80
,
119
,
161
,
165
infants and young children
81–85
insane patients,
93
instinctive (See Animals, Infants, Insane)
interruptions,
53
,
54
,
55
,
64
long fasts,
53
,
106
,
132
misunderstood,
13
,
56
,
70
muscle atrophy,
31
nature at work,
109
absorption, of infections,
94
autolysis,
29
,
37
,
162
 (See Autolysis)
economy,
29
,
30
emphasis changed,
28
,
58
,
94
nine basic steps
preparation,
52
,
59
rest,
59
,
60
,
129
152activity,
60
warmth,
60
water,
60
,
61
bathing,
61
sunbathing,
61
,
62
purges,
62
suffering,
62
opposition,
21
,
52
,
58
,
94
plants and food scarcity,
27
preventive,
50
,
76
,
91
,
93
,
141
rally and relapse,
41
reasons for
four reasons,
35–36
,
71–72
,
80
physical,
19
,
23
,
30–31
political,
18
,
76
religious,
17
,
18
,
19
role,
21
,
46
,
49
,
54
,
75
,
76
safe,
23
,
24
,
25
,
51
,
53
,
167
short fasts,
50
,
51
,
53
,
54
,
64
,
80
,
106
,
122
when? 49
,
50
,
84
,
92
,
98
where? 51
,
52
Fear,
105
,
118
,
156
Feeding plan,
65–67
Fermentation,
84
,
85
Feverishness,
83
Flores, Ralph,
26
,
28
Food and Feeding,
50
,
67–70
,
77–79
,
81–83
acute disease into chronicity,
50
,
91–92
after fasting,
65–70
carbohydrates,
80
,
127
cooked food,
69
dangers of,
89
dying patient,
44
food vs. nutrition,
77–79
forced feeding,
50
,
90
fragmented,
68–69
fruits,
82
hydrocarbons,
69
minerals,
30
,
69
not a palliative,
117
overeating,
67
,
70
,
77
,
80
processed,
68
-70,
80
153proteins,
68
,
69
,
70
,
79–80
,
110
raw foods,
68
,
69
,
80
refined,
68
,
69–70
synthetic,
68
underfeeding,
29
vegetables,
66
,
68–69
,
82
vitamins,
30
,
70
,
82
Frigidity,
21
Fruit,
65–66
,
69
,
82
Fungation (Cancer),
116
Funk,
77
Gallstones, (Cholelithiasis),
157
cause,
157
,
158
fasting,
159
surgery,
159
,
160
Gastric Acidity,
118
Gastric irritation,
118
Gastric juices (HCL and Pepsin),
114
,
115
Gastric ulcer,
115
 (See Peptic ulcer)
Gastritis,
83
,
84
,
94
,
134
Gastrocolic reflex,
65
Gastroenterostomy,
118
Gastrointestinal putrefaction,
111
Gastrourinary tract,
94
Genitourinary disease,
144
Glaucoma,
46
Glycogen,
28
Gonorrhea,
148
cleanliness,
148–150
fasting,
148
,
150
good behavior,
149
water, internally and externally,
150
Gourmandizing,
67
Gout,
111
Graham, Sylvester,
37
Gross. Robert,
47
Gruel,
50
Habit,
68
devitalizing,
80
Hay Fever,
94
,
122
,
123
,
124
Headache,
32
,
55
,
120
154Healing,
47
,
48
,
49
,
60
,
140
broken bones,
47
histogenesis,
48
spontaneous,
45
,
48
Hearing, restoration,
71
Heart, the,
71
,
105
,
130
,
131
decompensation,
129
,
130
diseases,
63
,
127
,
131
drugging,
41
,
131
fasting,
36
,
127
,
128–129
supervisory care,
132
valves,
128
Hepatic Colic,
157
High Blood Pressure,
124–126
drugging,
125
explained,
124
fasting,
126
prevalence,
124
Hoelzel, Frederick,
75
Hunger,
absence,
34
acute disease,
33
,
89
basic rule,
33
chronic disease,
63
not appetite,
32
not irritation,
34
where felt,
31–32
Hunger Strike (Cork),
127
Hunzas,
82
Hydrochloric acid,
114–115
Hygienic Concepts,
33–34
,
36
,
45
,
48
,
50
,
53
,
54
,
56
,
58
,
60–61
,
67–70
,
77
,
80
,
90
,
91
,
95
,
96
,
97
,
98
,
105
,
111
,
116
,
123
,
126
,
134–135
,
141
,
158
,
165–166
Hygienic responsibility,
67
Hygienists,
21
,
22
,
50
,
55
,
89
,
97
Hyperacidity,
116–117
Hyperplasia,
99
Hypertension, essential,
124
,
125
Hypertrophy,
146
Ileitis,
94
Immunization,
67
Impotence,
21
Indigestion,
83–85
,
135
155Induration,
116
 (See Definitions)
Inflammation,
84
,
108
,
112
,
115
,
115–117
,
122
,
133
,
134
,
139
,
141–142
,
144
,
158
need for rest in,
112
Ingelfinger,
140
Ingenuity of nature,
30
Inoculation,
83
Insects,
18
,
74
 (See Animals)
Instinctive procedures,
34
,
64
,
70
,
93
Insulin,
95
Internal reserve stores,
28
,
29
,
30
,
128
 (See also Fasting)
Irreducible activity,
28
Irritation,
34
,
37
,
105
,
115
,
116
,
117
,
118
,
139
,
142
,
144
Jaundice,
158
Jeferson, Joseph,
41
Kidneys,
155–157
Kirsner,
140
Klaben, Helen,
26
,
28
Lindlahr, Henry,
65
Lithemic diathesis,
157
Liver,
158
,
159
Locomotor Ataxia,
46
Low, Gilman,
42
Lumbago,
109
,
147
Lymph,
37
,
38
Macfadden, Bernarr,
42
,
161
MacSwiney, Terence,
127
Maintenance, of weight,
67
Malaise,
34
,
91
Malignancy,
140
Manipulation,
110
Manganese poisoning,
153
Marrow, bone,
28
Maxims,
34
,
83
,
103
,
120
,
127
,
165
,
166
Mayo,


not evil, that he may live"... and never ill and in want. My own profession, dentistry, and medicine also, it seems to me,
fail in the same way. Neither can se e the underlying causes of human
ills for the symptoms. Consequently, the three leading professions
dedicated to the service of mankind, the clergy, dentistry and
medicine, do not teach or practice the way of life. That teaching is all
in the Bible, but our preachers do not master it. Seemingly they are content to quote stray passages of scripture taken out of its content to support their own ideas of what is true, honest, just, pure, lovely or of
good report. As it seems to me, both dentistry and medicine are rather
disposed to disown any member of their respective professions who
would dare teach the true way of life, which would prevent most of
the disease, poverty and misery which afflict mankind today. The churches teach that the Devil is responsible for all the
wrongs abroad in the world today—but I say that man himself is
responsible for those evils. He has wandered far from the good way
that the law and the prophets and the Nazarene laid out for him. Today he is lost in a bog, confused and bewildered, groping for a path back to the King's highway. That has come to pass, I believe, because men, instead of
thinking upon things of good report, as Paul advised in his letter to the
Phillippians, have thought upon disease, loss, poverty, depression and war. Fearing those evils, man has brought them upon himself. Disease
is man-made. Poverty is man-made. Depressions and wars are man-
made. As I have said before, and I repeat, the 20-odd years since my
60th birthday have been the best years of my life. It was not until I
began fasting or perhaps eating lightly of fruits or vegetables or juices, to correct bodily conditions which ha d threatened my life that ideas
and visions of that good way of life came flooding my being. Thus for
the first time I had achieved spiritual heights to get some inkling of the
meaning of life, to taste the satisfactions which the good way might
hold for me. I have since striven to continue in that way. Dreamlike
thoughts and visions pour in on me and open up vistas never glimpsed during my younger years. It follows that the widely held notion that at 60 a man is too old
to work at his job, full of pains and inefficient, and ought to retire, is
far removed from my experience. Had I continued to feed my appetite,
as I had done in youth and middle lif e, then I would have been ready
to go on the shelf at 60. What happens to a man after 60. I have concluded, depends on
the man himself. He must decide what master he will serve, whether
he will yield to his physical appetites that will drag him down or will
resolutely choose and pursue the good way of life, that promises him
good health, efficiency and durable satisfactions long past his three
score years and ten. CHAPTER 37. SIGNALS ON LIFE'S HIGHWAY
 As a foresighted motorist, the reader would not think of starting
out on a cross-country tour without a supply of up-to-date road maps. Life is a journey too, but we pass over the route only once. For that
reason it is much more important that we study life's maps, chart the way we mean to follow and learn what we can concerning what is to
be expected along the road. The better we know ourselves, the better
we understand the rules of the road (which are nature's laws), the more
we shall reap from the journey in health and happiness and in beauty
seen by the way. On this life journey, we have to obey two sets of traffic rules,
natural law and man-made law. For every moment of our lives we are
subject to that dual authority. The rewards which we earn and the
penalties which we incur depend upo n how well we learn and keep the
law. The reader knows well enough which is the more important. He
can sometimes break a man-made law, exceed the speed limit or cut a
corner and get away with it. By contrast, experience has taught him
that nature never overlooks a mistake. There are no suspended sentences, paroles and pardons in nature's court. Man-made customs,
conventions and standards of value are constantly changing. Each
generation sets up its own. If we wish to be happy on the west side of
this rise (in life's journey), we must not stake our all on man-made
values. These will one day become ou t of date and be discarded. New
standards will be substituted to fit the new time. Not so with natural
law, God's law, that is changeless and eternal. It  is therefore important
that the traveler on Life's Road le arn Nature's Laws and learn that he
must obey those laws if he is to find the going smooth. Particularly when the young man starts out from the parental
home to make his own way, he needs a map to guide him. It is essential first of all that he know himself; but he should also know the natural and man-made laws with whic h he has to deal. It will help to
inform him that the roadside is we ll strewn with signs and signals for
who can read. No lesson that a young man can learn is more important
than learning to look for, recognize and read aright the signals on life's
highway. As a practicing dentist, after I had once learned how food makes
the man, I could look at signs in my patient's mouth and tell him the
type of food he lived upon, whether he had a "sweet tooth" and ate
heavily of white bread, syrup, cakes and pies, or that he had a strong
appetite for beef, gravy and pork ch ops, or, again if he consumed
enough salads and drank enough pure raw milk. Common sense teaches me that th ose signs are not confined to
the mouth. If a person's diet is not properly balanced, or if he has
sinned against his body by too much or too little exercise, too little
sleep or excesses of any kind, there will be warning signs that nature
has put out. It may be a pimple, a fever sore, a stiff joint, a pain in the
chest, a cough or shortness of breath. Whatever the sign, it is
important that the person, or his family physician or other trained
observer, read it, interpret it and see that the ill to which it points is
corrected. There is an old saying: "Be sure your sins will find you
out." That principle applies forcefully to sins against the body. Eat the
wrong foods, eat too much, overwork or mistreat the body in any way
and there will be warning signs. Happy the man who heeds them! Above all others, the mother should  be well drilled in reading those
bodily signs and signals and should know what to do whenever the
symptoms appear. Suppose the law let a man set himself up in an
office to practice dentistry, to re pair decayed teeth, pull teeth and
make new sets without training for the job. Well, when she undertakes
to rear a child, the mother starts on a more complicated job than running a dental office. Along our principal highways, enterprising State engineers have
installed ingenious signs which instan tly warn the driver of a curve to
the right or left, a winding stretch, a crossing, a dip or other bad spots
ahead. Now, a kind nature provides even more warning signs, even
flashing lights that cannot be missed, along life's highway. To disregard those signs is to invite tr ouble, even to risk fatal disease. Nature's signals tell us what we ourselves are creating. For most
diseases, like most highway wrecks, are man-made. Quicker than most sins against one's body, wrong eating habits exact their penalties. Eating the right food in the right quantity, but in sufficient variety to give zest to the appetite, is mightil y important because food keeps the
body in repair, keeps the life processes going. Take a gentle white rat, a cat or any pet and feed it on the sort of
diet that many parents feed their children, too heavy on white bread
and sweets, too light on raw vegetables and milk, and the pet will soon
become nervous and vicious. That is why I say that the way to prevent, or cure, juvenile delinquency is to see that all the children, including the under-privileged, get the food which they require for
healthy bodies. Build sound bodies and you build steady nerves, clear
brains and good morals. There are persons who have learned somehow in their youth to
read and heed the signs and signals along life's road. As a result, each has lived long without aches and pains. Each has gained added
wisdom with experience and so has found the world growing more
beautiful and life more enjoyable as the years pass by. When I try to tell people about diet or the care of their bodies
otherwise, some protest: "If I can't enjoy the things I like I had as well
die." Now, I'd like to send the person who gives me an answer like
that to consult one of those sages who has found the secret of the good
and happy life. Then he might re alize how a perverted taste has
betrayed him with a counterfeit happ in


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        John was violently opposed to ordinary medical treatment; he especially would
not have taken antibiotics even if he had died without them because previouscourses of antibiotics had been the precipitant of life-threatening conditions thatfirst brought John to my care. John used his last strength to get to me because heknew that had a hospital gotten its clutches on him the medical doctors wouldhave done exactly as they pleased. I gave John a colonic, a gentle, mental spanking, and put him to bed without
any supper. He started water fasting and did colonics every day. He begangobbling vitamin C (as calcium ascorbate) a few grams every hour. I put hugepoultices on his sores made of clay and chopped lawn grass (we needed a weekor so before a tray of wheat grass would be ready). John’s sores were amazing. Every day a new one seemed to appear on a different part of the body. The oldones kept getting bigger and deeper. The largest original ones were about threeinches in diameter, smelled horribly and had almost eaten the flesh down to thebone. His pain was severe; there was no position John could assume that didn’tirritate one sore or another, and it was a good thing my house was remotebecause John frequently relieved his pain by screaming. John was never delirious,but he was always original. He did not have to scream, but enjoyed its relief andhowled quite dramatically. I wore earplugs. After about two weeks of water fasting, John counted up the total of his sores. There were forty three. Seven or eight of them were enormous, two or threeinches in diameter and well into the flesh, but the last ones to appear wereshallow, small and stayed small. After that point no more new ones showed upand the body began to make visible headway against the infection. Very slowlyand then more and more rapidly, the sores began to close up and heal from theedges. John’s fever began to drop. And he had less pain. I should mention thatJohn brought an extremely virulent and aggressive pathogenic organism into ourhouse to which we Americans had no resistance. Both my husband and I wereattacked where the skin had been broken. However, unlike John, in our cases,our healthy bodies immediately walled-off the organism and the small, reddenedpustules, though painful, did not grow and within a week, had been conquered byour immune systems. And after that we had an immunity. After about three weeks of his fasting we were thoroughly tired of hearing
John’s cathartic howls, tired of nursing a sick person. We needed a break. John atthis point could walk a bit and was feeling a lot better. John had previously water
fasted for 30 days and knew the drill very well. So we stocked up the vitamin C
bottle by his bed and went to town for the weekend to stay in a motel and see amovie. As they say in the Canadian backwoods, we were bushed. John had promised to be good. But as soon as we left he decided that since he
felt so very much better, he could break his fast. He knew how to do this andfortunately for him, (it was very much premature for John to eat) did it more orless correctly, only eating small quantities of raw fruits and vegetables. But by thetime we got back home three days later, John had relapsed. The pain was rapidlygetting much worse; the sores were growing again and a few small new onesappeared. Dr. Isabelle again took away his food and gave him another verbalspanking a little more severe than the one he’d had a few weeks earlier and puthim to bed again without his supper. After two more weeks on water, John had gained a great deal on the sores. They were filling in and weren’t oozing pus, looked clean and the new formingmeat looked a healthy pink instead of purple-black. But John had been veryslender to start with and by now he was getting near the end of his food reserves. He probably couldn’t have fasted on water for more than one more week withoutstarvation beginning. But this time, when he broke his fast, it was under closesupervision. I gave him dilute juice only, introduced other sustenance verycautiously and made absolutely sure that reintroducing nourishment would notpermit the organism to gain. This time it didn’t. John’s own immune system,beefed up by fasting, had conquered a virulent organism that could have easilykilled him. Before the era of antibiotics, before immunizations to the common childhood
illnesses, people frequently died of infections as virulent as the one that attackedJohn. They usually died because they “ate to keep up their strength. ” Most ofthese deaths were unnecessary, caused by ignorance and poor nursing care. Forexample, standard medical treatment for typhoid fever used to consist of spoon-fed milk—sure to kill all but the strongest constitution. Even without the assistance
of massive doses of vitamin C, if people would but fast away infections they could
cure themselves of almost all of them with little danger, without the side effects ofantibiotics or creating mutated antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: Why did John refuse antibiotics even if it meant risking his life?,
A: Because previous antibiotics had caused life-threatening conditions in the past, and he preferred to focus on a natural approach to healing.
Q: What was the treatment plan for Jeanne's heart condition?,
A: Not mentioned in the passage.
Q: What is the recommended dosage of Co-Enzyme Q-10 for people with heart problems?,
A: 120-250 milligrams per day.
Q: What is the primary cause of cancer, according to the author?,
A: The author does not specify a single cause, but suggests that it is a result of a complex interplay of factors, including the environment, food, and personal choices.
Q: What is the recommended treatment for a patient with a severe case of constipation?,
A: Not mentioned in the passage.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>DR. LEE T. ROZELLE  AND DR. RONALD L. WATHEN:  "CONSUMPTION OF LOW TDS WATER"   (NOTE: DISTILLED WATER falls under the category of "LOW TDS WATER." The term "LOW TDS WATER" means water with a low Total Dissolved Solids count. Distilled Water is in the category of "LOW TDS WATER" because it generally has a count of zero parts per million of dissolved solids.) CONSUMPTION OF LOW TDS WATER
A COM1v!ITTEE REPORT
BY
WATER QTJALITY ASSOCIATION
SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
1992-1993. With
Review By
Dr. Lee T. Rozelle
and
Dr. Ronald L. Wathen, M.D. MARCH 1993
II
WOA
Technical
. Services INTRODUCTION
Since the beginning of time, water has been both praised for good health and blamed for human
ills. We now know the real functions of water in the human body are to serve as a solvent and
medium for the transport of nutrients and wastes to and from cells throughout the body, a
regulator of temperature, a lubricator of joints and other tissues, and a participant in our body's
biochemical reactions. It is the H20 in water and not the dissolved and suspended minerals and
other constituents that carry out these functions. -
Low TDS water is defined in this paper as that containing between one and 100 milligrams per
liter (mg/L) of total dissolved solids (TDS). This is typical of the water quality obtained from
distillation, reverse osmosis, and deionization point-of-use water treatment of public or private
water supplies that are generally available to consumers in the world. Highly purified (distilled) water is believed by some to help "cure" arthritis by "washing out"
excess calcium and other minerals from deposits in joints. Along with this reasoning, some
people speculate that drinking highly purified water, treated by distillation, reverse osmosis, or
deionization, "leaches" minerals from the body and thus causes mineral deficiencies with
subsequent ill health effects. An isolated report, a summary of Russian studies available through the World Health
Organization, has recommended that fluid and electrolytes are better replaced with water
containing a minimum of 100 mg/L of TDS. However, this may pertain more to situations in
the human body during heavy exertion and sweating. It is the market for sports drinks which
are formulated to help replace the sugar compounds, glucose in the blood and glycogen in the
. muscles that are burned in prolonged exercise. Sports drinks are formulated to help replace the
sugar compounds -glucose in the blood, glycogen in the muscles -and electrolytes -salt,
calcium, and potassium that keep cells in proper electrical balance -that may be burned and
depleted after an hour or more of hard exercise. This situation does not have anything to do
with low TDS or demineralized water for normal drinking and cooking purposes. Even in warm
weather exercise, the greatest danger is that of dehydration, and the proper advice to ward it off


than your thoughts. This is why your thoughts about how you did
something are so bewildering. The higher energy level actually transcends
thought, moving into vibrational harmony with the Source energy of
intention. As you release ego-dominated thoughts (which convince you that
you’re doing these amazing things and are responsible for these
unbelievable accomplishments), you tap in to the power of intention. This is
where the genius that you truly are resides. Many people never get acquainted with this inner world of their personal
genius, and think that genius is only measured in intellectual or artistic
endeavors. Genius remains in the shadows of their thoughts, unnoticed
during their occasional forays inward, and may even be padlocked and
chained! If you’ve been taught to avoid thinking too highly of yourself, and
that genius is reserved for a handful of select individuals, you probably
resist this idea. You won’t recognize your genius aspect if you’ve been
conditioned to believe that you should accept your lot in life, think small,
try to fit in with normal groups of people, and not aim too high in order to
avoid disappointment. I’d like you to consider what may seem like a radical idea: Genius can
show up in as many ways as there are human beings. Anything in any field
that anyone has ever accomplished is shared by you. You’re connected to
every being that has ever lived or ever will live, and you share the exact
same energy of intention that flowed through Archimedes, Leonardo da
Vinci, the Virgin Mother, and Jonas Salk. You can access this energy. At the
deepest level, all things and all people are composed of vibrations organizedinto fields that permeate the entire structure of the universe. You share these
vibrations, and you are in this field. The starting point is knowing and understanding that this level of
creativity and functioning called genius resides within you. Then begin to
deconstruct doubts about your role here. Make a commitment to raise your
energy levels to vibrate harmoniously with the field of intention despite
attempts by your ego and others’ egos to dissuade you. Dr. Valerie Hunt in Infinite Mind: Science of Human Vibrations of
Consciousness, reminds us: “Lower vibrations exist with material reality,
higher ones with mystical reality, and a full vibrational spectrum with
expanded reality.” To fulfill this intention of appreciating and expressing the
genius that you are, you’re going to have to strive for that full vibrational
spectrum. This is the idea of expansion, which is crucial to knowing your
true potential. It’s what you signed up for when you left the formless world
of spiritual intention. You co-created a body and a life to express that inner
genius, which you may have locked away in an almost inaccessible
chamber. Expanding Your Reality
The universal force that created you is always expanding, and your
objective is to achieve harmony with that Source and thereby regain the
power of intention. So what is it that keeps you from expanding to the
mystical reality and full vibrational spectrum that Dr. Hunt refers to? I like
this answer from William James, who is often referred to as the father of
modern psychology: “Genius means little more than the faculty of
perceiving in an unhabitual way.” To expand your reality to match the
expansiveness of the all-creating field of intention, you have to peel away
your old habits of thought. These habits have pigeonholed you to a point
where you allow labels to be attached to you. These labels define you in
many ways. Most of the labels are from other people who need to describe what you
are not, because they feel safer predicting what can’t be than what can be:
She’s never been very artistic. He’s a tad clumsy, so he won’t be an athlete. Mathematics was never her strong suit. He’s a bit shy, so he won’t be gooddealing with the public. You’ve heard these pronouncements for so long that
you believe them. They’ve become a habitual way of thinking about your
abilities and potentialities. As William James suggested, genius means
making a shift in your thinking so that you let go of those habits and open
yourself to possibilities of greatness. I’ve heard the stereotype about writers and speakers since I was a young
man. If you’re a writer, you’re introverted, and writers don’t make dynamic
speakers. I chose to shift from that programmed and stereotypical way of
thinking and decided that I could excel at anything I affirmed and intended
for myself. I chose to believe that when I came into this world of
boundaries and form, there were no restrictions on me. I was intended here
from an expansive energy field that knows nothing of limits or labels. I
decided that I’d be both an introverted writer and a dynamic extroverted
speaker. Similarly, I’ve broken through many socially imposed habitual
ways of labeling people. I can be a genius in any area if, according to the
father of modern psychology, I learn to perceive in unhabitual ways. I can
sing tender songs, write sentimental poetry, create exquisite paintings, and
at the same time in the same body, excel as an athlete in any sport, build a
fine piece of furniture, repair my automobile, wrestle with my children, and
surf in the ocean. Pay attention to yourself in ways that allow the expansion of the infinite
possibilities that you’re potentially capable of. You may decide, as I have,
that repairing an automobile and surfing in the ocean aren’t what you enjoy
doing. So leave those activities to others, and use your genius to engage in
pursuits that please and attract you. Expand your reality to the point where
you pursue what you love doing and excel at it. Involve yourself in the
high-energy levels of trust, optimism, appreciation, reverence, joy, and love. That means love for what you’re doing, love for yourself, and love for your
genius, which allows you to immerse yourself in any activity and enjoy the
process of experiencing it fully. Trusting your insights. The process of appreciating your genius involves
trusting those inner flashes of creative insight that are worthy of expression.The song you’re composing in your head. The weird storyline that you keep
dreaming about that would make a fabulous movie. The crazy idea about
combining peas and carrots in a seed and growing parrot vegetables. The
new car design you’ve always contemplated. The fashion idea that would
become the next fad. The toy that every child will yearn to have. The
musical extravaganza you’ve seen in your mind. These ideas and thousands
like them are the creative genius within you at work. These ideas in your
imagination are distributions of God taking place. They’re not from your
ego, which squashes them with fear and doubt. Your insights are divinely
inspired. Your creative mind is how your higher self vibrates harmoniously
with the field of intention, which is always creating. Banishing doubt regarding those brilliant flashes of insight will allow you
to express these ideas and begin the process of acting on them. Having the
thoughts and squelching them because you think they aren’t good enough or
they don’t merit any action is denying the connection that you have to the
power of intention. You have a connecting link to intention, but you’re
allowing it to be weakened by living at ordinary levels of ego
consciousness. Remember that you’re a piece of God, and the inner spark of
genius in your imagination—that intuitive inner voice—is really God
reminding you of your uniqueness. You’re having these inner insights
because this is precisely how you stay connected to the all-creating genius
that intended you here. As I’ve said earlier, trusting in yourself is trusting in
the wisdom that created you. Never, but never, regard any creative thought that you’re having as
anything other than a worthy potential expression of your inner genius. The
only caveat here is that these thoughts must be in vibrational harmony with
the seven faces of intention. Inner thoughts of hatred, anger, fear, despair,
and destruction simply don’t foster creative insights. The low-energy, ego-
dominated thoughts must be replaced and converted to the power of
intention. Your creative impulses are real, they’re vital, they’re worthy, and
they crave expression. The fact that you can conceive of them is proof of
this. Your thoughts are real. They’re pure energy, and they’re telling you to
pay attention and get that connecting link to the power of intention polished
through living at different levels than you’ve accepted as normal or
ordinary. At these levels, everyone is a genius. Appreciating the genius in others. Every person you interact with
should feel the inner glow that comes from being appreciated, particularly
for the ways in which they express their creativity. A core theme, which
strengthens the flow of the power of intention, is wanting for others as
much as you intend for yourself. Appreciating the genius in others attracts
high levels of competent energy to you. By seeing and celebrating the
creative genius, you open a channel within yourself for receiving the
creative energy from the field of intention. My 15-year-old son, Sands, has a unique way of riding a surfboard unlike
everyone around him in the ocean. I encourage him to do what comes
naturally and express it with pride. He also created a unique language of
communication, similar to my brother David, which others in the family
and close personal acquaintances emulate. Creating a language that others
use is the work of a genius!


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Instead of scooping the scrub out of the jar, I made it into cubes. I can’t get enough of these little guys. It’s so
easy to just grab one and hop in the shower, and I feel like I am utilizing the right amount and not wasting any. The main reason we use a sugar scrub is to exfoliate, or slough off dead skin cells. We shed about nine pounds
of skin a year- it’s no wonder we need help getting rid of it sometimes! -If you are making these in a “sheet” form in a baking pan and then slicing it into smaller cubes, line the pan
first with parchment or wax paper. If you have made the face scrub cubes, be aware that the temperature of
your hand will soften the coconut oil, so try to steady the pan with one hand and cut with the other to avoid
touching them too much. -If you feel like the cube melts too quickly in the shower, face away from the stream of water. -If you find your cubes have softened, simply store them back in the freezer (even the refrigerator will do)
or in a cool, dark, place such as your pantry. Coconut oil is solid up to 76 degrees Fahrenheit, after which it
begins to melt. - The first version of this recipe yields a softer cube, as it has a higher amount of coconut oil. I use these for
my face. The second recipe (body scrub sugar cubes) results in a coarser cube, as the amount of coconut oil
is lessened, so I use these for body scrub. -Feel free to add essential oils to these. I usually opt to leave them out because I just love the natural aroma
of shea butter and coconut oil. -Y ou are more than welcome to leave these in your freezer until needed if you are worried about them
holding their shape, however, I am quite pleased with this recipe because they hold together so well even
when left sitting out. In the wintertime I have no problem leaving out even in my kitchen (except for my dog,
who once swiped one and ate it) but come the hot and humid summer, I place them in my pantry which is
cooler. Sugar Scrub Face Cubes
-After you’ve had your cubes popped into the freezer for about 5-10 minutes, pull them out. Y ou will likely
notice a layer of oil that seems to have separated and formed a layer on the top. Use a fork to mash up the
scrub again, blending as much of the oil back in as you can. -I make these much smaller than the body scrub cubes because the delightful coconut oil is so rich. Y ou may
feel like your face is “slick” after using the cube. Don’t worry-once you are rinsed and out of the shower the
coconut oil quickly absorbs, leaving your skin soft and moisturized. Tips & TroubleshootingSugar Scrub Face Cubes
-An ice cube mold, a soap
mold, a baking pan, or a muffin
tray
-1 1/3 cups of white sugar
-1 cup of coconut oil
-2 tablespoons of shea butter
-Several drops of essential oil
(optional)1. In a double boiler melt your coconut oil completely. Remove from heat
and quickly stir in shea butter. 2. Add sugar, stirring until everything is incorporated. Pop into the
freezer, taking out 5-10 minutes later and stirring any settled oil back
into the mix. 3. Remove from the freezer and take out of the molds. Cut them into
small cubes and let them dry for about 30 minutes before placing into
an airtight container. These will last, properly stored, up to 4 months. If
left in the freezer, they will last for a year. 267Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Sugar CubesY ou will need… DirectionsSugar Scrub Body Cubes
-An ice cube mold, baking pan,
muffin tin, or soap molds
-1/2 cup of coconut oil
-4 tablespoons of shea butter
-1 1/3 cups of white sugar1. In a double boiler melt the coconut oil completely. Remove from the
heat and quickly stir in the shea butter. 2. When the coconut oil and the shea butter are combined, stir in the
sugar. 3. Scoop or pour the mixture into your mold and let them solidify in the
freezer for 45-60 minutes. Cut them into smaller sizes if desired. 268Copyright 2014 everydayroots.com Sugar CubesY ou will need… DirectionsToothpaste
269Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comThere are plenty of reasons to make your own toothpaste. Many people have sensitivities to various ingredients,
or worry about their kids accidently swallowing too much. Some kinds of toothpaste sold in stores and labeled
as natural still contain nasty ingredients. One such ingredient is sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS.) SLS is used in
a hundred and one different cosmetic products like shampoos, conditioners, lotions, and toothpaste. It is a
detergent, which right away makes me leery, and is responsible for all that great foaming bubbling action we
all know and love. That bubbling, whether it’s shampoo or toothpaste, does absolutely nothing except keep
consumers going back for more. SLS is a known irritant, and numerous studies have shown it as harmful to
human skin, eyes, and when swallowed. While some people may not notice the difference, many people who are more sensitive to ingredients are
irritated by it. I would also rather not give my kids toothpaste with something in it that I could only cross my
fingers and hope they didn’t swallow. A lot of people use toothpaste, obviously, and don’t have a problem, but
for those who want to steer clear of putting unknown ingredient’s in their mouth, homemade toothpaste is easy,
cheap, and works quite well. -If you cannot stand the taste of toothpaste without a sweetener, you can add some xylitol (a sugar alcohol,
sugar substitute) to make the paste taste good. I am putting this in here simply because I know of other
people who enjoy it, but it is completely optional. If you DO use xylitol, be very aware that it is quite toxic to
dogs. While it doesn’t affect human blood sugar, it will quickly throw a dog into hypoglycemic shock with a
dangerous wave of insulin. If enough is consumed, liver failure is imminent. This goes for any gum containing
the stuff, cough drops, etc. Keep it labeled and away from curious canines. I do not use xylitol myself. -Another option, and my preference, is a little bit of food grade vegetable glycerin. It will act as a mild
sugarless sweetener, and give your toothpaste a nice consistency. Make sure that you are getting food
grade. -Baking soda is abrasive; however it pales in comparison when it comes to regular toothpaste. There is
something called the relative dentin abrasion scale (RDA), which is used to classify the damage done to
dentin, the stuff that makes up the bulk of a tooth, due to friction. Anything below 70 on the scale is classified
as low-abrasive. Baking soda scores a 7. Some commercial toothpaste, especially when whitening agents
are used, has an RDA of 189. The maximum RDA rating toothpaste can get and still be sold to the public is
250, with anything between 150 and 250 regarded as the “harmful limit.” The reason people may struggle
with baking soda being too abrasive is likely caused by the fact that they are not making it into a thin enough
paste with water. The grains will be irritating if you do not thin them out with some water first. -While you may be tempted to scrub your teeth as hard as possible, don’t! This damages enamel and can
negatively affect your gum line. - Another topic of tension is the use of fluoride, be it in toothpaste or systematic water fluoridation (adding
fluoride to public drinking water supplies.) Fluoride compounds are used to prevent tooth decay, and it is
widely accepted by many. Some people, however, have sensitivity to fluoride that can be hard to steer clear
of. -The contention of systematic fluoridation is mainly in North America, as continental Europe ceased the
practice. Some issues include the cost outweighing the benefit, uncontrollable dosage, and the inability
to choose plain and simple whether someone wants to drink fluoride. This raises debate over “mass
medication” and opponents argue that there is no way to get consent from all water consumers, nor can the
effects be accurately monitored. This is to say nothing of the impact that it has on the environment. I myself
do not support the use of fluoride in our drinking water.Tips & TroubleshootingCoconut oil has wonderful antimicrobial properties that make it perfect for toothpaste, as it holds back odor
causing bacteria, as well as cavities. On top of that, some people find it helps whiten their teeth naturally. Baking
soda also helps with bacteria and whitening, plus its slightly abrasive texture can scrub away things caught
between teeth. Be sure not to go overboard with it though-a little goes a long way. The essential oils add flavor/
scent (I stick to peppermint/cinnamon.) Only a few drops are needed, with coconut oil being the diluting carrier
oil.Coconut Oil & Baking Soda
-1 cup of coconut oil


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 Perfect,  and  We have  come  from  Those  Great  Oc-
taves  of Light,  to render  This  Service  to the Earth! Beloved
Saint  Germain,  Jesus  and  Kuthumie  were  trained  by My-
self, in this  Identical  Understanding  of the "Mighty  I AM
Presence,"  which  Beloved  Saint  Germain  has given  to you,
even  to the exact  Wording  and  the Application! That  is
why  We  urge  you,  Precious  Ones,  to hold  closely  to the
OUTLINE,  which  I sanctioned  in the West  for your  Group
Activities. Hold  closely  to the Books  and  the Application
they give  you;  because  that  carries  Our  Power  and  Action
into your  world,  which  will  bring  your  Freedom  most
quickly. We are not trying  to deprive  you  of any  Individual  Ex-
pression  or anything  you  might  want  to do yourself;  but
We know  This  will  produce  the Quickest  Results  for you,
and that  is why  We  ask  you  to do it! You  are quite  Free 44 THE  "I AM"  DISCOURSES
to acquiesce  or not;  but it is because  We know  It is the Best
and Quickest  Means,  for you  to gain  your  Freedom  that
We have  asked  this,  and  no other  reason  in the  world! Don't  make  any  mistake  about  that! Because  the "I AM"  Students  will  not use the Violet  Con-
suming  Flame,  they  come  into  great  distress! I tell  you,
Precious  Ones,  It was  released  for the  Freedom  of man-
kind. It could  not harm  an unborn  infant  and  those  who
will not use It, will  not be Free! Remember,  Beloved  Ones,
in your  attention  to your  Presence,  you  are AUTOMATI-
CALLY  releasing  Tremendously  Greater  Energy  than  you
did, before  you  knew  you  had  an "I AM  Presence." Some  of you  still  do not FEEL  your  Ability  to release
These  Powers  from  your  Presence  to set you  Free. Even
NOW  you—are  releasing  an hundred  fold  Greater  Power
and Energy,  than  you  did before  you  knew  This  Presence
three  years  ago! That  is why  We plead  with  you,  Precious,
Precious  Hearts,  to hold  firm  in your  feeling;  because  as
this Greater  Energy  comes  forth  thru  you  and  into  your
world,  if you  continue  to charge  it with  discord,  don't  you
see, it becomes  tremendously  more  destructive ? You  cannot
help  it! It is the Law  of your  Life,  when  you  give  attention
to your  Presence,  Greater  Energy  has to flow  thru. It is not
a matter  of anybody's  choice,  but  It is the Law  of your
Being! It has  to come  thru! Then,  think! If you  continue
to qualify  it with  discord,  don't  you  see how  much  more
powerful  it becomes,  to act in your  world ? That  is why  people  are constantly  swamped  with  dis-DISCOURSE  VIII  45
cord  in their  minds  and  bodies;  because  for one  reason  or
another,  they  have  charged  this  Energy  with  discord  or
unkind  feeling! Precious  Ones,  can't  you  believe  Me,  when
I ask you  please  to not allow  suspicion  to begin  to act in
your  world;  or about  persons,  places  or conditions. Please
do not do it! Suspicion  becomes  self-destruction! Don't  do
it, if you  want  to be Free. Don't  care  what  the other  person
is doing! YOUR  PART  IS TO  HARMONIZE,  BEAU-
TIFY  AND  PERFECT  YOUR  OWN  WORLD,  IN
YOUR  CALL  TO  THE  PRESENCE;  AND  LET
EVERY  OTHER  ONE  TAKE  CARE  OF  HIS  OWN
WORLD;  except  to call  the "Mighty  I AM  Presence,"  to
bless  all mankind  and  that  is the Greatest  Thing  you  can
do! We want  to make  this  so clear,  so definite,  so plain  to
you this time;  that  never  again,  can anything  in the world
trip you  up and  cause  you  to become  confused. The  Per-
fection  of the "I AM  Presence"  is before  you,  Beloved  Ones;
and We  are  willing  to the  very  limit,  the  Law  of your
Being  permits,  to give  you  Assistance  unknown  and  un-
permitted  in the history  of the Earth. During  the time  the Messengers  are here  in this  Class,
won't  you  tell all of these  blessed  ones,  they  are welcome  to
the class,  if they  wish  to come ? Tell  them  to forget  every-
thing  which  has  disturbed  them;  and  receive  the Blessing
which  We  want  to give  them. They  will  have  great  cause
to rejoice  if they  will;  because  unless  Sufficient  Harmony
can be established  in New  York  this  time,  We cannot  come 46 THE  "I AM"  DISCOURSES
again. The  Messengers  and  We  are pouring  forth  all the
Love  at Our  Command,  to bless  and  draw  to Our  Radiance
those  who  wish  to have  It; and  only  Love  and  Kindness
will ever  go forth  from  the  Messengers  to every  one,  re-
member  It! Does  this  sound  strange  to you ? Until  We  meet  in Our
Octave  where  We dwell,  remember:  As you  go forth  from
this room  tonight,  you  are a Part  of Myself! Don't  make
any mistake  about  that! I mean  exactly  Those  Words! My
Ray of Light  has  gone  forth  and  anchored  in each  one  of
your  Hearts! Therefore,  you  have  become  a Part  of Me! Will  you  accept  that  and  keep  yourself  reminded  of It? Then,  as you  do so—refuse  any  longer  to accept  any  dis-
cordant  appearance,  as having  power  to disturb  you  or act
in your  world. If you  will  do this,  then  My  Ray  of Light  and  Energy
which  has gone  forth  into  your  Heart,  will  do Its Mighty
Work  for you;  and  I am sure  there  is not one in this  room,
who  does  not feel My Immeasurable  Power  of Divine  Love,
flood  each  one's  world,  Being  and  body! I am sure,  there
is not one  who  does  not feel  It definitely. That  shall  con-
tinue  to act within  you,  Oh Precious  Ones;  and  Oh,  Our
Love  is so Great,  so very  Wonderful,  and  is the Eternal
Power  of the Universe  acting  within  you! May  I remind  you  in preparation  for the Class,  remember
Beloved  Ones,  when  you  call your  "Mighty  I AM  Presence
into action,  It knows  no resistance  nor  interference  of any
kind! Therefore,  It goes  forth  with  the Power  of the Uni-DISCOURSE  VIII  47
verse  to fulfill  your  requirements. Do you  see then,  how
your  earnest  sincere  effort  could  not fail in any  way ? It is
the Supreme  Opportunity  of all your  human  pilgrimage
upon  Earth! You know,  Beloved  Ones,  if I were  a human  Being,  you
might  accuse  Me  of sounding  egotistical;  but  you  know
better  than  that! A Being  of Light,  Perfection  and


 things. In all We  have  experienced  and  are observing  among
mankind  today,  I marvel  Individuals  have  not seen  in the
terrific  experiences  they  have  passed  thru,  that  it is their
inharmony,  which  is producing  all the  limitations  and
discord  for them. The  human  self  has so long  attempted
to hold  its dominion,  that  it refuses  with  stubborn  resist-
ance,  to accept  Its Presence  of Life,  which  would  set it Free
so quickly. So, tonight,  according  to your  acceptance,  may
you have  This  Great  Blessing  enfold  you. Beloved  Children
of the Light,  in the Service  which  We are rendering  to the
Earth,  it is an Eternally  Sustained  Activity  always! There  is
no thing,  no action  which  We start,  that  We do not sustain,
until  its Full  Achievement. Therefore,  as you  have  been
drawn  into  this Class  Room,  by the Light  within  your  own
Heart,  then  you  are to a definite  degree,  filled  with  Suffi-
cient  Light  to draw  this  which  will  bless  you. It is always
your  own  Light  which  acts;  but as you call,  as the Messen-
gers call,  and  the Full  Force  of Our  Assistance  comes  into
action,  all resistance  recedes,  dissolves  and  disappears! 333 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
Therefore,  in the people's  lack  of understanding,  they
have  endeavored  to govern  and  bring  each  other  into  sub-
mission  and  under  each  other's  domination;  creating  all
kinds  of discord  under  which  they  had  to live. When  you
understand,  you  have  the Great  Presence  of Life  to turn  to,
then  all which  has  terrified  you  in the world  of human
action,  dissolves  and  disappears  before  the Call  to your
Great  Presence. You must  understand  this definitely  and fully;  and  know
tonight,  that  you  are Master  of your  own  selves  and  your
world,  thru  your  attention  to your  "Mighty  I AM  Pres-
ence,"  which  brings  Its Intelligence  and  Power  into  action. Tonight,  I thank  the Messenger,  especially  at this  time,
for having  read  the excerpt  from  the Magic  Presence. We
have  brought  into  action,  a Powerful  Activity—the  Most
Powerful  so far in the class. It is the Activity  from  the Cave
of Light  in India. It is My Pleasure  to draw  forth  and  hold
you in Its Radiance  for this  hour;  so you  may  absorb,  re-
ceive  and  be blessed  eternally  by Its Action,  which  comes
alone  from  the Power  of Light. You feel  quite  disappointed,  if at any  time  your  fixtures
are out of order,  your  connections,  and  you have  no Light. This  Light  of which  We speak,  is far more  important  than
your  Lights  here. The  lack  of Inner  Light  is darkness  of the
darkest  kind;  and  if you  were  to discern  those  whom  We
refer  to as earth-bound;  who  have  lived  depraved  lives
upon  This  Earth  and  cannot  leave  it, you  would  realize
something  of what  the lack  of Inner  Light  means! Were DISCOURSE  XXII  309
you to observe  such  earth-bound  people,  you would  see each
one has created  for himself  a density  of darkness  which  is
unknown  in any condition  of the outer  life. That  is what
mankind  so glibly  speaks  of as earth-bound  Individuals;
little  dreaming  in such  darkness,  the  Individual  suffers
agonies  beyond  anything  mankind  can suffer  in the human
form. SOME  PEOPLE  DISCOURAGED  BY  THEIR  AT-
TEMPTS  TO  OVERCOME  THE  OBSTACLES  OF
HUMAN  LIFE,  CUT  OFF  THEIR  LIVES  BY  SUI-
CIDE;  AND  THEN  THEY  MEET  THE  FULL  FORCE
OF ALL  THE  DISCORD  AGAINST  WHICH  THIS
BODY  WAS  A SHIELD. ALL  BECOMES  A MENTAL
WORLD,  AND  THE  AGONY  IS  SO  MUCH
GREATER! THEN,  THEY  SEE  THEIR  MISTAKE
WHEN  IT IS TOO  LATE. BELOVED  ONES,  IF SUCH
AN IDEA  HAS  EVER  ENTERED  YOUR  HEADS
ERASE  IT. YOU  CANNOT  GET  AWAY  FROM
YOURSELF  EVER  IN  THE  WHOLE  UNIVERSE! YOU  ARE  A WORLD  OF YOUR  OWN  CREATION
AND  THERE  IS NOTHING  CAN  CHANGE  IT BUT
YOURSELF! Your  Call  to the Great  Presence  of Light,  is the Only
Power  which  can  dissolve  and  consume  your  creations. That  Wondrous  Chart  gives  you  the eye picture  of the
Violet  Consuming  Flame,  by which  you  may  be set Free;
and only  then,  will  mankind  feel  and  understand  the Im-
portance  of the Presence. 335 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
You are no longer  subject  to your  mistakes,  because  you
have  made  them. There  is not a thing  in the Universe  which
condemns  Individuals  but themselves. They  think  them-
selves  very  wise. They  criticize,  condemn  and  blame  each
other,  for what  is alone  within  themselves! Do not forget
it! THERE  CANNOT  ANYTHING  ENTER  YOUR
WORLD,  UNLESS  THERE  IS SOMETHING  TO  AT-
TRACT  IT OR  CORRESPOND  TO  IT! How  is it, Beloved  Ones,  as many  of you know,  the Mes-
sengers  live  in a charmed  world  of their  own,  untouched
by the viciousness  of mankind? Is it not the proof  that,
when  your  attention  is withheld  from  any  destructive
force;  and  you  know  human  creation  has no power,  you
can move  in the world  untouched  by its discord ? There-
fore,  if you  will  but understand  this,  you  will  find  your-
selves  quickly  moving  in the world,  in your  own  Harmony
called  forth  from  your  Presence;  and  It becomes  the Gov-
erning  Power  and  Intelligence  of your  world! The Privilege,  the Opportunity  is yours. Therefore,  if
you will  take  this Opportunity,  make  your  Application,  We
will give  whatever  added  Assistance,  is required  to give  you
the Victory  and  quickly. In the Power  of Radiance  which  has  been  released  to
the Earth;  and  in the Call  thus  far, the accumulated  appli-
cation  of mankind,  is sufficient  to hold  the Balance  for
every  earnest  sincere  student. When  I see silly  ignorant
mankind  grinning  and  smirking  at the  Great  Wall  of
Light,  one  day,  they  shall  see how  they  have  missed  their DISCOURSE  XXII  311
Opportunity. As if the Great  Light,  as if the Messengers,
as if We were  concerned  with  mankind's  belief  or unbelief! They  are quite  Free  to accept  or reject;  but one day,  when
the Hearts  of the people  are wracked  in agony,  they  will
wish  they  had taken  the Opportunity  offered;  and  with  the
Assistance  of the Mighty  Radiation  which  is being  released
to mankind,  had  attained  their  Victory  and  Freedom
quickly. Our Rejoicing  in being  able  to render  you  This  Service,
Beloved  Ones,  is very  Great. You  cannot  possibly  imagine,
until  you  have  entered  into  Greater  Freedom  what  THIS


 present, they become problematic. In a study where three-quarter s of participants were found to have
dysfunctional breathing, the relationship between chronic neck pain and
chest breathing was found to be statistically significant. 19 Researchers noted
that, while only 38% of the study’ s participants experienced neck pain
(compared to 53% who suffered with headaches and 65% with lower back
pain), 83% of those found to have faulty breathing had some experience of
neck pain. 19TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT P AIN
Low blood CO2 is common in people with chronic pain disorders. 16 It is
known that stress and acute pain, or a combination of the two, can cause a
hyperventilation-induced decrease in blood CO 2. Growing eviden ce suggests that the onset of idiopathic pain disorders
(with “pain of unknown origin”), such as temporomandibular joint disorder,
peripheral neuro pathy, and fibromyalgia, is linked to both physical and
psychological triggers. From a physical point of view, joint or muscle
trauma can contribute. Emotionally, stress responses may initiate pain
amplification and mental distress. Idiopathic pain disorders are
characterized by pain and a variety of abnormalities in motor function,
autonomic balance, and sleep. Temporomandibular joint disease (TMD) is the name given to several
conditions of the chewing musc les and the joint connecting the jaw to the
skull. It causes pain and can contribute to migraines and tension
headaches35. Traditionally, it was thought that these symptoms were related
to misal ignment of the jaw, but scientists have failed to identify a link. More recently, the significance of psychosocial factors has been accepted. 35
The term psychosocial  refers to both psychological and social or
interpersonal aspects and can involve problems, including anxiety, fatigue,
and sleep disorders. While relaxation techniques and coping strategies are often used in
therapy, the role of breathing reeducation in temporomandibular joint
dysfunction is seldom mention ed. However, breathing patter n disorders
could offer a biomechanical explanation as to how and why the
physiological changes in the joints and muscles occur. A 2011 paper
published in the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies  suggests
that a forward head posture could lead to increased pressure in the
temporomandibular joint. Researchers also suggest that health professionals
can gain valuable insights into temporomandibular joint disorder and its
treatment by paying attention to breathing and postural rehabilitation. 35
While gaps in research are acknowledged, the connections between
TMD, breathing, and posture are detailed in a 1997 study. It examines the
influences of dysfunctional breathing and describes the effects of poor corestrength and diaphragm function on temporomandibular disorders. Overuse
and overdevelopment of accessory inspiratory muscles; forward head
posture; altered  proprioception ; increased compression of the cervical,
cranial, and mandibular joints; hypermobility or hyperactivity in the
temporomandibular joint; and craniofacial pain all contribute to the
development of TMD. 12
TMD is also linked with bruxism, which is grinding or clenching  of the
teeth. Bruxism can occur during both wakefulness and sleep. It has been
connected with the use of antidepressant medication, a fact that may offer a
window into the connection to the psychological and biochemical
dimensions of breathing. A letter in the Journal of Neur opsychiatry  in 2007
described the case of an 81-year -old man who suffered with depression. He
was treated with paroxetine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhib itor (SSRI). While his depression was controlled, once his dosage increased to 30 mg
per day, he began to experience  night and day jaw clenching and sore teeth
and jaws. 36 Similar ly, a paper from The Netherlands Pharmacovigilance
Centre, Lareb, describes 10 reports of bruxism in which an SSRI was the
suspected cause. 37 The report explains that bruxism  often exists alongside a
dopamine imbalance and can result from disturbances to neurotransmitters
or neuronal excitability. It shoul d be noted that both of those can be caused
by hyperventilation and low levels of blood CO 2. 38
Bruxism during sleep, also called parasomnia, is experienced by around
8% of the adult population. 39 It is characterized by rhythmic tooth grinding
and is associated with tooth wear and temporomandibular joint problems. Scientists are still unclear exactly what causes it, but recent studies suggest
that it is the result of transient arousals during sleep. Evidence suggests that
tooth grinding occurs simultane ously with apnea or hypopnea in patients
with obstructive sleep apnea  (OSA). 39 An apnea is when breathing stops
completely and a hypopnea is a reduction to the flow of breat hing for 10
seconds or more due to partial collapse of the throat. A 2014 study found correlati ons between the occurrence of sleep
bruxism and microarousal apnea or hypopnea events. 40 Researchers
concluded that patients with OSA had a high risk of bruxism, and that the
phasic episodes of teeth grinding were directly related to apnea events. Thissuggests that an improvement in OSA may prevent the worsen ing of sleep
bruxism. 40
A 2016 study explored the link between TMD and breathing further in
looking at the relationship between craniofacial pain and daytime
sleepiness. 41 Daytime fatigue is an indicator of sleep-disordered breathing. Researchers studied 1,171 patients seeking treatment for chronic pain,
sleep-disordered breathing, or both. Each subject attended one of 11
international treatment centers. The results showed a high instance of
comorbidity, in which patients experienced both sleep-disordered breathing
and craniofacial pain, including headaches. The study also demonstrated,
for the first time, a link between craniofacial dysfunctions,  such as a
locking jaw, and poor sleep scores. (We will look at sleep-disordered
breathing, including OSA, in much more detail in the next chapter. ) As with other conditions where chronic pain is a characterizing factor,
there is considerable evidence that heightened pain sensitivity and
psychological distress can contribute to the onset and persistence of
TMD. 42 Further evidence suggests that imbalances in the autonomic
nervous system factor in the development and persistence of the condition. TMD is associated with a stronger sympathetic response and lower
baroreflex sensitivity. In one 2018 study, researchers found that patients
with TMD had significantly lower heart rate variability (HRV), higher pain
intensity, and increased cortisol levels when compared with a control group
of peopl e witho ut TMD. 43 The study’ s findings indicate that people with
TMD could benefit from interventions such as breathing retraining to
restore autonomic function and stress balance. Breathing pattern disorders are also common in people with
fibromyalgia. 44 This fact is not widely recognized, and the clinical
effectiveness of breathing retraining is often overlooked. 44 It is, however,
necessary to practice breathing exercises daily for several weeks or even
months to achieve results. According to a 2017 article by Leon Chaitow,
when a chronic  pain condition such as TMD or fibromyalgia exists, the
“layers of pain and fatigue” that build up as a result of dysfunctional
breathing can be helped by improving breathing habits. 44 In these pain
conditions, he recommends that manual therapy be used alongside
breathing exercises to help restore functional movement, explaining that“active trigger points. may need to be deactivated manuall y. ” He also
suggests that relaxation techniques can be helpful and that sleep
disturbances are likely to require “attention and advice. ”44
PROPRIOCEPTION: BREA TH AND MOVING IN SP ACE
Research has identified a connection between breathing pattern disorders
and joint position sense error. A 2019 paper in the Journal of the Korean
Society of Integr ative Medicine  found that patie nts with chronic lower back
pain and joint position error had low levels of blood CO2, fast respiratory
rates, and chest breathing—all symptoms of chronic hyperv entilation45. Joint position error can be best described as your ability to accurately return
your head to a predefined position after a neck movement. 46 It is used by
doctors to evaluate proprioception  because joint position sense error can
result from faulty proprioception. The term proprioception  is used to describe our perception of
movement. It encompasses things like spatial awareness and how the body
positions itself in space, ensuring that the brain knows where the arms and
legs are so that the body can coordinate movement. It is controlled by cells
called proprioceptors that process sensory information when the body
moves. 47 Proprioception makes it possible to bring a cup to your mouth
with appropriate speed and force so that you don’ t pour the contents all over
yourself or throw hot coffee in your own face. People with poor
proprioception often appear to have weak muscles and difficulty
balancing. 47
The muscles in the neck are instrumental in proprioception, so they are
particularly important to postur al control. The small muscles in the head
and neck contain a high


 its role in
surfactant production.6,7 It controls production of surfactants by the alveolar
cells and preserves surfactant function. A paper  published in 2009 by the scientists responsible for the research
into the SARS virus, states that: “NO is involved in local host defense in the
upper airways.”8 The research, which also used isolated laboratory cells,
suggests that while it is unclear whether NO acts directly on
microor ganisms or if it works in combination with other components to
produce its toxic impact, it may help keep the sinuses sterile. Interestingly,
the study found that NO inhibits the replication of SARS in two distinct
ways.8Research from 1999 and 2000 found NO has “opposing effects” in viral
infections, inclu ding flu and pneumonia, and it inhibits the replication of a
variety of viruses. And research into the human rhinovirus (HRV), the
primary cause of the common cold, concluded that humans actually produce
more nitric oxide in response to HR V infection, theorizing that the gas plays
a key role in viral clearance. Without the regular inhalation and exhalation through the nostrils, nitric
oxide in the nasal airways goes unused. Therefore, the simp lest way to
naturally increase NO is by nostril breathing. However, as we discovered in
Chapter Three, evidenc e suggests that humming is effective in emptying the
paranasal sinuses of accumulated NO, leading to far greater production of
the gas.9
Much of the worry around coronavirus stems from uncertainty. However, what is certain is that large amounts of nitric oxide are constantly
being released in the airways during nasal breathing, and that this gas has
been found to have important antiviral functions that defend against the
replication of flu-like illnesses. The mechanism of COVID-19 is still
unknown, and it would be cavalier to state that nasal breathing will kill the
virus. However, it has been consistently proven that nasal breath ing leads to
better overall health, and it makes logical sense, given that the primary
defense to airborne viruses is in the nose and not the mouth, that breathing
through the nose can support the body’ s natural resistance to infection. HOW DOES THE VIRUS SPREAD? Just like other respiratory infecti ons, the virus travels from person to person
in drople ts of bodily fluid such as mucus or saliva. When an infected person
sneezes or coughs, the virus disperses into the air and onto surrounding
surfaces. Drople ts from coughs and sneezes can travel several feet and stay
suspended in the air for up to 10 minutes, increasing the likelihood of
infection for anyone who come s into direct contact with a sick person or
touches a contaminated surface. The biggest issue here is that because COVID-19 is a brand new virus
in humans, no one has any immunity to it, and this increases both the fear
factor and the potential for infection. However, Bruce Ayleward, assistantdirector general of the WHO explains that: “Panic and hysteria are not
appropriate.” “This is a disease that is in the cases and their close contacts,”
he says. “It’s not a hidden enem y lurking behind bushes. Get organized, get
educated, and get working.”10
PREVENTIVE MEASURES
Much of the advice around coronavirus focuses on hygiene practices such
as frequent and thorough handwashing, self-isolating and catching sneezes
in the crook of the elbow. The use of face masks has become synonymous
with outbreaks of this type, and masks are now an accepted defense against
spreading Covid-19. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommends
that people wear masks in public settings, at events and gatherings, and
anywhere they will be around other people. When you wear a mask, you
protect others as well as yourself, but masks are not without controversy. Toward the end of April 2020, social media users began sharing images
online, claiming that continuous  use of a mask forces the weare r to breathe
in excess carbon dioxide (CO 2) from exhaled air, causing hypercapnia. Hypercapnia is the buildup of CO2 in the bloodstream, and it’s common in
conditions such as COPD. It can lead to dizziness, fatigue, headaches,
breathlessness, drowsiness, and disorientation. More severe symptoms
include loss of consciousness, seizures, and coma. While it can be dangerous to breathe in high levels of CO2, the claim is
inaccurate. It’s true that medical  masks have been found to cause headaches
in healthcare workers who wear them for a long time, but there is no
evidence that these masks are dangerous. According to Reuters, a representative from the CDC explains: “The
CO2 will slowly build up in the mask over time. However, the level of CO2
likely to build up in the mask is mostly tolerable to people exposed to it. You might get a headache but you most likely [would] not suffer the
symptoms obser ved at much higher levels of CO2. The mask can become
uncomfortable for a variety of reasons, including a sensitivity to CO2 and
the person will be motivated to remove the mask. It is unlikely that wearing
a mask will cause hypercapnia.”SUMMAR Y:
• The mechanism of COVID-19 remains unknown and it is not confirmed whether
breathing through the nose can inhibit this virus. • However, it is logical to breathe only through the nose given that the primary defense
to airborne viruses is in the nose and not the mouth, that breathing through the nose
can support the body’ s natural resistance to infection. • Breathe through your nose, especially in public places—on public transport, while
exercising at the gym, and so on. • While in public places, slow down your breathing and deliberately reduce the volume
of air taken into your lungs. • Be aware of your breath-hold time during rest. During a head cold, lower respiratory
tract infection or respiratory symptoms, breath-hold time during rest is reduced. T o
test, exhale through nose, hold breath and time how long it takes for you to
experience first definite desire to breathe. If it is less than 10 seconds, respiration is
not optimal. • You will find a suggested exercise protocol for COVID-19 recovery in Chapter T wo. OceanofPDF.comRESOURCES
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Downloadable app for sports performance: OxygenAdvantage
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BONUS CHAPTERS
Available at https://oxygenadvantage.com/thebr eathingcur e
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: PHENOTYPES OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA
CHAPTER NINETEEN: THE BREA TH AND THE SINGING VOICE
CHAPTER TWENTY : ADUL T BREA THING CLASSIFICA TION (ABC)
CHAPTER TWENTY -ONE: THE SUBTLE ART OF YOGA BREA THING
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hen I changed career paths to teach breathing in 2002, it certainl y
raised a few eyebrows. It caused angst with some family
members and drew a good hearty laugh from others. Roll on 18 years, and my work continues, thanks to the help and support
of many people. I’ve learned two things that could be considered guiding
principles. First,  follow your intuition. It might be the best thing you ever
do. Second, with passion and effort, we are likely to attract the right people
at the right time! This book wouldn’ t exist witho ut those “right people.” I’m grateful to
the initial “whoosh up” from the Irish media. Thanks to the Galway
Advertiser  and Mary O’Connor for the very first article on the Buteyk o
method for asthma. Written in April of 2002, it sourced my first three
clients. And to the journalists who tested the technique for their asthma and
wrote stories on it. Kevin Murphy from the Irish Independent  and Sylvia
Thompson from the Irish Times. Both took a dedicated intere st in the
Buteyko method, writing many articles over the years. This book would not have been  possible without the help of Johanna
McW eeney, a tremendous write r, editor, and researcher who was able to
convert medical jar gon into reader -friendly tones. Many thanks to Laird Hamilton for writing the foreword and to the team
at XPT ; Pj Nest


 But the Queen is eternal; she cannot die. She can be
tortured, but she cannot die. A friend  recent ly spoke to me of a very powerful man on the East
Coast who has gained a reputation for toying cruelly with the hearts
of so-called powerful women. The question, of course, is how does a
powerful woman allow herself to be toyed with? What place of
wounded self-esteem makes her vulnerable to his emotionally
sadistic machinations? Perhaps, suggested my friend, I would
address this question in my book. “My book will not be about that,” I told her. “That man is a
dinosaur. His breed will die out.” Thousands of us have been intherapy, taken seminars, read extensively, and explored all other
means to personal growth in the last several years in order to learn
how to avoid those guys. We’ve prayed. We’ve been on our knees. Where were those women? Go into therapy. Go to a good bookstore. The buzz words now are recovery, wellness, hinging back joy. There’s a great story about recovering from attraction to
dangerous men. It goes like this: When you’re really ill, you don’t
even know a snake when you see one. Once recovery begins, you
see a snake and you know it’s a snake, but you still play with it. Once you’ve landed in true recovery zone, you see a snake, you
know it’s a snake, and you cross to the other side of the road. Until then, everyone you know can tell you the game is toxic with
that person, but you won’t listen because you think you’re dierent
or that he’ll be dierent with you, or that maybe you’re the rst one
to have really seen his sensit ive side. There’s no forcing the process
by which we simply stop being attracted to pain. It’s a long road for
some of us. It’s work. It takes deeper thinking and more courage
than many of us are used to. But it’s going on everywhere. It’s the
real liberation, and there aren’t a lot of excuses in today’s world for
not joining in the work that will ultimately free us all. There’s not much mystery here. Sickness is not that interesting. When you were a little girl, Daddy told you in various ways that you
weren’t really all that great, so that any man who gives you the
same message years later feels to you like the one you belong with. He’s familiar in that he’s remote and slightly disapproving. And the
more we look,  the more we realize that it wasn’t just Daddy who
went weird on us around the time we reached puberty. The whole
world did. Our burgeoning sexuality didn’t just freak out Daddy,
who was attracted and repelled at the same time. It freaked out
Mommy too, who was jealous, and our teachers, who had similar
projections. It freaked out the entire society in which we grew up,
because sex is still thought of as evil here. As we grew more and
more into our womanhood, we were perceived as being  more and
more dangerous. None of this was conscious on anyone’s part. Very
little is conscious in this society or anywhere. The whole human
race is still basically in a fog, but that’s why we’re here, and it’sdenitely why we’re looking into this painful stu that’s been ruling
us subconsciously for ages. Women are very confused about power, and actually, so are men. Feminine powe r isn’t something we go out and acquire; it’s already
within us. It’s something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have. Until we do, our positive power lies unexpressed. It’s there, but
it’s not working. We’re wired  for something we don’t know how to
access. Having  been taught that the power of strong women is in
various ways suspect, many of us nd it hard to fully embrace our
power. We’re afraid. But the Goddess is ready to correct our
thinking. Her key, the access  point, the miracle, is love. We are here
only to love, and love casts out fear. When we understand that love
is the reason for our power— that it is our power—we lose our fear
of owning its strength. We become willing to experience the power
within us, that it might be used as a channel through which love is
expressed to all humankind. And so, powerful women fall prey to the East Coast lady-killer not
because he’s consciously seeking to murder the Queen but because
they are. Not having embraced her themselves, they nd no one else
to embrace her either. They are stuck in princess mode, crying and
tearing their hair out, shoutin g “You can’t treat me this way” when,
quite obviously, he sure can. Until we own our own power, we will
constantly seek it in others, particularly in men, and power sought
that way never saves us; it destroys us. Many women complain that they keep attracting the “wrong
relationship.” What they mean by that, of course, is that they are
attracted to the wrong relationship. They are stuck in a place that is
dangerous but seductive. They want desperately to get out of the
pattern but often not quite desperately enough. They lack the self-
esteem to save their own lives. We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way
we still want to keep. There are payos for holding on to small,
weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don’t have to
take responsibility for the world when we’re spending all our timein emot ional pain. We’re too busy. The truth that sets us free is an
embrace of the divine within  us. It means remembering we are the
daughters of God, and daughters of God don’t brake for jerks. When a woman falls in love with the magnicent possibilities
within herself, the forces that would limit those possibilities hold
less and less sway over her. A relationship that keeps us tied to the
push and pull of co-dependent neuroses is a block to our shining. When we are very clear that we want to shine—and  if we want to
know the Goddess, we want to shine—then we attract into our lives
the kinds of relationships that help us do that. Until a woman has
given herself permission to be fabulous, she will not nd herself
with partners who promote her ability to be so. As long as she tears
herself down, she will attract others who tear her down; she will
nd people who agree that she is undeserving and lacking as long as
that is how she thinks of herself. So we’re left with a commitment to being a certain kind of woman
before worrying about nding a certain kind of man. Once we make
such a commit ment, good guys will appear. Until we do, let’s just
say they’re waiting in the lobby. Embrace the Goddess and her divine perception of you. Ask her to
reveal to you the you she has in mind. Ask her to send you the
relationships and circumstances that will foster that strength within
you, that the world might be blessed by the presence of a woman in
all her glory. Ask and you’ll receive. Don’t ask, and you’ll continue
to receive the relationships that destroy you. Until we embrace the
light, we remain vulnerable to darkness. The choice is easy once we
see it for what it is. In relationships, as in everything else, we ask for
heaven, or we ask for hell. Several years ago, my boyfr iend left me for a bimbo. Actually, he
didn’t leave me, and according to quite a few people she’s not a
bimbo. But my emotional experience, as arrogant and unenlightened
as it was, was that I had been rejected for someone half my size. It’s not uncommon for an intelligent man to gravitate toward a
woman who can’t quite put a sentence together. But why does it
happen? I wanted to nd out because the pain I felt was searing. Iknew in my heart that I had blown something big-ti me, and I
wanted to correct myself. I would have done anything and gone
anywhere to learn what I needed to before I went out again. Some
of the cleares t thinking we do about relationships occurs while
we’re not in one. We’re humbler, more in touch with our pain, more
teachable. Our intelligence is always sharper when informed by our
own feelings. At another point in my life, I lived a scene like the one at the end
of the movie Gone With the Wind, where Scarlett asks Rhett what’s to
become of her if he leaves her. In my case, the man did give a
damn, but he still had to leave. I then had to prove to myself, and to
whomever else I thought might care, that I could make it without
him. Imagine another scene, the one in which Scarlett says, “I will
never go hungry again.” My pledge, uttered with the same strength
and anguish, was “I will never need a man again.”
That was a awed decision. I couldn’t have him, so I became him. I wanted him within me so
badly I invoked his energy from within myself. I conquered outer
worlds, just