 of water. Immerse in cold water for 4 minutes. Drain and pat
dry. In additi on to blanching, eggplan ts can be salted in order to draw out excess
water. Use 2 tbsp (25 mL) salt for every eggplant. Peel or leave peel on;
trim aw ay blossom ends and sl ice eggplants lengthwise or crosswise into
1/4- to 1/2-inch (5 mm to 1 cm) slices. Lay slices on clean, lint-free towels
or s everal layers of paper towels. Sprinkle salt over top and let stand at
room tem perature for 1 to 3 hours. Rinse, drain and immediatel y blanch for
3 minutes following instructions above. Canning Eggplant
See detailed canning information, Preparing and Canning V egetables. 1. Pr epar e Equipment:  W ash and heat pint (2-cup/500 mL) or quart (1 L)
jars, and scald the lids, funnel, ladle and tongs ( Pressure Canner Method ). 2. P r epar e eggplant by blanch ing or by salting and blanchin g following
instructions. 3. Pack eggplant slices or cubes hot. Hot Pack Method:  Fill  hot jars with hot eggplant cubes or slices, shaking
the jar to pack fairly tightly. Pour hot water over top, leaving a 1-inch (2.5
cm) hea dspace. Run a thin non- metallic utensil around the inside of the jar
to allow air to escape. Add more hot water, if necessary, to leave a 1-inch
(2.5 cm) headspace. W ipe sealing edge of jars with a clean, damp, lint-free
cloth. Position flat lids over the tops of jars and hand-tighten screw bands. 4. P lace jars in  pr essur e canner. Use a P ressure Canner accordi ng to the
chart below for Dial-Gauge or follow manufacturer ’ s instructions.5. Cool, Label and Stor e:  T urn of f heat; let pressure return to zero
naturally. Once gauge shows 0 pressure, wait 2 minutes then open the vent. Unlock and remove canner lid. W ait 10 minutes then lift jars from canner
and place on a clean towel or ra ck. Do not re-tighten screw ba nds. Let the
jars cool  to room temperature. T his may take from 12 to 24 hours. Remove
and store screw bands. Check lid seals ( Pressure Canner Method ). W ipe and
label sealed jars. Store in a cool, dark place. e g g p l a n t  c a p o n a t a
In Italy, this thick dip is most often served with garlic br ead as antipasto,
but can also be spr ead on vegetables in hors d’oeuvr es or with gr eens as a
starter. I find th at it is also very good when tossed with cook ed pasta or
rice. Don’ t rush the cooking of the vegetables, especially the eggplant. Use a
heavy-bottomed cover ed saucepan or skillet over medium-low heat. If you
sweat th e onions and garlic ove r very low heat with a lid on the pan, you
don’ t have to sti r as often, and the onions will caramelize to be come sweet. Y ou can add shr edded carr ots, chopped r ed or gr een bell peppers, pine nuts
or raisins to this basic r ecipe.MAKES 4 CUPS (1 L)
1/3 to 1/2 cup (50 to 125 mL) olive oil, divided
4 cups (1 L) fr esh or fr ozen (thawed) eggplant cubes
3 onions, chopped
4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
2 cups (500 mL) skinned, seeded and chopped plum (or Roma)
tomatoes
1/2 cup (125 mL) chopped celery
1/4 cup (50 mL) shr edded fr esh basil
20 black olives, pitted and r oughly chopped (1 can, 14 oz/398 mL,
drained)
1 tbsp (15 mL) drained capers
2 tbsp (25 mL) fr eshly squeezed lemon juice or balsamic vinegar
2 tsp (10 mL) granulated sugar, optional

1. Heat 2 tbsp (25 mL) of the olive oil in a lar ge, deep heav y-bottomed
saucepan or skillet over medium-low heat. Add just enough eggp lant so that
it cooks in singl e layer. Cook, stirring frequently, placing the lid  on the pan
between stirring. Cook in batches, transferring the soft, brown cubes to a
plate. Add more oil to the pan as needed. Set browned eggplant aside. 2. Add 2 tbsp (25 mL) more oil  to the saucepan and heat. Add onions and
garlic an d cook,  stirring frequently, for 7 minutes or until soft and golden. Add tomatoes and celery and cook over medium heat, stirring frequently,
for 5  mi nutes or until celery is tender. Add basil, olives, cape rs and friedeggplant. Cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Stir in lemon juice and mix
well. T aste and add sugar if required. 3. Freeze in 1/2- to 1-cup (125 to 250 mL) containers for up to 4 months. Use: Sp read cap onata on slices of French bread or toasted bagels for an
hors d’o euvre ( see Beef Bites ); to ss with cooked rice or pasta for a main
dish. Serve over steamed or gri lled vegetables. Combine with cooked rice
and use as a stuf fing for zucchini, tomatoes or bell peppers. b e e f  b i t e s
If you have Eggplant Caponata  pr e par ed and fr ozen, you can make these
elegant appetize rs or hors d’oe uvr es in no time. For a cocktail party, they
ar e hearty and easy to manage on a cocktail napkin. When made with
bagels or ciabatta br ead and har d-boiled egg or tuna, they make a delicious
sandwich for lunch. HAKES 12 SLICES
1 cup (250 mL) Eggplant Caponata, thawed if fr ozen
1 stick Fr ench br ead, cut diagonally into 12 slices
1 cup (250 mL) fr esh baby spinach leaves
12 slices grilled beef
12 Parmesan cheese curls
Spread c aponata on bread slices. Layer with spinach leaves a nd top with
grilled beef. Garnish with Parmesam cheese curls. p i c k l e d  b a b y  e g g p l a n t
Use who le tiny r ound, oblong or long (finger) eggplants. If you ar e close to
an A sian market, it is quite possible that you will be able to get severaldiffer ent varietie s and colours of mini eggplants for this r ecipe. For this
pickle mix, tiny hot or sweet chile peppers add colour and nip to the pickles. Y ou can  also combine eggplants with other miniatur e vegetables, like baby
corn or carr ots, or any of the dwarf squash varieties. Someti mes market
gar deners gr ow dwarf vegetab les; they ar e beautiful in this r ecipe with
small finger eggplants. MAKES 8 CUPS (2 L)
8 cups (2 L) miniatur e eggplants or mixed
vegetables (see above) 1/4 cup (50 mL) fr eshly squeezed
lemon juice 3 cups (750 mL) rice vinegar
1/2 cup (125 mL) water
1 cup (250 mL) granulated sugar
3 tbsp (45 mL) Classic Pickling Spice Blend  (stor e-bought), tied in a
cheesecloth bag

1. Bring  a lar ge pot of water to  a boil. Add lemon juice and eggplants (or
eggplants and other baby vegeta bles). Cook vegetables for 5 to 7 minutes or
until tender -cris p. Remove eggplants when tender, which may be before
other ve getables are done. Drain and rinse with cold water. Drain and pat
dry. 2. 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 ). 3. In  a Maslin pan or canning ke ttle, combine vinegar and water. Add sugar
and spic e bag. Bring to a boil over high heat, stirring constantly. Reduce
heat and  boil gently, stirring oc casionally, for 10 minutes. Remove spice
bag and add vegetables. Boil gently stirring occasionally for 3 minutes. 4. S kim of f and discard any foam. Using tongs or a slotted sp oon, fill hot
jars with vegetables, leaving a 1/2-inch (1 cm) headspace. Po ur hot brine
over top, leaving a 1/2-inch (1 cm) headspace. Run a thin n on-metallic
utensil around the inside of the  jar to allow air to escape.


ING AND HERO WORSHIP: OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE
SAME EXTERNALLY DIRECTED BEHAVIOR
Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don’t
want to take responsibility for something in your life. It is the refuge
of the externally oriented person. All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find
with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will
not change you. The only thing blame does is keep the focus off you
when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappi-
ness or frustration. But blame itself is an act of folly. Even if blame
has some effect, it will not be on you. You may succeed in making
another feel guilty for something by blaming him, but you won’t
succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you
unhappy. You may succeed in not thinking about it; but you won’t
succeed in changing it. The tendency to focus on others can go to the opposite extreme
where it surfaces as hero worship. In this case you may find yourself
looking to others to determine your values. If so-and-so does it, then
I should do it too. Hero worship is a form of self-repudiation. It
makes others more important than you, and relates your own fulfill-
ment to something outside of yourself. While there is nothing self-
defeating about appreciating others and their accomplishments, it
becomes an erroneous zone when you model your own behavior
on their standards. All of your heroes are people. They are all human. They do the
same things that you do every day. They itch where you itch, they
have bad breath in the morning just like you. (The only good hero
is a ham and cheese or possibly an eggplant par-migiana.) All are
wasteful of your efforts.BREAKING THE BARRIER OF CONVENTION  / 143All the great heroes of your life have taught you nothing. And
they are no better than you, in any way. Politicians, actors, athletes,
rock-stars, your boss, therapist, teacher, spouse, or whoever, are just
skillful at what they do—nothing more. And if you make them your
heroes and elevate them to positions above yourself, then you are
into that external bag of giving others the responsibility for your
good feelings. If you blame at one end or hero worship at the other, you are
someplace on this Focusing On Others Line. You are behaving as a fool if you look outside of you for an explan-
ation of how you should feel or what you should do. Taking credit
as well as responsibility for yourself is the first step to eliminating
this erroneous zone. Be your own hero. When you get out of the
blaming and hero worship behavior you’ll be moving over from the
external to the internal side of the ledger. And on the internal side
there are no universal shoulds, either for yourself or for others. The Right vs. Wrong Trap
The question of right vs. wrong as it applies here has nothing to
do with religious, philosophical or moral issues of a priori  rightness
or wrongness. That is a discussion for another place. Here the subject
is you, and how your notions of right and wrong get in the way of
your own happiness. Your rights and wrongs are your universal
shoulds. You may have adopted some unhealthy stances which in-
clude right means good or just, while wrong is equated with bad or
unjust. This is nonsense. Rights and wrongs in this sense do not exist. The word right144 / Your Erroneous Zonesimplies a guarantee that if you do something a certain way, you’ll
have sure-fire results. But there are no guarantees. You can begin to
think in terms of any decision as bringing about something different,
or more effective, or legal, but the moment it becomes a question of
right vs. wrong, you are trapped into the “I’ve always got to be right
and when things or people are not right, then I’m going to be un-
happy” trap. Perhaps some of your need to find the right answer has to do with
the search for certainty that was discussed in the chapter on fear of
the unknown. This may be a part of your tendency to dichotomize,
or to divide the world neatly into extremes such as black/white,
yes/no, good/bad and right/wrong. Few things fit neatly into those
categories and most intelligent folks roam around in those gray
areas, rarely coming to rest on either black or white. This proclivity
for being right is most clearly evidenced in marriage and other adult
relationships. Discussions inevitably become a contest which results
in one partner being right, and the other wrong. You hear it all the
time. “You always think you’re right,” and, “You’ll never admit
you’re wrong.” But there is no right and wrong here. People are
different and they see things from different perspectives. If one must
be right, then a breakdown in communication is the only predictable
outcome. The only way out of this trap is to stop thinking in those erroneous
right vs. wrong ways. As I explained to Clifford, who was in a
marriage in which he argued every day about every conceivable
topic, “Instead of attempting to convince your wife how wrong she
is, why not simply have discussions in which you have no should-
expectations for her. As long as she is allowed to be different from
you, you’ll eliminate the incessant arguing in which you doggedly,
albeit frustratedly, pursue being right.” Clifford was able to set aside
this neurotic need, and also to put some communication and love
back in his marriage. All rights and wrongs of every description
represent shoulds ofBREAKING THE BARRIER OF CONVENTION  / 145one kind or another. And the shoulds get in your way, particularly
when they conflict with another person’s need to have his own as
well. Indecisiveness As a Spin-Off of Right vs. Wrong Thinking
I once asked a client if he had trouble making a decision, and he
said, “Well—Yes and No.” Perhaps you have difficulty with decision-
making, even with small things. This is a direct outgrowth of the
inclination to divide things into right and wrong categories. The in-
decision comes from wanting to be right, and the postponement of
a choice keeps you from dealing with the anxiety that you choose
for yourself whenever you feel you’ve been wrong. Once you take
away the rightness and wrongness of every decision (because right
implies a guarantee), then decision-making will become a snap. If
you are trying to decide on the right college to attend, you might
stay immobilized forever, even after you’ve made the decision, be-
cause maybe it wasn’t right.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Getting old  (“No one wants to get old, and you can’t kid me,
everyone worries about that one. ” “I don’t know what I’ll do when
I retire and I really worry about that. ”)
22. Flying  (“You hear about all those plane crashes. ”)110 / Your Erroneous Zones23. My daughter’s virginity  (“Every father who loves his daughter
worries that she’ll be hurt, or get into trouble. ”)
24. Talking in front of groups  (“I get petrified in front of a crowd
and I worry like crazy before I do it. ”)
25. When my spouse doesn’t call  (“It seems normal to me to worry
when you don’t know where some one you love is, or if they’re
in trouble. ”)
26. Going into the city  (“Who knows what’ll happen in the jungle. I worry every time I go in. ” “I always worry about whether I’ll
get a parking space. ”)
And perhaps the most neurotic of all…
27. Having nothing to worry about  (“I can’t just sit still when
everything seems all right, I worry about not knowing what will
happen next. ”)
This is the collective worry sheet of people in our culture. You can
give worry points to each of those that seem most applicable to you,
total it up, and no matter what your score, it still adds up to zero. The following paragraph illustrates the extent of worry in our world. It’s taken from a story in Newsday  (May 3, 1975) on hospital malprac-
tice insurance. West Islip—Two officials of the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital
Council warned yesterday that those worrying  about the prob-
lems that the malpractice insurance crisis could create—if doc-
tors cease treating patients entirely or treat only emergency
cases—have not worried  quite enough. Indeed, a call to spend more time worrying about a problem. How
could a story like this even appear. Because the cultural pressure is
to worry, rather than to do. If all of those concerned were to worry
a lot more, perhaps the problem would go away. THE USELESS EMOTIONS—GUILT AND WORRY  / 111In order to eliminate worry it is necessary to understand the why
behind it. If worry is a large part of your life, you can bet that it has
many historical antecedents. But what are the payoffs. They are
similar to the neurotic dividends that you receive for guilt, since
both worry and guilt are self-nullifying behaviors


-removable dental
appliances such as braces. Dental Orthopedics
 is a medical model that focuses on the structure and alignment of the cranial
bones, with the intent to align the jaw towards its normal developmental state. “Functional
orthodontics” is another name for this modality. Many people have chosen orthodontics, which is a means of making their teeth to appear straight,
when they really wanted orthopedics, which is the correction of physical development to a normal
and healthy state. These terms lead to a great deal of confusion because there are conventional
orthodontists, orthodontist-orthopedists, and dental orthopedists. For clarity I will refer to
practitioners who only look at making teeth straight, and who take a mechanistic approach that works
against the normal function of the body as conventional orthodontists. Orthopedists are dental
practitioners who align the bite, even though some orthopedists may also call themselves
orthodontists. Dental orthopedics is the art form of reconstructing bites with dental appliances. This entails more
than merely a mechanical process, but involves an artistic non-surgical cranial reconstruction. Conventional orthodontics is a mechanistic system that does not consider the normal developmental
model of the body. I, like many others, have experienced negative outcomes from conventional orthodontics. When I was
young, my jaw was in the position as shown in figure
c,
also referred to as an overbite. Because the
goal of conventional orthodontists (who practice orthodontics, not orthopedics) is to make teeth
straight, without even necessarily making them contact properly, their simplified approach is to make
your teeth straight BY ANY MEANS NECCESSARY. The conventional orthodontist believes that the
jaws are stuck in one position and cannot move. At best, all an orthodontist sees is what is shown in
the figure labeled
occlusion:
 a row of teeth. The orthodontist, like the conventional dentist, also sees
a row of money. I remember my orthodontist had nice pictures on his office wall of his mansion, and
of his family’s many vacations to Hawaii. The conventional orthodontic approach was designed as a
business model and is an easy and convenient way to move through many patients in an assembly-line
fashion. In the process, the conventional orthodontist rakes in large profits while ignorantly thwarting
the normal developmental processes of the body. In order to make the teeth straight and my jaw look a certain way (or to get my teeth to touch in a
certain way; the goal was never made clear to me), by any means necessary, I was required to wear a
headgear. The theory (wrongly) goes that when children are growing (I was eight) pushing the maxilla
(upper palate) against its natural growth direction with a tortuous device called a headgear that is
worn nightly, will cause the mandible (the jaw) to catch up. And then the hope is that the teeth will
touch correctly (occlusion). So the fairytale goes, and everyone will be happy, and the orthodontist
will get his $5,000.Fifteen years later, however, at the age of 23, my teeth did not touch at all naturally. I developed TMJ
dysfunction (TMD) by the time I was 30 years old, my lower teeth became very crooked, and my jaw
never moved forward the way it was supposed to according to the treatment protocol. The
conventional orthodontist’s model of arresting the development of the maxilla is misguided since the
body rarely or never overgrows a part of itself, rather other parts of the body do not grow fully so the
maxilla appears to protrude, but it is really normal. The results of two years of torture for me as a child were a lot of money spent, but no positive
outcome. I know many other people who have gone through similar treatment, and have similar TMD
and other serious problems to show for it. The problems get worse over time because our jaw
continues to grow, or imbalances get worse, meanwhile the TMJ joint wears out. Many people do not
figure out that they have TMD until, sadly, the entire joint is nearly worn out. I am lucky in a way. I
have spent so much time researching dental problems that my research kept me focusing on my bite,
and I finally realized my body was in a constant state of stress because my molars did not touch
properly. Don’t worry if this sounds like your situation; I will explain how to treat this problem
shortly. Dental Orthopedics Focuses on Normal Development
Conventional orthodontics pursues the wrong goal, which is to make teeth straight BY ANY MEANS
NECESSARY. However, to create a healthy bite, the jaw and cranium must be aligned in natural
position and size. This is the goal of dental orthopedics. If you have a closed bite as illustrated in
figure
c
, the orthopedic treatment might include insertion of a dental appliance which has a plastic
spacer that sits on top of the molars, such as a twin block or an OmNi-2. This is seen in the figure
where the bite height is restored with a plastic spacer. This allows the jaw to stay comfortably closed
in a natural position even though the molars do not naturally touch. What is amazing about the use of
such an appliance is that when there is a space such that certain molars do not touch, the molars start
to get closer together as the jaw bone grows in under the molars. Eventually over a treatment period
of eighteen months to three years all of the molars can be guided to meet each other, and the correct
functional bite height can be retained without further need of a dental appliance.Conventional Orthodontic Practices Damage Faces
Conventional orthodontic practices damage facial aesthetics. 12
 They also damage the functionality of
the bite as seen in many cases of TMD from just a small informal survey of people who have
undergone conventional orthodontic treatment. The most damaging aspects of orthodontics are tooth
extractions and head gear. Many patients or parents are not adequately informed about the dangers of conventional orthodontics
prior to treatment. 13
 In particular the resorption of tooth roots is a common and sometimes highly
damaging result of wearing braces. Root resorption is the loss or damage to the tooth root from the
pulling force of braces. When you move teeth with braces, a tooth does not simply slide into the next
position. The figure of the tooth in chapter three shows how the tooth is surrounded by bone. To move
a tooth, the braces pull the teeth and the tooth is pushed into the alveolar bone. This is something akin
to a boat traveling through thick ice. As the tooth is pushed in one direction, the bone in the jaw must
dissolve on one end of the tooth and fill in on the other side of the tooth for the tooth to move. When
the tooth roots are pushed against the jaw bone with fixed dental appliances like braces, 93% of them
are damaged; some severely. 14
 Approximately 72-84% of teeth that have been treated with a fixed
appliance (braces) have suffered clinically significant damage. 15
 As a result many teeth suffer
permanent damage from braces. Gum disease later in life, in combination with roots that are damaged
from braces and are therefore much shorter, means early tooth loss. Standard consent and disclaimer
forms that patients must sign before accepting braces as treatment explain the known harm caused by
braces. They include jaw pain (from the bite being pulled out of alignment), root resorption, tooth or
jaw instability, fleeting results due to physical growth, gum inflammation, and unexpected results. Meanwhile, in the orthopedic model you will suffer none of these side effects because the dental
orthopedic model works with the natural form of the body, helping it function and grow properly. If you put braces on the teeth of a growing child, and do not even try to move or push teeth, as the
child’s jaw grows, his teeth are going to move in the jaw bone. Root resorption is worse in older
children than in younger children. 16
Bicuspid Extraction
Bicuspid extraction performed by conventional orthodontics on children and teens collapses the
structure of the face, making the face more narrow and less attractive. This unfortunate result has been
shown in studies comparing differing orthodontic approaches with identical twins. Over time, the
twin whose teeth were not extracted, but whose dental arch was widened instead, developed the more
attractive facial features. Bicuspid extraction sacrifices perfectly healthy and beautiful teeth to the
faulty goals of conventional orthodontics. 17
 Not to mention the fact that pulling teeth can cause
emotional trauma as children feel that they have been disfigured or that there is something wrong with
them. Orthodontics Does Not Address the Physiological Cause of Crooked TeethCrooked teeth are the result of a maxilla (upper palate) that is too narrow. 18
 This leads to a child
having a more narrow face and less appealing looks. Practically speaking a wider face means more
space for the tongue, and a greater ease in breathing, along with plenty of space for all of the teeth
including the wisdom teeth. What conventional orthodontics does is make space for teeth by pushing
the teeth, rather than by encouraging the jaw to develop to its full potential, which is the orthopedic
approach. In their drive to make teeth fit, conventional orthodontists pull out teeth.


	tablets	before	you	eat,	to	prevent	acid	indigestion,	is
not	a	good	idea. It	only	makes	a	bad	situation	worse. The	best	remedies	for	acid
indigestion	are	to	pay	attention	to	basic	food	combining	principles	and	to	chew
your	food	well. Supplementing	with	digestive	enzymes	also	can	be	helpful. (Note:	Supplementing	with	hydrochloric	acid	tablets	is	also	possible,	but	this
much	more	aggressive	measure	requires	education	and	careful	monitoring.) Most	absorption	of	nutrients	takes	place	in	the	small	intestine. By	the	time	it
reaches	the	small	intestine,	food	must	have	undergone	proper	digestion. The
small	intestine	extracts	nutrients	from	the	food	and	they	enter	the	bloodstream. Waste	products	move	along	to	the	large	intestine	where	they	are	excreted	from
the	body. Food	not	properly	processed	by	the	time	it	reaches	the	small	intestine	creates	a
host	of	problems. Poorly	digested,	putrefying,	fermenting	and	rotting	food
particles	in	the	intestines	create	vast	amounts	of	toxins. Undigested	food
molecules	can	pass	through	the	intestinal	walls	and	move	directly	into	the
bloodstream. In	the	bloodstream	the	body	recognizes	these	food	molecules	as
foreign. The	immune	system	may	attack	them. This	response	resembles	a	classic
food	allergy;	poor	digestion	of	a	food	can	cause	you	to	become	allergic	to	it.Worse,	each	allergic	reaction	damages	the	intestinal	tissue	and	makes	it	more
permeable,	perpetuating	the	problem. An	increasing	number	of	food	allergies
and	numerous	other	health	problems	may	result. These	ongoing	allergic
reactions	can	overtax	and	exhaust	the	immune	system,	making	you	vulnerable	to
low-grade,	chronic	infections,	such	as	chronic	sinus	infections. Provided	the	digestive	process	goes	well	in	the	intestines,	allowing	the	proper
nutrients	to	enter	the	bloodstream,	those	nutrients	must	still	go	to	the	proper	cells
and	then	inside	those	cells. This	activity	often	requires	separate	“transporter
nutrients”	(certain	amino	acids,	for	example)	that	also	come	from	your	diet. In
other	words,	nutrients	are	used	for	many	purposes,	including	delivery	of	other
nutrients. This	is	one	example	of	how	nutrients	work	together	in	tandem,	and
why	you	cannot	afford	to	miss	a	single	one. Once	the	necessary	nutrients	have
arrived	at	the	target	cells,	they	still	need	to	pass	through	the	cell	membranes. If
the	membrane	is	not	constructed	properly	(as	described	in	the	fats	and	oils
section	of	the	Big	Four),	new	problems	arise. Nutrients	can	have	a	difficult	time
being	transported	through	cell	membranes	constructed	from	“bad”	fats	and	oils
(hydrogenated	oils,	refined	supermarket	oils,	deep-fried	foods	and	excessive
saturated	fats). The	final	step	in	proper	digestion	is	the	elimination	of	waste	products,	which
must	be	eliminated	as	quickly	and	efficiently	as	possible. Otherwise,	toxins	may
reabsorb	back	into	the	body. The	best	ways	to	improve	bowel	function	are	to	eat
sufficient	fiber,	follow	proper	food	combining	and	chew	food	well. If	you	select
a	food	with	good	fiber	content	and	then	cook	it,	however,	you	may	be	short-
changing	yourself. Some	of	the	fibrous	structure	of	food	can	be	lost	in	the
cooking	process,	so	be	sure	not	to	overcook. Many	people	find	it	uncomfortable,	even	embarrassing,	to	talk	about	their
body’s	waste	products. Being	comfortable	with	these	natural	processes	is
important	because	one	of	the	simplest	ways	to	measure	the	health	of	your
digestive	system	is	to	be	aware	of	your	bowel	movements	and	to	note	the	quality
of	your	stools,	in	terms	of	frequency,	texture	and	odor. Most	Americans	are	constipated;	many	have	a	bowel	movement	only	every
other	day	or	think	that	one	movement	per	day	is	ideal. Not	true. If	you	do	not
have	frequent,	efficient	elimination,	then	food	wastes	remain	in	your	intestines,
where	they	putrefy	and	poison	you. Optimal	is	two	or	three	bowel	movements	a
day—one,	at	the	very	least. Loose	stools	or	exceptionally	dense	stools	are
reflections	of	serious	problems,	especially	if	they	persist. Well-formed	and
floating	is	a	good	rule	of	thumb. Excessive	gases	(stomach	or	intestinal)	or	stool
odor	also	may	indicate	digestive	trouble. Be	aware	of	your	elimination	process,and	if	you	have	a	problem,	take	steps	to	remedy	it	by	following	the	guidelines	in
this	chapter. Choosing	the	Right
Dietary	Supplements
Eating	good	foods	and	digesting	them	well	may	not	be	sufficient	to	make	sure
your	cells	receive	all	the	nutrients	they	need	every	day. Supplementing	your	diet
with	high-quality	vitamin,	mineral	and	essential	fatty	acid	supplements	is	also
important. Supplements	have	become	a	necessity	in	our	society	for	two	reasons:	First,	the
supply	of	nutrients	is	down. Intensive	commercial	farming,	depleted	soils	and
food	processing	have	reduced	the	nutritional	content	of	our	food	so	dramatically
that	our	diets	no	longer	contain	the	nutrients	required	by	our	cells	to	maintain
good	health. Second,	our	need	for	certain	nutrients	is	up	because	of	the	effects	of
environmental	pollution,	which	puts	extra	stress	on	the	body. Responding	to	this
stress	uses	up	essential	nutrients,	in	particular	antioxidants,	such	as	vitamins	A,
C	and	E.	With	the	supply	of	nutrients	down	and	the	need	for	nutrients	up,	is	it
any	wonder	that	three	out	of	four	Americans	have	a	diagnosable	chronic	disease? Supplementation	is	necessary	to	bridge	the	gap	between	what	we	need	and	what
comes	from	our	diet. Most	physicians	(who,	on	average,	receive	only	two	and	a	half	hours	of
nutritional	training	during	four	years	of	medical	school)	often	tell	you	that
supplements	are	not	necessary—	that	they	make	little	more	than	expensive	urine. The	position	often	taken	by	physicians	is	that	you	can	get	all	the	nutrition	you
need	to	maintain	health	by	eating	a	balanced	diet	of	commercially	produced
foods. You	know	by	now	that	this	claim	is	absolutely	false. Numerous	studies	have	shown	that	virtually	all	Americans	are	not	receiving
the	recommended	amounts	of	nutrients	on	a	daily	basis. Many	nutritional
researchers	(myself	included)	believe	that,	in	our	modern	world,	obtaining	the
nutrients	we	need	from	diet	alone,	even	if	we	eat	good	foods,	is	impossible. Over
the	last	quarter	century,	research	has	established	that	a	huge	gap	exists	between
the	small	amounts	of	nutrients	required	for	preventing	overt	nutritional-
deficiency	diseases	and	the	large	amounts	of	nutrients	required	to	maintain
optimal	health	and	fortify	our	bodies	against	disease	in	general. Dietary
supplements	help	fill	the	gaps	in	your	nutrition,	especially	in	those	nutrients	for
which	you,	as	an	individual,	may	have	a	particularly	high	need. One	final	note:Supplements	are	not	an	invitation	to	e


 fertile soils usually have a variety of types of “parent rocks”, it seems wise to try to duplicate the natural processes when we remineralize. The Hunza Valley soils have grown some of the best crops of fruits, vegetables and peo -
ple for centuries. The Hunzas irrigate their crops two or more times a year with the Ultar
Glacier meltwater which contains glacial gravel dust, treasured as “glacial milk. ”  Glacial action has produced much of the Earth’s fertility, as glacier’s crushing mass grinds and mixes together rocks of broad variety and element content. Some volcanically-derived soils, such as those in Java, can also be very fertile, although it is areas like Hunza and also Vilcabamba where glacial and alluvial (river-carried) soils have nourished the leg-131
Fruiticultureendary longevity of the people there. According to E. B. Szekely in The Ecological Health Garden, the Essenes may have been the
first health-conscious people to pulverize rocks to add to their composts, gardens and
orchards around 2000 years ago. Having little in the way of volcanic and glacial deposits or perhaps even silt-rich rivers in the Dead Sea region, they apparently found a way to create rock dust without the kind of machinery we now have. After J. I. Rodale, founder of Organic Gardening magazine, visited Hunza in the 1940s, he
wrote The Healthy Hunzas, which included a chapter on rock powder. He urged that we
learn from the Hunza’s great example and grind up the billions of tons of rock needed to remineralize the soils in our country. Today, there is an abundance of rock powder which is available as a byproduct of the aggregate and stone industries. For those of us who are backyard organic gardeners, it is most fortunate that more and more gardening out -
lets are carrying bagged rock powder for us to take home and add to our compost and orchards and gardens. Here is how soil remineralization works. Rock dust feeds the soil workers, i.e., the worms
and soil microbes, the essential minerals they require to build their protoplasm and enzymes, and the mineralized microbes are digested by the plant roots to nourish the plants. If we desire mineral-rich living foods, then we need to ensure that we or those who grow our food have provided these soil workers their complete natural diet of or -
ganic compost or mulch and rock minerals. If you can do this in your own garden and orchard and eat fresh, living, mineralized foods, you can give thanks because you are liv -
ing in Paradise! Not quite? The air is sick, the water is in trouble, the forests are on the way out, and
weather and climate are changing, you say? Perhaps you are right and our little island of Paradise isn’t the Paradise we know the Earth is meant to be. However, garden and or -
chard remineralization is something most of us can do, and this is a great way to reverse the degenerative spiral toward Paradise Lost and show our fellows a glimpse of how near Paradise Restored can really be. Never underestimate the power of an enzyme! Or the spirit of love when given to
Mother Nature and her human children. A taste of real super-delicious living food from rich mineralized soil is one way to offer that Paradise glimpse, and there are few things 132
Fruiticulturemore inspiring and soul-nourishing than a garden and orchard in bloom and fruition. Enhancing Agriculture The best source of soil minerals is the fine powder of common crushed gravel (mixed
rock). In 1976 John Hamaker (1914-1994) spread gravel crusher screenings on part of his ten-acre farm in Michigan in an area of sparse rainfalls and dry summers, with no irriga -
tion. The following year, his corn produced 65 bushels per acre. In comparison, neigh-boring farms yielded less than 25 bushes of corn per acre. Don Weaver adding rock powder
to a new tree wellMoreover, independent analyses showed that Hamaker’s corn contained 28% more protein, 47% more calcium, 57% more phosphorus, 60% more magnesium and 90% more potassium than the same type of corn grown with chemical fertilizers nearby. Over forty years ago, published studies
by the USDA showed that the applica-tion of cement kiln dust (a less satisfac -
tory source of minerals) also produced better crops, but the researchers did not follow up on this as they could not ascertain what it was in the dust that ef-fected such results. Hamaker estimated that on fully remin-
eralized soil, American agriculture could grow four times as much food as is pos-sible now, or the same amount of food at about one-fourth the cost, sans pesti-cides or chemical fertilizers. f133
Fruiticulture
A well-mineralized Mango tree at Stephan and Eli Reeve’s Fruiticulture farm, Maui134
FruiticultureThe Most Ecologically Positive Diet:
How the Raw-Fruitarian Diet Can Regenerate the Earth
by Don Weaver
A serious condition of human-environment imbalance existed when Earth Day began in
1970, because most of the world’s four billion inhabitants lacked understanding of our interconnected planetary life-support systems.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Fear of sweet plant foods is running rampant in most nutrition circles these days. Let’s
examine the facts concerning our natural biological disposition, so that you may teach the truth about how we are meant to eat and thrive. The Creator gave us a “sweet tooth” for good reasons:
 •  Sugar is the preferred and pr
emium fuel used by every cell in our bodies. Our cells
run best on glucose. Not fat, protein or ketones—a ketogenic condition is an unsustain -
able emergency condition that acidifies the body. Our muscles function best when their
cells are stoked with glucose. Sugar “burns” cleanly without toxic waste byproducts. In
order to be healthy, we need sugar—not refined white sugar, but sugar from whole fruits and vegetables. Fuel up on fruit sugar. •  When we eat sw
eet whole foods, we are rewarded for obeying our sense of taste. We
feel good, nourish and fuel up our bodies, support the maintenance of alkaline balance, and help the planet. The natural order of life calls for humans to eat diets consisting mostly of sweet raw fruits. •  Humans have a symbiotic relationship with fruits. That is, we are natural partners in
the web of life with delectable fruits. We enjoy the deliciousness of fruits, receive supe -
rior nutrition, disperse the seeds and perpetuate life on our planet. •  Biologically, humans are frugiv
ores. We do best on a fruit-based (fruitarian) diet,
which includes vegetables and minimal-to-moderate amounts of raw seeds and nuts. Whole fruits, vegetables, squashes and tubers have good sugar, packaged with a pletho -
ra of life-sustaining nutrients. Commercial int er
ests gave us refined white sugar for bad reasons:
 •  To perver
t our senses and destroy our health with seductively sweet, nutrient-bereft
junk, and to ruin the ecology of our planet. Yes, we should shun refined sugar, but we should NOT fear sugars naturally occurring in
fruit. 93
FruiticultureKey Points For Quashing Fruitophobia
by David Klein, Ph. D. •  Sugar is our cells’ premium fuel. For driving our physiological functions in a state of
wellness, the cells use the sugar molecule known as glucose. The body converts other forms of sugar (fructose, maltose, sucrose, etc. ) to glucose. •  Fearing fruit is a tragic mistake. We should no more fear fruit than we should fear
putting high-octane gasoline in our automobile’s gas tank. Our cells run on sugar, and sweet raw fruits are the premium source. •  Fruits average 90% water. That is 90% WATER, not 90% sugar. We cannot credibly say
that such a diluted sugary food package gives us “too much sugar. ”  If we eat two to three fully satisfying fruit-based meals a day, we will generally be sustained with enough calo -
ries to perform all our daily tasks with vigorous energy. No, that is not “too much sugar. ”   And no, we do not ha v
e to eat sweet fruit all day to feel satisfied and get enough calo -
ries. On a fruit-based diet anchored with bananas, no one starves, and soon we feel sat -
isfied and more alive. •  Humans ar e frugivor es biolog
ically, as confirmed by our anatomy and physiology, and
the high vitality and lack of pathology of modern fruit eaters. That means that humans
are designed to thrive on a diet of mostly fruits. Our natural diet is a fruitarian diet com -
prised of primarily sweet fruits, plus vegetables and minimal-to-moderate amounts of raw seeds and nuts. •  Our olfac
tory senses lead us to fragrant ripe fruits above all other food aromas. •  Our visual sense of aesthetics is drawn to beautiful ripe fruits above all other foods. •  Our hands are designed to pluck ripe fruits. •  Our fingers are designed to peel ripe fruits. •  Our mouth’s tastebuds are most responsive and attracted to the sweet foods offered
up by nature. •  Our teeth are designed to cleave and mash soft fruit pulp. We don’t have flesh-ripping
can


ors — Balancing Vata, Pitta and
Kapha;
2. Vital essences — Strengthening Prana, Tejas
and Ojas, the master forms of Vata, Pitta and
Kapha;
3. Impressions — Harmonizing the mind and
senses; and
4. Consciousness — Promoting the correct func-
tions of consciousness. Ayurveda first works on balancing the biological
humors through appropriate physical remedial methods of
diet, herbs, and exercise. Typical books on Ayurveda focus
on this level. We will examine these outer treatment
methods of Ayurveda in a subsequent chapter, particularly
as they affect psychological conditions. Second, Ayurveda
works to improve our vital energy through Pranayama and Ayurvedic Counseling and Behavioral Modification 151 A
related practices. The section on Prana, Tejas and Ojas dis-
cusses this level and it is mentioned occasionally through-
out the book. Third, Ayurveda works on the mind and senses to pro-
mote the right intake of impressions through various sen-
sory therapies. In the following chapters, we will examine
these sensory therapies, particularly aromas and colors. Fourth, Ayurveda works to increase Sattva in our con-
sciousness through spiritual living principles, mantra and
meditation. This we will examine in the chapters on
Mantra, Spiritual Therapies and the Eightfold Method of
Yoga. Ayurvedic counseling is very practical and involves vari-
ous prescriptions for changing how we live. Meeting with
an Ayurvedic counselor involves reviewing the results of
implementing these prescriptions, and is done in a consis-
tent step-by-step manner. Ayurvedic counseling is educa-
tional in nature. The therapist helps the client learn how the
mind and body work so that we can use them properly. The
patient is a student. Therapy is a learning process. Ayurve-
da looks upon someone suffering from a psychological prob-
lem not as a bad or disturbed person, but as someone who
does not understand how to use the mind properly. Right Association — a Key to Mental Health
Who we are psychologically is a result of how we inter-
act with our environment. If you want to see what you are,
look at the people you feel closest to and with whom you
spend the most time. The mind is built up by the impres-
sions taken in through the senses, most important of
which are those that come from our social interactions. Whatever impressions we take in become more powerful
when shared with other people, who give them emotional
power. 152 Ayurveda and the Mind
The mind itself, down to the deepest unconscious, is a
social entity and follows a collective pattern. It is made up
of thought, conditioned by the language used in the social
context of our lives. The mind reflects our interactions
with other people, starting with our parents. The mind is
the record of our associations, which includes not only
human beings but all life to which we are related. Our
deeper consciousness (Chitta) itself is determined by the
nature of our associations, which create the most powerful
impulses (Samskaras) that we have to deal with. If we go
to the core of our hearts, it is our closest relationships that
most determine who we are. Ayurvedic psychology emphasizes right association to
ensure psychological well-being. We should always be
careful to keep ourselves in the right company. We should
associate with those individuals who elevate us, who bring
peace and keep our minds cool and calm. We should keep
ourselves distant from those who drag us down, who agi-
tate and overheat our minds and nerves. We must be most
careful about who we associate with on an intimate level. We should seek the good and strive to be in the com-
pany of the wise. Such are spiritual teachers, true friends,
the beauty of nature, great art, and wisdom teachings. Of
course, it is not always possible to remain in the physical
company of spiritually elevating people. They are not
always easy to find or to gain time with. However, we can
always keep them in our minds and hearts. We can attune
ourselves with their thoughts and deeds. In turn, we our-
selves should strive to have a beneficial influence on oth-
ers, projecting helpful attitudes and good thoughts toward
the entire universe. Healing the mind involves healing how we relate to the
world. It means establishing a society or group of friends Ayurvedic Counseling and Behavioral Modification
that draws us upward. This is the basis of real counseling. The counselor should provide the client with a deeper level
of association that does not reinforce their problems, but,
on the contrary, provides a space for their problems to be
released. Ideally, a true therapist should not be a doctor in
the distance, but a spiritual friend and well-wisher. Ther-
apy should be the beginning of communion, what is called
in Sanskrit Satsanga, the company of those sincerely seek-
ing truth. However, better than going to a therapist is frequent-
ing the company of spiritually elevating people. In their
company, our psychological problems, which come from
our material involvement, naturally get resolved. The
mere presence of such wise people cools and calms the
mind and heart. Lack of spiritual company is a main cause
of psychological unrest and the only cure is to find such
association. Discussing our problems, particularly with someone we
respect, is always of great help. It takes us beyond the per-
sonal nature of our problems to the greater and universal
issues of life. Communication itself is much of the benefit
of psychotherapy — drawing us into a relationship that
allows our problems to be discussed. Communication
breaks down the walls of isolation in which we suffer and
helps us look at ourselves in a new light, allowing old pat-
terns of constriction to be broken down and discarded. A true spiritual teacher helps us know who we are in
our inner consciousness, as apart from our ordinary identi-
fication with the mind-body complex. Such a person is the
ultimate psychologist. However, a spiritual teacher may
not be interested in functioning as a psychologist or a doc-
tor in the ordinary sense, helping us with our personal
worries, woes, aches and pains. The role of the spiritual 154 Ayurveda and the Mind
teacher is to guide us to higher states of consciousness, not
merely to help us resolve our ordinary problems. This may
involve teaching us to be detached from both our psycho-
logical and physical sufferings, which must always exist in
this transient world. A therapist, on the other hand, must recognize the lim-
its of what he or she can do. Therapists should not play
guru, but direct their clients toward genuine spiritual
teachers. Spiritual guidance is much more than psycholo-
gy in the ordinary sense, though true psychology should
lead to spirituality. Spirituality requires that we go beyond
the mind and its opinions, not merely that we are happy
with our state of mind. Psychological Disorders and the Biological
Humors
Psychological disorders, like physical ones, reflect
imbalances of the three biological humors. Health prob-
lems, whether physical or mental, are not merely personal
problems, but energetic problems in the mind-body com-
plex. They are not so much personal or moral failings as an
inability to harmonize the forces within us. Vata (Air) Type
Psychological disturbances occur with greater frequen-
cy when Vata is too high, which, as the nervous force, eas-
ily affects the mind. Like Vata, the mind is composed of
the air and ether elements. Vata's excess of air causes insta-
bility and agitation in the mind, which results in excessive
thinking or worrying and makes our problems appear
worse than they really are. The mind becomes overly sen-
sitive, excessively reactive, and we take things too person- Ayurvedic Counseling and Behavioral Modification 155
ally. We are prone to premature or inappropriate action
that may aggravate our problems. High Vata, as excess ether, makes us ungrounded,
spaced-out and unrealistic. We may have various wrong
imaginations, hallucinations or delusions, like hearing
voices. Our connection with the physical body and with
physical reality becomes weakened. We live in our
thoughts, which we may confuse with perception. Our
life-force gets dispersed by the excess activity of the mind. We lose contact with other people and cannot heed their
advice. High Vata in the mind manifests as fear, alienation,
anxiety and possible nervous breakdown. There is insom-
nia, tremors, palpitations, unrest and rapid shifts of mood. Insanity of the manic depressive type, or schizophrenia, is
an extreme Vata imbalance. There are many factors that can disturb Vata and create
possible psychological problems. Disturbing sensations are
hard for Vatas to handle, particularly too much exposure to
the mass media, loud music or noise. Drugs and stimulants
easily derange them. Insufficient food or irregular eating
also weakens and upsets them mentally. Excessive or unnat-
ural sexual activity quickly drains their often low energy. Stress, fear and anxiety affect them emotionally because
they lack calm and endurance. Violence and trauma leaves
them hurt and withdrawn. Neglect or abuse as a child cre-


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while bringing a sense of a spiritual ener gy into my life, which allows me to
be problem free in those moments. Make this the day that you practice
being a peacemaker, rather than looking for peace to come to you from
outside. T ruly, it is in giving peace that you will receive it. Make peace with yourself. You cannot give away what you don’ t have. If
you are not at peace with yourself you cannot give peace away. If you don’ tgive peace away, you’ll never become an instrument of peace. Make the
decision to for give yourself for all your weaknesses and failures, to let go of
your self-destructive guilt over past mistakes and know there was value in
your journey through the dark night of your soul. When you make peace with yourself you take a hard look at everything you
have ever done and you remind yourself that you needed all of those
experiences in order to provide you with the ener gy to propel yourself to a
higher spiritual frequency. Eventually you acknowledge that virtually every
spiritual advance is preceded by a disaster of some kind, and that all of the
unwanted events of your life were necessary. Why? Because they occurred,
and there are no accidents in this intelligent system we call our universe. If
you are better than you used to be that is reason enough to make peace with
yourself. All the self-reproach, guilt, disappointment, self-hatred, and anger
that you direct at yourself simply take you away from peace. I have found that whenever I go into an episode of self-renouncement that I
begin to feel anxious and even sick. In these exact moments I now think
about the opening line of Saint Francis’ s prayer, “Make me an instrument of
thy peace.” Then in my mind I surround myself with the brilliant light of
peace, and I summon peaceful loving ener gy toward myself enveloping me
in a self-imagined blanket of serenity from God. As if by magic, my anxiety
and ill feeling fade to a wonderful feeling of well-being. W ith this newly
envisioned peace I find myself giving that away rather than the harshness I
was giving away in my moments of anxiousness and self-repudiation. By
making peace with myself, and summoning peace from God I am able to
forgive myself for my trespasses and vow to simply be better than I used to
be. T ry it today in any moment of self-repudiation. Y ou’ll be surprised and
delighted with the results. Get back to natur e. Luther Burbank observed, “There is no other door to
knowledge than the door nature opens, there is no other truth except the
truths we discover in nature.” Becoming an instrument of peace is easy to
do when you return to the natural world. Many times I’m sure you’ve heard
it said that the solution for chaos is to go for a walk on the beach or in
nature. When you return to nature you are returning to the silence and
harmony that is your most natural setting.Away from the fast-paced world of high technology, investment decisions,
cell phones and e-mail, disputes, noises, and mostly a crowded world,
nature beckons to you. I know that you can feel nature calling because
everyone I talk to about it expresses a desire to escape to a natural
environment. Every time you pass a beautiful park there seems to be
magnetic ener gy that pulls you to just walk among the trees and flowers and
quiet your mind. The idea of hiking or camping out in the wilderness has
enormous appeal to even the most committed city dwellers. Listening to the
sounds of birds and bugs and the wind is a pleasing experience for almost
everyone. The experience of being in a dark place and looking up at zillions
of stars on a clear evening sends a rush of peace and bliss up the spine of
everyone I know. Recently my wife and I walked down inside the Haleakala
Crater on Maui and our one comment to each other was to note the peace
we felt in the silence of this majestic place. My wife’ s grandmother always
told her “walking makes you beautiful.” She was referring to more than
physical appearance. Give yourself the gift of nature as often as you can. Immerse yourself in the
peace that surrounds you, and notice for yourself how you are almost swept
up into the arms of God, how you love the silence and the way it all seems
to fit together in perfect harmony. For me, a long-distance swim in the
ocean fills me with peace regardless of what is transpiring in my life at the
time. The bonus I receive from that swim is that I sense a new clarity in my
work. Areas that had appeared muddy and unclear become lucid and
apparent. Nature gives you peace, because you are in the ener gy field of
God, where spirit rather than illusion rules. Y our return to nature literally
opens up a whole new set of spiritual solutions to every one of those so-
called problems. Edna St. V incent Millay conveys this message as beautifully as I’ve ever
seen in her poem God’ s World. Her ecstatic feeling of peace conveys what I
write about here. GOD’S W ORLD
 O world, I cannot hold thee close enough! Thy winds, thy wide gray skies! Thy mists, that roll and rise! Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sag
And all but cry with color! That gaunt crag
To crush! T o lift the lean of that black bluf f! World, world! I cannot get thee close enough! Long have I known a glory in it all
But never knew I this,
Here such a passion is
As stretcheth me apart. Lord, I do fear
Thou’ st made the world too beautiful this year. My soul is all but out of me—Let fall
No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call. In bringing about a spiritual solution to any and all problems, first and
foremost, become “an instrument of thy peace.” It is this peace that you will
deliver to the presence of problems and see them dissolve in the power of
peace. OceanofPDF.com8
WHERE THERE IS HA TRED,
LET ME SOW LOVE
Earth’s crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
And only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit around it and pluck blackberries
—ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
As you examine the bag of troubles that are your unique problems keep in
mind three words written by Saint Paul in his letters to the Corinthians,
“Love never fails.” Ponder these three words while asking yourself if you
can think of any exceptions. “Never” means what it says—never. I think
you will come to the same conclusion I did. Whenever I am caught in a
perceived problem, sending love never fails. Whatever you perceive to be
your problems you can find a solution in these three straightforward, no
nonsense, no room for equivocation words, love never fails. This holds true
even in situations where hatred seems to be the problem. I take a stand on hatred that is consistent with what I have presented
throughout this book. The presence of a belief  in hatred is a major source of
most troubles. At first this may seem incomprehensible to you. Nevertheless, I believe examining how you think about hatred will help you
do what the title of this chapter suggests. Sowing love means dissolving theillusion of hatred by becoming a delivery system for love. When you can do
this you are on the path of accessing spiritual solutions for all problems. WHA T IS HA TRED? You can see the contending forces of good and evil, love and hatred
everywhere. Many believe that these two opposing forces in the world are
God versus the devil. I have spent considerable time in this book attempting
to disavow such a preposterous notion. How is it possible for both God and
the devil to exist if there is only one creator and one power in the universe? Did God create the devil? Or if the devil exists, did he create God? If there is only one creative truth behind the universe and you accept the
devil as this truth you are then required to believe that hatred, violence,
ugliness, prejudice, disease, poverty, and chaos are manifestations of this
truth. And all love and goodness are false. If you accept God as the truth
then you must accept that love is the truth and that evil is false. And hatred
is surely part of that evil that is false. For me, the truth about hatred is that hate is love. That’ s right, I perceive
hate as love ener gy going in the opposite direction. All hatred can be
transcended by love because love is all there is, so it must include hate. The
feeling and expression of hate must be reversed to head in the opposite
direction. In the ancient Dhammapada  we are reminded that hating ceases
by loving, not by hating. This is why Saint Francis asked God for the ability
to bring love to the presence of hatred, and thus remove the illusion that
hate exists. Basically, people who seem to be spewing hate are projecting their feeling
of being unloved. They do not perceive life as loving them. When you feel
unloved by life, you deny the presence of love, even though love is the
elixir that holds everything together in the universe. So you take the
presence of this omnipresent force called love and turn it in the opposite
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daughter. Quite commonly for her generation she opted not to breast feed
her daughter, because it was not fashionable at the time. This deepened
the damage to the gut flora of the daughter, who developed asthma and
eczema and/or a digestive disorder as a result. In her generation most girls
were put on a contraceptive pill from late teens for quite a few years before
they had children. The pill would alter her gut flora even further. Then she
has a child, to whom she passes her deeply abnormal gut flora to. This
child develops autism. In the previous chapters we have looked in detail at how abnormal gut
flora would cause autoimmune disorders. Whether genetics may play a
role in passing these immune abnormalities to the next generation, the
science has yet to demonstrate. But, rather than assuming that it is genet
ics, let's not loose sight of a proven and significant factor, passed through
generations, the gut flora. Another familial factor, which is often overlooked, is learned behaviour. What is a learned behaviour? These are all the things that children learn
from their parents, daughters from their mothers: what to eat, how to cook,
what foods to choose from, personal values and priorities. These learned
behaviours can vary quite dramatically from family to family. This is some
thing being passed through generations without any genetic involvement. But it is as important as genetics if not more so, because it will alter the gut
flora, the pH, the metabolism and the biochemistry of the body. And if the
grandmother, daughter and granddaughter follow the same family
behaviour then they will predispose themselves to similar health prob
lems. For example, imagine a family where rich sugary deserts were always
a tradition, a lot of bread, pies, biscuits and cakes. This diet will alter the gut
flora and promote an overgrowth of pathogenic microbes in the gut, which
always has an unbalancing effect on the immune system. At the same time
it is a very house-proud family, a lot of cleaning and polishing with domes
tic chemicals, air fresheners, deodorants, a lot of personal care products
and perfumes - all highly allergenic and toxic substances - another
onslaught on already compromised immune systems. We did not come
even close to genetics here, but already you can see how the family can
make you immune-compromised simply through learned behaviours. In conclusion: it is possible that there are some non-specific genetic pre
dispositions to autism, schizophrenia and other GAPS conditions, which
quite likely overlap with a predisposition for autoimmune and digestive
disorders and some weakness in the blood-brain barrier. It is very likely
that this predisposition is very widespread and modern environmental
factors make it materialise into disease much more often than 100 years
ago, when the environment was different. A century ago people may have
had this predisposition just as much, but it did not show itself because the
environment for it was not right - the diet was more natural, less pollution,
less stress, no vaccinations, no antibiotics, contraceptive pills or other
drugs, no nuclear contamination and many other factors. One hundred
years ago the majority of doctors would never see autism in their practice,
for example. Today we have a growing epidemic of autism. Genetics just
don't work this way. This epidemic can only be due to environmental
factors: modern diet, life-styles, vaccination, drugs and pollution. Rather than dwelling on genetics, which we can do nothing about, I see
this conclusion as positive, because there is a lot we can do  to change the
environment to help our children. And those who have done so know that
it works! •1 6. A FEW WORDS
ABOUT EDUCATION
I have probably learned more in the first five
years of my life than during the rest of it
Leo Tolstoy
Education of GAPS children is a huge subject. It is beyond the scope of this
book to cover it in detail. However, it is important to make one point clear. I have seen many parents in my clinic who have put a lot of effort into the
physical side of their child's disorder but did not do much in terms of
organising their child's education. These children usually do not do as well
as the children who had both issues addressed at the same time. From the moment children are born, what do they do most of the time? They learn! Every moment, they are awake, they learn from the environment, from
the people around them how to communicate, how to behave appropri
ately, how to play with toys appropriately, how to play with their peers and
later on, as they go to school, they learn how to acquire academic skills. This is one of the most important abilities we human beings are born with
- to be able to learn in order to survive and to fit in the world. A normal child learns from the moment it is born. Have you ever
observed babies and toddlers? They are like little sponges, listening to
everything, watching everybody around them, absorbing everylittle bit of
information from their environment and learning, learning, learning. Their brain cells develop very vital connections and circuits, which would
serve these children for the rest of their lives. GAPS children miss a lot of this learning. Due to their toxicity their
brains are not able to process information properly, so these children are
not sponges in those very important first formative years. They have
normal ears, eyes, taste buds and sensors in their skin. But all the informa
tion these organs receive is then passed to the brain to be processed. A
brain clogged with toxicity cannot process this sensory input appropri
ately, so GAPS children may not hear, see, taste or feel the same way a
normal child would do. Highly functioning autistic individuals, who lecture about their disorder,
tell us that they cannot hear certain frequencies, that certain sounds hurt their ears, that they may not hear parts of words said to them or hear them
in a distorted way. They say that they cannot see certain parts of the light
spectrum, some parts of written words, they get lost or disoriented in frac
tionated light, for example the shadow of a tree or flickering electric lights,
some parts of light spectrum hurt them. They describe touch from certain
fabrics and people's hands as unpleasant as the "pins and needles" feeling
we can get after sittinguncomfortably. A lot of these autistic individuals say
that many foods taste bland for them and the texture of the food can be
offensive. All the sensory input from eyes, ears, skin and mouth turns into a
jumble in their heads, disorienting, sometimes pleasant, sometimes
unpleasant and sometimes frightening. That is why these children develop
all sorts of behaviours which look bizarre to us, but would probably make
perfect sense if we took into account what happens to the sensory input in
their brains. Their brain cells do not develop normal connections and cir
cuits. Instead they develop abnormal brain cell connections and circuits. Some of these circuits show themselves as self-stimulatory behaviour or
self-destructive behaviour. Depending on the severity of the GAPS condition this abnormality in
processing sensory input may range from an absence of speech develop
ment in an autistic child, for example, to very slight abnormalities in
semantics and pragmatics of the language, commonly seen in ADHD/ADD
and dyslexia. Many dyslexic children may not show any obvious problems
with processing sensory input until they need to learn reading and writing. However, looking back parents of these children would describe other sen
sory issues, like unusual fears of certain sounds and objects, strange taste
preferences and fussiness with food, unexplained tantrums and unusual
play routines. Children with ADHD/ADD, apart from their behavioural
problems, almost without exception have deficits in pragmatics of the lan
guage, which may not be obvious to parents, but can be identified on test
ing. These are the finer points of the language development concerning
conversational skills, answering/responding, greeting, informing, naming,
labelling, negotiating, reasoning, etc. This language deficiency leads to
problems in social skills and learning. In the case of severe GAPS like autism the longer this situation goes on
for the more normal learning these children miss and the more they fall
behind their normal peers. Normal children never stop learning, so for an
autistic child to have any chance of catching up with them he or she has to
learn at double speed. The earlier this intensive learning starts the more
chance there is for an autistic child to catch up simply because he or she misses less. The older the child is the more he or she has missed out and
the more he/she has got to catch up on. Apart from learning all the normal
things the teaching has to undo all the abnormal patterns and behaviours
the child has developed. Again, the older the child the more difficult it
becomes to break abnormal brain cell circuits and build normal ones. So
there is a definite sense of urgency for parents of newly diagnosed children
in starting appropriate education as soon as possible. The question is - what education? Let us start from autism, as these children are at the most severe end of
the GAP Syndrome. Helping an autistic child
I would not attempt to describe here all the existing methods of educating
autistic children. There are many of them and you can find many sources
of information on this subject. Some methods aim to create an artificial
environment to suit the child's needs. Other methods try to change


 dopamine, and acetylcholine. Neurotransmitters act as chemical messengers and are responsible
for how neurons (brain cells) communicate with one another. They influence memory, mood, alertness, and thinking. Every
single external stimulus perceived through touch, smell, vision,
taste, or hearing results in the release of neurotransmitters. All the hormones discussed in this book—
adrenaline, progesterone, cortisol, and
insulin—have a strong effect on neurotransmitters,
which are responsible for how brain cells
communicate with one another. Brain cell function is affected not only by these chemical
messengers but also by the membranes surrounding the brain
cells. The cell membrane acts as a barrier, or gateway, that
prevents certain harmful substances from entering the cell
and, at the same time, allows necessary compounds inside. As is true everywhere else in the body, the chemical
processes involved in brain function tend to run more smoothly
when things are in balance. For a thorough explanation of
this important subject, I highly recommend the book The
UltraMind Solution by Mark Hyman, M.D., published in
2008. Dr. Hyman explains that low levels of dopamine are
associated with problems of focusing and decreased energy. Low dopamine levels have been noted in people with
ADHD  and agitated depression—an observation that provides
a rationale for treating these conditions with drugs like Ritalin,
which is similar to adrenaline. Needless to say, I disagree with this approach, since, in my
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may be suppressing their production of dopamine. If this is the
case, it would be better to lower the adrenaline level in order
to raise the dopamine level and improve the patient’s focus. Dr. Hyman also points out that some people may be
dopamine resistant. This is a problem that can be reversed
through nutrition and vitamin supplementation. Providing metabolic support for the brain involves a
combination of correct nutritional supplementation for brain cells and correct amino acid intervention to help balance neurotransmitters. A complete discussion of the
nutritional requirements of the brain is beyond the scope of
this book. However, the following sections discuss the key
nutrients needed to support brain function and provide some
fundamental recommendations to help ensure a healthy brain. FATS
Neurons require four essential fats for their cell membranes to function:
DHA, EPA, phosphatidylcholine, and
phosphatidylserine. “Essential” in this context means that the
body cannot manufacture these substances; they must be obtained
through diet or supplements. These fats, or fatty acids, are
necessary for the formation of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter
that is important for our cognitive (learning) abilities as well as memory. Low levels of DHA and the other essential fatty acids
in the brain are associated with a decline in thinking capacity
as well as the development of Alzheimer’s disease. DHA  and EPA can be obtained by eating fish or taking
fish oil. The other two are best obtained as supplements:
a)  Phosphatidylserine—about 300 mg per day
b)  Phosphatidylcholine—best taken in the form of  130  |
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L-alpha glycerylphosphorylcholine (alpha-GPC),
up to 1200 mg per day in divided doses
Another useful fat for brain cell health is coconut oil. Until recently, sugar, in the form of glucose, was regarded
as the only source of fuel for the brain. It is now known that brain cells also use ketone bodies for energy. In fact,
D-betahydroxybutyrate (DBH), the primary ketone body that
replaces sugar for energy, is called a “brain superfuel.” DBH
is actually a better fuel for the brain than sugar. It acts as an
antioxidant to reduce free radical damage, and it also increases
oxygen levels in brain cells. The best source for DBH  is from
ketone bodies obtained from the metabolism of medium-chain
triglycerides (MCT s) derived from extra virgin coconut oil. Coconut oil benefits the brain in another way, as well. A recent finding is that some people have insulin resistance
limited to the brain cells only—a condition called type III
diabetes that is regarded as a major cause of Alzheimer’s. Indeed, it is not hard to imagine that high levels of insulin
can damage brain tissue similar to the way insulin causes
neuropathies in the lower extremities. Most remarkably, DBH
has been shown to counteract insulin resistance in the brain. Coconut oil can be used in various ways in the diet. It
can be added to a smoothie, used to cook eggs, or combined with vinegar as a salad dressing. The recommended dose is 1
to 1½ tablespoons of coconut oil per day. The dose for treating
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PROTEINS
Neurotransmitters are made up of amino acids, which explains
why eating protein at each meal is so important. However,
supplementation with certain amino acids can sometimes be
helpful, for instance, when the patient is dealing with depression
or anxiety, in which case the aim would be to increase the
serotonin level. Antidepressant drugs such as Prozac and Zoloft
do this by inhibiting the reuptake of serotonin. Serotonin is the neurotransmitter that helps to make us
less anxious and less depressed and also helps with sleep. Foods
that increase serotonin include dates, papayas, and bananas. Foods that lower serotonin include breads, especially whole
wheat and rye. The most common amino acid supplement used to raise
the serotonin level is 5-hydroxytryptophan, or 5-HT P,  the
immediate precursor to serotonin. The dosage is 50–150 mg
in the afternoon and at bedtime. Note, however, that in order to convert  5-HTP into
serotonin, the body must have sufficient levels of vitamin B6, folic acid, vitamin C, and magnesium. Four other supplements are also useful in controlling
anxiety and depression, and taking any one of them is an
alternative to taking 5-HTP. They are:
Ashwagandha—200 mg per day
Holy basil—500 mg twice a dayPassion flower—100 mg per dayL-theanine—400 mg per day
GABA, or gamma-aminobutyric acid, is the major
inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain. It is produced directly
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known as pyridoxal-5-phosphate. A higher level of GABA
is associated with reduced anxiety and increased relaxation. GABA  can be supplemented in the dosage of 500 mg twice
a day. Prometrium, a form of oral progesterone mentioned
earlier, causes sedation and drowsiness through its effect on
GABA. Excitogens are amino acids that act as neurotransmitters,
but in an adverse way. In large amounts they can actually
lead to the death of brain cells. To avoid excitogen damage
to brain cells, it is wise to limit or eliminate the use of MSG
(monosodium glutamate) in the diet, as well as aspartame (a
sweetener found in diet drinks under the name of NutraSweet,
and on the tables of many restaurants in packets of Equal). OTHER NECESSARY NUTRIENTS
The following additional nutrients for the brain are listed
in random order without any relationship to their level of
importance. Vitamin C – Vitamin C has no known level of toxicity—in
other words, it’s not possible to take too much—and it easily
crosses the blood-brain barrier to get into the brain. Once
in the brain, it helps to neutralize toxic substances, such as
high levels of iron, copper, aluminum, lead, and mercury. It
slows the progression of plaque development in the arteries of
the brain by reducing inflammation, much as it does in the
coronary arteries. I recommend using a liposomal form of this
vitamin at a dose of 1000 mg. In this form of vitamin C, 1000
mg is equivalent to 8000 mg because it does not get oxidized. Glutathione – The powerful antioxidant glutathione (GSH) is
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of free radicals. Just about every serious brain condition—this
includes Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, strokes, Huntington’s, and
traumatic brain injuries—is associated with low levels of GSH. Glutathione is manufactured in the body from precursor
amino acids plus other substances. Supplementation is limited
because the acid in the stomach destroys it. However, there
is an acetylated form (acetyl-glutathione) that is supposed to
be amenable to oral administration. A liposomal preparation,
which protects the GSH from being degraded in the stomach,
is also available. Two other possibilities are a skin patch and intravenous
administration. The latter should be mandatory for the serious
brain conditions mentioned in the first paragraph.


 is cycling up, it
eventually disappears. Y ou disappear it by choosing to be one withit and refusing to want to change it as it arises. Do this
continuously, no matter what, nonstop. This means that you cannot make an exception here, or an
exception there. It means continuously, and with everyone and
everything. The one or two things you hide behind probably
represent a stack. That’ s why you’re hanging on to them. It’ s not
just this annoying person you hate; they represent a whole stack of
that ener gy to you. Y ou can’ t just skip over your mother -in-law! Eventually, everything is surrendered that stands in the way of
the Presence. The Presence is so obvious, so startling, so
overwhelming, that there’ s no question about it. It is profound,
total, all-encompassing, absolutely overwhelming, totally
transforming, and completely unmistakable. When everything is
surrendered that stands in the way, It is there, shining brilliantly
forth. Instead of viewing this as something in the future, own it now. Enlightenment is not something that occurs in the future, after 50
years of sitting cross-legged and saying “OM.” It is right here, in
this instant. The reason you’re not experiencing this state of total
peace and timelessness is because it is being resisted. It is being
resisted because you are trying to control the moment. If you let go
of trying to control your experience of the moment, and if you
constantly surrender it like a tone of music, then you live on the
crest of this exact alwaysness. Experience arises like a note of
music. The minute you hear a note, it’ s already passing away. The
instant you’ve heard it, it’ s already dissolving. So every single
moment is dissolving as it arises. Let go of anticipating the next
moment, trying to control it, trying to hang on to the moment that
has just passed. Let go clinging to what has just occurred. Let go
trying to control what you think is about to occur. Then you live in
an infinite space of non-time and non-event. There is an infinite
peace beyond description. And you are home.A P P E N D I X  A :
T H E  M A P  O F  C O N S C I O U S N E S S ®
God-view Life-view Level Log Emotion Pr ocess
Self Is Enlightenment
 700-
1000Inef fable Pure
Consciousness
All-Being Perfect Peace
 600 Bliss Illumination
One Complete Joy
 540 Serenity T ransfiguration
Loving Benign Love
 500 Reverence Revelation
W ise Meaningful Reason
 400 Understanding Abstraction
Merciful Harmonious Acceptance
 350 For giveness T ranscendence
Inspiring Hopeful W illingness
 310 Optimism Intention
Enabling Satisfactory Neutrality
 250 T rust Release
Permitting Feasible Courage
 200 Af firmation Empowerment
Indif ferent Demanding Pride
 175 Scorn Inflation
V engeful Antagonistic Anger
 150 Hate Aggression
Denying Disappointing Desire
 125 Craving Enslavement
Punitive Frightening Fear
 100 Anxiety W ithdrawal
Disdainful T ragic Grief
 75 Regret Despondency
Condemning Hopeless Apathy
 50 Despair Abdication
V indictive Evil Guilt
 30 Blame Destruction
Despising Miserable Shame
 20 Humiliation Elimination
A P P E N D I X  B :
M U S C L E  T E S T I N G  P R O C E D U R E
General Information
The ener gy field of consciousness is infinite in dimension. Specific levels
correlate with human consciousness and have been calibrated from 1 to
1,000. (see Appendix A: Map of Consciousness.) These ener gy fields
reflect and dominate human consciousness. Everything in the universe radiates a specific frequency or minute
ener gy field that remains in the field of consciousness permanently. Thus,
every person or being that ever lived and anything about them, including
any event, thought, deed, feeling, or attitude, is recorded forever and can be
retrieved at any time in the present or the future. T echnique
The muscle-testing response is a simple “yes” or “not yes” (no) response to
a specific stimulus. It is usually done by the subject holding out an extended
arm and the tester pressing down on the wrist of the extended arm, using
two fingers and light pressure. Usually the subject holds a substance to be
tested over their solar plexus with the other hand. The tester says to the test
subject, “Resist,” and if the substance being tested is beneficial to the
subject, the arm will be strong. If it is not beneficial or it has an adverse
ef fect, the arm will go weak. The response is very quick and brief. It is important to note that the intention, as well as both the tester
and the one being tested, must calibrate over 200 in order to
obtain accurate responses. Experience from online discussion groups has shown that many
students obtain inaccurate results. Further research shows that at calibration
200, there is still a 30 percent chance of error. The higher the levels of
consciousness of the test team, the more accurate are the results. The best
attitude is one of clinical detachment, posing a statement with the prefixstatement, “In the name of the highest good, _____ calibrates as true. Over
100, Over 200,” etc. The contextualization “in the highest good” increases
accuracy because it transcends self-serving personal interest and motives. For many years, the test was thought to be a local response of the
body’ s acupuncture or immune system. Later research, however, has
revealed that the response is not a local response to the body at all, but
instead is a general response of consciousness itself to the ener gy of a
substance or a statement. That which is true, beneficial, or pro-life gives a
positive response that stems from the impersonal field of consciousness,
which is present in everyone living. This positive response is indicated by
the body’ s musculature going strong. There is also an associated pupillary
response (the eyes dilate with falsity and constrict to truth) as well as
alterations in brain function as revealed by magnetic imaging. (For
convenience, the deltoid muscle is usually the one best used as an indicator
muscle; however, any of the muscles of the body can be used.) Before a question (in the form of a statement) is presented, it is
necessary to qualify permission;  that is, state, “I have permission to ask
about what I am holding in mind” (Y es/No). Or, “This calibration serves the
highest good.”
If a statement is false or a substance is injurious, the muscles go weak
quickly in response to the command, “Resist.” This indicates the stimulus is
negative, untrue, anti-life, or the answer is “no.” The response is fast and
brief in duration. The body will then rapidly recover and return to normal
muscle tension. There are three ways of doing the testing. The one that is used in
research and also most generally used requires two people: the tester and
the test subject. A quiet setting is preferred, with no background music. The
test subject closes their eyes. The tester must phrase the question to be
asked in the form of a  statement. The statement can then be answered as
“yes” or “no” by the muscle response. For instance, the incorr ect  form
would be to ask, “Is this a healthy horse?” The correct form is to make the
statement, “This horse is healthy,” or its corollary, “This horse is sick.”
After making the statement, the tester says “Resist” to the test subject
who is holding the extended arm parallel to the ground. The tester presses
down sharply with two fingers on the wrist of the extended arm with mild
force. The test subject’ s arm will either stay strong, indicating a “yes,” or go
weak, indicating a “not yes” (no). The response is short and immediate.A second method is the O-ring method, which can be done alone. The
thumb and middle finger of the same hand are held tightly in an O
configuration, and the hooked forefinger of the opposite hand is used to try
to pull them apart. There is a noticeable dif ference in the strength between a
“yes” and a “no” response. The third method is the simplest, yet, like the others, requires some
practice. Simply lift a heavy object, such as a lar ge dictionary or merely a
couple of bricks, from a table about waist high. Hold in mind an image or
true statement to be calibrated and then lift. Then, for contrast, hold in mind
that which is known to be false. Note the ease of lifting when truth is held
in mind and the greater ef fort necessary to lift the load when the issue is
false (not true). The results can be verified using the other two methods. Calibration of Specific Levels
The critical point between positive and negative, between true and false, or
between that which is constructive or destructive, is at the calibrated level
of 200 (see


 love is with you. I use illuminating, sparkling light as
my symbol, so if the sun hits my eyes, or its light reflects of f something into
my e yes, or if I see anything that reflects light and sparkles, I know it is the
force of love and it is with me. When I am overflowing with jo y and filled
with love, light reflects of f ever ything around me. My sister uses rainbows
as her sym bol, and when she is overflowing with love and gratitude,
wherever she looks there are rainbows of light and all kinds of rainbows all
around her. Y ou can use stars, g old, silver, or any color, animal, bird, tree,
or flower that you love as your symbol. Y ou can choose words or sounds as
your sec ret symbol. Just make sure that whatever you choose, you choose
something you absolutely love and adore. If yo u want, you  can also choose a symbol as a warning sign from the force
of love to you, telling you to pay attention. In truth you are receiving messages and warnings all the time. When you
drop something, when you trip, catc h your clothes on some thing, or when
you bump into something they're all warnings and mes sages you're
receiving to stop what you're th inking or feeling. There are no accidents or
coincidences in life - everything is synchronicity because everything has a
frequency. It's simply the physics of life and the universe in action. "When I look at  the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance fr om
the sun to r eceive the pr oper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen
by chance. " (Issac Newton 1643-1727)
:
Life Is Magical
Love an d I have a thing going on, and it is the most magical a nd exciting
relationship anyone can ever have. I want to share with you how I live each
day with this knowledge. When I wake each morning, I am grateful to be alive and for everyone and
everything in my life. I spend fifteen minutes every morning feeling love
and sending it out to the world. I im agine my day. I im agine and feel love for my  day going well. I imagine
and feel love for each thing in my day going well, before I do it. I place the
force of love ahead of me in ev erything I do, b y f eeling lo ve inside me as
much as I can before I do anything. I don't open emails or packages, make
or ta ke important phone calls, o r do anything important unless I am feeling
good. When I get dressed in the morni ng I feel enormous gratitude for  my clothes. T o save time, I also ask the que stion "What is the perfect outfit to wear
today. " A few years ag o I decided to play wit h the law of attraction and my
wardrobe. Instea d of trying to work out whether this skirt will go with that
top, and sometimes putting thin gs on and taking them of f again because
they didn't work together (wh ich attracts more things not working), I
decided to hand my styling over to the force of love. So all I did was
imagine what it would feel like if everything I put on looked great. After
imagining it, feeling it, and asking the question "What will I we ar to day. " I
now stand in awe at how good my clothes look and feel when I get dressed. I s tay aware when walking down the street and notice th e peopl e passing
me. I send thoughts and feelings of love to as many people as I can. I look
at ea ch p erson's face, feel love in side me, and imagine them receiving it. I
know the force of love is the source of a bundance of money, happy
relationships, great health, and anything anyone loves, so I send people
love, because I know in doing that, I am sending them whatever they need. When I see a person who seems to have a particular need, someone w ho
can't af ford to buy something they want, for instance, I send them thoughts
of abundance of money. If a per son seems upset, I send them happin ess. If
someone seems stressed and they're rushing, I send them thoug hts of peace
and joy. Whethe r I am shopping  for groceries, walking down t he street, or
driving, whenever I am among people, I do my best to send love as much as
possible. I know too that whenever I see a nyone with a particular need, it's
also a message for me to be grateful for mon ey, happiness, and the p eace
and joy in my life. When I am in a plane, I sen d love to everyone. When I am in a restaurant, I
send love to the people and to the food. In  dealing with or ganizations or
companies, or when I am shopping in stores, I send love to them all. When I get in my car to drive somewhere, I imagine arriving  back home
happy and well, and I say, 'Thank yo u. " When I am about to drive, I ask,
"What is the best road to take. " Each time I walk into and out of my house,
I say "Tha nk you"  for my home. W hen I am shopp ing at the supermarket, I
ask, "What else do I ne ed. " and "D o I have everyt hing. " I always receive
the answers. "Certainly, knowledge is a lock and its key is th e qu estion. " (Jafir al Sadiq,
Islamic spiritual leader, 702-765)

Every d ay I ask many questions, sometimes hundreds of questions. I ask,
"How am I doi ng t oday. " "What should I do in this situation. " "What is the
best dec ision. " "What is the solution to this problem. " "Which choice is the
best cho ice for me to make. " "Is this person or company right. " "How can I
feel better. " "How can I lift my  feelings higher. " "Where do I need to give
love today. " "What can I see that I'm grateful for. " When you ask a question, you are giving a question,
 and you must receive the answer. But you have to be alert and aware to see
or h ear the ans wers to your q uestions. Y ou ". may receive the answer
through reading something, hearing something, or dreaming something. Sometimes sudd enly you will j ust know the answer to your question. But
you will always receive the answer. If I have  misplaced something, l ike my keys, I ask, "W here are  my keys. " I
always receive the answer. But it doesn't sto p there. When I find my keys I
ask, "Wh at is this telling me. " In  other words, why did I misplace my keys. Because there is a reason for everything. There are no accidents or
coincidences. S ometimes the answer I receive is "Slow down, you are
rushing. " Somet imes the answer is "Y our wallet is not in your handbag" and
I l ook around in the room where I found my keys and there is my wallet. Sometimes I don't receive an answer right away, but as I'm walki ng out the
door, the phone rings and the appointment I was going to has been canceled. Immediately I know that mispla cing my keys was happening for a positive
reason. I love t he way life works, but you can't receive any answers or
feedback unless you ask questionsl
Sometimes life may throw some tricky thing my way, but I kn ow when it
happens that I attracted it to me. I always a sk how  I attracted any problem
so I can learn from it - and so I won't do it again. In return for everything I receive, I give my love to the world as much as I
can. I loo k for the good in everything and in everyone. I a m grateful for
everything. And  as I give lov e, I feel the force of love sweeping through
me, filling me with  such love and  joy that it takes my breath away. Even
when you try t o gi ve love back for everything you've received, the force of
love mu ltiplies t hat love and returns even more love to youl When you feel
this happen just once in your life, you will never be the same again. Love W ill Do Anythingfor Y ou

Y ou can harness the force of lo ve to help you with anything in your life. Y ou can  hand over anything you need to remember, and ask the force of
love to remind you of it at the perfect time. Y ou can have the force of love
be your alarm c lock and wake y ou at the time you want. The force of love
will be your personal assistant, money manager, personal health trainer,
relationship counselor, and it will manage your money, your weig ht, your
food, yo ur relati onships, or any task you want to give it. But it w ill only do
these things for y ou when yo u unite with it through love, appreciation, and
gratitude' It will only do these t hings for you when you join forces with it