’d like to acknowledge the
support of everyone at Harm ony Books who dedicated their time,
creativity, and passion to this book, including Aaron Wehner,
Diana Baroni, Tammy Blake, Christina Foxley, Molly Breitbart,
Marysarah Quinn, Patricia S haw, Jessie Bright, Sarah Horgan,
Heather Williamson, Kellyann Cronin, and Ashley Hong. And a
special word of thanks to Ra chel Berkowitz, in the foreign rights
department, w ho has been in strumental in helping to spread my
work ar ound th e world. The p ublic has little idea of how dedicated
the team  at a publishing house needs to be and how mu ch they
love books and serve writers. Many thanks. A special thanks to Poonacha Machaiah, an inspired innovator,
good friend, and wise guide. Finally, there is everyone clo ser to home. I would like to t hank
the teams in California and in New York: Paulette Cole, MarcNadeau, Teana David, Sara McDonald, Aaron Marion, Angie Lile,
Attila Ambrus, and Kendall Mar-Horstman. The newest collaborators in my life are the Infinite Potential
podcast team: Jan Cohen, David Shadrack Smith, Julie Magruder,
and friends at Cadence 13— thank you for allowing me to be
connected to the digital world along such a productive new path. While Metahuman  was being written, a year of new challenges
faced the Chopra Foundation board of directors, who adapted with
fantastic suppo rt and guidance, so deepest thanks to Alice Walton,
Matthew Harris, Ray Chambers, Francois Ferre, Fred Matser, Paul
Johnson, and Ajay Gupta, along with the “explorers” who are on
the journey of a wareness. I’d also like to welcome Tonia O’ Connor,
CEO of Chopra Global. My family has grown over the years, gone through many
changes, and yet continues t o be a source of loving warmth and
joy: Rita, Mallika, Sumant, Gotham, Candice, Krishan, Tara, Leela,
and Geeta, I hold you in my heart forever.A B O U T  T H E  A U T H O R
DEEPAK CHO PRA, M.D., FACP, founder of the Ch opra
Foundation and cofounder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing and
Jiyo, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and
personal transformation, and he is board certified in internal
medicine, endocrinology, and metabolism. He is a Fellow  of the
American College of Physicians; a clinical professor in the
Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at the
University of California, San Diego; a researcher of neurology and
psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital; and a member of
the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. The
WorldPost  and The Huffington Post  global Internet survey ranked
Dr. Cho pra as #17 of the most  influential thinkers in the w orld and
#1 in medicine. Chopra is the author of more than 8 5 books
translated into over 43 languages, including numerous New York
Times  bestsellers. Time  magazine has described Dr. Chopra as
“one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.”Wat’s next on
your reading list? Discover your next
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perceptive editor, Gary Jansen, who is untiring in offering
suggestions to improve the manuscript. I can’t count how often
Gary ha s guided my writing in the right direction—an author can
hardly ask for more. In ad dition, I’d like to acknowledge the
support of everyone at Harm ony Books who dedicated their time,
creativity, and passion to this book, including Aaron Wehner,
Diana Baroni, Tammy Blake, Christina Foxley, Molly Breitbart,
Marysarah Quinn, Patricia S haw, Jessie Bright, Sarah Horgan,
Heather Williamson, Kellyann Cronin, and Ashley Hong. And a
special word of thanks to Ra chel Berkowitz, in the foreign rights
department, w ho has been in strumental in helping to spread my
work ar ound th e world. The p ublic has little idea of how dedicated
the team  at a publishing house needs to be and how mu ch they
love books and serve writers. Many thanks. A special thanks to Poonacha Machaiah, an inspired innovator,
good friend, and wise guide. Finally, there is everyone clo ser to home. I would like to t hank
the teams in California and in New York: Paulette Cole, MarcNadeau, Teana David, Sara McDonald, Aaron Marion, Angie Lile,
Attila Ambrus, and Kendall Mar-Horstman. The newest collaborators in my life are the Infinite Potential
podcast team: Jan Cohen, David Shadrack Smith, Julie Magruder,
and friends at Cadence 13— thank you for allowing me to be
connected to the digital world along such a productive new path. While Metahuman  was being written, a year of new challenges
faced the Chopra Foundation board of directors, who adapted with
fantastic suppo rt and guidance, so deepest thanks to Alice Walton,
Matthew Harris, Ray Chambers, Francois Ferre, Fred Matser, Paul
Johnson, and Ajay Gupta, along with the “explorers” who are on
the journey of a wareness. I’d also like to welcome Tonia O’ Connor,
CEO of Chopra Global. My family has grown over the years, gone through many
changes, and yet continues t o be a source of loving warmth and
joy: Rita, Mallika, Sumant, Gotham, Candice, Krishan, Tara, Leela,
and Geeta, I hold you in my heart forever. A B O U T  T H E  A U T H O R
DEEPAK CHO PRA, M. D., FACP, founder of the Ch opra
Foundation and cofounder of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing and
Jiyo, is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and
personal transformation, and he is board certified in internal
medicine, endocrinology, and metabolism. He is a Fellow  of the
American College of Physicians; a clinical professor in the
Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at the
University of California, San Diego; a researcher of neurology and
psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital; and a member of
the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. The
WorldPost  and The Huffington Post  global Internet survey ranked
Dr. Cho pra as #17 of the most  influential thinkers in the w orld and
#1 in medicine. Chopra is the author of more than 8 5 books
translated into over 43 languages, including numerous New York
Times  bestsellers. Time  magazine has described Dr. Chopra as
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	avoid	nail	polishes
that	contain	formaldehyde,	too. ) RADICAL	BEAUTY	TIP:	HAIR	CARE	IN	THE
SUNJust	like	your	skin,	your	hair	needs	adequate	sun	protection	to	prevent	it	from
drying	out	and	becoming	brittle,	damaged,	and	discolored	from	overexposure	to
the	sun. There	are	some
sunscreens	made	for	the	hair,	but	the	easiest	and	most
effective	way	to	prevent	sun	damage	to	your	hair	is	to	wear	hats. This	is	especially
important	when	you	are	out	in	the	sun	for	extended	periods	of	time. From	sun	hats
to	boleros	and	beyond,	you’ll	be	able	to	express	your	personal	style
and
	protect
your	precious	hair,	all	at	the	same	time. IMIDAZOLIDINYL	UREA	AND
DMDM	HYDANTOIN
On	that	note,	these	two	ingredients	are	preservatives	that	release	formaldehyde,
so	look	for	them	as	well	on	ingredient	lists. PROPYLENE	GLYCOL	(PG)
PG	is	a	form	of	mineral	oil. This	is	a	controversial	ingredient	that	some	believe
has	some	immunotoxicity	concerns. 7
	It	comes	in	different	grades,	including	an
industrial	grade	that	is	part	of	commercial	products	such	as	engine	coolants,
antifreeze,	and	various	enamels	and	varnishes. For	beauty	products,	it	helps	to
drive	ingredients	down	into	the	hair	(or	skin)	for	deeper	penetration. It
may
break	down	the	proteins	that	make	up	your	hair	in	the	process	(obviously	the
opposite	of	what	you	want. ),	and	also	may	create	allergic	reactions	or
irritations. 8
POLYETHYLENE	GLYCOL	(PEG)
PEG	is	included	in	shampoos	to	help	dissolve	oils,	but	it	can	overstrip	your
hair,	leaving	it	vulnerable	and	weak. DIETHANOLAMINE	(DEA),
MONOETHANOLAMINE	(MEA),	AND
TRIETHANOLAMINE	(TEA)
Does	this	remind	you	of	the	song	“Do-Re-Mi”	from
The	Sound	of	Music. These
rhyming	ingredients	are	not	happy	like	the	song. They	are,	in	fact,	potential
hormone	disruptors	and	irritants
9
	and	can	be	absorbed	into	your	hair	follicles
and	enter	your	body. These	ingredients	are	“foamers,”	so	they’re	not	necessarily
even	great	for	your	hair,	per	se,	but	are	included	solely	for	the	experience	of
using	them. But	really,	you	should	never	have	to	choose	between	foaming
shampoo	and	your	health. Got	a	shampoo	with	any	of	these	three-letter
acronyms. Into	the	trash	it	goes. FRAGRANCE
This	is	a	tough	one	because	we	understand	that	you	want	your	hair	to	smellawesome. But	fragrance	is	a	generic	term	for	up	to	3,100	stock	chemical
ingredients,
10
	many	of	which	are	synthetic	and	toxic. You	really	don’t	know
exactly	what	is	in	your	shampoo	or	conditioner	with	just	“fragrance”	on	the
ingredient	list,	so	you	risk	getting	headaches,	dizziness,	rashes,	and	a	number	of
allergic	reactions. Tests	of	fragrance	ingredients	have	found	an	average	of
fourteen	hidden	compounds	per	formulation,	including	ingredients	linked	to
hormone	disruption	and	sperm	damage. 11
	Exposure	to	these	types	of	chemicals
can	adversely	affect	your	central	nervous	system	and	even	affect	your	mood,
making	you	more	irritable. No	good-smelling	shampoo	is	worth	being	moody. Check	out	products	with	essential	oils,	which	smell	great	and	are	nontoxic. NATURALLY	BEAUTIFUL
TEETH	AND	GUMS
A	beautiful	smile	stemming	from	authentic	joy	is	one	of	the	most	compelling
features	you	can	possess. Feeling	confident	about	your	teeth	can	help	you	smile
more	naturally. Oil	pulling,	or	swishing	sesame	or	another	oil	around	your	mouth	for
a	few	minutes	in	the	morning	before	spitting	it	out,	is	something	you	can
incorporate	into	your	morning	routine	to	help	keep	your	mouth	beautiful. It	is
another	increasingly	popular	ancient
Ayurvedic	practice	that	benefits	your	mouth,
teeth,	and	gum	health. Oil	pulling	is	believed	to	encourage	detoxification	by	attracting,	binding,	and
removing	bacteria,	toxins,	and	parasites	from	your	mouth	(where	a	lot	of	bacteria
tend	to	accumulate)	and	lymph	system,	while	helping	to	clear	out	mucus	and
congestion	from	your	throat	and	sinuses. Some	even	believe	that	oil	pulling	can
help	activate	the	vagus	nerve,	which	sends	information	between	your	brain	and
the	enteric	nervous	system	in	your	gut,	which	controls	digestion. Stimulating	the
vagus	nerve	is	said	to	activate	anti-inflammatory	pathways	in	the	digestive	tract. 12
Directions	for	oil	pulling	are	simple:
1. Warm	1	to	2	teaspoons	(or	a	bit	less,	if	you	have	a	tiny	mouth. ) of	pure,	cold-
pressed	sesame	oil. (You	can	do	this	by	parceling	the	sesame	oil	you	are	using
into	a	small	vial,	and	then	holding	the	vial	under	hot	water	for	a	few	seconds. ) 2. Swish	the	warmed	oil	vigorously	around	all	parts	of	your	mouth	and	back	and
forth	across	your	gums	for	2	to	6	minutes. Don’t	move	it	into	your	throat,	and
resist	the	temptation	to	gargle. Although	sometimes	you	hear
recommendations	to	swish	the	oil	for	far	longer,	traditional	Ayurvedic
teachings	believe	that	is	unnecessary. When	you	are	done,	spit	out	the	oil	into
the	garbage. In	addition	to	oil	pulling,	another	component	of	the	Ayurvedic	morning	routine	is
chewing	2	or	3	teaspoons	of	black	sesame	seeds,	moving	them	around	the	entire
span	of	your	teeth,	for	1	to	3	minutes	before	spitting	them	out. This	is	believed	to
help	polish,	strengthen,	and	mineralize	the	teeth;	remove	stains;	and	also	keep	your
gums	healthy. The	black	sesame	seeds	are	extremely	high	in	calcium,	as	well	as
phosphorus,	iron,	and	magnesium. Radical	Beauty
Nail	Care
It’s	important	to	take	care	of	your	hands	and	nails,	which	are	an	extension	of
your	beauty. They	undergo	a	great	deal	of	daily	wear	and	tear,	from	relentless
exposure	to	heat	and	cold	to	abrasive	soaps	and	excessive	water	from	hand
washing	and	detergents. RADICAL	BEAUTY	NAIL	WHITENING	TIP
To	brighten	yellowed	nails,	try	scrubbing	them	with	white	vinegar. Your	nails	are	largely	made	of	a	tough	protective	coating	called	keratin. A
proper	diet	and	excellent	circulation	are	of	utmost	importance	for	growing
healthy,	strong	nails. There	are	also	great	external	ways	to	support	nail	health:
•
Rather	than	cutting	cuticles,	soak	your	nails	in	warm	water	to	soften	cuticles
and	then	gently	push	them	back. Only	trim	off	hanging,	dead	skin	when
necessary. •
Look	for	polishes	free	of	the	“toxic	trio”:	dibutyl	phthal


 own downfall as well. It is
akin to a waiter in a restaurant responding to a diner ’s request for the time
by saying, “Sorry, that’ s not my table.”
In the world of business, two attributes stand out clearly in distinguishing
leaders from followers:
1. All effective leaders have a reference to the whole. In any given
day I could count hundreds of examples of people I encount er
who have no concept of the whole, who in fact act just like a
single cancer cell in the totality  that is their business enterpris e.
“It’s not my department—you’ll have to talk to accounting.” “I’m
only doing what I’m paid to do.” “I’m sorry, that’s someone else’s
responsibility.” “I can’t take responsibility for how others do their
job, I can only do one thing at a time.” You hear it from a teller at
a bank, a cashier, a telephone operator at a large department store,
a clerk at the driver licensing  bureau, and so on and on. No
reference to the whole. No sense of belonging to the entire unit,
no understanding that one must cooperate with those adjacent to
us in order for the unit to survive. All on a self-destructive trip
each day in their contacts with the public they are being paid to
serve, breaking down the effectiveness of the entire unit because
they see only the very narrow, it’s-not-my-department picture. A
leader always sees the whole and knows that each individual
impacts on everyone. 2. All effective leaders have a reference to the larger whole. Yes, I
said the “larger” whole. Keeping in mind that time is not a
construct for those who are truly transformed, we then have to
look at our business enterprise as a totality outside of time,
measured by the instruments we have devised to keep track of the
whole. Thus, we see that true leaders understand in their hearts
that a customer alienated today  by an employee is also someone
who is impactin g on the busine ss days, weeks, and years down
the road. The leader is in this endeavor for the long haul and
knows that a mistreated customer will affect the whole not only
today, but forever. In addition, that dissatisfied customer will tellten other people about his experience and they will impact on the
whole down the road as well. Thus, the effective leader knows
that every single contact betwee n any employee and a customer  is
a total moment of truth. The big picture is now and forever, the
whole now and the grander whole of all time. The typical
follower employee is unconcerned about whether you ever return. His attitude says, “I only care about getting this over with and
getting home, and having my paycheck arrive on time.” He does
not have  it in his consciousness to care that that customer will
inevitably select a competitor next time, and will do so for a long
period of time, because of the surly treatment by the employ ee
with narrow vision. Those employees with no reference to the
larger whole are sabotaging the entire unit in the same way that a
diseased cell gobbles up everything in its wake. If your job invol ves business recruiting, I suggest that you look
for these variables in your future employees. If they view
themselves as belonging to the whole and are aware of how their
individual pieces of behavior impact powerfully on the whole,
you have a potential leader. A leader is alert to how every single
piece of human behavior affects the whole, and knows that the
whole cannot survive with cancerous cells doing the work. The
effective leader knows that future business is determined by how
each customer is treated in that specific moment of truth when
contact is first made. When I encounter a person who has no
reference to the whole, I sense that that particular business or unit
is in serious jeopardy. The clerk who lets me know that I am
important and is willing to do whatever it takes to produce results
is the employee who makes me want to return to that business. That clerk is one of the harmonious cells that will make the entire
body function ef fectively today and in the future as well. Within the confines of our own family unit we need each
member to be a single individual, functioning alone, and at the
same time working in harmony  with all who share the same unit
or hous ehold. This can be said of communities, cities, states,
countries, and yes, even the biggest whole of all, humanity. When we encompass this concept of oneness and apply it in
our daily life, we begin to feel a sense of being a part of thehuman race rather than of fight ing it. We begin to sense that we
are all truly in this together and that each and every individu al
piece of behavior impacts in some way on this body or being
called Human Being. In the panoramic picture, onen ess becomes abundantly clear. Truly great world leaders know  that we cannot stay divided and
survive. They know that all of the divisions of mankind, whatever
those divisions may focus upon, contribute in some way to the
destruction of the whole of humanity. Sadly, it is quite difficult
for people who think this way to get elected. Voters are
predisposed to vote for those who favor their particular division s,
and not leaders who are workin g toward a harmonious objective
for all mankind. A Jesus Christ could hardly have been elected in
his time, nor could a Mother Teresa today. Yet still we have seen
some leaders emer ge who understand the totality of mankind. Certainly the United Nations is one small step toward using
cooperation rather than aggression to solve the disputes that arise
over the borders and divisions we have created in our attempts to
carve up our onesong. An Abraham Lincoln surfaced when unity
was called for in the previous  century. Perhaps there will be
another Lincoln in this next century to assist humanity toward
harmony. From the smallest individual cell, up through you as one cell,
and outw ard to all of the units that we see emer ging within our
social structures, to our largest units which we call countries, and
outward even farther to the entire universe, the message is the
same. When we sense the oneness in all of this, and we behave as
individuals with the highest regard for that totality, we allow the
whole to survive and flourish. When we act without respect for
the totality, we contribute to the downfall of the whole, and to our
own destruction in the process. Seeing the oneness is not simply  a metaphysical exercise; it is a
way of being that transforms life. When we have harmony withi n,
it becom es automatic to see it in the larger context of how we
relate outwardly. We will give away only what we have. When we
see it within and vow to have it there, then we will be one more
cell seeking oneness, and keeping the self flourishing as well. ONENESS AND THE DREAM

I would like you to go back to the perspective of your dream ing body to
remind you that while you are dreaming you are in a world of pure thought
in which you create everything you need for your dream. You do not need
your senses to see, hear, smell, touch, or taste. Everything that you
experience while you dream is reacted to by your body. The characters that
are a part of the dream are simply illusions; they are your creations to act
out your dream. All of which leads to the biggest lesson of all, and the most difficult to
grasp while you are in form. There is only one dream! Read that again. There is only one dream. Granted, there may be a thousand characters in a dream. The dreamer
creates many different life situations that have nothing to do with time. There may be automobiles, airplanes, boats, knives, bombs, beds, or
anything that the dreamer wants, but there is only one dreamer and one
dream, and that is you. In the state that we call dream ing consciousness,
there is only one dreamer and one dream. Now for the hard part. In chapter 2, I described three dimensions of
consciousness, which I called dreaming consciousness, waking
consciousness, and higher -level  consciousness. Masters of the higher -level
consciousness state have disguised themselves as ordinary people and have
walked among us letting us know that what we experience in dreaming
consciousness is also possible for us in waking consciousness. Jesus told us
that even the least among us could do all that he had done, and even greater
things. Imagine a truly higher level of consciousness in which all form is an
illusion, as it is in your dream. In this scenario too there can be only one
dream. Yes, waking consciousn ess can be seen as one big dream, taken
from the perspective of a level of consciousness higher than this one, if you
perceive yourself as one of the characters in this lar ger-than-life dream. Who is the ultimate dreame r? Call it as you will: God, higher
consciousness, Krishna, spirit, whatever pleases you. But try to let this
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        In the world of thought, though, we are responsible for everything. We think as we choose, and we are what we think. Not what we eat,
what we think. If we do not


 channels which lead me to believe
they correspond. There are also similar spiritual practices within the two
traditions of tantra yoga and Taoist meditation which sug
gest a close correspondence. In many of the tantric yoga 143
practices, kundalini shakti is directed upward from the
muladhara chakra to the ajna chakra or Brahman Gate,
utilizing various breathing and visualization techniques. In
the Taoist practice known as shoshuten (sometimes called
the "Circulation of Light"), ki energy is raised from the tip of
the coccyx to the top of the head along the governor vessel
meridian. In both cases, this physiological energy is
sublimated into higher psychological or spiritual energy
(known as ojas in the yoga tradition). Thus, the functions of
the sushumna and the governor vessel meridian in spiritual
practices of their respective traditions exhibit a high degree
of correspondence. The Ida and Pingala Nadis
Many yogis, gurus, and Western researchers teach that the
ida and pingala start at the muladhara and spiral about the
sushumna up to the ajna, intersecting at each chakra along
the way. The ida is said to start from the left side of the
muladhara, passing through the left nostril on its way to
ajna; the pingala starts on the right side and passes through
the right nostril (sometimes these two nadis are said to ter
minate in the nostrils). It has been suggested that these two
nadis may correspond to the pair of sympathetic nerve
trunks which wrap around the spinal cord, due to a struc
tural resemblance to the intersecting nadis. However, none
of the seven traditional sources listed in Table I describes the
ida and pingala as intersecting at all. Shri ]abala Darshana
Upanishad records that these two nadis cover the muladhara
chakra, and the Brahma knot within it, with their mouths. The ida is said to be located on the left of the sushumna, the
pingala on the right. Yoga-shikka Upanishad states that they
originate in the navel wheel (kandasthana), rather than the
muladhara, but it agrees that they lie on the two sides of the
sushumna. In general, most sources, ancient and modern,
agree that the ida and pingala nadis originate in the 144
muladhara chakra, and lie on the left and right sides, respec
tively, of the sushumna. Only Shandilya Upanishad and Shri
Jabala Darshana Upanishad state that they terminate in the
nostrils; it is not specified whether they run in straight or in
tersecting lines. Urinary Bladder Meridian (BL)
I have come to the conclusion that the ida and pingala
nadis flow beside the sushumna in straight lines, and that
they correspond to the second lines of the urinary bladder
meridian for the following reasons. On each side of the body
this meridian originates near the bridge of the nose, flows up
over the head, enters inside, and emerges at the back of the
head. It then divides into two branches: one line, usually
called the third, courses down the back approximately 9 cm. from the spine, passes along the back of the leg, and ter
minates in the fifth toe; the second line passes down the back
about 4.5 cm. from the spine, going through the lumbar 145
region to the urinary bladder itself. Situated along this
second line are the yu ("associated") points, each of which is
said to reflect the condition of a specific organ. The yu point
for a given organ is the meeting point between the meridians
and the autonomic nerves which control that organ in the
related section of the spine. Therefore, yu points simul
taneously reflect the condition of the associated autonomic
nerves and the relevant meridians. For example, acupunc
ture treatment at the stomach yu point (iyu or wei-shu, BL21,
the associated point for the stomach on the urinary bladder
meridian), influences concurrently the condition of the
stomach, the stomach meridian, and the spinal nerves which
control stomach functions. Like the ida and pingala
nadis - second in importance only to the sushumna - these
secondary lines of the urinary bladder meridian are extreme
ly important and are used with great frequency in acupunc
ture treatment. Therefore I have concluded that they corres
pond to these two nadis. It is interesting to note that in our sources, nadis located in
the limbs are barely mentioned. Surely, if these are the chan
nels for the vital energy of the body, they must extend to the
extremities. The acupuncture meridians in these areas are
clearly defined. However, we will have to content ourselves
with analyzing the following nadis within the trunk and
head, as they are described in the yoga texts. Gandhari Nadi
The gandhan nadi flows beside and behind the ida nadi
and terminates in the left eye, according to six of our seven
sources. (Only Siddhasiddhantapaddhati claims that it
ends in the ears.) Therefore, it might correspond to the third
line of the urinary bladder meridian on the left side of the
body. The rationale for this will be discussed in the following 146
two sections. The first line of this meridian (see diagram)
lies approximately 1.5 cm. on either side of the spinal column;
the second and third lines lie about 4.5 cm. and 9 cm. away,
respectively. These three lines run parallel to the spine all the
way down to the buttocks. Hastijihva Nadi
According to Shri Jabala Darshana Upanishad, the hastijihva
nadi also lies beside and behind the ida nadi, terminating at
the tip of the left big toe. Other sources state that it terminates
either in the right eye or in the ears. In acupuncture theory,
only the liver and spleen meridians are known to terminate
in the big toe, but they flow along the front of the body, and
consequently cannot correspond to this nadi. In fact, only
the urinary bladder meridian has branches running parallel
to the spine. If the hastijihva nadi" actually ends in the eyes
(where the bladder meridian starts), as some sources claim,
then it might correspond to one of these lines. But which line is
it? In my opinion it is the first line, for reasons given in the
next section. It is important to note that Shri Jabala Darshana Upanishad
places the gandhari and hastijihva lateral to the ida,
presumably on the left side, with the pusha and yashasvini
nadis (described below) simultaneously situated in relation
to the pingala on the right. Furthermore, the hastijihva and
yashasvini are both described as terminating in the left big
toe; the terminal points of the pusha and gandhari are not
mentioned. Therefore it may be inferred that these two latter
groups form complementary left-right pairs. The Yashasvini Nadi
The yashasvini nadi lies on one side of the pingala between
the pusha (which runs behind the pingala, up to the right eye)
and sarasvati nadis. The sarasvati is said to lie to one side of 147
the sushumna, but which side is not specified. However,
since we are told that the shankhini nadi lies between
sarasvati and gandhan (on the left of the sushumna), the
sarasvaii probably also lies on the left. It follows, then, that
the yashavini, which is situated between the pusha (on the
right side of sushumna) and sarasvati (on the left) must lie
closer to the posterior median line, the path of the sushumna. One may therefore conclude that yashasvini corresponds
to the first line of the urinary bladder meridian and the pusha
to the third, both on the right. On the left, the hastijihva,
which forms a pair with the yashasvini, is the first line, and
the ghandhan, paired with the pusha, is the third. As mentioned earlier, only the spleen and liver meridians
connect with the big toe - the terminal point of the hastijihva
and yashasvini nadis according to Shri Jabala Darshana
Upanishad - but they do not run along the back. However, the
urinary bladder meridian, which corresponds with these
nadis in other respects, terminates in the small toe. When the
general lack of detail concerning the nadis' paths in the
limbs is taken into account, I feel it is not unreasonable to
match these nadis with the various branches of the urinary
bladder meridian. In this case, perhaps they actually ter
minate in the small,


hya Pradesh). At his suggestion several workers
at the Bhillai plant have healed their injuries by wa~hing with urine
and putting urine packs on them in short times of two or three days. Cricket Captain of Bhillai Shri Madan Joshi has found that
drinking urine and urine massage has proved as tonic during his
hard days of n:atches or even practice.,,
Innumerable patients on his advice have relied on drinking urine:
and light diet to cure themselves of ailments like gastric trouble,
dysentery, diarrhoea, indigestion and even headache, within a short
time. After 15 years of his own and others experiences, Shri K; G.'
Pandit has come to this conclusion that by taking a couple of days1
tast with three or four daHy doses of fresh urine and massage with
old urine and strict adherence to diet, influenza and malaria can be
removed immediately. Shri K. G. Pandit is a devoted canvasser d,f auto-urine therapy. He
is in a sense making good the loss of the late Dr. Paragjibhai Desai
by this new therapy. His experience is :
11He was sick ·when he was -QO. His digestive· system and
circulatory system had almost gone ourof-erder: For about two years
be tried allopathy, homoeopathy and Ayurved o/ithout any benef.jt;; ·
So he turned to drinking auto-urine and mass~ge with 7 ·days1 old
urine. Within two weeks he was considerab.ly cured.!lnd in a
month1s time he was entirely free illness.11 •
Bleeding Piles : In every summer he had to walk for ten miles SOME VIEWS : 247. daily in the hot region of the Berar districts of Akola and AmaradL. This used to result iri hardness of the stools. This ultimately have him
the dread disease of bleeding piles. So he returned toNagpur, took
three.daystfast on urine and water and took ene.ma with lukewarm ·~. water. He took urine thrice a day and enema every third day. Withi:n
three days piles subsided (>feeding also stopped. Within a fortnight
piles were, sompletely cured. Cataract in Eyes : In 1967 when he was examined by an eye
surgeon.he found that both the eyes were having cataract. He
decide.don a ten day urine fast. After five days blood-pressure was
found t0 have come down. On his wife1S insistence, therefore, he. brQke the fast by resuming milk, buttermilk and orange juice. He
continued to drink urine thrice daily and even urine massage. After a
week he began normal food. Then he got himself examined by the same doctor. The latter was
swpris.ed to find that the cataract had become reduced. Since then. he has contin~::~ed to wash his eyes with fresh L:Arine and thus could
resume his week of writing and reading. Rheomatism : lh 1975 he took there days1 fast with urine to
rheumatic pain in his knees and left shoulder. Rheumatism was
completely cured and the cataract also was reduced;
In 1976 again the same doctor examined and found that there
was no need of an operation to remove· cataract. He take~ 'every morning a full number of urine as he thinks it to
be a prevaritl~e medicine against all diseases, washes eyes with
fresh urine thrice and massages with a week -old urine before taking
his bath. -EDITOR
Shri Nekiram Chaudhari1s Experiences : Shri Nekiram
Chaudhari, Manager, Gandhi Ashram, Hapur Dist. Meerut, (U.P.) an experienced u·rine therapist, writes in his letter of 22-l-1977 :
111n 1964 I had acute burning pain in my liver. I was extremely 250 : AUTO-URINE THERAPY
childhook Hole of Urinary track has become very narrow and has
severe difficulty in passing Urine. Doctors had advised operation. He
writes in his letter dated 25-11-'89 addressed to Auto-Urine Therapy
Centre, that after reading "Manav Mootra" book in Gujarati, he
started drinking auto-Urine thrice a day and within a short period
hold of urinary track has automatically widened and Urine passes
smoothly. Shri Hiralal Samchai,
Karmanns STR 18 4850, Moenchenglad Bach-1, W. Germany. He is aged 56. Because of const:mt Alergy he had a severe Throat
Truble. In his letter received by the Auto-Urine Therapy Centre on
8-11-'89. He writes that in the lecture arranged by the society of
persons suffering from A/orgy that it was said that there is no
medicine in Allopathy which can campletely cure Alergy and
Asthama and advised to resort to Auto-Urine Therapy. He adds that
after reading the book "Manav Mootra" by Raojibhai Patel and
Armstrong's Auto Urine Therapy he resorted to Auto-Urine Therapy
and there is a marked improvament and kidney which was working
16% has started working 26%
Shri Prabhubhai laljibhai Vyas,
At&Po. Koliyad. Dist. Rajkot. He was suffering from severe constipation and gas trouble. In his
letter, dated 25-7-'90, addressed to Auto-Urine Therapy centre he
state that as per advice given by the centre on 5-3-'89 he resorted to
Auto-Urine Therapy and has fully recovered from constipation and
gas trouble. Shri Jagjivandas Manji Adatia,
At. & Po. Gonda/, Dist. Rajot. MORE RECENT SUCCESSES. : 251
He was suffering from Cold constipation and deatness. In his
letter of Aug. '90 addressed to Auto-Urine Therapy Centre he
informs that as per advice given on 21-6-'90 by Shri Shahsikant
Patel, Adviser, Auto Urine Therapy Centre he has a marked recovery
from cold and constipation but very little improvement in deafness. He has requested for further advice which has been given in centre's
letter, dated 3-8-'90. Shri Rameshkumar Aroda,
18 Radhaswami Road, near Adarsh Cinema,
Amrutsar, Punjab, Age 46. He was suffering soraisis (Skindisease) since last ten years. He
started USE of Auto-Urine Therapy since June 1990 as per advice of
Auto Urine Therapy Centre. In his letter, dated 6-9-'90 addressed to
Bharat Sevak Samaj, he informs that he has completely recovered
from the iII ness. Shri Mohanbhai Gordhanbhai Mistri,
Mangaldas Dudhwalani Chali,
Uttemnagar, Maninagar, Ahmedabad. He was suffering from cancer of "Annnali"!foodpipe) and was
neither able to take food nor even tablets and lost weight of 1 0 kgs. He writes in his letter, dated 16-8-'90. That after following
Auto-Urine Therapy within short period he has recovered fully and
since last two years there is no trouble. Shri Shantilal Arjun Thanki,
Porbander, Dist. Junagadh -Age 64. He was suffering from Arthritis of knees. He started practice of
Auto-Urine Therapy since 9-7-'90 as per advice of Auto-Urine,,
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Therapy centre. In his letter dated Nil, Jully 1990, addressed to
Shashikant Patel, Hon. Adviser of the Centre he informs after USE of
Auto-Urine drinking and Massage there is 50% improvement. Shri Parmar Anilkumar Bhagwansingh,
Kvkeri, Tal. Chikhli, Dist. Valsad, Age. 20. He was heving bad :,mell from mouth aAd was suffering from
Malaria for about 10 months and hand taken Qyin ine Injection and
other Allopathy medicine but there was no complete cure. He writes
in his letter dated 13-8-'90, addressed to Shri Shashikant Patel, Hon. Adviser, Auto-Urine Therapy Centre that he started practice of
Auto-Urine Therapy since last fifteen days and there is substantiar
relief and that though there is opidemic of Malaria in the area, he
has not become victim of the disease. Part VI
A few notable additional concepts and· cases
By Dr. S. M.. Desai
My old friend Sri Jayantibhai Trivedi found me out after a long
period of about twen:ty five years by a good chance and he seggested
me to.write this chapter. Not out of any self-importance but to' sht:~v/
the worthiness to write this chapter, I have to say that I


ut	itself,	and
yet
	it	seems	that	everything	comes
out	of	it. When	we	look	at	DNA	we	are	told	by	geneticists	that	life	emerges
not	from	the	bits	of	amino	acids	strung	on	the	double	helix,	but	from	the
space	between	them. These	spaces	are	little	understood,	but	they	play	a
mysterious	role	in	the	sequence	of	genes. In	physical	terms	the	DNA	of
gorillas	and	humans	differs	by	less	than	1%;	the	gaps	between	visible	matter
create	the	unbridgeable	gulf	between	gorillas	and	humans. In	the	gap	the
source	of	consciousness	must	be	revealed. Sat	Chit	Ananda
The	Vedic	rishis	followed	the	mind	into	the	gap	and	declared	that	three	primal
qualities	were	the	foundation	of	existence:
Sat	Chit	Ananda
. These	are	usually
translated	as	a	single	phrase,	“eternal	bliss	consciousness,”	or	individually	as
Sat	(existence,	truth,	reality)	Chit	(mind,	awareness)	Ananda	(bliss). But	these
definitions	don’t	help	us	much,	since	they	assume	an	understanding	of	what
we	mean	in	English	by	reality,	truth,	bliss,	and	existence. These	are	far	from
settled. If	you	say,	“It	was	blissful	going	to	Aruba	for	Christmas. It	changed
my	whole	reality,”	your	words	have	meaning	in	everyday	life,	but	they
haven’t	described	Sat	Chit	Ananda. If	we	unfold	what	the	rishis	meant,	they	were	referring	to	an	experience,
which	can	be	summarized	as	follows:	Every	thought	you	have,	as	well	as
every	object	you	see	in	the	world,	is	a	vibration	of	the	universe—the	Sanskrit
term	is
shubda
. Shubda	creates	light,	sound,	touch,	taste,	and	every	other
quality. In	dreams	you	can	also	see,	hear,	touch,	taste,	and	smell,	but	those
vibrations	are	subtler. They	don’t	have	the	same	feeling	as	concrete	reality. When	you	go	beyond	the	subtle	qualities	of	the	mind,	shubda	becomes	so
faint	that	the	mind	loses	all	experience	of	an	outside	reality,	even	shadowy
wisps	of	memory. Eventually	it	experiences	only	itself,	and	there	aren’t	anyvibrations	at	all. You	are	at	the	source. The	threshold	of	the	source	is	silence. But	you	must	step	over	the
threshold	into	the	room	where	reality	is	born. There	you	find	that	the	raw
materials	are	threefold. Creation	springs	from	existence	(Sat),	consciousness
(Chit),	and	the	potential	for	vibrations	to	arise	(Ananda). These	three	are	the
most	real	things	in	the	universe	because	everything	else	that	we	call	real
comes	from	them. It’s	this	experience	of	the	source,	a	state	beginning	beyond	silence,	that
the	Vedic	rishis	considered	the	field	of	all	fields—what	physicists	call	the
ground	state	or	vacuum	state. Being	pregnant	with	every	possible	flicker	of
energy	in	the	universe,	the	vacuum	state	still	isn’t	Sat	Chit	Ananda. It	has	no
mind,	no	bliss. It	cannot	be	experienced	subjectively. By	leaving	these	factors
out,	physics	leaves	out	the	physicist,	who	pretends	that	he	isn’t	part	of	the
field. John	Wheeler,	an	eminent	Princeton	physicist,	decades	ago	pointed	out
this	flaw:	as	we	make	models	of	the	universe,	he	said,	we	act	like	someone
with	his	nose	pressed	against	the	window	of	a	bakery,	looking	at	everything
on	display	from	the	outside. But	there	is	no	window	separating	the	observer
from	the	universe;	we	are	not	outside	what	we	see. Wheeler’s	suggestion	that	we	must	find	a	science	that	combines
subjectivity	and	objectivity	has	been	meagerly	pursued,	because	science
remains	stubbornly	objective,	and	it	can	afford	to	be	when	conducting
isolated	experiments. Ultimately,	however,	there	is	a	limit	that	cannot	be
crossed,	and	we	are	quite	close	to	it. We	can	face	the	limit	of	knowledge	in	a
simple	problem	like	prayer. By	now	the	public	is	well	aware	that	research	on	prayer	has	validated	that
it	works. In	a	typical	experiment	volunteers,	usually	from	church	groups,	are
asked	to	pray	for	sick	people	in	the	hospital. They	do	not	visit	the	person	and
often	have	only	a	number	rather	than	a	name	to	go	by. The	prayer	isn’t
specific;	they	are	asked	simply	to	pray	for	God’s	help. The	results	of	such
experiments	have
been
	startlingly	positive. In	the	best-known	one,	conducted
at	Duke	University	in	North	Carolina,	patients	who	were	prayed	for	recovered
faster	and	with	fewer	side	effects	than	those	not	prayed	for. Here	we	have	one
more	demonstration	that	we	are	all	connected	by	the	same	field	of
consciousness. The	properties	of	the	field	operate	here	and	now:
The	field	works	as	a	whole. It	correlates	distant	events	instantly. It	remembers	all	events. It	exists	beyond	time	and	space. It	creates	entirely	within	itself. Its	creation	grows	and	expands	in	an	evolutionary	direction. It	is	conscious.The	Vedic	rishis	began	with	these	qualities	as	their	first	principles;	in	that
regard	they	were	wiser	than	we	are,	with	our	reluctance	to	admit
consciousness	unless	we	are	forced	to	at	the	far	limits	of	a	difficult	scientific
issue. The	field	of	consciousness	is	primary	to	every	phenomenon	in	Nature
because	of	the	gap	that	exists	between	every	electron,	every	thought,	every
instant	in	time. The	gap	is	the	reference	point,	the	stillness	at	the	heart	of
creation,	where	the	universe	correlates	all	events. Has	science	proved	that	the	rishis	were	right? I	think	the	most	we	can	say
—and	it	is	a	lot—is	that	science	and	the	rishis	are	consistent	with	each	other. They	come	from	different	worlds	but	see	with	the	same	vision—almost. Science	is	still	burdened	by	spiritual	materialism,	the	belief	that	any
explanation	of	God,	the	soul,	or	the	afterlife	is	valid	only	if	matter	contains
the	secret. This	is	like	saying	we	can’t	understand	jazz	until	we	diagram	the
atoms	in	Louis	Armstrong’s	trumpet. In	the	end,	a	book	on	the	afterlife	cannot	fully	reconcile	us	with	the
inevitability	of	death. It	can	only	lead	the	way	to	finding	personal	comfort	on
your	own. You	and	I	are	unique	people	and	therefore	very	different. I	may	be
consoled	by	a	vision	of	eternity	that	is	foreign	or	even	frightening	to	you. I
may	mourn	my	aging	body	more	than	you,	or	less. We	each	have	our	own
personal	view	of	God. Yet	we	are	bound	together	in	the	field	of
consciousness,	and	we	do	the	same	work	there. We	need	to	see	that	we	are	all	entangled	in	the	same	reality. Isolation	has
been	outmoded	on	every	front,	from	ecology	to	the	Internet. We	need	to
remember	our	common	source. The	human	spirit	is	degraded	when	we
confine	ourselves	to	the	span	of	a	lifetime	and	the	enclosure	of	a	physical
body. We	are	mind	and	s


, unless you need help to relax at night. During the
day, just take any comfortable position and try to listen to it in its entirety. With practice, you may often be able to enter the alpha state by yourself
without the tape. Adjust the lighting so it is soft and restful. If possible, at least in the
beginning, use a quiet room and close the door so you will not be
interrupted. This alone says you are important, that you are willing to take
the time for healing. However, a quiet room is not always essential. Familiar noises may actually be restful, indicating you are in a safe
environment. Using the same place each time is helpful. Just getting into a
favorite chair can immediately set the mood and lead to rapid relaxation. You may find it helpful to play some gentle, soothing music—at low
volume. There are also many prerecorded meditation tapes and records
available that can help you. I especially recommend Pachelbel’ s Canon  in
the recording by Daniel Kobialka. Be sure these instructions from the
Simonton book are spoken quietly and slowly, with pauses where
appropriate. Take a comfortable position in a chair, with your feet flat on the floor, or
lying down on a couch or mat. Feel the pleasant pressure of the chair or
other surface on your buttocks and back. Gently pay attention to your breathing as you let your breaths come in a
natural rhythm, without hurrying them or trying to slow them. Now take a few calm, deep breaths, and as you exhale, think the words
“relax, let go. ”
Direct your attention to your face, eyes, and jaw. Feel whatever tension
is concentrated there. Now make a mental image of that tension, such as a
coiled spring, a stretched rubber band, a block of ice melting, or a rope tied
in a knot. Then picture that tense object relaxing, uncoiling, loosening. Feel
that relaxation in every part of your face. Momentarily contract every
muscle in your face, squeeze your eyes and mouth tightly shut, then let
them relax as you continue to see your spring, rubber band, or rope
becoming limp. Experience the relaxation in your face as the beginning of a wave that is
spreading throughout your body. You may experience this wave as a
sensation of heaviness, lightness, or tingling, of pleasant warmth or (in the
summer) delicious coolness. Move your mind now to each area of your
body—your neck, shoulders, arms, hands and fingers, chest, back,
abdomen, hips and genitals, thighs, lower legs, all the way down to your
feet and toes. Momentarily tense each part, then let go as you concentrate
on your mental image of relaxation. Experience the wave of relaxation
spreading throughout your body as you do this. Then remain in this
peaceful state for five minutes or so. When you are ready to arise, simply let your mind focus on the sounds
in the room, gradually let your eyelids become lighter, then open your eyes. Slowly get up and notice how you can combine the feeling of relaxation
with the alertness needed for your everyday activities. If your mind wanders or you feel tense, you have two choices. You can
respond to the thoughts that are leading your mind astray, such as “Did I
leave the dishwasher on. ” You can go look, then come back and finish your
meditation. Or you can decide not to answer those thoughts, and let go of
them. Just remember that relaxation will quickly become easier with
practice, then guide your mind gently back to the spoken directions. GUIDED VISUALIZA TIONS
You yourself, a friend, a family member, or a therapist can lead you in
visualization. Here are some sample visualizations that can easily be
adapted to your particular needs. Simply have someone you love and trustspeak the words in a calm, gentle voice, or speak them yourself into a tape
recorder, then play the tape as you meditate. Speak slowly and carefully,
and be sure to make the pauses long enough to fully experience the images
visualized. The pauses I’ve marked should be at least 15 to 20 seconds. Where I suggest a long pause, allow at least 30 to 60 seconds. The pauses
can be longer, and you need not follow the voice continuously. You may
need to follow other imagery that appears in your consciousness. You may
include:
1. going to a masquerade. 2. participating in a circus. 3. moving through a dark tunnel and emer ging into the light to be greeted
by family and significant others. 4. experiencing holding on and letting go physically and emotionally. 5. seeing yourself as a child when sad and happy, and how you as an
adult respond to that child. 6. achieving your chosen career, and what it means to you. 7. confronting fears or choices present in your life and seeing a
successful outcome. 8. performing for others on stage and seeing their reaction. 9. floating in healing water. 10. rowing with others helping you and building your support system. 11. finding a message or gift in the depths of a pond. 12. being reborn. 13. weaving the fabric of your life. The choices are limitless and your own unconscious is your best therapist. I refer those who are interested in pursuing hypnotic techniques further
to the work of Dr. Milton Erickson. Each session can be introduced and/or accompanied by music or sounds
of nature, such as a recording of the ocean, that you find especially
relaxing. Just be sure to keep the volume low enough during the meditation
itself so as not to distract you from the spoken words or the images in your
mind. You may want to use one of our ECaP  tapes, recorded with
background music. If you or a friend plan to record your own tape, I
suggest you use two tape recorders. Play some soft, soothing music, such asPachelbel’ s Canon, on one machine, while recording both the music and the
voice on the other. The visualization sessions do take time, but this is a “live” mes sage. You are worth the time. Thus I recommend that most of my patients do
them three or more times a day and take fifteen minutes at three or more
other times throughout the day for quieting relaxation. The benefits spill
over into the hours afterward, and you maintain a reserve of calm while
facing the stress of other activities. The ideal is going through the whole
day in a sort of guided trance, so that serenity remains at all times. We
should try to be like Danielle, a patient who told me, “I meditate all day. If I
wash the dishes, I think of my cancer being washed out of my body. If I
take a walk and a breeze blows, I see it blown away. ” She connects
everything she does back to healing. A hypnotherapist can be valuable in the beginning, especially if the
patient has trouble entering the state of deep relaxation. No matter who sets
the course for the first meditative sessions—doctor, counselor,
hypnotherapist, or the patient—care should be taken to appeal to the
person’ s dominant sense. In other words, for someone who responds to the
world primarily through the eyes, the guided imagery should consist mainly
of visual images—seeing a rose in all its color and beauty. If the person is
auditory-dominant, as most musicians are, the directions should appeal to
the ear—hearing a bee buzzing in the center of the rose. Those who place
great emphasis on the olfactory sense should concentrate on smelling the
rose. For those with a tactile, “hands-on” approach to the world, touch and
feeling need to be emphasized—the rose’ s silken petals. Remember that you do not have to follow the voice. If you are
experiencing some significant imagery of your own, stay with it while the
voice goes on. You’ll be able to catch up with the voice later. A problem often arises when patients try to visualize their disease as
receding when laboratory tests tell them it’ s spreading. They may be unable
to keep the image clear, or they may feel as though they’re lying to
themselves. It’ s crucial to remember the dif ference between an objective
picture and the desired outcome, between the present and the future. The
images represent what you want to happen, and there is no contradiction
between seeing your hopes clearly and facing the facts of the present. The
more clearly you can see the future you desire, the more likely it is to come
true. Visualization 1
Take a comfortable position. It’ s generally better to uncross hands and
feet, so there’ s no pressure. Begin to become aware of your breathing, and
the motion of your chest and abdomen as you breathe deeply in and out. Sometimes repeating a word like “peace” or “relax” to yourself with each
breath will help. Just deep breaths, letting the peace in and the tension out. And the music, and my voice, and the sounds in the room will all help relax
you. When you’re ready, you may look upward and let your eyes close
gently, although you may do this meditation with your eyes open, if you
like. Unwind, erase the blackboard of your mind, and just feel yourself
settling down. Perhaps let a wave of peace move down through your body,
relaxing the tense muscles,


, how far and in what kind of container it
had to travel to get to the store, how long it’s been sitting on the
produce shelf, and whether it was subjected to regular misting
with water before you plucked it. The goal is to choose fresh, local organic produce that’s in
season where you live. This commitment serves both you and
your local food community. Here’s how: You get fruits and
vegetables that have ripened on the vine or tree (instead of
being picked green and ripened with gas) and developed their
full complement of vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients, and
you support the growers in your area so that they can keep
growing vital crops. M a k i n g  a  l i s t  a n d  c h e c k i n g  i t  t w i c e
Organized people live by their lists. They are “thinking”
shoppers who take advantage of produce that is ripe and in
season because it’s the most economical and at its peak. Here’s
what a shopping list does for you: It keeps you on track. Your goal to look and feel better is
achievable if you aim for the optimum number of servings
of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables every day. Making
a list motivates you to make healthy choices, choose a
wide variety of fruit and vegetable recipes, and stick to
their ingredient lists when shopping. It saves you money. Planning the recipes and noting the
fruits and vegetables and other ingredients you have on
hand before you leave for the store means that you won’t
come home with something you already have or don’t
need. And it saves you an extra trip back to the store for
something you missed. It keeps you from getting into a rut. Making a list before
you shop encourages you to check out new recipes so that
you step out of your normal favorites. It widens your
perspective and gives you new ingredients from which to
choose instead of relying on the same three or four items. It helps you plan where and when you’ll shop. All food
spoils, but making a list and shopping for two or three
days’ worth of ingredients means your fresh produce is
always at its peak for juicing and smoothies. It saves you time and effort. Making a list may seem like
more work at ﬁrst, but when you go into the market you
won’t waste time going up and down the isles or
wandering around the produce section wondering what to
buy. Produce shopping every two or three days means that
your cart is lighter and you can get in and out, pack the
car, and be gone in record time. K n o w i n g  w h a t  t o  l o o k  f o r  i n  p r o d u c e
You’re focused on your health (otherwise, you wouldn’t be
reading this book). So, it stands to reason that you want to startwith the ﬁnest produce so that you get the highest-quality
vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients. Don’t compromise. Get
the freshest fruits and vegetables you can ﬁnd. Here’s how:
 Shop for organic produce. There’s a reason why certiﬁed
organic food production is growing all over the world. Actually, there are several reasons, and they have to do
with the health of the planet and the health of people. There is concrete scientiﬁc evidence that organic farming
results in
• Healthier soil
• Less soil erosion
• Cleaner waterways
• Reduction in human and wildlife exposure to persistent
toxic chemicals
• Less energy usage than conventional farming — 30
percent to 50 percent less
• A healthy population of birds and insects in and around
the farm
Fresh organic produce yields more nutrients because you
don’t need to peel it. Many of the vitamins, minerals, and
phytonutrients in fruits and vegetables are concentrated in
and just below the peel or skin, but that’s exactly where
chemical pesticides and herbicides are lurking. Although North American countries have banned
the use of certain toxic pesticides (such as DDT), those
chemicals are still being produced and exported to food-
producing countries and coming back to us in fruits and
vegetables. If non-organic is your only option, at least try
to avoid the following “dirty dozen” — these fruits and
vegetables have the highest concentrations of pesticides:
apples, bell peppers, blueberries (domestic, not wild),
celery, grapes (especially if imported), kale/collard greens,
lettuce, nectarines, peaches, potatoes, spinach, and
strawberries. If you have no choice but to purchase non-organic
produce, always peel it. Shop for produce that’s in season. The term in season
means that, where you live, the crops grown locally are
being harvested right now. Because of this, plenty of those
fruits or vegetables are available, at the lowest prices, and
they’re fresher than imports. If they’re grown locally, fruits
and vegetables will have ripened naturally, on the vine or
on the tree, and their nutrients will be higher than produce
that’s picked before it’s ripe and transported in
refrigerated crates. To ﬁnd out what’s in season when, check out Fruits
& Veggies—More Matters
(www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org/what-fruits-and-
vegetables-are-in-season ). Plan to use what’s in season. This means using, among
other things, tomatoes and peaches in the summer, applesand cranberries in the fall, winter pears and cabbage in the
winter, and leafy greens and asparagus in the spring. Unless you live in tropical areas, winter strawberries and
tomatoes aren’t the best choice for ﬂavor, nutrients, or
price. If you want to use strawberries in winter, plan to
pick your own at a local farm in the summer and freeze
them for winter smoothies. Get it from the person who grows it. Many farmers sell
right on the premises in farm gate sales, because it saves
them time, energy, and transportation costs. If you buy
directly from the farmer, the fruits and vegetables will be
fresh picked and at their peak. They will have ripened the
way nature intended, and they’ll be bursting with vitamins,
minerals, and phytonutrients because they matured
properly. If you can’t make a trip to a nearby farm (or if farms
are too far from where you live), you may be able to buy
from the farmers at your local farmers’ market. Don’t be fooled by “fake” farmers at the farmers’
market. Some markets are very strict about only inviting
the person who raises the fruits or vegetables; others
allow middlemen (people who just buy and sell food, as
opposed to growing it). You can’t miss the fake farmers —
their produce comes in boxes labeled “produce of”
followed by the name of some faraway place. Grow your own. Growing your own vegetables isn’t all
that hard, and it can be done in very small spaces. You can
grow vegetables in containers on a balcony or on very
small patches of land. For more information, check out
Container Gardening For Dummies, 2nd Edition, by BillMarken, Suzanne DeJohn, and the editors of the National
Gardening Association (Wiley). Learn how to tell if it’s fresh. A light touch on peaches,
plums, avocadoes, and melons can easily help gauge their
ripeness. Most fruit smells sweet and fragrant when ripe,
so go ahead and give it a sniff and a gentle caress. Be
aware of the difference between fresh, in-season specials
and the discount bin, which is food that is past its prime. Produce from the discount bin may be tempting due to its
price, but it’ll be past its peak, and many of the nutrients
will have been lost. W e i g h i n g  y o u r  o p t i o n s :  F r e s h,  d r i e d,
f r o z e n,  o r  c a n n e d
When you’re buying fruits and vegetables, you have four basic
options: fresh dried, frozen, and canned. Which has the best
quality? And are the others close or far behind? Fresh: Hands down, fresh is always best when you can buy
it directly from the farm or when it’s locally grown and in
season. Fresh fruit has less nutrients if it’s immature
(under-ripe or picked before it ripens) or over-ripe (past
its peak). The quality of fresh fruit declines the farther it
has to travel to get to your table. The United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) has prepared two excellent online resources, How
to Buy Fresh Fruits (www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile? dDocName=STELDEV3103620 ) and How to Buy Fresh Vegetables
(www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile? dDocName=STELDEV3103623 ), which give information onquality, nutrition, labeling, grades, and how to select
speciﬁc fruits and vegetables. Dried: Dried fruits and vegetables have only had the water
removed — all the nutrients should be intact unless heat
was used in the drying process and an excess amount of
sugar was added (


 not happen to appreciate the particular
quality of the mucus present, then Nature will oblige
by furnishing some other virus or germ to do the
scavenging, and, depending on the name given to
this scavenger, another one of the so-called "natural
diseases of childhood" may "develop." A diet of
starches, grains, and milk is fine for the germ, as
these drive the poisons back into the skin, and then
into the body, only to reappear at some early or
distant date under some other classification. The
diagnosis of the Iris has done more to prove this
than all laboratory methods we have found.The same
treatment which has been so effectively used in colds
(See colds) has been efficacious in cases of chicken
pox. CIRRHOSIS of the Liver:
The direct effect of overworking the liver as a 1 61 30
result of eating too many starches, particularly white
flour, causing the liver tissues to harden. COLDS:
Same as catarrh but in a less virulent or tenacious 61 11 30 41
form. Colonic irrigations or enemas have proved of 60 23
primary benefit in ridding the body of colds. The (in hot water)
94 prevention of colds is without doubt the simplest
thing in creation. Once we have gone through the
arduous and bothersome process of cleansing the
body of mucus and other waste matter, and have
changed to the mucusless diet of raw vegetables and
fruits (see DIET & SALAD book by N.W. Walker,
D.Sc.) supplemented w ith plenty of fresh juices, the
cause of colds is removed. Vaccines, drugs, and
hypodermic injections are exceedingly profitable to
those who administer them, and it is even within
the range of possibility that some of these persons
may not know that they are many times of no
ultimate benefit whatever. Read again the chapter with the heading: OH—
SO, YOU HAVE A COLD? COLIC:
Gas pains in the abdominal regions usually due 61 30
to improper combinations of foods, and to the
retention of waste matter in the system. Infants
brought up on raw foods and juices rarely have colic. We have found that enemas help to give more or
less instant relief. COLITIS:
Inflammation of the colon resulting from 61 30 I
constipation, and from mental or organic
nervousness which, of course, disrupts the digestive
processes.The primary cause may usually be traced
to the lack of organic live nourishment for the proper
functioning of the colon. (Read chapter on Oxalic
Acid and on Spinach). Cooked food is composed of
dead atoms which cannot nourish or regenerate any
of the cells and tissues of the body. Cold buttermilk
has been used to soothe the inflamed tissues of the
colon while a change-over to a properly prepared
raw food diet was in progress; but we must remember
that all milk is mucus-forming, so that if it is used
in an emergency, it must be used judiciously. It has
been found that cooked foods, instead of helping to
reestablish normalcy in the colon, have the opposite
effect. Finely grated carrots, and other vegetables
and fruits similarly prepared, all raw, have been a
95 great help when properly made fresh, raw juices were
also used plentifully. Mineral oils, being inorganic,
defeat any attempt to benefit the condition, while
drugs are injurious to the system. Enemas have
proved of immense benefit. The objection to enemas
usually comes from those who need them most but
are not sufficiently informed on the subject of
nutritional and eliminative physiology. The fear that
they are habit-forming is based on lack of
knowledge. Cleanliness — whether internal or
external — is never harmful. CONJUNCTIVITIS:
Inflammation of the membranes of the eye. CONSTIPATION:
A colon filled with toxins, resulting in lack of
coordination in the nerve and muscle functions of
the colon and bowel due to excessive use of
devitalized foods in the diet, resulting in
sluggishness of bowel action. Be sure to read
carefully the sections on Spinach Juice and Oxalic
Acid. CORONARY THROMBOSIS: See Thrombosis. COUGHING:
The result of the body trying to dislodge and rid
itself of mucus from the breathing passages. Cough
medicines are mostly an excellent means to store up
a future supply of coughs, and are intended for the
gullible. Read the paragraph on Colds. Gargling the
throat with the juice of lemons, straight or diluted
has helped to ease up a cough. CRAMPS:
In the intestinal region. Pains due to the presence
of gas resulting from foods improperly combined. In the muscles. Usually due to excessive retention
of uric acid. CYSTITIS:
Inflammation of the urinary bladder. See
paragraph on Bladder Trouble. 96 DEAFNESS:
Frequently due to the presence of mucus in the 61 11 40 41
auditory channels. Sometimes due to cranial
pressure on the nerves and blood vessels related to
the auditory system. Cranial adjustments, known as
Craniopathy, usually relieve this condition. DECAY (of bone):
Decomposition of bone tissue due to excessive 61 48 55 46
use of milk and concentrated starches and sugars in I
the diet. DECAY (of teeth):
Decomposition due to the lack of organic live 61 48 55 46
atoms in the food to nourish the teeth. Excessive 1
use of milk, starches, and sugars are primary causes
of decay. DIABETES:
Inability of the pancreas to metabolize 61 2 57 50
carbohydrates due to excessive use of concentrated 40 84 85
starches and sugars in the diet. Read section on
String Bean Juice regarding injections of Insulin. DIARRHEA:
Loose running of the bowels. Usually Nature 1 2
cleansing the colon because you failed to do so when
you should. DIPHTHERIA:
A disease resulting from the settlement and 61 2 40 30
propagation, usually in the throat, of the diphtheria 47
germ, most common after the removal of tonsils. The feeding ground of the germ is the accumulation
of body waste due to its improper elimination from
the body and of inassimilable devitalized foods,
principally starches, encumbering the blood stream. A clean, pure body and blood stream cannot harbor
diphtheria germs. To pollute such a body with
diphtheria poison known as antitoxin and to inject
this poison into a body suspected of entertaining
diphtheria germs, without first using natural
cleansing and preventive means in the way of proper
organic nourishment, is due to a singular lack of the
elementary understanding of the purpose of germs
in Nature. 97 DIZZINESS:
The result of the body getting out of balance 30 61 2 I
because of the accumulation of waste matter in the
system. DROPSY:
Excessive water in the system due to improper 61 30 29 40
or insufficient elimination through the kidneys. 59 11
DYSENTERY:
A loose running of the bowels as a result of an 6 61 30 1
accumulation of mucus and other waste matter. Colonic irrigations, have been of great help when
drinking two or three quarts of fresh juices a day. DYSPEPSIA:
Indigestion due to excessive acidity in the 61 1 2 30
alimentary tract. 15
DYSURIA:
Painful incomplete urination. 30 1 40 59
ECZEMA:
Inflammatory condition of the skin due to 61 2 30 15
excessive acidity of the lymph glands. Also, the
elimination through the pores of the skin of waste
matter which should really pass out through the
kidneys and the bowels. Read the paragraph on
Boils. ELEPHANTIASIS:
Inflammation and obstruction of the lymphatic 61 30 32
glands usually because of the presence of inorganic 40
waste in the system. EMPHYSEMA:
(The word means "to inflate"). A condition 87
resulting from an excess of air or gas in the tissues,
usually in the lungs, or the presence of air or gas in
normally airless tissues. ENCEPHALITIS:
Inflammation of the brain as a result of a 61 30 40 37
disturbed or unhealthy condition of the nerve system. Two ounces of parsley juice three times daily,
morning, noon and night and repeated enemas,
together with the indicated juices, have proved
beneficial. 98 ENURESIS:
Incontinence of urine, frequently due to the 30 40 29
presence of inorganic oxalic acid crystals in the
kid


 that this number represents the food’ s total
percent calories from fat content. It doesn’ t. For example, that Amy’ s Black Bean Chili can mentioned earlier has a
total fat content of 2. 0 grams. Sounds almost fat-free, right. But 1 gram of
fat contains a little more than 9 calories, or to make the math easy, we’ll
round that up to 10. Multiply 2. 0 grams by 10 calories and you’ll get 20
calories. This result means 20 calories of fat are in each serving. In order to figure out the percentage of fat per serving, take the total
number of calories per serving and divide it by the calories from fat per
serving. Amy’ s chili has 200 calories per serving, divided by 20 calories
from fat—that means the chili gets 10 percent of its calories from fat. Remember, the E2 rule is to keep the total calories from fat in each food
below 25 percent, and to find that, we divide the calories from fat by the
total number of calories per serving. Added No-No’ s: Sodium, Sugar, Fats
Companies list their products’  ingredients in descending order by weight. The first ingredient weighs the most, the last ingredient weighs the least. Our goal is to avoid products that contain too much junk in the first half of
the list. Added Sodium
According to the Institute of Medicine, a division of the National
Academy of Sciences, the recommended sodium intake for adults is
between 1,200 and 1,500 milligrams per day. This may sound like a lot, but the average American actually consumes
4,000 milligrams per day. After all, just a teaspoon of table salt contains
2,200 milligrams. Too much sodium in the diet is associated with hypertension (high blood
pressure), a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. Take a look at the amount of sodium in some of the packaged, canned,
and boxed goods in your home and you’ll be blown away. For example, any
can of commercially produced soup will have upwards of 500 to 1,000milligrams—per serving. And most cans contain two to three servings per
can. Here’ s an easy rule of thumb to control sodium: Limit the amount of
sodium per serving to the number of calories per serving—and of course the
fewer, the better. Let’s go back to our can of Amy’ s Black Bean Chili with its 200 calories
per serving. Check the nutritional label for sodium—you’ll see that the can
has 680 milligrams per serving. This figure is more than three times higher
than we want (200 milligrams to match the 200 calories). And if you were
to consume the whole can, which has two servings, you would be taking in
1,360 milligrams of sodium. Added Sugars
Americans are overconsuming refined and simple sugars at an
astonishing rate. This trend only contributes to the obesity epidemic and all
the other diseases associated with it. Sugars occur naturally in many foods such as fruits, vegetables, grains,
and legumes. There’ s nothing wrong with these foods, despite their sugar
content, as they are filled with fiber, vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. However, when sugars are refined, adulterated, and processed, they
become empty calories: They contain almost no nutritional value, can raise
cholesterol levels, and make a beeline for your waistline. These simple sugars can appear on a label as evaporated cane juice,
evaporated cane juice syrup, sugar, brown sugar, fructose, high fructose
corn syrup, corn syrup, molasses, honey, barley malt, and beet sugar. Four
grams of any of these devils is the equivalent of 1 teaspoon, which equals
16 calories. Many people, especially kids, drink three to five sodas a day. Each soda
has the equivalent of 10 teaspoons of sugar in it, meaning you’re consuming
30 teaspoons of sugar (or 510 to 850 empty calories) if you drink three
sodas a day. Excessive sugar is found not just in snack foods, but in foods we rely on
for meals. For example, it’ s difficult to find a boxed cereal that doesn’ t have
four to six dif ferent types of sweeteners in the first half of the ingredient
list. Kellogg’ s Low Fat Granola with Raisins lists five dif ferent types of
sugar in the first half of its ingredient list: sugar, corn syrup, molasses, high
fructose corn syrup, and malt flavoring. Cheerios, on the other hand, is awhole grain product and has just one sweetener: sugar. This is a better
choice. Still, my preference is that you eat a cereal containing no added sugars,
such as Grape-Nuts or Bob’ s Red Mill Thick Whole Rolled Oats, and add a
natural sweetener such as sliced fruit. Now that’ s a winner. Besides the number of dif ferent sugars found in food products, also bear
in mind the quantity of sugars. As mentioned, 4 grams of sugar equals 1
teaspoon. Knowing this fact gives you a way to measure the number of
teaspoons per serving. So when you look at the label of our Kellogg’ s Low
Fat Granola with Raisins and see 18 grams of sugar per serving, just
perform a simple calculation: 18 grams divided by 4, or 4. 5 teaspoons of
sugar per serving. Would you really sprinkle that much sugar on a bowl of
plain flakes. I doubt it. Added Fats
The first added fats to look for on a label are saturated animal fats. Saturated fats may include butter, eggs, lard, cheese, chicken fat, and/or
beef fat. All are dangerous because they’re major players in raising blood
cholesterol levels and laying down plaque deposits. Next, pay attention to added trans fats (trans fats are formed as a by-
product of the hydrogenation process). You won’ t find the term “trans fats”
listed on the ingredient list but they are produced in the manufacture of
hydrogenated oils, so look for and avoid “hydrogenated” and “partially
hydrogenated” vegetable oils in the ingredient list. Trans fats are man-made gunk. Food companies take real vegetable oils,
which are liquid at room temperature, and saturate them with hydrogen
molecules to make them solid at room temperature—thus the term
“hydrogenated. ”
The companies add these hydrogenated, and resulting trans fats to bread,
crackers, cookies, and other packaged goods to increase the product’ s shelf
life (and decrease yours). Trans fats, which should be avoided like the plague, have been
implicated in raising LDL  cholesterol, lowering HDL  cholesterol, are a
major contributor to plaque formations and heart disease, and promote
cancers and tumors. Last, snif f out hidden added fats such as monoglycerides and
diglycerides. These substances go by fancy scientific terms, but they’re fatsand contain 9 calories per gram. Food companies slide these into the ingredient list hoping you’ll have no
idea what they are. Steer clear. Because fats are so prevalent, I’ll give you some wiggle room by
allowing you to eat products containing some fats, especially if they’re
minimal (appearing near the end of the ingredient list). But I still draw the line that the total calories from fat in the product
must represent no more than 25 percent of a food’ s total calories. Also make
sure that any fats present are the healthier unsaturated ones rather than
saturated or trans fats. Back to our can of Amy’ s Black Bean Chili: The second-to-last
ingredient is or ganic high oleic saf flower and/or sunflower oil. I’m not a big
fan of added oils. However, because this ingredient comes second to last in
the ingredient list, and the total fat per serving of the soup is 10 percent,
we’ll approve this product, fat-wise. When shopping, remember: The best sources of fat are whole foods,
such as nuts, seeds, greens, grains, and vegetables, rather than added oils,
meat, dairy, or man-made trans fats. Fiber
Fiber is a type of carbohydrate that your body can’ t digest, and therefore
must expel. But that’ s good news. Fiber rocks. It helps fill us up so we eat less. It keeps our gastrointestinal
tract regular and our stools airy and light. It helps us to stabilize our blood
sugar, maintain constant ener gy levels, and prevent disease. Fiber acts like a little internal janitor, wielding scrub brushes that clean
and then carry of f disease-promoting substances such as cholesterol,
throwing the nasty stuf f in its garbage bag and hauling it to the dump. Fiber is found exclusively in plant-based foods. One reason why the
Engine 2 Diet recommends that you eat whole fruits and vegetables instead
of drinking fruit and vegetable juices is because they contain fiber. An eight-ounce glass of orange juice, for example, contains zero fiber,
120 calories, and 23 grams of sugar (giving you a huge glucose spike
immediately followed by a bigger insulin rush). And it does little to satiate
your appetite. Two oranges, on the other hand, give you 7 grams of fiber,
124 calories, don’ t cause the sugar and insulin spikes, and make you feel
full. Ya. Consuming a vast variety of fruits, vegetables, and legumes, as well as
whole grain breads, cereals


 mind. This verse can be simplified to a few words: you are the univers e. Whatever
a person sees in his or her surroundings, from the smallest detail to the
largest panorama, is that person. Reality is a mirror of the soul. The Vedic tradition divided the world into reality and illusion. Illusion, or
Maya, is composed of transient forces and events. Reality is formed of
spirit. Thus the task set for every  person was to pierce the veil of illusion in
order to discover the spirit in everything. The same task is set before us
now. Materialism has no room for an assertion like that. After having written
more than a dozen books about the conjunction of mind and body, which
seemed radical a few years ago, I now find myself witness to the weakness
of materialism on all fronts. What is a healing prayer but a successful
attempt to abolish the distinction  between inner and outer reality? What is a
spontaneous remission of cancer but the material body’ s obedience to wisps
of intention entertained by the mind? Einstein’ s physics tells us that
everything that appears solid to our senses is actually 99.999 percent empty
space. The classic Eastern metaphysical description of a spiritual reality
standing behind an empty material illusion suddenly seems very plausible. My cosm ic grandmother was the person who taught me that the angels
eternally pull against the demons. In her worldview the angels always win
—the world of love is ultimately the one we are born to live in. My
experience has also given me hope that this is true, and out of that hope I
decided to write this book about love.Darkness, however terrible, never fully extinguishes the spark  of light. One of the most moving love stories I’ve ever read happened between two
enemies in the Holocaust. A devout Catholic was suffering in a hideous
medical “experi ment” being conducted at Auschwitz. She was a young
woman, and as it happened the doctor who presided over her clinical torture
was also a woman, which somehow made her sadism all the more
horrifying. Death came slowly, but at last it came. The young woman
whispered unint elligibly, and the doctor, assuming she was uttering a curse,
drew back. The young woman reached out. She struggled to lift something
from her neck and managed at the last moment to hold it out to her
tormentor. “For you,” she was whispering as she handed her rosary to the
doctor, a last blessing as she departed the world. Such a story arouses a surge of hope amidst the tears. We woul d all like
to believ e that one redeemed soul can help redeem another, even in the
depths of terrible darkness. If that is true, then love’ s power is as great as
spiritual teaching tells us it is. I am not proposing in this book that we simply go back in time and adopt
Indian metaphysics—that would be impossible, given the vast changes in
culture over the past few thous and years. Instead I propose that the Vedic
sages were the first to map a path to love, which they called a Sadhana. A
path implies a beginning and an end. In this case the beginning is a reality
in which love is longed for but uncertain, swamped by fear and anger,
overwhelmed by the counterforce of hatred. The end is a reality where
nothing exists but love. What r emains now is the deepest healing of all, the healing of love. OceanofPDF.comLOVING  PRACTICE
Making a Soul Bar gain
HEALING THE SPLIT  between love and spirit is the goal of this book, and
periodically I will give practical suggestions to that end. Usually these
“loving practices” are directed  to the reader, but I recommend, where
possible, that you and your beloved both try them. The first loving practice address es doubts you may have about whether a
“higher” love has any kind of accessible reality. To someone who has never
fallen in love, you cannot prove that the experience exists. There is no
power in words to evoke passion ate romantic love, just as the fragrance of a
rose is meaning less however beautifully you describe it. How much more
alien, then, is the love promised by union with spirit? Look at the following
list of things that love is suppo sed to accomplish, expanded from the list
that appeared earlier in the text:
Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to make us safe. Love is meant to inspire us with its power. Love is meant to make us certain, without doubt. Love is meant to oust all fear. Love is meant to unveil immortality. Love is meant to bring peace. Love is meant to harmonize dif ferences. Love is meant to bring us closer to God. Even if this list strikes you as unrealistic, or wildly overblown,  I want you
to make  a bargain with love—a soul bargain— that any or all of these things
will come true for you. Take a piece of paper and write down what you want from love. If it is a
real force, if it is attuned to who you are, love will respond. Make your listas comp lete and specific as you can. I suggest writing down every entry
from the preceding list and beside it just what you want. For example:
Love is meant to heal. I want to heal my anger toward my father. I want to heal the love I
couldn’ t give to my children when they needed it. I want to heal my hurt
over losing my friend X. Love is meant to r enew. I want to feel renewed enthusiasm for my work. I want to renew the
sexual feelings I have for my wife. I want to renew my sense of being
young. Love is meant to make us safe. I want to feel safer with other people. I want to feel safe when I go
outdoors for my morning run. I want to feel safe from having X reject me if
I tell him I love him. Love is meant to inspir e us with its power. I want my love to be powerful. I want to use all my own power with love. I want to express love when I feel it and not give in to lower emotions like
fear and anger. Once you are satisfied that you have detailed everything you want—and
don’t feel afraid to ask too much—the bargain is complete. Put the piece of
paper away in a safe place. You have announced to your soul what you
want, and it is up to love to respond. Love is intelligent and aware; it knows
you better than you know yourself. Therefore it has the power to fulfill its
side of the bargain. Rest easy and be attentive over the next few months. Don’ t dwell on your list or try to make it come true. There is nothing you
need to do except this:
When you feel love, act on it. Speak your heart. Be truthful. Remain open.This is how you align yourself  with love. At the end of a few months,
take out your list and read it over. Ask yourself how much has come true. I
won’ t say that you will be amazed at what love has actually done—although
many people are—but you will certainly be surprised. Actually asking for
love is one of the most difficult things for anyone to risk, and by risking it
first in your heart, you open a door that will never close again. OceanofPDF.comIN OUR LIVES
There’ s Somebody Out There
“I KNOW WHA T you’re thinking,” Delaney said. “You think I’m too choosy,
right? But I don’t think I’m asking that much. It’s not that she has to be
drop-dead gor geous or a Ph.D.”
“You just have standards,” I suggested. “Right. I think of it as a package. If the whole package is right, the details
don’t matter all that much.”
“Assuming that she, whoever she is, likes your package,” I said. Delaney
nodded. He was amazingly immune to irony, and I knew it wasn’ t fair for
me to aim it at him. He really did want to fall in love—it was his biggest
goal in life—and since Delaney had succeeded at all his other goals, it was
frustrating how elusive this one was turning out to be. Once he and I had
done a residency together in Boston, where he had been raised in a
working-class family, and we later moonlighted at the same suburban
emer gency room to make ends meet. It had been fifteen years since he set
up his cardiology practice, and only now, in his midforties, did Delaney feel
he could make time to find a mate. It was hard for him to hide how
confused about it he was in his own mind. “Thank God I’m not one of those guys who’ s dumping his wife of thirty
years for a sexy twenty-someth ing girlfriend,” he said. “For me this is a
fresh start. I’m optimistic, I’m patient, but I guess—”
“What?” I asked. Delaney looked away, a faint cloud of doubt on his face. “I don’t know. Maybe I’m too old,” he muttered. “Or too demand ing,” I said. “Isn’t a sexy twenty-something part of the
package you’re looking for? Be honest.”
He shrugged sheepishly. “A guy can hope.”I felt a sudden  uneasiness about Delaney and his newest project,
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, taking the sadhaka (spiritual
practitioner) to a higher spiritual r ealm. According to tantric and Buddhist traditions the actual awakening
process of kundalini happens at manipura, not at muladhara. As long as the
evolution is at the level of the muladhara and swadhisthana  chakras the
aspirant is stuck in the mundane, like a lotus is in the mud. Here the mud
represents our own physical needs, desires and mental and emotional
problems. As soon as the seeker transcends to manipura and detaches from
material desires they can see the whole perspective of things and all the
possibilities of human consciousness. This is the same concept described by the famous psychologist Abraham
Maslow in his hierarchy of human needs. According to Maslow, at the first
level we all have basic or physiological needs for survival, which are common
for both human beings and animals. These needs include food, sex and
shelter and are ruled by the lower three chakras. The next level is safety
needs, again ruled by muladhara, which is responsible for our fight or flight
response. Above that level are our needs for belonging or the emotional
needs, which are ruled by swadhisthana. After these needs are fulfilled we
have the esteem or ego needs, which are ruled by manipura.Once all of the basic needs are fulfilled but happiness is still elusive, then
arises our spiritual need or the need for self-actualisa tion. This concept is
similar to the concept of kundalini, the movement of which is initially
through the lower chakras to fulfil the basic needs. Once kundalini crosses
the astral bridge (the energetic barrier between the solar plexus and heart
chakras) our spiritual jour ney begins. Anatomically speaking, the solar plexus is a ganglion of nerves also
known as the celiac plexus that is located in the V below the ribcage just
below the diaphragm. The nerves travelling in the spinal column from the
head meet at this V, with the nerves flowing freely in the lower part of the
body. The nerves of the central nervous system have an insulating covering
known as the myelin sheath; the nerves that come out from the spinal
column do not have this insulation, which makes them prone to chemical
changes in the body. A sudden reaction to mental or emotional stress will
affect the body’s biochemistry, leading to a sensation of butterflies in the
tummy. Therefore, this chakra is kno wn as the sea t of anxieties. Imbalances and the tools to heal them
An overactive solar plexus chakra is the cause of a heated liver, leading to a
high body acid level. It also causes high cholesterol, hypertension, high blood
pressure, acid reflux, headaches and migraines and even diabetes. This
mostly happens when people are very ambitious in life, always chasing
money, power or authority. The need to gain undue and illogical supremacy creates imbalances and
blockages in the functioning of this chakra, leading to raised levels of
cholesterol and other conditions such as diabetes, ulcers, hepatitis,
rheumatoid arthritis, heart diseases and bowel dysfunctions. If this chakra is
unduly suppressed it causes imbalanced digestion, bad sleep and increasedirritability. A weak solar plexus chakra is the cause of anxieties and excessive
sweating on the palms and soles of the feet. If a person starts seeking
atonement of their errors and moves towards a higher plane by following the
path of dhar ma, then r elief may be felt. Yoga recommends abdominal breathing to soothe the solar plexus
chakra. This area may feel knotted and tight when we push ourselves
towards our life ambitions, and abdominal breathing will relieve that and
promote better sleep. Alternate nostril breathing (anulom vilom) is
recommended for everyone to keep this chakra and the sacral chakra in
balance. It should be practised 11 to 21 times a day, morning or evening,
deep and slow while maintaining focus on the breath. Kapalbhati (forehead
brightener or breath of fire) is an exercise for the organs in the belly and
activates the pancreas. It is also useful for diabetic people; however, some
people feel it ma y increase blood pressure so you should be wa tchful. All yellow crystals such as citrine, tiger’s eye, pyrite, yellow calcite and
yellow sapphire help to activate the solar plexus chakra. However, if the solar
plexus is already overactive then do not wear yellow, as it can aggravate the
symptoms related to overactivity of the solar plexus such as acid reflux,
headaches/migraines and hypertension. Those conditions need the cooling
energy of green crystals. When choosing essential oils for the solar plexus chakra we like those that
represent the fire element, which is present in all spices and spice oils; they
are good to activate the solar plexus. However, when the solar plexus is
already overactive we use the cooling energy of green oils such as
peppermint, spearmint and basil; these will soothe acid reflux and headaches
and migraines.Anahata (heart)
Guna: sattva
Element: air
Vayu: prana
Auric layer: astral body
Colours: green, pink
Structural representation: 12 petals
Bija mantra: yam
Developmental age: 21 to 28 years
Main issues: love, relationships
Gland: thymus
Site: at the centre and behind the sternum
Sense: touch
Sense organ: skin
Work organ: hands
Animal: antelope
Deities: Krishna, Vishnu
Numbers: 5, 6
Planets: Mercury, Venus
Zodiac signs: Libra, Taurus
Essential oils: holy basil, lavender, eucalyptus, tea tree, peppermint, spearmint,
rosemary, rose, geraniumCrystals: malachite, peridot, rose quartz,emerald, watermelon tourmaline, green
tourmaline, green aventurine, jade rhodochrosite, amazonite, kunzite, moldavite
The fourth energetic layer, the astral body, is associated with the very special
anahata (heart) chakra. This layer is considered to be the bridge at the astral
plane between the physical plane and the spiritual plane of existence. Most
dominant during the ages of 21 to 28, this important chakra is the seat of our
sustenance.Anahata is about universal love, playing an important role in our
relationships. Its proper functioning enables us to accept without conditions
for ourselves and those around us, representing the goodness of humanity. At
the physical and physiological levels this chakra corresponds to the cardiac
plexus of nerves and controls the functions of the heart and diaphragm and
other organs in the region, as well as regulating the function of the thymus
gland. In terms of chakra symbolog y, it is represented as a 12-petalled lotus. On
each of the petals of the lotus are inscribed the letters ‘kam’, ‘kham’, ‘gam’,
‘gham’, ‘ngam’, ‘cham’, ‘chhham’, ‘jam’, ‘jham’, ‘nyam’, ‘tam’ and ‘tham’. The inner region is hexagonal in shape and is made up of two interlaced
triangles symbolising the union of Shiva and Shakti. The inverted triangle is
the symbol of creativity (Shakti), while the upright triangle symbolises
consciousness (Shiv a). The hexagonal shape r epresents the air element. The vehicle for the bija is the black antelope, which is known for its
compassion, alertness and quick movement; it is placed in the centre of the
hexagon, and above that is depicted the seed mantra ‘yam’. Within the
centre are depicted the deities Ishana Rudra (Shiva), the lord of the north-
east, and Kakini Shakti, the benefactress of all, auspicious and exhilarated. Below the main lotus of anahata is a subsidiary lotus with red petals that
contains a wish-fulfilling tree called Kalpataru. When this tree starts to
fructify your wishes begin to be r ealised. Vishnu granthi is the second of the psychic knots located at the heart
chakra. It represents the bondage of emotional attachments, which according
to Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras are major causes of imbalances in this chakra. Our
attachments to people and things bring us only pain, anguish and trauma, as
well as agony, but most of us consider our attachments to be love. When we
have attachments we have expectations, and when the expectations are notfulfilled it causes pain or anguish. This chakra is about unconditional
acceptance, and about lo ve for humanity and all tha t forms the univ erse. The Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita is based on the sermon given by
Lord Krishna to his disciple Arjuna in the battlefield of Mahabharata. Arjuna wanted to give up the war due to his attachments, but Krishna asked
him to rise above his attachments and follow his dharma. Lord Krishna is
the ruling deity of Anah