 The index finger represents the individual soul (jivatma) and the thumb represents the Supreme Consciousness (paramatma), symbolizing the union of the two.
Q: What is the purpose of the Shambhavi mudra practice?,
A: The purpose of this practice is to awaken the ajna chakra and to transcend the mind, intellect, and ego.
Q: What is the benefit of practicing Agnisar Kriya?,
A: The practice of Agnisar Kriya can awaken the svadhishthana chakra, which can help with the stimulation of the digestive organs and relieve abdominal ailments.
Q: What is the purpose of the Prana Mudra?,
A: The purpose of this practice is to awaken the ajna chakra and to stimulate the flow of prana and apana in the body.
Q: What is the importance of the Ajapa-Japa practice?,
A: This practice is not described in detail, but it is mentioned as a method for awakening the ajna chakra and for awakening the kundalini shakti.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>It is said that all nadis originate at the kan-
dasthana, a spherical region centered around the navel. From
there, the other nadis follow paths on all sides of the sushum
na - right and left, front and back. Some terminate in the eyes
or ears, others in the genital or perineal area, still others in
the mouth or tongue. These ideas are at odds with Western
medical knowledge, which considers the brain and the
spinal column to be the nervous system. From the point of view of embryology, as well, it is clear
that the navel and the formation of the nervous system are
not related. The navel and its surrounding organs develop
from the endoderm and mesoderm. For example, the con
nective tissues of the following anatomical structures
develop from the mesoderm: kidneys, adrenal glands, sexual
glands, uterine tubes, womb, vagina, notocord, supporting
structures (bone, cartilage, and connective tissue in the
broad sense), dentine, heart, blood vessels, lymphatic
vessels, lymph nodes, hemolymph nodes, spleen, striated
muscles, smooth muscles, etc. On the other hand, the central
nevous system develops from the ectoderm. Thus, even at the
embryonic stage, the navel and the nervous system are not
closely related. This evidence leads me to believe that the 139
nadis are not identical with the nervous system. Statistical Diagram of Susceptibility to Disease
A Model of Umbilical Cord. Amnion
Cavity, etc. (Broman) - taken from Human Genetics by
Dr. Takamichi Tsuzaki -
Some researchers attempt to resolve these contradictions
by positing two types of nadis, gross and subtle. The former
are said to correspond to the nervous and vascular systems
of the physical body, while the latter are composed of subtle
matter and belong to the astral body. I find this a plausible
view. However, another possibility is to posit a close cor
respondence between the nadis and the meridians of Chinese
medicine. In the next section we will investigate this
hypothesis, comparing the traditional description of the
nadis with those of the acupuncture meridians. As noted above, the Upanishads agree that the nadis
originate in the navel. For example, in the Shri Jabala Darshana
Upanishad it is said that the kandasthana lies nine fingers
(18-20 cm.) above the muladhara chakra, with the navel at
its center. From here, the nadis spread out in all directions
(see Table 1). The Yoga-shikka Upanishad confirms this,
stating "there (at the navel) start the nadis, some flowing ver
tically and others horizonally. It is called the 'navel wheel'
(manipura chakra) and is shaped like an egg." 140
In fact, Chinese meridian theory is in perfect agreement
with this conception. The meridian network is said to originate
at the chukan (chung-wan, CV12) point, which lies midway
between the navel and the bottom of the sternum. The word
"kan" means "stomach," and there are actually three "kan"
points in acupuncture: upper, middle, and lower. These are
the jokan (shang-wan, CV13, 3-4 cm. below the bottom of the
sternum on the midsternal line); chukan, mentioned above,
and gekan (hsia-wan CV10, 3-4 cm. above the navel). Of these
three, chukan and gekan are within the circumference of the
manipura chakra and the kandasthana. Like the nadis, acupuncture meridians are also deemed to
be channels for the circulation of vital energy. Elec
trophysiological experiments have been conducted to ver
ify the existence of the meridians, and to establish the direc
tionality of the energy flow. The results of these experiments
suggest that the meridians are energy channels quite
dissimilar to the nervous system; that they form a network
which spreads throughout the connective tissue of the body;
and that they are filled with body fluid. In this last respect,
also, the meridians seem to correspond to the nadis de
scribed in the Upanishads. For instance, the Chandogya
Upanishad states that the gross nadis (those of the physical
body) are filled with a body fluid which is responsible to the
suns rays. The number of nadis and meridians may be similar. Although there are twelve ordinary and eight extraordinary
meridians, vast numbers of minor meridians also are said to
exist. It is quite possible that if all these were counted, the
total number of meridians might reach 72,000, the figure
usually associated with the nadis. The nadis and meridians are also similar in that they func
tion both physiologically and psychologically. In common
Japanese usage, the word ki, used to indicate the energy
which flows through the meridians, can also refer to other
types of both physical and emotional or mental energy. Further
more, ki energy may be directed mentally within one's own 141
body, as well as physically by needle stimulation. Expert
acupuncturists are said to perceive intuitively the movement
of ki when they are in a state of mental concentration. Similarly, the prana which flows through the nadis may be
directed mentally by various meditation techniques, as well
as exercises such as asanas and pranayama which directly
stimulate the physiological system. The distinction often
made between gross and subtle nadis also bears witness to
the dual physiological and psychological nature of this
energy flow. We shall now attempt to correlate, by comparative study,
the main nadis with the principal meridians. We shall first
examine the relationship between the three "great
nadis" - the sushumna, ida, and pingala - and certain major
meridians. The Sushumna Nadi
As shown in Table I, the sushumna, or Brahman nadi, is a
canal which follows the spine. Descriptions of its starting
point are not entirely consistent. Shandilya Upanishad states
that it starts at the muladhara chakra, whereas Shat-chakra-
nirupana says it originates in the kandasthana. According to
the Chhandogya Upanishad, the sushumna nadi begins at the
heart. However, most yoga scriptures and other Upanishads
seem to agree that the muladhara is its starting point. The
terminal point is always described as the Brahman Gate at
the top of the head, through which prana and kundalini
shakti are said to enter and exit. In Chinese medical theory, there is a major "ex
traordinary" meridian, known as the governor vessel meri
dian, which seems to correspond closely to the sushumna. Its function is said to be the overall governance of the six
yang meridians. It starts at the tip of the coccyx (the approx
imate location of the muladhara chakra), courses up the
center of the back to the top of the head, and terminates in 142
Governor Vessel Meridian (GV)
the upper lip. It is said that ki energy is stored in this meri
dian like water in a lake: the flows of ki through the twelve
ordinary meridians are likened to rivers, which distribute
vital energy to the various organs and tissues. In the event of
an energy imbalance or insufficient ki in a particular organ
or part of the body (due to disease or other malfunction), the
energy stored in the governor vessel meridian is mobilized to
supplement the flow in the related ordinary meridians. In
such cases, the stored energy usually flows downward. Likewise, the normal energy flow in the sushumna is said to
be in a downward direction. These are some of the aspects of
these two main energy


 it." After this narration he took me to two persons who have been
benefited by his advice. 223 224 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
1, Rampyari of thirty years had irritation in her right fingers and
they had sepsis also. But a fortnight's urine-wash made her fingers
return to their healthy normal state. 2. Shri Ram Pratap is a carpenter aged 45 years. For the last
three or four yers he was suffering from cold and occasionally ran
temperature aslo. Even after a year's atlopathic medication, it could
not tender. him ac.y complete or lasting relief from his ailment. It
only aggravated constipation. So in 1974 he began to drink
autc-urine daily twice orthrice and within ten days or so he was
well. During tr. :Jtment he had given up smoking hukah. Now
occasionally v.'hen any comlaint is felt he takes urine. He thinks,
urine to be the most beneficial for strenght and energy. -. :
-EDITOR
3. Thirty-year-old pain in legs : Shrimati Bhagavtiji, wife of the
famous Hindi writer and thinker, began to feel pain in her legs. Gradually it" became so acute that it renderd her invalid and
crippled. For a year she was under homoeopathic and for a couple
of weeks or so electric.treatment. No discernible gain was registered. On reading about urine therapy she adopted· it. Even with her first
drought.she felf a' return of strength. For seven days she massaged for two hours daily with old urine. Due to certain circumstances she could not proceed with her
treatment but she had already regained 70% of her old activity. Whenever there is pain she manages with urine. She invariably takes her morning constitutionals and eats only
bread made from self-ground flour. She has implicit faith in urine
therapy. 4. Sciatica : Shri i.~~lkiat Singh Gill is Sports Instructor at the
Central PubliC School of the Pherozepur Cantonment (Punjab). He
wa~ suffering fr6m nervous ailment of the hips and the thighs. He
was also· a patient of gastric congestion. He had very little appetite. Nature-cure could not give·him complete relief. Urine therapist Shri SKIN DISEASES : 225
Vi jay Kumar Gupta, Advocate, treated him under auto-urine thE:rapy
and put him on a fast with urine. A fortnight urine intake and
massage cure) him of all his complaints. 5. Paralysis at:d Spindly Sl:2en : Miss Saraswati Janwade, 25,·
elder sister of Ashok Janwade of Indore (M.P.) is a teacher in a
Bhilai school. Mr. Janwade narrates how his sister was saved:
11My greate. ;t achievement in the field of auto~urine therapy can
be the miraculous recovery of my elder sister. She was bed-ridden
for tbree months. Not to talk of getting up from bed she could ~ot
even,move her body below waist. Her left leg was slowly losing its ·
tone. Even touching her affected part would give excruciating pairi. Some bedsores also had erupted. In this condition I massaged he~ for
two or three hours daily with urine, occasionally. even with fresh
urine. Giving up all medication she was given her urine twice or
thrice daily. Within a fortnight she was half way through recovery
and by the end of the month she could get up and move. Today she
is fully recovered.. lt is now only four months since she began her·. t1eatment. Her left leg which was getting thinner Mas regained its
natural tonal shape and is ful.ly healthy.11
~-•
Ct:fAPTER VIII
SKIN DISEASES
1. Eczema :_(1) Shri lajjaram Chaudhuri who was them 75 years
old lived in Tikriwalan (DeHli). He had dedicated his life to the
service of his country since the Jallianwala Bagh episode. He was a
leader in the struggle for freedom. Nowadays he is engaged in rural
uplift. About two years ago, he had suffered from eczema. He,massaged
himself with (stale) urine for 45 minutes and drank urine once. He
was cured within a month. Had he taken a fast with urine he would
have been we!l much earlier. He had also not observed dietatic
restrictions. I'' 226 : AUTD-URINE THERAPY
2. Shri Ravi Jain of 25 years lives in jammu. His right arm, back,
neck and forehead had been affected with eczema. Itching and
irritation was experienced all over the body. Pus and blood used to
ooze out of sores as large as a rupee coin. Vaidyas' and doctors' treatment had some effect but on
discontinuing the treatment the disease would relapse. His family
members also were troubled;
Shrimati Kala Jain advised him to try Shivambu (urine therapy). He drank it four-five times a day and mqssaged every day for an
hour. The sores were covered with urine-soaked earth packs
overnight and for two hours in the morning. His sores were cured in
a fortnight and he was free_from the disease within a month. · There were several other cases of recovery from eczema. 2. Pyoderma. and Psoriasis : Shri Mavji Gokuldas Asar aged 50
'lives in Bombay. Here is in substance what he narrates in his letter to
Dr. Paragji Desai dated 1-3-1973 :
"I was. suffering from psoriasis and pyoderma for about five
years. I tried allopathic, homoeopathic, Ayurvedic and nature cu~e
treatments without any gain. I was so desperate due to my ailment
that I was planning to resign from my service and retire to my native
place in Kutch. But then my friend Kanji D. Vaidya inspired and
encouraged me to have recourse to urine treatment. I resolved to
take up this treatment till I am fully recovered. ·
I followed instructions given in the book Manav mutra regarding
urine intake and urine massage. In the beginning for a few days I
felt nausea, restlessness and weakness. One day while in sleep, I
passed urine in the bed. Its colour was like blood. I was frightened
and so consulted the Vaidya, who wa.s my well-wisher. He advised
and encouraged me to continue the treatment with faith and
patience I thereafter gradually recovered and by the end of fifth
month I was about 95% cured. Even now I continue to drink urine
twice daily, and take occasional massage with it. I am quite certain
that I shall be completely cured." ·~ ; SKIN DISEASES : 227
3. Rashes : Smt. Asha Mehta's (see Asthma and inflammation ef
lungs in Hindi, p. 135) son Anafsingh also has faith in urine
th-.rapy. Smt. Asha Mehta describes how her son cured his
colleague of his skin cisease:
"My son's class-mate used to get rashes on his body. My so~,
who was studying in the Engineering College of Patiala, used to
keep two or three-bottles filled with his urine. They were labelled
"Nectar of Life" 1, 2, 3. Whenever anyone had an injury he would
treat it with botte No. 1, which had urine several da(S old. Bottle
No. 3 contained fresh ·urine which he used.ln eye-trouble and
similar conditions. "His class-mate came one day and said, 'You have some
medicine called nectar. Give me some. I am at my wit's end owing
to these rashes.' He gave some quantity from No. 1 and asked his
class-mate to apply it both in mornings and evenings. With a week's
application the rashes vanished." 4. Nine-year-old sore : Last year a Jain Mulli told me that Shrl
Satyendra Muniji propagates the urine therapy. In somana Mandi
(Punjab), I met him after Divali. He told me that at his instance
several people had been free from their respective ailments. He also
narrated his own case. He had cured but it turned into a sore. Western and :ndigenous medicines, even the so-called "germscutter"
proved futile. He had to suffer from it for nine years. At last urine
massage and urine intake drove away the nine-year-old complaint. -EDITOR
5. Pimples on the Face : ::hri Hansraj Choudhari studies at the·
agriculture college in Anc.1d (Gujarat). He was much troubled
with pimples on his face. At my suggestion. he began urine
treatment. With the massage of urine and drinking he had free and
ample motions. His appetite was refreshed and the skin became
soft. After purification of blood


pirit	first,	and	that	places	our	home	beyond	the	stars. Knowing	that	I	will	return	to	the	field	one	day	to	find	my	source	provides
me	with	immeasurable	confidence	in	the	purpose	of	life. As	fervently	as	any
devout	believer,	I	have	faith	in	this	vision. My	faith	is	renewed	every	time	I
have	a	moment	of	witnessing,	in	which	I	can	touch	the	silence	of	my	own
being. Then	I	lose	all	fear	of	death—indeed,	I	touch	death	right	now,	and
gladly. Tagore	said	it	so	movingly:
When	I	was	born	and	saw	the	light
I	was	no	stranger	in	this	world
Something	inscrutable,	shapeless,	and	without	words
Appeared	in	the	form	of	my	mother
. So	when	I	die,	the	same	unknown	will	appear	again
As	ever	known	to	me
,
And	because	I	love	this	life
I	will	love	death	as	well
.Without	death	there	can	be	no	present	moment,	for	the	last	moment	has	to
die	to	make	the	next	one	possible. There	can	be	no
present
	love,	for	the	last
emotion	has	to	die	to	make	a	new	one	possible. There	can	be	no	present	life,
for	the	old	cells	in	my	body	have	to	die	to	make	new	tissue	possible. This	is
the	miracle	of	creation,	which	in	every	second	is	one	thing:	life	and	death
joined	in	an	eternal	dance. It	would	be	a	catastrophe	to	exclude	death	from	the
dance. That	would	guarantee	a	universe	with	no	chance	for	renewal. Fortunately,	creation	wasn’t	set	up	that	way. We	live	in	an	endlessly	re-
created	universe. On	the	other	side	of	our	fears	and	doubts,	our	deepest	prayer
should	not	be	for	life,	which	we	have	in	abundance. It	should	be	a	prayer	to
lead	the	cosmic	dance,	for	then	the	angels	and	gods	themselves	will	have
someone	to	follow.E
PILOGUE
M
AHA
	S
AMADHI
THE	MONSOON	RAINS
	swept	down	from	the	mountain	overnight. Ramana	could
hear	it	in	his	sleep	like	warm	dull	thunder	on	the	roof,	or	the	knocking	of	the
gods. It	was	loud	enough	to	make	him	restless	but	not	to	wake	him	up
completely. He	had	dim	thoughts	of	closing	the	window	by	his	bed. He
remembered	the	small	hole	in	the	roof	that	needed	a	bucket	underneath	to
catch	the	drip. Yet	for	some	reason	he	couldn’t	feel	rain	splashing	from	the
windowsill	and	heard	no	dripping	sound. Strange
,	he	thought	drowsily. The	dull	thunder	continued,	hour	after	hour. Too	many	hours. Ramana
opened	his	eyes,	flicking	his	gaze	to	the	windowsill	and	the	place	under	the
hole	in	the	roof. Both	were	dry. Where	was	the	water? Why	was	it	still
thundering? Then	he	knew. It
was
	the	gods	knocking. Death	had	come	like	the
monsoons,	the	season	of	year	Ramana	loved	the	best. He	wasn’t	surprised	that
he	could	still	feel	his	body	or	that	the	room	was	intact. His	old	master,	who
had	died	sixty	years	ago,	told	him	how	things	would	be. Sixty	years? Could
that	be	right? Suddenly	Ramana	couldn’t	remember	how	old	he	was	himself. Seventy-five,	eighty? This	confusion	triggered	a	change. His	body	began	to
feel	lighter,	as	if	age	were	slipping
away
. He	was	rising,	the	whole	room	was
rising,	in	fact,	and	the	dull	thunder	began	to	fade. Ramana	wondered	if	he	was	about	to	disappear,	but	the	world	saved	him
the	trouble	by	disappearing	first. He	had	never	much	believed	in	the	world,	so
this	didn’t	surprise	him. For	one	last	moment	he	was	still	in	bed,	looking	out
the	window	at	a	sky	that	turned	from	blue	to	a	soft	white,	and	then	there	was
only	whiteness	and	no	room. He	looked	down,	and	his	body	was	gone	too. It
had	slipped	away	so	easily	that	he	was	reminded	of	something	his	master	had
told	him:	“The	body	is	like	a	cloak. For	the	enlightened,	dying	is	like	letting
the	cloak	fall	to	the	floor. For	the	unenlightened,	it	is	like	ripping	off	a	cloak
that	is	sewn	on.”
What	would	slip	away	next? Ramana	could	still	pose	mental	questions,	so
his	mind	hadn’t	left	him. He	saw	himself	as	a	boy	of	twelve,	when	he	first
met	his	master,	who	lived	in	the	same	forest	retreat	that	became	his	after	the
master	died. The	old	man	sitting	in	lotus	position	on	a	worn	deerskin	had	said,
“Do	you	want	to	learn	from	me?”	The	boy	nodded. “Is	it	because	your	parentsthink	it	would	be	a	good	thing?”	The	boy	nodded	again. Then	the	master
waved	his	hand,	sending	Ramana’s	parents	out	of	the	room. When	they	were	alone,	the	master	said,	“Come	to	me	when	it’s	your
desire,	not	that	of	your	parents.”
“Why?”	Ramana	asked. “My	parents	only	want	what’s	good	for	me.”
“That’s	not	enough,”	the	master	replied. “You	can’t	be	with	me	and
remain	like	ordinary	people. Ordinary	people	need	the	support	of	family,	or
they	would	die	of	loneliness. They	need	the	support	of	society,	or	they	would
have	no	friends	or	spouse. They	need	the	support	of	their	bodies,	or	they
would	starve. And	most	of	all,	they	need	the	support	of	their	minds,	or	they
would	go	crazy.”
“I	don’t	see	why	you’re	telling	me	this,”	said	the	boy. “Because	if	you	lose	family,	friends,	your	body,	and	your	mind—all	of
which	you	must—I	don’t	want	you	to	die. I	want	you	to	be	free.”
The	boy	didn’t	come	back	for	ten	years,	and	even	then	the	master	laughed
and	said	he	had	been	quick	about	it. “After	what	I	told	you,	most	people
would	stay	away	forever.”	During	his	period	as	a	disciple	Ramana	had	found
the	teaching	difficult. He	often	stumbled	but	never	fell. Everything	his	master
foretold	came	true. The	time	came	when	the	disciple	no	longer	needed	the
support	of	his	family. But	this	wasn’t	a	loss,	because	he	now	saw	them	with
great	compassion. He	didn’t	need	the	support	of	society,	but	this	wasn’t	a	loss,
because	he	saw	himself	as	part	of	all	humanity. He	didn’t	need	the	support	of
his	physical	body,	but	this	wasn’t	a	loss,	because	his	body	took	care	of	itself
better	when	he	stopped	worrying	about	it. The	one	thing	Ramana	never	quite	gave	up	was	the	support	of	his	mind. “Ah,	you	fear	that	without	a	mind	you	will	die,”	his	master	said	patiently. Ramana	adopted	the	same	patience. He	learned	to	go	inward	in
samadhi
	to
experience	silence,	and	over	the	years	this	became	home	to	him,	a	place	free
of	the	constant


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        Again she asked,
“Do you really believe that. ” And I said, “Y es, I do. ”
“Well,” she said, “I was sitting in the living room. He was late for
dinner, and the town fire alarm went of f. I knew it was about him. I jumped
up, and his voice came to me and said, ‘Do not leave the room for one
hour. ’ So I sat down and waited. When I got to the scene of the accident,
they were just lifting his body out of the car. I thought to myself, ‘If I had
been out here for an hour, I would never have survived. ’”
I worried about her but several months later I mentioned her story in a
conference on drawings, and a physician who was there told me he’d
delivered her child and she had done beautifully. Recently Janet wrote me a
letter, offering her help to anyone in a crisis similar to what she had
survived. This physician also beckoned me over to a corner and told me of a
precognitive experience. While his wife was pregnant she had said to him,
“I must study total communication for the deaf. ” He said, “Honey, why do
you need to do that. ” She said, “I must. ” And of course their first child was
born deaf. So the physician was a believer, but he had motioned for me to
come into a corner to talk about this. I know that finger waggle from manyphysicians. It means, “I agree with you, but I’m uncomfortable revealing it
in front of others. ”
Time after time in my experiences with patients I encounter
unconscious knowledge of the future. One Monday I operated on a man
named Mike, who had a massive hemorrhage from an aneurysm that had
ruptured into his esophagus. It was impossible to stop the bleeding, and he
died. When I talked to his wife, she said, “Y ou know, Sunday we spent the
whole day discussing his funeral and will, and I said, ‘Why do we have to
talk about all this morbid business. ’  And now I know. ”
Several times I’ve found that close relatives knew of a person’ s death
before they had received news of it. My own father, who is now almost
eighty, told me a few years ago that his mother visited him—spiritually—
one day at work when he was a young man. She said good-bye. He knew
she had died, and he grew terribly sad. His co-workers noticed, but he
couldn’ t tell them what had happened because it sounded crazy. As soon as
he got home, the phone rang, and his sister told him their mother had died. Sandy, whom I mentioned in Chapter 4, told me her experience of the
same intuitive knowledge. Her husband, Harry, always drove the kids to
school, but one day all three of them were late getting dressed. He got angry
and left without them, and a few minutes later was killed in an accident. It
seems obvious to me that there was an unconscious awareness in each of
those children that this was not the day to get dressed and go with dad. When Sandy called Harry’ s mother in Maine and started to talk, his
mother said, “Y es, I know. Harry’ s dead. ” When asked how she knew, she
replied, “His father”—who’d been dead a year—“came to me last night and
said, ‘I have to take our son tomorrow. ’” These are the kinds of things that
patients share with me, the privileged listener. They are experiences that can
open a whole new realm in one’ s awareness and belief system. One night, when I was giving a lecture, I had all my notes in front of
me. And yet, as I was giving the talk, I realized that, in a sense, two talks
were being given. In one, I was struggling to follow the outline, but
something else was coming out of my mouth. I realized the other talk was
much better, so I finally just gave in and let it happen. When I came of f the stage, I told Bobbie, “I don’ t know who gave that
talk. I didn’ t. ” The next woman who came up to me said, “I’ve heard you
before, but that was more moving than usual. ” The third person who came
up to me said, “I’m a medium, and while you were reading Lois Becker ’sletter, superimposed over you and staring at the audience was this figure. I
drew him for you. ” And she showed me a picture of my guide Geor ge. The famous psychic Olga Worrell has also described Geor ge and
another of my meditative guides, even including the clothes they wear—
flowing robes and the old Jewish prayer caps. When the emotional and
spiritual mind is freed, the distinctions between the “mystical” and the
“mundane” break down. This experience taught me that the unconscious can take care of
everything, and I don’ t have to prepare for my lectures anymore. Whether
Geor ge exists as a spiritual guide or simply exists inside of me as part of my
collective unconscious or intuition, the power is there for all of us, if we
will let it come through. As Socrates replied when asked if he had prepared
his defense, “What needs to be said will be said. ”
One woman who had breast cancer told me that her family thought she
was crazy. I asked why, and she told me several stories. One was a dream in
which Death came and told her that her husband was going to die
tomorrow. She ar gued with Death and said, “No. Everybody gets two
weeks’  notice. ” Two weeks to the day later her husband died. I told her I loved her and all that she was sharing with me. When we
went out of the examining room, her family was expecting me to say
something negative about their crazy mother. Instead I said, “She’ s
wonderful, terrific. ” That led to a new openness and awareness on the part
of the family, a new willingness to accept her and all that she had shared
with them. Death is no barrier to this intuitive, spiritual consciousness. It continues
after death, and it communicates between the dead and the living. Iris, a
blind diabetic who developed cancer, underwent a similar experience. One
day she called her two daughters into her hospital room and told them,
“Girls, I can see again. My mother and father came for me and held out an
apple. They said when I bite into it I will join them. I told them my
grandson’ s birthday was on Tuesday, and I would join them then. ” She died
after the party on Tuesday. Before she passed away, one of her daughters said, “Mom, if you die I
want to die, too. I can’ t go on without you. ” Two weeks later Iris appeared
to her daughter and said, “Look, I have ten minutes. This is against the
rules. I am in a beautiful place and I am loved. I can’ t be worrying about
you doing something silly. ”As I have opened myself to my patients’  beliefs, I have received many
messages from those who have died. Josie was a wonderful woman who
had given everyone who knew her the gift of love and humor. While at the
hospice, for example, she thought she heard a noise and asked if someone
was at the door. The nurse said, “Oh, I just kicked your bucket. ” Josie
replied, “I’m here trying  to kick the bucket, and for you it’ s easy. ” She was
one of the exceptional people who lived until the moment of death. Josie had asked me to deliver the eulogy at her funeral. I said I would be
honored, but told her I couldn’ t be sure my schedule would permit it,
especially since the funeral would be held in New York. Months before, I
had arranged to be in New York on a certain Friday for a conference. The
only day in the entire year I was scheduled to be in New York. Then a radio
talk show host asked me to speak for an hour at noon on that day, since I
would already be in the city. I agreed, but on the Monday before the show
someone from the station called and said the program had been preempted. I told my wife that Josie’ s funeral would be at that time although she hadn’ t
died yet. On Tuesday evening, Josie’ s husband asked me how to help ease her
passage. She found it hard to leave amid the constant visiting and
expressions of love. I suggested he tell her he loved her, that he and the
boys would


, how far and in what kind of container it
had to travel to get to the store, how long it’s been sitting on the
produce shelf, and whether it was subjected to regular misting
with water before you plucked it. The goal is to choose fresh, local organic produce that’s in
season where you live. This commitment serves both you and
your local food community. Here’s how: You get fruits and
vegetables that have ripened on the vine or tree (instead of
being picked green and ripened with gas) and developed their
full complement of vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients, and
you support the growers in your area so that they can keep
growing vital crops. M a k i n g  a  l i s t  a n d  c h e c k i n g  i t  t w i c e
Organized people live by their lists. They are “thinking”
shoppers who take advantage of produce that is ripe and in
season because it’s the most economical and at its peak. Here’s
what a shopping list does for you: It keeps you on track. Your goal to look and feel better is
achievable if you aim for the optimum number of servings
of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables every day. Making
a list motivates you to make healthy choices, choose a
wide variety of fruit and vegetable recipes, and stick to
their ingredient lists when shopping. It saves you money. Planning the recipes and noting the
fruits and vegetables and other ingredients you have on
hand before you leave for the store means that you won’t
come home with something you already have or don’t
need. And it saves you an extra trip back to the store for
something you missed. It keeps you from getting into a rut. Making a list before
you shop encourages you to check out new recipes so that
you step out of your normal favorites. It widens your
perspective and gives you new ingredients from which to
choose instead of relying on the same three or four items. It helps you plan where and when you’ll shop. All food
spoils, but making a list and shopping for two or three
days’ worth of ingredients means your fresh produce is
always at its peak for juicing and smoothies. It saves you time and effort. Making a list may seem like
more work at ﬁrst, but when you go into the market you
won’t waste time going up and down the isles or
wandering around the produce section wondering what to
buy. Produce shopping every two or three days means that
your cart is lighter and you can get in and out, pack the
car, and be gone in record time. K n o w i n g  w h a t  t o  l o o k  f o r  i n  p r o d u c e
You’re focused on your health (otherwise, you wouldn’t be
reading this book). So, it stands to reason that you want to startwith the ﬁnest produce so that you get the highest-quality
vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. Don’t compromise. Get
the freshest fruits and vegetables you can ﬁnd. Here’s how:
 Shop for organic produce. There’s a reason why certiﬁed
organic food production is growing all over the world. Actually, there are several reasons, and they have to do
with the health of the planet and the health of people. There is concrete scientiﬁc evidence that organic farming
results in
• Healthier soil
• Less soil erosion
• Cleaner waterways
• Reduction in human and wildlife exposure to persistent
toxic chemicals
• Less energy usage than conventional farming — 30
percent to 50 percent less
• A healthy population of birds and insects in and around
the farm
Fresh organic produce yields more nutrients because you
don’t need to peel it. Many of the vitamins, minerals, and
phytonutrients in fruits and vegetables are concentrated in
and just below the peel or skin, but that’s exactly where
chemical pesticides and herbicides are lurking. Although North American countries have banned
the use of certain toxic pesticides (such as DDT), those
chemicals are still being produced and exported to food-
producing countries and coming back to us in fruits and
vegetables. If non-organic is your only option, at least try
to avoid the following “dirty dozen” — these fruits and
vegetables have the highest concentrations of pesticides:
apples, bell peppers, blueberries (domestic, not wild),
celery, grapes (especially if imported), kale/collard greens,
lettuce, nectarines, peaches, potatoes, spinach, and
strawberries. If you have no choice but to purchase non-organic
produce, always peel it. Shop for produce that’s in season. The term in season
means that, where you live, the crops grown locally are
being harvested right now. Because of this, plenty of those
fruits or vegetables are available, at the lowest prices, and
they’re fresher than imports. If they’re grown locally, fruits
and vegetables will have ripened naturally, on the vine or
on the tree, and their nutrients will be higher than produce
that’s picked before it’s ripe and transported in
refrigerated crates. To ﬁnd out what’s in season when, check out Fruits
& Veggies—More Matters
(www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org/what-fruits-and-
vegetables-are-in-season ). Plan to use what’s in season. This means using, among
other things, tomatoes and peaches in the summer, applesand cranberries in the fall, winter pears and cabbage in the
winter, and leafy greens and asparagus in the spring. Unless you live in tropical areas, winter strawberries and
tomatoes aren’t the best choice for ﬂavor, nutrients, or
price. If you want to use strawberries in winter, plan to
pick your own at a local farm in the summer and freeze
them for winter smoothies. Get it from the person who grows it. Many farmers sell
right on the premises in farm gate sales, because it saves
them time, energy, and transportation costs. If you buy
directly from the farmer, the fruits and vegetables will be
fresh picked and at their peak. They will have ripened the
way nature intended, and they’ll be bursting with vitamins,
minerals, and phytonutrients because they matured
properly. If you can’t make a trip to a nearby farm (or if farms
are too far from where you live), you may be able to buy
from the farmers at your local farmers’ market. Don’t be fooled by “fake” farmers at the farmers’
market. Some markets are very strict about only inviting
the person who raises the fruits or vegetables; others
allow middlemen (people who just buy and sell food, as
opposed to growing it). You can’t miss the fake farmers —
their produce comes in boxes labeled “produce of”
followed by the name of some faraway place. Grow your own. Growing your own vegetables isn’t all
that hard, and it can be done in very small spaces. You can
grow vegetables in containers on a balcony or on very
small patches of land. For more information, check out
Container Gardening For Dummies, 2nd Edition, by BillMarken, Suzanne DeJohn, and the editors of the National
Gardening Association (Wiley). Learn how to tell if it’s fresh. A light touch on peaches,
plums, avocadoes, and melons can easily help gauge their
ripeness. Most fruit smells sweet and fragrant when ripe,
so go ahead and give it a sniff and a gentle caress. Be
aware of the difference between fresh, in-season specials
and the discount bin, which is food that is past its prime. Produce from the discount bin may be tempting due to its
price, but it’ll be past its peak, and many of the nutrients
will have been lost. W e i g h i n g  y o u r  o p t i o n s :  F r e s h,  d r i e d,
f r o z e n,  o r  c a n n e d
When you’re buying fruits and vegetables, you have four basic
options: fresh dried, frozen, and canned. Which has the best
quality? And are the others close or far behind? Fresh: Hands down, fresh is always best when you can buy
it directly from the farm or when it’s locally grown and in
season. Fresh fruit has less nutrients if it’s immature
(under-ripe or picked before it ripens) or over-ripe (past
its peak). The quality of fresh fruit declines the farther it
has to travel to get to your table. The United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) has prepared two excellent online resources, How
to Buy Fresh Fruits (www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile? dDocName=STELDEV3103620 ) and How to Buy Fresh Vegetables
(www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile? dDocName=STELDEV3103623 ), which give information onquality, nutrition, labeling, grades, and how to select
speciﬁc fruits and vegetables. Dried: Dried fruits and vegetables have only had the water
removed — all the nutrients should be intact unless heat
was used in the drying process and an excess amount of
sugar was added (


ventilation as much as possible of the feet. Sandals
are being used more and more in appreciation of
their beneficial effect, not only for the feet, but for
the entire anatomy. Rainy weather, and frequently
snow, have been found less harmful when wearing
sandals than when wearing shoes and rubbers. 89 BACKACHE:
This may result from innumerable causes. The 61 30 I 2
safest thing to do is to see a good osteopath or
chiropractor who understands Natural methods as
well as mechanical adjustments of the spine. He
should be able to determine whether it results from
lumbago, from constipation, or from spinal or cranial
maladjustments. BED-WETTING:
This habit in children should disappear during the 30
first or second year. When persistent, omit fluids
after, say 4:00 p.m., but give plenty during the day. Watch approximately the time wetting takes place,
wake up the child on following nights about 10 to
20 minutes before that time, and continue practice
until child functions voluntarily. Cooked spinach and
rhubarb are probably the best foods to prolong bed-
wetting as the inorganic oxalic acid crystals may
irritate the kidneys and these become overactive. BILIOUSNESS:
The result of incomplete digestion of fats and 61 30 40
excessive fermentation in the system, causing
improper secretion and flow of bile from the liver. Alcoholic liquors, including beer, degenerating the
liver, have the tendency to chronically disorganize
the digestive functions. Fried and fatty food are the
most frequent cause of biliousness. BLADDERTROUBLE:
Irritations in this organ are usually the result of 30 61
excessive acidity accumulating as a result of eating
foods leaving acid end-products insufficiently
digested or dissolved—uric acid crystals, for
example, from eating meat, and oxalic acid crystals
from using cooked spinach or rhubarb. Allowing
these crystals to accumulate, and persisting in eating
such foods, may cause growths to form. The removal
of these growths by burning, cutting. X-ray, radium
and drugs does not remove the cause. On the
contrary, the eventual return of even more serious
conditions is likely to follow. Excessive use of
concentrated starches is also a contributory cause. 90 Inflammation of the bladder may interfere with the
normal flow of urine, causing damage to the walls
of the bladder. Cystitis is the name given to this
condition. Bladder stones may either form within the
bladder or may have been passed from the kidneys. See Kidney Stones. Much bladder trouble in men is
due also to trouble with the prostate gland. BLINDNESS:
See Cataracts. Read also section on Endive Juice. BLOOD PRESSURE, HIGH:
The result of impurities in the blood vessels. The 61 2 30 15
only way impurities can get into the blood stream is
(1) by hypodermic injections and drugs, whether
taken as medicine or otherwise; (2) by deposits in
the blood stream of inorganic atoms accumulating
from cooked and processed foods, particularly the
concentrated starches and sugars; and (3) by
retention of waste in the eliminative organs and
channels. The recurrence of high blood pressure within
families is not due to heredity, as erroneously
supposed by some, unless we consider the
degenerated condition of the mother's blood stream
(due to eating inorganic foods) as her hereditary gift
to her child. The only hereditary trait is the kind
and quality of the food the family as a whole
habitually indulges in; if this contains an excessive
proportion of cooked foods and concentrated
carbohydrates, it is only natural that a nutritional
deficiency should manifest in most, if not in all its
members. BLOOD PRESSURE, LOW:
Primarily due to nutritional deficiency as a result 61 2 30 1
of eating all or mostly cooked and processed foods, 29 15
and in any case as a rule because of the absence
from the diet of fresh raw vegetable juices which
can be quickly and efficiently used in the
regeneration of the blood corpuscles. One very
serious contributing cause is the lack of proper and
sufficient rest. Each hour's sleep before 10:00 p.m.
is worth more than two hours' sleep in the morning. 91 Smoking and alcoholic drinks are paramount
reasons for high and low blood pressures. BOILS:
Purulent or pus-filled tumors caused by 61 30 55
impurities in the blood stream resulting in bacterial
infection through the sweat glands or the follicles
of the hair. The use of sulfa and other drugs may
have dangerous repercussions. A boil is not an infection of the skin, but simply
waste matter which the body has been unable to
throw off through other eliminative channels, either
because these are impacted with the accumulation
of waste, or because they have degenerated into
inactivity through lack of proper nourishment and
attention. When the body fails to eliminate waste
matter through the main eliminative organs, then
the greatest eliminative system of the body is called
upon to help. This system is the skin and its pores. BOTULISM:
Food poisoning resulting from the deadly poison 15 66
of the gas given off by the botulinus germ while it is
being slowly lulled by heat, much in the same
manner that a skunk ejects a well-known fluid when
irritably disturbed. It is a deadly poison frequently
present in canned foods when insufficient heat has
not completely destroyed them. It is also likely to
be present in sausages, meat, and fish pastes. When
afflicted, call your doctor and notify the undertaker. Fresh raw vegetable juices are live foods intended
for live people. BRAINTUMORS:
The result of impurities in the blood stream 62 61 30 40
coagulating in the blood vessels of the brain. They
cause pressure inside the skull, resulting usually in
disfunction of speech and thought, or of body
movement, according to the location of the tumor. Surgery causes the death of about 50% of its victims
while colonic irrigations or enemas and other
cleansing processes are overlooked. *)2 BRONCHITIS:
Inflammation of the bronchial tubes due to 61 45 II 30
excessive mucus in the system. It is one of Nature's I 37 60 41
means to warn us of this excessive accumulation of
waste in the body, and when the warning is ignored
Nature may raise the body temperature to fever heat
to burn up this debris. If we continue to disregard
this warning and fail to cleanse our insides pretty
thoroughly. Nature will furnish us with germs and
bacteria to do the scavenging which may result in
further discomforts such as colds, influenza, or
pneumonia. It has been of absorbingly interest to
watch the victims of such conditions recover so
quickly after taking sufficient colonic irrigations,
and enemas. BURSITIS:
The result of the drying up of the Synovial 86 30 61
lubricating fluid in the joints.The daily consumption
of avocado has been helpful in bringing about the
eventual restoration of normalcy. CANCERS:
Groups or nests of epithelial cells half-starved 1 61
from lack of proper organic nourishments, thriving
on concentrated starches and meats. Read the chapter
on Carrot Juice where a description of cancer is
outlined. One of the contributing factors in the
development of cancer has been found to be
prolonged RESENTMENTS. CARBUNCLES: See Boils
CATALEPSY:
Muscular rigidity resulting from improperly 61 2 40 30
nourished nerves. CATARACTS:
Opaque films floating over the crystalline lens 61 50 1 40
of the eye due to lack of proper nourishment to the 30
optic nerves and muscles. While surgery has been
of temporary benefit in some cases, there is no
question that Nature can work greater and more
permanent benefits than even the most skillful of
93 men, provided that the one affected cooperates
wholeheartedly. Read the chapter on Endive Juice. CATARRH:
Abundant secretions from the mucous membrane 61 11 30 41
due to the inability of the body to properly assimilate 60
milk and concentrated starches. CHICKEN POX:
The chicken pox virus propagates in a medium 61 30 1 2
of mucus, particularly that which results from the
waste of the digestion of milk and concentrated
starches and sugars. In the absence of such medium,
naturally the virus cannot exist; but if the child is
brought up on cow's milk, cereals, breads, and
puddings, it is only to be expected that this
microscopic virus—which must eat if it is to live—
will propagate in such fertile soil. A virus is a living
pathogenic microorganism. No living thing can
continue to live without food. If the chicken pox
virus does


 Planner follows a simple pattern: The weekly breakfasts can
be whipped up in less than three minutes, while the weekend breakfasts
such as pancakes or omelets require some preparation and cooking time. The weekly lunches require zero cooking time, and take merely three to five
minutes of preparation time—or if you decide to make your lunch from last
night’ s dinner leftovers, just the time it takes to grab something out of the
refrigerator and a fork. (I always encourage people to make more than they
can eat at dinner so they have the option of leftovers for lunch or the
following dinner.) The dinners are broken up into nine dif ferent categories of familiar foods
with a healthy twist, such as pizza, pasta, soup, salad, bur gers, Tex-Mex
favorites, and stir -fries. There is always something for everyone. Forexample, on pasta night, if you don’ t like mushrooms, you can steer clear of
the Mushroom Stroganof f and dive into Bow Ties with Pesto. Or if on
comfort food night you don’ t care for Macaroni and Not Cheese, you can
settle into Shepherd’ s Pie. To get started, some people like to pick out seven dinners from the first
week, make a corresponding list of groceries, head over to the grocery
store, and get everything needed to last the week. If you don’ t feel like generating your own grocery lists, then let us do the
work for you by visiting www.theengine2diet.com, where we have an entire
twenty-eight-day meal planner with accompanying week-by-week grocery
lists. Some people drool over that kind of direction—during the Pilot Study,
more than half the participants used that plan. Leftovers fr om dinner make a gr eat next-day E2 lunch either
on a bed of mixed gr eens, in between pita br ead, or over br own rice. Personally, I’ve gone several days in a r ow feasting on E2 dinner
leftovers that ar e often better the next day after all the fl avors have
had that extra time to marinate. OceanofPDF.com3
E2 RECIPES
E2 Br eakfasts  / 149
E2 Hearty Cereal Bowls / 150
E2 Saturday Specials / 152
E2 Sunday Morning Pancakes and Muf fins / 157
E2 Fruit and Toast / 162
E2 Easy Lunches / 163
E2 Sandwiches / 163
E2 Wraps and Pitas / 168
E2 Lunch Salads / 172
E2 Dinners  / 175
E2 Dinner Plates / 176
E2 Bur gers / 184
E2 Potato Sides / 190
E2 Pasta / 192
E2 Pizza / 196
E2 Comfort Dinners / 201
E2 Stir -Fries / 208
E2 Big Salads / 212
E2 Soups / 217
E2 Tex-Mex Favorites / 222
E2 Dr essings, Spr eads, and Marinades  / 232
E2 Desserts  / 245
E2 Chocolate Knockouts! / 245
E2 Fresh Fruit and Fruit Bowls / 248E2 Cobblers, Cookies, and Pies / 250
E2 Puddings and Mousses / 255
Growing up, I hated vegetables. The only ones I would eat were peas
and corn. I’d make bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches without the
lettuce and tomato, and double up on the bacon and mayonnaise. But over
the last twenty years, I’ve grown to appreciate and love vegetables, beans,
and whole grains, along with the art of cooking them. To relax your spirit and strengthen your health, following are more than
125 mouthwatering recipes filled with the foods I now love, and love to
serve friends. In fact, every guest who has eaten a plant-hearty meal at our
home or at Engine 2 has declared, “I never knew plant-based food would
taste this good! I’d eat this way if I knew how.”
Well, now you’ll know how. Grab the ingredients, follow the
instructions, and you’re of f to the races with a smile! E2 BREAKF ASTS. Breakfast is my second-favorite meal of the day, right next to dinner. It
comes after a forced fast of six to eight hours (unless you’ve been sleeping
at the firehouse, where more likely than not you’ve been up three times
between midnight and dawn), when the body begins revving up its
metabolic engine. Too many people for go breakfast because they’re in a hurry, don’ t have
an appetite, or are trying to lose weight. But if you skip breakfast, your
body will enter conservation mode and slow down your metabolism in an
attempt to conserve ener gy—a bad move if you’re trying to lose weight. So make breakfast a priority. Some of these recipes require just two
minutes to prepare, roughly the same amount of time that elapses between
the moment we hear the alarm at the station and when we arrive at the scene
of the incident. E2 Hearty Cer eal Bowls
Most of the cereals on the grocery store shelves are loaded with
processed junk and should be avoided—they’re candy in a box. I want youto fill up your morning cereal bowl with whole grains containing little to no
added sugars. Start your day with a bang rather than a misfire! Rip’s Big Bowl
This has been my mainstay breakfast for more than twenty years. I never
get sick of it and no two bowls are ever quite the same, depending on which
fruits are in season and the milk substitute I have on hand. This was also a favorite recipe for most of the E2 Pilot Study
participants. As a seven-year -old daughter of one of the participants said, “I
look forward to waking up in the morning just so I can have my Rip’ s
Bowl.”
Let your appetite be your guide as to the size of your bowl. ¼ cup old-fashioned oats
¼ cup Grape-Nuts or Ezekiel brand equivalent
¼ cup bite-size shredded wheat
¼ cup Uncle Sam Cereal
1 tablespoon ground flaxseed meal
2 tablespoons raisins
½ handful of walnuts
1 banana, sliced
1 kiwi, sliced
1 grapefruit
¾ cup milk substitute of choice
Toss all ingredients except the grapefruit and milk substitute into a bowl. After cutting the grapefruit in half, use a small, sharp knife to remove the
segments. Add the segments to the top of the bowl and squeeze in the juice. Top the bowl with milk substitute. Variations:
In a pinch, simply add water (the fruits blend with the water and give it a
sweet taste). Add any fresh or frozen fruit, such as peaches, cherries, mangoes,
blueberries, or red grapes. If you want to lower your cholester ol levels even mor e, use
half a cup of oats and omit one of the quarter cups of the other
cereals. E2 Hot Lap Bowl
When Engine 2 pulls up to a house fire, our lieutenant immediately does a
“hot lap”—a 360-degree walk around the structure to determine the scope
of the situation before deciding on a course of action. Experiment with dif ferent ingredients to personalize your bowl and
determine the best plan of attack. 1 cup uncooked hot cereal (see E2-Approved Foods)
1 tablespoon ground flaxseed meal
2 tablespoons raisins or dried cranberries
1 banana, sliced
½ cup fresh or frozen fruit
½ cup soy milk
½ handful of walnuts
Cook cereal in water according to directions with flaxseed meal, raisins,
banana, and fruit. drizzle with soy milk and top with nuts. Simple Cer eal Bowl
There’ s something really nice about a plain bowl filled with one type of
cereal, whether it’ s Grape-Nuts, oat bran flakes, or plain oats, and a little
fruit. So, bring breakfast down a notch and enjoy the simplicity. 1 cup whole grain cereal (see E2-Approved Foods)
1 banana, sliced, or any other fresh or frozen fruit
½ cup soy milk
Place the cereal in a bowl, and top with fruit and soy milk.Quick Oatmeal Bowl
A warm, healthy breakfast doesn’ t get any easier than this bowl, which I
discovered through an old Canadian triathlete friend named Dan Murray. Dan was one of the best Olympic distance triathletes of the early 1990s; he
was the first man to run a sub-thirty-minute 10K in a triathlon. Now that’ s
quick! 1 cup old-fashioned oats
1 cup water
1 banana, sliced
1 tablespoon blackstrap molasses
Place the oatmeal, water, and banana into a lar ge bowl. Microwave on
high for 2 minutes. Top with molasses and serve. E2 SA TURDA Y SPECIALS
One morning at the fire station, I woke up at seven and saw Derick walk
past wearing just his pants. “Did you sleep with your pants on?” I asked. “Yes,” he said. “I always do when I’m driving.”
“Is that so you’re a little faster to the draw?”
“No,” he said. “It’ s to remind me where I am.”
I know exactly what he’ s talking about. Sometimes you wake up and you
have no clue where you are or what’ s going on. So when that alarm goes of f


 risk of heart
disease than LDL cholesterol. ( Journal of American Medical Association 1998 ). Triglycerides are also more predictive of  risk of heart disease than LDL levels. Why? High triglyceride levels indicate insulin  resistance or carbohydrate sensitivity. How do I reduce my risk of heart disease? Dr Cass Ingram, in his popular book, Eat Right to Live Long  (published by Literary Visions
Publishing Inc 1994) lists as the top six causes of high cholesterol as being: excess dietary
sugar; excess dietary starch ; excess hydrogenated and processed fats; liver dysfunction;
amino acid (protein) deficiency; and essential fatty acid deficiency. Avoiding foods containing unhealthy fat and choleste rol is important for optimal health (see
foods to avoid list). However, 80%  of your daily cholesterol is produced in your body (liver), it
does not come from your diet. So you also need to control the production of cholesterol in
your liver. How do you do that? An ENZYME  (HMG CoA) controls the produc tion of cholesterol in your
liver. The hormones GLUCAGON AND INSULIN control the release of this enzyme. GLUCAGON  inhibits the enzyme, and INSULIN  activates the enzyme. So a major KEY TO
CONTROLLING CHOLESTEROL PRODUCTION  is to increase glucagon, and decrease
insulin. This is exactly what common statin drugs do – inhibit the production of LDL by
regulating the HMG CoA enzyme. You can achieve the same results as these harmful drugs,
through balanced nutrition, wit hout the side effects! How do you lower insulin and increase glucagon through nutrition? The key is to eat in a manner that keeps your blood sugar stable. In keeping your blood sugar
stable, you control the excess release of insulin. Excess insulin is secreted every time you “ove r-carb.” Whenever you eat sugar or processed
carbohydrates, or simply too many carbohydrat es for your body, (because all carbohydrates
break down into blood sugar called glucose) you will have excess glucose in your blood
stream, causing your blood sugar to spike. In tu rn, your pancreas secretes insulin. Insulin is
your body’s most powerful storage hormone. Insulin  totally blocks your body’s ability to burn
fat, converts all the excess blood sugar into trigl ycerides (blood fats), and stores these fats in
your fat cells. Glucagon is released every time you eat lean pr otein. Glucagon when present in your blood
steam also lowers insulin levels. So it is important to eat lean pr otein every single meal. Most patients are told by their doctors to control their fat intake in order to reduce their LDL
cholesterol and are advised to eat a high car bohydrate low fat diet. Lowering unhealthy fat
intake decreases LDL levels. BUT increasing carbohydrate content  causes HDL (good
cholesterol) to drop and triglycerides and to tal cholesterol to increase, which means
increased risk of heart disease. To control the balance of glucagon and insulin, you should follow the energyfirst nutrition
guidelines, eating a healthy balance of lean protei n, good fats/oils (containing essential fats
omega 3 and 6), and unprocessed carbohydrates at each meal, eliminating processed
carbohydrates, and never eating carbohydrates alone, always co mbining carbohydrates with
lean protein and/or good fats/oils. This slows t he gastric emptying of the carbohydrates,
preventing a blood sugar spike and controlling the release of insulin. In addition to these
guidelines, you need to exercise regularly and take a basic s upplementation program. When
you follow this lifestyle, you will find your choleste rol levels may return to healthy levels within
60-90 days, without ever having to  touch a prescription drug!. To find out more about the energyfirst nutrition, exercise, and supplementation
programs, visit energyfirst.com under “The Energyfirst Program” section.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Dispelling The Cholesterol Myth
By Lisa Anne Leslie CCN

There are a lot of misconceptions about cholesterol and its role in health and disease. Below
is some information about cholesterol that ma y dispel any misinformation you may have. Important Terms

Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL)
LDL carries cholesterol from your tissues into your blood stream. High Density Lipoprotein (HDL)
HDL picks up and transports cholesterol in the blood back to the liver wher e it is eliminated
from your body. HDL can help keep LDL cholesterol from building up in the walls of your
arteries. Triglycerides
Triglycerides are a form of fat carried through your  bloodstream. Most of your body's fat is in
the form of triglycerides, stored in  fat tissue. Lipoproteins that are rich in triglycerides also
contain cholesterol. How much and what kind of cholesterol do you need for good health. Cholesterol is a fat that is absolutely essential to life. It is part of ev ery cell and many of the
hormones in your body. You need cholesterol to  survive. However, too much and oxidized
LDL cholesterol and too little HDL cholestero l are associated with in creased risk of heart
disease. Is cholesterol the best indicator of heart disease. Reducing LDL cholesterol is important BUT choles terol levels are not t he gold standard of for
predicting heart attacks. Why. Reducing choles terol ALONE does not necessarily decrease
risk of heart disease. ( Studies show there is NO association between high cholesterol and
death from heart disease in people over 70 and nearly 50% of patient s with heart disease
have normal cholesterol levels. ) Studies show your fasting insulin levels are MO RE THAN TWICE as predictive of risk of heart
disease than LDL cholesterol. ( Journal of American Medical Association 1998 ). Triglycerides are also more predictive of  risk of heart disease than LDL levels.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the primary function of Low-Density Lipoprotein (LDL) in the body?,
A: LDL carries cholesterol from the tissues into the bloodstream.
Q: What is the role of High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL) in the body?,
A: HDL picks up and transports cholesterol from the blood to the liver, where it is eliminated from the body.
Q: According to the text, what is the most powerful storage hormone in the body?,
A: Insulin, which converts excess blood sugar into triglycerides and stores them in fat cells.
Q: What is the recommended approach to controlling cholesterol levels, according to the author?,
A: It is recommended to follow the "energyfirst" nutrition guidelines, which involve eating a balanced diet of lean protein, healthy fats, and unprocessed carbohydrates, and exercising regularly.
Q: Can reducing fat intake alone lower the risk of heart disease?,
A: No, according to the text, reducing fat intake can actually increase the risk of heart disease by decreasing HDL levels and increasing triglycerides and total cholesterol.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Copyright	©	2012	by	Wayne	W.	Dyer
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 its exchange between self and others at physical, emotional
and spiritual planes. It is depicted as a six-petalled  lotus of vermilion orange colour. The
Sanskrit letters ‘bam’, ‘bham’, ‘mam’, ‘yam’, ‘ram’ and ‘lam’ are written on
each of the petals. Within the pericarp of the lotus is a white crescent moon. The animal associated with swadhisthana is the crocodile, which represents
the unconscious  mind and its sensuous nature. Seated on the crocodile is the
bija mantra vam. Within the bindu of the mantra is depicted the deities
Vishnu and Rakini as a form of shakti. Vishnu is the sustainer of the universe
and represents the power of preservation. Rakini shakti is depicted with twoheads, representing the duality of energy in this chakra whereby a person is
trying to attain a balance betw een the world outside and the w orld within. Ayurveda and tantra associate the water element with this chakra. Our
Earth is two-thirds water, and our bodies are made up of two-thirds water. The water on Earth is affected by lunar cycles, with the moon phases being
responsible for high and low tides, and our bodies are also affected by moon
phases. This is why some people e xperience mood swings, particular ly during
a full moon, and why this chakra is considered to be the seat of emotional
balance. According to tantra our unconscious minds record each and every
perception, association and experience, with a quarrel or bitterness having a
stronger registration. These registrations play a part in determining our day-
to-day behaviour, attitudes and reactions and create a hindrance to our
spiritual pr ogress. The vayu associated with this chakra is vyana vayu, which regulates
circulation of the fluids in the body whether it’s blood, lymph, saliva or
menstrual fluids. Physiologically, swadhisthana regulates our reproductive,
urinary and lymphatic systems, corresponds to the hypogastric or sacral
plexus of nerv es and contr ols the unconscious in human beings. Imbalances and the tools to heal them
Emotional stress is the major cause of imbalances or blockages in this chakra. It may also be the cause of chronic depression, resulting in malfunctioning of
the circulatory system and especially the lymphatic system. It also affects the
excretory system of the body, resulting in problems with body fluids such as
blood, lymph, saliva, urine and menstrual flow and all the organs related to
their production. At the physiological level, an imbalance of the sacralchakra can affect hormone production, leading to menstrual problems and
issues with fertility. Swadhisthana is the seat of emotional balance and also influences the
heart and throat chakras. An inability to express emotions can affect thyroid
function and lymph circulation in the sub-mandib ular area or the jaw line,
manifesting as congestion on the chin and face; it also affects the lymph
nodes in the front and back of the ears and may cause tinnitus. This chakra
has a direct bearing on the heart chakra, since emotional issues also involve
the heart. A heart chakra imbalance affects lymph circulation in that area,
causing breast problems or even breast cancer. A weak or imbalanced sacral
chakra is also the cause of compulsiv e-obsessiv e behaviour and addictions. The practice of mula bandha yoga (anal/genital contractions similar to
Kegel exercises) is effective in strengthening this chakra. A gentle massage on
a regular basis with the flat of the fingers in the inguinal lymph nodes area
will help clear c hakra congestion and mo ve circulation and ener gies. Among the healing crystals, carnelian is popular for the sacral chakra as
its balancing energies help to move fluids in the body. Other useful stones are
orange agate and orange calcite. Hessonite garnet is also a powerful gem
stone to heal and balance the sacral c hakra. Among the essential oils we prefer using those that represent the water
element. In plants the water element is represented in the stems or the wood,
as they are the water channels; therefore, we use oils from the stems and
wood. Sandalwood is a powerful essential oil, while other useful oils are
cedarwood, ginger, rosewood and juniper berry. Pure jasmine absolute has
been clinically tried as an emotional balancer and anti-depressant, besides
being an aphr odisiac.Manipura (solar plexus)
Guna: rajas
Element: fire
Vayu: samana
Auric layer: mental body
Colour: yellow
Structural representation: 10 petals
Bija mantra: ram
Developmental age: 14 to 21 years
Main issues: mental power, self-will, ambitions
Gland: pancreas
Site: below the diaphragm, representing the solar plexus
Sense: sight
Sense organ: eyes
Work organs: feet and legs
Animal: ram
Deity: Ram (reincarnation of Lord Vishnu)
Numbers: 1, 3, 7
Planets: sun, Jupiter, Ketu
Zodiac signs: Aries, Leo
Essential oils: black pepper, rosemary, chamomile, juniper berry, marjoram,
turmeric, thymeCrystals: ruby, tiger’s eye, yellow topaz, citrine, yellow calcite, pyrite, sunstone
The manipura (solar plexus) chakra is associated with the mental body in our
auric layer. It corresponds to the solar plexus, which is the seat of our
personal power. This chakra controls the entire process of digestion,
assimilation and temperature regulation at the physical level. It is most
dominant during the age of 14 to 21 years, a phase of life during which a
person tries to seek their identity in the world. This chakra also represents
our lower mind, as it is responsible for our life ambitions, drive, mental
power, logical thinking, reasoning and power-seeking attitude. This chakra
governs the establishment of the ego in the human realms, with varying
degrees of self-assertion and its acceptability. The organs of action are thefeet and legs, underlying the interdependence of vision with the wilful actions
of the legs and feet. The Sanskrit word ‘manipura’ derives from mani, meaning ‘jewel’, and
pura, meaning ‘city’; literally, it means ‘city of jewels’. In Tibetan tradition it
is referred to as the jewelled lotus mani padma. It is the seat of life ambitions,
money, power, self-will, self-assertion and authority and ego. A person with a
dominant solar plexus chakra will strive for personal power and recognition,
even to the detriment of family and friends. These are the traits of people
with the n umber 1 as their birth or life n umber. Manipura is symbolised as a 10-petalled lotus, with the Sanskrit letters
‘pham’, ‘dam’, ‘dham’, ‘nam’, ‘tam’, ‘tham’, ‘dam’, ‘dham’, ‘nam’ and ‘pam’
on each petal. In the centre of the lotus is the region of fire, which is
symbolised by an inverted fiery red triangle that shines like a rising sun. In
the lower apex of the triangle is the ram, vehicle of the bija, which symbolises
dynamism and indomitab le endurance. On this is placed the seed mantra
‘ram’. In the Indian scripture Ramayan, Shri Ram, around whom the whole
epic revolves, comes from the lineage of the sun and is hence called
Suryavanshi. The element associated with this chakra is fire, represented by
the sun. The sun was a raja (king), and this chakra is rajasic; the seed mantra
is his name, Ram, which is a very powerful mantra for the solar plexus
chakra. The sense associated with this chakra is sight, as our optic nerve is
influenced by it. Manipura is associated with the fire element, which aids in
complete metabolic processes including digestion and the absorption of food
in order to provide our bodies the vital energy they need for their survival. The vayu associated with this chakra is samana vayu. According to sawar
yoga (the yoga of breath), this chakra is an important junction where prana
and apana v ayu meet, maintaining the balance of vital f orces.Manipura is responsible for the expression of individuality, and it is here
that the dissolution of karmic account begins on the path of spirituality. This
chakra is considered to be the last peak of the mortal plane or the physical
plane of existence. Kundalini tantra states that kundalini rises in all of us
from the muladhara (base root) chakra up to the manipura (solar plexus)
chakra, as the lower three chakras are responsible for fulfilling our basic
needs. Once the kundalini crosses manipura and reaches the anahata (heart)
chakra, the process of spiritual awakening begins. It is believed that once
kundalini crosses the astral bridge, which is the energetic barrier between
manipura and anahata, it only moves upwards


 became the
kind of ospring parents dream of having. He was an intelligent,
sensitive boy, well behaved and diligent in his schoolwork. He grew
up to be magnetically good-looking, and other boys looked up to
him as a natur al athlete and a born leader. Success follow ed success,
and yet festering underneath  it all, like rotten wood covered with
gold leaf, was a feeling of dread that never left him. “I learned to keep our secret at any price, particularly from my
grandparents—they were Greek immigrants who looked on me as
the bright, blond hope. Everyone expected the world of me, and I
wanted above all to oblige. At ve years old I felt like a little adult. I
understood adult feelings and adult ambitions, and the adult need to
guard yourself from exposure. The strain inside me was enormous,
because everyone in my family was basically living through me.”
The deeper Nick’s parents buried their own severe emotional
problems, the more necessary they found it to manipulat e him. His
psyche became the stage for playing out their hidden frustrations. “I
accepted that I was the sacricial lamb. What Mommy and Daddyfelt, I felt, too. That was my job, to be a buer between them. I
knew it was unfair. I wasn’t being allowed any feelings of my own,
the child’s feelings that my friends had. I was never simply happy or
simply sad. My emotions were complicated, because they were
grown-up emotions shifted from my parents onto me.”
No child is prepared for such pressures, and Nick soon became
profoundly confused about the most basic issues of feeling and
identity. “I remember calling  out in anguish when I was six, asking
God why I was being tormented in this way. But what could I do? My mother said I came out of her, and yet she said I was adopted. My father claimed that he loved me, and yet he beat me for no
reason. And their whole motive, so they said, was that they wanted
me to be a real son to them. “In some strange way, it all came down to my being adopted. Whenever he hit me, my father seemed to be saying, ‘Damn it, you
may not be my son, but if I wallop you hard enough, I’ll make you
mine.’ ”
Above the Play of Opposites
So far, I am telling Nick’s story as he told it to me, from the
viewpoint of a thirty-eight-year-old man who vividly remembers the
pain of his childhood but who has worked it through. Nick came to
me during the last phase of treatment for a serious addiction, at a
time when he was beginning to meditate—this has become the
anchor for his healed sense of self. Our talks turned on inner issues;
the strictly medical problem s of being an addict are over with. Forthcoming as Nick is today, the terror of his world as a child can
only be guesse d at by an outsider. Its real texture and feelings are
not apparent in the man I see before me. The adult Nick is a very understanding person. He has read the
books on dysfunctional families and been through the groups. Today
he can talk sympathetically about his aged father, the same man
who emerges as a monster in his tale. “My father is seventy now, but he is still emotionally brittle. It’s
hard to bring up those years  without upsetting him,” Nick said. “Inorder to love my parents as they are today, I have accepted
responsibility for my past, all of it. I want to get on with my future.”
Nick spoke these conciliatory  words near the end of our long rst
interview. The whole time he had been talking, his voice had
remained perfectly, almost uncannily calm. But just hearing about
his father’s aggression had set my own heart pounding. I suddenly
realized that I felt more outraged by Nick’s story than he seemed to
be—and that gave me pause. When an adult is entrusted with a
guilty or shameful secret, it may cause extreme psychological
distress, but at least he has a formed personality to absorb it. Nick
has never been a person separate from his secrets. They were
molded into his psyche from his earliest years. I couldn ’t help but
wonder how much of himself Nick had to smother in order to
become so accepting. This was not a subject I intended to probe. After years of painful
eort, Nick has made himse lf into something admirabl e—he is a
good man, sane, kind, and tolerant. But being good is not the same
as being whole. The two can be exact opposites, in fact, if goodness
is the outcome of a war in which one part of the self must defeat
another. Whate ver wholeness  is, it is not a war. It is a state of mind
above conict, not touched by evil, immune to fear. This degree of
psychological freedom may seem unreachable, but the very concept
of whol eness means not split into parts, even the basic dualities of
good and bad, love and hate, black and white. Since reality can be divided endlessly, how can wholeness
possibly exist, and if it does, how can it be integrated with the
fragmented world? The ancient rishis set out to answer these
questions, and what they found was this: the human mind can be
either silent or active. In that regard, duality is unavoidable. “The
play of opposi tes,” as the Upanishads calls it, cannot be abolished. But opposites can coexist without challenging each other—and that
is the secret. For wholeness to be a living reality, one must learn
how to expand beyond the eld of duality, encompassing the most
diametrically opposed qualities of life: good and evil, joy and
suering, love and hate.Thinking about Nick, I realized that his upbringing had fostered a
“solution” that many other people have adopted, putting all their
energy into making life perfect on the outside while shoving all
their fear, anger, and guilt out of sight. In any case, it is not the
repression of pain that worries me, for psychiatry has explored that
mechanism extensively. But what about the other pole? By
pretending that everything was perfect, Nick developed a profound
disillusion that anything could really  be perfect. He equates
perfection with deception. Sadly, so do most people. One of the greatest shocks I had as a young doctor came when I
saw how divided most of my patients were. They preserved a public
facade up to the very moment I ushered them in from the waiting
room. The instant I closed  the door, however, the public self
crumbled. An overwhelming ood of pain came my way, far more
pain than their disease could have caused. A lifetime of pent-up
rage, self-doubt, grief, guilt, and remorse poured uncontrollably
from these people. I would do what I could, and after half an hour,
they just as quickly re-composed themselves, and the public person
once again marched out into the waiting room, bidding me good-
bye with a cheerfulness that was chilling. This is exactly  what it mean s to be fragmented, to live under the
sway of opposi tes. It is a condition so far removed from healing that
perfection—which could be seen as simply the natural state of life—
looms as an enemy. Many neurotic patients go into therapy wanting
to be “cured.” But the last thing they want is to cry their hearts out
or show vulnerability or grieve over lost love or whoop with joy. Yet
that is what normal people do if they are in touch with themselves. The deep problem facing not only Nick but everyone is how to
break free of boundaries when being a prisoner is the only
comfortable way we know how to live. First of all, one has to be honest enough to admit that life is not
perfect already. Although this may sound like the easiest step, it is
often the hardest, because it has to be accomplished on the feeling
level. Looking around and saying calmly, “Yes, we could do with
some improvements here,” has nothing to do with buried emotions,
feeling trapped, angry, disappointed, humiliated, and in pain. Denyit as they will, everyone has such feelings. The reason I can risk this
blanket genera lization is that I see no one living a perfe ct life, and
since perfection is both natural and possible, something must be
denying it and holding it back. Once a skeptical disciple was visiting his guru. Modern gurus do
not all live in caves, and this one happened to inhabit a tiny
apartment in Bombay. “Is there really any dierence between you and me?” the disciple
demanded. “I look at us, and I just see two old men sitting  in a room
waiting for their lunch.” The guru replied, “Your level of awareness
forces you to see yourself as an old man sitting in a room. But to
me, this room and everything in it occupy the smallest speck on the
horizon of my awareness.”
“Even if you have adopted that perspective, we still live in the
same world,” the disciple argued. “No, your world is personal, private, and unshareable. No one else


 the liver. I already told the story of how my own mother lost half her live r this
way. The condition is usually caused by a combination of hereditary tendency, general toxemia, and/or a high -fat diet, especially one
high in animal fats. The liver makes bile that is stored in the gallbladder, to be released on demand into the small intestine to digest
fat. A toxic, overloaded liver makes irritating sediment -containing bile that inflames the gallbladder and forms stones. A high -fat
diet forces the liver to make even more of this irritant. A toxic, overloaded, inflamed, bloc ked gallbladder is capable of causing an enormous array of symptoms that can seem to have
no connection at all to their cause. In part these same symptoms are caused by a toxic, constipated colon that, in part, got that way
because of poor fat digestion ov er a long time. These symptoms include: severe back pain; headache; bloating; burping; nausea;
insomnia; intestinal gas; generalized aches and pains. Medical doctors used to remove a troublesome gallbladder without hesitation; it was an organ they cons idered to be highly
dispensable. Without one, the bile duct takes over as a bladder but its capacity is much smaller so the person's ability to d igest fats
has been permanently crippled, leading to increased toxemia and earlier aging if fats are not elimin ated from the diet. These days
the medicos have a new, less invasive procedure to eliminate stones; they are vibrated and broken -up by ultrasonics without major
surgery. Inflamed gallbladders are usually removed because gallbladder inflammations resist tre atment by antibiotics. There are several very effective natural gallbladder remedies. The best is a three week fast, taking the juice of one or two lemons
every day, along with colonics. The lemon juice tends to clear the bile duct. The fast allows the  gallbladder to heal from
inflammation. In cases that aren't too severe I have had very good results simply eliminating fats from the diet and using a food
supplement derived from beet tops called AF Betafood. However, in all these cases, once the gallblad der is no longer "acting up,"
the person must stay on a low fat diet. Any fats they do eat must be vegetable and in small quantities. By healing their gallbladders and cleansing their colons, several of my clients have resolved severe, debilitating bac k pain, pain
so severe that the suffers were becoming bedridden. Medical doctors don't associate gallbladder disease with back pain. The Frightening Heart
    Heart disease is one of the major causes of death among North Americans. It evokes images of res uscitation, of desperate races
against time, trying to restart an arrested heart before the brain dies. It makes people think of horribly expensive surgery,  last wills
and testaments, terrible, paralyzing pain. Heart disease is a great profit center for th e medical profession. Most heart problems are very easy to fix by holistic approaches, even many hereditary weaknesses and malfunctions can be
healed, if the work is done before too much organic damage occurs. But it rarely is easy to get the people to  take the necessary
medicine; everything in their lives must change –and fast. First of all, people with heart problems must rapidly reach and maintain normal weight. This can be done by fasting or by
dietary change, usually by eliminating all fats, sug ars and refined starches. Alcohol and tobacco must instantly and forever become
only past memories. It is almost as essential to eliminate flesh protein foods and dairy. Should that prove entirely too pain ful, fish
in small quantities and only one or two t imes a week is tolerable. For starters, a long fast, especially one involving lots of bed rest, is ideal. This gives the heart a chance to heal while t he body
weight is adjusted. A period of intense rest even without water fasting will accomplish almo st as much. Even someone with the
potential for heart disease who has not yet had a heart attack would be well -served to spend a month in bed, losing weight on juice,
or sitting in a rocker on the porch eating only raw foods. After the weight is down to no rmal or close to normal and the heart tests
stronger, an exercise program should be started. Exercise has to become a religion. A daily aerobic program must be started on a carefully managed gradient, using the pulse r ate
as an regulator, at first rais ing their maximum heart rate to a point just below 150 percent of its resting pulse and keeping it there
for thirty minutes. One can walk, jog, ride a bicycle or use an exercise machine. Actually, everyone should do this, even tho se with
no heart problems. My husband, who hates the boredom of exercise, enjoys a ski machine in front of the TV while the stock
market program is on. He finds the TV interesting enough that he pays no attention to his workout. Daily aerobic exercise wil l
strengthen the heart, gra dually slowing the heart's resting pulse rate, indicating that the heart has become much stronger, pumping
more blood with each pulse. As the resting pulse drops the exercising heartbeat can be increased to double the resting rate. Highly aggressive, competitive, stress -oriented people have to give up being adrenaline junkies and learn to relax and assume a
laid-back approach to living. Or die soon. An adrenaline junkie is someone that enjoys the feeling they get when operating under
stress. Stress and  the adrenaline it releases produce a kind of a drug -high. Many stressaholics cannot give up their adrenaline
addiction while maintaining their previous employment and life -style, even though their life is at stake. In this sense they are like
alcoholics, who should not take employment tending bar. To survive for long these people may have to retire or change
professions. Stockbrokers may have to become Organic farmers; journalists may have to operate a news stand or bookstore, or
work part -time covering th e society page and dog shows. Women frequently turn their family life into a stress -filled drama too. With heart problems a life extension megavitamin program is essential, even for twenty somethings if they have heart disease. The sixty milligrams of Co-Enzyme Q -10 I recommend for the average middle aged person will not be enough for heart cases;
they should take at least 120 milligrams daily and consider up to 250 mg. This much Q -10 greatly boosts the energy output of the
heart on a cellular level. Vi tamin E should also be increased, to between 600 and 2,000 iu daily. I also rebuild diseased hearts with
protomorphogens; usually they must stay on protomorphogens for the rest of their lives. Niacin taken several times a day in d oses,
sufficient to dilate  the capillaries and cause a skin flush (50 to 200 milligrams), increases the blood flow to nourish the heart. The
amino acid L. Carnitine is also useful by increasing the energy output of the heart much like Co -Enzyme Q -10. When I put people on this p rogram, the supplements and other measures gradually take effect, and over months the patient
begins to feel enormously better. Inevitably they come to dislike the side -effects of the various medications their medical doctor
has put them on and they begin to wean themselves off of heart -stimulating poisons like digitalis. Another benefit of my program
is that inevitably, blood pressure also drops to a normal range so if they have been on blood pressure medication they quit t hat too. Their diuretics also bec ome unnecessary. The money they save more than pays for their supplements and the sense of well -being
they feel is beyond value. Other Kinds Of Cancer
    There seem to be many other kinds of cancer, at least if you believe the medical doctors. They divid e up cancers and their
treatments by their location in the body and by the type of cancer cells present. I do not see it that way. To me, a cancer i s a cancer
is a cancer, and there is only one kind: it is an immune system collapse, consequence of the dead ly triangle of weak spleen, thymus
and liver, plus a toxic large intestine and weak pancreas. That organ profile is found in skin cancer, prostate cancer, leuke mia,
brain cancer, cancer of what have you. How fast or how slowly the cells multiply or spread,  where they are located, what the
cancer cells look like in a microscope, these are irrelevant factors compared to the body's ability to conquer the disease. O r die
from it. If the body's immune system can stop the growth of the cancers and begin to tu rn them back before the cancer cells impinge
catastrophically on some vital function, the person can usually survive. Even if the body cannot completely eliminate all the  cancer
cells, but regains enough immune function to keep the existing cancers in perm anent check, a person can survive many years with
an existing, stable cancer without undue pain or discomfort. Still having a non -growing tumor after a long fast indicates that a
person is a lot better than they were before fasting. I believe that vir tually everyone has cancer cells in their body, just like viruses and bacteria. But most people do not develop
cancer as a disease because their immune function is strong so these misbehaving cells are destroyed as fast as they appear. Mutated, freely -multiplying cells are caused by peroxidized fats,


 than I can handle,
and I fee l pr essur ed by my need to  make money to pay my bills  aren’ t
balanced and peaceful. These thoughts are resistant ener gy, which counters
the desi re for a peaceful, stre ss-free existence. In other words, they’re
nonaligned and out of balance. Y our desire may be a 10, but y our mental
ener gy in this situation is in a much lower range, perhaps a 2 or 3. Simply c hanging your behavior isn’ t going to get you back into balance. Y ou’re s till attra cting symptom s of stress when you say no to  people and
their demands, but vibrate to a frequency that’ s thinking, I r eally should be
doing what they ask of me,  or Maybe I can squ eeze in their r e quests later. Y ou may have pulled back from an overly full and frenzied schedule, yet
you con tinue to  radiate thoughts of fear and scarcity that will activate the
Law of Attraction to bring you fear and scarcity. If st ress thoughts are tipping the scale, that’ s what the Law of Attraction
brings. Remember: Y ou become what you think about! If you’re thinking
scarcity or anger or fear, guess what? That’ s what the Law of Attraction
attracts! Even with a well-balanced schedule that allows for mo re free time,
and even with plenty of stress-reducing activities on your pared-down
personal calenda r, if you fail to align your thoughts with the suc cess you’re
capable of attracting, the weight  of the dominant thoughts will tip the scale
away from a bal anced life. How you live your daily life will remain out ofbalance, and you’ll have failed to assimilate the essence of Gandhi’ s advice
that there is more to life than “increasing its speed.”
What yo u most need to learn is how to create a match between what it is
that you  desire in your life, and what thoughts, or vibrational ener gy, you’re
choosing to attract those desires. Realigning Your Point of Attraction: The Art of
Becoming
Here’ s one of m y favorite quotes from my teacher in India, Nis ar gadatta
Maharaj:
There is nothing to do. Just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say “be yourself”
since you do not know yourself. Just be. This idea may c ontradict everything you’ve been taught and how you’ve
lived so far, but let it sink in any way. If your lifetime inventory of ideas and
rules has contributed to your being one of those 112 million who use
medication to handle nonexis tent stress, you can certainly af ford to
entertain this thought. As you begin practicing the principles to realign with
a vibrat ion that matches your desire for a tranquil, peaceful life, you’ll
become more conscious of your  thoughts. These thoughts of yo urs literally
determine who you are. And the fact that you’re reading these wordssuggests that you’re intereste d in becoming more conscious of your
thoughts. Being  and becoming  are use d synonymously here. I n order to restore a
sense of  balance  between your d esire for tranquility and your de sire to meet
the requirements of your life, you must practice becoming,  and being  the
vibration that you desire. — BEING PEACE:  Pea ce isn’ t something that you  ultimately receive
when you slow down the pace o f your life. Peace is what you’re capable of
being and bringing to every encounter and event in the waking moments of
your life. Most of us are wagin g a nonstop internal mental sk irmish with
everyone we encounter. Being peaceful is an inner attitude th at you can
enjoy when you’ve learned to s ilence your incessant inner dialogue. Being
peaceful isn’ t dependent on wha t your surroundings look like. It  seldom has
anything to do with what the people around you think, say, or do. A
noiseless environment isn’ t a requirement. St. F rancis’ s famous prayer sta tes it better than I can: “Make me an
instrument of thy peace.” In other words, St. Francis wasn’ t asking God to
provide him with peace. He wa s asking for guidance to be more like the
peace he trusted was his Source. Being peace  is dif ferent from looking for
peace. This principle isn’ t about merely choosing tranquil thoughts when you’re
feeling frayed and anxious. I suggest picturing a container deep within
yourself out of w hich all your thoughts flow. Inside of this con tainer, at its
very cen ter, ima gine a candle fl ame. Y ou need to make a commitment that
this flame in the  center of the container holding all of your th oughts will
never, ever even flicker, although the very worst may go before you. This is
your container of peace, and only peaceful thoughts can fuel the burning
candle. Y ou don’ t need to chan ge your thoughts as much as you need to
learn to be an ener gy of peace lighting the way and attracting serene,
harmonious thoughts and beings. In this way, you’ll become a being of
peace.Obviously, you take this inner  receptacle with you wherever you go. When people attempt to put som e kind of pressure on you, when you feel
overwhelmed, o r when situations arise that previously incited your distress
or bellicosity, you can immediately turn to your inner candle flame of peace
and see how to keep your light  glowing. This is being  the peace that you
wish for yourself. This is of ferin g a matching vibration to your desire to be
a tranquil and amicable being, rather than a person suf fering from the
disease of trying to make life g o faster. Y ou’ve already seen th e results of
that foll y, and you notice the sy mptoms of stress in virtually ev eryone you
meet. As a being of peace, you make a huge impact on those around you. It’ s
almost i mpossible to be totally s tressed out in the presence of someone who
has opte d to be peace. Peace is a higher and faster ener gy—when you’re
being peace, just your presence alone will often nullify the uneasiness and
tension in those around you. In fact, this state causes pheromones of
measurable ener gy to emanate from you. They af fect others, who become
more peaceful without even bein g aware of the transformation t aking place. The secret of this principle for restoring balance to your life is: Be the peace
and harmony you desir e.  Y ou cannot get it from anything or anyone else. So you’ re not ready to take Nis ar gadatta’ s profound advice and just be? Then work at becoming  t hat  being with  the inner light of a steady candle
flame. Here are some exercises to initiate becoming and being peaceful:
Want the Peace You Desire for Yourself Even More
for Others
Practice giving peace away w herever you go by imagining that only
thoughts of peace are in the container within you. Of fer the se ener gies
wherever possib le. Become a p eacemaker with your fellow workers, your
family members, and especia lly those with whom you’re in a love
relationship. Leave your ego outside, where it can’ t extinguish your candle
flame. Then of fer someone with  whom you usually ar gue and make wrong
a ne w th ought f rom the light: Y ou’r e making a good point; I’l l think aboutthat. Or Thanks for giving your opinion; I value what you have to say. These statements may at first shock the recipient, but you know that you’re
practicing becoming a being of peace by giving away what you want. Ask
Use the words of St. Francis to ask to become peace: Make me an
instrument of thy peace. The  act of asking, even if you don’ t feel an answer
right away, will alter the balance toward becoming the peace that you
desire. Once you’ve asked, you’ll find that it is given more readily than you
may have suspected. This is a process of suspending your ego and allowing
the higher, more spiritually b ased ener gies to weigh in to ward your
becoming more balanced. Slow Down
T ake your time. I ur ge you to  reproduce Ramakrishna’ s and Bertrand
Russell’ s quotes that are at the beginning of this chapter. Post them where
you constantly notice them and let them become a part of your being. Y our
work isn’ t terribly important... your worldly duties are n’ t terribly
important.... Make your first and primary priority in your life being in
balance with the Sour ce of Cr e ation. B ecom e thoughtful in your slo wed-
down time, and invite the Divine to be known in your life. Being the peace
you desire means becoming a relaxed person whose balance point doesn’ t
attract anxiety and stress symptoms. Make deliberate, conscious ef forts to slow yourself down by relaxing
your mind. T ake a little more tim e to enjoy your life here on this planet: Be
more co ntempl