every moment, an inconceivable project is at work, one that is dismantling
the setup of separation to arrive at unity consciousness, the true self, Atman,
supreme Yoga, or whatever you want to call it. The setup of separationdestines you to live in a world of opposites. In the cosmos that we know,
and that has shaped every quality of life, evolution is the opposite of
entropy. Entropy winds down the universe, like a child’ s toy whose battery
grows weaker until the toy doesn’t move anymore. Evolution,  like a new
battery, reener gizes the unive rse. Entropy is the force that ensures
destruction, and evolution takes the opportunity after each act of destruction
to assemble something new from the same ingredients.
Over billions of years, evolu tion created all living things out of
scattered stardust. Yet consider  how dust, the simplest ingredient in the
universe, led to human DNA, far and away the most complex structure in
the universe. On the personal level, evolution proceeds when we dismantle
some aspect of the ego-personality so that a more evolved quality can take
its place. Destruction is essent ial, and you must trust that the true self
knows better than you do which parts of the darkness must reach the light
and when. In Yoga, the all-knowing creative force of Nature is Shakti, the
creative intelligence that controls both creation and destruction.
The darkness, being essential, is not to be feared, shunned, or denied.
Our strategy as evolving selves is to patiently confront every sign of
darkness, accept ing that the light will find a way to transform it and reveal
the essential truth it hides. There is no need to use the tools of darkness
against it, either, since violence, resistance, denial, despair, hatred, and fear
are not how the light operates. The light is nothing but awareness revealing
something new about itself, enabling the true self, which is universal, to
manage everything. A surgeon cannot operate upon himself, but the ego-
personality isn’ t playing the role of a sur geon—the true self plays that role.
Living the vision of Royal Y oga, each of us must remember that the true
self is the real self. Only by standing firm in who we really are can the
evolution of consciousness take hold every day throughout our lifetime.
There’ s nothing more to know and nothing more to do if you want to live in
the light forever.
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OceanofPDF.comACKNOWLEDGMENTS
From Deepak
In recent years, I’ve developed a passion for Yoga in all its aspects, and I
am grateful to my teacher Eddie Stern, whose wisdom and depth of
knowledge extend far beyond our daily sessions of practicing Hatha Yoga.
No one has ever taught me more about Y oga.
It was inspiring  to have Sarah Platt-Finger as my collaborato r in this
book. She exemplifies all the virtues and benefits of her deep dedication to
Yoga.
A write r couldn’ t be more fortunate than to receive the loyalty,
guidance, and personal support of everyone at Harmony Books, beginning
with Diana Baroni, whose dedic ation to publishing is a source of constant
admiration. Your insight and decision-making have been crucial in the
difficult times we’ve been passing through—my heartfelt thanks.
I’ve enjoyed a bond of closeness and shared admiration with my editor,
Gary Jansen. You have been wise and tactful beyond anything a writer
hopes for. Thanks, too, to the whole Harmony team, including Aaron
Wehner, Tammy Blake, Christina Foxley, Marysarah Quinn, Patricia Shaw,
Jessie Bright, Andrea Lau, Jessica Heim, Sarah Horgan, and Michele
Eniclerico.
My sense of love and caring owes everything to my wife, Rita, and our
extended family of children and grandchildren. Thank you for making this
journey a shared venture that enriches all of us.
From Sarah Platt-FingerI would first and foremost like to thank my coauthor, Dr. Deep ak Chopra,
for the great honor of inviting me to write this book with him. The
ecosystem of yoga is vast, with innumerable teachers; it is a great privilege
to share my teachings with such a luminary. Thank you for trusting me to be
your co-pilot on this project.
To my husband, my spiritual partner, and the person without whom
none of the words on my pages  would have formed: Yogiraj Alan Finger.
Thank you for allowing me to walk alongside you for the past fifteen years,
sharing the ISHT A lineage worldwide. Thank you for teaching me
everything I know in the process. Your endless support and blessings of this
book have meant the world to me.
To Claire Kinsella-Holtje, for reminding me of the power of my own
unique voice. I could not have written this book without your mentorship
and validation.
To my parents, John and Sheila Platt, who always supported the creative
energy within me, even if that meant spending most of my childhood upside
down or climbin g on the furnitu re! Thank you for encouraging my words to
go on paper from such a young age.
To my sister, Emily, thank you for being my first teacher in life and a
role model for life. I am so grateful to you.
Thank you to my editor, Gary Jansen; my publisher, Diana Baroni; and
everyone at Penguin Random House, including production editor Patricia
Shaw and designer Andrea Lau, for their unwavering support and patience
with me. You have made the art of writing a book pure joy and much less
daunting than I anticipated! And special thanks to Stephanie Singleton,
whose illustrations in this book captivate and celebrate the beauty of the
human form through asana.
To my dear friends Alyssa Miller, Mona Anand, Kristin Leal, Loraine
Rushton, and Rachel Goldstein. Y our sisterhood is my life force ener gy.
And to my daughter, Satya, for being the light of love and of truth.
Because of you, I know I can; and because of you, I always will.
OceanofPDF.comINDEX
The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of the book.
Each link will take you to the beginning of the corresponding print page.
You may need to scroll forward from that location to find the corresponding
reference on your e-reader.
A
aging, 72–73
anger, 23, 24–25, 40, 43, 51, 74, 135
arohan awar ohan kriya,  142–43
asana,  meaning of, 130
asana(s), 14, 56–71, 87, 129–44
attention, power of, 15, 109–26
B
Baby Cobra pose (bhujangasana),  224–25
backbends, 223–35 ; Baby Cobra (bhujangasana),  224–25 ; Bow
(dhanurasana),  230–31 ; Bridge (setu bandha sarvangasana),  232–33; Camel (ustrasana),  234–35 ; Flying Locust (salabhasana),  228–
29; Upward-Facing Dog (urdva mukha svanasana),  226–27
balancing poses, 197–208 ; Eagle (garudasana),  206–8 ; Extended Hand to
Big T oe (utthita hasta padangustasana),  202–3 ; Lord of the Dancer
(natarajasana),  200–201 ; Tree (vrikshasana),  198–99 ; Warrior 3
(virabhadrasana 3),  204–5
bandhas,  138–40
being yourself, 28–30
belly breathing, 78
bliss, 5–6, 39, 40, 41, 64
Blown Palm pose (parsa ur dva hastasana),  152–53
body, 14, 56–71 ; being in sync with, 67–71 ; conscious, 57–59 ; dissolving
separation of mind and, 96–101 ; presence and, 59–61 ; staying
grounded in, 61–64
Bound Angular pose (baddha konasama),  256–57
Bow pose (dhanurasana),  230–31
breath(ing), 73–80, 135–40 ; bandhas  and, 138–40 ; belly, 78; regulated,
79–80 ; ujjayi,  136–37 ; vagal, 78–79, 137; vayus  and, 137–38
Bridge pose (setu bandha sarvangasana),  232–33
C
Camel pose (ustrasana),  234–35
Cat pose (marjaryasana),  212–13Chair pose (utkatasana),  150–51
chakras, 131–33
“change yourself, change the world,” 15–17
conscious body, 57–59
consciousness, 5, 14, 15, 17, 40, 47, 50, 74, 81, 87–88, 98, 102,


 prolonged dry, hot weather; prolonged
wet, cold weather; sudden changes of temperature, etc. - that further enervate an already a most prostrat ed and greatly
toxemic part of the population. The sudden rise in toxemia thus occasioned necessitates the development of a crisis to throw it
off. Mass sickness follows mass prostrating influences.

MEDICAL DELUSIONS
When crises have been repeated (and cu red) until organic changes are established, medical delusions multiply like rats in the
corn crib - the most deluded and fatuous draw their air -line decisions, fight their therapeutic battles, and, if they belong to the
"regular" school, promise therapeuti c perfection - if only the United States Army and Navy will beat down the cultists and
quacks, while they demonstrate the glories and wonders of "medical science" on the dear people.

WATERLOO - SYMPTOMS GET WORSE WITH TIME
It is in this field that all of the cures and curing systems meet their Waterloo. The pathology which has been in the making since
the development of the first of these "self -limited" crises reveals no tendency to spontaneous disappearance. Rather its
tendency it to grow worse and more c omplicated with the passing of time. Organic change occurs in more and more tissues
and organs and these "complications" defy the best efforts of the peddlers of cures. Cause has been present from the
beginning (the first cold of infancy represents an established toxemia) and has never been removed.
The physicians are long on diagnosis at this terminal stage of the evolving pathology. They name exactly the pathological sta tus
quo and, although they do not hesitate to treat the patient and to accept mone y for their experiments, they freely confess that
their treatments are ineffective. They have all been experts at curing the continuous series of recurring crises - the "self -limited"
diseases - but they are all helpless before the end -point of the develop ment of which the first crisis was the initiation. They
cannot cure cancer, or diabetes, or Bright's disease, or endocarditis, or arteriosclerosis.

INSULIN "CURES" UNTIL DEATH OF DIABETES
Toxemic subjects who continually poison themselves with excessive carbohydrates and thus stress the pancreas, develop
sugar in the urine. These are cured with insulin. Indeed, insulin cures them until they die of diabetes - go out, perhaps, in either
an insulin or a sugar coma.
Insulin -cured diabetics, like pepsin -cured dyspeptics, are made to feel fine for a year or two - until the burden of cause so
stresses other organs that they develop "complications." They are also so filled with "reflex' discomforts that they demand o ther
forms of "relief." When this stage is reach ed the curing must become a medley of palliating measures. Surgery, drugs, in fact,
all kinds of cures, are now resorted to in keeping with the whims of the patient and the caprices of the physician. Because t here
are so many who refuse to die after being cured by all known cures, it is necessary to discover new cures all the time.

FATTER AND MORE DEGENERATED
Every day we watch people getting fatter and fatter on "plenty of good nourishing food" that "keeps up their strength" until they
die of fatty degene ration, cerebral hemorrhage (apoplexy), or paralysis. Nobody warns them of what is in store for them and
they will not heed if they are warned. So disgracefully have we become habituated to associating health and even distinction
with a most pampered state  of the body, that we think it most natural or normal for a fat man to maintain at the highest pitch,
the unholy "love affairs" of his unregulated body. Unfortunately, our standards are empty of all value except for measuring
varying degrees of ill health.  Even our "normal" or "healthy" individuals, as measured by these standards, represent only a
slightly less degree of ill health than that seen in the sick.
A study made by the collaboration of forty -three American life insurance companies, using three num erically equal groups of
people over forty -five years of age, showed the incidence of diabetes in these three groups as follows. In the group of very thin
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people there  was one case; in the normal group there were five cases; in the fat group there were two hundred and twenty -
seven cases. Similar figures are available for cancer and a few other so -called degenerative diseases of later life. Fat and the
overeating that i s back of it are serious dangers at all ages of life.

"STRONG" MEN ARE NOT STRONG
Our strong men do not live any longer than the run -of-the-mill specimens of humanity. Many explanations for this have been
devised. Actually, there is very little excuse for  these mental meanderings. Athletes and strong men are often toxemic to the
point of collapse.
They are so vulnerable from the effects of self -poisoning that all they need to bring them down with a "fatal malady" is some
slight unusual enervating influence, or some slightly unusual amount of an accustomed influence. As unreasonable as it may
appear, the average medical man as well as the average layman, recognizes those - who are on the verge of apoplexy, "heart
failure," kidney disease, or other diseases r esulting from the degeneration brought on from chronic toxemia, arterial tension and
fat pressure - as ideal types of health.
They are commonly referred to as "pictures of health." In the early days of the recent war a young man was called before his
local  board for examination. The physicians found him fit and told him to go home and await his call for induction. He dropped
dead on the way out.

IGNORANCE AND COMMERCIALISM CAUSE DEATH
Many bankers and big business men die of operations for prostatic diseas e. These deaths are wholly unnecessary. Only the
worst type of ignorance and commercialism causes physicians to resort to operations for prostatic enlargement and prostatic
"infection." Cutting out prostate gland is as non -sensical as cutting out uterine fibroids and breast tumors. This senseless
desexing and mutilating of women goes on regularly, country -wide.

CANDY CAN KILL
Chronic candy drunkenness kills many with coma brought on from acidosis; others develop rheumatism, hard arteries, organic
heart di sease, obesity and other symptom -complexes and the urge of the candy manufacturers is for us to consume more and
more candy. Private profits are always paramount to human welfare.
Headaches are often blamed upon eye -strain, and the symptom is palliated wit h glasses. Eye -strain cause headaches! The
animal body physiologically adjusts itself to all kinds of anatomical deformities and, when in full health, free from toxemia,
functions smoothly in spite of such defects. In caring for "eye strain," it is signifi cant that when toxemia is removed, the
headache ceases.
Anemia is frequently blamed upon food deficiency. But it is never recognized that the deficiency is secondary to the impairme nt
of nutrition and will end when nutrition is restored to normal. Restorat ion of normal nutrition depends upon the removal of the
impairing causes and not upon overcrowding an already impaired nutritive system with more food or with more food of a given
kind. When once toxemia and its parent, enervation, are recognized as the re al cause of anemia, we will direct our attention to
the removal of these things and to the correction of their causes, and cease the present foolish effort to usurp nature's
prerogative of a cure.
Operations for appendicitis are rendered necessary by the officious gouging, boring and digging examinations made by
physicians who have much more interest in the surgical fee than in the welfare of their patients. A surgeon who understands
what appendicular inflammation is and then makes the regular examination,  is a criminal protected by law. Such surgeons with
their heavy -handed examinations are responsible for most of the ruptured appendices against which they so glibly warn us.
They create most of the dangers in appendicitis and produce the apparent need for operation.

LIGHTEN NATURE'S BURDEN
For those victims of their own and the physician's ignorance who have developed truly irreparable organic conditions, the fut ure
is not as dark as it may seem, if they can be taught how to live. Nature tolerates a certain degree of irremediable pathology and
permits us to live for an extended period - providing we lighten her burden. She cannot carry the double load of impaired
function and bad habits. She cannot be expected to hold an impaired nervous system at par  and at the same time take care of
three times as much food as is needed to replace the ordinary wear and tear. Efficient metabolic activity cannot be maintaine d
when enervating habits are regularly indulged. The hopelessness of chronic sufferers is not wh olly due to the fact that
physicians regularly commence their care of such patients at the wrong end of their diseases, but also to the fact that cause s
are ignored and mere palliation, this of a very doubtful character, is


absorption	of	nutrients.	By	damaging	gut	tissue,	killing	off
beneficial	bacteria,	and	creating	an	environment	that	inhibits	the	growth	of
normal,	beneficial	gut	bacteria,	we	lose	our	ability	to	digest	food	and	absorb
nutrients	properly.	This	condition	creates	both	deficiency	and	toxicity,	the	two
causes	of	cellular	malfunction	and	disease.
Three	classes	of	drugs	are	responsible	for	much	of	this	damage:	NSAIDs,
antibiotics	and	hormones.	NSAIDs	physically	damage	gut	tissue	and	destabilize
the	normal	composition	of	bacteria	living	in	the	gut,	especially	if	combined	with
antibiotics.	Antibiotics	kill	friendly	bacteria	essential	to	health	and	result	in	a
variety	of	intestinal	infections.	Hormones,	such	as	birth	control	pills,	create
chemical	imbalances	in	the	gut,	thus	promoting	yeast	infections	such	as	candida.
Once	yeasts	change	the	environment	in	the	digestive	system,	a	long	chain	of
events	damage	health	and	cause	disease.
Gut	tissue	that	is	damaged	becomes	more	permeable	(“leaky”)	to	large
molecules	of	undigested	food	and	to	microorganisms	that	enter	the	bloodstream
and	circulate	throughout	the	body.	This	occurrence	provokes	chronic	immune
responses	manifested	as	food	allergies	and	other	inflammatory	conditions,	and
such	inflammatory	conditions	may	be	the	basis	of	all	chronic	disease.
These	immune	responses	sometimes	create	antibodies	that	match	certain	body
tissues	and	attack	them,	resulting	in	autoimmune	diseases	such	as	lupus	or
arthritis.	A	person	who	has	a	damaged	gut	may	eat	an	excellent	diet	but	still
suffer	malnutrition	because	of	nutrient	malabsorption.
Adding	malabsorption	to	an	already	deficient	diet	is	catastrophic	to	long-term
health.	Excessive	immune	reactions	produce	much	debris,	called	immune
complexes,	which	can	overburden	the	kidneys	and	cause	kidney	disease.	In	fact,
allergic	reactions	may	be	the	leading	cause	of	kidney	disease.	Major	and
uncorrected	maldigestion	can	lead	to	extreme	weight	loss	and	greater
susceptibility	to	opportunistic	infections,	commonly	experienced	in	people	with
AIDS.
Vaccinations
Popular	opinion	regards	vaccinations	as	one	of	modern	medicine’s	greatest
achievements,	preventing	more	suffering	and	saving	more	lives	than	any	other
medical	procedure.	Nothing	could	be	further	from	the	truth.	Any	risks	or	“sideeffects”	from	vaccinations	supposedly	far	outweigh	the	inherent	benefits.
However,	finding	benefits	is	difficult	and	finding	risks	is	easy.
You	have	a	better	chance	of	being	healthy	if	your	cells	are	healthy;
vaccinations	damage	your	cells.	In	fact,	modern	medicine’s	practice	of	mass
vaccinations	may	be	a	blunder	that	ranks	with	X	rays	and	antibiotics	for	damage
done	to	health.	No	reliable	safety	study	has	ever	been	performed	on	any	vaccine,
and	evidence	suggests	that	they	are	both	ineffective	and	harmful.	Yet,
individuals	are	forced,	without	consent,	to	risk	injury	or	even	death.
In	October	2000,	at	the	annual	meeting	of	the	Association	of	American
Physicians	and	Surgeons	(AAPS),	a	resolution	called	for	an	end	to	all
government-mandated	vaccinations.	Even	more	astounding,	the	resolution
passed	without	a	single	dissenting	vote.	Jane	Orient,	M.D.,	executive	director	of
the	AAPS,	said,	“Our	children	face	the	possibility	of	death	or	serious	long-term
adverse	effects	from	mandated	vaccines	that	aren’t	necessary	or	that	have
limited	benefits.”	The	AAPS’s	resolution	read	that	“mass	vaccination	is
equivalent	to	human	experimentation	and	subject	to	the	Nuremberg	Code,	which
re-quires	voluntary	informed	consent.”	By	failing	to	inform	us	of	the	dangers,
and	taking	away	our	power	to	choose	otherwise,	mandated	vaccinations	become
a	crime	against	humanity.
The	dramatic	decline	of	infectious	diseases,	such	as	smallpox,	diphtheria	and
polio,	often	is	cited	(inaccurately)	as	proof	of	vaccinations’	effectiveness.	The
incidence	of	infectious	disease	dramatically	decreased
before
the	introduction	of
vaccines;	in	other	words,	vaccines	get	credit	for	something	they	did	not	do.	In
1950,	the	polio	epidemic	was	at	its	height	in	Great	Britain.	By	the	time	polio
vaccine	was	introduced	in	1956,	polio	had	already	declined	by	82	percent.
Similarly,	tuberculosis	was	a	persistent	killer	throughout	the	1800s	and	by	1945
had	already	declined	by	97	percent.	Other	infectious	diseases	that	already	were
in	decline	before	the	introduction	of	their	vaccines	include	pneumonia,
influenza,	whooping	cough	and	measles.	Continuing	decline	merely	followed	the
existing	trend.
Countries	that	did	not	vaccinate	against	specific	diseases
experienced	similar	declines	as	countries	that	did.
A	strong	argument	for	the	decline	of	infectious	diseases	can	be	made	for	a
variety	of	factors,	including	better	sanitation,	less	crowded	living	conditions	and
the	absence	of	hunger.	In	addition,	diseases	tend	to	have	their	own	evolutionary
cycles;	they	go	away	as	the	population	gains	“herd”	immunity.	Diseases	like
bubonic	plague	and	scarlet	fever	experienced	declines	similar	to	other	infectious
diseases;	they	disappeared	without	any	immunization	programs.
Finding	any	studies	that	prove	vaccines’	effectiveness	is	difficult.	To	proveefficacy,	we	must	analyze	studies	of	vaccinated	groups	versus	unvaccinated
ones.	Very	few	of	such	studies	ever	have	been	conducted;	the	few	that	have	been
indicate	that	the	vaccines	are	ineffective.	Recent	worldwide	outbreaks	of	virulent
forms	of	TB	have	demonstrated	that	alleged	“protection”	by	TB	vaccine	has
little	to	do	with	whether	or	not	anyone	contracts	the	disease.
Not	only	ineffective,	vaccines	can	also	be	harmful.	Viera	Scheibner,	Ph.D.,	a
world	authority	on	immunizations	and	author	of	the	1993	book
Vaccination,
wrote:	“Immunizations	.	.	.	not	only	did	not	prevent	any	infectious	diseases,	they
caused	more	suffering	and	more	deaths	than	any	other	human	activity	in	the
entire	history	of	medical	intervention.”	Having	assembled	and	researched	the
world’s	largest	collection	of	data	on	immunizations,	Dr.	Scheibner	concludes
that	“there	is	no	evidence	whatsoever	that	vaccines	of	any	kind—	but	especially
those	against	childhood	diseases—are	effective	in	preventing	the	infectious
diseases	they	are	supposed	to	prevent.	.	.	.	One	hundred	years	of	orthodox
research	shows	that	vaccines	represent	a	medical	assault	on	the	immune	system.”
Each	generation	is	subjected	to	more	vaccinations	and,	as	a	result,	is
experiencing	more	immune	dysfunction	diseases.	Many	children	have	as	many
as	twenty-two	vaccinations	before	they	go	to	the	first	grade,	and	as	more
vaccines	become	available,	the	number	keeps	increasing.	At	an	international
conference	in	1997,	Terry	Phillips


 of hours or sometimes less. It’s
just like a fine expensive tea from the Far East. If I am very active and sweating a lot I may need to drink some pure distilled water, but usually this would make
me over hydrated. Most of the time looping all of my orin is just right for
hydration levels.
When school ends for the day, either myself or my wife go to pick up the kids
and come home to spend some time together as a family. I take some mixed
frozen fruit out of the deep freeze to give a little time to thaw out. While my wife
lovingly prepares a nutritious family meal, I often take the kids out for a nature
walk most days very near to where we live. We pick fruit, nuts and berries when
in season and all year round look for edible plants and mushrooms. The latter
you have to be extremely careful and knowledgeable so as to avoid the
poisonous ones. All year round you can find nettles, dandelions, goose grass and
other wild plants. We pick handfuls of each to go into our smoothies.
We also made an insect hotel or bug hotel. This is extreme and I know most
people following omad orin looping wont do this part, but actually insects contain
a lot of goodness gram for gram. I sometimes put some appropriate insects in
my smoothie mix, but again its not necessary.
About 4:30-4:40pm I have my last big orin loop. Then start getting things ready
for our family meal. The kids help setting the table and helping their mum get
everything ready. Meal times are very important to our family. I get every bodies
smoothies ready. The kids are not on omad yet, I hope they will want to when
they are adults, for now they only have small fruit smoothies. My wife is usually
on TMAD, or two meals a day. She has a slightly larger smoothie as a starter. We
put them all on the table and while finishing preparations I roll out my exercise
matt for at least 3 mins of H.I.T burpies or life salutes. A few mins is all that is
needed if intensity is high. Sometimes the kids join me, I never force them but
example is always better than instruction and they tend to want to copy me in
almost everything I do. When I feel its intensive enough or I go right through to
5pm I immediately start drinking my smoothie at 5pm on the dot.
My smoothie is the largest of everybody in the family, containing mixed fruit
both frozen and wild freshly pick in season. Berries, nuts both freshly picked if in
season and from a bag of bought mixed organic nuts. Then put in some live
insects from our bug hotel and handfuls of fresh green leafy wild foraged food
from our nature walk. I often add some honey and blackstrap molasses, plus any
supplements in there. Last of all handful of freshly sprouted seeds and beans.
These have just sprouted meaning the nutrient content goes up 1000% plus. I
wiz it all up and start drinking it slowly on the dot at 5pm. I say drinking but each
mouthful still needs chewing somewhat to mix with saliva and help with
digestion. We then spend the next hour eating the main course slowly. No rush,
taking our time talking and enjoying good food together. Chewing each mouthful
the correct amount before swallowing. My wife makes excellent food every day,
huge variety and always highly nutritious.
I always add a bowl of my homemade sauerkraut to the table and have to get a
bit of it quick before my daughters eat it all, as they love it. Sometimes pickled
walnuts and other condiments. Our family meals are very varied and interesting but most of all extremely enjoyable. If you start omad then you will understand
what I mean when I say you enjoy food so much more than before you started
omad, and it really makes you happy and brings more joy to your life.
Before 6pm, or 6pm at the very latest I finish chewing and swallowing  my last
mouthful, often finishing something on the table. Then we just sit and chat for a
while longer. Pleasurably enjoying each others company and the feeling of being
full and satisfied. Next taking our time clearing the table and doing the washing
up. The kids have their chores, to wipe the table ect ect.
I don't drink anything else whatsoever from now on until tomorrow morning
when I wake up. Apart from a little that I drink through the nose in my evening
routine, I do nose drinking of orin in both my morning and evening routines.
The next time I feel my bladder full I start filling my container again for tomorrow
morning. Nothing else to eat or drink at all from now on (apart from a little
drinking through the nose) until I go to sleep. I use some of this first orin after my
one meal of the day to do some orin pulling for 20-30 mins. While orin pulling I
either have a quick body rub down or a longer aged orin bath. Sometimes filling
a pair of swimming goggles with orin and wearing them while I do my evening
routines.
Most evenings I sit in the empty bath (while still orin pulling) with the plug in and
use about a litre of aged orin for full body washing. I pour it over my head then
keep scooping up handfuls from the little puddle Im sitting in and massaging into
every square inch of my body. This is my stretching routine and washing routine
in one go. When its nearly all been absorbed into my skin and hair, I then start
spraying on some pharmaceutical grade DMSO. Also I spay on some home made
colloidal silver pure water mixed with essential oils and rub it all in. I like to just
let it dry, never needing to towel dry while I clean the bath and tidy up the
bathroom.
All this time I have been orin pulling, maybe a few times spitting out and getting
a new mouthful. Then with a soft toothbrush I clean my teeth with some more
orin and use a little aged orin that I have been storing for a few months. When it
comes to aging orin keep in mind to always be adding a little more than what
you use up so that you are building up quite a store. Then rinse out with some
fresh orin.
Then go through night-time routine, the kids have a story or two, then spend
some time together just my wife and I and we try to get to sleep at 10pm at the
latest. An hour before midnight is worth two after. Any orin goes into my
container for the next morning.
So that is it in a nutshell, my morning routine right through to my evening
routine. This is the omad orin looping programme and you can tailor it to suit
your lifestyle. This is how I will live long term. You can take the principles here
and adapt to your schedule and life. If you do then I promise you that a whole
new world of health and happiness awaits you far more than you could possible imagine right now. Your enjoyment of good food goes up and this has the effect
of you enjoying other things in life even more as discussed in the book. The
positive results are never ending from Omad Orin looping.
Please don’t just take my word for it, experience it yourself. Do your own
research and if you disagree with me on anything then please explain your case,
I would be very happy to look into it. Most times we would only be speculating on
certain things that neither of us could actually 'prove' to the degree of being
completely true or not. Saying that the more you research and experiment then
the more you learn. I love to study the deeper things of how the body works. I do
not cherry pick studies that suit my point of view, I look at all the research and
try to get as close to the truth as its ever possible to get.
To your good health and happiness. Please don’t give up and think you just can’t
do it, believe me that if I can do then you can too. Im nothing special, it is the
omad orin looping programme that is something very special indeed. So feel free
to drop me a line how you are getting on in your omad orin looping journey.
Yours in good health and happiness and enjoyment  of really good food and drink.
DR Phillips. AKA Omadorinlooper
Simplebalancedselfreliance@yahoo.com
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 own (interfering with
the third and fourth stages of deep, dreamless sleep), and
that serious withdrawal symptoms occur after prolonged
use. If you look at the level of the receptors on the cell wall,
none of this is surprising, because Valium acts by
outcompeting the body’s own neurochemicals and taking
over their receptor sites. This kind of interference would
perhaps be advantageous if Valium competed only with the
neuropeptides responsib le for causing the feelings of
anxiety (called octadeca neuropeptides). But the calming
eﬀect of the drug does not come by itself; Valium confuses
the nervous system as a whole. Moreover, it was recently
discovered that the monocytes of the immune system also
are attracted to Valium. So when a doctor gives what he
thinks is a sleeping pill or a tranquilizer, he is aﬀecting the
immune system at the same time, adding more confusion at
the level of the receptors.No one knows if this has caused any harm, largely
because the ﬁnding about  the immune system is too new. In
all likelihood, we will discover that nature has already
provided our bodies with an exact internal analogue to
Valium, which means that we are clumsily reproducing
something that already exists in nearly perfect form. If I
ask myself whether I like the idea of plugging the same
chemical into my immune cells every day, in the
indiscriminate fashion that Valium was doled out to millions
of patients, primarily women, for thirty years, the answer is
obvious.
The immune cells have a reason for each receptor; they
use them to think, act, perceive, and respond in precise
ways. A person uses the same two eyes to view the whole
world; a cell, however, has a diﬀerent eye for each thing it
needs to see. In other words, a constantly ﬁlled receptor
renders the cell blind to one speciﬁc thing. At a time when
the incidence of many cancers, such as breast cancer, is
still rising, sending unkn own messages into the immune
system seems very risky.
—
Currently there is a “chem ical revolution” under way in the
treatment of mental disease, and it seems as miraculous as
Valium did thirty years ago. Doctors now widely give their
mental patients mind-altering, or psychotropic, drugs to
clear up the overt symptoms of their sickness, mainly
depression, mania, and hallucinations. The symptoms are
often relieved, sometimes quite dramatically and suddenly,
although many patients cannot tolerate the mental
numbness and fatigue that are common side eﬀects (not
that the side eﬀects are simple: certain antidepressants can
make the patient’s depression worse for the ﬁrst few
weeks, or swing it in the opposite direction until it turns
into wild mania).Critics of drug therapies call them “chemical lobotomies”
and charge that they strip the patient of his huma n dignity.
Doubtless there are many abuses, particularly in large,
understaﬀed public hospitals for the insane. It takes very
careful ﬁne-tuning to stabilize the correct dosage of any
psychotropic drug, and horror stories abound of depressed
patients who reacted so badly to their medication that they
committed suicide rather than endure the cure. Still, the
success in this ﬁeld impli es that drugs will be used to cure
schizophrenia and depression altogether, if not today, then
in the future.
A “cured” schizophreni c does not yet exist through
chemical means. This is because there is more to being
normal than not having hallucinations. Once you suppress a
schizophrenic’s bizarre visions or the strange voices he
hears in his head, you do not ﬁnd a normal person facing
you, but a shell. Altering the chemical level of dopamine,
even if it could be done a hundred times better than it is
done today, will not lead to a cure. The reason is contained
in the lesson learned from the neurotransmitters
themselves: for every chemical breakthrough, there is also
a chemical barrier.
The good news about neurotransmitters is that they are
material. A thought, whether sane or mad, is hard to grasp
because it is so intangi ble; it is not something you can
touch or feel. The neurotransmitters, however, are certainly
tangible, although they are extremely tiny and often short-
lived. It is the neurotransmitter’s role to match up with a
thought. To do that, its molecules must be just as ﬂexible as
thoughts, just as ﬂeeting, elusive, changeable, and faint.
Such ﬂexibility is a kind of miracle but also a curse, in
that it throws  up a barrier that is almost impossibl e to pass.
No man-made drug can duplicate this ﬂexibility, either now
or in the foreseeable future. No drug actually pairs up with
a thought. This is apparent just by looking at the structureof the receptor. Receptors are not ﬁxed: they have been
accurately described as looking like lily pads that have
ﬂoated up from the depth of the cell. Like lily pads, their
roots sink downward, reaching the cell’s nucleu s, where
the DNA sits. DNA deals in many, many  kinds of messages,
potentially an inﬁnite number. Therefore, it makes new
receptors and ﬂoats them up to the cell wall constantly.
There is no ﬁxed number of receptors, no ﬁxed
arrangement on the cell wall, and probably no limit to what
they are tuned in to. A cell wall can be as barren of lily
pads as a pond in winter, or as crammed as one in full
ﬂower in June.
The only thing constant about a receptor is its
unpredictability. Researchers recently discovered, for
example, that a neurotransmitter called imipramine is
produced abnormally in the brains of depressed people.
While looking for the distribution of imipramine receptors,
they were startled to ﬁnd them not just on the brain cells
but on skin cells. Why should the skin create receptors for
a “mental molecule”? What did these skin receptors have to
do with depression?
One plausible answer is that a depressed person is
depressed everywhere—he has a sad brain, sad skin, sad
liver, and so on. (Likewise, researchers have examined
patients who complain of feeling jittery all the time and
discovered abnormally high levels of two chemicals,
epinephrine and norepinephrine, in their brains and
adrenal glands. However, high concentrations were then
found in their blood platelets, meaning that they had
“jittery blood cells,” too.)
It has been frustrating for doctors to realize how complex
the whole business is becoming. Hopes for a quick cure of
schizophrenia, depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, and
other disorde rs were dashed in the mid-1970s, just a few
years after the original endorphins had been isolated in1973. Now the chemical barrier is stronger than ever, as
the true ﬂexibility of the messenger molecules is being
divined.
—
Thinking about this probl em, I have to ask myself a deeper
question: Can a drug really exorcise the ghost of memory?
My medical experience says no—I have seen too many
depressed patients who were “cured” by drugs and yet who
still radiate a feeling of hollow sickness. Instead of trusting
drugs, one needs to ﬁnd out how the patient’s sick memory
got into his chemical system to begin with. For it is
absolutely clear that the nonmaterial memory is there. It
may be taking a ride on a molecule, but its life does not
depend on that. The following case serves as an example.
Walter grew up on the streets of south Boston in the late
1960s; he felt the edge of hatred that greeted black people
who moved into that neighborhood. To escape this and the
poverty that had dogged  him all his life, Walter joined the
Army at 18. Within six months he found himself in Vietnam.
He fought in combat and survived, but when he bounced
back onto the street again two years later, he was hooked
on heroin, which many soldiers used to make the war less
traumatic. Unlike most soldiers, Walter had no reason to
quit when he got home. Eventually the police caught him,
and by order of the court he came under my care at the V.A.
hospital for his addiction.
Our main focus was simply to detoxify Walter. In the
normal cours e of things, he would have passed through the
revolving door and back out onto the street. But while he
was staying in the hospital I began visiting with him. It was
clear that he was an exceptional person. Despite his
desperation, he did not seem eaten up by inner violence,
and he was courageously willing to ﬁght his habit. Walter
made friends with me. He also made quick progressmedically, and a year after detox he was still holding a
steady job and talking eagerly about the norma l life he
longed for and loved.
Then a strange incident occurred. One day Walter’s car
broke down, forcing him to take the subway to work, which
he hadn’t done in several months.


	of
the	love	you	have	inside.	The	most	perfect	love	comes	from	your
true	self,
which	always	sees	you	in	the	light.	When	you	open	the	door	to	the	light,	you
are	asking	to	experience	a	new	relationship	inside	yourself.	Right	at	this
moment,	you	are	likely	to	be	experiencing	love	and	light	only	in	bursts,	as	if	the
door	was	being	opened	and	then	quickly	closed—passing	moments	when	you
can	relate	to	yourself	as	worthy	of	love.	At	other	times	this	isn’t	your
experience.	Negative	reflections	from	the	outside	keep	you	from	seeing	your
inner	beauty.
It	would	be	ideal	if	all	of	us	were	perfectly	loved	from	the	time	we	were	small
children.	But	the	way	you	feel	about	yourself	is	almost	always	the	result	of
mixed	messages	that	you	have	heard	all	your	life.	When	you	needed	love,
kindness,	and	compassion,	you	learned	that	these	would	be	given	only	under
certain
conditions.	We’ve	all	received	messages	like	the	following:
I	love	you	as	long	as	you	love	me
.
I	love	you	as	long	as	you	are	being	good
.
I	love	you	only	as	much	as	you	deserve
.
I	love	you,	but	don’t	ask	for	too	much	or	you’ll	be	spoiled
.You	may	remember	such	messages	as	you	were	growing	up	or	perhaps	in
your	present	relationships	today.	They	place	conditions	on	the	love	you
experience,	and	these	conditions	come	to	feel	normal.	But	if	love	is	always
limited,	so	is	how	beautiful	you	feel.	The	old	game	of	comparison	stays	alive
because	we	feel	there	is	not	enough	love	and	beauty	to	go	around,	and	somehow
other	people	get	more	than	their	fair	share	compared	with	us.
Can	you	change	your	inner	image	of	how	much	you	are	loved?	You	will
never	feel	secure	in	your	beauty	until	it	is	merged	with	love.	The	path	to
unconditional	love	only	asks	for	you	to	open	the	door.	No	one	else	can	open	it
for	you;	there	is	no	source	of	unconditional	love	outside	yourself.	Right	this
minute	you	have	the	ability	to	find	the	place	inside	you	where	unconditional
love	exists.	To	show	you	how	easy	this	is,	try	the	following	simple	exercise:
Sit	comfortably	by	yourself	in	a	quiet	place.	Now	say	to	yourself,	“I	am
________,”	using	your	name	to	fill	in	the	blank,	for	example,	“I	am	Sharon
Thompson.”	Wait	a	few	seconds	and	let	this	thought	settle.	Now	shorten	it:	“I
am	Sharon.”	Sit	for	a	moment	to	let	this	thought	settle.	Then	shorten	the
thought	to	“I	am,”	then	to	“I,”	and	then	sit	in	silence.	Most	people	experience
this	sequence	of	thoughts	as	a	natural	way	to	find	the	inner	silence	inside
themselves.	It’s	a	pleasant	experience,	which	may	last	only	briefly	or	several
minutes—that	part	doesn’t	matter.	What’s	important	is	to	see	that	your	identity
can	shift	from	“I	am	X”	to	simply	“I	am”	and	then	silence.
You	don’t	have	to	use	your	name	in	this	exercise.	Any	X	will	work,	because
whenever	you	say	to	yourself	“I	am	angry”	or	“I’m	bored”	or	“I’m	cooking
dinner,”	you	are	placing	a	condition	on	who	you	are.	These	conditions	come
and	go	all	the	time.	They	rise	and	fall,	while	your
true	self	remains	constant.
Sadly,	we’ve	developed	the	habit	of	living	with
labels	and	thinking	they	tell	us
who	we	are.	“I	am	X,	thirty-six	years	old	of	mixed	race,	religiously	unaffiliated,	a
lawyer,	with	a	husband	and	two	children.”
In	the	game	of	labeling,	we’d	all	like	to	pin	the	label	“beautiful”	on	ourselves.
But	once	you	do,	insecurity	sets	in.	The	label	could	always	wear	out	or	fall	off.
All	labels	are	temporary.	Therefore,	be	very	clear	that	beauty	isn’t	a	label—it’s	a
state	of	being.
All	of	these	labels	that	we	identify	with	serve	as	distractions	from	who	we
really	are:	children	of	the	light.	When	you	stop	being	distracted	by	thinking	“I
am	X,”	you	easily	find	the	path	to	simply	being	yourself.	There’s	no	huge
spiritual
secret	beyond	this.	The	spiritual	path	is	all	about	clearing	away	labels,
images,	old	memories,	and	outworn	conditioning	that	prevent	you	from	the
simple	experience	of	your	true	place	in	the	light.
You	can’t	turn
conditional	love	into	unconditional	love	any	more	than	youcan	turn	muddy	water	to	pure,	clean	water.	Instead,	you	must	go	to	the	place
inside	where	you	can	simply	be	yourself	and,	without	judgment	or	comparison,
where	you	feel	beautiful,	loved,	and	lovable.	Getting	to	this	place	isn’t	difficult.
You	just	did	it	through	a	simple	exercise.	So	why	didn’t	you	suddenly
experience	bliss,	joy,	and	ecstasy,	which	are	supposed	to	be	there?	Because	it
takes	repeated	experience	to	become	accustomed	to	“I	am”	in	place	of	“I	am	all
the	labels	that	apply	to	me.”	The	quality	of	bliss,	joy,	and	ecstasy	is	already	part
of	you—in	Indian	the	term	for	this	state	is
Ananda
.
Ananda
	isn’t	held	out	as	a
faraway	ideal	that	is	only	reached	by	a	few	gifted	people	after	years	of	faith	and
devotion.
Ananda
	is	a	quality	of	consciousness	itself,	meaning	that	you
experience	it	when	you	experience	the	silence	of	your	own	mind.
This	is	where
self-compassion	comes	in.	Knowing	that	you	can	experience
unconditional	love,	bliss,	and	joy	by	going	to	the	place	where	these	things	are
natural	means	you	don’t	have	to	work	on	your	limited,	conditioned	self.	You
don’t	have	to	criticize	it	to	find	it	lacking	in	any	way.	Rather,	you	can	treat	your
conditioned	self	as	an	ally	on	your	inner	journey.	After	all,	this	is	the	self	that
has	given	you	glimpses	of	love,	bliss,	and	joy	all	your	life.	You	face	a	simple
choice.	You	can	look	at	your	imperfect,	conditioned	self	and	say,	“You	caused
all	my	problems.	Thanks	to	you,	I	have	been	wounded	and	suffered.	You	don’t
live	up	to	my	ideals.	I’m	frustrated	and	exasperated	by	you.”
This	is	a	very	common	attitude.	You	may	not	accuse	and	reject	your	limited
self	directly,	but	every	time	you	think	you	aren’t	good	enough,	beautiful
enough,	thin	enough,	and	so	on,	you	are	in	fact	rejecting	yourself.
The	other	side	of	the	coin	is	to	look	at	your	limited	self	and	say,	“Thank	you
for	always	being	here.	Because	of	you	I	have	experienced	the	light.	I	have	known
love	and	beauty.	Join	with	me	now,	and	trust	in	me.	We	are	going	to	find	our
true	home	in	the	light.”	That’s	how	self-compassion	begins,	by


 freedom and this
inner vitality will we be able to create a fertile ground upon which our true
spiritual nature can unfold. And only then can we attempt to reach out for
the transformation of our material bodies into the eternal.
A state of hannony brings with it a feeling that there is n o good or bad,
positive or negative, Yin or Yang, disease or fear. When a shoulder heals,
one often has to be reminded that at one time it suffered great pain. When
one reaches this point, it is easy to stop practicing all exercises. Thus one
may inadvertently fall back into weakness and disease. One needs, then, an
outer sense of discipline at first to continue to pursue this, as is nece ssary in
any endeavor. I hope, however, that an inner sense of discipl ine will
develop within the practitioner to carry him or her forward on a contin ual
movement of interest. This movement arises from the understand ing,
growth, and feeling of well ness that comes from following these exercises.
The Internal Exercises are easily performed, require no strenu ous activ
ity, and do not require a great deal of time to perform. They are a gift to
the world from the ancient Taoists, and when used wisely and with a feeling
of appreciation, will be well worth the time and energy invested in practic
ing them. They have been developed around natural laws of heal ing, and
therefore one need not be in a hurry to ''master''them. Take your time in
developing a feeling for each exercise and you will be rewarded with ample
50 The Internal Exercises
treasures.
The proper use of imagination plays an important part in some of the
Intern al Exerc ises. It has been recognized for centuri es that a thought is as
much a reality as a material object, and in fact, that they are one and the
same. They are both fonns of energy, the distinguishing difference being
that they exis t at differen t frequencies and wave lengths of vibration.
Ima gina tion is used, in some cases, to bring together the mind and the body
so that they function as a unit. By using our imagination, we may begin to
explore our min ds and bod ies through the Internal Exercises, and in time
we will discover extra ordinary levels of health existing within us.
The ancient prog ression set down centuries ago for practicing the Inter
nal Ener gizing Exercises will be closely followed. One begins with the
Five Anima l Exerc ises, the Eight Directional Exercises and the Twelve
Zodia c Exercis es, and proceed s with the other exercises which work to heal
the internal and external systems of the body. Once these initial exercises
are mastered, one goes on to the meditative and breathing techniques. The
spec ial pres cription s for healing may be used whenever necessary. One
may achieve proficien cy and freedom from many previous weaknesses and
diseases within three to six month s after beginning to practice the initial
exercis es. Profi ciency in the meditative and breathing techniques may take
long er. Benefits accrue throughout the process however, and this allows us
to observe their move ment fro m time to time. We hope the growing sense
of vitality and wellness which you feel upon following these exercises will
be sufficient to keep you on the path toward physical, men tal, and spiritual
enrichm ent.
FIVE ELEMENT THEORY
The ancient Taoists, by observing and contemplating the workings of the
univ erse, dev ised a theo ry to explain the balance of the complim entary and
antag onistic units of which it is composed. The characteristics and rela
tion ship s of these dynamic units are explain ed in the Five Elem ent
Theory.
In this theory, the life force in all of its myriad manifestations com es into
and goes out of existence through the interplay of five elements : fire, earth,
metal, water, and wood. This five-element model is unique to Taoism,
51 The Internal Exercises
because ancient Western and Indian philosophy used a four-element
model, which consists of the elements earth, air, water, and fire. In
Taoism, air is included in the concept of frre, for without air, frre would not
bum.
There are two cycles that illustrate the interaction between these ele
ments. In the first cycle-t he cycle of generation-ea ch element generates
or produces the succeeding element: wood produces fire, fire produces
earth, earth produces metal, metal produces water, water produces wood
the cycle begins again. In the second cycle-the cycle of destructio n
each element destroys or absorbs the succeeding element: fire destroys
metal, metal destroys wood, wood absorbs water, water absorbs fire, fire
destroys metal-the cycle begins again.
Figure 3. Cycle of Generation. Figure 4. Cycle of Destruction.
Because the universe maintains balance through the interplay of the five
elements, our bodies, a microcosm of the universe, are thought to achieve
mental and physical harmony in the same way. Energy flows through the
body via the meridians and their respective organs and bowels in well
defined cycles. The cycles depicting the flow of energy within the body
mirror the two cycles which depict the interaction between the five ele
ments. Taoism identifies each of the viscera with one of the elements in the
following manner:
52 The Inte rnal Exercises
Table 2. The Element s as Assigned to the Organs and Bowels.
Fire-heart
small intestine
Triple Heater
(endocrines)
Heart Constrictor
(blood vessels)
Earth-spleen-pancreas
stomach
muS'Cie Metal-lungs
large intestine
skin
Water-kidneys
bladder
bones
Wood-liver
gallbladder
nerves
Identifying each of the organs with its respective element in the first
cycle results in: the heart (fire) supporting the spleen-pancreas (ea rth), the
spleen-pancreas (earth) supporting the lungs (metal), the lungs (metal)
supporting the kidneys (water), the kidneys (water) supporting the liver
(wood), and the liver (wood) supporting the heart (fire). The bowels also
follow the same cycle: the small intestine (fire) supports the stomach
(earth), the stomach (earth) supports the large intestine (metal), the large
intestine (metal) supports the bladder (water), and the bladder (water)
supports the gallbladder (wood).
If the energy within an organ is not balanced, that organ, rather than
being able to effectively support the organ succeeding it on the meridian
circuit, will adversely affect, or will be adversely affected by, another
organ. This pattern has been depicted in the second cycle of interaction
between the elements in which each element destroys or absorbs the other.
Thus, when the energy within the heart (fJ.re) is imbalanced, it (heart, fire)
will adversely affect the lungs (metal); the lungs (metal) will adversely
affect the liver (wood); the liver (wood), the spleen-pancreas (earth); the
spleen-pancreas (earth), the kidneys (water); and the kidneys (water), the
heart (fire). This pattern also applies to the bowels: imbalanced energy
within the small intestine (fire) will cause it to adversely affect the large
intestine (metal); the large intestine (metal), the gallbladder (wood); the
gallbladder (wood), the stomach (earth); the stomach (earth), the bladder
(water); and the bladder (water), the small intestine (fire).
In showing that the cyclic interaction between the organs and bowels is
53 The Internal Exercises
identical to the interctction between the elements, the Taoists not only
provided a means by which the sayings, • 'That which is above is the same
as that which is below'' and ''The microcosm reflects the macrocosm,''
can be realized and understood, but they also provided a means whereby
the interaction of energy between the organs and bowels can be accepted as
fact, in that the basis for that interaction is founded upon the very same
logic whereby the interaction of the five elements is instinctively realized to
be ttue.
THE FIVE ANI MAL EXERC ISES
Taoists modeled five exercises after five animals whose movements
were proven effective for the healing of human beings. They were the
dragon, tiger, bear, eagle, and monkey. By imitating their characteristic
movements human beings can alleviate the imbalanced functioning of their
organs, specifically, the five major organs and their related minor organs.
That is possible because the movements of a particular animal stimulate a
particular five-element organ.
For anyone who is basically healthy, any of the Five Animal Exercises
can be used whenever circumstances permit to maintain a balanced phy s
ical and emotional state. If a specific problem exists, then one may choose
the exercise that deals with the affected organ group or apply what in
Taoism is called the Mother and Child Law.
The Mother and Child Law, as it applies to the human body, is based
upon the interaction between the five elements. Each element is the
"mother" of the succeeding element and, at the same time, the "child" of
the element that precedes it in the cycle


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succulent, and pleasing to the sense of taste in their raw state.
They have been tested in human dietary experience and have been found to be nutritious and wholesome. Among the many
flowers which may be used for human consumption are:
marigolds, lavetera flowers, hollyhock flowers, pansies,
nasturtium flowers, oxalis flower panicles, dandelion flowers,
chrysanthemums, gillyflowers, altheas, rose of China flowers, forget-me-nots, water lilies, double zinnias, sweet pea
flowers, alfalfa flowers, verbenas, sweet alyssum, and the
flowers of certain bean plants such as the scarlet runner,
hyacinth bean, and Chinese wistaria. These flowers may be
chopped up or used whole in salads, or they may be eaten
alone just as you would eat any ordinary vegetable.

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ERBAL  TEAS
   In addition to the use of cold beverages, such as milk and
fruit and vegetable juices, there are many beverages which
are used in their warm state, and these may also contribute to
healthful nutrition. Of the one hundred and more beverages of
this type which are available for human use, civilized man
selected only a few, and each of these contain caffeine, tannic acid, or other poisons. The great number of herbal teas and
other healthful beverages have been almost completely
ignored. Some of these beverages supply valuable nutrients,
and a number are considered more delicious than the
conventional tea and coffee used in civilization. Rose hips, for instance, contain upwards of thirty times as much vitamin
C as do oranges, and rose hip tea is a valuable source of this
vitamin. Peppermint tea is perhaps the most popular, in terms of flavor, of all herb teas, with strawberry leaf, papaya leaf,
alfalfa, fenugreek, sassafras, nettle, shave grass, squaw tea,
juniper berry, and many other kinds also offering pleasing
flavors.

SEASONINGS
   The fact that salt and most of our common spices have been
proven to be quite irritating to the human body does not mean
that all forms of seasoning are objectionable in this respect.
Here, as with so many other foods, we note that civilized man
has confined his use of seasonings chiefly to those which are
known for their irritating qualities. There has been a peculiar
avoidance of a large number of herb seasonings which are not
only healthful when used in moderate amounts, but also   possess delightful flavors even surpassing those of the
harmful group of condiments.
   The dried herbs which are suitable in good nutrition include
bay leaf, garlic, dill, onion, chives, parsley, sage, mint, sorrel,
sassafras, thyme, caraway, fennel, basil, and chervil. Some of
these may be home-grown in any window flower pot, and then dried in the sun. They may also be purchased from
commercial sources. The herbs can be used to add flavor to
uncooked soups, meats, salads, and other foods. Dehydrated
vegetable flakes, made from a single vegetable species, or
from a variety of vegetables, may be employed for the same
purpose.
   As a substitute for salt, dehydrated vegetable broth powder
is best used. This food is actually rich in mineral nutrients,
and it has no irritating qualities whatsoever. The pure
vegetable broth powder is simply a combination of
dehydrated vegetables, ground into powder form. It may
serve much the same purpose as dried herbs and dehydrated vegetable flakes, being used in raw meats, soups, etc. It may
also be sprinkled on other foods, in much the same manner
that ordinary salt would be used, and added to salad dressing
ingredients to impart extra flavor.
   The use of even the best seasonings can be overdone. With
the use of devitalized foods, as have lost most of their flavor
in refining, processing, and cooking, an extensive use of seasonings is to be expected in order to replace the lost
flavor. However, raw foods possess distinctive flavors of
their own, and nothing is to be gained if these are to be
completely disguised by seasonings. Let us then use natural
seasonings in moderation, to add a little extra tang to certain foods, but not to completely replace the original flavor of
foods.

V
EGETABLE OILS
   The use of various kinds of oil extracted from plant
substances is important in improving the human dietary. A
number of laboratory and clinical experiments conducted over a period of many years have shown that most unrefined
vegetable oils contain substances which help to reduce the
cholesterol content of the blood. When these substances are
not present, the excess of plasma cholesterol is unstable and
not properly emulsified. The cholesterol thus tends to collect along the walls of the arteries, producing hardening of the
arteries and coronary heart di sease. Lecithin and certain
unsaturated fatt
y acids, found in unrefined ve getable oils, tend to act as an emulsifying agent for cholesterol and
prevent it from caking along the walls of the arteries. Keston
and Silbowitz, in experiments with rabbits, showed that the
lecithin of soy bean oil kept cholesterol from collecting in the blood and prevented hardening of the arteries. Drs. Pottenger
and Krohn found that the administration of soy bean lecithin
to patients on high-cholesterol diets produced a 79 per cent
reduction in blood cholesterol. Other experiments have
shown that the unsaturated fatty acids in sunflower seed oil, safflower seed oil, and certain other vegetable oils also
tended to cause a dramatic reduction of the blood cholesterol level.
   Six years of experiments with 300 men, women, and
children have shown that unrefined wheat germ oil is of
exceptional value in increasing physical endurance and
improving heart response. Drs. Cureton and Pohndorf, studying middle-aged men of a university faculty, observed
improved endurance, better response in electrocardiograph,
blood pressure, and pulse 'wave tests, together with quicker
speed reactions to light and sound, when a supplement of
unrefined wheat germ oil was administered each day. Dr. Counsilman, of Cortland State Teachers College in New
York, reported experiments in which track athletes were
given a teaspoon of wheat germ oil each day, achieving
thereby marked improvements in endurance and the capacity
of the heart to do work. Among boys seven to fourteen years old, marked improvements in the endurance have been
registered when wheat germ oil was administered. Evidence
has also been recorded showing that wheat germ oil is valuable in treating certain types of muscular dystrophy and
in improving the efficiency of reproduction. Similar
advantages have been reported upon the administration of
wheat germ oil to laboratory animals. In the face of all such
evidence, there need be no doubt but what wheat germ oil, as well as other forms of unrefined vegetable oil, deserve an
important place in the uncooked diet.
   The ordinary salad oils and cooking oils which are used in
conventional cookery are of little or no value in supplying the
vitamin E and other vital nutrients  which we expect to receive
from the best natural vegetable oils. It is important to buy
vegetable oils in their crude non-filtered state in order to achieve the fullest benefit. Such oils are darker in color than
refined oils, and they still possess some odor and flavor. Most
good vegetable oils are cold-pressed, although solvent-
extracted oils are also acceptable if they are prepared at low
temperatures. Among the vegetable oils which may be used in good nutrition are: olive oil, soy bean oil, corn oil,
sunflower seed oil
, wheat germ oil, rice bran oil, sesame seed oil, peanut oil, and safflower seed oil. These oils may be used
in salad dressing recipes, and for all other culinary purposes
in which oils are necessary. They may also be taken alone for
medicinal purposes whenever a specific need for extra
vitamin E, lecithin, unsaturated fatty acids, etc., exists.

GRAIN PRODUCTS
   All raw grains are usually considered non-edible, but this
belief is not warranted by facts. Fresh wheat is soft and succulent prior to ripening and may be eaten in its natural state. After ripening, the softer varieties may still be used in
the diet. When chewed and mixed with saliva, the grains
gradually soften into a succulent mass. Certain types of raw grains may be soaked overnight in water or milk and served
in the same liquid with honey or fruits as a cereal the next
morning. One can also use raw whole grain flour wheat germ,
and rice bran in the diet. These may be sprinkled on salads
and mixed with milk and other ingredients and made into unleavened bread dough, which may be pressed into flat
pieces and kept under refrigerati on. No baking is required for
grain products of this type, and uncooked bread may form an
important part of the diet.
   Another excellent way of utilizing raw grains is to permit
them to sprout. When grains sprout, many chemical changes take place, enhancing the original value of the seed. The starch is converted into sugar, thereby rendering the food
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4worseforexertion(Relatedsymptom)
5Fever(Physicalcomplaint)
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Use for boils, abscesses and tumors.
Use as a mouthwash for gum conditions and canker sores.
Great for ringworm and amoebic dysentery.
Scientific name
:
Hydrastis canadensis
Parts used
: Root and dried rhizomes.Actions
: Alterative, anti-diabetic, antiemetic, anti-inflammatory
antiparasitic, antiperiodic, antiseptic, aperient, astringent, bitter tonic,
cholagogue, deobstruent, depurative (antifungal), detergent, diuretic,
heal-all, hemostatic (urine esp.), hepatic, laxative, nervine,
ophthalmic, oxytocic (stimulates uterine contractions), stomachic,
vulnerary.
Gotu Kola
One of God’s finest herbs for brain and nerve regeneration.
A tremendous herb for spinal cord injuries.
A cellular proliferator (strengthens cells).
Increases oxygen to cells.
Strengthens the immune system.
Helps with difficult menopause issues.
Aids in weight loss.
Used for depression and endocrine glandular weaknesses.
Promotes blood flow in lower extremities.
Strengthens the vascular walls, therefore excellent in cases of varicose or
spider veins, hemorrhoids, venous insufficiency or any vascular
distensibility.
Shows healing potential in ulcerated conditions.
Scientific name
:
Centella asiatica
Parts used
: Whole plant or root.
Actions
: Adaptogen, alterative, antipyretic,
antispasmodic, aphrodisiac,
astringent, cellular proliferator, diuretic, nervine, sedative, stimulant
(mild), tonic (brain and nerve).
Hawthorn Berry
Hawthorn berry is “the great heart herb.”
This flavonoid-rich fruit is tissue specific for the heart and vascular
system. It strengthens these tissues and removes the inflammation.
It aids in dissolving lipid deposits, therefore increasing circulation.
Has vasodilating properties, which also aid in increasing circulation.
Use in high (hypertension) or low (hypotension) blood pressure cases.
Considered a cardiac tonic for all heart-related issues.
Also used in cases of insomnia (consider adrenals as well).Strengthens vascular walls, therefore excellent for regeneration of
varicose and spider veins, hemorrhoids and prolapsed conditions of the
body.
Has strong antioxidant power to help remove acids from the body.
Hawthorn berry is an excellent anti-inflammatory and should be used in
all cases of inflammation.
Scientific name
:
Crataegus spp.
Parts used
: Berries and leaf.
Actions
: Anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-spasmodic, astringent,
cardiac tonic, cellular proliferator, digestant, diuretic, emmenagogue,
hypertensive, hypotensive, sedative, tonic, vasodilator.
Horse Chestnut
This is another one of God’s great circulatory herbs.
Horse Chestnut strengthens and tones the vascular walls.
It has anti-inflammatory properties, thus it helps dissolve plaqued lipids.
Both of the above actions together greatly increase circulation.
A “must” for varicose and spider veins as well as hemorrhoids.
Reduces vascular swelling.
A strong astringent, similar to witch hazel and white oak bark.
Useful for ulcerated conditions.
Helps remove toxins from the body.
Useful for prostatitis.
Use in cases of rheumatism.
Scientific name
:
Aesculus hippocastanum
Parts used
: Bark, dried horse chestnut seeds, dried horse chestnut leaves.
Actions
: Anti-inflammatory, anti-rheumatic, astringent, bitter, cellular
proliferator (especially to the vascular walls), expector ant, febrifuge,
mild narcotic, nutritive.
Horsetail or Shavegrass
Horsetail is one of the greatest herbs for bone and connective tissue
weaknesses.
It is very high in silica, which is converted into calcium by the liver.
This herb has great healing powers to all tissues of the body.It is an extremely good herb for the urinary tract (kidneys and bladder).
Use to strengthen any prolapsed condition of the body, e.g., bladder,
bowels, uterus, veins, skin and the like.
Has some minor antiparasitic properties.
One of the greatest helps for increasing platelet production by the spleen.
A very good herb for prostate inflammation and weakness.
Used in the detoxification of the body.
Has diuretic properties, therefore very beneficial in relieving kidney
congestion.
Used to strengthen fingernails (check thyroid/parathyroid).
Scientific name
:
Equisetvense
Parts used
: Whole plant.
Actions
: Alterative, anti-inflammatory, antiparasitic (mild),
antispasmodic (mild), anti-tumor, astringent, carminative, cellular
proliferator, diaphoretic, emmenagogue (mild), galactagogue,
hemostatic, litho triptic, nutritive, tonic, vulnerary.
Juniper Berry
Juniper Berry is considered one of the great kidney herbs.
It has a very strong action upon the kidneys. Use caution in cases of
extreme kidney damage.
It is anti-inflammatory and has some anti-spasmodic properties.
It has antiseptic properties, which are useful in killing fungi, bacteria and
yeasts.
Great for UTIs (urinary tract infections) and parasitic overgrowths in the
GI tract. It is also a natural diuretic, and relieves excess water.
Said to aid in restoring the pancreas, and beneficial in cases of diabetes,
as it has natural insulin properties.
Scientific name
:
Juniperus communis
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species
Parts used
: Usually the berries, also the oil (from the berries and wood),
leaves, bark.
Actions
: Anodyne, antiseptic, aromatic, carminative, diaphoretic,
diuretic, emmenagogue, stimulant, stomachic.
LicoriceA definite power herb for the adrenal glands.
A powerful endocrine glandular herb.
Acts as a natural anti-inflammatory steroid (cortisone, etc.) without
inhibiting the adrenal production of steroids.
Helps increase neurotransmitters and steroid production.
Has antifungal and antibacterial properties.
Aids in the regulation of blood sugars.
Promotes tissue healing, especially of the GI tract.
A great blood cleanser and detoxifier.
Use for hypoglycemia and diabetes.
Use for ulcerated tissues.
Can be used for Candida albicans.
Useful in infections and respiratory congestive issues.
Helps break up and remove mucus.
Used as a laxative.
One of the top herbs for hemorrhoids.
Good for healing up the whole GI tract.
High in phytosterols.
Scientific name
:
Glycyrrhiza glabra
Parts used
: Root and dried rhizome.
Actions
: Aperient, demulcent, emollient, expectorant, flavoring, pectoral,
sialogogue, and slightly stimulant.
Lobelia
One of nature’s greatest antispasmodics.
Useful in spasms, cramping, convulsions, epileptic seizures, spinal cord
injuries, and the like.
A very powerful nervine.
Has a relaxing effect.
Very useful in cases of asthma, emphysema, and C.O.P.D., where
spasms of the bronchi and lung tissue blocks proper breathing. Action is
similar to inhalers, but allows for expectoration (which is vital).
Lobelia has some expectorant properties, therefore very beneficial in
removal of congestion, specifically in the respiratory system.
It is also a hemostatic (stops internal and external bleeding).
Great for angina pectoris or infarctions (heart attacks).
Useful in cases of equilibrium or fainting issues.Scientific name
:
Lobelia inflata
Parts used
: Fresh and dried herb and seeds.
Actions
: Alkaloids, antispasmodic, anti-venomous, astringent, cathartic,
chlorophyll, counter-irritant, diaphoretic, diuretic, emetic, fixed oil,
gum, isolobeline, etc., lignin, salts of lime and potassium. Lobelia
also contains sulfur, iron, cobalt, selenium, sodium, copper and lead,
lobelic and chelidonic acids, lobeline, nauseant, relaxant (in large
doses) and stimulant (in small doses), resin.
Marshmallow
A great anti-inflammatory and healer of the gastrointestinal tract
(stomach and intestines).
A specific for gastritis, enteritis, colitis, diverticulitis, ulcers and cancers
of the GI tract.
Being high in mucilage it coats and protects from free radical (acids)
damage to the mucosa.
It neutralizes over-production of stomach acids, therefore allowing
improved digestion.
Superb for cystitis and urinary tract inflammation.
A great aid in prostatitis.
Heals wounds, especially good in burn cases.
Works well in cases of bronchitis and sore throats.
Great for inflammation of the vascular system, liver and pancreas.
Aids digestion and is a mild stimulant to the GI tract.
High in calcium and lime. Excellent for the skeletal structure.
Has been used very successfully in gangrene.
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fold you  tonight,  Beloved  Ones;  in Our  Ever-expanding,
Intensified  Activity  of your  own  God  Presence,  the "Mighty
I AM";  to flood  your  world  with  everything  you  require
in the Service  of the Light—money,  food,  clothes,  convey-
ance,  transportation,  anything  which  is required.
"Mighty  I AM  Presence,"  take  command  of these  minds
and bodies!  hold  them  so Harmonious  the  Release  from
Thy Great  Treasure-house,  comes  forth  in all required,  to
give them  the Happiness  and  Freedom  which  comes  alone
from  Thee!  Make  This  a permanently  sustained  Mighty
Activity,  within  the Life  and  World  of each  one!
I thank  you. DISCOURSE  XIV
Los ANGELES,  CALIFORNIA  December  22,  7937
My Dear  Beloved  Children  of the Light!  We  are so grate-
ful to find  an opportunity  to voice  to you  that  which  is
within  the  Heart  of Light;  for  if you  have  not  thought
of it in this  way,  do so now.  Remember  your  Heart,  while
to the  human  sense  seems  physical,  is Really  a Heart  of
Light!  My  Heart—every  Ascended  Master's  Heart,  is a
Heart  of Light  in Reality.  Yours  is a Heart  of Light  in Its
Expansion!
Let Us for the time  being,  listen  with  the Heart  tonight!
Feel  with  the Heart  tonight,  and  release  the Mighty  Out-
pouring  of Ascended  Master  Divine  Love  thru  each  Heart.
I wish  to render  a Certain  Service  for you,  if you  will  do
this.  Just  still  the  intellect  and  let the  Heart  listen  and
FEEL  ALL  I wish  to give  to It.
Before  we continue,  please  try to feel  your  Heart  and
My Heart  are One;  for in Reality  that  is True.  Then,  from
My Heart  to yours,  can  be conveyed  My  Power  of Radia-
tion,  which  will  do for you  what  the spoken  word  cannot
possibly  do!  Therefore,  while  you  are  listening  to My
Words,  let the Vibratory  Action  of MY  Words  act within
your  world.
In the first  place,  you  are entering  now  into  a Freedom,
a Presence,  an Activity  of the  Cosmic  Light  which  holds
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about  you—outside  of your  own  Individual  effort,  a Certain
Radiance,  a Certain  Power  of Assistance.  This  is being  done
for the  Students  thruout  America  and  the  World;  and
especially  those  who  will  be present  at the coming  Class.
As the vast  number  of students  have  been  calling  for this
to be the Most  Powerful  Class  yet,  so shall  It be a Class
unparalleled  in the history  and  experience  of the Messen-
gers and  yourselves.
As the Messenger  said,  you  have  been  calling  for Our
Visible  Tangible  Presence.  In your  cities  where  the great-
est need  is, several  of the Ascended  Masters  have  in the past
few days  moved  in the Visible,  Tangible  Bodies;  to release
into the  octave  of Earth,  a Certain  Power  of Radiation
which  is required  to govern  the conditions  at this  time;  for
you are at a crisis,  as the Beloved  John  said  last night,  rarely
reached  on the Earth.
Had  it not  been  for your  Mighty  Decrees  which  have
been  issued,  going  forth  in the mental  and  feeling  world,
disaster  would  have  come  before  now.  During  the Great
Himalaya's  Dictation,  when  the Messengers  were  here  be-
fore,  from  that  hour,  there  were  established  thru  the
atmosphere  of Earth,  Air  Currents  to


 on, so does the deteriorationof the joints. Soon toxic crystals creep into the great
moveable hip joints – you will notice by the way people
move their hips that they are stiff and painful.
Few people escape an aching or stiff back. Watch
middle-aged people bend over and notice the agony on
their faces when they straighten up. Day after day theycry out in anguish, “Oh, my aching back!” But the toxic
acid crystals don’t stop in the lower back, they go up
into the spine, the shoulder blades, the shoulder joints,the neck and elbows... eventually creeping into thewrists and fingers. Some people are so full of toxic acid
crystals that they cannot close their hands or make fists.
They all seem to falsely blame one thing: “All my achesand pains are due to the fact that I am getting old.”
Don’t you believe it. These acid crystals are poisons
that stayed in your body and cemented themselves inthe moveable joints. Billions of pain pills are used by
the American public to get relief from aching joints.
Thousands of people go to hot mineral baths to get relief.Many different medical treatments are used for the relief
of their problems. I am offering you fasting and The Bragg
Healthy Lifestyle to guide you onto the road to healthso you can help your body detox and heal itself.
In nature there are neither rewards or punishments
– there are consequences! – Robert Ingersoll43
Fasting and prayer seemed to strengthen Jesus, for when His time
of fasting was ended, He manifested a new power and poise. Jesusthen returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee. – Luke 4:14Fasting for Purification
When you fast for 24 to 36 hours, or from 3 to 10
days, the healing power starts to work in your body. I
have told you, over and over, that the power to cleanse,purify and rejuvenate yourself is within your body. This
power has always been in your body. When you go on a
complete distilled water fast, the Vital Force in your bodythat would ordinarily be used to masticate, digest,
assimilate and eliminate food is used to purify your body.
That is what fasting is: deep internal cleansing, aphysiological rest to build Vital Force.
Now, say you are a person of
60 and you have been
eating 3 meals daily, whether you were hungry or not,and you have allowed toxic acid crystals to get deposited
into the moveable joints of your body. It is going to
take time for Mother Nature and the vital power withinyour body to break down the toxic crystals that have
accumulated over the years.
The Man Who Rebuilt Himself
I remember a Mr. Evans who came to me years ago.
He hobbled painfully into my office. A well known doctor
in California had given him a prescription which read
“Physical therapy as prescribed.” I am also a physicaltherapist which helped in my health and healing practice.
This man’s sad story is one of millions in our country.
He had never been educated to know how to care forhis wonderful body, but he had been conditioned to eat
3 meals per day and eat anything that pleased him. Now,
I have told you several times in this book that “HumanFlesh is Dumb.” You can put anything in your stomach
at any hour that you wish. You can get up in the morning
and fill up on cereal, ham and eggs, fried potatoes andtoast and wash it down with
 5 cups of coffee, but you
must take the consequences of eating habits like this.
You can do more for your own health and well-being than any doctor,
any hospital, any drug and any exotic medical device. – Joseph Califano44Victory Won By Fasting, Diet and Exercise
First and foremost, your body has to earn its food by
the sweat of your brow. That means you only eat food
appropriate to your physical activity and climate. This
man was eating as he did when he was a young activefarm boy.  Slowly his joints were becoming cemented
solid by toxins and toxic crystals that were pressing on
nerves causing him agonizing pain. He wanted an easyway out of his misery.  I told him truthfully that it had
taken a long time of wrong eating and bad habits of
living to get him in this wretched condition. Now itwould take fasting, a healthy diet and ample exercises
to help relieve these pains. He was an intelligent man
and saw the truth of my simple philosophy.
I started him on a
 3 day distilled water fast. Following
the fast, I had him eat only fresh fruit for breakfast and
a raw vegetable combination salad for lunch. I had himeat a grated carrot, beet, chopped cabbage salad and one
cooked vegetable for dinner. I took him off all animal
products, meat, fish, eggs, cheese and dairy products. Ieliminated all salt, sugar and refined foods. I took himoff all grains and all legumes such as beans, peas, rice
and lentils for two months. Every day I had him take a
10 minute hot bath (add 1 cup apple cider vinegar),
bringing the water up to 104 degrees, using a bath
thermometer. I gave him an exercise program of brisk
walking starting with 3 blocks the first day, and every
third day I added another block to his walking program
until he was walking  3 miles a day.
Every week he took a 36 hour water fast. As the days
and weeks rolled into months, I gave him one 7 day
and one 10 day fast. In one year you would hardly have
recognized this man! His family and friends were amazedat his transformation. His joints became flexible and,
although he hadn’t been swimming for years, he joined
the
YMCA  and swam 3 days a week. He hadn’t ridden a
bicycle for years, yet he purchased one and rode for miles
at a time. He and his wife took up dancing and in a year
he was winning contests. The stiffness left him. He eventook up the piano and became a good piano player.45
Enter, or perhaps re-enter, the brave new world of wellness through
healthy lifestyle, exercise, natural r emedies, alternative therapies,
meditation and prayer with positive thinking.  – Monica Skrzypczak
The body must be wisely nourished, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
We’re spiritually starved in America and not underfed, but undernourished.
– Carol HornigTo lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. – Ben Franklin
Knowing and following th ese teachings will mean
true life and good health for you. – Proverbs 4:22Mother Nature Works Miracles Slowly,
But Surely When You Honor Her Laws
Mr. Evans is growing younger as he is growing older.
His miseries are gone! He accomplished all this by himself!I only helped him to help him self! As a health teacher, I
only laid out his healthy lifestyle program of naturalliving. Today he fasts every week for
24 to 36 hours without
fail. Four times a year – winter, spring, summer and fall –he takes a
10 day complete fast. His lively steps are that of
a man 20 years of age! His movements are quick and
accurate. He didn’t do all this in a day, in a week or amonth. It took time to break down and eliminate thepoisons and toxic acid crystals that were tormenting him.
What Mr. Evans did you can do too! The body is
self-repairing, self-healing and self-maintaining. All youhave to do is live by the laws of God and Mother Nature,and you will be rewarded with the joy of living.
Be a faithful health captain and live The Bragg
Healthy Lifestyle! I don’t want you to have to totter alongon life-support drug cocktails and hip replacements, butchoose to LIVE with super energy and total health!
Fasting is an important part of your program for
banishing toxic acid crystals from the moveable jointsof your body. You and only you know how free yourjoints are of this toxic material which causes prematureageing. Start today on your first
24 hour, distilled water
fast. You be the judge of what effects fasting will haveon the many moveable joints of your body. At this verysecond, roll your head round and round. Do you hearthat grating sound of grinding toxic acid crystals?46 •To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
•To talk health, peace and happiness to everyone you meet.
•To make all your friends feel that they are special.
•To look at the sunny side of everything and make
your optimism and dreams come true.
•To think only of the best, work only for the best and expect
only the best for your life.
•To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you
are about yours.
•To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater
achievements of the bright, fresh future.
•To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every
living creature you meet a smile.
•To give so much time to the improvements of yourself that
you have no time to be critical of others.
•To be too large for worry, too strong for fear, too noble
for anger, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
– Christian D. LarsonWITH LOVE PROMISE YOURSELFToxic Acid Crystals Make Joints Grind
The grinding sound you hear is the toxic acid crystals
that have deposited themselves on the uppermost boneof your spine – the Atlas