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which


  I am speaking  to you  with  such
Great  Love  tonight;  but you  have  got to understand  these
things,  if you want  to be Free  quickly. Oh,  do not wander
around  longer! Straighten  your  spine  and  say:  "Beloved
'Mighty  I AM  Presence'! take  out of me every  discordant
feeling  of every  kind! Charge  and  fill my mind  and  body
with  Your  Great  Peace! Your  Great  Happiness! Your  Great
Strength! Hold  Your  Dominion  over  my feeling  and  let
the Power  of Your  Glorious  Presence  flood  forth  and  thru
into my world;  to harmonize,  Perfect  it. Take  command
and produce  Your  Perfection  everywhere." Then,  you  can
have  it quickly,  Beloved  Ones. There  is no other  way! There  is no thing  which  is permanent  but the Perfection  of
your  Presence. While  I am talking  to you,  the Great  Goddess  of Liberty
is doing  Her  Great  Work  in your  feeling  world. The  day
you come  to know  what  that  means,  you  will  truly  rejoice. 196 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
I may  not explain  It to you  tonight,  there  is not time;  but
one day,  you will  all know  what  that  has meant. I say to you,  and  especially  those  of the Students  who
understand  something  of This  "I AM  Activity":  "As  you
have  heard  One  after  Another  of these  Great  Cosmic  Beings
come  forth,  to the assistance  of mankind  now—because  the
Great  Cosmic  Light  demands  it, you can have  Their  Cour-
age, Their  Strength,  Their  Consciousness,  the Ascended
Masters'  Consciousness—to  assist  you  to your  Victory,  if
you will! Give  your  attention,  first  to your  own  God  Pres-
ence,  then  to Someone  of the Ascended  Beings  and  say:
'Great  Beings  of Light,  I need  Your  Assistance! I need  Your
Courage  and  Strength,  until  I am strong  enough  to stand
on my own  two  feet;  and  in my Call  to my Presence,  hold
my Scepter  of Power  and  Dominion  sustained.' That  is
what  every  one will  reach  one day." I urge  you  to realize,  it is not necessary  to wait  years,
in order  to have  This  Great  victory. You  can have  It now,
if you will  but allow  Us to help  you;  if you will  follow  the
Simple  Explanations  We give,  but if Individuals  will  not
do this,  then  We cannot  help  them. There  is no question
about  that! We  know  the Law! We  live  It! We  are the
Law! We  know  how  to tell you  what  to do and  how  to
do it I We can tell you  the exact  results,  if you  will  follow
Our Directions;  but  We  cannot  tell what  the human  of
an Individual  is going  to do. Not  even  the Individual  him-
self or herself  knows. Oh look  yourself  straight  in the face! If necessary  go to DISCOURSE  VIII  197
your  mirror  and  look  at your  image  there  and  say to it:
"Now  you  have  had  your  dominion  for the  last  time! Henceforth,  my 'Mighty  I AM  Presence'  takes  command
of this body  and  directs  and  governs  it! In the future,  you
be silent,"  and  you  will  have  the Greatest  Release  imagin-
able. I say to you  Beloved  Students,  who  have  been  in This
Activity  two  or three  years:  Do you  not sometimes  when
you are thinking  or calling  to your  Presence,  still feel a sort
of vagueness  about  it? You  don't  always  feel quite  sure  of
yourself,  do you ? That  is because  you  have  allowed  your
attention  to be divided  between  the appearance  world  and
with  your  "I AM  Presence." You  must  be able,  as in the
Mighty  Decree  given  by the Messenger  in the opening  of
the Class,  to say to the appearance  world,  which  is but
human  creation:  "You  have  no power  to longer  touch  or
act within  my world." Be firm  and  determined! You  will
repel  first,  all discord  which  tries  to come  into  your  world;
then  by the Power  of your  Call  to the Presence,  to use the
Violet  Consuming  Flame,  you  will  keep  dissolved  every-
thing  which  attempts  to find  discordant  expression  in your
world. IT IS THE  ONLY  WAY! We see,  Oh We see so clearly,  the struggle  of some  of
the Blessed  Ones;  and  their  Hearts  are so good. Yet because
their  feeling  does  not follow  their  attention  in the applica-
tion,  they  do not have  the Full  Results  in the control  of their
human  feeling. I cannot  tell you tonight  in so many  words,
how  My Heart  goes  out to you. I can see the struggle  you 198 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
are having  and  the unhappiness  which  comes  out of it. Don't  let it do it! Say  to all human  feeling:  "Be  silent! Stop  this  nonsense  I will  have  no more  of it"! Then,  you
will find,  how quickly  the human  will  subside  within  you. It must  be done,  Dear  Ones,  sometime,  somewhere! So let
Us do it now! Go forward  into  That  Great  Victory  which
your  Application  will  bring. Behold  the  Chart  with  Me,  for just  a moment! The
Stream  of Light  and  Energy  comes  from  your  "I AM  Pres-
ence,"  the Source  of your  Life! When  you call to That  Great
Intelligence  and  Presence  with  intense  feeling,  It floods
your  mind  and  body  with  Its Invincible  Stream  of Light;
which  is Self-luminous  Intelligent  Substance,  Energy  and
Activity. If your  thought  and  feeling  were  still  enough,
Free  enough  from  the feeling  of discord,  your  Call  would
sweep  every  discord  out of your  body  and  out of your  feel-
ing world  that  instant;  because  the Light  IS All-powerful! It knows  no resistance  nor interference;  and  when  you call
It forth  into  action,  It proceeds  with  the Power  of the Uni-
verse  to fulfill  your  Requirement. Won't  you feel It and  let
It come  forth  and  do Its Mighty  Work  for you  at your
every  Call! We don't  want  you  to go on, and  on, not having  the Re-
sults  you should  have! We want  you  to have  them  NOW! There  is nothing  in the world,  but your  own  feeling  which
can stand  between  you  and  the Complete  Fulfillment  of
your  Call  right  then  and  there;  Won't  you  feel  that,  Pre-
cious  Ones  tonight,  and  let Us give  you  the Strength  and DISCOURSE  VIII  199
Courage  to help,  which  will  enable  you to go forth  tomor-
row Victorious  in everything  thru  your  Call  to the Pres-
ence ? Your  "I AM  Presence"  is the Power  of the Universe
and will  fill you and your  world  with  Its Directing  Intelli-
gence. Say: "Beloved  'Mighty  I AM  Presence'! see that  I never
make  another  mistake! See  that  Your  Mighty  Directing
Intelligence  takes  command  of my mind,  body  and feeling;
and


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• Use mindfulness meditations or similar practices to reduce stress. During this first three-month period, your BOL T score should not
increase by more than 2 seconds per week. Progress must be very gentle. Second T rimester
During your second trimester, you may practice a number of breathing
exercises. Breathe Deep  (exercise #2) will help strengthen your pelvic floor
muscles and Breathe Slow  (exercis e #3) will help relax your mind and body. You will benefit from practicing the exercises while lying down on your
back with your head on a pillow and your knees raised. As your pregnancy
progresses, you may find it easier to lie on your side. Go gently with the air shortage at this time, focusing on relaxation and
slow breathing instead. Contin ue with a gentle practice after your baby
arrives. Diaphragm breathing will help your pelvic floor to recover. DIABETES
Functional breathing is helpfu l for people with both types of diabetes
because it improves blood glucose control. There is a link between diabetes
and asthma, and there is an important correlation between sleep  quality and
diabetes control. Sleep is strong ly influenced by the breath, as is the health
of the heart—another important concern for people with diabetes. • If you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, it is vital that you breathe only through your
nose during rest, physical exercise, and sleep.• Speak with your medical doctor before undertaking any of the breathing exercises in
this book. • Breathing exercises can cause blood sugar to drop. It is therefore important that you
monitor your blood glucose levels during any breathing practice. Daily Practice
• Breathe Light  (exercise #1) for 10 minutes, two times daily. • Breathe Slow  (exercise #3) for 10 minutes, three times daily. • Breathe Deep  (exercise #2) for 10 minutes, once daily. • If you have a racing mind, practice the small breath holds exercise, Breathing
Recovery  (exercise #12 or #13). • Breathe nasally during rest, exercise, and sleep. • When you exercise, keep your mouth closed. Remember, you must monitor your blood sugar levels more frequently. Breathe Light  (exercis e #1) to create air hunger may reduce blood sugar
levels. If you feel hypoglycemic, stop the exercises immediately and take a
snack. When your BOL T score increas es beyond 20 seconds, or if it increases
by more than 5 seconds from your starting point, please consult with your
medical doctor as you may require adjustments to your medication. Never
stop taking your medication suddenly or without medical advice. EPILEPSY
Hyperventilation is a known seizure trigger. There is a strong link between
blood CO 2 levels and vulnerability to some types of seizures. In terms  of general health, epilepsy frequently exists alongside other
conditions, especially depression, which may also be characterized by
breathing patter n disorders. People with epilepsy are more likely to suffer
with respiratory and cardiovascular problems, obesity, and other disorders,
including diabetes. If you suffer from epilepsy, it is important to restore full-time nasal
breathing. Make  sure that you breathe only through your nose during rest,
physical exercise, and sleep, to reverse and prevent chronic
hyperventilation. Daily Practice• Breathe Light  (exercise #1) for 10 minutes, three times daily. • Breathe Slow  (exercise #3) for 10 minutes, twice daily. • Breathe Deep  (exercise #2) for 10 minutes, once daily. • If you have a racing mind, practice Breathing Recovery, Sitting or W alking  (exercise
#12 or #13). • Breathe nasally during rest, exercise, and sleep. • When you exercise, keep your mouth closed. • Breathe nasally during sleep. If you use a lip tape to help ensure nasal breathing
during sleep, do not place the tape directly across your lips. Instead, use a support
like MyoT ape which surrounds the lips, gently keeping the lips together and
reminding your mouth to close. This provides a safe way to ensure nasal breathing
during the night, when you cannot consciously control your breathing. IMPROVE HEAR T RA TE V ARIABILITY
Heart rate variability (HRV) is a useful index of well-being and resilience. Good HRV indicates a healthy balance in the autonomic nervous system
and is indicative of good health. It is possible to access the benefits of optimal HRV using the breath. Numerous studies have shown that breathing at a rate of six breaths per
minute optimizes HR V and produces lasting positive ef fects. The first adjustm ent you must make to improve your HRV is to switch
to full-time nasal breathing. Breathing only through the nose during rest,
physical exercis e, and sleep slows the breath, activates the diaphragm and
stimulates the vagus nerve. You can read about this in detail later in the
book in Chapter Four. Daily Practice
• Slow breathing to an average of six breaths per minute. • Breathe Light  (exercise #1) to create air hunger, for 10 minutes, twice daily. • Breathe Light, Breathe Slow, Breathe Deep  (exercises #1–3) for 10 minutes four
times daily, or 20 minutes twice daily. IMPROVE SLEEP QUALITY, INSOMNIA, SNORING, AND SLEEP
APNEA
If your breathing during the day is less than optimal, your breat hing during
sleep will be dysfunctional too. If you suffer with snoring, insomnia, or
sleep apnea, breathing exercises can help significantly reduce your
symptoms. Above all, it is vital to restore nasal breathing during sleep,because breathing through an open mouth activates the stress response, and
it leaves the airway more vulnerable to collapse, which can trigger snoring
and even cause the breathing to periodically stop altogether. Tips for Better Sleep Hygiene
To enjoy a restful night’ s sleep, it is important to practice good sleep
hygiene. Most of us know that this involves less screen time and alcohol
just before bed, but many of us resist the idea, because watch ing the TV
with a glass of wine is a nice way to wind down. Unfortunately, this habit
doesn’ t really help you relax. In reality, it stimulates the nervous system,
preventing you from sleeping well. • Avoid blue light. If you must use your smart phone, TV, or laptop before bed, it is a
good idea to wear blue light filtering glasses for at least two hours before sleep. For
a good brand, seek out OwlEye glasses. • If you spend all day in front of a computer screen, you may find that wearing blue
light filtering glasses throughout your working day helps you sleep and relieves
eyestrain and headaches. • If you use your mobile phone as your alarm clock, switch it to flight mode in the
settings before you sleep. • Your bedroom should be cool, airy, silent, and dark. • Don’t eat or drink alcohol late in the evening. Enjoy a glass with dinner, but then set
it aside to give your body time to digest. If you regularly drink late into the evening,
you will feel noticeably less groggy in the morning if you give it a miss. Insomnia
A racing mind and breathing irregularities both contribute to insomnia. When you find yourself lying awake in the middle of the night, this can be
partly due to dysfunctional breathing during sleep. However, the
hyperarousal caused by poor daytime breathing patterns is also to blame. To
tackle insomnia, it is necessary to activate the body’ s relaxation response. It
is also essentia l to improve breathing patterns during sleep so that the
airway can function without causing the breath to stop or adding resistance
to breathing. If you have difficulty falling asleep:
• Make sure you breathe only through your nose during rest, physical exercise, and
sleep. • Breathe Light  (exercise #1) to achieve air hunger for 15 minutes before sleep.• Breathe Light  (exercise #1) for 10 minutes, three times daily. • Breathe Slow  (exercise #3) for 10 minutes, twice daily. • Breathe Deep  (exercise #2) for 10 minutes, once daily. If you fr equently wake up after four or five hours of sleep:
Waking up after a few hours of sleep is challenging—not quite fully alert to
get up and start the day, yet not tired enough to fall back asleep easily. Disturbances to breathing during sleep, including partial or total collapse of
the throat, can cause awakening. • Bring attention to your breathing to help calm racing thoughts. • Breathe Light and Slow  to help activate your body’ s relaxation response (exercise
#1). • Once your BOL T score is greater than 20 seconds, air turbulence in your nose and
throat will reduce. Y ou will sleep more deeply and be less likely to wake during the
night. Snoring
Mouth snoring is the result of a large volume of air passing through a
collapsible airway, causing the soft palate to vibrate. It stops when the
mouth is closed during sleep. Nose snoring is caused by turbulent airflow in the nasal airway, where
the nose meets the throat (the nasopharynx). Obstruction of the nose caused
by nasal stuffiness, deviated septum, or an anatomically smaller nose can
increase resistance to


menopausal
women. 1 This last fact clearly links changes in breathing to fluctuations  in
sex hormones. A 2006 study reported that the female hormone progesterone, which is
known to stimulate breathing, might contribute to respiratory changes seen
at different times of the menstr ual cycle. 12 General respiratory function is
known to be influenced both by the different phases of the menstrual cycle
and by common  hormonal and metabolic states. 11 This can have an impact
on health. When the first occurrence of menstruation is early (early menarche), the
likelihood of poor health in later life increases, with a higher risk of
illnesses, including asthma, cardiovascular disease, and comprom ised lower
lung function. 11 The instances of poor respiratory health in girls who reach
puberty early may be due to factors such as higher body mass index, which
can cause early menarche. However, research suggests that early onset of
puberty may affect airway and lung development, because to some extent,
puberty signals a termination of growth. 13
The menstrual cycle influences disorders as varied as epilepsy, bipolar
disorder, migraine, and rheumatoid arthritis. 13 Respira tory symptoms such
as breat hlessness, coughing, and wheezing vary considerably over the 28
days. These become worse between days 10 and 22 (the midluteal to
midfollicular phases),13 possibly due to the influence of hormonal changes
on the airways. 13 This explains why asthma severity fluctuates during themenstrual cycle, and why irregular menstruation is associated with a higher
risk of asthma. 13
Increasingly, evidence indicates that sex hormones can either contribute
to disea se pathology or serve as protective factors against lung disease. They regulate the development of the lung and airways in unborn babies,
and it is thought that they play a part in the varying advers e effects of
antenatal smoking on lung function. The lung function of adult men is more
severely affected  by exposure to smoking in the womb than that of women. Scientists also believe that sex hormones may cause changes in the growth
pathway of the lungs in respon se to in utero exposure to smoking. 14 This
would suggest that males and females have a different susceptibility to
inflammation from an early stage of development. Breathing pattern disorders are also almost twice as common in women,
possibly due to the hormona l influences we’ve already touched on. Progesterone stimulates the respiratory rate, meaning that in the luteal phase
of the menstrual cycle CO2 levels drop by around 25%. 15 When CO2 levels
are already low, any extra stress  can cause breathing to speed up even more,
and this creates a range of symptoms that are commonly interpreted as
premenstrual syndrome. 16
In 2000, a study in the Journal of Orofacial Pain  reported increased
respiratory rates  during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, when
progesterone levels increase. 17 At the same time as breathing increased,
pain thresholds lowered. This indicates that cyclical respiratory changes
may also influence pain perception. PAIN CONDITIONS AND BREA THING IN WOMEN
FIBROMY ALGIA
Fibromyalgia predominantly affects women,18 and it changes  during the
menstrual cycle. In 2007, researchers found that several participants
fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia during the luteal phase of
their cycle, but not during the follicular phase. As pain is the most common
diagnostic measure of fibromyalgia, this is another indicator that painperception differs depending on the concentration of sex hormones in the
body. Dysfunctional breathing can aggravate pain associated with
fibromyalgia, especially in tender areas of the upper body. 19 This can lead
to fatigue and difficulty carrying out normal daily activities. A 2017 paper
assessed the impact of an eight-week functional breathing program on 18
patients with fibromyalgia. 20 Thresholds for pain tolerance increased in all
the participants after one month, which means that pain was reduced. Sleep
quality, duration, and efficiency also improved as a result of the breathing
practice. 20
A 2018  study examined the effects of breathing exercises on pain
tolerance in tender points and on the quality of life for fibromyalgia
patients. 19 The trial involved 35 women aged between 34 and 67 years, all
with fibromyalg ia. The women were randomly assigned to a breathing
exercise group or to a control group. The breathing exercise participants
practiced for 30 minutes every day for 12 weeks. At the end of the 12
weeks, the women who had practiced breathing exercises showed
significant improvements, experiencing much lower levels of pain and
fatigue and becoming more able to engage with daily life. The researchers
concluded that breathing exercises provide a “real and effective
intervention” for women with fibromyalgia. A 2019 trial, also examining fibromyalgia, looked at the effectiveness
and safety of patient self-ma nagement in the form of unsupervised
breathing exercises. 19 After 12 weeks, during which 51 women practiced
the exercises, no statistical differences were found between supervised and
unsupervised participants. Ther e were, however, added improvements in
pain in those women who had practiced the exercises under supervision,
suggesting that proper guidance in performing breathing exercises is
beneficial. Faulty breathing does not cause fibromyalgia. However, it does play a
significant role in the develo pment and persistence of chronic pain
conditions. 15 For instance, biomechanical overuse combined with the
biochemical changes typical of breathing pattern disorders can have a
significant impact on pain and fatigue. 21 In fact, most  people with
fibromyalgia show signs of severe dysfunctional breathin g. Becausebreathing is already dysfunction al, these women are constantly teetering on
the brink of symptoms. Any further cyclical drop in CO2 is likely to push
the body over the edge. That is why pain often becomes much worse during
the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle. It is also why the worst symptoms
could be alleviated or even eliminated with correct breathing habits. 22
Research shows that 27% of people with fibromyalgia hyperventilate,
and 60% of fibromyalgia patients suffer with dyspnea  (breathlessness). 23
Also, breathlessness is far more prevalent in the patients with the highest
levels of pain. 24
Naturally, fibromyalgia can trigger anxiety. This is not to imply that
symptoms are “all in the mind,” but anxiety about the condition and anxiety
triggered by dysfunctional breathing itself can certainly aggrava te pain and
fatigue. Because pain causes anxiety and increases the breathing rate, it is
likely that by normalizing the breathing pattern, pain symptoms would
reduce. Once a pattern of dysfunctional breathing exists, a variety of triggers
can create a vicious cycle, causing pain, fatigue, and other symptoms,
including anxie ty and panic attacks. These, in turn, contribute to poor
breathing patterns. Poor oxygenation of the tissues during hyperventilation
contributes to the development of myofascial trigger points. 21 And because
the working of the diaphragm is linked to the functioning of the pelvic
floor, dysfunctional breathing exacerbates stress incontinence, other
genitourinary symptoms, and pain in the pelvic region—all common in
fibromyalgia. The fascia around  the psoas muscle—a hip-joint flexor that
runs from the lumbar spine through the pelvis—connects directly to the
diaphragm. 25 Women  who suffer with chron ic pelvic pain often have poor
functional movement and tend to breathe predominantly into the upper
chest. 26
Many people with chronic pain suffer with medically unexplained
symptoms. They  may be diagno sed with fibromyalgia, chronic  fatigue, or
“bodily distress syndrome. ”27 Low blood CO 2 and feelings of air hunger are
typical of all these patients. 28 As a result, scientists believe that levels of
CO2 should be asses sed as part of the patient evaluation. 24 At the very least,
it needs to be recognized that a significant number of fibromyalgia patients
hyperventilate. Given that hyperventilation is considered at the severe endof breathing pattern disorders, it is logical to assume that a much higher
number have poor breathing patterns. Leon Chaitow, after 50 years clinical experience working with
fibromyalgia patients, estimated that more than 90% breathe
dysfunctionally. 15 Functional breathing training is an efficient and cost-
effective treatment to achieve reduced levels of pain and fatigue. The ability
to fully exhale is at the root of functional breathing. Without this
understanding, it is not possible to inhale correctly. Chaitow cautions that
this is not a quick fix. Between 12 and 26 weeks of work may be needed,
and it takes patience to achieve behavioral change. 15
In chronic pain conditions, it is particularly important to take things
slowly in the beginning. Approaching breathing exercises too intensively
can actually set you back. Begin the practice gently. If you suffer with
fibromyalgia, your sensitivity to CO 2 may be very high. This can trigger too
much air hunger, muscular tension, and feelings of panic. As your tolerance
to


ing up as a positive for ce for everyone I encounter. My body is a
temple in which my spirit r esides, supporting me in extending love to all I
see. At work, I pray only to be an instrument of peace. I pray for all those
with whom I work or will encounter. I pray for their happiness and well-
being. I for give quickly and try not to judge others. I surr ender my job to Spirit and ask that with my work, I serve the
greater good. I feel the cells of my body awaken as I think these things; I
feel my body ener gized as I apply it to love’ s purposes in the world. While I do chor es, I ask that Spirit make even mundane activities a
thing of goodness. As I do my family’ s laundry, I think with love about the
cherished ones whose clothes I am about to clean, and feel gratitude for
the clothes I own. As I go to the stor e, I give thanks that I can affor d to
buy the essentials I need. As I pick up something for a family member or
do a chor e for someone else, I surr ender any r esentment I feel and ask to
be filled with a lighter attitude. I know my body is r esponding to every thought I think, and I choose to
think with love. This way, my body is made healed and whole. 4. Lunch
As I stop to eat lunch, I thank my body for the way it has served me so
far today, and commit anew to its sustenance and nourishment. I use
lunch as an opportunity to nourish not only my body but also my soul. I
stay away fr om frantic envir onments, and cultivate peace as I eat. I pur chase or bring fr om home healthy food. I am awar e that unhealthy
food choices abound in the world ar ound me. I do not judge those
choices, but neither do I participate in this cultural weakness by eating
unhealthy food, even if it is most easily available to me. I make thischoice in or der to do right by my body and my mind. I r ealize that my
body is a holy temple and deserves only nutritious, r estorative food. I silently say grace befor e my meal, thanking all the people who
contributed to the manufactur e and pr eparation of the food I eat,
thanking the earth for giving it to me, and thanking God for the fact that I
have food at all. 5. Afternoon Activities
I choose to give my body r est, that it might have a chance to r echar ge. I take r esponsibility for carving into my day even a short period of time
during which my body and soul can r ealign with Spirit, casting off the
stress of a world that is moving too fast. I allow my body some sort of
afternoon movement as a way to r einvigorate itself. Even a walk ar ound
the block is good for my body and pr ograms it in a healthy way. I continue to give it positive affirmations of love and encouragement as
I move thr ough the r est of the day, thanking God for the miracle of my
body and dedicating it continuously to the purposes of love. Befor e dinner, I take time to r est, pray, meditate, do yoga, take a bath,
light candles and/or incense in my r oom, and otherwise give my body and
soul the chance to de-str ess after the busyness of the day. I value r est and r ecognize its importance. I know that I alone am
responsible for cultivating a lifestyle that supports my health, my good,
and my ser enity. I know my body may r eact with compulsive behavior if I
fail to pr oactively cr eate a peaceful envir onment. I surr ound my body
with peace so that it will be at peace. 6. Dinner
As I pr epare for dinner, I dedicate this important time to goodness and
love. I pr epare myself inwar dly to be a vessel of love’ s goodness. The
goodness of my family gather ed ar ound a dinner table. The goodness of
my partner coming home to a loving envir onment after a str essful day. The importance of my childr en knowing that someone is waiting to
nourish them and listen to them at dinnertime. During dinner, I consciously r eject the frantic stimuli of the world. I
turn off the television and computers and insist that my childr en do so as
well. I pr epare a beautiful table, per haps with candles or fr esh flowers. I
say grace befor e the meal and include my family. I take r esponsibility for
a healthy envir onment while I eat, for I know that such an envir onment
supports healthy habits. In the food I pr epare, the way I dr ess, the way I behave, and the way I
interact with others, I pray to be a positive influence on those I love. I
feed healthy food, healthy wor ds, and healthy ener gy to others and
myself. I see the food I eat as a way to give thanks and service to the
body I have been miraculously given, and to feed those I love with
gratitude and devotion. 7. Evening Hours
I am grateful for having eaten lightly enough to have ener gy for a
productive evening. I use my time to deepen my r elationships, tend to the
emotional needs of my family, expand my mind, incr ease my participation
in the world ar ound me, and delve into the mysteries of life that emer ge
more clearly in the nighttime hours. If my envir onment supports it, I take
the opportunity to walk, hopefully able to see the stars in the nighttime
sky. A cup of herbal tea is my evening companion, supporting me in
pacifying my physical system as I head towar d sleep. I allow my body
and soul to r eveal their needs to me, as I use these hours to conclude my
day in a positive way. I attend to the needs of those ar ound me, honoring
my role as par ent, mate, and friend. I enjoy my life as it is. I honor its demands, and honor my desir es. I
take the time to br eathe in the r ealization of how fortunate I am, and
commit to living ever mor e fully with each passing day. I give thanks for
having lived this day, and I give blessings to all the world. It might seem at first that such a positive description is simply fiction. And if you have been living the life of an active addict, then that might be
true. But as you write a dif ferent description of your life, you create a lineof possibility that did not exist before. Do not underestimate the power of
your mind to reprogram your experience. Enlightened lines of thought counter dysfunctional habits. Even one
moment of insight—looking around the food court at lunchtime and
realizing with blazing clarity that its main of ferings are bad for you and that
you can choose differ ently;  looking at others and realizing that the healing
of your dysfunctional habits is intimately tied up with the love you extend
—leads to another insight and then another, leading at last to your escape
from food hell. It is not enough to simply read what I wrote in the last few pages. In
order to receive the benefit of this lesson, write down a description of your
own day. Begin by writing about your present life—simply describing what
is—and then reading it. Allow yourself to see the gap between the fear that
is, and the love that could be. Recognize how often your thought-forms are
weak, fear based, and almost sure to produce dysfunction. Now write a new statement of intention, a manifesto of love for all the
things you will do during your day, and allow yourself to gently lean into it. There is nothing new for you to do so much as something new for you to
imagine. Y our spiritually re-envisioning your life will begin to transform it. This new attitudinal architecture is not meant to tyrannize you, but to lead
you to freedom. A new way of eating, one that fundamentally and permanently transforms
you, can only be created within the context of a new way of being. Y our
desire to eat dif ferently is a sacred calling to take your entire life to a deeper
level. If you don’ t feel it yet, that’ s okay. But do still write it down, for that
is the first step. And, of course, return your journal to the altar when you are
done. Reflection and Prayer
Sitting quietly with your eyes closed, see your day ahead. W ith every
action you know you will be taking, actively see how you would probably
behave given past patterns. Now ask Divine Mind to reveal to you the
possibilities for a more enlightened you. See things you do; now see more loving things you could  do, or how you
could do what you do more lovingly. See yourself speaking harshly or
negatively, if that is what you tend to do; now see yourself speaking gently
and kindly. See yourself eating poorly or hurriedly, excessively or
secretively; now see yourself eating with appropriateness and self-care. As you allow Spirit to show you a new way of living, you will naturally


 his wrath. T o the sur geon, come to a
sickbed without instruments, it is a lifesaving tool that will allow her to take
from the abdomen of her patient a diseased appendix. T o the young boy
passing through the kitchen it is part of a game — mumblety-peg. Y et what
it actually is is a compound of inanimate elements and previously living
molecules — steel and wood, shaped a certain way and fashioned so — but
even this is but an indication of what it truly is, for our senses reveal only a
tiny part of the total qualities of anything that seizes our attention. So a thing is the kind of thing it is only because of the personal relationship
of the beholder, and it actually never has any true qualities at all because
our senses are too crude to perceive any truth about it other than that which
proceeds out of our consciousness. And it is this that af fects us most of all. For when we see the knife we do not think of the kind and quality of the
steel and whether it has substance or is only idea, but we look at the knife
only to determine its relationship to us, and that is the only thing we see. Matter Is Movement

Just to understand the scientific premise that matter is not matter at all but
intense movement confined within spatial limits is to arrive at a pinnacle of
mental and spiritual freedom that will never again allow you to be
intimidated by the things and circumstances around you. In deepest truth
they are no more real than the conditioning of your consciousness, and you
can, by an act of increased mental awareness, change them from the things
you think they are into something totally and completely dif ferent. Here we knock on the door of the occult. The ring of the foregoing indicates
we will be able to move mountains, change water into wine, still the winds;
and indeed we might once we learn the testing but veil-breaking truth that
all mountains are in the mind, as are all limitation and lack, all storms. Make this encompassing decision, that matter is subservient to mind, and
you will see at once that the world and everything in it is only an ef fect of
consciousness, a partial manifestation of thought; and inasmuch as it
remains always a reflection of idea in the mind of the beholder, it exhibits at
once another of its infinite reflections the moment the thought in the
beholder ’s mind changes. What that means is this: things show only a side that reflects the
individual’ s thought about them. They don’ t truly change when the thought
about them changes, but they contain all possibilities and reveal to the
beholder only an aspect that their consciousness is prepared to perceive. This metaphysical breakdown of the universe is a great help in adjusting
oneself to the premise of working first with mind and allowing events to
develop from an inner impulsion of their own. Once we are fully convinced
of the mental causes behind all things, we no longer feel impelled to run
about, lay on hands, attempt one way or the other to coerce the world to fit
the pattern in our minds. One intelligence lies at the center of all events and
things, and it is at the core of your own nature. Once you have gained
sufficient wisdom to be concerned only with your own consciousness and
the inner discipline that widens its awareness, then you can be sure that the
outer world will be a reflection of the inner, that you are working with the
root causes of your environment. All possibilities exist in each of us because each of us is a manifestation of
a mind that is totality, infinity, unity; and each is only less than the total
according to our isolation from it, and when we expand our mental nature,
we approach original perfection, power, omniscience. Mind over matter is
not so much a mental dominion over material things as it is an awareness of
their many-sidedness and unlimited potentiality. Acceptance by the
observer of any one facet of a thing as the totality of that thing
automatically confers such limitation on that thing as far as its influence
upon the observer is concerned. In this respect our lives are guided by
shadows, by the meaningful aspects we give the things and events we meet
in the world, and our consciousness is never as much a product of
circumstances as circumstances (in this subjective way) are a result of our
consciousness. Our Skin-Deep Selves

A little r eflection on the conditioning quality of consciousness is all that is
necessary to quickly r ealize how continuously it works in our lives. Love is
blind because the lover always per ceives the mental image of the beloved. The divor ce rate is a pr oduct of disenchantment. It is not because of
disenchantment that love leaves; disenchantment comes after love leaves. Places of triumph r evisited always seem strangely small and shoddy. They
do not fit the magnificent ar enas cast up by our emotionally char ged
memories. And when pain commingles with places and events, we can no
more bring ourselves to visit them or have contact with them or even dr edge
them up fr om our memories than we can spr out wings and fly, so capricious
is the pain-avoiding, pleasur e-seeking ego in its efforts to hide our true
selves. This veil-shrouding, fan-dancing, now-you-see-it-now-you-don’ t quality of
the ego is what makes each of us use a thousand selves in the conduct of
our lives, and never actually be any one of them or even all put together. Because we do not truly know who we are, we seek in every situation a role
to be played, usually feeling no sense of deceit or sham whatever, but
blithely accepting the fact of a chameleon self which adapts its colors to its
background. In the of fice we are a dif ferent self to the boss than to our
subordinates. At home we are a dif ferent self to our spouse than to our
children. W e are a dif ferent self at our club than with a small group of
confidants. And we often present a dif ferent self to the neighbor on one side
of us than to the neighbor on the other. We seldom know how it is that we
get into the various roles we play, but play them we must, and when we
have a dinner party and carefully select the guest list with an eye to their
getting along, it is not the homogeneity of the guests that our eye reviews
but whether we have played the same role with all of them and therefore
can be a single self at the party that night. If perchance an uninvited guest
arrives, this sudden loping in is greeted with deep consternation as the
necessity of playing two dif ferent roles is foisted upon us. It awakens deep
within our psyches the uneasy undertones of schizophrenia. Great dramatic coaches, in an ef fort to lead their protégés to understanding
of the characters they portray, always seek an under -the-skin approach,
instinctively realizing that a person is only truly understood from the inside,
that any other position deals with symptoms only. Humanity’ s investigation
of the world itself has taken this inner and outer course — the inner
exemplified by psychology, religion, parapsychology; the outer exemplified
by the physical sciences. Science has made the greater progress by far, but
the race is not always to the swift. Science has pursued substance in its
laboratories, from mountain to atoms, but unraveled no enigmas other thana kind of elementary construction, and its sole accomplishment in its search
for the secret of life has been to chase matter of f the physical stage into
some realm of invisibility where it no longer can be perceived, much less
understood by the methods and instruments available. Intuitive Per ception

We are reactive animals and generally play the roles expected of us. Rare
and wise is the person who is able to shuck of f this automatism. They are
able to do so only by recognizing that within each of us resides the identical
animating spirit. By inner understanding they are able to allow events to
develop through their own inner impulsion. This intuitive perception
permits them to take their place in each event according to the best interests
of their own nature. We are all born into a bondage of the senses, and insofar as we place
absolute credence in their evidence, we remain slaves to them. Only when
we arrive at a mystic intuition of the universality of intelligence are we
finally able to realize that matter in essence is only mind and that innate in
each of us is the same resident being, which exists everywhere at all times
and in all things, appearing to be dif ferent according to the form into which
it has entered but essentially remaining one, indivisible, and infinite. Once in a while someone arises who by some strange evolutionary leap
seems to have surmounted the bondage that holds others. Such a man was
Edgar Cayce, the wizard of V irginia Beach. Not only was he able to read
minds and see things and events at a distance, but he also seemed able to
call upon universal mind for all the knowledge within it. Cayce’ s
perceptions circumvented time, space, matter, and his carefully documented
exploits have never been disproved. He became in hypnotic trance the most
erudite of men, having at his fingertips all the knowledge in the fields of
medicine and


 of Love and Understanding of
the exactness of Cosmic Law and the feeling of Consecrated Service to God within that
Law! (x3)
• I AM John the Beloved's Ascended Master Consciousness and feeling of Divine Love,
Peace, and Outer Service that Blesses and s ets life Free! (x3)
• I AM Beloved Saint Germain's Ascended Master Consciousness of the Violet
Transmuting Flame, Ordered Service, Purity and Freedom for all mankind on the planet
Earth! (x3)
• I AM the Maha Chohan's Ascended Master Consciousness of Limitless Energy, Nature's
Perfection and Abundance, and the Great Creative Power that always produces Perfection
instantly! (x3)
• I AM Beloved K uan Yin's Ascended Master Consciousness and feeling of Divine
Compassion, Mercy, Forgiveness and Healing manifesting in my heart, mind, feelings
and soul! (x3)
• I AM  Beloved Lady Portia's Ascended Master Consciousness, Feeling and Visible,
Tangible Manifestation of Divine Justice in all my affairs and that of all chelas of the
Light! (x3)
• I AM Beloved Kuthumi's Ascended Master Consciousness and feeling of the Great Great
Silence forever! (x3)
• I AM Beloved Mother Mary’s Cosmic Flame of Cosmic Healing that instantaneously
Heals and Perfects all life, everywh ere forever! (x3)
• I AM Beloved Lord Maitreya’s Transcendent Divine Love and Blessings to all life,
everywhere forever! (x3)
• I AM Beloved Lanello and Guru Ma’s Absolute God-Mastery, God-Control  and G od-
Victory over all in this world, everywhere forever! (x3 )
• I AM Beloved Helios and Vesta, Mighty Apollo, and Lord Ra’s Golden Solar Light that
raises and sets all mankind Free, everywhere forever! (x3)

I have called It forth and so It shall be, as GOD'S MOST HOLY NAME "I AM"! BY THE MIGHTIEST…! (x3) THANK YOU! (x3) ALMIGHTY I AM (x3)
 Sacred Fire Activities  Call

Beloved Mighty I AM God Presence, Beloved Holy Christ Self - I AM THAT I AM - I CALL
FORTH  and INVOKE, as a permanent and eternal part of my Lifestream, to bless all l ife:

-My Mighty I AM God Presence, Unfed  Flame  in the Power of the Th ree-Times -Three,
Sevenfold Flame of the Seven Mighty Elohim, and Twelvefold Solar Flame
-Beloved Saint Germain’s Violet Transmuting and Spiral Blue Flame ; His Crystal Cap, Crystal
Armor, and Crystal Cross of a Thousand Suns;  Armor of Golden Flame; Violet Flame Cape of
Authority ; Violet Flame Wings; Armor of Amethyst Jewels ; and Maltese Cross
-Beloved Great Divine Director’s Disc of Light, Blue Belt and Jewels of  Power
-the Flame, Substance, and Essence of the Secret Love Star and the Great Great Silence
-Beloved God Mercury’s Crystal Cap of Dazzling White Light and Wings of Flame
-Beloved Mighty Victory’s Victory Manifest, Golden Flame and Star
-Beloved Rose of Light’s Rose of White Fire
-Beloved Pallas Athena’s Shield, Helmet and Spear of Cosmic Truth
-Beloved Elohim of Purity’s Oval of Blazing White Light
-Beloved Astrea’s Cosmic Circle and Sword of Blue Flame
-Beloved Goddess of Purity’s Jewel of Light
-Beloved Kuthumi’s Mystic Mantle of Golden Light
-Beloved Nada’s Pink Ray, Flame and Substance and Armor of Pink Jewels
-Beloved Cyclopea’s All -Seeing Eye of God and Sphere of Iridescent Flame
-Beloved Lord Himalaya’s Golden Snow
-Beloved Kuan Yin’s Helping  Hand
-Beloved Portia’s Balance Scales of Justice
-Beloved Jesus’ Luminous Presence
-Beloved Magda’s Bouquet of Roses
-Beloved Godfré  and Lotus’ Cosmic Honor Cross and Flame
-Beloved K -17’s Ring -Pass-Not of Blue Flame and  Cosmic Christ Cloak of Invisibility,
Invincibility, and Invulnerability
-Beloved Archangel Michael and Faith’s  Cosmic Ring -Pass-Not, Wall, Sword, Armor, Shield,
Helmet, Cross, Boots, Buckler and Breastplate  of Blue Flame Protection
-Beloved Sanat Kumara’s Cross of Whit e Fire and Star of Gold

This which I CALL FORTH for myself, I CALL FORTH for ALL life, everywhere forever,
until all are Ascended and Free! BY THE MIGHTIEST…! (x3)  THANK YOU! (x3) ALMIGHTY  I AM (x3)
Mantle of God Decree
Beloved Mighty I AM God Presence, Beloved Holy Christ Self - I AM THAT I AM - All the
Ascended Masters, the Cosmic Beings, and the Great Angelic Host; All Great Beings, Powers,
and Legions of Light; My Guardian, Ministering Angel ; the Powers of Nature and Forces of the
Elements; Elemental L ife- Fire, Air, Water, Earth and Ether! I INVOKE and claim the Authority and Power of the Mantle of the Messengers of God -
Beloved Alexander Gaylord  and All True Messengers of God ; Beloved Nicholas Roerich;
Beloved Godfré  and Lotus; Beloved Lady  Geraldin e; Beloved Lanello and Guru Ma; Group
Avatar, Ascended and Free,  Temple of the Presence, Hearts Center,  Radiant Rose Academy,
and ALL Ascended Master Activities, world s without end -

*THE LIGHT OF GOD NEVER  FAILS! (x3) AND THE
BELOVED MIGHTY I AM PRESENCE  IS THAT LIGHT! (x3)

I INVOKE the Mantle and Authority of:

• The Twelve Solar Chohans ; Archangels ; and Elohim of God
• Beloved Sanat Kumara ; Gautama Buddha ; Lord Maitreya ; and Jesus Christ
• Beloved Padma Sambhava  and Mandarava ; the Five Dhyani Buddhas; and All Buddhas
and Bodhisattvas
• Beloved Jesus the Christ ; Beloved Mother Mary ; John the Beloved ; Beloved Magda ;
Beloved John Paul ; Beloved Mother Theresa ; Beloved Therese of Lisieux ; Beloved Padre
Pio; and All the Holy Saints of God
• Beloved Brahm a and Sarasvati, Vishnu and Lakshmi, and Shiva and Parvati;  Beloved
Ishvara;  Beloved Lord Rama; Beloved Hanuman; Beloved Ganesh a; Beloved Lord
Krishna;  Beloved Durga; Beloved Kali;  and All Avatars of God
• Beloved Lord Sirius  and the  White -Fire/Blue -Fire Sun ; the Lords of Blue Flame; Great
Teams of Conquerors; and the Blue Fire Eagle from Sirius
• Beloved Enoch ; Beloved Lord Ling ; Beloved Elijah; and All of the Holy Prophets of God
• Beloved Archangel Metatron; Beloved Lord Melchizedek and the Priests and Priestesses
of the Sacred Fire
• Beloved Lord Kenich Ahan ; Beloved Luzar  and the Solar Brotherhood
• Beloved Babaji  and Mataji ; Beloved Lahiri Mahasaya ; Beloved Sri Yukteswar; Beloved
Yogananda; and All Rishis
• Cosmic Councils ; Cosmic Christs of other Spheres ; and All Great Beings, Powers and
Legions of Light from the Pleiades, Sirius, and Arcturus
• Beloved Archangel Gabriel ; Beloved Mohammed ; and the Mahdi
• Beloved Lao Tzu ; the Three Pure Ones ; and the Eight Immortals
• Beloved Mahavira and the Tirthankaras
• Beloved  Lord Lemuel and the Mineral, Plant, Animal, Human, Elemental, Devic, and
Angelic Kingdoms; and All Celestial Beings of Light
• The Entire Spirit of the Great White Brotherhood and the World Mother

For I Demand This Physically Manifest, etc.…
BY THE MIGHTIE ST…! (x3) THANK YOU! (x3) ALMIGHTY  I AM! (x3)  Victory Decree
Beloved Mighty I AM God Presence, Beloved Holy Christ Self - I AM THAT I AM - Beloved
Mighty Victory and Your Blessed Twelve and All Who Came With You From Venus,  Beloved
Goddess of Victory,  and Your Limitless Legions of Cosmic Victory! I DEMAND  MIGHTY
VICTORY’S VICTORY MANIFEST EVERYWHERE! I DEMAND  It manifest in everything
I do or contact this day! I DEMAND  Mighty Victory’s Heart Flame become a Garment about
me, become a Wall of Invincible Protection around me, become Illumination within me,
become ALL  of everything I require to produce Victory everywhere forever! (especially_____)

For I AM Mighty Victory’s Victory Manifest! (x 3) and I DEMAND my Invincible God Victory
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b l o o d  –  o n  t h e  w a r d s. P e o p l e  w o u l d  a c c o u n t  f o r  i t  i n  d i f f e r e n t  w a y s. S o m e
s a i d  t h e  m o o n  h a d  c o m e  o u t  w r o n g l y  d u r i n g  t h e  d e l i v e r y,  a n d  o t h e r s  t h a t  t h e
p r i e s t  h a d  s a i d  t h e  p r a y e r  t o o  l a t e. T h e n  s u d d e n l y  o n e  o f  S e m m e l w e i s ’
f r i e n d s  d i e d  a f t e r  c a r r y i n g  o u t  a n  a u t o p s y  o n  a  w o m a n  w h o  h a d  d i e d  o fs e p s i s! T h e  f r i e n d  h a d  n o t  h a d  a  b a b y …  b u t  h e  h a d  n i c k e d  h i s  h a n d  w h i l e
h e  w a s  c a r r y i n g  o u t  t h e  p o s t  m o r t e m  –  a n d  s o  S e m m e l w e i s  w e n t  p u b l i c
a b o u t  t h e  p r e s e n c e  o f  p o i s o n  i n  t h e  c o r p s e s! A l l  h e  w a s  t r y i n g  t o  a c h i e v e  i n  t h e  e a r l y  d a y s  w a s  t h a t  s u r g e o n s  s h o u l d
c a r e f u l l y  s c r u b  u p  b e f o r e  t h e y  o p e r a t e d  –  b e c a u s e  a t  t h a t  s t a g e  t h e y  o n l y
w a s h e d  t h e i r  h a n d s  a f t e r w a r d s! S e m m e l w e i s  r e c o m m e n d e d  u s i n g  c o m m o n -
o r - g a r d e n  b l e a c h i n g  p o w d e r  a s  a  d i s i n f e c t a n t. Y o u  w o u l d  t h i n k  t h i s  w a s  a
p r e t t y  m i n o r  r e q u e s t  –  t h a t  h i s  c o l l e a g u e s  g i v e  t h e i r  h a n d s  a n  e x t r a  w a s h  –
b u t  n o! J o s e p h  B r a u n  –  t h e  1 8 t h  c e n t u r y  A c a d e m i c i a n  a n d  p h y s i c i s t,  w h o
w a s  t h e  f i r s t  m a n  t o  f r e e z e  m e r c u r y  - -  h o u n d e d  h i m  f o r  1 3  y e a r s  f o r  h i s
g o o d  a d v i c e,  t h e n  p u t  h i m  a w a y  i n  a  p s y c h i a t r i c  h o s p i t a l  a n d  d e s t r o y e d  h i m
w i t h  d r u g  i n j e c t i o n s. T w e n t y  y e a r s  a f t e r  S e m m e l w e i s ’  p u b l i c  s t a t e m e n t  –  h e  h a d  a


	methods	with	their	balanced	compost	and	powdered	granite

and	other	soil	builders. If	we	are	to	eliminate	polio	epidemics	and	free	our	country	from	all	disease	we

must	attack	the	problem	at	its	source. The	foundation	is	in	the	healthy	soil,	then

the	healthy	food	can	be	raised. With	the	improved	food	and	correct	health

education	and	banishment	of	commercialized	foodless-foods,	drugs,	narcotics

and	other	products	that	menace	the	race	we	can	raise	our	low	standard	of	health

(with	90%	of	our	people	below	par)	up	to	the	level	where	it	should	be. Only	then

can	we	expect	to	have	unlimited	health,	happiness	and	progress. CHAPTER	11
ADDENDUM
We	wish	to	thank

Herbert	M.	Shelton,	N.	D.,

T.	M.	Schippell,	N.D.,

Morris	A.	Bealle	and

Rex	Lloyd,	for	permission	to	use	the	following	material. The	Publishers

VACCINATION:	A	MEDICAL	DELUSION

By	Rex	U.	Lloyd

Ever	since	the	dawn	of	history	man	has	believed	and	still	does,	in	the	miraculous

and	curative	power	of	poisonous	agents	and	anything	and	everything	which

experience	has	amply	proven	to	be	harmful	to	the	wellbeing	of	organized,

organic,	living	structure. Today,	with	our	Modern	and	Scientific	Medicine	that	boasts	of	the	advances

being	made	in	the	field	of	preventive	medicine—having	evolved	a	detailed

science	of	Theoretical	Immunology	in	which	harmful	man-eating	microbes,

virus,	etc.,	are	credited	with	the	power	of	causing	disease,	previously	assumed

by	primitive	man	to	belong	to	satanic	gods,	evil	spirits,	demons	and	serpents—
we	are	by	no	means	in	a	state	of	better	health	than	were	the	ancients. The	orthodox	and	dominant	school	of	healing—Medicine—has	taught	us	and

deliberately	popularized	the	false	and	absurd	notion	that	Disease	Is	An	Entity—

something	that	invades	the	body	from	without;	that	there	are	microbes,	germs,

viruses,	capable	of	causing	(communicable)	disease	and	that	specific	pathogenic

bacteria	produce	specific	disease	by	invading	the	animal	tissues:	that	inoculation

of	pus	and	other	pathogenic	products	into	the	organism	produces	resistance	or

immunity	to	infection	by	once	being	infected	and	that	this	immunity	can	be

transferred	to	another. It	is	claimed	in	medical	textbooks	that	the	body	produces

specific	protective	substances	called	Antibodies,	and	that	these	must	be	obtained
	from	another	person	or	some	animal	which	has	produced	them	by	having	been

infected	by	minute	amounts	of	poisonous	products	from	a	specific	disease. We	do	not	deny	the	existence	of	microbes	but	we	do	deny	that	there	are	any

insidious,	man-eating,	death-dealing	pathogenic	bacteria	capable	of	causing

pathology. Natural	Hygiene—a	school	of	rational,	wholesome	and	total	living

(which	originated	in	the	United	States	125	years	ago)	declares	that	Toxemia	is

the	universal	basic	cause	of	all	pathology	and	so-called	disease. Toxemia	is	the

accumulation	of	body	waste	and	is	produced	by	anything	and	everything	that

enervates	the	body. Enervation	is	produced	by	anything	that	uses	up	excess

energy,	e.g. poisons,	denatured	foods,	lack	of	sleep,	rest,	relaxation,	fresh	air	and

sunshine,	overeating,	sexual	excesses,	dissipations	of	all	kinds,	worry,	fear,

jealousy,	mental	self-abuse,	unpleasant	human	and	social	relations,	faulty

economic	conditions. This	checks	elimination	and	permits	accumulation	of	body

waste. Bacteria	do	not	cause	pathology	but	are	rather	the	effects	of	disease. They

are,	we	might	say,	Scavengers—a	necessary	byproduct	of	diseased	tissues	of	the

impaired	organism. It	should	be	emphasized	that	only	TRUE	NATURAL

IMMUNITY	can	be	attained	through	a	state	of	INTERNAL	CLEANLINESS

based	on	legitimate	nutrition	and	hygienic	living	habits. Our	orthodox	medical

practitioners	all	seek	for	a	way	to	make	UNCLEAN	LIVING	SAFE	by	creating

a	hypothetical	ARTIFICIAL	IMMUNITY	through	immunization	and	thus

protect	us	from	the	natural	consequences	of	our	daily	violations	of	the	laws	of

life. Numerous	experiments	with	germs	conducted	in	the	past	have	conclusively

proven	that	bacteria	does	not	and	cannot	produce	disease	in	a	healthy	organism. Years	ago,	Dr.	Pettenkofer,	professor	at	the	University	of	Vienna,	came	to	the

conclusion	that	germs	alone	do	not	produce	pathology	and	for	years	defended	his

position	from	the	lecture	platform	and	in	his	writings. On	more	than	one

occasion	he	and	his	assistants	swallowed	the	contents	of	glasses	containing

millions	of	living	cholera	germs. Dr.	Thomas	Powell	of	California,	who	is

believed	to	have	taken	more	germs	than	any	other	man,	challenged	his	medical

colleagues	to	produce	a	single	disease	by	germ	inoculation. He	was	inoculated

with	cholera	germs,	bubonic	plague	germs	and	bacteria	of	every	description	and

which	was	fed	to	him	in	every	kind	of	food,	yet	nothing	happened. Read	U.S.

Government	Bulletin	"Hygienic	Laboratory—Bulletin	No. 123,	Feb.	1921",	for

further	proof	on	contagious	diseases. Medical	history	credits	Edward	Jenner,	an	English	pharmacist	and	surgeon,
	(1798),	with	the	discovery	of	vaccination. Inoculation,	in	some	crude	form	has

been	practiced	by	savage	and	primitive	people	from	an	unknown	period,	among

which	were	Negroes,	Arabs,	Nubians,	Shillocks,	Tibetans	and	Hindus. All	that

Jenner	did,	was	that	he	helped	to	resurrect	an	old	custom	popular	then	among

dairymen	and	milk	maids	and	supplied	it	with	modern	theories. THE	NATURE	OF	VACCINES	AND	THE	DANGERS	AND	SERIOUS

COMPLICATIONS	THAT	FOLLOW	SERUMIZATION

All	vaccines	and	serums	are	foreign	proteins	and	therefore	a	virulent	poison. If

any	protein	enters	the	body	illegitimately,	through	any	channel	other	than	the

digestive	tract,	it	becomes	a	strong	poison. Proteins	in	themselves	cannot	be	used

by	the	body—they	first	require	to	be	broken	up	by	the	various	processes	of

digestion	into	Amino	Acids	before	they	become	useful	as	a	nutrient	to	the

organism	and	can	be	taken	into	the	bloodstream	to	be	used	as	building	materials. Injections	of	therapeutic	serums	in	human	beings	and	animals	result	in

impairment	and	great	injury	to	some	of	the	most	vital	organs—heart,	lungs,	liver,

kidneys,	nerves	etc. ANAPHYLAXIS	or	SERUM	POISONING	or	DISEASE,	sometimes	called

SERUM	SHOCK,	are	the	terms	being	used	to	indicate	the	harmful	after	effects

of	vaccination. We	cannot	tell	in	advance	of	the	inoculation	the	amount	of

damage	which	will	be	done	in	any	particular	individual,	whether	he	will	die


 that
you will incorporate into your life-style forever so you can start to experi
ence the well-being that you deserve and that is your birthright. You know life's gift to you is your body. Your thanks in return is to
take the best care of it you can. Give it a chance to function at its highest
level, unimpeded by toxic waste and weight. Your body wants to shine. It
does not want to be overweight. It wants to have the shape that you know
THE THEORY OF DETOXIFICATION • 65 it can have. All you have to do is facilitate its natural processes, and you
can start to experience the joys of a body you will be proud of. Enjoy
yourself as you watch the emergence of the slender body you know has
been locked inside you all this time. I think you can see from what you have read in the principles so far
that what is offered is not some hit-and-run scheme for quick, temporary
results. These are principles to be incorporated into your life-style. Rather
than a part-time diet scheme, you now have a full-time plan for life! You
may be wondering, "Can it be this simple? All I have to do is eat high-
water-content foods, properly combine food, and eat fruit correctly? Will
that do it?" YES! Yes, it will! The simply marvelous aspect of this is that it
is just that simple, FIT FOR LIFE doesn't lock you into anything. You
know the principles; you merely adhere to them as best you can. There's
no "blowing it." You can't blow it. Just do the best you can when you
can. As long as you do something good, you will reap the rewards. You
have the rest of your life, so don't put undo pressure on yourself. If the
principles make sense to you and you're willing to try them, that's all it
will take. You have been given tools to use when you wish. You're in
control. Like master woodcarvers who can go anywhere in the world and
practice their trade, as long as they have their tools with them, YOU CAN
USE THE TOOLS OF FIT FOR LIFE WHEREVER YOU ARE, WHATEVER
YOU ARE DOING, AND WHATEVER YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES. The days of
throwing your life into turmoil are over. No more locking up your re
frigerator, taking diet pills, counting calories, or existing on measly por
tions. This is it! Liberation! You can eat, and eat well, and you can enjoy your food. You can
avoid putting yourself through another one of those self-depriving, self-
defeating two- or four-week ordeals that bring you nothing but frustration
and temporary results. You now have a realistic, lifelong approach that
you can live with—literally! Now that we have completed the principles, there are two areas of food
consumption that demand attention because of their extreme influence
on successful weight control and energy enhancement. The first of these
is... 66'FIT FOR LIFE CHAPTER
Protein
m^m__ J-robably f/ie most frequently asked
question in the area of diet, health, and weight loss is "Where do you get
your protein?" The fear of dying in this country doesn't begin to compare
with people's fear of not getting enough protein. The problem, however,
is not how to get enough, it's how not to get too much. Having too much
protein in one's body is easily as dangerous as not having enough. In the words of Mike Benton of the American College of Health Sci
ence, "Perhaps never have so many been so confused over a subject
about which they know so little." I know what an exceedingly confusing topic this is. Everyone seems to
have a different opinion as to how much protein should or should not be
eaten and why. What always frustrated me was listening to a "board-
certified authority" discuss in a most convincing manner what I should
know about protein. Then I would hear another equally authoritative
"expert" speak as convincingly as the first but say the exact opposite! That, 1 think, is the position that most people are in. The experts are
arguing up and back, burying the listener under an avalanche of facts,
figures, statistics, and proof. The public winds up feeling like the ball in a
tennis match. One thing in all of this is undeniably true: People are
confused! • 67 • Right about now you may very well be asking, "What makes you any
different from all those who have added to the confusion?" Good ques
tion. It's certainly the one I would have asked. Perhaps nothing. But my
intention is not to persuade you to accept what / know to be true, nor is it
to totally reeducate you right here and now. To give you a clear under
standing of the protein issue, it is going to take more than what I am
about to relate. It is going to take some study and experimentation on
your part. My intention is to get you to feel confident that you can make
an intelligent decision for yourself, without having to depend on the ex
perts who are arguing with one another. You already have the tools nec
essary to do so. And you know what those tools are: common sense,
logic, and instinct. I will be appealing to your inherent ability to "know"
the right thing to do. You will have ample opportunity to exercise those
tools by the end of this chapter. There is a voluminous amount of information showing a relationship
between the consumption of concentrated protein foods and heart dis
ease, high blood pressure, cancer, arthritis, osteoporosis, gout, ulcers,
and a host of other maladies, documented by T. C. Fry, Victoras
Kulvinskas, Blanche Leonardo, Barbara Parham, John A. Scharffenberg,
Orville Schell, and Herbert M. Shelton, among others. This discussion
will, however, confine itself to the effects on one's weight and energy
level. Protein is the most complex of all food elements, and its assimilation
and utilization are the most complicated. The easiest food for the body to
break down is fruit; the other end of the scale, the hardest, is protein. When protein food is eaten, more energy is necessary for it to go through
its process of digestion than for any other food. The average time for food
(other than fruit) to pass through the entire gastrointestinal tract is be
tween twenty-five and thirty hours. When flesh food is eaten, that time is
more than doubled. Therefore, logically, the more protein one eats, the
less energy will be available for other necessary functions, such as the
elimination of toxic waste. The entire protein issue has been blown so far out of proportion that it
is doubtful that people will ever feel at ease with it. The bottom line is
that we simply don't need as much as we have been led to believe.' First
of all, the human body recycles 70 percent of its proteinaceous waste. That's 70 percent! Second, the human body loses only about twenty-
three grams of protein a day. That's eight tenths of an ounce. It is lost
'Arthur C. Guyton. Guidance Textbook of Medical Physiology. Philadelphia: Saunders Publishing
Co., 1981. T. C. Frv. "Lesson #8, Proteins in the Diet." In The Life Science Health System. Austin, Texas:
Life Science, 198?. 68 • FIT FOR LIFE through the feces, urine, hair, sloughed-off skin, and perspiration. To
replenish eight tenths of an ounce you would need to eat about a pound
and a half of protein a month. Most people eat far in excess of that,
eating protein at every meal. The RDA protein requirement is fifty-six
grams daily (less than two ounces! ), and that is with their built-in safety
margin of nearly doubling the actual need! Consuming more than the
body requires places a heavy burden on the system as it tries to rid itself of
this excess. It is a dreadful waste of your precious energy that is so dearly
needed in the quest for weight loss. An eight-ounce glass can hold only
eight ounces of liquid. If you pour sixteen ounces into the glass, every
thing over eight ounces will go to waste. So it is with your body. Once
the daily requirements are met, eight tenths of an ounce, that's it. An
other problem is that the excess protein not only robs you of your energy,
but also must be stored in your body as toxic waste, adding weight until
the organism can muster sufficient energy to get rid of it. But the next
day there is another surplus to deal with, so the situation is worsened. Actually protein is not any more or less important than any of the
other constituents of food. We have been led to believe that one is more
important, but that simply is not accurate. They all play a crucial role in
making a food a food. Given a choice, which would you choose to give
up if you had to choose one: your heart or your brain? It's the same with
food. The constituents of foods that compose a typical meal are always
the same. There are vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fatty acids, amino
acids, and many more constituents that have yet to be isolated and
named. They are all


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ity), 2008.
Copyright © Vera Giovanna Bani 2019 www.dryfasting.infoThis Ebook was purchased by Gilberto Franchi email: gilbertofranchi@hotmail.fr1. What is dry fasting?
An absolute fast  or dry fasting  (DF) is nor-
mally defined as abstinence from any food or liq-
uid over a particular time frame.  Russian doctors
recommend a practice from 1 day up to a maxi-
mum of 5 in domestic conditions (3 days for
people affected by illness) and from 6 to 11 days
strictly under medical assistance (see question
10).
This type of fasting requires abstaining from
water not only for internal use, but also for ex-
ternal use. For maximum therapeutic effect, in
fact, it is advisable to totally refrain from any
contact with water; this results in the greatest ex-
perience of rejuvenation and restructuring of the
cells through the detoxification process stimu-
lated by DF.
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while fasting the saliva composition changes and
acquires the ability to "dissolve" the enamel.
Throughout the fasting practice a special organic
layer usually coa ts the teeth and protects them
from decaying. If the wish to brush one’s teeth is
too strong it is possible to do it, but only once a
week.
Regarding contact with water for domestic
use, it will be sufficient to use a pair of rubber
gloves.
It must be said that in the case of certain pa-
thologies doctors allow patients to wash them-
selves with cold water (less than 11 degrees) or
swim in natural water basins. The contrast in
temperature experienced by the body enhances
the thermal reaction triggered by DF wi thin the
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mechanisms of self -healing.

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Nowadays dry therapeutic fasting is consid-
ered one of the most advanced healing methods,
but in fact this approach is “as old as the world”.
It was born at the dawn of humanity. It can be
affirmed with certainty that since the beginning
of the evolution of animal life forms existing to-
day, dry fasting was frequently used by all their
representatives.
As humanity progressed this archaic method
has been mostly forgotten and only in recent
decades, thanks to the growing popularity of hy-
gienism and water and water  fasting, there has
been a return of interest in this ancient practice.
Dry fasting is an absolutely natural process, in-
corpor ated into the genetic code of man and an-
imals: it is well known that when animals fall
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mediately refuse food and water.
When the body gets ill, it begins to mobilize
all its forces to protect itself and it starts using its
reserves, if they exist. Therefore, with the intent
to save energy from processing external water
and food, the body triggers a rescue program,
which involves an automatic "refusal" to intro-
duce them.
Similar situations also occur in respons e to
adverse environmental conditions: to protect
themselves from extreme cold (winter hiberna-
tion) or from extreme hot (aestivation) animals
do not eat and do not drink for long periods and
enter a state of inactivity and metabolic depres-
sion characterized by low body temperature,
slow breathing, slow heart rate and low
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tivation is to conserve energy when sufficient
food is unavailable.
This phenomenon can affect animal and
plant species, both in the adult form and in the
intermediate forms of development (eggs, lar-
vae, chrysalises, seeds, spores, pollen, buds, tu-
bers, bulbs, etc.) and may depend on seasonal
environmental phenomena, as in the case of
winter hibernation or from accidental external
causes (drough t, temperature changes, lack of
nourishment). In all these situations we speak of
anabiosis, or apparent death or latent life5.

5 Cryptobiosis (latent life) is the collective name for a state of life
used by some organisms to overcome periods of unfavorable envi-
ronmental conditions such as desiccation, freezing, and  oxygen  de-
ficiency. Cryptobiotic organisms are known from both the plant
and animal kingdom (mainly among invertebrates). Cryptobiosis
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organism, in the absence of nourishment, slows
down its vital functions, which resume perfectly
as soon as the external conditions normalize.
Therefore, fasting is a natural adaptive mecha-
nism, an organism’s automatic self -defense reac-
tion genially developed by Mother Nature and
incorporated into the vital strategies of animal
and pl ant organisms to survive environmental
conditions.

may be entered either within a specific life stage (for example larvae
and eggs, spores of various fun gi and bacteria, and pollen and seeds
of some plants) or over the entire life cycle (in species of Protozoa,
Nematoda, Tardigrada, Arthropoda, mosses, lichens, and algae, as
well as some higher plants). In the cryptobiotic state, all measurable
metabolic processes are interrupted. When environmental condi-
tions return to being hospitable, the organism will return to its  met-
abolic  state of life as it was prior to the cryptobiosis.
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dications and contraindications for fast-
ing and dry fasting.

Main indications:
• hypertension, stages 1 and 2;
• neurocirculatory dystonia, hypertensive or
mixed (there are limitations regarding hypo-
tonic neurocirculatory dystonia since there is
a chance of orthostatic collapse);
• ischemic heart disease, angina pectoris of
classes I, II and III;
• chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD);
• bronchial asthma;
• pulmonary sarcoidosis, phases I and II;
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and hyperacidity, gastroduodenitis;
• pancreatitis and chronic cholecystitis with-
out gallstones;
• biliary dyskinesia
• irritable bowel syndrome (IBS);
• diseases of the  musculoskeletal system of in-
flammatory and dystrophic origin;
• neuroendocrine disorders in chronic
salpingoovaritis;
• prostate adenoma;
• alimentary -constitutional obesity, dience-
phalic obesity;
• resistance to drug therapy;
• skin allergies (chronic allergic der matosis,
neurodermatitis, psoriasis, eczema); food al-
lergies and (or) from drugs.
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personality disorder.

Contraindications

1. Absolute contraindications:
• marked body mass deficit (more than 15%
from the expected values);
• malignant tumors;
• active tuberculosis of the lungs and other or-
gans;
• bronchiectasis;
• systemic diseases of the blood;
• type I diabetes mellitus;
• thyrotoxicosis;
• disorders of the heart rhythm and/or of the
pulse propagation of any origin;
• post -focal myocardial infarction;
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• chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver;
• chronic renal failure and renal failure of any
genesis;
• thrombophlebitis.

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 astringent) in each meal. The typical
American diet tends to be dominated by the sweet, sour, and salty tastes (the main
flavors of a hamburger). We do need these tastes, but they can lower metabolism,
especially if eaten in excess.
The pungent, bitter, and astringent tastes, on the other hand, are anti-inflammatory
and increase metabolism. These tastes are found in foods such as radishes, ginger,
mustard, peppers, spinach, mushrooms, tea, lentils, lettuce, and so on.
Along with the six tastes, filling your plate with the colors of the rainbow promotes
a long and healthy life. We can literally ingest the information of the universe into
our biology. Foods that are deep blue, purple, red, green, or orange are leaders in
antioxidants and contain many nutrients that boost immunity and enhance health.
Examples of foods of the rainbow:
• Red: Red tomatoes (particularly cooked), red peppers, red/pink grapefruit,
watermelon, red grapes, beets, red cabbage, apples, strawberries, cherries,
raspberries, cranberries
• Orange/yellow: Squash, carrots, sweet potatoes, yams, pumpkin, cantaloupe,
mangoes, papaya, nectarines
• Green: Broccoli, kale, spinach, cabbage, peas, avocado, collard greens
• Deep blue/purple: Plums, blueberries, black raspberries, blackberries, purple
grapes, eggplant (with skin)NURTURE YOUR BODY WITH HEALTHY FOOD7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 4
www.chopra.comSTEP 4I rejoice in the miracle of my body by moving, stretching,
and strengthening it every day. 7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 5One of the most important ways to grow younger and live longer is regular
exercise. Drs. William Evans and Irwin Rosenberg from Tufts University have
documented the powerful effect of exercise on many of the biomarkers of aging,
including muscle mass, strength, aerobic capacity, bone density, and cholesterol.
Not only does exercise keep the body young, but it also keeps the mind vital and
promotes emotional well-being. In his book Spark: The Revolutionary New Science
of Exercise and the Brain, Harvard University professor John Ratey, M.D. describes
how physical activity sparks biological changes that increases the brain’s ability to
learn, adapt, and perform other cognitive tasks.
A complete fitness program includes exercises to develop flexibility, cardiovascular
conditioning, and strength training. Find an aerobic activity that you can do
regularly—three to four sessions each week for twenty to thirty minutes is usually
enough to give you substantial benefits. After your body is warmed up, spend five
to ten minutes stretching. You will also want to include strength training in your
program to systematically exercise the major muscle groups of your body.
The important thing is to start off slowly, find physical activities you enjoy, and do
them regularly. If the most you can do right now is walk around the block, do that,
and you will be surprised how quickly you increase your endurance and enthusiasm
for moving and breathing.MOVE YOUR BODY EVERY DAY7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 5
www.chopra.comSTEP 5I openly give and receive love to those around me.7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 6Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. Heart attack and
death rates are known to increase among the recently widowed and among men
who have been suddenly terminated from their jobs without warning and against
their will. The emotional value of social bonding is immense, yet in some countries,
including the U.S., we have moved in the opposite direction for decades. With
increasingly long hours spent working, more time in front of the television, and a
population constantly on the move, social bonding keeps declining. The trend will
be exacerbated as the fastest-growing population, those eighty and older, move
into retirement homes. It’s becoming increasingly rare for older people to be cared
for at home, and there is still a stigma about seniors being a burden to the young
and a drag on society.
The key here is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout
your life. Resist the impulse to go quietly into semi-isolation because you assume
that society expects that of you. Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part
of aging, and many people can’t find replacements or lack the motivation to. By
“replacement,” I don’t mean a new spouse and family (though that is certainly a
possibility), but emotional bonds that mean something to you and offer continued
meaning to your existence. No amount of reading and television substitutes for
human contact that nourishes on the level of love and caring. One of the most
effective steps is for older people to become involved with mentoring programs,
education, and youth programs.CULTIVATE LOVING RELATIONSHIPS7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 6
www.chopra.comSTEP 6I make time to play and explore each day, approaching
new experiences with the curiosity and openness
of a child. 7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 7An ancient Vedic aphorism says, “Infinite flexibility is the secret to immortality.”
When we cultivate flexibility in or consciousness, we renew ourselves in every
moment and reverse the aging process. Children offer the finest expressions of
openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest
things. They are infinitely creative because they haven’t yet built up the layers of
conditioning that create limitations and restrictions.
To maintain a youthful mind, write down two or three things you can do that are
totally childlike. Think of something that evokes childhood for you—eating an ice
cream cone, going to a playground to swing, coloring a picture, jumping rope, or
building a sand castle. Find something that brings back the sense of fun you had as
a child, even if you think you’ve outgrown it, and choose one of these activities to
do today.
As you carry out your childlike activity, let yourself embody the archetypal carefree
and innocent child. The feeling you’re aiming for isn’t a return to childhood, but
something more profound, as expressed by the brilliant therapist A.H. Almaas:
“When we look at a child, we see that the sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of
joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself;
it is not because of something one does or doesn’t do. It is there in the beginning,
when we were children but slowly it gets lost.” By re-experiencing our childlike
nature, we not only cultivate a youthful mind, but we also connect to the part of us
that is never born and never dies—our eternal spiritual essence.MAINTAIN A YOUTHFUL MIND7 STEPS TO RADICAL WELLBEING: Step 7
www.chopra.comSTEP 7<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Praise for The 80/10/10 Diet

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 30 consecutive days offasting to restore complete health. However, thirty fasting days, done a few days
here and a few there won’t equal a month of steady fasting; the body
accomplishes enormously more in 7 or l4 days of consecutive fasting, than 7 or14 days of fasting accumulated sporadically, such as one day a week. This is notto say that regular short fasts are not useful medicine. Periodic day-long fasts havebeen incorporated into many religious traditions, and for good reason; it gives thebody one day a week to rest, to be free of digestive obligations, and to catch upon garbage disposal. I heartily recommend it. But it takes many years ofunfailingly regular brief fasting to equal the benefits of one, intensive experience.
Fasting on water much longer than fifteen consecutive days may be dangerous
for the very sick, (unless under experienced supervision) or too intense for thosewho are not motivated by severe illness to withstand the discomfort andboredom. However, it is possible to finish a healing process initiated by one longwater fast by repeating the fast later. My husband’s healing is a good example ofthis. His health began to noticeably decline about age 38 and he started fasting.He fasted on water 14 to 18 days at a time, once a year, for five consecutiveyears before most of his complaints and problems entirely vanished.
The longest fast I ever supervised was a 90 day water fast on an
extraordinarily obese woman, who at 5’ 2” weighed close to 400 pounds. Shewas a Mormon; generally members of the LDS Church eat a healthier diet thanmost Americans, but her’s included far too much of what I call “healthfoodjunkfood,” in the form of whole grain cakes and cookies, lots of granola madewith lots of honey, oil, and dried fruit, lots of honey heaped atop heavily butteredwhole grain bread. (I will explain more about the trap of healthfood junkfood lateron.) A whole foods relatively meatless diet is far superior to its refined white flour,white sugar and white grease (lard) counterpart, but it still produced a seriousheath problem in just 30 years of life. Like many women, she expressed love-for-family in the kitchen by serving too-much too-tasty food. The Mormons have avery strong family orientation and this lady was no exception, but she wasinsecure and unhappy in her marriage and sought consolation in food, eaten far inexcess of what her body needed.
On her 90 day water fast she lost about 150 pounds, but was still grossly
overweight when the fast ended. Toward the end it became clear that it wasunrealistic to try to shrink this woman any closer to normal body weight becauseto her, fat represented an invaluable insulation or buffer that she was not preparedto give up. As the weight melted away on the fast and she was able to actuallyfeel the outline of a hip bone her neurosis became more and more apparent, andthe ability to feel a part of her skeleton was so upsetting to her that her choicewas between life threatening obesity and pervasive anxiety.
Her weight was still excessive but the solace of eating was even more
important. This woman needed intensive counseling not more fasting.Unfortunately, at the end she choose to remain obese. Fat was much lessfrightening to her than confronting her emotions and fears. The positive side wasthat after the fast she was able to maintain her weight at 225 instead of 375 whichwas an enormous relief to her exhausted heart.
Another client I fasted for 90 days was a 6’ 1” tall, chronic schizophrenic man
who weighed in at 400 pounds. He was so big he could barely get through myfront door, and mine was an extraordinarily wide door in what had been anupper-class mansion. This man, now in his mid twenties, had spent his last sevenyears in a mental institution before his parents decided to give him one last chanceby sending to Great Oaks School. The state mental hospitals at that time providedthe mentally ill with cigarettes, coffee, and lots of sugary treats, but none of thesesubstances were part of my treatment program so he had a lot of immediatewithdrawal to go through. The quickest and easiest way to get him through it wasto put him on a water fast after a few days of preparation on raw food.
This was not an easily managed case! He was wildly psychotic, on heavy
doses of chloropromazine, with many bizarre behaviors. Besides talking to himselfcontinuously in gibberish, he collected bugs, moss, sticks, piles or dirt, andswitched to smoking oak leaves instead of cigarettes. He was such a fire hazardthat I had to move him to a downstairs room with concrete floor. Even in the
basement he was a fire hazard with his smoking and piles of sticks and other
inflammables next to his bed, but all of this debris was his “precious.” I knew thatI was in for trouble if I disturbed his precious, but the insects and dirt pilesseemed to be expanding exponentially.
One day the dirt exceeded my tolerance level. To make a long story short he
caught me in the act of cleaning up his precious. Was he furious! All 350 poundsof him! (By this time he had lost 50 pounds.) He barreled into me, fists flying, andknocked me into the pipes next to the furnace and seemed ready to really teachme what was what. I prefer to avoid fights, but if they are inevitable, I can reallyget into the spirit of the thing. I’d had lots of childhood practice defending myselfbecause I was an incurable tomboy who loved to wrestle; I could usually pin bigboys who considered themselves tough. So I began using my fists and what littlemartial arts training I had to good use. After I hurt him a bit he realized that I wasnot going to be easily intimidated, and that in fact he was in danger of gettingseriously damaged. So he called a truce before either of us were badly beaten up.He had only a few bruises and welts, nothing serious.
After that he refrained from collecting things inside the building (he continued
to collect outside). This compromise was fine with me, and the incident allowedme to maintain the authority I needed to bully him into cooperating with theprogram: taking his vitamins, and sticking to his fast until he finally reached 200pounds. After 90 days on water he actually looked quite handsome, he no longersmoked, he was off psychotropic medication, and his behaviors were within anacceptable range as long as your expectations were not too high.
He was well enough to live outside a hospital and also clearheaded enough to
know that if he let too many people know how well he really was, he might haveto give up his mental disability pension and actually become responsible forhimself. No way, José! This fellow knew a good thing when he saw it. So hecontinued to pull bizarre stunts just often enough in front of the right audience tokeep his disability checks coming in, while managing to act sane enough to be
allowed to live comfortably at home instead of in the hospital. By keeping to my
program he could stay off mind-numbing psychotropic medication if he kept uphis megavitamins and minerals. This compromise was tolerable from his point ofview, because there were no side effects like he experienced from histranquilizers.
It is very rare for a mentally ill person who has spent more than a few months
in a mental hospital to ever usefully return to society because they find “mentalillness” too rewarding.
My Own 56 Day Long Fast
Fasters go through a lot of different emotional states, these can get intense and
do change quite rapidly. The physical body, too, will manifest transitoryconditions. Some can be quite uncomfortable. But, I don’t want to leave thereader with the impression that fasting is inevitably painful. So I will now recountmy own longest fast in detail.
When I did my own 42 day water fast followed by two weeks on carrot juice
diluted 50/50 with water, which really amounted to 56 consecutive days, mypredominant sensation for the first three days was a desire to eat that was mostlya mental condition, and a lot of rumbling and growling from my stomach. This isnot real hunger, just the sounds the stomach likes to make when it is shrinking.After all, this organ is accustomed to being filled at regular intervals, and then, allof a sudden, it gets nothing, so naturally the stomach wants to know what is goingon. Once it realizes it is on temporary vacation, the stomach wisely decides toreduce itself to a size suitable for a retired organ. And it shuts up. This processusually takes three to five days and for most people, no further “hunger pangs”are felt until the fast is over.
Real hunger comes only when the body is actually starving. The intense
discomforts many people experience upon missing a meal are frequentlyinterpreted as hunger but they aren’t. What is actually happening is that their
highly toxic bodies are taking the opportunity presented by having missed a meal
or two to begin to cleanse. The toxins being released and processed makeassorted unpleasant symptoms such as headaches and inability to think clearly.These symptoms can be instantly eliminated by the intake of a bit of food, bringingthe detox to a screeching halt.
Two weeks into the fast I experienced sharp abdominal pains that felt like I
imagine appendicitis feels, which compelled me toward the nearest toilet in a stateof great urgency where I productively busied myself for about half an hour. As Imentioned earlier, I was experimentally adhering to a rigid type of fast of the sortrecommended by Dr. Herbert Shelton,