10
minutes or until the mixture turns to a medium-thick syrup. Using tongs,
remove the cinnamon sticks and reserve. 4. Add nectarines and raspberries and bring to a boil over high heat, stirring
constantly. Redu ce heat and boil gently, stirring frequently, for about 10minutes or until nectarines are soft but still holding their shape. 5. M eanwhile, cut the vanilla bean into 3 equal pieces. Set aside  along with
cinnamon sticks. 6. Skim of f and  discard any foa m. Using a slotted spoon, fill four hot jars
with fru it, leavi ng a 1-inch (2. 5 cm) headspace. Slide a vani lla piece or
cinnamon stick down the inside of the jar. 7. Pour hot syrup through a sma ll sieve over fruit, leaving a 1/2-inch (1 cm)
headspace. 8. R un a thin non-metallic utensil around the inside of the jar to  allow air to
escape. A dd mo re syrup, if nece ssary, to leave a 1/2-inch (1 cm) headspace. W ipe rims, top with flat lids and screw on metal rings. Return jars to the hot
water bath. 9. Fill remaining two hot jars with hot syrup, pouring through a strainer to
catch the raspberry seeds. 10. Leav e a 1/2-inch (1 cm) he adspace. Slide a reserved vanilla piece or
cinnamon stick down the inside  of the jar. W ipe rims, top with flat lids and
screw on  metal rings. Return jar s to the hot water bath, topping up with hot
water if  necessary. Bring to a  full rolling boil and process jars for 15
minutes ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ).11. Remove canner lid and wait  5 minutes before removing jars to a towel
or rack to cool completely. Check seals, label and store in a cool place for
up to 1 year. c u r r i e d  s u m m e r  s t o n e  f r u i t  p r e s e r v e
Sometimes when  the bounty of the or char d and gar den seems boundless, the
most I can do to keep up is to pr epar e stone fruits for fr eezing. This has the
advantage of pr oviding mor e time to enjoy summer pursuits while allowing
for furth er pr oce ssing once the rush is over. Her e is a favourite r ecipe for a
delicate all-fruit curried pr eserv e using fr ozen fruit. For fr eezing, I simply
measur e the acidulated fruit sli ces into 4-cup (1 L) portions and dry pack
them. If, like me, you make your own curry and garam masala s pice blends,
you will know whether you would like to add mor e or less than the amounts
given her e.
Of course, you can use fr esh fruit or a combination of fr esh and fr ozen fruit
in this delicious pr eserve. While I call this a pr eserve, it is mor e like fruit floating in thick, lightly
curried sauce, which makes it perfect for vegetable and chicken stir -fry
r ecipes. Don’ t be tempted to add mor e liquid. Once the fruits r elease their
juice, th er e is mor e than enough to cover the fruit in the jars. I suggest that
you use 1-cup (250 mL) jars b ecause that is the most useful amount for
r ecipes. Naturally, you can fill pint (2-cup/500 mL) or even quart (1 L) jars
if you happen to have a lar ge-quantity r ecipe in mind for feeding a cr owd. MAKES ABOUT 10 CUPS (2.5 L)
1—1/2 cups (375 mL) water
grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
1–1/2 cups (375 mL) granulated sugar
1 tbsp (15 mL) curry powder
2 tsp (10 mL) garam masala spice blend pinch salt6 cups (1.5 L) nectarine slices, fr ozen or fr esh
4 cups (1 L) peach slices, fr ozen or fr esh
4 cups (1 L) apricot quarters or slices, fr ozen or fr esh

1. Heat ten 1-cu p (250 mL) jars  in boiling water, and scald the lids, lifter,
funnel and tongs ( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ). 2. In a M aslin pan or canning kettle, combine water, lemon rind and lemon
juice. Bring to a boil over high heat. Add granulated sugar, stirring
constantly to dissolve. Stir in cu rry powder, garam masala and salt. Reduce
heat and boil gently, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes. Add nectarines,
peaches and apricots. Increas e heat and boil for 1 minute, stirring
constantly. 3. S kim of f and discard any foam. Using a slotted spoon, fill h ot jars with
hot f ruit. Ladle hot syrup into jars, covering the fruit and leavin g a 1/2-inch
(1 c m) h eadspace. Run a thin n on-metallic utensil around the inside of the
jar to allow air to escape. Add m ore hot syrup, if necessary, to leave a 1/2-
inch (1 cm) headspace. W ipe r ims, top with flat lids and screw on metal
rings. Return jars to the hot water bath, topping up with h ot water if
necessary. Bring  to a full rolling boil and process jars for 20 minutes
( Boiling W ater Method, Step by Step ). 4. Remo ve cann er lid and wait 5 minutes before removing jars t o a towel or
rack to cool com pletely. Check seals, label and store in a cool place for up
to 1 year. Use: This beautiful golden preserve shimmers as a sweet-savoury
accompaniment to fish, meats and vegetable dishes. If you add a few
tablespoons of the syrup to gravy or white sauce, it will ligh tly flavour
them. c u r r i e d  s u m m e r  s a l a dI ha ve to admit that, like all artists and writers, I take inspiration fr om
everyone and everything ar ound me. It’ s a natural pr ocess, I gue ss. So when
my niece  served  this delicious salad for a family pool party, it was so fr esh,
so c olourful, so … well, summe ry, I knew that it had to be included in this
book. In  fact, befor e anyone cou ld dig in, I picked up my came ra and took
the shot below! What I like about these kinds of r ecipes is that they ar e expanda ble. Y ou can
add any fr esh summer fruit a nd use almost any compote, chutney or
pr eserve* in this book for the d r essing. In fact, I have slightly tweaked the
original version, adding r ed onion and taking away the fr esh dill and
r osemary. Fr ozen cooked shrimp ar e easy to keep on hand, making this a
gr eat last-minut e lunch at the cottage or on the patio. I particularly like the
light-handed curry flavour with the seafood and mango in this version, but
would be happy with any fruit-flavour ed vinaigr ette. MAKES 6 SER VINGS
juice of 1 lemon
3 mangoes
3 avocados
2 cups (500 mL) sliced mushr ooms
1/2 r ed onion, thinly sliced
2 lb (1 kg) cooked jumbo shrimp, thawed (or fr esh jumbo shrimp,
peeled, deveined, cooked and cooled)
1 cup (250 mL) Curried Summer Stone Fruit Pr eserve

1. Strain lemon juice into a lar ge mixing or salad bowl. Peel and dice the
mangoes, one at a time, into the lemon juice, tossing to coa t after each
addition. Peel, pit and cut the avocados into cubes, one at a tim e, into the
mango mixture, tossing to coat with lemon juice after each addition. 2. S tir in mush rooms and onion. Add shrimp. Pour half of the Curried
Summer Stone Fruit Preserve o ver the salad and toss well. T aste and add
remaining preserve if desired. * If you use a thicker homema de preserve, thin it a little to a thick sauce
consistency by adding a small amount of orange or apple juice. Fr eezing Nectarines
1. Select Equipment:  Se lect suitable-size freezer c ontainers, bags or
Mason jars ( Freezing ). 2. F r eeze Individual Slices:  Line a baking sheet with w axed paper. Arrange nectari ne slices, closely packed, in a single layer on the sheet. Cover with waxed paper and arrange another layer of nectarine slices. Freeze the slices in the coldest part of the freezer.


 Mom, if you want to risk your back on a few chairs be-
cause you can’t wait a few minutes, I guess there is little I can do to
dissuade you.” It will take some time, but their behavior will begin
to change once they see they cannot force you to choose guilt. Once
you de-fuse the guilt, the emotional control over you and the possib-
ility of manipulation are eliminated forever. • Do something which you know is bound to result in feelings of
guilt. As you check into a hotel, and a bellboy is assigned to show
you to a room that you are perfectly capable of finding alone with
your one small piece of luggage, announce that you’ll do it alone. If
you’re rejected, tell your unwanted companion that he is wasting
his time and energy since you will not be leaving a tip for a service
that you don’t want. Or take a week to be alone if you’ve always
wanted to do so, despite the104 / Your Erroneous Zonesguilt-engendering protestations from other members of your family. These kinds of behavior will help you to tackle that omnipresent
guilt that so many sectors of the environment are adept at helping
you to choose. • The following dialogue represents a role-working exercise in a
counseling group led by myself, in which a young girl (23) was
confronting her mother (being played by another group member)
about wanting to leave the nest. The mother was using every con-
ceivable guilt-producing response to keep her from leaving home. This dialogue was the end product of an hour of teaching the
daughter how to outmaneuver her mother’s guilt-producing state-
ments. DAUGHTER : Mother—I’m leaving home. MOTHER : If you do, I’ll have a heart attack, you know how
my heart is, and how I need you to help me with my medicine
and all. DAUGHTER : You’re concerned about your health and you
think you can’t make it without me. MOTHER : Of course I can’t. Look, I’ve been good to you all
these years, and now you’re just walking out, leaving me
here to die. If that’s all you think of your mother, go ahead. DAUGHTER : You think that because you’ve helped me as a
child that I should repay you by staying here and not become
independent and be on my own. MOTHER : (Clutching at her chest) I’m having a tachycardia
attack right now. I think I’m going to die. You’re killing me,
that’s what you’re doing. DAUGHTER : Is there anything you’d like to say to me before
you leave?”
In this dialogue, the daughter refused to yield to the obvious guilt
producers offered by her mother. The daughter had been aTHE USELESS EMOTIONS—GUILT AND WORRY  / 105literal slave, and any effort to be on her own had always been met
with guilt-engendering talk. Mamma was willing to use anything
to keep her daughter dependent and in her control, and the daughter
either had to learn new responses or be a slave to her mother and
her own guilt for the rest of her life. Take careful notice of the
daughter’s responses. They all begin with references to her mother
as responsible for her own feelings. By saying “You feel,” rather
than “I feel,” the potential for guilt is tactfully minimized. Such is guilt in our culture—a convenient tool for manipulating
others and a futile waste of time. Worry, the other side of the coin,
is diagnostically identical to guilt, but focuses exclusively on the
future and all of the terrible things that might  happen. A Closer Look at Worry
There is nothing to worry about! Absolutely nothing. You can
spend the rest of your life, beginning right now, worrying about the
future, and no amount of your worry will change a thing. Remember
that worry is defined as being immobilized in the present as a result
of things that are going or not going to happen in the future. You
must be careful not to confuse worrying with planning for the future. If you are planning, and the present-moment activity will contribute
to a more effective future, then this is not worry. It is worry only
when you are in any way immobilized now about a future happen-
ing. Just as our society fosters guilt, so it encourages worry. Once again
it all begins with equating worrying with caring. If you care about
someone, the message goes, then you are bound to worry about the
person. Thus, you’ll hear sentences like, “Of course I’m worried, it’s
only natural when you care about someone” or “I can’t help worry-
ing, it’s because I love you.” Thus, you prove your love by doing an
appropriate amount of worrying at the correct time.106 / Your Erroneous ZonesWorry is endemic to our culture. Almost everyone spends an in-
ordinate amount of present moments worrying about the future. And all of it is for naught. Not one moment of worry will make
things any better. In fact, worry will very likely help you to be less
effective in dealing with the present. Moreover, worry has nothing
to do with love which predicates a relationship in which each person
has the right to be what he chooses without any necessary conditions
imposed by the other. Think of yourself as being alive in 1860, at the beginning of the
Civil War. The country is mobilizing for war, and there are approx-
imately thirty-two million people in the United States. Each of those
thirty-two million folks has hundreds of things to worry about and
they spend many present moments agonizing about the future. They
worry about war, the price of food, the draughts, the economy, all
the things that you worry about today. In 1975, some 115 years later,
all of those worriers are dead and all their combined worrying did
not change a moment of what is now history. The same is true of
your own worry times. When the earth is populated by an entirely
new crew, will any of your worry moments have made a difference? No. And, do any of your worry times make a difference today, in
terms of changing the things you worry about? No, again. Then this
is one zone that you must tidy up, since you are just wasting those
precious present moments on behavior that has absolutely no posit-
ive payoff for you. Much of your worry concerns things over which you have no
control. You can worry all you want about war, or the economy, or
possible illness, but worry won’t bring peace or prosperity or health. As an individual you have little control over any of those things. Moreover the catastrophe you’re worrying about frequently turns
out to be less horrible in reality than it was in your imagination. I worked with Harold, who was forty-seven years old, for several
months. He was worried about being laid off and not being able to
support his family. He was a compulsive worrier. He began losing
weight, was unable to sleep and was gettingTHE USELESS EMOTIONS—GUILT AND WORRY  / 107sick frequently. In counseling, we talked about the futility of worry
and how he could choose to be content. But Harold was a true
worrier, and he felt that it was his responsibility to worry about
possible impending disaster every day. Finally, after months of
worry, he did receive his pink slip and was unemployed for the first
time in his life. Within three days, he had secured another position,
one which paid more, and gave him a great deal more satisfaction. He had used his compulsiveness to find the new job. His search was
rapid and relentless. And all of his worry had been useless. His
family had not starved, and Harold had not collapsed. Like most
worry-producing gloom pictures in one’s head, the eventuality res-
ulted in benefits, rather than horror. Harold learned firsthand the
futility of worry, and he has actually begun to adopt a nonworry
stance in his life. In a clever essay on worry in The New Yorker,  entitled “Look for
the Rusty Lining,” Ralph Schoenstein satirizes worry. What a list! Something old and something new, something
cosmic yet something trivial too, for the creative worrier must
forever blend the pedestrian with the immemorial. If the sun
burns out, will the Mets be able to play their entire schedule at
night? If cryogenically frozen human beings are ever revived,
will they have to re-register to vote? And if the little toe disap-
pears, will field goals play a smaller part in the National Foot-
ball League? *
You may be in the professional worrier classification, creating
unnecessary stress and anxiety in your life as a result of the choices
you are making to worry about every conceivable kind of activity. Or you may be a minor league worrier concerned only about your
own personal problems. The following list rep-
*Ralph Schoenstein, “Look for the Rusty Lining,” The New Yorker  (Feb. 3, 1975).108 / Your Erroneous Zonesresents the most common responses to the question, “What do you
worry about?”
Typical Worry Behaviors in our Culture
I gathered the following data from some two hundred adults at
a lecture one evening. I call this your worry sheet, and you can give
yourself “worry points” similar to


 of the missing dark side of yourself that only pops up here and there when nobody is
looking, is that we might subconsciously equate being healthy with suffering. The suffering associated
with the effort needed to become healthy can manifest in many forms: complaining about exercise,
believing in disempowering information, or not wanting to pay extra for healthy foods or a better
dentist. These behaviors are a result of the interplay between your light side that wants to get healthy,
and your dark side that does not care or that does not want health. Putting more commitment and energy behind your goal of health requires positive feelings, beliefs and
good will. If you are not fully committed to this positive result, then there must be some hidden
negativity. This hidden dark side feels as though it has to suffer. It does not want the best. The dark
side can make it hard for you to take care of yourself. To help transform the dark side you cannot
simply ignore it and push it away. That would merely create more darkness. Just as there is nothing
wrong with the dark side of the moon, your own dark side is not bad; it is simply a part of life that
needs to be accepted. The way to cause a transformation is to bring light (awareness) to the darkness
(unconsciousness). To help heal this hidden internal dilemma, I suggest three things:

1
. Acknowledge and look for the unconscious wish to not live, or to not be healthy. 2
. Meditate upon, or pray for help, or discuss with friends your dark side. Look for ways to bring
the dark side into the light. 3
. Commit to excellence. Without force, see if you are willing to make the simple commitment that
“I want the best for myself,” or “I deserve the best in life.”
Making a new commitment to yourself or to life is the first step towards breaking the vicious cycle oftooth decay. Then you can start to see the hidden gold of your suffering, and that there are important
lessons, meaning and purpose in your life, if you are willing to embrace them.Busting the Myth that Food-Stuck-On-Teeth Causes Cavities
Dentists, it is time to give up this arcane concept that carbohydrates fermenting on teeth are eaten by
acid-producing bacteria that cause tooth decay. This theory is akin to saying that rain causes your roof
to leak. When the roof of your home is sealed and well cared for it will not leak whether it rains or
not. Likewise when your tooth enamel is strong and healthy your teeth will not be affected by the
changing conditions in your mouth. W.D. Miller, the originator of the bacterial theory of tooth decay,
said it himself in 1883, “What we might call the perfect tooth
would resist indefinitely
 the same acid
to which a tooth of opposite character would succumb in a few weeks." Because bacteria are
everywhere, trying to eliminate bacteria from your mouth to prevent tooth decay would be like trying
to eliminate rain from the sky to prevent a leaky roof. Many of the cultures Dr. Weston Price studied relied upon a significant portion of their diet from
carbohydrates including milk and carbohydrate-rich grain products, yet suffered practically no tooth
decay. The healthy Gaelic people of the Outer Hebrides, who ate approximately 1000 calories of
properly prepared oats per day, had almost no tooth decay (0.7-1.3% of all teeth affected). The
isolated Swiss of the Loetschental Valley, who ate approximately 800 calories per day of properly
prepared rye bread, had little evidence of tooth decay (0.3%- 5.2% of all teeth affected). The 5.2%
figure comes from the Visperterminen region where both potatoes and wine were used; the other
isolated Swiss, with higher immunity to cavities, did not use wine and may not have used potatoes. The isolated Swiss, with near total immunity to tooth decay, did not even use toothbrushes, and had
typical deposits of food on their teeth all the time without any tooth decay. Indigenous people throughout the world did not typically brush or floss. Dr. Price comments on the
impossibility of keeping teeth clean by brushing and flossing:
Among the difficulties in applying this interpretation is the physical impossibility of keeping teeth
bacteriologically clean in the environment of the mouth. Another difficulty is the fact that
many
primitive races have their teeth smeared with starchy foods almost constantly
 and make no effort
whatsoever to clean their teeth. In spite of this they have no tooth decay. 28
 (Emphasis added.) The theory that bacteria in our mouth produce acids, which then cause tooth decay, is a false
conclusion. Saliva has a basic pH and will neutralize acids in the mouth rather rapidly. The digestive
enzymes in our saliva rapidly dissolve carbohydrates in our mouths. For example, bread can turn into
liquid after being chewed several times. By the way, this section was not written to encourage people
to abandon cleaning their teeth and mouths. The practice of dental and oral hygiene has many social
benefits.Tooth Care
Healing Tooth Pain
When the nutritional program is successful, tooth pain will decrease and teeth will feel firmer in your
mouth. In some cases your teeth will need extra help as fast as possible. The following treatments are
not full remedies, but rather intermediate treatments that help stop tooth pain. Here are seven of the
most successful treatments for halting tooth pain. Each treatment can stand alone, or you can try
several of them together. Place clove oil or powdered cloves on the painful tooth. Swish organic sesame seed or coconut oil in your mouth for 5-10 minutes and then spit it out. This is called oil pulling and is also a good method for cleansing the body and improving oral
health. Place goldenseal powder on or near the painful tooth. Place oil of oregano on the tooth. Dissolve a moderate amount of natural salt in a small amount of water and swish it in your mouth
for at least one minute. Repeat several times throughout the day. Echinacea, also known as the "toothache plant," can be applied topically on the tooth and/or
taken internally using the tincture or powdered form. Supplementing with vitamin B 5, pantothenic acid. Food sources rich in B 5 include: liver,
sunflower seeds, shiitake mushrooms and eggs. Dental Sealants
Many dental sealants contain hormone-altering chemicals, including bisphenol A. 29
 There are two
purported less-toxic approaches; one is a resin sealant made by Ultradent, and the other is a glass
ionomer sealant. The problem with resin sealants is that they do not allow minerals or fluids to pass
through the surface of the tooth, thus inhibiting the dentin fluid flow. Glass ionomer sealants do allow
the fluid to flow through the sealant. Due to the curing time needed to set the sealant, they are difficult
to place properly and ideally should be done one tooth per visit. If a tooth already has a cavity, then
putting a sealant on top of the tooth cavity will not help. This means that each tooth has to be carefully
tested with a device such as a Diagnodent™ to search for small hidden pockets of tooth decay. Sealants do not block out decay completely but merely slow the process down, assuming they are
placed properly. My conclusion is that sealants will benefit people in special situations as long as
they avoid ones with hormone altering chemicals. In general, unless you feel really inspired to get a
sealant, it seems unnecessary. Teeth Cleaning at the Dentist
One of the most common questions people ask me is if they need to get their teeth cleaned at the
dentist. As to many of the questions people ask me, my response is that it is your choice. There is
nothing you ever
have to
 do. The question to start asking yourself is, “Is this in the best interests of
my health?” The purpose of a teeth cleaning done by the dentist or hygienist is to remove the plaqueand deposits on and around the tooth. My personal experience is that having my teeth scaled with the
metal probe is extremely uncomfortable. A better question is whether tooth cleaning improves dental health, or if positive aspects of tooth
cleaning outweigh the negative. In my personal experience, after having my teeth cleaned with an
ultrasonic cleaner, my body felt lighter. Since I am now using an oral irrigator and the blotting
technique, along with continued improvements in my digestive health I hope to not need any cleanings
in the future. I personally avoid the metal probe teeth scraping and cleaning. Any type of cleaning,
scaling or ultrasonic, has the potential to hyperstimulate the nerves in your teeth and jaw. 30
There is clear evidence that tooth brushing may cause slight wear to teeth in some cases even without
toothpaste. The abrasiveness of toothpaste in combination with tooth brushing can definitely cause
damage to the tooth enamel. 31
 So the concept that enamel is as hard as diamonds and nothing can
damage it is false. If small amounts of grit in toothpaste can damage tooth enamel, then it would seem
absolutely clear that tooth cleaning using force and sharp metal probes will definitely in some cases
scratch tooth enamel. At this time I am unable to locate specific evidence in the dental literature to
prove that tooth cleaning with a metal probe is either safe or dangerous. Teeth Whitening At the Dentist’s and At Home
Healthy indigenous people had naturally white teeth, even without brushing. One reader after reading
my book went off of sugar for one


asis	in	order	to	do	their	jobs. Also	inside	the	park	are	different	factories	and	manufacturing	plants	that
require	a	continuous	supply	of	energy	and	raw	materials	in	order	to	meet	their
daily	quota	of	finished	products. Coordinating	all	these	activities	are	computer
and	communication	systems	that	regulate	the	delivery	of	raw	materials	and	the
removal	of	wastes,	as	well	as	the	production,	storage	and	distribution	of	finished
products. All	of	these	systems	are	based	upon	a	set	of	design	blueprints
containing	all	the	information	necessary	to	build	a	new	park. You	have	just	toured	the	human	cell. Each	cell	has	a	wall—	the	membrane—
whose	purpose	is	to	keep	out	toxins,	bacteria,	viruses	and	other	harmful
substances,	while	still	allowing	nutrients	to	reach	inside	where	they	are	needed. The	membrane	also	prevents	healthy	and	necessary	substances	from	leaking	out
of	the	cell,	while	still	allowing	waste	products	to	be	excreted. Powerhouses	in
the	cell	create	energy	and	manufacturing	plants	make	the	finished	products	your
body	needs,	such	as	neurotransmitters,	hormones	and	antibodies. Your	cells	also
have	electrical	and	communication	systems	that	help	to	keep	everything	working
in	balance. Cells	have	many	important	jobs	to	perform	during	every	second	of
every	day;	anything	that	interferes	with	these	tasks	is	a	threat	to	health. Every	day	hundreds	of	billions	of	cells	need	to	be	replaced. Building	a	new
cell	requires	a	long	list	of	raw	materials,	similar	to	building	a	new	car	or	a
computer. If	even	one	part	is	missing,	the	product	will	be	defective,	and	if	many
parts	are	missing,	malfunction	is	guaranteed. As	each	new	cell	is	created,	you	are
choosing	either	health	or	disease,	depending	on	whether	the	new	cells	you	are
building	are	healthy	or	not. You	make	this	choice	when	you	order	at	a	fast-food	drive-up	window,	when
you	stay	up	too	late,	when	you	spray	cleaning	products	around	your	house,	when
you	take	your	daily	vitamin	supplement	or	when	you	choose	to	take	no
supplements. Making	a	single	bad	choice	here	and	there	is	generally	not	a
problem,	but	when	you	consistently	make	bad	choices,	daily	living	can	wear
down	your	tissues	faster	than	they	can	be	repaired	or	replaced. Building	and	Operating	Healthy	Cells
To	be	healthy,	each	day	old	cells	must	be	replaced	with	new	ones	and	each
must	perform	all	of	its	intended	functions. Do	you	know	what	raw	materials	you
need	to	build	healthy	cells. Are	you	eating	the	right	foods—foods	whose
calories	are	packed	with	the	building	blocks	required	to	make	healthy	new	cells. Does	anyone	really	believe	it	is	possible	to	build	healthy	cells	from	coffee,
donuts,	white	bread,	pasta,	potato	chips,	french	fries	and	ice	cream. How	many
of	the	raw	materials	necessary	to	build	and	operate	healthy	cells	do	these	foods
contain. The	answer	is	not	many,	which	is	one	reason	that	we	have	so	much
disease. A	chronic	shortage	of	vitamins,	minerals,	water,	oxygen	or	other	nutrients
causes	your	cells	to	malfunction. You	may	be	unaware	this	malfunction	is
happening,	particularly	at	the	early	stages,	but	a	chronic	shortage	of	even	one
nutrient	eventually	makes	you	sick. When	shortages	are	chronic,	the	body	stops
repairing	and	self-regulating;	cells	then	deteriorate	into	a	diseased	state	or	die. Building	healthy	cells	starts	in	a	mother’s	womb. If	an	embryo	suffers	from	a
shortage	of	building	materials	or	the	presence	of	toxins,	a	child	born	with	birth
defects	may	be	the	result. During	pregnancy,	certain	parts	of	the	fetus	are	being
constructed	during	specific	weeks—such	as	the	brain	and	nervous	system,	the
circulatory	system	and	the	digestive	system. If	essential	raw	materials	are
unavailable	at	that	crucial	time	or	toxins	are	present,	any	of	these	systems	can	be
affected,	perhaps	manifested	as	heart	defects,	digestive	problems,	lower	I. Q.,
attention	deficit	disorders	and	so	on. We’re	not	talking	about	genetic	defects
here,	but	defects	that	result	from	building	a	baby	in	an	unhealthy	environment. In	extreme	situations,	the	construction	process	simply	shuts	down	and	the	fetus
is	naturally	aborted—an	ever-increasing	occurrence	in	our	society. A	newborn	baby’s	health	is	the	product	of	the	genetic	material	from	the
parents
and
the	supply	of	building	materials	and	presence	of	toxins	(from	the
mother)	during	gestation. People	wrongly	assume	that	genetics	by	itself	explains
the	health	or	disease	of	their	child. Congenital	defects	(those	present	at	birth)	are
not	necessarily	the	result	of	genetics. For	example,	the	December	2001	issue	of
Lancet
reported	a	study	regarding	supplemental	vitamins	taken	during
pregnancy. Mothers	who	had	taken	both	folic	acid	and	iron	supplements	during
pregnancy	gave	birth	to	children	who	were	60	percent	less	likely	to	develop	the
most	common	form	of	childhood	leukemia. Eating	right	is	especially	important
for	expecting	moms. Like	any	disease,	leukemia	doesn’t	“just	happen. ”	The
quality	of	the	cells,	tissues	and	systems	a	baby	is	born	with	has	a	lifelong	effect. Whether	caused	by	nutritional	deficiency	or	toxic	exposure,	trouble	can	beginwhen	your	cell	factories	are	supposed	to	be	making	something	but	are	not
making	enough	or	have	shut	down. If	cell	factories	are	unable	to	make	sufficient
antibodies,	we	become	susceptible	to	infections. When	cell	factories	cannot
make	sufficient	neurotransmitters,	mental	function	suffers. (Neurotransmitters
are	chemicals	generated	by	nerve	cells	that	send	information	throughout	the
nervous	system,	allowing	us	to	think,	learn	and	remember. ) When	unable	to
make	sufficient	hormones,	communications	and	self-regulation	are	disrupted. Hormones	are	chemicals	produced	by	specialized	cells	that	travel	through	the
blood	and	lymph	systems	to	bring	messages	to	other	parts	of	the	body. Blood
sugar	level,	for	instance,	is	balanced	primarily	by	two	hormones,	both	produced
by	specialized	cells	in	the	pancreas. Although	each	cell	is	a	living	entity	unto	itself,	bodily	systems	can	only	be
regulated	and	controlled	when	cells	are	able	to	communicate	effectively	with
each	other. Impaired	cellular	communications	is	one	of	the	most	basic	common
denominators	of	disease,	no	matter	how	the	disease	happened	or	what	it	is
called. Cellular	communication	and	feedback	systems	regulate	everything	from
body	temperature	to	immunity	to	movement. When	these	systems	break	down
gradually,	as	they	often	do	in	disease,	we	may	not	notice. We	are	more	familiar
with	sudden	and	severe	breakdowns	in	bodily	communication,	such	as	spinal
injuries	that	cause	paralysis. We	fail	to	recognize	how	subtle	communication
breakdowns	precipitate	chronic	and	terminal	health	problems. Each	time	you	order	at	a	restaurant,	each	time	you	reach	into	your	cabinet	for
cooking	oils,	each	time	you	plan	your	day’s	meals,	you	are	basically	deciding
whether


 attested to by anthro -
pological evidence scientists have uncovered, notably Dr. Alan W alker of Johns Hopk
ins
University. Fruits really have it all; all that it took to make
us into superb human beings; all that is re -
quired to sustain us in a healthy state insofar as food contributes to this condition; and all tha t we need to liv e a long
, rewarding vibrant and happy life. Conclusions and Observations
That we are biologically fruitarians is an inescapable conclusion on every count that we
can relevantly and validly cite. What does this mean in practical application? Almost everyone you meet will condemn fruitarian fare. Almost everyone thinks from the
70
Fruiticulturestandpoint that sickness is inevitable and must be
prevented whereas, in fact, diseases simply will not occur unless we cause them, either through deficien -
cies or intoxications or both. If you eat 70% to 80% fruits and the balance in leafy green salads along
with c
onservatively cooked tubers, roots and even
grain products, along with some raw nuts and seeds, you will not significantly or even noticeably impair yourself assuming, of course, that your other prac -
tices are good. There are social c onsider
ations that make some concessions on dietary intake prefer -
able to social ostracism. In my own case I merely tell those who inquire about why I’m
not ea ting, or who urge me t o ea
t meat dishes or obnoxious fare, that I’m on a special
diet and that, while I’d love to have what is being offered, I don’t dare touch it lest I suf -
fer problems. You’ll inevitably be assailed by those who tell you about vitamin B12 defi-
ciency and anemia. This vitamin is created by both fermentative and putrefactive bac -
teria. Grass contains no vitamin B12 either, yet we are told to eat beef liver among others
for B12. Mother Nature was, indeed, provident and provides us amply with our B12 needs
from our intestinal tract through symbiotic bacterial flora just as with other animals in nature. Experiments with baboons on a fruit diet only for many years could not induce a vitamin B
12 deficiency in any of them. It is also rewarding to learn that, in a research to put the fruit-eating fad to rest, Professor Meyer of the University of Pretoria fed 50 controls fruits and nuts only for a period of six months. Instead of deficiencies and dis -
ease, the controls became rather sickness-free and greatly impr o
ved in health and weight. The results were published in the February 20, 1971 issue of the South African Medical Journal. 71
Fruiticulturef
Fresh Food Festival Fruitarians, Denmark  n
“Fruit is great fuel. Bananas are the perfect food for people who have an “Fruit is great fuel. Bananas are the perfect food for people who have an
active lifestyle. Self-contained, tasty, eat to eat, satisfying, available year-active lifestyle. Self-contained, tasty, eat to eat, satisfying, available year-
round, inexpensive, and with the a perfect mix of nutrients, bananas proround, inexpensive, and with the a perfect mix of nutrients, bananas pro --
vide practically all of the active person’s food requirements. After a long, vide practically all of the active person’s food requirements. After a long,
strenuous workout, what could possibly be more satisfying thanstrenuous workout, what could possibly be more satisfying than
a big plate of fresh, cool fruit?”a big plate of fresh, cool fruit?”
-Dr. Douglas Graham-Dr. Douglas Graham72
FruiticultureThe Fruitarian Diet
by David Klein, Ph.D. & Dr. T. C. Fry
Humans have a specific natural biological diet, one which offers complete alkalizing nu-
trition with virtually no toxicity and is comprised of the most delicious, satisfying and health-promoting foods offer ed up b
y Nature. The Fruitarian Diet is based on conclusive
evidence that we are biologically, physiologically and anatomically Frugivores. Humans were designed to eat fruit! As such, fruit stands as our natural and most healthful food. Our natural biological diet sets us free of aberrant behavior, rapid aging, disease and suffering, and opens the doors to manifesting the Vibrant Health of our dreams! We call it the Fruitarian Diet. It is also known as the Vibrant Diet, the Hygienic Diet and the 80/10/10 Diet. The Fruitarian Diet consists of our most naturally healthful, delicious and satisfying
foods: raw fruits and vegetables with minimal-to-moderate amounts of seeds, and nuts. The Fruitarian Diet is comprised of a 90% alkalizing foods (minimum) averaging the fol -
lowing caloronutrient ratio: 80% carbohydrates (minimum), 10% protein (maximum), 10% fat (maximum). Sevent
y-five percent raw is a good place to start, with the goal
of working one’s way up to 100 percent raw. The Fruitarian Diet reverses and prevents
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Fruiticultureacidosis, the predominant underlying condition which causes most diseases and the
physical degeneration humanity experiences, and it promotes complete healing of most disease conditions and complete rejuvenation, attended by peak strength, endurance, longevity, and a joyful sense of vibrant health. Many have realized these wonderful ben -
efits for themselves, and many more need to receive our vital message and our help in adopting the F ruitarian Diet. Based soundly and scien tifically upon our na
tural biological disposition—upon our natu -
ral physical, mental, emotional, sensory and spiritual needs—you can expect sensational improvemen ts when y
ou eat a vibrant raw food diet and practice the totally effective
health system of which it is a part. The health system of which the natural raw food diet is a part is the basis for vibrant, sickness-free well-being! By following this natural and ef -
fective system in practice, you almost surely will:
 •  Detoxify and ov
ercome, once and for all time, occasional illnesses or annoying ail-
ments. Whether it be indigestion, colds, flu bouts, mucus expectoration, headaches, back aches, fev ers and
“itises” or even such “incurable” problems as acne, allergy, arthri -
tis, asthma, constipation, heart and cardiovascular problems, herpes, psoriasis, skin problems, sinusitis, tinnitus, tumors or wha
tever, this systems enables you to overcome
almost anything simply by discontinuing and removing easily recognized causes, and es -
tablishing conditions that build great health. 74
Fruiticulture •  Because you’ll discontinue and avoid easily recognizable causes of discomforts, sick -
nesses and disease, you need not suffer ev
en so much as another case of indigestion,
aches and pains, fever (itis), sor e thr
oat, cough, cold or anything else! •  Normalize your weigh
t if it is excessive. Without dieting or counting calories, a
healthful living regimen born of properly meeting our needs causes the overweight to
quickly, naturally, safely, surely, and permanently lose down to a naturally normal weight set-point. •  Eliminate physicians
, hospitals, drugs, and nostrums from your and your family’s
lives. You’ll also be spared their astronomical costs as well as the aches, pains, discom -
forts, agonies, and lost time. •  Save thousands of dollars ever
y year in food, energy, medical, hospital, drug, labor,
insurance, and other outlays! • Energize yourself! You’ll get more done when your energy levels go up! You become
more lovable and charming as you become happier, more radiant and more dynamic. •  Increase your brainpo
wer and mental alertness. Your thinking will be clearer, sharp -
er and more focused. Your IQ and wisdom will increase significantly. •  Have newfound strength, stamina, vigor
, and vibrant vitality. •  Enjoy clearer complexion with a glo
wing and radiant skin tone. •  Speak with an improved voic
e that tends to bell clearness. •  Restore yourself t
o relative youth! You’ll look, act and feel up to 20 years younger
within one to four months. •  Eliminate most digestive problems within 24 hours af
ter going on this marvelous
diet. •  Improve y
our productivity and job performance, thus increasing your income
appreciably. •  Feel like a million! You’ll ha
ve a buoyancy and bounce that even younger people do
not have! •  Decrease your sleep needs by about an hour daily ev
en though you’ll be better slept, 75
Fruiticulture
more alert, and better rested. •		You’ll	be	sharper,	more	precise 	and	cor rect	in	your	judgmen ts	and	assessments,	thus
enabling 	you	to	more	accurately 	and	quickly 	perform 	both	physical 	and	mental 	tasks. •		When	you	start	doing	what	you	should 	alwa ys	hav e	been	doing,	you ’ll	start	being
what	you	always	should 	have	been! When	you	do	righ t,	you ’ll	become 	righ t.
Note:		To	assure	that	the	diet	you


, not a self-aware consciousness which only
comes through intelligence. Thought and Emotion: The Two Sides of the Mind
The outer mind does not merely coordinate sensory
data, but interprets it. Sensory data, being potentially end-
less, must be filtered and selected according to what is rel-
evant for the mind. We determine this by where we place
our attention. For example, if we are driving a car, we must
give our attention to the road and not let it wander or we
might get into an accident. Interpretation of sensory data is twofold — both objec-
tive and subjective. Objectively we organize sensory data,
gathering in the proper impressions to determine their
meaning. To identify an object, like a house, for example,
we must take in enough objective impressions to ascertain
its nature. This creates the factual part of the mind. The The Outer Mind: The Field of the Senses 113
outer mind governs factual information and data of all
types, much like a computer. This it transfers on to the
Buddhi for judgment. Subjectively, we must relate sensory data to our own
personal condition. For example, when we are crossing a
street and see that a car may hit us, we react quickly to
protect ourselves, getting scared and moving aside. This
creates the emotional part of the mind. Emotion allows us
to respond to sensory data in an immediate and personal
manner. Emotion is our personal reaction to sensory data,
giving us fear of what causes pain and desire for what
brings pleasure. The outer mind includes thought of an informational
nature and emotion based on sensation and functions
between the two. We need some degree of objectivity to
organize sensory data, but some degree of subjectivity to
relate it to ourselves. Of the mind's two functions, emo-
tion, which is subjective, has the greatest capacity for caus-
ing pain. Emotion can distort the informational capacity of
the mind and create misperception. The emotional side of
the mind connects more with the Pranas and the motor
organs, which serve mainly to fulfill various Pranic activi-
ties. The mental side connects more with the sensory
organs and intelligence. Emotion
Emotions are characterized by a sensory component —
the sights, sounds or other sensations that convey them. Sensation gives rise to emotion. If we contact something
pleasurable, it makes us happy. If we contact something
painful, we feel sad. This emotional vulnerability is built
into the mind. Temporary emotional reactions come through the outer 114 Ayurveda and the Mind
mind. Enduring emotional states, however, belong to our
deeper consciousness (Chitta). Repeated emotions move
from reactions of the outer mind into conditions of the
inner consciousness. For example, when we first meet an
attractive partner, our emotion is aroused. After we've
been in a long-term relationship, the person becomes part
of our deeper consciousness, and we take on aspects of his
or her personality. Specific emotions, tied to particular objects, belong to
the outer mind, but the essence of emotion belongs to our
deeper consciousness. There the moods or flavors (rasas) of
emotions dwell — like love, anger, fear, and joy— beyond
any association with particular sensations. 35 For this rea-
son, both those who hold that emotions are more superfi-
cial than thought and those who hold they are deeper are
both correct. It depends upon the type of emotion. I pre-
fer to call these deeper emotions of our core consciousness
"feelings" and use the term emotion or emotional reactions
for the emotions of the outer mind. Outer Mind and Intelligence
The outer mind allows us to register information. Intel-
ligence allows us to process information. The mind
(Manas) is the instrument of thinking in which we enter-
tain doubts, while intelligence (Buddhi) is the instrument
of perception through which we resolve doubts and make
decisions. The outer mind includes all forms of speculation
and imagination. As long as we are on the outer level of
the mind, we must remain in doubt and susceptible to
emotional reactions. People who are good at gathering
information but poor at making decisions suffer from too
much activity of the mind. The mind working apart from
intelligence causes us to think aimlessly, without purpose, The Outer Mind: The Field of the Senses 115
as in daydreaming, idle speculation or idle calculation. It
causes us to go over ideas, generally useless, without com-
ing to any conclusion, which requires the action of intelli-
gence. The outer mind itself has no values, principles or goals,
which derive from intelligence. Its concern is expansion
and exploration of the external world, seeking pleasure and
avoiding pain. Its purpose is to afford us experience in the
realm of the senses, not to establish lasting values. As long
as we operate on its level, we are purely sensate creatures. We are victims of the emotions aroused by our senses —
the attraction to pleasurable sensations and the aversion to
painful ones. Our modem information-sensation culture is dominat-
ed by the outer mind and lacking in intelligence. We are
more concerned with gathering information through the
mind than with digesting it, which requires intelligence. We have developed many ways to expand the field of sen-
sory data, but not the wisdom to use it properly. Though the sense organs function through the mind,
which coordinates their activity, sensory perception, like
all forms of perception, occurs through intelligence (Bud-
dhi). The mind holds the images of objects but intelli-
gence definitively ascertains what they are. Only when
intelligence guides the senses can we use them objectively. For this reason, the sense organs are sometimes included in
the sphere of intelligence. Intelligence is the inner or subjective part of the mind
through which we make choices and decisions. The outer
mind is the screen on which we perceive the external world
and execute these choices and decisions. Intelligence there-
fore draws us within, while the mind draws us externally. The purpose of the outer mind is enjoyment (bhoga), 116 Ayurveda and the Mind
which is externally directed. Spiritual development (yoga),
whose movement is within, arises only through the power
of intelligence. While the mind leads us to worldly
involvement, intelligence leads us to spiritual develop-
ment. However, in the evolved state, the mind allows us to
respond creatively to external influences. It becomes the
basis of right action, without which we could not organize
our outer lives according to any higher principles. Mind, Intelligence and Consciousness
Consciousness (Chitta) feels internally and has its own
sense of knowing. The mind (Manas) senses things out-
wardly, requiring an external impression for it to function. Intelligence (Buddhi) perceives and recognizes both
inwardly and outwardly. For example, through the mind
one may sense a person is unhappy, an impression that
comes through putting together the information of the
senses. Through intelligence, one will perceive it as an
objective fact, by reasoning based upon what one sees. Through one's deeper consciousness, one will actually feel
the unhappiness of the other person. The outer mind, relying upon the senses, gives a sense
of something, which usually remains tinged with doubt. Intelligence perceives an object, depending upon some
rational process, in which there is no longer any doubt. Consciousness feels the object as one's own. Intelligence (Buddhi) and consciousness (Chitta) only
function in our ordinary awareness through the outer mind
and senses (Manas), in which we are usually engaged. Such
intelligence or intellect only serves to discriminate the
names and forms recognized by the outer mind. Such con-
sciousness only serves to heighten the sensations received
through the outer mind. The Outer Mind: The Field of the Senses
Cosmic Mind
Collective and cosmic counterparts of the mind exist as
well. Its collective side is the sensory activity of other crea-
tures on Earth. The sensory influences of creatures create
the psychic atmosphere in which we function. Sensory
impressions leave a residue or afterglow. The Earth's
atmosphere is filled with the residual sensory impressions
of creatures. The mass media is filling the psychic atmos-
phere with unwholesome impressions in the form of radio
waves, making it negative and destructive. The cosmic side of the mind is the sensory activity of
creatures in all worlds. It is dominated by visions of the
great Gods and Goddesses who, through the Cosmic
Mind, fashion the heavens of subtle impressions. Medita-
tion and ritual using form, color and sound help create a
positive psychic atmosphere and connect us to the Cosmic
Mind. Composition
The outer mind develops primarily from Rajas, the
active energy of consciousness (Chitta). '6 It is built up from
the absorbed sensory potentials of sound, touch, sight,
taste and smell, along with the emotions and ideas associ-
ated with them. As consciousness consists of the gunas, so
mind consists of impressions (Tanmatras). The main site of
the mind is the head or brain, where the senses predomi-
nate, particularly the soft palate which is the central point
of all the senses. Its emotional aspect functions through
the heart, not the spiritual heart but the physical and vital
heart. Manas constitutes the sheath of mind or


 European marauders
decimated Native Americans who lived in North America for thousands of
years before the arrival of invaders. No one within the gunsights of the
conquistadors was spared. Millions of people were slaughtered. The
consciousness of hatred and intolerance permeated both continents. The
history of these places, played out in every village, is the story of man’ s
inhumanity to man. The Spanish conquistadors missed nothing in spreading their terror as they
systematically killed native peoples. Those they didn’ t kill with arrows and
bullets became infected with diseases the invaders brought with them. They
found every village, with an exception here and there. Machu Picchu is one
such exception. The unwelcome visitors just missed it altogether. This
place, built thousands of years ago as a holy shrine by the native peoples,sits at the top of a remote mountain in the Andes. It went undiscovered by
anyone from the W est until 191 1. As we approached Machu Picchu, first by air, then by train, then by bus,
and finally by foot, we pondered the questions everyone asks about this
place. How did they build this thousands of years ago. How did they carry
millions of gigantic rocks up such a treacherous path, without cranes,
helicopters, and earthmovers. Who carried the rocks to the top of this
remote mountain and placed them in a terraced formation. How did they
build this tribute to their divine worship of nature thousands of years ago
when the wheel had only recently been discovered. How did the hatred that
infiltrated the countryside bypass Machu Picchu. How was it that this
remained an isolated sacred spot. My wife and four of our children spent several days walking, meditating,
observing, and breathing in the ener gy of this magnificent place. The days I
spent in Machu Picchu gave me some of the most blissful feelings of
sustained well-being that I have ever known in my life. I meditated in the
mountain shrine and felt the presence of God surrounding me. When I
lectured to the seventy or eighty people who accompanied us there, the
words did not seem to come from me. I was only a vehicle for the flowing
energy that seemed to come from elsewhere to the audience. I kept
repeating to my wife that I had never felt such a feeling of well-being in my
life. The pheromones of loving ener gy, untainted by the low ener gies of
intolerance and hatred, were distinctly present in this magnificent place
which stood unmolested over the centuries. Those lower ener gies, which
infected the surrounding territories and created fields of sorrow, will only
be eradicated with a new infusion of love, or a spiritual solution to a very
large collective problem. There you have four examples among many I could have related here in this
section. My visits to Dachau near Munich, Gettysbur g in Pennsylvania,
Alcatraz in San Francisco elicited similar feelings of low ener gy
atmospheres of suf fering. Similarly, entering the ener gy fields of the Great
Pyramids, the sacred hills of Sedona, Arizona, and the ancient holy shrines
on Bali evoked feelings of being in a higher and faster ener gy field. The
important thing here is not to give you an endless list of examples but toencourage you to awaken to the fact that ener gy is something radiated
outward that impacts for eons of time everyone who enters that space. Y ou
have the choice of making your ener gy field environment blissful by
sending out this kind of consciousness, or you can impact your environment
in nonblissful ways. When you feel that your family, social, and work environments are
poisoned in any way by the negativity and slowed down ener gy of others,
you can do something about it. I turn once again to Mother T eresa to of fer
you a way to improve those negative environment fields. The following
section represents a blueprint for a broader environmental ener gy field
permanently free of contamination. The eight points are from Mother
Teresa of Calcutta, followed by my comments on each of her suggestions. An Eight-Point Plan of Decontamination
People ar e often unr easonable, illogical, and self-center ed. For give them
anyway. Forgiveness in your heart is like a cleansing agent for your ener gy
field. When you notice the low ener gy conduct of others, rather than
allowing it to impact and infect your immediate surroundings, send them a
silent blessing and refuse to be seduced into joining them in their low
energy. When you forgive them you choose to not be impacted in a negative
manner. If you ar e kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind
anyway. Your field of ener gy is protected from contamination by kindness. Once you are independent of the accusations of others, you are unable to be
angry and hurt over what others accuse you of. Be kind because it is you,
not because of the reactions you want from others. Kindness that comes
from your heart will suf fice to keep you from being dragged down into an
energy field infected by false accusations. If you ar e successful, you will win some false friends and some true
enemies. Succeed anyway. The world is filled with people who are looking
for occasions to be of fended. Y our success at anything is enough to trigger
such a reaction in others. Keep your ener gy field pristine by focusing on
what you know to be your divine purpose, and by doing so, the universewill support and sustain you with what is labeled success. Others will be
offended, but if you persist in ignoring their reactions, you will not allow
the presence of false friends or true enemies to be a factor in your life. If you ar e honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank
anyway. Your ener gy field will remain uncontaminated as long as you know
that you are being honest and frank. This may attract others at the lower
energies of dishonesty and cheating to try to take advantage of you. But you
will not become their victim because you will have the sense of inner peace
that characterizes higher and faster spiritual ener gy. Those who attempt to
cheat you will respect and honor your position when you stay true to your
spiritual values. Behave toward others from your highest self and you will
eventually be free of the fear of being cheated. Ironically, when that fear
disappears, the problem of being cheated also disappears. What you spend years building, someone may destr oy overnight. Build
anyway. Do not build anything only for the purpose of having it completed. Build because it is your way of expressing your purpose. When you eat a
banana the goal is not to finish it, but to enjoy each bite while nourishing
yourself. Building something is a means of expressing yourself. If someone
took all the books I’ve published and destroyed them, I would continue to
write. If every tape recording of my lectures was destroyed, I would
continue to speak. Everything in the material world that is built will
ultimately be destroyed. Build not in fear of having it destroyed, but
because you are giving expression to the infinite spirit within. If you find ser enity and happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy
anyway. I always remind myself that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. If you seek the reactions of others as the basis of your
way of being then you have turned the source of your happiness over to
those whose reactions you covet. Happiness is an inside job. Y ou don’ t get
it from anyone or anything; you bring it to everyone and every event of
your life. Keep your ener gy field free of contamination by remembering
that you are the source of the cleansing. Others may be jealous, find fault
with you, and say terrible things about you, but you are free to choose
happiness for yourself anyway. The by-product of your response is that yougradually impact their jealous and mean-spirited ener gy fields with your
radiating happiness. The good you do today, people will often for get tomorr ow. Do good anyway. Like being happy, doing good is something that you do as an expression of
your invisible spiritual essence. Stop looking for the approval and gratitude
of others as your reason to do good. Even if no one ever says thank you, do
for others as your heart dictates from spirit, which is rooted in the faster
energy of love, kindness, and connectedness to all. Y our spirit ur ges you to
express heart ener gy. Ego, rooted in the material world, ur ges you to do
what you do so that you will be remembered and rewarded as if life were a
contest. Listen to your spirit. Remind yourself to give love and do good
because that is who you are, and for no other reasons. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the
world the best you’ve got anyway. “The best,” as used by Mother T eresa,
implies your highest, most sacred self. This is the fastest vibrational ener gy
and the source of all problem resolution. Others may attempt to contaminate
your ener gy field by demanding more of you, or by criticizing you
repeatedly, or even by ignoring your ef forts. When you return to your
highest self, you are independent of those opinions almost instantly, and
problems of feeling unappreciated are nonexistent


 nourish
ing and varied diet. The important thing is not to get disheartened by the initial resistance from your child, but persevere. Hundreds of parents who have imple
mented the ABA programme with their children had to go through the
initial stage of tantrums to get their children to do anything, from simple
"Come here" to more complex things. Nobody can teach a child who would
not comply with anything you tell it to do. But once you have won that first
battle, you have gained your child's compliance, which means that now
you have a child whom you can teach. 1. Introducing new foods to GAPS children without language problems
With GAPS children who do not have problems with communication the
procedure is similar but much easier. The child has to eat the good food
first in order to get what he/she wants: a preferred food, a game, a toy, etc. In these children I would not use non-allowed foods, like chocolate or
crisps for rewards. You can use your home-made desserts, allowed on the
diet. I am sure that most parents are familiar with the timeless mother's
motto: Have your meal first, then you will get your pudding. Apart from
that, use more sophisticated rewards as games, toys, trips to cinema, etc. rather than food rewards. Just like with autistic children, with other GAPS children it is important
to start from small achievable targets, like one mouthful or a small piece of
the food. If you try to suddenly introduce a large plateful of food, which
your child hates, you are going to fail. Once your child will accept a small
piece for a reward, slowly move to larger and larger portions. Be patient
and consistent. Do not give in to whining, complaining or tantrums. If
he/she does not eat the good food - he/she does not get the pudding (or
any other reward). As simple as that. You have to be firm. Once you have
asked your child to have the one mouthful of food you cannot back off or
allow any negotiations or manipulations. If you allow your child to win on
the food issue, you have lost on many other issues. If your child refused the one mouthful of the good food and does not
seem to care that he/she did not get the reward, it means that you have
chosen the wrong reward. Choose a reward which your child cares about
strongly enough that he/she would do anything to get it. However, no
matter how motivating the reward is never forget to add to it your lavish
enthusiastic praise with a hug. Your child has to feel that he/she has done
something really good when they had that mouthful of the good food. In the majority of cases once the children have had a good taste of a food
which they did not touch before they actually start liking it. As their bodily flora starts to improve, a lot of cravings go away and the normal sense of
taste returns, so your child will start developing a new liking for different
foods. But to start this process off your child needs your help. On his/her
own your child is not capable of braking the vicious cycle of cravings,
toxicity and abnormalities in taste. Once your child has a good balanced
diet, you can allow him/her not to eat a small number of foods which they
particularly dislike. We all have these likes and dislikes. However, make
sure that it is within normal proportions,
It is very important to keep the whole process positive. Talk to your child,
explain why you want him or her to eat this food, what good it will do in
their bodies. Try to talk on this subject at every meal time using language
and phraseology on your child's level making it fun, a game and a laugh. And when your child complies do not put any limits on your praise or
expression of delight. Let your child really feel how happy he or she has
made you by eating the good food. Your enthusiasm combined with the
reward, given at the same time, will make this experience for your child
something to look foreword to, to anticipate with pleasure at the next meal
time. In conclusion I would say that about 60-70% of parents who come to see
me with their children say up front that any idea of introducing any diet
into their child's life is impossible. "My child will not eat it. " However,
having implemented the ABA principles, which I have described here,
most of these parents soon forget just how fussy with food their child used
to be. Sitting down to a meal with your family becomes a normal and plea
surable procedure, as it is supposed to be. SUPPLEMENTATION FOR
CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH GAP SYNDROME
We all love our small or grown up children very much and we are prepared
to do our best for them, no matter how difficult or expensive it might be. That makes us vulnerable to try anything and everything in the hope that it
will help our children. I meet family after family who give their child 10,15,
20 or more of various nutritional supplements without any idea if any of
them are doing any good. Nutritional supplements are expensive and the
market is full of hundreds of various brands. Many of them have question
able quality and the whole industry is not regulated very well. I cannot emphasise enough that an appropriate diet has to be the
number one intervention in successful nutritional management of the
GAPS child or adult. No pill in the world is going to come close to the effect
of the diet on your patient's condition. When it comes to digestive dis
orders in particular, and GAP Syndrome is essentially a digestive disorder,
we have to be very careful what we introduce into the gut of the patient. Why. Because a lot of supplements may irritate an already inflamed and
damaged gut lining and interfere with the healing process. You do not want
to put a lot of effort into implementing the diet and then spoil the whole
process by a pill. However, some supplements can be very beneficial and some are essen
tial. The supplementation protocol has to be very individual and ideally
should be worked out by a qualified practitioner. Here we are going to con
centrate on absolute essentials. A majority of my patients progress very
well with the use of diet and these essential supplements without adding
anything else. The essential supplements for GAPS patients:
1. An effective therapeutic strength probiotic. 2. Essential fatty acids. 3. VitaminA. 4. Digestive enzymes. 5. Vitamin and mineral supplements. Let us have a good look at each of these supplements.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What should you not give to your child when they refuse to eat a new food?,
A: You should not give in to tantrums, screaming, crying, or other misbehaviors. Instead, offer a small amount of the new food and reward them with praise, hugs, and kisses.
Q: What is the importance of probiotics for GAPS patients?,
A: Probiotics are essential for GAPS patients as they help to restore the balance of beneficial bacteria in the gut, which is crucial for their health.
Q: What are some examples of fermented foods that can be used as rewards for GAPS children?,
A: The text does not provide specific examples of fermented foods that can be used as rewards for GAPS children. However, it does mention that it is important to use rewards that your child likes and finds motivating.
Q: What is the recommended daily allowance of vitamin A for a 7-10 year old GAPS child?,
A: According to the text, the recommended daily allowance of vitamin A for a 7-10 year old GAPS child is 250-700 micrograms per day (half to almost a full dessert spoon).
Q: What is the recommended way to take omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids?,
A: The text does not provide a specific recommendation for the intake of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. However, it emphasizes the importance of getting these essential fatty acids from natural sources such as animal fats and not from processed foods.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Children with vitamin A deficiency can be given as
much as 60,000 micrograms of vitamin A as a single dose. A lot of parents are concerned about overdosing on vitamin A. Indeed in
excess this vitamin can be toxic. However, to reach toxic levels you have to
have more than 10 times the recommended daily allowance for a period of
weeks to years. For an adult that is 20 teaspoons of cod liver oil every day
for weeks or years. For a small child -10 teaspoons a day. I cannot imagine
anybody taking that amount of cod liver oil once, let along on a regular
basis. To cause an acute toxicity an adult has to have 100 times more than
the recommended dose and a child - 20 times more, which translates into
20 teaspoons of cod liver oil for a child of three years of age. GAPS patients may benefit from larger doses, than the recommended
daily allowances. To be completely scientific about it the person should be
tested for vitamin A status and according to the result of the test the indi
vidual dose can be established, taking into account that absorption of this
vitamin can be poor in a GAPS gut. The initial dose may be quite large. Then of course the patient has to be re-tested on a regular basis to re
adjust the dose. However, in real life the majority of patients cannot do that
for various practical reasons. I generally recommend following RDA according to age.


 each
night without waking up five times during the night for a
bathroom visit. My energy level has soared! So now I am back to my old self—busy doing things
every day, walking and using a re-bounder. Previously, I
was basically a couch potato without energy or motivation
to do ANYTHING. I would have low energy crashes and
I thought I might have diabetes.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        ANXIETY
Anxiety disorder is the most common mental illness in the
United States, affecting over 40 million adults, or about 20
percent of the U. S. population. Anxiety is frequently associated
with a depressive disorder—people who are depressed are
nearly nine times more likely to develop an anxiety disorder than people who are not. The criteria in the DSM-IV  for generalized anxiety disorder
include:
1. At least six months of excessive anxiety or worry
2. Significant difficulty in controlling the anxiety
 or worry
3. For six months, the presence of three or more of
 the following symptoms on most days:
  •  Feeling wound up, tense, or restless
  •  Becoming easily fatigued or worn out|   37 ExCESS  ADRENALINE: THE  BAD
  • Concentration problems
  • Irritability
  • Significant tension in muscles
  • Difficulty with sleep
It is easy to see how adrenaline can be responsible for a
number of symptoms of this disorder: restlessness, fatigue
caused by prolonged muscle tension, insomnia, nervousness,
and jitteriness. People struggling with anxiety often feel the
need to smoke or drink or take drugs to relax. It is not unusual
for them to crave sugary foods. Adrenaline can be responsible for a number of
anxiety symptoms: restlessness, fatigue caused
by prolonged muscle tension, insomnia,
nervousness, and jitteriness. Generalized anxiety disorder is a medical condition
characterized by fear, unease, and worry while not being able
to identify the source of these feelings. There are other types
of anxiety disorders, including panic disorder (acute anxiety
reaction), obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic
stress disorder (PTSD). I discuss PTSD  briefly in the next
chapter. Panic disorder, a disabling condition associated with
anxiety, affects about 6 million people in the United States. It is characterized by sudden and repeated attacks of intense
fear, known as panic attacks, which occur when there is no
real danger. The classic symptoms are:ADRENALINE DOMINANCE 38  |
 • Shortness of breath (air hunger)
 • Palpitations
 • A sense of impending doom
Because of the feeling of air hunger, or shortness of breath,
the person hyperventilates, expelling too much carbon dioxide. Hyperventilation can result in pain on the left side of the chest
secondary to gas pain from swallowed air. It can also cause
numbness and tingling around the lips and fingers as the blood
becomes more alkaline from blowing off carbon dioxide. A patient suffering from a panic attack may show up at the
emergency room complaining of chest pain and shortness of
breath—classic symptoms of a possible heart attack. This, of
course, gives the hospital a reason to do an expensive workup,
even though a panic attack, or acute anxiety attack, is one
of the easiest diagnoses in medicine to make, as shown in
the movie As Good As It Gets. The character played by Jack
Nicholson comes to the emergency room complaining of
shortness of breath and chest pain. However, after his EKG
and cardiac enzymes test normal, the emergency room doctor
reassures him that he is having an anxiety reaction. In real
life, many more expensive though unnecessary tests might
be run as well, such as an echocardiogram, a thallium stress test, and possibly an angiogram, even though they might not be necessary. People with anxiety issues often have sighing-type
respirations. They may have the sensation of a lump in their
throat, referred to as globus hystericus, caused by muscle
contraction in that area. If reducing adrenaline does not completely eliminate a
person’s panic attacks, he or she may be dealing with suppressed |   39 ExCESS  ADRENALINE: THE  BAD
hostility or resentment. These feelings are often deep in the
subconscious, where the person is not aware of them. When
the suppressed hostility starts coming into the conscious mind,
it can result in a panic attack, which is the body’s attempt to
push the hostility back into the subconscious. This suppressed hostility is usually toward somebody close
to the person. In these cases, the person needs to look back over
his or her life and see if a parent or sibling or spouse or even a child has been the cause of an emotional hurt. The treatment is to deal directly with the issue that has been suppressed. Obsessive-compulsive behavior, another anxiety-related
problem, can take the form of ritualized behaviors, such
as obsessive hand washing, or repeatedly checking to see if
doors are locked or lights have been turned off. This type of behavior is actually a defense mechanism to keep the person from experiencing anxiety. In other words, if a person with a
need to perform an obsessive act is prevented from doing so, he
or she will experience anxiety. Again, lowering the adrenaline
level often helps to eliminate the need to perform obsessive acts. IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS—also called spastic colitis—
is characterized by constipation, diarrhea, or some combination
of both, although the most common manifestation of this
disorder is constipation. During the fight-or-flight response, caused by the release of adrenaline, extra blood is sent to the
muscles while circulation to the internal organs, which includes
the intestines, is reduced. This can result in a slowdown of
intestinal motility. Constipation is one of the most common gastrointestinal
expressions of excess adrenaline. In addition, when powerful ADRENALINE DOMINANCE 40  |
feelings caused by adrenaline, such as anger and irritability, are
internalized, they can result in diarrhea or intestinal spasms. Disorders associated with diarrhea are separated into two
categories: organic and functional. Organic diarrhea occurs
both day and night. Examples include ulcerative colitis, regional
enteritis (Crohn’s disease), ischemic colitis, and diarrhea caused
by the bacteria C. difficile or by the protozoa Giardia lamblia,
which causes giardiasis. Functional diarrheas are regarded
as psychological in origin and are not usually associated
with having to get up at night with diarrhea. Irritable bowel
syndrome is in this category. I have observed that other chronic inflammatory bowel
conditions, such as ulcerative colitis and regional enteritis
(Crohn’s disease), are similarly exacerbated by internalizing
anger. Very often this anger is related to relationships with
family members. Reducing the person’s adrenaline level often
significantly improves his or her interactions with others, along
with a significant improvement in gastrointestinal symptoms. HYPERTENSION
I suspect that many cases of hypertension are related to excess
adrenaline. As part of the fight-or-flight response, adrenaline
can certainly raise blood pressure. “White coat hypertension,”
a classic condition in which a person’s blood pressure rises
while it is being measured in a doctor’s office, is caused by the
release of adrenaline. Since visiting a doctor’s office is not the
only source of stress in this world, a person who has white coat
hypertension most likely has frequent episodes of hypertension
in other life situations. Similarly, it is not unusual for blood pressure to spike
in a dental office secondary to receiving a shot of novocaine |   41 ExCESS  ADRENALINE: THE  BAD
mixed with epinephrine. In this case, epinephrine (which is
adrenaline) is used to control bleeding because it causes blood
vessels to constrict. Admittedly, the mere sight of a dental drill
can induce fear in many people, with a concomitant rise in
adrenaline that leads to a spike in blood pressure. If adrenaline is rising, then so is blood sugar. Any time
the blood sugar level goes up, the body produces insulin to
move the sugar into the cells where it is needed. Insulin is also
a hormone that raises blood pressure, a fact well demonstrated
by the condition called metabolic syndrome, or syndrome X. This condition is indicated by high triglycerides, low HDL
cholesterol, and a high insulin level, as well as hypertension. To
my knowledge, the only cause of a low HDL is elevated insulin. In addition, excess adrenaline is associated with increased
stress. When under stress, the body releases cortisol, another
hormone that stimulates sugar production, which leads to
more insulin production, which can further increase blood
pressure. The excess insulin can also cause a drop in blood sugar
(hypoglycemia), which stimulates the production of adrenaline
to increase sugar, which again raises blood pressure as well as
cortisol, ad infinitum. This scenario of cascading hormones
is likely to cause recurrent and/or persistent hypertension. Wouldn’t it make more sense to just lower adrenaline
and avoid using drugs that can cause impotence,
weight gain, bronchial spasm leading to asthma,


 a lower vibration frequency and lower power. When we are in
lower ener gy state such as anger, hate, violence, guilt, jealousy or any other
negative feelings, we are psychically vulnerable to the other person. In
contrast, for giveness, gratitude, and loving-kindness have a much higher
ener gy vibration and much greater power. When we shift out of a lower to a
higher ener gy pattern, we create a protective shield on the ener getic level,
as it were, and we can no longer be psychically vulnerable to that other
person. When we are in a state of anger, for instance, we are vulnerable to
the ener gy depletion brought about by the other person’ s counter -anger. Paradoxically, if we really want to af fect other people, then we ought to
really love them. Then, their anger at us will boomerang back upon them
with no ef fect upon us. This was the wisdom of the Buddha’ s statement in
the Dhammapada, “Hate is not conquered by hate. Hate is conquered by
love. This is an eternal law. ”
Guilt
The next “heavy” area of negativity is guilt. Here the underlying purpose is
to placate, to assuage, to escape punishment by self-punishment, and to
elicit for giveness. The most important of these is the wish to elicit
punishment from another person, combined with self-punishment. This is
not a conscious wish; nevertheless, it is the unconscious purpose of guilt. W ith a little investigation, this can easily be verified. The next time we are
feeling guilty about something particular regarding another person, watch
what happens in the next encounter. Almost inevitably, they will bring up
the very thing we are holding in mind. For instance, if we are feeling guilty
because of lateness to an appointment, that guilt will frequently elicit acritical response from the other person. By the holding of guilt, we bring on
to ourselves all the criticalness of others and their belittlement of us; our
low self-esteem is channeled back to us through others in the form of their
invalidation of our life. If we hold in mind that we are small and unworthy, we elicit those
kinds of responses from others, whose remarks tend to indicate that we are
small and unworthy. If we think we are only worth a crust of bread, then
that is what we will get. This is what the scriptures mean by the statement,
“The poor get poorer and the rich get richer. ” Poverty on any level, not just
financial, comes from inner poverty, just as outer wealth comes from inner
wealth. If we want others to stop being critical of us and attacking us, the
answer is to begin letting go of guilt and all the feelings that have brought it
about. T o help clarify the role of emotions in interpersonal relationships, a
very quick way of learning is to presume that the other person is conscious
and aware of our inner thoughts and feelings. By doing this, we will not be
far from wrong, for they are indeed intuitively aware of our thoughts and
feelings, even if they are not consciously aware at a given moment. They
will respond to us as if they knew our inner feelings. The overall
r elationship will behave as though the other person wer e awar e of our inner
feelings. If we are still holding the fantasy that other people do not know
our thoughts and feelings, just notice that dogs quickly do. Do we really
think that the human psyche is inferior to that of a dog. If a dog can quickly
read our total inner attitude, we can be sure that the intuition of people
around us is picking up the same vibration. Apathy and Grief
The feelings of apathy, grief, depression, sorrow, self-pity, the blues,
hopelessness, and helplessness come from the inner program of “I can’ t. ”
Their purpose is to elicit sympathy, to win back, to gain support, to make
others sorry, and to summon help. What is the ef fect of these feelings on
another person. Although there may be an initial attempt to help, eventually
this is replaced by pity and finally avoidance. Why avoidance. The
avoidance is because of the huge ener gy demand that we are making on the
other person. It is an attempt to drain them by throwing ourselves on their
doorstep. This results in the common saying, which sounds hard-hearted butis unfortunately so often true: “When you laugh, the world laughs with you;
but when you cry, you cry alone. ”
Constant grief will drive others away. They begin to resent it unless
they are in a very high place themselves and capable of ef fortless
compassion. Chronic grief brings premature aging, a tiredness and
weariness about the person, and it can only be overcome when we have the
courage to allow it to come up under appropriate conditions and have the
willingness to surrender to it and let it go. Fear
The feelings of fear—whether tension and anxiety, shyness, self-
consciousness, caution, holding back, or distrust—have the purpose of
escape from the imagined threat, and to put psychological distance from the
feared situation or person. Paradoxically, as we have pointed out before,
because the fear is powerful, the very process of holding it in mind can
make that which is feared come into our life. It is like a self-fulfilling
prophecy. The ener gy of fear generates an inner focus on all the negative
things that could happen, and that focus can coalesce the appearance of the
very events that we fear the most. Fear in relationships, therefore, is giving away our power to another
person and enabling them to do the very thing that is feared. The way out is
to look at the worst possible scenario and look at the feelings they arouse
and begin to relinquish them. Like other emotions, fear can be unraveled to
its component parts, and the parts are then easily relinquished. For instance,
let’ s say that there is fear of critical attack. W e ask ourselves, “What is the
worst possible scenario. ” W ith this question, we see that the basis of the
fear is pride. When the pride is recognized and relinquished, the fear
automatically dissolves. Again, in a relationship in which we are
experiencing fear, if we unravel the fear, we may find that it is really a fear
of discovery of our inner anger; the fear is that the other person will
retaliate against the anger. Again, when we relinquish the anger, the fear
will automatically disappear. The insecure person is fearful and prone to jealousy, clinging,
possessiveness, and attachment in relationships, an approach that always
brings frustration. The purpose of these feelings is to bind and tightly
possess the other, to achieve security by preventing loss and, at times, to
punish the other for our own fear of loss. Again, these attitudes tend tobring into manifestation the very thing that we are holding in mind. The
other person, now feeling pressured by our ener gy of dependency and
possessiveness, has an inner impulse to run for freedom, to withdraw, to
detach and do the very thing that we fear the most. These attitudes lead to
constantly wanting to influence others. Because people intuitively pick up
our wish to control them, their response is to resist. So the only way to
bring about relinquishment of their resisting us is to let go of wanting to
influence them in the first place. This means letting go of the inner fears as
they come up. Pride
Feelings of pride are often condoned in our society and take the form of
perfectionism, neatness, punctuality, dependability, “good personhood,”
excessive cleanliness, workaholism, excessive ambition, success, moral
superiority, and politeness. In its exacerbated forms, we see arrogance,
boastfulness, vanity, smugness, and prejudice; on the spiritual level, there is
the righteous killing of “nonbelievers. ” The underlying emotional purpose
of these feelings toward others is to win their admiration, avoid criticism or
rejection, gain acceptance, be important, and thereby overcome our own
inner feelings of worthlessness. Unfortunately, the feelings that are aroused
in the other person are often those of envy, competitiveness, or even hatred
and easy exploitation. If we look at pride, we see that it’ s often a substitute
for genuine self-esteem. It is also of considerable interest to realize that the major relationship to
which many people apply these phenomena is the relationship to God. There is the belief, often unconscious, that we can elicit a certain response
from God: “God will feel sorry for me”; “God will retaliate against me”;
“God will punish me”; “God will be pleased with me”; “God will favor
me. ”
When we have adequate self-esteem, we are motivated by inner
humility and gratitude and, therefore, we have no need for the constant
eliciting of strokes and pats from others (or God). When we stop wanting to
be liked, we find that we are. When we stop catering to others and trying to
manipulate their approval, we find that they do respect us. Self-denigration
in the forms of placating, flattering, deference, self-ef facement, and
passivity are all attempts to influence others by catering to their ego, so as
to get favorable treatment and get our own way. False humility


 don't have much money, then receiving bills won't make you feel
good. But the m oment you react negatively to a big bill, you give bad
feelings, and most surely you will receive bigger bills. Whatev er you give,
you receive b ack. The most important thing is that when you pay your bills,
you find a way, any way, to make yourself feel good. Never pay your bills
when you don't feel good, because you will just bring bigger bills to you. T o change what you're feeling, you need to use your imagination to turn
your bills into something that makes you feel better. Y ou can imagine
they're n ot really  bills at all but instead you've decided to donate money to
each com pany or person out of the good ness of your heart, be cause of the
wonderful service they provide. Imagine your bills are checks y ou're receiving. Or use gratitude and give
thanks to the company who sent  you the bill, by thinking about how you've
benefited from their service for electricity or being able to l ive in a home. Y ou can write across the front of a bill when you pay it, "Thank you - paid." If you don't have  the money to pay the bill right aw ay, write across the fron t
of it, 'Thank yo u for the mon ey. "The law of attraction doesn't question
whether what you imagine and feel is real or not. It responds to what you
give, period. "Y ou ar e  r ewar d ed not accor ding to your work or your time bu t accor ding
to the measur e of your love. "(St Catherine of Siena 1347- 1380)

When you receive your salary, be grateful for it so it multiplies! Most
people don't even feel good when they are paid, because they're so worriedabout how to ma ke their salary last. They miss an incredible opportunity to
give love every time they're paid. W hen so me money comes into your
hands, no matter h ow little it is, be grateful! Remember, whatever you'r e
grateful for multiplies. Gratitude is the great multiplier! Seize Every Opportunity to Play
Seize every moment that you are handling money to make the money
multiply by feeling good. Feel love wh en you pay for anything! Feel love
when you hand over money! Feel love with all your heart by imagining how
much yo ur money is helping th e company and the staf f who work for the
company. It will make you feel goo d about the money you'r e giving instead
of feelin g bad because you have less money. The dif ference between the
two is the dif fer ence between having plenty of money and struggling with
money for the rest of your life. Here is a game you can play so you remember to feel good about money
each tim e you handle it. Imagine a dollar bill. Imagine the front of the
dollar bill as the  positive side, which represents plenty of mon ey. Imagine
the b ack of the dollar bill as the n egative side representing a lack of money. Each time you handle money, deliberately flip the bills so the front is facing
you. Put bills in your wallet with the front facing you. When you hand over
money, make sure the front is facing upward. By doing this you are using
money as your cue to remember to feel good about plenty of money. If you are using a credit card, then flip th e credit card to the front where
your name is, because the front of your credit card is telling y ou that there
is an abundance of money and it has your name on it! When you pay for anything, as you hand o ver your card or money, imagin e
an abun dance of  money for the person you are handing it to, and mean it. Whatever you give out, you receive back! Imagine that you are wealthy right now. Imagine that you have all the
money you need right now. How would you live your life dif ferently? Think ab out all the things you would do. How would you feel? Y ou would
feel dif f erent and because you would feel dif ferent, you would walk
dif ferently. Y ou would talk dif ferently. Y ou would hold your body in a
dif ferent way, and you would move dif ferently. Y ou would react dif ferently
to every thing. Y our reaction to bills would be dif ferent. Y our  reaction to
people, circums tances, events, and everything in life would be dif ferent.Because you would feel dif feren t! Y ou wou ld be relaxed. Y ou would have
peace of mind. Y ou would feel happy. Y ou would be easygoing about
everything. Y ou would enjoy every day, without giving any thought to
tomorrow. That's the feeling you want to capture. That is the fee ling of love
for money, and that feeling is magnetically sticky! "Captur e the feeling associated  with your r ealized wish by assuming the
feeling that would be yours wer e  you alr eady in possession of the thing you
desir e, and your wish will objectify itself" (NevilleGoddar d 1905-1972)Say Y es to Money
Remember, any time you hear of another person receiving more money or
success, get excited, because it means you're on that frequency' It is
evidence that you're on a good frequency, so be as excited a s if it were
happening to you, because your reaction to the news is everything. If you
react wi th joy and excitement for the other person, you are sa ying yes to
more money and success for yourself. If you react by  feeling disappointed
or en vious that it's not happening to you, your bad feelings are saying no to
more money and success for yo urse lf. If you hear of a person winning the
lottery, or you hear of a company making rec ord profits, be excited and
happy fo r them. The fact that you heard the news tells you that you're on
the same frequency, and your reaction o f feeling good feelings for those
people says yes for you! A few yea rs ago, I rea ched an all-time low with money in my life. I had
several c redit ca rds that I had char ged up, my apartment was mortgaged to
the limit, and my c ompany was in debt for millions of dollars because I wa s
making a film called The Secr et. I thi nk my situat ion with money was about
as bad as anybody's can get. I wanted money to finish the film, I knew the
law of attraction, and I knew I had to fe el good about m oney to bring it to
me. But it wasn't easy because every single day I was confronted by the
mounting debt, with people calli ng for money, and had no idea h ow I would
be able to pay my staf f's wages. So I took drastic action. I w alked to an A TM and drew out several hundred dollars from my credit
card account. I n eeded  that money so badly to  pay bills and buy food, but I
took the money in my hand, w alked down a busy street, and I gave the
money away to people on the street. I put a $50 bill in my hand, and as I walked, I looked at each person's face
as they wa lked tow ard me, trying to decide who to give the money to. I
wanted to give money to every single person, but I only had a certain
amount. I l et my heart c hoose and I gave the money away to all kinds of
people. It was the first time in my life I had felt love for money. But it
wasn't th e mone y itself that caus ed me to feel love, it was giving the moneyto pe ople that m ade me feel love for money. It was a Friday, and afterward I
had tears of joy all weekend about how good it felt to give money. On Monday afternoon something astounding happened: my bank account
received $25,000 through the most incredible sequence of events. That
$25,000 literally fell out of the sky into my life and into my account. I had
bought some shares in a friend's company years earlier, and I had for gotten
about them because they had n ever increased in value. But that Monday
morning I received a ph one call asking me if I woul d sell my shares as they
had skyrocketed in value, and by Monday afternoon the money for the
shares was in my account. I didn't set out to give money away to bring more money to me. I gave it
away so I would feel love about money. I wante d to change a lifetime of
feeling bad about money. If I had given away that money in order to get
money, it would never have worked, because it would have meant I was
motivated by feeling a lack of money, which is  negative, instead of be ing
motivated by love. But if you g ive money a way, and if you feel love when
you give it, most surely it will return to you. One man wrote a check and
donated $100 to a charity he felt was really w orthwhile. W ithin ten hours of
writing the check, he closed the lar gest sale he had