 used
regularly and liberally. TURNIP JUICE
No vegetable contains as high a percentage of calcium as the
juice of turnip leaves, the calcium being more than one-half of all the
other minerals and salts combined. It is therefore a most excellent food for growing children and for
anyone having softening of the bones in any shape or form, including
the teeth. By combining turnip leaf juice with carrot and dandelion
juice, we obtain one of the most effective means of helping the
hardening of the teeth as well as the entire bone structure of the body. The very high magnesium content of the dandelion together with
calcium in the turnip leaves and the elements in the carrot combine
to give the bone structure firmness and strength. The potassium content is also very high in turnip leaves, which
results in this being a strong alkalinizer, particularly when combined
with celery and carrot juices. It is therefore excellent to reduce
hyperacidity. Turnip leaves also contain much sodium and iron. Calcium deficiency, strange as it may sound to the uninformed,
results very frequently from drinking pasteurized cows milk. Of
course, the constant use of concentrated flour, grain, and sugar
products also results in calcium deficiency because, although these
products have an exceedingly high calcium content, this type of
calcium is just as inorganic as that used in making cement. *
•Read more on this subject in ihe Book DIET & SALADS. b> N.W Walker. D Sc.. Ph.D.
59 The cells and tissues of the body cannot use these types of
inorganic calcium atoms for constructive purposes. In fact the blood
stream (as a result) must move them out of the way so they will not
interfere with its operations and activities. Just as we brush things aside that interfere with our own freedom
of action, so the blood sweeps many of these inorganic atoms into the
terminal ends of blood vessels. As the most convenient of these are
located in the rectum, they receive a gradual accumulation of this
debris until they enlarge enough to be uncomfortable, when their name
is changed to Hemorrhoids. As most people include an excessive amount of devitalized,
inorganic food in their daily meals, it is only natural to find that
probably one-half of them have hemorrhoids, and know it, while the
remainder may have them and do not know it. We have not known of a single case of hemorrhoids among the
many adults of all ages who have been lifelong abstainers from these
inorganic foods. On the other hand, we have seen an unending
procession of people victimized by attempts to cure this natural
affliction by means of injections, electric coagulation, and surgery. We had one very typical case come to our attention. It was a
prominent lawyer. His protruding hemorrhoids were painful,
distressing, and embarrassing. He suffered to such a degree that he
could not walk many blocks without having to stop in the first
inconspicuous place to propel them back into place. This gentleman had been drinking a variety of juices daily for
many months without telling anyone of his main trouble. He modified
his diet slightly, still eating his meat and potatoes, bread, doughnuts,
and other injurious foods, with little or no apparent effect on his
affliction. One day he wagered the owner of the juice bar, where he had
become a regular customer, that no juice could help hemorrhoids. The owner asked that he drink two pints of a combination of carrot,
spinach, turnip, and watercress juice daily, and follow a rigid raw
vegetable and fruit diet and watch the results. In less than one month, this lawyer came to the juice bar, jubilant,
after having been carefully examined by his physician who declared
that there was no indication whatever of his erstwhile hemorrhoids. This is not one isolated instance. This combination of juices has
helped innumerable sufferers when they did in fact adhere rigidly to
natural foods and natural methods. 60 WATERCRESS JUICE
This juice is exceedingly rich in sulphur, which represents more
than one-third of all the other mineral elements and salts combined in
the watercress. Nearly 45% of the elements in watercress are acid
forming, including sulphur, phosphorus, and chlorine. As it is a very
powerful intestinal cleanser, it should never be taken alone, but should
always be used with other juices, mixing it, for example, with carrot
or celery. Of the alkaline elements, potassium predominates, being slightly
more than 20%; calcium is about 18%; sodium, 8%; magnesium,
5%; and iron about one-fourth of one per cent. A combination of carrot and spinach juice with some lettuce,
turnip leaves, and watercress juice, contains the components essential
for the normal regeneration of the blood and particularly for increasing
oxygen transmission in the blood stream. For anemia, low blood
pressure, and low weight, this forms an excellent food combination. A combination of carrot, spinach, turnip leaf and watercress juice,
has the properties that help to dissolve the coagulated blood fibrin in
hemorrhoids or piles, and many kinds of tumors. Two pints of this
combination taken daily, when all flour and sugar products and
preferably also meat, have been eliminated from the diet, have been
found to dissolve these conditions in from one to six months in a
perfectly natural manner, provided that there has been no surgical
interference, in which event it may take longer. Read the section
coveringTurnip Juice, in which the question of hemorrhoids has been
gone into more fully. Watercress Juice is a valuable adjunct to carrot, parsley and potato
juices, as a combination to help emphysema victims. The
predominance of phosphorus and chlorine has thereby proved to be
beneficial. OH! SO YOU HAVE A COLD-HAVE YOU? Is your breathing congested? Are you sneezing? Do you have a
general "letdown" feeling?. For many, many years investigators have been, and still are,
attempting to find, isolate and identify some evanescent, evasive
"germ" to blame for the common cold. Sometime during the middle 1920s, science made the headlines
with the "discovery" of a "germ" which was definitely responsible
for the common cold, but that it was too small and elusive to be caught
61 or even to be visible by means of the most powerful microscopes then
available. Yet, they "discovered" such a "germ"!!? In the march of progress in the field of enlarging the image of
matter, electronic microscopes have made such vast strides that what
is virtually invisible can be magnified many thousands, even hundreds
of thousands of times. Scientists are still playing with the thought
that "the germ" can be caught, but to my knowledge and as a result of
all the research and investigations which I have been able to make, no
such "germ" has yet been seen, caught or harnessed. During the past years—actually since 1946—according to word I
have from England, some "Scientists," under the $150,000 a year
patronage of the British Government's "Medical Research Council,"
have been hunting—and, you know the British are notorious for their
hunting!—For a COLD BUG, a GERM orVIRUS as the culprit, which
could be blamed for or accused of being responsible for the starting
or the generation of the COMMON COLD. So far, from every available report they have not yet after many
years, been able to find, catch, harness nor "develop" one. Surely
they have been able to identify about 100 different germs, virus or
bacteria, but not one of these was able to start a cold. Every one of
these was feeding on the mucus of Common Colds, the very purpose
for which they were created, namely to dissolve, break up, decompose
and so dispose of the mucus that manifests the Common Cold. As I understand it, these British "Scientists" have some kind of a
research hospital where they not only invite people to come there and
stay for 10 days or so, free of charge, all meals and everything else
provided, but patients are paid something like five shillings a day to
come there and submit themselves to the Scientists' attempts to find
a germ or virus that will GIVE them a cold. It has become quite a fad
for some 30 people at a time to go there once or twice a year for a
very inexpensive vacation with pay. I understand that so far only a handful of people during the past
few years did develop a cold, but the germ or virus that was supposed
to create it has never been discovered. No, indeed, there is not a germ in existence which can cause one
to have a cold. The electrical analogy in reference to a cold is worth
remembering. The electric system in your home is equipped with
fuses. Right? What happens when the electric circuit is overheated
because you have overloaded the line with too many lights and
appliances? Does a "germ" notify you that a fuse will blow out or
62 that the overheating of the wires may burn down your home? No,
indeed. If the fuse fails to blow out, the overloaded and overheated
wires will start a


 oxygen-richblood feeding and nourishing the brain. Nerve cells in the brain then die,
affecting the part of the body those cells controlled. Strokes range from ministrokes called TIAs (transient ischemic attacks)
lasting from one to twenty-four hours, to full-blown strokes causing
complete paralysis or death. Stroke and heart disease are both diseases of the cardiovascular system. As with heart disease, in a stroke your vessels (another term for capillaries,
arteries, and veins) can’ t keep pace with the massive quantities of fat,
grease, and cholesterol you consistently ask them to process. Plaque
deposits start to accumulate until you develop either lar ge, stable plaques,
which cause narrowing of the arteries, or the small, delicate ones that
rupture and cause a clot. Keeping your blood pressure in check can minimize stroke risk—but
eating meat, dairy, eggs, and added oils raises blood pressure in several
ways. First, narrowed and clogged vessels require an increase in pressure to
circulate blood throughout the body. Second, the saturated fat in meat and
dairy makes the blood thicker, which again requires an increase in pressure
to move it through the body. Third, animal products are notoriously high in
sodium, causing the body and blood to retain fluid, which again causes an
increase in blood pressure. Americans consume far too much sodium, not only from animal-based
products but also from canned and packaged goods and restaurant meals. Instead, we should be increasing our intake of potassium, a mineral that
removes sodium from the blood and, in turn, reduces blood pressure. This is
why stroke expert Dr. Mitchell Elkind of Columbia University’ s
Department of Neurology suggests that to reduce stroke, people should “eat
a diet rich in fruits and vegetables high in potassium, along with a low-fat,
low-sodium diet.”
According to the Framingham Study, for every three additional servings
of fruits and vegetables you eat a day, the risk of stroke is reduced by 22
percent. And according to a ten-year study presented at the 1993 meeting of
the American Heart Association, female survivors of strokes or heart attacks
could cut their future stroke risk by eating spinach, carrots, and other fruits
and vegetables containing vitamins C, E, and B2 and beta-carotene. (Vitamin C is present in many foods, including citrus fruits, bell peppers,
and kale. Vitamin B2, or riboflavin, and vitamin E can be found in leafygreen vegetables and nuts, as well as in many other plant-based foods. Beta-
carotene is a form of vitamin A present in fruits and vegetables.) So be proactive. Eat a whole food, nutrient rich, plant-based diet. Never
allow the building blocks of stroke and heart disease—artery-clogging
saturated fat, dietary cholesterol, and acidic animal protein—into your
body. Stroke can hit anyone at any time. For example, I can remember when
my grandfather, the great doctor Barney Crile, suf fered a stroke in his late
seventies. He was standing in his kitchen when he suddenly fell over
backward and landed on one of his two cats, Sunday Morning in the
Twilight Gleaming (a crazy-pills long name for a cat the size of a dog). The
cat came out of it fine, but Barney wasn’ t as lucky. He had partial paralysis
to the left side of his body and his quick wit and brilliant mind were dulled. I am confident Barney could have avoided his stroke if he hadn’ t been
such a lover of dining on all things animal. He was a madman when it came
to eating anything and everything. He would jump out of the car when he
saw fresh road kill, scoop it up, take it home, skin it, and incorporate it into
the family dinner. A menu of ten dif ferent meals that hung on the kitchen
wall epitomized the Crile eating style. First on the list: bear balls roasted in
bacon fat. Don’ t eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that
you will never fall over on your cat. CANCER
Cancer. The C word. It fans fear in the hearts of Americans. And
rightfully so. Cancer is the second-leading cause of death each year and,
according to the American Hospital Association, will surpass the number
one cause, heart disease, within five years. One in every three people will
contract cancer in their lifetime, and one in four will die from it. Cancer can be ruthless and take you down in a matter of months. Cancer
can be relentless and drag on for decades. Cancer often requires sur gery,
which can be disfiguring and painful. Cancer causes depression, with its
energy-zapping chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Cancer is horrific. Cancer is everywhere. Take a look around you and you will see how it
has blemished almost every family in America—including the families of
our firefighters at the station: Steve Martinez’ s father died at fifty-two ofcolorectal cancer, James Garee’ s father died at fifty-seven of lung cancer,
and Scottie Walter’s seventy-one-year -old father just endured chemotherapy
for throat cancer. How does this menace start? At the cellular level. Each of us has billions
of cells in our body. For the most part, these cells are programmed to grow,
divide, and then die. Cancer begins when normal cells mutate and become abnormal due to
various environmental, nutritional, or chemical stresses. They then start to
grow and divide wildly, refusing to die, doubling every one hundred days—
and yet it can take ten to fifteen years before such cancers reach the size of
a match tip. Eventually these renegade cells clump together to form a tumor, killing
off healthy tissue as it competes for space and blood vessels to acquire
nutrients. Parts of the tumor can even break away, spread throughout the
body, and start other tumors. This process, called metastasis, is usually a
death sentence. But you can lower your cancer risk. Like heart disease, cancer loses its
power if you don’ t feed it the things it craves to flourish—dairy, meat, eggs,
oils, processed sugar, tobacco, and alcohol. Even if you already have cancer, you can reduce its growth by lessening
your reliance on animal foods and reaching for plant foods. Let’s explore why, starting with dairy products. Multiple studies show
that dairy products contain cancer -promoting saturated fat; animal protein;
and insulin-like growth factor -1 (IGF-1), a powerful growth-promoting
hormone and known cancer culprit. Saturated fat suppresses the immune system and contains excessive
calories, which spur growth of all cells—even cancer cells. According to
The China Study’ s T. Colin Campbell, the animal protein in dairy foods
(even fat-free products) contributes to an acidic environment in which
cancer cells and tumors thrive. As for IGF-1, this substance actually changes our hormonal balance,
according to Dr. John McDougall. In women, IGF-1 can increase estrogen
levels, known to promote breast and ovarian cancer, and in men, it can
increase testosterone levels, known to promote testicular and prostate
cancers. In fact, a June 1999 article in the journal Alternative Medicine Reviews
reported that prostate cancer was more strongly correlated with theconsumption of nonfat dairy products than with any other food product. Let’s remember where all dairy comes from—the cow. Cow’ s milk is 20
percent protein if it’ s whole (40 percent if it’ s skim), most of which comes
from casein—a dairy protein shown to be a tumor promoter. Furthermore,
the amount of fat in milk averages around 50 percent, a lar ge percentage of
which is saturated. The remaining 35 percent of milk’ s calories come from
the carbohydrate milk lactose, to which 70 percent of the world is
intolerant. Cow’ s milk is fine for a calf who wants to gain one thousand pounds in
less than a year. Whenever possible, humans should stick to breast milk
until the age of two, and then make the switch to a milk substitute. Meat is another problem. Meat protein creates an acidic environment
that is also a breeding ground for cancer cells and growth hormones. And
meat fat is a magnet for chemical carcinogens that are stored in fat tissue—
fiends such as mercury, dioxin, PCBs, and DDT. Meat is also high in oxidants, such as iron, which not only oxidize
cholesterol—a process that makes it more easily deposited in your arteries
—but also promotes free radicals that mutate your cells’  DNA  and turn
them into renegade cancer cells. To top it all of f, meat, with its lack of fiber, stalls fecal matter in the
colon for extended periods of time, which in turn can contribute to colon
cancer. An eight-year study conducted in conjunction with the American
Association of Retired Persons that followed more than 500,000 people
between the ages of fifty and seventy-one showed that people who
frequently eat meat have a higher risk of several types of cancer—including
lung, colorectal, esophageal, liver, and pancreatic—than people who don’ t.
As for eggs, these devils are not as incredible and edible as the egg
industry wants you to believe. As mentioned, the yolk contains more than
200 milligrams of cholesterol, while the white is one of the most
concentrated sources of animal protein around. And you now know the
dangers of animal protein. A twenty-year study of diet


 and place your feet wide apart
instead. T ake in a deep breath through your nose, and as you exhale, open
your mouth wide, stick out you r tongue, and say the word ha  emphasizing
the h  on the exhale, as if you are a lion roaring. If you want to add another
physical compon ent to complete the asana, b ring up your hands and make
claws as you exhale. It’ s great for releasing negative ener gy. Bridge P ose — Setu Bandhasana :  Begin by lying on your back with your
knees bent and your feet flat on  the floor. Place your feet hip-width apart
and parallel, your toes forward, and your arms alongside you  with your
palms facing down. Press your palms down and lift your pelvis up. If you
can, bring your hands together on the mat underneath your pelvis and
interlace your fingers. W alk your shoulders inward toward your spine, and
lift your  pelvis even higher. Loo k straight at the ceiling, and keep your head
steady. H old for  five to ten breaths. T o lower, separate your hands, bring
your palms to the floor, and lower your pelvis to the gro und. As a
counterpose, bring both knees to your chest and roll gently side to side to
massage your back. Bridge po se stimulates the thyroid, parathyroid, and
thymus glands. Shoulderstand — Salamba Sarvangasana :  Shoulderstand is a more
advanced pose, so if you’re a beginner, do it at a wall (see below for
instructions) or with a spotter. Place a thinly folded blanket or towel on
your ma t, and lie down so that the blanket is underneath your head, neck,
and sho ulders. Bring your arms alongside you with your palms facing
down. B end you r knees with your feet flat on the floor. Press your hands to
the floor, and bring your legs straight into the air while lifting your lower
back. B ring you r hands up to support your back, and move your elbows
inward toward your spine. Keep your head straight and steady; do not turn
it to the side. If you would prefer to use a wall, start in the same position
with you r mat perpendicular to  the wall. Bend your knees and place your
feet against the w all. Press your feet into the wall to lift your pelvis, support
your lower back with your hands, and walk your feet up the wall. If you feel
stable, bring one foot away from  the wall and then th e other to exten d the
legs stra ight up toward the ceili ng. Remain in the pose for a few  breaths or
a few minutes depending on your ability level. T o lower, bring your bent
knees toward your forehead a nd gently roll your back to the floor. If
continuing with the sequence sh own here, move on to plow pose. If you’re
ready to wind down, do fish pose ( matsyasana ; see page 174 ) or reclining
butterfly pose (see page 55 ). Plow Pose — Halasana :  T o begin, lie d own with a thin ly folded blanket
underneath your  head and neck. Rest your arms alongside your torso withyour palms facing down. Bend both knees with your feet flat on the floor. Press into your h ands and lift your legs. W ith your legs joined a nd straight,
bring them over your head until your toes touch the floor above your head. Y ou will  be folding your body c ompletely in half. Y ou can either leave your
arms on the floor or bend your elbows and support your back with your
hands. Hold the pose for several breaths. T o come out of the pose, lower
your knees toward your forehead and gently lower your back to the floor,
one vertebrae at a time. T o recover, do reclining butterfly pose (see page 55 )
or hug your knees to your chest, and roll your back out side to side. Healing the Emotional and Energetic Body
For many of us, one of the hardest things to do is to speak truth. I’m not
referring to telling the truth, wh ich at times is challenging in and of itself. I’m talking about speaking you r inner truth, the truth that resides within
your hea rt. The truth that is the pure essence within your personal soul, the
voice th at comes from your h ighest Self and gives authenticity to your
words. It speaks of who you ar e as an individual and brings light to your
uniqueness in every way. In the third and  fourth chakras, your personality develops to formulate
your pas sions an d love. But it’ s  in the fifth chakra that these f ormulations
are exposed to the world through your words and verbal expression. Fear of rejection or of not fittin g in may be a reason why you feel you
can’ t sh are who  you are. Y et who you are is what God breathed into your
soul, and you will feel balanced only when you share that with the world. L IVING IN  T RUTH
Far from  being an easy task for most of us, living in truth m eans living
authentically in every moment. When you take this to heart an d put it into
practice, you truly realize how incredibly challenging it is. It is humbling
and ego- crushing, in a way. Unle ss you are consciously working at this, you
aren’ t generally  cognizant of how much untruth can infiltrate your life. Most of the untruths aren’ t harmful or pivotal to changing your destiny, but
they are like little grains of sand that can build up to a mountain. Think of  the reasons why you might not tell the truth or the entire truth. Sometimes we don’ t say the t ruth because it’ s not convenient, such as
telling your boss that you were late because you were stuck in t raf fic rather
than bec ause yo u got into an ar gument with your spouse. Or  maybe the
untruth comes from fear of embarrassment. For example, you accidentally
schedule a date with a new hot guy on the same night as you had already
committed to another date with a nother guy who isn’ t so hot. So you lie and
say you’ re sick. Or perhaps you tell an untruth because you fear  rejection or
you feel  bad for the other perso n. There are many reasons why you might
tell an untruth, and most of them are linked to fear. Fear is a low and slow
ener gy. Once you reach the fi fth chakra your body, mind, and soul are
already vibratin g at a higher frequency so you can easily connect to your
spiritual self. Any untruth or lie  you tell inside or out will corr ode the link
between you and your higher self. Therefore it’ s not about the bent reality
that you’re telling but rather your alignment with your own integrity and the
higher vibrations of truth and love. B EING  A UTHENTIC VERSUS  B EING  N ICE
Authenticity is about lifting the false masks of your identity as a person and
revealing who you are to the w orld. W e all wear masks. Som etimes we
wear the mask of someone who works, who plays, who is a spouse, friend,
son, daughter, sister, brother, and so on. And we tend to wear dif ferent
masks fo r dif fer ent people. Living in the truth is about discarding all those
masks a nd inste ad exposing yourself to the world as you are. People who
live authenticall y show little dif ference in their attitudes and app earances no
matter who is before them. S ometimes these people are referred to as
“genuine and real” or even “down-to-earth. ”
If, on the other hand, you are c onstantly worried about pleasin g others
or afraid of wha t others might th ink of you, you are not only wearing masks
but also changing those masks d epending on who is in front of you. Being
nice, or people pleasing, is the antithesis of truth. It’ s impossible to be
genuine or authentic and be a p eople pleaser. If you morph into  what otherpeople want or what you think they want, you deny who you a re and your
needs and desires. Y ou can  begin to counter this tendency by first finding out w hat you
truly wa nt, need, and desire. Get to know yourself and your true  nature. For
example, if you hate golf but you go golfing with the guys every weekend
because you want to fit in or to climb the corporate ladder, you aren’ t being
true to yours elf by doing it. Eventually your dislike for golfing will show
through and the guys will figure out you’re just doing it to get ahead. Y our
actions will backfire in a way that will be disadvantageous to you. When I was a young stay-at-home mom, I noticed that all th e other
moms around me spent most o f their time volunteering at the  elementary
school and carting their kids a round to several sporting teams and other
extracurricular a ctivities. I fell into the trap of wanting to be like them. I
thought I should be the perfect mom and that I could achieve th at


akras, the relevance of various attributes and the process of disease. They
have integrated chakra healing with aromatherapy, manual lymph drainage
and emotional release work. This book is an effort to share this
understanding with the w orld. Dr Minoo Ratan
MSc, BEd, PhD
Dr Minoo Ratan, the wife of Dr Ravi, is a life
coach, practising psycho-aromatherapist and
healer. In her psychotherapy practice she
integrates aromatherapy with lymph drainage
and chakra healing. Dr Minoo has a Masters in Psychology and specialisation in
occupational stress, besides a degree in education focusing on adolescent
stress. She started treating psychosomatic conditions using plant essential
oils in 1993. She submitted successful case studies as part of her research,
for which she was awarded her PhD by the Open International University
of Alternative Medicine. She is also a member of Bombay Psychology
Association and has been trained in advanced pranic healing withpsychotherapy and eye movement desensitisa tion and reprocessing (based
on the Shapir o School, USA) f or trauma management. Dr Minoo’s Mind Body Clinic is in Mumbai, India, where she provides
consultancy and counselling and life coaching for the management of
psychosomatic disorders as well as interpersonal problems. She also provides
healing treatments using aromatherapy, manual lymph drainage, chakra
therapy and pranic and spiritual healings. She has an association with
institutions such as Dr BMN College of Home Science and MMP Shah
College, both in Mumbai, as a counsellor, also conducting various training
workshops for students and other institutions on stress management, inner
grooming, chakra healing and medita tion and naam sankirtan y oga. Dr Minoo tra vels to the USA, Canada, the UK, Eur ope and A ustralia to
offer consultancy and treatments, as well as co-conducting training
workshops on integrated healing with aromatherapy, lymph drainage,
emotional release and chakra healing with Dr Ravi Ratan. They also use
healing cr ystals and wand therap y. For more information please visit www.aromatantra.com
OceanofPDF.comDedication
Guru Brahma
Guru Vishnu
Guru Devo Maheshwaraiya
Guru Sakashat Per Brahma
Tasme Shri Guruveyah Namah
‘No spiritual progress is possible without the
guidance of the guru.’
This book is dedicated to our gurus. ‘Our first gurus [teachers] are our parents; during our upbringing our
parents and family elders give us sanskar, the basic values of life. Learning
comes to us through books, journals, television, the internet and social
media, which provide information and answers to our questions. When we
are open to learning everyone is our teacher, some we actively seek and
some we draw into our lives; when the seeker is ready, guru appears. Often
we learn simply by observing others even though they may be unaware of
that, so that even our students and clients are our teachers. Guru is not just
a physical bod y but is our guiding principle.’
— Om Shri Gurave Namaha
OceanofPDF.comContents
About the authors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
1.The chakra system
Nature and consciousness
2 Energy
Energy metabolism
The seven layers of the human energy field
3 Tantra
Gunas
The five elements
Nadis
Granthis
Vayus
The senses
4 Nervous and endocrine systems
Glands of the endocrine system
5 Lymphatic system6 Chakra aspects and symbols
7 Chakra numbers and planets
8 Chakra attributes
Muladhara (base root)
Swadhisthana (sacral)
Manipura (solar plexus)
Anahata (heart)
Vishuddhi (throat)
Ajna (third eye)
Sahasrara (crown)
9 Chakra healing
Yoga
Mudras
Meditation
Chanting
Sound
Aromatherapy
Crystals
Reflexology
Energy healing
Colour therapy
10The last word
GlossaryBibliography
OceanofPDF.comA c k n o w l e d g e m e n t s
This book couldn’t have been completed without the blessings and guidance
of our gurus. The universal guru (or the guiding principle) has been there for
all of us to guide us all the time; he is the one who moulds our thoughts and
perception, and gives ideas and knowledge. There are also gurus who are
embodied; in our case we have the grace of Shree Shivkrupanand Swami
and Dr Jayant Balaji Atha wale and man y more. The chakras are described in so many books, none of which give a
complete understanding. So many reference books, interactions and queries
with our gurus, students and clients has helped give us an understanding of
the subject, f or which there still isn’t any authentic litera ture. The subject of chakras covers all aspects of our lives, physical, mental,
emotional and spiritual. The process of growing up is in fact a journey
through the chakras for a child. During the process of growing he or she goes
through various phases of life, during which a particular chakra will be
dominant and play a definite role in the development of physical and
physiological organs and emotional development. Today we are more aware
of the external world and the gadgets we use, but not so much aware of the
way our own bodies work and how they process feelings and emotions. Tantra highlights those aspects of life such as breath and movement of
energies, which medical science doesn’t delve into but which the fields of
yoga and Ayurveda give a lot of importance to. The authors were blessed to have been born in the Hindu tradition and
into a spiritual family. Our universal guru ensured we received guidance not
only from our personal gurus but that we were also exposed to modern and
scientific aspects related to the subject of chakras through our interactionswith friends and students and feedback from our associates. John S.
Rogerson introduced us to the ISIS photo energy field imaging system,
which enabled us to authentica te our ener gy-healing r esults. We are thankful to our parents, whose guidance has helped us
throughout our lives. We are also thankful to our daughters Vartika and
Kartikeya for their help, interest and support in the completion of this book. OceanofPDF.comF o r e w o r d
The word ‘chakra’ has so much mysticism about it, and in recent times
more and more people have felt drawn to the subject. However, in the
absence of any authentic literature there are misconceptions about the role,
numbers and loca tions of the individual c hakras. Most of the kno wledge and
understanding about chakras has percolated down from various teachers,
sages and philosophers, and is contained in ancient Hindu texts such as the
Vedas and Upanishads and books on yoga and tantra. These all give
reference to the subject, but the information is available in bits and pieces
and is generally associated with particular attributes or practices rather than
providing the w hole pictur e.
The objective of this book is to offer maximum information and clarity
on the subject of chakras and their associated attributes and practices, not to
promote the Hindu religion. Since most of the information on the subject
has come from ancient Hindu traditions and rituals followed in tantra and
other spiritual practices, we have given references and explanations of those
as well as taking scientific and metaph ysical perspectives into considera tion. Often people vaguely refer to chakras as ‘energy centres on the body’
and then add their own understanding and vision of the role they play in
our lives. The medical community may not understand chakras unless the
practitioner has a spiritual inclination or background. In medical schools
studies are done on cadavers, which don’t have energy and vibrations so it is
beyond their scope. Chakras are the subject of living beings, because only
living beings ha ve vibrations and ener gy.We describe chakras as energy centres because they are the result of
energy metabolism in the body, representing the activity of our organs and
glands. Different spiritual and healing traditions talk of different numbers of
chakras: 7, 9, 12 or 14 and up to 108 chakras. The fact is, wherever there is
an energy activity a chakra is present. We have restricted the scope of this
book to the seven major chakras, as mentioned in kundalini tantra. These
seven are located on the torso and head, the parts of the body housing our
vital organs and glands. From a health perspective, understanding the
association of chakras with our organs and glands gives an insight into the
process of disease. We have discussed chakras from tantric, spiritual, metaphysical and
health perspectives. The focus of this book is not kundalini work or
promoting kundalini awakening practices, which should be done under the
guidance of a teacher with awakened kundalini. We are health practitioner s,
and our focus has been to create an understanding of the subject purely
from a health per spective. OceanofPDF.comI n t r o d u c t i o n
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again, but I was not out of the woods yet,” Patrick recalls. “The
damage done to my personal life ran very deep. One day I came
home to nd that my wife had locked me out of the house. No one
answered the phone when I called, and I felt angry and hurt. Miserably I walked over to the park and sat down to meditate. It
didn’t seem to do any good. I felt restless and upset the whole time. “But when I opened my eyes, a remarkable thing happened. My
mind was suddenly very quiet. I tried to think a thought, and one
came, but it immediately settled back into the silence, like a drop
merging into a still pool. I began to notice that the light around me
looked brighte r than usual, and when I heard some childr en playingnearby, their voices struck me as being the most joyful sound I had
ever heard. “It is hard to recapture how free I felt just at that momen t. It was
like having all these dead layers fall o to expose some sensitive,
living part of myself. I walked around a little, and everything had
taken on the same vibrant quality. My intense feelings of aloneness
and shame were now completely gone. I was totally dierent from
the suering person who had sat down on a park bench half an hour
before. ”
I believe Patrick had hit upon the breakthrough that meditation
causes: the self expands beyond the connes of the ego, at rst
gradually, but with greater  and greater intensity, until it is in
complete union with everything. “I and the world are one,” an
ancient Upanishad declares. The transformation of the small,
isolated self into something universal may come only in glimpses,
but this is the true self. It is only a matter of time before one lives its
truth permanently. At the height of his experience, which lasted for half an hour,
Patrick was approached by a panhandler. “Up to this point I was
completely lost in myself. I saw this derelict walking towards me—it
makes me ashamed to use that word. He did not look like a derelict
to me then; he was beyond that kind of value judgment. He was as
alive and vibrant as everything else. “When he was about three feet away, I looked right into his eyes. For some reason, they were changed. They looked shining and soft. I
asked him what he wanted,  and he hesitated, confused. Then he
said, ‘I don’t want nothing. I just hope you’re happy, man. ’ It
sounded funny  coming out of him, and I could see his surprised
reaction to his own words. It was as if he had been draw n into my
experience. In an amazingly  joyous voice, I said, ‘Yes, I’m happy,
very, very happy. ’ I mean, I wanted to embrace this dilapidated,
lthy guy. “He was walking away by now. I turned and started to go o in
the other direction, but when we were about twenty feet apart, I
looked over my shoulder. He was staring at me with disbelief. When
he caught my gaze he turned away for good. I wonder what he sawin my eyes at that moment. Probably disbelief, too, but I hope he
saw more. For a few seconds back there, I deeply loved him. ”
Unconditional Love
This strange encounter between Patrick and the derelict brings us
to the issue of unconditional love, which has become a catch phrase
in popular psychology. The objection I have felt about unconditional
love is that it runs complet ely against the grain of normal love,
which is based upon relationship. The love that exists between
husband and wife is not the same as that between mother and child. The dierence is based upon the type of relationship the two people
have. Where there is no relationship, it is hard to see how love can
ow. In this case, though, Patrick had no relationship whatsoever with
the derelict. They were total strangers who had every reason to feel
suspicious and hostile toward each other. However idealistically one
may want to feel, a shambling, smelly man in raggedy clothes is an
object of love to practically nobody; usually he is an object of
revulsion whom we assiduously avoid in order not to be exposed to
feelings of fear and contempt. But it is at the point where all relationship ceases that the
opportunity for unconditional love actually arises. When you have
no relationship to another person, you are automatically thrown
back upon yourself. The feelings that come out have no basis in
what you need or want from others—they simply come out. If I get
bumped in the street and feel angry, the emotion arises
spontaneously. I may feel guilty about it the next mom ent, but in
that split second it was the only choice my self could make. My level
of awareness did not oer me a better response. In Patrick’s case, his
level of awareness had leaped far beyond its normal limits; this
expansion dictated the response that spontaneously poured from
him. I imagine  his meditation on the park bench was not the sole
cause of this sudden change ; in India they speak of the “Yoga of
desperation,” a breakthrough into higher consciousness resultingfrom a predica ment so terrible that the psyche can nd no other
way out. Whatever the precise mechanism, Patrick found himself in a state
transcending normal perception. Like a yer breaking through a
dense cloud layer to nd blue sky and brilliant sun above, he
discovered that to look at anything was to see it in the light of love. He could not help himself, just as I could not help my anger on
being bumped in the street. The rishis speak of unconditi onal love, in fact, as a transcendental
quality that becomes infused into the mind during meditation. When
the mind goes beyond normal waking awareness, the transcending
process brings  one in contact with unconditional love in its silent,
unmanifest state. “Unmanifest” means that this love is not directed
at anything; it simply vibrates within the nature of the silent
witness, like a radio signal silently waiting for a radio to pick it up. At the end of meditation, the person returns to the waking state
bringing some of this transcendental quality into his everyday
consciousness. A new vibration has been added that alters, however
subtly, the person’s former awareness. This explanation is a twist on the usual understanding of
unconditional love. By denition, you can love someone
unconditionally only if your love does not alter no matter what the
other person does. This aspect of “no matter what” implies a
superhuman eort of will. One cannot help but imagine a plaster
saint who returns rudeness, anger, jealousy, inconsideration, and
every other sort of unloving behavior with sweetness and light. For
all its apparent goodness, this situation smacks of self-denial and
even masochism. The rishis’ version of unconditional love contains no eort at all. A person who feels love “no matter what” is simply following his
nature. In truth, this is all that can be asked of anyone. Acting
according to your own level of awareness is inescapable. In order to
smile at the stranger who bumps into me on the street, I need to feel
like smiling; otherwise, my behavior will be calculated. As we saw
before, calculation is the primary strategy of the false self. It has to
calculate when to smile because it is too afraid to show theemotions actually being felt. Tact and diplomacy, which most of us
applaud as “nice behavior,” can also be seen as the subtle skill of
lying. All of us are radiating our awareness out into the world and
bringing its reection back to us. If your awarenes s contains
violence and dread, you will meet those qualities “out there. ” On
the other hand, if your awareness contains unconditional love, the
world, even the eyes of a derelict, will mirror that love. The curative
value of this kind of awareness is enormous, as I would like to
illustrate with a moving story told by R. D. Laing. At the age of fourteen, a Scottish boy named Phillip came home
from school one day and found his mother on her bed in a pool of
blood. A long-term tuberculo sis patient, she had died from a sudden
hemorrhage in her lungs. Instead of consoling the boy and helping
him to overco me his shock and grief, Phillip’s father berated him,
telling him again and again that he had killed his mother by putting
her through the exhaustion of pregnancy, birth, and raising him. This went on for two months. Then Phillip came home from school
to nd that his father had committed suicide. Six months later, Laing came  across the boy in a Glasgow mental
ward, in a bizarre state of psychological and physical deterioration. As Laing vividly recalls, “He smelled awful. He was incontinent of
urine and feces, given to staggering and walking peculiarly. He
gesticulated in strange ways without speaking, seem ed almost
completely self-absorbed, and could not care less about his
surroundings and the people in


, the cost of participating in a maximally effective life extension prog ram
will escalate. However, those who can afford chemically enhanced functioning will enjoy certain side -benefits. Their productive,
enjoyable life spans may measure well over a century, perhaps approaching two centuries or more. Some of these substances
greatly improve intelligence so they will become brighter and have faster reaction times. With more time to accumulate more
wisdom and experience than "short livers" these folks will become wiser, too. They will have more time to compound their
investment a ssets and thus will become far more wealthy. They will become an obvious and recognizable aristocracy. This new
upper class will immediately recognize each other on the street because they will look entirely different than the short -lived poorer
folk and w ill probably run the political economic system. And this new aristocratic society I see coming may be far more pleasant than the one dominated by the oligarchy we now have
covertly running things. For with greater age and experience does really come gr eater wisdom. I have long felt that the biggest
problem with Earth is that we did not live long enough. As George Bernard Shaw quipped when he was 90 (he lived to 96), "here  I
am, 90 years old, just getting out of my adolescence and getting some sense, and  my body is falling apart as fast as it can." Vitamin Program For The Sick
    No matter which way you look at it or how well insured you may be against it, being sick is expensive (not to mention what it
does to one's quality of life), and by far the best thing to do is to prevent it from happening in the first place. However, most people
do not do anything about their health until forced to by some painful condition. If you are already sick there are a number o f
supplements you can take which have the potential to shorten the duration and severity of the illness, and hopefully p revent a
recurrence. The sicker you are, the more supplements you will require; as health is regained, the dosage and variety of substances can be
reduced. In chronic illness, megadoses of many nutrients are usually beneficial. Any sick adult should b egin a life extension
vitamin program unless they are highly allergic to so many things already that they can not tolerate many kinds of vitamins a s
well. In addition to the life extension program, vitamin C should be taken by the chronically ill at a dose  from 10 to 25 grams
daily, depending on the severity of the condition. Many people want to know whether or not they should take their regular food supplements during a fast. On a water fast most
supplements in a hard tablet form will not be broken dow n at all, and often can be seen floating by in the colonic viewing tube
looking exactly like it did when you swallowed it. This waste can be avoided by crushing or chewing (yuck) the tablets, befor e
swallowing. Encapsulated vitamins usually are absorbed, b ut if you want to make sure, open the capsule and dump it in the back of
your mouth before swallowing with water. Powdered vitamins are well absorbed. On a water fast the body is much more sensitive to any substance introduced, so as a general rule it  is not a good idea to take
more than one half your regular dose of food supplements. Most fasters do fine without any supplements. Many people get an
upset stomach from supplements on an empty stomach, and these people should not take any during a water f ast unless they
develop symptoms of mineral deficiencies (usually a pre -existing condition) such as leg cramps and tremors, these symptoms
necessitate powdered or well -chewed -up mineral supplement. Minerals don't taste too bad to chew, just chalky. The same suggestions regarding dosage of supplements for a water fast are also true for a juice fast or vegetable broth fast. O n a
raw food cleansing diet the full dose of supplements should be taken with meals. There exists an enormous body of data abou t vitamins; books and magazine articles are always touting some new product or
explaining the uses of an old one. If you want to know more about using ordinary vitamins you'll find leads in the bibliograp hy to
guide your reading. However, there is one "old " vitamin and a few newer and relatively unknown life extending substances that are
so useful and important to handling illness that I would like to tell you more about them. Vitamin C is not a newly discovered vitamin, but was one of the first ever id entified. If you are one of those people that just hate
taking vitamins, and you were for some reason willing to take only one, vitamin C would be your best choice. Vitamin C would be
the clear winner because it helps enormously with any infection and in i nvaluable in tissue healing and rebuilding collagen. If I
was going on a long trip and didn't want to pack a lot of weight, my first choice would be to insure three to six grams of vi tamin C
for daily use when I was healthy (I'd take the optimum dose –ten g rams a day –if weight were no limitation). I'd also carry enough
extra C to really beef up my intake when dealing with an unexpected acute illness or accident. When traveling to far away places, exposed to a whole new batch of organisms, frequently hav ing difficulty finding healthy
foods, going through time zones, losing nights of sleep, it is easy to become enervated enough to catch a local cold or flu. If I have
brought lots of extra vitamin C with me I know that my immune system will be able to conqu er just about anything –as long as I
also stop eating and can take an enema. I also like to have vitamin C as a part of my first aid kit because if I experience a
laceration, a sprain, broken bone, or a burn, I can increase my internal intake as well as app ly it liberally directly on the damaged
skin surface. Vitamin C can be put directly in the eye in a dilute solution with distilled water for infections and injuries,  in the ear
for ear infections, and in the nose for sinus infections. If you are using the acid form of C (ascorbic acid) and it smarts too much,
make a more dilute solution, or switch to the alkaline form of C (calcium ascorbate) which can be used as a much more
concentrated solution without a stinging sensation. Applied directly on the skin C in solution makes a very effective substitute for
sun screen. It doesn't filter out ultraviolet, it beefs up the skin to better deal with the insult. I believe vitamin C can deal with a raging infection such as pneumonia as well or better than antibiot ics. But to do that, C is
going to have to be administered at the maximum dose the body can process. This is easily discoverable by a 'bowel tolerance test'
which basically means you keep taking two or three grams of C each hour, (preferably in the powdere d, most rapidly assimilable
form) until you get a runny stool (the trots). The loose stool happens when there is so much C entering the small intestine t hat it is
not all absorbed, but is instead, passed through to the large intestine. At that point cut ba ck just enough that the stool is only a little
loose, not runny. At this dose, your blood stream will be as saturated by vitamin C as you can achieve by oral ingestion. It can make an important difference which type of vitamin C is taken because many people are unable to tolerate the acid form
of C beyond 8 or 10 grams a day, but they can achieve a therapeutic dose without discomfort with the alkaline (buffered) vita min
C products such as calcium ascorbate, sodium ascorbate, or magnesium -potassium asco rbates. Vitamin C also speeds up the healing of internal tissues and damaged connective tissue. Damaged internal tissues might includ e
stomach ulcers (use the alkaline form of vitamin C only), bladder and kidney infections (acid form usually best), ar thritic disorders
with damage to joints and connective tissue (alkaline form usually best). Sports injuries heal up a lot faster with a therape utic dose
of vitamin C. As medicine, vitamin C should be taken at the rate of one or two grams every two hours (d epending on the severity
of the condition), spaced out to avoid unnecessary losses in the urine which happens if it were taken ten grams at a time. If  you
regularly use the acid form of vitamin C powder, which is the cheapest, be sure to use a straw and di ssolve it in water or juice so
that the acid does not dissolve the enamel on your teeth over time. And this is as good a point as any to mention that just like broccoli is not broccoli, a vitamin is not necessarily a vitamin. Vitamins are made by chemi cal and pharmaceutical companies. To make this confusion even more interesting, the business names
that appear on vitamin bottles are not the real manufacturers. Bronson's Pharmaceuticals is a distributor and marketer, not a
manufacturer. The same is true of every vitamin company I know of. These companies buy bulk product by the barrel or sack; then
encapsulate, blend and roll pills, bottle and label, advertise and make profit. The point of all this is that some actual vit amin
manufacturers produce very hi gh quality products and others shortcut. Vitamin distributors must make ethical (or unethical)
choices about their suppliers. It is beyond the scope of this book to be a manual for going into the vitamin business. However, there


convinced a majority if not all cases could recover if proper care were instituted at the first sign of
symptoms. I have never had an opportunity to care for a case from its beginning, but have received all such
cases after they were considerably advanced and had been drugged for three or more years. The
drugs employed to control the tremors undoubtedly further impair the brain and nerves. Cases following head injuries (traumatic cases) and those following
encephalitis lethargica
 are
less favorable cases, but in non-traumatic cases, excellent results may be obtained in the great
majority of patients in a comparatively short time. But full recovery, where possible, is a matter of
months or even of years. It is not uncommon to see the cessation of all tremor in the first fast, only to have it recur when
eating is resumed. The tremor is less severe when it recurs after the fast. A second fast produces
the same results, with less tremor following this. A third fast is sometimes enough to result in a
lasting clearing up of the tremor. In some cases a fourth and even a fifth fast is required. It is impossible to say what percentage of these cases, especially in younger subjects, could
make a full recovery if they persisted long enough, but we rarely expect more than marked
improvement in men and women nearing or past seventy, who have had the disease for several
years. Eating between the fasts in these cases must be limited. The diet should be composed largely of
fresh fruits and fresh (perferably uncooked) vegetables, with nuts or an unprocessed mild cheese
for protein. Bread, animal foods, rich viands, salt, condiments, coffee, teas, cocoa, and similar
beverages should be avoided completely. All alcohol, smoking and other use of tobacco should be avoided. An abundance of rest and
sleep are specially important. Sun baths are helpful, but should not be indulged to the point of
enervation. I make it a practice of giving these patients light exercises—movements requiring skill
rather than strength in their performance—as soon as they are off their fast. 13133
Nephritis
“Your child has six weeks to live; we can do no more for her.” The voice was that of the physician
who acted as spokesman for several physicians who had taken part in a consultation. The place: a
modern hospital. The little nine-year-old girl who was the subject of the decision was suffering with nephritis. She had been in the hospital for about two weeks and was bloated from head to foot with an
accumulation of water (dropsy), a development that is characteristic of advanced stages of this
disease. As far as they were concerned she was finished—a nine-year-old nothing. The parents of the child were not willing to give up. People are like that; they cling to hope, and
do not always accept a death sentence of this kind as final. The mother suggested taking the girl
from the hospital and trying
elsewhere. The physician said: “You are free to take her anywhere you
wish and try whatever you think may help. We can do no more.”
The girl was removed from the hospital, but no other physician was found who would take
charge of the case. Taking the child on her lap, the mother sat in the back seat of the car while the father drove a
hundred-and-twenty-five miles to a
Hygienic
 institution. Arriving there, the father carried the child
inside and presented the hopelessness of the case to the director. “I cannot promise much,” said the
Hygienist
, “but we’ll try.” After fully going over the history
and symptoms of the case, he told the desperate parents, “We are going to give her a chance to
recover. I believe she can.”
The suffering child was put to bed and all food withheld. Water was given in infrequent sips. Almost over night the edema began to decline. It passed out in the urine and in watery stools, and,
after a few days, some of the solid matter contained in it was expelled by means of skin eruptions. Soon wrists and ankles that were as large, or larger, than her legs were down to normal size. A
little girl who looked like a rubber baby blown up to oversize was down to “skin and bones.”
After two weeks of fasting, feeding was resumed. She was fed on fruits and vegetables at first,
with starches, sugars and proteins added after a few days of juicy fruits and leafy vegetables. From
this time forward her progress, although slow, was satisfactory. At the end of nine months the little
girl was dismissed. After the passage of several years the same little girl, now married, again visited the
Hygienist
and was in a state of splendid health. She had developed into a beautiful young woman and was
proud of her exuberant health. There had been no more trouble with her kidneys; indeed, she never
experienced sickness of any nature and was holding down a responsible position. Can we say that this recovery is typical? No. Most cases of Bright’s disease or nephritis, are in
older men and women and the deterioration of the kidneys is greater than in the case of this young
girl, so that all patients do not recover so readily or so quickly—and some of them do not recover
at all. But this case does reveal that death is not always inevitable because the case has been
declared to be
incurable
. It reveals the amazing things the body can do for itself in the way of restoration of structure and
function when it is given a fair opportunity. This dying child was not “treated” into good health;
she made her own spontaneous recovery without the dubious assistance of any therapeutic
132measure. Richard Bright, a British physician prominent in the first half of the nineteenth century, noted that
the last illness of many men was attended by the appearance of albumen in the urine or uremic
poisoning. He
investigated the condition of the kidneys in these cases and discovered a
degenerated state that was responsible for the symptoms. Although this condition is technically
known as nephritis (inflammation of the kidneys) the disease has long been called Bright’s disease
after the man who first described it. Actually, from a practical point of view, we are not so much concerned about the degenerative
changes that take place in the kidneys, when albumen and granular and bloody casts appear in the
urine or when there is suppression of the urine. When we are confronted with evidences of uremic
poisoning, instead of worrying about the nature of the changes in the kidneys, we need first to think
of the living habits of the patient. Faulty, excessive practices may have caused the degeneration of
kidneys and all the other organs that are involved in the deterioration. Few chronic diseases arouse so much fear and apprehension in the patient’s mind as chronic
Bright’s disease. Yet there is no chronic disease that so quickly improves, and from which the
patient is so likely to make a full recovery as a consequence of a fast, proper feeding and general
Hygienic
 care. These simple changes, however, in the way of life must be made before the
deterioration to the kidneys has reached an irreversible stage. The reason for the terror that a diagnosis of Bright’s disease commonly causes is based on the
fact that the cause of the disease is not removed. Nephritis or Bright’s disease does not develop, neither in the acute nor in the chronic form, in
those of abstemious habits of living. It is a disease of high livers and continuous stuffers. Many
drugs produce inflammation of the kidneys and those who are always drugging themselves may
have to pay for their folly by evolving a serious degenerative change in the kidneys that will
shorten their life. It is well known in professional circles that today the possession of typically healthy kidneys is
rare in adults. Great numbers of people who die of other diseases have been made liable to these
other diseases by the impaired state of their kidneys. A fast in this condition need not always be a lengthy one. Ten days, two weeks, sometimes three
weeks, are usually enough. The condition of the kidneys quickly clears when fasting is instituted. The albumen disappears from the urine, casts and blood clear up. The symptoms of urine poisoning
—headaches, vertigo, frequent and copious urination, bed wetting, getting up frequently at night,
suppressed urine, and scanty urine—soon cease. The urine becomes normal in color and odor and
everything points to the resumption of normal excretion. The regeneration of the kidneys that takes place after the fast is broken will be more thorough,
more complete and more rapid if the diet is abstemious and composed of fresh fruits and leafy
vegetables with but moderate quantities of the heavier foods. Onions, garlic, chives, shallots, leaks, mustard, radishes, cress and other foods containing
mustard oil, which irritate the kidneys, should be omitted from the diet. Grain products are also
best omitted. Flesh, meat extracts, alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, tea, coffee, cocoa and
chocolate are not to be thought of for the man whose kidneys are seriously impaired. Excessive
water drinking can serve no useful purpose. Give the kidneys a chance to repair themselves and
they will not disappoint you. 13334
Gallstones
Cholelithiasis
 is the term applied to the formation of stones in the gall bladder and bile ducts. These are derived either partly or entirely from the constituents of the bile, the principal element
being cholesterin which precipitates in crystalline


 and clabber, too." "You have me sized up about right, doctor," the astonished
patient would answer. "How di d you ever guess all that?" Naturally, nobody in or around Hereford had thought once giving
their food or milk credit for producing their sound teeth. They did not
suspect that what they had to eat or drink was any different from what
people in other parts of the country lived on. Very few people are
aware of the fact that what one eats determines their health. Even today, very few Deaf Smith County residents seem to
appreciate the fabulous riches of their soil. The greater number do not
know how to value the food crops which grow in that soil loaded with
health-giving minerals and vitamins. My inquiries among people who live in distant States have about
convinced me that no other agricu ltural area can match in total
nutritive value the wheat, green vegetables, other food crops, beef and dairy products that come from Deaf  Smith County's mineralized soil. Most maladies which afflict mankind, I say, can be eliminated by
living on the correct foods. Whatever ills the people suffer from, they
themselves have created—mostly by their faulty eating habits. I can
cite you Scripture to bear me out:
"Brethren, I have fed you with milk, and not with meat," Paul
writes in his first epistle to the Corinthians. "For hitherto ye were not
able to bear it." Again, the apostle writes to the Hebrews:
"Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age." To be sure, the language of thos e passages is figurative. Milk
matured the child. Meat was fit food for the understanding adult. Even so, in our Plains country, those persons who drink plenty of
milk from childhood up, almost unfailingly are found to possess keen
minds along with their sound teeth. I GET SOME CLUES AND FOLLOW THEM UP
As I had a pretty strong suspicion that the food which my
patients had lived on would give me the key to their mouth condition,
I would question every person who came to me about his eating
habits. The more I found out in that manner, the more I was convinced
that I was on the right track. I had noticed that a poorly balanced diet, whether too much or too little, would show up in a bad mouth. My patient would have cavities in his teeth—a sign that he was
getting too much starch and not enough protein in his diet. Another
patient would have puffy and bleeding gums. He was a victim of
pyorrhea, as a result of eating too much meat and gravy. As I kept telling my patients, a balanced diet contains all the
elements needed to build the supply, keep it in repair and supply it
with energy. That kind of foodstuff, eaten regularly — in the right
amounts, but with variety that w ill keep the appetite whetted, will
produce a strong, healthy body and sound teeth. But, if the diet lacks
some essential element, the bodily machine will soon be out of kilter. Sooner or later the teeth will suffer along with other tissues and organs. To cite an instance: Mr. W. P., a Deaf Smith County ranchman,
had been my patient for years. Until middle age, he had nearly perfect
teeth. One day in his late 60s, Mr. W. P. came into my office. My
check up showed 22 recently fo rmed cavities in his teeth. "Mr. W. P. (I told him), I see that you have gone and dropped the
diet that had kept your mouth he althy all these years. You are not
getting the fresh vegetables, salads and other nourishing foods like
you have lived on most of your life — and you are not drinking milk
like you did." "You are right, doctor," Mr. W. P. confessed. "I have developed
a strong appetite for white bread and syrup." About the same time another old acquaintance of mine, J. N.
Jacobsen, then 77 years old, came in for a check-up. Mr. J. had an
almost perfect mouth. All his life he had needed but one tooth
extracted and two filled. He had no cavities then, but firm gums and
healthy mouth tissue. "How long has it been, Mr. J., since you had these fillings put
in?" "Let's see, that was 60 years ago when I was a boy in Denmark." "How long have you lived in Hereford, Mr. Jacobsen?" "I have
been here 41 years." "I suppose you brush your teeth after every meal, like the books
say, and all that?" "No, doctor, I don't. I have been too busy making a living to fool
with a toothbrush." "Well, what do you eat as a rule?" "Anything at all that grows in our garden. As you know, doctor,
it is the best in town." "But you do eat some meat?" "Once in a while, I'll eat a steak or something." Through the 30-odd years that I practiced in Hereford I kept
questioning my patients like that. To my way of thinking, the answers
I got proved my theory: A natural, ba lanced diet of unrefined food will
produce sound teeth and a sound body. Never once, since I formulated that tenet, have I found a bad mouth in a person who lived on that sort
of diet — fresh vegetables out of the home garden, whole wheat
grown on our completely fertile Deaf Smith county soil, with plenty of
milk from cows that had grazed on our home pastures. The best test
was milk. That was the only food that, until recent times, people
generally consumed raw. On the other hand, when a patient did come into my office with a
lot of cavities in his mouth, I could tell him what had caused his teeth
to decay. "You are eating too much white bread, hot biscuits and cake,
sugar and syrup, pies and jellies (I would tell the patient). As a result,
your body is not getting the protein and minerals it needs for healthy
functioning. You are not taking in calcium enough to build strong
bones and sound teeth. You do not drink enough milk or eat enough
raw foods to keep you supplied with vitamins and minerals. Those are
the spark plugs for your bodily machine. You do not eat enough
roughage, such as bran, for healthy elimination of waste matter." "I guess you have me sized up about right," doctor, the patient
would answer. "I do have a dainty appetite." Well, it is an unhealthy appetite (I would warn) and it is your
worst enemy. Just keep indulging that appetite a few years longer and
you will be needing a full set of false teeth. I can make you some good ones. They won't decay at all and you can take them out to clean them
at will. If that is what you want, just go on feeding that jade appetite of
yours. But if you want to keep your natural teeth you will have to
change your eating habits drastically and change right now. Now, you go home, Mr. S. and begin eating sensibly. Take some
wheat bran — or some home milled whole wheat would be better —
soaked in whole raw milk for breakfast, or, if you prefer, you can heat
the cereal. With it take some fresh fr uit or if you can't get that, some
fruit or vegetable juice out of a can. That is better than coffee or tea,
but milk in some form is your best drink. Then, for dinner have some fresh vegetables out of your garden
— string beans or blackeye peas or what have you — and drink the
pot liquor. Take part of your dinner raw — tomatoes and lettuce
leaves will do nicely. You can have a little meat and just a dab of
butter, but no hot biscuit and syrup. Eat whole wheat or corn bread. If
you must have a dessert, let it be stewed or fresh fruit. Repeat that, with whatever vari ety your wife can concoct, for
supper. With all that, you must contrive in one way or another to
consume your quart of milk a day. You can beneficially take part of it
in buttermilk or clabber, co ttage cheese or ice cream. Mr. S. now you go and follow this schedule I have mapped out
for a year. Then come and tell me about it. By that time, I'll guarantee,
I'll be able to give you a be tter report on your mouth. Such is the good counsel I would drum into my patients' ears,
day in and day out, during my entire practice; but, for the most part,
the advice would go in at one ear and out at the other. That was what kept me in the dental business. CHAPTER 17. I TRY TO "SELL" MY  FELLOW DENTISTS

After I had established the fact s concerning the Deaf Smith
County natives' immunity to tooth decay to my own satisfaction, and
had formulated my theory as to the reasons for that immunity, I felt
that I ought to tell my fellow dentists about my discovery. I had not forgotten that talk at a luncheon table during an Alabama State Dental
Convention several years before (Chapter 10) and the encouraging
word I had received from Dr. Young of Anniston


—do you know many
people w ho could adequately feed themselves if there was no food available
for conv enient purchase. One thing is for sure—a major shif t of attitude
would b e required. In order to eat, we would have to perform regular and
sustained physic al exercise, something that the human body is built for and
thrives u pon. W hy should we st op it now, simply because hunti ng our own
food is no longer necessary. And while it might be too late f or many of us to become elite athletes,
we can still enj oy and derive considerable benefit from regular physical
exercise. Even if you have lived a relatively sedentary life until now, you
can dev elop your fitness slowly and steadily and bring about positive
changes to your health. There is a great feeling of self-esteem and
accomplishment when we get up of f our backsides or move away from the
computer. If you exercise for an hour per day, five times per week, for just a
few weeks, you will experience a remarkable dif ference in your sleep
quality, mood, and state of health. Despite the advances of med ical science, the diseases of modern
civilization cont inue to increase, and it could be ar gued that we  are passing
responsibility for our health to pharmaceutical companies rather than
making changes to our lifestyle and diet to prevent illness in the first place. Each year, more and more people are developing asthma, heart disease,
diabetes, high blood pressure, an d cancer. Not only that, but new “diseases”
are being invented all the time—and some might say it’ s because the market
conditions and share prices of b ig pharmaceutical companies dictate a need
for n ew markets and ever -increa sing sales. W e may be living longer, but at
the expense of consuming vast quantities of medication as soon as we
approach fifty or sixty years of age. A far better option to help prevent the
onset of diseases—and one that involves no toxicity or expense—is to take
a reg ular fast wa lk or jog. If you haven’ t exercised regularly before, please
pay a visit to your physician to get the all clear before starting. One thi ng that pretty much all health professionals agree o n is the
importance of regular physical exercise, taken within our limits. Dozens of
studies over the last few years have shown that regular physi cal exercise
provides many health benefits, including a reduced risk of cardiovascular
disease, cancer, and diabetes. Studies as far back as the 1950s have investigated the relationship
between regular physical exercise and cardiovascular health. One of the
earliest w as conducted by Dr. Jeremy Morris, who studied the incidence of
heart att acks in 31,000 transport workers. Morris found that bus conductors,
who spent most of their day climbing up and down the stairs of double-
decker buses, averaging betwee n 500 and 700 steps per day, h ad reduced
incidences of heart disease than their bus-driving counterparts, who spent
90 p ercent of t heir day sitting down. Not only this, but he art disease
developed by the bus conductors tended to present later in life and was less
likely to be fatal. The same study was replicated using over 100,000 postal workers, and
once again it was found that those who spent their day on foot or cycling
while delivering  the mail had fewer incidences of heart disease compared to
workers in sedentary occupations such as telephonists, civil service
executives, and clerks. Dr. Mor ris’ s findings are just as relevant today as
sixty years ago, and since more and more of us spend our working day
behind a desk, there is an increased need to perform regu lar physical
exercise. Even more important is that we perform this exercise within our
own personal limits. The bes t way to ensure that w e exercise within our capabilities is by
nasal breathing,  and an importa nt consideration is the length of time youcan com fortably hold your breath, or your BOL T measurement. When your
BOL T s core is less than 20 seco nds, your breathing volume will be greater
than what your body requires, resulting in a risk of overbreat hing during
physical exerci se. All breathing should be through the nose when
performing phys ical exercise so as not to increase breathing v olume even
further. When your BOL T score is grea ter than 20 seconds, it’ s fine for you to
breathe through  the mouth during exercise for brief periods of time. However, it is o nly when your BOL T score is greater than 30 seconds that
intense physical exercise can be performed without undue risk of
overbreathing. T he goal for seri ous athletes, of course, is to attain a BOL T
score of 40 seconds. Only with a high BOL T score of 40 seconds is breathing volu me at a
normal level. Anything less indicates habitual overbreathing. And while it
would b e a normal expectation f or athletes to possess a high BOL T score, in
reality this is s eldom the case. I have measured the BOL T scores of
hundreds of athletes, ranging fro m weekend warriors to elite Ol ympic-level
athletes, and guess what. The v ast majority of BOL T measurements were
less than 20 seco nds. Some, in f act, have been less than 10 seconds, as low
as any person with severe asthm a. It is shocking to think of th e stress that
such overbreathing is placing on the body during intense physical exercise,
so a nyone serious about exercis e should aim to reduce their breathing and
increase their BOL T score. Like any  change  to your routine, the best way to determine the benefits
of reduc ed breat hing, nasal breathing, and a higher BOL T score is to put the
Oxygen Advant age program into practice for 2 to 3 weeks. Y ou will find a
program specific  to your BOL T score, exercise history, and state of health
in P art I V of this book. T wo or  three weeks is a relatively short period of
time in the grand scheme of th ings, and most individuals will experience
positive benefits  within a few short days. As you experience the positive
benefits, I am i n no doubt tha t you will be happy to incorporate these
principles into your life, for the rest of your life. For exam ple, wh en I first learne d to unblock my nose and switch from
mouth to nasal breathing, I imm ediately felt tension lifting from my head,
and desp ite havi ng wheezed my way through the previous twenty years, mysymptoms reduced by as much as 50 percent within the first day, simply by
breathing calmly through the nose. Even if you are unwilling to make a 100 percent change to nasal
breathing during  your peak seas on training, bear in mind that whatever you
do t o incorporate the Oxygen Advantage program into your routine will
provide a return. Ultimately, your success depends on your ability to
improve your BOL T score—each 5-second improvement will cause the
benefits to accumulate. In Part IV I have outlined a series of dif ferent programs to suit
individuals according to their current training, BOL T score, age, and overall
health. Choose the one that best matches your fitness level and abilities and
move on  when you feel you ha ve accomplished as much as po ssible from
each program. W ould Y ou Do Me a Favor. I am  ver y optimistic that if you follow the principles outlined in this book
and work toward increasing y our BOL T score, your health and sports
performance will improve in many ways. Since 2002, I ha ve observed tremendous improvements in the sporting
ability of both amateur and p rofessional athletes who have applied the
concepts of the Oxygen Adva ntage program. I have also wi tnessed the
negative ef fects on respiratory, mental, and cardiovascular health from
chronic overbre athing. It is my  aim to spread the word of t hese simple
techniques to provide an easy and ef fective way of improving the health and
well-being of readers. And you can help me to generate awareness. I w ould  appreci ate it greatly if  you would try out these practices and
then spr ead the word to your frie nds and family who are interested in health
and sports, or who suf fer from any of the problems described i n this book. Y ou could also help by writing a review of The Oxygen Advantage  on
Amazon. com. Also, please share the book with anyone you think may benefit from the
techniques within the Oxygen Advantage program. Finally, if you have any question s, or would simply like to tell me about
your personal experience with the Oxygen Advantage program, please drop
me a line. I would love to hear  from you. Y ou can contact me directly at
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Q: What is the potential risk associated with overbreathing during CPR?,
A: Reduced blood flow and reduced oxygenation of the heart.
Q: What is the relationship between the reduction of breathing volume and improvement in asthma symptoms?,
A: The study showed that a reduction in breathing volume led to a 70% reduction in symptoms


 chart on this page. Because deterioration starts out so slowly, people usually do not begin to
notice there has been any decline until they reach their late 30s. A few fortunateones don’t notice it until their 40s. A few (usually) dishonest ones claim no losses
into their 50s but they are almost inevitably lying, either to you or to themselves,
or both. Though it might be wisest to begin combating the aging process at age19, practically speaking, no one is going to start spending substantial money onfood supplements until they actually notice significant lost function. For non-athletes this point usually comes when function has dropped to about 90 percentof what it was in our youth. If they’re lucky what people usually notice with thebeginnings of middle age is an increasing inability for their bodies to tolerate insultssuch as a night on the town or a big meal. Or they may begin to get colds that justwon’t seem to go away. Or they may begin coming home after work so tired thatthey can hardly stay awake and begin falling asleep in their Lazy Boy recliner infront of the TV even before prime time. If they’re not so lucky they’ll beginsuffering the initial twinges of a non-life-threatening chronic condition like arthritis. The thinnest line demonstrates the worst possible life from a purely physical
point of view, where a person started out life with significantly lowered function,lost quite a bit more and then hung on to life for many years without the mercy ofdeath. If one can postpone the deterioration of aging, they extend and hopefully
square the curve (retard loss of function until later and then have the loss occurmore rapidly). Someone whose lifetime function resembled a “square curve”(thethickest, topmost line) would experience little or no deterioration until the veryend and then would lose function precipitously. At this point we do not know howto eliminate the deterioration but we do know how to slow it down, living longerand feeling better, at least to a point close to the very end. Vitamin supplements can actually slow or even to a degree, reverse, the aging
process. However, to accomplish that task, they have to be taken in amounts fargreater than so-called minimum daily requirements, using vitamins as though theywere drugs, a therapeutic approach to changing body chemistry profiles andmaking them resemble a younger body. For example, research gerontologists likeWalford reason that if pantothenic acid (vitamin B
5, in fairly substantial but quite
safe) doses can extend the life and improve the function of old rats, there is every
indication that it will do a similar job on humans. Medical researchers andresearch gerontologists have noticed that many other vitamin and vitamin-likesubstances have similar effects on laboratory animals. Some will object that what helps rats and mice is in no way proven to cause
the same result on humans. I agree. Proven with full scientific rigor, no. In fact, atpresent, the contention is unprovable. Demonstrable as having a high likelihood’sof being so, yes. So likely so as to be almost incontrovertible, yes. But provableto the most open-minded, scientific sort—probably not for a long time. However,the Life Extension Foundation is working hard to find some quantifiable method ofgauging the aging process in humans without waiting for the inarguable indicator,death. Once this is accomplished and solidly recognized, probably no rationalperson will be able to doubt that human life span can be increased. Experiments work far better with short-lived laboratory animals for another
reason; we can not control the food and supplement intakes of humans as we canwith caged mice. In fact, there are special types of laboratory mice that have beenbred to have uniformly short life spans, especially to accelerate this kind ofresearch. With mice we can state accurately that compared to a control group,feeding such and such a dose of such and such a supplement extended the life-span or functional performance by such and such a percent. A lot of these very same medical gerontologists nourish their own bodies as
thoroughly as the laboratory animals they are studying, taking broad mixes of foodsupplements at doses proportional to those that extend the life spans of theirresearch animals. This approach to using supplementation is at the other end ofthe scale compared to using supplements to prevent gross deficiencies. In the lifeextension approach, vitamins and vitamin-like substances are used as a therapyagainst the aging process itself. Will it work. Well, some of these human guinea pigs have been on heavy
vitamin supplementation for over thirty years (as of 1995) and none seem to be
suffering any damage. Will they live longer. It is impossible to say with full
scientific rigor. To know if life extension works, we would have to first determine“live longer than what. ” After all, we don’t know how long any person might havelived without life extending vitamin supplements. Though it can’t be “proven,” itmakes perfect sense to me to spend far less money on an intensive life extensionvitamin program than I would certainly lose as a result of age-related sickness. Besides, I’ve already observed from personal use and from results in my
clinical practice that life extension vitamin programs do work. Whether I and myclients will ultimately live longer or not, the people who I have put on theseprograms, including myself and my husband, usually report that for several yearsafter starting they find themselves feeling progressively younger, graduallyreturning to an overall state of greater well-being they knew five or ten or fifteenyears ago. They have more energy, feel clearer mentally, have fewer unwantedsomatic symptoms. Sometimes the improvements seem rather miraculous. After a few months on
the program one ninety year old man, an independent-minded Oregonian farmer,reported that he began awakening with an erection every morning; unfortunately,his 89 year old cranky and somewhat estranged wife, who would not takevitamins, did not appreciate this youthfulness. A few months later (he had a smallfarm) he planted a holly orchard. Most of you won’t appreciate what this meanswithout a bit of explanation, but in Oregon, holly is grown as a high-priced andhighly profitable ornamental for the clusters of leaves and berries. But a slow-growing holly orchard takes 25 years to began making a profit. A few older clients of mine reported that they noticed nothing from the life
extension program, but these are unique people who have developed the ability todominate their bodies with their minds and routinely pay their bodies absolutely noattention, driving them relentlessly to do their will. Usually they use their energiesto accomplish good, Christian works. Eventually, these dedicated and high-tonedpeople break down and die like everyone else. Will they do so later on life
extending vitamins than they would have otherwise. I couldn’t know because I
can’t know how long they might have lived without supplementation and sincethey refuse to admit the vitamins do them any good, they won’t pay for them. Many on life extension programs experience a reverse aging process for
awhile. However, after the full benefit of the supplementation has worked itselfthrough their body chemistry, they again begin to experience the aging process. Ibelieve the process will then be slowed by their vitamins compared to what itwould have been without supplements. But I can’t prove it. Maybe we will havesome idea if the program worked 20 to 40 years from now. At this time I know of only two companies that make top quality life extension
vitamin supplement formulas. One is Prolongevity (Life Extension Foundation),the other, Vitamin Research Products. I prefer to support what I view as thealtruistic motives behind Prolongevity and buy my products from them. Unfortunately, these vitamin compounders can not put every possibly beneficialsubstance in a single bottle of tablets. The main reason they do not is fear of thepower-grabbing Food and Drug Administration. This agency is threateningconstantly to remove certain of the most useful life-extending substances from thevitamin trade and make them the exclusive property of prescription-writingmedical doctors. So far, public pressure has been mobilized against the FDAevery time action was threatened and has not permitted this. If some productwere included in a mix and that product were prohibited, the entire mixed, bottledand labeled batch that remained unsold at that time would be wasted, atenormous cost. Were I manufacturing my own life extension supplement I would include the list
shortly following. By the way, to get this all in one day, it is necessary to take 6 to12 large tablets daily, usually spread throughout the day, taken a few at a timewith each meal. If you compare my suggested formulation to another one, keep inmind that variations of 25 percent one way or another won’t make a significantdifference, and adding other beneficial substances to my recommendations
probably is only helpful. However, I would not want to eliminate anything in the
list below, it is the minimum:
Beta-Carotene 25,000 iu Selenium 100 mcg
Vitamin A 5,000 iu T aurine 500 mg
B1 250 mg Cyctine 200 mg
B2 50 mg Gluthaianone 15 mg
B3 niacinamid 850 mg Choline 650 mg
B5 750 mg Inositol 250 mg
B6 200 mg Flavanoids 500 mg
B12 100 mcg Zinc 35 mg
PABA 50 mg Chromium 100 mcg
Folic Acid 500 mcg Molybdenum 123 mg
Biotin 200 mcg Manganese 5 mg
Vitamin C 3,000mg Iodine (as kelp) 10 mg
Vitamin E


 and bring the attributes of your universal Source to the presence of
that low energy. Try to imagine Jesus of Nazareth saying to his followers, “I
despise those people who despise me, and I want nothing to do with them.”
Or, “It makes me so angry when people judge me. How can I have peace
when there are so many hostile people around me?” This is absurd, because
Jesus represents the highest loving energy in the universe. That’s precisely
what he brought to the presence of doubting, hostile people, and his
presence alone would raise the energy of those around him. Now I know
you’re not the Christ, but you do have some great spiritual lessons to learn
from our greatest teachers. If you have the intention to bring peace to asituation and you’re living at the level of intention, you’ll leave that
situation feeling peaceful. I learned this lesson years ago with my in-laws. Prior to my waking up to the power of intention, family visits were events
that caused me consternation because of the attitudes and behavior of some
of my wife’s relatives. I’d prepare for a Sunday-afternoon family visit by
getting anxious and upset over what I anticipated to be a fretful, lousy
experience. And I seldom disappointed myself! I’d focus my thoughts on
what I didn’t like, and I defined my relationship with my in-laws in this
manner. Gradually, as I began to understand the power of intention and left
my ego behind, I substituted kindness, receptivity, love, and even beauty for
my former annoyed and angry assessments. Before family get-togethers, I’d remind myself that I am what I choose to
be in any and all circumstances, and I chose to be authentically peaceful and
have a good time. In response to something that used to annoy me, I’d now
say to my mother-in-law in a loving way, “I never thought of it that way;
tell me more.” In response to what I previously considered to be an ignorant
comment, I’d respond, “That’s an interesting point of view; when did you
first learn about this?” In other words, I was bringing my own intention to
be in a state of peace to this encounter, and was refusing to judge them. The most amazing thing began to happen: I started looking forward to
having these family members at our home. I began to see them as much
more enlightened than I’d previously thought. I actually enjoyed our times
together, and every time something came up that I’d found annoying in the
past, I’d overlook it and respond with love and kindness instead. At an
earlier stage of my life, expressions of racial or religious prejudice were a
stimulus for my anger and resentment. Now I’d quietly respond with a kind
and gentle reminder of my own opinions, and simply let the matter drop. Over the years, I found that not only did the racial and religious slurs
diminish to zero, but I noticed that my in-laws were expressing tolerance—
and even love—toward minorities, as well as those who practiced religions
different from their own. Although my primary intention was to stay in a state of peace, I
discovered that by not joining in the low energies of my in-laws, not onlywas the entire family more peaceful, but many enjoyable and even
enlightening conversations developed. I had as much to learn from my in-
laws as I had to teach. Even when I disagreed vehemently with a judgment
directed at me, if I remembered my intention to have a peaceful relationship
with them, I was able to do just that. No longer did I think about what I
disliked, what was missing, or what always had been. I stayed focused on
making these gatherings fun, loving, and most important to me, peaceful. Let’s take a look at the steps you need to take in order to make the stated
intention of this chapter and all succeeding ones a reality. Step 1: Identify your intention verbally and in writing, and develop a
deep yearning for it. When you create a great longing for the experience of
a peaceful family, everything will begin to happen to fulfill this yearning
spontaneously and naturally. Rather than praying to a saint or God for a
miracle, pray for the miracle of the inner awakening, which will never leave
you. The awakening of this inner light, once experienced, will become your
constant companion, regardless of who you are with or where you are. The
dynamic force is within you. This force is felt as great joy running through
your body. Ultimately, your thinking will become sublime, and your inner
and outer world will become one. Yearn for this awakening to the inner
light, and long for your intention to manifest. Step 2: Intend for all of your relatives what you intend for yourself. When anyone criticizes, judges, acts angry, expresses hatred, or finds fault
with you, they’re not at peace with themselves. Want this peace for them
even more than you desire it for yourself. By having this kind of intention
for them, you take the focus off of you. This doesn’t require words or
actions on your part. Simply picture the people in your family with whom
you’re not at peace, and feel the peace you crave for them. Your innerspeech will change, and you’ll begin to experience the peaceful authenticity
of both your beings. Step 3: Be the peace you’re seeking from others. If peace is missing in
your relationships with your family, it means that you have a place within
you that’s occupied by non-peace. It may be filled with anxiety, fear, anger,
depression, guilt, or any low-energy emotions. Rather than attempting to rid
yourself of these feelings all at once, treat them the same as you do your
relatives. Say a friendly Hello to the non-peace, and let it be. You’re
sending a peaceful feeling to the non-peace feeling. The lower energies
you’re experiencing will be strengthened by your peaceful Hi or Hello, and
eventually vanish as the divine grows within you. The way to this peace is
through any form of quiet and meditation that works for you. Even if it’s
only a two-minute respite during which time you’re silent, concentrate on
the name of the divine, or repeat that sound of “Aaahh” as an inner mantra. Step 4: Match up with the seven faces of intention. If you’ve forgotten
what the universal mind of intention looks like, it’s creative, kind, loving,
beautiful, always expanding, endlessly abundant, and receptive to all of life. Play the match game that I introduced earlier in this book, and very quietly
and with unbending intent bring the face of the universal Source of all to the
presence of everyone whom you feel brings you down or interferes with
your peace. This kind of spiritual energy will be transformative—not only
for you, but also for your relatives. Your intention to be in peaceful
relationships is now taking form—first in your mind, then in your heart—
and ultimately, it will materialize. Step 5: Review all the obstacles that have been erected on your path
to familial peace. Listen to any inner dialogue that focuses on your
resentment of others’ expectations for you. Remind yourself that when you
think about what you resent, you act upon what you think about, while
simultaneously attracting more of it to you. Examine your energy level foryour tendency to react to lower energies with more of the same, and give
your ego a reminder that you’ll no longer opt to be offended, or need to be
right in these relationships. Step 6: Act as if. Begin the process of acting as if what you intend to
manifest is already true. See everyone in your family in the love and light
that is their true identity. When someone asked Baba Muktananda, a great
saint in India, “Baba, what do you see when you look at me?” Baba said, “I
see the light in you.” The person replied, “How can that be, Baba? I am an
angry person. I am terrible. You must see all that.” Baba said, “No, I see
light.” (This story is told by Swami Chidvilasananda Gurumayi in Kindle
My Heart.) So, see the light in those others, and treat them as if that is all you see. Step 7: Detach from the outcome. Don’t let your authentic and peaceful
attitude depend on your relatives’ behavior. As long as you remain
connected to intention and radiate outward the high energy, you’ve achieved
your peace. It’s not your place or your purpose to make everyone else in
your family think, feel, and believe as you do. The likelihood is great that
you’ll see dramatic changes in your relatives as you teach them with your
own persona how you intend to be treated. But if they don’t change, and if
they continue their nonpeaceful ways, let go of your need to see them
transformed. It all works in divine order, and the saying Letting go and
letting God is a helpful reminder for you. By letting go, you guarantee your
own peace, and you dramatically increase the odds of helping others to do
the same. Step 8: Affirm: I attract only peace into my life. I remind myself of
this affirmation many times on a given day, particularly with my children
and other more distant relatives. I also practice this in grocery stores, when
greeting flight attendants,