naturally
goes, what you are most commonly calculating. Note where you most exercise your sense of choice,
value and judgment. Through this process you can
understand the nature of your intelligence and how
it is likely to develop. Examining the Outer Mind and Senses
Observe how you use your senses, which senses you
use most and in what manner. See to what extent
sensory influences dominate you. How do you relate
to audio, tactile, visual and other sensations. To
what degree can you control your mind's attention
and not be distracted by sensory influences. What
sensations most attract and bind your mind. What
mental and emotional impressions and influences
most affect you through the senses (fear, anger,
desire, love, or hate). See what mental impressions
and information most affects you. See how your
senses control you and dominate your attention. Ego and Self
Do the same in regard to the motor organs. See what
control you have over your vocal organs, hands, feet,
reproductive and eliminatory organs. Can you turn
off their activities and detach yourself from their
urges or are you under their power. These mental
exercises provide a good measure of how much you
are in control of the mind or how much your mind
controls you. Examining the Ego
See what you most identify with in life — occupa-
tion, family, friends, property, country, religion and
so on. See how closely you identify with your body,
senses, opinions, emotions and ideas. Examine what
you most fear losing and what you are most trying
to gain: pleasure, wealth, power, name, fame and so
on. Imagine that you are dying today and have to let
everything go. See how difficult this may be and
what most holds you to this world. Once we have examined all our mental functions, we
can see how our life is likely to develop. We can determine
how susceptible we maybe not only to psychological prob-
lems but to sorrow in general. Just as you keep track of
your health through regular physical examinations, keep
track of your psychological condition through regular
mental examinations. Ayurveda and the Mind
The Chakras
1. Head Center
Consciousness-Space
Causal Sound
Causal Prana
Om
2. Third Eye
Mind-Space
Sublte Sound
Subtle Prana
Ksham 3. Throat Center
Ether
Sound
Vata
Ham
4. Heart Center
Air
Touch
Vata
Yam
5. Navel Center
Fire
Sight
Pitta
Ram 6. Sex Center
Water
Taste
Kapha
Yam
7. Root Center
Earth
Smell
Kapha
Lam 147
Part III
Ayurvedic Therapies for the Mind
yurvedic therapies are multifaceted for
primarily of a self-help nature, but may require additiona
guidance to employ them optimally. The section begins
with Ayurvedic counseling methods and the Ayurvedic
view of treating the different aspects of the mind. Then it
discusses the Ayurvedic science of impressions and how we
can alter them to improve our mental function. Specific chapters follow on outer treatment modalities
like diet and herbs, and inner methods, mainly sensory
techniques of colors, gems and aromas, leading to mantra,
which is the most important Ayurvedic tool for changing
our consciousness. As these treatment methods are diverse,
this is the longest section of the book, but also perhaps the
most practical and useful. improving mental well-being and promoting
spiritual growth. Those introduced here are 149
10. Ayurvedic Counseling and
Behavioral Modification
ommunication is the basis of who we are and
what we seek to become. We do not exist in iso-
lation, nor can we grow apart from the cultural
matrix that sustains us. The mind itself is primarily a
munication device, not only for relating outwardly to
other people, but relating inwardly to the spiritual forces
of the universe. This importance of communication
extends into the sphere of healing as well. Counseling is probably the most important instrument
of psychological treatment. However, from the Ayurvedic
standpoint, it should not be merely talk or discussion but
a prescription for action. Counseling should examine the
causes of psychological imbalances and indicate how to
correct them. No one will continue in a pattern that he or
she knows is harmful, but we must truly understand the
harmful nature of our behavior to be willing to change. Counseling should be a learning process in which the
client comes to understand the different aspects of his or
her nature and how to modify these for optimal well-
being. In this chapter we will discuss the Ayurvedic counsel-
ing approach that forms the background for Ayurvedic
psychological therapies. We will look into the issues that
arise in counseling through the different Ayurvedic consti-
tutional types. Ayurvedic counseling deals in four primary
areas: 150 Ayurveda and the Mind
1) Physical factors — diet, herbs and exercise;
2) Psychological factors — impressions, emotions,
thought;
3) Social factors — work, recreation, relationship;
and
4) Spiritual factors — yoga and meditation. Physical and psychological imbalances reinforce each
other, with diet and exercise reflecting our state of mind
and its fluctuations. Psychological imbalances involve
social and personal problems, like career and relationship
difficulties. Spiritual factors are the ultimate sources of any
mental distress because only our higher consciousness has
the power to bring peace to the mind, which is inherently
changing and unstable. Therefore, Ayurvedic psychology
deals with four levels of treatment:
1. Biological hum


 identification with this idea of yourself as
separate from God that creates your so-called problems. By giving yourself
only a few moments of alone time which I call God-time, you become an
instrument of peace if only for those moments. Y our return to the noisyworld will now be with a new partner, God, which is really “thy peace.”
Gradually, with this exercise, you will find yourself becoming a regular
instrument of peace in all your waking moments. Make meditation a part of your daily life. Resistance to meditation is a
universal phenomenon in the western world. I hear it every day: “I’m too
busy. I just can’ t seem to quiet my mind. It doesn’ t work. I have too much
on my mind.” I’m certain that you have your own version of why you can’ t
find the time or the way to meditate. Stick all your excuses for not making
meditation a part of your daily life into the giant ego hopper. These excuses
are nothing more than your fear of coming to know God and therefore
taming your demanding ego. For the next sixty days give yourself a directive to practice meditation at
least once, preferably twice, each day. The technique that you use is totally
up to you. I have created a tape/CD titled Meditation for Manifesting,  in
which I guide you through a morning and evening meditation called JAP A,
which is the repetition of the sound of the name of God as a mantra. It is an
ancient technique, one that Patanjali describes in his Yoga Aphorisms  that I
described in chapter two. I am not so concerned with your methodology as
with your commitment to meditation. There are many techniques and
guides available. I have discussed extensively the value and techniques for
meditation in many of my books and tapes. Any method is fine if it allows
you to quiet the chatter of your mind and assists you in arriving at the peace
that is “the secret that sits in the center, and knows,” as Robert Frost put it. In meditation you go to the silence. The silence cannot be divided. Like
zero in mathematics, it can never be cut up to be anything other than zero. And so it is with God. Only one. Indivisible. Y our meditation practice is
your avenue to experience the indivisibleness, the oneness that is God. All I
can tell you is that when you practice meditation regularly, each session is
like lifting the weight of your problems of f your shoulders for those
moments, and a feeling of having your soul nourished so that you now
approach everyone and everything with the accompaniment of thy peace. Saint Francis told his devotees, “What is it that stands higher than words? Action. What is it that stands higher than action? Silence.”Stop yourself when you ar e making your peace dependent on outer
circumstances. The simple recognition of blaming others or circumstances
for your lack of peace is enough to bring you back to your senses. Right in
the midst of a no-peace moment give yourself a gentle reminder that no one
and no thing can take away your peace without your consent. If the children
have spilled fruit juice all over the carpet and made a mess of the house,
and you are yelling and screaming, a soft inner reminder that you do not
have to give up your peace just because the world is not going as you would
prefer right now can bring you back to your peace. The more you can
overcome your conditioned response of blaming things outside of yourself
for your lack of peace, the more likely you will eventually become a living
statement of “thy peace.”
Your peace is between you and God. Period. It is not between you and
anyone else, or any set of circumstances, as dif ficult as that is to accept
sometimes. When people say to me, “How can you possibly be at peace in a
nonpeaceful world?,” I always remind them that inner peace is just that,
inner, not outer. You must come to the point where you bring your peace to
everyone and everything, rather than attempting to secure it from outer
experiences. One of my least favorite nonpeaceful experiences is the twice-weekly visit
of the lawn people to my writing haven. They come well armed with
extremely loud mowers, edgers, trimmers, and blowers, filling the air with
their fumes and thunderous noises. There was a time when I would
complain and moan to my wife and anyone else who would listen
sympathetically to my complaints about these disturbers of the peace. Now
I see them as my teachers. My wife has encouraged me to get to the point
where I don’ t even notice them. As they pull up I send a silent blessing, and while I am still not a huge fan
of those noise machines, I no longer allow myself to go to nonpeace in their
presence. My peace is my own choice, and I no longer blame the armed
men and their noise machines for disturbing my peace, in fact I welcome
them all as my master teachers who are helping me to master myself and
my ego. Thomas Carlyle has a helpful thought about the dif ference between
noise and creation that I recall when the lawn people arrive. “When the oakis felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown
in silence by an unnoticed breeze.”
Practice thinking peace. Remember, you become what you think about all
day long. How often do you clutter your mind with thoughts of nonpeace? How many times a day do you say out loud how terrible the world is? How
violent we have all become? How uncaring we seem to be? How racist we
are? How little the government cares about us? All of these thoughts and
their expression are indications that you have become trapped in a
nonpeaceful mind and, therefore, a nonpeaceful world. Every time you
bemoan the horrors of the world, or listen to media reports on all that is
evil, or read tabloids that exploit the unpleasant facts about other ’s lives,
you are continuing the conditioning that takes you away from becoming an
instrument of thy peace. When you remind yourself that for every act of evil there are a thousand
acts of kindness, you put your thoughts back on peace. When you stop
someone who is relating yet another disaster story and change the tone to
something more loving, you become an instrument of peace. When you stop
yourself from rehashing the same old scenes, with new characters,
concerning accidents, crimes, poverty, mistreatment, and disasters of all
kinds, and put your mind on making these things disappear, you become an
instrument of peace. Use your mind to think peace, because peace is the
happy natural state of man, and evil, war, and hatred are his disgrace. Be a
part of the natural in your mind and not our disgrace. Become a peacemaker. Each day you are provided many opportunities to
practice peacemaking. Saint Francis wrote, “For it is in giving that we
receive.” By giving peace you will receive peace, and after you are at
peace, your problems all dissolve. By becoming a peacemaker you are
literally providing yourself with a remedy for virtually all your anxious
moments. T oday be on the alert for any opportunity to become a
peacemaker. Just this morning while I was at the ministore waiting to pay for my
gasoline, the cashier was being rude to a young man who didn’ t understand
how the three-dollar car wash operated. The cashier was verbally assaultingthis teenager who was asking to have his money back, which the cashier
was obstinately refusing. Furthermore, the teenager obviously did not speak
English and could not understand what he was being told, let alone why he
was being the victim of the cashier ’s abuse. As the teenager stood there
bewildered, I saw an opportunity to be a peacemaker. I put my arm around
the young man walked outside with him and showed him how to operate the
machine, which allowed him to smile for the first time since I’d
encountered him. Last evening at a lar ge dinner gathering of family and friends, I began to
sense that two of the older people who are persistently at odds with each
other were perilously close to an explosion of anger over a disagreement
about the facts of what had happened at an earlier function attended by both
of these potential antagonists. I knew that what was about to take place
would be unpleasant for everyone, because I have witnessed it on many
occasions. I shifted into my peacemaker mode and of fered a way for both of
these individuals to be right. In one instant of stepping in to provide peace, I
saw them both back down and actually smile at each other. On the freeway this afternoon I encountered a driver who was driving on
the shoulder of the road during a long construction delay and attempting to
get back into the lane. Driver after driver would not allow this person to
return to the open lane, punishing him for his action. As I pulled up I
remembered that it wasn’ t between me and this driver, it was between me
and God. And my intuition from God was that I could be a peacemaker for
this man, who very well may have had a legitimate reason to drive on the
shoulder, and I motioned for him to go in front of me. In just one day I had ten or eleven opportunities to be a peacemaker. And
each time I seize that opportunity I have become an instrument of peace