your world without. It is, there-fore, the only creative power, and
everything, which you find in your world of expression, has been
created by you in the inner world of your mind consciously or
unconsciously. Knowledge of the interaction of your conscious and sub-conscious
minds will enable you to transform your whole life. In order to cha nge
external conditions, you must change the cause. Most men try to
change conditions and circumstances by working with conditions and
circumstances. To remove discord, confusion, lack, and limitation,
you must remove the cause, and the cause is the way you are using
your conscious mind. In other words, the way you are thinking and
picturing in your mind. You are living in a fathomless sea of infinite riches. Your
subconscious is very sensitive to your thoughts. Your thoughts form
the mold or matrix through which the infinite intelligence, wisdom,
vital forces, and energies of your subconscious flow. The practi cal
application of the laws of your mind as illustrated in each ch apter of
this book will cause you to experience abund-ance for poverty,
wisdom for superstition and ignorance, peace for pain, joy for sadness,
light for darkness, harmony for discord, faith and confidence for fe ar,
 19  success for failure, and freedom from the law of averages. Cer tainly,
there can be no more won-derful blessing than these from a menta l,
emotional, and ma-terial standpoint. Most of the great scient ists,
artists, poets, singers, writers, and inventors have a deep
understanding of the workings of the conscious and subconscious
minds. One time Caruso, the great operatic tenor, was struck with stage
fright. He said his throat was paralyzed due to spasms caus ed by
intense fear, which constricted the muscles of his throat. Per spiration
poured copiously down his face. He was ashamed because in a f ew
minutes he had to go out on the stage, yet he was shaking with fea r
and trepidation. He said, “They will laugh at me. I can’t sing.” T hen
he shouted in the presence of those behind the stage, “The Little  Me
wants to strangle the Big Me within.”
He said to the Little Me, “Get out of here, the Big Me want s to sing
through me.” By the Big Me, he meant the limitless power and
wisdom of his subconscious mind, and he began to shout, “Get out,
get out, the Big Me is going to sing!”
His subconscious mind responded releasing the vital forces withi n
him. When the call came, he walked out on the stage and sang gloriously
and majestically, enthralling the audience. It is obvious to you now that Caruso must have understood the two
levels of mind—the conscious or rational, and the sub-conscious or
irrational level. Your subconscious mind is reac-tive and responds  to
the nature of your thoughts. When your conscious mind (the Little
Me) is full of fear, worry, and anxiety, the negative emoti ons
engendered in your subconscious mind (the Big Me) are released a nd
flood the conscious mind with a sense of panic, foreboding, and
despair. When this happens, you can, like Caruso, speak affirma tively
and with a deep sense of authority to the irrational emotions g enerated
in your deeper mind as follows: “Be still, be quiet, I am in c ontrol,
 20  you must obey me, you are subject to my command, you cannot
intrude where you do not belong.”
It is fascinating and intensely interesting to observe how y ou can
speak authoritatively and with conviction to the irra-tional m ovement
of your deeper self bringing silence, harmony, and peace to your
mind. The subconscious is subject to the con-scious mind, and that i s
why it is called subconscious or sub-jective. • Outstanding differences and modes of operation
You will perceive the main differences by the following il-
lustrations:  The conscious mind is like the navigator or captai n at the
bridge of a ship. He directs the ship and signals orders to men in the engine room,
who in turn control all the boilers, instruments, gauges, etc. The men
in the engine room do not know where they are going; they follow
orders. They would go on the rocks if the man on the bridge issued
faulty or wrong instructions based on his findings with the compa ss,
sextant, or other instruments. The men in the engine room obey him
be-cause he is in charge and issues orders, which are automa tically
obeyed. Members of the crew do not talk back to the captain;  they
simply carry out orders. The captain is the master of his ship, and his decrees are ca rried out. Likewise, your conscious mind is the captain and the master of  your
ship, which represents your body, environ-ment, and all your aff airs. Your subconscious mind takes the orders you give it based upon wha t
your conscious mind believes and accepts as true. When you repeatedly say to people, “I can’t afford it,” then your
subconscious mind takes you at your word and sees to it that you w ill
not be in a position to purchase what you want. As long as you persi st
in saying, “I can’t afford that car, that trip to Europe, that  home, that
fur coat or ermine wrap,” you can rest assured that your sub conscious
mind will follow your or-ders, and you will go through life
experiencing the lack of all these things. 21  Last Christmas Eve a beautiful young university student looke d at
an attractive and rather expensive traveling bag in a store window. S he
was going home to Buffalo, New York, for the holidays. She was
about to say, “I can’t afford that bag,” when she recalled somet hing
she had heard at one of my lec-tures which was, “Never fini sh a
negative statement; reverse it immediately, and wonders wi ll happen
in your life.”
She said, “That bag is mine. It is for sale. I accept it m en-tally, and
my subconscious sees to it that I receive it.”
At eight o’clock Christmas Eve her fiancé presented her wi th a bag
exactly the same as the one she had looked at and mentally identif ied
herself with at ten o’clock the same morning. She had filled her m ind
with the thought of expectancy and released the whole thing to her
deeper mind, which has the “know-how” of accomplishment. This young girl, a student at the University of Southern Californi a,
said to me, “I didn’t have the money to buy that bag, but now I know
where to find money and all the things I need, and that is in the
treasure house of eternity within me.”
Another simple illustration is this: When you say, “I do not like
mushrooms,” and the occasion subsequently comes that you are
served mushrooms in sauces or salads, you will get indi-gesti on
because your subconscious mind says to you, “The boss (your
conscious mind) does not like mushrooms.” This is an amusing
example of the outstanding differences and modes of operation o f
your conscious and subconscious minds. A woman may say, “I wake up at three o’clock, if I drink cof fee at
night.” Whenever she drinks coffee, her subconscious mind nudges
her, as if to say, “The boss wants you to stay awake tonight.”
Your subconscious mind works twenty-four hours a day and makes
provisions for your benefit, pouring all the fruit of your habit ual
thinking into your lap. 22  • How her subconscious responded
A woman wrote me a few months ago as follows: “I am seventy-
five years old, a widow with a grown family. I was liv-ing a lone and
on a pension. I heard your lectures on the powers of the subconscious
mind wherein you said that ideas could be conveyed to the
subconscious mind by repetition, faith, and expectancy. “I began to repeat frequently with feeling, ‘I am wanted. I am
happily married to a kind, loving, and spiritual-minded man. I am
secure!’
“I kept on doing this many times a day for about two weeks, and
one day at the corner drugstore, I was introduced to a retired
pharmacist. I found him to be kind, understanding, and very religious. He was a perfect answer to my prayer. Within a week he  proposed to
me, and now we are on our honeymoon in Europe. I know that the
intelligence within my subconscious mind brought both of us togeth er
in divine order.”
This woman discovered that the treasure house was within her. Her
prayer was felt as true in her heart, and her affirmatio n sank down by
osmosis into her subconscious mind, which is the creative medium. The moment she succeeded in bringing about a subjective
embodiment, her subconscious mind brought about the answer
through the law of attraction. Her deeper mind, full of wisdom and intelligence, brought both of
them together in divine order. Be sure that you think on whatsoever things are true, what-soever
things are honest


the ability to communicate ef fectively, but with love. Behavioral change is not enough to transform our communication
skills. I cannot cover an attack w ith sugary icing, a sweet tone of voice,
or th erapeutic jar gon and expec t a miracle. For that, I need an authentic
switch f rom fear  to love. I pray today for the ability to honor the  spiritual
perfection in everyone, that the y might feel my love no matter what I
say. Dear God,
Please r edeem my personality,
That any sharp edges within me
Shall turn tender. W ith every wor d I say,
May I heal and not harm. And so it is. Amen.DA Y 287
T o d a y  I  a m  c o m m i t t e d  t o  f o r g i v i n g  s o m e o n e  I  f i n d
h a r d  t o  f o r g i v e. W herever I withhold love, I block my own good. Wherever I stay stuck
in the past, I ke ep the present f rom unfolding miraculously. Wherever I
see mys elf as having been victimized, I tie myself to the expe rience of
victimization. The part of me that can be of fen ded, or victimized in any way, is not
the real me. The real me lives in triumph and spiritual victory regardless
of w hat I have been through or what has been done to me. Only my
holding on to grievances can ke ep the universe from providing me with
the miracle of a new beginning. Dear God,
I surr ender to Y ou my grievances,
The people I cannot for give,
The place wher e I hold on and cannot let go,
The darkness in my own heart. Please r emove the sickness
Of unfor giveness
Fr om my soul. And so it is. Amen.DA Y 288
M y  b o d y  a g e s  b u t  m y  s p i r i t  d o e s  n o t. M y body is merely a suit of clothes, a temporary container for my
eternal s pirit. As  I identify more  with my spirit, realizing that my essence
is ageless, my th oughts about age will change. Accordingly, so  will my
body. I am  not burdened today by false beliefs about the vulnerabili ty of
my body to age or disease. I see the white light of spirit that races
through every cell of my being, filling my body as well as my mind with
the revitalizing power of love. My b ody is a vessel thr ough which my spirit can operate while in
this world, and I am grateful for it. I wish to tr eat it with
pr ofound r espect, yet not be tempted to see it as who I am. I am
not m y b ody, and my body is no t me. My body is temporary and I
am not.DA Y 289
E n d l e s s  c r e a t i v i t y  i s  t h e  n a t u r a l  s t a t e  o f  m y  b e i n g. G od i s in a continuous state of creativity, flowing within and th rough
me every moment. W ith each thought I think, I open to rec eive the
imprint of divinity upon my con sciousness. I bask in the light that is Him
within me. All dark ness of thought or feelin g, all neurotic or fear -based patterns,
and all despair or limitation dissolve as I drink in the powerful vibrations
of lo ve. They ar e replaced by th e artistry of the divine, forming  patterns
of th ought and behavior moving through me to create the beautiful, holy,
and true. God is the artist of the universe,  the Cr eator of all things, and the
designer of all life. I open my he art and mind, that I might be th e
paintbrush with which He paints and the vessel thr ough which He
pours forth His endless cr eativity and love.DA Y 290
FOR REFLECTION
O n  W h a t ’ s  P o s s i b l e  f o r  Y o u  N o w
O n the mortal pla ne, none of us  are perfect all the time. But on the
spiritual plane, all of us are pe rfect all the time. Who we r eally are—
perfect creations  of God, unchangeable and unlimited, none of us more
or l ess brilliant than anyone else—is the most positive self -concept
possible. T o identify yourself according to your spiritual rather than
material reality is enlightenment. From this perspective, you see  that you
ar e the l ight. No thought or conditi on of darkness—that is, lack of  love
in your own mi nd or in anyone else’ s—has any bearing whatsoever on
the truth of who you are or what the universe has planned for you. Y our
past, your mistakes, other people’ s opinions about you, even your
failures do not in any way limit who you are or what is possible for you
now.DA Y 291
T o d a y  I  e x t e n d  c o m p a s s i o n  t o  m y s e l f. T he roughness of the world is hard on the heart; mine has been tested,
as h as everyone’ s. T oday I ack nowledge any bruises on my soul and
deliver them to God. I know that in His hands they will be healed. I o wn my pain, t hat I might heal whatever darkness it has spawn ed in
me. I pray that neither others nor I will be af fected by my mistakes. May
my own compassion for what I have suf fered help heal me where I hurt. Dear God,
I surr ender to Y ou
The scars upon my heart,
The memories that sear,
And the sorr ows that r emain. Please place Y our hand upon me
And miraculously heal me,
That I might rise fr om the ashes
Of my past
And experience new life. Amen.DA Y 292
A l l  m y  t a l e n t s  a r e  o f  u s e  t o  G o d. W hatever talents I have, however  seemingly insignificant, can be of
use to God. Eve n if I think I ha ve none, if I of fer my life to Him, then
new talents will emer ge. T oday I share my gifts with others as a way of
sharing them with God. I re alize no gift is too lar ge or too small to be used for divine
purposes, to bring joy to someone, to help bring healing somewhere. I do
not underestimate the magnitude of my gifts today. Through God, their
potential for good is infinite. I am  not ashamed of my gifts t oday, however meager they ma y
appear. For that which is surr ender ed to God is lifted to its
highest cr eative potential, miraculously transforming fr om what
might seem to be a tiny gift to become a mighty for ce.DA Y 293
N o  l i m i t s  o f  t h e  w o r l d  c a n  l i m i t  m e. N othing in my wo rldly circumsta nces defines me or limits me. As my
mind is lifted ab ove the fear of the world, I am delivered to the field of
miraculous poss ibilities. I am fully loved, fully blessed, and fully of use
to God at all times. While the world might see my life as less than, no child of God is
less than  gloriou s. My spirit is abundant, though my worldly c up might
be empty. And my mind is radiant, though the thinking of the world
might confound me. T oday I a ccept that I am a child of a boundless
universe. Dear God,
Remove the chains that bind me,
In my mind and in my life. Fr ee me of any false beliefs
That limit my ability
T o see. Open my eyes
T o my fr eedom
In Y ou. Amen.DA Y 294
I  b l e s s  t h e  a b u n d a n c e  o f  o t h e r s,  i n  o r d e r  t o  i n c r e a s e
m y  o w n. T he ego’ s world is limited, but God’ s is not. On the material plane,
there are only so many pieces of pie. But on the spiritual plane, there are
an infin ite num ber. My having a piece doesn’ t mean there is less for
others, and others having a piece doesn’ t mean there is less for me. There is enough for everyone. T here is enough room for everyone to
be beautiful. There is enough room for everyone to be successful. There
is enoug h room  for everyone to  be loved. I generously wish for others
what I most wish for myself, fo r what I bless in their


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OFCELL SALT
DEFICIENCYFACIAL DIAGNOSIS
OFCELL SALT
DEFICIENCY
A User’s Guide
David R. Card
HOHM PRESS
Prescott, ArizonaKalindi Press
Prescott, Arizona© 2004, David R. Card
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner
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This book is dedicated to the patience of my family, my clients,
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Introduction
Chapter 1 Using Cell Salts — 1
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Chapter 4 CALC PHOS —
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Chapter 5 CALC SULPH —
Introduction, materia medica, photographs and
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 activity of cells but by going to the source, from which
life is susta ined. Since writing Quantum Healing,  I’ve
become even  more convinced that consciousness holds the
key to the ﬂow of life whether you deﬁne life scientiﬁcally,
mystically, or through any other label. While we argue over
labels, we are missing the opportunity to promote the silent
intelligence that is crucial to everything. A practical-minded reader will say, “Fine, but what do I
do. ” Beyond making the positive lifestyle changes that
have become well-known, there are more subtle actions to
perform. These are mental actions, but they aren’t the
same as positive thinking, therapy, or even self-awareness. They focus instead on attention and intention. When you
have an intention to move your hand, there are no steps to
go through. The instant you want to move your hand, it
moves. But what about the intention to heal yourself or the
intention to promote peace in your surroundings. Science ﬁnds itself skeptical and largely baﬄed  when
such questions come up—they are barely considered
legitimate. Yet on the fringes of respectability there are
mounting research studies on the power of praye r to helpthe sick. Since Quantum Healing  appeared, other studies
have gone even deeper into the eﬀectiveness of intention. Especially intriguing is a pioneering study of native
Hawaiian healers led by the late Dr. Jeanne Achterberg, a
physiologist of the mind-body connection who was
fascinated by anecdotes that native healers often did their
work from a distance. Here’s how the Achterberg study
worked, as described in Super Brain,  which I wrote with
Rudolph E. Tanzi. In 2005, after a two-year search, she and her
colleagues gathered eleven Hawaiian healers. Each had pursued their native healing tradition
for an average of 23 years. The healers were
asked to select a person with whom they had
successfully worked in the past and with whom
they felt an empathic connection. This person
would be the recipient of healing in a controlled
setting. The healers described their methods in a
variety of ways—as prayer, sending energy, good
intentions, or simply thinking and wishing the
highest good for their subjects. Achterberg simply
called these eﬀorts distant intentionality (DI). Each recipie nt was isolated from the healer
while undergoing an fMRI of their brain activity. The healers were asked to randomly send DI at
two-minute intervals; the recipients could not
have anticipated when the DI was being sent. Yet
their brains did. Signiﬁcant diﬀerences were
found between the expe rimental (send) periods
and control (no-send) periods in ten out of eleven
cases. For the send periods, speciﬁc areas within
the subjects’ brains “lit up” on the fMRI scan,
indicating increased metabolic activity. This did
not occur during the no-send periods. Skeptics dism iss such studies without actually trying to
duplicate them or to understand the hidden mechanics of
intention. However, in the Vedic tradition, there has been a
sophisticated description  of the mechanics of intention
going back centuries. It was divided into three parts. First,
an eﬀective intention must arise in a deep level of the
mind, below  the stream of constant activity. The very
deepest state of awareness, which is calm, still, unmoved,
and all-wise, is known in Sanskrit as samadhi. What Helps Samadhi
•Meditation
•Calm, peaceful surroundings
•Lack of mental agitation
•Absence of stress
•Minimal distractions
•Self-acceptance
•Self-awareness
What Hurts Samadhi
The opposite of the above: anything that jangles the
mind, makin g it restless, overactive, stressed, and
outward gazing
The second part of the mechanics of intention is to have
the intention  be as clear and focused as possible. This gives
awareness a speciﬁc direction. The term for this in Sansk rit
is dharana. What Helps Dharana
•Clear thinking
•Acting purposefully
•Not losing sight of the goal
•Conﬁdence
•The ability to stick with a mental task
•Follow-through
•Diligence
What Hurts Dharana
•Multitasking
•Mental confusion
•Conﬂicted desires
•Lack of self -knowledge
•Fantasy and daydreaming
•Short attention span
•A craving to escape the self
The third part of the mechanics of intention is a state of
ﬂexibility where your mind is steady and active at the same
time. You can see this state when a child is totally
engrossed in playing with a toy. His attention is on nothing
else, and yet inside the play, he does all kinds of things
(pushing a toy truck, throwing ﬁnger paint on the walls). When you have an intention, your focus is sharp, but then
you let go and allow silent intelligence to take care of the
outcome. This isn’t the same as passive indiﬀerence. Youare open and alert, because there can be any response at
all. The term in Sanskrit for this is dhyana. What Helps Dhyana
•Being relaxed and easy
•Mindfulness
•Acceptance of things as they are
•Putting a value on being
•Trust
•Believing in the wisdom of uncertainty
•Allegiance to a higher level of intelligence that
organizes reality
What Hurts Dhyana
•Tension
•Anticipation
•Controlling yourself and others
•Rigidity
•Insistence on rules and routines
•Obsession
•Compulsive behavior
•Inability to believe that the universe supports you
I’ve gone into detail here because at the time of Quantum
Healing,  there were few action steps that pertained to
silent intelligence other than meditation, which remains the
most powerful and direct  means to connect with the mind’sdeeper levels. But meditation too often  lacks a purposeful
component. The toolbox is opened and the tools just lie
there. That’s why it’s important to master the mechanics of
intention. The paradox is that there’s nothing really to do
and yet everything to do. There’s nothing to do as far as
ﬁrst attention is concerned. You live your life, dealing with
its challenges as best you can. At the level of second attention, however, there’s
everything to do, because you are calling upon the
universe, to use a popular phrase, and activating hidden
forces unknown to the outward-looking mind. A now-
obscure Scottish writer and mountaineer, W. H. Murray, hit
upon the mechanics of intention with uncanny precision,
intuiting the same things that the V edic sages described. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of
which kills countless ideas and splendid plans;
that the mom ent one deﬁnitely commits oneself,
then providence moves too. Having discovered the connection between what happens
“in here” (intention) and what happens “out there” (the
forces that an intention can move), Murray saw that these
awakened forces exist to support human aspirations. All sorts of things occur to help one that would
never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of
events issue s from the decision raising in one’s
favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings
and material assistance which no one could have
dreamed would have come their way. For quantum healing to be completely viable, the power
of intention must be harnessed, calling not upon“providence,” which many people don’t accept, but upon
the inner intelligence that more and more scientiﬁc
evidence supports. That the mind can move molecules is
just as wondrous as faith moving mountains. OceanofPDF. comOceanofPDF. comA boy in India never has to wish for a time machine. When I
was seven, a two-minute walk took me from Daddy’s army
hospital to the Poona grand bazaar. There the old smells
hung in the air—saﬀron, dust, sandalwood, and cooking
ﬁres (not that I noticed them then, being glued to the snake
charmers). In the hospital, the only smell was of Dettol, an
all-purpose cleanser that stung your nose like straight
formaldehyde. Physicists compare time to an arrow; in
India, the arrow got bent and meets itself going backward. We adjusted to it. If a soldier came in with a puncture
wound in his foot, my father gave him a tetanus shot, but if
the man wanted to hobble out and make an oﬀering to
Shiva, my father understood. Now when I go back home, I look out the airplane
window and see bullocks plowing within sight of the
tarmac. In the cities, it is not uncommon for businessmen
dressed in impeccable copies of English wool suits to step
around the bodies of sadhus, or holy men, who sit calmly in
the middle of the sidewalks clothed in loincloths and
orange robes. The daily scene is like an archaeological digwhose layers are hopelessly mixed up, or


 play a minor role in the development of osteoporosis. In addit ion to common table sa lt, the salty taste is carried in fish, soy
sauce, ta mari, seaweed products, and most sauces. Be aware of your salt
intake, r ecognizing that it is an essential taste but one that must  be taken in
moderation. PUNGENT
The pun gent or  spicy taste is usually referred to as “hot.” Most cultures
recognize the value of the spicy taste, although Americans tend to be shy
about it. The pungent spices have always been sought and valued. One of
the major motivations for the journey of Christopher Colum bus was to
discover a shortcut to the exotic spices of India, which were prized by
western Europeans. The spicy flavor usually results from essential oils that are rich in
antioxidant properties. Their ability to neutralize decay-c ausing free
radicals may explain why pungent spices were commonly used to preserve
food. The natural chemicals in hot spices are also antibacterial. Modern scientific research has shown that natural compounds contained
within spicy food sources such as onions, leeks, chives, and garlic may help
lower your cholesterol level and blood pressure. Other studies have found
that thes e pungent foods can protect you from cancer -causing a gents in the
environment. Chilis, ginger, horseradish, mustard, black and red pepper,
radishes, and many culinary spices including basil, cinnamon, cloves,
cumin, oregano, peppermint, rosemary, and thyme all carry the pungent
taste. U se them liberally in yo ur diet for both their flavor and the age-
reversing benefits they bring to your health.BITTER
Green and yellow vegetables are the primary source of the bitter taste. Common examples include bell peppers, broccoli, celery, chard, eggplant,
endive, spinach, and zucchini. Most green leafy vegetables range from
mildly to very bitter. Bitterness reflects the many natural chemicals
contained in vegetables that hav e a wide range of age-reversing  and health-
enhancing ef fects. These phyto chemicals ( phyto is Greek for plant) help
detoxify carcinogens, lower serum cholesterol levels, and enhance your
immunity. All vegetables carry essential vitamins and minerals. Green vegetables
are g ood sources of B vitamins and folate, now known to play an important
role in protectin g against heart d isease. V egetables are an important source
of both soluble a nd insoluble fiber. The soluble fiber is good for your heart
and the insoluble fiber improves the movement of food through your
digestive tract. High-fiber diets are associated with a lower ris k for breast
and digestive tract cancers. The American Cancer Society recommends a minimum of five helpings
of fruits and vegetable each day,  but some studies have shown that less than
10 percent of Americans regularly follow this advice. W e echo what
mothers have been saying since the dawn of humanity: eat your vegetables. Many he rbs also  carry the bitter  taste and are important compon ents of a
healthy, balanc ed diet. Chamomile, cilantro, coriander, cumin, dill,
fenugreek, licorice, rhubarb, rosemary, saf fron, sage, tarragon, and turmeric
are exam ples of culinary herbs and spices that contain the bitter flavor. Most medicinal herbs such as echinacea, aloe, black cohosh, gentian,
goldenseal, lico rice, passion-flo wer, skullcap, and Saint-John ’ s-wort are
predominantly bitter due to their high concentrations of phytochemicals. Most pe ople are not naturally attracted to the bitter taste,  but small
quantities enhance the taste of food and contribute to your well-being.Below is a char t that highlights a few of the amazing health-en hancing,
age-reversing chemicals that fruits and vegetables provide. ASTRINGENT
Astringent foods produce a puckering ef fect on our mucous membranes. Although modern science does not classify the astringent property as an
actual taste, the natural chemi cals that produce astringency have many
health-enhancing ef fects. Examples of foods that carry the astringent taste
include apples, artichokes, as paragus, beans, bell peppers, buttermilk,
celery, cherries, cranberries, cucumbers, figs, lemons, lentils, mung beans,
mushrooms, pomegranates, potatoes, soybeans, spinach, green and blacktea, tofu, whole wheat and rye grain products. Foods with the astringent
taste have a compacting ef fect on your physiology and are important in the
regulation of digestive function and wound healing. Recent studies have found that the phytochemicals contained in both
green an d black  tea, good sourc es of the astringent taste, may help protect
you against a v ariety of illnesses, from cancer to heart dise ase. Beans,
legumes, and peas are excellen t sources of complex carbohydrates. They
provide good-quality vegetable protein along with both soluble and
insoluble fiber. Beans and legum es also supply us with folic acid, calcium,
and magnesium. One of the major shifts in diet between the beginning of the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries was a reduction in vegetable sources of protein and
replacement by animal ones. W ith this change has come an increased risk
for b oth heart d isease and cancer. Add one or two servings of beans, peas,
or lentils to your diet each day and you will grow younger and live longer. Summary of the Six T astes
The body is satisfied when it has access to the
six tastes of life. Delicious and Nutritious
It is easy to foll ow a dietary plan that conforms to the six tastes program. Regardless of the type of food you enjoy eating, you can both  enhance its
sumptuousness and health-promoting qualities by ensuring that your meals
have a wide variety of tastes. Here are examples of meals representing a
wide range of ethnic cuisine  to demonstrate the practicality of this
approach. SEVEN VEGET ARIAN MEALS REPRESENTING THE
WORLD’S REGIONAL CUISINES

See the full recipes at the end of the book. THAI CUISINE
Clear Br oth Soup with Coconut, T ofu, and Gr eens
Y ellow Thai Curry with Carr ots and Gr eens
Fr esh Cucumber with Basil and MintBasmati Rice with Mangoes
Banana Coconut Stew

CHINESE
V egetable Hot and Sour Soup
Buddha’ s Feast
Marinated Sesame T ofu Strips
Simple Steamed Rice
Almond Cookies

IT ALIAN
White Bean and V egetable Soup
Spinach and Eggplant Layer ed Pasta with Pesto
Garbanzo and Gr een Bean Stew
Roasted Carr ots with Fr esh Rosemary
Raspberry T ofu Sorbet

MEXICAN
T ortilla Soup with A vocado and Cilantr o
Black Bean and Sweet Potato Enchiladas
Spanish Rice
Mango and T omato Salsa
Baked V anilla Flan with Maple Syrup

FRENCHCr eamy Asparagus Soup
Spinach, Leek, and Potato T art
Braised Gr een Beans Amandine
Swiss Char d and Arugula with Lemon T arragon Dr essing
Poached Pears with Blackberries

AMERICAN BISTRO
Carr ot Coriander Soup
Roasted V egetable Barley Risotto
Cranberry and Sweet Potato Chutney
Or ganic Field Gr eens with Apple V inaigr ette
Cocoa T ofu Mousse with Almond Praline

MIDDLE EASTERN
Spinach and Lentil Soup
Hummus
Quinoa T abouli
Cr eamy T ofu Cucumber and Mint Raita
Ratatouille Stew
Maple W alnut Filo T riangles

Optimizing Digestion
W e b uild our bo dies from the food we eat, so it is important that we receive
the f ull range of  nutrients required to sustain our best health. A ccording to
A yurveda, it is e qually importan t that we have ideal digestive power if we
are to make the  best use of the food we ingest. The Sanskr it word fordigestive power  is Agni. The Eng lish wo rd ignite is derived from Agni. Agni can be thought of as the transformational principle of the body. T o
ensure optimal digestion, we rec ommend you pay attention to a few simple
principles that apply to how we eat. W e call these the Eating  A wareness
T echniques (EA T s). EA TING A W ARENESS TECHNIQUES
Listen to Y our Appetite
Y our body sends messages to y our mind to meet its needs. One of the
most important signals the bod y sends is that of hunger. Although many
people who have struggled to ke ep excessive pounds of f view th eir appetite
as a n ad versary, listening to and honoring its message is one of the most
important aspects of a healthy nutritional plan. The rule is simple: Eat when
you are hungry and stop when you are satisfied. If you think of your
app


izing radiation we are exposed to
—that which comes from manmade sources, primarily medical X rays. Seemingly
“benign” dental X rays, mammograms and other radiological procedures can subject
the body to significant physical harm. Given that the overwhelming majority of
diagnostic X rays are not medically necessary, we should consider them as a health
risk and carefully evaluate their value (risks versus benefits). Whether or not to have
an X ray is your choice, not your doctor’s, and the decision should be made by you. As noted, this decision should not be taken lightly because ionizing radiation from
medical X rays and radiation treatment can cause cancer, genetic defects and tissue
injury.In the medical and scientific communities, much disagreement exists about the
health effects of low-level exposure to ionizing radiation in diagnostic procedures. Many have assumed that low-level exposure is not a health threat, but modern
research is beginning to cast doubts. A study of the health records of thirty-five
thousand workers at a government bomb plant in Washington state concluded that
even small doses of ionizing radiation are four to eight times more likely to cause
cancer than previously believed. This study, financed by the Three Mile Island
Public Health Fund and carried out by Alice Stewart, M.D., concluded that
radiation
delivered in small doses over time (as we are exposed to today through common
medical X rays) may carry a higher risk of cancer than the same total radiation
delivered in a single dose. Edward Radford, past chairman of the National Academy of Sciences committee
on ionizing radiation, says the cancer risk of low-level radiation may be ten times
worse than is generally accepted. Higher radiation doses may kill off damaged cells,
thus preventing their proliferation, whereas weak exposures damage cellular DNA
but still allow damaged cells to replicate; thus, cells are able to reproduce and
proliferate cancerous mutations. This conclusion is the opposite of what our dentists
and physicians teach us; the medical community has always maintained that X rays
are safe because small doses over time give the body time to repair itself and are
therefore less damaging. However, instead of repairing, the body’s cells appear to
suffer damage and then replicate that damage, enabling the problem to spread. The bottom line: Avoid radiation whenever possible. Because some radiation
exists in the natural world, we must focus on reducing our exposure to the radiation
we create, especially from medical X rays. Optimizing Your Physical Pathway
This chapter began with a comparison between your body and your car. Your car
will provide better service and last longer if you take good care of it. Even an old,
beat-up car can be restored to good function with tender loving care. The same is
true of your body. To move yourself in the right direction on the physical pathway,
maintain your body—with good nutrition, exercise, sleep, proper breathing and
natural sunlight— and protect your body from physical harm, including loud noises,
sunburn and radiation. Making even minor adjustments to your physical pathway can
make a big difference. As always, the choice is yours.9
T
HE
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ENETIC
P
ATHWAY
“Genetics may load the gun, but environment pulls the
trigger.”
Pamela Peeke, M.D., M.P.H. Fight Fat After Forty
O
ne of the most manipulated terms in conversations about health is the word
“genetic.” Almost weekly in the news, genetic discoveries are announced,
proclaiming the genetic origins of a myriad of problems—from cancer to
compulsive shopping. Scientists usually describe a gene as being associated with a
particular disease (rather than directly causing it), but the details become distorted
and misinterpreted. Many are confused about what genes are and how they work. We
end up being misled into believing that genes control health directly—which is not
accurate, because the environment we create for our cells controls the expression of
our genes. While true genetic diseases do exist, they affect less than 5 percent of the
population. Heredity is trumped by environment, and you control your environment. You have control over the rate at which you age and the diseases that you will (or
will not) develop. Turn the right genes on, and keep the wrong genes off. Health is
not about genes; it is about cells. Once again, we are in charge. Use the six pathways
to optimize the health of your cells, and you control the expression of your genes. Will the Weakest Link Fail? What about the genetic predisposition to disease we hear so much about? What
about health problems that “run in the family”? Think of a genetic predisposition to disease as a weak link in a chain—a weak link
with the potential to break, but only if excessively stressed. In the right environment,
the weak link will function just fine. If the chain does break (if sickness does occur),
it is not accurate to say that the weak link (the “bad” gene) is the sole trigger of the
problem. Excess biological stress is the trigger, and this we can control. By enhancing the function of cells, genetic predispositions can remain potential
problems, rather than becoming real problems, regardless of what “runs in the
family.” Unfortunately, people often give up to their genetic predispositions,
relieving themselves—at least in their own minds—of responsibility for their
actions. The genetically predisposed person might say nonchalantly, “There is
nothing I can do; weight problems run in my family” (as they gulp down a burger,
fries and large shake). The thinking that genes and germs are the primary factors
determining our state of health is outdated and fatalistic. Genes and germs are
factors worth considering, but they are not the causes of disease that we typicallyunderstand them to be. Let us consider genes, what they are, how they work, and what we all can do to put
the potential for health back into our own hands, regardless of which genes we have
inherited. Nature Versus Nurture
Genes are the blueprints or “plans” for life; they are the instructions that tell our
bodies how to develop from one single cell into an entire human being. However,
only about one-quarter of our genes express (“turn on”) automatically, determining,
for example, whether our eyes are blue or our hair is curly. Imagine most other
genes as a set of coded instructions that, much like a computer program, sit dormant,
essentially doing nothing, until you activate them. Most genes require some sort of trigger (environmental or psychological) in order
for them to express. Just because a certain trait, “bad” or “good,” runs in the family
does not mean that every person in the family possesses that trait or will express it
even if they possess it. We often worry far more than we need to about genetic
inheritance. Most important is the environment you create for your cells based on
what you eat and how you live your life. You cannot control your heredity; you can
control the environment you create for your cells.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>Summarize the following text section accurately and concisely. Maintain specific details and numerical information, and use anti-repetition mechanisms:

        Another study reported in a 1980
issue of
Psychosomatic Medicine
found that people who are cynical, who have
hostile attitudes and who have suppressed anger have more atherosclerosis and
blockage of coronary arteries and are more likely to have heart attacks. The Power of PrayerPerhaps the best way to maintain love and compassion in your life is to
consciously seek and practice it. Enlightened leaders and global spiritual traditions
advocate spiritual practice as the essential foundation of comprehensive health and
vitality, including all aspects of a sound mind and body. This book does not advocate
any specific religion or spiritual practice, but does recommend some type of
practice. Why. Because being self-involved, self-centered and “stuck in your own
head” is so easy. Only when body, mind and spirit are fully integrated can you truly
optimize your health. Spiritual practice brings about measurable changes in the brain and in overall
health. Larry Dossey, M. D., in his book
Healing Words,
described “one of the best
kept secrets in medical science”: the benefits of prayer. Dr. Dossey defines
prayerfulness as “a feeling of love, compassion and empathy toward another,” and
he explains that prayer is “a powerful and legitimate (if often overlooked) method of
healing. ” Dossey uses an impressive array of evidence to show that prayer can have
a positive effect on health. A 1988 study conducted in San Francisco investigated the
effects of prayer on the cardiovascular health of 393 coronary-care patients. Unknown to the patients involved, one group was prayed for and the other was not. At the end of the ten-month study, the prayed-for group was five times less likely to
require antibiotics and three times less likely to develop a condition in which the
lungs fill with fluid.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What is the correlation between atherosclerosis, coronary artery blockage, and cynicism?,
A: The text does not mention a correlation between atherosclerosis, coronary artery blockage, and cynicism. The passage discusses the negative effects of cynicism on physical health, but does not provide a direct link to the specified health issues.
Q: What is the recommended daily exercise routine?,
A: The text does not provide a specific daily exercise routine, but it emphasizes the importance of regular physical activity and the need to tailor an exercise plan to one's individual needs and limitations.
Q: What is the recommended daily sleep duration?,
A: The text does not provide a


 seems contradictory  from the
point of view of the dualisti c consciousness, but from the point of
view of the new consciousness that is spreading through your inner
universe, these  are not contra dictions at all. For years I have tried to
show you in many areas how this principle works: Someth ing that is
in truth  and commensurate with the higher laws of life conciliates
opposites that are mutually exclusive on the lower level of
consciousness. What is conict-producing on the lower level is
mutually helpful and interactive on the higher level. Making Your Mind an Instrument of Unication
More and more you will discover the truth of unication, where
dualities cease to exist and contradictions no longer contradict;
where you experience two previous opposites as valid aspects of the
same truth. When you begin to comprehend this principle and apply
it to your own life, your outlook and values, then you are indeed
ready to receive the new consciousness released in realms far
beyond your own. When I say that you must not approach your divine channel with
the attitude that it should save you the work of living and growing, I
am not contradicting the necessity of being passively receptive. It is
simply a shift of balance: Where you have been overactive with your
mind, you now need to quiet down and let things happen; where
you insisted on taking the controls, you must now relinquish them
and let a new inner power take over. On the other hand, where you
before tended to be lazy and self-indulgent and looked for the line
of least resistance and therefore made yourself dependent on others,
you now need to take over and actively nurture the principles thathelp to establi sh the channels to your inner God. You also need to
actively express its messages in life. Thus, activity and passivity
need to be reversed. Your mind will thus become an instrument. It will open up, puncture
its limitations, and acquire new concepts—lightly, not tightly—with
which to “play around” for a while. This attitude of lightness in
your perceptions, of exibility, of motility of mind, will make you
the most receptive to your apparent emptiness. Now, my friends, as we approach this emptiness, how does it feel. What is it all about. Again, the human language is extremely
limited, and it is almost impossible to squeeze this kind of
experience into the context of language. I will try my very best to
give you some tools, however. As you listen into your inner “chasm,” it seems at rst to be a
black gulf of emptiness. What you feel at this point is fear. This fear
seems to ll you up. What is this fear. It is as much a fear of nding
yourself to indeed be empty as of nding yourself with a new
consciousness, with a new being evolving within you. Although you
yearn for this, you also fear it. The fear exists in both possibilities:
You want the new consciousness so much that you fear
disappointment, and yet you also fear nding this consciousness
because of all the obligations  and changes that this might  impose on
you. You must travel through both these fears. On this path you
have received the tools to deal with such fears by questi oning your
lower self. Going Into the Emptiness
But the time comes when you are ready, notwithstanding the fear,
because you have already made the connections. You know, for
example, what  your lower self wants and why you have negative
intentions. The time comes when, in spite of the fear, you decided
calmly and quietly to go into the emptiness. So you empty your
mind in order to meet the emptiness deep within. Lo and behold,
very soon that very emptiness will feel, not full the same way youare used to, but it will contain a new aliveness that the old articial
fullness of your mind made impossible. In fact, you will soon nd
out that you made yourself articially dull by packing yourself tight:
tight in the mind because of its noise, and tight within your channel
by contracting your energy into hard knots of defense. You had
killed your aliveness with this articial fullness. So you became
needier becaus e without your inner life you could not be fullled in
a real sense. A vicious circle was established as you strove to get
fulllment from outside, since you refused to go through the
necessary steps to make fulllment rst manifest within. In one sense you fear the aliveness more than the emptiness. And
perhaps you had better face that. When you make yourself
suciently empty, the rst initial response is an inner aliveness, and
you tend to immediately shut the lid tight again. Yet by denying
your fear you also deny that you are really very unhappy about your
lack of aliveness. But lack of aliveness comes from fearing it. You
can make the fear give way to aliveness by letting yourself be
creatively empty. The Actual Experience
You will experience your whole inner being, including your body
and your energy, as a vibrantly alive “inner tube. ” Energy goes
through it, feelings go through it, and something else is vibrantly
coming to the fore that you cannot as yet name. If you do not shy
away from that unnameable something, it will sooner or later turn
out to be constant inner instruction: truth, encouragement, wisdom,
guidance, specically destined to your life right now, wherever you
need it most. That emptines s, that vibrant alive emptiness, is God
talking to you. At any moment of the day it is talking to you where
you need it most. If you really wish to attune to it and hear it, you
will discern it, rst vaguely, later strongly. You need to condition
your inner ear to recognize it. As you begin to recognize the vibrant
voice that speaks in wisdom and love—not in generalities, but
specically to you—you will know that this voice has always existedin you, but you have conditioned yourself not to hear it. And in that
conditioning you have tightened and packed up that “inner tube”
that will ll you with the vibrant music of the angels. When I say the “music of the angels,” I do not necessari ly mean
this literally, although that, too, may exist. But what you need more
is the guidance  for every decision about what opinion or attitude to
adopt in a given situation. That instruction is truly comparable to
the music of the angels in its glory. This fullness cannot be described
in its wonder;  it is a treasure beyond all words. It is what you
constantly look and yearn for, but most of the time you are not
aware of this searching and project it on substitute fulllments that
you expect to come from outside. Refocus on what has always existed within you. Your mind and
outer will have confused and complicated your life, so this new
contact is like nding your way out of a maze—a maze you have
created. You can now recre ate your inner landscape without that
maze. The New Person as the Receptacle of the Universal
Intelligence
Now, my dearest friends, I would like to say a few words about
the new person in the new era. What is the new person. The new
person is indeed always a receptacle of the universal intelligence,
the divine consciousness, the Christ consciousness, that permeates
every particle of being and of life. The new person is not functioning
from the habitual intellect. For many centuries the intellect had to
be cultivated to fulll its role as an important stepping stone in
humanity’s evolution. By now, the overemphasis has gone on too
long. This does not mean you should revert to the purely blind,
emotional “desire-nature,” rather, it means you should open up to a
higher realm of consciousness within you and let it unfold. There was a period in evolution when it was as hard for people to
nd their ability to think, to weigh, to discriminate, to retainknowledge, to remember, in short, to use all the faculties of the
mind, as it now seems hard to nd contact with the highe r self. The
new person has established a new balance in the inner system. The
intellect must not be left out; it is an instrument that must serve,
become unied with the greater consciousness. For many ages
people believed that the intellectual faculties were the highest form
of development, and some still believe this now. So they make no
attempt to journey further and deeper into their inner nature to nd
greater treasures. On the other hand, there are many spiritual
movements that practice discarding and inactivating the mind
altogether. This is equally undesirable because it creates splits
rather than unication. The Function of the Intellect in the New Person
Both these extremes are half-truths, though they can have relative
validity. For example, in the past, people were like beasts,
undisciplined and irresponsible as far as their immediate desires
were concerned. They were totally driven by emotions and desires,
regardless of ethics and mora lity. So for that stage the development
of the intellect fullled its function.


  feel at peace
with all the world, and  have no wish to slaughter  or persecute  their
fellows or exalt themselves  above  others. For health not only means an
inner' happiness,  but consequently  a feeling of contentment  with one's
lot, and  an absence of fantastic ambitions  such as those from which
self‐appointed  leaders have suffered‐ at what cost  to humanity. That
one hundred per cent health is attainable  I have every  reason to believe. But it is not what people can do but what they  will do towards this
desideratum  which  is the crux of the matter. Before  theca can be well‐
being for all there will need to be a vast  reformation  in prevailing
practices,  and  in the methods  of instructing  the masses how to be well
and  keep well. As to the reformers  themselves,  they  will be regarded
merely  as cranks  for all their pains. Yet never let us forget that the
"crank" of one generation  often becomes the wise man  of a later
generation. Even old  wives' remedies  come into their own when
scientists find some scientific method of explaining  them, just as the
scientists have found some method of explaining  the necessity of eating
a certain amount  of vital  foods  by calling the vital  elements  vitamins. 138
 That I shall  be labelled  a crank is of course fully to be expected,  and  if
the Medical Profession  condescends  to pay any attention  to this
exposition  of urine‐therapy at all, it will probably be to bring all kinds of
purely theoretical  arguments  against it. But will a single one of its critics
be able to substantiate  his theoretical  condemnations  by saying
truthfully  that he has tried  the method over a long period of years, if at
all, and  has found  it wanting. I think not one; for I have ceased to be
the only practitioner  of urine‐therapy according  to the method here
described,  and other practitioners  declare  they  find it as efficacious  as I
myself have done. Section summary:

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**No practical reasons exist why doctors shouldn’t adopt Urinary Therapy**, stated [Author]. **It won’t affect income**: Doctors don’t lose money due personal opinions nor patient requests). Supervising urinary therapy treatments ensures better health outcomes & safety supervision over anxious relatives’ interjections (**Doctors protect both parties alike**). However, combining drugs w/drug-free urinalysis invalidation risks failure since nature-based medicine conflicts drug prescriptions. Moreover, lay individuals contribute significantly medical advancements like Pasteurs work – hence doctor assistance isn’t undermined justifiably here. In addition, establishment clinics specializing ureterial care might provide opportunities, benefiting those unable financially support costly conventional therapies. Sanitary measures introduced through non-medico contributions demonstrate successful examples disregarding professional resistance initially. Next sections discuss Human Maturity, contrasting perspectives regarding disease diagnosis/detection. Let me know whether any adjustments need further refinement. References used:

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Q: Why does the author believe that doctors should supervise urine-therapy, even if it is not their usual practice?,
A: The author believes that doctors should supervise urine-therapy because it is a form of therapy that can be beneficial to patients, and it is the doctor's duty to help their patients, regardless of whether it goes against their usual practices.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the role of laymen in medicine?,
A: The author acknowledges that laymen have contributed significantly to the field of medicine, citing the examples of Pasteur and others, and argues that doctors should not be dismissive of their contributions.
Q: What is the author's stance on the idea that some people are born with "fool-proof" bodies?,
A: The author does not explicitly endorse or reject this idea, but rather seems to be skeptical and suggests that it is not a valid excuse for doctors to dismiss urine-therapy.
Q: Why does the author think that doctors should not combine urine-therapy with other treatments?,
A: The author argues that urine-therapy is a natural and non-invasive treatment, and combining it with other treatments would be illogical and potentially dangerous, as it would go against the principles of urine-therapy.
Q: What is the author's opinion on the role of specialization in medicine?,
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through  the Tao
Cultivating Female
Sexual Energy
Mant ak Chia
Edited by:
Felix Morrow
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Contributin g Writers: Helen  Stites, Mich ael Winn, Juan  Li
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Copy right © 1986  Mant ak and Maneewan Chia
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All rights  reserved. No part  of this book  may  be used  or
reprod uced  in an y manner  whatsoeve r without the express
written permission  from the  author  except  for brief quotations
embodied  in critical articles  and revie ws. -3-I have come upon Master Chia’s T aoist
practice in my  old age and find it the most
satisfying and enriching pra ctice of all
those I have encou ntered in a long life  of
seeking and pra cticing. Felix Morrow, Senior Publisher
-4-Healing Lo ve through t he Tao
-5-Contents
Contents
About  of Author .......................................................................
Acknow ledgments ...................................................................
A Word of Caution.................................


 mind’ s attempt to release blocked ener gies. The common thread between your waking and dreaming states is that
it’s the same consciousness that is aware of both. You who is watching the
dream is the same you who watches your waking thoughts and experiences
the outside world. This is why when you wake up, you can say, “What a
dream I had.” How do you know? You know because you were there—the
same you who is aware while you’re awake. Interestingly, because it is the
same you, there can be a lot of spiritual growth in dreams. Meher Baba,
another great yoga master, said that you can work off karma in your dreams. He said that by going through an experience in your dreams, it is actually
beneficial to your spiritual evolution. You’re at least allowing some blocked
energy to release that you didn’t allow while you were awake, and that is
healthy.There is a great deal we can learn about ourselves from the dream state. If what you stored in the subcon scious was more traumatic than simply not
liking what happened or not getting what you wanted, what happens? Some
things are much harder to deal with than just preferences. There are
samskaras that are so deep they can’t even come up in a dream. If they tried
to release, you would wake from a nightmare in a very disturbed state. In
other words, your consciousne ss isn’t able to experience the event even
when it manife sts in a dream. You resist and become so uncomfortable
about it that you wake up. So how does this ener gy release? Unfinished energy stored in your mind is always trying to release at
one level or another. If the release would wake you from a dream, your
mind, all by itself, symbolizes what it’s trying to express. Instead of
dreaming about the car accident  that killed your younger brother, you dream
that there are birds flying high overhead and an eagle swoops down and
takes one of the small birds away. You’re willing to watch that, but you’re
not willing to watch a car accident with someone you love dying. This is all
very real. Your mind is doing you a favor. Your brilliant mind did that in an
attempt to stay healthy and release at least some of the pent-up energy. That’ s what the symbology of dreams is about. It’s truly amazing how
brilliant your mind is when left to its own resourcefulness. Just as your body
is always trying to heal itself, so your mind is always trying to release these
impurities that are stuck in there.Chapter 20. Waking Dreams
At this point  you can certainly appreciate the tremendous power of your
mind, especially in regard to creating dreams on its own. Creatin g dreams is
not a willful act; your mind has the power to do it by itself. But as you’ve
seen, your dream s are not the only mental objects that your mind creates
automatically. The voice inside your head that talks all day is the exact same
expressive power of mind that creates your dreams. It would not be
incorrect to call that dialog in your head your waking dreams. Every
personal thing that voice says is because of the samskaras you have stored
inside. Your mind is trying to release those blockages during the day while
you’re still awake. For example, you see somebody running and that voice
says inside, “I wonder what he did wrong? It’s like my brother when he ran
away. What is this guy running away from?” The problem is that this
current situation has nothing to do with your brother, and this person could
be running for exercise. Your mind is using this opportunit y to release
energies that are pent up inside. That’ s why so much of the mind’ s dialog is
negative. The vast majority of energy you have stored inside is because of
things you didn’ t like. When subsequent events happen that stimulate these
negative samskaras, the new events are automatically experienced as
negative. In essence, the negativity keeps compounding. If you really want to see how your preferences manage to make life a
negative experience, go build a house and decide to paint the kitchen walls
white. Do you know there are more than fifty shades of white? Just wait
until you try to pick which white you want. In other words, there  is only one
tiny window of color choice that will align with your preferences and make
you happy. All the rest will get you upset. Just look at the odds you’re up
against. There are billions of things that can happen in life that don’t match
your preferences, and there are only a few that do. Under these  conditions,the probability that life is going to be a negative experience is extremely
high. This is not because life is negative. It is because the only thing that
isn’t negative to you is that which exactly matches your preferences. It is so importan t to understand this. You have set up a system in which
you can’t win. You have expanded what can bother you to include all
experiences that remind you of what bothered you before. What is more, life
almost never totally satisfies you because everything has to be exactly what
you want—to a T. This shows you the power of past and present preferences
—the more preferences you have, the less you will be okay. So far, we’ve learned a lot about mind. We began with an
understanding of empty mind. Then we discussed the here-and-now layer of
mind, which internally renders the images being received by the senses. On
top of that layer  of mind, the real trouble begins. You in there, the conscious
entity that knows you’re there, used the power of will to keep certain images
from passing right through. This resulted in the layer of mind called the
samskara layer. It holds the impressions you stored from your past that are
the basis for your personal preferences. As if it’s not enough that you built
this entire structure in your mind, you then committed your life to thinking
about how to serve it. Your consciousness is pretty lost, constantly focusing
on this false mental concept of self. Fortunately, there is a way out—it’ s called witness consciousness. If
you can learn to sit back and simply watch that voice inside your head, you
can free yourself. This is not about shutting up the voice. Don’t ever fight
with your mind. You’re the one who did this to your mind; how dare you
complain about the mind. If you keep eating food that’s making you sick, do
you yell at the food? Of course not—you change your behavior. Likewise,
since it is these stored samskara s that are messing up the greatness of your
mind, you chang e your inner behavior. The way to do this is quite simple:
release the samskaras you’ve already stored and don’t store any more. Easier said than done, but we will certainly explore how to do this. One thing comp licates our task. The mind is not the only force making
it difficult to find peace inside—there are also emotions. It’s bad enough
that the mind is constantly relea sing stored energy through that inner voice,
but the mind has a little sister, the heart. The heart can create emotions that
make it really interesting to live in there. Sometimes it’s like there are
volcanos going on inside, and other times your inner state is so beautiful
you just want to melt into it. What’ s going on with that? And moreimportantly, what can you do about it? As you might expect, that is exactly
where we’re going as we contin ue our journey into exploring what it’s like
to live inside yourself.PART V:
The HeartChapter 21. Understanding Emotions
Examining the nature  of the world around us, as well as the nature of mind,
teaches us a lot about ourselves. One thing becomes pretty clear: it’s not
always easy living inside. The thoughts being created by the mind can be
very uncomfortable, and the world coming in through the senses can start a
veritable firestorm within. On top of all this, there is something else we
experience inside that can be even more disturbing than thoughts: emotions. Emotions are very different from thoughts, but most people don’t
bother to separate them. The combination of your thoughts and emotions
makes up what can be called your psyche, or your personal self. The psyche
is comp letely distinct from your physical body. The psyche is the
nonphysical world going on inside you. Clearly seeing the difference between your thoughts and your emotions
is very important. If you were asked to point to your thoughts, you would
not point to your toes; you would point to the area around your head. This is
because thoughts are generated  in the mind which is associated with the
brain. On the other hand, if you were asked to point to where emotions like
love come from, you would point to your heart. That’ s why valentine cards
have hearts on them and not toes—we associate the emotion of love with
our heart. That is understandable because emotions are generated by the
heart. Not just nice emotions—all emotions. If someone does something that
hurts you or makes you jealous, you feel the pain or turmoil in your heart. If
you get inspired at work, you can put your whole heart into the project. This
is not referring to your physical heart—you can’t put that into the project. What we are referring to is your spiritual heart or your energy heart, which
we will soon discuss in great depth. Your emotions are


 BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  babble that tends to cluster around trendy medical scams. Platt’s office staff have also been very supportive, and they
communicate a sense of being genuinely interested in everyone whocomes in there. The whole atmosphere is wonderful. They’re notpunitive when you don’t meet your goals as expected. As far as the process of losing weight is concerned, it’s been
virtually painless. The diet itself is easy to follow. I’m a fruit freakand that’s been the most difficult thing to give up, but I realizethat I will be able to go back to fruit later in the process; it’s notsomething I have to give up for the rest of my life. Once I’ve lostthe weight I want to lose, the fruit will be re-introduced. In theshort term, trust me, if that’s all I have to give up, that’s fine. There was a brief period when I was losing weight but not
feeling very energetic. I went in to see one of the nutritionalcounselors, who recommended a multi-mineral supplement. It wasmy thought, knowing just enough about medicine to be dangerous,that perhaps I should be taking potassium. I know diets can bepotassium-depleting. But the counselor said not only to do potas-sium but to take a multi-mineral as well. Sure enough, myenergy returned and I started feeling absolutely great. It made mewonder whether I’d been lacking in some mineral or other formany years. During my very first interview with Dr. Platt it came out
that my sister died of colon cancer and that now one of her daugh-ters has colon cancer. Also, my mother had a mastectomy when shewas 38. Dr. Platt was very interested in this. It’s one of the reasonswhy he placed me on progesterone, which is erroneously thought ofas a female hormone. But according to him, progesterone willprotect me from the excess estrogen I’m putting out. He knew thatwas true even before he did my blood work, just from my familymedical history. I was also started on testosterone, and the amounts were very
carefully monitored by Dr. Platt’s office. It certainly helped with117 ADUL T-ONSET DIABETES AND LOUIS R.  my libido (interest in sex). According to the blood work my DHEA
is that of a 30-year-old. Dr. Platt wanted to know if anyone inmy family had lived a long time. My grandfather lived to almost90, and my mother was almost 90 when she died. Dr. Platt also thought my thyroid was not putting out as
much hormone as it should, so he has me on a couple of thyroidmedications. This makes a difference. I’ve noticed since I’ve beenon this diet that I don’t get that late afternoon letdown I used toget. I think that’s due to the thyroid medications and the proges-terone, which Dr. Platt states is stabilizing my blood sugar. So far I’ve lost 32 pounds, and I’ve weaned myself off one of
my medications for diabetes. As we go along we’re fine-tuning mymedications. It seems to be a rather sensible approach. I’m verypleased with the results. DIABETES AND INSULIN
Louis has a strong family history of both obesity and adult-
onset diabetes. This means everyone in his family over-produces insulin, and insulin is the hormone that creates fat. A simple way of thinking about insulin is to understand
that insulin will take any sugar the body’s not using and store itprimarily in the fat cells. Once the sugar is absorbed into the fatcells, it is converted into fat. People have a limited number offat cells, which therefore can only contain a limited amount offat. As these cells fill up with fat, it gets harder for insulin to getthe sugar into them. This is what I refer to as “insulin resist-ance”; there are other types of insulin resistance that also play asignificant role in diabetes. Whichever type is in effect, thebody responds by producing even more insulin. This is called“hyperinsulinemia.” Insulin not only creates fat, it prevents fatfrom getting out of the fat cells—it is a fat-storing hormone.118 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  One can easily see that if you have too much insulin, you
are going to have a weight problem. Eventually the fat cells get completely filled up and sugar
can no longer get into the fat cells—so it builds up in thebloodstream and the patient is told he or she has diabetes.While in fact diabetes is frequently a disease of too muchinsulin, doctors approach diabetes as if it is a disease of highblood sugar. So they give their patients medications tostimulate the pancreas to make even more insulin. This extrainsulin literally pushes the sugar into the fat cells, creating evenmore weight gain. The exception to this is the medication Glucophage, which
goes by the generic name metformin. Glucophage doesn’tactually lower blood sugar; it acts by increasing the sensitivityof tissues in the body to insulin, leading to a lowering ofinsulin levels. Needless to say, I do not necessarily wean peopleoff this particular diabetic medication. Many patients with type II (adult-onset) diabetes may
inappropriately wind up on insulin injections. Since probably90 percent of people with adult-onset diabetes already have toomuch insulin to begin with, placing them on insulin oftenexacerbates their weight problem
. HYPOGLYCEMIA AND INSULIN
If my patients are having hypoglycemic reactions, usually mani-
fested as afternoon fatigue, sleepiness after eating, sleepiness whilein a car either as the driver or as a passenger, this tells me that theyare over-producing insulin, irrespective of blood sugar levels. If I have a patient who has been diagnosed with diabetes
and has symptoms suggesting hypoglycemia, I can assume theyare producing an adequate amount of insulin. These patients119 ADUL T-ONSET DIABETES AND LOUIS R.  can often be cured of their diabetes by lowering their insulin
levels and changing the way they eat to a fat-burning mealplan. Once a certain amount of fat has been eliminated, thereis room in the fat cells for the sugar to be taken in, and thediabetes condition is gone. In my opinion, there is one major cause for hyperinsuline-
mia (too much insulin), namely, too little progesterone. Louis’family history is classic for this condition—which underscoresthe importance of spending time talking to patients. Muchinformation can be gleaned from a family history. In the firstplace, the prevalence of diabetes in the family was suggestive ofSyndrome X, the form of hyperinsulinemia associated withhigh triglyceride levels and low HDL cholesterol. The strongfamily history of estrogen-related cancers also suggested lowprogesterone levels. HORMONAL INFLUENCES
Louis had significant hormone problems. Besides indicating
low progesterone levels, his family history was consistent withevidence of estrogen dominance. The history of colon cancerand breast cancer among the women in his family would havebeen related to estrogen. The low progesterone led to problemswith hyperinsulinemia, with resultant obesity. Blood tests indicated that Louis also had low levels of
testosterone. This too is a hormone that lowers insulin levels,just like progesterone. T estosterone is probably the mostimportant hormone to replace in a male, for multiple reasons.It treats and prevents osteoporosis (as we have seen, fracturedhips are associated with a 25 percent mortality rate in men). Itappears to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease. And a man is notable to perform sexually with low levels of testosterone.120 THE MIRACLE OF BIO-IDENTICAL HORMONES  T estosterone also helps keep the heart healthy: The heart
muscle has more testosterone receptor sites than any othermuscle, which means the heart uses more testosterone thanany other organ. T estosterone is now being used to treatcongestive heart failure in men. A man cannot build musclewithout testosterone. It has been found that many men (andwomen) have very low levels of testosterone after a heartattack. Could it be a contributing factor? DIABETES AND WEIGHT MANAGEMENT
Louis will probably have to restrict the carbohydrates in his diet
for the rest of his life. Making Louis aware of how his metabo-lism works—how sugar and insulin throw his energy levels outof whack, and how he can use protein to stabilize his system—has made all the difference. With his hormones balanced andwith an informed approach to his diet, Louis is able to managehis weight and avoid the pitfalls of diabetes. We have a nationwide epidemic of obesity and type II
diabetes. Both of these conditions are strictly hormonalproblems. Understanding this connection, one can appreciateonce again the miraculous benefits of restoring hormonalbalance with bio-identical hormones.121 ADUL T-ONSET DIABETES AND LOUIS R.  PSYCHOGENIC MEDICATION
AND GREG C.
chapter FOURTEEN
When Greg C. walked into my office, I saw a handsome 32-
year-old whose body had become distorted by weight gain. Hetalked earnestly and honestly about a recent nervousbreakdown and the four powerful psychogenic drugs—almostall of them lipogenic (causing the body to store fat)—doctorssaid he needed for mental balance. I want him to tell his storyfor the benefit of the millions of people taking anti-depressantsand other psychogenic drugs who could live normal, happylives if their hormones were balanced. I’ve always been a high achiever. I


cha nisms for
activating itself  in old age. New dendrites grow longer and sprout new
branches past age 80. As neurons shrink, they create new synapses, which
in turn stimulate more electr ochemical activity in the brain. Natural
substances stimulate this growth and repair—in particular nerve growth
factor (NGF), one of a class of proteins known as trophic factors. NGF
seems to have important functions. At Johns Hopkins, NGF prevented the
degeneration of old neurons in rats and monkeys; when injected into the
brains of old rats, it significantly improved their spatial memory. One hope
is that Alzheimer ’s patients can regain function using chemicals that induce
neuron activity (nerve growth factors have already been tried in Sweden
with some success). All this good news about the aging brain lifts our expectations that to
keep one’s faculties intact is completely normal. “Older people may not be
as quick in timed tests,” neuroscientist Robert Terry remarked, “but they
don’t lose judgment, orientation, or vocabulary. There is no way that peoplelike Picasso, the cellist Pablo  Casals, or Martha Graham could have
continued to be so successful on half a brain.”
Preserving intelligence in old age. To document whether declin e in
intelligence is a natural part of aging, researcher Lissy Jarvik at Columbia
conducted studies on twins beginning in 1947. The subjects showed no
significant drop in I.Q. from ages 65 to 75. Often there is a sharp drop in
intelligence in the year preceding one’s death, but there are many
inconsistencies from individual to individual, and also from one intelligence
test to another. Old people cannot simply be lumped togethe r; it is the
individual, not old age alone, that makes the dif ference. As corro borating evidence, we can turn to a long-term study at Duke
University that found no general decline in intelligence among older
subjects (ages 65 to 75) unless they were suffering from high blood
pressure. It is well known that small, often barely detectable strokes are
associated with hypertension, which may be at work here. Whatever the
specific cause, sickness, not the aging process itself, seems to create the
decline in mental functioning so long associated with senescence. Although
the neurological  picture is not yet clear, it is completely realistic to expect
to survive with your memory and intelligence intact. The topic of aging and I.Q. provides a perfect example of how linear
thinking misinterprets the complex changes that time brings. It isn’t enough
just to say that growing older is better or worse than being young. The
human mind develops with experience along various lines. Brain studies
help to indicate that organic changes keep up with the mind in its journey of
expansion, but it is also important to trust the process itself, to realize that
the mind wants  to expand. Psychologists are beginning to verify that human development extends
into old age through higher states of awareness such as wisdom. One
prominent German researcher, Paul Baltes, is committed to the idea that any
decline in the brain’s physical structure with age is offset by new mental
accomplishments. As a person ages, certain types of memory tasks take
more time to perform: For example, when Baltes asked people to pair words
and places (such as car and Eiffel Tower, table and Berlin Wall, keys andGolden Gate Bridge), he found  that older people could not duplicate the
speed of recall displayed by younger ones. “The situation is entirely different, however, when we look at the kind of
knowledge that is transmitted from generation to generation through
culture,” Baltes wrote. In one test, Baltes presented his subjects with a
hypothetical situation such as the following: What would you do if a friend
called on the phone and announced that he was going to commit suicide? Or
if a 15-year -old girl told you that she was thinking of getting married right
away? Baltes says, “The response we get to these and other dilemmas varies
widely, and over the years, we have developed a ‘wisdom scale’ on which
we place the answers. Take the problem of the 15-year -old girl. A
participant might respond: ‘A 15-year -old girl wants to get marr ied? No, no
way, marrying at that age would  be utterly wrong.’ Even after further cuing
about possible extenuating circumstances, this person continues to insist
that the problem is a simple one with one answer: ‘Marriage is not
possible.’
“Another answer might reflect a deeper knowledge of the human
condition: ‘Well, on the surface this seems like an easy problem. On
average, marriag e for 15-year -old girls is not a good thing. Thinking about
getting married, on the other hand, is not the same as actually doing it. I
guess many girls might think about it without getting married in the end. And then there are situations where the average case doesn’ t fit. Perhaps in
this instance the girl has a terminal illness or is all alone in the world. Or as
I think more about it, this girl may not be from this country  in the first
place; perhaps she lives in another culture or historical period where girls
marry early.’ ”
On the “wisdom  scale” Baltes found that older people did very well—
more than half of the wisest responses came from subjects over age 60. Not
all older  people are wise, but they generally outperform youn ger people,
reversing the results of the memory tests. Baltes feels that wisdom is a
“software” achievement that culture uses to outwit biological limits. In his
nineties the great pianist Arthur  Rubinstein was still playing concerts, and
when asked how he kept up such demanding activity, he cited three wise
strategies: perform fewer pieces, practice each piece more frequently, and—to compensate for loss of speed and manual dexterity—slow down for a few
seconds just before the music enters a particularly fast passage (your
playing will then sound faster than it really is!). These findings by Baltes point  to mysteries that cannot be tested, for
wisdom is more than experience. Socrates held that wisdom could not be
taught but only known directly. Although we can sense it in the atmosphere
around a wise person, their sagacity cannot be weighed, measured, or
readily defined. Jonas Salk said of wisdom, “It’s something that you know
when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined
wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will
seem to have been wise.”
But what confers wisdom? Being unteachable, it is only conferred by
growing into it. An Indian adage holds, “This is not the kind of knowledge
you acquire but the kind you must become.” Having spent hours with
Maharishi, who seems to me a profound sage, I don’t feel that I have
absorbed his wisdom, but I do know that to be genuine, wisdom  must be as
intimate to a person as breathing. Wisdom is in what you are, not in what
you do. As the new old age obliterates the prejudice against old people, I believe
we will witness a flowering of the visionary qualities that age can bring at
its best. Vision is the hidden bond that unites youth and old age. In middle
age we compro mise our ideals in order to achieve success and security;
wisdom isn’t something we have much time for. The young are still
impetuously idealistic, but the old can balance and enhance that through
wisdom, perhaps the greatest gift of the human life cycle in its mature
years. The Limits of Medicine
Medical finding s on the aging brain allow us to close the gap between our
low expectations of growing old and the rich possibilities that actually exist. They are also misleading, however. Most people assume that medicine has
been chiefly responsible for improving the health of old people andextending their life span; therefore, they look to doctors for cures for
cancer, heart disease, Alzhei mer’s, and other degenerativ e disorders
common to the elderly. This ignores the fact that successful aging is far
more than the avoidance of disease, although that is important. It involves a
lifelong commitment to oneself every day; a doctor can assist in making
this commitment, but medicine is not a surrogate for it. Modern medicine’ s role in helping us live longer is growing weaker by
the decade. In the great era of the microbe hunters that began in the 1870s
and lasted almost a century, medicine made undeniable advances, wiping
out infec tious diseases of all sorts. This past success is one of the reasons
why Americans are willing to bear the crushing cost of health care in this
country, which has already passed $700 billion and is heading toward $1
trillion in the coming decade. We take it on faith that this enorm ous outlay
will buy extra life, just as investment in penicillin research and the Salk
vaccine did, but the overall contribution of medicine—past, present, and
future—may be greatly exaggerated. Since 1900, the average American life span has increased by 50 percent,
yet much of that increase does not affect anyone who has already survived
infancy and early childhood. If you examine the chart on this page, it
reveals how little extra life recent generations have gained in adulthood.