 I knew.
When the three days were up, I felt that some kind of change had
taken place. Karin looked rested and less anxious; she did not return
obsessively to the same litany of complaints. She looked at me
inquisitively, and after admit ting that she felt a little more cheerful,
she asked, “What was I supposed to get out of that?”
“What do you think you got out of it?” I asked in return.
“Well, I still feel like a lit-up Christmas tree,” she laughed
ruefully, “and I still want to pull the plug so the lights will go o.”
She stopped.
“Anything else?” I urged.
“I don’t know,” she mumble d evasively. “I walked around a lot.
There was one thing.”
“Yes?”
“There’s a big maple in your woods that was cracked by lightning
and has a hole in the middl e, about shoulder high. I happened to
pass by when I noticed some thing moving inside the hole. Walking
closer, I saw a bird’s nest with a single blue egg in it; an adult bird
was standing beside it, not moving. I was surprised that she didn’t
y away, but when I looked closer, I realized what was happening.
The egg was hatching, right at that moment. Tiny cracks appeared,
and then the brown point of a bill.
“I stood very still, holding my breath. For a second I wondered if I
should help, but I have heard that touching a hatchling will make
the mother reject it. So I just watched and very slowly moved my
hand until it was only a foot from the nest. Still the bird did not yaway. The chick must have gotten exhausted, because as soon as
one large patch  of shell fell o, it didn’t move for several minutes. I
decided to go back.” Neither of us said anything.
“Do you know why the mother bird didn’t y away?” I asked. “It’s
because you were truly quiet. You were carrying around your inner
silence and projecting it. You may not notice yourself doing it,
because you may think that a silent mind shouldn’t be able to think.
You can think and be silent at the same time. They are two dierent
levels of yourself. The thinking mind goes on, yet the silence
remains.”
What Karin had experienced  was a small window of quietness. I
told her that the world seen through that window is very dierent
from the one we are used to. Far from radiating silence, most of us
radiate hysteria, reecting the mental turmoil inside. When that
inner turmoil subsides, it leaves a space for change to begin. “Your
mind is quiet by nature,” I said, “but you have to settle down to
realize this. Everything sorts itself out correctly and spontaneously
once you become quiet. In the light of calm, steady self-awareness, a
feeling of wholeness will wake up inside you. This wholeness is not
a thoug ht of any kind; it is simply your own mind, empty of thought
but full of you. You do not have to do anything to reach this state;
the process is eortless. You do not even have to consciously let go.
A quiet mind is all you need.”
This, the secon d time I talked with Karin, was also the last. Her
week-long stay at the clinic had only a couple more days to go. We
had been alone in each other’s company for less than two hours, yet
I felt close to her. She has staked so much on being true to herself.
Just before we said good-bye, she seemed ready for the rst time to
talk about her future—I mean the possibility that she actually has
one and is not going to waste her life protesting the present or
mourning the past. “I came here to nd out if there was a way to go
back to what I’ve lost, even though my mind already told me there
wasn’t. I have to go on,” she said.
“Wouldn’t it be too sad to exist on a memory?” I asked. “That is
what the past is.” Softly she agreed.I went out of town the next day, but the nurses told me afterward
that Karin seemed much more cheerful and outgoing before she left.
She noticed for the rst time how sick some of the other patients
were and spent several hours walking and talking with two older
women who had advanced cancer. I really feel now that Karin is not
lost but in transition.
She is about to arrive at a new and much higher conception of
who she is.
“You keep asking who you really are,” I said at our last meeting.
“If you want to know intellectually, then you are pure awareness,
the changeless background against which all thoughts occur. This
pure awareness is a continuum. It is not broken up by time or space
—it just is, ever and always.
“When you witness yourself, what you are experiencing is your
real nature. This is the key to freedom. Freedom is the experiential
knowledge of one’s own nature. You already have elements of this.
Many times you denitely seem to be witnessing your body and
your environm ent. You’ve said that to me, over and over. You even
stand aside from your own thoughts.
“Right now, the experience is not creating joy, but why shouldn’t
it? You are exploring your own corner of immortality as separate
from all things mortal. Can’t that be exciting?”
“I can accept that as a concept, but I don’t feel it yet,” she said.
I respect Karin’s honesty on this point. We do not live in an age of
faith, and many people have problems with any view of life that
includes as chancy a word as immortality. “Life? I already know
what life is,” the isolated self declares. “It is thinking, feeling,
breathing. It ends when they end. I don’t need to go beyond.” But I
am not asking Karin for faith, only the willingness to explore inside
and wait for the facts to emerge. More than one person has lain half-
awake in a row-boat, drifting under a cloudless summer sky, and felt
something immense, quiet, and endless. In a certain relaxed state,
this something  seems to be everywhere, both inside and out. It does
not smile at you or frown; it just is.
It takes  repeat ed dips into silence, in and out every day, for a
person to accept that this immense, motionless, eterna l state ofbeing is himse lf. Then the door is open for an experience  that truly
does transform  oneself and the world. The person realizes that
everything he has been doing in isolation—thinking, feeling,
breathing—was taking him on a hidden path. The self has always
wanted to connect; it exists so that it may marry the Self.
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Paradise Remembered
Stan will tell you that the ute saved his life, but there is more to
it than that—the ute is his life. A day does not go by that he is not
either playing the ute or teaching others how to play it. He fullls
dozens of concert dates every year as a ute soloist. He owns a shop
downtown where he repairs, tests, demonstrates, and even builds
utes from scratch. On the way home at night, he hangs onto the
subway strap reminiscing about all the bright silver instruments he
has caressed and polished that day.
One can only imagine, therefore, the horror of what has recently
happened. Stan woke up one morning ve months ago, suspecting
nothing unusu al, only to nd that the sound of the ute was no
longer pleasan t to his ears. The sinuous melodies, scales, runs, and
trills of his own ute playing had become ugly, sounding as grating
as ngernails scraping across a blackboard. Overnigh t, without
reason, the greatest pleasure in his life had turned to pain.
“Where is this harsh sound coming from?” I asked him. “From any
one instrument?”
“No, it doesn’ t matter what instrument I pick up,” he replied
gloomily. “It’s still my energy being transmitted through it. I have
always gotten a certain tonal  quality that my peers hear as gorgeous
but that I now hear as annoyingly shrill. It’s become so annoying
that I can’t stand to play anymore.”
Stan’s haggard, drawn face looked up at me. “And this all
happened out of the blue?” I asked.
“Completely.”“Without any warning? Think back,” I urged.
“All I can tell you is that everything seemed to be going all right
in my life when a psychiatrist told me that I shouldn’t keep on
taking a certain antidepressant. I had relied on it for a period last
year after I broke up with my old girlfriend. When my psychiatrist
told me to go o it cold turkey, I said, ‘Is that really okay?’ He said,
‘Sure.’ The next morning I woke up with my ears zooming and
ringing, as if someone was playing the ute inside my head.”
Stan’s psychiatrist has carefu lly explained to him that the sudden
change in his hearing


 forgiving yourself,
consider writing a letter to God about each of the problems you wrote
down. Come clean about where you yourself made a mistake, didn’ t act in
integrity, called forth fear-based  responses by your own fear-based actions,
and so forth. Allow your hand to keep writing, as He responds.
Be willing to hear Him, and make things right according to your internal
guidance wherever you can.If you owe a bill, get on a payment plan. Even
if each monthly installment is only five dollars, remember that the universe
responds fully to that old-fashioned concept called “doing the right thing.”
Once you recognize the Law of Cause and Effect as the basic building
block of the universe, you begin  to act righteously for your own sake. You
realize that integrity is in your own self-interest. You seek to live a more
impeccable life not just because  you feel you should,  but because you want
to. You realize that the darknes s in your life was called forth by fear, and
you wish to be rid of your fear. The moment you enter the light of your
spiritual reality, you rise above your ego and the darkness disappears.
3. Allow yourself to want what you want.
Many people have a hard time allowing themselves to really want what
they want. They think, at least subconsciously, that asking for total
happiness is asking for too much. They don’t bother, therefore, to truly
listen to their heart’ s desire.
But when your mind is attuned through prayer, meditation, and
forgiveness; when your body is attuned through healthy nutrition and
exercise; and when your behav ior is attuned through a sincere effort at
healthy living, then you’ve earned the right to trust yourself. For when
you’re aligned with truth, your desires are trustworthy. When you’re
praying and meditating, you don’t want  to judge and attack; when you’re
eating well and exercising, you don’t want  to sit in front of the TV and eat
hot-fudge sundaes every night; and when you’re seeking to live a life of
integrity, you don’ t want  to make money at the expense of others.
Desire is righteous when it flows through a righteous vessel. The righteous
manifestation of money means manifestation brought forth by the right useof the mind. Righteously earned  money is a reflection of the abundance you
bring forth through the giving of your gifts to the universe. It is not in any
way a bleeding of the resources of the world, or of anyone else’s pockets. It
is an expression of the Infinite introduced into the finite world.
In looking at nature, we clearly see its abundance. From the extraordinary
design of a flower to the amazing colors on the feathers of a bird, from the
magnificence of a mountain range to the sparkling light of stars at night, the
universe keeps it simple in function, but not in presentation. That is how we
should live our lives: keeping the function simple—serving the purposes of
love—but expressing ourselves with whatever aesthetic or artistic
sensibility gives us joy. The idea that only simple sackcloth expresses
holiness doesn’ t jive with the natural expressions of a living, loving
universe. Our outer circumstan ces do not determine the holiness of our
thoughts.
Many people equate the love of money with greed, but no socio economic
group has a monopoly on love. The love of money isn’t of itself greedy, any
more than love of anything else is greedy. Greed is when you have a desire
that blinds you to the needs or wants of others. My love of art doesn’ t make
me greedy; it doesn’ t make me plot ways to steal art from the walls of
someone else’s house. My love of literature doesn’ t make me greedy; if I
read a book by Thomas Hardy, there isn’t any less Thomas Hardy for you.
Similarly, my love of money doesn’ t make me greedy, unless I’m thinking
of my money as something I’m taking from you, rather than creating with
you.
If I equate a love of money with greed, I’m subconsciously limiting my
ability to attract it. For if I do attract it, I must be greedy; therefore I’m bad;
therefore I must feel guilty; therefore I must keep money at bay in order to
avoid feeling guilty.
And then we wonder why we have no money!
Now let’ s imagine another scenario altogether.
You generate righteous effort and receive financial reward in exchange.
Remembering that all abundanc e comes from God, you realize that you are
only the steward of your money. You realize that there is more than enough
prosperity where that came from, because God is a realm  of infinite
abundance. You receive whatever is meant to come to you with graciousreceptivity and gratitude, as well as a sober sense of responsibility to
manage and use your money well.
Like everything else, money is a reflection of love. It is to be used as God
directs, as a way to care for all living things. We are meant to use the money
that comes our way to take care of ourselves and those close to us, as well
as for charity and for nonprofit and righteous profit-making ventures. All
those things, when done with love, further God’ s work in the world.
Money is meant to give increase, not only to yourself but also to others.
You invest in a way that does good; you work in a way that creates good;
you live in a way that feels good. And because of that, people whom you do
not even know will experience increase in their  lives that they would not
have otherwise experienced. Someone’ s store is more likely to thrive
because you shop there; someone’ s restaurant is more likely to expand
because you and your friends eat there; someone’ s valid request for
financial assistance is more likely to be met because you have money to be
generous with.
You are empowered not becaus e you have money, but because with that
money you can help empower others. You’re not coming from a “get”
mentality; you’re simply allow ing the flow of universal energy to move
through you and use you in a way that serves a greater good. Bless every
dollar, and every dollar will then bless you.
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Working Miracles
One of my favorite examples of the Law of Divine Compensation is the
life of the twentieth-century artist Henri Matisse. As an old man he had
arthritis so severe that he could no longer hold a paintbrush. What a tragedy
this could have been for one of the greatest painters who ever lived. He
found, however, that he could hold a child’ s pair of scissors and use it to cut
the construction paper that his grandchildren played with. This led to what
art historians consider one of the greatest phases of his work: the Matisse
paper cutouts.
Once again we see the difference between form and content. The fact that
on the material plane—the realm  of form—Matisse’ s hands could no longe r
work as well as they had did not mean that he had any less talent. In the
realm of content, nothing had been diminished. Spirit created a way within
the realm of form to compensate for diminishment and lack.

God will do His part when we do ours.

So when  we look at life from a spiritual perspective, we realize that the
loss of our job is not the loss of our calling, and the loss of money is not the
loss of our wealth. Our calling and our wealth, at the deepest level, are not
of the material plane and therefore cannot be taken away. Do not let the
appearance of loss deter you from the realization that what is given of God
is given forever.
 God has given you your identity, and that cannot be taken away.
God has imbued you with infinite potential, and that cannot be taken
away.
God has provided you with the opportunity to change your thinking in any
instant, and that cannot be taken away.
God has given you the capacity to love, and that cannot be taken away.
God has entrusted you with the power to live in the light of His abundance
in any moment, and that cannot be taken away.

Even if we have  only fifty cents, we can praise God and be blessed by that
fifty cents. Even when we have a stack of credit card bills and accumulated
debt staring us in the face, we can remember that in God all things are
possible and that there is no order of difficulty in miracles. We can do the
brutally self-hon est work of tracing our own part, if any, in making the
situation what it is. And we can atone, thus invoking the power of the
universe to correct it.
It’s a strong person who refuse s to whine, who gets up even when he
doesn’ t feel like it, puts his best foot forward, and goes to yet another job
interview when he’s been rejected by the last five prospective employers. It
takes a person of real grace not to blame a spouse, or give in to “I told you
so,” or sit around and only cast blame on others for difficult circumstances.
And it takes a spiritual seeker to realize that whatever is happen ing now can
be a platform for a miracle.
God will do His part when we do ours. Even if we have only a frayed hat,
we can still put our hat on and show up for life. We can pray for a miracle


's a fundamental mistake. Happiness
is something you are, and it comes from the way you think.
Never forget that doing what you love is the cornerstone of having success in your life.
You control your emotions. You do not have to explode with anger whenever someone else decides to
behave in an angry or vindictive way.
No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process yourworld.
Either you have control or you don't. If you do, take control; if you don't, don't waste your energy on
worry.
If you are suffering in your life right now, I can guarantee that this condition is tied up with some kind of
attachment to how things should be going.
When you argue for your limitations, all you get are your limitations.Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget
about achieving true success in your life.
Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral, loose, and free-floating-these are
the keys to successful performance in almost everything you do.Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who's not obsessed with being right?
Your soul-that inner quiet space-is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction.Be consistently aware of the need to serve God and serve others in any and all of your actions.
Having a plan for success isn't necessarily unhealthy, but falling in love with the plan is a real neurosis....
Don't let your plan become bigger than you are.Why not think about some things you've never done before and do them simply because you've never done
them and for no other reason?
You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create your reality.
The person looking back at you in the mirror is the one you have to answer to every day.
If you want to find deeper meaning in your life, you can't find it in the opinions or the beliefs that have
been handed to you. You have to go to that place within yourself.
Anything that bothers you is only a problem within. Only you can experience it, and only you can correct
it.
Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored... boredom is a choice.
If you want to be confident but don't normally act that way, then today, just this once, act in the physical
world the way you believe a confident person would.
Remember that every single thing you've gone through has helped lead you to where you are today.
You'll come to find that anything you must have comes to own you. The funny thing is, when you release it,
you start getting more of it.
If you want to find your true purpose in life, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in
service to others, and in being connected to something far greater than your body/mind/ego.
Make an internal commitment to respect yourself and feel worthy of all that the Universe has to offer.Treat yourself and others with kindness when you eat, exercise, play, work, love, and everything else.
That which offends you only weakens you. Being offended creates the same destructive energy that
offended you in the first place-so transcend your ego and stay in peace.
Let go of your ego's need to be right. When you're in the middle of an argument, ask yourself: Do I want to
be right or be happy?
Be thankful for the wonderful gift of being able to serve humanity, your planet, and your God. That's a lot
to be grateful for!A purpose is not something that you're going to find. It's something that will find you. And it will find you
only when you're ready and not before.
This magnificent Universe provides abundantly when you're in a state of gratitude.Genuinely feeling abundant and successful is possible when you detach yourself from the things you
desire and allow them to flow to youand through you.
All of the "stuff" in your life has arrived to serve you, rather than to make you a servant of the stuff.The qualities of creativity and genius are within you, awaiting your decision to match up with the power
of intention.
Every thought that you have impacts you. By shifting in the middle of a weakening thought to one that
strengthens, you raise your energy vibration and strengthen yourself and the immediate energy field.Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval.It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you
convince yourself is true.
Alcohol, as well as all drugslegal and otherwise-lower your body's energy level and weaken you. By
retreating from these substances, you can achieve the level of success you crave.
Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thankyou. The universal
all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness by asking: How may I be kind to you?
Your belief about yourself is the most telling factor in determining your level of success and happiness.Individuals who use self-labels are stating, "I'm a finished product in this area, and I'm never going to be
any different." If you're a finished product, all tied up and put away, you've stopped growing.
If you find yourself believing that you must always be the way you've always been, you're arguing against
your own personal growth.If a problem arises, then go within. Get very quiet about it, and find the answers inside you.
Be cognizant of the fact that the more you attach your value and humanity to those things outside yourself,
the more you give those things the power to control you.You can never fail in anything you try to do. You can only produce certain results.Involve yourself in high-energy levels of trust, optimism, appreciation, reverence, joy, and love when you
engage in every activity in your life.
Once you begin working on your problem areas with small, daily, success-oriented goals, the problems
will disappear.
The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something
happen for you.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.You're not what you have and you're not what you do; you're an infinite, Divine being disguised as a
successful person who has accumulated a certain amount of stuff. The stuff is not you.Have you thought about the fact that you are the sum total of all your choices up until this moment?
Happiness and success are inner processes that we bring to life's undertakings, rather than something we
get from "out there."In business or your personal life, the more you try to force something for your own benefit, the less you'll
enjoy what you're seeking so desperately.
The path to the big picture is different for everyone, but the understanding has to be that the big picture is,
in fact, there.
Release your need to feel superior by seeing the unfolding of Spirit in everyone. Don't assess others on
the basis of their appearance, achievements, and possessions. Remember: We are all equal in the eyes of
God.
Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering, who see the greatness in you, who feel
connected to God, and who live a life that gives evidence that Spirit has found celebration through them.There is no path to success; success is an inner attitude that you bring to your endeavors.Know that all the abundance you want is already here. You just have to tune it in.
If you practice maintaining your composure, and remember that someone else's behavior belongs to that
person and cannot upset you unless you allow it to do so, then you will not become an unwilling target.
The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity.On your daily journeys, listen to those inner signals that help you make the right choices-no matter what
anyone thinks.Regardless of your current station in life, you have a spiritual contract to make joy your constant
companion. Know that you don't have to live a life filled with less-than-joyful activities.
If you slip, it doesn't mean that you're less valuable. It simply means you have something to learn from
slipping.
Take stock of those who were negative forces in your past, and search for ways in which their actions
might have been blessings in disguise.
Even if you're in the gutter, you have the option of looking at the stars.Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.
You need to go beyond the ideas of succeeding and failing, for these are judgments. Stay in the process
and allow the Universe to handle the details.Networking can never fail. It's so powerful because you just keep creating more power sources. It's like
geometric progression.
Have faith that God won't send you anything you're incapable of handling. You can decide that the word
fear is an acronym for false evidence appearing real!
Constantly remind yourself that you're here for a reason, and it's not to hoard a lot of material stuff.Before speaking, remember that people really do respect those who are willing to speak their truth... and
even more, to live the truth they feel.
If you find yourself in a difficult job situation, modify your attitude and perspective... and see how things
change for the better.Thinking about where you've been or what you did wrong in the past are impediments to a successful life.
In an infinite, never-beginning and neverending Universe, there is no past.Your limits to success are defined by the agreement you've made about what's possible. Change that
agreement and you can dissolve all these limits.
Self-worth cannot be verified by others. You're worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others
for your value, it is "other-worth."If


 of the airways af fected 55 percent of
football athletes and 50 percent of basketball players, but 0 percent of water
polo pla yers. W ith such a glar ing disparity, what factors could possibly
explain the dif ference? The answ er, as you have probably guessed by now,
is simple. W ater polo training  involves breath holding and swimming
underwater, resu lting in a high er tolerance to carbon dioxide, increased
amounts of nitric oxide, and a  reduced breathing volume. W ith a more
normal breathing volume, asthma tendencies don’ t appear.
However, if you have asthma and do not wish to take up swimming,
there is a simple r way! The Oxy gen Advantage approach incorp orates all of
the ben eficial aspects of swimming and more. Although the act of
swimming has its merits, it is  well documented that spending time in
chlorinated pool s is not ideal for asthma, as the chlorine can ca use damage
to lung tissue. F urthermore, while swimming reduces breathing  volume, it
is st ill im portant to address poor breathing habits outside of the pool. Many
swimmers rema in habitual mouth breathers and continue to employ poor
breathing habits that reduce their athletic performance and maintain their
asthma.
Y our success in addressing asthma will be based on your ability to
increase your BOL T score usin g the Breathe Light to Breathe  Right and
simulation of high-altitude exercises described in this book. Y ou  will find a
program specifi c to your needs  in Part IV. The general aim is to increase
your BOL T score to 40 seconds.  The best time to measure your BOL T score
to tr ack your p rogress is first thing in the morning, and if your BOL T
measurement re mains less than 20 seconds, then your asthma  symptoms
will persist. However, when your early morning BOL T score is greater than
20 seconds, symptoms such as wheezing, coughing, breathlessness, and
chest tightness will disappear. It’ s important to note that you may still be
susceptible to certain symptoms even when you have achieved a BOL Tscore of 20 seco nds when exposed to a trigger; a BOL T score of 40 seconds
is needed to fully eliminate your asthma symptoms.
As you work toward achieving a high BOL T score, you may continue to
experience symptoms, depending on your medical history and triggers.
Y our ability to stop the ef fects of asthma using the exercise below is
dependent on two factors: how high your resting BOL T score is and how
quickly you react to the ons et of symptoms. The sooner you begin
practicing the exercise, the easier it is to prevent symptoms from taking
hold. By ignoring your symptoms and hoping they will g o away by
themselves, the ef fects of asthm a tend to get worse and can take  on a life of
their ow n. If you often experie nce asthma symptoms, you will know that
wheezing and coughing usually  worsen over time, so it is important to
intervene early on.
This ex ercise can help stop a sthma symptoms, but please get your
doctor ’ s permiss ion to try it first. Then follow the instructions below during
the early  stages of chest tightness, wheezing, coughing, or a head cold. If
you aren ’ t able to stop your sy mptoms within 10 minutes, then take your
rescue m edication. If you are experiencing severe symptoms, of course,
then take rescue medication str aightaway. If your rescue medication does
not stop your sy mptoms within a couple of minutes, it is advisable to call a
medical doctor immediately.
T o stop asthma symptoms before they take hold, follow these steps:•   T ake a small, silent breath in and out through your nose.
•  Hold your breath and walk for 10 to 15 paces.
•   Stop walking, release your no se, and resume gentle breathing in
and out of your nose.•  W ait for 30 to 60 seconds and repeat.
•   Continue to walk while holding your breath for 10 to 15 paces
followed by resting with nasal breathing for 30 to 60 seconds.
•   If you r symptoms are mild, yo u may hold your breath for more
than 10 to 15 paces.
•  Do this exercise for at least 10 minutes.
In a ddition to e mploying nasal breathing and achieving a high BOL T
score, it is also very importan t to warm up properly in order to avoid
exercise-induced asthma. The minimum time spent warming up should be
10 minu tes. A good warm-up consists of fast walking while practicing a
medium to strong breath hold every minute or so. After the 10-minute
warm-up, increa se the pace so that you’re moving as fast as you can while
maintaining nas al breathing. If y ou feel the need to open your m outh, slow
down. Following  your physical exercise, encourage your breathing to calm
toward normal.
The positive results of reduced breathing exercises and nasal breathing
on the symptom s of asthma are  fast and astounding. W ith su ch a simple
method, there really is no reas on for anyone to suf fer a single day more
from the discomfort of asthma.CHAPTER 13
A t h l e t i c  E n d e a v o r — N a t u r e  o r  N u r t u r e?
I n 1704, a racing stallion by th e name of the Darley Arabian arrived in
Britain f rom Syria, and 95 perc ent of today’ s male thoroughbreds descend
from him. Gene ticist Patrick Cunningham and colleagues fro m my alma
mater, T rinity College Dublin,  traced the lineage of nearly one million
horses f rom the past two cen turies and determined that 30 percent of
variation in performance in tho roughbreds is due to genetics alone. In the
nature versus nurture debate, these results suggest that nature plays a
significant part in our athletic abilities.
There is one ar ea in particular where a combination of gene tics and
behavior has considerable influe nce on athletic performance, and that is the
way the face and jaws develop during childhood. For example, take a look
at the structure of the face and jaws of past Olympic gold me dal winners
including Usain Bolt, Sanya Richards-Ross, Steve Hooker, and Roger
Federer. What is strikingly apparent for this group, and for the vast majority
of to p-class athletes, is the forward growth of the face and w idth of the
jaws. A thletic success depends on having good airways, which in turn is
dependent on normal facial stru cture. Spend a lot of time with your mouth
hanging open or sucking your thumb during childhood and the face grows
dif ferently from how nature intended.
In fa ct, M ichael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, is one
of th e v ery few top-class athlet es who does not exhibit forwar d growth of
the jaws  and a w ide facial structure. Based on his facial profile, there is a
high likelihood that he was a m outh breather during childhoo d, possibly
requiring orthod ontic treatment  in his early teens. It is also possible that
Phelps chose swimming, either consciously or unconsciously, as it was theone sport that he could excel in. The very act of swimmi ng restricts
breathing to help of fset any n egative ef fects that have developed from
mouth breathing or an inef ficient breathing pattern.
Although the natural order of things is to breathe through th e nose,
many children—especially those with asthma or nasal congestion—
habitually breathe through the mouth. Brazilian researchers i nvestigating
the prev alence of mouth breathing in children aged 3 to 9 fo und that 55
percent of a ra ndom selection of 370 subjects were mouth breathers.
Children who regularly breathe through their mouth tend to develop
negative alterati ons to their face, jaws, and the alignment of their teeth.
Mouth b reathing af fects the shape of the face in two ways. Firs t, there is a
tendency for the face to grow long and narrow. Secondly, the jaws do not
fully de velop and are set back from their ideal position, thus reducing
airway s ize. If the jaws are not positioned forward enough on th e face, they
will encroach on the airways. See for yourself: Close your mouth, jut out
your chin, and t ake a breath in and out through your nose, not ing the way
air travels down behind the jaws. Now do the same but pull your chin
inward a s far as you can—you will probably feel as if your thro at is closed
up as you try to breathe. This i s exactly the ef fect poorly developed facial
structure has on your airway siz e. It is no wonder that those wi th restricted
airways tend to favor mouth breathing.
The forc es exerted by the lips and the tongue primarily influence the
growth o f a child’ s face. The lips and cheeks exert an inward pressure on
the f ace, with th e tongue providing a counteracting force. Whe n


437 calls.‖
— Pierce and Allan Hamilton
―During all those hearings when they were trying to tak e his license away, they were so mean. Well, I
went to all of them [the hearings]. The doctors on the panel never took any notes. When it came time
for Dr. Revici to testify, he was advised not to tell them anything about what he did.
―His only response was, ‗The world must know, the world must know.‘ When he started to speak, all
the doctors on the panel started to write down everything he said.
―I talked to someone who worked in the governor‘s office about all the scribbling. He said that they
knew Rev ici had the answer, and they were trying to get it.  47
  ―Then, during a later break, I was standing in a small hallway with Dr. Revici. By then I was furious
with the whole panel and with what they wer e trying to do. I said to him, ‗I hope they all get it [cancer]
and have to come to you.‘ He looked at me and shrugged his shoulders. His lower lip came out. In
disbelief, I said, ‗You wouldn‘t!‘ He answered me with his soft, gentle voice: ‗I‘m 87. In all my life I‘ve
never refused to treat anyone. Would you want me to start now?‘‖
— Ruth Spector
―Dr. Revici was the person who treated my first wife when she died of cancer in 1969.
―I‘ve always been appreciative of what he did for her during the daily tel ephone calls to Jamaica,
West Indies, where she died. After her death I again visited his office, this time to offer him a $5,000
check to cover his phone calls and other expenses, but, again, he was adamant in his refusal.‖
— Lyle Stuart, publisher, Bar ricade Books
Revici told the following story on himself: ―When I first started practicing I never charged. But some
of the patients told me they couldn‘t come to see me because of it. So I had to charge them, so they
could get care.‖
— Dr. Emanuel Revic i
―Dr. Revici was offered an enticing opportunity to practice medicine in a Middle Eastern country to treat
the royal family and other important people. Revici told those who invited him that if he were to go there,
he would have to be able to treat all p atients, not just selected people. When that condition wouldn‘t be
met, Dr. Revici turned down the offer.‖
— Marcus Cohen
―A child who had been treated by Revici became hospitalized in Atlanta with a severe case of asthma.
For two weeks the little girl failed to respond to the medical treatment given her by the hospital
physicians. The mother decided to call Dr. Revici at home. He had given the mother his home number
as he does with all his patients. It was midnight.
―He answered on the first ring. He suggested a treatment over the phone and told her to call her back.
The mother had already accumulated a number of Revici‘s different medicines, so she was able to treat
her daughter herself, even though she was in the hospital. She ended up calling Revici  back at two in
the morning and at three. He was awake for all the calls. By morning the woman‘s daughter had
recovered and was able to be discharged.‖   48
 — Ruth Spector
―When Dr. Revici was running Trafalgar Hospital in New York, they had a problem with getting some
of the patients to take their medicine. The treatments were totally free to the patients with all the
expenses paid for by donations from wealthy benefactors. To get the patients to use the medicine
they had to start charging them five dollars. It worked.‖
— Lawrence LeShan, Ph.D.
―Even Revici had limits to his patience. A wo man came to him who was close to death. She had cancer
throughout her body. Her doctors predicted she would die within two or three months. Her recovery
under Revici was swift and dramatic. She never returned to her other doctors.
―Three months later one  of her original physicians called her home to see if she was still alive. When
she answered the phone, the doctor asked about his patient. He didn‘t recognize the perky, energetic
voice on the line. When the doctor had last seen her, the patient barely ha d enough energy to speak,
breathily uttering one word at a time as if each word might be her last. When the doctor finally realized
he was speaking to his former patient he exclaimed that he must meet Dr. Revici.
―But when Revici was informed of the other  doctor‘s response, Revici refused to see him, ‗I will never
see this man after what he did to you! He should have known after the third x -ray.‘ The doctor had
apparently used the patient like a lab animal, x -raying her repeatedly. He didn‘t want to teach his
method to someone who didn‘t value human life and human dignity.
―Ten years later the woman was handling multi -million dollar loan contracts for Fanny Mae. Revici
has never seen the doctor.‖
— Ruth Spector
―Once when Dr. Revici was in London, ther e was a machine that could apparently measure alpha, beta,
gamma and delta brain waves. He was hooked up to the machine. According to the tester, Revici‘s
brain waves were complete in both hemispheres for all of the different brain waves, something that ha d
previously only been seen with certain Eastern mystics.‖
— Alice Ladas, Ed.D., author
―Dr. Revici heard about a patient who was too sick to come and see him. He paid the man a house call,
walking up five flights of stairs. Revici was ninety -three.‖
— Marcus Cohen  49
  ―This being New York, we had a kind of boast in the hospital that made it different from any other
hospital: every patient would be spoken to in his own language, which in New York d oesn‘t happen all
the time.
―One day a Japanese priest came in, and he didn‘t speak a word of English. We knew damn well,
although he speaks six languages, Revici didn‘t speak any Japanese. So, that morning everyone went
on rounds to see how he would han dle it. The son of a [gun] did the examination in Latin. It must have
been the first time a physical exam was done in Latin in a thousand years.‖
— Lawrence LeShan, Ph.D.
―The patient was bedridden with AIDS, and his condition was considered terminal. A friend called to
see how he was. The woman who answered the phone said, ‗I‘m sorry, he‘s gone.‘ The caller asked
when he had died. She answered, ‗He‘s not dead. He went shopp ing.‘ The patient had begun
treatment with Revici one week earlier.‖
— Norman Carmen
―We had a conversation with a couple outside the office. They were both members of Mensa, the club
for people with extremely high I.Q.‘s. They said Dr. Revici had taken  the test, but his score was too
high to be accurately measured.‖
— Allan Hamilton
―After hearing my mother wasn‘t doing well, Dr. Revici made a home visit. He spent two hours. On the
second visit he spent the entire night. About three or four in the mor ning I saw him up. My mother died
three or four days later. I felt a special closeness with Dr. Revici, but I believe he treated all his patients
that way. I have a special warm feeling even now for Dr. Revici.‖
— William Rosenberg
―One time I was in the  office and was sitting next to a gentleman, a young fellow. I struck up a
conversation with him. To this day I can still see that guy. He said, ‗You know, no one has ever given
me anything in this life. Nobody has ever done anything for me.‘ What happened  to him is, he had
cancer of the lung. He went to see Revici. He was out of a job. Revici said he would take care of him.
He would treat him. ‗So, I told him I didn‘t have any money.‘ Revici said, ‗That‘s all right, I‘ll still take
care of you.‘ I can stil l hear that guy. He was sitting there, and he was like, ‗Nobody, nobody has ever
done anything for me.‘ He couldn‘t believe that this man was going to do something for him. It just tore
me up inside listening to his story.‖   50
 — Allan Hamilton
―There were never two minutes when the phone didn‘t ring right through dinner. We expected it
and understood.‖
— Nita Taskier, Revici‟s daughter
―He always said ‗My dear. My dear.‘‖
— Pierce Hamilton
―There was a patient who had a front room in the hospital with a telephone and a window with a view
of some trees. After eight months, she


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EWALD closed the medical textbook on his knee. "This was
published twenty years ago," he said. "If we looked up'atherosclerosis' in a textbook from ten years ago, we'd
find the same kind of things -- stress, lifestyle, lots about diet,nothing about infection."
Heart disease is now being linked to Chlamydia pneumoniae, a
newly discovered bacterium that causes pneumonia andbronchitis. The germ is a relative of Chlamydia trachomatis, which
causes trachoma, a leading cause of blindness in parts of theThird World. C. trachomatis is perhaps more familiar to us as a
sexually transmitted disease that, left untreated in women, canlead to scarring of the fallopian tubes, pelvic inflammatorydisease, ectopic pregnancy, and tubal infertility.
Pekka Saikku and Maija Leinonen, a Finnish husband-and-wife
team who have evoked comparisons to the Curies, discovered the new type of chlamydial infectionin 1985, though its existence was not officially recognized until 1989. Saikku and Leinonen foundthat 68 percent of Finnish patients who had suffered heart attacks had high levels of antibodies to C.
pneumoniae, as did 50 percent of patients with coronary heart disease, in contrast to 17 percent of the
healthy controls. "We were mostly ignored or laughed at," Saikku recalls.
While examining coronary-artery tissues at autopsy in 1991, Allan Shor, a pathologist in
Johannesburg, saw "pear-shaped bodies" that looked like nothing he'd ever seen before. Hementioned his observations to a microbiologist colleague, who had read about a new species ofchlamydia with a peculiar pear shape. The colleague referred Shor to an expert on the subject, Cho-Chou Kuo, of the University of Washington School of Public Health, in Seattle. After Shor shippedKuo the curious coronary tissue, Kuo found that the clogged coronary arteries were full of C.
pneumoniae. Before long, others were reporting the presence of live C. pneumoniae in arterial plaque
fresh from operating tables. Everywhere the bacterium lodges, it appears to precipitate the samegrim sequence of events: a chronic inflammation, followed by a buildup of plaque that occludes theopening of the artery (or, in the case of venereal chlamydia, a buildup of scar tissue in the fallopiantube). Recently a team of pathologists at MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine, in Philadelphia,found the same bacterium in the diseased sections of the autopsied brains of patients who had hadlate-onset Alzheimer's disease: it was present in seventeen of nineteen Alzheimer's patients and inonly one of nineteen controls.
By the mid-1990s a radical new view was emerging of atherosclerosis as a chronic, lifelong arterial
infection. "I am confident that this will reach the level of certainty of ulcer and H. pylori, " says
Saikku, who estimates that at least 80 percent of all coronary heart disease is caused by thebacterium. Big questions remain, of course. Studies show that about 50 percent of U.S. adults carryantibodies to C. pneumoniae -- but how many will develop heart disease? Even if heart patients can
be shown to have antibodies to C. pneumoniae, and even if colonies of the bacteria are found living
and breeding in diseased coronary arteries, is it certain that the germ caused the damage? Perhaps
it's an innocent bystander, as some critics have proposed; or a secondary, opportunistic infection.
But suppose that a Chlamydia pneumoniae infection during childhood can initiate a silent, chronic
infection of the coronary arteries, resulting in a "cardiovascular event" fifty years later. Couldantibiotics help to address the problem?
A few early studies suggest they might. Researchers in Salt Lake City infected white rabbits with C.
pneumoniae, fed them a modestly cholesterol-enhanced diet, killed them, and found thickening of the
thoracic aortas, in contrast to the condition of uninfected controls fed the same diet. Additionally,treatment of infected rabbits with antibiotics in the weeks following infection prevented thethickening. Saikku and colleagues reported a similar finding, also in rabbits. Coronary patients inEurope who were treated with azithromycin not only showed a decline in antibodies and othermarkers of infection but in some studies had fewer subsequent cardiovascular events than patientswho were given placebos. (These findings are preliminary; in a few years we may know more. Thefirst major clinical trial is under way in the United States, sponsored by the National Institutes ofHealth and the Pfizer Corporation: 4,000 heart patients at twenty-seven clinical centers will be giveneither the antibiotic azithromycin or a placebo and followed for four years to gauge whether theantibiotic affects the incidence of further coronary events.)
Smoking, stress, cholesterol, and heredity all play a role in heart disease. But imagine if our No. 1
killer -- with its vast culture of stress-reduction theories, low-fat diets, high-fiber cereals, cholesterol-lowering drugs, and high-tech bypass surgery -- could in many instances be vanquished with anantibiotic. Numerous precedents exist for long-smoldering bacterial infections with consequencesthat appear months or years later. Lyme disease, leprosy, tuberculosis, and ulcers have a similarcourse. Ewald is confident that the association of C. pneumoniae and heart disease is real. He doesn't
believe that the germ is an innocent bystander. "It reminds you a lot of gonorrhea in the 1890s," hesays. "When they saw the organism there, people said, 'Well, we don't know if it's really causing thedisease, or is just living there.' Every month the data are getting stronger. This is a smoking gun, justlike Helicobacter. "
Evolutionary Byways
IHAVE a motto," Gregory Cochran told me recently. "'Big old diseases are
infectious.' If it's common, higher than one in a thousand, I get suspicious.And if it's old, if it has been around for a while, I get suspicious."
The fact that Ewald has dared to conceive of a big theory for the medical
sciences owes much to Cochran's contributions. A forty-five-year-old Ph.D.physicist who lives in Albuquerque with his wife and three small children,Cochran makes a living doing contract work on advanced optical systems forweaponry and other devices. Whereas Ewald is an academic insider, withdepartment meetings to attend and honors theses to monitor, Cochran is asolo player, with an encyclopedic mind (he is a former College Bowl
contestant) and a manner that verges on edginess. These days he spends a lot
of time at his computer, as rapt as a conspiracy theorist, cruising Medline for new data on infectiousdiseases and, one imagines, almost cackling to himself when he finds something really good.Cochran's background in a field dominated by grand theories and universal laws may serve as avaluable counterpoint to the empirical and theory-hostile universe of the health sciences.
Ewald and Cochran encountered each other serendipitously, after Cochran decided to pursue a
certain line of thinking about a very sensitive subject. "I was reading an article in Scientific American
in 1992 about pathogens manipulating a host to get what they want," Cochran recalls. "It described aflowering plant infected by a fungus, and the fungus hijacks the plant's reproductive machinery so
Gregory Cochran
that instead of pollen it produces fungal spores. I thought, Could it be? " Cochran strayed from his
field to try his hand at writing an article on biology -- elaborating an audacious theory that humanhomosexuality might result from a "manipulation" of a host by a germ with its own agenda. He senthis draft to a prestigious biology journal, which sent it out to three scientists for peer review. Twowere unconvinced, even appalled; the third was Paul Ewald, who thought the article was flawedbut who was nonetheless impressed by the logic of the idea. The article was rejected, but Ewald andCochran began their association.
To illustrate his thinking about infectiousness and disease, Cochran not long ago gave me a tour of
his conceptual bins, into which he sorts afflictions according to their fitness impact. Remember thatfitness can be defined as the evolutionary success of one organism relative to competing organisms.Only one thing counts: getting one's genes into the future. Any disease that kills host organismsbefore they can reproduce reduces fitness to zero. Obviously, fitness takes a major hit whenever thereproductive system itself is involved, as in the case of venereal chlamydia.
Consider a disease with a fitness cost of one percent -- that is, a disease that takes a toll on survival
or reproduction such that people who have it end up with one percent fewer offspring, on average,than the general population. That small amount adds up. If you have an inherited disease with aone percent fitness cost, in the next generation there will be 99 percent of the original number in thegene pool. Eventually the number of people with the disease will dwindle to close to zero -- or,more precisely, to the rate produced by random genetic mutations: about one in 50,000 to one in100,000.
We were considering the bin containing diseases that are profoundly antagonistic to fitness, with a
fitness cost of somewhere between one and


 ou want virgin coconut oil that is cold-
pressed. It should have the delicious
aroma of fresh coconuts. Coconut oil that
has been extracted using a solvent or
fractionated is less desirable, and often
times loses its aroma.2 years stored in a cool,
dark, place
Shea Butter Look for raw, unrefined, shea butter. The
refining process strips it of some of its
wonderful benefits. It should have a rich,
nutty, aroma with just a hint of vanilla.
Refined shea has little to no odor.1 year, stored in a cool, dark,
place
Avocado Oil True, organic, cold-pressed avocado oil
of high quality is a dark olive green color,
somewhat thick, and smooth and rich in
texture.1 year, stored in a cool, dark,
place
Jojoba Oil A rich yellow color, jojoba oil should
be unrefined and cold-pressed as its
extraction method.Indefinite21Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comCocoa Butter Cocoa butter has an aroma befitting of
its name-it smells chocolaty! Look for
organic unrefined cocoa butter, with a
slightly yellow color and a harder, but still
creamy, consistency.  1 year, stored in a cool, dark,
place
Honey Y ou want organic, raw, honey. It is not
clear, pristine looking, or liquid. It is
cloudy, sometimes crystalline, and fairly
solid. Honey that has been processed
has lost its beneficial enzymes and much,
if not all of, it’s healing power.  Indefinite
But What If I Mess Up?
Y ou will, at some point, and you will continue to do so. Like any endeavor, you just have to put in the time and
patience to natural living and you will quickly learn what works for you, what doesn’t, and even add your own
personal touches to recipes. The beauty of all of this is that it is not an exact science. As long as it is within
the realms of being safe, you can tweak and adjust and play around with most of these recipes all you want.
If you find the smell of something too strong, add less essential oils. If a balm is too solid or too soft for you,
tweak the amount of beeswax or solid oil/butter in it. A lot of the recipes will list amounts over a range, such
as 1-2 tablespoons, or 10-15 drops, so that you have some wiggle room to match it to your preference but still
be successful. If something you makes turns out too oily, for example, don’t have a total break down about it.
Simply add a little less oil less time. Y es, these recipes do work for me, but it is inevitable that some people,
even simply because of their environment, will get a different result. I want you to have tools to be able to
work with.
Clean Up
Solid ingredients like beeswax and coconut oil can pose a problem when it comes to cleaning up. Because
they will become solid as they cool, they can potentially clog your drains if poured down them. For best results,
keep the excess oil or wax warm and wipe out thoroughly with a paper towel. Then rinse with HOT water and
lots of soap. If I have been using a double boiler, I will often times pour that water into the waxy or oily bowl as
well. If you plan on using beeswax a lot, I suggest getting a separate set of bowls specifically for that use.
When it comes to pouring things into their containers, like balms and salves, place the containers on a cooking
sheet covered in parchment paper or aluminum foil. That way you can easily clean up the inevitable little drips
and spills that will happen!22Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comWhere Do I Get All of This?
I know a lot of this sounds exotic, but the beauty of the internet is that you can get just about anything now.
Making your own cleaning products, DIY stuff, or home remedies, really isn’t hard. It’s actually no different
than cooking. Y ou couldn’t whip up a batch of soup if you didn’t first get the carrots, onions, broth, and a pot
could you? Like anything else, you need to equip yourself with some ingredients and equipment.
The resources page is listed on the table of contents.
Sustainability
As our interest in herbs, oils, and butters, grows, it is important to do a background check on your sources
before purchasing. Since many of our precious ingredients come from developing countries, it is  up to us to
make sure they are coming from fair conditions for those who grow and farm them, and make sure the planet
is being respected in the process. It is also good to keep in mind that our beautiful herbs and flowers aren’t
unlimited-look into sources that mention sustainable growth and collection or, better yet, grow your own! Health
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Our bodies put up with all kinds of strange things us humans love to
do, and somehow manage to avoid falling apart (right now I am thinking
specifically of people skiing moguls, and my mother ranting on about
how their knees are going deteriorate at any second.) Our joints in
particular take an incredible amount of repetitive strain on a day-to-day
basis, no extreme sports required, so it’s no wonder that as we age our
joints begin to wear. The result of this wear and tear is known generally
as arthritis. There are actually two types of arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis
and osteoarthritis, the latter of which is more common, and the former
which is far more mysterious.
Osteoarthritis takes place as the cartilage cushioning our joints
wears down over time, until bone grates painfully against bone. It is
usually simply the result of aging, but can also be caused by repeated
excessive strain, or after an injury to the joint. Rheumatoid arthritis is
a little less straightforward. It is the product of a chronic autoimmune
disorder in which the immune system-whose job is to attack foreign
cells such as a virus or bacteria-attacks the body’s own tissues.
Specifically it targets the synovial membrane, a soft tissue that protects
joints in the body. As a result, sufferers experience many painful
symptoms, including inflammation, fluid build-up, and sometimes
eventual bone loss. While arthritis of either type can be an unavoidable
reality in our lives, treating the symptoms at home can be quite easy,
and people generally experience a high degree of success. Arthritis
-Maintain your ideal weight. Being
over-weight puts more strain
on your joints than necessary,
possibly leading to osteoarthritis.
-Exercise to maintain strength
in all parts of your body, reduce
stiffness, and increase flexibility.
Not moving around because your
joints ache is the very last thing
you should do. Just be sure to
balance it so it is not so strenuous
as to do more harm than good.
Ginger Root Salve
-Ginger root infused oil can be a
bugger to make because of the
fresh root’s high moisture content,
so be sure to leave the lid halfway
ajar to allow it to evaporate.
-Whenever you add water content
to something, you decrease shelf
life greatly. To be on the safe
side, make a small batch of this
and keep it in a mason jar, boiled
previously to eradicate any germs,
in a cool dark place. Use within
1 ½ weeks, or up to 2 ½ weeks if
refrigerated.
-Y ou can leave the oil as it is
without making it into a salve if
you want to keep it simple. Usage
is the same.
White Willow Tea
-Chipped bark is more desirable
than powdered, which can leave
behind a gritty, sandy texture in
your tea.
24Copyright 2014 everydayroots.comTips & TroubleshootingA process called prostaglandin synthesis goes on in many animals, including humans, and can play large role
in the treatment of arthritis. This process, or synthesis, makes lipid (fat) compounds called prostaglandins within
our cells that act like little messengers. They run a wide variety biological processes, including inflammation,
and transmitting pain signals to neurons. Virtually all common OTC painkillers work by inhibiting this process,
therefore preventing or lessening pain and inflammation.  Wonderful ginger root is a natural alternative that has
been shown many times to work the same way, sans the side effects of regular medication. By massaging this
warming salve gently into aching joints, you can help quickly relieve pain, swelling, and stiffness. Ginger Root Salve
For the oil:
-2 cups of ginger root, cut into
medium to large chunks
-3 ½ cups of olive or jojoba
oil
-A crock pot
For the salve:
-10-12 parts infused oil
-1-2 parts grated beeswax or
beeswax pastilles
-A double boiler1. Set your crock pot to the lowest setting. Add your chopped ginger and then
cover with oil, leaving the lid halfway ajar to allow the moisture to evaporate-I
cannot stress how important this part is!
2. Allow the oil to infuse for 2 full days, checking every now and then to make
sure it is not boiling or burning.
3. Dec


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4. Selective distribution of granulocytes in a
closed circuit
How is it possible that granulocytes accumulate in
veins, venules and venous capillaries when corre
sponding small arteries, arterioles and arterial capillar-.-..·
•... ; '...._.......
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Fig. XII: 24. Overview of dog rruosenteries with different
electrode positions and polarities, each exposed to 1.2 cou
lombs at 5 V between the electrodes. In each of the electrode
combinations smallan.eries were empty of blood cells. Small
vcins contained varying degrees of increased numbers of
granulocytes outside a cell·free zone around the electronega -
ies are narrow and empty of blood cells? This problem
is further considered in Chapter XIV, Sections 1-K,
where an alternative theory to so-called chemotactic
accumulation of leukocytes and charged compounds in
tissue is presented. A preliminary brief explanation
will be given in this connection. tivc mesenteric electrode (a and,) and directJy up tO lhe elec
tropositive mesenteric electrode (band t!). A = "small" arte
ries, V = "small" veins (approx. 0.1 mm in diameter ).
M.es • mesentery, Ao • aorta, V. cava • vena cava inferior.
Scale same in each view. Haematoxylin-c os-in.
All mammalian cells, including blood cells, are
known to carry a surplus of fixed electronegative
charges on their surfaces (79). Under the inllue.nce of
an electric field of suitable strength in relation to the
charged cells, and considering the factors of cell size,
steric characteristics of cellular charges and matr~x
Biologically closed electric circuits 139 ~';.-··.. -.
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Fig. XII: 25. Distribution of granulocytes in four different
combinations of electrode posidons ~nd combinations of vol·
tagcs in dog mesentery. In each combination arterioles and
arteda_l capillaries (Ac) are e.mpty and narrow while the ven·
140 BiologicaUy closed electric circuits •. \,..'
-.........
ulcs and \'enous capillaries (Vc) arc relatively wide ~md con·
tain granulocytc.-s, some of which also appear in the dssue.
Mcs ;s; mesentery, Ao:;:; aorta, V. cava= vena cava inferior.
Scale same ln each ''iew. HaematOx yJin.eosin. •....
Fig. XII: 26. Meoentery of dog. Narrow small anery (A) is
vinually empty of cells and widened small ••ein (V) contains
selectively accumulated granulocytes peripheral to the zone
free of cells around the cathode. Anode positioned on the
mesentery 3 em away from the cathode. 100 mV, IO!lA, 30
minutes, 0.018 coulombs. Haematoxylin-eosin.
properties oftissue, the charged cells will be attracted or
repelled depending on the polarity of the electric field.
The electronegative granulocytes will consequently be at
tracted to an anode and repelled by a cathode like any
charged particle in an electrophoretic process. This pro
cess requires an activated closed electric circuit, which
in the present experiments was created by an external
source of electric power, cables, electrodes and the
conducting media in the tissue. We are therefore still
only simulating the existence of a BCEC in our experi
ments. This is one of the reasons we must wait until
later (Chapters XIV, XVI) for discussion of bow gran
ulocytes can accumulate electrophoreticaUy over an
endogenou s, activated closed circuit (the VICC).
The accumulation of granulocytes in vessels toward
the anode, positioned against the mesentery, is readily
explained as an electrophoretic attraction of the granu
locytes. Around the cathode, however, electronegative
particles and cells should be repelled. A cell-free zone
was therefore also regularly observed around the cath
ode. Nevertheless, outside this zone large amounts of
granulocytes accumulated in ves.els (Fig. Xll: 21\).
The mechanism of this phenomenon is explained in
Chapter XIV (and illustrated in Fig. XIV: 18).
5. Mechanisms of regional contraction of
arterioles and arterial capillaries
Is there any mechanism which can explain the local
regions of field induced contractions of small arteries,
arterioles and arterial capillaries while corresponding
venous vessels are wide? The capillaries, small vessels
arteries and veins are provided with nerve fibres which
evidently offer one possibility for neurogenous im
pulses of contraction. Another or an as$0datcd mecha
nism may be connected to the pericytes, which fur
thermore are described to be involved in the contrac-
ll-814586 NorrkJUtmm tion of capillaries. We may now focus our attention to
the remarkable fact that pericytes are sparsely found in
the lungs and in the vessels of very small animals (78).
Let us anticipate that the pericytes are involved in a
mechanism of segmental small vessel contractions in
duced by electric fields of a closed circuit (identified as
a VICC system). In this case pericytes should not
cover the entire capillary net as this should jeopardize
a segmental mode of contractions. Consequently, pos
sibilities of modulating selective closed circuit, "long·
or short-distance" electrogenic transports should not
be possible (see also Fig. Xll: 30a). Small animals as
the shrew (smallest mammal, weight 2 g) should need
very few pericytes because their capillary membranes
are exceedingly thin. The shrew may get along well
simply by diffusion through the thin capillary mem
branes. The sparse extent of pericytes in the human
lung is perhaps similarly explained. Gas exchange, the
main function of the lungs, is sufficiently well covered
by diffusion. There is consequently not a very large
need in the lungs for an additional mechanism of long
distance electrogenic transport.
6. Search for redox sites: possible origin of the
basement membrane and the endothelial fibrin film
In attempts to fmd the sites for the necessary redox
steps of the VICC, we must take a second look at the
components of the capillary membrane. Certain details
of interest are shown in electron micrographs (Figs.
XII: 27-29), kindly placed at my disposal by Prof. E.
R. Weibel, University of Berne, Switzerland (78).
The basement membrane is a structure about which
little is still known of its origin and function. These
membranes were recognized as early as 1848 by Kopf
and Bowman. They are described as consisting of
connective tissue elaborated by cells of mesenchymal
origin (Deseemet's membrane ) or of ectodermal origin
(the basement membrane of the lens) (37). Basement
memhrane~ are cnmrosed of an amorpho us marrix,
which contains a fine network of partially oriented
fibres (37). Chemically, basement membranes contain
various sequences of amino acids and carbohydrates.
They also contain a low molecular weight glycoprotein
and collagen (33) and antigenic protein (6).
Strangely enough, the basement membranes are de
scribed as covering the lumens of the anticipated chan
nels of transport, the stomata and the places where
vesicles must empty their content into the tissue (13,
48). However, an exoendothelial space (Figs. XII: 21,
27-29) is also described (13, 48), which could represent
a space for escape of materials transported through the
capillary walls.
Colloids of blood arc normally excluded from the
interendothelial clefts which are occupied by ground
substance contiguous with basement membrane (40,
Biologically closed electric circuits 141 Fig. XII: 28. Capillary of rat cardiac muscle. Magnifica·
tion 18 700x. Observe a zone of low electron density (Ap)
between endothelium and basement membrane (B) and an·
other broader zone of low elect.ron density (A;) between en·
dothelium and content of capillary. These findings sug-Fig. XII: 27. Elemon micro
graph of capillary (C) from rat
cardiac muscle with pericyte
(P). Magnification 20 500x.
Basement laminae (B) sur·
round the pericyte and the in·
terstitial side of the endotheli ·
um. Note a zone of low eiC(:·
tron density (A) bet


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This  series  of books  is dedicated  in deepest  Eternal  Love
and Gratitude  to our Beloved  Ascended  Masters,  Saint
Germain,  Jesus,  Nada,  the  Great  Divine  Director,  to
the Great  White  Brotherhood,  the  Brotherhood  of the
Royal  Teton,  the  Brotherhood  at Mount  Shasta,  the
Great  Ones  from  Venus,  and  those  other  Ascended
Masters  whose  Loving  Help  has been  direct  and  without
limit. TRIBUTE  v
IN offering  a Tribute  of Love  and  Gratitude
to the Great  Ascended  Masters  and  Cosmic  Be-
ings  who  have  brought  forth  this  Ascended
Master  Instruction  of the "I AM,"  we give  all we are
and have,  or ever  hope  to be or have,  into  Their  Ser-
vice of the  Light  forever!
The Privilege  of carrying  Their  Light  to mankind
is the Greatest  Privilege  that  can  ever  come  to any  hu-
man  being  in this  World,  and  never  in all Eternity
could  we give  back  to Them,  a full  balance  for all
They  have  given  us; because  there  is no balance  for
Eternal  Freedom,  since  It is the Great  Mastery  of Life
and the Limitless  Power  and  Perfection  of all Light.
To know  these  Great  Ascended  Masters  and  Cos-
mic Beings  as we do, in Their  Visible,  Tangible,  Liv-
ing, Breathing  Ascended  Master  Bodies,  is worth  all
the struggle  and  suffering  of all lives  we have  ever  lived
on this  Earth.  They  are wholly  Divine,  absolutely  Lim-
itless,  Free  Beings,  and  to have  the Privilege  of Their
Visits,  Instruction  and  Direction,  is the Greatest  Joy
that can  come  to anyone  in this  World,  o.utside  of his
or her  own  Ascension.
The time  is not far distant  when  once  again,  as in
the former  Golden  Ages,  They  will  move  among  man-
kind,  known,  loved  and  obeyed  by all humanity,
vi TRIBUTE vii
because  of the Help  which  They  must  release  to this
World,  if it is to survive  and  fulfill  Lifes  Plan  for its
Perfection.
Perfection  is the Goal  of every  person,  place,  con-
dition  and  thing  in this  Universe;  and  the Ascended
Masters  are  the  more  advanced  Part  of Life,  in the
Raising,  Perfecting  Activity  for this  World  and  all
mankind.
To know  of these  Ascended  Masters,  send  your  love
to Them,  and  give  Them  your  attention,  means  to
draw  back  Their  Great  Love,  Help  and  Blessings  into
yourself  and  your  world.
To know  Them  is to love  Them.
To associate  with  Them  is to serve  Them  and  co-
operate  with  ThemI
To see Them  is to obey  Them  in Eternal,  Loving
Gratitude.
To call  to Them  is to draw  Their  Assistance  to help
consume  all human  limitations.
To be in Their  Blessed  Presence  fills  any  sincere,
constructive  individual  with  just one  overwhelming  im-
pulse;  and  that  is to be all They  are,  and  help  others
to become  like  Them  also.
To the  "Mighty  I AM  Presence,"  the  Great  Host
of Ascended  Masters,  and  Great  Cosmic  Beings,  be-
longs  all Credit,  all Power,  all Glory,  all Praise  for
the success  of this  Mighty  Ascended  Master  Instruc-
tion of the  "I AM"! TRIBUTE  vii
This  is Their  "I AM"  Activity  and  Their  Power  of
Light  which  sets  mankind  Free.  Humanity  cannot  sur-
vive on this  Earth  without  Them  and  Their  Help;  for
They  have  held  the  Power  of Light  throughout  the
ages,  when  mankind's  destruction  of each  other  would
have  destroyed  even  the Planet  and  also  the activities
of nature  upon  it.
To our  Beloved  Ascended  Master  Saint  Germain,
be Eternal,  Limitless  Love  and  Gratitude,  for giving
mankind  the  Light  within  the  Books  of the  Saint
Germain  Series,  and  showing  the  individual  how  to
use the Law  of Life  to attain  Perfection.  May  every
human  being  on Earth  know  who  Beloved  Saint
Germain  really  is, what  He has done  for the Freedom
of mankind,  and  how  great  His  Love  pours  out con-
stantly  for the  Freedom  and  Perfection  of all!
Beloved  Saint  Germain  is the Law  of Freedom  to
this Earth.  He  is the Law  of the  Violet  Ray  to this
Earth!
He is the Power  and  the Understanding  which  man-
kind  must  have  of each  one's  Individualized  God  Pres-
ence—the  "Mighty  I AM,"  in order  to complete  the
Victory  of the  Light  which  Beloved  Jesus  came  to
reveal  to the  people  of this  World.
Humanity  has  had  almost  two  thousand  years  to
really  obey  Beloved  Jesus'  Commands:
"Be ye Perfect!"
"Now  are  ye the  Sons  of God!" TRIBUTE ix
"The  Things  I do, all men  shall  do, and  Greater
Things  shall  ye do!"
"Death  is the  last  enemy  to be overcome!"
Mankind  has  not  understood  nor  obeyed  Beloved
Jesus,  or people  would  be more  like  Him.  Beloved
Saint  Germain  loves  Him  more  than  any  unascended
being  can  understand,  and  has  brought  forth  in this
Ascended  Master  Instruction  of the "I AM,"  the prac-
tical  application  of the Great  Creative  Word,  "I AM,"
and worship  of God,  which  will  set all Free  who  are
sincere  and  apply  It.
The Ascended  Masters'  Understanding  and  Appli-
cation  of the Great  Creative  Word  of God,  and  the
constructive  use  of all Life  gives  us in this  World,  is
the Truest  Worship  of God  man  can  give,  and  is the
completion  of the Work  Beloved  Jesus  began  during
His Life  on Earth!
Beloved  Saint  Germain  guards  America's  "Cup
of Light"  to the  Earth,  which  must  be maintained,
because  there  is not enough  Light  in the rest  of the
World  at this  time  to hold  the balance


  Activity  ever  known
to mankind,  for so It is!
The mass  of mankind  must  come  to understand  This
Magnificent  Understanding  as the Individual's  own  Life.
Your  Beloved  Saint  Germain  brought  It to your  attention!
Yet every  particle  of It is your  own  Life—Its  Understand-
ing, Application  and  Freedom  of your  own  Life.  Who
should  not want  it? Who  should  not be willing  to give  the
Obedience  required  in order  to have  Our  Freedom,  I ask
you? There  are those  who  rebel,  for such  is the condition
of human  qualification  of Life's  Energy;  and  human  ac-
cumulation  does  not  want  them  to be Free.  Not  under-
standing,  they  give  way  to it and  lose  the opportunity.
However,  I greatly  rejoice  tonight,  in seeing  in the near
future,  the Glory  of That  Light  which  will  hold  mankind
steady  in its slightest  effort;  in the forward  movement  and
expansion  of its Light  and  Freedom!  Beloved  Ones  who
have  the Light  thus  far, you  should  be determined  in your
Calls  to Life  for your  fellow-man;  until  the point  is reached
wherein  the Great  Light  Itself,  hold  Individuals  within  a 420 THE  "I AM99  DISCOURSES
certain  Grasp,  as it were;  until  they  can be sustained  in the
achievement!
Try to understand  your  Great  Privilege  today;  and  re-
member  you  are nearing  the time,  when  you  will  be com-
pelled  to stand  within  the Radiance  of your  own  "Mighty
I AM  Presence."  Only  so far, can such  Powerful  Assistance
be given!  Then,  you  must  take  hold  and  finish!  So, utilize
the Opportunity  in the Radiance  which  is being  given  now;
and go forward  like  a rocket  which  you  can  do in This
Great  Attainment!
May  I say something  most  encouraging?  My  Dear  Ones,
observing  the Activity  of This  Light  for five  years  and  see-
ing the achievement  here;  it is the Greatest  Encouragement
to Us in the Continued  Expansion  of the Light  in man-
kind;  and  It will  expand  and  continue,  until  the Full  Vol-
ume  which  We  require  is released.  I rejoice  with  you  in
your  willingness  to serve  the  Light;  and  in your  Great
Loving  Gratitude  to the Messengers,  Saint  Germain  and
to Life.
Oh, My Dear  Ones,  I appreciate  your  Great  Love  for the
Messengers,  but  one  day  when  you  see what  they  really
have  meant  to America  and  the  World,  then  will  your
Gratitude  be great  indeed.  Today,  to find  the Response  to
the Light  from  the  people  of America,  is a Magnificent
Attainment.  I congratulate  you,  I thank  you,  I bless  you
for your  interest,  for your  determination  to have  the Free-
dom  of Life!
Go on,  My  Beloved  Children,  and  We  will  give  you DISCOURSE  XXIII  421
every  Assistance  which  is possible  to be given.  Remember
Blessed  Ones  of Chicago,  We  shall  be watching  over  you!
We shall  be standing  ready,  to give  you  every  Assistance
for which  you  will  earnestly  call.
May  you  remember,  that  for the  Victory  of the Light
in your  city,  you  must  have  Harmony.  There  must  be Love
to one  another;  your  willingness  to put  human  qualities
aside;  and  join,  as One  Great  Point  of Light,  for the Bless-
ing of mankind  in America!  I feel  definitely  sure,  that
every  one of you  will  rejoice  greatly  to give  This  Obedience
to Life.
May  the Powers  of your  Light,  lift you  quickly  into  Its
Final—Its  Eternal  Freedom,  Its Perfect  Health  and  the
GLORY  OF  THE  LIGHT  BE IN FULL  COMMAND
OF EVERY  ONE;  to produce  Its Harmony  and  Perfection
everywhere  for you  forever!
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12 Choose a pleasurable activity such as sitting by the sea or kayaking on
the river. Be 100% aware during that activity and fully experience the
pleasure of what you are doing.
13 You probably know your sun sign in astrology. Find out your moon sign
too and read up about it.
14 Swim. If you can’ t swim, sign up for swimming lessons.
15 Dance. If you can’ t dance, attend dance classes.
16 Sign up for an inner child workshop.
17 Read up about co-dependency.
18 Drink at least 6 glasses of water a day.
19 Create something (paint a picture/bake a cake/make a model) and give it
away.
20 Carry or wear one of the crystals listed at the beginning of this chapter.
21 Bring the colour of this chakra into your life.
22 Chant the mantra for this chakra out loud.
23 Listen to the solfeggio frequency for this chakra.
24 Use the recommended oils for balancing this chakra.
Affirmations
I accept and acknowledge my sexuality. I am balanced and healthy.
I am willing to receive pleasure in my life.I move gracefully and easily. My life flows. Everything is a gift.
Healing Guided Meditation for Second Chakra
Lie down on the bed, the sofa, the floor or anywhere comfortable. Place a
slim book low down on your abdomen, partly resting on the pubic bone and
partly on the abdomen. Place another one under your body at the base of the
spine. Feel these books in contact with your body at the front and the back
of your second chakra.
Breathe slowly and deeply. Breathe so that the book on your abdomen rises
and falls with your breath. Once your breathing is relaxed and regular and
the book is rising and falling, imagine a column of orange light connecting
the two books. The orange light shines through your body. This light is
cleansing and clearing.
Allow the light to extend down into the earth beneath you and upwards
towards the ceiling above. Breathe pure orange light into this part of your
abdomen and as you breathe out allow the pure orange light to dissolve
anything within your abdomen that is not pure orange light. Any dross just
dissolves into the orange light and dissipates harmlessly.
Now imagine that the orange light is orange water and as it flows through
your second chakra it cleanses and clears this chakra.
After a few minutes go back to normal breathing. Remove the books and
then lie for a few more minutes, enjoying the feeling of a cleansed second
chakra.
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The Third Chakra
Location: Just above the navel in the V formed by the rib cage
The Sanskrit name: MANIPURA  (pronounced man-i-poora – the ‘i’
pronounced as in pin)
Also known as: Solar plexus chakra
The colour related to this chakra: Yellow
Number of lotus petals: 10
Mantra: Ram (rhymes with harm) Yantra: Ten lotus petals (see cover)
Gland: Pancreas
Element: Fire
Note: E
Body: Astral and lower mental Solfeggio Frequency: 528 Hz Sense: Sight
Yoga Posture: Boat pose
Essential Oils: lavender, bergamot, rosemary, ylang-ylang
Crystals: Amber, Citrine, Yellow or Gold Calcite, Tiger Eye, Yellow Topaz
Rules: Pancreas, liver, stomach, the digestive system, gallbladder, the
diaphragm, spleen, the small intestine, the middle back (behind your navel),
the sympathetic nervous system
Physical problems are mostly related to the solar plexus area of the body
and include: Poor digestion, liver problems, food aller gies, stomach ulcers,gallstones, hypoglycaemia, muscle stif fness, arthritis, diabetes, mid-back
pain. Also linked to emotional problems.
Key Words: willpower, action, ener gy
What Are Its Functions?
This chakra is all about your own personal will. Think of it as the steering
wheel in a car. When this chakra is in balance you have both hands on the
wheel and you are able to stay on course towards your destination. It’ s
about using your will to decide on which courses of action that you want to
take in life and having the personal willpower and self-belief to follow
through.
The element is fire and this chakra also relates to emotions and passions.
I’m sure you know what it feels like to have butter - flies in your tummy
when you are nervous. Or that slightly sick feeling in your stomach when
you are REALL Y nervous. There is also the dread in the pit of your stomach
when you have to do something very dif ficult. All these feelings are directly
linked to your solar plexus chakra.
It is fire that gives ener gy to our personal power. When this chakra is in
balance you have the courage to follow your dream and you won’ t allow the
opinions or disapproval of others to sway you from your path. You are in
tune with your inner desires and you have a strong sense of personal power.
Your life will be a reflection of your will in perfect action. You know the
gifts that you have to of fer to the world and you will feel a deep sense of
fulfilment in your work and in the direction that your life is taking. Quite
often (not always) the seeds of your future work were apparent in
childhood, such as the pianist who demon- strated an outstanding talent for
music at an early age, the school teacher who always took the role of
teacher when playing schools, or the engineer who created amazing Lego
models.
You have self-respect and healthy boundaries. You enjoy taking on new
challenges and you are not afraid to express your feelings and emotions.
You feel happy within your own skin and you are able to be spontaneousand expressive. When you say no you mean no and vice versa. You use your
willpower in positive ways. You can be discerning without being
judgemental.
Not only are you accepting of others, but you accept yourself as you are,
without critical judgement. When you are coming from that space, others
sense it. This is the chakra that is connected with intuition. I’m sure you
know the expression, “I just had a gut feeling.” That is you connecting with
your gut chakra, the solar plexus.
This chakra is yellow and it is fire. It’ s your own personal sunshine! When
it is glowing with vitality you will give of f an aura of positive ener gy. You
will be confident, warm, sponta- neous, playful and balanced. You will also
be responsible and reliable.
An Imbalanced Third Chakra
An imbalanced third chakra is either going to show itself as the fearful,
insecure person or the overbearing, domineering bully. Some people swing
between the two extremes. The bully and the victim are simply the opposite
ends of the same ener gy spectrum, depending on whether the chakra is
overactive or underactive.
When this chakra is underactive then low self-worth and a lack of
confidence will be issues. If your self-worth is low then you do not feel
worthy to receive, so you would be the type of person who would char ge
less than the going rate for your work. Money is condensed ener gy so by
accepting low wages you are actually allowing others to take your ener gy.
You fear authority figures and others will be able to manip- ulate you and
sway you from your chosen path. “I really wanted to be an artist but my dad
wanted me to join the army.” Or “I was going to move to the country when
I retired but my husband wanted us to stay in the city.” Those are the sort of
statements that someone with an imbalanced third chakra will be saying.
You will be overly concerned about what other people think of you and
what they might say about you behind your back. You are in need of
constant reassurance and you don’ t trust others easily. You’re likely to beemotionally and physically cold with a tendency to blame others when
things go wrong, thereby playing the role of victim.
You have times when you feel really down and confused and you wonder
where your life is heading. You lack a sense of direction and feel as though
you are just going through the motions each day. There can be a lot of fear
around: fear of other people, fear of emotion, afraid of being alone, fear of
your partner going of f with someone else and much more. If we go back to
the analogy of a steering wheel, your hands are not taking hold of the wheel
firmly enough to steer the car so it’ s going all over the place!
On the other hand, if you have an overactive third chakra you have got your
hands so firmly on the steering wheel that you cannot even turn a corner if
you need to. Figuratively speaking you will be driving into brick walls. You
are likely to try to control everything and everyone around you because you
think that unless you take control of a situation, things won’ t turn out all
right. Others will refer to you as a control freak. Excessively ambitious, you
can become aggressive and manipulative in your hunger for power. You
have an iron will but you don’ t have discernment to know in which
situations you need to use this will.