, so that the sole of the right
foot is on the ﬂoor to the outside of the left sit bone. Roll the left
thigh open toward the left and place the left foot to the outside of
the right sit bone. Root down evenly through both sit bones. Hug
the right knee with the left arm. As you inhale, reach the right arm
toward the ceiling. On the exhale, lower the arm down behind you,
resting the ﬁngertips on the ﬂoor behind you. Lengthen your spine
as you inhale, and rotate around the axis of your spine as you
exhale, keeping your chest lifted and the shoulder blades moving
in toward one another and down the back. Allow the crown of the
head to lengthen toward the ceiling as you root down evenly into
both sit bones.
Benefits:  Physically, this pose strengthens the obliques, the
abdominal muscles, and the back. It stretches the external rotators
of the hips and the shoulder girdle. The pose aids in digestion by
massaging the internal organs and, like a sponge, gently
compresses and plumps up the intervertebral discs, leading to a
longer, healthier spine.
Energetically, this pose stimulates the third chakra, which
strengthens and promotes transformation. It stimulates the agni,
the digestive ﬁre of conversion that helps us metabolize our food
and process our thoughts and feelings. This pose can also help
release stagnant energy by rinsing out blood from the organs and
bringing in fresh blood and renewed energy.
Engage mula, uddiyana, and jalandhara bandha. Stimulates
samana vayu.Therapeutic applications:  Alleviates constipation, sluggish
digestion, asthma, sciatica, scoliosis, and lower backache.
Helpful tip: If your hips are tight and your spine is rounded,
either sit on a blanket or keep the lower leg extended straight out
to get more length in the spine.
OceanofPDF.comRECLINED TWIST POSE: JATHARA PARIVARTANASANA
Overview:  This calming and therapeutic pose is excellent for
regulating the nervous system, relieving lower back pain, and
learning the art of surrender. Once you come into the shape of the
pose, let the pose do the work for you.
How-to:  From Constructive Rest pose (see this page), walk the
feet in so that they come directly underneath your knees. Take your
arms wide in a “T” shape and align your wrists with your shoulders.
Inhale and lift your hips, shift them over to the right a couple of
inches, and lower them back down. Lift your feet off the ﬂoor and
drop them over to the left so that you make a right angle with your
hips, knees, and ankles. Take hold of the top right thigh with your
left hand to keep the legs stacked and either keep your gaze
toward the ceiling or over your right arm.
Benefits:  Physically, this pose stretches the outer hips, the
illiotibial (IT) band, the hamstrings, the lower back, the chest, andthe shoulders. It aids in the digestive process by massaging the
digestive organs.
Energetically, Reclined Twist pose works on the third chakra to
help stoke the digestive ﬁre. A relatively passive pose, it connects
us to our more lunar, feminine energy.
Engage slight jalandhara bandha. Stimulates samana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Relieves scoliosis, lower back pain,
fatigue, and constipation, and eases the pain of osteoporosis.
Helpful tips: Place a blanket in between the knees if your hips
are tight. Place a blanket underneath the extended arm if your
shoulders are tight. For a deeper stretch in the hamstrings and
outer hips, keep the legs straight.
OceanofPDF.comSEATED HIP OPENERS
This category of poses stimulates the second chakra,
which is governed by the element of water. Water gives
rise to taste, feeling, creativity, sensuality, and sexuality.
Because the hips are the energetic storehouse of our
unprocessed emotions, deep hip openers can release
suppressed feelings when we hold them for an extended
period of time. By freeing up this region of the body, we
allow ourselves to experience our feelings more fully,
which helps us to show up more wholly.
OceanofPDF.comRECLINED PIGEON POSE: SUPTA KAPOTASANA
Overview:  This profound stretch releases our hips and lower
back, leading to greater overall ease and mobility. By locating our
awareness on one single point of sensation, we enter the stage of
dharana, relaxed concentration.
How-to:  From Constructive Rest pose (see this page), cross your
right ankle on top of your left thigh. Flex the right foot to engage
the muscles around the knee joint. Interlace your ﬁngers behind
the left thigh and lift the left foot off the ﬂoor, gently drawing your
left thigh closer toward you as you consciously move your right
thigh away from your body. Stay here and breathe, resting your
awareness in the area where you feel sensation in the body.
Benefits:  Physically, Supta Kapotasana stretches the hamstrings,
the outer hips, and the piriformis muscle.
Energetically, this pose calms the nervous system and relaxes
the mind. It stimulates the second chakra, freeing up unprocessedemotions, which prompts creativity, sensuality, and sexuality.
Engage slight jalandhara bandha. Stimulates apana and vyana
vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  Relieves lower back pain and sciatica;
suitable for pregnant practitioners in their ﬁrst and second
trimesters.
Helpful tips: If you cannot reach the back of the leg with the
hands, use a strap, or lower the foot to the ﬂoor or rest it against a
chair.
OceanofPDF.comBOUND ANGULAR POSE: BADDHA KONASANA
Overview:  This pose, often referred to as “Cobbler’s pose,” is
commonly assumed by the shoemakers and other artisans of India.
Because the Western population is used to sitting in chairs, ﬁnding
comfort in Bound Angular pose may be challenging. In addition to
providing a deep stretch in the hips, it teaches us how to ﬁnd grace
in awkward and uncomfortable situations.
How-to:  From Staff pose (see this page), bring the soles of your
feet together and spread your knees wide apart. Adjust the ﬂesh of
your buttocks so that you are sitting on your sit bones and not on
your tailbone. Inhale and lengthen your spine. As you exhale,
begin to hinge forward at your hips, keeping your spine long and
your shoulders away from your ears. Continue to breathe your way
into the pose: Inhale, lengthen; exhale, deepen.Benefits:  Physically, this pose stretches the knees, the inner
thighs, the outer hips, the lower back.
Through the lengthening of the inhale and the deepening of
the exhale, we learn how to be guided by the breath and not the
ego. Energetically, Bound Angular pose teaches the qualities of
deep reﬂection and contemplation. This pose stimulates the
second chakra, cultivating the qualities of ﬂuidity, ﬂexibility,
sexuality, and sensuality.
Engage mula bandha, uddiyana bandha, and jalandhara
bandha. Engage ashvini mudra. Stimulates apana and vyana vayu.
Therapeutic applications:  This pose soothes menstrual
discomfort and sciatica. It relieves lower back pain and symptoms
of menopause, stimulates the reproductive organs, and increases
sexual energy.
Helpful tips:  If your hips or lower back are tight, place a blanket
underneath your sit bones. If you have any knee sensitivity, place a
block underneath each knee.
OceanofPDF.comEASY SEAT: SUKHASANA
Overview:  Easy Seat is most often used for meditation and
contemplation. The Sanskrit word sukha is translated as
“sweetness” or “ease.” Although this pose may not be inherently
easy for all bodies, it is in our approach to the posture that the
most signiﬁcant beneﬁts are reaped. Easy Seat reminds us that the
path to joy is joy itself.
How-to:  From Staff pose (see this page), rotate your right thigh
open and place your right foot in toward your groin. Rotate your
left thigh open and put your left foot in front of the right foot,
sitting in a cross-legged position. Adjust the ﬂesh of your buttocks
so that you are sitting on your sit bones and not your tailbone. Now
allow the torso to naturally lengthen away from the pelvis, using
the abdominal muscles to support the lower back and the muscles
along the spine to support the upper back. Relax the tops of theshoulders and feel the head and neck naturally ﬂoating atop the
spine. Rest your hands on your knees and relax your facial muscles.
Benefits:  Physically, Easy Seat stretches the hips and the knees,
strengthens the muscles along the spine, tones the abdominal
muscles, and supports


 the teachings of Yoga philosophy, air which is inhaled, contains a subtle energy principle called "prana", which is
the vital principle needed to sustain life.
My understanding of how this works (I'm not sure whether I have read this, or whether it came  to me as a result of intuition) is
as follows:
The universe is filled with energy and basically all matter is ultimately composed of energy and energy particles. Each atom
contains a neutron, proton and electrons revolving among them. Electrons are electr ic particles, but physics has broken them
down into even subtler electrical particles, which some call lifetrons etc.

COSMIC ENERGY
Now, energy generally is undifferentiated, nevertheless possesses inherent intelligence - that is it can be used or transfe rred
into energy doing special work - like electricity (a form of energy) can be used to turn motors, in telephones and electronics.
This cosmic and ever -present universal unspecialized energy, which permeates the universe enters into and goes through all
life forms and matter in the universe. As this energy enters a form, say a tree for example, the tree according to its design,
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purpose, needs and genetic structure, ab sorbs and appropriates this generalized non -specified universal energy and adapts or
converts it to its own needs. The same applies to every material form, from rocks, plants, fish, animals to humans.

INDWELLING SPIRIT
The process of living and being aliv e in all organized vegetable and animal forms depends upon the precondition of having a
certain basic highly organic life element - which may be called an indwelling spirit or soul - which is transmitted during the birth
process.

AMOUNT OF ENERGY AVAILABL E TO USE
The amount of energy available to use from moment to moment depends upon the quality of the blood, lymph, nerves and
energy pathways (called meridians).

ENERGY AND BODY SUBSTANCES
These in turn are dependant upon the presence of (a.) all necessar y substances in the body, such as minerals, trace elements,
proteins, vitamins, fats, carbohydrates, etc. and (b.) the correct amount of these, neither excessive or deficient.

ENERGY AND FREEDOM FROM TOXINS
There need to be (c.) sufficient clearness and purity of blood and lymph circulation free from obstruction, such as metabolic
body toxins generated from activity, and foreign unusable chemicals introduced from without - such as tobacco, pollution,
drugs, etc.

ENERGY AND SLEEP
Finally (d.) there must b e sufficient rest and sleep, the indispensable and most important time wherein the body recharges itself
with the eternal undifferentiated energy, as well as the energy contained in the food consumed earlier. Whatever energy is
absorbed from food is transf erred only during the state of sleep, never directly during the act of eating.

PROCESS OF EATING - ENERGY EXPENDITURE
If energy could be absorbed directly by the process of eating, then all we would have to do whenever we are tired is to eat, and
the more  food we eat the stronger we would become, thus making sleep unnecessary.
But actually, the reverse is true.
The more we eat, the more exhausted and sleepy we become. Any energy we experience immediately after eating (such as
sweets), or the lift we get fr om drinking coffee, or the expression of strong emotions - is using our energy reserves, - and is the
expenditure of energy, not its accumulation.

ENERGY IS EXPERIENCED DURING EXPENDITURE
Energy is always felt and experienced in its expenditure.
Its accum ulation is rarely felt, since this occurs during periods of rest and mostly during deep dreamless sleep, when the mind
is inactive.

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The Relation Between Energy And Feeling And Thought
from "Overcoming Compulsive Habits"
"The person who feels depressed or negative most of the time is low on the energy level scale and needs
to omit undesirable energy -wasting practices and to increase rest and sleep."

HIGH ENERGY AND JOY
The child who has not yet poisoned his body with unnatural  food and stimulants or young undomesticated animals are
alternately engaged in joyful play and restful sleep. Negative or depressed states are unknown. Joy, vitality, happiness and play
mark its existence.
This is equally so with healthy adolescents, young and even mature adults who are not dissipating their powers in destructive
emotions and poison -habits. This is strikingly evident in primitive people or regions which have not yet been educated into our
"civilized habits".

LOW ENERGY AND NEGATIVITY
On the other hand, the more that energy is lost through dissipation, stimulants, tension, emotional, physical and sexual exce ss
and especially prolonged loss of sleep and rest, the more does negativity in feelings, emotions and thoughts set in.

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The above diagram presents an approximate sketch of how our feelings fluctuate according to the amount of energy which we
have available for use.

CREATIVITY AND ENERGY
The same applies to our mental and creative abilities. The greater the amount of energy which is available, the better we are
able to think, reason, create and the more alert we are. Conversely, the less energ y which is available, the more deficient we
become in all of our mental abilities.

RECUPERATING ENERGY
The person who feels depressed or negative most of the time is low on the energy level scale and needs to omit undesirable
energy -wasting practices and to increase rest and sleep.
Just as the muscles enter a state of inertia during the recharging process called sleep, so does the mind manifest a reduced
state of activity during its resting and recharging phase. We observe this mental state as "feeling dep ressed", when we are
awake. This merely indicates that the brain -cells are recuperating energy.

HEALTH AND HAPPINESS
The individual who is living intelligently, obeying the laws of life, eating correctly, resting and sleeping sufficiently and  avoiding
poison -habits will manifest happy, cheerful and optimistic feelings, emotions and thought for the most part.
He will fluctuate between wellbeing, happiness and great joy.
When due to unusual expenditure, his energy level drops, this will manifest as quietu de, passivity and deep relaxation which is
free from irritability, negative feelings or thoughts.

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Dr. Herbert Shelton:
HOW DISEASES ARE CURED

"Contrary to popular belief, a  cold  is not something that we' catch ,' but i t represents a process of getting
rid of something we have slowly accumulated." "To remove a gall stone and pronounce the patient cured
is tantamount to saying that the stone was  its own cause ."

The following article by Dr. Herbert Shelton was first printed in his HYGIENIC REVIEW.
Dr. Shelton had a Texas -based fasting retreat. He collected knowledge from the old hygienic masters,
cleared out the junk, and made it into a basic intelligence system - Natural Hygiene. He was a great
genius, and published the best hygienic magazine ever.

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 "What does the average individual know about keeping well? Almost nothing. ----- The people and their doctors are all
in the same  boat together with a blind man at the helm. They lack the chart and compass and drift aimlessly on a sea
of ignorance and misinformation."
HOW DISEASES ARE CURED

It is high time the people begin to learn something about the causes of disease and of the "complications" that so frequently
develop under regular care. Indeed, physicians and doctors of all schools should learn the causes of disease and
"complications," - and they should all learn to realize, that to mask symptoms with their drugs and treatmen ts is to stand in their
own light.
Behold what a muss! "Scientific medicine" is capable of making a very elaborate diagnosis; but, then, does not know what is
really wrong with the patient nor what to do for him. Don't take my word for it - consult Cabot, Mackenzie, Baldwin, and others
who have dared slip their professional muzzles long enough to do a little effective thinking.

THE MEDICAL PARADOX: IS PATHOLOGY ITS OWN CAUSE?
The paradox of all medical paradoxes is that physicians recognize pathology as it s own cause. Etiology and diagnosis,
according to the approved theories and practices of the "regulars," starts with a developed pathology. The science of diagnos is,
as practiced today, is merely the naming and classifying of established pathologies; all p resent and future symptoms being
recognized and treated as pathognomic, all antecedent symptoms being ignored as not having any relationship to the existing
pathology or so -called disease.
What is a system of diagnosis and treatment worth that is based on an etiology that starts with "causes" that are, in truth, but
organized effects?
For example, when a surgeon removes a fibroid tumor, or


wary	of	signing	an	informed	consent	for	a	diagnostic	test,	tip-off	about	the
degree	of	risk	involved.
If	the	accuracy	of	test	results	seems	questionable,	seek	a	second	opinion.	Be
skeptical	of	any	diagnosis	based	solely	on	a	test.	If	something	is	found	abnormal
and	the	doctor	wants	to	prescribe,	request	to	have	the	test	repeated	before	doing
something	that	could	cause	damage,	be	it	needless	surgery,	biopsies,
medications,	anxiety	or	financial	cost.	Suppose	that	a	particular	medical	test	is
95	percent	accurate.	For	every	twenty	tests	given,	one	false	result	will	occur,
usually	a	false	positive.	If	a	person	has	this	test	twenty	times	in	a	lifetime,	the
odds	are	in	favor	of	at	least	one	false	result.	In	fact,	many	diseases	can	be
“cured”	simply	by	redoing	the	test.	In	1975,	the	Centers	for	Disease	Control	and
Prevention	surveyed	medical	testing	labs	nationally	and	concluded	that	more
than	25	percent	of	all	test	results	were	wrong;	for	certain	clinical	chemistry	tests,
the	error	rate	was	50	percent.	Not	a	lot	has	changed	since	then.
A	study	in	the	May	1997	issue	of
Hippocrates
examined	169	different	kinds
of	medical	diagnostic	tests	and	concluded	that	only	nine	of	them	actually	did
anything	for	the	patient	for	reducing	the	incidence	of	disease.	According	to	the
article,	many	of	these	tests	regularly	led	to	faulty	diagnoses,	resulting	in
unnecessary	treatments	the	patients	did	not	need,	and	people	with	passing	chest
or	back	pain	were	“being	marched	off	to	surgery	to	get	their	hearts	repaired	or
spines	fixed.”
About	70	percent	of	all	pregnant	American	women	undergo	ultrasound
evaluations,	yet	studies	published	in	medical	journals	including
Lancet
and	theCanadian	Medical	Association	Journal
show	that	ultrasound	may	affect	fetal
growth,	resulting	in	babies	with	lower	birth	weight.	In	addition,	children	are
twice	as	likely	to	have	delayed	speech	development	if	they	were	examined	via
ultrasound	as	a	fetus.	A	1995	study	done	at	the	Massachusetts	Institute	of
Technology	and	reported	in
Science
found	that	low-frequency	ultrasound
increases	the	permeability	of	human	skin,	allowing	proteins	to	pass	through
more	easily.	Ultrasound	definitely	affects	the	body’s	tissues,	yet	it	is	presented	to
patients	as	a	procedure	free	of	risks	and	side	effects.
Should	You	Have	Surgery?
Modern	surgery	certainly	is	one	of	the	crowning	achievements	in	modern
medicine.	Surgery	works	very	well	to	correct	physical	problems,	such	as	those
sustained	in	accidents,	sports	injuries	and	from	birth	defects,	but	surgery	does
not	solve	disease	problems.	Unfortunately,	most	surgery	is	performed	to	address
disease	problems,	wasting	resources	and	permanently	damaging	the	patient.
Every	part	of	the	human	body	is	important	to	the	functioning	of	the	whole;
removing	malfunctioning	body	parts	does	not	solve	the	real	problem.	Surgery
should	not	be	performed	unless	there	is	absolutely	no	alternative,	and	there	is
almost	always	an	alternative.
Most	conventional	cancer	treatments—especially	surgery—	are	directed	by
the	mechanistic	belief	system	described	earlier.	Cancer	is	regarded	as	affecting	a
specific	location	or	body	part	that	should	be	removed	physically	or	otherwise
poisoned	and	killed.	Completely	forgotten	is	that	cancer	is	a	systemic	disease
affecting	the	entire	body,	and	that	a	sounder	approach	is	to	restore	cancerous
cells	to	normal	by	addressing	their	deficiency	and	toxicity.
Cancer	patients	who	properly	address	their	deficiency	and	toxicity	may
experience	what	is	termed	“spontaneous	remission.”	A	study	by	Dr.	Harold
Foster	at	the	University	of	British	Columbia	in	1988	found	that	virtually	every
one	of	two	hundred	cancer	patients	who	had	experienced	a	spontaneous	cancer
remission	had	actually	done	something	to	improve	their	cell	chemistry.	Eighty-
seven	percent	had	made	major	changes	to	their	diet,	while	others	had	used
nutritional	supplements	and	detoxification	programs.	Currently,	numerous
alternative	treatments	for	cancer	are	available	(see	appendix	D).
A	heart	bypass	operation	is	another	example	of	unnecessary	surgery.	In	1992,
Nortin	Hadler,	M.D.,	a	professor	of	medicine	at	the	University	of	North	Carolina
Medical	School,	concluded	that	95	to	97	percent	of	the	coronary	bypass
surgeries	done	that	year	were	unnecessary—even	though	patients	usually	aretold	that	without	the	surgery	they	will	die.	In	truth,	almost	all	coronary	disease	is
preventable	with	diet,	supplements	and	exercise.	Likewise,	coronary	disease	is
reversible,	as	pioneers	like	Nathan	Pritikin,	more	recently	Dean	Ornish,	M.D.,
and	others,	have	proven.
How	much	surgery	is	necessary?	Dr.	Robert	Mendelsohn,	in
Confessions	of	a
Medical	Heretic,
said,	“My	feeling	is	that	somewhere	around	ninety	percent	of
surgery	is	a	waste	of	time,	money,	energy,	and	life.”	Dr.	Mendelsohn	cites	an
independent	review	of	people	recommended	for	surgery.	The	study	found	that
most	of	these	patients	did	not	need	surgery	and	half	of	them	needed	no	medical
treatment	at	all.	In	another	case,	a	hospital	oversight	committee	reviewed
surgically	removed	tissues.	In	the	year	prior	to	the	formation	of	the	committee,
the	hospital	performed	262	appendectomies—after	the	committee	was	formed,
the	number	dropped	to	62.	The	committee	found	that	most	of	the	tissues	being
removed	were	healthy!	In	March	1997,	the	Physicians	Committee	for
Responsible	Medicine	published	a	statement	saying	that	only	10	percent	of
hysterectomies	are	justified.	In	addition	to	being	almost	entirely	unnecessary,
surgery	is	risky;	possibilities	exist	for	surgical	error,	complications	from
anesthesia	and	infection,	not	to	mention	the	physical,	mental	and	emotional
shock	to	the	body.
Should	You	Take	Medicine?
All	drugs	have	potentially	damaging	“side	effects.”	Because	a	malfunctioning
cell	is	the	definition	of	disease,	and	drugs	deliberately	cause	cells	to	malfunction,
drugs	cause	disease.	Drugs	are	foreign	to	the	body;	the	mechanism	by	which
drugs	work	is	to	alter	the	body’s	biochemistry	in	order	to	suppress	symptoms.
Side	effects	often	are	worse	than	the	diseases	the	drugs	are	used	to	treat.	Perhaps
these	hazards	would	be	justified	if	drugs	cured	disease,	but	they	do	not,	they
control	and	suppress	symptoms.	Even	with	symptoms	suppressed,	the	true	cause
of	the	problem	may	be	growing	worse	while	the	body’s	natural	healing
mechanisms	are	being	compromised	by	the	drugs.
Billions	of	dollars	are	spent	in	the	war	against	street	drugs,	but	the	number	of
people	killed	and	injured	by	street	drugs	is	minor	compared	to	prescription
drugs.	Prescription	drugs	kill	a	couple	of	hundred	thousand	people	every	year
and	are	a	leading	cause	of	disease	and


compared to the one plate meal?
A. To start with the smoothie is a small percentage compared to the one plate
meal, maybe 20/80. After some time you can aim for 50/50. Meaning your diet
will be 50% raw plants. When you get very experienced your smoothie can get
larger and your one plate meal can get smaller and you still feel satisfied. I'm
now at the point where I sometimes only have the smoothie as my entire one
meal. When I do this I include more oats, nuts and lots more fruit and other raw
plant based foods in the large smoothie jug. But for variety and normality most
of the time I sit with my family and have a one plate meal with them which will
be about 50% of the total volume of the one meal a day. And occasionally eating
out with friends, and having cheat days as long as have a 48 hr fast for every
one cheat day.
Q. You teach that the body makes the right compounds at the right time
throughout the day and these are in your orin, but then you say to save all your
orin after your evening meal and drink it all first thing in the morning, won't
these be the wrong compounds for that time of the day?
A. Your evening orin won't have all the correct compounds for your body for the
morning but your first morning pee will have. The orin you saved from the
evening before will still have many beneficial substances like vitamins, minerals,
enzymes and of course stem cells. Your morning urine that you first pee out and
loop will have all the correct substances for your body at that time of the day. In
the orin you having been saving up from the night before the urea and ammonia
content builds having been aged for several hours, this is actually exactly what
your body needs first thing in the morning for a diuretic effect. This will help
push out all of last night’s one meal and clean you right the way through. The
term I have come up with an internal enema. So actually it is exactly what the
body needs at the right time, slightly aged orin first thing in the morning then
continue looping everything throughout the day.
Q. What is the optimal healthy plan for omad?
A. The very best is one piece of fruit every other day or less. Some claim to be
able to go very very long times on only their orin looping. I am one of them but
have never fully tested how long I could go on only my orin, I suspect years.
Having the occasional piece of fruit and some other plants I'm confident I could
survive for many years and be very healthy.
Mono fruit at any one time so your stomach can create the best possible
environment for digesting all the nutrients. Looping all your orin and only eating
a very small mono plant serving every few days or so. This would be the most
optimal healthy diet plan.Next down from that in a list of what is optimal is mixed fruit  in a salad or
smoothie every other day, then after that on the list would be every day. This is
what I do a lot of the time.
Next after that is 50% or so fruit in a smoothie at the start of your omad meal.
Then the other 50% or so a balanced diet of all food groups as the rest of your
one meal within one hour. This is what I do most of the time.
My reasons are that even though only fruit is optimal, I think it's a bit too
extreme for me. I'm after a more balanced level headed approach.
Also when you consider there is so much enjoyment to be had from the huge
variety of great food from around the planet. Omad increases your joy of food
greatly. This increases your overall happiness and that is better for your health
all round than just going on the optimal fruitarian diet.
Cheat days and special occasions can be absolute heaven on Earth, as long as
you don't overdo things and have a 48hr fast for every one cheat day.
Q. How much should you eat in your one meal?
A. Eat to satisfaction. If you are still hungry towards the end of your one meal
then you could eat a little more. But if you stretched your stomach so much that
you are uncomfortable then you ate too much. I usually find that the one large
smoothie starter and then the one plate meal is enough to satisfy me without
feeling so full and bloated that I ate too much. You have to find what's the right
size for you to feel satisfied without feeling bloated.
If you still feel hungry a couple of hours later in the evening then either you
didn't eat enough or your one meal was too early before you go to bed. Find
what is best for you and then stick to it.
Q. What percentage of overall health is down to diet?
A. Most experts would disagree with each other on this. My opinion is diet has
the largest impact on health but that doesn’t mean it’s all down to diet. A joyful
heart is the best medicine. Your work, your life in general. Especially your
relationships with those close to you. All have an effect on your joyful heart.
Omad orin looping when embraced fully has a profound impact on your entire
life. Everything else seems to get into balance and you increase your overall
happiness. Well that is what I have found anyway. You can too.
Q. Why do you always put frozen fruit in your smoothie, and do you worry about
pesticides?
Mike Pollen says in his book Food Rules to "Stay out of the middle of the
supermarket; shop on the perimeter of the store. Real food tends to be on the
outer edge of the store near the loading docks, where it can be replaced with
fresh foods when it goes bad."I say the exception is the frozen section. Even what you think is fresh has lost
most of its goodness since it was last growing and now been transported half
way around the world. If you can get fast frozen from fresh it does not matter if it
has been a long time in transportation as long as it is kept frozen. So it is far
better to buy frozen fruit than those picked before they are ripe so they will be
ripe by the time they are on the shelf a long time and long way away.
Fresh is not always best. “Supermarket fruit and veg is stored for weeks to even
years,” says Glenys Jones, a Medical Research Council nutritionist and sports
performance expert. “There’s a clear link between storage and vitamin loss.”
Frozen fruit and veg, meanwhile, have all the goodness locked in.
Here in the UK fruit does freeze in the wild. Come Nov/Dec through to even as
late as Feb you can often find late fruit and berries still on the tree with snow on
them, or recently fallen to the ground in snow. The frost freezes them locking in
the goodness. This is why I choose frozen fruit as the main part of my one
smoothie every day.
Which do you think has more goodness in, frozen non organic labelled cheap
fruit and veg or non frozen 'fresh' on the shelf organic labelled same fruit and
veg? Which option is better for you? The frozen one is very cheap compared to
the expensive organic option.
In my opinion the cheaper frozen option has far more goodness than the
expensive labelled organic option which has been losing goodness ever since it
was picked.
The organic labelled just have a different list of things they use. The body slowly
builds up immunity to pesticides as long as in very small quantities. I now think
there is not that much difference between organic labelled and non organic.
Do any pesticides or harmful chemicals make it through to the urine? None of
any quantity, pretty much 100% go out the waste channels, your poop, sweat
and breath! Urine is not a waste, it's only really the memory of toxins or trace
amounts that are still in the blood after it has been cleaned by the liver.
Yes trace amounts of harmful things can show up in a urine test, but if you add
up the quantity in a days total urination (say about a gallon of urine) it’s far less
than you take in from say eating a non organic piece of fruit.
The liver and kidneys do filter blood but if you think the end product which is
urine is full of toxins, then you have not understood the concept of filtration and
need to read and study about it again. The bad stuff goes to the poo, sweat or
out breath, and the good stuff that comes out of a filtration device or filtering
machine is CLEANER than what entered into it. Urine is FILTERED BLOOD =
BLOOD'S PLASMA ULTRA FILTRATE (it's the scientific name of urine) and
therefore it is much purer and cleaner than blood itself! What is toxic goes out
via the lymphatic system which are a group of glands and veins running all over
our bodies and ending on the skin, excreting this waste mainly out through our
pores, but also through our bowels, and lungs which they also connect with.I was talking to a local fruit farmer about why he needed to spray pesticides
every week to ten days and his answer was very revealing.
"It’s all gone within a week or so"
So the insects won’t eat the fruit for about a week after spraying. But after a
week to ten days they start eating it again. The sun, wind and rain not to
mention the half-life of the pesticide means it’s almost all gone in that


cing machine. Our DNA hasaccomplished the same thing on a grand scale, since the
human body is nothing more than variants of DNA built by
DNA.)
You may ﬁnd it easy to think of DNA, with its billions of
genetic bits, as an intellig ent molecule; certainly it must be
smarter than a simple molecule like sugar. How smart can
sugar be? But DNA is really just strings of sugar, amines,
and other simple components. If these are not “smart” to
begin with, then DNA couldn’t become smart just by
putting more of them together. Following this line of
reasoning, why isn’t the carbon or hydrogen atom in the
sugar also smart? Perhaps it is. As we shall see, if
intelligence is present in the body, it has to come from
somewhere, and that somewhere may be everywhere.
—
If we follow the next step of the neurotransmitter story, we
ﬁnd ourselves faced with another quantum leap in
complications, but surprisingly, the relation between mind
and matter actually begins to clear up. The areas of the
brain that mediate our emotions—the amygdala  and the
hypothalamus, which is also known as “the brain’s brain”—
were both found to be particularly rich in all the substances
in the neurotransmitter group. This implied  that where
thinking processes are abundant (meaning that many
neurons are tightly clustered), so will be the chemicals
associated with thinking. At this point there was still a
rather well-d eﬁned divisio n between chemicals that jumped
the gap between brain cells and those that traveled from
the brain down the bloodstream. (In my ﬁeld,
endocrinology, one of the deﬁning qualities of a hormone is
that it ﬂoats through the blood, a process that is generally
much slower than the transmission speed of a nerve cell,
which has been clocked at 225 miles per hour; a signal sent
from head to toe takes less than l/50th of a second.)Just when science thought it could isolate brain
chemicals and categorize their sites, the body cropped up
with its own complication. Researchers at the National
Institute of Mental Health found receptors in equal
abundance at other sites outside the brain. Starting in the
early 1980s, receptors for neurotransmitt ers and
neuropeptides were discovered on cells in the immune
system called  monocytes. “Brain” receptors on white cells
in the blood?—it would be hard to exaggerate the
signiﬁcance of this discovery. In the past, it was thoug ht
that the central nervous system alone relayed messages to
the body, rather like a complicated telephone system
connecting the brain to all the organs it wanted to “talk” to.
In this scheme, the neurons function like telephone lines
conveying the brain’s signals—that is their unique  function,
shared by no other system in the physiology.
Now it was seen that the brain does not just send
impulses traveling in straight lines down the axons, or
trunks, of the neurons; it freely circulates intelligence
throughout the body’s entire inner space. Unlike the
neurons, which are ﬁxed in place along the nervous system,
the monocytes of the immune system travel through the
bloodstream, giving them free access to every other cell in
the body. Outﬁtted with a vocabulary to mirror the nervous
system’s in its complexity, the immune system apparently
sends and receives mess ages that are just as diverse. In
fact, if being happy, sad, thoughtful, excited, and so on all
require the production of neuropeptides and
neurotransmitters in our brain cells, then the immune cells
must also be happy, sad, thoughtful, excited—indeed, they
must be able to expres s the full range of “words” that
neurons do. Monocytes can be thought of in eﬀect as
circulating neurons.
With this one discovery, the concept of the intelligent cell
took on full-ﬂedged reality. One kind of localizedintelligence was already well known, that possessed by the
DNA in every cell. Since Watson and Crick  mapped the
structure of DNA in the early 1950s, investigation had
proved that this remar kable, almost inﬁnitely complex
molecule encoded all the information necessary to create
and sustain human life. But the intelligence of genes was
seen primari ly as ﬁxed, because DNA itself is the stablest
chemical in the body, and thanks to that stability, each of us
is able to inherit genetic traits from our parents—blue eyes,
curly hair, facial patterns, et cetera—and prese rve them
intact to pass on to our children.
The know-how carried by the neurotransmitters and
neuropeptides represented something else altogether: the
winged, ﬂeeting, sentient intelligence of the mind. The
wonder is that these “intelligent” chemicals are not only
made by the brain, whose function is to think, but by the
immune system, whose primary role is to protect  us from
disease. From the standpoint of a brain chemist, this
sudden expa nsion of messenger molecules adds a new
order of complexity to his work. But for us, the discovery of
“ﬂoating” intelligence conﬁrms the model of the body as a
river. We needed a material basis for claiming that
intelligence ﬂows all through us, and now we have it.
Anyone can see that his mind is ﬁlled with a bewildering
ﬂood of impressions that are far too amorphous to pin
down. To describe it, psychology is reduced to equal ly
amorphous terms like the famous phrase stream of
consciousness. Today, as if to ﬁll that stream with water you
can actually see and touch, brain researchers have found
cascades of brain chemicals. But unlike a stream, these
cascades have no banks; they ﬂow anywhere and
everywhere. They never cease this ﬂow, either, for the
smallest fraction of a second. A brain scientist in eﬀect
stops time to examine a cascade’s components. The
chemicals he wants to ﬁnd are extremely minute—it tookthree hundred thousand sheep brains to yield a single
milligram of the molecul e the brain uses to stimulate the
thyroid. Nor are the cell receptors easy to grasp. They
constantly dance on the surface of the cell walls and
change their shape to receive new messages; any one cell
may contain hundreds or even thousands of sites, only one
or two of which can be analyzed at a time. Science learned
more about brain chemis try in the last ﬁfteen years than it
knew in all of previous history, but we are all still like
foreigners trying to learn English from scraps of paper
found in the street.
—
No one has yet been able to grasp how the cascade of
chemicals exactly patterns itself to do all the things a mind
can do. Memory, recollection, dreaming, and all the other
everyday activities of the mind remain a profound mystery
as far as their physical mechanics is concerned. But now
we know that the mind and body are like parallel universes.
Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave
tracks in the physical one.
Recently brain researchers have found a way to
photograph a thought’s tracks in 3-D, like a hologram. The
procedure, known as PET (positron-emission tomography),
is done by injecting the bloodstream with glucose whose
carbon molecules have been tagged with radioisotopes.
Glucose is the brain’s sole food, which it uses much faster
than do ordinary tissues. Therefore, when the injected
glucose reaches the brain, its marker molecules of carbon
can be picked out as the brain uses them, and thus pictured
in three dimensions on a monitor, much the same way a
CAT scan is produced. Watching these marker molecules
shift around while the brain thinks, scientists saw that each
distinct event in the universe of mind—such as a sensation
of pain or a strong memory—triggers a new chemicalpattern in the brain, not just at a single site but at several.
The image looks diﬀerent for every thought, and if one
could extend  the portrait to be full-length, there is no doubt
that the whole body changes at the same time, thanks to
the cascades of neurotra nsmitters and related messenger
molecules.
As you see it right now, your body is the physical picture,
in 3-D, of what you are thinking. This remarkable fact
escapes our notice for several reasons. One is that the
physical outline of the body does not change drastically
with every thought. Even so, the whole body quite
obviously projects thoughts. We literally read other
people’s minds from the constant play of their facial
expressions; without marking it, we also register the
thousandfold gestures of body language as a sign of their
moods and intentions toward us. Films made by sleep
laboratories disclose that we change position dozens of
times during the night, obeying commands from the brain
that we are unconscious of.
Secondly, we don’t see our bodies as projected thoughts
because many physical changes that thinking causes are
unnoticeable. They involve minute alterations of cell
chemistry, body temperature, electrical charg e, blood
pressure, and so on, which do


	a	chair
with	both	feet	firmly	planted	on	the	ground.	But	do	avoid	saggy	couches	and
cushions,	which	can	cause	you	to	inadvertently	sink	down,	preventing	optimal
breath	flow	and	reducing	these
pranayama
	techniques’	strong	benefits.
Please	check	with	your	doctor	before	starting	if	you	are	new	to	these	or	any
other
pranayama
	breath	techniques,	or	if	you	are	pregnant	or	have	a	medical
condition.
UJJAYI
This	is	the	primary	way	of	breathing	while	practicing	yoga
asanas
,	or	poses,	but
this	is	also	a	fantastic	form	of	breath	to	use	anytime	you	feel	stressed.
Ujjayi
helps	you	bring	the	maximum	amount	of	oxygen	into	your	body;	efficiently
distribute	nutrients;	avoid	shallow,	chest-based,	and	inefficient	breathing;	and
give	more	magnetic	beauty	energy	and	a	glow	to	your	skin	and	eyes.
This	form	of	breathing	has	been	used	for	thousands	of	years	in	both	Taoist
and	yogic	traditions.	It	is	often	referred	to	as	“the	ocean	breath”	because	it
sounds	like	gentle	ocean	waves.
Ujjayi
	is	a	deep,	abdominal-based	breath	that
fills	your	lower	belly	first,	then	rises	to	fill	the	lower	rib	cage,	then	all	the	way
up	into	the	upper	lungs,	chest,	and	throat.
To	begin,	open	your	mouth	wide	and	let	out	a	vocal	exhale.	Now,	inhale	and
close	your	mouth	and	try	to	exhale	and	make	the	same	sound,	which	will
produce	a	noise	somewhat	akin	to	the	ocean	at	the	back	of	your	throat.	If
you’re	in	public,	you	can	just	focus	on	breathing	deeply	without	tensing	or
raising	your	shoulders,	allowing	your	entire	belly	to	expand	without	making	the
audible	sound.	You’ll	still	benefit	from	this	slow,	deep	breathing.	In	either	case,
inhale	and	exhale	through	your	nose	for	roughly	the	same	length	of	time.	If
you	are	a	particularly	fast	breather	or	have	a	hard	time	knowing	how	to	slow
down,	try	breathing	in	and	out	for	a	count	of	four.	Practice	this	any	time	of	the
day	and	into	the	evening.
BHASTRIKA
This	is	an	especially	beautifying
pranayama
	technique	because	it	is	cleansing	and
raises	the
metabolism.	Breathe	in	and	out	through	your	nose	in	a	quick	rhythm.
This	expels	negativity.	Think	of	a	sniffing	dog.	The	rhythm	is	even	and	fast.
You	can	do	one	or	a	few	rounds	of	20	to	30	seconds	each,	working	your	way	up
to	3	to	5	minutes	a	day.	After	finishing,	you	will	feel	euphoric	and	energized	in
a	profound	way.	Since	this	is	an	energizing	practice,	it’s	best	to	practice	this	in
the	mornings	and	daytime	rather	than	the	evenings.	It	can	take	a	while	to	getthe	rhythm	down,	but	it’s	worth	the	effort.
NADI	SHODHANA
This	breathing	technique	creates	balance	in	the	body,	which	is	a	key	component
of	Radical	Beauty.	The	term
Nadi	Shodhana
	literally	means	“clearing	the
channels	of	circulation.”	This	technique	is	also	referred	to	as	“alternate	nostril
breathing”	and	is	effective	in	helping	you	deeply	relax	your	body	and	mind
while	balancing	the	energies	between	the	left	and	right	side	of	your	body.	Yogis
believe	the	left	is	the
ida
,	the	cooling	or	lunar	side	of	your	body,	while	the	right
is	the
pingala
,	or	the	solar	or	warming,	fiery	energy	in	the	body.	These
contrasting	but	complementary	sides	need	to	be	balanced.	If	you	have	too
much	fire	you	can	burn	out	or	get	overanxious	or	overheated,	which	ancient
Indian	philosophy	warns	might	speed	the	aging	process.	If	you	are	too	cool	and
don’t	have	enough	fire,	you	can	become	lethargic	and	depressed.
Try	practicing
Nadi	Shodhana
	in	the	evenings	after	work	and	before	bed	or
before	meditating	to	balance	your	fire	and	cooling	elements;	release	anxiety,
depression,	or	stress;	and	create	a	deep	sense	of	equilibrium	and	balance.	Start
by	taking	a	big	exhale	and	clearing	the	breath	completely	out	of	both	nostrils.
Then	take	your	index	and	middle	fingers	(as	if	you	were	going	to	make	a	“peace
sign”),	and	curl	them	into	your	palm	or	place	them	on	the	bridge	of	your	nose.
Now	hold	your	right	thumb	over	your	right	nostril	and	inhale	deeply	through
your	left	nostril.	At	the	top	of	your	inhalation,	close	off	your	left	(
ida
,	or	lunar,
cooling)	nostril	with	your	ring	and	pinky	fingers	and	exhale	fully	through	your
right	nostril.	After	a	full	exhalation,	inhale	through	the	right	(
pingala
,	or	solar,
warming)	nostril,	closing	it	off	with	your	right	thumb	at	the	top	of	your
inhalation.
Repeat	this	over	and	over,	without	force,	just	watching	your	breath
and	feeling	the	power	of	this	practice	to	balance	your	entire,	beautiful	being.
KAPALABHATI
This	is	also	a	purifying	beauty	breath	that	is	sometimes	referred	to	as	“skull
shining	breath.”	It	can	help	your	entire	being	as	well	as	your	complexion
radiate	with	the	glow	of	cleanliness	and	peace.	This	toning
pranayama
	technique
cleanses	your	respiratory	system	and	encourages	the	release	of	toxins.	It	is	made
up	of	short,	powerful	exhales	and	passive	inhales.
To	practice
Kapalabhati
,	sit	in	a	comfortable	position	with	a	straight	spine.
Rest	your	hands	on	your	belly	so	you	can	tune	in	to	the	sharp	exhalations.	If
you	prefer,	rest	them	on	your	knees	with	your	palms	facing	down.	Bring	your
attention	to	your	lower	abdomen	and	inhale	through	both	nostrils	deeply.
Contract	your	lower	belly	or	use	your	hands	to	gently	press	on	this	area,	forcingout	the	breath	in	a	short	burst.	This	should	feel	strong	and	powerful.	As	you
quickly	release	the	contraction,	your	inhalation	should	be	automatic	and
passive.	Your	focus	should	be	on	exhaling.
Begin	slowly,	aiming	for	65	to	70	contractions	per	minute.	Gradually	pick	up
the	pace	for	95	to	105	exhalation/inhalation	cycles	per	minute.	Always	go	at
your	own	pace	and	never	force	yourself.	Stop	if	you	feel	at	all	light-headed	or
dizzy.	After	one	minute	of	the	exercise,	inhale	deeply	through	the	nostrils	and
then	exhale	slowly	through	your	mouth.	Depending	on	your	experience	level,
you	can	work	up	to	doing	multiple	repetitions.	This	is	a	great	exercise	to	do	in
the	morning	to	warm	up	for	your	morning
yoga	practice	or
meditation.	As	this
practice	is	energizing,	it	is	not	recommended	for	the	late	evening.
Yoga	for	Detoxification	and	Beauty
Of	all	the	types	of	movement	out	there,	yoga	is	one	of	the	best	for


 liquids tha t play important
roles in the generation of electrical energy.
3. Electrical charge-the charge that is responsible for activating the
body and its structures. It is called the''life force'', ''life energy' ',
"spirit", or electroma gnetism. Taoists refer to this force as "Chi".
Of the three components, the last-electr ical charge-is least under
stood since its. presence is not immediately obvious to the naked eye.
Electrical energy is detected only in a roundabout way, because it is most
obvious when it is absent. If there is a partial absence of energy in the body,
weakness or disease invades and grasps hold of the body. When there is a
total absence of vital-energy, there is death. (Cessation of heartbeat does
not necessarily mean death, for many yogis have stopped their own
heartbeat, yet remain alive because their bodies still hold vital energy.)
Exhaustion is a symptom of low energy levels. Anytime you use your body
or your mind, you lose energy. If you fix your eyes on an object for just one
minute, it will take you twenty minutes of rest to recharge the amount of
energy lost, according to scientific studies. Furthennore, studies have been
done in which dying people have been put on a scale and weighed. At the
point of death, there has been recorded a weight loss of about six ounces,
the exact amount varying from individual to individual. So it is apparent
that the approximate six ounce weight loss reflects the weight of this vital
energy, which is material and measurable.
In one particular instance, howeve r, energy can be seen by the naked eye
to emanate from the body and act as an indicator of health. The ''aura'' or
energy field around a person's body has been known for thousands of
years, but is only now been proven to exist with the advent of Kirlian
photograp hy. It is able to capture the aura in photograph s so that many
people can see it first hand. A simple description of the aura can be that it is
made up of colored ''flames'' of energy that are emitted from the human
body. The colors of the aura have been determined to be reflective of its
owner's health and energy level. Light, clear colors indicate good health
and high energy levels. Dark, heavy colors indicate disease. The color of
death is black.
32 The Energy Theory
Minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day we are losing energy
as our attention is caught by continuous external objects and activities, as
we move our bodies in inefficient ways. or as we use energy in continuous
mental activities. In time, through this constant loss of energy, we grow
weak and are unable to fight off invasion by germs and other harmful
disease-causing agents. Illness drains the body of energy, and with out
energy, cells and tissues stop regenera ting and shrivel and die. So weak
ness is the first step towar d disease. If we have no weakne ss, then it will be
impossible to contract a mild illness, and if we never have a mild illness,
then a serious disease will never deve lop. Of course we also acquire vital
energy too, through food, air, and cosmic radiati on. But as we grow older,
we tend to use more energy than we take in, and this empties our store of
energy until a fina l loss of energy results in death.
Then there is the matter of energy imbalance, the importance of which
equ als energy loss. Energy imbalance among the organs (functionally
interlocked like clockwork) is another source of illness. The energy level
with in an organ is determined by the vigor and regularity of its pulsations.
The normal heart rate is 72-78 beats per minute. If this rate reaches or
exceeds 80 beats/minute, a fever or high energy is indica ted. The normal
pulsation rate of one kidney is 36 pulsations per minute, and because we
have two kidneys, the total rate is 72 pulsations/minute. The heart and
kidn eys are therefore balanced with respect to each other. Now if the
person owning these organs takes diuretic pills, that person is forcing more
pulsations into the kidneys. What happens to the heart? The heart, in order
to maintain balance, pumps faster, and this results in high blood pressure
and increa sed blood flow to the kidney s. Since the kidneys filter urine out
of blood, more blood means more work for the kidneys. In taking the
diuretic pills, that person has created a vicious cycle between his heart and
kidneys. How wou ld this affect the rest of the body? If one cogwheel of an
intricate clockwork speeds up, the other cogwhee ls must also speed up,
otherwise all the springs and wheels will jam and bring all activity to a stop.
Thus we expose ourselves to grave dangers.
To be totally free of disease, however, does not guarantee a state of
physical immortality, for the body must be able to accommodate the influx
of additional energy which in the end will transfonn it into a vehicle
unconditioned by space and time.
How can we avoid energy loss and imbalance and their aftereffects and
still be able to transform our bodies? Let us examine some methods that
may fulfill these conditions.
33 The Ener gy Theory
The first is restful sleep. Normally, the human ''battery'' recharges itself
every night when you sleep. After the day's activities, thoughts, and
concentrations have depleted most of your energy, you will feel drowsy
and fall asleep, so that your body can recharge itself. Sleep relaxes the
meridiana! points of entry and exit and allows the energy of the universe to
enter all the acupu ncture points, travel through all the meridians (to be
discussed later), and reach and recharge every cell in your body. The next
morning when you awaken, your battery is recharged and your energy level
is high again. Like the battery and generator in a car, the human battery
recharges automatically-if everything is functioning as it should be. If
everything functions excellently, everything takes care of itself and you do
not have to do anything. But when you do not sleep well, the natural
processes are blocked. Then what do you do?
Another alternative can be acupuncture. Since energy supports all vital
functions associated with the body, adjusting that energy with acupuncture
regulates those functions supported by that energy. This is achieved be
cause of the antenna-like qualities of the acupuncture needles, which serve
to bring more energy into the body and make efficient use of its beneficial
properties. (An alternate form of acupuncture, called acupressure because
hands are used instead of needles, can be used to achieve similar results.)
But acupuncture has a limited range of use. It is effective only when the
problem is a lack of energy; any problem related to cell structure or liquids
will prove acupuncture useless.
Another alternative, external exercises, would not be the proper solu
tion. As explained before, external exercises hasten the aging process and
energy depletion, and they offer no means for recover ing the energy lost.
Only the three categories of Internal Exercises meet the dual require
ments of preservation and transformation. Through the Internal Exercis es,
diseases of the body can be eliminated by readjusting the ener gy imbalance
that is the unseen cause of the apparent dysfunction, and self -healing,
which is the natural result of doing these exercises on a regular basis, is
guaranteed. The ways the Internal Exercises preserve the interna l organs to
preserve health and youth will grad ually unfold in the following chapters,
as well as the ways the Internal Exercises generate and utilize the high er
order of energy to awak en the spiritual center of the body. By learning
the Internal Energizing Exercises we are thus able to gain cont rol over the
vast energy upon which life depends. We can then use this energy to heal
ourselves as well as others. and insure our con tinuin g heal th and spiritual
growth.
34 3
The Circulation Theory
The circulatory system of the human anatomy is in many respects a
transportation system. Oxygen fixated upon red blood cells in the lungs is
transported in the bloodstream to every cell in the body. The wastes
eliminated by cells are conveyed thr ough the bloodstrea m to the excretory
system, which excretes the wastes but saves the blood cells for further
utilization. Nutrients are also conveyed from the intestine to the cells
through the bloodstream.
When circulation of the blood is impeded, the body is besieged by
problems. Upon the delay of nutrients or oxygen, cells die from the lack of
sustenance. Upon the impediment of blood flow, efficiency of cellular
waste elimination is greatly reduced. And upon the accumulation of waste
matter due to cellular dysfunction, health problems develop.
This would lead some people to conclude that increasing the rate of
circulation will decrease the chances of problems developing inside the
body. The method that comes to most people's minds as appropria te for The Circulation Theory
accelerating the circula tion is exercise-external exerc ise. Acc elerating
the circula tion through the acceleration of the heart by external exerc ise
seems logical, when one brings into


 to show the value of raw foods in the treatment of this disease.
   Other physicians and scientists who have studied the raw
diet in relation to therapeutic uses are D. C. Hare, J. F.
Kinderheilk, W. Heupe, I. Kanai, and M. Kuratsune. Dr.
Hare, of the Royal Free Hospita l in England, placed arthritic
patients on an exclusive raw diet for two weeks followed by a
predominantly raw diet for several weeks. Most of the
patients began to feel better within one to four weeks, with marked im
provement continuin g thereafter. Kinderheilk found the raw diet to be of value in avitaminosis, nephritis,
diabetes, and chronic constipation. In cases of cardiac disease
he noted that it promoted the excretion of superfluous water
and was thus helpful to the patients. Dr. Heupe, working at the University Medical Polyclinic in Frankfurt, reported the
diet to aid in the treatment of  diarrhea of children, in heart
and kidney diseases, and in obesity and diabetes. Kanai, of
the University of Berlin, studied the effect of raw and cooked
vegetarian diets on the oxidation of the body. He noted that oxidation was impaired by cooked vegetarian foods. On the
raw diet the urinary output of nitrogen was greater, indicating
better absorption, and the weight increase was better. Dr.
Kuratsune, of Kyushu University, Japan, also tested raw and
cooked vegetarian diets, and reported results were decidedly better on the raw regime. Heated vegetables tended to
produce anemia, which was cured when raw vegetables were
eaten. Other diseases, which had failed to yield to
conventional medical care, responded favorably to the raw diet.
   The sum total of all human experience with raw foods has
thus been remarkably successful. As in the case with animals, the efficiency of physiological function within the body, as
well as the proportion of both infectious and degenerative
diseases, appears to correspond to a large degree with the
relative quantity of raw and cooked foods in the diet. In the
case of raw and heated milk the evidence is especially conclusive, particularly with reference to the growth and bone
and dental development of children. In the clinics and
sanitariums of the world, where a raw food diet has been employed, evidence of the value of all types of raw foods has
been obtained, and the raw diet is found to be of definite
therapeutic value in the treatment of many common diseases.
Its value in this capacity is most pronounced, as it is
associated with no adverse side-effects, which so frequently follow the use of conventional medical treatments.

        7
RAW FOOD IN LIMITATING
CIRCUMSTANCES
AFTER ALL that has been said, it may seem that raw food
constitutes the perfect nutriment of man. But in spite of the very great advantages of raw food, there is the question of
possible disadvantages. Seldom in science is there a principle
or practice which is never contra-indicated under any circumstances. The use of raw food, valuable as it is, does
have its limiting qualifications. It is important that these be
recognized if we are to view  this subject on a strictly
scientific basis.

F
OOD PRESERVATION
   Among other things, cooking is a method of preserving
foods. As such it has played an important and necessary role
in human history. Until recently, the public food supply was often seasonal and uncertain. When food was available, it
could not all be consumed at once in its raw state. Much of
the food had to be preserved for a later day. Drying and salting were two methods of accomplishing this. Cooking was
another. Often all three methods were combined, particularly
as applied to the preservation of meat. Canning, which was
associated with a long cooking process, developed later and
permitted people to keep fruits, vegetables, and meats indefinitely. Cooking was important in helping to preserve
certain foods because it destroyed the enzymes which
otherwise would bring about rapid biological change.
Cooking has thus played an essential role in human history by
stabilizing the food supply, though in the modern world,
where more practical methods  of food preservation are
available, it ceases to be of importance for this purpose.

H
EAT- LABILE POISONS
   Nature is a storehouse of  plant poisons. Through thousands
of years of trial and error, man has identified and avoided
these, selecting the non-poisonous products of nature for use
as human food. Wild animals, in their own way, have done
the same. However, in rare cases the poisons of plant or animal tissue are heat-labile
, and the process of cookin g can render the food available for human nourishment by
destroying such poisons as may be present.
   A number of foods of this type may be given mention. First
is the acorn. This food is found in both sweet and bitter
varieties. The former are satisfactory in their raw state, but
the bitter acorns contain tannin, which is removed by washing acorn meal in hot water or boiling water. Likewise with the
cassava root, the sweet varieties are perfectly innocuous and
may be eaten raw as a table vegetable, but the bitter cassava
root contains poisonous hydrocyanic acid, which must be
dissipated by heat before the root can be used as food. Cottonseed meal contains a toxic pigment, gossypol, which is
destroyed by heat treatment. The little known cynad nuts of
Australia are toxic in their raw state, but through prolonged
soaking and cooking, the poison is removed from the flour of
the nut. Young brakefern shoots are poisonous when raw, but safe for human consumption when cooked. The raw cashew
nut is surrounded by two shells, between which is found a
strong and blistering brown oil which must be dissipated by
heat before the nut can be safely extracted. Untreated raw soy
beans contain a toxic anti-enzyme which tends to block protein digestion and cause some impairment in the growth of
experimental animals. This substance is destroyed by heat or
it can be removed by soaking raw soybeans 24 to 48 hours in
an ice box or refrigerator with three or four changes of water.
The anti-enzyme is washed out into the water, which is then
discarded.
   Animal food can also contain heat-labile poisons. Certain
uncooked fish, including clams, mussels, cockles, shrimp,
lobster, suckers, catfish, bullhead, carp, herring, and
whitefish, contain the enzyme, thiaminase, which destroys part of the B complex vitamin, thiamine, in the gastro-
intestinal tract. For this reason foxes in captivity which are
fed large amount of such fish in the raw state eventually
develop symptoms of thiamine deficiency, and trout have
been observed to suffer when feeding primarily upon carp, which are particularly rich in this enzyme. People in different
parts of the world have consumed clams, mussels, shrimp,
and herring in the raw state, but no obvious signs of
deficiency disease have appeared. Apparently humans can
tolerate some thiaminase in the diet, though as with foxes and trout, excesses are doubtless possible. The troublesome
thiaminase is destroyed by heat, and thus in conditions where
very large quantities of fish containing thiaminase are
consumed, there is some reason for cooking.
   Raw egg white contains the heat-labile substance, avidin,
which tends to destro
y the B com plex vitamin, biotin, in the body. The consumption of very large quantities of pure raw
egg white can lead to symptoms of biotin deficiency, whereas
cooked egg white may be taken without difficulty. The yolk
of the raw egg is rich in biotin, which may counterbalance the effects of avidin and account for the fact that many people
have used whole raw eggs in the diet without experiencing
difficulty. In fact, there have been reports of definite physical
benefit from using whole raw eggs, and the food has been
used successfully in the treatment of tuberculosis, rheumatism, and other diseases. H. T. Parsons found that egg
white injury in rats could be prevented by including brewers
yeast or liver (which are rich in biotin) in the diet, and other
investigators have reported its prevention when the vitamin C
intake was adequate. The presence of avidin in raw egg white does not then indicate that raw eggs can never be used, but it
does indicate that the raw white should not be used alone,
particularly in diets which are rather low in biotin and
vitamin C intake.
   The removal of heat-labile poisons from food through the
application of heat is attended by removal or destruction of
essential nutritive factors. Though cooking may dissipate the poisonous principle, it does not render the foods completely
suitable for human nourishment. The foods become non-
poisonous, it is true, but they are as defective as other cooked
products. If we must use large quantities of foods containing
strong heat-labile poisons which cannot be removed by the water-soaking process, let us apply cooking by all means. But
as long as we already have an adequate supply of healthful
non-poisonous foods, there is no necessity for using those containing the more powerful heat-labile poisons. And the
mild anti-v


•restasmuchaspossible.
•massagetheneckandshoulders.
•applyheatorcoldtorelievepain.
•seekthehelpofanosteopath,masseuror
physiotherapist.
DON'T
•liftthingsorfurtherstresstheneck.
SEEKHELPIF
•neckpainandstiffnessareaccompaniedbyfever
andanyinfection.
Strains/sprains
DO
useinternalandexternalremedies.
useanicepackontheinjuredjoint(crushedice
cubesinaplasticbagwrappedinathintowel,a
hotwaterbottlefilledwithcrushediceorapacket
offrozenpeas).
compressthejointbypressingtheicepacktothe
224•Styes DISEASESYOUCANTREATUSINGTHISBOOK
injuredpartandwrapping itfirmly(nottightly)
around.
•useanelasticbandage(availablefromchemists)as
asupporttothejointwhilehealingtakesplace.
•elevatethelimbandrestitcompletelyforaslong
aspossible.
•seekthehelpofatrainedphysiotherapist,
chiropractororosteopathassoonaspossibleafter
theinjury.
DON'T
•usethelimbfortwenty-fourhoursaftertheinjury
oruntilalltheswellinghasgonedown.
•exerciseuntilthejoint/limbhasbeenfreeofpain
fortendaysandthentakeitverygentlyandslowly
atfirst.
SEEKHELPIF
•thejointseemslooseorafunnyshape.
•youcannotusethelimborstraighten itwithina
dayoftheinjury.
•achildfallsontoanoutstretchedhandand
subsequentlyhasasorewrist;fracturestothewrist
arefairlycommonanddifficulttospot.
•thereisseverepainand/orexcessiveswelling.
Styes
DO
•taketheappropriateinternalremedy.
•applyahotcompresssoakedinCalendulaor
Hypercal®solutionfortenminuteseverytwoor
threehourstoencouragethestyetocometoa
head.
SEEKHELPIF
•visionisaffected.
•theswellingisontheinsideoftheeyelid.
•thereislethargy,feverorheadache.
•thestyedoesn'trespondtotreatmentwithin
forty-eighthours.
Sunburn/sunstroke
Ihaveincludedinternalandexternalremediestotreat
sunburn,butthebestmeasureistotakesensible
precautionstoavoiditinthefirstplace.Sunburncan
rangefromslightdiscomfort,throughweakness,
headacheandnausea,toaveryseriouscondition
(sunstroke)whichneedsurgentprofessionalatten-
tion.Keepbabiesandsmallchildrenoutofavery
strongsun-theyburnsurprisinglyeasilyanddon't
needatan!Ifthereisastrongbreezeoryouareinand
outofapool/theseatheseprecautionsaredoubly
importantasyouwillnotfeelyourselfburninguntiiit
istoolate.
PRECAUTIONS
•Useasuntancreamappropriateforyourtypeof
skin.•Limityourexposuretothesuntothirtyminuteson
thefirstday,andincreasethisbythirtyminutes
eachdayuntilyouhavebuiltupaprotectivetan.
•Wearasunhatandtakeashirttocoverup.
•Takecareoncloudydays-youwillstillburn.
•Takeextracarewherethereisreflectionfromsnow
orwater.
•Don'texerciseinunaccustomed heat.
Ifyoudogetburned,then...
DO
•taketheappropriateremedy.
•keeptheskincoolwithcoldcompressesorcool
showers.
•drinkaglassofwatertowhichhalfateaspoonof
salthasbeenadded.
•keepoutofthesununtilhealed.
SEEKHELPIF
•thereisafeverofover104°F/40°C.
•thepulseisveryfast.
•thepersonisconfusedorunconscious.
•thereisaheadache,feverornausea.
Teething
Somechildrenproduceteethwithoutanyfussor
discomfort,otherscanbeanightmarefortheirentire
teethingperiod,sufferinggreatpainandcolds,di-
arrhoea,moodswingsandsleeplessness. Ihavein-
cludedseveralremediesforthetreatmentofthese
teethingmonsters. Iftheyfailtohaveanyeffect,a
professionalhomeopathcanusuallyhelp.
DO
•keepteethingringsinthefridgesothechildhas
somethingicecoldtochewon.
•rubalittlealcoholintothegums.
DON'T
•resorttogivingyourchildPhenarganorother
sedatives.
•givetoomuchchamomileteatoyourbaby(several
bottleseveryday)asitisveryeasyforthemto
proveit(seepage17).Ifitdoeshelp,useonly
whileithasasoothingeffect.Donotgive
chamomileteaifyouhaveprescribedChamomillain
potency.
Tenniselbow
Thisinflammationcanresultfromanystrenuous
activityoftheelbow,includingknitting!Useexternal
remediestorelievesorenessandtheappropriatein-
ternalremedytopromotehealing.
DO
•restthejointasmuchaspossible.
•useasupportbandage.
DON'T
•usethearmuntiltheinjuryhashealed.
DISEASESYOUCANTREATUSINGTHISBOOK Varicoseveins•225
SEEKHELPIF
•theproblempersists;anX-raywillbeneededto
checkformoreseriousinjury,oryoumayneed
phvsiotherapy orosteopathy.
Thrush
Oral
DO
•giveliveyoghurttoachildwiththrush.
•sterilisedummies.
DON'T
•givesweeteneddrinksorfruitjuice.
•usemedicatedmouthwash-thiscandestroy
healthybacteriaandfurtherupsetthebalancein
themouth.
SEEKHELPIF
•pusformsortheinfectiondoesn'trespondto
hometreatmentwithinafewdays.
Genital
Ihaveincludedsomeremediesforthetreatmentof
acutethrushbutifthisisachronicorrecurrentprob-
lemconsultaprofessionalhomeopath.
DO
•washthegenitalsfrequentlyinwater;don'tuse
soap.
•addhalfacupofcidervinegartoyourbathwater.
•washunderwearinunscentedsoaporsoapflakes
(notdetergents),andrinsewell.
•applyliveyoghurttoeaseitchinganddiscomfort
(youcaninsertatampondippedinyoghurt.
Remembertoremoveitafteranhourorso).
•avoidsweets,sugarandalcohol.
DON'T
•usebiologicalsoappowdersforyourlaundry.
•usesoaptowashthegenitalarea.
•usebubblebathoroilinyourbathwater.
•usevaginaldeodorantsortalcumpowder.
•weartightjeansornylonunderwear,andwear
stockingsratherthantights.
SEEKHELPIF
•youhavefrequentattacks.
•pusforms.
•theinfectiondoesn'trespondtohometreatment.
TirednessseeExhaustion
Toothache
Afewinternalandexternalremediesforthereliefof
toothacheareincludedbut,asalways,prevention is
betterthancure!Goodoralhygienewithregular
brushingandflossingandahealthydietwillgoalong
waytoensuringgoodteeth.Avoidgivingchildren
fruitjuice(encouragethemtoeatfruitanddrinkplentyofwater),especiallywhengiveninabottleat
night.
DO
•haveregulardentalcheck-ups.
•askyourdentistforcompositefillingsratherthan
amalgamfillings,whichcontainmercuryandcan
causehealthproblems.
•avoidrefinedandsweetfoods.
•askyourdentistforanightguardtowearifyou
grindyourteethatnight(andconsiderwhether
youarefailingtoexpressyourangerorconfront
yourworries).
Travelsickness
Ihaveincludedseveralremediesforthisunpleasant
complaint.Onceyouhavefoundtheonethatworks
forvouremembertotakeitbeforeanyjourney.
DO'
•sipadrink(especially ifnauseaisaccompaniedby
vomiting).
•chewagingerbiscuitorapieceofcrystallised
ginger.
•sitwithyourheadbackandeyesclosedand
breathedeeply,orliedownifyoufeelveryill.
•playstorytapestodistractchildrenpronetotravel
sickness.
DON'T
•readonjourneys ifpronetoqueasiness.
•havealargemealoralcoholbeforeorduringa
journey.
•smokeinthecar.
UrticariaseeHives
Varicoseveins
Ihaveincludedremediesfortheshort-termreliefof
varicoseveins,particularlyinpregnancy.Consti-
tutionaltreatmentfromaprofessionalhomeopathwill
dealwiththeunderlyingproblem.
DO
•restandelev


 it is not the
purpose of this book to cover them all. Those who are interested can consult
my other book,
Power Botanicals and Formulas
 (available from God’s
Herbs,
www.godherbs.com
), which is a more comprehensive guide to the
chemistry and use of botanicals. There are also a multitude of books on the
market that are excellent to further your information on herbs and their uses.
Some of these are referenced for you in the Bibliography.
Unfortunately, there are also many books on herbs that are not worth the
paper they’re printed on. These books are written by so-called herbalists or
individuals who know little about the true use of each of these herbs. They
merely contain information that is referenced from other sources. Some of
them copy what the FDA says about herbs, along with the misleading
information being fed to the public from pharmaceutical companies to instill
fear in people about the use of God’s natural foods and medicines. Never fear
nature or its products. Simply learn what others have been using and doing
for hundreds of thousands of years.
Always fight to keep your right to eat and use God’s foods. Estimates are
that over 2 million deaths (some estimates as high as 5 million) occur each
year needlessly as a result of procedures and products supported by the
allopathic medical and pharmaceutical industries. Rarely do we hear of a
death from the use of herbs. When one occurs, it’s almost always from
misuse. Read … Study … Experiment … Lose the fear … Become alive
again.
MODULE 8.2Power Herbs: A Reference Guide

The following herbs are some of the best herbs you can find in the Northern
Hemisphere. As you study this section be sure to check the Glossary for
definitions of unfamiliar terms.
Alfalfa
A great alkalizer of the body.
High in chlorophyll and nutrition.
High in minerals and trace minerals.
A body cleanser.
Enhances the endocrine glandular system, especially the adrenal and
pituitary glands.
Helps eliminate retained water and carbon dioxide.
Helps with alcohol, smoking, and narcotic addiction.
Helps eliminate toxic chemicals and heavy metals (lead, aluminum,
mercury, etc.) from the body.
Bonds (chelation) to inorganic minerals for elimination.
Infection fighter and acts as a natural deodorizer.
Strengthens the body.
High in chlorophyll, helps rejuvenate the blood.
Pulls mucus (catarrh) out of the tissues.
Scientific name
:
Medicago sativ
Parts used
: Whole plant, (leaves, seeds, and flowers).
Actions
: Astringent, diuretic, nutritive.
Aloe Vera
Internally, aloe heals ulcerations and inflammation of the GI tract.
Aloe and Burdock are the “burn botanicals.” First, second, third and
fourth degree burns
all respond to aloe’s tissue-healing and rebuilding
properties.
Used as a bowel mover in heavy constipation cases. (Avoid prolonged
usage for this.)
Aloe Vera is known as the First Aid Plant. It is great for cuts, wounds,
and the like.Scientific name
:
Aloe vera linn
Parts used
: Pulp (gel) from inside leaves and powder of the leaf.
Actions
: Abortifacient (when used in high doses), alterative,
anthelmintic, anti-arthritic, antifungal, antibacterial, anti-
inflammatory antiseptic, astringent, bitter tonic, bitter, cathartic, cell
proliferant, cholagogue, decoagulant, demulcent, depurative,
emmenagogue, emollient, insecticide, laxative, nutritive, purgative,
resin stimulant, stomachic, tonic, vermifuge, vulnerary.
Astragalus
Astragalus is a tremendous cellular proliferator (strengthens cells).
I especially like this herb for its effect upon the adrenal tissues.
Astragalus is a superb immune builder, strengthening the bone marrow,
the endocrine glandular system (thymus, etc.), and the spleen.
Aids in shortness of breath.
Strengthens the nervous system.
Increases energy to cells, especially in the spleen and GI tract (stomach,
in particular).
Strengthens prolapsed conditions, e.g., uterus, stomach, intestines and
bladder.
Has mild diuretic properties and helps tone the lungs.
Brings tone and balance to tissues.
Scientific name
:
Astragalus membranaceus
Parts used
: Roots
Actions
: Anhydrotic (stops sweating), cellular proliferator, diuretic.
Bilberry
Tremendous in strengthening the vascular system (arteries, capillaries,
and veins); great for varicose veins.
Helps reduce inflammation (flavonoids) in the vascular walls, hence
reduces arteriosclerosis (obstruction of the vascular walls with lipids).
Inhibits coagulation of platelets in the blood.
Helps with edema, aids in diarrhea.
Bilberry helps tone the skin.
Helps prevent cataracts and protects eye tissue from effects of diabetes.Used in formulas to help control blood sugar levels.
A great anti-inflammatory for all tissues.
Helps to control stress and anxiety.
A great aid in night blindness or any vision weakness.
Scientific name
:
Vaccinium myrtillus
Parts used
: Leaves and fruits
Actions
: Antidiabetic effect, antidiarrheal, astringent, anti-inflammatory.
Black Cohosh
This herb stimulates estrogen receptors and has estrogenic properties
itself.
Used in female conditions where vaginal dryness, lack of menstruation,
and infertility is present. Stimulates estrogen production.
Not suited for estrogen dominant females, where excessive bleeding and
cysts, fibroids, and fibrocystic conditions exist.
Said to help loosen and expel mucus from the lungs.
Contracts the uterus and increases menstrual flow.
Said to be a tonic for the central nervous system (CNS).
Scientific name
:
Cimicifuga racemosa
Parts used
: Rhizomes, fresh and dried root
Actions
: Alterative, antiseptic, antispasmodic, anti-venomous, arterial,
astringent, cardiac
stimulant, diaphoretic, diuretic, emmenagogue,
expectorant, sedative, stomachictonic.
Black Walnut Hull
Black Walnut Hull is one of my favorite herbs for many reasons.
It’s one of nature’s most powerful antiparasitics.
It will kill microorganisms (bacterium, fungi, yeasts, etc.) to larger
parasites including all worms and flukes.
It is a cellular proliferator (strengthens cells).
It increases the oxygenation of blood cells.
It is a detoxifier used to balance sugar levels and disperse fatty materials.
Black Walnut Hull is excellent for any condition and weakness of the
body.Promotes healing of all tissues and is said to help restore tooth enamel.
Strengthens and stimulates the immune system.
Promotes lymph movement and bowel peristalsis.
Strengthens the bones (high in calcium).
Scientific name
:
Juglans nigra
Parts used
: Inner hull (can use the bark)
Actions
: Alterative (leaves) bitter, Anthelmintic (vermifuge), astringent,
cholagogue, detergent, expectorant, hepatic, laxative, mild cathartic,
purgative, tonic (fruit).
Bugleweed
A specific for the thyroid gland, especially when enlarged or when a
goiter exists.
Said to be a detoxifier, and especially valuable at removing heavy metals.
Bugleweed is said to offer protection against radiation.
Beneficial in irregular heartbeat and palpitations.
Improves thyroid and adrenal function.
Restores tooth enamel.
Possibly enhances neurotransmitters.
Also said to resemble digitalis in its actions.
Has a strengthening effect upon tissue.
Scientific name
:
Copus virginicus
Parts used
: The aerial portions of the herb
Actions
: Antigonadotropic, anti-inflammatory anti-thyrotropic,
astringent, cardiac tonic, diuretic (mild), narcotic (mild), and
sedative.
Burdock
The leaves are considered by many to be one of the top “burn healers” of
all times. This includes first, second, third and fourth degree burns.
A strong blood and liver cleanser and tonic.
Reduces swelling in the body, especially around the joints.
A great aid in detoxification.
Burdock rids the body of toxins and mucus.
Promotes urine flow and perspiration.Number one in skin conditions of all types.
Promotes kidney function and helps remove acid build-up within the
body, especially sulfuric, phosphoric and uric acids.
Scientific name
:
Arctium lappa
Parts used
: Leaves, roots and seeds
Actions
: Alterative, anti-inflammatory, antiscorbutic, aperient, astringent
(mild to medium), demulcent, depurative, diaphoretic, lipotropic,
stomachic, tonic, sedative.
Butcher’s Broom
A great circulatory herb.
Has anti-inflammatory properties (flavonoids and tannins) which help
remove plaque in the vascular system. Used in cases of phlebitis.
Tones and strengthens the vascular walls (arteries, capillaries and veins),
thus used for varicose veins, hemorrhoids and post aneurysms


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Why ? Because  today,  the Great  Law  of Life  demands  your
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of discord  act in your  world!  It is not possible!  We  have
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crees!  Can't  you  feel tonight,  as you never  did in your  Life,
Our Great  Love  for you ? Why  are We so in earnest ? and
why  do We not hesitate  to point  you  to yourself?  Because
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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


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The Bragg H ealthy Lifestyle and inspires millions to health and fitness.
See Web: www.jacklalanne.comJesus, His Disciples and All History’s
Great Spiritual Teachers Fasted
When the great city of Alexandria, Egypt was the
educational center of the world, people had to fast for
40 days before they could enter and study with the
master of that time. Jesus fasted for 40 days, and his
disciples also took long fasts. All of history’s great
spiritual teachers have had great confidence in the powerof fasting – not only to improve the physical body, but
to promote a keener spiritual understanding of the divine
power that is above us and within us. Your mental powerincreases! Prove it to yourself. See how much sharper
and more alert your mind becomes after a fast. Notice
how quickly you acquire facts... how much more yourmind absorbs and remembers what you read.29
By relieving the body of the work of digesting foods, fasting allows the system to
rid itself of toxins while facilitating hea ling.  Fasting regula rly gives your organs
a rest and helps reverse ageing process for a longer and healthier life.
“Bragg Books were my conversion to the healthy way.”
– James F. Balch, M.D., Prescription for Nutritional HealingChapter 3
The Enemy Within Our Bodies
Victor Hugo eloquently called the poison in our body
“the serpent which is in man.” While this remark is poetic,it contains even more truth than poetry. I have come to
regard autointoxication (self-poisoning) as the worst
enemy in the fight for Agelessness and Longevity. It ismind-poisoning as well as body-poisoning because, even
after the energy of the body is regained, one has a lingering
sense of the futility of all endeavors. Some are inclined tosay, “The best of life is behind me. What lies before is
brief and burdensome. So many of my friends and
relations have gone.” Others say, “My turn’s coming. I’vegot a date with the undertaker and it’s not so far off.”
These depressing thoughts can generate sad moods
and are detrimental to Agelessness and Longevity!Remember, you can make the second half of life the best.
Autointoxication itself is your health’s greatest
enemy. It’s so common and yet so rarely recognized.Those morbid moods – the worry, tensions, stresses,
frustrations, nervousness and needless anxiety – are
foreign to a healthy state. You should always beoptimistic, happy, carefree, self-confident and at peace.
Why is it that sometimes when fortune smiles her
brightest, you remain unhappy, mirthless, depressed, andungrateful? Then again when things look their bleakest,
you are amazed at your buoyancy. The purity or impurity
of your bloodstream might explain that!
I love life and want to live
120 years and more, in
prime physical condition! Each day of life is a beautiful,
priceless miracle! I want to keep it, value it, treasure itand enjoy every waking hour! I also want this for you.30
The nervous system falters and suffers when we don’t take care of our body.
Develop healthy self-esteem to generate positive lifestyle habits that
will promote more serenity, peace and love in your life. – Patricia BraggRid Yourself of Depression
The worst aspect of autointoxication is that it has
been building up for years. It takes water fasting, whole
natural foods and living a healthy lifestyle to defeat it.
When these poisons are surging through your body, youoften are pessimistic with depressed feelings. The
mockery of life comes home to you. You begin to wonder,
“Is it all worthwhile?” Then one morning you awakento find your cheery self again. Though a bit shaken up,
you have hopefully beaten off the foe. Newspapers,
magazines, TV and radio all sell products that makepromises to relieve you of that “half alive” feeling. Which
one do you take? There are no shortcuts to feeling your
best physically and mentally and looking your best.
You are punished by your bad habits of living!
You are greatly rewarded by your good habits of living!
Ageless Mother Nature will not let you get away with
abusing your body. You must pay a high price every timeyou insult your body with dead and devitalized foods.Of course, you could take drugs to deaden or stimulate
your body, but you are living in a fool’s paradise if you
think you can eat any old thing and then swallow somekind of magic pill and get away with it. You pay a dear
price every time you make a garbage can of your
stomach! Your heart and arteries suffer. Your spells ofautointoxication (self-poisoning) are shortening your
life. Each attack leaves its mark and, for this reason, it’s
something to dread. Please don’t poison your bloodstream.Learn to defend and protect yourself against all possible
autointoxication by living The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle.
Once a week make it a habit to take a complete water
fast, lasting from
24 to 36 hours. On the days you do
eat, consume only natural, organic and unpoisoned
foods. Let your mind rule your body. Flesh is dumb! Youcan feed your stomach anything. Now you are going to
use common sense and eat with new health intelligence.31
When it comes to health, nine men in ten are suicides. –  Ben FranklinUnhealthy Lifestyle & Overeating are Killers
Keep this firmly in mind: autointoxication is the
greatest enemy of vibrant health. It’s the root cause of
all major physical troubles, because illness starts in a
poisoned bloodstream. It’s the basis of most troubleswhich affect the heart, arteries, liver, kidneys and joints.
When your bloodstream, your river of life, becomes poisoned,
this has more to do with premature ageing than all othercauses combined. Keeping your blood pure, clean and
healthy is half the battle! The other killer is overloading
your stomach and digestive system, giving it a new jobbefore it has finished digesting the previous meal.
You have been taught to eat at regular times, even if
not hungry. Many, when it’s mealtime, stuff themselvesautomatically. This is wrong and scientifically outdated,
for overstuffing your body is very unhealthy!
Patricia and I took a cruise around South America
visiting
12 countries. The over-stuffed passengers started
with an early wake-up breakfast in their staterooms. Then
an hour or so later they ate in the dining room a formalbreakfast of bacon, ham, eggs, rolls, toast, jam, friedpotatoes and gallons of coffee, followed by snacks on
deck at mid-morning. Then a big buffet lunch at noon,
afternoon tea with gooey pastries at
4 pm, a big supper
at 7 pm and another big buffet at 11 pm. Sadly we buried
5 people at sea in a few short weeks! All died by
autointoxications! This kind of overeating encouragesfermentation, putrefaction, illness and death!
Life is a Slow Suicide For Many
From the cradle many begin damaging their health
while lightheartedly trimming off the years quickly atthe beginning of existence, unknowingly chopping them
off in bigger chunks at the end. Blissfully unconscious,
they burn their candles at both ends and sometimes evenin the middle! Many people suffer in poor health not
realizing that their unhealthy lifestyle habits are the
main cause of their sickness.32
Man’s days shall be 120 years. – Genesis 6:3
May nature’s force be with you! – George W. Lucas, Jr., Star WarsWhy Not Enjoy Life to 120 Years?
There is little doubt that any person born with a
sound constitution, according to health research and
Genesis 6:3, can reach the 120 year mark! Why not? There
are no diseases of old age. Now, follow me: if startingfrom childhood, you eat healthily, plus fast one day a
week and several times a year for periods of from
7 to 10
days – then how is it possible to get a fatal disease?
Children today are being fed wrong! Many mothers
don’t nurse their babies. Some lack the internal health
and vitality to produce the greatest food for their young- mothers’ milk. Their babies are bottle-fed and are given
processed baby food out of jars, all loaded with refined
white flours, sugar and dangerously full of deadly salt.The abuse of the physical machine of the modern child
is started at birth! Under these tragic circumstances,
sooner or later premature breakdown is inevitable.
If you seek enlightenment on the subject of health,
look at people around you. Every day, there are
25 million
Americans critically ill in thousands of hospitals fromcoast to coast. The 300,000 doctors are kept franticallybusy trying to patch up the desperately sick people in
our country! Over 150,000 dentists can’t do even
10%
of the dental work Americans need! A void toxic silver
mercury fillings, all fluoride water, toothpastes, gels, etc.
(see page 152). Read Bragg book Water – The Shocking Truth.
I find most children’s mouths are filled with decay
and cavities before they are 17. We are a desperately sick,
ill nation! We are brainwashed to believe we are a healthy
vital country.