 Y 352
B e i n g  p r e c e d e s  d o i n g,  i n  m e  a n d  i n  t h e  w o r l d. T he only way I can know what I should be doing is to focus on who I
should be. There are important things God would have me do, but I am
responsible for becoming the vessel through which He can work. He can
only work for me if I allow Him to work through me. Putting my focus on who God would have me be, is the only sure
way I will ever come close to discerning what He would have me do, and
being able to do it. Being precedes doing, in me and in the world. Dear God,
Please make me who Y ou would have me be,
That I might do what Y ou would have me do. May I embody the love
And extend the peace
That alone can change the world. Amen.DA Y 353
I  p o u r  l i g h t  o n  a n y  t r o u b l i n g  c i r c u m s t a n c e. G od disentangles any dysfunctional ener gy that pervades a situation,
when I place it in His hands. In my mind’ s eye, I pour ligh t on any
troubling circum stance. I loosen my attitudinal grip. I will see it as a
lesson in miracles, as God disp lays His infinite power to turn darkness
into light. I no  longer hold  on to the problem, for God Himself shall ma ke it
right. M y emotional constriction does not serve. Expanding into the
infinity of my being, relaxing into the arms of God, I appr oach the
situation dif ferently. And the situation will change. Dear God,
I lay this pr oblem on Y our altar. Please interpr et this situation for me. May I see only the love in others and in me. Show me what I need to see,
Guide me to what I need to do. Help me to for give. Raise me above the fear in my mind. Thank you, God. Amen.DA Y 354
FOR REFLECTION
O n  R e b u i l d i n g  O u r  L i v e s
J ust as we look to food to fuel our physical selves, we look to
meditation and prayer to fuel our spiritual selves. Meditation is like spiritual e xercise, developing our attitudinal
muscles and making them strong. Consider it your daily workou t. After a
certain p oint in our lives, whet her in relation to physical or attitudinal
muscles, gravity  pulls them dow n if we’re not working to keep them up! Flabby spiritual muscles are things like cynicism, negativity, victim
consciousness, a nger, judgment,  and fear. Just as we do well to exercise
our bodies on a regular basis, we also do well to exercise our minds. Why? B ecause w e wish to be vital, vigorous, and strong. At a c ertain
point, a constan t reenactment of our neurotic dramas becomes as boring
to us as they already are to those around us. W e are ready to rebuild our
lives.DA Y 355
I  b a s e  m y  i d e n t i t y  o n  a n  e t e r n a l  r o c k. I  do not look to t he world for comfort; I look only to God. I do n ot look
to th e w orld for peace; I look only to God. I do not look to the w orld for
security; I look only to God. I base my identity on an etern al rock, no longer at the ef fect of a
chaotic w orld. I seek love that li es beyond the world, that I might bring it
here. Dear God,
May Y our spirit overshadow my mind
And give me eyes to see. May I per ceive the love I know exists
And overlook the r est. May I rise above the darkness of the world
And my mind be bathed in light. May I be calm and comforted
By truth. Amen.DA Y 356
T o d a y  I  c h o o s e  t o  s p r e a d  m y  w i n g s. I  r ealize the huge calling of histo ry at this time. W e have been c alled to
a collect ive geni us, and each of us is being prepared to play our part. Our
world ne eds spiritual giants, and it takes not ego but humility to  sign up
for t he ef fort. M any of my probl ems arose because I chose to play small,
thinking that there I would find safety. But I was born w ith wings, and I’m meant to spread them. Anything
less will hurt me, will deny love  to myself and others, and will mean that
I end my life never having flown the flight of spiritual glory. Dear God,
If left to my own devices,
My per ceptions will be skewed. I surr ender to Y ou everything I think and feel. Please take my past and plan my futur e.
Send Y our spirit to r edeem my mind,
That I might be set fr ee. May I be Y our vessel
And serve the world. May I become who Y ou would have me be,
That I might do what Y ou would have me do. Amen.DA Y 357
FOR REFLECTION
O n  G i v i n g  U p  O l d  S t o r i e s
E ven if your mother or father did n’ t tell you that you were wonderful
when you were a child, your divine Father/Mother tells you that now. Spiritual understanding is a corrective to any false programming you
might have received as a child. Rather than endlessly analyzing a tape
from childhood, you can erase it by recording a new one. Spiritual
growth involves  giving up the stories of your past so the univ erse can
write a new one. Y ou are not denying your childhood; you are simply
transcending any of its negative aspects. God is your rea l Mother and Go d is your real Father. Y ou are loved
and adored and cared for and bl essed. Accept that if even for a moment,
and the torments of mortal childhood begin to pass away.DA Y 358
P r a y e r  e x p r e s s e s  m y  p a s s i o n  f o r  G o d. W ith m y prayers I  invite Him in, He who is already there. W ith pr ayer,
I sp eak to God. W ith miracles, He responds. The endless chain of
communication between loved and lover, between God and man, is the
most beautiful song, the sweetes t poem. It is the highest art and the most
passionate love. Dear God,
I give this day to Y ou,
The fruit of my labor and the desir es of my heart. In Y our hands I place all questions,
On Y our shoulders I place all bur dens. I pray for my br others and for myself. May we r eturn to love. May we all be blessed. May we find our way home,
Fr om pain to peace,
Fr om fear to love,
Fr om hell to heaven. For Thi ne is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory. Fo r ever
and ever. Amen.DA Y 359
I  a s k  G o d  t o  t r a n s f o r m  a l l  n e g a t i v e  t h o u g h t s. H ow do I quit the  negative self-talk, the chronic repetition of thoughts
and feelings that cause me to emotionally spiral downward? It’ s not
always as easy as simply sayi ng, “I won’ t think that way anymore.”
Entrenched thought forms ar e like a buildup of plaque on my
consciousness. But I’m not asked to be my own transformer; I’m asked
only to surrender the thoughts and feelings that need transforming. God
will do the rest. Dear God,
I feel myself falling into the hole
Of self-pity, self-obsession, and negativity. I know I shouldn’ t think this way,
But I’m afraid and I cannot stop. Please r eplace my thoughts with Y ours, dear God. I am willing to see myself and all things differ ently. Please send me the miracle of new eyes and ears,
That I might know my gr eater good. Amen.DA Y 360
FOR REFLECTION
O n  T r u s t i n g  O u r  D e s i r e s
M any people have a hard time allo wing themselves to really want what
they want. They think, at leas t subconsciously, that asking for total
happiness is asking for too much. They don’ t bother, therefore, to truly
listen to their heart’ s desire. But wh en your mind is attuned through prayer, meditation, and
for giveness; wh en your body is attuned through healthy nutrition and
exercise; and when your behav ior is attuned through a sincere ef fort at
healthy living, then you


ofPDF.comOceanofPDF.comSeveral times in my medic al career I have been privileged
to witness miraculous cures. The most recent began last
year when a 32-year-old Indian woman came to see me in
my oﬀice outside Boston. She sat quietly facing me in a
blue silk sari. To keep her composure, she clasped her
hands tightly in her lap. Her name was Chitra, she said,
and together with her husband, Raman, she ran a
neighborhood import store in New Y ork City. A few months earlier, Chitra had noticed a small lump in
her left breast that was sensitive to the touch. She
underwent surgery to remove it, but unfortunately the
surgeon found that the lump was malignant. When he
explored further, he detected that the cancer had spread to
her lungs. After removing the diseas ed breast and a large portion of
tissue around it, Chitra’s doctor gave her initial  doses of
radiation and then place d her on intensive chemotherapy. This is standard procedure for treating breast cancer and
saves many lives. But the lung cancer was going to bemuch harder to treat; it was obvious to everyone that
Chitra was in a very precarious position. Examining her, I noticed that she was very anxious. When
I tried to reassure her, she surprised me with a touching
statement: “I don’t mind for myself if I have to die, but my
husband will be so lonely without me. Sometimes I pretend
to be asleep and then sit up all night, just thinking about
him. I know  Raman loves me, but after I’m gone, he will
start seeing American girls. I can’t bear to lose him to an
American girl.” She stopped and looked at me with
suﬀering in her eyes. “I know I shouldn’t say that, but I
think you understand.”
You do not get used to the sorrow that cancer creates,
but I felt a deeper sorrow from knowing that time was
Chitra’s enemy. For the moment, she still looked healthy. She had even managed to hide her disease from her
relatives, dreading having to be watched as she wasted
away. We both knew it was going to be very bad for her. No one can say that he knows a cure for advanced breast
cancer. Conventional therapy had provided all that it could
for Chitra. Given that her cancer had already spread to
another organ, the statistics said that her chance of
surviving for ﬁve years was less than 10 percent, even with
the most intensive routine of chemotherapy that could be
safely administered. I asked her to start a new course of treatme nts, as
prescribed by A yurveda. Like me, Chitra had grown up in India, but she had little
idea of Ayurveda. Her grandparents’ generation was the
last to “believe” in it, I would imagine; today, every
progressive Indian living in a big city would prefer  Western
medicine if he could aﬀord it. To explain to Chitra why I
wanted her seemingly to turn her back on progress, I told
her that her cancer was not just a physical disease but a
holistic one. Her whole body knew she had cancer and wassuﬀering from it; a tissue sample taken from her lungs
would show that malignant cells had migrated there, while
a sample from her liver would be negative. Yet, her liver
had the same blood coursing through it, and therefore it
picked up the signals of disease that were coming  from the
lungs. This in turn aﬀected its own functions. Similarly, when she felt pain in her chest or had to sit
down owing to shortness of breath, signals were racing
throughout her body, going to and from her brain. Sensing
the pain, her brain had to respond to it. The fatigue she
was feeling, along with her depression and anxie ty, was a
brain response that had physical consequences. So it was
wrong to think of her cancer as just an isolated tumor that
needed to be destroyed. She had a holistic diseas e and for
that she needed holistic medicine. The word holistic, which tends to oﬀend orthodox
doctors, simply means an approach that includes the mind
and body together. I believe Ayurveda does this better than
any alternative, although it may not be very apparent on
the surface. In fact, many well-publicized mind-body
techniques such as hypnosis and biofeedback are far more
ﬂashy than Ayurveda. If Chitra had gotten sick at home in
Bombay, her grandmother might have ﬁxed her some
special meals, brought home medicinal herbs in a brown
paper sack from the Ayurvedic pharmacy, and insisted that
she stay in bed. Various purgatives and oil massages might
be prescribe d to clean the body of toxins generated by the
cancer. If there was a spiritual tradition in the family, she
would have begun to meditate. In essence, I was going to
have her do these same things, with a few additions. There
is as yet no scientiﬁc reason why any of this should work,
except that it does. Ayurveda has hit on something deep in
nature. Its knowledge is rooted not in technology but in
wisdom, which I would deﬁne as a reliable understanding
of the human organism gathered over many centuries.“I want you to go to a special clinic outside Bosto n for a
week or two,” I told Chitra. “Some things that will happen
to you there will seem highly unusual. You are used to the
idea of a hospital as a place with respirators, IV tubes,
transfusions, and chemotherapy. By that standard, what we
will do for you at this clinic will seem like nothing. Basically, I want to get your body into a deep, deep state of
rest.”
Chitra was a trusting person; she agreed to go. In part, of
course, she had no altern ative. Modern medicine had done
all it could, using the strategy of physical assau lt on her
cancer. The initial advantage of assaulting a disease is that
you hope to wipe it out physically as soon as possible. The
tremendous disadvantag e is that the whole body is
damaged in the assault on one of its parts. In the case of
chemotherapy, there is the very real danger that the
immune system will become so weakened that the door is
opened for other cancers to develop in the future. However,
untreated breast cancer is considered deadly, and today’s
medicine is good at wiping it out over the short run. In a
climate of opinion ruled by fear, people prefer to run the
risks of the cure rather than the disease. I referred Chitra to the clinic where I work, in Lancaster,
Massachusetts. She stayed for a week and received
treatments; she also learned an outpatient program to use
at home that included a change of diet, some Ayurvedic
herbs, a speciﬁc daily routine including simple yoga
exercises, and instruction in meditation. These measures
look diﬀeren t on the surface, but underneath they all aimed
at bringing her day-to-day existence to a settled, restful
state, buildin g a foundation for healing. In Ayurveda, a
level of total, deep relaxation is the most important
precondition for curing any disorder. The underlying
concept is that the body  knows how to maintain balance
unless throw n oﬀ by disease; therefore, if one wants torestore the body’s own healing ability, everything should be
done to bring it back into balance. It is a very simple notion
that has profound consequences. Chitra was also given two
special mental techniques that went directly to the root of
her cancer. (I will say more about these later.) —
Chitra followed her program faithfully and came back to
see me every six weeks. She also continued the course of
chemotherapy set up by her doctor at home in New York. When we talked about that I said, “If I could conﬁdently put
you on nothing but Ayurveda, I would—the deterioration in
your physical state would then be much less. But you came
to me a very sick woman, and we know that the
chemotherapy works as an outside approach. Let’s combine
the outer and the inner and hope that they add up to a real
cure.”
For almost a year I followed Chitra’s progress. She
always listen ed with a trusting attitude, yet as she returned
for each visit, it was clear that she was not improving. Her
lung X rays were still bad, her shortness of breath grew
worse, and she began to look weaker and more dejected as
the disease advanced. Her voice took on a note of panic. Finally the day came when Chitra did not show up for her
appointment. I waited out the week and then called her
home. The news was not good. Chitra’s husband, Raman, told
me that she had suddenl y developed a high fever and had
to be hospitalized over the weekend. For some time her
lungs had been seeping ﬂuid into the pleural cavity that
surrounds them, and her doctor suspected that an infection
had set in. Given her grim progno sis, there was no
guarantee that Chitra would ever leave the


y in theprefrontal lobes, especially in regions associated with
higher emotions like compassion. As startling as these ﬁndings were, they could have been
predicted once you accept that the brain must follow where
the mind goes. Meditation creates beneﬁcial changes in
brain functions you would never be aware of, because such
things as heart rate and blood pressure don’t register in
our minds as conscio us choices. Saying “yes” to
experiences of expanded awareness is diﬀerent. You make
a conscious choice to favor a range of experiences that
your brain either ignores, shuts down, or censors. I wish in hindsight that I had emphasized how faulty
every model of reality, including the quantum model, must
be. Korzybski held that even mathematics was a model,
subject to the limitation s of all models that the brain
constructs. Not everyon e would agree—holding on to
mathematics as a universal truth gives advanced physics its
toehold on the quantum world. But I am not using any of
these ideas as bludgeons to bash science with. Korzybski
simply pointed out, using the language of science, that
whatever reality is, it transcends the brain. * The Sanskrit literally says, “I am Brahman.” Brahman is an all-inclusive term
and therefore untranslatable; it signiﬁes all things in creation—physical,
mental, and spiritual—as well as their uncreated source. OceanofPDF.comThere is no more beautiful experience than when the world
expands beyond its accustomed limits. These are the
moments when reality takes on splendor. The Veda calls
such an experience Ananda,  or bliss; it is said to be another
quality inherent in the human mind but covered over by
layers of dulled awareness. Bliss  is an uncomfortable word
in the West; like transcen dence, it needs to be demystiﬁed. Let’s start with a persona l reaction to what bliss feels like. A beautiful ﬁrst-person account is given by physiologist
Robert Keith Wallace. The scene is Nepal, where Wallace
went in 1974, taking a break from a conference being held
in India:
Along with a physicist friend, I made my way up
from Katmandu, the capital, to be nearer the
Himalayas. We found a beautiful alpine lake,
which Nepalese princes once favored as a
summer retreat. For less than a dollar, we rented
a boat and pushed out onto the water. It was a
windy day with clearing skies, a perfect day to ﬂykites. I had bought one at the bazaar, painted a
ﬁerce red and built for acrobatics. I stood up, and
it jump ed out of my hand  as I let it loose on the
wind. The tiny kite ﬂoated up into the high, thin air. I
stood looking up toward the great mountains
around us. Though they hid their heads in the
clouds, they gave oﬀ an aura of grandeur and
peace. As I watched, the clouds lifted all at once. I
was absolutely in awe. What I had taken for
mountains were only foothills! Beyond them, like
ancient gods, rose the true Himalayas,
unbelievably mighty and majestic. We could hardly speak,  so much power and
beauty was concentrate d in that breathtaking
scene. The sense of having a small, isolated self
disappeared, and in its place was the delicious
sensation of ﬂowing out into everything I beheld. I felt a sense of complete  fullness contained in my
own silence. Fittingly, the tallest peak  before us
was Annapurna, whose name means “fullness of
life.”
Standing there on the lake, I saw directly into
the reality where time really is timeless. The same
power that reared these mountains was ﬂowing
through me. If I wanted to ﬁnd the source of time
and space, I only needed to place my ﬁngers over
my heart. The single adequate word to describe
my sensations at that moment is bliss. *
What stands out unmistakably in this experience is its
sense of revelation. People who have been directly touched
by bliss feel that they are suddenly being exposed to life as
it really is. By comparison, their ordinary view was ﬂat anddistorted; they had been accepting a dingy image for the
real thing. To experience bliss every hour of the day would
be a sign of complete enlightenment, but even  a brief
encounter is signiﬁcant— it permits you to actually feel
waves of consciousness as they well up from the ﬁeld of
silence, cross  the gap, and are infused into every cell. This
is the body’s own awakening. In Ayurveda, bliss is the basis for three extremely
powerful healing techniq ues. The ﬁrst is meditation, which
we have already discussed. Its importance is that it takes
the mind out of its boundaries and exposes it to an
unbounded state of consciousness. The other two
techniques are more speciﬁc. The ﬁrst is the Ayurvedic
psycho-physiological technique—the term psycho-
physiological  simply means “mind-bod y” (we often use an
informal name, the bliss technique). The second healing
technique is called primordial sound. To explain how such healing works, let me take an
example from  hypnosis. One of the most surprising ﬁndings
of hypnosis research is that subjects can make their hands
warm or cold, raise rashes on their skin, and even form
blisters in a matter of a few minutes after the hypnotic
suggestion is introduced. This is not, strictly speaking, a
peculiarity of the hypnotic trance—subjects hook ed up to
biofeedback machines can do similar things in their normal
state of awar eness. What is being demonstra ted here is the
power of attention to alter the body. Ayurveda has made
use of this principle for thousands of years. Indeed, since
the basic premise of Vedic knowledge is that consciousness
creates the body, it is only natural that techn iques for
focusing attention should have been discovered. The bliss technique and primordial sound fall into this
category. Consciousness is nothing but awareness. You can
be aware that your hand is hot, which is passive awareness,
but as the hypnosis research shows, you can also makeyour hand hot, which is active awareness, or attention. When you “pay attention” to something, you shift from
passive to active awareness. Attention exerts far more
control than people ordinarily realize. That is beca use we
are victims of passive awareness. A person in pain is aware
of the pain but not that he can make it increase, diminish,
appear, or disappear. Yet all this is true. (People can walk
on ﬁre, for example, because they can control their level of
pain; more remarkably, they can control whether their feet
actually get burned—that too is under the control of
attention.) In Ayurveda,  each and every symptom of disease, from a
minor neck pain to a full-blown cancer, is under the control
of attention. However, between us and the symptom lie
barriers—the veils called Maya—that prevent us from
exercising our attention in a therapeutic way. All mind-body
medicine attempts to remove these obstacles so that
healing can take place. Outside Ayurveda, the word Maya is
not used, but any term that amounts to the same  thing is
applicable. I have used other phrases, such as “barriers in
silence,” “the ghost of memory,” and “the mask of matter.”
In the curren t environment, where mind-body medicine is
just proving itself and has to beware of stepping on the toes
of science, techniques for breaking through Maya are still
rather rudimentary. Fortunately, nature has set up things so
that mind-body approaches of all kinds will work. Laughter
can defeat a fatal disease ; so can drinking a glass of grape
juice every day, if you believe strongly enough in it. It would be much better, however, to have a science of
awareness. Ayurveda supplies just that. It would also be
helpful to have a theory  that supplies this science with a
ﬁrm groundin g in philosophy; the Vedic knowledge  supplies
that. When I teach people Ayurvedic healing techniques, I
am not inducting them into a Vedic world, or into some
mystery. I am trying to let them  realize that their ownawareness creates, controls, and turns into their bodies. This is a fact, not just a V edic view of things. When the body is in pain, a distorted area of awareness is
crying out to the rest of awareness for help. Our natural
instinct is to bring the help. The way we mobilize the
platelets and clotting factors in the blood to heal a cut is
nothing more than awareness bringing in help. A bruise
heals because intelligence goes to work on it. I think that
much has become abundantly clear by now. Some people are fortunate in being such natural
creatures that when they get cancer, they do not block the
innate urge to get well. No doubt there are thousands of
such people in the world who have not come under


 go. Bring your attention into your heart and acknowledge all the things for
which you feel grateful. Now listen to your heart and ask yourself the question, “What am I
carrying with me from the past that is no longer serving me well in the
present. ”
If you identify any encumbrances in your heart, have the intention to
release them now. Let go of any resentments, grievances, or regrets
that you find. As you release these toxic emotions, see if you can find the gift that
this toxic emotion was hiding. For example, if you felt pain as a result
of someone’ s behavior, the gift may be that you learned more self-
reliance. Make the commitment to regularly acknowledge gratitude and
relinquish all grievances from your heart. Encumbering yo ur heart with toxic emotions prevents you from fully
experiencing the magic, mystery, and joy that is available to you right now. Make th e comm itment to release the resentments, regrets, and grievances
that are causing more harm to you than anyone else. The process of releasing emoti onal toxins is similar to that for releasing
physical ones. Y ou must first have a clear intention that you wan t to replace
life-depleting emotions with life-enhancing ones. The metabolism of regret
and resentment into compassion and for giveness can dramatically awaken
your body, mind, and spirit to your primordial vital ener gy. W rite about the history that cre ated the toxic emotion, describing both
what ha ppened and how you fe el as a result of the situation. S tudies have
shown that journaling about upsetting emotional experiences can improve
your im mune function, as well as help you gain clarity and in sight. In his
book Nonviolent Communication, psychologist Ma rshall Rosenber g teaches
an emot ional vocabulary that avoids victimization. Steer clear from words
like abandoned, abused, neglected, and mistreated; instead, describe the
actual fe elings of anger, sadness, loneliness, and fear that the circumstance
evoked. Once yo u have written about the circumstances leading to the toxic
emotions, perform some physic al ritual with the intention of releasing the
hold these feeling have on your soul. Do some deep breathing, get a
massage, pound  a pillow, dance with abandon, or go for a long run until
your body has released the tension that is stored with the emotion. Then,
open your heart to feelings that generate the age-reversing emotions offor giveness, har mony, laughter,  and love rather than the entropy evoking
ones of anguish, resentment, regret, and despair. T oxic emotions ar e often the most harmful accelerators
of the aging pr ocess. Commit to r eleasing them
fr om your heart and mind. T ransform or Release T oxic Relationships
Y ou may, at times, find yourself in relationships that are laced with conflict. Although you may enjoy the  passion and drama these relationships
generate, over time, they will inevitably make you feel older and depleted. It is esse ntial tha t you transform toxic relationships into nourish ing ones. If
you acce pt that reality is a selec tive act of perception and interp retation, the
most em powering way to transform a relationship is to change the way you
view the other person. Every re lationship is a mirror th at can show you some aspect of yourself. When you are engaged in conflict, ask yourself, “What is this situation
telling me about my own nature. ” T ry this simple exercise that can be
helpful in revealing the hidden meaning in a dif ficult relationship. W rite down as m any traits as you can think of that describe th e person
with whom you are having problems. Now loo k again  at each descrip tive word and see which ones create an
emotional char g e in you. For example, you may have des cribed yourmanager as:
As you review your list, you may see traits that r eally irritate you:
controlling, needy, unappreciative, and stubborn. Now look at y ourself. Are
these words that others might  use to describe you. Do you have the
tendency to reflect these traits. Have you expressed these qua lities in the
past. M ore often than not, the traits that bother you the most in another
person a re the ones you try ha rdest to deny in yourself. As you embrace
these da rker qua lities in your ow n heart, you may find yourself less inclined
to judge someone else for expressing them. As you relinquish your
judgment and interpretation, yo u may open to the possibility that there are
other qu alities t hat may be attr active in the person, which yo u have not
allowed yourself to see. MEETING YOUR NEEDS
Relationships thrive when both  parties feel their needs are being met and
struggle when they are not. Put very simply: Y ou feel good when your
needs ar e being met and bad when they are not. Not getting you r needs met
leads to stress, t oxic emotions, and toxic relationships. Learning to express
your nee ds and emotions in a healthy way fosters nourishing r elationships
and reverses aging. As i nfants, we e xpect our caregivers to fulfill our needs, even if we don’ t
know what they are. W e wail a few times and anticipate Mother scrambling
to determ ine if we are hungry, cold, tired, bored, or just want to be held. W e
carry these same desires into ad ulthood and become hurt, frustrated, angry,
or depressed when our lovers, friends, or associates are unable to
immediately figure out what we need and give it to us. Thi s is not anapproach that is likely to be suc cessful. Let’ s explore a more ef fective way
to express your needs and emotions. THE DIALOGUE OF NEEDS
The humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow described five basic needs
that drive us all. First, we have basic physiological needs, such as food,
water, and protection against extreme heat or cold. Once these needs are
met we are motivated by the n eed for safety and security. W e  all want to
feel prot ected fr om physical and emotional harm. The third need is social—
the n eed for com munity, friendship, love, and belonging. As the se needs are
met we have the need for self-esteem. At this level, achievement, respect,
recognition, and status are sought. The final need is to find meaning,
beauty, and wisdom in life. Mas low called this final step self-ac tualization. In Eastern traditions this is the state of enlightenment. Self-actualized people are acce pting, spontaneous, natural, an d simple. They are dedicated to a life of meaning and creativity. They are as
comfortable alone as they are i n intimate personal relationships. They are
playful and laugh easily. They know how to meet their needs. In his book Nonviolent Communication, Marshall Rosenb er g describes a
simple process to enhance the ch ances of getting your needs met. Whenever
your needs are not met and you become upset, first ask yourself, “What am
I observing. ” Rather than saying  to the other person “Y ou are al ways late to
every date,” say “W e agreed to meet at noon and you did not arrive until
12:30 P. M. ” Separate your judgments and evaluation from your
observations and you will be less likely to trigger defensiveness. The second step is to identify what you are feeling. Develop a rich
emotional vocabulary that does  not make you a victim. A void words that
require s omeone else to be there  for you to experience your emotions, such
as ig nored, rejected, neglected, abandoned, or abused. Y ou are empowered
when yo u say you feel alarmed, annoyed, exhausted, frightened, lonely,outraged, or sad, but you give away your power when you use the
vocabulary of the victim. The thir d step is to determine w hat you actually need from the situation. If you cannot be clear on what your needs are, it’ s very unlikely that the
other person is in a better position to figure it out. The four th step is to formulate a  specific request. Ask for what you need
as specifically as possible. Rather than demanding “Y ou need to spend more
time wi th me or else.,” rephrase it in the form of a request: “Are you
willing t o come home an hour e arly from work W ednesday afternoon so we
can take  a walk together. ” Peo ple are much more likely to respond to a
request than a demand. W e would add a fifth step to Dr. Rosenber g’ s original four. Whether your
request is met o r not, ask yours elf, what is the gift in this situation. What
can you learn from this circumstance about yourself and life. What is the
lesson that can r aise you to a higher level of awareness. Find th e gift, even
if it is not the one you originally anticipated. Make th e comm itment to communicate your needs consciously, and you
will waste a lot less ener gy in conflict. Accept your dif ferences as a cause of
celebration, rather than finding it necessary to make the other person wrong. Because we believe that cultivating loving relationships is such an
important component of reversi ng the aging process, we devote an


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illions of Americans take vitamin supplements on a daily basis. Does it improve
their health? For the most part, no. Large-scale epidemiological studies have been
unable to find health benefits in those who take vitamins. Confused? There is a
simple explanation. Most vitamin products are ineffective and even the best-selling
brands contain toxins. Indeed, taking supplements will benefit your health, but only
if you take the correct supplements. After years of research and testing vitamin products, I selected the Beyond Health
brand for my own use. During my recovery from terminal illness, I knew I needed a
nutritional supplement supply of the highest quality. Even small amounts of
impurities and toxins were sufficient to make me very sick, thus
purity
was one of
my most important criteria in choosing vitamins. As it turns out, fillers and/or
chemical additives constitute about half of most vitamin brands. These fillers can
introduce toxins and allergens, interfere with solubility and/or absorption and
ultimately reduce the biological activity at the cellular level. Why bother to take a
supplement if it’s going to contribute to your toxic load, or if the impurities will
prevent the nutrients from reaching and being metabolized inside the cells? Almost half of all vitamin brands do not dissolve soon enough to be assimilated
by the body. Even among brands that dissolve soon enough, most of them provide
only the RDA of the nutrients they contain, yet it takes much more than the RDA to
be biologically significant in preventing or reversing disease. Furthermore, just
because a vitamin pill contains a nutrient does not mean that the nutrient will be
useful to your body. Cheap and inappropriate raw materials (with low biological
activity) are used most often in the major vitamin brands. Some manufacturers even
make a habit of purchasing —at tremendous discounts—outdated raw materials that
have lost their potency. The most expensive vitamin pill in the world is one that
doesn’t work. It is neither easy nor cheap to make a quality vitamin product. Consider the
question of synthetic versus naturally derived vitamins. Natural ingredients tend to
be more biologically available and more expensive, which is why most vitamin
brands use synthetics. The molecules of these synthetics often differ in shape from
the natural molecules, which is important in how they react, and thus how the body
uses them. For example, synthetic vitamin E and beta-carotene are well known to be
less biologically active than their natural forms. Taking synthetic beta-carotene can
even cause a deficiency of other carotenes. In addition to the problems posed bysynthetics, other considerations include the age and purity of the raw materials and
how they are shipped, stored, handled, compounded and packaged. All these can
have a big effect on the quality of the finished product. Based on the criteria I set for safety, quality and effectiveness, the one brand that
stood out from the crowd was Beyond Health. In my weakened and chemically
hypersensitive condition, Beyond Health was the first brand of supplement my body
was able to tolerate, especially at therapeutic doses. Only after taking Beyond Health
did my health begin to improve. These supplements are extraordinarily pure and
have exceptionally high biological activity. The vitamin E brand I selected for my
own use is called Unique E.
Unfortunately, because of the many subtleties and complexities, it is almost
impossible for the consumer to make an informed judgment about the quality of a
vitamin supplement. There is a great deal of information you need to know that
simply cannot be found on the label. There are, however, some clues anyone can
look for such as the chemistry of the minerals. If you find carbonates, oxides,
sulfates, phosphates and chelates, you are most likely looking at an inferior formula. Save your money, because your cells will see little, if any, benefit. Also, a
multivitamin containing iron, iodine or copper is not well designed because these
can cause loss of antioxidant nutrients in the formula. A formula that lists beta-
carotene without listing the source is most likely the inferior synthetic variety. Vitamin E with a “dl” in front of it is the less desirable synthetic version. The best
solution is to research and understand the chemistry of the supplements thoroughly
or else purchase from a trusted source. Based on what your body actually gets for what you pay, Beyond Health is the
least expensive brand and the best value on the market, which is why I recommend it
and use it myself. For more information about Beyond Health and Unique E go to
www.beyondhealth.com
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ost of the countless thousands of products on the market today do not meet my
criteria for both safety and effectiveness. Many are effective, but fail on the safety
issue. A few brands are in the acceptable category for use by most people. However,
especially for those who have health problems and are struggling to get well, I
recommend only those products that have met my standards for both effectiveness
and safety. Following is a list of products I have chosen for my own use. Most of
these are available at
www.beyondhealth.com
 or by calling 800-250-3063. Cleaning Cloth
Most household glass, bathroom, and kitchen cleansers contain toxic chemicals
that are damaging to cells. The nontoxic answer is One Cloth. One Cloth cleans
almost anything with just water, even greasy stoves and car windshields. Use a spray
bottle with water instead of toxic chemicals. When a One Cloth gets dirty, just throw
it in the regular wash (do not use chlorine bleach and they will last through hundreds
of washings). Deodorant
Most people use deodorants daily and are unaware that they are placing toxic
chemicals on a sensitive skin area where they can be absorbed into the body. Almost
all deodorants contain toxic chemicals such as aluminum compounds, triclosan, and
artificial fragrances, colors and preservatives. Even the “rock” deodorants are made
of aluminum salts. After two years of research, my choice is IndiuMagic. IndiuMagic is a colorless, odorless liquid spray that is non-staining, non-allergenic,
safe, inexpensive and effective. Fats and Oils
Certain fats and oils are essential nutrients. The body requires them every day for
good health. The problem is that most of the good fats and oils have been removed
from our modern diets and unhealthful fats and oils have replaced them. The fats andoils I choose to use follow. Bariani Olive Oil
Most commercial olive oil is processed in a manner that damages its nutritional
content. Most of the time people are
not
getting what they
think
they are buying
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Q: What is the primary goal of Ayurvedic medicine?,
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Q: What is the purpose of Abhyangam massage?,
A: Abhyangam massage is meant to encourage the movement of toxins from the deeper tissues to the gastrointestinal tract, stimulate circulation, and nourish the body.
Q: What is the purpose of the Marma massage?,
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Q: What is the primary focus of Tibetan medicine?,
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latter may take the form of the application of warm oil over thebody and the application of hea ted pouches of herbs on the b ody,
but each patient is dif ferent, with dif ferent  dosha  imbalances, so
the treatments always vary.”
When the body and mind are deemed ready,  pradhanakarma
or the main trea tment designed to each individual’ s needs, beg ins. As its name suggests (panch  means “five” and  karma  means
“action”), the process comprise s five cleansing procedures, each
designed to correct doshic imbalances. They are  vamanam  or
induced vomiti ng, allegedly a painless, drug-induced em etic
process;  virechanam  or induc ed pur gation, whereby  drugs that
stimulate bowel  movements are taken internally;  vasthi, the  use  of
medicated enemas (see pages 32–35);  nasyam  or nasal cleansing
through the application of medical oils or powders (see right); and
rakthamoksham  or detoxification of the blood. Clearly, this therapy is not for the faint-hearted, and the
patient/doctor level of trust needs to be very high. This is why
Kalari K ovilakom insists on a minimum stay of 14 days, so that
doctors can truly assess and m onitor a patient’ s needs. Dr Jayan
explains that rarely are all five therapies prescribed. “For  pitta
imbalances, we prescribe pur gation with oils or powders,  vata
imbalances go the herbal and oil enema route, and  kapha
imbalances are always prescribed  vamanam. Here patients drink
two liters of m ilk or sugar cane juice mixed with special he rbal
medicines to induce vomiting a fter 45 minutes.” He goes on to say
that  nasyam  is includ ed if there are nasal, throat or brain problems
and bloodletting is useful for skin problems. Hence, a patient may
be p rescribed only one of the five processes; sometimes two or
three, and in rare cases, five.A  nasyam  session at Ayurmana illustrates how a therapist pours medication into
the nostrils. Ghee,  choornam  or powders, or medicated oils are used. Naturally, the strict routine and caring staf f at Kalari Kovilakom
go a  long way to supporting guests on this somewhat grues ome
journey; nevertheless, many first-timers to the process describe both
physical symptoms of discomfort and mental anguish. It is belie ved,
however, that a special diet and  medication, sessions of meditation
and yog a and an unchanging routine provide the support netw ork
needed. Similarly, post-treatment after the guest leaves the premises
in the form of medication, con tact with doctors, rest and die t is
highly recommended. A yurveda, from  time immemorial, has focused on anti-aging
and rejuvenation programs to prevent disease and to maintain an
optimum healthy state. In today’ s world, curative therapies are
increasingly rep lacing preventative ones — and  panchakarma
(both curative and preventative) is one of the more extreme
examples on the A yurvedic menu. Nevertheless, devotees with the
stamina and the will swear by it, and if the venue is carefully
chosen, it may turn out to be a life-changing experience.Ayurvedic powders  and oils used in the  panchakarma  treatment at Kalari
Kovilakom, a retreat in Kerala. The  kizhi  pouches are for the preparation stage,while the tray with the oil lamp is used to bless the patient before any therapy
commences. Proper diet is considered an important part of the healing proces s in
panchakarma. At Kalari Kovilakom all food is prepared according to Ayurvedic
principles with only copper, bell metal, earthenware, stone or brass vessels used
in prepara tion, cook ing and serving. Every patient has a special drink on hand 24
hours a day and meals are served in gleaming brass  katories  (cups) on a banana
leaf covered  thali  tray.mud therapy
Used on the face, mud draws out toxin s very quickly, so it makes for an effective
face mask. It may also be used on the eyes (but only in a pack) to strengthe n the
optic nerve and muscles, relax the eyes, and impart a cooling and de-stressing
effect on the entire eye area. In India, mud therapy falls under the Naturopathy umbrella,
as it employ s one of the Five Great Elements or
Panchmahabhutas (panch  is “five”,  maha  is “great”,
bhuta  is “e lement”). Comprising E arth, W ater, Fire, Air and
Ether, mud therapy unsurprisingly utilizes Earth as its main
healing ingred ient. Mud absorbs, dissolves and elimin ates
toxins from beneath the skin ’ s surface, opens the pores and
improves peripheral blood circulation. As such, it  is
rejuvenating for the body and soothing for the skin.Mud the rapy is employed in the treatment of a variety of ailm ents
such as digestive disorders, skin diseases and more. The world-
famous  Multani mitti or  “mud from Multan”, an area now in
Pakistan, was one of the earliest substances to be used as a beauty
mask. This lime-rich clay was mixed with rice bran and milk or
curd and used as a face pack to  draw out toxins and polluting free
radicals. Indeed, it is still used as such today. Because of its high
mineral content and moisturizin g ef fect, it is a great nourisher and
often ac ts as a conduit for healing ingredients to be absorbed into
the system. A yurvedic texts record that mud draws out heat and
excess  pitta  through the skin; it also says th at  Multani mitti  can be
used by all three  doshas. At Soukya, the integrated wellness center near Bangalore where
Naturopathy is combined with other modalities to create individual
therapeutic programs, mud is


 aiding  the sem en is then the way of the  life-force.”
Plain Woman’s advice  to the Yellow Emperor  second  centur y B.C. In centuries  past  the Emperor  of China  invariabl y called  in the
court  sages,  usuall y Taoist, to  obtain  advice  on his sex life. Before
accepting  the advice  of any sage,  so the  story goes,  the Emperor
require d any prospective  Maste r to prove  his sexual control. He did
this b y offering  the would-be advisor  a full glass  of w ine and
demanding  the sage  insert  his penis  into it. If he  was truly a Mast er
he could absorb  the wine into his  penis,  and then  release  it back
into the w ine glass. This w as taken  as absolute  proof  that the sage
could  also absor b a woman’s  sexual  fluids, her  Yin essence,  and
therefor e knew the secrets  of im mortality. Today  women  can learn  the secrets  of the Taoist Immortals,  be
in control  of their  sexualit y and embark on a journey  with a partn er
that will enrich  them both. When the y master these  techniques  for
retaining  their  sexual  pow er and then  willingly share  it, they  will feel
differentl y about  them selves  and each  other:
A. Learn  to circ ulate  your  Chi in the  Microcosmic  Orbit
   By far the most powerful energ y exchange  betw een two partners
occurs  at the  level  of subtle  ener gy. The Taoists have  been  stud ying
the circulation  of subtle  energy  through  certain  energ y points  in the
body  for thousands  of years and have  verified,  in detail,  their
importance. These  energ y points  form the  basis for  acupunc ture. Althoug h Western medical research  has ackno wledged
acupunctu re as being  clinicall y effective,  scientists  admit they
cannot  fully explain  why the system wo rks. The circulatio n of energy
through  these  energ y points,  or meridians,  is called  the Microcosmic
Orbit. (Fig. 4.1)
   All students  of the Universal  Tao Syst em are  taught  to circulate
their Chi in the  Micr ocosmic Orbit,  a necessar y step  to
understa nding the cultivation  of Ching  from the  raw physical level
- 59 -Microcosmic  Orbit
Fig. 4.1 Microcosmic  Orbit
- 60 -Chapter  IV
of eggs  to the refined  subtle  energy  of a Shen,  or spiritual  being. Once  they  have  opened  their  Microcosmic Orbit,  they have  alread y
experience d a minor enlighte nment. The mind has begu n to realize
it has  control  over  its o wn subtle  energ y. Ultimately one learns  that
the movement of subtle  energy  is totall y a po wer of the  mind. B. Disco very of the Microcosmic  Orbit
   A few  thousan d years ago every thing in the  world was so sim ple:
there  were no televisions,  radios,  theaters,  or nightclu bs as
entertainment,  and no houses  to care  for; all of  which drain  energy
and disturb  the mind. The air  was pure. Natural  energ y was abund ant
to humans. When the  sun set,  people  could  not fall asleep  right  away, and
they dared  not roam around  the jungle  in the  dark. One  way to
occupy  their  time wa s to sit dow n and quiet  themselves. Once
they were able to quiet  their  minds to  a certain  extent,  their  body
functions  started  to quiet  down as well. They  started  to notice  the
flow of something  in the  body. The flo w bega n in the navel,  travele d
down to the  perineum and  up the  spine  to the head,  dow n the front
through  the tongue,  to the  throat  and then  dow n to the  navel. The
circulation  of energ y through  this route  came to be  known as the
Microcosmic Orbit. The mo re they  were able  to still their  minds and  bodies,  the
more intense  the flow would be. As the y continue d to still their
minds, they  began  to discover  more paths  opening  and to feel the
energy  flow in a straight  direction,  up and dow n. From the  perineum
up to the  head,  the flow was then  felt passing  through  the major
organs  in three  chann els, which later  beca me know n as the
Thrusting  Channels. As their  practice  continued, they felt the  energ y
start to flo w in a circular  motion, similar to a belt,  around  a ma jor
energy  center  that they  discovered  in the  navel,  the Belt Channel. As ti me we nt on they discovered  that there  existed  in their  bodies
32 energy  channels,  each  one corresp onding to a specific  organ. They  passed  down this know ledge they had learn ed gene ration
after gener ation  until more and  more people  practiced  it, and  in this
way identified  the acupunctur e meridians  which beca me basic to
the Taoist  System. Every  person  has the same bod y, the sam e channels,  and has
a soul  and spirit. After ma ny hundreds  of years of practice,  trial and
- 61 -Sexu al Response Cycle
error,  improving  and passing  down, the Taoist Esoteric  Yoga System
came into  being. C. Two Major Energy Channels of the Microcosmic  Orbit -
Functional  and G overnor
   It is mu ch easier  to cultivate  your ener gy if you first understan d
the major paths  of energy  circulation  in your body. The nervous
system in hum ans is very  complex and  is capable  of directing
energy  wherever it is needed. How ever the ancient  Taoist Mast ers
discovered  there  are two energy  chann els that carry an especially
strong  curren t.
   One  channel,  the “Functi onal” or “Yin” Channel,  begins  at the
base  of the  trunk  midway between the vagina  and the anus  at the
perineum point. It goes  up the  front  of the  body  past  the mons,
abdom inal organs,  heart,  and throat  and ends  at the tip of  the tongu e.
The second  chann el, the “Govern or” or “Yang” Channel,  starts  in
the same place. It flo ws from the perin eum upw ard into the tail
bone,  then  up throug h the spine  into the brain  and back  dow n to the
roof of the  mouth. (Fig. 4.2)
   The tongue  is like a  switch that connects  these  two currents
when it is touched  to the  roof of the mouth ju st behind  the front
teeth,  the energ y can flo w in a circle  up the spine  and back do wn
the front. The t wo chann els form  a single  circuit that  the energ y
loops  around. This vital current  circulates  past  the major organs
and nervous  systems of the  body, giving  cells the  juice they need
to gro w, heal,  and function. D. Sexual Energy
1. Primordial Energy
   The sexual  energ y that moves in the  Microc osmic Orbit is a
primordial  energ y. Human life  begins  with the union  of an egg and a
sperm cell. This is the  original  act of  Kung Fu in  the balancing  of
Yin and Yang. Ovarian  Kung  Fu is the  re-creation  of that  act w ithin
the female bod y. However instead  of form ing a fetus from a fertilized
egg growing inside  the womb,  the ovarian  energy  mounts to higher
energy  centers  inside  the body, and we give  birth  to ourselves  on a
spiritual  level. The sexual  energy  is dra wn upw ard throu gh the
Microcosmic Channel  where it literall y gives  rebirth,  a “ne w life”- -
- 62 -Chapter  IV
Function al Cha nnel ends here Governor  Chann el ends h ere
Crown  (Pai-H ui)
Throat (Hsua n-Ch i)
Heart (Shuan-C hung)
 Solar Plexus


 a wonderful  marriage, a
wonderful family life, and a wonderful job. But if you have a mess inside,
you’ll just be trying to use these outer situations to make yourself okay. This
can work for short periods of time, but you don’t want to build your house
on sand. The alternative is when  the stuff starts to come up, the second youfeel that change, relax. Don’ t even wait until you know what it’s about; just
relax and let go. You can work with samskaras at the energetic  level rather
than the mental level. This is much deeper. There are blockages in there, but
they don’t want to be in there. They want to come up and be released. Surrender is the act of letting go instead of resisting by pushing the
blockages away. You will see it’s not always comfortable when these
disturbances from your past come up. The events weren’ t comfo rtable when
they happened— that’s why you pushed them away. Now that they’re trying
to release, are you going to push them back down for another ten years? If
you are not serious about working on yourself, that is what’ s going to
happen. Eventually, you will take it seriously that the purpose of your life is
letting go of these stored patterns. Your blocked past is keeping you from
God, and it’s keeping you from having a beautiful life. The same sincere
effort you put into a relationship  or into earning money, you learn to put into
freeing yourself of these blockages. Remember this: It’s not about
renunciation—it’ s about purification. It’s about cleaning out the inside so
you can have a beautiful life, both outside and in. At some point in your
growth you will recognize that freeing yourself is worth the discomfort of
letting go of past disturbances. Look at what athletes go through for the
Olympics. For years they put themselves through hell to win a gold medal. They feel proud for a while, then what? It becomes a wall ornament. We’re
talking about putting out a fraction of that effort to win everything, and the
fruits of your effort will keep giving over time. Imagine not having those
sensitive blocka ges in there. Imagine being able to enjoy the world as it
unfolds around you. You can begin to appreciate life and wholeheartedly
participate in it. What’ s that worth? This is what happens when you are willing to let go of your past. This
is a very import ant spiritual practice. You should be able to look back on
your past and say, “Thank you.” It doesn’ t matter what happened. Remember, every moment there are trillions and trillions of things going on
in the universe,  but you only get to experience one. How can you not
appreciate the one you got to see? You came down to Earth, and this was the
experience you had. That’ s what your life is: the sequence of experiences
you got to experience. Learn to love and appreciate your past. Fully
embrace it, thank it for teaching you, and let go of any judgment that there
was something wrong with it. Your past is uniquely yours. It happened. It’ssacred. It’s beautiful. Nobody else ever had it, and nobody else ever will. Embrace your past, hug it, kiss it—love it to death.Chapter 33. Meditation
Many practices can help you on your spiritual journey. As you do them,
always remember that your intent is to cease storing blockages. If weekend
retreats help you with the process of letting go, then do them. If a form of
therapy helps you open up and release, then do it. A time-honore d technique
for spiritual growth is meditation. In order to meditate, you have to let go of
your traditional relationship with your mind and emotions. There are many
forms of meditation, but the bottom line of all of them is letting go of your
addiction to focusing on your thoughts. Focus on your breath, count, do
mantra, feel the energy—in other words, focus on anything except the
thoughts arising  in your mind. As you practice meditation you will find that
your ability to let go during daily life is greatly enhanced. Relaxing and
releasing on the meditation cushion is the same process as relaxing and
releasing during  daily activity. Eventually, you will find that you remain
clearer throughout the day—you  are always aware of what is going on both
inside and outside. This clarity of presence is one of the gifts of meditation. There are many meditation techniques. If you don’t have a technique,
you can try this simple practice. Commit to sitting down for a short period
twice a day, preferably at the same times each day. This requires the
discipline to give this inner work priority over everything else. Most people
manage to eat and sleep at certain times each day; they also manage to find
time for their jobs and their relationships. This inner work on yourself is
more important than everything  else you do. In the end, it will affect the
quality of your life more than all the other things you do each day. Many of
today’ s teachers  say that to sit in meditation for fifteen minutes in the
morning and fifteen minutes in the evening is a good starting point. That
alone will create great benefits. Just put aside the time to sit down in a quiet
place.What do you do during that time? What you don’t want to do is expect
to have a spiritual experience. If you expect that, you’re going to get
disappointed and you will stop meditating. You are sitting down for the
same reason you sit down to play your scales on the piano, to learn. If you
sit down  to practice the piano and expect to be playing Beethoven when you
get up, you’re going to quit the piano. The same is true of meditation. The
reason you sit down to meditate  is to learn how to remain conscious inside
while your mind creates thoughts and your heart creates emotions. Whatever
is going on in there is fine—as long as you can objectively observe it. This
is called mindful meditation. Suppose someone says, “I can’t meditate. I sit down, and my mind
doesn’ t shut up. It just keeps talking and talking.” That’ s actually a pretty
good state—you know you’re not your mind. You actually watched your
mind talk for fifteen minutes and noticed that it didn’ t shut up. You don’t
normally notice that. You norma lly get all involved in the thoughts the mind
is creati ng. This time you notic ed them, and you noticed that they did not
stop. That, in and of itself, is a form of witness consciousness. You were
witnessing the thoughts instead of getting lost in them. Don’ t call that a bad
meditation. If you practice the piano and make mistakes, that’s not a bad
practice session. Every practice session is about learning. Likewise, there is
no such thing as a bad meditation—there is just practicing being aware of
what is going on in there.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        It is no longer love for somebody; it is just the force of love feeding you
from inside. Once you open your heart to that level, it will always be
beautiful inside, as long as you choose to focus your awareness on the love
instead of what is left of your lower self. We now know what it means to open your heart. At every level, it
means to stop closing it. Your heart’s natural state is open. It’s just like the
water in a stream; its natural state is to flow freely. If somethin g’s blocking
the strea m, don’t waste your time trying to make the water flow around the
blockage—just remove it. The same is true of the flow of shakti through the
heart—just remove the blockages and love will be your natural state. Removing block ages is spiritual purification. That is what life is all
about. As you remove your blockages, the energy will start to flow freely
and love will no longer be something you need or something you look for. At this stage, love has nothing to do with another person or what job you
happen to be doing. You feel love and inspiration all the time. You find that
the natural state of your being is to love everything you do and everyoneyou see. You actually have to hold yourself back to contain your passion for
life because there is such a powerful flow of energy feeding you from
within. This is the state Christ was describing when he said, “Man shall not
live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of
God” (Matt. 4:4). You no longer live solely off what is coming in from
outside. Y our ener gy is coming from within, ef fortlessly, from its source. Your heart is one of the most beautiful things in creation. In time, if
you work on yourself, you will come to appreciate what you’ve been given. Not only can your heart feed you with unconditional love, but it is the
gateway to the higher centers. PART VI:
The Human Predicament and BeyondChapter 26. The Human Predicament
The most meaningful questions  regarding quality of life are not about what
you own, or what you do, they are


string put back in. I asked, “Why wouldyou want to do that?” She replied that two gynecologists hadtold her that it’s safe. I was dumbfounded. “You’ve already donated both breasts;
you want to give them your uterus as well?” Her husbandcouldn’t believe her, either. But women have been brainwashedregarding the purported benefits of estrogen. Provera is just as harmful as estrogen. It is a synthetic prog-
estin, and although its chemical name is medroxyprogesterone, ithas no relationship to natural bio-identical progesterone. Many188 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  doctors unfortunately think Provera is the same as progesterone. Provera is damaging to blood vessels (like estrogen), is lipogenic(it creates fat just like estrogen), and also increases a woman’schance of getting breast cancer (just like estrogen). However, inmost cases it does prevent uterine cancer, which is why it is givento women taking Premarin who still have a uterus. HORMONE RECEPTOR SITES
Hormones travel through the bloodstream in minute quantities. When they reach a receptor site that fits them, they attach to itand are able to influence the cell they have attached to. Onewoman who is estrogen dominant (i.e., has high estrogen andlow progesterone) may have completely different symptoms fromanother woman who is also estrogen dominant because theirreceptor sites differ. Shirley developed asthma in her teenage years, a common
problem induced by estrogen not only in women but in menas well. Her asthma got worse as she got older, for severalreasons. Her progesterone levels were falling, and very likelyher estrogen levels were going up as she got fatter. Fat cellsproduce estrogen. As we have already seen, this may explain, atleast in part, why obese women are more prone to breastcancer than women of normal weight. Shirley apparently also has estrogen receptor sites in her
temporal arteries, which explains her migraine headaches. Manywomen have excess receptor sites in the uterus and breasts,prompting severe menstrual cramps and breast tendernessduring their periods. Later on, this intense stimulation leads touterine fibroids or endometriosis, fibrocystic disease of thebreasts or ovaries, and can result in uterine, ovarian, or breastcancer. None of these conditions occur when the body has189 DOCT ORS DON’T ALWAYS LISTEN enough natural progesterone to protect these organs. Shirley describes herself as having a pear-shaped figure. This is the case when the body is producing an over-abundance of two different hormones—insulin and estrogen.Insulin puts fat on around the waist, and estrogen puts fat onaround the hips, buttocks, and thighs. This is true for bothmen and women. People with excesses of insulin and estrogenoften have gallbladder problems as well. TAKING THE TIME TO LISTEN
T o this day Shirley remains angry about how she was treated by
the medical establishment. This is not unusual. Many patientstell me horror stories about being treated in a patronizingmanner and not listened to. Until there is a change in doctors’attitudes, patients will continue to be misdiagnosed, with theirsymptoms being addressed instead of the underlying cause.Doctors have to go back to listening to patients. There is nosubstitute for it. Shirley was obviously hormonally challenged. A basic
familiarity with natural bio-identical hormones on the part ofher earlier doctors would have allowed her to eliminate herasthma, which would have delighted her, to eliminate herheadaches, which would have amazed her, and to get rid of herfat, which would have pleased her. Needless to say, for Shirley, using bio-identical hormones
was nothing short of miraculous.190 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  BATTLING THE MEDICAL
ESTABLISHMENT —
MARGARET O.’S STORY
chapter TWENTY–THREE
Margaret O. is a well-educated woman, an accomplished musi-
cian and a teacher. She came to me at the age of 67, havingspent the previous 37 years seeking the solution to a seriousweight problem. She had been a size 22 for most of her adultlife, even though she was physically active and ate healthy foodsin reasonable quantities. But she had a hormonal profile thatmade her body store fat. I want you to hear her story because I see so many women
like her: well-educated, inquisitive, avid readers who studyhealth and medicine in an attempt to understand their ownbodies. Their weight problem isn’t their fault, but the medicalestablishment thwarts their honest efforts to break throughtheir difficulties. When I started gaining weight in my 30s I wanted to find out
why. I wasn’t eating any more than I had been before the weightgain, and my level of physical activity was the same. InstinctivelyI knew some other variable was at work here. At first I went to thedoctors at Kaiser Hospital, where I have my medical plan. Ithought they could help me. 191They did a series of tests on me and declared that I had an
under-active thyroid. That made sense to me and I was hopefulthat with thyroid medication my metabolism could be ratchetedup and my weight would start to go down. They prescribed thethyroid hormone Synthroid. I took it, but nothing happened. So I went back to Kaiser and told them I was still gaining
weight. They gave me the same tests over again, and they gave meanother prescription for Synthroid. It seems this was the only thingthey knew. When I went back a third time and told them Iwasn’t getting any results, they just looked at me strangely and toldme to eat less. From this experience I learned to harbor a healthy skepticism
about the medical profession. T oday I seek my own conclusions andI don’t take things at face value any more. Being an educatedperson, I began reading everything I could about how the bodymetabolizes food. Meanwhile, I tried every diet that came downthe pike. I tried Optifast, Shaklee, and many other diets. I wouldlose weight on each of these, but I never lost fat—always muscle.I would look at myself in the mirror after each of these diets andsee flesh just hanging on me. The diets were hard to stay on, andthey made me weak. I remember one time about six years ago: I wason a vacation in Hawaii after completing a diet that consisted ofeating nothing but protein drinks four times a day. There I was,hiking along this trail, and when our group came to a smallfissure on the trail everyone leaped across it. But I couldn’t get mybody to do it. I was that weak. Every time I came off one of thosediets, I gained back more than I had weighed before. This went onfor my entire adulthood. I got up to 240 pounds, and I am only5’1” tall. It became hard to move around and hard to go shopping.Clothes were a problem, so I either sewed or bought them from theNordstrom catalog. I was a size 22. One doesn’t find beautifulclothing in those sizes. The simple act of getting up from a chair192 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  or a sofa was hard for me. So was going to a restaurant and
sitting in a booth. I never knew whether I could fit into the booth. I went on like this for 37 years, seeking answers, talking to
people, trying diets, and joining support groups. Many times I gottired of searching and just let myself go. But even when I’d givenup and gotten sloppy again, there was always part of my mind sortof passively available, listening, waiting to find out aboutsomething that might make permanent weight loss possible. My first break came during menopause, when I read Dr. John
R. Lee’s
What Your Doctor May Not T ell You about Menopause. This book had a lot of inside-track information about hormone
replacement therapy. It gave me information about hormones thatI had been seeking all my life. Dr. Lee was the first doctor to comeout saying that Premarin and all the synthetic estrogen hormonesbeing given to women at menopause were actually hurting them.He talked about how estrogen made the body store fat. I thought:At last! A clue! I began to believe that I had a hormone problem,one that went beyond my under-active thyroid. But I needed more specific information, and I needed a
doctor who could help me balance my hormones. I went to theendocrinologists at Kaiser, but that was a lost cause. They wantedto get me on Premarin as fast as they could! They are part of thatmedical establishment Dr. Lee writes about that is brainwashedabout Premarin. They certainly were not about to help me. I knew I needed to find an endocrinologist outside the Kaiser
system who agreed with Dr. Lee’s ideas and was ready to buck thewhole system regarding Premarin. But where do you find someonelike that? My entire life’s experience had taught me that doctorswere, for the most part, like Stepford wives; they were cheerleadersfor a system that reduced reality to a few simple clichés. I was alsoleery of exposing myself to more insults from doctors. Whenever Iwould go in for these consultations about my weight, I could seeexactly what these doctors were thinking. Whether they said it or193 BATTLING THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT not, they gave me the feeling that they thought I was some


 die. ”
The guru considered the matter thoughtfully and said, “Why do you think
you were born. ”
“I don’ t understand your question,” the disciple stammered. “Why do you think you were born. ” the guru repeated. “Isn’ t it just
something your parents told you that you took for granted. Did you actually
have the experie nce of being born, of coming into existence from a state of
nonexistence, or didn’ t it happen that one day in childhood you asked where
you came from, and your parent s told you that you were born. Because you
accepted their answer, the idea of death frightens you. But rest assured, you
cannot have birth without death. They are two poles of the same concept. Perhaps you have always been alive and always will be. But in accepting
your parents’ system of belief, you entered into an agreement to fear death,
because you think of it as an ending. Perhaps there is no ending— that is the
possibility most worth exploring. ”
Naturally the disciple was shocked, because, like the rest of us, he didn’ t
see death as a belief he had agreed to. What the guru was pointing out is
that birth and death are space-time events but existence isn’t. If we look
inside us, we find a faint but certain memory that we have always been
around. To put it another way, no one remembers not existing. The fact that
such metaphysic al issues arise shows how unique humans are. For us, death
isn’t just a brute fact but a mystery, and it must be unraveled  before the
mystery of aging—the process that leads to death—can be solve d. The very
deepest questions about who we are and what life means are wrapped up in
the nature of existence. When the spell of mortality is broken, you can release the fear that gives
death its power. Fear of death reaches much further into our lives than our
conscious minds are willing to concede. As David Viscott wrote, “When
you say you fear death you are really saying that you fear you have not
lived your true life. This fear cloaks the world in silent suffering. ” Yet by
seeing through the fear you can turn it into a positive force. “Let your fear
of death motivate you to examine your true worth and to have a dream for
your own life,” Viscott encouraged. “Let it help you value the moment, act
on it, and live in it. ”
I want to go even further and suggest that when you see yourself in terms
of timel ess, deathless Being, every cell awakens to a new existence. True
immortality can be experienced here and now, in this living body. It comes
about when you draw the infusion of Being into everything you think anddo. This is the experience of timeless mind and ageless body that the new
paradigm has been preparing us for.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: According to the text, what is the primary factor that determines an individual's longevity?,
A: High expectations and a desire to reach for it.
Q: What is the key to maintaining mental function, according to the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging?,
A: Continued use of the organ in question.
Q: What is the relationship between the breath and the body, according to Ayurvedic principles?,
A: The breath is connected to the body, and the quality of the breath reflects the state of the body. The text also mentions that it is possible to experience a state of timeless awareness, which is associated with increased Prana (life energy).
Q: What is the relationship between Prana and the physical body, according to the text?,
A: The text does not explicitly state this, but it does mention that Prana is the life force and that the body's cells are constantly making and unmaking it. It also suggests that Prana can be influenced by the environment, and that it is possible to increase Prana through certain activities.
Q: What is the significance of the concept of "Vata" in the context of aging and health?,
A: The text explains that Vata is a key factor in aging and that it can be balanced and controlled through certain lifestyle choices and practices, such as regular habits, warm and nourishing food, and a peaceful environment.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Sometimes a person feels compelled to
try to shatter the entire body of experience he or she has creat ed over the
years; people who suddenly change jobs or plunge into divorce without
provocation are often motivated by an inability to revise their inner world.They may project the blame outward, onto an unsuitable job or unloved
wife. What has actually becom e intolerable, however, is their internalized
experience. Toxic memories have accumulated inside the person to the
point where perfectly neutral situations—meeting the boss at the water
cooler, watching the wife brush her teeth in the morning—arouse deep-
seated negative emotions. Running away is an attempt to relieve these
emotions, but the tactic rarely works because what we want to run away
from has become part of ourselves. Time-bound versus Timeless Awareness
Throughout this book I’ve argued that how you age depends on how you
metabolize your experience. And in the final analysis, how you metabolize
time is the most  important aspect of this process, because time is the most
fundamental experience. A key lesson in the spiritual teachings of J.
Krishnamurti was this: “Time is the psychological enemy of man,” meaning
that we are psychologically undermined and deprived of our real selves by
the feeling that time is an absolute over which we have no control. We
somehow forget that we can choose whether to make time our enemy in the
first place. It’s possible to have actual experiences of timelessness, and when that
happens, there is a shift from time-bound awareness to timeless awareness. Time-bound awareness is defined by:
•  Exter nal goals (approval from others; material possessions; salary;
climbing the ladder of professional success)
•  Deadlines and time pressure
•  Self-image built up from past experiences
•  Lessons learned from past hurts and failures
•  Fear of change, fear of death
•  Distraction by past and future (worries, regrets, anticipations,
fantasies)
•  Longing for security (never permanently achieved)•  Selfish ness, limited point of view (typical motivation: “What’ s in it for
me?”)
Timeless awareness is defined by:
•  Internal goals (happiness; self-acceptance; creativity; satisfaction that
one is doing one’ s best at all times)
•  Freedom from time pressure; sense that time is abundant and open-
ended
•  Little thought of self-image; action focused on the present moment
•  Reliance on intuition and leaps of imagination
•  Detachment from change and turmoil; no fear of death
•  Positive experiences of Being
•  Selfle ssness; altruism; sense of shared humanity (typical motivation:
“Can I help?”)
•  Sense of personal immortality
Although I have described them  as opposites, there is in fact a whole
range of experience running from completely time-bound to completely
timeless awaren ess. A person who dreads his mortality, who is consumed
by success and deadlines and depends solely on external motivations, would
be almost pathologically time-bound, yet we can all see some of these traits
in ourselves. On the other hand, the saint who lives only for God, whose
experience of Being is constant and certain, represents the extreme freedom
of timel essness. Most people do not manifest either extreme; and yet in
many ways our deepest traits and attitudes are based on how we relate to
time and metab olize it. To discover where you are on the scale of time-
bound versus timeless awareness, answer the following questionnaire. QUESTIONNAIRE: HOW DO YOU MET ABOLIZE TIME? Read the following sentences and check off each one that applies to
you fairly often or that you generally agree with. Some of thestatements in Part 1 may seem to contradict others in Part 2, but that
doesn’ t matter. Even if you have seemingly opposed traits and
opinions, answer each statement on its own. Part 1
  1. There’s barely enough time in the day to do all the things I have
to. 2. I’m sometimes too exhausted at night to get to sleep. 3. I’ve had to abandon several important goals I set for myself
when I was younger. 4. I’m less idealistic than I used to be. 5. It bothers me to let unpaid bills sit around. 6. I’m more cautious now about making new friends and entering
serious relationships. 7. I’ve learned a lot from the school of hard knocks. 8. I spend more time and attention on my career than on my friends
and family. 9. I could be a lot wiser about how I spend my money. 10. Life is a balance of losses and gains; I just try to have more gains
than losses. 11. In a loving relationship, the other person should be counted  on to
meet my needs. 12. It sometimes hurts to remember the people I have let down. 13. Being loved is one of the most important things I can think of. 14. I don’ t like authority figures. 15. For me, one of the most frightening prospects about old age is
loneliness. Part


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yellow-green: Puis. yellow:Kali-b.,Kali-s.,Puis. Pains
aching:Cham.,Puis.,Sul. behindtheear:Sil. boring:Merc-s.
burning:Merc-s.
lacerating:Sul. outward:Puis. pressing:Cham.,Merc-s.,Puis. pressingoutwards:Puis. spreadingdownintoneck:Bell.,Puis. shooting:Mag-p.
spasmodic:Mag-p.
splinter-like: Nit-ac. stinging:Ap. stitching:Bell.,Cham.,Hep-s.,Kali-b.,
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blockedfeelinginears:Lye,Merc-s.,Puis.,
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face-ache:Bell. glandsswollen:Kali-m.
itchingintheear:Nux-v.,Puis.,Sil. hastoswallow:Nux-v.
noisesintheear:Bell.,Calc-c,Kali-m.,Lye,
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firmpressure:Mag-p.
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night:Mercs.,Puis. rightside:Bell.,Nit-ac. swallowing:Ap.,Kali-m.,Lach.,Nit-ac,
Nux-v.
turninghead:Mag-p.
wind:Cham.,Lach. warmthofbed:Mercs. Causes:
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Bry.,Calc-c,Carb-a.,Carb-v.,Chin.,Cocc,
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breathcold:Carb-v.
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coldextremities:Carb-v.,Nat-c,Ver-a. desiretoliedown:Ferr-m.
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inthelimbs:Mercs.,Nat-c.
nervousness:Cocc. numbness:Cocc,Con. profusesweating:Chin. restlessness:Ars.,Rhus-t.
restlesslegs:Zinc.sleepiness:Ant-c.
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beingfanned:Carb-v.
freshair:Con.,Ferr-m.
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walkinginfreshair:Rhus-t.
walkingslowly:Ferr-m. Worse:
afternoon:Sul. aftereating:Ars.,Bar-c,Pho-ac. forexercise:Ferr-m.
evening:Caust.,Nat-m. slightestexertion:Ars.,Bry.,Calc-c,Con.,
Lach.,Nat-c,Pho-ac,Phos.,Rhus-t.,Spo. mentalexertion:Calc-c,Cupr.,Lach.,Nat-c,
Puis. physicalexertion:Calc-c.
heatofsun:Lach.,Nat-c,Puis.,Sul. hotweather:Ant-c
afteramenstrualperiod:Ip. duringamenstrualperiod:Carb-a.,Sep. morning:Ars.,Lach.,Pho-ac,Sep. inbed:Puis. aftergettingup:Bry.,Lach.,Pho-ac,Sep. onwaking:Nux-v.
latemorning:Ant-c.
midmorning:Bry. movement:Ars.,Spo. sittingdown:Rhus-t. afterpassingastool:Ars.,Con.,Mercs.,
Nit-ac,Sul-ac,Ver-a. stuffyroom:Puis. exposuretosun:Nat-c.
aftersweating:Merc-s.,Sep. talking:Sul. afterawalk:Ruta. walking:Ars.,Bry.,Calc-c,Carb-a.,Con.,
Ferr-m.,Lach.,Nit-ac,Pho-ac,Phos.,
Rhus-t.,Sep.,Sul. inthefreshair:Bapt.,Cocc,Rhus-t.
upstairs:Calc-c. Causes:
accident/injury: Carb-v.
acuteillness:Carb-a.,Carb-v.
anaemia:Ferr-m.
breastfeeding: Carb-a.,Carb-v.,Pho-ac. carbonmonoxidepoisoning:Carb-v. diarrhoea:Ars.,Carb-v.,Chin.,Nats.,
Nit-ac,Phos.,Sii,Sul.,Ver


 that force. You may feel infinitely worthy of attracting to yourself material
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and spiritual prosperity, but if you are not living the way of uncondi-
tional love you are interfering with your ability to manifest in your
life. In order to be divinely aligned with this universal infinite energy,
you must become unconditional love. Though it seems easy and even appropriate to announce, “I prac-
tice unconditional love,” it is far from a reality for most of us on this
physical plane. Unconditional love has eluded most of us, largely
because we tend to identify it as affection or sentiment. THE ENERGY OF LOVE DISSOLVES LIMITATIONS
When I speak of love emanating from your soul and from the
divine consciousness of God, I speak of something that the lower self
or the ego cannot grasp. I am not speaking about “feeling good”
toward others, romantic love, showering everyone with affection or
“touchy-feely” behavior. This unconditional love that I write of here
is an experience of the harmony of life. It is simply too deep and too
profound for our ordinary selves to activate. This energy of unconditional love is the power behind creation. It
guides all of our natural laws. This love can be imagined as a vibration
that carries thought forms from one’s mind into material expression. In its highest nature, love is the force that we recognize as the will of
God. It is the alchemy that we embrace to make sense of how things
are materialized from the world of spirit. These are strong words, which are essential for you to know if you
are to make the transition from one who takes what life presents to
one who becomes a co-creator with the universal energy of uncondi-
tional love. I suggest you embark on an experiment in which you practice only
unconditional love for several days, perhaps even a week. Make this a
private activity, but vow to yourself that you will only allow uncondi-
tional loving thoughts to emanate from your consciousness. Make an
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intense proclamation to live uncondieinel love for a designated
period of time. During this time refuse to have judgmental or critical thoughts. In
your quiet time think only peace and love. In all of your relationships
think and act in only loving ways. Extend loving thoughts and energy
wherever and whenever you encounter anyone or anything. Become
unconditional love for this period of time. This practice of becoming unconditional love is a prerequisite to
the manifesting process. By pouring love into your immediate envi-
ronment and practicing gentleness in all of your thoughts, words and
actions, your immediate circle of friends will begin responding in a
whole new way. Furthermore, this act becomes expansive very
quickly and you can radiate this love to your community and to peo-
ple you read about in newspapers, including those who are labeled
terrorists, murderers, scam artists and the like. You emphasize the “un” in unconditional love. You become
detached and loving toward all. You are not loving the hostile act, but
you are loving the spirit that is blocked in those who are harmful and
unloving. When you can live this way and reject all thoughts and
actions that are not of an unconditionally loving nature, you will
experience the essence of your spirit and know how to overcome
limitations in your life. This is a task that your conditioning will not easily encourage. But
for a few days you can persevere just so you know what the divine
universal spirit is like. It judges no one and no thing, it does not mor-
alize, it does not show favoritism, it merely exists as unconditional
love, radiating harmony and allowing everything and everyone to
unfold. Each day millions of flowers open and then close without any
force, only with the all-flowing unconditional love that is the heart of
universal, infinite and eternal energy. With this exercise you are culti-
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As you practice being unconditional love, contemplate and medi-
tate on the sacred unconditional love that is the heart of yourself also. Imagine an atom of unconditional love that is at the very center of
your existence. Feel this presence in your heart and feel it opening
and radiating outward. Soon this impersonal feeling that is not
dependent on anyone or anything, or any belief system, will radiate
to a feeling of being connected to the infinite energy of unconditional
love that is God. With this transformation you are on the path of manifestation. You will connect by ridding yourself of all judgment, anger, moraliz-
ing, preaching, hate, rancor and all of the other various tools of the
ego. What can you expect as you practice a few days of being total,
unconditional love. If all of your meditations are devoted to love, and
if you pour love into every single situation and every single person
you meet, and beyond that to everyone on the planet and to the
infinity of the universe, you will feel yourself becoming a different
person. You will sleep more soundly. You will feel at peace virtually all
of the time. Your relationships will be more deeply spiritual. Most
significantly, you will begin recognizing the “coincidences” of your
life with greater regularity. Your thought forms of unconditional love
will begin to produce what you desire without your even being aware
of how it is happening. Your dreams will be more intense, and the
vision of your purpose will become clearer. I am suggesting that you can love more, and unconditionally,
without expecting anything in return; as a result, the limitations
that you experience will disappear. Try it before you reject it. There
is an oft-quoted piece from the New Testament that seems appro-
priate to insert here. For me, it is one of the most profound pas-
sages ever written. It is reproduced here from Corinthians 13, on
“Love. ”
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And now I will show you the most excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love,
I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the
gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge,
and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love,
I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my
body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it
is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self seeking, it is not easily
angered, it keeps no record of wrong. Love does not delight in
evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies they will cease,
where there are tongues they will be stilled, where there is
knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we proph-
esy in part. But when perfection comes, the imperfect disap-
pears. When I was a child, I talked like a child. I thought like a
child. I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put child-
ish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a
mirror, then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, then I
shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain; faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is Love. Yes, the greatest of these is love. It will make the imperfect disap-
pear, and it will allow you to move into that spiritually fulfilling world
of co-creating your life based on the model of unconditional love. I am well aware of the improbability of living an unconditionally
loving life in all of our moments. I imagine your ego is protesting that
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this idea is absurd because you are only human and humans have
shortcomings. Nevertheless, I ask you to do this exercise for a few
days or a week. You see, I know that it will become habitual when
you feel the richness of your life with this new awareness. Unconditional love is the ultimate mystery of life. It may appear
simple, but it is so powerful that it will shake you free of your ego
domination if you give it even a short tryout in your life. Until we
learn to transcend the ego we continue to contribute to the insanity
that we witness in the world. Detaching and becoming an uncondi-
tionally loving observer is the way to cultivate a healthy, balanced
relationship between ego and spirit. THE PROCESS OF DETACHED OBSERVATION
One of the great meditation exercises that I learned many years
ago involves imagining lifting yourself out of your body and floating
into space so far that you are actually observing the entire planet. If
you do this, try to imagine what the earth is like without you on it. It
is a very difficult task for your ego to even contemplate the world
without you in it. Next, begin to observe the planet without any
judgment, refusing to label anything as good or bad, right or wrong. Simply instruct yourself to notice, allow and send unconditional love. You probably will find it easier to send out unconditional love when
you are not there to interfere. That is, you can love unconditionally
when your