some of the things that happened.  No questions, and not asking the child to talk. When the child learns that this is a regular
occurrence s/he will initiate things and feel free to share, and topics involving emotional stress are likely to come out.
2. When the child makes a statement to you (eg "I hate school"), try not to block, or answer the comment. Try to extend the comment.
The child may not really realise the feeling behind this statement, and you may never ﬁnd out unless you can get the child to clarify it.
One technique that can be effective,  is to hand it back to the child in a questioning way - (eg "You hate school?") to which the reply
may be - "no just the teachers" - so you say, "You hate all the teachers?" "W ell, not all, mainly Mr Jones" etc.
3. The question "Why" rarely achieves anything with little children. Seldom can they provide an adequate answer to such a question,
and so ef fectively they are cornered. Try to avoid "why".
4. Also try to avoid the words "NO" or "WRONG", especially when the child is attempting to do something (eg reading). "Almost right"
or "Not quite but getting better" are likely to keep the child interested and keen to try. The words "NO" and "WRONG" are likely to
make a child give up as a failure.
5. Try to let your children know that they are good at things, that they are nice people, and that you like them. Generally we tell our
children when they fail, when they annoy us, or when we feel let down by them, but we don't let them know the good things. Many
children thus get the impression that they are failures and develop a poor self-concept.
6. Right handed children like to sleep on the right side, or on the stoma ch with head to the left shoulder. Left handed children
generally sleep facing the other way. Try to place your child's bed so that in the natural sleeping position (according to handedness)
s/he sleeps facing the wall.
This tends to give the child added security, and often has the effect of eliminating problems with light sleepers as well as nightmares
and bed-wetting. Placing a child's bed at right angles to a wall, extending out into the room, is best avoided with children who are light
or restless sleepers, as it provides little or no security to the sleeping child.
7. If a child needs a nightlight, try a blue or green bulb rather than a red one. Blue and green are pacifying colours, whereas red is
stimulating.
8. Try to accept your child's reality. If the child is upset or scared about something, irrespective of how irrelevant or trivial it may seem,
accept that this is the real feeling of the child. Rather than dismissing the complaint or saying that it does not matter or not to be silly,
ask what the child is feeling and then help to go through these feelings so that the child can either accept or work around the worrying
feeling.
9. If possible, try to set aside a short amount of time on a regular basis, in which your children can have your undivided attention
perhaps ten minutes straight after tea, or may be while doing the dishes. This may help avoid the repetitious 'in a minute' response
which we constantly ﬁnd ourselves giving to our children.
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times - so that they learn the whole story by heart and can "read" it back to themselves just by looking at the book. Older children (7 -
10) beneﬁt from having something interesting read to them by a parent, so that they feel they are sharing a common interest with the
parent - maybe historic stories or children's encyclopaedia stories.
11. Fool around with your children. Let them see that adults can laugh and play, can be silly, as well as being serious.
12. Consistency on the part of adults is of prime importance. If you act consi stently the child will know where it stands. If not, the child
will be confused, and become unpredictable as well. Always do as you say. Do not threaten punishment unless you are willing to
carry it out, otherwise you lose credibility. The same applies to of fering rewards.
*Overheard one child to another: "Don't do that to the bee, Reid, it won't lay you any more honey ".
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ERRONEOUS
ZONES™
WAYNE W. DYER
TO
TRACY LYNN DYER
I Love You
in the special way
that I’ve written
about in these pages.The whole theory of the universe is
directed unerringly to one singleindividual—namely to You.
—W
ALT WHITMANContents
iii Epigraph
1 Introduction—A Personal Statement
7I
Taking Charge of Yourself
28II
First Love
49III
You Don’t Need Their Approval
74IV
Breaking Free From the Past
89V
The Useless Emotions—Guilt and Worry
117VI
Exploring the Unknown
138VII
Breaking the Barrier of Convention
164VIII
The Justice Trap
176IX
Putting An End to Procrastination—Now
189X
Declare Your Independence
209XI
Farewell to Anger
222 XIIPortrait of a Person Who has Eliminated all Erroneous Zones
235 Index
About the Author
Other Books by Wayne W. Dyer
Cover
Copyright
About the PublisherINTRODUCTION—
A PERSONAL
STATEMENT
A  speaker stood before a group of alcoholics determined to
demonstrate to them, once and for all, that alcohol was an evil bey-
ond compare. On the platform he had what appeared to be two
identical containers of clear fluid. He announced that one contained
pure water and the other was filled with undiluted alcohol. He
placed a small worm in the container while everyone watched as it
swam around and headed for the side of the glass, whereupon it
simply crawled to the top of the glass. He then took the same worm
and placed it in the container with alcohol. The worm disintegrated
right before their eyes. “There,” said the speaker. “What’s the mor-
al?” A voice from the rear of the room said quite clearly, “I see that
if you drink alcohol, you’ll never have worms.”
This book has a lot of “worms” in it—meaning, you will hear and
perceive exactly what you want to hear based upon many of your
own values, beliefs, prejudices and personal history. Self-defeating
behavior and the ways to overcome it are touchy areas to write about.
Looking at yourself in depth with an eye toward changing might be
something that you say you are interested in accomplishing, but
your behavior often speaks otherwise. Change is tough. If you’re
like most people, every
1fiber of your being will resist having to take on the hard work of
eliminating the thoughts that support your self-forfeiting feelings
and behavior. But despite the “worms” I think you are going to like
this book. I love it! And I loved writing it.
While I do not believe that mental health should be treated in a
flip manner, neither do I support the notion that it must be a humor-
less enterprise, filled with arcane jargon. I have tried to avoid intric-
ate explanations, largely because I do not believe that “being happy”
is a complex affair.
Being healthy is a natural state, and the means for achieving it are
within the grasp of each one of us. I believe that a judicious mixture
of hard work, clear thinking, humor and self-confidence are the in-
gredients of effective living. I do not believe in fancy formulas, or
historical excursions into your past to discover that you were
“harshly toilet trained” and that someone else is responsible for your
unhappiness.
This book outlines a pleasant approach to achieving happiness—an
approach that relies on responsibility for and commitment to your-
self, plus an appetite for living and a desire to be all that you choose
to at this moment. It’s an uncomplicated approach, a common sense
approach. If you are a healthy, happy human being, you may find
yourself thinking, “I could have written this book.” You are right.
You don’t need a professional background in counseling and a
doctorate in the


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force".
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Oct. 2010. <http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/12/malocclusion-disease-of-civilization.html>.
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Class 11 Malocclusion in the Mixed Dentition.
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Dr John Mew on Dispatches
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22
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Your Teeth Can Heal Naturally!
The Evidence and Proof That Cavities can Remineralize and Heal
Dr. Price writes regarding the x-rays on the next pages:
The pulp chambers and pulp tissues of the root canals are shown as dark streaks in the
center of the tooth. The very large cavities that had decalcified the tooth to the pulp
chamber are shown as large dark areas in the crown. Temporary fillings had to be
placed because of pain produced by the pressure of food on the pulp below the decayed
dentine. After the nutrition was improved, the tissues of the pulp built in secondary
dentine thus reincasing itself in a closed chamber.
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Dr. Price writes of the ability of teeth to remineralize as a natural result of a diet high in vitamins and
minerals:
[A] progressive filling in of the pulp chambers can be noted from the deposition of
secondary dentine, making a roof over the pulp and thereby providing a protection
which enabled the pulp to remain vital and useful for an extended period. This is
frequently experienced as a result of reinforcing the diet with high-vitamin and high-
activator butter, together with reducing the carbohydrate intake to a normal level as
supplied by natural foods and by increasing the foods that provide body-building and
tooth-forming minerals,
in many cases a hard and even glassy surface resulting
.
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(Emphasis added.)
Tooth before Nutrition TreatmentCopyright © Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, www.ppnf.org
Tooth and after Nutrition TreatmentCopyright © Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, www.ppnf.org
When the nutrition is adequately improved, nature can close an exposure of the pulp
(due to dental caries) by building a protecting wall within the pulp chamber
.
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Child’s permanent molar before nutritional programCopyright © Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, www.ppnf.org
(above)This is a decayed tooth of a child who is at the age where new teeth are coming in. This is
prior to a nutritional program. The tooth is a first permanent molar. You can see the dark spot which
is the large cavity. The pulp is exposed to the mouth environment, creating pain while chewing.
Child's permanent molar after nutritional program
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(Above) This is the same tooth after a period of nutritional treatment. (Dr. Price did not specify the
exact length of time but mentions that the test periods were usually three to five months.) Notice how
the new dentin now covers the pulp chamber of the tooth.
Dr. Price also shared an example of a 14-year-old girl whose dentist recommended the removal of all
of her teeth. After 7 months of a special nutritional program, her teeth were saved and none were
removed. (In this case, cosmetic restorations and 4 root canals were still done even though the teeth
were saved.)
The Inuit people characteristically wore their teeth down as a natural artifact of living their lives, as
you can see in the photograph. This wear did not result from tooth decay, but from chewing leather to
soften it, and from regularly eating fish and other meat that had collected small bits of sand and grit
from being dried in the wind. Due to their excellent diet, the Inuit’s teeth constantly repair themselves,
such that the pulp chambers and the nerves of the tooth are very well protected. This repair
mechanism is not evident in Inuits who abandon their natural diet and switch to one consisting of the
foods of modern commerce.
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Typical native Alaskan Eskimo. Note the broad face and broad arches and no dental caries.
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Original caption.)
This image serves as further evidence that under excellent nutritional circumstances teeth will rebuild
and protect themselves – this is Nature’s design.Curing Tooth Decay — Parting Words
In several examples throughout this book we have demonstrated that tooth decay is not a result of
faulty genetics. Rather, it is primarily the result of the type of food we eat, and the poor management
of our body’s ecology. Proper health is usually restored to the body through a healing diet, such as a
diet based on that of healthy indigenous peoples across the globe. We can reclaim our immunity to
tooth decay now and gain other benefits along the way, such as increased overall health, strength, and
vitality.
I may have convinced you to begin to take more responsibility for your health and lifestyle habits.
And I hope that I have convinced you of the true cause of tooth decay ¾ a deficiency of nutrients, not a
lack of fluoride or brushing.
Here are my suggestions for how to begin practicing these habits:

Align yourself with your intention for health, for the highest good for yourself and for your
community. Remind yourself of this several times a day if possible.
Purchase a good cookbook or two to help you prepare healthy meals. The book
Nourishing
Traditions
 by Sally Fallon contains scores of whole-food based recipes, and for those who like
raw animal foods I recommend the book
The Recipe for Living Without Disease
 by Aajonus
Vonderplanitz.
Locate dependable sources for special foods (such as yellow butter, raw milk, liver and bone
marrow from grass-fed animals, whole fish including the head and some organs, oysters and so
on).
Eliminate foods on the “avoid list,” and begin to replace them with whole-food alternatives as
described in the complete tooth decay healing protocol.
Get Support
To make changes in your diet and improve your health, get additional support. Support can come from
a good dentist, a good alternative health practitioner,


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 that raise sugar –  while people are sleeping (or trying to). When it
comes to sugar, it does not matter whether you are eating it or if the body is making it, if you don’t
burn it up, the sugar is stored as fat in your fat cells. This may be the number one reason why people
are ghting weight.
Adrenaline Dominance Diet
Page 6The Adrenaline Dominance Diet
It is important to have the understanding that the primary reason the body is releasing excess
adrenaline is simply to raise glucose levels for th e brain. However, by giving the brain the fuel it n eeds,
there is a reduced need to use adrenaline to provid e fuel. Accordingly, there are two fuels the brain
uses: glucose and ketones. The best source of gluco se is derived from vegetables. Ketones are
derived from coconut or MCT oil.The key to lowering adrenaline is to eliminate the underlying reason why the body is overproducing it.
Since the brain uses more sugar than any other tiss ue in the body and must have sucient fuel at all
times, whenever the level of glucose in the brain i s too low, the body releases adrenaline to raise th e
sugar level.
The primary approach to managing adrenaline is to f ollow a meal plan designed to feed the body, and
especially the brain, a steady supply of the proper  amount and the right type of sugar (that is, from
low-glycemic carbohydrates) plus ketones, along wit h using a bio-identical progesterone cream.
Because everyone’s metabolism is different, there i s no such thing as a one-size-ts-all meal plan.
Thus the following meal plan should be treated as a  set of guidelines, to be adjusted to the metabolic
needs of each person’s body and brain. Even though this meal plan specically addresses excess
adrenaline, anyone who wants to eat healthfully can  benet from it.
The plan will lower any excess adrenaline that may be contributing to stress. And because the meal
plan keeps insulin production low, anyone with a we ight problem can follow these guidelines to lose
weight healthfully.Adrenaline Dominance Diet
Page 7Ketones, also known as “ketone bodies,” are byprodu cts of the body breaking down fat for energy.
This only happens when your carbohydrate intake is low, and your body switches into a state of
ketosis or you consume healthy fats like coconut oil and MCT oil. Since MCT’s don’t require digestio n,
they go straight to the liver where they can be con verted into ketones. This is this why many people
report feeling a quick boost of energy immediately after consuming MCT oil.Accordingly, there are two fuels the brain uses: gl ucose and ketones. The best source of glucose is
derived from vegetables. Ketones are derived from c oconut or MCT oil.KetonesKey components to the diet
MCT oil has essentially no taste and can be added t o anything.
Adrenaline Dominance Diet
Page 8Benets of Resistant Starch
When starches are digested they typically break dow n into glucose. Because resistant starch is not
digested in the small intestine, it doesn’t raise g lucose. Gut health is improved as fermentation in t he
large intestine makes more good bacteria and less b ad bacteria in the gut. Healthy gut bacteria can
improve glycemic control.

Foods that contain resistant starch include: Planta ins and green bananas (as a banana ripens the
starch changes to a regular starch), beans, peas, a nd lentils (white beans and lentils are the highest  in
resistant starch), whole grains including oats and barley, cooked and cooled rice.Foods Sources Resistant starch is a carbohydrate that resist dige stion in the small intestine and ferments in the la rge
intestine. As the bers ferment they act as a prebi otic and feed the good bacteria in the gut. There a re
several types of resistant starch. They are classi ed by their structure or source. Resistant Starch
Each meal – breakfast, lunch, dinner, and bedtime s nack – should provide
MCT/Coconut oil, low-glycemic carbohydrates, and/or  a resistant starch.Adrenaline Dominance Diet
Page 9Progesterone Cream
The only other thing needed to control adrenaline i s a 5% (50 mg per pump) progesterone cream that
is applied 1-3 minutes before eating. Not only does  progesterone block adrenaline from getting to
adrenaline receptor sites, it also blocks insulin. Controlling insulin is another way of controlling
adrenaline, since it will prevent episodes of hypog lycemia.
*Be sure to apply your progesterone cream (1 pump) before meals to block adrenaline and insulin.
A more extensive review of this subject can be foun d in: “Adrenaline Dominance: A Revolutionary
Approach to Wellness”. It can be found on Amazon or  on my website: www.plattwellness.comAdrenaline Dominance Diet
Page 10Personalized Nutrition
It is important to understand that everyone’s metab olism is different. There is no one size-ts-all me al
plan. For example low-carb diets do not work for th e “creative” type ADHD person. One needs to
assess what the particular requirements are on an i ndividual basis. This assessment has to include
the metabolic needs of not only the body, but the b rain as well.
The brain utilizes more sugar than any other tissue  of the body. If the brain is deprived of sugar for
any reason, i.e. too much insulin production or not  enough carbohydrates, the brain will shut down.
This is known as hypoglycemia.
Commonly, the body will react to this situation by pouring out adrenaline to raise sugar levels (a
process called gluconeogenesis) which can lead to h ealth issues such as depression, nervousness,
insomnia, anger, alcohol or drug abuse, etc. There are people who are referred to as “right-brained”.
These are creative-type people. Their brains requir e more sugar than “left-brained” people, and thereb y
need a different approach to weight loss than most other people.
Here one has to ensure a proper amount of sugar for  the brain and, at the same time, limit the amount
of insulin being produced to prevent fat production. Adrenaline Dominance Diet
Page 11The Meal Plan
The meal plan is based on two key principles: eatin g or drinking the right type of carbohydrates with
each meal and paying attention to the timing of mea ls.
Low-glycemic carbohydrates provide the ideal fuel f or the brain. High-glycemic foods—mostly rened
carbohydrates such as white our, white sugar, and products made with them—are digested quickly,
which puts a lot of sugar into the bloodstream at o nce.
Adrenaline Dominance Diet
Page 12This triggers the insulin–low sugar–adrenaline cycl e that keeps adrenaline levels high. Low-glycemic
foods—mostly unrened foods, the kinds our bodies w ere designed to consume—are digested slowly,
providing a steady supply of the right kinds of sug ar into the bloodstream and then to the brain.
The timing of eating is important, especially for t he creative brain, which seems to require feeding
every three hours—a guideline that can actually wor k well for anyone. Thus the meal plan encourages
eating smaller, even half-sized, portions four or  ve times throughout the day. The brain, especially the
creative brain, is working even while we are sleepi ng. So a light snack of a low-glycemic carbohydrate
—such as green vegetables or brown rice or some swe et potato—just before bedtime can keep the
brain from running out of fuel during the night.
Eating correctly is the single most important facto r in lowering adrenaline. Results are often seen in
just 24 hours.
"People who put out a lot of adrenaline at night ar e often in the unique
position of gaining weight even while they are slee ping. This is in addition to
the other characteristics of elevated night time ad renaline, such as tossing
and turning, grinding teeth, restless leg syndrome,  and getting up to urinate."
— Dr. PlattAdrenaline Dominance Diet
Page 13If there is a magic liquid for weight loss and impr oved health, it is pure, clean water and lots of it.
Water is the most abundant and important nutrient i n the body. About 65 percent of the body is
composed of water. Water regulates body temperature, transports nutrients, and builds tissues. It is
required for joint lubrication, digestion, circulat ion, respiration, absorption, and excretion.Water Meal Plan Guidelines
Not only do you need plenty of water for optimal he alth, you need water if you want to lose fat. If yo u
are on a diet and dehydrated, you will burn muscle before you burn fat. The body is not able to burn
fat eciently without enough water. Your level of t hirst is not a good indicator of your level of
hydration. By the time your body registers the sens ation of thirst, you are already somewhat
dehydrated. Therefore, you should continue to drink  water throughout the day, even when you are not
thirsty. The secret is to


 words carries an emotional force and
transmits an emotional message. It tells how we feel and
reveals our underlying psychological condition. This may
be different than the actual meaning of what we say.
Apparent statements of love may hide resentment, for
example, or statements of happiness may hide sorrow or
self-pity.
Negative emotion is nothing but a certain energy of the
life-force, which is trapped by our process of self-centered
consciousness. We must learn to release the energy bound
up inside emotions. Negative emotions owe their existence
to wrong usage of the energy of consciousness, which con-
sists of fixing our attention on the names and forms of the
external world and losing track of the greater field of exis-
tence. The release of negative emotion depends upon stop-
ping the process that produces them. This is to reclaim our
energy of attention and use it in a creative and conscious
way in the present.
Mantras, through their sound energy, produce a certain
emotional force or force of feeling. Through these energies
we can become conscious of our emotions. Through
mantra we can exercise our emotions. We can learn to play
with and master emotions, which are cosmic forces of
expression. We can learn how to creatively and conscious-
ly experience anger, fear, joy, or grief like an actor. We can
energize them and by degrees merge them into each other,
until our mind returns to its original state of pure feeling. The Healing Power of Mantra 229 A
Mantra and Breath
Prana, the life-force, is the primordial sound vibration
behind the universe. There is a sound behind the breath,
which itself is unmanifest sound. Our words are created by
the outgoing breath. To combine mantra with the breath
is a powerful way of changing the energy of the mind. Our
emotional disturbances are linked up with wrong move-
ments of the life-force. Using mantra and Pranayama
together removes these (note section on Pranayama, par-
ticularly So'ham Pranayama).
Mantra and Meditation
Most of us fail at meditation because we have not prop-
erly prepared the mental field. Meditation in the true
sense, giving our attention fully to the object of our atten-
tion, requires that we already have a calm mind and con-
trolled attention. Conditioned as we are in the modem age
to entertainment, sensory indulgence and wishful think-
ing, this is something that we do not have. Mantra is the
way to prepare the mental field for meditation. It removes
the Rajas and Tamas in the mind, so that meditation,
which requires Sattva to proceed properly, can occur.
Mantra provides a vehicle to carry us forward in medi-
tation. Otherwise, distracted thought patterns disturb the
mind. Mantra gives energy to meditation. To try to put
the mind directly into a blank or silent state may be no
more than to put our attention into our subconscious,
where its dark tendencies can further inflict their pain
upon us. Mantra serves like a boat to take us across the
ocean of the unconscious. Mantra-prepared meditation is
easier, safer and more powerful than trying to meditate
directly. Once the mantra permeates the subconscious, the Ayurveda and the Mind
subconscious will support meditation, providing it far
greater efficacy.
Energetics of Sound
Sounds possess specific physiological and psychological
effects. Just as hot or cold weather affects our body in a cer-
tain way, so do different sounds and how we repeat them.
However, the effects of external factors upon our body are
easier to observe than the effects of sound. Furthermore,
just as some people prefer heat while others like cool con-
ditions, so the effects of sound, though objective, are capa-
ble of diverse subjective interpretations. Once we know
the energetics of sounds we can apply them therapeutical-
ly like the use of herbs or foods.
Mantras are like Asanas for the mind. They give plas-
ticity and adaptability to the mind. They exercise the
mind's energy and give the mind poise and stability. As
asana controls the body and Pranayama controls the
breath, so mantra controls the mind. Mantra maintains the
strength and integrity of our mental field and sustains the
proper circulation of energies in it. This reduces our vul-
nerability to external conditioning, which, after all, is
based largely on names.
Mantra therapy primarily uses what are called "bija
mantras" or seed-syllables. These are prime sounds that
underlie the more diverse sound patterns of ordinary
speech. Though they sound simple and can be easily
repeated, they are reflections of a primordial energy that
cannot be exhausted.
Mantra Therapy
Mantras are the most important part of the spiritual
and mental therapy of Ayurveda. Ayurveda uses mantra The Healing Power of Mantra 231 A
therapy to correct psychological and psychic disorders.
Such disorders are an imbalance of energy in the mental
field. A mantra of opposite energy is employed to neutral-
ize it. Mantras are effective tools for correcting mental
imbalances. They are easy to use and don't require any
painful or tedious deliberation about our condition.
Mantras help balance the biological humors of Vata,
Pitta and Kapha, and their subtle counterparts of Prana,
Tejas and Ojas. They help harmonize consciousness, intel-
ligence and mind. Mantras help clear subtle impurities
from the nerves and subtle channels (nadis). They aid in
concentration and creative thinking.
Application of Mantra
Mantras can be used by the healer to energize the heal-
ing process or by the patient to increase their own healing.
Mantras can function as channels to infuse the cosmic life-
force into our healing methods. They impart a spirit to the
forms that we provide, allowing for a truly integral heal-
ing process.
Mantras help purify the treatment room. The mantra
OM is effective for creating a healing space. HUM is good
for dissolving negative energies that may exist in the treat-
ment room. RAM can be used to bring the Divine light
and cosmic life-force into the healing room. Such mantras
can be chanted mentally by the healer over the client to
help clear them on a psychic level. Mantras like KRIM or
SHRIM can be used to energize the healing power of herbs
or medicines.
For mental or nervous disorders, it is important that
the patient or client chant the appropriate mantra. For
example, SHAM relieves pain, tremors and mental unrest,
HUM restores nerve function, counters paralysis, and A232 Ayurveda and the Mind
improves expression, and SOM helps rebuild the cere-
brospinal fluid and nourishes the deeper mind.
Mantras must be pronounced properly, which may
require personal instruction. They must be done with care
as a sacred ritual, not as a mere pastime. To be effective, a
mantra should be repeated a minimum of a hundred times
a day for a period of at least one month. The magic of
mantra only arises after we have repeated it for some time.
Generally a mantra does not become fully empowered
until it has been repeated at least a hundred thousand
times per syllable of the mantra.67
Mantras can be repeated not only during meditation
but also during any time of the day when the mind is
unoccupied. It is good to repeat mantras before sleep to
promote right sleep and dreams and after waking up in the
morning to promote wholesome mental activity during
the day. Extended periods of mantra repetition can be done
like a mental fast or a clearing for consciousness. Repeat-
ing a mantra for an extended period gives a mantra bath
for the mind and clears it of any negative thoughts and
impressions. It is the best thing for cleaning the mind,
which is otherwise too dirty with its various self-centered
thoughts to concentrate on anything. A mind not cleansed
through mantra is unlikely to have the clarity for psycho-
logical peace much less spiritual growth.
Prime Mantras
OM: the most important of all mantras, it represents
the Divine Word itself. It serves to energize or
empower all things and all processes. Therefore all
mantras begin and end with OM. OM clears the
mind, opens the channels and increases Ojas. It is
the sound of affirmation that allows us to accept The Healing Power of Mantra 233
who we are and open up to the positive forces of the
universe. OM is the sound of Prana and the sound of
the inner light that takes our energy up the spine. It
awakens the positive life-force (Prana) necessary for
healing to occur. It opens up all the potentials of
consciousness.
RAM (with an a-sound as in 'father'): an excellent
mantra for drawing down the protective light and
grace of the Divine. It gives strength, calm, rest,
peace and is particularly good for high Vata condi-
tions and mental disorders, including insomnia, bad
dreams, nervousness, anxiety, excessive fear and
fright. It strengthens and fortifies Ojas and the
immune system.
HUM: (pronounced with the 'u' sound as in our
word'put'): an excellent mantra


 can be very inexpensive to make a good quality meat
stock as you use the parts of the animal which butchers usually give away
almost free. The meat and bones can be fresh or frozen and there is no
need to defrost them prior to cooking. Apart from bones and meat all you
need is a large pot full of water and a bit of salt and pepper.
How to make a meat stock
Lamb, pork, beef or game
Put the joints, bones and meat into a large pot, add 5-10 pepper corns, add
salt to taste and fill it up with water. Heat up to a boiling point. Cover the
pan, reduce the heat to a minimum and simmer for 3 hours at least. The
longer you cook the meat and bones, the more they will "give out" to the
stock and the more nourishing the stock will be. Take the bones and meat
out and pour the stock through a sieve into a separate pan to remove any
small bones and pepper corns.
Chicken stock
Put a whole or half a chicken into a large pot, fill it up with water, add salt
and heat it up to boiling point. Simmer for 1V2-2 hours. Take the chicken out
and put the stock through a sieve. Keep in the refrigerator. The chicken,
cooked this way is delicious and can be served for dinner with vegetables
and a hot cup of your freshly made chicken stock. Fish stock
To make a good fish stock you need bones, fins, skins and heads of the fish,
not the meat. So buy your fish whole, cut the meat off to cook as a separate
meal and use the rest of the fish to make your fish stock. Your fishmonger
can do all the trimming for you. Put the heads, bones, fins and skin of the
fish into a large pan, add 8-10 pepper corns and fill the pan with water.
Bring up to boil, reduce the heat to a minimum and simmer for i-i7 2 hours.
Add salt to taste at the end of cooking. Take the fish out and sieve the stock.
Take the meat off the fish skeleton to use for soup making.
The basic soup recipe
To make a soup bring some of your home-made meat stock to the boil, add
chopped or sliced vegetables and simmer for another 20-25 minutes. You
can choose any combination of available vegetables: onion, cabbage,
carrot, broccoli, cauliflower, pumpkin, courgettes, marrow, squash, leeks,
etc. If you are planning to blend your soup, then you can cut vegetables
roughly into any size pieces. If you prefer to have your soup without blend
ing, then make sure that you cut or dice your vegetables into nice small
pieces before cooking. If your meat stock was made with lamb, pork or
beef you can add a handful of dried French or Italian mushrooms for a
wonderful flavour. It is customary to crush the dried mushrooms by
hand before adding to the soup. At the end of cooking add 1-2 table spoon
fuls of chopped garlic, bring to the boil and turn the heat off. Blend with
a soup blender until smooth unless you planned to have it without
blending.
You can serve your soup with any combination of the following:
• some chopped parsley, coriander or dill
• hard-boiled egg cut into pieces
• a spoonful of your home-made goat's yoghurt or creme fraiche
• cooked meat cut into small pieces
• red onion cut into very small pieces
• spring onion cut into small pieces
• a spoonful of cooked and ground liver
From this basic recipe you can improvise and develop your own recipes.
Here I will just provide a few ideas. A spring nettle soup
i'L I of home-made meat stock
large bunch of spring nettles
2 tablespoons of dried French of Italian mushrooms
1 medium onion
1 medium carrot
2 courgettes or 7, of a marrow or squash
4 eggs, hard boiled
Young shoots of stinging nettles appearing in spring are full of wonderful
nourishment. They are high in iron, magnesium, copper, zinc, vitamin C,
carotenoids and other useful substances. For this recipe collect a large
bunch of spring nettles. You will have to wear gloves and a long-sleeved
shirt to do this. Rinse the nettles and shake the excess water off. Using scis
sors cut the leaves and tender shoots of the nettles into small pieces dis
carding the hard stems. Reserve for the recipe.
Cut the marrow, squash or courgettes into small cubes, thinly slice the
carrot and chop the onion. Bring the home-made meat stock to a boil. Add
all the vegetables and the French or Italian dried mushrooms, crumbling
them with your hands before adding to the meat stock. Simmer under a
tight lid for 15-20 minutes. Add your prepared nettles, mix and immedi
ately take off the heat. Serve with 1-2 tablespoons of hard-boiled egg cut
into small pieces and a spoonful of home-made yoghurt (if well tolerated).
Russian Borsch
tit I of home-made meat stock
1 medium onion finely chopped
1 medium carrot finely sliced
'U of medium-size white cabbage finely sliced
2 medium-size beetroots or4 small beetroots raw or cooked
3 cloves of garlic
1 finely chopped tomato
If the beetroot is cooked (in water, not in vinegar):
Bring the meat stock to boil and add the onion, carrot and cabbage. Cover
and simmer for 20 minutes. In the meantime slice the cooked beetroots
into long thin strips. Add into the soup, mix well and simmer for another 5
minutes. Take off the heat. Crush the 3 cloves of garlic and add to the soup together with the chopped tomato. Serve with a large spoon of creme
fraiche or home-made yoghurt (if well tolerated) and some chopped pars
ley and/or a thick slice of hard-boiled egg.
If the beetroot is raw:
Wash and peel the beetroot. Slice into long thin strips by hand or using
your food processor. Bring the meat stock to boil and add the beetroot.
Simmer for 10-15 minutes, then add the rest of the vegetables (onion, carrot
and cabbage). Simmer for further 20 minutes or until the cabbage is
cooked. Take off the heat. Crush the 3 cloves of garlic and add to the soup
together with the chopped tomato. Serve with a large spoon of creme
fraiche or home-made yoghurt (if well tolerated), some chopped parsley
and/or a thick slice of hard-boiled egg.
Fish soup
11 of home-made fish stock
1 large onion finely chopped
1 carrot thinly sliced
1 courgette or an equivalent amount of marrow or squash, cut into small cubes
Bring the fish stock to boil and add the onion, carrot and squash, marrow
or courgettes. Simmer under a lid for 10-15 minutes and take off the heat.
Add the cooked fish meat which you took off the bones when you made the
fish stock. Serve with a spoonful of home-made yoghurt (if well tolerated)
and/or with a hard-boiled egg (sliced or chopped).
If there is no meat left on the bones you can use the meat (skinless and
boneless) of any available fish. Cut the meat into small cubes and add into
the boiling fish stock at the same time as vegetables.
Meatball soup
400 g of minced meat (mixture of pork and beef is best)
1 large onion finely chopped
1 large carrot thinly sliced
1 cup winter squash or courgette cut into small cubes
1 cup of finely chopped cabbage (optional)
2 tablespoons of chopped garlic
In a pan bring 2 litres of water up to boil. Add salt and cayenne pepper to
taste. With your hands shape meatballs about 2 cm in diameter and add them,
one at a time, into the boiling water. Cover and simmer on low heat for 30
minutes. Add all the vegetables apart from garlic, cover and simmer for
another 20 minutes. Add the garlic and switch the heat off. Let it sit for 5-10
minutes then add 2-3 tablespoons of sauerkraut. Serve with a spoonful of
home-made yoghurt and finely chopped dill.
lite beautiful winter squash soup
tiL I of home-made meat stock (turkey or chicken stock work
best for this recipe)
1 leak, washed and sliced
broccoli, 3-4 medium sized rosettes
1 medium-size carrot, sliced
Va of a medium size buttercup squash ora'h of butternut
squash or any winter squash with sweet orange flesh
3 garlic cloves peeled
Peel and de-seed the squash, cut it into chunks. Wash and cut into pieces
all the vegetables. Put them into your soup pan, add the meat stock and
bring to boil. Reduce the heat to a minimum, cover with the lid and simmer
for about 30 minutes. Blend with a soup blender. If your family is at the
stage of tolerating home-made goat's yoghurt, then add lh a cup into the
soup. Serve warm. It is particularly soothing if the child has a tummy ache
or diarrhoea.
Meat jelly
pig trotters (2-4)
1 large carrot


asedeathensued.Itisbutfailtosay
thatthisdeathwasattributedtofright.Itwastheresultofa
NOISK. 41
loDgwliisperedconv6vsatioii,withinsightofthepatient,about
animpendingoperation;butanyonewliohasknownthecheer-
fulcoolness,withw'hichthecertaintyofanoperation%fillbe
acceptedbyanypatient,capableofbearinganoperationatall,
ifitisjiroperlycommunicated tohim,willhesitatetobelieve
thatitwasmerefearw’hichproduced,aswasaverred,thefatal
resultinthisinstance.Itwasrathertheuncertainty,the
strainedexpectationastowdiatwastobedecidedupon.
Ineedhardlysay,thattheothercommoncourse,namely,fora
doctororfriendtoleavethepatientandcommunicate hisopinion
ontheresultofhisvisittothefriendsjustoutsidethepatient’s
door,orinsidetheadjoiningroom,afterthevisit,butwithin
hearingorknowledgeofthepatientis,ifpossible,worstofall.
Affectation,likewhisperingorwalkingontip-toe,ispeculiarly
painfultothesick.Anaffectedlyquietvoice,anaffectedly
sympathising voice,likeanundertaker’satafuneral,setsall
theirnervesonedge.Advice,suchaswhatIhavebeengiving,
doesmoreharmthangood,ifitonlymakespeopleaffectcom-
posureandquiet,whenwiththesickBetteralmostmakeyour
naturalnoise.
Itis,Ithink,alarming,peculiarlyatthistime,whenthereis
somuchtalkabout“woman’smission,”toseethatthedressof
womenisdailymoreandmoreunfittingthemforany“mission,”
anyusefulnessatall.Itisunfittedforalldomesticpurposes.A
manisnowamorehandyandfarlessobjectionablebeingina
sickroomthanawoman.Compelledbyherdress,everywoman
noweithershuttlesorwaddles—onlyamancancrossthefloorof
asickroomwithoutshakingit!Wliatisbecomeofwoman’s
lightstep?—thefirm,light,quickstepwehavebeenaskingfor?
Unnecessary noise,then,isthemostcruelabsenceofcare
whichcanbeinflictedeitheronsickorwmll.For,inallthese
remarks,thesickareonlymentionedassufferinginagreater
proportionthanthewellfrompreciselythesamecauses.
Unnecessary(althoughslight)noiseinjuresasickpersonmuch
morethannecessmynoise(ofamuchgieatcramount).
Alllikingsandaversionsofthesicktowardsdifferentpersons
willbefoundtoresolvethemselvesverymuch,ifnotentirely,
intopresenceorabsenceofcareinthesethings.
Anursewhorustles(Iamspeakingofnursesprofessionaland
unprofessional) isthehorrorofapatient,thoughperh.apshedoes
notknowwhy.
42 NOTESONNURSINO.
Tliefidgetofsilkandofcrinoline,thecracklingofstarched
petticoats,therattlingofkeys,thecreakingofstaysandofshoes,
willdoapatientmoreharmthanallthemedicinesintheworld
willdohimgood.
Tlie“noiselessstep”ofwomanmeansnothingatthisday.
Herskii-ts(andwelliftheydonotthrowdownsomepieceof
furniture)willatleastbrushagainstevery.articleintheroomas
shemoves.
Fortunateitisifherskirtsdonotcatchfire—andiftlienurse
doesnotgiveherselfupasacrificetogetherwithherpatient,to
beburntinherownpetticoats.Intwoyears,18G3-4,nofewer
than630females,ofallages,wereburnttodeathbytheirclothes
catchingfire.Ifthecrinolineagebeginsafter10,andcontinues
onwards,then277livesareknowntohavebeensacrificedbyfire
duringtwoyearsonlytothisabsurdandhideouscustom.But
theRegistrar-General tellsusthatafargi’eatcrnumberofdeaths
byfiretakeplaceamongwomen,wherethemannerisnotstated.
'I'hus,in1864alone,thedeathsbyfire,withoutthedeathsby
scidding,amonggirlsandwomen.abovetheageof10,wereno
lessthan395.Andiftothesewe.addthosewho.arenotkilled
outright,butcrippledforlife,theaccounttobelaidatthedoor
ofwomen’sclothesiscruelindeed!Butifpeoplewillbestupid,
letthemtakemeasurestojmotectthemselvesfromtheirownstu-
pidity—measureswhicheverychemistknows,suchasputting
alumintostai’ch,whichpreventsstarchedarticlesofdressfrom
bl.azingup.
Iwish,too,thatpeoplewhowearcrinolinecouldseethein-
decencyoftheirowndress.asotherpeopleseeit.Arespecbiblo
elderlywom.anstoopingforward,incrinoline,exposesquiteas
muchofherownpersontothep.atientlyingintheroom.asany
d:uicerdoesonthesbige.Butnoonewillevertellherthisun-
jdeasauttruth.
Again,onenursec.annotojicnthedoorwithoutm.akingevery-
thingr.attle.Orsheopensthedoorunnecessarily often,for
wantofremembering allthe.articlesth.atmightbebroughtin
atonce.
Ihaveseenanexpressionofre.alten-orp.asaacrossapatient’s
face,wheneveranursecameintotheroomwhostumbledover
thefire-irons,&c.
Ihaveseenp.atients,scarcelyabletocrawl,getoutofbed
beforesuchapursec.ameinaudputoutofhexwayeverything
NOISE.
shecouldtlirowdovni,—shutthewindow,surethatshewould
leavethedooropen—hideeverythingtheywerelikelytowant,
(notbecausetheyhadnorighttohaveit,hutbecauseshewould
inadvertentlyputitoutofllieirreach).
Agoodnui-sewillalwaysmakesurethi.tnodoororwindowin
herpatient’sroomshallrattleorcreak;thatnoblindorcurtain
shall,byanychangeofwindthroughtheopeowindow,bemade
tollap—especiallywillshebecarefulofallthisbeforesheleaves
herpatientsforthenight.Ifyouwaittillyourpatientstellyou,
orremindyouofthesethings,whereistheuseoftheirhavinga
nurse?Therearemoreshythanexactingpatientsinallclasses;
andmanyapatientpassesabadnight,timeaftertime,rather
thanremindhisnurseeverynightofallthethingsshehas
forgotten.
Ifthereareblindstoyourwindows,alwaystakecaretohave
themwellup,whentheyarenotbeingused.Alittlepiece
slippingdown,andflappingwitheverydraught,willdistracta
patient.
Allliurryorbustlei.speculiarlypainfultothesick.Andwhen
apatienthascompulsoryoccupationstoengagehim,insteadof
havingsimplytoamusehimself,itbecomesdoublymjurious.
Thefriendwhoremainsstandingandfidgetingaboutwhilea
patientistalkingbusinesstohim,orthefriendwhositsand
proses,theonefromanideaofnotlettingthepatienttalk,the
otherfromanideaofamusinghim,—eachisequallyinconsiderate
Alwayssitdownwhenasickpersonistalkingbusinesstoyou,
shownosignsofhurry,givecompleteattentionandfullconsidera-
tionifyouradviceiswanted,andgoawaythemomentthe
subjectisended.
Alwayssitwithinthepatient’sview,sothatwhenyouspeak
tohimhehasnotpainfullytoturnhisheadroundinorderto
lookatyou.Everybodyinvoluntai’ilylooksattheperson
speaking.Ifyoumakethisactawearisomeoneonthepai-tof
thepatientyouai-edoinghimharm.Soalsoifbycontinuingto
standyoumakehimcontinuouslyraisehiseyestoseeyou.Be
asmotionlessaspossible,andnevergesticulateinspeakingto
thesick.
Nevermakeapatientrepeatamessageorrequest,especially
ifitbesometimeafter.Occupiedpatientsareoftenaccusedof
doingtoomuchofthen'ownbusiness.Theyareinstinctively
right.Howoftenyouheartheperson,chargedwiththerequest
44 NOTESONNORSINQ.
ofgivingtliemessageorwritingtheletter,sayhalfanhour
afterwardstothepatient,“Didyouappoint12o’clock?”or,
“Whatdidyousaywastheaddress?”orask


 time and experiences a loving acceptance of events,
people, and the vicissitudes of life.
The goal of surrender is transcendence. Psychotherapy accepts levels of
behavior as healthy that, from the viewpoint of total freedom, are
unacceptable. For instance, in psychotherapy, minimal fear, anger, and pride
might be considered necessary or acceptable levels of functioning and
perhaps even “healthy.” But as we have seen, the innate destructiveness
behind those lower states is ultimately not acceptable—given the power of
surrender to transcend them totally. Beyond the “acceptable level of
functioning” awaits our greater destiny: total freedom.
CHAPTER
17
T R A N S F O R M A T I O N
Although letting go seems simple and easy, its ultimate ef fects are
profoundly powerful. A quick little surrender done in an almost of f-handed
manner can sometimes bring about a major change in our life. W e can
picture it being similar to the wheel of a ship. If we make even a one-degree
change in the ship’ s compass, we will notice very little dif ference; but, as
the ship sails over the sea hour after hour, day after day, a one-degree
change in the compass will end up taking us to a very dif ferent place many
miles from where the original course would have taken us.
In this chapter we want to look at the ef fect that the mechanism of
surrender has on those areas of life with which most people are concerned:
health, wealth, and happiness. W e will discuss these areas as they are
usually experienced by the majority of people, and make a contrast to the
changes that will occur as the practice of letting go progresses. These
changes are quite obvious when we watch the lives of others who use the
technique. They will become obvious in your own life as well. Sometimes
you will not be aware of them; therefore, it is suggested that you keep a list
of goals and check of f the gains as they occur, so that you remain conscious
and aware of the progress. This self-awareness step is to circumvent a
peculiarity of the mind. When we decide on a specific technique to improve
our life, and when improvement occurs, the mind has a peculiar tendency to
discount the very technique that brought about the change. It is as though
the mind’ s ego is so vain that it doesn’ t want to give credit where credit is
due.This proclivity of mind to discount inner progress is sometimes quite
comical. For instance, a man who had been stuck in the same job position
for 23 years began using the technique of letting go. W ithin a couple of
months, he suddenly jumped to the position of V ice President and, by the
end of the year, he was President of the company. When asked if he was
pleased with himself about what he had accomplished by using the inner
technique, his mind totally discounted it and ascribed his gains to “shifts in
business patterns.” His marriage had also improved and the mind, again,
ascribed the improvements to external reasons: “My wife’ s attitudes finally
changed.” The relationship with his son also improved, and the mind again
circumvented the inner transformation and said it was due to the fact that
his son was “getting older.”
In the discussions that follow, it will be noted that the transitions from
one state to a higher state are not dif ficult to make. They may only seem
“dif ficult” to us because of current perceptions. It’ s important to keep in
mind that, as we surrender, our perceptions will change. Our goals will
automatically be elevated. What now seems impossible will become old hat
after we have been practicing the technique a while.
W e will also notice that, as the mind contrasts the lower level of life
with the higher level, a peculiar resistance to the description of a higher
level of functioning will occur at times. The mind will get critical and try to
save face by ridiculing a higher state. This is a golden opportunity because
this is the very attitude that prevents a person from reaching that higher
state of life. The very process of reading this material is invaluable, for it
will reveal precisely what the blocks are and exactly why these goals are
impossible at the present time. As resistances, criticisms, and
disparagements come up, we can begin surrendering them and letting them
go right now in the process of reading about them. It is a great opportunity
to identify the inner blocks to fulfillment. As Pogo said, “W e have
identified the enemy, and it is us.”
As a professional psychotherapist and psychiatrist with many decades
of clinical experience and training, these higher levels of functioning were
considered to be impossible for most people. However, learning how the
mechanism of surrender works on the practical level and watching hundreds
of families, friends, patients, and ex-patients transform their lives has totally
changed this view. Now, higher levels of functioning are seen to be
automatic, easy to achieve, and available to everyone, often in asurprisingly short period of time. As a matter of fact, some of these levels
of success and happiness will seem impossible, but the higher level will
already have occurred by the time you have finished reading this book. Y ou
can tell yourself right in the beginning that these high levels of functioning
are not only possible, but they are an inherent birthright. They are the
natural state of which you have been deprived by all the programming that
the mind has been subjected to since birth.
Before reading on, it is advisable to sit quietly and make an inner
decision to let go resisting higher levels of functioning. This means to make
a decision to stop denying the higher levels to yourself, and to make a
decision to let go of all blocks to happiness, success, health, acceptance,
love, and peace. By doing this, the deed is already done, for you have set
the whole experience into a context that will automatically begin to unfold.
Health
The average person is preoccupied with the body, its functioning,
performance, appearance, and survival. The average mind is beleaguered
with worries, fears of sickness, suf fering, disease, and death; therefore, the
mind sets about defending the body in a great variety of ways. This leads to
over -attention to diet, weight, exercise, and the health of the environment.
W ith such inner tension, by the end of the day the average person frequently
feels like a victim: drained, empty, and exhausted.
One consequence of this preoccupation with the body is self-
consciousness. W ithin the field of awareness, the body’ s presence is
prominent, and there is a mental fixation with what it is doing, its
whereabouts and movements, its survival, the attitudes and approval of
other persons toward the body, its appearance and behavior.
Underlying all of this concern is the unconscious equation, “I am a
body.” This is a very limited level of consciousness. In fact, in the spiritual
world this is called “being unconscious.” Because it is a false identification
due to a marked narrowing of awareness, it is like wearing blinders. It is
like having a pimple on the nose and thinking that the whole world now
revolves around that pimple, and going through the day with that pimple
most prominent in our mind.
Be aware of how much ener gy is drained by this constant
preoccupation with the body. Our mind has been continuously programmed
with a countless variety of belief systems about the body: what it needs,what will be good for it, and its infinite number of vulnerabilities. This
leads to constant preoccupations with all kinds of health preventive
measures, including health food fads, the endless reading of labels for
potentially poisonous ingredients, the fear of being near someone smoking a
cigarette, the fear of dusts and pollens and all of the supposed contaminants
of the environment. There is an obsession with of fsetting all of these
“dangers” by various countermeasures.
As we have seen from previous discussions, these vulnerabilities are
merely the product of the mind, and the body will react to what is held in
mind. This was demonstrated in our discussion of multiple personalities
where the body reflected in each instant what that particular personality and
mind believed.
As we begin letting go of all these fears, cancelling the belief systems
and reaf firming that our true Self is Infinite and not subject to limitations,
we move into a higher state of health, wellness, and vital ener gy. A helpful
way to phrase it to ourselves is, “I am an Infinite Being, not subject to
____________.” W e put into the blank space whatever disease or substance
that the mind has been programmed to see as a possible “danger” for us.
After letting go of the endless variety of bodily fears, concerns and
belief systems, physical illnesses begin to resolve automatically. There is an
increase in the feeling of aliveness and personal freedom. In the state of
total surrender, the body is barely perceived at all. It is only peripherally in
awareness, and there is no preoccupation with it. It functions ef fortlessly,
smoothly, and with very little attention.
A surrendered person can eat anything or go anywhere and is no longer
subject to fears of contaminants, pollutants, drafts, germs, electromagnetic
frequencies, carpet, smoke, dust, animal dander, poison ivy, pollen, or food
dyes. Our perception of the body shifts, and it now seems to be like a


 quiz.At the end of each lesson are  suggested exercises to further enhance your learning experience of theprinciples covered. May of these suggested exercises involve journaling of your own personal responses,experiences and future plans.You can take this course at your own pace. We highly recommend taking a new lesson every few days so that you have time in-between to digest the new knowledge of the previous lesson before you go on to the next lesson.Please do not skip around or peek ahead. The lessons are in this order for a reason.To further enhance your experience, we recommend taking a new lesson at the same time during the day(during the mornings, or during the evenings) to give your mind a sense of regularity. Be sure to do it in aquiet place where you know you won't be easily interrupted.                   LESSON 1: THE FORGOTTEN MIRACLEWATCH LESSON 1 VIDEO BY DEEPAK CHOPRA ONLINE: http://blip.tv/play/AYGh2RAC

Reinventing The Body, Resurrecting The Soul is based on breakthrough ideas thathave recently come to us from the worlds of biology and physics.We know - and have known all along - that our body is not a structure. Rather, it is aprocess. When we experience the body as a process, we recognize that it never standsstill.The fact is that the body we have right now is not the body we had one year ago.Our stomach recycles every 5 days.Our skeleton recycles every 3 months.Even the DNA which stores memories of millions of years of evolutionary time - theactual raw material of our DNA changes every 6 weeks.So, you do in fact reinvent your body once a year.But, you reinvent it the same way over and over again. It retains the same patterns; it hasthe same illnesses; it has the same problems.Reinventing the body is based on 5 breakthrough ideas: 1. Your physical body is a ﬁction.2. Your real body is energy.3. Awareness has magic.4. You can improve your genes.5.Time isn't your enemy.QUIZ: Are You Ready For Change?Although we have all lived with outworn ideas about the body, the momentum of changehas been gathering. The old model shows many signs of breaking down. Have you beenpart of this change? The following quiz examines how receptive you are to personalchange. Anyone can be more open, but it’s good to have a starting point before thejourney begins. (Taken from the book Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul ByDeepak Chopra, Published By Harmony)Answer the following questions YES or NO.YES ___ NO ___ I believe that the mind inﬂuences the body.YES ___ NO ___ I know people who have had amazing recoveries from illness.YES ___ NO ___ When physical symptoms appear, I seek alternative treatment.YES ___ NO ___ Hands-on healing is a real phenomenon.YES ___ NO ___ People can make themselves sick without a physical cause.YES ___ NO ___ I don’t have to see healing to believe it exists.YES ___ NO ___ Traditional medicine knows things that scientiﬁc medicine hasn’tdiscovered yet.YES ___ NO ___ I can alter my genes by how I think.YES ___ NO ___ Human lifespan isn’t determined by genes.YES ___ NO ___ They will probably not discover a single gene for aging.YES ___ NO ___ I have the ability to inﬂuence whether I get cancer.YES ___ NO ___ My body responds to my emotions – when they change, so does mybody.YES ___ NO ___ Aging contains a major mental component. Your mind can determinewhether you age quicker or slower.YES ___ NO ___ I am generally happy with my body.YES ___ NO ___ I don’t feel my body is going to betray me.YES ___ NO ___ I pay attention to hygiene, but germs aren’t a major issue with me.YES ___ NO ___ I have healed myself at least once.YES ___ NO ___ I’ve had at least one experience with Eastern medicine (acupuncture,Qi Gong, Ayureveda, Reiki, etc.)YES ___ NO ___ I’ve used herbal remedies that were effective.YES ___ NO ___ I’ve used meditation or other stress-reduction techniques.YES ___ NO ___ Prayer has the power to heal.YES ___ NO ___ Miraculous cures are possible and legitimate.YES ___ NO ___ My body has a good chance of being as healthy ten years from now asit is today.YES ___ NO ___ Even though the average old person takes seven prescription drugs, Iforesee turning seventy on no drugs at all.TOTAL YES ____Evaluating your score:0 – 10 Yes Answers: You accept the conventional notion that the body is basically ﬁxed,either by genes or mechanical processes of decay and aging. You expect to ear out overtime as you age. Your optimism about alternative medicine is distinctly limited and maybe totally overshadowed by skepticism. You would never rely on healers and look uponso-called miraculous cures as either fraud or self-deception. On one hand, you trustmedical science and expect doctors to take care of you. On the other hand, you don’t paymuch attention to your body and feel fatalistic about things that can go wrong with it.Given the possibility of a major breakthrough, you feel cautious about making any majorchanges in your life.11 – 20 Yes Answers: Your experience has caused you to shift away from theconventional wisdom about the body. You are open to change and have broadened yourideas about healing. Either you or your friends have gone to some form of alternativetreatment with success, and you are no longer completely accepting that mainstreammedicine is the only answer. Yet the claims of hands-on-healing probably make youskeptical. In general, you haven’t found a way of understanding the body that’s moresatisfying than the Western scientiﬁc model, yet you are well aware that unconventionalapproaches can be valid.You are attracted to the possibility of making a major change in your life, although youhaven’t decided which alternative is right for you.21 – 25 Yes Answers: You have made a conscious effort to shift away from the oldparadigm. For you, alternative therapies are ﬁrmly accepted and believed in. You sekconventional treatment only after you’ve tried holistic medicine, and even then you arewary of drugs and surgery. Your view of the body is likely to be tied to a spiritualjourney that you take quite seriously. You identify with other seekers of higherconsciousness. You ﬁrmly believe in hands-on healing. You question whether any formof materialism can really plumb the deeper mysteries of life.You have embraced personal transformation as a major goal in your life and want tochange as rapidly as possible.
 EXERCISES FOR LESSON ONE1.Write an intent today about experiencing your body as a process, rather than as astructure.(Ie. My intent is to experience my body as a process, rather than as a structure.OR My intent to to be aware of the constant ﬂow of my body today.OR My intent is to embrace the miracle of my body today.)Share this intent with someone you are close to, and revisit the intent when you wake uptomorrow morning. 2. By looking at our body as a mere machine that can wear out or break down at anytime, we ignore the sacred mystery that animates our body—our soul.Consider everyday activities, such as eating or sleeping, where you tend think of yourbody only in physical terms.For today, choose an activity and be more conscious of how you approach it. Eat yournext meal mindfully or while falling asleep shift your attention from your body to the onewho is falling asleep. 3. To uncover this miracle of life requires a dramatic paradigm shift in how we viewourselves. These creative leaps are the series of breakthroughs that we will undergotogether through the course of these lessons.Think back to an experience where you took a radically different perspective on a longstandingproblem or difﬁcult relationship, which then led to a creative solution.LESSON 2: From Breakdown To BreakthroughWATCH LESSON 2 VIDEO BY DEEPAK CHOPRA ONLINE: http://blip.tv/play/AYGpi3QC

Your body is boundless. It is channeling the energy, creativity, and intelligence of the entire universe.Are you ready for a radical change in the way you see your body?Before we can reinvent our bodies, we must be willing to let go of our old limiting beliefs about our bodiesthat continue to imprison us.Consider the following:· If the body is just a machine that wears out over time, then why do muscles grow stronger withuse and bone density increase with weight bearing exercise?· If the brain is merely a biological computer, then would we be able change it through learning,meditation and the experience of compassion?· If our bodies are only a passive product of our genetic code, then why would our behavior be ableto change the expression of some genes?· You share 60% of your genes with a banana, 90% with a mouse, and more than 99% with achimpanzee. What does this fact tell us about our uniqueness in physical and non-physical terms?
 EXERCISES FOR LESSON 21. Think of a personal experience from your own life, where the limiting physical properties of the bodywere superseded by a concept of the body as a ﬂow of energy and intelligence. Write a journal entry about it.  2. Make a list of any physical ailments you are experiencing in your body - these may be related toweight loss or gain, physical ailments, disease, etc.Next to each desired change, think about the thoughts related to each ailment vs the physical experience of each one. Now, make an intent.  3. This week, make a point to observe the thoughts inside you. Take extra note of


tes,
and later in pregnancy it will help maintain amniotic fluid levels.
FOURTH MEAL OF THE DAY, 3–5 P.M.
Late afternoon is a good time for snacking on juicy fruits such as oranges,
grapes, peaches, and mangos (depending on what is growing locally); the
vitamin C in these fruits increases immunity, and the fiber will support
elimination. For a more substantial healthy snack, make some dry-fruit
laddus to have on hand. Fruit-nut balls will supply you with stable ener gy,
and the dried-fruit laddus in the following recipe are a powerhouse of vital
nutrients, protein, and omega-3 fatty acids. They support the development
of your baby and keep mama going strong.
Dry-Fruit Laddus
Ingredients
1 cup almonds
1 cup walnuts
1 cup cashews
½ cup sesame seeds
handful of raisins (finely chopped)
1 cup dried apricots (finely chopped)
2 cups seedless dates (finely chopped)
1 cup dried figs (finely chopped)
pinch of cardamom powder
pinch of cinnamon powder
a few drops of vanillaInstructions
1.In a pan, dry roast the dried almonds, walnuts, cashews, and
sesame seeds until they turn golden brown.
2.Mix the nuts in a blender until they are chopped into small pieces.
3.Next, stir the nuts together with the finely chopped dried raisins,
apricots, dates, and figs.
4.Add a pinch of cardamom and cinnamon powder and a few drops
of vanilla extract; mix thoroughly.
5.Form the mixture into small balls and store in an airtight container.
FIFTH MEAL OF THE DAY, 6–8 P.M.
A substantial meal for the end of the day could include fresh bread with
ghee, a blended vegetable soup (for something warm, nourishing, and easy
to digest); a grain porridge or rice gruel (which provides hydration and
grounding); a seasonal vegetable curry; kitchari; or rice with ghee.
If you are not hungry enough for supper, having a cup of spiced milk is
a great option. Milk nourishes all the tissues in your body, as well as the
body of your babe. (The Sushruta Samhita  considers milk to be a complete
food, as it contains proteins, fats, calcium, vitamins, and sugar.) Not only is
milk capable of nourishing your body, but it also calms your mind. Heating
the milk changes its molecular structure and makes it easier to digest,
absorb, and assimilate.
Rice Gruel
Ingredients
½ cup basmati rice
1 teaspoon ghee
½ teaspoon cardamom3 cups milk
½ cup raw cane sugar
Optional: ¼ cup cashews or pistachios
Optional: splash of rose water
Instructions
1.Rinse the rice until the water turns clear. Then soak the rice in
water for twenty to thirty minutes. Drain the soaked rice using a
colander and set aside.
2.Heat a heavy-bottomed pan on medium heat. Add ghee and
cardamom to the pan, then add the soaked and drained rice. Stir
the rice with the ghee and cardamom for one or two minutes,
stirring constantly until aromatic.
3.Add the milk to the pan and stir well. Set heat to medium-high.
4.Let the milk come to a boil, stirring occasionally so that the milk
doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan.
5.Once the milk has come to a boil, lower the heat to low and let the
mixture cook for about twenty-five minutes on low heat. Stir every
five minutes or so.
6.Add the sugar and optional nuts and cook for an additional five
minutes.
7.Bless and enjoy!GENERAL DIET GUIDELINES FOR
PREGNANCY AND THE
POSTPARTUM WINDOW
The following tips support you in choosing foods for pacifying the excess
vata dosha often prevalent during pregnancy and always present in the
postpartum period.
FAVOR WARM OVER COLD
With an eye not only toward temperature but also toward the ef fect that
food has on the body, favor warm over cold: As much as possible, lean
toward eating food that is warm in temperature, freshly cooked, and
warming to the body. Warm softens and opens the channels in the body,
whereas cold constricts. The warm quality of the food can be enhanced by
using digestive spices generously. Spices such as ginger, cinnamon, cloves,
cumin, black pepper, and mustard seeds all have a warming ef fect. Try to
minimize foods with a cooling ef fect, such as cold and frozen foods or
drinks, raw veggies, and leftovers that have been kept in the refrigerator or
freezer.
FAVOR MOIST AND OILY OVER DRY
The Ayurvedic emphasis in pregnancy and postpartum is to nourish and
build. To this end, favor moist and oily over dry: Cook everything that you
eat with more water than usual so that it is soupy, hot, and moist—making it
easier to digest, absorb, and assimilate. Also, plan to add an extra teaspoon
of ghee to everything you eat, to keep your tissues nourished and to support
digestion and the elimination of toxins. What is more nourishing than being
invited to add a generous amount of high-quality oils, raw butter, or ghee to
all the warm food you are preparing? The dryness of vata is of fset byadding moisture, drinking plenty of fluids (ideally warm or hot—but no
cooler than room temperature), and eating foods with more moisture that
will add their moisture to your body, such as juicy fruits, avocados, summer
squash, soups and stews, and dairy products such as warm milk, raw butter,
ghee, and fresh yogurt. Do your best to minimize drying foods like popcorn,
crackers, white potatoes, beans, and dried fruits (unless stewed).
FAVOR GROUNDING AND NOURISHING
OVER LIGHT
As much as possible, it is best to think in terms of grounding the lightness
of vata with sustenance—eating foods that of fer nourishment by giving you
stable ener gy. Examples include healthy fats, cooked grains, spiced milk,
root veggies, stewed fruits, and soaked nuts and seeds. Lighter foods like
raw foods and smoothies as well as stimulants like caf feine and processed
sugars should be minimized or avoided because they aggravate vata’ s need
for grounding and stability.
FAVOR SMOOTH OVER ROUGH
Raw veggies (and some fruits!) are considered rough, especially ones that
are more fibrous. Even when cooked, there are some foods that will
aggravate vata dosha for the same reason; examples of these are kale,
broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and many beans. This is the main reason
why vata, defined by its rough quality, becomes balanced with foods that
are smoother, and the guideline for choosing foods during pregnancy and in
the weeks after is to favor smooth over rough: Think warm oatmeal,
blended soups, spiced milk, and yams, squash, and other root veggies. If
you do eat foods that are considered rougher, be sure to add the smooth
quality by adding more ghee or oils and add some vata-pacifying spices to
make them easier to digest.DIET AND NOURISHMENT
POSTPARTUM
In Ayurveda, digestion is compared to a fire. When the fire is bright and
strong, you can digest anything and get ener gy from it. When the fire is
weak, you cannot digest your food no matter how healthy it is, and you
experience symptoms like gas, bloating, constipation, and sluggishness.
A mother ’s choice in foods and how well she digests her food have a big
impact on the quality of her breast milk as well as the quality of her
rejuvenation, strength, and comfort in the first six weeks after the baby’ s
birth. Mamas who follow the Ayurvedic postpartum diet protocols lose
unneeded pregnancy weight easily, have more stable moods and emotions,
and have a general sense of stability and well-being. The right food choices
will help speed up recovery time; ease cramping; provide deep
nourishment; assist in avoiding postpartum depression, anxiety, and
depletion; and prevent colic in the baby.
Ayurveda teaches that during labor and birth, the digestive fire goes out
completely. The postpartum diet is therefore tailored to rekindle the fire by
introducing foods gradually, starting with easy-to-digest, simple, yet
nourishing and grounding foods. Almost all cultures from around the world
have a traditional “first food” following childbirth that is easy to digest. In
Ayurveda, it is kanji: a watery rice porridge cooked with digestive spices
and ghee. Try eating very simple foods for the first three days postpartum,
then slowly and gradually add more complex foods as the days go by and
your fire rekindles.
In general, during the postpartum window a new mother needs
an extremely vata-reducing diet (small adaptations can be made
to suit mothers who are showing excess pitta or kapha);
an easy-to-digest diet;
her agni to be stoked and supported;
to eat freshly prepared sattvic foods;to eat o


 on our all-fruit detox cleansing day!
Of course the heavy meat, egg and refined starch eater might feel faint on
an exclusively fruit meal, let alone a full day of detox cleansing. The
average person that’s filled with toxic poisons wants their white bread,
french fries and meat with plenty  of salt. Then they must wash all this down
with plenty of unhealthy bever age like cola and soda drinks, beer, wine,
black tea or coffee. Toxin-laden persons shamefully crave heavy  foods they
should not eat. They love fatty foods, meats, white dough pizzas, donuts,
sugar desserts, cand ies, pies, jam s, jellies, ice cream, etc.
If they stop eating their unhealthy diet of heavy, meats, fats, gravies and
refined sugars and replace it with healt hy organic fresh salads, vegetables,
fruits and their juices, then the much needed toxin-flushing would begin.
This cleansing crisis sometimes  alarms them. If they are weak in character
or lack will-power to follow this healthy lifestyle – they can easily revert
back to their unhealthy diet. We pray that all our readers will be strong and
follow this Bragg Healthy Lifestyle! We want you to experience this
wonderful health and vitality enjoyed by millions of Bragg followers.
When the body is clean and purified you no longer crave the rich heavy
foods of civiliza tion. When you re-educate the 260 taste buds of your mouth,
it is almost impossible to let any unhealthy, toxic foods enter your system.
Your clean, newly educated taste buds will refuse to let these foods pass by
them. They beco me the loving, wise guardians of your Holy Temple – Your
Body!
Watermelon and it’ s seeds (chew or grind them) ar e cleansers and contain Cucurbitacin that also
helps r educe swelling (edema) due to excess r etained water fr om eating pr ocessed foods and salt.
If families could be induced to substitute the healthy or ganic apple, ripe, juicy and luscious, in place
of white sugar, white flour pies, cakes, candies and other sweets with which American childr en too
often eat – soon doctors’ bills would diminish sufficiently enough in a single year to lay up a stock of
this delicious apples for a full years use.
The natural healing for ce within you is the gr eatest for ce in getting well. – Hippocrates, Father of
Medicine, 430 B.C.
For w e are God’ s work of art.  – Ephesians 2:10Keep World’s Plant Seeds Alive – Not
Sterile!
Until recently the magic of the garden, the joy of growing plants and food, was as simple as
collecting Mother Natur e’s seeds and caring for them season after season. Since I was 5 years old
I have taken great joy in collecting veggie and flower seeds and giving them away, spreading the
beauty of the plants they contained throughout the world. My Dad filled me with wonder at the
stories of Johnny Appleseed’ s accomplishments (see page 28), and I strive to follow his admirable
path. Sweet peas and tomatoes are my favorite. My Dad and I gave away thousands of seeds and
they are all over the world. Now simple human pleasur es as this are in jeopar dy. Monsanto and
other large seed companies, now claim their seeds as “intellectual property”. In this way, seed
companies prohibit farmers by force from saving and reusing seeds from one crop to the next.
Even more disturbingly, major seed companies have made great strides in genetically
engineering Terminator sterile seeds that sprout plants incapable of reproducing! If Dad and I
didn’ t collect and spread these vegetable and flower seeds around the world, there would be no
seed legacy to give us joy! But Terminator seeds would only be rotting pellets in the ground. Save
the world’ s seeds – for you and your childr en! Please protest this: call, fax or e-mail the
President, your Governor, Senators, and state officials: firstgov.gov and visit web:
ethicalinvesting.com/monsantoOceanofPDF.comChapter 5
Questions & Answers About The
Bragg Healthy Lifestyle
A Quick Look at Some Frequent Questions
We’ve traveled the world sharing The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle. We
continually tell our health stude nts as well as you, our readers and health
friends, that our System is not a set of diets for specific ailments. The Bragg
Healthy Lifestyle only recognizes one cause of human suffering and that is
the clogging of the pipes and organs of the human body by toxic materials
that have been deposited within its tissues due to an unhealthy lifestyle.
We are not in the curing business! We recognize no cures – except those
that the body’ s internal, basic biological functions perform themselves! The
body is self-cleansing, self-repai ring and self-healing! Your body will do its
best work when you do your best to give it a fair chance by following The
Bragg Healthy Lifestyle.
Assist Mother Nature in this purification process and your physical
problems will soon vanish. This System is not interested in the name of an
ailment. We are only interested in what kind of wrong foods and beverages
you have ingested and how long you have used them. If you have been
saturating your tissues with toxic poisons for years, then you have built up
large amounts of toxins which put pressure on your nerves and organs. This
can cause aches, pains and worse, premature death!
When students ask us what they should do for a special ailment, we give
but one answer, and that is to follow The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle and the
water fasting to detoxify and cleanse. So many seem to think they should
have a special diet for their special physical problem. That’ s not true. When
the body  is cleansed, it releases the toxic poisons and becomes purified –
then there are no longer toxins to cause health problems!
Open your mind, for the doors of wisdom ar e never shut. – Benjamin FranklinMost Frequently Asked Health Questions
Question:  I suffer from an inflamed colon. Raw fruits and raw vegetables
give me gas pains when I eat them. How can I go on this diet, since I
haven’ t eaten them in years? How can I eat them now?
Answer:  Of course you can’t eat a lot of coarse raw fruits and vegetables
at first! You will have to slowly start your program by using soft, mashed,
cooked vegetabl es, stewed fruit such as apple sauce and then gradually add
some soft, young, fresh lettuce. Then a small sliced tomato. Your one day a
week water cure fast will help rest and heal your inflamed colon. No food
will pass through your digestive tract for 24 hours. This gives your Vital
Force a chance to do its healing work. It took you a long time to get into
this miserable condition! You must be patient and give your body a chance
to heal this raw, inflamed digestive tract. Then have a day where you eat
nothing but apple sauce or grate d fresh apples. Also use Aloe Gel (drink 1-2
Tbsps 3 times daily in juice or distilled water) and enjoy Bragg Apple Cider
Vinegar drink (p g. 122) to help soothe/heal digestive tract and colon.
Question:  Can a five-year -old child go on this pr ogram?
Answer:  Yes, in a modif ied way. A five-year -old child is growing and
therefore must have the growth foods, such as soybeans, brown  rice, beans,
lentils and tofu, etc. Optional are some fertile eggs, goat’ s milk and natural
cheese. Teach the child to enjoy raw and cooked vegetables, raw vegetable
salads and fresh fruits along with nourishing growth foods (recipes page
123). A child of five should have 100% whole grain breads, cereals and
pastas. Raw nuts and organic nut butters are perfect foods for growing
child ren, as raw wheat germ, spirulina and green barley powders. A child
can easily fast one 24 hour period weekly. The Bragg children fasted one
day a week from age five on. Fast days allowed more time for play and
reading and they hardly thought  of food on their fast/detox cleansing days.
They always had their Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar drink cold or warm,
which they loved.
Fasting is the greatest remedy – the physician within! – Paracelsus, 15thcentury physician who established role of chemistry in medicine.
Question:  My childr en will not eat raw fruit, raw or lightly-cooked
vegetables. All they want is junk, fast foods – meat, greasy french fried
potatoes, hot dogs, hambur gers, white bread, pizzas, and sweets (cand ies,
cakes, cookies, ice cr eam, sodas, etc). What should I do?
Answer:  It’s too bad that these children didn’ t have a better start
nutritionally. Their 260 taste buds have become perverted. They crave
stimulating foods: protein, starc h, fat and refined sugar products. You will
have to take control of their health as a parent and guardian and start to give
healthy orders! Keep out of your home white refined breads, salty, fast junk
foods, high fat, french fries, and deadly sugar candies and sweets, cola and
soft drinks (bottom of page 49) and diet aspart am