How can Snuggles be so happy just after
being beaten up?”
“Milton, cats are not like humans. Snuggles can easily let go of what
happened yesterday, and he doesn't worry about tomorrow. He lives in the
Now. That's why he's happy even though not long ago Brutus was
attacking him. Most people don't live in the Now because they think of
yesterday or tomorrow most of the time. And a lot of the time they are
unhappy.”Milton paused for a moment then asked, “The Now? What does that
mean, Grandpa? What's the Now?”
“Milton?”
“Yes, Grandpa.”
“Pay attention to what's around you. Look... listen.”
Then, spreading his arms as wide as he could, Grandpa said, “This  is the
Now.”
“Oh, wow!” exclaimed Milton. “Wherever you are,” said Grandpa, “that's the Now. You just have to
pay attention.”
“Grandpa,” Milton asked, “Can you always live in the Now like
Snuggles?”
“Sometimes I can,” said Grandpa Howard, “But, no, not always.”
Just then, Milton's mom called from the kitchen. “Come and get your
breakfast, Milton, or you'll be late for school.”
Milton could feel the fear inside him start up again. After a while he said, “A boy in the sixth grade pushed me down in the
school yard-and just because my name is Milton. He's so big, Grandpa,
what if he tries to do it again?”
Grandpa, holding up his right hand, signaled with his index finger. “If
he ever tries to hurt you again, promise me you'll tell your mom or dad at
once, and you should also tell your teacher.”
“Okay, I promise,” said Milton. “When did this happen?” asked Grandpa. “Yesterday.”
“I see,” said Grandpa, “yesterday. That was When it happened. But it's
not happening now, is it?”
Milton, angry and frustrated, said, “Of course it's not happening now. But I'm worried he'll try to do it again.”
Grandpa replied, “If he does, it will be Then, won't it? You're worrying
about Then and thinking about  When. Aren't you forgetting something? Then and When are in your head. They are not here Now, are they?”
“I don't understand,” said Milton. “Then and When are in my head? What are you talking about?”
But Grandpa didn't respond. He just looked at him with deep
understanding, and smiled.His legs are wobbly and about to give way. Milton stops dead in his
tracks. What can he do? Just then, he looks to his right and sees a little door. It looks like the
entrance to some kind of store.He quickly opens the door and, to his surprise, finds himself inside the
ice-cream shop! “Ah, here you are. I've been waiting for you, Milton,” the ice-cream
lady says. “I'm being chased by a boy named Carter, and there is a big dog who
wants to hurt me, too,” Milton blurts out. “Nobody's chasi ng you, and there's no dog out there going to hurt you. It's all in your head.”
“No, it isn't,” says Milton. “They're out there waiting for me.”
“Sit down, honey. Let me show you something,” says the ice-cream
lady. “The new sundae-of-the-month... choco-cadabra?”
“No, it's something even better,” she replies. She reaches under the counter and takes out a ball of glowin g white
light on an ice-cream dish. Milton has a strange feeling that the light is
alive. “That's no ice cream,” says Milton. “What is it?”
“It's a light bubble, honey. Isn't it beautiful?”
Right then, the light bubble goes “POP” and bursts into a shower of
sparkles. Milton is left staring at the empty dish.“Oh no, it's gone,” says Milton. “No it isn't,” says the ice-cream lady. “The light just doesn't like to be
looked at, so now it's hiding. See if you can find it.”
Milton looks all around the room. But no matter how hard he looks, he
can't see any light bubble. Suddenly, he notices a strange noise like a little
electric engine. Purrr -purrr. Purrr -purrr....
That sounds like... Snuggles, of course! There he is, sitting on the
counter with his eyes half closed, purring blissfully. What's he doing in the
ice-cream shop anyway? For a moment, Milton thinks he sees a glow coming from  inside
Snuggles, and he asks the ice-cream lady, “Is the light bubble hiding in
Snuggles?”
“Well done,” she says. “But the light is not a bubble anymore. It's just
light. And the cat is purring because he can feel it, and it feels good. “Where else is the light hiding?” she then asks, as she smells the flower
on the counter. Milton sees a tiny glow in and around the flower. “Is it...?” he starts.“Yes, it is,” the ice-cream lady interrupts. “The light is in the flower,
too. That's why it's so beautiful. Anywhere else?”
Milton looks into her big, brown eyes. “Your eyes are so bright,” he says. “I think the light is in you, too.”
“You're right, honey. You see, the light is in everything, always. It gives
life to everything.”
Milton looks down at this body. “What about me? I can't see any light
inside me.”
“No, you can't see it in yourself, but you can always feel it.”
“I can?” asks Milton. “Sure, it's easy. Let me ask you a question: Are you alive?”
“Of course, I'm alive,” says Milton. “Are you just saying that, or can you actually feel that you are alive?”
“What do you mean?” asks Milton. “Start with your hands. Can you feel the light inside them?”Milton closes his eyes for a moment. “I'm getting a tingly feeling inside
my hands.”
“That's it,” says the ice-cream lady. “You're feeling the light. Can you
feel it in your feet, too?”
“Yes, I can.”“Your arms and legs?”
“Yes.”
“Can you feel the light inside your whole body?”
“My whole body feels kind of warm and tingly.”
Milton looks around the room. “Everything looks a bit different, too. Just like when my grandpa was talking to me about the Now.”
“That's right, Milton. Grandpa showed you the outside of the Now. And
this shows you the inside.”
“The inside of the Now?” asks Milton. “Yes, when you feel the light inside your body, you are in the Now. And
you're not scared anymore. The light helps you feel strong.”
“Really?” says Milton. “That's great.”
“And now that you know what it's like, you can feel the light inside you
whenever you want to.”
“Oh, that's double great!” exclaims Milton. “Let's keep the inside of the Now a secret just between the two of us,
okay? Most people are not ready to understand this.”
“No problem,” Milton replies.“No problem. No problem,” Milton was still murmuring to himself
when he woke up from his dream and found himself in his warm bed. He opened his eyes. The half-moon was casting its pale light on his bed. The tree in the yard
outside his wind ow was very still. Only a few leaves moved in the breeze. There was the noise of a car passing by... then it was still again. Even now he could feel the tingling inside his whole body. For no reason at all, Milton felt happy.But on the school bus that morning, Milton started thinking and
worrying again, and he felt scared of going to school. Then he remembered what the ice-cream lady had told him in the
dream. “Feel the light inside your body, and you won't be scared
anymore.”
Milton decided he had nothing to lose by trying it out. So he did. There
was that tingling  again in his hands, and then in his feet... then he couldfeel the light inside his whole body again. Now I am in the Now, thought Milton. It feels good to be in the Now. That afternoon in class, Milton raised his hand and asked to go to the
bathroom. Mrs. Fer guson smiled and nodded her head.Milton was washing his hands in the bathroom and enjoying the feel of
the cool water when the cubicle door behind him opened, and someone
stepped out. Milton glanced in the mirror and saw the figure of a big boy
looming behind him. The boy looked at himself in the mirror for a
moment, paying no attention to Milton. How unhappy he looks, thoug ht Milton. Then suddenly, oh no! He
realized the boy was Carter. Carter gave the short hair on his head a rub with both hands, put on his
cocky face, and walked out of the bathroom. He's unhappy, so he wants to make others unhappy, too, thought  Milton. But I'm not going


 back up, and then go into self
hatred, blame, guilt, and even suicidal depression,
which can become very severe. What really happens
in this type of situation? I observed that when a per
son sits down to eat, it is only the adult within who
wants to take off the weight, and it is really the 'inner
child' who is always hungry. 348 HEALING AND RECOVERY
In the past, Dr. Eric Berne, author of Games People
Play and creator ofTransactional Analysis, along with
other people in that field, talked about our 'child',
'adult', and 'parent' tapes that are like three voices
within us. One is the desirous child; one is the adult
who is rational, intelligent, and educated; and one is
the parent who tends to be punitive and moralistic. The parent tape is the one that tells us about right
and wrong.When we sit down at the table or walk to
the refrigerator, the adult within goes unconscious
and the child takes over. What does a child know about diet, weight, and
calories? Nothing. Theconsciousness ofthechildis,"I
want, I satisfy, and I get," so we go to the refrigerator
without realizing we are in a different state of con
sciousness, one in which the child is dominant. So
who is poking around in the refrigerator? The child is. Who is ordering a second hot fudge sundae or having
a second helping of potatoes and gravy? The child. After we indulge the child without realizing what is
going on, when the meal is over, the child leaves. It
has had its fill, and then who takes its place? The par
ent does who then says,"How could you have been so
stupid? Why did you have seconds? So did you have a
piece ofpie? Why did you put ice cream on top of the
pie? I mean, think of the calories.You are really stupid
and weak; you don't have any will power.You are no
good; your self-worth is rotten." At this point, we are subjected to the inner angry
parent who is blaming us. Blaming whom? Blaming
the inner child.Where has the adult been all this time? It has been silenced. The adult was notthere at meal349 LOSING WEIGHT
time or after mealtime. The child and the parent have
taken over the whole eating program, which is natural
because that is where the eating patterns get set up in
the first place.They get set up with the child, and who
is sitting next to the child but the parent? So the child
alternates with the parent in running the whole eating
pattern. In order to counteract this, we have to be aware
that the pattern is running. Just to be aware ofit begins
to change it. Now we can make a note to ourself, put
it on the table or the refrigerator, and consciously call
forth our adult and tell the child,"This is the place for
an adult now because my adult is very conscious ofits
eating." My adult knows about calories, diets, and
healthy eating patterns. I consciously call forth my
adult to be here at this meal. I say, "The adult me is
here now" and consciously reject the presence of the
child. Because the overindulgence does not happen,
when the meal is fmished, my adult stays there. No
parent comes in to blame me for what has been done. It does not take self-control or resisting anything;
it just takes being aware. When we sit down, we say
hello to our adult and be conscious. Just as we sit
down at the dinner table, we watch the kid come up
in us. I have watched myself do this. "Oh, look at who
is there at the table. Oh, wow! Look at the pile of
mashed potatoes! Look at the gravy!" Just watch peo
ples' faces when they sit down at the table and we see
who is 'up' in them. We see the eyes pop open and
watch the pupils of the eyes get very large. If that is
not a five-year-old kid, then I never saw one. We may see a serious-looking businessman walk 350 HEALING AND RECOVERY
into a restaurant with his briefcase. He goes through
the cafeteria line and then sits down. Now, watch his
face as he puts his napkin in front of him. He picks up
his napkin-somebody else is already there! There is
the kid all ready to have a good time! Of course, after
the man gets up to leave, now we instantly see, "Oh, I
ate too much." Now who is there? Look at the frown
as the man is berating himself as he walks out of the
restaurant. In his mind, he is counting all the calories. He just ate 3,850 calories for dinner, and his doctor
told him he is supposed to have only 900 calories a
day. He figures he cannot eat until next Tuesday now
and wonders how is he going to survive. We can break out of this self-defeating pattern just
by being aware. Make a little sign for the refrigerator
doorthat says,"Adults Only. "Be conscious; be aware of
who is there.We will fmd that the adult enjoys the eat
ing very much, too, but just does not go crazy so easily. It is important to avoid a fluctuating blood sugar
level as much as possible when first initiating this
program because, in the unconscious mind, a drop in
blood sugar is often associated with hunger and hun
gry feelings. For example, ifwe eat a hot fudge sundae
on an empty stomach, the blood sugar shoots up,
adrenaline and insulin pour out, and the blood sugar
tends to drop rapidly. Behaviorally, in the past, this has
been associated with feeling hungry, but we are not
actually hungry. The stomach is still full. We have
more calories in us than we need, but it is the rapid
ity and the degree of the drop in this blood sugar
from where it was previously that triggers the sensa
tion of hunger again. 351 LOSING WEIGHT
It is much easier when initiating this program to
stay on a high-protein diet as much as possible
because then the blood sugar tends to stay relatively
level.We avoid those sudden drops that give the feel
ing that we want to eat something right away, there
fore making it a little easier on ourself.The point is to
avoid suffering in all its forms. We do not want to
experience suffering in any kind of program because,
otherwise, it is not going to work. Counting calories
and depriVing ourselfis setting up a form of suffering. What happens then is unconscious-we get satisfied
'and the over-indulgence sets up guilt. Then we diet,
which is sort of self-punitive, by going on bread and
water like a prisoner for a certain period oftime.After
we have punished ourself sufficiently for all the
overindulgence in the past, the guilt disappears and
the old habitual eating pattern returns. We want to
eliminate the imbalance of extremes of overindul
gence, feeling guilty, going into a self-punitive bread
and-water diet-first swinging to the overeating and
overindulgence, and then swinging into the guilt and
self-punitive deprivation. Deprivation is not the way to happiness, nor is
overindulgence. It is preferable to use consciousness
techniques to transcend them and be in the middle of
the two so that we are over and above the problem,
with the adult there to take over. This makes it easy
and enjoyable. It is really delightful to realize that we
have just handled and transcended something in just
a matter of minutes that has plagued us our whole
lifetime. The first day I tried thiS, I think I spent about forty352 HEALING AND RECOVERY
five minutes sitting down and handling those sensa
tions; the second day, maybe twenty minutes; the third
day, maybe ten minutes; and the fourth day, maybe
four minutes. Since that time, I do not think I have col
lectively spent an hour using the technique over
many years. One can start a stopwatch, sit down, use
this technique, and hit the stopwatch again when the
hunger feeling is gone. One probably would not col
lect more than an hour over a ten-year period of time,
so there certainly is not much effort needed or suffer
ing to be experienced. No will power is involved; willingness is being
used instead because it is a positive, powerful energy
at level 310. Using will power means resistance,
which is a negative energy field with a weak power of
only 125. Instead, we use willingness and acceptance,
which lead to happiness that calibrates closer to 500. We end up being joyful and feeling great about our
selves. The body becomes pleasing, and we begin to
experience it in a happy way. Another way to increase the rapidity of the effect
of this is by watching our activities. Exercise is great,
but how many mornings are we going to get up and
do calisthenics? No matter how attractive the person
is on television, we are just going to do this a certain
number of times, and by the fourth day, the enthusi
asm


 impact on our physical
processes and above all on the immune system, that all-important tool of the healing journey. A
hopeful, trusting, determined state of mind strengthens immune competence; fear, despair, anger
and negativity weaken it. There is also the harmful effect of stress, keeping the entire organism in
a state of high tension. Yet the body, that wonderful organism with its own intelligence, only
functions well when it is relaxed, free from tension and able to follow its inner rules and rhythms. Obviously, the Gerson program will also work best for the relaxed, unstressed patient. After all,
it is not enough to eat the best possible food and drink the most health-giving juices—they also
have to be digested and absorbed properly, and it is no secret that anxiety and worry can wreak
havoc with the digestion. Keeping mind and emotions on an even keel, banishing stress and fear must be part of the
Gerson patient’s daily routine. Fortunately there are some simple, enjoyable methods that make
this possible. In this chapter we present a full range. Please try them and see which suit you
best. Minding the Body
Posture  can have a huge impact on how we feel, just as how we feel is often betrayed by our
posture. When we are happy, we walk on air. When miserable, head goes down, shoulders move
up, back curves forward and slumps, all of which compresses our innards and adds to the gloom. And that will never do. Learn to keep your spine straight, but not rigid, both standing and sitting. (Please freeze for
a moment and check what your spine is doing.) Sit with both feet on the ground and don’t cross
your legs; doing so impedes the circulation and twists the spine. Walk from the hips and avoid
leaning forward, as if you were pushing a grocery cart– you can’t get ahead of yourself! Think of
your head as the hook of a coat hanger, with your body hanging from it loosely and comfortably. The shoulders are a particularly tension-prone part of the body: they tend to move forward and
up, whenever we feel stressed, as if wanting to protect the chest. A side effect of this unconscious
move is that anxious people seem to have short necks. In the memorable words of a yoga teacher,
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www.thegersonway.comMake sure your shoulders are where they belong. Stand up straight, draw both shoulders
up as far as they will go, right up to the earlobes—and then drop them, as if they had become
redundant. Where they land is their natural position. Please memorize it for future use. It is also
helpful to keep your neck supple and relaxed (and make it longer!) by regular exercise. Turn your
head slowly from left to right and back; drop your head gently forward and backward, keeping
your lower jaw loose; rotate your head first clockwise, then counter-clockwise, repeating each
movement five times. If at any time you feel you are tensing up and no one can see you, imagine
that you are a rag doll in a strong breeze, and move accordingly
Hands are also tension-prone. They tend to curl into fists as soon as we feel anxious or
angry. In old Westerners you could tell that things were getting dangerous when the hero’s
knuckles turned white. Actually anybody’s knuckles can turn white from fear, and this is what
needs to be avoided. Train yourself to keep your fingers splayed when your hands are at rest. That
prevents the tensing up of the arms, which would lead to further tension rushing through the body. If at first you fail and all you have is fists, imagine that you have washed your hands and have no
towel, so that you need to shake both hands vigorously from the wrists. As you do that, feel the
tension dropping away from your fingertips. Last but far from least, breathing deserves our full attention. Breath is the basic condition
of life. We can live for quite a while without food and for a much shorter time without water, but
life without breath ends in a few moments. Yet most of us neglect this vital function, until we
learn otherwise and switch from shallow to deep abdominal breathing. This way, routinely used
by singers, speakers, practitioners of yoga and athletes, boosts the body’s oxygen intake and has
a calming effect. The method is simplicity itself. With each in-breath push out your stomach, so
that the breath can fill your lungs to full capacity. With each out-breath, pull in your stomach hard,
squeezing out the stale air. Find your own rhythm and practice this method several times a day,
until it becomes your natural way of breathing. If at first it is a bit difficult, imagine that in your
abdomen there is a beautiful balloon, which you inflate with each in-breath and deflate by letting
out the air. You will be surprised what a difference better breathing makes to your well-being. Matters of the Mind
Your mental attitude can be your best ally—or your worst enemy, and the same applies to
your imagination, depending on how you use it. Positively used, your thoughts and ideas can help
you to re-program your entire outlook, your moods and feelings, so that they promote health and
healing, instead of dragging you down.. Energy follows thought! There are several ways to achieve the best possible state of mind. All of them depend on your
ability to relax as fully as possible, so that no tension interferes with what you are trying to do. The simplest way is to lie on your back on a comfortable but not too soft surface, with your hands Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author.Page 175Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comloosely resting by your sides. Close your eyes. Start breathing slowly, deeply, from the abdomen. With each in-breath imagine drawing in brilliant light, which fills you with peace, strength and
energy. With each out-breath imagine releasing all tiredness, tension, pain or anxiety in the shape
of dirty dark smoke. Let your head and your body become very heavy, so that the floor carries
your weight. Check through your body, starting with your toes and working your way up to the
top of your head, for traces of tension or stiffness, and release them. Make sure your jaw is relaxed
and your tongue lies easy against your upper palate. And now just stay with this feeling of peace,
release and relaxation for a little while. This basic letting go is the key to all kinds of inner work, including meditation, prayer,
visualization and affirmations. Practised at least twice a day, free from disturbance, noise and
interruptions, it will make a great difference to your mental state, which in turn will affect your
body. Meditation is a simple way to still the ever-busy brain and enter a place of profound stillness
and peace, which for a short while lets us escape from everyday reality. It needs practice—the
brain is hard to discipline and keeps bringing in thoughts, fragments of ideas and all kinds of
mental rubbish. At first you may find that even thirty seconds of stillness is quite an achievement,
but don’t give up: there are ways to improve the situation. One is to get hold of intruding thoughts, identify them, then imagine tying a big balloon to
each one and watch them float away. Another one is to improve concentration by counting from
one to four, seeing in your mind’s eye the numbers, shining bright and beautiful against a dark
curtain, and repeat the counting ten times. You can also place a clock at eye level and fix your
entire attention to the second hand going round and round and round, so that nothing else matters. Gradually—but it needs perseverance—you’ll find it easier to achieve spells of thought-free
awareness, leading to an extraordinary sense of restfulness and peace. Also, switching off the brain for a little while enables us to hear our so-called inner voice, the
voice of intuition and wisdom. Whatever our belief system, whether or not we are religious, we
all have an inner life and a set of values by which we live. Often it is at a time of crisis, caused
by a serious health breakdown, that we turn inward and review our position in life. Naturally,
Gerson patients are totally free to choose their own way in this field: we are all different and must
respect our differences. But it is the experience of many doctors, counsellors and other health
professionals that patients who believe in a Higher Reality, who are able to pray and put their faith
in God, fare better than those who don’t. Prayer, coming from the heart, with trust in the ultimate
rightness of things, can be a great support on the rocky path of recovery. Visualization uses the imagination to re-program not only the mind but to a certain extent the
body as well. It works through images, by-passing the thinking-talking brain, and those images
come from the same deep area of the psyche as the ones we meet in our dreams. The purpose of
visualization is to prescribe, so to speak, what we want to achieve: defeating disease, rebuilding


 You are learning the power of raw
foods and their effects on tissue. Now it is time to put these factors together
and examine proper food combinations. According to the American Dietetics Association, it doesn’t matter how
we combine our foods, as long as we eat proteins, carbohydrates, and some
fat at each meal. This philosophy is ridiculous and unscientific, and we have
all suffered with gas, bloating and acidosis as a result. Chemistry does not
support this approach. As a matter of fact, chemistry becomes our friend
when we look into proper food combinations. For a diabetic, particularly, it is
vital to follow proper food combinations if he or she wants to regulate blood
sugars. Many great books have been written about proper food combinations,
and I would suggest studying a little about this important subject. (See:
Food
Combining Made Easy
 by Herbert Shelton, and
Proper Food-Combining
Works
 by Lee DuBelle.) Chemistry tells us that when we combine a base (or alkalie) with an acid,
they neutralize each other. Fermentation and putrefaction then become the
digesters, instead of digestive enzymes. This causes improper food
breakdown and many unwanted chemical changes, all leading to
malabsorption, acidosis and cellular starvation. Protein-dominating foods
when mixed with starches fall into this category.The two most important food-combination tips are, first, to never mix
proteins (acid foods) with carbohydrates (alkaline foods), and second, to
separate your consumption of fruits or melons from any other type of food. These two tips will be discussed in more detail below. If you observe proper food combinations you will end the acid
regurgitation, ulcerations, bloating and gas commonly caused by violating
these natural rules. Keep in mind that the fewer types of foods you combine,
the better the digestion of your foods will be. If I ask you to think of ten
different things at the same time you would become confused, as the mind
can attend fully to one thing at a time. Remember this when you are planning
to eat ten different foods at one meal. Simplicity is always best. It’s not
how
much
 you eat, but whether you can digest, absorb, utilize and eliminate what
you have eaten. Keep your diet simple and keep your life simple. Be happy when you eat. Never eat when you’re angry or upset, as this causes elevated stomach acids
that can neutralize your digestive efforts and create acidosis. Relax and enjoy
what you are eating. Chew your foods well, as the first stage of digestion
takes place in your mouth. Try not to drink with your meals, as this only
dilutes or neutralizes your digestive enzymes. THE TWO MOST IMPORTANT FOOD-COMBINING TIPS

Do Not Combine Proteins (acid) and Carbohydrates (alkaline)
In chemistry we learn that we cannot combine acid digestive enzymes with
alkaline digestive
enzymes because they will normally neutralize each other,
causing proper digestion to stop and putrefaction and fermentation to begin. Carbohydrates begin their digestive process in the mouth with amylase,
ptyalin and other alkaline digestive enzymes. Protein-type foods, including
meat and nuts, start their digestive process in the lower stomach with the
release of HCL (hydrochloric acid), which in turn releases pepsin. These
substances are both acidic in nature. When a predominant starch combines in the stomach with a predominant
protein, you have a clash. You know this by the bloating and the full feeling
you get after you eat a meal like this. Fermentation of sugar creates alcohol. This alcohol can stimulate or decrease our energy levels, cause over-acidity,mucus congestion, protein toxicity and inflammation of the tissues. The liver,
pancreas and adrenal tissues get hit the hardest. It is difficult for diabetics to
regulate their blood sugars eating this way. Separate Your Fruits or Melons from All Other Foods
Fruits and melons digest very quickly. When combined with foods that digest
slowly, their sugars are held up in the stomach. This results in the
fermentation of the undigested sugar, which then yields alcohol. This alcohol
from fermentation of food sugars raises blood alcohol levels and has even
caused plane crashes, car wrecks and DWI arrests. Make a whole meal of fruits or melons by themselves. These are high
energy and cleansing meals that are very important to the detoxification
process. There are many other important concepts in proper food combinations,
such as, “Don’t combine two different types of proteins at the same meal,” or
“Certain fruits can combine with certain proteins.” The subject can be quite
vast, and the details are beyond the scope of this book. For more information
see the recommended books listed above. The simpler you eat, the better it is for your digestive processes. The
better your food breaks down, the more energy you will have. The following
chart provides an overview of proper (and improper) food combinations. Simple Food Combining

MODULE 7.4The Detox Miracle Menus

I created the following dietary program after thirty years of clinical and
personal use. I call it the “Detox Miracle Diet” because I have seen it heal and
rebuild tissue for thousands of people. I also call this “God’s Rainbow Diet”
because it consists of all colors of fruits and vegetables. Each food and its
color feeds, energizes and heals the body in its own special way. Fruits feed
the brain and nervous system, whereas vegetables feed the muscles and
skeletal system. Nuts and seeds are structural foods. The more raw, uncooked and unprocessed food you eat, the more vital
you become. Challenge your self-discipline. Try a 100 percent raw food
program, which is to say, nothing cooked. It makes a huge difference in the
level of vitality you can achieve. One should at least consider eating 80
percent raw foods and 20 percent cooked. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you begin this process:
1
. I do not recommend any kind of animal products at all, due to their huge
toxicity and acidic factors. They cause disease instead of rebuilding your
body. If you are going to eat meat, you should not eat it more than three
times a week, and only at lunch. This will allow the bulk of the digestive
process, which is acidic, to take place. Some believe that the body
doesn’t produce hydrochloric acid after 2:00
P.M. I personally have
never seen any scientific evidence to support this theory. However, light
alkaline meals in the evening will give you more energy, better sleeping,
and better healing potential. 2
. Never eat meat with a starch. If you enjoy that heavy feeling, I suggest
you replace meat with a baked potato. You can use real butter, or natural
oils like olive oil, but no salts, sour cream or cheese. A baked sweet
potato would be preferable to an ordinary potato. 3
. If you just want something hot, I would suggest a cup or bowl of
homemade vegetable soup (no tomatoes), steamed vegetables, or stir-fry
vegetables, along with a salad. (See our recipe section at the end of this
chapter for various soups you can make.) 4
. Demand organic, vine-ripened foods that are chemical-free and
irradiation-free. We cannot allow the destruction of our foods or we will
all die. In a world where cancer is soon to be in every other person, it is
time for every individual to stand up and take charge of their own health.No one else will. 5
. The focus for the first two or three months of detoxing should be on
low-protein, or “no-protein” type foods. This includes avoiding meat,
beans and nuts. Nuts, of course, are your best source of amino acids, and
would be my choice if you felt that you needed this type of food. ONE DAY AT A TIME FOR FIVE DAYS

Take each day as it comes. Try to eat all raw fruits and vegetables that day. The next day, try again. Keep trying each day until you have eaten all raw,
uncooked fruits and vegetables for five days straight. Feel the difference
between all raw and just some cooked foods. The difference is like night and
day. Some days you may only want to eat fruits, which is great. Fruits have
the greatest cleansing power of all foods. Their high energetics makes them
an unmatched nerve and brain food. Another method I’ve found to be successful is to eat all raw foods from
Monday through Friday. Then on Saturday and/or Sunday, if you must, have
your cooked vegetables with rice, etc. Get a cycle going for yourself. Your
body loves cycles. It loves habit. It actually depends and functions better on
routine. As time goes on you may want to incorporate some fasting into your
program. This will accelerate the detoxification process. Give fasting your
best shot. The longer you last, the healthier you will get. Recondition yourself
by retraining your eating habits. I designed this menu in our “Getting Healthy” program to be easy and yet
effective. Enjoy the clean feeling and the sense of vitality that raw foods
offer. You will never regret this journey into vibrancy, longevity and
spirituality. HOW MUCH FOOD AND HOW OFTEN? There has always been the question of: “How much and how often should a
person eat?” It is my personal opinion that we should eat only one-to-three


the body to heal itself – but that force is not independent ofthe belief system. Everything begins with believing. What webelieve is the most powerful option of all. – Norman Cousins107Mucus Shows Up in the Urine when Fasting
The urine test shows the amount of mucus the
average human carries within their bloodstream. Take a
3 day fast. Eat absolutely
nothing and drink onlylarge amounts of distilled
water – from
 2 to 3 quarts
a day. Every morning ofthe fast, take a sample of
the first urine you pass
on awakening, put it ina labeled bottle and place
it on a shelf to cool and
settle. In a few days thisurine will show a heavy
cloud of mucus. The
longer you keep theurine, the more toxins
and mucus are revealed. A regular weekly
24 hour fast will help rid your body of
large amounts of mucus and toxins. Some of these toxinshave been circulating in your body for years. In winter, most people eat more heavy, concentrated
foods – such as refined flour products: pancakes, waffles,sugared cereals, doughnuts, rolls, breads, flour gravies,
biscuits, cakes, pies and refined pastas – the body then
becomes so loaded with mucus that it forces the VitalForce to create a cleansing crisis – a cold, flu, etc. A fever
is produced by your Vital Force to help burn up and
flush out the heavy concentrations of mucus. The lungs,nose and throat pour out the mucus through coughing,
sneezing, spitting and nose-blowing. Few humans realize
what a cleansing holocaust the body goes through! The body is a miracle self-purifying instrument! As
long as the body has enough Vital Force to eliminate
toxins such as mucus, it will work with all its energy torid and purify the body. What do humans think about
this crisis? They get feverish. A fever is your body’s
cleaner, a true natural phenomenon of Mother Natureand acts as her incinerator to burn up the toxins. The Urinary System108Winter Miseries? Or Body Cleansing? The uninformed man will tell you that he is suffering
this winter misery because he got his feet wet! Or he
will say that a draft blew on him and he didn’t get hiscoat on in time. These are unscientific and weak excuses. Winter miseries, colds, flu, etc. are Mother Nature’s
internal self cleansing and purification blessings to helpyou get the mucus and toxins out and get healthy! I have proven over and over that you can’t catch
colds. In the early years I was associated with BernarrMacfadden, the father and founder of the Physical
Culture Movement. He organized a group of people
known as the Polar Bears. Every weekend and holidayin the frigid winter, we would meet at the Coney Island
Beach in New York to frolic and exercise. Then we
would all plunge into the icy water of the Atlantic Ocean. Did I ever see one of the winter bathers ever have
the sniffles? Never! People would come to Coney Island
bundled up in heavy overcoats, mufflers, sweaters and
flannel underwear to stand on the boardwalk, staring at
us swimming and splashing around in the icy water.They were the people who had the sniffles, not the Polar
Bears – who believed in eating a healthy mucusless
diet, exercising outdoors and swimming in icy waters. Today I belong to two fine organizations who swim
all year long at Coney Island, New York – the Polar Bears
and the Icebergs. These two clubs are made up of menand women who are cold water swimmers. I also belong
to the Winter Bathers Club (The Boston Brownies) who
are headquartered at the “L” Street Bath House. Here isanother group of people who prove that you can swim
and expose yourself to the most frigid weather and still
never have a sniffle, a chill, a fever or other reactionsfrom exposure to cold weather. I live in California where
the Pacific Ocean drops down to
50 degrees in winter. If
I am not away on a lecture tour, you can count on me totake my cold water swims at the beach not far away. Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in
the open air and eat and sleep with Mother Earth. – Walt Whitman109Take the Mucus Test
I feel that fasting has done a great deal to eliminate
the mucus from my body. I faithfully live on a mucuslessdiet and always take my weekly
24 hour fast to help keep
any mucus and toxins that I may have accumulated in
my body flowing out. I want to keep my machinery clean. Take the test yourself! Eliminate all of the mucus-
forming foods from your diet for several months. Fast 1
day a week and, if possible, take a 7 day fast. Watch your
urine closely. See for yourself the amount of mucus you
have concentrated in your body. After a fast, make 60% to
70% of your diet raw salads, vegetables and fruits and the
balance in cooked vegetables, beans, legumes and brown
rice. This is a mucusless diet that’s rich in enzymes and
nutrients. Also the raw, unsalted nuts and nut butters andseeds (almond, pumpkin, sesame, sunflower, etc.) are not
mucus-forming, so add them to your diet of organic fruits
and vegetables. While on this test don’t eat any dairy, eggs,meats and only a few whole grains or none at all. I can tell you all the great health benefits that fasting, a
mucusless and meatless diet will do for you. But it’s best
you simply try it yourself, then you be the judge. Noticehow seldom you have mucus and have to use a tissue. A
7 day fast is a great mucus eliminator. I make it a practice
to fast 7 to 10 days in late Oct. or Nov. so that, as thewinter comes on, I have relieved my body of any mucus
that it has accumulated. I try to live on a mucusless diet. When traveling the world lecturing, Patricia and I find at
times we can’t get all the organic fruits and vegetables we
normally eat, so we put our faith in fasting for purification. The treatment of diseases should go to the root cause, and most
 often it is found in severe dehydration from lack of sufficient
 pure, distilled water, plus an unhealthy diet and lifestyle! A good book goes around the world offering itself to reasonable men, who
read it with joy and carry it to their neighbors. – Ralph Waldo EmersonTrue wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing,
and to do what is best worth doing. –  Edward Humphrey110Break the Tobacco, Alcohol, Cola
And Coffee Habit Through Fasting
It seems today most humans are addicted to some
kind of poisonous drug habit – such as tobacco, alcohol,
cola and coffee. Every one of these substances contain
dangerous toxic poisons. The spotlight of science is stillon the dangers of tobacco. Every cigarette package has
this warning, “ Tobacco smoking may be hazardous to your
health. ” Scientists worldwide have studied the effects of
tobacco on humans. The conclusion: smoking should
be stopped! But it’s not. Sad truth, “Flesh is dumb and
will accept anything.” Your mind must be a strong and
faithful health captain to keep you healthy and fit! The flesh will accept the carbon monoxide and
nicotine of tobacco. It will accept alcohol. It will acceptthe caffeine tars found in coffee, tea and even chocolate. The body has no mechanism to process these vicious
drugs and poisons. Millions are destroying their livesusing these killers, it’s like a slow, deliberate self-suicide! Now, if a person wishes to release himself from the
bondage of these irritating and poisonous drugs that act
first to stimulate and then to depress the central nervous
system, they must fast. The fast is a salvation for thosewho wish to break free of the shackles of these poisonous
habits. In my years of supervising fasts, I have seen these
wretched habits repeatedly defeated by fasting! I remember years ago when a woman came to me who
was a chain smoker. D aily she smo ked 4 packages of
cigarettes and drank a fifth of whisky (
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nerves were shattered. If she picked up a pencil to write,
she trembled. She couldn’t sleep. Her appetite was gone.Her eyes were blurred. Her skin tone was pasty and flabby. She was miserable and even had thoughts of suicide! Her
physician suggested she see me, that I might help herwith nutrition and exercise therapies. She had reached
the end of her rope and was willing to try anything. We love helping people who want to live and follow
The Bragg Healthy Lifestyle! We want to help you now!111The Body Rebels Against Poisons! The first thing I did with this smoking addict was to
put her on a fast. I didn’t take her poisons away fromher. She continued to smoke and drink a small amount
of alcohol and coffee. But on the third morning of her
fast, her body rebelled and these stored poisons andtoxins in her body began to nauseate her. The


 want to get 'T' out of this
de- pression. The opposite of clepression is
elation, but  because depression is not elation, I
cannot force my - self to be elated. l can,  however,
get drunk. This  makes me wonderfully elatccl, and
so when rhe next  depression arrives,  I have a
quick cure. The subse - quent deprcssions have a
way of getting deeper and  blacker,  because  I am
not digesting  the depressed  state ancl  eliminaling
its poisons. So I nced  ta ger  even drunker to
drown them. Very soon I begin ro  hate  mysclf for
getting so drunk,  which  makes me  still more
deprcssccl -and so it gocs. Or pcrhaps  l have  a largc  family,  and am living
in
a mortgagcd housc on which I have spent ali my
sav- ings. I have to work hard at a job in which I
am not  particularly  imerested  in arder  to pay the
bilis. I don't mind working so much, but l keep
wondering  what  will happen  if I get sick,  or if a
war  comes  and I am draftecl. I would rather not
think about these  things, so I walll  to gct  "l" out
of this worry. For I  am surc that I shall get sick if it
goes on. Bue it's so  hard to stop, and as this makes
sickness more certain,  the worrying  digs  deeper. I must  fincl  relief  from
127 THE  \\I ISDOM  OF INSECURITY
Lhis, and so in dcspernlion  I begin  Lo "play the  po-
nies,"  trying to offset  the worry  with  the daily  hope
thaL  my horse  may  win. And  so il goes. The  conventional  moralisl  has nothing  LO con-
tribute  to these  problcms. He can point  out thc
frighcf ul  effects of alcoholism anc. gamb. ing,  bul
that  is simp. y  more  fue. for depression  and worry. He can promise  rewards  in hcaven  for suffering  pa-
ciencly endured, but thal, LOO, is a gamble of a kind. He can attribuce the c. epression or Lhe worry to the
social sysLem, and urge Lhc unfonunates LOjoin Lhc
revoluLion. In short,  he can eiLher frighten  the "I" or encour -
agc it, in one case  making  Lhe individual  run away
from himself, and  in the other making him run after
hirnsc. f. He can paint  glowing  pictures  of the vir-
Lues and encourage oLhers  LO find sLrcngth  in the ex -
arnplcs  of great  men. He can succeed  to the
extcnt  of arousing the most vigorous eífons Lo
imitate saim - liness, to curb che passions,  and LO
practice rescraint  and charity in action. Yel none of
this brings anyone  LOfreedom, for behind ali  thc
imitation and the dis- cipline  there  is still motive. lf I am  afraid,  my effons  lo feel and act bravcly
are moved by che fear,  for I am afraid  of fear,
which  is sirnply ro say that my e[ons to escape from
what  I am are moving  in a circle. Beside  the
examples  of saints  and heroes  I fecl ashamed  that  I
amount  ro nothing,  and so I begin  co practice
humility  because
128 CREATIVE  MORALITY
of my wounded pride, and charity beca use of my
self- love. The urge is ever lo make 'T' amounl to
some - lhing. I must be right, good, a real  person,
heroic,  loving, sclf•effacing. I efface myself in
order LO assert  myself,  and give  myself  away  in
order  LO keep  my- self. The  whole  thing  is a
contradiclion. The Christian mind has always been haunted
by the feeling that the sins of the saints are worse
than  the sins of the sinners, that in sorne
mystcrious way  the one who  is struggling  for
salvation  is nearer  to
hell and to the heart of evil than Lhe unashnmed
har- lot or thief. It has recognized  that the De vil  is
an an - gel, and as pure spirit is not really
interested in the  sins of che  flesh. The sins after
the Devil's heart are the intricacies of spiritual
pride,  the mazes of self - deception,  and che subtle
mockeries  of hypocrisy  where  mask  hides  behind
mask  behind  mask  and reality  is lost altogethcr. The would -be saint walks straight into thc
meshes  of this web because he would become a
saint. His "I" finds the deepest security in a
satisfaction  which is  the more  intense  for being so
cleverly  hidden -the satisfaction of being contrite
for his sins, and con - trile for taking pridc in  his
contrition. In such an involved vicious circlc the
masks behind masks are  infinite. Or, to put it in
anothcr way, he who,vould  stand outside himself
to kick himself, must then kick  the self that  stands
outside. And  so forever. So long  as there  is the motive  lo  becomc
somc -
129 THE  WISOOM  OF INSECURITY
thing, so long as the mind believes in  the
possibility  of escape from  what it is at this
momenc,  there can  be no freedom. Virtue will be
pursued  for exactly  Lhe same reason as vice, and
good and cvil will alter - naLc  as che opposice
poles  of a ingle  circle. The  "saine" who appcars
LOhave conquercd his self-love  by spiricual
violence has only concealed it. His ap - parent
success convinces  others  that  he has found  the
"true  way,"  and they  follow  his example  long
enough for the course to swing to its oppositc
pole,  when license becorncs Lhc inevitable
reacLion to pu - ritanism. Of course it sounds as if it were the most abject
fatalism to have to admit that I am what I am, and
that  no escape or division  is possible. lt seems
that  if I am afraid, then  I am "stuck"  with  fcar. But in  fact I am chained LOthe fear only so long as
I am try - ing LOget away from iL. On the other
hand, when I do noL try to get away I discover
thaL there is noth - ing "stuck" or fixed about the
reality of the moment. When I am aware of this
feeling without naming it, without  calling  it "fear,"
"bad,"  "negative,"  etc.,  it changes instantly in Lo
something else, and life moves  freely ahead. The
fceling no longer perpetuates  it- self by creating
the feeler  behind  it. Wc can perhaps see now why the undivided
mind  is not moved  into  those escapes  from  the
present  which  are usually  called  "evil. " The
further  truth  Lhat  the undividc<l  mind  is aware
of experience  as a
130   CR. E. ATIVE  MORALITY
unily,  of the world  as icself,  and that  the whole  na-
ture  of mind  and awarcness  is to be one with
what  it knows, suggests a statc that would usually be
called  lovc. For the love  that exprcsscs  itsclf in
crealivc ac- tion is somcthing much  more than an
emotion. lt is not something  which  you can ''fccl"
ancl  "know,"  remcmber  ancl  define. Lovc  is the
organizing  and unifying principie which makes  the
world a universc  ancl  che clisintegracccl  mass a
community. lt is the very  essence  ancl  characccr  o[
mind,  and becomcs  manifest  in action  when  thc
mind  is wholc. For the mind  nwsl  be intcrestecl  or absorbed  in
somcdling, justas a minor must always be
reA


 Furthermore, it is easily metabolized and excreted when in  excess without taxing in any way
the alkaline reserves of the tissu es. The only condition under which
large doses of vitamin C are questionable is when large amounts of
dairy products are eaten. The vitami n C, which is an acid, may form
kidney stones by combining with the calcium in these products. But then as we shall claim, dairy products are not a part of normal human food. In relation to their size, children need more food than adults. There is no need for so called 'protective' foods, high in protein,
provided children can eat whole foods when ever hungry, and the calamitous sweets are kept away. Left to themselves, children will eat often, ignoring the regularity of meals favoured by adults, which is well and good. The meal regularity is in fact one more device for eating more, even when not hungry, for, like the dogs of Pavlov,
meal times can become the means of a cortical conditioning which
stimulates even a jaded and overtired stomach. It is thoroughly misguided to gi ve children such supplements as
vitamin A and D, particularly in such disgusting and loathed forms
as the fish liver oils. The body is designed to make its own needs of
these vitamins, in the case of the vitamin A from the carotenoid
pigments abundant in the colourfu l tissues of plants, and in the case
of vitamin D, from light irradiation of the skin. Since both these vitamins are stored in the liver, occasional supplies will suffice. Except in the more extreme latitudes, where humans should not be living anyway, there is sufficient light to make vitamin D, provided
sufficient skin surface is exposed. A clear indication that these
vitamins should not be eaten as such, is the recent discovery that children who have been adminste red fish oils over a prolonged
period have a lower I. Q. than other children. Life is preponderantly water, a nd almost all land animals need a
regular supply of it. On an ideal human diet, so much water is
contained in the fruits and vegeta bles, that very little water is
needed. The addition of salt and other unnatural items completely upsets the water balance; as ever y one knows, thirst can become
obsessive after a heavy meal. The need for water increases in hot weather. Unlike appetite, thirst is a reliable guide of body needs; it
is unwise to drink except when thirsty. The universe is a whole, and all things aspire to wholeness. Food reflects the wholeness which is life; all the constituents are interdependent. One often finds that if a particular vitamin deficiency is treated, others previously not apparent become
manifest. This means that when th e ideal diet for any particular
species of animal prevails, there is  no need to fuss about proteins,
calories, vitamins and minerals. Some items of food, commonly consumed but doubtfully a part
of the normal human dietary, will now be examined, with a view to ascertaining the physiological cost th ey entail. For some, the price is
evidently too high; others have a certain value as emergency foods. Milk. Generally considered a 'protective' food, except by the
Chinese who look upon it as an obnoxious excrement. The milk of the different mammals varies considerably. The short-lived species
have made no attempt to remove substances which could, over a
number of years, jeopardise the longevity of the animal. So it is that cow's milk is high in those substances, the cholesterols and saturated fats, which slowly clutter up the blood vessels—cows and bulls do not live long enough for it to matter. In elephants, and in the higher primates, however, the composition of the milk is quite
different. Not only is protein lower, but the saturated fats are
replaced by less saturated and unsaturated, and the cholesterol is low. Furthermore, the first milk fed to infant elephants and primates, the colostrum, is particular ly rich in unsaturated fats. It is
now realized that the quality of the blood vessels is determined by
the early feeding of the young; to give cow's milk to a baby elephant
or a primate is to predispose its blood vessels and heart to lifelong damage by saturated fats. The autopsies of quite young people today show often extensive circulatory damage, most likely due to the common habit of drinking cow's milk from infancy. Skim milk is less harmful, but one can doubt that the proteins
of cow's milk are minutely identical  to those of the human, the one
needed for rapid growth, the other for. slow development. Cream is a particularly dangerous food. Margarine, made from soft vegetable fats by saturating them
with hydrogen, is no better than but ter, although they have little or
no cholesterol, for their fat molecules are very much larger than those of human milk fat, and result in the deposition of fats as hard as those of animal food in the tissues. The soft margarines, made
from partly hydrogenated vegetable fa ts, to which is added oils rich
in unsaturated fats, are suspect, in  view of the chemicals used in
their manufacture, and of the reports of serious disease following
their experimental use in animals. Vegetable  'butters' made from emulsified nuts should be excellent, provided no emulsifying or other chemical agents are used in their manufacture. If one likes some fat on one's bread, the ancient device of Mediterranean peasants of dripping a little olive oil on the bread, rubbed with a
little garlic, is a good one. Kephir, Yogourt, etc. Widely and anciently praised as a 'health'
food, the fatty constituents rema in much the same, although the
growth of bacteria and yeasts, producing an acid medium, is
favourable to anti-putrefactive cond itions which should be helpful. But one should preferably not eat foods that putrefy. These preparations made with skimmed or defatted milk are preferable. Cheese. Hippocrates had noticed that cheese adversely affects a
significant number of people, an indication that it is not a natural
food. It has recently been incriminat ed in migraine. The hard, fullfat
cheeses are more suspect than the li ghter kinds made with whey. At
the most cheese should only be used occasionally, and in small amounts not so much as a food item but as a condiment. Eggs are designed to meet the extremely rapid growth of
reptiles and birds, and as such, are the opposite of human needs. Their extremely high content of cholesterol makes them a dangerous food, perhaps the most dangerous. Furthermore, they are the vehicle of many viruses, known and unknown. Coffee, tea, chocolate. The popularity of these items comes not
only from their stimulating properties, but from their very high content of purines and other extractiv es. On a'mixed' diet, the body
over-reacts against such extractives in the foods, thus engendering a drug-like demand for more, to mop up the body's over-production of
defensive substances, resulting in a vicious circle of ever-increasing
demand. If one must have hot drinks, many herbal teas are harmless. Weak tea seems less harmful than coffee. Vegetable oils. Although the unsaturated fatty acid content of
different vegetable oils varies, thus affecting their value for
eliminating saturated fats from the body, no vegetable oil contains
the saturated fats abundant in all animal oils. Therefore, on a vegetarian diet, it is a matter of taste what oil one prefers. Olive oil, for instance, has a low content of unsaturated fats, but is tasty and good. The only safe fats, however, are those that have been cold
pressed, out of contact with metal contamination; it is virtually
impossible to obtain such oils today. Commercial processes entail the use of dangerous solvents, and high temperature extraction responsible for undesirable changes in  the oil itself, quite apart from
anti-oxidant chemicals used to prevent rancidity. One vegetable oil, rape seed oil,  is toxic, and is being phased
out of use. However, it is still the cheapest oil on the market. It is usually sold without a reference to its source, as just'salad' or
'frying' oil, and is widely used in  food processing and in restaurants. Potatoes, cassavas and starchy roots. The toxicity of the
alkaloids of potato have already been mentioned. Cassava contains deadly prussic acid and will rapidl y kill when eaten raw. The real
menace of such items is that they tend to reduce the consumption of cereals, which should be the main source of calories in combination with fruits. Bread, biscuits
Fresh cereal grains can be nibbled like nuts, but once dried,
something has to be done to them so  that they can be eaten. The best
way is to soak them and allow them to germinate. Germinating
grains are about the richest sources of a battery of indispensable
vitamins. Some should always be set to germinate in succession in some corner of the home, or office. Soaked grains can be mashed, pounded and moulded into thin
wafers, which can then be dried in a low oven, or yeast can be
added, and the dough baked as bread. The damp conditions
prevailing, and the moderate temperatures necessary, are not critical. Lightly cooked groat or porridge, goes back to the Palaeolithic. Unfortunately, industrial production of bread and biscuits, even many classed as 'brown' or 'wholemeal', is highly suspect, so that the best answer is  to make


 replacement” dri nk that is extremely  loaded with refined sugar and artificial
additives—designed to “ensure” proper nutrition) through a tube i f I refused to drink it. Still dealing with constipation, when I got to Canada, I went for a colonic i rrigation. After studying my eyes, the colon
hydrotherapist (who also happened to be an iridologist) told me that my bowels ha d been left with no options other than to balloon
out and form “pockets. ” If she was right, then I may have to deal with thes e pockets for the rest of my life. If I had read Dr. Graham’s book Grain Damage,  I would have known better. On the road, and with limited funds, I didn’t have access to all the fruit I  wanted, so I started losing even more weight. Eventually I was put into a Canadian hospital through the efforts of a v ery concerned woman who helped and befriended us. My
body had unwittingly wasted, losing mass until my weight plummeted to onl y 84 pounds. Even I was shocked. At first I was absolutely panic stricken with the thought that they  were going to make me eat cooked processed hospital food,
but to my utter relief, this hospital let my brother go to the health-food st ore daily and bring me the raw organic foods that I
requested. Having lost faith in the fruitarian diet that had failed me, and being  in such a vulnerable state, I was completely open to new
ideas. Following the advice of many raw food books, I decided to gain weight “the  healthy  way. ” In addition to the green leafy
vegetables, I began eating TONS of fat. Some days I was wolfing down 6 or 7 avoca dos a day, not to mention all the nuts, seeds,
nut butters, and oil I used in my dressings. Having abandoned some of my previou s dietary dogma, I felt that I had opened a
window and had “seen the light. ” I thought that I had finally found what w orked for me. Little did I know what I was getting into. Because I was already in a hospital (just as the American doctors ha d wanted), and because I thought I had nothing to lose, I
agreed to risk blowing my cover to be filmed by the Canadian media. Sure enough, this event led to my discovery, and nine months
after I ran away, my family finally found out where I was. When my parents came to visit me, I told my mother that I wasn’t a fru itarian anymore, but now I was a raw foodist. With
some prodding from my mom, I completely gave up the fruitarian ideology by adding  some cruciferous vegetables and roots (eating
roots requires the death of the plant) to my diet. With this new identity of  being a raw foodist, I tried to prove to everyone that I was
flexible in my eating habits. At this point I subscribed to the “ ism” of raw, pretty much eating anything as long as it was “raw. ”
Hempseed butter … tahini … cacao … “Is it raw. ” became the ultimat e question. Everything so far was in accordance with
the raw books that I was reading. However, my mother encouraged me to eat sus hi, raw eggs, and raw dairy, which were forbidden
by many raw foodists. Although I agreed in theory to eat these foods, it was more of a put-on than an ything else. There was no raw dairy to be had,
and the hospital wouldn’t allow raw eggs (or raw milk for that matter). M y mom got me some raw smoked salmon, but I gladly used
the excuse that it contained table salt as my reason not to eat it. Howev er, despite my aversion to animal foods, I did include some
fresh raw egg yolks when I got home, because some raw food authors approved of the m, and because they seemed to be less of a
taboo in my own mind. Despite gaining weight very rapidly in the Canadian hospital (in onl y a couple of months I was up to 110 lbs. and rising), and in
spite of how far I had come from being a fruitarian, those meddling Americ an doctors had me flown to America in an emergency
supersonic jet (flown in from Japan), where they unjustly locked me in a  mental institution and tried to coerce and trick me into
eating cooked hospital foods. My mom adamantly warned them what a raw food expert told her—that raw foodi st’s bodies have a tough time adjusting
cold turkey to a standard diet. Since they have less of a mucosal lining as  a barrier from allergens and toxins, they need to gradually
introduce cooked foods, starting first with lightly steamed vegetables, a nd should also avoid glutinous grains. Her words were
utterly disregarded. I could fill pages expressing the horrors of my experience with this loc kdown facility. As soon as I got there, I was offered a
plate of chicken, milk, greasy rice, canned green beans, and chocolate cake. The nurses led me to believe I had  to eat what was on
my plate or drink Ensure. Faced with these options, both of which were wretch ed nutritional abominations, I started to panic. Thinking that all my previous attempts at eating healthy and my run ning away to avoid the hospital and its food may have been in
vain, I almost had a nervous breakdown. Now under the control of CPS, I felt vulnerable without the protection  of my parents. But I didn’t lose my wits and give in. Seeing as how this American hospital was much different from the C anadian one, I realized that I would have to be persistent. Eventually, after much persuasion, I was given raw food. How did I finagle myself out of cooked food and Ensure. My guess is that my weig ht wasn’t low enough to warrant force
feeding, and I was willing to eat what little variety of raw foods the hos pital offered (mainly walnuts and some poorly ripened
bananas, apples, and oranges). Much to the disappointment of the psychiatrist who was in charge of me an d was planning to starve me into submission, a
judge ordered that she must let my parents bring me more variety of what  I would eat. Finally, the psychiatrist realized that her plans
to control me and make me eat cooked food were futile, so I was released under many  conditions. Having achieved one victory, I was soon faced with a new challenge. Not l ong after I was released from the hospital, I had my
body-fat percentage tested, and it was 25%. (Conventional “wisdom” c onsiders body fat in the mid-teens to be healthy for men;
however, I later learned from Dr. Graham that single digits—under 10%, i deally about 4 to 8% for an athletic male—is a truly
healthful level of body fat. ) The lady who tested me was shocked that such a skinny person could be so fat. Sh e said I was looking at increased chances
of heart disease and many other health challenges as I got older. It looks a s though my weight-gaining strategy was working all too
well. During a visit to the doctor who was appointed to oversee my weight gain, my m other expressed deep concern about my
25% body fat and the substantial abdominal cellulite I had developed. But my doctor  showed no concern and even told us that it
was “anorexic thinking” for us to be concerned with my body-fat per centage. I’m not surprised that I became fat, considering that neither hosp ital would let me exercise. The American hospital even went
so far as to tell me to sit down if I was caught idly standing. This is w hy I blame the doctors for my exceptionally high body-fat
percentage. For the second time, they had blatantly ignored my mom’s r easoning—she had forewarned the doctors what she had
read—that it was vitally important for emaciated people to exer cise while they gain weight or they would only gain fat—not muscle. Even knowing that my body-fat percentage was high, I forced myself to gai n more weight every day, to meet the demands of
the doctors (they wanted me to be in the 10 th  percentile of BMI charts—where 10% of males my height and age weig h the same as
I do—even though the 5 th  percentile is normally considered acceptable). This was absurd, s ince I didn’t have enough muscle for my
age to meet this requirement without having an excessively high  body-fat percentage. I always feared being put back in the mental facility, because one of the  conditions of my release had been that if I went four
weeks without weight gain they could put me back … only next time I wou ld have to cooperate and eat hospital food. They should have known that this was unreasonable, because muscle is s low to gain. I heard that even the best bodybuilders
rarely gain more than a pound of muscle a month. I felt trapped, and I continue d to eat unhealthy amounts of avocados, nuts, seeds,
and oils to gain this weight within deadlines the doctors had set for me. In  the back of my mind, I was scared by the thought that
every pound I gained would even further add to my already-too-high body-fat per centage. I knew that I should be exercising to gain
muscle, but I was not in the best of shape, and I didn’t have enough ene rgy to motivate vigorous exercise. Further adding


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        see also  A BC of success; addiction recovery; evolution of
consciousness; health and happiness
columns of, 50 – 55
compassion and, 116 – 117
database of consciousness, 40 – 42
essence of path, 303 – 307
fulcrums of advancement on, 63 – 64, 84 – 85
inception of, 5Levels of Consciousness as column on, 50
“lower” and “higher” levels of, 15
non-linear nature of, 25
overview, xiii – xx
Practical Application for, overview, 133 – 135
Q&A about, 55 – 62
scientific background of attractor patterns, 42 – 50
study-group questions about, 310
T welve Steps related to, 21
understanding consciousness calibration for, 35 – 39
Map of Consciousness Explained, The  (Hawkins, lecture), 20
Map of Consciousness  (Hawkins), 19 – 22
maternal caring, evolution of consciousness and, 100 – 101
McClelland, David, 13
mellow state, 184
merit, calibration and, 56 – 57
Merrick, Joseph (“Elephant Man”), 51 – 52
morphogenetic fields (M-fields), 280
Mother T er esa  (film), 13
mudra, 83
Munich Agreement, 113
muscle testing, 36, 317 – 321, 355 – 356. see also  kinesiologic method/kinesiology
mystical experience. see also  spiritual truth
devotional nonduality and, 297
Enlightenment of, 255 – 257
overview, 257 – 261
N
Napoleon, 54
negative programming, overcoming, 142 – 145
neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), 162
Neutrality
ener gy level of, 73 – 74
negative self-view and relief, 52
transcending barriers to higher consciousness, 242
Newton, Isaac, 44
nobility, success and, 167 – 170
nonattachment, practicing, 294 – 295
nonduality ( Advaita ), 60 – 61
nonlinear dynamics
database of consciousness and, 42inception of study of, 43
Nothingness, 2, 18, 270 – 272
O
Orthomolecular Psychiatry  (Hawkins), 344, 346, 351
P
passive suicide, 64
Pauling, Linus, 10
Peace
ener gy level of, 81 – 82
Satchitananda,  256
perception, 88, 125 – 126. see also  Levels of Consciousness
personal characteristics, favorability of


 - immediately cut off the hot water, and dokupyvalsya
in cold water. I do after that day was a bad feeling. Everything is one to one. eventually I went on coughing and coughing. In late September he went to the doctor. She listened to my lungs and said,
I have a wheezing. I made a parallel X-ray (X-ray
showed - an inflammation of the upper parts of the lungs). In general, the doctor prescribed
I tsefran antibiotic. Appointed a course of treatment - 5 days. I drank,
173
173and I felt better. and my doctor she got sick, went to the doctor - was
another woman - and she said she does not hear the rattles. I'm glad. but a week later began coughing. Here - here, I felt that I
in a trap. and work a lot and get sick once. So I began to conduct
3 - day dry hunger. The first time I spent dry fasting. I was very pleased. During fasting - I, as luck would have worked
a lot, and even water leaks at entry into the house, and I dug a ditch on the
street than the addition itself zastuzhal. In general, after 3 days
I felt fine. and stopped the hunger strike. Again weeks
after 2 was cough. (Due to kanavokopaniya). Just in case
went to the hospital. The doctor listened to me - and said that no wheezing. Sent to X-ray. When looked at X-ray - the doctor said
- That the image of me as a healthy person. It inspired me. and just in case I was directed to TB prophylactic center. and here's how I
seen enough to tubikom patients, the entire hospital, I was shocked. and this
same day, I was really feeling like I got to get better. I
has become a real spitting. and ended up. I'm not TB prophylactic center
went because there is no need. CONCLUSION: The lung inflammation is also
cured. Enough for 3 days of dry fasting, and within 2 weeks, all
become the norm. I'm happy. "
At one time, when I just started to do a dry starvation
while fishing on Lake Baikal, I fell through the ice. Frost was a degree
thirty, I had to go on the bike about twenty kilometers. After such a bath, I began the hellish pain in the forehead. After the shots, it was clear that I have acute sinusitis. I winced with pain even
could not drop his head down, the temperature was 38 degrees. Clearly,
appetite that I did not have, but I understand that water - it is
always swelling and inflammation, and refused water. After the third day
temperature returned to normal, by the fifth day the pain disappeared completely
in the forehead, on the sixth day I went out fast. After this
my front more does not bother me, but for any flu or
ARI, I always spent dry starvation. I have ten years is not sick or
flu or cold. Previously, when I was sick once sat on a dry
starvation, two or three days, until, until all the symptoms will
disease, but usually these deadlines missed. Perhaps the immune system so
trained, that if any epidemic, I do not get ill. As well as
and my patients, who have passed, the rate of dry fasting
do not suffer from colds. Very effectively dry fasting during exacerbation of peptic
stomach and duodenum, chronic
pancreatitis, cholecystitis, colitis, etc. What caused this therapeutic effect. - Inflammation can not exist without water. Any inflammation
place swollen (swollen with water). Only enough water environment
can breed microorganisms: bacteria and viruses. Deficit
Water is very damaging to the inflammation. It may be recalled that, in
current data, the cause of ulcers - infectious. 174
174- Naturally, the biggest holiday during starvation gets
gastro-intestinal tract. As they say, no food no problem. No need to allocate the digestive juices do not need to push
food for all divisions of the intestine, there is no need to spend
enormous amount of energy on dragging, turning,
neutralization and elimination of substances that act
us with food. Now all the forces can be directed to your own
recovery, including the restoration of organs,
involved in digestion. - During fasting there is a normalization and rehabilitation
gastric and 12 duodenal ulcer. This is manifested
reduction and complete disappearance of pain, nausea,
heartburn, vomiting. Scarring occurs fresh ulcers and resorption
scarring the walls of the stomach and duodenum 12. As
mentioned above, experts from the Institute of Gastroenterology
Moscow found that patients as a result of
they have 28 days RTD in the stomach, new cells with light
protoplasm, which, after completion of the course gradually RTD
converted for 20-30 days in additional cells. These cells
secrete mucus, a substance designed to protect the stomach from damage. After repeated courses of RTD even gastroenterological
stomachs of patients are "tinned", the ability to digest
any food. - Fasting improves the excellent work of the liver. It causes mild
cholagogic effect, restores the liver cells. Sick
cholelithiasis instinctively resorting to starvation,
which removes pain and normalizes liver function
and gall bladder. There is a natural cleansing of the liver -
removal of waste products, the dissolution of stones. - Good results were observed in the treatment of such terrible
diseases such as acute pancreatitis: "In the clinic it. Spasokukotsky
headed by Academician AN Bakulev treated with starvation
275 patients with acute pancreatitis. All of them were discharged
in satisfactory condition. Based on this experience made
conclusion about the feasibility of using starvation in the treatment of
pancreatitis, our method is now widely used in acute
and chronic forms of the disease. To get a good
therapeutic effect is usually 10-15 days is enough
Wet fasting or 4-5 days dry. The basic principle of treatment
with pancreatitis - a painful withdrawal syndrome, the elimination of shock
collapse, ensuring a functional resting pancreatic
gland, the removal of intoxication. " - In starvation there is no single method, under which
complete no load on the digestive organs. Therefore,
and no wonder he is so effective at
various disruptions in the gastrointestinal
tract. One can only wonder our ignorance of Medicine,
175
175which, instead of an effective, quick, cheap treatments
uses expensive drugs, long-term survey
surgery, which not only lead
to cure the patient, but also make him chronicle of living
inadequate life and forever tied to the services of physicians. Therefore take responsibility for their health into their own
hand, begin to starve, and you return a lost appetite
excellent and good digestion, regular chair. In my practice, of course, there were few patients with diabetes
diabetes because diabetes is the second type helps
good wet starvation. Here, he writes about this one
Luminaries fasting Dr. GA V oitovich: "Because
diabetes - a disease of the nervous and endocrine nature, treatment
dosed fasting, of course, be here to give
positive results - that was our conclusion. In addition, we
knew from foreign sources, that the doctors in the West, Japan
and especially in India have long included diabetes in the number of diseases,
shown to the treatment of starvation. However, in practice, our department, we rarely meet with this
disease. Only after the All-Union Symposium on the RTD when
doctors from Armenia, Odessa and other places reported on the successful
cure even severe forms of diabetes-dose fasting
we have become more closely examine the issue. We are particularly
interested in the technique, in Yerevan, where patients with severe
form of diabetes, with more overweight, with a gangrenous
ulcers on the legs were treated quite successfully by several courses
RTD for 11 days while maintaining hormonal preparations,
but reducing the number of 5-10. In the first stage we had only a few people, mild
diabetic patients who did not use insulin. in
treatment dose fasting blood sugar
they have decreased, and during the recovery period, it again
increased, but did not go far beyond the norm. General condition
patients get better: were weakness, itching, thirst,
increased appetite disappeared. One patient initial diabetes completely cured, relapse
is not observed here for over 25 years. Physician G. Sargsyan from the clinic of endocrine diseases in Yerevan
spent two-and three-time courses for 10-11 days of fasting for
ill. One patient threatened to amputation of the leg in connection
with gangrene of the foot. After two courses of 11 days, all diabetic
indicators (the sugar in the urine, blood, etc. ) have improved dramatically,
gangrenous inflammation ceased completely, the need for
amputation of his leg has disappeared, the patient was free to go. " Examples from practice:
"Almost ten years I have suffered duodenal ulcer bulbs
intestine. There were sharp pains, especially at night. Sometimes it would even
176
176on the wall to climb. with medication unsuccessfully tried to cure
ulcer. I just have not tried. One of my friends come to you
the


 needed such as
vitamins C, D and B -vitamins, especially niacin. You can use liver powder from free -range beef but even  better is fresh
free-range liver, buy frozen and use raw. This may be cut or chopped
into small pieces or pressed through a large garlic press and mixed with
other food. Alternatively process a larger amount with a slow juicer and
freeze in ice -cube trays. Use about 20 to 40 g with breakfast or lunch and
add 5,000 IU of vitamin D3 to balance the high vitamin A content of liver. Protein Powders, stirred into a suitable liquid, are good as a basic snack
or meal. You may mix any of the following in any combi nation or quantity:
spirulina, chlorella, barley or wheat grass powder, ground linseed, bee
pollen, whey protein isolate (but not concentrate), pea protein, soaked
quinoa or chia seeds. You may make the consistency so that you can drink
it or eat it like porridge. For convenience pre -mix a supply of protein
powders in a large container that lasts for several weeks. Purple Foods  supply strong antioxidants. When cooked or pressed with
skin they yield purple juice. Common examples are beetroot, black,
purple or red grapes or currants, cherries, red wine and red cabbage,
raspberries, bilberries, blackberries and blueberries. Sprouted seeds  and young shoots such as cereal grasses provide a
higher degree of vitality and rejuvenation than other foods. Sprouted
seeds are a mainstay of a good diet. Commonly used for sprouting are
legumes such as lentils, mung beans, fenugreek, peas and chickpeas,
but also almonds, nuts and sunflower kernels ma y be spouted. Sunflower
and buckwheat seeds make a tasty salad when grown in seed boxes and
cut close to the soil when 5 -10 cm high. 29
 Sulphur -rich foods  improve detoxification and strengthen the immune
system. These include raw egg yolk, garlic, onion, hor seradish,
watercress, turnip and members of the cabbage family. Problem Foods
Problem foods are widely used basic foods that lead to health problems
in large parts of the population. So -called junk food and heavily
processed and chemicalised food belong i n this category, but also dried
fruits, milk products and wholemeal bread. What chiefly makes a particular food a problem is the presence of one or
several components that frequently cause metabolic or digestive
problems. Avoid or minimize any problem foo ds that you can identify as
contributing to your health problems. The main problem foods in our society are:
Cow’s milk products and lactose  cause mucus congestion and
susceptibility to colds, ‘flu and asthma, as well as allergies, and enzyme
deficiencies when using pasteurized products. Casein from Friesian
cows (called A1 milk) is a cause of type 1 diabetes and other problems. Wheat and glut en products tend to cause intestinal irritation and
inflammation, and contribute to the development of malabsorption,
allergies and overweight. Other gluten grains are rye and barley. Oats
contain a less reactive protein but can still cause problems for ce liacs. Sugar and sweet foods  make us overacid and oversensitive, cause
mineral deficiencies and contribute to a wide range of diseases, including
Candida, overweight, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Recommended sugar substitutes are xylitol, glycerine and stevia. Red mea t and saturated fats  (when heated) cause enzyme deficiencies
and may contribute to many diseases, especially if highly heated,
however unheated they can be health foods. Chemicalised foods are basically all non -organic processed foods with
added chemicals - most supermarket foods. Grain products, peanuts and 30
 dried fruit are most affected by moulds. Oxalic Acid is rather high in many vegetables, fruit and seeds. Some
examples of high-level foods are spinach, silverbeet/chard, beet leaves,
rhubarb, parsley, tea, and many berries. Even though most oxalates are
produced within the body, a, high level in food can cause digestive
distress, increase mucus congestion by irritating mucous membranes,
and contribute to kidney stones. Any problems can be reduced by adding
some calcium carbonate or eggshell powder when cooking or juicing high
oxalate foods. This then forms calcium oxalate which is not absorbed. For details see : Cows Milk and Lactose Problems  and Chemicals and
Other Food Problems. Avoid or Minimize:  wheat and gluten -enriched foods; soy products
except if traditionally fermented; synthetic sweeteners, sugar and sweet
foods; dried and pasteurized milk; margarine, shortenings, canola and
polyunsaturated seed oils; highly heated, microwave -heated and GM -
foods, and generally highly processed food with added chemicals. Metabolic Types
We have inherited our metabolic make -up from the traditional diets of our
ancestors. I distinguish between 3 basic metabolic types: the non -
vegetarian type needing a high int ake of slow -digesting proteins and fats;
the vegetarian type doing well on a fast -digesting high carbohydrate
intake, and those in -between, the balanced type. The relationship between these basic metabolic types and blood groups
is rather straightforward. Blood group O is the oldest blood group. It
originated in the  hunter -gatherer area and corresponds to the non -
vegetarian type with a high requirement for protein and fat. Group A1 resembles most closely the seed -eating vegetarian type, while
B is the lacto -vegetarian type, and closest to the balanced metabolic
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Q: Who is the author of the book "Heal Yourself"?,
A: Walter Last
Q: What is the main purpose of the Health Improvement Program?,
A: To remove the factors that cause most modern diseases and replace them with natural methods to promote health
Q: What are some of the recommended foods to eat to improve digestion and reduce Candida growth?,
A: Avoid or minimize the consumption of sugar and sweet foods, and instead focus on eating fresh, raw, and unheated foods, such as raw meat, fish, and eggs.
Q: What is the author's recommendation for overcoming Candida and other fungal infections?,
A: Use antimicrobial therapy, such as the Ultimate Cleanse, and avoid or minimize the consumption of sugar, sweet foods, and fermented foods.
Q: What is the author's advice for improving one's health and well-being?,
A: Focus on adopting a high-quality diet, practicing healthy living, and avoiding pollution and chemicals, and also consider using supplements and other natural therapies to support the body's natural healing processes.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Blood group AB has the characteristics of A as well as B. The sub -
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