 and they are used
especially when something is missing. Organism may
not enough food, water, oxygen, and information. They are conscious,
artificial restriction encourages the use of reserve
opportunities. Restrict the intake of food and get well,
known since ancient times, the method of regeneration
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67- Starvation. This is a temporary full voluntary refusal of food.
The purpose of this fast - the transition to internal power supply, ie,
use of reserves.
If, in addition to stop and water intake, then get dry
starvation - even more effective method of cleansing, healing
and rejuvenation. With a lack of oxygen, for example in
Highlands, there is hypoxia, ie oxygen deficiency.
At the same time mobilizing powerful antihypoxia system and its
stimulating effect on the body the most favorable way.
For information nature has provided a natural
periodic information starvation in the form of a night's sleep. Role
full of sleep for health and longevity can not be overestimated.
If we combine the methods based on the restriction, it turns out,
that the ideal means of restoring the body - a long-term
Dream on absolute starvation in the mountains.
But "... there is nothing new under the sun!". in ancient times lived in Japan
Monks yamabusi. This is the most mysterious of the ever existing
Japan's religious sects. Their services are used by the ninja - the famous
Medieval Japanese "special forces". Once they are in their schools
took possession of extraordinary abilities to walk on the ceiling
fight with weapons and without, to see in the dark, be impervious
to pain, etc., with their 15 years of age were sent to the "advanced" training
to yamabusi. Ascetics and hermits, who lived in the mountains, taught
"Ninja" hypnosis and psychic abilities, poison recipes
and balms, acupuncture, ability to manage a long time
without food or water, how to preserve health and prolong life
and so their secrets are passed from mouth to mouth, they were forbidden
record. But still try to lift the veil of secrecy over
their secrets, namely, the secrets of health maintenance and renewal
life. Do you think that word means "yamabusi? Nothing else
as "sleeping in the mountains!
High in the mountains is living and, of course, many people are asleep. Statistics
suggests that their average life expectancy is higher than
on the plain, but it's not just that. After all, the title "yamabusi"
emphasized that this is not just the people in the mountains, namely, sleeping,
ie, their dream is somehow different from usual. Rather, he was
long. But for a long time just will not sleep, must
state of hypnosis, self hypnosis, hypnotic effects of herbs and they
possessed these to perfection. Prolonged sleep high in the mountains - it is
combination of mountain hypoxia, sleep and absolute fasting (during the
Sleep Naturally, we do not eat or drink). Each of these impacts
has a powerful stimulating effect for the reserves adjustment
organism, how much should be a powerful combination. People
since ancient times been associated with mountains their hopes of salvation,
healing, cleansing. many people have their sacred mountains.
Japanese have differing maximum lifespan,
- Mount Fuji-san (Mount Fuji). Each of them considers it his duty
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68climb to its summit. Tibet Kailash, Hebrew
Sinai, Mount altaians Altyn-Tu, Mount Meru - the Hindus, Mount Ararat -
Armenians and many others. The famous Mount Elbrus was a sacred
Mount the ancient Persians.
Effects of prolonged hypoxia mountain:
- In all organs, and first of all, in the vital start to
form new capillaries. Every cell in our body
starting to get more nutrients and oxygen.
- Lungs begin to work more efficiently as a result of
hypertrophy of the lung tissue and increase the diffuse surface
pulmonary alveoli. In addition, the increased mass of airway
muscles.
- Blood acquires the ability to carry more
oxygen by increasing the number of red blood cells and increase
hemoglobin. it also raises levels of hormones of the cortex
adrenal - hormone adaptation. in this regard, blood donors,
climbers or people living in the mountains, as well as drugs,
made of it, for debilitated patients represent
particularly valuable.
- Intensive training of the cardiovascular system,
as response to hypoxia is to increase the heart rate
rate and volume of cardiac output.
- Increasing the content of myoglobin - a protein which provides
reserve of oxygen in the muscles.
- Falling in the aging process or as a result of common diseases
energy level is considerably increased.
This happens, firstly, by increasing the activity
mitochondria. under normal conditions of these miniature
"Power station" of the cell is in reserve. In the
Second, by increasing the number of mitochondria - they
begin to reproduce. Third, due to the "revival" of ancient,
oxygen-free energy exchange.
Dry fasting is practiced not only in all world religions,
but in many lesser-known religions.
The Mormon religion. Mormons abstain from eating and drinking
on the first Sunday of each month and distribute food or money
those in need. The purpose of these actions - closer to God
and focus on the religious life. Some Mormons are sometimes
individually or in groups of fasting in order to seek
God help him to guide them and influence the situation.
Baha'i religion. techenie19 in the first month of the Baha'i calendar, which
accounts for the period from 1 to March 20, supporters of this religion
refrain from eating and drinking from sunrise to sunset to
focus on love for God and their spiritual life.
Paganism. Although the Gentiles was not a dry starvation
mandatory religious rule, many of them starved for
purification or as a ritual, performed during the spring
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69equinox, shamans with dry famine were in a trance
to communicate with spirits. with such a fast cleanse the body
the burden of winter and was prepared to attack the new time
year. Some pagans were starving during the autumn and spring
equinox, as well as during the winter and summer solstice
in order to adjust your body and your life in accordance
with the cycles of nature and live in harmony with it.
Starvation and spirit VNYE PRACTICE BUT Vågå CENTURY
New spiritual practices, which are sometimes called religion
New Century, in fact, are a mixture of
various ancient traditions that have received today a new life.
Many people who consider themselves as followers of religions, the new
century, profess the philosophy of a more global or universal
spiritual practice.
The world's religions have much in common and, despite some
differences of opinion on certain issues, many today
believe that any religion - is the search for truth, which is carried out
in accordance with cultural traditions. in every religion and in
Each culture laid the seeds of wisdom among the holders of the
cultures there are men and women with a special gift
vision, and each of these religions to determine the main man
objectives, which include self-fulfillment, achievement of unity
body, mind and spirit. The practice of fasting helps to maximize
Development of the sensory perception and can even be said that
starvation could be today one of the significant factors
spiritual unity of people around the world, if it had been practiced
most people. Can you find the best way to strengthen
peace, equality and unity of the people than the general practice,
aimed at physical, mental and spiritual development.
Dry fasting was part of not only religious but
and state practice in many cultures. Among the Indians
Chibcha tribe in Columbia man who was supposed
bring to the role of leader or monarch had to undergo
long period of testing. during the preparation of future
head of state should be deprived of earthly pleasures on
period of five years. during this time he had to live in isolation
in the church where he was obliged to go dry fasting, while
in the interval between his hunger scourged and subjected to different
deprivation and humiliation. Because the Indians believed that only
person has experienced the most difficulties and deprivation of life,
able to fulfill an important state function. It seems that
ancient cultures was known to the secret training of public
figures, which was subsequently lost. Needless to say - it
practice was to prepare public figures worthy of
immediate borrowing, since the preparation of modern
government officials based on the opposing standard
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70education in vice, luxury, luxuries, and the involvement of
to crimes.
More than 100 years ago, one of the inhabitants of Silesia - Johann Schroth
- Developed a method of treating thirst. Economy, costive Schroth,
noticing that the horses were seriously ill and did not recover, he decided to
ride on them up until they starve: he obderet home with them
hides, and carcasses spurned. and stopped to feed them and even
drink. Apparently, he was a hard-hearted. fortunately. The same principle:
every cloud has a silver lining. If he was sentimental, humane, and then
would put the horses in the stable, strongly would feed them, and they
probably would have died. But Schroth decided to act violently. He visited
day, two, three, and nepoenye and unfed horses are not only
not podohli, but recovered. "Lucky find!" - Thought Schroth


alfundsfordifferentareasof
work—
''agreatfundforthepromotionofasystemofhigher
educationintheUnitedStates,...afundforthepromotionof
medicalresearchthroughouttheworld,...afundforthe
promotionofthefinearts,"andmore.'Thesefundsshouldbeso
largethattobecomeatrusteeofoneofthemistomakeamanat
onceapubliccharacter."Theworkoftheseenterprisesshould
employ"thebesttalentoftheentirehumanrace."
Juniorfollowedthisletterwithhisownenthusiasticendorse-
mentofGates'proposal.WithintwoweeksRockefeller, Sr.,
gavetheGeneralEducationBoard$10millionandfollowedthat
ayearandahalflaterwithanother$32million.By1921
Rockefeller's giftstotheGEBtotaledmorethan$129million.
Largerandmorenumerousendowmentsbegantoflowtothe
RockefellerInstituteforMedicalResearch,fatheredbyGates
fromhisemployer'sfortunein1901,andsoondiscussionsbegan
thatledfromGates'1905lettertothecreationofamuchlarger
andbroaderfund,theRockefellerFoundation,towhichSenior
gavemorethan$182million.
ItisnotsoclearthatGates'onlyconcerninrecommending
thatRockefellerhimselfdisposeofhisfortunewasthedangerof
inheritedwealthtoitspossessors.Thenotorietythataccruedto
Rockefellerandotherrobberbaronsalongwiththeirprofitscast
alongshadowonthefutureofwealth,andtheRockefellers felt
thechillasmuchasanyone.HenryDemarestLloyd,inWealth
AgainstCommonwealth publishedin1894,andIdaTarbell,ina
magazineseriesendingin1904,hadtarredandfeatheredthe
StandardOilTrust.TheSociaHstmovementwaswinningthe
supportofworkingpeoplethroughoutthecountryforitsprogram
todoawaywithprivatecapitalaltogether.Andperhapsmost
frighteningofall,upstandingmiddle-classAmericans,profes-
sionalsandbusinessmenwithvaluesverymuchliketheRockefel-
lersthemselves,werejoiningthecallforProgressivereforms.
TheProgressivemovement,whilefirmlysupportingcapitalism,
wascallingforconstraintsontheaccumulationandconcentration
ofprivatewealth.Rooseveltwaselectedin1904onaplatform
thatatleastthreatenedtobreakupmonopolies.
"Itrembled,"Gateslaterrecalled,"asIwitnessedthe
unreasoningpopularresentmentatMr.Rockefeller's riches,to
themassofthepeopleanationalmenace."Gatesmightbelieve
thatRockefeller"usedhiswealthalwaysandonlyinthepublic
50I"WholesalePhilanthropy"
interest,"thathisfortunehadbeencreatedbyeconomiesrather
thanbytheft,thathiswideinvestmentsinindustryandfinance
constituted"vastpermanentcontributions tothewealthand
well-beingoftheAmericanpeople."Butfewpeopleinthe
countrynotconnectedwith26Broadwayagreedwithhim.^^
Inthefallof1906thefederalgovernmentlaunchedamajor
suittobreakuptheStandardOilTrust,andthatlitigationbegan
itsfive-yearjourneythroughthecourts.AfterRockefellergave
theGEB$32millionin1907tofinanceGates'plantocreate"a
systemofhighereducationintheUnitedStates,"manyrespect-
ablenewspapersandmagazinessuggestedthat"thepurposeof
Mr.Rockefeller'slargegiftistoheadoff,ifpossible,theteaching
ofsocialism,whichisontheincrease...inanumberof
universities."Alsoin1907federalJudgeKenesawMountain
LandishittheIndianaStandardcompanywitha$29millionfine
forobtainingrebatesonitsrailroadshipments,oneofthe
"economies" inwhichGatesandRockefellertookpride."No
orientaldespot...hascommittedsucharbitraryactsofconfis-
cationasthepresentadministration isresponsibleforunderthe
formsoflaw,"Gatesrailed.^^
TheLandisfinewasquashedonappeal,butthespectreof
dissolutionandultimatelyofconfiscationpursuedtheRockefel-
lersandmanyoftheirclass.TheRockefellerphilanthropies
creatednewprogramsandwiththemnewimagesforthe
benefactors.Theprogramsappealedtotheirperceptionsofsocial
needs,butintheirperceptions,society'sneedswereindistin-
guishablefromtheirown.Collegeswereexpandedandorganized
intoasystemofhighereducationtoproducetheprofessionals
andmanagersthecorporatesocietybadlyneeded,buttheGEB
fortwodecadesconsciouslyfollowedGates'directivetostrength-
enprivateratherthanstateuniversitiesbecauseprivateinstitu-
tions,controlledbymenandwomenlikethemselves,wouldbe
morelikelyto"directpopularopinionintorightchannels."*^The
medicalphilanthropies, outwardlyappearingonlytofillan
obvioussocialneed,helpedtodevelopamedicalcaresystem
peculiarlysuitedtotheneedsofcorporatecapitahsm,aswewill
seeinsubsequentchapters.
SOCIALMANAGERSFORACORPORATESOCIETY
ItisclearthatJohnD.Rockefeller, Sr.,wasneitherthe
initiatornorthestrategistinhisphilanthropies. Intheearlyyears
''WholesalePhilanthropy" I51
itwasGatesandthenGatesandJuniorwhoseideasand
strategiesshapedtheelderRockefeller'sfortuneintopurposeful
programs.Inparttheinsighttheyshowedconcerningtheneeds
ofcapitalistsocietymaybeattributedtotheirindividualpersonal-
ities,shapedbytheirownUfeexperiences.Buttheywerealso
representativeofthenewclassofmen(andveryfewwomenat
thattime)whoprovidedthemanagerialskillsneededbycorpo-
rateindustryandfinance.Unhketheindividualisticentrepre-
neurswhobuilttheenormousindustrialandfinancialempires
aroundthemselvesinthelatternineteenthcentury,thesenew
managersweremoresensitivetothesmoothworkingsoftheir
enterprises.
Inindustry,management's rolewastorationalizeproduction,
todividetheproductiveprocessinto"efficient"units,and
simultaneously tocoordinateeachwiththeothertoproducea
unifiedorganization,hnkedinasimilarlycoordinatedfashion
withdisparatesourcesofinvestmentcapitalandrawmaterialsat
oneendoftheproductionlineandwithasystemofdistribution
andmarketingattheotherend.Analogousmanagerialroleswere
alsodevelopedingovernmentbureausanddepartments,thenin
collegesandtheemerginguniversities.Thelastmajorareato
whichskilledmanagementwasdirectedwerethesocialser-
vices—charityandsocialwelfareprograms,philanthropicfounda-
tions,andmedicine.
Thefoundationswerekeyinstrumentsinearlyeffortsto
rationalizesocialservices,publichealth,andmedicalcareunder
thecontrolofspeciallytrainedmanagersinthosefields,andthe
foundationsthemselvesbecametheturfofthissamemanagement
class.Itmadelittledifferencewhetheroneownedasubstantial
shareofthecountry'scorporatewealthorwhetheronesimplyran
thefactoriesandinstitutionsownedbythewealthy.Theactions
ofeachgroupwereessentiallythesame,andtheirvalueswere
quitesimilar.Theybothacceptedtheprevaihngeconomic,social,
andpoliticalsystemasgiven,andtheysoughttomakethesystem
worksmoothly.
Someofthesesystemmanagersusedcharitytotrytomake
capitalistsociety,whoseidealmodelisapurelycompetitive
marketplace,aless"rigidandheartless"one,asarecent
proponentofthisviewputit.Hebelievesthatphilanthropy
should"provideatleastsomesofteningofthecornersand
relaxationoftherigidruleofself-interest."*"*
52I''WholesalePhilanthropy"
OtherslikeGatesandJohnD.Rockefeller, Jr.,conceivedof
amorestrategicroleforphilanthropy—thetransformation of
socialinstitutions.Theyworkedtomakethenation'scollegesand
universitiesintoasystemthatwouldmoreefficientlyyield
technicallytrainedandproperlysocializedprofessionalsand
managersforthesystem.Theydevelopednewrolesforprofes-
sionalsasmanagers,andtheyhelpedrationalizetheinstitutions
inwhichtheseprofessionalsworked.
MenliketheSeniorRockefellerandAndrewCarnegieknew
littleofthiswork.Theyhadunderstood itsrelevancetoindustry
wheretheyhadbeenthefirstonesinoilandsteel,respectively,to
createverticallyintegratedcorporations,owningorcontrolling
theentireprocessfromoilwellsandironoremines,totranspor-
tation,refiningandmanufacturing, distribution,andmarketing.
Butrunningacorpor


,  urine and saliva become more acid after a reaction. You may
stop a strong reaction by taking 1 level teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate
(bakin g soda) and, if available, potassium as citrate, carbonate or
bicarbonate. Test offending foods again after three to six months. 46
 Commonly small infrequent amounts are then tolerated. Eat suspect or
problem foods not more than once a week. If conditions det eriorate
again, test again or adopt a safe low -allergy diet. The body is less
sensitive to allergic reactions when using alkalizers and digestive
enzymes.
THE ACID - ALKALINE BALANCE
Our blood is slightly alkaline, and the body makes every effort to maintain
this alkalinity at a constant level. For this purpose,  we normally have an
ample reserve of alkaline minerals.
Most of our food supplies minerals. The total balance of minerals in a
particular food may be either acid or alkaline. In plants strongly alkaline
metal ions such as sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium, are
combined with weak organic acids. A surplus of organic acids will make
the food taste acidic, as in f ruits. However, in the body organic acids are
metabolized, and this leaves an alkaline mineral residue. This makes
vegetables and fruits alkalizing, but individuals who are overacid
because of Candida and allergies often cannot oxidize all organic acids
and need to neutralize acidic food to avoid becoming even more acidic.
Animal tissue, on the other hand, contains a high percentage of strongly
acid phosphoric acid bound to mildly alkaline proteins. The proteins will
be metabolized,  and a strongly acid resi due remains. Accordingly, we
may classify our food as either alkaline -forming or as acid -forming.
• Alkaline -forming Foods  are sprouted seeds, vegetables and their
 juices, fruits, almonds, most legumes, the outer parts of
 potatoes, bananas, millet, buckwhe at and brown rice.
• Acid -forming Foods  are meat, fish, eggs, cheese, most grains
 and nuts (being high in phosphoric acid), and the core of potatoes.
• Neutral Foods are refined starches and sugar, fats and oils.
In order to maintain an ample alkaline body reserve, we may eat about
80% alkalizing to 20% acidifying food. There are food tables to show the
acid or alkaline equivalents. However, these are practically useless as 47
 some foods change their values in the bod y due to metabolic problems.
Sugar, which is chemically neutral  and even alkalizing fruits, can become
acid-forming in sensitive individuals due to the formation of lactic acid.
The same applies to any food to which you are allergic. On the other
hand, he avy meat eating can eventually lead to an over -alkaline
condition by slowing the metabolism and creating a deficiency of
metabolic acids.
Alkaline -forming food may also become acid -forming if it is incorrectly
combined with other foods, or when you are emotionally upset. While
seeds are commonly alkalizing if sprouted or fermented, when cooked,
minerals may not be available as they remain bo und to phytates, and
then may be acid -forming. All of this is contrary to what you would expect
by using acid -alkaline food tables. Furthermore, the mineral content of
foods varies greatly depending on soil and storage conditions, production
methods and co oking. Therefore, the only reliable method is to observe
your body, skin sensitivity, tendency towards inflammations, allergic
reactions, and test the acidity of your urine and saliva.
Alkalizing the Body
When our body is too acid it is also more sensitive  - emotionally as well
as physically. Skin and mucous membranes become very sensitive to
irritants, any allergic reactions are greatly intensified, and inflammations
may be intense and widespread. With Candida and leaky gut syndrome
the body generally is t oo acid.
The strongest alkalizing foods are spirulina, barley grass and wheatgrass
powder, fresh green vegetable juices and vegetable broth. Those who are
overacid and sensitive may become even more so with cider vinegar, kefir
and fruit acids. However, dissolving dolomite or magnesium oxide in
vinegar or lemon juice until nearly neutral makes it a highly alkalizing
remedy. Sodium  bicarbonate is most com monly used to alkalize the body.
On the other hand,  for those with raised blood pressure, high blood fat
or cholesterol levels and insensitive skin, acid fruits and their juices are
excellent without neutralization. In this case  potassium bicarbonate  may 48
 be used to alkalize. With muscle weakness try malic acid neutralized with
magnesium oxide or carbonate.
Take so much alkalizer that your urine is mostly above pH 7 or slightly
alkaline (pH 7 is neutral). To check your urine,  you may buy pH paper
with a range from 4 or 5 to 8 or 9 or you may use turmeric powder:
dissolve a teaspoonful in half a litre of methylated spirits (methanol),
shake and allow to settle, producing a yellow solution. For a test pour
some of this solution into a test tube or small drinking glass. Add a few
drops of urine or saliva. If it turns ruby red, then what was added had a
pH greater than 6.8 (neutral or alkaline). If it stays yellow, then the pH is
less than 6.8 (acid).
With digestive problems also c heck the saliva acidity.  Before a meal
the normal acidity of the saliva is 6.4 - 6.7, while 30 - 60 minutes after
the meal it should be above 6.8. If the level is below 6.4 before the meal
the body may be too acid, and if it remains below 6.8 after the mea l then
the stomach may not produce enough acid. Be aware that allergic
reactions make the saliva too acid.
With advanced cancer pH tests are not reliable as large tumours produce
much lactic acid and make body fluids very acidic, but they may also lose
much potassium which can make the urine very alkaline. Therefore,  with
large and growing tumours just use up to 3 spaced -out rounded
teaspoons of bicarbonate for up to  one week before reducing again to 2
tsp of bicarbon ate.
Periodically strongly alkalizing i s also beneficial for other health problems
such as intestinal Candida overgrowth, inflammatory bowel conditions,
allergies, and autoimmune diseases.  Take alkalizers at least ½ hour
before meals. Also see Chapter 5.
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 Chapter Four
INTESTINAL SANITATION
Clean Out & Sanitize Your Gastro -Intestinal Tract

Diseases tend to start in the bowels and that is where holistic healing
should start as well. It is not possible to become healthy when we are
constipated,  and our intestines are full of putrefying wastes and
overgrown with harmful microbes. This environmen t allows toxins to be
re-absorbed into the blood, and pathogenic microbes to demolish our
immune system and invade various parts of the body.
To sanitize our digestive tract,  we need first to clean out the bowels and
remove years of accumulated wastes sta gnating in bowel pockets and
covering the intestinal walls with hard crusts. Such cleansing kills most
of the harmful microbes and allows the gastro -intestinal tract to be
repopulated with probiotic bacteria. Finally,  we avoid being constipated
ever again.
BOWEL CLEANSING
Commonly used methods to clean out accumulated wastes are colonics,
flushes and laxative foods. To remove hard crusts that may coat the
bowel walls and clean out bowel pockets, the bowels should repeatedly
be flushed out with water.  You may start experimenting with flushes
before trying colonics, and for maintenance use suitable laxative food.
With colonics, short for "colonic irrigations", the bowels or large intestines
are filled with a larger amount of water, commonly introduced furth er
inside, while with enemas only a small amount of water is inserted near
the entrance. Enemas are used to induce bowel movements but do not
clean the bowel.
Flushes: A large glass of water with a tablespoon of Epsom salts
(magnesium sulphate), magnesium chloride, or Glaubers  salts (sodium  50
 sulphate) on an empty stomach is usually sufficient to flush out the
intestinal tract. Drink more water afterwards. If underweight, use
somewhat less and if overweight, somewhat more. To make it taste not
so bitter you may keep it refrigerated overnight.
Less strong, and only suitable if one is not constipated, is an isotonic
flush : dissolve 9 grams or a heaped teaspoon of salt in one litre of warm
water. Drink within 5 - 10 minutes on an empty stomach. Use no
additional liquid afterwards. As alternatives to a saline flush,  you may
also use castor oil, aloe vera or senna. Flushes may also be alternated
with colonics.
Colonics
Colonics are most helpful for individuals who are or have been
constipated or overweight or with a chronic


 any level, do you feel you can distinguish between
yin and yang energies?
Student: I don't think of it as yin and yang, but I do feel his
heat going up my spine, and it transforms me. I feel more like a
woman. But I couldn't define it as feelings. I would just define it162 Taoist Secrets Of Love
more as a special energy. It's like fanning the fire inside yourself
and then allowing yourself to melt into it.
MW: So what's the difference between this chi exchange and
love?
Student: It's one way of exchanging love. It's one way of
sharing energy. It creates more polarity. I feel fed, it's like a food. I
get yang energy, and hot yang energy allows me to then create
more yin. I become more balanced. I'd felt it before but I couldn't
always get to it. And it wasn't as intense.
MW: Has this increased your appetite for making love?
Student: Yes. It's increased my appetite but I'm okay without
it. I feel so satisfied so that it's not an absolute requirement. And
also the Ovarian Kung Fu allows me to transform my sexual energy
up so I don't get crazy if I'm horny and he's not. But when the
opportunity is there I like to take advantage of it.
MW: Did you ever feel that your partner was more concerned
with conserving his energy than in actually making love? Did you
ever feel it got in the way of love making?
Student: No, never. It has only enhanced it. Sometimes it is
frustrating when it doesn't work. But I look forward to getting
better and better at it.CHAPTER 10
THE SEVEN SPIRITUAL STAGES OF
CULTIVATING SEXUAL ENERGY
In the practice of exchanging sexual power with one's partner or
absorbing one's own seminal power there are many ways of pro-
ceeding. Each individual must develop himself using his current
stage of evolution as the starting point. There are higher, more
purely spiritual levels of transforming human consciousness than
the beginning techniques of sexual cultivation taught in this book.
But it is impossible to fully comprehend them and attain lasting
benfit from them until a man is able to exert positive control over
his sexual drive.
Many yogis, gurus and masters from the East have arrived in
America thinking themselves fully enlightened, but soon dis-
covered they had not achieved control over their sexuality. They
had merely repressed their sexual desires while developing their
higher spiritual centers. Some may have been genuinely accom-
plished but were trapped by their religious or cultural taboos
against sex. This imbalance is made possible by the strong local
taboos against free sex in the orient.
The Eastern culture is still tightly controlled by religious or
family pressures that greatly reduce the temptation to have extra-
marital sex. The penalty for being discovered is too great and
would ruin the "career" of an aspiring yogi or other spiritual
teacher who is assumed to have transcended the sexual urge. In the
climate of unbridled sexual freedom that exists in America, their164 Taoist Secrets Of LoveThe Seven Spiritual Stages 165
sexual urges re-emerged forcefully and became stumbling blocks in
their spiritual development. Many slept with their followers, who
later became disillusioned with their guru as he proved himself too
human and attached to sex for the pleasure of it.
Some spiritual leaders are very critical of "lower" attempts to
transform sexual energy using physical techniques as described in
the beginning methods of Taoist dual cultivation of chi energy.
They ignore that man is human and will make mistakes even while
pursuing a spiritual path. Because sex and eating habits are deeply
engraved in the nature of a man, you can't change these habits
overnight. But if a man gradually changes inside, his habitual way
of thinking and behaving will alter to conform to his innermost
spiritual nature. This is the essence of the process of chi cultiva-
tion. The likeness is to a young tree beside an old tree: the first may
bend easily but the old will not be bent so suddenly. Sexual es-
sence, or ching chi, is our own internal fountain of youth, the sap
flowing in the young tree. When you conserve and circulate it, it
has a rejuvenating effect. Your mind, body, and spirit become
more supple and pliant, then spiritual development can happen
gracefully without great struggle. When the sap has run dry and
you are crooked and arthritic, the path is painful and difficult.
IS DUAL CULTIVATION A LEFT HAND PATH?
Certain people involved in spiritual practices will recoil from Tao-
ist cultivation of sexual energy and accuse its practitioners of using
the "Left-Hand Path." By Left-Hand they mean that it involves
the use of man and woman meditating together while sexually cou-
pled. For this reason the practice appears to them suspect, tainted,
or somehow less pure than a meditative practice or prayer which
does not consciously involve sexual energy. In the Right-Hand
path one takes a vow of celibacy.
Sex is not by itself spiritually undesirable. Without it no holy
man would ever be born. The purity of the practitioner's intent in
dual cultivation is critically important, as it is in every spiritual
practice. If the intent is to control another person, then the practice
can become "black". The crucial distinction is whether there is an
attempt to interfere with the will of another, for his/her "good" or
ill. Any manipulation or interference charged with subtle energy is
a form of black magic, unless the other person freely asks for help
or love and willingly expresses the desire to receive it.166 Taoist Secrets Of Love
Otherwise, there's nothing to fear from sex—it's part of you,
you're born and die with it, it gives warmth and power to human
love and is charged with the same polar forces as the rest of the
universe. In fact this path of cultivation is called "White Magic"
by some Taoists, as it teaches people how to reach a pure polarity
by balancing their yin and yang. Even my master's name, "White
Cloud", taken from this sacred mountain in China where he lived
reflects this teaching. There are other powerful paths that focus
more strongly on the yang or yin energy, but I find them more
risky. Some people criticize the use of sex as a "red" yoga, but
they are confusing this color with the fire energy of passion. In dual
cultivation you mix equally the white and the red, his seed and her
blood, mind and passion, the primal man and woman, the yang and
the yin. From that you alchemically distill a neutral essence, a
precious elixir that is without color, with the power to transform
your soul into an immortal spirit and body. This elixir is made of
refined chi and ching and spirit and takes years to prepare prop-
erly.
No saint or guru or king is born without reproductive organs.
So everyone born man has to go through the male stage of sexual
development. How fast and what kind of method he uses to pass
through it differs, but he will experience sexual arousement, erec-
tion and ejaculation. If he can pass this worldly stage quickly,
perhaps he can become a monk, a saint, Master or Guru. Or per-
haps he will choose to remain an "ordinary" person in the world.
Many of the high Taoist masters keep a low profile and do
their work silently. If you met them you would not think them
extraordinary unless you were aware enough to sense the serenity
about them. Their energy is like a gentle breeze waving across the
room, touching everyone in a special way. In Taoist cultivation the
man and woman meditate together. They use the natural human
sexual urge as a bridge to higher consciousness. Taoism provides
techniques to help a man to master his sexual impulse, so that he is
free to choose the way of life he prefers. The alternate is to be a
slave to animal instincts or sexual frustration. No matter how
deeply these may be buried, they will find a way to surface if left
unattended.The Seven Spiritual Stages 167
LEFT HAND PATH
Even among the Taoists who were ambivalent about the practice of
dual cultivation and maintained strict celibacy, it was not because
women or sex energy were considered dirty, impure, or evil. The
yin essence of a woman was always acknowledged in China for its
power and harmonizing influence. The doubts about the practice of
exchanging energy during sex mostly centered on whether the ad-
ept—male or female—practicing the technique would continue to
progress beyond the sensual and emotional pleasures of sex to
achieve the highest spiritual awareness.
There is real danger of confusing your emotional attachment
to your lover with attunement to the higher subtle union of yin and
yang. I would say it is a phase that for most men cannot be
avoided, but that in time and with continued cultivation of your
energy through meditation, Tai Chi, and related practices you will
naturally pass beyond it. This does not mean living without emo-
tions; it means keeping them in balance and using the emotions that
do arise to lend positive power to your chi cultivation process. It is
more dangerous to force yourself into celibacy before you are
really ready for it, as you will never know if you have really mas-
tered your sexual desires and emotions or just avoided or other-
wise suppressed them


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destructive.
When we look at the conflicts that have taken place througho ut history,
we cannot help but see that the hatred and rivalries in ancient and modern
times make no sense. Why won’t (or can’t) people share the land and live
together peacefully? What seems so important that it’s necessary to kill
each other over it? Even in fairly recent times, those individuals who were
so hated that we tried to decimate them have become our allies. So what
was all the killing about? Why haven’ t we learned to live in harmony with
the life-g iving Tao? The answers to these questions are obviously complex,
but, unfortunately, they continue to need to be asked.
This verse doesn’ t negate an effort by you to create ways to live your
utopia. Instead, it’s offering you an escape from the vicious cycle of hatred,
murder, war, and subsequent cooperation before the next cycle of violence
erupts. You can return to the basics of a peaceful existence by choosing tolive simply and placing less ef fort on needing to conquer anyone. When you
see the inclination toward creating more war machines, vote instead for
candidates who support peaceful ways for dealing with conflict.
Your personal choices also align you with the tranquil nature of the Tao.
You can opt to do without some of the new technology some, or even all, of
the time. You can choose to write by hand and feel your connec tion to your
Source as the words flow through your heart onto the paper. You can choose
to walk rather than drive as often as possible. You can choose to compute
numbers withou t a calculator, and remember phone numbers as a way of
personalizing your connections. You can choose to swim or bicycle for
exercise in lieu of using machines.
There are many laborsaving devices that Lao-tzu may never have dreamed
about, and you can eliminate them as part of your simplification routine.
Maybe not having e-mail or downloading music is your way of
symbolically staying close to the land that Lao-tzu speaks of in this verse.
In other  words, you can know what the modern world offers in the way of
information and technology, while at the same time being aware of the areas
of your life where you want to keep things basic. Recognize when you’re
feeling the effects of information overload, too many gadgets, or
overcomplication, and switch to a natural environment that pleases you for
whatever amount of time you choose.
Lao-tzu seems to be encouraging you to simplify as a way to heighten
awareness of your Tao connection. Try out these new attitudes and
behaviors to help you change the way you think about your modern life;
you may in fact change the life you’re living!
Practice radical appr eciation.
Begin a practice of joyfully engaging with the things you take for granted.
There are comforts such as your home, garden, meals, clothes, family
members, and friends that you experience every day without ever
appreciating them. Choose to pay attention—make the shift by giving
thanks and loving appreciation. Spend more time close to home in awe over
the many simple treasures that make up your life.
See paradise all ar ound you.Change your belief that you must travel, be worldly, and experience
distant lands and people in order to have a fulfilling life. In fact, you could
reside on the same street for a lifetime without ever leaving and know the
bliss of the Tao. Keep in mind the thought offered by Voltaire: “Paradise is
where I am.” If where you are is at home, with the same people, the same
photographs, and the same furniture, make it your paradise. Find joy and
solace in the simple. Change your view to see the pleasure in what you
have, where you’re located, and who you are. Cultivate your utopia by
feeling the T ao in every cubic inch of space.
Do the T ao Now
Devote a day to food! Appreciate the mysterious intelligence that created
food for your health and pleasure, and say a prayer with every connection to
it. Goin g grocery shopping, cooking, planning a dinner party, being a
dinner -party guest, eating at a restaurant, grabbing a snack, or having some
popcorn at the movies are just some of the opportunities to consciously
explore that connection. See these food connections as a part of the endless
Tao cycle, and being in your own utopia.
OceanofPDF.com81st Verse
True wor ds ar e not beautiful;
beautiful wor ds ar e not true.
Good men do not ar gue;
those who ar gue ar e not good.
Those who have virtue do not look for faults;
those who look for faults have no virtue.

Sages do not accumulate anything
but give everything to others;
having mor e, the mor e they give.

Heaven does good to all,
doing no evil to anyone.
The sage imitates it, acting
for the good of all,
and opposing himself to no one.
OceanofPDF.comLiving Without
Accumulating
This final verse of the Tao Te Ching provides the closing message of this
entire collection of ideas: You came from no-thing-ness. The place of your
origination had no things; the place of your return is one of no things.
Therefore, Lao-tzu is inviting you to replace the accumulation  of more stuff
with the celebra tion of your true essence. Just as nothing is pure Tao in its
formlessness, the real you is that same formlessness... for you are the Tao.
The Tao Te Ching attempts to attract you to a way of being that
recognizes nothingness as the Tao—you could call it a God-realized way of
being. In this final essay, I’ve chosen to propose that you access your
nonbeing, Tao self by living without accumulating. This means giving
more, ar guing less, and releasing your attachment to everything in the world
of the 10,000 things. Ultimately, living this way even means letting go of
your attachment to your life and your body. But you can practice this right
now, while you’re still living in the world.
Saint John of the Cross speaks to this way of seeing your life:
To reach satisfaction in all
desir e its possession in nothing.
To come to possess all
desir e the possession of nothing.
To arrive at being all
desir e to be nothing.
To come to the knowledge of all
desir e the knowledge of nothing.
All of this wisdo m of nothingness comes out of the offerings of Lao-tzu,
the ancient spiritual sage who wants us to experience the bliss of being all
by knowing a nonaccumulating place of nothing  ness.It is difficult to imagine a world without things, yet in this final verse of
the Tao Te Ching, Lao-tzu takes you through what such a world would look
like. You don’t need beautiful words, since there is no-thing for you to
describe. There is no-thing to argue about, as there are no possessions to
fight over. There’ s no faultfind ing or blaming, for all that exists is the
hidden virtue of the Tao. And finally, there is no-thing to collect, amass, or
accumulate, which leaves you in a state of creative giving and supporting.
“Heaven does good,” says Lao-tzu, and good is a synonym for God, which
is truly the same as the T ao.
Meister Eckhart illustrates the interchangeability of the words God and
Tao in this piece:
God is a being beyond being
and a nothingness beyond being.
God is nothing. No thing.
God is nothingness.
And yet God is something.
You’re encouraged in this final verse of the enduring and amazing Tao Te
Ching to do all that you can to imitate heaven while you’re here in form.
Try out these suggestions from Lao-tzu as you change your thoughts, and
ultimately your life, forever:
Quit accumulating points for being right!
Let go of your propensity for argument and replace it with the willingness
to allow anyone with whom you have a disagreement to be right. End your
quarreling ways  by simply telling the other 81st Verse person  something
like this: “You’re right about that, and I appreciate hearing your point of
view.” This ends the argument and eliminates blame and faultfi nding at the
same time. Change ego’s need to be right by using the Tao-based statement,
“You’re right about that.” It will make your life so much more peaceful.
Reduce yourself down to zer o or
Observe your body and all of your belongings, and then put them into the
changing-world context. Keep this statement from Mahatma Gandhi in
mind: “If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you mustreduce yourself to zero.” So from a place of no-thing-ness or zero, become
the observer, seeing what you accumulate in the world of things. From this
perspective, you’ll find that nothing can ever truly be real in such a world.
Practice this exercise whenever you’re feeling attached to your possessions
or your point of view.
D. H. Lawrence dramatically captures this idea:
Are you willing to be sponged out,
erased, cancelled,
made nothing?
Are you willing to be made nothing?
dipped into oblivion?
If not, you will never r eally change.
Now glance again at the title of this book, Change Your Thoughts—
Change Y our Life: Living the W isdom of the


) in vitro.91 Moreover, it was
additionally observed that DMSO prevented proliferation and migration of VSM from human aorta, an outcome that could have important clinical application in treating coronary thrombosis and myocardial infarction.
91
DMSO cardiac actions
Prevents VSM migr ation and proliferation
Inhibits  platelet agg regation af ter LAD oc clusio n
Blocks abnormal Na+ and Ca+ cell entr yBlocks tissue factor expressionRestores cardiac output and cerebral bl ood ﬂow
after LAD oc clusion
FIGURE 2.3  Cardiac actions reported following administration of DMSO. DMSO prevents
the migration and proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSM) following cardiac ischemia, a common occurrence seen after heart attacks and stroke. Restoration of cardiac output is reported following occlusion of the lateral anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery, which mimics a heart attack. Tissue factor, a powerful cardiac thrombogen, is sup -
pressed by DMSO. DMSO may have salutary effects on injured cardiac tissue by blocking abnormal Na
+ and Ca+ influx into cardiac myocytes, preventing myocardial ischemia. See
text for details.28 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
In vivo, DMSO treatment significantly suppressed TF activity and prevented
thrombotic occlusion in the mouse carotid artery model subjected to a photochemi -
cal injury91 (Figure 2.3).
In summary, DMSO combines four important properties that could be beneficial
in cardiac disease: platelet deaggregation, sodium channel blocker, TF antagonist,
and free radical scavenger and antioxidant.
There is no drug therapy at the present time that combines these four properties
shown by DMSO, thus giving this agent a novel therapeutic advantage as a potential
treatment of coronary syndromes. As an antiplatelet agent, DMSO could have ben -
eficial effects in coronary artery disease by inhibiting blood clot formation and thus prevent vascular ischemic events involving atherosclerosis in the periphery as well as in the heart and brain vasculature. As a sodium channel blocker, DMSO may show usefulness in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
94,95
DMSO’s antagonism of TF could prevent or treat clot formation in coronary
syndromes as well as other disorders associated with TF elevation, such as hyper -
tension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia.93 Since these cardiac conditions involve tissue
injury to cardiac cells, the formation of oxygen and hydroxyl radical formation is to be expected. DMSO, as a powerful free radical scavenger, may be pivotal as a primary or adjuvant therapeutic agent in controlling cytotoxic damage from radical formation.
ULCERATIVE COLITIS
Current use of DMSO in inflammatory bowel disease is limited, and few studies are available in experimental intestinal disorders.
Ulcerative colitis is a nonspecific inflammatory disease of unknown origin, aris -
ing in the colonic mucosa and clinically characterized by recurrent attacks of bloody diarrhea interspersed with asymptomatic intervals. Pathologically, the disease begins by a diffuse inflammation of the rectosigmoid area and may extend proximally to the entire colon. Crypt abscesses, mucosal ulceration, and epithelial necrosis eventually develop. There is no cure for ulcerative colitis, and treatment usually aims at the inflammatory aspect of the disease and the use of corticosteroids as immune system suppressants and with aminosalicylate preparations  as the main anti-inflammatory
drugs.
Free radicals such as DMSO have been tried for ulcerative colitis on the theory
that oxygen-derived free radicals may be involved in the mechanism of this disorder and that removing these free radicals may result in the treatment of attacks and in protecting the colon against the recurrence of attacks. In a mouse model of colitis induced by dextran sodium sulfate, 500 µL of DMSO was reported to suppress the
aggravation of the inflammatory response when given daily via the rectum to the mice for 7 days.
96 Inflammatory suppression by DMSO of experimental colitis may
be due to its inhibition of superoxide radical formation generated by inflammatory
cells.97 The damaging process could involve reactive oxygen metabolites generated
intracellularly by either NADPH oxidase in the neutrophils or by xanthine oxidase,
which is present in gut mucosa.98 This pathway seems to be a major source of oxygen
free radicals in ischemic/reperfusion injury of the gut.9929 DMSO in Basic Pharmacology
SKIN PENETRANT
DMSO has been reported to enhance drug penetration, promote membrane transport,
stabilize membrane integrity, improve percutaneous penetration, and accelerate drug absorption and drug effects.
100 The ability of DMSO to quickly and safely cross the
dermal barrier when topically applied to the skin has been used in clinical medicine using DMSO alone or as a percutaneous carrier of other drug molecules.
101,102
Penetration of the skin by an active agent is dependent on the barrier function of
the stratum corneum.103 Four variables influence the penetration of an active agent
through any given membrane: (1) the relative diffusion coefficient through the mem -
brane, (2) the concentration of the agent, (3) the partition coefficient between the membrane and the agent, and (4) altering the thickness of the membrane barrier.
104
Agents that penetrate the stratum corneum may affect one or more of these variables and, except for the fourth variable, can do so without causing permanent structural or chemical modification of the dermal barrier. Alteration of membrane thickness is less practical for drug delivery because of the damage it would cause to the stratum corneum, so most penetration agents, including DMSO, do so by relative diffusion coefficient through the membrane or by variables 1–3.
105
There is some evidence to suggest that DMSO can increase diffusion through the
stratum corneum by the disruption of the barrier function.106 This probably occurs
through aprotic interactions with intercellular lipids and may also include reversible distortion of lipid head groups that produce a more permeable packing arrangement. DMSO may also play a role in partitioning as well by forming solvent microenviron -
ments within the tissue that can effectively extract solute from vehicle.
107
WOUND HEALING
Matrix metalloproteinases, especially metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9), degrade vari -
ous proteins of the extracellular matrix, including collagen type IV, the major com -
ponent of basement membranes that also separate the epidermis from the dermis. Limited activity of MMP-9 is essential, while excessive activity is deleterious to the healing process.
The antioxidant effects of DMSO have been reported to be useful as a topical
agent in the treatment of chronic wounds. The effects of DMSO on MMP-9 were studied in disordered wound healing using TNF- α to induce MMP-9 from human
keratinocytes.
108 Results showed that DMSO inhibited the production of both MMP-9
levels and MMP-9 mRNA expression when TNF- α-stimulated keratinocyte cells in
a concentration-dependent manner. Inhibition of MMP-9 levels was statistically sig -
nificant at DMSO concentrations of 0.75% and higher.108 These findings suggest that
DMSO may reduce the harmful effects of MMP-9 through downregulation at the transcription level and may be useful to prevent TNF- α-induced proteolytic activity
in cutaneous inflammatory reactions.
A systematic review looked at the efficacy of topical DMSO on wound healing
of decubitus ulcers and its use as a topical anti-inflammatory drug.
109 The collec -
tive evidence reported indicates that the use of DMSO in these conditions was ben -
eficial, both for wound healing and for analgesia, while the toxicity was deemed to 30 Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in Trauma and Disease
be low. The most frequent outcome measures were reduction of erythema and rapid
healing of ulcers, along with decreased signs of inflammation, such as rubor, dolor, calor, and tumor. DMSO was found to be dramatically effective for healing severe skin necrosis caused by accidental extravasation of the anticancer drug mitomycin C during IV administration.
110 This involved using 90% DMSO combined with a
10% alpha-tocopheryl acetate applied prophylactically on the skin after extrava -
sation into the tissue of antineoplastic agents but before ulceration.110 This same
combination of DMSO–alpha-tocopherol has been found to universally prevent severe ulceration and tissue breakdown in patients sustaining extravasation by a cytotoxic drugs, in most cases preventing skin ulceration induced by anthracy -
clines and mitomycin.
111
BURNS AND SCAR TISSUE
Partial-thickness burn wounds on rat abdominal skin were treated using 1% metro -
nidazole or 1% norfloxacin using a petrolatum base with 0.25% w/w DMSO. These formulations with DMSO as a base appeared more effective for wound contraction of the partial-thickness burn wound and against aerobic and anaerobic bacteria than a marketed formulation composed of 1% silver sulfadiazine cream.
112 Histopathology
of the burn wound tissue confirmed the effectiveness of these preparations in treat -
ing the partial-thickness burn wound.112
As an antimicrobial applied topically to thermal burn wounds in rats, 1% w/vol
DMSO mixed with 1% silver


,	it	is	repressed	entirely	with	not	even	the	dignity	of	human	rights.Under	different	banners,	they	kill	it	by	promoting	“the	one	and	only	way	to
salvation.”	This	is	not	the	way	we	receive	grace.
Ultimately,	the	feeling	of	gratitude	comes	from	our	attitude	toward	receiving.
It	is	that	form	of	appreciation	that	makes	our	gift	have	real	worth.	When	we
do	not	effectively	“receive”	a	gift	by	not	appreciating	it,	then	the	gift	has	not
effectively	been	given.
The	attitude	of	giving	gifts	is	not	greater	than	the	attitude	of	receiving.	It	is
much	easier	to	give	a	gift	than	to	truly	receive	one.	Of	all	our	natural	talents,
the	precious	gift	of	consciousness	is	more	often	taken	for	granted.	How	can
we	give	to	others	in	spirit	what	we	have	not	fully	received	and	appreciated	in
our	own	self?	I	believe	in	this	case	we	must	first	receive	gratefully	that	which
we	are	giving	to	others,	or	our	gift	does	not	work.
I	am	grateful	that	I	can	find	beauty	and	loveliness	in	life	to	shower	my	love
upon	and	remain	in	bliss.	Gratitude	is	knowing	that	all	gifts	have	little	value
until	they	are	fully	received.	In	reality,	it	is	our	gratitude	that	gives	real	value
to	any	gift.	To	be	able	to	forgive	all	injuries	is	the	greatest	gift	that	we	can
bestow	upon	ourselves,	but	few	are	grateful	for	this	choice.
If	people	don’t	appreciate	where	the	power	comes	from,	they	are	not	going	to
get	very	much	from	its	source.	All	gratitude	is	the	result	of	this	appreciation.
To	choose	consciously	to	forgive	the	past	and	any	hurts	that	may	come	in	the
future	is	a	gift	you	can	never	reciprocate	because	it	dissolves	all	karma.	To	get
home	free	without	karma	is	only	possible	when	we	honor	and	appreciate	the
deep	power	of	gratitude.	In	offering	up	our	gratitude,	we	open	ourselves	to
receiving	and	living	in	a	state	of	grace.	This	is	the	gift	of	the	Goddess,	and
she	is	longing	to	bestow	it	on	us	all.	Being	so	grateful	even	before	you	receive
—this	is	the	stuff	that	creates	miracles.
Gratitude:	The	Key	to	a	Happy,	Healthy,	Successful
Life
Sharon	Huffman
Sharon	Huffman,

founder	of	the	Center	for	Enlightened	Leadership,	teaches
inspired	leadership	and	true	empowerment.	She	has	been	a	consultant	to
leaders	in	every	field	all	over	the	world.	She	coaches	individuals	in	reaching
their	full	potential	and	living	in	balance,	while	making	a	noble	contribution	to
our	world.	She	is	a	speaker,	consultant,	and	author.	Her	work	is	included	in
WOMEN	OF	VISION,	published	by	Nataraj;	and	CHICKEN	SOUP	FOR
THE	SOUL,	by	Jack	Canfield	and	Mark	Victor	Hansen.
This	morning	as	I	took	my	walk,	I	was	filled	with	gratitude.	The	sky	was
blue,	the	temperature	a	balmy	74	degrees,	and	everywhere	I	looked	there	was
beauty.	Lush,	breathtaking	beauty—green	rolling	hills,	flowers	and	palm
trees,	the	sound	of	waterfalls	and	fountains,	ponds	filled	with	ducks,	a	stork	in
mid-flight	over	the	lake,	and	magnificent	snow-capped	mountains.	As	I	took
in	this	opulence	as	far	as	the	eye	could	see,	I	was	overcome	with	gratitude.
I	thought	back	to	a	time	three	months	ago	when	I	hiked	in	the	freezing
mountain	snow	and	asked	my	spiritual	source	to	guide	me	to	a	warmer,	more
beautiful	place	where	I	could	take	my	morning	walks.	I	remembered	filling
my	heart	with	gratitude	for	all	that	I	had	been	given,	and	almost	without
effort,	I	was	gracefully	led	to	this	beautiful	paradise.
In	my	15	years	of	coaching	clients	to	lead	successful,	happy	lives,	I
discovered	a	secret.	If	I	taught	them	to	practice	gratitude,	everything	in	their
life	transformed.	They	felt	good	about	themselves	and	were	empowered	to
create	the	future	they	desired.	The	events	in	their	life	and	their	ability	to
respond	in	a	positive	way	made	a	complete	360-degree	turn.	It	was	as	if	they
had	found	a	magic	wand.
Gratitude	changes	the	way	we	view	life	and	ourselves.	Difficult	situations	thatwere	once	intolerable	and	seemingly	unchangeable,	transform.	The	moment
we	feel	gratitude,	the	situation	begins	to	lighten,	and	then	we	can	see	the
opportunities	to	create	change.	We	feel	better	about	ourselves	and	our	ability
to	positively	affect	our	environment	and	our	world.	Depression	lifts,	conflict
turns	to	harmony,	and	stress	releases	to	peace.	When	gratitude	becomes	a	way
of	life,	success,	happiness,	and	health	become	the	norm.
Whenever	we	feel	angry,	fearful,	sad,	or	depressed,	we	have	lost	our
gratitude.	I	can	remember	countless	times	when	I	felt	resentful	or	down	in	the
dumps	and	have	chosen	to	count	my	blessings	and	feel	grateful	for	all	that	I
have.	Almost	immediately,	I	felt	better.	When	we	find	something	to	be
grateful	for	in	a	situation	that	has	been	troubling	us,	it	uplifts	and	energizes
us.
As	soon	as	we	feel	gratitude,	everything	changes.	It	can	transform	a	situation
where	you	feel	sadness	and	loss	that,	in	turn,	draws	more	sadness	and	loss	to
you,	to	one	of	joy	and	happiness.	The
very	same
	situation	is	immediately
transformed	when	viewed	with	a	heart	filled	with	gratitude.
In	my	own	life,	it	has	made	all	the	difference	in	the	world.	I	first	learned	the
power	of	gratitude	after	the	traumatic	loss	of	my	mate	in	a	plane	crash.	After
months	of	feeling	despondent	and	close	to	despair,	I	was	drawn	to	read	the
ancient	wisdom	where	I	learned	that	my	life	had	meaning	and	purpose.	As	I
began	to	feel	gratitude,	my	whole	life	changed.	First,	my	perspective	shifted.
Then	I	started	to	feel	positive	and	empowered	to	begin	again.	Suddenly,
instead	of	my	life	ending,	it	was	a	whole	new	beginning.
Shortly	after	that,	I	was	diagnosed	with	a	life-threatening	illness	and	given	six
to	nine	months	to	live.	As	I	continued	to	practice	gratitude,	I	felt	the	disease
being	flushed	from	my	body	and	my	cells	being	flooded	with	life	and	vitality.
I	later	learned	that	feelings	of	gratitude	release	positive	endorphins
throughout	the	body,	creating	health.
Gratitude	not	only	heals,	it	rejuvenates	the	body.	If	you	doubt	this	for	a
moment,	just	take	a	look	at	someone’s	face	that	has	been	ravaged	by	years	of
resentment.	They	will	look	drawn	and	haggard.	Then	look	at	someone	who
has	lived	their	life	in	gratitude.	They	will	be	radiant	with	health	and	aliveness.
The	key	to	a	happy,	healthy,	successful	life	is	gratitude.	It	uplifts	us	and
sustains	and	draws	to	us	what	we	want.	Just	as	I	did	three


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high in fats will tend to increase the intake of phosphorus
from the intestines relative to calcium and other basic
minerals. Such a high-fat diet can result in the loss of
calcium, magnesium and other basic nutrients in much
the same way a high-phosphorus diet does.
Diets excessively high in fruits or their juices may
provide unbalanced excesses of potassium in the body,
and calcium and magnesium will again be lost from the
body through the urine. These deficiencies of calcium
and magnesium can produce all kinds of problems in
the body, ranging from dental decay and osteoporosis
to muscular cramping and twitching, hyperactivity, poor
sleep patterns, and excessive frequency and uncontrolled
patterns of urination. Similarly, deficiencies of other
minerals or imbalances can produce other problems.
DISTILLED W ATER
To the days of the aged it addeth length;
To the might of the s trong it addeth s trength;
It freshens the heart, it brightens the sight;
‘Tis like quaf fing a goblet of mor ning light.
One solution to America’s soaring health costs is pure distilled water.
147 Despite numerous dietar y sour ces such as these,
many adults and children in so-called civilized cultures
will be found to have low levels of essential minerals in
their bodies due to losses caused by drinking coffee, tea,
and carbonated beverages, combined with the long-term
habit of eating bad, “plastic” foods containing too much
sugar and table salt, as well as products made from
refined flours. In addition, the body’ s organs can be
thrown out of balance by continued stress, toxins in
our air and water, along with disease-produced injuries
or pre-natal deficiencies linked to the mother’ s
unhealthy diet or lifestyle. As a result many, if not most,
people in our so-called civilization may need to take a
natural chelated multiple mineral supplement as well
as a broad-range multiple vitamin for extra insurance.
Therefore, it is important to clean and detoxify the
body through fasting and drinking only pure distilled
water as well as organically-grown vegetable and fruit
juices. At the same time, it is also important to provide
the body with an adequate sour ce of new minerals. This
can be done by eating a variety of healthy organic
vegetables, including kelp and other sea vegetables for
adults and natural healthy mother’ s milk for infants.
148
Warning – Milk and it’ s Dangers!
We do not recommend using animal milks,
specifically cow’ s milk, for several r easons. First, almost
all milk is pasteurized (boiled). Milk that is not labeled
raw has been boiled to kill all bacteria so you don’ t get
sick from drinking it. Bacteria is not the only thing that
is killed during boiling. Pasteurized milk is dead. If
anything is left alive, the homogenization process
destroys it. Why would you want to drink dead milk?
Milk also contains an enzyme called lactose which
most people are allergic to. The major symptom of a
lactose allergy is mucus formation. Many people think
lots of mucus and handker chiefs, nose-blowing and
tissues are just a normal part of life. But they’re not!
These people haven’ t realized that they are lactose
intolerant. If they stopped consuming milk and other dairy products, most would find themselves drastically
reducing their mucus production and use of tissues.
Be informed and take into consideration all of the
herbicides, pesticides and fungicides that cattle ingest
through their feed. These toxins are passed on to you
through their milk. This is to say nothing of all the
hormones, growth stimulators, antibiotics and other
drugs that are pumped into cattle to treat disease and
increase their weight and milk production. These
chemicals also make their way into the milk. As far as
raw milk is concerned, remember the reason that
pasteurization became mandated by law was because
so many people were dying from bacterial diseases that
they contracted from drinking raw milk.
And what about the cattle industr y’s policy of feeding
cows the rendered (ground-up) remains of other cows?
How healthy do you think the milk of a cannibal cow
really is? Also, if you think these cattle are given distilled
water to drink, you need to visit a feed lot and see for
yourself. Y ou would be appalled at the conditions! In
short, if you value your health, switch to soy, abstain
from cow’ s milk and its pr oducts: cheese, buttermilk, sour
cream, cream cheese, cream, butter, yogurt and ice cream.
149
When not hungry, don’t eat!
Make your body earn and desire its nourishment
with vigorous activity, work and exercise! Read these 2 important books on milk and why to avoid milk:
• Mad Cows and Milk Gate by Virgil Hulse M.D. (541) 482-2048
• Milk, the Deadly Poison  by Robert Cohen (888) 668-6455
visit websites: www.notmilk.com and www.milkgate.com
The word “vegetarian” is not derived from “vegetable,” but
from the Latin, homo vegetus, meaning among the Romans ”a
strong, robust, thoroughly healthy man.“ – Paul C. Bragg
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind. – Thomas Jefferson
Steam distillation is an extremely effective method of guarding against
waterborne mirco-organisms because such contaminants cannot vaporize.  Skin Absorbs W ater, Toxins and All! *
( from The American Journal of Public Health)*
Compared with its absorption through the respirator y
system, skin absorption could be the major route of
penetration into the body. Skin penetration rates have
been found to be remarkably high, and the outer layer
of skin is a less effective barrier to penetration than
traditionally assumed. Factors affecting absorption are:
Hydration: The more hydrated the skin, the greater
the absorption. If the skin is hydrated (through
perspiration or immersion in water) or if the
contaminant compounds are in solution, diffusion and
penetration will be enhanced.
Temperature: Increased skin or water temperatur e
will enhance skin absorption capacity pr oportionately.
ability to act as a barrier against foreign substances. A
histor y of skin disease such as psoriasis or eczema acts
to lower the natural barrier of the outer skin layer, as do
rashes, dermatitis, or any chronic skin condition.
Regional V ariability: Skin absorption rates var y with
the different regions of the body. Underestimated is the
case of whole body immersion during swimming or
bathing. The epidermis of the hand represents a
relatively greater barrier to penetration than many other
parts of the body, including the scalp, for ehead,
abdomen, area in and around the ears, underarms and
genital area. Penetration through the genital area is
estimated to be 100% but only 8.6% for the forearm.
and eye and ear areas. These routes have been
underestimated in their ability to absorb contaminants
during immersion in water. Inhalation ser ves as yet
More men fail through lack of purpose, than lack of talent. – Billy Sunday
150 During swimming and bathing, it may be expected that
greater hydration of skin surfaces will take place.
Skin Condition: Any insult (i.e. sunbur n) or injur y
(i.e. cuts, wounds, abrasions) to the skin will lower its
Other Routes of Entr y: Other significant r outes of
absorption include oral, nasal, cheeks and mouth cavity, another route. In the case of swimming or bathing, the
volatilized chemicals are likely to gather near the water
surface and then are more readily inhalable. In addition,
some of the water may be swallowed in these situations.
* from the American Jour nal of Public Health
* Two of the ver y
highly volatile and
toxic chemicals,
trichloroethylene
and chloroform
have been proven as
contaminants in
most municipal
drinking-water
supplies. The great
National Academy
of Sciences has
estimated that 200
151
Unwanted
Odors Organic Waste
Algae
Bacteria Chlorine
Common
Carcinogens You Get More T oxic Exposure from
Taking a Shower Than From
Drinking the Same W ater!
to 1,000 people die in the United States each year from
the cancers caused largely by ingesting water
pollutants from inhalation as air pollutants in the
home. Inhalation exposure to water pollutants has
largely been ignored. Data indicates that hot showers
can liberate about 50% of the chloroform and 80% of
the trichlor oethylene into the air.
Tests show that your body can absorb more chlorine
as a result of a 10-minute shower than if you drank 8
glasses of the same water. How can that be?
A warm shower opens up your pores, causing your
skin to act like a sponge. As a result, you not only inhale
the chlorine vapors, you absorb them through your skin,
directly into your bloodstr eam – at a rate that’ s up to


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www.thegersonway.comIt is important to remember that coffee enemas do not interfere with the normal activity of the
colon, producing daily bowel movements. Occasionally patients worry about that, yet their fears
are groundless. Once the liver and the digestive system are fully restored, normal elimination
takes over, even in those who had previously suffered from constipation.
The Castor Oil Treatment
As we explained above, the toxins released from the liver by the all-important coffee enema
still have a long way to travel, down the 25-27 feet long small intestine, then through the 4-5 feet
of large intestine, before they can leave the body via the anus. In the course of this evacuation it is
unavoidable that some of the released toxins get re-absorbed. It takes time—sometimes too much
time—to expel from the body the accumulated residues of years of faulty eating, plus the toxic
breakdown products of tumors. Time being of the essence on the program, particularly in the case
of seriously ill patients, Dr. Gerson saw a real need to speed up the elimination process in order
to reduce the re-absorption to a minimum. To achieve this, and also to clear accumulations in the
small intestine, which the enema cannot reach, he added the castor oil treatment to the intensive
therapy.
This consists of taking castor oil by mouth as well as by enema, to speed up and reinforce the
release of toxic residues from the intestinal tract. The patient is awakened at about 5 a.m. to take
2 tablespoonfuls of castor oil, followed immediately by 1⁄2 to 2/3 cup of regular black coffee (not
enema coffee or concentrate), sweetened with 1⁄2 teaspoonful of Sucanat or other organic dried
cane sugar. (Diabetics do not take sugar in this coffee.) People who object to sweetened coffee
need to understand that the sugar is necessary to activate stomach peristalsis and counteract low
blood sugar.. Breakfast is taken as usual. Five hours after the oral administration of the oil, at 10
a.m., a castor oil enema is taken, instead of the normal coffee enema.
This is how the castor oil enema is prepared, using a second enema bucket  exclusively
reserved for this treatment:
Put 4 tablespoonfuls of castor oil into the enema bucket. Add 1⁄4 teaspoonful of ox bile powder
and stir well to mix thoroughly. Prepare the regular enema mixture of 8 ozs of coffee concentrate,
plus 24 ounces of purified or distilled water. Warm to body temperature. Get hold of a cake of
mild toilet soap (NOT detergent), e.g. Lux, Camay or similar, immerse it for a few moments in
the coffee and rub some of the soap, but no soap chips, into it. Next, mix the slightly soapy enema
coffee into the castor oil with the ox bile and stir well, to emulsify the solution as well as possible.
You may use an electric stirrer, but the somewhat emulsified oil will still rise to the top while you
are trying to take the enema. In fact, most patients find it impossible to stir the solution vigorously
enough to keep the oil mixed into the coffee on their own; they need a helper to do that.  When the
coffee plus castor oil is all infused, try to hold the solution for a little while, but you are unlikely
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www.thegersonway.comto succeed. It doesn’t matter, release when necessary. This enema does its work very fast.
The castor oil treatment is taken every other day for the first 4-5 months of the intensive
therapy, and then slowly reduced. Please Note: patients pre-treated with chemotherapy must
not use the castor oil treatment.
Patients react to the castor oil treatment in widely different ways. For many it is just a mild
inconvenience—due to the powerful cleansing effect of the oil, on castor oil days it is wise to
stay close to the bathroom. Others find the taste and weak smell of the oil off-putting. This can
be mitigated by eating a small piece of fruit before taking the oil, or having half an orange handy
and sucking it immediately afterwards. Some patients simply add the oil to the cup of coffee,
then use a straw or a glass tube, inserted into the oil, to get it into the back of the mouth, followed
immediately by the coffee to chase it down.
This is the only occasion in the Gerson program when patients are made to drink  coffee. It
is done in order to activate the stomach muscles and move the oil out as fast as possible, so that
the patient is not nauseated for hours while the oil remains in his or her stomach, but is able to
enjoy breakfast and the juices that follow. A few patients have tried to substitute peppermint or
some other herb tea for the coffee, but undoubtedly coffee works best and should be taken, even
by those who don’t normally drink it.
Cleaning the Equipment
Like all other tools of the Gerson program, the enema bucket has to be kept clean. But since
the anus, rectum and colon are  not sterile, the equipment need not be sterilized. After each use the
bucket has to be rinsed with hot soapy water, running it through the tube as well, and then rinsed
again thoroughly to remove the soap. Two or three times a week it is wise to put a cup of 3%
hydrogen peroxide (from the supermarket or drug store) into the bucket with the clamp closed,
and let it stand overnight to kill any germs or impurities. Rinse it out before the first use in the
morning.
CAUTION: If you keep the plastic tube attached to the bucket, it will eventually become
loose and even slip off, treating you to an unwanted coffee shower. Check the fit frequently and if
necessary, cut an inch or so from the loosened end of the tube and replace the tight part. You can
prevent accidents by removing the plastic tube every time before running hot water through the
bucket, so that it shrinks back to its original size and remains tightly in position.
The bucket reserved for the castor oil treatment is also cleaned as above, but with generous
use of hot soapy water, in order to get rid of any oily residues. Wipe the inside of the bucket with
a piece of absorbent paper to finish the cleaning.
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www.thegersonway.comPossible Problems
Many patients learn the enema routine without difficulty and get to enjoy the feeling of
lightness and added energy yielded by the practice. Others, however, experience difficulties,
which need to be eliminated. In the following we list some of the problems that may arise.
Patients may arrive at the hospital with a massive accumulation of stools in their colon, caused
by the use of heavy pain-killing drugs, including morphine. These tend to paralyze peristalsis (the
alternate contraction and relaxation of the intestine, by which the contents are propelled onward),
causing severe constipation. As a result, these patients are unable to take in a quart (32 ounces) of
the coffee solution, let alone hold it in. The answer for them is to take whatever amount they can
comfortably accommodate, stop, and hold this as long as possible, even if only for a few minutes;
then release, and take the remaining coffee solution. Again, hold it and release after 12-15
minutes. As a rule, after two or three days, when the colon has been cleared of old accumulations,
the enemas can be taken and held without difficulty.
Some patients may suffer from gas retention, which stops the enema from getting into the
colon. When that happens, a small amount—say 6-10 ounces—of the coffee can be infused, after
which the bucket is lowered to the patient’s level, allowing the coffee to flow back into the bucket.
This often releases the gas, causing some ‘bubbling’ in the bucket. Next the bucket is raised again,
and after the clearing of the gas the enema can continue more easily.
The patient is supposed to take the enema lying on his/her right side, in order to help the
coffee solution to get into the transverse colon from the descending colon. But as a result of
surgery, arthritis or tumors, the right side may be too painful to lie on. In such a case the patient
has to lie on his/her back, with the legs pulled up, and proceed from that position.
If a patient suffers from severe irritation of the colon, a small portion of the coffee concentrate,
say  2-4 ounces, can be diluted with chamomile tea instead of water. The smaller amount of coffee
will still help to detoxify the liver


mal ageing. His results revealed that periodical
fasting usually promotes bodily rejuvenation.

17 Charles Manning Child  (1869 – 1954) was an American zoologist
noted for his work on regeneration (especially
on Coelenterates  and flatworm s) at the  University of Chicago.
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out that, when given abundant food, the insects’
life lasted for 3 -4 weeks, but if the amount of
food was decreased or the insects were forced to
fast, they would stay active and young for at least
3 years. Here’s his conclusion: “Partial fasting
prevents aging. The fasting person is transferred
from mature age to initial postembryonic stage,
he is almost born again.”
Child pointed out that in the organic world re-
juvenation is nothing but a normal cell renewal
process. This process is conti nuous throughout
the life of any organism.
Similar research was conducted by the employ-
ees of the Institute of Physiology of the National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Through the
introduction of a special dietary regimen, they
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for three -months -olds. English biologist Clive
McCay18 achieved a 1.5 -fold life extension in
mice, by means of two days a week without food,
and decreasing food intake by a third allowed the
mice to live twice as long.
Interesting experiments on animal rejuvena-
tion were conducted by a remarkable physician
Suren Arakelyan19. According to his data, aged

18 Clive Maine McCay  (1898 —1967) was an American  biochem-
ist, nutritionist, gerontologist, and professor of  animal hus-
bandry at Cornell University  from 1927 -1963. His main interest was
the influence of nutrition on aging.  He is best known for his work
in proving that  caloric restriction  increases the life span of rats,
which is seen as seminal in triggering further research and experi-
ments in the field of nutrition and longevity. (from Internet)
19 Suren A. Arakelyan (1928 -2002) was a famous Soviet and Rus-
sian veterinarian. He wrote a book about the  method of medical
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eggs again, began recovering their feather coat-
ing, their voices became higher and younger and
their bodies – more graceful and slender. Here’s
a photograph that Suren Arakelyan has kept
since his experiment. There are two aged layer
hens in his arms. The hens were sisters. One
fasted, the other didn’t. After the photo was
taken, the gluttonous sister lived for only a
month, while the rejuvenated hen lived for six
more years. It was definitely surprising: out of
1000 birds written -off because of their age, 910
laid an egg every day. And not just an egg! The
egg weighed 68 grams, while the one laid by a
pullet weighed only 48 grams. The biochemical

fasting on birds and animal, Budem zhit Trista lyet  (Let's live three
hundred years).
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better, too. There was a fear that hunger will lead
the birds to their death, but they, on the con-
trary, began living much longer: for 18 years, on
average, instead of the 6 allotted by nature. The
species’ lifespan was exten ded threefold. A
chicken named Krasavitsa reached a fantastic
age of 21. Proportionately, for a human this age
would equal 240 – 250 years.
After chickens, Arakelyan started working with
bulls belonging to a high -priced breed. Their
youth is short, lasting only four years. And then
they become meat. The bulls went on a fast, but
they took a complex stress -relieving drug. It was
stress -relieving because normal hunger induces
a distressed, restless state in animals. Taking
these substances, the bulls as though didn't
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The bulls grew thin, having lost 15 -20 % of their
fat mass, but those were temporary losses, the
weight soon came back, and with it came specific
reproductive capabilities. This allows to con-
clude that when fasting is employed during the
month -long rest once a year, bulls’ life expec-
tancy grows threefold!
Inability to preserve youth is caused by factors
that interfere with the perfect process of renewal.
Any elimination of these interfering factors at
any age leads to a shift – to renewal and youth.
However, it should be acknowledged that there
are clear limits to human rejuvenating capabili-
ties. Irreversible changes may occur in the tis-
sues of the human body, and any efforts to elim-
inate them are ak in to efforts to grow a new leg
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some of them are very complex organisms, pos-
sess the ability to grow new members or internal
organs (even new heads, brains and eyes); their
rejuvenating capabilities are substantially wider
than those of highly developed organisms. But a
human can be rejuvenated to a greater degree
than we had previously thought. Up until now,
we can agree that the larger is the number and
the degree of pathological changes that have oc-
curred in the human body, the smaller is its ca-
pability of restoring youth. However, I don’t
think that the greatest possibilities of rejuvena-
tion by means of fasting are of interest only to
people of both sexes in their advanced age. Fast-
ing is also extremely im portant to younger peo-
ple as a means of reversing the aging process,
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use fasting to prevent destructive processes in
the vital organs by periodically freeing the or-
ganism of its toxic load and providing these or-
gans with the much -needed rest. then we will be
able to achieve a much more prolonged effect in
aging prevention than in searching for the ways
to rejuvenate the organism.
When I began working at the Goryachinsk
health resort, the nurse brought me the case rec-
ords of the patients that were to have an appoint-
ment with me. When I was looking through
them, one drew my attention. The patient was 80
years old, his diagnosis was deforming coxar-
throsis of the hip and knee joints. Well, I was
wondering to myself how he was going to get
there, and what treatment I could possibly
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youthful man of about 50 came to me for an ap-
pointment and said that he’d just been swim-
ming in Baikal (it was November) and it was
great. When I asked for his name, it turned out
he was that 80 -year-old ‘grandpa’. My surprise
knew no bounds. I asked him at once, “ What
about your sore joints?” “Oh, I forgot all about
them a long time ago, doctor, and the diagnosis in
my rehabilitation and health resort card form is
there so that I can go to the health resort.” I was
very interested to know how he had achieved
these amazing results in the treatment of his dis-
ease and rejuvenation of his body. Here’s his
story:
“My problems began after I turne d 50, I started
having pains in my hip joints when moving, it
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quently began bothering me, too. I underwent all
kinds of treatment and went to all kinds of health
resorts.


(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	grapefruit,	peeled	and	sliced

1.
1	tablespoon	lavender

1.
1	tablespoon	mint

1.
Tea	bag

Directions

1.
Add	all	ingredients	to	a	large-sized	pitcher.	Stir	to	combine	and	place	in	a
refrigerator	until	serving	time.

2.
Serve	in	wine	glasses	and	enjoy!Strawberry	Pineapple	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	6)

Ingredients

1.
4	cups	water

1.
1	lemon,	peeled	and	sliced

1.
1/2	cup	pineapple	chunks

1.
1	cup	frozen	strawberries

Directions

1.
Add	all	ingredients	to	a	bottle.	Stir	to	combine.

2.
Serve	with	frozen	strawberries	as	ice	cubes	and	enjoy!Berry	and	Orange	Fruit	Infused	Ice	Cubes
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	6)

Ingredients

1.
2	mandarin	oranges

1.
4	cups	water

1.
2	tablespoons	dried	raisins

1.
1	cup	frozen	cherries

Directions

1.
Peel	your	mandarin	oranges.

2.
In	a	pan,	bring	mandarin	orange	peel	and	water	to	a	boil.	Set	aside	to	cool.

3.
Then	cut	mandarin	oranges	into	small	cubes.	Transfer	them	to	silicone	ice
cube	trays.	Add	raisins	and	cherries.	Fill	the	ice	cube	trays	with	reserved
water.

4.
Place	the	trays	into	the	freezer	until	the	cubes	frozen.	Put	the	cubes	into
glasses,	fill	with	water	and	enjoy!Carrot	and	Ginger	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	6)

Ingredients

1.
2	carrots,	chopped

1.
1	sprig	rosemary

1.
1-inch	ginger	root,	peeled	and	sliced

1.
Sparkling	plain	water

Directions

1.
Place	all	the	above	ingredients	in	a	pitcher.

2.
You	can	refill	the	pitcher	a	few	times.Key	Lime	and	Plum	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	key	lime,	sliced

1.
4-5	plums

1.
Stevia,	to	taste

Directions

1.
Place	your	ingredients	in	a	mason	jar	or	a	pitcher.

2.
Use	a	spoon	to	slightly	mash	the	ingredients.

3.
Lastly,	pour	in	sparkling	plain	water.	Stir	to	combine	and	serve	well-
chilled.	This	beverage	can	be	stored	in	airtight	glasses.Vanilla	Plum	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	2)

Ingredients

1.
1-2	red	plums,	cut	into	chunks

1.
2-3	cloves

1.
1/2	teaspoon	vanilla	extract

1.
2	cups	sparkling	water

Directions

1.
Put	plum,	cloves,	and	vanilla	into	a	cocktail	shaker.	Then,	mash	them	with
a	muddler.

2.
Pour	in	sparkling	water,	and	allow	it	to	chill	before	serving.

3.
Plums	protect	your	heart	and	lower	blood	sugar.	Enjoy!Papaya	Mango	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1/2	cup	papaya	chunks

1.
1/2	cup	mango	chunks

1.
1/2-inch	ginger	root,	peeled	and	sliced

Directions

1.
Put	the	ingredients	into	a	large	pitcher.	Mush	with	a	back	of	spoon.

2.
Then,	fill	the	pitcher	with	water.	Serve	well-chilled.	You	can	refill	a	few
times.	Enjoy!Orange	and	Apple	Detox
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
2	tablespoons	apple	cider	vinegar

1.
1	fresh	orange	juice

1.
1	vanilla	bean,	sliced	lengthwise

1.
1	medium-sized	apple,	sliced

1.
16	ounces	filtered	water

Directions

1.
Simply	throw	all	ingredients	into	your	pitcher.	Stir	to	combine.

2.
Keep	refrigerated	before	serving.	Enjoy!Aloe	Lemon	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
4	tablespoons	Aloe	gel

1.
1	lemon,	squeezed

Directions

1.
Mix	all	ingredients	in	your	blender	or	a	food	processor.	Serve	over	ice	and
enjoy!

2.
Aloe	Vera	gel	contains	important	antioxidants;	Aloe	Vera	reduces	dental
plaque	and	it	can	slow	aging	of	our	skin.Maple	Cranberry	Drink
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	pint	filtered	water

1.
2	tablespoons	cranberries

1.
Key	lime,	sliced

1.
3	tablespoons	maple	syrup

Directions

1.
Put	all	the	ingredients	into	a	bottle	or	mason	jar.

2.
The	longer	this	beverage	stands	in	a	fridge,	the	more	flavorful	it	will	be.Mango	and	Sugarcane	Infused	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	pint	filtered	water

1.
1	handful	mango	chunks

1.
2	sticks	sugarcane

Directions

1.
Mix	the	ingredients	in	a	pitcher.

2.
Allow	the	beverage	to	chill	in	the	fridge	at	least	2	hours.	Enjoy!Black	Currant	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	pint	water

1.
6-7	black	currants

1.
1/2	cup	pineapple

1.
1	tablespoon	apple	cider	vinegar

1.
4	basil	leaves

Directions

1.
Put	all	the	ingredients	into	your	pitcher	or	a	mason	jar.	Transfer	to	a
refrigerator.

2.
The	longer	your	drink	sits,	the	better	it	tastes!	It	is	great	to	drink	when
you're	stressed	out.Lemongrass	Apple	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
2	stalks	of	lemongrass

1.
1	cup	ice	cubes

1.
1	green	apple,	cored	and	sliced

1.
1	stick	sugarcane

1.
1	stick	cinnamon

1.
3-5	quarter	sized	coins	of	peeled	ginger

1.
1	pint	filtered	water

Directions

1.
Place	all	ingredients	in	a	pitcher	or	a	mason	jar.	Stir	to	combine.

2.
Lemongrass	is	used	for	treating	stomach	ache,	rheumatism,	digestive	tract
spasms,
etc.Strawberry-Mint	Sparkling	Water
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
3	strawberries,	sliced

1.
1	small-sized	cucumber,	sliced

1.
5	fresh	mint	leaves

1.
Sparkling	water

Directions

1.
Combine	the	ingredients	in	a	large	mason	jar.	Then,	stir	well.

2.
Allow	your	drink	to	sit	in	a	refrigerator	overnight.

3.
This	delicious	sparkling	water	boosts	metabolism.	Enjoy!Lime,	Tea	and	Agave	Detox
(Ready	in	about	10	minutes	|	Servings	4)

Ingredients

1.
1	pint	water	for	boiling


 sinuses, likely the result
of mild chronic obstruction, was completely gone.Sure, it took weeks to get used to having a chunk of plastic in my mouth
at night. Spit built up, my throat constricted, and my teeth ached. But like
most discomforts in life, it got easier and less annoying the longer I did it.
As I write this, because of chewing and some widening of my palate, I
am breathing more easily and freely than I ever remember. Other than that
week and a half in which I purposely obstructed my nose in the Stanford
experiment, I have suf fered only one stuf fy nose this year, when I came
down with a cold. Even with my messed-up, middle-aged mouth and face,
I’d managed to make real progress. *
“Nature seeks homeostasis and balance,” Belfor told me on the phone in
one of our dozens of conversations since we first met. “Y ou were out of
balance. Just look at the scans. Nature corrected you by adding a
tremendous amount of bone to your face—the proof is in the pudding.”
This is what I learned at the end of this long and very strange trip
through the causes and cures of airway obstruction. That our noses and
mouths are not predetermined at birth, childhood, or even in adulthood. W e
can reverse the clock on much of the damage that’ s been done in the past
few hundred years by force of will, with nothing more than proper posture,
hard chewing, and perhaps some mewing.
And with the obstruction out of the way, we can finally get back to
breathing.Part Three
BREATHING+Eight
MORE, ON OCCASION
The morning after our celebratory “last” supper, Olsson and I hop back in
my car and drive down to Stanford for our final inspection with Dr. Nayak.
W e are rescanned, reprodded, repoked, and repeppered with questions. The
same tests we ran through ten days ago, and ten days before that. The data
for both stages of the experiment, we’re told, will be available later this
month. W e are free to breathe, free to go.
For Olsson, that means heading back to Sweden. For me, it means
further exploration to the outer limits of breath.
•       •       •
The techniques I’ll pursue from this point forward will not hold to the slow-
and-steady style. They are not  accessible to everyone, everywhere. Y ou
can’ t practice them while flipping through the pages of this book. Several
take a long time to master, require concerted ef fort, and can be
uncomfortable.
Pulmonary medicine has many scary names for what these more
extreme techniques can do to the body and mind: respiratory acidosis,
alkalosis, hypocapnia, sympathetic nervous system overload, extreme
apnea. Under normal circumstances, these conditions are considered
damaging and would require medical care.
But something else happens when we practice these techniques
willingly, when we consciously push our bodies into these states for a few
minutes, or hours, a day. In some cases, they can radically transform lives.Collectively, I’m calling these potent techniques Breathing+, because
they build on the foundation of practices I described earlier in this book,
and because many require extra focus and of fer extra rewards. Some
involve breathing really fast for a very long time; others require breathing
very slow for even longer. A few entail not breathing at all for a few
minutes. These methods, too, date back thousands of years, vanished, then
were rediscovered again at a dif ferent time in a dif ferent culture, renamed
and redeployed.
At best, Breathing+ can of fer a deeper view into the secrets of our most
basic biological function. At worst, breathing this way can provoke heavy
sweats, nausea, and exhaustion. This, I would learn, is all part of the
process. It’ s the respiratory gauntlet required to get to the other side.
•       •       •
As unlikely as it sounds, the first Breathing+ technique I’ll explore emer ged
in the W estern world on Civil W ar battlefields.
It was 1862 and Jacob Mendez Da Costa had just arrived at T urner ’ s
Lane Hospital in Philadelphia. The Union Army had suf fered a humiliating
defeat at Fredericksbur g, V ir ginia, where twelve hundred men had been
killed and more than 9,000 wounded. Soldiers were laid out in the hallways,
bruised and bleeding on rows of cots, missing ears, fingers, arms, and legs.
Even those who hadn’ t seen military action were falling apart. They
came into the hospital in droves, complaining of anxiety and paranoia,
headaches, diarrhea, dizziness, and shooting pain in their chests. They
sighed a lot. When the men tried to breathe, they’d huf f and huf f, but would
never feel like they could catch a breath. These men showed no signs of
physical damage; they had spent weeks or months preparing for battle but
never saw any action. Nothing had happened  to them. And yet each was
incapacitated, hobbling beneath the whitewashed walls of the hospital, past
the rows of screaming and suf fering amputees, trying to find their way into
Da Costa’ s care.
Da Costa was a glum-looking man with a bald head, lambchop
sideburns, and tired, Portuguese eyes. He’d been born on the island of St.
Thomas and spent years studying medicine in Europe with leading
sur geons. He’d become a renowned expert in the maladies of the heart andhad treated scores of men with myriad ailments. But he’d never seen
anything like the soldiers at T urner ’ s Lane.
He started the examinations by lifting the men’ s shirts and placing a
stethoscope to their chests. The soldiers’ heartbeats were manic, thumping
up to 200 beats per minute, even though they were sitting still. Some
breathed 30 or more times a minute, double the normal pace.
One typical patient was W illiam C., a 21-year -old farmer who, after
deployment, developed vicious diarrhea and a bluish tint to his hands. He
complained of breathlessness. Henry H. had identical symptoms and shared
W illiam C.’ s skinny build, with a narrow chest and a stooped spine. He too
had enlisted in good health, then, without explanation, was immobilized.
“The man did not look sick,” wrote Da Costa. But his heart rate was “of
irregular rhythm, some beats following each other in rapid succession.”
Hundreds of men would come to see Da Costa over the next few years,
with the same cluster of complaints, the same backstory. Da Costa would
call the malady Irritable Heart Syndrome.
The syndrome was puzzling in another way: the symptoms came on, and
then they would disappear. A few days, weeks, or months of rest and
relaxation, and heartbeats would soften, digestive problems would abate.
The men became normal again and they’d breathe normally again, too.
Most would be sent back to war. The few still suf fering would be placed in
the “invalid corps” or shipped home to deal with the syndrome for the rest
of their lives.
Da Costa recorded reams of data on these men, and he released a formal
clinical study in 1871, which would become a landmark in the history of
cardiovascular disease.
But Irritable Heart Syndrome wasn’ t confined to just the Civil W ar. The
same symptoms would show up half a century later in 20 percent of soldiers
who fought in W orld W ar I, a million soldiers in W orld W ar II, and
hundreds of thousands more in V ietnam and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Doctors dreamed up new names for these problems along the way,
believing they had discovered a new kind of illness. They told soldiers they
suf fered from shell shock, soldier ’ s heart, post-V ietnam syndrome, and
post-traumatic stress disorder. They considered the ailments to be
psychological, some disturbance in the brain brought on by fighting.
Soldiers often blamed exposure to chemicals or vaccines, although nobody
really knew for sure.Da Costa had his own theories. At T urner ’ s Hospital, he suspected he
was dealing with, in his words, “a disorder of the sympathetic nervous
system.”
It is the same disorder I’m feeling right now.
•       •       •
It’ s late morning and I’m splayed out on a yoga mat on the parched lawn of
a roadside public park in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
There’ s a picnic table full of emer gency medical technicians eating lunch to
my right, an old man brown-bagging a tallboy beer on a bench to my left.
Above me, the autumn sun is so clear and bright that it’ s blinding, even
through squinted eyes. I take a huge, heaving breath into the pit of my
abdomen and let it out. I’ve been doing this for the past few minutes, and I
can feel beads of sweat erupting on my forehead and face. I’ve got another
half hour to go.
“T wenty more!” yells the man standing over me. I can barely hear him
through the thunder of big rigs shifting gears on the highway behind us. His