 steroids, birth control pills, and watery fruits
and vegetables generate Dampness. Dampness  rarely appears by itself. It is usually accompanied by
Cold, Heat, or Wind. When Dampness  combines with Cold there is
constricted circulation, aversion to Cold, stiness and soreness of the
muscles and joints, and fatigue. When Dampness  combines with Heat there may be red, painful
swellings, thick purulent discharge, blisters as in herpes or shingles,
and inammations such as cystitis, jaundice, and bronchitis. Any
sore, abscess, or ulcer with pus or uid indicates Dampness  or Damp
Heat Sugar, alcohol, and fatty or fried foods create Damp Heat. Dampness  combined with Wind  produces swellings that appear,
disappear, and migrate (such as hives, swollen lymph nodes,
accumulation of air and uid in the stomach or intestines), bubbly
phlegm, and itching, oozing sores and ulcers. In severe cases Wind
and Dampness  can together obstruct the brain and sense organs,
producing seizures, strokes, and other neurologic disorderscharacterized by clumsiness, uncoordination, disequilibr ium as in
vertigo, and muddled, fuzzy thinking. DRYNESS
The nature of Dryness  is to wither and shrivel. Dryness  damages
uids and is manifested by symptoms of dehydration. Brittle hair
and nails, cracked and wrinkled skin and mucous membranes,
irritated eyes, dry stool and constipation, lack of perspiration, and
scanty urine occur with Dryness. Dryness  dominates autumn, the
season associated with the Metal Phase. External Dryness  usually occurs in hot or windy weather. However,
internal Dryness  occurs when body uids are damaged or lost due to
other factors. Heat, profu se perspiration, prolonged diarrhea,
excessive urina tion, and loss of blood may all lead to Dryness. Hot,
spicy foods, stimulants, diuretics, antihistamines, and other
astringent medications that dry secretions and arrest discharges can
result in Dryness. Dryness  in turn can generate irritation,
inammation, and Heat due to a lack of lubrication and moisture. In
conditions of weakness and deciency, loss of blood and uids will
lead to internal Dryness. Another consequence of Dryness  due to
decient Blood  or Moisture  is the appearance of internal Wind
experienced as dizziness and disturbances of vision and hearing. This may arise in conditions like anemia. COLD
The nature of Cold is to slow things down by chilling them. Cold
depresses metabolism and retards circulation. Winter is dominated
by Cold, and both correspond to the Water Phase. When Cold attacks the surface, the skin and muscles contract with
shivering and goose bumps. This is accompanied by fever if the
body’s defensive Yang energy is mobilized to repel the invader. This
protective response may accompany any of the Adverse Climates  that
frequently appear in combination with each other.Cold can also arise internally from either a deciency of metab olic
heat (Yang) or the ingesti on of an exces s of food, liquid, or medicine
that is considered to be Cold. The concept of Cold includes that
which has been refrigerated and is thermally cold as well as foods
that are categorized as having a Cold nature. Prolonged stress,
illness, lack of proper nutrition, or repeated exposure to cold climate
or substances can lead to a depletion of Yang. In this case, Cold
overcomes Heat and Yin overcomes Yang. Refrigerated or raw foods and chilled drinks are Cold. Ice cream
and iced drinks are particularly damaging to the Yang energy. Because of their ability to counteract inammation and fever,
medicines such as antibiotics and aspirin have a Cold nature. Antacids counteract stomach inammation and are also considered
Cold medicines. The stomach depends on the power of digestive Fire to break
down and process food. These Cold medic ines weaken and
undermine digestive function because of their ability to dissipate
heat. The repeated administration of antibiotics to children damages
their already sensitive and underdeveloped digestive systems, which
leads to innumerable problems in their later childhood and
adulthood. The most common consequence is weakness of the
immune system, manifested as allergies. The resulting deciency
and Coldness  set the stage  for disorders such as asthma, colitis,
arthritis, eczema, and candidiasis. Accompanying the aversion to cold is a desire for heat and a
craving for warm foods and liquids. There is a feeling of weariness
and debility as well. Retarded circulation also leads to a stagnation
of Blood  and Moisture, which may congeal or harden into clots,
lumps, or masses associated with xed and localized tenderness and
pain. THE FIVE EMOTIONS
Just as climate s exist within the seasons, emotions are primal forces
within the human psyche. All of us experience times of anger, joy,rumination, sorrow, and fear during the course of our everyday
lives. These emotions are often appropriate. It is natural to feel mad
when thwarted, happy when fullled, pensive when attention is
focused inward, sad over loss, and alarmed in the face of danger. When any one state, however, dominates our internal experience or
outward behavior, it interfe res with the conduct of daily life and
disrupts the smooth ow of Qi. The Five Emotions  are associated with the Five Phases. In excess,
these emotions generate imbalance. Anger  causes energy to rise—it
tends to are up and lash out with sudden explosivenes s, like the
windy storms of spring, unpredictable and intense. Joy causes
energy to disperse—it tends to dissipate and be lost. Being overcome
by joy can leave a person giddy and weak like the inten se heat of
summer, exhausted and drained. Rumination  causes  energy  to slow
down—sluggish movement tends toward stagnation, leaving one
lazy and inert, like the oppressive humidity of late summer, slow
and torpid. Sorrow  causes energy to stop—it tends to constrict and
close down. Imprisoned by grief, one is cut o from life; like the
drying leaves of autumn, feelings wither and motivation crumples. Fear causes energy to sink—the bottom falls out. When survival is
threatened, one becomes petried with fright and loses control. As
in the perilous cold of winter, people feel frozen with fear. The emotions are immaterial yet palpable. Although—or  because
—they are experienced deeply, they are dicult to dene and
categorize. Nevertheless they have profound and tangible eects. In
Chinese medicine they are considered one of the major inuences
upon health and disease. Wind  and Anger  particularly injure the
Liver, Heat and Joy the Heart, Dampness  and Rumination  the Spleen,
Dryness  and Sorrow  the Lung, and Cold and Fear the Kidney. ANGER
When Anger  predominates, a person becomes easily upset by
frustrations and obstacles, unable to appropriately restrai n feelings. This person is volatile, engaging in erratic and impulsive behavior.He vacillates between riveted interest and subdued indierence. These unstable emotions and unpredictable actions result in the
uneven circula tion of Qi and Blood, creating a generalized state of
tension. This kind of person often leads a double life. Usually he
exerts tremend ous self-discip line in order to maintain self-control
and composure. But when the stress builds, or when he relaxes and
loosens his inhibitions, he is likely to explode in rage or indulge in
thoughtless, rash behavior. At work he may be dedicated, outgoing,
and resourceful, but on the weekends after a few drinks he may “y
o the handle” and “go through the roof.” He is prone to ailments
such as ulcers, hemorrhoids, and migraine headaches. JOY
When the pleasure principle is the main focus of a person’s life, she
becomes unable to retain her reserve of energy. She seeks
gratication at every turn and becomes jaded, drive n to seek
continuously more stimulation. She appears fun-loving and romantic
but in fact is unable to sustain her interest and excitement without
external props and other people’s attention. She dislikes being alone. By herself she feels lifeless;  in company she comes alive. She is
prone to free-oating anxiety, insomnia, despair. Her easy
excitability manifests as giggling, talkativeness, giddiness, and
garrulousness. This type of person dissipates her energy by burning
the candle at both ends. When she’s not up, she’s down. When she’s
not lled with excitement, she’s empty and hopeless. The high level
of activity causes accelerated metabolism which may take the form
of hypoglyce mia, anorex ia, or schizophrenia. These are
manifestations of Heat. However, the presence of Heat is not
accompanied by light or


 e rests relaxed, resting its tip against the front lower teeth
and is constantly moistened with saliva. Exhale a little audibly with a slight
push of air out. Try to keep air over a moist tongue to avoid dry throat. Gently push the air out again, and you will find that after a little effort to
exhale, a calm breath occurs by itself. Listen to the rhythm of the sounding
breath: as if the child is portraying a moving train. Breathing should be
superficial and thus frequent. The body moves slightly in the diaphragm,
which, in turn, will cause the stomach and chest to move slightly. Try to
keep your shoulders relaxed and the upper half of your body moving
slightly. It is necessary to breathe so that in one second to produce one
exhale. Let the air exit as freely  as it enters. Return to chest breathing, then
to abdominal breathing and then do full breathe several times. Using this breathing training technique, you should exhale with effort when
the muscles involved in the exercise contract. Inhale when the muscles are
relaxed. During  hard work or exercise or in the most difficult minutes of
labor during labor, go to shallo w breathing when you feel the need for it. Superficial breathing can help during intense contractions during childbirth. Chapter 14. Breathing exercises in the water

Swimming is an excellent way to improve the condition of the respiratory
system. The combination of swimming and special “water” breathing
exercises is especially effective. Regular exercises in the pool form the
correct breathing, develop the lungs, and strengthen the respiratory muscles. It is very important that at the same time hardening of the body occurs at
the same  time. The complex of breathing exercises listed below is designed
primarily for a person with moderate and weak physical fitness, starting
training in water for the first time or after a long break. For those who have
been attending fitness classes for a long time, these exercis es are also
useful, but then they should be performed in a more intensive mode, with a
greater range of movements. Most swimming pools have a sloping bottom.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Buteyko Breathing Method
Unique breathing exercises from over
100 diseases and health conditions
Self-help guide

Samuel Gr eenberg
Text Copyright © 2020
Warning the author is not r esponsible for any undesirable
consequences in case of the use of medical pr oducts without
consultation with the doctor. Every attempt was made to
provide accurate data. All information pr ovided in this book
does not r eplace medical advice. Disclaimer notice:
Please note information in this book for educational purpose only. Every attempt has been made to providing accurate and complete
information. Readers recognize that creator is not participating in rendering
legitimate, money related or proficient guidance. By reading this book reader agrees that under no circumstances are the
author is not responsible of direct or indirect loses as a result of using
information in this book including - but not limited - any possible errors,
omissions and inaccuracies. Annotation
Our breathing is an amazing tool for healing the body, with its help the
sages of India, China, and Ancient Egypt have been treating diseases for
thousands of years. Respiratory practices affect all organs and systems of
the body, regulate their chemical balance and organize the rhythm. Many
practices are still known only to the elite, but some of them have been
rediscovered by modern health researchers. This book contains unique mate rial: the most effective breathing exercises
according to the Buteyko method. The essence of the Buteyko method is
shallow breathing. The less you breathe in the air, the faster the healing of
the body takes place. The better you can control your health and manage
your state of wellness. All material is presented as clearly as possible, accessible and on the same
model, which allows you to quickly find the necessary exercises and,
without wasting time on reading and understanding, immediately start
classes. In the book you will find step-by-step instructions with photos that
will help you unlearn deep breathing, as well as learn how to breathe
superficially, to get rid of more  than 100 diseases and medical conditions
and regain health and youth. Table of contents :
Chapter 1. A complete list of diseases that the Buteyko method treats
Chapter 2. Introduction to breathing methods
Diseases of civilization
Basic instinct
Who needs breathing exercises
Whom this gymnastics is contraindicated to
Chapter 3. The structure of the respiratory system
Chapter 4. T ypes of breathing
Abdominal breathing
Lower chest breathing
Upper chest breathing
Mixed breathing
Chapter 5. What should be proper breathing. Breathing test
Compare the results
Chapter 6. Curative breath by K. Buteyko
Why you need to learn how to breathe not deeply
What is the ef fectiveness of the technique. The principle of the Buteyko technique
Chapter 7. Preparation for breathing exercises
Test: hold your breath to know if you are healthy
Recommendations
Chapter 8. W arm up for breathing exercises
Exercise 1. Kayak rower
Exercise 2. Persistent soldier
Chapter 9. Learning to breathe correctlyExercise 1. T raining of a pause
Exercise 2. Straining the muscles
Exercise 3. Holding your breath
Chapter 10. 12 exercises that reduce breathing
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Exercise 8
Exercise 9
Exercise 10
Exercise 1 1
Exercise 12
3 exercises for getting used to shallow breathing
Chapter 1 1. 10 important exercises to learn how to breathe properly
1. For the work of the upper parts of the lungs
2. Full breath
3. Acupressure of the nose
4. Full breathing with nose
5. Retraction of the abdomen
6. Maximum lung ventilation
7. Rare breath, or breathing by level
8. Double breathe holding
9. The maximum pause
10. Superficial breathing
Exercise "Breathing on the go"
Chapter 12. Exercises to get rid of illnesses and health problemsBronchial asthma
Stress
Anxiety, fear, gloom, depression
Fatigue
Headache
Stuffy nose, flu
Runny nose
Cough, asthma, angina pectoris
Tiredness and exhaustion
Weight loss
Blood circulation improvement
Prolapse of the stomach, intestines, kidneys and uterus
Conjunctival pallor
To improve blood circulation in the eyes
Chapter 13. Maternity exercises
Even breathing
Abdominal breathing
Chest breathing
Shallow breathing
Chapter 14. Breathing exercises in the water
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Exercise 8
Chapter 15. Massage of the internal or gans with the help of breathing
Massaging the stomach, intestines, liverMassaging the heart, liver, spleen, kidneys
Massaging the lungs and lymph nodes of the chest
More intensive massage of your lungs
Exercises to improve body function
Chapter 16. Cleansing reaction
Conclusion Chapter 1. A complete list of diseases that the
Buteyko method treats

Headaches, convulsive syndromes. Dizziness, fainting. Sleep disturbance. Noise in ears. Memory impairment. Fast fatigability. Irritability. Short temper. Poor attention span. Feeling of causeless fear. Apathy, decreased vitality. Hearing impairment. Paresthesia (loss of sensitivity, more often limbs). Wince in a dream. Tremor and teak. Visual impairment. An increase in senile hyperopia. Flickering in the eyes, a net in front of the eyes. Increased intraocular pressure. Soreness when moving the eyes up and to the side. Rolling strabismus. Radiculitis. Osteochondritis. Crisis type diencephalic and dystonic, sweating, chilliness, causeless
chills. Instability of body temperature such as thermoneurosis. Signs of hyperthyroidism, dysty roidism (defective functioning of the
thyroid gland). Obesity. Exhaustion. The phenomena of pathological menopause. Toxicosis and pathology of pregnancy. Fibromyomas. Mastopathy (fibrocystic breast disease)
Impotence. Frigidity. Infertility. Erosions and polyps of the cervix. Painful periods and cycle disruption. Miscarriages
Spasms of the larynx and bronchi (asthma attacks). Dyspnea. Mouth breathing. No pause after exhaling at rest. Respiratory arrhythmias. Frequent deep breathing. Periodic feeling of lack of air. Sensation of limited mobility of the chest. The feeling of inferiority of the breath. Fear of stuf finess. Rhinitis by the type of vasomotor. Loss of smell. Laryngitis, sinusitis, frontal sinusitis. Tendency to colds (bronchitis, flu). Cough dry or with sputum. Dry mouth or nasopharynx. Radiation damage. Emphysema. Chronic pneumonia
Bronchiectasis and spontaneous pneumothorax. Pain in the chest of a dif ferent nature. Violations of posture. Chest deformity. T


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Q: What is the ultimate gift of God?,
A: The dissolution of duality is the ultimate gift of God.
Q: What is the purpose of spiritual practice?,
A: To activate by inspiration, dedication, and decision of will those aspects of consciousness that become progressively self-actualizing.
Q: What is the significance of the concept of God?,
A: God is beyond all form, space, and time; it is the totality of All That Is, and is not a personal being that can be understood through dogma or belief systems.
Q: What is the role of the ego in spiritual growth?,
A: The ego can be thought of as a set of entrenched habits of thought that are the result of invisible energy fields that dominate human consciousness.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Every	entity	that	lives	loves	its
existence,	not	because	it	has	emotionality,	but	because	the	joy	of
awareness	is	intrinsic	to	life	and	all	existence. Knowingness	does	not
require	either	thought	or	feeling	because	existence	contains	the	quality	of
Divine	awareness. Life	itself	knows	that	it	exists,	but	it	gets	caught	up	in
its	identification	with	its	current	form. From	the	level	of	awareness	of
Truth	and	Reality,	death	is	an	impossibility	because	it	has	no	reality,	just	as
absence	is	not	a	state	of	being	but	a	mental	description. For	death	to	occur,
it	would	have	to	be	part	of	the	karmic	potentiality	of	the	universe. It	is	not
a	possible	potentiality,	and	there	is	nothing	to	occur. Nothingness	is	not	a
thing	that	can	happen. Life,	like	existence,	has	no	opposite,	just	as	truth	has	no	opposite,	self-
existent	pseudoreality	such	as	falsehood. Truth	is	either	present	or	not. Divinity,	God,	Allness,	Oneness,	and	the	Absolute	are	All	That	Is;	no
opposite	to	God	can	exist. Only	the	true	is	true;	nothing	else	exists. All
fear,	then,	arises	from	attachment	to	form	due	to	the	illusion	that	form	is	a
necessary	requirement	for	existence.CHAPTER	12
The	Search	for	Truth
Q:	Where	does	one	begin	the	search	for	spiritual	truth	self-realization
called	enlightenment? A:	It	is	simple. Begin	with	who	and	what	you	are. All	truth	is	found	within. Use	verified	teachings	as	a	guide
Q:	Where	is	that	reality	of	eternal	truth	to	be	found? A:	Begin	by	accepting	the	very	important	statement	that
all	truth	is	subjective
. Do	not	waste	lifetimes	looking	for	an	objective	truth	because	no	such	thing
exists. Even	if	it	did,	it	could	not	be	found	except	by	the	purely	subjective
experience	of	it. All	knowledge	and	wisdom	are	subjective. Nothing	can
be	said	to	exist	unless	it	is	subjectively	experienced. Even	a	supposedly
purely	objective	material	world,	if	it	existed,	could	be	said	to	exist	only
because	of	one’s	subjective	sensory	experience	of	it. Even	the	most	rabid
materialist	is	stuck	with	the	fact	that	in	the	end,	it	is	only	their	own
subjective	awareness	that	gives	it	the	authority	of	believability. Q:	Is	there	not	a	difference	between	an	objective	and	a	subjective	reality? A:	All	reality	is	subjective. Every	other	position	is	an	illusion	based	on
duality. The	subjective	and	objective	are	one	and	the	same,	just	different
descriptions	from	different	points	of	perception. Reality	is	not	based	on
perception,	duration,	description,	form,	or	measurement. All	such
attributes	are	those	of	perception	itself,	which	is,	by	its	very	nature,
transitory,	arbitrary,	limited,	illusory,	and	dualistic. Q:	What	is	the	value	of	the	great	teachers	and	teachings? A:	The	gift	is	not	limited	to	information,	facts,	or	wisdom	but	the	level	or
power	of	consciousness	from	which	they	emanate. Great	power	is
sustained	by	purity	of	context. The	usefulness	of	many	teachings	has	been
destroyed	by	error	in	the	context	in	which	they	were	taught,	and	thus	their
meaning	has	been	obscured	or	distorted. How	else	could	mankind	be	led
into	its	historic,	repetitious	pattern	of	horrific	and	ghastly	acts	committed
in	the	name	of	some	religion,	theological	dogma,	or	positionality? Every
human	crime	can	be	excused	and	rationalized	by	some	distorted	statement
that	claims	to	be	truth	because	it	was	‘taken	out	of	Scripture’	by	those	whoseek	power,	fame,	wealth,	and	control	over	others. Dogma	masquerades	as
truth	and	provides	the	slogans	that	lead	whole	civilizations
sanctimoniously,	piously,	and	arrogantly	to	grim	and	horrific	death. All
such	empires	expire. Q:	What	is	the	difference	in	meaning	among	God,	Is-ness,	Buddhahood,
Christ,	Avatar,	Truth,	Enlightenment,	Self,	Krishna,	Reality,
Awareness,	Oneness,	Absoluteness,	Allness,	Totality,	and	Divinity? A:	None. Different	linguistic	forms	reflect	the	culture	of	origin	of	the
teachings. Q:	But	are	there	not	differences	between	the	truths	of	the	different
teachings? A:	In	actuality,	no	difference	is	possible. All	supposed	differences	are	merely
due	to	misunderstandings	and	are	reflections	of	limitations	of	context. Differences	may	exist	among	religions	but	not	among	truly	spiritual
teachings. Spirituality	unites;	religiosity	divides. Q:	How	can	that	be	possible? A:	All	truth	is	self-existent,	total,	complete,	and	all	encompassing	without
location,	duration,	or	parts. Because	truth	is	self-existent	as	itself	in	its
totality,	that	which	is	a	self-evident,	subjective	state	of	‘I’	encompasses	All
That	Is. Allness	allows	for	no	division. Q:	What	is	the	‘I’? A:	The	‘Infinite	I’	is	that	subjective	reality	which	underlies	the	individual	‘I’
and	allows	for	the	experience	of	‘I-ness’	as	one’s	existence. It	is	the
absolute	‘I’	that	enables	the	statement,	“I.”	It	might	be	said	that	Descartes
had	it	backwards. The	truth	is	not	“I	think,	therefore	I	am,”	but	its
corollary,	“I	am,	therefore	I	think.”
					Consciousness,	or	the	capacity	for	awareness,	is	formless	and	is	the
backdrop	from	which	form	can	be	identified. It	is	because	of	the
formlessness	of	the	apparent	emptiness	of	space	that	form	can	be
perceived. ‘Somethingness’	can	be	identified	only	because	it	stands	out
against	no	other	things. It	is	due	to	the	clarity	of	the	sky	that	we	can	see
the	clouds. Q:	Is	there	a	shortcut	to	enlightenment? A:	Yes,	indeed. One	can	spend	endless	lifetimes	studying	all	the	spiritual	and
philosophical	teachings	of	the	world	and	merely	end	up	confused	and
discouraged. Seek	to	‘know’,	not	to	‘know	about’. ‘Know’	impliessubjective	experience;	‘know	about’	means	to


 Only in the pr esence of
an unwavering commitment to facing our demons does the
doorway to self -discovery open. We cannot jour ney into the dark side for a quick dip or an
afternoon liaison. T o understand our shadow completely
takes a willingness to let go of what we think we know. Ittakes the for ce of a caged lion to br eak open the cellar
doors that we ourselves chained closed many moons ago. The gr eat news is that we wer e bor n with a bur ning desir e to
evolve and gr ow, to open up, to e xpand and be whole. And I
am going to assert that we all have at least one place wher e
we secr etly desir e to be mor e, to have mor e, to e xperience
more. It is her e that our shadow is waiting patiently for us to
come r etrieve our power fr om the dark r ecesses of our
unconscious mind. When we ﬁrst come in contact with our dark side, our
initial instinct is to tur n away and our second is to bar gain
with it to leave us alone. Many of us have spent vast
amounts of time and money in an eﬀort to do just that. Ironically, it’s these hidden aspects and r ejected feelings
that need the most attention. When we lock ed away those
parts of ourselves we didn’t lik e, we unknowingly sealed
away our most valuable gif ts. The r eason for doing shadow
work is to become whole, to end our suﬀering, to stop hiding
from ourselves. Once we do this, we can stop hiding fr om
the rest of the world. We must embrace our shadow in or der to know the
freedom of living a transpar ent life, so that we feel fr ee
enough to invite others into our life—to let others know the
truth about our ﬁnances, our pastimes, and our r elationships
—without being gripped by the fear that our public persona
will come unraveled, e xposing the person we’ve been trying
hard not to be. When our pr ecious ener gy isn’t tied up in
hiding fr om or over compensating for our self -destructive
impulses, we ar e gifted with the clarity and the motivation
we need to build an unshak able foundation for an inspiring
futur e. OUR DU ALISTIC SELFThe shadow lurks, deceives, hides, and cons us into
believing what we can and cannot do. It drives us to smok e,
gamble, drink, and eat that which mak es us feel bad the
next day. Our shadow gives rise to the hypocritical
behaviors that cause us to violate our personal boundaries
and our own integrity. It is a for ce that can only be r eckoned
with by bringing it into the light of our awar eness and
examining what we ar e made of. We possess every human
characteristic and emotion, whether active or dor mant,
whether conscious or unconscious. Ther e is nothing we can
conceive of that we ar e not. W e are everything—that which
we consider good and that which we consider bad. How
could we know courage if we have never known fear. How
could we know happiness if we never e xperienced sadness. How could we know light if we never knew dark. All these pairs of opposites e xist within us because we ar e
dualistic beings made up of opposing for ces. This means
that every quality we can see in another e xists within
ourselves. W e are the micr ocosm of the macr ocosm,
meaning within our DNA structur e we have the imprint of
every characteristic. W e are capable of both the gr eatest
acts of selﬂessness and the most destructive, self -punishing
crimes. When viewed in the full light of our awar eness, our
shadow e xposes the duality and the truth of both our human
self and our divine self, as they both pr ove to be essential
ingredients of a whole authentic human being. We have to uncover, own, and embrace all of who we ar e
—the good and bad, the light and the dark, the selﬂess and
the selﬁsh, and the honest and dishonest parts of our
personality. It is our birthright to be whole, to have it all. But
to do this, we must be willing to tak e an honest look at
ourselves and step out beyond our judgmental mind. It is
here that we will have a life-altering shif t in per ception, an
opening of our heart. The good news is that every aspect of ourselves comes
bearing gif ts. Every emotion and every trait we possesshelps show us the way back to oneness. Our dark side e xists
to point out wher e we ar e still incomplete, to teach us love,
compassion, and for giveness—not just for others, but also
for ourselves. And when the shadow is embraced, it will heal
our heart and open us up to new opportunities, new
behaviors, and a new futur e. When we bring our shadow,
our hidden emotions and our life-draining beliefs, into the
light of our conscious awar eness, it will transfor m the way
we see ourselves, others, and the world. Then we ar e free. Dealing with our shadow is a comple x but guaranteed
journey back to love. Not just love of another, but love for
each and every characteristic that lives within you and
within me—a love that allows us to embrace the richness of
our humanity and the holiness of our divinity. Having faced
our own inter nal demons, we ar e ﬁlled with peace and
compassion in the pr esence of other people’s dark side. W e
can for give and let go of our demeaning judgments and our
resentful heart. W e can tap into the humility of Gandhi and
the tolerance of Martin L uther King, Jr., and draw forth the
strength and the courage to deal with the issues that haunt
us. “Ther e but for the grace of God go I” tak es on a whole
new meaning when we can view evil thr ough the universal
lens of our humanity. Exploring our dark side is the gateway
to understanding why we do what we do, why we
sometimes act in ways that ar e contrary to the desir es of
our conscious mind, and why we spend countless hours,
days, months, or years judging others and holding on to
grudges that only bring us headache, heartache, and dis-
ease. All of us have moments fr om the past when our emotional
pain was too much for us to bear, so we r epressed it within
the darkness of our shadow. This is an unavoidable part of
life. W e can run, but we can’t hide. Our shadow is always
linked back to one traumatic event or a combination of
painful moments. When we truly understand our shadow
and its gif ts, ther e are no ﬁngers to point or blame to caston our par ents, our teachers, or our past, because our
shadow is a delivery system for an e xtraor dinary futur e. Understanding how our shadow was for med unlocks the
door to enor mous personal power and pr ofound wisdom. THE BIR TH OF THE SHADOW
The birth of our shadow occur red when we wer e young,
befor e our logical thinking mind was developed enough to
ﬁlter the messages we r eceived fr om par ents, car egivers,
and the world at lar ge. Even with the best of car egivers, we
inevitably wer e shamed for displaying certain qualities. W e
received the message that something about us was wr ong
or that in some way we wer e bad. As childr en, we might
have been told that we wer e too loud. Instead of sof tening
our voice, knowing ther e would again come a time to be
loud, our fragile, unfor med ego may have tak en this
comment to mean that our unabashed self -expression was
wrong and should be hidden fr om others. Or maybe we wer e
called selﬁsh, because we took mor e than our fair shar e of
cookies fr om the plate. Instead of understanding the cookies
were to be shar ed, we made it mean that our selﬁshness
was bad and should be destr oyed. Or we got e xcited and
yelled out an answer in elementary school, and suddenly all
the kids wer e staring at us, laughing. Instead of laughing
with them, we made it mean that we wer e stupid and we
should never tak e a risk again. These negative messages
got ingrained into our subconscious lik e a computer virus,
altering our per ception of ourselves and causing us to shut
down those aspects of our personality that we or others
deemed unacceptable. Each time a behavior of ours was met with harsh criticism
or senseless punishment, we unconsciously separated fr om
our authentic self, our true self. And once these negative
ﬁlters wer e ﬁrmly in place, we wer e separated fr om our joy,our passion, and our ever -loving heart. T o ensur e our
emotional survival, we began the pr o


ofthewound,herealizedthepuncturewasdeep. Innotime,thebleedingbecameprofuse. Pain,
28 YourExtraordinaryHealingSystem
delayedforseveralseconds,soonbegantopulsateandthrobthrough
outhisfingertipandentirehand. Alappliedpressuretopreventhisbloodfromspillingontothefloor. Afterhalfanhour,henoticedthebleedinghadslowed. Anhourlater,iteventuallystopped. Fromtheverybeginningofthisincident,andoverthecourseof
thenextseveraldays,Al’shealingsystemwasbusyactivatingaheal
ingresponsethatincludes
oThenervoussystem,whichfirstrespondswithmessagesofpainthatwarnAlaninjuryhasoccurred. oThecomplexmechanismsofbloodclotting,whichareasophisticatedinteractionofhormones,enzymes,andnumerouschem
icalsandcellswithinthecirculatorysystem. Thesecomponents
arenaturallystickyandjointogethertosealoffthewoundto
protectthebodyfromfurtherbloodloss. oThelayersoftheskin,deepertissues,andvariouscells,which
weavethemselvestogethertoformatransitional,intermediate
layerofskinandfillinthegapcreatedbythewound. oTheformationofascab,whichprotectsthedeeper,moresensitivelayersofnewskinandtissuesasthehealingprocesscontinues. Whenthescabsloughsoff,Al’shealingsystemmiraculouslymanufacturesnewskinwheretheoldskinhadbeencompletelysevered. Afterseveralweeks,Al’sfingerlooksthewayitdidbeforehisinjury,asifnothinghadhappenedatall. EventhoughAl’sinjuryisarelativelysimpleone,ifyoulook
atthesequenceofevents,thevarioussystemsandcomponentsinvolvedinthehealingofhiswound,andthesynchronizedflowof
energyandmovementduringtheentirehealingprocess,youstarttodevelopanappreciationforthedegreeofcomplexityandprecision,
andtheincredibleorganization,speed,andefficiencyyourhealingsystemrequirestoperformthisspecifictask. Keepinmindthatyourhealingsystemsupervisesandcoordi
natesallhealingresponsesinyourbody,includingillnessesandinjuriesthatarefarmorecomplexandseriousthanAl’sinjury. And
eventhoughyourhealingsystemmayappeartobehiddenanddif
ficulttopinpointwithinanygivenpartofyourbody,youcanbegin
YourHealingSysteminAction 29
tounderstandthefunctionandpurposeofthisamazingsystembyobservingitspowerful,swift,dynamicandefficientmovements,andviewingtheresultsofitsactions. Thesubtleanddynamicaspectof
yourhealingsystemisoneofthereasonsithasnotbeenmorewide
lyrecognized,acknowledged,andaccepteduntiljustrecently. Theimmunesystemandthehealingsystemarebothsubtleanddynamicsys
tems,andalthoughtheyoftenworktogether,theyservedifferentfunctions. Thehealingsystemisevenmoresubtleandmorewidespreadinitsdistributionthroughoutthebodythantheimmunesystem,permeatingevery
organ,tissue,andcellinyourbody. Itisalsomorepowerful,moredynamic,
andmorediversifiedinitsfunctionsandtasksthanyourimmunesystem. Likethehealingsystem,theimmunesystemhasmanybranches,isnotlimitedtooneparticularareaofthebody,andoperatesonthemicroscop
iclevelofcellsandbiochemicals. Infact,yourimmunesystemcollaborates
withyourhealingsystemandcanbethoughtofasanaspectofthehealingsystemthatisconcernedwithpreventinganderadicatinginfectionsfrom
thebody. Theimmunesystemalsowaspoorlyunderstoodandnotgivenmuchimportanceinthepracticeofmodernmedicineuntilthediscovery
ofAIDS. Fortunately,withtheshiftoffundsandresources,andresearch
beingdirectedfromwithouttowithintherealmofourownbodies,we
havelearnedmoreaboutourbody’snaturaldefensesystemthanweeverimaginedexisted. YourHealingSystemandtheOtherSystemsinYourBody
Yourhealingsystemutilizesthespecialpropertiesandfunctionsofothersystemsinyourbody,integratingandsupervisingtheiractivi
tiesintooneorganized,efficienthealingresponse. Tounderstand
thismoreclearly,let’sseewhathappenswhenyouaccidentallytouch
ahotelectricironandburnyourself. Imagineanironthatispluggedintoanelectricalsocket,sittinguprightontheironingboard,andinadvertentlyleftonforhalfa
30 YourExtraordinaryHealingSystem
day. Whenyoudiscovertheironandtrytoputitaway,youacciden
tallytouchtheveryhotbottom. Assoonasyoutouchthehotironandhearthesizzlingsound
ofyourfleshburning,youinstantaneouslyfeelpainasyouimmedi
atelyjerkyourhandback. Inadditiontotheincredibleburningpain,withinamatterofminutes,youbegintonoticeblistersform
ingonyourfingersandhandsintheplacesthatcameincontact
withtheiron. Fromthevantagepointofwhatisgoingoninsideof
yourbody,let’stakeacloserlookatwhatishappening,stepbystep,
asyourhealingsystemspringsintoaction:
Step1
Yourhealingsystemisimmediatelyactivatedwhenyoutouchthe
hotiron,asthepainsensorsinyourfingersandhandsendasignal
tothebrainthroughyournervoussystem. Yournervoussystem,workingwithyourhealingsystem,initiatesareflexresponseinthemusclesofyourarmtocontractthearm,pullingitawaytopreventfurthercontactwiththehotiron,whichpreventsfurtherinjury. Step2
Almostimmediately,incollaborationwiththeskin,yourhealingsystemcoordinatesaresponsethatfirstresultsinrednessorinflammationastinybloodvesselsaredirectedtoincreasebloodflowto
theareaofthescorchedskin. Step3Specializedcellsknownasmacrophages,alongwithredbloodcells,whitebloodcells,oxygen,andotheressentialnutrients,arepumped
intothebloodstreamanddirectedtotheinjurysitetohelpnourish,fortify,andsupportthebody’srepairprocesses. Step4
Shortlythereafter,theskinsecretesspecificfluidstohelpformblis
tersattheburnsites. Theblistersserveseveralprotectiveandheal
ingfunctions. First,thefluid-filledsacsactlikeshockabsorbersto
protecttheraw,injuredskinthatliesunderneath. Theyalsoactassealedbarriersagainstthepossibilityofinfection. Thefluidinside
theblistersalsocontainsnutrientstohelpnourishandfeedthenew
YourHealingSysteminAction 31
layerofskinthatwillformunderneath. Antibodiesandimmune
cellsalsohavebeenmobilizedbytheimmunesysteminthisfluid. Thesemechanismsalsoareunderthedirectionofthehealingsys
tem,towardoffanymicroorganismsthatmightcauseinfection. Inaddition,thebodyreleasesotherimportantchemicalstocooperate
inthehealingresponse. Step5
Withthehealingresponsewellunderway,newcells,fluids,andchemicalsarecontinuouslypumpedinandoutoftheburnsiteover
thecourseofthenextseveraldaysandweeks;thepainbeginstosub
sideandthenewskingrowthaccelerates. Step6
Soon,theblistersgraduallyshrinkasthefluidisreabsorbedback
intothebody,withnewskinarisingtotaketheplaceofthepreviouslyinjuredoldskin. Step7Continuedhealingmechanismsareactivatedonthemicroscopicleveltofinishthejob,and,ifallgoeswell,notevenascarwillbe
presentwherethenewskinhasgrownback. Evenwithasimpleinjurysuchasaminorsecond-degreeburn,
youcanseethatalotmoreisgoingoninyourbodybeneaththesur
faceoftheskinthanmeetstheeye. Aswiththemoreseriousandcomplicatedproblemsthatoccurwithinyourbody,againitisclearthat
thebodyneedsasinglesystemthatcansuperviseanddirectallthe
otherkeysystemsintooneorchestratedandefficienthealingresponse
fortheprotection,self-preservation,andhealthofyourbody. Thisis
theincrediblejobthatyourhealingsystemdoesforyou. HealingSystemResponsesvs. SymptomsofDisease
ANewWayofThinkingAboutYourHealth
Whenourhealingsystemisinitiallyactivated,wemightconfusethechangesthatoccurinourbody,whicharenormalhealingresponses,
32 YourExtraordinaryHealingSystem
withsymptomsofaparticulardisease. Infact,thisisthecommonmistakemostpeoplemake,includingdoctorsandthemedicalprofessioningeneral. Again,untilveryrecently,ourculturehasbeendisease-orientedinitsapproachtounderstandinghealth


	day. When	the	major	bile	ducts	are
blocked,	barely	a	cup	of	bile,	or	even	less,	will	find	its	way	to	the	intestines. This	prevents
much	of	the	VLDL	and	LDL	cholesterol	from	being	excreted	with	the	bile. Gallstones	in	the	liver	bile	ducts	distort	the	structural	framework	of	the	liver	lobules,
which	damages	and	congests	the	sinusoids. Deposits	of	excessive	protein	also	close	the
grid	holes	of	these	blood	vessels	(see	more	detailed	explanations	in	the	previous	section	or
in	the	book
Timeless	Secrets	of	Health	and	Rejuvenation
). Whereas	the	“good”	cholesterol
HDL	has	small	enough	molecules	to	leave	the	bloodstream	through	ordinary	capillaries,
the	larger	LDL	and	VLDL	molecules	are	more	or	less	trapped	in	the	blood. The	result	is
that	LDL	and	VLDL	concentrations	begin	to	rise	in	the	blood	to	levels	that	seem
potentially	harmful	to	the	body. Yet	even	this	scenario	is	merely	part	of	the	body’s	survival
tactics. The	body	needs	the	extra	cholesterol	to	patch	up	the	increasing	number	of	cracksand	wounds	that	are	formed	because	of	the	accumulation	of	excessive	protein	in	the	blood
vessel	walls. Eventually,	though,	even	the	life-saving	“bad”	cholesterol,	which	rushes	to
every	wound	or	injured	site	in	the	body,	cannot	completely	prevent	blood	clot	formation	in
a	coronary	artery,	in	which	event	one	of	the	escaping	blood	clots	may	enter	the	heart	and
cut	off	its	oxygen	supply. In	addition	to	this	complication,	reduced	bile	secretion	impairs	the	digestion	of	food,
particularly	fats. Therefore,	not	enough	cholesterol	is	available	for	basic	cell	metabolism. Since	the	liver	cells	no	longer	receive	sufficient	amounts	of	LDL	and	VLDL	molecules,
those	liver	cells	assume	that	the	blood	is	deficient	in	these	types	of	cholesterol. This
stimulates	the	liver	cells	to	increase	the	production	of	cholesterol,	further	raising	the	levels
of	LDL	and	VLDL	cholesterol	in	the	blood. Hence,	the	“bad”	cholesterol	is	trapped	in	the
circulatory	system	because	its	escape	routes,	the	bile	ducts	and	the	liver	sinusoids,	are
blocked	or	damaged. The	arteries	attach	as	much	of	the	“bad”	cholesterol	to	their	walls	as
they	possibly	can. Consequently,	the	arterial	walls	become	rigid	and	hard,	which	is	still
better,	though,	than	having	all	their	wounds	and	lesions	exposed	to	the	gushing	blood
stream. Coronary	heart	disease,	regardless	of	whether	it	is	caused	by	smoking,	drinking
excessive	amounts	of	alcohol,	overeating	protein	foods,	stress,	or	any	other	factor,	usually
does	not	occur	unless	gallstones	have	impacted	the	bile	ducts	of	the	liver. Removing
gallstones	from	the	liver	and	gallbladder	cannot	only	prevent	a	heart	attack	or	stroke,	but
can	also	help	reverse	coronary	heart	disease	and	heart	muscle	damage. Cholesterol	levels
begin	to	normalize	as	the	distorted	and	damaged	liver	lobules	regenerate	themselves. Cholesterol-lowering	drugs	(statins)	don’t	bring	the	body	back	to	a	healthful	condition
in	which	the	liver	can	normalize	blood	cholesterol. Instead,	statins	artificially	lower	the
level	of	cholesterol	in	the	blood	by	blocking	the	enzyme	in	the	liver	that	is	responsible	for
making	cholesterol. However,	by	creating	an	artificial	“cholesterol	famine”	in	the	liver,
bile	is	not	formed	properly,	which	increases	the	risk	of	gallstones	and	hinders	the	proper
digestion	of	food. The	side	effects	of	statins	are	numerous;	they	include	kidney	failure,
liver	disease,	and	yes,	heart	disease	(for	more	information	on	statins	see
Timeless	Secrets
of	Health	and	Rejuvenation
)
. Cholesterol	is	essential	for	the	normal	functioning	of	the	immune	system,	particularly
for	the	body’s	response	to	the	millions	of	cancer	cells	that	every	person’s	body	makes	each
day	(the	immune	system	tracks	down	these	cells	and	kills	them	through	a	sophisticated
arsenal	of	weaponry,	including	the	drilling	of	holes	into	the	cell	walls	and	pumping	of	a
fluid	into	the	cell’s	interior,	causing	them	to	burst	and	die;	for	more	detailed	information
about	what	causes	cancer	and	how	to	heal	it,	see
Cancer	Is	Not	A	Disease—It’s	A	Survival
Mechanism
). Despite	all	the	health	problems	associated	with	high	cholesterol	levels,	this	important
substance	is
not
	something	we	should	try	to	eliminate	from	our	bodies. Cholesterol	does
far	more	good	than	harm. The	harm	is	generally	symptomatic	of	other	problems. I	wish	to
emphasize,	once	again,	that	“bad”	cholesterol	only	attaches	itself	to	the	walls	of	arteries	to
avert	immediate	heart	trouble—not	to	cause	it. The	body	has	no	intention	to	commit
suicide,	even	if	doctors	like	to	imply	this	by	the	use	of	suppressive,	intervening	treatments. The	fact	that	cholesterol	never	attaches	itself	to	the	walls	of	veins	should	be	part	of	the
cholesterol	discussion. When	a	doctor	tests	your	cholesterol	levels,	she	takes	the	blood
sample	from	a	vein,	not	from	an	artery. Because	blood	flow	is	much	slower	in	veins	than
in	arteries,	cholesterol	should	obstruct	veins	much	more	readily	than	arteries,	but	it	never
does. There	simply	is	no	need	for	that. Why? Because	there	are	no	abrasions	or	tears	in	the
lining	of	the	vein	that	require	patching	up. Cholesterol	only	affixes	itself	to	arteries	in
order	to	coat	and	cover	the	abrasions	and	protect	the	underlying	tissue,	like	a	waterproof
bandage. Veins	do	not	absorb	proteins	in	their	basal	membranes	like	capillaries	and
arteries	do	and,	therefore,	are	not	prone	to	this	type	of	injury. “Bad”	cholesterol
saves
	lives;	it	does
not
	take	lives. LDL	allows	the	blood	to	flow
through	injured	blood	vessels	without	causing	a	life-endangering	situation. The	theory	that
high	LDL	is	a	major	cause	of	coronary	heart	disease	is	unproved	and	unscientific. It	has
misled	the	population	to	believe	that	cholesterol	is	an	enemy	that	has	to	be	fought	against
and	destroyed	at	all	costs. Human	studies	have	not	shown	a	cause-and-effect	relationship
between	cholesterol	and	heart	disease. There	are	hundreds	of	studies	that	were	intended	to
prove	that	such	a	relationship	exists,	but	all	they	revealed	was	a	statistical	correlation
between	cholesterol	and	heart	disease—quite	fortunately,	I	might	add. If	there	were	no
“bad”	cholesterol	molecules	attaching	themselves	to	injured	arteries,	we	would	have
millions	more	deaths	from	heart	attack	than	we	already	have. By	contrast,	dozens	of
conclusive	studies	have	shown	that	the	risk	of	heart	disease	increases	significantly	in
people	whose	HDL	levels	decrease. It	would	be	much	wiser	to	find	out	what	keeps	HDL
levels	normal	than	to	inhibit	cholesterol


 the question
we always ask ourselves at the end of these e xperiences. But once we’ve had enough of them, we admit to ourselves
that we wer en’t r eally stupid at all. W e suspected this was a
drug. The pr oblem was, we wanted it. W e saw e xactly what
the game was with this person, usually within the ﬁrst
ﬁfteen minutes, yet we wer e so attracted to the high, wewere willing to pr etend we didn’t see it, for just a night, or a
week, or however long it lasted. The fact that someone said
to us, “Y ou ar e so fabulous. Y ou’re such a wonderful woman. This is such a gr eat date. How luck y a guy is to get to date
you,” when he’s only known you for an hour, is a blinking
red light to any thinking woman. The pr oblem is, the depth
of our wounds can be so gr eat—we can be so hungry to
hear those wor ds, because deep down we suspect that
they’r e untrue—that hearing them can cause us to put aside
all rational considerations. When we’r e starved, we’r e
desperate. Women say to me sometimes, “Marianne, why do I
always meet emotionally abusive men?” My answer is
usually the following: “The pr oblem is not that you met him
—the pr oblem is that you gave him your number.” The
problem, in other wor ds, is not that we attract a certain kind
of person, but rather that we ar e attracted to a certain kind
of person. Someone who is distant emotionally might
remind us, for instance, of one or both of our par ents. “ His
energy is distant and subtly disappr oving—I must be home.”
The pr oblem, then, is not just that we ar e oﬀer ed pain, but
that we ar e comfortable  with that pain. It’s what we have
always known. The ﬂip side of our danger ous attractions to people who
have nothing to oﬀer us is our tendency to feel bor ed by
people who do. Nothing that is alien to our system can enter
into us and stay ther e for long. This is true whether we’r e
talking about something tak en into our bodies or into our
minds.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        A gentleman
appear ed to me and said, “Ex cuse me, Miss W illiamson, but
we thought we should tell you: In the cosmic r oll call, you
are consider ed a hawk, not a dove. ”
I was incensed. “No way,” I said indignantly. “I’m totally
for peace. I’m a dove all the way. ”
“I’m afraid not,” he said. “I’m looking on our charts, and
it says very clearly right her e: Marianne W illiamson,
warmonger. You’re at war with R onald R eagan, Caspar
Weinber ger, the CIA, in fact the entir e American defense
establishment. No, I’m sor ry. You’re deﬁnitely a hawk. ”
I saw, of course, that he was right. I had just as many
missiles in my head as R onald R eagan had in his. I thought it
was wr ong for him to judge communists, but I thought it was
okay for me to judge him. Why. Because I was right, of
course. I spent years as an angry lef t-winger befor e I realized
that an angry generation can’t bring peace. Everything wedo is infused with the ener gy with which we do it. As Gandhi
said, “W e must be the change. ” What the ego doesn’t want
us to see is that the guns we need to get rid of ﬁrst ar e the
guns in our own heads. 4. THE CHOICE TO L OVE
“The ego is the choice for guilt; the Holy Spirit
the choice for guiltlessness. ”
The ego always emphasizes what someone has done wr ong. The Holy Spirit always emphasizes what they’ve done right. The Course lik ens the ego to a scavenger dog that seeks out
every scrap of evidence for our br other’s guilt and lays it at
its master’s feet. The Holy Spirit, similarly, sends out its own
messengers to seek evidence of our br other’s innocence. The important thing is that we decide what we want to see
befor e we see it. W e receive what we r equest. “ Projection
makes per ception. ” W e can ﬁnd—and in fact, we will ﬁnd—
whatever it is we’r e looking for in life. The Course says that
we think we will understand a person enough to know
whether or not they ar e lovable, but that unless we love
them, we can never understand them. The spiritual path
involves taking conscious r esponsibility for what we choose
to per ceive—our br other’s guilt or innocence. W e see a
brother’s innocence when it’s all we want  to see. P eople ar e
not perfect—that is, they do not yet e xpress e xternally their
internal perfection. Whether we choose to focus on the guilt
in their personality, or the innocence in their soul, is up to
us. What we think of as people’s guilt is their fear. All
negativity derives fr om fear. When someone is angry, they
are afraid. When someone is rude, they ar e afraid. When
someone is manipulative, they ar e afraid. When someone iscruel, they ar e afraid. Ther e is no fear that love does not
dissolve. Ther e is no negativity that for giveness does not
transfor m. Darkness is mer ely the absence of light, and fear is
merely the absence of love. W e can’t get rid of darkness by
hitting it with a baseball bat, because ther e is nothing to hit. If we want to be rid of darkness, we must turn on a light. Similarly, if we want to be rid of fear, we cannot ﬁght it but
must r eplace it with love. The choice to love is not always easy. The ego puts up
terrible r esistance to giving up fear -laden r esponses. This is
wher e the Holy Spirit comes in. It’s not our job to change
our own per ceptions, but to r emember to ask Him to change
them for us. Let’s say your husband has lef t you for another woman. You can’t change other people, and you can’t ask God to
change them, either. You can, however, ask to see this
situation diﬀer ently. You can ask for peace. Y ou can ask the
Holy Spirit to change your per ceptions. The miracle is that,
as you r elease judgment of your husband and the other
woman, the pain in your gut begins to subside. The ego might say in that situation that you’ll never be
at peace until your husband comes back. But peace isn’t
deter mined by cir cumstances outside us. P eace stems fr om
forgiveness. P ain doesn’t stem fr om the love we’r e denied
by others, but rather fr om the love that we deny them. In a
case lik e that, it feels as though we’r e hurt by what
someone else did. But what r eally has occur red is that
someone else’s closed heart has tempted us to close our
own, and it is our own denial of love that hurts us. That’s
why the miracle is a shif t in our own thinking: thewillingness to k eep our own heart open, r egardless of what’s
going on outside us. A miracle is always available in any situation, because no
one can decide for us how to interpr et our own e xperience. ‘Ther e are only two emotions: love and fear. ’ We can
interpr et fear as a call for love. Miracle work ers, says the
Course, ar e gener ous out of self -inter est. W e give someone
a break so we can stay in peace ourselves. The ego says that we can pr oject our anger onto another
person and not feel it ourselves, but since all minds ar e
continuous, whatever we pr oject onto another we continue
to feel. Getting angry at someone else might mak e us feel
better for a while, but ultimately all the fear and guilt comes
back at us. If we judge another person, then they’ll judge us
back—and even if they don’t, we’ll feel lik e they did. Living in this world has taught us to instinctively r espond
from an unnatural space, always jumping to anger, or
paranoia, or defensiveness, or some other for m of fear. Unnatural thinking feels natural to us, and natural thinking
feels unnatural. A Course in Miracles  is not about pouring pink paint over
our anger and pr etending it doesn’t e xist. What is
psychologically unsound is spiritually unsound. Denial or
suppr ession of emotions is unsound. Y ou don’t say, “I’m


 whether you can attach a
mental label to it but whether you can bring the feeling o f it into
awareness as much as possible. Attention is the key to transformation —
and full  attention also implies acceptance. Attention is like a beam of
light — the fo cused power of your consciousness that tr ansmutes
everything into itself. In a fully functio nal or ganism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is
like a momentar y ripple or wave  on the surface of your Being. W hen you
are not in your body, however, an emotion can survive inside you for
days or weeks, or join with other emotions of a similar frequency that
have mer ged and become the p ain-body, a parasite that can li ve inside
you for years, feed on your en er gy, lead to physical illness, a nd make
your life miserable (see chapter 2 ). Section summary:

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Q: What is the author suggesting about negative emotions and actions?,
A: The author is saying that negative emotions and actions will only lead to more pain and unhappiness, and that it's essential to accept and let go of them.
Q: What is the author's perspective on the concept of "waiting"?,
A: The author is not advocating for the type of waiting that involves resisting the present moment, but rather a state of alert and vigilant presence, which is not a form of denial or resistance.
Q: What is the author's view on the concept of sin and guilt?,
A: The author does not condone the idea of sin or guilt, and instead encourages acceptance and forgiveness, emphasizing that true transformation comes from embracing the present moment.
Q: What is the author's stance on the relationship between the inner and outer world?,
A: The author believes that inner pollution (negative thoughts and emotions) will manifest as outer pollution and chaos in the world, and that it is essential to take responsibility for one's inner space and create a positive environment.
Q: What is the author's advice on dealing with fear?,
A: The author suggests acknowledging and observing the fear, rather than resisting or reacting to it, and instead, focus on the present moment to overcome it.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>So place  your attention on feeling the emotion, and check whether your
mind is holding  on to a grievance pattern such as blame, self-pity, or
resentment that is feeding the e motion. If that is the case, it means that
you haven’ t for given. Non-for gi veness is often toward another person or
yourself, but it m ay just as well be toward any situation or con dition —
past, present, or future — that your mind refuses to accept. Y es, there can
be nonfor givene ss even with regard to the future. This is the mind’ s
refusal to accept uncertainty, to accept that the future is u ltimately
beyond its control. For giveness is to relinquish your grievance and so tolet g o of  grief. It happens naturally once you realize that your grievance
serves no purpose except to strengthen a false sense of self. For giveness
is to of fer no resistance to life —  to allow life to live through you. The
alternatives are pain and suf fering, a greatly restricted flow of life
ener gy, and in many cases physical disease. The moment you truly for give, y ou have reclaimed your power from the
mind. Nonfor giveness is the very nature of the mind, just as the mind-
made false self, the ego, cannot survive without strife and conflict. The
mind cannot for give. Only you  can. Y ou become present, you enter your
body, you feel t he vibrant peace and stillness that emanate from  Being. That is why Jesus said: “Before you enter the temple, for give.”
YOUR LINK WITH THE UNMANIFESTED
What is the r elationship between pr esence and the inner body? Presence is pure consciousness —  consciousness that has been reclaimed
from the  mind, from the world of form. The inner body is your link with
the Unmanifeste d, and in its deepest aspect is  the Unmanifested: the
Source f rom wh ich consciousne ss emanates, as light emanates from the
sun. A wareness of the inner b ody is consciousness remembering its
origin and returning to the Source. Is the Unmanifested the same as Being? Y es. The  word Unmanifested  attempt s, by way of negation, to express
That wh ich cannot be spoken, th ought, or imagined. It points to what it is
by saying what it is not. Being, on the other hand, is a positive term. Please d on’ t get  attached to eit her of these words or start believing in
them. They are no more than signposts. Y ou said  that pr esence is consciousness that has been r eclaimed fr om the
mind. Who does the r eclaiming? Y ou do. But since in your essence you ar e  consciousness, we might as
well say  that it is an awakenin g of consciousness from the d ream of
form. This does not mean that y our own form will instantly van ish in an
explosion of light. Y ou can continue in your present form yet be aware of
the formless and deathless deep within you. I mu st a dmit that this is way beyond my compr ehension, and yet  on some
deeper level I se em to know wh at you ar e talking about. It’ s mor e like a
feeling than anything else. Am I deceiving myself? No, you are not. Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are
than thinking. I cannot tell yo u anything that deep within y ou don’ t
already know. When you have reached a certain stage of inner
connectedness, y ou recognize the truth when you hear it. If you  haven’ t
reached that stage yet, the practice of body awareness will bring about
the deepening that is necessary. SLOWING DOWN THE AGING PROCESS
In the meantime, awareness of the inner body has other benefits in the
physical realm. One of them is a significant slowing down of t he aging
of the physical body. Whereas the outer body normal ly appears to grow old and wither fairly
quickly, the inner body does not change with time, except that you may
feel it more deeply and become it more fully. If you are twenty years old
now, the ener gy field of your inn er body will feel just the same when you
are e ighty. It will be just as vibra ntly alive. As soon as your habitual state
changes from being out of the b ody and trapped in your mind to being inthe body and present in the Now, your physical body will feel lighter,
clearer, more alive. As there is more consciousness in the body, its
molecular structure actually be comes less dense. More consciousness
means a lessening of the illusion of materiality. When y ou become identified more with the timeless inner body than
with the outer body, when presence becomes your normal mode of
consciousness a nd past and future no longer dominate your attention,
you do not accu mulate time anymore in your psyche and in the cells of
the b ody. The accumulation of t ime as the psychological burden of past
and futu re great ly impairs the c ells’ capacity for self-renewal. So if you
inhabit the inner body, the outer body will grow old at a much slower
rate, and even when it does, your timeless essence will shine through the
outer form, and you will not give the appearance of an old person. Is ther e any scientific evidence for this? T ry it out and you will be  the evidence. STRENGTHENING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
Another benefit of this practice in the physical realm is a great
strengthening of the immune system, which occurs when you inhabit the
body. The more consciousness you bring into the body, the stronger the
immune system,  becomes. It is as if every cell awakens and rejo ices. The
body loves your attention. It is also a potent form of self-healing. Most
illnesses creep in when y ou are not prese nt in the body. If the master is
not present in the house, all kinds of shady characters will take up
residence there. When you inhabit your body, it will be hard for
unwanted guests to enter. It is not only yo ur physical immune system that becomes stren gthened;
your psychic immune system is greatly enhanced as well. The latter
protects you from the negative mental-emotional force fields of others,
which are highly contagious. I nhabiting the body protects you not by
putting


L; if elevated to 20 mg/dL (for them, it
indicates neonatal hepatic immaturity or congenital enzyme deficiencies. An exchange blood transfusion may then be required. If readings of bilirubin are elevated for adults, the test advises about the
possibility of autoimmunity or transfusion reaction, hemolytic or pernicious
anemia or hemorrhage, and hepatocellular dysfunction perhaps from viral
hepatitis. Needl ess to say, elevated levels of direct conjugated bilirubin
usually show biliary obstruction with overflows into the bloodstream. Intrahepatic biliary obstruction may come from viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, or
chlorpromazine reaction. Extrahepatic obstruction may come from
gallstones, gallbladder cancer, pancreatic cancer, or bile duct disease. THE SERUM  GAMMA -GLUT AMYL  TRANSPEPTIDASE  (GGT) L ABORA TORY
TEST
The laboratory test for serum gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) is a
measurement of obstructive jaundice in neoplastic liver disease, and it’s
also useful for the detection of excessive alcohol consumption. The GGT
enzyme is sensitive to drug use and detects alcohol ingestion; therefore, it’s
used to determine compliance with alcoholism treatment. It also helps in the
diagnosis of obstructive jaundice and liver cancer. The normal range for GGT varies with age in males but not in females. For men ages 18 to 50 it varies between 10 and 39 U/L. Older than that,
males show a GGT range from 10 to 48 U/L. The normal range in women is
6 to 29 U/L. Elevation signals a cholestatic liver process. Note: The immune-stimulating effect of the Gerson Therapy frequently
causes a rise in GGT blood levels. THE ACID PHOSPHA TASE LABORA TORY TEST
The laboratory test for acid phosphatase is a measurement of the prostatic
and erythrocytic  isoenzymes to detect cancer. Active at a pH of 5, the twophosphatase enzymes appear in the liver, spleen, red blood cells, bone
marrow, platelets, and prostate gland. Successful treatment for prostate cancer decreases acid phosphatase
levels. Its normal values range from 0 to 1.1 Bodansky units/mL; 1 to 4
King Armstrong  units/mL; 0.13 to 0.63 Bessey-Lowery-Broc k units/mL;
and 0 to 6 U/L in S1 units. Normal range of radioimmunoassay results is 0
to 4.0 ng/mL. An elevated prostatic acid phosphatase test indicates Paget’ s disease,
Gaucher ’s disea se, multiple myeloma, and a tumor that has spread beyond
the prostatic capsule. If metast asized to bone, the high acid phosphatase
level accompanied by a high alkaline phosphatase shows increased
osteoblastic activity—metastatic bone cancer. THE ALKALINE  PHOSPHA TASE (AP) L ABORA TORY TEST
An enzyme that is most active  at pH 9.0, alkaline phosphat ase (AP)
influences bone  calcification and the transport of lipids and metabolites. The alkaline phosphatase laboratory test measures combined activities of
those AP isoenzymes found in the liver, bones, kidneys, intestinal lining,
and placenta. Bone and liver AP are always present in adult blood serum,
with liver AP most prominent—except during the third trimester of
pregnancy when the placenta originates half of all AP
The AP laboratory test is particu larly sensitive to mild biliary obstruction
and indicates liver lesions. Its most specific clinical application is in the
diagnosis of metabolic bone disease and detecting skeletal diseases
characterized by osteoblastic activity and local liver lesions causing biliary
obstruction such as tumor or abscess. It furnishes supplemental information
for liver function studies and GI enzyme tests, and it assesses the response
to vitamin D treatment in rickets. The normal range of serum alkaline phosphatase varies in accordance
with the laboratory method employed, but the usual total AP levels range
from 30 to 120 U/L in adults and from 40 to 200 U/L in children. Since AP
concentrations rise during active bone formation and growth, infants,
children, and adolescents normally show levels three times higher than
adults. Additional normal range s for AP are 1.5 to 4 Bodansky  units/dL; 4to 13.5 King-Armstrong units/d L; 0.8 to 2.5 Bessey-Lowry units/dL; 30 to
110 U/L by SMA 1260. High AP blood levels indicate skeletal disease, intrahepatic biliary
obstruction causing cholestasi s, malignant or infectious infiltrations,
fibrosis, Paget’ s disease, bone metastases, hyperparathyroidism, metastatic
bone tumors from pancreatic cancer, and liver diseases before any change in
blood serum bilirubin levels. Moderate rise in AP levels shown by this laboratory test may reflect
acute biliary obstruction from liver inflammation in active cirrhosis,
mononucleosis, osteomalacia, deficiency-induced rickets, and viral
hepatitis. THE ALANINE  TRANSAMINASE, SERUM  GLUT AMIC -PYRUVIC  TRANSAMINASE
(ALT/SGPT) L ABORA TORY TEST
Alanine aminotr ansferase (ALT), one of the two enzymes that catalyze a
reversible amino group trans fer reaction in the Krebs citric acid
(tricarboxylic acid) cycle, is necessary for tissue energy production. (The
second enzyme  is aspartate aminotransferase.) Elevated serum ALT
indicates acute hepatocellular damage before jaundice appears. The
ALT/SGPT laboratory test makes use of spectrophotometric or colorimetric
methods which detect and evaluate treatment progress for hepatitis,
cirrhosis withou t jaundice, liver toxicity, and acute liver disease. It also
distinguishes between myocardial and hepatic tissue damage. ALT values range from 10 to 32 U/L in men; from 9 to 24 U/L in
women; twice those levels in infants. When they are very high—up to 50
times normal—v iral or drug-induced hepatitis must be suspected. Or there
may be other liver disease with extensive necrosis. Moderate-to-high levels of ALT may indicate infectious mononucleosis,
chronic hepatitis, intrahepatic cholestasis, early or improving acute viral
hepatitis, or severe hepatic congestion due to heart failure. Slight-to-moderate ALT elevations may appear with any condition that
produces acute cellular injury in the liver such as active cirrhosis and drug-
induced or alcoholic hepatitis. Marginal elevations possibly show acute myocardial infarction or
secondary hepatic congestion.An interfering factor for the alanine transaminase, serum glutamie-
pyruvic transaminase laboratory test is the taking of opiate analgesics such
as morphine, codeine, and meperidine. THE TOTAL SERUM  CHOLESTEROL  LABORA TORY TEST
This quantitative serum analysi s measures the circulating levels of free
cholesterol and cholesterol esters and reflects the amount of cholesterol
compound appe aring in the body tissues. Both absorbed from the diet and
synthesized in the liver and other body tissues, cholesterol is a structural
component in cell membranes and plasma lipoproteins. It contributes to the
formation of adrenocorticoid steroids, bile salts, androgens, and estrogens. A diet high in saturated fat raises cholesterol levels by stimulating
absorption of lipids, including cholesterol, from the intestine; a diet low in
saturated fat lowers them. Elevated total serum cholesterol is associated
with an increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Thus, the total serum cholesterol laboratory test assesses the risk of
coronary artery disease (CAD ), evaluates fat metabolism, and aids in
diagnosing kidney disease, pancreatitis, liver disease, hypothyroidism, and
hyperthyroidism. Total cholesterol concentrations vary with age and sex. Its
common range is from 150 to 200 mg/dL. A desirable blood cholesterol is below 200 mg/dL, and levels from 200 to
240 mg/dL are considered borderline or at high risk for CAD. A level in
excess of 250 mg/dL (hyper cholester olemia)  indicates high risk of cardio-
vascuar disease, incipient hepatitis, lipid disorders, bile duct blockage,
nephrotic syndro me, obstructive  jaundice, pancreatitis, and hypothyroidism. They require treatment. Hypercholesterolemia from high dietary intake
requires modific ation of eating habits and possibly medication to retard
absorption. Hypercholesterolemia can occur from taking adrenocorticotropic
hormone, corticosteroids, androgens, bile salts, epinephrine,
chlorpromazine, trifluoperazine, oral contraceptives, salicylates, thiouracils,
and trimetha-dione. Low serum cholesterol (hypocholester olemia)  is associated with
malnutrition, cellular necrosis of the liver, and


 may not mean anything to them,
but everyone is on a spiritual path, whether they know it or not. Anyone
who is serving love is serving the God of the universe. Not only individualsbut relationships are imbued with the potential to become more expansive
than the mortal mind can imagine. Just as the cells of the body are led through a natural intellig ence to
collaborate with other cells to serve the healthy function of the organ or
organism of which they are part, we ourselves are imbued with a natural
intelligence leading us to collabo rate with others for a greater good. Love is
the greater good. As the oak tree is contained within the acorn, your enlightened self is
contained within  you. As every bud is programmed to become a blossom,
you and I are programmed to become the highest actualization of our
potential. Free will, however, means that we can say no to the process. We can
obstruct the process of our highest becoming, closing our hearts to God and
to each other. The ego is unbelie vably sly in its efforts to make sure we do. We are constant ly tempted to close our hearts, and by so doing to sabotage
our lives. The Holy Spirit is like spiritual radar, which will always override the
dictates of the ego. Yet in the absence of a spiritual practice, we fail to
develop the mental habit of listening to and following its guidance. Its
signals are always there, but we often don’t attend to them. The world is
very loud, and the Voice for God is very soft. The ego speaks first, and the
ego speaks loudest* (T-100). We learn to quiet the mind so we can hear
what God is saying. Every circumsta nce, every encounter, every relationship is programmed
with divine potential. Every circumstance provides us with the opportunity
to be the best that we can be, as well as the challenge not to retreat into ego
patterns brought over from the past. The ego’s opposition to following that programming is intense. Since
soul connection  dissolves the ego, its defenses are ever on guard. The
primary weapon s in its arsenal are attack thoughts, subtle or overt, toward
others or even toward ourselves. We judge more easily than we forgive. The
ego doesn’ t love other people; it exploits other people. As long as our minds
do the ego’s bidding, we will continue to destroy our relationships, we will
continue to suf fer, and the world will continue to decline. God loves all of us as one. Our task is to align our thinking so we can
think as God thinks and love as God loves. God’ s Will means Loving
Thought. Every attack thought toward ourselves or others is like a nail inthe body of Christ. They are the primary tools by which the ego keeps us
stuck within the prison of limited awareness. From global poverty to war among empires to nuclear bombs, the
collective state of humanity is a feast of lovelessness. Our behavioral
patterns reflect a deadly state of consciousness, from which we have
manifested a dangerous world. Jesus is a name on the door that delivers us
to a world beyond that one. It is the same world we see now, transformed by
love. It is miracu lously saved through a change in our sense of purpose and
a change in our sense of ourselves. The question is how to open the door, how to allow for our escape and
seek refuge from the madness that plagues us. The answer is not a broad
stroke; it is a willingness on all our parts to see every moment as an
opportunity to love. In every such instant, a holy instant, our spiritual birth
canal expands by even just a bit as the holy child is brought forth into the
world. Upon the birth of Jesus in the manger, as well as upon his rebirth in
your heart, the angels sing. The thoughts of Love flow forth to all the world. This child is tiny, innocent, and vulnerable. It might seem like just a tiny
thing, a softer and more authentic moment. Yet that child is not your
weakness; it’s your power—in fact, more powerful than all the powers of
the world. OceanofPDF.comThe Small Still Voice Within
Imagine the universe as the pluperfect creation of a divine architect. That
creation is a hologram, with each piece of it carrying within it the same
perfect architectural plans. Those plans exist for each of us and are
available, should we care to download them. Most of us, however, don’t
even know that they exist. Our consciousness is like a computer, and these plans exist in an
undeletable file. We go about our lives thinking our job is to bring up a
blank document and create our own architectural plans. We think we need
to create a life for ourselves, when in fact God has already created a path to
an ever-greater life for us. He carries in His Mind the image of our perfect
life. God’ s plan for the salvation of the world involves divine knowing of all
beings past, present, and future. Each of us has an equally important part to
play in bringing it forth, but the plan itself is beyond the scope of what our
mortal minds can yet comprehend. We discover our part by devoting our
lives to Him, praying to be the people He would have us be so we can do
what He would have us do. We do much better in life when  instead of revealing our plans to God,
we ask Him to reveal His plans for us. This is not the abdication  of personal
responsibility but the assumption  of spiritual power. When we stop trying to
tell life what it means, life then tells us what it means. Self-will is not self-
love, but rather a way of compe nsating for what we fear is a void in which
there is no love or plan for us. In fact, all good emer ges from that void, the
holy emptiness that only God can fill. God’ s plan for our salvation will
work; ours, so often rooted in fear, will not. The plan for the healing of the world is much bigger than we are, and as
individuals we can’t know what part we would best play in carrying it out. The Holy Spirit is like a cosmic  central intelligence, knowing exactly howour efforts would be most helpful, where, and in relationship with whom. Learning to listen to the Voice for God, opening our minds and hearts to
guidance and illumination that lie beyond the power of logic alone, we
become mystics. The mystical  path is the path to sustainability in the
twenty-first century. It is the partnership of brain and heart, reason and
intuition, that is the essence of the enlightened mind. Jesus is a path to
achieving it. Surrender to God means surrend er to love, not as a broad stroke but to
the best of our ability in any given instant. God’ s creation is not only
perfect; it also responds fully, automatically, and immediately to any mis-
creation, or disruption in the field. Like a GPS, it recalculates our path
when we have deviated from love. Not only is the universe primed to
follow every moment of harmo ny with another moment of harmony, it is
also prim ed to follow any mom ent of disharmony with divine correction. The universe is both self-or ganiz ing and self-correcting. Perfect  love knows
how to perfectly repair whatever deviates from perfection. The world is in a state of deviation from love right now, like a body that
is sick. Our purpose on earth is to help heal the world, and every encounter,
every ef fort, either lar ge or small, can be part of that healing. We are all called to be healers, and God’ s call goes out to us constantly. It’s the call to be better, do bette r, stop thinking only about ourselves, show
up to contribute, forgive, and love. We’re assigned by the Holy Spirit to any
situation providing maximal opportunity for the healing of the world. It’s up to us, however, whether we choose to take the assignm ent. The
problem is that we often turn down the assignment without realizing it. At
no time when I’ve closed my heart did I wake up that morning intending to
be a jerk that day. The ego’s kingdom is the low road of negativity and anger, limitation
and fear. It sends us twisting and turning through bad relatio nships and
failed hopes and dreams. But there is a high road, already constructed by
the Holy Spirit, which is the path to greater peace and creativity. We don’t
need to create the high road; we need merely to follow it. One way or the other, we will be following a path in life. We will either
be direc ted by the cacophonous, angry, fear-based voice of the ego, or by
the small still voice within. The ego is like a malignant cell that has lost connection with its natural
intelligence and its collaborativ e function. The Holy Spirit is our immunesystem, the medicine, the heali ng. It is there to direct us, to heal us, but
without our conscious coopera tion we are often seduced into the ego’s
madness. In both Judaism and Christianity  there is reference to a “small still voice
for God.” There is within us a quiet voice that can and will direct us every
moment of each day. It is a universal theme that we need to quiet our minds
if we wish to hear it. That voice, one expression


and were not interested in the wonders of their subconscious mind. • Wealth is of the mind
Wealth is simply a subconscious conviction on the part of the
individual. You will not become a millionaire by saying, “I am a milli onaire, I
am a millionaire.” You will grow into a wealth consciousness by
building into your mentality the idea of wealth and abundance. • Your invisible means of support
The trouble with most people is that they have no invisible means  of
support. When business falls away, the stock market drops, or they
lose their investments, they seem helpless. The reason fo r such
 102  insecurity is that they do not know how to tap the subconscious mind. They are unacquainted with the in-exhaustible storehouse within. A man with a poverty type mind finds himself in poverty-stri cken
conditions. Another man with a mind filled with ideas of wealth is
surrounded with everything he needs. It was never intended that man
should lead a life of indigence. You can have wealth, everything you
need, and plenty to spare. Your words have power to cleanse your
mind of wrong ideas and to instill right ideas in their place. • The ideal method for building a wealth consciousness
Perhaps you are saying as you read this chapter, “I need wealth and
success.” This is what you do: Repeat for about five minutes to
yourself three or four times a day, “Wealth—Suc-cess.” These  words
have tremendous power. They represent the inner power of the
subconscious mind. Anchor your mind on this substantial power
within you; then conditions and circum-stances corresponding to their
nature and quality will be mani-fested in your life. You are not say ing,
“I am wealthy,” you are dwelling on real powers within you. There is
no conflict in the mind when you say, “Wealth.” Furthermore, the
feeling of wealth will well up within you as you dwell on the idea of
wealth. The feeling of wealth produces wealth; keep this in mind at all
times. Your subconscious mind is like a bank, a sort of universa l
financial institution. It magnifies whatever you deposit or i mpress
upon it whether it is the idea of wealth or of poverty. Choose wealth. • Why your affirmations for wealth fail
I have talked to many people during the past thirty-five ye ars whose
usual complaint is, “I have said for weeks and months, ‘I am w ealthy,
I am prosperous,’ and nothing has hap-pened.” I discovered that w hen
they said, “I am prosperous, I am wealthy,” they felt withi n that they
were lying to themselves. One man told me, “I have affirmed that I am prosperous until I a m
tired. Things are now worse. I knew when I made the statement t hat it
 103  was obviously not true.” His statements were rejected by t he
conscious mind, and the very opposite of what he outwardly affirmed
and claimed was made manifest. Your affirmation succeeds best when it is specific and when it  does
not produce a mental conflict or argument; hence the statement s made
by this man made matters worse because they suggested his lack. Your subconscious accepts what you really feel to be true, not just idl e
words or statements. The dominant idea or belief is always acc epted
by the subconscious mind. • How to avoid mental conflict
The following is the ideal way to overcome this conflict for  those
who have this difficulty. Make this practical statement fr equently,
particularly prior to sleep: “By day and by night I am bei ng prospered
in all of my interests.” This affirmation will not arouse a ny argument
because it does not contradict your subconscious mind’s impress ion of
financial lack. I suggested to one businessman whose sales and finances were very
low and who was greatly worried, that he sit down in his offic e,
become quiet, and repeat this statement over and over again: “ My
sales are improving every day.” This statement en-gaged t he co-
operation of the conscious and subconscious mind; results followed. • Don’t sign blank checks
You sign blank checks when you make such statements as, “There
is not enough to go around.” “There is a shortage.” “I will lose the
house because of the mortgage,” etc. If you are full of fear ab out the
future, you are also writing a blank check and attracting neg ative
conditions to you. Your subconscious mind takes your fear and
negative statement as your request and proceeds in its own way to
bring obstacles, delays, lack, and limitation into your life. • Your subconscious gives you compound interest
To him that hath the feeling of wealth, more wealth shall be adde d;
to him that hath the feeling of lack, more lack shall be  added. Your
 104  subconscious multiplies and magnifies whatever you deposit in i t.
Every morning as you awaken deposit thoughts of prosperity, succ ess,
wealth, and peace. Dwell upon these con-cepts. Busy your mind w ith
them as often as possible. These constructive thoughts will f ind their
way as deposits in your subconscious mind, and bring forth abundance
and prosperity. • Why nothing happened
I can hear you saying, “Oh, I did that and nothing hap-pened.” You
did not get results because you indulged in fear thoughts perha ps ten
minutes later and neutralized the good you had affirmed. When you
place a seed in the ground, you do not dig it up. You let it ta ke root
and grow. Suppose, for example, you are going to say, “I shall not be abl e to
make that payment.” Before you get further than, “I shall—” sto p the
sentence and dwell on a constructive state-ment, such as, “By da y and
by night I am prospered in all my ways.”
• True source of wealth
Your subconscious mind is never short of ideas. There are with in it
an infinite number of ideas ready to flow into your conscious mind
and appear as cash in your pocketbook in countless ways. This process
will continue to go on in your mind regardless of whether the stock
market goes up or down, or whether the pound sterling or dollar d rops
in value. Your wealth is never truly dependent on bonds, stocks, or
money in the bank; these are really only symbols necessary and
useful, of course, but only symbols. The point I wish to emphasize is that if you convince your
subconscious mind that wealth is yours, and that it is always
circulating in your life, you will always and inevitably have it,
regardless of the form it takes. • Trying to make ends meet and the real cause
There are people who claim that they are always trying t o make
ends meet. They seem to have a great struggle to meet their
 105  obligations. Have you listened to their conversation? In many
instances their conversation runs along this vein. They are cons tantly
condemning those who have succeeded in life and who have raised
their heads above the crowd. Perhaps they are saying, “Oh, that fe llow
has a racket; he is ruthless; he is a crook.” This is why  they lack; they
are condemning the thing they desire and want. The reason they speak
critically of their more prosperous associates is because they are
envious and covetous of the others prosperity. The quickest way to
cause wealth to take wings and fly away is to criticize and condemn
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        Learn to pray for your loved ones who may be ill. Quiet your
mind, and your thoughts of health, vitality, and per-fection operati ng
through the one universal subjective mind will be felt and re surrected
in the mind of your loved one. 71  6
Practical Techniques in Mental
Healings
An engineer has a technique and a process for building a bridg e or
an engine. Like the engineer, your mind also has a technique for
governing, controlling, and directing your life. You must realize that
methods and techniques are primary. In building the Golden Gate Bridge, the chief engineer understood
mathematical principles, stresses and strains. Sec-ondly, he had  a
picture of the ideal bridge across the bay. The third step was his
application of tried and proven methods by which the principle s were
implemented until the bridge took form and we drive on it. There  also
are techniques and methods by which your prayers are answered. If
your prayer is answered, there is a way in which it is answ ered, and
this is a scientific way. Nothing happens by chance. This is a world of
law and order. In this chapter you will find practical technique s for the
unfolding and nurture of your spiritual life. Your prayers must not
remain up in the air like a balloon. They must go somewhere  and
accomplish something in your life. When we come to analyze prayer we discover there are many
different approaches and methods. We will not consider in this book
the formal, ritual prayers used in religious services. These have
important place in-group worship. We are imme-diately conce rned
with the methods of personal prayer as it is applied in your daily life
and as it is used to help others. Prayer is the formulation of an idea concerning something we wish
to accomplish.


it. Use only the best grades of oil marked "Virgin." Commercial salad dressings can
be used in small amounts unless you are troubled with high tri-
glycerides. Especially avoid coconut oil. All commercial salad oil,
shortening, lard, margarine, if you
want to avoid or reduce high
triglyceride content in your blood. VEGETABLES
 EAT   AVOID
   Each day eat at least 3 kinds of
fresh vegetables purchased in
their natural state as follows:
Celery, carrots, squash, lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, snap beans (green beans), broccoli, turnip, collard or mustard greens,
cucumbers, sweet peppers,
endive, Chinese cabbage, melons
of all kinds, pumpkins, avocadoes
and all other conventional fresh    All canned and frozen
vegetables except in off seasons,
or emergencies when fresh
vegetables are not available. vegetables. The following vegetables are
also allowed, but many persons
suffer allergy and indigestion
from them: Onions, garlic,
spinach, rutabagas, kale, rape, and
tomatoes. FRUITS AND NUTS
 EAT   AVOID
   Any fresh fruits and nuts bought
in their own skins or shells
according to your taste. Examples
are: Apples, pears, bananas,
plums, apricots, peaches, nectarines, figs, grapes, melons of
all kinds, oranges, grapefruit,
avocadoes, cherries, berries of all kinds, and all other conventional
fresh fruits. Pecans, walnuts, almonds,
brazil nuts, filberts, hazelnuts,
peanuts, coconuts, chestnuts, and
all other conventional nuts bought
in their own shells and in good condition with no rancid taste. Canned or frozen fruit, except
when fresh fruits are unavailable. Lemons and limes. BEVERAGES
 DRINK   AVOID
   Drink beverages between meals
only. No fluids with meals, or
soon after meals, not even water or soup. See page 33. Water, milk as earlier described,
tea if you wish, or juice from newly squeezed oranges,
grapefruit, or any other fresh fruit or vegetable you like. Coffee is against you, but a
little fresh-brewed from light-
roast coffee will do the least
harm. Use natural fresh milk or cream in coffee or tea if desired. Honey is a good sweetener for
tea. Don't drink any beverages with
meals. Lemon or lime drinks. Canned or frozen juices except
when fresh fruit is unavailable. DESSERTS, SWEETS, SNACKS
   Special Note: Persons old enough or unwell enough to be on a diet
frequently have diabetes at least in a borderline form, perhaps not
detectable by medical tests. If you feel very tired and achy in the legs or arms a few hours after eating sugar, or if you have rashes or sores
which are slow to heal, you should not eat anything with sugar in it. But you can still eat all the good sweet fresh raw fruit you want. EAT   AVOID
   All fresh fruit and nuts you like
as earlier listed. Let these be your
candy and dessert as far as
possible. As a second choice, not as good
for you: Small servings of ice
cream, custard, pie filling with no
crust, jam, jelly, hard candy, and the like. CAUTION: Diabetics
should avoid these items, which
contain manufactured sugar. Canned and frozen fruit except
when fresh fruit is unavailable. Cakes, pies, cookies, doughnuts,
crackers. Candy with filling, chocolate
and cocoa. Potato flakes, fried pork skins,
and fried snacks of all kinds. SALT, FLAVORING, SPICES, DRESSINGS
   None of these things have any worthwhile nutritional merit, though they are
valuable in making food taste better. So do not feel that you have to use any of them unless you feel the need. Nearly all of them are to at least a slight extent harmful if
used in excess, especially salt, so they should be used in the smallest quantity which
will satisfy your taste. Persons with weak hearts or serious high blood pressure should completely avoid
salt. Those with digestive and intestinal troubles should use no pepper or spices, only a
little salt. A little salt and butter go a long way toward covering flavoring needs. 35. DIET AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
   There is a growing awareness of th e importance of diet among the medical
profession, with consequent increase in the amount of dietary advice given to patients. Doctors and dietitians have quickly recognized that there is nothing radical about the
fresh food diet, and in some respects it is similar to various diets which they have previously been recommending. It is not a fad diet or hazardous in any way, being
basically suitable for persons of all ages past infancy, in the absence of some special
condition for which the doctor may recommend modifications. Physicians are welcoming these findings as a means of helping chronically ill older patients and
retarded children. It is good common sense for persons who feel unwell or consider themselves
unhealthy to seek the care of a kind, sensible M.D. doctor who will take an interest in them and be ready to help them through emergencies which may occur regardless of
diet, as well as give them the advantages of medical observation and treatment. Doctors are urged to carefully observe the progress of persons using the fresh food
diet and to publish any constructive information obtained, for it is only by actual clinical experience that new findings are at last confirmed. 36. FUTURE IMPROVEMENTS IN FOOD SUPPLY
   Many clever and knowledgeable scientists are employed by the various food
manufacturers, and just as recounted in the case of flour these people understand very
well the presence of the deteriorated materials which I have called "fatty rubbish" in
stored foods. However, they have apparently not realized previous to publication of my discovery on September 21, 1967, that these materials cause arteriosclerosis,
previously considering the materials as simply "unavailable" for nutrition. The staling and deterioration of stored food has been the chief concern of food
scientists for many years, and they have developed dozens of chemicals and processes
which are applied to stored foods to preserve them. It is possible that they will be able
to make future improvements in processed foods to make them cause less
arteriosclerosis, now that the cause of this  disease has been disclosed. For example,
five years ago millions of people had fatty  atherosclerotic yellow plaques in their
facial skin and eyelids. After the salad and cooking oil manufacturers were shown by
my feeding experiments that some atherosclerosis was being caused by durable
materials in their oils, the oils were further purified with the result that nowadays the plaques are rarely seen. Sometimes it happens that scientists may be pressed to make statements which serve
the business interests of their employers or sponsors
   rather than the public interest or the extension of true knowledge. Food scientists
know better than anyone else the truth of the conditions disclosed in this book, and have an awesome moral responsibility to their own race to bear themselves honorably
and truthfully as regards this matter. The atherosclerotic condition of the people cannot wholly be laid at the door of the
food processing industries, because the same disease from flour, bacon, ham, sausage,
and so on existed to some extent long before development of the modern food
industry. Rather this condition is simply an extreme stage in the long process of
gradual learning and improvement by which civilization is developing. It is not
desirable to point an accusing finger at anyone, but only that all concerned should
work constructively to improve the condi tion of our people. Knowing the cleverness
of industrial scientists, I would not be surprised to see arteriosclerosis begin to gradually fade away after they have had a decade or so to improve processed foods
based on this new knowledge. Due to the seasonal availability of agricultural products there will always be a
necessity for storing food through the barren seasons. Fresh food for all will hardly
come in our time, but it is hoped that publication of these findings will start a trend
toward increased use and production of fresh foods, and stimulate research in food storage and processing. It should be recognized that an increased appreciation of and demand for fresh farm
produce would foster a revival of the small family farm, open up possibilities for responsible self-employment to the unemployed, and promote a return to the
countryside with consequent dispersal of the urban masses. 37. CRITICISM OF THESE FINDINGS
   These findings have been favorably commented on by a number of eminent
scientists and doctors. Four criticisms have been made as follows:
1. "Why were these findings published now instead of waiting until academic
science can investigate them thoroughly?" Because the people who are sick
now need help now, not ten years or more in the future. Academic scientists
can study the fine details at their pleasure, but meantime the information is
being released so the people can help themselves. Also, book sales will help support further research. 2. "There is not enough fresh food to go around." True, but there is enough to
feed the sick and as the demand gradually increases the farmers and business
interests will keep pace with it. 3. "Food that is stale enough to hurt us has a bad taste so that we wouldn't eat it." False. Food scientists have published extensive reports of