 If you were26 / Your Erroneous Zonestold, at point of gun, that within one year you would have to com-
plete a difficult task, such as running a mile in four minutes and
thirty seconds, or performing a perfect jackknife dive from the high
board, and failure to do so would result in your execution, you
would set out on a regimented schedule in which you would practice
each and every day until your time came to deliver. You would be
training your mind  as well as your body because your mind tells
your body what to do. You would practice, practice, practice, never
yielding to the temptation to quit or slack off. And you would deliv-
er, and consequently save your life.
This little fairy story is, of course, intended to make a point. No
one expects to train his body overnight and yet too many of us expect
our minds to respond with just such alacrity. When we are trying
to learn new mental behavior we expect to try it once, and have it
become a part of us instantaneously.
If you really want to be neurosis-free, self-fulfilled and in control
of your own choices, if you really want to achieve present-moment
happiness, you will need to apply the same kind of rigid application
to the task of unlearning the self-defeating thinking you have learned
up until now that you would give to the learning of any difficult
enterprise.
In order to master this kind of fulfillment, you’ll need to repeat
endlessly that your mind really is your own and that you are capable
of controlling your own feelings. The remainder of this book will be
an effort to help you in your personal goals by having you begin
precisely that repetition of such themes: you can choose, and your
present moments are yours for the enjoying—if you decide to be in
charge of you.TAKING CHARGE OF YOURSELF  / 27II
FIRST LOVE
Self-worth cannot be verified by others. You are
worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on
others for your value it is other-worth.
You may have a social disease, one that will not go away with a
simple injection. You are quite possibly infected with the sepsis of
low-esteem, and the only known cure is a massive dose of self-love.
But perhaps, like many in our society, you’ve grown up with the
idea that loving yourself is wrong. Think of others, society tells us.
Love thy neighbor, the church admonishes. What nobody seems to
remember is love thyself, and yet that is precisely what you’re going
to have to learn to do if you are to achieve present-moment happi-
ness.
You learned as a child that loving yourself, which was a natural
thing for you then, was akin to being selfish or conceited. You learned
to put others ahead of you, to think of others first because that
showed you were a “good” person. You learned self-effacement and
were nurtured on instructions like “share your things with your
cousins.” It didn’t matter that they were
28your treasures, your prized possessions, or that mommy or daddy
might not be sharing their big-people toys with others. You may
even have been told that you were to “be seen and not heard” and
that “you ought to know your place.”
Children just naturally think of themselves as beautiful and terribly
important, but by adolescence society’s messages have taken root.
Self-doubt is in full bloom. And the reinforcements continue as the
years pass. After all, you’re not supposed to go around loving
yourself. What will others think of you!
The hints are subtle and not malicious in intent, but they do keep
the individual in line. From parents and immediate family members
to schools, churches and friends, the child learns all those fine social
amenities that are the hallmarks of the adult world. Kids never acted
that way with each other, except to please older folks. Always say
please and thank you, curtsy, stand up when an adult enters, ask
permission to leave the table, tolerate the endless cheek pinching
and head patting. The message was clear: adults are important; kids
don’t count. Others are significant; you are insignificant. Don’t trust
your own judgment was corollary number one, and there was a full
cargo of reinforcers that came under the subheading of “politeness.”
These rules, disguised under the word manners,  helped you to intern-
alize the judgments of others at the expense of your own values. It’s
not surprising that those same question marks and self-denying
definitions persist into adulthood. And how do these self-doubts
get in the way? In the important area of loving others you may be
having a difficult time. Giving love to others is directly related to
how much love you have for yourself.
Love: A Suggested Definition
Love is a word that has as many definitions as there are people
to define it. Try this one on for size. The ability and willingness to allow
those that you care for to be what they chooseFIRST LOVE  / 29for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.  This may be
a workable definition, but the fact remains that so few are able to
adopt it for themselves. How can you reach the point of being able
to let others be what they choose without insisting they meet your
expectations? Very simple. By loving yourself. By feeling that you
are important, worthy and beautiful. Once you recognize just how
good you are, you won’t have to have others reinforce your value
or values by making their behavior conform to your dictates. If
you’re secure in yourself, you neither want nor need others to be
like you. For one thing, you’re unique. For another, that would rob
them of their own uniqueness, and what you love in them are just
those traits that make them special and separate. It begins to fit. You
get good at loving yourself, and suddenly you’re able to love others,
to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself
first. Then there are no gimmicks to your giving. You’re not doing
it for the thanks or the payoffs but because of the genuine pleasure
you get from being a helper or a lover.
If the you is someone unworthy, or unloved by you, then giving
becomes impossible. How can you give love if you’re worthless?
What would your love be worth? And if you can’t give love, neither
can you receive it. After all what can the love be worth if it’s be-
stowed on a worthless person. The entire business of being in love,
giving and receiving, starts with a self that is totally loved.
Take Noah, a middle-aged man who claimed to love his wife and
children dearly. To show his affections he bought them expensive
gifts, took them on luxurious holidays, and was always careful when
away on business trips to sign his letters “love.” Yet Noah could
never bring himself to tell his wife or children that he loved them.
He had the same problem with his parents of whom he was tremend-
ously fond. Noah wanted to say the words; they ran through his
head repeatedly, yet every time he tried to say “I love you,” he got
all choked up.
In Noah’s head the words “I love you” meant he was putting
himself on the line. If he said “I love you,” someone must an-30 / Your Erroneous Zonesswer “I love you, too, Noah.” His statement of love must be met
with an affirmation of his own self-worth. Saying those words was
taking too much of a chance for Noah, for they might not be
answered and then his entire value would be in question. If, on the
other hand, Noah could start with the premise that he was lovable,
he would experience no difficulty in the “I love you.” If he didn’t
get the desired, “I love you, too, Noah,” then he would see that as
having nothing to do with his own self-worth, since that was intact
before he ever started. Whether or not he was loved in return would
be his wife’s problem, or whomever Noah was loving at the moment.
He might want the other person’s love, but it would not be essential
to his self-worth.
You can challenge all of your self-feelings in terms of your ability
to love yourself. Remember, at no time, under no circumstance is
self-hate healthier than self-love. Even if you have behaved in a way
that you dislike, loathing yourself will only lead to immobilization
and damage. Instead of hating yourself, develop positive feelings.
Learn from the error, and resolve not to repeat it but don’t associate
it with your self-worth.
Here is the guts of both self-and other-directed love. Never confuse
your self-worth (which is a given) with your behavior, or the beha-
vior of others toward you. Once again, it isn’t easy. The messages
of society are overpowering. “You’re a bad boy,” rather than “You’ve
behaved badly.” “Mommy doesn’t like you when you behave that
way” as opposed to “Mommy doesn’t like the way you behave.”
The conclusions that you may have adopted from these messages
are, “She doesn’t like me, I must be a nerd” instead of, “She doesn’t
like me. That’s her


, which isabout twice the risk for adults.
3
 Furthermore, recent experiments on lab rats have shown that
anesthesia, when used while the brain is developing, causes neurodegeneration;
4
 that is, a degradation
of the nerves that can lead to subtle but prolonged changes in behavior, including memory and
learning impairments. I did read one case study of a child who died after dental surgery with general
anesthesia, probably because his body had an allergic reaction to the numerous metal crowns placed
in his mouth.
The horrors of neurodegeneration are above and beyond the emotional shock and pain of the
disassociated feelings caused by the anesthetic. Furthermore, as a result of being so young and
vulnerable, along with the added intoxication from the drugs, children will not understand what is
happening to them. As the young child is being put under anesthesia, they may experience traumatic
separation from their parents. Other emotional traumas may occur during this time when they are
helpless and drugged.
As with the rest of conventional dentistry, the profit motive is a significant factor in diagnosing and
performing surgery with general anesthesia on children. With a fee of $2,000 - $6,000 US dollars per
surgery, pediatric dental surgery is a lucrative business. As a result I recommend people look for
dentists for their children who do not perform full anesthesia surgery.
Surgery with General Anesthesia is not an Effective Treatment
After dental surgery with general anesthesia:

23% of all children require further extractions and restorations.
52% of children have a relapse within 4-6 months.
57% have new cavities in 6-24 months (different study).
5
The statistics show us that surgery under general anesthesia is largely ineffective in curing tooth
decay. This is because it does not address the real cause, the nutrient imbalance in the child’s diet.
Surgery vs. Nutritional HealingAbove: A typical young child's mouth after dental surgery for severe decay. The front four teeth have
been pulled, composite fillings have been placed where decay is less severe, and steel crowns where
decay is more severe.
Below: When tooth decay is arrested the secondary dentin hardens and can turn black. This option is
more humane than surgery.
Toxic Dentistry in Children’s Mouths
Stainless steel jackets placed in children’s mouths contain nickel. Nickel creates a negative electrical
current in the mouth
6
 and is highly toxic to the nervous system. Nickel may be related to arthritis, and
some types of cancer such as lung and breast.
7
 In fact, nickel is used to induce cancer in laboratory
animals.
8Everything you learned from the dentistry chapter applies doubly to children. Children’s developing
immune and detoxification systems have fewer defenses against toxic assaults. Most dental
procedures are toxic to children because of the materials used. Conversely there is no evidence of the
safety of these materials for use in children. Just because a dentist uses certain materials regularly
does not mean that they have been proven to be safe.
There are also other dental treatments on children that you should not allow. Any type of metal
restorations, such as stainless steel crowns or mercury-laden amalgams, has a chance of causing
significant problems to your child’s health. An example of one such case involved a child whom
doctors believed was ill with leukemia but in reality was suffering from heavy metal poisoning due to
the nickel in her stainless steel crowns.
9
 Do not ever put an amalgam or stainless steel in your child’s
mouth.
England’s Dentists say, “No Benefits, no Proof, and no Evidence” to support
ANY dental Treatment on Painless Baby Teeth
The overarching goal for any type of treatment, surgical or nutritional, for your child's cavities is to
keep your child healthy and pain free. But there is no scientific evidence that any drilling, filling,
crown, or root canals performed on a painless baby tooth has any impact on the longevity of the tooth,
or whether the child experiences future pain. Yes, you heard me correctly; as a preventative measure
there is no documented evidence to show any benefits for any dental treatments on baby teeth for tooth
decay.
10
 This finding is only logical since I have shown you how tooth decay is not cured by
dentistry, and that many times dentistry itself renders our teeth in worse shape by the loss of healthy
tooth tissue to the aggressive dental drill.
A meeting of over 50 practicing dentists at the University of Manchester in England in 2009 found that
treating baby teeth with cavities that do not cause pain achieved nothing other than exposing the child
to the drill, and to discomfort.
11
 Further, there was no difference between the amount of pain or
extractions in teeth with or without dental treatments.
12
 This certainly proves that performing dental
treatments on children to prevent tooth pain or infection is an exercise in futility. Such an approach is
not in concert with the intention of keeping your child’s teeth healthy or pain free. This is because the
real cause of cavities is never addressed, and the dental treatment simply hides the problem without
providing protection against cavities.
In a study of 481 children, ages 1-12, it was found that after taking certain factors into consideration,
82% of decayed baby teeth fell out without pain. 18% of children experienced pain in their untreated
teeth. The teeth most likely to cause pain were molars of children showing decay before the age of
three years.
13
 Children who were older and developed cavities in their baby teeth were less likely to
experience pain from the carious teeth.
In a 2003 study of children's tooth decay, published in the
British Dental Journal
, the authors write:
More disturbing perhaps, was the discovery that increased levels of restorative care in children were
not associated with fewer episodes of pain or the need for extraction.
14The authors of this article bring up the essential question:
Do we actually know the best way to care for children with decay in the primary dentition?
15
The purpose of this article was to point out that, in relation to tooth decay, we do not utilize the best
methods for the care of our children. As a result of our cultural ignorance, laziness, and hidden
cruelty, our children have suffered needlessly. The authors continue, regarding children's restorations:
We have no scientifically rigorous comparative data on the prevalence of pain and discomfort and
longer term outcome measures associated with teeth restored with stainless steel crowns and
amalgam.
16
To put it plainly, we have not performed the scientific case studies to prove dental procedures
actually reduce or prevent pain in our children’s baby teeth. A tooth treated with dental fillings may
continue to cause a child mild discomfort or cause even more discomfort than an untreated decayed
tooth.Healing Early Childhood Tooth Decay Naturally
The reason dental surgery does not usually cure dental problems is because modern dental treatments
treat the symptoms of the problem (rotting teeth) but do not treat the root of the problem (diet). Many
dentists offer the preventative treatment of fluoride, but fluoride is a deadly poison and when fluoride
is being placed in our water, our toothpastes, and on our teeth it adds a toxic burden to the body.
Because of their less developed immune systems, children are more susceptible to chemical exposure
than adults. It is risky and unwise to expose your child to fluoride at a young age.
Dental Treatments for Infants’, Toddlers’ and Young Children’s Teeth
Using the dental scientific research from England which has found that dental treatments offer no
preventative help for tooth pain or infections we can develop a good outline on how to deal with
cavities in young children’s teeth. These suggestions are not meant to replace your own personal
desires for your child’s teeth; they are meant to help you find how you really want to take care of your
child’s teeth. For a child who is too young to sit comfortably still to receive a dental treatment, the
treatment paradigm is simple. Consider the very protocol that old school dentists, those who have
been in practice 30 years or longer, have learned to rely upon. Keep a close eye on the decayed baby
teeth with your dentist. If there is an infection, or tooth pain that does not clear up, then consider
pulling the tooth as a last resort treatment. If the tooth is causing pain and can be repaired with a
filling rather than an extraction then a biocompatible filling might be useful in that circumstance if the
child will cooperate with the treatment. Otherwise, consider leaving the teeth as they are, and use
nutrition to prevent tooth pain, cavities, and infections. If you leave decayed teeth as they are, they
will need to be closely monitored.
Dental Treatments on Older Children’s Teeth
With older children who can sit still in a dental chair, you have more treatment options to consider.
Once they are past the age of five or six, the odds of them experiencing tooth pain from tooth decay is
decreased. In this age group, there are some teeth, especially those causing pain, which will benefit
from a biocompatible filling to stop tooth pain. Again your treatment choices are your decision; you
must weigh your specific needs and circumstances and use your own best judgment on how to
proceed.
Why Do Children Have Cavities?
Several months before the conception of your child, the stage for his or her health was set. The diet
and overall health of both the father and the mother-to-be, before conception, was a primary
determinant for the physical health of your child. With our modern deficient diet,


	normal
cellular	function,	thereby	causing	malfunction,	which	is	disease.	Learn
where	toxins	are	found	and	how	you	can	avoid	them.
•	Pathway	3—Psychological	The	body	and	mind	are	inseparably	connected;
they	are	one	and	the	same	thing.	The	way	we	react	to	life	events	and
respond	to	our	thoughts	and	emotions	directly	affect	our	cells.
•	Pathway	4—Physical	Our	cells	and	bodies	need	physical	maintenance,
like	an	automobile.	Do	you	have	enough	exercise,	rest,	sunlight	and	fresh
air?
•	Pathway	5—Genetic	Genes	affect	our	cells,	but	not	nearly	as	much	asmodern	medicine	would	have	us	believe.	Learn	how	to	optimize	your
genetic	potential	and	avoid	genetic	damage.
•	Pathway	6—Medical	Modern	medicine	kills	and	injures	millions	of
people	every	year.	Learn	how	medicine	affects	your	cells,	and	make
educated	decisions	about	which	treatments	you	need	and	which	you	do	not.
All	you	need	to	know	at	any	point	in	time	is	in	which	direction	you	are	going
along	each	of	the	pathways—toward	health	or	disease—and	to	make	corrections.
You	cannot	make	good	choices	along	only	one	or	two	of	the	pathways	and
expect	to	achieve	optimal	health;	this	approach	limits	many	health	plans	and
books,	useful	though	they	may	be.	Many	approaches	are	on	the	right	track,	but
they	do	not	look	at	the	whole	picture.	Making	healthy	choices	with	respect	to	all
six	pathways	is	what	empowers	the	body	to	regulate	and	repair	itself.
That	said,	each	choice	you	make	in	a	positive	direction,	toward	health,	on	any
pathway	at	any	time	will	improve	your	life.	Each	step	toward	health	puts	you
closer	to	your	true	potential	and	further	away	from	the	risk	of	disease	or	illness.
Each	contribution,	no	matter	how	small,	is	still	significant.1
I	A
LMOST
D
IED
“The	next	major	advance	in	the	health	of	the	American
people	will	be	determined	by	what	the	individual	is	willing	to
do	for	himself.”
John	Knowles
former	president,	The	Rockefeller	Foundation
N
ot	too	many	years	ago,	no	one	would	have	been	able	to	convince	me	that	I
would	be	writing	a	definitive	book	about	human	health	and	performance.	I	was
no	health	expert;	in	fact,	I	gave	little	thought	to	the	subject.	I	assumed	I	was
healthy	and	that	I	could	do	little	to	improve	upon	it.	Yet,	here	I	am	today,
devoting	my	life	to	researching	and	improving	health.
Concern	for	our	health	is	something	we	all	have	in	common.	We	all	would
like	to	live	a	high-quality,	disease-free	life,	no	matter	how	long	that	life	may	be.
But	most	of	us	have	no	idea	that	a	disease-free	life	is	possible,	so	our	priorities
become	out	of	whack,	and	we	form	habits	that	jeopardize	our	health.	Then	we
ignore	the	early	signs	of	ill	health	and,	without	knowing	it,	we	lay	the
groundwork	for	disaster.	That	is	exactly	what	I	did.
At	the	height	of	my	former	career,	I	was	president	of	an	international
management	consulting	firm	specializing	in	international	competitiveness,
industrial	quality	and	productivity.	I	was	a	consultant	to	Fortune	500	companies,
the	State	Department,	the	United	Nations	and	to	the	prime	ministers	of	several
foreign	governments.	Life	had	been	good	to	me.
Then	the	early	warning	signs	that	things	were	changing	came	in	1983.	I	began
to	slow	down,	requiring	more	sleep	and	tiring	more	easily.	I	began	to	experience
frequent	allergic	reactions,	including	runny	nose,	itchy	eyes,	sneezing,	heart
palpitations	and	skin	rashes.	I	suffered	muscle	aches	and	joint	pain.	I	felt	as
though	I	was	losing	my	edge,	losing	some	of	the	mental	and	physical	capacity
that	had	allowed	me	to	operate	at	the	highest	levels	of	international	business	and
government.	Life	was	becoming	less	fun	and	more	like	a	chore.
I	brought	these	complaints	to	the	attention	of	my	physician,	a	man	who	the
medical	community	rated	as	“one	of	the	best.”	He	examined	me,	did	many	tests
and	pronounced	me	in	“excellent	health.”	When	I	protested,	saying	I	did	not	feel
like	I	was	in	excellent	health,	he	replied,	“You	are	just	getting	older.”	I	protested
again,	saying	that	in	my	whole	life	I	had	never	felt	this	way	before.	Hecontinued,	“Well,	you	have	never	been	this	old	before.”	I	was	forty-six	years
old.
I	would	later	discover	that	physicians	have	no	protocols	or	established
procedures	for	measuring	early	decline	in	health.	Instead	they	blame	“getting
older”	for	so	many	feelings	of	ill	health,	even	at	ages	when	human	beings	have
the	potential	to	be	in	their	prime	(remember,	I	was	only	forty-six	when	I	began
suffering	from	problems	attributed	to	my	age).	Physicians	consistently	assume
that	the	patient	is	“well”	until	his	or	her	condition	deteriorates	into	symptoms
that	the	doctor	recognizes	as	a	diagnosable	disease.
Over	the	next	year	and	a	half,	my	symptoms	worsened.	My	fatigue	became
more	pronounced;	I	required	ever-increasing	amounts	of	sleep,	and	even	then	I
felt	tired.	The	fatigue	made	it	increasingly	difficult	to	travel,	as	my	job	required.
My	allergic	reactions	were	becoming	more	severe.	I	would	experience	sneezing
fits	so	dramatic	that	I	would	have	to	rest	after	them.	My	heart	palpitations	were
more	frequent	and	pronounced.	I	would	see	colored	rings	around	lights	and	my
vision	would	blur.
I	finally	decided	to	seek	the	assistance	of	an	allergy	specialist.	Little	did	I
realize,	as	I	entered	the	doctor’s	office	that	fateful	morning,	that	it	would	be	the
last	day	of	life	as	I	had	known	it.	The	allergist	administered	a	diagnostic	test
called	an	intradermal	test,	whereby	an	allergen	is	injected	into	the	skin	with	a
hypodermic	needle.	The	procedure	is	much	more	provocative	and	sensitive	than
the	typical	scratch	tests	familiar	to	most	people.	Intradermal	tests	may	identify
allergies	that	might	otherwise	be	missed.	However,	if	someone	is	especially
sensitive	to	an	allergen,	this	type	of	test	can	provoke	a	serious	reaction.	My
doctor	neglected	to	tell	me	that	the	FDA	regularly	receives	reports	of	injuries
and	deaths	from	these	tests.	My	condition	and	the	fact	that	I	was	experiencing
significant	allergic	reactions	at	the	time	should	have	prompted	this	physician	to
be	more	cautious	and	anticipate	that	an	intradermal	test	might	provoke	a	serious
reaction.
It	did.
The	reaction	was	catastrophic,	causing	my	immune	system	to	spin	out	of
control.	During	the	next	week	I	slept	almost	constantly	and	appeared	to	have
aged	about	ten	years.	I	suffered	fatigue	and	disability	unlike	anything	I	had	ever
experienced.


 involuntary convulsive movements;
4) inhibition of spontaneous sound expressions;
5) ejaculation without pulsating squirts;
6) premature ejaculation or continuing sex after ejaculation;
7) lack of complete relaxation and satisfaction after the climax.
As a general rule, we may say that the less the climax is associated with pleasurable streamings and whole body feelings, and the
more it is conﬁned to the sexual area only, the less it is a real orgasm but rather just a low-energy mechanical discharge.
Wilhelm Reich was the ﬁrst to describe the negative consequences of blocked sexual energies and the nature and purpose of the
orgasm as a discharge of excess bio-energy with the additional liberation of feeling energy.
Beyond Orgasm
Unfortunately, in addition to exciting peaks, orgasms tend to produce powerful negative side-ef fects that are only now becoming more
widely recognized. This is due to rigidly controlled hormonal activity which seems to be the same in all mammals to ensure certain
evolutionary objectives. These objec tives are a wide mixing of gene pools and the safe raising of offspring. This is achieved with the
following hormonal changes.
The main hormonal players are dopamine, prolactin and androgen receptor levels, which powerfully affect our mood, our desire for
intimacy, our perception of our mate, as well as our susceptibility to addictive activities and substances. When we are aroused our
dopamine level rises. At a neuroch emical level, falling in love is like taking recreational drugs. At the time of orgasm we have a
dopamine brainstorm that is just like a dose of heroin. Afterwards dopamine levels fall sharply with the usual withdrawal symptoms.
This reaction tends to be immediate in males and delayed in females.
At the same time prolactin levels rise and androgen receptors fall. This disturbed hormone equilibrium lasts up to two weeks for
females but less for males. During this time we may be more irritable, dissatisﬁed, anxious or depressed, and instead of seeing the
good side of our mate, we are now painfully aware of his or her shortcomings. This is exactly the same process and length of time
these hormones need to recover after a cocaine hit.
Initially, during the honeymoon period of our relationship, we quickly overcome our hormonal blues by having more sex. This leads to
rapid rises and falls in dopamine levels and corresponding rapid emotion al ﬂuctuations in our relationship. Later we become less and
less interested in sex with our partner, and now we try to prop up our dopamine level by becoming addicted to some kind of food or
drug, or by becoming interested in a new sexual partner. Basically this type of behavior is the same for humans, primates, mammals
and reptiles because it originates from the primitive part of our brain.
There is, however, a hormone that counteracts the negative effects of the dopamine rollercoaster, and that is oxytocin, the cuddle-
hormone. Oxytocin leads to strong pair-bonding. In pair-bonded animals the dopamine rollercoaster stops after successful mating,
and now oxytocin ensures that both parents cooperate for the survival of their offspring. Humans could do the same, mate only to
produce offspring and then abstain from sex. This might produce an emotionally stable relationship for life, but most of us would also
ﬁnd it utterly boring.
The time-honored solution to this problem is loving sex without orgasm. This greatly increases oxytocin levels without producing
emotionally disruptive dopamine, and it has been practiced in Indian Tantra, by the Taoists, and apparently by early Christians. In
modern times it has been resurrected as Karezza and various forms of spiritual sex. It heals and holds relationships together rather
than driving them apart as frequent  orgasmic sex seems to do, and it also prevents unwanted pregnancies. For more information
see Spiritual Sex. For a wealth of articles on the hormonal aspects of our sexuality see  www.reuniting.info
Note:  Apparently the Reuniting website is under reconstruction at this time (Sept. 2020), but try again at a later date.
SEXUAL  HEALING
Healing our sexuality means freeing up our blocked energy ﬂows and overcoming subconscious negative conditioning by replacing it
with positive feelings and attitudes about our sexuality.10/30/24, 2:57 PM Health-Science-Spirit - Sexuality
https://health-science-spirit.com/Healing_Our_Emotions/Sexuality.html 4/10In order to remove the energy blockages we need to relax our permanently tensed or armoured muscles, especially in the thighs and
the pelvic area, but also in the neck and jaw. Bio-energetic exercises  are excellent for this purpose. These include shaking and
vibrating the legs, the pelvis and the whole body; stretching exercises, circling the hips, pelvic thrusts, kicking and bicycling exercises,
the '5 rites of rejuvenation' and other yoga exercises.
With the moving exercises, such as circling, bicycling and pelvic thrust s the aim is not to train and strengthen these muscles, but
rather to move them to exhaustion,  which in turn will induce relaxation when stopping the exercise. During the exercise we try to
break through the pain threshold and may then be rewarded with previously unknown pleasurable sensations in the pelvic area.
Another aspect is to exhale through the mouth during these exercises and fully express the spontaneously forming sounds, such as
moaning, crying or shouting. Other important measures are deep tissue massage and just pressing into tense muscles, also
reﬂexology can help as well as tracing acupuncture meridians. For some of these, such as pressing into tight muscles, deep muscle
massage as well as various emotion al therapies the cooperation of a friend may be required. Alternatively, professional help may be
used.
A good exercise that can be done anytime, sitting, standing or lying down, is rhythmically squeezing the buttocks. At other times just
squeeze the pelvic ﬂoor between anus and penis or vagina ever so lightly while concentrating your awareness on the developing
pleasurable feeling. The same can be felt during slow walking or even while driving in a car. If you have problems with erections,
rhythmically and strongly squeeze towards the base of the penis.
IMPROVING OUR FEELINGS
Feelings are really what a sexual relationship is all about. The more we are able to feel and express our feelings, the more satisfying
is not only our sexual activity but our life in general. If we are fearful or shy about some aspects of sex, we will be fearful or shy in
other aspects of our life as well. Our sexual feelings reﬂect our emotional health in general and vice versa.
Often our most basic subconscious feeling related to sex is fear. Out of this may arise anger, hate and hostility. All of these negative
feelings remain normally suppressed and subconscious. After all, it was not acceptable to feel this way as a child towards the parents
and it is not acceptable now with a sexual partner.
It would have been easy to have open feelings of fear or hostility towar ds a parent if we had been obviously mistreated. However,
what is a young boy to do if his mother is loving and sacriﬁcing and he has sexual feelings for her. He wants to be cuddled and
touched but the mother is always too busy caring for the family. He has to suppress his longing for caressing tenderness. He may
then come to fear these sexual feelings for his mother because they remain unfulﬁlled and make him unhappy. This may later
translate into a subconscious fear of close emotional contact in a relationship.
On the conscious level we are kind and loving to our partner as we were to our mother or father. However, subconsciously we may
feel the opposite because a man's lower self now equates the sexual memories concerning his mother with his feeling for all sexually
attractive women. In the same way, a woman may equate the memory  of the sexual feelings for her father with her feelings for all
sexually attractive men.
This deep emotional split between our conscious and our subconscious mind will result in an emotional or organic dysfunction. We
may thus develop frigidity or fear of penetration, premature ejaculatio n, impotence, homosexuality and any other form of sexual
disorder. This split explains the observation that 'nice men' are often poor lovers.
In order to heal our split emotions and sexual feelings, we must break through the superﬁcial layer of being nice and contact our
suppressed core feelings. This is not easy but can be done with methods such as emotional release therapies involving intentional
kicking, hitting and screaming, crying or shouting. Even just pressing into tense muscles may produce strong emotional reactions. In
addition, regression therapy or rebirthing will be helpful as well as the services of an experienced psychic healer or bio-energetic
therapist or attending body-mind workshops.
After most of the suppressed emotional pain has been contacted and released, positive attitudes and feelings can be generated with
guided imagery, meditation, creative refocussing and other methods to heal the emotional wound. An understanding partner will
greatly speed up this process. If, on the other hand, we just use meditation and other methods to generate positive feelings without
releasing the suppressed core, then we will reinforce the superﬁcial layer of 'niceness'. This, in turn may then intensify our inner
emotional split and, with this, our organic disabilities and sexual dysfunctions.
This also shows how to raise our children without this emotional split. We must be loving, honest and open with our sexual feelings
and fulﬁl the child's emotional needs  appropriate to its age. The baby needs plenty of body contact, including sleeping in


 upon these yantras. Also various symbols can be
used.
Deities and Psychology
Modem psychology tends to look upon the worship of
deities as primitive or psychologically naive, but it is actu-
ally the product of a profound spiritual psychology. Deities
can energize the great archetypes and cosmic forces within
our own psyche, which alone have power over the deeper
levels of our consciousness, both instinctual and intuitive.
Yogic deities are personifications of the great forces of
consciousness which have both psychological and cosmic
counterparts. The use of wrathful deities can help us over-
come anger and negative emotions, whether our own or
those of others. The use of benefic or peaceful deities can
help calm our minds, promote contentment and awaken
our deeper spiritual and creative powers.
Hinduism employs various deities who represent the
different powers of the cosmic mind. For dealing with psy-
chological disorders in general, the main deity in Ayurve-
da is Lord Shiva, who is the personification of the Supreme
Divinity (Mahadeva). Shiva means peace and his worship
grants peace of mind. Shiva has the power to control all the
negative forces in the mind and mles over all the elemen-
tal forces and shadows from the past that can disturb us.
He can neutralize all negativity. We can worship him
through repeating his mantra:
Om Nam ah Shivaya! Om, Reverence to Shiva! Spiritual Therapies
We can simply repeat the name Shiva over and over
again. Or we can simply repeat his seed mantra SHAM,
which is the root sound of peace.
For dealing with anger, we can propitiate Lord Shiva in
his form as Rudra, who controls Divine wrath. For dealing
with fear, we can worship the Goddess Kali who delivers
us from time and death, which is what we fear the most.
For dealing with attachment, we can meditate upon the
Goddess Lakshmi, who holds all beneficence as the fruit of
devotion. For love and joy we can propitiate Lord Krishna,
who is the embodiment of Divine love and bliss. To devel-
op fearlessness, we can honor Lord Rama, who represents
Divine fearlessness.
Ganesha, the elephant-faced God, grants powers of
steady intelligence, calm thinking and right judgment.
He helps develop our intelligence (Buddhi) in the proper
way. Hanuman, the monkey God and devotee of Rama,
grants us the power of the higher life-force (Prana) that
elevates the mind and increases our devotion. All the
deities of Hinduism have their psychological usage. These
are only a few examples to provide an idea of their psycho-
logical application.72
Buddhism, particularly Tibetan Buddhism, has similar
deities called Bodhisattvas.'3 The deities of many other
ancient religions, like the ancient Greek, Egyptian and
Babylonian, were used in a similar manner. For example,
the Greek Apollo, like the Vedic Sun God, was wor-
shipped to develop powers of intelligence, creativity and
enlightenment. This is a complex subject in its own right
and its importance should not be underestimated. Ayurveda and the Mind
Formless Devotion
Some people are not attracted to any form to worship
and prefer to worship the Divine as formless. One way to
do this is to use a relationship with the God as father,
mother, beloved or lord but without any form for it. While
devotion may not require form, it is impossible without a
relationship with the Divine. It also usually requires the
use of various Divine names or mantras.
Another way to develop formless devotion is to revere
Divine qualities like truth, love, peace, and contentment.
These can be meditated upon or turned into Divine names.
Whatever qualities in life we honor, those we create in our-
selves.
Generally it is best to combine both form-oriented and
formless devotion together because the two are comple-
mentary. To see the formless in form is the highest way,
which is to see God in Nature and in humanity. Those who
are devoted to God in a particular form must learn to see
that Divinity in all forms. Those who are devoted to the
formless Divine must also see the world in God.
Developing Compassion
Most of our personal problems disappear if we consider
the greater problems of the world. Actually, none of us has
any personal problems. We have only our own personal
form of the human problem, which is ultimately the prob-
lem of the separate self. There are various practices we can
do to develop compassion.
Do daily prayers or chants for world peace and the
alleviation of suffering for all creatures, such as:
"May all beings be happy. May all beings be peace-
ful. May all beings be free of disease. May no crea-
ture suffer any pain." Spiritual Therapies
Be engaged in or contribute to some service venture,
which may be educational, healing, political, or eco-
logical.
Devotion and the Mind
Highly intellectual people often do not like devotion,
which they look upon as a form of emotional weakness.
However, devotion is the very sap that vitalizes the mind.
If we are not devoted to anything, then the mind will be
dry, empty and self-destructive. Even if we are very wise or
intelligent, devotion is essential. To use a metaphor, the
mind is like a wick, knowledge is the flame, but devotion
is the oil that feeds the wick. Without devotion, knowl-
edge, even spiritual knowledge, will simply bum up the
mind.
Self-knowledge
Tme psychology, or knowledge of the psyche, means to
know one's Self. But who are we? Are we merely this body,
this mind, the creature of this particular birth? Is knowing
ourselves knowing the particularities of our body chem-
istry, the pattern of our memories, our social conditioning,
or something yet deeper?
All psychology is an attempt to know who we really
are, but different systems of psychology have very different
conceptions of the self. Most accept the validity of the ego
— the I-am-the-body identity of this particular birth —
as our tme Self. Ayurveda looks far beyond this to our
identity in changeless awareness that transcends both body
and mind.
Self-knowledge means understanding the full extent of
our being. This is not only the physical self but the men-
tal self and the individual soul which persists from birth to Ayurveda and the Mind
birth. True Self-knowledge means coming into contact
with our soul's purpose in incarnation. What is our soul
seeking to accomplish in this life to help it along its jour-
ney toward Divinity?
Self-knowledge implies cosmic knowledge. We func-
tion through the great forces of Nature, which are also
powers of our own deeper awareness. To know ourselves is
to know the universe, not as a physical phenomenon but as
a play of consciousness. All that we see, from beautiful
mountains to criminal deeds, is an aspect of ourselves.
Unless we understand these within ourselves, then we
must remain ignorant of who we really are.
Self-knowledge is the highest form of knowledge. It is
the basis of all other forms of knowledge. It is the one
thing through which everything else is known. To discov-
er it we must take the mind back to its origin and reedu-
cate it to see the world not as an external reality but as an
internal revelation. The outer world exists for inner expe-
rience and Self-knowledge. When we approach anything
in Nature directly, with a clear mind, we find that on the
deepest level it is intrinsically one with our own con-
sciousness. We see ourselves in Nature and Nature in our-
selves. This is the revelation of our greater Self.
Developing Self-Knowledge
To develop Self-knowledge we must learn to observe
ourselves, which requires meditation. We must not accept
the conditioned ego idea of who we are but dive deep into
the mind and see how we are connected to all existence.
We must trace our sense of self, the I-am, back to its ori-
gin in the spiritual heart. We must learn who we are, not
merely what our name or job is, but the nature of our
awareness freed from all external conditioning factors. Spiritual Therapies
Thought always consists of two parts: the "I" and what
it is identified with, such as "I am this" or "this is mine."
The subject, or "I," is connected or identified with an
object. All our problems come from the object portion,
which is bound by time and space. We have a problem
with being this or that, or getting this or that, but we do
not have a problem in being. Being is not difficult for any-
one. It is the given, the Self-existent. It is in the being
something or another where problems arise.74
To return to the pure "I am" is the root of all peace and
happiness. Psychology should help us understand the
outer layers of our being, our physical, vital and mental
urges, not to trap us within them, but to


 and put the mixture on
top of the apples. Smooth the top and bake at i50°C (3oo°F) for 40-50
minutes. Cake Pinocchio
2 cups of shelled hazelnuts
1 cup of honey (250ml)
4 eggs
50g unsalted butter, preferably organic
4 tangerines to decorate
Preheat the oven to 175-200°C (350-400°F).
Roast the hazelnuts in the oven and rub their skins off. Reserve 1 cup of
the nuts for the cream and grind the rest into a coarse flour.
Make 4 circles out of baking paper large enough to fit on a large cake
dish and grease them with butter. Separate the whites of the eggs from
the yolks. Whip the egg whites stiff with half of the honey. Carefully fold
in the ground hazelnuts. Spread the mixture on the four baking paper
circles and bake for 5-10 minutes. Cool down and remove the baking
paper.
Cream.  Soften the butter by leaving it in the room for a few hours. Whip
the 4 egg yolks with the rest of the honey until they increase in volume and
become pale whitish in colour. Beat in the butter gradually, adding it in
small amounts.
Coarsely chop the rest of the hazelnuts, reserving 10-15 whole nuts for
decorating.
Layer the meringue circles with the cream, sprinkling every cream layer
with the coarsely chopped hazelnuts. Cover the top with a thin layer of the
cream. Peal the tangerines and separate them into segments. Decorate the
top with the segments of tangerines and the 10-15 whole hazelnuts.
Refrigerate.
Peanut butter pie
6 eggs
2 tablespoons of butter
1 cup of peanut butter
2 cups of carrot pulp left after juicing carrots (you can use winter squash as a
substitute, peelit and chop very finely)
'ls cup of honey
1 cup of ground almonds
2 large cooking apples
a handful of raisins Peel the apples, cut them into small pieces and place them into a greased
baking dish. Sprinkle the raisins on top of the apples.
In a blender put the rest of the ingredients and blend well. Put the mixture
on top of the apples. Smooth the top and bake at 150°C for 40-50 minutes.
Russian custard
for one person:
2 eggyolks
%-i teaspoon of honey
multiply the ingredients for the number of people to be served.
Russian Custard can be used instead of cream on fruit or you can serve it
on its own with some chopped nuts on the top or pieces of fruit. It can also
be used instead of cream in making cakes. Separate the eggyolks from the
whites, add the honey and whip the mixture until it goes thick and almost
white. As well as being a delicious desert, it provides very good nutrition.
Get your eggs from a source you trust. Free range organic eggs are the best.
Apple sauce
5-6 large cooking apples
72 cup butter
1-2 cups water
1-2 cups honey
Peel and core the apples, cut them into pieces and cook in a pan with the
water until soft. Take off the heat and add butter. Cool down, mash and
sweeten with honey.
You can make pear sauce the same way though you may not need to add
honey, as pears are naturally very sweet.
This sauce will keep well in the refrigerator and can be served with some
yoghurt, chopped nuts, Russian custard or on its own.
Birthday cake
Make an apple sauce from 5-6 large cooking apples and cool it down. Make
it quite sweet as the pastry of the cake is not going to be sweetened. You can
make a pear sauce instead of apple.
Separate yolks and whites of 6 eggs into two large bowls. Whip the yolks
until thick and light in colour. Whip the whites until firm and no longer runny. Combine the two and add 2 cups of ground almonds. Mix well. Bake
in a cake tin lined with greased baking paper for 40 minutes to 1 hour at a
temperature of 150°C (300°F). Test with a dry knife whether it is cooked
inside (the knife will come out dry if the cake is ready). Depending on the
oven the baking time may vary. When ready allow the cake to cool down.
Now the fun part starts. With a long knife cut off the top of the cake
making sure that this layer is no more than 1 cm thick. Put it aside for using
as the top of your cake later. Using a table spoon carefully spoon out the
inside of the cake in medium sized chunks into a separate dish leaving just
an outside shell, which will look like a dish ready to be filled. Fill it up with
layers of your apple sauce (or pear sauce), frozen raspberries, chopped
nuts and chunks of cake, which you spooned out before. Here you can
really improvise by using different berries, stoned cherries, pieces of soft
fresh fruit, chopped nuts and seeds (sesame, poppy, and sunflower). When
the "cake dish" is filled, cover it with the top layer you removed earlier.
Spread the remaining apple sauce on and decorate. To decorate you can
use fresh fruit, berries, nuts and desiccated coconut. After decorating is
done, put the cake into the refrigerator. It is best to make this cake the day
before the party so it has the time to "mature" over night.
This is the basic recipe. You can improvise by adding seeds, chopped nuts,
grated carrot or pumpkin into the pastry before baking, filling it with different
combinations of fruit and berries, and decorating it any way you like.
Children like to be involved in decorating. Any of the decorating ingredients,
which I have mentioned before, are optional depending on your family's sen
sitivities. These are fruit, berries, nuts, seeds, fresh mint leaves and coconut.
Ice-cream
Buy in advance some very ripe bananas (with brown spots on the skin),
peal them and put in the freezer. On a day when you want to make the ice
cream, get these frozen bananas out and leave them in the room for about
30 minutes to slightly defrost. Blend them in a food processor. Add a little
bit of water to make a good creamy consistency. You can blend in some
fresh or frozen berries, pieces of fruit, desiccated or fresh coconut to the
mixture and some coarsely chopped nuts to make different flavours.
Fresh coconut
When you are buying a coconut, make sure that the shell has no cracks or
any other damage to it. Put the nut close to your ear and shake it. If the coconut is healthy, you will hear its juice splashing inside. When a coconut
is damaged and its juice has leaked out, then it will be rancid and unsuit
able to eat.
When you bring your coconut home, the fun bit starts. You will need a
screwdriver and a hammer. At the top of the coconut there are three round
dots. Push your screwdriver through 2 of those dots to make 2 holes. Drain
the juice through one of the holes allowing the air to get inside through the
other hole. The juice is very nourishing and can be used in cooking or
drunk as it is. It should have a fresh sweet taste. If the juice tastes rancid,
then there is no point in cracking your coconut, it will be unsuitable to eat.
After draining the juice crack the shell with the hammer and separate the
pulp from the shell. Rinse the pulp with the water to wash off any small bits
of shell. There are number of ways to eat it:
• Cut the pulp into small pieces and eat it as it is. It has a very pleasant
sweet taste.
• Grind it in your food processor to make sweets (next recipe).
• Put the pulp through your juicer to produce a thick coconut cream,
which can be diluted with water to make a delicious coconut milk. The
cream and milk can be added to your cooking, used as a dressing for
fruit and vegetable salads, as a cream for cakes or a replacement for
custard.
• Mince the coconut pulp to use in your baking, home made ice-cream
and other desserts, soups, stews, salads and sauces.
A word of caution for children and adults with diarrhoea. Coconut is
very fibrous and may make the diarrhoea worse, so initially I suggest
putting the coconut through a juicer, which would separate the fibre from
the rest of it. This way you can enjoy the freshly made coconut milk and
cream, getting all the good nutrition from them without the fibre.
Coconut sweets
1 medium-size coconut
1 cup of dried fruit (can be any of the following: dried apricots, figs,
dates or raisins, or a mixture of them. Make sure they are not
sorbated or coated in starch)
1 cup of sesame seeds or ground almonds
Soak the dried fruit for 6-8 hours. Drain. Make two holes in the coconut and drain the liquid. Put the liquid
through a fine sieve and reserve for the recipe.
Shell the coconut and rinse the pulp to wash away small bits of shell. Cut


ervesofthesickarealwaysinthestatethatyoursarein
afteryouhavebeenupallnight.
Wewillsupposethedietofthesicktobec.aredfor.Then,
thisstateofnervesismostfrequentlytobeI'elievedbycarein
atlbrdingthemapleasantview,avarietyofflowers,audpretty
things.Lightbyitselfwilloftenrelieveit.Thecravingfor“the
returnofday,”whichthesicksoconstantlyshow,isgenerally
nothingbutthedesireforlight,forthereliefwhichavarietyof
objectsbeforetheeyeaffordstotheharassedsickmind.
Again,everymanandeverywomanhassomeamountofw'ork
withthehands,excejitingafewfineladies,whodonotevendress
themselves,andwhoarereally,astonerves,verylikethesick.
Now,youcanhavenoideaofthereliefwhiehsuchmanual
l.abouristoyou—ofthedegreewhichthebeingwithoutitin-
creasesthepeculiarirritabilityfromwhichmanyinvalidssuffer.
Alittleneedlework,alittlewriting,alittlecleaning,w'ould
bethegreatestreliefthesickcouldhave,iftheycoulddoit;
thesearethegreatestrelieftoyou,thoughyoudonotkuowit.
Eeading,thoughitisoftentheonlythingthesickcando,isnot
thisrelief.Bearingthisinmind,bearinginmindthatyouhave
allthesevarietiesofemploymentwhichthesickcannothave,
bearalsoinmindtoobtainforthemallthevarietieswhichthey
canenjoy.
Ineedhardlysay,thattoomuchneedlework,orwriting,orany
othercontinuedemployment,willproducethesameii-ritability
thattoolittleproducesinthesick.
VI.—TAKINGFOOD.
Evertcarefulobserverofthesickwillagreeinthis,that
thousandsofpatientsareannuallystarvedinthemidstofplenty,
,fromwantofattentiontothewayswhichalonemakeitpossible
forthemtotakefood.Thiswantofattentionisasremarkable
54 NOTESONNURSIHO.
inthosewlioxirgeuponthesicktodowliatisquiteiin]iossil)leto
them,asinthesicktliemselves,whowillnotmaketheelFoitto
takewhatisperfectlypossibletothem.
Forinstiincc,tomostveryweakpatientsitisquiteimpossible
totakeanysolidfoodbefore11a.m.,northen,iftheirstrength
isstillfurtherexhaustedbyfastingtillthathour.Forweak
patientshavegenerallyfeverishnightsand,inthemorning,dry
mouths;and,iftheycoulde<atwiththosedrymouths,itwould
bethewoi-seforthem.Aspoonfulofbeef-tea,ofarrowrootand
wine,ofegg-flip,everyhour,willgivethemtherequisitenourish-
ment,andpreventthemfrombeingtoomuchexhaustedtotake
atalaterhourthesolidfoodwhichisnecessaryfortheirrecovery.
Andeverypatientwhocanswallow<atallcanswallowtheseliquid
things,ifhechooses.Buthowoftendowehearamutton-chop,
anegg,abitofbacon,orderedtoa]>atientforbreakfast,towhom
(<asamoment’sconsiderationwouldshowus)itmustbequite
impossibletotakesuchthingsatthathour.
Again,anurseisorderedtogiveapatientateacupfulofsome
articleoffoodeverythreehoure.Thepatient’sstomachrejects
it.Ifso,tryabiblespoonfuleveryhour;ifthiswillnotdo,a
teiispoonfuleveryquarterofanhour.
Morepatientsarelostbywantofcareandingenuityinthese
thingsinprivatenursingthanini)ublichospitals.Andthereis
moreofmakingcommoncausetoassistoneanother’shands
betweenthedoctorandhisheadnurseinthehospibUthanbe-
tweenthedoctorandthepatient’sfriendsintheprivatehouse.
Ifwedidbutknowtheconsequenceswhichmayensue,invery
weakpatients,fromtenminutes’fastingorre])letion(Icallit
rejiletionwhentheyareobligedtoleavetoosmallaninterval
betweentakingfoodandsomeotherexertion,owingtothenurse’s
unpunctuality),weshouldbemorecarefulnevertoletthisoccur.
Inveryweakpatientsthereisoftenanervousdifficultyofswallow-
ing,whichissomuchincreasedbyanyothercallupontheir
strengththat,unlesstheyhavetheirfoodpunctuallyatthe
minute,whichminuteagainmustbearrangedsoastofallinwith
nootherminute’soccupation,theycantakenothingtillthenext
respiteoccurs—sothatanunpunctualityordelayoftenminutes
mayverywellturnouttobeoneoftwoorthreehours.And
whyisitnotiise;isytobepunctualtoaminute1Lifeoften
literallyhangsupontheseminutes.
Inacutecasesv/herelifeordeathistobedeterminedinafew
TAKINGFOOD. 66
hours,thesemattersareverygenerallyattendedto,especiallyin
hospitals;andthenumberofcasesislargewhei-ethepatientis,
asitwere,broughtbacktolifebyexceedingcareonthepartof
thedoctorornurse,orboth,inorderingandgivingnourishment
withexactpunctualityandchoice.
But,inchroniccases,lastingovermonthsandyears,where
deathisoftendeterminedatlastbymereprotractedstaiwation,I
hadrathernottelltheinstanceswhichIhaveknownwherea
littleingenuity,andagreatdealofperseverance,might,inall
probability,haveavertedtheresult.Theconsultingthehours
whenthepatientwintakefood,theobservationofthetimes,often
varying,whenheismostfaint,thealteringseasonsoftaking
food,inordertopreventsuchtimes—allthis,whichrequires
observation,ingenuity,andperseverance(andthesereallyconsti-
tutethegoodnurse),mightsavemorelivesthanwewotof.*
Toleavethepatient’suntastedfoodbyhisside,frommealto
meal,inhopesthathewilleatitintheinterval,issimplytopre-
venthimfromtakinganyfoodatall.Patientshavebeenliterally
madeiiic.apableoftakingonearticleoffoodafteranother,bythis
pieceofignorance.Letthefoodcomeattherighttime,andbe
takenaway,eatenoruneaten,attherighttime;butneverleta
patienthave“somethingalwaysstanding”byhim,ifyoudon’t
wishtodisgusthimofeverything.
Ontlieotherhand,apoorwoman’slifehasbeensaved(shewas
sinkingforwantoffood)bythesimplequestionputtoherbythe
doctor,“Butistherenohourwhenyoufeelyoucouldeat?”
"Oh,yes,”shesaid,“1couldalwaystakesomethingat—o’clock,
and—o’clock.”Thethingwastriedandsucceeded.Patients
veryseldom,however,cantellthis;itisforyoutowatchandfind
itout.
Apatientshould,ifpossible,notseeorsmelleitherthefoodof
others,oragreateramountoffoodthanhehimselfcanconsume
atonetime,orevenhearfoodtalkedaboutorseeitintheraw
state.Tknowofnoexceptiontotheaboverule.Thebrealting
ofitalwaysbringsonmoreorlessdislilcetotakingfood.
Inhospitalw.ardsitisofcourseimpossibletoobserveallthisjandinrooms,whei'eapatientmustbecloselywatched,itis
*Note.Exhaustionfromahalf-starvation isoneofthemostfrequentcausesof
lossofsleep.Manyapatientwillsleepexactlyinproportionashecaneat.Anyonewhohasseenafaminewillrememhertheconstantcry,•'Wecannotsleep;”and
“sleepseemstheonlythinewhichwoulddousanygood.”Andtlieconstantetyto
tfcpdoctorio.“Giveussomethingtomakeussleep."
56 NOTESONKURSINO.
oftenimpossibletorelievetlienurse,sothatherownmealseau
betakenoutoftheroom.Butitisnotthelesstruethat,in
suchcases,evenwherethepatientisnothimselfawareofit,he
ispreventedfromtakingfoodbyseeingthenurseeatingher
meals.Insomecasesthesickareawareofitandcomplain.A
poorw'oman,supposedtobeinsensible,whocomplainedofitto
meassoonasabletospeak,isnowinmymind.
Remember,however,thattheextremepunctualityinwell-
orderedho.spitals,therulethatnothingshallbedoneinthewani
while


 hold about them. As we become more intuitive, we will
laugh at our former naïveté. And, if we research further into the world of
psychics and parapsychology, we will discover that thoughts and feelings
can be read by expert psychics, even from the other side of the globe.
The only way to get over this initial paranoia is to clean up our own
act. Finding out what needs to be cleaned up is simple and easy. Just look at
what you would not want others to know about you and begin to surrender
it!
W ith observation, it is quite clear that these intensely negative feelings
reverberate and boomerang back to us, and profoundly af fect our
relationships. The other person merely mirrors back what we are projecting
onto them. People who carry a lot of hatred find that they are living in a
hateful world and that lots of people hate them. They see external situations
and the world as hateful. What they fail to see is that this entire situation is
self-created.
W e have the secret hope that our angry feelings towards others will
punish and make them suf fer. Actually, we are just providing them with
justification to hate us back. W e have to live with the fear of their retaliation
and our own unconscious guilt, which often results in physical sickness. It
will be discovered that all of our anger and resentment are due to our
perception, that is, to the way in which we are viewing a given situation.
When the inner feelings are relinquished, the way in which we see thesituation changes, and we are often surprised by the abruptness with which
feelings of for giveness suddenly arise and the relationship becomes
transformed, even though on the external level we did or said nothing to
express this inner change.
This happens with great frequency when our intention is to overcome
our resentments. A Course in Miracles  is based on that precise process of
changing our view of a situation by the willingness to see it dif ferently and
to be for giving. This is what was meant by Jesus Christ when he spoke of
the miraculous power of for giveness.
Interestingly enough, there is a scientific basis for Jesus Christ’ s
admonition to bless and love our enemies. On the level of ener gy, the lower
feelings have a lower vibration frequency and lower power. When we are in
lower ener gy state such as anger, hate, violence, guilt, jealousy or any other
negative feelings, we are psychically vulnerable to the other person. In
contrast, for giveness, gratitude, and loving-kindness have a much higher
ener gy vibration and much greater power. When we shift out of a lower to a
higher ener gy pattern, we create a protective shield on the ener getic level,
as it were, and we can no longer be psychically vulnerable to that other
person. When we are in a state of anger, for instance, we are vulnerable to
the ener gy depletion brought about by the other person’ s counter -anger.
Paradoxically, if we really want to af fect other people, then we ought to
really love them. Then, their anger at us will boomerang back upon them
with no ef fect upon us! This was the wisdom of the Buddha’ s statement in
the Dhammapada, “Hate is not conquered by hate. Hate is conquered by
love. This is an eternal law.”
Guilt
The next “heavy” area of negativity is guilt. Here the underlying purpose is
to placate, to assuage, to escape punishment by self-punishment, and to
elicit for giveness. The most important of these is the wish to elicit
punishment from another person, combined with self-punishment. This is
not a conscious wish; nevertheless, it is the unconscious purpose of guilt.
W ith a little investigation, this can easily be verified. The next time we are
feeling guilty about something particular regarding another person, watch
what happens in the next encounter. Almost inevitably, they will bring up
the very thing we are holding in mind. For instance, if we are feeling guilty
because of lateness to an appointment, that guilt will frequently elicit acritical response from the other person. By the holding of guilt, we bring on
to ourselves all the criticalness of others and their belittlement of us; our
low self-esteem is channeled back to us through others in the form of their
invalidation of our life.
If we hold in mind that we are small and unworthy, we elicit those
kinds of responses from others, whose remarks tend to indicate that we are
small and unworthy. If we think we are only worth a crust of bread, then
that is what we will get. This is what the scriptures mean by the statement,
“The poor get poorer and the rich get richer.” Poverty on any level, not just
financial, comes from inner poverty, just as outer wealth comes from inner
wealth. If we want others to stop being critical of us and attacking us, the
answer is to begin letting go of guilt and all the feelings that have brought it
about.
T o help clarify the role of emotions in interpersonal relationships, a
very quick way of learning is to presume that the other person is conscious
and aware of our inner thoughts and feelings. By doing this, we will not be
far from wrong, for they are indeed intuitively aware of our thoughts and
feelings, even if they are not consciously aware at a given moment. They
will respond to us as if they knew our inner feelings. The overall
r elationship will behave as though the other person wer e awar e of our inner
feelings.  If we are still holding the fantasy that other people do not know
our thoughts and feelings, just notice that dogs quickly do! Do we really
think that the human psyche is inferior to that of a dog? If a dog can quickly
read our total inner attitude, we can be sure that the intuition of people
around us is picking up the same vibration.
Apathy and Grief
The feelings of apathy, grief, depression, sorrow, self-pity, the blues,
hopelessness, and helplessness come from the inner program of “I can’ t.”
Their purpose is to elicit sympathy, to win back, to gain support, to make
others sorry, and to summon help. What is the ef fect of these feelings on
another person? Although there may be an initial attempt to help, eventually
this is replaced by pity and finally avoidance. Why avoidance? The
avoidance is because of the huge ener gy demand that we are making on the
other person. It is an attempt to drain them by throwing ourselves on their
doorstep. This results in the common saying, which sounds hard-hearted butis unfortunately so often true: “When you laugh, the world laughs with you;
but when you cry, you cry alone.”
Constant grief will drive others away. They begin to resent it unless
they are in a very high place themselves and capable of ef fortless
compassion. Chronic grief brings premature aging, a tiredness and
weariness about the person, and it can only be overcome when we have the
courage to allow it to come up under appropriate conditions and have the
willingness to surrender to it and let it go.
Fear
The feelings of fear—whether tension and anxiety, shyness, self-
consciousness, caution, holding back, or distrust—have the purpose of
escape from the imagined threat, and to put psychological distance from the
feared situation or person. Paradoxically, as we have pointed out before,
because the fear is powerful, the very process of holding it in mind can
make that which is feared come into our life. It is like a self-fulfilling
prophecy. The ener gy of fear generates an inner focus on all the negative
things that could happen, and that focus can coalesce the appearance of the
very events that we fear the most.
Fear in relationships, therefore, is giving away our power to another
person and enabling them to do the very thing that is feared. The way out is
to look at the worst possible scenario and look at the feelings they arouse
and begin to relinquish them. Like other emotions, fear can be unraveled to
its component parts, and the parts are then easily relinquished. For instance,
let’ s say that there is fear of critical attack. W e ask ourselves, “What is the
worst possible scenario?” W ith this question, we see that the basis of the
fear is pride. When the pride is recognized and relinquished, the fear
automatically dissolves. Again, in a relationship in which we are
experiencing fear, if we unravel the fear, we may find that it is really a fear
of discovery of our inner anger; the fear is that the other person will
retaliate against the anger. Again, when we relinquish the anger, the fear
will automatically disappear.
The insecure person is fearful and prone to jealousy, clinging,
possessiveness, and attachment in relationships, an approach that always
brings frustration. The purpose of these feelings is to bind and tightly
possess the other, to achieve security by preventing loss and, at times, to
punish the other for our own fear of loss. Again, these attitudes tend tobring into manifestation the very thing that we are holding in mind. The
other person, now feeling pressured by our ener gy of dependency and
possessiveness, has an inner impulse to run for freedom, to withdraw, to
detach and do the very thing that we


 the soul isautomatic. Everything you want to achieve will appear as a natural unfolding.When you meet with day-to-day obstacles, you have put up inner obstacles ﬁrst. These obstacles block the ﬂow of life from soul to mind to body. If the ﬂow weren’t blocked, it would bring everything the soul hasto offer.The soul offers an open channel to new knowledge in the same way. If you ask for the truth aboutsomething, the truth dawns. If you ask for the solution to a problem, the solution appears.If any channel in awareness is closed off, it has been blocked. The trap is that so much of this blockagehappens without being noticed. We have all adapted to “life is difﬁcult” because we saw no alternative.Like plaque building up on artery walls until the whole blood vessel is clogged, the buildup of struggle andstrain happens by tiny degrees.Only in innocence can you receive the gifts of the soul. Once you accept that you are supposed to struggle in order to survive, that presumption becomes your reality. It gathers its own energy and momentum. Your brain quickly learns to conform. Once your brain is conditioned, the look, feel, and sound of the world have been ﬁxed – until you escape that conditioning.By tuning in to the soul, you can increase its awareness. Tuning in is also how you clear a channel to thesoul. You are tuning in to your soul any time you choose to grow and expand. On the other hand, when you tune out, the soul connection is blocked. Anytime you choose to contract in your awareness, the channel to your soul is squeezed shut. Everyone experiences both states.When you are tuned in to your soul, life ﬂows easily. Things are calm, clear and open to all possibilities.When you are tuned out life is confused, conﬂicted and empty.To tune in to your soul, you must participate in this process of puriﬁcation. People have lost their ability todo that, however. Then, it was only natural that the soul started to seem abstract, remote, wispy, and aloof.People have to go through a process of reﬁning before God will be real in their lives.For the mind to be perfectly clear and present in the moment, with no obstacles and blockages, the brainmust change. Being part of the body, your brain has its own healing mechanisms. But old conditioning,once it gets imprinted in your brain. From your soul’s perspective, these imprints are all subject to change.Moments of realization occur, and then the brain adapts.The phenomenon of mirror neurons shows us that the brain can be changed through vicarious experience as well as direct experience. This could be how the soul learns from exposure to saints and others in higher states of consciousness. Higher consciousness is a ﬁeld, like electricity or magnetism, and when a person comes into contact with that ﬁeld, the brain mirrors the ﬁeld.QUIZ: Are You More Tuned In or Tuned Out of Your Soul?Take this short quiz to get an idea of how connected (or disconnected) you are with the inﬁnitude that isyour soul. Simply taking the time to think about the answer will already make you more aware of the nextsteps you need to begin to take.3 – This is me almost all the time2 – This is me some of the time1 - This is me a little of the timeTUNED IN_ Things are going easily for me._ I’m calmly certain._ The answer is clear._ Everything ﬁts together._ I feel in harmony with the situation._ There are no outer obstacles._ Opposites are reconciled._ I’m open to any possibility._ I don’t judge myself or others._ I am whole.__ TOTAL POINTSTUNED OUT_Things aren’t going smoothly for me._ I’m confused and uncertain_ The answer isn’t clear. I go back and forth._ Everything is mixed up._ I feel out of synch with the situation._ There are many obstacles._ I’m conﬂicted inside._ I ﬁnd it hard to see a way out._ I keep blaming myself and others._ I feel incomplete. I must be lacking something.__ TOTAL POINTS
 EXERCISES FOR LESSON 91. Take the time today to observe how your body feels when your ego manifests itself strongly. Whatego-centered emotion is holding you back the most from fully experiencing life? How do you feel whenyour body is blocked by the motives of your ego? What do you think you need to do to bring moreawareness into your body? 2. Journal about your biggest internal obstacle, and be as speciﬁc as possible. Is it the idea that you arenot good enough? Or the idea that people inherently don't like you? How does the obstacle feel in yourbody? Does it have a certain weight, vibration, color, frequency, etc.? By journaling about the physicalsensation of the blockage in your body and separating it from your true divine self, you will feel that youhave begun to chip away the power this internal obstacle has over your thoughts. 3. Write down an intention for yourself about bringing more awareness into your life. Don't forget to look back on the intent to renew your commitment to truly manifesting this intention you created for yourself.LESSON 10: Love Awakens The SoulWATCH LESSON 10 VIDEO BY DEEPAK CHOPRA ONLINE: http://blip.tv/play/AYGpjCoC

Love is an energy, and your body must be ready to adapt to higher levels. Most people dream of more love in their lives, yet in reality the amount they have right now is what they are adapted to. An onrush ofunconditional love. They would ask themselves if this new kind of love can be trusted would be distrustedand make us worry if we were truly deserving of such open, complete love.These difﬁculties deﬁne what we call conditional love. Your soul faces in both directions, withunconditional love on one side – the love associated with God -- and the limitations of human love on theother. Since we are all accustomed to conditional love, it takes a breakthrough to become comfortable with any radical change.Many people have made momentary contact with the soul’s more intense, purer love. When they do,there’s a wonderful sense of awakening that’s very real. Love awakens the soul. This happens because like is attracted to like. The soul isn’t passive. It vibrates in sympathy with you any time you try to free yourself from limitations. There’s a similar sense of expansion and liberation when you experience beauty or truth.You are freeing up potential energy and letting it ﬂow.The soul’s reality needs to unfold layer by layer so that your body has time to adjust. Your old conditioninghas formed neural pathways and imprints that resist change. Year after year the brain has adapted to a way of life in which it is normal to be much less than loving and joyful.To unfold the soul’s reality we follow our natural desire. The desire to love and be loved constantly urgeseach person forward. When that desire is most alive, we seek the most from life. When that desire ﬂickersout, life becomes static.Desire combines will (“I want to”) with incentive (“I’m going to like it”). If you don’t have the will andthe incentive, you won’t change.The spiritual path unfolds by doing the next thing you love to do. Inside everyone there is a place thatintimate, alive, and full of yearning. It doesn’t want God or salvation or unconditional love. It just wantsthe next thing it desires. If that next thing is fulﬁlled, there will be another next thing, and on and on.But what if the next thing you want is trivial? The soul doesn’t judge. It works with who you are and whereyou are now. The trick is to turn the path of desire, which for most people is focused on worldly things, and redirect it to a higher plane. As your soul sees it, desire doesn’t want to be repeated. It wants to go deeper.It wants more intensity, more meaning, more expansion. Desire that doesn’t go deeper, that circles around repeating the same pattern over and over, has somehow been diverted from its natural course.Desire that pursues its object while never gaining ground is stuck within boundaries. A boundary acts likean invisible fence or a line that is not supposed to be crossed. Why do we put boundaries around ourdesires? First, to keep out uncomfortable experiences.You also put up boundaries to protect your comfort zone. Inside this zone you feel satisﬁed, safe andprotected. But whatever kind of boundary you have put up, you are making it much harder to allow change into your life.Boundaries are our conditioned selves, part of our identity. The soul can change that identity, and theprocess begins by negotiating with your boundaries. You know, in your heart of hearts, that you aren’ttruly safe, protected, or fulﬁlled. That safety is an illusion. The reality is that they are stuck, immobile.To achieve awaken your soul with love, you must dissolve the old boundaries by developing newassumptions:o You are not so afraid of risk.o You don’t have to be right all the time.o You trust that love is meant for you.o You welcome the opportunity to expand.o You see abundance as natural to life.o You don’t expect anything.
 EXERCISES FOR LESSON 101. What is something in your life that you can change that has both will ("I want to") and incentive("I'm going to enjoy it")? This is the personal life change that you need to focus on the most, as it has thegreatest probability of actually happening. Focus as much as you can on the incentive--how much you aregoing to enjoy it


1 cup of the water with 1 cup of milk for
added nourishment)
1 tablespoon ghee
½ teaspoon cinnamon powder
¼ teaspoon ginger powder
⅛ teaspoon nutmeg powder
5 dates, chopped
⅓ cup coconut sugar or maple syrup
¼ cup ground flax seeds
Instructions
Add oats, water, ghee, and spices to a pot and bring to a boil.
Turn down to medium-low heat, add the dates, and simmer for ten
minutes. Cook until soft and soupy.
Take the pot of f the heat and add the sweetener and ground flax
seeds.
Iron-Rich Dal
Mung bean soup is the perfect addition to a postpartum diet. This dal
is easy to digest, highly nourishing, and gives strength to the
recovering mama. In combination with beets—root veggies that are
rich in iron—the result is the perfect grounding and nourishing
postpartum soup. You can make a thinner soup by using a smaller
amount of beans at first, and gradually increase to the full amount as
your digestive capacity increases.
Ingredients
⅔ cup yellow split mung beans5 cups water
1½ cups cubed beets
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon coriander
2 tablespoons lime juice
salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Soak yellow split mung beans overnight. Drain and rinse the beans.
Boil the beets, beans, and spices in 5 cups of water until the beans
soften and start to separate (about forty-five minutes). Add lime juice.
Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Optional:  Blend it all up! Be careful blending hot liquids, as the
blender might explode! Start with the vent open on super-low speed,
then gradually turn the speed up until it is at its highest. Blend until
smooth.
Kitchari
Kitchari is a complete food that’ s easy to digest and gives strength
and vitality while nourishing all the tissues of the body. Kitchari is
tridoshic (balancing for all body types) and literally the perfect meal!
The marriage of white basmati rice (unhulled, so it’ s easier to digest
than other grains) and split mung beans (the one legume that won’t
cause intestinal discomfort) provides the ten essential amino acids
our body craves, forming a complete plant-based protein. You will
receive fiber and nutrients from the vegetables in this recipe and
medicinal qualities from your spices.
Its digestibility makes kitchari an excellent meal for postpartum
healing. When you first introduce kitchari postpartum, cut back onthe rice and mung beans (perhaps starting with a quarter-cup of
each, rather than the suggested two-thirds) to make for a soupier
kitchari. Gradually increase the amount as mama’ s digestion
increases.
Ingredients
⅔ cup basmati rice
⅔ cup split yellow mung dal, soaked for four to eight hours
about 6 cups water
1½ cups assorted vegetables
2 tablespoons ghee
½- to 1-inch ginger root, chopped or grated
1 teaspoon coriander powder
1 teaspoon cumin powder
½ teaspoon mustard seeds
½ teaspoon turmeric powder
¼ teaspoon black pepper
½ teaspoon asafetida (Hing)
½ teaspoon fennel seeds
handful fresh cilantro leaves
salt to taste
Instructions
Wash rice and soaked mung beans in two changes of water.
Add the beans to about 6 cups of water and cook for twenty minutes
on a low boil.Add the rice and simmer covered until it becomes soft, about thirty
more minutes. While the rice and beans are cooking, prepare the
veggies, cutting them into bite-sized pieces.
Add the vegetables to the cooked rice and mung bean mixture and
cook twenty minutes longer.
In a separate saucepan, sauté the seeds in the ghee until they pop.
Then add the other spices. Stir together to release the flavors.
Stir the sautéed spices into the cooked mung bean, rice, and
vegetable mixture. Add chopped fresh cilantro and salt to taste
(avoid salt until after three days postpartum in the case of swelling;
avoid cilantro until after two weeks postpartum).
Steamed V eggies with T ahini Sauce
Steaming or boiling is the best way to have your veggies postpartum,
as these methods add liquidity that helps to balance the dry quality
of vata. I prefer steaming, as the veggies do not lose as many of the
nutrients into the water as they do when boiled. Any root vegetable
can be used in this recipe (besides white or red potatoes), as root
veggies are very grounding for a postpartum mama. Tahini (sesame
seed paste) is delicious and rich with calcium—a critical postpartum
nutrient, especially for nursing mamas. This veggie and tahini
combination is best served after two or three weeks postpartum.
Ingredients
For the steamed veggies:
½ cup cubed yams
½ cup peeled, cubed beets
½ cup chopped fennel bulb
½ cup cubed zucchini or asparagusFor the tahini sauce:
⅓–½ cup tahini
½ small lime, juiced
2 bulbs roasted garlic
water as needed
salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
Add suf ficient water to the steamer and insert the steamer basket,
making sure that the water is below the steamer basket.
Place yam and beets into the steamer basket. Cover with lid, and
steam the root vegetables over medium heat for twenty to twenty-
five minutes.
Add fennel and zucchini to the steamer basket and steam until all
vegetables are very soft.
Separately, blend all ingredients for tahini sauce, adding water 1
tablespoon at a time until the sauce reaches the desired consistency.
Serve veggies topped with as much tahini sauce as desired.
Sautéed and Stewed Apples
A cooked apple serves as a gentle daily cleanse for the digestive
system. It supports regularity, strengthens digestion, lowers acidity
and excessive hunger, boosts immunity to prevent most colds and
flus, and is a simple and delicious way to start the day.
Apples are best eaten starting seven to ten days postpartum.
Prior to that, stewed dried fruits that are rich in iron (such as raisins,
dates, and prunes) are recommended. You can follow this apple
recipe and substitute iron-rich fruits for the apples.Ingredients
1 large apple
1 tablespoon ghee
3–5 saf fron threads
1 teaspoon cardamom
3 cloves
½ teaspoon fennel seeds
3 soaked dates (optional)
3 soaked prunes (optional)
¼ cup water
Instructions
Peel the apple and cut it into bite-sized pieces.
In a pan, add ghee with saf fron, cardamon, cloves, and fennel
seeds.
Sauté the spices in the ghee for about two minutes to enhance flavor
and extract their medicinal potency.
Add the apples, stirring them occasionally as you let them sauté for
three minutes. ( Optional:  sauté dates or soaked prunes along with
the apples.)
Add ¼ cup of water and then cover until the apples are soft and
transparent.
Tahini Cookies
Sesame is revered in Ayurveda as an ojas builder and breast milk
enhancer; its naturally balanced composition of qualities makes it a
tonic for increasing strength and immunity. High in healthy fats fromthe oily sesame seeds, tahini paste nourishes and strengthens
nervous, muscle, and fat tissue. Because tahini is also high in
calcium, it supports the maintenance of bone strength. Its earthy
quality and magnesium content help soothe and relax tension in the
muscles, allowing you to unwind after a period of stress. Enjoy these
tahini cookies throughout pregnancy. Resume this nutrient-filled treat
again after two weeks postpartum.
Ingredients
1 cup tahini
2 cups oat flour
1 cup sucanat
2 tablespoons yogurt or apple sauce
¼ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon ginger powder
2 teaspoons black and white sesame
seeds, plus extra for topping
1 tablespoon shatavari powder (optional)
Instructions
Mix all ingredients together, adding one at a time in the order listed.
Make little balls with the batter and gently flatten with a fork on a
greased cookie sheet, leaving space between.
Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for twelve to fourteen minutes and
let them cool completely.Mama Jill’ s Cookies
This is a delicious, nourishing cookie recipe from my sister ’s
husband’ s mama. Enjoy throughout pregnancy and after six weeks
postpartum.
These cookies are the perfect ojas booster! My family uses
husked almond flour and ghee to nourish the tissues and maple
syrup to nourish vata dosha. Feel free to play with added ingredients
such as dates instead of the chocolate chips, black sesame seeds,
and nuts!
Ingredients
¼ cup coconut oil or ghee
¼ cup date sugar or maple syrup
1 spoonful yogurt (vegan is fine too!)
1½ cups almond flour
2 tablespoons coconut flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon sea salt
½ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
Mix wet ingredients in one bowl, dry ingredients in another, then mix
together.
Spoon dough out onto a baking tray in small scoops.
Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for nine to twelve minutes.
My little love,
Every moment with you is so, so precious.I am seeing how time moves so quickly
as I


exercise is brisk walking: no special equipment is required except good
walking shoes. You can walk vigorously, swinging your arms, for a good
workout or just take a stroll. When you walk and breathe in deeply as you
stride along you are building Vital Force and stimulating the eliminating and
cleansing processes. After walking, swimming is the second-greatest
exercise. Any sport that brings into play the muscles of the body can be part
of your daily healthy lifestyle. Tennis and even gardening are considered
wonderful exerc ise. You should also have a 20 to 30 minute daily exercise
program of stretching, aerobics  and super power breathing exercises (page
151).
Daily Exercise Helps Keep You Healthy
We are 100% for physical fitness and exercise! Now, please do not
misunderstand us. We think the ideal combination of natural nutrition, multi
vitamin-mineral supplements (especially vitamin E) and exercise can work
wonders for a person. We love hiking, swimming, tennis, mountain
climbing, progressive weight-training and most forms of exercise, plusorganic gardenin g! Every day of our lives we should look forward to some
physical activity. To over -rest is to rust! If you don’ t use your muscles – your
muscles will lose their firmness, tone and strength. But we also realize our
bodies must be kept clean of toxic poisons by our weekly 24 hour detox
water fast plus, 3 or 4 times a year, plan a fast lasting from 7 to 10 days.
When you follow The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle, you are filled with
inexhaustible vitality and energy! You are like a child who is healthy and
you beco me an active, healthy and happy person. You love life and activity:
walking, swimming, biking, gardening, etc. and keep active regardless of
your calendar years! You forget your calendar age and become  ageless and
tireless! – It’ s fun!!!
Big Muscles Don’t Prove You’re Healthy!
Just because men or women are athletic or powerfully built with great
strength and endurance does not mean that they are internally clean! Far
from it. Many athletic people overeat on the heavy, stimulating foods. We
know weightlifters who eat 4 or 5 pounds of meat daily, drink quarts of milk
and stuf f other heavy, stimulating foods into their stomach. They feel it gives
them big, powerful muscles and great physical powers. But we have also
seen many of those former athletes die in their early 50s and 60s. No, not all
athletes necessa rily live longer than others! When they stop their heavy
exercising – thus slowing down their circulation – the toxic poisons build up
from their diet of heavy proteins, fats, refined sugars, etc. This causes an
overall slowdow n in their protein-burdened body. The toxic poisons are no
longer being continually flushed out by the heavy exercising, which they
stopped. As the toxins accum ulate, they start to suffer from the same
ailments that the non-athletic person endures!
Some think it’s only strong muscle mass or physical fitness that counts.
But it all comes down to the question: “How Clean and Healthy are you
internally?”
Self improvements have been shown to be effective to help you accept yourself for what you are and
feel positive for what  you see in yourself and your futur e goals! Goals practiced daily for about 15
minutes are more productive than spending all your waking hours fighting to lose weight, or other
negatives you find in yourself. During self hypnosis (self-guidance) tell yourself to let go all the bad
feelings about yourself, breathe deeply, then relax. Concentrate on feeling comfortable at each area ofyour body and tell yourself to treat yourself more lovingly. When you can forgive yourself, you’ll be
able to forgive others easier and feel better about yourself and everyone around you! This helps you
become motivated into loving action to impr ove your entir e lifestyle on all levels!
What Miracles Exercise Can Do for You
Get outdoors fast and get physically active when you feel dark moods,
anxieties, worries, blues, depression and tensions overtaking you – otherwise
these negative moods can damage you! Walking or any other outdoor
exercise will help clear up your thinking and put your problems in
perspective. Any form of outdoor recreation recreates the human personality.
The ancient men of India who desired to become one with God believed the
body and bloodstream had to be pure and strong before this could become a
reality. Thus, they developed a physical fitness system called Yoga. They
daily practice their belief that the body is meant to be stretched, strengthened
and exercised correctly in order to remain healthy. No matter what your
calendar years, start turning back your biological clock now faithfully with
exercise.
Benefits of Moderate Daily Exercise:
1. Exercise increases circulation, and brings more oxygen into your body.
You will feel more ener getic.
2. Exercise relieves stress, strain and tension. T ension gets locked in the
tight, stif fened areas of your body, especially the neck, back and spine.
Exercise will stretch and loosen these areas as it restores youthful
limberness. Y ou will feel more relaxed and at ease.
3. Overcoming chronic tiredness is a major benefit of exercise. That
chronic tired feeling to a great extent is due to a lack of suf ficient
circulation to your brain. Exercise brings the oxygen-laden blood into
this vital area with an ener gizing and revitalizing ef fect.
4. Exercise helps calm the nerves. Nothing can calm the nerves better than
30 minutes of brisk walking and exercise. It also helps to promote a
good night’ s sleep, which is absolutely essential to maintaining
calmness, repose, serenity and health.
5. Exercise increases emotional control. Exercise helps to strengthen the
nerves of the body and helps create the healthy composure that comes
from a healthy nervous system and a balanced, happy state of mind.Exercise Promotes Health & Youthfulness
We know that healthy living with proper exercise can produce a new breed
of men and women who will enjoy more strength to carry out their daily
work and have sufficient energy left for after-work interests, family and
hobbies. They can retain the prime of life for 20 to 40 years longer than the
person who is lazy and will not exercise! Examples: both Tom Selleck and
Clint Eastwood exercise, lift weights and eat healthy.
All external characteristics of health (such as powerful Nerve Force) are
but the result of the healthy functioning of your vital internal organs and
glands. These are what keep you going. Exercise actually reaches into your
body bringing about miracle improvements in certain internal parts such as
your nervous system, your heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, entire digestive tract,
colon and thyroid gland among  others. To attain these benefits  you should
faithfully follow a regular program of exercise.
Is age a hindrance to daily exercise? The answer is unequivoca lly, “No”!
In fact, age is no excuse for not exercising! Our friend Roy White, 106 years
young, walked 3-8 miles daily  – page 129. No one is too old to continue safe
exercise  – page 84. Conrad Hilton jogged for years.
To rest is to rust! It is far better to wear out than to rust out. The saying, If
you don’t use it, you lose it, certainly applies to the 640 muscles of the body.
When you don’t exercise regularly, your muscles lose their supple tone. As
soon as you put down this book  go outdoors and take a brisk, invigorating
walk. Say out loud while walking: Health! Peace! Joy! Love for Eternity!
You will feel great and your trillions of cells will rejoice with circulation!
Stretch for Health. W atch a Cat Stretch.  – stretching.com
Cats are graceful, coordinated and instinctively stretch to keep
muscles tuned and joints flexible. Notice how cats feel and love
the stretch, test the tension, relax and focus on the stretch.
Order famous book, “Stretching”, by Bob Anderson, World’s
top Str etching Coach and a str ong Bragg follower.
The three greatest letters in the English alphabet are N-O-W. There is no time like the present. BeginNow! – Sir W alter Scott, Scottish Poet, 18th C.
Walk Off Your Emotional Tensions
We learned many years ago that we could actually walk off our emotional
strains. No matter how serious  the problems we faced, we could find the
answer to our dilemma in a brisk 2-4 mile walk. Some of the greatest
decisions we have had to make  in our lives were made during one of our
hikes. As the oxygen floods into the body from vigorous walking, one can
think more clearly.
A wealthy friend telephoned Dad during the great financial depression of
the 1930s and said, “Paul, I am completely ruined financially. I am going to
kill myself, and I called up to say good-bye.” My father asked this tormented
man to grant him just one favor. When he agreed, Dad said, “All right, we
will have a walk and a farewell talk before you end your life.”
Dad got in his car, dashed to his friend’ s home and off they went, hiking
for a full five hours. During that time father told him that money was not the
only thing in life and that he had