 In
renewing subscription to our health journal she says :
“ January 13, 1881.
“My health is much better this winter than usual, I think you would be
surprised to see me work, and you would say, too, ‘Why, I thought you
an old lady when at the home.’  I am real young.  Mrs. Wells is too.  I
still hope to spend some time in one of those new buildings before many
years.”
“Mrs. Huntington,wife of Deacon Huntington, Geneseo, Ill.”
Mrs.  Wells  here  mentioned  was  another  broken  down  dyspeptic,
equally benefited by the Nutritive-cure.
Here is from another dyspeptic with nervous prostration, threatened
paralysis, etc. :
“1724 New York Avenue, Washington,D. C., February 1, 1881.
“I am glad to say that I have constantly improved since I left your Home
a year ago last Christmas.  Since March last I have been able to do full
duty, and have grown stronger as well.  All of the old symptoms have
disappeared. I shall always remember with pleasure the time spent at
your Home, as I can more and more realize the benefits derived from it.
I trust you will reap the reward due you for your untiring efforts for the
comfort and welfare of your patients.
“Samuel B. Morse.”This gentleman’s daughter, a very much worse case, also writes very
enthusiastically of the benefits received at our Mountain Park.
Here is another—Mr. Leroy T. Shorey, Monmouth, Me. He writes ;
“Although my health was not perfectly restored, I am thankful to say it
has continued as good, and improved some since leaving you.  I have
been  able  to  work  quite  steadily  the  past  summer  without  feeling
fatigued.  I think very much of your system of treatment, and feel that I
can safely recommend it.”
When we remember that this gentleman is constitutionally feeble not
only, but was reduced to a skeleton, the fact that he is able to work
on a farm without fatigue argues strongly in favor of the system that
can accomplish such results.
Here is from the Hon. John R. Clark, who came to us, four years ago,
one of the most wretched dyspeptics that a man could find in a day’s
travel. Read what he says :
“Near Ellicott City, Md., January 1, 1881.
“My dear Doctor : ‘A merry Christmas and a happy new year ’ to your
Mountain  Park,  known  as  Mountain  Home  during  the  time  of  my
summer of sore travail in 1877.  You doubtless remember a wretched
dyspeptic who came with his father and, afterward, his wife, and drank
your waters for six long weeks without much apparent benefit, but I
shall always bless the lucky star, and the advice of one Werner from
Reading, who sent me from Bedford Springs to your health institution,
just then started in your new Home.  I have practised the lessons taught
by you,and have derived wonderful benefit therefrom, especially the
diet regimen.  But I began this letter for the purpose of enclosing 75
cents, or one year’s subscription for your journal, and a photograph of
the Mountain Park.  I have been a reader of your highly interesting
journal ever since it was started.  You had only one hardly finishedbuilding when I was with you, and now your photographic view shows
four elegant structures.  Wonderful progress surely!  I hope to pay your
grand mountains another visit next summer, not as an invalid, I trust,
but as one whose health your system has established.
‘‘John R. Clark.”
But scarcely less difficult the case of our friend, George Langdon,
Esq.,  of  Plymouth,  Conn.   This  gentleman,  having  suffered  from
inherited  chronic  dyspepsia  for  a  number  of  years,  having  tried
various systems of treatment, including the water-cure, movement-
cure, as well as drugs, at the hands of the most noted practitioners in
the country, found relief at our hands, and upon leaving us made this
statement, which, from the words of a very cautious, prudent,and
conscientious man, mean all they convey, and bear strong testimony
to the value of the principles that can accomplish such work. He said
 : “You are the first man who ever told me how to get well.”  Read
what he says :
“Plymouth, Conn., December 8, 1880.
“I am happy to give my testimony to the great benefit I received by the
treatment of Dr. Walter two years ago.  After serious trouble from chronic
dyspepsia, and an entire giving up of business for four years, and many
changes of physicians, I found at Dr, Walter’s positive help while there
for three months, and a still more marked benefit during the time that
has passed since my leaving there.  The system pursued commends
itself to my best reason, as the other systems I tried did not.  My word to
invalids who come under the doctor’s care is, have faith in him and his
treatment.
“George Langdon.”Testimony  of  Rev.  S.  S.  Palmer,  late  Pastor  of  Lutheran  Church,
Phoenixville, Pa.
“Phoenixville, February 27, 1880.
“R. Walter, M.D.
“Dear Sir:  I concluded when I left the Home to write to you as soon as I
could say positively whether I was benefited by your treatment, and
also  as  soon  as  I  could  determine  how  permanent  the  work  of
restoration was.  I can now say, and I think with knowledge, that I was
greatly benefited while at your place and under your treatment,and that
I am now more confident than ever that it is the most natural and the
only system of permanent restoration. I have been observing the diet
you prescribe, and we all must say that it is the best for health, and we
do not now feel that we are denying ourselves any luxury by following
it.  I have been taking the baths and movements, but not regularly, etc.
“S. S. Palmer.”
CHRONIC DIARRHÆA
Vincent  McBride,  of  Washington,  Washington  Co.,  Pa.,  had  been
reduced very low by this disease, which- had continued upon him for
many months.  He was brought here by his brother so reduced that
there was some doubt as to his ability to travel from Pittsburg here.
Read the following :
“I received your note of the 9th this evening, and answer immediately.
You are perfectly welcome to use my name if you wish.  I am feeling
hearty, and now weigh 166 pounds, which is more than I have weighed
for the last ten years.  When I went to your Home, my weight was 119
pounds.  I think every invalid should go to your Home to learn how to
live so as to be healthy, as well as to recover health.  Mr. Stewart, Mr.
and Mrs. Johnson, and others who are neighbors of mine, all feel that
their health is improved since being at your Home.“Vincent McBride.”
We have received other letters from this gentleman, all speaking in
most enthusiastic terms of his wonderful cure and of continued good
health.
The following was a more difficult case, the lady having been reduced
to a skeleton through long-continued chronic diarrhea, in connection
with bleeding piles and general debility.  Her husband first came
under our treatment for rheumatism, and was relieved in a few days ;
returned to his home and sent his wife.  While she was with us, both
children  were  also  restored  to  good  health  by  our  methods  of
treatment. Four years ago Mr. Jackson wrote :
“We are all well, and I assure you my experience only tends to confirm
me in the correctness of your views.  After a year’s experience of your
system, we are all in better health than we had been for years previous.
The year before I consulted you and put my family under your care,
some of us were nearly always sick.  For putting us on the right road to
health, we shall ever hold you in grateful remembrance.”
To-day, December the 6th, 1880, he writes :
“It is now about five years since we first became acquainted with your
institution and system of treatment.  The improvement in my wife’s
health, which began after she came to your institution, has continued to
the present time, and she is now well and hearty.  Bertie, our little boy,
whom we brought to you in such a critical condition two years ago, was
restored to perfect health, and now shows no sign of lameness. Eddie
has grown very much since you last saw him.“I have nearly recovered from the effects of my accident last winter. The
broken bones of my leg are all knitted together, but the limb is not as
strong yet as it was before the accident.  The knowledge we had derived
from you was of great service in my case.  Not only do you by your
system restore sick people to health, but you


 and now you have
birthed them into the world and are mothering in a whole new way. You are
learning how to be a mama to your little one.
With all the attention on your newborn baby, let us not for get…you are
a newborn mother! Even if you have had children before, every child brings
new experiences, new challenges, and new parts of yourself to discover.
In this chapter you will find insights into how to mother with self-
awareness, gain understanding of (or refresh your memory of) newborns
and newborn essentials, learn about common newborn challenges and
natural solutions for them, and discover Ayurvedic approaches to common
issues with breastfeeding.
I was such a newborn mama when I had my first little babe; I literally
knew nothing. I felt like any other mama with a little more experience than
me could be a better mother to him than I was. I felt that other mamas
would know how to rock him, when to feed him, how to help him stop
crying, or even know why he might be crying…when I was just figuring
things out as we went along. What ar e his needs? Why might he cry? What
do I do with him when he’ s awake? What if he is in pain? How do I know?
What do I do?!Then I realized that he and I were figuring it all out together—it was his
first time too. I was figuring out how to put him to sleep, as he was figuring
out how to fall asleep in my arms. I was learning how to feed him, as he
was learning how to eat. I was discovering who I had become, as he was
discovering who he was. We were both in a brand-new world, both newly
born, and discovering everything…together.
The main realization I had in my newborn mama days was that as long
as I was showing up with presence, attention, and love, I was of fering what
was most valuable to my little one. Mother Teresa taught that the greatest
suffering in this world is the experience of feeling alone. When my little
one had nights of tummy pain, I was with him, holding him, so that he
knew that he was safe and so loved. When he would cry, I would never
abandon him; I would hold him and love him so that he deeply knew, from
his earliest experiences, that he is never, ever alone.
This chapter is one that I wish I could have read before giving birth to
my first baby. It would have helped me to feel a little more prepared for
what might come up and equipped me with natural solutions to have on
hand to deal with the things that did. I didn’ t know how much I didn’ t
know, and many of you may be way more experienced than I was, but for
those of you who are in the same shoes, I hope this chapter will be an
amazing support for you, if and when you need it.
Our first weeks together…
I remember it being hard, but I don’t remember why.
I think the main thing was the transition into a whole new world,
from literally one moment to the next.
Where suddenly I wasn’t the center of my life,
and my desires weren’t first,
in a way that is so real.
It’s hard to even understand what that meant before him.
Suddenly this little being was the center of my life,
my constant meditation
and my sole responsibility.Though I read many (many!) books,
they must have left out the chapters called Vira Chandra—
how to take care of him.
Because it all felt so new
and I felt I didn’t know anything
and we were figuring it all out as it came.
And that’ s what felt hard.
Or different
than usual.
Because nothing was predictable,
and I had no idea what was to come.
And then it passes.
Time moves.
Suddenly it’ s all just a memory.
forgotten…
unless remembered.
MOTHERING WITH SELF-
AWARENESS
Being a mama is full on. Having your heart beating outside of your body, as
your precious little babe, is no small feat. Motherhood is a spiritual practice.
Entering into it with awareness and the readiness to be transformed will
help you to heal past patterns and revise conditioned beliefs, allowing you
to expand in ways that you never knew possible.
The practice is to be steady internally; to notice your mind and
emotions, but to not let your actions stem from them. Your mind may say, “I
don’t have time for this,” or “Why isn’ t he listening?” and your automated
emotional response may be to become impatient and frustrated. Then you
act from that place: you yell, close down, or unconsciously move toward
whatever learned behavior you have habituated. These are conditionedresponses: responding to the current situation based on your past
experiences in life. Although it may not seem like it at the moment, how
you respond when you are impatient or frustrated is a choice.
As a mama, you have to notice when you become triggered: when you
are frustrated that he won’ t sleep, angry that she won’ t stop crying, pulled
out of your center by the myriad of ways that he may or may not be acting.
Believe it or not, your baby is not conniving. He is not trying to disrupt
your harmony. She does not know that what she is doing or not doing is
causing you distress.
We have all developed programmed reactions (or coping strategies) that
come along with uncomfortable emotions that we’d prefer not to feel. When
we have an automated response to an internal experience, it keeps us from
actually feeling what is happening inside and thus responding in a present
and conscious way. What we do not allow ourselves to feel lodges itself in
our body and begins to contort and control the way we are in the world.
What we do not allow ourselves to feel creates a lens through which we
experience life.
Because we have all been hurt in the past, we do everything that we can
to not have to feel similar, uncomfortable feelings. We protect our
emotional triggers by turning on autopilot: reacting to the present
experience based on learned responses from the past, rather than feeling
into what is arising in the present and choosing how to respond with more
awareness. Because it is so easy to go on autopilot, we end up missing out
on the very opportunities that could help us heal and help us grow.
Rather than using anger to express condescending words, you can
choose  to use that same ener gy to bring clarity and direction in a respectful
way. When you feel disrespected, rather than withdrawing your love, you
might use the feeling as an opportunity to connect more deeply with your
child. Rather than hurting them if they hurt you, you might tap into how
you can show up for your little one and lead by example. Rather than
instilling within your little one your unconscious, learned reactions that do
not ultimately serve to uplift your relationship, you can impart within themthe greater vision of how to be a loving, respectful, kind, and conscious
human being.
It’s not my child. What is this bringing up in me?  As mamas, we have to
take responsibility for our inner experience. If I feel undernourished and
overwhelmed, I am much more likely to get annoyed with my child for
acting in a certain way. If in the same circumstance I felt nourished and
connected, I would be able to be present and even enjoy the experience. As
you become present to what is arising within you, notice your impulsive
desire to act in a certain way. Instead, pause. Take a deep breath. Become
present to the part of you that is steady beyond the emotion. How do you
want to show up for your little one?
As much as possible, let your actions come from this steady place
within you, where you can choose how you want to respond, rather than
projecting your unhappiness, frustration, or dissatisfaction onto your babe.
From that steady place, show up with the love and attention that instills
healthy beliefs and progressive opportunities for your baby to thrive. As
you respond to your little one with more consciousness and love, you heal
your own past as well; you rewrite your own stories and beliefs around
discipline, teaching, and the role of a caregiver.
When my little guy is melting down, every part of me may want to let
him know that it’ s not okay to scream like that—though that goes against
what I actually want him to know: I want him to feel safe expressing his
feelings to me. I want him to know that none of his emotions are too big for
me to handle. I want him to know that it is okay to feel. M y ability to stay
centered and hold loving space for my little one’ s big emotions helps him to
regulate. Often, our children are frightened by what they feel, not having
the ability to understand the big ener gies moving through them. You are
your little one’ s safe place, mama. You are their anchor. Though if you
show them that you are unable to stay calm in the midst of their storm,
they’ll feel that they have nowhere to land, which produces even more fear,
overwhelm, and anxiety for them—and likely more impatience and
frustration for you.If you are unable to hold calm, loving space for your child, likely at
some point in your own upbringing you learned that it wasn’ t safe to feel.
Some emotions, yes. The pretty, happy, lovely emotions were all welcomed
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 no reason to
believe that they should suffer from any degenerative disease such as
hardening of the arteries. Most people’ s thinking is controlled by mob
psychology. The average person has been trained to think falsely that as the
years go by you are supposed to get old, decline and sadly, deteriorate in
body and mind.  “Age brings on troubles”, they have been told and that is
exactly what they believe! ( Forget age – we feel ageless – life is gr eat!)
You cannot control your chronological years, but with The Bragg Healthy
Lifestyle, you can most assuredly control your biological age... in fact you
can almo st hold it to a standstill! A healthy life is wonderful and fulfilling!
It’s exciting to be active, healthy, alert and to be of help and of service to
this world! My father and I love sharing with you – our readers – this great
message of The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle in this book! Please  open your
mind, heart and soul and realiz e that you can be in control of your health
and enjoy a healthy, long life!
Love makes the world go ’round, and it’s everlasting when it’s written with caring, loving advice that
will improve and enrich your life! This is why my father and I love sharing with you the health
wisdoms which can be with you on your long life’s journey. Our books on health, fitness and
longevity go ’r ound the world spr eading health, peace of mind and love!  – Patricia BraggOceanofPDF.comChapter 2
Proven Steps of Wisdom to
Agelessness And Longevity
Agelessness
We believe it is possible to live in a perfect state of agelessn ess. Let’s
reason it out together. Every 3 months you get an entirely new bloodstream,
so it is not the bloodstream that gets old. Every 11 months, every cell in the
body has renew ed itself... so you have a practically new body every 11
months. Every 2 years you get an entirely new bone structure, so in 3 years
you are really born again... the renewal process has taken place! Now, if
you keep the body clean and purified by eating a diet that continually
cleanses the body, how can you get sick? How can you get old? The only
thing that can kill you is a disease or an accident. T ime cannot kill you!
We have met in our many years of travel hundreds of people 100 and more
years old; their eyes were perfec t, they had no hardening of the arteries, no
blindness, no aches and pains. Most of these people lived their early lives in
rural settings where they never ate refined and processed foods.  They lived
active lives on simple, natural, healthy foods from their own surroundings.
If these people had known about The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle they could
have controlled their life and the ageing process indefinitely and lived even
longer!
Why Die Before Your Time?
Read in the Bible where some people lived 900 and more years  in a state
of agele ss grace! Of course the skeptics will scoff at these ages and say,
“They recorded time different ly than we do.” They will tell you it’s
impossible to live to be 900. But they have not studied these ancient people’ s
habits. They lived on foods that did not obstruct and clog the pipe system.
This was the only thing that kept them alive – a clean body, free from
clogging, encumbrances and obstructions. And that is exactly what this
Course of Instruction is going to give you – a clean, healthy  body! TheBragg Healthy Lifestyle will help you keep the toxic poisons flushing out of
the body. Who knows? You, our reader and new health friend, may live 100
years or more in abundant health by living this healthy, active and vital
lifestyle! We want this for all of you – a long, happy, healthy and fulfilling
life!
Remember that death is brough t to the body when it’s so saturated and
bogged down with stored toxic  poison that it can no longer function to
maintain life! Start now to be a good health captain of your entire life!
Don’ t allow toxins into your body. Keep it clean and pure so you will reap
super health, ener gy and enjoy longevity!
The mor e natural food you eat, the mor e you’ll enjoy radiant health and longevity and be able to
promote the higher life of love and br other hood.  – Patricia Bragg, N.D., Ph.D.
The Garden of Eden
We believe man once lived in a tropical paradise. In all our research and
study we have come to the definite conclusion that man once  lived in a
Garden of Eden, and his diet consisted of raw fruits and raw vegetables and
some lightly cooked vegetables.  We believe that the man of Eden ate many
green leafy vegetables, and that he ate nuts and seeds. This is the diet we
believe man lived on in Biblical  times, with freedom from disea se, and that
some lived to be as old as 900 years or more.
Now we want to clarify this whole statement so we will not be
misunderstood. We believe that man lived in this tropical paradise and that
at no time did they have to worr y about being cold. They could lie down at
night and sleep without any discomfort or chill. This is the true state of
man. But then we find this was to change because of the approach of the Ice
Ages. All over the world lifestyles were altered many times by these
climate changes. As man was forced to live in colder areas, the variety of
fruits and vegetables available to him was naturally reduced and limited to
seasonal crops.
Follow Mother Natur e and God – r ewar ds ar e great! – Patricia Bragg, ND, PhD.Excerpt fr om Bragg Healthy Heart Book. Copy page and shar e with family, friends, etc.
Unhealthy Lifestyle and Heavy Proteins Shorten
Life!Now allow us to repeat this to make it clear in your mind. When man
lived in his tropical paradise on a diet of natural, organically grown fruits
and vegetables, he was constan tly detoxifying and purifying his body. He
lived every day on The Toxicless Diet, Body Purification and Healing
System. Most lived a long life, free from aches and pains, diseases,
premature ageing and senility.
When man left his paradise, the Garden of Eden, it necessitated his
venturing into different climate s. Then his diet was changed by necessity
towards the eating of more grain foods like wheat, barley, oats, rye, maize
and millet. He also learned to cultivate rice, lentils and beans of all
varieties, which  he dried and stored for long periods of time. Having his
fruit and vegetable selection greatly reduced, he turned to the killing of
animals for meat and the collecting of birds’ eggs. In time he found he
could domesticate animals like the cow, goat and fowl. Not only did these
provide him with ready meat, but he also had a fresh egg supply, and it
wasn’ t long before he mastered the milking of the cow, goat and the sheep.
From this milk he learned to make butter, cheese and other dairy
products. So, from a predomina ntly healthy alkaline diet, climate changes
forced man to slowly change his eating habits until his diet was one heavy
in starch, protein s, fats and acids. Meat is heavy in uric acid, which is quite
toxic! Meat also carries visible and invisible fats (clogging waxy substance
called cholesterol), along with any toxic waste, viruses, germs, chemicals,
drugs, hormone s, antibiotics (now given to animals) and diseases in
circulation in animal’ s body at time of slaughter and demise. See webs:
goveg.com, animalsuffering.com/vegetarianism.html  and
michaelbluejay.com/veg/natural.html. View and decide! – PB
Uninformed men, when pamper ed with meat and dairy pr oducts ar e much more choleric, mean and
cruel in their tempers than those who live chiefly on fruits and vegetables. – William Smellie, 1780
Studies have revealed that the bigger the waistline, the shorter the lifespan. Fat stored in the body’ s
“spar e tire” around the waist increases risk for diabetes, heart disease and shortens lifespan!
Caution on gathering excess weight!
The World is Our Human ClassroomAs we travel the world, we study the eating habits of the people. Let us
take the Eskimo  who lives in the frigid Arctic on a diet of mostly animal
and fish flesh and their blood. Their environment provides no other
recourse but to rely on these foods. Results – they age prematurely and have
a short life span. They are lucky if they reach 40! They suffer from stiff
joints and arthritis, bad livers and bad kidneys as well as many skin and
other diseases.
Now, as we move down from the Arctic Circle into the coun tries like
Lapland, Finland and the Northern European countries, we find people
using lots of meat, fish, eggs and bread. We get a crystal-clear picture of
what these foods do to these people! We see premature ageing in these
countries, we see the loss of sight, hearing and the general deterioration of
the body by the time people have


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interwoven pattern of inseparable links in a circular chain.
THE ANCIENT  CHINESE  WORLDVIEW
The ancient Chinese perceive d human beings as a microc osm of the
universe that surrounded them, suused with the same primeval
forces that motivated the macrocosm. They imagined themselves as
part of one unbroken wholeness, called Tao, a singular  relational
continuum within and without. This thinking predates the dissection
of mind  from body and man from nature that Western culture
performed in the seventeenth century.
From when I rst encountere d it, this fusing of the mind with the
body and people with their world had a magic, seductive lure. I was
eager to imagine myself as integrated and interrelated,  an active
participant in a system in the continuous process of transforming
itself. I learned that Chinese philosophers and physicians havestudied nature over thousan ds of years, divining how to interact
with it to cultivate and guide Qi (prono unced “chee”), life’s
animating force and substance. The Chinese concept of Qi
symbolizes life in all its forms: thoughts and emotions, tissue and
blood, inner life and outer expression. I wanted to reap and share
the benets of their knowledge.
I was startled to nd that my father considered Chinese medicine
quackery. Even though I could appreciate that surgery and
antibiotics were often necessary, my father could not entertain the
value of acupuncture and herbs. Though I could appreciate the
worth of a microscope to identify tissue alterations and bacteria, my
father could not fathom the notion of Qi. It probably should not
have surprised me, since Chinese medicine does not rest solely upon
the tangible, measurable phenomena upon which his medicine
relies. That I was drawn to a system outside his Western conceptual
framework unsettled and oended him. Yet I recognized the Chinese
view as inclusive, not exclusive. Within that view the subtle,
ephemeral, and invisible were as signicant as what could be seen,
touched, and counted, and caring for the human spirit was no less
essential or real than caring for the human structure, nor separate
from it.
THE MODERN  PREDICAMENT
Western philosophy was more akin to Eastern until the Renaissance
of the seventeenth century, when our civilization revolutionized its
thinking. It was then that the scientic philosophy of the 1600s
began to consider people as independent of the living systems that
surround them  and assumed that we could dominate and exploit
nature without being aected by it. We escaped from dependency
on and attachment to the natural world, pursuing invulnerability,
invincibility, and immortality. Four hundred years later many of us
regret this stance, aware, as anthropologist Gregory Bateson puts it,
that “an organism that destroys its environment destroys itself.”The long-term survival of our species has been placed at risk by
an unbridled lust for short-term gains coupled with a false
postulation of civilization’s autonomy from nature. Human beings
have befouled their own nest, a sure sign of either madness or
disease when observed in the rest of the animal kingdom.
Contamination of rivers and seas puts sh in peril and threatens our
potable water supply, the ozone layer is nibbled by uorocarbons,
rain forests perish so that cattle can graze, soil depletion and
pesticides diminish the quality of our food, urban horizons shimmer
with heavy ocher air … The litany seems endless. The disruption of
our global respiration seems the consequence of burning fossil fuels
(which ll the air with carbon dioxide and other gases, trapping
heat) and of denuding forests (whose trees release oxygen, consume
carbon dioxide, and attract water vapor to cool the earth’s surface).
Known as the “greenhouse eect,” this upset in the relationship
between the primal elemen ts of heat and cold, re and water,
produces a fever of land, sea, and air with disastrous repercussions
—upon weather conditions and marine, animal, and human life as
we know it.
The gravity of issues like this has motivated burgeoning numbers
of us to re-form our consciousness about who we are and how to
live with each other upon the earth. We are being obliged to see
how that which appears to be separate aects and ts within a
pattern, and we are seeing, as Bateson points out, that “the patterns
connect.” Reluctantly we are entertaining the idea that it may be
necessary to transcend think ing of ourselves solely as entities with
private interes ts (nation-state s, corporate bodies, individu al persons)
and instead view ourselves and our world as one organic system.
Today many of us seek to reclaim the sense of connectedness that
existed universally in ancient culture, when human fate was wholly
entwined with nature. The ecological assumption within these
cosmologies held that all things were inextricably bound together.
The world was seen as a symbiotic entity in which each living
system interacted with and mutually supported every other. The
growing popularity of Chinese medicine, which embodies these
values, is itself part of a pattern. Chinese medicine instructs us toperceive the way the world functions and re-create harmony within
the context of the whole.
TAOIST PHILOSOPHY IN  ACTION
Protecting human life by preserving the conditions within which it
thrives is the purpose of Chinese medicine. Each of us is pictured as
an ecosystem as well as living within one. The balance of forces
within us (Yin-Yang, Heat-Cold, Blood-Qi ) determines our internal
climate, our health or disease.
Chinese medic ine embraces the logic that the best remedy for
calamity is to avert it—the best cure for sickness is prevention. The
Nei Jing, a medical classic written in the second century B.C., states:
Maintaining order rather than correcting disorder is the
ultimate princ iple of wisdom. To cure disease after it has
appeared is like digging a well when one already feels thirsty,
or forging weapons after the war has already begun.
The true physician teaches the Tao—how to live. Traditional
Chinese docto rs are trained to cultivate wellness as well as to
correct ill health. Planning ahead, Chinese medicine knows that
storms interrupt clear weather, that illness stalks and gains a
foothold when we are vulnerable. Its strategy is to enable us to
withstand the storm without becoming disabled by it and to
accumulate resources in times of good weather, peace, and plenty.
The technolog y of Chinese medicine—simple, inexpensive, and
highly portable—was what rst ignited Efrem’s imagination. A
traditional doctor in China need carry only a few needles and gather
local herbs from the countryside to minister to his patients. Because
this medicine was so accessi ble, after the revolution in 1949 many
thousands of “barefoot doctors” were trained to serve the unmet
needs of the Chinese people for medical care. This equipped
ordinary people with the tools to gain control of their own lives.In contrast with this model, American medical doctors are
assigned the active (powerful) roles while patients are resigned to
passive (powerless) ones. Efrem felt a kinship with the Taoist
physician who performed skillfully to mitigate distress but also
acted as teache r, sharing knowledge and power. Doctor and patient
then engaged in the mutual endeavor of grasping the problem and
accomplishing the healing.
Sages describe  a state witho ut suering and a way to get there.
That way is not to search for a single remedy, a panacea, a “magic
bullet,” but to engage in the ongoing process of learning to become
more animated, more connected: more charged with life. Both
Efrem and I were struck by the notion that Chinese medicine was
about just that—striving toward greater integration through the
cultivation of Qi. The excitement was and remains that Chinese
medicine oers an approach that includes, yet moves beyond, issues
of physical health.
By the summer of 1972, at a time when few Americans had heard
of acupuncture, and at the risk of being considered cultural
renegades, we struggled to cross over ethnic, social, and intellectual
barriers, rivete d by the idea that with Chinese medicine we could
both understand the world and change it. Just as my younger sister
was nishing medical school, we were exploring foreign territory,
making our journey east.
THE NATURE OF  REALITY  SHIFTS
After the acupuncture seminar at Esalen, the intrigue escalated.
Efrem and I read what we could, but it wasn’t enough. Like hounds
on the scent of a fox, we were pulled irresistibly by the magnet of
Chinese philosophy and driven to discover whether these ancient
healing techniques really worked. At that time no schools oered
study program s in the Unite d States, and China had not yet been
opened to American students. So we traveled to England  in the fall
of 1972 to enroll in the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture.We were part of the rst class of Americans to study at this
college. Half of our group were Western medical docto rs. We all
went through major readjustm ents during our course of study as our
presumptions about the nature of reality, ourselves, health, and
healing were pulled apart, stretched, and rewoven into new cloth


contain mostly starch and sugar. All the cereals, vegetables,
fruits and nuts are composed, more or less, of carbohydrates.
Many of these also contain nitrogen to a sufficient degree to
class them under the head of protein.
Mineral salts are found in a ll vegetables and fruits in
sufficient quantities to supply the needs of the body if it is fed
upon these articles. The salts of sodium, potassium, chlorides,
calcium, magnesium, phosphates and iron are the principal mineral or organic salts and are the most important elements
in forming the bony structure of the human body.
These salts are found in abundance in all fruits, nuts and
vegetables, and when taken into the body in their natural or
organic state they contribute to  the body all of their value as
building material, but in cooked foods these elements are
rendered inorganic and become so changed and dissipated as
to be in many cases totally worthless. For instance, iron is one
of the principal properties of ca bbage. Eaten naturally it is an
excellent food, easy of digestion and assimilation; but
cooked, the iron is set free and is as indigestible as saw
filings.
In digesting starch and sugar, and all carbohydrates, an
alkaline solution or digestive fluid is required, a large amount
of which is furnished by the saliva. Hence, all cereals, fruits
and vegetables should be thoroughly masticated, insalivated
and pulverized before entering the stomach. And as the saliva
is an alkaline substance, the digestion of these foods,
therefore, begins in the mouth.
All foods composed largely of starch, such as cereals,
potatoes, and nearly all legumes, should not be eaten at the
same meal with sweets, especially cane sugar.
All foods, whether fluids or solids, that contain starch or
sugar, such as rice, potatoes, corn, oats, in fact, all the cereal
class, may be eaten with safety at the same meal. Milk can
also be taken with all the car bohydrate family of foods.
All foods containing gluten, albumen or gelatine, such as
meat, eggs, and a few kinds of nuts, are classed as protein,
and require an acid solvent to be digested; therefore can be
eaten with safety with all kinds of fruits.
The digestive fluid secreted by the stomach is an acid
substance; therefore, the last-named foods are digested
mainly in the stomach.
Milk, one of the best foods known, can be taken with all
kinds of fruits, provided no cereal starch be eaten at the same
meal. All foods that contain both carbohydrates and proteins
compose healthful combinations.
Starch, sugar and fats may be  properly termed the "fuel
of the body." They supply all the force, energy, heat and brain
power of the system, while proteids produce the structure in
which this energy is reposed.
The few fundamental rules given here apply to a normal
or healthy stomach. Where any abnormal condition is present,
selections of food must be made to counteract and overcome
them.
The study of food combinations, however, in its last
analysis, is the science of trying to ascertain the best way to
do the wrong thing. The less foods are mixed and combined
at the same meal, the healthier and higher that form of life
will be which they build.
The system requires daily so much water, proteids,
carbohydrates, fat and salts. The foods necessary to supply
these elements can be eaten at different meals, instead of
combining them all at the same time. It is this most interesting and important problem that the use of uncooked
foods will solve.
The ultimate and most scientific end that can be attained
in the study of the food question is, to find in foods the exact
requirements of a normal body; in other words, a perfectly
balanced bill of fare. This is rendered extremely difficult
when we subsist upon foods which have been changed by any
process from their elemental condition; but in subsisting upon
natural or elementary foods it is but a matter of time when the
taste will dictate the quality, and hunger the quantity, and the
perfectly balanced bill of fare becomes possible.
THE PREPARATION OF FOOD.

MANY good women have spent the best part of their lives,
and volume after volume has been written in the endeavor to
tell the world how to prepare foods. The very words, "prepare
foods," suggest to the mind that they are not right; that nature
has not finished her work; that something must be done to
them before they are fit to convert into human energy.
It suggests that they must be fixed, mixed, mashed,
smashed, bruised, ground, shredded, heated, steamed, baked,
boiled, oiled, roasted, toast ed, greased, sweetened, soured,
fermented, raised, mushed up, wet up, dried out, or in some
way changed from the way in wh ich they were handed to us
by the provident hand of nature.
The securing of food is the chief business of every living
thing on this globe. The necessity, of doing this has shaped to
a very large degree both the body and the mind. It made for
man hands suitable for plucking fruit, nuts, and things that
grew above his head high up in the air and sunshine. It gave
to the lion claws and tusks to catch and tear his food. It gave
to the hog a snout with which to root in the ground. It gave to
the stork and the crane long legs and bills. It gave to the
giraffe a long neck with which to reach buds and leaves. It
gave to the honey bee an organ to collect honey, a sack in his
own body to carry it, and intelligence enough to make his cell
in which to deposit it for future use.
In the process of ages, want creates all that is necessary.
Food taken as nature made it will produce a natural being.
When it is changed, mixed, distilled and concentrated, it is
unnatural, and it will necessarily produce an unnatural being.
For, as man is the net product of his food, as is his food, so he
must be. There is no problem in philosophy more obvious
than this.
It may be argued that our present methods of feeding are
the product of heredity, and with the long ages we have
changed the artificial into the natural. This is not true,
because the ultimate end of artificialism, that is, the violation
of natural law, is extermination. There is no such thing as
getting used to the wrong thing.
A human being can never get used to whiskey and
tobacco. They will stimulate the nervous system above par,
only to drop it farther below each time they are touched. They
leave their withering trail through the body and brain of the
real man, and sink lower and lower each day the hopes,
aspirations and emotions. They cover the faculties with a
callous veneering that finally becomes impervious to the
sweetest senses of the human heart.
Foods should be changed as little as possible from their
elementary condition. The idea of preparing foods should be
allowed to fade entirely from the human mind. It is well to
remember that they have been prepared once by a supreme
intelligence, and it is seriously to be doubted if the puny
biped called man can very much improve them. When the average mind thinks of uncooked foods, it is
wont, it seems, to fly to a meat store, more politely called a
butcher shop, for proof infallible that the scheme is wrong;
and draw a picture of one dining from the swinging carcass of
a cow or hog, or going to the corn bin and gnawing through a
crack at an ear of yellow corn.
Instead, picture a dainty table in a quiet corner, covered
with spotless linen and laden with milk, cream, egg-nog,
pecan meats, walnuts, almonds, grapes, grape fruit, bananas,
pears, apples, dates, figs and raisins, luscious red melons and
golden cantaloupes, lettuce, cucumbers, ripe olives, celery,
olive oil and a dozen other delicious things, all of which
being natural, satisfy hunger, furnish the highest form of
nutrition, and quickly appeal to  and excite the highest sense
of taste and enjoyment. It is too bad that so many good people
go through the world from the cradle to the coffin, and, after
leaving the maternal fount, never enjoy, never taste, one
good, clean, pure, delicious meal.
PREPARATION OF UNCOOKED FOODS.

THE idea of preparing foods is so firmly fixed in the minds of
women that the very suggestion of lessening their labors in
this direction suggests the idea of limiting the family
rations,—depriving the table of its pleasure and luxury;
therefore, it sometimes meets with more or less opposition.
Experience has shown that men are more willing to accept the
elementary food idea than women, particularly when it
promises to lighten the labors of their wives, mothers and
daughters.
There has been for many thousand years a sort of
competition between housewives, hotels, and all public and
private eating-places, as to which could prepare


	existing	in	both	the	linear	and	the	nonlinear	domains.	The
body,	unless	imbued	with	consciousness	and	subjective	awareness,	is	not
aware	of	its	own	existence.	It	takes	action	only	when	it	is	motivated	and
presented	with	value,	such	as	the	desire	for	enjoyment	in	the	experience	of
life.
					When	a	person	or	animal	becomes	‘dispirited’,	it	dies.	When	the	lifeforce	or	spirit	no	longer	energizes	the	body,	the	spirit	then	leaves	and	goes
to	a	different	dimension.	Although	it	is	in	a	different	dimension,	the
consciousness	level	of	the	spirit	can	still	be	calibrated	by	the	simple
muscle	test.	Some	spirits	leave	the	body	in	a	state	of	joy,	ecstasy,	or	bliss.
Others	do	so	in	the	lower	states	of	despondency,	such	as	anger,	guilt,	or
hatred.	These	states	will	then	obviously	affect	the	destination	of	the	spirit,
which	has	been	traditionally	called	the	soul	or	nonmaterial	aspect	of	life.
When	the	spirit	leaves	the	body,	its	destination	correlates	with	its	specific
level	of	consciousness	as	determined	by	its	calibrated	frequency,	which
one	can	presume	leads	to	the	different	levels	of	hell,	purgatory,	limbo,
heavens,	and	celestial	realms	as	well	as	astral	levels	(‘inner	planes’)	or
discarnate	states.
					Like	a	cork	in	water	or	a	balloon	in	the	atmosphere,	each	spirit	rises	to
its	own	level	of	buoyancy	within	the	infinite	realms	of	energy	fields	of
consciousness.	No	external	‘judgment’	or	divine	coercion	is	involved.
Each	being	radiates	forth	its	essence	and	so	determines	its	own	destiny.
Thus	is	divine	justice	perfect.	By	choice,	each	spirit	becomes	what	it	has
chosen.	Within	all	realms	there	exists	the	moment-to-moment	choice	of
the	absolute	reality	that	is	ever	present	and	whose	absolute	choice	results
in	liberation.
					By	analogy	we	could	say	that	the	soul,	united	with	a	physical	body	or
not,	is	somewhat	like	a	small	particle	within	an	electromagnetic	field.	The
attractions	and	repulsions	of	the	particle	depend	on	its	size,	charge,
polarity,	and	position	within	a	larger	field	that	includes	gradations	of
energy,	power,	and	different	qualities	to	which	the	particle	would	be
attracted	or	repelled.	All	possibilities	and	eventualities	are	therefore	a
reflection	of	the	state	of	consciousness	or	level	of	evolution	of	the
individual	within	the	All.	It	is	inescapable	because	the	individual	is	an
essential	‘part’	of	the	All.	One	could	say	that	each	level	of	consciousness
is	represented	in	the	field	as	an	‘attractor’,	as	in
chaos	theory
.
					This	design	is	observable	in	everyday	life	in	human	interaction	with	its
likes	and	dislikes,	along	with	its	attractions	and	repulsions	as	expressed	in
lifestyles,	occupational	choice,	social	behaviors,	habits,	frailties,	strengths,
and	group	identifications.
Q:	Are	there	simple	devices	or	techniques	that	facilitate	this	progression?
A:	Differentiate	the	‘this’	from	the	‘that’,	the	‘who’	from	the	‘what’,	the
‘volitional’	from	the	‘automatic’,	and	the	‘observer	from	the	‘observed’.
The	bridge	is	afforded	by	delineating	the	observer/witness/	awareness	of
consciousness.	It	is	like	differentiating	the	capacity	for	hearing	and	seeingfrom	what	is	seen	and	heard.
					The	Eye	of	the	I	is	the	Self	that	gives	the	self	its	capacity	for
awareness.	Without	the	sun	shining	forth,	nothing	would	be	visible.
Without	the	light	of	the	Self,	the	self	would	not	even	know	of	its	own
existence.	Were	it	not	for	the	awareness	of	consciousness,	neither	the	body
nor	the	ego	would	know	that	the	other	exists.	Holiness	reflects	that
Divinity	is	the	source	of	existence	of	All	That	Is,	including	the	Self.
					The	infinite,	timeless,	nondualistic	Self	shines	forth	in	the	world	of
duality	and	perception	as	self.	It	is	characteristic	of	self	to	be	unaware	of
its	actual	source.	The	ego,	in	fact,	primarily	refutes	its	source	and	instead
claims	it	to	be	separate,	autonomous,	self-activating,	and	independent.
Once	the	ego	has	advanced	to	the	level	of	reason	and	intellectual	capacity,
it	reaches	its	limit	and	seeks	beyond	itself	for	answers.	At	the	lower	levels
of	intellectual	evolution,	however,	the	intellect	tends	to	be	prideful,	it	tends
to	claim	credit	for	all	capacities	or	actions,	and	it	claims	authorship	and
sees	itself	as	the	pinnacle	of	evolution.
					The	mature	intellect,	at	some	point,	discerns	spiritual	information,
which	it	then	pursues.	Again,	it	may	be	blinded	by	pride	and
positionalities.	With	further	experience	and	serious	spiritual	work,
humility	lessens	the	grip	of	the	intellectual	ego	and	allows	for	the	more
profound	experiencing	of	progressively	higher	states	of	spiritual
awareness.	This	threshold	is	a	gift	that	accompanies	the	willingness	to
love,	and	the	inspiration	that	ensues	leads	to	emergence	into	the	realms	of
peace	and	joy.	Compassion	then	becomes	dominant	and	transforms
perception	into	vision.	With	completion	of	the	process,	the	self	dissolves
into	the	Self.	This	level,	which	calibrates	at	600,	marks	the	level	of
consciousness	that	the	world	has	traditionally	referred	to	as
Enlightenment.	At	this	point,	bliss	may	bring	about	incapacitation	as	far	as
further	functioning;	however,	if	the	bliss	itself	is	then	surrendered	to	God,
the	state	of	the	Sage	ensues.	As	this	stage	ripens,	there	may	or	may	not	be
a	return	to	the	world	where	the	Will	of	God	determines	all	that	follows.
Q:	Does	the	sense	of	self	disappear?	After	all,	the	ego	fears	death.
A:	When	the	self	dissolves	into	the	Self,	it	is	experienced	as	a	great	expansion
from	limited,	transitory,	and	vulnerable	to	immortal,	infinite	Allness	that
transcends	all	worlds	and	universes.	As	such,	the	Self	is	not	subject	to
death	or	birth,	as	it	exists	beyond	temporality.	The	obscurity	of	the	Self
was	the	result	of	merely	misidentifying	perception	as	representing	all
Reality.Q:	What	of	physical	death?
A:	It	may	sound	surprising,	but	no	one	actually	experiences	their	own	death.
There	is,	of	course,	the	experience	of	the	conditions	that	precede	death,	but
when	actual	physical	‘death’	occurs,	one	instantly	leaves	the	body
effortlessly	and	merely	witnesses	the	body’s	death.	With	separation	from
the	body,	the	former	experiencer	or	inhabitant	becomes	aware	that	it	is	a
spirit.	Sometimes	at	this	point,	denial	sets	in.	The	spirit	is	then	attracted	to
its	destination	by	the	actions	of	attraction	or	repulsion,	which	are	the
automatic	consequences	of	the	soul’s	evolution.
					Again,	the	freedom	to	choose	is	present.	Salvation	is	assisted	by
devotion	to	spiritual	truth	and	its	teachers.	The	mercy	of	God	is	infinite
and	unconditional.	The	soul	alone	has	the	power	to	determine	its	own	fate.
Each	soul	is	attracted	to	the	appropriate	level,	with	absolute	precision.
That	which	is	omn


 the body. A case in
point is illustrated by the time I was plagued with a harsh and constant
cough which was irritating the mucous linings in my throat, thus making it
exceedingly difficult for me to talk. At first I thought this was due to a
problem within the lungs and took appropriate herbs to treat what I thought
to be the source of my problem. When the irritation still did not disperse, I
suspected something else might be wrong. Using the Meridian Meditation,
I observed that the origin of the problem was not in my lungs, but in my
heart, the organ which supports the lungs. And so, after using a different set
of herbs to treat the heart, the cough began to abate the next <lay. The
Meridian Meditation can also be practiced as a preventive technique. It
171 Taoist Medit ative, Contemplative, and Breathing Exercises
gives the student a method to discern states of weakness before they
become ma jor diseases. For example, cancer takes many years to manifest
into its outward form. The inner observation one gains through Meridian
Meditation can help prevent it at its onset. Thus, this method of self
diagnosis helps a person to see all the signs before a disease begins to take
hold in the body.
Meridian Meditation is also a system of self-healing. By meditating on
sites within the body where energy has become blocked, it is possible to
re-establish an unimpeded flow of energy at this point. For thousands of
years, Meridian Meditation has been used for this purpose, and it has
contributed greatly to the physical and spiritual development of many
Taoist sages.
Meridian Meditation is learned in three stages: I. Memorizing the
meridians, 2. Feeling the energy path ways, and 3. Tracing all twelve
meridians at once.
I. First you must familiarize yourself with the meridians. To do this
thoroughly and accurately, you should buy a good acupuncture chart.
Learn them one at a time, in the prescribed sequence as they are
illustrated in the figures. The first meridian will be the lung meridian.
To reinforce its memory, use the bulb of the thumb or the tips of the
index and middle fingers to gently massage the entire length of the
meridian. As you do this follow the correct direction of the flow of
energy. Go up where the energy flows up and go down where it flows
down.
2. After becoming thoroughly acquainted with the paths of the
meridian and the direction of energy flow, try to feel the energy flow
within the meridians. The correct method is to first find a comfortable
position, either lying or sitting down. Sitting on a soft cushion is
preferable; keep the spinal column straight so that the tail bone and the
spinal column at the waist are in line. Your shoulders and back should
be relaxed, however, so that the shoulders automatically fall into their
natural position, which is slightly forward. This allows for maximum
expansion of the lungs. Place the hands on the legs with the thumbs
folded inside the palms. Empty the mind of all irrelevant, excess
thoughts and focus all of your attention upon the lung meridian. You
may want to begin by tracing the path of the lung meridian with your
fingers, as in stage I. Now pay close attention to the subjective
feeling that arises as a result of this procedure. Then keep your hands
172 Taoist Medita tive, Contempl ative, and Breathing Exercises
on your legs and try to feel a flow of energy descend down your ann
along the lung meridian. Eventually you will sense even the most
minute energy fluctuations along the meridian. Continue to repeat
this procedure along the large intestine meridian and subsequent
meridians in their appropriate order. After a number of practice
sessions, you will begin to perceive the flow of energy along the
meridians.
3. When you are able to feel the flow of energy in all twelve
meridians, you will want to do many meridians at the same time. For
instance, you may want to do all the meridians that pass through the
head, the torso, or the lower half of the body at once. To do so many at
once, you should first assume the body position described for stage 2.
Cleanse the mind of all irrelevant, excess thoughts and focus all of
your attention upon the meridians in the head. You may begin tracing
the meridians by holding your entire hand over the meridians. Do this
slowly and pay close attention to the subjective feelings that arise.
Feel for energy flows. Continue to repeat this procedure until you
sense even the most minute energy fluctuations in the head. Repeat
this procedure for all the meridians in the torso and the lower half of
the body.
NOTE A: Occasional ly, as you begin your practice, you will sense an
energy blockage where it will be difficult to follow the energy along
the particular meridian you are tracing. For example, you may feel the
energy flowing down the ann on the lung meridian, but it may stop
when you get to the elbow. Thus you will know that you have a
blockage of some sort. Begin again at the upper ann and retrace the
flow. If it blocks again, begin again until you feel an unimpeded flow
of energy. This may take several attempts or it may take weeks to get
past this area. However, when you do feel that the energy is flowing
smooth ly and freely, you will know that you have effectively pre
vented or corrected a weakne ss or disease within yourself. If the
energy does not flow prope rly after a number of attempts at one
sitting, go on to feel out the flow of energy throughout the other
meridians. Then, either when you have finished or at another sitting,
you may return to the energy block.
NOTE 8: Always keep in mind what you are doing. If the mind
wanders, then start again from the beginning. Do not be anxious to
hurry the process. First feel where the energy is going and do not
173 Taoist M edita tive, Contem plati ve, and Breathing Exercises
interrupt your feeling process. Eventually you will be able to very
directly feel the flow of energy.
With the Meridian Meditation, in as little as three months, one will be
able to willfully feel the energy flow along any one of the meridians.
Becoming consciously aware of the circulation of energy within the body
will enable one to maintain a state of energy balance under any and all
circumstances. Disease can only inhabit a body in which there is an erratic
flow of energy along the meridians.
We need to learn to make our way aro und the inner world before we can
learn to make our way arou nd the universe. By practicing this method of
meditation, one will learn how to unify the mind and the body in one's
personal microcosm. Then it will be possible to "know" the universal
macrocosm that lies beyond our apparent limitations, the goal that is
attained when we have reached the Tao.
Figure 83. Lung Meridian.
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I
Figur e 84. Large Intestin e Mer idia n
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Figure 85. Stomach Meridian.
Figure 86. Spleen-Pancreas Meridian.
176 Taoist Medit ative, Contem plative, and Breathing Exercises
Figure 88.
Small Intestine Meridi an.
Figure 87. Heart Meridian.
177 TaoiLft M�ditative, Contempl ative, and Breathing Exercises
Figure 89. Bladder Meridian.
Figure 90. Kidney Meridian.
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Figure 92.
Triple Heater Meridian.
Figure 91. Heart Constrictor Meridia n.
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Figure 93. Gallbladder Meridian.
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Sequence of Energy Flow.
Figure 94. Liver Meridian.
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MEDITATIVE AND CO NT EMPLATIVE
EXERC ISES
A person may practice the North Star Meditation, Candlelight, Sunlight,
or Moonlight Contemplations, and Concent ration Exercise for practical as
well as healing purposes. These contemplative exercises help those who
are in need of a job, health, money, intelligence, or love. For example, if
one wants to find a new job, one would imagine that the light entering into
one's head is the new job. One would put all wishes and hopes into the
meditation.


BackRelaxation.Readthroughthedirectionscompletelyonceortwicebeforeyouattempt
topracticeit.Youmayalsowanttogetataperecorderandrecord
yourownvoiceasyoureadthroughthisexercise.Thenyouwillbe
abletocloseyoureyesandlistentoyourownvoiceguideyouthroughtheimagery.Followthesesimplestepstodothistechnique:
oMakesureyouareinacomfortableposition,lyingonyourback
withyoureyesclosed.
oFocusonyourbreathingasyouallowyourmindandbodyto
relaxcompletely.
oAsyoubegintofeelyourselfbecomingrelaxed,takeadeep,sigh
ingbreath.Asyoubreatheout,letallthetensionleaveyourbody.
oTakeasecond,deep,sighingbreath,and,asyoubreatheout,allowyourmindandbodytobecompletelyrelaxed.Makesure
youfeelcompletelyrelaxedbeforeyouproceedfurtherwiththisexercise.Itisimportantnottohurryorrushthroughthisstep.
oAfteryouaresomewhatrelaxed,keepyoureyesclosed,andallow
animagetoforminyourmindofanyquiet,serene,uplifting
AdditionalMethodsandTechniques 359
place.Yourimagecouldbeabeautifuloutdoorsettingorinsidein
afavorite,cozyroomofahouse.Itcouldbeaplaceyouhaveactu
allybeentoinreallife,aplaceyousawinapicture,oratotallyfreshimagethatyouhaveneverseenbefore.‘Whateverimagebeginstoappear,donotforceorstrainwiththeimagery~anddo
notjudgeitinanyway.
*Asyoucontinuetobreatheandrelax,bepatientwiththeimagery.Allowittokeepforminginyourminduntilyouhave
afairlyclearpictureoftheplace.
•Onceyourspecialplacebeginstocomeintofocus,andyouhave
afairlyclearideaofwhereyouare,continuetobreathedeeply
andrelax.
•Allowtheimagetobecomeclearerandmorewelldefined.
•Noticeallthesenses,andanswerthesequestionsinyourmind:•
•Whatarethesights?‘Whatarethesounds?‘Whatarethesmells?
•‘Whatkindofdayisit?Whatdoestheskylooklike?‘Where
isthesun?
•Whatdoesthecountrysideorsurroundingenvironment
looklike?
•Whatsensationsareyoufeelingonyourskin?
•‘Whatistheairquality?Isitcoolorwarm?Istherehumid
ity,orisitdry?Arethereanybreezes?
•Whatareyouwearing?
•Breathedeeplyandrelaxasyouallowyourmindtoabsorbtheimages.
*Findaplacetositdown(or,ifyoufeelmorecomfortable,toliedown,orevenstand)inyourquiet,specialplace.Inyourimage,makesureyouareinacomfortableposition.
•Onceyouarecomfortableinyourspecialplace,allowyourawarenessandimaginationtogoinsideyourbody.
•Seeyourselfexaminingtheinnerworkingsofyourbodyasyougentlysurveythelandscape.
360ActivatingYourHealingSystemWhenYou’reSick
oAsyoumovearoundwithinthevariousstructuresandtissuesof
yourbody,imagineyourselfgoingonajourneyofdiscovery.
oFindaquietplace,deepwithintherecessesofyourbody’sinter
nalenvironment,whereyoufeelsafeandprotected.
oStopandrelaxonceyou’vefoundaplacewhereyoufeelcomfortable.Letyourintuitionguideyou.
0Breathedeeply,andallowyourselftorelaxinthisquietplacewithinyourbody.
oSeeyourselfwaitingwithanticipation,asyoupreparetomeet
yourhealingsystem.
0Waitforthefirstimagetoformasyourhealingsystembeginsto
comeintoview.
oAsyoubegintogetthefirstglimpsesofyourhealingsystem,allowwhateverimageisdevelopingtoformonitsown.Thereis
norightorwronghere,sothereisnoneedtojudgeanythingabouttheimage.Ifanimageformsthatistotallyunexpected,whichisoftenthecase,welcomeit.Doyourbestnottoreject
orbeafraidoftheimageofyourhealingsystemthatyourimaginationpresentstoyou.
oAllowtheimageofyourhealingsystemtocomeintoclearerfocus.Noticeallyoucanaboutitsshape,dimensions,color,tex
ture,andwhetheritismovingorstill.
oYourhealingsystemmayevenappearintheformofaperson,animal,orsomeothercreature.Itmightevenhaveafaceora
name.
oWhenyouhaveafairlyclearpictureofyourhealingsystemin
yourmind,allowyourselftocomecloseenoughtoitsoyoucanhaveaconversationwithit.Oritmaybesopowerfulthatyou
aremorecomfortablesteppingbackandcreatingdistance.Find
thedistancethatfeelsbestforyou,andadjustyourpositionto
theimagesothatyouarecomfortable.
oJustasyouwoulduponmeetinganewfriendforthefirsttime,introduceyourselftoyourhealingsystem.Oryoumayfeelasif
youaremeetinganoldfriendafteralongtime,andyouarereintroducingyourself.
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~Youmaywanttotellyourhealingsystemhowyoufeel.Ifyou
areinpain,youmaywanttosharethis,oryoumaybeangrywithitbecauseyouthinkit’snotbeendoingsuchagoodjobofprotectingyourhealth.Tellitthis.Oryoumayfeelmorecomfortableaskingyourhealingsystemmorequestionsandgetting
toknowitfirst,beforeyoutellithowyoufeel.
•Ifyouareinpain,youmayaskyourhealingsystemhowitcan
healyourpain.Ifyouaresickorhaveanillness,youmaywant
toaskithowtohealandgetbetter.
•Askyourhealingsystemwhetheryoumightbedoingsomethingthatisinterferingwithitswork.Askwhetherthereissomething
youareneglectingtodotokeepyourhealingsystemstrongandvibrant.Askhowyoucanimproveyourlifestyleandyourdailypersonalhealthhabitsinsupportofitswork.
•Askyourhealingsystemhowyoucangettoknowitbetter,and
whatitneedstobehealthyandstrong.
•Continuetoaskasmanyquestionsasyoulike.
•Remembertolistenattentivelytotheanswersthatwillbeforthcoming.Theremaybeaslightdelayinreceivingtheinforma
tion,sodon’trushtheresponses,orbeinahurry.
•Whenyouaredone,remembertosay“Thankyou”toyourhealingsystem.
•Findoutwhenyoucanmeetagain.
•Scheduleanappointmentforthenexttimeyouwillmeet.Doingthisisveryimportanttohelpyoustayaccountablefor
yourroleinthisongoinginternaldialoguewithyourhealingsystem.Becauseyourhealingsystemispunctualandalwaysavailabletoyou,itwilldefinitelyshowupatwhatevertimeand
dateyouspecify,butyoumustbespecific.
•Whenyouarefinished,say“Goodbye”toyourhealingsystem.
Afteryouhavecompletedthisguidedimagery/visualizationexercise,takeafewmomentstoreflectontheexperience.Takeapenandnotebookandwritedownasmuchinformationabouttheexperienceasyoucanremember.Whatnewinsightsdidyougain?Make
362ActivatingYourHealingSystemWhenYou’reSick
anactionplanbasedonnewideasorinformationthatyourhealingsystemhassharedwithyouinyourimagerydialogue.Nowitisuptoyoutoimplementtheseideasinyourdailylife.
So,whatareyouwaitingfor?Doittoday!Ifyoustayintouchwith
yourhealingsystem,you’llseethatitwillfunctionbetterandworkhardertokeepyouhealthyandstrong.
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	and	remains	free	of	any
obstructions.
Cleansing	the	liver	is	not	something	someone	else	can	do	for	you.	Rather,	it	is	a	self-
help	method	that	requires	a	profound	sense	of	self-responsibility	and	trust	in	the	natural,
innate	wisdom	of	the	body.	You	will	only	feel	drawn	toward	liver	cleansing	when	you
know	deep	within	yourself	that	this	is	something	you	absolutely	have	to	do.	If	you	do	not
feel	this	way,	it	may	be	best	to	put	this	book	aside	for	the	time	being	and	wait.	When	the
time	is	right,	you	will	feel	the	definite	impulse	or	desire	to	improve	your	liver’s
functioning.
Although	the	liver	cleanse	is	not	a	cure	for	diseases,	it	sets	the	precondition	for	the	bodyto	heal	itself.	In	fact,	it	is	rare	for	an	ailment	not	to	improve	by	increasing	liver
performance.	To	understand	the	great	significance	of	the	liver	cleanse,	one	needs	to
personally	experience	how	it	feels	to	have	a	liver	that	has	been	relieved	of	two	handfuls	of
gallstones.	For	many	people,	the	liver	cleanse	has	been	an	“amazing”	experience—reason
enough	for	me	to	share	it	with	those	willing	to	help	themselves.Appendix
	Suppliers	List

All	address	are	in	the	United	States,	unless	otherwise	specified.
Ionic	Water-Soluble	Minerals
Eniva	Corporation

P.O.	Box	49755
Minneapolis,	MN	55449
Toll-free:	866-999-9191
Tel:	763-398-0005
Fax:	763-795-8890
www.eniva.com
Note:
	To	order	any	products	from	Eniva,	you	require	a	sponsor	name	and	ID.	You
may	use	the	name	and	ID	of	the	author,	Andreas	Moritz,	#13462.

Kornax	Enterprises,	LLS
	(for	the	WaterOZ	products)
P.O.	Box	783
Lyons,	CO	80540
Toll-free:	877-328-1744	(U.S.	and	Canada)
Tel:	303-823-5813
Fax:	303-823-6780
www.kornax.com
Unrefined	Sea	Salt
Redmond	Minerals,	Inc.

P.O.	Box	219
Redmond,	UT	84652
Toll-free:	800-367-7258
Tel:	435-529-7402
Fax:	435-529-7486
E-mail:	mail@redmondminerals.com
www.realsalt.com

Grain	and	Salt	Society

273	Fairway	Dr.
Asheville,	NC	28805
Toll-free:	800-TOP-SALT	(800-867-7258)
Fax:	828-299-1640	E-mail:	topsalt@aol.com
www.celtic-seasalt.com
Colema	Board,	Colon	Cleanse	Equipment
Colema	Boards	of	California,	Inc.

3660	Main	St.,	Suite	C
Cottonwood,	CA	96022
Toll-free:	800-745-2446
www.colema.com

Home	and	Professional	Colon	Hydrotherapy	Equipment

www.homecolonics.com

Prime	Pacific	Health	Innovations	Corporation	(PPHIC)

#8-145	Riverside	Drive
North	Vancouver,	BC	V7H	1T6	Canada
Toll-free:	800-223-9374
Tel:	604-929-7019
Fax:	604-929-7142
www.thecolonet.com
Herbs	for	the	Kidney	Cleanse	and	Liver	Tea
The	Present	Moment	Books	and	Herbs

3546	Grand	Avenue
Minneapolis,	MN	55409
Mail	Order:	Toll-free:	800-378-3245
Tel:	612-824-3157
Fax:	612-824-2031
E-mail:	herbshop@presentmoment.com
www.presentmoment.com
Note:
	Herbs	are	very	fresh	and	potent	and	come	already	mixed.

Clay	Bath	Kits
LL’s	Magnetic	Clay,	Inc.

Toll-free:	800-257-3315
www.magneticclay.com
	or
www.magneticclaybaths.com
Used	to	remove	heavy	metals.

Products	for	Alternative	Versions	of	the	Liver	Cleanse
Prime	Health	Products

15	Belfield	Road,	Unit	6	Toronto,	Ontario	M9W	1E8	Canada
Tel:	416-248-2930
Fax:	416-248-0415
E-mail:	jchang@sensiblehealth.com
www.sensiblehealth.com
Carries
gold	coin	grass
,
Chinese	gentian
,	and
bupleurum
.

Rainforest	Pharmacy

E-mail:	sales@rainforestpharmacy.net
www.rainforestpharmacy.net
Carries
chanca	piedra	extract
.
Malic	Acid	Powder,	Food	Grade
Presque	Isle	Wine	Cellars

94440	W	Main	Rd.
North	East,	PA	16428
Tel:	814-725-1314
www.piwine.com
Carries
malic	acid	powder,	food	grade

Family	Health	News

9845	N.E	2nd	Ave.
Miami	Shores,	FL	33138
Toll-free:	800-284-6263
Tel:	305-759-9500
www.familyhealthnews.com
Carries
colosan
Water	Treatment
Water	Ionizers

Fern’s	Nutrition
16932	Gothard,	Suite	H
Huntington	Beach,	CA	92647
Tel:	714-841-5349
E-mail:	fernshealth@fernsnutrition.com
www.fernsnutrition.com

H2O	Concepts	International

6000	S.	Eastern,	Suite	#1B
Las	Vegas,	NV	89119	Toll-free:	888-275-4261
Tel:	702-270-9697
www.h20concepts.com
Prill	Water
Global	Light	Network

www.Global-Light-Network.com
	Botanical	Names	for	Herbs

Kidney	Cleanse	Herbs

Marjoram
Origanum	majorana
Cat’s	claw
Uncaria	tomentosa
Comfrey	root
Symphytum	officinale
Fennel	seed
Foeniculum	vulgare
Chicory	herb
Chichorium	intybus
Uva	ursi,	or	bearberry
Arctostaphylos
Hydrangea	root
Hydrangea	arborescens
Gravel	root
Eupatorium	purpureum
Marshmallow	root
Althaea	officinalis
Golden	rod	herb
Solidago	virgaurea

Liver	Herbs

Dandelion	root
Taraxacum	officinale
Comfrey	root
Symphytum	officinale
Licorice	root
Glycyrrhiza	glabra
Agrimony
Agrimonia	eupatoria
Wild	yam	root
Dioscorea	villosa
Barberry	bark
Berberis	vulgaris
Bearsfoot
Polymnia	uvedalia
Tanners	oak	bark
Quercus	robur
Milk	thistle	herb
Silybum	marianum

	Resources

Prime	Health	Products

15	Belfield	Road,	Unit	6
Toronto,	Ontario	M9W	1E8	Canada
Tel:	416-248-2930
Fax:	416-248-0415
www.sensiblehealth.com
A	useful	resource	for	conquering	chronic	health	problems
without	drugs	or	surgery.

Dental	Help	(online)

E-mail:	info@dentalhelp.org
www.dentalhelp.org
A	good	resource	to	learn	about	metals-free	dentistry	and	find	a
biological	dentist	in	your	area.

Gonstead	Clinical	Studies	Society

900	17th	Avenue
Santa	Cruz,	CA	95062
Toll-free:	888-556-4277
Fax:	831-476-1873
E-mail:	Michele4GCSS@aol.com
www.gonstead.com
Useful	information	about	Gonstead	Chiropractic—an	advanced	form	of	chiropractic
adjustment,	with	an	on


  can be dr eadful, and things  can get better in the
futur e, and often they do.

Usually, the future is a replica of the past. Superficial cha nges are
possible, but r eal  transformation is rare and depends upon whether you
can become present enough to d issolve the past by accessing th e power
of the Now. What you perceive as future is an intrinsic part of your state
of c onsciousnes s now. If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you
will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through
lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment iswhat sha pes the  future — whic h, of course, can only be experienced as
the Now.
Y ou may  win ten million dollars, but that kind of change is no more than
skin dee p. Y ou would simply c ontinue to act out the same conditioned
patterns in more luxurious surr oundings. Humans have learned  to split
the atom. Instead of killing ten or twenty people with a wooden club, one
person can now kill a million just by pushing a button. Is that r eal
change?
If it is the qualit y of your consc iousness at this moment that de termines
the futu re, then what is it that determines the quality of your
consciousness? Y our degree of presence. So the only place where true
change can occur and where the past can be dissolved is the Now.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and
denial of the present. Unease, an xiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms
of f ear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence.
Guilt, re gret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all  forms of
nonfor giveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.
Most people find it dif ficult to believe that a state of consciousness
totally free of al l negativity is po ssible. And yet this is the liberated state
to which  all spiritual teachings p oint. It is the promise of salvation, not in
an illusory future but right here and now.
Y ou may  find it hard to recogniz e that time is the cause of your suf fering
or your problem s. Y ou believe t hat they are caused by specific situations
in your life, and seen from a conventional viewpoint, this is true. But
until you have d ealt with the basic problem-making dysfunctio n of the
mind — its attachment to past and future and denial of the Now —
problems are actually interchangeable. If all your problems or p erceived
causes o f suf fering or unhappiness were miraculously removed  for you
today, but you h ad not become m ore present, more conscious, you wouldsoon fin d yourse lf with a simila r set of problems or causes of s uf fering,
like a shadow that follows you wherever you go. Ultimately, there is only
one problem: the time-bound mind itself.

I cannot believe that I could ever r each a point wher e I am completely
fr ee of my pr oblems.

Y ou are  right. Y ou can never r each  that point because you ar e  at that
point now.
There is  no salvation in time. Y ou cannot be free in the future. Presence
is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.
FINDING THE LIFE UNDERNEA TH YOUR LIFE SITUA TION
I don ’ t s ee how I can be fr ee now. As it happens, I am extr emely  unhappy
with my life at the moment. This is a fact, and I would be deluding myself
if I tried  to convince myself that all is well when it definitely isn’ t. T o me,
the pr esent moment is very unhappy; it is not liberating at all. What
keeps m e going  is the hope or possibility of some impr oveme nt in the
futur e.

Y ou think that your attention is in the present moment when it’ s actually
taken up completely by time. Y ou cannot be both unhappy and  fully
present in the Now.
What yo u refer to as your “life ” should more accurately be ca lled your
“life situation.” It is psychological time: past and future. Certain things
in the past didn’ t go the way you wanted them to go. Y ou  are still
resisting what happened in the past, and now you are resisting what is.
Hope is what ke eps you going, b ut hope keeps you focused on the future,
and this  continued focus perpetuates your denial of the Now and
therefore your unhappiness.
It is true that my pr esent life situation is the r esult of things that
happened in the past, but it is s till my pr esent situation, and be ing stuck
in it is what makes me unhappy.

For get about your life situation for a while and pay attention to your life.

What is the differ ence?

Y our life situation exists in time.
Y our life is now.
Y our life situation is mind-stuf f.
Y our life is real.
Find the  “narrow gate that leads to life.” It is called the Now. Narrow
your life down to this moment. Y our life situation may be full of
problems — most life situation s are — but find out if you have any
problem at this moment. Not tomorrow or in ten minutes, but now. Do
you have a problem now?
When y ou are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to
enter, no  room for a solution. S o whenever you can, make som e room,
create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.
Use you r senses  fully. Be where  you are. Look around. Just look, don’ t
interpret. See the light, shapes,  colors, textures. Be aware of the silent
presence of each thing. Be aware of the space that allows ever ything to
be. Listen to t he sounds; don’ t judge them. Listen to the  silence
underneath the sounds. T ouch something — anything — and feel and
acknowledge its Being. Observ e the rhythm of your breathing; feel the
air f lowing in a nd out, feel th e life ener gy inside your bod y. Alloweverything to be, within and w ithout. Allow the “isness” of all things.
Move deeply into the Now.
Y ou are  leaving behind the dea dening world of mental abstraction, of
time. Y ou are getting out of the insane mind that is draining yo u of life
ener gy, just as it is slowly poisoning and destroying the Earth. Y ou are
awakening out of the dream of time into the present.

ALL PROBLEMS ARE ILLUSIONS OF THE MIND
It fe els as if a heavy bur den has been lifted. A sense of lightne ss. I feel
clear... but my pr oblems ar e still ther e waiting for me, ar en’ t they? They
haven’ t been solved. Am I not just temporarily evading them?

If you found yourself in paradise, it wouldn’ t be long before your mind
would say “yes, but....” Ultimately, this is not about solv ing your
problems. It’ s about realizing that there ar e  no problems. Only situations
— to be dealt with now, or to be left alone and accepted as part of the
“isness” of the present moment until they change or can  b e dealt with.
Problems are mind-made and ne ed time to survive. They canno t survive
in the actuality of the Now.
Focus y our attention on the Now and tell me what problem yo u have at
this moment.

 I am  no t getting any answer because it is impossible to have a problem
when your attention is fully in the Now. A situation that needs to be
either dealt with or accepted — yes. Why ma ke it into a problem? W hy
make anything into a problem? Isn’ t life challenging enough as it is?
What do you need problems for? The mind unconsciously loves
problems because they give you an identity of sorts. This is normal, and
it is insane. “P roblem” means that you are dwelling on a situation
mentally withou t there being a true intention or possibility o f taking
action n ow and that you are unc onsciously making it part of yo ur sense
of se lf. Y ou bec ome so overwhelmed by your life situation that you lose
your sen se of life, of Being. Or you are carrying in your mind the insane
burden of a hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future
instead of focusing your attention on the one thing that you can  do now.
When you create a problem, you create pain. All it takes is a simple
choice, a simple decision: no matter what happens, I will create no more
pain for myself. I will create no more problems. Although it is  a simple
choice, i t is also very radical. Y ou won’ t make that choice unles s you are
truly fed  up with suf fering, unless you have truly had enough. And you
won’ t be able to go through with it unless you access the power of the
Now. If you


 better,” Sandra says.
“I took no other  medication or nutritional supplementation other than what
the Gers on diet prescribes—the  niacin, coenzymeQ10, thyroid, potassium,
acidol/pepsin, pancreatin, and liver. These simple supplements, the diet
itself, the juices, and the detox  worked for me. I am alive and thriving
today, fourteen years after being  diagnosed with the cancer, because of my
faithfully following the Gerson Therapy [see the photograph below showing
how Sandra Whitwell appears today].
“The detoxification is difficult to take and people should be aware of
what to expect. I kept a diary so that I know what I went through and how
to cope with the flareups. Perhaps you would want some of my suggestions
for achieving a successful Gerson Therapy,” wonders Sandra Whitwell.
“Would you?”Sandra Whitwell
Sandra’ s Suggestions for a Successful Gerson Therapy
Having faithfull y pursued the Gerson Therapy full-time for two years,
and still making it her total lifestyle, Sandra Whitwell affirms that this
procedure has saved her life and restored her health. Durin g that time
almost fifteen years ago Sandra  accepted the Gerson program as her anti-
ovarian-cancer treatment, and nothing else. She still eats, juices, and
cleanses according to the Gerson therapy’ s regulations and occasionally
returns to the nearest Gerson facility for further program updates. She
looked the picture of robust health when we visited with her at the Gerson
hospital for one full week in November 1999.
“Two years is not so long to ensure that you will live, and during the
process you are renewing every cell in your liver—the main  portion ofone’s immune system,” says Sandra. “The Gerson method is not for wimps;
however, it takes fighters! This natural and nontoxic treatment is difficult,
because you’re not just popping  a pill or having some health professional
do something to you or for you. Instead, you must help yourself  and call for
personal assistance from famil y or friends when needed, at least in the
beginning. Most of us are too accustomed to eating fast foods, looking for
fast fixes for what ails us, and taking the easy way out. Not so with the
Gerson Therapy; it’ s a life-changing treatment!
“From my experience, I put together some suggestions for achieving
success with conquering cancer and other chronic illnesses by use of the
Gerson Therapy. In no particu lar order of importance, my suggestions
follow:
• Keep a diary  to record your emotional swings, healing reactions,
deviations from the Gerson program, responses of outsiders to how you
are eatin g or what you’re doing. You’ll discover what you’ve done to
bring on a flare-up. And from their comments, you’ll learn who are your
real friends.
• Try to prepare foods and procedures in advance of the next day after
drinking your last daily juice. Not enough time is left to spare during
each day for making coffee, taking ‘coffee breaks,’ engaging in castor oil
enema days, fixing the medicati ons, taking in organically grown produce
shipments, cleaning the veggies, studying recipes, and planning meals.
Being or ganized is a plus for your self-treatment.
• Watch the Gerson videos, read the Gerson books, listen to the Gerson
audiotapes. After almost fiftee n years of participating in the Gerson
Therapy, I still do this and learn new information every time.
• On castor oil days, start early with drinking the terrible stuff. Use the
little medicine cups as dosage forms. (Use of castor oil is not for anyone
who has been pretreated with chemotherapy.) I always put one
tablespoonful of cranberry juice or apple juice in my cup first and then
add the required  two tablespoonfuls of castor oil. The mixture goes down
more readily with juice added. Then, after swallowing the mixture, I taste
the juice  rather than the oil. Always drink one cup of hot coffee directly
after swallowing the castor oil mixture to speed up the process of the oil
going through your gastrointestinal tract.
• Next after drinking the castor oil, eat a piece of fruit and take your first
coffee enema. Undoubtedly this will be a ‘yucky-feeling’ day, buttomorrow you will definitely feel much better! In my opinion,  drinking
the castor oil is easier on the body than taking a castor oil enema.
• To prepare the castor oil enema, my suggestion is slightly dif ferent from
the Gerson regulation. Put warm  distilled water in the bucket and run that
water through the tube into the tub or shower. Then shut off the tube
leaving the warm water in it. Pour out the excess water that remains in
the bucket. Put castor oil and ox bile mix (no soap) in the bucket. Now
open the tube and allow water  to flow out into the tub or shower (or
toilet); as the water flows out it pulls the oil mixture into the tube. The
tube should hold the full amou nt of mixture needed. Shut off the tube!
Now fill the bucket with the coffee mixture, and you are ready  for your
castor oil coffee cleansing. This enema is usually hard to hold—don’ t
worry! Hold as long as possible  and still benefit from taking a castor oil
cleanse. As it happens, this method which had been recom mended
previously is now discontinued by the Gerson hospital, but I find it still
works well for me.
• Chamo mile tea enemas are always welcome to take when you have
released toxins causing you to feel unable to hold the coffee during a
cleansing. Cham omile taken rectally is soothing, and on castor oil days
especially, may be easier to hold.
• Never become upset when you can’t hold the coffee enema. Sometimes
you just need to try again or maybe wait until your next coffee-cleansing
time. Just keep trying until you become practiced at doing the enema and
look forward to the good feeling with which it leaves you.
• A trick I use for those rare times when I’m having a hard time holding
the coffee enema is to slow down the flow. I feel fewer spasms if it takes
about five minutes to flow in. Slow the flow by lowering your bucket or
closing the valve on the tube and opening periodically.
• If you have tried slowing the enema flow but still feel spasms, put a
teaspoonful of potassium into the four cups of coffee solutio n. At the
beginning of using the Gerson approach, your body may well be
potassium-depleted which manifests itself by abdominal spasms.
• To reduce or eliminate niacin flush, take this vitamin B3 only on a full
stomach. Alternatively, let the niacin tablet melt in your mouth  or under
the tongue. That’ s what I do.
• If you hire help for daily assist ance, employ two or three peop le so that
if someone doesn’ t show for the work shift, you’ll have a backu p personto do a double shift. If the absent person is sick, you won’ t want him or
her around anyway since you’re fighting enough against illness.
• Don’t play the mind games thrown at you by your subconscious or by
other people. Think positively, play good music, count your blessings,
think of the troubles others are experiencing, and realize that yours are
surmountable. Self-pity will get you nowhere. As I’ve suggested, your
diary is the place to write down your thoughts to get rid of them from
your head. Then you can dwell on better things. Tomorrow, when you
reread your diary, you will wonder why you were in such a bad state of
mind.
• Each phase in this step-by-step process—juices, food, medications,
coffee—is impo rtant. Work hard! Stay with a stick-to-it attitude! Be
disciplined! Succeed!
• Finally, remember that God never gives you more than you can handle.
There is a reason for going through this tribulation. After coming out
from under your trouble, you may be the one to save someone else’s life
beside your own!”
—Sandra Whitwell, Stuart, V irginia
PANCREA TIC CANCER  REMAINS  GONE FOR  ALMOST  FIFTEEN  YEARS
In Septemer 1985, pneumonia  developed for forty-six-year -old Mrs.
Ronald (Patricia) Ainey of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Despite
her being a cigarette smoker and alcoholic beverage drinker, she had
sustained good general health throughout her life until that 1985 date. Then,
in Janua ry 1986, internist Bennett A. Horner, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C), also of
Nanaimo, using CAT scan guida nce, had a biopsy performed (tissue drawn
out with a fine needle) from a tumor site on Pat Ainey’ s pancreas. The
object of this scan and biopsy was to differentiate pancreatic cancer from
several other conditions: benign pancreatitis, pseudocyst, islet cell
carcinoma, or lymphoma. Dr. Horner confirmed the woman’ s diagnosis by
letter to her family physician in the same town, A. C. Baird, M.B., CH


 worst type of tumor. He effectively said there was no hope.
She again brought up the hydrazine to him and this time she insisted on using it. "Do what you have to do." was his reply. She began
the recommended course of treatment in addition to the chemo. Her appetite immediately improved to the point where she began
eating double portions. Three weeks after she started the hydrazine, her checkup showed a big turnaround. Her tumor level was
down to 1.4 and she had gained 15 lbs!
The doctor couldn't believe the results of the exam. He said he was happy for her but couldn't understand what had happened. "Well,
I know what has happened!" she replied. She is continuing to improve and is continuing the hydrazine dosage. Her spirits are great
once again. She is up to 129 lbs! I am spreading the news of this wonderful treatment by word of mouth because her doctor still
refuses to believe. It's just an anomaly to him.
It's a shame but the medical profession has some of the most closed minds in the world. I'm sure some of his other patients would
beneﬁt from this treatment, but they will never hear about it from him. How typical of today's medical "professionals". Gary.
Thank you very much for your efforts to despatch the shipment as quickly as possible. As you are aware, it arrived last Tuesday, and
since then we have seen a signiﬁcant improvement in Nick's condition. His quality of life is much better; he is eating, up and dressed,
receiving lots of visitors, and is generally much, much better than he was as a bedridden patient, seemingly on his last legs, only a
week or so ago. The effect of the hydrazine sulfate has provided a real morale boost to us all. It has also impressed the local medical
profession, who were initially quite dismissive. I have received a numb er of requests for more information, and (if they have Net
access) am referring people to your W eb site. David
My husband was told he had small cell lung cancer in Feb. we were told that with both radiation and chemo he had a good chance to
beat it. Then after 2 months of treatment they did a bone scan and discovered the cancer was throughout the body in the bones. I
found where I could get some hydrazine sulfate and he started it after the Dr. said there was nothing more he could do for him. He
has just ﬁnished his ﬁrst seven weeks of hydrazine. The Dr. did another bone scan, all of the small spots of cancer have gone, there
are three large spots on the left side so we are going to try chemo again for a couple of months and then go back on the hydrazine.
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Orgasm is generally regarded as the ultimate goal of recreational sex. Wilhelm Reich was the ﬁrst scientist to describe the nature and
purpose of the orgasm as a discharge of excess bio-energy with the additional liberation of feeling energy, and he also recognized
the negative consequences of blocked sexual energies.
Unfortunately, in addition to exciting peaks, orgasms tend to produce powerful negative side-ef fects that are only now becoming
better understood. This is due to predictable trends in hormonal activity which seem to be similar in all mammals to ensure certain
evolutionary objectives, especially the wide mixing of gene pools and the safe raising of offspring. This is achieved with the following
neurochemical changes.
The main players are dopamine, the reward hormone; prolactin, the horm one of satiation; oxytocin, the cuddle hormone, and levels of
androgen receptors, which all powerfully affect our mood, our desire for intimacy, our perception of our mate, as well as our
susceptibility to addictive activities and substances. These hormones can also have dif ferent but generally related functions.
Additionally the stimulant phenylethylamine (PEA) is involved, which is also present in cocoa and chocolate and elevates energy,
mood and attention. PEA is produced in greater amounts when one is in love; conversely a deﬁciency (common in manic-
depressives) causes unhappy feelings.
When we ﬁrst fall in love we become bonded by rising PEA, oxytocin and dopamine levels When we are sexually aroused by close
contact our dopamine level rises further and at the time of orgasm we have a dopamine brainstorm which one researcher compared
to the effects of heroin on the brain. Dopamine is active in all addictions,  even in people who have forgotten what sex is. Most of this
activity is in the limbic system, the oldest part of the brain.
Dopamine Levels
EXCESS DEFICIENT "NORMAL"
Addictions Addictions Motivated
Anxiety Depression Feelings of well-being satisfaction
CompulsionsAnhedonia - no pleasure, world
looks colorlessPleasure, reward in accomplishing
tasks
Sexual fetishes Lack of ambition and drive Healthy libido
Sexual addiction Inability to "love” Good feelings toward others
Unhealthy risk-taking Low libido Healthy bonding
Gambling Erectile dysfunction Healthy risk taking
Compulsive activitiesNo remorse about personal
behaviorSound choices
Aggression ADD/ADHD Realistic expectations
Psychosis Social anxiety disorder Maternal/Paternal love
Schizophrenia Antisocial behavior
(From: http://www.reuniting.info/science/sex_and_addiction )
After orgasm dopamine levels fall sharply with the usual withdrawal symptoms. This reaction tends to be immediate in males and
delayed in females. Also prolactin levels rise, and androgen receptors fall after orgasm. Low testosterone is associated with irritability
and anger. In sexually-satiated rats it has been shown that serotonin and endorphin levels also rise, and this also decreases
dopamine and raises prolactin levels. Oxytocin levels fall after conventional orgasm but remaining in close contact may help to
counter this drop and sustain oxytocin levels.
Behavioral changes from this disturbed hormone equilibrium have been noticed for up to two weeks. During this time we may be
more irritable, dissatisﬁed, anxious or depressed, and instead of seeing the good side of our mate, we may now be painfully aware of
his or her shortcomings.
This is exactly the same process and length of time prolactin levels need to recover during withdrawal from cocaine.
Symptoms associated with excess Prolactin
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Loss of libido Loss of libido
Mood changes / depression Mood changes / depression
Hostility, anxiety Impotence
Headache Headache
Menopausal symptoms, even when estrogen is
sufﬁcientInfertility
Signs of increased testosterone levels Decreased testosterone levels
Weight gain Weight gain
Intercourse may become painful because of vaginal dryness
(From: http://www.reuniting.info/science/sex_and_addiction )
Initially, during the honeymoon period of our relationship, we remain strongly bonded by high oxytocin levels, and quickly overcome
our hormonal blues by having more sex. Initially sex stimulates us to crave for more sex. This leads to rapid rises and falls in
dopamine levels and corresponding rapid emotional ﬂuctuations in our relationship. Later we become less and less interested in sex
with our partner (perhaps because we subconsciously begin to associate him or her with the “lows” of the cycle, or perhaps because
we grow tired of being used as a ﬁx, and therefore feel less attraction), and now we try to prop up our dopamine level by becoming
addicted to some kind of food or drug, or by becoming interested in a new sexual partner. Basically this type of behavior is the same
for humans, primates, mammals and reptiles because it originates from the primitive part of our brain.
Further evidence of a lasting post-orgasm hangover comes from sexually  exhausted male rats. The number of androgen receptors in
the hypothalamus declines, reducing the effectiveness of testosterone and changing sexual behavior. These changes last for about
seven days, corresponding to a lack of libido of the rats.
In addition to serving as a sexual brake, prolactin also affects our moods and behavior somewhat like a hormone of resignation. For
example caged wild monkeys initially had high levels of the stress hormone cortisol but gradually prolactin levels rose as they
became resigned to their fate. Prola ctin levels were highest after seven months. With raised prolactin levels they do not mate, which
looks like the same ef fect that we see in long-term relationships without close