ev-
er, these disciplines must be cultivated on a daily basis
over time. Their results do not manifest overnight. We
must build a careful foundation of right conduct in order
to have stability in our life and mind. Right social and per-
sonal conduct supports the proper functioning of all
aspects of our consciousness. It aids particularly in the
right orientation of intelligence, but also helps control the
mind and senses and purify the body. Without this
Dhannic foundation, what we build in life is not likely to
endure. The Outer Disciplines of Yoga
On this Dhannic foundation we can then begin the
outer practices of Yoga. These consist of reorienting the
body and the life-force according to yogic principles. It
consists of two parts, Asana and Pranayama, the third and
fourth limbs of Yoga. Asana — the Third Limb of Yoga
Asana consists of the performance of physical postures
that release physical stress and tension. The right postures Ayurveda and the Mind
increase the vital force, which gets blocked by wrong pos-
ture, and calms the mind, which is stressed by wrong pos-
ture. Asanas also help balance the biological humors that
accumulate in different parts of the body. They can target
certain organs or weak spots in the body and through
improved circulation promote healing in these areas. Asana in the broader sense includes all right exercise,
including more active modalities, like running or hiking. The body needs a certain amount of exercise for its proper
function. Lack of, excessive or wrong physical activity can
aggravate or cause psychological problems. Any psycho-
logical adjustments usually require that we change how we
exercise or move our bodies. Asana in the more specific sense refers to sitting pos-
tures for meditation, which are the main Asanas men-
tioned in yogic texts. For any real self-examination, we
must be able to sit still and comfortable with an erect
spine. This allows the ascending flow of energy through
which the mind can empty itself out and open up the
deeper layers of consciousness. Specific Asanas, including non-sitting postures, can
also aid in bringing up repressed thoughts and facilitate
their release, if the mind is prepared to deal with them. Asana practice can aid in releasing psychological tension
through releasing the physical and pranic blocks sustain-
ing it. There is much information on Asanas in various
Yoga books. We will not go into it here. Pranayama — the Fourth Limb of Yoga
Pranayama is usually called "control of the breath" —
calming the disturbed pattern of breathing which agitates
the mind and senses. It includes all ways of energizing the
vital force through the body, senses and mind. It is not The Eightfold Method of Yoga I
suppressing the breath, which will only cause us to die,
but development and expansion of the energy of the life-
force beyond its ordinary limitations. Pranayama is an
important Ayurvedic method for promoting healing on all
levels. Put in simple terms, Prana is our energy, particularly
that deriving from the breath. If we do not have sufficient
energy, we cannot do anything in life, even if we know
what we should do. If the brain does not receive proper
oxygen, we do not have the mental energy to grow and to
change. We lose control of our lives and become the vic-
tims of our conditioning. Old patterns from the past dom-
inate the mind and keep us caught in their memories and
attachments. We are unable to respond creatively to the
present. Ultimately, the brain grows old and atrophies, the
ultimate result of which is senility. Pranayama provides this needed energy for both body
and the mind. It gives power to our thoughts and inten-
tions so we can accomplish what we really seek. On a psy-
chological level, it gives the energy to probe into the
unconscious and release the emotional and vital (Pranic)
energy tied up in it. When our brain cells are flooded with
additional Prana, we easily develop the insight to face our
psychological problems and find creative ways of going
beyond them. On a deeper level Pranayama provides us
with the energy necessary for real meditation. Without
sufficient Prana, meditation may only consist of spinning
in our thoughts or dwelling in a blank state of mind, in
which our consciousness is not really changing at all. There are various types of Pranayama, most of which
consist of deepening and extending the breath until it
leads to a condition of energized relaxation. When the
breath is at peace, the life-force is calmed and the senses. Ayurveda and the Mind
emotions and mind are put to rest. The disturbed move-
ments of our vital urges cease to trouble us with their
desires and fears. Mind and breath are linked together like a bird with
two wings. Thought moves with the breath and breath, in
its movement, generates thought. We cannot breathe
without thinking or think without breathing. For this rea-
son, breath can be used as a rope to tie down the mind. If
we concentrate on the breath, the mind becomes internal-
ized. It is withdrawn from the senses and its external ori-
entation on the outer world and made to turn inward. In
this way Pranayama is one of the best means of Pratyahara
or withdrawal from sensory distractions. Awareness of the breath, however, is not an end-in-
itself. It is a door to the deeper levels of the mind. As the
mind focuses on the breath, the deeper layers of conscious-
ness gradually open, releasing the subconscious and all
that is hidden within. As the mind draws more energy
through Pranayama, deeper thoughts come up, including
emotional issues which we will have to deal with through
meditation or their energy will disturb us and prevent us
from going deeper. So'ham Pranayama
So'ham is the natural sound of the breath. The sound of
the air coming into the nostrils produces an "ess"-sound. The sound of air pushed out the nostrils produces an "h"-
sound. Observe this for yourself. The Sanskrit root "sa"
means to sit, exist, hold and therefore to inhale. The root
"ha" means to leave, abandon, negate and therefore to
exhale. Sa means He or the Supreme Spirit. Ham means
aham or "I am." So'ham is the natural sound of the breath
proclaiming "I am He" or "I am the Self of all Beings." The Eightfold Method of Yoga I
This sound leads us beyond the mind to our inmost nature
as pure awareness. So'ham Pranayama is easy and natural. One does not try
to manipulate or control the breath but merely lets it
deepen of its own accord, following the sound current back
to the core of awareness. Some Yoga groups use Hamsa — using ham for inhala-
tion and sa for exhalation — instead of So'ham. This is
another version of the same approach, with the sounds
reversed. So'ham works to energize the breath as it increas-
es its normal flow. On the other hand, Hamsa works to
still the breath as it counters its normal flow. So'ham is
better to strengthen the breath, Hamsa to calm it. The Nadis
The subtle body, like the physical, consists of various
channel-systems called nadis, which literally mean
streams. Seventy-two thousand nadis exist. Of these, four-
teen are significant, and three are important for all yogic
practices. Sushumna: Most important and central of the nadis is
the Sushumna, which corresponds to the central spinal
canal in the physical body. It controls all the functions of
the chakras that are strung like lotuses upon it. The
chakras, in turn, rule over mind-body functions in their
ordinary function. In their awakened or opened condition,
they bring about the unfoldment of higher states of con-
sciousness and superconsciousness. The Sushumna is called
Chitta-Nadi in yogic literature, 79 the channel of the Chit-
ta or deeper consciousness. It is the energy flow of the
entire mental field itself, the stream of consciousness. Bringing our Prana and attention into the Sushumna is
the key to calming the mind. Sushumna has the nature of Ayurveda and the Mind
ether and is balanced in terms of the biological humors
and Pranas. The Kundalini, or Prana Shakti, which is fire
(Tejas) predominant, activates it. Placing the united ener-
gy of the breath, senses and mind into the Sushumna
arouses the Kundalini. This requires tremendous concen-
tration and detachment in order to so gather our energies. It should never be attempted willfully or forcefully but as
part of a process of deepening inner peace and equanimity. Kundalini is the force for developing higher levels of con-
sciousness. To deal with it properly requires the proper
foundation of Yamas and Niyamas first. Ida and Pingala: Left and right of the Sushumna


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        These kinds of feelings allow the blackness of the cloud
to engulf them. In bringing light to this picture of bleakness we can choose
to treat others as we would like to be treated. Light and morality go hand in
hand. The moment someone feels a sense of being treated fairly, the black
cloud seems to lift. I recall Mother T eresa’ s characterization of what she did at her mission. “Every day I see Jesus Christ in all of his distressing disguises. ” She could
see the perfection in the derelict on the streets, and she would bring a kind
of morality and light to the person. That alone would help to lift the veil of
darkness that shrouded the homeless person. And so it is with each of us. When you can stop and think how you would like to be treated in this same
situation, you are bringing morality, an ingredient of light, to bear on
someone’ s darkness. Even having heard the golden rule all your life, you
know that it is wonderful advice. I ur ge you to give serious consideration to
this way of sending darkness out of your life, and bringing light to those
who feel mistreated. You can also begin to treat yourself in this way whenever you feel an
absence of light in your life. If you feel hurt or betrayed because of the
mistreatment of others and darkness has descended on you, ask yourself
how you would prefer to have been treated. Then see that kind of light and
moral treatment as descending on you from God. For give and for get the
person you are angry toward and know that you are in God’ s moral light
right in this moment. In this way you always have access to the light. Thinking how you want to be treated helps you also to extend the golden
rule to others. My young son and I were standing in line at a water park recently, and
overheard a woman in the adjacent line order three soft drinks, and then
discover that she was short of money to pay for them. She was obviously
upset over not having the few coins that she needed and the clerk was
showing no sympathy for her plight. My immediate response in such
situations is to of fer the coins, which I did. But first I asked myself how I
would like to be treated if I was in that situation. The old golden rule. This works for me also after ar guments with my wife or family members. As I sit alone in my frustration, I ask myself how I want to be treated right
now. Then I proceed to act the way I want to be treated, by breaking the
silence or apologizing. The problem is diminished in the light that the
golden rule has cast on the darkness. 3. Truth. James Russell Lowell once said, “Light is the symbol of truth. ”
And I would add that “Darkness is the symbol of deceit. ” Y ou can hide the
truth in the dark while in the light there are no mysteries, no hidden things,
everything is revealed. Thus, darkness conceals while light reveals. When
you bring light to darkness as Saint Francis requests in this line from the
prayer, you are bringing an attitude of openness that does not allow truth to
be fearful or hidden. In David Hawkins’ s powerful book Power V ersus
Force he of fers us this wisdom, “In the process of examining our everyday
lives we can find that all our fears have been based on falsehood. The
displacement of the false by the true is the essence of the healing of all
things visible and invisible. ”
Many years ago I wrote an article titled “Who Do Y ou Trust. ” for a
counseling journal. The central theme of this article was that we tend to
believe the people who are willing to tell us the truth, even though we may
not like that truth. The people who tell us exactly what we want to hear,
while it may be comforting in the moment, are not the people we trust. When you need advice or help from someone, whose opinion do you trust. The one who is only interested in having you feel good, or the one who will
tell you the truth irrespective of how you might react to what they are
telling you. You will truly grow to understand the biblical reminder, “The truth shall set
you free,” as you practice being a bringer of truth to problem situations. From the perspective of truth only, you shine the light of truth on all
problems and they literally fade away under the intense scrutiny of that
light. Nothing is hidden, nothing is concealed. I recall walking with a chronically overweight woman who was never able
to shed those excess pounds despite trying every fad diet that existed. She
swore to me that she didn’ t overeat and that a metabolism problem was thesource of her obesity. I encouraged her to take an honest “truth-only”
approach to her problem and to bring this truth to her daily activities. I told
her to record everything that she ate, or drank, and to keep an honest log of
exercise, twenty-four hours a day for a week. At the end of one week she
was stunned by what the truth revealed about her daily regimen. The one
criterion I insisted upon was truth. She discovered that without realizing it,
she had been deceiving herself. She “for got” the many times throughout the
day when she put food in her mouth, she seldom exercised, she drank
almost no water, but consumed soft drinks and alcohol in much lar ger
amounts


 I would like to see further follow-up
clinical studies done on its application to the other conditions that were
mentioned." 83Dr. Krebs undertook further clinical research studies in 1940 using natural urine in
treating children. His study, entitled The Use of
Convalescent Urine in the Mitigation of Acute Infections, demonstrated
that urine therapy (administered by means of enemas) was safe and
effective for treating childhood infections such as whooping cough,
measles and chicken pox. Dr. Krebs was impressed by the results of his treatments on 58 infected
children, and recommended urine therapy to other physicians as a
treatment for infections in children. Krebs, like many other doctors and researchers, discovered excellent
uses for urine therapy and he instructed some of the parents of his
young patients how to use it at home for treating their children. 80p
nni
The Research Evidence and Case Studies
TITLE: AUTO-URINE VACCINE THERAPY FOR ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC
NEPHRITIS, 1934, by Dr. R. Tiberi, Institute of Clinical
Medicine, University of Perugia, Italy. Nephritis is an acute or chronic inflammation of the kidney or in other
words, a kidney infection, which can be a serious health threat and is
difficult to cure. The kidneys are essential for maintaining proper nutrient and
water balances in the blood, but nephritis interferes with this
function, often causing the bloodstream to become overloaded with
excess elements such as water and salt. The body's ability to utilize
84protein is also often impaired during kidney infection, and protein, or
albumin can be abnormally excreted in the urine. Symptoms of nephritis are chills, fever, urgent and frequent urination,
back and abdominal pain, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting. Blood
in the urine and cloudy urine are also symptoms. This study revealed that urine injections significantly reduced the
symptoms and successfully eliminated kidney infections in most cases:
"The modern therapeutic tendency for acute infectious diseases is typically an
etiologic tendency; it is exactly from this basis that the concept
of vaccine therapy, for example, autogenous (individual, natural) vaccines and
protein-therapy, has entered today's standard practice. Actually, there are many infectious diseases far which this type of treatment is
utilized... Since 1926, Professor Silvestrini has been using urine vaccine
autotherapy for cases of nephritis; however until now, a systematic and
particularly a clinically statistical study which could offer a precise
indication of its effectiveness had not been compiled. Therefore, I have
collected the medical histories of numerous patients who underwent
this therapy during previous years, and, in addition, a group of others
which I was able to personally follow and administer laboratory investigations with
the goal of obtaining as many clinical observations as was
possible. CASE STUDIES
CASE 111. A patient came into the clinic presenting albuminuria
85(protein) and blood cells [in the urine], fever, edema
(water retention, or swelling), and cyanosis (blue discoloration of the skin). The
patient was treated with a
course of seven injections (7 cc. each) of auto-urine vaccine. An examination of
the patient's urine was done
after the third injection and showed only small traces of
Report #6
81
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albumin and blood cells and the edema and cyanosis had
disappeared. After completing the treatment course, the
patient was discharged from the hospital, completely
healed. CASE IV. The patient came into the clinic presenting albuminuria
and blood cells in the urine, temperature, but no edema. The patient received urine injections, and after the eighth
injection, all of his symptoms had gone into total remission. Three weeks after the
treatments, the patient continues to remain completely healed. CASE V. Upon entering the clinic, the patient's examination
revealed considerable protein and blood in the urine and
visual disturbances in the left eye. After only three injections of the urine vaccine,
the symptoms completely disappeared and the patient was released completely
cured. This Italian research study on nephritis and urine therapy was an
86extremely in-depth report, detailing 18 cases of clinical nephritis which
were successfully treated with urine injections. Another similar study on the treatment of nephritis, entitled, Treatment
Of Glomer-ulonephritis By Antigen, published in the London Lancet, in
Dec., 1936, by Dr. H.B. Day, (London), also demonstrated the effectiveness of a
simple, natural urine extract on several cases of both acute
and chronic nephritis:
"Treatment by injection of urine extract appeared of distinct
value in acute glomerulonephritis and for exacerbations or
relapses in chronic active forms of the disease...In chronic cases,
the effect of this treatment is often striking." Day also noted that:
Tests on patients without nephritis showed that the urine extract, even
in large doses, had no adverse effect on renal function or on the blood
pressure. 82The Research Evidence and Case Studies
TITLE: TREATMENT OF COLIBACILLARY CYSTITIS WITH AUTO- Report
#7
URINE THERAPY, 1935, by Dr. M. Garotescu, published in the medical
journal, Romania Medicala. In this report, the author, Dr. Garotescu, describes his experiences in
treating cystitis, a painful inflammation, or infection of the bladder
which commonly affects women and can lead to more serious conditions, such as
kidney infections. 87Dr. Garotescu treated numerous cases of cystitis with injections of the
patients' own urine, and discovered that these treatments produced
excellent results, which were corroborated by laboratory tests showing
that the cystitis bacteria had completely disappeared after the urine
injection treatments. For example:
CASE #1: A thirty-two year-old woman with typical symptoms of
cystitis  including  frequent,  painful  urination;  also  complained  of  chronic
constipation for which she has been
taking laxatives unsuccessfully for several years. She was
treated with 12 urine injections and all symptoms completely disappeared. The
success of the treatment was
verified by laboratory tests which showed a complete
absence of colibaccilli (cystitis bacteria) in her urine. CASE #2: A 28 year-old woman complaining of frequent and
painful urination. Laboratory analysis of urine sample
revealed the presence of numerous colonies of colibacilli. Patient was given 4 injections of auto-urine, after which
all symptoms and signs of the infection were completely
ameliorated. Dr. Garotescu reported that he gave 220 urine injections to patients
without any adverse side effects whatever, other than an occasional,
temporary redness and swelling at the site of the injection which is
commonly reported with urine injections, or injections of any kind. 88r
83Your Own Perfect Medicine
Report #8 TITLE: VIRUCIDAL (RABIES AND POLIOMYELITIS) ACTIVITY
OF
AQUEOUS UREA SOLUTIONS,  1936, by Dr. Eaton M. MacKay and
Dr. Charles R. Schroeder, published for the American Proceedings of
the Society of Experimental Biology
SUBJECT: DESTRUCTION OF THE RABIES AND POLIO VIRUS BY
UREA. This report on urea's ability to destroy viruses is extremely interesting
and important in view of the fact that even today, almost  60 years after
this study was published, there is still no medical cure or effective drug
treatment for viral infections. And as we know, viruses can be deadly. After experimenting with the effect of urea on the polio and rabies
viruses, McKay and Schroeder report that:
"...The effect of urea in strong concentration on these viruses (rabies
and polio) proved interesting. As first recorded by Spiro and Ramsden,
urea in aqueous solution has a remarkable ability to 'dissolve'
proteins...
We conclude...that the strong solution of urea not only attenuates
(weakens) or dilutes the poliomyelitis virus in the sense that it is noninfective but
actually destroys it...
Urea is such a relatively inactive substance and certainly not a
89protoplasmic poison such as are most virucidal agents that it is
in a way surprising that rabies and poliomyelitis are killed so
easily by urea solutions... It is true that neutral and inactive as it is, urea, like alkalies, denatures
protein when dissolving it and this reaction may be associated with the
death of the virus. This denaturation occurs in a very few
minutes..."
This report appears to hold important implications for the treatment of
the AIDS virus, HIV. Because concentrated urea has been proven to
destroy viruses without harming the body, oral urine therapy, which
increases urea concentrations (see Dr. D. Kaye), would logically be an
extremely important addition to treatment regimens; especially in view
of the fact that urine therapy also provides a wide variety of antibodies
(including HIV antibodies in infected patients) and other important
immune defense supporting agents. 84The Research Evidence and Case Studies
No one with HIV or AIDS can afford to ignore the information on urine
therapy, especially considering the danger and ineffectiveness of the
'accepted' AIDS treatments such as AZT. A separate section on AIDS


 with them in compassion, we can feel
their encouragement as they cheer us on. W e love them for relieving our
fear and accepting us, and they love us back for doing the very thing that
they themselves fear. Once this evolution through the levels of emotion is
made, there is an enjoyment of public speaking. W e find out that part of the
mind can be quite funny when the occasion arises. Eventually, with complete surrender, reading a prepared speech
dropped of f and the speaking became extemporaneous. W ith more
experience, the public speaking improved, which engendered more
speaking engagements. This allowed the accomplishment of many
vocational goals that heretofore had been thwarted. There were appearances
in the national media, such as talk shows on television. It is a long step from
being too frightened even to read a case history in front of a few interns to
enjoying oneself speaking on a television network to millions of viewers on
The Barbara W alter ’ s Show. W e all derive great benefit from liberating ourselves out of a fearful
inhibition into successful functioning, because that learning processautomatically spills over into many other areas of our life. W e become more
capable, freer and happier and, with that, there is an inner peace of mind. The Healing Effect of Love
Fear is so pandemic in our society that it constitutes the predominant ruling
emotion of our world, as we know it. Fear was also the predominant
emotion among the thousands of patients treated during the decades of
clinical practice. Fear is so extensive and takes so many forms that there are
not enough pages in this book to enumerate all of its varieties. Fear is associated with our survival, and so it is given a special accord
in our minds. For most people, fear is so all-pervasive that their life really
constitutes one giant set of compensatory devices to conquer their fears. However, even this does not suf fice, so that the media present us over and
over again with fearful situations, as in this morning’ s news: “T errorist
group threatens to poison our food supply.” Such headlines are constant, as
though to give the mind further opportunities to master that most dreaded of
all emotions. As the lyrics of the song put it, “W e are caught between a fear
of living and a fear of dying.”
When all the mind’ s compensatory devices fail and fear spills forth into
consciousness as overt anxiety attacks or phobias, the person is labeled as
having an anxiety neurosis. It is informative to note that the tranquilizer
V alium is the biggest selling drug in America. Fears tend to escalate. Thus, the typical patient with phobias shows a
progressive extension of the fear into more and more avenues of life,
leading to further and further restrictions of activity, and, in severe cases, to
total immobilization. This was the case of a patient named Betty. Betty was thirty-four years old, but she looked much older because she
was thin and drawn. She entered the of fice carrying armloads of paper bags,
which were later found to contain 56 dif ferent bottles of health store
preparations, vitamins, nutritional supplements, plus several bags of special
food. Her fear had started out as a germ phobia and soon everything around
her seemed to be possibly contaminated with germs. She had many health
fears of contracting contagious diseases, which had progressed now to a
fear of cancer. She believed every scare story she read, so she was afraid of
nearly every food, the air she breathed, and getting sunshine on her skin. She wore white clothes because she was afraid of dyes in the materials.In the of fice, she would never sit down because she was afraid that the
chair might be contaminated. Whenever she needed a prescription, she
asked that it be written from the middle of the prescription pad which had
not been touched. Furthermore, she wanted to tear the page from the pad
herself; she didn’ t want me to touch it because possibly I had gotten germs
from shaking hands with the last patient. She wore white gloves at all times. She requested to be treated by telephone as she was too afraid of making
the trip to the of fice again. The following week on the telephone, she said that she was afraid to
get up. She would call from home while still in bed because now she was
afraid to go out on the streets. She had developed a fear of muggers, rapists,
and air pollution. At the same time, she was afraid to stay home in bed for
fear that she might get worse and, to compound all her other fears, she was
afraid that she was losing her mind. She was afraid that the medication
wouldn’ t help her and that it might have side ef fects, but she was afraid not
to take it for fear that she would not get better. Now she said that she had a
fear that she might choke on the pills and had stopped taking even her
health pills, much less the prescribed medication. Her fears were so paralyzing that every therapeutic maneuver was
totally stymied. She wouldn’ t allow me to talk to her family. She was afraid
they would find out that she was seeing a psychiatrist and think she was
crazy. I was totally baf fled and racked my brain for weeks on how I could
possibly help her. Finally, I let go. I experienced the relief of surrender in
that I just totally gave up: “There is absolutely nothing I can do to help her. The only thing left to do is just to love her.”
And, so, that’ s what I did. I just thought of her lovingly, and frequently
I sent her loving thoughts. I gave her as much love as I could possibly give
when we talked on the telephone and, finally, after a couple of months of
“loving therapy,” she got suf ficiently better to come to the of fice. As time
went on, she improved and her fears and inhibitions began to diminish,
though she never did develop any insight. She was too afraid of talking
about psychological matters, she said, and so over the months and
eventually years of treatment, the only thing I ever did was to love her. This case illustrates a concept that we previously presented in the
chapter on apathy; that is, a higher vibration, such as love, has a healing
ef fect on a lower vibration, such as that in the patient’ s case, fear. This love
is the mechanism of reassurance, and very often we can quiet anotherperson’ s fears by our mere physical presence, and by the loving ener gy that
we project to them and with which we surround them. It is not what we say,
but the very fact of our presence that has the healing ef fect. W e can learn another one of the laws of consciousness: Fear is healed
by love. This is the central theme of the series of books by psychiatrist Jerry
Jampolsky (e.g., Love is Letting Go of Fear ). This was also the basis of the
healing that went on at the Attitudinal Healing Center in Manhasset, Long
Island, of which I was co-founder and medical advisor. Attitudinal healing
has to do with group interaction with patients who have fatal and
catastrophic illnesses, and the whole process of healing has to do with the
letting go of fear and replacing it with love. This is the same mechanism of healing demonstrated by the great saints
and illumined healers, whose very presence has the power to heal because
of the intense vibration of love which they radiate. This healing power—the
basis of spiritual healing—is also transmitted by loving thoughts. The
multitudes of people down through recorded history who have healed by
just this kind of love are legendary. In recent history, for instance, Mother
T eresa is credited with healing great numbers of people by these very
mechanisms of unconditional love and illumined presence. T o people who
are unfamiliar with the laws of consciousness, these types of cures seem
miraculous. But to those who are familiar with the laws of consciousness,
such phenomena are commonplace and to be expected. High levels of
consciousness are in themselves capable of healing, transforming, and
enlightening others. The value of the surrendering mechanism is that, by
letting go of the blocks to love, our capacity to love increases progressively,
and loving ener gy has the capacity to heal ourselves as well as others. The only drawback to these types of healings is that often the healing is
sustained while in proximity to a person capable of radiating high levels of
love, but the illness returns when people leave that presence, unless they
themselves have learned to elevate their own consciousness. “W ell,” you might ask, “if sending loving thoughts has a healing
power, how come we see all the sick people in hospitals, whose families are
so solicitous? Why does the love of the family not heal the patient?” The
answer is to look at the kinds of thoughts that are being sent by the family
to the patient. As you examine them, you will find that they are primarily
thoughts of anguish and fear, accompanied by guilt and ambivalence.W e might picture love to be like the sunlight and negative thoughts like
the clouds. Whereas our higher, greater Self is like the sun, all the negative
thoughts, doubts, fears, anger, and resentments that we hold dim the light of
the sun and, finally, the light comes through only weak


 and nausea. The shortage of bile in the
digestive tract restricts the digestion of fats and pro
teins. Rest and a diet low in fats and proteins are
usually prescribed. 8
However, the substance which should digest
these proteins and fats can be found in the urine in
precisely the correct amount. According to this
theory, the application of urine therapy allows bile
and other liver enzymes to be re-used instead of
wasted. This is just one example of an illness in which
important substances can be re-used via the urine. Research could also be conducted for other illnesses
concerning the way in which important bodily sub
stances can be saved and re-used. 2. Re-absorption of hormones
As stated above, many hormones end up in the
urine. The basis for this hypothesis is that we can
re-introduce these into the body by drinking or mas
saging with urine. Since proteins are harmed by the acids, pepsins
and enzymes in the digestive tract, the hormones
re-absorbed into the body if one drinks urine will
mainly be the small ones which are not proteins
(protein-complexes). The sex hormones, adrenal
gland hormones and thyroid hormones will almost
certainly be re-absorbed, the effects. of which need
Medical and Scientific Aspects of Urine Therapy 73 fhe ten hypotheses relate to the following ten
ueas:
1. Re-absorption and re-use of nutrients
2. Re-absorption of hormones
3. Re-absorption of enzymes
4. Re-absorption of urea
5. Immunological effect
6. Bactericidal and virucidal effect
7. Salt therapy
8. Diuretic effect
9. Transmutation theory
10. Psychological effect
t. Re-absorption and re-use of nutrients
The assertion that urine can cure illnesses because
it contains minerals, vitamins and other nutrients
which are essential for one's health is not entirely
accurate. We obtain these substances in sufficient
quantities from the food we eat, assuming that we
follow a healthy, well-balanced.diet. By drinking
or massaging with urine, we possibly re-use andre
absorb a number of vitamins, amino acids; salts,
hormones, etc. as nutrients. This can be especially important during illness,
when diseased body tissue enters the blood and
must therefore be excreted. The filtering process in
the kidneys should break down this tissue to its
original materials, after which it can be re-used by
the body to build up new tissue. The composition of urine changes during illness,
because certain essential substances do not reach
their intended destination a:1d c:.r..:: subsequently fil
tered out by the kidneys. A good example of this is liver blockage, which can result in hepatitis (inflam
mation of the liver). If a blockage develops in the
liver, bile produced by the liver cannot reach the
intestinal canal, instead seeps into the blood and
subsequently ends up in the urine, resulting in
weakness and nausea. The shortage of bile in the
digestive tract restricts the digestion of fats and pro
teins. Rest and a diet low in fats and proteins are
usually prescribed. 8
However, the substance which should digest
these proteins and fats can be found in the urine in
precisely the correct amount. According to this
theory, the application of urine therapy allows bile
and other liver enzymes to be re-used instead of
wasted. This is just one example of an illness in which
important substances can be re-used via the urine. Research could also be conducted for other illnesses
concerning the way in which important bodily sub
stances can be saved and re-used. 2. Re-absorption of hormones
As stated above, many hormones end up in the
urine. The basis for this hypothesis is that we can
re-introduce these into the body by drinking or mas
saging with urine. Since proteins are harmed by the acids, pepsins
and enzymes in the digestive tract, the hormones
re-absorbed into the body if one drinks urine will
mainly be the small ones which are not proteins
(protein-complexes). The sex hormones, adrenal
gland hormones and thyroid hormones will almost
certainly be re-absorbed, the effects. of which need
Medical and Scientific Aspects of Urine Therapy 73 to be more closely researched. The external appli
cation of urine to the skin allows hormones to be
re-absorbed by the body without being destroyed. Massaging with urine is therefore an important
complementary component of urine therapy, as
urine is directly absorbed into the tissue.9 Enemas
are also a good way to prevent destruction of cer
tain hormones by gastric juices, which is why this
method often helps cure allergic disorders better
than when urine is orally ingested. The same ap
plies for urine injections. Re-absorption can be of value in two ways. Firstly, certain hormones have a very specific effect
during a healing process. For example, cortico
steroids secreted by the adrenal cortex inhibit in
fections and have a posipve effect in the treatment
of allergies such as asthma and hay fever, skin dis
orders such as eczema and psoriasis, and inflamma
tory illnesses such as rheumatism. Urine therapy
has proved to be an extremely effective aid in the
treatment of all these illnesses, but it has not yet
been demonstrated that these hormones playa part
in the treatment. The word 'proved' as used here
indicates observation of a particular treatment and
the results, and the logical conclusions that can be
drawn:
Secondly, re-absorption can be a means for the
body to generally conserve energy: re-ingestion of
hormones gives the body the chance to re-use at
least a number of these, so that it is not necessary
to expend energy on manufacturing new hormones. Hormones are actually extremely powerful mol
ecules, the production of which requires a great deal
of energy. Once proauced, they are able to cause a
7 4 A Natural Pharmacy complete alteration in the balance of bodily proc
esses, the personality, the emotions and the state
ofmind, even if only a few molecules are released. So even the slightest re-absorption of hormones may
well have a "powerful effect on our state of health
and level of energy.10
I have already referred to research on the effects
of melatonin, a hormone found in urine which pos
sibly has a calming effect.11 Melatonin also has a
powerful anti-cancer effect.12
It is quite possible that the sages of olden times
were well aware of the hormonal effects of urine. They state that if a person is unable to urinate, the
urine from somebody of the same sex is acceptable,
but not from somebody of the other sex. Although cultural and social factors could have
played a part in this rule, the fact is that female
urine contains considerably greater amounts of fe
male hormones, such as oestrogen. If ingested over
a long period of time by a man, this could have a
feminizing effect. The opposite is true for a woman
who ingests male urine. Some people recommend to use the first urine
after sexual intercourse. During the process of sexual
stimulation certain hormones are released in the
higher endocrinal glands which have a regenerat
ing effect on the·body. This applies for men as well
as women.13
3. Re-absorption of enzymes
Urine contains many enzymes, which might explain
why urine therapy is effective against arterioscle
rosis, heart attack, pulmonary embolism, etc. Based on research conducted on the enzyme Urokinase,
positive results can be expected from the effects of
enzymes in urine as a 'total entity'. Urokinase
causes vasodilation and resembles nitroglycerine in
its ability to strengthen the bloodstream from the
coronary artery to the cardiac muscle. Urokinase is
extracted from urine and brought on the market as
medicine on a large scale. 14
Other enzymes are probably active in urine, but
more specific information is not yet available. 4. Re-absorption of urea
\fhe following information is partly derived from a
'esearch report as recently presented by John
Wynhausen at the First All India Conference on
iUrine Therapy.15
. Besides water, urea is the main component of
~uine and is a decomposition product of converted
~roteins. A person excretes approximately an aver
:age of 25 to 30 grams of urea per day. We come in
contact with urea at an early age, i.e. as a foetus in
the womb. The level of urea in amniotic fluid, which
consists for the most part of urine from the foetus,
doubles in the last two months of pregnancy.16
Before we are born, we drink well over half a litre
per day of this liquid. The foetus also 'breathes' it
in -this is essential for proper development of the
lungs. Scars disappear after an operation on a foe
tus in the womb due to the healing capacities of
the urea in the amniotic fluidY
It is still unclear whether urea in am


 Ayurveda advises
waiting to begin your massages until the second trimester, when your
pregnancy is more stable. During pregnancy, abhyanga should be done
slowly, lightly, and with your loving attention, really honoring your body as
a sacred vessel that is growing your little one. Abhyanga is one of the most
powerful ways to stabilize vata dosha and to assure that mama and babe are
nourished, happy, and at ease. LONG WALKS
Walking is a low-impact exercise that gives many benefits to the pregnant
mama. Taking long walks boosts mood and ener gy levels, eases back pain
and other aches, helps you sleep better, relieves constipation, supports
overall cardiovascular health, aids in a more ease-filled labor and delivery,
and much more.Ideally, walk barefoot in nature! You’ll have the perfect all-around self-
care practice for maintaining mind-body wellness. Connection with the
natural world soothes and heals the nervous system and invites us to
connect with something lar ger than ourselves. Researchers have observed
that spending time being present in nature lowers blood pressure, brings
down heart rate, and reduces levels of harmful hormones circulating in the
bloodstream—including cortisol, which your body produces when it’ s
stressed. [*1] Walking in nature can help put you (and babe!) in a more calm
and relaxed state. If you live in a city, even spending time in an urban park
can have a positive impact on your sense of well-being. HERBAL BATHS
Baths are known to soothe tired or achy muscles, reduce stress, support
digestion, boost immunity, promote relaxation, and more. When you add
herbs, salts, clays, flower essences, and essential oils to your bath, the
additions bring qualities that increase the bath’ s ability to support you in
many ways. Cultures throughout history have recognized the importance of
bathing, not only for personal hygiene, but also to open pathways to the
soul’ s inner guidance. There’ s nothing quite like an herbal bath. It’ s like soaking in a lar ge cup
of tea! Because the skin is the lar gest or gan in the body, it draws in the
medicinal compounds of the herbs that are added to the bath and delivers
them to your entire system in a holistic way. Bathing in botanical baths
gives you the opportunity to reconnect with the natural world and to reset
your body toward ideal health and vitality. Water is healing, soothing, and regenerative. It has a profound ability to
bring clarity to the mind, supports you in feeling  your emotions, and helps
you to release what no longer serves. It has a “holding” ability: it literally
will hold you and carry anything that feels too heavy or burdensome so that
it can be released through the drain when your bath is finished. Water also holds intention, so if you draw your bath with intention—
perhaps the intention to bring more beauty, ease, or joy into your life—thewater will deliver that ener gy into your body. You can increase the intention
by simply adding more attention to what you are infusing into the bath. Use
crystals, oils, herbs, and flowers to invite more healing—and thus a deeper
connection to yourself. To make an herbal bath, use any of the options in the instructions on this
page  and soak for twenty to thirty minutes in a water temperature that feels
soothing. Guidelines for an Herbal Bath
Use ½–1 cup of your chosen fresh or dry herbal blend and decoct
into a bath tea. If using a powdered herb, 2 tablespoons is plenty. To
make a decoction, boil your herbs with 8 cups of water until the
water has reduced to 4 cups. Strain before adding to your bath. If
using more delicate flowers like rose, lavender, calendula, or
chamomile, you can simply add flowers at the end of making your
decoction (once the heat is of f) or add to a French press and steep
for twenty minutes before adding to the bath. If using essential oils, add 3–10 drops to Epsom salts or honey
and then add to the bath. Clays are grounding and they soothe and heal the skin. You can
add ½–1½ cups of clay to your bath. Salts purify, offer magnesium, ease pain, and relax muscles. You
can use ½–1 cup per bath. Milk nourishes and softens skin. Use ½ cup of full-fat milk or a
milk alternative
Colloidal oats soothe dry, itchy skin and are anti-inflammatory. Use ½–1½ cups per bath. Honey softens, moisturizes, and nourishes the skin. Use ½–1 cup
of honey per bath. Other additions that will add a sense of ritual, beauty, and
ceremony to your bathing experience: light candles, add fresh
organic flowers to float atop the water, have crystals on hand toinvite their specific energies, use sacred smoke to cleanse the area
before and after the bath. MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS
Taking time each day to settle your mind and connect deeply to yourself is
invaluable in the pursuit of living a fulfilling and intentional life. Whether
it’s practicing mantra meditation ( this page ), working with your breath, or
some other ritual that calls you deeply into the present moment, making
time for meditation and mindfulness will anchor you and your little one into
a deeper current of reality so that you may live into your day with more
clarity, ease, connection, and intention. LIFESTYLE ADAPTATIONS
DURING PREGNANCY
The following are Ayurveda’ s recommendations for how to address and
adapt sleep, sex, and natural ur ges as they arise during pregnancy. SLEEPING POSITIONS
During the first three months of pregnancy you can lie down to sleep in any
position, as your little one is tiny and tucked into your pelvic cage. After
that, however, it is likely that lying on your stomach will feel quite
uncomfortable for both you and your little one! After the fifth month, it is
generally best to avoid lying on your back for more than twenty to thirty
minutes at a time. Ideally you’ll sleep on your left side, as your enlar ged
uterus may put pressure on the aorta, which reduces the amount of blood to
your lower body, including your uterus, potentially af fecting your baby’ s
blood supply. All that being said, as long as you are comfortable, it is likely
that your baby is also just fine. Trust your body. It will tell you if things arenot right. Using pillows to get yourself comfortable on your left side during
the later months of pregnancy is hugely beneficial for restful sleep. You can
put a pillow beneath your tummy and between your knees, and anywhere
else that feels supportive so that you can relax completely. SEX DURING PREGNANCY
Rather than approaching the topic of sex during pregnancy in the mood of
“right and wrong” or “good and bad,” I will share the Ayurvedic perspective
about how it af fects the doshas. Because sex is an experience that breeds
intimacy, connection, self-expression, and pleasure, please take into
consideration the information below and then adapt it in a way that will
maintain balance and harmony in your body and your relationship. Ayurveda recommends abstaining from sex during pregnancy,
especially in the first and third trimesters. Because the first trimester is
governed by vata dosha, Ayurveda calls for doing everything you can to
stabilize vata during that time. If vata is out of balance, it can cause
miscarriage, preterm birth, back pain, constipation, anxiety, fear, and
overwhelm. While sex in moderation may feel nourishing to your body and
to your relationship, sex is light, mobile, and drying, and sex in excess will
increase those qualities in your body. Sex also involves the release of ojas, which takes over a month to
produce! Recall that ojas is the final product of the digestion of food after it
goes through all seven layers of tissue. It is absolutely necessary for
nourishing your embryo and becomes especially important in the later part
of pregnancy, when you share it to an even greater degree with your babe. Abstaining from overindulgence in any sensory pleasures (such as too
much food, too much TV, and the like) is beneficial, as you now know that
the health (or dis-ease!) of your body and mind has an ef fect on the body
and consciousness of your little one. Overindulgence in anything will af fect
the state of your mind. If you eat too much, you feel groggy. If you scroll
Instagram for too long, you probably feel disconnected from yourself. In the
same way, Ayurveda teaches that having too much sex will deplete yourbodily tissues and leave you feeling dissatisfied. The discipline of
regulating sexual engagement may also instill within your little one the
knowledge that the real pleasure they seek is beyond the senses and that real
satisfaction comes from within. That being said, if mama has a strong sexual desire, her desire should
not be suppressed; instead it should be regulated so that she stays balanced
and vital. In general, those who already have a lot of vata in their
constitution will be more af fected by this and are advised to have sex only


ize
circulation as much as was possible in the circumstances. A half hour after this, an enema of warm water brought away a large
amount of fecal matter, all of which resulted in pulse and temperature showi ng decided downward tendencies, while the patient
rested more quietly and easily than for many days. In acute crises, such as this, drastic measures are imperative, and, on the second day, application of more vigorous massage and of
more copious enemata brought temperature and pulse to still lower register; consciousness, which had been intermittent, fully
Page 13 of  72 returned; the swelling in the arm was reduced; and pain had abated. In a week the young man was able to lie at full length, a nd the
swelling, excepting  in the ankles was scarcely perceptible. Before this, natural sleep had returned, while temperature and pulse
were but slightly above normal. During this interval two enemas daily had been administered, and masses of feces more or less
hardened had been re moved on each occasion. Sponge baths twice each day had also aided in relieving discomfort while assisting
elimination, and at the end of the first week of fasting tub -baths were begun. The fast was broken on the eleventh day with a small amount of tomat o broth fed morning and night, the supply being increased as
the patient showed increasing ability to digest his food. Five weeks from the beginning of treatment the youth was enjoying a  daily
walk of several miles, and thereafter, adhering strictly to the  dietetic regimen prescribed, he rapidly developed to a condition of
normal health and eventually to a robust physique. The second case, a man sixty -one years of age, was stricken with paralysis of the entire right side, and, receiving no help from
medic ine, he determined upon an absolute fast. The preparatory period covered but ten days, a time too short to permit of wholly
satisfactory approach to total abstinence, but nevertheless at its completion a fast of forty days, which proved eminently su ccessfu l
in outcome, was undertaken. Paralysis of this nature, known as hemiplegia, is usually caused directly by hemorrhage in some
portion of brain tissue. For its relief but one course can be followed --to permit natural processes to absorb the formed blood clo t,
thus removing inflammation and pressure, releasing nerve force, and allowing connective tissue again to form by natural proce sses
of healing. Constant ingestion of food in the circumstances serves to aggravate and to prolong recovery, since to facilitat e the
process of absorption the blood should be relieved as rapidly as possible of the burden of waste it has been carrying, waste that in
all probability was directly the cause of the brain hemorrhage. The fast by compelling the dominance of elimination a t once
reduces the density of the blood through removal of circulating refuse, and gives the natural assistance necessary for the di sposal
of obstructions to the passage of nerve force through nerve channels --thus restoring sensation and motion the loss of  which
constitutes paralysis. The patient in question weighed at the time of his apoplectic seizure 228 pounds. Each day of abstinence showed loss in weigh t,
and at the end of the fast the latter was reduced to 174 pounds. Bile in abundance was discharge d with the enemas, and at intervals
vomiting of the same fluid occurred. The fast was broken with grape -juice and orange -juice, but after a few days more solid food
was taken. It is well to quote from a personal letter from the patient, reading as follows:
"I was totally incapacitated from actual manual labor of any kind before my fast, and I lived in dread of a second stroke,
with a strange, unnatural depression evident upon slight over -exertion. Great drowsiness affected me, and on occasions I
would sleep  thirty to thirty -six hours, almost without intermission. My mentality was impaired, my eyesight defective,
and my speech impeded. My right hand and arm were clumsy and weak, and at this stage all ordinary human aid seemed
powerless. "I began the fast, a nd contrary to my expectations, I had no hunger from the third day to the fortieth. To affirm that there
was no inconvenience, however, would be untrue, for by every avenue of elimination most offensive impurities were
thrown off, and at times these could not have been borne had the object been lost sight of. My weight before I undertook
the fast was 228 pounds, and the girth of my abdomen, 45 inches. After I had completed the total abstinence period, I
weighed 174 pounds, and measured in girth 38 -1/2 inche s. I am cured of my paralysis; my mentality is clear and normal;
my entire digestive system is apparently perfect; my vision is better than for years; my hand and arm are strong; I have no
dread of a second stroke; I have no sleepy spells; I feel lighter a ll over; and, when weary, I am quite refreshed and ready
for further exertion after a short rest. " A case of the disease symptom known as chorea occurring in a woman twenty -eight years of age next offers itself for description. Preparation was undergone f or several weeks and a fast of twenty -two days resulted in the return of hunger with complete
restoration to health. The medical history of this case showed obstinate constipation for twenty years; and there were nervou s
tendencies that had been persistent ly present in aggravated form. Medical advice and direction had been constantly followed since
birth, yet, when first seen, the muscles controlling and forming legs, hands, arms, and face were in constant action, and no effort of
the will could command the m. During the first week of the fast, improvement in the latter respect appeared, so much so that the
young woman was able to walk without any evidence of extraordinary lack of coordination, and by the fourteenth day all muscul ar
signs of nervousness had c ompletely disappeared. No unusual symptoms developed in this case. The enemas brought away solid matter in decreasing amount until the seventeenth
day, and thereafter but a small quantity of bilious fluid. Body manipulation and the baths were daily resor ted to, and the loss in
weight was not remarkable. There were almost no unpleasant symptoms, and this was of the absence of structural organic defect,
and because the patient had always led an outdoor life and possessed an equable disposition. After a time  devoted to a dietetic
regimen and judicious exercises, the case was discharged as restored to health and with no traces of her former nervous disor der. An added benefit was discovered in that, although there had been decided impairment of sight, myopic in  character, the patient
was able to dispense with lenses six weeks after the beginning of the fast. The distressing affliction, epilepsy, is a disease symptom that may be traced to the source of all functional disorder, the d igestive
Page 14 of  72 machinery. The cas e of a young woman, twenty -nine years of age, will demonstrate the effect of the fast and its adjuncts upon this
characteristic of disease. Before entering the fast, the patient had tentatively followed a dietetic regimen, and had noted d ecided
improvement  in general health, but there was no cessation of the attacks peculiar to the symptom named. Medical attendance had
been continuous for years, but no improvement had resulted; rather the reverse, for the epileptic seizures had increased in n umber
and sever ity as time went by. Before the fast the attacks were recurring at intervals of two weeks, and the latest seizure had
happened but three days before the fast began. Food was denied for fifty -six days, and, from the moment of the inception of the
method to the present writing not a convulsion has occurred, nor has there been a semblance of attack, while in general health the
patient has been better than at any time of her life. The fast in this instance is to be noted in several minor ways, one of which is  that on each of the fifty -six days the patient walked a
distance of at least two miles; another, that on the fortieth day of abstinence a mass of dead intestinal worms passed from t he
bowels in the enema. Improvement was constant from the first, but, afte r the evacuation of these parasites, it increased rapidly, and
natural hunger asserted itself on the fiftyfifth day. The loss in weight was consistently normal, averaging about three -quarters of a
pound for each day of the fasting period. The medical his tory of the next subject, a woman forty -five years old, tells of continuous treatment for thirty years for the disease
symptom known as psoriasis in its diffuse form. At the time that the patient sought natural means of assistance the inflamed,
bleeding su rfaces characteristic of the symptom covered at least one -third of the skin of the body, and they were not confined to
any particular locality, appearing indiscriminately upon trunk, arms, and legs, but the hands, face, and feet were not affect ed. The
sores were exuding bloody serum, and there was intolerable itching, so much so that in order to exist in any condition approachin g
comfort, local application of mercurial preparations had long been resorted to, to relieve both the pain and the inconvenienc e. These of course were only temporary in effect, and the major symptoms returned shortly, more angry and more obstinate. The general health of the patient apart from the distressing symptom


 muscles lubricated. I start all my workouts with low
impact stretches and work up to a full stretch workout. Later, I wind down
my routine with low-impact exercises. Do stretches every day and work at it progressively. Remember, you
can't become flexible overnight. Work at a rate you're comfortable with,
and then slowly increase the difficulty (length of time, length of reach or
both). Make sure you have supervision. If you have no idea what you're doing,
you'll injure yourself. Most martial arts schools and gym classes have
extensive programs and teachers. Check them out. Eat a healthy diet. Eat more green leafy vegetables, and drink plenty of distilled water,
especially upon waking. Increase your protein and calcium. Reread the
section on supplements and vitamins. The most important thing is to
balance everything. Shoulders

Stretch each arm as far across your chest while holding it as
long as
 you
can without feeling pain for 5 or 10 minutes every day. Lift small
 weights
daily so that your muscles can become
gradually accustomed
 to the
repetitive motion and movement. Back (Be Extremely Careful)

I myself, have two ruptured discs and a herniated disc in my
back so
 I
have to build up slowly the muscles that support the spine. This next
exercise was especially helpful in accomplishing this. Lie down on the floor. 1. Sit up straight, leaving your legs out in front of you. They don't
have to be flat. 2. Turn your upper body slowly, and make absolutely sure that you
stop turning before it starts to hurt. If you
stretch improperly
 it is
relatively easy to damage your spinal cord, so pay attention. 3. When you stop turning, hold that position for 5 to 10 seconds. Turn the other direction and repeat. Try and do a back-bend/bridge. Be very careful not to go too far! Once
you are in the bridge, gently push through your shoulders
, and
 try to put
your legs together and straighten them. Don't
go onto
 your toes! 1. You can also stand up with your arms hanging out to
the side
 and
then very slowly twist from side to side. 2. Another
stretch is to lay flat on your tummy and then use  your
arms to put yourself in a snake or seal stretch. Legs

1. Sit down as you did before for the back exercises, only this time
make your legs as flat on the ground as possible, right beside
each other. 2. Stretch down toward your knees. Do not bend your head to faceyour knees, face forward. 3. This will also stretch your neck muscles; if it hurts your neck to do
this exercise, face your knees and stretch. 4. You can also sit down with your legs straight out and take your
right leg and swing it over your left leg a few times. Do the same
with your left leg. 5. Try doing the splits as well as possible, but carefully for about 4
minutes per day. If you are advanced and flat on the ground,
take a sofa pillow and put one of your legs on it to give more of a
stretch
. Remember to be patient
. (I should talk!) The key to
being flexible is waiting calmly. Upper Thighs (Butt)
           Squeeze both sides of your thighs together
. Hold for 5
minutes. (If this is too long, start with 2 minutes, and build up.) Fingers
           Hold one hand out in a fist
. 1. Slowly open up the fist. 2. Stretch your fingers back as far as they can. Hold for a minute. (You can also try this against a wall.) 3. Repeat with your other hand. This can help with carpal tunnel
syndrome. Ankles

1. First, sit with your legs straight out in front of you (as you did in
the leg stretch) and twist your ankles in any shape or form (for
example, the ABC’s). 2. You can also sit with one leg in front of you and take the other
ankle and rest it on your knee. Grab your foot and twist your
ankle. Wrists

1. Sit on your ankles, kneeling, and then put your hands out
like you are reading a book. 2. Flip your hands onto the floor with fingers facing you, like
"save the page."3. After you do the stretch above, flip your hands in various
ways (fingers facing outward or inward to the side). Positive & Negative Stretching
Remember to include both the positive and negative motions when you
stretch. Keep it symmetrical. If you are stretching your left, stretch out
your right, too. If you are bending forward, bend backwards too. Tips

1. Remember to begin with gentle, slow stretching. Warning:
Starting with difficult and advanced stretches is dangerous and
ill-advised for anyone. 2. One way to warm up would to be to do a decent amount of
jumping jacks. 3. Take a ballet class to get flexible, so a professional can train
you. :-) Come on guys, you can do it! 4. Be patient, if you think you're not getting any more flexible, don't
quit. You'll see progress even
tually, and it will be worth it. What is cardiovascular exercise? Cardiovascular exercise is aerobic exercise, and
sometimes referred
 to
as 'cardio'. Cardio exercise involves strengthening
the large
 muscles like
legs and arms and making your heart
and lungs
 stronger. There are
many health benefits derived
from cardio
, such as lowering your blood
pressure, plus burning lots
of calories
. This is good for people like me who
want to lose
weight and
 build muscle at the same time. Aerobic
means
 “
requiring air," where "air" usually
means oxygen
. During
cardiovascular or aerobic exercise, oxygen
gets delivered
 to the muscles. In order to give the heart an
adequate workout
, there needs to be a certain
amount of intensity in
your cardio
. It is important to pay attention to your
heart rate
during the
 exercise to ensure you do not over-do it. Most
treadmills
and bikes
 at fitness centers utilize heart rate monitoring. You can measure your heart rate manually by taking a pulse
count
with
 your fingers or by using a heart rate monitor. In
measuring the
heart rate, you are checking the heart beats per minute. A resting
 heart
rate is the rate your heart beats per minute
while you
 are resting. Themaximum heart rate is the maximum
amount of
 times your heart beats in a
minute. You should always
work within
 your 'target heart rate zone' which
is a range of heart
rate that
 is considered to be the best rate to assure
your heart
is getting
 a good workout. The target range should be
between 50% and 85% of your maximum heart rate. You can have a doctor determine your maximum heart rate or use
the
following formula
 to calculate a rough estimate. For women:  226 minus your age equals your maximum heart rate

For men:  220 minus your age equals your maximum heart rate

For example, if you are a 32 year old woman: subtract 32 from 226226 -
32 = 194

Then take that number and multiply it by.5, to get your lower end of your
target zone. Finally, multiply that same number by.85 to get the upper end
of your zone. For example:

194 x.5 = 97

and

194 x.85 = 164.9

So, for a 32 year old woman an estimate of her maximum heart rate is 194. And her 'target heart rate zone' is between 97 and 164.9 heart-beats per
minute. Co-ordination and Balance E
xercises

Balance and coordination skills are necessary for everyday tasks. Good
balancing skills require control of many muscles to carry out activities
without falling over. Coordination skills include eye-hand coordination,
bilateral coordination and smooth, controlled movements of the body. Ball exercises are grouped based on the main muscle group they mainly
target and clicking on each will bring you to a page where you can review
detailed instructions and animated illustrations. Fasting is beneficial for these conditions:
Although fasting is not
recommended in every situation, (cancer of the liver is one instance where
fasting is contraindicated), in many situations fasting is the only known
solution. Fasting has been beneficial for arthritis, asthma, high bloodpressure, lupus, chronic fatigue, colitis, Crohn's disease, diverticulitis,
spastic colon, irritable bowel, cases of paralysis, neuritis, neuralgia,
neuroses, and mental illness such depression, as well as many others. Fasting will also break down tumors and for this reason, many have
overcome cancer through fasting. Fasting decreases dependency on doctors and drugs. “Ask your doctor if this drug is right
for you” is the most common phrase in prime time commercials. Nasalrite
may help you breathe better but it could thin your blood so don’t cut
yourself, and it could cause a stroke or depression, it could cause
dizziness or impair your sight, ask your doctor if Nasalrite is right for you. Once you start taking a drug of any kind for any ailment, you become a lab
rat for a drug company. One


 and Fire
(Kidney-Heart ) as essential in reconcilin g conict and regaining
stability. STEPS TO  SOLVING THE  PUZZLE
Solving the puzzle of which type you are involves several steps, but
not necessarily in a predetermined order. After reading the
descriptions of each Phase, pick one that you identify with most
strongly. You can also ip to the ends of the chapters and review the
charts that summarize the mental faculties, emotional qualities,physical features, and problem areas of each type. Once having
decided, look at the pattern of interactions between Phases. Suppose you feel the greates t anity with Fire. Do you also have
strong responses—either positive or negative—with Metal  or Water? Use this strong response along the ke sequen ce to conrm or cast
doubt on your hypothetical type designation. The triad of Metal-
Wood-Earth  charac terizes the dynamic of the Wood  type, whereas
the triad of Water-Fire-Metal  characterizes the Fire type. Both types
share tension with Metal, so what can help you distinguish between
being a Wood  or Fire type will be evaluating whether there is greater
tension for you with Water  if you are a Fire type or tension with
Earth  if you are a Wood  type. This example emphasizes that in determining what type you are,
it is central to look at the interactions and relationships of the
Phases  within you. So, if you suspect that you are a Metal  type, your
pattern of anities, aversions, symptoms, and emotio nal styles
should reect stronger interactions with Wood  and Fire than with
Earth  and Water.The Ke Relationships
FROM THEORY TO  PRACTICE
Recognizing who you are and how you function within the Five-
Phase  paradig m provides a starting point from which to gain access
to the practical benets that Chinese medicine oers. It is a starting
point from which to acqui re the means to preserve or recoverhealth. Five-Phase  thinking can not only help you evaluate your
personal strengths and weaknesses and forecast future diculties, it
can also guide you in the use of therapies such as acupuncture,
medicinal herb formulas, and food recipes. OceanofPDF.comCHAPTER EIGHT
WOOD
Spring

The water murmurs
In the old stone well,
And, a rippling mirror,
Gives back the clear blue sky. The river roars,
Swollen with the late rains of spring. On the cool, jade-green grass
The golden sunshine Splashes. Sometimes, at early dawn, I climb
Even as far as Lien Shan Temple. In the spring
I plow the thirsty eld,
That it may drink new life. I eat a little,I work a little,
Each day my hair grows thinner,
And, it seems,
I lean ever a bit more heavily
On my old thornwood cane. Liu Tzu-Hui
Sung dynasty, A.D. 960–1278

WOOD IS AS FORC EFUL AND DETERMINED AS THE WIND, AS SUPPLE AS A
spreading aspen stretching into a bright, cloudless sky. Spring, a
time of rebirth, sudden growth, and rapid expansion, marks the
ascendance of this power. Movement surges to the surface, bursting
through the connement of winter. A crescendo of excitement
builds as the life process reawakens. One day the forest appears gray
and lifeless, the next day sunbeams cast warm light upon branches
brimming with buds. This burgeoning of activity stirs tumultuous
feeling. The change is expected yet unpredictable—like the birth of
a child, the precise day or moment remains a mystery;  we know
spring will come but not exactly when. Anticipation fome nts tension
as well as the promise of release. The Liver, whose Qi is akin to the phase of Wood, instigates
movement and arouses the mind by allowing tension and pressure
to build. As spring initiates the rising of sap in the trees, so the Liver
lifts the Blood  and Qi. Alternately gathering and releasing the Blood,
the Liver modulates the intensity and force of all motion and
process. THE ARCHETYPE FOR  WOOD: THE PIONEER
Metamorphosis is the organiz ing principle for the Pioneer. Driven by
the adventure of penetrating the unknown, she contends with fate,
deliberately battling adversity to tame the wilderness. Adaptive,cunning, and ercely indep endent, she strikes out on her own,
striving constantly to surpass  her limits. Carving a broad expanse in
which movem ent and vision are free and unfettered takes a
multiplicity of forms. Inexorably drawn to travel roads not yet
mapped, she treks wild mountain ridges, explores star-clustered
heavens in an astronaut’s suit, launches a business from scratch, or
embarks upon research in yet unrecognized elds. Infatuated with
what is new, curious about what is untried, she is eager to innovate,
reform, and revolutionize. Action compels the Pioneer. She vanquish es resistance with the
thrust of a warrior’s determination. Like a locomotive that gathers
momentum and speed as it hurtles down the track, the Pioneer  steers
an awesome power. SALLY: EXEMPLAR OF  WOOD
Assertive in forging plans and implementing them, Sally maneuvers
easily and gets things done. Highly motivated, she pursues projects
with outright zeal, shifting  into gear with a strategic  sense of
opportunity. Sally moves with nimble elegance, fully inhabiting her
body. She drives herself hard, works well under pressure, and meets
deadlines. Resourceful and ingenious, she excels at managing
conict and producing solutions. Her strength is not as a visionary,
but as an implementer. Sally takes the ball and runs with it. Once
she sets her goal, she brooks no interference to achieve it. Wielding
power and inuence comes naturally. Sally’s audacity bolsters her inclination to take the risks necessary
to initiate change. She is willing to forfeit comfort, break with
tradition, and endure hardship, perceiving the sacrice of
contentment and convention not as loss, but as liberation from the
constraints of obligation and rules. With certainty and self-
condence, Sally galvanizes others, infusing them with her own
ambition and optimism. With the conviction that her purpose is
worthy, she expects that all obstacles can be overcome.Impatient with sitting still, Sally can be quiet but never
completely relaxed. Comfortable with perpetual motion, she is wary
and alert, like a cougar stalking the forest with muscular grace,
ready to react,  confront, or change course. Her objective is her prey,
which she hunts with craft and passion. It is no strain for Sally to
sublimate other pleasures for the sake of accomplishment. She
thrives within American culture, where ambition, achieve ment, and
single-mindedness are handsomely rewarded. Sally’s conde nce is matched by her commitment. Once she has
decided that she wants to do something, she keeps at it until it is
done, working long and hard if necessary. Once the end is in sight,
she is ready to move on, to meet the next test. Others may have
trouble keeping up with Sally’s pace. After an arduous hike up a
mountain, when the rest of her group is ready to sit and sh by the
creek, Sally is o scaling another peak. She feels most herself
striving, advancing, contending: grappling with a problem, initiating
events, guring out novel strategies, and pitting her competence
against the odds. With a passion for the race, the gamble, and the
victory, she is willing to do anything and risk everything—sink or
swim, do or die. Sally is courageous, assuming tasks and
undertaking courses of action that others would fear or deride. She
prefers being the rst, the best, or just one of a kind. Protective and supportive of her family, Sally prides herself on
being a competent provider. She does not relish hanging out idly at
home, so she keeps busy. Sometimes equating domesticity with
tameness and predictability, she is wary of the constraints that
constant closeness require, like compromising for the sake of others’
needs. She savors being wanted more than being needed. The
dependency of the family can strain her yearning for freedom of
movement and action. Sally’s perspective is that there is “one way, my way, the right
way.” She doesn’t question her own judgment and authority and
resists the idea that someone else may. When Sally’s self-assurance
becomes inated, she stubbornly thrusts her chin and shoulders
forward, assuming a provocative stance. Her momentum snowballs
beyond her capacity for self-control. She keeps pushing when sheshould back o, tightening up when she should relax, barreling
ahead when she should pause and reect. Ignoring considerations
that may cast reasonable doubt upon her choices, she bolts like a
racehorse wearing blinders. Rushing ahead impetuously and
deantly, she becomes accident-prone, tripping over unseen
hazards, a disaster waiting to happen,


 serve on crisp lettuce leaves with
whipped cream. FRUIT SALAD. Lettuce,   Dates,
 A few Malaga Grapes,   2 Bananas
 1 Orange,   Pecan Meats,
Whipped Cream. Cut the bananas, oranges, dates and grapes all into small
pieces. Serve on lettuce leaf with a few pecans, or some kind
of nuts, and a spoonful of whipped cream. This makes a very
beautiful dish as well as delicious. GRAPE FRUIT SALAD. Lettuce,   Grape Fruit,
Salad Dressing. Remove the seeds or center of grape fruit with a sharp
knife. Cut the edible portion into small bits and serve on
lettuce leaf with salad dressing. Makes a very dainty salad. ORANGE AND APPLE SALAD. 1 Apple,   2 Oranges,
 Lettuce,   Ground Nuts,
Salad Dressing. Cut in small pieces the orange and apple. Serve on a
lettuce leaf with a dash of ground nuts and oil or salad
dressing. APPLE SALAD. 6 Apples,   1 head of Lettuce,
 Celery,   Dressing. Take six good-sized tart apples, pare them carefully, and
scoop out a good portion of the inside. Fill this cavity with
finely chopped, tender celery and ground nuts. Serve on
lettuce leaf with salad dressing or whipped cream. PINEAPPLE SALAD. Pineapple,   Strawberries. Lettuce. Cut pineapple in small pieces. Wash tender leaves of
lettuce and spread pineapple on them, with very ripe
strawberries over the pineapple. Serve with salad dressing. CHEESE EGGS. Cream Cheese,   Lettuce,
 Milk or Cream,   Olives,
 Blanched Almonds,   Radishes. Moisten slightly cream cheese with milk or cream. Mould cheese around blanched almond the size of robin's
egg. Arrange in nest of lettuce leaves and garnish with ripe
olives and tuliped radishes. APPLES—CRESS SALAD. Cress,   Pecan Nuts,
 Apple,   Hygia Dressing. Wash thoroughly water cress, placing it in salad bowl. Cover with thinly sliced tart apple, placing pecan meats over
this, and cover with Hygia dressing. CRESS AND CABBAGE SALAD. Cabbage,   Radishes,
 Water Cress,   Hygia Dressing. Line salad bowl with finely sliced cabbage. Cover this
with water cress, and so on, until bowl is filled. Decorate with
tuliped radishes, and cover with dressing. ASPARAGUS SALAD. (Cress, Tomatoes, Asparagus Tips, Hygia Dressing.) Cover platter with water cress, cover cress with thinly
sliced tomatoes and asparagus tips, cover this lightly with Hygia dressing and serve. NASTURTIUM SALAD. Shred a head of lettuce, mingle with it a quantity of
nasturtium leaves. Wash both thoroughly, place in a salad
bowl and dot with nasturtium flowers. Serve with dressing. CUCUMBER SALAD. Cucumbers,   Onions,
 Lettuce,   Oil or Dressing. Slice cucumbers and onions, serve on lettuce leaf with oil
or dressing. VEGETABLE SALAD. 1 small Carrot,   A little Cabbage,
 A small piece of Green Pepper,  A few Radishes,
 1 White Turnip,   1 small Onion,
 A little Celery,  Lettuce,
Salad Dressing. Grind or chop fine all vegetables. Serve on lettuce leaf
with salad dressing. SPINACH SALAD. Spinach,   Mint,
 Onions,   Dressing. Take a quart of young, tender spinach leaves with young
onions and a sprig of mint. Cut up fine and serve with salad
dressing. NUT SALAD. Nuts,   Lettuce,
 Cucumbers,   Dressing. Wash nice, crisp lettuce leaves. Place over them ground
nuts (pecan meats preferred) and finely cut fresh cucumbers,
and serve with salad dressing or olive oil. CRESS AND CELERY SALAD. Take equal parts of water cress and tender celery stalks
cut fine. Mix in a salad bowl and serve with Hygia dressing. CELERY AND BRAZIL NUT SALAD. Brazil Nuts,   Celery Hearts,
Hygia Dressing,
Cut in very thin slices ½  pound large Brazil nuts. Prepare
in the same manner four or five very crisp celery hearts. Mix
and salt to taste. Dress this with a few white leaves of celery. Serve with or without dressing. MEXICAN SALAD. Tomatoes,   Olives,
 Peppers,   Dressing. Peel and slice four good-sized tomatoes. Seed and chop
fine one small green pepper. Arrange these on lettuce leaves in a salad bowl. Stone and slice a dozen olives and mix them
with the salad and serve with oil or dressing. STUFFED TOMATOES. Tomatoes,   Green Peppers,
 Parsley,   Lettuce,
 Onions,   Cabbage,
 Cucumbers,   Flaked Wheat. Remove the center from tomatoes, chop fine with a few
sprigs of parsley, one small onion, one cucumber, a little
green pepper, cabbage or celery, and add enough flaked
wheat to thicken or make stiff; and stuff the tomato shells. Serve on a lettuce leaf with salad dressing. ASSORTED SALAD. Lettuce,   Green Onions,
 Cucumbers,   Parsley,
 Radishes,   Chipped Beef. Wash clean two large heads of white lettuce, taking care
to not break the leaves; peel and slice thinly two cucumbers
of medium size. Put this in a bowl with teaspoonful of salt
and a few lumps of ice for an hour before using. Peel and
slice a few large-sized radishes. Decorate this with very small
radishes. Leave in ice water until ready to use. Slice one
small green onion, a little parsley chopped fine, and a few
strips of chipped beef cut very fine. Arrange these nicely
upon a lettuce leaf and serve with dressing. ENDIVE WITH WINTER SALAD. Water Cress,   Celery,
 1 Beet,   Endive,
Hygia Dressing. A wholesome dish of salad may be made in winter by the
aid of this plant. Only a little cress, celery and a small beet
chopped fine makes a delicious salad served on the crisp
blanched leaves of the endive. Serve with Hygia dressing. ARTICHOKE SALAD. Lettuce,   Artichokes,
Hygia Dressing. Wash thoroughly and quarter some very young
artichokes. Serve on a lettuce leaf with Hygia dressing or
olive oil. STUFFED PEPPERS. Cabbage,   Green Peppers,
 Celery,   Tomatoes,
 Onions,   Lettuce,
Salad Dressing. Take a little celery, cabbage, onions, a few green pepper
seeds, a little fresh tomato, chopped fine, salt to taste. Stuff the peppers with this and serve on red cabbage leaves or
lettuce, with salad dressing. TOMATO AND CUCUMBER SALAD. Tomatoes,   Onions,
 Cucumbers,   Dressing. Slice tomatoes, cucumbers, and onions, serve on lettuce
leaf with dressing. TOMATO SALAD. Tomatoes,   Lettuce,
Oil or Dressing. Take small tomatoes, skin and serve whole on lettuce
leaf, or a few slices of cucumbers laid around the tomato are
very ornamental. CELERY AND RADISH SALAD. Celery,   Radishes,
Dressing. Cut crisp, well blanched celery into half-inch lengths,
and heap it in a salad bowl. Border it with small tuliped
radishes and white celery leaves. Serve with dressing. DANDELION SALAD. 1 pint of Dandelion,  1 pint of Water Cress,
 3 Green Onions,   Salt,
Oil or Dressing. Dandelion makes a very wholesome and refreshing
spring tonic. After it is carefully washed, place dandelion,
water cresses and the onions sliced in a salad bowl, salt and
serve with oil or dressing. STUFFED CUCUMBERS. Cucumbers,   Lettuce,
 Cream Cheese,   Tomato,
Dressing. Cut an eighth or quarter from the cucumber, scoop out
the inside, and cut this and tomato in small bits and mix the
two with salad dressing. Return to the shell and put each
cucumber on a plate, by itself, on lettuce leaf. Small round
balls of cream cheese make a nice decoration and add a nice
flavor to this. TOMATO AND WATER CRESS SALAD. Tomatoes,   Water Cress,
Salad Dressing. Take equal parts of peeled, sliced tomatoes, and water
cress (after it has been thoroughly washed), put each in a
separate bowl with the salad dressing. Let it stand five
minutes, then mix well together and serve. CELERY SALAD. Celery,   Sweet Apples,
 Pecan Meats,   Oil or Dressing. Cut the tender white stalks of celery in small bits. Add
the apple chopped fine, and a few pecan meats on top. Serve


without	identifying	with
it	as	one’s	identity. CHAPTER	16
Karma,	Guru,	and	Sage
Q:	Would	you	explain	your	understanding	of	karma. A:	Every	thought	or	action	gives	off	a	vibration	or	a	track	that	is	a	high-
frequency	energy	pattern	associated	with	the	person’s	energy	body. This
interacts	with	the	sea	of	consciousness,	which	is	filled	with	an	infinite
number	of	such	energy	patterns	that	emanate	from	other	energy	bodies. Within	this	complex	sea	of	intricate	patterns,	selections	are	made	that
influence	the	decisions	and	directions	of	life. Persistent	patterns	become
reinforced	and	are	therefore	more	dominant. The	interactions	that	could
ensue	might	be	likened	to	the	structural	form	of	a	molecule	that	determines
with	which	other	molecules	it	is	capable	of	interacting. Thus,	it	may	be
compatible	with	some	molecular	forms	and	incompatible	with	others. Each	person’s	energy	body	carries	with	it	a	historical	track	of	patterns
that	persist	over	time	and	influence	decisions,	behavior,	and	the	feelings	of
attraction	or	repulsion. This	energy	body,	which	is	the	locus	of	the	sense	of
‘I’,	exists	independently	of	the	physical	body,	as	anyone	who	has	ever
gone	out	of	body	will	remember. This	‘karmic	body’	is	made	up	of	the
collected	tracks	of	positionalities. The	field	of	consciousness	is	an	infinite	sea	of	interacting	energy	fields
with	various	levels	that	can	be	calibrated. The	fate	of	an	energy	body	of	an
individual’s	soul	is	therefore	similar	to	a	floating	object	in	space	or	a	cork
in	the	sea	in	that	its	innate	buoyancy	determines	the	level	at	which	it	will
settle	and	float. The	nonmaterial	realms	of	existence	are	composed	of	energy	bodies	at
various	levels	in	the	frequencies	of	the	sea	of	consciousness	that	tend	to
settle	into	realms. Each	of	these	realms	congregates	about	an	attractor
field. When	the	energy	body	or	soul,	with	its	historical	collection	of
frequencies	and	patterns,	separates	from	the	physical	body,	it	then
gravitates	to	a	compatible	field	or	domain. These	constitute	the	post-
physical	life	potentialities	or	choices	between	the	various	levels,	such	as
hells,	purgatories,	limbos,	or	heavens. Obviously,	for	some	souls,	there	is
also	the	opportunity,	choice,	or	fate	of	choosing	another	physical	lifetime. If	we	ask	with	muscle	testing	whether	this	is	a	fairly	accurate	depiction	of
spiritual	reality,	we	get	the	answer	“yes. ”
					People	have	definite	opinions	about	such	matters,	and	the	question	ofreincarnation	is	a	favorite	area	for	argument. All	religions,	however,	agree
that	the	energy	body,	after	physical	death,	goes	on	to	a	fate	determined	by
one’s	actions	during	the	physical	lifetime. Therefore,	the	fate	is	determined
primarily	by	the	spiritual	decisions	and	actions	that	were	made,	with	great
importance	given	to	intention,	responsibility,	and	the	assent	of	the	Will. Spiritually	speaking,	whether	an	actual	physical	reincarnation	occurs	or
not	is	really	quite	academic. The	same	principles	and	fate	of	the	energy
body	remain	the	same	whether	it	would	resume	as	a	physical	existence	or
continue	on	an	energy	plane. One’s	fate,	obviously,	will	either	be	for	the
better	or	for	the	worse,	depending	on	the	choices	made	by	the	spiritual
will. It	would	seem	from	studies	of	the	spiritual	nature	of	consciousness
that	the	choice	to	resume	another	human	physical	life	would	be	an	option
that	is	determined	by	the	innate	patterns	of	a	specific	soul. Of	more
importance	is	the	interpretation	and	understanding	of	the	factors	that
determine	the	fate	of	the	soul/energy	body	and	its	destiny	after	physical
death. From	the	foregoing	analysis	and	spiritual	research,	it	appears	that	one’s
ultimate	fate	is	the	automatic	and	impersonal	consequence	of	the	energy
patterns	that	have	been	set	up	in	the	aura	of	the	spirit	body,	i.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>
Q: What	is	the	relationship	between	spirituality	and	consciousness? A:	The	domain	of	spirituality	is	that	of	the	realm	of	consciousness. Spiritual,
A:
Q: Would	you	explain	your	understanding	of	karma? A:	Every	thought	or	action	gives	off	a	vibration	or	a	track	that	is	a	high-,
A:
Q: What	is	the	best	way	to	raise	one’s	consciousness? A:	By	interest,	intention,	and	study,	one	develops	a	familiarity	with	spiritual,
A:
Q: What is the relationship between spirituality and consciousness?,
A: The domain of spirituality is that of the realm of consciousness. Spiritual development and revolution are facilitated by an understanding of the nature of consciousness.<|eot_id|><|begin_of_text|>At	the	onset	of	this	state,	there	is	a	short	period	of	the	agony	of	dying
(death	of	the	remainder	of	the	ego),	and	it	is	the	personal	‘I’	that	feels	itself
dying. The	personal	will	dissolves	into	the	divine	omniscience. Volition
ceases. Everything	moves,	acts,	and	presents	itself	with	equality	ofsignificance. Nothing	is	greater	or	lesser	than	anything	else. There	is
neither	cause	nor	change	nor	events,	nor	is	anything	‘happening’. All	is	as
it	is	as	a	result	of	the	ongoingness	of	the	continuous	evolution	of	Creation. One	witnesses	potentiality	emerging	as	actuality. The	innermost
essence	of	the	universe	reveals	itself	as	a	wondrous	spectacle. It	presents
itself	as	a	gift	of	love	and	trust,	as	though	welcoming	one	home. Q:	How	can	one	function	in	such	a	state? A:	At	first,	it	is	impossible. With	the	resumption	of	movement,	there	is	a
sensation	like	walking	on	land	after	one	has	lost	their	‘sea	legs’. There	is	a
problem	with	equilibrium	in	the	exact	whereabouts	of	the	body	and	all	its
parts. There	is	no	identification	with	the	body	nor	is	there	a	locus	in	space. The	Self	is	invisible	and	nonlocal	so	that	when	people	talk	to	the	body	as
though	it	were	‘you’,	it	requires	adjustment. The	voice	speaks	on	its	own
in	response	to	questions. There	is	no	mind	or	mentation	to	focus	on	or	to
perform	worldly	tasks. There	is	a	loss	of	the	sense	of	direction. The	body
and	its	actions	or	speech	and	activities	occur	without	any	inner	direction	or
intention. What	occurs	does	so	spontaneously	as	a	response	to	the	will	of
the	Presence. Everything	occurs	of	its	own	as	an	expression	of	its	essence
and	prevailing	conditions. The	body	is	a	function	of	the	universe	and	an
accommodation	to	how	the	world	operates. All	usual	daily	activities	are	stopped	for	a	lengthy	period	of	time. Speech	is	unnecessary. What	people	mean	by	their	speech	has	to	be
translated	in	order	to	be	understood. They	speak	in	a	linear	sequence	of
thoughts,	and	an	aspect	of	the	Self/Divinity	as	the	presence	of	the	Holy
Spirit	acts	as	a	translator,	resulting	in	a	delay	between	people’s	speech	and
the	capacity	to	understand	it. One	seems	to	the	world	to	be	‘hard	of
hearing’	or	‘absentminded’	(which	paradoxically	is	actually	the	case).This
translation	takes	the	details	of	form	and	turns	it	into	their	understandable
essence. Ordinary	thinking	is	no	longer	a	natural	state	or	a	spontaneous
activity. It	has	to	be	willed	to	even